EXECUTIVE SESSION Project Receives Injured in $325,704 Grant
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Sunday Edition February 17, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 INSIDE Local attorney gives update on General Assembly issues The 2019 Spring BY JAMES SWIFT this month. edition of the The [email protected] But with hot-button topics like abortion, alcohol taxation and even pet store sales Daily Tribune At this point, the Georgia Legislature on the docket, Pettit said he expects to see News’ magazine, is more than halfway throughs its 40- things truly start to pick up in the Gold day 2019 session. But as local attorney H. Dome as “crossover day” approaches on Discover Bartow. Boyd Pettit III noted at Monday’s Carters- March 7. ville-Bartow County Chamber of Com- One issue Pettit said he expects to see merce gathering, the General Assembly addressed by legislators is rural internet JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS has been taking it a little slower than in access. Local attorney H. Boyd Pettit gave an update years past — thanks in no small part to “There are enough people now in areas on several hot-button legislative issues at the Super Bowl effectively giving state Monday’s Cartersville-Bartow County Cham- lawmakers an unoffi cial week off earlier SEE PETTIT, PAGE 6A ber of Commerce meeting. GBI names Advocates’ Rapid Rehousing Youth suspect EXECUTIVE SESSION Project receives injured in $325,704 grant BY MARIE NESMITH Acworth [email protected] Advocates for Children was offi cer- awarded a $325,704 Continuum of Care grant from the U.S. De- involved partment of Housing and Urban Development for its Rapid Re- housing Youth Project. shooting “Bartow County belongs to the Balance of State Continuum BY JAMES SWIFT of Care (CoC), led by the Geor- [email protected] gia Department of Community Affairs (DCA),” Advocates for Georgia Bureau of Investiga- Children President and CEO Ra- tion (GBI) offi cials announced chel Castillo said. “The Balance late Friday the identity of a man of State CoC is made up of 152 shot by a Bartow County Sher- of 159 Georgia counties and is iff’s Offi ce (BCSO) deputy ear- one of nine CoCs throughout the lier that day. state of Georgia.. The U.S. De- According to a GBI press re- partment of Housing and Urban lease, 47-year-old Charles Al- Development’s … CoC program len Brock, of Cartersville, led is designed to promote commu- BCSO deputies on a roughly nitywide commitment to the goal eight-minute car chase Friday of ending homelessness. around noon. Invetigators say the Pontiac SEE ADVOCATES, PAGE 3A Bonneville operated by Brock then entered a residence at 4956 Country Lane in south Bartow. Deputy Matthew Aliberti got out of his vehicle and chased Brock A Taste of on foot. That’s when GBI offi - SPECIAL cials say Brock attempted to run Ross Rossin’s Commanders in Chief project will be a key part of the Booth Western Art Museum’s Presidents Day pro- gramming. Africa set over Aliberti with the vehicle. At that time, Aliberti “fi red multiple times at the vehicle,” for Feb. 26 striking Brock. The suspect was Booth, BHM offer Presidents Day programming later transported to Kennestone BY MARIE NESMITH Hospital in Marietta, where the BY MARIE NESMITH great national parks, can show a lot of the we are able to offer, it seemed like an im- [email protected] GBI says he remains in critical [email protected] diversity of responsibility the president portant thing to start doing. Especially but stable condition. must balance. We’ll have a special display this year with the Commanders in Chief In honor of Black History A female occupant in Brock’s On Monday, Georgia Museum Inc.’s of campaign buttons out at the Bartow His- project involving Ross Rossin painting in Month, Alexis Carter-Calla- vehicle, who was not struck, was Bartow History Museum and Booth West- tory Museum, and so, in a lot of ways, we our galleries, we expect to have signifi cant han will showcase a slice of later arrested. GBI Special Agent ern Art Museum will team up to highlight are going to be showing [the] whole presi- interest. her family’s heritage during A in Charge Greg Ramey did not the “whole presidential journey.” dential journey.” “The programming has always been well Taste of Africa Feb. 26. The reveal the name of the suspect, “Students of all ages are invited to at- Formed in 1987, BHM relocated its gift received. We target both home-schoolers Cartersville resident will be the but did tell The Daily Tribune tend, as they will be moving between the shop, multi-purpose room, and permanent and families with children who are out of featured speaker at the Etowah News that she had at least one Booth museum and the Bartow History and temporary