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Salute to Perry, Westfield graduates of 1996
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Volume 126, No. 22
4 Sections, 28 Pages
Wednesday
May 29, 1996
50 Cents
At the
Crossroads
this week
Health inspector
reports restaurant
inspection scores
Inspectors from the
Houston County
Environmental Health
Department reported numer
ous rule violations in public
kitchens inspected the week
of May 20-24.
In each case, rules infrac
tions were corrected before
the inspector left the premis
es.
Bull & Dee’s Sports
Lounge, 120 S. First St.,
Warner Robins, 92.
Burger King, 201 Russell
Parkway, Warner Robins,
83. A problem with tempera
ture control of foods was
corrected.
Central Park, 104 Russell
parkway, Warner Robins,
86. A problem with temper
ature control of foods was
corrected.
Comfort Inn Mini
Kitchen, 95. S. Ga. 247,
Warner Robins, 90.
Hardee’s, U.S. 341 N,
Perimeter Road, Perry, 76. A
problem- with storage of
cleaning products was cor
rected.
Houston Lake Country
Club Lounge, 2223 Ga. 127,
Perry, 96.
Kentucky Fried Chicken,
1416 Sam Nunn Blvd.,
Perry, 51. Problems with
equipment and storage of
cleaning products were cor
rected.
Mike’s Place, 1715
Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, 81. Problems with
equipment and storage of
cleaning products were cor
rected.
Mollie’s Lounge, 1249
Russell Parkway, Warner
Robins, 92.
Peachbelt Health Care,
801 Elberta Road, wamer
Robins, 67. A problem with
equipment was corrected.
Perry Cafe, 104 Gen.
Courtney Hodges Blvd.,
Perry, 91.
Ramada Inn-Lenny’s
Lounge, 2725 Watson Blvd.,
Wamer Robins, 92. A prob
lem with temperature con
trol of foods was corrected.
Ramada Inn-Rosie’s
Italian, 2725 Watson Blvd.,
Wamer Robins, 52.
Problems with equipment
and storage of cleaning
products were corrected.
Ramada Limited, 100
Market Place Drive, perry,
98.
Swiss Ice, 100-L N.
Houston Lake Road,
Centerville, 84. A problem
with storage of cleaning
supplies was corrected.
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Times-Journal Photos by Eric Zellars
LAST TIMES TOGETHER Anna Greene (left photo) makes a final visit to the Westfield
Schools library for some research before completing her studies this week. She is the class
salutatorian. Meanwhile, valedictorian Todd Rigdon (left in right photo) and Westfield Athletic
Director Ron Jones compare the scores of their favorite teams and rib each other about the
results.
Westfield to graduate 41 this week
From Staff Reports
Graduation commencement
exercises for Westfield High
School will be held May 31 at
8:00 p.m. in the school gymnato
rium. .
The program will begin with a
musical prelude by Pat McCall,
violinist and Alice Ridgeway,
accompanist.
The pair will then present the
processional.
Invocation will be given by
Holly Hartley, student council
president, followed by more
music by McCall and Ridgeway.
Jack Nash, chairman of the
board of trustees will welcome
attendees to the ceremony.
Valedictorian Todd Rigdon
will then speak for the Class of
1996.
Marvin Arrington, principal,
and Michael Drake, headmaster,
will present the salutatory award
and valedictory award, respec
tively.
Recognition of honors group
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THESE ARE HONOR GRADUATES Honor graduates at Westfield Schools this year
include these students (not in order) Jamie Dortch, Anna Greene, Holly Hartley, Scott Hill,
Ashlee McCord, Rupal Patei, Todd Rigdon, Matt Shepley, Larry Thomson, Manish Vashi,
David Walker and Autumn West. Also in the picture are salutatorian Anna Greene and vale
dictorian Todd Rigdon.
Colleen Nunn named Berry chairman
Special to the Times-Journal
MOUNT BERRY Civic
leader and entrepreneur Colleen
Nunn has been named chairman
of the Berry College Board of
Visitors.
“We are very pleased that Mrs.
Nunn will be working even more
closely with Berry College,” said
Dr. Gloria Shatton, president of
Berry. “She is widely respected
across the nation. Her enthusiasm
for sound education is contagtbus.
Her wise counsel to the adminis
tration and board of trustees has
Special Photo
SECOND HONOR GRADUATES Named second honor
graduates at Westfield this spring are (not in order) Travis
Baird, Brandice Dawson, Misty Goodroe, Melanie Moore and
Jennifer Smith.
and awarding of diplomas will be
done by school counselor Sue
Lott.
The evening will wrap up with
the benediction by Brian Nash,
helped Berry’s students and facul
ty over the years.”
Nunn succeeds Roy Richards
Jr., chairman and CEO of
Southwire Co., as chairman of the
Berry College Board of Visitors, an
advisory group of 38 business and
community leaders from through
out the United States. Nunn has
been a member of the board of vis
itors for Berry for 10 years.
