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Volume 138, Number 93
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Inside: HC Fire Dept, sets
Boston Butt fundraiser
Front Porch
Where neighbor', meet
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Towery: “The debt we owe
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HHJ history
50 years ago:
Savings bond sales
amount to $2,729,069.
The state of Georgia as a
whole attains 84.9 perfcent
of its $56 million goal.
30 years ago:
A large group of farmers
load up on charter buses
and head to Washington
D.C. to be part of a mas
sive raly at the capitol.
10 years ago:
Two Perry architect com
panies are named among
the finalists for designing
the county’s new court
house. Also, the Board of
Education announces that
Charles Allen Holloway
from Texas has been
elected as the new super
intendent of schools.
Sources: The Daily Sun and
Houston Home Journal
- Compiled by Krystal Riner
Birthdays
Dec. 11
Lynett Woodruff
Dec. 13
Dale Waite
Kathy Crenshaw
Kenny Roberts
Dec. 14
Emily Christine
Seeger (Happy No. 5!)
Dec. 15 .
Leon Walker
Rick Davis
Johnny Webb
Noeida Walker
Dec. 16
Randy Mullis
Rhonda Duggan
Aniyah Parrish
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Dec. 15
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Law agencies break up chop shop
Special to the Journal
According to a release, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation and Houston
County Sheriff’s Office culminated a
yearlong investigation Tuesday by
serving search warrants and arrest
warrants at a Macon County truck
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Leaders upbeat on county's future
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
The economy may be
floundering nationwide, but
three Houston County lead
ers took an upbeat attitude
Thursday as they briefed
Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce members on “the
state of the community.”
Houston County
Commission Chairman Ned
Sanders, Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall and Supt. of Schools
David Carpenter spoke to the
group, with Chamber chair
man-elect Kim Sheridan
making the introductions
and adding some commen
tary of her own, especially
in regard to the importance
of shopping locally this
Christmas to keep sales tax
revenues at home.
Sanders began his remarks
by thanking those present
for supporting the 2001 and
2006 Special Purpose Local
Option Sales Tax referenda
and the Nov. 4 vote on the
Severe Weather Warning
System proposal that will
increase property taxes by
1/2 mill for one year.
“We hope to have a draft
plan ready by March,”
Sanders said, noting that he
expected to see the county
wide warning system in
place a year from now.
He also talked about the
recent purchase of 667.32
acres near 1-75 and Thomson
Road in Perry, pointing.
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Lifestyle
Carols, candlelight at
the Crossroads. Cub
Scouts treating troops
to popcorn. More.
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Houston County Commission Chairman Ned Sanders speaks during
the State of the Community Luncheon held Thursday at Rozar Park.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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ing company. The trucking compa
ny is located at 2524 Drayton Road,
Montezuma.
According to the release, while
also running a trucking business,
the group stole tractor trailer trucks
and took them to the business where
employees would disassemble the
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trucks and sell the parts to different
venders.
Some of the stolen parts were
sold in Bibb, Jones and Houston
County. A truck was recently stolen
from Nebraska and was recovered
by the Ft. Valley Police Department
during a traffic stop after* it left the
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Sports
Westfield earns wres
tling wins. Perry open
region basketball with
win; Hornets undefeated.
Freeman property.
Other trucks were stolen from
Houston County, Dooly County,
Quitman and Montezuma.
To that end, Fletcher Freeman Sr.,
Fletcher Freeman Jr., Sean Benard
Freeman and Timothy Tookes were
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HCDA approves
land sale/donation
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The bottom line for the City of Perry is
it will get its land. Not its land but land,
just a hair over two acres, that belongs to
the Houston County Development Authority
and is to be donated. The only question is
whether or not Perry will get the land out
right from the Development Authority or via
the Airport Authority.
By way of explanation, the Houston County
Development Authority is currently staffing
a package for the Airport Authority. It’s
in the amount 11.2 acres and at a cost of
$248,550.
The question, with the answer to be
determined, is if Perry’s land is included
in that sale. To cover both possibilities, the
Development Authority approved the sale of
the land to the Airport Authority and added
the caveat that if Perry’s land wasn’t part of
the package, they would donate it separately.
Either way, Perry will get its land. The acre
age in both cases - the land for the City of
Perry and the Airport Authority - is part of
the airport’s expansion efforts. It is part of
a Georgia One grant, explained Perry City
Manager Lee Gilmore, with money com
ing from the 2006 SPLOST. Perry’s main
involvement, Gilmore said, was for Airport
Road. At one point it makes a “severe turn,
then comes back in,” he said. The goal then
is to straighten it. “The City of Perry is tak
ing the lead because once it’s finished, it will
be a Perry street, maintained by the city,”
Gilmore said.
To accomplish the overall task means going
through four property owners. One of those
is the Development Authority - hence the
request for donated land.
The “other property owners,” Gilmore
said. “We have talked to them, and I guess
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Perry’s David
Braun along
with his Dad
John Braun
receive the
Reserve
Grand
Champion
from GBA
President
Lonnie Smith,
right, and
Rick Godfrey,
left. Reserve
Grand
Champion is
awarded to
the team with
the highest
combined
score dur
ing the Pigs
and Wings
Georgia
Barbecue
Sanctioned
Event held
this past
weekend at
the Houston
County
Airport in
Perry. For
more, see BA.
ENI/Audrey Evans