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Volume 124 No. 24
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Announcements 2B
Classifieds 6B
Editorials 4A
Calendar 5A
Obituaries 2A
Sports 6A
Around Town
Briefly...
•Family Fest Will Be Held
At Momingside School
Morningside Elementary will
hold its first "family fest" school
carnival on Sat., March 26, 1994
on Momingside Drive in Perry
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Snack bar
will include hot dogs, chips, cokes
and popcorn. Live entertainment
will be scheduled all day featuring
Miss Warner Robins, doggers,
dancers, singers, M/M Bill
Hathcock, church choirs and many
more.
Games include face painting,
moon walk, hay ride, dunk tank,
fish pond, duck pond, palm reader,
bottle stand, ringtoss, balloon bust,
bean bag, basketball throw, football
throw, golf, sock it to the teacher.
Along with a country store,
sweetshop and silent auction that
will have a lot of new or used items
to bid on donated by local
merchants and parents.
We would appreciate the City of
Perry's support to make this a huge
success. All proceeds will go
towards a school sign and equal
amounts of money distributed for
classrooms.
AARP Yard Sale Tc Be
Held During Dogwood
Perry AAPP Chapter 1744 will
be holding a yard sale/flea market
during Dogwood Festival days.
The sale will be held at the park
ing lot next to Stanley Furniture
store.
The chapter is also looking for
donations. Arrangements for pick
up can be made by calling Don
Norris (987-2901) or Walt
Rembisz (987-1908).
Group To Hold Bake
Sale ForPMS Chorus
The PMS Choral Support Group
is having a bake sale at Kroger on
Saturday, March 26 from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. There is something good
for everyone.
A car wash is planned for SaL,
April 16 at Bank South from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets can be
purchased at the bake sale. Please
come support the Chorus Team.
Plans For Power Plant May Generate 250 New Jobs
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Mid-Georgia Cogen (MGC) L.P.
announced plans Monday, March
21, to construct an $175 million
gas-fired combined cycle cogenera
tion facility in Kathleen.
The facility, which will be lo
cated at the Frito-Lay plant, will
produce approximately 222
Megawatts of electricity. The out
put will be used to power the Frito-
Lay facility, with the excess pro
duction sold to Georgia Power.
Steve Frankel, spokesman for
MGC, said the project will produce
approximately 200 construction
jobs. He said company officials
have indicated that 40-to-50 perma
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Parkway
Opens!
After Two Years,
New Road Opens
To Travellers Tues.
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
After more than two years of
construction, the new Perry Park
way, also referred to as the North
Perry Bypass, is now open for
business, according to local Georgia
Department of Transportation offi
cials.
“We completed some last minute
striping on Monday and opened the
new road to travelers on Tuesday,”
Kenneth Robinson, Jr., Perry’s
DOT resident engineer, said this
week.
Construction on the road, which
runs from Interstate 75’s Thompson
Road Exit across Perry to U.S. 341
and which was named Perry
Parkway by a legislative resolution
last month, was started by Georgia
DOT workers on Jan. 29,1992.
State costs for the project was
estimated at $4 million, with an
additional $1 million currently
being funded by the City of Perry
for the extension of city utilities,
according to Perry Mayor Jim
Worrall.
All of the areas along the new
roadway are either already in the
Deadline To Enter
Parade Extended
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
With a verbal commitment from
Fort Bragg’s 82nd Airborne Chorus
to be the grand marshals, this year’s
Sixth Annual Dogwood Festival
Parade is really shaping up,
according to Phyllis Thompson of
the Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce.
Scheduled to kick off at noon
Saturday, April 2, this year’s parade
will follow the same parade route as
in previous years, from Kellwood
Drive down Gen. Courtney Hodges
Boulevard, through downtown Perry
via Carroll Street and down Main
Street to Perry Elementary School.
Somewhere between SO and 60
units are expected to participate,
although many people had not re
sponded by the Friday, March 18,
entry deadline. The deadline has
since been extended to this Friday,
March 2S.
“We’re hoping for one of the
biggest and best parades ever,”
Thompson said this week. “We’ve
got some really good entries thus
far, a number of them from out of
town. We sent out literally
hundreds of invitations and,
hopefully, with this deadline exten
sion, we’ll get in even more.”
Among those already scheduled
to participate are Georgia guberna
torial candidate John Knox; the fa
mous Shoney’s Bear; the Wildlife
nent workers will staff the cogener
ation facility.
However, before the plant can be
built, approval must be given by
the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, which is currently holding
a series of hearings on die project
in Atlanta.
"The Public Service Commis
sion (PSC) will decide if MGC can
produce power below Georgia
Power Company's avoided cost,"
said Frankel.
The avoided cost is the difference
between what it would cost Georgia
Power to produce the electricity and
what it costs MGC to produce the
electricity. If MGC can produce
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With the new Perry Parkway opening for business on Tuesday, local DOT officials remind motorists to be wary of the new traffic
signals at the roadway’s Intersections with Highway 41 and State Route 127. Caution should also be taken at stop signs placed at the
Perry Parkway/Kings Chapel Road crosslng.-Photo by Brenda Thompson
city limits of Perry or are expected
to be incorporated in the coming
months. Eventually, the road will
connect with a similar bypass on
the west side of town which is
Bunch Kitchen Band; Macon’s
Showbiz Twirlers; and Mrs. Senior
Georgia, Jane Sanders of Warner
Robins.
