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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 FRONT PORCH WHERE'NLIGHBORSMtti 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. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ LesArent E-mail your birthdays to: hhjtq evansnewspapers.com or donm(a ] euansnewspapers.com, or send them to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. News tip 6 a m.-4 p.m: 987-1823 Ext. 231 4 p.m.-until: 397-8811 PERIODICAL 500 mini 8 55108 00001 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest l«nlliiSliiiiiiall»lliiaMala 111...11 CQOI * Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library University of Georgia ATHEriS GA 306u2~GQC2 3-DIGIT 306 Aug. 16, 2007 ~ 7, . \s, «ms<, /tom Cm sn Sim /■: IS7O Today Mostly sunny High: 101 Low: 74 hhjnews.com Suspect held in slaying of Georgia musician Wfeather Web Housing Authority replaces 4 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. If jy|g||§i' • .j \ 111 M WL WmMm pfilflr' t m .;j|B§l!k amt .. HP! pM|| afeJHlfet TT' Mmr lampiJ H ! '3 I M I V Sr * \\ - -m v [Ljgr Mr - UPP I ' v *»ita> TW:C Sit ■■HHRHRRRRRRT. . . ■_ .— — „v.. ■ -*rww- - ■ - -•r-nii—nii.i-nr • ENI/Gary Harmon 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 SPORTS: Perry and Northside prep tor season openers (pre view stories); Music win again; Gayton reaches 1D first goal. More. ID 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 See PLANS, page 6A www.hHjnews.com "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 Mikey, me A V .jyiyL; *''*'**'**-V.-j ENI/Ciary Harmon 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 Two sections • 20 pages LEGALS. 3-118 I\ /'.I l\N /-’iWf > .V/-.H V<*-l WR police paid nets 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