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WEDNESDAY
May 4, 2005
Volume 135, Number 343
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WR council OKs
water ordinance
The Warner Robins
council approved a new
Water Resource
Protection ordinance for
the city.
The ordinance estab
lishes guidelines to pro
tect groundwater and
wetlands in the region.
Local, page 3A
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Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo, the fifth
of May, is almost here,
and while the celebration
has a historical and patri
otic basis, like our Fourth
of July, it’s also a great
day for celebrating the
sizzling impact Mexican
cuisine has had on cooks
morth of the border.
Hearth&Home, page 13A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Christy Adams
Sydney Bearden
Nancy Joiner
Dorothy Releford
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or
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names in the paper that day. Just
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a week in advance, and we'll do
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inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATH
Jackie Holtzclaw
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
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COMICS 6A
CROSSWORD ... .6A
LIFESTYLE 13A
OBITUARY 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . .12A
SPORTS 9A
TV LISTINGS 6A
WEATHER 2A
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ABOVE: Members of the Perry High School Class of 1955
stand around the Verdin Street clock at the Houston
County Board of Education building at 1100 Main St. in
Perry Saturday morning. Pictured are (from left) William
Harrison, Ray Morrow, Evelyn Fowler Tucker, Lois
Wheeler Holloway, Milton Culpepper, Mary Kathryn
Duggan Thornton, Harvey Clarke, Barbara Davis Sharp,
Gordon Scarborough, Frank Nix, Betty Layman Seago,
Helen Sinyard Spear, John Watts, Julia Parker Watts,
Sandra Thames Thompson, Jackie Newberry Beeland,
Sandra Giles Sessoms, Franklin Middlebrooks, Dovie
Stewart Norton, Geraldine Leaptrot Norwood, Faye
Tharpe Lacey, Janice Harper Brown and Theresa
Williams Bondurant.
RIGHT: Jackie Newberry Beeland of Perry kneels near
the base of the Verdin Street clock at the Houston
County Board of Education building at 1100 Main St. in
Perry Saturday. The clock was dedicated by the Perry
High School Class of 1955. The clock is surrounded by
bricks engraved with the names of teachers who taught
at the school from 1943 to 1955.
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Protecting women and children
Local Salvation Army makes case for new Safe House shelter at annual meeting
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HANNA BARRETT
www.hhjnews.com
Article and photos
by Rex Gambill
WARNER ROBINS -
Nearly 100 turned out for a
good cause recently - The
Salvation Army Safe House.
The Salvation Army took
the opportunity Friday, at
its annual meeting and capi
tal campaign celebration
dinner, to raise awareness -
and, hopefully, part of the
$1.7 million it needs to
finance the construction of a
new, larger Safe House, a
shelter for battered women
and children.
“For about 18 years, the
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The city’s newest animal
control officer can hardly remember a
time when pets weren’t a part of her
life.
Hanna Barrett was sworn in to the
Perry Police Department by Judge
Janice Spires at a ceremony at the
Houston County Probate Court Office
in Perry this week. Barrett, 21, said
she is ready to jump into the work of
caring for the city’s many stray and
abandoned animals, and hopes to set
new records for adoption. Barrett will
fill the post held by Happy Wyatt, who
left the department last month to
spend more time with her husband and
newborn son.
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Salvation Army has endeav
ored to do something about
domestic violence,” said
Maj. Barry Corbitt of the
Salvation Army of Warner
Robins. “We want to eradi
cate the problem complete
ly.”
Italine Davis, the Safe
House’s support group facil
itator and volunteer coordi
nator, drove home the need
for such a facility in telling
her own story of how she
overcame a destructive mar
riage marred by manipula
tion and domestic violence.
“Instead of being the man
of my dreams, he ended up
being the horror of my life,”
“I know that they say that Happy
increased the adoption rate a lot more
than it was,” Barrett said. “I just want
to keep that going and maybe even sur
pass her.”
Barrett is no stranger to animals.
According to her mother, Gay Barrett,
Hanna grew up around the family’s
kennel in Marshallville. Barrett’s fam
ily bred basset hounds before moving
to Perry in the early 19905. Barrett’s
family owns Canine Cleaners, a Perry
grooming business.
“I know we’re all going to miss
Happy,” Gay Barrett said. “But Hanna
worked with her for a couple of sum
mers and learned a lot from her. ”
Barrett said she also spent four years
working for the Pet Land pet store at
she said.
Davis recounted matter
of-factly how she had been
too ashamed to tell her fam
ily about her husband’s
abuse, and later how she
had to be rushed into emer
gency surgery after he
kicked her in the abdomen.
Finally, she said, she felt
she was being drained as a
person.
“I didn’t have a life any
more,” Davis said. “I was
just existing.”
She characterized her
involvement with the Safe
House as a divine mission,
to be a part of the things the
See SAFE HOUSE, page 5A
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County
sells
surplus
building
DM VS asks for
bigger building
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The Houston
County Board of
Commissioners voted
Tuesday to sell the former
Board of Elections building
at 732 Main St. to Shrad
Amrit for $95,001.
That building, along with
the Ag Building and the
Public Meetings Building -
both at 723 Carroll St. - had
been declared surplus prop
erty. Since no acceptable
bids had come in for the
other two buildings, the
commissioners voted to
lower the minimum bids on
them by 15 percent.
Also in their regular meet
ing Tuesday, the commis
sioners discussed with rep
resentatives of the Georgia
Department of Motor
Vehicle Safety the possibili
ty of building a new building
to house that agency in
Warner Robins.
“We’ve run out of room,”
said Chief Hugh Tedders.
“People are having to stand
out in the sun and rain
because the current build
ing is too small. We wanted
See COMMISSION, page 5A
ITALINE DAVIS
Colonial Mall Macon. Although she has
worked with animals for most of her
life, Barrett said she did not decide to
pursue a career with animals until last
summer.
Besides her volunteer work at the
Perry Police Department, Hanna wrote
a column in 2001 for The Houston
Home Journal that advocated a larger
animal shelter for the city. City and
county officials are working to estab
lish a unified animal control policy, and
volunteers are working to raise money
to build a larger shelter for all of
Houston County.
Perry Police Chief George Potter said
animal control is vitally important for
the city.
See BARRETT, page 3A