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VOLUME lift NUMBER 120
Wednesday
June 20,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Houston Arts Alliance
set to meet
The Houston Arts Alliance
Board will meet Monday at 6 p.m.
at Coldwell Banker Realtors, which
is located at 470 South Houston
Lake Road in Warner Robins.
Citizens board of
directors to meet
The Board of Directors monthly
meeting for the Houston County
Association for Exceptional
Citizens, Inc., Falcon Park Inc.,
and Falcon Park 111, Inc., will be
held Thursday at 7 p.m. in the con
ference room of Workshop 11.
Workshop II is located at 716
North Young Avenue.
American Red Cross
sets class schedule
The American Red Cross has
set the following class unique
schedule: June 23, adult CPR/AED
and infant/child CPR, 1-5 p.m.;
July 3, adult CPR/AED and first
aid, 1-5 p.m.; July 7, infant/child
CPR and first aid, 8 a.m.-noon;
July 14, adult CPR/AED and first
aid, 8 a.m.-noon; July 17, adult
CPR/AED and infant/child CPR,
1-5 p.m.; July 28, adult CPR/AED
and first aid, 8 a.m.-noon.
All classes are held at the chap
ter and are $45 for both or S3O
for one.
Call 478-923-6332 for more.
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WR expanding to Oaky Woods
By RA T LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The annexation of 1.04 acres along
Ga. 96 East will put Warner Robins
a hop, skip and a jump from Oaky
Woods.
“It’s the most important annex
ation you’ll do this year,” Mayor
Donald Walker told City Council of
the request from Melvin L. Watson
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"It's the most Important
annexation you'll do tMs
year."
- Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker
to annex 1.04 acres at 314 Highway
96 East.
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“It will put you contiguous with
Jasmine Plantation,” Walker said,
which has city sewer service and
deed covenants that state: once con
tiguous with city limits they come
into the city corporate limits. Next
to that is Governor’s Plantation and
a number of others “which gets us
to Waterford Golf Club and to ‘that’
Okay Woods outfit,” Walker said.
The request from Watson also
Agency to hire
director today
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Redevelopment Agency
held its first official meet
ing at the end of Monday’s
City Council meeting.
And today at a called
meeting at 5 p.m., the
agency will hire an execu
tive director. Mayor Donald
Walker fflH 1 Moßday two
applications had been sub
mtted, but he had not yet
interviewed the applicants.
Walker asked for the meet
ing for the agency to decide
on the executive director.
Just prior to Walker
closing the city council
Christ Lutheran cuts
ribbon on now homo
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifekyle Editor
One of Perry’s youngest
churches reached a mile
stone on Monday.
Christ Lutheran Church,
which got its start two years
ago at a meeting held at
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Members of Christ Lutheran Church in Perry cel
ebrated the official opening of their new church home
on Carroll Street Monday. The Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce and Mayor Jim Worrall assisted with the
ribbon cutting.
Two sections • 14 pages
rezones the tract from R-l (single
family residential) to C-2 (general
commercial). It is contiguous to
other C-2 tracts and there was no
opposition at the city council, plan
ning commission or county commis
sion hearings on the request.
The city council approved the
annexation of 1,200 feet of road
way - Smithville Church Road
See EXPANDING, page fA
meeting and opening the
Redevelopment Agency
meeting, Monday night,
the city council voted to
transfer some 30 lots at
the Village at Town Centre
from the city general fund
to the redevelopment agen
cy. The land was trans
ferred from the Downtown
Development Authority at
its meeting last month.
Councilman Doug
McDowell questioned the
need for the action - “I
thought we did it already,”
he said.
City Attorney Jim
Elliott said the council had
See DIRECTOR, page fA
Priester’s, has now moved
into the old “Ag Building”
at 233 Carroll Street,
The spacious new sanctu
ary has been redecorated
by the members.
Pastor Steve Schave,
who has been with the new
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