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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005
SHELTER
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with battered women, one of
the things you’re going to
deal with is that those hus
bands come after them,”
said Commissioner Jim
Mehserle, who has served on
the advisory board of the
local Salvation Army, which
operates a battered women’s
shelter in Warner Robins
called Safe House.
Frank Shelton, adminis
trator of Perry Volunteer
Outreach, a non-profit
group, said that the new
shelter will not house bat
tered women.
“This is a shelter for
homeless women and their
children,” he said. “This is
not a battered women’s
shelter. We won’t have the
facilities to treat that.”
RELAY
From page 1A
Patrol Post Troopers for a
Cure, in its first year as par
ticipants, held a barbecue
last month and had a jail
and-bail fund-raiser during
the relay. Thaina Brown-
Brake, one of the many vol
unteer committee chairs of
the Relay, said “there were a
couple of school vice princi
pals who spent most of the
night in the back of the
patrol car,” as no one would
bail them out.
Brown-Brake was also
honored at Saturday’s
TALTON
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when they arrive at the
polls.
“I think people a lot of the
time want to look back,” he
said. “A lot of them want to
take us back, both black and
white.
“People still want to sepa
rate the races and some peo
ple don’t even want to talk
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255 Carl Vinson Parkway
Warner Robins, GA 31088
Bus: 478-975-0069
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Shelton said that his
group has been working for
about a year with several
local agencies to make the
project a reality.
“This is a joint effort of
the Georgia Department of
Corrections, the City of
Perry, the Perry Volunteer
Outreach, business and the
local community,” Shelton
said. “A number of groups
have been involved.”
Shelton said that initial
plans call for a five-building
complex that will house up
to 24 homeless women and
their children for between
90 to 180 days.
“We’ll try to help any
woman who asks for it,”
Shelton said. “This shelter
will also provide a home for
women out there who have
awards ceremony for raising
$2,803.34, the most by an
individual. The Bank of
Perry raised the most money
by a team, with $15,550.
Other money-raisers
included David A. Perdue
Elementary School, where
students alone raised about
$1,200 for the Relay for Life.
The student council donated
S6OO, with students from
the school matching that
with S6OO from a hat day
fund-raiser.
Perry Pawn Shop raised
about $6,000, said Jerry
about race.”
Talton said the voter ID
law was not a racial issue,
only a political one.
“I know what discrimina
tion is,” he said. “I’ve been
discriminated against.
“This is not discrimina
tion.”
Talton said he did not join
We would like to thank the brave men and women who served and sacrificed for our freedom.
Congratulations Robins Air Force Base!
Henry Hopson Jr
104 A Gunn Road
Centerville, GA 31028
Bus: 478-953-9272
been released from jail and
have nowhere to turn.”
Along with a number of
single-story apartment com
plexes, the shelter will
include a 3,000-square-foot
training center where
women and their families
can learn essential life skills,
like how to read. The pro
posed training center will
also feature job training,
faith-based ministry and
personal counseling.
Shelton said the project
could cost $1.3 million, but
said that those numbers are
expected to change.
The group is already
working to secure a
$500,000 Community
Development Block Grant
from the state, and Shelton
said that several local agen-
Whitney, with a cash jug at
the shop for donations and
the sale of Chick-fil-A sand
wiches and biscuits, as well
a drinks at the Relay.
Other award winners
included:
• Christ United Methodist
Church youth team’s camp
site entitled “Sailing for a
Cure” with a “Peter Pan”
theme won them Best
Costumes and Most
Awesome Campsite. Relay
Co-Chair Alesia Chadwick
said the camp was “the
pirate ship that lighted up
the black caucus because he
feels he has to represent all
the people who live in his
district, both black and
white.
“I had to ask myself how I
would feel if my representa
tive said ‘l’m going to the
white caucus,”’ he said. “I
wouldn’t like it.”
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1224 Washington Street
Perry, GA 31069
Bus: 478-987-3500
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cies have already pledged
their support in materials
and manpower.
