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WEEKEND
July 12-14, 2003
Volume 134, Number 122
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The Warner Robins
American Little League is
sending an unprecedented
five teams to to state compe
tition.
Four teams will compete
today, and another will com
pete July 19.
WRALL has swept the dis
trict before, but not in both
boys’ and girls’ competition.
They had a chance to send
six teams, but the boys’
minor league baseball all
star team was defeated
Thursday in Macon.
Story and photos, page 1B
IN BRIEF
Worrall receives
GMA certificate
SAVANNAH - Perry
Mayor James Worrall
received the prestigious cer
tificate of excellence from
the Georgia Municipal
Training Institute at the
Georgia Municipal
Association’s annual conven
tion, held June 24.
To receive the certificate, a
city official must complete a
minimum of 120 units of
credit, taught over a series of
24 six-unit courses.
“This is an outstanding
achievement,” said GMA
Executive Director Jim
Higdon. “We commend
Mayor Worrall for this
accomplishment and for the
dedication he’s shown in
using this valuable resource
to become a more effective
city official.”
Worrall was one of 11 city
officials from across the state
to receive the certificate this
year.
- From staff reports
INDEX
COMICS 4B
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS 7A
CROSSWORD 4B
LIFESTYLE 8A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . . .5A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Serving Houston County Since 1870
Carpenter settling into top job
By Luci Joullian
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Danny Carpenter, named
interim superintendent for Houston
County schools earlier this week, will
eventually be replaced by a permanent
superintendent, but he plans to make
the most of his time as the leader of
Houston County’s schools.
“My number-one goal, and I’ve said it
from the very first, is to get everybody on
the same page and for everyone to have
ownership of the system,” Carpenter
said.
Perryans choose sides on proposed farm
Advocates
say no harm
in proposal
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - It’s an award-win
ning program, and it deserves
an appropriate facility; so say
supporters of Perry High
School’s FFA.
With the cooperation of the
Houston County Board of
Education, the group has pro
cured a 15-acre site behind
Morningside Elementary
School, where it proposes to
develop a “world class” agricul
tural sciences education facility
in five phases over the next 10
years.
“‘Farm’ doesn’t do it justice,”
Alicia Tomlinson said of the
plan, which includes space for
horticulture, forestry, biotech,
aquaculture and other agricul
tural sciences.
Yet it’s that part of the first
phase that seems to catch peo
ple up, said Tomlinson, an ag
sciences teacher and FFA advi
sor at Perry High.
The animal farm portion of
the proposal - which consists of
a barn and outdoor areas for a
few show animals - has those
who live and work in the area
concerned about smells and
flies.
See FOR, page 10A
Riding to Victory
Master sergeant returns from overseas to
find new motorcycle - a gift from his wife
By Emily Johnstone
HHJ Associate Editor
“Feel Your Heart Race” is one
theme of the Victory Junction
Gang Camp for Kids, and
Houston County resident John
Hunt will be feeling his heart
race with joy this weekend as he
and other motorcycle enthusi
asts wind along Georgia roads
from Atlanta to Warner Robins.
Hunt and other motorcycle
riders will finish their ride
Saturday at Hooters where the
Hooters girls will wash motor
cycles for donations to the
camp, a project funded by
Victory motorcycle rider and
NASCAR racer Kyle Petty and
wife, Patty.
Hunt will be riding his own
shiny red Victory motorcycle, a
gift his wife Helen gave him the
same day he returned home
after a stint in Afghanistan last
year.
A member at that time of the
sth Combat Communications
Group (also know as the sth
Mob), Hunt was sent to
Pakistan in September 2001.
When he came home for a
short time during Christmas, he
and Patty were inside a motor
cycle shop when he spotted a
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The interim super may have his work
cut out for him. With the recent resigna
tion of former Superintendent Charles
Holloway, state and countywide school
budget crises, disagreements over
whether the board should increase the
county’s millage rate and, now, the
search for a new permanent superin
tendent, Carpenter should have his
hands full.
Fortunately, Carpenter has had his
share of leadership experience in the
educational arena. A lifelong educator
with over 30 years experience - 29 of
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The proposed farm and neighboring properties.
bike that seemed to jump out
and say “take me home!”
John, whose love affair with
motorcycles began when he was
9 years old, saw the Victory in
the showroom as the bike of his
dreams.
He had to leave shortly to go
back overseas, but never forgot
the bike he saw that day while
shopping with Helen.
“I just knew by the time I got
back home, it would be gone!”
he said, so he started surfing
the Web to search for other
bikes that might catch his eye.
Meanwhile, the bike was leav
ing the motorcycle shop.
Its destination would be John
and Helen’s garage.
Unknown to John, Helen was
not about to let her husband
miss an opportunity to own this
bike.
When his return day finally
came in June, Helen and a num
ber of friends met John.
He was tired and ready to
catch up on some shut-eye.
He could not understand why
no one seemed to want to leave
his front yard as they stood
there welcoming him home.
What everyone was waiting
for was John to open the garage
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John and Helen Hunt enjoy a cool breeze as they ride John’s
Victory motorcycle on a hot summer afternoon. John will be rid
ing today in a fundraiser for a project started by NASCAR racer
Kyle Petty.
door. all my goofy, wonderful friends
“I was thinking how I wished See VICTORY, page 10A
them in Houston County - he was a
physical education teacher and coach at
Tabor Junior High and Northside High
schools, where he also served as athletic
director, before he became principal of
Pearl Stephens, which at the time was an
alternative school. He worked to change
the school from being a place that simply
punished unruly children to one that
was designed to help students and lower
the propensity for dropouts. From there,
Carpenter became principal of the
Elberta Open Campus High School in
1990, where he opened a daycare for chil-
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dren of teen mother
students. He also began
teen parenting and
community service pro
grams there.
He moved up to an
administration position
several years ago when
he became director of
the county’s alternative
education program, and
then executive director
of secondary operations
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CARPENTER
See CARPENTER, page 10A
Opponents:
‘Not in our
back yards’
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Not everyone cot
tons to the idea of farm animals
in the city.
In addition to some com
plaints from residents -
expressed in recent council and
zoning meetings - the Perry
City Council and Perry Hospital
have formally stated their oppo
sition to the FFA’s proposal to
form a farm behind
Morningside Elementary
School.
While both the city council
and the hospital authority have
publicly praised the FFA’s pro
gram, neither agrees with the
Morningside proposal.
At the council’s regular meet
ing Tuesday, following the dis
posal of the agenda,
Councilman James Moore
asked that the lawmaking
group address the issue.
“I would like us to go on
record as being opposed to the
site chosen and urge them to
choose another site,” Moore
said.
He made a formal motion to
that effect, and it was seconded
by Mayor Pro Tern Joe Kusar.
See AGAINST, page 10A
MGTCVP
takes job
in Moultrie
From staff reports
WARNER ROBINS - The
State Board of the Department
of Technical and Adult
Education today approved the
appointment of Dr. Tina
Anderson as the new president
of Moultrie Technical College.
Anderson has a doctorate of
education in
education
leadership
from Georgia
Southern
University
and a master’s
of science in
management
from Georgia
Southwestern
State
University.
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ANDERSON
Since 2001, Anderson has been
the vice president of instruction
for Middle Georgia Technical
College, where she supervised
160 full- and part-time faculty
members and oversaw curricu
lum development.
“The thing I’m going to miss
most is working directly with
the instructors; we have such
great instructors at Middle
See ANDERSON, page 10A
