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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 161
BELOW THE FOLD: Local farm agency moving/consolidating in Peach County Houston County delegation thanked
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Friday
August 17,2007
The Home Journal’s
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Perry Middle to hold
council election
Perry Middle School will hold a
School Council election Sept. 11
at 5:30 p.m. in the gym. One par
ent representative 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. Perry Middle is located
at 495 Perry Parkway in Perry. For
more information, contact Principal
Thomas Moore at TMoore@hcbe.
net or 478-988-6285.
Houston Arts Alliance
board to meet
The Houston Arts Alliance Board
will meet Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. at
Coldwell Banker Realtors, which is
located at 470 South Houston Lake
Road in Warner Robins.
Northside Class of f 77
to hold reunion
The Northside High School Class
of 1977 reunion will be held Nov.
2 and 3. The first date/location will
be at the Eagles’ football game at
McConnell-Talbert Stadium. The
second will be at Houston Lake
Country Club.
The cost is SIOO per couple/S6O
single admission. The registration
deadline is Oct. 10. For more, visit
www.NHSl977.com or contact Kim
Cook at 478-952-7543 or Karen
Golden Smith at 478-953-9907. You
can also e-mail committee members
at reunion@nhsl977.com.
Gluten Intolerance
Support Group to meet
The Middle Georgia Chapter
of the Gluten Intolerance (Celiac
Disease) Support Group will have its
first organizational meeting Sept. 22
at 10 a.m. in Room 168 of Central
Baptist Church. Central Baptist is
located at 1120 Lake Joy Road in
Warner Robins.
For more information, call Yesmin
Wilson at 478-952-6590 or Carol
Hinton at 478-922-0748. If you are
sensitive to wheat, barley, rye or
oats and would like to learn more
about this disease, you are invited.
News tip hotline
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4 p.m.-until 397-8811
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Houston Lake roads.
WRP&Z OKs 2 Feagin
Mill area annexatians
Third request gets shot dawn
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The city of Warner Robins continues to
grow in the mid-county area.
The Warner Robins Planning and Zoning
Commission recommended this week, approv
al of two annexations and rezonings near the
intersection of Feagin Mill and Houston Lake
road. The Houston County Commissioners
did not object to the requests earlier this
month.
A third request, for rezoning and annexa
tion of 1.865 acres at the southeast corner of
the intersection of Feagin Mill Road and U.S.
41, had about 30 area residents in opposition
Farm agency
consolidating
in Peach Co.
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Houston County Farm
Service Agency office is mov
ing to Peach County.
It is one of 16 Farm
Service Agency offices across
the state to be consolidat
ed. Both the Houston and
Taylor county offices will be
consolidated in the Peach
County office according to a
press release from Georgia
Farm Service Agency State
Executive Director Susan D.
Holmes.
These consolidations will
take effect 120 days from
the date of the letter from
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Mike Johanns, which was
dated Aug. 10. Johanns
approved the state’s recom
mendations.
The review was recom
mended from the federal
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to the request for rezoning to C-2 (general
commercial).
Jack Upshaw, representing the landowners
Anne and Floyd Deßosa, made the request
for rezoning for a convenience store. “I didn’t
mean to upset everyone,” Upshaw said.
Dr. Alan Rickman, president of the Carleton
Ridge Homeowners Association, spoke for the
residents. He pointed out that the site is
surrounded on four sides by residential and
would be a nuisance if a convenience store
was added.
The land currently zoned R-AG (residential
agricultural) in the county. Rickman said if
approved it would be “an egregious example
of spot zoning.”
Lisa Joseph of Landon Hill Drive was
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Mayor Jim Worrall and members of Perry City Council said a big “thank you” to members of Houston County’s del
egation to the Georgia General Assembly for their work on behalf of the city. The group had dinner at the Houston
County Country Club. From left, Councilman Bobby Glover, Rep. Larry O’Neal, Councilman Joe Kusar, Councilwoman
Phyllis Bynum-Grace, Sen. Ross Tolleson, Councilman Riley Hunt, Councilman James Moore, Councilman Brian
Bowen, Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Sheila Jones, Rep. Willie Talton, Worrall and Rep. Tony Sellier.
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Recent events aside ...
Assessment gives
Housing Authority
favorable marks
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
While four members
may have been removed -
replaced by Mayor Donald
Walker - the assess
ment for the Housing
Authority’s operation
looks good.
The Management
Assessment Subsystem
report provides the feder
al Department of Housing
and Urban Development
with detailed information
describing the manage
ment operations of the
housing authority based
on six sub-indicators. The
sub-indicators include
Vacant Unit Turnaround,
Capital Fund, Work
Orders, Annual Inspection
of Units, Security and
Economic Self-sufficiency.
The report was favor
able locally in most of the
six sub-indicators includ
ing Capital Funds, Annual
Inspections and Work
Orders. Executive Director
Charles Alexander told
the members of the
authority, “we’re in good
shape here,” referring to
the capital funds.
All of the funds,
$1,279,327, have been
authorized and obligated.
“There are no refunds
or unobligated funds,”
Alexander said.
In the past fiscal year,
$891,582.55 was expend
ed on approved work
items and had prior HUD
approval for the Warner
Robins Housing Authority
and another $49,322.10
for the Houston County
Housing Authority.
“We really did a dynam
ic job on that,” Clara
Braswell, executive direc-
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a dynamic Job
on that. We’re
always below
two days."
- Executive Director of
Housing Management for the
Housing Authority Clara
Braswell
tor of housing manage
ment for the authority,
told the board in regard
to work orders. “We’re
always below two days.”
Braswell said there
were 851 emergency
work orders in Warner
Robins and another 311
in Houston County, with
100 percent completed/
abated within 24 hours.
There were 3,198 non
emergency work orders
with an average comple
tion of 1.86 days.
All units were inspect
ed, the 425 in Warner
Robins and 40 in Houston
County, as required by
HUD. Alexander said all
inspections also included
preventative maintenance
work.
When it comes to secu
rity, there were 1,791 inci
dents of crime reported
in the Warner Robins
Housing Authority units
and another 70 in the
Houston County units.
Braswell said the num
bers were compiled from
911 records.
She said 39 people were
denied admission because
of background checks
required with crime track
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