exhibits to the 1869 Court- school for the day. Our education depart- Valley Historical Society’s Afri- outstanding warrant. Museum learning about the different roles house — at 4 E. Church St. in Cartersville ment does a great job developing activities can-American History Initiative The GBI has not made public of the presidents,” BHM Program Man- — in December 2010. Divided into six for families that is both fun and educational program. how many shots were fi red by ager Joshua Graham said. “We’ve done galleries, the permanent exhibits include at the same time. … Among the activities “I feel passionate about be- Aliberti. Ramey, however, said this program for a few years now, and re- “A Sense of Place,” “Bartow Beginnings,” are opportunities to meet the presidents in ing a part of the Taste of Africa investigators believe the sus- sponse is always positive and attendance “Community Champions,” “People at fi rst person, as portrayed by museum staff, program because many of my pects may have been unarmed is growing. We served about 150 students Work,” “The Coming War” and “Toward as well as hands-on art activities and other own fond familial memories in- and that “the only fi rearms fi red last year, and we are preparing supplies for New Horizons.” fun stations.” volved family, friends and good was by the offi cer.” even more this year. While the BHM is normally open to the On Monday, the Booth museum will be food,” said Carter-Callahan, Af- The GBI’s independent inves- “Presidents Day is one of those holidays public on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with program- rican-American historian for the tigation is ongoing. The Cher- that sometimes slips by us, but we like the Booth museum’s Monday program- ming scheduled continuously from 10 a.m. Etowah Bush School. “Also, many okee Judicial Circuit District’s highlighting how important the role is us- ming is a rare occurrence. to 2 p.m. of the meals that I grew up watch- Attorney Offi ce will review the ing the amazing Booth presidential letter “We have been opening on Presidents Situated at 501 Museum Drive in Car- ing my grandmother cook were fi ndings to determine if the dep- gallery and objects from both of our [col- Day for the last three or four years,” said tersville, the Booth is known worldwide recipes passed down from her uty’s actions were justifi ed. The lections]. Additionally … artist Ross Ros- Seth Hopkins, executive director for the for its extensive collection of contempo- grandmother, Mary Eliza Kincaid BCSO is expected to fi le several sin’s [Commanders] in Chief project and Booth. “It is the only Monday of the year rary Western art. The 120,000-square-foot Young, who was born to enslaved charges against Brock once he is the awesome ‘Bob Kolbrener: 50 years in we are open. With the great presidential parents in Stilesboro, Georgia, in released from the hospital. the West’ [exhibit], which highlights some collections we have and the programming SEE PRESIDENTS, PAGE 7A the early 1800s. We believe that they arrived in Bartow County by way of Tennessee and ended up in Stilesboro at Etowah Cliffs 3 companies found in ‘signifi cant non- Plantation. We have found Mary Eliza’s father in the 1870 census compliance’ of wastewater standards record as John Kincaid. BY JAMES SWIFT while Innovative Chemical Technologies exceed- SEE TASTE OF AFRICA, PAGE 8A [email protected] ed technical review criteria for zinc releases in the review period from January to June 2018. The City of Cartersville announced that three Doehler North America was found to have ex- of its major industrial users were in “signifi cant ceeded technical review criteria for both copper non-compliance” of wastewater pretreatment releases and “chronic” biochemical oxygen and standards last year. chemical oxygen demand measurements for all Under both federal and state law, the City is three 2018 review periods. required to publish an annual list of industrial us- Both measures are routinely used to gauge ers that exceed the municipality’s thresholds for the effects of waste contaminants. According to RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS certain pretreatment limits. state Environmental Protection Division defi ni- Toyo Tire is one of three industrial users identifi ed by the City According to the City’s records, Toyo Tire tions, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is a of Cartersville for exceeding certain wastewater pretreatment exceeded technical review criteria for oil and limits last year. grease releases in all three 2018 review periods, SEE WASTEWATER, PAGE 7A Carter-Callahan INSIDE TODAY Cloudy, VOLUME 72, NO. 245 Obituaries ............................. 2A Around Town ....................... 1C showers U.S.