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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 PERIODICAL Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest iiillilliiiiliiiliaiiaili i11...11 IlllllllllitUlVlii COOI 0 GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Man Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 3000-000? ALL FOR ACC 301 Shrvi\(; Hoi sro\ Col \ n Si\< i JS7O - Y MansionJMmra if CLLJrte sauxxml 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 Changing trends |»-\i a jL sis ~*** mmm Jt *"w j«p- fIK . ■■■ # V-. HHJ'Mike Geor«r George Hartwig, an assistant district attorney in Houston County, flips through an old scrapbook of pic 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- www.hhjnews.com 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 See TRIP, page 7A 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 See HARTWIG, page 7A 1 r J\ J laHHHRRfiHgK HHtJ Charlotte Perkin* t \ Fa \ \ s / wii/ y .\E\vsr\ri.R' THREE SECTIONS • 22 PAGES ‘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. See ANSWER, page 7A 50£ mint 8 *5 5106*000 01"" 4 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.