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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 39
BELOW THE FOLD: Perry insurance man has quite the ‘Storey’ INSIDE: Two recognized/honored with tree plantings
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February 27,2007
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IN BRIEF
UGA center to offer
‘boosters’ program
The University of Georgia Small
Business Development Center will
offer the following program: Profit
Boosters.
The cost is S4O. The class is
slated to be held March 8 from
6-8 p.m. at 111 Third Street, Suite
201, Colonial Annex-Macon.
According to a release: “This
class on profit boosters is the first
class in a series intended to help
the small business owner grow
their business while bolstering the
bottom line. This course will focus
on a process for analyzing the
business to find the hidden cash.”
Call 478-751-6592 to register or
register online at www.georgiasb
dc.org/ce/macon.
Impact fee seminar
to be held
A free impact fee seminar,
sponsored by The Home Builders
Association of Warner Robins and
the Home Builders Association of
Georgia will be held Wednesday
from 10 a.m.-noon at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter (Miller-Murphy Howard
Bldg.) in Perry.
The guest speaker will be
Deron Hicks, a respected Georgia
land use attorney with Page,
Scrantom, Tucker and Ford, PC.
He will answer questions such
as the following: Will impact fees
impact me if I ... own a business,
plan to remodel, want to build
a new building for a business,
sell my home and buy another
existing home, as well as: Can
impact fees by used to pay for
new and existing infrastructure
... building/maintaining schools or
roads, creating/maintaining water
and sewer systems, and more.
Reservations are requested. Call
478-328-7339 or 478-328-7006,
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Design of the times for Centerville
Team to help with downtown vision
Special to the Journal
A team of urban design
ers, landscape architects,
and design faculty from
the University of Georgia
will arrive in Centerville
Saturday for, according to a
release, “an intensive, three
day public design workshop,
or charrette. Charrette is a
French word, which is used
to describe a fast-paced,
community-driven design
process focusing on specific
urban design challenges.
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Saturday at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter. For more, see 6A.
Perry insurance man has quite the Storey
By NANCY HAWK
Journal Staff Writer
“I love Perry because it first loved
me.” Thus said local insurance
agent Tommy Storey.
“The churches, the community
took me in,” he said. “For that very
reason, since 19611 cannot help but
love Perry.
A native Georgian, Storey grew
up near Columbus and attended
and graduated from Jordan High
School, in Muscogee County.
He was born with a birth defect
that found him needing care from
the Scottish Rights Hospital for
Children. Those series of opera
tions made it difficult for Storey to
play sports, but through the care
ful guidance of his mother, he was
given the opportunity to be active
in both music and scouting.
Music became a major component
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“The goal of the Centerville
design charrette,” said
Professor and team leader
Pratt Cassity, “is to involve
citizens, the Downtown
Development Authority, city
staff and all other interested
parties in the design of a
town center, to hear people’s
points of view, and to create
a community vision,”
The design team’s work
space will be open to the
public throughout the pro
cess. Plans, drawings, and
analysis developed during
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in high school.
The band made several competi
tive trips during his time. They went
to Chicago and won the National
Music Educators Association Title
of Best Band in the Nation in 1957.
Out of a final field of four high
school bands, he said it was an
honor and a trip he would not soon
forget.
Another noteworthy event in his
young life was being a member of
the 4 Key Quartet.
Members of the quarter were also
members of the high school Key
Club. The time was right for a trip
to Nashville, where they also cut a
record. Actually it was six records
but, as Storey likes to joke: “Yes six
records were made, but my mother
bought five of them.”
See STOREY, page 6A
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the day will be pinned up on
the walls, described to the
community, and their feed
back invited. The Centerville
Downtown Development
Authority is sponsoring
UGA’s visit.
The team is charged with
creating a conceptual mas
ter plan for the development
of a new town center for
Centerville. The process
will include illustrations of
potential building locations,
supporting transportation
See VISION, page 6A
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Schedule for the UGA team of urban design
ers, landscape architects and design faculty
during their visit to Centerville:
Saturday - 11 a.m.-noon: Public input session,
Introduction of charrette process at Centerville City Hall
Sunday - 9 a.m.-6 p.m.: Design team working session.
The public is encouraged to stop by throughout the day
and provide input. The team work space will be Inside
Centerville City Hall
Monday - 4 p.m.: Final presentation of design concepts,
public comment and critique, Centerville City Hall
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KWRB group sets
Great American
Cleaeep activities
Special to the Journal
Volunteers across the country
are rallying to improve their local
parks, public spaces, waterways,
hiking trails, sidewalks and streets
by participating in Keep America
Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup,
according to a release, “the nation’s
largest annual community improve
ment program.”
The event is slated to take place
Thursday through May 31.
As part oft hat, Keep Warner Robins
Beautiful will kick-off activities by
donating a chipper/shredder/vacuum
to the City of Warner Robins dur
ing the next scheduled City Council
meeting. The chipper was donated
by Troy-Bilt, a national sponsor of
the Great American Cleanup.
Mayor Donald S. Walker will con
tinue the festivities by reading the
following proclamation, quoting G.
Raymond Empson, president of Keep
America Beautiful:
“Americans have always taken
pride in the beauty of their commu
nities and country, and Keep America
Beautiful has been proudly leading
the charge to take care of tomor
row today. In its 22nd year, The
Great American Cleanup continues
to make a lasting impact by creat
ing a cleaner, safer and more beau
tiful environment. Through litter
and waste removal, recycling drives,
beautification efforts and education
al outreach, our volunteers are keep
ing America beautiful.”
See ACTIVITIES, page 6A