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♦ THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2006
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Photo by Gamma Omicron
Shirley Lowery and Betty Haselden, left, and Shirley Lowery read to fourth graders at Linwood Elementary.
Gamma Omicron Sponsors
Power Pack Literacy Program
Special to the Journal
Local organizations in
Perry and Warner Robins
joined forces with Gamma
Omicron Chapter of Delta
Kappa Gamma to raise
more than $2,000 to spon
sor the Power Pack Literacy
Program for approximate
ly 300 fourth graders from
Pearl Stephens Elementary,
Linwood Elementary, Miller
Elementary and Morningside
Elementary.
The Gamma Omicron
Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma’s Power Pack
Program has been in exis
tence for over six years.
Gamma Omicron joins
jvith community orgahiza-.':
tions to furnish books for
students at four different
schools. A first grade class
is chosen and the organiza
tions follow them through
fifth grade. The children
receive two to three books
each year so that when they
leave elementary school,
they have been able to start
their own personal library.
The following contribu
tors in Perry and Warner
Robins are as follows:
Perry: TAHSERIA and
AKITA, Warner Robins:
Houston County Retired
Educator s Association,
the Third District GAESP
Elementary Principal’s
Organization, the Warner
Robin s Rotary Club, VALIC,
and Flint Energies. Books
that were shared with the
students are as follows: Lu
and the Swamp Ghost,
Saturdays and Teacakes,
Mercedes and the Chocolate
Pilot, Big Moon Tortilla,
Casey At Bat and The True
Story of the 3 Little Pigs.
The students were won
derful listeners and truly
appreciated their books,
said Patsy Hutto in a release.
A special thanks to the con
tributing organizations and
(To submit your event for the Community
Calendar, fax the details to (478) 988-1181,
e-mail to cperkins@evansnewspapers.com
or mail to Houston Home Journal, EO. Box
1910, Perry, GA 31069.)
Friday
• The Warner Robins High School Class
of 1996 will be having its 10-year reunion
through Saturday. wrhsclassof96@yahoo.
com
Tuesday
• The Perry Housing Authority will hold
its quarterly board meeting at 4 p.m. at the
Perry Housing Authority Conference Room
at 822 Perimeter Road. The meeting is open
to the public.
Aug. 3
• The Warner Robins City Council work
session is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the upstairs
conference room, Warner Robins City Hall,
800 Watson Blvd.
Aug. 5
• Houston Healthcare’s Family Fair 2006
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Galleria Mall in
Centerville. Join Houston Healthcare for
Photo by Gamma Omicron
Carolyn Glass read to fourth graders at Miller Elementary.
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this annual event offering health screenings
and information for the entire family. There
will be digital fingerprinting, clowns, face
painting and more available for children.
Call 923-9771 for more information.
Aug. 7
• The Houston County Board of Education
will hold its work session at 6:30 p.m. at
Houston County Career and Technology
Center, Warner Robins.
• The Warner Robins City Council will
meet at 6:30 p.m. in the council chamber,
Warner Robins City Hall, 800 Watson Blvd.
A preliminary meeting is scheduled for 5
p.m. in the upstairs conference room.
Aug. 8
• The Houston County Board of Education
will hold its monthly meeting at 1 p.m. at
the board’s central office building in Perry.
• The Warner Robins Police Department
Citizens Police Academy will begin Aug. 8.
The classes will be every Tuesday from 6
until 8 p.m. at the Warner Robins Police
Department Training Center. Grace Hodges
at (478)929-7253 ore-mail ghodges@warner
robins.org or download the application from
the Web site at www.wrpolice.org.
LOCAL
TOP LEFT: Celebrity Reader
Peggy Jackson, former
principal at Morningside
reads to 4th graders at
Morningside Elementary.
Per Hutto: “A special thanks
to Sandy Cooper, a repre
sentative of TAHSERIA and
a teacher at Morningside,
for being present and a
supporter of Power Pack.”
BOTTOM LEFT: Tricia
Parker of Pearl Stephens
reads to fourth graders
Photo by Gamma Omicron
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NASA aircraft, scientists
come to Robins AFB
Special to the Journal
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - A National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration ER-2 high
altitude airborne science
aircraft and a team of some
56 scientists and support
personnel have arrived at
Robins to conduct mis
sions through the middle
of August.
The NASA team will
be using the 116th Air
Control facilities on
the west side of Robins.
According to a release, the
science objective of this
mission is the calibration
and validation of the Cloud-
Aerosol Lidar and Infrared
Pathfinder Satellite
Observation satellite which
will provide new insight
into the role that clouds
and atmospheric aerosols
(airborne particles) play in
regulating Earth’s weather,
climate, and air quality.
CALIPSO combines an
active lidar instrument
(meteorological instru
ment) with passive infrared
and visible imagers to probe
the vertical structure and
properties of thin clouds
and aerosols over the globe.
CALIPSO launched April
28 with the cloud pro
filing radar system on
the Cloud Sat satellite.
CALIPSO and Cloud Sat
are highly complementary
and together will provide
new, never-before-seen
3-D perspectives of how
clouds and aerosols form,
evolve, and affect weather
and climate. CALIPSO and
Cloud Sat fly in formation
with three other satellites
in the A-train constel
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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
A National
Aeronautics
and Space
Administration
ER-2 high alti
tude airborne
science aircraft
lation to enable an even
greater understanding of
our climate system from
the broad array of sensors
on these other spacecraft.
The ER-2 aircraft NASA
is operating at Robins is
one of two Lockheed ER
-2 Earth resources aircraft
used as flying laborato
ries in the Sub-Orbital
Science Program under the
agency’s Science Mission
Directorate.
The aircraft, based at
NASA’s Dryden Flight
Research Center, Edwards,
Calif., collect information
about our surroundings,
including Earth resourc
es, celestial observations,
atmospheric chemistry and
dynamics, and oceanic pro
cesses.
The aircraft also are
used for electronic sensor
research and development,
satellite calibration and
satellite data validation.
In 1981, NASA acquired
its first ER-2 aircraft. The
agency obtained a second
ER-2 in 1989.
They replaced two
Lockheed U-2 aircraft,
which NASA had used to
collect science data since
1971. The U-2s, and later
the ER-2s, were based at
NASA’s Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field,
Calif., until 1997, when
the ER-2 aircraft'and their
operations moved to NASA
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