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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 022
BELOW THE FOLD: Bills would affect truck laws WWR unemployment rate unchanged INSIDE: Police arrest suspect in robbery
Thursday
February 1,2007
The Home Journal s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Yard sale to help ill
13-year-old
A yard sale will be held Saturday
to benefit the tund for 13-year-old
Cody McDuffie, who is fighting
lyphoblastic leukemia.
The sale will be from 8 a.m.
until 2 p.m. at the home of Michael
and Julie Chunn, 213 Carroll Drive
in Warner Robins.
Particpating volunteers include
Friends of the Perry Animal
Shelter, the U.S. Military Vets
Motorcycle Club, and other friends
of Cody.
Donations of unwanted trea
sures are welcome. Call 788-5502
for more information.
Daughters group to
hold flag ceremony
Sukey Hart. DAR. will hold
a flag retirement ceremony at
Christ United Methodist Church
on Russell Pkwy Saturday at 1
p.m. Bring old, worn, tattered U.S.
flags of yours, your neighbors,
friends, et cetera. This ceremony
is open to public.
School system to
hold teacher job fair
The Houston County School
System will hold a Teacher Job
Fair Saturday 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 screening
interviews.
For more information about the
fair, contact Human Resources at
988-6244 or visit the HCBOE Web
site, www.hcbe.net.
Hospice Cancer Pad
group to meet
The Hospice Cancer Pad group
will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. in
the fellowship hall of First Baptist
Church in Perry. The church is
located at 1105 Main St. Call
Helen Clelan at 988-9845 for
more information.
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Rodeo, livestock shows return
From staff reports
The 17th Annual Georgia
National Junior Livestock
Show and the 17th Georgia
National Rodeo will return
to Perry the third full week
in February.
The livestock show fea
tures Georgia’s 4-H and
FFA students competing for
statewide championships.
Approximately 2,100 youth
will show in classes for hogs,
heifers, steers and breeding
ewes.
Admission to the show,
Feb. 21-25. is free to the
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Perry’s Ashley Roberts (24) ends up in an awkward position while battling for a rebound
against Peach County Tuesday in Perry. For more on basketball action for the county,
see 18.
Bills would affect
truck seatbelt laws
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Pickups may no longer be
excluded from seatbelt laws.
Two bills making their
way through the General
Assembly, if passed, would
remove the exemption for
pickup trucks and require
those drivers to buckle
up. Both would list pickup
trucks with cars and other
passenger vehicles instead
of with tractors, motorcycles
motor driven cycles, or vehi
cles equipped for off-road
use, in the state laws requir
ing seatbelt use.
House Bill 200 goes even
further. It would provide
that the failure to use such
safety belts may be evidence
of causation, negligence, and
contributory negligence, but
shall not be the basis for
cancellation of coverage or
increase in insurance rates.
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public.
“The livestock show gives
families, especially our chil
dren, an opportunity to see
young agricultural enthu
siasts compete for spe
cial honors,” said Michael
A. Froehlich, executive
director, Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
“Georgia has one of the
strongest 4-H and FFA pro
grams in the country,” he
added.
The rodeo will run that
weekend, Feb. 22-24. For the
fourth year in a row, the
Georgia National Rodeo has
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It may, however, be used
as evidence to diminish any
recovery for damages aris
ing out of the ownership,
maintenance, occupancy, or
operation of a motor vehicle.
In other words, if you get
hurt and are not buckled up,
you might not get covered
for your injuries.
House Bill 200 was filed
Jan. 27 and remains in the
House hopper, with no further
action take yet. It was spon
sored by Representatives
Larry Geisinger, R-Roswel,
Edward Lindsey of the 54th,
Calvin Hill of the 21st, Tom
Rice of the 51st, Fran Millar
of the 79th and others.
The bill amends the part of
state code relating to horns,
exhaust systems, mirrors,
windshields, tires, safety
belts and energy absorption
systems.
House Bill 114
See LAWS, page sA
been designated a Southeast
Tourism Society “Top 20
Event for the Months of
January and February.”
The rodeo is sanctioned
by the Professional Rodeo
Cowboys Association and
features specialty acts plus
cowboys and cowgirls from
across the count ry competing
in six events: saddle bronc
riding, bareback riding, calf
roping, steer wrestling, bull
riding and barrel racing.
Points earned at the Georgia
National Rodeo qualify rid
ers for the National Finals
See SHOWS, page *4
Metro WR unemployment rate unchanged in December
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston County’s unemployment rate
remained unchanged at 3.8 percent from
Warner Robins MSA Employment
(In Thousands)
November to December I
+ 300 jobs
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50 nominated for
governor's honors
Special to the Journal
Fifty Houston County
sophomores and juniors
have been nominated
for the' 2007 Governor’s
Honors Program. The
students and their par
ents were recognized at a
breakfast and ceremony
Jan. 23, at the Houston
County Career and
Technology Center.
Dr. Darryl Albritton,
principal of Perry High,
gave the opening remarks.
All nominees were intro
duced by their principal.
Dr. Mike Mattingly,
assistant superintendent
for teaching and learning,
addressed the students
and parents.
“The GHP is dedicat
ed to the art of learn
ing and is devoted to stu
dents who have the desire
to learn,” he told them.
“But, beyond your love
of your area of expertise,
you have all demonstrat
ed that you are leaders.
You represent the future.
“So, do your best and
remember - whether you
make it through the inter
views to the summer pro
gram or not - your hard
work has gotten you this
far.
“You are a success and
you represent the best
that the Houston County
schools have to offer.”
Jan Jacobsen, director
November to December.
According the Georgia Department of
Labor, the unemployment rate for the
metro Warner Robins area, which includes
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"You are a success
and you represent
the best that the
Houston County
schools have to
offer."
- Assistant Superintendent
for teaching and learning Dr.
Mike Mattingly, in addressing
students nominatedfor the 2007
Governor’s Honors Program
of gifted and coordinator
of the Governor’s Honors
Program for Houston
County, closed the morn
ing’s events.
The students were
nominated by their teach
ers based on academic
achievement and their
passion for a subject area
such as agriculture, chem
istry, mathematics, social
studies, visual art, the
atre, music or technology.
(Note: A list, by school,
of honorees and their area
of interest - along with
pictures - is provided on
page 6A.)
The nominees were
interviewed beginning
this past Saturday, by a
state committee, which
will select finalists for the
program.
Students will be
See HONORS, page 6A