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Legislators tout uptick in funding of education

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Gwinnett County will benefit in multiple ways from work done by the Georgia General Assembly, but one of the biggest effects might be in education, two of the county’s state legislators told the Gwinnett Chamber on Friday.

State Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, and Sen. P.K. Martin, R-Lawrenceville, said the last minute decision by state leaders to fully fund the state’s Quality Basic Education formula this year means more money for Gwinnett schools. The district will receive about $17.4 million more than previously expected this year as a result of that decision, Chuck Efstration they said.

“What that means is that Gwinnett had already planned to add five new school resource officers to keep students safe, just based on the existing appropriation,” Efstration said. “(But) with that additional money from fully P.K. Martin funding QBE, there will be five more SROs at Gwinnett schools (for a total of 10).”

Education was one of the major issues — along with metro Atlanta transit expansion and funding the expansion of the port of Savannah — that Martin and Efstration highlighted during the legislative update to the chamber at the Sonesta Hotel in Duluth.

Efstration and Martin were two of Gov. Nathan Deal’s floor leaders during the recent legislative session so it was their job to advance proposals Deal wanted taken care of in the General Assembly this year.

One thing he decided he wanted during the last week of the session was full funding for Georgia’s Quality Basic Education formula.

The education funding formula was established decades ago but the state has never fully funded it. Deal has spent much of his time as governor gradually increasing education funding after years of austerity cuts.

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Members of the Gwinett Medical Center “Healthcare Heroes” team push their stretcher-themed bed toward the finsih line at the ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race in Lawrenceville Square. (Photos: Cory Hancock)

Taking to the streets

Family Promise’s annual bed race wheels through Lawrenceville TREVOR MCNABOE

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Capes, all pink attire and mattresses on wheels were some of the things hundreds of people saw at the Lawrenceville Square on Saturday.

The ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race brought teams from local companies, churches and schools to compete for the fastest time around the town’s square.

Family Promise of Gwinnett Director Matt Elder said the event exceeded expectations.

“We talk about how much fun it is having the beds on wheels,” MORE ONLINE Elder said. “Once you’re out Visit gwinnettdailypost.com here seeing Pigs in a Blanket or for more photos from the race. the Bat Mo-Bed or Camp Bow Wow. It’s not just the people participating, but also the thousand in Downtown Lawrenceville and people that came out to support the support we have makes it the event. Having the event here such an incredible experience.”

The “Pigs in a Blanket” team races their bed at the ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race in Lawrenceville Square.

Elder said the goal was to raise more than $42,000, something he said the organization was on track to accomplish this year.

The course, which measured under 225 yards, began with a team having one person weigh-

ing at least 100 pounds sit on a bed, while the remainder of the team pushed the bed down North Clayton Street, turned onto West Crogan Street before hitting the home stretch and finish line at

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Spreading kindness with cards

The creators of the Kindness Cards are Aubrey Meadows, Phillip Robinson, Ruthie Hendrix, Riley Kashella, Emma Masterson, Lilly Santos and Alexander Marshall.

All seven are on the fifth grade Destination Imagination team at Cooper Elementary School and coached by Julie Pemberton, Bridgett Brown and James Meadows. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

Anti-bullying campaign has far-reaching effect

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

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A service-based learning idea for a group of Cooper Elementary School students has turned into a way to spread the power of kindness.

In October, seven students on the school’s Destination Imagination team — Aubrey Meadows, Phillip Robinson, Ruthie Hendrix, Riley

Kashella, Emma Masterson, Lilly Santos and Alexander Marshall — developed a simple but powerful idea: The Kindness Card. “(The students) made a list of things they wanted to do, and it kept coming back to bullying,” Cooper Elementary School media specialist Julie Pemberton said. “They saw a lot of things that said not to bully but wanted to reinforce that message.”

What they came up with

was a card that would be given to students and parents to encourage kindness.

“It was really cool designing the cards,” said fifthgrade student Abbie Meadows. “We knew we were going to be giving them to people, but didn’t know how far it would go. It was a little overwhelming but very cool at the same time.”

On the front of each card,

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Henry began her teaching career as a middle school teacher in 1994 at Rumble Middle School in Warner Robins. She moved to GCPS

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Jacinta Henry was approved as principal at Starling Elementary School by the Gwinnett County Public School Board of Education on Thursday.

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in 1997 as a teacher at Rockbridge Elementary School for 11 years before becoming an administrator.

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The Senate must confirm Mike Pompeo

WASHINGTON — For the first time in the history of the republic, it appears increasingly likely that a majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote against the president’s nominee for secretary of state. If this happens, it would be a black mark not on Mike Pompeo’s record, but on the reputation of this once-storied committee.

There are no instances of a secretary of state nominee ever receiving an unfavorable committee vote since such votes were Marc first publicly recorded Thiessen in 1925 (before that, the committee voted in closed session). Democrat John Kerry was approved in a unanimous voice vote, including from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who opposes Pompeo.

Democrat Hillary Clinton was approved 16 to 1, despite concerns about foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation. Madeleine Albright was approved unanimously, with the strong support of my former boss, the committee’s conservative then-chairman, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who called Albright “a tough and courageous lady” and voted for her despite saying that she was “sincerely wrong” in some of her foreign policy views.

Other Democrats, including Warren Christopher and Cyrus Vance, were also approved unanimously in committee, as were Republicans Colin Powell, James Baker and George Shultz. Indeed, no secretary of state going all the way back to Henry Kissinger had ever received more than two negative votes in the Foreign Relations Committee — until Donald Trump became president.

Last year, all 10 Democrats on the committee voted “no” to Rex Tillerson’s nomination, making him the first secretary of state in history to be approved on a party-line vote.

Now, thanks to the opposition from those 10 Democrats and Paul, it appears that Pompeo could soon become the first secretary of state nominee in history to receive a negative recommendation from the committee.

There is simply no excuse for this. There are no ethical questions hanging over Pompeo’s nomination. He has engaged in no disqualifying personal conduct. And no one questions that he is extraordinarily qualified for the job.

Indeed, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said that Pompeo “has a clear record of public service to his nation — in uniform, in Congress, and as the director of the CIA.” Sen. Chris Murphy, DConn., said he believes that Pompeo “will work hard to restore morale at State and work to supplement, not atrophy, the diplomatic tools at the Secretary of State’s disposal.” Yet both are voting against him. Indeed, nine of the committee’s 10 Democrats have already declared their opposition to Pompeo — including two, Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., — who voted for him to lead the CIA. Their opposition comes just as President Trump is preparing for a high-stakes nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Pompeo recently returned from North Korea, where he met with Kim and laid the groundwork for this historic meeting. Democrats ought to ask themselves how their actions will be seen in Pyongyang. To deliver such an undeserved rebuke to Pompeo at such a critical diplomatic moment would be a shameful abdication of the committee’s responsibilities.

It would also breach two centuries of precedent in which the committee has carefully examined the credentials and qualifications of the president’s nominee for secretary of state but acknowledged that the president should have his choice of who should be his chief diplomatic adviser. It is one thing for senators to use a nomination as leverage to gain commitments on specific policy matters. (Helms insisted that Albright work with him on his plans to reform the United Nations and reorganize the State Department, which she did.) Effective senators understand how to use the nomination process to win policy fights. But for senators to vote down a highly qualified nominee over their disdain for the president is completely unwarranted and, quite frankly, a breach of Senate norms.

A negative vote would hurt the Foreign Relations Committee more than Pompeo. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will bring his nomination to the floor regardless of what the committee does, and it is expected that some Democrats — such as Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., who has publicly announced her support — will vote for him. And when Pompeo is confirmed by the full Senate, he would be more than justified in determining that the State Department is best served by working closely with the appropriators and Senate leadership, and bypassing a committee that can’t make policy, can’t legislate and can’t lead.

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Shopping splurge fit for a king I’m not the shopper in my family. That would be my wife. If I want or need something, I go the store, pick it up, pay for it and leave.

Short, sweet and painless.

My lovely wife, Lisa, however — now that’s a whole different story. When she goes shopping she makes a day of it — or a weekend.

And there is nothing simple about the process. And does she ever like to spend money!

Last winter someone stole her American Express card. I let them keep it for five months because they were spending a lot less money than she was.

Seriously, she lost her Belk card for about three weeks, and the manager of our local store called to check on her health.

You can’t really blame them. It’s hard to keep a business going without your better customers. I always like it when the folks with whom I do business send me a little note of appreciation — especially when they include a little token in negotiable form. Scott Foster, my insurance agent, is good about that. He should be, though: For many, many years, I had three teenage drivers on my books. I just told my employer to send my paycheck to State Farm and asked them to send anything left over to

store in downtown Memphis.

Here’s the rest of the story.

I was in Lansky Brothers, looking at clothes I couldn’t afford. Lansky Brothers is known as “Clothier to the King.” It seems that one day an up-and-coming young musician was standing on the Darrell Huckaby sidewalk outside Lansky’s in downtown Memphis, lookWilson’s Body Shop. Those ing longingly at the stylish were rough days. clothes in the window.

There are other outfits out The owner of the store there that let me hear from happened by and invited the them every once in a while. young man to come inside Ace Hardware sends me gift and buy something. “I don’t cards along. We have a great have any money,” Elvis arrangement. Cowan keeps Presley answered, “but one me in grass seed, fertilizer day I’m going to be rich, and and Big Green Egg charcoal, I’m coming back and buying and I keep them in business. you out.”

Victoria’s Secret sends out “Don’t buy me out,” Mr. free panties every month, but Lansky told Elvis. “Just buy I have never bought — or from me. Now come on in, worn — a pair of their draw- and I’ll give you an outfit to ers in my life. I have, I admit, help you get started.” read their ads and watched And Elvis did just that. their fashion shows on televi- Lansky Brothers outfitted Elsion — just for research vis, for business and pleasure, purposes, understand. I’m a for the rest of his life, which columnist. I have to keep up came far too soon. with things.

I loved Elvis — and I But I told you all that to loved his clothes — and I tell you this. love the clothes that Lansky Honesty compels me to Brothers still sells. I made admit that I was a shopthe mistake of walking into ping fool a few weeks ago, the branch of the store that so much so that Monday I is adjacent to the lobby of received a nice, hand-written the Peabody hotel a few days thank-you card from a young ago. Truth be known, I was man who waited on me at a dressed a little like a bum.

I was headed to Clarksdale, Miss., and didn’t want to be overdressed for the Delta. I had on saggy blue jeans and a floppy sweatshirt that didn’t camouflage my pot belly as much as I thought it did. Let me put it this way — I was so sloppy-looking that the clerks all gave me a wide berth and were looking at me the way the boutique clerks looked at Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”

But there was no Richard Gere in sight with a Black AmEx card.

When I picked up a replica of Elvis’s wedding jacket, however, interest picked up.

I looked good in that thing, and I had to have it. And I also had to have three or four other shirts, a Taking Care of Business tie, some blue suede shoes and several other items fit for a king — and a king’s budget, which I don’t have.

But I do have some really cool clothes now, if I can just find a place to wear them.

At any rate, my store clerk knows a sucker when he sees one, and although I appreciate his nice note, I appreciate the free bus ticket to Memphis even more.

Selah.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County.

Email him at dhuck008@ gmail.com.

Random thoughts on random subjects Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Dr. G. Gil Watson, aka the World’s Greatest Preacher, up and retired after two decades of trying to save my sorry soul.

Not only was he my preacher, he was and is my friend. He did his best to resuscitate me. He just didn’t have a lot to work with.

Just when I thought I was off the hook and was already looking at which Commandment to break first — I was leaning toward bearing false witness to the health benefits of broccoli — in the door walks Dr. Bill Burch. Rats. So much for a respite. He has picked up right where Dr. Gil left off. I just can’t get a break. He, too, can preach up a storm in addition to closely tending to his flock, including this black sheep. …

When you hear people talk about term limits for politicians, remind them we already have term limits. They are called elections. As my friend, Kyle Wingfield — recently of the Atlanta newspapers and now president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation — has pointed out, only one in five members of the state House of Representatives has been there more than 15 years. Sixteen members are not seeking reelection. Wingfield noted that

is reflective of their vision for education in the state of Georgia, they got the wrong person being the committee chairman.”

No, Senator, it was the state Senate that got it wrong. …

My passion for the University of Georgia is no secret.

The place has given me more Dick than I can ever repay. But that Yarbrough doesn’t stop me from trying. I am a proud part of an effort at in the state Senate, half of the the Grady College of Journalmembers have served less than ism and Mass Communicafive years. In Congress, the tions to position the school median time of service is seven as a leading resource in crisis years. The politicians are not communications leadership, the problem. It is the bureaucra- through the efforts of Dr. Bryan cy that needs term limits. They Reber. More and more, the are beyond our reach. … media are turning to Dr. Reber Speaking of our intrepid pub- for his observations on current lic servants, kudos to state Sen. high-profile issues. Last week, Lindsey Tippins, R-Cobb, for the Wall Street Journal asked standing up for principle and for his views on Facebook CEO stepping down as chairman of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony the Senate Education Commit- before Congress. (Dr. Reber tee. A former chairman of the wasn’t blown away, although Cobb County school board, he he said it better than that.) An is wise in the ways of the issues aside to the UGA leadership, facing public education but he staff and faculty: When the couldn’t and wouldn’t go along next crisis rolls around — as it with Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s surely will — don’t forget you state charter school funding have an excellent resource in proposal, which Tippins says the family. … would leave over a half-million Thank you, Gov. Deal.

Georgia students in 46 school You may not be the flashiest districts receiving less funding guy around, but you haven’t than the average charter schools embarrassed us like Missouri’s receive, so he resigned his governor, who has admitted to post. Tippins says, “If that bill an affair with his hairdresser,

and a kinky one at that. Now, he faces impeachment (if he hasn’t resigned already.) Maybe the guy didn’t have enough to do at his day job. Gov. Deal is a good family man, as have been his predecessors over many years, and we appreciate it. …

Speaking of affairs, isn’t it interesting that the Religious Right crowd remains strongly supportive of Donald Trump, despite his well-publicized peccadilloes, and women’s groups didn’t raise a peep about Bill Clinton’s womanizing before and during his time in the White House? Shame on them both. …

Finally, of all the good things our great state has to offer, put Vidalia onions at the top of the list. Those sweet things are here and ready for your eating enjoyment. If you are new to Georgia, please know that Vidalias are grown in a 20-county area of our state and nowhere else. Here we sit with the oldest state-chartered university in the nation, “Georgia on my Mind” as our state song and sweet Vidalia onions. Truly, we are a favored people.

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

4A • SundAy, April 22, 2018 To Your Good Health

Keith Roach

Chronic fatigue syndrome known by new name Dear Dr. roaCH: For two years, I have had symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Like many of my fellow sufferers, I continually feel bad, but no test can confirm my diagnosis.

Because of this and other factors, I am looking at “psychosomatic illness” as a cause. CFS would lend itself to such a diagnosis.

Any information you could offer would be appreciated.

— R.S. aNsWer: The term “psychosomatic” simply means “mind and body.” It is clear to me that there is no significant disease of the body that does not affect the mind, at least to some extent. And there is no serious condition that affects the mind where the body does not suffer in some way.

From that perspective, all diseases are psychosomatic.

However, the term is used in everyday language to describe a person with nothing wrong with the body, whose symptoms are due entirely to emotions.

It’s very frustrating, since it implies that a person’s physical symptoms are due to some weakness in his or her character.

This is certainly not the case with chronic fatigue syndrome. The recommendation now is to call it “systemic exertion intolerance disease,” which is a better explanation of the condition. The Institute of Medicine proposed new criteria for diagnosing SEID (one place to read about this report is at https://tinyurl. com/SEID-IOM). While there is not yet a blood test to confirm the diagnosis, researchers at Stanford recently reported a pattern of inflammatory markers that may help confirm and quantify the severity of this condition.

A full description of this complex illness is beyond the scope of this column.

Although there is no cure, there are a variety of treatments available. I must caution against the overaggressive use of exercise programs, which can worsen symptoms.

Dear Dr. roaCH: I wear a fitness tracker 24/7.

Any health risks?

— C.P. aNsWer: There are several kinds of fitness trackers, ranging from devices that measure activity (such as steps and stairs) to devices that also measure heart rate and precise location via GPS. They can be worn as a bracelet or watch, or carried in the pocket or elsewhere. None of this electronic activity is in any way harmful.

I have seen only two kinds of health risks from trackers. The first is a skin reaction to the device itself.

This happens in people who are sensitive, and it’s not uncommon. It may happen right away or as the bracelet wears.

The second is that some people overdo it. These devices are designed to help motivate people to more activity, and that effect is variable: Some people have no effect; many people get a benefit; and a few people overdo it.

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Meadowcreek teacher Gwinnett Family Fest brings given Inspiration Award laughter, community support

By Trevor McNaBoe trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

Lynnette Aponte, an outreach specialist at Meadowcreek High School, was named the Latin American Association’s 2018 Inspiration Award recipient, according to a press release sent out by Gwinnett County Public Schools on Wednesday.

