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WEDNESDAY June 8, 2005 Volume 135, Number 368 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest Inside TODAY w sF g 1 lw— 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 M1.ii.,..1f..1i,... .1.111... 11, ..11.....1.11...11 6* Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 JUNE 8, 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 dike LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY \ 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 Houston Healthcare receives breast cancer program grant jj»| - ■ gEp^ it ->Y /«.', | \ -« m ; Hi - 7 '" " IPHHH ! Hr '- r \ jHPR^S- ™ ipr JEW n Hir *%® j|ggf§r p. - s s " "»Sm V- V ;-' JHbB K - rjSM ; . JK|| jf : "' ? - ■ jg|| -'E@., / jBEt R ' ■• 'hi'mm' llfe jP* r-i B m I j- - B Jff Bl -Jm ''^Hl submitted Jennifer Pittard (left), president of the Central Georgia Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen 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 1 W ’H-- ) . jP; - 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 if- u ? ff , HBB| 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- an Evans Family Newspaper 50c mu 8™55108 , 00001 b, 4 ONE SECTION • 12 PAGES 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 state Finals