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BfT At the Crossroads This Week Monster trucks visiting community Monster trucks will roll into the Reaves Arena this weekend. The Pace Motorsports Monster Truck Show will take place Feb. 5-6. School counselors get recognition National School Counseling Week, sponsored by the American School Counselor association is being observed this week, Feb. 1-5. The object of the observance is to focus public attention on the contributions of profes sional school counselors. Professional school coun selors in the Perry area schools include Geri Shirey, Kings Chapel Elementary School; Marie Anderson, Morningside Elementary School; Melissa Thompson; Ann Lanter, Tucker Elementary School; Perry Elementary School; Nancy Graham and Alfreda Hall, Perry Middle School; Leigh Giles, Hazel Jackson and Sharon Hodge, Perry High School. Students get cheese croissant meal choice The following menus will be served at Houston County elementary schools this week. All meals are served with milk. A variety of fruits and vegeta bles are served daily with lunch. Feb. 3 - Breakfast: Cheese croissant and meat or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch: Corn dog or grilled cheese with soup or chili, or baked potato with hot toppings or pizza; Mississippi Mud cake. Feb. 4 - Breakfast: Chicken biscuit or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch: Nachos with cheese or beef or sub sandwich, PBJ sandwich or pizza; chocolate chip cookie. Feb. 5 - Breakfast: Pancake with syrup or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch: Steak nuggets with roll or barbecue on nun or PBJ sandwich or pizza; Jell-0 cookie. Feb. 8 - Breakfast: Managers choice or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch: Quick baked potato with hot toppings, kiwi, whole wheat roll, Royal brownie. Feb. 9 - Breakfast: Sausage biscuit or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch: Turkey, lettuce and tomato sandwich, broccoli salad, fresh fruit, oatmeal raisin cookie. Feb. 10 - Breakfast: Biscuit with southern cream gravy, or cereal and toast, fresh fruit or fruit juice; Lunch:Gyro with sauce, tabouleh, baked bananas. Health inspectors find storage problems Local Health Inspectors found several storage problems during their visits among Perry and Warner Robins during the (See FOOD, Page SA) 5 Contact the Times- Joumal Contact the Houston Times- Journal: Voice (Vi*) °° 7 -1823 Fax (912) 988-1181 email timesjrn@hom.net Mail P.O. Drawer M, ....Perry, 31069 Street 807 Carroll St., Perry, 31069 >9/99/99 iEORO** NU4kA**f‘e.R Rf J. GA. MAIN LIBRARY ITHENS, GA 306 vie Houston Times-Journal it • pft n grU ifev f u fPJIf HL IP wl|Jpo WwS CONTESTANTS - These 13 Perry High School students will face-off Feb. 6 for the Miss PHS crown. Participants are (front, from left) Candace Nicholas, Heather Whiddon, Dana Collier, Rebecca Akridge, Kristel Brown, Amanda Baker s dozen seek Miss Perry High title Thirteen contestants to compete in Feb . 6pageant By STACIE VU Times-lournal Staff A bakers dozen Tili tKc Perry High Auditorium stage Feb. 6. That’s when 13 PHS students will seek the tide of Miss Perry High 1999. The pageant, featuring a return visit by the 1998 winner, Shannon Lanier, begins at 8 p.m. Lanier will serve as co-hostess for the evening with Rob Zell, a Perry High teacher and coach. Lanier, a freshman at Georgia Southern University, will perform a twirl routine and a swing dance routine with a partner from college. The 13 contestants for the 1999 Miss PHS include seniors Rebecca Akridge, Dana Collier, Jessica Edes, Rebecca Kennedy, Christina Kirby, Amanda McLeod and Erin McCoy. Juniors include Kristel Brown, Kim Cook, Sheba Gray, Candace , HB' " Bt * » MBBgT ’ v Hr , M wjguj ■wg V iLjHw Wj| n m IMF.. -'..Bp THliiiifiXfi ™ V « ftftftl i ft ’hMLIi ."-W i 1 w m ft. 4 ft I 1 |||g. ftnfe \*f ,3ft 1 :-,UK r m g gig §* Jft NOMINEES - These Perry High School stu dents were among 34 students in Houston County honored at the Governor's Honors Breakfast Jan. 29. Nominated are (from left) Six Perryans seek Governor s Honors spots By STACIE M.VU Times-lournal Staff Six students from Perry High School are among the hundreds of Georgia students competing for spots during the 1999 Governor’s Honors program at Valdosta State University. Nominees from Houston County public schools fathered at Perry High Jan. 29 for a breakfast in their honor. Perry High School nominees include Ginnie Brown in Music - bass clarinet, Bret Copeland in Theatre, Susan St. Charles in Music - flute, Wendy Tarpley in Social Studies, La’Shonda Watts in Mathematics, and Ross Yasin in Commercial/Industrial/Architectural Design. Several parents and family members were present to support the nominees from the four area high 'ft 'Jglpl Official Legal Organ for Houston County, the City of Perry and the State of Georgia IVi '• ~ I|U>'|J| -sl'iijtkii k '• s-uu il:'f. 17, I:7U WmL Jmml McLeod, (back) Christina Kirby, Sheba Gray, Erin McCoy, Kim Cook, Jessica Edes, Summer Saunders, and Rebecca Kennedy. The pageant will take place at the school auditorium at 8:00 p.m. Nicholas, Summer Saunders and Heather Whiddon. Judges will make their section based on an inter view with sportswear, evening gown and on stage questions. Entertainment for the pageant will be provided by Perry High School students Shay Allmand, Angela Pope, Judson Davis and an a