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FRIDAY
June 10, 2005
Volume 135, Number 370
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Memorial Heights
Baptist celebrates
first half century
Members of Memorial
Heights Baptist Church
in Perry celebrated their
church’s 50th anniver
sary last weekend, with a
number of services and a
covered dish dinner.
Family&Faith, page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Don Dimsdale
Trey Evans
Joan Law
Fran Pensyl
(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
Patricia Saxon Brooks
Robert C. Miller
John Paul
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 12A
CLUBS NEWS ...13A
COMICS 11A
CROSSWORD ...11A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .8A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT .. . .5A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .6A
SPORTS 14A
TV LISTINGS ... .11A
WEATHER 2A
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Airport snares grant to fund new lights
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The Perry-Houston County
Airport has secured a $150,000 fed
eral grant that will help them
replace old and faulty taxiway lights
that have kept the airport from
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Special to the HHJ
Sharon Daniel will serve
as the principal of Westside
Elementary School for the
2005-2006 school year. She
currently serves as assistant
principal of Northside
Middle School.
“I am very excited about
becoming principal at
Westside Elementary and
look forward to working
with the faculty, staff, and
parents,” Daniel said. “By
working together, we can do
great things to allow our
children to succeed in their
education.”
Daniel has 24 years of
experience in education,
including 17 years in admin
istration. She has earned
the following degrees:
• bachelor’s in special
education from Auburn
University;
• master’s in education
leadership from University
of Georgia;
• master’s in special edu
cation from the University
See DANIEL, page 3A
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HHJ Ray Lightner
Margaret Cox displays her the 2005 Master of Public
Health Research Award from the Mercer University
School of Medicine for the thesis entitled “Strategies for
Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Georgia Using
Kendra’s Law as a Model.”
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staying open at night.
Art MacDonald, chairman of the
Perry-Houston County Airport
Authority, said the Georgia
Department of Transportation is
ready to award the airport an enti
tlement grant from the Federal
Aviation Administration.
On
the
Sonny
side
First Lady Mary
Perdue listens as
Gov. Sonny
Perdue thanks a
group of support
ers at a fund
raising dinner
Wednesday at
the Miller-
Murphy-Howard
Building at the
Georgia National
Fairgrounds and
Agricenter in
Perry.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue visits with supporters at a campaign fund-raiser at the Miller-
Murphy-Howard Building at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter in
Perry Wednesday night.
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Margaret’s law
C’ville woman’s thesis proposes
alternative outpatient treatment
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
PERRY - Margaret Cox’s
thesis explored violent
crime associated with
severely mentally ill
patients who go off medica
tion.
The Centerville woman’s
master of public health
thesis is based on research
done with Houston County
Probate Judge Janice
Spires, and Don Blair and
his staff with the Phoenix
Center. The thesis sup
ports an alternative outpa
tient treatment, which pro
vides ongoing case man
agement and court-ordered
medication compliance for
severely mental ill patients
to keep them on medica
tion and from returning to
the court system.
MacDonald said that the FAA hands
out thousands of dollars in grants
every year to small airports working
to expand.
The airport’s taxiway lights are
reaching the end of their useful life.
MacDonald said that the grant will
be used to replace the taxiway
“Spires had so many
mental patients go off
meds and act up, (that)
pick-up orders have multi
plied five times over the
past five years,” Cox said.
In 2003, 2,835 total
active metal health
patients including 764 sub
stance abuse patients. In
2004 there were 2,581 total
patients with 761 of those
substance abuse patients
treated at Phoenix Center.
Patients subject to the law
would have to be 18 or
older, have a lack of compli
ance of with medication at
least twice in the past 36
months, which resulted in
violent behavior once in
the past 48 months.
The mentally ill offend
ers end up in the courts
See COX, page 3A
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lights, but the airport may wait to
pay for replacing lights along the
runway. He said the FAA has made
several suggestions for capital
improvements that may affect how
the airport authority will use the
grant.
See GRANT, page 3A
Bikes to
descend
onWR
BRAG comes to
town Monday,
for the first time
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The movement of four
wheel vehicles in and
around Houston County is
an issue close to the hearts
of all of us.
No matter where we
choose to drive, there
always seems to be too many
of them trying to go the
same place we are.
Monday, Houston County
will have to deal with a
horde of vehicles of the two
wheel variety, as the Bicycle
Ride Across Georgia
(BRAG) makes its first-ever
stop in Warner Robins.
Approximately 2,000 rid
ers will make a stopover in
Houston County Monday on
their way from Columbus to
Jekyll Island. Not only will
they spend the night at
Houston County High
School, but they are also
expected to drop about
SIOO,OOO into the local econ
omy.
See BRAG, page 3A
'This is the
decade of
cancer'
Women’s task
force confronts
Houston’s leading
cause of death
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Mary Robinson from the
Central Georgia Cancer
Coalition and Mercer
University School of
Medicine presented infor
mation on the statistics of
cancer in Houston County
and in Georgia at a meeting
Wednesday of the Houston
County Women’s Health
Task Force. The meeting
was held at the Houston
Health Pavilion EduCare
Center located in the
Houston Mall in Warner
Robins.
The first of those statis
tics was of no surprise to
anyone: Cancer is the lead
ing cause of death in the
United States and in
Georgia. Cancer kills an
average of 13,322 people per
year in the Peach State. The
leading killer is lung cancer,
with colorectal cancer com
ing in second.
Males are 42 percent more
See CANCER, page 3A
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