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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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Perry Office
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Perry, GA 31069
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State Briefs
Winter storm
closes Ga. schools
ATLANTA (AP) - An over
night winter storm dumped
snow, sleet, freezing rain and
rain across north Georgia
on Thursday, causing about
30 county school systems to
close their schools for the
day.
Snow was blanketing the
ground in parts of north
Georgia, and ice formed on
bridges in the northeast,
Georgia Department of
Transportation spokeswom
an Karlene Barron said.
As much as 2 inches of
snow accumulated in
Habersham, Dawson, Towns
and Union counties, DOT
spokeswoman Crystal Paulk-
Buchanan said.
The National Weather
Service canceled the winter
storm warning Thursday
morning, but kept its wintry
weather warning in effect
for north Georgia.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport had
no early morning problems
because of the weather,
which was all rain with no
ice.
“The main reason (for no
problems) was because so
many of the airlines went
ahead and canceled so many
of their flights,” said Sterling
Payne of the airport’s public
relations staff. “We opened
our snow desk where we
orchestrate movement of
planes for deicing, but we
had no more than a dozen
that had to be deiced.”
Delta Air Lines Inc.
announced Wednesday it
was canceling about 200
flights because of the winter
storm warning and Air Tran
said it was canceling 29.
“It’s looking good barring
any additional inclement
weather,” said Betsy Talton
of Delta’s public relations
department. “We anticipate
a normal day for the rest of
our operations in Atlanta.
This is why we make some
proactive cancelations.”
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lows in the upper
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and lows in the low
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Brunswick 52 36 rain
Cartersville 48 27 cloudy
Chattanooga,TN 38 19 cloudy
Columbus 50 33 cloudy
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Chicago 10 -3 flurries
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She said by midmorning
Thursday Delta had been
able to get passengers from
canceled flights onto other
flights to get them to their
destinations.
Besides public and pri
vate school systems, the
University of Georgia in
Athens and other colleges
in north Georgia also closed
because of the weather.
In metro Atlanta, Barron
said bridges were deiced as a
pre-emptive measure.
State grabs for
more Jekyll control
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia
legislators launched a bid
Wednesday for more control
of Jekyll Island, the state
owned vacation spot where
upscale developers are eye
ing a mix of rundown hotels
and aging retail stores.
A measure introduced in
the House would create a
six-member legislative com
mittee to review all pro
posed leases on Jekyll, a 7.5-
mile barrier island which is
required by law to remain
65 percent untouched. It
also would extend the Jekyll
Island Authority’s oversight
of the property by 99 years,
which members of the group
say is crucial to negotiating
long-term deals with hotels.
The proposal, sponsored
by Republican state Rep.
Terry Barnard, reinforces
the state’s commitment
to continue protecting the
undeveloped portion of the
island. But it also says the
“deteriorating conditions of
public and commercial facili
ties” are a great concern.
Jekyll’s board has already
decided to move forward with
plans to hire a consultant to
help find a developer to build
new homes and hotels. But
questions concerning how to
redevelop and revitalize the
property have touched off
debate on the island and at
the Capitol.
Some board members have
stressed the need to offer
a variety of hotels, citing
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the state law that says the
island’s facilities should be
accessible to people of “aver
age income.” They back a
targeted redevelopment plan
to renovate the convention
center, revitalize a nearby
shopping area and build a
few new condominiums.
Key lawmakers, however,
say they hope for a more
sweeping redevelopment of
the island. In a recent inter
view, House Speaker Glenn
Richardson said his vision
of a future Jekyll includes a
handful of exclusive hotels.
“It would be a fantas
tic source of revenue for
the state of Georgia and a
good place for the people of
Georgia to go,” he said.
Ed Boshears, the board’s
secretary and one of the
most vocal opponents of
any move to develop the
island’s untouched beaches,
said the proposal is promis
ing because it’s essentially
toothless.
“The oversight committee
is just fine with me,” said
Boshears, a former state
senator from nearby St.
Simons Island. “I don’t see
anything in here that would
prevent us from acting on a
lease.”
