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o >l »% *'l BELOW THE FOLD: 11 fight fire in Perry; Bill Glass Champions of Life to hold prison ministry weekend iluttsioM JUl •! flitftisl 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 $1,543 to the city - by cutting it off completely until the bill is paid. 10 years ago: A man is arrested for burglariz ing the local Jaycee building. The fact police spotted him pushing a grocery cart - it reportedly stolen from K-mart - loaded down with stereo speakers and other items didn't help his getaway. Also, one of three charge in run ning a drug operation out of Perry Seafood Market pleads guilty and receives a 10-year sentence. - Compiled by Don Moncrief Birthdays March 22 Linda Sturn Travis Smith Kierston Vilayvong Tony McCullum Barbara Jones Vanessa Whitney March 23 Danny Moore March 24 ■ft Drew Willard March 25 ■fr Ron Goldsby E-mail birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers.com. Mail to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief. Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231. Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest PERIODICAL 500 nmiii 8 "5510 8 00 0 01 1 4 CCK3I H Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library Universty of Georgia ATHENS GA 30KB-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 March 22,2008 " '' ■ „ T ■£■[:■ RvVßx, 1 - l&7(.)' LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE Impact fee talks begin with a bang By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer There’s little middle ground in the discussion of impact fees in Perry. Bob Hubbard, who supports the idea of impact fees, was first to the mike on Tuesday night and he didn’t mince words. jm. %* ■$ 11 n Lm. wnSHBkJ»> jj* v 1 , f' .. • ENI/Gary Harmon 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' Spl a 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. Bafrlfff -■ 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 pm * 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. .. mi:, vwww.hhjnews.com 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