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Volume 138, Number 24
FRONT PORCH
"Where neigh bon meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten
Commandents - the one with
Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner
(if that doesn’t make you feel old
...) makes its debut at the Muse
Theatre. The cost: $1.25 for adults
- .90 cents for the matinee - and
children .50 cents all the time.
Also, “Miss Perry”, Martha
Evans, earns honors to compete in
the Miss Georgia contest and the
Houston Home Journal announc
es the plant will shut down and its
staff will take their annual vaca
tion week off. (Editorial comment:
This is a tradition we'd like to see
return.)
30 years ago:
Aurelia Cooper Evans earns the
distinction of “Woman of the Year
for 1977" via the Perry Pilot Club.
The award is given for “out
standing community friendship
and services."
Also, the Perry City Council votes
to raise gas rates. The increase,
according to the newspaper report,
will be between $3-$5 per cus
tomer. The council adds that an
increase by the gas company from
the prior year was absorbed by the
city and not passed on to custom
ers. The council also puts its foot
down against developers receiv
ing services and then taking an
overly long time to pay for them.
It decides to make an example of
one customer to start - the com
pany owing $1,543 to the city - by
cutting it off completely until the
bill is paid.
10 years ago:
A man is arrested for burglariz
ing the local Jaycee building. The
fact police spotted him pushing a
grocery cart - it reportedly stolen
from K-mart - loaded down with
stereo speakers and other items
didn't help his getaway.
Also, one of three charge in run
ning a drug operation out of Perry
Seafood Market pleads guilty and
receives a 10-year sentence.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
March 22
Linda Sturn
Travis Smith
Kierston Vilayvong
Tony McCullum
Barbara Jones
Vanessa Whitney
March 23
Danny Moore
March 24
■ft Drew Willard
March 25
■fr Ron Goldsby
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Don Moncrief. Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Impact fee talks begin with a bang
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
There’s little middle ground in
the discussion of impact fees in
Perry.
Bob Hubbard, who supports the
idea of impact fees, was first to
the mike on Tuesday night and he
didn’t mince words.
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Warner Robins High School soccer player Erika Harless (13) and a Tift County player
collide during their game this week in Warner Robins. For more, see page 48.
Bill Glass Champions for Life to
hold prison ministry weekend
HHK'
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Contributed
All-Pro linebacker Mike Singleton shakes
hands with Emory Wilson, a local leader
of the Bill Glass Weekend of Champions
prison ministry.
LIFESTYLE
Happy Hour bowl
ing; Houston Home
Journal coloring
contest winners
and much more.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
"They want to make money from Perry, but they
don’t live here. They don’t care what you think.
They just want your money.”
- Bob Hubbard
Looking out at the crowd that packed the Perry City Council meet-
Knee deep
From staff reports
The Bill Glass Weekend of Champions
prison ministry will have its headquarters
in Perry April 10-12 at the Holiday Inn, 200
Valley Drive. Volunteers and leaders in the
nationwide ministry will be visiting prisons
across Middle Georgia, offering spiritual
guidance, music, testimonies from athletes
and evangelism at prisons and jails.
This organization was founded by former
professional football player and Hall of
Famer Bill Glass and reaches as many as
10,000 inmates in a two-day period.
Glass, according to his biography, was
urged to begin his ministry by the Rev.
Billy Graham when he retired from his
football career.
In charge locally are Emory Wilson,
Special Assistant to the President and CEO
of Bill Glass Ministries and Homer Rood,
Local ownership Assistant. To leam more
about this event or to participate and/or
the Bill Glass Ministries, call Wilson at
988-8242, or Kari Mcham at Champions for
Life, 972-283-7310.
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SPORTS
Hornets get
‘Frost’y recep
tion. WR, HoCo, NS
soccer and much
more.
"This is like thinking your marriage
is going to be improved by building a
new house.”
- Businessman and a leader of Friends of the Perry Animal
Shelter, Davis Cosey
Perry wants no
part in unified
animal shelter
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WR, Centerville approve concept
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The ball was officially in the City of Perry’s court.
They chose not play.
The question was whether or not Houston County
would have a unified - one - animal control shelter.
The Houston County Commissioners approved that
recommendation - it being brought forth from the
Vision 2020 Advisory Board the week prior - unani
mously Tuesday during their meeting; their meeting in
a completely renovated (and beautiful it must be added)
board room, in Warner Robins.
Further, Commission Chairman Ned Sanders made
mention of the fact he had seen Warner Robins City
Councilman John Havrilla Monday and Havrilla had
told him Warner Robins had approved the resolution at
its council meeting.
“(Centerville) Mayor (Bubba) Edwards called me this
afternoon and he indicated he felt confident the City of
Centerville would approve it tonight (Tuesday as well),
also.
“And, of course, it will also be up to the City of Perry
to determine if they will approve it at their next meet
ing.
Which, by the way, just happened to be going on the
same evening, pretty much at the same time (just obvi
ously in Perry).
Little did Sanders know (he might have suspected
at least a little bit; he did know Perry had been work
ing hard toward its own shelter for some time) at that
time, their answer would be a whole lot different - an
emphatic: “Thanks but no thanks.”
“We need to stick to our plan,” said Perry City
Councilman James Moore during the city’s work ses
sion.
“We need a shelter at this end of the county,” added
Perry City Councilwoman Phyllis Bynum-Grace.
See SHELTER, page SA
11 light Perry (ire
From staff reports
A bathroom wall heat
er, according to a release,
ignited materials that
caused a house fire at 613
Marsha Drive in Perry on
Thursday.
As a resut, two adults
and a child, who lived
there but were not at
home at the time of the
fire, are being provided
assistance and shelter by
the American Red Cross.
Perry Fire Chief Joe
Gray said that a call came
in at 3:58 p.m. Thursday
that smoke was coming
from the roof of the single
family dwelling.
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ing room for the public hearing on
impact fees for new construction,
he started by asking for everyone
who lived in Perry to raise their
hand.
After a portion of the audience
did so, Hubbard, a citizen who has
served on the Impact Fee Advisory
See TALKS, page yA
Perry Fire Department
Engine 1, Truck 1,
Warner Robins Engine 7
and EMS Medic Unit 3
all responded, along with
Perry Police.
Upon arrival, Gray
said, firefighters observed
smoke coming from the
front eves and the gable
vents of the roof. He said
that firefighters had to
force entiy into the dwell
ing and upon completing
a search determined there
was no one in the dwell
ing.
It took the 11 fire
fighters on scene
See FIRE, page lA