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FRIDAY
November 26, 2004
Volume 135, Number 232
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
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Contest
Crochet club
makes 160 throws
Family&Faith, page 7A
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Garbage usually picked
up in Perry on Fridays
will be collected on
Saturday this week.
Nov. 26
Rhetta Jackson
Mary Murphy
Jeanette Voss
Preston Williams
Nov. 27
Joseph H. Bishop IV
Jean Brewster
Charles Greene
Matthew Sammons
Amber Brenae Thomas
Happy
Nov. 27
Tim and Fay Harbuck
James and Virginia
Laster
John and Cheryl Rich
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send the name and date at least
a week in advance, and we'll do
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Many happy returns!)
Area 1
Beatrice Emiko Cleveland
Jack Fountain Hollis
Robert D. Wright Sr.
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
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COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
ENTERTAINMENT .9A
LIFESTYLE 7A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .7B
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Michael Vollmer, newly elected commissioner for the Georgia Department of Technical
and Adult Education, speaks at Middle Georgia Technical College.
Here’s your chance: Shop by golf cart
Fund-raiser this weekend benefits ADVANCE, new anti-drug program in schools
ByRAYUGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
CENTERVILLE - There will be
golf carts taking shoppers and their
purchases to their cars this week
end.
The ride»rfrswfr am. to closing
Friday and Saturday and noon to
closing Sunday, will be provided by
volunteers from local law enforce
ment and school bus drivers, accord
Up to the Challenge
Houston student already making
his mark in world of science
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
BONAIRE - Kyle Yawn
looks like any ordinary
teenager. Wearing a
University of Georgia T
shirt he comes down the
steps of his home and sits
quietly, casually reading
Popular Science magazine
as he waits to be inter
viewed.
While a student at
Bonaire Middle School,
Yawn embarked on a jour
ney with his science fair
project that led him to
Washington, D.C., and will
take him to Arizona this
summer.
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submitted Connie Bartlett
Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker won a recent
celebrity poker tournament, which was a fund-raiser for
the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign.
His fellow players included local TV personalities and
Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders.
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ing to Warner Robins Police Sgt.
Porter Wood. There is no charge,
but donations will be accepted.
The service is a fund-raiser organ
ized in support of the new in-school
anti-drug program called
ADVANCE (Avoiding Drugs
Violence And Negative Choices
Early), which replaced D.A.R.E.
(Drug and Alcohol Resistance
Education). Wood, a school safety
“In Search of an Effective
Natural Treatment for
Puccinia hemerocallidis,” or
in layman’s terms, how to
kill a fungus that causes
rust on the leaves of
daylilies.
Yawn was inspired for this
topic because of a friend
whose entire crop of
daylilies was ruined because
of this fungus.
Through Internet
research, Yawn devised a sil
icon solution to coat the
plants to stop the fungus
from invading the cell walls
of the plant.
He submitted his project
See YAWN, page 10A
liaison officer, said “the money
raised will help support the pro
gram, to buy T-shirts and medals for
students who complete the program
and to fund summer camps.”
“The prior D.A.R.E. program was
supported by the community, by.the
D.A.R.E. Foundation. We appreciat
ed their support,” Wood said.
“ADVANCE will also help keep kids
out of drugs and gangs.”
HHJ/Teresa D. Southern
Kyle Yawn is expanding his science fair project from last year and is shown here mak
ing observations on its progress. He hopes to enter his current project in the
International Science Fair for ninth- through 12th-graders.
Walker a poker champion
WR mayor helps raise funds for Toys for Tots
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Mayor Donald
Walker won the recent celebrity poker
match, but the big winner was the U.S.
Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots cam
paign on Robins Air Force Base.
The mayor was one of several “celebri
ties” at the poker tournament at Chevy’s.
The others included three Atlanta Falcons
cheerleaders, a player from the Macon
Knights and local radio and TV personali
ties including Mary Therese from WMAZ,
Jerry Mathison, Rick Knight, and Matt
Miller from WGXA.
Saturday’s event raised about $2,500, said
Ronnie Bartlett, who has organized a cam
paign with a series of events to celebrate the
25 years of Toys for Tots on base “and hope-
MGTC has
big plans
Houston school makes pitch
to DTAE commish, lawmakers
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Christmas is still a month
away, but Middle Georgia
Technical College presented
its wish list to Michael
Vollmer, commissioner of
the department of technical
and adult education, and it
totals a little over sll mil
lion.
Middle Georgia Technical
College has grown by leaps
and bounds since its move
from Corder Road.
MGTC has three major
functions: Adult Literacy
Services, Economic
Development Programs, and
fully give them $25,000.”
Chevy’s owner Bartlett is serious about
the Toys for Tots campaign.
“In September, we raised the cover at the
door $1 at Chevy’s to raise money for the
campaign,” he said.
The ongoing campaign includes guessing
how much money is in the jug at Chevy’s for
sl, and a concert, set for Thursday, Dec. 9,
at Chevy’s.
Bartlett said they’ve booked about 35
musicians to play including the bands Silver
Hammer, Renegade, The Wall, Eddie Stone
and others.
“We have a lot of talent in Middle
Georgia,” he said.
Bartlett said all the money raised from
the concert will go to Toys for Tots. The
money from the campaign will all be count
ed and presented Dec. 11, Bartlett said.
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degree, diploma and certifi
cate of credit programs.
Middle Georgia Technical
College would like funds for
facilities for their dental
program, a child develop
ment center and a training
facility.
These requests total about
50,000 square feet to be
added to the existing cam
pus.
President Billy G.
Edenfield said the school
needs to make room for new
programs, as well as instruc
tional space for fast-growing
existing ones.
He said the purpose of the
See MGTC, page 10A
The ADVANCE program was
instituted this year in Houston
County schools as a replacement for
D.A.R.E. as state and federal fund
ing for the program was being elim
inated. ADVANCE will be funded
locally, through the schools, law
enforcement and through fundrais
ers.
This weekend’s cart rides are
See GOLF CARTS, page 10A