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Weekend
January 13, 2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Service set to honor
Martin Luther King
The Houston County Chapter of
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference is celebrating Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a
2 p.m. church service at Warner
Robins Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The church pastor, Rev. Lindsey
Napier will be the speaker. Warner
Robins CME is located at 200
Othal H. Lakey Circle off Grant
Street behind the fence, parallel
to Russell Parkway.
For more information call the
church at 923-6326.
Police to offer course
on handgun basics
The Warner Robins Police
Department will be conducting a
course on Handgun Basics for
Women. The class will be held
at the Warner Robins Police
Department Firing range Jan. 22
and 23 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 27 at
8 a.m. The cost of the course
is $25. For further information
contact Grace Hodges at the
Warner Robins Police Department
Training Center at 929-7253.
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.
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birth of rare identical triplets
Then she pointed at the screen.
“There’s baby one.”
“There’s baby two.”
“There’s baby three.”
The doctor even thought there might be a “baby four” behind the
others. The young couple was stunned.
“I turned white,” David says.
“I had the nervous giggles for a week, “Christa says, laughing as
she remembers telling her parents over the phone.”
“My mother kept making these high pitched little squeals,” she
says. “My dad went into shock I think.”
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David and Christa Henager are getting the care and feeding of their identical triplets into a routine. From left, David
feeds Warren, while Logan starts his nap, and Christa feeds Tripp. The baby boys, born Nov. 22, 2006, are thriving
now.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
ehrista Henager was
about eight weeks
pregnant when she
had her first sono
gram. Her hus
band, David, was
with her, and what
they both remem
ber is that when the image came
on the screen, the gynecologist, Dr.
Leslie Tidwell, took a look and started
laughing .
“Then the nurse looked and she
started laughing, too,” Christa says,
“and Dr. Tidwell said ‘l’ve got a little
surprise for you.’”
Then she pointed at the screen.
“There's baby one.”
“There’s baby two."
“There’s baby three.”
The doctor even thought there
Robins, Travis AFB demonstrate wireless system
By Air Force News
FORT DIX, N.J. - For
five days, Air Force air
craft maintainers at Travis
Air Force Base, Calif., and
Robins Air Force Base, dem
onstrated the Telephonies
TruLink Wireless System
at their respective bases to
great success.
The system demonstration
was conducted as part of an
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might be a “baby four” behind the
others. The young couple was
stunned.
“I turned white,” David says.
“I had the nervous giggles for a
week, “Christa says, laughing as she
remembers telling her parents over
the phone.”
“My mother kept making these high
pitched little squeals,” she says. “My
dad went into shock I think."
Two weeks later, a more sophis
ticated sonogram established that
there were three, not four. David
Henager says that at that early stage,
they looked like “beans with hearts.”
There was good reason for the
couple’s astonished reaction. Triplets
have become more common with
fertility treatments, but the
hadn’t had any trouble conceiving,
so these were spontaneous trip
lets, which occur only once in about
initiative dubbed “Wireless
Intercom for Aircraft
Ground Operations,” or
WIAGO, by the Air Mobility
Warfare Center’s Air
Mobility Battlelab here.
The purpose of the WIAGO
system is to improve on
the current corded aircraft
intercom system by migrat
ing it into a wireless sys
tem, said Master Sgt. Rudy
Cartagena, the battlelab’s
project officer on the initia
tive. The current intercom
system for short range com
munications in and around
airlift and tanker aircraft
uses 50- to 100-foot-long
cords that physically con
nect maintainers and air
crew to the aircraft. These
cords, by their very nature,
restrict user movement.
“The problem is amplified
when cords become tangled
10,000 births.
Christa was sent to Dr. Mark Boddy
in Macon, who specializes in “multi
ples,” and the couple began to adjust
to the idea of starting off their family
with a “triple threat.”
There were three cribs to buy, three
car seats, three of everything, and
they hadn't even gotten to the dia
pers and formula yet. They even had
to make a decision to trade in their
two cars for a good-sized van.
Christa, who went to Mercer
University on a volleyball scholarship,
and is now an engineer with Earth
Tech, says that being six feet tall was
a help in carrying her unborn trio.
She laughs, remembering the way
the babies’ kicked her and talks about
seeing them on a sonogram kicking
each other as well.”
“It was like kung-fu fighting," she
says.
See TRIPLETS, page 8A
with other cords and equip
ment,” Cartagena said.
“When maintenance must
be conducted beyond the
reach of the cords, main
tainers are forced to use
hand signals, which can be
misinterpreted.”
The WIAGO system
is based on a hand-held
radio-size, battery-powered
adapter.
See SYSTEM, page 6A
Two sections • 16 pages
Atlanta man
charged in
bus wreck
By RA Y EIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
An Atlanta man has been
charged in the Thursday
afternoon wreck with a
Houston County schoolbus
that kept the intersection of
Watson Boulevard and U.S.
41 closed for more than an
hour.
Ervin L. Head, 60, of
Atlanta has been charged
with reckless driving, run
ning a red light and driv
ing on a suspended license
for reportedly running the
red light and crashing his
2006 Honda Accord into the
21-passenger, wheelchair
accessible special education
schoolbus.
Warner Robins Police said
no students were taken by
ambulance to the hospital,
but the driver of the car was
taken to Houston Medical
Center, where he was treat
ed and later released. He is
currently being held in the
Houston County jail.
There were three special
education students on the
bus along with the bus driv
er and a bus monitor, accord
ing to Beth McLaughlin,
director of Community and
School Affairs for the school
board.
She said the parents
of one of the students
took their child to the
See WRECK, page 6A
Walker now
on DOT board
From staff reports
Larry Walker now has a seat
on the Georgia Department
of Transportation Board, a
13-member body that over
sees policy, long-range plan
ning and budget matters for
the GDOT.
Walker, who will repre
sent the U.S. Congressional
District 8, served in
the Georgia House of
Representatives for over
three decades and was House
Majority leader. He was the
choice of the state senators
and representatives from
the district, who voted on
the appointment, which is
effective now.
GDOT board members
serve five-year terms, with
no compensation, but with
per diem expenses paid.
Also elected were Billy
Langdale of Lowndes
See WALKER, page 6A
Police arrest man on
molestation charges
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Henry Lee Harvey was
arrested Wednesday on
charges of child molesta
tion.
Harvey, 47, has been
charged with statutory
rape, child molestation and
aggravated child molesta
tion involving juveniles
ages 14 and 15, according
to Sgt. Keel Broom with the
Houston County Sheriffs
Juvenile Division. “There
is the possibility of more
charges,” Broom said as the
case is still under investiga
tion.
Harvey is currently being
held in the Houston County
Detention Center without
bond.
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