The LAA gives the Inspiration Award to an individual who adapts, integrates and thrives as a contributing member of their community.

“I feel so honored that I was selected to receive this award,” Aponte said. “I believe education is empowering and transformational, and it is my hope to have a positive influence on the younger generation and pay it forward.”

Aponte was recognized

•From Page 1A Deal hadn’t originally planned to fully fund the QBE formula in fiscal year 2019, but when revenue projections came in higher than expected, he said he wanted to go for it.

“It’s really an exciting benchmark to accomplish,” Efstration said.

In addition to allowing Gwinnett schools to add 10 SROs instead of the five, school system staff members will get a 2.25 percent pay increase and more funding is available for psychological services in the district because of the additional funding.

“It means a lot,” Gwinnett County School Board member Louise Radloff said about the additional QBE funding. “It isn’t just the SROs. We’ve been able to put additional school psychologists in, people working with special ed populations … the (additional) QBE funding has just been amazing.”

There were other education-related steps issues addressed in the General Assembly.

Martin said about $1.2 million in security grants will be available to Gwinnett County Public Schools from the state to “continue to invest in the security of our schools.” The senator also said he has faith in the district’s ability to keep

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for the honor at the 29th annual LAA Compañeros Awards Lynnette luncheon Aponte April 12, an annual fundraiser where the LAA honors exceptional individuals who are making meaningful contributions to advance the well-being of individuals and families in the community at the Georgia Aquarium.

A 14-year employee of the school district, Aponte has spent the past three years at Meadowcreek as an outreach specialist, primarily building relationships between the business community, parents, students and community organizations.

“Mrs. Aponte inspires me every day. She is a true

example of a servant leader as she takes time to listen, is always willing to help and has a positive attitude,” Meadowcreek High School student body president Janiah Bowler said. “She is a constant reminder to me to be a diligent worker and to be kind while doing so.”

Lily Thorpe, a senior school ambassador, said she is honored to have spent her senior year under the leadership of someone as determined, hard-working and humble as Aponte.

“Her unending and selfless commitment to Meadowcreek’s students and community members has greatly inspired me, as I have never seen her stop until she sees success,” Thorpe said. “Due to her mentorship, my experience as her intern has been incredibly fulfilling, and I am inspired by her belief in all people, including myself.”

Legislature students safe.

“I have personally have had discussions with Gwinnett County Public Safety and their dedication to the safety of our students is off the charts,” he said. “They are doing a fantastic job and I look forward to continuing to work with them.”

School safety is expected to be a pressing issue for at least the state Senate in the coming years. Martin said the Senate created a study committee this year to look into ways to make school safer.

A framework to ‘let Gwinnett handle transit the Gwinnett way’ Martin said another key item dealt with in the legislative session that will have a big effect on Gwinnett is transit expansion.

He particularly highlighted House Bill 930, the regional transit expansion bill that passed on the General Assembly’s Sine Die Day. Martin said Gwinnett commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash was instrumental in the legislation by working with legislators to shape it and then repeatedly going to the Capitol to lobby legislators to pass it.

The bill sets up a framework for a regional transit governance system, called the ATL Link, that will layout a plan for expanding transit in metro Atlanta as well as a way for counties to fund projects in their

jurisdiction through a transportation special purpose local option sales tax. It also opens the door for Gwinnett to hold a referendum on joining MARTA this fall.

Previous referendums in Gwinnett on whether the county should join MARTA have been defeated, but it has been years since the last referendum, and various surveys in recent years have shown there is support for joining it now.

“As we all know, in the past we were included in the original MARTA law,” Martin said. “We’ve never been terribly successful when we’ve tried to push MARTA in this county — actually, we haven’t been successful at all to date. That’s why I feel it was important that there’s a framework in place to let Gwinnett handle transit the Gwinnett way.

“I believe HB930 will do just that.”

Martin said the bill guarantees Gwinnett will have three representatives on the MARTA board and that money raised in Gwinnett, either through a MARTA tax or a T-SPLOST, will stay with Gwinnett and be used to fund projects in the county.

“The importance of the new regional governance structure is that it will force local communities to work together when approaching these important improvements,” Martin said.

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“I overheard several of my neighbors unhappy about the there is a heart and key em- satellite television going out blem in the middle followed during the snowstorm,” the by the phrases “Unlock the comment said. “The comHappiness” or “Be somepany wouldn’t be able to fix one’s sunshine on a cloudy it for three days so I decided day.” to go up to the roof to see On the back, they if cleaning the snow and included a QR code that, ice would help restore the when scanned, takes you to television signal. It worked a Google survey to let the and the 400 condos in my students know which good building were able to watch deed was done. television again.”

“Our students numbered As a way to remind the the cards so they could students of the effect the track where the cards went,” cards are having, the team Pemberton said. “It ended up has poster boards that are going not only out of Gwin- plastered with comments nett County, but also out of they have received from the the state.” cards.

The definition of bullying Destination Imagination is something that Bridgett is an international organiBrown said has changed zation that poses a set of over the years. project-based challenges, “Bullying isn’t so much and groups of kids from physical anymore as it is around the world choose one with people’s words and problem to address working making people feel uncom- in teams. The Cooper team fortable,” Brown said. “The used the Kindness Cards in biggest impact this project the regional and state level has had is showing that competition this year. small actions can make big As a result, the fifth-grade changes.” team, known as The BrainSome of the replies that stormers made the Global the students have gotten Finals, an international include deeds ranging from competition that has more helping a sick child to saying than 1,400 of the highesta kind word to a stranger. scoring teams across the One of the team’s favorite globe compete, for a third replies involved someone straight year. helping their neighbor with Each year, the Univertheir satellite dish on the sity of Tennessee hosts the roof. competition, with more than

17,000 parents, students and teachers attending from May 23 to 26.

“The competition part is fantastic,” third-grade teacher James Meadows said. “Getting to see the kids interact with students from around the world they wouldn’t normally see is the best part.”

Excitement from the group is high, with each student looking forward to the upcoming competition.

“I’m really looking forward to the opening ceremony because there’s so many different people there from all across the world,” fifth-grader student Emma Masterson said.

For fifth-grader Riley Kashella, the goal is the team improving on its finish from last year.

“I really want us to finish in the top 10 this year,” Kashella said. “I think we can definitely do it.”

Overall, the Destination Imagination program is something that has allowed students like Ruthie Hendrix to grow.

“Looking back, it’s amazing how much we have grown,” Hendrix said. “As third-graders we were new to the program and were nervous at the state level. Now we’re going to Globals for a third time, and it’s amazing what we’ve accomplished.”

By Trevor McNaBoe

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Families crowded around the line of tents that filled the Infinite Energy Center parking lot Saturday afternoon for the second annual Gwinnett Family Fest to take in the spring weather.

The event, put on by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, included food trucks, inflatable play houses and a dunk tank.

Gwinnett Chamber Sr. Director, Membership Services and Small Business Membership Services, Stephanie Sokenis said planning for the event took the past eight months to organize all the attractions for the free event.

“We wanted to give back to the community as a whole, while also allowing members of the chamber an opportunity to meet some of the consumers in the area,” Sokenis said. “This is just an all-around community day.”

Manning the dunk tank was “The Walking Dead” actor Peter Zimmerman.

“I loved the fact that he was here for charity,” Sokenis said. “Especially the fact that he was here for Gwinnett charities.”

Lawrenceville resident Amber Roos brought her 2-year-old daughter, Ireleigh, to the event to help support one of her friends’ businesses.

“We wanted to see what was out here,” Roos said.

Five-year-old Jayden Martin throws a ball at the dunk tank at the Gwinnett Family Fest on Saturday. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

“We did the Micky Mouse jump house and have been going around to different vendors. People have been so generous and it’s very child friendly.”

Jennifer Hobgood and her 3-year-old son, Joshua, made the trip from Roswell to attend the event.

“We’re actually moving from Roswell to Sugar Hill next week and we wanted to see some of the things the area has to offer,” Hobgood said. “Joshua loves bounce houses and it gives him a

great opportunity to socialize with other people.”

Hobgood said they not only are looking forward to the move, but also participating in future events.

According to Sokenis, the event has been growing each year.

“As a parent myself, it’s nice to give parents the opportunity to bring their kids out and not have to spend a dime if they don’t want to,” Sokenis said. “We really want to make this a yearly event for our residents.”

Team “WIKA USA” pushes their bed toward the finish line at the ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race in Lawrenceville Square. (Photos: Cory Hancock)

•From Page 1A North Perry Street.

For a fourth straight year, Viasat Inc., a company in Duluth, won the adult division after completing the course in 29.63 seconds and a combined 60.3 seconds.

“It’s a fun event and the fact that we can do something that can help the community in such a fun way with competition thrown in there is something we couldn’t say no to,” said team captain Ray Lecture.

The team has used the same bed for the past four years, with a few adjustments along the way.

“We lost one part and had to replace it this year and I think we lost an antenna, but I guess we’ll have to make some small modifications for next year,” Lecture said. “The guys on the team make it happen and we’ll definitely be back next year.”

While Viasat continues to use what has won for them, the Mountain Park United Methodist group sported its take on a bed version of the Batmobile, named the “Bat Mo-Bed.” “I’ve wanted to have the Bat Mo-Bed for years,” Cheryl Mitchell said. “I finally won.”

The designer of the Bat Mo-Bed was Cheryl’s son John Mitchell.

“The design took about a week to come up with and another week to put it all together,” John Mitchell said.

Cheryl Mitchell said the group has been participating for eight years, each year coming up with a new design.

“Last year we did a Jamaican Bobsled in memory

Race

Above, the “TCF Heroes” push their bed down the course at the ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race in Lawrenceville Square. Below, the “Siesta Fiesta” team carries their bed after it broke at the starting line at the ninth annual Family Promise Bed Race in Lawrenceville Square.

of our Jamaican pastor that passed away,” Cheryl Mitchell said. “We’ve also done the Millenium Falcon, a ‘Flintstone’ theme, pirate theme and a ‘Grease’ theme.”

The group comes back each year because of how unique the event is to the area.

“It’s a bed race in Lawrenceville,” Cheryl Mitchell said. “I don’t know why everybody isn’t here. It’s just the coolest thing and we love getting a theme and everybody behind it.”

More than 100 members of the church got behind the

event not only to help put together the bed, but also to help with the community.

As for next year, Cheryl Mitchell said the group has a special design for the 10th year of the event.

“We’re keeping the design close to the chest right now,” Cheryl Mitchell said.

“It’s the 10th year so it has to be big. We’ve been talking about it for awhile now.”

Other winners included TCF Heroes in the youth division, Westminister Clergy for the people’s choice award and Pigs in a Blanket for raising the most money for the event.

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Conservative group lauds Woodall, Hice Two of Gwinnett’s three congressmen tied for the highest marks in Georgia’s Congressional Delegation on a conservative scorecard, according to the American Conservative Union Foundation.

The foundation gave U.S. Reps. Rob Woodall and Jody Hice, both R-Ga., scores of 96 percent. They were tied with Reps. Tom Graves and Barry Loudermilk for the highest score in the delegation.

Rob Woodall Meanwhile, Gwinnett’s third congressman, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., had the third lowest Jody Hice score, tying with Rep. John Lewis at 7 percent.

“In the 2017 session, we saw Republicans come

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Curt Yeomans together to pass the most important corporate tax reform in decades, confirm a true conservative in Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and repeal the Obamacare individual mandate,” ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp said in a statement.

The foundation said it graded congressmen on how they voted on 25 bills in the House of Representatives and 21 bills in the Senate.

Some votes they were graded on included the repeal of Obamacare, comprehensive tax reform, defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing Dodd-Frank.

Senators were also graded on votes on whether to confirm several of President

Donald Trump’s nominees to various offices and seats, including cabinet members and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

GGC College Republicans holding GOP House District 105 candidates forum The College Republicans chapter at Georgia Gwinnett College is planning to hold a GOP candidates forum for the House District 105 race this week.

The forum will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gwinnett County Republican Party Headquarters, which is located in Gwinnett Place Mall at 2100 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite J19 in Duluth. Patrick Batubenge, Robin Mauck and Donna Sheldon are each expected to attend.

Shafer endorsed by Family Policy Alliance State Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, picked up the endorsement of the Focus on the Family ministry’s public policy partner in the open lieutenant governor’s race this week.

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Collins Hill grad joins Rainbow Village staff my eyes have been opened to different A former professional levels of baseball player who is also poverty Hebron Christian Acadeand homemy’s former advancement lessness Justice director has joined the in Georgia French staff at Rainbow Village.

— GwinThe Duluth-based local nett in particular.” nonprofit announced that French’s path to RainJustice French will serve bow Village is a windas its new development ing one. At Collins Hill, director. The Collins Hill he played shortstop and High School graduate pitcher before moving on will put together Rainbow to play for Mercer UniverVillage’s new developsity, where he majored in ment strategy focusing on psychology and communifundraising and raiscations. ing awareness about the He was then drafted by organization’s work to the Cincinnati Reds. While help homeless residents he was in the Reds’ minor and victims of domestic league system, he interned violence. for InTouch Ministries in It’s something of a rethe offseason and evenunion between the French tually left professional family and Rainbow Vilbaseball to work for the lage. organization full time as “My mom volunteered its marketing manager. for Rainbow Village over a He later served as the decade ago, but she never director of advancement forgot the experience,” for Hebron Christian French said in a statement. Academy in Dacula.

“When the opportunity While French was at presented itself for me to Hebron, he dealt with make the move to Rainfundraising and communibow Village, I jumped at cations for the school. the chance. Since then, “Sports instilled a lot of

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values in my life, but I felt called to serve a purpose bigger than myself,” French said.

Rainbow officials said French and the organization’s Community Engagement Team will work to increase awareness of the nonprofit through networking with groups that could potentially become partners, word of mouth and going into the community to meet with people.

At the same time, they will work on crafting a message that highlights stories of people who have graduated from Rainbow Village’s programs.

“We believe Justice is the ideal person to lead our Development Team,” Rainbow Village CEO Melanie Conner said. “He brings with him a fresh perspective, lots of team spirit and loads of faith.

I love that our mission of ‘transforming lives’ really resonated with him.”

Rainbow Village officials also announced the recent hiring of Denise Peck as an office manager and Beverly Ellis as a case manager.

announced it is backing Shafer in the race for the No. 2 job in state government David because Shafer of his support of conservative issues. Family Policy Alliance President Cole Muzio told the group’s members about the endorsement in an email.

“David Shafer has a proven track record of being more than empty campaign rhetoric but instead truly fighting for our values,” Muzio wrote.

“I am proud to announce our endorsement of him for Lieutenant Governor.”

It is the latest in a long line of endorsements that Shafer has secured in the lieutenant governor’s race.

His other backers include U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz; former U.S. Sens. Rick Santorum and Mack Mattingly; former Congressmen John Linder, Bob Barr, Mac Collins and Barry Goldwater

Jr.; former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush; the National Rifle Association and the Republican Liberty Caucus.

Perdue, Isakson: There’s ‘no doubt’ that Atlanta should get Army Futures Command U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and David Perdue celebrated the news that Atlanta was on the list of finalists for the site of the U.S. Army Futures Command this past week.

The command is one of several steps the Army is taking to improve its handling of modern-day threats, and military officials have expressed an interest in being near academic and commercial institutions to provide a talent pool experienced in emerging technology.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Atlanta is the best place for the Army Futures Command,” said Perdue, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Atlanta is the

Southeast’s innovation hub and gateway to the world.

These resources will supJohnny port the Isakson Army Futures Command in their efforts to modernize and prepare for combat David missions.”

Perdue Isakson added: “I’m glad to see that the Army recognizes Atlanta’s unique advantages. As final decisions are considered, the Georgia delegation and I will gladly continue working together with Army leaders to see to it they fully understand all that Atlanta and the surrounding region have to offer.”

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Police believe a third suspect was waiting in this champagne color Chevrolet Tahoe, believed to be model year 2000 to 2006. (Special Photo)

Investigation into deadly home invasion still active

By IsaBel HugHes

home on Scholar Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville after a woman called 911 saying her husband, More than a month after 44-year-old Miguel Osorio, a father was killed in his had been shot during an Lawrenceville home after attempted robbery at the trying to escape a home residence. invasion, Gwinnett police “Detectives determined are still “actively investigat- that two male suspects ing the case.” wearing what was described On Thursday, the as ‘construction attire’ Gwinnett County Police entered the home with guns Department reached out and tied up Osorio, his wife to the public, once again, and his adult daughter,” in the hopes that someone Gwinnett police Officer with information about the Jacob Albright said. “After suspects or the case would being tied up, Osorio broke come forward with new free and that is when he was information. shot by one of the suspects.

