HOUSTON COUNTY, GA – A community awareness event focusing on mental health and the risk factors of suicide will be May 12, 2012, 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at the Galleria Conference Center.  The public is invited to attend this free event which will include a program and exhibits focusing on the family and risk factors of suicide. 

Topics include:

·         relationships

·         depression

·         bullying

·         alcohol and drugs

·         medical illness.

Robins Air Force Base Installation Commander Col. Mitchel Butikofer and his family have moved about a dozen times.

"We've been all up and down the East Coast, in Washington D.C., Southern Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma..." said Leslie, the Colonel's wife.

She says each time, her three daughters have to adjust, especially with school.

"It gets harder as they get older," she said.

Sophomores Abby Butikofer and her twin Erin, say their latest move affected their graduation requirements.

"In Illinois freshmen took world cultures and sophomores took civics," Abby said. "We move here and it turns out that freshmen take civics here, and sophomores take world history, so we missed out on the civics requirement and we have to take another class to make it up."

Interest and questions grow around a proposed one-cent transportation sales tax--or T-SPLOST--on the July 31 ballot.

It's predicted to generate more than $750 million for 11 Central Georgia counties over a ten-year period.

Those counties -- Bibb, Houston, Monroe, Peach, Pulaski, Twiggs, Crawford, Baldwin, Jones, Putnam, and Wilkinson -- will vote as a single district.

That means either they'll all approve it, or none of them will.

State Representative Bubber Epps supports the T-SPLOST and local Sierra Club spokesman Lindsay Holliday says he'll vote no.

Both joined Randall Savage in the 13WMAZ studio during Eyewitness News at 6.