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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 206
Below the Fold: Big Indian Creek project earns honors ■ Crack dealer gets 20 years ■ Early voting to begin Monday
Weekend
October 28, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ The Demonettes and Lady
Bears both found themselves in
trouble at the state tournament
as each fell in their openers.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Journal aims to
recognize veterans
Hey veterans. We want you ... to
tell us and the readers a little about
yourself. To that end, and in prepara
tion for your day, Veterans Day Nov.
11, we re asking you to do just that.
We re asking you to submit a little bit
about yourself, who you are. where
you live now (just the city is fine),
what branch of service you serve
or served in and the timeframe you
served (i.e. 1947-1967), places you
were stationed and maybe even your
greatest accomplishment.
We would even like to have a
picture of you in your hey-day (i.e. in
uniform). You can e-mail your sub
missions to Don Moncrief, managing
editor, at donm@evansnewspapers.
com or hhj@evansnewspapers.com
(the latter please if you've got photos
attached). Or, you can mail them
to: 1210 Washington Street, Perry
31096.
WRHS to put on
one<act play
Warner Robins High School
Theatre Department will present
Working, a One-act Play Dessert
Theatre Sunday. Dessert will be
served at 2:30 p.m. with the show
starting at 3 p.m. The cost is SB. The
school is located at 401 South Davis
Drive in Warner Robins.
Westfield Schools to
hold Fall Festival
The Westfield Schools in Perry will
hold its annual Fall Festival Nov 4
from 4-7 p.m. on the school campus
located at 2005 Highway 41 South.
Sponsored by the Westfield Parent
Teacher Association, the festival will
include food, games, prizes, a live
auction, inflatables and more. For
more information contact 987-0547.
NorthsideFFA offering
pansies, snapdragons
The Northside FFA is holding a
plant sale at the school now through
Nov. 10, with pansy and snapdragon
trays going for $7 each. The sale
will be held Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 3-4 p.m. and
Tuesday and Thursday from 3-5 p.m.
Northside is located at 926 Green
Street in Warner Robins.
BIRTHDAYS
Sunday
■ Heather Sorrow
■ David D. Lewis
DEARLY DEPARTED
■ Dan C. Nelson
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Death warrants policy change
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Now the Phoenix Center
has a safety contract with
its consumers, allowing the
agency to enter a consum
er's home if there is no con
tact for a day.
Joyce Jackson, executive
director for Phoenix Center,
said the annual individual
ized support plan with indi
vidual consumers now estab
lishes the safety contract,
which permits the mental
health caregiver to enter the
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As part of Red Ribbon Week, Miss Georgia Amanda Kozak, made the rounds at some of the various schools - to
include Russell Elementary School (pictured) on Friday. INSET LEFT: Olivia Page and Isabel! Smith, first grade stu
dents, take turns asking Kozak questions. INSET RIGHT: Ryan Leimbach and others look on obviously enthralled.
Early voting to
begin Monday
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
If you just can’t wait to
express your opinion of the
2006 campaigns, the good
news is that you can vote
early.
The General Election
is Nov. 7, but voters can
cast their ballots Monday
through Friday of this
week at one of two loca
tions: the Houston County
See VOTING, page SB
Crack dealer
gets 20 years
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Phillip Emanuel Lester
was found guilty Friday at
trial for DUI, dealing crack
and running from police.
Lester, 28, was sentenced
to 20 years in prison, 14
to serve by Superior Court
Judge Ed Lukemire Friday
after being found guilty
of possession of cocaine
with intent to distribute,
See DEALER, page SB
www.hhjnews.com
11C or several months prior to my
■■ brother's death, he appeared to be
drugged... They had said earlier that
they were giving him something to calm him
down. The drugs made him a zombie."
- Helen DeVol
home of those requiring day
to day contact if there is no
contact for a day.
The change, part of
Red Ribbon ... weak at the knees
Big Indian Creek project earns honors
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Chances are, even if you’ve lived
in Perry for years, your only view of
Big Indian Creek has been a glimpse
from the bridge on Courtney Hodges
Blvd. when the creek has risen. It has
always been one of the city’s best-kept
secrets.
When Perry’s Big Indian Creek proj
ect is finally completed, however, the
hidden creek and the area around it
will become a recreational waterway
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Community teamwork in the development of the Big Indian Creek Waterway Project led to a state award for
the City of Perry from the Georgia Planning Association. Among those involved were, from left, Bill O’Neal, City
Manager Lee Gilmore, Pearlie Dixon, Bill Davis, Carl Lumpkin, Larry Walker 111, Kim Mullins and William Jackson.
Phoenix Center’s “plan
of correction,” submitted
and approved by the state
Department of Human
and green space, giving children and
adults an opportunity to walk or ride
bikes by the side of the creek and to go
canoeing as well.
Even now, if you put on your walk
ing shoes, you can get a clear view
of the tumbling waters of the creek
shaded by Spanish moss-draped trees,
with blue and white wildflowers grow
ing down the bank.
How did this happen?
Teamwork made it happen.
That teamwork was recog-
Two sections • 16 pages
Resources came following
the investi
gation into
the death
of Isaac
Groves, who
was found
dead in his
apartment
March 8.
He was
living on
his own at
Tanglewood
Q
GROVES
Apartments supported by the
Phoenix Center Behavioral
Health Services through a
supported living program.
Jackson has been the exec
utive director since June
and was not familiar with
when the new policies were
enacted - just that it was
before her time.
She also could not com
ment on Groves or any of
their consumers, as, she
said, it would be a violation
of confidentiality.
“I’m sure it was an isolat
ed incident,” Jackson said,
See CHANGE,page fB
WR plans for
redevelopment
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Before the city can recon
stitute a Redevelopment
Authority, it has to identify
areas to work on.
The authority would be
made up of the mayor and
city council, but Mayor
Donald Walker noted during
the city council’s meeting
this week: “We can do some
things as the authority we
can’t do as city council in
the areas of acquiring land,
combining parcels and issu
ing revenue bonds.”
Middle Georgia Regional
Development Center
Director Ralph Nix said the
authority, “allows you to
incur long term debt with
out being a liability to the
city and at reduced costs.”
Nix said the city’s compre
hensive land use plan has
to match up with the goals
of the authority, “so you’re
fully empowered to do these
things and not get in trou
ble.”
He had the council identify
areas on a map, geographic
areas, with boundaries, so
his office can make sure they
meet the state’s criteria.
The areas do not have
to be contiguous to one
See PLANS, page $B
nized recently at by the Georgia
Planning Association, with the state
wide award for an Outstanding
Plan Implementation for a Small
Jurisdiction, which in simpler terms,
meant that a small town did a great
job. All the other awards went to proj
ects in the Atlanta-metro area.
This award honors small towns able
to implement a plan that is innova
tive, contributes to a community’s
quality of life, and comprehensive
See HONORS, page SB