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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 "Where neighbors meet' 1 aBBftW ~v l 9B* .s■' 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. 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. Anniversary Dec. 28 Cari and Bruce Patton (celebrating their 19th) Award-Winning Newspaper Better Newspaper Contest PERIODICAL 500 limiiii 8 "SSIOB 00001 1 * 4 COOI Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library University of Georgia ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 - ■' Sl : rvTn(l HOUSTON County ; ' LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON GOUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE 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 Mv-; ; ' v k w m ' 'jjgios & Willis ■” «& . * '' ~ SBSntm K|i ■ sastfsiat j ” 4 * I L 'm \ Iff mk W yBM Si | W |i m '* -•/. W f. f i' " f 1 » -f a ** 'vjji' "■ 'Bit ,jMfc,*• ; ‘ . yi f .M 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 fV'v <fv, ..*• jpß * .SBfttWß’ --- jjjMl ENI/Gary Harmon 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 www.hhjnews.com does when Warner Robins See MARTIN, page Bj 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 See GLIMPSE, page jA an Evans' Family Newspaper.