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WEEKEND
June 17, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 119
OUR
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
All the sports
■ The latest from the Demon
Diamond Summer Bash
baseball tournament, results
and pictures from the first
race in the Middle Georgia
Crosscountry Summer
Series, results and pictures
from the Warner Robins
Recreation Department’s
postseason tourney and more
from the Middle Georgia
Baseball League.
- Page 1B
IN BRIEF
Perry plans budget hearing
■ Perry mayor Jim Worrall
has called a work session of
the Perry city council Monday
at 5 p.m. to discuss the city's
2007 budget.
The budget was introduced
at the council's last regular
meeting earlier this month.
The budget includes a 2
percent pay raise for city
employees; funding for a
roughly 15 percent increase
in health insurance claims;
and funding for expected
jumps in fuel costs.
According to a report by the
city manager, Lee Gilmour,
Perry’s property tax digest,
the total value of all homes
and property in the area, is
expected to jump more than
$4.2 million.
The council has the option
of raising the city's property
taxes to hire four new fire
fighters for the proposed fire
station or hire a dedicated
code enforcement officer for
the city’s community develop
ment department.
-Mike George
BIRTHDAYS
Saturday
■ Ella Ann Beckham
Sunday
■ Belinda Crowe
■ Josh Price
■ Betty Bowman
■ Doug Stewart
Monday
■ Sandra Collins
■ Joyce Bridges Jones
ANNIVERSARIES
Sunday
■ Barbara and Leon Walker
Having a birthday or anniversa
ry? Call Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, ext. 234, or e-mail her at
cperkms@evansnewspapers. com.
DEATHS
■ Martha Ellen Barkley
■ Victor J. Shilkaitis
INDEX
LOCAL 2 A
WEATHER 3 A
OPINION 4 A
PHARMACY 5 A
SPORTS 1 B
COMICS 4 B
CLASSIFIEDS .. .6-7 B
LIFESTYLE 1C
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Exchange students end
year with a mission trip
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
Since last August, Han
Jung Kim and Jae Hyun
Lee have had the adventure
of a lifetime, and they’re all
smiles as they talk about it.
Han Jung Kim is from
Pusan, Korea. She came
to this country ten months
ago, unsure of her English.
After spending the school
year with Tom and Laura
Duddle and their fam
ily, and attending Gilead
Christian Academy, she
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tures and clippings from his days as a police officer in Florida.
Hartwig sees differences in meth arrests in county
By MIKE GEORGE
HHJ Staff Writer
George Hartwig has watched the
steady rise of methamphetamine
abuse in Houston County from
nearly the beginning.
An assistant district attorney for
the Houston Judicial Circuit since
July 2001, he has become a pros
ecutor for methamphetamine and
narcotics cases in Houston County.
While county methamphetamine
arrests continue to grow ever year,
Hartwig said the trafficing of the
drug is changing.
“You’re not seeing as many of
the mom and pop meth labs any
more,” he said. “Now you’re see-
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chatters away like any out
going American teen.
Jae Hyun Lee is Korean,
too. She and Han Jung
First met in this country,
and both have attended
Warner Robins Alliance
Church during their stay
here. With the guiding
hand of Peggy Moyer who
describes herself as “wife
of a missionary and mother
of missionaries,” they are
looking forward to going
on a week’s mission trip
to the Paradise Mountain
ing it smuggled in, and in larger
quantities.”
Baseball Player,
Policeman, Lawyer
Hartwig spent much of his
young life in Florida. His father
was first a police officer, then a
firefighter in Deerfield Beach,
eventually retiring as a battalion
chief. In his senior year of high
school, Hartwig played baseball
with future Georgia Head Football
Coach Mark Richt, who at the
time was a junior.
“He was-a year behind me,”
Hartwig said. “He was just a super
Ministries near Toccoa Falls
College. They’ll be working
hard painting and fixing up
the dorms which are used
as temporary homes for the
children of Christian mis
sionaries, and will be with
17 other young people and
five sponsors.
Jae Hyun is a big city
girl. She comes from Seoul,
which is now the fifth
largest city in the world,
and has spent the 2005-06
school year living
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guy, very decent, nice, and really
popular with pretty much every
one.”
Not trying out for the base
ball team until his senior year,
Hartwig said he spent much of the
season “riding the bench.”
“I was a benchwarmer,” he said.
“There were a lot of guys who had
been with the team since their
freshman year.
“I was good enough to make the
team, but I was really just there
for support.”
Hartwig said he hasn’t kept in
touch with Richt since high school,
but he and a fellow classmate
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‘Big Guy’
no-show
at GPA
debate
By RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press Writer
Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, Cathy
Cox’s main rival for the Democratic
nomination to challenger Gov. Sonny
Perdue in November, did not attend
what would have been the pair’s
first debate of the primary season on
Thursday in Savannah.
The debate, part of the annual
Georgia Press Association conference,
was held a day after a South Carolina
grand jury indicted Taylor’s son,
Fletcher Taylor, on charges of felony
drunken-driving in a crash that
killed his best friend last August
near Charleston.
Taylor spokesman Rick Dent said
the indictment of Taylor’s son was
not the reason he declined to debate
Cox in Savannah. He said Taylor had
already committed to two fundraisers
in Atlanta that day.
“We’ve already committed to
three televised debates, and we look
forward to debating Cathy,” Dent
said.
Randy Wind, president of the
Georgia Press Association, said
Taylor’s campaign agreed to debate
Cox two weeks ago, but called to
cancel Wednesday evening without
specifying why.
See TAYLOR, page 7A
Insurance
investigator
to answer
questions
Special to the HHJ
Georgia residents with insur
ance problems or questions can
receive assistance directly from the
Commissioner’s Office by contacting
his Insurance Investigator working
in your area.
To that end, an investigator from
the office is scheduled to be in Warner
Robins from 9:30-11 a.m. June 23 at
the Chamber of Commerce. You can
call this location at 922-8585 to con
firm the investigator’s schedule.
In addition to receiving assistance
with insurance problems or ques
tions, Oxendine’s office offers com
plimentary homeowner, automobile
and life insurance policy reviews.
This service is designed to provide
you with information you should
know before purchasing insurance
and how to avoid common mistakes.
$l2O million has been recovered by
him since 1995 on behalf of Georgia
citizens who contacted his office.
If you cannot meet with the inves
tigator during these hours there
are other ways that you can receive
assistance.
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Peggy Moyer,
left, of Warner
Robins Alliance
Church, is
taking exchange
students Han
Jung Kim and
Jae Hyun Lee
on a week-long
mission trip to
the Georgia
mountains next
week before
they return to
Korea. Pictured
as well is Mary
Morton, the
Middle Georgia
Regional
Director of
AYUSA.