Raw Food, Bugs Give Golden City a B

Our weekly list of health-and-safety-check results includes Cartersville restaurants and lodging facilities inspected from May 14 to 18.

Bartow County Environmental Health conducts inspections of local establishments to give patrons a snapshot of the operations of the businesses. Its goal is to provide consumers information to help protect themselves from the risk factors linked to illness and injury. Items on inspection lists have point values ranging from 1 to 9 points and are deducted from a best possible score of 100. Higher points are deducted for items with higher risks to cause illness. Repeat violations also cost establishments more points. Cartersville restaurants, eateries, food stores and boarding facilities inspected during the last week were: CARTERSVILLE COUNTRY CLUB, Snack Bar—96-A View Last inspection  Last 5 Inspections FAIRFIELD INN & SUITES—100-A View …

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Make Your Pick

Favorite Fro-Yo: City Swirl

The East Main Street shop beat out two others with 455 votes and five reviews.

City Swirl Frozen Yogurt is Cartersville Patch Readers' Choice for frozen yogurt. In addition to a whopping 455 of the 562 votes in our poll this week, which is 80 percent, the East Main Street shop beat out two others with five ratings and reviews in our free business directory. Five of our users gave City Swirl five-star ratings. "It makes you smile just to go in," Richard Morrow said in a review. "The colors are bright and cheery and the folks who help you seem to be at their best when serving you. What a nice place to go to. And the yogurt is fantastic too." In a few weeks, we'll ask about your favorite pet day cares or boarding facilities. In the meantime, visit our Patch directory to rate and review your favorite and least favorite …

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Visions for Vacancies: Old Tuesday's

What should go in this recently-closed restaurant in Cartersville? Tell us in the comments.

Ruby Tuesday in Cartersville recently served it last endless salad bar, a victim of lagging sales and what the corporation called a non-performing restaurant. What would you like to see in its place? What restaurant could do well in Ruby Tuesday's old location at 305 Market Place Boulevard? Help us fill in the blank. Tell us in the comments what should be there now.

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Doctors: Get Checkups, Screenings

Women should know the guidelines for cervical cancer screening have changed.

Among the most important initiatives that National Women’s Health Week, May 13 to 20, promotes for improving health and reducing the risk of certain diseases are getting regular check-ups and preventative screenings, including those for cervical cancer.  While annual Pap smears for screening the latter are now no longer generally recommended, adult females should still have a yearly exam, Hugo Ribot and Malcolm Barfield, doctors with Cartersville Ob/Gyn Associates, said in a press release.   “The guidelines for cervical cancer screening have recently changed,” Ribot added. “They now recommend less frequent screening—with none for women younger than 21 or older than 65 years of age and Pap smear testing every three years for those 21 to 29 …

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4 Bedroom, 3 Bath in Serene Setting

This Planters subdivision home in Cartersville is for sale and listed at $205,000.

Views of a pasture and cows roaming outside the back door set this available Cartersville home apart from the rest. Built in 2004, the house at 89 Colonial Circle NW in the Planters boasts four bedrooms and three bathrooms, about 2,500 square feet of living space, and a screened porch and private, fenced yard. It's listed with Bonnie Mullinax for $205,000.

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