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Vol. 48, No. 86

County looks ahead after transit bill passes

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash was delighted to see legislators pass a bill that addresses regional transit in metro Atlanta this past week, but now Gwinnett has to figure out what comes next.

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The fact that Nash was happy to see House Bill 930 pass was not a surprise.

David Charlotte She had been a champion Ralston Nash of the bill, which creates a 13-county regional area counties do 30-year transitthat will draw up a transit related SPLOSTs and lets road map for the area, lets Gwinnett give voters a

chance this fall to decide if the county should join Kevin MARTanner TA. Nash had also made some trips to the state Capitol over the last few

months to advocate for the bill’s passage. The plan also enjoyed some high profile backing from Speaker of the House David Ralston, Gov. Nathan Deal and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

“I am very excited by the passage of HB 930,” Nash said. “I appreciate so much the support for the effort from the governor,

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Code yellow Pesky pollen afflicts sufferers of allergies

Max DeCook finds salvation in building overseas water plant

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

You can feel it even before you step outside and see it.

The symptoms often appear in the form of sneezes, followed by stuffy or runny noses and itchy, watery eyes.

Stepping outside into clouds of yellow, there’s no question as to what ails you: it’s allergy season in Georgia.

“Allergies are basically an overreaction of your body to the particles in the air,” said Dr. Miles Sharpe, a physician at Eastside Primary Care. “You get a lot of mucus buildup and that can lead to infections. While (infections) are rarer, allergies seem to affect nearly everyone and we recommend taking histamine blockers to combat the symptoms.”

Though there are dozens of plants and molds that contribute to allergies, most spring pollens come from trees, while fall allergies are often triggered by ragweed and other brush.

According to Atlanta Allergy and Asthma, the area’s largest group of allergists, on Saturday, the city’s pollen count reached its highest numbers yet this season — 3,387.

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

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On a map, 17-year-old Max DeCook is thousands of miles from his troubles — an ocean away from a past that he has put behind him and instead looking toward the future of Eternal Water, a company he co-founded.

DeCook has spent the past few months in Ghana, a shade under 5,500 miles east of his hometown of Braselton, organizing and building a water facility to help make fresh water more accessible to nearby residents.

The idea of a business began with a family friend and Ghanaian native Stephen Aboagye meeting with the DeCook family.

During the first visit, they discussed potentially setting up a business in Ghana because of how much growth the country has experienced.

MORE ONLINE “We told Visit gwinnettdailypost.com Max it was for a photo gallery. our job to help him succeed,” said Andrea, Max’s mother. “That was one of the reasons we wanted to support him in this.”

Both DeCook and Aboagye decided to address clean water, which is a problem for residents in Ghana because of the high salt content in the water supply.

Initially, they planned on buying and retrofitting an existing water facility to house the newly formed Eternal Water company. However, advice from his father changed his mind.

“He said for me to go with my gut,” DeCook said. “I thought we could build one from scratch. It just felt right to me.”

For the past few months, they have transformed a plot of land they purchased into the makings of a two-story structure that will have equipment on the first floor and a four-bedroom, apartment-style living quarters on the second quarter.

“This is my baby,” DeCook said.

“We’ve taken it from just a piece of land and are making something out of it.”

DeCook spends most of the time in Ghana, but has come back to select the logo for Eternal Water, which was designed by an art class at West Hall High School in Oakwood, Ga.

the lieutenant governor and the speaker. I also appreciate the time and energy that (House Transportation Committee) Chairman Kevin Tanner and (Senate Transportation Committee) Chairman Brandon Beach put into passage of good legislation.”

The House passed the

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17-year-old Braselton native Max DeCook has focused his life on supplying water to villages in Ghana. Eternal Water has used students from West Hall High School to design a logo for its company. (Special Photos)

But before he made his trek to western Africa, he battled internal conflicts.

As a student, DeCook bounced around multiple schools, first at Mill Creek High School as a freshman, then finishing his ninth-grade year at Riverside Military

Pollen coats roads and streets throughout Gwinnett. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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“I wasn’t really on top of things my ninth-grade year and didn’t really enjoy school,” DeCook said. “Going to military See WATER, Page 5A

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BOC honors North Gwinnett’s state champions Mobile golf simulator B C Y donated to Gwinnett public library system North Gwinnett High Y

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School’s state championship football team found itself back in the spotlight this past week and picked up a recognition from Gwinnett County commissioners in the process.

County Commissioner Jace Brooks issued a proclamation to the team, honoring them for their state title, during the Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday.

The team beat Colquitt County in the Class AAAAAAA state championship game in December, winning its first state title in football on a field goal as time ran out in the game.

“Let’s hear it for your state champions,” Brooks

BY CURT YEOMANS

Gwinnett County Commissioner Jace Brooks, third from left, presented a proclamation to North Gwinnett High School’s football coaches and players in recognition of their state championship Tuesday. (Photo: Gwinnett County)

said after the proclamation was read into the record. “Everyone (on the commission) knows just how excited I am to say that North Gwinnett

is state champions. I’m so excited for this team and all they have accomplished.

“I was telling (Head Coach Bill Stewart) ear-

lier that I’ve seen a lot of football games (but) this will probably go down for me as the best football game at any level that I’ve ever seen in my life.”

GGC physicist proves stability of extreme black holes

BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

Georgia Gwinnett College associate professor of physics Dr. Lior Burko’s research on black holes was published in the Physical Review D on Thursday.

Burko, who co-authored the work titled “Linearized Stability of Extreme Black Holes” with Dr. Gaurav Khanna, a physics professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, demonstrates the stability of extreme black holes, which potentially could change how theoretical physicists think.

The work is listed as a Rapid Communication in the journal, which covers particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology.

Extreme black holes differ from traditional black

exposure to the game of golf, while also broadening the types of programs the library can offer the Gwinnett County community,” the library residents can do a lot of system’s development activities at their local manager, Shelly Schwerlibraries. zler, said in a statement.

“Thanks to the generous In addition to checking out books, they can make donation of a golf simulator, children who may not items on a 3-D printer, create and edit videos, re- otherwise have access to cord audio or use software golf can try it out through a series of programs beprovided to help them ing planned for multiple with their homework.

And now they can also library branches.”

The simulator will be play golf. shown off in the tournaWait, golf? Yep, golf. ment’s expo area at this The Mitsubishi Elecyear’s Mitsubishi Electric tric Classic and GwinClassic at TPC Sugarloaf nett Sports Commission announced this past week in Duluth. Officials said the library system will that they have donated have a booth at the tournaa mobile golf simulator ment from 10 a.m. to 5 to the Gwinnett County p.m. April 13 to April 15 Public Library system. to give visitors an op“We are proud to partner in a program with portunity to learn about the library system and its our fantastic library sysprograms in addition to tem that puts a focus on literacy through sports ac- trying out the simulator.

Visitors will also have tivities,” Gwinnett Sports a chance to sign up for a Commission Executive Director Stan Hall said in library card at the booth.

After the tournament, a statement. “This simulathe simulator is expected tor offers great incentive to rotate between the for students to continue various branches in Gwintheir focus on reading while becoming more ac- nett’s library system, climated to the great game giving patrons around the county an opportunity of golf.” to try it out. The library Although Gwinnett’s system is expected to offer libraries have been emprograms centered around bracing technology more and more in recent years, sports-themed books as well as reading-centric it is believed that this is incentives that offer kids a the first time the system has offered a program that chance to spend more time in the simulator. is designed to increase “Education and physical literacy but is also sportsactivities are tantamount driven. to the overall develop“Gwinnett Public ment of a child,” Hall said.

Library is excited to “This program provides partner with the Mitsubiboth, and we could not shi Electric Classic and Gwinnett Sports Commis- be more excited about its sion to increase access and potential.”

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Lior Burko, associate professor of physics at Georgia Gwinnett College, was published in the Physical Review D on Thursday. His research demonstrates the stability of extreme black holes. (Special Photo)

holes because they have the fastest possible spin allowed by Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Previous understandings presumed that these objects were unstable, and thus did not exist in nature.

However, through new

approaches in computational research, Burko and Khanna found that extreme black holes are stable and therefore may someday be detected by gravitationalwave observatories.

“Previous researchers were not wrong, but

because their calculations’ perspectives were limited, they found instability,” Burko said. “Our computations took a broader view of the phenomenon, revealing stability.”

The team’s work is important for string theory because of the prominent role played by extreme black holes in this theory, as well as other areas of theoretical physics.

“In addition, our computational methods may be used to shed new light on other areas within theoretical physics,” Burko said.

This is not Burko’s first major discovery about black holes. In 2016, he determined that contrary to previous scientific understandings, objects like space ships approaching a black hole singularity would not necessarily be crushed.

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Gwinnett taking Clark blasts Lt. Gov. Cagle, Sen. Unterman applications for youth commission SINE DIE DAY

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BY CURT YEOMANS

with cardiac arrest training for athletes and coaches would be buried in David the Senate.

Clark As for Clark’s remarks on — Rep. David Clark, R-Buford, on Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Thursday, Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford he started to tear up as he talkI’m sorry to say that if ed about that offends some people children Renee but that’s the truth,” Clark who had Unterman said. “You don’t play with died belives.” cause they While the tone of didn’t have Clark’s comments are one access to reason why the remarks cannabis stand out, there are other oil treatreasons. He, Unterman and ments.

Cagle are all Republicans He later — and Clark and Unterquoted Casey man represent the same Marvel Cagle general part of Gwinnett, comics albeit in different chamand film character, Captain bers.

America, about the need Meanwhile, lingering for people to stand up for in the background is this their principles regardyear’s gubernatorial race. less of what happens as a Clark appeared on a stage result. with Republican guberUnterman responded to natorial candidate Clay Clark’s comments in an Tippins to rally support for email to the Daily Post by House Bill 764 on March pointing to her work dur19. Cagle is also running ing the legislative session. for governor as a Republi“While Representative can, and Unterman is one David Clark is quoting his of his supporters. favorite Marvel cartoon Two days after the rally, characters, it has been Tippins’ campaign claimed my goal to work and pass an unnamed official in Ca- laws this past session on: gle’s office told Clark that, health care inequities, because he’d appeared on elder abuse, child exploitastage with Tippins, another tion and child pornograbill he authored that dealt phy, autism coverage for I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, I’ve seen corruption and those are two of the most corrupt individuals I have met and I’m sorry to say that if that offends some people but that’s the truth.”

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The final day of the 2018 legislative session brought a flurry of last minute legislative votes, but it also saw state Rep. David Clark, R-Buford, offer harsh criticism of his counterpart in the Senate and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle on the House floor.

As the House was considering House Bill 65, which deals with recommendations of additional conditions for treatment with low THC cannabis oil, Clark took to the well of the chamber and condemned Cagle and Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford. The bill was amended in the House on Thursday to include a section on making medical cannabis oil treatments available to people suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.

That section had originally been in House Bill 764, which was sponsored

by Clark, a former Army Ranger. The House overwhelmingly passed that bill, 145-17, in late February, but it got stalled in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which is led by Unterman.

Clark accused Unterman and Cagle of “playing games” with cannabis oil bills for five years.

“I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, I’ve seen corruption and those are two of the most corrupt individuals I have met and

children, animal abuse, nursing licensure, lowering Georgia taxes and funding quality basic education for Gwinnett County school children,” she said.

“Also for the first time the Philadelphia College of Medicine, based in Gwinnett County, residency program has been expanded under my leadership. It is my honor and dedication to serve the 45th senate district and to have represented Gwinnett County citizens to the upmost of my abilities.”

Cagle’s office declined to comment on the situation with Clark, but the lieutenant governor’s spokesman, Danny Kanso, did send the Daily Post a copy of a March 23 statement from Cagle that outlined his stance on medical cannabis oil.

“Georgians understand that many families depend on medical cannabis oil to treat otherwise debilitating illnesses,” Cagle said in the statement. “We must make certain that government does not stand in the way of what patients and their physicians agree will improve their quality of life.

“I fully support implementing a safe, secure, and reliable in-state system for patients to access low THC medical cannabis oil. This legislation will provide a path to make that a reality.

It also erases politics from the process that qualifies conditions for doctors to prescribe this medication.”

Gwinnett Medical gets new X-ray machine

BY ISABEL HUGHES

isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com From left, Cink Charities Inc. representatives Lauren Patterson, Tarryn Troutman, Lisa Cink and Stewart Cink present the Carestream DRXRevolution, an X-ray machine designed to scan newborns.

(Special Photo)

portion of their stay,” said Leslie D. Leigh, MD, a GMC affiliated neonatologist. “This machine allows for a more patient-centric approach in caring for this delicate population.”

The machine was made possible by GMC Foundation’s Next Generation campaign, which is intended to transform healthcare in the community, and the Women’s Advisory Council

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Associated Credit Union’s Greg Connor named Professional of the Year

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Gwinnett Medical Center’s Women’s Pavilion recently received a new piece of equipment aimed at giving babies in the intensive care unit a more gentle X-ray experience.

The machine, called the Carestream DRX-Revolution, is also intended to give physicians state-ofthe-art technology so they are able to deliver the best care.

Gwinnett Medical is one of the first hospitals in Georgia to receive the technology.

“Our tiniest patients may receive an X-ray every day, during the most critical

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Students who are interested in participating Gwinnett County high in the youth commission school students who want have until April 30 to to understand how county submit an application and government works and a typed essay. Students learn how to become a must be a rising sophovoice for their generation more, junior or senior and a resident of Gwinnett are encouraged to apply County. for the second round of The classes will meet the Gwinnett Youth Comover the summer, from 9 mission. a.m. to 4 p.m. on WednesThe youth commisdays, from June 6 to July sion is somewhat similar 25. Each class will be to the Gwinnett 101 held at the Gwinnett Jusprogram that is offered tice and Administration to adults, with a major difference being that it is Center, which is located geared toward high school at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville. students. In addition to County officials said learning about public one of the goals of the infrastructure, public Gwinnett Youth Commissafety, courts, recreation sion is to help students and health and human learn to speak on behalf services, the eight-week of their peers while also program also includes offering county leaders leadership and personal insight into what issues development training.

“There are many youth are foremost on the minds of young people. Officials leadership programs said there will also be around the county that service projects, volunteer mainly focus on specific opportunities and field municipalities or target trips. specific schools,” GwinAnyone who is internett Community Outreach Program Director Nicole ested in learning about the commission can visit Hendrickson said in a statement. “This program https://bit.ly/2G96INS or contact Hendrickson is inclusive of Gwinnett students attending any of at either nicole.hendrickson@gwinnettcounty.com our high schools and is intended to prepare future or 770-822-8877.

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Associated Credit Union’s Greg Connor was recently recognized for his work, whether it’s overseeing lending or motivating coworkers, as being the best in the state by the Georgia Credit Union Affiliates.

The organization recently named Connor, who is Associated Credit Union’s executive vice president of lending, as Greg Connor its one of its 2017 statewide award winners.

He received the Professional of the Year award.

“Credit unions were created to help people afford life,” Georgia Credit Union League Board of Directors Chairman Terry Hardy said in a statement. “These honorees stand out as true leaders, and they enable credit unions to make an impact every day in

communities all across Georgia.

“This recognition is well-deserved and their efforts on behalf of credit unions and credit union members are much appreciated.”

Connor is a former Georgia Credit Union League board member, and worked for Atlanta Postal Credit Union and Georgia Central Credit Union before he joined Associated Credit Union in 2000.

He put together a loan program with St. Vincent de Paul of Georgia to help under served segments of the community.

“His accomplishments alone are enough to encourage staff to strive for excellence at ACU, however he continues to motivate his staff to become leaders themselves,” Associated Credit Union public relations and foundation coordinator Rachael Jernigan wrote in her nomination.

“He is not afraid to speak up on what he thinks will be beneficial to not only Associated Credit Union, but credit unions as a whole.”

Lawrenceville man to spend 10 years in prison for Kay Jewelers armed robbery

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tied the employees up and stole jewelry worth more than $1 million,” U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak said.

A Lawrenceville man “The cooperation between who was recently confederal and local law envicted of armed robbery in forcement ended this crime federal court will spend the spree and brought him to next decade in prison for justice.” the crime.

According to Pak, Cephos Leyon Jamal on April 18, White and White, 30, of LawrencevSears entered the Conyers ille and Sandrika Denise jewelry store posing as a Sears, also known as Nucouple interested in buying bian Monae, 22, of Decatur a ring. The couple wore both pleaded guilty earlier hats and sunglasses to disthis year to robbing a Kay guise their faces and Sears Jewelers in Conyers in wore a wig.

April 2017. The pair was “After White introduced arrested by the FBI and the couple as ‘Jamal’ and Conyers Police Depart‘Monae,’ White pulled out ment officers last July. a gun and Sears helped him “White robbed four bind the two store clerks jewelry stores at gunpoint, with zip-ties,” Pak said.

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He added that the duo’s “criminal scheme” netted the pair a “cache of jewelry” valued at approximately $1.5 million.

“Thanks to the cooperation between our local and federal partners, White and his accomplice will be out of commission for a long time,” said David LeValley, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Atlanta bureau. “Though the lives of the innocent victims they terrorized will never be the same, those victims can take solace in the fact White won’t be able to terrorize anyone else while he serves a lengthy sentence.”

Sears’ sentencing hearing is pending.

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Vitamin E is no miracle cure for hot flashes DEAR DR. ROACH: There is a very easy cure for hot flashes — and it works!

Take 400 units of vitamin E twice a day. The flashes will disappear in three days. This has worked for countless women for years. Why don’t doctors know about this?

— S.P.B. ANSWER: Researchers have evaluated vitamin E for the treatment of hot flashes.

One study found that vitamin E reduced hot flashes by about 25 percent, but an identical pill with no vitamin E reduced hot flashes by 22 percent. Another study showed that women had five hot flashes a day on placebo, and 3.2 a day on vitamin E. On the basis of this, I can’t recommend vitamin E as a very effective treatment.

However, it is safe and is at least partially effective for some women.

DEAR DR. ROACH: A recent column discussed female pattern hair loss. I experienced hair loss similar to what this woman described.

I am 65, and the receding hairline and loss of crown hair started when I was 60. I asked every doctor I went to (including a dermatologist, an internist and a gynecologist) why my hair was thinning so significantly. All of them said that at my age, it could be expected. All of my bloodwork was good — no low thyroid.

In September 2017, a new dermatologist asked if my hormone levels had been checked (they had not), because it looked like male pattern hair loss. My testosterone levels were off-the-charts high. She sent me back to my gynecologist, who did a pelvic ultrasound, which led to an MRI, which showed that I had a small cyst on my right ovary (one that he had not been able to feel). He said it may be a very rare cyst that was secreting testosterone.

In January, my ovaries were removed, and testing of the cyst showed that it was a Sertoli-Leydig cancer that was contained in the cyst.

I thought it might be helpful to remind women with significant hair loss to have their hormones checked as a possible cause. If this had not been done for me, this cyst would not have been detected until it was much larger and the cancer more advanced.

As you can imagine, I am very grateful to my new dermatologist for taking the initiative in helping me get properly diagnosed. I am hopeful that my hair will grow back, but if not, that’s fine. I am happy to be cancer-free!

— Anon.

ANSWER: I am glad that you were diagnosed and treated in time. It is unfortunate to hear that your diagnosis was delayed.

Female pattern hair loss is an overall thinning of hair along the midline of the scalp, whereas male pattern is a receding hairline and thinning along the crown.

However, some people have a pattern that is difficult to type, and it is important to check for other signs of high testosterone. Growth of body hair, acne and a deeper voice all are indicative of excess testosterone in women. If it’s unclear which type, a simple blood test is potentially lifesaving.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1826, Samuel Morey received the patent for the first internal combustion engine.

In 1945, Operation Iceberg began as U.S. troops landed on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which required the surgeon general’s warning on tobacco products and banned cigarette ads on radio and TV. In 2011, a mob protesting the burning of the Quran attacked the United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, causing the deaths of 13 people.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German political leader; Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), playwright; Sergei Rachmaninoff (18731943), composer; Milan Kundera (1929-

), author; Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016), actress; Ali MacGraw (1939- ), actress; Samuel Alito (1950- ), Supreme Court justice; Rachel Maddow (1973- ), TV personality; David Oyelowo (1976- ), actor; Asa Butterfield (1997- ), actor.

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TODAY’S QUOTE: “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” — Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

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Email salutation is for ‘gentlemen’ only Dear Readers: This week I am running topical “Best Of” columns while I’m on book tour, meeting readers of my memoir, “Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things,” which is now out in paperback. I’ll be back next week with more answers and advice directed toward a fresh batch of dilemmas. Today’s topic concerns issues in the workplace.

Dear Amy: I recently started working for a new company in a pretty heavily male-dominated field.

On certain emails sent to large groups of coworkers, I’ve noticed that my colleagues address the email to “Gentlemen.”

There are clearly at least two females cc’d on most of these emails.

I feel as though the emails are not addressed to me with this greeting; I believe that it is oldfashioned and offensive.

Do you have thoughts on how to address this — without ruffling feathers or coming off the wrong way?

— No Gentleman Dear No: When composing a professional group email, the writer needs to imagine the intended recipients gathered together in a conference room.

It is not professional (or polite) to address a group of colleagues — where at least one is a woman — as “Gentlemen.”

One option for you now is to compose a

Dear Amy: I started a new job four years ago and within a couple of weeks began to develop feelings for my supervisor.

Over the years, we have gotten to know each other well. We are similar in temperament and personality. I am very Amy Dickinson attracted to him and I have sensed all this time group email addressed to that the feeling is mutual; your colleagues with the there’s clearly a “connecsalutation: “Ladies.” tion” between us.

Ah, but you and I know Besides the fact that he that you probably cannot is my supervisor, we are do this. also both married. For Alternatively, perhaps four years I have attemptyou could send out a ed to push down, ignore, group email to your work cover up, rationalize and group with the subject in every other way tried line, “A Quick Suggesto remove my feelings tion.” from my heart and mind.

In the body of the Obviously there is no email you could write: future for us, and I can’t “It would be helpful figure out why I can’t just (certainly to me) if we accept the attraction and could address emails to move on. our working group as I’m in my mid-40s; I’m ‘Colleagues’ or a similar too old for this! Somegender-neutral term. I times it feels like I’m don’t speak for the other keeping a secret that has women in our group, power over me, and if I but when I am included could just share the secret on emails addressed to with him it would diffuse ‘Gentlemen,’ I’m somethe power. But I realize times unsure if they are that would endanger my intended for me.” job and my reputation, If you are not willso I immediately put that ing to do this — or are thought out of my mind. unable to — because of How can I work out your position, you could these feelings? Honestly, ask your supervisor or it’s become exhausting. Is HR representative for leaving my job the only suggestions on how to way? handle this salutation My husband is a good situation. This is not man. He is hardworking, the biggest (or the most smart and he loves me sexist) issue you will deeply. I hope you can encounter, but you should provide some insight into react honestly. how to control my mind — May 2015 and feelings while work-

Ask Amy

ing for this wonderful man whom I admire and adore.

— Conflicted Dear Conflicted: Having a great spouse doesn’t make you blind. And most people continue to feel attractions to people other than their partners throughout their lives. Mainly, this is relatively benign and even life-affirming.

But the key to how you are feeling now is to be found in your marriage and your inner life. You are at a midlife transition and you can grow through it.

I give you credit for not blaming your husband for this or inventing faults to justify your feelings. This is an opportunity, really, to reassess your life (personal and professional).

Please, find a counselor to share this with before you do anything drastic.

I agree with you that sharing this secret may diminish its power, but you need to share it with the right person.

For insight, read “The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today’s Women,” by Sue Shellenbarger (2005, Henry Holt and Co.).

— April 2013 You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

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Partnerships should be handled carefully this year. If you overreact or let your temper take the reins, you will end up losing out on something that could improve your life. Getting along with others and being willing to compromise will result in life-altering changes.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Think before you speak. You’ll end up in a compromising position if you are too pushy or will not listen to reason.

Nurture relationships instead of pushing people away.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — You’ll find it difficult to sit still and wait out an uncertain situation. Try not to disclose any information that could be used against you. Don’t act or say something impulsively.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — A physical change will make you feel good about the way you look and what you have to offer. Don’t impose on someone who isn’t up for as lively a time as you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — An unexpected change will catch you off-guard. Don’t feel you must get involved in something risky. Acknowledge what others are doing, but go your own way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Changes at home that will add to your comfort are highlighted, but before you begin, make sure you have the approval of anyone who will be affected by your plans.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Avoid people who are unpredictable or who promote poor habits. Focus on making personal and physical improvements and paying closer attention to good health, proper diet and exercise.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Personal and emotional changes can be made. Home improvements should help cut your overhead or bring greater peace and comfort to you and those you live with. Romance is highlighted.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Make love and romance your priorities. Changes you make that update your image or encourage you to be fit and healthy will make you feel good and will draw compliments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Look for personal opportunities instead of offering to do the dirty work for someone else’s benefit. Put your energy into your home, family and selfimprovements, not into helping outsiders.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Refuse to let anyone push you into something you shouldn’t do or put unreasonable demands on you. Back away from anyone who appears to be unpredictable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Make positive changes to the way you handle your money.

A financial gain, gift or offer should be protected from someone trying to take advantage of your good fortune.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’ll desire personal change and should consider doing something to update your physical appearance. It will draw attention and encourage a romantic opportunity with someone special.

Sunday, April 1, 2018 • 5A

gwinnettdailypost.com •From Page 1A

Max DeCook, 17, and Braselton Christian Academy founder Penney Smith stand outside DeCook’s alma mater.

(Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

•From Page 1A school was something else. It helped me pass ninth grade, but I was running with the wrong crowd.”

DeCook said he was under strict supervision as a boarding student at Riverside, which helped improve his grades.

“I came back during the summer and had my ups and downs doing whatever I wanted during the summer,” DeCook said. “I didn’t really come home or talk to my mother.”

His parents came to the conclusion that he needed a break. DeCook then went on a trip to Africa to allow him to clear his head and start fresh.

“At first I didn’t want to go and considered walking out of the airport, but I saw my mother crying and couldn’t do that,” DeCook said. “It ended being a great trip that I learned a lot from. It was an eyeopening experience for me to see how blessed I am and how much different it is over there.”

DeCook came back and returned to his previous ways. Once again, his parents looked for a way to break him out of his funk and decided to send him to Utah to attend a therapeutic school for four

•From Page 1A

Water

Max DeCook, left, is pictured with his mother, Andrea DeCook, middle, and friend Stephen Aboagye, right, at West Hall High School. (Special Photo)

months.

The moment that he remembers as life-altering is the night he was arrested and went to jail. This past August during the eclipse, DeCook passed out in a neighbor’s yard.

“I saw where my life was going to be and said, ‘I can’t do this,” DeCook said. “I always feared whether I would be successful in my future or a bum in the street. That was something that I constantly thought about, and it

in the regional plan that are in Gwinnett. bill 155-19 and the Senate “This legislation is the passed it 48-6 on Thursday, result of countless hours which was the Georgia of good-faith negotiations General Assembly’s Sine among local governments, Die Day. It technically transit operators and still needs Deal’s signature the General Assembly,” before it becomes law but Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, that may be more of a forsaid in a statement. “This mality than anything since bill will allow us to plan the governor has expressed effectively for future transit support for the regional needs in Metro Atlanta transit plan in the past. while maintaining local “The General Assembly control.” and Gov. Deal provided Gwinnett must choose its $100 million in the Fiscal path forward Year 2019 budget speBut in Gwinnett, the bills cifically for transit, and this passage means there are funding and giving final decisions county leaders passage to HB 930 … is have to make in the coming very monumental for tran- months. The county had sit in the state of Georgia,” been moving toward a genTanner, R-Dawsonville, eral referendum on expandsaid in a statement. ing transit in some format The legislation is inthat was to be determined tended to draw up a transit after the county’s Transit road map for Gwinnett, Development Plan was Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, finished.

