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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 30
BELOW TH(t POLD: Schools program helps tram future leaders ft Two stopped, charged with dealing drugs
Wednesday
February 14,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
WRPD to offer handgun
basics for women
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, beginning March
5. The class will consist of two
classroom sessions, March 5 and
March 8 from 7-9 p.m„ and one
session on the firing range March
10 from 8 a.m. to noon.
The classroom sessions will be
approximately two hours and will
cover topics about handgun safe
ty, shooting and laws concerning
handguns.
The range session will be
approximately four hours and will
consist of shooting exercises. You
must attend all sessions to com
plete the course
The cost of the course is $25.
For further information contact
Grace Hodges at the Warner
Robins Police Department Training
Center at 929-7253.
FAMA to meet in
Centerville
Families Against
Methamphetamine Abuse will
meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the
Centerville, lions Club. James
Vaughn, president of Georgia
Addiction Counselors Association,
will speak.
FAMA meetings are held every
third Tuesday, and are open to
the public. For information, call
953-6955 or visit www.middlega
fama.org.
BIRTHDAYS
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also call him at 987-1823,
Ext. 231.
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Between the roots and the rocks, it took quite a bit of muscle and help from friends to break ground for the
New Hope Baptist Church this past weekend, but Pastor Dennis Harden, center, stuck with the job. From left,
Perry City Councilman Joe Kusar; New Hope Building Committee Chairman Herman Kaigler; New Hope Deacon,
L. Clarington; Harden; Planters Bank Owner Sam Way; Planters Bank President William Bailey; Union Baptist
Association Moderator Walter Glover.
Historic Perry congregation breaks ground for
church that will seat more than a thousand
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Cars lined Washington Street
on Sunday as members of
New Hope Baptist Church
gathered for worship and
celebration on a rugged,
just-cleared hilltop.
The occasion for celebration?
A dream was coming true after
years of vision and determination.
Construction of a new church on
the site, which the church completed
paying for 2 1/2 years ago. will begin
right away. Pastor Dennis Harden
is expecting it to be completed in a
year’s time.
Church leaders began planning to
"This is only phase one."
- New Hope Baptist Church Pastor
Dennis Harden
Program helps train future leaders
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
Many students have
entered the doors of Fort
Valley State University’s
ROTC Military Sciences
Department - a building
that has developed future
officers and trained leaders
since 1973.
Two of those have been
Warner Robins High
School graduates Anthony
Anderson and Keonme
Alvin.
Anderson started Fort
Valley State University on
a football scholarship but
said he recognized that
football was not a long-term
goal. There had to be more,
he said. So, the Criminal
Justice Major turned to the
Army.
He, now a second lieuten
ant, smiles, “Why go this
far? Challenges! I like the
challenges that the military
presents to me with. In high
school I was on football, the
On solid ground
build a new church as their church
building on W.F. Ragin Drive, became
too small for the growing congrega
tion. The new two-story church build
ing, Harden said, will have a sanctu
ary and choir space with room for as
many as 1,500, in addition to admin
istrative space, a nurses station, bride
and groom suites and usher’s station
and classrooms.
And, he adds, “This is only phase
one.”
Harden had thanks for many
people, including his wife, Gloria,
the building committee headed by
Herman Kaigler and Planters Bank
officials William Bailey and Sam Way,
who have helped the church finance
the purchase of the land and for the
construction.
Sister Inez Harvey gave a historic
overview of the church, pointing out
that it was originally founded in the
See CHURCH, page 6A
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track team and I went to
church at Union Baptist.
“I was a junior in college
before I signed on for the
Army. I didn’t have to but
the added benefits that the
Army has were a plus for
me. “
Other people might view
things differently, Anderson
admits. They do not see
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what he sees.
’’People I know don’t
understand it,” he said.
“They talk about Iraq, but
I am at peace with myself.
That is what I have learned.
I am more disciplined. I am
willing to fight for family,
friends and freedom.
“I understand it all much
better then I have ever had
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Members of the church join in
singing “We are Climbing Jacob’s
Ladder.’’
before.
“Some of my friends ask
about the sacrifice. I believe
you make sacrifices daily.
You could just stay at home
or not go to work but you
make the sacrifice to work
so your family, even you can
have more.”
Anderson added he felt
when you’re in high school
and the like sometimes you
can’t see the possibilities.
In the Army, he said, he
has the opportunity to be
Infantry, Judge Advocate
General, Medical and Armor
- so much more than just
one thing.
“My eyes are open when
I think of new places and
new opportunities when I
get there," he said.
Second year Military
Science student Alvin sees
the picture a bit differently.
She was in the 11th grade
when her mother passed
away.
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Man runs red light
Now that's
least of his
problems
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
If you’ve got drugs and
stolen checks in the car and
no license you don’t want
to run a red
light.
If you
do, you’ll
end up in
jail with
out bond
like Lemuel
Dean
Mabry,
33, of 163
Forest Ave.,
Macon. He reportedly dis
regarded a traffic control
device on Russell Parkway
about 12:29 a.m. Monday.
Mabry was charged with
disregarding a traffic control
device, driving on a suspend
ed license and driving under
the influence.
This is reportedly the third
time he’s been arrested for
driving on the suspended
license.
Those are bondable offens
es of S6OO for the red light,
$1,500 for the DUI and
$5,100 for the third driving
on suspended license.
He faces other charges for
the other items found in his
vehicle for which he’s being
held without bond. He’s
charged with possession of
drug related items, theft by
receiving stolen property
See PROBLEMS, page 6A
Two stopped,
charged with
dealing drugs
By RAT LI GHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A traffic stop on Moody
Road led to two drug arrests
Friday night.
Houston County Sheriffs
deputy Wayne Mitchell ini
tiated a traffic stop on a
vehicle for failure to main
tain lane on Moody road at
Lamar Drive in Bonaire.
During the stop he report
edly noticed the driver and
passenger acting extremely
nervous.
Both reportedly gave false
names when initially asked.
Based on their conduct, the
deputy asked the driver,
James Blevins, for consent
to search the vehicle.
A pat down of the pas
senger, Johnny Foster 111,
reportedly found a piece
of crack cocaine and while
being taken into custody,
Foster fled the scene on
foot. Several additional offi
cers responded and Foster
was found about 30 minutes
later hiding in a shed on
Conley Drive.
A search of the area of
the traffic stop turned up
21 pieces of crack cocaine, a
bag of marijuana and $230
in cash. Foster and Blevins
were each charged with pos
session with intent to dis
tribute cocaine and giving
false names to police.
Foster was also charged
with felony possession
of marijuana with intent
to distribute, burglary,
See CHARGED, page 6A
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