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Volume 137, Number 182
Alice in wonderland
Family pet helps police
find lost 3-year-old
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Malik Glover cuddles with his mom, Tikitia Glover, under the watchful eye of Alice, the dog who stayed beside him
when he toddled away from home and into the woods last Friday.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
This is a story with a happy end
ing, thanks to a dog named Alice who
stayed with a lost and barefoot 3-year
old as he sun went down, and barked
at the noisy helicopter that was cir
cling overhead.
Maybe Malik Glover will read this
story someday, and realize how many
people were hunting for him, how
many neighbors were out volunteer
ing, and how terrified his mom, Tikitia
Glover, was until he was brought back
safely.
“My body hurt, my mind hurt,” she
says, “I can’t even explain the emo
tions.”
So here’s Tikitia Glover’s story.
She and her husband Raymond are
newcomers to Perry. They just moved
here in July and bought a house in the
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RELIGION - 6A
Group made up of local teens to
perform at fair. Powell asks: Is your
salvation a “faulty diagnosis”?
More.
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
"My body hurt, my mind
hurt. I can’t even explain
the emotions."
- Tikitia Glover
Gresham Creek subdivision off Macon
Road. She’s a school counselor with
a new job at Perry Primary. Their
daughter, Areyhon, is a student at
Tucker Elementary. Raymond Glover
is still working in Atlanta and com
muting back and forth.
Last Friday night, about 7 p.m.,
Tikitia Glover got little Malik settled
on the sofa, watching his favorite
video and munching on popcorn and
started her housecleaning.
A few minutes later she came back to
BIRTHDAYS
Oct. 6
■ Kayla Jackson (Happy 18th!)
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■ Jerry HLy
Grimes
Oct. 8
■ Kim Willison
Oct. 9
■ Richard Schawo
■ Robert Huff
E-mail birthdays to:
hhjlaevansneuispapers.com or
donm(a evansnewspapers.com. Mail
to: 1210 Washington St., Perry
31069 attn: Don Moncrief. Or, call
987-1823, Ext. 231.
ANNIVERSARIES
Oct. 6
■ Brittani and Shane Hawk
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Saturday-Tuesday, October 6-9, 2007
This week in HHJ history:
30 years ago:
As Forrest Gump would say: “It happens." Mechanical prob
lems with the typesetting system make it: “Impossible to include
all items that normally appear in the week’s edition.”
Also, a national study that targets Houston County’s men
18 and older concludes: They (we) are on average six pounds
heavier than their 1960 counterpart. In order to get within
the weight of their 1960 counterpart, they would need to lose
507,000 pounds.
20 years ago:
The Houston County Board of Education gets told by the lead
er of the Houston County Taxpayers Association that legal action
is “a very distinct possibility” if the board refused to lower its
budget proposal. At contention was a $23.01 million school bond
referendum going up for vote.
10 years ago:
County Commissioners vote to build a new courthouse and
locate it on Perry Parkway and to remodel the old one “for other
uses."
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
the living room and saw the front door
ajar, and Malik nowhere in sight.
She ran around the house looking
for him and then ran outdoors. She
called to her daughter to come and
help, and ran around the neighbor
hood looking for the little boy, asking
if anyone had seen him.
By that time she admits she was
getting hysterical. She stopped, took
a deep breath, and called 911.
She has nothing but praise for the
response she got for her tearful call.
“I was running up the street looking
for him, and I could hear them com
ing,” she says.
Capt. Bill Phelps called in reinforce
ments fast, and the search was under
way.
While two officers searched the
Glover home from top to bottom
See LOST, page 11A
SPORTS - IB
FOOTBALL: Panthers may have lost mL
more than a game in loss at Central.
SOFTBALL: Northside beats Jones County to
set several school marks and post No. 1 seed fdtjffl^oMJLotsfhore.
Perry Council takes a
stand against tax plan
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The Perry City Council
is taking a stand against
Ga. House Speaker Glenn
Richardson’s proposal to
abolish all property taxes in
Georgia and replace the rev
enue with more sales taxes.
On Tuesday night, the
council voted to support
the Georgia Municipal
Association’s position in
opposition to Richardson’s
proposal, which is being
billed as “The GREAT Plan
for Georgia.”
The plan is also being
opposed by the Association
County Commissioners of
Davis Cosey named
‘Pioneer in Biofuels’
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
There’s a lot of talk about
biofuels these and just
about everybody is in agree
ment that the nation needs
to reduce its dependence on
foreign oil and start making
more use of ethanol.
In Perry, that’s not just
talk.
Did you know that you can
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Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin pumps
some ethanol-based fuel at Fillers, while Davis Cosey,
just named a “Pioneer in Biofuels,” cheers him on.
Thanks to ail the donors that
came to the Perry Community
Blood Drive at Crossroads United
Methodist Church to give the
gift of life. I want to thank all the
workers and all the businesses for
displaying posters and especially
to Dominoes for providing delicious
pizzas for the blood drive.
Please bring a friend to our next
Perry Community Blood Drive. I
hope to see you all Dec. 3.
Vivian Bethune
Know someone or some
agency that could use a pat on
the back? Send your “Kudos" to
hhj@evansnewspapers.com.
www.hhjnews.com
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Georgia and the Georgia
School Boards Association.
Locally, Mayor Jim Worrall,
School Board Chairman Pam
Greenway, ACCG President
Tom McMichael, and GSBA
President Skip Dawkins
have also been public in their
opposition to the Richardson
plan.
GMA’s concerns, as stat
ed in a handout for elected
officials, include a loss of
local control of local funds.
They point out that while
local government budget
ing processes take time and
involve public hearings and
advertising, there are no
such requirements at the
See PLAN, page 11A
buy E-85, an ethanol-blend
ed fuel, in two Perry loca
tions now? Not only that,
but you can buy a flex-fuel
car or truck in Perry that
allows you to fill your tank
with E-85, but use regular
fuel if you need to fill your
tank somewhere else.
That option is crucial
because at the present
time, Perry is still the only
See COSEY, page 11A
Clarification:
In Wednesday's story “Man
pleads guilty to vehicular homi
cide, other charges,” the district
attorney release mentions that
Ronald Alan Sinyard left a “Mud
Boggin” Nov. 4, 2006, leading
up to the early morning Nov. 5
incident. According to Stephen
Wiley of the Elko Mud Boggin
organization, the fact he had
been at the Mud Boggin was
inconsequential to the events
that followed. “He left the Mud
Boggin between 11 and 11:30
(a.m.)," Wiley said, “and went to
two beer busts after that. So the
fact he was at the Mud Boggin
had nothing to do with it."
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