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WEDNESDAY
June 8, 2005
Volume 135, Number 368
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Inside TODAY
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Summertime
delights
It’s June and fresh fruit
and vegetable stands are
opening all over the
Middle Georgia area.
Now’s the time to bring
out your best traditional
recipes, but also to try
some new ways with all
those wonderful toma
toes, squashes and zuc
chinis
At bat
Rustlers hitter Joseph
Lee take a swing.
Sports, page 12A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Billy Edenfield
Josh Ray
Area DEATHS
Kelli Ruth Barnett
Vanessa Lynn Basting
Denise Bowers “Niecy”
Knight
Emily Elizabeth Knight
Stacy Lynn Lower
McKinney
Elbert Z. Parrish
Juanita Adkinson Richey
Obits, page 5A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 8A
COMICS 7A
CROSSWORD ... .7A
HEARTH&HOME . .9A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
TV LISTINGS 7A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
No tax hike
in WR budget
Walker says millage decrease
possible in 2006 fiscal year
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
What if you hold a public
hearing and nobody
comes?
You get a budget passed
on first reading.
Warner Robins City
Council held a public hear
ing on its proposed 2005-
2006 budget but nobody
showed up to comment on
it so the budget will receive
its final vote of approval at
the next council meeting in
two weeks.
The main feature of the
budget is that it does not
call for a millage increase.
After that, I guess it is all
just details.
WR imposes
fireworks ban
Attorney to draft ordinance
before end of moratorium
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Warner Robins took the
advice of the Vision 2020
committee and passed a
resolution banning the sale
or use of fireworks in the
city limits for a period of 45
days.
Vision 2020 had asked all
of the four municipalities
in the county to adopt an
ordinance banning the sale
of fireworks at the request
of the county’s four fire
chiefs. The chiefs had
requested the action after
the Georgia legislature
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Breast Cancer Foundation, and Beth Jones, RNC, director of Community Education for
Houston Healthcare, sign official paperwork for a grant that will fund education, sup
port services and mammograms for lower-income women who do not have insurance.
www.hhjnews.com
Related article, 2A
“It is a balanced budget,”
said Mayor Donald Walker.
“It is what the department
heads need to get their job
done. Right now, unless
council demands a tax
increase, there will be no
millage increase and there
might even be a decrease
due to reassessment.”
The budget calls for the
city to spend $28,321,322
during the next fiscal year.
If all goes right they will
also bring in that much
money. Bringing the budg
et into balance called for
See BUDGET, page 6A
passed a law making it
legal to sell items called
“sparklers.” The chiefs
were concerned that the
definition of sparkler was
too broad and allowed the
sale of fireworks that could
be dangerous, especially to
children.
The new state law
superceded a city ordi
nance, which already
banned the use of fire
works in the city limits.
Warner Robins City
Attorney Jim Elliott pre
sented the council with a
See FIREWORKS, page 3A
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Kyle Home rides a bull at the Georgia High School Rodeo
Friday at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter.
Cowboy Kyle
Perry teen
rides bulls ...
for kicks
Story and photos
by Tim Hoskins
Many high school stu
dents play football, basket
ball, or baseball in their
spare time.
Some go for less common
options like field hockey or
pole vaulting.
Others choose non-athlet
ic extracurriculars like the
school newspaper or student
government. Kyle Horne
rides bulls.
“There ain’t nothing else
like it. It’s just fun,” said
Horne, who will be a senior
this fall at Perry High
School.
Horne, 18, has been riding
bulls in amateur rodeos
since he was 14, and last
year went to the National
High School Finals Rodeo,
in Gillette, Wyo. He is the
See HORNE, page 3A
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Perry High School senior Kyle Horne has been riding
bulls since he was 14.
Special to the HHJ
Houston Healthcare has
been awarded a $30,000
grant from the Central
Georgia Affiliate of the
Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation. With
this funding, Houston
Healthcare will provide edu
cation, support services and
mammograms for lower
income women who do not
have insurance. The grant
will also fund a nurse practi
tioner case manager to
assist women on a one-on
one basis with education,
support and follow-up refer
rals in accessing breast
health and breast cancer
services.
The Central Georgia
Affiliate, one of over 100
nationwide dedicated to put
ting an end to breast cancer,
recently provided communi
ty grants totaling over
SIOI,OOO to support breast
health education and breast
cancer screening and treat
ment programs throughout
the Central Georgia area.
Fundraising efforts such as
the Komen Race for the
Cure event held annually in
Macon have made such
grants possible.
“In order to ensure our
funds are making the great-
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est impact, we work with
local medical experts and
community leaders to con
duct comprehensive commu
nity needs assessments,”
said Jennifer Pittard, presi
dent of the Komen Central
Georgia Affiliate. “We have
identified specific, unmet
breast health needs within
our community and ‘filled in
the gaps,’ delivering the life
saving message of early
detection and providing
assistance to medically
underserved breast cancer
patients and their families.”
Houston Healthcare has
received several grants over
the past few years from the
local Komen affiliate.
“We are grateful for the
support and funding that
the Central Georgia Komen
Affiliate has provided for
our health care system,”
said Beth Jones, RNC,
Director of Community
Education and Services for
Houston Healthcare. “We
know that the number of
women in Houston County
without insurance continues
to increase each year. With
this funding, we can assist
more uninsured women in
our community who need
annual mammograms while
See GRANT, page 6A
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