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Volume 138, Number 48
FRONT DOOR
"Always open”
“Therefore God exalted Him to
the highest place and gave Him
the name that is above every
name, that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, in heav
en and on earth and under the
earth, and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.”
- Phillipians 2:9-11
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
A Houston County grand jury
declines to indict the then mayor
of Warner Robins and a bank
president on charges of mis
applying $19,770. The present
ment chaged that that amount,
in the form of a cashier’s check,
was falsely issues as a loan to
the city of Warner Robins but
was actually used in the mayor’s
drug store.
30 years ago:
A local man is arrested and
charged in his wife's murder.
According to the city detective,
the man’s wife’s body is found
on the landing of a stairway
leading to their apartment. The
detective adds that she was shot
in the back once with a .357
magnum.
Also, for the second time in a
month, the City of Perry is sued
for alleged negligence in the nat
ural gas explosion that rocked
Perry Plaza Shopping Center.
10 years ago:
For the second consecutive
year, Weyerhaeuser wins the
American Forest and Paper
Association’s Environment and
Energy Achievement Award for
pollution prevention.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
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Mail to: 1210 Washington St., Perry
31069 attn: Don Moncrief. Or, call
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Anniversaries
June 15
Joanne and Harry Hawkins
(Happy 50th!)
June 17
Ruth and Chuck Treptow
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Lifestyle
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CUT OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
WR, Ml, county approve siren study
Perry - with cause - a holdout
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Three down and one to go, but
that one - the City of Perry - is
proving to be a hard sale. With good
cause, its representatives believe
Kids, cops and firefighters
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Kids in the Public Safety Junior Academy program find out just how much muscle it takes to haul a firehose to the scene of a blaze.
Perry Public Safety
Department offers fun along
with some important lessons
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
It’s a summer morning. Do you know where your pre
teen children are?
Some Perry parents could answer that question with
absolute confidence for the last two weeks, because their
sixth grade sons and daughters were under the watchful
eye of police officers and firefighters, learning all about
public safety, about the realities of police work, law and
order, and firefighting.
The department’s Youth Academy, a free program,
included outdoor fun as well as learning activities, and
included a trip to Wild Adventures.
In the police academy, run by the officers who serve in
the schools, the young people got a chance to learn about
arrefcts and police protocol, how evidence is handled, and
even a little about trials.
They held a trial themselves with Mayor Jim Worrall
serving as judge, and the young people serving as a jury.
In the mock trial, which was the culmination of
See LESSONS, page yA
Design compamf offers first glimpse into revitalized downtown WR
By DONMONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Residents of Warner
Robins received the first
glimpse of what their down
town might look like in the
future, Thursday during a
public meeting at the Civic
Center.
Urban Design Association
out of Pittsburgh, which
has been contracted by the
Saturday, June 14, 2008
and can justify, it should be added.
The City of Warner Robins, City
of Centerville and the county - each
entity’s representative - gave their
nod of approval Thursday during
a special called Vision 2020 meet-
city to provide that “master
plan” for revitalization, at
that venue unveiled - via
maps but one in particular
- the culmination of their
efforts to date.
Needless to say, it is a
thing of beauty. Utopia,
“old Southern style” was
one of the many terms used
to describe some areas by
Paul Ostergaard, vice presi
dent of the company, if it all
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BASEBALL: Westfield has new head
coach. Also, results of the Demon
Diamond Baseball Bash. SOCCER: All-
Houston County girls team. More.
Sports
ing to go forward with a more
in-depth study (more in-depth to
what Houston County Emergency
Management Direction Jimmy
Williams has already done, which
to his credit, is pretty in-depth
in itself) to bring one emergency
notification system to the whole of
Houston County.
Warner Robins, via Councilman
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learning about fire safety and firefighting this week in a free program.
becomes a reality, is not an
understatement.
The far north end of town
- pretty much the major
ity of the design efforts
were focused on the east
side of Davis Drive from
where it intersects Highway
247 on down to where it
meets Russell Parkway
- Ostergaard said, is best
suited - based on its prox
imity to Robins Air Force
Base and subsequent flight
patterns - for some type
of “high-tech” village.
“Lockheed, Boeing, types
like that,” he said. “There
are other types, it doesn’t
have to be aerospace relat
ed. It’s just that those types
based on the base are more
of a logical choice.”
For the area farthest
south and east, UDA has
designed a major sports
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John Williams - Mayor Donald
Walker has been ill and was not
present - added the caveat: “we’re
only interested in the siren system.
Not the phone notification.”
The siren system, in case you
haven’t already read, is the Whelen
WPS29O6, which has six differ
ent warning tones and includes a
See STUDY, page 10A
Journal/Charlotte Perkins
complex (something the
city has also talked about in
the past). Their suggestion,
Ostergaard said, would be
to even move the recreation
department from its cur
rent location on Watson
Blvd. to there to free up
“prime real estate” (which
the whole of Watson in the
area of the new downtown
is deemed). On the land
See GLIMPSE, page SA