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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 008
Friday
January 12,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Volunteers needed
for home repairs
Can you drive a nail? Are you
able to paint a wall or ceiling?
Do you have electrical or roofing
skills? The “Rebuilding Together”
Warner Robins affiliate is asking
you to join their team.
According to the affiliate, there
are a number of homes in the
Warner Robins area in need of
repairs, some large and some
small.
The group needs volunteers,
both skilled and unskilled, to help
repair or renovate these homes.
Since the organization's begin
ning in 1997, they have renovated
or repaired over four hundred
homes in the immediate area.
If you are willing to help those
in need of home repairs, join the
team by calling Jerome Stephens
at 929-1476.
Donations needed for
Habitat sale
Donations of items for a garage
sale are needed by Houston
County Habitat for Humanity.
The items will be accepted each
Wednesday and Thursday at Faith
Evangelical Lutheran Church,
located at 301 N. Pleasant Hill in
Warner Robins, from 9:30 a.m. -1
p.m. now through Jan. 26.
The sale will be Jan. 27 from
8 a.m. to noon at the church.
According to a release, money
raised will help to build the next
Habitat home in Houston County.
For more information and
instructions about dropping off
larger items, call 923-2239.
Prom dress sale to be
held at WRHS
A sale of affordable forma! wear
will be held at Warner Robins High
School from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
According to a release, more
than 125 dresses suitable for
proms and pageants have been
donated and will be sold at prices
from $lO to $45.
There are also dresses suitable
for mothers of brides and grooms.
All proceeds will go to benefit the
women and children of Gateway
Cottage.
The sale is sponsored by the
WRHS Student Council.
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Police seek suspects in robbery
Also looking for ‘persons of interest’
By RAY LI GUTTER
Journal Staff Writer
Centerville Police are
looking for two masked
men who robbed the Circle
K Tuesday night.
Police have also released
photos of two persons of
interest, taken from the
store surveillance video.
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Sex offender back in jail over parole violation
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Timothy Ralph Hewitt is back in jail
for violating the terms of his proba
tion.
Hewitt, of Lot 54, Short Lane in
Byron, was on probation for posses
sion and distribution of child porn.
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Police are asking for the
public’s help in identify
ing two males who, Sgt.
Sid Andrews said, are only
persons of interest as they
“were in the store in the
vicinity of the time of the
robbery and may have infor
mation on the robbery.”
The robbery took place
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He pled guilty to sexual exploitation
of children (possession) and sexual
exploitation of a child (distribution)
on June 24, 2003 and was sentenced
to 10 years probation for the two
counts of possession and 12 months
probation for the one count of distri
bution.
about 10:26 p.m., when two
suspects entered the Circle
K convenience store located
at 820 Houston Lake Blvd.
in Centerville.
The clerk was robbed at
gunpoint by one of the sus
pects while the other served
as a lookout.
The two suspects left the
store with an undisclosed
amount of cash. The clerk
was not injured.
The race of the robbery
suspects is unknown at this
time.
Suspect one is approxi
mately 5 feet 10 inches, 170
pounds and was wearing
gray sweat pants, a gray
sweatshirt and his face with
his face concealed by an
orange ski mask.
Suspect one is approxi
mately 6 feet, 3 inches,
See ROBBERY, page 6A
He was indicted on three counts of
each for the Dec. 28, 2002, offense.
He was arrested for Wednesday for
violation of probation from Superior
Court and is being held without bond
in the Houston County Detention
Center.
See JAIL, page 44
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WRALC
earns
award
Fourth lor efforts
of base's C-5 team
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center was select
ed as recipient of the 2006
Franz Edelman Award for
achievement in operations
research.
In May 2006 the Institute
for Operations Research
and Management Sciences
announced the WRALC C
-5 team was selected. Mark
Doherty, executive direc
tor of INFORMS present
ed Maj. Gen. Tom Owen,
WR-ALC Commander and
the C-5 team the Franz
Edelman engraved trophy on
Wednesday in a ceremony in
the C-5 with a plane’s cargo
area serving as the stage.
This is the fourth award for
the C-5 team. In September,
the C-5 Programmed Depot
Maintenance Process
Improvement Team of the
559th Maintenance Wing
was awarded the Chief of
Staff of the Air Force Team
Excellence Award for 2006
for vastly reducing the time
it takes to put the much-used
planes back in the hands of
the warfighters.
The C-5 team at Robins
has been identified as a
benchmark team by the
Air Force for those efforts.
It also received the Shingo
Gold Award in 2005 and
2006, Owen noted.
Owen, who formerly head
ed the C-5 team during its
transition from San Antonio
to Robins said the “improve
ment is beyond our wildest
dreams.”
See AWARD, page 6B
’We're here to
celebrate the
fantastic end to this
great project that
will benefit the
citizens of
Centerville and the
citizens of Houston
County,"
- Centerville Mayor H.M.
Edwards
New stretch
officially opens
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
North Houston Lake
Boulevard is officially open
with five lanes of asphalt
from Watson Boulevard to
Thomson Road.
Centerville and Houston
County officials held a rib
bon cutting ceremony
Wednesday to officially open
the 1.4-mile stretch of road
funded by the 2001 Special
Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax. “We’re here to celebrate
the fantastic end to this
great project that will bene
fit the citizens of Centerville
and the citizens of Houston
County,” Centerville Mayor
H.M. Edwards said.
“This project forms a tra
versing corridor to develop
our city,” Edwards said.
See STRETCH, page 44