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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
The People ’s Business
A quick guide to what our
elected and appointed offi
cials are doing
Perry City Council
Meeting: Tuesday
■ Set the tax millage
Houston County
Commission
Meeting: Tuesday
■ Approved a request during
work session from Sheila Jones,
Executive Direction of the Perry
Area Convention and Visitors
Bureau, to purchase new signs
for the city's historic walking
tour
■ Welcomed councilman-elect
Willie King to the meeting. King,
who faces no opposition for the
post, has begun to attend meet
ings regularly and will succeed
longtime council member Bobby
Glover in January
■ Heard from citizen Martin
Beeland who expressed concern
over the city's water and sewer
rates and asked that monthly
rates be averaged from winter
rates rather than summer.
■ Set the millage rate for FY
2008 at 13.01, which is slightly
lower than last year’s rate of
13.05, because of an increase in
the tax digest.
■ Learned that Charlie
McGlamry has withdrawn his
request for a rezoning and
annexation related to 400 acres
of land (the Nunn farm) adjoining
Highway 341 South, Arena Road
and Saddlecreek Road.
■ Approved a request for a
waiver of parade fee for the
2007 Kiwanis/Fair Parade to be
held on Saturday, Oct. 6.
■ Approved the Public Safety
Committee’s recommendation to
hold trick-or-treating on Oct. 31
hereafter, except when the date
falls on Sunday
HOUSE
From page iA
“Will we remember that
the loss of this building was
for a driveway?” she asked
the council, “and is that
progress?”
Shelton noted that Perry
already has several drug
stores, including one that
has little business.
Kim Muhins of the DDA
spoke, saying, I appreciate
the architecture in Perry
PEACHES
From page iA
Graham, Baxley, Surrency,
Odum, Screven, Jesup,
Brunswick, St. Simons
Island and Jekyll Island.
The 2008 Peaches to the
Beaches Yard Sale is set for
March 14-15, with some
communities also participat
ing on Sunday.
For information, con
tact Evelyn Simmons at
the Golden Isles Parkway
Association, at 912-375-
5035 or via e-mail to
simmonseb(S)bellsouth.net.
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■ Aapproved a section of the
city’s alcoholic beverage license
law which will bring it into confor
mity with state law
■ Approved entering into an
intergovernmental agreement
with the city of Commerce, in
order to have data storage/pro
cessing services in another loca
tion in case of a natural disaster
or other emergency making it
impossible to operate the city’s
computer system in Perry.
The Houston County
Board of Commissioners
Meeting: Tuesday
■ Unanimously authorized
the purchase of 2.764 acres on
Gunn Road from Eagle Springs,
LLC at a price of $150,000 per
acre. Said parcel is to be the
sight of the new 15,000 square
foot Centerville Library approved
in the 2006 SPLOST referen
dum.
■ Heard from citizens Walton
Wood and Maurice Braswell.
Wood expressed concern about
loss of local control in HR9OO
is passed and stated that he
thought the cost of land for the
new Centerville Library was too
high. Braswell also expressed
concerns about the cost of the
land for the library.
■ Passed a Resolution to the
Warner Robins American Little
League Team recognizing them
as World Series Little League
World Champions.
■ Voted to appoint Shaw
Blackmon to fill Larry Snellgrove's
unexpired term on the Houston
County Development Authority.
Blackmon’s term will expire Aug.
9, 2011.
■ Voted to reappoint Grace
Harmon to a three year term
on the Board of Adjustments
and Appeals. Harmon’s term will
expire Oct. 2, 2010.
■ Approved a request from
more than anybody,” and not
ing that he had read “Elbe’s
book.”
He said, however, that the
Paradise group had worked
for three years on the site,
spending a lot of money to
acquire here pieces of prop
erty, and that the money
received by the city (for
the sale of the parking lot)
would be used to beautify
the downtown area. Patrick
Scott of Paradise Developers
said that Walgreen’s beheves
that Perry is a very strong
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Farm Raised
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Amanda Holmes of Bonaire for a
special exception to have s small
business in her home manufac
turing stained glass, which she
will deliver to customers.
■ Approved a request from
Sam Metcalf of Perry to have
a home business at 207 Kings
Crest Blvd. Metcalf and his wife
will be the only employees.
■ Approved a request by Jody
Parham to have a small lawn
care business at his home in
Byron.
