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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
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Eric Mosley, coordinator for the Ga. Forestry Mobile Classroom project, shows Perry
Middle School seventh-graders how to operate a computer program about the state’s
forests.
Students go for a walk in the woods
By Emily Johnstone
HHJ Associate Editor
Seventh-graders in local
schools are taking walks
through forests and learning
about the importance of
trees in Georgia without
ever leaving a classroom.
The forest and its wonders
are being brought to them
as a 53-foot-long portable
classroom filled with infor
mation put together by the
Georgia Forestry
Commission tours the area.
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Local forest ranger Willie Vance helped bring the Mobile Classroom to Houston County
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Two men with a local house moving company strain to hold up massive electrical
cables as a home is backed into a new location Friday afternoon. A local company
owned by Terrell Smith moved the house into a spot near the fire station on Lake Joy
Road. People stopped to watch as the large building was backed Into a roadway beside
the station. Capt. Reuben McGhee of the Houston County Sheriff’s Department was on
hand to help with traffic control. The home was moved from property near the Inter
section of Lake Joy Road and Qa. 96 where a Publlx supermarket Is slated to be built.
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Eric Mosley, coordinator
with the Forestry
Commission Mobile
Classroom, said students are
learning about the state’s
natural resources through
sessions that include inter
active programs ties in with
seventh grade curriculum
dealing with plant life.
Inside the portable class
room, the walls are decorat
ed with forest scenes and 12
computer stations give stu
dents a chance to learn how
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important trees and the
environment are in Georgia.
A computer program that
walks students through a
15-minute session that
includes a pre-test and post
test, Mosley said.
The program offers a vir
tual tour through a forest,
he added.
About 12,000 students
throughout the state are
able to take advantage of the
learning system each year,
Mosley said
LOCAL
AFRC honors five at Robins
Milwaukee public affairs office wins four command awards
AFRC News Service
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - When it comes to
public affairs achievement
awards, the Flying Badgers
from the 440th Airlift Wing
in Milwaukee lead the way
in Air Force Reserve
Command with four awards.
The 440th AW and the
919th Special Operations
Wing, Eglin AFB Field 3,
Fla., along with 12 individu
als earned 16 awards recog
nizing them as the best in
the PA community for 2003.
Maj. Gen. John J. Batbie Jr.,
AFRC vice commander,
announced the winners Feb.
6. All of the winners are rep
resenting the command in
the Air Force-wide competi
tion.
In addition to being
named the best host wing
PA shop, the 440th AW from
Milwaukee’s Gen. Mitchell
International Airport Air
Reserve Station won the Air
Force Public Affairs
Contorenca canter
study goes forward
WARNER ROBINS -
Members of the core group of
local leaders interested in a
possible hotel/conference cen
ter for Warner Robins will
visit four comparable confer
ence centers next month.
On four separate day trips,
the group will visit confer
ence centers in Athens,
Dalton, Valdosta and New
Bern, N.C.
The trips were set up by
Finnell Consulting of
Atlanta, which was contract
ed to study the potential for a
hotel/conference center in
Warner Robins.
Flint Energies, which owns
38.3 acres of land at the cor
ner of Russell Parkway and
Houston Lake Road that
could potentially be sold to
developers for this project,
has committed SIO,OOO to
fund t!he study.
Alsd committed are the city
of Warner Robins ($10,000),
the Houston County
Development Authority
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Director’s Awards for media
relations and community
relation. The wing also had
the best field grade officer,
Maj. Ann Knabe. Eglin’s
919th SOW took the special
achievement award for
planned event, program or
plan, and the wing chief of
public affairs, Capt. Beena
Maharaj, was named the top
company grade officer.
Brig. Gen. Michael F.
Gjede, 910th AW command
er at Youngstown Air
Reserve Station, Ohio,
received the Secretary of the
Air Force Public Affairs
Special Achievement Award
for Commander Support.
Other individual public
affairs awards by category
are:
Headquarters NCO
Tech. Sgt Sean P Houlihan,
Headquarters AFRC, Robins
AFB
Headquarters senior NCO
- Master Sgt. Randy W.
HOUSTON BRIEFS
($5,000), Houston County
($5,000) and the Warner
Robins Chamber of
Commerce (up to $10,000).
Early results of the study,
presented in December, indi
cate Warner Robins would be
best served by a smaller facil
ity adaptable to groups of 25-
750 people seated in an
8,000- to 10,000-square-foot
ballroom. The study also said
an adjacent hotel might offer
common management and
operational efficiencies to a
conference center.
Local AAUW accepting
applcaflons for award
WARNER ROBINS - The
Warner Robins Branch of the
American Association of
University Women (AAUW)
is now accepting applications
for its annual Eleanor
Granum Award. This award
will be presented to a woman
or a man who has made a
contribution to the Middle
Georgia community through
volunteerism.
Nominees should be resi
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Phelps, Headquarters
AFRC, Robins AFB
Band airman - Senior
Airman Michael L. Pekarek,
Band of the Air Force
Reserve, Robins AFB
Band NCO - Tech. Sgt.
Jessica L. Welles, Band of
the Air Force Reserve,
Robins AFB
Band senior NCO - Master
Sgt. James A. Verrelli, Band
of the Air Force Reserve,
Robins AFB
The competition conclud
ed Jan. 31. PA offices were
judged on their overall effec
tiveness of program,
research and planning, pro
gram execution and evalua
tion, and innovativeness of
program. Individual judging
criteria included overall
effectiveness and job accom
plishment, leadership/orga
nizational and planning
skills, judgment and deci
sions, and communication
skills.
dents of Houston or Peach
counties who have given
their time and energy in serv
ice to others. AAUW seeks to
honor someone who has
shared their talents in any
way to their church, their
families or friends, their
schools, or to a civic or cul
tural organization. The nom
inees will be considered with
out regard to educational
background.
This award is in honor of
Eleanor Granum, who was
the organizing president of
the Warner Robins Branch of
AAUW and who has an out
standing record of volunteer
work on the local and state
level.
For applications or for addi
tional information, please call
Nancy Newell at (478) 929-
0855 or send a completed
application to: 103 Pheasant
Cove, Warner Robins, GA
31088. Applications must be
received no later than April
1.
The award will be present
ed in May.
- From staff reports
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