Coweta, Cobb, DeKalb, Now, under the terms of Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, House Bill 930, a general Fulton, Henry, Paulding referendum on a tax to and Rockdale counties. support transit projects is Oversight of that planpushed back to next year ning would be done by at the earliest. The only the Atlanta-region Transit referendum Gwinnett leadLink, also known as “The ers can put before voters ATL,” that would monitor this fall is whether to join funding and operations as MARTA. well as planning.

Nash, who had once exThe ATL Authority will pressed a belief that voters be governed by a 16-mem- wouldn’t support it despite ber board which will draw the studies, is more coy up the official transit plan these days about whether for the region. Under the the time for another refersetup, starting 2019, Gwin- endum has come. nett can hold a 30-year She’s not saying “Yes, transit referendum, but the a referendum will happen sales tax dollars covered in this fall,” but she’s not saythat referendum can only ing “No, it won’t” either. It be used to pay for projects will depend on the will of

worried me so much.”

DeCook settled into Braselton Christian Academy, a school devoted to helping students grow academically and in their character and preparation outside of school.

As an incentive to keep him on the right path, his parents wanted to get him involved in a business of some sort to make him accountable. In order to do that, he had to graduate on Dec. 15, exactly a semester earlier than they had

anticipated.

“He worked hard and we made sure that we knew where he was and encouraged his success,” Braselton Christian Academy founder Penney Smith said. “He was here early in the morning, stepped up and was motivated to get where he needed to be.”

DeCook plans on having the facility up and running by June with the goal of providing not only water to local residents, but also opportunity.

Pollen

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Avoidance is one of the best (options) — the less one can be outside, the better off they will be. We know that’s sometimes unavoidable and masks will help to some extent, but some pollen will still get through because the particles are so small. Really, taking antihistamines is your best bet.”

Classified into low, medium, high and extremely high counts, Thursday through Saturday saw extremely high pollen counts, though the middle part of the week saw lower numbers.

Compared to last year, however, the pollen is slightly less, according to March 2017 data compiled

by Atlanta Allergy and Asthma.

In the same time period last year — the last week of March — every day saw extremely high pollen counts, reaching as high as 3,559 on March 31. The number was right about the same last year as it was on Saturday.

Gwinnett Doctor William Bostock, who owns Bostock Family Medicine, said that while it’s not yet known whether this allergy season will be worse than previous years, “we did have an unusual winter.”

“This year, compared to others, has been wetter and colder for longer periods,” Bostock said.

“In January we had some warming trends, then it got cold again. It’s really been roller coaster weather, and then the March winds are always a problem across the nation.”

While predictions are not looking good for upcoming days, Bostock said there are a few steps residents can take to alleviate their symptoms.

“We prefer to use histamine blockers,” he said. “The first generation of drugs — Benadryl and other components like Benadryl — are very sedating so you couldn’t take it and go to work, and recent research has shown that if you take Benadryl on a regular basis, it can contribute to early dementia, so we really don’t recommend that. The second generation — Claritin, Allegra, Zyrtec — has minimal side effects, so that’s what we recommend.

“The third generation is Flonase and other steroid agents, which are also appropriate for allergy relief.”

The allergy season, which is caused by pollen from trees being released into the air to fertilize plants of the same species, runs from mid-March to May,

or for about six weeks, Bostock said.

“Right now, it’s mostly tree pollens — the Dogwoods usually bloom right around Easter,” he said. “It’s a little early for the pine or oaks; those usually bloom in mid-April. Ragweed also has not been in high levels as of yet — and that’s where the problem comes in. You have this combination of trees, mold and ragweed and that’s when the allergies are a lot worse.”

Aside from medications to help relieve allergies, Sharpe said he recommends staying inside and closing all doors and windows to keep pollen out.

“Avoidance is one of the best (options) — the less one can be outside, the better off they will be,” Sharpe said. “We know that’s sometimes unavoidable and masks will help to some extent, but some pollen will still get through because the particles are so small. Really, taking antihistamines is your best bet.”

For the allergy sufferers who can’t seem to fight the effects of pollen even with proper over-the-counter care, both Sharpe and Bostock said doctors can help by offering stronger prescription medicines and often steroid-based inhalers.

“Maintaining good hygiene, wearing protective masks or garments and changing your clothes in the garage so you don’t track pollen inside are all also good options,” Bostock said. “Your clothes get contaminated but you can’t see the particles so you think you’re fine, but you’re actually tracking it into your homes and making your allergies worse. But this is just the ritual of spring.”

bill passed or not didn’t impact the core purpose of the county’s transit planning though.

“Regardless, the transit plan development is a critical part of moving forward with transit,” Nash said.

“We will work through the completion of the public participation and determination of recommended projects. We will also weigh the options available to us and make a decision about which funding to pursue and when.”

How other bills did House Bill 930 was not the only bill Gwinnett residents had to keep their eyes on as legislators toiled their way through Sine Die Day. The controversial Senate Bill 363, which would have limited weekend voting options after it was amended in the House Governmental Affairs Committee, died after it got tied up in the House Rules Committee. If the bill had become law, it would have forced counties to choose between having one day of Saturday voting or one day of Sunday voting.

Senate Bill 403, which would have put Georgia on the path toward a paper ballot system, failed because of a disagreement on what the bill should look like.

Although the House passed a substitute version offered

by Rep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, among others on Thursday, the Senate said ‘No’ to the House’s proposed changes.

House Bill 673, which

was carried in the Senate

by Sen. P.K. Martin, RLawrenceville, passed and is headed to the governor.

It bans drivers from talking on a phone while driving a vehicle, unless they are using a hands-free device.

It also bans drivers from texting and sending emails while driving.

House Bill 61, which requires online retailers to collect sales taxes on items sold in Georgia, also passed. Starting Jan. 1, it affects retailers who make at least $250,000 or have at least 200 transactions online for products shipped to Georgia residents.

Sales taxes are technically already supposed to be collected, but this is designed to help enforce it.

House Bill 419, which allows counties and cities to pass noise ordinances limiting when fireworks can be set off, passed as well. People would still be allowed to set off fireworks on New Year’s Day, the Saturday and Sunday before Memorial Day, July 3, July 4, Labor Day and New Year’s Eve. Also, the state budget that was passed Thursday included full funding for Georgia’s formula for K-12 education. The governor announced earlier in the week that higher revenue projects meant he was adding $167 million to get the Quality Basic Education formula used to provide the state’s share of funding to local school systems up to 100 percent.

— Dr. Miles Sharpe, Eastside Primary Care

County the full Board of Commissioners.

“As I noted earlier (after a Transit Development Plan update briefing on March 20), my primary aim for the legislation was to provide as many options for Gwinnett as possible,” Nash said.

“I believe the legislation as passed does that. Now it will be a board decision how to proceed and which option to pursue.”

Gwinnett is one of the five counties laid out in the MARTA Act of 1965 as forming the MARTA territory — the other counties being Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Clayton counties.

Voters have previously rejected hitching Gwinnett to MARTA, but it’s been years since the last vote and there have been calls from some members of the community in recent years to do another vote. A study done by the Gwinnett Chamber in 2015 showed there was a chance that voters might support joining it now.

It’s not unprecedented for a county commission chairman to initially be non-committal about holding a MARTA vote right after legislation was passed to let their county hold a vote.

When legislation was introduced in 2014 to let Clayton County hold a MARTA referendum, that county was in the process of beginning a transit feasibility study.

That study was still underway when the legisla-

tion allowing a referendum passed out of the General Assembly and Clayton Commission Chairman Jeff Turner didn’t immediately commit to a MARTA referendum before the study was finished.

“We want to make sure we do our due diligence and look at what’s going to be the best fit for Clayton County citizens,” Turner told the Clayton News, a sister publication of the Daily Post, in April 2014.

“If that’s MARTA, great. If it’s another system, then so be it.”

Clayton County commissioners did eventually call for a MARTA referendum to be held in November 2014, though, and voters approved it.

Transit planning continues regardless of bill But, the work of figuring out how the regional transit planning setup impacts the county’s work on a Transit Development Plan also officially begins for Gwinnett. Until House Bill 930 won final passage late Thursday night, it was unsure whether the regional transportation bill would even end up being a factor.

It could pass — as expected — and be something the county had to deal with, but in the sometimes unpredictable atmosphere at the Georgia General Assembly, anything can happen. Gwinnett had to wait and see what legislators would do.

Nash said whether the

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Gwinnett Tech wins 35 medals at SkillsUSA state competition

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

trevor.mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett Technical College students had an exceptional showing at SkillsUSA, Georgia’s Post Secondary State Leadership and Skills Conference on March 22-24 at the Georgia International Convention Center. Thirty-five competition medals were earned during the three day conference — 15 gold, 14 silver and six bronze.

“Our students’ results at this competition continue to prove that their educational foundation is exceptional and that they can apply their learning in real-world situations,” Gwinnett Tech’s SkillsUSA Lead Advisor Joanna Key said.

Gwinnett Tech student Tyler Butler was elected as a SkillsUSA State Officer during the conference. Butler is the third Gwinnett Tech student elected to one of the statewide leadership positions.

“These results reflect an outstanding level of academic commitment and leadership. Gwinnett Tech students continue to prove again and again that they are some of the very best in Georgia,” President of Gwinnett Technical College Dr. D. Glen Cannon said.

SkillsUSA contests begin locally and continue through state and national levels.

The 15 Gwinnett Tech students that received state Gold Medalists have the opportunity to compete in the SkillsUSA 54th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Ky., from June 25-29.

The National SkillsUSA Championships showcase the skills of post-secondary students through hands-on competitions in leadership, health occupations, trades/ industry and technical contests.

Gwinnett Technical College students pose after winning 35 medals at the SkillsUSA, Georgia’s Post Secondary State Leadership & Skills Conference taking place on March 22-24.

(Special Photo)

GWINNETT TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEDALISTS Gold Medalists: • Michael Cuddy, Web Design • Emilie Rush, Web Design • Jonathan Kirkland, Related Technical Math • Dieu Ngo, First Aid/CPR • Ben Nguyen, Medical Math • Angela Philpot, Health Occupations Professional Portfolio • Ja’Lia Edwards, Quiz Bowl • Spencer Duncan, Quiz Bowl • Renee Harvey, Quiz Bowl • Judith Crouch, Quiz Bowl • Michelle Taylor, Quiz Bowl • Laura Gregg, Health Knowledge Bowl • Amber Hendrix, Health Knowledge Bowl • Jared Salzinger, Health Knowledge Bowl • Matt Royal, Health Knowledge Bowl

• Hannah Atkinson, Health Knowledge Bowl Silver Medalists: • Jorge Bartra, Related Technical Math • Laura Burelson, Job Interview • Tyler Butler, Prepared Speech • Arthur Davisson, HVAC • Jessica Norton, Commercial Baking • William Whatley, Diesel Equipment Technology • Zainab Alsuriafi, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • Lydia Ugbedah, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • Juan Badillo, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • Madison Thorp, Opening and Closing

Ceremonies • Jenifer Fraser, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • Ashley Palomino, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • Jessica Durkharan, Opening and Closing Ceremonies • John Galosha, Opening and Closing Ceremonies Bronze Medalists: • Robert Bondor, Related Technical Math • Gary Hughes, Welding Art Sculpture • Tracy Lincoln, Extemporaneous Speech • David Price, Photography • Jim Strom, Medical Terminology • Joseph Vu, Restaurant Services

Woman put in coma by 2016 controversial accident dies

Gwinnett theater programs nab Shuler Hensley Award nominations

BY CURT YEOMANS

trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

nett Medical Center and then called 911 to report the incident.

Under Georgia law, a driver must stop at the scene of an accident where a serious injury or death has occurred.

The driver in this accident was not charged with hit and run, however, because police said she reported that she had been in accident as soon as she arrived at her job at the hospital.

Hamm’s parents wanted charges filed against the driver.

District Attorney Danny Porter’s Office later opened an investigation into the case.

Gwinnett County is using eminent domain to acquire the land shown at this corner of the intersection of Old Norcross and Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road for a new park that will serve residents of the Discovery High School cluster. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

Gwinnett to use eminent domain to get land for park in Lawrenceville

BY CURT YEOMANS

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

The Discovery High School cluster is going to get a new place to play — but only after Gwinnett County goes to court to make it happen.

County commissioners are using eminent domain proceedings to get 45 acres at the intersection of Old Norcross Road and Lawrenceville Suwanee Road in Lawrenceville to build a new park. The decision to use eminent domain came after negotiations to buy the property, which is made up of two land parcels, broke down.

“We always use eminent domain as a last resort,” Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Chair-

man Charlotte Nash said in a statement. “We were concerned that if we didn’t act, the land would be developed and we wouldn’t be able to meet the needs of our residents. So after much debate and a lot of thought, we decided to employ this tool for the greater good.”

At this point, what the park will look like once it is developed is unclear.

County officials will gather input from residents in the area to develop a master plan for the park.

Officials said there was a need for a park in the area and to possibly help athletic programs from the Discovery High School cluster, which is why they opted to go the route of using eminent domain to acquire the land.

“We believe parks are es-

sential for the quality of life for our residents, and can also be an important draw for economic development,” Commissioner John Heard said. “As always, it is my No. 1 goal to make Gwinnett County the best place in the country to do business.”

Since eminent domain is being used, however, the process of taking possession of the land won’t be quick.

County officials must file paperwork in Gwinnett County Superior Court to begin the process. A special master will then be appointed to hear from appraisers for each side and decide how much the property owner should be compensated for the land.

But the property owner — or the county — can appeal the special master’s decision through a jury trial.

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

Jennings were awarded performance — best the Performer’s Wareensemble and best showhouse Summer Intensive stopper for the musical Scholarship. number “Gaston.”

Nominations for the The $1,000 scholarIn addition to the 10th annual Georgia ship allows both students seven nominations, more students received honorHigh School Musical unlimited access to PerTheatre Awards were an- former’s Warehouse sum- able mentions including: • GACS’ Ethan Mcnounced Wednesday with mer classes and training, programs from Gwinwhich encompasses act- Donell for music direction; nett County being well ing, voice and dance.

• GACS’ Caroline represented.

In addition, Jennings Commonly known was one of five nominat- Keyes for choreography; • Providence Christian as the Shuler Hensley ed for best performance Academy’s Anna Bragg Awards, theater programs by a leading actress for for choreography ; across the state of Geor- her role in “My Fair • Artios Academy of gia submit plays to be Lady.”

Sugar Hill’s Windy Lane critiqued and judged.

The rest of the GACS for choreography; Artios Academies of cast was recognized as • Buford High School Sugar Hill received three with a nomination for nominations as well as best showstopper perfor- for ensemble; • GACS for ensemble; having three students mance in their musical • Artios Academy of receive scholarships. number “Get Me to the Artios Academies’ Church on Time” in “My Sugar Hill’s Ben Toler and Michael Lee for “The Hunchback of Fair Lady.” lighting design; Notre Dame” was one of Providence Christian • Buford High five to receive a nomiAcademy received two nation for best overall recognitions with Alexis School’s Kimberly Staproduction.

Trammel being nominat- ples and Linus Davidson for sound; Jonathan Marciniak, a ed for best performance • Wesleyan Schools’ student at Artios Acadas a supporting actress in emies of Sugar Hill, “All Shook Up,” and Ava Adam Rogers for Best Performance by a supreceived a nomination Williams receiving the for best performance Smiley for Kylie Founda- porting actor; • Providence Christian by a leading actor for tion scholarship. his role of Quasimodo Buford High School’s Academy’s Goldy Hatch in “The Hunchback of Hailey Thorton was also for Best Performance by a featured performer; and Notre Dame.” Marciniak nominated for best per• GACS for overall also was awarded the formance by a supporting production.

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Several species of magnolias thrive in the home landscape

Tim Daly When we think of magnolia trees, the one that comes to mind is the large Southern magnolia with its white flowers and smooth, light green leaves. The trees are commonly planted throughout the Southeast. However, several other lesserknown species of magnolias can be planted and do well in our climate.

Southern magnolias make excellent specimen trees and average 60 to 80 feet tall and 40 to 50 feet wide. Three types of magnolia trees are evergreens and are useful in the landscape in providing shade, beautiful flowers, and noise and pollution reduction. They need to be planted in a welldrained but moist site in full sun. You may want to plant it in a bed. As the tree grows, it forms such a dense canopy it will be difficult to get grass to grow under it. Also, the leaves make a mess when they fall. To get around these problems, plant the tree in a bed or natural area and do not prune the lower limbs, which can hide the mess made by the leaves.

There are several improved varieties of magnolia available. Bracken’s Brown Beauty has dark green leaves with brown undersides and is compact reaching only 30 feet at maturity. Claudia Wannamaker, is an early

bloomer. Samuel Sommer has a rapid growth rate, large dark green leaves, and big flowers.

Little Gem is has a small growth habit reaching a size of 20 feet. It begins to flower at an early age and has small, dark green leaves with bronze undersides.

Sweet bay magnolias have the potential to reach a height of 40 feet or more and are evergreen. Their leaves are elliptical shaped and are light green on top and white to green on the bottom. They have creamy white flowers that are 2 to 3 inches in diameter with a lemony scent and bloom in June. It can be used as a specimen tree or planted in clusters.

Unlike other magnolias, it thrives in wet soils and is often seen growing in wetland areas in its native habitat in the southern part of the state.

Several species of magnolias bloom early in the spring. The saucer magnolia produces tulipshaped flowers that are up to 10 inches in diameter and are purplish to white. It grows up to 20 feet. The star magnolia is smaller with a height of 15 to 20 feet. It has white fragrant flowers that are three inches wide. Both trees are deciduous, produce blossoms before the leaves, and, since they bloom early in the spring, their flowers can be harmed by freezes.

The cucumber tree magnolia grows up to 80 feet and has a large spread. The tree has a pyramidal shape when young and is deciduous.

The leaves have a dark green color with green to yellow flowers that appear in May and June.

Cucumber tree magnolias

should be planted in areas where their growth is not restricted such as large estates, parks and green spaces. They should not be used on small residential properties.

The bigleaf magnolia reaches up to 40 feet tall

and has large leaves that are 12 to 32 inches long.

When they drop, the surrounding landscape appears to be covered with discarded paper. Their flowers appear in early June and are creamywhite and are up to 10

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Yes, the Southern magnolia has company that can add interest and beauty to the landscape.

Consider planting some of these trees.

Timothy Daly is an Agricultural and Natural Resource Extension Agent with UGA Extension Gwinnett. He can be contacted at 678-377-4011or tdaly@uga.edu.

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WETLAND WARRIORS Volunteers sought for fourth annual cleanup

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Gwinnett County residents have a chance to learn about the county’s ecosystem while cleaning up one part of it later this month.

Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful and the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources are teaming up for their fourth annual Great Gwinnett Wetlands cleanup day, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 28.

The event will include picking up litter at the Bromolow Creek and Wetlands in Duluth while also offering an opportunity for volunteers to learn how people affect the area.

The organizers just need volunteers willing to roll up their sleeves and do the work.

“What many people don’t realize is that the health of our wetlands impacts the overall health of our local environment,” Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Executive Director Schelly Marlatt said in a statement. “In addition to its role as ‘home’ to native animal and plant life, the water from wetlands funnels into our precious water resources, including creeks, streams, rivers and lakes.

“In addition to representing water that supports the local ecosystem, it’s water in which we enjoy recreational activities like swimming, fishing and boating.”

While the event is pitched as an educational opportunity for volunteers, it is at its heart about protecting the environment and staying vigilant about threats to the wetlands ecosystem.

There are three major parts of the wetlands event: picking up litter, removing invasive plants and conducting water testing to see how pollutants, including chemicals, are affecting the area.

There were 230 volunteers who participated in last year’s event, and they picked up 3,320 pounds of trash, pulled out nearly 2,400 pounds of privet, tested the water and put four coconut fiber logs in place to reduce erosion and improve flood control by absorbing water.

Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful and Department of Water Resources officials hope the event inspires residents to be mindful of how their actions affect the environment throughout the year.

“It’s vital that we act as stewards for these wetlands and our water resources further downstream — not just once a year, but on a

A trash brigade at last year’s Great Gwinnett Wetlands event removes debris from the stream at Bromolow Creek and Wetlands.

This year’s cleanup event will be held April 28. (Photo: Nick Jokay/ Courtesy of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful)

continuous basis,” Marlatt said.

Residents who want to participate in the cleanup as a volunteer must register at www.gwinnettcb.org by April 26. They must fill out a waiver and bring it to the event as well.

Organizers said all volunteers must be over 14, and any volunteer who is under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Volunteers can park at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance at 2025 Satellite Pointe in Duluth. They will receive a T-shirt as a thank you gift for participating in the event.

Volunteers receive instructions before last year’s Great Gwinnett Wetlands event. This year’s event will be held April 28 at Bromolow Creek and Wetlands. (Special Photo)

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Please include event name, time and date, location, with address, phone number, and cost. Deadline is two weeks prior to the event.

Chapman at 678-367-8257 or email Cathy.Chapman1@ dhs.ga.gov.

Epiphany Lutheran Church will have an Easter Community Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. today at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee. For more information, email pastorchris@epiphanysuwanee. org or call 770-831-1966.

Corinth Baptist Church, 3156 Langley Road in Loganville, will present its Easter mini-musical “The Cross of Love” at 10:45 a.m. today. There will be candy and an Easter egg hunt for children during the service. For more information, call the church office at 770-554-3482.

Experience the Easter Sunrise Service at Stone Mountain Park. There will be two simultaneous, non-denominational Easter services at the top of the mountain and at the base.

Both services will have interpreters for hearing-impaired guests. Park gates will open at 4 a.m. and the service is scheduled for 7 a.m. Entry to the park is $15 per vehicle.

For more information, visit www.stonemountainpark. com/Events/Easter-SunriseService.

Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church will celebrate Easter with worship at 10:30 a.m. today at the church, 5152 Braselton Highway in Hoschton. For more information, visit hamiltonmillpc.com or call 678-714-3344.

April 10

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Do you have a place in your heart and home to care for foster children? The Gwinnett County Division of Family and Children’s Services will have an information session for potential foster parents at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Five Forks library, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road in Lawrenceville. For more information, call Cathy

Saturday

UGA Gwinnett Extension Master Gardener Wes Nettleton will share information about attracting bees to a garden in the workshop Planting a Bee-Friendly Garden at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Buford library, 2100 Buford Highway in Buford.

The AARP Smart DriverTEK Workshop will help you understand new vehicle safety techniques and how to use them and how the benefits of these technologies may enhance your driving safety and extend your safe driving years. The workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. April 10 at the Collins Hill library, 455 Camp Perrin Road in Lawrenceville.

UGA Gwinnett Extension Agent Timothy Daly will discuss the many vegetables that can be grown in the area and how to care for them to produce a bountiful harvest in a Vegetable Gardening Workshop. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. April 10 at the Suwanee library, 361 Main St. in Suwanee. To reserve a seat, email events@ gwinnettpl.org.

April 14

The Sarcoma Foundation of America has chosen Suwanee as the location for its inaugural Race to Cure Sarcoma Atlanta. The 5K Walk/Run starts at 8 a.m.

April 14 in Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee. Registration is $25. For more information, visit curesarcoma.org/race or email mmueller@curesarcoma.org.

Lilburn’s annual Great American Cleanup is moving to the parking lot of the City Hall-Library this year.

The event will take place from 8 to 11 a.m. at City Hall, 340 Main St. in Lilburn. For more information, visit www. cityoflilburn.com.

Volunteers are needed for the annual Rivers Alive cleanup in Braselton. Meet at 9 a.m. April 14 at the headquarters of Thompson Mill Forest, 1470 New Liberty Church Road in Braselton.

For more information, call

Yvette Wise at 706-6543915, ext. 1012, or email ywise@braselton.net.

The Auburn Community Yard Sale will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Burel Park, located on 4th Avenue in downtown Auburn. For more information, call 770963-4002.

The Rotary Club of Duluth will host its sixth annual Car Show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

April 14 in historic downtown Duluth. The show is free and open to the public. For more information, visit duluthrotary.com.

Join Family and Consumer Science Agent Ines Beltran to get hands-on experience in food preservation by canning your own apple preserves. Canning 101 — A Culinary Literacy Series program will begin at 2 p.m. April 14 at the Suwanee library, 361 Main St. in Suwanee. The workshop costs $10 per person, and payment will be made the day of the event by cash or check. Reservations must be made by April 11. To reserve a space, email Ines.Beltran@gwinnettcounty.com or call 678-377-4010.

Suwanee’s Glow in the Park community lantern parade will feature a strolling jazz band leading an illuminated pageant of light, music and color through Old Town and down Brushy Creek Trail, ending at a concert starring ’80s cover band Electric Avenue at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee. The event begins at 5 p.m. April 14, with the lantern parade at 7:30 p.m. and the concert at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit glowinthepark. suwanee.com.

April 17

UGA Gwinnett Extension Agent Timothy Daly will discuss the many vegetables that can be grown in the area and how to care for them to produce a bountiful harvest in a Vegetable Gardening Workshop. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. April 17 at the Hamilton Mill library, 3690 Braselton Highway in Dacula. To reserve a seat, email events@gwinnettpl. org.

April 19

Kayla Ballew will teach

an outdoor yoga class from 3 to 4 p.m. April 15 at The Wildflower Market, 36 Frances St. in downtown Braselton. The cost is $5 per person. Dress for the season and bring a yoga mat.

and recycling. Participants will need to bring identification showing a Berkeley Lake address.

The Family Promise Bed Race will take place on April 21 in Lawrenceville.

The annual event has teams April 20 The Latin American Asso- turning beds into racing ciation and Asian Americans vehicles to raise support for Family Promise of Gwinnett.

Advancing Justice Atlanta Parade of beds begins at will provide qualified legal representatives to help in fill- 10:30 a.m. with the racing following at 11. Awards will ing out the U.S. Citizenship Application Form N400. The be presented during the closing ceremony at 12:30 free N400 Citizenship App.m. For more information, plication Assistance Program will take place from 10 visit familypromisegwinnett. a.m. to 1 p.m. April 20 at the org/event/bed-race.

Lilburn branch, 4817 Church April 22 A Sunday Kind of Groove St. in Lilburn. concerts take place on the April 21 shore of Lake Berkeley and The city of Suwanee is benefit the Duluth Cluster unleashing a brand-new Schools Foundation. Divas! pet-friendly event: Race for The Greatest Hits of Linda the Rescues 5K and Fun Ronstadt, Carole King and Run. The event starts at 8 a.m. April 21 at Town Center Stevie Nicks will perform Park, 330 Town Center Ave. from 6 to 8 p.m. April 22 behind the Lake Berkeley in Suwanee. Registration is Chapel, 4043 Berkeley Lake $25. Proceeds will benefit animal rescue organizations. Road in Berkeley Lake. To purchase tickets, visit www.

For more information, visit freshtix.com, email ak509@ race4rescues.com or email bellsouth.net or call 770race4rescues5K@gmail.

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April 24 The Wildcat Walk 5K Join Family and Conand Fun Run will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon April sumer Science Agent Ines Beltran to learn about ways 21 at Duluth High School, 3737 Brock Road in Duluth. to prevent Alzheimer’s and The event is a fundraiser for other types of dementia.

