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Volume 128, No. 42
2 Sections
16 Pages
Wednesday,
Oct. 20, 1999
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Program planned for
suicide survivors
Hospice of Houston
County is hosting a pro
gram people who have had
family members and
friends take their own
lives. Nina Bryant, whose
son died 12 years ago, will
speak on the theme “You
can survive Suicide”, offer
ing a message of hope for
suicide survivors.
The program will be held
at Perry Hospital Cafeteria,
1120 Morningside Drive,
at 7 p.m., Oct. 21.
To register, piease call
Emily at 922-1777.
Ladies night held
Houston Lake Baptist
Church held their second
annual “ A Ladies Night of
Renewal” last Saturday,
where 71 women met for
an evening of fellowship,
dinner, and inspirational
message.
Terri Smith of Mabel
White Baptist Church in
Macon was the evening’s
guest speaker. Smith
stressed the woman's need
of “returning regularly to
the cross.” Betty Lou
Dabbs and Cindy Collier
presented a special mes
sage in song.
The meal for the evening
>- was planned and prepared
by Faye Craft of Perry, and
the men of the church
served. A drawing was
held for gifts donated by
local businesses.
Lunches for Houston
County Schools
Milk is served with
every meal. Breakfast fea
tures fresh fruit or fruit
juice; cereal and toast are
a daily breakfast choice.
Lunches offer a variety of
fruits and vegetables daily.
PBJ sandwiches are
always on the menu.
Oct. 21- Breakfast-
Sausage Biscuit. Lunch-
Nachos w/cheese and beef
or sub sandwich or pizza.
Chocolate chip cookie.
Oct. 22- Breakfast-
Manager's choice. Lunch-
Steak nuggets w/roll or
barbecue on Bun or pizza.
Jell-0 cookie.
Oct. 25- Breakfast-
Manager's choice. Lunch-
Chicken nuggets w/roll or
hot ham and cheese sand
wich or baked potato
w/hot toppings. Rice
Krispie treats.
Oct. 26- Breakfast-
Sausage biscuits. Lunch-
Fish nuggets or sandwich
or pizza. Cinnamon rolls.
Oct. 27- Breakfast-
Cheese croissant w/meat.
Lunch- hamburger or
manager’s choice or baked
potato w/hot toppings.
Short cake w/fruit top
pings.
Food class offered
Houston County Career
and Technology Center
announced the offering of
Pro Start Food service
Management school to
career program for the
2000-2001 year. The pro
gram was established by
the Georgia Hospitality
and Travel Association
and the National Restau
rant Association.
The two year program
will teach high school stu
dents about the various
aspects of culinaiy arts
and food service iui.’
ment while giving the stu
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Homecoming Court Jor 1999-2000 include
(sealed, from left) Seniors: Chutney Wal
ton, Vicki Welling, Summer Saunders,
Heather Whiddon, Magdalyn Clarington,
(standing) Freshmen: Tiffany Giles,
Perry High Homecoming is Oct. 22
By Torey Jolley
Home Journal Staff
The leaves are beginning
to turn colors. Football
games are won and lost on
Friday nights. Homecoming
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By Torey Jolley
Home Jourmai- Statt
Don't count your chickens before
they hatch. That seems to be the les
son Cagle Inc. and the Perry City
Council may learn from each other.
During the Oct. 19 City Council
meeting, Perry City Council members
voted to cancel an agreement which
entitled Cagle to an approximately
half million dollar grant.
The sticking point was whether the
former G. Heilman Brewery plant
Cagle is refurbishing into a chicken
processing facility, would be annexed
into the city Cagle hopes to being pro
cessing chickens by January 2000.
Cagle has apparently decided not to
annex the main plant, which faces Ga.
247-Spur. Instead, the company will
allow a waste water treatment plant
located south of the manufacturing
plant, to be annexed.
The decision to withdraw support of
the Cagle grant came on a 3-2 motion
following intense discussions by
council members.
According to City Attorney David
Walker, “They said they are not com
ing into the city just the waste
water plant.”
“We annexed the road out there
because they lead us to believe they
would ask to annex into our city. We’ll
have to patrol the roads, work the
wrecks, and if a fire breaks out, the
city of Perry Fire department will have
Perry High School
announced its 1999-2000
Homecoming Court. The
Homecoming Court Queen
candidates are seniors
Chutney Walton, daughter
of Monecia and William
Walton; Vicki Welling,
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Kalah McCoy, Sophomores: Marquita
Lumpkin, Autumn McCarthy, Juniors:
Destiny Askew, Jessica Green, Jessica
O’Rear, and Marquita Ragin. Not pictured
is Sophomore Gabrielle Smith.
