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Perry & Houston County's
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20,1993
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Members of the Westfield High School Homecoming Court for 1993 are: (front row, 1-r) Kelli Harold, Liz Lane, Mary Margaret
Brannen and Jeanna Bishop; (back row, l-r) Susanna Turner, Leslie Davis, Holly Hartley, Ashlee McCord, Mary Katherine Walker and
Amy Rhodes. Kim Sparrow, seated on the far right, was elected by the Westfield Hornet football team as their 1993 football
sponsor. A senior who has attended Westfield for 12 years, Kim is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Sparrow of Perry.
Home Journal
HIGHLIGHTS
In Sympathy
The community's sympathy is
extended to the families of
those who recently died. They
include CesToliver, Baltimore;
Nathaniel Baldwin, Fort Valley;
Marcus Gerald Grimes,
Montezuma; Eloise Thomas
Hudson, Detroit; Ashley
Nichole Fogg, Fort Valley;
Rufus Turner Jr., Rochester,
N.Y. For more information,
please see page 5A
Don't Forget...
The Perry and Warner Robins
chambers will hold a Business
After Hours at Houston Lake
Country Club Thursday, Oct.
21 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The event is being co
sponsored by the chambers,
HLCC, Macon College and
Trust Cos. Bank.
Who will be queen?
perry High School begins its
homecoming activities next
Friday, which include a parade
and home game against Dodge
County. For more information,
please see page 8A
INDEX
JOYCE COMPTON 4A
JAN KERCE 2B
BETH JONES 1£
VETO F. ROLEY 4A
DEATH NOTICES 5A
CLASSIFIED 8B
EDITORIALS 4A
LEGAL NOTICES 5B
BILL OVERTON 6A
REMEMBER WHEN 4A
SPORTS 6A
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Westfield's homecoming queen
will be presented at game Friday
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
With visions of roses and
crowns dancing in their heads, four
Westfield High School seniors are
vying this week for the honor and
glory of being selected the school’s
homecoming queen for 1993.
Nominated for the prestigious
school title are Jeanna Bishop,
Mary Margaret Brannen, Kelli
Harold and Liz Lane.
The Westfield High School stu
dent body will mark their ballots
during a special election on Thurs
day and the winner will be an
nounced during the halftime cere
monies of the Westfield vs. George
Walton Academy football game in
Perry on Friday night.
The new queen will then be
crowned by 1992 Westfield Home
It
Houston County industry and government officials set out for an 18 hole golf best ball scramble
during the Houston County Golf Outing and Pig Picking Tuesday afternoon.
Industries treated to outing, BBQ
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Houston County could not work
without industry.
Tuesday, the Houston County
Development Authority, the Perry
Area Chamber of Commerce and
the Warner Robbins Industry Now
Group honored area industries with
a pig picking and golf outing at
Houston Lake Country Club.
"It's our way of appreciating in
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coming Queen Chalese Lassiter dur
ing the school’s annual homecom
ing dance Saturday night.
In addition to the announcement
of the 1993 homecoming queen,
each of the 10 girls making up this
year’s Westfield High School
Homecoming Court will also be
presented individually during the
special halftime ceremonies.
Along with the four senior rep
resentatives, the official court is
made up of two girls from each of
the school’s ninth, tenth and
eleventh grade classes, all of whom
were selected during individual class
elections a month or so ago.
Members of the 1993 Westfield
High School Homecoming Court
are:
•Senior Jeanna Bishop, the 17-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
dustries and honoring them," said
Alicia Long, executive assistant
with the Houston County
Development Authority.
Long said that this was the
fourth or fifth year for the pig pick
ing, which gets its name from the
barbecue served to the industry and
governmental officials, and the sec
ond year for the golf outing.
"It's a casual, relaxed atmo
Cary Bishop of Perry.
Jeanna has attended Westfield
Schools for 13 years and has been a
member of the Lady Hornet Soft
ball Team for the past five years.
She has received a number of
sports-related honors including the
Lady Hornet Softball Best Offense
Award for 1993 and has been se
lected to play on the All Region
and GISA South All Star teams.
She has also been a member of the
Lady Hornet Basketball Team for
four years and is a former member
of the girls’ track team and the Tri-
Hi-Y Club.
She is listed in “Who’s Who
Among American High School
Students” and has been a homecom
ing court representative for four
years.
Please see QUEEN, page 8A
sphere," said Long.
The barbecue features a whole
pig on a spit, while the golf outing
features a non-competitive scram
ble.
Long said 130 government and
industry representatives attended die
event last year, with an equal num
ber expected this year.
"It goes over very well," said
Long. "It's a real popular event."
