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THURSOAY
March 10, 2005
Volume 135, Number 304
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Perry area
school kids sing
The Westfield Schools
Gymnatorium was
packed last Friday morn
ing as the elementary
school students presented
their own version of the
Broadway hit, “Annie!”
for their grandparents.
There was not just one,
but dozens of red-haired,
freckle faced Annies, and
Sandy was a very cooper
ative (if stuffed) pooch.
Entertainment, page 6A
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Teacher named
to Hall of Fame
Westfield had one of its
own named to the Hall of
Fame recently.
Wheeling Jesuit
University in Wheeling,
W.V, announced that for
mer student athlete and
current Westfield math
teacher Jolene Ciccarelli
has been elected to the
school’s Athletics Hall of
Fame.
Sports, page 1B
Happy BIRTHDAY!
March 9
Larry Walker
March 10
Rachael Daniels
Mary Johnson
Brynda Taylor
Stephanie Tinnin
Elaine Watkins
Area DEATH
James Q. “Sandy”
Sanders
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD . . . ,4B
ENTERTAINMENT .6A
OBITUARY .......2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . . ,6B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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New animal ordinance may be DOA
Vision 2020 sends revised proposal to cities; Horton, Worrall doubt it will be approved
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Vision 2020
again wrestled with the issue of a
unified animal control ordinance
Wednesday morning - and again
came up with a version that seemed
to make few people happy.
The sticking point of the entire
Wilson named MGTC’s top student
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The four finalists for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership at Middle Georgia Technical College attend
ed Tuesday’s meeting of the Warner Robins Rotary Club, where the GOAL winner was announced. Pictured are
(from left) Dr. Randall Peters, acting president of MGTC; finalists Sandy Melvin, Amanda Brantley, Stephanie
Wilson, and Cornell Worthy; and Michael Chaloult Jr., president of the Rotary Club.
Attaining her GOAL
WR resident will compete in May for state title
By REX GAMBILL
HHJ Managing Editor
WARNER ROBINS - Stephanie Wilson
was named the winner Tuesday of the
Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership
(GOAL) for Middle Georgia Technical
College during a meeting of the Warner
Robins Rotary Club.
A radiologic technology student at
MGTC, Wilson will go on to represent the
college in competition against GOAL win
Commission
recommends
annexations
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The Warner
Robins Planning and Zoning
Commission has recommended
adding more than 170 acres to the
city, as well as approving more than
ten home-based businesses.
The commission approved the
annexation of two adjacent tracts of
land south of the intersection of
Gunn Road and U.S. 41 and north of
Watson Boulevard. The land is
owned by Edwina Gunn.
One of the tracts totaling 50.13
acres had its zoning changed from R
AG to C-2, or general commercial.
Oliver Bateman of The Ramsbottom
Company told the Home Journal
that the company had no plans to
develop the land in the near future
but “down the road” would probably
See P&Z, page 3A
www.hhjnews.com
ordinance has come to be the issue
of how many animals a person is
allowed to have. The proposed ordi
nance set a limit of three dogs and
three cats or six animals total. The
proposed ordinance did not allow
any variances for animal rescue
organizations, breeders, or sporting
groups.
County Commission Chair Ned
ners from other technical colleges around
the state in competition for the state title.
“Think of it as the student of the year for
technical colleges,” said Dr. Randall Peters,
acting president of MGTC.
Wilson was one of four finalists selected
from a pool of outstanding students nomi
nated by instructors at the college. The
nominees faced a college screening com
mittee, where they gave a three-minute
See GOAL, page 3A
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Charles Trim looks at seized methamphetamine
at a drug awareness workshop held by the
Houston Circuit District Attorney’s Office and the
Houston County Sheriff’s Office for the commu
nity to learn how drugs impact the body and ask
questions about them.
Sanders presented the group with a
revised ordinance, which would
grant a variance to any animal res
cue organizations, which were state
licensed and non-profit. The exam
ples of Animal Rescue and Kindness
(ARK) and Homeless Animal Rescue
Placement Service (HARP) were
given but even then there was a
limit of six rescued animals per res-
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By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Ecstasy, methampheta
mine, marijuana, LSD and
cocaine were distributed at
Northside High School on
Tuesday night.
No cause for alarm,
though. The drugs were
part of a presentation
titled “Drug Awareness for
Teens and Parents,” co
sponsored by the Houston
Circuit District Attorney’s
Office Juvenile Division
and the Houston County
Sheriff’s Office.
Sgt, Wayne Franklin and
Sgt. Manny Quinones of
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idential lot.
“After the issues were discussed
here and after the county and cities
took their actions, we went back and
took another look at it and this is
what we came up with,” Sanders
said. “There will be no other excep
tions and no other preferential
treatment.
See ORDINANCE, page 3A
Hands-on
drugs
Teens, parents get up-close look
at drug abuse in Houston
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Board
to seek
Sept,
tax vote
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Pamela
Greenway, chairman of the
Houston County Board of
Education, officially
announced the board will
pursue another SPLOST
referendum.
“We are looking at the
date of Sept. 20, but we do
not have a formal plan, the
elements are not there,”
Greenway said.
By formal plan, Greenway
means a presentation of
where the funds will be used
and what they will be used
for.
Greenway said the board
must set a referendum date
no less than 60 days before
the election date. The board
will have to vote on the
issue in June or July at the
latest, for balloting in
September.
In other business, a teary
eyed Dr. Marianne Melnick
turned over the reigns of
her position as assistant
superintendent of student
services to Dr. Ruth O’Dell,
principal of Lindsey
Elementary School. Melnick
is retiring.
O’Dell said she will
assume the role next month,
but will serve from Lindsey
See BOE, page 3A
the Houston County
Sheriffs Office gave infor
mation about the many
drugs they have seized in
Houston County.
Franklin gave the street
names of drugs, how they
are made, the effects of
drugs on the body, and
characteristics of people
who use them.
Erikka B. Williams, an
assistant district attorney
for the Houston Judicial
Circuit, said the reason for
workshops such as these
are so no one can say “No
one ever told me what’s out
there.”
See DRUG, page 3A