The department had Both suspects fled the previously released an imresidence, firing additional age of the getaway car they shots toward the house, but believe was used in the mur- no one else was injured.” der, which occured around Police believe a third 3:30 p.m. on March 18. suspect was waiting in a Police responded to a champagne color Chevrolet

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Tahoe, believed to be model year 2000 to 2006.

They are asking anyone with Miguel informaOsorio tion about the crime or anyone who recognizes the vehicle to call detectives at 770-5135300.

To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit crimestoppersatlanta.org. They can also text tips to “Crimes” (274637).

Tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case by referencing case number 180025388.

Parts of Norcross, Peachtree Corners Qualified Opportunity Zones governor’s office.

“This designation will enable some of our state’s struggling communities to A trio of census tracts attract much-needed private in Norcross and Peachtree sector investment,” DCA Corners are among the Commissioner Christopher more than 200 areas in Nunn said in a statement.

Georgia where federal of“By giving an economic ficials said companies can ‘shot in the arm’ to these get tax breaks by making communities, our goal is to boost investment where it’s investments, Gov. Nathan most urgently needed.”

Deal’s office announced The local zone is part of Monday.

The governor’s office a smaller group of urban said the state nominated areas that Georgia officials 260 areas in 83 counties for nominated for qualified opportunity zone status. In all, designation as Qualified the majority of Georgia’s Opportunity Zones, and the nominees — 60 percent of IRS and U.S. Department them to be exact — were in of Treasury approved all rural areas with the rest beof them. These zones are ing in urban communities. designed to encourage investment and revitalization “The areas we nominated for this distinction include in areas whose economic This map released by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office shows three census tracts in the Norcross and Peachtree Corners both rural and urban comrecovery has been slower area that federal officials have agreed to designate as Qualified Opportunity Zones to spur development. The af- munities that experienced a than others. fected area is highlighted in blue. (Special Photo) The existence of such slower economic recovery zones was established investment to underserved in the last few years, and area in Gwinnett that was trial Boulevard. reinvest them a Qualified under the Tax Cuts and areas, the tax incentives these tax incentives represubmitted by the state and This collective zone inOpportunity Fund, where Jobs Act to boost economic for Qualified Opportunity approved by the federal cludes areas that have been they would have to remain sent another step forward in their economic revitalizainvestment in areas where Zones will further encourgovernment. an economic development for several years. tion,” Deal said. the poverty rate exceeds 20 age businesses to invest in The local area approved priority for officials in both That fund would in turn “We look forward to percent. the communities that need by federal officials is cities, Gwinnett County serve as a “a vehicle for “In Georgia, we have working with the Departit most, while also creating mostly between Button and at the Gateway85 investment” in property seen firsthand the value of ment of the Treasury, the meaningful employment Gwinnett Drive, Buford Community Improvement located in the opportunity adhering to conservative opportunities across the Highway, the interstate and District. zone, according to the gov- IRS and the private sector principles and creating a to take full advantage of state.”

Beaver Ruin and Indian These zones are designed ernor’s office. business-friendly environThe local zone includes Trail Lilburn Roads. There to let an investor defer payThe Georgia Department this program and boost ecoment to promote economic three adjacent census is a section that extends ing federal taxes on capital of Community Affairs will nomic growth for Georgia’s economically disadvandevelopment,” Deal said. tracts west of Interstate further west along Jimmy gains from investments administer the program in taged areas.”

“By attracting more private 85, and they form the only Carter to Peachtree Indusuntil Dec. 31, 2026, if they this state, according to the

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Gurneys were being wheeled in and the rhythmic sound of a heart monitor filled the room as nurses prepared a patient to see a doctor. From gunshot wounds to patients that suffered from schizophrenia, all four beds, commonly known as bays, continued to be filled and replaced by other patients on Tuesday at Philadephia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee.

While the intensity was real, the outcome was predetermined, as PCOM hosted Trauma Day, which tasked nurses from Georgia Gwinnett College, emergency medical technicians from Gwinnett Technical College and future doctors from PCOM to work together through 24 different scenarios, from getting the patient off the ambulance all the way to the operating room.

Plans for Trauma Day have been in progress for months, with Michael Sampson, associate professor of family medicine and sports medicine, volunteering PCOM to host.

“We love to showcase our campus and simulation room,” Sampson said.

“It’s multifaceted with the EMTs for Gwinnett Tech, nurses from GGC and our DOs (doctors of osteopathic medicine) here. And our $3.5 million simulation room can handle all of the stuff going on.”

Previously, the event had been held at GGC and was slated to go to Gwinnett Tech, but plans changed.

“The last time we had Trauma Day over at Georgia Gwinnett College, we put in plans initially at Gwinnett Tech, but our simulation director recommended we do

PCOM student Ashaima Singh, left, GGC student Jerusha Cook, middle, and GGC instructor Mary Beerman perform CPR on a dummy patient. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

them here,” Sampson said.

“Before he stopped talking, I immediately agreed to do this.”

The 24 simulations that students participated in throughout the day were selected by students seeking their master’s degrees in biomedical sciences. Each simulation tested students on everything from how they interact with a patient to the proper procedure for diagnosing a situation.

Sampson said he wanted PCOM students to work as a team.

“As physicians, we can do a lot,” he said. “We can’t do it all, and rely on EMTs and nurses to help out. When they go out in the real world, they have the attitude of ‘We’re one big team.’”

Alisha Adams, Gwinnett Tech lead instructor for advanced EMT students, said Trauma Day is very important for students.

“It’s critical because our students normally do scenarios in-house with adjuncts they know,” Adams said.

“Here, they interact with people that they don’t know and also get debriefed about their patients, something that doesn’t happen.”

The ability to see the entire process from start to finish is something she believes provides value to students.

“It keeps getting better and better each year,” Adams said. “We allow the students to come full circle with the patient process.”

EMTs were required during the process to wheel in patients on gurneys and give the nurses that were waiting in a triage room a basic report on the patient before taking the patient into the simulation room.

The program led nurses to delve into possible issues before the doctors arrived.

“Today has been about looking at three different components of nursing,” said Sharon Grason, GGC director of nursing. “Communication, collaboration and curing are what we’re looking for today.”

Grason said the more times nursing students are able to have interprofessional interactions, the better clinicians the students become.

Likewise, Sampson said that Trauma Day has become a huge success for all students that participate, and plans on including PCOM’s pharmacy and physical therapy programs.

“They’re afraid of what they don’t know right now,” Sampson said. “But they’re a lot more prepared for situations in the real world compared to those that don’t participate.”

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Mill Creek teacher Ashley Taube is no stranger to long distances. Each month, she racks up hundreds of miles traveled aboard a flight from Atlanta to Tampa, Fla., to visit a neuroendocrine specialist at Moffitt Cancer Center in addition to the visits at Emory Medical Center and Gwinnett Medical Center.

On April 28, what seems like a short 3.1 miles, will be the most important distance she has traveled.

That day, she plans on participating in the Taube Trot 5K and Fun Run in Little Mulberry Park in Auburn.

“People see me and think that I should look ill,” Taube said. “I want to try to look fine so that it isn’t a constant reminder of all the things that I’m going through. I’ve got things to do in my life and no time for cancer.”

In 2012, Taube began her fight with a neuroendocrine tumor in her pancreas, a fight that continues to this day.

Two of Taube’s friends, Brianna Shelton and Kelly Jacobs, have spent time working on getting sponsors and drumming up community support for her fundraising run.

Planning for the 5K began back in December with Taube making a post on her blog, jointeamtaube.org.

“She had just gotten back from the doctor and found out that her chemo and radiation wasn’t working,” Jacobs said. “I’ve wanted to do something for her. If I’m going to do something for her, now is the time to do it.”

For Taube and Shelton, the help and support she is receiving from not only

friends, but community members is overwhelming.

“It’s just amazing to know how many people are willing to help that don’t even know Ashley,” Shelton said.

Gwinnett has a special place in Taube’s heart. It’s where she grew up and graduated from Parkview in 1999. It’s where she returned after graduating from the University of Alabama in 2003 and it’s where she’s stayed — teaching at Mill Creek since the school opened in 2004.

“This area has given back so much to me and I’ve been at Mill Creek since it opened,” Taube said. “I’ve been coaching the cheerleaders for 14 years. I’ve been in the same spot for so long.”

Jacobs said that many of their high schools friends from Parkview have been very enthusiastic about helping out with the run.

Previously, Mill Creek High School rallied behind Taube in January 2017 by honoring her in between the school’s girls and boys basketball games and sporting blue “Taube Strong” shirts.

Taube’s flights back and forth to Tampa have taken a toll financially on the family, but it is something that they are managing with all of the support.

“We have savings, but having to fly to Tampa once a month for treatment has definitely eaten some of it up,” Taube said. “Just to have some cushioning and the ability to not stress about it as much is nice.”

Currently, Taube is not on any sort of treatment because her white blood cell counts have been too low.

The importance of having a high enough white blood cell count is to ensure that any side effects that come with chemo and radiation treat-

ment is easier to tolerate.

In the final stretch leading up to the event, Jacobs says that she has made a full push on trying to get everyone in the community involved.

“I have liked more Mill Creek Facebook pages, more restaurants and anything Hamilton Mill or Dacula,” she said. “I thought it was important to do this in Ashley’s community.”

Both Shelton and Jacobs say the goal of the event isn’t measured in dollars and cents, but rather just people coming out in support.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the community come together,” Shelton said. “If everyone does what they say they’re going to do then we’re going to have a large group of people and not just people in this community.”

Since Taube has been a cheer coach for more than a decade, she has developed relationships with other cheer teams across the county and state. Girls from South Forsyth and across the various schools from Gwinnett County have talked about coming to the event in support.

One thing that organizers stress about the event is how it is set up to be a family event.

“So many times 5K runs are for adults, but we want everyone to get involved and are pushing the fun run part,” Jacobs said. “We want the whole family to come because it’s about not only supporting Ashley, but her family as well.”

Some of the activities that are being planned include face painting stations, Mill Creek’s Harvey the Hawk mascot walking around and raffling off donated items to compliment the snacks and music that will be playing.

Although it is weeks

away, excitement for the race is peaking for the organizers.

“It’s just nice to know that with all the terrible things happening out in the world, there are still people out there that are good,” Taube said. “People are good, people are kind and people are supportive.”

To sign up for the event, racers can visit www.taubetrot.com.

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Gleeson promotion provides Eagles with continuity leadership after assistant coach Jamie Gleeson was tapped to take over for head coach Mike Burrell Collins Hill’s boys who is stepping down after soccer program has what the completion of the curit hopes will be a long rent season to serve as an postseason run ahead of assistant with the Collins it in the upcoming Class Hill girls program.

AAAAAAA state playoffs It’s a move that was over the next few weeks. expected at some point However, the Eagles also when Gleeson was brought have an eye on the future, in two seasons ago by and it involves different Burrell, whom he played

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for while the latter was head coach at Dacula in the late 2000s.

And the 26-yearold Gleeson Jamie is eagerly Gleeson looking forward to the opportunity facing him in his first head coaching job.

“When Mike initially brought me in to Collins Hill, this was the idea at some point,” Gleeson said.

“He’s been (coaching) for a long time, and he was ready to take a step back and looking for someone to hand the program over to. I’m honored he selected me.”

Gleeson, who played college soccer at North Georgia after graduating

from Dacula in 2010 and served as an assistant at North Hall before coming to Collins Hill in 2016, figures to bring some continuity and a smooth transition to the Eagles program.

That transition also figures to go smoother with Burrell still close to the program, a resource Gleeson says he won’t hesitate to use if he needs to early on.

“He’ll still be a part of the school and the (soccer) program,” Gleeson said.

“He’ll be helping me, too, though he’ll mainly be with the girls (team). I can bounce some ideas off him and continue the transition. … It’s a little different, but not really. … Really, it’s not much of a change.

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Brookwood senior Matt Klug was one of the Gwinnett students to be given a state wide Positive Athlete Award last week. Klug has remained a bright spot for the Broncos baseball team despite losing both his parents within a year of each other. (Staff Photo: Christine Troyke)

Klug remains uplifting force at Brookwood despite repeated heartbreak

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Every day at Brookwood’s baseball field, senior Matt Klug is shagging fly balls and grinding away at batting practice.

His presence, his effort and his attitude are a constant inspiration for the rest of the team.

Head coach Titus Martin nominated Klug for the Positive Athlete awards and Klug was selected as the region’s

baseball recipient last week.

“Through all he’s been through, and to be able to keep a positive attitude and encourage others and to come every day,” Martin said, “I think he’s what that award is really meant to be.”

Klug’s mom died in November 2016 after a 16-year fight against COPD and emphysema.

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and off for seven years before passing away barely a year later.

They both gave him the attitude that Martin lauds.

“I’ve always just tried to be the best teammate I can be,” Klug said. “Even this year, I don’t start, I don’t play that much. But I’m here for my teammates and my school. Really, that’s how I was raised.

“I knew I probably wouldn’t

play much this year and with them being gone, they wouldn’t be at my games, so I thought, I really thought, about quitting. But it’s nothing I would ever do. I love it.

I love being out here with my friends. These are my best friends. We’ve been playing together since we were little. I just try to stay positive. I look at my parents’ conditions, they were sick, so it could always

be worse. So I just try to keep a positive outlook.”

Klug has no clear memory of his mom without an oxygen tube. She was diagnosed in 1999 — Matt was born in 2000 — and doctors predicted she would only live another seven years. She lived 17, but it was a daily fight.

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North’s DIY baseball broadcasters make it look easy

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list of “catchphrases” folded in his pocket for such occasions. It includes gems like “balls, party The North Gwinnett High of four. Your table is ready” School baseball team trotted for walks or “it’s Shark Week” off the field after the top of the when a fielder is “eaten up” by a first inning in its April 11 game grounder. against Mill Creek.

Cleveland and McCulloch, “Let’s see if the Bulldog fathers of Bulldogs Walker Lumber Company can get us Cleveland and Chase McCulloch, started,” Alan Cleveland said into are as official as an unofficial the lavalier microphone clipped broadcast team can possibly be. to his collar.

The two have been streaming “Is that a new one?” asked his North Gwinnett baseball games broadcast partner Nick McCull- with Facebook Live since the och.

2017 season, when the Bulldogs “I’ve used that before,” Cleve- traveled to a tournament in New Alan Cleveland, left, and Nick McCulloch broadcast live North GwinOrleans. nett High School baseball games on the booster club Facebook land said. page. (Staff Photo: Taylor Denman) He would know. He keeps a North’s head coach Ryan taylor.denman@gwinnettdailypost.com

Moity is a native of New Orleans and still has family there that follow the Bulldogs’ games by watching the broadcasts on the NGHS Dugout Club Facebook page. Broadcasts started with 10 to 15 viewers per game. Against Mill Creek, the broadcast peaked at close to 40 viewers, and some of the archived games have view counts in the thousands.

“Against Woodstock in the Final Four (last year) we had 450 people watching the game,” Cleveland said. “It’s just become something fun to build interest in the program and give the out

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Promising quarterbacks go head-to-head at G-Day the third quarter.

Fromm’s woes continued after he was interceptATHENS — If there ed by Richard LeCounte wasn’t already a quarteron his first pass of the secback controversy brewing ond half, and Fields took as the University of Georadvantage of it yet again. gia wrapped up its 2018 He led the black team spring with the annual red on a quick seven-play, vs. black spring game, 45-yard drive, capped off there is now. by a 15-yard touchdown True freshman quarterpass to Matt Landers in back Justin Fields showed the back of the end zone everyone inside Sanford to extend the lead to 21-6.

Stadium on Saturday Fields converted two more afternoon why he deserves third-down attempts on the to be in the mix for the drive, bringing his total to starting job after slicing four for the game. and dicing his way to 207 Of Fromm’s 200 yards yards on 18 of 33 passing passing, 57 came on one with a touchdown. throw — a touchdown His counterpart, Jake strike to Ridley. It brought Fromm, who surprised the red team to within 21everyone a season ago Georgia quarterback Justin Fields (1) passes the ball during the Georgia spring game 13 with 1:42 remaining in after leading the Bulldogs Saturday at Sanford Stadium. (Photo: Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports) the fourth quarter, but that to the National Championwas the final score of the ship game as a true freshwith the first going to red team’s ensuing possesFields finished the first game. man, had an up-and-down former Buford standout sion, which set up Fields half 9 of 16 for 118 yards, Holloman finished the afternoon. The sophomore Isaac Nauta for 7 yards. with another opportunity to while Fromm finished 10 game with 59 yards receivfinished 19 of 38 for 200 The drive later stalled at prove himself. of 15 for 82 yards and an ing on three catches — the yards. He threw one touch- the black team’s 43-yard Fields rushed for 12 interception. second-most yards receivdown and was intercepted line, leading to a punt, yards on first down and Fields led the black team ing on the team behind twice — including a pickFields took the field followed it up with a 14to a touchdown on the Crumpton’s 60. six on his second drive of for the first time to loud yard completion to Newton team’s first possession of “J.J. Holloman has the game. applause, and on his very alum Jeremiah Holloman the third quarter, highlight- taken strides,” Smart said.

