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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 168
Weekend
August 26, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
■ In Sports today: Houston
County’s girls volleyball team con
tinues to roll, picking up a pair of
wins Thursday. Westfield gained
plenty of insight with its football
scrimmage against Tiftarea and
local Houston County resident
Will Palfrey has collected more
than 100 college football helmets.
Also look for Georgia, Georgia
Tech notebooks and news from
NASCAR.
-See 1B
IN BRIEF
Achievement
nominations sought
The Warner Robins Business and
Professional Women's Club sponsors
an annual “Woman of Achievement"
award, which honors a woman who
is outstanding in her career field, or
whose services on behalf of work
ing women in research, education or
community services makes her worth
of special recognition.
The deadline for the application is
Oct. 6. The award dinner will be held
Oct. 19.
For eligibility criteria and nominat
ing procedures of the 2006 Woman
of Achievement award, call Audrey
George, 953-7480, or Lib Barnhart,
923-2554 or 923-2195.
- Special to the Journal
WRMS sets
meeting dates
Warner Robins Middle School has
set its School Council meeting dates.
They are as follows: Sept. 12, Dec.
5, Feb. 6, 2007 and May 1, 2007. All,
according to a release, are slated to
be held in the Media Center.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Jeremy Simmons
■ Joe Pallini
■ Lori Chaloult
Sunday
■ Emma Lois Gibson, 75
■ Delores Anderson
Monday
■ Gena Davis
■ Pete Stokes
■ Heather Rogers
■ Kelly Henderson
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.
INDEX
WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
COMICS 4 B
CLASSIFIED 5 B
LIFESTYLE 1C
PERIODICAL 500
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Journal Lifestyle Editor
Michael Froehiich has a
joke he likes to tell about
himself and his identical
twin.
“He’s a judge,” Froehiich
says, “but I’m a Fair Man.”
And that’s the truth.
Froehiich grew up right
around the comer from the
Ohio State Fairgrounds,
USDA designates Houston County, others as natural disaster areas
Special to the Journal
ATHENS - Houston County is one
of the 155 Georgia counties designated
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
as primary natural disaster areas
due to losses caused by drought and
excessive temperatures that occurred
from March 1, 2006, and continuing,
announced Dr. Harry L. Kemp, Acting
State Executive Director for the
Georgia USDA Farm Service Agency.
The decision makes all qualified farm
operators in the designated areas eli
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local people who enjoyed
the fair as kids coming
back to the fair with kids
of their own.
He still clearly loves his
job and approaches each
from USDA’s Farm Service Agency.
According to a release, farmers in
eligible counties have eight months
from the date of the declaration to
apply for loans to help cover part of
their actual losses.
FSA will then, according to the
release, consider each loan application
on its own merits, taking into account
the extent of losses, security available
and repayment ability. FSA has a
variety of programs, in addition to the
emergency loan program, to help eli
gible farmers recover from adversity.
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USDA has also made other pro
grams available to assist farmers and
ranchers, including the Emergency
Conservation Program, Federal Crop
Insurance and the Noninsured Crop
Disaster Assistance Program.
Interested farmers may contact
their local USDA Service Centers
for further information on eligibility
requirements and application proce
dures for these and other programs.
Additional information is also avail
able online at: http://disaster.fsa.usda.
gov.
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POLICE BEAT-6A
THRkE sections • 22 pages
Below the
fold
■ USDA designates
Houston County, 154 oth
ers as natural disaster
areas
■ Cricket’s to hold Poker
run today in benefit of
Ronald McDonald’s House
From
victim to
detainee
Breuwet charged with
false statement in
reported kidnapping
ByRAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
You should always tell the
truth, espe
cially when
talking with
the police.
O n
Tuesday,
Craig
Richard
Breuwet,
told police
he was
walking to
his vehicle
in the Watson Boulevard
Wal-Mart parking lot when
he was approached by two
suspects and forced into his
vehicle at gunpoint.
Breuwet claimed he was
ordered to drive to a loca
tion in Macon, where he was
reportedly assaulted by the
two suspects, then escaped,
and flagged down a citizen
to call for help.
He was transported to the
Medical Center of Central
Georgia, where he was treat
ed for minor injuries.
During the course of this
investigation, Breuwet later
admitted to investigators
with the Warner Robins
Police Department Criminal
Investigations Division the
events he reported were
See CHARGED, page 8A
Cricket's to
hold Poker Bun
tor charity
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Looking for a ride?
There’s a Ronald
McDonald House Charity
Poker Run today beginning
at Cricket’s Bar & Grill in
Warner Robins.
Registration starts at 10
a.m. and
the first
bike heads
out at 11
a.m. Cost
is $lO a
hand and
$5 for an
extrahand.
Breakfast
and lunch
will be
provided
to partici
pants, said
Lisa Kay
Jackson,
organizer
for the
event.
Live entertainment pro
vided by Big Mike and the
Booty Papa’s at AP’s Hidden
Hideaway in Macon will fol
low the ride.
There’s also a live
See RUN, page 8A
BREUWET
At A
Glance
What:
McDonald
House Charity
Poker Run
When: Today,
10 a.m.
Where:
Cricket’s Bar &
Grill
Cost: $lO a
hand, $5 for an
extra hand