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November 7, 2004
Volume 135, Number 220
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Inside TODAY
Surprise!
Surprise!
PERRY - On Oct. 25,
Peggy Monroe was 80
years old.
Monroe is full of life
and laughter, and has
friends who think she’s
pretty special.
A number of those close
friends were in atten
dance for a surprise birth
day party in Monroe’s
honor.
Lifestyle, page 1C
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Nov. 7
Skylar Hayes
Thelma Padgett
Allen Pritchett
Matthew Stephenson
Nov. 8
Kris Campbell
Caleb Pratt
Anna Pritchett
Susan Tibbs
Cindy Walker
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Nov. 6
Bobbe and Billy
Richardson
(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
Myrna Hall Locke
Michael David Sylvester Sr.
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
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LIFESTYLE 1C
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL MENUS . ,6A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .5B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 5C
WEATHER 2A
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waiting list started for flu vaccine
Health department doesn’t have flu shots, but they’re hoping to have some for high-risk people
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
Houston County Health
Department does not have flu vac
cine.
But it is taking names for a wait
ing list, for high-risk people only, at
(478) 218-2000.
Family looks forward to new home
Jacksons set to move
into 27th Habitat
home in Houston
By ED BANIA
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Sandra
Jackson, her 16-year-old daugh
ter Charlette, and 3-year-old
Sandria will have a very merry
Christmas this year.
The family will be moving out
of a singlewide trailer into a
brand new three-bedroom, two
bath home with a back yard.
“This is going to be a
Christmas gift,” Charlette said.
Sandria will love to play in the
children’s park across the street.
“Ya, I play swings,” Sandria
said.
Thanks to the Houston County
Habitat for Humanity in Warner
Robins and the Home Builders
Association of Warner Robins,
the family will be moving to 226
Orchard Way.
The home is the 27th built in
13 years by the local Habitat, an
affiliate of Habitat for Humanity
International. Fifteen have been
built in Warner Robins, eight in
Perry and one in Haynesville.
The Orchard Way home is the
first collaboration between
Habitat and HBA. After the
house is finished, the organiza
tions may decide to partner on
other projects.'
“We would like to have the
home built by Christmas,” said
John Sillers, executive director of
the local affiliate. “We now have
increased our workforce to get
the house built in the relatively
short period of time.”
There are over 250 volunteers
in the Houston affiliate, which
usually has 20-25 volunteers on
Saturdays that build a house. At
least six volunteers, mostly
retired, help on Mondays.
Members of the HBA agreed to
donate labor, material and cash
to build the Orchard Way home.
“The excitement and generosi
ty of our membership in an effort
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sings, “I’ll Fly Away.”
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Linda Hubbard, the acting nurse
manager, said since a line was
announced on Wednesday, there
have been more than 500 people call
as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday. She
expected four times that by the end
of the day.
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The Jackson family, 16-year-old Charlette, 3-year-old Sandria, and
mother Sandra, can’t wait to move into their future home on
Orchard Way. ..
to give something back to their
community is a testament to
their character and leadership
within this community,” said
Daryl Long, vice president of the
HBA and committee chairman
for the Habitat project.
Sillers noted that, in effect, the
HBA and affiliated members are
sponsoring the house.
“That means it’s not going to
come out of our general fund,” he
said. “The association has
received cash contributions and
cine,” Hubbard reported to the
county Board of Health. “There was
one man yesterday who said ‘I know
you have some’ and was very irate. I
let him talk to Dr. Swartwout.”
The multi-county North Central
Health District Director Dr. Joseph
Swartwout said, “we hope we’ll get
some.”
turned them over to the
Habitat.”
The Orchard Way home is in
Wellston Villas, which is part of
the Warner Robins Downtown
Development Authority’s revital
ization project.
Local agencies gave Habitat
the opportunity to purchase five
lots for the construction of
Habitat houses.
The 1,200-square-foot home
will be ADA compliant.
See HABITAT, page 7A
f I t Musicians share coastal
culture with local students
Story and. photos by
Teresa D. Southern
PERRY - Morningside
Elementary School students
had a chance to see the cul
ture of another land right
here in Perry.
Frankie Quimby and Tony
Merrell, also known as the
Georgia Sea Island Singers,
are from Brunswick - or as
Principal Pam Whitt told
her third- and fourth-grade
students, by the ocean.
Quimby and Merrell
shared the Gullah-Geechee
language, which has French
influence, with students, as
they let the power of music
take them on a journey
without leaving their school
gym.
A journey to a time when
slavery was the workforce of
the day, a time when not cot
Saving the
Best for
Christmas
Annual Perry event
to be combined with
holiday celebration
By JON SUGGS
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The Best of Downtown, the
Downtown Development Authority’s
annual fall festival, won’t be held this
year.
Mostly.
Authority members have voted instead
to fold some of the usual events in to the
Downtown Merchants Association’s
Downtown Christmas Celebration, which
will be held Saturday, Dec. 4, starting at 9
a.m. and continuing throughout the day
until the Christmas Parade at 3 p.m.
DDA Director Tish Mims told the
authority at its monthly meeting that a lot
of the events usually associated with Best
of Downtown - family-friendly entertain
ment, games for kids and the like - will be
part of the Downtown Christmas
Celebration, so there is little to be gained
by holding a similar .event two weeks ear
lier.
Instead, Mims proposed to the authority
that the group use some of its budget for
the Best of Downtown to provide an
evening musical act to follow the parade,
then save the balance for another event.
The authority approved the idea.
Chairman Nadine Weems said she and
Mims have been giving some thought to a
spring festival or possibly a Valentine’s
Day event.
Houston Springs and Warner Robins
Supply are teaming up to deliver the
parade, which bears the theme, “Home for
the Holidays.”
To sign up or get more information on
the parade, contact Melanie Lewis, direc
tor of public relations and marketing for
Houston Springs, at 988-8100 ext. 1104.
For more on the celebration, contact
Lanie Nash, president of the Downtown
Merchants Association, at 987-2255.
ton, but rice was king in a
region where a group of peo
ple’s heritage was in the
making.
The Georgia Sea Island
Singers shared songs and
games from over 200 years
ago.
Quimby said they have
done shows for all ages -
preschool through senior
citizens. They have taken
this show to all 50 states and
countries such as France,
Germany, Great Britain,
Spain, Canada and Africa.
They were also the only fea
tured guests at the G-8
Summit held in Sea Island,
where they performed for
President George Bush and
other world leaders.
Although the two have
been to all the above places,
they seemed disheartened
they are called on less to
perform in their home state
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“We had ordered for our biggest
year ever, over 50,000 doses, with
the wrong company,” Swartwout
said. “They’ve always been good
about delivery and price.”
Swartwout said the Centers for
Disease Control has sequestered the
available vaccine and will dole it out.
See FLU, page 7A
of Georgia.
“When you get older you
realize it’s time to preserve
your heritage,” Quimby
said. “I’m a firm believer in
the saying you don’t realize
where you’re going until you
know where you came from.
Groups like us keep every
thing authentic and tradi
tional.
Sarah Stalnaker, a music
teacher at Morningside, said
she enjoyed the GSIS.
“As a music teacher it’s a
challenge to find music and
make it mean something to
students,” Stalnaker said.
“It was great to have them
taught music about their
own state. The singers
crossed barriers and the stu
dents really learned some
thing. They did a great job.”
The most interesting part
of the GSIS performance
See GULLAH, page 9A