Sunday Edition August 4, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Cartersville OKs Townsley Bartow County students make Drive homeless shelter signifi cant gains BY JAMES SWIFT against the proposal to the podium. on Georgia [email protected] Things got considerably more heated once the public hearing on the actual special-use Milestones The Cartersville City Council voted unan- permit request for the Townsley Drive shelter imously to approve a special-use permit al- opened. Townsley Drive resident Donna Willis Assessments lowing a new homeless shelter to open along presented council members with a large stack Townsley Drive at Thursday evening’s meeting. of papers, which she said contained a list of 911 BY DONNA HARRIS But the hearing was not without its fair share of calls to the Porter Street homeless shelter over [email protected] controversy and contentious debate. the last fi ve years. A preceding text amendment application “I requested an open records request for Students in both Bartow from Homeless Shelter Action Committee, Inc. those calls,” she said. “Twenty-two months County school systems pleased — the operators of Good Neighbor Homeless were missing … there’s approximately 150 pag- their district leaders with the JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Shelter on Porter Street — to allow homeless es of calls, and I was wondering why that was signifi cant gains they made on Cartersville Chief of Police Frank McCann speaks at a public shelters as permitted uses in the City’s multi- not addressed.” the Georgia Milestones Assess- hearing on a special-use permit request for a new homeless shelter on Townsley Drive at Thursday evening’s city council ple-use (M-U) districts likewise received unan- ments they took in the spring. meeting. imous approval, but drew no speakers for or SEE SHELTER, PAGE 5A In the Bartow County School System, the elementary and high schools saw increases in all content areas over last year’s test scores while Cartersville Adairsville students performed at or above the state average in 20 out of school the 24 assessments. The testing system, admin- principals istered for the fifth year, is BĞ ęčĊ BĔĔĐ a comprehensive summative espouse assessment program across grades 3-12 that includes STEM ‘Policing Greene’ open-ended and technolo- gy-enhanced questions to bet- education at highlights law ter gauge students’ mastery of the content in English language Chamber event enforcement arts, mathematics, science and social studies. BY JAMES SWIFT career of The state-mandated assess- [email protected] ments were administered 100% online for the fi rst time during While the textbook defi nition Cartersville the last school year, except for of STEM is “science, technolo- students who require a paper/ gy, engineering and mathemat- resident’s father pencil test as an accommoda- ics,” Adairsville Middle School tion. Principal Tony Stanfi ll said the BY MARIE NESMITH End-of-grade assessments school’s curriculum encompasses [email protected] are required by the state in En- so much more. glish language arts and math Indeed, he said the entire pro- Pleased with their book’s reception, for grades 3-8 and in science gram revolves around what he author Harold “Hal” McAlister and Tom and social studies for grades 5 describes as “the fi ve C’s.” Lewis are shining a light on the contribu- and 8. “Number one is the critical tions of the latter’s late father in “Policing High school students are re- thinking,” Stanfi ll said at Thurs- Greene: A Policeman at the Sunset of the quired to take end-of-course day morning’s Eggs and Issues Jim Crow South.” assessments in ninth-grade lit- event at NorthPointe Church in After a career in retail sales, Carlton erature and composition, Amer- Adairsville, which was spon- Lewis started a new professional chapter, ican literature and composition, sored by the Cartersville-Bartow entering law enforcement at the age of 48 in Algebra I or coordinate algebra, County Chamber of Commerce. 1964. Known as being “fi rm but fair to all,” geometry or analytic geometry, “I hear from so many of you guys he served as a sheriff’s deputy for Greene biology, physical science, U.S. that if you could just get kids to County from 1964 to 1976 and the police history and economics. come to work, stay at work, think chief of Union Point from 1976 to 1986. The exams assess student on their own, communicate with “First, I wanted to recognize dad for his learning on four levels of their coworkers and collaborate service and the way he handled many situa- achievement: Beginning Learn- with their coworkers, we can do tions,” said 68-year-old Lewis, who resides in ers (do not yet demonstrate the rest.” Cartersville. “He was by no means perfect, profi ciency in the knowledge And heaven help employers if but he was a very good man who was serious and skills necessary at this there’s a dispute in the workplace. about being a good and fair policeman. grade level/course of learning), “God forbid there be an argu- “It bothers me greatly that our dedicat- Developing Learners (demon- ment,” he said, “they don’t know ed law enforcement offi cers today are not RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS strate partial profi ciency), Pro- how to work it out.” getting enough credit for the job they are Author Harold McAlister, left, collaborated with Tom Lewis, right, to pen “Po- fi cient Learners (demonstrate Addressing those inevitable doing. I also wanted to show that the South licing Greene.” profi ciency and are prepared business-world dilemmas, Stan- had leaders that tried to do the right thing attacked and shot while he was sitting in Noting it was “tough” to hear his fa- for the next grade level/course fi ll said, is one of the linchpins of [during] a very diffi cult time in our history.” his car, I got the notes from the tapes out ther’s voice on the recordings after more and are on track for college and AMS’ STEM curriculum. While Following his friend’s advice, Lewis de- and read them. than 30 years, Lewis shared the tapes with career readiness) and Distin- the students may be working on cided to preserve key moments of his fa- “Growing up watching dad face so many McAlister. The two men initially formed guished Learners (demonstrate technical troubleshooting, he said ther’s 22-year law enforcement career. situations and seeing my mother suffer a close rapport when they were working advanced profi ciency and are those same skill sets can easily be “One day while he was visiting me in through every close call he had, I felt his at Georgia State University — Lewis was well-prepared). transferred over to interpersonal Cartersville, I got him to tell me all about story needed to be told. First, I wanted it the vice president for external affairs at the Bartow County and Carters- matters. his career and the close calls on his life. I told for my grandchildren. As they studied time and McAlister, an astronomy profes- ville administered EOGs and “These aren’t artsy, cutesy proj- was so glad I did this because he died of how the South is portrayed in so many arti- sor. Joining Georgia State in 1991, Lewis EOCs in April and May, and ects, you must solve a problem,” a massive heart attack 10 weeks later,” he cles and news accounts, they needed to see retired from the university earlier this year, the Georgia Department of Ed- he said. “And in that problem said, referring to his father’s passing in that there were good leaders making good with his fi nal position being senior advisor ucation released the scores July process, they do the engineering 1986. “I just could not listen to the tapes decisions about how to handle some of the to the president. 26. process where they run into an until about a year ago. One day after read- situations. I wanted them to know their error and they redesign it.” ing about some policeman that had been great grandfather and grandmother.” SEE POLICING, PAGE 8A SEE MILESTONES, PAGE 7A Which, naturally, segues to the second “C” of Stanfi ll’s STEM education framework — good old-fashioned collaboration. And that, he said, doesn’t just benefi t the students. Bartow may be among fi rst with new voting equipment “It’s more important, probably, for the teachers,” he said. “Be- BY JAMES SWIFT tem online in time for November’s “That will allow us to do audits af- cause they have got to collabo- [email protected] municipal-level elections. If not, he ter the election and ensure everything rate with one another to be on the anticipates the equipment being in- is as it should be,” he said. “We ex- same page when we have these Georgia Secretary of State Brad stalled by March, just prior to the pect a lot less issues than we had with STEM walks.” Raffensperger announced Monday presidential primaries. our current system in the last couple Conversely, Stanfi ll said the that Denver-based Dominion Vot- “I should have at least some piece of years — because it’s brand spank- third “C,” communication, is an ing Systems had been selected as of equipment here in the next month ing new, we shouldn’t see the kind of especially important piece for the vendor for the State’s new paper to start demonstrating,” he said. problems that plagued us in the last students.