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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Vltalker brokers land deal
Mayor settles rezoning flap in WR
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - It’s
not unusual for the Warner
Robins City Council’s agen
da to include a
rezoning/annexation
request.
Or two or three.
What’s not the norm is for
such a request to draw a
crowd, and that’s just what
happened as the council
gathered for its work session
before Monday evening’s
regular meeting.
On the agenda: a request
by the Blymen Corporation
to have five acres along
Watson Boulevard annexed
into the city and rezoned as
C-2 (commercial) rather
than its present R-AG (resi
dential-agricultural) desig
nation.
In the room: a group of
residents from the neighbor
hood, seeking input into
future uses of the land
before it’s allowed in as a
commercial property.
The parcel, which is adja
cent to Tom Chapman Road
and lies in front nf Weeping
Willow Way, -,has been
intended for commercial use
since as early as 1984, said
Ed Faircloth, who represent
ed Blymen at the meeting.
It’s just taken longer than
expected to get to this part
of the plan, and the residen
tial areas were developed in
the meantime, he said.
Residents aren’t upset at
the idea of a commercial
strip, per se, said spokesman
Van Alderman, but there are
certain uses they’d prefer
WRPD seeks burglary suspect
WARNER ROBINS - An
employee of a storage facili
ty has been charged in con
nection with a burglary at
her workplace.
Warner Robins police
detectives said Kimberlv
Perry bank robbers sentenced
MACON - Two bank rob
bers have been sentenced in
U.S. Court in Macon.
Ronald Nasir Mahdi, 54,
and David Antoine Luster,
30, who admitted to robbing
HEA Federal Credit Union
in Pern’ about a year ago,
were sentenced before U.S.
District Judge Hugh
Lawson.
According to U.S.
Attorney Maxwell Wood,
Luster was sentenced to
44.6 years without parole.
Mahdi, his uncle, received
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not to see when they step
out their back doors.
Pornography stores.
Liquor stores.
Strip clubs.
Massage parlors.
Nightclubs.
Liquor stores.
Last week, representa
tives from both sides met
and hammered out the
basics of a set of covenants
for the land, including
restrictions against such
uses.
Monday, the two sides
came before the council to
smooth the last few bumps
in that agreement.
A wording problem in the
covenants - defining liquor
stores - was sorted out, but
the discussion lagged as the
two sides tried to agree to a
buffer.
After about an hour,
Mayor Donald Walker called
for a recess and asked
Faircloth and his attorney to
step into his office.
A few minutes later, they
emerged and came back to
the table with an agree
ment
Blymen agreed to accept
the use restrictions and put
up a fence six feet, eight
inches tall, and leave a five
foot phinted buffer between
the back of the parcel and
the adjoining residential
properties.
At the regular meeting
later, the council approved
the annexation and rezon
ing with these covenants.
“Both sides are to be com
mended for working togeth
er,” W'alker said. “I think
Ann Bridges, 41, of 105
Madison Walk, Byron, has
been charged with felony
theft by receiving stolen
property.
This comes after a report
filed March 20 stating a bur
glary of a rented storage
a sentence of 45.8 years
without parole.
The pair have also been
sentenced for other bank
robberies in Georgia,
Florida, South Carolina and
Tennessee.
“These sentences will
ensure that neither of these
defendants will ever be able
to rob a bank again nor
place the life of a bank
employee in jeopardy,”
Wood said. “Since there is
no parole in the federal sys
tem, Mr. Mahdi will be
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you set a great example here
for the rest of the communi
ty.”
In other business, the
council:
• Renamed Heritage Park,
a city park at the intersec
tion of Pleasant Hill Roud
and Scott Boulevard, as Ada
Lee Park, honoring Lee for
“the many contributions
mude ... to the Warner
Robins community for many
years.”
• Approved the $843,000
budget for expending
Community Development
Block Grant funds.
• Entered into an agree
ment with SC Services &
Associates Inc. for collection
of municipal court debts.
• Entered into an agree
ment with Robins Air Force
Base for interruptible natu
ral gas service.
• Transferred $5,000 from
the contingency fund to the
Recreation Department to
cover extra costs of repair
ing the center’s roof.
• Agreed to declare four
older police department
bicycles surplus and donate
them to the Fort Valley
Police Department.
• Approved the appoint
ment of Walker to the
Municipal Gas Authority
Board.
• Approved the appoint
ment of Councilman Steve
Smith to the Convention
and Visitors Bureau Board.
• Approved the appoint
ment of Barbara Turner as
the resident representative
to the Housing Authority
Board
unit had taken place at
Mini-Max Storage Offices
located on Greenbriar Road
Anyone with information
is asked to contact Detective
Jeff Kuiaw.i at 929-6909 or
929-6911.
- From staff reports
almost 100 years old and
Mr. Luster will be almost 75
years old before they get out
of federal prison."
Wood added that crimi
nals contemplating violent
crimes with a firearm
should know they will face
such sentences.
- Emily Johnstone
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MLKII visits Peppy class
By Luci Joullian
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Martin Luther
King 111 visited Perry
Primary School Monday to
speak with a group of
kindergartnerß about the
legacy left by his famous
father. The visit was
arranged by Perry Primary
teacher Xaviour Tucker,
who is an acquaintance of
King’s.
The kindergartners pre
pared for the visit by read
ing several books about
MLK Jr., his life and his
work.
“You grew!” said one
shocked kindergartner, who
had seen a picture of
Martin Luther King 111 as a
child in a book, to King.
King 111 answered ques
tion from the curious stu
dents that ranged from,
“What kind of house do you
live in?” to “Do you make a
lot of speeches?” and “Why
did someone kill your
father?”
“It’s the old story of good
and evil,” King said of his
futher’s murder. “Some
people didn’t like what he
was teaching.”
Sunday was the 36th
anniversary of the assassi
nation of Martin Luther
King Jr., and MLK 111
recounted the experience of
his father’s death, which
happened when MLK 111
was 10 years old. It was an
event that King said he
learned about while watch
ing a television news report
and after his mother,
Coretta Scott King, had
received consoling phone
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calls from Jesse Jackson
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He told the students
about his father’s teach
ings, which King said were
taught from “a principle of
love.” King now serves as
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president of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Center in
Atlanta.
Said King to the kinder
gartners, “We’ve got to
learn how to be more lov
able and more compassion
ate.”
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