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20190428-002331-DTN 4 28 2019.Pdf Sunday Edition April 28, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Public forum on substance abuse draws large crowd BY JAMES SWIFT you know them personally or you do strating drug addiction is becoming [email protected] not,” said Brian Kite, who serves as more pronounced throughout Geor- a GCSA recovery community orga- gia — and more lethal. From 2010 to More than 150 people turned out nization (RCO) development project 2017, opioid-related deaths in the state for a Georgia Council on Substance coordinator. “We need to continue to skyrocketed from 426 to over 1,000, Abuse (GCSA) listening session held fi nd the supports within our commu- as heroin and fentanyl deaths, respec- JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Thursday evening at First Presbyteri- nity to lift individuals up.” tively, increased from 41 and 43 to Claudia Hamilton, director of an Church in Cartersville. The crowd Kite said he knows the perils of 267 and 344. Rome’s Living Proof Recovery, alternately cheered and wept as at- substance dependency well, having And not only is Bartow far from spoke at Thursday’s Georgia tendees shared their personal strug- been drug-free for about four years. immune from the crisis, the DPH Council on Substance Abuse meeting in Cartersville. gles with substance dependency is- “As a convicted felon by the State of numbers show that it’s one of the sues, as well as their frustrations with Georgia, I am working under a State most deeply affl icted communities in overdose deaths for the ages 25-44, treatment accessibility and hopes for grant to share recovery,” he said. the state. No. 2 overall for all age groups, No. more recovery options within the “There’s been so much stigma and In 2017 alone, the DPH indicates 2 in suicides from ages 25-44, No. 3 community. negative thinking about this, the con- 14 people in Bartow died from opioid for ages 15-19 and No. 4 in ages 45-54 “They are someone’s family, they notation when it comes to substance overdoses, while another 43 were hos- and No. 3 overall,” Kite said. “This is a INSIDE are someone’s friends and we are all abuse issues.” pitalized. very highly-affected area in Georgia.” The 2019 Celebration edition of the The Daily Tribune affected, in some way, shape or form, He produced Georgia Department “In a fi ve-year period from 2013 to News’ magazine, Discover Bartow. in our community at large, whether of Public Health (DPH) data demon- 2017, Bartow was No. 1 for accidental SEE GCSA, PAGE 8A Shafer vouches Taste of for ‘United Cartersville Republican Fund’ at DIARY OF A LOCKDOWN debuts Bartow stop Saturday BY JAMES SWIFT BY MARIE NESMITH [email protected] marie.nesmith@ daily-tribune.com A former state senator with his eyes on the Georgia GOP Chair With the debut of Taste of made an appearance in Carters- Cartersville, the Rotary Club ville Saturday morning, where of Bartow County is encourag- he made a pitch for greater state ing area residents to “sip, savor, party and county party commu- shop.” Showcasing Cartersville’s nication and cooperation. Downtown Business District Sat- “I think we’ve allowed the urday from noon to 6 p.m., the grassroots infrastructure of the event will be presented on the state to become weaker during city’s Public Square, with con- our period of Republican super- certs taking place at Friendship majority,” he said at the Bar- Plaza. tow County Republican Party “Last summer, fellow Rotarian Headquarters’ monthly meeting. Jonathan White and I discussed “We’ve behaved almost as if this having a brew fest in downtown supermajority that we’ve enjoyed Cartersville,” said Rob Hankin- is just going to last forever on its son, Rotary Club of Bartow own, and nothing lasts forever.” County’s president-elect. “This Shafer, who lost to Geoff Dun- quickly expanded to having a can in last year’s party primary communitywide festival to cel- for the state’s lieutenant gover- ebrate our beautiful downtown norship, served as a member of area and the merchants that make the Georgia Senate for roughly RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS it so special. 