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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 238
Friday
December 15,2006
The Home Journal's
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
YMCA to host
holidays day camp
Slots, according to Houston
County YMCA executive direc
tor Jim Mercer, are “tilling 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.
Houston Lodge holds
elections
Houston Lodge No. 35 held
elections Monday night. Elected
to offices for the year 2007 are:
Worshipful Master - Scott Barfield,
Senior Warden - John Croom,
Junior Warden - Alan Shaw, PM,
Treasurer-Sherman Rankin, PM,
Secretary Jim Huffman, PM, Tyler
- Russ Ford, PM. Joe Smoak,
PM three-year Board of Trustees,
Ernie Wright, PM board
of directors and appointed were:
Keith Onsted - Senior Deacon,
Jeff Onsted - Junior Deacon,
Dave Baxter - Senior Steward,
John Shirley - Junior Steward,
MM Cloud - Chaplin.
Museum offers
special ornament
To honor the legacy of Brig.
Gen. Robert L. Scott, the Museum
of Aviation has created a com
memorative ornament of his P-40
soaring in the clouds.
The ornament is limited to
1,248 pieces and is three-dimen
sional, 24 carat gold-plated brass
and hand painted with a red silk
hanging ribbon. The cost is S2O
and it is available at the Museum
of Aviation.
BIRTHDAYS
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Georgia State Sen, Ross Tolleson pumps ethanol into his vehicle.
State's tirst public 'Hex-fuel' pump opens
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Back in October, State
Senator Ross“¥cKleson and
his wife, Sally, bought a
Tahoe with a difference.
They chose a “flex-fuel”
vehicle, or FFV which can
run on gasoline or ethanol.
On Tuesday, Tolleson filled
the tank with ethanol for the
first time. He didn’t have
that option before, because
the very few ethanol pumps
in the state at this point are
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An ethanol pump.
Perry native named senior assistant DA
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Jeff Lasseter, has been an
assistant district attorney
in Middle Georgia for over
16 years.
Lasseter has been pro
moted to Senior Assistant
District Attorney in the
Houston Judicial Circuit.
“It came out of the blue,”
Lasseter, a Perry native,
said of the new title.
“I promoted Jeff to Senior
Assistant District Attorney
because Jeff is a tremendous
asset to the prosecution
community and the bar in
general,” said Kelly Burke,
District Attorney. “He is
well respected throughout
the legal community and his
knowledge and wisdom has
been instrumental in assist
ing our younger prosecu
tors in fulfilling their roles
as advocates for the State
in Houston Superior Court.
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on military bases or in pri
vate industrial use.
It was a big day for
Tolleson, because, as chair
man of the Senate Natural
Resources and Environment
Committee, he was celebrat
ing a milestone event for
Georgia, and it wasn’t in
Atlanta.
It was in his hometown of
Perry, which can now boast
of the first EBS Ethanol
pump for public use in the
state. He saved some money,
too, with the cost at $1,949
per gallon.
The pump, which even
had its own ribbon cutting,
is located at the Fillers just
off 1-75, Exit 135.
Fillers is a Perry-owned
business, one offspring of
the third generation Davis
Oil Company, now headed
by Davis Cosey with Dennis
Burnett as sales manager of
the new biofuels division.
If you’ve been hearing
about biofuels and ethanol
for years, and thought some
of the talk sounded like pie
in-the-sky, think again.
Ethanol is here, and if
you have a late model car
you may be able to use it
starting today. Mark Hamby,
of Hamby Chevrolet, said
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LASSETER
I’m pleased
that Jeff
joined us
in Houston
County and
I look for
ward to his
serving for
many years
to come.”
Lasseter
began his
career in prosecution in
the Macon Judicial Circuit,
a position he held from
November 1990 until com
ing to the Houston Judicial
Circuit July 1, 2005.
He moved to Macon in
1992 while working for the
District Attorney there.
