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WB CITY OF Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of show?** t 0 volume 137, number 157 www.hhjnews.com Two section *l6 pages BELOW THE FOLD: Scholarship created in memory of NS grad Benefit to aid injured officer INSIDE: Three charged in copper thefts Weekend August 1M3,2007 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH WHERE'NOGHBORS\*tELT IN BRIEF Little Leaguers need help to defray costs The Warner Robins American Little League will take any help it can get to help defray the costs of sending the 11-12-year-old Southeast Region champions to the Little League World Series. If you would like to help, contact WRALL President Roman Jones at romanßl3@juno.com. Football scrimmage dates, teams set Perry High School football coach Andy Scott announced Thursday that the preseason scrimmage against Northside High School has been moved from McConnell- Talbert Stadium in Warner Robins to Herb St. John Stadium at Perry High. The game still takes place on Friday, Aug. 17, with kickoff at 7:30 p.m. Warner Robins High School has its scrimmage game on Thursday, Aug. 16, at Peach County High School in Ft. Valley. Houston County High also hits the road for its scrim mage on Aug. 17 to play Jones County High in Gray. Genealogical Society to meet Thursday The Central Georgia Genealogical Society, Inc. will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at Flint EMC, 1600 Elberta Rd., in Warner Robins. Per a release: Visitors are welcome and there is no admission fee. For more information, visit www. cggs.org. BIRTHDAYS Saturday ■ Joanne Capps Sunday ■ Oscar Upshaw ■ Jalen Harden ANNIVERSARY Sunday ■ Susan and Rick Ganus (Happy 22nd!) PERIODICAL 500 s mm 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest 111 •ta 11... H aftaaftlattasgl com * GEORGIA. NEWSPAPER PROJECT Man Library UNiV OF GEORGIA A i novo GA ouou£-uuu2 3-DtGfT 306 Aug. 11-13, 2007 h^mrt//»|-.vmvr»r.UT.S7.Vrf:M7o She’s finished 15 sessions of radiation, but the treatment hasn’t cured the metastasized cancer that her doctors have told her is terminal. Barring a miracle, Jean Rea is not going to make it, and she knows that, but her mind right now is on two messages she wants to pass on. One: “I wish that people would understand that time is precious.” Two: “Take care of my girls.”... Her story - Page 3B Saturday Weather Partly cloudy High: 101 Low: 75 hhjnews.com Web cities stud v P ub|ic wireless areas Robbery turns out to be inside job By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer There was no armed rob bery of the Winn Dixie on July 29, as initially reported, explained District Attorney Kelly Burke. “It was an inside job that was concocted to disguise a theft by a cashier and to make it look like an armed robbery,” Burke said. Brandon Spencer, 17, .— — 1 - MTt — ~ 5 —ao»* ■ SB f . IL * ■ SB 1 fW ■ S « Am JBr ' • wßjf ••.*§■lll®*?’w*'" 4 * ‘ R§L*'' ' ' « ® •'A *’"■*•' IjllllM & ' ‘ IBM ,tgtr JMji' wßP'i'. .«« any};,. -vgfr '3kiiM*i v ... - . , ■j’ . „ '.*■■■*■ t • • v--, j I ■ ■ o'’,.* mMs:j£i3Sgt*t l ■ . .- n { - - -rs . . .. —— ———■ Journal Ray Lightner Officers of the Warner Robins Police Department had Westbound Watson Boulevard shut down and redirected at Margie Drive and Tom Chapman Drive Thursday afternoon after a truck lost a trailer load of lumber at the intersection of Watson Boulevard and U.S. 41. Officers as well as employ ees from Warner Robins Wrecker and Warner Robins Supply were loading up the lumber to clear the intersection. “The load was on its way to Warner Robins Supply explained Officer Tim Pippio, “they sent out a crew to help clean up.” Pippio said Annette Mumphry of Cordele was driving the 2002 Freightliner pulling the flatbed trailer eastbound on Watson. She reportedly ran the red light making a left turn onto U.S. 4tand hit a GMC Sierra driven by Delmar Lynn of Fort Valley who had the green light on U.S 41. Neither driver was seriously injured and no one was taken to the hospital, Pippio said. Mumphy, driving the truck for her father’s Mumphry Unlimited, claimed her brakes didn’t work, Pippio said, “but they work now,” he added. She was cited for driving too fast for conditions and running the red light and given a warning for some other traffic violations. lif memory of i Jay Jay 9 Scholarship created in memory of Northside grad By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Lifestyle Editor Jerome Stephens has been thinking about his son “Jay Jay” a lot lately. “His favorite player was Barry Bonds,” Stephens says of the son he lost three years ago. See SCHOLARSHIP, page jA mgr —iflK ~WM i" Jerome “Jay Jay” Stephens, Jr. SCHOOL Perry MS FFA attends conference; BMS wins 15 awards;teacher (■A honored. More. OH the alleged gunman in the recent armed robbery at Winn Dixie, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to party to the crime of theft by tak ing by a fiduciary. He was sentenced to 10 years, two to serve in a probation deten tion center. Probation detention center sentences do not have early release, Burke said. Spencer also was fined SI,OOO and has special conditions that (Spread far and) wide load |—« —rari —|pg| L"*!M"iy; i m —|nm|K| A scholarship has M Jr. Present to sign the 1 jM 0 endowment were his JLjWW^ : f\' father,\Jerome Stephens JjfT w ’Jr ’ '■ • - mofMamer Robins, sign- t > W B ing, and from left, ‘ Michelle Pittman and Linda Griffin from GSU .. Jtr and North side principal j|||B - ' l||||t Dr. Robins Hines. vV-B ENI (*ary Harmon I MB! —r 1 —H "Absolutely an absurd case. What this yeung man was thinking Is a mystery to me. He actually confessed to an armed robbery, which could have netted him 10 years in prison without parole.” - District Attorney Kelly Burke he commit no crimes of theft probation. or violence once he is on Spencer’s associates are SPORTS: GHSA mandates heat plan; WarOawgs win World Series; Buckarama com- 1Q ing. More.' | D ■MmtiMßHliilMlllWlWm | -■ both in the Houston County Detention Center awaiting a court date for their parts in the incident. “Absolutely, an absurd case,” Burke said. “What this young man was think ing is a mystery to me. He actually confessed to an armed robbery, which could have netted him 10 years in prison without parole.” He had confessed to See INSIDE, page SA Benefit to help injured officer By RATLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer A benefit barbecue for an iryured Warner Robins Police officer is planned for this Saturday. Rescheduled from July 21, the benefit was organized by Rae Evans the event to help her father’s co-worker. The benefit barbecue will help defray some of the costs incurred by Warner Robins Police officer Jeff Herb, who was iryured while on duty and in a fight with a suspect in June. Herb has had one sur gery for a broken leg and will probably have to have another, said Rae Evans, who has organized previ ous benefits for iryured officers. Her father Randy Evans is a member of the See BENEFIT, page yA