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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 129
BELOW THE FOLD: WR Fire Dept, fights two Sunday fires
Tuesday
July 3,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Houston County
Landfill to be closed
The Houston County Landfill,
according to landfill officials, will be
closed Wednesday for the July 4
holiday.
Houston Daily Journal
to not print July 4
Due to the holiday, the Houston
Daily Journal will not have a
Wednesday paper. We're sorry for
the inconvenience.
Houston County Board
of Health to meet
The Houston County Board of
Health will meet at noon July 12 in
the conference room at the Houston
County Health Department, which is
located at $8 Cohn Walker Drive in
Warner Robins.
Byron to hold
community yard sale
Byron Better Hometown will be
sponsoring a community-wide yard
sale, Aug. 4 from 8 a.m.-until.
Locations, according to a release,
are available throughout town. The
tailgate market will also be open with
fresh produce, arts and crafts, baked
goods, fresh eggs and more.
For more information, call 478-
956-5555.
BIRTHDAYS
July 1
■ Robert Dayton
July 2
■ Horace Schwalm
Today
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■ Sharnell Myers
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Chris Kersey is a Perry firefighter whose specialty is equipment operations. When on the job fighting a blaze, fire
fighters typically are weighed down with as much as 60 pounds of protective gear. Firefighters have a higher rate of
coronary disease and heart attacks than the general population.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The Perry City Council has a deci
sion to make at some point in the
months ahead.
They have to decide whether fire
fighters and police officers should have
the option of retiring at 55 with full
pension, and with their city health
insurance continuing until they are
eligible for Medicare.
There are two requirements. The
employee has to have worked for the
city for 25 years in a hazardous duty
position.
The bottom line is that these are peo
ple who have spent their entire careers
working for the City of Perry doing
WR Fire Department fights 2 Sunday fires
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Two Sunday fires remain
under investigation Monday.
Warner Robins Fire
Deportment responded
to the Watson Boulevard
Hardee’s Sunday afternoon
about 2:30 p.m. Only two
employees were in the busi
ness at the time of the fire
und no it\juries were report
ed,
Around H p.m., Tim Krepps
was taking out the trush
when he noticed an unusu
al smell. He first thought
it wus a grill, but noticed
smoke coming from the attic
area ol one of his neighbors’
houses across the street,
“1 looked up und saw
smoke that looked differ
ent," Krepps said "When
I went over to look, I saw
See El RES, page 6A
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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Smok • rises out of a house In Kathloon aa Warner Robins firefighters put out a fire
Sunday evening.
Christ Lutheran
Church, Apptobee*
cut ribbons.
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By the numbers
■ A total of 1,649 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during
the past 10 years in the U.S. That’s an average of one death every 53 hours
or 165 per year. There were 145 law enforcement officers killed in 2006.
■ On average, more than 56,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted
each year in the U.S., resulting in over 16,000 injuries.
■ Nationwide, 115 firefighters were killed while on duty during 2005.
■ Fire killed more Americans than ail natural disasters combined.
■ Nationwide, An estimated 80,100 firefighter injuries occurred in the line of
duty in 2005. Almost half of those injuries occurred during fireground opera
tions, while others occurred during non-fire emergency services.
Sources: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; National Fire
Protection Association; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
work that by its nature gets harder It’s not called hazardous duty for
and riskier, and sometimes impossible, nothing.
with age. See FUTURE, page 6A
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By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Nathan Evan Gardner,
21, of Warner Robins, was
sentenced to 60 months in
federal prison for posses
sion of child pornography.
There is no parole in
the Federal System, noted
Maxwell Wood, United
States Attorney for the
Middle District of Georgia,
so Gardner will serve the
entire five years in prison,
plus another five years of
supervised release.
Gardner entered a
guilty plea to one count
of possession of child por
nography last year, after
being found in possession
of more than 300 images
of child pornography.
The charges against him
arose from an investigation
conducted by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation
in the Tampa, Fla., area,
where an individual using
the screen name “teen
boy 18” distributed child
pornography in interstate
commerce by transmit
ting such material via the
Internet.
Wood said, a search of
the computer belonging
to “teenboy 18” revealed
e-mail addresses belong
ing to Gardner. The FBI
interviewed Gardner in
Warner Robins, and at
that time, he admitted
using his computer to
obtain child pornogra
phy-
Gardner gave the
agents consent to remove
his computer and a com
pact disc. FBI analysis of
the compact disc revealed
depictions of minors
See PORN, page 6A
Organizers
add big screen
tn big show
Special to the Journal
While the home
town audience will get
a greater view, the full
audience for the 24th
Annual Independence
Day Celebration will grow
to worldwide with addi
tions to the show today
at McConnell-Talbert
Stadium on South Davis
Drive in Warner Robins.
The addition of a giant
projection screen will give
everyone in the stadium
a front row view of the
Band of the Air Force
Reserve and guest artist
Lee Greenwood.
“The 18 by 24 screen
comes up from inside a
semitrailer and goes up
to 33 feet,” explained
Dave Ballengee, deputy
commander of the band.
“We’ll do our best to
set it up so everyone in
See SCREEN, page 6A