The Macon circuit includes
Bibb, Crawford and Peach
counties He has returned
home to Perry since joining
the Houston DA’s office.
The Perry native was
born in the doctor’s office
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Mark Hamby, of Hamby Chevrolet stands with Davis
Cosey of Davis Oil Company.
on Carroll Street and grew
up on Main Street.
He worked at the fam
ily business - Longhorn
Butcher on Sunset Avenue,
which his brothers contin
ue to own and operate. He
is also a graduate of The
Westfield Schools, Mercer
and Mercer Law School. He
has a 10-year-old daughter
Anna.
“I spend most of my off
time with her,” he said.
Since coming to the
Houston circuit, he has
been busy, as his primary
responsibility is the pros
ecution of all felony prop
erty crimes. He has had 302
cases assigned to him so far
this year.
The property crimes sec
tion has about 600 to 700 a
year, Lasseter said, assigned
to two attorneys. He has
worked on property crimes
with fellow ADA Duncan
Munn and will soon be work
ing with Holly Veal. When
Lasseter came on board
in 2005 he was assigned
292 existing cases and with
the 300 each year, he has
“whittled his caseload down
to 200 cases with a lot of
help from a lot of people.”
“The office works great as
a team, “ he said.
While he handles a lot of
cases, Lasseter said “all the
cases are important to me.”
Burke cited one of the
more notable prosecutions
- the conviction of Michael
Greenwood, a serial crimi
nal who was captured,
charged and prosecuted in
Houston County.
“As a result of the tre
mendous job done by Mr.
Lasseter,” Burke said, “on
May 12, 2006, Greenwood
received a sentence of 34
years to serve 25 years with
out parole.”
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HCBOE
names
principals
and APIs
Special to she Journal
The Houston County
Board of Education, during
its monthly meeting Tuesday,
approved Superintendent
Danny Carpenter’s recom
mendations for principals
and assistant principals for
instruction for the 2007-08
school year.
They are as follows:
Dr. Cheryl Thomas was
named principal of Quail
Run Elementary. Thomas
holds doctorate and spe
cialist degrees from Argosy
University.
She also holds a mas
ter’s degree from Georgia
Southwestern State
University and a bachelor’s
degree from State University
of New York at Cortland.
She is presently the assis
tant principal for instruction
at Quail Run Elementary and
has been with the Houston
County School System for
eight years. Thomas will
replace Dr. Douglas Rizer
who has been named prin
cipal of the new Lake Joy
Elementary.
Elgin Mayfield, Jr., was
named principal of Perry
Primary School. Mayfield
holds a master’s degree from
Columbus State University
and a bachelor’s degree from
Valdosta State University.
He is presently the assis
tant principal for instruction
at Parkwood Elementary and
has been with the Houston
County School System for 10
years. Mr. Harold Sapp, cur
rent PPS principal, will
See NEW, page 6B
Commission
approves home
businesses
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Nine home businesses
were approved Tuesday by
the Warner Robins Planning
and Zoning Commission.
The businesses vary from
a home daycare to mobile
medical imaging. There were
objections by neighbors to
only one of the requests - a
roofing business by Jimmy
L. Riley at 104 Greenwood
Drive. The primary objection
came from another home
operated construction con
tractor, Barbara Martin, who
lives two blocks over. She
was concerned about heavy
equipment coming into the
neighborhood.
The only equipment Riley
brings home is a 1-ton pick
up truck, which he parks
on the side of his home.
Martin’s picture of the truck,
which she referred to as a
“dump truck” (spec-wise it’s
not), convinced the board to
approve the request for the
one-man business.
“It looks to me it’s pret
ty well kept. It’s an ordi
nary vehicle,” said Planning
Commission Chairman E.L.
Greenway.
“Yes it is,” Riley said. “The
only thing in my yard is my
personal truck and my lad
der. The roofing materials
are sent to the job site.”
Riley noted he has had
a home occupation permit
since 1997 at his previous
residence, 102 Silas, with no
See APPROVES, page 6B