Out of His Shell

Sunday Edition April 14, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 GHC event brings women together to tell families’ related Holocaust stories BY DONNA HARRIS from Vermont, made the discovery after Fishman [email protected] found a Jan. 5, 2019, article from The Daily Tribune News about Reiter’s Polish-diplomat grandfather be- Had it not been for Alexandra MacMurdo Reit- ing part of the clandestine scheme to smuggle South er’s grandfather, K. Heidi Fishman would’ve never American passports into Europe to save Jews from existed. being exterminated. JAMES SWIFT/DTN Georgia Centers of Innovation Through a fortuitous chain of events, the two “After this story made front-page news, I was Executive Director Steve Jus- women discovered in January that Reiter’s paternal contacted soon thereafter by a woman named Heidi tice said business incubator grandfather, Stefan Ryniewicz, used a fake foreign Fishman, who I received an email from, telling me opportunities abound in Bar- passport to help save Fishman’s maternal grandpar- that she had seen and she had read the story about tow County. ents, Heinz and Margret Spier Lichtenstern; mother, my grandfather and was excited to share with me Ruth “Tutti”; and uncle, Robbie, from being among that her grandfather was saved due to one of the RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Alexandra MacMurdo Reiter, left, and K. Heidi Fishman spoke the 6 million Jews who were killed during the Ho- passports that my grandfather helped manufacture,” Georgia at Georgia Highlands College April 4 about Reiter’s grandfather locaust. Reiter said. “So once I processed that, I thought, helping to save Fishman’s grandfather from being killed during Reiter, an assistant professor of communication at the Holocaust. Georgia Highlands College, and Fishman, an author SEE HOLOCAUST, PAGE 4A Centers of Innovation Cartersville director sees Farmer’s OUT OF HIS SHELL opportunities Market in Bartow revamping BY JAMES SWIFT [email protected] operations It doesn’t take much effort to get a hold of Steve Justice, execu- BY MARIE NESMITH tive director of the Georgia Cen- [email protected] ters of Innovation (GCI.) “Just go into Google, type Looking to develop a thriv- in ‘Georgia innovation,’ and ing community outreach, or- we’ll come right to the top,” the ganizers of the Cartersville 61-year-old says with a smile. Farmer’s Market are revamp- The head of the Georgia De- ing this year’s operations. partment of Economic Develop- “We have made some chang- ment (GDOED) division was in es,” said Lillie Read, director Bartow last week to meet with of the Cartersville Down- several “economic leaders” in town Development Authority, the community to discuss the which currently oversees the topic of potential business incu- market. “Some of the feed- bators in and around the county. back we’ve gotten from our farmers is that we don’t have a SEE JUSTICE, PAGE 4A ton of folks doing cold weather growing and seeding with the hoop houses … so a lot of folks seemed preferential to Commissioner us starting in June rather than enacts in May. “So we’re starting in June. electronic We’re running through Sep- tember, because in October billboard we were already — as part of our ongoing events cycle moratorium — had two out of the four or five weeks booked for other JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS BY JAMES SWIFT events. So we went ahead and Kenneth Vaughan, owner of Pop’s Fresh Boiled Peanuts and Fresh Pork Skins, ﬁ lls a customer’s order on Thursday. [email protected] lopped it off at the end of Sep- tember.” Roughly two months after ap- From June 1 through Sept. Peanut vendor ﬁ nds roadside success in Bartow proving a new digital billboard 28, the Cartersville Farmer’s ordinance, Bartow County Com- Market will operate every Sat- BY JAMES SWIFT week I’ve been back to work this year.” Bartow County. missioner Steve Taylor did an urday, 7 a.m. to noon, at Found- [email protected] Born and raised in Bartow, Vaughan “I used to sit there down on 411 and about-face at Wednesday’s pub- er’s Oak parking lot on North has been operating his roadside business the State put me out of business down lic meeting and issued a morato- Public Square. With swelter- With his long-sleeved plaid shirt, den- since 2007. Before that, he was a trucker there,” he said with a laugh. “Then I rium on applications to construct ing temperatures leading to im overalls and camouflage baseball for 40-plus years. moved right on down there to the clover- such billboards for the next four dwindling vendors, the market cap — not to mention his honey-roasted “I had an accident in the truck, and leaf, where the restaurants and stores are months. no longer will be