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S'lnisfaitt jlcnufnni 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 PERIODICAL 500 iiiiiinviiiii 8 "55108 0000l 1 4 Award-Winning /SwA Newspaper 201)4 (.(liAslr) Better Newspaper Vff Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Man Library UNfV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3u6u2-GuG2 3-OfGfT 306 October 28, 2006 [Sw?v'/at; Houston Col \ty Si\a; 1870 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 —: — W 'W 1 /L ENI/Gary Harmon 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 I’;#'.’, Jrwlfe ? ~ ■&£* . if ■%' mmiak > -*< 'ism*,#* «S2S ' •••• . - u -ms« ggl* 7 * **■ \a- W,--"' - -ai B»jSF& » • ~-:■ •. ’*aOKm m H M ■’ 1 J* Pi r* mmtmmk Im.aM Kir • . v?*SEHH| 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