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BELOW THE FOLD: WR Chamber of Commerce cuts ribbon on new building ■ RAFB Gate 5 to re-open Monday
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June 30,2007
The Home Journal’s
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NS cheerleaders to
hold mini-camp
Northside High School's cheer
leaders will hold a mini-camp July
16-19 at Parkwood Elementary
School in the gym. The camp will
be offered in two sessions: The
Elementary session (those enter
ing kindergarten-fifth grade) will run
from 9 a.m. to noon and the Middle
School one (those from sixth-eighth
grade) will run from 1 -4 p.m.
According to a release, during the
week participants will work with NHS
Eagle cheerleaders to learn cheers,
dances, and stunts. Snacks will
be provided and all participants will
receive an event T-shirt.
The cost is SSO if received by July
9 and $55 if received later than that.
Registration forms are available at
Northside High School.
WR Rec preps for
softball season
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will hold team regis
tration for the 2007 Fall Softball
League Aug. 6-7. Teams may regis
ter between the 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the
department, which is located at 800
Watson Blvd. Per a release, they
will register the first 28 coed teams
and the first 21 men’s teams only.
League play will be Monday through
Thursday for a 12-game season.
The entry fee is $348 per team. The
fall season will open Sept. 4. They
will play all games at Peavy Park.
Participants must be 16 by Sept. 1.
For more info call Martha Ann
Lumpkin at 929-1914 or 929-1916.
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Centerville police arrest Columbus fugitive
By RAY LIGHTNER
'Journal Staff Writer
A man wanted for a home inva
sion in Columbus was captured
Wednesday night outside the Galleria
Mall in Centerville.
Centerville Police Capt. Sid
Andrews said, “two Columbus Police
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battle alongside one another during a joint coalition exercise held near Americus Thursday. According to a base
release, on June 18 the sth CCG began an exercise called United Architecture ‘O7 with members of the Royal Air
Force - which ended with the Thursday event This field exercise, according to the release, is the first time either of
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WR Chamber cuts ribbon on new building
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins Area
Chamber of Commerce cut
its own ribbon Thursday.
Usually the chamber
helps businesses celebrate
grand openings and ribbon
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cuttings. On Thursday, the
Chamber celebrated the
grand opening at its new
location at 1228 Watson
Blvd. The Chamber moved
from down the street to a
remodeled building closer to
City Hall.
The Warner Robins Area
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detectives were down here, with
information their fugitive was in
the area.”
Centerville Police Sgt. Mike
Mullins sent Officer Chuck Hadden
over to check out the mall parking
lot, Andrews said, where he located
the unoccupied car outside Belk’s.
Andrews said he was then called
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in and set up surveillance on the car.
“Shortly thereafter the suspect and
three others came out of the mall
just before 9 p.m.”
The fugitive was arrested and
turned over to Columbus Police,
The three others were not involved
in the Columbus incident and were
released on the scene, Andrews
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ABOVE: Airman Carlos Rivera checks a
media person’s ID before allowing him
onto the site.
Senior Airman Dennis Lantgen inprocess
es participants.
Chamber of Commerce,
founded in 1949, had been in
the building at 1420 Watson
Blvd., since 1963. The new
location is the former home
of the 20th Century Cafeteria
and then the Social Security
office.
Several speakers remem
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ing previously when it was
the cafeteria, “but not when
it was the Social Security
office,” Centerville Mayor
Bubba Edwards added.
He said the renovation
“is what I’d call an extreme
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said.
Calvin Lamar Anderson, 21, of
Box Springs, was taken into cus
tody by the Columbus Police on
charges including two counts of
armed robbery, two counts of aggra
vated assault, one count of burglary
and one count motor vehicle theft,
See FUGITIVE,page jA
Hospital
votes to
buy land
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Houston County
Hospital Authority voted
Wednesday to buy the
United Finance site across
the street from Houston
Medical Center.
The authority agreed to
purchase the 80 by 300
foot tract at 1600 Watson
Blvd. across from the
hospital for $521,000.
The purchase includes a
two-story office building
and an adjacent house
with frontage on Watson
Boulevard, Parkwood
Drive and Cherokee
Drive.
Hospital Authority
Chairman Sonny Watson
said, because of the con
struction going on, the
hospital is losing some
space in areas where the
tower connects to the
existing building. He said
some of the new space
would be used for tempo
rary offices for a couple
of years.
“We can’t permanently
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Gale 5 set lo
open Monday
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Gate 5, at the inter
section of Martin
Luther King Road and
Ga. Highway 247, is
scheduled, according to
a release from Robins
Air Force Base, to open
Monday with its comple
tion of the construction
project. (
The traffic patterns
for those arriving to the
base through the gate
will differ, the release
reads. The entry path is
similar to Gates 1 and 3
where vehicles will enter
the gate and make a
turn to the south before
arriving to the canopy
for ID checks.
The new design, the
release continues, will
also add a third inbound
lane and is expected to
reduce the need to use
the shoulder when wait
ing to enter the gate
from Ga. Highway 247.