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Robins Air Force Base Family Advocacy’s Outreach Manager Veronica Griffin discusses the
importance of educating the community about domestic violence. The official party, (left to
right) Col. Marvin T. Smoot, commander of the 78th Air Base Wing, Warner Robins Mayor
Donald Walker and Centerville Mayor Pm Tern Randal Wright wait to sign the pmclamation
announcing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Locals observe domestic
awareness violence month
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - Community mem
bers gathered with Robins
Air Force Base’s Family
Advocacy and the Houston
Family Violence Prevention
Council to observe October
2003 as Domestic Violence
Awareness Month.
The month-long aware
ness will honor the sur
vivors of domestic violence
and remember those who
lost their lives to it.
According to Lynda
Johnson, executive director
for Safe House and chairper
son for Houston Family
Violence Prevention
Council, Houston County
reported 520 crisis calls in
2002.
Johnson said at least 100
people were placed in local
shelters after leaving their
homes as a result of domes
tic violence. Domestic vio
lence remains the single
greatest cause of homeless
ness among women and chil
dren in Georgia.
“We need ongoing support
from the community,” she
said. “We cannot do this on
our own.”
Saturday will mark com
munity awareness day for
domestic violence agencies
in Houston County.
Representatives from each
agency will be at the Warner
Robins Wal-Mart to hand
out brochures on local serv
ices available for domestic
violence victims and their
dependents.
The base’s Family
Advocacy Outreach
Manager Veronica Griffin
encouraged the community
to become educated on indi
cators of a domestic violence
victim or an abusive partner.
She said it is essential to
first contact a local law
enforcement agency.
Law enforcement agencies
are trained to take neces
sary action in locating and
contacting a domestic vio
lence organization for vic
tims who may need proper
assistance.
“Everyone must take a
firm stance in the preven-
Workers at
Wholesale Tire &
Wheel Co., on the
corner of
Commerce and
Ball streets in
Perry, help move
a cargo carrier
from a damaged
trailer to another
one. The original
trailer sustained
irreparable dam
age while travel
ing along 1-75 on
its way to port for
Puerto Rico with a
load of dog food,
said Jeff Bone,
owner of
Wholesale Tire &
Wheel.
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Perry Mayor James Worrall signs the proclamation
declaring October “Domestic Violence Awareness
Month. ”
Indicators that someone is a victim of
domestic violence
• Shows fear of partner’s temper
• Shows fear to disagree
• Apologizes for partner’s behavior
• Justifies everything they do to their partner
• Partner ridicules them and puts them
down in front of others
• Avoids contact with friends and family
• Has repeated unexplained injuries
• Shows fear of breaking up with partner
because of potential retaliation
tion of domestic violence,”
Griffin said. She pointed
that not taking the initiative
to help a victim of domestic
violence is how many cases
become severe.
“The key is if you suspect
abuse is occurring then
report it to the proper
authorities,” she said.
“Domestic violence isn’t a
private matter.”
According to statistics
written in a Safe House
brochure, nearly 400,000
women die each year as a
result of domestic violence
and of those, women ages
24-30 are considered the
most vulnerable.
Along with Col. Marvin T.
Smoot, commander of the
78th Air Base Wing, Warner
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Robins Mayor ponald
Walker and Centerville
Mayor Pro Tem Randal
Wright signed the proclama
tion during the ceremony,
while Perry Mayor James
Worrall, who was unable to
attend, signed the previous
day.
Walker referred to the
dangers of not only being a
victim, but also playing the
role as a law enforcement
officer assigned to a case of
domestic violence as being
one of the toughest situa
tions that an officer may be
a part of.
“Domestic violence is one
of the worst social ills we
have in Georgia,” he said.
“It (domestic violence) has
no bounds.”
LOCAL
Fire destroys
mobile home
HOUSTON COUNTY -
Houston County firefighters
battled a blaze Tuesday
afternoon that destroyed 15
bales of hay and an aban
doned singlewide mobile
home off Old Hawkinsville
Road.
According to Fire Chief
Jimmy Williams, personnel
and volunteers from sta
tions 6,2, 7, and 5 respond
ed to the scene after a refuse
fire caught a nearby pile of
Michael McCarthy
Private First Class
Michael McCarthy, Ist
Battalion, 36th Armored
Infantry Regiment, has
been awarded the Combat
Infantryman Badge for
“actively engaging in
ground combat against the
enemy while deployed in
support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom in Baghdad, Iraq.”
McCarthy, who entered
the U.S. Army in February
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spread to the hay and trail
er.
There were no injuries, he
said.
Firefighters were on the
scene about two hours from
about 3:30 until about 5:30
p.m., he said.
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ing Monday.
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tion department supervisor,
is serving as coordinator for
the chapter.
To the first meeting,
Thornton invited
Neighborhood Watch coordi
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lant community leaders to
report debris - brush, litter,
carcasses, etc. - that needs
collecting within their
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