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PIEDMONT-BLUE CROSS INSURANCE RENEWAL

Local woman affected by failed negotiations Fuller among 600,000 Ga. patients left scrambling after stalled talks

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Each day for the past three days, beginning at 7 a.m. and calling it quits around 2 p.m., Snellville resident Barbara Fuller has called doctors across

ing and uncommon type of blood cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow — as well as a noncancerous brain tumor, Gwinnett County and metro At- wants to spend her days doing. lanta, hoping to find a primary In fact, she said, it’s somecare physician who will accept thing she shouldn’t have to do. her and her husband, Robert, as Yet, along with nearly patients.

600,000 other patients across It’s not something Fuller, who Georgia, it’s something Fuller is has chronic myeloid leukemia, See INSURANCE, Page 5A or CML — a slowly-progress-

‘Absolutely loved’

Snellville husband and wife Robert and Barbara Fuller were left scrambling this week when Piedmont Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia announced they could not come to a contract renewal agreement. Barbara Fuller has a rare, noncancerous brain tumor and relies on a specialist neurosurgeon at Piedmont. (Special photo)

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Snellville barber remembered for haircuts, friendliness

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Kenneth “Peanut” Dalton was, at his core, a people person.

If someone told him about something going on in their life, or in the life of a family member, he would remember it and ask how that situation was going the next time he saw that person. He’d always inquire how family members were doing too.

Kenneth “He really never met “Peanut” a stranger, and anybody Dalton that knew him absolutely loved him,” his granddaughter, Heather Dalton, said.

For 57 years, starting in 1959, See DALTON, Page 5A

Longtime Snellville barber Kenneth “Peanut” Dalton and his daughter, Lisa, pose for this undated photo. The former barbershop owner died Wednesday. (Special Photo)

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Above, seventh-grade Sweetwater Middle School students Abbi Towler and Yolibeth Contreras use a soldering iron to build part of the underwater vehicle at the Georgia Aquarium. (Photo Courtesy of Georgia Aquarium) Top, Sweetwater Middle School students Nathalia Reyes, left, Camila Villalon, center, and Arianna Bustamante, right, begin the framework for their vehicle. (Special Photo)

Sweetwater Middle girls hand-build underwater vehicles at aquarium

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any students who pay a visit to the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta go to the see the sharks, penguins and various underwater creatures.

However, for a group of 12 girls from Sweetwater Middle School, the purpose of visiting the aquarium was to learn more about STEAM: science, technology,

engineering, arts and mathematics.

Heidi Turcotte, manager of teaching and learning at the Georgia Aquarium, said the aquarium received a grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation in 2017 with the goal of providing a community program that would educate students. The grant, worth more than $14,000, supported a

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week-long remote-operated vehicle camp for the Sweetwater students and two school instructor chaperones.

“We were tasked with finding a school in the Lawrenceville area to do See FUTURE, Page 5A

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10 indicted in $1M meth trafficking operation

BY ISABEL HUGHES

Seven of the 10 defendants were arraigned in federal court on Friday.

“Methamphetamine Ten people — at least remains a major threat three of whom are Gwinto our community and it nett County residents — continues to be the main were recently indicted in illegally trafficked drug in federal court for allegedly this district,” U.S. Attorney trafficking more than $1 Byung J. Pak said. “When million worth of methampeople enter our country phetamine in Gwinnett and illegally and traffic meth DeKalb counties. while in possession of Three of the accused guns, they not only spread — 30-year-old Hugo their poison, but they drive Solano-Garcia, aka Gordo; violence in our communi23-year-old Victor Pacheties.” co-Solano, aka Pelon, aka According to Pak, beginMoro; and 37-year-old ning in July 2017, Drug Juan Confesor Camilo, aka Enforcement AdministraJean Carlos Camilo, aka tion agents along with Tigre, live in Norcross, Atlanta-Carolina High are charged with violating Intensity Drug Traffickfederal drug, firearm and ing Program agents began immigration laws in coninvestigating Solanonection with the operation. Garcia and his Atlanta-area isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

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associates for trafficking meth that was allegedly smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico.

Over the course of the investigation, federal and local law enforcement agents uncovered a series of stash houses and meth conversion laboratories in DeKalb and Gwinnett, Pak said.

At the labs, the accused would convert liquid meth into crystal meth for distribution, sometimes hiding

the drugs in hollowedout fire extinguishers and car batteries, Hugo SolanoPak said.

Garcia The men barricaded some of the conversion laboratories and guarded them with guns.

“Agents raided one conversion laboratory in an apartment in Brookhaven on Jan. 30,” Pak said.

“In that apartment, they found approximately 65 kilograms of methamphetamine in crystal and liquid form and three firearms.

In total, law enforcement has seized more than 130 kilograms of methamphetamine over the course of this investigation.”

DEA agent Rob Evans previously told the Daily Post that “most of the methamphetamine we’re seeing coming across the border now is in liquid form” and that it’s largely Mexican in origin.

“Methamphetamine continues to ravage many communities in our nation,” said Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Atlanta Field Division.

“Because of the positive results yielded in this case, other methamphetamine traffickers, particularly conversion lab operators,in the Atlanta metropolitan and surrounding areas are being put on notice that DEA, its law enforcement partners and the U.S. Attorney’s Office will not tolerate their continued efforts to manufacture and distribute this insidious drug.”

The ten men indicted on March 28 are: • Solano-Garcia, also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; • Pacheco-Solano; • Gerardo CalderonPacheco, aka Plebe; • Valentin Solano-Salas, also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime;

Gwinnett Board of Assessors mails property value notices

BY ISABEL HUGHES

requires the county to do.

The notices advise property owners of the assessed value of their taxNearly 300,000 Gwinable property and provides nett County residents will them with a reason for any soon receive a piece of mail change in value from the from the Gwinnett County previous year. This year’s Board of Assessors contain- value on the notice will be ing information about their the value used by the tax property values. commissioner in calculatOn Friday, the board ing property taxes later in mailed approximately the year.

280,000 annual notices of Friday’s notices are not a assessment to residential bill, though they do include and commercial property an estimate of 2018 propowners, which state law erty taxes. The estimate combines the 2018 value with the 2017 millage rates.

According to the county, this year, about 59 percent of all properties in Gwinnett will see a change in value from the previous year due to market changes in property values.

“Overall, property sales reflect a real estate market that remains positive with high demand,” a county news release said. “County assessment offices are charged by the Georgia Constitution and held accountable by annual audits by the State Department of Revenue to ensure county appraised values are in line with current market values.

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• Camilo; • Aldrin BarajasRamirez, also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, illegal alien in possession of a firearm, and illegal re-entry after being deported; • Miguel Pacheco-Penaloza, also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and illegal alien in possession of a firearm; • Octavio PachecoTorres, aka Burro, also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; • Sair Calderon-Pacheco; and • Joaquin Reyes-Guillen, aka Aviel Cabrera-Hernandez.

Solano-Garcia, Gerardo Calderon-Pacheco, SolanoSalas, Camilo, BarajasRamirez, Pacheco-Penaloza and Pacheco-Torres were arraigned on Friday.

Pacheco-Solano, Calderon-Pacheco and Reyes-Guillen have yet to be arraigned.

The Gwinnett County Tax Assessor’s Office uses all data available to conservatively value each property within the state’s constraints.”

Chief Appraiser Stewart Oliver said that to better serve Gwinnett customers, frequently asked questions have been printed on the back of the annual notice of assessment.

Property owners can also visit the Board of Assessor’s website at gwinnettassessor.com to find answers to frequently asked questions, view and print copies of their annual notice of assessment, research market values, and file an appeal.

While state law does not allow the estimated amount of taxes to be appealed, the current year’s property value can be appealed.

Property owners have 45 days from the date on their annual notice of assessment to file an appeal.

For more information or questions, residents can contact the Tax Assessor’s Office by email at taxpayer. services@gwinnettcounty. com or by phone at 770822-7200.

Gwinnett offering walking history tours

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Gwinnett County officials are offering residents an opportunity to walk through the county’s history.

The county and Live Healthy Gwinnett have been offering Historic Walking Tours around downtown Lawrenceville which are led by costumed historical interpreters from the county’s Cultural and Natural Resources Department. The tours offer historical insight into the oldest downtown area in

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Each tour begins at the Lawrenceville Female Seminary at 455 S. Perry St., and lasts from 10 to 11 a.m.

Upcoming tours will be held April 14 a nd April 21. Anyone interested in participating in a tour must register the Thursday before the tour takes place. The registration code for the April 14 tour is LFS18718 and the code for the April 21 tour is LFS18719.

The tours are free and anyone who wants to take one can sign up at www. gwinnettparks.com.

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A total of 420 grams of marijuana, 26 ounces of codeine and Xanax were seized during a stop of the Migos tour bus by Boone, N.C. police Thursday night. (Courtesy of Boone Police Department)

Police seize drugs from Migos tour bus in N.C.

None charged are members of the rap group

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

from Lawrenceville, recently had band Three men have been member charged with drug posQuavo session in Boone, N.C., host after police said they “Huncho Jharon Murphy found drugs on a tour bus Day”— a for rap group Migos folcharity lowing a concert Thursflag football game at day night.

Berkmar High School on According to the police April 1 and are currently department’s press reon their 2018 tour followlease, Boone Police offi- ing the release of “Culcers working the group’s ture II,” the group’s third concert at the Holmes studio album.

Convocation Center on Police stopped the bus the campus of Appalaon North Carolina Highchian State University way 105 and searched “detected an obvious the vehicle. Boone police odor of marijuana coming took one man into cusfrom the band’s vehicle tody and issued the two as they left the venue,” other men with citations around 10:25 p.m. after finding 420 grams Migos, a trio of artists of marijuana, 26 ounces

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of codeine and Xanax on the bus.

Jharon Ahmad Murphy, 26 of Snellville, was charged with felony possession of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver, as well as misdemeanor possession of codeine.

Daryl Irvon McPherson, 25, of Cleveland was cited for simple possession of marijuana and codeine, and 26-year-old Dominic Kevin Spigner of Smyrna was cited for misdemeanor possession of Xanax.

Police said Murphy has a secured bond of $5,000 pending an appearance in the Watauga District Court on May 29.

None of the men charged are members of the rap group.

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Hashimoto’s is no excuse for avoiding the flu shot Dear Dr. rOaCh: I have never gotten the flu vaccine. Years ago, it was believed to be too dangerous for anyone with an autoimmune condition. They said that the body could not handle the vaccine and that it was actually dangerous to receive it. I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

I value your knowledge and opinion. Please tell me if that’s true. I had the flu in 1993 and have not been ill with anything but a cold since. I was not hospitalized in 1993.

— I.D.C. ansWer: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is a condition where the body’s immune system attacks the thyroid gland in the neck. The thyroid level initially increases in the body, but then over time, it decreases. In most, it eventually will come back to normal, but people require treatment with thyroid hormone, often for years.

I don’t agree with the advice you received about the flu vaccine. The clearest reason not to give a flu vaccine (I mean specifically the flu shot, which does not contain live virus) is if people have a severe allergy to any of the components of the vaccine. People who have had Guillain-Barre syndrome within six weeks of a previous influenza vaccine generally are not vaccinated again. Hashimoto’s is not a reason to avoid the flu shot.

This one has been a severe season for influenza, and while I am glad you haven’t had the flu in many years, I still recommend the vaccine every year. It provides protection, even if incomplete, for a disease that kills up to 50,000 people per year. People who are vaccinated also help protect those people who are unable to be vaccinated.

Dear Dr. rOaCh: If a person who is 75 or older has high blood pressure — say, 175/80 — in what circumstances would you suggest not taking any hypertensive drugs to lower pressure (to 130/80 or less)?

Aren’t there some fragile people who require higher blood pressure to meet the body’s demands?

