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BELOW THE FOLD: Perry stands firm on annexation 9 Fire truck puli, show INSIDE: RAFB mechanic awarded $1.5 million
Thursday
February 8, 2007
The Home Journal's
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Crisis intervention
volunteers needed
Hodac is looking for volunteers
to provide ‘crisis intervention" to
sexual assault and domestic vio
lence victims of Houston County.
Volunteers must be 18 years of
age or older, have reliable trans
portation and the desire to make
a positive impact on their com
munity.
Training dates will be Feb. 17
and 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
more information, call Hodac at
953-5675.
Housing authorities to
hold meetings
The quarterly board meeting
of the Perry Housing Authority
will be held today at 4 p.m. in
the Perry Housing Authority Board
Conference Room. The authority
is located at 822 Perimeter Rd.,
in Perry.
Also, the monthly meeting
of the Warner Robins/Houston
County Housing Authority will be
held Feb. 13 at 11:30 a.m. in the
Warner Robins Housing Authority
Conference Room.
The authority is located at
112 Memorial Terrace in Warner
Robins.
African Violet club to
present at mall
The Georgia State African
Violet Growers Club will pres
ent its Valentine show Friday-
Saturday in the mall.
The show will be open during
mall hours and is free to the pub
lic. Contact the mall at 478-953-
9631 or the show administrator at
478-922-8362 for more.
Houston County
Democrats to meet
Houston County Democrats will
meet Feb. 20 at 6 p.m at Eagle
Springs Clubhouse in Centerville.
According to a release, several
by-laws changes will be proposed
for a vote at the March meeting.
Environmentalist Dave Wittenberg
will be their guest speaker.
For further information, call
213-4079 or visit their website at
www.hocodemocrats.com.
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WR OKs two $1 million road projects
City also takes out $5.8 million loan to change out water meters
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins City Council,
during its meeting Monday, approved
two $1 million road projects and
is taking out a $5.8 million loan to
change out the city’s water meters.
The road projects are the widen
ing and extension of Corder Road
and the 1-75 Frontage Road between
Russell Parkway and the Ga. 247
Connector.
The Corder Road project is part
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Michael Carr of Perry gets in some last-minute fishing behind the spillway of Houston Lake recently, before it - the lake - was lowered.
Contributed
Perry resident Danny Hamsley works to restore homes
damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Local resident big part of
Katrina volunteer effort
Special to the Journal
Volunteering 10 hours a day,
six days a week in a disaster
area, while living in a hut and
eating from a camp kitchen,
may not appeal to many, but
it did appeal to Perry resi
dent Danny Hamsley because
it meant helping Gulf Coast
communities recover from
Hurricane Katrina.
Hamsley was one of 260
Weyerhaeuser volunteers
who traveled at company
expense to help co-work
ers, Weyerhaeuser retirees
and others in the commu
nity repair, rebuild or replace
more than 50 homes that had
been damaged or destroyed by
the storm.
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of the 2001 Special Purpose Local
Option Sales Tax. It will widen the
road from two to four lanes and
extend it across Russell Parkway to
Houston Lake Road, coming out by
Southside Baptist Church at Bass
Road.
“Its one of the toughest we’ve
ever done,” Mayor Donald Walker
explained. “We have to buy houses,
move utilities,” and buy wetlands
mitigation land because of the exten
sion.
The last of the Weyerhaeuser
families affected by the hur
ricane will be back in their
homes this month.
In addition to sponsoring
this loaned employee program,
Weyerhaeuser dispatched an
experienced disaster relief
coordinator to help employ
ees get relief aid, organized
an adopt-a-family program
among employees, and raised
contributions that it donated
along with company money.
These and other efforts
earned the company the Ron
Brown Award for Corporate
Leadership, presented Nov.
29 at the White House in
Washington, D.C.
See EFFORT, page §A
He added a curb and gutter would
be put in on the extension once it
dried out.
The frontage road in Peach County
was funded in the 2006 budget, but
was not spent and lapsed at the end
of the fiscal year. The city council
approved taking the $1 million out
of the unobligated fund balance and
putting it into an account to pay for
construction of Frontage Road.
The funds initially came from a
land sale in the Fov Evans Industrial
Carr port
Perry council stands firm on annexation
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Perry’s annexation of
the 72-acre Davis tract
at Houston Lake Road
and Langston Road is a
done deal, but will have
fewer lots than originally
requested.
The land is owned by
J.A. Davis 111 and J.A.
Davis IV
Following a mediation
hearing with the Houston
County Commissioners,
who had objected to the
plans, the Perry City
Council voted on Tuesday
night to approve the
annexation.
The final vote had been
deferred until disagree
Fire truck pull, car show set to raise
money for Special Olympics Georgia
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
You can pull a fire truck or show
off your car to help Special Olympics
Georgia. The Second Annual Fire
Truck Pull and the Annual Perry Police
Department Special Olympics Car Show
are March 10 at Hamby Chevrolet. “This
is a great event,” said Perry Police Officer
Keith Kindle, Law Enforcement Torch
Run Route Director for Special Olympics
Georgia. “It’s a chance to test yourself
and do a good deed at the same time.
After all, how often do you get the chance
to move a fire truck without starting the
engine?” Kindle said.
The fire truck pull is open to teams
from the entire community. Prizes are
ments with the county gov
ernment could be worked
out.
The City of Perry has
now stipulated that the
commercial portion
of the development on
the land, will not allow
hotels, motels, liquor
stores, adult entertain
ment establishments or
night clubs, that the city
will maintain and enforce
storm water retention
on the site and that the
planned unit development
portion of the land will
have a limit of 87 residen
tial homes, or eight fewer
residential lots than had
been requested.
In its planning session
before the regular meet
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Fire truck pull teams consist of 10
people with additional alternates,
Kindle explained. Each team gets two
See OLYMPICS, page p 4
Two sections • 18 pages
Park.
City Comptroller Bill Harte said
the $5.8 million loan - at 3 percent
interest - is from the Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund, adminis
tered by the Georgia Environmental
Facilities Authority. The city will
have an annual debt of SBOO,OOO for
the loan.
Harte said the loan doesn’t cover
the cost of the $8 million project cost,
but advised the council to accept it
now and go back later (for more).
The project replaces 22,000
water meters with new ones that
See PROJECTS, page pi
ing, the council members
had also agreed with City
Manager Lee Gilmour, who
noted that there is “ a strong
push from the Association
County Commissioners of
Georgia” to place restric
tions on municipal annex
ation of land in unincorpo
rated areas.
Gilmour suggested let
ting Houston County’s
delegation to the General
Assembly know that the
city would “not look kind
ly on anything that would
restrict a property owner’s
right to request annexa
tion.”
Gilmour also suggested
that the city be in oppo
sition to any capping
See STANDS, page pi