Sunday Edition May 26, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Grassroots campaign seeks to Roundabouts planned for bring no-kill shelter to Bartow Cass High, BY JAMES SWIFT healthy or it’s not savable because maybe it does Hamilton [email protected] have a dangerous demeanor,” Cagle said while de- scribing the grassroots advocacy group’s mission. Crossing Lori Cagle lifted a sign at Tuesday’s public in- “What we’re after is a community agenda that we formation session for the No Kill Bartow 2020 can take Bartow County into a leadership position Elementary campaign. It simply read 19,314. in the state.” “I want you to etch this number in your mind,” The downtown Cartersville meeting was attend- BY JAMES SWIFT she said. “Unfortunately, that’s the number of an- ed by roughly two dozen people, including Bartow [email protected] imals that have been destroyed in Bartow County County Commissioner Steve Taylor, Tommy Gen- in nine years.” try of Bartow County Animal Control (BCAC) The commute to and from Cass It’s a number, she said, that has been corrected and Etowah Valley Humane Society (EVHS) Di- High and Hamilton Crossing El- by roughly 2,500 to factor out animals euthanized rector Bryan Canty. ementary could look a lot differ- for things like medical problems and “bad de- “The last few weeks here have been fabulous — ent in August, as Bartow County meanors.” All of those cats and dogs, she contest- almost no euthanizations, and somedays none at aspires to have roundabouts near ed, were otherwise healthy pets that could’ve been all,” Cagle said. “But we want it to become a decla- both schools constructed before re-homed, adopted or released to rescues. ration, not just happenstance by the fact that there classes resume later this summer. JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Lori Cagle holds a sign listing the number of animals eutha- Instead, they were all put to sleep. happened to be enough networkers and enough The proposed roundabout for nized in Bartow County over the last nine years at a “No Kill “I don’t want anybody to think that we’re out to Cass High would be positioned Bartow 2020” meeting on Tuesday. save that which is not redeemable, because it’s un- SEE SHELTER, PAGE 2A right at the intersection of Col- onel Way and Cass-White Road, while the roundabout for Hamil- ton Crossing would be positioned in front of the school near the Venezuelan current Beavers Drive intersec- tion. expat REMEMBER & REFLECT Safety improvements are at the heart of both projects, said Bar- tow County Administrator Peter discusses Olson. “Roundabouts are so much Maduro safer in terms of accidents,” he said. “There’s less accidents and regime at less severity of accidents — fa- talities plummet because any accidents that do occur are at a Bartow event very shallow angle. It’s one car kind of glancing into another BY JAMES SWIFT car versus a T-bone situation at a [email protected] high speed.” According to a 2018 Georgia Francisco J. Yelamo-Rhode, Tech study sponsored by the the guest speaker at Thursday Georgia Department of Trans- evening’s Bartow County Presi- portation (GDOT), an evaluation dents Team meeting, said he will of 27 roundabouts throughout the never forget the moment when state concluded that such invest- colectivos — members of a para- ments produced a 37% to 48% military group loyal to President reduction in crash frequencies Nicolas Maduro — held him at compared to traditional inter- gunpoint in 2013. sections. Furthermore, the study A representative of Global determined that there was a 56% Tardif Elevator Manufacturing to 69% reduction in fatal crashes Group, Yelamo-Rhode had re- and crashes with severe injuries ceived payment from the Hugo at three-leg and four-leg round- Chavez regime to install eleva- abouts that had been converted tors in a towering building that from conventional intersections. housed more than 3,000 families. They also facilitate smoother “They paid us in advance, half traffi c fl ow better than four-way a down payment,” he recollected stops, Olson said. “People keep at the Cartersville meeting. His RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS, FILE moving, so it’s an effi cient way to company spent the 2012 holidays Post 42 Commander Glen Thompson addresses the attendees of the 2016 Memorial Day Ceremony at the American handle traffi c.” mass manufacturing the equip- Legion’s Carl Boyd Post 42 in Cartersville. The catalyst for the Cass High ment, around the clock, in -35 roundabout, Olson continued, degree weather in Canada. was a confl uence of increased Less than three months later, Local groups present Memorial Day ceremonies traffi c and industrial activity in