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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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Perry, QmQM
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Perry, GA 31069
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State Briefs
District blames
driver, teacher
AUGUSTA (MNS) - Two
Richmond County employ
ees were disciplined for their
roles in a Monday incident
in which a 5-year-old girl
was left all alone on the side
of a busy road.
“There are consequenc
es for these actions,”
Superintendent Dana
Bedden said Wednesday.
“The bottom line is the child
should never have been put
on the bus.”
Emma Sullivan’s teacher
had a transportation plan
in place for her before going
on maternity leave, but that
information wasn’t shared,
Bedden said. Consequently,
the principal sent the kin
dergartner home on the bus
based on old information.
The superintendent said
both the driver and the
employee who failed to share
the teacher’s information
are being disciplined, but he
wouldn’t release their names
or their punishments. One
will receive a letter of repri
mand, and one will be sus
pended for three days.
When Emma’s father
asked where his daughter
was, the principal knew,
Bedden said. But the prin
cipal couldn’t reach any
body at the transportation
department to contact the
bus driver. The phone lines
were all busy.
To remedy this, Bedden
has directed that an emer
gency phone line be installed
in the department.
“To me, we dodged a bul
let here,” he said.
Judge: U6A grad,
partner must pay
ATHENS (MNS) - A fed
eral judge ordered a recent
University of Georgia busi
ness school graduate and
his business partner to pay
$200,000 after the Securities
and Exchange Commission
sued the pair, claiming they
ran an illegal investment
scheme.
The judge told Jonathan
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Augusta 99 77 t-storm
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Brunswick 92 76 mst sunny
Cartersville 97 72 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 94 69 t-storm
Columbus 96 75 t-storm
Cordele 100 75 t-storm
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Boston 80 56 pt sunny
Chicago 79 60 sunny
Dallas 90 77 t-storm
Denver 88. 62. t-storm.
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Mizula, 21, of Athens, and
Gabriel Frankewich, 29,
of Byron, never to violate
security and exchange laws
in the future and pay back
about $200,000 in “ill-gotten
gains,” according to records
released Tuesday in a U.S.
District Court in California.
The SEC last month sued
Frankewich and Mikula, a
recent graduate of the UGA’s
Terry College of Business,
claiming they cheated inves
tors in a “massive Ponzi
scheme” - a get-rich-quick
operation in which members
are promised large profits on
their investments in imagi
nary services with money
that subsequent investors
put down.
SEC lawyers named
the pair, along with their
Internet-based compa
nies _ New Millennium
Entrepreneurs and
Phoenixsurf.com _ in the law
suit. Mikula and Frankewich
agreed to the settlements
without admitting or deny
ing the SEC’s allegations,
but said they couldn’t afford
to pay the settlement fees,
according to SEC records.
However, if SEC officials
discover that the pair lied
about their ability to pay
or if they violate the law in
the future, the SEC could
re-open the case, said Kelly
Bowers, an SEC attorney.
The SEC can use settle
ment money to reimburse
victims, “if it’s economically
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in the upper 90s and
lows in the low 70s.
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8/18
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Macon 100 74 t-storm
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Milledgeville 100 73 t-storm
Houston 87 76 t-storm
Los Angeles 88 67 sunny
Miami 89 78 t-storm
Minneapolis 76 58 pt sunny
New York 78 62 s pt sunny
feasible,” otherwise the SEC
returns the money to the
U.S. Treasury, Bowers said.
Mizula who gradu
ated from Terry College in
May with a degree in man
agement founded New
Millennium Entrepreneurs
in 2005 and ran the operation
until it crashed in May 2006,
according to the lawsuit.
In February 2006, Mizula
created Phoenixsurf.com
under the umbrella of New
Millennium Entrepreneurs
and named Frankewich as
president, according to the
lawsuit.
SEC officials claimed the
pair solicited investors to
purchase “advertising pack
ages” at Phoenixsurf.com
for up to $6,000 and after
eight days, the investors
would receive 120 percent of
their investment if they had
viewed at least 15 Web pages
per day from a given list.
Furthermore, commission
officials claimed the pair lied
about the advertising pack
ages, which never existed,
and paid initial investors
with money received from
subsequent investors.
The Phoenixsurf.com
operation folded in May
2006 when Mizula and
Frankewich couldn’t pay
their investors, according to
the lawsuit.
Mizula and Frankewich
took in more than s4l mil
lion and paid out more than
$36 million to about 20,000
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lows in the mid 70s.
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Peachtree City 95 70 t-storm
Perry 100 74 t-storm
Rome 99 72 t-storm
Savannah 95 75 mst sunny
St. Simons Island 92 76 mst sunny
Statesboro 96 75 t-storm
Thomasville 96 74 t-storm
Valdosta 96 73 mst sunny
Warner Robins 100 73 t-storm
Waycross 96 73 mst sunny
Phoenix 109 90 mst sunny
San Francisco 76 55 pt sunny
Seattle 69 57 pt sunny
St. Louis 95 71 mst sunny
Washington, DC 64- 07. • t-9tofW>_‘
Phoenixsurf.com members
from all over the world,
according to the lawsuit.
