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j&j&iktfxn Ifdwti jjttw^waJ Volume 137, Number 206 INSIDE: SI 9 miUioii Mmeitl B[ I I HL_JB B Jh bL 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. PERIODICAL 500 mm 8 .5 5108 00001" 4 Ju v ov>: i i » v ZD9DO VO SN3HIV easjoao p Ajejqrj usey* Dec. 29,2007 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 County tourney. More. Community: 2007- The Way We Were. More. Health: Is it the flu or food poisoning? 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 I wp| fp .fit JOB- H|i| Mg v I pp: /» fcßjf'\ M §§l BIRTHDAYS 'JS? DBcZ ® II Crystal Smith Rodney Hair Dec. 80 ' Terry Myers, Jr. ■ Allen Hawk x: Dec. si ■ Mark Snay Jan. 1, 2008 ■ Helen Cleland ■ Danny Burdeshaw E-mail birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or dbnm@evansnewspapers. com. Mail to: 1210 Washington St., Perry'll 069 attn: Don MoncrieJ, Or, call 987-1823, * Ext. 231. ANNIVERSARY V<r D*c. 28 ■ 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. - 1 vsL ■ In try ing to ■ make H sense of ■ it, Sylvia ■ said she H couldn’t ■ help but ■ rewind her ■ mind to that i day wheh fl he pulled ■ Kenneth I 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 Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest