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THURSDAY
May 5, 2005
Volume 135, Number 344
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Boys track team
wins region
Stockbridge made it
close, but Warner Robins
High’s boys track team is
the Region 3-AAAA
champion after edging
the Tigers 93-91. It was
the Demons’ fourth
straight region title.
Sports, page 13A
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WRHS brings
back ’Follies’
Warner Robins High
School students are ready
for “The Follies,” a musi
cal featuring both popu
lar music from the past
and numbers from
Broadway shows.
Entertainment, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY’
Chief Freddy Howell
Betty Knowles
Margie Puckett
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or
anniversary is, and we’ll put their
names in the paper that day. Just
send the name and date at least
a week in advance, and we'll do
the rest. E-mail to
hhj@evansnewspapers.com, or
mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Etta Lee (Lovelace) Hollon
Mae L. Tackett
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
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COMICS 12A
CROSSWORD ...12A
ENTERTAINMENT .6A
LEGALS 10A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 13A
TV LISTINGS ... .12A
WEATHER 2A
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Perry plant upgrade moves ahead
Perry City Council approves $3.9 million upgrade to wastewater treatment plant
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Plans are under way to
update and eventually expand the
city’s wastewater treatment plant.
The Perry City Council voted
unanimously Tuesday night to
award a $3.9 million contract to
Marietta-based H.C. Coleman and
Company to complete the first phase
of the project. The company is set to
begin working in the next few
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Patient Perry area teen
trains Arabian horse
to competition level
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - S A Bonfire was one of many hors
es competing at the Magnolia Arabian Horse
Show held recently at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter, but in an in-sta
ble interview with his owner, Perry High
School junior Amanda Noll, it became evident
he was quite different from the others.
Amanda’s mother, Becky Noll, said Bonfire
was a hard horse to work with when he was
given to Amanda almost six years ago.
“I’ve worked with him for about two years,
and he’s not that way anymore,” Amanda said.
She said she wants to dispel the many myths
that exist about Arabian horses.
See BONFIRE, page 3A
Cox
visits
Peppy
schools
State school
superintendent
congratulates
primary school
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Two schools in
Perry welcomed Georgia
Superintendent of Schools
Kathy Cox to tour their
facilities Wednesday.
Cox started her morning
in the midstate at Perry
Middle School, where she
met with the Perry Middle
School Better Seeking
Team.
This team, composed of
Principal Tom Moore and
teachers, focuses on student
and adult learning and its
critical role in creating and
sustaining collaborative
learning to achieve perform
ance targets.
Afterwards Cox visited
classrooms and interacted
with students engaged in a
variety of projects, from
building pyramids to baking
in consumer science classes.
See COX, page 9A
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Perry’s wastewater treatment
plant on Frank Satterfield Road can
treat up to three million gallons of
water a day. Water treated at the
plant is released into Big Indian
Creek.
Perry Utilities Director Harold
Deal said the upgrade was necessary
after the Georgia Environmental
Protection Division, an arm of the
Georgia Department of Natural
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Julian Greene, a seventh-grade student at Perry Middle School shows her fish
to state Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox. The fish was one of many prod
ucts her science class made while studying the difference of temperature in
ectotherms and endotherms.
Resources, handed down tighter
water quality restrictions in 2003.
“It’s all about the water that
leaves the plant,” Deal said. “The
state is asking us to do more. Water
quality is an issue that’s becoming
more and more important across the
state.”
EPD standards restrict the
amount of dissolved oxygen, nitro
gen, suspended solids, chlorine and
other materials found in water that
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leaves a plant.
“If there’s too much dissolved oxy
gen in the water, it can kill fish,”
Deal said.
High chlorine and nitrogen levels
can also affect the environment.
Chlorine can kill a variety of biolog
ical organisms. Nitrogen can spur
the growth of algae and bacteria,
which can wipe out larger organ
isms, like fish.
See PLANT, page 9A
Governor
signs off
on new map
Perdue: Redrawn
congressional map
ends gerrymandering
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue
has signed off on a new map for
Georgia’s congressional districts,
declaring it dismantles a
Democratic gerrymander and puts
people “back in charge” of decid
ing who will represent them in
Washington.
“It’s about as balanced as you
can get,” he said. “I think the peo
ple will be able to determine who
their elected representatives are,
and that’s the way it should be.”
Democrats scoffed, saying the
map approved in March by the
state’s first-ever Republican-led
Legislature was just as partisan as
the one Democrats crafted after
the 2000 Census.
“Redistricting by its very nature
is a political exercise. This is at
least as political if not more so
than the previous map,” said State
Democratic Chairman Bobby
Kahn.
The map cannot take effect until
it is approved by the U.S. Justice
Department. Georgia, like other
states with a segregationist past,
must get federal approval for
changes in voting laws.
See MAPS, page 3A
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