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FRIDAY October 3, 2003 Volume 134, Number 181 Award-Winning Newspaper 2003 Belter Newspaper Contest |INSIDE TODAY * \iS * Mp», **^*l S?Bst SEEjBHjI »’ear" ■ ■ I ■ The Fair Journal The annual 32-page special section for the Georgia National Fair, which opens today. Inside Iff £ Lm '*•■ -- -n *2f: ‘ ■ H^r - fjr\ jjsygj 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 PERIODICAL iiilliiliiuHiilliifiiiillitiii 1 * Georgia Newspaper Project MAIN ÜBR.ARY UGA ATHENS GA 20602 G-UiGti 206 Serving Houston County Since 1870 \ plume )d CLLrje jjmgnral LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Well over 100 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 entails. SIO,OOO came from >»* '» *h* fc #, i v - vfe r ’ bjoHM ifff' §*/ml f, .njpy vi; BpMJ* \ . ■Bk l^ 13 40rr / H d' 7^ J W i JP Pi >M HHJ/Jon Sugf(H 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. www.hhjnews.com submitted 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 -4*70 | M FOB: k HHJ/Heather Fasciocco 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. an Evans Family Newspaper 50c III! Illlill i FOUR SECTIONS • 50 PAGES 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