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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 181
BELOW THE Fold: Hobby Lobby to hold mini-Grand Opening today □ Commission approves variances □ Child molester back in jail
Friday
September 15,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ Northside will face an unbeat
en team like itself when the
Eagles travel and play North
Clayton. Much closer at home,
the Hornets will host Tattnall, a
team that rolled past its first two
opponents.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Service Center to
hold ribbon cutting
The Community Outreach
Service Center will host a ribbon
cutting and open house Sept. 21
from 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. During
that time, the organization, accord
ing to a release will be: “Celebrating
the opening of our new women and
children's shelter.”
Everyone, according to the
release, is welcome to stop by for
food, refreshments and some ‘spir
itual’ renewal. To get to the center,
take Davis Drive in Warner Robins
north to Duke Ave. Take a right and
the center is one mile on the left.
Call Bill Goggin at 923-5222, Ext.
4, or e-mail him at Bill@goggingolf.
com for more information.
Northside sets School
Council meetings
The School Council for Northside
High School will meet on the fol
lowing Tuesdays at a.m.: Nov. 14,
Feb. 13, 2007 and April 10, 2007.
Meetings are held in the Northside
office.
By the yard
Recognition for the September
2006 Yard of the Month Award
went to Donald Free and family at
105 Hill Road.
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 14
■ Sara Satterfield
Today
■ Chastity Rountree
■ Carl Joiner
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
■ Bishop Joseph M. Howell,
73
■ Avel C. Braddy, 83
■ Elinor L. Harden, 80
■ Lynn “Tony” Johns, 54
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A worker at the Museum of Aviation uses a “cherry picker” to provide cleaning on a
PT-17. Maintenance on the World War II trainer was accomplished this past week.
Commission approves 4
variances, 13 occupations
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Planning and Zoning
Commission approved
four setback variances
and 13 home occupations
Tuesday.
The board is a recom
mending body to the City
Council for rezonings and
annexations but has author
ity to approve variances,
site plans and home occu
pations. Those decisions
can be appealed to the city
through the City Council.
Planning Qommission
Chairman E.L. Green way
reminded applicants: “If we
approve your petition, take
it over to the city clerk’s
office tomorrow, it will be
ready at noon. You don’t
have to go tomorrow but it
will be ready then.”
The following applicants
for home businesses were
approved:
■ Sean Brown received
permission for a home
occupation handyman busi
ness at 1019 Elberta Road.
Brown said there would be
just one employee.
■ Rhonda Buie received
permission for a home
occupation cleaning busi
ness at Lazy H. Lane. Buie
said there was just one
employee.
■ Alvis Fullwood received
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permission for a home
occupation general mer
chandise distribution busi
ness at 603 Wilmington
Drive. Fullwood said he
would be selling footwear
and clothing at Smiley’s
and on e-Bay, but not out
of the house.
■ Theresa Long received
permission for a home
occupation Internet sales
business at 105 Forest Hill
Drive. Long would be sell
ing bird feeders and bird
houses on the Internet,
through drop shipments.
She was not making them
and they are not kept at
her house, she said.
■ Gary Miner received
permission for a home
occupation fence installa
tion business at 360 Peach
Blossom Road. Miner
said there would be three
employees total and there
would be no excess mate
rials stored outside the
house.
■ Daniel Nowles received
permission for a home
occupation appliance repair
business at 108 Wendell
Court. Knowles said it
would be a mobile service.
“I’ll come to you, not bring
it home,” he said.
■ Roger Pennycuff
received permission
for a home occupation
remodeling and home
See APPROVES, page 6A
Hobby Lobby to hold ndol-Grand Opening
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
The Hobby Lobby on
Watson plans what store
manager Joe Ganas calls a
soft opening. i
Warner Robins’ new hobby
store will be open today
and Saturday from 9 a.m.
to 8 p.m. to get a jump on
Monday’s Grand Opening.
However: “We may close
a little early, based on busi
ness,” Ganas said of the pre-
Grand Opening event.
Hobby Lobby employs 40
to 50 full- and part-time
employees Ganas said of the
new facility.
“We’re unique because we
have a little bit to offer for
every one,” he said. “If you
walk around, you’ll see dif
ferent (activities) under one
roof.”
And that roof is a large
one, large enough to hold
everything from porcelain
ceramics to model cars.
“We have better quality,
and choice,” Ganas said.
Even the Christmas hob
byists can get a head start.
“We have to put the
Christmas crafts out early
so that people can get their
crafts ready for your shows,”
he explained.
When customers enter the
store, they can find season
al crafts on their immedi
ate left that includes the
Christmas section, which
holds more than 48 varieties
BOE recognizes its
tongflme employees
Special to the Journal
Houston County Board of Education honored
employees who have served 25, 30 and 35 years in the
Houston County School System at the board meeting on
Tuesday. A reception, sponsored by the Mid South Federal
Credit Union, was held before the meeting.
During the meeting, each honoree was called to the
stage individually by Dr. Ron Busbee, assistant super
intendent for human resources, to receive a framed cer
tificate and years-of-service pin. The honoree was then
congratulated by Superintendent Danny Carpenter and
members of the Board of Education.
Employees honored were as
follows:
For 25 years of service
* Monica Atcheson, Perdue
Primary
* Ava Blazi, Huntington Middle
* Suzanne Busbee, Bonaire
Elementary
« Nelda Clay, Houston County High
* Shirley Davis, Centerville
Elementary
it Lamar Ennis, Crossroads
* Marjorie Evans, Parkwood
Elementary
* Brenda Gentry, Thomson Middle
* Mary Gentry, Perry High
* Linda Hardison, Centerville
Elementary
* Betsy Jones, Thomson Middle
* Richard Jordan, Centerville
Elementary
* Earline Miles, Feagin Mill Middle
* Charles Murphy, Perry High
* Jo Robin Nelson, Quail Run
Elementary
* Mona Phillips, Warner Robins
Middle
* Catherine Sutton, Russell
Elementary
* Diane Swift, Northside
Elementary
Elementary
Child molester back io jail
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Joel Lee Thomas is back
in jail again.
Thomas, a convicted
child molester, was in jail
without bond Thursday
on Perry Police charges of
theft of services from the
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Leigh Pitts and Minnie Gomez make sure the Christmas
decorations are straight at the new Hobby Lobby on
Watson Blvd which opens on Friday.
Two sections • 12 pages
* Delores Tate, Warner Robins
Middle
» Calvin Taylor, Maintenance
« Joyce Ann Thompson, Warner
Robins Middle
» Marlene Turner, Warner Robins
High
* Glenda Vallely, Warner Robins
Middle
* Georgia Wood, Bonaire
Elementary
» Frankie Woods, Pearl Stephens
Elementary
For 30 years of service
« Robert Beers, Huntington Middle
* Ethel Blackmon, Thomson
Middle
a David Carpenter, Central Office
i, Kelley Dawsey, Shirley Hills
Elementary
* Beverly Gregory, Warner Robins
High
* Pearleen Ross, Pearl Stephens
Elementary
it Lynn Shepherd, Central Office
* Carl Wright, Maintenance
For 35 years of service
« Donna Boyett, Warner Robins
High
* Frances Coleman, Northside High
* Charlotte Moore, HCCTC
Scottish Inn, which also
happens to be a violation of
his probation on the 2002
child molestation charge.
Besides this latest viola
tion of probation there was
another one pending from
June of this year.
Thomas has been in
See JAIL, page 6A
and Halloween.
“Scrapbooking is big
everywhere,” said Jeanne
See HOBBY, page 6A
ENI/Gary Harmon