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WEEKEND
EDITION
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Perry & Houston County's
official Legal Organ
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1993
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Pals for life!
Perry children are collecting canned goods for the local chapter of Project Agape Love (PAL) which provides needy famiTies food and
children’s gifts during the holiday season. Local pals of “PAL” pictured above are: (front row, l-r) Ashley Prichard, Courtney
Prichard, Meghan Kyle and Jason Greathouse; (back row, l-r) Lauren Stanley, Michael Kyle, Stacey Stanley, Georgina Dunn, Kelly
Grisenthwaite, Joey Greathouse and Erin Simpson. To make a donation or for more information, call Dawn Kyle at 987-4108.
Fair pushes ag center near budget;
concern is voiced over vandalism
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Georgia National Fair was
extremely successful, Michael A.
Froehlich, executive director of the
Georgia National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter, told the Agricenter Au
thority during its regular meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 10.
Revenues generated from the fair
put the Agricenter within $44,000
of its goal for fiscal year 1994, said
Froehlich. He added the Agricenter
should bring in $2.2 million this
year, providing around 55 percent of
the revenues for the Agricenter.
Overall, the 1994 budget for the
Agricenter is slightly over $4 mil
lion, with $2.3 million coming
from the state and $1.75 million
generated by the Agricenter. With
the fair, the Agricenter has gener
ated $1.7 million in revenues.
The fair, which had exhibits
from 133 Georgia counties and 17
states in addition to Georgia, drew a
record crowd of 309,546 in 1993.
The previous record, set in 1992,
was 290,419.
The fair has shown growth over
the four years it has been in opera
Hearing on disabled kids is slated
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The families of children or adults
with developmental disabilities as
well as other concerned individuals
will have a direct line to the
government Tuesday evening as the
Governor’s Council on Develop
mental Disabilities hosts a special
audio conference in Perry.
Locally facilitated by Cynthia
Bemis of Perry and being held
simultaneously with six other loca
tions in the state, the conference
will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
in the Fairview Room at the Geor
gia National Fairgrounds and Agri
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Lona Stone performed a spine-tingling rendition of our nation’s anthem during a Thursday noon
Veterans Day celebration at Gazebo Park In Perry.
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tion, said Froehlich. The first year
of the fair, 1990, saw 270,677 peo
ple come through the gates. In
1991, the fair was attended by
271,166 people.
Froehlich also mentioned an in
crease in the number of class field
trips that were made to the fair this
year. In 1992, schools and clubs
made a total of 159 field trips, with
10,537 students coming to the fair
on the trips.
In 1993, schools and clubs made
241 field trips to the fair, with
14,904 students taking part in the
field trips. Kings Chapel and West
field were among the school leaders
in field trips to the fair, with each
school taking five trips to the fair.
"Security does a super job,” said
authority member Foster Rhodes.
However, he added that security
needed to be looked at by the au
thority, particularly in adding more
lights in the parking area.
Rhodes said that one of the prob
lems from increased attendance the
fair will face is more people vandal
izing property.
"We had a lot more in-house
vandalism," Rhodes noted, "little
center.
According to Bemis, the parent
of a developmentally disabled child
herself, the purpose of the confer
ence is to develop community input
into the state council’s three year
plan to help promote activities for
those individuals with developmen
tal disabilities and to ensure and
protect their rights to work, live
and play in the place of their
choice.
A telephone hook-up between
the local conference site and Atlanta
will connect area residents with
governmental staff and officials.
Several local parents and service
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prank stuff."
Rhodes added that a family could
have a "terrific time" at the fair and
find their car has been broken into,
"ruining their evening." -~i~*
The Georgia National Fair
opened on Oct. 8 and closed nine
days later on Oct. 17.
In other business before the au
thority, Froehlich announced the
authority's court venue was being
changed from Fulton County to
Houston County.
When the authority was first
formed, before the Agriccnter had
been sited in Houston County, said
Froehlich, the legislation that
formed the authority set the venue
in Fulton County. He added the
move was mainly a housekeeping
matter.
The authority will not meet in
December, holding its next meeting
on Wednesday, Jan. 12. Since the
legislative session will open on
Monday, Jan. 10, the meeting will
be held in Atlanta.
The meeting will be held in At
lanta to allow the legislative mem
bers of the autho r ity to attend the
meeting.
providers such as Peachbelt Mental
Health and Family Connection are
already signed up to participate in
the conference; however, Bemis en
courages all interested parents and
persons to attend.
“When many people think of de
velopmental disabilities, they think
of only the mentally retarded,”
Bemis said. “In actuality,
developmental disability encom
passes many other things such as
substance abuse and juvenile
delinquency, just to name a few.”
For more information on Tues
day evening’s conference, contact
Bemis at 987-4589.
Good
morning, Perry
Home Journal
HIGHLIGHTS
In Sympathy
The community's sympathy is
extended to the families of
those who recently died. They
include Frank Jackson Jr.,
Perry; Robert Lee Potts, Ma
con; Weston S. Fling, Maine;
Willis Beverly Hunt Sr., Perry;,
please see page 2A
In sports...
Westfield starts their playoffs
against Deerfield at home and
the Perry Panthers travel Jones
County to face the Greyhounds.
For a complete detail of both
games, please see page 6A
Picture perfect
We've caught Perry students
and citizens at their best. Ac
tivities The HHJ attended rec
ognizing individuals in the com
munity are on page SA.