cappella quar tet. Also, April Fendley, the reigning Miss Dogwood Queen and a Perry High School graduate will enter tain. The pageant begins at 8:00 p.m. at the Perry High Auditorium . The cost of admission is $4. For more information call Perry High School at 988-6298. Drama instructor Mary Jo Zell is the Miss PHS Coordinator. Times-Journal Photo by Stacie Vu La'Shonda Watts, Ross Yasin, Bret Copeland, Ginnie Brown, Wendy Tarpley, and Susan SL Charles. Watts was cut off accidently when the picture was taken. schools. Also among the well wishers were Houston County Board of Education members Skip Dawkins, Pat Summers, Shirley Lowery, and Ralph Nelson. Charles Holloway, Houston County School Superintendent, offered congratulations to the stu dents. “It’s not easy. They made the choice to do this. It will get more competitive, but they will each do a Bod job. Each one of them is a winner.” said olloway. “You are a prime example of our young people today. We look to you as our future." Perry High School Principal Phil Smith wished the students well. “Take this as a means of growth. During the interview process you will grow as a per son.” (See HONORS, Page SA) Hoop Update ( Check out the action at Westfield, Perry High and Perry Middle. See pages 6-8 A Times Journal Photo by Stack Vu Construction continues on expansion for Diversified Machining By ROB MEAD Times-lournal Staff Diversified Machining Services Inc. is building a new facility in the Perry Industrial Park. The 51,000-square-foot build ing is the newest addition to a rapidly growing company in the machining and aircraft parts manufacturing industry said Gary Scarborough, Contracts Administrator for the company. The news was announced by Tim Martin Director of the Houston County Development Authority, during the HCDA monthly meeting, Jan 28. Work began on the building during November. Scarborough expects to occupy the building during early May. “Part of why we are expanding is an effort to maintain our com petitive edge in the parts manu facturing field. We are trying to grow into a new market by pro ducing more complex parts” said Scarborough. The company now performs machine shop service and manu factures aircraft parts for both civilian and military aircraft. The company started in Centerville during 1992 with a workforce of seven people, and now employs 35 people at the 13,000-square-foot location at 901 Valley Drive Perry . That building was occupied about two years ago. With the addition of their lat est site the company may support as many as twice the current number of employees, Scarborough said. Westbrook found dead after day-long search By Jj JOHNSON Times-lournal Editor Well-known Perry business man William A. “Bill” Westbrook was the point of an all-day search Feb. 2 which ended with a tragic discovery in rural Monroe County. Officials from Forsyth contact ed Perry Police Chief George Potter shortly before sunset to report they had found Westbrook’s body. A cause of death was not immediately avail able, and an autopsy was taking place as the Times-Joumal went to press. Westbrook left Perry en route to a business meeting in South Carolina Feb. 1, Potter reported. “Both his wife, Ellen, and his company. Comfort Inn, contacted us early Tuesday morning," Potter said. “We found out his route and contacted law enforcement agen cies along the route he would have taken to South Carolina." Potter spoke with emotion about Westbrook, who had helped the Perry Police Department obtain thousands of maips to give to tourists. “He wanted us to have some thing to help tourists,” Potter said. The maps are of a tear-off style which make it easy for offi cers to distribute to visitors in town. Westbrook spent his career in the hospitality industiy. He was manager of the Perry Holiday Inn I Work began on the building during November. Company officials expect to occupy the building during early May. Meanwhile, motor coaches and visitors were also on the minds of the authority members. The March 22-26 Family Motor Coach Association rally drew their attention. “Three years ago the event drew approximately 6,000 motor coaches and we are expecting about 9,000 this year” said Martin. “We are trying to work with a company now that travels with the coaches and provides detail ing services for them” said Martin. The company usually arrives one week before the event begins and provides detailing services for the coaches by appointment. “They have asked for a five acre plot of land that is paved and has a good water supply to pro vide their services,” said Martin. Martin made a presentation highlighting accomplishments attained during the 1998 year and goals to be reached for the 1999 year. Following the presentation Tee Tolleson, Development Authority Chairman, praised both J. Sherrill Stafford .County Commission Chairman, and (See AUTHORITY, Page SA) for many years before leaving to operate a hotel in Helena He answered the call of his community and returned as the director of the Perry Area Convention and Visitors Bureau during January 1996. He was very active in making the 1996 Family Motor Coach Association rally at the Georgia National Fairgrounds successful. Later, he left the CVB to return to private business as gen eral manager of Comfort Inn. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home of Perry will be in charge of arrangements. WILLIAM A WESTBROOK Found Dead Feb. 2