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Houston Baiio 3lawf33P V Lißl* red Corvette V slowed bv ■ DUI: what's VOLUME 136, NUMBER 149 Tuesday Au<;ust 1, 2006 The Home Journal's FRONT PORCH INSIDE ■ Perry High School's football team crowned its best in the Night of Champions Warner Robins Amencan Little League's 11-12 team made it to the finals of the state tournament, but couldn't hold off Columbus Northern. Also, the league's 9- 10 team split games in the Tournament of Champions. Warner Robins National League's 12-and-under All-Stars edged Virginia in its World Series opener. - See 1B IN BRIEF Purdue to hold annual fish fry Gov. Sonny Perdue’s third annual fish fry will be held Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter in Perry. U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson and a number of other office holders will be special guests. To RSVP for the fish fry on line, visit www.votes onny.com or call (770) 220-0210. The cost is $lO per adult. Children are admitted free. Byron yard sale Byron Better Hometown is spon soring a community wide yard sale Saturday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. According to a release from the orga nization, there is no charge to set up. Locations available include Byron United Methodist Church parking lot and the parking lots at the old school on the corner of Main Street and Moseley Road. Call 478-956-5555 for more information. BIRTHDAYS July 30 ■ Dana Wiggins ■ Billy Vaughn Today ■ Al Lasseter ■ Cary Stokes E-mail your birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers.com or send them to: 1210 Washington St.. Perry 31069: attn: Don Moncrief. You can also call him at 987-1823. Ext. 231. DEARLY DEPARTED ■ “Butch" Russo ■ Edith L. Weeder ■ Esther Elinor Burke ■ Master Sgt. Arlis Turner INDEX LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION 4 A SPORTS 1 B COMICS 4 B CLASSIFIEDS .... 5 B PERIODICAL 500 mm 8 lflr 5S:08 l, 0000i""4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Warn library UNIV OF GECROA ATHENS GA 30502-0002 3-CHGIT 306 ■S ! I<\l\(, lloi s !(>\ ( <)! \n Sl\r / IS7O LttiALOICAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warnfk Robins and city of Centerville > ' : \ f 1 w ' 'star Wars contest " ' i I IT ~~ * w ■’w ’ ; ', Ln r-mr' Kriaty Warr»-n .Journal Local filmmaker William Crammer and his daughter Corinne, the star of *Blue Milk," with a prop bottle of Bantha Blue Milk. By KRISTY WARREN Journal Staff Writer "V "Y TilUam Grammer of Warner Robins recently won Best 1/1/ (Commercial Parody at this year’s Fan Film Awards. ▼ * Sponsored by Macon Clones, the Middle Georgia Star Ware Fan Club, Grammer entered in the short film category in the fifth annual awards in San Diego. Thiswas also his second time entering the contest - he was a finalist in 2005 with “Speeder,” a film that went to the Cannes Film Festival in France. Grammer’s 2006 production, entitled “Blije Milk,* is a spoof of the Welch’s Grape Juice commercial. His 5-year-old daughter, Corinne, plays the lead role in the film as See PARODY, page 6A Runoff for state posts coming up Advance voting begins at two locations By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Aug. 8, is the runoff' election day for primary nomination* for a number of state posts. Under Georgia elections law, a runoff is forced when no candidate in a race gets over 50 percent of the vote. The top two vote getters then face each other. Runoff races on the Democratic ballot are: ■ Jim Martin and Greg Hecht for Lieutenant Governor. The winner will face Republican Casey Cagle in November ■ Gail Buckner and Darryl Hicks for Secretary of State. Runoff races on the Republican ballot www»hhj news.com are: ■ Karen Handel and Bill Stephens for Secretary of State ■ Gary Black and Brian Kemp for Agriculture Commissioner. The winner will face Democratic incum bent Tommy frwin. Also, advance voting is under way now at two locations: the Houston County Annex building on Carl Vinson Partway in Warner Robins, 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. through Friday; County Board of Elections, Houston County Government Building, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through Friday. There will be no advance voting on Monday. Voting Aug 8 will be at all regular poll ing places from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Below the fold ■ Runoff for state posts coming up; Advance voting under way at two locations ■ WRPD seeks suspect in robbery ■ Board of Education holds opening session Perry Council faces choices Annexation, mooning top meeting agenda By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer The Perry City Council will have a busy agenda tonight, making decisions about both the downtown and the out gntirts of the city. H|At their First August meet wSig, which begins at 6 p.m. HBCouncil Chambers, the qfnncil will deal with the fol lowing items: m request for annexa tion and rezoning of 43.78 acfes along Langston Road, wjach would make possible the building of a housing development by the Knight A request for rezoning of a site along U.S. 41, north of Perry, to facilitate the build- Mg of another housing devel opment by Wooden Nickel LLC. | The future ownership and |ise of the downtown park jfhg lot at the corner of Ball 'end Commerce Streets, g Representatives of Perry’s .Downtown Development ilutlxority«were at the last BOE holds opening session §By KRISTY WARREN ft Journal Staff Writer § Monday morning, Houston Bpounty Board of Education Hmembers, city and coun my officials; Gov. and Mrs. Hpnny Perdue and teachers Houston County met in flpgfnd of pep rally for the 2p16/2007 school year. l||he Houston County of Education Opening ---—•!. ■ A > ® »»; . ' ’’•" «-■ r \«| ”, >’4 / J|r r , ■ ■ | i* : - :f^M rr y< lEjHk* ■■V i 4 Wl-' H pp. 1 a ■A i JHk Thomson Middle School teacher Nicole Brewer wipes away a tear following her Houston County Teacher of the Year notification. WRPD seeks suspect in robbery By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Warner Robins Police are looking for the man who robbed Colonial Self Storage Friday afternoon. On Friday at 4:15 p.m., officers with the Warner — TWo sections • 12 pages ■My concern Is that the sale be handted In such a way that the property reverts back to the city if Waigreen's doesn't mane hare.' - Perry Mayor Jim Worrall, on land the DDA hopes to seU to a developer council work session to ask that the city for the deed to the lot. The DDA hopes to sell the land to a developer who would build a Walgreen’s pharmacy there, and has a historic claim to the proper ty because downtown mer chants, in the mid-19705, raised a substantial part of the money to buy the land for parking. See MEETING, page SA Session set the tone for the year and announced the dis trict teacher of the year. To Superintendent Danny Carpenter this is: “The most rewarding day, second only to graduation.” The focus of the meeting was “Seeking a Better Way the Houston County Way” with the transition to a See SESSION, page 6A Robins Police Department responded to a reported armed robbery at 95 Green St., Colonial Self Storage. The employee on duty reported a white male came into the business office See SUSPECT, page 6 A Little rad Corvette slowed by a DUI; whaTs up UudT... more Police Beet - SA