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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 LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION . .4 A SPORTS 1 B PERIODICAL 500 d ini 1 ill![ill 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest 4 liillilliiiill.ill !i!l!in!!tii!l Ii!lm!l COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 September 12, 2006 Si R\ f\( ; Hovston Coi sn Si\( i: IH7O LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, L city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of CentervißeT , — m 1 iiS!J ■. iitoifc " r pjp^pp' a. BL 'SILfI I jT , ~ rntj 1 M| , : . mtk Wmm -' - * \W - ENI/Gary Harmon 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 iviviy.h/f/ news.com ■ 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 fP I 1 1 HE 9HHHH H llte . jttL „ |B iagpßßv ’ Two seSWns£ ib pages 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 See BUILDING, page 6B /Beam push Knights Jlound - 1B Perry’s spec building, empty since being built, is slated to receive an assess ment from the state Thursday. ENl'Gary Harmon