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TUESDAY
March 28, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 60
Award-Winning
Newspaper
2004
Better Newspaper
Contest
In BRIEF
Perry Fipe
Department
investigation
continues
Perry Public Safety
Director George Potter
said Monday an inter
nal investigation of the
city’s fire department is
still being finalized.
Potter said results of
the investigation will be
open to the public, once
his office has completed
paperwork.
The investigation was
launched more than a
week ago after a tele
phone complaint from
outside the department
stemming from an inci
dent at the department’s
citizens fire academy.
More complaints of
misconduct were lodged
from within the depart
ment in the days since
the investigation began,
according to Potter.
Potter did not reveal
Monday how many fire
fighters were involved
in the investigation,
but said last week that
at least one lieutenant
was under investigation.
Potter also said last week
that no criminal miscon
duct was involved.
Potter was named pub
lic safety director after
Perry’s former fire chief,
Freddy Howell, resigned
amid allegations that he
violated city policy.
- Mike George
BIRTHDAYS
Having a birthday or anniver
sary? We’ll put it right here.
Call Charlotte Perkins at (472)
987-1823, ext. 234, or e-mail
cperkins@evansnewspapers.
com.
Area DEATHS
Ruby W. Overton
June Grier Walker
See OBITS, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 9A
CLUB NEWS 2A
COMICS 8A
CROSSWORD.... 8A
SPORTS 7 A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. 3A
TV LISTINGS 8A
WEATHER 2A
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Undsey Elementary School in Warner Robins held its field day Friday. With TVs “Survivor show” as a theme, students competed
for ribbons in everything from tug-of-war, above) to a Styrofoam fish relay to a Tootsie roll chew as part of the event’s activities.
See page 3A for more pictures.
Change on the table
for massive yard sale
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Changes could be on the
way for the Peaches to the
Beaches yard sale, an annu
al event that has attracted
thousands to Perry in the
last two years, according to
a local tourism official.
Sheila Jones, executive
director of the Perry Area
Convention and Visitors
Bureau, said 2,000-3,000
people visited Perry over
the weekend of March 10-
12. Despite continuing rain
throughout the day on March
10, Jones said 500-800 peo
ple visited Perry that day.
This year, Peaches to the
Beaches stretched some 172
miles along the Golden Isles
Parkway, or U.S. Highway
341.
But only two cities
along the route, Perry and
Hazlehurst, hosted yard
sales on Sunday, March 12,
and Jones said few vendors
participated that day.
Bonaire writer makes debut with mystery
‘Mom Zone’ series features an Air Force wife with a talent for detection
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Sara Rosett of Bonaire is an Air Force wife, and mother of two,
whose mystery, “Moving is Murder” will hit bookstore shelves
across the country on April 1.
Tug-of-war and bunny hopping
Jones said the Golden
Isles Parkway Association,
which organized Peaches to
the Beaches, may scrap their
Sunday yard sales next year,
trimming the event to two
days, Friday and Saturday.
Jones said, however, that the
group has not made. that
decision yet.
The Golden Isles Parkway
Association is a membership
organization that represents
Chambers of Commerce,
Convention & Visitors
Bureaus and other organi
zations in towns and cities
along and near the Golden
Isles Parkway, US Highway
341 between 1-75 at Perry
and 1-95 at Brunswick.
Participating communities
include Perry, Hawkinsville,
Cochran, Eastman,
Helena, Mcßae, Lumber
City, Hazlehurst, Graham,
Baxley, Surrency, Odum,
Screven, Jesup, Brunswick,
St. Simons Island and Jekyll
See BEACHES, page 10A
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Bill Roy of Warner Robins, speaks at the Disabled Veterans
of America conference held in Perry on Saturday. Roy, who
served in both the Air Force and the Navy asked U.S. Rep.
Phii Gingrey to support bills pending in the U.S. Congress to
improve benefits for veterans.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ News Editor
Imagine you’re an Air
Force wife, moving one more
time - this time with a new
baby in tow.
