Newspaper Page Text
Local lines
# A woman is charged in car
crash that results in death of
an unborn infant
• Million dollar horse comes
to town
BELOW THE FOLD: County votes to allocate portion of HOPAC dollars to It. oriHouse
1 % Elementary School
_ Uw| Honor Rolls
Stmt
Volume 138, Number 53
Th*
FRONT DOOR
'‘Always open"
rShe will give birth to a son,
and you are to give him the
name Jesus, because he will
save his people from their sins.”
- Matthew 1:21
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
The Houston County Farm
Bureau chapter begins its mem
bership drive. The goal of the
organization is to sign up 397
farm families.
Also, the Perry Touchdown
Club orders a new scoreboard
for its football field. Plans are to
have it ready for the Panthers’
home opener against Warner
Robins Sept. 26.
30 years ago:
A boy missing for more than
two hours is found. He had
gone missing when he climbed
up into the tire compartment
of a station wagon parked at a
Little League game taking place
at Ochlahatchee Park in Perry.
The subsequent searched
involved numerous agencies
and more than 100 local vol
unteers.
Also, the Houston County
Board of Education announces
its budget for the year. It’s $19.6
million, which includes a seven
and a half percent pay raise,
The majority of the money,
$9,084,390 will go directly
toward education.
10 years ago:
The Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce announces it will
help the Houston County Habitat
for Humanity with mailings of its
regular*monthly newsletter. The
help will come in the form of
money raised from a special
housing program grant.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
Birthdays
July 4
☆☆ Sean Smith tfrfr
July 8
☆ - Annette Hall t ☆
E-mail birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewspapers.com or
donm@evansnewspapers.com.
to: 1210 Washington St.,
Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief.
Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231.
Anniversaries
July 8
Sandra and Dale Walker
(Congratulations on 30 years)
Award-Winning
Newspaper
Better Newspaper
Contest
PERIODICAL 500
mm
8 1, 55108 00001 1 4
lvllllll■llvllllllllllllllll■l■ll•■f mil
COOI *
Georgia Newspaper ProjeCl
Warn Library
University of Georgia
ATHENS GA 3Q6Q2-00G2
3-DiGfT 306
Si R\ INC. HoLSI'UN (.PI NT N SINC'R 1870
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Perry PD raids net 23 arrests
Operation Sudden Snatch includes support from
GSP, U.S. Marshals, Sheriff's Office and more
"We've definitely
put a dent In the
drug activity In
Perry today: The
individuals we
picked up, most of
them were
big-time sellers;
not their first time
around."
- Perry Police Department
Capt. Heath Dykes
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The Perry Police
Department, along with
direct support from the U.S.
Marshals Service, Georgia
State Patrol, Houston
County Sheriffs Office,
Probation, Parole and the
Houston County District
Attorney’s Office, issued a
wake-up at about 5 a.m.
Wednesday morning.
It sounded a whole lot like
this: Knock. Knock. Knock.
“Police department.”
And if that didn’t suffice:
Bam. Bam. Bam. “Police
department! Open up!”
Twenty-three did - actu
ally 22 as one turned him
self in later after hearing
the police were looking for
him - and now, they have to
deal with a whole different
version of a wakeup call.
As in: The reality of being
behind bars.
The arrests were part of
Operation Sudden Snatch.
Planning for Sudden
Snatch, explained Perry
Police Department Capt.
Heath Dykes, began about
12 months ago.
“What we do,” he said,
adding the department
typically has one to two of
these types of major opera
County votes to allocate portion of
HODAC dollars to Rainbow House
#
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Right now he has only one customer
~. his mother-in-law ... but the future is
wide open for Dan Thrasher thanks to the
Houston County Board of Commissioners.
They approved, Tuesday during their
regular meeting Perry, for a special excep
tion to allow him to operate a lawncare
business out of his Sleepy Lane home in
Warner Robins.
In other business, the Houston Drug
Action Council’s excess dollars are Rainbow
House’s gain.
According to Commissioner .Gail
Robinson, the county collects a 5 percent
add-on fee on each court fine in order
to pay for victim assistance services in
the county. Those funds have tradition
ally gone to HODAC, Robinson said, and
over the years, she said, the collection
has grown to the point “we now collect
approximately $200,000 annually for these
services.”
Given that, Robinson said, “It is now
appropriate to consider allocating a por
tion of these funds to Rainbow House.”
BlMMd'art'thoM
Pictures from Westfield’s
art camp. Rich - Fried green
tomatoes and how to make
them. Much more.
