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opportunity to put new batteries in
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7/i/s house off Brendale Lane - a spooky haunt that one passerby said “just gets better and better every year” in
Perry had a humorous tongue-in-cheek message for onlookers on Halloween night.
Hilltop ES has celebration, dedication
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Harold Sapp is a veteran
school leader, but opening
a new school is a challenge.
He says that whenever he
wants to know that every
thing’s going to work out
fine, he just goes outdoors
and takes a look at the vista
before him.
Hilltop Elementary, one
of the three new schools
opened by the Houston
County school system for
2007-08, has what is unar
guably the best view of any
of the schools. It’s on a
hill just off Moody Road
with treetops stretching out
below toward the horizon.
That’s how it got its name,
Six county schools win statewide accountability awards
Special to the Journal
Six Houston County schools recently
won Single Statewide Accountability
System awards from the Governor’s
Office of Student Achievement.
Perry Primary, Miller Elementary,
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Sacred Heart Fall Festival.
ALSO: Reflections - Earline Cole talks about
living in a world of do’s and don’ts. More.
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CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Vacation plot
and how it got its mascot
- the hawk.
In fact, Sapp told an audi
ence of kids, parents and
grandparents at the dedica
tion ceremony Sunday that
there’s even a real hawk
which soars overhead at
times.
The school also has soar
ing goals, with a mission
statement emphasizing
“high expectations for all
students in a safe, consis
tent community that con
tinuously pursues knowl
edge, crating independent,
global citizens.”
At the dedication cer
emony, first year teacher
Pam Dooley directed the
third grade music class in
See HILLTOP,page 14A
Pearl Stephens Elementary, Bonaire
Elementary, Quail Run Elementary
and Houston County High won six
of 263 awards given this year across
the state to recognize schools for out
standing student achievement. The
test scores of more than 2,200 Georgia
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Joshua Spalding and Ryleigh Carver, Hilltop fifth grad
ers, lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the dedication cer
emony for their school.
This week in HHJ history:
30 years ago:
Maj. Gen. John R. Spalding, then commander of the Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center signs a proclaimation for “No Smoking Day” on RAFB. In other
non-related to the smoking news, the base announces Spalding has received the
highest non-combat decoration - the Distinguished Service Medal and RAFB also
announces its Combined Federal Campaign has set an all-time high for money
raised, this time generating $485,968.58.
20 years ago:
Local schools celebrate National School Lunch Week with special meals. They
include food items from cultures such as West Africa, Scandinavia and the Middle
East. Also, in sports, Jones County rallies from a 7-0 deficit to steal the Region 3-
AAA softball title away from Perry.
10 years ago:
The Perry Area Convention and Visitors Bureau uses a raffle to demonstrate
“tourists’ buying power.” To that end, they asked owners during a motorcoach
rally to turn in receipts from local businesses as part of the rally. When totalled,
the dollar amount in terms of money spent in the community comes out to
$40,000.
Also, the Houston County Development Authority approves bonds in the
amount of $5.5 mmlion for an assisted care home.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
schools were reviewed to determine
the schools with the most significant
academic achievement.
The awards are presented in collab
oration with the Georgia Department
of Education. Award-winning
See A WARDS, page 14A
SPORTS - IB
FOOTBALL: Houston County hosts Valdosta in
search of first region win. CROSS COUNTRY;
Warner Robins sweeps region. ALSO: Perry
Taekwondo to host championships. Much more.
A chain is as strong ...
Teen battling cancer
a blue ribbon winner
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Journal/Charlotte Perkins
Luke Campbell who returned from chemotherapy this
past week, is battling T-cell lymphoma. He got his spirits
lifted recently by winning a Georgia National Fair blue rib
bon for his sculpture made of Lizella clay.
"I was on vacation in North Carolina,
and I started getting to the point where
I couldn't take the heat outdoors. I'd get
really out of breath. I started having
trouble swallowing, and trouble
sleeping. Every day It got worse.”
-Luke Campbell
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
What did you do on your
summer vacation?
Luke Campbell’s summer
turned out to be a rough
one, and things aren’t back
to normal yet, so getting a
blue ribbon at the Georgia
National Fair recently was a
morale booster.
The first place award was
for a work of art in clay, and
this 16-year-old who loves
the outdoors, fishing and
hunting, did his art class
project by creating a chain of
natural clay from Lizella.
Campbell, who is a junior
at the Westfield Schools this
year, and the son of Sandra
Morgan and Gary Campbell,
has also been earning a
badge of courage for the last
few months.
He’s battling a form of
cancer called T-cell lympho
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Elois Smith of Houston
County was recently
recognized - along with
others - by Randall L.
Peters, president of Heart
of Georgia Technical
CORRECTION:
The names in the
photo caption for
the picture right
were a bit mixed
up in Wednesday’s
paper. The corrected
order is: Dr. Argene
Claxton, center,
and, from left, Tyson
Strickland, Tabitha
Williford, Ashton Kate
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He managed a few hours
at school last week, but he
was back in Atlanta this past
week for another round of
chemotherapy.
Fortunately, this is a form
of cancer that doctors know
how to tackle, and the prog
nosis is very good, but that
means, as he puts it himself,
“following the road map.”
Chemotherapy is hard on
the body at the same time
that it’s a lifesaver. He’s
lost his thick dark hair and
it’s grown back to about the
length you’d expect on a
marine in boot camp.
He’ll probably lose it
again.
His immune system is
weakened, not by the cancer,
but by the treatments that
are saving his life, and for
that reason, he can’t be with
crowds of fellow-students.
He’s studying at home,
See WINNER, page 14A
College, and named to the
president's list for summer
quarter 2007.
In order to earn that
honor, Smith, a part-time
student, had to have arn a
3.65 or higher grade point
average for the quarter.
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some agency that could
use a pat on the back?
Send your “Kudos" to
hhj@evansnewspapers.com.
Jones and Jordan Wood.