presented country drawl — 75-year-old Kenneth they took me off the truck and they at, and I sat there a little over a year and “We’ve had a lot of controver- Wednesday evenings. Vaughan is pretty much the epitome of didn’t have any light duty for me so they they put me out of business there.” sy on billboards and we amended Started in the early 1980s, the Southern farmer. laid me off,” he recounted. “I was going But Vaughan — or, as he is more com- the ordinance a couple of months the seasonal offering was And after two major medical scares crazy around the house. My wife said monly known throughout Bartow, sim- ago and we’ve got several appli- spearheaded by the late Bartow last year, he said he’s plain ecstatic to be ‘Why don’t you go look at a peanut wag- ply Pop — seems to have found his an- cations today and it’s not having County Extension Agent Wal- out doing what he loves again. on and maybe get into that?’” chor at the Advance Auto Parts location the intended effect yet,” said ter Culverhouse to help local “I had back surgery, and open-heart Following his wife’s pep talk, It didn’t at 1444 Joe Frank Harris Parkway, just Bartow County Administrator farmers sell their excess pro- surgery in November,” the proud owner take long for Vaughan to purchase a spe- north of the Highway 41/Grassdale Road Peter Olson. “So we need to work duce. Through the years, the of Pop’s Fresh Boiled Peanuts and Fresh cially-outfitted truck in Dawsonville. junction. a little more on that ordinance.” market has evolved in scope, Pork Skins said while manning his And for the last 12 years, his mobile op- now offering additional items booth Thursday. “This is just the fifth eration has been a community staple in SEE PEANUTS, PAGE 2A SEE COMMISSION, PAGE 8A for purchase. SEE MARKET, PAGE 6A 2 Bartow schools charter new Beta Club chapters BY DONNA HARRIS ship] about getting a chapter started then she [email protected] asked us if we would be willing to sponsor it,” she said. “We said yes and began the process Two Bartow County schools have added an- of getting a charter, planning an induction and other way to honor their top students. starting the club. The rest, as they say, is his- Both Woodland Middle and Kingston tory.” Elementary started a chapter of the Na- When deciding on members, Smith, a sixth- tional Junior Beta Club this year and in- grade science teacher, said she and Schwartz ducted their first members in February and “followed the four pillars of the Beta Club vi- March. sion: academic achievement, character, leader- Led by sponsors Dr. Cindy Schwartz and ship and service.” Stacy Smith, the WMS chapter inducted 71 “We are so excited that we have so many students — 28 sixth-graders, 26 seventh-grad- outstanding members,” she said. “We are real- ers and 17 eighth-graders — at its inaugural ly impressed with them, and we are excited to ceremony Feb. 21. be a part of the inaugural year. The members Schwartz, who teaches sixth-grade English are showing leadership by participating in the RANDY PARKER/DTN, FILE language arts, said Woodland has a chapter service projects. They are staying academical- Teresa Lane of Emerson ar- now because eighth-grader Addison Payne ly eligible, and they have great attendance at SPECIAL ranges onions in her display “saw the need for a National Junior Beta Club the biweekly meetings.” Woodland Middle eighth-grader Kameron Chappell lights the of vegetables at last year’s at our school.” red candle of courage at the inaugural induction ceremony of Cartersville Farmer’s Market. “She asked our principal [Michael Blanken- SEE BETA, PAGE 4A the the school’s National Junior Beta Club in February. INSIDE TODAY Showers, VOLUME 72, NO. 293 Obituaries ............................. 2A Sports ................................... 1B storms Bartow Bio ............................3A Classifieds............................ 5B High 78 www.daily-tribune.com Weather ................................ 5A Around Town ....................... 1C Blotter ................................... 7A Entertainment ...................... 7C Low 44 2A Sunday, April 14, 2019 • www.daily-tribune.com Local The Daily Tribune News ContactUs OBITUARIES The Daily Tribune News age 57, of Kuhlman Street, by her mother, Beulah Ann PM from the chapel of Barton Address: Adairsville, passed away Fri- Taylor Tanner and sister, Lura Funeral Home with Rev. Jim 251 S. Tennessee St. day, April 12, 2019. Watts. Pinkard officiating. Interment Cartersville, GA 30120 She was born in Fairmount, Survivors include her chil- will follow in Pine Log Ceme- GA, May 11, 1961, daughter of dren, Benjamin (Brook) tery. Family will serve as pall- Mailing Address: 251 S.

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