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WEDNESDAY
December 29, 2004
Volume 135, Number 254
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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Had it with the
holidays?
If you’ve had all the
fancy feast food you can
stand, it’s time to get
back to basics. How about
some not-so-expensive
one-dish meals with plen
ty of flavor?
Put away the silver
chafing dish and try a few
of the recipes inside.
Hearth&Home, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Michele Powell
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Cari and Bruce Patton
(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
Frederick Beauch
Wade Daniel
Obits, page 5A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
CLUB NEWS 2A
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
LIFESTYLE 6A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
PHARMACY Q&A .5A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Examine 1
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Girlfriend and
father keeping
up soldier’s
spirits in Iraq
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Mary Ann
Millender and her father,
Paul Millender, have made
one soldier’s days a little
brighter as he serves in A 1
Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
The soldier is Cpl.
Augustus Harris 111, or
“Augie,” as he prefers to be
called. He is currently on
his second tour of duty in
the U.S. Marines.
Mary Ann is dealing with
her boyfriend Augie’s
absence by sending him
care packages, talking with
him about five to 10 min
utes each month and writ
ing to him as much as she
can.
Mary Ann said even
Augie’s immediate family
has limited access to him.
She is hoping on a new
phone system, being estab
lished in Augie’s company,
Bravo Battery 1/110, will
give him more access to call
home.
In the meantime she can
log on to the Bravo Battery
1/110 Web site, bravobat
teryiniraq.com, and see
entries from him and other
soldiers, and pictures of
them performing daily
activities.
“He and his company are
building schools there and
serve as support operations
to other companies and
once their job is completed
they will return home,”
Mary Ann said. “He always
focuses on the positives
things going on there. He
talks about how people in
the communities in Iraq
come out and thank soldiers
for protecting them.”
In Augie’s most recent
entry on the Web site, he
talks about the upcoming
holidays and ask families
not to go overboard sending
presents.
He wrote, “We will all
receive the greatest gift
when we are reunited with
Fair honored for ag programs
Perry event has won awards
for 13 consecutive years
Special to the HHJ
PERRY - The Georgia
National Fair earned five
awards for its agricultural
programs during the annual
convention of the
International Association of
Fairs and Expositions
(IAFE). This marks the 13th
consecutive year the
Georgia National Fair has
been designated an award
winning fair.
Michael A. Froehlich,
CFE, Executive Director,
congratulated Jim Floyd,
Agricultural/Youth Director;
Laurie Sterner, Agricultural
Programs Coordinator;
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Cpl. Augie Harris is on his second tour of duty in the U.S. Marines. Thanks to his girl
friend Mary Ann Millender and her father, he has received several care packages
from home.
the people we love in a few
months.”
Augie seems to keep his
spirits up and encourages
others to do the same and
talks about a dinner held to
celebrate the Marine Corps’
229th year and soldiers
were served “lobster tails,
crab legs, and steak with all
the fixings.”
He also talked about how
soldiers were looking for
ward to the upcoming holi
day meals being served in
the mess hall.
“It means so much to him
and other soldiers to receive
things from home, it boosts
their morale and the little
things mean so much. It
gives them something to
look forward to and some
thing else to think about,”
Mary Ann said.
Her father Paul agreed.
“It keeps their adrenaline
going that the fires at home
See AUGIE, page 3A
Karen Glasscock,
Agricultural Programs
Coordinator; Michele
Treptow, Director of Public
Relations; and the staff for
their exceptional work.
The Georgia National
Fair’s Agricultural Awards
of Excellence cover these
categories:
• Overall Agricultural
Program For The Fairgoing
Public
• Special Or Specific
Agricultural Educational
Event, Exhibit, or Program
For The Fairgoing Public
(Georgia Grown Pavilion)
See AWARDS, page 8A
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submitted
Mary Anne Millender and Augie Harris are keeping in
contact as much as they can while he is stationed at Al
Mahmudiyah in Iraq. Keeping in contact includes short
phone calls, Internet correspondence and letter writing.
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submitted
Pictured are (from left) Michele Treptow, director of public relations; Karen Glasscock,
agricultural programs coordinator; Michael Froehlich, executive director of the
Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter; Laurie Sterner, agricultural programs
coordinator; and Jim Floyd, agriculture and youth director.
TWO SECTIONS • 14 PAGES
YEAR IN
REVfEW
(Not) the
Georgia
Top 2004
stories
Hogzilla and
other stories that
didn’t make the
top stories list
By BARRY BEDLAN
Associated Press Writer
While the Chinese calen
dar says it’s Year of the
Monkey, in Georgia it’s
apparently the Year of the
Boar - more specifically,
Hogzilla.
Long after people forget
about the weekly hurricanes
of 2004 and the fact that
Democrats once held public
office in Georgia, the legend
of the 1,000-pound, 12-foot
long wild hog is certain to
live on.
When a hunting guide
supposedly brought down
the hairy heavyweight with
his rifle over the summer
near Alapaha, Ga., you
could say it was the shot
heard ‘round the world.
Word of Hogzilla quickly
spread over The Associated
Press wires and the
Internet, with the photo of
the beast even winning the
titles of “Most E-Mailed”
and “Most Viewed” on
Yahoo.com.
More than 200 newspa
pers and dozens of television
and radio stations from
Canada to Russia inter
viewed Ken Holyoak, owner
of the plantation where the
hog was killed about 180
miles southeast of Atlanta.
T-shirts showing the
prodigious porker are hot
sellers in South Georgia,
and people regularly ask
Hogzilla’s slayer for his
autograph. The town of
Alapaha even honored the
legend of Hogzilla with a
weekend festival, which
included a hog-calling con
test, a greased-pig chase and
a parade with a float featur
ing a life-size replica, includ
ing its fabled nine-inch-long
tusks.
“I didn’t know people
See 2004, page 3A
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