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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville VOLUME 136, NUMBER 237 BELOW THE FOLD: Developer, residents reach compromise on rezoning Tolleson visits, gets update on downtown Perry Thursday December 14,2006 The Home Journal's FRONT PORCH IN SPORTS Basketball! Perry’s girls and boys hosted Dooly County Tuesday and came away with a pair of wins (for the Panthers, their fourth straight). Warner Robins, on the other hand, traveled to Peach County and split its match ups - with the Demonettes rolling and the Demons, who welcomed back a pair of football players, coming up a point short. IN BRIEF YMCA to host holidays day camp Slots, according to Houston County YMCA executive direc tor Jim Mercer, are “filling fast" for their YMCA Christmas Break Day Camp. “Your students can have lots of fun at the YMCA,” he added. The camp will be offered from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the three weeks: Dec. 21-22, Dec. 26-29 and Jan. 2-4, 2007 at the Houston County YMCA, 2954 Moody Road. The cost per week for full mem bers is $34 for week one. S6B for week two and ssl for week three. For program members, week one is S4O. week two is SBO and week three is S6O. There is a 10 percent sibling discount and program member ship is minimum requirement to participate in all programs at the Houston County YMCA, Mercer said. Call 922-2566 or go online at www.hocoymca.org for more. Santa to pose with pets, help HARPS Pet photos with Santa to ben efit HARPS animals will be offered Saturday and Sunday at Pet Smart on Watson Blvd. in Warner Robins. The time(s) for both days is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. County Democrats to meet today The Houston County Democrats' dinner meeting will be today at 7 p.m. at Fuddruckers restaurant, which is located at 133 Margie Dr., in Warner Robins. Dinner is set for 6:30 p.m. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Gwen Young ■ Morgan Jackson, 15 B Joe Butler E-mail ; your birthdays to: hhj@eyansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers. com or send them to: 1210 Washington St.. Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief. You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. PERIODICAL 500 BdJ 1 Bio 11018 4 Award-Winning ■ Newspaper /p/iS|s2»\ Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UN IV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 December 14, 2006 > ' ■ sum ■ ■ ■ m*■, \Siwvm; Houston Cot sty Simi. MO School board seeks zoning input Proposals for new, adjustments to old on the table Special to the Journal The Houston County Board of Education seeks public input on school zones proposed for the new Hilltop Elementary School and Mossy Creek Middle School. The schools will open during August 2007, and the approved zones would take affect for the 2007- 2008 school year. Angels in the 'out' field tft «• . * 45,-* . m ttf jj \ i m ' „P ‘ tv - u si, , m i " Jmit «»;.*! H«v ! .isgti Salvation Army volunteer Crystal Burns awaits donors and donation's Tuesday at the Angel Tree in the food court of Galleria Malt Salvation Army seeks 220 volunteers to fill up adoption tree tty ft . I > U(i IIIMR lottrital Stuff M >/i<> Of the 857 angels ony in ally on the Salvation Army's Angel free at Galleria Mall, there are still 220 waiting to be adopted Friday is the last day to adopt an angel. Local Salvation Army Captains Glenn and Jennifer Queen said 220 need to be adopted by Fnday The Angel Tree, local ed in the food court area of the mail, closes that www.hhjnews.com Board members reviewed the proposed zone maps during the December board meeting Tuesday. The proposed zone maps (see 12B) will be discussed at a public forum, displayed in affected schools and at the central office, provided to the media and posted to the Board of Education Web site, http://www. hcbe.net/. A public forum is scheduled for day. Glenn Queen said 'We b like to have all the gifts back by Friday Salvation Army work ers are manning the tree from 9 am to 9 p m through Friday. 'Our workers will take people through the pro cess. " Jennifer Queen sard Salvation Army work eis wilt be on location Saturday to take in gifts We will be there Saturday to receive only Jennifer Queen Jan. 4, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. in the Houston County High School audi torium. The new Hilltop Elementary School will draw from the cur rent Bonaire Elementary and Matt Arthur Elementary zones. The new Mossy Creek Middle School will draw from the current Feagin Mill Middle School and Perry Middle School zones. sard ! hoy will start the sort ing process Monday, so . ail gifts have to he in by Saturday so they can plan to provide for the remaining angels, the Queens explained The Salvation Army is hoping to provide for about 1.9(H) children across Middle Georgia; Jennifer Queen said. The 857 angels are from the local; service area of Houston. Poach and Pulaski counties Talton, Staton get jump on new year Both file early legislation By RATLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The Georgia General Assembly starts Jan. 9, 2007 but two of the coun ty’s local legislators already have hills in the hopper. The 40-day session is scheduled to end March 30, but State House Representative Willie Talton, R-Warner Robins, and District 18 State Senator Cecil Staton, R- Macon have already pre filed legislation for the upcoming session. Talton has co-sponsored House Bill 21, which would make English the official language for state docu ments and forms. Staton Tolleson gets update on Perry downtown By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer State Senator Ross Tolleson was back home in Perry on Wednesday and had a working breakfast with members of the Perry Downtown Development i.'jt * 'WHi Wk*. > *•* j/' ' —— Journal/Charlotte Perkins Sen. Ross Tolleson and Downtown Development Authority member Kim Mullins take a look at the streetscape plan for downtown Perry. Commission OKs rezoning By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The developer and area residents came to a compro mise for commercial devel opment at the entrance to Savannah Square subdivi sion. m E\ms Fwitr Ntwsmemt\ Two sections • 20 pages The Lake Joy Elementary School zone will not change with the open ing of the new Lake Joy Elementary and subsequent renaming of the old as the new Lake Joy Primary School. No changes will be made to any high school zones. Other zoning adjustments are as follows: ■ Kings Chapel Elementary is proposed to change from grades two through five to pre-K through See INPUT, page 6A has authored Senate Resolution 4, which pro poses an amendment to the Constitution so the General Assembly may provide by law for procedures for vot ing to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the elector al process, including proce dures to verify the identity of electors seeking to vote in a primary or election. Talton is actually the second sponsor of the bill by State House District 68 Rep. Timothy Bearden, R- Villa Rica. It was pre-filed Dec. 7. The bill, if approved would amend Code Section 50-3-100 of the See JUMP, page 6A Authority. Tolleson did a lot of listening and pitched some ideas of his own for long-term projects as well. DDA Vice-chairman, Larry Walker 111 welcomed Tolleson to the meeting, which was held at the See UPDATE, page 6A The Warner Robins Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the request for rezoning to C-l (neighbor hood commercial) adjacent to the subdivision and See REZONING, page 6A