Imagine that it’s a 99
degree day. The tempera
ture inside is like a “heated
oven,” and outside it’s “like
the fringe of a campfire.”
Why, oh why, did the real
tor who sold you a house
without air-conditioning,
say that nobody needs air
conditioning in Washington
state?
And why were you think
ing that living in a quiet
older residential area would
give you a little space of
your own away from mili
tary life, when it’s actually
the very neighborhood that
your husband’s buddies
from 52nd Air Refueling
Squadron jokingly call Base
Housing East.
The Air Force crowd is
already dropping by, you’re
already being asked to the
“Spouse Coffee,” and you’ve
got a hungry baby and a few
thousand pounds of house
hold goods still in boxes.
That’s how Elbe Avery,
Speaking up
Meet Sara Rosett
Sara Rosett’s “Moving is
Murder” will be released Saturday
at all major bookstores, and is
available from Amazon.com and
other online booksellers. It is $22
in hardcover.
To learn more about Sara Rosett
and her “Mom Zone” series, go to
www.Saraßosett.com.
Rosett will be signing her books
and talking with readers at three
upcoming events:
• Saturday, 3-5 p.m. Signing
at Barnes & Nobie (Macon). 265
Tom Hill Sr. Blvd, Macon. (478)
757-2216
• Monday, April 3,7 p.m. Talk
and Signing. “Breaking Into Print:
10 Tips on How to Get Your First
Book Published” at Nola Brantley
Library, 721 Watson Blvd, Warner
Robins. (478) 923-0128.
• Tuesday, April 4, 2 p.m.
Presentation at Robins AFB
Library, “Mysteries, Moving, and
Murder." Robins AFB (478) 327-
7382.
the newest amateur sleuth
in mystery fiction, makes
her debut: frustrated, with
her hair damp with sweat,
and baby Olivia howling to
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Gunfire
breaks
up Perry
party
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
A block party along
Gaines Drive in Perry ended
in the arrest of a Warner
Robins man Sunday, after
the suspect allegedly fired
a pistol at another party-
goer.
Michael
Jermaine
Turner,
23, 114
Dudley
Street,
Warner
Robins,
faces
charges
of aggra
vat e d
assault, battery, and pub
lic drunkenness; as well as
a charge for allegedly pro
viding false information to
police.
Shortly after 6 p.m.
Sunday, Perry police were
called to the Westwood
Trailer Park in the 1100
block of Gaines Drive.
According to Capt. Bill
Phelps with the Perry
Police Department, some
300-500 people had gath
ered in the trailer park
for an unauthorized party
Sunday night. Phelps said
Turner had been arguing
with another man, Arthur
Watkins, producing a pis
tol and firing a single shot
at Watkins. According to
Phelps, Watkins was not
hit, but was taken to the
Perry Hospital and treat
ed for a cut to the face
after another fight with
party-goers. During the
course of their investiga
tion, police allegedly dis
covered that Turner had
been publicly intoxicated.
Turner was interrogated
by police Monday morning
and taken to the Houston
County Detention Center.
Phelps said a city ordi
nance requires pre-approv
al for large public gath
erings and parties. The
ordinance also requires
See SHOOTING, page 5A
be nursed and burped and
changed.
Also, even though she’s a
professional organizer, she’s
not feeling very organized at
all, and matters get worse
when the murder comes to
the neighborhood.
Elbe, a sleep-deprived
mom with a good natured
husband, countless diapers
to change and a Rottweiler
she never bargained for, is
the creation of Sara Rosett,
a young Air Force wife and
mother of two who lives in
Bonaire
Rosett, who lists Sue
Grafton, Carolyn Hart and
Dianne Mott Davidson
among her favorite mys
tery writers, has started her
writing career with a splash.
Her first book about Ellie
Avery, “Moving is Murder”,
published by Kensington
Press, will be on the book
store shelves this Saturday.
The lively, often funny,
mystery introduces a cast
of military couples with
an emphasis on the wives,
who range from chatty
to snooty, from environ
mentally-concerned to
See ROSSETT, page 10A
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