In Aging with a Healthy Duluth High’s football and Brain — Alzheimer’s and athletic programs. To regisDementia Prevention, ter, visit runsignup.com and search for “Wildcat Walk/5K participants will learn how to age with a healthy brain Fun Run.” and take an assessment The ninth annual GCPS ISC Relay For Life 5K Run/ to determine their risk of developing Alzheimer’s or Walk will take place at 8 other types of dementia. The a.m. April 21 at Gwinnett event will begin at 6:30 p.m.

County Public Schools’ J. April 24 at the Five Forks Alvin Wilbanks Instruclibrary, 2780 Five Forks Trictional Support Center, 437 kum Road in Lawrenceville.

Old Peachtree Road N.W. April 26 in Suwanee. Participants who register by April 9 will Gregg Burkhalter, “The receive a race T-shirt in LinkedIn Guy,” will teach you the size of their choice. To how to navigate the new register, visit www.active.

LinkedIn features and recom and search for “Paint sources, what to do daily on the Pavement Purple.”

LinkedIn to grow your perBerkeley Lake’s annual sonal brand, how the mobile Earth Day celebration will app and desktop version take place from 9 a.m. to 2 differ, and more in A Small p.m. April 21 at City Hall, Biz Workshop: Using the 4040 S. Berkeley Lake Road New LinkedIn to Grow N.W. in Berkeley Lake. City Your Personal and Busistaff, vendors and volunteers ness Brand. The workshop will be available to assist will begin at 11:30 a.m. April with shredding documents, 26 at Prototype Prime, 147 disposal of unwanted items Technology Parkway, No.

100, in Peachtree Corners.

To reserve a seat, email events@gwinnettpl.org.

April 27

Lilburn Relay Rally, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, is an opportunity to take action to help end the pain and suffering of cancer.

Individuals and teams are encouraged to participate in the event, which will take place from 5 to 9:30 p.m.

April 27 in Lilburn City Park, 76 Main St. in Lilburn. For more information, email Pat Swan at sbp6388@aol.com.

Meet New York Times bestselling author and Pulitizer Prize winner Rick Bragg at a book talk and signing at 7:30 p.m. April 27 at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, 10 College St. in Norcross.

A wine bar, silent auction and recipe sampling will be available at the event.

April 28

Brookwood High School will host its first Riley Run and Carnival Fun Day on April 28. The Riley Run 5K, a road race through the Brookwood Manor neighborhood, will begin at 8 a.m. at Brookwood High School.

The carnival will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the high school. For more information, visit amandarileyfoundation.org.

St. John Neumann Catholic Church and St. Mary’s Independent Living will host their annual SMILE 5K from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Lilburn City Park, 76 Main St. For more information, visit www. smile4.info.

The Gwinnett March for Babies will begin at 9 a.m. April 28 at Suwanee Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee.

The event raises money for the March of Dimes. For more information, visit www. marchforbabies.org or email mloggins@marchofdimes. org.

The Snellville Police Department is hosting a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28 at the police department, 2315 Wisteria Drive in Snellville.

Participants can drop off unwanted or expired prescription drugs.

College Notes Dominique Shore of Suwanee was named to the dean’s list at Fort Lewis College for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Furman University for the fall 2017 semester: Austin Green of Lilburn and Rachel Moss of Peachtree Corners.

Karen Robinson of Lawrenceville was named to the dean’s list at Lincoln Memorial University for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Newberry College for fall 2017 semester: Davis Bryan of Dacula, Corey Chrzanowski of Suwanee, Hayden Francis of Snellville and Diana Rausch of Lawrenceville.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Sam-

ford University for the fall 2017 semester: Suzanne Lowndes of Grayson, Samantha Greenblatt of Grayson, James Newell of Grayson, Nicole Klaubert of Dacula, Avery Johnson of Suwanee, Hailey Giannotti of Suwanee, Carrie Sawyer of Suwanee, Gabrielle Adams of Suwanee, Anna Towner of Suwanee, Joyner Bousquet of Suwanee, Katherine Clarke of Suwanee, Alexa Wagner of Suwanee, Caroline Williams of Suwanee, Jonathan Waters of Suwanee, Margaret Greene of Suwanee, Macy Barnett of Suwanee, Maigan Jenkins of Suwanee, Logan Casperson of Suwanee, Shelby Dean of Suwanee, Jenna Heeren of Suwanee, Jessica Henderson of Suwanee, Elyssa Moore of Suwanee, Caroline Reynolds of Suwanee, Katherine Hubbard of Lawrenceville, Abigail Hubbard of Lawrenceville, David Brock of Lilburn, Leah Halls of Lilburn, Caleb Strawn of Lilburn, Harrison

Hansard of Lilburn, Kaitlin Mullen of Norcross, Thomasina Lyew of Snellville, Heather Shaw of Snellville, Neilly Ficken of Norcross, Natalie Armstrong of Norcross, Emily Sheffield of Peachtree Corners, Jordan Weaver of Peachtree Corners, Emily Boucher of Norcross, Megan McPherson of Norcross, Brooke Adams of Norcross, Sarah Henderson of Norcross, Eulaya Erb of Peachtree Corners, Megan Eberhart of Berkeley Lake, Caitlin Berry of Berkeley Lake, Phillip Adams of Duluth, Ansley Tolbert of Duluth, Christina Moraitis of Johns Creek, Emily Sandgren of Duluth, Sabrina Campbell of Braselton, Holly Vlach of Buford, AnnaCatherine Shebs of Sugar Hill, Hannah Gilbert of Buford, Janet Whittaker of Buford and Mackenzie Epps of Buford.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Valdosta State University for

the fall 2017 semester: Denecia Alston of Snellville, Jacob Arrant of Lawrenceville, Taylor Beshers of Braselton, Katherine Bowles of Lawrenceville, Terrance Brown of Norcross, Deedee Burton of Sugar Hill, Tirys Carr of Suwanee, Orlin Charles of Stone Mountain, Gavin Childers of Dacula, Erin Cole of Suwanee, Ruby Cortez of Duluth, Thomas Creamer of Suwanee, Laiah Dance of Norcross, Caitlyn Dawkins of Buford, A’niecia Defour of Lawrenceville, Lesheena Dixon-Grasso of Lawrenceville, Linda Doehling of Lawrenceville, Bryanna Edwards of Lawrenceville, Christian Evans of Suwanee, Jason Ferguson of Stone Mountain, Tyler Gibbs of Snellville, Shannon Goeckel of Snellville, Ariel Goolsby of Duluth, Tahirah Gouldbourne of Lawrenceville, Bethany Guinn of Dacula, Bradley Henry of Lawrenceville, Jasmine Henry of Snellville, Rebekah Henry of Lilburn, Meagan Hooper of Dacula,

Sidney Ihm of Buford, Kyra Keenan of Duluth, Bianca Kengne of Grayson, Myra Larkin of Conyers, Caleb Leon of Dacula, Alexandria Livermore of Dacula, April Mason of Lilburn, Katelyn McNew of Grayson, Ernesto Moor of Norcross, Cody Moore of Lawrenceville, Daniel Morales of Dacula, Brett Mosier of Lawrenceville, Nicole Njoku of Snellville, Jalen Norris of Lawrenceville, Phoebe Palmer of Suwanee, Lindsey Pearce of Braselton, Alisha Pekkalainen of Lawrenceville, Leo Penn of Lawrenceville, Larryn Rogan of Snellville, Nancy Samuel of Lawrenceville, Rosalie Sanchez of Lawrenceville, Ashley Smith of Suwanee, Zachary Stowe of Hoschton, Brittany Tarnowski of Snellville, Paige Taylor of Auburn, Chelsea Warren of Snellville, Ansley Watson of Hoschton, Jessica Wellington of Lawrenceville. Tai Williams of Dacula, Jessica Yeagle of Snellville and Morgan Young of Buford.

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competition.

Brookwood High School’s Mei Deng won second place honors and a $7,500 Art Institute of Atlanta scholarship while North Gwinnett’s Sharon Chong won third place and received a $3,500 Art Institute of Atlanta scholarship.

Curt Yeomans “As is always the case, we had a remarkable selecpeople do, but I feel the tion across the board, with passion with which they three exceptional finalists,” create these pieces, and Woodall said. “CongratuI’m grateful that they are lations to each and every willing to share it with the one of you, and especially rest of us.”

Ms. Allie Chin for earnIn addition to having her ing first place recognition! artwork, titled “Missing I look forward to seeing Grandpa,” displayed in the your work in the Capitol in Capitol, Chin also received coming months.” a $3,000 annual scholarship from the Savannah Perdue: Korea Free College of Art and Design Trade Agreement and a $12,000 scholarship update benefits U.S. from the Art Institute of U.S. Sen. David PerAtlanta for winning the due, R-Ga., hailed the

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renegotiated U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and South Korea, predicting it will benefit the American economy.

The White House announced this week that the number of American-made automobiles that will be allowed to enter David Perdue the South Korean market will double from 25,000 to 50,000, and the Asian country will begin taking U.S. environmental and emissions standards into account.

South Korea also agreed to extend the phase out of a 25 percent U.S. tariff on trucks to 2041.

A South Korean pharmaceutical reimbursement policy for drugs

will be changed, with the White House explaining that U.S. exports will be treated more fairly. New limitations on the importing of South Korean steel are being added as well.

Perdue offered praise for President Donald Trump for the new agreement.

“In just eight short months, President Trump was able to deliver on his promise to make our trade agreements work for the American people,” Perdue said in a statement. “The updates to the Korea Free Trade Agreement will benefit the American worker and our economy.

“Of equal importance, this deal will help us uphold one of our strongest alliances in the world and ensure a future of prosperity for the United States and South Korea.

I have just met with the South Korean Prime Min-

Wilkerson 71st Year Wedding Anniversary Evelyn Adams Wilkerson and George E.Wilkerson of Between, GA. are celebrating their 71st Wedding Anniversary. The couple is originally from Lawrenceville, GA.

All Veterans

They were married March 22, 1947.

George retired from General Motors.

Evelyn retired from Eastman Kodak and Dr. Fayette Sims, Sr. office.

They have two daugthers Susan & Jeff Cartwright, Between, GA. and Ellen and Wayne Garrett, Commerce, GA. Three grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

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North Gwinnett High School student Allie Chin’s artwork will hang in the walls of Congress for the next year after she won the Seventh Congressional District Art Competition.

U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall recognized Chin and other participants in the competition recently during a reception at the Hudgens Center For the Arts in Duluth. Congressmen and women hold art competitions every year and the winning artwork from each contest is included in a year-long exhibit at the U.S. Capitol that opens during the summer.

“Each year this is one of my favorite events, and this year’s talented group of artists certainly lived up to that expectation and more,” Woodall said in a statement. “I don’t have a bit of the talent these young

ister, Lee Nak-yeon, in Seoul, and we discussed how this agreement will enhance our relationship and help level the playing field.”

Isakson praises ousted VA secretary for ‘tremendous impact’ Not long after news broke that President Donald Trump planned to replace U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin with Admiral Rodney Jackson, effectively announcing Shulkin’s Johnny Isakson ouster from the position at the same time, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., offered praise for the ex-VA chief.

“Dr. Shulkin has made a tremendous impact toward improving the lives of veterans during his time at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,” Isakson said in a statement. “He has been instrumental in all that we have accomplished in the last year, and I thank Dr. Shulkin for his dedicated service to our country and our veterans.

“I look forward to meeting Admiral Jackson and learning more about him.”

Political Notebook appears in the Wednesday and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post.

We are proud to provide honorable burials for homeless veterans who otherwise might not receive recognition for their service. If you served our country, we will serve you, no matter what.

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Gwinnett 200’s STORY VAULT project was launched to commemorate Gwinnett County’s bicentennial by recording the stories of the people who live, work, and play in Gwinnett.

Aneneba Akufor immigrated to the United States from Cameroon. After living in Ohio for a year, he moved to Gwinnett, inspired by history, climate, and the 1996 Olympic Games. Listen as he tells the story of how he came to fulfill his American dream right here in Gwinnett.

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News tariff proposals a threat to U.S. newspapers There are two things you need to know about newspapers.

Newspapers are important to community life and democracy.

Always have been. We at the National Newspaper Association think it is important for all sorts of newspapers to survive for the sake of a free society — the very large and the very small ones, the liberal ones, the conservative ones, the middle-of-the-road ones, the ones with no viewpoint but just important news, all of them. Some are our members.

Many are not. We defend them anyway. America needs them like we need oxygen.

The second is that even if your newspaper seems to be “online,” the digital copy that you may count on probably couldn’t exist if there weren’t a printed newspaper behind it. The newspaper in print supports all of the other versions economically. So, if the printed version disappeared, you can’t assume all would be well because it is online anyway. It won’t be.

These facts are important because the paper your newspaper is printed on is under attack.

One small paper mill in Washington State is trying to use the federal trade and tariff laws to make this paper — newsprint, or uncoated groundwood paper, in paper parlance — about 50 percent more expensive. This mill has complained to the U.S. Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission about international competition. If it succeeds, the prices of newspaper printing will skyrocket. The resources available for everything else your local newspaper may need or want to do for you will be strangled.

Canadian paper producers have supplied the U.S. for many years. They have some natural advantages over U.S. papermakers because of hydroelectric power and shipping costs. More than a dozen U.S. mills have stopped making newsprint in the last decade because demand for paper has declined. Today, even if Canadian paper disappeared because of high tariffs being proposed to the federal government, the U.S. paper mills could not supply newspapers with the paper they need. Mills cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and can take many years to be safely situated in compliance with environmental rules.

With demand falling, no one is going to invest in a massive expansion of U.S. newsprint.

Over the short term, tariffs could force the price of paper up and the New York investors who own the Washington State mill could gain.

But our country will lose.

Fragile newspapers will vanish. Challenged newspapers will have to cut back. Even healthy newspapers are going to have to find ways to absorb a daunting new cost. And who will pay? Everyone who relies on a newspaper to tell the local stories, cover elections, advertise sales, get pictures of the winning touchdown and cheer the economic development people on in their work of creating new jobs.

That worries me. If it worries you, pay a visit to www. stopnewsprinttariffs.org and be informed.

Susan Rowell is president of the National Newspaper Association and publisher of the Lancaster News in South Carolina.

Zell Miller a man of principle, courage Zell Miller was the best Georgia politician I never voted for — and better than 99 percent of the ones I did vote for. Zell Miller stayed with the Democratic party long after it had left him. He was loyal like that, which is probably why I didn’t vote for him when he ran for governor and senator, but I should have. He certainly made my life better, personally, than anyone who has come down the pike in a long time — or who is likely to come along anytime in the foreseeable future.

If Georgia has ever had an education governor, other than Lester Maddox, it was Zell Miller. I was a classroom teacher during his tenure in office. My colleagues and I were recipients of 6 percent raises every year for four consecutive years. That’s a hefty increase — more than all the years since he left office combined. It skyrocketed Georgia teachers to the middle tier of salaries nationwide.

I was against Zell’s lottery. I campaigned against it and voted against it. Again, I wasn’t thinking correctly. The lottery has been great for me and my family, and it is the only contribution many people make to the state’s educational funding. All three of my children graduated from the University of Georgia, hallowed be thy name. Not a single one of them paid a single penny of undergraduate tuition, thanks to Zell’s HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Excel) scholarship

provide up to $10,000 for Georgia teachers to obtain advanced degrees. There were no federal strings attached, and you paid the money back through service.

Win-Win-Win. My principal told me to drive over to Athens that very day and get them to walk my admisDarrell Huckaby sion packet to UGA grad school through the system, which I did. program.

I hit a stumbling block — more My kids were all outstanding, like a brick wall — when I got to and so was Zell, even if he did zig the last step of the process at the and zag every once in a while. finance office. The Zell Miller My youngest child benefited Teachers’ Scholarship was so from Zell’s 4-year-old preschool new that they knew nothing about program, and so will my grandit over there and insisted that I son, Sir Henley the Adorable, had to fill out a federal governnext year. All of the above is like ment application to determine my money in my pocket, but that’s financial needs. They told me it not nearly as important as the op- would take six weeks to get back, portunities the scholarships have which would cause me to miss provided for people to have better summer school, and probably the lives. It is the HOPE Scholarscholarship, altogether. ship program that has elevated I drove back to school and the status of my aforementioned called the governor’s office and alma mater to the elite status it asked to speak to Zell Miller. now enjoys. Almost every student Luckily for me, it was the admitted to next year’s freshman Friday of Freaknik II in Atlanta. class scored over 1,400 on the If you lived in Atlanta in the SAT. Two of us used to get in for 1990s, you remember Freaknik. that.

It rendered the streets of Atlanta When I was admitted in 1970, impassable for three days without my acceptance letter came adbenefit of a single snowflake. dressed to Darrell Huckaby, or On the anniversary of the date, current occupant.

Atlanta prepared, and almost I also got my first master’s de- every worker the city was sent gree because of then-Gov. Miller. home early — including almost My principal came into my everybody at the state Capitol. classroom one Friday morning, The poor intern who answered the all excited about a new program phone when I called the governor the governor had introduced to told me, “The governor doesn’t

talk to regular people.”

“He doesn’t?” I asked.

“No,” was the confident reply.

“You have to write a letter and ask, and if he thinks it’s for a worthy reason, he’ll call you.”

I asked the young man to spell his name so that when I wrote in the paper that Zell Miller doesn’t talk to regular people I’d have my source right.

He put me on hold. A few minutes later a voice with a mountain twang straight out of Young Harris came through my phone. “This is Zell Miller. May I he’p you?”

I explained my situation. He promised to look into things.

When I arrived home, an hour later, my befuddled wife, Lisa, greeted me with, “I don’t know what is going on, but Gov. Miller called and said you didn’t have to fill out any more paperwork. Your scholarship has been approved and funded.”

I got the first one. And taught another 20 years.

Zell Miller was a marine, an educator and a statesman who had the courage to stand up for what he believed to be right, even when it wasn’t popular. He was, as we used to say in Porterdale, much a man.

And he will be missed. He will be sorely missed.

Thank you, sir. It was an honor to have known you. We appreciate your service.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County. Email him at dhuck008@gmail.com.

To Hadley Ann, Harper Grace: Welcome to the world Dear Hadley Ann Yarbrough and Harper Grace Yarbrough: Welcome to the world! We were not expecting you so soon.

I was told your arrival was set for late May or early June but, of course, I am always the last to know anything in this family, as you will soon find out. Obviously, no one checked with you because you decided to come 11 weeks early. Just like a Yarbrough. Nobody is going to tell you what to do or when to do it.

I am told that you are two tough little cookies who aren’t going to let a small matter like an early arrival affect you. You may be small in size at the moment, but it is obvious that your tenacity is bigger than all outdoors.

You are instant celebrities. You are the first set of twins to bloom on this branch of the Yarbrough family tree. That makes you special. The fact that you have all your fingers and toes and the other stuff that goes into making up a human being is even more special. We should never take the miracle of birth lightly. It is a miracle.

I thank God for that, and I thank a group of angels in the neonatal intensive care unit at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in

Dick Yarbrough Cobb County who are looking out for you two in these first few critical days of your life. Blessings on them one and all.

I am going to give you some time to get accustomed to your new environs but I thought it might be good to tell you a little bit about your family. As you will soon discover, we can be an opinionated and cantankerous bunch but we love the dickens out of each other. No exceptions.

Whatever else you may feel in your lives, you can rest assured that you will never feel unloved.

That’s not the way we operate.

You have a couple of siblings waiting for you. There is your precious and precocious sister, Hayden Rose Yarbrough, who is 4 years old and already assuming princess status in the family.

I assume she will be willing to share that privilege with her

baby sisters in due time but let’s tiptoe with that one right now.

She doesn’t give up power easily.

And then there is Cameron Charles Yarbrough, who gives new meaning to the word “great” as in great-grandson. I predict he is going to make a great big brother, too, although I suspect having three sisters around may test his patience on occasion. He had better go ahead and declare dibs on the bathroom while he can.

I can report to you that your mom and dad are greatly relieved that you are here, as are the rest of us. I’m not sure it has quite sunk in yet that they are going to need two of everything going forward — two car seats, two high chairs, two beds, a double load of diapers, etc. etc.

No question that the rest of us will chip in and help. You have doting grandparents, greatgrandparents, assorted aunts and uncles and cousins who are anxious to get you up and running.

We will cover you up with more stuff than you can ever use.

Being that you are the first set of twins in the family, I will be curious to see how similar you will be, as well as how different. Will you look alike? Think alike? Act alike? That is what

makes this all so exciting to me.

You represent new life. New opportunities.

For many years, I have devoted a column of advice at the beginning of the new year to my grandchildren and later to my great-grandchildren. I have never asked them if they have read the columns. I am pretty sure you won’t read this one. I mean, first things first — like eating and sleeping and putting a few ounces on your tiny frames.

Reading can come later.

You don’t know it yet but you have already taught us all a great lesson. Your arrival serves to remind us of how precious life is, to never take it for granted and to never waste one minute of it grinding over trivialities. As you grow older, you are going to be looking at all of us to see how we live our lives. May we never forget that and never disappoint you.

Hadley Ann and Harper Grace, I am glad you two have arrived safely. Very glad.

Love, PA You can reach Dick Yarbrough at dick@dickyarbrough.com; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public sale on April 18th 2018 of the belowlisted units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 27313 1964 Rockbridge Rd. Mountain, GA Stone 30087 (770) 879-8632 4/18/2018 10:15AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A005 Samms, Ena B037 Bowden, Gabriel D002 Fractious, Tracy KENNEDY, DED015 SHAWN D027 Scott, Eugene E051 britton, marsaius F007 Lenton, Eddie F008 Colvin, Alisha F038 Gomez, Carla F072 Lindsay, Tyisha G003 SAMMS, ENA G034 Fennell, Rene All sales are subject to cancellation. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated April 1st and April 8th 2018 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

(818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-541045, 4/1,8 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public sale on April 19th, 2018 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28138 3679 McElroy Rd Doraville, GA. 30340 (770) 452-8144 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A046–Goodwin, Alexandria A095–Brown, Tara B010–Thomas, Clara C035–Hamilton, Laray E089–Council, Kimberly F850–Butler, Gregory F876–Bugg, Melanie PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28149 3055 Jones Mill Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30071 (770) 447-9755 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 200–Hall, Anthony 207–Roblero, Isaias 209–Powell, Bobby 223–Brown, Beverly 314–Abney, Glenn 319–Dealba, Oscar 333–Flores, Lizeth 366–Williams, Brittney 379–De La Rosa, Sinoe PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29104 3265 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30092 (770) 449-0384 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1223–Sands, Bianca R 2232–Emanuel, Wayne 3527–Reid, Derrick 3702–Catwell, Tamara 4227–Bekazua, Luwawu S PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20171 6289 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30071 (770) 416-9275 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A004–Jenkins, Todd A035–Wright, Angela B025–Williams, Brandi B034–Mccoid, Jason B057–Champe, Erickson C061–Heiskell, Felicia D065–Hancock, Jamon E014–Madison, Valerie E025–Moore, Cameron E040–Castro, Michael E065–Bankston, Hassan E114–Jasper, Judie F038–Rainey, Jackson P

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PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28150 6770 Dawson Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 448-2130 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: C236–Ramos, Ray E160–GARCIA, JOSE PABLO E163–Coleman, Anastasia G142–Jamies, Cristian H119–Rottinghaus, Emilio H185–pettiford, renee I141–Brown, Dion I158–WHITE, CRYSTAL I247–Turner, Vanessa K242–Galan, Nestor OS14–Dawiec, Ewa ---------------------------NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public sale on April 20th, 2018 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20489 6000 Lawrenceville Hwy. Tucker, GA. 30084 (770) 923-9400 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: C053–Gammage, Chelsea D001–SELLS, ALLYN E040–Dennis, Travis E051–Allen, Shaun G034–Bell, Arlene PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08049 5010 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 446-8358 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0303–joe, joshua 0346–Thomas, Deborah 0404–Warmack, Donna 0514–Steward, Angela 0635–JONES, CARTEZ 0636–Lopez, Laura 0719–Mcclendon, Thurayyaa 0740–nelson, jarvaris 0817–KRASNECK, RAYMOND 0841–CELORIO, LEIDY 1013–Pollard, Diane 1038–Bryant, David 1103–Whitlock, Nadia PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29135 1755 Indian Trail Rd Norcross, GA. 30093 (678) 924-0203 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1084–Madden, Tammy 1085–Patel, Ashok 1104–Myers, Lyndsey 1205–Jones, sylvia 1218–Garth, Lashone 1219–Sanitago, Sugey 1343–Innis, Alexander 2256–Burtin, James 2280–Young, Andre 2296–KERNEY, ROBERT 2306–WOOD, DARRYL 2337–Morgan, John 3181–Lambert-Har vey, Sharon 3274–Harris, Roy 3403–Dunn, SharDai PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 24346 615 Indian Trail Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-0498 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B010–Booker, Demetria B051–Alvarez, Yesenia B076–RICHMOND, GIGI PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 21901 95 Arcado Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-9211 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A003–Bravo, Katherine B049–Brown, Chauncy C001–Brown, Quanvavious C047–Wiley, Comelena C087–Owokalu, Lawrence C099–Payne, Curtis D015–Yonko, Peter F015–Hanks, Tawanda PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 23106 460 Beaver Ruin Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-1196 TIME: 12:00 PM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B116–Anderson, Jazmine B128–Rogers, Travis B

B145–RUFFIN, ALICE C151–Robinson, Norma C169–Williams, Pamela E259–Wilson, Geoffrey E265–martinez, yvette E354–Toney, Gabriel F387–HOLDER, NATHAN F415–Smith, Alex G503–Milton, Jordan All sales are subject to cancellation. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 1st day of April 2018 and 8th day of April 2018 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

(818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

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NOTICE OF SALE of Personal Property Georgia Self Storage Act (210-215) ATLANTA PEACH MOVERS, INC Notice is hereby given that the undersigned self-storage units will be sold at a public sale by competitive bidding, in their entirety to the highest bidder, on or after, April 28, 2018 to satisfy the lien of the Lessor, with Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc as managing agent for Lessor, for rental and other charges due from the undersigned. The said property has been stored and is located at the respective address below. The sale will be held at the address listed below and will begin at 9 a.m. or after on said date and will continue hour by hour until all units are sold. Atlanta Peach Movers 2913 Northeast Parkway, Doraville GA, 30360, 770-447-5121: Marty Rubin #S10066 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Gene Brosius #S10140 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Karen Lacour #S10333 / #753, #7-309, #7-315, #7-322 Household Goods; Susan Roldan #S10490 / #53-1376, #53-1377, #53-1378; #531381; #53-1392; #53-1396 Household Goods; Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems #S10554 / #29-637, #29-642, #29660, #29-700, #37-1327 Household Goods; Ken Gey #S10595 / #45-843, #45-845 Household Goods; Annabelle Valencia #S10723 / #43-807, #43-808, #43-811, #43-813, #43-828 Household Goods; Adrienne Williams #S10779 / #1-197, #3-35, #3-140, #3-216, #5-38, #5-62, #5144, #5-279, #5-358, #5371, #6-50, #6-131, #6-254, #6-314, #9-171, #28-601, #28-681, #30-682, #30-686, #30-706, Household Goods; Jerry McPherson #S10841 / #25-539, #25-541 Household Goods; Robert Dean #S10886 / #35-780, #351300, #35-1303, #35-1310, #35-1314 Household Goods; Chidi Ahanotu #S10944 / #67-1635, #67-1647, #671651 Household Goods; Angela Jones #S10988 / #47-938, #47-960, #47-999, #54-1350, #54-1368, #541387, #65-1649, #66-1616, #66-1639, #67-1600, #671615, #67-1643, #68-1677, #68-1685, #68-1693, #691665, #69-1688, #69-1694, #69-1702, #70-1725 Household Goods; Marcus Wilson #S1100 / #1-3, #1-13, #1-14, #1-17 Household Goods; Angela Cook #S11016 / #2243, #49-1191, #49-1235, #49-1242, #49-1252, #491255, #49-1258, #49-1262, #56-1359, #56-1373, #561393, #56-1428, #56-1472, #61-1432 Household Goods; Shobhna Singh #S11047 / #2-147 Household Goods; Victoria Epps #S11167 / #41-626 Household Goods; Lasharria Taylor #S11404 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Angie Baker #S11433 / #24-974, #24-1284 Household Goods; Kari Stephenson #S11549 / #53-1160 Household Goods; Niesha Butler #S11569 / 2 Sofas Household Goods; Cecilia Cox #S11651 / #68-1543, #681565, #68-1700, #68-1710, #68-1711, #68-1712 Household Goods; Justin Bousquet #S11735 / #1-852 Household Goods. The terms of the sale will be cash only and must be p

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is. Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc reserves the right to withdraw any or all units, partial or entire, from the sale at any time. All contents must be removed completely from the property the same day as the auction.

