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Mansion Mm la 3Jonmal VOLUME 136, NUMBER 192 BELOW the Fold: Museum breaks ground on WWII exhibit hangar ■ Grocer to offer flu vaccinations ■ RAFB C-5 unit earns major award Tuesday October 3,2006 The Home Journal's FRONT PORCH IN SPORTS ■ Westfield's girls cross country team finished first in the Deerfield Invitational while the Hornets came home third. For Westfield's junior varsity, it was first across the board. Also, notes on the Falcons and more. - See 1B IN BRIEF Church to host flu presentation A presentation on Pandemic Flu planning will be held Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Christophers Episcopal Church, Macon Road, in Perry. The presenter will be Jennifer Jones from the Office of Emergency Preparedness. There will be a 30-minute pre sentation followed by a question and answer session. Call the church at 987-2190 for information and to let the planners know the number of people who will attend. Lake Joy Elementary to hold Drum Circle The Music Department of Lake Joy Elementary School, in cooperation with Houston County High School and fnehds, will host a Community Drum Circle today at 6:30 p.m. in the Lake Joy Elementary School Gymnasium. Guests are encouraged to bring a hand drum for this ener getic and therapeutic experience. Lake Joy Elementary is located at 995 Lake Joy Road. Church to offer blessings for animals Pets will be blessed at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, which is located at 1209 Macon Road in Perry, today, starting at 6:30 p.m. The annual Blessing of the Animals is in observance of the Feast of St, Francis of Assisi. Fr. William Anderson says that all animals are welcome at this service. BIRTHDAYS Oct. 1 ■ TonyZelonis Today ■ Bethany Gregory E-mail your birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers.com or send therp to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069; attn: Don Moncriet. You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Marion M. Stimus, 76 ■ Michael Lance Green, 48 ■ Elizabeth Marie Marshall Bozeman, 65 PERIODICAL 500 % mm 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UN IV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3Q6G2-GOO2 3-DIGIT 306 October 3, 2006 rr: —— — : ~rr- Horsmx Corvrr Sisu: IX7O LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Perry council to vote on millage rate By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer The Perry City Council has a full agenda for tonight, with a vote coming up on the 2007 mill age rate, a public hearing on the Wooden Eagle subdivision, and decision time on new landscap ing regulations and the granting of a cable fran chise to Cox Communications. Regarding the millage rate, the big question is whether it will be for 13.33 as originally adver tised, or for 13.05 as proposed by Councilman Joe Kusar, who wants to see a full rollback based on higher property assessments. Of Rush hour H '* gp j I Hi BBiMrfP a*. -- Museum breaks ground on new hangar By RAYLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The Museum of Aviation broke ground Friday on a new hangar that will house World War II exhibits. The $4.3 million, 60,000- square-foot hangar will be full of World War II exhibits including the Flying Tigers, the 507th D-Day paratroop ers, the 483rd Bomb Group and the Tuskegee Airmen. The displays will also include the Bell Aircraft Plant in Marietta, the 33rd Air Depot Group - the first group to deploy from Robins Main entrance | German bunker War room I 82n Activation and Right to Franc* "D-Day operations immersive j Planning the j Airborne training preparation j and the drop i La p, efe Q auSew ay invasion Division for D-Day | j Chß ,. du Pont l— . YyJ YT J TV 1 \V T 7 /J j~7 —J '' **sw***m», Wt t i , - . •mi jjL , Graignes Notmandy *** “rsny-A** — 1 j D-Day Down lo eann retc-m Glide* wreckage j ' Cauqoigny Church Memonai , * * r * i tr Eu**jfvi ciW l ! Journal/Ray Lightner Pictured is a design plan for the Museum of Aviation’s World War II hangar. www.hhjnews.com during WWII - as well as a history of maintenance at Robins and a diorama of downtown Wellston. “The project will take about 60 days to prepare and another eight-to-nine months to complete,” said Museum of Aviation Foundation Board of Directors Chairman retired Col. Pat Bartness. It will help preserve some of the vintage aircraft from the WWII era as about a third of them are currently outside. The aircraft on display inside will include the UC At A Glance What: Perry City Council meeting When: Today, work session at 5 p.m., regular council meeting at 6 p.m. Where: Council chambers Agenda Items: Millage rate, hearing on Wooden Eagle subdivision, landscaping regulations and more. Kusar has argued that the city has an adequate reserve fund of $2.6 million in case of unforeseen 7 8B Bobcat, C-60A Loadstar, A-26 Invader, BT-138 Valiant, PT-19A Cornell, PT-22 Recruit, T-6G Texan, B-298 Superfortress, B-25J Mitchell, P-51D Mustang, P-40N W’arhawk. C-46A Commando, C-47J Skytrain, and the nose section of a B -29A and a cutaway display of a DC-3/C-47. “Veterans have been asking when the museum was going to do something like this,” said former Flying Tiger and WWII and * Korean War veteran Oliver Bateman. “It will See HANGAR, page 6A Two sections • 12 pages circumstances. Another source of debate during public hear ing could be the Wooden Eagle subdivision being proposed by local developer Charlie McGlamry. Under the terms of this petition for annexation and rezoning, 85.367 acres at the southwest cor ner of Sandefur Road and Lake Joy road would be developed. 44.367 of those acres are already in Perry, and 41.0 would be annexed from the unincorporated area of the county. The council will also hold a public hearing on the second phase of the Walker Farm Subdivision. See COUNCIL, page 6A mRS . IwL jjgjßHL Mlflf v | y jijSl Wf JPf J.J. Medelin inspects some of the wiring in the cockpit of a C-5. * C-5 team earns award By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The C-5 team at Robins Air Force Base has been hon ored for getting the planes back in service faster. Leigh Thompson, deputy squadron director of the 559th Maintenance Wing, explained the team was awarded for reducing turn around time from 260 days to 150 days, and therefore Grocer to offer flu vaccinations Special to the Journal The Winn-Dixie in Bonaire will be among two of the gro cery chain’s stores offering flu vaccinations next week. The other will be the Winn- Dixie in Dublin. Flu vaccina tions will be offered at the store in Bonaire, which is located at 785 Highway 96, - an Evans. Eamii y Newspaper] Runners head cross country at the start of the Mercer Cross Country Invitational held Saturday in Macon. For more, see 18. ENI/Gary Harmon Journal'lllay Lightner reducing the number of air craft in for maintenance from 12 to seven. “It allows the warfighters to have five more aircraft available than before,” Thompson said. For its efforts, the C-5 team has been identified as a benchmark team by the Air Force. The C-5 Programmed Depot Maintenance Process Improvement Team See A WARD, page 6A Oct. 12 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Shots will be offered at the Dublin store - it is located at 2101 Veterans Blvd. - Oct. 11, also from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The vaccinations cost $25 per person. Customers using their Winn-Dixie Customer Reward Card, however, will See FLU, page 6A