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Time management,
stress, focus of seminar
Stressed out because you don’t
have enough time to get your job
done?
Well, help is on the way!
A seminar entitled Time
Management and Stress
Management in the Small Business
will be held Thursday, June 30 in
the Community Room at CB&T
Bank from 7-9 p.m.
The seminar is being co-sponsored
by the Perry Area Chamber of
Commerce and The Vniversity of
Georgia mall Business
Development Center.
Instructor will be Bob Beeland
with the UGA SBDC Continuing
Education and some of the topics to
be covered include setting priorities,
eliminating unnecessary duplicating
steps, understanding the causes of
stress and learning relaxation tech
niques.
Cost of the course is S2O for
chamber members and $25 for non
members. Register by mailing
payments to the local chamber at
P.O. Box 592, 1105 Washington
St, Perry, GA 31069. In order to
reserve space, please register no
later than Monday, June 27.
Payment will be accepted the night
of the program.
For further information, contact
the chamber at 987-1234.
Red Cross blood drive
will be held June 20
A community-wide blood drive
will be held at Perry Hospital on
Monday, June 20 from noon until
5:30 p.m.
With blood shortages across the
country, every available person is
encouraged to "roll up their sleeves"
and give blood.
Remember-the life you save may
be your own!!
Agency needs funds to keep home
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The Houston-Middle Georgia
Red Cross Chapter has a new
home.
Problem is, unless the non
profit group can raise about
$90,000 during a special
fundraising campaign which kicked
off Wednesday during the facilities’
first open house, it may not be a
permanent one.
Located in Corder Centre on
Corder Road in Warner Robins, the
chapter began leasing their new of
fices back in April after their lease
agreement at their former home in
the Kroger Plaza on Russell
Parkway ended after three years.
Since that time, they have been
given the opportunity by property
owner, Judge L.A. McConnell, to
purchaise the Corder Road offices at
a price which Chapter Director Sam
Register describes as “excellent”.
“Actually, Judge McConnell,
who is also a former Red Cross
chapter chairman Himself, has of
fered to donate about one fourth of
the value of the property to us,”
BOE sets '95 budget at $79.6 million
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
The Houston County Board of
Education set their fiscal year 1995
budget at $79.6 million during their
regular meeting Tuesday, June 14.
Board chairman Zell Blackmon
said that he did not expect the new
budget to result in an increase in
the millage rate. The millage rate
will be set in September when the
board receives the tax digest from
T-shirt campaign
inspired by death
of local teenager
BY BRENDA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Although the official Buckle
Up America Week ended more
than two weeks ago, its message
continues to make a strong impact
on local residents.
Red and black bumper stickers
urging all motorists to. “Be
R.A.D.ical and Buckle Up” grace
the back bumpers of hundreds of
local automobiles and a 30-second
public service announcement
featuring the parents and fellow
classmates of a local youngster
who was killed in an accident just
six months ago continues to
touch the hearts of millions of
viewers in the Middle Georgia
area.
Now, with the help of seven
local sponsors, Sgt. Charles
Parker of the Georgia State Patrol
and concerned citizen and local
business owner David Hilderbrand
have come up with yet another
catchy promotional tool—a T
shirt.
Like the commercial and
bumper sticker, this latest creation
is inspired by the 1993 death of
14-year-old Ralph Anthony “Rad”
Do'rsett of Perry. Rad, the son of
Ralph and Joan Dorsett and a
freshman at Perry High School,
died on November 13 last year,
just hours after he and two other
teens were involved in a one-car
accident on Highway 341 North in
Perry.
The car’s driver and another
passenger, both of who were
wearing seatbelts, sustained only
minor injuries. Rad, however,
wasn’t so lucky-he hadn’t
fastened his seatbelt and was
thrown from the car.
Register said this week. “In addition
to that, our Board of Directors have
pledged another $16,000, leaving us
only about $90,000 to raise to
complete the purchase.”
According to Register, who
notes that the local chapter has been
chartered since 1975 and currently
has nearly 5,000 members, the new
facility has approximately 2,700
square feet of space and is
considerably larger than the the
group’s former offices.
Because the facility was not
completed when they moved in,
chapter members also had the
chance to design and finish the
interior to their own specifications
and now have room and facilities
not only for a training center in
which to conduct CPR and first aid
courses, but also ample
administrative space for day to day
operations and, for the first time
ever, a diasaster control room for
managing emergency responses by
volunteers.
To introduce the public to the
new facility, Register added that
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tne county.
