Sunday Edition November 3, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Low turnout anticipated GDOT tabs for Tuesday’s local elections summer 2020 BY JAMES SWIFT those numbers come Election Day for munic- [email protected] ipal elections — it’s a social activity and folks like to go vote on Election Day for a lot of these completion As of 4 p.m. Friday, the advanced voting cities,” he said. “But that being said, I’m not numbers for Bartow’s city-level elections were hopeful that our numbers are going to rise up date for rather anemic. By that point, about 215 people really high.” had cast ballots in Cartersville’s mayoral elec- In addition to a three-way mayoral race be- tion, while roughly two dozen people had voted tween incumbent Matt Santini and challengers cloverleaf in the respective municipal elections for Emer- Nicole Butler and Barbara Jackson, City of Car- son (26), Euharlee (25) and White (24.) tersville voters are set to determine the fate of And Bartow County Elections Supervisor a proposed “brunch bill” that would roll back project JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Joseph Kirk isn’t terribly optimistic that locals Sunday alcohol sales hours. A similar ballot Considering the sparse advanced voting turnout, local offi cials will be turning out in droves for Election Day item will be determined by City of Emerson BY JAMES SWIFT aren’t expecting huge crowds for Bartow County’s munici- on Tuesday, either. [email protected] pal-level elections on Tuesday. “We always anticipate seeing an uptick in SEE VOTING, PAGE 7A Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) offi - cials announced that the south- bound ramp on the Highway Bartow 41/Highway 411 interchange in Cartersville will close on Fri- day, Nov. 8 — and that portion Health of the cloverleaf isn’t scheduled O UBSTITUTE to reopen until at least spring of Department N S next year. The $37.9 million interchange offers free reconstruction project began in 2014 and is now targeting a summer 2020 completion date. hepatitis A “We are also constructing new bridges as well as expand- vaccines ing the northbound bridge over Pettit Creek,” GDOT spokes- BY MARIE NESMITH man Joe Schulman told The [email protected] Daily Tribune News. “These improvements will ease traf- With 53 cases of hepatitis fi c congestion and improve the A in Bartow confirmed since fl ow of vehicles through the June 2018, Georgia Department area, especially during peak of Public Health Northwest drive times.” Health District’s officials are About four-fi fths of the proj- underscoring the importance ect is federally-funded. Mar- of vaccinating against this liv- ietta-based C.W. Matthews er infection. Among those who Contracting Co. received the are most at risk of contract- construction bid. ing this vaccine-preventable While the ramp is closed, condition include drug users; southbound motorists on High- individuals who were recent- way 41 will detour through ly imprisoned and those who Felton Road to get on Tennessee have been in close contact with Street. them; and food-service work- “Now, if you want to head ers. the other direction, up Tennes- “Because we can’t treat hep- see Street where it becomes 411 atitis A, we try so hard to pre- like you’re going out towards vent it in the first place,” said White,” Schulman said, “we’re Bartow County Health Depart- going to be opening a new ramp ment Nurse Manager Cathy at the same time.” Green. “Although hepatitis A is RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Cartersville-Bartow Metro- Esthela Guzman, right, hugs her principal, Amy Heater of White Elementary School, upon being named the 2019-20 self-limiting, and given enough Bartow County Teacher of the Year at the school system’s Teacher of the Year Banquet Oct. 29 at the Booth Western politan Planning Organization time, the person will recover Art Museum. At left is BCSS Chief Human Resources Offi cer Macy Defnall (MPO) Transportation Planner without medical intervention, Tom Sills said he’s not sure how there is no treatment for it oth- much the closure will impact er than supportive care. traffi c levels along Felton Road, “However, it is a very serious WES’s Guzman chosen Bartow’s Teacher of the Year but he doesn’t think the volume illness. People get very sick increase will be drastic. from it and do sometimes die. BY DONNA HARRIS standing ovation. “I don’t have a lot of The Cartersville resident, who has “I think they’re kind of fi gur- It can be especially serious in [email protected] words, but what an honor. I did not see taught at WES for five of her six years ing it’s not going to be that big the elderly, the medically frag- this coming at all, but I’m very excit- as an educator, won the district title of a deal,” he