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FRIDAY
October 3, 2003
Volume 134, Number 181
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The Fair Journal
The annual 32-page
special section for the
Georgia National Fair,
which opens today.
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Westfield seeks
fast-pitch title
Westfield’s fast-pitch
team will make an
unprecedented third
appearance in the GISA
state championship this
weekend at the Walter B.
Williams Complex in
Milledgeville.
The Lady Hornets,
enter round one (the
finals are set for Oct. 11)
the tournament as a No. 1
seed, and will be vying to
add onto the state title
they won in 2000 by beat
ing Trinity Christian in
the finals.
Sports, page 1B
James M. Dortch
Robert “Bob Hooley Sr.
Col. Harry A. Stafford 111
Obits, page 5A
CELEBRATIONS . ,8A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
LIFESTYLE 6A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION .4A
SCHOOL NEWS . .10A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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Houston farm
among 16 to be
honored today
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
ELKO - Sept. 4, 1874. That’s the
date on the deed for the Kezar fami
ly farm on Ga. 26 in south Houston
County.
Dr. H.S. Kezar, a Canadian immi
grant and graduate of Harvard
Medical School, settled the farm,
which was situated on over 1,000
acres at the time.
Kezar married Frances Faulkner
in 1884, and their children would
inherit the family farm, and so on,
and so on.
Today, the Kezar farm is among 16
to be honored by the Georgia
Preservation Division with the
Smith donates
to Partnership
Auto dealer gives $20,000
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
community has heard the
request and donations are
steadily coming in to The
21st Century Partnership.
Wednesday marked anoth
er local major contribution
to the base booster group,
which will provide the base
realignment and closure
committee with certified
reports and compiled data
about the base’s viability to
Middle Georgia in 2005.
Jeff Smith of Jeff Smith
Nissan in Warner Robins
and Jeff Smith Dodge-
Chrysler-Jeep in Perry
donated $20,000 on behalf of
his businesses to show what
he believes is what being a
part of the community
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Friends and former students of A.D. Redmond help unveil the new sign renaming
Perry’s James Street Park as A.D. Redmond Park, honoring the former administrator of
Houston County Training School.
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This photo, circa 1900, shows the Kezar farmhouse just off Ga. 26 near Elko. The center structure was part
of the farm when it was purchased in 1874. The wings and other additions were added over the years. Today,
Charles Kezar Jr., great-grandson of Dr. H.S. Kezar, the farm’s original owner, lives in the house and is in the
process of restoring it.
Georgia Centennial Family Farm
Award, which honors farms owned
by the same family for a century or
more.
The farms will be recognized at 1
p.m. at the Georgia National Fair,
the Warner Robins business
and the remainder was
donated on behalf of the
Perry facility
The chamber’s Warner
Robins Industry Now Group
(WRING), which provides
the Partnership with its
fundraising efforts has
received over $300,000 in
hand and has already
received the Robins Federal
Credit Union’s quarter
amount of $125,000. The
credit union will match sole
ly donated funds up to
$500,000.
The next quarter, which
has raised closer to
$150,000, includes Smith’s
donation.
“I feel that we are well on
our way to reaching the
$500,000 mark for the
matching funds,” said Neil
one of this year’s opening day cere
monies.
The modern Kezars will be in
attendance.
Charles, grandson of H.S., and his
wife, Kate, live on the farm, albeit in
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Jeff Smith, of Jeff Smith Nissan in Warner Robins and
Jeff Smith Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep in Perry, donates
$20,000 to The 21st Century Partnership by way of the
Warner Robins Industry Now Group. Neil Suggs, right,
co-chairs WRING, which is raising funds from local busi
nesses to reach a $1.2 million goal.
Suggs, co-chair of WRING.
“Jeff Smith really stepped
up to the plate.”
Smith said after establish
ing his dealership in 1998,
he became aware of the
importance of giving back to
the community through
charitable organizations.
See SMITH, page 3A
Park named fop a
principled principal
Perry names park for A.D. Redmond
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Long after we
are gone, the best of us are
remembered by friends,
family and all the lives we
touched.
The names of those we
choose to remember beyond
our own span we attach to
places, in the hope, perhaps,
they remain to remind those
who follow whom we loved.
On Wednesday afternoon,
along James Street, a group
gathered for such a remem
bering.
The location is significant
- a park across the street
from Perry Primary School,
former site of Houston
County Training School.
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a newer house than the farmhouse
that was a part of the 1874 property.
That house still exists, but it has
been changed through the years,
Kate Kezar said. The usual
See FARM, page 3A
Cowart,
Simms tie
documents
By Heather Fasciocco
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Two
more Warner Robins City
Council candidates’ cam
paign disclosure reports
were filed Wednesday.
City clerk Carolyn
Robbins had granted incum
bent Dean Cowart and
Thomas Simms a five-day
extension to the Tuesday
deadline. Cowart filed both
his financial and campaign
disclosure reports
Wednesday, while Simms
filed his financial disclosure
report on Sept. 30 and his
campaign disclosure report
on Oct. 1.
Cowart, who is running
for city council seat Post 2-
at large, claimed total con
tributions of $1,500 and
expenditures of $1,127.
See DISCLOSURES, page 5A
There, a man named A.D.
Redmond served as adminis
trator, teacher, coach and
guide to a generation of stu
dents.
Some of them played on
this very site, where today
modern playground equip
ment serves youthful
Perryans.
In a short ceremony,
friends and former students
of Redmond, along with rep
resentatives of Perry gov
ernment, formally renamed
the park after Redmond.
Herman Ragin, a former
coach at Houston County
Training School and later a
principal at Kings Chapel
Elementary School, spoke
See REDMOND, page 3A