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WEDNESDAY
June 22, 2005
Volume 135, Number 378
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Beef on the grill
Want to be famous far
and wide for your great
cooking?
Here’s a tip.
Cook the food that peo
ple already love!
Whatever your budget,
summertime culinary
success starts with firing
up the grill, or getting
that charcoal to turn to a
perfect ashy gray.
This week, our empha
sis in on beef, thanks to
the folks from the
Georgia Beef Council. We
start on the low-budget
side and proceed to great
show-off grilling.
Hearth&Home, page 11A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jackie Dußose
Brooke Heiden
Pierce Staples
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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
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mail them to us at the address
inside. No phone calls, please.
Many happy returns!)
Area DEATH
Wayne Edward Mercer
Obit, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 10A
CLUB NEWS 5A
COMICS 9A
CROSSWORD ... .9A
HEARTH&HOME .11A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 6A
TV LISTINGS 9A
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
DA probes owner of poker machines
Warner Robins company scrutinized as result of recent video poker seizure in Perry
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The Houston Circuit District
Attorney’s office has shifted its
investigation to focus on a Warner
Robins company that owns five
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boots
WRFD kicks
off boot drive
for Jerry’s Kids
this weekend
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Warner Robins firefight
ers will be out with their
boots in hand this weekend.
For the 16 th year, Warner
Robins firefighters will be
collecting donations for
individuals with neuromus
cular diseases. About 100 of
them will be out in front of
Wal-Mart, Kroger, Lowe’s,
and Winn Dixie Friday
through Sunday raising
money to defeat muscular
dystrophy.
See BOOT, page 3A
Council
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passes
budget
Animal control
ordinance
becomes law in
TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The Warner Robins City
Council ducked the fire
works issue but still kept
things interesting in
Monday night’s meeting, as
it passed the controversial
animal control ordinance
and adopted a city budget
for the 2005-2006 fiscal
year.
The budget calls for
spending $28,321,321 from
the General Fund,
$1,975,075 for the Special
Revenue Funds, $5,782,916
for the Sanitation Fund,
$11,323,858 for the Water
and Sewer Fund, and
$3,728,987 for the Natural
Gas Fund.
See WR, page 5A
Board recommends denial of rezonings
Houston planners don’t support spot commercial zoning in two residential neighborhoods
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
One applicant had a room full
of residents in opposition, while
the other had the support of the
homeowner’s association, but
both requests were recommend
ed for denial because to bring
commercial development to
those areas would be spot zon
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poker machines seized in a June 10
raid in Perry.
The Perry Police Department
seized the machines during an after
noon raid at the OM Food Mart on
Sunset Avenue. The store’s owner,
Semi-independent living facility to open Thursday
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Apartment Complex.
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Huckeba (right), president of the local AARP Chapter - and other members of the
chapter - for helping plant flowers and shrubbery at Falcon Park 111, Happy Hour’s
new apartment complex.
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A 1 Childers’ request to rezone
a 1-acre tract at Lake Joy and
Hatcher roads near Joy Drive
from R-l (single-family residen
tial) to C-l (neighborhood com
mercial) for a 2,300-square-foot
real estate office with two
entrances was opposed by a
roomful Monday night in a
Prakash Patel, could face felony
charges for operating a casino gam
bling establishment, but Assistant
District Attorney James Balli said
that no indictments have been filed
and no arrests have been made in
meeting of the Houston County
Planning and Zoning
Commission. They had come
out in the past to fight back two
other commercial requests fro
the same site.
Lawrence Guillory of Tharpe
Road spoke for the concerned
neighbors.
“If this one goes commercial,
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the case since the raid.
Balli said the investigation has
shifted its focus to a Warner Robins
based company that owns the
machines, identified by evidence
See POKER, page 3A
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Happy Hour is about to
open a new semi-independ
ent living complex, and they
have been hard at work get
ting the facility ready for its
grand opening Thursday.
A lot of people have been
working with Happy Hour
to get the Falcon Park 111
facility ready, and one group
was the local chapter of the
American Association of
Retired People (AARP).
Local AARP Chapter
President Rosita Huckeba
and a dozen of her members
were at Falcon Park 111
recently to help landscape
the building.
“We were very proud to
have the AARP people help
us out,” said Happy Hour
Executive Director Steve
Smith. “They were a god
send. Happy Hour would
not be a reality without the
help of local people like the
AARP
“We would also like to
thank Tom and Anissa
See HAPPY HOUR, page 3A
it wouldn’t take long for others
to go commercial,” he said. “It
will be the end of our nice resi
dential area.”
Guillory noted that Russell
Parkway is 300 yards from the
property, the county and city
are working to delay commer
cial development of that area,
See ZONING, page 3A
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