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THURSDAY
December 2, 2004
Volume 135, Number 236
Award-Winning
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Home tours in WR
and Perry
Most people are not
thinking about the
Christmas holidays at
Easter, but two of tfie
Warner Robins Junior
Woman’s Club members
have been doing just that
for months, and the big
day is almost here!
Beth Perkins and
Wendy Ruzic are the
chair and co-chair for this
years’ annual tour of
homes.
The Warner Robins
Junior Woman’s Club
2004 Holiday Tour of
Homes, “Wrapped In
Holiday Style,” will be
Sunday, from 1 until 5
p.m.
Entertainment, page 64
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Willard Boyett
Sheilia Findley
(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 DEATH
Jeannette Marie Kiefer
Obit, page 8A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ....4B
ENTERTAINMENT .6A
LEGALS 1C
OBITUARY 8A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .5A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
10.5 acres donated to Centerville
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
CENTERVILLE - The city of
Centerville received an early
Christmas gift at its City Council
work session Tuesday night.
Neil Suggs gave 10.5 acres of land
to the city. The property is off
Elberta Road near the new develop
ment Collinstown in Centerville and
is known as the old Scarborough
property.
The city has no immediate plans
of developing the property.
City Attorney Rebecca Tydings
told the council that the land should
be accepted with no strings
LEU
raises
$7,000
Halloween fund'
raiser benefits
several charities
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
“best scare around for $3,”
raised about $7,000.
That’s how Law
Enforcement -United
Director Steve Rodgers
described the haunted
house devised by Houston
County and Warner Robins
High schools students. The
fund-raiser garnered the
$7,000 over seven days,
according Law Enforcement
United Treasurer Capt.
See LEU, page 3A
Party planned for veteran investigator
After 31 years with Houston sheriff’s office, Capt. Harry Enckler to get senchoff celebration
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Capt.
Harry Enckler is well respected
and “greatly missed” by his
peers who will be celebrating
his retirement with him Friday
night.
Enckler retired in July after
31 years with the Houston
Two selected for Teacher Academy
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Jennifer Bowers and Emily
Spake have several things in
common.
Both are Houston County
educators, both are foreign
language teachers and both
have been selected for the
PAGE Teacher Academy.
The PAGE Teacher
Academy is a part of the
Professional Association of
Georgia Educators. The
academy is for teachers who
have less than four years
teaching experience and
show great promise.
Bowers and Spake were
nominated by their school
principals, Sheila Beckham
and Tim Scott respectively,
to be a part of this first-year
program.
As Teacher Academy
members Bowers and Spake
will attend a total of 16 ses
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attached. Suggs had suggested the
land be turned into a park.
In other business, Tydings con
ducted the first official reading for
some property annexations. She
said this would complete the city’s
recent effort to annex unincorporat
ed islands into the city.
The next reading of these proper
ties will be at the monthly City
Council meeting held on Dec. 7 at 7
p.m. Properties included those on
Ginny Drive, Thomson Road and
Spring Valley Road
Also at the meeting:
• A new firefighter has been
hired. Annabelle J. Moon was
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Selling the $3 tickets were staff from Georgia Military College and LEU Director Steve Rodgers as Mayor Donald
Walker and Police Chief Brett Evans look on.
County Sheriffs Office and
headed for the mountains. They
are having the party now,
explained Enckler’s successor
Lt. Robert Clark, as Enckler
would be back in town.
“We hated to see him retire,”
said Sheriff Cullen Talton. “He
did an outstanding job and was
familiar with many people here,
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JENNIFER BOWERS
sions from now until 2006.
In these sessions they will
focus on the areas of tech
nology, diversity, data analy
sis and building a communi
ty-
Bowers, a second-year
French teacher at Houston
approved to be hired as a full-time
firefighter. She has currently been
serving the Centerville Fire
Department as a volunteer firefight
er.
• The council agreed to pay insur
ance premiums for the Centerville
Pipes and Drums van, provided that
the band reimburse the city the
yearly cost of about S4OO.
• Mayor Ronnie Brand presented
a letter to the council stating that
council members serve a tenure of
one year over departments as
opposed to six months. He also said
council members serving over
departments should be eliminated
especially the lawbreakers.”
Enckler headed up the
Criminal Investigation Division
for almost 20 years.
“The department had a high
rate of clearing crimes,” the
sheriff said, “about 70-80 per
cent. There are only three
unsolved murders.”
Enckler succeeded Col. Billy
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EMILY SPAKE
County High School said she
was thrilled to be nominat
ed.
“I’ve been impressed by
the quality of speakers and
what they present, (and) I’m
excited about the relevancy
about what they are teach
Rape and Chief Deputy Willie
Talton as head of investigations,
working under both, Talton
said. Enckler came in back in
1973, “the same year as we did,”
Rape said.
And “he rose through the
ranks,” the chief said.
“There’s not enough good
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ing us. I’m able to take these
ideas back to the class
room,” Bowers said.
The Teacher Academy
provides educators the
chance to hear nationally
recognized speakers, who
are also published authors.
“I love my job and I look
for things to help make
things even better,” Bowers
said.
Bowers spoke on one
activity in particular she
hopes to implement in her
classroom.
“An activity was shared
with us called ‘Practice the
Preamble’ in which students
use clip art or small draw
ings available on computers
to express the Preamble to
the Constitution. It’s a
social studies lesson, but it
can be taken to all subjects
because it’s practical,”
Bower said.
Bowers said they are also
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and the decision making involved
with them should be given to City
Administrator John Harley.
Brand also presented a letter to
council that will be distributed to
incoming businesses in the area
encouraging them to join the
Warner Robins Area Chamber of
Commerce.
• The Council approved receiveing
a loan from Georgia Environmental
Facilities Authority, (GEFA) in the
amount of $665,886 to provide sani
tary sewer improvements for Sentry
Oaks a property with about 170 lots
present. Councilman Cameron
Andrews abstained.
taught to use data in the
classroom, which is using
student test scores to base
classroom teachings.
Bowers said another part
of the Teacher Academy she
also values is that she will be
able to share ideas with
other teachers.
At Northside High School,
Spake is also a nominee into
the Teacher Academy.
She is one of the only first
year teachers inducted into
the academy.
“This is my first year
teaching and I didn’t know a
lot about PAGE, but
through Internet research I
found out a lot about the
program,” Spake said.
Some of the main focus
points in the academy are
things taught in education
classes, but here they are
more in depth, Spake said.
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ENCKLER