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legal organ for Houston County,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 58
BELOW THE FOLD: Local teen chef wins silver WR gets more grant money - seeks public input County applies for initiative
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March 24,2007
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IN BRIEF
Exceptional Citizens
group to meet
The Houston County Association
for Exceptional Citizens, Inc., will
hold a special meeting to discuss
various personnel issues Tuesday
at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room
of the Workshop, which is located
at 716 North Young Avenue in
Warner Robins.
Houston Arts Alliance
Board to meet
The Houston Arts Alliance Board
will meet Monday at 6 p.m. at
Coldwell Banker Realtors, which
is located at 470 South Houston
Lake Road in Warner Robins.
Public hearing on
precinct changes set
The Houston County Board of
Elections public hearing on pro
posed precinct changes to Eagle
Springs Elementary, Centerville
Elementary, Elberta Center,
Lindsey Elementary, Pearl
Stephens Elementary, Crossroads
Center, Warner Robins Recreation
Department, Russell Elementary
and Houston County Career and
Technology Center will be held
April 3 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 206,
Houston County Government
Building, Main Street in Perry.
Attendees are asked to use the
Main Street or Jernigan Street
entrance.
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WR studying siren system
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins is consider
ing a city-wide siren system.
“We had a number of
calls,” Fire Chief Robert
Singletary said, “when the
tornadoes came through,”
asking about the sirens.
He said there are working
sirens on Robins Air Force
Base, but the two in the city
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Students in Laura Harrison’s Upper School Art class at The Westfield Schools pose with their three-dimensional lifesize creations. “I thought this
would be a fun project,” said Harrison. “There is something intriguing to people when they are face-to-face with a lifesize figure ... especially one
made with an unconventional material. When you see them hung from the ceiling, you really have something to think about!” Students shown from
left are: Luke Campbell, Michael Chalmers, Jessica Goodman, Tanner Williams and Ashley Shuford. For more, see 6A.
Local earns silver at Best
Teen Chef competition
Special to the Journal
Rachel Styn from Warner
Robins won the silver medal
and captured second place
in The Art Institutes Best
Teen Chef 2007 local compe
tition held March 17 at The
Art Institute of Atlanta.
Along with her medal,
Styn won a tuition scholar
ship of more than $13,000.
Kylie Craig took the top
prize in the competition.
She is a senior at Kell High
School in Marietta. She
chopped, simmered and sau
teed her way past her fellow
competitors to win a shot at
taking the Best Teen Chef
title and a full-tuition schol
arship worth approximately
$40,000 at the national com
petition May 5, in Dallas.
Each student was required
to prepare the same menu,
and they were judged on
cleanliness, mise en place
(organization), taste and
presentation.
According to Chef
See CHEF, page 8A
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"We had a number ol calls when the
tornadoes came through."
- Fire Chief Robert Singletary
don’t work. Singletary said
each unit or siren would cost
about $29,000.
“Jimmy Williams, county
Emergency Management
director, said the county
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Rachel Styn is shown with the silver medal she won at
The Art Institutes Best Teen Chef 2007 competition.
would like to do it but he
doesn’t have the money,”
Singletary said.
“The county doesn’t want
to pay for it. I think we’re
gonna pay for it,” Mayor
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Donald Walker said. “We’ll
spend the money to do it,
but we’ll run it.”
Singletary was tasked with
doing the study to determine
where to put the sirens and
how many would be needed.
“They’re very loud,
Singletary said. “You can
hear the ones in Perry up to
Ga. 96.”
Walker said he didn’t need
one by his house. “I can hear
County applies for initiative
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Work Ready Initiative
is designed to link workforce
development and education
with economic development
in the state.
The initiative helps com
munities develop and docu
ment a workforce, whose
skill level can be matched
or marketed to profiles of
potential industries. It’s a
tool to “market the state
to potential industries,”
explained Tim Andrews,
who is the county represen
tative in the Middle Georgia
WR to get more grant money
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins wants your
input on how it will spend
$714,661 in Community
Development Block Grants
from the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban
Development.
The city has held a hear
ing and had input on the
plan already when it was
$669,000. Kathy Hart, city
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the ones on the base at my
house just fine,” he said.
The city council also
amended the city pension
plan, with what was referred
to as the “Jesse Fountain
amendment.” The change
allows retired city employ
ees to collect their city pen
sion if they return to work
as a contract worker or as an
elected official.
See SIREN, page HA
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Andrews said the initiative
gets people on unemploy
ment certified and qualified
at the technical colleges, and
certifies they are proficient
in certain skills. He said the
governor has requested all
counties participate.
Commissioner Tom
McMichael noted the initia
tive is a high item on the
priority list for the techni
cal colleges. “Course comple
tion increases employabili
ty, sometimes more than a
degree,” McMichael said.
See INITIATIVE, page 8A
Community Development
Block Grant program direc
tor said, “the only difference
is HUD sent $45,662 more
than we anticipated.”
The revised amount is
closer, but still less than the
$715,000 the city received
last year.
The revised plan adds
$4,000 for the Community
Action agency to
See MONEY, page 6A