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WEDNESDAY
December 8, 2004
Volume 135, Number 240
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
In BRIEF
USPS offers free
shipping materials
for military families
By DONNA MILES
American Forces Press
Service
WASHINGTON - With
so many military families
scrambling to ship holi
day care packages to their
loved ones deployed
around the world, U.S.
Postal Service officials are
stepping in to make
things a bit easier.
They are offering free
packing materials. A spe
cial kit includes 10 boxes;
10 customs forms with
envelopes; 10 “Mili-Pac”
shipping envelopes, which
are specially printed for
military mailing address
es; and a roll of Priority
Mail tape.
Postal Service spokes
woman Sue Brennan said
they started the service
Oct. 25 as an extension of
an offer it provides to all
mailers. By calling a toll
free number, anyone can
request free shipping
materials.
Brennan said postal
officials were getting del
uged with requests from
military families - about
1,000 calls a day since late
September. In response,
they developed the special
kit containing the most
popular items ordered to
send packages to the
troops, she said.
To order the special kit,
call (800) 610-8734 and
request Care Kit 4.
Brennan said officials will
ship it by Priority Mail;
delivery is usually within
a couple of days.
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Harriette Antonio
Teresa Hawk
Beth Lamb
Doug Lampley
Bronson Ray
Area DEATHS
Julia A. Takach
Lawless G. “Tony”
Thornton
Obits, page 8A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
HEARTH&HOME . .9A
OBITUARIES 8A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Local families dancing in Nutcracker
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
WARNER ROBINS -
When Tchaikovsky’s
Nutcracker Ballet opens
in Macon’s Grand Opera
House on Wednesday
evening, two Feagin Mill
Middle School students
will be in,the,gpQtlight.
Olivia Boyd, and her
brother Erik, will be the
first sister-brother team
ever to play the key roles
of Clara and Fritz in the
Nutcracker of Middle
Georgia production of he
ever-popular Christmas
ballet.
The two are in agree
ment that being a real
brother-sister team has
definite advantages in
creating their on-stage
roles, because Fritz, in
the ballet, has a mischie
vous role in relation to
his older sister, Clara,
Hu vaccines being administered - for some
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
HOUSTON COUNTY -
Flu vaccines have arrived
and are available for those
who are on the waiting lists
at health departments in
Perry and Warner Robins.
Daphne Bailey-Brothers,
public information officer
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By JON SUGGS
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - On Ephraim, on
Rohby; on Scott, on Kevin;
on Earl, on Kirk; on Doug,
Joe, Kelvin, Mark, Billy and
Earl!
Dash away, dash away,
dash away all!
Rest those reindeer,
Santa; you’ve got a ride
through Perry.
And Perryans: If you hear
Christmas carols coming
down the street in the
evening, run to the window.
It just might be the man in
red, riding atop a fire engine
and Erik already has
plenty of experience
with teasing Olivia.
Their younger brother,
Collin, a student at Lake
Joy Elementary, and
their father, Bruce, an
engineer at Robins Air
Force Base, will also be
part of the show.
Collin will be one of
the boys in the big
Christmas party scene,
and Bruce, in addition to
being part of the party
scene as normal
Victorian gentleman,
will have a part as one of
the rats led by the Rat
King.
Their mom, JoAnn,
has a full-time job just
keeping everybody in
the family on schedule
with trips back and forth
to Macon, rehearsals,
costume fittings, and the
juggling of school and
See NUTCRACKER, page 3A
for the North Central
Health District, which cov
ers many counties including
Houston, said vaccines were
distributed according to the
number of individuals on
waiting lists.
Houston and Bibb, being
the largest counties in the
North Central Health
decked out for the holidays.
For the next few weeks,
the Perry Fire Department
will be on a different kind of
patrol, bringing Christmas
cheer home.
The firefighters have dec
orated Rescue-1 with
Christmas lights and
arranged to have Santa ride
along on top as they tour the
streets of town just after
dusk, playing Christmas
carols over the PA system.
Listen carefully and you
might even hear one of them
crooning, too.
See SANTA, page 5A
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able to purchase a modest
amount of vaccine from
Houston Medical Center in
Warner Robins.
Those on the waiting lists
with the Health Department
are in the process of being
called and an appointment
will be scheduled for their
vaccination to be given.
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annexes
Russell
extension
ByRAYUGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
When the extension of
Russell Parkway opened
Tuesday, it was in Warner
Robins.
The portion of the exten
sion from Interstate 75 to
Houston Lake Road is now
within the corporate limits
of the city. The city, Mayor
Donald Walker explained,
annexed from Houston Lake
Road to U.S. 41 in Houston
County and from there to
the interstate in Peach
County.
The requests for the
annexations were approved
by both counties’ commis
sioners.
“Had not the city of
Warner Robins taken the
tough job of acquiring the
right of way for Russell
Parkway,” Mayor Donald
Walker said, the road would
not be completed.
He said the process was
done with very few condem
nations, but there were a
few.
“We had to do it - it was a
no-brainer,” Walker said.
Walker noted that the
interchange was one of the
final acts signed by
President Jimmy Carter in
1980. “We’ve had help on
the state level from Sonny
Watson and Larry Walker,”
the mayor said.
He also thanked City
Planner Jesse Fountain and
City Attorney Jim Elliott for
their work in acquiring the
land for the road and the
planned frontage road
between the Russell and
Watson interstate exits
“that will contribute greatly
to the city.”
And when the road
opened, the Warner Robins
Police were able to run
radar to catch speeders
exceeding the 55 mph limit.
See EXTENSION, page 3A
Those who wish to do so
can sign up for another
waiting list that is being
established.
Only those in high-risk
categories are available to be
on the waiting list.
This includes: All children
ages 6-23 months, adults 65
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