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TUESDAY
May 23, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUuMBER 100
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
It's an honor
W Perry High school seniors
receive scholarships, honors
during ceremony.
- Page 5A
Playing in the quarters
W Houston County, Collins
Hill make their debuts in
GHSA Class AAAAA Elite 8
against each other
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IN BRIEF
Memorial Day closings
@ The Houston County
Landfill will be closed Monday
for Memorial Day. It will
reopen Tuesday at regular
hours.
Memorial Day closings
M The Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra will return to
Perry at 7:30 p.m. July 7,
at the Miller-Murphy-Howard
Building at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds. Tickets
are available now through the
Houston Arts Alliance. Call
218-5229. Visa or Mastercard
accepted. Tickets may also
be purchased by e-mail:
haa3@earthlink.net.
Individual seats are $lO
for adults, $5 for students.
Reserved seating at tables
for eight is also available
and helps to underwrite the
concert.
Patron tables are $300; Grand
Patron tables are SSOO.
Sponsor tables are SIOOO.
This year's program will
include “Russian and
Ludmilla Overture” by Glinka;
“Blue Danube” by Strauss;
“Slavonic Dance Op. 46,
No. 8" by Dvorak; Liszt's
“Hungarian Rhapsody #2"
and J. Williams' music from
popular movie soundtracks.
BIRTHDAYS
Tuesday
W Windy Fluellen
B Taryn Nelson
M Keona Adams
B Randy Lanier
ANNIVERSARIES
Tuesday
@ Nadine and Charles
Thomas
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkins@evansnewspapers.com.
DEATHS
M Ronald L. Denney
W Vester O. Hannah
B Emmett Lee McGuffin Sr.
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McGhee No. 3 man at the HGCSO
Major will be moving out of the
patrol division after 33 years
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Ruben McGhee likes work
ing with people.
He has been in the Patrol
Division his entire career
at the Houston County
Sheriff’s Office. He was
Fighting the good fight
(and having fun)
The 2006 Relay for Life was held
Friday through Saturday at the
Georgia National Fairgrounds
and Agricenter. When the final
count comes in, this year’s relay is
expected to bring in approximately
$290,000 for the battle against
cancer. According the co-chair
man Bill Grabowski, the count after
the Relay was $278,250, with more
to come in, including a SIO,OOO
matching grant from Frito-Lay.
The funds were raised by teams
from churches, clubs and busi
nesses across Houston County with
pledges for staying on the track
through the night, donations for
luminaries, and many yard sales,
bake sales and other fund raisers
in the months prior to the relay.
TOP: Tommy Martin from Christ
United Methodist Church brings the
torch in to the fairgrounds Friday.
RIGHT: One of the many luminaires
were on display during the relay.
BOTTOM: David Cobb takes a
break from playing to watch the hot
rods. For more pictures of the relay,
see Wednesday’s Houston Home
Journal.
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Driveways limited on parkway
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
The Perry City Council’s
plan to limit driveway access
along the Perry Parkway has
already drawn the atten
tion of property owners and
developers.
But the council isn’t
ready to decide the issue
until they hear from the
Georgia Department of
Transportation.
In an effort to prevent
unchecked development, and
promote safety, the coun
cil introduced an ordinance
April 18 that will limit curb
cuts, or driveway access,
to breaks in the median. If
passed, some developers will
have to connect to the park
way through frontage roads
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offered a position in inves
tigations, early in his career
but said he told the sheriff
he'd prefer to stay in patrol
working with people.
Even as patrol commander,
the position he’s held since
1987 when he was promoted
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or through the parking lots
of nearby businesses.
But Kim Mullins, who
came to the council’s reg
ular meeting last week to
speak for property owners
along the parkway, said the
council’s move opens up a
whole host of new problems.
Mullins said that his prop
erty is large enough that the
new ordinance will probably
not effect him, but he said
that other property owners
won’t be as lucky.
“When you buy a piece of
property, you buy it with cer
tain assumptions,” Mullins
said. “Then the rules change
in the middle of the game.”
Mullins said that city lead
ers made little effort to con
tact property owners before
to lieutenant, McGhee still
goes out on the road. “I go
out and talk with them,”
McGhee said, in regard to
handling citizen complaints.
In his new position as
administrator with the
Houston County Sheriff’s
Office, Major McGhee will
continue to do what he likes
- dealing with the public.
“The sheriff says [ work well
with the public,” McGhee
drafting the ordinance.
Mike England, the district
traffic engineer who over
sees Perry for the Georgia
DOT, said that changes in
the state’s rules often draw
the attention of developers.
“We're often explaining
the changes,” he said.
England said the DOT
supports most local gov
ernments in their plans to
restrict access.
“We usually try to respect
their wishes,” he said.
Mullins said that the new
ordinance will force many
developers who don’t own
property at the median to
wait until adjacent property
owners develop theirs.
“You’re either waiting
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said.
“Everybody they stop is
not a criminal,” he added.
“They just made a mis
take.”
“I had four or five today. I
check into them. You have to
listen to them. They're the
taxpayers.”
McGhee will be the num
ber three man at the sher
iff’s office, moving up to fill
the administrator position
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Man arrested for burglaries
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
On Friday, Warner
Robins Police charged
Daniel Ferguson with three
burglaries at
Lake Vista
Apartments.
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was arrest
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after he was
found loiter
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apartment
complex.
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formerly held by Billy Rape,
who is now the chief deputy
and second in command.
Rape replaced retired chief
Willie Talon on the sheriff’s
command staff.
McGhee began his career
with the Houston County
Sheriff’s Office in the Patrol
Division as a deputy in 1973
“When I was first out of
high school, I tried for an
See MAJOR, page 6A
Ferguson, 28, of 310
Northlake Drive, Apt. No.
115 in Warner Robins was
arrested for loitering and
prowling and criminal tres
pass upon land. Upon his
arrest, officers reportedly
found tissue paper and a
prying tool in his posses
sion.
During the three bur
glaries the previous day,
(one attempted) all three
apartments were located
on the second story of their
respected apartment build
ings and tissue paper was
placed over the peephole on
the apartment door across
the hallway. The deadbolts
on the doors had been pried
and found lying on the
See THEFT, page 6A