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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 147
BELOW THE FOLD: New teachers take different routes Fire departments to collect for MDA INSIDE: Miss WR contestants
Weekend
July 28-30,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
WR Chamber to hold
Business After Hours
The Warner Robins Area Chamber
will hold its Business After Hours for
new and established members and
guests Aug. 9 from 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
at the Museum of Aviation, Century
of Flight Hangar.
Those interested in attending are
asked to RSVP by 5 p.m., Aug. 7.
According to a release, there will
be no cancellations after that date.
WRHS band prepares
for new school year
The Warner Robins High School
marching band, according to a
release, is working hard to prepare
for the 2007 football season.
Band Director Todd Howell,
Assistant Band Director Chris Ryles,
Color Guard Instructor Shae Stringer
and Drum Major Brandi Reardon are
leading the band into their second
week of practice.
The students, according to the
release, have been putting in long,
hot, strenuous hours preparing for
the best season ever. Many sur
prises have been incorporated into
the show, the release also reads.
The band is practicing on the
field in front of the Houston County
Crossroads Center from 7:30 a.m.
until noon.
A Family Day is scheduled for
Aug. 11, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
in Demon Valley. The students will
perform for their parents during that
time. A good photo op - per the
release - would be from 10-11 a.m.
BIRTHDAYS
Saturday
■ Jonathan L. Scruggs
■ Cheryl Heller
Sunday
■ Stephen Hutchinson
■ Dalton Crofutt
■ Dakota Crofutt
■ Lynn Trice
Monday
■ Dana Wiggins
■ Billy Vaughn
■ James M. Insko
E-mail your birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewspapers.com
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.
231.
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Perry footbattplmycr Kanorris Davis pulls a weighted down sled during The Grind held at Perry High School Thursday.
For more on the annual fitness challenge, see 18.
A different course
New teachers aren’t all straight out of college
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
We’re all used to think
ing of teachers start
ing their careers fresh
from college in their early 20s,
but some of the new teachers
who’ll be greeting Hpuston County
students on the first day of the
2007-08 term, are starting second
careers, or coming back to the
work world after time off for family
and kids.
Kerri Rocci’s a mom with three
children. She earned her degree
in education from the University of
Mississippi a while back, but fami
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Journal/Charlotte Perkins
Jamaal Garman
Housing permits up in Houston County
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Housing permits are up countywide
from May to June.
There were 137 single-family dwell
ing permits issued countywide in
June, up 16.1 percent from the 118 in
May. Permits were also up in the cities
of Warner Robins and Perry, but down
in Centerville and in unincorporated
Houston County.
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Kerri Rocci
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Aviation camps.
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ly life took priority over a career for
several years, and she even tried
her hand at other jobs. Now that
her children are 13, 9 and 6, she’s
heading for the classroom, where
she’ll be teaching life science to
seventh graders.
Jimmy Oglesby is starting a
brand new career at 42, switching
from teaching information systems
in the Air Force to teaching eighth
grade science to middle-schoolers.
Jennifer Franklin has been
in business, as a buyer and an
accountant. She’s excited now
about starting a new, totally differ
ent career, teaching sixth grade
In Warner Robins,
71 permits were
issued, up 42 percent
from the 50 issued in
May. In Perry 26 per
mits were issued, up
18.18 percent from 22
issued in May.
In Centerville,
there was one less permit in June
with eight, from nine in Muy. The 32
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Jimmy Oglesby
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Jobs and
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math.
Jamaal Garman is a graduate
of Fort Valley State University,
who got into public education first
as a substitute teacher. Then he
became a paraprofessional, work
ing one-on-one with special edu
cation kids. Now he’ll be teaching
social studies.
Rocci, Oglesby, Franklin and
Garman, who just completed a
two-day orientation along with 300
other new teachers, talked about
their new careers Thursday while
eating barbecue together at Perry
Middle School.
See TEACHERS, page iiA
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Jennifer Franklin
permits issued in June in the unincor
porated areas of the county is down
13.5 percent from the 37 issued in
May.
While the number of permits is
up, the average value of the homes
countywide - at $131,528.94 for June
- is down 9.5 percent from the previ
ous month’s $145,406.22 this May.
The average value of permitted homes
See HOUSING, page tiA
Police nob
2 during
getaway
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Police
arrested the two suspects
in an early
morning
robbery
Wednesday
while en
route to the
scene.
Officers
respond
ing about
12.49 a.m.
Wednesday
to the scene
of the rob
bery at a
Northlake
drive resi
den c e
noted, then
stopped
a vehi-
•cle matching the victim’s
description. The two per
sons in the small gray car
were determined to be the
suspects and were arrested.
They were reportedly
found in possession of cash
and credit cards belonging
to the victim.
The two men arrested are
Terry Sharon Brooks, 26, of
218 Carol Drive in Warner
Robins and Christopher
Martez Emory, 17, of 223
Crescent Drive, also in
Warner Robins. Both are in
jail without bond on changes
of burglary and robbery by
force.
The victim reportedly
told police the two males,
unknown to him, came
See GETAWAY,page 11A
FDs to
collect
for MDA
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Firefighters will be out,
boots in hand this weekend
collecting for the Muscular
Dystrophy Association.
Centerville Fire
Department personnel will
be out collecting for MDA for
four hours each day through
Sunday.
Firefighters will also be
out the next two weekends,
Aug. 3-5 and Aug. 10-12.
The Warner Robins Fire
Department is also hold
ings its annual gospel sing
MDA fund-raiser at 6 p.m.,
Sunday, at Southside Baptist
Church.
Admission is free but
donations/offerings will be
collected for MDA.
Perry and Warner Robins
firefighters will be out the
last two weekends in August
with their boots. Perry fire
fighters will be at the Wal-
Mart and Kroger.
The Warner Robins Fire
Department, according to
See MDA, page nA
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