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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 Bsaw Friday August 17,2007 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH WHERE*I^GHBOKS^MBET IN BRIEF 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 6 a m.~4 p m: 987-1823 Ext. 231 4 p.m.-until 397-8811 PERIODICAL 500 |l IUII 8 55108 0000l 11 4 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest IVI 11.1 l 11111111111111 l Mil ««l 11...11 mai Itlliiili COOI * Gscrgia Newspaper Project Man Library University of Georaia ATri&MS GA 306G2-0(i52 3-DlGrr 306 Aug. 17, 2007 SERywu MmsTjtm cm[w,y s/.m k isjo Today Mostly sunny High: 100 Low: 74 hhjnews.com Bat boy retires after 28 years Weather Web Extraordinary developments •., -2,-.• ;~ I?Sa!RIS y|l' yfipu-lf. Kvfcf • -ay?fcf-.ES £‘as IB Journal/Ray Lightner Zan Thompson shows a map for a 76-acre development in the area of Feagin Mill and 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 See AGENCY, page {A city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Museum to host Reserve band summer concert OA series. £,n 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 See WRP&Z, page ——WufMW "im ■ M * ftn v • JB Mk. ' \W' 'i^f***'i ' f ft, . m ft 'imt* i ll Journal Charlotte* IVrklns 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. WWW.HHJNEWS.COM Delightful delegation SPORTS: learns prep for cross country years; HoCo volleyball squad sweeps. TA More. in 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- v v E\ iv v F t mid Mkwsmpm One section • 10 pages ItX| "We really mu 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 See MARKS, page $A