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New cable
rates due to
networks' fees
Results of survey lead to station changes
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Bill Mitchell, president of
Peachstate Cable Television, do
nated SI,OOO to Perry City Council
Tuesday night to be used towards
building the Recreation Rosa Park
Community Center before announc
ing local cable rates will increase
Dec. 1 due to the networks
increasing their charges between
seven and 24 percent.
According to Mitchell, a letter
outlining the increases should reach
all cable subscribers by this week
end.
The increases range from eight
to nine percent, according Mitchell.
“Basic cable will increase from $7.
50 to $8.17. Tier 1 will increase
from $11.25 to $12.31 and Tier 2
will go from $4.50 to $5.07.”
Basic cable includes 12 stations.
Tier one consists of the basic plus
other stations such as the Weather
Channel and Nickelodeon. Tier two
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Students are nominated by teachers to join the
Success Club due to their participation and attitude in
class.
PHS Success Club
honors students
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
The Success Club has been
formed at Perry High School by
teachers to recognize students who
have exhibited outstanding achieve
ments in effort, attendance, attitude
or participation.
“We’re trying to motivate stu
dents who don’t get recognized.
There is a section of students who
don’t get recognition for improve
Polls open Nov. 24 for
run-off elections
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
Houston County residents will
go to the polls Nov. 24 to select a
U.S. Senator and a Georgia Public
Service Commissioner in a first
time General Election run-off.
“The state officials predict a 25
percent voter turnout, but we’re
predicting 30 percent,” Jo Ann
Shipes, Houston County Board of
Elections manager, said.
Shipes said several absentee bal
lots have been received for this elec
tion, and they are still available.
Seventy-eight percent of 46,000
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offers additional stations like C-
Span, USA and MTV.
Other changes arc also on
Peachstate’s agenda. Atlanta sta
tions WAG A and WSB will replace
the Raleigh and satellite stations.
Also due to customer response,
WGN will be aired instead of
WWOR. These changes arc due to
customer response from a survey
recently sent out which resulted in
70 percent of respondents wanting
the two Atlanta stations back and
80 percent preferring WGN over
WWOR.
“We will also change the way
billing looks to customers. (The
bills) will look like telephone
bills,” he said.
These changes are being made so
customers can sec the actual rate
charged for basic cable and each tier
and then the programming fees will
be added to the basic fees for a total
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ment in something,” Leigh Giles,
Perry High guidance counselor,
said.
A motivational committee, made
up of teachers, nominates the mem
bers of the club. “Each teacher gets
to choose one student out of all his
or her classes,” she said.
The club, which began in Octo
ber, allows students to participate
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registered voters in Houston
County participated in the Nov. 3
election.
Voters will decide between in
cumbent Democrat Wyche Fowler
and Republican Paul Covcrdell for
the U.S. Senate position. They will
choose between Robert “Bobby”
Baker Jr., a Republican, and John
Frank Collins, a Democrat, to serve
as a member of the Georgia Public
Service Commission.
Shipes said the cost for this run
off election will be between
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Kmart representatives Dave Dowling, district manager, left, Brian Matthews, regional fashions manager, Harvey
Boyd, Perry store manager, and Mike Lynch, regional manager, celebrated the opening of the new Kmart
Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Perry Marketplace.
Marketplace celebrates grand opening
By ANISSA CLEMONS
Staff Writer
State Representative Larry
Walker and other officials celebrated
the opening of Perry Marketplace
Thursday as Kmart and Kroger offi
cially opened their doors.
“Perry Marketplace will trans
form Perry into a regional shopping
center now,” Walker said.
Perry Mayor Pro-Tern Hcrvia
Ingram and officials addressed a
crowd of about 100 people at the
Kmart opening at 8 a.m. and again
at the shopping center’s opening at
10 a.m.
He said, “This project almost
died five times in the last two
years.”
Ingram said he couldn’t believe
the hole that used to be there is
now covered with the shopping cen
ter.
Harvey Boyd, Kmart store man
ager praised all Kmart workers for
their teamwork. “We have a real
good team effort. We’ve gone from
50 employees to 120.
“It’s beyond words the difference
between the old store and this store.
There’s no comparison to any other
Kmart I’ve been in before.”
Boyd said the project wouldn’t
have been completed if the govern
ment hadn’t given a grant towards
completion of the sewer and
drainage construction.
Commissioner Jim Higdon of
the Department of Community As-
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Kroger officially opened Thursday morning at 8 a.m. during a ribbon cutting
ceremony at the Perry Marketplace.
fairs said he was pleased the state
could help sponsor a project like
Perry Marketplace. His department
awarded $200,000 to the project.
“Two million dollars of local
and state taxes will be generated,”
Higdon said.
After Higdon finished his
speech, Ingram proclaimed Nov. 19
Perry High play The Robber
Bridegroom' is worth seeing
By JACKIE COOPER
HHJ Entertainment Writer
From the moment Mark
Strandburg strode center stage in the
Perry High School auditorium and
began to sing about life on the
Natchez Trace, I knew was in for a
special evening of entertainment.
All the elements were there, from
Chris Gillespie's always inspired di
rection to the Perry High School
group of actors who are always to
tally professional. Plus the one act
play they are presenting in competi
tion is "The Robber Bridegroom," a
stirring musical play written by
Alfred "Driving Miss Daisy" Uhry.
Strandburg has the little role of
"The Robber Bridegroom," a young
man playing at being a good guy
while in actuality being a rogue.
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Jim Higdon Day and presented him
with a key to the city. Higdon said,
“When you have people like the
people in Perry, it makes it easy to
do my job. I think we live in the
best part of the United States.”
Shoppers eagerly filed into
Kmart after the managers cut the red
ribbon. Willis Graham of Perry, the
Amanda Malone is Rosamund the
young woman who falls in love
with the disguised robber while re
jecting the honest suitor. But in the
end true love wins out as it always
does in the best of plays.
Malone and Strandburg are perfect
as the baffled couple who battle
their feelings and their fortunes.
Strandburg strides about the stage
being ebullient and mesmerizing,
while Malone stuns you with her
natural grace and boundless enthusi
asm. These two are as natural per
formers as you are ever likely to see
and in this play they are in their
prime.
But then so are all the cast.
Suzanne Blythe has a rich stirring
singing voice which fills the walls
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first customer to purchase anything,
bought a giant Christmas gift bag
and said he thought the new Kmart
was “fantastic.”
Perry Marketplace shopper
Odenc Collins said, “Well it will
keep people from going to Macon
and Warner Robins. It will keep the
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of the auditorium. And Shawn
Kcllum's natural likability soars
through his role of "Little Harp."
Then there is Elizabeth Brewer who
all but steals the show in the role
of "Goat".
Add to this the raw vitality of
Andrea Clark as "Salome," a wild
woman who is bigger than life.
Countering her is Jonathan Edes
who plays Rosamund's father and
Salome's husband. He is a calm
port in this turbulent storm of
women's wiles.
Supporting these performances
are the exceedingly ample talents of
Wendy Hammock, Shiranda Mims,
Turkessa Mays, Kellie Wright,
William Sundquist, Edwin
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