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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 68
BELOW THE FOLD: KWRB, Happy Hour to host E-Cycling Day INSIDE: Temperatures have it feeling like Christmas
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Tuesday
April 10, 2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Police to host class
for seniors
The Warner Robins Police
Department will host a "Financial
Safety for Senior Adults” class
April 24. The class is designed
to increase awareness of seniors
about how to safeguard their
finances.
The class includes topics on
scams and financial exploitation.
The class will be held ay police
headquarters, 800 S. Young Ave.,
Warner Robins, from 9 a.m. to
noon. The class is free and lunch
will be provided.
All senior citizens are welcome
to attend. To pre-register, call
Grace Hodges at 929-7253.
Man dies after tire
injury accident
Jason Herbert Roland, 34, died
Saturday of the severe head inju
ries he sustained in a tire blow-out
accident on April 3.
Roland, an employee of Byron
Tire Company, was answering a
service call on 1-75 and was in
the process of inflating a tractor
trailer tire when the tire exploded
and caused his injuries.
He was transported by the
Houston County Emergency
Medical Service to the Medical
Center of Central Georgia, where
he died.
“This was a very tragic acci
dent. It was Jason's 34th birth
day on the day of the accident,”
said Cpl. James Williams of the
Houston County Sheriff's Office.
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Wfib Felons win civil rights
restoration
PETA threatens City
of WR with lawsuit
Sends ‘cease and desist’ letter over animal gas chamber
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals has
sent a “cease and desist”
letter to Warner Robins
over the Animal Control gas
chamber.
The letter sent Thursday
from Atlanta attorney Walter
H. Bush, asks that the city
immediately cease routine
use of the gas chamber and
provide written assurance of
that by April 10 or they will
sue to make the city do it
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Children carry baskets during the Walk Through Jerusalem held Saturday at United Methodist Church. For more, see SA.
KWRB, Happy Hour team
up to host E-Cycling Day
Special to the Journal
Keep Warner Robins
Beautiful and the Happy
Inside
KWRB and
Warner Robins
Wrecker &
Towing to
also sponsor
‘Chunk-A-
Junk”
- page 6A
wide electronics recycling
program.
According to a release,
you may bring your old
electronics (no televisions,
please) from now until
April 28 to Happy Hour
These kids know
how to keep their
campus
clean.
"Our clients intend to pursue all
available legal remedies to compel you
to do so in order to ensure that dogs
and cats are not suffering and dying in a
manner that defies the letter and the
spirit of Georgia's humane euthanasia
mandate."
-Atlanta attorney Walter H. Bush
and seek attorney fees if
Hopping down a different kind of Easter trail
Service Center, located at
802 North Young Avenue
in Warner Robins.
Last year, program com
mittee members were,
according to the release,
“astonished to discover
that more than 38,000
pounds of electronics were
collected for recycling.
“If you are like most
Americans,” the release
reads, “you probably have
at least one working com
puter or laptop, one answer
ing machine, a microwave
oven, three telephones,
three VCRs, two stereos,
a box filled with cellular
phones, and too many old
video game components to
count.
See IS-CYCLING, page 6A
Hour
Service
Center
have once
again
joined
forces with
Atlanta
Recycling
Solutions
to host E-
Cy cling
Day, a city-
www.hhjnews.com
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Denise Townsend of Kathleen scored her first career win this past Saturday at Silver
Dollar Raceway in Reynolds. Townsend, in her Chevy S-10 pickup and in Pro ET elimi
nations, worked her way through six rounds of competition before, according to a
release, using “a hole-shot advantage to beat another S-10,” for the victory in round
seven. This marks just her second year of competition.
See LAWSUIT, page 6A
In baseball: 1 cute kid,
1 ugly loss lor Perry;
Lowndes nips
HoCo; NS blasts "WM
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Housing Authority
to keep its director
Mayor called for firing, council vnted in
favor - instead he's offered a contract
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Despite City Council
wanting his contract termi
nated, the Warner Robins
Housing Authority will
be offering its executive
director a new contract at
today’s meeting.
The Authority held a per
sonnel hearing on Executive
Director Charles Alexander
in a special called and most
ly closed session Friday.
At the conclusion of the
session, the authority attor-
Career win No. 1
One section • 10 pages
"I appreciate the
board's
confidence. They
looked at all the
allegations and made
their decision."
- Warner Robins Housing
Authority Executive Director
Charles Alexander
ney Gene Harrington
See DIRECTOR, page 6A
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