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ZONINGS CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth Planning Commission to consider a request from Marty Orr to rezone approximately 6.01 acres of property in Land Lot 293, 6th District, Gwinnett County, consisting of tax parcels 6293 073, 6293 214 and 6293 200, from C-1 (Neighborhood Business District) to PUD (Planned Unit Development District).

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the Planning Commission on the proposed rezoning at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: April 16, 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the proposed zoning, which is on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Dan Robinson 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: drobinson@duluthga.net For more information, contact Dan Robinson, Planning & Development, at (770)476-1790. ******************** ********************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

Please contact Teresa Lynn at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

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NO SUBDIVISION Beautiful 2.89 Acre Tract of Land close to vicinity of Athens. The front is open with a small, shared pond & the back is heavily wooded.

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BROOKWOOD SCHOOLS 1.03 Acre Wooded Zoned RS180. Lot located in Snellville in older established neighborhood in Brookwood Elementary School district.

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WALNUT GROVE AREA 11.57 ACRES Of Land with +/-411 Feet of Road Frontage On Busy Highway 138.

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ZONED COMMERCIAL Drastically Reduced, Bring All Offers!

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RIVER FRONT 3BR/2.5BA 2 Story on 1.92 acre river lot with above ground pool.

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5 ACRES WALNUT GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT Beautiful 5 acre wooded lot that shares a portion of shared pond. County water is available. What a scenic place to build your dream home or vacation home in one of the most desirable school districts. $90,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a USDA Child Nutrition Program that feeds nutritious meals to children in low-income areas when schools are closed for vacation. The program operates through sponsors that utilize sites approved by Bright from the Start to feed children free of charge. SFSP sponsors can be public or private non-profit schools; universities, colleges, or camps; units of local government; and private non-profit organizations considered tax exempt by the Internal Revenue Service [501(c)3].

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MUSTANG

RISING Success over the past year helps Meadowcreek

By David Friedlander david.friedlander @gwinnettdailypost.com

Just three weeks ago, Meadowcreek boys basketball coach Curtis Gilleylen found himself on the floor of Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion shaking hands with and high-fiving school administrators and fellow faculty members standing courtside as his team celebrated its Class AAAAAAA state championship win over

Norcross.

When he got to Mustangs head football coach Jason Carrera, he paused for a minute, smiled, pointed at him and said wryly, “You’re next.”

It was a scene that as recently as this time last year might have seemed patently absurd to a lot of people who have followed high school sports in Gwinnett County since the Norcross-based school opened up in the fall of 1986 on a number of different levels.

For one thing, saying something like that to the coach of a football program that had experienced only four non-losing seasons and one postseason appearance in its first 30 years of competition seems like more than just a pipe dream.

So was the idea of of a Meadowcreek team celebrating a state championship, considering that the school had not produced a title-winning See RISING, Page 4B

Carlson tips scales for Parkview Tim Slater on with

By Taylor Denman

on Tuesday, 2-1, to gain an advantage over the Knights in region standings.

Carlson was dialed in Parkview senior Max Tuesday night, making a Carlson can be tough on handful of key saves in the himself. second half — two from Last he checked, the Panpoint-blank range in the secthers’ goalkeeper had a 3.89 ond half and another in the GPA, enough to impress final seconds on a deep free Emory University for a sockick. Had either snuck by cer scholarship, but Carlson Carlson, the match would can’t help but feel like he have been tied. hasn’t been as focused in “He is without a doubt the classroom during the the best goalkeeper in the final semester of his senior county, in my opinion,” season.

Parkview goalkeeper Max Carlson is leading Parkview head coach Danny Klinect He’s been understandback to the playoffs after the Panthers fell short last said. “I may make some ably distracted. Carlson is season. He will play at Emory University next season. people mad, but he has kept keeping up with his training (Staff photo: Taylor Denman) us in so many games. The regimen for Emory while reason we’re not giving up trying to keep Parkview’s difficult regions in the state. the No. 1 and No. 2 Class goals is because of him.” opponents from scoring as In the same week, AAAAAAA boys socThe Panthers are two the Panthers traverse their Parkview played a pair cer teams. Parkview beat way through one of the most of region matches against Central Gwinnett at home See CARLSON, Page 2B taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

Lanier girls hoops

By Taylor Denman

taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

Lanier High School announced the school has hired Rome High School assistant athletic director Tim Slater as its new girls basketball coach.

The man who calls Buford girls basketball coach Gene Durden his “basketball dad,” is returning to coach in Gwinnett County, taking over for Josh Link, who stepped in for one season after Oji Perkins resigned.

“We lived in Sugar Hill for about five years and then moved to Rome (to be

an assistant AD),” Slater said. “I just feel like when Lanier came open, the opportunity to be back in that community is awesome.

“I love how much Sugar Hill has adopted Lanier … For me, that was a big draw for me. On social media, you see students doing volunteer work, and you don’t get that at many schools.”

Slater will complete his responsibilities at Rome for the remainder of the 2018 school year and plans to join Lanier in time for summer basketball.

Slater was an assistant

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Mountain View pitcher Chase Chaney delivers a pitch during the Bears’ game against North Gwinnett on Friday night at Mountain View High School. The Bears will play a three-game region series against Mill Creek over spring break. (Staff photo: Taylor Denman)

No spring break for local baseball teams

By David Friedlander david.friedlander @gwinnettdailypost.com

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Pretty much every high school student, teacher and administrator in Gwinnett County’s Public School System will be enjoying a week off for spring break.

But for many of the county’s high school baseball teams, it’s business as usual.

While most of Gwinnett’s prep sports teams will be off from action this upcoming week, there will be a nearly-full slate of games on diamonds throughout the county and beyond, including several key region contests.

“That’s what you sign up for when you play high school baseball,” said Mountain View coach Jason

Johnson, whose Bears (146, 6-3) face a key Region 6-AAAAAAA series with No. 9 nationally-ranked (by USA Today) Mill Creek this week, beginning Monday afternoon at home. “We tell that to our parents every year. … Everybody’s doing the same thing. With the number of teams we have in our region, we had to decide whether to move the region schedule up a week this year and take spring break off.

But that makes it difficult to schedule non-region games (early in the season), since we have 18 region games instead of just 12. It makes it difficult to get all your region games in.

“Every series in our region is a battle. We’ll try to keep our schedule similar to what it would be during a week we’re in school in terms of

practices and on game days.”

Exactly how Gwinnett’s teams keep busy during spring break varies. While many are continuing region play, others will be stepping outside their regions.

And in at least one case, a team is heading south like a lot of other spring breakers, though unlike those vacationers, Parkview won’t be hitting the beach, but rather hitting baseballs along Florida’s Gulf coast.

The Panthers (17-4, 6-0 in Region 7-AAAAAAA), who are currently ranked No. 11 nationally by Perfect Game and No. 20 by Baseball America, will travel to Sunshine State powers Venice, Sarasota and Jesuit-Tampa for games Tuesday through Thursday.

Heading out of town to play non-region games dur-

ing spring break when the schedule allows it is a very common occurrence for Parkview, and coach Chan Brown said such trips serve a variety of purposes.

“It can be a team-bonding (experience),” Brown said.

“It also puts us in position to play strong out-of-state opponents to see where we stack up against other people and get us prepared for the (state) playoffs. Every time we go out of town, we usually see eveybody’s No. 1 (starting pitcher).

“We’ve been lucky enough to have that situation all the way from when (retired) Coach (Hugh Buchanan) was still here to my tenure, and it’s really key for us. If we didn’t play that kind of competition, we don’t have (the 2012 and 2015 consensus) national championships.”

•From Page 1B years removed from a state championship when Carlson was waiting in the wings as a sophomore. The emotional peak of last season was a dramatic penalty kick shootout in the state title game against Milton.

Carlson stepped in as a junior, but Parkview went 2-4 in Region 7 play and missed the playoffs. The Panthers lost 10 games, seven by a single goal, but it seems to Carlson the Panthers’ the scales of fortune are tilting back to the Panthers’ favor this season.

Carlson has come through for Parkview in clutch situations, first when he avenged an overtime loss to Peachtree Ridge last year by stopping a pair of Lion penalty kicks, then clinching a critical region match in a shootout against Lakeside a few weeks later.

“Last year there were a lot (of close games) too, but we were on the other end a lot of times,” Carlson said. “This year thankfully we’ve been able to win a lot of the close games.”

Not only does Carlson provide insurance for Parkview’s stingy defense, but he can also add a confidence boost when he makes difficult saves during the run of play.

“If I make a good save, that will get the team hyped up and give them a spark of energy,” he said. “I do feel pressure … every time I get scored on, I feel like I let my team down. I just always try to do my best.”

Carlson has been playing soccer since he was four years old, has been playing keeper since he was 8 years old, and played for the Atlanta Fire United club team. He also comes from a family of Parkview soccer grads. His older brother Lucas Carlson and his sister Emma Carlson went on the play college soccer.

Emma Carlson is a sophomore at Duke.

Carlson is closing in on his lifelong dream of making it to the next level, but there’s still business to take care of.

Parkview lost to Norcross on Thursday night, missing its shot at a region championship, but the No. 2 seed and a home match in the first round of the state playoffs are still a possibility for Parkview.

After spring break, the last few weeks of soccer will be his last at Parkview, and Carlson plans to leave a few more stains on his Panthers jersey.

“It’s pretty huge because two years ago we won state,” Carlson said. “The following year we didn’t make the playoffs and that was a huge disappointment. This year, things are kind of going our way.”

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Prep Schedule

Monday

BASEBALL

• South at Island Coast (Fla.) 1 p.m. — Duluth at Discovery 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Lambert 6 p.m. — Collins Hill at North 6 p.m. — Dacula at Apalachee 6 p.m. — Gainesville at Lanier 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Mountain View Tuesday

BASEBALL

• South at Ida-Baker (Fla.) 4 p.m. — Archer at Fleming Island 5:30 p.m. — Lovett at Wesleyan 6 p.m. — GAC at Union Co. 7 p.m. — Parkview at Venice (Fla.)

LACROSSE

4:30 p.m. — Lovett girls at Wesleyan 7 p.m. — Wesleyan boys at Marist

SOCCER

4:30 p.m. — Wesleyan boys at Marist

The Home Teams

Hawks

TODAY NEXT UPCOMING Orlando at Miami Miami 6 p.m.

Tue, 7:30 p.m.

Wed, 7:30 p.m.

FSSE/92.9-FM FSSE/92.9-FM FSSE/92.9-FM

Off

Orlando Greenville Fri, 7:35 p.m.

Sat, 7:05

Off

Toronto at Saskatchewan April 8, 4:05 p.m. April 14, 9:30 p.m.

Gladiators

Swarm

United

LAFC NYCFC Off April 7, 5 p.m.

April 15, 6 p.m.

TBD/92.9-FM

Off

Austin April 15, 7 p.m.

at Florida April 21, 7 p.m.

Off

Penn FC April 8, 4 p.m.

Louisville City FC April 21, 7 p.m.

Havoc

United 2 FSSE = FOX Sports Southeast, FSSO = FOX Sports South

On TV MLB

Today

12:30 p.m. — Philadelphia at Atlanta. FSSE 1 p.m. — St. Louis at New York Mets. ESPN 8:30 p.m. — San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers.

ESPN

NHL

Noon — Boston at Philadelphia. NBC 7:30 p.m. — Washington at Pittsburgh. NBCSP

NBA

3:30 p.m. — Houston at San Antonio. ABC 6 p.m. — Orlando Magic at Atlanta Hawks.

PGA

3 p.m. — Houston Open, Final Round. NBC FSSE

SOCCER

8:25 a.m. — Premier League Soccer Arsenal FC vs Stoke City FC. NBCSP 9:30 a.m. — Bundesliga Soccer SV Werder Bremen vs Eintracht Frankfurt. FS1 10:55 a.m. — Premier League Soccer Chelsea FC vs Tottenham Hotspur FC. NBCSP Noon — Bundesliga Soccer Mainz 05 vs Borussia Monchengladbach. FS1

WOMENS COLLEGE BASKETBALL

6 p.m. — NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship. ESPN Monday

COLLEGE BASEKTBALL

9 p.m. — NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship.

TBS

MLB

7:30 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta. FSSE Tuesday

MLB

7:30 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta. FSSO

NBA

7:30 p.m. — Atlanta Hawks at Miami Heat. FSSE

Sports Calendar

FOOTBALL

April 14: Fellowship of Christian Athletes Gwinnett will host its Lunch with Legends fundraiser at North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrenceville. Proceeds fund FCA Gwinnett’s ministry programs. The event, which begins at noon, features six-time Pro Bowl selection and Super Bowl champion Jeff Saturday, who started at center with legendary quarterback Peyton Manning for 12 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and is now an NFL analyst. The program also includes testimony from other athletes and coaches, including former NFL and Atlanta Falcon Kevin Shaffer.

An auction also is planned with items like a football autographed by Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart and autographed items from 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers. The North Metro Baptist youth band also will perform at the event. Individual tickets and sponsorships are available.

Feedback

For more information, email cwest@fca.org or go to www. fcacoachesgwinnett.org.

GOLF

June 25: The 10th annual Archer Classic will be held at Summit Chase Country Club to benefit the Tigers’ high school football program.

Shotgun start is at 9 a.m.

Cost is $125 per player and sponsorships are available.

For more information, email tjohnstone@eaglerocks.com.

ALL SPORTS

Ongoing through Aug. 3: All Sports Youth Camps, in partnership with Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation, will host spring break and summer break camps in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, lacrosse, softball and multi-sports this year.

Locations include Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Summer camps are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, go to www. allsportsyouthcamps.com, email DLStancil@yahoo.com or call 770-356-6861.

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24 points and grabbed 14 coverage of Kansas-Villanova.

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bulkier defenders. Krutwig canned a layup and then hit two free throws to give Loyola-Chicago a 17-15 lead at the 5:56 mark, and Marques Townes converted a pullup jumper 27 seconds later to finish a 15-3 spurt.

The Ramblers maintained the advantage for the half’s remainder and used a break in the final 30 seconds to take a seven-point lead into the intermission. After Wagner missed the front end of a one-and-one, Donte Ingram rebounded Custer’s missed shot and flipped in a lane jumper with 1.3 seconds left for a 29-22 margin at the half.

NBA NOTES

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registering 15 points and 14 assists in 33 minutes Philadelphia 76ers in a 107-93 Wizards win. center Joel Embiid underWall had missed 27 went surgery on Saturday games since undergoing to repair the fractured left knee surgery in late orbital bone around his January. Washington was left eye.

15-12 in those contests.

The 76ers reportedly Within the last week, believe Embiid can return Wall began taking part in as quickly as two weeks, full-contact practices. He which means they would joined the team for a trip have their All-Star center to Detroit on Thursday back early in the Eastern and was listed as quesConference playoffs. tionable, but did not play.

Philadelphia (45-30) • San Antonio Spurs has already clinched a star forward Kawhi berth and is battling the Leonard is once again Cleveland Cavaliers and rehabilitating his injured Indiana Pacers in hopes quadriceps in New York of securing home-court with outside medical peradvantage in the first sonnel, ESPN reported. round. The playoffs are Leonard arrived in New set to begin April 14.

York on Monday and has Embiid was originally been working out at the diagnosed with facial gymnasium inside the contusions following headquarters of the NBA a collision with rookie Players Association. He guard Markelle Fultz also made an extended in Wednesday night’s trip to New York earlier win over the New York this year as he attempts to Knicks. heal a troublesome right • Recently retired NBA quadriceps that he hurt in stars Ray Allen, Grant October.

Hill, Jason Kidd and The Spurs reportedly Steve Nash were selected sent team staff members to the Naismith Memorial to New York to monitor Basketball Hall of Fame Leonard’s progress. HowClass of 2018. ever, time is running out Maurice Cheeks, a for a return in the regular four-time NBA All-Star season with San Antonio in the ’80s, legendary down to six games to college coach Lefty Dri- play. esell and college/WNBA • New Orleans Pelicans greats Katie Smith and forward Anthony Davis Tina Thompson were posted a video on multialso selected, along with ple social media channels longtime NBA/ABA star saying he was ready to Charlie Scott, European “make a drastic change in star and former Boston my life” and do “someCeltic Dino Radja, exthing I’ve been thinking ecutives Rick Welts and about for awhile.”

Rod Thorn and Ora Mae He then grabbed shavWashington, who starred ing cream and a razor during 1930s and 40s in and reached toward his winning 11 consecutive signature unibrow, when Women’s Colored Basthe camera mysteriously ketball World Champion- flipped away. It returned ships. to show Davis seemingly • John Wall finally reunibrowless, saying, “Big turned to the Washington moment. New AD, new Wizards’ lineup against brow. Let’s get it.” the Charlotte Hornets, However, with the vid-

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eo coming out on April Fool’s Eve, some aren’t buying it. Several Twitter sleuths posited that Davis is simply pulling a stunt as part of a marketing campaign. The towel Davis is holding, adorned with Red Bull logos, fits that theory.

• The Cleveland Cavaliers will be without guard George Hill in Sunday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks because of a sprained left ankle.

Hill was injured during Friday night’s win over the New Orleans Pelicans in the second half and did not return after scoring eight points in 22 minutes.

The team announced

that the 31-year-old Hill would receive an MRI to determine the severity of the injury. A lengthier absence has not been ruled out.

• Los Angeles Lakers small forward Brandon Ingram was placed in the NBA’s concussion protocol after being injured Friday night.

Ingram will miss Sunday’s game against the Sacramento Kings.

Ingram left Friday’s 124-122 overtime loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the fourth quarter.

He later returned during overtime before exiting again with what the team termed a bruised neck muscle.

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Kyprianou works ‘miracles’

Many who live in a college town are often afflicted with myopia. What we are not aware of far exceeds what we know. Some of that is because a large percentage of society doesn’t really care.

For example how many outside the University community are aware that exalted researcher Steve Stice is about to develop a cure for strokes? You’d Loran be shocked if you sat Smith down with marine biologist, Samantha Joye, and listened to her discourse about the fact that we are choking the planet with plastic. The billions of plastic sipping straws we dispose of each year are not really disposable.

Even in the sports arena, where I predominately hang out, myopia sometimes prevails there also. While I thrill to the excellence of football and basketball, the money sports — who could not admire what Kirby Smart is doing in football, which fuels the budget — you would be duly impressed if you seriously monitored competition in other sports.

Always under the radar is Lu Champer-Harris in softball. Every year, like with so many other teams including swimming, tennis, golf and equestrian, her teams keep winning and excelling.

Few Bulldog teams have enjoyed a greater consistency of success than the Lady Dawgs softball team.

Relatively new on the scene as a head coach is Petros Kyprianou, whom I would call a miracle worker in that no coach has come closer to winning a national championship in a shorter period of time than this classic overachiever. As the outdoor track and field season comes about, a visit to the Spec Towns Track would give you an exposure to more world class athletes than across the board.

If there is a budding young international track and field star in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Russia or the whole of Europe, Petros will know about him or her and make a connection post-haste. If the situation warrants, he will fly over have lunch with the prospect and the family and return home the day after. He can find a cheaper ticket than any seasoned air-line agent. Red eye flights and budget motels take precedent in his life.

Nobody can make do like this coachteacher.

An avid fan of weight lifting, he is his own strength and conditioning coach (another case of aiding and abetting the budget). He is so versatile, it would not be surprising to learn that he can make chicken salad out of chicken wings.

In only three years he has won a national title —t he recent women’s indoor championships. To give you an idea of how far this sport has come under Petros, with the men’s team finishing third, the two Bulldog teams tallied a combined 93 points —2 1 points more than the closest program which entered the competition.

More signature kudos for Petros: • The Lady Dawgs have finished in the top ten in NCAA indoor competition for six straight years, including five top-three finishes in a row.

• They have finished in the top 11 in NCAA outdoors the last five years.

• Georgia’s men’s teams have had five top eleven finishes in indoor and outdoor competition since 2009 including the record setting 2018 indoor meet when they finished in third place.

• He is expert at finding athletes who are versatile, multi-purpose types.

For example, he took seven women’s athletes and eight men’s participates to the National Indoors. (Some teams took twice that many or more.)

Do you not agree that this coach is a miracle worker? What I like about him is that he is a good man with a good heart. He is not a self-promoter, but inside there is a burning desire to win championships. He is a world class coach, coaching world class athletes.

He only needs a world class facility to ply his trade. Before the Georgia tennis complex became a pace-setting facility, I can remember the many times when Dan Magill, the mastermind of that classic venue would say: “We want to make Athens the Mecca of tennis.”

That is exactly what Petros has in mind for Georgia’s track program. He can visualize kids coming here to see the world’s best compete, to brush up against the stars and pace-setters in track and field, making Athens the Mecca of track and field. Petros Kyprianou is an extraordinary coach and teacher with extraordinary vision.

gwinnettdailypost.com •From Page 1B team in any GHSA-recognized varsity sport in that same time frame.

But all that changed a mere 10 months ago, when the Mustangs boys soccer team did what many observers thought was impossible.

Paced by two goals from Maverick Lobo, assists by Jonathan Santos and Henry Benavides and a shutout by Jose Alvarado, Meadowcreek’s 2-0 victory over Pebblebrook at Walter H. Cantrell Stadium in Powder Springs last May claimed the 2017 Class AAAAAAA state championship — officially, the first in school history.

Along with the trophy came something Meadowcreek athletes had craved for decades.

“Yes sir, a lot of respect,” said senior Dequarius Nichols, who scored a game-high 16 points in the Mustangs’ 56-43 win over Norcross in last month’s basketball title game.

Building Mustang pride It was more than simply the lack of championships that was the issue.

A few teams have experienced some level of success in the school’s history. The girls fastpitch softball team did win a state title in 1993, the year before the sport became an fully-recognized varsity sport by the GHSA. Girls basketball had a brief window of success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, culminating in a Class AAAAA state runner-up finish in 2002.

The wrestling team has been competitive for the better part of the last decade, including berths in the state duals three out of the last five seasons.

The boys basketball team has been perhaps the school’s most successful sports program with nine state tournament appearances — all over the last 14 seasons.

Still, the Mustangs sports programs have struggled pretty much across the board throughout the school’s history.

So the basketball team’s championship — keyed by a core that included Nichols and fellow seniors Amari Kelly and Cory Hightower and junior Jamir Chaplin — being the latest success in what has been an extraordinary time in Meadowcreek’s athletic history over the last calendar year that has provided a lot of pride and self-esteem around the school’s halls.

“I do believe that is one of the main (events) that is changing is our school atmosphere, our culture,” said LaShawn Smith, a Meadowcreek assistant principal who was named the school’s athletics director in August of 2015. “What the winning has done for us is you see the change in (the) athletes (being) more inspired. You see the coaches, they’re more inspired. They look for the students to come out. They look for different ways to showcase their different teams. Also using social media has helped a lot (with that).

“So the climate of the (entire school) building has changed tremendously with the winning that has taken place.”

The lack of a winning culture previously had created an almost self-fulfilling cycle of setbacks for decades among the school’s sports program.

Combined with the transient nature of Meadwocreek’s school cluster and the lack of resources — both economic and otherwise — it was going to take a group of coaches willing to take on such great challenges to break such a cycle.

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Rising That’s where coaches like Gilleylen, Carrera and former boys soccer coach Tyler LaFleur came in, and they all had heard plenty from peers about how unwise it would be for them to take on such a formidable task.

“That was the main thing I heard — the different stereotypes about Meadowcreek,” said Gilleylen, who had experienced a great deal lot success in DeKalb County, including guiding Stephenson to the Final Four of the state tournament, before coming to Meadowcreek in 2016. “‘You won’t be able to win there,’ and I don’t think that’s true. And like I’ve said, there’s something about being an underdog. I’ve said that numerous times. There’s something about when people count you out, people write you off. … You use that as a motivation.

We use it as something to unite (people) around.

“It’s a challenge. Everybody was trying to tell me different things. (A common pejorative for the school is) ‘Ghetto-creek.’

I heard it all out there. … And I was like, ‘No, it’s nothing like that.’ To me, it’s one of the best environments I’ve been in.

Sometimes you’ve just got to find out things for yourself. You can’t listen to other people. …

I learned that early on that you can’t take anybody’s word. You have to try to experience these things for yourself.”

Unprecedented gridiron success increases school pride While last year’s boys soccer championship got the ball rolling — literally and figuratively — and basketball has cemented the new era of Meadowcreek school spirit, it was a non-state championship season in football — the Mustangs program which has perhaps had the most difficult time of all given the fact it had won just 56 games in its first 30 seasons of play — that may have had the biggest impact.

After winning just five games in 13 season prior to Carrera’s arrival as head coach in 2015, the Mustangs had already begun to show some signs of improvement by winning a total of four games in his first season at the helm.

But it’s doubtful anything could’ve prepared for the Mustangs’ remarkable improvement in the 2017 campaign.

Paced by a large, experienced offensive line and a recordsetting season from running back Chauncey Williams, the Mustangs produced a schoolrecord six-game winning streak to start the season, tied the school’s single-season record with seven wins and achieved the program’s first winning season and playoff appearance in more than 25 years.

While support for the program had always been strong — thanks to several student booster organizations like HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education) and the Mustang Stampede — the sudden success instilled a sense of belief among the players, and the rest of the student body, that hadn’t previously been present.

“That’s been one of the things I’ve been most impressed with,” Carrera said. “Even when we were battling the first couple of years and not being successful, but the crowds were still there.

The crowds were still cheering.

The band would still be playing. … That’s been amazing.

“I think when I first got here, kids would walk into class an say, … ‘Y’all aren’t going to win any games.’ Now you don’t hear that from the kids as much.

It’s kind of changed the whole attitude of the school. Instead of being against us, they’re with us now. I think they do believe

in us a lot more now. They not only believe in our athletic programs, my hope is it carries over (to other aspects of the school).

Reaping the benefits of winning There has definitely been some carry over to all of Meadowcreek’s notable victories in several sports.

Some of those beneifts are tangible, like the gifts to the football program that came with Carrera being named 2017 Coach of the Year at a recent summit held by the Coaches Leadership Network — which included a check for $3,500 to aid in the program’s continuing challenges in fundraising ,resources presented by the Gwinnett Sports Commission and the use of a 12-passenger van, plus maintenance and tires for five years by a local automobile dealership to help the team’s “Uncle Pigskin” program provide players with transportation issues rides home after practices and workouts.