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BILL OVERTON 6A
CLASSIFIED 8A
DEATHS 2A
EDITORIALS 4A
PERRY SCRAPBOOK 4A
JIM SHIPLEY 4A
BRIGETTELOUPERMILK 4A
CHURCH NEWS 2A
WOODS 'N WATER 7A
'Special day' honors those
who have served in military
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
It was a moving ceremony.
Flags were waving. Men and
women, many in uniform, stood si
lently, but proudly.
And, everyone donned red
poppies on their lapels in
recognition of all those men and
women who have served in the
American armed forces throughout
the years.
Although the turnout was not
what many from the local American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign
PERRY, GA.
BOE policy on
harassment
upsets parent
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education is reviewing a sexual ha
rassment policy after three middle
school parents came before the
board complaining about their
daughters being sexually harassed at
school.
Cindy and Lamar Miolen came
before the board at its October
meeting complaining about three
incidents at Northside Middle
School where students sexually ha
rassed their daughter.
In response to the complaint
raised by the Miolen's, the school
board came up with the policy.
However, Corky Powell came
before the board in closed session
Tuesday afternoon, telling them
that his daughter had been harassed
at Perry Middle School by a male
student grabbing her breasts three
weeks ago.
Powell said that some may view
the harassment as "boys will be
boys." He continued, however, "If
the bathing suit covers it, hands
off."
After leaving the meeting, Pow
ell, who also has a son who attends
Perry High School, said that there
were many other incidents that went
on in the schools that were not re
ported.
"One reason you don't hear about
it is peer pressure," said Powell,
who added that students were pres
sured by classmates not to tell
about the harassment. "She
(Powell's daughter) lost a lot of
friends because she talked."
Powell added that the students
perceived a lack of punishment in
these cases. He said the student
who harassed his daughter had re
ceived two days detention. "You
get that for chewing gum," said
Powell.
Powell noted the lack of pun
ishment for one case of harassment
might lead another student to say,
'"That's worth it."’
When a student was accused of
sexual harassment, Powell sug
gested the school bring in the par
ent, in addition to the student, for a
conference.
Cindy Moilen, however, called
for a zero-tolerance policy when she
and her husband appeared before the
school board last month.
Moilen added the acts the parents
were complaining about to the
school board were criminal acts of
molestation. She said that she had
filed charges against the student ac
cused of grabbing her daughter's
breasts. .
Cindy Guthrie, whose daughter
was harassed as she walked back
home from Tabor Middle School in
Warner Robins, complained that the
board spent only a little time dis
cussing the policy in open session
before going to other matters.
Howevpr, Zell Blackmon,
chairman of the board of education,
said that what Guthrie had seen was
the culmination of "many ho’urs of
long, hard work.”
Wars, the event’s sponsors, had
hoped for, the 40 or so people who
gathered in Perry’s Gazebo Park
Thursday noon were filled with pa
triotism and thankfulness as yet an
other Veterans Day came and went.
“To me, this is a very special
day; a day all Americans should
take pride in,” said Judy Poss, a
member of the local VFW Auxil
iary and a guest speaker at Thurs
day’s Veterans Day observance. “It
is the holiday which represents and
recognizes all the men and women
Please see CEREMONY, page 2A
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Blackmon added that many peo
ple are coming forward with allega
tions of sexual harassment in the
schools. "We're tremendously con
cerned, furious," he said.
"We can't prevent everything
from happening," said Blackmon,
but we can deter it and punish it
when it does happen.
"We are committed to do every
thing for their (students') safety at
school and going to and from
school."
The proposed sexual harassment
policy deals with harassment of
students from teachers and other
school officials, as well as harass
ment from classmates.
"Unwelcome sexual advances,"
reads the proposed school board pol
icy, "requests for sexual favors and
other inappropriate oral, written or
physical conduct of a sexual nature
Please see BOE, page 2A
'You're lucky to
live in the USA,'
vet tells students
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
World War II veteran Barry
Seagraves told Perry High School
students during the school's
Veterans' Day observation that they
were lucky to live in the United
States.
"You have the finest school
system in the world," he said. "Be
proud of it, take advantage of it.
"Love God, love your family,
and love your country,” Seagraves
told the assembly, "and do it in that
order."
He told the students to get all the
education they could, noting that an
education would have made his life
"easier. I wouldn't have had to
work nearly as hard as I did," said
Seagraves. "My accomplishments
wpuld have been greater.
"You can be exactly what you
want to be if you work hard enough
at it. If you are persistent enough,
you will make iL
"Don't pass up any education
you can get for yourself."
Seagraves told the students that
he had shaken the hand of five Pres
idents and attended a dinner at which
the Queen of England appeared.
Seagraves also pointed out the
veterans who were sitting behind
him, saying their sacrifice was the
cost of die students' freedom.
Seagraves has flown over 90
aircraft for 23,500 hours in his
military and civilian flying career.
Founder's
wife to head
Park Comm.
Park Communications, Inc.
today announced that the Board of
Directors has named Dorothy D.
Park as Chairman of the Board
effective immediately. Mrs. Park,
who has served as Secretary and a
member of the Board of Directors of
the Company since its inception 30
years ago, succeeds her late
husband, Roy H. Park, the
Company's founder and former
Chairman, who died October 25,
1993.
"In serving as Chairman, I will
not be assuming day-to-day
management duties," said Mrs.
Park. She stated she expects to
continue the policies of her late
husband, which have led to the
Company's strong present position.
"It is expected that the Company's
existing management team will
continue with Wright M. Thomas
as President," she said.