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Mid South Federal Credit Union Branch Manager ; Bo Toombs, presents a $l5O check
recently to the Executive Director of the Houston County Habitat for Humanity, John
Sillers. The donation, according to a release, was made to help Habitat for Humanity in
their ongoing efforts to help low-income families find new hope in the form of afford
able housing. Today, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 200,000 houses, shelter
ing more than 1,000,000 people in more than 3,000 communities worldwide.
VIOLATIONS
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Monday with the Warner
Robins Police for insurance
purposes. The man doing the
damage was Willie Lamar
Porter, 36, of 779 Walnut St.,
No. 31, Warner Robins.
He was being transported
from One West to Central
State Hospital. He report
edly became irate when the
deputy asked him to put his
hands out to be handcuffed.
He stated to the deputy he
“did not need to put (exple
tive) handcuffs on him and
this is some bull (another
expletive).”
Porter was asked again and
refused, at which point the
deputy tuned him around and
placed him into handcuffs.
Porter then started yelling
that the cuffs were too tight.
When asked to lean forward
so the deputy could lock the
WRP&Z
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concerned about what was
going on behind his home and
if the city would be annex
ing Sleepy Hollow. Sisa told
him the annexation “would
not affect Sleepy Hollow.
“We won’t annex unless you
request it and the city has no
plans to annex.”
Newton said the develop
ment was designed so there
is a strip of R-3 between
Sleepy Hollow and the apart
ments in the R-4 section.
That R-3 strip is 11.73
acres, 325 feet wide and
1,475 feet in length. “It will
be one street with houses on
each side,” Newton said.
He also said construction
would not begin until next
year. “We can’t access the
HOUSE
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closed, with the staff and
equipment moved to the
new Lake Joy Road station.
They have been responding
BURGLARY
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according to Perry Police
Capt. Bill Phelps.
She spotted a group of five
black men.
Three had pushed their
car to the gas station after
running out of gas, Phelps
said.
“The other two would
have blended in and been
able to get away,” Phelps
said, but Gilliam noticed
that “the pants of the two
were wet from the knees
down and they had dirt on
their boots.”
She searched them and
found a set of keys that went
to the Ford truck they left at
the wrecker yard, which was
stolen out of Warner Robins,
Phelps said.
“If they had gotten in the
car, they would have got
ten away,” Phelps said. “My
hat is off to her,” he said of
Gilliam. “She did an out
standing job.”
The two, Michael Jerome
Tolbert, 34, and John Paul
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handcuffs so they wouldn't
tight up, Porter reportedly
turned around and spit in
the deputy’s face.
The deputy then, not
knowing if the man had a
disease, covered his face and
tucked Porter’s head into
the car.
Once in the car, Porter
reportedly became very com
bative, kicking and yelling
and kicking out the rear pas
senger side glass of the car
with his foot.
According to the report he
only has one foot, as the
other leg is missing from the
knee down.
He was taken to the emer
gency room in reference to
his head hurting and turned
over to another deputy for
transport. He also faces dam
age to property and obscen
ity charges.
Creating a disturbance
Shaquita Howard, 19, of
site until the Feagin Mill
Road extension is complete,”
Newton said.
He was also the repre
sentative for Eagle Springs
LLC’s request to rezone
2.404 acres off Gunn Road
from R-3 to C-2. “The adja
cent property owner sent a
let that he is not opposed to
the rezoning,” Newton told
the board, which then voted
to recommend approval for
the rezoning.
The board also recom
mended approval of the
annexation and rezoning of
16.96 acres at Cohen Walker
Drive and Lake Joy Road
from county residential agri
cultural to C-l (neighbor
hood commercial) and C-2.
The request is from Edward
and Sara Forbes, general
partners for the McGhee
Family limited partnership.
to calls from that station
since Dec. 12.
The Warner Robins Police
Department will utilize both
old fire stations and has a
precinct at the Lake Joy sta
tion.
