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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 133
BELOW THE FOLD: Police catch burglar after attempted repeat performance ■ Absconder back in jail
Tuesday
July 10,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
New Hope Baptist to
host health fair
A free blood pressure and diabe
tes screening for $1 will be offered
July 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at a health fair sponsored by the
Missionary Society of New Hope
Baptist Church, W.F. Ragin Drive,
Perry. Specialists will be on hand
to share vital information on health
issues such as diabetes, heart dis
ease, cancer, AIDS and hyperten
sion. Healthy snacks will be served.
This event is open to the public.
WR Little Theatre to
present Fences
Warner Robins Little Theatre will
present the play Fences at 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday and July 19-21,
as well as July 26-28. There will also
be a special Sunday matinee this
Sunday and July 22 at 2:30 p.m.
The play, according to a release
is the winner of every major award,
including Drama Desk, Outer Critics
Circle, New York Drama Critics, Tony
and Pulitzer Prizes. This, according
to the release, “sensational drama”
starred James Earl Jones as Troy
Maxson, a former star of the Negro
baseball leagues who is working as
a garbage man in 1957. Maxson
sees the world as composed mostly
of fences, which enclose him. He
is very bitter that he was excluded
from major league baseball during
his prime and was too old to play
when the sport finally was integrat
ed. Maxson’s son wants a chance
at professional sports, but Maxson
refuses to let him try his luck.
Warner Robins Little Theatre
is located at 502 South Pleasant
Hill Road. To make reservations,
call 929-4579. Reservation lines
are open each Monday through
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets are sls adults, seniors $lO
(Sundays only), students $lO.
BIRTHDAYS
July 9
■ Pat Burch
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or donm@evansnewspapers.
com or send them to: 1210
Washington St., Perry 31069
attn: Don Moncrief. You can
also call him at 987-1823, Ext.
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A literal ‘brush’ with the law
Suspect caught in break-in
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Clifford Stewart has been charged in
the early Thursday break-in at Houston
Hardware in Bonaire.
Stewart, 36, of 1000 Arrowhead Trail, Apt.
D, in Warner Robins, was arrested without
incident after being found by a deputy in a
wooded area near the story. He was hiding
in the brush at the time.
About 2:20 a.m. Deputy Michael
Zimmerman was conducting a routine busi
ness security check at Houston Hardware
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Dane Clark of the Perry Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club lets loose a horseshoe during the
Perry Peach Pits tournament held Saturday at Rozar Park in Perry. For results of the
tournament, as well as additional pictures, check out Wednesday’s Houston Daily
Journal.
Police catch burglar alter attempted repeat performance
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Christopher Heith Johnson
was caught returning to the
scene of the crime - trying
to do it again.
Johnson, the suspect in
two convenience store bur
glaries was found early
Sunday morning following
a second burglary at one of
the stores. The arrest was
made in the parking lot of
the other store.
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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in Bonaire when he report
edly observed a white male
inside the gated area in
front of the business.
The suspect ran as the
deputy exited his patrol
car and Zimmerman called
for additional units. Sgt.
Tommy Spires responded to
the scene, heard movement
in the wooded area north
of the store and advised
responding units to secure the perimeter.
See BR USH, page 6A
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Johnson,
28, of 109
Williams
Drive, in
Bonaire, is
currently in
the Houston
County
Detention
Center
charged
with two
JOHNSON
counts of burglary, three
counts of possession of bur
glary tools and one count of
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criminal attempt to commit
burglary.
Saturday about 11 p.m.,
Houston County Sheriffs
Office patrol units were
dispatched to an alarm at
Andy’s Food Store, 355
Highway 247 in Bonaire.
Deputies arrived on scene
and were given a description
by a witness.
They also viewed the
surveillance video and
were able to confirm the
See BURGLAR, page 6A
SPORTS: Gayton picks
up lons' of awards;
Music, WRAII
squads win dis- "7 A
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STEWART
One section • 10 pages
County makes
gains on AYR
State grad rate increases to 71.1 percent
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
More than 81 percent of Georgia’s public schools in
2006-2007 made Adequate Yearly Progress under the
No Child Left Behind Act, and in Houston County
almost all schools were listed as making distinguished
progress. Only Northside High School as listed is not
making AYP
Supt. of Schools David Carpenter was at a professional
conference on Monday and not available for comment
on the system’s improved overall scores, which have just
been released by the Georgia Department of Education.
See A YP, page 6A
Making progress
■ The following schools had a Distinguished
school improvement status: Bonaire Elementary;
Bonaire Middle, Centerville Elementary, David A.
Perdue Primary, Eagle Springs Elementary, Feagin
Mill Middle, Houston County High, Huntington Middle,
Kings Chapel Elementary, Lake Joy Elementary,
Lindsey Elementary, Linwood Elementary, Matt
Arthur Elementary, Miller Elementary, Morningside
Elementary, Parkwood Elementary, Pearl Stephens
Elementary, Perdue Elementary, Perry Primary, Quail
Run Elementary, Russell Elementary, Shirley Hills
Elementary, Tucker Elementary, Warner Robins Middle
School, Westside Elementary.
■ The following schools met Adequate Yearly
Progress requirement and were rated adequate:
Northside Elementary School, Perry Middle School,
Thomson Middle School, Warner Robins High
School.
■ Northside Middle School and Perry High School
met AYP but were listed as needing improvement.
■ Northside High School did not achieve AYP stan
dards and was listed as needing improvement.
NCLB, AYP
What does it all mean?
The No Child Left Behind Act is a federal law aimed
at strengthening schools and ensuring steady improve
ments in student performance. Under NCLB school
progress is measured each year by testing students.
States must establish plans to reach the goal of having
every child performing at grade level by 2014,
The plan requires that schools make good use of
technology in the curriculum, that students with dis
abilities be accommodated and that schools provide
special help for non-English speaking children.
A key term for educators is Adequate Yearly
Progress, commonly called AYP. Schools must show
progress in their test scores. If a school is listed as
needing improvement, there is no consequence the
first year, but if it is classified the following year as not
having made AYP, parents have the option of placing
their children in a higher performing school.
When the school has not made AYP for three years,
the parent may request supplemental educational ser
vices such as free tutoring.
The fact that a school is listed as needing improve
ment does not mean that the school is a “failing”
school. The school may have scored well in a number
of testing areas, with a poor passing rate in another
area, or may have a substantial group of disadvan
taged or disabled students that did not meet all testing
goals. There are specific requirements for test scores
for all students in minority groups, with economic
disadvantages, with English language learning needs
and with disabilities.
Source: A Houston County Parent's Guide to Understanding
the No Child Left Behind Act.
Absconder back in jail
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
On a day where Americans
celebrate freedom, Jay
Dennis Aultman lost his
after spending the past 11
months as an absconder.
He had been listed as an
absconder on the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation Sex
Offender Registry since last
September. Aultman, 39, is
a convicted child molester,
an Evans Family Newspaper
and was
wanted for
violation
of proba
tion from
Superior
Court and
registra
tion of sex
offenders.
The war
rant for
AULTMAN
See ABSCONDER, page 6A