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Tuesday
April 25, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 80
OUR
FRONT
PORCH
WHERE NEIGHBORS MEET
INSIDE
“I thought I saw a puty-tat”
■ And so did students at Lindsey
Elementary School.
- Page 5A
Bears win Region 1-AAAAA
■ Houston County's soccer team
flaunted its mighty defense once
more - beat Valdosta to finish the
regular season in Region 1-AAAAA
perfect at 10-0.
- Page 1B
Westfield on a roll
■ The Hornets knocked off their
fourth straight opponent to enter the
state playoffs as one of the hottest
teams in baseball.
- Page 1B
IN BRIEF
High schools prep for proms
Houston County public high
schools will hold their proms
Saturday. The locations and times
for each high school are provided
below:
Houston County High
✓ 8 p.m. until 11:30 p.m.
/ Georgia National Fairgrounds,
McGill Marketplace
/ Theme: Underneath the Stars
Northside High School
/ 7:30 p.m.
✓ Wellston Center
/ Theme: Red Carpet Romance
Perry High School
/8 p.m. until 11 p.m.
/ Georgia National Fairgrounds,
Miller-Murphy-Howard Building
✓ Theme: Hollywood Nights
Warner Robins High School
/ 8 p.m. until 11 p.m.
/ Georgia National Fairgrounds
/ Georgia Living Center
BIRTHDAYS
Sunday
■ Bill Maitland
Today
■ Hattie Haslam
■ Trudie Warren
■ Todd Minter
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkins@evansnewspapers.com.
DEATHS
■ Adolf Brandt, Jr.
■ Waunelle Pittman Mackie
INDEX
WEATHER 2 A
LOCAL 3 A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
COMICS 5 B
CLASSIFIEDS .... 6 B
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Medicare D too complicated?
Library to hold tree enrollment event
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Assistant Editor
Many retirees haven’t got
ten around to signing up
for the new Medicare Part
D plan simply because it’s
all gotten too complicated;
with mailings from compet
ing providers, too much con
flicting information and too
many details to sort out.
Hang in there. Help’s com
ing in the form of a team of
well-trained volunteers, who
won’t just help you sort it
out and pick the best pro
vider. They’ll enroll you on
the spot for your prescrip
tion benefits.
The Middle Georgia AAA
and the AARP Warner
Robins Chapter are hosting
a Medicare Part D enroll
ment event from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m., Friday, at the Perry
Library, 1201 Washington
St.
They’ll have computers set
up and volunteers ready to
help senior citizens under
stand their options, chose
a provider and get enrolled
before the May 15 deadline.
Why is the May 15 dead
line so important?
It’s a matter of saving
Morning fire
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An unidentified neighbor pulls a fire hose into the doorway of a burning home on Bluebird
Lane near Lake Joy Road Monday morning, as a Houston County firefighter positions a
fan on the front porch. Although the home belongs to Lt. Bruce Ham with the Perry
Police Department, no one was inside at the time the fire began sometime around 10
a.m. Monday morning. Houston County firefighters, sheriff’s deputies, and Perry police
responded to the scene. The unidentified neighbor was treated for a minor leg injury. A
special fund has been set up in Ham’s name at CB&T Bank. Checks should be out to the
PVO-Bruce Ham Fund.
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Pharmacist Hubert Bennett locates medication to fill a prescription at Perry Drug
Company.
money and getting the ben
efits on time. If you don’t
sign up by May 15, you will
not be able to sign up until
Nov. 15, and your premi
ums may be higher. Also,
there’s a penalty involved.
If you’re qualified now, but
don’t sign up by the dead
line an additional 1 per
cent will be added to your
See EVENT, page 6 A
Local firefighters
plan, fund-raiser
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Perry firefighters are
bringing out the boot for
Georgia’s burn victims.
The Perry Fire
Department will be collect
ing May 4-6 outside Ace
Hardware on Sam Nunn
Boulevard. Firefighters are
also working to secure per
mission from Kroger and
Wal-Mart to collect dona
tions outside their stores
in Perry.
Perry firefighter Kelvin
Ross and department sec
retary Nikki Dorough
helped organize this year’s
fund-raiser.
Last year, the department
raised more than SI,OOO for
the Georgia Firefighters
Burn Foundation, an orga
nization designed to edu
cate the public about the
realities of burns, and how
to prevent them.
The foundation sponsors
Camp 00-U-La, a summer
camp for young burn vic
tims at the Rock Eagle 4-H
Center in Eatonton.
Last summer, Ross
worked as a counselor at
the camp, helping burn
victims recover from the
emotional scars that linger
long after a fire.
He plans to return for
this year’s camp May 27-
June 3.
“Just seeing the looks in
their faces, the smiles, it
helped me as much as it
helped them,” Ross said.
Camp-00-U-La, which
comes from the Cherokee
words for cool running
water, is also known as
“Camp Cool.”
The department’s upcom
ing May fund-raiser is part
of statewide fund raising
drive.
Firefighters will be col-
'Just seeing the looks in their faces,
the smiles, it helped me as much as it
helped them/
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6-yean-old boy
electrocuted
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer r
The Houston County
Sheriffs Office Juvenile
Division is investigating
the electrocution of a 6-
year-old boy Sunday at
Tanner Field.
According to Warner
Robins Police, the boy
reportedly placed a metal
object into a power sup
ply box on the rear of
the field house and was
electrocuted.
The boy was taken to
Houston Medical Center
where his injuries were
stabilized.
The boy was then trans
ported to the Augusta
Burn Center by Lifeflight
Air Ambulance.
Sgt. Charlie Ward of the
Houston County Sheriffs
Office Juvenile Division
spoke with the boy’s
mother Monday morning
and said the boy is “doing
fine.”
“He’s had surgery to
correct the tissue on his
arm,” Ward said. “I don’t
know how long he’ll be
there, but he’s doing
fine.”
See BOY, page 6 A
AT A
GLANCE
What: Perry Fire
Department boot
drive
When: May 4-6
Where: Ace
Hardware on
Sam Nunn Blvd.,
and tentatively
other locations
Boulevard. Firefighters
will also be collecting from
2-6 p.m. Saturday.
“Our eventual goal is
to eventually become the
biggest supporter of the
Georgia Firefighters Burn
Foundation in the state,”
Dorough said.
The department is also
planning to begin collect
ing aluminum cans in
Houston County schools
before the end of the school
year. Dorough said that
Ace Hardware, working
with Rubbermaid, donated
50 red trash cans to the
department.
“We hope the kids will
remember to dump their
soda cans in the red trash
cans,” she said.
“We’re also looking for
donations of rubber trash
cans if we can get them,
the 33-gallon type.”
Firefighters plan to
donate the aluminum
cans to the foundation,
which in turn sells them to
raise money for the sum
mer camp and for medical
expenses and educational
materials.
Dorough said some 10
percent of what the depart
ment collects in dona
tions will come back to
Perry in fire safety edu
cational materials like
See FIREFIGHTERS, page 6A
lect i n g
donations
from 9-12
a.m. and
3-6 p.m.
Thursday
and
Friday
outside
Perry’s
Ace
Hardware
on Sam
Nunn