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itcwiritat JHWlfj Imtrttgd 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. BIRTHDAYS Saturday ■ Hayley Rogers Sunday ■ Sarah Chaloult Shane Hawk Stephen Shimp Rob Brooks Stephanie Smith (Sweet 16) Ophelia M. Payne DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Tommie N. Hunt, 92 PERIODICAL 500 (Hill 8 '*s 5108 0000l 1 4 Award-Winning Better Newspaper Contest Ngcugy COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 December 9, 2006 II II .11 .1 I. " jft 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 Engineering a Homecoming jg . J K^i ‘; v ’ . 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. ENLGary Harmon . ■% '■■mm * .gjp ' -v. Jag--, ' 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 www.hhjnews.com 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 H 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 jHH & \ WS lllPir Is WP’mF nj? |L. i Wm 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 Three sections • 18 pages % 4jmxl I 17 4 L ENI/Gary Harmon 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 II II .1 I. . 1.. I J 111. IU.I . ay E\ \\s Family Newspaper] - - - - - - —*