Shelton said the group is
setting up a trust for the
new shelter’s operating
budget, and said the group
will continue to work to
secure local donations and
grants.
The property itself will be
owned by the city, but
Shelton said PVO will man
age and operate the shelter.
“When a battered woman
comes to us looking for help,
we can send her to the
Salvation Army,” he said.
“When it’s a drug problem,
we can send them to the
Phoenix Center.
“But when it’s just a
homeless woman looking for
help, we don’t have a place
the night.” The group raised
about $6,500 this year for
Relay for Life.
• Second place for Most
Awesome Campsite went to
Little Reasons Learning
Center with the “Let’s Dawg
Out Cancer” UGA-themed
site. Third place went to
Robins Federal Credit
Union with its Scare Away
Cancer site.
• The Spirit Award was
given to Boy Scout Troop
566 of Trinity United
Methodist Church in
Warner Robins. Co-chair
Talton has worked for the
Houston County Sheriffs
Department for more than
30 years. After graduating
high school in the early
19605, Talton worked as a
cement finisher and at a gro
cery store before being hired
by Warner Robins Police
Chief W.H. “Pip” Rape. In
Jimmy Spinks
1412 Russell Parkway
Warner Robins, GA 31088
Bus: 478-923-5579
for her.”
Shelton said the group
owns a number of homes in
the Perry area that are used
to house homeless women,
but nothing as large as the
proposed project.
Shelton said that the
Perry Volunteer Outreach
group helped 1,531 people
last year.
A final decision on the
rezoning of the property
could be made by the Perry
City Council at its regular
meeting June 7.
In other business, the
planning commission sided
with neighbors in denying a
local women’s request to
open a beauty salon in a
building behind her home
on Kingston Road.
Alesia Chadwick said the
scouts played all the games
all night. The Scouts also
filled luminary bags with
sand, placed and emptied
them. They also cleaned up
the midway following the
Relay For Life.
The Survivors Walk began
the relay Friday evening
with survivors of every age
taking the first lap. They
were joined by caregivers on
the second lap, Kids Against
Cancer on the third and cos
tumed contestants on the
fourth lap.
just over seven years, he
rose to the rank of lieu
tenant detective.
When Rape retired,
Houston County Sheriff
Cullen Talton hired Willie
Talton to be his chief inves
tigator. Although the two
men are not related, Willie
Talton said that many peo
ple thought that the sheriff
Lori Johnson
524 S Houston Lake Road
Warner Robins, GA 31088
Bus: 478-953-1133
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Mickey Willis Sr
1530 Watson Blvd
Warner Robins, GA 31093
Bus: 478-922-8538
Shakita Hayes told the
commission that she
planned to open a beauty
salon to make money to
raise her family and to pro
vide a convenient place for
her neighbors to get their
hair done. But several of her
neighbors expressed con
cerns over traffic problems
in the area and brought a
signed petition to the com
mission. Commissioners
denied Hayes’ request
because of concerns over
adequate parking and
because she would have to
add on to the salon to build
a bathroom. The matter
could be decided by the
Perry City Council June 7.
Commissioner Todd
Barker did not attend
Monday’s meeting.
Cancer survivor Barbara
Conch was the torchbearer
for the opening ceremonies.
Honorary co-chairs for the
second United County Relay
for Life were survivors
Jessica Whitney; Taylor
Way, a leukemia survivor;
and Carol Archer an 11-year
lung cancer survivor.
Beth Tolliver sang the
national anthem with the
Houston County High
School Air Force Junior
ROTC color guard present
ing the colors.
was trying to fill his office
with relatives when he was
first hired.
Rep. Talton said that
Houston County has been
extremely good to him, and
will continue to work in the
Georgia House for as long as
the people of Houston
County ask him to stay
there.
Nancy Deighan
324 Butten Drive
Bonaire, GA 31005
Bus: 478-987-5335
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