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Volume 137, Number 196
Before: A 'rec' just waiting to happen
Now - thanks to Bluebird: Fully restored with
CD player to
By AUDREY EVANS
Evans Newspapers Incorporated
Monday was a day that will be unforget
table for quite sometime to Periy Mayor Jim
Worrall.
In the beginning of the year, Worrall was
in need of a bus for the Perry Recreation
Department. With that idea in mind, he checked
with the Georgia Surplus and was given an “old,
beat up, yellow school bus” also known as a 1986
model Bluebird school bus. During the summer
of this year, Worrall then put in a phone call to
Mike McCurdy, Human Resource Director of
Bluebird wanting to know how much it would
cost to simply get this bus painted again. Little
did Worrall know that Bluebird picks two or
three outreach projects and they restore their
buses each year, because as McCurdy says,
“Bluebirds are built to last forever.”
See BLUEBIRD, page SA
"The kids ape so excited about
the bus and this is the great
thing that Bluebird does for
community outreach.'”
-Perry Mayor Jim Worrall ***
Looking after the waterways
Project to remind public that stormwater
drains lead to streams, creeks and rivers
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Imagine the drought is
over, which it
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all across
Houston
County. Where
does all that rainwater go?
Into gutters?
And where does it go
then?
Ask Walton and Becky
Wood, and they’ll tell you
that the gutters lead to
stormwater drains that
lead eventually to natural
waterways such as branch
es and creeks and on, even-
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Jeff Chandler, Environmental Specialist for Houston
County Public Works, works with volunteers Becky and
Walton Wood on a unique environmental reminder.
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.. Perry Mayor Jim Worrall, second from right in front, and Rick Kilgore, head of the Esmi.Recreation Department, far right, stand
with the paint and production crew of Blueßird who restored the old bus behind them back to pristine condition.
he knows the water that
drains from the streets
See PROJECT, page 8A
This week in HHJ history:
30 years ago:
County commissioners approve spending $2,000 for a survey and plat of around 260 acres for
property at the edge of Warner Robins, with plans of acquiring it for an industrial park.
Also, Perry city officials let it be known that the city has lower-than-average utility rates - as com
pared to 39 other north-Georgia cities. Perry residents paid $13.40 per month for 10,000 gallons of
water and use of sewage. Warner Robins was even cheaper at SIO.BO. But for those in the Atlanta
area, that figures jumps anywhere from $24.86 up to $29.50 (Douglas County).
20 years ago:
The Perry City Council comes to the rescue of the Perry Senior Center, providing a “love offering”
of $1,400 to see the agency, which has run out of funds, through until the next year.
Also, School Superintendent Matt Arthur responds to remarks made at the Houston County
Taxpayers Association meeting, a meeting he was not present for, accusing him of not being “acces
sible” to taxpayers. "In the time I have been in this office,” he says, “I don’t believe I have refused to
see a single person who has wanted to speak to me. If someone has wished to see me but hasn’t,
then they didn’t try very hard.” Why wasn’t he at the meeting to start with? “I wasn’t invited," he
says. (Note: There were no further updates on the two murders mentioned in last week’s history.)
10 years ago:
Chris Kinnas is named the new CEO for the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce. And, a call goes
out from Perry officials for local businesses to help employ a number of workers losing their job
as a result of Perry PPG Industries plant preparing to close its doors.
- Compiled by Don Monchef
Glover honored for service
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Councilman Bobby Glover
only has one meeting of the
Perry City Council left in
his final term, and he made
it clear Tuesday night that
he didn’t want any special
attention.
All the same, the long-time
public servant found himself
in the spotlight as members of
his church and citizens from
his district came forward to
thank him for his service.
Peggy Davis and E.L. Lewis
spoke as citizens, praising
him for his dedication to the
constituents of his district,
and Pastor Dennis Harden
commended him on behalf of
New Hope Baptist Church,
which Glover and his family
attend.
Glover’s wife, Lossie, and
other family members as
well as many friends were on
hand for the occasion.
Mayor Jim Worrall praised
Glover for his service on the
council.
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“He has represented his
constituents and fought for
what he thought was right,”
the mayor said. “Man, was
he tenacious!”
Glover said that his service
had been a pleasure.
“I tried to do those things
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Perry City Councilman Bobby Glover receives a plaque
and commendations from Pastor Dennis Harden on
behalf of New Hope Baptist Church.
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nity,” he said.
The City Council will
honor Glover with a dinner
in December.
For more photos, see
Page l2B
I just want to let PVO know that I
proud to live in a city that has people
like them. I saw them working at the
young couple’s that the man is para
lyzed and I thought what a blessing
that group of men was to them. Mr.
Frank Shelton has done so much for
the people of Perry that are in need and
I just thank God for him and the ones
that help him.
- Theresa Holderfield
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