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Food
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Robins, 93.
Little Caesar’s Pizza at Kmart,
2063 Watson Blvd., Warner
Robins, 89.
S&J Concession 1, 209 Kings
Crest Blvd., Perry, 98.
Swiss Ice, 100-L N. Houston
Lake Road, Centerville, 92.
What-a-pizza Cafe, 2706
Watson Blvd., Warner Robins,
100.
Time to order special tags
Taxpayers who would like to
obtain a special prestige or vanity
or college tag for their motor
vehicle for the year 1998 have
until July 31 to apply, according
to Juanita Mason, Houston
County Tax Commissioner.
The application must be filed
with the Georgia Department of
Revenue Motor Vehicle Division
in Atlanta. Appropriate forms are
available from Houston County
Tax Commission offices in Perry
and Warner Robins.
The Motor Vehicle Division is
also accepting applications for
other types of prestige tags such
as amateur radio, firefighter,
National Guard, U.S. Reserve,
purple heart and other war tags.
Three streets to be paved
Three Perry streets will be
paved this year, according to
Perry Public Works
Superintendent Hugh Sharp.
Funding for the paving projects
will come through Local Aid to
Road Paving Project program
(LARP), he said.
The projects include Keith
Drive, Greenwood Drive and 4th
Street.
The work will probably take
place sometime during the sum
mer months, said Sharp.
Airport authority to meet
July 14 at airport
The date for the Perry-Houston
County Airport Authority meeting
has been changed for the month of
July. The meeting will be held at 7
p.m. at the airport July 14.
Council meets July 22
The Perry City Council will be
having a regular meeting begin
ning at 7:30 p.m. July 22 at Perry
Municipal Building located at
1207 Washington St.
Driving class set
AARP is presenting a 55 Alive
classroom refresher course for
those 50 and older drivers. It’s a
comprehensive course to update
their driving skills. Those com
pleting the course are eligible for
a discount on their auto insurance.
The two-day course, in seg
ments of four hours each day, will
be offered July 26-27 at Perry
Hospital. Class sessions are 1-5
p.m. or 6-9:30 p.m. each day. The
cost of the class is SB.
Persons seeking the insurance
discount must attend both days.
Pre-registration is required. To
register, call Leslie Dyson at 923-
9771.
Tribble
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tutions must get real with the
charges they assess a person just
because they are on Medicare or
have their private insurance.
Yes, we have the best health
care in the world (I think) but we
are surely paying for every bit of
it.
Yes, for years, Americans have
paid into the Social Security and
Medicare programs, expecting
government to stand by their
work that they could retire at age
62 or 65. They have paid into the
Medicare program expecting
equal and fair treatment with
medical expenses when they
retired.
Now we have some politicians
in Washington who are willing to
break Uncle Sam’s promise to
Americans in the name of deficit
reduction. There is still so much
waste in government which, if
eliminated, would achieve the
same goal.
As for me, I will have to go
with Bill Clinton on this one, as
well as Georgia’s two senators,
Max Cleland and Paul Coverdell.
They voted no on this Senate bill.
We need to leave the retirement
age and Medicare premiums
alone.
(Bob Tribble is president of
Houston Publications Inc.)
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County
Parkway is now slated to begin
during 1999.
He said a route for the proposed
four-laning of that road has now
been accepted. The road will not,
as had been previously suggested,
be instead the road will
simply be widened at its existing
location.
That same year may be when
construction begins on the Russell
Parkway extension to 1-75,
Stafford said.
Two other major projects fac
ing the county are linked to a judi
cial order handed down about a
year ago by then Houston
Superior Court Judge L.A.
“Buster” McConnell requiring
improvements, additions or
replacements for the Houston
County Jail and Courthouse by
1998.
“We won’t make that deadline,
and I think Judge McConnell will
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Math
Also awaiting state Department
of Education action is a proposal
that would allow students passing
Algebra I in eighth grade to
receive high school credit for that.
The math coordinator for
Houston County, Sandra Gilreath,
said the state education group is
expected to adopt a policy July 10
that will require students to earn four
credits in math in order to graduate.
She said one provision of the
state guidelines would allow cred
it for the eighth grade students
successfully completing the
Algebra course, which differs
from Houston County policy.
“This move (giving credit to
students who have just passed
eighth grade) is for those caught in
the gap,” Gilreath said in seeking
to have the local policy amended.
“These changes need to be voted
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understand that,” Stafford told the
Rotarians.
The county took temporary
measures to relieve expensive
overcrowding conditions at the
county jail earlier this year when a
decision was made to close the
Houston County Correction
Institute.
The removal of those state pris
oners, who had already been
found guilty and sentenced, from
the building opened it up to serve
as overflow for the jail, which
houses people awaiting trial.
Before that, the county was
sending prisoners it was unable to
house to other communities at a
cost of about $200,000 per year.
A decision on the future of the
Houston County Courthouse
grows closer. A study commis
sioned by the county will be com
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will list the various options for the
on in August so that no ambiguity
would exist for these students at
the start of the school year.”
The school board voiced sup
port for the math coordinator’s
policy and will take a further look
at its August session.
As expected, the board gave
final approval to a budget for the
fiscal year that started July 1.
The proposed budget,
$101,708,943. projects a reserve
fund of $720,775".
The budget is about $5.6 mil
lion above last year, with much of
the increase related to the pay
raise called for by Governor Zell
Miller.
A $5.9 million budget for the
school nutrition program also
passed. The purchase price for
food is anticipated to be $2.5 mil
lion, an increase of 9 percent over
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onto the existing 1950 building, to
build another building in down
town Perry or move the court
house to another location.
Speaking to the Rotarians,
Stafford indicated that other loca
tion could be along the Perry
Parkway near the northern Perry
city limits.
Stafford also pledged that if the
county abandons the present loca
tion as such, that a plan will be in
place for use of the existing court
house.
Stafford said the Commission
is studying a call for a one percent
special purpose location option
sales tax similar to the one voters
approved in March 1997 for con
struction of new schools.
The tax, if approved, would
raise the combined sales tax rate in
Houston County to seven cents on
the dollar. Some 44 Georgia coun
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10 YEARS OF SERVICE
Susie Lumpkin (center) recently
received a pin in recognition of
10 years of service to me City of
Perry. Pictured with Lumpkin are
Finance Officer Brenda King (left)
and City Manager Skip Nalley
(right).
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the past year.
One of those items on the
menu, milk will cost $467,335.16
in the year ahead.
The board approved that bid to
supply the milk products from
Kinnett, with individual pricing
combined with an escalator
clause included in the bid.
In one other action, the board
agreed to a request from the Perry
Ministerial Association that the
- rental- fee-to use the. auditorium aU
Perry High School for the annual
Perry Praise Sing be waived.
The annual event is scheduled
for Aug. 24 at 7 p.m.
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