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Jim Olen took his checkride Thursday
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WRPD Citizens Police Academy begins
From staff reports
WARNER ROBINS - Over
a dozen area residents will
be learning the ins and outs
of the Warner Robins Police
Department over the next
two months.
Participants had various
reasons for taking the
Citizens Police Academy
course. All wanted to find
out about the police depart
ment and what officers do,
“besides writing tickets,”
joked instructor Capt.
Brenda Parks-Mathern.
Participants included the
wives of officers, civilian city
employees, base employees
and some students and staff
from Georgia Military
College, where Parks-
Mathern teaches a course in
criminal justice.
There are also a few
Governor expands funding for ag honors program
Special to the HHJ
ATLANTA - At a recent
breakfast hosted by the
Future Farmers of America
(FFA), Gov. Sonny Perdue
announced his plan to recog
nize outstanding agriculture
students by expanding the
Governor’s Honors Program
in agriscience and biotech
nology.
Presently the Governor’s
Honors Program, a six-week
summer program for aca
demically gifted and artisti
cally talented students,
budgets for 15 agriculture
students and one instructor
to participate each year. The
governor’s budget proposes
to add $25,000 to double the
agriculture participants to
30 students, and include two
instructors each year.
“I’m committed to agricul-
Michael T. Womack
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Airman
Michael T.
Womack
has grad
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from basic
military
training
a t
Lackland
Air Force
Base, San Antonio, Texas.
During the six weeks of
training, the airman studied
the Air Forcte mission,
organization, and military
customs and courtesies; per
formed drill and ceremony
marches, and received phys
ical training, rifle marks
manship, field training exer
cises, and special training in
human relations.
In addition, airmen who
complete basic training earn
credits toward an associate
degree through the
Community College of the
Air Force.
Womack’s mother is
Dorothy Johnson of
Bonaire.
The airman is a 2004
graduate of Houston County
High School.
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prospective candidates for
employment. They a include
a former Marine MB now a
student at Georgia Military
College, and a current civil
ian base employee who’s
retired military.
Today, participants will go
through the hiring process,
which Parks-Mathern
explained includes the
obstacle course. Participants
will also be required to do
eight hours, at least two
hours at a time, of ride
along with a patrol unit.
Classroom instruction will
include and overall discus
sion of the police depart
ment, hiring process, com
munications, use of force,
firearms, investigations and
crime scene processing.
Parks-Mathern said partici
pants get to shoot guns at
ture education,” Perdue
said. “The Governor’s
Honors Program will help
these students become the
future leaders of the agricul
ture industry in our state.”
Rising juniors and seniors
in Georgia high schools are
eligible to be nominated by
their teachers for participa
tion in the Governor’s
Honors Program (GHP).
Students are nominated in a
specific instructional area in
which their abilities, apti
tudes and interests lie.
Major instructional areas
are agriscience and biotech
nology, English, foreign lan
guages, mathematics, sci
ence, social studies, visual
arts, theatre, music, dance,
design, technology and exec
utive management.
Students attend the pro
HOMETOWN NEWS
Kevin B. Ngo
Air Force Senior Airman
Kevin B. Ngo has graduated
from Airman Leadership
School at Hickam Air Force
Base, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The five-week course is
designed to train senior air
men to understand their
positions in the Air Force
organizational structure,
leadership, communications
skills, and profession of
arms, which are needed for
professional development to
be effective noncommis
sioned officers. Airmen are
prepared and better
equipped to serve as super
visors, managers and rating
officials as they progress in
their enlisted military
careers.
The school is the first of
three levels of professional
military education programs
used to develop and culti
vate leadership and supervi
sory skills, and is a required
course for airmen to com
plete prior to being promot
ed to the rank of staff ser
geant.
Ngo, a systems supervisor,
is assigned to the 324th
Intelligence Squadron.
He is the son of Kimberly
T. Ngo of Kathleen.
the firing range, but noted
it’s at the end of the course
“to keep you here for the
whole thing.”
The first class was an
introduction to the depart
ment and its overall hierar
chy. Parks-Mathern
explained what each of the
divisions did, from
Investigations to Records,
and acronyms for divisions
like SCAT, STOR STAR,
SRO and CID.
The department, Parks-
Mathern said, has 115
sworn officers, 31 civilian
employees and several civil
ian part-time employees,
including the crossing
guards.
The Warner Robins Police
Department will be offering
the Citizens Police Academy
gram on the campus of
Valdosta State University. In
2004, 675 students from
across Georgia participated
in the Governor’s Honors
Program.
The new agriscience and
biotechnology slots in the
honors program are funded
through the governor’s 2006
proposed budget for the
Department of Education.
Perdue, a strong supporter
of agriculture education, has
added 70 agriculture-teach
ing positions to the Georgia
school system since 2000.
“I have no doubt that
organizations like 4-H and
the FFA will be well repre
sented by the excellent stu
dents that will be chosen for
the honors program,”
Perdue said. “These kids
In 1999, Ngo graduated
from Northside High
School, and in 2004,
received a bachelor’s degree
from Excelsior College,
Albany, N.Y.
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twice this year, as well as a
Youth Police Academy.
This first class began
March 1. It is full but appli
cations are available for the
second adult class to begin
Aug. 16. Classes will be
every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m.
at the Warner Robins
Training Center.
The Police Youth Academy
begins July 12 and will be
every Tuesday and
Thursday from 8 a.m. to
noon for three weeks. Youth
attendees must be 15-17
years old and have a parent
sign the registration form.
Anyone interested in
attending is encouraged to
call Capt. Brenda Parks-
Mathern at 929-7269 or e
mail bparksmathern
@warnerrobins.org.
have learned the same les
son I learned growing up on
our family farm. If you take
care of the land, it will take
care of you.”
“This Governor is devoted
to providing funding to
encourage young people to
get interested in agricul
ture,” said Donnie Smith,
Agriculture Liaison to
Perdue. “Because of his
announcement this morn
ing, Georgia’s agriculture
future looks brighter.”
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Staff Sgt. Charles Laidkey of Warner Robins is in inten
sive training for deployment to Iraq in May with
Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team. Laidkey is an
assistant operations sergeant for Macon’s
Headquarters Company, 48th Brigade Combat Team.
He is employed as an engineer with Dynamic Technical
Services in Macon.
IMPROVE
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highest improving in state
achievement,” Perdue said.
Cox agreed.
“This isn’t just about
talking the talk, but a real
meaningful change,” she
said. “As Georgia faces this
problem, realize we are not
alone ... the U.S. is dealing
with the same issues.
“I charge you let’s be the
pioneers, walking the walk
and doing everything we
can to challenge students
and encourage the best and
brightest college students
to become teachers.”]
After Perdue and Cox
spoke, participants broke
out into smaller groups to
work on areas in which
schools can improve, such
as Improving High Schools
from the Student
Perspective, 21st Century
Learning Environments,
High Schools That Work,
and More Effective
Schools.
The Georgia Conference
on High School
Improvement will conclude
today.
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State Superintendent of
Schools Kathy Cox speaks
at the Georgia Conference
on High School
Improvement held in Perry.
The conference will con
clude today.
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