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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, - 4B
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 184
BELOW the Fold: State offers chance for parents to catch up on overdue child support ■ County approves annexations; objects to rezonings
Thursday
September 21,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ After dropping a pair of football
games, Warner Robins hopes
to rebound at home against
Beach. Houston County mean
while, is hoping it can duplicate
the Demons’ success against
Parkview when they travel and
play the Panthers Friday.
Also, rain got the best of all but
Northside’s and the Lady Bears'
softball games. Plus, UGA,
Georgia Tech and NASCAR
news.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Service Center to
hold ribbon cutting
The Community Outreach
Service Center will host a ribbon
cutting and open house today from
>1:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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.
Sacred Heart to hold
Fall Festival
Sacred Heart’s Fall Festival will
be Oct. 21 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at
250 South Davis Drive, Warner
Robins,
The festival will include live
Radio Disney broadcast and prizes
for children, entertainment includ
ing country music star T. Graham
Brown, hot air balloon rides, Bingo,
Granny’s Attic flea market, paint
ball, 50 and more arts and crafts
vendors, silent auction, premium
raffle to win money, vacations and
other major packages, carnival
games, sports challenges, lots
of food from lots of vendors and
much, much more.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Mitzi Sexton
■ Helen Starling
■ Pat “meme” Collins
■ Krissy Adams.
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
■ Jerry H.Talley, 69
INDEX
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WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
LEGALS 4 B
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Flint Energies to build new county facility
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Flint Energies will be
building a new $8 million
facility at the corner of Carl
Vinson and Russell park
ways in Warner Robins.
The new building will be
built on part of the 38.3-acre
tract Flint owns behind its
appliance store near the cor
ner of Houston Lake Road
and Russell Parkway.
The 30,000 square-foot,
two-story building will sit on
a 7.7-acre site at the south
east corner of Carl Vinson
and Russell parkways.
According to Chief
Executive Officer Bob Ray
the stoplight at the intersec
tion will safely direct visi
tors onto Russell Parkway
or Carl Vinson. The site will
be accessed by the extension
of Carl Vinson Parkway.
“All construction draw
ings have been completed
and Flint has awarded a
See FACILITY, page 6A
■
ENI Gary Harmon
Perry Middle School students head to school Wednesday. That day was set aside as
National Backpack Awareness Day.
National School Backpack Awareness Day
BOE: ‘Pack it light, wear it right’
Special to the Journal
National School Backpack
Awareness Day was
Wednesday. In observance of
the day, the Houston County
Board of Education, used the
opportunity to, according to
a release, raise “awareness
about the importance of using
backpacks properly and the
health issues that can arise
when they are not.”
“The HCBOE Occupational
Therapy Department advises
a backpack strategy of ‘pack
it light, wear it right.’”
School Backpack
Awareness Day was a nation
wide event developed to edu
cate children, parents, teach
ers and communities about
the serious health problems
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leaders of the 'pack'
The Occupational Therapy Department provides the following
strategies for loading and wearing backpacks:
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children may develop from
wearing backpacks that are
too heavy or worn improper
ly. The recommended weight
for a loaded backpack is 15
percent (or about one-sixth)
of a student’s body weight.
For example, a student who
weighs 100 pounds should
not carry a backpack weigh
ing more than 15 pounds.
Also, backpacks should be
worn positioned low on the
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- Backpacks should weigh no more than 15 percent of
body weight.
- Load the heaviest items closest to the child’s back.
- Wear both shoulder straps for an evenly balanced
load.
- Adjust shoulder and waist straps to distribute the
burden more evenly along the back.
back. This has the least effect
on posture because lower
positioning approximates the
body’s center of gravity.
In 2001, approximately
7,000 emergency room visits
were related to backpacks
with half of those occurring
in children ages 5-14.
Contact the HCBOE
Occupational Therapy
Department at 218-4618 for
more.
Two sections • 18 pages
Perry Council approves
3 Langston Road projects
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The long battle is over.
Perry City Council voted on
Tuesday night to approve
three separate requests
that will lead to annexa
tion and development along
Langston Road.
Two of the projects were
approved despite objections
from the Houston County
Commissioners and also
after sustained opposition
by a number of Langston
Road residents.
The approved projects
that were contested by the
county government are:
■ Annexation and rezon
ing of approximately 46.13
acres on Langston Road, as
County Commission approves
annexations; opposes rezonings
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
County Commissioners
did not object to several
annexations but opposed
three rezonings during
their meeting Tuesday.
Two of the annexations in
Perry and Centerville and
the corresponding rezon
ings to R-3 (7,500-square
foot lots) were new. The
Warner Robins request for
rezoning from R-3 to R-4,
which permits multi-family
residential, was annexed
in March at R-3 from
State offers parents a chance
to catch up on child support
Special to the Journal
More than 500 Houston
County parents who are
behind on child support
will be offered the opportu
nity to make payments.
This opportunity, appro
priately named Amnesty
Day, is being offered by
the Georgia Department of
Human Resources’ Office of
Child Support Services and
is extended to all parents
requested by LeClay, Inc.
The property will be devel
oped by Jack Smith as a
housing subdivision.
■ Annexation and rezon
ing of approximately
153.661 acres on Langston
Road, as requested by
Buckey Holdings. The
property will also be devel
oped by Jack Smith.
City attorney David
Walker gave is legal opin
ion that the city council
could proceed to vote on
the matter despite a let
ter of request for arbi
tration from the county.
Walker explained
that a meeting had been
held between coun
ty and city officials
See PROJECTS, page 6A
Residential-Agricultural.
The Houston County
"Commission voted to send
a letter of opposition to
the city about the proposed
rezoning of a 48.854-acre
tract across from Rehoboth
Baptist Church property at
the north end of lake Joy
Road. “It is not compat
ible at all with what’s out
there,” said Commissioner
Tom McMichael. who made
the motion to send the let
ter.
“The zoning is at odds
See COUNTY, page 6A
with a child support case in
Houston County who are
at least two months behind
on their payments.
Parents wishing to
resolve their child sup
port obligations are asked
to report to the Office of
Child Support Services at
92 Cohen Walker Drive,
Suite 2, in Warner Robins
Saturday between the
hours of 8 a.m.-l p.m.
See SUPPORT, page 6A