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WEDNESDAY
May 10, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 91
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INSIDE
Tees and track meets
B Warner Robins’ boys and
Northside's girls contended at
the state golf meet in Calhoun
on Monday while Houston
County’s and the Demonettes’
girls competed at the state
track and field meet over the
weekend.
~ Page 1B
No Mickey for BMS
B The Bonaire Middle School
eighth-grade chorus had its
planned trip to Orlando and
the Magic Kingdom come to a
screeching halt due to trans
portation problems.
- Page 2A
No barrel of monkeys
B Columnist Joe Sersey
laments the thriving rash of
orange traffic barrels in con
struction projects around the
area.
INBRIEF
PMS holds spaghetti dinner
B The Perry Middle School
Jazz Band is hosting its third
annual Spaghetti Dinner
and Jazz Concert on Friday
in the cafeteria. Plates will
be available beginning at 4
p.m. Music by the jazz band
and percussion ensem
ble will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
Dinners are $8.50 and include
chicken Parmesan, pasta,
salad, and tea from My
Father's Place.
To order tickets or for more
inforrmation, please either call
the school at 988-6285, or
e-mail Christy Parsons, band
director, at cparsons@hcbe.
net or Andy Hursey, assis
tant band director, at
ahursey@hcbe.net.
CORRECTION
Sharpless on paid leave
B An editing error incorrectly
said suspended Centerville
fire chief Larry Sharpless’
pay status is under review.
Sharpless is on administra
tive leave WITH pay pend
ing review of his employment
status.
BIRTHDAYS
B Ann Jones
B Nancy Granger
DEATHS
W Aciano “Ace” Lascano
M Vicki J. Stanescu
M Thomas Edward Watson
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CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE
Happy ending to HHJ proposal
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
After about 11 months
overseas, Spc. Andy Adkins
is building a new life, with a
new family, in Georgia.
Adkins, who proposed
to his wife, Jane, in a late
2005 edition of The Houston
Home Journal last year, was
reunited with his new family
April 19 when members of
the Georgia Army National
Guard’s 48th Brigade
returned to Fort Stewart.
Andy and Jane were mar
ried the next day under a
gazebo that sits near the
Liberty County Courthouse
in Hinesville.
The couple met online
while Adkins was still in
Kuwait, waiting for trans
port to Iraq. They met face
to-face in late July, and knew
almost instantly that they
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It’s not only flowers that come out in spring - but football teams as well. Most high schools around Houston
County, including Perry (above), began spring football workouts Monday.
GComprehensive plan details spark dehate
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Perry planners have
offered their opinions on
the development of a joint
comprehensive plan for
Houston County, designed
to become a 20-year road
map for future growth.
But debate has emerged
over how detailed the docu
ment will be.
Mandated by the state,
the plan will offer city and
county leaders suggestions
on how to shape develop
ment. As city limits contin
ue to grow, the plan will help
local leaders decide what
pieces of property should be
set aside for specific uses,
either commercial, indus
trial, or residential.
The same standards were
in place when the county
developed its last plan in
1990, drafted in 1991. But
Commissioner Jim Mehserle
pushed Monday night for
a more-detailed document,
not only offering sugges
tions for land use, but also
zoning density.
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Both Andy and Jane have
been married before, and
Jane has two children, Katie
and Tyler.
“Their love kept me going
every day I was in Iraq,”
Adkins said. ‘Just hearing
from them was enough.”
In Iraq, Adkins worked as
a systems mechanic on the
Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a
modern-day tank. He joined
the Georgia Army National
Guard after graduating from
Hawkinsville High School in
1998, and has served over
seas before.
In Iraq, Adkins was sta
tioned at Camp Liberty,
near Baghdad International
Airport. He was also attached
to the company that rescued
Baby Noor, the famous Iraqi
infant who was brought to
the U.S. for surgery to treat
a dangerous birth defect.
See MARRIAGE, page 5A
Spring football
‘When | first came here, four cars was
a traffic jam. But we all know that's a
~ thing of the past.’
-~ Bob Hubbard
With concerns about pro
tecting the character of the
city, Mehserle warned that
if city leaders don’t move
to shape development, eco
nomic forces will.
Perry uses three major
residential zoning classes.
The city’s R-1 zoning allows
for 15,000 square foot lots.
Perry’s R-2 zoning allows
for 12,000 square foot'lots,
and R-3 zoning allows for
9,000 square foot lots.
Controlling zoning den
sity has become a topic of
conversation among city
leaders hoping to stave off
the rising tide of high-den
sity zoning.
Perry is facing an unprec
edented housing boom,
spurred by new state envi
ronmental standards that
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Andy Adkins and his wife, Jane, kiss after they were married April 20 near the Liberty
County Courthouse in Hinesville as Jane’s daughter, Katie, left, watches.
have pushed developers to
turn to annexation in order
to build more homes on
their property.
* According to the city’s
planning department, more
than 3,000 acres in Perry
is in some stage of devel
opment in major subdivi
sions. City staff are quick
to point out that those
numbers could change, but
the 3,000 acres has already
been divided into more than
7,000 separate lots.
Although the idea of con
trolling zoning density by
using a set formula was
tossed around at a joint
meeting of the commission
and the Perry City Council
last month, Commission
Chairman Martin Beeland
has maintained that
attempting to control zon
ing density based on any
formula would probably not
survive a court challenge.
Beeland has argued that the
city can’t deny one devel
oper’s request for re-zon
ing simply because they’ve
already reached a quota for
that particular type of zon
ing.
Houston County last
developed a comprehensive
plan in the early 19905, but
during that process, each
community worked out its
own plans before coming
together to draft a joint
plan. In an effort to bring
the county and the cities
together, and to stop local
leaders from doubling their
efforts, Perry City Manager
Lee Gilmour suggested form
ing a committee to work on
the project. The comprehen
sive planning committee is
made up of 13 members rep
resenting local governments
and groups. Committee
members are working with
staff members from local
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HHJ Assistant Editor
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feeling good now, she hasn’t
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Fran Peake holds a sign
with details on this year’s
Relay for Life in Perry.
Peake is on the move,
selling luminaries for the
American Cancer Society’s
Relay for Life. Her long
term goal is to raise $15,000
singlehandedly.