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I Volume 138, Number 47
The
FRONT DOOR
"Always open "
"It is God's will that you should
be sanctified: that you should
avoid sexual immorality; that
each of you should learn to con
trol his own body in a way that
is holy and honorable, not in
passionate lust like the heathen,
who do not know God;’’
- 1 Thessalonians 4
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
Following is a poem by Cooper
Etheridge that ran in the Houston
Home Journal in 1958:
“/ can't keep up with Iraqi,
“Tis too much for me, by
cracki.
“I just now caught up
“With people so wrought up
Over dresse that look so
sacky. ”
30 years ago:
Details regarding how the City
of Perry will use a $500,000
Federal grant for a public rec
reation park brings out, accord
ing to the news story, a “record
(mostly enthusiastic - although
one resident walks out so the
meeting, upset that the city will
have to pay or upkeep) crowd.”
Also, a two year evaluation of
Houston County kindergartens
by a University of Georgia team
turns up good marks. “I believe
Houston County will have an
exemplary program,” one expert
remarks. “I’ve been in 10 school
districts and I believe Houston
County is in good shape.”
10 years ago:
Thirteen Houston County
students are named Georgia
Scholars and recognized by local
sponsors of the program, the
Perry Area and Warner Robins
Area Chamber of Commerces.
Also Perry High School’s April
Fendley earns the Eric P. Staples
Award. And, it marked the fourth
time a member of the Fendley
family had won the prestigious
honor in its 26-year history.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
June 10
☆' Emogene Floyd nir
June 13
☆ Christine Walker
<V Hugh D. Lord (Happy
92nd!) *
☆ ; Tricia Weeks ☆
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.
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No need to cry
Vidaiias - Classic casserole; stuffed
sweet; onions in wine, more. Also:
New ideas for summer grilling
- let’s talk turkey. More.
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BELOW THE FOLD: Teamwork puts books into bookhags for pre-schoolers
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
WR downtown development team returns
To hold public meeting Thursday to unveil draft design, seek additional input
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The Urban Design Association
team out of Pittsburgh, Penn., has
returned to Warner Robins. The
group, which the City of Warner
Robins is paying $240,000 to pro
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Attendees for the Museum of Aviation’s World War II hangar grand opening ceremony Friday wave flags to show their patriotism. For more, see
page BA.
A storybook ending
Teamwork puts books into bookbags for pre-schoolers
From staff reports the books to the literacy and the remaining 80 will be given out in the months ahead.
What’s the best thing to
put in a kid’s backpack just
as summer is beginning?
How about storybooks to
take home for keeps?
One day last week, the
Houston County Friends of
the Library, the Houston
County Certifed Literate
Community Program, the
Warner Robins T.J. Maxx
Store and Kohls were all
involved in a project bound
to bring smiles to faces of
children from disadvan
taged families and encour
age a love of books.
It all got started when
Christine Hoskins of the
Friends of Library had
a talk on radio with Joe
Bishop, who does double
duty as news director for
Georgia Eagle Broadcasting
and coordinator of the
CLPCE
That’s when Hoskins
pointed out that the Friends
of the Library were likely to
have children’s books left
over from their big annual
sale, and offered to donate
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
vide a design concept for a down
town Warner Robins, was initially
here back in early March.
At that time, it held a public
meeting at the civic center where
it asked city residents - those in
attendance, which was approxi
mately 100 - to take part in an
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program.
Bishop then brainstormed
with Dorothy Ferguson, who
chairs the literacy program
at Middle Georgia Technical
College, about how to dis
tribute the books, and
got in touch with Debbie
Stephens, who is director of
Cherished Children, a pre
school with plenty of kids in
need of books.
As it turned out, some
body else had been thinking
of Cherished Children.
The T.J. Maxx store had
just donated 100 school style
backpacks to the store and
those backpacks were wait
ing to be filled with books.
The next step was to pick
up the storybooks from the
Friends of the Library -
more than 1,000 books in 32
large boxes.
Bishop handled the trans
portation, volunteers from
Kohls helped with stuffing
the backpacks.
The first 20 backpacks
' were given to children grad
uating from the program,
Making soma racquet
TENNIS/BASKETBALL: Camps at
Westfield and Northside, respectively.
BASEBALL: Youth plays a role in HC win.
Golf tourney results and much more.
Sports
exercise that had them placing of
all things dots about the size of
a dime on a human-sized map of
Warner Robins.
The dots were red, green and
blue in color with red representing
those places city residents felt were
the worst part of the city, the green
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Evelyn Merk, with Friends of the Library, presents books to Jayleem Santos and
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for the best and the blue for those
places/areas residents felt repre
sented the best place to develop a
downtown.
Oddly enough, the major
ity of the blue ones ended up right
around their feet - in other words
See DOWNTOWN, page 8A
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