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Volume 137, Number 206
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Journal/Charlotte Perkins
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue Commissioner accepts a giant fishing lure from Georgia
Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Noel Holcomb during an announce
ment Friday at the Georgia Fairgrounds and Agricenter that Perry will be the future
home of the Go Fish Georgia Center.
Perry future home of
Go Fish Georgia Center
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
For Gov. Sonny Perdue
there’s one positive thing to
be said about a drought.
“When the water’s down,
it’s a good time to build a
boat ramp,” he said Friday
afterhoon to a crowd of com
munity and state leaders,
as he started explaining the
sl9 million Go Fish Georgia
initiative that will have its
focal point in Perry.
Thfe Go Fish Georgia
Center will be built on a
120-acre site located on the
south side of the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter. There will bfe a
15,0d0 square foot welcome
Perry Hospital administrator tenders resignation
Special to the Journal
According to a release,
Lora A. Davis, MBA,
FACHE, has tendered her
resighation as administra
tor of Perry Hospital. The
date that becomes effective,
according to the release, is
Friday.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY,OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AIMD CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Local: Man charged with murder in stabbing. More. Sports: Perry and Warner Robins have rough starts to Jones
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center, with a fishing pond
for family use, and a warm
water hatchery. In addition
there will be interpretative
trails and outdoor class
rooms.
The site was chosen in
part because of its key loca
tion along 1-75, Perdue said.
“Over 60,000 cars a day
pass this way,” Perdue said.
“It’s a major travel corridor
for anglers headed to other
states to fish, and I want
them to stop in here.”
The center in Perry, which
was supported with an addi
tional $2.5 million from local
agencies, will be part of a
statewide bass fishing trail,
with 15 sites. Eight of those
will include mega-ramps.
The other sides are spread
During her more than
20-year career at Houston
Healthcare, Davis, according
to the release, has served the
organization in numerous
roles since joining the staff
in 1985 as a staff accountant
at Houston Medical Center.
She later assumed the
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■ Helen Cleland
■ Danny Burdeshaw
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ANNIVERSARY
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■ Cart and Bruce Patton
(Happy 18th!)
Saturday, December 2d, 2007
out across the state at Lake
Blackshear in Cordele, Lake
Lanier, Hartwell Lake, the
Richard B. Russell Lake in
Elbert County, the Clarks Hill
Lake in Columbia County,
the Savannah River Robert
Baurle Ramp in Augusta,
the Altamaha River in
Jesup, Lake Seminole near
Bainbridge, and West Point
Lake in Troup County.
Perdue gave credit for the
original idea of building up
bass fishing in Georgia to
Les Ager of Kathleen, who
has urged the development
of fishing tournaments in
Georgia.
According to infor
mation provided by the
Georgia Department of
See FISH, page zA
roles of Director of the
Business Office at Perry
Hospital in 1993 and
Assistant Administrator in
1995 before being named
Administrator in 1998.
Ms. Davis has provided
oversight to other areas of
See RESIGNATION, pagejA
This week in HHJ history:
50 years ago:
The New Perry Motel receives national recognition, that coming from Duncan Hines when it mentions the hotel
in the 50th edition of its newly printed travel guide Adventures in Good Eating. The New Perry Motel is one of only
3,000 selected nationwide.
Also, Rep. Herman Watson announces a bill would be introduced at the upcoming Georgia General
Assembly to, according to the newspaper article, "clear up the muddled situation in which the Houston
County commissioners find themselves.” By way of explanation, it is reported the county was supposed to
be operating under a county manager form of government with three commissioners when in fact it was
operating under a commissioner and five commissioners. Under the bill, the county would be zoned for five
commissioners with "commissioner posts” to be set up at a later date.
30 years ago:
Barbara Calhoun gets some good news - for the third straight year, that is - when she is announced as mayor
pro tern. And in other news, then Perry Mayor James McKinley! makes his City Council assignments, among them
new councilman George Nunn selected to head the budget and finance committee.
10 years ago:
The Perry Fire Department ends the year (Dec. 31) on a somber note, having to respond to two separate fires
- both deemed "suspicious." The first is behind the Perry Market, a motor home that goes up in flames and the sec
ond is a trailer reportedly used by hunters that also goes up in flames (no one was inside either location).
