Sunday Edition April 22, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Major I-75 project planned in Bartow BY JAMES SWIFT The resurfacing would include both north- leagues and coworkers. [email protected] bound and southbound lanes. While Sills said “There have been several county employees there will be some lane restrictions during the that have had windshields cracked because of Work is expected to begin this summer on a repaving, at no point does he expect I-75 to be the loose gravel along that section of the inter- major Interstate 75 resurfacing project extend- completely closed to facilitate the project. state,” he said. “The road surface gets a pound- ing from the Bartow/Cobb County line to the The Georgia Department of Transportation ing everyday from the intense truck traffic and exit for State Route 61. (GDOT) says the maintenance project will re- other vehicles using that route, and it’s just The repaving will cover roughly 15 miles of place the roadways’ current surfaces with a time to resurface it and do some general main- highway spanning from the 278 exit at Glade new type of open graded friction course tenance.” Road to the 293 exit for Highway 411. (OGFC) asphalt. The paving will be paid via state funding. Bartow County Transportation Planner Tom “The pavement is currently raveling and Sills said he expects the project to take several Sills said construction bids on the project are throwing up rocks and has a rating of 69,” an months to complete. expected to open in mid-May. After a contrac- online GDOT document states. “This project “They can’t, obviously, work on all of the tor is chosen, Sills said he would anticipate was expedited by the State Maintenance Office road at the same time, so they’ll have to stage RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS construction beginning within 30-60 days. once alerted to the serious raveling condition.” it,” he said. “I’d say give them a year or more Plans are underway for Interstate 75 in Bartow County to be There is no official estimate for the cost of Sills said he’s heard plenty of complaints to do it.” resurfaced from the Glade Road exit down to the exit for U.S. 411. the project at the moment. “They don’t want to about the conditions of I-75 near the Glade The repaving project is expected to begin this summer. jump off the bidders,” Sills said. Road exit — including some from his col- SEE REPAVING, PAGE 4A School board Cartersville candidates LIFE-CHANGING IN LIBERIA council plans discuss for quality issues ahead growth of primary BY NEIL B. MCGAHEE [email protected] BY DONNA HARRIS [email protected] Cartersville City Council opened Thursday’s meeting with an abun- In the Georgia General Primary dance of second readings. that’s only a month away, voters The first, the water and sewer in Bartow County will be decid- master bond ordinance, was ing whether to return three in- amended for the first time since it cumbents to their seats on the was adopted in 1984 and gave ap- school board or to elect some new proval for city staff to move for- faces to those positions. ward on a $56.2 million bond issue In District 1, two-term incum- that will fund several projects. bent John Howard is being chal- The second involved two tracts lenged by business owner Tony of land off Center Road that had Ross and retired veteran Larry been previously rezoned from R-20 Slocum for a seat on the seven- to R-10. The first tract, designated member board. the Etowah Preserve subdivision, Howard, 48, is vice president had been developed as far as infra- of Industrial Construction Serv- structure installation, including ices Inc. in Rydal and holds a roads, curbs and gutters, street bachelor’s degree in mechanical lights, utility lines and meters, engineering from Southern Col- stormwater pipes and detention lege of Technology. ponds but the project stalled around The Republican is married to 2008 and has sat idle since then. Kerry Howard and has a teenage The new project proposes devel- daughter, Ainsley. ZACHARY M. BROWN/SPECIAL opment of Etowah Preserve in two Ross, 52, owns Tony Ross Ren- Zach Brown, digital storyteller for Orphan Aid, Liberia, interacts with children during a previous trip to Liberia. phases. Phase One would improve ovations and attended the Georgia the existing infrastructure compo- Public Safety Training Center and nents and build as many as 199 town- Reinhardt University. Fashion Show to benefit Orphan Aid, Liberia May 3 homes. But in order to do that, the Also a Republican, Ross is developer requested rezoning from married to Kari Ross and has four BY MARIE NESMITH “I have been with OAL going on two out of the country besides my honeymoon to R-10 with conditions to RA-12. children and seven grandchildren. [email protected] years now,” Brown said. “My friend — Mexico, so I had no idea what to expect be- The second phase would occur at Slocum, 52, retired from the founder of OAL, Daryl [Roberts] — asked sides what Google gave me. a future date and the developer re- U.S. Army and is a high school For Zach Brown, assisting Orphan Aid, me for some social media advice, and I sug- “As we were pulling up to the first orphan- quested a return to its original R-20 graduate. Liberia’s efforts has turned into a life-chang- gested he gather a ton of high-res content — age, all of the kids were on each side of the zoning until market studies can be The Democrat has five chil- ing experience. Currently serving as the non- photos, videos, stories. He then asked me if road. We stopped the car and walked through conducted to determine the best use dren: Antione Slocum, Shaquille profit’s digital storyteller, the Cartersville I would be interested in joining him on his the tunnel of orphans who were all singing a of the land. Following a public Slocum, Jerica Freeman, Evan resident is planning to move to Liberia in next trip to gather some content. I thought it welcome song. I had one child per finger as hearing, council approved the de- Slocum and Jasmine Jemmott. January 2019 to “really dive in and share would be an awesome opportunity, so I they reached to touch my hair, rub my arms velopment. District 2 incumbent Dr. Davis many individual stories to our loyal donors began fundraising to cover trip fees right SEE , PAGE 5A Nelson will try to win another who are changing so many lives.” away. Up until that point, I [had] never been LIBERIA SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 2A term by battling businessman Terry Lee Eggert. Nelson, 67, is a retired educator who currently is working for Berry College. He holds an un- Opioid epidemic addressed dergraduate degree in science and education, master’s degrees in el- ementary education and school at CMC Pain Symposium leadership and administration, specialist degrees in elementary BY JAMES SWIFT the community.” education and school leadership [email protected] It’s a difficult balancing act, Gore said. As an and administration and a doctor- emergency room physician, he wants to help as ate in school leadership and ad- As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Gar- many people who are truly in pain as possible. At ministration. rett Gore — a former member of the U.S. military the same time, however, he recognizes that many The Republican has been mar- — finds himself on the frontline of an entirely dif- people exploit E.R.s as cheap and easy access ried for 45 years to his wife, Eliz- ferent kind of war: The battle against opioid ad- points for controlled substances. abeth, and they have two diction. “Why on earth would I want to go shopping for “A lot of folks come to the E.R. for the wrong drugs in some crazy place where I might get shot daughters, Mary Beth Tumlin and JAMES SWIFT/DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Lauren Nelson, and one grand- reasons,” Gore said Friday at Cartersville Medical or shanked when I can go see the nice, happy E.R. Emergency medicine physician Dr. Garrett Gore spoke about the son, Steven Tumlin. 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