Sunday Edition May 20, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Cartersville Cities, county anticipate City Council considers 2020 SPLOST revenue BY NEIL B. MCGAHEE has funded various county and city projects includ- future growth, [email protected] ing construction of the county jail and the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Building, ex- current needs If Bartow County voters approve a proposed pansion of the health department facility, construc- 2020 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax tion of a senior citizens center, several new fire BY NEIL B. MCGAHEE (SPLOST) on May 22, the county and six of its station facilities and the Clarence Brown Confer- [email protected] seven municipalities stand to collect more than $160 ence Center in addition to a number of road, water million over a six-year period. and sewer projects. The Cartersville City Council’s Since it was enacted by the Georgia legislature in Following the expiration of the 2014 SPLOST, 1989, SPLOST authorizes a county to add a one the county and municipalities stands to collect its Thursday meeting centered around RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS planning for future growth while percent sales tax to the state sales tax, to be used for share of $160 million paid over a six-year period. If approved, local SPLOST funds will be used for renovations and serving the city’s current needs. funding capital projects. Now in its sixth iteration, expansions to the gold dome courthouse in downtown SEE , PAGE 8A In a first reading, T18-04, a zon- the county has received more than $397 million that SPLOST Cartersville. ing request from Trinity United Methodist Church, 814 West Av- enue, asked for an electronic sign boundary revision, that would allow the church to replace its ex- A Reason to Celebrate BHM isting monument sign for an elec- tronic monument sign. “Right now under the current ordinances, those types of signs presents aren’t allowed east of the intersec- tion of Henderson Drive and West Avenue,” said Director of Plan- RANDY PARKER/DTN Sip ‘N ning and Development Randy Mannino “The applicant is look- Left, Woodland High ing to move the boundary 500 feet School graduates, from east from the Henderson Drive in- left, Kaitlyn Hanks, Audrey Morris and Stroll tersection to be able to accommo- Lindsay Scifers celebrate date electronic monument signs immediately following BY MARIE NESMITH for their church.” Saturday morning’s [email protected] Mannino said the planning and graduation ceremony in zoning board approved the re- the school’s gym. Below, Still fixtures in downtown quest, however, because it was a valedictorian Christian Cartersville, the 1869 Courthouse, first reading no action could be Welch takes a moment to The Grand Theatre and Young taken. A second reading will be gather his emotions as he Brothers Pharmacy will be among thanks his father during heard at the June 7 meeting. his address at the those taking center stage during the Derek Hampton, assistant direc- ceremony. Sip ‘N Stroll event. Starting at 7 tor of the electric system, told the p.m., the offering will be presented council that the Municipal Electric by the Bartow History Museum Authority of Georgia (MEAG), Thursday. which supplies the City of “Sip ‘N Strolls are events that are Cartersville with wholesale power, happening all over the South, and was asking the city to approve an we thought it would be great to amendment to their sales contracts bring one to Cartersville,” said to eliminate the comprehensive Joshua Graham, BHM’s manager engineering report (CFR). of programs. “Participants will be “MEAG has traditionally sub- able to have a glass of wine at our mitted the comprehensive engi- museum, and as the evening cools neering report every year,” off we’ll have a walking tour of Hampton said. “They did not have downtown where we talk about in- the staff to do it in house, so they teresting stories connected to some had to contract it [to] an outside of the iconic buildings. source, which has cost about SEE BHM, PAGE 7A $100,000 a year.” He said they now have enough staff to produce the engineering report in house, using the informa- tion contained in MEAG’s annual 4-H senior Information statement. By produc- ing the report in house, MEAG horse-judging will be able to reduce their expen- ditures by $100,000. team takes SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 2A 4th place at state contest Governor hopeful’s ‘Deportation BY DONNA HARRIS Bus’ rolls into Cartersville [email protected] Another team of Bartow County BY JAMES SWIFT nally made its arrival at Starbucks — only to hook 4-H’ers had a strong showing at a [email protected] a left