Local funding makes up $26.3
million of the budget, up $1.4 mil
lion from fiscal year 1994. Georgia
will provide $52.1 million to
Houston County schools in 1995,
up $2.4 million from 1995. Federal
sources will provide $1.22 million,
down $250,000 from 1994’s $1.47
million.
The board projects total revenue
of $79.6 million in fiscal year
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Nancy Hilderbrand displays one of the new "Buckle Up" T-shirts which are being marketed
locally in memory of the late Rad Dorsett of Perry.
“If Rad’s death brings about
any good in any way; if just one
kid can profit from what happened
to him; if just one life can be
saved, then this tragedy will
finally seem to have a reason, “
Joan Dorsett said recently in
their Wednesday open house also
featured an official ribbon cutting
ceremony and special tours. The day
also signified the kick off of the
fundraising campaign which will
help pay for the building. All dona
tions are tax deductible and the
names of all contributors will be
permanently displayed in the of
fices.
“Donations in any amount will
be greatly appreciated and will help
make this dream become a reality,”
Rev. Bill Martin, vice-chairman of
the chapter’s board of directors said,
adding that it would require an in
vestment of only SSO to sponsor a
square foot and only $450 to pur
chase a square yard of the new
building.
The Houston Middle Georgia
Chapter of the Red Cross provides
disaster services, service to military
families, blood procurement ser
vices, and health and safety services
to the people in a four county ser
vice area, from Houston and Dooly
to Macon and Pulaski counties.
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1995, up $3.5 million from fiscal
year 1994.
Expenditures in 1995 are pro
jected up $4.8 million to $79.1
million. In fiscal year 1994, which
is to end June 30, 1994, the board
will spend $74.3 million.
Almost two-thirds of the money
spent by the board in 1995 will be
in classroom instruction, with
classroom costs making up $51.3
million of the budget. The board
commenting on the local Buckle
Up campaign. “Rad would be
thrilled at the thought of helping
others. If it will help someone
else in any way, it will be
wonderful.”
The new T-shirts, which are
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The new home of the Houston-Middle Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross Is located
In Corder Center, Corder Road, Warner Robins. The agency may lose their new residence If
they cannot raise the funds needed to purchase the facility.
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will spend $7.2 million in mainte
nance and operations, and $3.7 mil
lion in teacher improvement.
Pupil support services will cost
the board $3.1 million in fiscal year
1995. Costs for transportation will
be up slightly in fiscal year 1995,
from $2.27 million to $2.36 mil
lion. The board will spend $2.2
million on media services
(libraries).
The key cut in the 1995 budget
available only at Hilderbrand’s
Office Supply store, have been on
the market for a couple of weeks.
The first printing, which was
sponsored by Trust Company
Bank, the Perry Rotarv Club,
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is in the amount of reserves for the
fiscal year. In 1994, the board bud
geted $l.B million in reserve, or
contingency, funds. That amount
was slashed by three-fourths in the
1995 budget to $507,000.
Board member Shirley Lowery
told the board that she was con
cerned about the lack of money in
the reserve fund, saying the school
might have problems if a crisis oc
curred.
School board OKs
plan to allow early
school dismissals
By VETO F. ROLEY
Staff Writer
Perry High School and Perry
Middle School will open at 8 a.m.,
with local elementary schools open
ing at 8:30 under a new transporta
tion plan approved by the Houston
County Board of Education during
its regular meeting Tuesday, June
14.
The new plan is designed to get
students home earlier in the day.
Under the old plan, students were
leaving Perry High School as late
as 4 p.m.
Under the new plan, Perry High
School and Perry Middle School
will end their school days at 2:45
p.m., with the elementary schools
closing at 3:15 p.m. Houston
Porter, director of transportation for
Houston County, said that schools
should be cleared within 25 minutes
of the school’s closing.
In the morning, buses will drop
off students at Perry High School
first, then Perry Middle School and
then the elementary schools.
In the afternoon, buses will be
waiting at Perry High School and
Perry Middle School at 2:30 p.m.
to pick up students. Those buses
will then flip-flop before picking
up students at the elementary
schools.
Students in all grade levels will
continue to ride the buses together.
Porter said the length of some Perry
routes into South Houston County
made it impractical to separate stu
dents by grade level.
"Perry's demographics force it to
remain the least impacted by both
proposals," wrote Porter in a report
to the board. "In fact, the way that
we are offering to do business
(transportation wise) in Perry is not
much different than what we are do
ing now."
Porter said that the changes were
not perfect, but should make get
ting to school and away from
school easier. "It's a change," he
said, "and everybody doesn’t like
change."