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Mansion Brnlu Hmuadf VOLUME 136 , NUMBER 192 BELOW THE Fold: County awards contracts for two major construction projects ■ Restrictions set around airport Thursday October 5,2006 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH IN SPORTS ■ Perry's football team will get its first taste of sub-region action when it hosts Central. Houston County on the other hand had little time to worry about its loss to Warner Robins as the Bears have been busy preparing to travel to Lowndes. Also look for Georgia, Georgia Tech news and more. - See 1B IN BRIEF Fair opens today for Sneak-a-Peek event The fairground will open at 3 p.m. today for the Sneak-a-Peek. The event offers fairgoers a peek at what the fair has to offer this year. Fair admission: $3 for adults and seniors, children 10-and-under get in free. Pay-one-price Midway: Rides open at 3 p.m.; sl2 for unlimited rides (does not include fair gate admission or SPEED, nonmechanical Midway rides, Agri- Lift or boat rides). The opening ceremony with Sen. Ross Tolleson will be at 4 p.m. at Reaves Arena. Sneak-a-Peek food includes: Funnel cakes, cotton candy, gyros and corn dogs. Music: Free out door concert featuring Stillwater and opening act Big Mike and the Booty Papas. Music has a 7:30 p.m. start time. - Charlotte Perkins Staton to speak at Republican breakfast The Republican Breakfast Meeting will be Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Sonny’s Real Pit BBQ, which is located at 811 Russell Parkway in Warner Robins. The guest speaker will be Sen. Cecil Staton. A continental break fast will be available for $3.25. No reservation is necessary. Correction In Wednesday's HDJ story: “Question on horses, pigs puzzles council,” horses may be kept in the R-1 and R-2 zonings if there is a minimum of “2-acre lot" (for one horse), not “20-acre lot" as was reported. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Trinity Minter ■ April McCrary ANNIVERSARY ■ Donna and Allen Tabor DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Deborah Whitehead, 52 PERIODICAL 500 - 111111 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper cj Qiptest, com * GEORGIA IVEWSP AS*E!R ‘PROJECT Main Library lINIV OF GEORGIA \THENS GA 30602-0002 5-DIGfT 306 October 5, 2006 \Servi\(, Hot sm\ c oi \mmmmmuj LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville City of Perry sets new millage pate New landscaping requirements also approved By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Perry Councilman Joe Kusar prevailed Tuesday night, getting a majority vote for his recommendation that the city’s 2007 tax millage be set at 13.05, rather than the originally approved 13.33. The reduction brought the millage into line with higher property evaluations. Debate between members of council has been largely in Cross-words *"v7Y. j'YfT A v Talk eMhLsd *■** I Bp i A » y **♦ ' v ‘- I | •' g ' < f . jgf g■■ «*■ f-’ 1 Tfif > 4 v* j, ~j ENI/Gary Harmon Tricia Hipps, Allison Westbrook and Savannah White reenact the story of a mother’s twins drowning in the river as tour guide Maria Rowe looks on. County awards bids for 2 projects By RATLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Two more major road proj ects from the 2001 Special Purpose Local Option Sale Tax soon will be starting. The Houston County Commissioners, during their meeting Tuesday, awarded the bids for the Moody Road and Carl Vinson Parkway/Leverette Road projects. The same www.hhjnews.com work sessions, having to do with the amount of reserve funds needed. There have been no comments from the public at the required hearings. Voting against the change were council mem bers James Moore and Brian Bowen. Under Georgia law, only 40 percent of the assessed value of a given piece of property is taxable. Thus, with a home assessed at SIOO,OOO, property taxes are levied on $40,000. Perry’s two companies - Folsom Construction of Cordele and Georgia Asphalt of Macon bid on the projects and each was awarded a project for their low bids. Folsom Construction was low bidder at $3,765,031.95 for the widening of Moody Road from two to five lanes from Feagin Mill Road to Ga. 96 with intersection improvements throughout. The estimated com property tax levy would be $13.05 on each SI,OOO of assessed value, or in the case of a SIOO,OOO home, about $522. Under the 13.33 mill age rate, it would have been about $533. At the meeting, the city council also approved a non exclusive franchise for Cox Communications to provide cable service. This will ini tially be in areas contigu ous to areas Cox is already serving on the city’s north See RA TE, paf>e SA pletion is 24 months, explained County Director of Operations Tommy Stalnaker, with a 10 per cent bonus if they’re done in 18 months. “There’s a good possibil ity they’ll be done in 18 months,” Stalnaker said. Commission Chairman Ned Sanders said the proj ect will make Moody look like it does from Ga. 96 See PROJECTS, page SA Two sections • 16 pages Green piece Approved by the Perry City Council: • Landscaping amendment that sets , standards for gazebos, signs, decora- IWtk tive paving, street trees, hedges, shrubs, grass and vines To be the subject of future work sessions: i jgaL • Crackdown on unmown / grass f «• Tighter city regula- f , * tions regarding yard f • i|4 mainte- _ / jfe nance BEHEkw A m - m require- NB ment that property owners maintain the right-of-way strip between side walks and street mihft ' % wppjjr ENI/Gary Hannon Cassie Ashcroft plays the daughter of FSA Dennard, in which she speaks to her father’s grave. Restrictions set around airport By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Houston County has updated its airport hazard district regulations. “The whole thing has to do with safety,” said Commission Chairman Ned Sanders during the commis sion’s meeting Tuesday. “It’s a worthwhile purpose with out being unduly restric tive.” \ \ I \ \ \ s / WMtYJWkM/S mWE Ri W 3B Deanne Lambert recognizes unmarked graves during the Perry High School Drama Club’s pro duction of “A Ramble Through Evergretn Cemetery,” a narra tion of the lives of deceased Perry families Tuesday. Look for more on BA. ENlGary Harmon The height restrictions, County Building Official Tim Andrews explained, are 150 feet within 10,000 feet of the airport and 350 feet up to 14,000 feet. Andrews said the changes “allow for protection of the airport from encroachment that would interfere with flightlines.” Andrews said the ordi nance allows existing See AIRPORT, page SA