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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 156
BELOW THE FOLD: Base offers separation incentives Perry puts moratorium on PUDs INSIDE: Health - Page 5A
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August 10,2007
The Home Journal’s
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IN BRIEF
WR Rec Dept, to hold
volleyball registration
Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin volleyball
registration Monday from 8 a.m.-5
p.m., at their office off Watson Blvd.
(across from Robins Federal Credit
Union). The cost is $25 for city of
Warner Robins residents, SSO for
county residents or SBS for out of
county. The required fee is due at
registration. The age control date
is Aug. 31.
For more information, call 929-
1916.
Eggs & Issues slated
at Museum of Aviation
Eggs & Issues will be held Aug.
23 at 8 a.m. at the Museum of
Aviation, Hangar One.
The meeting, according to a
release, will feature guest speak
ers from the Houston County
Board of Education, including new
Superintendent David Carpenter.
The cost is sl2 per person. The
deadline to register is Aug. 21 at
5 p.m. (no cancellations after that
day). The late registration fee is
sls.
Huntington Middle
sets key dates
Huntington Middle School has
scheduled a School Council election
and meetings for the 2007-2008
school year. The election will be held
for a parent/guardian representa
tive Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. in the media
center. All School Council meetings
will be held at 7 a.m. in the office
conference room. The schedule is:
Sept. 4, Dec. 4, Feb. 5, 2008 and
May 6, 2008.
Huntington Middle is located
at 206 Wellborn Road in Warner
Robins. For more information, con
tact Principal Gwendolyn Taylor at
gtaylor@hcbe.net or 478-542-2240.
CORRECTION
The Houston County Board of
Education is projecting an enroll
ment of 25,800, with an increase of
about 600 students from last year.
The number of the increase was
incorrect in a story on the start of
school. We regret the error.
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Utah Ex- Barrow worker
faces theft charges
"The actions of this drunken man put the lives of officers,
children and everyone on the streets at risk.”
- District Attorney Kelly R. Burke
Man gets 8 years for
assault on 2 deputies
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A Bonaire man pleaded guilty Wednesday
to assaulting two deputies with a car back
in November.
Moments before his jury trial was to begin,
Joseph Ronald Adcock, 44, of 109 Chisom
Court, pleaded guilty in Houston County
Superior Court to two counts of aggravated
assault on a police officer, felony fleeing and
eluding, driving with a suspended license,
County approves Feagin
Mill area annexations
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The City of Warner Robins continues to grow in the mid
county area. The Houston County Commissioners did not
object to three annexation requests by the city along or near
Feagin Mill Road.
The first request was to annex 1.865 acres at the south
east corner of the intersection of Feagin Mill Road and U.S.
41. The land currently zoned R-AG (residential agricul
tural) in the county will be zoned C-2 (general commercial)
in the city. The other two tracts are near the intersection of
Houston Lake road and Feagin Mill Road and the request
See APPROVES, page iA
Base to offer separation incentives
From staff reports
Robins Air Force Base officials announced an opportunity
for civilian workers to apply for separation incentives Aug.
20-Aug. 31.
There is the potential for up to 225 separation incen
tives to be offered. The actual numbers and positions to be
vacated will be the result of a deliberative process due to
the need to carefully guard the Warner Robins Air Logistics
Center’s critical missions.
See INCENTIVES,page xA
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Prison guard
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to serve eight in prison for the crimes from
the Nov. 1, 2006, incident. Adcock was
also given a $2,500 fine, and required to
See ASSAULT page iA
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eral other traffic offenses,
said Jason Ashford, Chief
Assistant District Attorney
for Houston County.
Superior Court Judge
Edward D. Lukemire sen
tenced Adcock to 20 years
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Perry puts moratorium on PUDs
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The Perry City Council voted Tuesday
night to put a 90-day moratorium on
new Planned Unit Development propos
als. PUDs are zoned for mixed use, so that
developers can combine residential and
commercial uses.
The motion was made by Councilman
Joe Kusar, who suggested 60 days, but
amended his motion when City Planner
Mike Beecham asked for 90 days instead.
Kusar said that this would allow for
review of the city’s PUD standards, which
have been the subject of some citizen oppo
sition as well as council questioning in
recent months.
The moratorium does not affect any
PUD proposals already proposed.
A PUD-related request, being made
for rezoning of 400 acres along Highway
341 south, Arena Road and Saddlecreek
Road, was scheduled for a vote at Tuesday
night’s meeting and citizens who have pre
viously opposed the rezoning were present.
However, the vote was delayed until-Aug.
21 at the request of Ryan Smith on behalf
of Charlie McGlamry. This is the proposed
Heart of a ‘ Lyon ’
Teen takes down
purse snatcher
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Jared Lyon is being called
a hero by members of his
church.
Last week Lyon, a 17-
year-old Northside High
student, was dropped off
early by his mother for
the Wednesday night ser
vice and was picking up
paper that had blown on
the lawn of Christian Hope
Church on North Davis
Drive explained Rev. Mark
Watkins.
“He heard a lady yell ‘he
stole my purse,’ and saw a
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, development known as Nunn Farms.
In another vote, the council approved a
special exception which will allow a home
at 1400 Swift Street to be used as a fam
ily personal care home facility for young
women who have mental disabilities but
because they are 18 or older can no longer
qualify for foster home care. This home
will be under state licensing standards and
will have round-the-clock staff.
Airport matching grant
The council also voted to provide match
ing funds of $50,500 for a lighting system
at the Perry Airport. Billy Jerles represent
ed the Airport Authority in making the
request. The authority has just received
a grant from the Georgia Department
of Transportation which requires match
ing funds from the city and from the
Houston County Commissioners. The
Commissioners have also approved match
ing funds, and the total project cost is esti
mated at $404,000.
Liquor licensing
In other business the council approved
See PERRY, page iA
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guy on a bicycle with the
purse,” Watkins said.
“Jared told the young
man ‘if you don’t stop
I’ll have to tackle you,”’
Watkins said. “Lynon tack
led the man and the bike,
retrieved the purse and
gave it back to the woman.”
Bruce Goddard called
Jared a hero on his blog
and said the “purse
snatcher picked the wrong
place to snatch a purse on
Wednesday night in Warner
Robins, or at least he
snatched a purse in front
See LYON, page zA
An auto
mobile
passes a
recently
erected
billboard
off U.S. 41
- about a
hundred
yards from
Perry High
School -
advertis
ing ‘‘some
thing
new”,
which in
turn goes
hand in
hand with
something
old com
ing at the
end of
August ...
football!
ENI/Gary
Harmon