Despite the crowd favor- first pass attempt, the true on an underneath throw. ed by a 36-yard catch-and- “Those two guys — Tyler ing Fields for much of the freshman found running Simmonds and Holloman Three plays later, Fields run from Fields to Hollogame, Georgia head coach back Prather Hudson on a have grown up. Those wide converted a third-and-5 man on a third-and-8.

Kirby Smart thought both outs gained confidence all swing pass for 7 yards. with a completion to Hudson pounded his quarterbacks played well spring. They’re hungry and His second pass of Crumpton. way into the end zone for overall. the game went to Ahkil Stokes made some a 2-yard score on the very they want to play. They did “I really thought both a really good job of doing Crumpton for 11 yards on more noise on an ensunext play to extend the quarterbacks managed that and being productive a run-pass option over the ing second-and-8 play black team’s lead to 14-6 the huddle,” Smart said. (today).” middle of the field. His in which Fields showed with 10:49 remaining in “That’s what I look for is third pass attempt went for off his arm strength with what are they calling, are 15 yards on a wide receiver a pass into the end zone they calling the right sigscreen to Tyler Simmons, from 37 yards out. Fields nals, are they fixing guys setting the black team up nearly completed the pass that are broke, are they with a fresh set of downs to Riley Ridley in the end Seeking saying the right thing in from the red team’s 46zone, but it was broken up the huddle, are they being yard line.

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Smart pointed out the negatives on the day but was especially pleased with the defense — a unit that lost seven starters from a season ago.

“I’m really proud of the way that the guys competed all spring,” Smart said. “I thought there were parts of it that were sloppy.

I thought the defense did a good job of creating turnovers. Two of them were gifts, but we got more turnovers today than we had gotten really all spring.”

Smart also didn’t shy away from giving his reasoning behind why so many fans come out to watch his Bulldogs play, especially during G-Day. “I just think people like Georgia football,” Smart said. “I think some of it is recruiting, but I think people enjoy football in Georgia, and they want to come and watch it. And I’m glad that they do because the impact that it has on recruiting, I can’t tell you how many recruits are out there going, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe this.’

It’s the norm here. It’s the way that it should be.

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Seniors came up strong for the No. 2-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College baseball team Saturday, paving the way for a senior day sweep against Talladega College (Ala.), winning 8-4 and 11-7 at the Grizzly Baseball Complex.

The Grizzlies (39-8) scored six runs in the first inning of the opener and used a late rally to defeat the Tornadoes in the nightcap. Senior Marcus McCorkle, a Shiloh product, scored four runs and drove in an additional four in the sweep.

Senior Tony Salvag-

gio added an RBI during the big first inning of the opening game.

Talladega (24-20) got within 7-4 in the seventh inning.

However, junior Brandon Frazier delivered an RBI single Marcus to score McCorkle McCorkle in the bottom half of the inning to stretch the lead to four runs, 8-4.

Sophomore starting pitcher Hunter Dollander struck out six batters over eight innings to improve to 6-1 on the season. Senior

reliever Cole Uvila retired all three batters he faced in the ninth inning of the first game.

The visitors took advantage of GGC defensive errors in the second inning to score six times and hold an early 6-2 lead. The Grizzlies’ pitchers allowed two earned run in the contest.

Georgia Gwinnett College slowly chipped away at the deficit, scoring two runs in the fourth inning, and then took the lead for good behind a four-run sixth inning.

The first two runs in the pivotal sixth inning were scored on a Talladega throwing error. Freshman

Nick Barnes tied the game, 7-7 with a run-scoring single to right field. A sacrifice fly from junior Onassis Matos gave the hosts the lead for good.

The team added three insurance runs in the eighth inning.

Sophomore Hunter Caudelle tossed three scoreless innings in relief to pick up the victory. Senior Nick Andrews retired the side in order in the ninth to seal the victory.

Freshman Walter Coursey, a Lanier grad, collected five hits in the doubleheader and extended his hitting streak to 16 games — the longest by a GGC player this season.

GGC completes sweep of Talladega From Staff Reports TALLADEGA, Ala. — A two-run double by junior Tori Robinson provided late-inning heroics as the top-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College softball team completed a doubleheader sweep Saturday at Talladega College (Ala.).

The Grizzlies rallied in the nightcap 4-2 after winning the opener 11-2 in five innings.

Trailing 2-0, GGC began its second-game comeback in the seventh

inning when sophomore Sydney Willhite hit a run-scoring single to bring home freshman Maegan Harden, cutting the deficit in half.

Then, with two outs, Robinson lined a double to center field that scored freshman Holly Janco and freshman Ruth Jones to give the visitors the lead.

Robinson would later score an insurance run as junior Aubree Cox hit a RBI single.

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Peck, Bears win regular season finale From Staff Reports LAWRENCEVILLE — Jackson Peck earned the save, hit a double and batted in a run to help lead Mountain View to a 3-1 win over Morgan County in its regularseason finale Saturday.

Jacob Babiarz got the win with no runs or hits and a strikeout in one inning of work.

Garrett Spikes had a hit and an RBI for the Bears (21-9), who open the state tournament Thursday against Forsyth Central.

BASEBALL Brookstone 5, Providence 2 LILBURN — Simon Graf had a one-hitter going and Providence Christian led 2-0 in the sixth inning, but the Storm couldn’t hold off Brookstone in a 5-2 nonregion loss to close the regular season Saturday.

Graf took the hard-luck loss after going 5 1/3 innings with two earned runs, four hits and seven strikeouts.

Luke Matthews was 1-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base. David Sloan was 1-for-3 with a run scored, while Crawford Hansard had a hit and a run for the Storm (17-13).

GIRLS LACROSSE North 10, Ensworth (Tenn.) 7 SUWANEE — Senior Shannon Costelloe scored five goals and North Gwinnett avenged an earlier loss to Ensworth (Tenn.) in a 10-7 victory Saturday.

The two teams played in Tennessee on March 9 when North lost by one goal.

Parker Nevels had a goal and three draw controls for the Bulldogs (7-8-1), while goalkeeper Lana Puckett made nine saves.

Johnson shares Texas Open lead Field Level Media SAN ANTONIO — Andrew Landry birdied the 16th and 17th holes to card a 5-under-par 67, and Zach Johnson birdied the 18th hole to shoot a 68 on Saturday to share the lead at 13 under 203 after three rounds of the Valero Texas Open, played under cloudy and drizzly conditions on the usually demanding Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio.

Trey Mullinax, who fired a course-record 10-under-par 62 on Saturday, is a shot back at 204, with second-round co-leader Ryan Moore alone in fourth at 205 after a 70 on Saturday.

Johnson, the two-time winner of this event and a Masters and British Open champion, was the second-round co-leader at 9 under with Moore and remained on top of the leaderboard on Saturday on the strength of a six-birdie, two-bogey round.

retired the Tornadoes in order in the bottom of the seventh inning to secure the victory.

Talladega (19-19) hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning to take a lead in the game.

In the opener, GGC (412) connected on three home runs — two coming in the first inning — and scored eight runs in the third inning. Two of the long drives came off Cox’s bat, including a three-run homer in the third inning. Her first home run was a solo effort

in the first inning, after Robinson hit a two-run homer in the frame.

Junior pitcher Taylor Hansis picked up the victory in the circle, scattering three hits in three innings.

Junior Brianna Fickes led the team’s 14-hit offensive attack, going 3-for3 with three runs batted in. Cox went 2-for-4 in the game with four RBIs. Rossetti tallied two hits, while senior Niki Cook, a Buford grad, added two hits for the Grizzlies.

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off lefty Phil Pfeifer to break the game open. CasPAWTUCKET, R.I. — tillo doubled and scored The Gwinnett Stripers on a wild pitch, Jeremy were shut out for the first Barfield added a sacritime in 2018 on Saturday fice fly and Jantzen Witte night as they fell 6-0 to the capped the scoring with a Pawtucket Red Sox at Mc- two-run double.

Coy Stadium.

Beeks was nearly unhitPawSox left-hander table for Pawtucket as he Jalen Beeks allowed two allowed only a Stewart hits over six innings, com- double in the second inbining with three relievers ning and a Carlos Franco on a three-hitter. single in the sixth inning.

Left-hander Kolby He lowered his season Allard, making his third ERA to 0.64 as he struck career Triple-A start, was out a season-high 10 and greeted rudely by Pawtuck- walked two. et. Rusney Castillo singled Bobby Poyner, Brandon to lead off the game and Workman and Williams scored the decisive run Jerez combined on three one batter later as Ramon scoreless, one-hit innings Flores tripled into the right for the PawSox. field corner. Sam Travis Ronald Acuna Jr. went followed with a single 1-for-4 with an infield to shallow right, scoring single in addition to the hits by Stewart and Franco.

Flores for a 2-0 lead.

Dustin Peterson went Allard used a double 0-for-3 to snap his sevenplay and a pickoff throw to third from catcher Chris game hitting streak.

Castillo went 2-for-4 Stewart to escape further with a double, two runs damage in the first. The 20-year-old then settled in, scored and a stolen base for Pawtucket. holding Pawtucket hitless The Stripers (5-8) and over the next four innings.

Allard (L, 1-1) exited after the PawSox (7-6) conclude five innings with two runs the series today afternoon.

First pitch is scheduled for on four hits, three walks 1:35 p.m. Atlanta Braves and five strikeouts. left-hander Luiz Gohara The score stayed 2-0 will make a rehab start for until the eighth, when the Gwinnett.

PawSox scored four runs

Carleton PK earns ATL UTD 2 tie

By Will Hammock

will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

LAWRENCEVILLE — Andrew Carleton’s highly anticipated Atlanta United 2 had a little bit of everything.

Some good. Some bad.

Some ugly.

The best came in the 91st minute when the 17-yearold Homegrown player from nearby Powder Springs drew a foul in the Louisville City FC box, converted the ensuing penalty kick and salvaged a 1-1 tie with the visiting United Soccer League leaders in front of 4,135 fans at Coolray Field on Saturday night.

It was the third straight tie for United 2 after a seasonopening win, and it also put the first blemish on Louisville’s record — the visitors came in 4-0 and had allowed just one goal.

Carleton’s goal sent the fans home happy and pulled out a tie against a veteran team. “(Louisville’s) a good team,” said Carleton, who has been on the bench for Major League Soccer’s Atlanta United previously this season. “They’re older and experienced. They’ve been in that position before. For a lot of us, we’re a very young team.

“I thought we handled it well. Playing against the best team in the league and going down 1-0 in the second half is not easy to be able to battle back. I thought we responded really well and fought hard.”

Carleton was one of three teenagers in the United 2 lineup, joining 17-year-old Christopher Goslin and 16-year-old George Bello against an opponent with nine starters who were 25 or older.

It was a physical match and the talented midfielder faced

Atlanta United 2 midfielder Andrew Carleton (30) converted a penalty kick in the 91st minute, salvaging a tie against Louisville City FC. Carleton, 17, is one of the top prospects in the system of Major League Soccer’s Atlanta United. (Photo: Atlanta United 2/Karl L. Moore)

the toughest bounce-back task of all.

He sky-jacked a penalty kick in the 58th minute and Louisville took advantage in the 65th, getting a goal from Cameron Lancaster for a 1-0 lead.

“Things happen,” Carleton, who made his MLS debut last May as a 16-year-old, said of his PK miss. “We’ve got to go get it back. Nothing we can do about it. I was just focused on getting the equalizer.”

The game-tying goal was created completely by the 5-foot-7, 145-pounder, who slipped past a defender on the left side and was taken down just inside the box in the 91st minute. Head coach Scott Donnelly didn’t waste any time sending his young star back out for a second PK with the game on the line.

Carleton didn’t miss this

time, going low and left.

“Andrew has the ability to be a difference maker,” Donnelly said. “He missed one (PK). In the end, he was able to make the difference and have the confidence to step up and take the second one, which I think is one of the things in the club we all love about him. But Andrew also knows he can play so much better. He’s a little bit short of some sharpness. That’s an honest assessment of it. He’s a very good player who can make the difference.

“It wasn’t probably his top performance tonight. But ultimately, when it’s a team like the team we played against, it’s part of the process of what we’re doing and what he’s doing as a young pro.

He’s 17 years old.”

Atlanta United’s first Homegrown signee agreed with his coach’s opinion. He

slipped and injured his elbow at one point, he had a few turnovers and he made some nice plays, too.

It’s clear the coaches have confidence in his abilities — he took most of United 2’s free kicks, in addition to the two PKs, as well as its corner kicks.

“It was a sub-par night,” Carleton said. “I could have been cleaner on the ball. I could have been more dynamic in the final third. But the more games we play, the more sharp I’ll be. Hopefully when the next game I’ll play, I’ll be able to do a little better. It was a hard-fought game by the team. The team did well.”

United 2 (1-0-3) doesn’t get much rest before returning to Coolray Field for a Tuesday night match against another experienced foe, the Charleston Battery.

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scored on Camargo’s triple to right field. Kurt Suzuki hit a ATLANTA — Center field- liner to third base that Todd er Ender Inciarte’s drag bunt Frazier was able to knock scored Johan Camargo in the down to prevent a run. ninth inning and gave the After pinch hitter Charlie Atlanta Braves a 4-3 comeCulberson struck out, Inciarte from-behind win over the dropped a bunt down the first New York Mets on Saturday base line, and Camargo raced at SunTrust Park. home with the winning run.

The Braves won it against The winning pitcher was New York closer Jeurys Famil- Jesse Biddle (1-0), who ia (1-1), who allowed his first pitched a scoreless inning in runs of the season and failed in his major league debut. his effort to get a four-out save.

The Mets scored three times Atlanta’s Dansby Swanson in the top of the eighth to walked to open the ninth and break open a scoreless game.

Atlanta reliever Sam Freeman walked Wilmer Flores to open the eighth inning, and Jose Reyes was safe on a bunt single. Michael Conforto reached on a fielder’s choice when Atlanta second baseman Ozzie Albies made an error while trying to turn a double play. The play was originally ruled an out but was overturned after a video review and the bases were loaded for Yoenis Cespedes.

Shane Carle took over on the mound and got Cespedes to fly out, but Asdrubal Ca-

brera followed with a two-run single to right field to give the Mets a 2-0 lead. Jay Bruce drove the third run home with a single to center.

The Braves got two runs back in the bottom of the eighth on a Freddie Freeman double that almost left the park. Familia then entered with two outs and struck out Preston Tucker to end the threat.

For the first seven innings, the game was a pitching duel between New York’s Jacob deGrom and Atlanta’s Julio Teheran.

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Klug •From Page 1B could still go out and do things, come to my games,” said Klug, who has been playing baseball since he was 4. “But even when I was in middle school, she couldn’t go to stuff. The smallest amount of pollen, her breathing was so bad she couldn’t go outside much.

“So it was always just really my dad taking me to games and tournaments.

She was supportive, of course, and she hated that she couldn’t be out there.”

His dad would text her the play-by-play from games and then the three of them would relive it when they got back.

“Especially when I would have a good game, my dad would go home and brag,” Klug said.

His dad was never sick.

Until he was really sick.

“He thought he had a cracked rib when it started,” Klug said. “My mom had to beg him to go to the doctor when he first got diagnosed. He’s the toughest person I’ve ever met.”

Klug was 10 when his dad was diagnosed and then underwent a stem cell transplant.

“He was in the hospital for about three weeks to keep him away from germs,” Klug said. “Actually, my fifth-grade graduation, they were both in the hospital. I stayed with my brother for the last week of elementary school.”

Klug has two older siblings. His brother, Patrick, is 31, and his sister, Alicia, is 36. Both are Brookwood grads.

“My mom was pregnant with me at my sister’s graduation,” Klug said.

His dad recovered from the stem cell transplant far faster than expected and was in remission for nearly five years.

“He was supposed to stay out of work for about a year and within three months after the transplant, he was like, ‘I want to go back,’” Klug said. “That’s where I get the posi-

tive outlook from. It was always how he was and he would want me to be the same way.”

His dad was healthy for Klug’s junior season. Even last summer, he was good, taking trips to the beach and, in the fall, to Georgia games.

It hit him quickly in the fall, though, too aggressively for another stem cell transplant to be successful.

“What was sad was just how quick it was,” Martin said. “His brother has done a great job of being there.

And he had some good time with his dad in the fall.”

Klug is usually front and center in the student section for football and basketball games.

“Everybody loves him,” Martin said.

Klug missed a few of the football games this season, staying with his dad at the hospital.

“He passed on a Tuesday and I took that week off of school,” Klug said.

“Honestly, by the time the week was over, I wanted to be back and have normal again.

“It took, not getting used to, but it took a few days to sink in. With my mom, it was the same way. It didn’t make it easier, but we knew eventually it would happen. And especially with my dad, we knew he wasn’t suffering any more.