— R.I. ansWer: It used to be the case that older people with high blood pressure were not treated. In fact, the term “essential hypertension” (which now means “high blood pressure with no identifiable cause”) initially was used to indicate that high blood pressure was essential for adequate blood flow. However, study after study has shown that older people with systolic blood pressure above 160 can have a dramatic reduction in the risk of stroke with treatment.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1904, Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a series of agreements that formalized peace between the two countries.

In 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, establishing the Works Progress Administration.

In 2005, more than 4 million mourners gathered in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. In 2010, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed the New START nuclear arms control treaty.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), surgeon; Mary Pickford (1892-1979), actress; Sonja Henie (1912-1969), ice skater; Betty Ford (1918-2011), former first lady; Shecky Greene (1926- ), comedian;

Kofi Annan (1938- ), diplomat; Gary Carter (1954-2012), baseball player/ sportscaster; Robin Wright (1966- ), actress; Patricia Arquette (1968- ), actress; Katee Sackhoff (1980- ), actress; Felix Hernandez (1986- ), baseball player.

TODAY’S FACT: Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity during experiments with mercury wire immersed in liquid helium on this day in 1911.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1975, Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians made his debut as Major League Baseball’s first African-American manager. Robinson also continued to play for the team, hitting a home run in his first at-bat of the day.

TODAY’S MOON: Last quarter moon (April 8).

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Wedding season provides dilemmas Dear amy: My fiance and I are having a rather large wedding (it’s the second time for both of us). We are in our 60s.

My fiance is from a wonderful, large family.

All his nieces and nephews and their spouses will be invited.

The problem is one niece. She is always rude to me. Her rudeness is obvious to everyone. I’ve been very quiet about it, and have never provoked her.

Amy, she is in her 30s!

I’m glad she is the only toxic person in my new family!

Here’s the problem: I really don’t want to invite her to our wedding.

My fiance says to ignore her, and that we have to invite her.

Why should I invite someone that treats me like that?

Other family members have witnessed her rudeness. They’re passive about it.

It seems her mother (my future sister-in-law) condones her behavior!

So do I have to invite her to my wedding?

— Family Matters Dear Family matters: Well, it’s not really your wedding. It is your and your fiance’s wedding. If he has only one rude and obnoxious member in his large and otherwise wonderful family, then I’d say you’re both pretty lucky — and definitely beating the

ting a wall. I’m not even engaged! I have shown him several rings that I like. I even suggested that we skip the ring and go straight down the aisle.

Am I supposed to propose to myself?

He keeps saying it is about money, but I have done my research, and it Amy Dickinson doesn’t cost that much. I have shown him prices. national average.

He keeps saying we Ignore her. Minimize will get married “one any contact with her, day.” Meanwhile, everywhich can be easy to do at one around me is getting your large wedding. Fami- engaged. lies come in many hues Should I stop pushing? and combinations of good Should I start leaving bigand obnoxious. For better ger and bigger hints?

— and perhaps worse — Should I propose to this person will be part of myself and forget about yours. Make a determina- the romance part? tion to enjoy your day.

— Extremely Frustrated And then do that.

Dear FrustratDear amy: I’m a eD: I always know when 28-year-old woman. My spring is on the horizon, boyfriend and I have been and wedding season is together for 10 years. winking over the yardarm.

Amy, I thought for This time of year is an sure that I would be the engagement trigger. first sibling in my famYou’ve shown him ily to get married, but my rings. You’ve lingered younger brother dated his at the courthouse steps. girlfriend for less than Either this guy can’t take three years, got married a heavy hint or he doesn’t and now he and his wife want to get engaged. are expecting their first You’ve basically asked baby! My boyfriend and I for a proposal, and the have talked about getting most he will do is to say married for a long time, that you will get married but nothing happens! I “one day.” don’t want a huge wedIf you truly feel that ding. I just want to go to you two have a wonderful the courthouse. He says relationship, your choices he is also happy with the are to stay together withcourthouse idea. out getting married (you I’m trying to work don’t seem to want that), with him to get our future or to tell him, “You know started, but I keep hithow you said we’d get

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married one day? Well, congratulations to us.

Saturday is the day!”

There are definitely cases where couples who have been together for a decade or more go on to get married, but — more often — people who don’t get married after 10 years simply don’t get married.

You may need to decide what you want the most — to be married, or to be with your guy, with or without marriage.

Your romantic fantasy may only come true with a different groom.

Dear amy: Oh, dear, I was devastated to read the letter from “Party of None,” the woman who threw herself a 40th birthday party and only two people came.

Thank you for your compassionate and understanding response to her letter. I agree that this is probably more common than people will admit.

— Been There Dear Been there: This question opened the floodgates for readers, many of whom responded that they have had similar experiences. This is why I offered to go to her next party, and I hope she takes me up on it.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson.com.

Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

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It’s time to reflect on the past and consider how best to move forward. Taking on more responsibility will be daunting mentally, but physically, you will be able to push your way through any situation you face. Trust in your ability, and balance your lifestyle to ease stress.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have more options than you realize. Open up to someone who can offer you a different perspective regarding the changes you face or the decisions you must make.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Socialize, get together with friends or relatives, or pitch in and volunteer your help.

Your dedication and determination will draw attention and boost your popularity. Romance is featured.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — A change of plans will cause a problem. If someone backs out of a deal, make sure you aren’t left paying for him or her. Be blunt and collect what’s owed to you.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Consider how to best spend your time. Helping outsiders is admirable, but you should first take care of any work that needs to be done closer to home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Personal changes can be made, but don’t try to alter what someone else does. If you want the freedom to do as you please, you must offer the same in return.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Attend functions that will add to your knowledge and experience. Expanding an interest and sharing it with a loved one will bring you closer together. Physical improvements can be made.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Impulse will be your downfall. Acting on an emotional whim or getting entrenched in someone else’s melodrama will bring you down and cost you emotionally and financially.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You may need to make some financial adjustments if you want to maintain your standard of living.

Think twice before you spend money on something you don’t need.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Concentrate on your personal relationships and make an effort to improve your living arrangements.

Stick close to home and the people you love.

Hard work will result in personal gain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Someone will withhold information that can make a difference to your earning potential or finances.

Don’t count on anyone else to handle your affairs.

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•From Page 1A this camp,” Turcotte said.

“We went to different sites to see what type of programs prospective schools had. One of the things that stuck out with Sweetwater was its STEAM Academy.”

Remote-operated vehicles, ROVs, are tethered devices that are used both on land and underwater.

The common use of underwater ROVs is to navigate in rough conditions and deepwater exploration, something the Georgia Aquarium is familiar with.

One unique thing about the four-day camp at the Georgia Aquarium was the fact it was only for girls, something organizers planned by design.

Each day, students were picked up at the school by charter buses at 7:45 a.m. to make the trip to downtown Atlanta, where they worked and received instruction from teachers and Georgia Aquarium employees on how to build a ROV from scratch. On Thursday, they went to Georgia Tech to test out their ROVs in the college’s swim and dive facility.

“Testing it out, we expect challenges,” seventh-grade student Nathalia Reyes said. “You always have to fix mistakes and learn from them, and that’s what we’ll do.”

Turcotte reached out through email to Sweetwater Middle School principal Jay Nebel in September to discuss the possibility of Sweetwater being selected for the camp.

“I thought it was a junk email at first,” Nebel said. “She (Turcotte) was persistent about it, and it truly has been an amazing

•From Page 1A Kenneth Dalton ran Dalton’s Barbershop in Snellville and he was named the Gwinnett County Barber of the Year twice in the 1980s. He died Wednesday at 78. His funeral was held at Snellville United Methodist Church on Saturday.

One of the many things Dalton was known for was his nickname, “Peanut,” which he got on the day he was born in 1939. His granddaughter said he weighed 2 1/2 pounds at birth and fit inside a shoe box.

“His dad said that he looked like a little goober,” she said. “His mom got mad and said, ‘Don’t call him that, he looks like a little peanut’ and that’s where that came from.”

But Dalton was more well-known for his place in the community.

He was a longtime Gwinnett County resident.

Before he opened his barbershop, Dalton attended Central Gwinnett High School before he moved on to Moeller Barber College, according to his obituary.

His shop at the corner of Scenic Highway and U.S. Highway 78 was a mainstay in Snellville for decades. “(Cutting hair) meant the world to him,” his granddaughter said. “It meant that he was able to connect with people. One of the things that I think of most when I think of him is just genuine love and kindness. He could make anybody’s bad day better, whether it was through a haircut or just a kind word and a smile.

“He was the embodiment of kindness and generosity. He never met a stranger, and his trademark saying was ‘Just a trim, old friend.’ I think cutting hair really gave him the opportunity to do what he loved, which was making people happy.”

The last haircut he gave, though, was reserved for family. His final customer

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A dozen girls from Sweetwater Middle School were able to go behind the scenes at the Georgia Aquarium during their week-long camp. (Special Photos)

opportunity.”

After being selected

by Turcotte, Sweetwater Middle School had to pick which students would have the opportunity to participate. Out of approximately 750 girls in the school, they wanted to give female students involved in the STEAM Academy the first chance to apply.

Interested applicants had to submit a formal application, have a teacher meet with their parents and complete an essay assignment to be considered for the program.

Dilcia Hernandez, Catherine Marquez, Yasmin Mosley, Shimen Laini, Aisha Webb, Abagail Towler, Yolibeth Contreras, Isamar Berrios, Camila Villalon, Nathalia Reyes, Chelsea Acheampong and Ariana Bustamante were the 12 selected to represent the school.

Towler said she was interested in the program because it aligned with her future career interests.

“I’ve been interested in marine life for a long time,” Towler said. “When I get older, I really would like to have a job as a marine biologist. I thought that knowing a little bit of the stuff that is in the water would be helpful for me.”

According to a study released by the Economics and Statistics Administration titled “Women in STEM: 2017,” women fill 47 percent of all U.S. jobs but hold only 24 percent of STEM jobs. It also said women make up slightly more than half of collegeeducated workers but only account for 25 percent of college educated STEM workers.

The opportunity to be exposed to STEAM activities in a unique setting gave

Berrios confidence there will be a bright future.

“It’s a new chance for girls because many men have opportunities in STEAM while girls are looked at differently,” Berrios said. “We want to change that.”

For fourth-year teacher Kareem Clarke, it was an eye-opening experience to help the students.

“It changed my whole outlook on teaching,” Clarke said. “Everything has been hands-on, and this is really how you learn.”

Clarke was joined by fellow teacher Antoine Shade as the instructors to help guide the girls as they built their ROVs. “I have the opportunity to teach these girls in school,” Shade said. “It’s allowed me to link and expand what we do in the classroom by tying different subjects to one another

and developing critical skills.”

Organizers and participants of the camp hope they not only learned skills and memories for the week, but for a lifetime.

“I hope they go on to have careers in STEAMtype jobs,” Turcotte said.

“If we can provide them with that one ‘aha’ moment that lives with them forever, then I would say this is a successful program.”

The enjoyment and excitement from students, and also Nebel has left the school with the hope that they will continue this partnership in years to come.

“This meant a lot for us as a school,” Nebel said. “Any time you have

the ability to partner with someone in the community, it’s beneficial to everyone. The kids have really thought this is a once-in-alifetime event and something really special to see.”

In addition to the experience they received at the aquarium, the Sweetwater participants will keep their ROVs at the school as a memento from the trip.

Bustamante said spending spring break at the Georgia Aquarium was more than a learning experience.

“We came here and didn’t know a whole lot,” Bustamante said. “It’s been more of an amazing experience, journey and adventure.”

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Longtime Snellville barber Kenneth “Peanut” Dalton, from left, is joined by his great-grandson, Key, granddaughter, Heather, and daughter, Lisa, in this undated photo. The former barbershop owner died Wednesday.

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was his great-grandson, Key, who is Heather Dalton’s son.

It was through his barbershop that Patti Jackson met Kenneth Dalton. Her family moved to Snellville in the 1970s, and when she and her sisters were young, they went to his barbershop for trims.

