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Weekend
August 25-26,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
NES sets school
council meetings
Northside Elementary School
will hold a school council election
for two parent/business members
Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. in the media
center.
Meetings for the 2007-08 school
year have also been scheduled.
Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. in
the media center. They are: Sept.
20, Nov. 15, Jan. 17,2008 and April
17, 2008. Northside Elementary is
located at 305 Sullivan Road in
Warner Robins. Principal Mary Lou
Ezell may be contacted either by
e-mail at mlezell@hcbe.net or by
telephone at 478-925-7816.
Agency reminds
fanners of deadline
NUSDA’s Risk Management
Agency, in a news release, reminds
farmers of the Aug. 31 sales clos
ing date for crop insurance. This
sales closing date, according to the
release, is applicable to onions in
Georgia.
The sales closing date is the
last date to purchase a new policy,
to change the type of policy, or to
change the level of coverage for an
existing policy.
A list of crop insurance agents
is available at all USDA Service
Centers or on the RMA website at
www.rma.usda.gov/tools/agents/.
Kings Chapel ES sets
school council dates
Kings Chapel Elementary School
has scheduled its School Council
meetings for the 2007-2008 school
year. All meetings will be held at 4
p.m. in room 178. The meetings
are: Sept. 27, Jan. 31,2008, March
27, 2008 and May 29, 2008.
Kings Chapel Elementary
is located at 460 Arena Road in
Perry. For more information, con
tact Principal Paulette Tompkins
at either PTompkins@hcbe.net or
478-988-6272.
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Eggs & Issues
Carpenter's address goes 'over easy'
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Education was the issue
at Thursday’s Eggs & Issues
breakfast.
That’s because
Houston County School
Superintendent David
Carpenter was there and
gave a state of the schools
address to the member
ship of the Warner Robins
Area Chamber of Commerce
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Student arrested at Mossy Creek
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
A teenaged boy was arrested and
taken from Mossy Creek Middle School
in handcuffs Thursday morning after he
knocked a teacher to the floor, according
to Perry Public Safety Director George
Potter.
The juvenile has been charged with
fighting, simple battery and disruption
in a public school and was released later
in the day to his parents.
Potter said that the teacher, Brenda
Jackson, was attempting to intervene in
a fight between the juvenile and another
Orders needed to make tag reality
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Have you ordered your “Joanna Tag””
The deadline is Sept. 30, and 200 more
orders are needed.
Jeff and Misty McAfee of Warner Robins,
who started the Joanna McAfee Childhood
Cancer Foundation after the death of their
6-year-old daughter during the Christmas
season in 2005, are hoping to reach the
minimum state requirement of 1,000 orders
by the deadline. Otherwise the special tags
featuring their child’s silhouette will not
become a reality.
To order your “Joanna Tag,” and support
SPORTS: HoCo beats Colquitt in
softball; Perry blasts SW; WRALL
earns spot in U.S. finals;
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"When I first got here they told me this
is the way we do things here. We do it
right and strive for excellence."
- Superintendent of Schools David Carpenter
Aviation for the monthly
breakfast meeting.
Carpenter went over the
school system’s mission - to
produce high-achieving stu
dents; its vision - “that our
student when she was knocked down. She
did not have serious injuries. Assistant
Principal Dr. Andy Gentry called the
police.
Potter noted that the student report
edly told Gentry and confirmed to the
arresting officer that he was a member
of the Aces Gang, out of Warner Robins.
He was wearing the gang’s red and
green colors, including red and green
shoelaces.
“Gang activity starts in the middle
school,” Potter said.
Mossy Creek Middle School, a
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mailed in with a check, and that form is
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school system will become
world class;” and “the
Houston County way.”
“I’ve been here 32 years,”
Carpenter said. “When I first
got here they told me this is
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the way we do things here.
We do it right and strive for
excellence.”
He touted the system’s
academic success.
In the Criterion-
Referenced Competency
Test, “our students, on aver
age, scored higher in every
subject for every grade,”
Carpenter said. “Houston
County students outper
formed the state on all 36
tests.”
State patrol, county
on the same channel
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
State Troopers will soon
be able to talk directly over
the radio with local public
safety agencies.
Houston County has grant
ed the Georgia Department
of Public Safety access to the
county’s 911 radio system.
“It is something I’ve been
wanting to do for a long
time,” said Commissioner
Jay Walker. “Now we’re able
to at no cost to the county.”
Walker said agreement is
for 13 radios, which will be
able to communicate with all
County writes off debt
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston County approved
the write off of uncollectible
debts.
The total amount approved
for write-off was $22,947.95.
This included $346.90
from Solid Waste Disposal
Department, $7,244.60 from
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On the high school gradu
ation test, “in every content
area,” Carpenter said, “our
students performed above
the state average.”
Test scores were 99 per
cent in English language
arts, 98 percent in math, 95
percent in social studies and
86 percent in science. “We
feel that’s pretty good,” but
we’d like to bring it up, espe
cially in science,” he said.
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Perry’s
Brianna
Brown
blocks
an offer
ing from
North side’s
Bryionna
Floyd dur
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two teams'
volleyball
match
Thursday
in Perry.
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agencies in Houston County.
“It is something badly need
ed in Houston County,”
Walker said.
“We are on two totally dif
ferent radio systems,” said
Sgt. Keith Collins, GSP’s
Perry post commander.
“There is no communica
tions. This will be a lot bet
ter”
Collins said, “a trooper
and a deputy could be less
than half a mile from one
another, and not know of an
officer needing help.”
Communications were
relayed back and forth
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Waste Collection Department
and $15,356.45 from the
Water System.
The write-off was done
for accounting purposes,
explained Commission
Chairman Ned Sanders,
“and is a continuance of
action in a different form.”
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