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FRIDAY
March 17, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 53
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
In BRIEF
Today is last day
for advance voting
From staff reports
Today is the final day
for advance voting on
the Houston County
Commissioner’s $l3O
million special purpose
local option sales tax
(SPLOST).
Votes can be cast at the
Houston County Annex
on Carl Vinson Parkway
from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30
p.m. today, or at the
Board of Elections office
in the Houston County
Government Building
(the old downtown Perry
courthouse building) from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
There will be no advance
voting on Monday.
The county’s 28 polling
places will be open from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
The only issue on the
ballot is the SPLOST
question. Funds, if the
one percent sales tax is
approved, will go to a
variety of county and city
infrastructure and high
way projects.
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Currey Gayle
Trish Nelson
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or anni
versary is, and tve 'll put their names
in the paper that day. Just send
the name and date at least a week
in advance, and we ll do the rest
E-mail to hhj@evansnewspapers.
com, or mail them to us at the
address inside No phone calls,
please. Many happy returns!)
Happy ANNIVERSARY!
Cecil & Sara Colbert
(Surprise your friends! Let us
know when their birthday or anni
versary is, and we ll put their names
in the paper that day Just send
the name and date at least a week
in advance, and we’ll do the rest
E-mail to hhj@evansnewspapers.
com, or mail them to us at the
address inside. No phone calls,
please. Many happy returns!)
Area DEATHS
Ira G. Hobbs
INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED 11A
CLUB NEWS 2A
COMICS 10A
CROSSWORD... 10A
FAMILY&FAITH ... 6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. 3A
SPORTS 7A
TV LISTINGS.... 10A
WEATHER 2A
PERIODICAL
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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Master Gardeners Harry Barkley and Ed Lusk groom and prepare plants at NAM! Seeds of Hope Nursery in Warner Robins.
The Master Gardeners will participate in the Be/tista Spring Home and Garden Show, answering questions and showing Gold
Medal plants, as well as selling plants and a gardening journal.
Beltista Home and Garden Show offers more than ever
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Features Editor
Gardeners and home decorators
take note. The big two-day Beltista
Club Home and Garden Show is com
ing up soon, and it’s still growing.
Benefits go to a big bouquet of local
charities and causes. Buy a ticket,
pick up some plants or home and
garden accessories, and you’ll also
be helping battered women, boosting
the arts, supporting Perry Volunteer
Outreach, improving library services,
and lending a helping hand to hos
pice services and the local food bank,
Loaves and Fishes.
This year’s show is set for Saturday,
April 1 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and
Sunday, April 2, from noon until 5
p.m.
The show, which has grown steadily
since its beginnings 12 years ago at
the old armory building, is now held
See BELTISTA, page 9A
48th Brigade expected to return home as planned
From staff reports
Georgia National Guard
officials have confirmed that
there are no plans to delay
the homecoming of mem
bers of the 48th Brigade
Combat Team serving in
Iraq.
“The plan at this time
is to have all of the 4,200
members of the unit home
by the middle of May as
Oglethorpe entrepreneurs Goin' Postal in Perry
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Rob Jones and Julie Shell
were looking to bring some
thing new to Perry. With
ingenuity, and a little help,
they made their dreams of
starting a business together
become a reality.
Goin’ Postal Perry, a new
franchise in the Goin’ Postal
national chain of neighbor
hood shipping and postal
supply stores, opened its
doors in a shopping center
along Ball Street March 1.
Already an authorized
shipping outlet for DHL
Worldwide Express, Federal
Express, UPS, and offers
shipping through the United
States Postal Service, Goin’
Postal Perry also offers a
variety of shipping supplies,
and even greeting cards.
Jones is also offering help
with web page design, along
with an eßay online auction
service. If successful, the
two entrepreneurs plan to
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The Perry Beltista Club has a hardworking committee working on its big show on
April 1 and 2at the Georgia National Fairgrounds. From left, Susan Pierce, public
ity; Pat Buice, hospitality; Ruth McCown, show co-chair; Gaii Brown staging; Sally
Stanley, show chairman; Annette gentry, porters; Sue Lott, dub president; Gene/ie
Horne, treasurer, and Dottie Kis tier, dealers.
originally scheduled,”
said Major General Terry
Nesbitt, commander of the
Georgia Army National
Guard.
