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FRIDAY
January 21,2005
Volume 135, Number 270
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Perryan's stories
illuminate faith
Rick Shelton is living
proof that youth makes
no difference when it
comes to writing inspira
tional tales and devotion
als.
Family&Faith, page 8A
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Andrew UMC
loses minister
The Rev. Eugene Bates,
pastor of Andrew United
Methodist Church in
Kathleen, died
Wednesday.
Obituary, page 5A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jan. 21
David Campbell
Barbara Clark
DeAnna Tuggle
Jan. 22
Lula Batchelor
Gary Glasscock
Tommy New
Julius Shy
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know when their birthday or
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a week in advance, and we’ll do
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inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
V Esther Allen
Rev. Eugene Bates
Robert C. “Bob” Erbe
Scott Jackson Jr.
Obits, page 5 A
INDEX
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COMICS 5B
CROSSWORD ... .5B
LIFESTYLE 8A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .7A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 5B
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Snellgrove awarded top honor
Development authority chair named recipient of Charlie L. Jones Memorial Award
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - The Warner Robins
Area Chamber of Commerce
held its annual banquet at
the Officers Club Thursday
and celebrated another ban
ner year.
Larry Snellgrove accepted
the Charlie L. Jones
Memorial Award.
First presented in 1970,
this award is given to the
community’s most outstand
ing citizen to recognize their
sustained and superior serv
ice to the community. The
recipients’ service activities
normally span a number of
years and involve a number
of business,
civic, gov
ernmental,
cultural
and/or reli
gious activi
ties.
Warner
Robins
Mayor
Donald
FEILD
Woman faces charges after fatal wreck
Passenger in car dies; driver charged with vehicular homicide, DUhdrugs, more
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Yvonne
Fercare Thomas, 36, 135 Ignico
Drive, Warner Robins, is in jail on
vehicular homicide and DUI-drugs
in connection with the Tuesday
Commissioners to
get raise in 2007
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
The Houston County
Board of Commissioners
voted to more than double
their salaries as of Jan. 1,
2007.
“Basically they exercised
home rule,” said Director
of Administration Steve
Engle of the commission
ers’ decision to increase
the salary from $5,400 to
$12,000 a year. The
increase will mean a jump
from $450 per month to
Unified animal
control proposed
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
The Vision 2020
Committee has adopted a
proposed Unified Animal
Control Ordinance for
Houston County.
Houston County Animal
Control Officer Ed Carroll
told the committee that the
proposed ordinance would
provide “a level playing
field.”
“You could go anywhere
in the county, and the rules
for animal control would
be the same,” he said.
The proposed ordinance
would have to be voted on
by the cities of Perry,
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Walker presented the award
to Snellgrove, who is chair
man of the Houston County
Development Authority.
It was just one of several
awards presented in the
course of the evening, which
opened with remarks from
Chamber President Frank
Feild.
“The membership of the
Warner Robins Chamber is
very diverse, and we rejoice
in this,” said Feild. “It
brings together people from
all walks of life for a com
mon purpose; teaching us to
work together for the
greater good of our commu
nity. We see this diversity as
one of our greatest
strengths.
“Warner
Robins is
also known
as the Inter
national
City. It is a
community
that has
deep reli
gious roots;
where peo
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WATSON
death of Sharon Marie
Rossborough, 29, of Warner Robins.
According to police reports,
Thomas ran the red light at Elberta
Road and Ga. 247 around 10:51
p.m., crossing into the path of a
northbound Chevy pickup. The
SI,OOO.
“Per state law, they can
not vote themselves a
raise,” Engle said, so the
increase takes effect after
the next commission elec
tion.
The fiscal impact will be
about $26,400 in the fiscal
year 2007 budget for the
increase for the part-time
commissioners. The full
time chairman’s salary will
remain at $48,000, Engle
said.
He pointed to state
See COMMISSION, page 3A
Centerville and Warner
Robins, as well as by the
Houston County Board of
Commissioners.
Prior to approving the
ordinance, the committee
discussed several revisions
to the proposed rules. One
such discussion was how to
define an “owner.”
Gordo Turner of the
Macon Kennel Club asked
the committee whether a
person involved in the res
cue of an animal would be
considered an owner.
Under the proposed ordi
nance, anyone who fed and
cared for an animal for
seven consecutive days
would be considered an
See ANIMAL, page 10A
pie respect each other and
have a good sense of humor.
“Many of you here tonight
have lived all over the world,
representing our govern
ment and experiencing some
very different cultures.”
The first award of the
evening was the
Ambassador of the Year.
“The Chamber’s
Ambassadors include 35 of
the friendliest and most
devoted volunteers you will
ever meet,” Feild said. “In
2004, they participated in 44
grand openings and ground
breakings, hosted 12
Business After Hours,
attended new member
receptions, helped make the
Playday Golf Tournament
successful,
and recruit
ed many
new cham
ber mem
bers. This
award is
made to the
ambassador
who best
personifies
FINK
truck struck the rear pnflaamgan.gide
quarter panel of her 1992 Nissan
Sentra, causing it to rotate.
Rossborough, the rear passenger
in the Sentra, was ejected and pro
nounced dead on the scene by EMS
personnel. Family members took the
Liberal leadership
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ELAYNE GREENBERG
Greenberg spearheads
local Democrats
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
When Elayne Greenberg decided to
become a full-time Democrat five years ago,
she did so with her usual zest for life.
“Up until then I had been an independent,
but when I decided to get involved with the
Houston County Democratic Committee, I
did so with both feet,” she said.
She started out as the local party’s events
chair, then moved to be the ways and means
the spirit of our
Ambassadors during the
year.”
Bruce Hullett, chairman
of the Ambassador
Committee, presented the
award to Bob Watson.
Every year, the chamber
recognizes one of its most
outstanding members with
the Charles K. Shaheen
Small Business of the Year
Award. First presented in
1992, this award is named in
honor of the late Warner
Robins businessman and
1983 chamber chairman. In
order to be considered, a
business must first project a
positive image from the
standpoint of physical
appearance. The manage-
ment, tools
and materi
als utilized
to conduct
the business
must repre
sent quality.
And, finally,
the business
dealings
and reputa-
EDENFIELD
chair and the Webmaster. Recently she was
elected to chair the Houston County
Democratic Committee.
Greenberg said she decided to become
more involved in politics because of her
opposition to several policies of the Bush
Administration:
• “I want our air and drinking water to be
clean. I want clean air to breathe and deem
water to fish in. Corporations are not being
See GREENBERG, page 3A
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tion must be above
reproach.
Bill Pitts, outgoing vice
chairman for Business
Affairs, presented the award
to Raccoon Stone & Tile
Works.
The A.C. “Dick” Walden
111 Chamber Person of the
Year is named after a former
chamber presidents. First
presented in 1978, it
See CHAMBER, page 10A
other passenger in Thomas’ car to
the hospital.
Both vehicles ended up in the
ditch in front of the Flash Foods at
the northeast comer of the intersec
tion and had to be towed.
See THOMAS, page 10A