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TUESDAY May 2, 2006 VOLUME 136, NUMBER 85 FRONT PORCH INSIDE Golden panthers e Fal 'xv‘,hw"‘ l'; ; oy!a J'\}k . b fiw'& 2 ik ) AT B The Perry High School Class of 1956 held its 50th reunion over the weekend. ~ Page 2A Keeping track of track W Warner Robins' track and field team rallied on the second day of competition to repeat as Region 3- AAAA champions. Things didn't go quite as well for Westfield's track and field team at the state competition. In other sports, Northside fell to Westside in a mini-game that determined playoft seeding and the Bears rolled past Colquitt County. INBRIEF National Day of Prayer Thursday B First Baptist Church at 1135 Watson Blvd., will join the nation in honoring the 55 Annual National Day of Thursday beginning at 11:45 a.m. The public is invited to join the congregation in the fellowship hall and hear Dr. Kelly Pritchett, Jr., who will bring the message. Lunch will be served by the National Prayer Warriors and the Joy Class. For lunch reservations, call First Baptist Church at 922-8152 by today. Arts in the Village The Houston Arts Alliance will present the Sixth Annual Arts in the Village from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday. The event is free and ven dors will sell picnic fare or guests are invited to have lunch at the Langston House Restaurant. Music will be provided from school bands. Art supplies and instruction by artists in visual art forms such as painting, drawing, quilting, pottery, face paint ing, porcelain doll making, Japanese flower arranging and much more provided at no cost. For more infor mation call the Houston Arts Alliance at (478) 218-5229. BIRTHDAYS B Livonia Howard B Evora McGuire M Bobbe Richardson B Julia Wattts Having a birthday or anniversa ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987- 1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at cperkins@evansnewspapers.com. DEATHS M Frank F. Casey B Ruby Jean Palmer B Floyd V. “Flip” Walker INDEX R .. 20 WEAIHNER ........3A BEION .. ...... 4A M 0UE.........5A R ... 1B BOMICS . {....... 48 CLASSIFIEDS .... 5B PERIODICAL Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest ww 5 “ ~ O O X 35 w = < oo @ © =3 EE §u a® '"Esé QY §< = =507 o !':;a:c-'-.; €D af=s May 2, 2006 IS ERVING HOoUSTON COUNTY AYAY 75 Al By CHARLOTTE PERKINS HHJ Assistant Editor At the close of primary qualifying on Friday one thing was clear. The race is on, and even those incum bents who win their parties’ nominations on July 18 with ease will still face tough challenges in November’s election. Houston County’s native son Gov. Sonny Perdue has only one opponent on the Republican Primary bal lot: a political newcomer, 28-year-old Ray Mcßerry of Norcross. On the Democratic ballot for governor, voters will be choosing between two politi cal names to be reckoned with, Secretary of State Cathy Cox, and Lt. Governor Mark Taylor. Also running for the Democratic nomina tion are Bill Bolton from Marietta, and Mac McCarley of Stockbridge McCarley, 78, lists himself as retired. Bolton is a 58-year-old man agement consultant. The race for Lt. Governor of Georgia promises to be unpredictable until the end. Republicans Casey Cagle of Oakwood and Ralph Reed of Duluth have both been cam paigning for months already. Democrats Greg K. Hecht of Jonesboro and Jim Martin of Atlanta also announced early, and are now joined on the ballot by Griffin Lotson of Darien, Steen Miles of Decatur, and Rufus O. Terrill of Atlanta. U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, a Macon Democrat who rep resents Houston County as part of the Bth District, has no competition in the pri mary. Former Congressman Mac Collins is squaring off against Deputy Sheriff James Neal Harris of Gray in the Republican Primary. WR sex offender ordinance meeting on Thursday By RAY LIGHTNER HHJ Staff Writer Warner Robins will host a town hall meeting Thursday to explain its proposed sex offender ordinance. The meeting is set to begin at 5 p.m. at Warner Robins City Hall in council chambers. The city council will not take action on the ordinance until after the pub lic forum. City Councilman Dean Cowart explained, “Sgt. 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The semiannual event draws artisans from Florida to Maine. until we have a public hearing to explain the proposed changes.” Giles, with the Investigations Division, will not be able to the Thursday meeting as she is in class that day and was not consulted on a meeting date. Cowart said he’s ask the Sheriff for a representative at meeting. Cowart proposed the ordinance, which would prohibit the residence of a registered sex offender from being within 1,500 feet from schools, child, care facilities or any places found at _his reside_nce, 125 Hodge Road, and arrested without incident. According to Houston County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Sgt. Joe Sendek, the victims, Irma Winslow, 62, and her daughter, Allida Wallace, 32, were transported to the Macon Medical Center. Sendek said Wallace was released where minors congregate. State law is 1,000 feet and Cowart had ini tially proposed 2,500 feet. The ordinance defines a childcare facility as any public or private pre kindergarten, day care center or preschool facility. School is defined as all public or private kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools. Areas where minors congregate includes all public and private parks and recreation facilities, play grounds, skating rinks, neighbor hood centers, ggymnasiums and simi- WEST Gonfederates rememhered By KIMBERLY CASSEL PRITCHETT HHJ Contributing Writer Gunshots could be heard in a quiet area on Stevens Street in Warner Robins Friday evening, but it wasn’t a current act of violence that drew the shots. These shots were fired as part of a memo rial service honoring four Confederate veterans of the War Between The States. A crowd of more than two dozen gathered amid a tiny cemetery on Stevens Street for the Sons of Confederate Veterans Lieutenant James T. Woodward Camp 1399 Annual Memorial Service honoring Sgt. James G. Bason, Co. G 62nd Ga. Cavalry; Pvt. John W. Bason, Co. G 62nd Ga. Cavalry; 2nd Lieutenant W.L. Burgay, Co. K 11th Ga. Infantry; and Pvt. Joseph S. Vinson, Co. C 6th Ga. Infantry, the four known Confederate soldiers AN'EVANS FAmiy NE W-'.S‘R»\‘l"li‘Rl 8'551(!)0031'E4 TWO SECTIONS * 12 LR 3 p.m. Sunday and as of Monday, Winslow remains in the intensive care unit in stable condition. Sendek said West has lived there his entire life and knew the victims. “Apparently,” Sendek said, “because of his lack of education he didn’t know how to read or write Allida did his checking for him.” Sendek is in charge of the investiga tion. Sgt. Dave Carrick and Sgt. C. White, also of the Houston County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, are analyzing the evidence collected. lar facilities providing programs or serviced aimed at persons under age 18. The distance is measured from the outer boundary of the property of the residence to the outer bound ary of the property of the school or facility or area where minors con gregate. Gov. Sonny Perdue recently signed legislation strengthening Georgia’s laws protecting children from sex ual predators (HB1059), which See ORDINANCE, page 5A buried there. Re-enactors from the 10th Ga. Volunteer Infantry and the 16th Ga. Volunteer Infantry, dressed com pletely in traditional Civil War attire, assisted in the ceremony. The color guard raised and lowered the sec ond. national Confederate flag, also known as “The Stainless Banner,” which was used from May 1, 1863, through March 4, 1865. In addition, the re-enactors also presented a three-volley rifle salute, which drew sev eral curious onlookers. “We take justifiable pride in our Confederate forebear ers men and women who sacrificed their lives and all of their worldly posses sions,” said Commander Chris K. Pritchett of SCV James T. Woodward Camp 1399. “They made these sac rifices not for themselves but See MEMORIAL, page 5A