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Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker hands a proclamation naming Oct. 5-11 Mental
Illness Awareness Week to Phoenix Center executive director Don Blair, and congrat
ulates members of both NAMI-Central Georgia and the Phoenix Center for continuing
to educate the community about mental illness.
COUNCIL
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previous method the council
used for first-time violators
- placing stores on proba
tion while still allowing
them to sell alcohol - was
not working.
The council agreed to fine
the stores in spite of a string
of pleadings from each busi
ness. Many of the stores’
representatives explained
they had at least a form of
training for employees to
check identification cards
for customers under the age
of 27.
Rob Patterson of Mini-
Food Stores Inc. on North
Houston Road said the issue
is “one of those things that
can’t be avoided” but will
“continue to keep ways in
preventing underage sell
ing.”
Also during Monday’s
meeting, the council
approved an ordinance to
amend a previously enacted
ordinance granting a fran
chise to Flint Electric
Membership Corporation
(EMC), which allows the
company to occupy the city’s
streets and public rights of
way for constructing and
distributing electricity. The
city has had a franchise
agreement with Flint for the
past 35 years, and has been
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HIM Heather Fasciocco
Col. Tommy Batchelor, interim police chief for Warner Robins, is recognized by Warner
Robins Mayor Donald Walker (right) for Batchelor’s 40 years of service to the city.
Batchelor, center, is the longest-serving employee of the city’s work force. With him is
longtime friend Pastor Daniel Jackson of Greater Springfield Missionary Baptist
Church, left.
Robbery suspect detained by WRPD
WARNER ROBINS -
Police have detained a sus
pect they think is responsi
ble for several incidents
Monday night.
At about 8 p.m., Warner
Robins police officers
responded to 700 North
Davis Drive in response to
an attempted robbery. As
they were responding, a sec
ond call came in regarding a
robbery at 216 Tabor Drive.
The suspect description
HHJ Heather Fascioeco
Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker swears in Robyn
Schubbe as an animal control officer for the city.
negotiating a continuation
of the agreement since
August. Walker said he
expects the negotiations to
be finalized soon. The ordi
nance allows Flint to contin
ue its work while on city
rights of way until Dec. 5, by
which time Walker hopes a
long-term agreement will be
made.
Proclamations and recog
nitions were read and given
during Monday’s council
meeting by Walker.
Walker proclaimed
October 2003 Domestic
Violence Awareness Month,
was the same for both calls:
A tall heavy-set black man
wearing a light-colored shirt
and dark pants. Police said
the suspect attempted to
take cigarettes and money
from the North Davis loca
tion and took a victim’s wal
let at Tabor Drive.
Within an hour, a third
call came in, this one about
a black man begging for
money on the corner of
North Davis Drive and
the week of Oct. 5-11 Mental
Illness Awareness Week, and
kicked off Houston County
SAFE KIDS’ Walk This Way
program for Oct. 6-10.
Animal Control officer
Robyn Schubbe was sworn
in to office.
And Col. Tommy
Batchelor, interim police
chief, received a city employ
ee pin for 40 years of service.
A special meeting has
been scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
Oct. 22 for the council to set
the millage rate at 9.903
mills. The current millage
rate is 10.45.
Ignico Road. The descrip
tion matched that of the ear
lier calls.
Officers responded and
took Antonio Bernard
Rumph, 32, of Fort Valley,
into custody. He was
charged with two counts of
robbery.
The incidents are being
investigated by Det. Mark
Wright of the WRPD
Criminal Investigation
Division.
- From staff reports
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First Lady Mary Perdue (left) talks with Middle Georgia Right to Life President Dr.
Shirley Fisher of Warner Robins (center), and Georgia Right to Life President Caryl F.
Swift.
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Macon organization which
arranges foster care and
adoptions and offers coun
seling for problem pregnan
cies.
Prior to Sonny Perdue’s
bid for the state’s top office,
the couple provided foster
care for a number of new
born babies of different
races who were awaiting
adoption.
Explaining that when she
took the infants out into the
community, people always
asked, “Is that your grand
child?”, Perdue said that it
gave her an opportunity to
explain about the adoption
process.
“Many people have never
known a foster child or a fos
ter parent,” she said.
She praised both the
mothers of the infants, who
“sacrifice their own desires”
and adoptive parents, and
suggested that if abortion
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Tomya Morris
Wanted for violation of probation
(for simple battery)
LKA:
500 block of Sullivan Rd.. WR
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Faralekco Sulayla Norfolk
Wanted for violation of probation
(for Ist degree arson, burglary)
LKA:
700 block of Green St., WR
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Alfredo Perez
Wanted for failure to appear, forgery,
giving false nameladdresslDOß
LKA:
100 block of S. Third St., WR
Edward Raines
Wonted for theft by receiving
stolen property
LKA:
1(H) block of Rose Street, WR
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were not legal, many couples
now on long waiting lists,
would have the adopted chil
dren they long for.
Georgia Right to Life
President Caryl Swift spoke
at the gathering as well,
talking about a “slippery
slope” of morality, which she
said began “when prayer
was taken from our public
schools” and has included
the legalization of euthana
sia in Oregon as well as par
tial-birth abortions and
stem cell research.
Swift called abortion “the
holocaust of our nation” and
said that “43 million babies
have died from abortion -
33,000 in Georgia, with an
annual number of approxi
mately 400 abortions pro
vided for women from
Houston County, though
these are not being provided
in the county, but elsewhere.
Becky Turner of Georgia
Right to Life, who spoke of
Amelia Darlene Narup
Wanted for failure to appear, theft
by deception, forgery
LKA:
100 block of Marion Way, WR
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Falsto Oliva Orona
Wanted for aggravated assault
LKA:
100 block of Courtney Hodges Blvd.
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Christopher Poole
Wanted for criminal trespass,
interfering with call for help
LKA:
100 block of Virginia Dare Dr., WR
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Tom Wayne Rowser
Wanted for violation of probation (for
aggravated stalking and domestic battery)
LKA:
4(H) block of King Arthur Lane. WR
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
having an abortion as a
young college student, said
that had their been a num
ber to call for help, she
would have called it. She
showed the group a number
of television commercials
encouraging women with
“problem pregnancies” to
seek help and counseling.
Turner pointed out that
the messages and images
shown are “non-judgmen
tal” and said that the organ
ization is hoping to raise
approximately SIOO,OOO to
air the commercials in the
middle Georgia area.
Dr. Shirley Fisher, a
Warner Robins dentist who
is serving as local Right to
Life president, also spoke to
the group and urged those
present to get involved. The
organization serves
Houston, Peach and
Crawford counties. More
information can be obtained
at(478)396-8234.
Michael Nighbert
Wanted for violation of probation
(for public drunkenness)
LKA:
1700 block of Macon Rd., Perry
Shannon Pate
Wanted for violation of probation
(for giving false name)
LKA:
1700 block of Sewell Circle, Perry
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Mark Ragsdale
Wanted for violation of probation
(for suspended license)
LKA:
100 block of Holl Ave., WR
Brandy Latrice Sanders
Wanted for violation of probation (for
interfering with government property)
LKA:
300 block of Mimosa Dr., WR