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WEEKEND
June 18, 2005
Volume 135, Number 376
Award-Winning
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Contest
Inside TODAY
Around the world
and back home
to Perry
Lifestyle, page 9A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
June 18
Betty Bowman
Belinda Crowe
Jonanne Ford
Conner Crawford Howell
Helen Kinser
Brenda S. McLure
Josh Price
Linda Pullen
June 19
Jimmy Childs
Sandra Collins
Marc Kushinka
June 20
Barbara Jean Cumbess
Mitch Hambrick
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
June 18
Barbara and Leon Walker
June 19
Elbin and Helen Kinser
June 20
Chad and Lisa Wicker
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or
anniversary is, and we’ll put their
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Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Diane Landrum
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 7B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ....4B
HOMETOWN 5A
LIFESTYLE 9A
OBITUARY 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . .7A,
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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DOT fines road contractors
Construction of portion of Houston Lake Road only 80 percent complete
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
The contractor for the
Houston Lake Road project
between Russell Parkway
and Ga. 96 has been fined
for delinquent completion.
Georgia Department of
Transportation spokes
woman Dorothy Daniel said
the contractor, Reeves
Construction Company, has
been fined $17,400 since
April 1 for being late.
The project was originally
scheduled for completion in
April.
“The project engineer
hopes that with good weath
er this project will be com
plete by the end of
September,” Daniel said.
Currently, the concrete
median is being poured,
Daniel said.
“The base and binder
material is being placed on
the new lanes of Ga. 96, and
they have almost finished
milling out the island,” she
said.
Within about two weeks,
Daniel said, “they hope to
put the final topping on the
northbound lanes so traffic
can be shifted to its desig
nated position.”
The contractor for the
See DOT, page 12A
Peppy restores chamber funding
Council allocates $12,000 to Chamber of Commerce after cutting its funding last year
By TIM HOSKINS
HHJ Student Writer
In its revised city budget for fiscal
year 2006, the Perry City Council
has restored the funding for the
Perry Area Chamber of Commerce
to 2004 levels.
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Contestants in the Miss Georgia and Miss Georgia Outstanding Teen Pageants pose in
front of Warner Robins City Hall during a recent meeting for the upcoming Miss Warner
Robins Pageant in July. Pictured are (from left) Miss Tifton Erin Atcheson; Miss
Warner Robins Amanda Kozak; Marcy Waugh, vice president of the Miss Warner
Robins Pageant; and Channing Wood, Miss Warner Robins’ Outstanding Teen.
Atcheson and Kozak will compete in the Miss Georgia Pageant June 25. Wood will
compete in the Miss Georgia’s Outstanding Teen Pageant Friday.
21 CP gears up for BRAC staffer's visit
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
Though announcements
have been made putting
Robins Air Force Base in a
mission-gaining position,
the 21st Century
Partnership hasn’t slowed
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As the orange barrels in the roadway between Feagin Mill and Tucker roads indicate, work is not yet complete on the
first phase of the widening of Houston Lake Road (between Russell Parkway and Ga. 96).
Through the 2004 budget, the
Chamber received $12,000 from the
council to fund programs to promote
businesses in the city.
Budgetary constraints required
the Chamber’s allocation to be cut
in half to $6,000 in 2005. Though
down in the face of Base
Realignment and Closure.
At its quarterly meeting,
the base support group
talked about its preparation
for a June 29 visit by a rep
resentative from the Base
Realignment and Closure
the 2006 budget that was initially
proposed by the city increased the
allocation to $7,500, the Chamber
asked for the full $12,000 amount to
be restored this year.
“We asked them to restore the
original contract amount that the
(BRAC) commission.
BRAC is a federal process
to identify military installa
tions for closure or work
force changes. In the
process, the commission will
evaluate the Pentagon’s
plan for closing and realign
Houston sends
four to pageant
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A group of young women
are heading to Columbus
this weekend, preparing for
one of the biggest competi
tions of their lives.
Four contestants from
Houston County left this
morning to compete in the
Miss Georgia Pageant for
thousands of dollars in
scholarships, and the chance
to be crowned Miss America.
Marcy Waugh, vice presi
dent of the Miss Warner
Robins Pageant, said that
this is the first time in more
than a decade that so many
young women from Houston
County have competed at
the state level. Waugh said
the group will stay in dorms
all week at Columbus State
University, but will be busy
with receptions, rehearsals
and other preliminary
ing domestic military instal
lations, including Robins Air
Force Base, Georgia’s
largest employer and largest
industrial complex.
Faye Williams with
Robins’ Office of Public
Affairs identified the BRAC
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City of Perry has been giving to the
Chamber for many years, and they
did,” said Megan Smith, president
and CEO of the Perry Area
Chamber of Commerce.
Perry City Manager Lee Gilmour
See CHAMBER, page 12A
events. Competition itself
will begin Wednesday and
culminate with a final night
of competition June 25. On
the final night, the 53 con
testants from across the
state will be narrowed to
ten, then to five. After a
series of onstage interviews,
judges will crown Miss
Georgia 2005.
Many of the girls have
competed in pageants all
their lives.
Miss Warner Robins
Amanda Kozak said she got
involved with the Miss
Warner Robins Pageant
after she attended the pag
eant herself.
“You just know in this
town,” Kozak said. “They
advertise it outside and it’s
in the paper and I knew girls
who were previous winners,
so I decided to compete.”
See PAGEANT, page 3A
staffer as Tim MacGregor.
Partnership Director Ron
Carbon said the individual
visiting is not coming to
interface with the communi
ty, but rather “to see what’s
going on inside the fence.”
See 21CP, page 3A