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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 118 ZvEST 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. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Lavan Johnson Sunday ■ Cohen Carpenter E-mail your birthdays to: hhj(p evansnewspapers.com or donm(aevansnewspapers. com or send them to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief. You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. PERIODICAL 500 News tip hotline: 6 a.m.-4 p.m: 987-1823 Ext. 231 4 p.m.-untii: 397-8811 PHIIi 8 *55108 00001 1 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest iiaiiallaaaaHaailaaaaaiailiaaa i.ii.a.lt COOI * GEORGIA NEWSP APER PROJECT Main Library UNtV OF GEORGIA ATHEriS GA 30SG2-00G2 3-OtGtT 306 June 16, 2007 fflmmm* (Oromw MW 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 www.hhjnews.com Km 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 $18,246,841. It makes up about 55 percent of the total general fund budget. Public safety includes police, fire and animal control services and the administration, training and buildings for police and See BUDGET, page 6A Two sections *lB pages LIFESTYLE: Classes mark 50-year anni versary Birthdays, QD more. OD 5 injured in wreck By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Five people were hos pitalized Thursday after a multi-car accident on Watson Boulevard about 3 p.m. At 3:07 p.m. Thursday, Warner Robins Police were dispatched to Watson Poulevard and Corder Road in reference to a col lision. Preliminary investi gation, police said, revealed a 1996 Ford Thunderbird driven by Ashley Oconnell of Centerville was travel ing east on Watson when There’s Tal, who is in the “Focus” program at Perry Middle School and made a perfect score on the Math section of the CRCT this year. His mom thinks he’ll “probably be the lawyer of the family, since he loves to argue so much.” Then, there’s Hunter, also a student at Perry Middle WRP&Z OKs annexations, rezonings By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The Warner Robins Planning and Zoning Commission knocked out a 29-item agenda in about an hour Tuesday night. It included 15 home occupation requests, four vari ances, several annexations and rezonings and one pre liminary plat. Most were approved or recommended for approval without any objections. The annexations and rezonings require final approval by city council, with the planning commission only mak ing a recommendation. The eounty, last week, also did not object to several of the annexations including: • 49.797 acres south of Crossfield Drive and west of Houston Lake Road currently zoned R-AG in See WRP&Z. page jA .m'W\K4W$ Wamm WmyKwwia Sr*' rroE.' -lEw ■MWL* , Uv , iL 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