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i#nurcvl news Page 3A Houston Times-Joumat Volume 124 No. 39 2 Sections, 18 Pages! Inside I Today | Calendar 5A Church News 3A Classifieds 8A Editorials 4A Outdoors 7 A Sports 6A Rack Rates Will Be $52/yr Buy a Subscription For $25 + tax & Save $25.75 Around town briefly... Road block to raise funds for child abuse Don’t forget to be generous with donations today (Saturday) if you go through the Perry Exchange Club’s annual road block. All pro ceeds raised will go to Houston County’s Rainbow House and other child abuse prevention causes. Exchange Club members will be taking donations and handing out literature at the intersections of Swift Street and Highway 41 in front of Stanley Furniture and at General Courtney Hodges Boulevard and Marshallville Highway in Perry from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. While last year’s road block net ted approximately $1,300 for the club’s child abuse prevention ef forts, members have set a goal of $1,500 for their 1994 event. Register now for free art workshop The Houston Arts Alliance is pleased to host Fact to Face, a Just My Imagination workshop on Saturday, Jun 25. To be held at the county ag building on Carroll Street, the pro gram is free and recommended for families with children ages seven to 14. The two-hour workshop explores expressive portrait painting through an interactive discussion of paint ings by artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Alice Neel. Nationally exhibiting artist and teacher Linda Henneman will show examples of her own portrait paintings and lead parents and children in a hands-on art activity in which family mem bers create portraits of one another. Henneman’s award winning works have been exhibited widely throughout the eastern United Sates at institutions in Athens, West Nyack, N.Y., Pomona, N.J., Waterville, Me. and Philadelphia, Penn. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hartford. Space is limited to 50 partici pants and reservations should be made by calling Karen Nikitopoulos at 988-8131. BOE approves funds to establish anti-violence program By VETO F. ROLEY Staff Writer Along with drug awareness, stu dents in Houston County schools will soon start a curriculum in vio lence awareness. The Houston County Board of Education approved a proposal from Perry Police Chief Frank Simons for a D.A.R.E.-like program in the middle schools, concentrating on violence. Simons developed the program in response to his depart ment's dealings with juveniles and violence. The board also appropriated $12,000 to fund the program. With the funding, the board becomes the Health Dept to release inspection scores BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer The Houston County Board of Health decided this week to go pub lic with their inspection results of all Houston County food service establishments. According to Dr. David N. Har vey, local health board chairman, starting the first week in June, the scores of all unannounced inspec tions will be made available to to the public through local newspapers Ijtef A is * ■ Buckle Up, Perry! Perry Mayor Jim Worrall signed a special proclamation Thursday designating May 23-30 “Buckle Up America Week" In Perry. Joining In the proclamation signing ceremony are: l-r, Sgt. Charles Parker of the Georgia Stale Patrol, Melanie Elliott, coordinator for the Houston County Extension Agency’s occupant protection unit, and Perry Police Chief Frank Simons. Sgt. Parker also announced that a “very special" buckle-up campaign Is coming to the Perry area In the coming week. See Wednesday’s Houston Tlmes-Joumal for more details. Female Republican throws hat into commission race Editor’s note: The following article on Nora Reese-Laughlln Is the second In a six part series Intended to Introduce Houston County voters to the six candidates running for Houston County Commission Post 2. The first candidate, Ronald Wayne Ragln, a democrat from Perry, was featured In our Wednesday, May 4 edition. As they consent, the remainder of the candidates will be profiled between now and the July 19 General Primary Elections. BY BRENDA THOMPSON Staff Writer Meet Nora Reese-Laughlin. She’s female. She’s black. She’s Republican-”the only per son of color outside of Metro At lanta”, in fact, “to be running for public office on a Republican ticket”. And, now, she’s a candidate for fourth Houston County governmen tal association to approve funding for the program. Previously, the Perry City Council, the Houston County Board of Commissioners and the Warner Robins City Coun cil have approved funds for the pro gram. The program will send police of ficers into the schools to teach about guns and the effects of vio lence. Simons indicated earlier that he would attempt to recruit other professionals to teach about other aspects of violence, such as the dis trict attorney to teach about the lav.' and counselors to offer conflict Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia “Because of the nature of my job, I know I am not the most popular guy that walks through a restaurant’s doors. But, whatever a restaurant does is a reflection on me and how well I do my job. My goal is to have everyone making 100 percent with every inspection. 