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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 63
Weather Slight chance of rain
Weekend
March 31,2007
The Home Journars
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IN BRIEF
Housing Authority
calls special meeting
There will be a special called
meeting of the Warner Robins/
Houston County Housing Authority
at 10 a.m. Friday in the Housing
Authority Conference Room, 112
Memorial Terrace, Warner Robins,
The regular monthly board meet
ing for the Housing Authority will
be 11:30 a.m., April 10, also in the
conference room at 112 Memorial
Terrace, Warner Robins.
Central Georgia Fever
to hold tournament
The Central Georgia Fever would
like to invite everyone to their inau
gural girls basketball Showdown in
the War-Town Invitational.
It will run today-Sunday at
Warner Robins and Thomson
Middle schools. Brackets include
a 12-and-under and 13-and-under
team.
Contact Keith Newberry for
more information.
YMCA still offering
camp sign-ups
Time is running out to sign your
child up for holiday spring camp at
the Houston YMCA.
Camp dates are April 2-6, from
7 a.m.-to 4 p.m. with pre-camp
starting at 7 a.m. and post-camp
continuing to 6 p.m., at no extra
charge.
The maximum enrollment is
40 children, on a first come-first
served basis. Call the YMCA at
922-2566 for more information.
Northside club to hold
fashion show
Northside High School’s Fashion
Club will hold a fashion show fund
raiser for the American Cancer
Society today in Ray Horne Theatre
at the school. The cost is $5.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
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BELOW THE FOLD: Traffic stop leads to drug charges INSIDE: A local look back at 1877
Cat woman headed to court
By RA Y LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A woman facing animal
cruelty charges for having
133 cats in two apartments
goes to court Wednesday.
Brenda McAnally, a volun
teer with Homeless Animal
Rescue and Placement
Services, or HARPS, said
she will plead “not guilty”
to the animal cruelty and
neglect of care charges and
the 98 charges of failure
to provide proof of rabies
innoculation.
The misdemeanor charg-
353 pinwheels for victims
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A pinwheel sits in the foreground as the Houston County High School Ensemble performs Change The World dur
ing a proclamation signing ceremony held at the Board of Education in Perry Thursday.
Agency takes lead awareness role
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
What could be more innocent than a
child’s pinwheel?
Just now there are 353 of them
in neat rows, spinning in the spring
breeze in front of the Houston County
Board of Education building on Main
Street in Perry.
They’ll be moved during the month
Stop leads to
drug charges
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
She’ll probably use the
turn signal next time.
A man and two women
landed in jail Thursday
morning, after the SUV they
were riding in was stopped
because the driver reported
ly did not use her turn signal
when making a left turn. The
maroon 1999 Ford Explorer
was stopped in the area of
See CHARGES, page 10A
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"The conditions of the second
apartment were appalling. No lood,
no water - officers had to have air
packs to enter."
- Warner Robins Police Capt. Brenda Parks-Mathem
es will be heard Wednesday
morning in Warner Robins
Municipal Court.
McAnally said she would
plead “guilty” to being over
the city limit of three cats,
for the 45 she had in her
National Child Abuse
Prevention Month
to other locations as a mute remind
er that there were 353 substanti
ated cases of child abuse in Houston
County in 2006, and professionals
dealing with child abuse feel sure that
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Journal Ray Lightner
Two women sit in the back of a patrol car as Houston County deputies and a Perry Police officer inspect their vehicle
Thursday.
own residence. The others
were found Feb. 23 in a sec
ond apartment on the prop
erty on Myrtle Street.
Warner Robins Police
Capt. Brenda Parks-
Mathern, director of the
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Warner Robins Animal
Shelter said animal control
was called after a patrol
officer in the area on anoth
er call discovered the cats.
She said the officer saw
the cats in the vacant build
ing. “The woman with the
key gave us permission to
go into both places,” Parks-
Mathern said. “We popped
the locks.”
McAnally complained
that when she arrived on
scene, police, fire and ani
mal control were there and
See COURT, page yA
the great majority of cases are never
reported at all.
April is National Child Abuse
Prevention Month, and Rainbow
House, a children’s resource center in
Warner Robins, is taking the lead,in
heightening awareness of this prob
lem.
The organization is also working
to emphasize that while children can
See AWARENESS, page ioA
Late breaking - WR animal
shelter broken into
- See 10A
Three sections • 22 pages
Police hooting
armed robber
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police are
looking for the man who
robbed Davis Food Mart
Thursday morning.
Officers responded to the
1202 S. Davis Drive store at
about 11:15 a.m. in refer
ence to an armed robbery.
The cashier, Bhartkumar D.
Amin, reported a black male
entered the business with
a handgun and demanded
See ROBBER, page 10A
Child porn, solicitation
Initiative a
task topee
apppoach
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Project Safe Childhood
addresses the increasing
crimes of online solicitation
of children and child por
nography.
Middle District of Georgia
U.S. Attorney Max Wood
said the initiative is like
Project Safe Neighborhood,
“our task force approach to
gun crimes.”
Both plans work to pros
ecute offenders where they
will get the most jail time,
usually in federal courts.
“Now that computer crimes
like online solicitation of
children for sex and child
pornography is on the rise,”
Wood said, “we will use
the bully pulpit of the U.S.
District Attorney’s Office as
a way to marshal resourc
es.”
The initiative coordinates
federal, state and local
resources to better locate,
apprehend and prosecute
individuals who exploit chil
dren via the Internet, as
well as identify and rescue
victims. Wood said it works
“to both increase prosecu
tions and convictions of child
predators, while raising pub
lic awareness and educating
teens and children on the
dangers they face online.”
Wood cited statis
tics from the National
Center for Missing and
See INITIA TIVE, page j iA
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