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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 PERIODICAL liiliilfimllii|| iail ,i l ||| l|| || ||| || ||||| | | || |a| || 4 Georgia Newspaper Project Main Library UNiV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 March 28, 2006 S/;rvi\(, Hoi sio\ Covm v Si\( /: IS7O (77Ti ‘Mmx&tan JMmiu' if (LLije LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville j (m IBfc §aj& jUsf * .-,, *•- ... -■ $ - #* >"Fwi - . ——i <t— sßfeb 7 .-.' HHJ Don Moncrief 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 m®' . ■ JET iSßfr r, - Hfe • r-' x ; . •.». -w submitted 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 www.hhjnews.com ,mL -M, J •. J&J®. I . i &“ ?' ' M'S HHJ/ Charlotte Perkins 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 ONE SECTION • 10 PAGES 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 —----- 500 111111111 8 "*55108*00001*" 4 w TURNER