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BELOW THE FOLD: Flint Energies and Houston County partner to turn gas into cash, electricity
Volume 138, Number 75
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Danny
Evans
Editor and
Publisher
devans@evansnewspapers.com
She still has
that fire in
her eyes
We both came to
Warner Robins the
same year, 1959.
She lived on Myrtle Street,
me on Dewey Street. We
would become very close over
the years. After several years,
she had more family and had
to move out of the house she
was in. She moved to a tem
porary home on the corner of
Houston Road and Pineview
while her new home was
being built.
Around the same time, we
moved to Shirley Hills on
the corner of Mary Lane and
Clairmont.
From where we lived, we
would have to go by her
house coming and going
to town. I would get excit
ed each time I would go by
her house. Sometimes mom
would stop and visit, maybe
have a Coke.
When they did move into
her new house on Chestnut
Street, 1 didn’t get to see her
much.
Dad did take me to see her
one day at her new house on
Chestnut. I played with her
for a long time. I somehow
took her keys and hid them.
Her sitter at the time, Barney
Barnhart, had to come to my
house and get me, so I could
go back over and find her
keys.
Our paths would cross
from time to time ... At the
big Bowling Alley in Williams
Plaza, Warner Robins High
School, a Super Market on
Davis Drive. I even saw her
early one morning at some
apartments on the comer of
Mary Lane and Westminster
Lane.
As we grew older we took
different paths. She grew
up working hard in Warner
Robins.
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September 20,2008
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
WR animal shelter moving forward
Grant, if applied for and approved would add $25,000 to severe weather warning system purchase
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Well, the money’s in the
bank.
“The check’s are all in,”
Warner Robins Mayor pro
tem Clifford Holmes told
members of the Vision 2020
Perry test driving hybrid
SUV runs on combination
of gas and electricity
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Perry’s Public Safety staff members are test driving a
baby-blue SUV for the next two weeks to see if hybrid is
the way to go. «
The test vehicle, provided by Peach County Ford, is
supposed to get 36 to 40 mph, with a combination of gas
(or a flex fuel such as E-85) and electricity.
The electrical power comes from a super-sized battery
under a flap in the back of the vehicle.
According to Bruce Townsend, fleet and government
sales manager for Ford, starting up the engine on gas
charges the electrical battery and the hybrid would save
$3,000 to $5,000 per year in fuel costs.
Potter said that the hybrid vehicles, if purchased,
would be used for administrative purposes, which would
include transporting evidence and police dogs.
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Hint, county partner to turn gas Into cash, electricity
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
County Commissioner Larry
Thomson once referred to it as
“garbage juice”. “It” is “leachate”,
mostly storm water drainoff at the
Houston County landfill.
Back in May the commissioners
voted to award a contract to CBP for
just shy of SIOO,OOO for equipment
necessary to re-circulate the leach
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
William J. Sexton, Perry oil
distributor is elected president
of the Perry Kiwanis Club.
A city-wide search for an 8
Lucky lady
Houston County teen named
to leadership post. Perry
Area Historical Society to
discuss plans for museum.
Lifestyle
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Advisory Group Wednesday,
in regard to the county’s
$200,000 contribution to
the new animal shelter and
Centerville’s $50,000.
That’s all in place. (An
additional animal control
officer was also sworn in
dpring Monday’s Warner
year-old girl who is lost takes
place. The girl is missing for
nearly four hours before she
is found unharmed under a
tree next to the State Jaycee
Headquarters Building.
30 years ago:
Veteran City Council mem
ber Gene Smith is stabbed
and robbed while working at
the Holiday Food Store on
Marshallville highway. The
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Congress
ate back through garbage At the
landfill. That equipment is expect
ed to be online within the next
week or two, said Murray Griffin,
President and CEO of Atlantic Coast
Consulting Engineers, at Tuesday’s
County Commissioners’ meeting.
That in turn will produce more
methane gas than was previously
being produced - as part of a grand
design.
And methane gas was at the heart
Moving four-ward
FOOTBALL: Northside rolls past Valdosta.
Westover radios past Perry. SOFTBALL:
WF eyes region title; Demonettes roll; NS
falls in extra innings again. More.
Sports
Robins City Council meet
ing.) What’s left to be deter
mined is the exact/precise
location it will be built.
A general area of an acre
has been picked out it’s just
being tweaked as to where it
will actually be on that acre.
About a half an acre is what
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ABOVE: Public Safety Chief George Potter gets ready to test drive a Ford Escape,
which runs n a combination of gas and electricity. With him is Bruce Townsend, Ford’s
fleet and government sales manager.
TOP LEFT: Townsend uncovers the giant battery that gives the SUV its fuel efficiency.
LEFT: A full view of the vehicle.
of the County Commissioners meet
ing Tuesday in Warner Robins.
The group voted unanimously
to award Flint Energies the con
tract for sale of landfill gas from
the Houston County Solid Waste
Disposal Facility.
“We hope for three things,” said
Bob Ray, President and CEO of Flint
Energies, whose organization rose
to the top out of 11 total requests for
proposals in what Houston County
robber comes in and asks for
ice cream. When Smith turns
the robber puts a knife into his
back. He is stabbed again when
the Assailant says he isn’t mov
ing fast enough.
10 years ago:
Nearly 700 Houston County
graduates qualify for HOPE
scholarships. Of the 700 stu
dents 115 are graduates of
Perry High School.
Joe Musselwhite, Public
Works, told the city council
men Monday it would take.
That includes parking and,
he added, there is room for
expansion. The site itself is
off Industrial Blvd., near
the fire training area and
water sewer plant. There’s
Sources: The Daily Sun, HHJ
- Compiled by Krystal Riner
Birthdays
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Pat “Meme" Collins "Sr
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Mail to: 1210 Washington St., -
Perry 31069 attn: Don Moncrief.
Or, call 987-1823, Ext. 231.
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nothing new about that
location - Mayor Donald
Walker mentioned it in con
versation about a month
ago. What is new is the
fact the councilmen made a
motion Monday to approve
the site (the general area,
See SHELTER, page fA
Director of Operations Tommy
Stalnaker called a “tough, tough”
selection process. “Energy is num
ber one,” Ray said. “Number two
is community. We’re the hometown
team doggone it and proud of the
relationship we have with this com
munity and the county. And third is
building on the national reputation
(the landfill won the 2007 Solid
Waste Association
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FRONTDOOR
"Afway'i, nperf
“I want to remind you of
the gospel I preached to you,
which you received and on
which you have taken your
stand.
- 1 Corinthians 15:1-2