PAWS and EFFECT Anticipates Director More Speaks in Details on Bartow Mixed-Use
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Sunday Edition July 28, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 GRESS EDITION 2019 PROGRESS EDITION Ashley Capital building in INSIDE • Cartersville venues Adairsville on ‘entertain and delight’ theatergoers • Savoy Automobile Museum eyes late 2020 RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS opening Ashley Capital representatives said their fi rst building in • Georgia Museums Inc. venues mark pace for November Adairsville is on pace for completion in November. attendance, anniversary milestones BY JAMES SWIFT panels on the building now,” said “We will be rough-graded for Schneider said Ashley Capital [email protected] Ashley Capital Vice President a pad site of about 1.1 million recently sought several variance Tim Schneider. “A tremendous square feet,” he said. “We are requests from the City of Adairs- Not only is Ashley Capital’s amount of progress has been still designing the adjacent 95 ville. roughly 769,000-square-foot made over the last 60 days on the acres that we recently purchased, “The City building code re- In This Issue: spec building project in Adairs- construction there, and we are but we are anticipating about 1.4 quires a signifi cant amount of ville rapidly approaching com- currently scheduled to deliver the million square feet in either two alternate material other than pletion, the New York-based real building in November.” or three buildings on that site.” concrete facing the public road,” estate investment fi rm is also But that’s just the beginning of Offi cially titled the Georgia he said. “Most of the industrial expanding its footprint near the the project, which Schneider said North Logistics Center, the de- buildings that we build, we don’t Georgia North industrial park in will likely entail an additional velopment is is situated north of have a requirement for that, and northern Bartow. 2.5-million square feet across State Route 140, in between In- DAILY-TRIBUNE.COM “We are tilting the concrete three or four more buildings. terstate 75 and Highway 41. SEE ASHLEY, PAGE 5A ARTS & RELIGION State ethics County commission PAWS AND EFFECT anticipates director more speaks in details on Bartow mixed-use BY JAMES SWIFT [email protected] Jacoby David Emadi, who serves as the executive secretary of the project Georgia Government Transpar- ency and Campaign Finance BY JAMES SWIFT Commission, was blunt at Sat- [email protected] urday morning’s Bartow Coun- ty Republican Party meeting in Jim Jacoby, founder of Jacoby Cartersville. Development Inc., is not an easy “For the last maybe eight to 10 man to get a hold of. years or so, the ethics commis- For the last year and a half, The sion really hasn’t done as much Daily Tribune News has contact- as it needs to be doing,” he said. ed his front offi ces several times “Our technology is pretty out- to arrange an interview about his dated on a couple of fronts. The plans for the massive “Villages at software we’re working off of is Red Top” mixed-use development, about — and you know it’s old which purportedly would con- software when no one can tell tain 2,000 residential units and as you how old it is — but it’s some- much as one million square feet of where between 12-15 years old.” commercial, retail and restaurant Emadi, a former assistant dis- amenities. trict attorney for Douglas Coun- Alas, all of those phone calls ty, was appointed to the state eth- and emails yet again went unan- ics commission position roughly RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS swered in the run-up to the 2019 four months ago by Governor EVHS Kennel Tech Laura Ferguson receives affection from Rocky, a 4-year-old mixed breed. edition of DTN’s annual special Brian Kemp. section Progress. But it’s not just He said “a more effi cient and Bartow achieves ‘no-kill’ animal status for second quarter The Daily Tribune News that isn’t transparent” system should be hearing much out of the Jacoby coming online shortly, with the BY MARIE NESMITH EVHS and BCAC [Bartow County An- County that this has been achieved. Very camp these days — Bartow Coun- state ethics commission website [email protected] imal Control] and have been doing so proud of this milestone. And we did it ty Administrator Peter Olson also getting an overhaul within the since July of 2010. May 2019 was a phe- by following all Georgia Department of said news on the proposed Emer- next six to nine months. Calling the achievement a “collabo- nomenal month in terms of raw numbers Agriculture guidelines and mandates. son development has been mum Citing an old prosecutorial rative effort,” Etowah Valley Humane and statistically speaking as EVHS, our Nothing was compromised.” for quite some time. proverb, Emadi said there’s a Society Director Bryan Canty is thrilled rescue partners and countless animal While many people have heard of the “What we’ve seen is a lot of stark difference between those to see Bartow achieve the status of no- advocates facilitated 351 live pulls from “no-kill” term, Canty shared “most don’t conceptual work on the proposed who make the ethics commis- kill for the second quarter of 2019. From BCAC lowering euthanasia to 5.7% — really know what it means.” development — we’ve seen some sion mad — i.e., candidates who April to June, he shared the euthanasia lowest in Bartow’s history. “The companion animal rescue indus- schematic master plans and some fi le late “and may mix up some rate was lowered to 9.3%. “I knew June would be a sub-10% try recognizes a city/county intake shel- general information,” he said. rules” — and those whose ac- “No one was aware of the statistic un- month as well. My only concern was ter that attains a 90% live release rate or “What we haven’t seen are the tions legitimately frighten the til I calculated and confi rmed the rate,” would the cumulative totals bring the less than 10% euthanized as no-kill,” he detailed plans. We’re being told state agency. Canty said. “I wasn’t really surprised as percentage down over the quarter. … It’s “People who are trying to use I gather and track the statistics for both the fi rst time in the history of Bartow SEE EVHS, PAGE 2A SEE JACOBY, PAGE 6A money to infl uence elections un- fairly, those are the people that, moving forward, my agency is going to be focusing on pros- ecuting aggressively,” he said. “Whether that’s candidates, Ribbon-cutting ceremony whether it’s large political action committees, whoever it is, that’s something we have not done a planned for Red Top M.S. great job in the past, and I’m here to tell you it’s something we’re BY DONNA HARRIS of the building. SEE EMADI, PAGE 5A [email protected] Since May, the former South Central Middle School has been rebranded with a new name, The Bartow County School System is prepar- new mascot — the Miners — and new colors — ing to unveil a new jewel in the Emerson com- red, silver and white — and renovated with new munity. paint, signs, fl ooring and desks. Superintendent Dr. Phillip Page, Principal “It is really amazing to see the transforma- Dr. Wes Dickey, school board members and tion of the school,” Dickey said. “I have de- faculty and staff will be cutting the ribbon on scribed the process like we are putting together the new Red Top Middle School at 224 Old Al- a 1,000-piece puzzle. We started with the bor- abama Road Monday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m. ders of the puzzle, and we are working our way The ceremony, which is open to the public, towards the middle and putting each piece in its RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS JAMES SWIFT/DTN will feature Page, Dickey and veteran teacher place, slowly but surely.” A new fl oor in the school’s gym is one of the renovations that Emadi spoke in Bartow Coun- Darla Hall as the speakers, a performance by Principal Wes Dickey, in his fi rst year at Red Top Middle School t y S a tur d ay m o rnin g . some of the school’s choral students and a tour SEE RTMS, PAGE 8A in Emerson, will oversee. 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