Barnard, R-Glennville,
said his proposal makes it
“very clear” there will be no
massive buildup on Jekyll.
Instead, he said it gives the
Legislature more of a say on
the island’s future.
“It puts us in the loop so
we’ll be more cognizant of
what’s actually going on,”
said Barnard. “And it will
help us stay focused as the
revitalization plan is carried
out.”
Delta cancels 200
flights due to storm
ATLANTA (AP) - Delta
Air Lines Inc. canceled 200
flights throughout its sys
tem on Wednesday night
and Thursday morning in
anticipation of icy weather.
Delta spokeswoman Gina
Laughlin said the airline
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Highs in the low 40s
and lows in the low
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Sat 2/3 3 Moderate
Sun 2/4 3 Moderate
Mon 2/5 4 Moderate
Tue 2/6 4 Moderate
Wed 2/7 4 Moderate
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Perry 51 33 cloudy
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Statesboro 52 33 cloudy
Thomasville 53 37 rain
Valdosta 51 35 rain
Warner Robins 51 33 cloudy
Waycross 54 34 rain
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San Francisco 64 40 mst sunny
Seattle 48 41 pt sunny
St. Louis 25 9 pt sunny
Washington, DC 41 21 pt sunny
hoped to reduce flight delays
by decreasing the num
ber of airplanes that sit at
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport over
night - which reduced the
amount of de-icing that had
to be done. Such a strategy
is common when ice, snow
or sleet are in the forecast,
she said.
Delta worked with cus
tomers with tickets for the
canceled flights to find other
accommodations, Laughlin
said.
CITY OF PERRY
The City of Perry adopted Community Agenda of the Joint Comprehensive
Plan for Houston County and Cities of Centerville, Perry and Warner Robins is
available for public review in the Department of Community Development, City
Hall, 1211 Washington Street, Perry.
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Senate approves private school
vouchers for disabled students
ATLANTA (AP)-Students
with disabilities would get
state tax money to attend
private schools under a bill
approved Wednesday in the
state Senate.
The plan, which passed
31-23 after nearly three
hours of debate, would give
parents of roughly 186,000
Georgia public school stu
dents in special education
the chance to apply for funds
they could use for tuition.
“The children do not
belong to the school board
and they aren’t there to
serve the government,” said
Senate president pro-tem
Eric Johnson, a Savannah
Republican and sponsor of
the plan. “It’s the other way
around.”
Critics argued that the
plan appears to be an open
ing salvo in an attempt to
offer private school vouchers
to all Georgia students. They
say such a move would hurt
public schools and leave only
the children of the poorest
families in those schools.
“I refuse to think or imply
of my colleagues that their
motivations would be any
thingother than the improve
ment of handicapped chil
dren and their education,”
said Sen. Steve Thompson,
D-Powder Springs. “Rut 1
would say that the program
... does strike fear in the
hearts of people who have
spent many years working
for special needs children
and trying to improve their
situation.”
Under Johnson’s plan, eli
gible students would range
from blind and deaf and stu
dents with traumatic brain
injuries to those with emo
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ders.
The plan would be limited
to students who had already
attended public schools for
at least one year.
The maximum amount
parents would receive would
be equal to the cost of edu
cating their children in pub
lic school. Any school par
ticipating in the program
would be required to meet
the state’s standards for pri
vate schools, but would not
be accountable, like public
schools are, to regulations
such as the federal No Child
Left Behind law.
Critics rioted that while
the money would be avail
able for all students with
disabilities, private schools
are not compelled by law to
accept them, meaning they
could pick and choose whom
to accept.
“You’ve seen private
schools _ some are better
than others,” Thompson
said. “I wonder how many
schools ... in Georgia are will
ing to get into this program
and go full speed ahead.”
Supporters said wealthy
Georgians already are able
to send their special-needs
children to private schools
and that the bill would give
many more the same oppor
tunity.
“Senate Bill 10 will afford
the opportunity to the mid
dle class and the people
who are poor to individually
make a choice,” said Sen.
Seth Harp, R-Midland.
The majority-Republican
Senate voted largely along
party lines - with just two
GOP member voting against
the bill.
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