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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 219
BELOW THE FOLD: County, city work together to “keep on truckin’” ■ County students score well on ITBS
Wednesday
November 15, 2006
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FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
The Houston Daily Journal names
its All-Houston County fast-pitch
team. In football. Perry is busy pre
paring for its state tournament game
against Cairo.
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IN BRIEF
Westfield to perform
award-winning play
The Westfield Schools one-act
play was recently named GISA AAA
state runner-up. The school's per
formance of the play “The Art of
Remembering' 1 also earned Trish
Davis a Best Performance award.
The story unfolds as Rebecca,
played by Katie Beth Stubbs, goes
through an old trunk which brings
back memories from her youth.
These are brought to life by the rest
of the cast: Trish Davis as Reba.
Beau Lunceford as the introducer,
Katie Beth Stubbs as Rebecca, and
Hannah Parker as Becky. The crew
includes Jeremy Stubbs, Lee Stokes,
Jacob Parnell, Kimberly Campbell,
Elizabeth Campbell, Katie Cawthon
and Kaitlin Chasteen.
Westfield also placed second in
region competition, garnering two
of five Best Performance awards:
Trish Davis and Katie Beth Stubbs.
The group prepared under the direc
tion of Kathy Stubbs and will offer
a community-wide performance
Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Recital
Hall of Westfield's Arts and Sciences
Building. Admission is $3.
Genealogical Society
to meet
The Central Georgia Genealogical
Society. Inc. will meet Thursday, at 7
p.m. at Flint EMC, which is located at
1600 Elberta Rd. in Warner Robins.
Per a release from the society:
“Visitors are always welcome."
There is no admission charge. For
more information about CGGS, visit
their website at www.cggs.org.
Exceptional citizens
board to meet
The board of directors’ monthly
meeting for the Houston County
Association for Exceptional Citizens,
Inc., will be held Thursday at 7 p.m.
in the conference room of Workshop
11, located at 716 North Young Ave.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Torrie Minter
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■ Margaret Duncan Giles, 83
■ Robert Neal Fairchild, Sr., 65
■ Tracie Louise Hamil Dockery
■ Lilian “Lily'' Boone, 95
■ Peng Seaman, 69
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Downtown Perry is getting ready for Christmas at the Crossroads, which will have a
19th Century theme this year. Caleb Rogers and Amber Seabolt capture the spirit of
the old-fashioned holiday plans, which will include a lamp-lighting event. They are in
the cast of the Perry Players’ production of “A Christmas Carol," based on the story by
Charles Dickens.
Holiday event to lie bigger, better tban ever
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Get ready for an old fashioned
Christmas with candle light
ing, carol singing, a live nativ
ity scene, live music for out
door dining, trolley rides and
even breakfast with Santa.
Christmas at the Crossroads, a long
standing and much-loved tradition in
downtown Perry, has dwindled a bit in
recent years, but that's all over, accord
ing to Marti Tolleson and Kate Lewis,
who are co-chairing a bigger-and-better
than-ever Christmas at the Crossroads
this year for the Downtown Development
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County Commission Chairman Ned Sanders takes a look around the inside of the new
work truck to be used by state probation work crews to clean up the rights of way along
the Russell Parkway extension and Houston Lake Road.
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Don’t worry, though. The Christmas
parade’s still on, and the streets will still
be lined with luminaries leading up to
the community carols and candlelight
service on the old courthouse square.
There’ll be a tree to light this year, and
Perry United Methodist Church will serve
holiday refreshments after the carol ser
vice.
Also Santa Claus will be showing up
all over town.
Here’s the plan:
On Dec. 2, the Mahala Club and the
Perry Kiwanis Club will start the fun at
7:30 a.m.. Their Breakfast with Santa, to
be held in the old lunchroom behind
See EVENT, page fA
Supporting the warfighter
Symposium used
to address future
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
The 2006 Requirements
Symposium was held this
past week at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter in Perry.
According to symposium
officials, the venue repre
sents a project that has
grown and developed into
a strategic planning enter
prise that has brought more
than 270 public and private
sector organizations.
The symposium was
sponsored by the Warner
Robins Area Chamber
of Commerce-Aerospace
Industry Committee in
partnership with Warner
Robins Air Logistics Center.
The purpose, according
to officials, was to discuss
the future of the Air Force
"This symposium allows the
networking of contractors and
Aerospace Industry to build trust and
understanding of needs, as well as
defining the research and development
arenas."
- Warner Robins Chamber of Commerce President hrank Feilds
Schools get ITBS scores
Special to the Journal
The Houston County School System received its lowa
Test of Basic Skills scores for the September 2006
administration. Overall, Houston County students out
performed the national average rank of 50th percentile.
Composite scores for Houston County are:
M Third grade - 65th percentil6,
N Fifth grade - 65th percentile, and
H Eighth grade - 58th percentile.
The ITBS tests third, fifth and eighth grade students
on reading, language, math, social studies and science.
A 50th percentile rank means that a child performed
at grade level and that he or she performed better than
50 percent of the students in the nation on that portion
of the test. Ranking in the 40th to 60th percentile range
is considered average. The 2006 ITBS scores are as fol
lows:
Fall 2006 ITBS Scores Percentile Ranks
Rdg. Lang. Math Social
Total Total Total Studios Science Composite
Grade 3 58 59 59 68 63 65
Grade 5 63 64 61 67 67 65
Grade 8 56 55 59 55 61 58
Officials work as one
to ‘keep on truckin’
Detail dedicated to Houston Lake Road
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston County and
Warner Robins touted their
spirit of cooperation Monday
with the rolling out of a new
work detail truck.
Both Mayor Donald
Walker and Commissioner
Jay Walker noted the cur
rent state of cooperation
between the city and county.
“It’s unique, unusual,” the
mayor said. “We are very
fortunate to have the leader- *
ship to do this.”
His brother the commis
sioner said, “Never in my
24 years in office has there
been cooperation like there
is now.”
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requirements and sustain
ment changes in an ever
evolving global environ
ment by providing indus
try with WR/ALC require
ments for the next two to
five years.
“It has been an incred
ible job and the staff of
the Aerospace Industry
Committee has worked
hard to coordinate the meet
ing of some 270 vendors,”
said Frank E. Feilds, presi
dent of the Warner Robins
Chamber of Commerce and
master of ceremony. “And
thanks to members of the
Air Logistics Center for
their invaluable help.”
“A lot of shifting in prior
ity always goes on,” Feilds
added in regard to how
recent elections impacted
See FUTURE, page §A
Councilman Terry Horton
agreed. “It’s a wonderful
situation today. We get a fair
shake from the county. There
is a lot of cooperation.
“We have a shared interest
in the beautification of our
roadways,” said Commission
Chairman Ned Sanders.
The elected officials
credited the work their
employees, especially coun
ty Director of Operations
Tommy Stalnaker and
city Public Works Director
Joel Musselwhite. “Travis
McClendon (county pub
lic works director) really
helped put this togeth
er, “ Commissioner Tom
McMichael said.
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