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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 160
BELOW THE FOLD: Mattel makes second major recall of toys Plans for new high school set to move off drawing board
Thursday
August 16,2007
The Home Journal’s
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IN BRIEF
Informed citizens
group to meet today
informed Citizens United, a public
policy discussion group, will meet
today at 6:30 p.m. at Ryans Steak
House on Watson Blvd.
The public is invited to attend.
Annual concert for
literacy to be held
The Seventh Annual Les Still Big
Band Concert for Literacy will be
held Sept. 29 at the Homer J. Walker
Civic Center in Warner Robins.
Tickets are $lO each.
Those who purchase 10 tickets
will get an additional two tickets
free. The event benefits the Houston
County Certified Literacy Program.
Fund-raiser to be held
for cancer battler
Friends and Family are planning
a car wash fund-raiser at Byron
Family Health Care and a bake sale
at Giant Foods Saturday from 8 a.m.
until. The events are to help Mike
Locke, who has been battling cancer
for more than two years. Volunteers
for the car wash and donations for
the bake sale are welcome.
Bonaire Middle to
hold school election
Bonaire Middle School will hold a
School Council election Aug. 23 at 6
p.m. in the media center. Three par
ent/business partner representatives
will be elected. The term of office
is two years with meetings held
quarterly. Interested parents must be
present on the night of the election
to be nominated and selected.
Bonaire Middle is located at 125
Highway 96 in Bonaire. For more
information, contact Principal Cindy
Randall at CRandall@hcbe.net or
478-929-6235.
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Move aimed at unseating director? Group defies mayor’s urgings
By RA Y LI GHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Mayor Donald Walker has
not changed the position he
took some months ago. He
wants Charles Alexander
gone.
Alexander has been the
executive director of the
Warner Robins Housing
Authority for 17 years and
recently had his contract
renewed, after Walker had
called for his resignation.
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Jimmy Swope, right, a sixth grader at Perry Middle School, enjoyed a visit with Mikey, a handicapped pug who was
born with fused front leg joints, Tuesday. The dog was brought to the school by teacher Debi Hundley, left. Swope,
who is 11, fed Mikey marshmallows, and said that he thought they would make a great team.
Plans for new HS
moving forward
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Plans for Houston
County’s fifth high school
will move off the drawing
board next spring. School
officials hope to put out
bids for the project in
March and break ground
in April.
The state will contribute
about $8.5 million to the
building of Veterans High
School, but the lion’s share
of the cost, roughly esti
mated at S3O-40 million,
depending on rising costs
of construction and mate
rials, will still come from
sales tax funds.
Dave McMahon, Director
of Facilities for the Houston
County Board of Education
says he believes it will be
the most expensive sin
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In May authority member
Cam Campbell said, “what
the mayor wants is for us to
get rid of him. If we don’t,
how can he get rid of him? By
getting rid of the board?”
That is exactly what hap
pened Monday. Walker
appointed four new mem
bers to the housing author
ity, based on there being no
certificate of appointment
for four of the six members.
See AUTHORITY, page 6A
gle construction project
Houston County has ever
undertaken.
The target date for open
ing the school is August of
2010.
McMahon said that plans
for starting construction
of the nearby Veterans
Middle School are still not
firm. However construc
tion of a four-lane high
way between Piney Grove
Road the Old Perry Road is
slated to begin in 45 days.
This road will eventually
provide access to the two
schools.
Also, it was announced at
Tuesday’s board meeting
that Dr. Mike Mattingly,
currently serving as
Assistant Superintendent
for Teaching and Learning,
has submitted his
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"Again, I urge you not to have this
meeting. I respectfully point out
commissioners can be removed for
misconduct, of which the mayor is the
sole judge. If you meet, it provides
another avenue for us to pursue, which I
am sure would be successful in court.”
- Assistant City Attorney Stan Martin
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Perry Wal-Mart toy department manager, Angela King, rearranges shelves Tuesday
after toys from China are pulled off. It marked the second major recall - some of the
toys pulled over magnet hazards and others because they were found to contain lead
levels in excess of federal standards - by Mattel and its wholly owned subsidiary Fisher-
Price.
Elmo not so tickled
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99 cats
51 discovered
dead in freezer
By RAY LI GHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins Animal
Control officers found 99
cats in a Pleasant Hill
Court home this past
Thursday.
Police and Animal
Control officers executed
a search warrant on that
day at 114 Pleasant Hill
Court after a neighbor
complained of odor and
multiple cats.
Interim Animal Control
Capt. Brenda Parks-
Mathern said officers
found 99 cats in the house
and garage, including 51
dead cats in a rfefrigera
tor-freezer and one dead
on the living room floor.
Parks-Mathern said the
remaining 47 were so sick
that they had to be euth
anized. The house and
garage were covered in
fecal matter, Parks said.
She said officers had
been called out to the area
previously about roam
ing cats and setting cat
traps and had been to the
house before. The owners
had not previously been
charged with any animal
offenses Parks said, “not
that I can recall.”
No one was home at the
time of the raid, Parks
said. She is scheduled to
meet with the homeown
er today.
Charges have not been
filed at this time, Parks-
Mathern said Tuesday,
but the charges could
include animal cruelty
and animal care, both of
which are misdemeanors.
In February of this
See RAID, page 6A