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TUESDAY
August 9, 2005
Volume 135, Number 412
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Scrimmages
begin
Perry hosted West
Laments for a scrimmage
Friday in the Panther Pit,
while Warner Robins vis
ited Peach County.
Sports, page 11A
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Joel Keith Rich II
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Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Janet Fitzgibbon Aldrich
Shirley Keisler
Joyce Mathis Sellers
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
BUSINESS 5A
CLASSIFIED 9A
COMICS 8A
CROSSWORD 8A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 10A
TV LISTINGS 8A
WEATHER 2A
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McDowell, Williams to square off for Simms’ unexpired council term
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By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The special election to fill Warner
Robins’ Post 6 City Council position
will come down to two men.
Doug McDowell and John Williams
are the only two candidates to qualify
for the Sept. 20 special election as of
Health fee
hikes
proposed
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
“Fees need to be brought
to expenses,” said Houston
County Commissioner
Larry Thomson.
The Houston County
Board of Commissioners
voted to raise environmen
tal fees for the County
Health Department for
things like “septic tank,
water line and restaurant
inspections,” explained
Commissioner Tom
McMichael.
McMichael, who along
with Thomson met with
Health Department offi
cials, said the increase
brings the fees in line with
or below that oTother coun
ties of similar sized as well
as neighboring counties.
“There has not been an
increase in over three years
in what 1 call user fees, most
of which are one-time only
expense,” McMichael said.
“It’s really overdue.”
Houston County Board of
Health Chairman Dr. David
Harvey told the commission
last month the Health
Department budget was
about $30,000 short this
past year, and proposed the
fee increase “in effect to
keep up with the growth in
the number of homes and
restaurants.”
Based on numbers from
the past year the change in
fees would result in an
$113,640 more in revenue
from fiscal year 2005’s
$170,355. Harvey said ’’the
impact fee would be S2OO on
See HEALTH, page 3A
Sonny hosts second fish fry in Perry
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Troop 566’s current Scoutmaster Billy Miller is joined by former Scoutmasters and leaders. Pictured are (from
left) Miller, Bob Hopkins, Billy Parker, Charles Singleton, Louie Musselwhite (standing in for his late father,
Louis Musselwhite) and Maureen Maguire (standing in for her late husband, Lloyd Maguire).
Scout troop marks 40 years
Troop 566 holds ‘A Gathering of Eagles’ for anniversary reunion
From staff reports
One of Warner Robins’ oldest Boy
Scout troops marked its 40th
anniversary this week with “A
Gathering of Eagles.”
About 250 attended Saturday’s
dinner marking the occasion at
Trinity United Methodist Church,
which sponsored the troop’s found
ing in August 1965.
Dozens of the troop’s 123 Eagle
Scouts attended, along with mem
bers of their families, current and
the deadline Friday afternoon.
The position was left open by the
death of Thomas Simms from injuries
received in a traffic accident. The win
ner of the election will serve the two
years remaining on Simms’ unexpired
term.
The important thing that voters
former Scout leaders, and friends of
the troop.
In his remarks, keynote speaker
Mark Roadarmel (Eagle Scout #8)
talked about the impact Scouting in
general and Troop 566 in particular
has had on himself and the many
others who have been a part of the
troop in the past 40 years. He enti
tled his speech, “The rest of us.”
He noted how Scouts are often
described by the achievements that
bring them fame, yet it is neither the
need to remember is that is the day
they will also be voting on the one
penny special purpose local option
sales tax (SPLOST) referendum pro
posed by the Houston County Board of
Education.
That will require voters in Post 6 to
See COUNCIL, page 3A
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Fried fish, bluegrass
music and soggy French
fries. Must be election time
in Middle Georgia.
Sonny Perdue returned
home to his roots Saturday
at the Second Annual Sonny
Perdue Fish Fry to raise a
little money, press some
flesh, and hand out some
appreciation for the folks
who sent him to the state
house in Atlanta. A crowd in
excess of 1,500 came out to
salute Sonny and fill the
ballroom at the Miller-
Murphy-Howard Building at
the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter
in Perry.
Just in case there might
have been some Democratic
spies in attendance, the
Sonny folks opened the fes
tivities with the Republican
trinity: The Pledge of
Allegiance, The National
Anthem, and A Word of
Prayer. That should have
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fame nor the achievements that are
the yardstick by which they should
be measured.
“At many Scout gatherings you
will hear of the number of astro
nauts, presidents, politicians, and
others of prominence who were
Scouts in their youth,” he said. “And
while these people are important
standard bearers of the Scouting
ethic, few of us will achieve, or even
desire to achieve, their public
See SCOUTS, page 12A
cleared out anyone with an
ACLU card.
Perdue was introduced to
the adoring crowd by
Georgia House Speaker
Glenn Richardson.
“In the election of 2002,
Sonny Perdue did some
thing nobody thought could
be done,” said Richardson.
“He was elected governor
and then paved the way for
the Republican Party taking
over the state legislature
last year. He turned me from
a minority leader into a
majority leader and I love
it!”
Perdue thanked those who
joined him at Saturday’s
event.
“This is all about making
Georgia a better place for us
all,” the governor said.
“This is what politics should
be all about. Eyeball to eye
ball and handshake to hand
shake.”
Perdue then introduced
the really popular member
See FISH FRY, page 3A
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