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TUESDAY
June 28, 2005
Volume 135, Number 382
Award-Winning
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2004
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Contest
Inside TODAY
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Summer 'school'
For two weeks, 500
Houston County students
have had their summer
vacation enhanced.
See page 3A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Beth Bailey
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Tiffinie and Mike Bailey
(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
Effie Hendrix Addison
Larry G. Hanson
Roy Hooks
Ginette Martinez Perkins
Perry Jahn Soli
Obits, page SA
INDEX
BUSINESS 7A
CLASSIFIED 10A
COMICS 6A
CROSSWORD ... .6A
OBITUARIES 5A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .2A
SPORTS 12A
TV LISTINGS 6A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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places in Miss
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Miss Warner Robins Amanda Kozak models eveningwear during the Miss Georgia Pageant in Columbus Saturday
night. Kozak went on to place as the first runner up in Saturday’s pageant
Four Houston women compote in statewide event
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by Mike George
COLUMBUS - One of Houston
County’s own landed one step away
from the Miss America Pageant.
Miss Warner Robins Amanda Kozak
was the first runner-up in this year’s
Miss Georgia Pageant at the
River Center for the Performing Arts in
Columbus Saturday.
Kozak was one of four contestants
from Houston County who competed in
this year’s competition, won by Miss
Lake Lanier Monica Pang. Along with
Kozak, Houston County’s contestants
included Miss Tifton Erin Atcheson,
Miss Historic North Georgia Kasey
Minyard and Miss Columbus Catheryn
Shaw.
“We call them ‘our girls,”’ said
Barbara Asbell, contact liaison for the
Miss Warner Robins Pageant. “They
have all competed in our pageants
before and they’re all friends. We are so
proud of all of our girls.”
Kozak won preliminary evening wear
and swimsuit competitions on
Wednesday and Thursday before plac
ing in the top tier among the 53 con
testants who competed Saturday.
“She is such a dear person,” Asbell
said. “She has such a wonderful sense
of humor, and it shows.”
Asbell said Kozak was closer to the
crown than any Houston County com
petitor since Bobbie Eakes won the
Miss Georgia Pageant as Miss UGA in
1982. According to Asbell, the last Miss
Warner Robins to win the Miss Georgia
Pageant was Burma Davis Posey in
1968.
“She has a saying,” said Jolene
Kozak, Amanda’s mother. “What you
See PAGEANT, page 5A
No smoking at bingo
Local organizations adapting to new state law
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
There I was.
Waiting on the two last
bits of information that
would bring me the biggest
journalistic scoop in the his
tory of Houston County.
Woodward and Bernstein
would be crying like little
babies.
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Four contestants in this year’s Miss Georgia Pageant were from Houston
County. Pictured are (from left), Miss Columbus Catheryn Shaw, Miss
Historic North Georgia Kasey Minyard, Miss Warner Robins Amanda
Kozak, and Miss Tifton Erin Atcheson. Kozak went on to place first run
ner-up in the pageant Saturday in Columbus.
But then I heard the word
I had been dreading from
the back of the room ...
BINGO!
Rats!
Well, I guess I need to get
back to reality and concen
trate on the issue of the
soon-to-be-implemented
Georgia ban on smoking in
public places, and its possi
ble impact on local service
clubs’ lucrative bingo
efforts.
Towards that purpose I
spent a pleasant Saturday
evening at the Warner
Robins Elks Lodge talking
to players and losing my
proverbial shirt. Now, poker
is more my game. When it
See BINGO, page 11A
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John Planchon calls out the numbers for the Elks Lodge
bingo games on Saturday.
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Date
set for
special
election
Polling will be
Sept. 20 to fill
unexpired term
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The special election to fill
Warner Robins City
Councilman Thomas
Simms’ seat has been set for
Sept. 20.
Simms died last week as a
result of injuries he received
in a March traffic accident.
The person elected to fill
Simms’ seat will serve a
total of two years and three
months.
Simms served Warner
Robins District 6, which is
located north of Watson
Boulevard. The voting
precinct for the district is
located at Northside High
School.
The qualifying period for
the special
election will
be Aug. 1-5.
The qualify
ing fee is
$252. If
there is a
runoff elec
tion it will
take place
on Oct. 11.
Anyone
wishing to qualify for the
special election needs to go
to the office of Warner
Robins City Clerk Carolyn
Robbins between the hours
of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
and pick up a qualifying
petition.
The deadline to register to
vote in the special election is
Aug. 22. You can also regis
ter to vote at the city clerk’s
office.
The cost for the special
election is hard to estimate
since it will just cover one
district, but the last city
wide election in Warner
Robins in 2003 cost just
over $20,000 for the city to
hold.
The municipal elections
will be held in November.
Up for grabs will be the
office of mayor along with
three council seats: Matt
Stone’s at *arge seat, Terry
Horton’s District 3, and
Grady Clemonts’ District 5
seats.
SIMMS