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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 179
Below the Fold: Looking back at 9-11
Tuesday
September 12,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ Warner Robins' fast-pitch
team went 5-0 and captured first
in the Evans tournament, while
Warner Robins' boys cross coun
try team ran their way to first in
the Two-Mile Invite and Perry's
cross country team was first in
the Tift Invite.
In addition, look for updates on
this past weekend's professional
action.
-See 1B
IN BRIEF
Democratic Women’s
Club to meet
The Middle Georgia Democratic
Women’s Club will meet on
Saturday at Chef Audrey's Bistro
on Margie Drive in Warner Robins.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m., but
attendees, according to a release,
are “encouraged'’ to arrive ear
lier in order to enjoy a “delicious''
breakfast. The cost for the meal is
$5, which includes a gratuity.
Also, according to the release,
“Important new business” and
review of the International Tasting
Party fund-raiser held last month
will be discussed. “It will be an
important meeting."
Visitors and new members are
welcome. Contact Betty Pearsall at
328-1201 orbcpearsall@bellsouth.
net to RSVP.
Ya done good
Todd Steinmetz of Centerville.
He, majoring in Sport Management,
was named to Georgia Southern
University’s President’s List for the
Summer term 2006. To meet that
mark, he had to have achieved a
perfect 4.0 grade point average
with a minimum of 12 credit hours
for the semester.
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 11
■ Carolyn Wade, 15
Today
■ Jim Gutschenritter
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
■ Stewart B. Seymore, Sr, 70
■ Kathleen C. Hawkins, 76
■ Hazel Watson, 84
■ Earl L. Smith, 81
INDEX
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WEATHER 3 A
OPINION . .4 A
SPORTS 1 B
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TOP: Skip Blumenthal, a member of the Heart of Georgia Pipes and Drums, plays
Amazing Grace at the end of a ceremony held on Robins Air Force Base Monday
in remembrance of 9-11. ABOVE: Firefighter Eric Danforth and a Robins security
policeman stand in memory of those lost For more photos, see 68.
Looking back at9Al
Houston County turned to prayer, patriotism
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The stark reality of the
terrorist attacks reached
Houston County quickly
on the morning of Sept. 11,
2001.
Even while citizens were
watching their television
sets, stunned and trying to
grasp what was happening,
Robins Air Force Base was
going into “Force Protection
Condition Delta.”
Civilian employees, sent
home immediately, were
flooding Warner Robins
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■ Prison detail dedicated to cleanliness of two areas
Robins remembers
streets on their way out at
mid-morning. Traffic into
the base came to a screeching
halt. All community events
at the base were canceled.
Meanwhile at the county’s
public schools, a decision
was made that the students
would go on with their class
es, that no announcements
about the attacks would be
made, because nobody really
knew if the sons and daugh
ters of military personnel
might have parents lost in
the attacks.
In Perry, Police Chief
George Potter told his officers
to keep an eye on city utili
ties. Potter, who had studied
security measures in Israel,
understood then, while every
aircraft in the country was
grounded, that commer
cial air travel was about to
change permanently.
“There’ll be a complete
overhaul in airport security,”
he said
Sen. Sonny Perdue, R-
Bonaire, spoke of the
American spirit.
“While it’s a tragic day in
American history that may
change our lifestyles forever,”
Perdue said, “the strength
and spirit of the American
See LOOKING, page 6B
■ Perry spec building to receive state assessment
Cities continue
to annex land
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Perry and Warner Robins
both continue to grow in
size and tax digest.
The Houston County
commissioners had no
objections to more annexa
tion requests from the two
cities at the board’s last
meeting.
Commissioner Tom
McMichael even spoke in
xavor of Warner Robins’
request to annex 15.74
acres off Latham Drive,
Courthouse Lane and adja
cent to Air Park Estates
and Abingdon Green sub
division.
“This one should have
been done a long time ago,”
he said. “They’ve been
doing it piecemeal, annex
ing one parcel at a time.”
The rezoning will remain
the same zoning of R-2
(single family residential
with 10,000-square foot lot
minimums).
Perry annexed two par
cels totaling 17.409 acres
near Perry Parkway- and
Valley Drive.
‘ The parcel will be
rezoned from Residential-
Agricultural) in the coun
ty to Perry C-2 (General
Commercial) for two acres
and the remaining 15.4/09
acres as R-3 (multi-family
residential).
The commission also had
two zoning matters of its
own on the agenda, one
Prison detail dedicated to 2 areas
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston County and
Warner Robins will split
the cost of a prison work
detail dedicated to keeping
Houston Lake Road and
Russell Parkway clean.
Both the city and county
have approved an intergov
ernmental agreement for
a prison work detail for
maintenance of Houston
PY spec building to receive assessment
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The state Department
of Economic Development
will be assessing Perry
Spec Building.
Morgan Law, executive
director of the Houston
County Development
Authority, said the state
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of which - Danny Hall’s
request to rezone .88 acres
off Moody road, lot I of the
JW Wood subdivision from
R-l (single family residen
tial) to C-l (neighborhood
commercial) - was with
drawn by the applicant.
The commission approved
Dee Allison’s request for
a special exception for a
home occupation, a day
care at her Langston Road
home.
In other business the
commission:
■ Approved a change in
the bylaws of the Perry
Houston County Airport
Authority to specify the
terms of ex-officio mem
bers and ratifying the
Authority’s appointments
of Glenn Anderson, Tony
Sellier and Art Grady to
two-year terms that began
Aug. 7.
■ Approved the bid
from LJL Truck Center in
Macon for a Mack CTP7I3
roll-off refuse truck for the
landfill.
The bid of $127,148.25
was about $5,000 high
er than the bid from
Trans Power of Albany, but
LJL offered a $32,000 trade
in allowance compared to
$19,000 by Trans Power,
lowering the actual price
to $95,148.25.
The purchase is a bud
geted item and comes out
of the Landfill enterprise
fund.
Lake Road and Russell
Parkway rights of way.
Both agreed to pay up to
$60,000 for a transport van
and salary and equipment
for a guard. The city and
county will also alternate
grass cutting along Russell
Parkway extension and Ga.
247 from Bibb County to
Sandy Run Creek.
The county also
See DETAIL, page 6B
Department Economic
Development is conducting
assessments of speculative
sites in the state. “They
are scheduled to come
to Perry on the 14th of
September and spend about
an hour and a half here,”
Law said “and give us an
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Perry’s
spec
building,
empty
since
being
built, is
slated to
receive
an
assess
ment
from the
state
Thursday.
ENl'Gary
Harmon