Battle, 22, who uses the
alias of Quinton Bernard
Nolton, are being held in the
Houston County Detention
Center without bond on
burglary charges. Tolbert
is also charged with theft
by receiving stolen motor
vehicle, since the keys to
the stolen truck were found
in his pocket. Battle is also
charged with giving false
information.
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205 Marshall Drive, was
arrested Monday for dis
orderly conduct - creating
a disturbance - after the
fourth visit by police to the
home and in regard to her
screaming.
Upon the third visit by
police, at 5:23 p.m., the
woman, who reportedly
could be heard screaming
from at least three houses
away, reportedly told the
officer she was screaming at
a man because he was get
ting on her nerves.
They had reportedly been
arguing all afternoon, but
both said they were alright
and there had been no physi
cal altercation - only ver
bal. The woman reportedly
agreed to calm down if the
officer left. The officer was
reportedly gone about one
minute before hearing her
screaming again from the
next street over. He returned
and arrested her.
White Columns resident,
Gary Rothwell said he was
very concerned from a resi
dential standpoint. “I'm not
actually for it, but I can’t
stop it.” Sisa said the C-2
portion would be at the cor
ner of Lake Joy and Cohen
Walker roads. C-l, he said
is neighborhood commercial,
is transitional, and would be
along the Cohen Walker part
of the tract adjacent to the
residential.
Also recommended for
approval was a rezoning
from residential to general
commercial for Narenda C.
Parekh at 501 South Second
St. He said the site currently
has three houses, which are
currently vacant. He had
used them as low-income
rental homes, with plans to
use one as an office and the
other two for storage.
The open house will
include refreshments and
walk-through tours of the
station. A dedication cere
mony is planned for noon
with the mayor and city
council.
The truck was stolen out of
Warner Robins in December,
Sendek said.
The two are not suspect
ed in the other burglaries,
Sendek said. “Witnesses say
the suspects in the other
burglaries were not black
males.”
The two are also charged
for violations of probation
and have other charges in
other counties, Sendek said.
LOCAL
Snagging 'super' speeders a super idea
Well, they finally got
something right
under the Gold
Dome. After enduring a
spate of proposals in this leg
islative session that range
from silly (the governor’s
“Go Fishing” program)
to scary 'deciding how the
state will redevelop J“kyll
Island), to serious (rescuing
Peach Care insurance), to
just plain dumb (cutting the
school-year calendar), here
comes “Super Speeder” leg
islation designed to crack
down on those who drive
like bats out of Hades on
our highways.
Amid the unneces
sary hoopla of a bunch of
Hollywood actors parading
up to the state capitol on
their motorcycles to plug
their movie, Gov. Sonny
Perdue announced he was
introducing a bill to add
an additional S2OO fine to
anyone caught going over
85 miles per hour on the
interstates (most anybody
who drives a vehicle in
Georgia) and those driving
over 75 miles per hour on
two-lane roads (most every
one else). Fines and penal
ties would also be increased
for those who have multiple
drunk-driving or reckless
driving offenses (and who
shouldn’t be driving in the
first place) .
I had hoped the governor
would include a provision
that also would allow us to
stop drivers who tailgate
us and beat them severely
about the head and shoul
ders with a stick, and if they
tailgate while talking on a
cell phone, to string them
up from the nearest tree
we can find. It is probably
just as well that he didn’t,
because the assembled
movie stars probably would
have gotten in a dither and
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correct that they can only
address things that hap
pened after January 2006,”
Bozarth said. “I don’t see
any reason they couldn’t
have looked into it if they
chose to.”
The letter of dismissal
from the three-member
review panel also criticized
Chapman for using newspa
per reports as the basis for
his complaint saying they
are hearsay.
“As such they are not
admissible as evidence in a
court of record,” the letter
said.
Bozarth called that stan
dard too high.
“To expect a level equal
to what you would see in
a court of law is an unfair
and unrealistic standard for
them to meet,” he said.
But Johnson said the pro
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fallen off their motorcycles.
