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Even though Sunday morning’s storm knocked down the recycling drop-off shed
at Happy Hour Service Center on North Young Ave., they wanted residents to know
_ via a release - they are still taking recyclable items. And the shed will be back up
“soon” the release added.
Teen gets 10 years for robbery
Special to the Journal
A robbery has cost one
teen 20 years of his life - 10
of it in prison.
Seventeen-year-old
Lavern Ernest Hooker, a
Bonaire resident, pleaded
guilty Tuesday, according to
a release, “moments” before
his trial was to begin in
Houston Superior Court.
He plea was to the charges
of: one count of Robbery
By Force and one count
of Possession Of A Knife
During Commission Of A
Crime.
Judge Katherine Lumsden
sentenced Hooker to 20
years of which he will have
LUNCHES
From page iA
$1.52 with lunch costs at
$2.60. While food costs have
increased 15 percent and
labor costs have gone up 4.5
percent, federal reimburse
ment rates are only increased
3 percent per year.
The school nutrition pro
gram must pay its own way.
Jeannine Hill, who super
vises the sl3 million pro
gram with a staff of 400,
points out that the Board
of Education provides facili
ties, but no other support.
The program is supported
by a combination of federal
funds and commodities, and
while about 45 percent of the
system’s students are on free
and reduced price lunches
CONCERTS
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And, he knows his fans. He
sees them most every night
on a stage somewhere, and
more often now he is being
recognized in the streets and
in restaurants.
LUKE BRYAN
Listen to Leesburg native
Luke Bryan talk, and the
natural twang in his voice
tells you he’s from as deep
into the rural south as a
young man can be. Listen
to him sing and the true-as
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to serve ten 10 in prison. The
remainder of his sentence
will be served on probation.
He will remain under state
supervision until 2027.
He was further required
to pay restitution for the
theft, get his GED, and not
participate in gang activity.
The events leading up to
his arrest and conviction are
as follows.
On Oct. 25, 2007, Warner
Robins police responded to
an armed robbery around
midnight at the BB&T
Bank. The victim reported
being robbed at knifepoint
while making the nightly
deposit for Sonic. After an
investigation led by Officer
and the federal government
also contributes to the cost of
lunches for paying students.
The problem that Hill ran
into during the course of this
school term is that while the
federal government is urging
school nutritionists to serve
more fresh fruits and veg
etables in an effort to provide
children with more vitamins
and to reduce obesity, the
costs, not only of fresh pro
duce, but also of milk, wheat
and beef, have all soared.
“I’ve never seen anything
like it in my 25 years of
school nutrition work,” Hill
said of the increases in food
costs.
She said that because
the system had received a
large amount of frozen and
canned fruits and vegetables
dirt details tell you he writes
about who he is and what he
knows.
He’s a straight-up, down
home country boy and his
music makes that as clear as
a sunny day on his family’s
peanut farm.
Bryan says sometimes
even his friends in Nashville
laugh at how country he is.
After graduation and sup
ported by his family, he
moved to Nashville in 2001.
Within two months, he had
signed a publishing deal.
This young man knows what
a country audience likes and
he gives it to them.
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Brad Triplett and Detective
Karen Stokes, police were
able to identify Hooker and
a Michael Schulzkump as
the perpetrators.
“Police verified the co
defendant’s statement,”
Assistant District Attorney
Joshua Morrison said, “dis
covering where the defen
dants had disposed of their
masks in a bum pile at his
house.
“Further, Hooker’s con
fession to a friend sealed
the case. Thanks to the
great work of the Warner
Robins Police Department,
especially Detective Karen
Stokes, a violent criminal is
now off of our streets.”
through the United States
Department of Agriculture
commodities program, she
had been able to keep within
her budget during this term,
but that it was not the way
the program should go, and
that the increase approved by
the board will allow the sys
tem’s 38 lunchrooms to have
menus that meet Houston
County’s standards.
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Houston HesHkcare celebrates National
Hospital Week with message of heaNng
Special to the Journal
America’s hospitals are
positive, vital places that pro
mote health and well-being
that’s the message health
care facilities across the
country are voicing as they
celebrated National Hospital
Week, Sunday through
today.
To that end, Houston
Healthcare, according to a
release, joined thousands of
other healthcare facilities in
observing this annual-event.
“We want people to
understand hospitals are
focused upon healing,” said
Skip Philips, Interim Chief
Executive Officer for Houston
Healthcare. “Our physicians,
nurses and staff are commit
ted to our mission and that
is to help people get well
and improve the health of
our community. This year’s
theme for National Hospital
Week - “Where Healing
Happens Every Day” truly
reflects that mission because
healing does happen every
day at Houston Healthcare.”
Keeping healthcare in a
positive light, according to
the release, is part of the tra
dition of National Hospital
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Week, a celebration of care
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tals from places of illness to
places of healing.
Today, National Hospital
Week is the nation’s largest
healthcare celebration.
In appreciation of their
hard work and dedication to
patient care, each Houston
Healthcare employee, accord
ing to the release, received
a token of appreciation and
was treated to ice cream and
breakfast biscuits during the
week. Houston Healthcare’s
Hospital Week was to also
include an employee picnic
catered and games promot
ing teamwork and overall
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