While exact dates of the
actual return have not
been released, Guard offi
cials have confirmed the
first departures from Iraq
will begin in mid-April and
extend through the middle
open new Goin’ Postal fran
chises, preferably in Warner
Robins.
“Houston County is really
booming,” Shell said. “With
Perry, you also have a small
town atmosphere in a com
munity that’s growing.”
Shell said the pair has
been working to open the
shop since November. While
scouring the Internet in
search of franchise exposi
tions and entrepreneur trade
shows, Jones discovered the
Goin’ Postal chain.
“It seemed like a perfect
fit,” he said. “We knew we
wanted to open a store that
offered something Perry
needed.”
While Shell plans to man
age the franchise full time,
Jones will work in the back
ground, maintaining a full
time job with an Oglethorpe
mail-order company that
sells children’s books.
A native of Central
See POSTAL, page 3A
of May.
News reports in recent
days indicated that some
units face the possibility
of extensions in Iraq. The
reports are being discount
ed by Georgia Guard offi
cials.
“The timing of the return
of all of our deployed
Soldiers depends on the
needs of the command
HHJ/Mike George
Rob Jones, left, and Julie Shell, who recently opened the new Goin’ Postal shop on Ball Street
in Perry, stopped for a picture Wednesday afternoon. The shop provides shipping through DHL
Worldwide Express, Federal Express, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service. Jones and Shell said
they started the shop with help from the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce and the University of
Georgia Small Business Development Center.
ers in Iraq,” said Nesbitt.
“But there is currently no
change anticipated involv
ing the 48th Brigade.”
Nesbitt added that
because aircraft sched
ules, the return flights
could be adjusted by sev
eral days, even at the last
minute. But he said this is
normal for large groups of
See 48th, page 9A
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MT takes
job with
21st CP
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A fixture of Macon media
has decided to accept a new
position as executive direc
tor of the 21st Century
Partnership, a group work
ing to fight for the future of
Robins Air Force Base.
Mary Therese Tebbe, a co
anchor on 13 WMAZ, Macon’s
CBS affiliate, has left the sta
tion to accept the new posi
tion.
“Mary Therese will direct
the accomplishment of the
partnership’s plan of work
that is centered on further
enhancing Robins’ multi-mis
sion capability by improving
and advocating our strengths,
correcting our weaknesses,
seizing known opportuni
ties, and mitigating known
threats,” said 21st Century
Partnership Chairman Eddie
Wiggins in a press release.
According to Wiggins, Mary
Therese will serve as the liai
son between Robins AFB and
the Middle Georgia communi
ty, responsible for represent
ing the partnership with vari
ous boards and committees
throughout the mid-state.
Mary Therese officially
began her work at the quar
terly meeting of the partner
ship Thursday. She replaces
Ron Carbon.
“I adore this commu
nity, and it’s clear I adore
Robins Air Force Base,”
Mary Therese said Thursday.
While she pointed out that
she still has much to learn,
Mary Therese said plans to
give “110 percent.”
An admitted “military
brat,” Mary Therese moved to
Warner Robins in 1981, when
her late father transferred to
Robins Air Force Base. After
graduating from Wesleyan
College with a degree in com
munication, Mary Therese
began her broadcasting
career in 1987. The Georgia
Association of Broadcasters
also named Mary Therese
“TV Personality of the Year”
for 2005. The long-standing
volunteer host and emcee
of the annual “Operation
Seasons Greetings” tour with
the Band of the Air Force
Reserve, Mary Therese has
logged more than 100,000
miles on trips to visit troops
and their families stationed
all over the world.
Mary Therese and
her husband, Jim, live
in Warner Robins.
See MT, page 9A