Her civic interests also include
active support of mental health
(See NUNN, Page SA)
Serving Houston County for more than 125 years
Honors given to students
Tops at PHS, WHS
See pages 2A, 3B
Alma Mater by the senior class
and audience and recessional led
by Jennifer Nunn.
There are forty-one candidates
for graduation this year.
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Editorials A 4 P ot P° . j
City workers to beat
the heat with earlier
trash pickup June 10
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
City garbage pickup will begin
one hour earlier starting June 10.
That request was given the go
ahead by Perry city council mem
bers during their May 21 meeting.
Public Works Superintendent
Hugh Sharp said pickup will begin
at 7 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. to give
workers some relief from the hot
summer temperatures, which have
already begun pushing the 90
degree mark in recent weeks.
City residents will soon be
receiving notification of the
change in the mail.
This measure will be in effect
through Aug. 22.
Council also approved the
application
for recreation
assistance
funds to con
struct a mini
mite baseball
field at Rozar
Park.
The field
will accom
modate five
and six year
olds and will
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be paid for by the city and a
matching grant of $12,500.
Impact of motor coach rally
measured in hotel-motel tax reports
By EMILY JOHNSTONE
Times-Journal Staff
The Family Motor Coach
Association Convention held last
March helped make that month a
record-breaker when it comes to
the highest dollar amount ever
brought in by the local hotel/motel
tax, according to figures and com
ments given at the regular meeting
of the Perry Convention and
Visitors Bureau May 23.
Monies generated were
$34,509.38 that month which
reflects the two-thirds cut the
C&VB receives from the six per
cent tax.
The City of Perry receives the
balance. That month the overall
total came in at $51,763.
That tops July 1994 when the
flood caused a dramatic increase
in the number of people looking
for hotel or motel accommoda
tions.
Figures for that month came in
at $32,533.f0r the C&VB with an
Partnership spokesmen:
community must continue
to defend Robins attacks
By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
While Robins Air Force Base
has escaped two brushes with
the Base Realignment and
Closure Commission, Houston
Countians should not let down
their guard.
That’s the advice members of
the Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce received May 22 from
two veterans of the BRAC wars,
Jack Steed and Pete Rucker.
Steed and Rucker both believe
there will be further base reduc
tions in the future, although the
present realignment and closure
law has expired.
Additionally, they see a chal
lenge in how privatization will
affect the workload at Robins.
Steed said efforts to “make an
end run around the BRAC deci
sion” by the Clinton administra-.
tion could result in privatization of
Home of the Georgia National
Fair and Agricenter
Recreation director Tom
Dominey said the field will be
located where “some old basket
ball courts are now.”
“Our most pressing need right
now is a ballfield,” said Dominey.
Also during the meeting, coun
cilman James Moore asked for an
update on a recent request for the
installation of a flashing traffic
light on U.S. 41S at The Westfield
Schools.
Mayor James Worrall said the
Georgia Department of
Transportation has denied the
request for the lights.
And, members of the Perry
Clean and Beautiful Commission
appeared before council to ask the
City to provide S6OO toward the
installation of a new water foun
tain in the triangle spot in front of
the Post Office on Carroll Street.
Bill Hafley, chairman of the
commission, said donations have
been contributed in honor of
Coralie Nunn toward this project.
Total cost of the project is
expected to be $2,900. The city
OK’d funding the S6OO, with the
rest coming from commission
donations.
In other business council:
(See COUNCIL, Page SA)
Dominey
overall total of $48,800.
Totals for April 1996 have
topped that also, according to
Westbrook. Some $34,000 came
to C&VB coffers from April rev
enue.
Agricenter director Mike
Froehlich pointed out that that
was because of the Agricenter
having a high number of events
during the month of April.
Six years of motel revenue at
$43,296,766 have brought
$1,732,987 to the C&VB and
$864,819 to the City of Perry.
Overall tax revenue for 1995-
96 comes in at $163,570.
Also during the meeting
Westbrook placed before board
members a proposed 96-97 budget
of some $424,941.
He was asked by chairman
Walter Lewis to present a market
ing plan for the C&VB.
The group will look over that
plan before they finalize the
upcoming budget.
many of the tasks and missions at
the two Air Force depots which
were ordered closed by the BRAC
commission last year.
“This would have an impact on
Robins, both in terms of the num
ber of jobs and missions coming
to the base, and on privatization in
general,” Steed said.
He said members of the 21st
Century Partnership, a body of
government and civic leaders who
worked against closure during
both 1993 and 1995, were not
opposed to privatization.
“We don’t want to see the for
mula of how much privatization
will be used changed, or the coun
try placed danger because of a
lack of military involvement in
depot maintenance work,” Steed
told the crowd of about 75 cham
ber members.
(See ROBINS, Page SA)
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