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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 219
BELOW THE FOLD: Chamber awarded U.S. Chamber of Commerce accreditation Libraries to offer: Food for fines program
Friday
November 17,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
For Houston County, beating
Newnan in the first round of the state
football playoffs appears to be a tall
order - literally.
Also, Perry's cheer squad finishes
runner-up at the state tourney, the
Demonettes tip off their basketball
year and local golfers fared pretty
good after the first day of the Georgia
Senior Four-Ball Championship.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Warner Robins HS
changes show time
Due to Northside High School's
football playoff game today, the show
time for today's performance of the
Warner Robins High School Theatre
One Act play “Working," has been
changed to 6 p.m.. in the Warner
RoDins High School Theatre.
UMC to hold Fall
Festival Dec. 2
Andrew United Methodist Church
would like to invite everyone to
attend their annual Fall Festival Dec.
2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
According to a release from the
church, there will be arts and crafts,
a wagon ride, a community-wide
yard sale, a gently-used clothes clos
et and breakfast and lunch. There
will also be musical entertainment.
Admission and parking are free.
Proceeds will go to the Houston
County Habitat for Humanity.
Andrew UMC is located at 2430
Highway 127 in Kathleen.
Vendors are encouraged to reg
ister. Call 987-7934 for further infor
mation.
BIRTHDAYS
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donm@evansnewspapers.com or
send them to: 1210 Washington
St., Perry 31069; attn: Don
Moncriet. You can also call him at
987-1823. Ext. 231.
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Special to the Journal
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center
and the 116th Air Control Wing are
participating in a joint Operational
Readiness Exercise through Sunday.
According to a release from the base,
Phase II of the exercise, today-Sunday
tests the deployed units' abilities to
perform their wartime missions and
Hospital land sale now under contract
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Hospital Authority’s land out
on U.S. 41 is now under contract.
Houston Healthcare CEO Dr. Tony
Alford told the Hospital Authority
Wednesday the Highway 41 prop
erty is now under contract for pur
chase by a buyer only identified as
“Highway 41 East, LLC” out of
Macon.
The contract was signed Oct. 31 and
the authority has received SIOO,OOO
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Warner Robins Police Department’s Motor Squad, the motorcycle unit, has two officers - Tim Pippio and David
Hale.
Motor squad an elite pair
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Police Motor Squad does
everything from accident
reconstruction to escort
ing the President.
The two-man motor
cycle unit has two officers
- Tim Pippio and David
Hale. Pippio has been
with the department for
six years and one and
Head chamber singles out local affiliate
Special to the Journal
Thursday, the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce Board awarded the Warner
Robins Area Chamber of Commerce
with a three-star accreditation for,
according to a release from the local
chamber, its “effective organizational
procedures and steadfast commitment
to positive change in this commu
nity.”
The chamber was also one of only 10
to receive this level of award - among
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earnest money so far, according to
Executive Director of Marketing and
Community Relations Mary Jane
Kinnas.
The Hospital Authority of Houston
County accepted last month the
offer of $43,000 an acre offer on the
approximately 135-acre tract, for a
total selling price of $5,798,980. The
deal includes a 90-day inspection
period, which began Oct. 31.
According to the Secretary of
State’s corporation office, George S.
Greer is the organizer and registered
a half with the Motor
Squad. Hale has been
with the Motor Squad for
seven of his nine years
with the department.
The officers work all the
serious wrecks in town
with injuries or fatalities,
do all the escorts from
funerals to high-pro
file visits including the
President and vice pres
ident's visits. They are
also nationally certified
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ACCREDITED
a total of 24 being accredited.
According to the release, there
are more than 7,000 Chambers of
Commerce in the U.S., but only 310
are accredited by the U.S. Chamber
ensures their people and the equip
ment used for wartime contingencies
are ready to go at a moments notice.
During this period, the release reads,
they will be setting off ground burst
, simulators, which are used to simulate
r incoming artillery.
“You may also hear sirens which are
used to alert the military members of
agent for Highway 41 East LLC. The
corporation was created Oct. 16, of
this year and the office address is
438 Cotton Ave., Macon.
Greer is also the agent for several
other active limited liability corpo
rations in Macon including Athens
Gameday Holdings on Mulberry
Street; Bald Eagle Creek on Canyon
Road; CDB Properties and Waterford
Properties on Brandywine Road;
MKI Properties on Bass Road;
Sierra Warranty on Riverside Drive;
Advance Floor Coverings on Rivoli
child safety seat techni
cians.
“It's not all ticket writ
ing,” Hale said.
A huge part of their
job is public relations.
“We’re talking to people
all the time. We’re out in
the open, people ask us
questions, ask about the
bikes.”
The officers and the
bikes are in parades and
car and bike shows all
over Middle Georgia.
“We’ve won quite a few
awards from car shows,”
Hale said.
They represent the
department at funerals for
officers that have been
killed in the line of duty.
“That’s the memorable
stuff,” Hale said. And,
they also provide child
safety seat checks, give
DUI safety briefings on
See DUO, page 6B
of Commerce as offering quality pro
grams, practicing sound organiza
tional procedures, and reliably con
tributing to positive change in their
communities.
“In order to receive accredita
tion,” the chamber’s release reads,
“we had to demonstrate competency
in the following areas: governance,
finance, human resources, govern
ment affairs, program development,
See CHAMBER, page 6B
incoming artillery. In addition, different ,
colored smoke grenades are used to
promote an effect of realism."
"We would like to inform the com
munity,” the release continues, “about
what the base is doing to clear up any
confusion surrounding the possible
noise disturbances that may occur dur
ing this time period."
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Road in Bolingbroke; and Ella Jane
Jr. Properties of Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Hospital Authority acquired
the land in May 2004 for $5,358,400
as a possible site to relocate
Houston Medical Center. The deci
sion to stay put and expand the
Watson Boulevard site was made in
December 2004.
The board received an update on
the expansion/certificate of need proj
ects for the hospital from Houston
Medical Center Administrator Skip
See SALE, page 6B
Commission
tobies Lake Joy
Road request
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Planning and Zoning
Commission and residents,
during the organization’s
recent meeting, had some
questions about another
development at the inter-j
section of Lake Joy Road.,
Ga. 96 and Beaulah Churclj
Road.
To that end, the boarJ
tabled the request to annex
and rezone a total of 10.45
acres so the consultant could
address some of the concerns
of neighbors and the board.
Tom Daniel from Omni
Consultants of Peachtree
City represented the appli
cants who asked for the
rezoning of two tracts of 9.36
acres and 1.09 acres from R
AG (residential agricultural)
to C-2 (general commercial).
Bill Schwanebeck, devel
oper/owner of the adjacent
Savannah Square subdivi
sion objected to the rezoning
to C-2, but agreed the prop
erty was in a commercial
area.
“I’d like to request an
orderly transition from the
R-l (3/4 acre lot minimum)
to commercial,” he said. “I
ask for C-l (neighborhood
commercial) for those lots
adjacent to us.”
Schwanebeck, who is also
the chairman of the county
planning and zoning board,
said C-l is “much more con
ducive to the area.”
Daniel said he asked for
C-2 because there is C-2
across the street. As an only
See TABLES, page 6B
Local libraries to
offer fine' relief
Spcial to the Journal
If you’ve been putting
off returning your overdue
library books for fear of what
it’s going to cost from your
wallet, the Houston County
Public Library System has a
deal for you.
They are offering a plan
that will save you money
and help feed the hungry at
Christmas.
Each library branch
- Perry, Centerville and
Warner Robins - will
accept canned food and dry
See OFFER, page 6B
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