17 years, including a fi ve-year Cartersville Elementary School Principal Melissa Bates monitors activity outside the school April 18 shortly after a system- “With the help of many volun- stint as the State Senate’s Presi- wide lockdown was lifted. teers, this idea has become a real- dent Pro Tempore from 2013 to ity. This is a free event. The only 2018. charges are for those that want to “I think I can best be useful Cartersville educators recount Code Red ordeal taste the beer, enter the VIP tent trying to lead our Republican BY DONNA HARRIS or participate in the chili or home Party, which I believe is in trou- [email protected] ville High English language arts teacher also is facing multiple and similar charges brew competitions.” ble,” he said. “We were thrown Heather Candela, who wrote a blog about from other jurisdictions, the release said. The beer and wine festival on the defensive in this last elec- Even if they don’t carry it out, mis- the experience. “I am just thankful it all While the suspect will have to face the will feature more than 100 craft tion cycle for the fi rst time in 15 creants who threaten violence against a ended safely and that our kids bounced charges, that won’t erase what Candela beers, over 15 local food vendors, years. The margins on a state- school cause damage and harm despite the back so quickly. On the other hand, I am and her students went through during her live music, a chili cook-off and wide basis have narrowed dra- fact that everyone is still breathing and the sure their parents still feel the effects of fi rst real lockdown – not a drill – or what a Kid’s Corner, fi lled with face matically — we are losing seats building is still standing. that adrenaline surge. I know their teach- CES Principal Melissa Bates experienced, painters, clowns and infl atables. in the suburbs of Atlanta, both on Fortunately, the threat of a shooting ers do.” knowing she was responsible for the safe- “In addition to all of these the Congressional level and the phoned in to Cartersville Elementary An investigation by the Cartersville ty of more than 1,000 people under her activities, we’ll also have a pre- State legislative level.” April 18 — two days before the 20th an- Police Department led to a juvenile from charge. mier VIP event, which will take He also said he’s seeing rifts niversary of the Columbine High School Riverdale with no actual connection to the “The adrenaline surge has left me in a place in a private tent within within the GOP itself, noting “es- massacre in Colorado — was just that, an Cartersville area being charged Tuesday puddle of exhaustion,” Candela wrote in the festival,” said Taste of Car- trangement” between the Party’s empty threat, but the students and staffs with terroristic threats and disruption of her blog. tersville Co-chair Erika Wyant, activist and donor bases and a on lockdown at the district’s four schools public schools, according to a CPD press She and her class were in the computer adding the VIP tickets are $175 State Party headquarters he said and the police force charged with keeping release. The case will be heard in Bartow lab around 1:30 p.m. when they heard the per person. “We have worked “continues to be beset with fi nan- them safe didn’t know that for a few hours. County Juvenile Court. “Code Red” announcement. with immensely talented visual cial challenges.” “The lockdown was indeed a harrowing Apparently, the Cartersville threat But what appears to be trou- experience for all of us,” said Carters- wasn’t the suspect’s fi rst rodeo, as he/she SEE LOCKDOWN, PAGE 5A SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 8A bling Shafer the most, however, is a lack of cohesion between the State Party and those on the county level. Cartersville cancer patient fulfi lls bucket list wish SEE SHAFER, PAGE 7A BY MARIE NESMITH I’m working on my bucket list. This is my No. 1, [email protected] right here. I’ve always wanted to ride a Harley.” Bagley is known in Bartow for his annual motor- Sherre Smith’s top bucket list wish came true cycle ride in memory of his late wife, Darlene, who Monday, courtesy of Buddy Bagley. The Adairsville passed away from breast cancer and ovarian cancer resident granted her request, driving her around Ex- in 2013. The benefi t generates funds for Cancer Nav- cel Christian Academy’s parking lot in Emerson on igators, a Rome-based organization that assists can- his motorcycle. cer patients in northwest Georgia. In January 2017, Smith was diagnosed with third- “You just couldn’t imagine the joy in my heart stage colorectal cancer. that I get because they asked me to go and do [this], “I went through radiation fi rst and chemo, and because my wife died of cancer,” Bagley said. “It’s then we took the tumor out [in summer 2017],” said just a joy for me to go down there and put her on Smith, who is a math teacher at Excel Christian the back of my motorcycle and ride her around the Academy and director of music at Rockmart Unit- parking lot.” ed Methodist Church.
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