Other benefits have been more subtle, most notably, an increase in sense of camaraderie among players and coaches of different Mustang teams.

“Definitely after soccer won,” Gilleylen said. “I think that kind of motivated all the programs. Even though none of us had been there, if we can get there, we can win it. … I think some of my guys went (to the championship game). I wasn’t able to attend any (of the playoff games), but some of my guys did go. But I was following along every step of the way via Twitter.”

Carrera hopes that kind of support among Mustangs teams will go even further into the future.

“I think one of our next steps is to start seeing some crossover (from athletes) into (other) sports,” Carrera said. “To see guys cross over from soccer to football or soccer to basketball or basketball to football or lacrosse. … If we get some of (those) multi-sport guys, … we’re not getting our share of that right now. … That will only make our athletic program better.”

Challenges ahead in maintaining success As enjoyable as all the wins and championships over the past few years have been, plenty of challenges for all of Meadowcreek’s sports programs remain ahead.

Among the biggest challenge is that the school’s current placement in ultra-competitive Region 7-AAAAAAA with such strong programs as Brookwood, Parkview and cross-town rival Norcross, among others.

It’s a major reason Carrera took Gilleylen’s prognostication that his program was “next” with a grain of salt, as much as he appreciated the sentiment.

“I just kind of laughed off those remarks because we’re a heck of a long way from a beating a North Gwinnett or a Mill Creek or a Norcross,” Carrera said. “We’re definitely taking things in the right direction, but it takes a whole lot of guys doing the right things for year after year after year to build something that would give us that opportunity. … We’re definitely a really, really, really long way from competing for a state title.”

All kidding aside, thechallenges ahead for Meadowcreek’s sports programs are formidable.

For one thing, the success over the past calendar year has almost exclusively been enjoyed by the school’s boys sports programs.

While there have also some recent good seasons for some

Mustang girls programs — the volleyball team gained its first state playoff berth under coach Jessica White in 2016 before taking a bit of a step back last fall — as a whole, they have remained struggling.

Smith vows that elevating the girls teams is among his latest goals for Meadowcreek athletics.

“You know, a good friend of mine challenged me on that, (saying), ‘You’ve got the boys going, but what about the girls?’

Smith said. “I look, and I can say we’re making small steps in different areas. Our volleyball team has really seen some success that we’ve never seen before with Coach White. She’s been putting things in place. We didn’t have as good of a year this (past) year. We had some growth the year before (when) we made it to the state playoffs for the first time. In soccer, I see a lot more of our girls participating in club soccer (programs) now that we never had before.

Then you have girls basketball.

That’s one (program) that I’m really putting a lot of attention to this year in the offseason — making sure we can get that back on track. That’s one on my to-do list this offseason.

Softball, we’ve got a lot of girls wanting to play now. The participation is up. Now we have to get the girls going to club.

“So my big push right now is to create opportunities for the girls to go to (year-round) club (programs) so they can continually get (training). I’m looking at resources and opportunities to be able to create that for our girls because club (sports) cost money. So I’m looking at sponsorships and opportunities to be able to get them exposed (to their sports) over time.”

The other big challenge is to maintain the heights already reached by the teams that have already reached them, and make sure that they won’t be mere one-hit wonders.

One way of meeting that challenge has already been reached in that Meadowcreek has suddenly become a destination school in some sports after years of seeing top athletes in several different sports leave for other schools.

While many of last year’s boys soccer title team were homegrown, the basketball teams benefited from the addition of a handful of transfer players, and Carrera says he’s already seen about four or five transfers participating in his team’s offseason weightlifting and conditioning programs.

And while winning will help slow the migration of athletes out of the school, several programs — most notably basketball and football — have taken further measures to doing so by bolstering the youth and middle school feeder programs into the school.

For example, Meadowcreek will field fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade teams in the Gwinnett Basketball League for the first time in many years, and perhaps the first time ever, this year.

The way Smith sees it, while strong classes of athletes can by cyclical, instilling a pride in Meadowcreek athletics long before student-athletes make it to high school is the best way to create the kind of consistency he believes each programs needs to flourish.

“I believe the consistency,” Smith said. “I always drive my coaches to build great programs.

People lead programs, and not wins and losses. That’s what I believe in. People have ups and downs, but if the programs are not where it should be, the people will walk.”

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the rest is history.”

Slater has done his homebasketball coach at Rome work when it comes to in 2017-18. He previously preparing to the 2018-19 coached at Johnson High basketball season. Lanier School in Gainesville, where graduates senior guards he coached the previous two Bailey Bassette and Jamyah seasons. He started his coach- Montissol but returns some ing career at Robert Toombs core players in guards Nala in Vidalia before he spent two Lawrence, Mekayla Fuller seasons as an assistant at Bu- and Jalen Surles, as well as ford where he worked under center Christabel Ezumah. All coach Allen Whitehart. four have a wealth of varsity “(Durden and Whitehart experience, and Slater said are) my basketball mentors,” the foundation he’s inherited Slater said. “They gave me is strong, and he can see the an opportunity to come up to team continuing to compete Buford on the boys side, and in the near future. Lanier also

returns experienced varsity players Taylor Stanley and Mya Williams.

He’s also aware of the rigors of competing in Region 8-AAAAAA. The Longhorns were 22-7 last season, and won seven consecutive games in the middle of last season.

Lanier finished Region 8 runner-up to Winder-Barrow and was bounced by Harrison in the second round of the playoffs.

“As far as a program, I think we have an opportunity to be really good in region and make a deep run in the

state playoffs,” Slater said. “I think the girls have that much talent where we can be one of the top teams. Obviously, Dacula has a lot to say about that … but I think it’s an opportunity to build a program that can be good and have long-term success.”

Slater will be returning to a teaching position at Lanier, deciding he prefers the contact with students over the administration role of an assistant AD. Slater, from Miami, Fla., is a graduate of Georgia Southern University.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2018 • 5B

Rejuvenated Bowyer sparks Cup Series hopes

By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service

Tiger Woods hits from the bunker on the 17th hole during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament at Bay Hill Club & Lodge. (Photo: Reinhold MatayUSA TODAY Sports)

Tiger’s Augusta return adds intrigue to Masters

By Stan Awtrey

cess there, too, so really looking forward to getting up there and doing a bit of There are plenty of work and getting a feel for proven golfers – young the golf course and feel for and old – who are playplaying that style of golf ing well on the eve of the again,” Woods said.

Masters.

The presence of Woods, However, the one name who has come close to on the mind of all golf fans winning twice this spring, is that of Tiger Woods. The has added intrigue to the 14-time major champion event. He joins the gang of — and four-time winner veterans expected to comof the iconic green jacket pete, a list that is headlined — is returning to Augusta by past Masters champions National this spring for the Phil Mickelson and Bubba first time since 2016.

Watson, along with four“I’m looking forward time major champion Rory to it,” Woods said. “I miss McIlroy and World No. 1 playing there. I’ve been Dustin Johnson. there for the dinner and as Mickelson, 47, is bidgreat as that is, it’s frusding to become the oldest trating, knowing that I’m champion in tournament young enough to play the history. McIlroy needs a event, where some of the win to compete the career other champions are not, Grand Slam. and I just have not been The young guns include able to physically do it, 2017 Player of the Year which is difficult.”

Justin Thomas, Spanish Woods’ record at Auhot-shot Jon Rahm, popugusta is almost without lar Rickie Fowler, twoequal. Since becoming a time winner Patton Kizzire professional in 1997 and and Patrick Cantlay. That winning the Masters for doesn’t even include the first time, Woods has former Masters champion only been outside the top Jordan Spieth, who has 25 once. He has finished struggled this spring. fifth or better five times Oh, and then there’s deand been runner-up twice. fending champion Sergio But his last victory at Au- Garcia. gusta came in 2005, a year “I think there’s a lot to before then-club chairman look forward to,” two-time Hootie Johnson “TigerU.S. Open champion Andy proofed” the course.

North said. “Starting with “I’ve had a lot of suca couple of elderly gentleStaff Correspondent

men in Tiger and Phil.

Then you add in the group of the younger crew that has carried the Tour the last three or four years, they’re all playing well, have won lately. You’ve got a handful of players that are playing exceptionally well and the star power, the guys you hope will be there on Sunday. I think we’re in for a fantastic week of golf.”

The field of 86 players is the smallest in 21 years.

It will not include U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka, who withdrew with a left wrist injury.

The winner of this week’s Houston Open will be added to the list, if he has not already qualified.

This will be the first time around the block for new club chairman Fred Ridley, the hand-picked successor of Billy Payne.

It is also expected to be the last time the famed 13th hole will play the same; the purchase of land from neighboring Augusta Country Club allows Augusta National a chance to lengthen the popular par 5.

The only hangup may be the weather. Rain is in the forecast for the middle and end of the week. That puts the Par 3 Contest in jeopardy and could cause the tournament to finish on Monday or even Tuesday.

NFL NOTES

CB Butler still not sure why New England benched him Field Level Media Malcolm Butler says he still doesn’t know why the New England Patriots and coach Bill Belichick didn’t let him play in the Super Bowl LII loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

But the cornerback did think about asking why during the game, and he also said he may have made the difference between winning and losing had he played.

Butler admitted to being sick in the leadup to the Super Bowl — for which he was listed on the official injury report — but he still didn’t know for sure that it was the reason for his benching. Among the potential issues were him not traveling with the team, arriving a day later than the rest and missing some meetings.

“I have the flu, nose running, nose stuffed up. I took a trip to the hospital.

I didn’t travel with the team.” Butler said in an SI: Under the Cover video. “… Would we have won if I played? Probably, maybe, I’m not sure.

“I would say we were short about one or two plays. I’ve seen a couple plays out there I could have made. It was just a coaching decision. It didn’t

work out good for me, (Belichick) or the New England Patriots organization.”

Butler became a free agent at the end of the season and has since signed with the Tennessee Titans for five years and $61 million, with a reported $31 million of that guaranteed.

Butler and the Patriots talked about an extension before last season, but couldn’t agree on a deal.

Butler hinted that could have played a part in his benching, as well.

“I just wanted to go up to (Bill) Belichick or (defensive coordinator) Matt Patricia and say, ‘This is how we’re going to end this?’” Butler said. “I grew up in the Patriots system.

I’m a well-mannered guy.

I respect my authority. I just couldn’t ask them for something they didn’t want to do. “… I was close to going up there and saying what I wanted to say to Matt or Belichick, but I just stayed in my lane and did my job.

I really wanted to go ask them, but I didn’t.”

Butler came into the NFL as an undrafted free agent and is best known for preserving the Patriots’ 2824 lead against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX with an end-zone in-

terception with 20 seconds left on the last play of his rookie season. It was his only interception that year.

He has eight in his career.

He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2016.

Hall of famer goes to high school Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary is once again a head coach — for a Texas high school.

The former NFL great and San Francisco 49ers head coach is taking over at Trinity Christian-Addison, located in a Dallas suburb, according to the Dallas-Fort Worth StarTelegram.

Longtime Trinity assistant Steve Mercer, most recently the defensive coordinator, will serve as his assistant coach.

Singletary became the interim 49ers coach in 2008, replacing Mike Nolan, and finished the season 5-4, earning him a four-year deal with the club. He followed that with an 8-8 season in 2009, but was fired with one week remaining after going 5-10 the following season.

Since then he’s served as a special assistant/ linebackers coach with the Minnesota Vikings (201113) and a defensive assistant with the Los Angeles Rams (2016).

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In big time NASCAR racing, there are, of course, Victory Lane celebrations for the race winner.

And then there are Clint Bowyer Victory Lane celebrations or rather, as we learned Monday. . Victory Lane, grandstands, pit road, frontstretch, track garage, driver motorhome lot, Stewart-Haas Racing shop and, of course, back home in Kansas celebrations.

Parties, soirees, clicking-of-the-heels. High toasts, hearty handshakes, pats on the back. Smiles all around. There was plenty of hooting and hollering too — and that was just from Bowyer.

It’s all the result of one of the most popular victories in recent Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series history — Bowyer’s 1.146-second win over Kyle Busch in Monday’s weather-delayed STP 500 at the venerable Martinsville Speedway.

The big positive vibes weren’t because the 37year old Bowyer bested this season’s three-time runner-up Busch – but because Bowyer simply “bested.”

It’s been nearly six years since the popular veteran won a Cup race.

He’s had 24 top-fives, including six runner-up finishes since his last win — at Charlotte Motor Speedway in October, 2012, his best full season when he finished runnerup to Brad Keselowski for the championship.

It’s been 190 races and five full seasons since Bowyer last lifted a Cup trophy and he’s driven for two other teams since he last celebrated. But as Monday so dramatically demonstrated, Bowyer has found his sweet spot at Stewart-Haas Racing, where he is tight with his three other co-drivers Kevin Harvick, Aric Almirola and Kurt Busch and is especially fond of his team owners including Tony Stewart — who last drove the same No. 14 to a Victory Lane two years ago.

“I’m not lying when I texted Tony Stewart, this is good times,” Bowyer said. “This is fun to be in this equipment. It’s fun to be alongside our teammates. I appreciate this opportunity more than. … it’s hard to say, know what I mean?

“Everybody that knows me, knows that I have fun and run my mouth and I’m goofy and everything else, but I do appreciate this opportunity and appreciate the army of people that make this possible for all of us.

“Speaking of relationships, I guarantee you that’s the neatest thing about motorsports and everything, part of it, is when I get to that phone it’ll be people from Richard Childress that gave me this opportunity, to (former team owner) Michael Waltrip, who gave me an opportunity in 2012, to fast forward to Tony Stewart, the people that are giving me this op-

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Clint Bowyer and his son Cash, pose with the trophy following the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway. (Photo: Michael Shroyer-USA Today Sports)

portunity today, and these guys that I’ll be able to share this stage with.

“Those are the cool things that you’ll remember forever.”

And this victory will undoubtedly fall in that category — for its timing, circumstance and the immediate, heart-warming opportunity to share with his young family. Monday was the first time Bowyer was able to celebrate a Cup win with his two children — two and a half year-old son Cash and 15-month old daughter Presley — in Victory Lane alongside him.

There is a photograph — likely to be cherished forever by Bowyer and his wife Lorra — that shows a smiling Cash excitedly running down the track immediately after the race to meet his dad Lorra holding Presley, approaching just behind.

On television, Bowyer picked up his son, gave him the checkered flag he’d just collected for the victory and did his live national television interview with Cash in his arms.

The setting was telling, and visually indicative of how significant Sunday’s win was for Bowyer — both personally and professionally.

“I started to put all these things together, and I was starting to reflect on this, and the one thing that’s always missing is a picture with him [Cash], you know, and that’s where it changes your thought process and actually your reasoning for racing,” Bowyer said.

“A lot of people want to think about these kids as being a distraction,” Bowyer said, dismissing that idea.

“You start to think about what really matters in life, and the one thing that I didn’t want him to go through life is not to know what this was all about.

“So to be able to have him in Victory Lane and have his No. 1 in Victory Lane, that was pretty cool, wasn’t it?”

And, Bowyer jokingly added, he was going to put the grandfather clock, traditionally awarded to Martinsville winners, on the roof of his wife’s SUV for the drive back to their Charlotte, N.C. home.

“It meant a lot to me to be able to put it all together at this track because it’s one that I feel like I’ve lost way more than I’ve ever gained here, and I wanted that damn clock,” Bowyer said, adding as the room erupted in laughter, “How are we go-

ing to get it home? What do you do?

“I’m going to ratchet strap it to my wife’s SUV. We’re going to be the Clampetts with our trophy ratchet strapped to the roof of the SUV, but it’s coming home.”

It will represent so much. Before leaving the track to take questions from reporters in the infield, Bowyer was approached by fellow competitors. In addition to his SHR teammates, other drivers from seventime Cup champ Jimmie Johnson to Kyle Larson to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. walked by for a handshake, pat on the back or to give Cash a thumbs-up.

Even his team owner Gene Haas’ Formula One team offered congratulations from Australia via Twitter. “.@StewartHaasRcng is on fire,” Haas F1 driver Romain Grosjean tweeted.

“Well done to everyone in the team and to @ ClintBowyer for another victory.”

Bowyer’s success — the fourth win for the team (Harvick has three others) in 2018 — was not only a bold statement for SHR which now boasts four drivers ranked among the top-11 in the points standings; but a bold statement that he is “back” and ready to be reckoned with.

Perhaps his win – just prior to a rare NASCAR off-weekend — came at the perfect time. Bowyer will have time to properly celebrate and to properly reclaim his groove as the series heads to Texas Motor Speedway for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 on April 8.

And this weekend’s victory — a career restoration, of sorts — may not be the last for Bowyer in 2018. It is the start.

“I haven’t won as many races as I needed to, but I’ve always been consistent, and that was always putting myself in position to have a shot at winning the championship at the end of the year,” Bowyer said. “I finished second, had a lot of success in this sport and being able to shine at the end of the year when the time is right for everybody involved, and over the last few years, I haven’t been able to put all that together.

“This is a year that’s starting to shape up to where I feel like I’m accustomed to, way back when, when I was confident that we were going to go to the end of the year and we were going to compete for a championship.”

IN BREIF Miami QB to transfer to Charlotte

ing the decision, Shirreffs revealed Tuesday on his Twitter account that he will play for the Charlotte 49ers.

Quarterback Evan Shirre“I’m excited to announce ffs is leaving the Miami that I’m committed to Hurricanes after all.

UNC Charlotte for my final After initially being two years of eligibility!” blocked by the University of Shirreffs tweeted. “I can’t Miami from transferring to wait to move up to North certain schools and fightCarolina this summer and

get to work!”

Shirreffs, a junior graduate transfer, arrived at Miami from Jefferson, Ga., in 2015 and lost a preseason QB battle with junior Malik Rosier last summer. Shirreffs saw action in individual series in three games, completing just 2 of 7 passes for 16 yards.

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ATLANTA UNITED

ATLANTA UNITED 2

Atlanta United 2 plays to 2-2 draw at Charlotte From Staff Reports

Atlanta United players celebrate after a goal against the Minnesota United during the first half at TCF Bank Stadium. (Photo: Jeffrey Becker-USA Today Sports)

own goal from Charlotte’s Jung-Soo Lee that put Atlanta United 2 battled United 2 in the lead in the to a 2-2 draw in its inau28th minute. Bello corralled gural road match against a back pass and started the Charlotte Independence on attack by giving to fellow Saturday night.

Homegrown Chris Goslin Featuring a young startnear midfield. The 17-yearing lineup with an averold midfielder immediately age age of 20.8 years old, one-touched a pass to a United 2 went toe-to-toe streaking Jose Carranza with one of last year’s top up along the left sideline, USL teams. MLS Homewhere the 19-year-old grown Player Lagos Kunga winger then played Bello on scored his first career goal toward goal. Bello finished with a remarkable individu- his long run in the box, as al effort in the 82nd minute his shot attempt inadvertentto put Atlanta ahead 2-1, but ly hit off Lee before going Jorge Herrera equalized for into the back of the net.

Charlotte three minutes later Charlotte equalized in the in what was an entertaining, 37th minute from Herrera. back-and-forth game.

The veteran midfielder took George Bello, a 16-year- a pass from Caleb Calvert old defender, made his near the edge of the 18, professional debut and was turned toward net, and fired instrumental in forcing an into the lower left corner of

the goal, past a diving Paul Christensen. The match went to halftime at 1-1.

Each team had a few good looks at goal early in the second half, but it looked destined to be a 1-1 draw until Kunga’s strike.

Near the corner flag, Kunga maneuvered through a pair of Charlotte defenders and darted up the end line, racing past a third defender before firing through goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra’s legs for a 2-1 lead. But, unfortunately, Herrera struck again for Charlotte, equalizing three minutes later to even the match at two apiece.

United 2 (1-0-1, 4 points) returns to action on Sunday, April 8 against Penn FC. Kickoff from Coolray Field is scheduled for 4 p.m.

Down a man, Atlanta survives Minnesota 1-0 Comeback falls short in ATLANTA GLADIATORS

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the remainder of the half.

Much of the same enAtlanta United used an sued after the break. From own goal by Minnesota a statistical standpoint, United in the first three Minnesota (2-3-0) domiminutes of the game, then nated time of possession, relied on a defensivebut the control of the ball themed effort as they resulted in very few legitiplayed with 10 men for mate scoring chances. the final 55 minutes of the Atlanta embraced the match for a 1-0 MLS road strategy to sit back on dewin Saturday night. fense through the final 45 The tone of the game minutes, and even when changed late in the first they countered, no more half when Leandro Gonthan three players — if zalez Pirez of Atlanta that — made runs down received his second yellow the field. card of the game and Atlanta was content to was disqualified from the slow the game to a crawl match. throughout the second half The tempo was altered and it vastly slowed the immediately over the last tempo.

10 minutes of the half. AtMinnesota did find a lanta (3-1-0), who had the few scoring chances as better run of play, turned time wound down, but all to a defensive posture for went for naught behind

some big stops from Atlanta goalie Brad Guzan, who finished with three saves.

The game couldn’t have started much worse for Minnesota. Less than three minutes into a game, an Atlanta corner kick was deflected by a Minnesota midfielder Ibson right at Minnesota goalie Matthew Lampson.

The Lampson blocked it but the ball bounced to Atlanta’s Hector Villalba.

A quick header from Villalba was deflected off the cross bar by Lampson, but the rebound hit Francisco Calvo of Minnesota and bounced into the goal.

Calvo was credited with an own goal, giving Atlanta what turned out to be the game winner.

ATLANTA HAVOC

4-2 decision vs. Florida From Staff Reports Atlanta took the ice in Estero, Fla., for the last road game of the regular season in search of their first win over Florida this year. After trailing 3-0 to start the third period, the Gladiators battled back to get the game within one goal only to ultimately fall to the Everblades 4-2 Saturday night.

Florida notched the opening tally just 1:29 into the contest. Michael Kirkpatrick slid a pass behind the defense into the Gladiators’ zone. Brett Bulmer beat everyone to the puck and scored on a short-range breakaway to give the home-side the 1-0

lead.

The Everblades doubled their advantage 6:21 into the middle frame. Derek Sheppard blasted a onetimer from the high slot that eluded Dan Vladar and sailed into the top shelf of the net. Joe Cox and Logan Roe received the assists on the second Florida goal.

Just nine seconds later, Florida moved ahead by three. Right off the face-off at center ice, a quick passing play sent Matt Berry in on a breakaway. The former San Diego Gull roofed a shot over Vladar’s shoulder for his 14th mark on the season.

The Gladiators took advantage of a power play 5:21 into the third period

to cut the deficit back to two goals. Luke Sandler worked the puck to the creased where Taylor Stefishen slammed it across the goal-line in a netmouth scramble. Stefishen’s 7th goal of the season was also assisted by Taylor Doherty.

With just over four minutes left in the game, the Gladiators moved the score back to within one. Derek Nesbitt sent the puck to Eric Shand at the point where he took a quick snap shot towards the net. Alex Rauter knocked down the disc in the low slot, spun to the front of the goal and chipped the puck over Florida goalie, Martin Ouellette for his first pro tally in his first pro game.

Havoc rally to earn third win of the season 35-20 Flaherty’s 4 hits help lift Braves to rout over Phils ATLANTA BRAVES

By Ken Chrzanowski Staff Correspondent

BUFORD — The Atlanta Havoc overcame a 13-0 halftime deficit and rolled to a 35-20 win over the Triangle Torch in American Arena League action on Saturday night at the Buford Arena.

North Gwinnett alum Ryan McDaniel scored a pair of second-half touchdowns to spark the rally as the Havoc improved to 3-0 on the season.

“This is arena league football where you can score 21 points in three minutes, ” McDaniel said.

“I’m proud of this organization and all the fans who came out. We could feel their excitement.”

The Havoc held on to the game’s opening possession as the Torch reached the Atlanta 21. A fourth and 1 pass by quarterback Anthony Dixon fell incomplete, giving the Havoc the ball. The possession was cut short as quarterback Michael Eubank’s pass was intercepted by the Triangle’s Chris Martin.

The Torch drove to the Atlanta nine but successive sacks by the Havoc’s Eric Crosby forced the Triangle into a field goal situation. Martin came up big on that play also as he blocked the attempt.

In their most complete drive of the first half, Atlanta moved to the Torch’s 2 when Eubank connected with Tyron Lewis Sr. Two successive rushes by Zachary Brown netted no gain. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Atlanta’s Ryan McDaniel pushed the Havoc back to the 12.

Atlanta was gifted a new set of downs on the next play thanks to a Triangle penalty which moved the ball down to the six and an automatic first down.

Eubank was sacked twice and a wide-open Martell Moore couldn’t make a catch of the wide throw by Eubank. On fourth down, Eubank tried to hook up with McDaniel but the pass fell incomplete.

The Torch needed one play as Dixon connected with Allen Lee on a 35-yard touchdown just inside the padding in the left corner of the end zone. The extra point failed and the visitors led 6-0 with 13:31 left in the second quarter.

The Havoc again moved the ball to the vicinity of the Torch’s goal line, this time making it all the way to the five.

However an incomplete, a sack, and another sack forced Atlanta coach Boo Mitchell to try a field goal to get points on the board.

However, the strategy didn’t work as Jed Solomon’s 22-yard attempt was blocked.

The Triangle increased its lead just before halftime. With 56 seconds left, Dixon connected with Jataurus White on a 4-yard pass in the back of the end zone. The extra point gave the Torch 13-0 lead at the break.

The Havoc comeback started with a bang as McDaniel was on a receiving end of a 21yard touchdown that saw him crash through the opponents’ gate in the end zone and land on the arena floor. The call flipped from incomplete

to touchdown and Solomon’s extra point failed to make the score 13-6.

The Torch stretched its lead to 20-6 on the next possession but Atlanta responded on the very next play after the kickoff when Eubank connected with Moore on a 24-yard touchdown. The extra point made it 20-13 and the Havoc gained another point when Solomon’s kickoff went through the uprights for an additional point making it 20-14.

The Triangle’s next drive stalled at midfield and the Havoc gained its first lead. Eubank scrambled for 15 yards and then connected with Lewis Sr. on his second touchdown, this one from five yards. Solomon’s extra point with 11:05 left in the game gave Atlanta a 21-20 lead.

Dixon fumbled on a pass attempt on the next possession for the Torch (0-2). Larry Ford recovered for the Havoc setting the stage for McDaniel’s second touchdown. This one came from 4 yards as Eubank once again connected with the Samford graduate to increase the lead to 28-20.

The defense then iced the game with 6:25 left when Michaux Robinson went 25 yards with a pick-six on a Dixon pass.

Ford recovered another fumble to seal the win.

“When we were down at half, no one was yelling in the locker room,” McDaniel said of their halftime activities. “We were talking through what we needed to do.

Obviously, that worked because we were rolling in the second half.”

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19 hits, and each starting position player had at least Ryan Flaherty came one hit. Ender Inciarte back to haunt his former had three hits and four team, posting his second RBIs, and Nick Markakis, career four-hit game to Freddie Freeman, Preston pace the Atlanta Braves to a Tucker, Dansby Swanson 15-2 win over the Philadel- and Chris Stewart each had phia Phillies on Saturday at two hits.

SunTrust Park in Atlanta.

The offensive support Flaherty, signed as a free made Atlanta starter Branagent this spring after being don McCarthy a winner in released by Philadelphia, his debut with the club. Mcwas 4-for-5 with two douCarthy (1-0), obtained from bles and scored four runs.

Los Angeles in the Matt His other four-hit game Kemp trade, pitched 5 1/3 came Sept. 10, 2014, when innings and allowed two he played for Baltimore. runs on six hits and three The Braves pounded out walks. He struck out five

and earned his first career victory over the Phillies.

