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Development
authority ends
year in the black
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
With one month remaining in
the 1993-94 fiscal year, the Hous
ton County Development Authority
should finish the year with a large
surplus.
With one month remaining in
the fiscal year, the authority has a
budget balance of just under
$72,000, reported treasurer Tee
Tolleson during the authority's reg
ular meeting, Thursday, May 26.
The fiscal year ends June 30.
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Gov. Zell Miller (left) and Middle Georgia Technical Institute President Billy Edenfleld proudly j
pose in front of an architectural drawing showing the new MGTI campus following Thursday
morning’s official groundbreaking ceremony.
MGTI breaks ground at
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Armed with gold-plated shovels,
Gov. Zell Miller and a number of
other state and local officials broke
ground this week on the new $13.9
million Middle Georgia Technical
Institute Campus to be located just
off of Highway 96 and Houston
Lake Road.
More than 500 officials and lead
ers from MGTI’s four counties of
service-Houston, Peach, Pulaski
and Dooly-were present for the
Thursday morning ceremony.
The new campus, which will in
clude three separate buildings with
enough space to serve at least twice
the organization’s current enroll
ment, will replace the school’s pre
sent campus on Corder Road in
Warner Robins.
The additional space has been
needed for years, according to an
institute spokesman.
“Right now, we have more than
700 students in our diploma pro
grams and a long waiting list of
additional students trying to get in
every quarter,” said Russell Walker,
MGTI Public Relations and Mar
keting Specialist. “We just don’t
have enough room for our students
or our programs.”
Walker added that the school is
New location
for June forum
announced
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The location for a June 4 politi
cal forum coordinated by two Elko
residents and featuring the candi
dates running for the post two seat
of the Houston County Commis
sion has been changed from
Welliver’s Carriage Shop in Elko
to the Henderson Fire Station in
Henderson.
The event is to start at 10 a.m.
According to organizers Ronald
L. Cain and Tammy Welliver, the
main purpose of next weekend’s fo
rum is to allow residents of south
Houston County the opportunity to
meet and ask questions of the candi
dates running for the county com
mission seat being vacated by
Archie Thompson.
Moderator for the event will be
ex-school teacher and long-time
Elko resident Molly Moss.
All Post 2 candidates-Republi
can James Carter of Kathleen,
Democrat Billy Hunter of Bonaire,
Republican Nora Reese-Laughlin of
Warner Robins, Democrat Ronald
Wayne Ragin of Perry, Republican
currently in the process of awarding
construction contracts with actual
construction on the new facilities
expected to begin this July. Project
completion is scheduled for July of
1996.
Funding for the project is being
derived from Georgia Lottery pro
ceeds and is a part of a SIOO mil
lion allotment approved by Gov.
Miller and the Georgia State Legis
lature for future technical school
expansions throughout the state.
Walker added that in addition to
increasing the school’s classroom
space to accommodate up to twice
the institute’s current enrollment,
City receives state grant
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Gov. Zell Miller announced this
week that the City of Perry has
been approved for a grant of
$12,500 to be used to help offset
expenses of further recreational im
provements at Rozar Park.
The grant will be paired with a
private donation of SB,(XX) to fund a
major portion of the approximately
$35,000 needed to construct two
Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia
John F. Wylam of Warner Robins
and Democrat Randolph E. Wynn
of Warner Robins-have all been
invited to participate in the forum.
Additionally, although he is
running for a second term without
opposition, Houston County
Commission Chairman Sherrill
Stafford has also indicated that he
will attend the forum and be avail
able for questions and comments
from concerned citizens.
All citizens of Houston County,
particularly those in the south end
of the county-from Hayneville and
Grovania to Perry, Elko and Hcn
derson-are encouraged to attend the
event, Welliver said. Houston
County’s General Primary
Elections are scheduled for July 19.
The Henderson Fire Department
is located on Highway 41 South,
approximately a half mile from the
intersection of Highway 41 and
Highway 26 in Henderson.
For more information on the
June 4 political forum, call Ronald
Cain at 987-5215 or Tammy
Welliver at 987-3400.
Hwy 96 site
the new, more spacious campus
will also allow for additional pro
grams.
Diploma programs now offered
at MGTI include health care courses
such as nursing; automotive and
aircraft structure tech; computer and
information office technology; just
*o name a few.
A host of continuing education
courses are also offered and a job
placement office offers graduates
free placement assistance.
At present, MGTI has better
than an 80 percent job placement
rate.
new picnic shelters at the local
park, according to City Manager
Marion Hay.
The city is hoping to save the
remainder of the funding needed by
soliciting the help of city workers
as well as other volunteer help from
various citizens and civic clubs.
The shelters were included in the
original, overall site plan for the
park, but until now could not be
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Saturday, May 28, 1994
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Judy Poss (right) pins a poppy on fellow VFW Ladies Auxiliary member Marge Daniel. Poss and
Daniel, both of Perry, will be among those auxiliary members who will begin selling the traditional
VFW Buddy Poppies at various locations in Perry this weekend.
Poppy sale proceeds will
benefit needy, disabled vets
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
As you go into the grocery store
this weekend to get ready for your
annual Memorial Day cookout,
don’t pass up the chance to
purchase one of those little red
poppies from the ladies in the
parking lot.
For while it is perfectly fine to
be excited about a day of fun with
your family, it is also important to
pause for a moment and remember
the true meaning of the holiday-to
remember the many men and
women of our country who died to
give us the freedoms we, as
Americans, continue to enjoy
today.
According to Judy Poss and
Marge Daniel of the Ladies
Auxiliary of VFW 6126 in Perry,
the annual Veterans of Foreign
Wars Buddy Poppy Sale will be
held locally May 27-June 4.
Armed with baskets of the little
red paper flowers, Poss, Daniel and
other VFW Auxilaiary members
will begin working the parking lots
and areas surrounding several local
businesses this Saturday. Locations
will include the Perry Post Office,
Kroger, K-Mart, Piggly Wiggly,
just to name a few.
Assembled by disabled veterans,
the Buddy Poppy has been officially
recognized and endorsed by
fovcmmcntal leaders since 1922.
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The Buddy Poppy
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heros never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
of the flower that blooms above the dead
in Flanders Fields.
All proceeds from their sale are used
exclusively for the benefit of
disabled and needy veterans, and the
widows and orphans of deceased
veterans; the theme of the whole
project being to “honor the dead by
Program for Memorial Day service
BY PAULINE LEWIS
Staff Writer
American Legion Post 24,
Perry, Ga., will hold a Memorial
Service at 11 ;00 a.m. May
30,1994, in Perry Memorial
Gardens, U. S. 41 North,
"Dedicated to the Memory of Our
Comrades in ARMS Who Paid The
Ultimate Sacrifice. May Their
Names Live Forever In Our
Hearts."
The Program: Opening Message
by Walter Rembisz; the Posting of
Colors by Perry High School
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helping the living”.
All monies raised through the
local project are deposited into the
Perry VFW’s “relief fund” and are
used to help veterans and veterans’
families right here in the area.
ROTC; the "Star-Spangled Banner"
by Lona Stone and the Opening
Prayer by Tommy Wood. Mayor
Jim Worrall will give the
Welcome. Guest' Speaker is
Colonel USAF (Retired) Leon
Huffman. The Rev. Jim Shipley
will give the closing prayer. Ben
Parker will place flowers on the
Veterans Grave.
Taps will be played by the Perry
High School Band after which the
Perry High School ROTC will
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