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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 227
Thursday
November 30,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
Warner Robins and Perry tipped
off their years on the basketball
court Tuesday with the Panthers
beating the Demons in overtime
and the Demonettes rolling past
the Lady Panthers.
Also, the area's wrestlers began
their year on the mat.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Efforts under way to
recover films
Efforts are under way to gather
Ralph Tabor's films of first grade
classes in Perry.
These will be converted onto
DVDs for preservation. Missing
films are of the classes that
graduated in 1959. 1961. 1962,
1965, 1969, 1971, 1980, 1981
and 1982.
Anyone having these films or
information about there where
abouts is asked to contact Floyd
Tabor, 1401 Cater circle. Perry,
GA 31069. phone 987-2984 or e
mail floydtabor@pobox.com.
Perry author to be at
book signing
Ellie Loudermilk, author of
A Ramble Through Olde
Perry, will be at Two Friends on
Carroll Street in downtown Perry
from 10-11 a.m., Saturday.
She will autograph copies of
her book, which tells the history of
Perry in the 19th century.
The book includes many
photographs from the archives
of Charles Irby Shelton, and is
research-based with information
about older homes and commer
cial buildings.
Kiwanis Club to host
pancakes with Santa
Perry Kiwanis Club will be host
ing its annual Pancake Breakfast
with Santa Saturday from 7:30-
10:30 a.m. in the cafeteria of the
former Perry Elementary School
behind the BOE office on Main
Street. Tickets are $5.
To purchase tickets in advance,
call Marc Martin at 987-2554. Or.
you can pay at the door.
All proceeds, according to a
release from the club, will benefit
“the needs of children and other
worthy causes in our local area.”
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BELOW THE FOLD: HCBOE recognized as School Board of Distinction ■ WRFD offered $1 million* grant
Police arrest 2 ie robbery
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Sta ff Writer
Ronald Felix Emory Jr. and Kris Miles
Powell were arrested this week for the
Oct. 16 armed robbery that occurred at
Wachovia.
Emory, 17, of 223 Crescent Drive in
Warner Robins, was charged with armed
robbery and possession of a firearm dur
ing the commission of a crime.
He was arrested at school, accord
ing to Det. Art Curnutte of the Warner
Robins Police Department Criminal
Investigations Division.
Powell, 19. of 437 Sarah Drive in
Warner Robins, was arrested at home.
He was charged with party to a crime of
armed robbery.
Both individuals were processed at the
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By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
and RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writers
Georgia’s one day of bear hunting
will be Wednesday, but the black
bears living in Oaky Woods Wildlife
Management Area don’t need to run
for cover. Hunting in Middle Georgia
will be limited to the Ocmulgee
WMA on the other side of the river.
A bigger threat to the bears’ natu
ral way of life could be on its way,
however, if Oaky Woods is developed
as a subdivision.
Oaky Woods, which has been in
the news frequently for the last few
months, is a 18,875 acre wooded
site in eastern Houston County. It
has been managed by the Georgia
Association names HCBOE
School Board of Distinction
Special to the Journal
The Georgia School Boards Association
has recognized the Houston County
Board of Education as a School Board of
Distinction. Georgia’s School Boards of
Distinction will be recognized during the
GSBA/Georgia School Superintendents
Association Conference in Atlanta Friday.
In order to apply for recognition as a
School Board of Distinction, boards must
first comply with the Standards for Local
Boards of Education established by GSBA
in 1998. The standards are intended to
help the board and superintendent devel
op vision, goals and plans for continual
improvement.
Eight areas of responsibility are covered
by the standards: vision/philosophy/goals,
systematic improvement, organizational
structure, board operations: policy devel
opment, board operations: board meet
ings, board operations: personnel, board
operations: financial management and
board/staff/community relations.
GSBA awards School Board of
Distinction honors only to boards that
are in compliance with the standards and
that have further distinguished them
selves. GSBA looks at a board’s online
policy manual, goal setting model and
goals, amount of money budgeted for
student improvement and plan to inte
grate technology. It is a self-nominating
process and award status expires every
two years.
“I am very proud of our board’s efforts
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and
then
trans
ported
to the
Houston
County
Detention Center for further disposition.