said. “They’ve al- ile and those who already have And to think she almost quit teach- ed. I know that with leadership comes during the 2019-20 Teacher of the ready looked at the turn-move- another liver disease. If you’re ing after one year. great responsibility. I am ready for it, Year Banquet Tuesday night at the ment counts before they made at high risk of hepatitis A, get After being named Bartow County’s and I just want to say congratulations Booth Western Art Museum in Car- the decision to do this.” vaccinated.” Teacher of the Year Tuesday night, to every single teacher here, and even tersville and will represent the school Per Sills, the project was ini- According to the district’s White Elementary first-grade teacher those who are not here, because we district in the Georgia Teacher of the tially slated to take just three news release, of the 761 cases Esthela Guzman was really glad she work in the trenches every day to fight Year competition next spring. years to complete. of hepatitis A that have been didn’t. for our students, and I’m just really confirmed statewide since June “Wow,” she said after receiving a grateful. This is an honor.” SEE GUZMAN, PAGE 2A SEE GDOT, PAGE 8A 2018, 42% of them have been in the Northwest Health Dis- trict. Along with Bartow, the 10-county district includes Ca- toosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding, Bartow Boys & Girls Clubs supporters win two awards Polk and Walker. Typically, the district averages one hepatitis BY MARIE NESMITH A case each year. [email protected] To help protect area residents against this disease, Bartow In honor of their steadfast County Health Department — commitment to the Boys & 100 Zena Drive, Cartersville Girls Clubs of Bartow County, — is providing complimentary the Cartersville Service League hepatitis A vaccines Monday and Rob McGlon captured a pair through Wednesday from 8 of awards at the organization’s a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m. Georgia Area Council in Jekyll to 6:30 p.m.; and Friday, 8 a.m. Island Oct. 3 and 4. to 2 p.m. No appointments are “The C.A.R.E. Award — Chil- required. dren Are the Reason for Excel- Citing the CDC, the release lence — [was] presented to the stated, “Georgia is one of 30 Cartersville Service League for states that since 2016 have ex- their long-time and continued perienced a widespread per- support of our organization, in- son-to-person outbreak of the cluding volunteer, fi nancial, ad- highly contagious liver infec- vocacy, mentoring, educational, SPECIAL Left, Rob McGlon, center, holds his Beverly Burton Board Member of the Year Award. McGlon and his fellow board mem- tion, which has hospitalized special programs and events, bers Walt Sullins and Jeff Tibbetts participated in the Georgia Area Council along with 35 other Boys & Girls Clubs orga- about 60% of Georgians who’ve cultural enrichment and special nizations representing 125 clubs and more than 150,000 club members. Right, during its regular Monday Day of Service at recently gotten it. Those most programs,” said Gordon Gilley, the Boys & Girls Clubs, the Cartersville Service League was presented with the C.A.R.E. Award from Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Pictured receiving the award from Boys & Girls Clubs of Bartow County Board Chairman Matthew Gambill are SEE HAV, PAGE 6A SEE B&G, PAGE 2A CSL members Kelly Young, Leslie Mauldin, Brittney Pogue and Andria Hertel. INSIDE TODAY Sunny, VOLUME 73, NO. 156 U.S. & World .........................4A Sports ................................... 1B chilly Business............................... 6A Classifieds............................ 4B High 59 www.daily-tribune.com Blotter ................................... 7A Around Town ....................... 1C Weather ................................ 8A Entertainment ...................... 7C Low 36 2A Sunday, November 3, 2019 • www.daily-tribune.com Local The Daily Tribune News ContactUs U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Guzman The Daily Tribune News From Page 1A Address: 251 S. Tennessee St. delays dock fee hike on lakes Afterwards, Guzman, who was accompanied by her hus- Cartersville, GA 30120 band, Jaime, still struggled to fi nd the right words to convey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A South Atlantic Division spokes- a dark closet and make up the rules how she was feeling. Mailing Address: 251 S. Tennessee St. Dock owners on seven feder- woman said there was no further and just pop out again, then I’m “Words can’t express the honor, just the whole experi- Cartersville, GA 30120 ally managed Georgia lakes are information available about when sure there will be some consterna- ence,” she said. “I have no words. I just feel so honored.