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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Volume 138, Number 13
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FRONT PORCH
''Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
The Houston County Hospital
Authority announces it has decid
ed to change the site for the million
dollar Houston County Hospital.
Originally, it had selected a site off
South Davis Dr., but in this most
recent article announces it will buy
17 and a halt acres on the Warner
Robins-Centerville Rd. In Sports,
Perry's Panthers reportedly sur
prise everyone by making it into
the state tournament, but while
trying to earn their fifth state title,
they fall to Forsyth County 35-35
on two free throws with two sec
onds left on the clock.
30 years ago:
Houston County commissioners
task the county prison Warden
Allen Stone to investigate the
expense involved in grading, bas
ing and asphalt priming of Perry’s
new municipal parking lot. The lot
is reportedly used to serve per
sons who want to shop in down
town Perry. In other news, a rep
resentative from Macon's Clean
Community team makes a pre
sentation to Perry’s Beautification
Commission - per its request.
Macon's group has reportedly
been very successful at it and
Perry reportedly believes there’s
much to gain as a result.
10 years ago:
Two Perry architect company’s
are named among the finalists
for designing the county’s new
courthouse. Also, Oak Grove
Christian Methodist Eposcopal
Church members gather in Elko to
break ground for their new church
and the school board names three
candidates as finalists for the
superintendent’s position. They
are: Marianne Melnick, principal of
Warner Robins High School, Albert
Dewey Thomas of Denton Texas,
and Charles Allen Holloway from
Grand Prairie, Texas.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
Feb. 11
■ Judy Hall
Feb. 13
■ Jaqueline Cralley
■ Jessica Rowell
■ Jeff Pierce
Feb. 14
■ Ethel Ganus
■ Larry Johnson
■ Randy Smith
Feb. 16
■ Gretta Long
■ Donquaveous Young
E-mail birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewspapers.com or
donm@evansnewspapers.com. Mail to:
1210 Washington St., Perry 31069 attn:
Don Moncrief. Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231.
Anniversary
Feb. 16
■ Jennifer and Joel Rich (Happy
fifth!)
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BOE names Robinson HC AD
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Staff Writer
Greg Robinson will be Houston
County High School’s new athletic
director and head football coach. The
Houston County Board of Education
voted unanimously during its regu
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Cub Scout Pack 127 members watch as fellow Scouts post the flag during their annual Pinewood Derby held at Andrew United Methodist
Church, their chartered organization, Feb. 2. For more, see page 6A.
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Debi Hutchens, left, shows her book, A Bypass In the Road, to her friend
and former co-worker, Jenna Harter.
SCHOOL
Lindsey
Elementary
School names top
readers, Honor
Rolls and more.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
lar monthly meeting Tuesday to give.
Robinson the position, currently
filled by interim AD George Collins.
Robinson is a native of Moultrie
who played quarterback at Colquitt
County High under coach Bob
Griffith. He would go on to coach
under Griffith at Effingham County
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■Perry wornc.i writes about faith, how
it helped her through heart surgery
SPORTS
Youth basketball
VII. High school
basketball wraps,
Great Outdoors and
much more.
High for six years. Robinson coached
at Dodge County for 15 years, the
last six as head coach.
The Indians had records of 7-3, 7-
4, 9-3 and 9-3 his last four seasons.
For the athletic department as
a whole, Robinson said during the
coaches forum Jan. 29 - he was
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Seated and surrounded by
friends as she sells and signs her
books, Debi Morzark Hutchens
just doesn’t look like she’s been
sick a day in her life. She’s one
of those people for whom laugh
ter comes easily, someone who’s
never met a stranger, a Christian
strong in her faith.
She’s not physically strong
though. She tires easily, can’t do
any lifting, gets short of breath
with a little exertion. She’s had to
retire early from the job she loved
with the Houston County Board of
Education.
Still, she’s found another kind
of work. She has written a book
called “A Bypass in the Road:
Journey of the Heart" that she
hopes will be an encouragement
to others going through the kind of
serious, and unanticipated health
crisis she has survived. The book,
published by Tate Publishing, and
introduced by Dr. Allan Lockerman,
is scheduled for nationwide release
in April.
It is the story of a sudden
change in Hutchens’ life journey,
that began when she went to her
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not present when the board made
its decision on him Tuesday - he
wants Houston County High to be
one of those first schools mentioned
when talk about the best in the state
comes up.
“This school needs to be in
See ROBINSON, page 8A
doctor for a routine checkup and
just happened to mention a little
tightness she was feeling in her
chest.
Her doctor paid careful atten
tion, ordered tests, and Hutchens,
whose mind was really on getting
ready for her family’s Christmas,
found herself having a heart cathe
terization, and then being told that
her life depended on her having
heart bypass surgery.
Following the surgery, and her
stay in intensive care, she was
able to be home for Christmas and
happy that her husband Larry, her
children and grandchildren and her
whole family have made sure that
Christmas day was a very special
event. She thought she was on her
way to full recovery and returning
to work.
It was not to happen, however,
because two of her bypasses col
lapsed, and only one could safely
be repaired.
Her book, a small volume in
which her personal experience
is interspersed with scripture, is
essentially a story of learning to
trust completely in God, which she
expresses this way at one point.
“Although the enemy was saying,
See HEART, page 8A
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