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WEDNESDAY
January 5, 2005
Volume 135, Number 258
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Cooking (or one
People who find them
selves facing the chal
lenge of cooking for one
come in two categories:
those who have been used
to cooking for others, and
those who have been used
to having others cook for
them.
In either case, the basic
challenge is the same, and
the challenge starts in the
grocery store.
Inside, we offer some
tips on shopping and stor
ing food, followed by
some recipes.
Hearth&Home, page 6A
Are statins good
for treating MS?
Houston County phar
macist and Pharmacy
Q&A columnist David
Voltz answers a reader’s
question on whether it
may be beneficial for peo
ple with multiple sclerosis
to take statins.
Local, page 5A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Marie Lawrence
Patty Mason
Tony Outlaw
Janice Price
Area DEATHS
Gerald D. Pearson
Delamer “Peggy” Roberts
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
LIFESTYLE 6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .3A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Walker to be honored Saturday
Tickets available for fundraiser farewell, roast at MMH building
From staff reports
PERRY - Once again
Perry will say thanks to the
man who has represented
his home so well for 32 year
in the General Assembly.
Retiring state Rep. Larry
Walker, D-Perry, will be hon
ored Saturday at an event
sponsored by the Perry Area
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Cammie Cunningham of Warner Robins recently traveled to California to compete on PAX network’s
“America’s Most Talented Kids. ” Singing for most of her 12 years, she has performed locally at every
thing from school plays, churches, sporting events and pageants.
Local vocal
WR 12-year-old carries tunes across country
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - In a quiet
subdivision of Ga. 96 lives the
voice of an angel.
She is more commonly known
as Cammie Cunningham, a 12-
year-old enrolled at Feagin Mill
Middle School and the daughter
of Donna and Jim Cunningham
of Warner Robins.
Jim Cunningham said he
noticed Cammie’s voice when she
was in about first grade, when he
heard her singing in the shower.
It may come as no surprise that
he picked up on his daughter’s
vocal talent - he, too, is a singer,
and a Frank Sinatra fan.
The two don’t often perform
together for one reason.
“She’s so good by herself I
often just hand her the micro
phone,” Cunningham said.
Cammie has come a long way
from singing in her family’s bath
room.
In her 12 years she has accom
plished quite a lot, from starring
in several plays such as “Annie”
and “Seussical the Musical,” to
being a soloist at Macon Trax
hockey games, at the Georgia
State Fair and Miss Georgia pre
liminary pageant.
Cammie’s voice travels not
only around the Middle Georgia
area, but also as far away as Los
Angeles, Calif.
She recently was a guest on
PAX network’s “America’s Most
Talented Kids.”
The show will be televised in
early February. At the show she
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Chamber of Commerce.
The event, which is also a
fund-raiser for the Big
Indian Creek restoration
project, will be held at the
Miller-Murphy-Howard
Building at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
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meet actress and singer Raven
Symone and actor John Coulier,
who hosted the show.
At the taping of the show she
sang “Last Dance” by Donna
Summer, which she had only
three weeks to learn.
Cammie said her favorite
singers are Jessica Simpson,
Christina Aguilera and Vanessa
Carlton.
the event, which begins with
dinner at 7 p.m.
The meal will be followed
by a roast of Walker, at the
hands of some of the many
friends he’s made during
three decades under the gold
dome.
The panel of hecklers
includes Houston County
CAMMIE CUNNINGHAM
To perfect the voice that led
Cammie across the country took
a lot of local performances.
The performances began at
David Perdue Primary School’s
annual talent show.
“I had to bribe her with a trip
to Disney World for her to enter,”
her father said.
Since then Cammie has sung at
See CAMMIE, page 8A
Superior Court Judge
George Nunn, Georgia
Agricultural Exposition
Authority Vice Chairman
Foster Rhodes, the Rev.
Jenny Jackson-Adams
(Perry United Methodist
Church), Perry Mayor
James Worrall, Warner
See WALKER, page 8A
Teachers
looking
for a pay
raise
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - When the new Georgia
Legislature convenes, lawmakers can be
sure of one thing - the state’s teachers will
be watching, and they are becoming impa
tient.
Teachers have long been a constituency
that state politicians have courted.
Georgia’s roughly 100,000 public school
teachers were considered key to
Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue’s election
in 2002 when many, disenchanted with
then-Gov. Roy Barnes, swung to Perdue’s
side and brought their friends and family
with them.
Since then, teachers say, times have been
tough.
A recession-drained state budget left no
room for teacher pay increases in 2003 and
a 2-percent raise approved in 2004 won’t
appear in teachers’ paychecks until
January, after nearly half this school year
has passed.
See TEACHERS, page 8A
WR council
approves
shopping
center
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The Warner Robins
City Council opened the new year with a
short agenda as they finished the first
meeting of 2005 in a breezy 30 minutes.
The council agreed to rezone a two-acre
plot at the northwest corner of Russell and
Carl Vinson parkways from residential R-l
to commercial C-2.
The action came at the request of builder
Sammy S. Garrison. Staff members told
the council at a work session prior to the
meeting that he planned on building a
shopping center with “brick and stucco
exterior and a landscaped parking lot.”
Council member Dean Cowart expressed
some concern over the lack of a finalized
site plan, but the board approved the
rezoning unanimously.
The council also approved without dis
sent an agreement for the city to sell natu
ral gas to Robins Air Force Base. The deal
would allow the base to buy natural gas on
a non-interruptible basis between Dec. 1,
2004, and March 31, 2005. The base agreed
to pay the city $119,790 for the gas. The
base currently purchases natural gas from
the city but, like other industrial clients,
the city has the right to interrupt service in
See COUNCIL, page 3A
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