Philadelphia starter Vince Velasquez (0-1) pitched 2 2/3 innings and allowed seven runs (four earned) on nine hits and two walks.

He struck out four. The Phillies used four relievers and finished the game with outfielder Pedro Florimon pitching the eighth.

The Phillies scored two runs in the top of the first, but the Braves scored in six of their eight turns at bat.

They scored four runs in the third and five runs in the sixth.

GGC BASEBALL

No. 2 GGC splits in its doubleheader Saturday From Staff Reports

day. An infield single by freshman Walter Coursey MONTGOMERY, scored senior Tony SalAla. — The No. 2-ranked vaggio from second base Georgia Gwinnett Colin the seventh inning. lege baseball team scored One inning later, a balk three unanswered runs in allowed junior Alex Garthe opener to rally past land to square the contest No. 1 Faulkner University at 8-8. A sacrifice fly as the two teams split from Salvaggio gave the Saturday’s doubleheader. visitors the lead for good.

The Grizzlies earned a Faulkner left two 9-8 victory in the first base runners in scoring game before dropping a position in the eighth and 13-2 game in the nightninth innings. Reliever cap.

Cole Uvila got a groundFaulkner (33-3) took out to second base in two of the three games the bottom of the ninth in the weekend series inning to seal the victory. after a victory in Friday’s Junior Tucker Plouffe opener. picked up the victory GGC (26-7) scored a following a relief pitching run in the seventh and appearance. pushed across two runs in The Grizzlies had taken the eighth inning to win a 6-1 lead in the fourth the first game on Saturinning, but Faulkner (32-

3) tied the contest behind a five-run inning. A tworun home run in the fifth gave the Eagles the 8-6 advantage.

GGC became the first opponent to earn a victory on the Falcons’ field this season, after 20 home triumphs. The victory also ended Faulkner’s 10game winning streak.

In the second game, Faulkner scored five runs in the fourth inning to break open a scoreless contest. A pair of run-scoring singles

by Coursey and senior Marcus McCorkle in the fifth inning brought the Grizzlies to within three runs, 5-2. But, the Eagles answered with eight straight runs to record the victory.

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South scores low on healthy communities Forsyth County makes top 100

Rankings. It’s an affluent suburban county northeast of Atlanta.

By Andy Miller community, and several other The other Georgia counties Georgia Health News counties and cities in Virginia making the list of 500 healthimade the top 100. Virginia is est communities are Fayette, A new ranking of the health- generally listed as a mid-Atlan- at No. 120; Oconee, at 146; iest U.S. communities put eight tic state, though it has historiColumbia, at 181; Cherokee, at Georgia counties in the top cal ties to the South.

293; Cobb, at 345; Paulding at 500, with the highest being Aside from Forsyth County, 424; and Union County, at 484.

Forsyth County at No. 82. just two Southern communities All but Union are suburban U.S. News & World Remade the first 100 — William- counties. Union, in far North port, in collaboration with the son County, Tenn., at 23rd, and Georgia, has a population Aetna Foundation, released the Collin County, Texas, at 68th. of just over 20,000, and was list Monday, evaluating comThe project evaluated nearly traditionally remote until the munities by factors including 3,000 counties/communities arrival in recent years of some population health, education, across 10 categories that drive affluent newcomers attracted economy, and food and nutrihealth outcomes. by its mountain scenery. Its tion.

Forsyth County was also score was 66.6 out of possible The city of Falls Church, ranked as Georgia’s healthi100, while the state average Va., was rated at the healthiest est county by County Health was 41.8

U.S. News collaborated with the University of Missouri Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems to collect and analyze data. The factors used in evaluating community health were identified by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Colin Smith, a social epidemiologist and policy analyst at the Georgia State School of Public Health, said the rankings’ weighting of factors related to health appeared to be appropriate.

He said that the ranked Georgia counties appeared to be wealthier — and whiter — than others that didn’t make the list.

“Those counties that had the least racial difference had the better health outcomes,’’ Smith said. Disentangling race and economics in the South “is almost impossible,” he said.

Historically, some Georgia counties have experienced major changes in the ethnicity of their residents in recent years, while others have seen little such change.

Communities and states that put more emphasis and money into social services, such as education and infrastructure, do better in such rankings, Smith said.

Lifting the Southeast rankings will take reducing relative income inequality, he said.

Last day of Legislature brings successes, disappointments from holding a wireless telecommunication device or a standalone ATLANTA — Durelectronic device while ing the frenetic last-day operating a vehicle. Rep. activity Thursday at the John Carson, a Marietta General Assembly, state Republican who was the lawmakers failed to agree bill’s main supporter, on a way to curb surprise linked distracted driving medical billing. to high numbers of traffic Surprise billing ocfatalities in the state — curs when consumers plus higher car insurance have procedures or visit premiums.

ERs at hospitals in their “We’re going to save insurance network, then lives with this legislaget separate bills for tion,’’ Carson said late hundreds or even thouThursday evening before sands of dollars from a final House vote. non-network doctors who Amendments this week were involved. lowered the original Legislators couldn’t bill’s penalties for ofreach a compromise over fenders. two differing proposals.

With Gov. Nathan One bill, backed by inDeal’s signature, the surers, focused on giving legislation would make consumers more inforGeorgia the 16th state to mation on non-network outlaw holding a cellproviders and costs. The phone while driving. other proposal, favored Lawmakers approved by physician groups, adding post-traumatic would have set a formula stress disorder and infor insurer reimbursetractable pain to the list ments to doctors for out- of diagnoses that allow of-network care.

Georgia patients to posSo as in previous sess cannabis oil, a form years, proposed legislaof medical marijuana. tive fixes for surprise But several other billing got major visibil- health care proposals ity — but no final action. didn’t get taken up in Several other health the final hours. Experts care proposals were in cited a conflict between doubt up till the close leaders in the Senate and of business Thursday those in the House. evening, when “sine die” They included legislawas pronounced, endtion that would limit the ing the 2018 legislative insurer practice of “step session. therapy,’’ or requiring Also failing to make patients to try and fail on the legislative cut was a series of treatments bea bill that would have fore they can obtain the moved the Board of medication prescribed by Nursing from the Geortheir physician. gia Secretary of State’s Also not considered office to the Department Thursday was a bid for of Community Health. a commission to address Backed by state Sen. Re- the crisis of addiction nee Unterman, R-Buford, and substance abuse, and who is herself a nurse, establish a Georgia directhe move was blocked by tor of substance abuse, House opposition. addiction and related The bills getting lastdisorders. day approval included Other legislation not House Bill 673, which taken up included a bill would prohibit drivers that would provide a

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tax credit for doctors, advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants who give ‘’preceptor’’ training to medical, APRN and PA students.

And a bill to facilitate needle exchange programs in Georgia advanced further than attempts in previous sessions, but ultimately did not get a final vote Thursday evening. State Rep. Betty Price, a Roswell Republican, led the fight for the legislation.

Many experts say that given the realities of intravenous drug abuse, supplying clean needles to addicts lessens the spread of infections, saving lives and money.

Georgia has the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the nation.

Another bill hitting a legislative roadblock at the end of the night was House Bill 605, which would expand the statute of limitations for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

One health budget success story was new funding for mental health and substance abuse services.

More than $20 million was approved in the fiscal 2019 budget for children’s mental health services.

In addition, the budget provided funding for a new teen suicide prevention app, a pay hike for residential providers who serve DFCS children with behavioral health issues and a raise for agencies placing foster kids in homes. Lawmakers agreed to $4 million for treatment centers for substance abuse addictions, and two new behavioral health crisis centers were funded.

“It’s a fabulous year for funding for mental health,’’ said Stan Jones,

an attorney with Nelson Mullins and a longtime advocate for people with mental illness.

Advocates for older Georgians said they were pleased by several legislative actions.

Senate Bill 406 requires comprehensive FBI background checks and fingerprinting for direct care employees of nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living communities, private home care providers and adult day care centers.

Vicki Johnson, chair of the Georgia Council on Aging, said her organization “identified the passage of a measure requiring tougher background checks and fingerprinting as one of its top priorities for 2018, so we were delighted that this important bill passed.’’

The budget increased the amount of allowance for nursing home residents on Medicaid from $50 a month to $65.

Patient advocates had noted that the allowance goes to nursing home residents for purchases of personal items, from medical devices such as eyeglasses, hearing aids and dentures, to clothing, haircuts, shoes, gifts, and snacks.

“In a nursing home, that becomes your home,’’ Melanie McNeil, the state’s long-term care ombudsman, told GHN recently. “People have lives. Not everybody is bed-bound. They may want to go to lunch or to church.’’

Earlier this week, lawmakers approved a proposal sponsored by Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, that prohibits trafficking of elderly or disabled people. Vernon Keenan, the GBI director, told a Senate panel recently that a “criminal

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Also achieving final passage was legislation that would facilitate the formation of multi-agency teams across the state to share information and coordinate efforts to fight elder abuse. And adult day health care centers received a rate increase.

But the Georgia Council on Aging said Thursday that it was disappointed that new funding was not approved for home- and communitybased services and for the Aging and Disability Resource Centers.

Among earlier legislative successes was a proposal to boost rural health care in Georgia, which sailed through the General Assembly with strong support.

House Bill 769 would ease the creation of “micro-hospitals,’’ with 24/7 care and a small number of beds, to replace full-scale hospitals that close. It also would allow grants to help rural physicians afford medical malpractice insurance, as an incentive to practice in rural areas; permit remote pharmacy prescription orders from outside Georgia; and require training of rural hospital board and authority members.

The legislation, sponsored by state Rep. Rick Jasperse, a Jasper Republican, would also raise the rural tax credit for donations to rural hospitals from 90 percent to 100 percent. The bill was a product of the House Rural Development Council, which met several times last year to address rural issues.

The Legislature previously passed a bill that

aims to lower Georgia’s high rates of infant and maternal mortality by creating a designation reflecting the level of care offered by the state’s birthing hospitals.

The state Senate declined to advance a piece of legislation that would have let public hospitals seize patients’ income tax returns over unpaid medical bills.

Bills to alter the state’s powerful health care regulatory structure, known as certificate of need, or CON, didn’t get very far this session. But they led to some lively discussions.

In House hearings, lawmakers expressed sharp differences of opinion about legislation that would have helped Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which has a hospital in Newnan. The bill would have eased restrictions set in place a decade ago by the General Assembly.

These rules require that the hospital, which is CTCA’s regional center for the Southeastern U.S., have no more than 35 percent Georgia residents among its patients and no more than 50 beds.

Another bill failing to get traction would have allowed a multimilliondollar sports medicine center in Alpharetta that proponents say would have created 500 jobs.

The proposal would have required a change to the CON laws and was opposed by major hospital groups.

Still, several lawmakers told GHN during the session that they expect to take a hard look at potential changes to CON this summer.

Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News.

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lace, Buford, GA; and his following the service at “precious dog Chewie”.

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Elliott was a devoted husband, father, friend, and employee at his work. “He loved his job more than sunshine. He was a rock to his family.” Mr. Elliott Lilburn enjoyed attending baseball Norman Karl Mech games with his brotherin-law Smith Wallace. A Age 88 passed away Celebration of Life service Sunday, March 25, 2018. will be held on Tuesday, Wages & Sons Gwinnett April 3, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Chapel. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Pas$15 photos are available with all tor Frankie Southerland Obituaries and Death Notices officiating. A reception CALL 770.963.9205 will be held immediately Ext. 1161 or Ext. 1162

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Martha Lee Stapp Martha Lee Stapp, 91 of Duluth, GA passed away peacefully on March 23, 2018. She was born on October 25, 1926 in Louisville, KY. Martha was preceded in death by her husband, Maurice Stapp; and her son, Larry Allan Stapp. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Lee Wiist and husband, Lance, of Duluth, GA; and daughter-in-law, Barbara Stapp.

Martha was known as “Gram” by all and adored by her five grandchildren, Derek Stapp, Phillip (Claira) Stapp , Melissa (Jason) Kidwell , Jordan (Theresa) Wiist, and

Jessica (Tyler) Greene; as well as her five great grandchildren, Owen and Karsen Kidwell, Charlie and Zoey Wiist and Nolan Greene. Donations may be made in her memory to Paralyzed Veterans of America www.pva.org 1-800-232-1782. Her care is entrusted to Georgia Cremation 678-584-0914 www.GeorgiaCremation. com.

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world&nation World Malala Yousafzai returns to her home in Pakistan Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her hometown in Pakistan on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by the Taliban in 2012, according to security sources.

Yousafzai, 20, arrived by helicopter and went straight to her old house in Mingora in the Swat valley. She will also be visiting her old school where she will be meeting current pupils.

Her arrival in her hometown comes during her first visit to Pakistan since she captured worldwide attention after a member of the militant group shot Yousafzai and her classmates as they sat in a school bus in 2012.

Officer who killed Sterling fired Video shows last shot was taken within 90 seconds

By Nicole Chavez CNN

It took Baton Rouge police Officer Blane Salamoni less than 90 seconds to shoot Alton Sterling, but police took nearly two years to fire the officer and release footage from his body camera.

Salamoni’s firing Friday was the latest chapter in a tumultuous week for Sterling’s family. State officials decided not to file criminal charges against the two officers involved U.K. told to pull in the fatal 2016 shooting, more diplomatic saying their actions were staff from Russia justified. Days later, police said Salamoni violated use The U.K. will be expected of force policies. to cut around 50 personnel A second officer, Howie from its diplomatic misLake II, was suspended for sions in Russia as relations three days without pay for between the two nations losing his temper during deteriorate further following the incident. the poisoning of a former And for the first time Russian spy and his daughter since the shooting, memin England. bers of Sterling’s family Russian Foreign Minwere able to watch sevistry spokeswoman Maria eral graphic videos of the Zakharova told CNN on deadly confrontation.

Saturday that the number “Today was a troubling was calculated to ensure the day, it was a sad day, but two nations achieve parity it was a day for truth,” L. in how many staff members Chris Stewart, an attorney they have working at their diplomatic missions.

Moscow initially expelled 23 British diplomats after 23 Russian diplomats were told U.S., U.K. soldiers to leave the U.K. Russia is now insisting killed in Syria that more leave so the staff blast identified will be the same size in the U.S. and U.K. defense ofcountries’ respective embassies. ficials on Saturday released More than 25 countries the names of the two troops announced this week that who were killed this week they would expel Russian in an improvised explosive diplomats in support of Brit- device attack in the Manbij ain, which blames Moscow area of Syria. for the March 4 nerve agent U.S. Army Master Sgt. attack against Sergei Skripal Jonathan Dunbar, 36, of and his daughter, Yulia, in Austin, Texas, and British the southern English city soldier Sgt. Matt Tonroe of Salisbury. Russia denies died as a result of Thursinvolvement. day’s explosion, the defense officials said.

U.N. calls for Gaza Dunbar died Friday, a day after the blast, the Pentagon inquiry due to said.

The U.K. Ministry of Demost violent fence has said Tonroe was day in 4 years embedded with U.S. forces U.N. Secretary-General on a counter ISIS operation Antonio Guterres has called when the attack occurred. for an independent inquiry The explosion also into Friday’s violence in injured five others, the U.S.Gaza that left at least 17 led coalition in Syria has Palestinians dead and more said. than 1,400 injured.

Guterres made his comCourt rules ments late Friday before an against abortion emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to address policy for teens the issue. U.N. spokesman not documented Farhan Haq relayed his A federal judge late Fristatement to the media.

“This tragedy underlines day ruled against the Trump the urgency of revitalizing administration — for the peace process aiming now — in a case brought at creating the conditions by lawyers for pregnant for a return to meaningful undocumented teens in U.S. negotiations for a peacedetention. ful solution that will allow Government lawyers had Palestinians and Israelis to argued that President Donlive side by side peacefully ald Trump’s administration and in security,” Guterres did not have to allow access was reported as saying. to abortion to the unaccomFunerals are being held panied teens.

Saturday for those killed But Judge Tanya S. when thousands of PalesChutkan of the U.S. District tinians marched to Gaza’s Court for the District of border with Israel a day Columbia granted a preearlier. liminary injunction to the — From wire reports ACLU, which is represent-

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Alton Sterling, 37, was killed by police outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., in 2016. (CNN)

for the family, told reporters. “Truth that we don’t really see too often.”

Videos show deadly encounter As Baton Rouge police Chief Murphy Paul announced the disciplinary actions against the officers Friday, the department released new videos showing the incident that unfolded as police responded to a 911 call of a man with a gun at a convenience store.

Surveillance video from the Triple S Convenience store shows Sterling selling DVDs outside and packing up his goods as Lake ar-

rives and confronts him.

When Salamoni arrives to help Lake, he pulls his gun seconds later, according to his body camera video. Ten seconds into the video, as Sterling questions why the officers are trying to detain him, Salamoni shouts, “Don’t f------ move or I’ll shoot your f------ a--.

Put your f------ hands on the car.”

Video from Lake’s body camera shows the officer approaching Sterling, trying to get him to put his hands on the hood of a car, and eventually struggling with him on the ground.

During the altercation, another person, presumably Salamoni, screams, “He’s got a gun!” and soon thereafter gunshots are heard.

When the officers get up, Sterling is lying on the ground outside the front door of the convenience store with a blood-soaked red shirt.

A gun is not visible in the video, but Lake tells another officer he put it in his car. The officers had been responding to a call from a homeless man who said Sterling showed him a weapon after he approached Sterling for money.

Police have said a .38-caliber handgun was found at the scene.

Less than 90 seconds passed from the moment when Lake first approached Sterling to the firing of the final shot, according to a Department of Justice report of the July 5, 2016, shooting.

The four videos released Friday include the convenience store surveillance video as well as two police-worn body camera videos and a video recorded by the dashboard camera in one of the police cars.

Two bystander videos released not long after the 2016 shooting had captured the final part of Sterling’s struggle with the two white officers.

People Ingraham to take weeklong break from Fox News Laura Ingraham will leave Fox News’s airwaves next week for a vacation.

The anchor made the announcement when she signed off her show Friday evening, which capped a week of controversy in which she saw more than a dozen advertisers flee her show.

“A blessed Good Friday and Passover to all of you,” Ingraham said. “I’ll be off next week for Easter break with my kids.”

A Fox News spokesperson said the weeklong absence was pre-planned.

Advertisers bolted from “The Ingraham Angle” after the host sent a tweet earlier this week mocking David Hogg, one of the studentactivists who became a voice for gun control after a shooter murdered 17 people at his high school in Florida in February.

Ingraham’s tweet included a link to a story on the rightwing news site Daily Wire that said Hogg was rejected by four colleges.

Former president dings Trump, says he prays for him

In a late-night TV appearance Friday, former President Jimmy Carter appeared to ding President Donald Trump, suggesting the current commander-in-chief is “a jerk.”

Representatives passed it “Does America want earlier. The bill needed 16 kind of a jerk as president?,” votes to pass.

The move comes as other Stephen Colbert asked the 39th president on “The states consider gun safety restrictions after 17 people Late Show with Stephen were killed last month in a Colbert,” after inquiring whether Carter had been mass shooting at a Florida “too nice” to be commandhigh school — one of the er-in-chief. deadliest in modern U.S. “Apparently, from this history. recent election, yes. I never In Vermont, the amendknew it before,” Carter said. ment to the present law U.S. special forces patrol the roads between Manbij and Asked by Colbert about Al Bab city in 2017. U.S. and U.K. defense officials on Sat- raises the purchase age of what it takes to be president, guns to 21.

Bump stocks, urday released the names of the two troops who were killed this week in an improvised explosive device attack in the which allow semi-automat- Carter said he “used to think Manbij area of Syria. (File Photo) ic weapons to fire at a more it was to tell the truth.”

“But I’ve changed my rapid rate, will be banned. mind lately,” he said.

The confirmation comes ing the women.

The 93-year-old former just days after Trump The judge also ruled Trump lashes out president told Colbert that announced he wants the that the teens could band after governor of he prays for Trump, but he United States to withdraw together as a class as the wasn’t sure if his prayers from the war-torn country case continues along.

Calif. pardons would be answered. soon.

“The Trump adminisfive immigrants The funding was to be tration’s cruel policy of President Donald Trump SpaceX aced its blocking young immigrant used for basic infrastructure lashed out at California projects, such as restoring women in federal custody Gov. Jerry Brown on Satur- launch, but nose power and water and refrom accessing abortion is building roads. Then-Secre- day morning, continuing a cone crashed a blatant abuse of power,” longstanding feud between tary of State Rex Tillerson Brigitte Amiri, the deputy SpaceX launched another director of ACLU’s Repro- announced the funding last his administration and the month at an aid conference Golden State over immigra- rocket on Friday, and fans ductive Freedom Project waited with bated breath tion. in Kuwait. said in a statement. “We “Governor Jerry ‘Moon- to find out if the company During a speech in Ohio are relieved that the court successfully landed the $6 beam’ Brown pardoned on Thursday, Trump said, issued an order preventing million nose cone into a gi5 criminal illegal aliens “We’ll be coming out of the administration from ant seaborne net. whose crimes include (1) Syria, like, very soon. Let continuing this practice But the news wasn’t good.

Kidnapping and Robbery the other people take care while our case proceeds.

With today’s rulings, we are of it now. Very soon — very (2) Badly beating wife and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk threatening a crime with in- said on Twitter that as the soon, we’re coming out.” one step closer to ending tent to terrorize (3) Dealing nose cone — also called a this extreme policy once fairing — fell back toward drugs. Is this really what and for all and securing jus- Vermont officials the great people of Califor- Earth, the parafoils that were tice for all of these young approves gun supposed to slow its decent nia want?,” the president women.” control measures tweeted, along with a tag to became tangled.

So the “fairing impacted Fox News.

Trump puts hold Vermont Gov. Phil Scott water at high speed,” Musk On Friday, the Demoon $200M Syria said he will sign sweepsaid. That likely destroyed it. cratic governor granted 56 ing gun control measures Liftoff occurred just after pardons and 14 commutarecovery funds that include a ban on bump tions.

7 a.m. local time from VanPresident Donald Trump stocks, limits on the size of denberg Air Force Base in Five of those pardons placed a hold on more than magazines, the expansion California, and the primary went to immigrants facing $200 million in recovery of background checks on mission went off without possible deportation, acfunds for Syria this week, buyers and the raising of cording to The Sacramento a hitch. A SpaceX Falcon demanding more informathe purchase age.

Bee: Sokha Chhan, Daniel 9 rocket delivered a group tion on how the money is The Vermont Senate of 10 satellites into orbit Maher, Phann Pheach, being used, senior State approved the contentious for communications firm Francisco Acevedo Alaniz Department officials have package Friday by a 17-13 and Sergio Mena.

Iridium.

— From wire reports confirmed to CNN. vote after the House of — From wire reports

Feds: Thousands mistakenly enrolled during California Medicaid expansion

By Chad Terhune

amined a six-month period from Oct. 1, 2014, to March 31, 2015, when Medicaid payments of $6.2 California signed up an ries who were ineligible. It spent billion were made related to 1.9 estimated 450,000 people under an additional $416.5 million for million newly eligible enrollees.

Medicaid expansion who may not 79,055 expansion enrollees who There were limitations to the have been eligible for coverage, were “potentially” ineligible, California review, however. The according to a report by the U.S. auditors found. audit extrapolated from a sample Health and Human Services’ Auditors said nearly 90 percent of 150 beneficiaries. The authors chief watchdog. of the $1.15 billion in questionreported a 90 percent confidence In a Feb. 21 report, the HHS’ able payments involved federal level in their results — whereas inspector general estimated that money, while the rest came from 95 percent would be more comCalifornia spent $738.2 million the state’s Medicaid program, mon. That meant that the number on 366,078 expansion beneficia- known as Medi-Cal. They exof those ineligible could have Kaiser Health News

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been as low as 260,000 or as high as 630,000.

“If HHS has a strong reason to believe that California is systematically making enrollment errors, it would be helpful to show that in a more robust analysis,” said Ben Ippolito, a health care economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. “The federal government should ensure that states are being good stewards of federal money.”

Nonetheless, the audit highlighted weaknesses in California’s Medicaid program, the largest in the nation with 13.4 million enrollees and an annual budget topping $100 billion, counting federal and state money.

Medicaid covers one in three Californians.

The inspector general found deficiencies in the state’s computer system for verifying eligibility and discovered errors by caseworkers.

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Snellville youth Scott Cruz stacks books on one of the self checkout kiosks at the Five Forks library branch for his mother, Yanira Cruz, on Tuesday.

(Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

Evolving TECHNOLOGY

Libraries in Gwinnett are changing how they operate

By Curt Yeomans

curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Things have changed at libraries since Snellville resident Yanira Cruz was a little girl.

She watched her young son, Scott, stack books on a checkout kiosk at Gwinnett County’s Five Forks library Tuesday night.

One by one, he put the books on top of one another.

In previous decades, a librarian would have had to individually check out each book, possibly by stamping a card in the back of the book. The kiosk, however, was able to scan the entire stack of books and simultaneously check them all out to Cruz in a fraction of the time.

“When I was little, you had to check it out from the front,” Cruz said. “And now that I have kids, when we come here — my first (time) using it, I was kind of lost and they had to show me (how to use it). Technology has literally evolved since I was little and I was kind of confused.

I was like, ‘How do I use it?’

“And they had to show me.

You have to scan your card, then put your books on it and it automatically scans all of the books, which I thought was awesome.”

In recent years, the presence of machines in Gwinnett’s libraries has grown to the point that branches have become places that mix the old-school hallmarks of a library — namely the books and magazines found in them — with something that is commonplace in modern society: technology.

Machines do the work now —

Lawrenceville resident Catherine Cockle uses one of the self checkout kiosks at the Five Forks library branch to check out a book Tuesday.

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(The use of self checkout kiosks) is much better and easier. (Checking books in and out is) just faster. I don’t have to wait in line. If they have three or four of (the kiosks), I can do it quickly and be gone.”

and Gwinnett County Public Library system officials say that’s not a bad thing for librarians or the library patrons.

“One of the decisions that we made about two years ago was that we really wanted library staff to be able to get out into the community more, form part-

— Catherine Cockle, Lawrenceville resident

nerships and bring the services to the library to more people,” Gwinnett County Public Library Director of Customer Experiences Michael Casey said. “But we didn’t have any extra money for personnel.

“We couldn’t hire more staff to do that, so we had to find a

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way to do that through finding efficiencies elsewhere. One of the things we did was to find a number of efficiencies through technology.”

Checking in and out by machine The self checkout kiosks at Gwinnett’s library branches are See library, Page 2C

Above left, the print head for one of the Five Forks library branch’s 3-D printers is at rest. The branch has two 3-D printers that patrons can use in one of its Learning Labs.

Above center, Five Forks Library Branch Manager David Smith explains how one of the 3-D printers at the library works. Above right, These are some of the objects patrons of the Five Forks library branch have made on its 3-D printers. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

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•From Page 1C examples of how technology has changed the way people interact with and enjoy their local libraries.

Gone are the checkout desks that had long been a staple of any library. In their places are machines that look somewhat like ATMs, but function like the self-checkout machines at a grocery store.

The models library users see now at the branches were installed in May 2016.

“This is much better and easier,” Lawrenceville resident Catherine Cockle said. “It’s just faster. I don’t have to wait in line. If they have three or four of them, I can do it quickly and be gone.”

Cruz said there are other benefits to using the kiosks instead of interacting with a person at a desk that may not necessarily be highlighted in the promotional materials for the equipment, but might be appreciated by some mothers of young kids.

“You have less contact and less germs spread,” she said.

