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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 -~ Page 1B 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. INDEX R - oA NEERIMER.......3A ON . ....... 4A RrEEIS. .1 B S, ........ 4B CLASSIFIEDS .... 5B MUQURE........ 6B PERIODICAL ! Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest Ny hh.i:, 5 g.BB - Bfig_° - Q)E,Eé: o figgg o == oot -~ o 28 S 55 H 35‘ o 5 | 1 'S 5 Eg£sß o 533 = Se i~ & %3 = | »-53 E:EE‘ April 21, 2006 IS ERVING HovstoN CouNty SINCE 1870 The Jlaiterl ~ LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, CITY OF PERRY, CITY OF WARNER ROBINS AND CITY OF CENTERVILLE 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. {8 ol b o @ ] TY' X i " - 1 ¥ ¢ e AR A V o "s”r? a R g e i Y Y 3 b SERRE e A WL o, i ..‘&,&m.w i dlehalgaa Lo R e e T R G & oo oAt R e S T 3 ’ | R o s L MR R i - ey R S e e 3 ‘?’{ % *)l.',‘;;{ v ! ; oo y o e y s ; ] el o ¢4 *.‘"\!‘ A Q,?f’v ’..A‘:»‘:"‘. it 3 g e R B a 0 i UEEONT e o ) T %, '4":44‘ & bl ENI/Gary Harmon 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 www.hhjnews.com 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 i L T e R S e S T e e | | ! 1 ? | | ~ | | * | l | i | | w o | |;- . i i 1 84 i" ey ’ CAR . : ‘ » o, e | . A ‘ :'} ": : *‘i‘,:‘ . ,‘; 4 41;*’ fl'\ :' i I ’ ',k, »¥: ‘ ) ; ‘ i { ;,,, " (g, ‘ .’fiu \ ? 4‘ \\ JES IE T s e VY PO \ i 1 ) LIRS t : L . R A : I Ry ’ Vi '/ 0" > , H ’ ENI/Gary Harmon 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 See DRIVE, page 6A 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 TR RAN A ¥ RO TN N e o eS M A W D R ' “' Aoy A [V i i 49 . 3 3 i R b s P . ’; ? s i P 48 if 8 A | S i i 4 ol !"f‘&k LNI/Gary Harmon 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. Ferguson was arrest ed May 16 after he was found loiter ing in the apartment complex. Ferguson was report o T ) AT e ot g, ey T b b A 1 B - s 298 LY ¥ @ R “.,;.v wl oy ERn b - A LT A;‘ i 5 Qe fr’ FERGUSON edly standing on the sec ond story of an apartment building claiming he was visiting a friend who “used to live here.” AN RS BT I 1»31:1;5!(] 8!51(&)0001‘“4 TWO SECTIONS * 12 PAGES] 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