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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 PERIODICAL 5 Gewgia Newspaper Project Main Librarv UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 JULY 30, 2005 Serving Houston County Since 1870 f idintstmt iicrtiu'lf CLUte LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville r -v fv. t r Wmr ' " H a-MKafc War W jflj . ~ ti aL ,1. I*|| IBM jtil L y' .*L ~ * •***,. bBPBI j : -<r j-j?»” *■- •* n ; p* ; 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, Housing and Urban www.hhjnews.com "'A w a? * $ .. j I HBl - • / ,<>. ' • M yi l ■. ■' 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 Jife - ■ . i*, mam ~ m i ; r 4 y? " < rt . 1 1 IIHJ -Timothy Graham 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 Where’s the water? THREE SECTIONS • 42 PAGES 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 *. mmamtr 1 'ff; HHJ Ray Lightner 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 an Evans Family Newspaper 50c IIISIIII)