THURSDAY June 21, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER 75 CENTS Daylily Show takes bloom Saturday BY MARIE NESMITH Civic Center, 435 W. Main St. Cartersville the last three [to] four divisions will be decided by Peo- [email protected] “The Daylily Show began about years, as now most of the members ple’s Choice votes. … Visitors may 20 years ago in Rome or Calhoun live in Cartersville. vote for their favorites after 1.” Striving to dazzle attendees with by the original members of the “… The daylily entries will be For Jessie Worsham — the flower’s “staggering” diversity, club,” said NWGDS Secretary judged by two panels of three NWGDS’ president and chair- the Northwest Georgia Daylily So- David Bishop, whose Cartersville judges from other parts of Georgia. woman of the society’s Daylily ciety’s Daylily Show and Plant property — featuring 2,100 daylily The winning entries in 11 sections Show — the upcoming offering Sale will be presented Saturday. cultivars — has received the Amer- may be viewed after the judges fin- will be an ideal way to introduce While the sale will kick off at 10 ican Hemerocallis Society Display ish, about 1 [p.m.]. There will be a the public to this “extraordinary” a.m., the show will be open to the pub- Garden designation and was fea- Design Division of floral displays. specimen. RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS lic at 1 p.m., with both events wrap- tured on his society’s June 2 tour. There will also be an Off Scape Di- A visitor tours the gardens of David and Doris Bishop on the SEE , PAGE 8A ping up at 3 p.m. at the Cartersville “The show has been held in vision. Both of the winners of those DAYLILY June 2 Northwest Georgia Daylily Society tour. Attorney killed in murder-suicide Man found guilty of multiple sexual battery counts BY JAMES SWIFT [email protected] Jurors returned guilty verdicts in six out of eight charges in the case of The State vs. Donald Scott Wiswall in Bartow Superior Court Wednesday afternoon. Wiswall was found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual battery, one count of sexual battery, one count of aggravated assault, one count of battery and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was found not guilty on one count of aggravated sexual battery and one count of sexual battery. According to a bill of indictment, Wiswall sexually penetrated the then-20-year-old female victim with his fingers on or about July 30, 2015. Per the victim’s testimony, Wiswall brandished a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol during the in- cident and threatened to shoot both RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS the victim and her sleeping Two people are dead in the wake of a murder that transpired at 605 North Tennessee St. in Cartersville Wednesday afternoon. boyfriend at the Avonlea Highlands apartment complex in Cartersville. On the witness stand, the victim Antonio Mari found dead in Cartersville law office said she and her then-boyfriend met Wiswall at a local bar and allowed BY JAMES SWIFT committed suicide. him to stay at their residence until [email protected] Cartersville Police Department someone else could pick him up. Lieutenant Mike Bettikofer said After her boyfriend, who had JAMES SWIFT/DTN Bartow County Coroner Joel the homicide occurred between been drinking heavily throughout Authorities Guyton has confirmed that two 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. the night, passed out, the victim investigate the people are dead in the wake of a Mari opened his Cartersville law said Wiswall began knocking on murder of a homicide that transpired at 605 firm in 2009. He also instructed her bedroom door. He asked her to local attorney North Tennessee St. in Cartersville classes at Cass High School from step outside to write down her ad- at his office dress; that’s when she said he Wednesday Wednesday afternoon. 2000-2011. punched her in the face and began afternoon at According to Guyton, local at- According to Bartow Superior to force himself on her. 605 North torney Antonio Benjamin Mari Court documents, Mari repre- The victim said she fled the Tennessee St. was shot and killed by suspect sented Cindy Radford, Walter in Cartersville. apartment after Wiswall, who had Walter Samuel Radford with a Samuel Radford’s spouse, in a also consumed a large amount of handgun. complaint for divorce held this alcohol throughout the night and Guyton said Radford then went week. early morning, seemingly passed to his wife’s residence on Police say the investigation is Willow Bend Drive and ongoing. SEE VERDICT, PAGE 8A GHC offers way for students to get leg up on required math courses FIRST BY DONNA HARRIS 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday she start with Math 1113,” she said. [email protected] and 9 a.m. to noon on Friday at the “Students can only start with that college’s Cartersville campus. course, though, if they have an SAT TASTE A math boot camp might not be The pilot program is free for any of 620 — 32 on the new SAT — or the typical idea of summer fun, but it incoming GHC students who quali- higher or an ACT of 25 or higher; could help students get a jump-start fied to take the Math 1111 — college otherwise, they must start with Math on their college math requirements. algebra — exemption exam by scor- 1111 – college algebra. Students who Georgia Highlands College’s new ing 550 or higher on the SAT (or 28.5 fall below this cutoff do have an op- F STEMFIT math boot camp aims to or higher on the new SAT) or 22 or tion of taking an exemption exam for O help incoming high school dual-en- higher on the ACT math section. college algebra, but often times, that rollment students and college fresh- Melanie Largin, dean of the divi- content was early in their high school men get ahead by preparing them to sion of mathematics and computer career, and some of the nuances of start at a collegiate mathematic level science, said the camp will refresh the math have been forgotten. We are of pre-calculus or higher. students’ college algebra skills and running the boot camp to provide a SUMMER Sponsored by the GHC Center for improve their chances of passing the refresher for that content and thus in- STEM Learning and a University exemption test so they can start in crease a student’s chances of passing System of Georgia STEM Initiative Math 1113 — pre-calculus. the exemption exam and being able RANDY PARKER/DTN grant, the science, technology, engi- “In order for a STEM student to to start with pre-calculus.” Bryce Hopkins, of Acworth, enjoys an neering and mathematics camp will stay on track for the earliest possible Ice Dream cone at the LakePoint take place July 16-20 from 9 a.m. to graduation, it is important that he or SEE GHC, PAGE 8A Chick-fil-A. 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Managing Editor 10, 1940 in In- Lane Tow and The Reverend rial Service will be held at Atco She is preceded in death by her Jennifer Moates, dianapolis, In- William Arthur Lamar Hayes officiating. His Baptist Church on Saturday June Advertising Director diana to the late infant son, Keith, and her parents. Edens ashes will be interred in the Geor- 23, 2018 at 11:00AM with the Frank Britto- She is survived by her loving Mindy Salamon, In loving memory of William gia National Cemetery. family receiving friends from nand Helen and devoted husband of fifty Office Manager/Classified Arthur Edens, Jr., age 77, who Parnick Jennings Funeral Home 10:30 until service begins.