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Volume 135, Number 170
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Joanna, you've got
some friends!
On Wednesday the back
room of Sonny’s Real Pit
Bar-B-Q in Warner
Robins was a marvel of
logistics, with volunteers
passing trays.
Family&Faith, page 8A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Debbie Bennett
Marah Hutcheson
Emily Montgomery
Van Sexton
Jackie Phillips Thames
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Dennis and Donna Ellis
Area DEATHS
None were reported for
this edition.
CLASSIFIED 13A
CLUB NEWS 6A
COMICS 12A
CROSSWORD .. 12A
FAMILY&FAITH . . .8A
NASCAR 10A
OPINION 4A
POLICE BEAT ... .5A
SPORTS 11A
TV LISTINGS 12A
WEATHER 2A
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
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PVO Administrator Frank Shelton holds the Community Development Block Grant application for Grace Village, a
proposed shelter for homeless women and their children. The project won federal support in the form of a
$500,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Shelter project wins HUD grant
Federal funds kickstart effort to create haven for homeless women
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A local charity’s plans to build a
shelter for homeless women has won
mqjor support.
Gov. Sonny Perdue announced
Wednesday that Georgia was awarded
more than S4O million in federal
Honorary Commanders Program uniting the base and community
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The sth Combat
Communications Group of
the 78th Air Base Wing at
Robins Air Force Base held
its First Annual Honorary
Commanders Program at
Friendship Park on base
Thursday morning.
The sth CCG inducted six
local business leaders into
the group as honorary com
manders for a day, to foster
an exchange of ideas, experi
ences and friendship
between local business and
the Robins military commu
nity.
“The program provides a
unique opportunity for
members of the Middle
Georgia business communi
ty to shadow commanders of
several units on base,” said
sth CCG Commander Col.
John Lent. “The goal of the
program is to enhance base
community relations by pro
viding a hands-on educa
tional experience to commu
nity leaders with regard to
the diverse missions of
Robins.”
The six people inducted as
honorary commanders on
Thursday were: Megan
Smith, president of the
Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce; Tom Makin,
director of customer rela
tions for Cox
Communications; Kathy
Balleto of Golden Key
Realty; Brad Fink, owner of
the local Sonny’s Real Pit
Par-B-Q restaurants; Chuck
Shaheen of Purdue
Pharmaceuticals; and
Marian Nichols of Nichols
Cauley accounting firm.
“Each honorary com
mander will play a pivotal
role in forging better com
munication between the
base and the community,”
See sth CCG, page 14A
www.hhjnews.com
grants from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development,
including a $500,000 Community
Development Block Grant that’s
headed to Perry.
Wednesday’s announcement was
welcome news for city officials, who
are working jointly with Perry
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Volunteer Outreach, the Georgia
Department of Corrections, and the
local business community to build the
shelter on a 12-acre tract along U.S.
41 South. The city fifWtflpHW fbrthe
grant in April.
“We are excited about this grant,”
See SHELTER, page 14A
TWO SECTIONS • 42 PAGES
Museum
now
accredited
Recognition places
local attraction
among only a
handful in Ga.
From staff reports
The Museum of Aviation
Flight and Technology Center
has learned that it has been
awarded national accredita
tion by the American
Association of Museums
(AAM).
A release from the museum
states that it is the only U.S.
Air Force “field museum” to
hold such an honor. The
release stated that only eight
other aviation museums in
the nation that have met
AAM’s standards.
Of the nation’s nearly
16,000 museums, only 848 or
5 percent are accredited.
Among the other accredited
museums are the National
Air and Space Museum in
Washington, D.C., the
National Museum of the
United States Air Force at
Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio,
and, in Georgia, the High
Museum of Art and the
Fernbank Museum of
Natural History in Atlanta.
The Museum of Aviation is
one of only 14 museums of all
types accredited in Georgia.
“To say that I’m excited
about achieving accreditation
would be a gross understate-
See MUSEUM, page 14A
Four of the six local busi
ness leaders named
Honorary Commanders
Thursday by the 78th Air
Base Wing’s sth Combat
Communications Group
were able to attend the cer
emony. From left are Megan
Smith, president of the Perry
Area Chamber of
Commerce; Kathy Balleto of
Golden Key Realty; Brad
Fink, owner of the local
Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q;
and Chuck Shaheen of
Purdue Pharmaceuticals.
LEFT: Brad Fink, owner of
the local Sonny’s Real Pit
Bar-B-Q, is recognized as an
Honorary Commander of the
sth Combat
Communications Group
Thursday by Group
Commander Col. John Lent.
HHJ/Timothy Graham
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