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THURSDAY
April 14, 2005
Volume 135, Number 329
Award-Winning
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Inside TODAY
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Dogwood
Festival scenes
The weather was beau
tiful, and so were the pink
and white dogwoods blos
soming all over Perry.
Entertainment, page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Wallace Mullis
Sharon Price
Ellen Sullivan
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Barbara and Mike
Graham
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Many happy returns!)
Joyce Alice Melton
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 118
COMICS 7 A
CROSSWORD . . . .7A
ENTERTAINMENT .8A
LEGALS 4B
OBITUARY 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 7A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
County OK's state DOT plan at HCHS
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Houston County High
School may get a flasher or two.
Houston County has approved the
traffic signal study request and will
supply power if school speed zone
Japanese med students visit Perry Hospital
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Andrea Sellars shows Japanese medical students beds in the intensive care unit of the hospital that
recline into chairs, weighs patients and adjusts to their body weight.
School board approves Crime Stoppers
WRHS assistant principal Anthony Lunceford to head Lindsey Elementary School
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The Houston
County Board of Education
signed and approved a pro
posal to implement a
Student Crime Stoppers pro
gram in all Houston County
Schools.
County middle and high
Rainbow House honors excellence
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Rainbow House Chairman David Williams (left) presents
the Excellence in Service: Child Advocacy Center award
to Garry Hammontree, Child Protective Services investi
gator with the Houston County Department of Family
and Children Services.
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flashing signs are permitted by the
state Department of
Transportation.
County Commissioner Tom
McMichael said “it needs to be done
before a child it hit out there.”
The school Parent Teacher
school principals were
scheduled to meet
Wednesday morning to dis
cuss implementing the pro
gram in time for the begin
ning of the 2005-2006 school
year in August.
Macon Regional
Crime Stoppers Board
Chairman Warren Selby
Student Association has requested
traffic signals and crosswalks for the
school. The state DOT has to
approve it because the school is
located along a state route, Ga. 96.
DOT District Engineer Thomas B.
Howell told PTSA President Kathy
explained to the school
board in its meeting
Tuesday that the program
will cost the system nothing
and is very flexible.
In the four years
Crime Stoppers has been in
Middle Georgia, it has led to
over 800 arrests. “There’s
no question this is a proac
Locals accept awards in agency’s annual meeting
Article and photos
by Ray Lightner
WARNER ROBINS - The
vision of Rainbow House
Children’s Resource Center
is that no child shall be
abused.
The Rainbow House mis
sion statement, said board
chairman David Williams is
“to serve all children by
strengthening our commu
nity’s response to child
abuse and neglect through
prevention, intervention
and advocacy efforts.”
At its annual meeting this
week Rainbow House pre
sented Excellence in Service
awards “to those who
worked above and beyond
the call of duty to help
abused children,” explained
executive director Carol
Hanna.
Hanna presented the
Excellence in Service: Child
Advocacy Center awards to
members of the multi-disci
pline team partners with
Tour is part of twoweek
exchange sponsored
by Mercer University
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Perry Hospital hosted visitors from
Japan on Tuesday.
Students hosted by Mercer University
toured the hospital as part of exchange pro
gram through a medical university in Japan.
Dr. M. Marie Dent, associate professor at
Mercer University School of Medicine, said
through the program Mercer students visit
hospitals for two weeks in Japan, and
Japanese students visit America for two weeks
to see how U.S. facilities compare to Japanese
hospitals in terms of equipment, services and
procedures.
Three students, Toko Hayakawa, Hiromitsu
Takika and Yoshirari Ushibori toured Perry
Hospital. The students are seniors and are in
their sixth year of medical school.
Dent explained that in Japan students
attend medical school straight out of high
school.
Over their two-week visit they will spend the
majority of time at the Medical Center of
Central Georgia in Macon.
“ "SuT&ent said the students should see hospi
tals in all environments and observe how hos
pitals are run in rural areas as a part of learn
ing about community medicine.
See STUDENTS, page 10A
tive program,” Selby said.
“The tips given will lead to
administrative actions or
arrests at the high school
level.” '
He said just because
reports are given from
schools doesn’t mean that
they are unsafe.
“But because students use
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Houston County Sheriff’s Sgt. Darin Meadows (left)
accepts the Excellence in Service: Child Advocacy
Center award from Rainbow House Chairman David
Williams for his work as a detective in the Juvenile
Division, protecting abused and neglected children.
Rainbow House including
Houston County Sheriffs
Office Juvenile Division,
Houston County
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Brown, in a letter, that a crosswalk
can also be installed at the school at
Bear Drive. But “for it to be proper
ly utilized,” he said, “the school
needs to make improvements to pro
mote use of the crossing.”
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the program, vandalism is
prevented,” Selby said, “We
will continue to use (school)
resource officers to help us.”
Selby said Crime Stoppers
has received more tips out of
Houston County this month
than the in all the other
Middle Georgia counties the
See BOE, page 10A
Department of Family and
Children’s Services, the
Houston County District
See RAINBOW HOUSE, page 3A