It made it a little easier to accept.”

Someone heard about Klug and gave him two tickets to the SEC Championship, just five days after his father passed.

A couple of weeks later, football head coach Philip Jones asked him to come out to practice and speak to the team ahead of its semifinal game against Colquitt County.

“I just told them, win or lose the next day, it’s a game,” Klug said. “Any day could be your last. Or your parents’ last. I just said, ‘Tomorrow night give it everything you have.

Leave it all out on the field.

Because I’d love to have

my parents in the stands this baseball season.’ I said, ‘Play for them and your coaches because you never know.’

“We get mad at our parents or our coaches, you know, but until they’re gone, you really don’t understand how much they do for you and how much they’re really there for you.”

As much as Klug inspires his classmates and teammates and coaches, it’s a symbiotic relationship. The Brookwood community is a big part of his support system. He’s needed it for three years running. When Klug was a freshman, in November of 2015, one of his best friends, Sammy Swaney, died from a brain tumor.

Klug wears his name and initials on his armband for every game.

“My mom was junior year, November 2016, she passed away and all the ninth-grade, JV and varsity teams, they all cooked meals for us and got me gift cards and all kinds of things,” Klug said. “Then this fall, 2017, when my dad passed away, it was even more. I had to move — because I didn’t have parents any more. So now I live up in Flowery Branch (with my brother) and drive every day back and forth. My team came together and I just now ran out of gas gift cards and all kinds of stuff. They got us groceries.

“It’s basic to say, but there’s no other place I’d rather go to school than here. My teachers, too. It’s everything.”

Klug lives with his brother’s family and also has his sister, and her family, close by. Klug is already an uncle eight times over and plans to go to the University of North Georgia’s Gainesville campus.

“I want to stay at home for a few years and help my brother with his kids,” he said. “I try to, not keep my mind off of things, but just try to live as normal a life as I can. I can’t thank my

brother and sister enough — my brother’s wife and my sister’s husband, too — for taking me in. Not that we weren’t already family, but now they’re a little more like parents. It’s just like going home.”

Baseball also is an outlet, a way to live a normal life.

“It’s been good for him, I think, and the guys have really rallied around him,” Martin said. “Just to see when I pull someone to put him in, that everybody is all about it. It’s just cool to see.

“And when he gets his chance, he goes up there and does a great job. He had a game-winning hit for us early in the year against North Forsyth. We won 1-0.”

The Broncos had a hot start to the season and are headed to the state playoffs as 7-AAAAAAA’s No. 2 seed. Brookwood beat Parkview on Wednesday but fell Friday in a game that decided the region championship.

“We’re starting to get hot again and we just want to keep it up riding into the playoffs, try to go out on top,” Klug said.

Even if they don’t, Martin knows everyone will keep the big picture in focus — and that’s due to Klug.

“He’s done a great job of giving all of our team perspective,” Martin said.

“That there’s things bigger than baseball.

“This is real life and I think it’s done a good job teaching our guys, and him, how to deal with adversity and bouncing back, keeping the right attitude regardless of circumstance.”

“I really want to thank coach Martin for nominating me for the positive athlete award,” Klug said.

“And all the coaches, with both of my parents’ situations, have been super helpful. I couldn’t imagine having a better support system than these coaches and teammates and school.”

Sports Calendar

ALL SPORTS

Ongoing through Aug. 3: All Sports Youth Camps, in partnership with Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation, will host summer break camps in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, lacrosse, softball and multisports 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 770-3566861.

BASEBALL

June 4-8: The 38th annual Robert Sapp Baseball Camp will host its local summer session at the Hog Mountain Baseball Complex, across from the Atlanta Falcons headquar-

ters. The camp is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily for ages 6 to 14. Cost is $135 per player or $125 per player for a team rate. The site is one of seven summer camp locations around the state this summer for Sapp, a former Gwinnett high school coach and former head coach of the University of Georgia. For more information, go to www.robertsappbaseballcamp.com, email rsbbcamp@charter. net or call 770-287-3309.

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.

In Brief

Tagovailoa’s brother picks Tide

Quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, the brother of Alabama signal caller Tua Tagovailoa, committed to the Crimson Tide on Saturday.

Taulia Tagovailoa, a 5-foot-11 pro-style passer who will be a senior at Thompson High School in Alabaster, Ala., next fall, had multiple offers.

“He and Tua are so very similar in the many ways you can see just watching them play,” Thompson coach Mark Freeman told AL.com. “You see a lot of Tua in Taulia because of how they both play, the throws and decisions they make.”

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Brookwood senior Matt Klug was one of the Gwinnett students to be selected for a state wide Positive Athlete Award last week. (Staff Photo: Christine Troyke)

North •From Page 1B

60 games now and this is the first year we’ve used of town folks a chance to this camera and it works catch up.” pretty well.”

The broadcasts have Besides the occasional developed since their chip at an umpire, Clevehumble beginnings. The land and McCulloch’s booster club raised money broadcasts are otherwise online for a Mevo Plus as unbiased as Chip Caray live streaming camera. The and Joe Simpson calling camera’s wide-angle lens the Atlanta Braves on Fox provides a perfect field Sports. of vision from foul line “We’re definitely to foul line and can save homers, but we’re not frames that zoom in on out here to bash kids on portions of the full view. either team,” Cleveland When Cleveland toggles said. “When we see good back and forth between plays on the other side, we frames, it has the same recognize that. Most of cinematic effect of cutting these kids played together from a camera from a wide anyway.” shot to one that, let’s say, A few baseball profocuses on the pitcher. The grams around the county static camera angles are also broadcast games. toggled using a smartMountain View head coach phone as a remote.

Jason Johnson approached “Everybody asks, ‘Can Cleveland and McCulloch the camera get hit by a during their series to inbaseball?” McCulloch said. quire about the equipment “Well, that’s the chance and logistics of broadcastyou take. We have a pretty ing games regularly for the good set up. We’ve done Bears in the future.

But streaming games, at least at the quality of North’s broadcasts, doesn’t come cheap. The Mevo camera North uses to stream games costs up to $600.

Some local schools, like Greater Atlanta Christian, have student-run broadcast teams with faculty sponsors, but the resources aren’t the same at Gwinnett County schools across the board.

But North has also used the broadcasts to bring money back to the baseball booster club. The broadcasts provide a new platform to promote sponsors with visual evidence — between views and comments — of the amount of eyeballs engaged with the content they’re viewing. Facebook also verifies nonprofit organizations and adds a donate button embedded in the web page.

Cleveland estimates the broadcasts have generated

$800 for the North Gwinnett Dugout Club.

What Cleveland and McCulloch did not anticipate were the fans that they now keep up with, whether they’re families of players, co-workers, journalists, rival coaches or the random viewer from Thailand who checks in on North Gwinnett time to time.

Walker Cleveland will play for the University of Michigan after this season, so the play-by-play duties will be picked up by McCulloch or another member of the booster club. When Chase McCulloch graduates in 2019, the broadcast duo hopes to pass the mantle to another.

“The whole idea is to promote it so other teams do it,” McCulloch said.

“When we were in Tampa, a lot of Florida teams have good set ups and do broadcasts as well. Hopefully this can change the realm of high school baseball.”

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Norcross’ White to play Kentucky’s Calipari touts hoops at USC-Upstate idea of high school combine

Carolina and several david.friedlander@ Division II programs. “I gwinnettdailypost.com was worried about where I might fit in and where I The second of two semight get an opportunity nior starters for Norcross’ (to play). (USC-Upstate Class AAAAAAA state is) a good fit for me and runner-up boys basketball my family. It’s a great opteams will be continuing portunity.” his career The the 5-foot-11, in college. 160-pound point guard Senior completed an outstandguard ing career at Norcross in Dalvin which he was a four-year White starter for the Blue Devils, gave his was part of the most career verbal wins of any player in Dalvin commitschool history and finishWhite ment to ing behind only Tariq MuUSC-Upstate earlier this hammad on the school’s week after a visit to the all-time assists list. school’s campus in SparHe joins forward Joseph tanburg, S.C., and plans Toppin, who signed with to sign a National Letter Georgia in the early signof Intent to play for the ing period last November, Spartans sometime next in continuing his basketweek. ball career with a Division “It’s a big relief off my I program. chest,” said White, who White finished this also had an early offer season averaging 10.1 from Georgia State, plus points, 5.4 assists (second interest from Coastal in Gwinnett County), 2.8

rebounds and 1.4 steals per game in helping the Blue Devils (28-4) to the Region 7-AAAAAAA championship and a berth in the state championship game before falling to region and Gwinnett foe Meadowcreek.

He will join a USCUpstate program that is on the move, shifting from the Atlantic Sun Conference to the Big South Conference in July, and with a new head coach in Dave Dickerson.

With the move in conferences, White and the Spartans will do battle with two other former Norcross standouts, Ricky Madison and Tim Cameron, when they face High Point University at least twice a season.

“I’ve already spoken to them,” White said.

“They’re already telling me it’s going to be a dogfight (when the two teams play).

I’m just ready to play.”

Gleeson •From Page 1B were surprised when we told them.

“I’m just pumped. Having grown up in Dacula and helping establishing the soccer program there, I was always looking forward to being part of a program (in Gwinnett County as a coach). This is obviously a dream come true.”

While it didn’t take much for Gleeson to earn the trust of the Eagles players, he also has earned the trust of Collins Hill athletics director Scarlett Straughan.

THE GLEESON FILE Name: Jamie Gleeson New position: Head boys soccer coach at Collins Hill Former position: Assistant boys soccer coach at Collins Hill Age: 26 Career record: N/A, first head coaching job Education: Graduated from Dacula High School in 2010; graduated from University of North Georgia in ’15 Background: Played in high school at Dacula and in college at North Georgia; high school coaching experience started as assistant at North Hall in 2014-16, moved on to Collins Hill to serve on Mike Burrell’s staff in 2016

“I am very excited to have Jamie take over as head coach of our men’s soccer program,” Straughan said in a state-

ment released Friday. “He has proven himself to a be a solid leader and does a great job of building relationships with his student-

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John Calipari benefits greatly from one-and-done players at the University of Kentucky. That doesn’t mean he thinks it’s good for basketball.

The Kentucky coach said he talked recently to the NBA Player’s Association about the idea of a high school combine to identify players ready to make the jump to the NBA and doing away with forcing kids to complete one season in college before pursuing a professional career. He also says the high school players should have access to agents who can give them an idea of where they truly stand.

“The players and the families need to know — here are the ones who should be thinking about the NBA, and here are the ones who should not,” Calipari said in the Fort Worth StarTelegram. “That’s why you need a combine.

“If they want to go out of high school, go. If they want to go to college and then leave, let them leave when they want to leave,” Calipari said. “Why would we force a kid to stay?

‘Well, it’s good for the game?’ It’s about these kids and their families. Because let me tell you, if we (abolish one-and-done), the kids that do come to college will stay for two to three years.”

The NBA requires players to be one year removed from high school before they can be eligible for the NBA draft, a rule the league worked out with the

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“He did a phenomenal job at North Hall and it was our hope when we brought him on board here that he would eventually transition into this role. His future is bright and we are fortunate to have him take the helm.”

The Eagles open up play in the first round of the playoffs Wednesday, when they host Milton at Collins Hill Community Stadium.

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One way around that has been for graduating seniors to play in the NBA’s G-League, akin to Major League Baseball’s minor leagues. But Calipari would like to tweak that as well, adding money for education to the salary players receive in order to create a safety net for those who don’t turn it into a career.

“If they choose to do that, that’s fine, but why don’t we make sure if they don’t make it in, they at least have a chance at a guaranteed education,” Calipari said.

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The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, waive any technicalities or irregularities, and request any additional information or clarification deemed necessary for the evaluation of any bid. This project does have a maximum budget, therefore specifications are subject to change after the selection of a qualified firm.

The Contract Documents, consisting of Advertisement for Bids, Information for Bidders, Bid Proposal Form, Form of Agreement, Specifications, and other Contract Documents may be examined at Annandale Village, 3500 Annandale Lane, Suwanee, GA 30024 or via email by contacting Joseph DiGiovanni at joseph.digiovanni@annandale.org: Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements regarding conditions of employment and minimum wage rates to be paid on this project, and that the contractor and subcontractor must comply with all Federal, State, and local requirements. Minority and female owned firms are encouraged to participate in this federally funded project. Procurement will be in compliance with the U

Uniform Administrative Requirements, 2 CFR 200.318326. Potential respondents are particularly called to the requirements of Title VI; Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 24 CFR 570.602; and Executive Order 11246–Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. The work to be performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, 12 USC 1701u (Section 3). The purpose of Section 3 is to ensure employment and other economic opportunities generated

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Sarah Delano has a crowd watching her as she works on a detailed eye from chalk at the 2016 ArtsFest Gwinnett in Lawrenceville.

The city of Lawrenceville will hold this year’s ArtsFest on Saturday.

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The city of Lawrenceville will hold this year’s ArtsFest on Saturday.

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ArtsFest Gwinnett highlights artistic creativity April 28

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Gwinnett County residents who attend Lawrenceville’s ArtsFest Gwinnett celebration April 28 will get to watch a challenge: Can artists come up with an image that represents Gwinnett County’s bicentennial?

And can they do it in chalk on a sidewalk?

A bicentennial-themed sidewalk Chalk Walk art contest is one of the activities that will be featured at ArtsFest. The event will take place from noon

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IF YOU GO What: ArtsFest Gwinnett When: Noon to 6 p.m., Aurora performance at 7 p.m. Saturday Where: Lawrenceville Lawn, 147 Luckie St. in Lawrenceville For more information: www.lawrencevillega.org

to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrenceville Lawn, with the Aurora Theatre offering a concert performance of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” on the lawn at 7 p.m.

“We were looking for ways to celebrate Gwin-

nett’s 200 years (of history) because we’re the county seat,” Lawrenceville Director of Economic Development Lisa Sherman said. “So goes Gwinnett, so goes Lawrenceville and so goes Lawrenceville, so goes Gwinnett. …

“We view ourselves as the capitol of Gwinnett and in doing so, we want to do everything we can to promote, support, encourage, propel anything that Gwinnett County is doing for our region.”

This will be the third year that Lawrenceville has held ArtsFest, and the

second year that it has included a live concert version of one of the Aurora Theatre’s productions. It is sponsored by Consolidated Supply and Pipe Company, McCray’s Tavern on the Square and Kona Ice. The event is held annually as a way to highlight Lawrenceville’s arts community, with local arts vendors expected to have booths at the event, Sherman said. The idea is to build awareness of local artists in the minds of people near and far.

“It’s also an opportunity on a little bit of a broader scale to highlight the

Aurora Theatre,” Sherman said. “That is an economic impact driver for our downtown and a gem to Lawrenceville.”

The Aurora Theatre had previously performed concert versions of different shows at Lawrenceville’s Prelude to the Fourth Event every July 3. City officials decided to move it to ArtsFest last year, however, because they felt an event that promoted the arts was a better fit for the annual performance.

Aurora Theatre Producing Artistic Director See ARTSFEST, Page 8C

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McGraw, Hill show to highlight Infinite Energy Arena schedule Staff Correspondent

When Tim McGraw was preparing for his first major tour in 1996, he chose Faith Hill to be his opening act. That worked out OK. They wound up falling in love and getting married that October. Now the old married couple — they’re both 50 — are concluding their third Soul2Soul tour, which includes a stop at the Infinite Energy Center.

The two country music icons began Soul2Soul: The World Tour in New Orleans in April 2017 and will end in Sacramento in July. The couple will play more than 100 shows and will be in concert in Gwinnett on June 23. The couple has appeared on stage together many times and performed many duets, but they released their first joint album, “The Rest

Singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw perform on stage at the CMA Awards on Nov. 8.

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of Our Life,” in November.

“I don’t see myself as a performer, just as a singer,” Hill said. “But I feel more

relaxed on stage now than in Hill was the first to enjoy the past. To be on stage with success. She had crossone of the greatest perform- over hits in “This Kiss,” ers of our generation. …”

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You Love Me.” In the early 2000s, McGraw emerged as one of the hottest country artists in the world, placing 23 straight singles in the Billboard Hot Country Top 10, including five consecutive No. 1s.

The couple’s special guest will be Minnesota singer-songwriter Caitlyn Smith, who was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “10 New Artists You Need to Know.”

The Hill-McGraw show is part of an all-star lineup of shows and concerts scheduled this spring and summer at the Infinite Energy Arena. Here’s a look at some of the other top attractions: Leadercast, May 4: Nine world-class speakers will appear on stage for the all-day event designed See ARENA, Page 8C

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Banks and Shane will perform at 8 p.m. June 16 at Red Clay Music Foundry in Duluth.

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*Summer Bash included with general admission.

Museum Members are free.

