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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 50
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March 14, 2007
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IN BRIEF
Heart of Ga. Hospice
needs volunteers
Heart of Georgia Hospice is a
non-profit organization that exists,
according to a release, to provide
the terminally ill, their families,
and the community at large with
end-of-life services.
Volunteers are needed in
a number of areas - visiting
patients, doing yard work, cleri
cal and office assistance, mainte
nance work and a list of others.
A training class for volunteers
will be held March 29 at the hos
pice office from 6-8 p.m.
If you would like to attend the
training session or want more
information about becoming a vol
unteer, contact Norma Fothergill
or Sherry Robinson at 953-5161.
Small business group
to hold web chat
Small Business Association
National Ombudsman Nicholas
Owens will host the March web
chat Thursday from 1-2 p.m.
The title of the chat will be:
“Regulatory Fairness and Your
Small Business.”
Participants can join the live
chat by going online to www.
sba.gov, and clicking the “Online
Business Chat” icon. Participants
may post questions for Owens
before Thursday by visiting http://
appl.sba.gov/liveMeeting/Maro7/.
Owens also serves as assistant
administrator for Regulatory
Enforcement Fairness at the SBA's
Office of the National Ombudsman
and leads the national effort to
ensure fairness in federal regula
tions on small business.
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Houston County High School Friday. The event was held in celebration of Exceptional
Children’s Week. BELOW: Cindy Harbuck and April Reynolds enjoy the music.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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Americans: Cooking up a
celebration for St.
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Church, car wash become items of contention
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Few government meetings
get as emotional as those
that have zoning changes on
the agenda.
Monday night’s Perry
Planning Commission was a
good example, as a minister
kept his composure in the
face of opposition to his new
church, and as frustration
broke through on both sides
of a battle over a carwash.
Pastor Jay Westbrook
came before the commission
Hornets host first
home match. Also,
Westfield
baseball,
WR golf
"This is an automated car wash. Nobody
would be hanging around. I think it would
be a catalyst to get some business going
on Courtney Hodges."
- Perry Mayor Jim Worrall
to ask for a rezoning and
annexation of a 6.106 acre
site on Langston Road. His
congregation, Our Father’s
House Ministry, now meet
ing on Lake Joy Road, wants
to build an 8,000 sq. ft.
Committee revises
red light camera bill
Could pave way for their use locally
ByRAYUGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The bill banning red
light cameras has been
revised to keep the camer
as and some of the fines.
The House Motor Vehicle
Committee revised House
Bill 77 Feb. 28 to con
tinue allowing the stop
light cameras but taking
25 percent of the fines for
the state’s general fund to
support Georgia’s trauma
care system.
The House Committee
favorably reported on the
revised bill March 1 and
it is now headed to the
House Rules Committee,
which sets the agenda for
House floor votes.
Local representatives
Willie Talton, R-Warner
Robins, and Johnny Floyd,
R-Cordele, serve on the
motor vehicle committee
Under the revised bill,
counties and cities would
keep money to cover the
costs of operating the
Man arrested for
burglary, assault
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A Red Fox Run resi
dent was arrested Sunday
morning for burglary and
sexual battery in a neigh
boring trailer.
“It appears he was
intoxicated and got in
the house,” said Houston
County Sheriffs Office
Capt. Robert Clark said.
“She woke up and found
his hand on her thigh.”
116th to get new commander
Special to the Journal
Col. Thomas Moore will
assume command of the
116th Air Control Wing,
at 11 a.m. March 23.
As wing commander
Moore, according to a
release, will be respon
sible for the worldwide
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church on the site.
Residents of Langston
Road, which is rapidly
changing from a country
road to a collection of sub
divisions and planned unit
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Redlight cameras, like
this one in use in Griffin,
may be coming to Warner
Robins as a result of a
recent bill revision.
cameras and less than 25
percent of the remaining
money raised, and the rest
would go to the earlier
mentioned general fund.
See CAMERA, page 6A
About
5:54 a.m.,
a 41-
year-old
woman
asleep on
the liv
ing room
floor
of her
Red Fox
Run mobile home woke
up to find an unknown
See ARRESTED, page 6A
employment of the E-8C
Joint Surveillance Target
Attack Radar System air
craft.
The 116th is the first
Total Force wing, com
bining more than 2,600
Air National Guard,
active-duty Airmen, Army
See NEW,page 6A
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