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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 103
Weekend
May 26, 2007
The Home Journal s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Chef’s academy to
hold summer camps
Camp Can-I-Cook summer
mini-camps are scheduled to start
soon at Young Chef’s Academy, a
cooking school for kids, located
at 4027 Watson Blvd., in Warner
Robins. With the theme "Let's
Take A Road Trip”, "Your children
can sign up and explore the cui
sines unique to various regions,
right in our kitchen," said Sharon
Gillis, co-owner with her sister,
Amelia.
The schedule is: New England,
June 4-6; Mid-Atlantic, June 11-
13; South, June 18-20; Midwest,
June 25-27; Southwest, July 9-11;
Rocky Mountains, July 16-18; and
Pacific States, July 23-25. For
more information, call 971-8276.
DOS reminds of
hours, services
The Georgia Department of
Driver Services would like to
remind everyone of their hours in
Perry (450 Larry Walker Parkway).
They are open Tuesday-Saturday
from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Also, they
handle license renewals, rein
statements, automobile and
motorcycle testing (reservation
recommended) and more. Call
1-866-754-3687 for more.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Chuck Skala
Sunday
■ Lani Comacchione
■ Bryce Dunn, 4
■ Chuck Ramsdale
■ John Kenneth Rich, 111 (Trey)
Monday
■ Barbara Walker
■ A! Stewart
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send them to: 1210 Washington
St., Perry 31069 attn: Don
Moncrief. You can also call him
at 987-1823, Ext. 231.
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Sunday
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Monday
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Saluting Houston County’s
Four Star
/ mom
“If you can imagine what today’s moms might feel like
when their son is in Iraq. Then add three to it.”
- Dianne Sorrows
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The year is 2007.
A mom sits at
home in her rocking
chair and rocks. She
wrings her hands
nervously. She rocks
some more.
Too restless to sit still,
she gets up, does some iron
ing, washing, cleaning, yet
the worries remain.
“I hope he’s ajj fight.”
plays in her mind over and
over in regard to her son in
Iraq.
Now, let’s go back a lot of
years. In fact let’s go back
to at least 60 (years).
A mom sits at home in her
rocking chair and rocks.
She wrings her hands
nervously. She rocks some
more.
Too restless to sit still,
she gets up, does some iron
ing, washing, cleaning, yet
the worries remain.
“I hope they’re all right,”
plays in her mind over and
over. Only this time, it’s in
regard to her four sons in
World War 11.
That’s right. Four!
The mom was Eslie Long
Leaptrot, Houston County’s
only Four Star mother. That
is, by the way, a real title
as bestowed onto her in a
ceremony way back then,
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Northside High School’s Janay Wilson, left, attempts to score against a Houston
County defender during the Powder Puff flag football game Thursday at Northside
High School. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes event - FCA athletes from Warner
Robins High School also took part - was a fund-raiser for Northside student-athlete
Chris Johnson who has leukemia. With money still being counted as of press time, the
attendees had raised $3,900 for the cause. For more, see 1-28.
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
where she was given a pin
and flag as recognition.
That information comes
via her granddaughter
Dianne Sorrows, who has
pretty much been left to tell
her story, as Eslie has long
since passed - around 1950
or ’sl, Sorrows said, add
ing that a lot of her story
still remains hidden inside
“lots” of boxes and such
still in storage.
She, Eslie, would have
been around 75 at the
time of her passing. (Note:
Sorrows is in turn telling
the story on behalf of her
mother who recently passed
away. “She always wanted
to do this,” Sorrows said.
“So, I said: ‘l’m going to
do it for her’ in remem
brance.”)
Eslie Long Leaptrot of
Perry was the mother of
12 in all. Three of those
died at birth, four were girls
- ladies - only one of which
is living. Louise Leaptrot
Pennington, Margaret
Lepatrot Webb and Nell
Leaptrot Woodruff, Sorrows’
mother, are the ones who
have passed. Grace Long
is the only living heir. She
currently resides in Fergus
Falls, Minn.
The rest were boys - men.
Warren Leaptrot, the old
est, was the only one not to
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go into the military.
The other four not only
enlisted in the Navy, they
enlisted at basically the
same time.
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Pierce was the oldest
of the brothers to go and
the longest to stay. In fact,
he was a “triple-dipper,”
See MOM, page ioA
Hospital request
sent back to P&Z
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Hospital Authority’s
request for rezoning and
annexation into Warner
Robins has been sent back
to the city’s Planning and
Zoning Commission.
The city council sent the
request back and asked the
planning board to recon
sider it in light of a pro
posed change in the city
planning ordinance, which
was also sent for the board
to make a recommenda
tion. The change would
add planned development
districts to the city zoning
regulations.
The planned development
districts amendment was
proposed by Hale Almond,
an attorney for residents
in the area of the 134.86-
acre tract at the comer
of U.S. 41 and Crestview
Church Road. The Hospital
Authority is asking that
be annexed and rezoned to
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Katrina revisited
Volunteers
Wed back
down south
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Several employees of
the Warner Robins Police
Department will be heading
to Biloxi over Memorial Day
weekend for a relief effort.
The employees, both offi
cers and civilian employ
ees, will be joined by mem
bers of Houston Lake
Presbyterian Church and
First Presbyterian Church
of Macon in the ongoing
relief effort for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina. Officer
Ken Fennell said his church,
Houston Lake Presbyterian,
went last year during the
week of Thanksgiving.
“We didn’t have many
skilled construction work
ers,” Fennell said. “I knew
we had some here (so) I
talked to the chief and the
See VOLUNTEERS,page iaA
Judge sentences
armed robbers
Special to the Journal
Houston County Superior
Court Judge George F.
Nunn, according to a release,
sentenced Thursday both
Ronald Felix Emory, 17,
of 223 Crescent Drive and
Kris Miles Powell, 19, of 437
Sarah Drive to 25 years for
a robbery that occurred at
the Wachovia Bank Oct. 16,
2006. He, Nunn, required 15
years to be served in prison.
“We are very pleased
with the sentence and hope
See SENTENCES, page ioA
both commercial and resi
dential uses.
The existing application
asks that 97.12 acres, with
frontage on both roads,
be rezoned to C-2 (gen
eral commercial) and the
remaining 37.75 acres be
rezoned to R-3 (residential
with 7,500-square foot lot
minimums) to serve as a
buffer between the com
mercial and existing resi
dential behind; including
the Crestview Plantation
subdivision.
Almond’s proposal is
similar to what is used in
other communities, includ
ing Bibb County, where he
serves on a zoning board.
Its purpose is to provide
greater design flexibility to
permit multiple uses and
varying densities in resi
dential uses, he said.
The conditions for a
planned development dis
trict include more than
one principal use of land
See REQUEST, page ioA
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