Later on, as a mother, she brought her three sons to Dalton so he could cut their hair.

Jackson described him as a master of his craft.

She said all of the men in town went to his shop to get a haircut, including her father and her husband. She said she always counted on him to give her sons a good haircut too.

“When their hair started to reach their ears, I’d bring them to his shop and he’d just cut their hair so perfectly — like perfect little boy haircuts,” she said.

Jackson said Dalton made it his business to be friendly with everyone he met, not just the people who came to him for a haircut. If you drove past his shop, he’d know it and wave to you, she said.

Sweetwater Middle School teacher Kareem Clarke, left, and seventh grade student Abagail Towler work on building a remote during ROV Camp at the Georgia Aquarium.

“If he saw me walking by to go to the nail salon next door, when he got a break between customers, he’d come over to see me and ask, ‘How’s your mom doing?’ or ‘How are your sisters doing?’”

Jackson said.

But that friendly attitude was one of Dalton’s hallmarks, and there weren’t many places, if any at all, that he could go to around town without running into someone he knew.

“Snellville was his love,” his granddaughter said. “We couldn’t go anywhere — out to eat with him, out to the store with him — without him seeing at least five to 10 people that he knew, and he would know their family’s names, their children’s names, where they went to school, where they’d grown up.

“It was like he had this memory that he knew everything about every person that he ever met in Snellville, even if he only heard the story one time.

He cared about the people of the community so much, and they were truly part of his family, too.”

now required to do due to Piedmont Healthcare doctors and hospitals recently becoming out-of-network providers for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia members.

“We just had to (stop using) Piedmont doctors cold turkey,” Fuller said. “My husband and I were both supposed to go to our PCP and get blood work next week, and now I’m struggling to find a doctor that’s taking patients — and if they are, we’re (being told) we have to wait a couple of months. I’m needing an MRI in June that my doctor at Piedmont needs to order; what am I going to do?”

Beginning at 12:01 a.m. last Sunday, the contract between Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s largest health insurer, and the rapidly expanding Piedmont Healthcare system, expired, leaving more than half-a-million Georgians scrambling as they were told that roundthe-clock negotiations between the two entities failed to bring an agreement on a new contract.

The issue is so dominant that Gov. Nathan Deal entered the conversation Tuesday, urging Blue Cross and Piedmont to resume talks.

“My administration will not sit idly by during this contract dispute and leave our state and university system employees, teachers and their families in the balance,” Deal said.

“My top priority is the well-being of our members. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia and Piedmont Healthcare must return to the negotiating table, and Blue Cross Blue Shield must honor the contractual obligations made to the state.”

According to Piedmont’s website, the system operates 11 hospitals and several more locations throughout the state, including 21 urgent care centers, 28 Piedmont

QuickCare locations, 527 Piedmont Clinic physician practice locations and more than 1,800 Piedmont Clinic members.

While this sort of disagreement is not new to the heath care system — in 2016, Piedmont was out of network for almost two months for United Healthcare members before the two sides agreed to a new reimbursement contract — it’s affected about 5.5 percent of Georgia’s population, or 576,952 state of Georgia and University System employees and their family members.

Fuller and her husband are two of those affected, and while Fuller said she feels lucky she switched over to Emory Healthcare for her CML care in January, her and her husband’s PCPs, orthopedic doctors and Fuller’s neurosurgeon are all at Piedmont, which leaves them with few options.

“It’s so scary — it was like, oh my God, I can’t go to my neurosurgeon in Georgia unless I’m willing to pay a fortune,” Fuller said. “When you have cancer, stress is not what you need, because when you’re stressed, you put pressure on your brain, and the stress that this alone has put me through is (ridiculous).

It’s one thing when you know that you can find another PCP — you may not like them, but you can find one — but it’s another thing when you have a specialist who’s treating your rare brain tumor; that’s really scary.”

Though there’s nothing keeping Blue Cross patients from still seeing their current doctors, because Piedmont Healthcare is out of network, the cost now, especially for specialists, can be enormous.

“I can’t pay it,” Fuller said. “We have so many medical bills from this CML already, and a lot of others are probably in the same boat as me. I’m not just speaking for me; I’ll

be 62 in October, so I’m a senior but not of Medicare age yet. But what about all those people who are still young enough to have Blue Cross (for years to come)? Many of us at our age have issues, now they — and we — are trying to budget out to see if we can stay (with our current doctors.)”

Fuller said she has tried, since the beginning of the week, to call Blue Cross to see if they can help her and her husband in any way.

So far, though, she said, the insurance provider hasn’t been helpful.

“Blue Cross has no sympathy,” Fuller said.

“It’s like, do you understand that 500,000 people are affected? It’s not just one person, which would be one too many, but 500,000. They’re going to lose patients because we’re going to want to go to another insurance company.”

But for the Fullers, like many others who receive insurance through their employer, going to another insurance company isn’t a lower-cost option at this point.

“Having in-network doctors is better on the budget and just makes good sense — it’s why you have insurance,” Fuller said. “The (Piedmont and Blue Cross) CEOs need to understand this is 500,000 people who are being affected, and they need to be sensitive about that.”

Piedmont executive Matt Gove didn’t offer particularly encouraging words on Sunday, though.

“There’s no way for us to predict how this is going to evolve,” he said.

Fuller said she’s hoping there will be a solution soon.

“If they reach an agreement, I’m going to write a thank-you note to our governor,” she said. “They need to figure this out so my husband and I, (along with) the other 500,000 people — can get on with our lives.”

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Betsy Adams, Jack Frost and Caroline Mixon pose for a picture at the Daughters of the American Revolution spring conference Friday.

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the Medal of Honor.

Frost received the award at the DAR’s spring conference in Atlanta, according to Braselton resident Jack Regent Caroline G. Mixon Frost was awarded the high- of the Jacob Braselton Chapest honor bestowed by the ter. Betsy Adams, AmeriDaughters of the American canism chair of the chapter, Revolution on Friday morn- organized and submitted the ing as he was presented with award nomination.

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Frost, who owns Memorial Park Funeral Homes in Braselton and Gainesville, has become an integral part of the community with financial donations to nearby Mill Creek High School for its REACH scholarship and donating a hawk statue to the school.

Georgia ranked in top tier for action against opioids to an overdose involving opioids in 2016.

The drugs include highly Georgia is one of 13 states addictive medications such receiving the highest mark as Vicodin, Percocet and from the National Safety OxyContin. These prescripCouncil for taking compretion opioids are a gateway hensive actions to eliminate drug to the street drug heroopioid overdoses and help in, which is nearly identical protect residents. chemically and actually may The state rose from a be cheaper and easier to get, “failing’’ designation in the report said. Increasingly, 2016 to “improving’’ in the heroin and other drugs are new report on the opioid being combined with illicitly crisis, released this week in made fentanyl, which is 50 conjunction with National to 100 times more potent Rx Drug and Heroin Sumthan morphine. mit, held in Atlanta.

The Safety Council The summit featured identified six key actions addresses from former that states can take to have a President Bill Clinton and significant impact addressfrom Kellyanne Conway, an ing the opioid epidemic: adviser to President Trump • Mandating prescriber who has been designated education; to lead the administra• Implementing opioid tion response to the opioid prescribing guidelines; problem.

• Integrating prescription Opioids are a class of drug monitoring programs drugs that mimic the body’s into clinical settings; natural response to pain • Improving data collecby stimulating the body’s tion and sharing; opioid receptors. Natural • Treating opioid overopioids, derived from the dose; and opium poppy, include drugs • Increasing availability of such as morphine. There are opioid use disorder treatalso semi-synthetic opioids, ment. such as hydrocodone and Georgia met five of the oxycodone, and synthetic six measures, with data versions, including fentanyl. collection the only one it The Safety Council report missed. Just two states, said more than 42,000 Nevada and New Mexico, Americans lost their lives fulfilled all six.

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Other states earning an “improving’’ mark from the Safety Council were Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia, along with Washington, D.C. The Georgia Department of Public Health said Wednesday that the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, an electronic database, can help eliminate duplicative prescribing and overprescribing of controlled substances. The program can provide a prescriber or pharmacist with information regarding a patient’s controlled substance prescription history and protect patients at risk of abuse, the agency said.

Agency spokeswoman Nancy Nydam said that Public Health “is engaging state agencies, law enforcement and stakeholders throughout Georgia in the creation of a strategic plan to address the opioid crisis.’’

A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, citing CDC statistics, recently reported that Georgia had 918 overdose deaths from opioids in 2016, and 1,394 drug overdose deaths overall.

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in other states, are probably underreported, experts say.

“The opioid crisis has affected one in four Americans and while some states are improving, others need to double down on actions that will save lives,” Deborah Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council, said in a statement.

The report, citing studies, said 11 million Americans misused an opioid pain reliever in the past year, and that more than 2.1 million people suffer from an opioid use disorder. The authors said that life expectancy in the United States declined for the second year in a row in 2016. Much of this decrease is linked to deaths from opioid overdoses.

On Wednesday, Conway told the summit audience of researchers, advocates, policymakers and law enforcement personnel that “we want to reduce the stigma and the silence that often attends opioid addiction,” according to a report by Atlanta’s CBS 46 (WGCL).

Conway said Trump is tackling the crisis on three fronts — calling for a disruption of the flow of illicit opioids into our country; better access to treatment programs; and a reduction in new prescriptions.

“So far nobody has said ‘no’ to us. The tech companies have been in, the professional sports leagues, corporate America,” Conway said, according to WGCL. “Different folks have come to find out how they can help.”

She also noted the president’s desire for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers.

“I know these are very politically charged times,” she said. “I can’t think of a more nonpartisan issue starving for bipartisan solutions than the opioid crisis and the drug demand, drug supply, the heroin epidemic that is really boiling our nation.”

Clinton addressed the summit Wednesday evening, speaking about how the crisis affects every community.

He said the crisis “creeps into every nook and cranny of our country,” and needs to be addressed as both a huge national problem and a community-by-community tragedy, according to the Louisville (Ky.) CourierJournal.

Otherwise, Clinton said, “This can rob our country of the future.”

The former president said nearly every family is touched by the issue — including his. Not only does he have family members

who have struggled with drug abuse, he said at least five close friends lost their children to overdoses.

“Nobody gets out of this for free,” Clinton said.

The National Institutes of Health said at the summit Wednesday that it is launching a new program to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid crisis.

Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, said his agency plans to spend $1.1 billion this fiscal year on researching treatments for pain and opioid addiction. That figure includes an extra $600 million that Congress allotted the agency late last month.

And Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory that encouraged more people to routinely carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse overdoses.

Police officers and EMTs often carry naloxone.

Gov. Nathan Deal in Georgia issued an order in 2016 that directed the Department of Public Health to issue a standing order to allow naloxone to be dispensed over-the-counter by pharmacists across the state.

The Georgia General Assembly permanently codified this rule last year.

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Imran said he was able to raise approximately $300 after a few months to purchase a Nokia cellphone. He continued to sell phone cases until he decided he would invest the $500 he had saved up into penny stocks.

“I thought stock trading was where it was at,” Imran said. “I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and tried it out.”

Unlike before, when he earned money from his business ventures, Imran lost the entire amount in a six-month period. He saved up again, this time putting in $1,000 and losing it within three months.

“I kept losing it faster and faster because I thought I

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Thinking outside the box is something that 15-yearold Faiz Imran has used to form and serve as CEO of his own company, all before being able to legally drive a car.

Imran is founder of FI Enterprises and Holdings, which invests in innovative startups and products.

What began as an opportunity to pay for a cellphone when he was 11 years old has transformed into a passion that sparked the formation of FI Enterprises.

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“I want to make a big impact,” Imran said. “I want to do something that changes things drastically. I’ve failed many times, but I’ve gotten back up.”

Imran estimates there were 60 to 70 people to whom he supplied candy, fidget spinners and pop sockets in high schools such as Brookwood, Peachtree Ridge, Milton and Alpharetta.

