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WEEKEND June 18, 2005 Volume 135, Number 376 Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper 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 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 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 PERIODICAL 6 * Man Lifcrarv UNfV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-GOO2 J-DfGIT 308 June 18, 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 (sjpf \ J3xrme|f (Lhe 9 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY f city of Perry ; city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville 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. k gHfagH tv* HHJ Mike George 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 www.hhjnews.com *'•’* ?! W'"' * j | fjjji Jg# fj | »• | I. ~ jS-Mr ' ’’i I 'uij fjy'Mw'’' 11 ' - ' ' .. ' ijSs; - ■' . , „ mm I _ • - - niuijirrnnwj-iTurnmiinrjm: HHJ Kay Lightner 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 an Evans Family Newspaper 50c IKIIIIU! e^sioFooooi’M TWO SECTIONS • 20 PAGES 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