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THURSDAY April 26, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER 75 CENTS Loudermilk’s return to site CARTERSVILLE INC. of last year’s Matt Santini shooting discusses city’s brings closure investments in BY NEIL B. MCGAHEE [email protected] natural gas, water Barry Loudermilk and his Re- publican colleagues returned BY JAMES SWIFT [email protected] wednesday to the same Virginia baseball field where a year earlier For a city of roughly 20,000 people, a gunman opened fire as they Mayor Matt Santini notes Cartersville’s practiced for a charity baseball $167 million fiscal year budget does seem game, wounding four people, in- disproportionately large. cluding House Majority whip But then again, Santini’s not just run- Steve Scalise. ning a municipal government — he’s also The annual congressional base- running a business. ball game pitting Republicans “We have to remember, the City of against Democrats has been a Cartersville is a utility company,” he said Congressional tradition for more at Wednesday’s Northwest Power Con- nectors meeting at the Cartersville-Bar- SEE LOUDERMILK, PAGE 8A tow County Chamber of Commerce. “We sell electricity, we sell gas, we sell water ... about half of that budget is the purchas- ing of natural gas and the purchase of electricity that we then resell.” There’s definitely an interlocking dy- namic between Cartersville, the govern- ment, and Cartersville, the company, Santini said. He described how a portion of the profits from the city’s enterprise funds are transferred to the general oper- ating budget to fund management and op- erations — a set-up, he said, that allows JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Mayor Matt Santini discussed the state of Cartersville’s utilities services at the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Cartersville to keep its millage rate low. Commerce Wednesday. Santini said he takes great pride in keeping Cartersville’s utility rates com- ergy and Gas South are paying upwards certainly a factor, as well. ing station for city vehicles. petitive and below-market. of $48 per month. “There was a gaping hole that had the “Most of those cars are going to be po- For example, he said the price per Considering how much revenue the back end of a flatbed trailer in it, that was lice cars,” Santini said. “It’s kind of a ben- therm of Cartersville Gas, at $1.79, is business generates for the municipality, being held up by a gas line that was run- efit to the community.” close to a dollar cheaper than gas pro- it’s no surprise the city put development ning across that chasm,” he recounted. The city, Santini said, approached the vided by Walton EMC, True Natural Gas of its new gas department headquarters on “That was a little unsettling.” investment like a private industry. SPECIAL One of the first people Barry and Constellation. While the average Old Mill Road on a fast track. He said the new facility, which had its “We went through the planning and de- Loudermilk saw at today's monthly total for Cartersville Gas cus- Although Santini said the sinkholes that groundbreaking last week, is on pace to velopment process and took a council practice was lobbyist Matt tomers is about $28, customers who use started popping up at the old facility on be completed in eight months. The com- Mika, who was seriously utilities like Scana Variable, Infinite En- Erwin Street about three years ago were plex will also be the home of a new fuel- SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 7A wounded in last year's attack. Bartow County Mull named Library Media Specialist of Year BY DONNA HARRIS National Day of [email protected] First county, then regional, next state. Prayer set for May 3 Dr. Teri Mull found out April 9 that she had won the Northwest Georgia Region Library BY MARIE NESMITH Media Specialist of the Year title for 2018, about [email protected] two months after her peers had selected her as Bartow County’s representative in the competi- Striving for attendees to “come away with a heart to pray for tion. our children and grandchildren,” the Bartow County National Day The media specialist at Woodland Middle of Prayer will highlight area youth and educators, with numerous School said she was “very flattered” to be chosen students filling key roles in the ceremony. for both awards. Starting at noon, the gathering will be presented May 3 on the “I’m especially honored that my colleagues steps of the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center at — the other media specialists in the county — 135 W. Cherokee Ave. in Cartersville. chose me for the Bartow County recognition,” “This year, we are thrilled that our National Day of Prayer is she said. “And I was very surprised to be chosen themed Praying for the Next