Casey said the kiosks do more than serve as a tool for patrons to check out books.

“They also now add value through the ability to make book recommendations and for other items,” he said. “Customers can place holds on those (items) when they’re checked out.”

Five Forks Branch Manager David Smith said there had been self checkout kiosks used in the system for about a decade before the current machines were installed.

Like Casey, Smith said

Above, options for different uses rotate on the screen of one of the self checkout kiosks at the Five Forks library branch Tuesday. At left, a self checkout kiosk at the Five Forks library branch is one of the ways in which technology has changed the way patrons use Gwinnett County library branches. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

Open+ lets patrons use libraries outside regular hours A more recent technological tool that patrons have been able to use in the Gwinnett library system is the Open+ format that was initially introduced at the Lawrenceville library in 2016 and then expanded at the branch last fall.

Patrons can use a card reader at the branch to access the library up to two hours before the branch opens in the morning and up to two hours after it one of the benefits of the items they have on hold, checkout kiosks. The closes at night. Norcrossnewer kiosks is the array just print out a list of Five Forks and Lilburn based Bibliotheca develof purposes for which everything they had branches also have maoped the system. they can be used. checked out, and they chines known as autoA person must be at “The nice things can also pay their fees di- mated materials handlers least 18 and have a library about these is customers rectly through the kiosk, that can check the books card in good standing to can check out (books), too,” Smith said. back in. sign up for the Open+ but they can also manThe changes that That allows the book program. The patron will age their accounts if libraries are seeing to be checked back in as insert their card into a they needed to renew (a because of technology soon as the patron returns slot and enter a pin code checkout), or see what aren’t limited to the self it, regardless of the time to enter the building. A of day. security official is present “(Automated materials for safety reasons. handler) is just a fancier “Let’s say, on a Monway to say a book sorting day the library is open machine,” Casey said. from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” “The customer walks Casey said. “Well, from up to the book return 8 (a.m.) until 10 (a.m.), outside the building and someone can come in and this little door will sense use the computers, check their presence and it will out books, pick up holds, open up and they can lay their kids can play on their books on a moving the kids computers and conveyor belt that pulls it they can do that without into the building. library staff present until “It checks the book in 10 a.m., when the library at that time and, at the opens.

Five Forks location, it “It’s the same in the will drop the book into evening at 8 o’clock, if one of five different con- you have to come in and tainers. That can be adult use the library to get on a fiction, or children’s computer, pick up a hold books. If it’s on hold for or whatever.” somebody else, it will drop it into a bin with a More time to create printout with that pernew partnerships son’s name on it and then Casey said there were the system will automati- concerns from patrons With an on-site chef, we cally send that person an about the library system email.” laying off librarians when prepare you 3 meals a day The handler at the the help desks were reFive Forks branch was included in your base rent. moved from the branches installed during a renova- and the self checkout tion in 2013. The one at kiosks were brought in. the Lilburn branch, which However, the technolopened in fall 2016 as ogy that performs tasks part of a new municipal once done by human complex in the city, was hands is not designed to incorporated into the put people out of work, design of the library. he said. The purpose is While patrons don’t di- to let the technology help rectly use the automated librarians so they can be materials handlers, Casey used in different ways. said they still have a vis“All of those things ible benefit for people allowed us to push staff who visit the branches, away from the desks and even if they don’t realize out onto the floor more it’s providing that benand also out into the comefit. munity more,” Casey said.

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This time, however, it was through data sharing between the school and library systems.

“We were able to work with them for several months to come up with a way to let Gwinnett County Public Schools students use their student ID number as their library card number,” Casey said.

“We now share data with the schools, and parents can opt in.

“So far, we’ve added over 140,000 Gwinnett County Public Schools students (who are) now able to use their ID cards and numbers as library cards to use online resources and check out materials.”

The library system has duplicated that setup with Buford City Schools as well.

Working on tech at the library Using the self checkout kiosks and automated materials handlers are not the only ways in which patrons interact with technology when they visit a Gwinnett County library.

The libraries have become a place to do activities that involve technology. Computers have been in libraries for a while, although they are usually stationary desktop computers.

More recently, the computers have gotten smaller and more mobile — they’re laptops.

This might be one of the simplest forms of how a person can interact with technology in a library.

Patrons can check out a laptop while they are in the library, work in whatever quiet corner of the branch that they can find and then turn it back in when they get ready to leave.

More elaborate forms of technology available in the libraries can be found in what are known as Learning Labs. These are rooms that offer quiet spaces for patrons to do different activities.

There are Learning Labs that have desktop computers for people who want a quiet space to work online. The technology available in these labs goes beyond having a computer to work on.

Some branches have video or sound recording and editing equipment in a learning lab. Others, such as the Five Forks or Hamilton Mill branches, have 3-D printers, too.

“I think technology has changed our lives in a generation,” Casey said.

“It’s certainly allowed us to shift resources.”

But Cruz described it more simply. She said the growing use of new technology in the libraries is a sign of where society is now.

“It’s clear that machines are taking over now and humans have less to do,” she said.

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Sports-themed Bicentennial tour set for April 14 tions.

The final installment in the Bicentennial Bus Tours series will be conducted Gwinnett County resifrom 2 to 9 p.m. April dents are invited to take a 14 and will be heavy on step back in time later this sports history as parmonth and learn about the ticipants get to learn about county’s sports history as famous athletes who came part of Gwinnett’s yearfrom the county. They will long bicentennial celebra- also get to learn about the

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history of organized sports teams in Gwinnett, particularly baseball teams.

The Gwinnett Stripers were not the first baseball team in Gwinnett County after all.

The tour group will meet at Rhodes Jordan Park and visit Tannery Row in Buford — the city

once had its own baseball team — as well as the Norcross Baseball Museum and Coolray Field, where participants will catch a Stripers game.

Anyone who wants to participate in the tour must register by April 9. The cost is $48 per person, which does not cover

the cost of lunch or any shopping that participants decide to do in historic Norcross.

Someone who is interested in participating in the tour can register at www.gwinnettparks.com using the code RJP11450.

For more information, call 678-277-0890.

Two students named delegates for Part II of ABCs Washington Youth Tour in June of professionalism Two high school students from Gwinnett County have been selected by Jackson EMC as delegates to the 2018 Washington Youth Tour, scheduled for June 7 to 14.

Peachtree Ridge High School sophomore Lydia Ebun Ajayi and Mountain View High School junior Briani Netzahuatl Lydia Ebun Ajayi were chosen for an all-expenses paid leadership development experience sponsored by Briani Netzahuatl Georgia’s electric cooperatives and organized by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

“Our delegates truly represent the values of Jackson EMC with their commitment to community service, high standards of integrity, and a spirit of cooperation” said Jackson EMC President and CEO Chip Jakins.

Ajayi is the founder and president of the Peachtree Ridge’s Welcome Team, a program that helps new students assimilate into the large high school. A member of the track and field team, Ajayi is a past recipient of the Scholar Athlete Award for excellence in academics and athletics. She also served on the Freshman

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interview. verse group of young people The other two Jackson from across the country who EMC delegates selected will work were Luke Bell, a junior at with MakJefferson High School in ing Caring Jackson County, and Andrea Common, Ellett, a junior at Jackson a project County Comprehensive of the High School.

Harvard Graduate Duluth student wins School of Caroline Trevor McNaboe Christopher Columbus Education, Madison Essay Contest over the Leadership Team.

Duluth High School senext year to make schools Ajayi is on the student nior Jade Edwards recently and communities more council executive board. She won the just, caring, and respectful also serves as a math tutor Chrisplaces. and is the student council topher Madison was selected Relay For Life chairperson.

Columbus from nearly 200 nominees.

The sophomore plans to be Essay Con- The 2017-2018 Youth an orthopedic surgeon. test with Advisory Board includes 25 Netzahuatl is on the her entry members who represent 15 Mountain View student titled “Ad- states across the nation and leadership team, where she vantages a diversity of backgrounds Jade was elected communications and Disad- and identities.

Edwards chair. She is also the covantages “We are thrilled to work president of Key Club. of Working Relationships with such passionate, enNetzahuatl is a multi-year Between Foreign Parties.” gaged, and thoughtful young winner of the Scholar AthDuluth’s William Day people who care about lete Award for demonstrated Chapter of the National fostering a culture of kindexcellence in academics and Society Daughters of the ness and compassion in their sports. She competes in ten- American Revolution communities. Youth voices nis, and track and field and awarded Edwards a medal, are powerful and needed for has served on the operations certificate and a monetary social change,” said Danielle committee for the Genesis award at its March meeting. Holman, MCC’s Youth AdConference.

The annual essay contest visory Board Coordinator.

Currently, Netzahuatl is is sponsored by NSDAR “Now in its third year, the an active volunteer for the and the National Italian Youth Advisory Board conNorth Gwinnett CooperaAmerican Foundation, and tributes a critical perspective tive and Planned Pethood is open to all public, private, that shapes our work with Animal Shelter and plans a or home-schooled students parents and educators.” career in journalism. in ninth through 12 grades.

Good News From Schools High schools in the appears in The Gwinnett Jackson EMC service area Local student selected for Daily Post’s Sunday Edition, were invited to nominate Youth Advisory Board for highlighting achievements one student for the competiMaking Caring project and success across Geortion. Four delegates were Duluth High School gia’s largest school district. selected based on academfreshman Caroline Madison Trevor McNaboe is The ics, community service, oral was announced as a member Gwinnett Daily Post’s Eduand written communications of the third annual Youth cation Reporter. He can be skills, letters of recomAdvisory Board on Feb. 28. reached at trevor.mcnaboe@ mendation and a personal The board represents a di- gwinnettdailypost.com.

restaurant scores Restaurant Address......................................... Score MARCH 21 INSPECTIONS China Express 5300 U.S. Highway 78, Stone Mountain...................................87 Dominos Pizza No. 3568 465 A Dacula Road, Dacula................92 Dunkin’ Donuts No. 354379 3687 Buford Drive, Suite 100, Buford................................................100 Einstein Bros. Bagels No. 3108 3675 Satellite Blvd., Duluth.................87 Friends Sports Bar and Grill 752 Dacula Road, Dacula...................88 Italian Pizza Pie 802 Dacula Road, Suite 106, Dacula.... 87 Kerala Kitchen 1215 Scenic Highway, Suite B4, Lawrenceville.......................................96 McDonald’s 751 Pike St., Lawrenceville.................98 Poke Bar 3675 Satellite Blvd. N.W., Suite 840, Duluth................................................100 Sabores Mexican Bar and Grill 3255 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee...........................................100 Which Wich Superior Sandwiches 1350 Scenic Highway, Suite 604, Snellville..............................................97 MARCH 22 INSPECTIONS Aztc Taqueria 6083 S. Norcross Tucker Road, Unit A, Norcross..............................................96 Baristaz Cafe 1700 Medical Way, Snellville...............95 Buford High School 2750 Sawnee Ave., Buford................100 Buford Middle School 2700 Robert Bell Blvd., Buford............91 China Express 6083-D S. Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross..............................................91 Cuban Sandwiches To Go 575 Pike West St., Suite 18, Lawrenceville.....................................100 Culinart at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 625 Old Peachtree Road N.W., Suwanee.............................................96 Don Soo Baek 3473 Old Norcross Road, Suite 207, Duluth..................................................69 El Huarache Veloz 6065 S. Norcross Tucker Road, Suite 18, Norcross..............................................90 Goteng Korean Restaurant 2645 N. Berkeley Lake Road, Suites 129 and 130, Duluth..........................100 Hooters Mall of Georgia 1950 Mall of Georgia Blvd., Buford.....94

Manhattan Pizza Exchange 5975 Peachtree Parkway, Norcross....95 Miss Saigon Catering 1630 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite A1, Duluth..................................................84 Mr. Gyro 2226 Bethany Church Road, Suite H-I, Snellville..............................................95 NS Bar and Grill 100 Hurricane Shoals Road, Suites K, L and M, Lawrenceville........................100 Pizza Hut No. 4802 4116 Lenora Church Road, Snellville... 96 Ricos World Kitchen Downtown 306 W. Main St., Buford.......................88 Sing Sing Sushi 2476 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite 103, Duluth................................................100 South Mouth Seafood and Soulfood 2950 Rosebud Road, Loganville.........99 Station Master 125 Celebration Drive, Suwanee........85 Taco Bell No. 2425 2121 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth.........92 Waffle House No. 1487 2725 Loganville Highway, Loganville... 96 Well Bean Tofu 2645 N. Berkeley Lake Road, No. 136 and 137, Duluth....................................90 MARCH 23 INSPECTIONS El Jinete No. 4 3303 Centerville Highway S. No. 7, Snellville............................................100 Holiday Inn 6310 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth.........99 KFC 5290 U.S. Highway 78, Stone Mountain...................................98 Peking Cafe 1575 Lawrenceville Highway, Suite L, Lawrenceville.....................................100 Taco Bell No. 30598 5160 U.S. Highway 78, Stone Mountain...................................96 MARCH 24 INSPECTIONS Taqueria Los Hermanos Inc. 4955 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 122, Lawrenceville.......................................96 MARCH 25 INSPECTIONS E-Hall 1550 Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross...100 MARCH 26 INSPECTIONS Cafe Nirvana 239 Scenic Highway, Lawrenceville....91 IHOP No. 4452 6125 Peachtree Parkway, Norcross....78 J. Christopher’s Restaurant 3294 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., No. 2000, Duluth........................................92 Joes to Goes 2595 Highpoint Road, Suite 300, Snellville..............................................98

Latitude 33 Hilton Atlanta Northeast 5993 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Norcross............................................. 99 M and J Sweet Home Cooking 3050 Main St. W., Snellville................ 80 McDonald’s 5535 Buford Highway, Norcross......... 98 Murrays in a Hurry Lounge 880 Indian Trail Road, Suite A, Lilburn...94 O’Charleys No. 281 2049 Ga. Highway 124, Snellville........87 Popeyes No. 11179 290 Grayson Highway, Lawrenceville... 88 Progress Deli 1000 Hurricane Shoals Road, No. B1200, Lawrenceville........................100 Rays Donuts 257 B Scenic Highway, Lawrenceville....97 Rising Roll 1812 N. Brown Road N.W., Suite 10, Lawrenceville.......................................94 Royal Bistro 6365 Spalding Drive, Suite A, Peachtree Corners............................100 Smoothie King No. 793 3375 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 106, Lawrenceville.......................................96 Taste of Thai 5775 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Suite 140, Norcross..............................................85 Yummy Japan 4132 Atlanta Highway, Suite 109, Loganville..........................................100 Zoo Tavern 900 Indian Trail Road, Lilburn...........100 MARCH 27 INSPECTIONS Agavero Cantina 4140 Lawrenceville Highway, Suite 1, Lilburn..................................................97 Buford Head Start 84 Maddox Road, Buford..................100 China Panda 1630 Scenic Highway N., Suite W, Snellville..............................................96 Culver’s 1133 Scenic Highway, Lawrenceville....100 Homewood Suites 450 Technology Parkway, Norcross....83 Lee’s Express Restaurant 2505 Old Norcross Road, Suite E, Lawrenceville.......................................73 Magic Moments at Flint Hill Plantation 539 S. Peachtree St., Norcross.........100 Sushi Yoko Japanese Restaurant 7124 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Norcross..............................................97 Tani Thai Restaurant 15 E. Main St., Buford.......................100 Teriyaki Box 1760 Old Norcross Road, Suite O, Lawrenceville.......................................96

In the first installment of this two-part series, I spent a lot of time talking about the importance of professionalism without ever really defining it.

So here goes: Simply put, professionalism is the application of the Golden Rule to the work environment. It requires us to treat people in a professional setting the way we would want to be treated.

Behaving professionally demonstrates that you respect your customers and co-workers, care about your product or service, and take pride in yourself and your organization. It marks you as a responsible person who can be trusted.

Last week, I covered three key elements of professionalism: appearance, punctuality and communication. Here are three more.

Diplomacy. The ability to handle difficult situations with tact is the mark of a true professional. So often, we’re tempted to respond emotionally — to yell at that employee, storm out of that meeting, quit that job in a huff.

Unfortunately, overreacting usually just makes matters worse. Professionals bridle their passions, prioritizing long-term relationships over short-term gratification. They decline to burn bridges, because they never know when they may need to cross them again.

Email etiquette. For better or worse, email has become perhaps our most important form of professional communication.

Knowing how to write effective, collegial emails is so vital that I’ve designed an entire workshop around the concept, which I don’t have space to synopsize here.

Perhaps even more problematic than poorly written emails, however, are the emails that ought to be written but aren’t. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed in my professional life, it’s that people don’t always respond when they should.

To be clear, you have no obligation to respond to every single email you

Rob Jenkins receive. Out-of-the-blue solicitations, junk mail and phishing expeditions can and should often be ignored.

At the same time, you must be careful to keep up with those emails that DO require an answer, to avoid alienating colleagues, clients, and potential clients.

Even if you’re a younger person who thinks email is for old folks — well, that’s the way we “old folks” communicate, and you can’t afford to blow us off.

Follow-through. Ever had a contractor show up at your home, work for a couple days, then disappear for three months? Then you know how frustrating it can be to deal with unprofessional, unreliable people who refuse to behave responsibly and follow through.

The solution, in this case, is very simple: Do what you said you were going to do when you said you were going to do it — without fail. If for some (very good) reason you can’t, then apologize and explain. But as a rule, do not over-promise and under-deliver.

By following the advice outlined in these two columns, you will over time earn a reputation as a person of integrity. And regardless of your age, there is nothing in professional life quite as valuable as that.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and college professor. He is the author of four books, including “The 9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders: Unlocking Your Leadership Potential,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. The view expressed here are his own.

Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

pet of the week

Duke has long, soft, gray and white fur.

(Special Photo)

Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m. You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www. georgiaspca.org.

“Hi, I’m Duke, and I’m new at the shelter. I have gorgeous, long, soft, gray and white fur. Some of my friends told me that I have the cutest nose ever. It has white fur around it, with a grey spot in the middle of both white spots. I think I was named after ‘The Duke,’ John Wayne, because I’m such a big, handsome guy.

I would love a home so I can find a nice spot to relax and become part of your family.”

Duke has been fully vetted — neutered, disease tested, dewormed and microchipped — and he would dearly love to go home with you today. He also comes with 30 days of Pet Emergency insurance.

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(:17) The Terror (CC) Vanderpump Rules “Nothing Here for Me” (CC) Vanderpump Rules “Sur Going South” (CC) Vanderpump Rules (N) (CC) Summer House (Season Finale) (N) (CC) Watch What Vanderpump Rules Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) The Office (CC) (:25) The Office (CC) The Office (CC) The Office (CC) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) The Office “New Boss” The Office ’ (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition Fast N’ Loud “The Cadillac of Buyers” A red 1967 Cadillac convertible. (N) ’ (CC) Fast N’ Loud “Monkeying Around” (N) ’ (CC) Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman (N) ’ (CC) Fast N’ Loud “Monkeying Around” ’ (CC) MLB Baseball Baltimore Orioles at Houston Astros. From Minute Maid Park in Houston. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College GameDay (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) MLB Baseball Cleveland Indians at Los Angeles Angels. (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) ››› “Meet the Parents” (2000, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner. (CC) ››‡ “Meet the Fockers” (2004) Robert De Niro. Premiere. (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) Kids Baking Championship (CC) Spring Baking Championship (CC) Spring Baking Championship (N) (CC) Vegas Cakes (N) (CC) Vegas Cakes (CC) Cake Boss (N) ’ (CC) Cake Boss (N) ’ (CC) (6:00) ››› “Puss in Boots” (2011) ’ (CC) ››‡ “The Karate Kid” (2010, Children’s) Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Hurricanes Live! Pre. NHL Hockey Carolina Hurricanes at Florida Panthers. From BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. (N) (Live) Hurricanes Live! Post. UFC Countdown (N) Atlanta Pregame MLS Soccer (5:30) ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014) ›› “The 5th Wave” (2016, Science Fiction) Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston. ’ (CC) ›› “The 5th Wave” (2016) Chloë Grace Moretz. ’ (CC) Full House (CC) Full House (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Love It or List It “Separate Spaces” (CC) House Hunters (CC) House Hunters (CC) Flipping Virgins (Season Premiere) (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l American Pickers “Woody’s Picking Paradise” American Pickers “Something Weird Here” ’ American Pickers: Bonus Buys “Rat Rod Rolls” Pawn Stars (:33) Pawn Stars (CC) (:03) Pawn Stars (CC) (:33) Pawn Stars (CC) “Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story” (2018, Drama) Catherine Zeta-Jones. (CC) Mary Kills People “Ride or Die” (N) (CC) (DVS) (:02) UnREAL Jay delivers difficult news. (N) (CC) (:02) UnREAL Jay delivers difficult news. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Movie ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Championship Central Pregame analysis of the NCAA Tournament final. (N) (Live) (CC) 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (CC) Inside March Madness (6:15) ››‡ “Steelyard Blues” (1973) (CC) ››› “Golden Boy” (1939, Drama) Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden. (CC) ››› “Executive Suite” (1954, Drama) William Holden, June Allyson. (CC) (DVS) (6:00) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. (CC) (DVS) NCAA National Championship TeamCast (N) (Live) (CC) The Last O.G. M*A*S*H “Deluge” M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja WWE Monday Night RAW (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (:05) Modern Family ’ (:35) Modern Family ’

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America’s Funniest Home Videos (CC) (DVS) American Idol “107 (Hollywood Week)” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Deception A psychic is murdered. (N) (CC) (Local Programming) 60 Minutes (N) ’ (CC) Instinct “Secrets and Lies” (N) ’ (CC) NCIS: Los Angeles “The Monster” (N) ’ Madam Secretary “My Funny Valentine” (N) ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Ice Age: Egg-Scapade Bob’s Burgers (N) ’ The Simpsons (N) ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine (N) Family Guy (N) ’ The Last Man on Earth (Local Programming) Little Big Shots “Eggcellent Eggsperiment” (CC) Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Stars perform the award-winning show, set during the last week of Jesus’ life, live in concert. (N) (CC) (Local Programming) (6:30) Downton Abbey on Masterpiece ’ (CC) Call the Midwife (N) ’ (CC) The Child in Time on Masterpiece (N) ’ (CC) Little Women (Local Programming) Saving Hope “Broken Hearts” ’ (CC) (DVS) Rookie Blue “Exit Strategy” ’ (CC) The Simpsons ’ (CC) The Simpsons ’ (CC) 11Alive News at 10PM The List (N) ’ (CC) Unexplained Unexplained ATLPBS Specials ATLPBS Specials ATLPBS Specials Modern Family ’ (CC) Modern Family ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Major Crimes “False Pretenses” (CC) Major Crimes “Under the Influence” (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) (:01) Storage Wars ’ (:32) Storage Wars ’ (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (6:52) The Walking Dead “The Key” ’ (CC) (7:58) The Walking Dead ’ (CC) The Walking Dead (N) ’ (CC) (:15) Talking Dead (N) (CC) (:15) The Walking Dead ’ (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (N) (CC) Your Husband Is Cheating on Us (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of Potomac (N) (CC) Watch What Housewives/Atl. CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) American Dynasties: The Kennedys (N) (CC) Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (N) American Dynasties: The Kennedys (CC) (6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) (:35) South Park (CC) Naked and Afraid “The Danger Within” ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid “A Screw Loose” ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid: Uncensored (N) ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid Gary and Karra are tested. (:01) Naked and Afraid The jungles of Panama.

2018 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament MLB Baseball San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers. From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (CC) (6:30) SportsCenter (N) Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown (N) NCAA Women’s College Basketball State Farm Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships. (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) SportsCenter (CC) (6:30) ›› “Fifty Shades of Grey” (2015, Romance) Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan. (CC) The Arrangement “Scene 23” (N) (CC) (:01) The Royals (N) (CC) (:02) The Arrangement “Scene 23” (CC) Fox Report (N) (CC) Legends & Lies: The Civil War (N) (CC) The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton (N) (CC) Life, Liberty & Levin (N) (CC) OBJECTified (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (Part 2 of 4) (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (N) (Part 3 of 4) (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (5:40) Despicable Me (:45) ››› “Puss in Boots” (2011, Children’s) Voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek. Premiere. ’ (CC) (9:50) ›› “Hop” (2011, Children’s) James Marsden, Voice of Russell Brand. ’ (CC) (6:00) NHL Hockey Nashville Predators at Tampa Bay Lightning. (N) (Live) Predators Live! Post. UFC Main Event World Poker Tour King of the Club.

World Poker Tour King of the Club.

(4:30) Iron Man 3 ’ ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, Science Fiction) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. ’ (CC) Trust “Lone Star” J. Paul Getty sends his fixer to Rome. (N) ’ (CC) (:23) Trust “Lone Star” “Home by Spring” (2018, Drama) Poppy Drayton, Steven R. McQueen. (CC) When Calls the Heart “Heart of the Matter” (N) Meet the Peetes “Jump Street” (N) (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Fixer Upper Creating a dream breakfast spot. How Close How Close Caribbean Life (N) (CC) Caribbean Life (N) (CC) Island Life (N) (CC) Island Life (N) (CC) Caribbean Life (CC) Caribbean Life (CC) Kingpin ’ (CC) Kingpin (N) ’ (CC) (:03) Kingpin ’ (CC) (5:00) ›› “90 Minutes in Heaven” (2015) (CC) ››‡ “Heaven Is for Real” (2014, Drama) Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Margo Martindale. (CC) (:02) ››‡ “Heaven Is for Real” (2014, Drama) Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly. (CC) Game Shakers (N) (CC) School of Rock (N) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) (:32) Friends ’ (CC) (6:00) ›› “Get Hard” (2015) Will Ferrell. ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) Final Space (CC) (DVS) Full Frontal (5:00) ››› “King of Kings” (1961) (CC) ›››‡ “Easter Parade” (1948, Musical Comedy) Judy Garland, Fred Astaire. (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Holiday Inn” (1942, Musical Comedy) Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire. (CC) (5:00) “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” (1983) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. (CC) (DVS) The Alienist “The Boy on the Bridge” Reba ’ (CC) Reba ’ (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (6:00) Beverly Hills Dog Show (N) (CC) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Sanctuary” Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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(Local Programming) The Goldbergs (N) ’ Alex, Inc. (N) ’ Modern Family (N) ’ American Housewife Designated Survivor Emily asks Chuck for help. (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) Survivor (N) ’ (CC) (:01) NCIS “Keep Your Friends Close” ’ Criminal Minds “Ex Parte” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Riverdale Betty turns to Jughead for help. (CC) Life Sentence “Wes Side Story” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Empire Eddie realizes he must rebrand Empire. Star Charles decides about Noah’s tour. (N) ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The Blacklist “Anna-Gracia Duerte” (N) ’ (CC) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Chicago P.D. ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Nature The abilities of butterflies. (N) (CC) (DVS) Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise America’s changing racial landscape. ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Wheel of Fortune (N) Jeopardy! (N) ’ (CC) Dateline “The Root of All Evil” ’ (CC) Remembering the Dream 11Alive News at 10 (N) Dateline The murder of a luxury car dealer. (CC) Antiques Roadshow ’ (CC) Finding Your Roots ’ (CC) Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages ’ (CC) To Be Announced To Be Announced The Goldbergs ’ The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Letter” The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars Storage Wars (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (6:00) ›‡ “Jaws 3” (1983) Dennis Quaid. (CC) (:15) › “Jaws the Revenge” (1987, Suspense) Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest. (CC) (:15) ››› “The Rock” (1996, Action) Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris. (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) Watch What Housewives/NYC Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park Animated. The “Game of Thrones” conclusion. (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition Street Outlaws: Full Throttle “Episode 6” (CC) Street Outlaws ’ (CC) Street Outlaws “Episode 5” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Twin Turbos “Start Your Engines” (N) (CC) (:01) Street Outlaws “Episode 5” ’ (CC) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Toronto Raptors. From Air Canada Centre in Toronto. (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Memphis Grizzlies at New Orleans Pelicans. From Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) Golf Masters Par 3 Contest. (N Same-day Tape) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (N) (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (N) (CC) E! News (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) Iron Chef Gauntlet “Five Ingredients” (CC) Iron Chef Gauntlet “The Gauntlet” (CC) Iron Chef Gauntlet “Resourcefulness” (N) (CC) Iron Chef America (CC) Iron Chef America (CC) (5:30) ›› “Just Go With It” (2011) ’ (CC) Famous in Love “The Players” (N) (CC) (:01) Famous in Love “La La Locked” (N) (CC) (:02) Siren “Pilot” (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) NHRA Drag Racing Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals. From Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Fla. UFC Unleashed World Poker Tour King of the Club.

