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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
After-school
fees going up
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Parents with
students in the after-school
program in Houston County
will see a slight increase in
fees.
The Houston Board of
Education voted in their
regular meeting to increase
weekly after-school program
fees from $25 a week and $7
a day, to $35 a week and $8 a
day.
According to Frankie
Ross, after-school program
coordinator, there hasn’t
been an increase in the fees
since 1995 when the pro
gram began.
The increase will be used
for salaries of facilitators
and teachers of the pro
gram, whose earnings range
from $6 to sls an hour.
Only Bonaire, Lake Joy,
Miller, Pearl Stephens and
Westside elementary schools
have after-school programs.
Man arrested
for attempts
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
William Lee Kearney, 34,
304 Johns Road, Warner
Robins, was charged in two
attempted robberies by
intimidation (no weapon)
within minutes of each
other on Friday on or near
Brady Drive.
According to police and
sheriffs office reports, the
suspect attempted to take
money from Dollar General
on Watson Boulevard and
Pleejing Food Store on
Brady Drive on Friday.
According to Warner
Robins Police, the suspect
wandered around the
Watson Boulevard Dollar
General waiting for cus
tomers to leave and when
there were no other cus
MSC juniors, sen
iors make 'Who's
Who’ list
MACON - The names of
71 Macon State College jun
iors and seniors will be
included in the new edition
of Who’s Who Among
Students in American
Universities and Colleges.
They include:
Bonaire: Meghana
Bharat Amin, Craig
Christopher Carter, Laurie
Ellen Mathis, Jamie Lee
Parker, David Michael
Patrie and Jason Joseph
Weiss
Centerville: David
Yavner
Perry: Carroll Eric
Burnsed and Andrea
Vaughn Sellers
Warner Robins: Denise
D. Atkinson, Brian Louis
Boyd, Sonia Maria
Cervantes, Peter A.
Gonzales, Michelle Anne
Kalejta, Christopher Ryan
Marney, Hannah Rose
Marney, Kathryn Lynn
Miley, Keyle Denise Nitz,
Eliane O’Leary, Anthony
Aaron Reagan, Carla
LeAnne Shaw, Sandra Gehl
Williams and Susan
Catherine Wilson
The annual Who’s Who
directory recognizes colle
gians excelling in academic
work, campus leadership
and community service. A
committee of Macon State
College faculty and staff
made the final selection of
names after considering fac
ulty recommendations of eli
gible juniors and seniors.
The 2005 Who’s Who edi
tion will be available this
spring and will include the
names of students from
2,300 institutions of higher
learning in the United
States and several foreign
In other business,
Comptroller Stephen
Thublin was named
Assistant Superintendent of
Finance and Business
Operations.
“The duties haven’t
changed,” Thublin said.
“It’s only a clarification. I’m
still chief financial officer.
This title only recognizes
the other areas I oversee.”
At their work session,
board members heard
Michael Mattingly, assistant
superintendent of teaching
and learning, discuss
Georgia Virtual School, a
program where students can
take courses on-line with
school officials’ approval.
A few Houston students
will be allowed to take
advantage of only 1,000
seats available across the
state in the program.
Board members voted to
accept any credit for course
work awarded to students
through this program.
tomers in the store
approached the clerk and
demanded money. When she
refused, he left on foot head
ing south on Brady Drive.
Minutes later at the Brady
Drive store, he is reportedly
walked up to the register
with beer and money and
tried to grab money in the
register when the clerk
opened it for the transac
tion. He reportedly tried
several times before grab
bing five or six Mega Bucks
scratch-off lottery tickets
and running from the store.
A follow-up investigation
by both police and sheriffs
office identified Kearney as
a suspect. He was arrested
Tuesday and was jailed on
charges of criminal attempt
to commit robbery by intim
idation.
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Station about the afternoon rollover accident that shut down two lanes of traffic on northbound Interstate 75 just
south of exit 134.
Wreck blocks traffic on I-75
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - A rollover wreck
had two lanes of northbound
traffic closed for about two
hours Tuesday afternoon.
John and Merle Logue of
Lady of the Lakes, Fla., were
headed to Lake Lanier to see
Tolleson named to Forestry Study Committee
Special to the HHJ
ATLANTA - Sen. Ross Tolleson, R-
Perry) has been appointed to the
Georgia Forestry Study Committee by
the the Senate Committee on
Assignments.
Tolleson, \)vh6 serves'as chair of the
Senate Natural Resources and
Environment Committee, will serve as
co-chair of the Study Committee. The
Committee on Assignments also
appointed Robert Izlar, director of the
University of Georgia Warnell School
of Forest Resources Center for Forest
Business; James Malone, president of
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family when their new trav
el trailer started to sway
behind their Mazda Tribute.
Merle Logue, who was driv
ing, said, “it started swaying
and we started rolling over
and over.”
John Logue was slightly
injured and treated on scene
the Laurens County
Farm Bureau,
Kenneth Stewart,
director of the Georgia
Forestry Commission
and Curt Williams
manager of the Fuel
Oil Laboratory. The
Study Committee will
consist of 22 members
- the remaining to be
appointed by Speaker
of the House Glenn Richardson and
Gov. Sonny Perdue.
The Study Committee was created
by EMTs. Houston County
firefighters from the
Meadowdale Station’s E-81,
were also on scene to treat
the injuries.
The Georgia State Patrol
worked the incident and
Houston County Sheriffs
deputies directed traffic.
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Merle Logue said the SUV
which was sitting on its side,
had only 5,000 miles on it
and they had just bought the
new travel trailer.
“What a mess,” she said,
watching the wrecker com
pany attempt to load the
trailer on a flatbed. “It
breaks your heart.”
by Senate Resolution 54 to re-examine
Georgia’s forest policy in Georgia.
Georgia’s 23.8 million acres of forest
land occupy two-thirds of the state’s
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