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FRIDAY
September 9, 2005
Volume 135, Number 185
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Sara Rosett. If you’re a
military wife, you’ll want
remember that name.
See Faith & Faith, page 6A
In BRIEF
New Hope
International Church of
God will be hosting a job
fair for displaced
Hurricane Katrina evac
uees on from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. today at 2440 Ga.
127 in Kathleen, 987-
7893.
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Jeff “Cowboy” Bloom
Ellie Loudermilk
Angie Moody
Heather Rainey
Lee Roberts
Kay Richards Smith
Beverly Sullivan
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Virgil and Martha Olson
Area DEATHS
Elizabeth Ann “Betty”
Carter
Katherine Garberson
Jason G. Jordan
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 9A
COMICS 8A
CROSSWORD ... .8A
FAMILY&FAITH .. .6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 10A
TV LISTINGS 8A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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Agencies open Katrina service center
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By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
In response to the local needs of evac
uees, the local Red Cross and several
Houston County agencies have joined
together to open a Service Center to
assist Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
This Service Center will allow
Houston County to deliver assistance
efficiently and effectively, explained
Catie Carchedi, executive director of
the Houston-Middle Georgia Chapter
of the American Red Cross.
The Service Center opened Thursday
at the Department of Family and
Children Services, 92 Cohen Walker
Drive.
“All evacuees needing assistance
should take advantage of what we hope
will be a ‘One-Stop Shop,’” Carchedi
said.
The agencies, including Department
of Family and Children Services, Public
Health, the Houston County Board of
Education, Houston Healthcare, the
Houston-Middle Georgia Chapter of
Trinity opens 'God's Mart 1 lor evacuees
WR church accepting donations
of items for next two weeks
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
“When I was naked, you
clothed me.”
We do not know how the
job was done exactly in
Biblical times, but nowadays
when you are providing
clothing for disaster victims
you apparently set up a
God’s Mart.
At least that is how the
good folks at Trinity
Methodist Church in
Warner Robins are handling
the problem of how to get
needed supplies to
Hurricane Katrina evacuees
relocating to the Middle
Georgia area.
They have filled their
Family Life Center with an
assortment of supplies and
opened the doors for hurri
cane victims to come in and
help themselves.
The gymnasium is lined
with clothes, stuffed ani
mals, bed linens, kitchen
items, toiletries, coats, back
packs, purses, towels, video
Lomax
awarded
Bronze
Star
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
Lt. Brian Lomax of the 78th
Security Forces Squadron was
awarded one of the military’s high
est honors in a ceremony Thursday
at Robins Air Force Base.
Lomax was presented with the
Bronze Star for heroic or meritori
ous service in connection with oper
ations against opposing armed
forces during Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
The citation accompanying
Lomax’s award read, in part,
“Lieutenant Brian E. Lomax distin
guished himself by meritorious
service as the Antiterrorism
Force/Protection Officer for the
Project Contracting Office (PCO),
United States Embassy, Baghdad,
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the American Red Cross, local church
es and others yet to be named are
working tpgether to fulfill multiple
needs of the evacuees through one
venue.
Red Cross Disaster Volunteer
Coordinator Elaine Daffron said before
Thursday, they had been processing
cases at the chapter house. She alone
had processed 104 cases or families as
of Thursday.
DFCS Director Darlene Leverette
said the evacuees can get food stamps,
Medicaid, TANF (Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families) through
DFCS. They will also get referrals to
the Department of Labor and the
Health Department, which are just up
the street.
Those agencies, along with the Board
of Education and Phoenix Center, will
provide information on public schools
and mental health needs.
Daffron said the Red Cross will
address immediate emergency needs -
See RED CROSS, page 3A
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John Weldon was at Trinity
United Methodist Church
on Wednesday to get
clothes for his family after
escaping New Orleans
before the hurricane
arrived.
games, books, school sup
plies, and just about every
thing else a displaced family
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Lt. Brian Lomax wears his Bronze Star proudly after his commander
Maj. James Seward presented the star at Thursday’s ceremony at
Robins Air Force Base.
from 19 September 2004, to 26
March 2005. During this period,
while exposed to extreme danger
from hostile mortar, rocket, and sui
cide attacks, Lt. Lomax was directly
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The Family Life Center at Trinity United Methodist Church has been turned into God’s
Mart, where people displaced by Hurricane Katrina can come and get clothes and
other needed supplies.
might need.
“All they have to do is
come and sign in and take
what they need,” said Maria
responsible for $5.2 million in secu
rity projects ion direct support of
Iraqi security operations. His efforts
resulted in the employment of over
See LOMAX, page 3A
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Red Cross volunteer Carol Clary interviews a hurricane evacuee at
the service center the Houston-Middle Georgia Chapter of the
American Red Cross has set up at the Department of Family and
Children Services, 92 Cohen Walker Drive in Warner Robins.
Trenam.
“We are accepting drops
offs starting at 8 a.m. each
day this week and on
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Saturday and Sunday for at
least the next two weeks.”
Trenam said the church is
See TRINITY, page 5A
Local GSAR
team at
work in
Louisiana
From staff reports
The highly specialized Central
Georgia Search and Rescue
(GSAR) Team arrived in Baton
Rouge late Tuesday to aid
Louisiana officials in their recov
ery from Hurricane Katrina.
The team will be deployed for
nine days.
“It is an opportunity to demon
strate our skills, and to do some
good to help our neighbors,” said
Houston County Fire Chief and
EMA Director Jimmy Williams.
The GSAR team is made up of
personnel from the Houston
County Fire Department; Macon-
Bibb County Fire Department,
Peach, Monroe, and Spalding
County fire departments; Forsyth,
Warner Robins, Perry, and Griffin
fire departments; the Medical
Center of Central Georgia; and
Houston Healthcare.
See GSAR, page 3A
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