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lorget U.S. Daylight Saving lime - clocks should be sot ahead one hour (officially at 2 a.m. Sunday "if" you're awake) HoCo Commissioners approve road changes. More. II Ipji 1111 till s}nn Mattie .iimyitti! Volume 138, Number 20 FRONT PORCH "Where neighbors meet " HHJ history 50 years ago: The 15-year-old Houston County youth (as mentioned in previous history blurbs) accused of shooting a 16-year-old teen from Montezuma with a shotgun is indicted for murder. Also, then 17-year-old Bill Morris of Perry scores 439 points out of a possible 500 and wins first place in the local Safe Driving Road-e --o and a 65-year-old Perry man is found on his farm dead from a shotgun wound. The coroner later rules - adding the man had been in poor health for some time - the wound was self-inflicted. 30 years ago: Perry receives a $127,000 grant to put up seven special light tow ers on both side of I-75 where it intersects with Sam Nunn Blvd. It is said the lights will brighten the area up to look “like a small city.” Also, Sen. Sam Nunn, then a member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Construction, announces sl2l million in new construction for Georgia’s military base. Of that, Nunn says, $6.92 million is earmarked for Robins Air Force Base. 10 years ago: The reported “third wave" of Operation Strap N' Snap results in reportedly more than 300 tickets being issued for seatbelt viola tions. Also, the Navy's Blue Angels - with practicing being done out of the Perry-Houston County Airport - headline the base’s annual air show and a 16-year-old Houston County teen is caught and charged with conspiracy to cause damage to a police dog - reportedly trying to poison it. Prior to his attempt, the juvenile reportedly tried to pay two seperate people to perform a “death hit” on the animal. Also, according to the newspaper report, he had been under surveillance for some time as trying to form a gang in the area. - Compiled by Don Moncrief Birthdays March 8 ■ Rebecca Walker Coleman ■ Joyce Griffin ■ Tammy Bassett ■ Benjamin Birdsong March 9 ■ Greg Flowers March 10 ■ Tedra Rogers ■ Robin Wayne ■ Mark Weeks ■ Christina Gonzalez ■ Valen Embree ■ Jeff Lamb Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest PERIODICAL 500 mm 8”5 510 80 0 0 01 1 4 iiiiimmirinitiiminfimitmftVttt COOI Gecrgsa Newspaper Project Main Library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 3G6G2-GGG2 ALL FOR ADC 301 March 8,2008 Si k\ i\(, Houston Coi ni y Singh 1870 VOOftTON COUNTY - Mm BELOW THE FOLD: Petty High School teceives donation to help more students gt*nlu.Uo LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale set Special to the Journal Bargain hunters alert! The Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale, which is Georgia’s longest at 221-miles, will be held in 19 communities along US 341 Friday and next Saturday, linking peach-growing coun ties in middle Georgia with the beaches of Brunswick and the Golden Isles. In Perry, yard sale sites will be located in the historic downtown district. Maps of participating ven dors will be available at the New Perry Hotel beginning at 8 a.m. FYiday. Participating vendors will include a variety of sidewalk sales at downtown business es as well as traditional yard sale fare, from handmade crafts, old and new items, antiques and more. Official yard sale hours ■ Tft *i A v I* i I ■ ' Jb .fy **:■£&*■ 4 * v ,-,.*» . . :,'■ Contributed/Dawn Pace Linwood Elementary is celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday this week with Read Across America. Monday, students wore “crazy hats” for Crazy Hat Day. Pictured above is Stephanie Jordan with her students wearing theirs. The week was to continue with a serving of Dr. Seuss’s birthday cake with lunch Tuesday, wearing green for Green Eggs and Ham Day Thursday and on Friday wearing wearing “crazy socks” for Crazy Socks Day to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Fox in Socks. Perry HS receives 82,000 to help more students graduate By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Greg Gentry has a big job at Perry High School. He’s the Graduation Coach under the state program aimed at making sure more Georgia students wear that cap and gown and get their diplo mas. He also has help from a non-traditional source - a Perry business determined to make a difference. LIFESTYLE Etiquette classes offered. ‘This and That’ shop opens in Perry. Much more. Saturday, March 8, 2008 will be Friday and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or shine. The Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale is being orga nized by the Golden Isles Parkway Association, a membership organization that represents Chambers of Commerce, Convention and Visitors Bureaus and other organizations in towns and cities along and near the parkway. Participating communi ties, in addition to Perry, are Culloden, Roberta, Fort Valley, Hawkinsville, Eastman, Helena, Mcßae, lumber City, Hazlehurst, Graham, Baxley, Surrency, Odum, Screven, Jesup, Brunswick, St. Simons Island and -Jekyll Island. For information, call the Perry Area Convention and Visitors Burau at 988-8000. Graphic Packaging’s Project Manager Lamar Allen, recently presented a check for $2,000 to the school. Allen, who is the Community Coach for Perry High, said, “I can’t think of a better return for our money than to help these kids pre pare for their future.” The funds will go to help with one of Gentry’s biggest challenges - aiding students in “credit recovery” when they have failed a course. See PERRY, page SA WZr w ■L _gHj ~~ Crazy Hat Day W i .Bw # hmK mittfM H ; ci: ..L w : tmf , ~,S' •bT ' I | -v ;mjm ■ SPORTS Westfield opens with win. Also, more baseball, soccer and much more. AN [‘VANS RuillA N 1 AYSPAPhR iggggpßß www.hhjnews.com Getting ready for the big sale are Grace Peavy, Cindy Collier, Caroline O’Neal, Griffin Peavy, Holly Peavy and Robin O’Neal, all on the front porch of Carrie Lynn’s Antiques, which is one of the many shopping stops along the 221-mile Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale, which starts Friday. flournal/Charlotte Perkins Graduation Coach, Dr. Greg Gentry, accepts a $2,000 check from Perry High School’s Community Coach Lamar Allen as Jenny Hattaway, lead counselor with HCBOE looks on. The funds will be used to bover program expenses and scholarships for the school. ENI/Gary Harmon