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Volume 138, Number 86
Local lines
• Perry considering making
one-way streets in Oldfield
• Centerville looks at amend
ment to alarm ordinance
Consensus: Time to rally behind Obama
By KRYSTAL RINER
Journal Staff Writer
The victory of Barack
Obama as the newly-elect
ed President of the United
States was a day that made
history.
Locally, students at schools
around Houston County
participated in “mock elec
tions”, learning the impor
tance of the right to vote and
that every vote does count.
“Although I am not old
enough to vote yet, this elec
tion was very important
me, Obama’s term will have
impact on me as I prepare
to enter the working world
after high school and col
lege,” said Courtney Chikas
a senior at Perry High
School.
Twelve out of 15 people
asked in Houston County
the day following the elec
tion said that even though
Perry Publix opens doors on Wednesday
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Perry Publix
Manager
Don
McFadyen,
right,
talks with
Grocery
Manager
Tim Krepps
and
Grocery
Team
Leader
Stephen
Smith
about
stock
ing the
shelves for
the store’s
opening on
Wednesday.
ENI/ Gary
Harmon
From staff reports
The new Perry Publix Super Market will have
a ribbon cutting at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday, with
the doors opening to customers for the first time
at 7 a.m.
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Lifestyle
Balvaunuca Club getting ready for
Mistletoe Market 2008. Lineberger: “Only
one chance to make this day count”;
Evans: “Heading home, Part 11. More.
they didn’t vote for him or
necessarily agree with him
on certain issues, the bal
lots have been cast and the
decision has been made. The
consensus is: It’s time to
rally around him and our
nation.
“’Change’ is a word we
have heard a lot about over
the past several months,”
said Mark Leisman of
Bonaire. “I am ready to see
things change for the bet
terment of this country and
given the chance I think
Obama can show us that
change.”
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall
said that regardless of who
was chosen President of the
United States for the next
four years, they had “the
responsibility for bringing
our nation back to the sta
bility it once had has to do
See OBAMA, page 10A
Front Porch
"Where neighbors meet"
A look.back
50 years ago:
Warner Robins beats Perry 57-54 in
basketball. Boot Hunt, Eddie Livingston
and Terry Griffin account for 34 of the
Panthers’ points. The Demons are led
by Larry Norman’s 21.
30 years ago:
After debating for several minutes on
whether or not to lease a $51,000 gar
bage truck, the County Commissioners
just cut to the chase and buy it.
10 years ago
The Pilot Club of Perry announces
Saturday, November 8, 2008
County sets record for election turnout
Editor's note: The num
bers given here are from the
Houston County Board of
Elections are still unofficial.
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
More than 56,000 Houston
County voters participated
in Tuesday’s general elec
tion, with many voting
in advance. According to
Elections Superintendent
Joanne Shipes, it was the
largest number of voters in
the county’s history.
With 78.12 percent voter
turnout, Houston County
held onto its reputation as a
Republican stronghold, but
Democratic voting was high
The store, located at 275 Perry Parkway, at
the parkway’s intersection with Houston Lake
Road.
The new Publix which is similar in size and
layout to the Publix at the intersection of Lake
Joy Rd. and Hwy. 96, is the anchor store for a
it will hold a fashion show and dessert
event. In other news, Chris Wentzel is
named the club’s sweetheart.
Sources: The Daily Sun, Houston
Home Journal
- Compiled by Krystal Riner
Anniversary
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in some pre
cincts, and
Democratic
Congress
man Jim
Marshall
was in the
lead with
Houston
voters.
K«y local
races
NUNN
At the local level, incum
bent Superior Court Judge
George Nunn won by a land
slide with 74.89 percent of
the vote to 25 percent for
challenger Bonnie M. Smith.
This was a nonpartisan elec
tion.
Voters also gave Charles
“Toby” Hill, incumbent
Board of Education mem
shopping center which also includes a strip of
shops and a convenience store with gas pumps.
The shops are not yet occupied.
Publix, a privately-held company, has more
than 900 grocery stores in Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee.
Sports
Mary Riley wins inaugural
county women’s champion
ship; Wesfield playoff foot
ball. More.
her, a land
slide vote in
a non-par
tisan elec
tion, with
76.44 per- •
cent to chal
lenger Dan
Murray’s
23.39 per
cent.
Buddy
Harden, Republican candi
date for Georgia House of
Representatives, Dist. 147,
won with 67.96 percent to
Democrat Rob C. Gibb’s 32
percent.
How did Houston County
vote in regard to national
leadership?
McCain-Obama
In the Presidential elec-
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Nov. 8
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Nov. 10
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Novl 11
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to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069
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Houston
County
went over
all for
Republican
Sen. John
McCain,
with 59.63
percent of
the vote to
39.39 per-
HARDEN
cent for Sen. Barack Obama,
now President-elect.
Landslide districts for
McCain-Palin included the
Quail Run district, which
gave the Republican ticket
over 80 percent of the vote
and the Bonaire area which
came close with 78 percent.
Obama’s highest Houston
See TURNOUT, page ioA
Design team
returning to
Warner Bobins
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
It’s time to see if your
hard work paid off.
Well, yours and theirs.
“Theirs” is that of the
Urban Design Association
out of Pittsburgh, a team of
city and design consultants
the city of Warner Robins
hired (they get paid in cash,
you get paid in having a
better place to live) to pro
vide a vision for Downtown
Redevelopment.
It becomes your hard work
and theirs if you participat
ed in any of the two pub
lic workshops leading up to
their return Thursday (or if
you participate then).
In the last meeting in June,
the group provided a visual
plan for that redevelopment
then asked you, the citizen,
to give them feedback.
This third meeting, which
is slated to run for 7-9 p.m.
at the Civic Center is for
them to provide you addi
tional feedback on what they
came up with based on your
input.
Then again they will ask
for your help.
“We need your feedback
on the plan, as well as any
further thoughts on land
uses, open space, building
See DESIGN, page SA
Front Door
"Always open"
Brethren, if a man is over
taken in any trespass, you
who are spiritual restore such
a one in a spirit of gentleness,
considering yourself lest you
also be tempted.
Bear one another’s bur
dens, and so fulfill the law of
Christ.
For if anyone thinks himself
to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceives himself.
- Galatians 6:1-3
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