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FRIDAY
August 5, 2005
Volume 135, Number 410
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Kids, cows and chickens
Adults and children of
Westminster
Presbyterian Church got
hands on experience from
FVSU with some animals.
Family&Faith, page 7A
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Balancing act
Northside’s Allison
Dickey attempts to stay
on the bag and field a
throw.
Sports, page 11A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Pat Bartness
Nancy Brown
Tony Colbert
Todd Garrett
Austin Moore
Kari Ann Stubbs
Malcolm Taylor
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Many happy returns!)
Area DEATH
Louise H. Brooks
Obit, page, 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 10A
COMICS 9A
CROSSWORD ... .9A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .7A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... .5A
SPORTS 11A
TV LISTINGS 9A
WEATHER 2A
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The ribbon is cut for the new U-2 exhibit at the Museum of Aviation.
U-2 exhibit established at Museum
Display unveiled on 50th anniversary of spy plane
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The high-flying U-2 spy
plane found itself a home on
Thursday.
Not a retirement home,
by any stretch of the imagi
County bans fishing, parking on rights of way
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Hous+wt Owwnty has
banned parking and fishing
from county rights of way.
The board voted unani
mously this week to prohibit
parking along Moody Road
at Lake Moody “for public
safety,” Commissioner Larry
Thomson said.
Commissioner Tom
McMichael said he goes by
that area every day.
“It’s dangerous,” he said.
“Somebody’s gonna get
Centerville
fights crime
Night Out just one of many
Neighborhood Watch activities
By WILLIAM JOHN HAGAN
HHJ Staff Writer
Under the leadership of
Ed Armijo, the people of the
Eagle Springs neighborhood
of Centerville decided to
fight back against drugs and
crime.
They did so by founding
the Eagle Springs
Neighborhood Watch pro
gram last year.
Prior to the group’s foun
dation the ever-developing
city of Centerville was
plagued by recurring cases
Perry councilman announces bid (or re-election
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Perry Councilman Joe Kusar
found an interesting way to let vot
ers know he’s running for re-elec
tion.
Around the time council members
were setting a qualifying date for
the Nov. 8 election, the District 2
councilman stopped to announce his
candidacy.
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nation, but a place where it
can come, put its wings up,
and throw down a couple of
cold ones after a mission
over North Korea or Iran.
The Museum of Aviation
hosted a ribbon cutting of
hurt.”
The resolution makes it
unlawful for any individual
to park a vehicle of any kind
at any point along the right
of way of Moody Road at
Lake Moody. It also makes it
illegal for anyone to fish in
any public or private water
way in the county while
standing on a bridge or pub
lic right of way.
That second provision
concerned Commissioner
Jay Walker.
“There is a lot of fishing
of vandalism and petty
crime.
Armijo and his fellow
crime watchers took to the
streets with cars clearly
marked as “neighborhood
watch” vehicles.
Thanks to the group’s
efforts, there has been a
marked decrease in aban
doned cars, juvenile crime
and vandalism in unoccupied
development properties. Like
many small cities the
resources and manpower of
See C'VILLE, page 3A
Kusar is nearing the end of his
first four-year term, and represents
parts of northeast Perry. Kusar’s
district stretches from Macon Road
to Main Street and reaches east
from downtown to just beyond the
Perry Parkway.
“I didn’t join council with an
agenda, and I’m not running on an
agenda,” Kusar said. “I just feel that
I can bring experience - business
its new U-2 exhibit
Thursday morning as part
of the celebration of the
plane’s 50th anniversary.
The celebration began
Tuesday with a fly-in of a U
-2 to Robins Air Force Base
out in the county in rural
areas,” Walker said. “I don’t
know that they all have
signs.”
Commission Chairman
Ned Sanders noted that the
county doesn’t have signs
for every law.
Thomson proposed a first
time warning for violators,
to address Walker’s con
cerns, before fines of not less
than $35 and not more than
SIOO are imposed.
Sanders also presented
the board the proposal from
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Ed Armijo, coordinator of the Eagle Springs Neighborhood Watch, and Chief Ernie
Pardo of the Centerville Police at the Night Out Police open house.
experience - to the city of Perry.”
Kusar, a vice president of sales at
the Tolleson Lumber Company, has
lived in Perry for 15 years.
“It’s changing a lot,” Kusar said.
“I’d like to be part of that change so
that we maintain the uniqueness
that we have in Houston County.”
Kusar said he feels like he has
made a difference in his first four
years in office, helping oversee con-
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and will end today with the
plane flying back to its base
in California.
Paul Hibbitts, chairman
of the Board of Directors of
the Museum, welcomed
See U-2, page 14A
Vision 2020 - which is “a
composite coordination
coalition, of government
leaders that meets bimonth
ly on countywide issues,” he
explained - to create a com
mittee to help local govern
ments coordinate planning
efforts. Sanders said the
committee made up of mem
bers appoints from all four
governments plus the Board
of Education and the
Warner Robins Area
Transportation Study
group.
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Public
schools
opening
today
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Staff Writer
Houston County’s public
schools are opening their
doors today for the 2005-
2006 school year, with
24,326 students officially
registered, but more expect
ed during the first few days
of school.
According to Sharon Riley
of Superintendent Danny
Carpenter’s office, the
enrollment last August was
23,748.
Huntington Middle
School, 206 Wellborn Road,
Warner Robins, is the
newest of the system’s 34
schools. Principal Dr.
Gwendolyn Taylor and the
faculty and staff will be wel
coming approximately 870
students.
See SCHOOL, page 14A
The purpose of the
Houston County
Coordinated Planning
Committee, Sanders said “is
primarily to address issues
surrounding the develop
ment of the county’s Joint
Comprehensive Plan, which
is required by the state,”
with drafting of the plan
slated to begin later this
year.
Other possible responsi
bilities could include recom
mending changes in land
See PARKING, page 3A
tinued growth and development in
the city.
“As long as I can continue to make
a difference and contribute to Perry
I would like to do that,” he said.
Kusar was born in Euclid, Ohio,
and graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in forest industries from
Ohio State University. Kusar has
worked in the forestry industry for
See KUSAR, page 3A