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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 64
BELOW THE FOLD: QSP has new Post 15 commander ■ Billboards coming down INSIDE: Perry-HoCo airport has a potty problem
Wednesday
April 4, 2007
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FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Great American
Clean-up to be held
The Great American Clean-up
Week will be held in Perry from
Monday-April 14.
During this week, place your
unwanted items at curbside and
the City of Perry will pick them
up. Call 988-2700 for more infor
mation.
HoCo Board of
Health to meet
The Houston County Board
of Health will meet at noon
Thursday in the conference room
at the Houston County Health
Department, located at 98 Cohen
Walker Drive in Warner Robins.
Longtime fairground
supporter dies
Henry L. Reaves of Quitman,
the man for whom Reaves Arena
was named, died Tuesday.
Reaves, as a 38 year mem
ber of the Georgia House of
Representatives and a 28-year
chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee, was instrumental in
the development of the Georgia
National Fairgrounds & Agricenter,
as well as being a srong sup
porter of the University of Georgia
Extension Service, a friend to
Georgia farmers and a supporter
of sound environmental and water
protection policies.
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■ Irene Maria Tweed, 66
■ Richard Patrick Traylor, 43
■ Tracy Herndon McCollister Sr.
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Council takes money from DDA
Recommend dissolving it
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins’ City Council
has taken away the dedicated rev
enue from the city’s Downtown
Development authority.
Councilman Doug McDowell, who
serves on the DDA, proposed during
the council’s meeting Monday the
change to the city code, to reallocate
the 3 percent tax on car rentals
that currently goes to the DDA for
projects to the city’s Redevelopment
Agency for its redevelopment proj
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Councilman Dean Cowart second
ed the motion, but later decided to
abstain from the vote as he owns
property in the redevelopment tar
get area.
The change will take effect once
the city council approves the bylaws
and budget for the Redevelopment
Agency and creates an executive
director for the agency.
“I hope the council will approve
the draft at our next meeting,” said
Mayor Donald Walker, noting for the
record the rest of council voted for
the transfer of the funds and Cowart
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abstained.
McDowell proposed the change
and another to bring back all of the
DDA property and holdings and dis
solve the authority.
“If the DDA doesn’t want to go
in the direction we want, we should
dissolve it. We don’t need it,” he
said.
City Attorney Jim Elliott told
Signs of the times
LEFT: At least two of the billboards along Russell Parkway in Peach County
have been taken down. The city made an agreefhent with developer John
Thornton in March 2006 that in exchange for annexation and city water and
sewer he would move four of the billboards off Bussell Parkway within a
year’s time - by April 7. The billboards were appmved by the Peach County
Commission prior the city’s annexation of the road and land along it out to
Interstate 75. Russell Parkway has an overlay zohing with additional land use
and appearance restrictions including no billboards. Thornton is moving four
of the billboards to other locations in the city, where billboards are permitted,
and with a special exemption.
BELOW: Billboards line Russell Parkway and the local countryside.
Journal/Ray Lightner
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McDowell the paperwork is ready.
“There is not a problem with doing
(jiist) that,” he said. McDowell said
he has had problems with the DDA
since being appointed as the coun
cil representative on the authority.
The latest issue he had was some
members calling a meeting but not
notifying him.
“If you have a problem with an
old car, get rid of it,” Walker said.
He added that the DDA was created
to be used as a vehicle to bond the
former military housing for redevel
opment and the creation of the town
center.
Walker also presented council
with a draft of the bylaws, budget,
See DDA, page 6A
Missing teens
found in S.C.
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Two Houston County
teen-agers who went miss
ing March 26 were on their
way back home Tuesday
morning, after an apparent
joy ride to Surfside Beach,
S.C., where they were stay
ing with an older teen-aged
friend.
Corbin Person and Dustin
Strickland, whose parents
were offering a substan
tial reward for information
leading to their safe return,
See TEENS, page 6A
GSP has new Peppy
Post 15 commander
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Keith Collins is excited to
be here.
Collins, the new com
mander of Georgia State
Patrol Post 15 in Perry, has
18 years of law enforcement
experience, the last 12 with
See COMMANDER,page 6A