He began to branch out from reselling wholesale items with a website called Job Mentor, which is an online job resource center that gives tips on how to become an attractive job candidate.

The focus of Imran’s company now is on its

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ing changes be made to Stone Mountain Park folThe Shoppes at Buford 3200 Woodward Crossing Blvd. Ste. A103 lowing a press release on Buford, GA 30519 770-945-3777 Friday morning. thefoottraveler.com The NAACP DeKalb The civil rights orgaOutside The Mall of GA • Behind HH Gregg • Across From Honey Baked Ham County branch is request- nization released a list of Mon-Sat 10am-8pm • Sun 12:30pm-5:30pm recommendations for the park. However, it does not include changing the monument of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Confederate president Jefferson Davis on the face of the mountain.

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Everscent is a cap-sized accessory that holds fragrances for both men and woman.

Imran said what sets Everscent apart from other products is the fact that it will release a small amount of fragrance with body movement, allowing wearers to continue to smell pleasant throughout the day.

“It fits in your pocket, or you can wear it as a necklace,” Imran said. “It’s pretty much an air freshener for your body.”

Imran said he learned how to design the product during his summer break in 2017 using a 3-D printer and watching videos on how to use the printer.

The sophomore gives credit to his father as one of the reasons that he devel-

oped an interest in business.

“My dad was a stock trader on Wall Street and retired to go into small businesses,” Imran said. “I would see how my dad would operate a small business and found it really cool.”

Imran said his idol in the business world is billionaire Elon Musk because of his desire to defy the odds and prove people wrong.

Currently, FI Enterprises and Holdings does a majority of its advertising through the company website, faizimran.com, and Imran’s Instagram page, @faizimran_official, which has more than 13,000 followers.

“We’re expanding a lot and get calls from people in New Jersey and Tennessee that are interested in the company and what we have to offer,” Imran said.

Imran is already looking ahead at the next product his company will begin researching. While it is still in the development stages, he hinted that the company is looking at an online cloudbased solution to memory and storage problems that computers develop.

“The first idea was the hardest, but I wouldn’t have met some of the people that I have had I not started this,” Imran said. “A lot of the things that I look at are everyday problems that I encounter and try to solve, and it’s worked so far.”

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wasn’t aggressive enough,” Imran said. “As I’m losing this money, I stop buying from the dollar store and going with Amazon.”

The Peachtree Ridge High School sophomore said he would then contact e-commerce companies such as Alibaba and DHgate.com.

The switch to a wholesale supplier was how Imran stayed afloat.

“I was making $1,000 to $2,000 a month but losing it all,” Imran said. “I just realized that I needed to shift my focus to just wholesale products.”

He credits the fidget spinner craze as a key reason he has become so successful.

“We have fidget spinners and pop sockets that would go on the back of your phone in stock,” Imran said. “Those started going crazy. I would have a ton of kids from different schools contacting me about reselling them.”

The demand changed his business model from just him selling items to other students selling the products as well.

“I would give students 20 or 30 to sell,” Imran said.

“We would get them for $3 and sell them for $7. It was wild: They would keep coming back and say they needed more.”

The success from selling the fidget spinners prompted Imran to form a limited

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tion has released a list of changes they would like to be seen done including: • Ceasing all references to Stone Mountain Park as a memorial to the Confederacy; • Modifying the Historic Square so it does not refer to a plantation • Removing all antebellum references and symbols in the park; and • Changing the names of all streets named for Confederates.

The park has four roads — Robert E. Lee Boulevard, Jefferson Davis Drive, Stonewall Jackson Drive and John B. Gordon Drive — named after Confederate figures.

Any changes to the park would require a vote

by the Georgia General Assembly to change the current law that prohibits the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces.

The end of the Georgia General Assembly 2018 legislative session occurred March 29, meaning that any vote or action on Stone Mountain will have to wait until Jan 2019 when state legislature reconvenes.

In addition, The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which manages park operations, would have to approve the removal.

According to NAACP DeKalb, there will only be a nominal financial cost to make the requested changes.

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The True Grass Band performs at the Everett’s Music Barn Bluegrass Festival fundraiser at the performing venue in Suwanee on Saturday. Nine bluegrass bands performed at the event. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

death, bluegrass musicians came to their home and they played music together. Those songs, often intertwined with the same themes found in gospel music, provided a way to deal with the grief — but the music never stopped.

Every Saturday night, musicians gather at the house and the barn, which was added a few years after Jerry’s murder, and play music. Photos hang in the old house showing all of the bluegrass performers who have swung by to perform over the decades.

“It’s a very important place, historically, in the Atlanta area for bluegrass music,” Palmer said. “All the great players that played in Atlanta played here at one time or another.”

The bluegrass festival fundraiser began in the early 1980s as a way to support the music venue.

There are two festivals held each year, one in the spring and one in the fall.

“It’s the historic factor, as well as the overall behavior and the atmosphere,” Tommy Everett

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Small business owners The county’s 12th anare invited to sit down the nual Supplier Symposium U.S. Small Business Adwill be held from 8:30 ministration’s local advoto 11:30 a.m. April 26 at cate for a the Gwinnett Justice and roundtable Administration Center, 75 discusLangley Drive in Lawsion in renceville. It will be hostGwinnett ed by the Gwinnett County County Purchasing Division. later this “We want to help month. vendors do business with The Gwinnett County governbruce Small ment,” Purchasing DirecLeVell Business tor Bryant Davis said in a Round Table with SBA statement. “This sympoRegion 4 Advocate Bruce sium allows them to learn LeVell will be held at the about the latest policies Gateway85 Community and procedures in the Improvement District Ofprocurement process. Plus, fice from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. we believe that we can April 17. During the free save taxpayer dollars if event, participants will dis- we have more companies cuss issues and challenges competing for our busithat small businesses face. ness.”

“This is your opportuVendors who attend nity to provide feedback the free event will have that will assist the Office a chance to learn about of Advocacy in voicing Gwinnett’s purchasing the region’s small busiprocedures and upcoming ness concerns to the White projects, and meet repHouse, federal agencies resentatives from county and Congress,” Gateway85 departments. officials said in an email Representatives from announcement about the Gwinnett cities, the Gwinevent. nett County Chamber of The CID’s office is loCommerce and neighborcated at 1770 Indian Trail ing counties will also be at Lilburn Road, Suite 150 the event. in Norcross. Officials said Vendors who are inbreakfast will be provided terested in attending the for participants. symposium can register by visiting the Purchasing Division page at www.

County hosting gwinnettcounty.com. A networking event “how-to” manual and for vendors information on current and upcoming projects will Gwinnett County ofalso be located on that ficials will hold a network- page.

said. “There’s no alcohol served here, and it’s a clean-run venue — a historic venue that’s been run the same way all 54 years.”

For some of the musicians, Everett’s Music Barn holds a special place in their hearts, either because they grew up and learned how to play bluegrass or the venue, or because they had a connection to the Everett Family Band.

“I definitely grew up here,” Jeff Autry told the audience during The Edgar Loudermilk Band set, featuring Jeff Autry. “I came here for the first time in 1972, (and) my dad played upright bass with the Everett brothers. So this is a homecoming. It’s a valid cause, (so) everyone be generous at the donation jar back there.”

Darrell Wilson, who is a member of the Everett Family Band, said he has several memories of the music barn, dating back nearly 50 years. He’s always had an interest in playing bluegrass music, and played in bands before he joined Everetts band.

“This was always my favorite place to come and play,” Wilson said.

That reverence for the venue comes from audience members too.

Layla Autry-Velazquez, who is Jeff Autry’s niece, said she began visiting Everett’s with her grandfather and cousin, Zack, when she was about 3. She attended the festival with her husband, Bryan, and their young daughter, Luciana.

Her cousin now performs with his dad.

The venue holds special

Willie Wells and The Blue Ridge Mountain Grass banjo player David Prosser performs with the group during the Everett’s Music Barn Bluegrass Festival fundraiser at the performing venue in Suwanee on Saturday.

meaning to her because of her grandfather’s connection to the Everett Family Band, and because of her childhood music.

“Every Saturday, we’d be up here, so it’s nice to see that 21 years later, they’re still here,” AutryVelazquez said.

Monroe resident Zach Weber said he began going to Everett’s Music Barn a few years ago to play with other musicians. He was one of the attendees

who participated in the impromptu jam sessions Saturday, picking away at his banjo as other musicians picked away at their instruments and sang together.

“It’s just the quality of pickers (and) the good music,” Weber said about why he likes the venue. “I try to get over here every chance I get, even if it’s not a fundraiser, but it’s good music, good people, good picking.”

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Saturday night was something of a homecoming for Barry Palmer as he warmed up on the banjo in the old house at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee.

The Bluegrass Alliance band leader got his training at Everett’s in 1975, eventually learning how to play an array of instruments.

Since then, he’s performed at venues near and far with his band, picking away on stage and in jam sessions with other musicians.

But it’s always special when he comes back to Everett’s.

“I’ve had some of the best times of my life here,” Palmer said. “I reach a state of euphoria here that I don’t reach at a lot of other places.”

The Bluegrass Alliance was one of nine bands who performed at Everett’s Music Barn’s Bluegrass Festival fundraiser. Each band played for about an hour in the small barn, which can give off the aura of an unofficial — and probably unintentional — temple to bluegrass with its two rows of church pews that are used for seats.

In the old Everett house next to the barn, bluegrass devotees filled each room, picking at their instruments in impromptu jam sessions.

“It’s like that every Saturday,” Everett’s Music Barn owner Tommy Everett said.

Everett’s has been a destination for bluegrass musicians and fans for 54 years, with its roots beginning after the death of Jerry Everett, who was one of three Gwinnett County police officers who were murdered together in 1964.

Jerry’s brothers, Roger and Randall, had founded the Everett Family Band, and after their brother’s

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opportunities to spread love. Maybe that’s you buying a piece of the jewelry and giving it to someone as a Mother’s When Courtney Johnson returned to Day gift or a graduation gift or a ‘just jewelry designing two years ago, she because’ gift, but you know, wrapped did it to spend more time with her kids. up in that gift is just the reflection “I grew up in Snellville and was a of the beauty that we carry within graduate of Brookwood High School ourselves.” and then went on to the University Each year for the past five years, of Georgia, where I studied fashion Belk has hosted a competition, the merchandising,” Johnson said. “I Southern Designer Showcase, which decided not to pursue my career in the recruits designers who have a confashion industry right off the bat and nection to the South and who want to worked for some various nonprofits grow their business to compete in what for a number of years. Then about two Johnson called a “Shark Tank”-type years ago, I decided I really wanted to event. spend more time with my kids and so The contest, which Belk announced I decided I was going to take a leap of in January would come back this year faith and go back into something that for its sixth year, ultimately gives had just kind of been a creative hobby.” several winners a cash prize along with Johnson couldn’t have imagined a space for their collections to be sold when she turned that hobby of making in-store and online. handcrafted jewelry into a small busiJohnson said she entered after hearness that she would end up selling her ing about it from a previous winner. items in Belk.

