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WEEKEND
July 30, 2005
Volume 135, Number 406
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2005
Better Newspaper
Contest
Perdue fish fry set
for next weekend
From staff reports
Gov. Sonny Perdue will
hold his second annual
Governor’s Fish Fry in
Perrv next Saturday, Aug.
6.
The public is invited to
the fish fry hosted by the
Perdues, starting at noon
at the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and
Agricenter Miller-
Murphy-Howard Building
at 401 Larry Walker
Parkway.
RSVP to this event is
not required, but it is
requested, to
See FISH FRY, page xA
Inside TODAY
School bus routes
See inside for a special
pullout section contain
ing Houston County’s
school bus routes.
Happy BIRTHDAY!
July 30
Michelle Bearden
Sarah Bedgood
George Delk
Steve Rodgers
Billy Vaughn
Dana Wiggins
July 31
Drusilla Dawson
Jack Gillie
Aug. 1
Susan Ganus
Becky Nobles Largent
A 1 Lasseter
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
July 30
Ken and Nancy Granger
July 31
Kenneth and Brenda
Arnett
Aug. 1
Bob and Vickie Malone
Area DEATHS
Retha Heyn
Betty S. Wyatt
Paul N. Zoumberis
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 8B
CLUB NEWS 9A
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD ... 4B
INDICTMENTS ... .6A
LIFESTYLE 10A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8A
SPORTS 1B
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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Capt. John Clay watches as Rebecka Wilson shoots a Glock 17 on the firing range.
Graduation with a bang
Firing range is
final stop for
Youth Academy
graduates
Article and photos
by Ray Lightner
The last dav of the three
week Youth Police Academy
started with a bang and
ended with graduation.
Eleven students made it
all the way through classes
on Tuesday and Thursday
mornings for the past three
weeks. The students, ages
15-17, included the children
of police and military, and
from each of the city’s three
high schools.
Michele Love, a rising sen
ior at Warner Robins High,
said she is interested in get
ting into law enforcement.
“An abnormal thing hap
pened to me when I was 14,”
Love said, “and law enforce
ment made a difference in
my life.”
The students learned
about the police depart
ment, the hiring process -
including the obstacle
course - investigations,
crime scene processing and
Mercer, WR-ALC
to get federal $
Senate committee OKs funds for
Critical Personnel Development
From staff reports
The Senate appropria
tions committee has
approved $200,000 for the
Mercer University
Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center partner
ship to form the Critical
Personnel Development
Program, which is
designed to encourage and
enhance study in scientific
disciplines.
U.S. Sens. Saxby
Chambliss and Johnny
Isakson worked with
Senate appropriators to
secure these funds for
Georgia as part of the fiscal
year 2006 Transportation,
Treasury, the Judiciary,
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Kara Brown goes fully automatic with the machine gun,
firing the whole clip in a few seconds.
use of force from officers of
the Warner Robins Police
Department. The last day
was firearms and included a
trip to firing range to shoot
some of the guns police use,
Glock 17 9mm pistol, a 12-
gauge shotgun and a 9mm
submachine gun.
Capt. John Clay, training
center director, explained
Development, and Related
Agencies Appropriations
Act.
“This partnership
between the base and the
university is important
because it provides engi
neering students and aspir
ing scientists the hands-on
training they need to enter
the workforce,” said
Chambliss.
Both senators indicated
they were “pleased” to be
involved in the funding of
this effort.
“I am pleased to
announce these funds for
the Mercer University
School of Engineering in
support of its partnership
See CRITICAL, page 7 A
each weapon they could
shoot if they wanted and the
safe handling of the
weapons. He told students
to always treat a gun as if it
is loaded, until they verify it
isn’t.
A graduation lunch fol
lowed the trip to the firing
range. Family and officers
See ACADEMY, page 3A
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Hannah and Trevor Williams play on the new fountain at the comer of Watson
Boulevard and First Street. Deborah Jones of Keep Warner Robins Beautiful said the
fountain will be finished soon and a ribbon cutting is scheduled for the first of
September.
SIM coming
for Ball St.
extension
Marshall: ‘done deal’; U.S. House
submits bill to Senate, president
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The final piece of the
puzzle in the planned mul
timillion-dollar extension
of Ball Street in Perry has
won congressional support.
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall,
D-Macon, announced in a
prepared statement that $1
million has been ear
marked in the
Transportation Equity Act
of 2005 for the construc
tion of a bridge across Big
Indian Creek.
The extension of Ball
Street will connect down
town Perry to the Larry
Arrest nets
ice, weed
More arrests expected following
Thursday search of WR residence
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Corey Robert Hooper, 26,
139 Edna Place, Warner
Robins, was arrested
Thursday on charges of
trafficking in methamphet
amine and possession with
intent to distribute mari
juana.
“We locked his butt up,”
said Houston County
Sheriffs Narcotics
Investigator Sgt. Wayne
Franklin, “and seized
about a pound of ice and
two pounds of weed.”
Investigators with the
Narcotics Unit, assisted by
the Sheriffs Response
Team (SRT), initiated a
search warrant at Edna
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Walker Parkway and is
expected to keep large com
mercial trucks off down
town streets.
“I am pleased to have
gotten this project into the
bill,” Marshall said. “There
was tremendous debate in
the Conference Committee
over how much funding
would be available for
transportation projects
throughout the United
States. For a while it
looked like we would lose
projects, and it took quite a
bit of work and good for
tune to save this one.”
See BALL ST., page 14A
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These bags of suspected
marijuana were seized
Thursday.
Place. The search resulted
in seizure of 400 grams of
crystal methamphetamine
(also known as “ice”) with
a street value of $60,000,
. See ARREST, page 14A
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