(5:00) ›› Taken 3 ’ ›››‡ “Sicario” (2015, Suspense) Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin. ’ (CC) The Americans Elizabeth targets an old source. The Americans Elizabeth targets an old source.

Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle “The Bee” The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers: Buying & Selling (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers (CC) American Pickers “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” American Pickers “Rock and a Hard Place” ’ American Pickers “Backwoods Pickin”’ Mike and Frank search the backwoods. (N) (CC) (:03) American Pickers “The Pickin’ or the Egg” Little Women: LA The ladies conquer their fears. Little Women: LA (N) (CC) Little Women: LA “The Blame Game” (N) (CC) (:02) Glam Masters “The Glamorous Life” (N) (:04) Little Women: LA “The Blame Game” (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Movie ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Conan Laurence Fishburne; Nicole Byer. (CC) (6:30) ›› “The Kennel Murder Case” (1933) ››‡ “Noah’s Ark” (1928, Drama) Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Beery. ››› “20,000 Years in Sing Sing” (1933, Drama) Spencer Tracy. (CC) ››› Kid Galahad Bones An explosion in a hotel garage. ’ (CC) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. (CC) (DVS) ››‡ “Blade II” (2002) Wesley Snipes.

M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Suits Harvey has to call in an old debt. (N) (:03) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (:02) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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(Local Programming) Once Upon a Time “Breadcrumbs” (N) ’ (:01) Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (N) ’ (CC) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) MacGyver Mac investigates a suspicious death. Hawaii Five-0 (N) ’ (CC) Blue Bloods “Friendship, Love, and Loyalty” (N) (Local Programming) Masters Highlights (Local Programming) Dynasty “Don’t Con a Con Artist” (N) ’ (CC) Jane The Virgin “Chapter Seventy-Nine” (N) ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef “Junior Edition: Donut Sweat It” (N) The Resident Conrad and Lane butt heads. ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Blindspot ’ (CC) Taken Bryan must stop an act of terrorism. (N) Dateline NBC (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) MeToo, Now What? ’ Soundbreaking “Going Electric” ’ (CC) Soundbreaking The progression of the beat. ’ Soundbreaking “The World Is Yours” ’ (CC) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ American Ninja Warrior ’ (Part 2 of 2) (CC) American Ninja Warrior “St. Louis Qualifying” 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Father Brown ’ (CC) Death in Paradise ’ (CC) New Tricks ’ (CC) The Doctor Blake Mysteries ’ (CC) To Be Announced The Goldbergs ’ The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Wink” The Game (CC) The Game ’ (CC) (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 12.15.17” ’ (CC) (:06) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 99” Live PD “Live PD -- 04.06.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ››‡ “The Outsiders” (1983, Drama) Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio. (CC) ››› “Batman” (1989) Jack Nicholson. The Caped Crusader saves dismal Gotham City and gorgeous Vicki Vale from the freaky Joker. (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) ›› “Miss Congeniality” (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt. (CC) ›› “Miss Congeniality” (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt. (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) The Office (CC) (:25) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) ››‡ “Wayne’s World” (1992, Comedy) Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe. (CC) Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts (CC) Alaskan Bush People “Never Give Up” ’ (CC) Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail ’ (CC) Gold Rush Parker is faced with a stark choice. Bering Sea Gold “Crash Course” (N) ’ (CC) Gold Rush Parker is faced with a stark choice.

2018 Masters SportsCenter (N) (CC) 2018 Masters Tournament Second Round. Sergio Garcia serves as defending champion. From Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) SportsCenter Special College Basketball Awards (N) (Live) Kickboxing GLORY 52. (Taped) NFL Live (CC) E! News (N) (CC) ›‡ “Bride Wars” (2009, Comedy) Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston. (CC) ›‡ “Fool’s Gold” (2008, Action) Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson. Premiere. (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (6:40) ››‡ “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox. (CC) (8:50) ›› “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” (1995, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice. (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Braves Live! Postgame Driven Driven 3 Aces: Glavine ACC All-Access ’ MLB Baseball: Braves at Rockies (5:00) ››› “The Amazing Spider-Man” ’ ›››‡ “The Martian” (2015, Science Fiction) Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig. ’ (CC) Trust J. Paul Getty sends his fixer to Rome. ’ (6:00) “The Sweeter Side of Life” (2013) (CC) “Royal Hearts” (2018, Comedy) Cindy Busby, James Brolin, Andrew Cooper. (CC) Meet the Peetes “Jump Street” (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens Ancient architectural marvels. ’ Ancient Aliens Ancient uses of electricity. (CC) Ancient Aliens “The Alien Frequency” ’ (CC) (:03) Ancient Aliens “The Hidden Empire” (CC) (:03) Ancient Aliens “The NASA Connection” ’ Grey’s Anatomy The CDC investigates Bailey. ››‡ “Heaven Is for Real” (2014, Drama) Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Margo Martindale. (CC) (:02) ››‡ “Heaven Is for Real” (2014, Drama) Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly. (CC) Alvinnn!!! and Lip Sync Battle Movie ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) ››‡ “Shrek the Third” (2007, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy. (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Shrek” (2001, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy. (CC) (DVS) ELEAGUE (6:00) ›››‡ “Woman of the Year” (1942) ›››‡ “Freaks” (1932) Wallace Ford. (:15) ››› “Ruggles of Red Gap” (1935, Comedy) Charles Laughton, Mary Boland. (CC) ›‡ “Way Out West” (1930) William Haines.

NCIS: New Orleans “Confluence” (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. (CC) (DVS) ›‡ “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H “38 Across” Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family “Chirp” Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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bestbets SUNDAY 8 p.m. on NBC Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary rock opera returns to its roots as a “concept album” with this staging, to be done before an on-site gathering (as well as the vastly larger television audience) at the Marcy Armory in Brooklyn, N.Y. The cast of very diverse musical talents includes John Legend in the title role, the iconic Alice Cooper as King Herod, and Sara Bareilles — just off her Broadway run in “Waitress,” for which

she also composed the score — as Mary Magdalene.

MONDAY 10 p.m. on ABC The Crossing What’s the mystery behind all the people who have washed up on a fishing town’s shoreline?

It’s a big one, and it fuels this new drama series starring Steve Zahn (“That Thing You Do!”) as the local sheriff baffled by the situation. And well he should be: The new arrivals apparently are from the future, and genetic engineering is a part of their background. Natalie Martinez (“A.P.B.”) plays one of their members, with “MacGyver” alum Sandrine Holt as a Homeland Security agent. Rick Gomez and Georgina Haig also star.

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John Legend

shift from David’s earlier internal struggle to an external battle that sees David and his associates pursuing this adversary even as the parasitic villain searches for his original body.

8 p.m. on ABC Roseanne “Roseanne Gets the Chair,” but she doesn’t necessarily want it, in a new episode by that title.

The seat in question is an electrically operated chair that Dan (John Goodman) believes will help Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) with her bad knee, but she re-

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Dan Stevens sists using it because she views it as a sign of aging. She has other problems, particularly her arguments with Darlene (Sara Gilbert) over parenthood. Laurie Metcalf, Lecy Goranson and Michael Fishman also star.

10 p.m. on FX Legion The critically acclaimed yet modestly rated TV fantasy based on a Marvel Comics character opens Season 2, which begins a year after the Season 1 finale, which saw the evil Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban), aka the Shadow King, forced from the mind of David Haller (Dan Stevens). These new episodes

9 p.m. on USA Suits Harvey (Gabriel Macht) is forced to call in an old debt to save the firm in a new episode called “Bad Man.” Meanwhile, Mike (Patrick J. Adams) goes toe to toe in a tense confrontation with an unlikely adversary, while Louis (Rick Hoffman) makes some strides in terms of accepting his new role in the firm.

Sarah Rafferty also stars.

10 p.m. on FX The Americans Elizabeth (Keri Russell) decides to target an old source who might be able to help her tip the balance of power at the upcoming summit in the new episode “Tchaikovsky.” Meanwhile, Philip (Matthew Rhys) continues dealing with the considerably less stressful business at his travel agency, while Stan (Noah Emmerich) discovers that an old friend is back in town.

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10 p.m. on BRAVO Imposters As Season 2 of this twisty, addictive dramedy opens, Maddie (Inbar Lavi) has decided to try to shake off her past life as a gifted con artist, so she’s lying low at a lake house in Michigan.

Paranoia soon sets in, however, as she discovers there are others who aren’t happy about her new life choice. Meanwhile, her former victims turned associates, aka the Bumblers, try to sell a precious stolen ring.

Parker Young, Rob Heaps and Marianne Rendon also star.

8 p.m. on CBS Ransom The drama series begins its second season where the first one ended, with negotiation expert Eric Beaumont (played by Luke Roberts) having to fulfill “Three Wishes” — this story’s subtitle — to rescue his abducted daughter Eve (Morgan Kohan) from his enemy Damien Delaine (Carlo Rota). Executing some of the wishes would compromise Beaumont’s ethics, so his colleagues work fast to try to find the girl. Sarah Greene, Brandon Jay McLaren and Nazneen Contractor also star.

FRIDAY 9 p.m. on NBC Taken A theft in Norway leaves untold numbers of people vulnerable to a possible biological attack in the new episode “All About Eve.” Mills (Clive Standen) tries to find the culprits before such an attack can be unleashed. Rachel Nichols (“Criminal Minds”) and Sasha Roiz (“Grimm”) guest star. Jennifer Beals, Adam Goldberg and Jessica Camacho also star.

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AUBURN Whistlestop Shops to honor Autism awareness at Market Day In honor of Autism Awareness Month, Whistlestop Shops will promote autism awareness at its upcoming Market Day. The Market Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday. A portion of the day’s proceeds will help purchase therapy equipment for several families with autistic children.

Shoppers will also have the opportunity to visit booths with information about autism and special needs.

The Whistlestop Shops’ Market Days take place on the second Saturday of each month. The shops’ normal hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday.

BARROW COUNTY Lions Club plans golf tourney to raise funds for charity The Winder Noon Lions Club annual Charity Golf Tournament will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

May 3 at The Chimneys Golf Course, 338 Monroe Highway in Winder.

The event will raise money for Leader Dogs for the Blind, Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind, Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, eye exams and glasses for the needy, and other community projects.

The deadline to register for the event is April 30. For a registration form, visit the Winder Noon Lions Club’s Facebook page.

BERKELEY LAKE Berkeley Lake plans cleanup to mark Earth Day The city of Berkeley Lake will help its residents celebrate Earth Day by accepting items for disposal and recycling from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 21 at City Hall, 4040 S. Berkeley Lake Road N.W. City employees, volunteers and vendors will be available to help with the event. The event is free for residents of Berkeley Lake, so participants will need to provide identification showing a Berkeley Lake address to dispose of items.

Advanced Disposal will accept yard waste and large household items, such as desks, mattresses and box springs. Crawford Metal Recycling will accept scrap metal, appliances, lawn mowers, grills, car and truck batteries, and other metal items. Iron Mountain will provide on-site paper shredding.

Construction debris, wet paints, entire trees, televisions, microwave ovens and tires will not be accepted.

To discard a television, call Advanced Disposal at 678-495-0058 to make arrangements for home pickup.

BRASELTON Fretting the Foothills to showcase songwriters If you enjoy homegrown music, mark your calendar for April 28 and get your lawn chairs ready.

Fretting the Foothills Songwriters and Music Festival will take place from noon to 8 p.m. April 28 on the Town Green in downtown Braselton.

The festival started in June to give local songwriters a place to share their original music. The April 28 festival is one of four events planned for 2018; the others are scheduled for June 2, Sept. 8 and Oct. 20.

The music festival will take place in conjunction with the Braselton Antique Festival, which will be open noon to 7 p.m. April 27, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 28 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29.

For more information, visit www.frettingthefoothills.com.

BUFORD Pirates of Lanier donate poker run proceeds to camp The Pirates of Lanier Charity Poker Run recently donated $40,000 to Camp Twin Lakes — enough money to send more than 70 children to camp this summer.

Camp Twin Lakes provides therapeutic, recre-

PEACHTREE CORNERS Peachtree Corners library to close for HVAC system replacement Gwinnett County Public Library’s Peachtree Corners branch will be closed April 23 to 27 for an HVAC system replacement.

Book drops will remain open, but fines for items due during this closed period will be waived, according to a news release.

Patrons are encouraged to select alternate pickup locations for holds expected to arrive at the Peachtree Corners branch during this time. For questions, call the Library Help Line at 770978-5154.

Attendees at last year’s Duluth Rotary Car Show, above and below, check out some of the vehicles that were entered in the event. The fifth annual Duluth Rotary Car Show will be held on Duluth’s Main Street on April 14. (Special Photos)

Calling car lovers

Duluth Rotary Car Show accepting entries

By Curt Yeomans

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Car lovers can show off their favorite set of wheels in downtown Duluth in a couple of weeks, and help the families of servicemen and women.

The Duluth Rotary Car Show will roll up to Main Street for the fifth year from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

April 14. The event is free for residents to attend, but it raises its funds by having car owners who participate in the event pay a fee to show off their cars or trucks.

The Duluth Rotary Club-organized event benefits Operation One Voice, an organization that offers assistance to the families of members of the Special Operations Forces who have died in the line of duty.

“Unique hot rods will take over Main Street in Downtown Duluth for a ational camp experiences for children with serious illnesses, disabilities and other life challenges. Since 2014, the Pirates of Lanier have helped send more than 500 children to camp.

The 10th annual Pirates of Lanier Charity Poker Run will take place July 21 on Lake Lanier. During the event, participants go from one designated stop on the lake to another by boat. At each of the five stops, they pick up a playing card. Once five cards have been collected, participants turn in their poker hands for evaluation, and the best hand wins the grand prize.

For more information, visit lanierpartners.org.

DACULA Hamilton Mill library hosting camp to build weather station The Hamilton Mill branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library is hosting a STEM Academy for teens interested in building a working weather station.

During the three-day program, participants will learn how to use the microcontroller board Arduino Uno and work collaboratively to construct and program a weather station that uses sensors to record changes in temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and more.

Participants must be at least 14 years old and commit to attending all three days of the program, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Students in Gwinnett County Public Schools will be on spring

fun and exciting car show,” city officials said in an announcement about the event.

Car lovers might be able to find a favorite vehicle at the show because city officials said there will be a variety of them on display. The array of vehicle categories includes Antique Classics, Foreign Sports, Hot Rods, Jeeps and Off-Road Vehicles, Muscles — 1972 and break at this time.

To register, visit tinyurl. com/STEMacademy0418.

The Hamilton Mill library is located at 3690 Braselton Highway in Dacula.

DULUTH Wildcat Walk to raise funds for Duluth High football The Wildcat Walk 5K and Fun Run will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon April 21 at Duluth High School, 3737 Brock Road in Duluth.

The race route will take runners and walkers through downtown Duluth. The event is a fundraiser for Duluth High’s football and athletic programs.

Registration is $20 and available online at runsignup.com. Search for “Wildcat Walk/5K Fun Run.” GRAYSON 39th annual Grayson Day planned for April 28 The 39th annual Grayson Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 28 at Grayson Community Park, 475 Grayson Parkway.

The annual festival will begin at 10 a.m. with the Grayson Day Parade. The route will run from the Grayson library to Britt Street.

The festival will feature craft, antique and commercial vendors, as well as food and concessions.

LAWRENCEVILLE Central Gwinnett schools hosting Spring Fling The Central Gwinnett Cluster Foundation will celebrate its schools at the first Spring Fling at the Castle

Older, Muscles — After 1972, and Pickups.

Judges will pick first-, second- and third-place trophy winners in each vehicle category, but attendees will get to have their say as well with a People’s Choice award that will be awarded to their favorite entry.

The cost to enter a vehicle is $20 per car until April 13. Anyone who wants to enter their vehicle from noon to 3 p.m. April 21.

The Castle is located on the football field at Central Gwinnett High School, 564 W. Crogan St. The event will feature bounce houses, music, vendors, food and performances from school groups.

Booth fees and donations will support the foundation’s scholarship program.

For more information, visit gcps-foundation.org.events.

LILBURN Master Gardeners’ plant sale scheduled at City Hall The Gwinnett County Master Gardeners Association’s annual plant sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28 in the parking lot of the Lilburn City Hall and Library, 4817 Church Road N.W. in Lilburn.

The sale will feature trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vegetables and herbs, and native and pollinator plants for sustainable gardens. Yard art will also be available. The event will take place rain or shine.

Purchases can be made with cash or checks.

Funds from the plant sale support the association’s ongoing efforts to promote horticulture principles and environmental practices across Gwinnett County.

The Gwinnett County Master Gardeners Association is organized through the University of Georgia’s Gwinnett Extension office, which operates as part of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and College of Family and Consumer Sci-

on the day of the car show will have to pay a $25 fee.

Car gazing won’t be the only activity going on at the show, though. There will be a 50/50 raffle, with the winner splitting the pot with the Rotary Club, and music. Commemorative T-shirts — as well as burgers, hot dogs, chips and drinks — will be on sale during the show as well.

Cars that are entered in the event must arrive between 8 and 10 a.m., and they must stay on display throughout the event, according to the entry application form. In addition to trophies and the raffle, car show entrants will receive a swag bag for participating in the event.

Applications to enter a vehicle in the show, or to be an event sponsor, can be found at www.duluthrotary.com. Anyone who has questions about the event can send their inquiries to Mark Tyrrell at marktapp1@bellsouth.net.

ences. The UGA Gwinnett Extension office also functions as an educational division of the Gwinnett County Department of Community Services.

For more information, visit www.gwinnettmastergardeners.com.

LOGANVILLE Carnival to set up next to City Hall A carnival will be in Loganville from May 10 to 13.

The event will be located in the field next to City Hall, 4303 Lawrenceville Road in Loganville.

Participants can enjoy rides such as the Arctic Blast, Dizzy Dragons and Scrambler, as well as traditional carnival games and food.

Event hours are from 5 to 10 p.m. May 10, 5 to 11 p.m.

May 11, 2 to 11 p.m. May 12, and 1 to 10 p.m. May 13.

For more information, visit loganvilleevents.com.

NORCROSS Bostic Avenue to close permanently April 9 If you drive on Bostic Avenue between Holcomb Bridge Road and Britt Avenue in Norcross, you will have to find a new route starting April 9.

The city of Norcross is permanently closing Bostic Avenue to through traffic.

Part of the road will be transferred to Gwinnett County for the new Norcross library branch. Another portion will be transferred to the Downtown Development Authority for the Lillian Webb Park redevelopment project.

SNELLVILLE Fossils, gems, relics on display at Snellville City Hall Artifacts dating back millions of years are now on display at Snellville City Hall.

Owned by Steve and Deedie Golden of Grayson, the collection of fossils and other rare geological artifacts are located in the display case in the lobby of City Hall, 2342 Oak Road.

They will be on display for six months.

Deedie Golden has been collecting rocks and seashells her entire life, and her husband has been collecting for 14 years. Steve Golden cuts, shapes and polishes the specimens, while Deedie Golden takes the finished products and creates jewelry and art.

The Goldens will be available at the Pop’s Rocks and Pegasus Custom Creations booth from May 5 to 6 at the Snellville Days Festival and on Oct. 20 at the Snellville Fall Festival.

“We are honored to have been invited by the city of Snellville to display our collection in the City Hall foyer for the next six months,” Deedie Golden said in a news release. “These specimens come from all over the world and represent millions of years of Earth’s history.”

SUGAR HILL Sugar Hill Maker Fest planned for April 21 The annual Sugar Hill Maker Fest will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 21 in downtown Sugar Hill.

Maker Fest is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students and commercial exhibitors.

All of these “makers” come to Maker Fest to show what they have made and to share what they have learned.

Parking will be available at Sugar Hill Church, 5091 Nelson Brogdon Blvd. N.E., and handicap parking will be available in front of City Hall.

For more information, visit www.sugarhillmakerfest.com.

SUWANEE Race to Cure Sarcoma scheduled at Suwanee Town Center Park The inaugural Race to Cure Sarcoma Atlanta will take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 14 at Suwanee Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. The 5K run/walk is organized by the Sarcoma Foundation of America. The event is designed to raise awareness and resources for sarcoma research nationally through the Sarcoma Foundation and locally through the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

A sarcoma is a type of cancer that develops from certain tissues, such as bone or muscle. Bone and soft tissue sarcomas are the main types of sarcoma. Soft tissue sarcoma can develop from soft tissues like fat, muscle, nerves, fibrous tissues, blood vessels or deep skin tissues. Although they can be found in any part of the body, most of them develop in the arms or legs.

Online registration for the Race to Cure Sarcoma is available for $35 through 6 p.m. April 13 at runsignup. com. On-site registration will cost $40.

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Late winter freeze a reminder of Easter glory Over a decade ago, we were happily looking forward to Easter and the warmth it would bring after a challenging winter of bitter cold.

Boy, did we get a surprise. Next to the ravaging remains of a recent hurricane that left the Rondarosa damaged — the first hurricane in the history of the Atlanta area — it was the biggest surprise we’d ever experienced from nature.

As you may know, the date of Easter is set by a particular full moon.

Easter is always on the Sunday following the first full moon that rises after the first day of spring (March 21, the day after

Ronda Rich spring begins). If the March full moon fell on the 19th, then Easter would have to wait until the Sunday after the full moon in April. For this reason, Easter can be as early as the last Sunday in March or as late as the last Sunday in April.

The date of Easter is

always a discussion in our family beginning at the first of the year. We love it when Easter falls in April and, therefore, is virtually guaranteed to be a beautiful, warm day as opposed to the questionable days of March.

Our favorite date is the end of April because that presents the possibility for a warm day. But back on that Easter in 2006 — or maybe it was 2007 — we got a rude awakening, one that those who experienced it will remember until death beckons them away.

The flowers were blooming gloriously. Roses were at perfect pitch while hydrangeas and

azaleas colored the yard.

I had planted a gardenia bush that was fragrant and lovely. The trees were bursting forth, on their way to being fully leafed.

The leaves, because it had been a particularly warm spring, were about threefourths grown.

Several days before Easter weekend, weather forecasters began a dire prediction: A hard freeze was coming on Saturday night. Mama and I both rushed around our yards, trying to cover up roses, hydrangeas and azaleas and toting inside the geraniums and other potted plants. On Easter morning, we awoke to tiny particles of silver ice

clinging to everything.

Winter temperatures and an unkind wind swept through the day. Our lightweight summer-like Easter dresses demanded to be covered by heavy wool coats.

On the way to church, Mama and I both bemoaned what had happened and what it would mean. Mama loved spring. Not just for the warmth but for the blossoms it brought and the opportunity to plant a summer garden. Holding to her mountain beliefs, she planted either on Good Friday or another day when the signs of the moon were equally good for planting.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mama said. “It has killed everything that was starting to grow.”

She looked toward a mountain filled with trees decorated in the beautiful, bright, fresh green of spring leaves. She shook her head.

“Every single leaf on every tree has been killed.

Within a week or so, all those leaves will turn brown and fall off.”

I could have cried. I love trees. I hate to see

them distressed or damaged.

“Will the leaves come back?” I asked worriedly.

Mama always knew things like this. She was wise and well learned in the ways of nature. But though she was in her mid-80s, she had never seen such a deep freeze so late into an exceptionally warm spring.

She furrowed her brow.

“I don’t know. I’ve never seen this. We’ll just have to see what happens.”

As she predicted, the leaves soon deserted the trees, leaving them uncharacteristically naked in May and into June.

By the end of June, the trees had made recovery and regrew completely, though most of the flowering blossoms did not return.

Every year I think of that late spring freeze and how everything was killed overnight yet beautifully resurrected.

It seems perfect that it happened on Easter weekend.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of “There’s A Better Day A-Comin’.”

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Why banks struggle to make you care What kind of a relationship do you have with your bank? Below is the true story of my daughter’s experience with her bank. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t end well.

“In terms of a prospect, I was a layup.

“I have a checking account with one of the big banks. Like a lot of millennials, I chose my particular bank because they were the bank on campus when I was in college.

“My consistent $150 checking balance didn’t attract much attention. I put a small amount of cash in. I take a small amount out. Me and the Big Bank don’t talk.

“When I graduated college, my relationship with my bank didn’t change. I never reach out to them, and they certainly never reached out to me.

“Despite regular direct deposits of a halfway decent salary, nothing changed.

“Despite aggressively paying off federal student loans, nothing changed.

“Despite changing jobs, and an increasing direct deposit, nothing changed.

“When I turned 25, and decided to start investing, I wasn’t emotionally attached to big bank. Nonetheless, I decided to give ’em a whirl, because honestly, who wants to fill out more paperwork and remember another password? “(I told you. Layup.)

“So, I make an appointment, and into the bank I walk. I’ve finally crossed the account balance where the bank is willing to actually speak to you without an $8 fee, so this is new to me.

“I enter an awkwardly sparse office. My ‘personal banker’ smiles at me, and asks what I wanted to talk about. I reply, ‘Saving.’

“She had contacted me 20 minutes beforehand to make sure I would show up. She has complete access to my financial records. She can find out how long I’ve been a customer, how much I make, my recurring expenses, etc.

“Yet, there I sat, across from her, spelling my last name for the third time.

“She takes out a pamphlet with a few saving account options, then, proceeds to pitch me on mortgages, credit cards and some other products I didn’t full understand.

Forget Perfect

Lisa McLeod “I leave, slightly more confused than when I went in, and feeling approximately 0 percent more attached to the bank.

“Then, I see an ad for Ellevest, a virtual, womenfocused investment service. I set up a personal phone call to talk about my financial goals. Lo and behold, I move money from Big Bank right on over.

“I never had a problem with Big Bank. I still use them for my checking account. The woman in the meeting was nice enough.

The app works decently.

But, my relationship with Big Bank is transactional.

And transactional relationships are replaceable.

“My experience isn’t unique, but it is emblematic.

“This relationship is not transactional because of the people. It’s transactional because of the systems (or lack thereof).

“LinkedIn notifies me, asking if I’d like to learn more about so-and-so, when I have a meeting with them in 15 minutes.

“Wayfair reached out when I changed my address, asking if I am furnishing a new place.

“The guy who sold me my car personally called me when it was time for an oil change.

“But none of that happened with the Big Bank.

Not once.”

My daughter’s experience is hardly unique. Edward Demming once said, “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” The question leaders of banks and other organizations need to ask is: Are we leveraging technology to improving our relationship with customers?

Or is it getting in the way?

Lisa McLeod is the global expert in Noble Purpose. She is the author of the bestsellers “Selling with Noble Purpose” and “Leading with Noble Purpose.”

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