“A winner from the previous year, Yet that’s exactly happened, with who’s also an Atlanta resident, was her collection, named Agape Gems, giving a talk to a women’s group about launching about two weeks ago. being an entrepreneur and shared “The name of my brand is really (information) about the competition,” my story,” Johnson said. “Agape is the Johnson said. “I just decided, ‘What is Greek word for unconditional love and there to lose?’ So I sent in my applicamy brand is really just about creating tion and sort of thought, ‘Maybe I’ll

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The following students were named to the President’s list at Kennesaw State University during the fall 2017 semester: Paul Artigues of Auburn, Lacey Harper of Auburn, Amber Tubbs of Auburn, Abigail Fitler of Braselton, Cory Godfrey of Braselton, Aliya Kroninger of Braselton, Kimberley Ramdial of Braselton, Kendall Stites of Braselton, Emma Thomas of Braselton, Mallory Ackinclose of Buford, Matthew Blomquist of Buford, Mary Brackett of Buford, Brent Cassidy of Buford, Aliyah Crumbley of Buford, Hailey Davis of Buford, Kameron Downs of Buford, Taylor Grant of Buford, Vivian Guy of Buford, Andrew Johnson of Buford, Trevor Johnston of Buford, Lauren Jones of Buford, Jayson-d’rell Joseph of Buford, Lauren Kimsey of Buford, Dominique Land of Buford, Jesse Manders of Buford, Brett McGee of Buford, Sade Nesmith of Buford, Javid Ona of Buford, Ryan Page of Buford, Destiny Paige of Buford, Blake Pullen of Buford, Olivia Purser of Buford, Mikayla Smith of Buford, Samuel Strausser of Buford, Hannah Teague of Buford, Tamia Wayne of Buford, Celin Yu of Buford, Alyssa Archie of Dacula, Sloan Bennett of Dacula, Gavin Cloud of Dacula Aidan Coganow of Dacula, Lyndsey Crawford of Dacula, Dawson Dobash of Dacula, Kimberlyn Donnelly of Dacula, Joseph King of Dacula, William Klueber of Dacula, Amanda Kozlowski of Dacula, Chelsea Lavender of Dacula, Delanie Mason of Dacula, Austin McIntyre of Dacula, Christopher Nasi of Dacula, Brett Russell of Dacula, Joanna Russell of Dacula, Alexandria Seigler of Dacula, Glenn Starr of Dacula, Abigail Teany of Dacula, Keairah Turner of Dacula, Lauren Vick of Dacula, Lindsay Wulf of Dacula, Jenna Anderson of Duluth, Yoo Choi of Duluth, Lawrence-Anthony D’Addio of Duluth, Macy Dykes of Duluth, Juan Garcia of Duluth, Steve Grandison of Duluth, Morgan Hall of Duluth, Bradley Hays of Duluth, Duc Huy Ho of Duluth, Amanda Hua of Duluth, Kelsey Killian-Purser of Duluth, Joseph Kourieh of Duluth, Mikhail Leshchev of Duluth, Kirklyn Malone of Duluth, Joshua Min of Duluth, Kirsten Nguyen of Duluth, Jae Park of Duluth, Fernando Quispe Tardio of Duluth, Jeffrey Scoggins of Duluth, Aisha Siddiqui of Duluth, Madison Strauss of Duluth, Georgi Valkov of Duluth, Marsha Wright of Duluth, Linda Yeh of Duluth, Ashley Zambetti of Duluth, Serena Abouzeidan of Grayson, Brittney Adams of Grayson, Taylor Allum of Grayson, Jordan Bond of Grayson, Tamia Ferrell of Grayson, Hazel Lika of Grayson, Hannah Lippincott of Grayson, Brittany Notice of Grayson, Nicholas Peters of Grayson, Jahiara Robinson of Grayson, Sebastian-Jacques Valbrun of Grayson, Nathan Blahnik of Hoschton, Elizabeth Boyd of Hoschton, William Chastain of Hoschton, Madison Holcomb of Hoschton, Makensy Holcomb of Hoschton, Hayley Isbell of Hoschton, Jacob Poole of Hoschton, Heath Sinclair of Hoschton, Alexandria Whitten of Hoschton, Dylan Chapa of Johns Creek, Danning Liu of Johns Creek, Dawood Mohammed of Johns Creek, Nkem Otaluka of Johns Creek, Matthew Scott of Johns Creek, Alister Sore’ of Johns Creek, Colin Allen of Lawrenceville, Julia Basil of Lawrenceville, Jessie Bonham of Lawrenceville, Christina Bridges of Lawrenceville, Charles Briscoe of Lawrenceville, Shanice Brown of Lawrenceville, Mckenzie Burgess of Lawrenceville, Brittany Chambers of Lawrenceville, Laura Chelaru of Lawrenceville, Tiffany Chen of Lawrenceville, Jennifer Colclough of Lawrenceville, Asha Cyrill of Lawrenceville, Roxanne Daley of Lawrenceville, Christopher Dancy of Lawrenceville, Fabrice De Miguel-Wombel of Lawrenceville, Cara DeSandre of Lawrenceville, Hon Du of Lawrenceville, Katie Dutton of Lawrenceville, Medhane Elias of Lawrenceville, Grace Fitts of Lawrenceville, Francheska Geegbae of Lawrenceville, Amrit Ghuman of Lawrenceville, Nicholas Graff of Lawrenceville, Julia Gyamfi of Lawrenceville, Daniel Haider of Lawrenceville, Jeremiah Hayes of Lawrenceville, William Hightower of Lawrenceville, Eva Hinsbi of Lawrenceville, Chanel Holmes of Lawrenceville, Benjamin Hope of Lawrenceville, Gary Hopkins of Lawrenceville, James Horn of Lawrenceville, Hiep Huynh of Lawrenceville, Joseph Jibreen of Lawrenceville, Miraj Jivani of Lawrenceville, Onika Kelly of Lawrenceville, Eun Sik Kim of Lawrenceville, Abby King of Lawrenceville, Megan Koblitz of Lawrenceville, Laura Lancaster of Lawrenceville, Donovan Leary of Lawrenceville, Simona Lucchi of Lawrenceville, Sarah Matos of Lawrenceville, Jasmin Moffett of Lawrenceville, Aaron Nauert of Lawrenceville, Christine Neal of Lawrenceville, Maya Nelson of Lawrenceville, Emily Newton of Lawrenceville, Don Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Michael Nolan of Lawrenceville, Meghan O’Harra of Lawrenceville, Briana Patrick of Lawrenceville, Kimberly Payne of Lawrenceville, Mahnoor Rattani of Lawrenceville, Jade Rivers of Lawrenceville, Jorge RomanGarcia of Lawrenceville, Sam Roy of Lawrenceville, Sean Sack-

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The following students were named to the President’s list at Georgia State University for the fall 2017 semester: Lydia Abatkun of Duluth, Manal Abdulwahb of Lawrenceville, Joshua Adams of Norcross, Maham Ahmad of Lawrenceville, Shahab Ahmed of Suwanee, Mohammed Ahsan of Lawrenceville, Opeyemi Aina of Duluth, Blessing Ajufo of Norcross, Rasha Akhdar of Lawrenceville, Courtney Akinosho of Snellville, Tiffany Alexander of Buford, Sade Alfred of Snellville, Niaomi Allen of

Lilburn, Catherine Alton of Duluth, Kimberly Alvarez of Lawrenceville, Mohammad Alwani of Lilburn, Shahzain Amin of Lilburn,Christine Amyette of Lilburn, Alba Anderson of Lilburn, Amanda Anderson of Suwanee, Hannah Anderson of Lawrenceville, Kaila Andino of Lawrenceville, Amy Andrelchik of Lawrenceville, Avery Andrews of Lawrenceville, Shahnaz Ansary of Lilburn, Allison Appelbaum of Duluth, Luz Marie Arroyave Garcia of Buford, Keyera Ashe of Snellville, Anthony Asilo of Duluth, Abdirahim Askar of Lawrenceville, Christian Atehortua of Lawrenceville, Noor Awad of Norcross, Erika Ayala Romero of Norcross, Dasom Bae of Suwanee, Fatoumata Bah of Lawrenceville, Viji Balakrishnan of Suwanee, Paul Balta of Lawrenceville, Kent Barber of Hoschton, Catresa Barlow of Lawrenceville, Nicholas Barnard of Lawrenceville, Rebecca Bass of Lawrenceville, Taraneh Bayke of Johns Creek, Jaehyung Bae of Duluth, Eunjoo Bang of Suwanee, Suzanne Beatty of Norcross, Tarah Beavers of Lilburn, Zachary Benator of Duluth, Joanna Benshoof of Snellville, Daniel Betts of Lawrenceville, Stephanie Beuter Rathlef of Lilburn, Yasir Bhuiyan of Lawrenceville, Samantha Bierworth of Lilburn, Jeni Biju of Snellville, Matthew Bishop of Snellville, Raktim Biswas of Norcross, Zachary Blanchard of Duluth, Nicole Blanding of Snellville, Ryan Blanton of Lilburn, Erika Bond of Lawrenceville, Alyisha Bouges of Duluth, Elia Boutros of Lilburn, Harold Boyett of Suwanee, Briana Brisco of Lawrenceville, Bonnie Brooks of Snellville, Vy Bui of Sugar Hill, Nolan Bullard of Snellville, Zheng Cao of Duluth, Daniela Calero of Lawrenceville, Amelia Campbell of Snellville, Corey Campbell of Johns Creek, Johan Campino of Lawrenceville, Aamish Captain of Duluth, Kristen Carter of Dacula, Erica Casella of Lawrenceville, Brittany Castaneda of Lawrenceville, Fiorella Castillejo of Lawrenceville, Bianca Ceballos of Lawrenceville, Kwan Chan of Duluth, Jiayi Chen of Lawrenceville, Linglong Chen of Suwanee, Riya Cherian of Lawrenceville, Jack Chhun of Norcross, Hyun Cho of Suwanee, Sarah Cho of Johns Creek, Yejun Cho of Duluth, Nicole Choe of Suwanee, Hae Choi of Duluth, Jin Eun Choi of Lawrenceville, Grace Chong of Suwanee, Heidi Chong of Duluth, Benjamin Choo of Buford, Rahatul Choudhury of Lilburn, Aaja Christie of Lawrenceville, Yeasung Chun of Buford, Chloe Chung of Lilburn, Yaqueline Cisneros of Lawrenceville, Courtney Civelli of Lawrenceville, Brant Clark of Grayson, Sydney Clark of Buford, Caitlin Clausen of Lilburn, Sneha Cleetus of Lawrenceville, Sarah Cloud of Lawrenceville, Shelby Copeland of Lawrenceville, Santiago Cortes of Lawrenceville, Beniamin Costea of Duluth, Cynthia Cotes Perez of Lawrenceville, Kimberly Coulton of Buford, Brandon Crosby of Duluth, Cameron Cowen of Hoschton, Hannah Crews of Lilburn, Gloria Cudd of Braselton, Anna Culberson of Lawrenceville, Catherine Currie of Lilburn, Landon Cutler of Suwanee, Melissa da Vila of Snellville, Lechen Dai of Lawrenceville, Vinay Dalal of Lawrenceville, Hardikkumar Dalsania of Duluth, Kimngoc Dang of Lawrenceville, Long Dang of Norcross, Ashley Delventura of Snellville, Haley DeRogatis of Sugar Hill, Lindsey DeWick of Suwanee, Ivan Diaz Lomeli of Lilburn, Gergana Dimitrova of Lilburn, Carter Dimock of Norcross, David Ding of Duluth, Bilan Djama of Lilburn, An Do of Lawrenceville, Timothy Do of Lawrenceville, Irma Dogic of Snellville, Allison Doherty of Sugar Hill, Ekaterina Domashchenko of Lilburn, Dulari Doshi of Lilburn, Kennedy Doss of Snellville, Amie Drammeh of Norcross, Yi Du of Duluth, Allyson Dubon of Norcross, Lenval Duffus of Snellville, Kayla Duncan of Snellville, Cam Linh Duong of Lawrenceville, Ciara Edwards of Johns Creek, Marjan Ehtesab of Duluth, David Eisenstein of Lilburn, Jenna Elliott of Dacula, Tasneem Elsaqa of Johns Creek, Ryley Elwood of Lilburn, Valerie Elyash of Norcross, Annie Flore Emani of Norcross, Saron Epps of Norcross, Selena EtkinsAllison of Suwanee, Donya Fakharzadeh of Suwanee, Nazanin Fakharzadeh of Suwanee, Mariangela Falcon of Duluth, Shuge Fan of Duluth, Jayne Feldman of Duluth, Donovan Fernander of Snellville, Quentin Fernander of Snellville, Sally Fick of Lawrenceville, Wendmarie Figueroa of Snellville, Zyah Finley of Lawrenceville, James Finocchio of Norcross, Juanpablo Flores of Duluth, Mayela Flores of Lawrenceville, Eleanor Fox of Lawrenceville, Ella Freitas of Lawrenceville, Jennifer Friedlander of Lawrenceville, Cyanne Fuller of Suwanee, Samantha Gaddy of Duluth, Julia Gallucci of Lilburn, Juan Galvis of Norcross, Poojitha Ganji of Duluth, Siyu Gao of Suwanee, Diana Garcia Saldana of Lawrenceville, Jaime Garrett of Snellville, Layla Ghalayini of Johns Creek, Samir Ghulam Rasoul of Lawrenceville, Lucia Gil of Norcross, Isabella Giraldo Rios of Buford, Chase Glenn of

