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BELOW THE Fold: County supports grant for Perry airport □ Parents as Teachers website be a helpful resource for child rearing
Weekend
September 23,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH I
IN SPORTS
■ Football, and softball, including
Westfield’s win over Southland
and Northside's victory over
Baldwin. Also look for cross
country and some of those cute
and cuddly pics of your children
playing youth football.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Black to hold summit,
lunch today
Gary Black, Republican candi
date tor Georgia Commissioner
of Agriculture, will hold a grass
roots summit and lunch at the
Roquemore Center, Georgia
National Fairgrounds today from
10:30 a.m.-noon.
Georgia DOT to hold
public forum on plans
The Georgia Department of
Transportation will conduct a
Public Information Open House
Oct. 5 in Warner Robins to provide
the public an opportunity to view
proposed plans for the widening
and improvement of Corder Road
from State Route 247C/Watson
Blvd. to 1,000 feet north of Richard
B. Russell Parkway in Houston
County.
It will be from 5-7 p.m. at Warner
Robins Middle School, 425 Mary
Lane in Warner Robins. The pur
pose of the Open House is to pro
vide the public with an opportunity
to view the proposed project, ask
questions, and comment on the
proposal.
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 21
■ Pauline Lewis
Sept. 22
■ Melissa Kaye Evans
■ Mary Weidel
Sept. 23
■ Ashlee Calhoun
Sept. 24
■ Linda Traylor
■ Joe Hill
■ Sarah Hill
■ Belinda Hughes
Sept. 25
■ Linda Shearer
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
■ Robern Scott Priest, 34
■ Minnie C. Fauconniere, 94
■ Doris Annette Spillers
Worrell, 39
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It's not a joke - new form ot heroin..ie streets
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Dallas (Texas) police are
seeing a new drug on the
streets and in the schools
directed at young people
called “cheese.”
The new drug mixture is
a “starter form” of hero
in, containing Tylenol PM
and up to 8 percent heroin.
Due to chemical interfer
ence caused by acetamino
phen and diphenhydramine
hydrochloride, forensic
analysis can be challenging,
according to police.
“Cheese” appears to be a
favorite of Hispanic juve
niles, both male and female.
With the growing Hispanic
community in Houston
County and Warner Robins,
police are concerned, but
according to Lt. Lance
Watson of the Warner Robins
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more.
County supports grant for local airport
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Some intergovernmental
cooperation will help the
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Mike Mullins of Centerville points out the instrument landing system on his plane that
will guide the planes in under cloud cover when the instruments are installed on the
runway at the Perry Airport. »
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Investigation Unit, have not
seen it yet.
“It may come up,” Watson
said. “With the big ice deal
in metro Atlanta recently,
we feel the effects down
‘l’m going to Jackson
Airport Authority get about
$2.6 million for an instru
ment landing system with
out spending any additional
e. The supply may dry up
.nd people are willing to try
• something new.”
Users as young as 13 are
known to be experiment
ing with this drug, accord
ing to Narconon, a drug
addiction recovery 6rgani
zation similar to Alcoholics
Anonymous.
Typically described as
a light tan colored pow
der with granules varying
See CHEESE, page %A
"It may come up
... The supply may
dry up and people
are willing to try
something new."
- Warner Robins police Lt.
Lance Watson
money.
The county had already
planned to spend $720,000
from the 2006 Special
Planners seek input
on development plons
“Unless certain regulatory con
trols are set in place, the commu
nity of Kathleen will be absorbed
in the abyss of urban growth and
lose its distinct identity.”
- Joint Comprehensive Plan
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
If you missed the first presentation of Houston County’s
Joint Comprehensive plans, there’ll be another one
Thursday in Centerville.
The color-coded maps and written plans, referred to as
a “Community Agenda,” and drafted by a team of volun
teer citizens with assistance from professional planners
and the Middle Georgia Regional Development, are now
available for citizen review and comment.
Here are some highlights from the Houston County
Agenda. Further information on the county plan and
details from the agendas for Perry, Warner Robins and
Centerville will follow in future issues.
See PLANS, page fA
Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax to straighten out the
road going to the Perry
airport, which also makes
room for the instrument
landing system.
By working with Peach
County, Houston County
and Perry qualify for a
75/25 cost share grant from
the Air Georgia Financial
Assistance Initiative in
Rural Georgia.
The grant is designed to
help expand rural govern
ment airports. Houston and
Perry do not qualify alone,
not being considered rural,
but by working with Peach
County, a former partner
inn the airport which also
lies partially in that county,
the Perry-Houston County
Airport now qualifies for
the state grant.
Peach County and the
city of Perry also formalized
their participation in the
grant application, which the
Middle Georgia Regional
Development Center will
help write.
See GRANT, page lA
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A ‘shear’ delight?
PY Council
may dictate
landscaping
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Planning to build in Perry?
Get out your tape measures
and your botanical guides.
The Perry City Council is
considering amendments to
its land development ordi
nance aimed at protecting
property values through
beautification, buffers and
tree-planting in residential,
business, institutional and
industrial areas.
The amendments have
been submitted by the Perry
Planning Commission and
will be voted on at a later
meeting.
Key points in the regula
tions would be the require
ment that trees be planted
and maintained, and that 75
percent of the required trees
be larger trees, reaching at
least 40 feet in height at
maturity.
Street trees are to “enliv
en streetseapes by lending
natural features with built
features,” and a minimum
of one tree per 35 linear feet
of frontage shall be planted.
A recommended list of trees
will be made available.
See SHEAR, page $A
Website offers
parental help
By KRISTY WARREN
Journal Staff Writer
Most parents will admit
to a certain level of uncer
tainty when it comes to child
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rearing. From skin care to
school preparedness, there
are helpful resources avail
able.
Traci Williams, Director
of Perry Family Learning
Center, encourages par
ents and leaders to look to
the Parents as Teachers
website for answers to
See WEBSITE, page *4