And in other news ... Eureka! No, not gold but the name of the first baby born in 1998 in Perry Hospital. Weighing
in at 5 pounds, 4 ounces, she is the daughter of Erica Yates and Willie Lucas.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
"You know, I believe without a doubt every human born
of G6d has a specific mission for their life. Joe's was to
save Kenneth's. It took me well over five years to accept
tbit but I believe that was God's mission for him."
- Sylvia Camp
MISSIONARY
Young Perry man's life, death to be honored
in Tournament of Roses parade
By DON MONCRIEF
journal Managing Editor
Sylvia Camp has come to believe certain
things. Onfe of those is believing in God.
Another is believing that we each have a
mission - a mission predestined by God.
Her son Joe’s mission came when he was
13. A grandson, Kenneth Lee, who was 5
. at the time, was choking to death, “already
turning bliie,” Sylvia said.
Joe, whoSe full name is Matthew Joseph
Camp - thfe Matthew after his father but
Sylvia said they always just called him
“Joe” - came to his rescue ... saved him,.
Sylvia said.
Seven short years later at age 21 Joe was
killed in an automobile
accident. -
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from away 1
from death’s 1
door.
“I just 1
believe that
was his main
mission in
life,” she said
- she always
soft-spoken and
perhaps vising
that partitular
word “miskion”
because it’s
so familiar to
her from being
around the mili
tary a good deal -
if not all - of her grownup life. You see she
currently works in Individual Equipment
Issue (thirik all sorts of supplies from
paper to special types of military clothing)
on Robins Air Force Base and has for the
past 18 years.
Also, her husband was former military
and retired in 1980 (Joe was 6 months old
at the time find they were stationed in Little
Rock, Ark.): They were once stationed here
- in the ‘6OS - when he was in the military,
Sylvia said, liked it and returned to settle
when he got out. He went to work for civil
service on base - they are no longer mar
ried but both still live in the area (she lives
near Perry) - before retiring again.
Courtesy
This image of Joe
Camp is taken from the Leaves of Life
Memorial Donor Family Quilt. The quilt itself - many
more can be found at www.rtidonorservices.org - is
a compilation of many tissue donors, contains things
that made them special, and keeps their memory alive.
www.hhjnews.com
But as far as Joe: “You know, I believe
without a doubt every human bom of God
has a specific mission for their life. Joe’s
was to save Kenneth’s. It took me well over
five years to accept that but I believe that
was God’s mission for him.
“The other seven (following - as well
as all those before) were just icing on the
cake.”
Actually, not to correct Sylvia but more
to add to it. Saving Kenneth might have
been God’s plan for Joe’s life, but His plan
for him in death is looking to loom a whole
lot larger.
You see Joe was a tissue donor.
I n _ fact, his memory
Regeneration Technology Institute Donor
Services “each donor family’s decision to
give the gift of life.”
RTI Donor Services (www.rtidonorser
vices.org), according to its release, is a
not-for-profit tissue recover network “ded
icated to serving donor families and dona
tion partners in perpetuating the circle of
life.” The float: “Is in recognition of the
importance of organ, tissue, eye and blood
donation - ‘the ultimate gift of life.’”
RTI (which is based out of Florida but
has one of its offices in Georgia), who
Sylvia had nothing but praise for (they
helped her make Joe part of a donor
quilt, which contains pictures and loving
See PARADE, page zA
“If //ere //e/g/z/iars ///eel
ihat regard
be honored
irt of a spe
float in the
•nament of
as Parade
’asadena on
v Year’s Day
jsday.
’he float is
led “Life
kes Flight,”
id Joe, along
ith 11 other
imilies as
art of the
Family
Circle”, will
se repre
sented with
arose, short
dedication
and his
picture
n n a/1
attached
to the
float to
sym
bolize,
accord
ing to a
release
from
' Quote me on that ...'
“In 2004, emergency depart
ments treated approximately
9,600 people for fireworks-relat
ed injuries in the United States,
and eight people died from their
injuries. Forty percent of these
injuries occurred among children
ages 14 years and younger.
It’s traditional to celebrate the
coming of the New Year with
fireworks. I urge our citizens to
enjoy them safely by watching
a professional display as they
mark the arrival of 2007.”
- Insurance and Safety
Fire Commissioner John
W. Oxendine
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