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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 118
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Weekend
June 16,2007
The Home Journal's
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Fair adds group to
concert schedule
Georgia National Fair offi
cials announced Thursday they
had added another group to the
Reaves Arena concert: Jonas
Brothers with Everlife. They are
slated to perform Oct. 14. Per
a release from the fairgrounds,
these two groups are stars of
Radio Disney.
The 18th Georgia National Fair
is Oct. 4-14.
HHC changes Shingles
meeting date
The Houston Healthcare pro
gram Facts About Shingles date
has beep changed. It will be held
Aug. 14'frjim 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
During that Dr!, Mobolaji
Ogunsakin, FACP. infectious dis
ease specialist, will present a
program on the signs, symptoms
and treatment for this common
disorder.
He will also discuss the new
shingles vaccine. Lunch will be
served. Houston Health Pavilion
EduCare Center. Call 478-923-
9771 to pre-register.
CORRECTION
In the June 13 story about the
retirement of Superintendent of
Schools Danny Carpenter, the
wrong first name was given for
recent Perry High School graduate
and senior class president, Reggie
Whitehead. We regret the error.
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BELOW THE FOLD: City of WR to vote on $33 million budget ■ WRP&Z OKs annexations, rezonings
Today
Weather Sunshine, clouds
High: 92 Low: 69
hhjnews.com
WOb Tornadoes give
these guys a thrill
Man arrested in stabbing
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police have charged Pedro
GOMEZ
with a large stab wound to his back. Menchu
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Angela Lineberger
Of Perry is begin
ning her career as
a published writer
this week, and
what many readers will won
der, once they learn about
her family, is how on earth
she finds the time to write.
Well, for one thing, she’s
a woman who loves friends
and family, likes being active
and sociable, but also knows
how to carve out time for
herself and make the most
of a little solitude.
Angela and Kerry
Lineberger don’t just live “out
in the country.” They live
out in the county and down
in the woods. To get to their
house, you have to drive
on a dirt road through a
farm field and take another,
narrower, dirt road through
about a mile of woods until
you’re looking at a big white
frame house.
The Labrador retrievers
bark a noisy welcome and
when you’re invited in, you
might find Angela stirring
a big pot of stew or wash
ing off a sink full of summer
squash.
A former cheerleader and
homecoming queen from
Valdosta who’s been married
to her high school sweet
heart since she was 19,
Angela says that she thinks
she was “born in the wrong
era.”
She meant to get around
to going to college (Kerry’s a
Georgia Tech graduate) but
WR to vote on $33 mHon budget
By RA T LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins is expect
ed to vote on $33,067,027
general fund budget on
Monday.
The budget for fiscal year
2008 is up about $554,487
or six percent from FY 2007
estimated actual budget of
$31,162,666. The city’s fis
cal year runs from July 1, to
June 30.
While the budget is up
there will be another reduc
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Gomez in the stabbing of
his roommate on Ignico
Drive.
Members of the Warner
Robins Police Department
Uniformed Patrol Division
were dispatched to 120
Ignico Drive in reference
to a stabbing victim about
2:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Upon their arrival, officers
found Ottoniel Christobal
Menchu in the parking lot
Berger queen
When it comes to writing about her family, local mom delivers
"\ love being a homemaker/' she says. "I think I should have been Beaver Cleaver's mother."
June Cleaver only had two boys, though. The Unebergers have five boys, and their ages are
14,12,12,12 and 12.
§§
Journal/Charlotte Perkins
The Unebergers at home, front row from left: Luke, Tal, Ben and Hunter. Second row: Tully, Angela and Kerry.
somehow it never happened,
and she doesn’t really mind.
“I love being a home
maker,” she says. “I think I
should have been Beaver
Cleaver’s mother.”
June Cleaver only had
two boys, though. The
Linebergers have five boys,
and their ages are 14, 12,
12, 12 and 12.
tion in the city millage rate,
Mayor Donald Walkers said,
for the 12th year now.
The $33,067,027 budget
includes a 2 percent cost
of living increase and a 2
percent merit raise for city
employees. Salaries and
benefits for city employ
ees make up 76 percent or
$25,217,625 of the 2008 bud
get. Operations at $7,087,952
make up 21 percent of the
2008 expenses and capital
expenditures at $61,450
SPORTS: Demon
Diamond Summer
Dash. Cross
country Music ID
and more. ID
"WO got them to ten who had
done it. They were afraid."
- Criminal Investigation Det. Tom Williams
was transported to the Houston Medical
Center until stabilized, then transferred
to the Medical Center of Central Georgia
for further treatment. He remains in criti
cal condition in Macon according to Det.
Tom Williams of the Criminal Investigation
Division.
Witnesses at the scene were able to
provide investigators with the details
See STABBING, page 6A
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There’s Tully, the big
brother, who makes straight
A’s at Perry High School.
He’s a serious guy who
likes sports and fishing and
wants to be a veterinarian
someday. On the comic side
- he’s also a champion eye
crosser, as he demonstrated
in one of the photos taken
for this interview!
make up the remaining 2
percent.
Of the seven categories
in general fund expendi
tures, public safety is the
single largest expense at
$18,246,841. It makes up
about 55 percent of the total
general fund budget.
Public safety includes
police, fire and animal
control services and the
administration, training
and buildings for police and
See BUDGET, page 6A
Two sections *lB pages
LIFESTYLE: Classes
mark 50-year anni
versary
Birthdays, QD
more. OD
5 injured in wreck
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Five people were hos
pitalized Thursday after
a multi-car accident on
Watson Boulevard about 3
p.m.
At 3:07 p.m. Thursday,
Warner Robins Police
were dispatched to Watson
Poulevard and Corder
Road in reference to a col
lision. Preliminary investi
gation, police said, revealed
a 1996 Ford Thunderbird
driven by Ashley Oconnell
of Centerville was travel
ing east on Watson when
There’s Tal, who is in the
“Focus” program at Perry
Middle School and made a
perfect score on the Math
section of the CRCT this
year. His mom thinks he’ll
“probably be the lawyer of
the family, since he loves to
argue so much.”
Then, there’s Hunter, also
a student at Perry Middle
WRP&Z OKs annexations, rezonings
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins Planning and Zoning Commission
knocked out a 29-item agenda in about an hour Tuesday
night.
It included 15 home occupation requests, four vari
ances, several annexations and rezonings and one pre
liminary plat. Most were approved or recommended for
approval without any objections.
The annexations and rezonings require final approval
by city council, with the planning commission only mak
ing a recommendation. The eounty, last week, also did not
object to several of the annexations including:
• 49.797 acres south of Crossfield Drive and west
of Houston Lake Road currently zoned R-AG in
See WRP&Z. page jA
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Oconnell reportedly veered
into westbound traffic to
avoid another vehicle.
Her Thunderbird struck
a 2005 Toyota Tacoma head
on. The impact caused the
westbound pick-up driven
by Robert Tucker of Macon
to strike a 1988 Eagle
Premier driven by Denise
Brown of Warner Robins,
who was also westbound on
Watson.
According to police, the
impact also caused the
Thunderbird to strike
a United States Postal
See WRECK, page 6A
School. Angela says, “He’s
smart too, but he would rath
er make people laugh than
worry about his studies. He’s
our clown.”
Luke and Ben go to Perry
Middle School, too.
Angela says that even
when Luke was a newborn,
weighing just over three
See MOM, page jA