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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Commissioners agree
to GPS services for 911
By Teresa D. Southern
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
Houston County Board of
Commissioners voted
Tuesday night in a regular
meeting to allow GPS (glob
al positioning system) serv
ices to be a feature on all
local emergency calls.
This will allow the loca
tion of a person calling 911
to be shown to an emer
gency communications oper
ator. This service is being
provided by T-Mobile.
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Perry author Linda Milliman, pictured with (left) Mary Jane Kinnas, director of market
ing for Houston Healthcare, and Angela Ford (right), administrative secretary at Perry
Hospital, recently made her first delivery of books for pediatric patients at Perry
Hospital and Houston Medical Center. Milliman said her book, “Briny the Starfish,” has
the potential to help many people in a variety of ways. Along with giving the book, she
donates $1.50 from each sale to further research to eradicate cancer. “It’s the little
book that keeps on giving,” she said, “and with your help, Briny’s illustrator, Gail Soles,
and I hope to give a lot more.” Milliman has written a second book entitled “The Trunk
in the Attic” which she plans to publish in the near future.
Joann Martin
Navy Petty Officer Ist
Class Joann Martin, daugh
ter of Mary V Justus of
Warner Robins, Ga., and her
fellow ship mates recently
participated in the Navy’s
largest deployment evolu
tion, Summer Pulse 2004,
while assigned to the air
craft carrier USS Harry S.
Truman, homeported in
Norfolk, Va.
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Cholesterol & Glucose ($5) • Blood Pressure & Pulse • Oxygen Saturation
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The next item on the
agenda was a report on the
upgrading of the current
radio equipment for the
Sheriffs Office and Houston
County Fire Department.
The new, all-digital 800-
megahertz system went
online Tuesday and has 98
percent coverage of the
county. This was done with
no additional cost to the
county.
Also in the meeting:
•Two change orders were
passed. These were for
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Summer Pulse 2004 is the
first operational implemen
tation of the Fleet Response
Plan, which seeks to not
only maximize training,
manning and combat readi
ness, but also prove to coali
tion allies and enemy forces
that the U.S. Navy can pro
vide a powerful and credible
presence anywhere at any
time.
Carriers like the USS
water sewage plans on
Houston Lake Road and on
Russell Parkway to be com
pleted.
• Chairman Ned Sanders
talked about present road
projects that need complet
ing. He said he had visited
Atlanta and conferred with
the deputy commissioner of
the Department of
Transportation, and voiced
his concerns about Phase 3
of Houston Lake Road, the
delay of resurfacing Ga. 247,
and the widening of sections
of Ga. 96.
Harry S. Truman are
deployed throughout the
world to maintain U.S. pres
ence and provide rapid
response in times of crisis.
They serve as a highly visi
ble deterrent to would-be
aggressors, and are
equipped with the most ver
satile and powerful weapons
and aircraft available.
Martin joined the Navy in
July 1990.
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Warner Robins High School senior Max Morley (standing, third from left) poses for a
photo with his teammates at North Carolina Outward Bound.
WR teen completes Outward Bound
Special to the HHJ
Warner Robins High
School senior Max Morley
recently completed North
Carolina Outward Bound.
Morley participated in a
21-day Appalachian
Course, which included
hiking, back-packing and
canoeing. North Carolina
Outward Bound School
strives to model and teach
students six guiding princi
ples during the course.
These principles include:
self-reliance, physical fit
ness, craftsmanship, com
passion, wilderness and
leadership.
Panhandler gives up life of crime
By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -
Thanks to a six-figure
inheritance, a onetime pan
handler is giving up a life of
crime, drugs and booze,
and giving back to the com
munity - the art communi
ty-
The man - identified in
the San Francisco
Chronicle only as Don -
donated SIO,OOO to the art
gallery whose owner has
befriended him for the last
few years.
The former burglar, crack
cocaine smoker, state pris
oner and alcoholic inherit
ed $187,000 from his long
estranged mother, who died
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Over the three-week peri
od, Morley hiked uphill
with a heavy pack, slept
under a tarp self construct
ed, navigated and got lost
on the twisting trails and
rolling hills in the Pisgah
National Forest, drank
water out of streams and
spent 48 hours alone.
Outward Bound give its
students an opportunity to
reflect - alone and as a
group - on accomplish
ments and setbacks.
Morley was part of a team
of six to 12 students who
supported each other in
course activities, shared
a year ago. Executors of her
estate tracked him down a
month ago through his
Social Security number and
help from local social work
ers.
One of the first things
Don did was show his grat
itude to Blue Room Gallery
owner Paul Mahder for
treating him with respect.
"When I had a heart
attack and wound up in the
hospital a year ago, who
was the only person to visit
me? Paul. And when I need
ed a doorway to sleep in
over the past couple years,
who let me? Paul," Don
said. "He treated me like a
human being. That's some
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moments of hilarity, inspi
ration and struggle, and
developed friendships.
Led by two Outward
Bound instructors, Morley
established goals that call
for leadership, group deci
sion-making, organization
and a unified effort.
Throughout the course,
Morley cultivated compas
sion by growing through
new experiences with oth
ers who often have differ
ent perspectives. An ethic
of service to each other, the
local community and the
environment is built
through working as a team
and shared participation in
thing you don't forget."
Both men burst into
tears when Don presented
his check.
"We both stood there cry
ing," Mahder said. "Me,
because I knew how much
this meant to Don. And
Don was crying because, I
think, he was able to really
do something big for some
thing he really cared
about."
Social workers are help
ing Don manage his money.
He has bought a $35,000
trailer and has started drug
and alcohol counseling, the
paper reported. He also
bought a Rolex watch and
tipped cab drivers with
SIOO bills.
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