Fish deaths lead to
cut in power
AUGUSTA (MNS) -
Hydropower generation at
Thurmond Dam was halted
briefly this week after about
20,000 blueback herring
were sucked into turbine
intakes and killed, accord
ing to the Army Corps of
Engineers.
During hot weather, the
bluebacks congregate near
the mile-long dam in search
of cold, oxygenated water
that forms in stratified lay
ers far beneath the lake’s
surface.
When the depth of oxy
genated water preferred by
the fish coincides with the
dam’s turbine intakes about
70 feet below the surface,
the fish are pulled through
the 30-foot-wide openings,
said Jamie Sykes, the Corps’
district fisheries biologist.
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OBITUARy
EDWARD A. HAWKINS
KATHLEEN - Edward Allen Hawkins, 79, passed
away on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007.
Mr. Hawkins was born June 4, 1928, ,
in Fitzgerald, Georgia, the son of the
late Albert Sydney and Ethel Brown SnoeW- -
Hawkins. He attended First Baptist j ■HBBSsjJaJUjS,
Church of Warner Robins. With loyalty Imm
and honor, Ed served in the United :
States Navy during WWII aboard the 1
USS Lexington Carrier. After 32 years
of faithful civil service at Robins Air Force Base, he retired
as the F-15 Division Chief. Always willing to help others,
he volunteered with the Happy Hour Program and was the
past Exalted Ruler of the Warner Robins
Elks Lodge. In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by his sister, Ethel
Bastenalli. He will be missed by his wife,
Ramona Boone Hawkins, Kathleen; children
and their spouses, Sandy and Garry Peavy,
St. Simons Island, Georgia; Teri and Vann ;
Bronson, Lakeland. Fla.; Debbie and Tommy ; ;
Jackson, Warner Robins; stepchildren and
their spouses, Russell and Peggy Tucker, |
Warner Robins; Jennifer and Harvey Boyd, uaia/iti c
Jacksonville, Fla.; and two grandchildren, HAWKINS
Vann and Kalynn Bronson, Lakeland, Fla.
Visitation was Thursday at McCullough Funeral Home.
Services will be held at 1-1 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, at First
Baptist Church of Warner Robins. Interment will be at
3 p.m. on Friday in Warwick United Methodist Church
Cemetery, Warwick, Georgia. In lieu of flowers, the fam
ily suggests donations be made to Looking Unto Jesus
Ministries, Inc. c/o David Phelps, 1400 Canterbury Court
Perry, GA 31069 in memory of Mr. Edward A. Hawkins.
Go to www.mcculloughfli.com to sign the Online Registry
for the family. McCullough Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
Cops have bomb scare at bust
DANIELSVILLE (MNS)
- A University of Georgia
bomb squad blew up a sus
pected bomb discovered in
a raid on a Madison County
marijuana grow house
Wednesday.
But what looked like a
galvanized steel pipe bomb
turned out to be non-explo
sive, and likely just what the
suspected operator of the
grow house told officers it
was - a device he had used
to make hashish, a concen
trated form of marijuana.
Authorities discovered
the pipe as Madison County
Sheriffs Office deputies
and drug agents with the
Piedmont MANS Unit dis
mantled the grow house, set
up in a single-wide mobile
home on Bluestone Hills'
Lane off Georgia Highway
191 in rural Madison
County.
Bedrooms in either end of
the house had been rigged
with lights, devices to deliv
er carbon dioxide and other
equipment for an indoor
marijuana growing opera
tion, said Capt. Mike Benner,
chief deputy of the Madison
County Sheriffs Office.
Lee Isaac Little Jr. of
Athens will be charged with
manufacturing marijuana
and possibly other charges,
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Benner said. He may also
face a felony charge of pos
session of marijuana with
intent to distribute in Clarke
County.
Athens-Clarke police drug
officers arrested Little after
a drug raid in Athens on
Wednesday morning and
notified Madison County
authorities about the grow
house around 1 p.m., Benner
said.
Athens-Clarke Police
Lt. Mike Hunsinger said
a drug task force searched
Little’s Chase Street home
Wednesday morning and
seized marijuana, other
drugs and a handgun.
Little told officers about
the grow house after he
was taken into custody,
Hunsinger said.
Madison County deputies
and agents with Piedmont
MANS were at the isolated
house within an hour, and
as they searched the house
found a galvanized steel pipe
in the freezer compartment
of the refrigerator, Benner
said.
Officers in Athens asked
Little about the pipe, and,
according to Benner, he told
them it was used to make
hashish, a more concentrat
ed and powerful drug than
marijuana.
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