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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 135
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Wednesday july. 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
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INSIDE
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Reid preparing for NFL, Steelers
■ Former Warner Robins and Florida
State standout Willie Reid, who
always believed he would get as
much out of football as what he put
into it, has a chance to fill a role
for the standard-bearers of the NFL.
Perfect peaches
■ Georgia peaches is a great
starting ooint for delightful dishes.
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IN BRIEF
State schools Improving
■ ATLANTA (AP) - The percent
age of Georgia’s schools meeting
the standards of the federal No Child
Left Behind Law dropped this year
compared to last year, state education
officials reported Tuesday.
About 79 percent of Georgia schools
made “adequate yearly progress,"
in the 2005-2006 academic year,
according to the Georgia Department
of Education. That’s down from about
82 percent last year.
Nearly 450 of Georgia’s 2,072 schools
tested this year did not meet the law’s
goals on tests, attendance minimums
and other standards.
INDEX
LOCAL 2 A
WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
FOOD 1 B
SPORTS 7 A
COMICS 8 B
CLASSIFIEDS .... 9 B
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Perry P&Z reschedules public hearng
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Among those at the public hearing which will have to be
held a second time were, from left, Dee Allison (seated on
back row), Scott Free, Skip McDannald and Jack Smith.
Allison and McDannald are residents of Langston Road.
Free is a realtor and Smith a developer with plans to build
up to 700 homes in two subdivisions on the rural road.
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Marlene Gray makes a ballot for Harry W. Miller as his grandson Camron Miller looks
on.
Election workers
prepare for V-Day
By KRISTY WARREN
HDJ Staff Writer
A lot of time of tedious
efforts go into the prepara
tion for election day.
Poll workers must be
trained, voters registered,
equipment maintained, and
supplies packaged.
Taking care of these
requirements are the staff
of the Houston County
Board of Elections.
A group of well organized,
thoughtful and experienced
women work long hours
behind the scenes year
around to make sure each
election is run as smoothly
as possible.
Keeping up with new
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EMTs Jeremiah Price and Ned Dixon wheel “patient”
and EMS supervisor Lee Quinones, out of one of the
new and slightly bigger ambulances recently added to
the Houston Healthcare fleet. The two new ambulances
bring to 12 the number of ambulances in service in the
county.
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
laws and regulations
requires that forms, docu
ments, programs and sup
plies be constantly updated.
Poll workers must attend
a state mandated training
class prior to working each
election, as state and fed
eral laws are changing up
until the last days before an
election.
Under the instruction of
Joann Shipes, Registration
and Election Supervisor at
the Houston County Board
of Elections, all poll manag
ers, assistants and clerks
from each of Houston
County’s 28 precincts are
trained and tested on pro
cedures and the computer
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Wrong date on sign
leads to complications
By KRISTY WARREN and
CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HDJ staff writers
Citizens living along
Langston Road have plenty
of questions about the major
housing developments being
planned for their neighbor
hood, but the question posed
by Dee Allison 20 minutes
into Monday night’s Perry
Planning Commission meet
ing just about stopped the
show.
Allison, a Langston Road
resident, who is speaking out
frequently at meetings relat
ed to the county’s growth,
had a simple question. Why
ized equipment.
The Saturday before an
election, each manager
picks up supplies consisting
of a large blue Tupperware
box, and three smaller card
board boxes to take to their
precinct’s voting location.
The large box contains
supplies such as the famil
iar peach sticker advertis
ing a Georgia voter and all
directional and regulatory
signs.
The smaller boxes con
tain cords and consolida
tion and provisional voter
paperwork. Each box has
been prepared, updated,
and re-updated as state
See VOTE, page 6A
Two more ambulances
now in service in Houston
By RAY LIGHTNER
HDJ Staff Writer
Houston County has two
more ambulances in service,
bringing the fleet from 10
to 12.
The two new ambulanc
es purchased by Houston
Healthcare at a cost of
SBO,OOO each from Peach
State Ambulance, were deliv
ered about two weeks ago,
according to Dave Borghelli,
Emergency Medical Services
manager for Houston
Healthcare.
The ambulances are sta
tioned at the Houston Lake
did the public notice sign say
the public hearing would be
held on Aug. 1, when it was
actually being held on July
11?
Although the public hear
ings, discussion and voting
continued, Steve Howard,
Building Official, immedi
ately began to explain to the
public and the P&Z board
members that the pub
lic hearing, under the law,
would have to be resched
uled if the signs were in fact
wrong.
Tuesday morning, Howard
confirmed that the signs were
wrong. The times and dates
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Perry firefighters are putting on their “hero” gear and
battling more than flames this summer.
Perry firefighters
to battle MDA
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Local firefighters will be at
Wal-Mart and Kroger rais
ing money this weekend and
Aug. 4-6, for the Muscular
Dystrophy Association
(MDA) and the fight against
neuromuscular disease.
They will be hitting the
streets from 2-6 p.m. on
Fridays and 9 a.m. to noon
and 2-6 p.m. on Saturdays
and Sundays. .
“We’re hoping to raise over
Med-Stop on Ga. 127 and
Moody Road in Perry and
at Houston County Fire
Station No. 1 on Carl Vinson
Parkway in Warner Robins,
in a collaborative effort with
the Houston County Fire
Department, Borghelli said.
“They’re similar to what
we have now, the Type-3
ambulance, but more mod
ern, with more space inside,”
Borghelli said.
The new ambulances are
slightly bigger, as the new
Ford E-350 chassis is bigger
The decision to add the
ambulances and the per-
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were correct as announced in
the Houston Daily Journal,
which is the legal organ for
Houston County, but one
neighborhood sign had the
date wrong.
Steve Howard said the
rezoning and annexation
issue listed on the sign and
another concerning 153.661
acres on Langston Road
would have to have new
public hearings because we
“don’t want to create any
technical loopholes.”
The new hearing will be
held on July 24.
At stake on Langston
Road, now essentially rural
in character, are both annex
ation and development
issues.
LeClay, Inc. and Buckeye
Holdings, both represented
See PERRY, page 6 A
$3,000 this year,” said Frank
Fennell, Berry’s interim fire
chief. “But, we can’t do it
without the support of the
community.”
For over 50 years, fire
fighters across the nation
have teamed up with MDA
to fight muscle disease. MDA
commends these national
heroes, including Governor
Perdue, who has proclaimed
the month of August as
See MDA, page 6A
sonnel to operate them was
based on a demand analy
sis and will ensure quicker
response time, Borghelli
said.
The analysis also includes
re-evaluation of where
the ambulances would be
deployed, during different
days of the week, times of
the day and even seasons of
the year.
“I’m very happy with the
support from the public,
public safety, the hospital
and the authority to move
the EMS system forward,”
See NEW, page 6 A