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Volume 138, Number 40
FRONT DOOR
''Always open"
"As you do not know the path ot
the wind, or how the body is formed
in a mother's womb, so you cannot
understand the work of God, the
Maker of all things."
- Ecclesiastes 11:5
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
Postmaster Lawrence Hunt
reminds patrons that postage on a
first class letter is about to go up.
The new cost: 4 cents.
30 years ago:
Signatures for the petition (see
Wednesday's HHJ history) to re
open the Perry Emergency Room
reach a reported 2,000. Elsewhere,
then-Perry Mayor James McKinley
gathers statistics and then makes
a presentation (the article doesn't
say to who or whom) showing
reasons the ER should stay open.
Meanwhile, the Perry Chamber
of Commerce gets into the act,
approving a resolution calling for
the re-opening.
Elsewhere, after six years the
Perry-Fort Valley Airport extension
- at a total cost of $907,228 - is
paid for. And, a story runs of a 10-
year-old boy locked out of his
house by his parents, who say
they can no longer handle him. He
reportedly sleeps under the house
at night and steals food to survive.
That is until it comes to the knowl
edge of local officials who imme
diately pick him up and begin the
search for a foster home. There
was no word on what, if anything,
happened to the parents.
10 years ago:
A Perry couple are reported to
be recovering from injuries they
sustained when their plane went
down near in Florida. According to
the newspaper article, they were
on their way to visit friends when
the engine lost power.
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tend in several events around the state. MORE.
Sports
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Fair officials confirm first concerts
Special bo the Journal
Officials for the 19th annual,
state-sponsored Georgia National
Fair announced this week via a
news release they had confirmed
their first concert members. Jason
Aldean and Luke Bryan are both
slated to perform at the fair Oct. 4.
Tickets go on sale July 12 - on the
internet only. Additional fair con
certs will be Announced later, the
release reads.
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Dane Frier hits the water after going down a slide during Sacred Heart’s fun day held each
year at Michael and Tammy Stanley’s home in Perry. For more, see 10A.
Perry leaders discuss buffers, berms
By CHARXtOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
In case you’ve noticed that Perry’s
changing landscape includes more
and more subdivisions set apart
by man-made slopes called berms,
grassy buffers and long stretches of
fencing, so have the city’s elected
and appointed leaders and the plan
ning departmeht.
And the probability is good that
there’ll be more emphasis on keep
ing up appearances when the cur
rent months-lbng moratorium on
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Below are some particulars on
each artist:
JASON ALDEAN
Macon native Jason Aldean
doesn’t have to think long when
asked about his top game-changing
moment in 2006.
“We were playing a little sold-out
club in Portland, Oregon, just an
acoustic show, when we went into
' Hicktown’ and the place just went
crazy. That was the first time I got
Planned Unit Developments ends.
At a supper meeting last Monday,
council members and members of
Perry Planning and Zoning, watched
slide after slide, some taken in other
cities and some taken here, all as
illustrations of what looks good and
what looks - well - haphazard.
They viewed mismatched fenc
ing where one subdivision ends and
another begins. They saw warped
wooden fences, and buffers that
had little or no landscaping. Mother
Nature seemed to have done the
ALDEAN
ACM’s Top New Male Vocalist and
earned a gold album just 12 weeks
after his debut’s release.
best job and the trees and shrubs
won the most praise.
With Mike Beecham, City Planner,
and Joe Kusar, Councilman, leading
the discussion, the informal group
was in agreement that the planting
of trees and shrubs makes the most
positive difference, regardless of the
depth of the buffer or the height of
a berm, both in terms of providing
privacy for the new home owners
and in terms of presenting a pleas
ant view from the road.
Kusar said, “My personal thoughts
let cream, bluagrass
Summerhill residents cel
ebrate National Nursing
Home Week. Engagements,
weddings and much more.
Lifestyle
the feeling that
we had a hit,” says
Aldean.
A year later the
whole career thing
looked better than
ever. Aldean broke
through a crowded
country field to
capture the 2007
Police seize 50+
marijuana plants
Special to the Journal
The Houston County Sheriffs Office Narcotics
Unit, according to a release, seized more than
50 marijuana plants that were
growing at a residence in Bonaire
Monday afternoon. As a result, they
also arrested a Warner Robins man
Tuesday in connection to the case.
According to the release, an anon
ymous tip led investigators to the
marijuana plants that were col
lected from the yard at 122 Heard
Drive in Bonaire. Investigators
seized the plants, bags of potting
soil, digging tools and other items
used to grow marijuana.
Kenneth Ray Gainous, 38, of
414 Kingsbury Circle in Warner
Robins, was arrested Tuesday
morning and charged with VGCSA
- Manufacturing marijuana.
According to the release, he was
growing the marijuana at a family
member’s house at the Heard Drive
address, where no one is currently living.
Investigators seized more marijuana plants at
Gainous’ residence at Kingsbury Circle Tuesday.
The estimated street value of the marijuana
plants is around SIOO,OOO.
Anyone with information on any drug activity in
their neighborhood or concerns of any kind, accord
ing to the release, are asked the call the Houston
County Sheriffs Office Narcotics Unit at 478-542-
2085 (you do not have to give your name).
Cost of school
lunches going up
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
As if the escalating price of gas and groceries
weren’t enough, Houston County families with chil
dren in school will have another increase this fall.
The cost of school breakfasts and lunches will
go up 25 cents per meal starting with the 2008-09
school term.
The Board of Education approved the change
Tuesday with no smiles. Board member Skip
Dawkins placed part of the blame on federal stan
dards that are not adequately funded.
The increase is aimed at maintaining a balanced
budget for the school nutrition program, and will
bring breakfast costs to students and staff up to
See LUNCHES, page XX
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Why has Jason
been able to con
nect with so many
people so fast?
He calls his
music “aggressive
country.” It’s no
surprise his radio
success is a desire
to commune with
BRYAN
his crowd and make a party happen
’ wherever he and his band go.
See CONCERTS, page 9A
have changed a lot,” and noted that
“the size of the buffer” is not so
important as a “well maintained
buffer” with trees and shrubs.
The group also discussed future
maintenance of subdivision, not
ing that while the initial owners
might have an effective homeowners
association taking responsibility for
landscaping, problems could arise
after several changfes in ownership.
These issues will be addressed
in future meetings of the planning
board and the council.
INSIDE:
Teen gets
10 YEARS
FOR
ROBBERY
GAINOUS