Others include floats by the Ge
orgia National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter and Perry Elementary
School as well as plenty of local
and area beauty queens-past and
present Miss Dogwood Pageant
winners and Miss Houston County
4-H, just to name a few.
The 82nd Airborne Chorus of
Fort Bragg, N.C., the same group
which gave an impressive and pop
ular performance at this year’s Perry
Area Chamber of Commerce An-
Please see PARADE, page 10A
Keeping Georgia's Children Safe, Healthy
The Rainbow House Children's
Resource Center announces that
"Promises to Keep" is the theme
for April, National Child Abuse
Prevention Month, a time for all
Georgians to focus on keeping
children safe and healthy.
"Promises To Keep" says that
all Georgians must commit to
support child abuse prevention
efforts in their community,"
explained Kathy Garnett, Executive
Director of the Rainbow House.
"During April, we want to make
people in Houston County aware
power below the cost to Georgia
Power than federal law mandates
that Georgia Power purchase the
excess power from MGC.
Frankel said company officials
were waiting for the PSC ruling be
fore moving forward on construc
tion. "We fell very confident about
the potential outcome (of the hear
ings)," he said.
MGC presented its case to the
PSC last Monday and Tuesday,
March 14 and 15. Georgia Power
will present its response to the
PSC April 18-20. On Monday,
May 16, MGC will present its re
buttal to Georgia Power's response.
The PSC is expected to rule on
Wednesday, March 23, 1994
scheduled to be completed and
opened this August
Of the areas of the new Perry
Parkway already incorporated by the
city. Mayor Worrall added that
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Concerned Citizens
Meeting
Thursday, March 24th
7:30 p.m.
Perry Middle School Gym
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that child abuse is a deadly cycle
that continues through generations.
People who were abused as children
are more than six times likely to
abuse their own kids. Last year in
Houston County, over 1200 reports
of child abuse or neglect were made
to the Department of Family and
Children Services. The Rainbow
House wants people to know that
we can break the cycle and keep our
promises to Georgia's children for a
safe, happy childhood.”
Activities to benefit child abuse
prevention and Rainbow House for
the Kathleen project around June
21.
Frankel said a key to the MGC
case to the PSC was the testimony
of key witness Kenneth Slater, who
designed many of the computer
models Georgia Power uses to cal
culate avoided costs.
If the PSC approves the project,
company officials, in a news release
announcing plans for the facility,
expect the cogeneration plant to be
operational by mid-1997.
"It (the cogeneration plant) will
help us reduce our operating ex
penses," said Dean Maly, manager
of Frito-Lay's Kathleen facility.
The cogeneration plant was the
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some are zoned commercial and
some residential.
He also added that the city’s
utility extension work is being tied
into another project to alleviate
April include Mike Houston's Golf
Tournament at the Landings Golf
Club, April 9-10; Zeb’s Zip-In
Golf Tournament at Houston Lake,
April 23-24; Kroger Golf
Tournament at the Landings, April
13; a tennis tournament at
Houston Lake, April 30-May 1;
and a drawing for 4 Radio Flyer
wagons loaded with stuffed animals,
books, candy and toys ( a SIOO
value each) to be held April 9. In
addition, the cities of Warner
Robins, Perry and the Houston
Please see SAFE, page 10A
second announcement of expansion
made at the Frito-Lay plant in the
past six months. On Oct 12, Frito-
Lay officials announced the addition
of a new $25 million chip line to
the plant, which was expected to
create 100 new jobs.
The new chip line is to be con
structed using bonds issued by the
county to the company. However,
Tim Martin, executive director of
the Houston County Development
Authority, which is handling the
bonds for the county, said that
Frito-Lay had not signed the bond
agreement as of Tuesday, March 22.
Martin added that the signing of
the bonds was not being held up
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potential problems with some high
pressure gas lines which were laid
many years ago and have since had
residential areas built up around
them.
Holly Hartley
Hartley Crowned
Miss Westfield
Friday, March 18
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Holly Hartley of Fort Valley put
the crowning touch on her
sophomore year Friday night when
she earned the title of Miss
Westfield 1994 during the school’s
annual pageant
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Hartley, also of Fort
Valley.
As the new Miss Westfield,
Hartley will, upon her high school
graduation, receive a $1,500 schol
arship to the college of her choice.
Named first runner-up in the
pageant was Westfield junior An
drea Kirk, the daughter of Clav Kirk
Please see pageant, page iua
while a decision was being made on
the cogeneration plant "Officially,
we don't know of any linkage
(between signing the bond agree
ment and the cogeneration plant),"
he said.
Even though Frito-Lay has not
signed the bond agreement Martin
said the expansion plans were still
on track.
"I have no knowledge of where
we are at with the bonds," said
Maly, who directed questions about
the bonds to Frito-Lay's public af
fairs department in Texas. Attempts
to reach the public affairs depart
ment by press time were unsuccess
ful.