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WRALL's Blue 9-10 year old center fielder Austin Burnette runs down a fly ball during their win over Macon's Vine Ingle team during a playoff game Tuesday evening at the WRALL field. See Saturday's edition for the whole story...
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Fundraiser for Davee family Friday
6/28/2009
By JENNY GORDON
Journal Staff Writer
A fundraiser is under way to assist Bryan and Mary Davee of Perry, whose business, Davee’s Hardwood Lumber, was struck by lightning Monday night, burning the workshop to the ground.
Lumber, custom-built furniture and tools owned by Davee’s father and grandfather were destroyed in the fire.
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BOE announces procedures to comply with new Georgia law
6/28/2009
School choice is here ... within limits
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
If you’d like to pick your child’s public school yourself, regardless of the zone you live in, there’s a chance (but no guarantee) that you can do it.
On Thursday, the Houston County Board of Education announced plans for implementing a new state law allowing parents school choice options when space is available. Parents opting for the choice, and obtaining it, will have to provide transportation for their children.
Read the full story in the Saturday, June 27 edition of the Houston Home Journal.
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WR Firm Wins bid to design, build Little League Regional office, stadium
6/28/2009
International City Builders, Inc. has been selected as the design-builders for the new Southeastern Regional Little League Headquarters in Warner Robins, the company announced this week. The facility will be located adjacent to the existing ball fields
off Cohen Walker Road. Read the full story in the Saturday, June 27 edition of the Houston Home Journal.
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Fundraiser set for family affected by fire
6/24/2009
Kaye Jackson, a Perry community volunteer, and Janice Jodsaas, owner of Our Place on Ga. 41, are planning a fundraiser to assist Bryan and Mary Davee, who lost much of their business to a fire on Monday night.
There are plans to host an auction with live entertainment and food. Details are still being finalized.
The event is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Friday, July 3, at Our Place.
“The Davees have always been so generous and helped everybody,’ said Jodsaas.
Helping Jodsaas will be Jackson, who attended Perry High School with Bryan Davee.
“It was on my mind all night long,” said Jackson when she first heard of the Davees losing their main workshop, where Bryan Davee built custom furniture for clients.
Look for updates in this Saturday’s Houston Home Journal.
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A Father’s Day story
6/20/2009
A Father’s Day story
After looking for her ‘forever’ Perry’s Keith Kindle has found the daughter he lost 36 years ago
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
If you live in Perry, the chances are good that you know Keith Kindle. He’s on the Perry police force – gray-haired but still going strong. He smiles a lot, loves kids, has been a school resource officer and works hard every year to raise funds for the Special Olympics. He’s retired from the Air Force Band, but has never stopped making music. He’s a family man, happily married to his wife, Maybelle, for 30 years, devoted to his daughter, Amanda, who was born with severe mental and physical disabilities.
What you probably didn’t know is that part of his life and part of his heart has been missing. Her name is Heather, and the last time he saw her was in 1973 when she was a year and a half old.
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County approves 2010 budget
6/17/2009
The Houston County Commission approved its fiscal 2010 budget Tuesday.
As was the case during its initial public hearing last month it did not go unopposed. One of those who went against the grain this time – in a 3-1 decision approving it - was Commissioner Jay Walker III.
Walker said he just couldn’t go along with it, and the one mill increase – half of which was approved by the voters for the weather warning siren system and half of which goes toward providing a second pod for the jail - because it’s “already tough times for our citizens.”
His initial recommendation when asked by Commissioner Larry Thomson for suggestions was to take money out of the fund balance. But County administrator Steve Engle interjected that the commissioners had already lowered the reserves to the limit. Plus, he said “you would be violating your own ordinances.”
For more, see the June 20 edition of the Houston Home Journal.
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HCDA updates site certification status
6/17/2009
“We’re real pleased how things are going. We feel like we’re on the right path.”
Those were the words of Houston County Development Authority director Morgan Law in providing the latest update – the third straight meeting he has done so - on the authority’s effort to have the 667 acres it owns “site certified.”
Site certification, he has explained on more than one occasion, will elevate the land’s status – make it more lucrative for potential businesses/buyers.
For more, see the June 20 edition of the Houston Home Journal
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Perry sets budget
6/17/2009
Perry sets FY 2010 budget The Perry City Council set their budget for fiscal year 2010
at $22,361,800 in a unanimous vote on Tuesday night While the budget is about $1 million higher than last years,
there will be no millage increase. The city will pay no merit increases on
employees’ salaries, and is transferring $109,700 from the Gas System Revenue
Fund to the General Fund. See Saturday’s Journal for full story.
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Centerville adopts $7.8 million budget
6/17/2009
The Centerville City Council on Tuesday approved a “hold the line” $7,843,753 spending plan for operating the city government during the 2009-10 budget year.
Mayor Harold “Bubba” Edwards commended council members and city department heads for creating a “tight” budget that does not require the city to increase its property tax rate to meet necessary expenses. “Everyone tightened their belts,” the mayor said.
Look for Saturday’s Houston Home Journal for more on this story.
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Larry Walker leaves GDOT
6/4/2009
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Larry Walker has announced that he will resign from the Georgia Department of Transportation Board, effective June 30. Walker, a Perry attorney and former Ga House Majority Leader, was elected to the post in 2007 by the state representatives and senators of the Georgia’s 8th Congressional District. He said in his letter to Gov. Sonny Perdue and other officials that the reason for his resignation was “the probability of other opportunies that are incompatible with my being on the Georgia Board of Transportation.”
For more, see Saturday's Houston Home Journal
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Cowart seeks return to Warner Robins Council
6/3/2009
Breaking news on dean cowartFormer Warner Robins City
Councilman Dean Cowart announced today he will seek a return to the municipal
governing board in the upcoming city elections.
Cowart, who decided not to
run for re-election to his Post 2 seat in the 2007 election, said in an
interview on a local radio news show Wednesday afternoon that he will seek the
Post 3 council seek now held by longtime Councilman Terry Horton.
There had
been widespread speculation when Cowart declined to seek re-election to the
council two years ago that he would run for a spot on the Houston County
Commission. However, he passed up that opportunity, failing to qualify for any
of the county races last year.
For more, check out Saturday's Houston Home Journal
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BBB warns against a summer scam going door-to-door nationwide
5/8/2009
The Better Business Bureau warns that deceptive door-to-door magazine sales crews are hitting the pavement and looking to earn a quick buck this summer. In the last 12 months alone, BBB has received 1,100 complaints from consumers in 46 states and the District of Columbia against more than 50 companies that are selling magazines door-to-door.
For more, click on the link.
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BBB warns about phony letters from Publishers Clearing House
4/6/2009
Better Business Bureau is warning the public to beware of letters supposedly from Publishers Clearing House which claim that they have won a grand prize drawing of $1 million. Despite how official the letters might look, the recipient is the target of a widespread scam that is seeing a sudden resurgence across the country.
For more, click on the link.
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