however, Chavez would die from the area. cancer. Yelamo-Rhode’s Propa- BY MARIE NESMITH in the U.S. Navy in 1978 at the age of 17 Day program will begin at 11 a.m. near the “The school’s had some close tria 2000 Foundation-fi nanced [email protected] and retired as a master chief petty offi cer Post’s fl agpole on Roosevelt Street, behind calls in the morning, so they had project was roughly three-quar- in 2009. “Their service, dedication, deter- Hobby Lobby. Open to the public, the ob- asked us to do a traffi c study of ters complete when representa- Referring to Memorial Day as a time to mination allowed the generation who fol- servance will feature a bell-ringing cere- the intersection to see what im- tives of the Maduro regime told “refl ect and remember,” Cartersville resi- lowed [to] live in a free country. We often mony, honoring Bartow County’s deceased provements might make it safer,” him that construction would be dent Glen Thompson encourages area resi- forget in today’s world, when they served veterans. he said. “We commissioned a suspended — and that he needed dents to honor those who paid the ultimate it wasn’t a plane ride lasting a couple days. “From WWI and WWII, we have over study and the engineers conclud- to return them the down payment sacrifi ce fi ghting on behalf of their country. It was months at sea on a troop carrier in 218,000 veterans who are interned at one of ed the roundabout was the best given to him under Chavez’s As the commander of the American fear of enemy torpedoes. Even the trans- the 25 cemeteries located across 16 foreign solution.” reign. Legion Carl Boyd Post 42, the U.S. Navy port came with great risk. No regular com- countries,” Thompson said. “As of April 8, Olson said he’s optimistic that According to Yelamo-Rhode, veteran is helping organize one of two Me- munication with the family back home, no 2019, according to the U.S. Department of project can be completed within the colectivos believed the 3,000 morial Day observances in Cartersville. modern communications. Letters were few Defense, the total [number] of POW/MIA the next 10 weeks. He said con- or so families in the massive “As we lose more of the ‘Great Genera- and often months old if delivered at all. To- still unaccounted for is more than 82,000 tractor work on the project is ex- multi-tenant building were all tion,’ our WWII and Korean War veterans, day, we often forget about those who never Americans remain missing from WWII, pected to begin on Monday. backers of Henrique Capriles, each year, it reminds us of the sacrifi ces returned.” Maduro’s challenger in the April they made,” said Thompson, who enlisted On Monday, the Legion’s Memorial SEE MEMORIAL DAY, PAGE 7A SEE ROUNDABOUT, PAGE 5A 2013 presidential election. And they accused Yela- mo-Rhode himself — a Vene- zuelan who moved to the United States in 1975 and returned to CCES, AMS become 1st Bartow schools to be STEM certifi ed his home country in 2010 — of selling his soul to “imperialist BY DONNA HARRIS of the quality, rigor and substance of the STEM gringos.” [email protected] educational program,” she said. “We are ex- “‘Imperialist?’” he responded tremely proud of these schools and their staff.” to his attackers. “You’re pointing Two Bartow County schools are taking their Camp said Bartow students “need exposure at me that Glock that we make in science, technology, engineering and mathe- to STEM-infused learning opportunities” that Georgia.” matics curriculum to the next level. are engaging, hands-on and challenging for stu- For that remark, Yela- Clear Creek Elementary and Adairsville dents “in order to prepare them for the in-de- mo-Rhode said he was viciously Middle became the fi rst elementary and middle mand skills in our workforce.” beaten — although bruised, he school in the county to earn district STEM cer- “The future is bright for Adairsville Middle nonetheless managed to escape tifi cations, making them ready to start the pro- School and Clear Creek Elementary School with his life. cess of being certifi ed by AdvancED, the school students as they continue to use science, tech- With the project stuck in lim- accreditation organization. nology, engineering and mathematical concepts bo, not to mention the constant Paula Camp, coordinator for Title III, ESOL, in standards-based classrooms,” she said. “Our threat of mortal peril he faced parent involvement, migrant and gifted, said recent test scores support the effectiveness of on virtually a daily basis, Yela- she is “excited two Bartow County schools STEM instructional practices, and students are mo-Rhode soon returned to the have completed the work to be district STEM making gains in all subjects.” United States.