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WEDNESDAY
December 1, 2004
Volume 135, Number 235
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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tis the season
to be frugal
If Thanksgiving at your
house meant too much
rich food, and you’re
bracing for the high-calo
rie, high-cost meals to
come, it’s time for a
break.
How about some home
made soup or stew accom
panied by hot bread?
Food, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Cindy Felt
Sheila Hambrick
Sandra Sessoms
(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
None were reported for
this edition.
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS 6B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
HEARTH&HOME . .6A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Lots of pot found ovei* the weekend
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Houston County Sheriffs
deputies found a lot of mari
juana over the holiday week
end.
“We had to work,” said
Sgt. Wayne Franklin, “and
didn’t see much of the holi
day.”
Franklin and fellow offi
cers executed a search war
rant on a Macy Avenue
home, just off Third Street
in Perry, on Saturday night.
Thank
Perry puts on
public safety
appreciation
cookout
By JON SUGGS
HHJ Staff Writer
PULASKI COUNTY -
There are all kinds of ways
to say thank you.
Sometimes it’s as simple
as, “Hey, guys, come have a
nice meal.”
That’s what the Perry
City Council did Monday for
Houston County’s public
safety workers.
The city’s third annual
Public.
Cookout was held at the
Browndale Plantation, a
hunting lodge.
The city invited members
of its police and fire depart
ments, the sheriffs office,
the district attorney’s office,
and the Perry posts of the
Georgia Bureau of
Investigations and the
Georgia State Patrol.
Mayor James Worrall said
the annual event is a small
token of the city’s ongoing
appreciation of the agencies
Local girl takes message, toys to Russian orphans'
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - How
many high school students
would sacrifice two weeks to
visit a foreign country to
spread Christianity and
hope to orphans?
Brittany Bittick, a student
at Houston County High
School, recently visited
Russia to do just that.
Bittick visited the country
with Camp Go Tell, a mis
sion trip of Evangelist Rick
Gage. Bittick is a member of
Westside Baptist Church of
Warner Robins.
Gage is the founder of
Rick Gage Go Tell
Ministries in Atlanta.
Gage’s annual Go Tell
Camps have reached more
than 50,000 young people
and their leaders from
churches nationwide.
Bittick said she had seen
the invitational video sever
al times while attending
Westside Baptist Church,
but this year she decided to
do something about it.
“God told me to partici
pate this year, and I sent my
information in,” Bittick
said.
The mission carried her
and several others to
Moscow.
But before she left, Bittick
began a toy collection effort
making goodie bags for the
disadvantaged children she
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The raid netted four sus
pects and 31.38 pounds of
marijuana.
“We locked up four indi
viduals,” Franklin said.
“They had a bale of marijua
na and were packaging it up
for distribution.”
The four who were arrest
ed are George Guzman, his
girlfriend Haidee Trevino,
Jose Gonzalez, and his girl
friend Jeannette Guzman.
“We had some subjects
who fled,” Franklin said,
“but more arrests are
HHJ Jon Suggs
Mayor James Worrall chats with a table full of Perry Police Department officers during
the Public Safety Appreciation Cookout.
who work to keep Perry
safe.
Worrall, City Manager Lee
Gilmour and members of
the City Council gave more
personal thanks throughout
the evening, mingling
among the uniformed men
and women who’ve chosen
lives of service.
BRITTANY BITTICK
had never met. Students at
Thompson Middle School
got involved with the effort
along with Quail Run
Elementary School.
Bittick said there was a
really good response from
everyone involved with the
toy collection.
Once arriving in Kirov,
near Moscow, the group vis
ited seven orphanages and
presented the gospel, songs
and power bands to all chil
dren there. Bittick said
despite the language barrier,
the children seemed to
understand the message she
and the others brought with
them.
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expected.”
The day before, according
to the incident report, a
1993 Ford F-150 was
observed by deputies on
patrol as it ran the stop sign
on Brady at Phillips Street.
The deputy paced the vehi
cle going 45 mph in a 25
mph zone and activated the
emergency lights, but the
offender refused to stop.
The driver turned onto
King Richard Drive, making
a wide turn, crossing an
oncoming lane of traffic,
Related photos,
pageSA
On a not too brisk
evening, these folks relaxed,
shared “war stories” and
just generally enjoyed them
selves in the beautiful coun
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Brittany Bittick is pictured with children from one of the many orphanages she visited
while on a mission trip in Moscow.
according to the report, and
when he stopped, the sus
pect got out and ran on foot,
tossing a white bag and a
plastic cup in the woods.
After ordering the offender
to stop several times while
giving chase, the deputy
fired the Taser at him.
He missed, but stopped
the suspect when he was
tripped up in the wire and
fell. The suspect put his
hands behind his back after
the deputy put the Taser to
his back and ordered him to
try setting.
They also enjoyed a pretty
fine meal.
Perdue Farms provided
chickens for the barbecue,
and there were sausages,
potatoes, salads and cake.
If anyone went home
unfilled it was by choice
alone.
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do so.
Brian David Williams, 32,
809 S. Ga. 247, Kathleen,
was arrested Friday for DUI
(alcohol and drugs), driving
while a declared habitual
violator, possession of mari
juana with ihtent to distrib
ute, several traffic violations
and fleeing or attempting to
elude.
Williams reportedly said
he “was just holding the
marijuana for someone.”
While placing Williams in
See POT, page 3A
Five Houston
schools get
recognition,
grants
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Five Houston
County schools have been
recognized by the Georgia
Department of Education
for meeting criteria under
the No Child Left Behind
Act.
Adequate Yearly
Progress (AYP) is one of
the basics of the No Child
Left Behind Act. This is a
measure of year-to-year
student achievement on
statewide assessments.
Lindsey Elementary
School was recognized for
making Adequate Yearly
Progress for five consecu
tive years and greatest
poverty. The school was
awarded a certificate of
recognition and $50,700.
Perry Primary School
was recognized with a cer
tificate of recognition and
a grant in the Amount of
$15,165. The school has
made AYP consecutively
for five years.
These awards are based
on the following criteria.
According to Kirk
Englehardt, public infor
mation officer for Georgia
See TITLE 1, page 3A