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Volume 124 No. 39
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Around town
briefly...
Road block to raise
funds for child abuse
Don’t forget to be generous with
donations today (Saturday) if you
go through the Perry Exchange
Club’s annual road block. All pro
ceeds raised will go to Houston
County’s Rainbow House and other
child abuse prevention causes.
Exchange Club members will be
taking donations and handing out
literature at the intersections of
Swift Street and Highway 41 in
front of Stanley Furniture and at
General Courtney Hodges Boulevard
and Marshallville Highway in Perry
from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
While last year’s road block net
ted approximately $1,300 for the
club’s child abuse prevention ef
forts, members have set a goal of
$1,500 for their 1994 event.
Register now for
free art workshop
The Houston Arts Alliance is
pleased to host Fact to Face, a Just
My Imagination workshop on
Saturday, Jun 25.
To be held at the county ag
building on Carroll Street, the pro
gram is free and recommended for
families with children ages seven to
14.
The two-hour workshop explores
expressive portrait painting through
an interactive discussion of paint
ings by artists such as Vincent van
Gogh and Alice Neel. Nationally
exhibiting artist and teacher Linda
Henneman will show examples of
her own portrait paintings and lead
parents and children in a hands-on
art activity in which family mem
bers create portraits of one another.
Henneman’s award winning
works have been exhibited widely
throughout the eastern United Sates
at institutions in Athens, West
Nyack, N.Y., Pomona, N.J.,
Waterville, Me. and Philadelphia,
Penn.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from the University of
Cincinnati and a Master of Fine
Arts degree from the University of
Hartford.
Space is limited to 50 partici
pants and reservations should be
made by calling Karen
Nikitopoulos at 988-8131.
BOE approves funds to establish anti-violence program
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Along with drug awareness, stu
dents in Houston County schools
will soon start a curriculum in vio
lence awareness.
The Houston County Board of
Education approved a proposal from
Perry Police Chief Frank Simons
for a D.A.R.E.-like program in the
middle schools, concentrating on
violence. Simons developed the
program in response to his depart
ment's dealings with juveniles and
violence.
The board also appropriated
$12,000 to fund the program. With
the funding, the board becomes the
Health Dept to release inspection scores
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Health decided this week to go pub
lic with their inspection results of
all Houston County food service
establishments.
According to Dr. David N. Har
vey, local health board chairman,
starting the first week in June, the
scores of all unannounced inspec
tions will be made available to to
the public through local newspapers
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Buckle Up, Perry!
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall signed a special proclamation Thursday designating May 23-30 “Buckle
Up America Week" In Perry. Joining In the proclamation signing ceremony are: l-r, Sgt. Charles
Parker of the Georgia Stale Patrol, Melanie Elliott, coordinator for the Houston County Extension
Agency’s occupant protection unit, and Perry Police Chief Frank Simons. Sgt. Parker also
announced that a “very special" buckle-up campaign Is coming to the Perry area In the coming
week. See Wednesday’s Houston Tlmes-Joumal for more details.
Female Republican throws
hat into commission race
Editor’s note: The following article on Nora Reese-Laughlln Is the
second In a six part series Intended to Introduce Houston County
voters to the six candidates running for Houston County
Commission Post 2. The first candidate, Ronald Wayne Ragln, a
democrat from Perry, was featured In our Wednesday, May 4
edition. As they consent, the remainder of the candidates will be
profiled between now and the July 19 General Primary Elections.
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Meet Nora Reese-Laughlin.
She’s female.
She’s black.
She’s Republican-”the only per
son of color outside of Metro At
lanta”, in fact, “to be running for
public office on a Republican
ticket”.
And, now, she’s a candidate for
fourth Houston County governmen
tal association to approve funding
for the program. Previously, the
Perry City Council, the Houston
County Board of Commissioners
and the Warner Robins City Coun
cil have approved funds for the pro
gram.
The program will send police of
ficers into the schools to teach
about guns and the effects of vio
lence. Simons indicated earlier that
he would attempt to recruit other
professionals to teach about other
aspects of violence, such as the dis
trict attorney to teach about the lav.'
and counselors to offer conflict
Official Organ For Houston County, City of Perry & State of Georgia
“Because of the nature of my job, I know I am not the
most popular guy that walks through a restaurant’s
doors. But, whatever a restaurant does is a reflection on
me and how well I do my job. My goal is to have
everyone making 100 percent with every inspection.
'Skip Youmons, Health Inspector
and other venues on a weekly basis, spections. The scores give insight
“We know our residents place on that aspect of the food handling
great value on scores from our in- that cannot be observed first hand,”
the Post 2 Houston County Com
mission seat which is being vacated
by current Commissioner Archie
Thompson. The position will be on
the ballots during the General
Primary on July 19.
Other candidates include fellow
Republicans, James B. Carter of
Kathleen and John F. Wylam of
Warner Robins, and Democrats
Ronald Wayne Ragin of Perry,
avoidance strategies.
