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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 102
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May 25,2007
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IN BRIEF
Educators to hold
Curriculum Fair
The Central Georgia Christian
Home Educators will be holding
its annual Curriculum Fair June
8-9 at the McGill Building at the
Georgia National Fairgrounds in
Perry.
There will be used books, as
well as'new book vendors on site.
According to a release, this is an
event for both the homeschooling
family, as well as anyone inter
ested in educational books and
resources. Visit their website at
www.CGCHE.com for more infor
mation.
GDOT to scale back
ops for holiday
The Georgia pepartment of
Transportation, according to a
release, will scale back its con
struction projects across the state
- suspending related lane clo
sures on all interstate and major
state system highways - through
Monday to ease Memorial
Weekend traffic congestion.
Beginning at 5 a.m. today and
continuing until 10 p.m., Monday
there essentially will be no sched
uled lane closures on any Georgia
interstate highway or primary
state route, the release reads.
The department noted that
some work may continue on less
er-traveled state and local sys
tem roads and that incident- or
emergency maintenance-related
lane closures could become nec
essary on any route. Call the
department's hotline toll free, 24
hours, seven days a week, at
404-635-6800 for more.
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Special to the Journal
The Houston County
School System’s Classes of
2007 have announced the
students named valedicto
rian and salutatorians of
each high school’s graduat
ing class.
All graduation ceremonies
will be held in the Miller-
Murphy-Howard Building
at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
Approximately 1,514 stu
dents will graduate.
The schedule is as follows:
■ Perry High School, June
1, 8 p.m., 197 graduates;
■ Houston County Career
& Technology Center, June
2, 9 a.m., 55 graduates;
■ Warner Robins High
School, June 2, 11 a.m., 383
graduates;
■ Houston County High
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graduates;
■ Northside High School,
June 2, 7 p.m., 369 gradu
ates.
The Valedictorian and
Salutatorian for each school
is as follows:
Perry High School
Valedictorian Sarah
Jansen, Salutatorian Elbe
Dannenberg;
Warner Robins High
School - Valedictorian
Joseph Rimando,
Salutatorian Jeffrey
Nakayama;
Houston County High
School - Valedictorian
Derek Reeves, Salutatorian
Megan Seyl;
Northside High School
- Valedictorian Krystal Yong
Ward, Salutatorian Chase
Cameron Quinton.
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agreement on police presence
Officer now to be stationed in ER
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
There is now a Warner
Robins police officer sta
tioned in Houston Medical
Center’s emergency room.
Thanks to an intergov
ernmental agreement
between the Houston
County Hospital Authority
and the city of Warner
Robins, there will be an
officer stationed in the ER
Wednesday through Sunday
from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.
In the agreement the
Hospital Authority would
pay $45,000 for the salary
and equipment for an offi
cer to be at the hospital.
Vision 2020 votes to
reschedule meeting
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The lack of a quorum
and/or the principals in
the fire consolidation plan
led to those who actually
showed up for the Vision
2020 meeting voting to
meet another day.
The meeting has been
rescheduled for June 4 at
10:30 a.m. at Centerville
City Hall, 300 Church St.
Vision 2020, a policy rec
ommending council of gov
ernments, is made up of
the mayors of the three cit
ies, the county commission
chairman and a representa
tive from the county Board
of Education. Those present
for Wednesday’s meeting in
Centerville included Vision
2020 Chairman Centerville
Mayor Bubba Edwards, Tom
Wolmer from the school
board and Warner Robins
Local students at or above state GHSGT standards
Special to the Journal
Georgia High School Graduation Test
results have been received from the State
Board of Education.
According to a release from the Board
of Education, the Georgia Department of
Education requires students to pass all
four content areas (English/language arts,
math, social studies and science) and the
Georgia High School Graduation Writing
Test as a condition of graduation.
As shown by the scores, Houston County
juniors performed at or above the state
average in every content area. Highlights
Shown are the GHSGT scores for regular program students. Results are shown
for each high school, state and region for both 2007 and 2006:
2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006
ELA MATH SS SCI ELA MATH SS SCI
HCHS 100 99 98 91 HCHS 100 99 96 88
IIHS 98 97 91 81 HHS 100 96 89 82
PHS 99 99 96 85 PHS 98 94 88 84
WRHS 99 98 96 86 WRHS 99 98 93 84
SYSTEM 99 98 95 86 SYSTEM 99 97 93 85
STATE 98 95 91 77 STATE 98 95 89 76
RESA 99 96 91 76 RESA 99 | 95 87 73
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have more
belligerent
patients."
- Houston Healthcare CEO Dr.
Tony Alford, on why specific
times were chosen for police
presence
“There’s already one
or two out there at any
time,” Councilman Dean
Cowart said when the
council approved the agree
ment last month. “We just
City Councilman Terry
Horton. County commis
sion Chairman Ned Sanders
arrived late, coming from a
bill signing in Atlanta, and
County Commissioner Gail
Robinson was also present.
There were three voting
members present, Edwards
said, when Horton made
the motion to postpone
the meeting because “all
the principals should be
there. The mayor should be
there,” he said.
Edwards said with the fire
service plans, the Warner
Robins Fire Department
is the largest principal.
He agreed the mayors, the
principals should be there
to discuss the issue, but
said whether a mayor shows
up to a meeting or doesn’t
shows how important he
thinks the issue is.
Neither of the other two
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get paid for them sitting
there.”
The deal does not replace
hospital security with
police, it just puts a certi
fied officer at the hospital.
“It’s a good pilot program,”
Mayor Donald Walker said
last month.” We’ll eventual
ly end up with two there.”
Police are regularly called
to the ER when shooting or
stabbing victims come in or
in domestic abuse or rape
cases.
The time chosen cor
responds with shift times
at the police department
and is also, according to
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mayors was present and
there was no representa
tive at all from the city of
Perry.
“I do what I think is best,
not just for Centerville, but
all around us,” Edwards
said. “If all we’re gonna do
is be parochial,” he said,
there is no benefit.
“Vision 2020 is useful for
all of the county,” Edwards
said. “Saving taxpay
ers money by eliminating
duplication of services is
what we’re about. We have
to come up with ways of
driving the cost of doing
business down.”
The one enacted recom
mendation of the group so
far has been the unified
animal control ordinance,
which standardized ani
mal restrictions across the
county.
of the county’s regular program students
who tested for the first time include:
■ Houston County High main
tained a 100 percent passing rate on
the English/language arts section.
■ Northside High’s social studies scores
increased by 2 percent.
■ Perry High scores increased in every
subject, including an improvement in
social studies by 8 percent.
■ Warner Robins High increased sci
ence scores by 2 percent and social studies
scores by 3 percent.
“With every increase in percentage
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