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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 158
BELOW THE FOLD: Police HQ, library expansion among projects slated for Warner Robins WRPD going to BMW motorcycles
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Tuesday
August 14,2007
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Perry Players offer
special discount
In celebration of their 25th year,
Perry Players is offering season
tickets for the reduced price of S4O
for four shows. This rate, accord
ing to a release, will run only until
Wednesday.
To purchase tickets send a check,
made out to Perry Players, for S4O
to Richard Alexander, 106 Hillary Dr.
Perry, GA 31069, with your name,
address, and phone number.
The Perry Players will be present
ing The Kitchen Witches from Sept.
7-15. The show centers around a
small-town TV, cooking show.
This, according to the release, will
be truly a community production, for
the playwright has given permission
to use local businesses in the “TV”
show ads and announcements. The
cast includes Nelda Tawse, Gale
Weems Bryant, and Andy Payne.
Cub Scouts plan
recruitment meeting
Parents and kids wanting to learn
about the Cub Scouts are invited to
“Race to Cub Scouting,” a recruit
ment event at Rozar Park in Perry
on Aug. 25 from 9-11 a.m.
There will be games and refresh
ments. For further information, call
Jennifer Heuberger at 808-1910 or
Kevin Hall at 737-1004.
Housing authorities
to meet today
The regular monthly board
meeting of the Warner Robins/
Houston County Housing Authority
will be today at 11:30 p.m. in the
Warner Robins Housing Authority
Conference Room, 112 Memorial
Terrace, in Warner Robins.
Happy Hour to hold
indoor yard sale
A, according to a release, “huge”
indoor yard sale will be held Saturday
from 8 a.m-1 p.m. at 716 North
Young Ave., in Warner Robins.
All proceeds will benefit those
challenged (501
C ORG). Also, good, clean quality
donations are accepted and appre
ciated.
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Not ‘if ’ but ‘when ’ say officials
Preparing for a pandemic flu outbreak
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Water
The occurrence of a pan
demic flu outbreak is not an
“if” but a “when.”
Jennifer Jones with the
North Central Health
District met with local
media Thursday to discuss
what part newspapers, radio
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The Rev: Ed McMinn has
just had two books of devo
tions published. His target
audience? Christians who
happen to be die-hard col
lege sports fans.
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Journal Lifestyle Editor
WHhat’s a die-hard
BGeorgia fan doing
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with a title like God Bless the
Crimson Tide ?
Or, for that matter, God
Bless the Vols ?
Well, it’s a long story, but
just to keep the Georgia fans
reading instead of crumpling
up this newspaper or setting
it on fire, here’s the scoop.
Ed McMinn is definitely
planning one for Georgia
fans, right after he finishes
the one for Auburn.
Police HQ, library expansion among
projects slated for Warner Robins
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Corder Road widen
ing and extension projects
are just two of many projects
for Warner Robins.
“There’s a lot going on,”
said Mayor Donald Walker.
Plans are moving forward
on the 45,000-square-foot
new police headquarters
building, Walker said, with
the likelihood of a called
city council meeting to take
action on the projects before
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and TV stations would play
in informing the community
when there is a pandemic
flue outbreak.
Hopefully it will never
happen,” Jones said, “but
if it does this may lessen
the impact,” she said of pre
paredness for the worst-case
scenario.
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McMinn is probably best
known locally as the preacher
who has led the rapidly grow
ing Grace Church through
a remarkable journey. That
group hit the ground running
in December, 2003, has
already grown to a congrega
tion of more than 200, and
has built and dedicated its
church home on Houston
Lake Road.
the regularly scheduled
meeting Monday.
There’s also $2.5 million
for expansion of the Nola
Brantley Library, funded by
the county Special Purpose
Local Option Sales Tax.
There’s another $1.5 million
for building at Macon State
College, Walker said.
The city has a
$600,000 grant from
the state Department of
Transportation for the front
age road along Interstate 75
between Watson Boulevard
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doesn’t happen is another
day to prepare,” Jones said.
Basic preparedness for any
emergency, like a kit with a
What is less known about
McMinn is that he was a
newspaper writer and editor,
working i n Athens, Camilla
and Hawkinsville, as well as
teaching college English and
journalism before he was
called to the ministry. Writing
is in his bones.
He also had what he
describes as “a passion for
football” from the time he was
and Russell Parkway. “The
contract will be let in two
weeks,” Walker said last
week.
And, the city and county
are working together on the
Feagin Mill Road extension
from Lake Joy Road to U.S.
41, past the new county
water treatment plant
The big projects are the
widening of Corder Road
between Watson Boulevard
and Russell Parkway
and the extension of
See PROJECTS, page 6A
SPORTS: Warner Robins
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three-day supply of water,
food and medicine, would
lessen the impact.
“Good health habits,”
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but he never got very far as
a player.
“I weighed 120 pounds
when I graduated from high
school,” he says with a grin.
“I was cannon fodder.”
He’s proud to report,
though, that his son, David,
turned out to be 6-foot-3 and
205 pounds, and won a foot
ball scholarship to Dartmouth
PD going to BMW motorcycles
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins is buying two BMW police motorcycles
for the Police Department’s Motor Unit.
The city is paying $39,474.80 for two bikes with the
“special police package,” Mayor Donald Walker explained,
from BMW Motorcycles of Atlanta. He explained Harley’s
“do not support all the equipment we use now. The charg
ing system doesn’t support it. There’s too much electronic
equipment,” he said.
Walker said the city will keep the Harley-Davidson
motorcycles it has for use in parades and funeral escorts.
City Purchasing Agent Mark Baker said the BMW
motorcycles are “state of the art and the performance and
handling is much better.”
The city also approved four other purchases for the
police department, including:
See MOTORCYCLES, page 6A
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Jones said like washing
hands frequently, keeping
you hands away from you
face, covering you moth with
a tissue when coughing or
sneezing, will also prevent
the spread of the flu.
She also encouraged
people to use their arm,
to cough or sneeze into
See PANDEMIC, page 6A
College. David, who is now
a computer programmer in
Atlanta, will be married soon,
and McMinn has the feeling
that his life and his family’s
life is in a very happy phase.
His wife, Slynn, has gone
back to school and com
pleted a course in her pas
sion, which is American Sign
Language for the deaf.
See BOOKS, page 6A
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