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Young girl dies of injuries
sustained in Oct. 3 wreck
By BRIGETTE LOUDERMILK
Managing Editor
Eight year old Brooke Akins
Ager died Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 9:55
a.m. as a result of injuries she re
ceived in an accident Sunday, Oct. 3
when she turned the bicycle she
was riding into the path of a van on
Bear Branch Road.
The daughter of Leslie "Les" and
Jaydee Ager of 344 Bear Branch
Rd., Kathleen, Brooke was a second
grader at The Westfield Schools.
Ager had been hospitalized in the
Commission
gives nod to
sewer study
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Commissioners took the first step
Tuesday towards a county sewer
system by authorizing a feasibility
study on providing sewer services.
"We voted to do a feasibility
study on the possibility of the
county providing sewer service in
unincorporated parts of the county,"
. said Sherrill Stafford, chairman of
the Houston County Board of
Commissioners.
Stafford said that the county, as
do three Houston County munici
palities, currently provides water
service. The three municipal sys
tems, Perry, Warner Robbins and
Centerville, provide both water and
sewer system.
"Municipalities should not be in
competition to county govern
ment," said Commissioner Larry
Snellgrove.
The current situation, he said,
had the city water systems demand
ing new customers take both water
and sewer systems in order to re
ceive city services.
"We [municipal water systems
and the county water system]
should not be running water lines
in the same ditch and competing
against one another," said Snell
grove.
"It's not something that we
would like to get into," he said,
"but we've got to make sure Hous
ton County continues to grow.
"I think we have to anticipate
and be positive about growth fac
tors. The community is very
strong. We are going to see a
tremendous growth.
"It [past growth] has been great.
It needs to continue that way. We
have to offer those services [sewer]
for it [the county] to continue to
grow.”
Snellgrove said the sewer system
would not be funded by taxes from
the county. Instead, the sewer sys
tem would be operated from an en
terprise fund with those using the
system paying for the system.
The feasibility study is to be
done by Ronnie Woods. The cost of
the study will be presented to the
commissioners at a later meeting,
said Snellgrove.
Snellgrove said that the resolu
tion was to get the ball started.
Snellgrove said that 36 percent
of the county's population lived in
unincorporated areas.
In other business before the
county commissioners, they ap
proved partial self-insurance for
county employee health and dental
benefits.
Under the plan, the county
would be responsible for a maxi
mum cost of $1,253,127 in bene
fits. The premiums would fund a
total of $1,084,998 in potential
benefits. The potential 1994 deficit
of $168,129 would be funded out of
the county's budget.
"It's an improvement for our
employees," said Stafford.
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Pediatric intensive care unit at the
Medical Center of Central Georgia
in Macon since the accident oc
curred. According to hospital per
sonnel, an autopsy and other proce
dures were being performed Tuesday
night to determine the exact cause
of death.
According to a report from the
Houston County Sheriffs Depart
ment, Ager and her father had been
riding their bicycles Oct. 3 when
she turned into the path of a white
Please see AGER, page 8A
Georgia
Agricenter
Director
Michael
Froehlich
300,000-plus
fair visitors
sets a record
"Our reputation as a clean, fam
ily-oriented fair is spreading
throughout Georgia and surrounding
states," Michael A. Froehlich, ex
ecutive director of the fairgrounds,
said this week, announcing that
nearly 20,000 more people attended
the fourth annual Georgia National
Fair than last year's event.
The final estimated attendance at
the Georgia National Fair was up
over six percent from 290,419 last
year to 309,546 this year. Adding
an extra day to the fair, making it a
10-day event, boosted attendance by
nearly 15,000.
Financial information on the fair
will not be released until an audit
can be completed according to
Froehlich, but a preliminary report
should be available by the Agricen
ter board's meeting in November.
Froehlich did say that gate rev
enue, food and beverage sales and
ride income all increased. Informa
tion on discounted ride tickets sold
at grocery stores has not been
turned in.
Participation in the fair's exhibit
areas saw a great increase, too.
Livestock and horse entries rose
from 7,893 to nearly 9,000; stu
dents on school field trips increased
from 10,537 to 13,647; and the
Please see FAIR, page 8A
Perry Shriners to
hold annual fall
barbecue Friday
The Perry Shrine Club will hold
its annual fall barbecue Friday, Oct.
22 at their facility located at 402
General Courtney Hodges Boulevard
(next to the Sandman Motel).
Three thousand pounds of ham
will be pit cooked starting at 6 a.m.
Thursday, Oct. 21. Plates will be
ready for pick-up at the barbecue
site drive-thru from 11:30 a.m.
until 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Each plate will contain pit
cooked barbecue, slaw, cookies,
chips, pickles and bread. The price
per plate will be $4 and bulk will
be sold for $5 per pound.
Tickets are now being sold by
Shriners or plates can be purchased
at the drive-thru.