Lifestyle
|• • - t M
Wednesday, July 5, 2008
HHiHH 1 ' HH
Iff fe--: fg
mm M
■ ■ v '‘'rsMiPlPjMflMp -ffl r Wfs'f
~ -a * * Ml ± •- ' a
Sk IV. 'i \s «a I I
KLHHHBn 111 si 3 1 S f g I
H JL. . jB S X £
■
'■WLmm mf
Journal/Don Moncrief
Law enforceme'jt officers lead a man away following his arrest during Operation Sudden Snatch, conducted in
Perry Wednesday morning.
tions each year, “is we have
areas where we know we’re
having problems. Either by
calls or complaints from
the residents, or we arrest
somebody on the street that
tells on somebody.
“Basically what we’ll do
(then) is target the area.
Once we identify the sub
ject we make an undercover
buy from them. We ID the
subject once we buy from
them. Usually we try to buy
twice.
“And then we go on to
the next problem. After we
She said she had discussed it with both
agencies and they agreed to an 80/20 split
for the Fiscal Year 2009 money with the
first portion going to HODAC and the sec
ond to Rainbow House.
“This allocation will not harm HODAC
in providing its victim services and should
provide Rainbow House with sufficient
funding to provide a P/T victim advocate.”
The commissioners agreed, approving the
suggestion unanimously.
In more business, they voted to:
• Award a contract in the amount of
$643,013 to Greene’s Water Wells, Inc.
from Gray to provide a remote well addi
tion ($207,486 is for the pump) for the
Highway 96 project;
• Award a contract in the amount of
$251,620 to Reeves Construction for the
paving of White Road and Thomson Road
at U.S. 41;
• Provide the Board of Elections $24,128
for the upcoming election. The money it
was noted was to cover a variety of posi
tions and equipment including 25 manag
ers, 50 assistant mangers down to janitors,
as well as cell phones (temporarily).
WS bound again?
BASEBALL: Warner Robins American Little
League Major teams roils into title shot; Minor
boys to host state tourney in hopes of repeat.
SOFTBALL Girls win 2 District V titles.
Sports
get enough of them to cover
every area where we’re hav
ing issues, we’ll go to the
district attorney. And he’ll
do a special presentment
to the grand jury. And he
will indict them. It’s a spe
cial sealed indictment, so
nobody knows.
“And then we’ll do one
of these roundups (bringing
in the other agencies once
they’ve obtained 4he indict
ment, he said, to ensure
they have enough manpow
er).”
Wednesday’s actually
began at about 1 a.m. for
Andrew Dodson, Perry’s
drug investigator and in
this particular case its,
along with Dykes, opera
tions commander (Dykes
was more the field marshal
but the two, along with Tim
Marlow of the DA’s office,
rode together). He drove
around and did some last
minute “scouting,” he said,
although it should be added
he said he typically spends
five-six hours of his day in
the field, so he was already
pretty sure of his intel lead-
Which ballot should you choose?
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Signs up are up all over
the county and the prima
ry election is coming up on
July 15 for county and state
offices.
There is also a special
election for one Perry City
Council post.
If it’s getting confusing
and you want to know which
party’s ballot your preferred
candidate is on, here’s the
basic information:
Overton writes big check for big party
From st<fff™P orts
David Overton, whose Carroll Street jewelry store was
saved from the recent downtown fire has given a check
for SI,OOO to Councilman Riley Hunt to throw a party
and dinner for the firefighters and police offipers who
were on the scene to protect his and other stores and
keep the blaze from spreading.
Overton’s gift was announced at Tuesday’s brief city
See CHECK, page ?A
an Evans Family Newspaper
www.hhjnews.com
ing up to the operation.
The rest of the aforemen
tioned law enforcement
agencies met at 4 a.m. They
were broken up into four
groups at that time, with
a member of Perry’s PD -
based on the fact they know
the area - leading a team.
All sergeants, Chris Sutcliff
led one, David Hill another,
and Ken Ezell and Quridsha
Gilliam the other two.
Dodson provided each
team leader with a pack
age containing the
See RA IDS, page zA
Perry Council
You will find all three candi
dates on either ballot for the
Perry City Council District
3 race to fill the unexpired
term of Brian Bowen. You
must live in District 3 to
vote in this election which
is non-partisan. . Daniel F.
Brown, Dudley B. Christie
Jr. and Charles Lewis are
the candidates.
All other candidates are
running for their party’s
nomination.
See BALLOT, page jA