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FRIDAY
July 23, 2004
Volume 135, Number 145
Award-Winning
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Contest
Inside TODAY
WR man steals
tractor at airport
An airline passenger
breached security at an
Atlanta airport, stealing a
baggage tractor.
See page 2A
Local pitchers
seek world titles
Doyle Johnson, Buddy
Ayers and Rick
Thompson are all hoping
it’s as easy as one, two,
three when they compete
at the horseshoe pitchers
world tournament
Monday through Aug. 7
at Pocatello, Idaho.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
July 23
Audrey Evans
Janie Gupton
Benjamin Hallwachs
Mike Johnston
Teresa Southern
July 24
A.J. Cannon
Devon Cooper
Sandy Dannelly
Terri Payne
Evelyn Wheeler
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or
anniversary is, and we’ll put their
names in the paper that day. Just
send the name and date at least
a week in advance, and we'll do
the rest. E-mail to
hhj@evansnewspapers.com, or
mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Sara Ruth Yansom
Anderson
Grady L. Davis Sr.
Glenda Brett Delk
Barbara Blaylock Hodges
James R. “Sweetie”
Jones
Obits, page 6A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
LIFESTYLE 8A
OBITUARIES 6A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Camp counselors Michelle Hamilton of Northside High and Kari Squires of Columbus State University
organize the crafts class at the youth camp in Warner Robins.
Holt surprised with state honor
Houston Detention Center
administrator wins top award
By Jon Suggs
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - He went to the
Georgia Jail Association’s
annual awards banquet to
watch as severaLof his offi
cers were honored, but Maj.
Charles Holt had no idea he
was going to receive a top
honor himself.
“I was totally surprised,”
Holt said of being named the
association’s Detention
Administrator of the Year.
Holt attended the Friday
ceremony to watch and take
pictures as Houston County
Detention Center officers
Michael Garrett, Pamela
Thurmond, Wanda Clark,
Darron Jones, Antwoin
Curtis, Mark Tinney and
Bush
praises
9/11
report
By Pete Yost
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
President Bush praised as
“very constructive” the rec
ommendations in a new
report Thursday on intelli
gence failures that led to
Sept. 11, though his admin
istration has reacted coolly
toward a central proposal to
establish a Cabinet-level
national intelligence direc
tor.
Thomas H. Kean,
Republican chairman, and
Lee H. Hamilton,
Democratic vice chairman,
formally handed a copy of
the independent commis
sion’s report in a Rose
Garden ceremony. Bush had
fought the creation of the
panel, resisted the release of
documents and battled
against letting national
security adviser
Condoleezza Rice address
the panel. He embraced its
See BUSH, page 7 A
www.hhjnews.com
Keith Larry received the
association’s Meritorious
Service Award.
“I was there to support
them and did not realize I
was going to be a man of dis
tinction myself,” Holt said.
The association chose to
honor Holt for his work as
he helped get the new jail up
and running.
Holt, who has spent most
of his 30-year career with
the Houston County
Sheriffs Department in the
patrol division, took the post
of chief detention officer in
May 2002.
“I got a crash course in jail
operations,” Holt joked.
If so, it seems he’s passed
the test.
See HOLT, page 7A
Celebrating a new ministry
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Despite a thunderstorm and a multi-car accident on
1-75 which blocked traffic for hours, the Right Rev. J.
Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta, made it to Perry
Sunday evening to lead the celebration of the new
ministry of Father William A. Anderson at St.
Christopher’s-at-the-Crossroads. Anderson is now
the Rector of the Church. For an interview with
Anderson, see today’s Family & Faith section, page
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(From left) Houston Detention Center officers Mark Tinney, John Stinson and Michael
Garrett received the Georgia Jail Association Meritorious Service Award, and Maj.
Charles Holt was named Georgia Detention Administrator of the Year. Not pictured are
Pamela Thurmond, Wanda Clark, Darron Jones, Antwoin Curtis and Keith Larry, who
also received the Meritorious Service Award.
WR hosts
Youth
Academy
By Ed Bania
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Twenty-five
kids ranging from 7 to 12 years old are
learning about crafts, life skills and
making relationships during the Warner
Robins Recreation Department’s Youth
Academy Summer Camp.
The camp began June 14 and contin
ues through July 30. City residents paid
$45 per week per child, county residents
paid s9l, and out-of-county residents
paid $157 to participate.
The day camp program started sever
al years ago, according to Lola Frost,
program director for the Warner Robins
See ACADEMY, page 3A
Reeves heads
state IT group
Houston schools’ IT director
supports technology across Ga.
By Teresa D. Southern
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - As president of a
statewide organization,
Wally Reeves, director of
information technology for
the Houston County School
System, hopes to further
implement technology in the
schools.
Reeves has been elected
president of the Georgia
Association for the
Management of Educational
Information Systems
(GAMEIS) for a two-year
term.
GAMEIS is a professional
organization founded in
1981. Its mission is to fur
ther the exchange of ideas
and solutions among profes
sionals who manage and
support the use of technolo
gy in an educational setting.
As president, Reeves will
“do all things assigned,” in
addition to planning meet
ings and securing sponsors
for the organization he said.
Reeves started with the
organization in its infancy
in 1981. He was a charter
member, later served as a
an Evans Family Newspaper
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sponsor and vendor and in
1998 became an active mem
ber, after entering his job
with the school system.
Reeves said it’s “unreal”
how technology has evolved
since his became a member
of the organization. He said
in the beginning he could
count everyone on one hand
with the I.T. department,
but now it is specialized
with someone for each
See REEVES, page 3A