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TUESDAY
January 25, 2005
Volume 135, Number 272
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Inside TODAY
C'ville talks about
annexing roads
Centerville’s recent
town hall meeting was to
let people know of the
city’s plans.
The city is asking the
state legislature to annex
parts of three roads and
their 40-foot rights of way
into the city to allow the
city to build sewer and/or
water infrastructure.
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Open for business
The Warner Robins
Area Chamber of
Commerce hosted a rib
bon cutting ceremony
recently for Johnny
Carino’s Italian
Restaurant.
Business, page 6B
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Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Sang Brody
Ruth D. Cole
Patrie Thigpen Johnson
MSgt. Howard A. Nolan,
USAF (Ret.)
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6B
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Staff Sgt. Christopher Nelson, just home from Manas, Kyrgyzstan, holds his daugh
ter, Alyssa, for the first time.
78th CEG returns
from Middle East
By JON SUGGS
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - Four months. A
long time to be away from
family for any reason. And
when the reason is deploy
ment near a war zone?
Well, the family can be
excused a little exuberance
at the homecoming.
There was more than a
little Friday afternoon
when 38 members of the
78th Engineer Group
stepped off their bus and
strode toward the waiting
arms of their loved ones.
There were cheers and
tears and all the other little
details: banners, balloons,
best wishes.
There were reunions, yes.
And also, this day, a meet
ing.
As Staff Sgt. Christopher
Nelson stepped jauntily
from the bus and made his
way through the press of
hugs toward his wife,
Ramona, and his son,
Brandon, he was also walk
ing toward his first meeting
with another child, Alyssa,
born while he was abroad in
Manas, Kyrgyzstan, sup
porting Operation
Ribbon cut for new Surgery Center
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Houston
Healthcare held an official grand
opening for its newest facility
designed to alleviate the high vol
ume of outpatient surgeries at the
Houston Medical Center.
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Dina Rice receives a kiss from her husband, Steven
Rice, who is returning from four months in Manas,
Kyrgyzstan.
Enduring Freedom.
While waiting for the bus
to arrive, Ramona spoke of
how trying the time apart
has been, waiting and wor
Tracy Erwin, director of The
Surgery Center, said the facility was
built with patients’ convenience in
mind.
Erwin said these things include a
comfortable waiting room, child
friendly rooms and a step-oown area
for patients to make the mental
switch from being a patient to leav
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rying, never knowing just
how much danger was lurk
ing near Christopher, hav
ing their second child
See HOMECOMING, page 3A
Authority OK's
ADS move
Plant to bring 60 jobs when
it’s relocated from Montezuma
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
closing on the deal to move
Advance Drainage Systems
to Perry is scheduled for
April 11.
ADS is moving its manu
facturing plant from
Montezuma. The deal
involves the purchase of the
DMS building from CB&T
bank and the last 22 acres in
the Perry Industrial Park at
$6,500 an acre.
Alligood named
Miss WRHS
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
Warner Robins Civic Center
hosted 17 young women
vying for the title of Miss
Warner Robins High 2005,
but only one could be grant
ed the title, and Lauren
Alligood graciously accepted
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The theme of the event,
coordinated by teachers
Libbet Turner and Tonya
Hawthorne, was “She’s
Gone Country.” Contestants
line danced to a song by the
same name in their opening
number dressed in cowboy
boots and jeans.
The talent competition
was full of variety as con
testants played the flute and
piano, performed dramatic
monologues, twirled batons,
sang ballads, clogged, per
formed ballet, and even put
on a taekwondo demonstra
tion.
Contestants competed in
the pageant for scholarships
that began at $l5O and
increased with sponsors and
money raised by contest
ants. In the past, contest
ants raised over S6OO and all
who placed received
See MISS WRHS, page 6A
Board tackles
expected growth
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Houston County is growing,
and the Houston County
Board of Education is mak
ing plans to grow with it.
In a meeting Friday after
noon, Comptroller Stephen
Thublin presented county
maps denoting over 17,500
ing the hospital. The surgery center
also includes a separate covered
exit, to ensure patient privacy.
On a guided tour of the facility,
Erwin showed the center’s pre-oper
ation rooms, eight beds for those in
recovery, two endoscopy suites, and
two operating rooms with the latest
technology.
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Authority Chairman
Larry Snellgrove said the
city of Perry will take the
lead, with the draft of the
agreement drawn up by City
Attorney David Walker. The
Perry City Council approved
the contract in its Jan. 18
meeting and the Houston
County Development
Authority, a partner with
the city on the land,
approved the contract with
contingencies on Monday.
See ADS, page 6A
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planned housing develop
ments.
These planned develop
ments are in various stages,
some have received building
permits and have begun
construction, and some are
still in the developing stage.
Schools districts in which
these housing developments
are planned are at capacity,
See GROWTH, page 6A
“The operating room at Houston
Medical had become above capacity,
and surgeons were working late into
the night,” she said. “The opening of
this center should decrease the wait
and the congestion of the surgery
area in the main hospital.”
Erwin said when the community
See CENTER, page SA
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