"We did it to create an awareness
by students that we are not going to
tolerate violence," said Zell Black
mon, chairman of the school board.
"We are determined to let them
know how harmful this sort of reac
tion (violence) is.
"There is no place for violence,”
said Blackmon. "It's not a means of
getting things done."
"It's an innovative program,"
said Houston County School Su
perintendent Tony Hinnant. "It ad
dresses some very serious needs we
have. I wish that we had started it a
!erg time ago."
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Saturday, May 14, 1994
Billy Hunter of Bonaire and Ran
dolph Wynn of Warner Robins.
“I guess you could say I’m a
minority three times over”, Reese-
Laughlin, a resident of Warner
Robins, said in a special interview
this week. “But, even above all
.hat, I am first and foremost a good
listener with a solid background and
the desire to serve all people in ev
ery segment of our county.”
“To me, Highway 96 is nothing
but a line on the map,” she
continued. “I realize that the people
of communities like Hayneville and
Elko have the same problems as
those in Centerville and Warner
Robins and I truly feel I can
Please see LAUGHUN, page 3A
Hinnant said the board hoped to
get the program in the school by
the start of the fall semester. "We
are going to meet with Chief Si
mons and his people and put the
curriculum together," he said.
The first year of the program
would be a "growth year," said
Hinnant. "We will iron out the
wrinkles, see what we need to cor
rect, what we need to add," he said
of the first year.
Blackmon also said that provid
ing funds for the anti-violence pro
gram is not a departure from estab
lished school board policy. The
board does not provide any funding
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Harvey said. “Overall, our
restaurants do quite well in this
important area and we believe,
when they are successful, it pro
vides a service to the community to
make this information available.”
By law, health inspectors scruti
nize all food service establishments
in the county semi-annually. All
routine inspections are unannounced
and are conducted by one of the
Houston County Health Depart
ment’s two environmental health
Players begin
preparations for
June production
By PAULINE LEWIS
Staff Writer
Perry Players members have
started rehearsals for their next pro
duction, Joseph Kesselring’s com
edy "Arsenic and Old Lace”.
Director Becky Yeatman invites
the public to come by and watch
rehearsals any night or Saturday
morning when cars parked around
the theater at 909 Main Street.
Rehearsals will continue on a
schedule of 7-10 p.m., five days
each week, until the first perfor
mance on June 10.
Three PHS seniors receive
title of Georgia Scholar
Perry High School seniors
Robert Bowers Jennifer Gladu and
Jason Loudermilk have been named
Georgia Scholars.
They will be honored, along
with other Georgia Scholars in the
county, at a reception sponsored by
the Perry and Warner Robins cham
bers on May 24.
. The Georgia Scholar Program is
an effort by the Georgia Department
of Education to identify and recog-
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for D.A.R.E.
"We’ve been supportive and co
operative of the D.A.R.E. pro
gram," said Blackmon, "but, we've
never been asked to fund it." He
said the board was asked to fund the
anti-violence program.
"It's a worthwhile project," said
Blackmon. "We feel that the return
on the money will by many-fold."
In other business, the school
board decided to change policy so
that a non-certified employee could
enroll his or her child at the school
where they work. State law cur
rently allows certified personnel
(mainly teachers and administrators)
Perry, Georgia - 50 Cents
specialists, Bert Tilton and John W.
‘Skip’ Youmans.
Youmans, who is the depart
ment’s newest inspector having
joined the department in January of
this year, is in charge of inspecting
the more than 65 food service estab
lishments currently in Perry as well
as the entire Houston County
School System and any temporary
or permanent vendors serving food
at events at the Georgia National
Please see SCORES, page 3A
Performances will be held on June
10-12 and 16-8 at 8 p.m., nightly
and a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m.
on June 12.
Due to the limited seating, no ad
vance tickets will be sold.
Reservations will be taken and tick
ets held at the door for pay
ment/pick-up.
Adult tickets are $8; student tick
ets are $5 and children's tickets are
$3 (for 12 years and under).
Any reservation not claimed 15
minutes prior to curtain time (8
Please see PLA YERS, page3A
nize high school seniors who have
achieved excellence in school and
community life.
To be chosen a Georgia Scholar,
a student must meet all selection
criteria and submit to the State
Department of Education an official
entry form accompanied by a copy
of his/her high school transcript and
a letter of recommendation from
someone not in his family or
Please see SCHOLARS, page 10A
Nora Reesa-Laughlln
to put their children in the school
where they work.
"We need to change the policy to
all school employees," said Jan
Morten, a secretary at Houston
County High School. She said her
son was in a zone that would send
him to Warner Robins High
School.
"There is no cost involved," said
Morton. "The policy needs to be
equitable to all employees. It is a
great morale booster."
The board agreed to the change
in principle, directing board attor
ney Tom Daniel to write the policy
Please see BOE, page 3A
