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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.” BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Daisy Stewart ■ Jason Turner DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Robert M. Carroll, 73 ■ Pamela L. McLendon, 54 PERIODICAL 500 min 8 *55108 00001 4 Award-Winning Newspaper /fadSBKjSA Heller Newspaper Vcj*“»V Contest illillillllllllllilMllllillllllilllllllllllllllllll COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3Q6Q2-QQQ2 3-OiGIT 306 *\ November 30, 2006 \SSWWB )H£t>,KsK(o €otoS’n S/:v6£ MW 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 1 Oaky Woods *- could bring outran ....>si cs mjj^'jSgSAZ sSfaßljj 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 www.hhjnews.com Ws EMORY Warner Robins Police Depart me n t 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 S:' : >V « P®* if#’ iiMrnii nfi - 'W** 3s » - - - - '•-'*» ~ " «-** «.;■ ~ - - _ , , . - - * ~ :—U 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 • 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. HHH I 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 an EvaM Family Newspaper - - - Two sections • 18 pages 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 FOOD Metro Creative