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THURSDAY June 1,2006 VOLUME 136 , NUMBER 107 OUR FRONT PORCH COMING SATURDAY Hurricane warning ■ The Houston Home Journal takes a look at what residents need to do in case a massive storm hits the area. INSIDE Baseball continues ■ Houston County High will play host to 30 teams this weekend in the HARDBALL tournament. The Bears aren't the only ones, however, as the Middle Georgia Baseball League is also getting into the act. Their players will contend in the Odoßan Wood Bat Series Sunday. - Page 1B IN BRIEF Morning meeting ■ There will be a Republican breakfast meeting Saturday at Sonny's Real Pit BBQ in Warner Robins. The meeting is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. Guest speakers are slated to be: Bob Greer, candidate, AG commissioner and Meg Nichols, candidate District 136. A continental breakfast will be available for $3.25. No reservation is necessary. Money needed ■ The Perry Area Convention and Visitors Bureau plans to apply for a grant from the Georgia Department of Economic Development to promote the third annual Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale, scheduled for March 9- 10, 2007. The longest yard sale in Georgia, Peaches to the Beaches stretches 172 miles along the Golden Isles Parkway (U.S. 341). The CVB plans to apply for a $3,600 matching grant for billboards, promotional mate rials, and to host a three-hour radio show live from the sale. Perry is marked as the first major stop on the route, and last year’s sale in March brought 2,000-3,000 people to Perry, according to the CVB’s executive director, Sheila Jones. Mike George BIRTHDAYS Thursday m Pattis Pitcher ■ Taylor Oussnsr Having a birthday or anniversary? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987- 1823. ext. 234. or e-mail her at cperkms(g>evansnewspapers. com. INDEX LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION 4 A COMICS 9 A SPORTS 6 A CLASSIFIEDS ... ,10A LEGALS 1 B PERIODICAL Award-Winning Sewspaper 2004 Better Sewspaper Contest iiiililliiiillttliiiiiiltllliiiiliiilliiiiililliiill 3001 0 3ECRGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library JNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 ALL FOR ADC 301 June 1, 2006 hfcitvttid if >i ,/ • - *' >■ i > S!'"< I/ > v <Ulu> purftHl LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Boy dies in freak tree accident By KIMBERL Y CASSEL PRITCHETT HHJ Contributing Writer A Warner Robins boy was struck and killed late Friday evening at his home when a part of a tree fell on him while he was in his backyard. 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Arrest warrants have also been issued on Khalil Corlandress Pittman and Christopher Loris Ates for armed robbery and pos session of a firearm during www.hhjnews.com backyard at approximately 5:58 p.m. with his brother, Jonathan Quon, 10, and his father, Arno Quon, when the accident happened, according to a report filed by Warner Robins Police Department Officer Kevin M. Salter. The report stated that Arno Quon was changing the oil in a lawn suspects N.C. jail commission of a crime. Pittman and Ates are cur rently incarcerated in the Guilford County Jail in North Carolina for unrelated charges. They will be extra dited to Houston County, said Warner Robins Police Det. Art Cumutte. Dennis is currently being held at the Houston County Jail. Pittman and Ates are the accused masked gunmen in the May 10 robbery. They reportedly entered the restaurant and demand ed money from the cash See JAIL, page 5 A mower when a large branch from an oak tree fell and struck all three individuals. Jonathan Quon escaped with a scratch to his shin, while his father was hit in the back. Gregory Quon sustained injuries to his head and a large laceration to his left shin, and he was bleeding from his mouth and left ear when the officer .jHf JBDk |gfS9HL ENI/Gary Harmon Northside High School is playing host to a basketball clinic this week. The training sessions began Tuesday and were to continue through this week. See 1B for more. TWO SECTIONS • 20 PAGES arrived. The child was lying on his back with first aid already being rendered to him by friends when Houston County Emergency Medical Services arrived at the scene at 6:11 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m., according to the report. See TREE, page 5A Man buys problem property By KIMBERLY CASSEL PRITCHETT HHJ Contributing Writer Centerville residents can rest easier knowing that a hazard that has been loom ing along Elberta Road will soon be corrected. Several residents of the Crestwood subdivision, including Ralph Kennedy, expressed concern at the May council meeting about the property that backs up to a number of the 65 to 70 houses in that neigh borhood. Kennedy brought pictures of a “dirt pit” with a steep incline and wanted to know if the council was aware of what was going on at the property. Mike Brumfield, Centerville Utilities Superintendent, said he has had several calls from people in Crestwood about the property, which had been left with a steep, 50- foot drop after the company that had leased the property from former owner, Glenn Higdon, had vacated. The good news was coun cil members were able to report, in regard to the potential safety hazard for children and the like, that there is a plan for its future. Marc Humphrey, 51, owner of Southern Construction, purchased a total of 41 acres - 27 in back, four in the front and 10 on the west side of the retention pond - in that area approximately three months ago. “We saw the potential there for a dirt pit and some property we could improve at the same time,” Humphrey said. However, when he pur chased the property, he also purchased some problems that went along with it. One of those included a stipulation by the city of See LAND, page 5A \ • 500 illHllll 8 "“SS 108*00 001"" 4