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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 011
BELOW THE FOLD: SCLC observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day ■ GSU Chorale to perform in Warner Robins
Wednesday
January 17, 2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
Warner Robins High School's
Demonettes finished second
at the Statesboro High School
Swimming invitational this past
weekend. In wrestling, Northside's
grapplers qualified for the state
team championship. Perry, Warner
Robins and Houston County didn't
fare quite as well.
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IN BRIEF
School system to
hold teacher job fair
The Houston County School
System will hold a Teacher Job
Fair Feb. 3 from 9 a.m.-noon
at Warner Robins High School,
which is located at 401 South
Davis Drive.
interested teachers are invited
to bring copies of their resume to
the job fair. Representatives from
37 schools will conduct screen
ing interviews. For more informa
tion about the fair, contact Human
Resources at 988-6244 or visit the
HCBOE Web site, www.hcbe.net.
Art Center plans Fur
Ball event
The Fur Ball, an evening of
food, fun and entertainment, will
take place Saturday, 6:30-10:30
p.m. at the Art Center in down
town Perry. Tickets are $25, with
all proceeds going to the Perry
Animal Shelter. Katerings by Kelly
will provide the food, and live
music will be presented by Mossy
Creek Band and Roland Evertt
Fall with the Lightword band.
For more information, call 987-
4679 and ask for Wendy.
Happy Hour Workshop
II to hold yard sale
Happy Hour Workshop II will
hold, according to a release, a
“huge" indoor yard sale Saturday
from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. All proceeds go
to benefit chal
lenged persons. The workshop
is located at 716 North Young
Avenue in Warner Robins.
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Rhea Ward plays during the 30th Anniversary CMA Rally, in Hatfield, Ark. The Macon
accountant is a member of the SON Riders of Warner Robins.
Son Riders a unique group
of believers
By NANCYIIAWK
Journal Staff Writer
j I he leather vests or chaps,
L J boots battered with the
grime of the road, the
unmistakable smile of
confidence and mission,
are the first impression for
all who shake hands with
a member the Christian
Motorcycle Association’s local chap
ter: Son Riders No. 330 based in
Warner Robins.
Not powered by chemicals, but by
a spiritual mission that they live daily;
they go to church on Sunday to stay
charged.
They are multi-denominational
- Lutheran, Methodist, Assembly of
God, Catholic and Baptist to name
just a few - and saddled up on a
Harley, a Yamaha, Honda Goldwing
and more They meet the first Monday
of every month.
The meetings are conducted at a
local Warner Robins restaurant. After
conducting general business, the
members brief the rest of the chapter
on projects coming up and projects
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complete.
Energy is high and praise is fre
quently delivered. It’s not just talk
mind you, as the members reach out
to others in the community.
For example, member Tony Paez
reported during one of their holiday
meetings on assistance given a fam
ily in Macon. Thanks to the group’s
efforts, he said, a woman and her
three children were able to experience
Christmas in a real way.
“They lived in a house with no heat,
no furniture, barely any food,” he said.
“CMA stepped up and gave the sup
port this small family could not find
elsewhere.”
Another member, Anita Schmidt,
was able to update the group on an
assistance they had done about four
to five years ago for a waitress with
two small children whose husband
had passed away.
“She was raving about how good
things have gotten (thanks to their
efforts),” Schmidt, said. “She will
graduate in May. It shows what believ
ers can do when they reach out and
help.”
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Perry PD catches
bupglapy suspects
Earn words of praise from victim
ByRAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Ley Pickens has high
praise for the Perry Police
Department.
His house was burglar
ized on Wednesday and the
suspects were in custody
within 24 hours, Pickens
said. “Perry Police did a
wonderful job,” he said. “It
really meant a lot to us.
“Perry Police Capt. Heath
Dykes,” Pickens said, “was
most helpful. Perry Police
did a heck of a job.”
Dykes said a search of
the area, following the bur
glary this past Wednesday,
turned up some of the sto
len property. “Luckily we
were able to get most of his
stuff back,” Dykes said.
Dykes said Perry Police
worked with the Houston
County Sheriffs Office
detectives to come up with
suspects. Both agencies
had been working similar
burglaries, Dykes said -
“daytime burglaries, ram
shackling the house - the
county cases had the same
MO (modus operandi).”
“We had two in Perry and
the county had several,”
Dykes said, who credited a
good jpb by Lt. Jon Holland
and Sgt. Ronnie Harlowe
To ‘remember, celebrate and act'
Chapter holds observance
By RAY UGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Monday was a day
“on”, not a day off for the
Houston County Chapter
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
The local SCLC chap
ter celebrated Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Day with
a 2 p.m. church service at
Warner Robins Christian
Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Mistress of Ceremonies
Shirlyn Granville said the
day is to “remember, cel
ebrate and act.”
The celebration began
v/ith a hymn led by
Minister Wilbert Johnson,
“to take us back to the
old times,” Granville said,
when there was a hymn to
open a meeting.
Rev. Henry Childsbrought
the opening prayer, thank
ing God, Dr. King and all
GSU Chorale to perform
Special to the Journal
The 36-member Georgia
Southern Chorale will per
form Thursday at 7 p.m.
at Houston County High
School in Warner Robins.
The concert, which is free
and open to the public,
will include works by Lars
Edlund, CV Stanford, Mack
Wilberg, Franz Schubert
and others.
The group is under
the direction of Rodney
Caldwell, D.M.A., who
is now in his 12th year
as director of Choral
Activities at Georgia
Southern University. In
addition to conducting the
Georgia Southern Chorale,
he teaches courses in con
ducting and music educa
tion, and is the coordinator
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"We had two in
Perry and the
county had
several."
- Perry Police Capt. Heath
Dykes, on a string of burglar
ies that had the same modus
operandi
for “helping us ID the sus
pects. The two agencies
worked together.”
Dykes said the case
“shows the good working
relationship we have with
the sheriff s office.”
Holland, Dykes said,
located the suspects at a
Moody Road coin car wash,
where both were taken into
custody.
The two suspects - Keith
Michael Waugh and Zachary
Theron Smith, both of
Warner Robins - are being
held in the Houston County
Detention Center with
out bond on burglary and
theft by receiving charges.
Smith, 23, faces two counts
of burglar and five counts
of theft by receiving stolen
property.
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those who struggled in the
civil rights movement for
this day. Rev. Ed Hixson of
Hayneville Baptist Church
brought the Word, with
readings from Isaiah 42:1-
6 and Romans 8:31.
Brother Ranard Mattox
welcomed the church full
of people. “We are here to
celebrate the life of the
drum major for justice - Dr,
Martin Luther King Jr.”
Deacon Billy Joe Miller,
who heads a prison min
istry in Abbeville, gave a
tribute to King, with read
ings from and preaching
on some of King’s speech
es. When King was asked
about his funeral plans,
Miller quoted King as say
ing, “tell them I am a drum
major for justice.”
Warner Robins CME
church pastor, the Rev.
Lindsey Napier, continued
in that theme, with his
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of International Studies in
Music.
The chorale will tour
throughout the state and
then travel to Savannah,
where it will perform on the
Georgia Music Educators
Conference. This will
mark the group’s fourth
appearance on the GMEA
Conference in the last 10
years.
One of five vocal/cho
ral groups at Georgia
Southern, the chorale
appears in approximately
20 concerts each year.
The group tours interna
tionally every third year,
and in 2005 it performed
in St. Peter’s Basilica in
Vatican City and Palazzo
Vecchio in the Italian city
of Florence.