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FRIDAY
May 5, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 88
FRONT
PORCH
Rocket people
B A group of Wamer Robins stu
dents attempt to launch their way
to a share of a $60,000 prize in a
national rocketry competition
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Award winners
W Warner Robins Air Logistics
Center named winners of the 2006
Franz Edelman award for its work
with C-5 maintenance.
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player battle for posse
sion of the ball during
the Bears’ 2-0 loss in the
GHSA Class AAAAA state
tournament.
Coming up short :
M East Coweta tops Houston
County, eliminating the Bears from
the GHSA Class AAAAA girls soccer
tournament.
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IN BRIEF
Lights and music
B Robins Elementary School and the
Air Force Reserve Generation Band
will present, “We Love America,” a
patriotic tribute to the Armed Forces
on May 12 at 7 p.m. at the Robins
AFB Mueseum of Aviation. The event
is open to the public.
BIRTHDAYS
Saturday
M Norman Taylor
B Molly Weston
M Theresa W. Bondurant
W Gary Maggard
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkins@evansnewspapers.com.
DEATHS
M William Durham
M Reuben “Hap" Henderson Jr.
M Grace Elaine Kinkade
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HCDA site to help
New Web page offers treasure trove of facts, statistics
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The Houston County
Development Authority is
hoping to make a splash this
year, unveiling an updated
version of their Web site
Wednesday designed to
become a “one-stop shop” for
luring business and industry
to the area.
The site’s unveiling was
the focus of the development
authority’s monthly meet
ing Wednesday morning.
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Stephanie Brown (second from left), a GIS specialist for the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service
Agency, teaches several students carrying GIS backpacks outside the Houston County Government Building on Main
Street in Perry how to use global-positioning technology. Farm service agents from across the state were in Houston
County for a two-day seminar to learn how GPS technology allows agents to map farmers’ fields and helps to prevent
insurance fraud.
Yates gets neighborly with library friends
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Pam Yates turned her love
of books into more than just
a hobby, forming a boost
er group that has brought
thousands of dollars back to
Houston County libraries.
Yates, the president of the
Houston County Friends of
the Library, was instrumen
tal in organizing this week
end’s book sale at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds &
Agricenter in Perry.
Yates said last year’s old
book sale brought in roughly
$12,000 after expenses for
new books and materials at
the three library branches in
Houston County.
Yates, a paralegal for the
law firm of James, Bates,
Pope & Spivey in Macon,
has seen the group grow to
nearly 130 members, and
expects to top that number
this year. But Yates’ own
association with the group
began simply.
Houston County’s librar
ies have had supporters in
the past, but Yates said most
of these groups eventually
disbanded due to lack of
participation. In late 2004, ¢
Yates was browsing in the
Centerville branch when she
noticed a sign searching for
library supporters willing to
help form the Friends of the
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division of Atlanta-based Cox
Communications, Inc. Maria
Garnto, project manager for
the development authority,
said she spent nearly four
months working with the
company on the website.
It offers a variety of infor
mation for business and
industry, but may quickly
become a valuable resource
for new homeowners, entre
preneurs and even travel
ers.
“Our previous website
was simply not capable of
meeting the office’s needs,”
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“I just love books, and
there was a little sign in
the library asking anyone
who was interested in reor
ganizing the friends,” Yates
said. “I went to a seminar in
Tifton to help organize the
group. Glenda Thompson,
the librarian at Centerville,
and Marsha Christy, the
librarian at Nola Brantley
(in Warner Robins), were
there with me.
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ward we started setting the
group up and setting our
by-laws.”
A native of Dayton, Ohio,
Yates has lived in Georgia for
roughly 15 years. In 1971,
she graduated from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio,
with a bachelor’s in history,
hoping to move into a career
inresearch. She taught junior
and high school before earn
ing her paralegal certificate
from the National Center
for Paralegal Training in
Atlanta.
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said Morgan Law, executive
director of the HCDA in a
press release. “Our primary
focus at the authority is to
assist existing industry in
growing their business and
to recruit new operations to
Houston County.
“Due to the county’s explo
sive growth - and since up to
85 percent of site searches
begin on the Internet - it
quickly became imperative
for us to have a site with
easily accessible, verifiable
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of the Library, stands in front of cardboard cutouts of
Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne. The cutours were
used to promote the Friends of the Library's second book
sale at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter.
The sale will continue through Saturday.
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HHJ Contributing Writer
As of Saturday, drivers
down Houston Lake Road
may notice a lot more police
cars than usual parked at the
Cengerville Police Station.
Centerville Council mem
ber voted Tuesday to sus
pend the practice of employ
ees taking police department
vehicles home.
Employees who are gener
ally on call, including the
police chief and his assis
tant, are exempt from the
policy, according to coucil
man Cameron Andrews.
Due to the rising cost of
fuel, the police department
had already depleted it fuel
budget as of April 1, accord
ing to Andrews, and the
city’s fiscal year does not
end until June 30.
“I don’t foresee a change
in this policy in the near
future,” he added.
However, to help offset the
deficit, City Administrator
Patrick Eidson said that he is
anticipating additional fran
chise fees to come in to the
city; consequently, he plans
to put those monies toward
the police department fees,
so the city will not have to
“dip into the reserve.”
In addition, the council
heard the first reading of
an ordinance regarding a
revision of the false alarm
policy. The revision, accord
ing to city attorney Rebecca
Tydings, is to not be punitive
but to “encourage local busi
nesses to work with their
alarm companies to reduce
or prevent repetitive errone
ous alarm calls.”
The revised section states
that:
The owners of the alarm
system that has a false
alarm is required to sub
mit a written report to the
police department “giving
full details of the reasons
behind the erroneous (false
alarm).”
After the first two false
alarms in a month, a busi
ness or residence will be
fined SSO for each addition
al false alarm during that
month.
A notice of the sums due
will be delivered in writing
to the owner or operator of
the alarm system and will
be due within 30 days of the
date of assessment.
~ Business license renewal
applications may be denied
until all monies due are paid
in full.
~ See CARS, page 6A