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INOIUEi from this past weekend. Also, Warner Robins swimmers first at Colquitt meet. Food: A new look at slow cookers. More.
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13 graduate tire department recruit schaol
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
They say 13 is an unlucky number but
not so for these recent Houston County Fire
Department recruit school graduates.
In fact, you should be so lucky - if you’re
unlucky to start with it also has to be said - to
have one of these - Rebecca Cowan, James
Collins, Jeremy Easterling, Angelina Ciapponi,
Judith Long, John Wesley Lee Jr., Ricardo
Myrell, Dustin Talley, Adam Hartley, Michael
Jones, Wallace Glaze, Jonathan Brady or Betti
Baggett - show up on scene for an accident
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Lego League Regional Qualifier Robotics Tournament held Saturday at the Museum of
Aviation. For more, see 7A.
Perry son set for return from Iraq
Special to the Journal
The son of a local Perry resident, according
to a release, will return this month from a
four-month deployment to Tikrit, Iraq.
Lydia Zammit will be visiting her son,
Matthew Darryl Zammit, in Fuquay Varina,
N.C., at the end of this month.
Zammit is a 22-year veteran of the United
States Marine Corps. He has been to Iraq
before - during Operation Desert Storm in
- but this time has been deployed as a civil
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By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Only two football teams in Houston
County made the GHSA playoffs at
the end of the 2007 season. Those two
teams are slated to kick-off both the
2008 and 2009 campaigns.
“Right now, we are going to open up
with Northside,” said Perry High head
you’ve been involved in or respond to a fire
affecting you and/or your family, or be your
rescuer for some other emergency.
The aforementioned 13 recently completed
240 hours of training. The first 40 of that - the
class itself began in July and didn’t end until
their recent graduation in mid-December - was
“first responder” training, “which basically
enables them to perform the medical side of
the fire department,” said Assistant Fire Chief
Kevin Noles, “first to arrive on scene, that sort
of thing.”
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advisor for the Department of Defense - for an
Army unit based out of Fort Bragg, NC.
He deployed in late September, according to
the release, and while in Iraq was responsible
for the maintenance and repair of all manner
of weapons systems. In addition, his duties
included teaching and inspecting weapon sys
tems in the area of operations.
He is a 1983 graduate of Perry High School
and most of his family still resides in the area.
“We are very proud of Matthew,” said
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This week in HHJ history:
50 years ago:
Here’s an interesting item. Seems back in 1958, the City of Perry had a Teen Age Driver of the Month program
- sponsored by Perry PTA - going, in which a "secret committee of adults" observed the “habits” of the city’s teen
age population and then rated them on “courtesy and driving ability." Could our teens of today use incentive such
as this? And, oh by the way, January’s winner was 16-year-old Perry High School junior Thomas Hunt.
In other news, then Perry Mayor Stanley E. Smith says that a $250,000 bond issue is necessary if the
city is to provide the “basic services’’ for its rapidly expanding population. The mayor says water and sewer
facilities are “overtaxed now” and the city is growing at 80 to 100 familes - approximately 325-400 persons
- per year, and not keeping up.
30 years ago:
The Houston County Sheriff’s Office annouces it cleared 74 percent of the 871 cases it investigated the prior
year. This, it also reports, is in stark contrast to the national average of 15 percent, according to Sheriff Cullen
Talton. In other news, the Board of Education votes to meet twice monthly, one in Perry and once in Warner Robins.
10 years ago:
Westfield School begins a $1.5 million capital funds drive, money to help fund the first phase of as 7 million cam
pus expansion plan. Included the first phase - the total project is estimated to allow the school to accommodate
800 students - is a new kindergarten building for K-4 and K-5, a new field house, a new administration building and
some campus traffic-flow changes. Also, local businessmen Rusty Wood and Steve Byrd earn major honors at the
42nd Perry Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting. Wood receives the Seabie Hickson Award and Byrd is
named the volunteer of the year.
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('Wednesday, January 9, 2008
coach Andy Scott. Scott’s Panthers had
a nine-win season in 2007 and advanced
to the quarterfinals of Class AAA. The
Northside Eagles are two-time defend
ing state champions of Class AAAA,
but will be a Class AAAAA school in
the fall.
“It’s a real game,” said Scott, whose
team scrimmaged Northside the previ
Perry Primary School
celebrates Gold Award
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
As Perry Primary
Principal Elgin Mayfield
joked: “This is his award.
I’m just here to accept
it.”
“He” is Harold Sapp,
who was Perry Primary’s
principal for six years.
He is now the principal
at Hilltop Elementary
School. Mayfield was
Northside’s band teacher
for a number of years. He
left there to serve as assis
tant principal of instruc
tion at Parkwood for two
years, before moving to
Perry Primary - this being
his first year there.
He shouldn’t - prob
ably isn’t worrying too
much that the award,
which is the Gold Award
for Student Achievement
from the Governor’s
Office, might not be his
alone - in terms of being
the principal at the time.
That’s because consider
ing Perry Primary’s track
record of success, there’s
a very, very good chance
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From left, former Perry Primary School Principal Harold Sapp and current Perry
Primary Principal Elgin Mayfield receive a certificate of recognition for their Gold
Award for Student Achievement, Monday during a ceremony at the school.
ous two seasons. “We’re going to scrim
mage with Houston County.
“We do not have a (week 2)
game yet, but on (week 3) we play
Hawkinsville.”
Scott said the two-year series with
Northside is tentatively scheduled
to take place at McConnell-Talbert
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"The teachers really bought into it.
They did a super job. We provided
the training and expertise and they
just did the rest. They went into the
classrooms and made it happen.”
- Former Perry Primary Principal Harold Sapp
he’ll be standing up there
again - there being the
school’s cafeteria where
staff members and dig
nitaries gathered Monday
for a Gold Celebration
- next year ... and the
year following ... and on
and on.
You see not only was
Perry Primary recog
nized as being in the top
three percent, or 97th
percentile for the great
est gains in the percent
age of students- who met
and exceeded standards
on the 2007 Criterion-
Referenced Competency
Test, as well as had at
least 30 percent of its stu
dent exceed standards,
and the school itself made
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Adequate Yearly Progress
for at least three consecu -
tive years - those three
things are what the Gold
Award represent - it is
also currently an eight
time recipient of the Title
1 Distinguished School
Award.
“This is a great testa
ment to this school and all
the many hours of hard
work and dedication,” said
Sen. Ross Tolleson, who
presented the award to
both Sapp and Mayfield.
Added Mayfield: “What
we are here to celebrate
is an achievement that’s
only made by a very
small number of schools
in a state in a year
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