■ Unanimously authorized
the purchase of 2.764 acres on
Gunn Road from Eagle Springs,
LLC at a price of $150,000 per
acre. Said parcel is to be the
sight of the new 15,000 square
foot Centerville Library approved
in the 2006 SPLOST referen
dum.
Centerville City Council
Meeting: Tuesday
■ Terminated the employment
of Chief of Police Ernie Pardo
who has been on sick leave
since June. Acting Police Chief
Willie Tilton will remain in the
position until the appointment of
a new chief.
21st Century Partnership
According to Executive
Director Mary Terese Tebbe,
Several members of the 21st
Century Partnership will attend
the annual Air Force Association
Convention in Washington, D.C.
next week.
Partnership members will be
joined by Sen. Ross Tolleson,
Commissioner Tom McMichael,
and representatives from Flint
Energy, Georgia Power, and
Trane Corporation, to discuss
potential applications for alter
native sources for Robins Air
Force Base with Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force,
William Anderson.
market, and that the drive
way from Washington Street
would be well-landscaped and
could not be done according
to traffic requirements if the
house remained standing.
Scott said that the com
pany would give the house
to anyone wilhng to move it.
However, Shelton noted that
because of its brick construc
tion, it would probably be
irreversibly damaged in the
effort. The council voted to
allow Paradise to remove the
building.
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478-472-2614 Steven Overholt
MALKIN
From page 6A
George Soros-funded
ANSWER “die-in” usurping
the names and legacies of
those who have died serv
ing in Iraq. Describing her
son’s heroism and her sup
port of the counterinsurgen
cy efforts in Iraq, she said:
“You can’t ‘take’ someone’s
life who gives it . . . and
Mark willingly gave his life.
. . . God redeployed Mark to
heaven.”
ENDORSES
From page iA
best known locally as the
former commander of the
Warner Robins Air Logistics
Center. An Air Force veteran,
with a distinguished record
as a pilot, he retired in 2000
as a major general.
Perdue called Goddard “a
man of integrity.”
“I believe he is running for
all he right reasons,” Perdue
told the crowd a fundrais
er at the New Perry Hotel.
“I’ve had long conversations
to quiz him to see if this is
what he really wants to do.
These races are not for the
faint of heart, and, ladies and
gentlemen, Rick Goddard is
not faint of heart.”
He praised Goddard for his
conservative values and his
support of American troops
in the Middle East.
Perdue referred several
times to the long shot he
faced when he made his
announcement to run for
Governor in 2001, and to the
many in the room who had
worked to help him achieve
historic victory.
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self-defense is for “war-mon
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In Sally World, you can
pretend that the bloodthirsty
mothers who strap al Qaeda
suicide bomb vests on their
toddlers and sit them down
in front of the television to
watch the Jew-hating Hamas
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embrace our enemies, “imag
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Emmy Award like a magic
“If I have any credit left in
your banks,” he said, “Put it
to Rick Goddard’s account.”
Goddard, who began his
speech by recognizing his
wife Judy, a well-established
Republican organizer, as “my
sweetheart, my partner and
my confidante.”
He expressed confidence
about beating incumbent
Rep. Jim Marshall, noting
the thin margin of victory
Marshall had in the least
election. Goddard said at the
national level, “Republicans
lost the leadership because
they lost the common values
that had guided us.”
Regarding the war, he said,
“This is not a war on ter
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Islamic fascism, and terror
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away.
In the real world, not all
women think with their
wombs instead of their brains.
In the real world, you can’t
just give evil a “time-out.”
Sally Field fancies herself the
mother of all spokesmothers.
To which I say, in my most
maternally combative tone:
Speak for your own bleepin’
self, sister.
Michelle Malkin is author of
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Gone Wild. Her e-mail address
is malkinblog@gmail.com.
is just a tactic. Iraq is just
a fight in that war. You can
debate why we’re there,” he
said, “but we have to fight to
the end. If we leave, Iran will
fill the void of control and
will control 25 percent of the
world’s oil. The bottom line
does come down to oil”
He also > criticized
Democratic positions on
healthcare, and called Social
Security “a train wreck about
to happen.” On the subject of
illegal immigration, he said
that securing the borders
was of the first importance,
and that illegal entry should
not be a path to citizenship,
but that worker programs
were needed to support agri
culture and construction
businesses.
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