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WEDNESDAY May 24, 2006 I VOLUME 136, NUMBER 101 OUR 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 ERAL. . ... ... .. 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T i 3 PSS - ] ‘,\ w ; 8 i m,v’“fi‘%‘-“ . ‘, i ]gvi o p P b oS e S ‘MI : : et B % ! 3 8 XP E e ss:|b ] ] St < i - & ' e 3 : K ‘.’: 9 » : S . .™~ ¢ e . : 308 - e L oee : : ‘ : * £ = : : g #3oy \ Y 3 * > K 5 . B i L 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. Batting 1.000 i 2 - N , .'"4";, A %l ‘ \5 3 ,* i ' i ¥ 5 / soMl T pm— l‘d L T 4 | i el o § N eAt R RSy ck s S tew. Brown 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, AT LR 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 STORIES BY- A ORI R 6 TOl 7A HHJ Contributing Writer PHOTO BY Gary Harmon/ “ Evans Newspapers 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 TN T R 1 S @AY oRy m;RI Bwfllfifllflj(’(‘fifllfl«é TWO SECTIONS * 12 PAGES I R TI T i G TW" fi‘?" T By v :ju ‘s:‘,\“;‘s3‘,‘s. R o ki | i vl L ; B R | 4'g _ X o BN B ot : e e ; U il e P i i { . ] A i ’é’ ¥ eal, W o ¢ 7 o o S [ s il i zy%.;=i\ S B o i " i (W ‘ B 4 i § H ! ——— s HHJ/Gary Harmon Former Perry mayor Lewis Meeks talks before a crowd of downtown busi ness owners and opera tors at the New Perry Hotel Tuesday morning.