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TUESDAY
December 14, 2004
Volume 135, Number 244
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Jameson Inn offers
free holiday lodging
In the spirit of the holi
day season, Jameson Inn
in Perry will provide a
complimentary room to
anyone visiting a hospi
talized friend or relative
from Dec. 13 to Jan. 3.
Business, page 6A
Generating options -
thinking collaboratively
HHJ columnist Dennis
Hooper explains ways to
motivate all kinds of
employees to be better
collaborators.
Business, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY?
Marcus Farrow
Elliott Rozier
(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
Minnie Louise Arnold
Bobbie E. Davis Sr.
Marjorie Long Dimsdale
Bernice R. Fairchild
Alice “Pearl” Howard
Elaine D. Rowell
Mary Lucyle Smith
Wynona H. Thompson
Vanita Pridgen
Williamson
Obits, pages 3A, 7A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ....4B
INDICTMENTS ... .5A
OBITUARIES . .3A,7A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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WR sells land to aerospace firm
City Council members discusses possible baseball stadium at new recreation facility
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - It took some
negotiating, but Warner Robins has
sold 9.866 acres on Story Road.
The council voted to sell the land
to Logistics and Generation
Technology Services for $65,000.
The aerospace and generator refur
bishment company is based in
Maryland and will be moving its
local operations from Macon.
Tony Boyd said there are eight
employees at the Macon facility now,
but with the move it should be up to
30.
11 Gth sponsors families for Christmas
Story and photos
by Ray Lightner
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - The 116th Air
Control Wing is sponsoring
58 families including more
150 children in its annual
Family-2-Family project.
Airmen from the 116th
were bringing in gifts and
packing boxes of food for the
families over the weekend.
Maj. Gwen Taylor, the proj
ect coordinator, said it is
something the 116th has
done “since we’ve been here
in 1996.”
They have participated in
Christmas' 1 programs since
1987. Taylor said a former
commander, Col. Jimmy
Davis, started it back in
Atlanta, with a Christmas
party for children.
“He wanted to do some
thing similar here to include
the whole area and started
See 116TH, page 8A
State's female inmates put on a diet
Georgia prisons cut down on women’s calorie count; male prisoners unaffected
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - Fast-food restau
rants aren’t the only places getting
health-conscious these days.
Georgia’s prisons are, too.
The state Department of
Corrections is restricting the aver
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Funds benefit
Toys for Tots
effort on base
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Chevy’s has raised
$10,871-58 for the Robins
Air Force Base Toys for
Tots effort.
Owner Ronnie Bartlett
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The city has owned the land zoned
M-l since the 19905. Mayor Donald
Walker said it was last used as the
city’s compost site and has scales
and a weight house on site.
Walker said City Attorney Jim
Elliott has been trying to sell this
land “since before I came on board.”
The last offer the city had for the
land was $5,000 an acre in 1997.
That was the initial offer from L&G
for the land the county valued at
$78,000.
The negotiations went back and
forth, with offers of $7,000 an acre
for seven acres, as a portion of the
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Airmen from the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force brought in cases of food for needy families as part of the
116th’s Family-2-Family project.
age number of calories female pris
oners may consume on a daily basis
to 2,472 - a 20 percent reduction
from the previous limit. However,
the policy, introduced in late sum
mer, doesn’t affect male inmates
who still get an average of 3,050
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Master Sgt. Kurt Senzig, from the 19th MXS Toys For Tots campaign, accepts a check
for $10,871.58 from Ronnie and Lee Bartlett of Chevy’s.
said his goal was to raise
$25,000 for their 25 years of
Toys for Tots.
The Toys for Tots pro
gram is organized through
land is unusable because of ditches
and topography, with the city donat
ing the unusable portion.
Councilman Terry Horton object
ed to the lower price because “the
property was perfect for what they
want to do.”
Horton proposed SIO,OOO an acre
for the seven acres, but it was
Walker’s counter-counteroffer of
$65,000 that got the OK from all
sides.
In another land matter, the city
has appointed Parrish Construction
as contract manager for a new recre
ation facility. Parrish designed the
calories a day.
Some lawmakers and civil liber
tarians object to the policy, saying it
amounts to discrimination.
“I’m a little taken aback by this,”
said Debbie Seagraves, executive
director of the American Civil
the 19th MSX at Robins.
Master Sgt. Kurt Senzig
said the proceeds would go
to help families of Team
Robins “who are feeling the
pinch” this holiday season.
Senzig said he’ll get a list of
names from the first ser
geants on base.
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facility and will subcontract the
work. Walker said the plans could
integrate an adjacent 19 acres, the
Hunt property, which the city is
making an offer on. He noted that
because of deed restrictions, the
land can only be developed by the
city and is “worthless to anyone but
the city.”
With the additional land, the city
could build a baseball stadium,
Walker said.
The council also discussed a build
ing moratorium on Commercial
Circle.
See WR, page 3A
Liberties Union of Georgia. “Calorie
intake is just not standard from one
person to the next, so to - just by a
standard - decrease the available
food to women because they are
women does sound to me like
See DIET, page 8A
Businesses
donate time,
labor to
Happy Hour
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS
Several local businesses
have made the donation of
time and service to Happy
Hour Service Center as it
expands its facility with a
new apartment complex,
Falcon Park 111, located on
Myrtle Street.
Among those generous
souls are Josh Bloodworth
of Unique Landscaping, Jim
Farr of Central Irrigation
and Supply and Earl Walker
of Sumter Sod, who con
tributed time and labor to
make this property a happy
home for the Happy Hour
consumers who will reside
there.
See HAPPY HOUR, page 3A