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WEEKEND
March 25, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 59
Award-Winning
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Inside TODAY
HHJ Quiz
Can you name this trio?
See page 3A for the week
ly HHJ Quiz.
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Warner Robins’ Kyanne
Holland takes flight in
the long jump during
the Demons hosted track
meet - versus Houston
County and Southwest
- Thursday at McConnell-
Talbert Stadium.
See SPORTS, page 6A
Happy BIRTHDAY!
Leroy Bennett
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Area DEATHS
David William Barton
John Blue Calhoun 111
Dorothy "Dot" Murray
Jeanne Kay Voshel
Roberts
Ruby Annette Sanders
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INDEX
BUSINESS 6A
CLASSIFIED .... 10A
CLUB NEWS 2A
COMICS 9A
CROSSWORD.... 9A
HHJ QUIZ 5A
SPORTS 6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS . 12A
TV LISTINGS 9A
WEATHER 2A
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Delphians
serve tea
for charity
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ News Editor
When members of the Beltista
Club open their two-day annu
al Spring Home and Garden
Show next Saturday at the
Georgia National Fairgrounds,
members of a sister club, the
Delphians will be donning
their “Old Tea Shoppe” aprons
and getting ready to serve tea,
coffee and delectable desserts
to foot-weary shoppers.
The Delphian Club, which
will celebrate its 60th birthday
next year, is a Perry social fix
ture - a club that has donated
throughout the years to many
local charities and community
services, including the Perry
Volunteer Outreach, Perry
Players, the Perry Library,
Hospice, the Loaves and Fishes
food bank and many other good
works.
Marcilla Heath is chairing
the committee for The Old Tea
Shoppe, now in its second year,
and has Sandy Williams, Betty
See TEA, page 12A
Perry takes delivery of new fire truck
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Perry firefighters Kirk Crumpton, Ken Genthner, and Kelvin Ross, left to right, show off the Perry
Fire Department’s new fire truck Wednesday. Built in South Dakota and detailed in Alabama, the
truck cost more than $250,000, and will be financed through a loan from the Georgia Municipal
Association.
City deal will move billboards off Russell Parkway
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Developer John Thornton gets
his annexation and sewer service
and the city of Warner Robins gets
four of his billboards off Russell
Parkway within a year’s time, by
April 7, 2007.
At a special called meeting
Thursday night, the city voted 6-1 to
annex the 88.6 acres along Russell
Parkway at Interstate 75 in Peach
County. Councilman Dean Cowart
was the lone dissenting vote.
Cowart objected over concern
about the lack of a required coun
cil vote to approve a six-month
extension, if the billboard cannot
be relocated, or the city denies an
application to relocate.
The council voted unanimously
to rezone the property to city con
ditional C-2 (general commercial).
The conditions have to do with
permitting the five billboards along
the interstate to stay, for the four,
which will be relocated, and the
one, which can stay until 2011.
“Myself and Mr. Thornton nego
tiated this agreement,” Mayor
Donald Walker said. “We bounced
it off each other, back and forth.
There is no more than 18 months
conditional rezoning.”
Thornton said he was “very
pleased we got it approved. I feel
pretty good about the compro
mise.”
The billboard will be relocated,
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Members of the Delphian Club in Perry are, from left, first row, Marciiia heath, Carolyn Ethridge, Vicki Malone, Judy McKee,
Jean Sazon, Corky Gauger; second row: Sheila Gentry, Norma Cheek, Carolyn Schultz, Margaret Watson; third row, Kay Rowell,
Joanne Solomon, Margaret Taiton, Alice Gilbert, Betty Dawkins, Shelby Hubbard, Ann Slade. Not present for the photo were Bev
Abney, Joan Allison, Kay Gale, Connette Gayle, Elizabeth Hill and Sandy Williams.
at Thornton’s expense, to locations
within the city that are more appro
priate, Walker said.
Potential locations are Ignico
Drive at Ga. 247, on Ga. 96 at
Galaxy Spirits, on the eastside of
Carl Vinson Parkway by the Honda
motorcycle dealership, and west of
Houston Lake road along Watson
Boulevard east of U.S. 41.
Thornton emphasized the loca
tions have not been finalized, as he
is still in negotiation with Galaxy
Spirits. He also said the purchaser
as well as the sing company and
Thornton Realty will be chipping in
on the cost of relocation the signs.
“They will be buying out the
contract on one sign immediately,”
he said and explained the one sign
allowed to remain had no buy back
provision.
There was also a unanimous vote
to amend the city’s sign control
ordinance, permitting a variance
“in the best interest of the city to
provide for the relocation of non
conforming signs existing or per
mitted to exist on property subse
quently annexed in to the corporate
limits of the city.”
City Attorney Jin Elliott said it
gives the city more flexibility to
grant variances to some locations.
Stipulations arise when we annex.”
Walker said, “this is for one spe
cific issue only.”
Thornton’s plans a commercial
development for the area. ‘This is a
Home Depot backs
out of Porry deal
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
City have confirmed that Home Depot
has dropped plans to build a new location along St.
Patricks Drive in Perry.
Perry Community Planner Mike Beecham con
firmed Friday afternoon that the home improvement
chain has decided to abandon the project. A deal
for 12 acres along St. Patricks was set to be final
ized April 14. Public discussion of the project first
emerged during a meeting of the Perry Planning
Commission in late July, and in the months since,
the city had approved designs for the project; had
agreed to plans to extend a 12” water main to the
site that would have eventually cost the city an esti
mated $96,933; and plans were already on the table
for more than $280,000 in road improvements along
St. Patricks Drive. A major effort was also underway
to extend St. Patricks to the Perry Parkway, and the
city council had voted Tuesday to include the project
in a list of the city’s long-range plans.
According to a source close to the land deal, the
company decided to look at other markets outside of
Houston County.
Throughout discussions of the project, representa
tives from Home Depot would not confirm that the
new store was headed to Perry.
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Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker shows Counci/men John Harvilla the loca
tion of the billboards on a map as Clifford Homes and Steve Smith listen
big deal for us,” he said. It will be
a big deal for Warner Robins. It’s a
major development.
He also has four billboards along
U.S. 41, which are not subject to
the overlay district along Russell
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Parkway. He said the intersection
of Russell Parkway and U.S. 41 will
look like Houston Lake Road and
Watson Boulevard in Centerville.
It’s a major intersection.”
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