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Left, “Mamma Mia!’s” Sophie Sheridan stands with her three possible fathers. The show centers on Sheridan’s wedding and the quest to determine which man is her father.

Below, a rousing finale with all cast members recaps “Mamma Mia!’s” songs.

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Here they go again

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Aurora’s ‘Mamma Mia!’ back with performance at Ga. Tech

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After breaking records as Aurora Theatre’s bestselling show, “Mamma Mia!” actors are ready to say “here I go again” as part of a 12-show run at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ferst Center for the Arts scheduled for early this summer.

The show, which boasted 50 sold-out performances at the Lawrenceville theater, will run from June 9 through 24 Thursdays through Sundays, which Aurora staff said they are getting excited about.

“Aurora Theatre patrons broke all sales records before we even

What: Aurora Theater’s “Mamma Mia!” Where: Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts When: June 9 through 22; 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays Cost: $30 to $85; visit tickets.arts.gatech.edu to purchase.

opened with their enthusiasm for ‘Mamma Mia!,’” said Aurora’s Artistic Director Anthony Rodriguez. “We are thrilled to bring Lawrenceville’s sold-out run right to the heart of Atlanta so that in-town audiences can dance over to Georgia Tech

and share our story of motherhood, friendship and eternal love.”

Inspired by ABBA’s hit songs — “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S,” “Money, Money, Money” and “Take a Chance

STEPHEN STILLS AND JUDY COLLINS

on Me,” among others — “Mamma Mia!” tells the story of a girl, Sophie Sheridan, who is trying to find her father prior to her wedding.

Attempting to have one man walk her down

the aisle, Sheridan secretly invites the three possible candidates to her wedding, bringing them back into her mother’s life for the first time in 20 years, which leads to all kinds of con-

sequences.

At its core, the show radiates positivity, Aurora Theatre’s actors previously told the Daily Post.

“It has all of the elements of just a fun night at the theater,” said Nick Arapoglou, who plays Sky in the show.

“It’s great music, great voices, lots of eye candy and fun costumes and hopefully some great laughs. It’s just uplifting and positive.”

Ferst Center ticket range in price from $30 to $85. Table seating is available, which includes complimentary beverages and snacks, and group rates are also available.

For more information and ticket purchase, visit tickets.arts.gatech.edu.

A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON When: 7:30 p.m. June 13 Where: Cobb Energy Centre Cost: Starting at $75 More information: www.cobbenergycentre.com/events/detail/a-conversationwith-president-bill-clinton

Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, with special guest Kenny White, will be performing at Atlanta Symphony Hall on June 13. (Special Photo)

When: 7:45 p.m. June 13 Where: Atlanta Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree St. N.W. in Atlanta Cost: Tickets range from $23 to $152 More information: Visit atlantasymphony.org.

Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, with special guest Kenny White, will be performing at Atlanta Symphony Hall. Singer-songwriters Stills and Collins met more than 50 years ago. The two icons of folk will celebrate the golden anniversary by pulling from both their rich back catalogs and debut songs from their new album, “Everybody Knows,” while also interweaving stories from their decades-long journey.

Former President Bill Clinton will speak about the upcoming novel he wrote with James Patterson, “The President is Missing,” and about related issues of today. Clinton served as president from 1993 to 2001, and has written other books, including “My Life,” “Giving” and “Back to Work.”

Former President Bill Clinton, above, will speak about his upcoming novel, “The President is Missing,” at right, at 7:30 p.m.

June 13 at Cobb Energy Centre.

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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET PRESENTED BY THE ATLANTA OPERA When: 8 p.m. June 9, 7:30 p.m. June 12, 8 p.m. June 15, 8 p.m.

June 16 and 3 p.m.

June 17 Where: Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway in Atlanta Cost: Tickets range from $35 to $131 More information: Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster. com, by phone at 800745-3000 or at the box office at Cobb Energy Centre.

In this dark musical thriller, performed by the Atlanta Opera, Sweeney Todd returns to London after a long exile.

A gruesome plan is then hatched that turns the city into a bloody hellscape. Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley makes his company debut as the title character Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim’s revenge tale won the 1979 Tony Award for Best Musical.

It will be sung in English with English subtitles.

The Atlanta Opera will perform “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” through select dates June 9 to 17 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. (Special Photo)

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World of flavor

‘Our Global Kitchen’ exhibit coming to Fernbank

BY STAN AWTREY Staff Correspondent

A new exhibit at Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History will offer visitors an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the food that ends up on their table. There may be some eye-opening moments for guests, who will get the chance to look closer at the system that brings food to the table.

The “Food: Our Global Kitchen” exhibit runs from June 9 through Aug. 26 at Fernbank, part of the series of temporary programs that are offered by the museum throughout the year.

The national traveling exhibit takes visitors on a journey around the world and throughout time. It examines how food and culture are intertwined and how every meal tells a story about how it was developed and shaped.

An introductory video describes how all foods affect — and are affected by — the world. From there visitors will visit several areas of guided exploration.

• Grow: How humans have created countless varieties of crops and livestock adapted to local conditions.

It looks at different ways to

Visitors can work at an interactive cooking table, shown above, where visitors “make” famous dishes eaten around the world. In Japan, some farmers grow melons in glass boxes that control their final shape, pictured above right. But the seeds of these melons would still produce round melons, not cubes. (Special Photos: AMNHD/Finnin)

grow food, including factors that range from climate to soils.

• Trade: How food moves along complex trade networks, from sacks of spices to shiploads of grain.

• Cook: Over time and across civilizations, cooking has produced diverse tools, techniques and cuisines.

• Eat: Learn how meals reflect the historic, social and economic status of people.

• Taste: Examine how the flavor of food depends on

a variety of factors, including appearance, smell and familiarity. This station includes one of the most popular activities, as visitors are guided by their nose around smelling stations that include scents such as lemon, lavender, thyme and fennel.

• Celebrate: Discover how food plays a central part in family traditions, cultural heritage and religious rituals.

Visitors will be learn how food will be grown and

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alliance Theatre teaming up for Voltaire’s ‘Candide’

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The Alliance Theatre, in partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will soon bring Voltaire’s satirical novel “Candide” to life in a theatrical adaption by the same name.

“Candide,” which is directed by the theater’s Artistic Director Susan V. Booth with musical direction by Robert Spano, will run May 9 through 20 at the Atlanta Symphony Hall while the theater undergoes a complete renovation.

The play, which Hugh Wheeler and Leonard Bernstein adapted from Voltaire’s novel, follows the naïve Candide as he journeys around the world to find his love.

Throughout his travels, Candide retains his mentor’s belief that “this is the best of all possible worlds” in the face of ever-increasing catastrophes.

“We look forward to bringing Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ to life on the Symphony Hall stage in partnership with the Alliance Theatre,” Spano said. “Audiences will be delighted by the rich tapestry of this one-of-akind interpretation of this classic work.”

The show, for which opening night is set for May 11, will feature a cast of seventeen actors, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Chorus.

With so many people onstage and little room for traditional scenic elements, Booth said she decided to embrace additional mediums — puppetry and film — to enhance the storytelling.

“When you have the opportunity to work with musicians as skilled as the Atlanta Symphony

eaten as the world’s population continues to grow.

Another highlight of the exhibit includes an interactive game that demonstrates the challenges associated with transporting items like bananas, apples, tuna and lamb around the world.

Guests will be able to sit at the table of historical figures like Mongolian warrior Kublai Khan and author Jane Austen. Visitors will get a look at historic dishes, from Mahatma Gandhi’s childhood meal to the

breakfast eaten by Olympic champion Michel Phelps.

Admission to the “Food: Our Global Kitchen” program is included with museum admission. Tickets are $20 for adults, $19 for seniors, $18 for children 3-12 and free for children 2 and younger. Admission is free for Fernbank members.

Tickets to the Giant Screen Theater are not included with museum admission and require a special ticket. Giant Screen Theater tickets are $13 for adults,

$12 for seniors, $11 for children and $8 for museum members.

Visitors save $6 when purchasing a Value Pass, which includes museum admission and one Giant Screen Theater movie ticket.

Fernbank Museum of Natural History is located at 767 Clifton Road N.E. in Atlanta. The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets and visitor information are available at fernbankmuseum.org or 404-929-6400.

RASCAL FLATTS When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14 Where: Verizon Amphitheatre Cost: $50.25 to $90.25 for reserved seating; $25.50 for lawn seating More information: www. vzwamp.com/event/rascalflatts Rascal Flatts hit the road this spring for its headlining Back to U.S. Tour kicking off in Hartford, Conn., and reaches the metro area in June.

Encouraging and helping break artists following in their footsteps, the trio has invited chart-toppers Dan + Shay and Carly Pearce to join them this summer.

The headlining tour is expected to feature the group’s 17 career No. 1 songs and more, following its residency in Las Vegas

From left, Joe Don Rooney, Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus of the group Rascal Flatts perform. (Special Photo) last year.

“I can’t describe how much we are looking forward to the tour this summer,” lead singer Gary LeVox said. “We’ve been lucky enough to be in a position to tour consistently throughout our career, and last year felt like the

perfect time to reset as we focused on the release of our 10th album. Coming back this year and with our friends Dan + Shay, who are some of the best guys around, makes it all the more exciting. It’s going to be an awesome time for us and the fans.”

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The Alliance Theatre, in partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will soon bring Voltaire’s satirical novel “Candide” to life in a theatrical adaption by the same name. The show runs from May 9 through 20. (Special Photo)

Orchestra, you don’t put them in the pit,” she said.

“We will have about 170 people on stage and (with) a story that involves shipwrecks, warfare, jungle expeditions and the odd burning of heretics, there was a basic square footage challenge to be solved.”

Booth said she started thinking about how, as children, “we could make whole worlds in our sandboxes and in our dollhouses.”

“I remembered seeing something called ‘micro-puppetry’ on a trip to Eastern Europe many years back and being deeply moved by these tiny figures,” Booth said. “All of those impulses came crashing together when I came across an essay on Voltaire’s philosophical evolution toward the end of his life. He came to a belief that whatever deity was ordering the universe seemed almost to be a

disinterested puppeteer.

“That was the answer — marrying miniature puppetry theatre with a live video feed that will project these epic scenes from the story as we’re telling it on stage, all in real time.”

Performances of “Candide” run daily from May 9 through 20 except for Thursday, May 10; Monday, May 14; and Friday, May 18, which will not host any shows.

All performances are at 8 p.m. except the Sunday performances — May 13 and May 20 — which are at 3 p.m.

A Side Interpretation Sign Language Performance will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 13.

Tickets, which begin at $20, are available at the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office in person or by calling 404-733-5000. They can also be purchased online at alliancetheatre. org/candide.

When: 7 p.m. June 5 Where: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Cost: Tickets start at $25 More information: www. vzwamp.com/event/poison-cheap-trick Iconic rock band Poison, with all of its original members, will perform as part of its “Poison …

Nothin’ But A Good Time 2018” tour with Cheap Trick. Poison is fronted by Bret Michaels and also features Bobby Dall, Rikki Rocket and CC DeVille.

The band is best known for hits including “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and “Nothin’ But a Good Time.”

Poison will perform with Cheap Trick at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. June 5. (Special Photo) Cheap Trick includes Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen and Tom Peters-

son, and its hits include “I Want You to Want Me” and “Surrender.”

THERESA CAPUTO LIVE: THE EXPERIENCE When: 7:30 p.m. June 24 Where: Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E. in Atlanta Cost: Tickets range from $43.25 to $93.75, plus fees More information: Visit foxtheatre.org or call 855285-8499.

Medium Theresa Caputo will be live at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on June 24. (Special Photo)

Star of the hit TLC show “Long Island Medium,” Theresa Caputo will share personal stories

about her life and explain how her gift works. “The Experience” brings Caputo face-to-face with fans. “The experience isn’t about believing in mediums. It’s about witnessing something life-changing,” Caputo said. “It’s like ‘Long Island Medium’ live, witnessing first-hand spirit communication.” She has been a practicing medium for more than 15 years.

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COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta 770-916-2800 www.cobbenergycentre.com • April 28 through May 6: Carmen • May 11-13: Bach to Broadway • June 9-17: Sweeney Todd • June 13: A Conversation with President Bill Clinton • June 21: Pod Tours America • June 23: An Evening with Bill Maher • July 25: Monsta X

Faith Hill: Soul2Soul The World Tour 2018 with Caitlyn Smith PHILIPS ARENA 1 Philips Drive N.W., Atlanta 404-878-3000 www.philipsarena.com • Nov. 30 and Dec. 1: Elton John RED CLAY MUSIC FOUNDRY 3116 Main St., Duluth 678-957-7283 www.eddieowenpresents. com • Ongoing: Songwriters Open Mic hosted by Eddie • April 27: Jon Chambers, Chris Watts and Benjamin Jason Douglas • April 28: Kate Coleman • May 4: Peter Case, Levi Lowery and John Hopkins and Shawn Mullins • May 10-11: Patty Griffin Willie Nelson is scheduled to perform at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre on May 20. with AHI (Special Photo) • May 12: Street Fighting Band!

Radney Foster • May 5: Junior Sisk and • May 19: Beatles Tribute EDDIE’S ATTIC • May 8: Hot Club of CowRamblers Choice Forever Abbey Road 515-B N. McDonough St., town • May 12: Bluegrass Alliance • June 1: Darrin Bradbury, Decatur • May 9: Brendan James • May 19: Cold Water BlueJon Latham and Nick Nace 404-377-4976 • May 10: Amanda Anne grass • June 7: Tony Furtado www.eddiesattic.com Platt and the Honeycutters, • June 9: Bluegrass Alliance • June 9: Edie Carey and • Ongoing: Eddie’s Attic Lindsay Lou • June 23: The King James Rose Cousins Songwriter’s Open Mic • May 11: Steve Forbert, Pat Boys • June 16: Banks and Shane • April 22: Singer Songwriter McGee • June 30: Underhill Rose Spotlight, Mo Pitney • May 12: Mia Green, Sonia INFINITE ENERGY ARENA and The Ormewoods • April 24: Dead Horses Leigh 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, • April 25: Fatai • May 13: Priscilla Renea, Duluth SYLVIA BEARD • April 26: Caitlyn Smith, The Pussywillows 770-813-7500 THEATRE Jobe Fortner • May 14: Joy Williams www.infiniteenergycenter.

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www.vzwamp.com • May 19: Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers • May 20: Willie Nelson and Family and Alison Krauss • June 5: Poison and Cheap Trick • June 9: I Love the ’90s featuring Salt-N-Pepa • June 14: Rascal Flatts • June 16: Pop Rocks Rock 100.5 presents Styx • July 7: Foreigner with special guests Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening • July 14: Chicago and REO Speedwagon • July 17: Steve Miller Band 2018 • July 28: Kidz Bop Live 2018 • July 29: Keith Urban with Kelsea Ballerini • Aug. 3-5: Phish • Aug. 11: Dierks Bentley with Brothers Osborne and LANCO • Aug. 12: Five Finger Death Punch and Breaking Benjamin • Aug. 24: Needtobreathe 2018 • Aug. 29: Charlie Puth with Hailee Steinfeld • Sept. 20: Niall Horan with Maren Morris • Sept. 27: Lady Antebellum 2018 • Oct. 19: Chris Stapleton 2018 THE BOWL @ SUGAR HILL 5039 W. Broad St., Sugar Hill 770-945-6716 www.thebowlatsugarhill.com • May 18: Colbie Caillat • May 19: The SOS Music Fest featuring Sugar Hill Gang, Kool Moe Dee, Chubb Rock, Kurtis Blow and DJ Grandmaster Dee • June 2: Easton Corbin • June 23: Village People and Sister Sledge • July 14: Vertical Horizon • Aug. 25: Michael Bolton • Oct. 26: Don Felder

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BY VENUE — ART AURORA THEATRE 128 E. Pike St., Lawrenceville 678-226-6222 www.auroratheatre.com • Ongoing: Aurora Comedy Nights • Ongoing: Morning Care • Ongoing: After Care • Ongoing: Mini Camps and Master Camps • Through April 22: Mamma Mia! • April 28: Musicals by Moonlight: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lawrenceville Lawn) • April 29: Musicals by Moonlight: Hairspray (Duluth Town Green) • May 10 through June 3: Ripcord HUDGENS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 300, Duluth 770-623-6002 www.thehudgens.org • Through April 28: Gallery exhibition: The Future of America • Through April 28: Gallery exhibition: The Nature of Wood with Wes Jones • June 4 to July 27: Passport Adventures in Art Summer Camp

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“Damn Yankees,” a rehearsal of which is pictured, opened April 12 at Sylvia Beard Theatre and will run through April 29. (Special Photo) • April 29: Azadi — Freedom through Dance presented by Chandra Dance Academy • May 5-6: Dancing Lion King presented by Buford School of Ballet • May 9: The Naked Truth presented by Red Stars International • May 12: La La Land presented by All Stars Performing Arts • May 18-20: Coppelia presented by Northeast Atlanta Ballet • June 3: Footnotes Dance and Acrobatics Dance Showcase 2018 • June 17: Wailing in the Waters KUDZU ART ZONE 116 Carlyle St., Norcross 770-840-9844 www.kudzuartzone.org • April 17 to June 16: Plein Air Artworks from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens • May 11-30: Open Show Exhibition at Rectory • June 18 to Sept. 7: Waterworks Exhibition NEW DAWN THEATER Mall Corners, 3650-A Satellite Blvd., Duluth 678-887-5015

www.newdawntheatercompany.com • Through May 6: Born Yesterday • May 12: Motown and Beyond • May 19-20: Love Throughout the Ages • May 26: Steve McKee’s Memorial Day Concert PLAYER’S GUILD @ SUGAR HILL Events held around Sugar Hill City Hall, venues noted 5039 W. Broad St. 678-541-6132 www.pgatsh.com • Sept. 14-30: The Odd Couple • Oct. 20: Sugar Hill Cemetery Tours • Nov. 2-18: The Importance of Being Earnest SYLVIA BEARD THEATRE Buford Community Center, 2200 Buford Highway, Buford 770-945-6762 www.bufordcommunitycenter.com • Through April 29: Damn Yankees • May 4: Jaimee Pail • May 12: Robin Fox

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•From Page 1C Anthony Rodriguez said the outdoor concerts have been popular for years, to the point that the theatre now also does them in Duluth and Suwanee for special events.

