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ParNews "Faithfully Reporting on What Matters" State of Carroll 2019 The Annual State of Carroll County Part 2 ' Council on Aging- page 16 1 Keep Carroll Beautiful- page 17 ' Clerk of Court- page 12 ' Coroner - page 10 NOVEMBER 2019 • VOLUME 25 NUMBER 11 www.starnewsgaonline.com CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER StarNews monthly traditional print publication/StarNews Online daily local news State Commissioner of Agriculture visits Carroll Carroll EMC hosts agribusiness seminar by Sam Gentry Carroll Electric Membership Cooperative held its Fall Agribusiness Seminar on Monday, October 28, 2019. The annual event was held for the first time in the new Tisinger Community Center, located at the CEMC offices at 155 North Highway 113 in Carrollton. The speaker for the night was Gary W. Black, the commissioner of agriculture for the state of Georgia. Black spoke on the impact of agriculture in the state and the ‘Georgia Grown’ program, a marketing and See COMMISSIONER GARY BLACK page 3 Shown above is the flag drop off box located at the Carroll County Veterans Memorial Park, Carrollton. Citizens may properly retire a worn flag here. See story on Carroll County Veterans Park Association below. MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS / NOVEMBER 5TH Cason elected Carrollton mayor McDougal elected Villa Rica mayor Chaffin re-elected Bowdon mayor 3443 voters participated in Nov. 5th election out of 25,354:13.49% by Sam Gentry The results are in for the November 5, 2019 Municipal Election and there are some new faces in local govern ment, while some incumbents won new terms. Of the 25,527 citizens eli gible to vote in the race, 3,443 - or 13.49% - cast a ballot. Of those, 1,308 voted in advance and 50 mailed in absentee ballots. Carrollton has its first female mayor, with Betty Cason defeating Incumbent Walt Hollingsworth. Cason received 1,511 votes, or 60.63% of the vote, while Hollingsworth received 978 votes, or 39.25%. Of the 2,492 votes cast, 1,091 were advanced, 23 were absentee by mail, and three were write-ins. See ELECTION RESULTS page 39 Temple City Council/Mayor approve holiday bonuses: $600 per full time employee; $300 per part time by Prissi Sullivan Temple City Council and Mayor met at their regularly monthly sched uled meeting at city hall on Monday, November 4, 2019. Several orders of business were addressed by the members. The council voted to select a com pany to install two new light poles at ballfields in the city park. The two existing light poles have been deter mined, through a structural inspection, to be in a deteriorating condition. Since this is not a budgeted item, another project may have to be delayed in order for the funds to be available. City Administrator Bill Osborne proposed delaying either the walking trail project, the concession See TEMPLE COUNCIL page 43 Recycling changes at county convenience centers: no more glass recycling; plastics limited to two sites Beginning Monday, November 11, 2019, there will be two major changes to recycling at the county’s conven ience centers. One change limits plas tics recycling; the other change elimi nates glass recycling. Two convenience center sites, the ne at Newnan Road and the one at Dyer Road, will be the only two sites where water bottles, soda bottles, and milk jugs can be recycled. These plas tics are identified with a number 1 or number 2 inside of the recycling symbol. Glass recycling will no longer accepted at any of the ten convenience centers as of November 11th. No changes were announced con cerning recycling of aluminum, tin, See RECYCLE CHANGES page 39 The Carroll County Veterans Memorial Park Association 20 years of remembering and honoring our local veterans past and present Tanner to build new operating suite for open heart surgeries from press release Tanner Health System is moving ahead with its plans to establish an open-heart sur gery program in Carrollton. With open-heart surgery, residents will be able to receive serv ices - like coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery - without having to travel out of the area. More than 200,000 CABG procedures are performed nationally each year. “Building a comprehensive heart care pro gram has been our goal for many years, and we’ve worked steadily toward it,” said Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner Health System. “Heart disease is the leading cause of death in our region, and as a com munity healthcare organization, it’s our role to offer the services our neighbors need to have the best chance of surviving the disease.” The health system earned state approval to expand its cardiac services, overcoming objections from other regional hospitals. See OPEN HEART page 39 County to open bidding process for employee health insurance Insurance companies who wish to bid for the county’s business may apply next February with the county’s broker The Carroll County Board of Commissioners Chairman Michelle Morgan has announced that the county will be accept ing bids for handling the county’s 559 employees health insurance beginning next February. For consideration, contact Jason Brady, Principal Northwestern Benefit, at 404-932- 4564. Restaurant inspections Who passed? Who failed? Where are you eating this week? Page 42 Obituary Listing Page 28 Marriage Licenses / Pistol Permits / Births / Cattle Page 42 LIKE US at facebook.com/ StarNewsGaOnline by Kim Reine The Carroll County Veterans Memorial Park Association iis a group of dedicated citizens devoted to providing the Carroll County Veteran’s Memorial Park to honor and memorialize veterans in all wars from the Revolution to the Gulf Wars. They are committed to planning, build ing, equipping and maintaining the Carroll County Veterans Memorial Park which is located at the roundabout on Newnan Road, Carrollton (across from West Georgia Technical College and near the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office/jail). The park is to honor all military veterans of the United States of America who are currently living in Carroll County, who have lived in Carroll County at some time or who have Carroll County connections and who honorably served their country. This includes any period of service in the Armed Forces in which the individual is currently serving or has been honorably separated from active or inactive service, beginning with the American Revolution. The management, planning, developing, administrations, fundraising for the park is totally handled by the CCVMP Association. Their mission is to honor Carroll County veterans, veterans who once lived in Carroll County, by placing their names on Walls of Honor, with their branch, rank, and service record. All wars in which Americans fought are included. The park also provides a place to assem ble on Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. It is a place for families to visit for meditation, remembering their loved one. It is also a vis- See VETERANS PARK page 33