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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Historic building demolished
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Crews complete demolition of the Warner Robins Clinic on North Davis Drive, the first
medical facility in Warner Robins, Thursday. The clinic was founded by doctors Virgle
W. McEver, W.G. Talbert Jr. and Dan Callahan. Houston Home Journal Publisher Danny
Evans was one of many who were born or treated in the clinic in the late 1950 s and
19605, before the Warner Robins Hospital, later the Houston Medical Center, was built
on Watson Boulevard.
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Derry Watson, president of Security Bank in Perry, grilled hamburgers and hot dogs in
the bank’s parking lot this week as part of an employee appreciation luncheon. Watson
was donning an apron that read "Kiss the Cook" and was signed by all the bank’s
employees.
TEASERS
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plan it has now. Currently,
employees pay no premium
for their own coverage and
small fees for dependents.
Under the suggestion,
employees could continue
with these costs options
under an HMO plan or
begin to pay more to keep
PPO coverage.
Councilman Dean Cowart
warned that any increases
could cause “long-term
employee erosion,” since the
city’s good coverage at low
rates has been a selling
point for employment.
“They get benefits in lieu
of raises,” Cowart said.
The council agreed to fur
ther discuss the matter at
later meetings, but some
decision must be made
before the budget process is
complete.
Walker referred to the
problem as “the 6,000-
pound gorilla” he has to
wrestle while considering
the budget.
• Councilman Steve
Smith offered a new plan for
the council’s proposed
retreat. He suggested the
group could spend a Friday
and Saturday ensconced at
the UGA’s Carl Vinson
Institute of Government,
using an outside mediator to
help them through a plan
ning session centered on
developing goals for the next
year.
“Retreat” is probably the
wrong word, Smith said.
“This would be work ... we
wouldn’t be playing golf or
anything.” Smith said.
By having the, uh, session
there rather than at
Callaway Gardens or a simi
lar location, the council
would have ready access to
specialists and could save
money at the same time.
Smith estimated the cost
would be around $6,000.
The council members
agreed to check schedules
and try to set a date at the
Monday work session.
• Walker announced the
city sold 124 single-family
home building permits in
March, about double last
March’s total (65) and an
all-time one-month record.
Warner Robins is on a
slightly better pace than in
2001, when it issued about
1,100 such permits, Walker
said.
• The mayor also got a
treat - specifically, ice cream
cake - as the council, depart
ment heads and guests
wished - and yes, sang - him
a happy birthday. Walker
turned 55 Saturday.
• In an April Fool’s Day
joke, Cowurt announced he
will run for mayor in the
city’s election next year.
Responding in kind, Walker
pulled out his checkbook
and offered to pay Cowart's
qualifying fee.
LOCAL
HORNE
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Southeastern Theatre
Conference and the
Georgian Thespians, and as
past president of the
Morning Optimist Georgia
Theatre Conference. He has
received the Suzanne M,
Davis Award for
Outstanding Service to
Theatre from the
Southeastern Theatre
Qonference and has been
inducted into he Georgia
and International Thespian
Halls of Fame.
As part of Georgia’s
Council for the Arts, Horne
will be part of a group that
allocates and distributes
grant money earmarked for
the arts.
The Hawkinsville native
Rtudied theater at Georgia
Southern University, which
ut the time was a teacher’s
college, with an eye toward
becoming a church drama
director.
“I knew from an early age
what I wanted to do,” he
said.
After graduation, Horne
traveled to the Philippines
for a year as part of an
organization helping to form
youth groups throughout
the country. When he
returned to Georgia in the
early 19605, he was invited
to teach drama at Warner
Robins’ new high school -
Northside High.
His is a teaching career
that has spanned over 40
years and has led Northside
thespians to 12 state victo
ries with shows like
“Oklahoma” and “Fiddler
on the Roof.”
Horne said he enjoys
teaching high school
because students at that age
ure “trying to decide what
do live with their lives. You
can help mold them while,
at the same time, just let
them do their thing."
He takes pride in this
molding of futures and
potential careers. He
recounts the time he heard
one student goofing around,
singing in his truck after
school. Horne approached
him to tell him that he had a
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wonderful voice and asked
the student what he wanted
to do with this talent. The
student told him Horne that
he would like to sing opera.
Horne encouraged him to
follow his dream and is now
happy to report that the stu
dent recently earned a Ph.D.
in opera performance.
It’s the most important
lesson he said he could teach
all his students - “to try; to
give themselves a chance.
The joy they get is that they
are entertaining, and they
feel good about it.”
“Theater is one of the best
ways of communicating,” he
said. “It gives you chal
lenges like nothing else.”
Some of his former stu
dents have appeared on
“Dallas,” as a lawyer in
“Divorce Court,” in soap
operas, on Broadway and
off-Broadway shows and
even as the lead in “The
Michael Jackson Story.”
“I keep in touch with my
students and they keep in
touch with me,” Horne said.
“They believed in me. And,
as a result, I got them to
believe in themselves."
After a short retirement in
2000, Home, now 67, con
tinues to teach part-time at
Northside - sharing duties
with drama teacher Brian
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Barnett, a former Northside
drama student - and has no
plans for retirement any
time soon.
“I feel like my teaching
and involvement with the
students has kept me
young,” he said, “both phys
ically and mentally.”
Smith a finalist
in pageant
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Stephanie Smith was
named Miss Congeniality
in the 2004 Pre-Teen Miss
Dogwood Pageant held
Saturday.
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