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AUGUST 2018 • VOLUME 24 NUMBER 8 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER
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Mother’s Finest
HEADLINING AT THE ML
7:30PM -10PM
Mother’s Finest
at The Mill Villa Rica
Saturday, Aug. 18th
Page5
“Gospel Gathering”
Saturday, Aug. 18th at
Villa Rica First Baptist
Page 10
“Helping children cope with
back to school anxiety”
by Kim Reine
Page 12
“For the Bible tells me so”
Ed Wilson - columnist
Page 20
Mom & Baby Fair
Saturday, August 25th at
Tanner Medical/Carrollton
Page 18
“The Journey of Dementia”
Understanding dementia
Page 2
Restaurant inspections
Who passed? Who failed?
Where are you eating this week?
Marriage Licenses • Births
Pistol Permits • Cattle Sales
Page 25
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Primary Election Runoff results:
Kemp wins Republican nominee
spot: will face Democrat Abrahms
in General Election November 5th
Commission votes to accept
ten year comprehensive plan:
Local governments are required to adopt a comp plan
to maintain status as Qualified Local Government: this
allows access to state grant funds, loans, and permits
by Sam Gentry
The General Primary Election,
Nonpartisan General Election and
Special Election Runoff was held
July 24, 2018 in the state of
Georgia. According to the results,
new faces could be taking com
mand of several top-level state
offices.
In the Primary, in the five-per
son race for Republican
Gubernatorial candidate, Casey
Cagle and Brian Kemp garnered
enough votes each to necessitate a
runoff. Cagle received 39.62% of
the vote, or 3,894 votes, while
Kemp received 26.61%, or 2,615
votes. Third place in the race was
Clay Tippins, who received 1,746
votes, or 17.77%.
Now, with runoff results in and
official, Kemp is the clear and
undisputed winner over L.S.
Casey Cagle for the Republican
nomination. Kemp received
408,595 votes, or 69.45%, while
Cagle received 179,712 votes, or
30.55% of the vote.
In Carroll County, Kemp beat
Cagle by an even larger margin.
Kemp received 6,531 votes, or
76.03%, and Cagle received 2,059
votes, or 23.97%.
See RUNOFF RESULTS page 26
Prissi Sullivan
Janet Hyde, Carroll County
Planner, presented the County
Comprehensive Plan to the Board
of Commissioners at their work
session held 4:00 p.m. Thursday,
August 2, 2018. A Special Called
Meeting was held at 6:00 p.m.
Commissioners had received a
copy of the voluminous report.
Hyde detailed the highlights.
“Hie future land use plan con
tains the most significant
changes,” she stated. “We did not
have the expected growth due to
the economic downturn of 2008.”
A leading educator on
dementia to present:
Tuesday, Aug. 28th
at Midway Church
Expert Teepa Snow:
“The Journey of Dementia”
by Sam Gentry
Hie Alzheimer’s Group of
Carroll County, Inc. is dedicated
to helping those affected by all
forms of dementia lead the best
lives possible. As part of their
efforts, the organization is hosting
a renowned speaker and expert on
the ciisease, Teepa Snow, and the
public is invited.
Hie non-profit organization,
which has been in existence for 25
years, provides education, sup
port, and respite to those in the
local community coping with
See TEEPA SNOW page 16
Hyde also made it clear that the
plan is a dynamic document that
responds to changing needs and
conditions. The county will need
to review the plan periodically.
The BOC and the Planning
Commission will consider each
See 2018 COMP PLAN page 13
University is
partner with
solar energy
company
by Colton Campbell
University of West Georgia
Members of Solarize
Carrollton-Carroll want local resi
dents to live on the sunny side of
life - literally. The organization -
of which the University of West
Georgia is a coalition partner -
strives to substantially increase
the number of solar energy instal
lations in Carrollton, Carroll
See SOLARIZE page 4
Tanner hospital
opens neonatal
intensive care
unit with a “mom
and baby event”
from press release
Becoming a new mother cre
ates a torrent of emotion like no
other life experience — excite
ment, love, uncertainty, fear. New
mothers have all kinds of ques-
See MOM/BABY FAIR page 8
Rock Candy Records reissues Fortnox albums
Carroll County, Georgia’s own 1980s band Fortnox who
opened for Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, and Johnny Van
Zant, is seeing a revival of their music with the reissue of
their albums by Rock Candy Records. See story Page 6.
