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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 162
Friday
August 18, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
■ Mark Wright Jr., will return
to the quarterback helm tor the
Demons when they open this
year. Also, GISA offers no playoff
guarantees. In addition, Braves
pedaling but not going anywhere.
Falcon wide receivers gaining
Vick’s confidence.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Quail Run sets
meeting dates
Quail Run Elementary School’s
meetings for this year are as follows:
Sept. 19, Nov. 14, Feb. 27, 2006 and
April 17, 2006. According to Principal
Dr. Douglas S. Rizer, they will take
place at 7:15 p.m. in the conference
room.
Ya done good
Stacey Lynne Belflower, James
Christopher Elkins 111, April Lynn
Hartzog, Jonathan Anthony Lewis
and Amber Leigh Swartzlander of
Warner Robins.
They were named to the Brewton-
Parker College Dean's List for the
spring 2006 semester. Qualifying stu
dents were enrolled in 12 or more
hours and earned a grade point aver
age of 3.6 or better.
A note of thanks
The family of Alma Howington is
deeply grateful for your cards, visits,
food, prayer an other acts of kindness
and support during the our time of
bereavement.
- Ray Howington, Doris and
Sam Lee
U.S. Rep. Jim
Marshall to visit
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall will be
guest of honor at the VFW Post 6605
on Corder Road in Warner Robins on
today from 5 to 7 p.m. Rep. Marshall
is being honored for having been
inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame
for his sen/ice in the Vietnam War.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Diane Willis Hughes
■ Case Poole, 2
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
■ Willie Bobby Brinkley, 77
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WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
COMICS 4 B
CLASSIFIED 5 B
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Fly the friendly skies, hut land here
Hangar project nears takeoff
By RAY LIGHTNER
Joumul Staff Writer
The county and the city of Perry are
sponsors of the Perry-Houston County
Airport Authority.
As such, each has been asked to con
tribute matching funds or in-kind ser
vices of $41,250 for a $247,500 grant
the Airport Authority received from the
state Department of Transportation.
The county commission approved the
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This cemetery at the end of Thompson Road is currently littered with cut down trees - some of them lying across
the headstones.
By RA TLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Forget about pine boxes. Worry
instead about pine trees.
That is apparently the case at a near
by cemetery where trees have been cut
down and dropped over graves, crack
ing headstones and burying some in
the limbs.
“I couldn’t show my son his grand
mother’s grave,” Marshall Miller said.
“It’s buried under a pile of trees.”
Miller’s mother-in-law is buried at
the privately owned black cemetery,
Oak Level, at the end of Thompson
Road at Interstate 75 near Perry.
Miller said he’s been going up the
past three weeks and saw somebody
had cut down the trees, leaving them
there on top of graves.
Perry’s newest officer hopes
someday to be K-9 handler
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Kira Marzig got up
Wednesday morn
ing and put on her
new working clothes: light
blue shirt and dark blue
pants, starched and ironed,
her badge, her gun and hol
ster. It was the beginning of
a career in law enforcement
for the 22-year-old.
A little later that morning
she was sworn in by Probate
Judge Janice Spires, and her
patrol duties began.
A New York native who
spent her childhood in
Florida, graduated from
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request, subject to Perry’s approval,
during its meeting Tuesday. Perry City
Manager Lee Gilmour said the city had
received the request, but not in time to
act on it for its meeting Tuesday.
“It has not been formally approved
by the council but I don’t see a problem
with it,” Gilmour said.
Gilmour said it would be taken up
at the next meeting. That is slated for
Sept. 5.
The grant and matching funds, along
"I couldn't show my son
his grandmother's grave.
It's buried under a pile ol
trees."
- Marshall Miller
Some of the downed trees are sit
ting on head stones and some of those
head stones are cracked. “It’s a mess,”
Miller said. “I don’t know who cut the
trees down and left them there, laying
on the graves. You don’t mess with a
cemetery.”
The cemetery owner Clarence
Copeland explained: “It’s an ongoing
process.”
See GRA VESITE, page zA
Houston County High
School.
She recently finished
her law enforcement train
ing at the Middle Georgia
Police Academy and passed
the Emergency Vehicle
Operations Course at
Forsyth. Marzig hopes to
become a K-9 officer.
She has a white shepherd
at home in Perry, and also
enjoys riding her family’s
Egyptian Arabian horses.
She also enjoys science fic
tion, writing and anime
drawing, interests she
shares with her boyfriend,
Justin West, who is also on
the Perry Police force.
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with another $120,000 grant from the
Federal Aviation Administration and a
SIOO,OOO loan from the Bank of Perry,
are all for the third “T” hangar at the
airport.
Authority Chairman Art MacDonald
said engineering on the project, funded
by the FAA grant, is nearing comple
tion. The project will be to construct
two additional hangars, each which
will house 14 light aircraft,
See HANGAR, page 6A
ENI Gary Harmon
A headstone lies unscathed. Others
have not been so lucky.
Machete wielding father, Dawn won’t clean
this one up and more
-POLICE BEAT, 5A
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■ Perry's newest police
officer hopes to some
day be K-9 handler
■ Police hunt for armed
robber
County ids
success is
mixing water
with wireless
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
So far three water tow
ers in Houston County
also serve as wireless
communication towers.
That is per Lee Duke
of the Utility Service
Communications
Company, who provided
that information to coun
ty commissioners during
their meeting Tuesday.
He said one tower on a
county tank is bringing in
about $1,700 and anoth
er pending deal would
bring in another $2,400
a month.
The county entered
into an agreement with
Utility Services in 2000
to market and manage
county water tanks to
wireless providers.
Duke added as a bonus,
there is no cost for the
county and there is no
revenue from the deal for
Utility Services unless
the company successfully
negotiates a deal. Then,
the contract is still split
70-30 with the county
See MIXING, page 6A
WR police hunt
armed robber
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police
are seeking a suspect in a
Wednesday armed robbery
of the Dollar General.
On Wednesday at
approximately 5:25 p.m.
officers responded to the
Dollar General Store,
2459 Watson Blvd., in
reference to a reported
armed robbery.
Upon arrival police
learned that a black male,
dressed all in black, pro
duced a knife and took
money from the open
cash register drawer.
There were no reported
injuries.
The suspect is
See ROBBER, page iA
Officer Kira
Marzig,
right,
makes
friends
with “Rex
the Wonder
Dog” as
Officer Ron
Brainard
holds the
leash.
Marzig’s
ambition is
to serve as
a K-9 offi
cer.
Journal C harlotte
Perkins