Robinson, Ross Yasin, and Dontrell
Green.
to aid them. Basically, we provide all
the services and get none of the bene
fits of an added tax base," said Coun
cilman Billy Jerles, who lead the vote
to stop the grant.
Not all Council members agreed
with Jerles' request to stop the grant
money until the question of whether
or not Cagle plans to be annexed into
the city is resolved.
Councilman Bobby Glover said,
“This city is going backwards. The
problem is the same old thing again. It
is a black, white, and Mexican issue.”
Perry applied for and received a
$499,963 block grant from the Hous
ing and Urban Development Depart
ment of Community Affairs Aug. 16 .
The grant is for Cagle to refurbish the
waster water treatment plant.
The City also applied for a second
grant called the Employee Incentive
Program which has not been finalized.
The grant is from a new program
recently started in the Department of
Community Affairs. It is for a maxi
mum of $500,000.
In exchange for the City’s applica
tion for the grant, Cagle promised to
hire 1,500 employees in the next two
years. Of that 1,500, 51 percent will
be low to moderate income individu
als. Cagle plans to work with JPTA
and other welfare-to-work programs
in the hiring process.
Jerles maintains the city was lead
to believe Cagle would request annex-
daughter of Betty and John
Welling; Summer Saunders,
daughter of Dawn and Mar
tin Saunders; Heather
Whiddon, Nancy and Pat
Whiddon; and Magdalyn
See PHS, Page 5A
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Un-fair like weather
affects attendance
Froehlich reports first-ever decline in attendance
By Torey Jolley
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The 10th Georgia
National Fair is over. The
rides, the games, the food,
and the entertainment
have all packed up and
moved on to the next town.
While many people came to
enjoy the event, the weath
er played havoc with the
fair attendance.
According to Mike
Froehlich, executive direc
tor of the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricen
ter. the inclement weather
during the week caused
the . first-ever decease in
the attendance for the fair.
“Last year’s 10 days of
great weather helped set
the 1998 record atten
dance of 361,125,” said
Froehlich. This year's
County prisoners headed
to portable classrooms
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Some Houston County
jail inmates may soon find
themselves “back in the
classroom" thanks to some
cooperation between the
Houston County Board of
Education and the Houston
County Commissioners.
According to Commis
sioner Larry Thomson, the
Board of Education is offer
ing the county government
three portable classrooms
which nave been put out of
use as new schools have
opened.
The buildings one
located in Centerville, one
in Warner Robins and one
in Perry will be moved at
the county’s expense, reno
vated and located in a clus
ter behind the existing
county jail building off
ation into the city. “This would have
increased our tax base. Now it
appears they (Cagle) are only wanting
to annex the waste water plant. That
doesn't help the citizens of Perry who
will be forced to absorb the costs,"
stated Jerles.
“We run gas, water, and sewer lines
out into the county with hopes of the
areas being annexed into the city.
With Cagle people don’t want Mexi
cans and blacks being brought here to
work. Let the people work,” said
Glover.
Councilman Ralph Gentry voted
against the money being stopped as
'well. He said, “WeVe opened a can of
worms now. The county asked us to
do this. We did it and now we are
doing this (stopping the grant). It is
wrong."
The City Council is researching the
issue. The question is whether or not
Cagle will annex the entire property -
not just the waste water plant, into
the city limits.
“I only want to clear up this confu
sion will Cagle annex into the city
or not," said Jerles, adding if they
annex into the city, then he would
have no problem voting to return the
grant money.
Though approved for the grant Oct.
19, no money has been issued by the
state to Perry for the grant, nor has
the city released funds to Cagle.
attendance was 336,705.
However, Froehlich noted
this year’s fair had the
third largest attendance
recorded.
“In many ways, it was
like a Tale of two Fairs,"
said Froehlich. “The
inclement weather some
what dampened the first
half of the week with fair
weather prevailing the last
five days which were on a
record setting pace."
Froehlich said the suc
cess of the fair is not mea
sured by and standards
other than the quality of its
programs and events.
“The fair has a distin
guished reputation for pro
ducing a first-class event,
and it was a ‘Perfect 10.’
See FAIR, Page 5A
Kings Chapel Road, in an
effort to reduce some of the
cost of housing Houston
County inmates in out-of
county jails.
At their regular meeting
Oct. 19, the Commissioners
also heard from District
Attorney Kelly R. Burke
who reported his office had
received a state grant of
$37,520 under the Vio
lence Against Women Act.
The funds, augmented by
matching funds of $12,000
from the County Commis
sioners, will be used to hire
a person to develop county
wide protocols, work with
various county agencies
concerned with domestic
violence and keep a record
of incidents of domestic vio
lence on # county-wide
See COUNTY. Page 5A