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WEDNESDAY
June 1, 2005
Volume 135, Number 363
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'Tough'tournament
The team of Gary
Kiphart and Neil Brack
Jr. captured the final
day’s Warner Robins Ford
Built Ford Tough Team
Competition at Waterford
Golf Course, Monday.
Sports, page 10A
Blueberries
Losing weight? There
are many ways to do it -
and you can do it!
Hearth&Home, page 9A
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Happy BIRTHDAY!
Florence Jackson
Pattie Pilcher
Anne Sinyard
(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 DEATH
Mackenzie Leigh Persinger
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 8A
COMICS 7A
CROSSWORD ... .7A
HEARTH&HOME . .9A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 10A
TV LISTINGS 7A
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
New billboards rise above Perry
CVB unveils
new series of
promotional
signs along 1-75
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Travelers along
Interstate 75 may notice
something different across
the street from the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter.
The Perry Area
Convention and Visitors
Bureau has posted the first
of eight new billboards
along the highway that are
designed to highlight many
of Perry’s attractions, from
hotel rooms to downtown
shops. The project is esti
mated to cost around
$12,000, according to Sheila
Jones, the CVB’s executive
director.
During their regular
meeting in April, the CVB
scrapped plans to replace a
ninth billboard at Exit 39 in
Adel because Jones wanted
each of the remaining bill
boards to be spaced at least
30 miles apart. Jones told
board members at the
meeting last week that the
CVB will have to find a new
company to advertise on the
billboard or they will not be
able to opt out of a three
year contract they have
with the company that
owns the sign.
The rtewstgns will be
Homeless man lacing numerous charges
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Daniel Thomas
Sylvester, 41, faces numer
ous charges for fires at the
Horton Supercenter in
Perry and Ebeneezer
Baptist Church and Crisp
Local Lutherans plan mission trip
Mount Calvary
members headed
to Nicaragua
later this month
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - A
group of local folks will be
leaving this month to spend
a week in Nicaragua to help
some of the poorest citizens
of that poverty-stricken
Central American nation.
The members of Mount
Calvary Lutheran Church
on Carl Vinson Parkway will
be spending a week in the
Chinandega region of
Nicaragua helping provide
eye care to the residents.
The Chinandega is the poor
est province in the nation of
Nicaragua, a country of five
million residents located
between Honduras and
Costa Rica.
“It is an opportunity to
help people in need,” said
Shannon Bohannon. “I
work at Robins Air Force
Base and I thought it would
be good to take some leave
and use the time to help
people. I went on a mission
trip to Mexico when I was
16, so this is an opportunity
to go out again. It is a good
experience to help people
See NICARAGUA, page 3A
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The first in a series of new promotional billboards has been posted Friday near
Hamby Chevrolet Buick Pontiac GMC in Perry. The billboard is the first of eight new
billboards promoting Perry along Interstate 75.
posted along 1-75 in
Valdosta, Tifton, Cordele,
Unadilla, Byron, Forsyth,
and near the Thompson
Road exit in Perry. Each of
the new billboards features
the clock tower symbol
associated with the Georgia
National Fairgrounds and
Agricenter. The Hamby
sign also promotes AM
1610, a local radio station
Academy in Crisp County.
Sylvester has been
charged with one count of
first-degree arson, one count
of second-degree criminal
damage to property, and one
count of burglary for
allegedly setting fire to a
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Members of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church will be leaving this month to conduct a week-long mission to Nicaragua.
that beams out tourist
information. At Thursday’s
meeting, Jones said work is
progressing on a series of
signs promoting the station
that will be posted at
Reaves Arena.
Jones said that she is
already working to replace
two signs at Thompson
Road and at Unadilla.
“We are definitely moving
storage building behind the
Ebeneezer Baptist Church
and Crisp Academy last
Wednesday.
A second charge of crimi
nal damage to property
resulted from a fire set in
woods behind the church,
forward,” Jones said. The
work on posting the new
signs will continue through
out June.
Also, the CVB board set
aside $5,000 from its pro
motion budget to buy
advertising space in a new
“Ladies Day Out” travel
guide, designed for
women’s groups that are
See BILLBOARDS, page 64
according to Georgia
Insurance and Fire
Commissioner John W.
Oxendine.
Sylvester also has been
charged with three counts of
second-degree criminal
damage to property for
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Perdue,
Unwood
win
awards
Ga. School Bell
Awards honor
excellence in
elementary schools
From staff reports
Linwood and David
Perdue elementary schools
have been chosen as 2005
Georgia School Bell Award
winners by the Georgia
Association of Elementary
School Principals (GAESP).
The GAESP recognizes
deserving elementary
schools each year with the
School Bell Award. The
award is presented to
schools that demonstrate
excellence in unique ele
mentary programming.
Linwood Elementary
School was chosen for its
Million Minutes Reading
Incentive program, where
the teachers challenge the
students to read for one mil
lion minutes over the course
of a school year. The top
reader and most motivated
reader in each classroom are
awarded reading medals for
every 250,000 minutes mile
stone that is reached and
the student body is treated
See AWARDS, page 64
other fires he allegedly set in
Crisp County later on the
same day.
Fires were set in two mod
ular homes on display at the
Horton Homes store in
Perry, and Sylvester has
See CHARGES, page 6A