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January 23, 2005
Volume 135, Number 271
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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Painting on a
grand scale
Michelangelo is well
known for the magnifi
cent work he created on
ceilings and walls while
teetering high above the
ground on self- built scaf
folding.
Linda Auxier could well
be called Warner Robins’
own Michelangelo.
Lifestyle, page 1C
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jan. 23
Mallory Bowen
Meshiunia Young
Jan. 24
Judy Alexander
Mike Felix
Rick Ganus
Brittany Gore
Emma Elizabeth Howell
Penny Savage
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Jan. 24
Scott and Tara Poole
(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
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mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Fred McClure
James Henry Robinson
Sharon Marie
Rossborough
Alison Marie Williams
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 4D
COMICS 5C
CROSSWORD ....5C
LIFESTYLE 1C
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... .5A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .5B
TV LISTINGS 5C
WEATHER 2A
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Drugs the biggest problem tor sheriff's dept.
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
Houston County Sheriff s
Department Criminal Investigation
Division handled 6,410 cases in
2004.
Drug cases, specifically violations
of the Georgia Controlled
Substances Act, made up only 4 per
cent of the total cases with 258, but
116th
receives
12th
Outstanding
Unit Award
From staff reports
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - The 116th Air
Control Wing was awarded
the Air Force Outstanding
Unit Award Jan. 3. The
wing distinguished itself by
exceptionally meritorious
service from Oct. 1, 2002 to
Aug. 1, 2004.
This is the 12th
Outstanding Unit Award
the 116th has won, but the
first since the wing became
the first total force wing,
blending active duty and Air
National Guard members in
October 2002.
The Outstanding Unit
Award is presented for
exceptionally outstanding
achievement that clearly
sets the unit above and
apart from similar units.
The 116th is also the only
Air Force unit operating the
E-8C Joint Surveillance
Target Attack
Radar System (Joint
STARS), the most advanced
airborne ground surveil
lance and battle manage
ment system in the world.
“This recognition is not
only for the outstanding
performance of the wing in
contingency operations -
but also for successfully
implementing the transfor
mational Total Force con
cept in an operational
wing,” said Brig. Gen. Tom
Lynn, 116th ACW com
mander.
“For us to receive this
award after the transforma
tion to the Total Force
Concept is a significant
achievement.
“Three months after we
became a combined unit, the
war started and we have
spent an average of 120 days
a year in the desert since
then,” Lynn said. “This
award is a great validation
of the hard work and dedica
tion these great Americans
have to their mission.
“I take great pride in lead
ing these people who are
keeping America safe,”
Lynn said. “I am honored
See 116th, page 6A
Ministry seeking home for women
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Two Perryans want to
make the transition easier for newly
released inmates by having a home
available for them to make a transi
tion back into regular life.
Jean Rea and Frank Mellette,
business president and chairman of
re-entry programs of Houston
County Interfaith Jail/Prison
Ministry, respectively, are facing one
problem.
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Lead Investigator Capt. Robert
Clark said, “without the drug prob
lem, we would not have all the
thefts, forgeries and burglaries.”
Clark said those crimes stem from
people getting money to buy drugs.
Theft by taking made up 13 per
cent of the total cases; burglary, 4.52
percent; forgery, 0.59 percent, enter
ing auto to commit theft, 2.77 per
cent; and theft by taking a motor
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Larry Snellgrove speaks to members of the Warner Robins Area Chamber of Commerce after accepting the
group’s highest honor, the Charlie L. Jones Memorial Award.
WR Chamber marks 55th
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - Larry Snellgrove
said he was surprised to
be presented the presti
gious Charlie L. Jones
Memorial Award
Thursday night at the
Warner Robins Area
Chamber of Commerce
55th Annual Meeting.
“I had no idea,” said the
Houston County
Development Authority
chairman. “I truly love
this community. For those
of us who have been here
all our lives, it is great to
see it growing and all the
new people coming in. My
goal has always been to
make this a better place
to live.
See CHAMBER, page 3A
More photos on
pages 3A and 6B
The organization
needs a private
home to accommo
date female inmates
after release from
jail or prison, and is
looking for a home
anywhere in
Houston County.
The ministry will
take on the respon-
sibility of remodeling or making
repairs to the donated home.
vehicle, 1.8 percent.
Drug cases have one of the highest
rates of clearance at 98.8 percent.
Drug investigator Sgt. Manny
Quinones explained that is because
“our cases are cleared as soon as
they happen, for the most part.”
Clark said the drug cases are initi
ated by the sheriffs department.
“People don’t call to say their
drugs were stolen,” he said. “We
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David Carr (left), outgoing chairman of the Warner Robins Area Chamber of Commerce,
accepts a plaque marking his year of service from incoming Chairman Paul Hibbitts.
The ministry’s
mission is to pro
vide spiritual hope
and encouragement
to the men and
women in jail and
prison, to plan for
re-entry into socie
ty, and to work with
inmates’ families.
Once inmates are
released into the
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MELLETTE
home, they will be trained in a vari-
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find them with drugs.”
The other crimes involving drug
users, such as burglary and theft,
are also those that are not cleared as
easily. The clearance rate for the 290
burglaries in 2004 was 71.7 percent
and 60 percent for the 116 thefts by
taking a motor vehicle.
Aggravated assault and aggravat
ed battery made up only 0.6 percent
See DRUGS, page 6A
ety of social and basic life skills,
including how to apply for a job,
dress appropriately and budget
income.
Rea holds a support group bi
weekly at the Houston County Jail,
entitled the Back to the Future pro
grams. A retired social worker, Rea
teaches classes on issues such as set
ting priorities and refers many con
sistent visitors of her classes to the
program.
See MINISTRY, page 6A
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