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SUNDAY
February 27, 2005
Volume 135, Number 296
Award-Winning
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2004
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Bridal Expo set
for Sunday in WR
WARNER ROBINS -
Stewart’s Formal Wear is
sponsoring Bridal Expo
2005 at the Houston Mall
from 2 until 5:30 p.m.
Sunday.
Admission is $5.
There will be vendors of
tuxedos and wedding
gowns, caterers, videogra
phers, photographers and
limousine rental services
from the Middle Georgia
area.
There will also be rep
resentatives from local
businesses who specialize
in invitations, wedding
equipment rentals, china
and gifts, as well as wed
ding planners and repre
sentatives from local
gyms, and tanning salons.
“This expo will have
everything from A to Z for
the bride,” said Stewart
Scott, owner of Stewart’s
Formal Wear.
Scott said his business
has held the Bridal Expo
for about 16 years at
Houston Mall.
See inside today’s C sec
tion for more information
on the Expo.
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Feb. 27
Rashad Duhart
Walt Jackson
Nathan Lee
Jack Martin
Angela Minter
Feb. 28
Jeff Arnett
Drew Bynum
Vivian Seymore
Feb. 29
Rick Kitchens
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Feb. 27
Gary' and Karla Borosky
Leon L. Boatright Sr.
Marvin Clark Jr.
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 3D
COMICS 5B
CROSSWORD ... .5B
HOMETOWN 1D
LIFESTYLE 1C
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
PET PROFILE ....6C
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6A
TV LISTINGS 5B
WEATHER 2A
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Flaggers' influence may be flagging
All but ignored: Whatever happened to supposedly powerful Southern heritage groups?
By KRISTEN WYATT
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Just a few years ago,
Southern heritage groups were con
sidered a powerful political force in
Georgia.
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Sam Patton of Fort Valley holds his 8-month-old daughter Sarah Beth Patton, as his 4-year
old daughter Emily Patton looks on at the Georgia National Rodeo. Patton said he attended
because Emily is “fanatical” about horses, and he was excited to bring Sarah Beth for the first
time.
Rodeo
time!
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Babes clad in
cowboy gear, hats, boots and
stirrups, the smell of freshly
turned dirt and concessions
signify the start of the
Georgia National Rodeo at
Reaves Arena at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
The rodeo will continue
Friday and Saturday at 7:30
p.m. Tickets for reserves
seats are sl4 for adults and
sll for children ages 2-12.
Reserved box seats are $lB
for adults and sl4 for chil
dren ages 2-12. On Friday
members of Robins Federal
Credit Union will receive a
$2 discount on adult tickets.
The rodeo includes bare
back riding, steer wrestling,
barrel racing and much
more. The rodeo also
includes special act Wild
Child, who performs dirt
bike stunts in the arena.
Related photos,
pageßA
Project Safe Neighborhoods expamHng hi Middle Ga.
ByRAYUGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
MACON - U.S. District
Attorney Max Wood
announced Thursday that
the successful Project Safe
Neighborhood Program is
expanding in his Middle
Georgia district.
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flags to taunt politicians who voted
to change the state flag. They were
thought to have a major hand in the
2002 defeat of Democratic Gov. Roy
Barnes. Some even organized their
own political party, the Southern
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the Georgia National Rodeo.
Wood announced the pro
gram will be expanded into
the eight-county Ocmulgee
District and the Albany and
Bainbridge districts.
The program, through
grants, helped fund an assis
tant district attorney posi
tion in the Houston County
Three years later, those same folks
are all but ignored by politicians.
Republicans in charge of the
Georgia Legislature say there’s no
chance the flag will be considered
again. Two Southern Party candi
dates who sought office last year
Circuit just to prosecute gun
crimes. Grants from the pro
gram were also used to pro
vide training and produce
calendars as part of a com
munity outreach effort.
Assistant District
Attorney Erika Johnson was
hired three years ago with
Certified
literate
Houston County CLCP
meets goal four years early
By TIMOTHY GRA
HAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Houston County got the
good news Thursday
that it is now a Certified
Literate Community.
The news came at a
press conference at
Middle Georgia
Technical College
attended by local politi
cal leaders and educa
tors.
“Truly we are com
pleting a circle that
began in 1998 when we
accepted the challenge
of making Houston
County a literate com
munity,” said Robert B.
Getter, executive direc
tor of Houston County
Joint Certified Literate
Community Program.
The Houston County
CLCP committed to the
goal of making the
county a certified liter
ate community within
Campus bids farewell
to MGTC's Edenfield
By TERESA D.
SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Superintendent of
Houston County
Schools Danny
Carpenter called it bit
tersweet.
Larry Snellgrove,
chairman of Middle
Georgia Technical
College’s Board of
Directors, said his lega
Peters to be Interim at MGTC
WARNER ROBINS - Outgoing Middle Georgia
Technical College President Billy Edenfield told The
Houston Home Journal on Friday that the interim presi
dent of the school will be Randall Peters, currently serv
ing as president of Heart Of Georgia Technical College in
Dublin.
Edenfield said a committee would begin work soon on
finding a permanent head for the Warner Robins college,
but that Peters will be serving as interim president full
time until a permanent head is named, probably in July.
Edenfield said that the state Department of Technical
and Adult Education will name a temporary president to
serve at Heart of Georgia while Peters is leading Middle
Georgia.
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the grant, explained Chief
Assistant District Attorney
Kathy Lumsden.
“The county decided to
keep her on after the grant
expired because of her good
work,” Lumsden said.
Johnson said she sees all
kinds of crime as the desig-
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lost. One lawmaker who was target
ed for defeat by flag activists even
framed a campaign sign against him
and hung it in his office.
Have Southern heritage groups
lost their political bite? They say no,
See GROUPS, page 8A
ten years. That goal was
met in just over six
years.
“We are one of only 12
counties in Georgia to
meet this criteria and
the only one in Middle
Georgia,” Getter said.
“This is a powerful tool
we can use to recruit
industry, as well as in
our talks with BRAC.”
BRAC is base realign
ment and closure, a fed
eral process by which
military infrastructure
will be reduced.
To meet the goals set
forth by the Georgia
Council on Adult
Literacy, more than
7,000 local residents
were enrolled in pro
grams such as GED,
Adult High School,
English as a Second
Language, and Adult
Literacy. More than
1,000 of those have
completed the require
ments for a GED.
See LITERACY, page 5A
cy will never leave.
Billy G. Edenfield’s
retirement celebration
sparked these words
and many more from
faculty and staff at
Middle Georgia
Technical College.
“It’s been a busy 15
years, but it has been
enjoyable,” Edenfield
said.
Edenfield said his
See MGTC, page 5A
nated gun prosecutor. The
also handle the related
crimes whether they are
traffic offenses of assault
using the weapon.
She meets once a month
with prosecutors from
Macon and Wood’s office to
See PSN, page 8A