Lilburn, Michigan Moses Goldsby of Lawrenceville, Mikera Gordon of Grayson, Roxana Gonzales of Lawrenceville, Noe Gonzalez of Norcross, Kayleigh Goodman of Lawrenceville, Caroline Gouveia of Suwanee, Ryan Grava of Johns Creek, Lindsay Green of Lawrenceville, Alyce Griffin of Lilburn, Saisha Gupta of Johns Creek, Abdullah Habeeb of Lilburn, Abbas Haider of Suwanee, Jedidiahy Hailu of Lilburn, Shideh Haji Seyed Javadi of Duluth, Jeni Hamby of Suwanee, Talitha Hanks of Snellville, SK MD Navidul Haque of Norcross, Sloane Hardin of Suwanee, Ashley Harkins of Lawrenceville, Brianna Harris of Grayson, Lewis Harris of Lawrenceville, Tiffany Harris of Suwanee, Jada Hastings of Duluth, Remington Hasty of Grayson, Katie Havel of Lawrenceville, Kristin Hawkins of Dacula, Cody Henderson of Hoschton, Nicole Henry of Snellville, Manuela HernandezCalderon of Lawrenceville, Jason Herrera of Suwanee, Victor Herrera of Suwanee, Christopher Ho of Norcross, De-Pei Ho of Duluth, Michael Ho of Suwanee, Nguyen Ho of Norcross, Victor Ho of Johns Creek, Thuy Hoang of Lawrenceville, Ashley Hogan of Lawrenceville, Willis Holder of Lawrenceville, Carter Holland of Suwanee, Christian Holmes of Buford, Jeongryeol Hong of Duluth, Kristina Hooper of Suwanee, Anna Hostetler of Suwanee, Jordyn Howard of Johns Creek, Koei Howell of Lawrenceville, Tran Yen Nhi Hua of Lawrenceville, Carol Huffstetler of Sugar Hill, Brandon Hunt of Suwanee, Kevin Huynh of Lawrenceville, Khoa Huynh of Norcross, Ngocthy Huynh of Lilburn, Tan-Khang Huynh of Lawrenceville, Jessica Hyatt of Dacula, Naylah Ibrahim of Lawrenceville, Francine Ichim of Hoschton, Ibukun Ige of Norcross, Adnan Ikic of Lawrenceville, Ibrahim Islam of Lilburn, Ibukun Ige of Norcross, Uduak Ita of Snellville, Usak Ita of Snellville, Jeremy Jackson of Lilburn, Grace Jafojo of Lilburn, Aldin Jakupovic of Norcross, Mamona Javed of Lawrenceville, Ailun Jian of Norcross, Melissa Jimenez Ramos of Norcross, Soha Jiwani of Lilburn, Nestina Johar of Duluth, Jithin John of Grayson, Dominique Jones of Snellville, Malachi Jones of Lawrenceville, Nailah Jones of Snellville, Stacey Jones of Norcross, Kira Jordan of Lawrenceville, Ashley Joseph of Grayson, Pallav Joshi of Grayson, Danielle Judge of Sugar Hill, Jiwon Jun of Duluth, Elisa Jung of Suwanee, Sehyeon Jung of Duluth, Won-Suk Jung of Duluth, Rizaan Kamruddin of Lilburn, Anna Kang of Duluth, Min-Ji Kang of Lawrenceville, Timmy Kao of Lilburn, Lisa Kawamura of Duluth, Meredith Keisler of Duluth, Ashton Kelly of Suwanee, Zachary Kemlein of Lilburn, Aliz Khakoo of Lilburn Nabila Khan of Duluth, Lilly Khokhlan of Dacula, Angy Kim of Suwanee, Anna Kim of Buford, Christine Kim of Duluth, Daniel Kim of Lilburn, Grace Kim of Sugar Hill, Haeun Kim of Duluth, Hannah Kim of Buford, Jessica Kim of Duluth, Jung Hoon Kim of Duluth, Kevin Kim of Suwanee, MinJun Kim of Lawrenceville, Niko Kim of Suwanee, Rachel Kim of Suwanee, Tiffany Kim of Buford, Young Kim of Suwanee, Nathan Kimmel of Suwanee, Yechan Kim of Dacula, Elmiche Kinmakon of Grayson, Kevin Kissel of Lilburn, Ian Knurek of Dacula, Christopher Knuycky of Suwanee, Eunbi Ko of Suwanee, Do Hyun Kong of Johns Creek, Svyatoslav Kosolapov of Buford, Sravya Koya of Suwanee, Ratislav Krylov of Auburn, Anna LaCavera of Snellville, Connor Lacy of Johns Creek, Othman Lahmaydi of Suwanee, Beenish Lakhani of Lawrenceville, Kennex Lam of Duluth, Latajah Lambey of Lawrenceville, Jennifer Langley of Duluth, Duc Le of Lawrenceville, Minh Le of Norcross,Nancy Le of Norcross, Noah Le of Norcross, Sophia Le of Lawrenceville, Susu Le of Norcross, Tony Le of Norcross, Tuan Le of Lawrenceville, Albert Lee of Dacula, Celia Lee of Duluth, Chanmi Lee of Duluth, Hannah Lee of Lawrenceville, Hee Lee of Buford, Hyeong Lee of Duluth, Jane Lee of Buford, Jennifer Lee of Duluth, Jin Woo Lee of Buford, Ruda Lee of Duluth, SeungMin Lee of Duluth, Steven Lee of Norcross, Yuna Lee of Suwanee, Forest Leffew of Suwanee, Maria Paula Lengua Espejo of Norcross, Jizxin Li of Duluth, Jeremiah Lightner of Lilburn, Tommy Lim of Duluth, Roosan Liyons of Dacula, Jin Lin of Lilburn, Onching Lin of Duluth, Tiffany Ling of Lilburn, Lifen Liu of Norcross, Yuansheng Liu of Duluth, Yuanyuan Liu of Duluth, Andrew Lloyd of Buford, Daniela Lolandes of Dacula, Dean Long of Johns Creek, Jeanette Lopez of Norcross, Kevin Lopez Castellanos of Lawrenceville, Blake Lowe of Duluth, Kendy Lozano Ramirez of Norcross, Wanjun Luo of Duluth, Mindy Luong of Lilburn, Angela Luu of Norcross, Christopher Luu of Norcross, May Ly of Duluth, Melissa Lynch of Snellville, Ian Lyner of Lawrenceville, Tina Mach of Lilburn, Marshayla Mackabee of Norcross, Susanne MacKinnon of Duluth, Bianca Magallanes of Lawrenceville, Catherine Magbee of Buford, Ister Mahamud of Lilburn, Jilene

Maldonado of Buford, Olivia Maley of Johns Creek, William Mannen of Lilburn, Kevin Mannino of Suwanee, Katya Markotic of Johns Creek, Janee’ Marshall of Hoschton, Jalyn Martin of Snellville, Savannah Martin of Hoschton, Francisco Martinez of Sugar Hill, Janet Martinez of Norcross, Juan Martinez of Lawrenceville, Paris Martini of Johns Creek, Sean Mathew of Lilburn, Marissa Matta of Snellville, Carolina Mauersberg of Suwanee, Katherine Mazer of Braselton, Emmanuel May of Lawrenceville, Morgan McCree of Buford, LeAnne McDaniel of Berkeley Lake, Madeline McGee of Snellville, Mark Mcgovern of Duluth, Claire Mcgranahan of Buford, Alexander McIntosh of Suwanee, Tyler McPherson of Duluth, Nancy Medcalf of Snellville, Emily Mendez of Snellville, Frances Meyer of Dacula, Jacob Meyer of Lilburn, Nejra Miljkovic of Grayson, Alyssa Milton of Snellville, Sohui Min of Duluth, Casie Minot of Suwanee, Chowdhury Mohaiman of Lilburn, Aleem Mohammad of Lawrenceville, Aizad Mohdzaid of Duluth, Kayhan Mohseni of Lilburn, Matthew Molini of Lawrenceville, Amani Momin of Peachtree Corners, Anastasia Monson of Dacula, Neima Montoya Ibarra of Norcross, Sarah Moore of Dacula, Gisseth Mora Scarpetta of Lilburn, Federico Morales Barrera of Duluth, Debora Morgan of Duluth, Reagan Morgan of Lawrenceville, Justin Morris of Auburn, Matthew Mottet of Lawrenceville, Sawsan Mumen of Norcross, Ji Mun of Duluth, Eduardo Munoz of Lawrenceville, Eirin Murphy of Lawrenceville, Kelly Murphy of Dacula, Jasmine Na of Duluth, Salomon Nabine of Norcross, Zeel Naik of Lawrenceville, Nafisa Nawal of Buford, Rubama Neha of Lawrenceville, Charlie Neopane of Lilburn, Joshua Ng of Lawrenceville, Abby Ngo of Norcross, Albert Nguyen of Lawrenceville, An The Thien Nguyen of Duluth, Anh Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Anthony Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Anthony Nguyen of Norcross, Bao Phuong Nguyen of Lilburn, Bethany Nguyen of Lilburn, Dang Nguyen of Norcross, Derlina Phung Nguyen of Norcross, Dominic Nguyen of Norcross, Dorena Nguyen of Lilburn, Duc Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Duyen Nguyen of Peachtree Corners, Elizabeth Nguyen of Norcross, Giam Nguyen of Norcross, Henry Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Jessica Nguyen of Duluth, Johnathan Nguyen of Lilburn, Le Nhat Nguyen of Norcross, Luan Nguyen of Norcross, Marrie Nguyen of Norcross, Martin Nguyen of Duluth, Nguyen Nguyen of Norcross, Phi Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Philip Nicholas of Lilburn, Phuong Nguyen of Norcross, Tina Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Tram Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Quan Andy Nguyen of Norcross, Van Nguyen of Norcross, Vienna Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Onisim Nistor of Buford, Jane Nixon of Lilburn, Gabriella Norton of Dacula, Shara Noori of Lawrenceville, Enis Norman of Lawrenceville, Isabella Nuccio of Lilburn, Chi-Chi Nwankwo of Norcross, Emily Oakes of Suwanee, Candis Odell of Lawrenceville, Yei Oh of Dacula, Youjin Oh of Lawrenceville, Hiroki Okura of Suwanee, Mary O’Neil of Lilburn, Samantha Ordaz of Buford, Diana Oshorun of Norcross, Maria Otero of Snellville, Stanley Otiwu of Buford, Ying Ou of Lawrenceville, Dawson Owen of Snellville, Kaitlyn Owens of Lawrenceville, Eunjin Paek of Duluth, Elder Palacios of Buford, Marla Palma of Norcross, Sahil Panchal of Duluth, Rachael Parillo of Lawrenceville, Cynthia Park of Duluth, Fabian Park of Suwanee, Jejin Park of Suwanee, So Mi Park of Buford, So Min Park of Duluth, Thomas Park of Johns Creek, Jacob Parker of Auburn, Akash Patel of Suwanee, Astha Patel of Lilburn, Bhume Patel of Suwanee, Hiral Patel of Lilburn, Hiren Patel of Norcross, Partha Paul of Snellville, Pujan Patel of Suwanee, Zeal Patel of Suwanee, Benny Payero of Norcross, Priscila Paz Soldan of Lawrenceville, Amy Pham of Lilburn, Kenny Pham of Lawrenceville, Tombalina Pham of Johns Creek, Vinh Pham of Norcross, Michelle Phan of Lawrenceville, Min Chen Peng of Lilburn, Sinara Penuela Rodriguez of Lawrenceville, Carson Perry of Snellville, Phuong Phung of Norcross, Keontae Pierce of Duluth, Robert Pitcher of Lawrenceville, Nichole Place of Lawrenceville, Alena Plaskett of Sugar Hill, Danielle Ponder of Lawrenceville, Chet Popelka of Lawrenceville, Aaron Portal of Snellville, Christina Presmy of Lilburn, Maya Preston of Peachtree Corners, Alora Pruitt of Snellville, Tabita Purcar of Dacula, Chang Pyo of Suwanee, Oluwatobiloba Quadri of Lawrenceville, Yifan Qiu of Duluth, Estefania Quinones of Duluth, Ilenia Quintero of Buford, Jasmin Quirarte of Lilburn, Sarah Rainwater of Grayson, Neenu Raju of Lawrenceville, Catherine Rakowiecki of Lawrenceville, Janavi Ramesh of Duluth, Jorge Ramirez of Lawrenceville, Romario Ramjhattan of Lawrenceville, Liliana Ramos of Lawrenceville, Taylor Ray of Lawrenceville, Muhammad Ali Raza of Norcross, Casey Reyes

