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TUESDAY
July 27, 2004
Volume 135, Number 147
Award-Winning
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2004
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Contest
Inside TODAY
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Two win Stafford
golf tourney
Before Brian Billingsley
left home to play in the
23rd Annual Ron Stafford
Memorial Tournament at
Houston Lake Country
Club, Sunday, his wife
gave him his horoscope -
cut from the Sunday edi
tion of The Houston
Home Journal.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Debbie Lewis
Mattie E Lowe
John E. Stone
Floy Underwood
(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
Valerie “Val” Brannon
CW3 (Ret.) William
Gerald Calhoun
A. W. “Bill” Rice
Kevin Scott Seamon
Morris W. Stanford
Charles H. Warren
Obits, page 7A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
OBITUARIES 7A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Howell to helm Perry Fire Dept.
41-year-old Waycross fire veteran accepts job of fire chief
By Rex Gambill
HHJ Managing Editor
PERRY - Freddy Howell
accepted the job of chief of
the Perry Fire Department
on Monday.
Howell, 41, is presently
fire chief in Waycross. The
new chief said he plans to
begin in Perry during the
first week of September.
“I am thrilled and excited
about the opportunity to
come to Perry,” Howell said.
“I think it’s a great city, a
great community and a
great place to raise a fami
ly.”
He said he had been eye
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Sack races were paht of the fun for kids at the Perry
Youth Day Celebration and Health Fair.
RIGHT: Jada Leonard, Destini West, Shekinah Webb and
Jordan Leonard point at Daisy. The cow was part of the
Life on the Farm exhibit provided by the Fort Valley State
University College of Agriculture, Home Economics and
Allied Programs.
Perry hosts fipst Youth Day Celebpation
Program designed to provide a fun event for local kids before the end of summer
Story and photos by
Teresa D. Southern
PERRY - The first-ever Youth Day
Celebration and Health Fair was
held at the Perry Recreation
Department on Saturday.
The event sponsored by the
NAACFJ Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) and
City of Refuge-Uplifting Boys to
Men, had several items of interest to
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Sen. Ross Tolleson (left) discusses the upcoming election with Fred Miller of Eastman.
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ing Perry for a long time.
He’s passed through town
many times when traveling
for training, and has stayed
overnight here in the past.
He joked that before
Waycross got its own Chick
fil-A restaurant, Perry’s was
a regular haunt of theirs.
“The people have always
been friendly, and the com
munity’s clean,” Howell
said. “It’s like one of
Georgia’s hidden secrets.”
City Manager Lee
Gilmour confirmed Monday
that Howell accepted
the job, and that the new
chiefs salary would be
children and adults alike.
For children there were games,
from sack racing to horseshoes.
There were gospel singers from the
SCLC, toy and prize giveaways, and
a story telling booth, water activities
and a petting zoo.
For adults there were health
screenings for blood pressure, pulse
rate and oxygen saturation. There
were representatives on hand from
Middle Georgia Technical College,
Central City AIDS Network,
$68,000 per year.
The search for a new chief
began when, at its May 4
meeting, the council accept
ed the resignation of Gary
Hamlin, who had served in
the post since 1980.
The council outlined its
criteria, saying the city
needs a “visionary” chief
who can lead the depart
ment as it expands to pro
tect a rapidly growing city.
Emphasis was placed on
finding a leader with a
strong training background
and experience in a growing
department.
The city received 18 appli
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Houston Healthcare and the Red
Cross.
Ricky Kilgore, parks and recre
ation director at the Perry
Recreation Department, said this
event was to try to ensure children
are off the streets and have a good
time before the end of the summer.
“We had education speakers that
will help them prosper in school,”
Kilgore said. “We’ve had a variety of
music, and also afforded the chil
dren a chance to fellowship with
cations for the vacancy. Of
those, seven met the coun
cil’s stated criteria and were
interviewed. The council
was most impressed by
Howell, and the city voted to
offer him the job in last
Tuesday’s council meeting.
In an ironic twist, Howell
said he was being appointed
fire chief in Waycross when
Gilmour was trying to reach
him by phone last Tuesday
to offer him the job in Perry.
Monday, Gilmour praised
Mayor James Worrall and
the council members “for
their commitment to profes
sionalism and willingness to
Tolleson holds
campaign BBQ
Perry senator meets with new
Middle Georgia constituents
Special to the HHJ
EASTMAN - Sen. Ross
Tolleson traveled to
Eastman last week to meet
with citizens of Dodge,
Wilcox and Telfair counties.
During a barbecue dinner,
the Perry Republican spoke
to a near-capacity crowd on
issues ranging from work
accomplished in the Senate
in the past two years and his
background in the timber
industry, to his views on pro
viding better jobs and health
care.
These three counties rep
resent the southern portion
of the new 20th Senate dis-
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obtain the best candidate
possible.”
See CHIEF, page SA
children of all colors.”
Kilgore said they are planning on
the event growing every year, from
this point on.
Teressa Owens, CEO and founder
of City of Refuge Uplifting Boys to
Men, was responsible for coordinat
ing this program for the Recreation
Department. Owens said this
event’s purpose was to do something
for the children of the community,
and she was pleased with the
See YOUTH DAY, page 3A
trict that also includes
Houston, Pulaski and
Bleckley counties, which
were part of Tolleson’s old
18th, as well as Laurens and
Johnson counties.
Tolleson said he wanted to
make sure that the people of
those counties know they
will not be forgotten either
during the campaign or
when serving them in the
legislature.
“I want to make sure that
everyone in this district
knows that they will be rep
resented and I will be a part
of this community,” he said.
See TOLLESON, page SA