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Powsbm Jailg loumal 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 INDEX LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION 4 A SPORTS 1 B PERIODICAL 500 liIIIVIHHI 8 510 8 0 0001*4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA HEWSRAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3QSO2-00Q2 3-OfGIT 306 September 15, 2006 \St R\ r.\(, Hoc s roS C(H ,v/) Si \( / 7^7ff LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville For those hard to reach spots ... i Ijl Jlp fWlrrr .. \ Aifr . Bfe>. w 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 www.hhjnews.com 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 Submitted of Christmas trees. The porcelain ceramic fig ures change with the sea sons starting with the fall T " S W*-y&h:r.'- ,r 'jM X Xlfl Mm*n> m w HI ■n TyVa \A- -a- JL J 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