Generation, and … we are including as the region winner. It’s quite an honor to be students and educators as our central focus,” said Charity Gherar- recognized for doing what you love.” dini, executive assistant for The Church at Liberty Square and Jason Dailey, instructional technology special- member of the local National Day of Prayer Steering Committee. ist for the school district, said Mull’s victory was “There will be no breakfast this year, but instead a mass choir of “well-deserved, and we were very happy for her.” our county and city high school students will be accompanying “Media specialists today wear many hats,” he our adult choirs from many local churches. Additionally, we’ll uti- said. “They continue to do the traditional task of lize the [JROTC] honor guard from Cass High and the drum corps exposing kids to literature and research as well from Woodland High to escort the pastors and other participants as many other tasks vital to their local school and down Cherokee [Avenue] toward the courthouse at noon. county. They have to be a technician, a technol- “We are utilizing students in every aspect of our program this ogist, an inventory manager and librarian. Teri year, to include kindergartners from Sam Jones [Memorial United is able to do all of those well and still keep her RANDY PARKER/ THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Methodist Church’s] preschool leading our Pledge of Allegiance Woodland Middle School media specialist Dr. Teri Mull was named Northwest Georgia sense of humor.” Region Library Media Specialist of the Year earlier this month. with Mr. Parnick Jennings, [Bartow County] Commissioner The LMSOTY award, sponsored by Georgia Library Media Association and the Georgia As- Education Foundation Executive Director Dot enjoy seeing them learn to love to read,” she SEE , PAGE 7A PRAYER sociation of Instructional Technology, recognizes Frasier and the Bartow County School Board said. school library media specialists who create dy- honored her with a certificate at Monday night’s But as with any job, there are aspects of it that namic, innovative programs and instructional board meeting. she’d rather not have to do. collaborations that foster student engagement “It’s always special to be recognized by the “A great deal of my time is devoted to main- and achievement, according to the GLMA web- superintendent and the board,” the Rome native taining the student computers, so I don’t get to site. said. teach nearly as much as I would like,” she said. Each school system is allowed to select one Mull, along with the other region winners, will “I also love to work with teachers in lesson de- library media specialist for this award, and those receive a plaque and $50 at the GLMA confer- sign, and with the loss of the media clerk posi- representatives vie for the regional title. All re- ence and could be named the state winner. tion and the addition of the one-to-one computer gion winners then compete for the Georgia Li- In her 27th year as an educator, Mull said she environment, I simply don’t have time to do brary Media Specialist of the Year, which will be taught high school English in a neighboring sys- those things.” announced at the GLMA Summer Institute June tem before accepting her “first and only media Mull earned a Bachelor of Arts in English 11-12 in Atlanta. job” at Woodland Middle 19 years ago. from Berry College, a Master of Science in in- The accolades have started piling up for Mull, “When I first became a media specialist, I was structional media from Jacksonville State Uni- 48, who helped open WMS in 1999 and is the most interested in helping students to see that versity, an educational specialist in educational only media specialist the school has ever had. reading is a lifelong skill that can bring you both leadership from Lincoln Memorial University On Feb. 8, her school colleagues surprised her entertainment and education,” she said. “Of and an educational doctorate from Argosy Uni- with a plaque, a cake and “all sorts of goodies” course, now, my job has expanded to all sorts of versity. RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS, FILE media beyond books, but reading is still the key.” She lives in Rome with her “very supportive” Bartow Family Resources Executive Director Maryland for winning the county award, she said, noting Guthas leads worshippers in prayer during last year's it’s “my pleasure and my honor to serve the stu- She said she loves to see “students’ faces light husband of 27 years, Ronald, and they have a National Day of Prayer rally, which was held at the former dents, faculty and staff” at WMS. up when they find a book that they love.” daughter and son-in-law, Connor and Wesley Cartersville First Baptist Church due to rain.

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