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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 67
BELOW THE FOLD: WR to borrow $7.7 million for water meters Panel works to educate, prevent sexual assault
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April 7, 2007
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IN BRIEF
Mahala organization
to hold attic sale
Mahala, a ladies civic organiza
tion in Perry, will host its annual
spring fundraiser April 14 from 7
a.m.-noon, in conjunction with the
Perry Dogwood Festival.
The club will host an attic sale
in downtown Perry to, accord
ing to a release, raise funds for
local charities. All proceeds will
be given back to the community.
Donated items will be accepted.
Contact Nancy Riley at 987-5422
to arrange pick-up of donated
items.
Mid South urges
youth to ‘stash cash’
Mid South Federal Credit Union
is asking youth to visit the orga
nization the week of April 23-28
to help celebrate National Credit
Union Youth Week.
To that end, the release reads,
youth 17 and under can make a
deposit and receive a special gift.
Mid South has locations in
Macon, Milledgeville and Warner
Robins.
Contact Judy Crawford, mar
keting director, at 478-471-9946
Ext. 1110 for more.
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Washington St., Perry 31069
attn: Don Moncrief. You can
also call him at 987-1823, Ext.
231.
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"These homes could only be for the
residents of Oldfield and their descendents
forever. No Illegal aliens or foreigners
of citizens of other neighborhoods could
own them. No lawyers, nobody from the
outside ever!"
-Ann Catheryn Willis King Toomer, in describing the four bedroom
brick homes she wants built in Oldfield
Perry council hears
grand plan lor Oldfield
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Ann Catheryn Willis King
Toomer is on a mission. It
started with successful oppo
sition to one commercial
rezoning request and has
blossomed into an ambitious
plan for revitalization and
renewal of Perry’s Oldfield
area and also the locations
locally known as New Hope,
Creekwoed Points,
all of which are traditionally
African-Amercian neighbor
hoods.
Toomer won the first round,
which was to persuade the
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WR borrowing $7.7 million for water meters
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins will be borrowing
$7.7 million to pay for the change-out
of city water meters.
The loan at 3 percent over 10 years
comes from the Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund administered by the
Georgia Environmental Facilities
Authority. This loan replaces a $5.8
million loan the city agreed to in
February, and which City Comptroller
Bill Harte advised the city council at
the time to accept and revisit it later.
The project replaces 22,000 water
meters with new ones that allow for
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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Ann Catheryn Willis King
Toomer speaks to Perry City
Council members recently.
Powered Hughes
electronic reading. The electronic
reading will cut down on city costs, it
was advised, as well as provide more
accurate readings.
Harte said the revenue is expected
to increase about 20 percent as the
meters are more reliable.
“The project may pay for itself,”
Harte said, with the reduction in
expenses and more accurate num
bers.
The city council also authorized
Public Works Director Joe Musselwhite
to make purchases not to exceed $1
million to expedite the Corder Road
widening project. The change allows
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A wreck truck carries off the truck driven by a 16-year-old who suffered severe
bums in a wreck Friday morning.
Teen pulled from burning truck
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Fire Department pulled
a 16-year-old male from his burning car
Friday morning, but not before he suf
fered severe burns to his lower extresgu,
ties. He also reportedly had a broken
ankle. He was transported to the Medical
Center of Central Georgia in Macon for
treatment.
The accident apparently involved only
the director to purchase materials and
subcontractor services without going
through the council first.
He will have to provide a report to
the city of the purchases and have to
go through council for any paving con
tracts more than SIOO,OOO, explained
city Purchasing Agent Mark Baker.
“It bypasses the normal purchasing
process,” Mayor Donald Walker said.
“It authorizes Joe to do his job and get
reimbursed by the county.”
In other business, the city declared
a bus and some police radios as sur
plus. The bus, a 1993 Blue Bird
See METERS, page 3A
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one vehicle, the 1997 Ford Ranger the
teenager was driving.
It was off the side of the road when
discovered.
Officials said that the vehicle was trav
eling southbound on lake Joy Road and
■Tan off the roadway, striking a tree.
Firefighters responded about 6:25 a.m.
to the car fire which was near the depart
ment’s Station No. 7. They extricated the
driver from the car and extinguished the
fire, which was in the engine.
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Two sections • 16 pages
Panel works to
educate, prevent
sexual assault
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
April is Prevent Sexual
Assault Month and Thursday
was more specifically End
Sexual Assault Day.
According to nationwide
statistics,
someone
is sexually
assaulted
in this
country
every two
and a half
minutes
and one in
six people
have been
victims
of sexual
assault.
To get
the word
out, and let people know
what help is available,
HODAC sponsored a panel
discussion Thursday at the
Atlanta Bread Company in
Warner Robins.
The panel consisted of both
law enforcement and coun
seling professionals includ
ing Houston County Chief
Assistant District Attorney
Jason Ashford, Det. Karen
Stokes of the Warner Robins
Police Department Criminal
Investigations Division,
HODAC’s intervention and
victim’s services coordinator
Dottie Stafford, and coun
selors Barbara Ann Newton
and Betsy Mills of Southern
Behavioral Services of Macon
and Warner Robins.
Adrianna Hopkins of Fox
24 moderated the event.
See PANEL, page 8A
ENI/Gary Harmon
Where
to call
for
help
■ HODAC:
953-5675
■ Georgia
Help Line:
1-800-338-
6745
■ Rainbow
House:
923-5923