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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 182
Below THE Fold: Warner Robins selling Tasers to Centerville
Weekend
September 16,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ Football and lots of it. Also,
Thursday was a great day for
softball in Houston County as
Warner Robins, Houston County,
Perry and Westfield all won.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
WRPD, Wal-Mart to
hold community event
The Warner Robins Police
Department and Wal-Mart on Booth
Road are planning a community
event today from 10 a.m. until
2 p.m. Booths will be set up for
VIN etching, Child Car Safety Seat
Check and Child Fingerprinting.
The Community Adult Resources
Extension Service will have a
booth offering informative literature
addressing specific issues con
cerning seniors such as personal
safety, older drivers, crime preven
tion and Alzheimer’s disease.
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
‘spiritual’ 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.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Kacie Wilkes
■ Shay Jones
■ Shirley Minter
■ Donnie McKim
■ Rosalyn Zander
Sunday
■ Ashley Buck
■ Jean Buck
■ Eddie Shropshire
■ Stacy Beard
DEARLY DEPARTED
■ Steven G. Taylor, 51
■ Burland Keith Fortson, 65
INDEX
LOCAL 2 A
WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
PERIODICAL 500
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Tennessee rabies incident drills
home need locally to stay smart
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By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Few diseases are more feared than rabies, which is virtually always
fatal and can be transmitted to human beings by bites frpm animals,
such as raccoons, bats, dogs and cats.
While rabies vaccinations are required by Georgia law for dogs, cats
and ferrets, it is not required for horses.
See RAj/HES, page 8B
ENiyGary Harmon
Dadier Rosareo, from Fantasy Paso Fino Farms in Florida, examines “JLM’s
, Javanero” after he takes him out of the trailer Friday. This horse was the
12001 champion. '
County to take up
rezoning of tract
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Houston County
Commission is going to dis
cuss the proposed rezoning
of a 48-acre tract at the
north end of Lake Joy at
Tuesday night’s meeting.
The 48.854-acre tract
across from Rehoboth
Baptist Church prop
erty was rezoned from
Mother charged with child abuse
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A fight between the par
ents earlier this month
led to child abuse charges
against the mother.
Yolanda Shuntez Austin,
22, is currently being held
in the Houston County Jail
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Residential Agricultural to
R-3 when it was annexed
into the city in March.
A request to rezone the
tract from R-3 (7,000-
square-foot lot minimum)
to R-4, which permits
multi-family residential,
was tabled and deferred
last Tuesday by the Warner
Robins Planning and
See TRACT, page 8B
on charges of felony and
misdemeanor cruelty to
children from the Sept. 2
fight with her husband.
The child was reportedly
injured during the par
ents’ fight that stemmed
from “an argument about
See ABUSE, page 8B
□ County to address rezoning of Lake Joy Rd. tract
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ENI Gary Harmon
Houston County’s Roddy Nixon arrives a split-second too late to stop Berkmar’s quar
terback from releasing a pass in their game Friday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium. For
more, see page 18.
HoCo student a finalist
in Discovery challenge
By KRISTY WARREN
Journal Staff Writer
Jason Lloyd, now a
ninth grader at Houston
County High, was chosen
as a finalist from 400 stu
dents across the nation
to compete for in the
Eighth Annual Discovery
Channel Young Scientist
Challenge.
According to a press
release, finalists were
chosen based on written
essays about science fair
projects they presented
at local fairs across the
country.
Lloyd’s project dealt
with ways to improve the
current mosquito trap
by adding a motor and
wheels.
During the finals, Lloyd,
who was one of nine semi
finalists from Georgia
- three of which were
from Houston County
- and other finalists will
present their research
to judges and the pub
lic, competing for more
than SIOO,OOO worth of
scholarships and special
prizes, as well as the title
of “America’s Top Young
Scientist of the Year.”
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Warner Robins selling
equipment to Centerville
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Police Department does
not use Tasers.
For whatever reason,
however, the city pur
chased eight of them three
years ago at a cost of $499
each.
“We don’t use them,”
echoed Mayor Donald
Walker during a meeting
recently.”
That said, criminals
won’t have to worry about
that phase of law enforce
ment in Warner Robins.
Others, yes, that one, no.
But, they better watch
out in Centerville.
Why? Because the
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□ Mother charged with abuse
Lloyd will travel to
Washington D.C. Oct. 21-
25, where he will take part
in the DCYSC finalist com
petition at the National
Institute of Health cam
pus in Bethesda, Md.
“I haven’t been any
where other than
Georgia,” he said lead
ing up to the semifinal
ist competition. “So I’m
looking forward to that.”
He will compete in team
based, interactive chal
lenges designed around
the theme of “Disease
Detectives.”
“This year’s theme is
poignantly relevant,” said
the press release.
See FINALIST, page SB
city is selling them to
the Centerville Police
Department.
The city council declared
the Tasers as surplus, but
instead of auctioning or
having to advertise for
bids, the city will be sell
ing them down the road.
In a memo, Police Chief
Brett Evans explained
Centerville Police Chief
Ernie Pardo contacted him
about the Tasers. Evans
proposed transferring the
Tasers to Centerville for
$250 each.
Centerville will pay for
them with part of $4,000 it
is getting for involvement
in a recent criminal case,
according to the memo.
Lloyd