'Skip Youmons, Health Inspector and other venues on a weekly basis, spections. The scores give insight “We know our residents place on that aspect of the food handling great value on scores from our in- that cannot be observed first hand,” the Post 2 Houston County Com mission seat which is being vacated by current Commissioner Archie Thompson. The position will be on the ballots during the General Primary on July 19. Other candidates include fellow Republicans, James B. Carter of Kathleen and John F. Wylam of Warner Robins, and Democrats Ronald Wayne Ragin of Perry, avoidance strategies. "We did it to create an awareness by students that we are not going to tolerate violence," said Zell Black mon, chairman of the school board. "We are determined to let them know how harmful this sort of reac tion (violence) is. "There is no place for violence,” said Blackmon. "It's not a means of getting things done." "It's an innovative program," said Houston County School Su perintendent Tony Hinnant. "It ad dresses some very serious needs we have. I wish that we had started it a !erg time ago." For News And Subscriptions Call 912-987-1823 Sports Page 6A Saturday, May 14, 1994 Billy Hunter of Bonaire and Ran dolph Wynn of Warner Robins. “I guess you could say I’m a minority three times over”, Reese- Laughlin, a resident of Warner Robins, said in a special interview this week. “But, even above all .hat, I am first and foremost a good listener with a solid background and the desire to serve all people in ev ery segment of our county.” “To me, Highway 96 is nothing but a line on the map,” she continued. “I realize that the people of communities like Hayneville and Elko have the same problems as those in Centerville and Warner Robins and I truly feel I can Please see LAUGHUN, page 3A Hinnant said the board hoped to get the program in the school by the start of the fall semester. "We are going to meet with Chief Si mons and his people and put the curriculum together," he said. The first year of the program would be a "growth year," said Hinnant. "We will iron out the wrinkles, see what we need to cor rect, what we need to add," he said of the first year. Blackmon also said that provid ing funds for the anti-violence pro gram is not a departure from estab lished school board policy. The board does not provide any funding Classified Page 8A Harvey said. “Overall, our restaurants do quite well in this important area and we believe, when they are successful, it pro vides a service to the community to make this information available.” By law, health inspectors scruti nize all food service establishments in the county semi-annually. All routine inspections are unannounced and are conducted by one of the Houston County Health Depart ment’s two environmental health Players begin preparations for June production By PAULINE LEWIS Staff Writer Perry Players members have started rehearsals for their next pro duction, Joseph Kesselring’s com edy "Arsenic and Old Lace”. Director Becky Yeatman invites the public to come by and watch rehearsals any night or Saturday morning when cars parked around the theater at 909 Main Street. Rehearsals will continue on a schedule of 7-10 p.m., five days each week, until the first perfor mance on June 10. Three PHS seniors receive title of Georgia Scholar Perry High School seniors Robert Bowers Jennifer Gladu and Jason Loudermilk have been named Georgia Scholars. They will be honored, along with other Georgia Scholars in the county, at a reception sponsored by the Perry and Warner Robins cham bers on May 24. . The Georgia Scholar Program is an effort by the Georgia Department of Education to identify and recog- ..■saßF for D.A.R.E. "We’ve been supportive and co operative of the D.A.R.E. pro gram," said Blackmon, "but, we've never been asked to fund it." He said the board was asked to fund the anti-violence program. "It's a worthwhile project," said Blackmon. "We feel that the return on the money will by many-fold." In other business, the school board decided to change policy so that a non-certified employee could enroll his or her child at the school where they work. State law cur rently allows certified personnel (mainly teachers and administrators) Perry, Georgia - 50 Cents specialists, Bert Tilton and John W. ‘Skip’ Youmans. Youmans, who is the depart ment’s newest inspector having joined the department in January of this year, is in charge of inspecting the more than 65 food service estab lishments currently in Perry as well as the entire Houston County School System and any temporary or permanent vendors serving food at events at the Georgia National Please see SCORES, page 3A Performances will be held on June 10-12 and 16-8 at 8 p.m., nightly and a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m. on June 12. Due to the limited seating, no ad vance tickets will be sold. Reservations will be taken and tick ets held at the door for pay ment/pick-up. Adult tickets are $8; student tick ets are $5 and children's tickets are $3 (for 12 years and under). Any reservation not claimed 15 minutes prior to curtain time (8 Please see PLA YERS, page3A nize high school seniors who have achieved excellence in school and community life. To be chosen a Georgia Scholar, a student must meet all selection criteria and submit to the State Department of Education an official entry form accompanied by a copy of his/her high school transcript and a letter of recommendation from someone not in his family or Please see SCHOLARS, page 10A Nora Reesa-Laughlln to put their children in the school where they work. "We need to change the policy to all school employees," said Jan Morten, a secretary at Houston County High School. She said her son was in a zone that would send him to Warner Robins High School. "There is no cost involved," said Morton. "The policy needs to be equitable to all employees. It is a great morale booster." The board agreed to the change in principle, directing board attor ney Tom Daniel to write the policy Please see BOE, page 3A