Sunday Edition December 22, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Commissioner Bartow County family fi nds strength approves through substance abuse challenges LakePoint TAD, Champions BY JAMES SWIFT
[email protected] Center contract Jared Hoffman will not be home for Christ- extension mas this year. Instead of spending the holidays with his BY JAMES SWIFT mother, father and older sisters in Carters-
[email protected] ville, he’ll be miles and miles away in a state prison, where he’s serving out a three-year Bartow County Commissioner incarceration sentence. Steve Taylor approved an item at “I feel like this year’s going to be different, “It’s got to be so hard for the ones strug- a public meeting Wednesday au- because we’re not wondering if he’s going to gling with addiction to be around the fami- thorizing the creation of a new tax show up,” said his oldest sister, 39-year-old ly at a holiday, where you’re supposed to be allocation district (TAD) in Emer- Alicia Turner. happy and joyful and everything is good,” son, which would allow LakePoint His mother, 68-year-old Barbara Hoffman, she said. “You’re just trying to survive it.” Sporting Community to potentially said this time of year has been difficult for For more than 15 years, the family has reap more than $50 million in pro- many years. waged a largely secret battle — one that ceeds to facilitate development of If she wasn’t worrying herself over wheth- could be described as physical, emotional the complex’s northern campus.