He sees holding a concert as part of ArtsFest as mutually beneficial for the festival as well as the theater.

“It helps to raise awareness,” Rodriguez said. “We have a very, very strong committed patron base and they love our concerts. We try to take a show we’ve done before that people can rally around so I think it will drive people to ArtsFest and to the concert in the evening.”

Tickets for VIP dinner and show packages for six people at a table can be purchased for $350 at www.auroratheatre.com/hunchback-in-lawrenceville. Non-VIP seats on the lawn are free.

Another popular draw at ArtsFest each year is the sidewalk chalk art.

The bicentennial-themed Chalk Walk competition will begin with check-in for the artists at 9 a.m., and judging will take place at 1 p.m.

Awards for the competition will be handed out one hour later. Although this year is Gwinnett County’s bicentennial, Lawrenceville’s own 200th birthday celebration isn’t too far behind.

The city’s bicentennial will happen in 2021, meaning the city has played a part in nearly all of the county’s 200 years of history. Sherman said the decision to highlight the county’s bicentennial comes back to Lawrenceville’s place in the county.

“A celebration of 200 years — it makes sense for us to incorporate it as often and as

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Aurora Theatre cast members perform “Hairspray” during last year’s ArtsFest Gwinnett celebration at the Lawrenceville Lawn. The city of Lawrenceville will hold this year’s ArtsFest, which will feature the Aurora’s performance of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” on Saturday. (Photo: City of Lawrenceville)

Above left, Ron Smith works on chalk portraits for people attending the 2016 ArtsFest Gwinnett in Lawrenceville. The city of Lawrenceville will hold this year’s ArtsFest on Saturday. (Photo: Cole McCauley) Above right, an artist works at his booth during last year’s ArtsFest Gwinnett event on the Lawrenceville Lawn. The city of Lawrenceville will hold this year’s ArtsFest on Saturday.

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much as possible in everything that we do because we are the county seat,” she said.

The application for the

Chalk Walk competition is available at https://bit. ly/2qDFARD. Vendor application are due by Wednesday

and can be found at https:// bit.ly/2qE3BrR. The Lawrenceville Lawn is located at 210 Luckie St.

to encourage and motivate those who are eager to take the next step in their leadership journey. Speakers scheduled to share their insights and success stories include Hall of Fame baseball manager Joe Torre, former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison and sports psychologist Jim Loehr. It’s a great chance to evaluate your skills and network with other likeminded people.

Justin Timberlake, May 11: The versatile Timberlake brings his nonstop high energy “Man of the Woods Tour” to Gwinnett. The album by the same name was released in February, shortly before his appearance at halftime of the Super Bowl. The first release, a single called “Filthy,” reached No. 9 on the Billboard chart.

Who knows? You may get a chance to take a selfie with J.T. U2, May 28: Bring your sunglasses and join Bono and the Edge as the iconic Irish rockers make their first stop at Infinite Energy. You can expect to hear many of your favorites, as well as selections from the “Songs of Experience” album that was released in December.

U2 is one of the best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide.

Shania Twain, June 4: The Queen of Country Pop, who has sold more than 100 million records, is back with her “Now Tour.” Her “Now” album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and has already produced three hits.

The tour began as a way to celebrate the 20-year release of the “Come On Over” album from 1997, which has sold more than 15.7 million copies in the United States and sent 11 of the 16 songs to the top 30, three of which reached No. 1.

Hall & Oates and Train, June 20: The blue-eyed soul duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates have teamed up with Train for the new “Philly Forget Me Not” single that’s enjoying widespread airtime. You don’t have to be a “Rich Girl” or a “Maneater” to enjoy Hall & Oates, considered by some rock critics as the greatest duo of all-time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Remembering the devastation of Hurricane Irma When Hurricane Irma was closing in on coastal Georgia, it never occurred to us that the Rondarosa, located over an hour’s drive north of Atlanta, would be vulnerable to its viciousness.

Oh, but frail and vulnerable we proved to be.

As weather forecasters put us under a tropical storm warning — the first in the history of Atlanta — I began to pray, beseeching God Almighty to spare the trees of the Rondarosa.

An ice storm three years ago laid to waste so many trees that it looked like a tornado had proclaimed its mightiness.

The high-force winds, predicted to begin at 2

a shuttering, thunderous blow.

Upset and mindlessly stupid, I put on Wellies, a rain coat and hat, and headed outside, where I discovered that a majestic, hundred-year oak had uprooted and brought Ronda down a portion of the Rich boarded pasture fence.

The root bulb of the tree p.m., began calling at that fell is 15 feet tall. I noon. Tink was on locatook a video — mildly tion, shooting, so I was hysterical at this point — left alone to fret and to send to Tink, who was pray. I paced the floors. in the serene countryside I wrung my hands. I of Toronto. I checked the cleaned the pantry, tryhorses and decided to put ing to distract myself. I them in stalls lest they, walked the house, singtoo, mindlessly, stupidly ing, “Jesus, Hold My wandered out. Later, this Hand,” trying to sing would prove to have been louder than the horrifying a good dose of common winds. At 3 p.m., I heard sense when three tall oaks

near the barn also fell while they were tucked away safely.

I fought the winds and driving rain to get back to the house, where I continued to pace, fret and pray.

I stood at the windows, watching, stunned, as the winds whipped strong trees around in a circle until I expected them to pop and fly out of the ground. A maple in front of the house looked like a corkscrew. The winds would subside, and it returned to normal form.

A bit later, it was corkscrewed again.

The ever knowledgeable forecasters had promised the wind to calm at 9 p.m. but at 11 p.m., the maple was be-

ing as viciously twisted as it had been at 5. By this point, I was tearing through the medicine cabinet trying to find nerve medicine. I was shaking all over. All I could find was a mason jar of moonshine that is seven years old and used for gargling away sore throats. I took a deep breath and a huge gulp. It was like drinking gasoline.

At midnight, I dragged pillows, a comforter and Dew Drop into my closet, made a pallet and spent the night. It was so quiet and dark that it was the best night’s sleep in a long time. The next morning, I awoke – the sun was shining beautifully – and ran outdoors, barefooted, with my gown tail flying. The damage broke my heart.

Twelve big trees were down and boarded fences broken in several places.

The yard was strewn hither and yon with limbs and debris.

Next, I grabbed my shoes, jumped in the truck and headed to

Mama’s. Enormous tops of trees had fallen but were standing otherwise.

Without explanation, two dead pines stood proud and defiant while an apple tree, leaning thirty degrees toward the ground, seemed to be smiling triumphantly. It had not moved an inch further.

We expect it to take a year to restore the Rondarosa to its pre-storm condition, but the lesson I learned will remain forever. I have always felt concern and compassion when I heard that hurricanes were headed toward places like Biloxi, Georgia’s Golden Isles, Myrtle Beach and McComb, Miss. But, in the future, I will feel much more deeply than that.

I’ll be empathetic and I’ll pray much harder for all of you.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of “Mark My Words: A Memoir of Mama.” Visit www.rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

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Bring your real, whole self to work Can you be yourself at work? Your real self?

If you’re like many people, you probably keep parts of yourself private, away from your colleagues, especially your boss.

In the past, people were actively encouraged to split their personal lives and their professional lives, especially in corporate jobs. When I was in my first job, a mentor told me to refrain from talking about my hobbies or personal life because it would “Make me seem unprofessional.”

Times have changed.

Mark Zuckerberg takes paternity leave. Arianna Huffington talks about her yoga. Forward-thinking companies encourage hobbies and a personal life. Authenticity is now a recognized requirement for successful leadership.

Yet the question still remains. Can you really be your true self at work? It might seem professionally risky to bring your flawed, vulnerable, less-thanperfect self into your work setting. Yet recent studies reveal, not being yourself can be costly to your organization and your spirit.

Author Mike Robbins says, “My research and experience have shown me that when we bring our whole selves to work in this way, not only are we more likely to create success and fulfillment for ourselves, but we’re able to have the greatest impact on the people around us.”

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook says, “If I believed in bringing my whole self to work before David died, what I learned after is that I have no choice.”

In his newest book, “Bring your Whole Self to Work,” Robbins writes “Bringing our whole self to work means showing up authentically, leading with humility and remembering that we’re all vulnerable imperfect human beings doing the best we can.”

Think about that statement in the context of your colleagues. Would you relate to your coworkers differently if you saw them as the vulnerable, imperfect human beings they are? Would Ned in accounting be so annoying if you knew he

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Lisa McLeod was doing his best in spite of his fears and insecurities? How would your colleagues relate to you if they knew more about your past sorrows and losses?

Robbins, a keynote speaker who travels the globe, says bringing your whole self to work is “about having the courage to take risks, speak up, ask for help, connect with others in a genuine way and allow ourselves to be truly seen.”

Sadly, most corporate cultures are the opposite of genuine connection. In a 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey of more than 33,000 people worldwide, only 27 percent of leaders were seen as behaving in an open and transparent way. When people don’t trust their leaders, creativity and innovation are stymied.

Robbins outlines five principles to unlock more creativity, connection and performance: 1. Be authentic 2. Utilize the power of appreciation 3. Focus on emotional intelligence 4. Embrace a growth mindset 5. Create a championship team While the principles are easy to understand, Robbins says, “Like many important aspects of life, growth and business, it’s not the understanding of them that makes the biggest difference, it’s their application.”

Trying to be someone you’re not doesn’t make you more successful, it just makes you tired. You spend a large part of your life at work; you ought to be able to show up as yourself.

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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Parkview dodgeball tournament raises more than $2K The Parkview Cluster Foundation hosted its inaugural faculty dodgeball tournament April 12 and raised more than $2,000 to fund grants for teachers.

“We wanted a signature event that would raise money for our schools but also get the community together in a fun way,” Parkview Cluster Foundation Grant Selection Committee member Wendy Smith said.

The dodgeball tournament had eight teams — two teams each from Parkview High School and Trickum Middle School, and one team each from Arcado, Camp Creek, Knight and Mountain Park elementary schools.

Each school competed in a penny wars competition, which had each school collect and donate pennies leading up to the tournament. Additional proceeds from a $1 gate fee and concessions purchased at the tournament.

The Knight Elementary School faculty team of Rachel Storey, Greg Dumas, Chris Gordon, Ken deGeus, Jake Bova, Amanda Anderson, Ryan Simpson, Susan Lanier, Tyrone Murray, Vanessa Jimenez, Jennifer Morgan, Kristin Harper and Jennifer Brown

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Trevor McNaboe were crowned winners of the dodgeball tournament after a championship match against one of the Parkview High School teams. The school also received the School Challenge award for raising the most money during penny wars. Trickum Middle School was awarded the School Spirit Award for the number of parents that volunteered.

“We really had no idea what to expect with this event,” Smith said. “Everyone had so much fun, and we’re looking forward to doing it again next year.”

David Smith, principal of Parkview High School, gets ready to throw a dodgeball at the Parkview Cluster Foundation dodgeball tournament. (Special Photo)

the honor after defeating 24 of the best teams in Georgia on the way to winning its 10th State Science Olympiad title.

In the most dominate win in school history, this year’s team earned recognition in all 23 events, a first in the history of the program. The six firstplace finishes tied a school record and students/teams finished second in eight categories. Brookwood High’s team score of 70 Brookwood Science is the best in school hisOlympiad wins 10th tory, coming in 43 points state championship above Chattahoochee Brookwood High High School and 72 points School’s Science Olympiad above Gwinnett School of team will represent Georgia Mathematics, Science, and at the 2018 National SciTechnology which finished ence Olympiad next month. second and third, respecBrookwood High earned tively.

Businesses should fear apathy more than boycotts Boycotts, long a tactic of the left, have recently become the political weapon of choice for both sides. As a conservative, I have mixed emotions about this.

On the one hand, it feels kind of good to fight back, not only against the leftists who are constantly boycotting conservative companies and media — turnabout is fair play — but also against the pinheads who keep trying to politicize every aspect of existence, from sports to shopping.

At the same time, all these boycotts can become confusing. It’s easy to forget where we’re not supposed to shop or eat or what we’re not supposed to watch. Boycotts can also be inconvenient, causing us to forego products or services that actually make our lives easier or that we simply enjoy.

On top of that, I’m just not sure how effective boycotts are in the long run. Most of the time, they peter out quickly, with few positive outcomes. Sometimes, they can even have the opposite effect of what was intended.

(Exhibit A: the leftist boycott of Chick-fil-A.) For that reason, I’ve never been a big believer in boycotts.

Like most people, I’m inclined to shop where I want, eat where I want and watch what I want, and I don’t intend to let zealots on either side dictate to me.

On the other hand …

When people start injecting politics into things that ought not be political, I simply find myself losing interest — a prime example being the NFL. All that “taking a knee” business last season pretty much ruined the games for me.

I didn’t exactly boycott the NFL; I just stopped watching because I wasn’t interested in seeing a bunch of pampered millionaires disrespect my country.

Don’t get me wrong — as far as I’m concerned, football play-

on behalf of their school communities.

South Gwinnett Cluster raises $5,000 for local foundation South Gwinnett Cluster schools worked together to raise $5,000 for the Aimee Copeland Foundation.

Aimee Copeland, a South Gwinnett High graduate and former Snellville Middle and Britt Elementary student, spoke to sixthgrade students at Snellville Middle recently. She shared how through her own personal struggles and triumphs, while recovering from a flesh-eating bacterial infection, she found meaning in helping others which inspired her to start a foundation to help others with disabilities. The South Gwinnett Cluster principals presented a check to Aimee

Dacula Middle School hosts dodgeball fundraiser Dacula Middle School and the P4 Foundation, a cancer organization that provides support to families affected by childhood cancer, are teaming up for a Dodging for Darrell event April 29 at the Hebron School Gym in Dacula.

Proceeds from the dodgeball tournament will benefit Darrell Robinson, a sixth-grade student at Dacula Middle School diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, an incurable brain tumor.

The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. with co-ed teams aged 14 and under, followed by the Ladies division 15 and older and a men’s division.

To register, visit p4foundation.org.

Good News From Schools appears in The Gwinnett Daily Post’s Sunday Edition, highlighting achievements and success across Georgia’s largest school district. Trevor McNaboe is The Gwinnett Daily Post’s Education Reporter. He can be reached at trevor.mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost.com.

pet of the week 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.

Rob Jenkins ers have every right to take a knee during the National Anthem. But I also have a right to do something more productive with my Sunday afternoons.

The same thing with Target. I always enjoyed shopping there, but when their CEO decided that becoming a hero to the politically correct crowd was more important than the safety of women and girls in his stores, I lost interest in taking my family there.

No, I’m not boycotting. I still shop at Target occasionally, when it’s the most convenient alternative. But for the most part, I do business elsewhere. There are plenty of places I can buy underarm deodorant, most of which have not gone out of their way to display contempt for my values.

This is where the real danger lies, I think, for the aforementioned pinheads — not in the organized, formal boycotts that typically attract few followers and die out quickly, but in the soft boycott of rising apathy.

If it’s true, as many have noted, that this is an increasingly divided country, I don’t see how alienating half your potential customers can possibly be good for business.

Rob Jenkins is a local college professor and freelance writer. He is the author of four books, including “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Liberty Books in downtown Lawrenceville and on Amazon. The views expressed here are his own. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

Gwinnett school district to host educational signing day From 5 to 7 p.m. May 8, Gwinnett County Public Schools will host a “Signing Day” event, honoring GCPS students who are planning to pursue an education degree after high school. Graduating seniors in local Future Educators of America clubs will attend to learn about the incredible world of teaching and opportunities associated with becoming a Gwinnett educator. The evening will include opportunities to: • Network with college and university representatives; • Sessions to learn from guest speakers; • Photo opportunities; • Chances to win prizes; and • Announcements of educator-related scholarships.