on Main Street and keep on driving. state competition. Long story short? The bus did arrive in The high school horse-judging Perhaps it could be called “impromptu cam- Cartersville, only at a different location than ini- team of Benjamin Craven, Bethany paigning.” tially advertised: the parking lot near the Publix Craven, Gabriel Craven and Kara On his official Facebook page, Georgia guber- supermarket in the Main Street Shopping Center. Turner came in fourth place overall at the State 4-H Horse Judging natorial candidate Michael Williams said his “Starbucks had reached out to us and asked us Contest in Athens last month after wildly controversial “Deportation Bus” would be not to come there, so we obliged them,” the Re- competing against 23 individuals making a pit stop in Cartersville Thursday after- publican challenger told The Daily Tribune News and six other teams from across noon. in a telephone interview. “Behind the bus we had Georgia, and Kara also took second The social media page said the time and location several of our supporters show up as well as a place overall in the individual com- would be 3 p.m. at the Starbucks at 605 East Main few, I guess you would call, ‘protestors’ or ‘those petition. JAMES SWIFT/DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS St. A handful of protestors arrived at the coffee that were more interested in the message of the “For such a new team to horse From left, Michael Williams supporters Joe Webb, Marissa shop about a half hour early — one of whom car- bus.’” judging, it was exciting to earn Hardwick, Dolly Gill and Keaton Broumley rally behind the ried a sign reading “Nazi Tears, Best Tears.” gubernatorial hopeful in Cartersville. Around 3:30 p.m., the bus appeared to have fi- SEE WILLIAMS, PAGE 6A SEE 4-H, PAGE 4A Hundreds flock to Tellus to meet astronaut JAMES SWIFT/DTN Robert Shane BY JAMES SWIFT Georgia and earned a master’s de- miles per hour, Kimbrough orbited spacewalks to change out the sta- Kimbrough [email protected] gree from Georgia Tech, has been the planet once every 90 minutes. tion’s batteries — some of which said he on two trips to space. He served as He recounted watching the sun rise weighed in excess of 700 pounds. anticipates More than 200 people — includ- a specialist for the STS-126 mission — and set — every 45 minutes. Depending on the position of the NASA putting ing quite a few children clad in to the International Space Station “It took me to get off the planet,” sun, he said it was a task he per- astronauts on the moon NASA costumes — showed up Fri- (ISS) in 2008 and spent about six he said, “to really appreciate the formed in temperatures as hot as within the next day at Tellus Science Museum to months aboard the ISS from Oct. planet.” 200 degrees Fahrenheit or as chill- five to 10 hear a guest lecture from real-life 2016 to April 2017. If hurtling through space at 300 ing as -200 degrees. years. astronaut Robert Shane Kimbrough. About 250 miles above Earth and miles per minute wasn’t harrowing Kimbrough, who grew up in traveling approximately 17,000 enough, he also performed several SEE ASTRONAUT, PAGE 5A INSIDE TODAY Partly Obituaries . .2A Around Town . .1C sunny VOLUME 72, NO. 13 U.S.& World . .4A Entertainment . .7C High 87 Blotter . .7A Business . .1D www.daily-tribune.com Sports . .1B Classified . .4D Low 66 2A Sunday, May 20, 2018 • www.daily-tribune.com Local The Daily Tribune News ContactUs OBITUARIES The Daily Tribune News Emily Ann Chalmers; loving sister to her with a goal to complete her Spe- from 6-9pm at the Chapel of Ken- Joyce Rutledge Address: brothers Billy Chalmers (Beverly) cialist degree in the future. She nesaw First Baptist Church lo- 251 S. Tennessee St. Ms. Joyce Rutledge, 77, died Cartersville, GA 30120 Chalmers Howell and Michael Chalmers (Kim); fulfilled her dream of becoming an cated at 2958 North Main Street, Emily Ann Chalmers Howell, cherished aunt to her nieces, elementary school teacher when Kennesaw, GA 30144. The funeral Friday, May 18, 2018, at Floyd Medical Center. Funeral Mailing Address: age 32, of Dallas, Georgia, passed Mackenzie Chalmers and Carson she was hired at Ronald W. Rus- service will be held on Tuesday, 251 S. Tennessee St. away on Tues- Chalmers and nephew, Adam som Elementary School, where May 22nd, at 11:00 am at the Arrangements are pending at Par- Cartersville, GA 30120 day, May 15, Chalmers. She was preceded in she was a 4th grade teacher to her Gathering Center at Kennesaw nick Jennings Funeral Home and 2018. death by her grandparents, Myr- “precious kiddos,” as she called First Baptist Church with Rev. Cremation Services. Phone: 770-382-4545 Emily was After 5 p.m.: 770-382-4548 tice and Otis Chalmers and them.