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FRIDAY
MAY 20, 2005
Volume 135, Number 355
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
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The Ballad of
Nimrod Jackson
HHJ columnist Billy
Powell updates an earlier
article entitled “The
Ghost of Nimrod Jackson
Lives On” with news of a
special event planned in
Jackson’s honor.
Family&Faith, page 8A
!Happy BIRTHDAY!
Robert Lewis
Mack Peyton
Chuck Stubbs
(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
Gil W Barwick Jr.
Jerry M. Cox
Lennis D. Langlie Sr.
Bob Pilkinton
Obits, page 7A
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SCHOOL NEWS . .10A
SPORTS 13A
TV LISTINGS . . . .11A
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Coleman
named
top 911
officer
Emergency
communications
worker praised
by superiors
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Rita
Coleman is a good all
around communications
officer, said 911 Director
Capt. Rick Harlowe.
Coleman was recently
honored as Houston
County’s E-911
Communications Officer of
the Year for 2004.
The 2004 award was just
presented due to delays in
the expansion of the E-911
Center, explained Harlowe.
“It was presented during
Telecommunication Week in
April,” he said.
Coleman was honored for
her work in retrieving infor
mation that helped in the
prosecution in the double
murder case at Robins Air
Force Base, Harlowe
explained.
“She was very instrumen
tal in getting the proper
information to the patrol
officers and to the District
Attorney’s Office,” he said.
See COLEMAN, page 3A
Talton
credited
for two
grants
First'term lawmaker
secures funding for
HODAC, Senior
Citizens Center
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Two
local organizations are get
ting state grants, thanks to
Rep. Willie Talton.
HODAC and the Warner
Robins Senior Citizens
Center are each getting
$15,000 in state grants.
“People like that help the
citizens and put the passion
into action,” Talton said. “I
was honored and pleased to
be able to get some state
funds to further their cause
and need.”
HODAC Executive
Director Jackie Dußose said
the $15,000 would help
many programs especially
those “hardest hit by state
cuts” - the Gateway Cottage
and victim assistance.
Dußose said Talton “knew
we’d really been slammed
by the grant cuts.”
She said Talton took it
upon himself to get the
grants.
See TALTON, page 3A
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Young ballerinas at Kids America Dancers of Middle Georgia are practicing for their big show, “If You Give a Girl a
Mirror,” to be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Warner Robins Civic Center. There will be a cast of 150 dancers.
Story and photos, page 8A
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ABOVE: From
left, Juanita
Holmes, 11,
Taliah Lawson,
11, and Angela
Styles, 12 have
fun with the
sponge toss at
Lindsey
Elementary
School’s
Reading Counts
End-of-Year
Water Bash
Wednesday.
LEFT: Trichia
Thompson, 9,
passes a wet
sponge to fellow
9-year-old
Daniel Gordon
at Lindsey
Elementary
School’s
Reading Counts
End-of-Year
Water Bash
Wednesday.
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Council
plans
budget
meeting
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - The Perry City
Council will begin taking a
closer look at the city’s 2006
budget later this month.
During its work session
Tuesday, the council agreed
to meet May 31 to begin the
first in a series of budget
hearings. This year’s budget
does not call for any millage
rate increases.
Next year’s proposed
budget calls for a 2.7 per
cent increase in water and
sewer rates, as well as trash
pickup rates and natural gas
operating fees. City
Manager Lee Gilmour said
the council established a
policy in 2004 that would
account for the rising costs
of providing service to the
community by gradually
raising rates every year.
“The council does not
want to be in a position
where they are going to
have to make large rate
adjustments to account for
years when they didn’t raise
rates at all,” Gilmour said.
The proposed budget also
calls for a 5 percent increase
in general fund fees, which
include things like building
permits, fishing licenses,
city building rentals and
youth athletic fees.
Gilmour said that city
employees will receive a 1.5
percent cost-of-living pay
raise.
The budget also sets aside
funding for a $500,000 proj
ect to build a new fire sta
tion for the Houston Lake
Road corridor. Gilmour said
that the city has been con
sidering building a new fire
station for at least four
See PERRY, page 3A