of Norcross, Wilmer Reynoso of Snellville, Zachary Rhodes of Suwanee, Dylan Rinik of Peachtree Corners, Sara Rios of Peachtree Corners, Emily Rios-Hernandez of Lawrenceville, Bryan Rivas of Lawrenceville, Biana Robinson of Braselton, Bo Rodgers of Duluth, Clevelynn Rodgers of Norcross, Evan Rodgers of Duluth, Evan Rodriguez of Duluth, Victoria Rodriguez of Buford, Na Ri Roh of Duluth, Meri Saharyan of Norcross, Sulekha Said of Snellville, Maria Salazar of Lilburn, Anne-Sophie Salnave of Auburn, Kirvania Sanchez Tavarez of Lilburn, Kyndra Sanford of Suwanee, Sherry Santizo-Gonzalez of Norcross, Munira Sarwar of Lawrenceville, Ryan Savage of Johns Creek, Aarohi Savaliya of Lawrenceville, Elizaveta Savelyeva of Lilburn, Bonita Savun of Norcross, Vicki Schulte of Lawrenceville, Megan Scordato of Buford, Stephen Scoular of Lawrenceville, Kristina Scurry of Dacula, Avneet Sethi of Lilburn, Jungah Seo of Duluth, Emily Sewell of Lawrenceville, Jinalben Shah of Duluth, Khushi Shah of Suwanee, Varunil Shah of Lilburn, Areej Shaheen of Snellville, Ahlam Shaikh of Lilburn, Amila Shake of Snellville, Emaad Shamsi of Lawrenceville, Karan Sharma of Suwanee, Samuel Sharman of Lawrenceville, Haley Shaw of Lawrenceville, Tevin Shaw of Norcross, Sadia Sheikh-Hassan of Lilburn, Ashley Shortell of Lilburn, Bailey Showers of Norcross, Nitheyaa Shree of Lawrenceville, Komal Shrivastava of Suwanee, Parfait Siala Pezo of Duluth, Veronika Siatka of Dacula, Brooke Sienkiewicz of Duluth, Julian D Silva of Lilburn, Caleigh Simpson of Suwanee, Gurnoor Singh of Duluth, Jasraj Singh of Peachtree Corners, Roshan Siwakoti of Lilburn, Natalie Skinner of Duluth, Charles Skyrm of Lilburn, Katherine Sloan of Lilburn, Shelby Smelser of Snellville, Nathan Smith of Buford, George Soetan of Lawrenceville, Shifa Sohani of Lilburn, Julio Soldevilla of Buford, Evelin Solis-Ramirez of Lilburn, Liliana Solorzano of Lawrenceville, Gabrielle Soong of Suwanee, Kasey Sorel of Duluth, Nahom Sososa of Lawrenceville, Rebekah Stage of Lawrenceville, Kevin Stamps of Duluth, Melissa Stan of Lawrenceville, Wanda Stan of Lawrenceville, Kai Stephenson of Johns Creek, Destiny Sterling of Lawrenceville, April Storm of Lawrenceville, La’nece Strickland of Lawrenceville, Valivia Strong-Belin of Snellville, Yasmeen Suarez of Norcross, Parker Sutliff of Suwanee, Madelyn Talbert of Grayson, Trey Talbott of Lilburn, Jade Tang of Lilburn, Xiaoyuan Tang of Suwanee, Cameron Tangco of Suwanee, Elizabeth Tarleton of Duluth, Debra Taylor of Duluth, Jenna Taylor of Johns Creek, Evanel Axel Tchoutouo Tankio of Duluth,Henoch Tedros of Lawrenceville, Zewdi Tesfamichael of Lilburn, Corbin Tessmer of Lawrenceville, Caleb Tetteh of Norcross, Chanh Theavy Thach of Lawrenceville, Ronak Thakker of Lawrenceville, Maya Thomas of Suwanee, Sarah Thomas of Buford, Vibin Thomas of Buford, Ann Thornton of Suwanee, Caroline Tiller of Suwanee, Lesley Tovar of Dacula, Sarah Towhey of Lawrenceville, Melanie Traldi of Suwanee, Alleyson Tran of Hoschton, Corey Tran of Hoschton, Huy Tran of Norcross, Phung Tran of Lawrenceville, Austin Trapani of Norcross, Jeffrey Triemer of Buford, Hanh Trinh of Duluth, Nhi Truong of Norcross, Asha Udvadia of Lawrenceville, Aimen Usmani of Snellville, Micaela Valdez of Lilburn, Brooklyn Valera of Lawrenceville, Fletcher Varnson of Buford, Asha Vassell of Snellville, Tiffany Vasquez of Lilburn, Alafia Vasquez-Lawson of Lawrenceville, Emely Vazquez of Norcross, Juan Velez of Lawrenceville, Le-Ugim Villacorta of Lawrenceville, Ana Villegas of Lilburn, Uriel Villegas of Norcross, Jasmyne Vincent of Snellville, Karim Virani of Lawrenceville,HaiAu Vo of Lawrenceville, Truc Vo of Norcross, Hai-Yen Vo of Lawrenceville, Andy Vu of Dacula, Vy Vu of Lilburn, Jennifer Walker of Norcross, Caitlin Wall of Suwanee, Andy Wang of Lawrenceville, Denna Warrayat of Lawrenceville, Jamal Watts of Lawrenceville, Ryan Webb of Suwanee, Fatima Wehbe of Duluth, Lisha Wei of Norcross, Kaitlyn Weiss of Johns Creek, Hannah Weissinger of Grayson, Avery White of Suwanee, Peyton White of Norcross, Carol Wilber of Norcross, Justin Won of Suwanee, Mary Woodlan of Lawrenceville, Mary Woodrough of Peachtree Corners, Kayla Woods of Suwanee, Princess Wright of Lawrenceville, Kimberly Wynn of Snellville Jiadong Yang of Lawrenceville, Zhuobin Yang of Norcross, Zoe Yapp of Duluth, Sravani Yerramaneni of Suwanee, Esther Yi of Lawrenceville, Wenye Yi of Lawrenceville, Semin Yim of Buford, Matthew Yin of Lilburn, Caroline Yoon of Lawrenceville, Jane Yoon of Suwanee, Derrick Yu of Johns Creek, Austin Yuille of Buford, Shu Zhen of Lawrenceville, Xunjie Zhou of Lawrenceville, Wen Hao Zhu of Duluth and Samuel Zirock of Buford.

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Deal closes Capitol Hill offices for MLK remembrance event Offices at the state Capitol and surrounding state government buildings will be closed Monday as the Capitol Hill area plays host to a ceremony remembering the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Gov. Nathan Deal announced the closing of Nathan Deal offices for the day, with state employees told to telecommute. The King Center is planning to hold a march from the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to the Capitol, where a statue of King is located, as part of events designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights icon’s assassination, which was Wednesday.

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set up an eventbrite page for the march at https:// bit.ly/2qdj6H5.

and historic civil rights leader was cut short far too soon,” Isakson said.

“Thankfully, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., endures. On this anniversary and on every day, we remember the equality and justice that Dr. King fought for on behalf of all mankind.”

Perdue said, “Dr. King changed America forever.

He preached peace and togetherness. That’s what America is all about, and it’s something we need to remind ourselves of daily.

Dr. King said America was a country of destiny, and I believe that.”

their winnings confidential will protect those people avoid Isakson, Perdue: King’s unwanted legacy, message should attention. be remembered SenU.S. Sens. Johnny ate Bill Isakson 331 was and David passed Perdue, by the Steve Curt Yeomans both General Henson R-Ga., Assembly The march is set to praised on Sine Die Day, which begin at noon. the legacy was March 29.

Once the march arrives and mes“The lottery is such at Capitol Hill, members sage of an important mechanism Johnny Isakson of the King family as Martin for our state to be able to well as Deal and other Luther fund vital services and dignitaries will speak King Jr. programs, such as the at a “Love for Humanthis past HOPE Scholarship,” Henity Tribute” ceremony in week as son said in a statement.

Liberty Plaza next to the the nation Henson: Bill will protect “However, sometimes state Capitol. observed lottery winners’ claiming lottery winThe governor also orthe 50th identities from scams nings can present a public dered flags flown at halfanniverState Sen. Steve Hensafety risk, especially staff Monday to honor sary of his son, D-Stone Mountain, when the winnings are David Perdue King and to coincide with assassina- said a bill he sponsored significant. the march and the certion. to let people who win “This bill will help preemony.

“Fifty years ago … the more than $250,000 from vent lottery winners from The King Center has life of a great Georgian the Georgia Lottery keep being inundated with un-

solicited scams and media inquiries. I appreciate members of the Senate and the House coming together to pass this bill and I look forward to it becoming law.”

Upcoming Community Action Network Initiatives Inc. will hold a Gwinnett County town hall meeting to discuss gun safety and school violence at 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Discovery High School Auditorium, at 1335 Old Norcross Road in Lawrenceville.

A flier for the event says state legislators, congressmen, the people running against them this year and “executive branch representatives” are expected to participate in the discussion.

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

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Courtney Johnson, far right, was one of five winners of Belk’s 2018 Southern Designer Showcase competition. (Special Photo)

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of their corporate team on merchandising to ticketing of Belk executives, are to shipping; it’s a different invited to present their debusiness (model) than what signs at Belk’s headquarters most of us business owners in Charlotte, N.C. have dealt with on our small “It was sort of like a scale. A large retailer is a ‘Shark Tank’ presentation,” completely different experiJohnson said. “They had ence.”

13 finalists and we had the That experience, Johnson opportunity to present our said, has been a positive story, our brand and our one, albeit sometimes collection to about 15 of the stressful.

Belk executives and answer Still, she said she’s their questions, and then learned a lot about herself we had a few hours to sit and her business. and wait and find out what “I’ve learned an incredwas going to happen. I was ible amount about the again shocked and amazed importance of branding and when they called my name having all of the pieces tied and I found out that evening together, from the actual that I was one of the winpiece of merchandise to the ners.” tag to the little gift bag that Johnson was one of five comes with it to the story winners. That was June of that is told with it,” Johnson last year, and Johnson said it said. “You basically are has been a whirlwind since. connecting all those pieces “There were about so your brand can stand up nine months of corporate to the other big names that meetings at the headquarare inside Belk. In some of ters,” she said. “It was just the stores, my jewelry is working with different parts displayed next to the Kate

Spade jewelry — that’s crazy. Figuring out that part of the business was huge.”

