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♦ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006
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base, go to the schools,
teach the Parents Reducing
Incidents of Driver Error
program, do rbad blocks and
targeted policing like the red
light and stop sign viola
tions.
They have to go to motor
school for the training.
“There’s a big difference
between riding a motorcyle
down the road and what we
do,” Hale said.
They drive in and out of
traffic to get to accidents.
“It’s a lot more dangerous
now than when I rode,” said
Mty. Harry Dennard, head of
the Administrative Service
Division. Dennard was on
the motor squad in the early
70s.
“The bikes are safer now,”
Dennard said, “with anti
lock brakes and adjustable
seats, but the traffic is a lot
more dangerous. There’s a
lot more cars.”
The current squad rides
2002 Harley-Davidson Road
Kings. The bikes, with 88-
cubic-inch (1450 cc) motors,
are equipped with every
thing the patrol cars have
- radios, video cameras and
radar units - with the excep
tion of the laptop comput
ers.
The officers take the bikes
home and are the only ones
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Philips. Construction has
begun on the Houston
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communication, technology
and facilities.
“For local chambers, the
final rating depends on the
chamber’s ability to success
fully meet additional crite
ria, including: accountabil
ity, financial transparency,
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goods as payment for over
due fines from Dec. 1-31.
According to a release
from library system admin
istrators, one canned item or
dry food item will be accept
ed for each dollar in fines.
Donated food may not be
used to pay for lost or dam
aged items, copies or other
library charges.
Per the release: “Please be
certain that your food items
are not out of date as the
library will not be able to
accept these.
“You may also donate food
items if you have no fines
but would like to help.
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to maintain them. They
wipe them down each night,
Pippio said, “and clean them
on our first ofTdays.”
Neither owns a personal
motorcycle. “After 10 hours
a day on a bike, one of the
last thingß you want to do
is get on another one,” Hale
added, “except when it’s a
really nice day.”
“We’re on them every day,
unless it’s raining,” Pippio
said. “It was pretty brisk
this morning,” he said,
“leaving the house when it’s
35 degrees outside.”
Dennard said the depart
ment has had the motor
squad as far back as the ‘6os.
There was a brief time when
the unit was disbanded fol
lowing a serious accident in
the mid-80s, in which Officer
Tony Cilurso was injured.
“He hung on for four-five
years, “ Dennard said but
succumbed to his injuries
March 5, 1990.
The unit has been back up
since the mid 90s.
The unit has used Harley-
Davidsons for the most part,
Dennard said, with the excep
tion of some Kawasaki’s
in the 80s, when we had
both. “We used to pick at
them,” Dennard said. “We’d
tell ‘em only real police rode
Harleys.”
Dennard said his time on
the motor squad “was the
most fun I had. It was a hard
job but was very reward-
which is expected to be
completed in March. Final
bidding is in place for the
central energy plant with
preliminary construction to
begin in December, Phillips
said.
employee involvement,
political advocacy, and com
munity involvement.”
Said J.P Moery, senior
vice president for Federal
Relations: “Accreditation
recognizes chambers whose
operating procedures and
commitment to community
stand out from the crowd.”
The chamber has invited
state and local chambers
Collected food will be
donated to PAL in Perry and
local food banks in Warner
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ing. You get to experience
thing most people don’t. The
things you’re able to do to
help people is veiy lasting,
favorable one for the agen
cy.
Dennard remembers the
parades the squad partici
pated in and some of the
stunts they, Dennard includ
ed, would do, but didn’t want
to talk about. “It was a dif
ferent time,” he said. “The
chief at the time encouraged
it in the parades for PR.”
“If we did any of that now,
we’d be looking for a job,”
Hale said.
Dennard remembers the
community support, too.
“Two or three people
would stop and give us cof
fee,” he said while the offi
cers were out in 17-degree
mornings directing traffic
onto the base from the Booth
Road/Pleasant Hill Road
and Moody Road/Watson
Road intersections. That
was before Watson Road
became Russell Parkway and
was extended to the base,
Dennard said.
Besides Dennard, otherfor
mer Motor Squad members
include: former Centerville
Police Chief Mike Sullivan,
Coroner Danny Galpin and
Jack Martin, a bailiff at
the Houston County Court
House.
Dennard said there are
many others, but didn’t
want to start listing them
Also, the certificate of need
submitted for the northwest
patient bed tower has been
deemed complete by the
state, but a decision will not
occur until after the first of
the year, Philips said.
of commerce to participate
in its program since 1964.
“We are proud to recognize
the Warner Robins Area
Chamber and its members
for helping to advance the
principles of free enterprise
- the bedrock of this presti
gious award,” said Thomas
J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber
of Commerce president and
CEO.
Robins and Centerville. Call
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representative, he said he
did not know if C-l was
objectionable to the buy
ers.
Area resident David
Wittenberg asked Daniel
about trucks filling in the
wetlands on the property.
Wittenberg said a portion of
the site is designated as wet
lands on county maps.
Daniel said the Army
Corps of Engineers had not
designated the area as wet
lands.
He said he had a letter
from the Corps.
The Warner Robins
Planning and Zoning
Commission Chairman
E.L. Greenway suggested
tabling a decision so Daniels
could answer the questions.
Robert Sisa, city planning
official said the site will
have to be coordinated and
addressed by city and county
engineers.
Sisa also said the individ
ual site plans will have to
come back to the commis
sion.
In other business the
planning commission:
■ Voted to recommend
approval of another rezon
ing and annexation in the
area same for 1.85 acres for
Scott Free from R-AG to C
-2.
■ Recommended the
annexation of the Flash
Foods, 3211 Ga. Highway
247 Connector.
It will stay at the C-2 zon
ing. The 1-acre site in Peach
County at the northeast cor
ner of the intersection with
Interstate 75 was recently
“de-annexed from the city
of Byron,” said Tony Rentz
from Flash Foods, so it could
be annexed into Warner
Robins for water and sewer
service.
Rentz said a new building
will be built, replacing the
existing one on the site.
■ Recommended the
annexation and rezoning of
121.836 acres on the south
west corner of Smithville
Church Road and South
Houston Lake Boulevard
for Leroy Carter from R-AG
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