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WEDNESDAY
May 24, 2006
I VOLUME 136, NUMBER 101
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Memorial service in Perry
B A Memorial Day service will
be held in honor of the nation’s
war dead at 11 a.m., Monday at
the Perry Memorial Gardens.
Lelan R. Callan, Chief Master
Sgt., retired, will be the master
of ceremonies. Susan Agnew,
Perry High School student will
sing the National Anthem, and
the JROTC will present the
colors.
Participating will be the Rev.
Billy Key, Mayor Jim Worrall,
Dr. Vance B. Mathis, the
Rev. George Durham, vocal
ist Hayley Green,and the
American Legion and V.F.W.
Auxiliary. Josh Drew of Perry
High School will play Taps.
All are invited to attend.
WRPD community event
W The Warner Robins Police
Department, in cooperation
with the new Wal-Mart on
Booth Road, will be conduct
ing a special event for area
citizens Saturday from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. in the store's park
ing lot.
Members of the Animal
Control Division will be
holding a pet adoption and
officers for the WRPD Patrol
Division will be conduct
ing car seat safety checks.
Traffic officers will check the
seats and show parents how
the seat should be properly
installed.
The detectives from the
Criminal Investigation
Division will also be there
to Vehicle Identification
Numbers etch. VIN etching
is a process in which the
number is chemically etched
into the glass windows on the
vehicle. This aids in the pre
vention of car theft.
Officers of the School Liaison
Unit will be fingerprinting
children. The fingerprints are
placed in a booklet for par
ents to file. The booklet holds
a picture and vital information
of the child.
Wednesday
W Rebecca Breazeale
M Sarah Breazeale
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkins@evansnewspapers.com.
M Charlie James Barfield
B Martha Lois Bullard
B Nadine Waters
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First Baptist pastor returns home to
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Andy Hammack and family, front row: Lydia, Deborah, Hannah, Abby, Daniel and David. Back, Mary, Sarah, Bethany, Nathan, Hammack and his
wife Elizabeth, who in turn is holding Joanna.
en Andy and Elizabeth
Hammack moved away from
Warner Robins in the early
1990 s so that Andy could
work with his father-in-law,
little did they know that more than decade
later they would return “home.”
“We are glad to be here,” said Elizabeth.
“We felt like we were coming back
home,” added Andy. “We really missed liv
ing here, even though we had only lived
here two years.”
The couple, originally from Albany, had
lived in Warner Robins from 1990-92 when
Andy was working in Macon. He and his
wife attended Second Baptist Church in
Warner Robins and listened to the preach
ing of the Revs. Rastus Salter and Mike
Everson.
Although Andy said that working with
his father-in-law was great for the family
financially, shortly after moving, he felt like
he was being called into the ministry.
“I have no doubt God called me,” he said.
Andy credits “learning to love the scrip
tures” from his former pastors Dr. WA.
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As guests look on, Claude Lewis, known affection
ately as “the father of T-ball” for his efforts in help
ing to establish youth baseball locally, accepts a
special baseball bat as a note-signer for the Warner
Robins American Little League facility. Lewis was
also honored by having a field named dedicated in
his name. Also in attendance at the ceremony was
Mayor Donald Walker and Gov. Sonny Perdue. For
more, see 18,
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Smith, Salter and Everson. “The seminary
gives you the nuts and the bolts of theol
-ogy, lgut you can see in their faces (their)
love for the scrip
tures.”
Since mov
ing from Warner
Robins, Andy has
served as pastor of
three other church
es. Now he returns
to serve as pastor
of First Baptist
Church of Warner
Robins, and he and
his wife now have
a congregation of
their own, with 11
children ranging in
age from 15 years
old to three months.
The children, including Nathan, 15,
Bethany, 13, Mary, 12, Sarah, 11, Abby, 10,
Hannah, 8, Daniel, 7, Lydia, 5, Deborah, 4,
David, 2 and Joanna, three months, love
See FAMILY, page 6A
Board outlines expansion plans
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
Perry’s Downtown
Development Authority
outlined their plans for the
future at a gathering for
downtown business owners
Tuesday morning.
According to Tish Mims,
Perry’s downtown manag
er, roughly 95 owners and
operators came to the New
Perry Hotel for Tuesday’s
presentation.
Perry’s Downtown
Development Authority, a
government board chartered
by the Perry City Council in
2000, is responsible for revi
talizing downtown Perry.
In 1973, a group of down
townbusinessownersand cit
izens came together to form
the Perry Redevelopment
Commission. Chaired by
former Perry Mayor Lewis
Meeks, Mims said the group
was responsible for the brick
sidewalks that border many
downtown streets, and for
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Hammack quick to start
outreach programs
Reaching out to the Warner Robins com
munity is near and dear to the heart of
the new First Baptist Church of Warner
Robins pastor Andy Hammack.
Since moving back to Warner Robins,
Hammack and his wife, Elizabeth, have
been busy at their new church with lots of
plans to continue and expand upon what
the church has already been doing.
“We’re the only Southern Baptist Church
in downtown here,” said Andy. “ We feel
like we really need to minister to this area.
We are downtown because we choose to be
downtown.”
Andy said that the church has already
done a lot of outreach work, and he really
wants to expand upon that.
In fact, he said the AWANA leaders plan to go
“door to door” in the area and invite kids to ride the
bus to church on Wednesday nights for the Bible
verse based children’s program.
See PROGRAM, page 6A
the Colonial Era facades
that front many downtown
buildings.
“It was really the first
group of its kind in Georgia,”
Mims said.
According to Mims, the
group disbanded in 1989.
For more than 10 years, the
city was without a down
town development board.
The board’s current chair
man, William Jackson,
outlined the group’s capi
tal improvement projects
Tuesday. The board is cur
rently working with city
leaders and the Perry Rotary
Club to build a park area
with bike and walking trails
along Big Indian Creek.
The DDA and the city are
also working together on
a project to build lighted
sidewalks and an improved
median along Courtney
Hodges Boulevard, designed
to connect the downtown
eventually to the Georgia
See PLANS, page 6A
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Former Perry mayor Lewis
Meeks talks before a
crowd of downtown busi
ness owners and opera
tors at the New Perry Hotel
Tuesday morning.