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TUESDAY
March 1, 2005
Volume 135, Number 297
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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Logan's run
Logan Kemper was
crowned Miss Houston
County High School 2005
late Saturday night.
Local, page 8A
In BRIEF
'PowerPoint
wizard' needed
The 21st Century
Partnership needs a
“Power Point wizard” to
help prepare briefings for
use during the BRAC
Commission review
process.
“We would appreciate
someone volunteering to
help us build a world
class briefing,” said Ron
Carbon, director of the
partnership. “We are
looking for the best of the
See 21CP, page 5A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Alice Akin
Dennis Stubbs
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Feb. 26
David and Mary Lee-Baer
Area DEATHS
Adelle W. Carter
Rev. Tommy Lee Dudley
Eugene F. Hayes
Jimmy Jenkins
Golden L. Prater
Michael Prater.
Matilda Otwell Way
Jimmy Don Williams Sr.
Obits, page 7A
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... .4B
OBITUARIES 7A
OPINION ..: 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . . ,6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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Two sentenced in school bomb threat
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The two suspects in the
school bomb threats last Wednesday
were sentenced in Juvenile Court on
Monday.
Houston County Assistant
District Attorney Erikka Williams,
the juvenile court prosecutor, said
the two where charged with one
Edenfield honored with gala
By REX GAMBILL
HHJ Managing Editor
WARNER ROBINS -
Hundreds of friends and
associates came to the
Museum of Aviation Friday
night to wish Billy G.
Edenfield well in his retire
ment.
Edenfield’s 15-year career
as president of Middle
Georgia Technical College
ended Friday with a celebra
tion in the museum’s
Century of Flight building.
There were more smiles
than tears in the room, as
Edenfield was regaled with
praise and gifts.
Larry Snellgrove, chair
man of MGTC’s board of
directors and the Houston
County Development
Authority, told Edenfield
that his college is the first
place the authority takes
prospective industry. On
behalf of the board,
Snellgrove presented
Edenfield with a plaque
See GALA, page 3A
Outgoing MGTG president
reflects on achievements
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Billy
G. Edenfield is about to
enter a well-earned retire
ment after serving his com
munity and his country with
distinction for more than 45
years.
Most people would say
that it was quite enough for
Edenfield to have served in
the Air Force for 30 years
and retire as the base com
mander at Robins Air Force
Base.
But that was not enough
public service for Edenfield;
he then went on and has
served more than 15 years
as president of Middle
Georgia Technical College,
overseeing a period of explo
sive growth period at the
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Nathan Westray, the Houston County Spelling Bee win
ner from Bert Rumble Middle School, correctly spells his
word in the early rounds of the District 7 Spelling Bee.
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count each of transmitting false
public alarm and disrupting a public
school for making the bomb threats.
They were sentenced Monday to
12 months formal probation and
required by the judge to write let
ters of apology to each of the schools
and to the law enforcement agen
cies.
“They received the highest level of
probation possible to still remain at
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Friends and associates of Middle Georgia Technical College President Billy G. Edenfield give him a standing ovation
at the conclusion of his remarks Friday during a retirement celebration held in his honor at the Museum of Aviation.
school.
“I have had two great
careers, but it is time to go,”
Edenfield said in an inter
view on the day of his retire
ment. “It is not really time
for me to retire, but it is
time that I need to go and
allow someone else to take
charge.”
He said that he applied
two main traits he learned
in the Air Force during his
time at MGTC.
“I learned management
and leadership in the Air
Force,” Edenfield said. “I
had to learn how to manage
a lot of people and facilities,
just as I have had to do here.
Whatever you are dealing
with, you need management
and leadership to do the job
See EDENFIELD, page 3A
home,” Williams said.
She said the two might have to do
100 hours of community service or
participate in the Balance and
Restorative Justice program “where
victims and delinquents try to work
it out.”
One application of such a program
is when an offender is required to
work with a homeowner to pay for
the cost of a broken window,
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Maj. Gen. Mike Collings (center) smiles at Billy G. Edenfield (left), president of Middle
Georgia Technical College, during Edenfield’s retirement celebration Friday.
Houston's top speller
is tops in district too
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
BYRON - Nathan Westray
is headed to the State
Spelling Bee after winning
the District 7 Spelling Bee
Saturday.
To win, the Bert Rumble
Middle School eighth-grader
had to correctly spell “lilli
putian” and then “nomen
clature.” Both he and first
runner-up Max Young from
St. Anne’s ih Columbus
missed “variegated” before
Max was given and missed
“lilliputian.”
They were the last of the
22 top spellers in the district
and both qualified for the
March 25 State Spelling Bee
in Atlanta.
It was Nathan’s third trip
to the district competition
and will be his first to the
state level. His best previous
finish was fifth.
Nathan has been his
school’s spelling champion
each of the past five years
and the county Bee winner
three times. As an eighth
grader, this is his final
opportunity to compete in
the state bee.
To prepare, Nathan said
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Williams explained.
”It will be up to school system
what to do, if they want to partici
pate,” Williams said.
Perry Police Chief George Potter
was critical of the sentence.
“To me, the punishment does not
fit the crime, and does not send a
deterrent to those who might want
to do the same thing,” he said. “It’s
See THREAT, page SA
he’ll continue working with
his instruction supervisor
Robert Sipe at Bert Rumble
Middle School.
District 7 includes schools
from Bibb, Chattahoochee,
Harris, Heard, Houston,
Macon, Marion, Meriwether,
Muscogee, Peach, Pike,
Thomaston-Upson and
Troup counties. The partici
pants also included three
homeschool students and
two from parochial schools.
Other Houston County
participants included
Houston ‘County Spelling
See BEE, page 5A