Curnutte said the suspects were identi
fied through the course of the investiga
tion, but could not go into details. The
arrest warrants were issued at 9 a.m.
Tuesday. The robbery took place about
See ARREST, page 6A
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Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife Conservation Agency for a
number of years while also being used
as timberland by Weyerhaeuser.
Three landowners who now own a
combined 36,000 acres of the Oaky
Woods WMA are hoping to build
Eight areas of
excellence:
- Vision/philosophy/goals
- Systematic improvement
- Organizational structure
- Board operations: policy
development
- Board operations: board meetings
- Board operations: personnel
- Board operations: financial
management
- Board/staff/community relations
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in revising Houston County’s policy man
ual and putting it on-line for our students
and parents,” said Chairman of the Board
Pamela Greenway. “And for the board’s
efforts in goal setting and meeting our
annual goals. Each Board member has
contributed to our success in this area. It
is especially inspiring to see how far our
efforts have taken us.”
Seven members serve on the local board
of education. In addition to Greenway,
Houston County is represented by board
members Jim Boswell (Post 2 and vice
chairman), Griff Clements (Post 6), Gillis
“Skip” Dawkins (Post 3), Charles “Toby”
Hill (Post 7), Tom Walmer (Post .1) and
Fred Wilson (Post 4).
To learn more about GSBA or the
School Board of Distinction Award, visit
http://www.gsba.com.
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POWELL
both houses and businesses on the
site. According to their attorney,
Doug Dillard, the owners want to
build homes and amenities for a
community of 40,000 over the next
20 years.
The site for development has five
Teen charged in chihft
death arrested again
This time on possession of marijuana
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Jammel Xavier Ford, 19, is
back in jail without bond for
possession of marijuana.
Ford, 19, of 100 Cottage
Court, Centerville, was out
on bond on charges of weav
ing/failure to maintain lane,
driving too fast for conditions
and homicide by vehicle - sec
ond degree, a misdemeanor,
in the death of Joshua Hollis
Homeland agency offers
WRFD $ 1 million-t- grant
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins Fire
Department has been award
ed a $1 million-plus homeland
security grant.
As part of the Department
of Homeland Security
“Assistance to Firefighters
Grant Program, Staffing for
Adequate Fire and Emergency
Response” program, the
department has been awarded
a $1,035,000 grant. The City
Council will have to decide to
accept the award as it requires
some local matching funds.
Fire Chief Robert Singletary
hopes to present it to the city
council at Monday’s meeting.
He said the mayor approved
the application last year.
The grant is for 10 posi
tions. “It will give us the
opportunity to run an extra
engine company if we want,”
Singletary said.
Currently the 100-member
department operates full-time
out of six fire stations. Two
new fire stations, Lake Joy
Road and Pleasant Hill Road
are coming on line, but two
older stations will close.
The grant pays up to 90 per
cent of salaries and benefits
the first year, then 80 percent
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Duncan, 7,
Nov. 19.
According
to a police
report, Ford
was arrest
ed Tuesday
at about
5:44 p.m.
on Watson
Boulevard
and by a
Houston County deputy
See TEEN, page 6A
“Some bears may
feel pressured and
leave, and others
may become
nuisance bears,
getting into garbage
cans and bird
feeders.”
- Georgia Department of
Natural Resources Wildlife
Biologist Charlie Killmaster
miles of frontage on the Ocmulgee
River.
The river is one reason the bears
are there, according to Charlie
Killmaster, Wildlife Biologist
for the Georgia Department of
See NEIGHBORS, page 6A
"It will give us the
opportunity to run
an extra engine
company il we
want.”
- Fire Chief Robert Singletary
the second, 50 percent the
third, 30 percent the fourth
and the city takes over the full
cost of salaries and benefits in
the fifth year, Singletary said.
The grant does not include
the outfitting of the new hires.
Singletary estimates bunker
gear and uniforms are about
$2,500 each.
“I can probably absorb
the cost of equipping them
out of the existing budget,”
Singletary said, “but the coun
cil will have to come up with
the funds for the salaries.”
The primary objective of
SAFER grant is to increase
the number of frontline fire
fighters. The goal is for fire
departments to increase their
staffing and deployment
capabilities and ultimately
attain 24-hour staffing, thus
See GRANT, page 6A
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