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Volume 138, Number 97
Below the fold: 21st
CP treated to 'Show and Tell'
Inside: Donate, shop and
save at Habitat Re-Store
Front Porch
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On our web
• Matt Towery: Don’t
give Caroline Kennedy a
bailout
• Georgia seeks input
on changes to hunting
regulations
• Houston County
pandemic flu task force
awarded $2,000 grant
HHJ history
50 years ago:
17-year-old Bill Morris of
Perry scores 439 points
out of a possible 500 and
wins first place in the local
safe driving Road-e-o.
30 years ago:
A recycling firm in
Kathleen appears before
the. county commission
after evidence of burn
ing was found on its site.
The firm vows to never let
it happen again and the
commission in turn issues
a warning that if it does,
it will be fined SI,OOO to
start with.
10 years ago:
The Perry-Fort Valley
Airport Authority votes to
install a non-directional
beacon for instructional
landings when visibility is
limited during bad weath
er.
Sources: The Daily Sun and
Houston Home Journal
- Compiled by Krystal Riner
Birthdays
Dec. 27
Sally Hair Davis
Frances H. Bowen
Margaret B. Culpepper
Durward Mercer
Dec. 28
Rodney Hair
Dec. 30
Allen Hawk
Terry Myers, Jr.
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Dec. 28
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Lifestyle
‘Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf’
- local woman writes book on
werewolves. Start new year by
pampering yourself. More.
Martin taking the 'humble' road to recovery
"Just to sum it up, I'll say I'm blessed. I
got a lot of people pulling lor me. I’ve got
the kids' support, my faculty members,
the community, the board ot education.
I'm just ready to work."
- Warner Robins Middle School Athletic Director Mike Martin
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
The last thing Mike Martin
wants people to consider him
as is a “Survivor.” He’s just
waiting for that day to come
in January when he can
resume business as usual in
his job as athletic director
for Warner Robins Middle
School.
And interestingly enough,
the last person who can really
account for all of the events
of a particular Thursday
afternoon in September is
Mike Martin himself.
It was on Sept. 11 when
Martin helped evacuate his
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Contributed
The third grade classes of Karen Ray and Janna Gray, some of its members pictured above, at The Westfield School recently performed a
Christmas Musical program for parents, grandparents and friends.
WRALC Commander's 'Show and Tell' offers a glimpse into today, tomorrow
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Dec. 18 was Show and Tell
day, as self-proclaimed by
Warner Robins Air Logistics
Center Commander
Gen. Polly Peyer.
To that end, she showed
several items to those assem
bled for the 21st Century
Partnership meeting at the
Museum of Aviation.
The first for the honored
guest speaker was a hat
(which she was also nice
enough to model) with the
letters “VPP” on it; it along
with the other items pulled
Saturday, December 27, 2008
and other middle school
football players from a dan
gerous storm detected at
the Bonaire Middle School
field. He and other school
and game officials were then
talking about what to do
with the scheduled game,
wait out the required 30
minutes and try to continue
play or move the game to
another date.
At least that’s what people
tell Martin what happened
when lightning hit and sent
him and three others to the
Augusta Burn Center. Martin
was the only one who ended
up in critical condition.
Ti(e-dye)dings of comfort, joy
from a Museum of Aviation
bag, which she added was
also part of the positive
message she, on behalf of
the Air Force, was telling.
VPP stands for Voluntary
Protection Program, an
OSHA run program, she
said.
“When I was at the
Pentagon,” she said, “it was
pretty much meaningless to
me at the time ... a point
paper and a briefing. But
when I got down here and
saw banners and posters
and slides and all kind of
things about VPP I real
ized it really is a culture
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Mike Martin, left , helps coach the Warner Robins High School boys basketball team
during the Houston County Bear Brawl basketball tournament held recently.
More than three months
later - two days before
change - to look at the work
environment, particularly
safety ... and this is not just
the industrial environment,
this is slips, trips and falls,
which is probably a good
60 percent of where iiyuries
are. And so Robins Air Force
Base has been very engaged
in VPP”
She added that the Air
Force has what they call
Commander’s Safe Sites;
with bronze, silver and gold
levels. To reach any level, she
said, you have .to go through
an audited process.
“And so Robins has one
gold,” she said, “and that
Sports
Campbell steals Bear
Brawl honors from Houston
County. Aquanauts earn
swim title. More.
Christmas - Martin was
seated where he normally
was just recently achieved
... So the Air Force has over
100 in a 11... And we are just
in the process in the main
tenance wing of submitting
two applications to OSHA
for their gold level.”
Peyer also passed around
to the group two pieces of
aluminum, one a raw chunk
and the other a finished prod
uct. The finished product
was a lever. She explained
how about six months ago an
accident investigation board
had determined the cause of
some T-38 crashes was the
result of that lever.
Then she spoke about how
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ALC’s had been challenged
to produce the levers and
how Robins had responded.
“It may seem very simple,”
she said, “but to make this is
a 10-step process. And for
anyone who’s ever worked in
a machine shop, a machine
shop is (‘used to be’ was her
point) one of the dirtiest,
loudest places to work on
the face of the earth. Right
after the tire shop.
“And so a machinist who
was skilled in grinding and
lathing and sometimes
welding back in those days
would take days to make
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