Saying stuff like that makes
movie stars nervous.
Gov. Perdue estimates
the additional fines could
generate
from $25
million to
S3O mil
lion annu
ally and
would
be used
to fund
a trau
ma care
system
through-
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Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
out the state. Just as impor
tantly, the fines would
deliver a swift kick in the
pocketbook to the village
idiots who think that blithe
ly ignoring speed limits is
a freedom guaranteed by
the U.S. Constitution, and
who make our highways a
potential death trap for the
rest of us.
I spend a lot of time driv
ing around the state, and I
fear for my life every time
I venture onto Georgia’s
autobahns.
The worst are 1-985 near
Gainesville, Highway 316 to
Athens, 1-95 from Savannah
to the Florida line and 1-75
and 1-85 going anywhere.
Actually, there aren't many
roads in our state where
speeders won’t scare the
dickens out of you.
The excuse I hear from
the speed demons is that
speed limits should be
higher. Yeah, and my taxes
ought to be lower, but I
have to pay them anyway.
You can’t just obey those
laws you find convenient.
That isn’t the way our sys
tem works. Besides, if you
want to speed, join NASCAR,
and run around in circles to
your heart’s content,
Remember that you have
cess was designed so that
those with firsthand knowl
edge of wrongdoing by state
lawmakers could come for
ward.
The letter of dismissal
was circulated to reporters
after 5 p.m. on Valentine’s
Day.
The complaint alleges that
state Rep. Larry O’Neal
misused his elected office to
benefit Perdue, his client,
It centered on a sweeping
tax bill
O’Neal sponsored in
2005. Part of the legisla
tion was made retroactive
to 2004, effectively covering
Perdue’s sale of family land
in middle Georgia in 2004
and his purchase of prop
erty in Florida, near Disney
World, from a wealthy
Republican developer later
that year.
The retroactive provi
sion saved Perdue about
SIOO,OOO in state capital
gains taxes. Perdue signed
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a ton-and-a-half machine
that takes more yard
age than a football field to
stop at 80 miles per hour,
let alone at 85 to 90 miles
per hour. That isn’t just
an automobile you are bar
reling down the highway
in it is a potential kill
ing machine. Last year in
Georgia, 1,700 people lost
their lives in traffic acci
dents that averages to
about one person every five
hours. These aren’t benign
statistics, folks. These are
real people mommas and
daddies and sons and daugh
ters, friends and neighbors
people who could and
should still be with us.
I asked Sen. Ronnie
Chance (R-Tyrone), one of
the governor’s floor leaders,
about the odds for passage
of the Super Speeder legis
lation. “I can’t imagine why
anyone would be against
this bill,” he said. “It is an
opportunity to slow down
speeders and at the same
time to fund trauma centers
which are greatly needed,
particularly in rural areas
of Georgia.
It is an issue about which
the governor and I feel very
strongly.” I do, too, Senator.
I sincerely hope members
of the Legislature feel the
same way and will drop par
tisan politics for a moment
and turn this legislation
into law.
This bill isn’t about
Democrats or Republicans.
It is about saving lives and
telling a bunch of lead-foots
that speeding on Georgia’s
roads isn’t so super after
all.
You can reach
Dick Yarbrough at
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net
P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta,
Georgia 31139, or Web site:
www.dickyarbrough.com.
the bill into law in April
2005 but has said he did not
know he would benefit from
it at the time.
Attempts to reach O’Neal
on Wednesday were unsuc
cessful.
The three-member review
panel which rejected the
complaint was composed of
Johnson, Richardson and
state Sen. Seth Harp, R-
Midland.
Chapman had called on
Richardson to recuse himself
from the process because he
had been publicly support
ive of O’Neal in a House
GOP Caucus meeting soon
after the November elec
tion.
Richardson refused.
A complaint must be
reviewed by a three-mem
ber review panel before
being forwarded to the full
Joint Legislative Ethics
Committee. That commit
tee has yet to hear a com
plaint.
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