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6A ♦ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 CAMPAIGN From page iA Smith. “You can’t get any idea about what we do with out a tour.” Houston Association for Exceptional Children, Inc. is a United Way agency with a 4.1 million dollar annual budget. “Only a small portion comes from the United Way,” Smith said. “We get Federal and state aid.” Happy Hour also pays its own way through service contracts with government and civilian agencies. The facility does all the recycling for Robins Air Force Base with 400 stops on the base. Happy Hour employees also service 400 recycling stops in the com munity. Employees do mail outs for the Chamber of Commerce, and small kit assemblies for SALE From page iA College in Cochran $325,000 of it reportedly to go toward the renovation of Dillard Hall, and $3.3 mil lion going to Middle Georgia OUTREACH From page iA food banks and drug treat ment centers. “Our purpose is to be between people with resources who want to help and those who need help,” MAYBERRY From page iA Latham Drive. Robert Sisa, head of the city Building Department, said the tract is “behind Robbins and Free Realty and the Nissan place” on Ga. 96. The council also approved the rezoning of the tract from county to city R-2 (sin gle family residential with 10,000 square foot minimum lot size). The request had been pre viously recommended for approval by the city Planning and Zoning Commission and the County Commission. The council also approved two utility projects. One, directly related to annex ation, is for $5,875 for a grinder pump system to provide sewerage to a recently annexed tract on Old Hawkinsville Road, just south of Statham’s Landing. It had to be annexed to allow the annexation of a 125-acre tract on both sides of Sandy Run Road, which is cur rently under development, explained City Purchasing Agent Mark Baker. The other project is for water systems improvement. The $15,330 project will install a repeater antenna at a Watson Boulevard lift station to assure adequate communications to all exit ing and proposed structures, Baker explained. The bid was awarded to Enercon Service of Oklahoma City, Okla. The council approved sev eral other bids for items including ductile iron pipe, a We’re Full Of Bright Ideas j PS ' mM ■ mm 'fito 'Xjyfitting 926 Carroll St. • Perry, GA 31069 478-224-8888 I-F9am-spm SAT loam-2pm area businesses. “All that, our folks can do,” Smith said. The facility also runs a monthly yard sale. According to its brochure, it accepts “furniture, clothing, appli ances, toys and other clean, functioning items that we can sell in our monthly yard sale.” Yard sale dates are posted at the Paper House, the paper recycling center behind the Happy Hour buildings. Happy Hour employs 270 people, of which 170 are developmentally disabled. “We provide jobs,” Smith said. “We integrate them into the community to help them learn to do the nor mal things we would do. We teach them skills. We teach them to be as self-sufficient as possible.” According to Smith, Happy Hour got its nickname sever al years ago when a mother ask her child after he visited Technical College in Warner Robins - reportedly for the construction of a Child Development Center. “Enrollment at these col leges has exploded over the past decade,” said State Sen. Ross Tolleson in praise of Wood said. “We are the con nection that brings those people together.” This Christmas will mark the fourth year PVO has administered the Project Agape Love. Last year, the organiza tion contacted more than 70 Chamber of Commerce bro chure and firefighting equip ment. The pipe of various sizes is for the extension of water and sewer out to 1-75 along Russell Parkway, Baker said, a project the council approved at is pre vious meeting. The council accepted the low bid of $l7O, 517.78 from Macon Supply. The eight-page tourism brochure, the Warner Robins Chamber of Commerce Livability Book, will cost $3,800 for 5,000 copies. It was awarded to low bidder Great Southern Publishers in St. Simons Island. The three fire department equipment bids totaled less than $25,000 for new bun ker clothes, boots and fire hoses. The 10,000 feet, in 100- foot sections of 5-inch fire hose will be purchased from NAFECO of Decatur, Alabama, for $4,960. The 20 pairs of boots will be pur chased from Bennett Fire Products of Woodstock for $4,949. The bunker gear, which includes 10 coats, 10 pants, 12 suspenders, 12 hoods, 20 gloves, four hel mets, 10 goggles, 10 impact caps and 10 retaining but tons was also awarded to Bennett Fire Products for $14,776.24. In other business: ■ The council appointed Stephanie Robinson to serve as commissioner for Keep Warner Robins Beautiful. Her term expires Nov. 18, 2007. Robinson is the mar keting representative for the Museum of Aviation. ■ The council also approved signage for Storage Xxtra on the facility, “How was your day?” The child replied, “It was the happiest hour of my day!” “We want to establish that to be the standard we try to establish every day,” Smith said. Happy Hour relies on donations, and the United Way is a major source. “The best way to help us is to specify,” Smith said. The donation form allows donors to select specific charities. Employees of Houston County governmental offices have committed to raising $21,000 for this United Way campaign. Among some of the ser vices Happy Hour offers are the specialized and day supports employment men tioned earlier. Also offered is day habili tation, a Medicaid Waiver program that emphasizes the announcement. “As more people move into the area and take advantage of the University System and the Adult and Technical Education program in Georgia, we need to expand and improve our facilities. churches and civic organiza tions who donated food such as canned vegetables, flour, and other staple items to make 500 Christmas food boxes for needy in the area. They also provide a Christmas Meal for all their previous clients at Russell Parkway. It permits Parkway and Lakeview two monument signs, one Drive. The request met all at each entrance of Russell city codes. 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They also receive support, based on individual needs, with 24-hour residential ser vices and a semi-indepen dent living program. Through Happy Hour, the developmentally disabled participate in physical fit ness activities. According to its brochure, Happy Hour sponsors three teams in basketball, bowl ing and volleyball, and its individuals participate in city swimming and library programs. The United Way drive con tinues through Oct.. 16. For more information, call 542- 2116. “The governor and the leg islature worked well togeth er to determine what facili ties around the state need the money to support our growing infrastructure and this, in turn, benefits the people of Georgia.” the Georgia National Fair Grounds and Agricenter with Cox Concessions cook ing the food. Wood said that the dinner provides a social outing for those who may not have the opportu nity to go to any parties at Christmas. 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He has 19 years experience in public works and work ing with heavy equipment. ■ The purchase of a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe for Sheriff Cullen Talton’s official use with his current vehicle being utilized to accom modate the new lieuten ant position in the Patrol LETTER From page 4A really wants peace, they should be demanding that the extremists in their reli gion refrain from violent retaliation at every offense. By remaining mute, they are in fact indicting their own religion and support ing the claims of some that it is a religion of violence. As a Christian, almost daily, I see or hear of offen sive words or actions com mitted against my faith, many of them emanating from our own media, secu larists, or hate groups. It has never occurred to me to take to the streets and commit unlawful acts of retaliation. 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