The event will be held at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center, located at 437 Old Peachtree Road N.W., in Suwanee. Activities will begin at 5 p.m., and the program will begin

promptly at 6 p.m.

Preston is a shepherd mix who makes a good running buddy. (Special Photo)

Preston is a shepherd mix, just about a year old. If you’re looking for a running buddy, then definitely give Preston a look.

Because Preston is young, he is a work in progress.

He loves to run, but needs to work on learning which side of you he needs to be on. Preston does well with “sit” and “watch me” commands. He’s hit or miss on the “down” command, but he is smart and learns quickly, so he will have no trouble mastering that, too.

All Preston needs in order to be a great companion is a stable home with consistent training. Stop by the shelter and see if Preston is the perfect fit for your family. He has been fully vetted — neutered, dewormed, up-to-date on flea/tick/heartworm prevention meds and vaccinations. He has been microchipped, and he comes with 30 days of emergency pet insurance. He’s all ready for an active family who can give him a loving home.

If you are interested in seeing any of the pets up for adoption, visit the GA SPCA, located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, in Suwanee, or call at 678-7652726.

restaurant scores Restaurant Address................................................................................. Score APRIL 11 INSPECTIONS Burger King 544 W. Pike St., Lawrenceville ................................................. 100 Meeting Pointe 2236 Hewatt Road, Snellville ................................................... 100 Outback Steakhouse 1750 Scenic Highway, Snellville .............................................. 100 APRIL 12 INSPECTIONS China Garden 3435 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 207, Norcross ................... 100 Com Mai 1455 Pleasant Hill Road, Suites 603 and 604, Lawrenceville . 85 Dillons Restaurant and Sports Bar 850 Dogwood Road, Suite B500, Lawrenceville ...................... 92 Dogwood Pizza 850 Dogwood Road D300, Lawrenceville .............................. 100 Dominick’s Restaurant 197 W. Crogan St., Lawrenceville .............................................. 97 Hanna Sushi 315 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 100, Suwanee ............. 100 Hooters 3550 Gwinnett Place Drive, Duluth ........................................... 94 Mei Garden 3059 Lawrenceville Highway, No. K, Lawrenceville .................. 86 Peking Chinese Restaurant 360 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 101A, Suwanee ........... 100 Pineapple Paradise 1380 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Lawrenceville ............... 100 Pizza Hut No. 4789 4104 U.S. Highway 29 N.W., Lilburn ....................................... 100 Planet Smoothie No. 19002 2148 Duluth Highway, Suite 113, Duluth ................................... 92 Shahi Grill 851 Oak Road, Suite 7A, Lawrenceville ............................ 91 APRIL 13 INSPECTIONS Baby Al’s Chicago Dog 529 Indian Trail Road, Suite D, Lilburn .................................... 100 Bear’s Best Golf Club 5342 Aldeburgh Drive, Suwanee............................................... 82 Fiesta Palace 4771 Britt Road, Suite F7-G1, Norcross.................................... 92 Firehouse Subs 1950 Satellite Blvd., Suite 100, Duluth ...................................... 94 Firehouse Subs 1740 Indian Trail Road, Norcross............................................... 92 Hong Kong 3550 Centerville Highway, Suite 106, Snellville ........................ 96 Hong Kong City 6010 Singleton Road N.W., No. 204, Norcross ......................... 94 Hope Assisted Living and Memory Care Center 1200 Winder Highway, Dacula................................................. 100 Huddle House 3887 Centerville Rosebud Road, Snellville............................... 87 Kabob King 5775 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Suite 190, Norcross......................... 66

Kingsway Restaurant and Bar 5955 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Suite 180, Norcross......................... 92 Lua Norcross 1568 Indian Trail Road, Suite 109, Norcross............................. 96 Mariscos Mazatlan 1650 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth ............................................... 34 Marlow’s Tavern 1950 Satellite Blvd., Suite 300, Duluth ...................................... 92 Sabor Quisqueya 6010 Singleton Road, Suite 206, Norcross ............................... 87 Willy’s Mexicana Grill 968 Duluth Highway, Suite A, Lawrenceville ........................... 100 APRIL 14 INSPECTIONS Hyatt Place 3530 Venture Parkway, Duluth; 77 Pho 24 1825 Mall of Georgia Blvd., Suite C, Buford ........................... 100 The Onion Bay Cafe 5775 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Suite 160, Norcross......................... 96 APRIL 15 INSPECTIONS Greek Island Grill and Bar 3320 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suite 2A, Suwanee ....... 80 Maruthi Foods 3312 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 2, Duluth ...................... 92 Skyzone Sports 560 Old Peachtree Road, Suites 300 and 400, Suwanee ....... 90 APRIL 16 INSPECTIONS China Garden 2590 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite G, Duluth ..................... 88 El Taco Jalisco 4545 S. Lee St., Suite A, Buford ................................................ 91 European Sports Fan 219 Gwinnett Drive, Lawrenceville ............................................ 93 Frontera Mex Mex Grill 530 Athens Highway, Loganville................................................ 97 Hooch Golf Club 2705 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Duluth.................................... 96 Joann’s Kitchen 2054 E. Main St., Snellville ........................................................ 85 Opa! Gyros & Kabob 2730 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 108, Duluth .................. 87 Pizza Hut No. 4790 4841 U.S. Highway 78, No. 413, Lilburn.................................. 100 Ruby Tuesday No. 4522 4121 U.S. Highway 78, Loganville ............................................. 96 Spice Wing 5965 Cumming Highway, Suite 330, Sugar Hill...................... 100 The Diner at Sugar Hill 4500 Nelson Brogdon Blvd., Sugar Hill .................................... 88 APRIL 17 INSPECTIONS Burger King No. 3643 4734 Highway 29, Lilburn .......................................................... 94 Chick-fil-A Dwarf House 570 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth ............................................... 100 Discovery Village at Sugarloaf 1220 Satellite Blvd. N.W., Suwanee .......................................... 92 Great China Express 440 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite 116, Lilburn................................ 85

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AUBURN Little Mulberry to host Pioneer Family Campout Pack up your tent and camping gear for a night in the great outdoors right here in Gwinnett County.

A Pioneer Family Campout will take place from 6 p.m. May 4 through 9 a.m.

May 5 in Little Mulberry Park, located at 3855 Fence Road in Auburn.

Campers can participate in activities around the campfire, and breakfast will be provided.

The cost to participate is $12 per person or $41 for a family of four.

Participants must register no later than Friday. Visit www.gwinnettparks.com and enter code LMP31400 for individual registration or LMP31401 for family registration. For more information, caall 678-277-0850.

BARROW COUNTY Statham Library to celebrate Star Wars Day May the fourth be with you!

The Statham Public Library will celebrate Star Wars Day. The event will feature a makerspace and snacks, as well as books and DVDs. The event will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 4.

The Statham library is located at 1928 Railroad St. in Statham. For more information, visit statham.prlib.org or call 770-725-4785.

BERKELEY LAKE Pottery class planned for Pinckneyville Community Center The Pinckneyville Community Recreation Center has planned a craft night in its pottery studio from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 17.

During the Nana and Me Pottery event, participants will make their own apothecary jar and tiered serving tray.

The event is appropriate for adults and children ages 4 and up. The cost is $15 per person.

The Community Recreation Center is located at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. in Berkeley Lake.

To register, visit www. gwinnettparks.com and enter code PVP31405. For more information, call 678-2770920.

BRASELTON Ms. Senior Georgia to speak to Woman’s Club Cindy Wood, former Ms. Senior Georgia, will be the guest speaker at the Braselton Woman’s Club meeting at noon May 2 at the Country Inn and Suites, 925 Ga. Highway 124 in Braselton.

After Wood was crowned Ms. Senior Georgia in 2013, she began speaking to groups to promote aging gracefully. She is a member of the entertainment group Dazzlin’ Dames and owns the jewelry company Luxuries for Less. She taught elementary school in DeKalb County for 40 years.

A light lunch will be served before the program.

The Braselton Woman’s Club is a diverse group of women who unite in fellowship to serve the community by promoting education and civic responsibility. For more information, call 706-6549266.

BUFORD Celebrate spring by planting Chesser-Williams garden Get ready for the planting season by helping prepare the historic Chesser-Williams House gardens at the Gwinnett Green Fest at 1 p.m.

April 29 at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center.

The festival will also feature crafts, games, tours and activities to encourage people to reconnect with nature. Admission is $8.

The exact building date and builder of the simple, weather-worn ChesserWilliams House are unknown. Benjamin Chesser, a Civil War veteran, owned the

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NORCROSS Norcross Community Market prepares for season opening Norcross Community Market is preparing for its season opening on June 2 at Lillian Webb Park, 5 College St. in Norcross.

The market will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on 13 consecutive Saturdays — June 2 through Aug. 26.

The market is accepting vendor and programming applications, available online at www.norcrosscommunitymarket.com.

Norcross Community Market is a project of Sustainable Norcross. In addition to providing Norcross area residents and visitors a place to purchase locally and sustainably grown seasonal food, the market aims to provide a replicable model for successful local food access and distribution for other Georgia farmers markets.

Lifelong dream

The guided missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) prepares to return to homeport at Naval Base San Diego after conducting training operations off the coast of southern California. (Photo: Lt. j.g. Tommy Rose/U.S. Navy)

Norcross native serves aboard Navy warship

By Drew Lewis

Surface Force ships is measured by our ability to provide Fleet ComPetty Officer 2nd Class manders with combat Imani Deloatch, a Nornaval power at sea and cross native, is serving in to project that power the U.S. Navy aboard the ashore where and when it USS Russell. matters,” said Vice Adm. Deloatch graduRichard A. Brown, comated from Norcross High mander, Naval Surface School in 2014 and is Forces. an operations specialA Navy destroyer is ist aboard the guideda multi-mission ship missile destroyer operatthat can operate indeing out of San Diego. pendently or as part of a Imani Deloatch accredits her larger group of ships at Deloatch success in the Navy to sea. The ship is equipped her experiences in high with tomahawk missiles, school.

Navy officials, the jobs torpedoes, guns and a “I was the only female range from maintainphalanx close-in weapwrestler in high school, ing engines to handling ons system. and that taught me that if weaponry along with a “It’s hard work to you want something you multitude of other asready ships for combat have to work really hard signments that jeep the operations at sea — it for it and never give up,” ship mission-ready at all takes the talent of an Deloatch said. “It’s a les- times. As a Navy operaentire crew working well son I’ve brought into my tions specialist, Deloatch together,” Brown said.

Navy career.” is responsible for moni“I’m extremely proud of More than 300 sailors toring radar and detecteach and every surface serve aboard the ship, ing aircraft or small boats warrior’s contributions working highly specialin the vicinity of the ship. to the Navy’s enduring ized jobs. According to “The success of our mission of protecting

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house during the 1870s.

One day, Chesser offered a German itinerant painter food and shelter inside his home. In return, the artist began to paint Chesser’s house. As a result, the Chesser-Williams House is now adorned with artistic touches, including grain painted doors, false wainscoats, stencils and a framed country landscape painted on the wall boards.

The Chesser-Williams House was donated to Gwinnett County and was moved to the Environmental and Heritage Center, located at 2020 Clean Water Drive in Buford.

For more information, visit alegrefarm.com.

DULUTH Volunteers needed to paint Hill Street mural in Duluth Artist Brenda Ehly is seeking volunteers to help paint a mural at the corner of Hill Street and West Lawrenceville Street in Duluth.

The Duluth Public Arts Commission is sponsoring the installation of the murals that will transform concrete retaining walls into conversation pieces.

Volunteers do not have to have artistic experience, as the design is like a paint-bynumber cartoon.

Ehly will be painting from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, April 30, May 2, May 4 and May 5. She needs one or two volunteers per hour, as the work space is narrow and materials are limited.

To sign up, visit bit. ly/2H6PbXq. For more information about Ehly, visit www. artistic-remedies.com.

DACULA Farm wedding venue to offer open house Alegre Farm is hosting an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. today for couples who are planning a wedding and event planners.

The venue features indoor and outdoor ceremony locations, as well as a banquet hall.

The 15-acre working farm GRAYSON is a center for agriculture education and agritourism.

Workshop for seniors In addition to weddings, the to teach about public farm also hosts field trips, benefits programs camps and Farm Adventure The Gwinnett County Days.

Public Library, in partnership Alegre Farm is located at with the Atlanta Regional 2225 Givens Road in Dacula. Commission, will present

an informational session at 3 p.m. May 14 about public benefits programs that provide services to seniors.

The event will take place at the Grayson library branch, 700 Grayson Parkway. Participants will learn how and when to apply and receive help in removing barriers to benefits.

For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org.

LAWRENCEVILLE Woman’s Club seeking donations for domestic violence shelter The Lawrenceville Woman’s Club wants the community to help “Fill the Trolley.”

Club members will be collecting items for the Partnership Against Domestic Violence from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the empty lot on the corner of East Pike and North Clayton streets in downtown Lawrenceville.

Items needed include baby wipes, diapers in sizes 4 through 6, laundry supplies, hand soap, hand sanitizer, body wash for adults and babies, deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste, feminine hygiene supplies, shaving cream and razors, paper towels, toilet paper, Clorox wipes and spray, oven mitts, scouring pads, and dish towels.

and defending America, at home and around the world.”

Deloatch has military ties with family members who have previously served, and she is honored to carry on the family tradition.

“My mom was also an operations specialist in the Navy, and she was thrilled when she found out I was doing the same,” Deloatch said.

“I’ve wanted to join the Navy since I was in the fifth grade,” she said.

“I wouldn’t want to do anything else.”

Deloatch’s proudest accomplishment was starting the 2nd Class Petty Officer Association onboard, which now has more than 20 members.

“The Navy has given me the tools and experience for me to be more independent and hone my leadership skills,” Deloatch said.

For more information, visit www.lawrencevillewomansclub.org.

LILBURN BAPS Charities seeks donations for Spring Blood Drive Whether it’s routine surgery, an accident or disaster, every minute of every day someone needs blood to survive.

Join BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir — Atlanta to support BAPS Charities Spring Blood Drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 29 at the Mandir, 460 Rockbridge Road in Lilburn.

For more information or to register, visit www.baps.org/ atlanta.

LOGANVILLE Groovin’ on the Green returns with Rhythm Nation Bring your cooler, lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the sounds of Rhythm Nation at Groovin’ on the Green from 7:30 to 10 p.m. May 18 on the Loganville Town Green, 235 Main St. Rhythm Nation performances blend elements of popular, timeless and recognizable musical genres.

Beer and wine is permitted at the event and will be available for purchase.

For more information, visit

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PEACHTREE CORNERS Wesleyan Artist Market celebrates 20 years The Wesleyan Artist Market is celebrating its 20th year.

The Artist Market hosts about 100 artists, showcasing their fine art for purchase and interacting and engaging with attendees.

Opening night will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. The market will be open for shopping from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Wesleyan School, 5405 Spalding Drive in Peachtree Corners.

Proceeds from the show benefit the Wesleyan Arts Alliance, which supports student programs, facilities and arts education at Wesleyan School, a private Christian college preparatory school.

For more information, visit www.wesleyanartistmarket. org.

SNELLVILLE Snellville Days Festival to return May 5 and 6 Crowds of more than 30,000 are expected to pack T.W. Briscoe Park when Snellville Days, a two-day arts and crafts festival, takes place May 5 and 6.

The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 5 and noon to 5 p.m. May 6.

Local civic and nonprofit organizations will be serving up barbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs, funnel cakes, peanuts, popcorn and more.

Local entertainment, including school performances, will fill the stage near the food court.

Other festival features will include Wolves of the World, Wildlife Wendy, Robocars, the Walking TreeMan and Cowboy Woody.

For more information, visit www.snellvilledays.com.

SUGAR HILL Inaugural run planned for Sugar Hill Greenway The first portion of the Sugar Hill Greenway is complete, and the city has partnered with the Sugar Hill Running Club to host the first organized greenway run.

Runners will meet at E.E. Robinson Park, 850 Level Creek Road, at 6:30 p.m.

April 30 to learn about the construction progress and hear from city representatives.

The run will begin at the park at 6:45 p.m.

Runners will receive a greenway water bottle, while supplies last.

For more information, visit cityofsurgarhill.com.

SUWANEE Goat Yoga class planned to support Sculptour The city of Suwanee and Red Wagon Goats will host Goat Yoga in the Park on April 29 at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee.

A family class will begin at 3 p.m., and 21-and-over classes are scheduled for 4:30 and 6 p.m.

The class is $35. Space is limited. Proceeds will benefit the Suwanee Sculptour.

For more information, visit www.suwanee.com.

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