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TUESDAY
June 27, 2006
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 125
OUR
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
■ The Houston Home Journal
selects its All-Houston County
boys track and field team and
in Middle Georgia Baseball
League action, the Nationals
rally to beat the Red Sox.
Page 1B
IN BRIEF
Planning for Peach meeting
■ The Comprehensive
Planning Committee for
Peach County will be hold
ing two public forums, one
Thursday and the other June
29, both starting at 6 p.m.
Residents of Peach County,
Byron, Fort Valley, and
Warner Robins are invited
to the meetings to give
ideas about the joint County
Comprehensive Plan.
Hot dogs and drinks will be
served. The Thursday forum
will be held in the cafeteria of
the Byron Municipal Complex
on Moseley Road. The June
29 forum will be held in the
Public Meeting Room at the
Courthouse in Fort Valley.
For more information on the
Comprehensive Plan for
Peach County, visit www.
planpeach.com or email
Lorraine Khoury, chairperson,
at lkhoury@fortvalley.net;
Rich Bennett, vice-chair at
rich-bennett@peachcounty.
net or Joan Hayes at byronbe
tterhometown@alltel.net.
WRPD officer completes OUI
Instructor update
■ Traffic Officer Randy
Evans of the Warner Robins
Police pepartment com
pleted the DU I Detection and
Standardized Field Sobriety
Testing Instructor Update
course taught by the Georgia
Police Academy Division of
the Georgia Public Safety
Training Center in Forsyth.
The course is designed to
provide instructors of DUI
detection and standardized
field sobriety testing courses
with the latest information on
the topic.
Funding for the program
comes from the Governor's
Office of Highway Safety
and training is provided at
no cost to local communities
at the Georgia Public Safety
Training Center.
BIRTHDAYS
■ Richard Tibbetts
■ Debra Cralley
■ Nicolas Lawson
ANNIVERSARIES
■ Adam and Sarah Hawk
DEATHS
■ Sara Gilbert Tabor
■ Helen Smith
INDEX
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WEATHER 3A
OPINION 4 A
SPORTS 1 B
COMICS 4B
CLASSIFIEDS .... 5 B
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
Man arrested for murder
Pannell reportedly shot girlfriend in the head
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Richard Ivanhoe Pannell
Jr. was charged Friday with
the murder of his girlfriend.
Panell, 25, reportedly shot
her in the head and then took
her to the hospital, where he
was arrested, according to
Det. Meredith Edwards of
the Warner Robins Police
Worker
faces
battery
charge
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
A Kipper’s bartender has
been charged with aggra-
vated bat
tery after
reportedly
punching a
patron out
side of the
bar.
On Friday
at 1:03 a.m.,
officers with
the Warner
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Robins Police Department
responded to Kipper’s Bar,
4025 Watson Blvd., in refer
ence to an assault. Upon
arrival, several witnesses
stated Donald Hicks and
Francisco Gonzalez had
been involved in a fight out
side the bar. Gonzalez is a
bartender at Kipper’s. He
went outside with the vic
tim, according to Det. Brad
Mules of the Warner Robins
Police Department Criminal
Investigation Division, but
had the option of going back
inside.
The victim, Donald Hicks,
27, of Warner Robins was
See WORKER, page 6A
Brand
named
Unadilla
manager
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Staff Writer
Ronnie Brand is putting
his years of experience in city
government to good use.
The former mayor of
Centerville,
who chose
not to run
for a second
term, is now
Unadilla’s
City
Manager.
Brand,
who took
the position
on June 1,
said that he
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is finding that his 14 years
as a city councilman and his
term as mayor of Centerville,
has given him a good back
ground for his new job and an
understanding of the elected
officials’ point of view.
“It gives me insight into
the work,” he said. “I know
what they’ve looking for.”
Brand said that Unadilla’s
form of government is dif
ferent from Centerville’s
See BRAND, page 6A
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Department Criminal
Investigations Division.
His girlfriend, Silecia
Darlington, 21, died while
en route to the Medical
Center of Central Georgia
from Houston Medical
Center. Edwards said addi
tional charges are pending
against Pannell, who is being
held in the Houston County
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Civil War reenactors from the 10th Ga. Volunteer Infantry and the 16th Ga. Volunteer Infantry participated in the
monument unveiling ceremony Saturday. Pictured, color guard reenactors Walter Duckworth and Ricky Smith raise
the camp Confederate flag above the newly unveiled monument.
Confederate soldiers honored
with memorial monument
By KIMBERLY CASSEL
PRITCHETT
HHJ Contributing Writer
Despite temperatures
pushing nearly 100 degrees,
more than 100 people
gathered Saturday at the
Cliett family cemetery in
Powersville for the unveil
ing of a monument honor
ing Confederate soldiers.
The ceremony was
the culmination of five
Citizens speak against ‘helter skelter*
growth at comprehensive plan forum
HHJ,Hay Ughtner
David Mills of Perry states his concerns about “helter skelter growth," as local officials
listen in during a Community Planning Committee meeting held this past week.
Detention Center without
bond.
On Friday, at 7:59 p.m.,
officers with the Warner
Robins Police Department
responded to a gun shot at
Cedar Pointe Apartments,
135 Ignico Drive, Apt. 203-
8. Officers were later dis
patched to Houston Medical
Center in reference to a
years of hard work from
Warner Robins Lt. James T.
Woodward Camp No. 1399
to find a home for the gran
ite monument which has the
quote, “Carved out of the
endurance of granite, God
created his masterpiece,
the Confederate soldier,” a
quote by Lillian Henderson,
engraved on it.
The monument also has
bricks with the names
female with a gunshot
wound to the head.
Pannell and Darlington
were boyfriend and girl
friend, Edwards said and
lived together at the apart
ment.
Police ask anyone with
information to contact
the Warner Robins Police
See MURDER, page 6A
of Confederate soldiers
engraved on them. Bricks
can be purchased from the
camp for $25 each and are
a permanent part of the
monument.
People from around the
state and from more than a
half dozen SCV camps trav
eled to Powersville for the
ceremony.
“It’s been quite a long
journey,” said Commander
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Warner Robins Lt. James T.
Woodward Camp No. 1399.
“We’re very pleased to be
here today. The camp is
grateful for everything.”
Pritchett told the crowd
that three Civil War soldiers
were known to be buried in
the small cemetery located
just off the Ga. 247 Conn.,
but as of Friday, another
See HONOR, page 6A
By RAY UGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
Growth seemed to be
the concern of those who
spoke at last week’s com
prehensive plan forum
- namely “helter skelter”
growth.
The Community
Planning Committee was
appointed by the elected
officials of each of the
involved communities,
Chairman Rick Lowe said
the volunteers were asked
by the mayors and com
missioners to serve on
the steering committee.
Including residents from
Centerville, Perry, Warner
Robins, and . Houston
County, this group’s
See FORUM, page 6A