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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 234
BELOW THE FOLD: City of Perry formally adopts nuisance code Robins Air Force Base tests new fuel cell technology
Weekend
December 9,2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Service planned for
bereaved parents
The annual candlelight memo
rial service sponsored by St
Christopher's Episcopal Church
and the Perry Ministerial Alliance
for those in the community who
have lost a child will be held at
5 .m. Sunday at St Christopher's
Episcopal Church in Perry.
The service will celebrate the
lives of these children with prayers,
music, an angel tree and a candle
lighting ceremony. Special music will
be performed by organist Joseph
O'Berry, soprano Kay Morrison, and
tenor Arthur Wilson.
A reception catered by Kathryn’s
Cafd and Bakery will follow in
Buchanan Hall at the church.
Community ministers partici
pating in the ecumenical service
are The Rev Parker Agnew, Perry
Presbyterian Church; The Rev
David Corson, First Baptist Church
of Perry; The Rev. George Durham,
Crossroads United Methodist
Church; The Rev. Willie King, Faith
Bible Fellowship Church; and The
Rev. Kirk Mansell, St Patrick's
Catholic Church.
Lumsden appointed
Superior Court judge
Wednesday, Gov, Sonny Perdue
named Katherine Lumsden the
third judge
for Superior
Court of the
Houston
Judicial
Circuit.
Lumsden,
35, of Perry,
is the chief
assistant
district attor
ney for the
LUMSDEN
Houston
Judicial Circuit. She is a mem
ber of the Houston County Bar
Association, Prosecuting Attorney's
Council of Georgia and National
District Attorney's Association. She
earned a bachelor's degree from
Florida State University and a law
degree from the Walter F. George
School of Law at Mercer University.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Twin engine%
One battles to be record holder, the other
to stay in remission - brothers help lead
Demons into Georgia Dome
“At first, it really didn’t hit me. Once I
started going through all the treatments and
stuff, that’s when it really hit me. ‘I got cancer!’”
- Brandon Buford
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
In the Buford family, this 2006
football season has been all about
personal triumph. From a major
honor in one of Georgia’s toughest
high school regions to a year that
about seven years ago didn’t even
seem possible, two Warner Robins
twin brothers are champions in sev
eral ways.
Brian Buford is a three-year start
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More than 60 members from Robins Air Force Base’s 78th
Civil Engineer Group returned home from deployment in
Iraq Thursday. See 8A for more pictures.
ABOVE: Karen Nechoa waits on her son.
RIGHT: Jessica Ondike, center, along with her daughter
Cathy and son Stephen (not pictured) scan the sky for the
plane.
BELOW: Sarah Escanilla welcomes home hubby Patrick as
their son Pat looks on.
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Base personnel test new fuel cell technology
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A new, quieter and more
efficient generator is being
tested at Robins Air Force
Base.
The base has 10 of the
zero emission, synthetic die
sel fuel powered generators
in use now to power its water
treatment facility, according
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ing linebacker for the Warner Robins
High defense. For his consistency in
making all the stops in a Demons
game, he was named the 2006
Region 1-AAAAA Defensive Player
of the Year. Brian is also eyeing the
school record for career total tackles
(360), a mark he wouldn’t mind get
ting today against Peachtree Ridge
in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome.
Brandon Buford earned a starting
spot for the first time on coach Bryan
to Mike Mead, chief of the
Air Force Advanced Power
Technology Office.
“It’s very important to
reduce the emissions and our
dependency on foreign ener
gy sources,” Mead said.
Mead and Battelle, the
manufacturer of the portable
multipurpose electric power
system generator, put on a
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Brandon (57) and Brian Buford.
Way’s offensive line as a guard for
his senior season. For Brandon, this
opportunity wasn’t just about biding
his time waiting for older players to
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technology demonstration
Thursday, comparing the
new fuel cell generator with
what is currently in use, the
diesel generator.
While both put out 5 kilo
watts, Mead pointed out the
differences. “The technol
ogy we use today is loud, has
the diesel smell and has a
heat signature,” Head said,
which can be detected by the
enemy.
The fuel cell generator is
smaller, has no heat signa
ture, is much quieter and
uses natural gas to create
the hydrogen fuel. It also
produces about a gallon of
water in emissions over a
three- to four-hour period,
See TEST, page 8A
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graduate. As a child, he had to fight
off a personal foe, a disease called
leukemia.
See TWIN, page iB
Man dies in
accident on
Rollins AFB
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
One retiree died and
another was injured
Thursday due to a traffic
accident at the gas sta
tion on Robins Air Force
Base.
According to a release
from the base, a retiree
was driving near the base
gas station and suffered a
medical condition which
caused him to lose con
trol of his pick-up truck
and hit a pole about noon
Thursday, according to
Lt. Sequoya Lawson, from
the 78th Air Base Wing
public affairs office.
Members of the 78th
Security Forces responded
to the incident. According
to preliminary reports,
the pick-up truck and pole
impacted a sports utility
vehicle, which struck a
retired chief master ser
geant, who later died at a
local hospital as a result
of the accident.
Franks said there was
no fuel spill or fire from
See ACCIDENT, page 8A
PY adopts
new code
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Perry is cracking down
on nuisances - from junk
cars and furniture in
yards to grass more than
eight inches and leaving
the trash can out.
The council approved
the changes in the city
code Tuesday after the
second reading of the
ordinance. The first read
ing was in October.
City Manger Lee
Gilmour said the change
“clarifies violations and
shortens the enforcement
turnaround on the viola
tions.”
If grass is more than
eight inches high, it’s a
violation. If there is any
overgrowth on the side
walk of grass, weeds,
shrubs it’s a violation.
If there is not eight
feet of clearing over the
See CODE, page SA
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