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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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volume 137, number 164 www.hhjnews.com Two sections *l4 pages
BELOW THE FOLD: City of WR objects to chamber consolidation Concert tickets on sale INSIDE: WR to wait on filling vacancy
Wednesday
August 22,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
WHUERENeGHBORS s WUEET
IN BRIEF
Perry, Centerville plan
November elections
The cities of Perry and Centerville
with hold non-partisan city council
elections Nov. 6. Under Georgia
election law, the times for candi
dates to sign up, or “qualify”, are
as follows in both cities: 8:30 a.m
-4:30 p.m., Aug. 27-31.
In Perry, three posts are up for
election: District 1, wth incumbent
Bobby Glover; District 2, incum
bent James Moore, and District 3,
incumbent Riley Hunt. The qualify
ing fee is $126. The salary for the
post is $6,600 annually. Terms are
for four years.
Qualifying takes place at City
Hall. The election will be Nov. 6,
with all voting at Rozar Park.
In Centerville, Post 3, incumbent
Sherod Wilson; and Post 4, incum
bent Robert A. Smith, Jr. are up for
election. The qualifying fee is $72.
Councilmembers earn S2OO per
month, with four year terms. Voting
win be at City Hall Nov. 6
- Charlotte Perkins.
Perry High School to
hold council election
Perry High School will hold a
School Council election Tuesday
at 7 a.m. in the Perry High School
Auditorium. School council meet
ings are held quarterly and inter
ested parents must be present on
the morning of the election to be
nominated and selected.
Perry High School is located at
1307 North Avenue in Perry. For
more information, contact Darryl
Albritton at dalbritton@hcbe.net or
478-988-6298 Ext. 21295.
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tastes
TOP; Rudy Santana and
Esthela Estarza were
among the performers at
the International Tasting
Party held by the Middle
Georgia Democratic
Women’s Club Saturday.
Their mother, Isabella
Santana, teaches a class
in Mexican folk dancing
at Sacred Heart Catholic
Church.
Contributed/Tina Simms
LEFT: Michelle Taylor per
forms a Middle Eastern
belly dance. She is one of
several students of Melek
Foster who danced for the
more than 120 in atten
dance.
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BELOW: Sisters Kennya
and Betzy Santana per
form a Mexican folklore
dance.
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SPORTS: Never-say
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In 1 NS athlete;
Golf results; EQ
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WR annexes
tract for PDE
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The city of Warner
Robins continues to grow
in the mid-county area
with the annexation of
another 76.72 acres.
City Council approved
the request from Willis
Family Properties LLC to
annex three tracts totaling
76.72 acres at the south
west corner of Feagin Mill
and Houston Lake roads
and rezoningthe land from
Residential Agricultural
to Planned Development
Extraordinary.
The mixed-use plan pre
sented by Zan Thompson,
includes, residential,
apartments, commercial
out parcels or “opportu
nity lots,” as Thompson
called them, for a bank
and drug store as well as a
commercial development
including a grocery store.
The PDE approval is for
the land use only, with
the final site plan coming
back to the city council
for approval with specifics
on sizes, what is going in
and where it will be.
“Specific uses will be
negotiated later,” said
Warner Robins objects to
chamber consolidation
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins City
Council passed a resolu
tion in opposition to the
proposed chamber con
solidation.
“I am against a great
er Houston County
Chamber of Commerce,”
said Councilman Dean
Cowart.
He proposed the reso
lution that the Warner
Robins Area Chamber of
Commerce not combine
with the Perry chamber.
“They should just repre
sent the city,” he said.
Cowart said “I believe
we have one of the great
est assets in the Warner
Concert for Literacy
tickets on sale now
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Tickets are on sale now
for the seventh annual
Concert for Literacy.
The concert to ben
efit the Houston County
Certified Literate
Community Program is
Sept. 29, at the Homer
J. Walker Civic Center in
Warner Robins. Showtime
is 7 p.m. and doors open
at 6 p.m.
“Come one, come
all,” invites Houston
County CLCP Program
Coordinator Skip Holmes,
“as CLCP partners
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city consultant Jesse
Fountain, “and you can
exclude things,” he said
regarding concerns about
some uses including alco
hol sales near the Sandy
Valley Baptist Church.
The city council also
upheld another Planning
and Zoning Commission
decision, denying the
request to annex and
rezoned from Troy
Deßosa. He had asked
that 1.865 acres at the
southeast corner of the
intersection of Feagin
Mill Road extension and
U.S. 41, be annexed and
rezoned from RAG to C-2
(general commercial).
Community
Development Director
Robert Sisa told city coun
cil the denial was based
mainly on traffic genera
tion in the area, U.S. 41
not being upgraded and
the use not being present
ed.
Mayor Donald Walker
noted there was widen
ing of 41 planned in the
future and there are large
residential developments
coming on line.
See ANNEXES, page 6A
Robins Area Chamber of
Commerce.” He said he
is concerned “the interest
of the chamber would not
be the interests of Warner
Robins.”
Councilman Doug
McDowell, who voted with
Cowart on the resolution,
noted the Warner Robins
Chamber has 1,300 mem
bers and Perry has about
300.
“I think they’ve done
an outstanding job,” he
said, “and I’d like to see it
continue.”
Cowart said this idea
of consolidations comes
up every couple of years.
“It was defeated once, but
has come up again,” he
See CHAMBER, page 6A
with the city of Warner
Robins, Hodac and Heart
of Georgia DDS Ministry
for another grand night
of Big Band favorites and
dancing.”
The performers include
the 18 piece, “profes
sional Glenn Miller style”
Still Swinging Orchestra
from Atlanta, “under the
able direction of band
leader Les Still,” Holmes
said, plus the four-voice
Swing Shift vocal ensem
ble “reminiscent of the
Modernaires.”
The Atlanta Swing
See CONCERT, page 6A