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Volume 138, Number 91 Btiow tfl€ fold: Perry Council approves church plans Inside: A busy, busy day in the courts; Ctrvlle City. Council, more Front Porch "Where neighbors meet' HHJ history 50 years ago: The Houston Home Journal offers to take and publish any 1-year-old’s picture for the Christmas edition of the paper. 30 years ago: The Houston County Sheriffs office announces that it clears 74 percent of the 871 cases it inves tigates. The Perry-Fort Valley Airport project gets help from the FFA- a por tion of it to go toward cost overruns, in the form of grant money totaling $52,800. 10 years ago: Plans to construct a post office in Perry hit a roadblock. The problems reportedly stem over the previous owner of the property and the contrac tor for the project. Sources: The Daily Sun and Houston Home Jdkmal - Compiled by Krystal Riner Correction/clarification: In the article in the Nov. 29 paper regarding pet masks being donated to the Houston County Fire Department, currently on 10 have been donated (versus the 15 reported). Therapups, however, is still trying to raise funds for five more kits for Houston County, as well as three kits for the Perry Fire Department. Also, Therapups is not an agen cy, they are a group of vol unteers that do Therapy Dog work with their dogs. Therapups is a local orga nization spread through out Central Georgia. They visit in schools, the chil dren’s hospital and nurs ing homes but are affili ated with Therapy Dogs Inc and registered through them. Birthdays Dec. 3 Kirk Crumpton Dec. 4 Henry Leavengood Dec. 6 Merricka McGhee Dec. 7 Timothy Hill Kenny Greene Dec. 8 Bob Irwin Teresa Hawk Michael Hutchinson 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. PERIODICAL 500 11111111 l 8 "*55108 00001* 4 Cool* Newspaper Project Man Library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 22 ALL FOR ADC 30 1 Serving Mt-)L's?'( ; )N CouNtt Since US7O LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE HC awarded $3 million Career Academy grant Special to the Journal The Houston County Board of Education and Middle Georgia Technical College in partner ship have been awarded a $3 mil lion grant for a career academy. The State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia, accord ing to a release, approved the award Thursday. nHMio ■IpSISh 1 agMiKiai • — : : From left: Rebecca Bingham, Victoria Hankins, Lottie Kolodnuy, Katie Chambliss and Haley Valis dance to Christmas music at the Rozar Park Senior Center Thursday. Perry High School students brought the Christmas spirit to the center with music and dance. See Page 1C for more photos and story. K Hi "jp V ill # /Am m V ' Jgßf. ■Jh^^PMO^KaJBBWBk> „ • • '■/ '®BBk %£• :'. ’. v? £ C'Vjfej ENI/Gary Harmon Perry firefighters extinguish a fire tfiaf occurred Friday at a deserted house on Swift Street and Marketplace. Perry Christmas Parade Route Special to the Journal The annual Perry Christmas parade will begin at 2 p.m. today. The parade route begins on Macon Road near the post office and continues to Carroll. It will proceed down Carroll Street, Saturday, December 6, 2008 Lifestyle Happy Hour holds Christmas dance. Perry Players pres ent Miracle on 34th Street. The Quiz and much more. The goal of a career academy, according to the release, is to pro vide students the training needed to fill existing jobs, or jobs that will exist soon, and to ensure that all students have the necessary skills and work ethic for employment prior to leaving high school. MGTC will offer dual enrollment certificate programs at the Houston County Career Academy so that high school A white Christmas Swift response and then go up Main Street approximately to the Board of Education building. This year's parade is sponsored by the Houston Home Journal and Houston Springs. The theme is "The Magic of Christmas". According to Julie Evans, one of the organizers, it will be a bigger parade than the last two years. Sports Warner Robins, Northside, Perry and Westfield bas ketball. Panther wrestlers split matches. More. students may earn job-relevant col lege credit at no cost to them or their parents while still in high school. “We are very excited about this grant award,” said Superintendent of Schools David Carpenter. “This is a collaborative effort of our school system, Middle Georgia Technical College, and our business commu nity. “We greatly appreciate the work of www.hhjnews.com the steering committee, chaired by Mr. Tom McMichael, and everyone who helped bring this effort to frui tion. Now the work begins!” Dr. Ivan Allen, president of Middle Georgia Technical College, said: “We are very pleased that Lt. Gov. Cagle has announced this grant for Houston County. This provides an excellent opportunity for us to See GRANT,page 8A Joumal/Charlotte Perkins an Evans Family Newspaper WPt vytjKA jr jy*** Narcotics unit busts three Confiscated drugs, cash exceed $3,600 Special to the Journal The Houston County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit, accord ing to a release, arrested three sub jects and are look ing for a fourth after seiz ing a large quantity of mari juana and ecstasy tablets during a drug raid in Perry Thursday after noon. The Narcotics Unit executed a drug search wa r - rant at 831 Oak Ridge Drive at around 4 p.m. afternoon after con ducting an inves tigation D. Williams L. Williams Foster H Hayward into the sell of illegal drugs from the residence. During the course of the investigation, inves tigators, according to the release, conducted a See BUSTS, page yA Perry Council approves church plans By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Sandbed Baptist Church plans to relocate from Sandbed Road to Perry with the approval of the Perry City Council, which voted to approve the See COUNCIL, page 7 A