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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 193
BELOW THE Fold: Grace Church breaks ground on its future Perry man dies in Florida wreck Crimestoppers hunt absconded molester
Friday
October 6, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ Westfield's football team used
a bye week to get healthly, while
the school's softball team has
been busy preparing for she state
tournament Saturday.
Also, Houston County’s Lady
Bears win again in volleyball, this
time picking up wins 30 and 31.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Eighth Air Force
inaugural gala set
The inaugural Mighty Eighth Air
Force Heritage Gala, formerly The
Warbirds' Ball, has been scheduled
for Oct. 14, at the museum, which is
located in Pooler (Savannah). The
evening will begin at 6 p.m.
The gala will feature the music of
the 18-piece Equinox Jazz Orchestra.
A variety of regional caterers will
provide samplings of their finest or
favorite dishes for dining, and sever
al special events still to be confirmed
are expected to highlight the eve
ning. Proceeds from sponsorships,
ticket sales and donations, are used
to help fund the museum's educa
tional programs including onsite stu
dent tours and an outreach program
to school systems.
The museum is open daily from
9 until 5, except on New Year's Day.
Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
For more information, call 912-748
8888, Ext. 123 or go to www.might
yeighth.org.
Houston County Board
of Health to meet
The Houston County Board of
Health will meet at noon Thursday
in Room 113 of the Houston Career
and Technology Center, which is
located at 1311 Corder Rd. in Warner
Robins.
Kudos by the yard
Recognition for October 2006
Yard of the Month awards went
to: Chip Shelton and family at 816
Forest Hill Road in Perry, Cohen
Walker and family at 1357 Main
Street in Perry and Donna Williams
at the Meadowdale Learning
Center located at 1797 Houston
Lake Road in Perry.
As recognition and public aware
ness, winners are invited to attend
the city council meeting Oct. 17.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Robert J. Mitchell II
E-mail your birthdays to:
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donm@evansnewspapers.com or
send them to: 1210 Washington
St., Perry 31069; attn: Don
Monchef. You can also call him at
987-1823, Ext. 231.
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Madeline Persinger, right, brought her hamster, Cocoa, to be blessed.
Cburcb bolds annual blessing
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
A little girl brought a hamster. One
family had three birds in a cage. A
couple pulled a wagon with their two
dogs, one of whom is “getting very old."
Others arrived with cocker spaniels and
Labrador retrievers straining at their
leashes. One brought a horse.
Fr. William Anderson had a blessing
for each one - great or small - in cel
ebration of the fast of Saint Francis of
Assisi, who has been known for centu
ries as the patron saint of animals.
The annual blessing of the ani
mals was held in the garden of St.
Grace holds groundbreaking for its future
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Red dirt was flying last Sunday after
noon as everyone from toddlers to old
folks picked up shovels of all different
sizes and broke ground for the new
Grace Church on Houston Lake Road
in Perry.
It was a milestone event for 200-
member congregation, which held its
first service less than three years ago,
and has been meeting ever since in
rented space at Rozar Park.
Following the singing of “The
Church’s One Foundation” Pastor Ed
McMinn involved the whole congrega
tion in the groundbreaking, with chil
dren coming forward first to turn over
shovels of dirt, youth following, and
adults after that.
Then the entire congregation got into
the act in two rows, before joining
hands in a big circle to sing “We are
standing on holy ground,” and to pray
together.
McMinn says that he’s hoping the
congregation can worship in the
See GRACE, page jB
www.hhjnews.com
Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Perry.
This was the third year that the bless
ing has taken place, and the absence
of cats was a notable change - not
because they weren’t welcome to attend,
but possibly because cat owners have
found that their pets aren’t happy in the
company of a big crowd of dogs.
The dogs mostly behaved very well.
The lone horse at the ceremony stood
patiently off to one side, its reins held by
Kathy Persinger.
Persinger explained that the horse,
Dolly, has been lonely. She was the con
stant companion of Persinger’s young
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County approves
four annexations
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
While there were no
annexations at the previ
ous night’s Warner Robins
City Council meeting,
there were several from the
County Commission meet
ing Tuesday. Three of those
were from the city and one
was from Centerville.
The votes were almost
unanimous to OK them,
with Commissioner Gail
Robinson objecting only to
the rezoning of a 90.14-acre
tract on the east side of Old
Perry Road south of Ga.
96 from R-l (single-family
residential) in the county
to R-3 (7,500-square-foot
lot minimum) in the city.
She asked if there was
any R-3 in the area. And
the answer was: There is
R-2 (10,000-square-foot
lot minimum) in adjacent
Welcome wag on
Following are the latest annexations resulting
from the County Commission meeting Tuesday:
• 90.14 acres on the
east side of Old Perry
Road south of Ga. 96
• 3.41 acres on Carl
Vinson Parkway 4
• 41.172 acres at 1
Moody Road and |l
Willingham Drive
• 46.261 acres-*
off Dunbar Road
Perry man dies in wpeck
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
William Brian Getman
died Wednesday night fol
lowing a motorcycle acci
dent near Sebring, Fla.
Getman, 32, had just
recently moved to Sebring
from the Perry. According
to reports from the Florida
Crimstoppers hunt absconded mnlester
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Do you know where Jay
Dennis Aultman is?
The Houston County
Sheriffs Office and Macon
Regional Crime stoppers
are looking for the convict
ed child molester absconded
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tracts previously annexed
by the city.
She voted with her fellow
commissioners on the other
requests, which passed
unanimously.
The other Warner Robins
requests were for 3.41 acres
on Carl Vinson Parkway
and 41.172 acres at Moody
Road and Willingham Drive.
The 3.41 acres is zoned C-2
(general commercial) in the
county and will remain C-2
in the city. The 51.172 acres
are zoned PUD, or planned
or mixed use development,
in the county and will
be zoned R-3 in the city.
All three Warner Robins
tracts are scheduled for an
Oct. 10 city Planning and
Zoning Commission hear
ing, before going back to
the city council for final
approval Oct. 16.
The Centerville request
See COUNTY, page 6A
Highway Patrol he lost
control of his 2006 Suzuki
motorcycle on Lake June
Road, just west of U.S.
Highway 27.
Troopers say Getman
was not wearing a hel
met and sustained seri
ous head trauma. He was
See WRECK, page 6A
from probation, by moving
without telling the sheriff s
office, as required by his
probation and as a regis
tered sex offender.
Aultman, age 38, is
a 6-foot, two-inch-tall,
220-lb., white male with
See HUNT, page 6A
Members of
Grace Church
all got involved
in break
ing ground
for their new
church Sunday.
Because the
actual ground
on the site is
so hard, church
leaders had red
dirt hauled in
for a symbolic
groundbreaking.
Journal/ C harlotte
Perkins