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J-lrov&tam jElmiy .i|onn|p| VOLUME 136, NUMBER 155 Wednesday August 9, 2006 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH INSIDE ■ Season previews for Perry's and Westfield's fast-pitch teams. Also, the Falcons'wide receiver situation is reason for panic and Georgia switches Dixson from defense to offense. Plus, don't for get to look for rec pics of your little ones as the Warner Robins/Perry Recreation departments hold a football draft for Midget players. - See 1B IN BRIEF Sons of Confederate Veterans reminder Members of the Lt James T. Woodward Camp No. 1399 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans would like to remind those interested, that they meet on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Sonny’s Real Pit Barbecue located at 811 Russell Parkway in Warner Robins. Ride with PRIDE The Warner Robins Police Department will be offering a free, two-hour program, Georgia Teens Ride with PRIDE. Aug. 26, from 9 to 11 a.m. It will be held at the Warner Robins campus of Macon State College, 100 University Drive on Watson Boulevard and across from the city Recreation Department. PRIDE - parents reducing inci dents of driver error - was created by the Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute in an effort to reduce the high number of crashes, injuries and fatali ties involving teen drivers in the state. The course is designed to help par ents and their new teen drivers, ages 14-16, and their parents learn what they need to do during the 40 hours of supervised practice driving time. To register for the Aug. 26 class, contact Grace Hodges at 929-7253. - Ray Lightner BIRTHDAYS Aug. 8 ■ Michael Tanoff Today ■ Joey Pittman ■ Marian Lord 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 ■ Hugh M. Mantooth INDEX LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION 4 A SPORTS 1 B COMICS 4 B CLASSIFIED 5B PERIODICAL 500 ffllllllllllll 8 '*s 5108 00001* 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest s*t * ieitiarntl **« coot * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DfGiT 306 July 19, 2006 Si rmmjMoh srt>\ Cm vn Si\< i IS7O LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville City: It's ready to scrap New ordinance makes life harder on thieves By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer First they went after vacant properties and homes under construction. Then, according to Warner Robins City Council members during their meeting Monday, they went after businesses and city property and family prop erty - even that of the mayor. They are thieves, taking metal wiring, fixtures, pipes and air conditioner parts to sell for scrap. And, it’s costing a lot more to the city than the the crooks realize. For example: While they got about SSO worth of t i - * * i ■ ■ 1 ' V ; i ! I j j j ”j: . ;■ • 1 Bpf* jilt Ik JMHfc, M i n&fk Jr®*i > »JL, Mr IT 1 ,J. . | ' J % i rl' ■ w Wt r ” [ ■r*’ * * V "lii'i'tfii)rauiMid’ni Christine DuQuesne stands in front of the shuttle Discovery (STS-114) Roll- Out to Pad B at Kennedy Space Center. Submitted Siblings' careers really taking off By KRISTY WARREN Journal Staff Writer Warner Robins High School graduates, brother and sister Keith Howard and Christine DuQuesne have plans for extremely bright futures. With Howard at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and DuQuesne working at the Kennedy Space Center, the two are doing their mother, Penny Cliff, proud. DuQuesne graduated from high school in 1999 and attend WWW.HHJNEWS.COM "It would be cheaper It we Just left out some SSO bMs and a note that says, 'Take these, but don't take the colls.'" - Purchasing Agent Mark Baker, on scrap thieves that have struck the city as of late copper and aluminum from a city air conditioner at the Wellston Center, it cost the city $9,100 to replace the unit. “It would be cheaper if we just left out some SSO bills and a note that says, ‘Take these, but don’t take the coils.’” Purchasing Agent Mark Baker said. : v Jbdl BP V-* )**”*?'■ j '**'*•.*■ i v.J ed Georgia Southern, partici pating in a co-op program with Robins Air Force Base after her first semester. She then transferred to Georgia Tech and graduated in December 2004. DuQuesne worked hard to pay her own way through college. She maintained the HOPE scholarship while going to school full time and work ing 30-40 hours per week as a waitress to cover her living expenses at Tech. With a major in Technical Engineering, she spent a lot of time doing math. In January2oos, she began her job as a Life Support Engineer “They pried the top off, cut all the copper connections and pulled them all out,” Baker explained. “If we fence them in, they cut through. They are equipped to do this. They did some of the mayor’s proper ties. Barry Smith got hit too.” The incident at the See SCRAP, page 64 at Kennedy Space Center. The space center is a “huge island wildlife refuge eight times the size of Manhattan” on Florida’s east coast about 45 minutes from Orlando. Her job in the Propellants and Life Support Branch “pro vides personal and protective equipment services in the Space Shuttle, Delta and Atlas launch vehicles and their pay loads, and other tenant orga nizations at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,” according to the branch. See CAREERS, page 6A How about a little Hibiscus ssculentus (trans lated: Okra)? Texas Is chill. See FOOD - 1C Three sections • 18 paqes Below the fold ■ High schools to add graduation coach ■ Speed kills - but not for those attending this business expo L V •% ? mm- «|pj h\ mi ■mm 3 i • m 11 n Journal/Charlotte Perkins Sen. Ross Tolleson, R-Perry, makes a last min ute phone call to Sen. John Bulloch, who was en route to the New Perry Hotel from Thomas County. With Tolleson is administrative aide, Leah Tatum-Dick. Tolleson and Bulloch were co-hosts for a workshop on water quality Tuesday. ‘Trading’ places Officials poor into Perry in quest for better wder -4*.,. -y BpdMMRI OTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Is there a cost-effective way for farmers, indus tries and municipal wastewater plants to reduce the pollution of Georgia’s watersheds? Yes, there apparently is a way that’s working in other states. It’s called “Water quality trad ing,” and a big team of experts and governmental officials were in Perry on Tuesday morning to discuss how it works. For Sen. Ross Tolleson of Perry, who is chair man of the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee, and his Thomas coun ty colleague, Sen. John Bulloch, chairman of the State Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee, it was a time to listen and learn. Tolleson said in his opening remarks that Georgia has to consider both the quantity the quality of its water supply Water quality trading, in the simplest See WATER, page 2A High schools to add graduation coach Special to the Journal A new coach will be working in every Georgia high school this year - a graduation coach. The coaches, according to a news release, was championed by Gov. Sonny Perdue and will work in each of Georgia’s 385 high schools on ground level strategies for keeping students in school until they receive their diploma. For three days, beginning this past Tuesday and running through Thursday, the new coaches will gather to discuss strategies and receive train ing on high school completion. “Finishing high school, going to college and finding that first job are important milestones that every young Georgian should experience,” Perdue said. “High school graduation coaches will help at-risk students stay in school by working closely with them, their teachers, See COACH, page 6A PY Chamber of Commerce to host business exposition Special to the Journal The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce will host 2006 Business Expo Thursday from noon-7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn of Perry. According to a release from the organization, “In today’s fast-paced society where speed is the ‘word,’ you wil want to join the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce for Speed Marketing, Speed Learning and Speed Networking.” The first “speed” course is from noon-5:30 p.m. The second, Speed Learning, costs $lO See HOST, page 6A ;Y,\ Evws Family Newspaper