FRIDAY July 12, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER 75 cents A STATELY DISTINCTION Matthews eyes Distinguished Young Woman of Georgia title BY MARIE NESMITH
[email protected] JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Describing the lead-up to Nathan Sanders, lead pastor of LifePoint Church, speaks the upcoming competition as at Tuesday evening’s Cartersville Planning Commission meeting. a “whirlwind of emotion and preparations,” Abigail “Abby” Matthews is thrilled to be rep- resenting Bartow in the Distin- Planning commission guished Young Women of Geor- gia program. recommends special- On Sunday, the Cartersville 16-year-old will leave for the use permit for Townsley state offering, which will culmi- nate in two nights of competition Drive homeless shelter — July 19 and 20 — in Mariet- ta. Along with rehearsing for the BY JAMES SWIFT contest next week, she and other
[email protected] participants will visit various At- lanta sites. The Cartersville Planning Commission, absent members “I have days where I nail in- Lamar Pendley and Harrison Dean, voted unanimously to rec- terviews and feel on top of the ommend approval of a text amendment to the City of Carters- world,” Abby said. “I also have ville Code of Ordinances, which would allow “homeless shel- days where I am very tired of ters” as an acceptable use in the municipality’s multiple-use doing my fi tness routine ‘just one (M-U) zoned districts, at Tuesday evening’s public meeting. more time.’ Overall, though, I am Applicant Homeless Shelter Action Committee Inc. — the beyond excited to partake in this operators of the Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter on Porter wonderful opportunity and most Street — seeks to open another shelter at 3 Townsley Drive, look forward to simply putting which is currently zoned M-U.