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Jfowskm 3M 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: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or 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. PERIODICAL 500 8 iPJ |ii 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GECRG‘,A NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNfV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-GIGIT 306 October 6, 2006 sEii\TxC;-Morsms Coi vn' Si\Cr IS7O ■ —- LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, JH city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and c ity of Centervii mß Ham stirred Bp Journal/Charlotte Perkins 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 See BLESSING, page jfl ’ **■’ .v /• /• ;■ m ~ -w. JMmw • v .♦ mmm ■T W 01 SEC 2 D3QBS 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 ' 1 ,A.v EwNs Vwun \h\Ysr\n I $ fl| 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