What was also huge, and continues to be incredibly important, Johnson said, was sticking with the charities she donates some of her profits to.

“My brand gives back a percentage of its sales to support two nonprofits that are fighting human trafficking,” she said. “One of those is based in Atlanta; it’s called Wellspring Living, and the other is an international campaign called the 821 Campaign. I think it’s important to not just think about doing good but actually go and do good, and that’s my way of spreading that agape love — by giving back to places that are doing good not only in our community but out in the world as well.”

To view the collection, visit belk.com/shop-bybrand/southern-designers/ agape-gems.

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

Fay Melton Arendall, author of the book “The Way It Was Back Then,” has lived in Gwinnett County for 82 years. Listen as she tells her daughter about her early life on the farm without phones, electricity, or indoor plumbing.

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Learn about Gwinnett’s past and present from the people who lived it in a new video featured every Wednesday on www.GwinnettDailyPost.com.

Check out the full library at www.Gwinnett200.com.

in Suwanee. Registration is $25. For more information, visit curesarcoma.org/race or email mmueller@curesarcoma.org.

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

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

Tuesday The city of Norcross will The AARP Smart Drihost a Neighborhood CleanverTEK Workshop will help up and Recycling Day on you understand new vehicle safety techniques and how to Saturday. City residents can use them and how the bene- dispose of bulky items from fits of these technologies may 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Public Works Facility, 345 Lively St. enhance your driving safety American Security Shredand extend your safe driving ding will accept up to five years. The workshop begin medium boxes of documents at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Collins Hill library, 455 Camp from the public from 9 a.m. to Perrin Road in Lawrenceville. noon or until the truck is full at Norcross City Hall, 65 LawRepresentatives from renceville St. An electronics the Piedmont Rape Crisis Center will discuss sexual recycling event will take place assault prevention techniques from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the at #fightback: Preventing Norcross Community Center, Sexual Assault. The event 10 College St. For more inforwill take place from 6 to 7 mation, visit norcrossga.net. p.m. Tuesday at the Auburn Volunteers are needed Public Library, 24 Fifth St. for the annual Rivers Alive UGA Gwinnett Extencleanup in Braselton. Meet sion Agent Timothy Daly will at 9 a.m. Saturday at the discuss the many vegetables headquarters of Thompson that can be grown in the area Mill Forest, 1470 New Liberty and how to care for them to Church Road in Braselton. produce a bountiful harvest For more information, call in a Vegetable Gardening Yvette Wise at 706-654-3915 Workshop. The event will ext. 1012 or email ywise@ begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday braselton.net. at the Suwanee library, 361 The Auburn Community Main St. in Suwanee. To reYard Sale will take place from serve a seat, email events@ 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Burel Park, gwinnettpl.org. located on 4th Avenue in Gwinnett residents who downtown Auburn. For more want to serve the cominformation, call 770-963munity and be engaged in 4002. the electoral process are The Rotary Club of Duluth encouraged to attend Gwinwill host its sixth annual Car nett County’s poll official Show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. hiring event from 4 to 7 Saturday in historic downtown p.m. Tuesday at the Shorty Duluth. The show is free and Howell Park Activity Building, open to the public. For more 2750 Pleasant Hill Road in information, visit duluthrotary.

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Voter Registrations and ElecExplore other cultures and tions division is looking for learn about the different serresidents of all backgrounds vices provided by your county but has an urgent need for government at the 2018 Mulbilingual poll workers, particu- ticultural Festival, hosted by larly Spanish speakers. For the Gwinnett County Police more information, visit www.

Department in partnership gwinnettcounty.com. with the Gwinnett County Wednesday Board of CommissionThe city of Snellville will ers, Gwinnett Multicultural host its first Business Dinner Advisory Committee, Center from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday for Pan-Asian Community at GarageWorx, 2385 Clower Services, Safe Kids GwinSt. For more information, call nett and Gwinnett 200. Local Snellville Economic Develgroups will perform folkloric opment Director Eric Van and traditional dances and Otteren at 770-985-3502. songs, and food trucks will be available. The event will take Thursday place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gwinnett residents who want to serve the community Saturday at Shorty Howell Park, 2750 Pleasant Hill and be engaged in the electoral process and encouraged Road in Duluth.

Join Family and Consumer to attend Gwinnett County’s Science Agent Ines Beltran to poll official hiring event get hands-on experience in from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday food preservation by canning at OneStop Buford, 2755 Sawnee Ave. in Buford. The your own apple preserves.

Gwinnett County Voter Regis- Canning 101 — A Culinary trations and Elections division Literacy Series program is looking for residents of will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday all backgrounds but has an at the Suwanee library, 361 urgent need for bilingual poll Main St. in Suwanee. The workers, particularly Spanish workshop costs $10 per speakers. For more informaperson, and payment will be tion, visit www.gwinnettcoun- made the day of the event by ty.com. cash or check. Reservations must be made by April 11. To Saturday reserve a space, email Ines.

The Sarcoma FoundaBeltran@gwinnettcounty.com tion of America has chosen or call 678-377-4010.

Suwanee as the location for Suwanee’s Glow in the its inaugural Race to Cure Park community lantern Sarcoma Atlanta. The 5K parade will feature a strolling Walk/Run starts at 8 a.m. jazz band leading an illumiSaturday in Town Center nated pageant of light, music Park, 330 Town Center Ave. Community Calendar prints periodically and as space permits. Send items for the Community Calendar to calendar@gwinnettdailypost.com or the Gwinnett Daily Post, P.O. Box 603, Lawrenceville, GA, 30046.

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

and color through Old Town and down Brushy Creek Trail, ending at a concert starring ’80s cover band Electric Avenue at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee. The event begins at 5 p.m. Saturday, with the lantern parade at 7:30 p.m. and the concert at 8:30 p.m.

For more information, visit glowinthepark.suwanee.com.

April 16

Ed Bez, president of the International Biblical Botanical Garden Society and minister at The Church at Covington in Oxford, will present “Healing Plants of the Bible” at the Gwinnett County Master Gardeners monthly meeting at 7 p.m.

April 16 at the Bethesda Senior Center, 225 Bethesda Church Road in Lawrenceville. For more information, visit www.gwinnettmastergardeners.com.

April 17

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

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

April 19

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

April 20

The Latin American Association and Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta will provide qualified legal representatives to help in filling out the U.S. Citizenship Application Form N400. The free N400 Citizenship Application Assistance Program will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 20 at the Lilburn branch, 4817 Church St. in Lilburn.

April 21

The city of Suwanee is unleashing a brand-new pet-friendly event: Race for the Rescues 5K and Fun Run. The event starts at 8 a.m. April 21 at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave. in Suwanee. Registration is $25. Proceeds will benefit animal rescue organizations.

For more information, visit race4rescues.com or email race4rescues5K@gmail.com.

The Wildcat Walk 5K and Fun Run will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon April 21 at Duluth High School, 3737 Brock Road in Duluth.

The event is a fundraiser for Duluth High’s football and athletic programs. To register, visit runsignup.com and search for “Wildcat Walk/5K Fun Run.” The ninth annual GCPS ISC Relay For Life 5K Run/ Walk will take place at 8 a.m.

April 21 at Gwinnett County Public Schools’ J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center, 437 Old Peachtree Road N.W. in Suwanee. Participants who register by April 9 will receive a race T-shirt in the size of their choice.

To register, visit www.active. com and search for “Paint the Pavement Purple.”

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Trump threatens to repeat Obama’s mistakes in Syria WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump excoriated President Barack Obama for “the way he got out of Iraq,” which Trump said “was the founding of” the Islamic State. As president, Trump reiterated during a meeting with Iraq’s prime minister that “we should never ever have left. A vacuum was created.”

Trump was right. Obama’s withdrawal did create a vacuum the Islamic State quickly filled.

So why is Trump now threatening to repeat Obama’s mistakes by withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria?

The president recently announced that U.S. troops will be “coming out of Syria … very soon” because “we were very successful against ISIS” and it is time Marc to “let the other Thiessen people take care of it now.” That is exactly the rationale Obama used when he pulled U.S. forces out of Iraq.

The terrorists had been driven from their strongholds, and, according to then-CIA Director John Brennan, they had just “700-or-so adherents left.” So Obama decided, with the Islamic State apparently defeated, that it was time for the United States to come out and let Iraqis “take responsibility for their country.” But when Obama took the boot off of the terrorists’ necks, it allowed the Islamic State to regroup and reconstitute itself.

Trump corrected this catastrophic mistake when he took the gloves off our military and drove the Islamic State from its physical caliphate. He deserves credit for this achievement. But the Islamic State is not defeated; it has simply reverted into an insurgency and remains a terrorist network with global reach. And it is not the only terrorist threat in Syria. Al-Qaida also has an army there waiting in the wings to replace the Islamic State. According to the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project, “Al Qaida … is more dangerous than ISIS,” because although they share “the same aims as ISIS, including the intention of attacking and destroying the West,” al-Qaida is less focused on developing a physical caliphate and more on “insinuating itself inside Sunni insurgencies by harnessing popular grievances … while continuing to build capabilities that could be turned against the West.”

If Trump pulls out of Syria now, he will leave behind a haven for al-Qaida. And his withdrawal could also precipitate the comeback of the Islamic State. The Trump administration drove the Islamic State from its strongholds by working with Kurdish proxies despised by Turkey.

If the United States leaves, Turkey will go after our Kurdish allies, leaving the Islamic State free to regroup and reconstitute — just as it did after Obama’s disastrous withdrawal from Iraq.

That’s not all. A U.S. withdrawal would create an Obama-style vacuum that would be filled by Iran, Hezbollah, Russia and the Assad regime. Iran and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would escalate their brutal campaign of atrocities in Syria — including crossing Trump’s red line on the use of poison gas — which would radicalize the Sunni population, driving them into the waiting arms of al-Qaida.

This could also create a new refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing to the West.

An Obama-style withdrawal from Syria could also free Iran to establish a massive military presence in southwestern Syria, which could spark a catastrophic war with Israel. Israel recently shot down an Iranian drone that had infiltrated its airspace from Syria and accused Iran of building sites in Syria to produce precisionguided missiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel “will not allow a regime hell bent on the annihilation of the Jewish state … to entrench itself militarily in Syria,” and warned that if Iran tried to do so, Israel would act “not only against Iranian proxies that are attacking us, but against Iran itself.” If our goal is to protect Israel and constrain Iran, withdrawal from Syria would do the opposite.

What should Trump be doing in Syria? He should maintain a U.S. presence to secure our military’s gains, protect our Kurdish allies, keep the Islamic State down and prevent al-Qaida from capitalizing on the Islamic State’s demise.

He should prevent Iran from entrenching itself in Syria, expanding its military presence and threatening Israel. And in the longer run, he should be working to separate the Sunni population from al-Qaida by cultivating Sunni partners in Syria who are allied with the United States against the Salafi-jihadist cause, as well as the growing Iranian-Russian-Assad-Hezbollah alliance.

The temptation to declare victory in Syria and withdraw is understandable. But before he does so, Trump should ask himself: What would Obama do? Then he should do the opposite.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

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A late but heartfelt remembrance of Zell Miller An unalterable deadline does not allow me to comment on certain events as quickly as I would like. Also, it is my policy to avoid writing about what everyone else happens to be writing about at the moment. Otherwise, I become just another voice crying in the wilderness, indistinguishable from all the others.

Having said that, permit me to tell you about my relationship with Zell Miller, knowing I am late in doing so and that you have no doubt heard or read the reminiscences of a lot of people this past week about this remarkable man who died March 23 at the age of 86.

I had only a few contacts with Miller while he was lieutenant governor. It was after he became governor and after I joined the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games that I got to know him up-close-andpersonal. And, boy, did I ever.

When Atlanta was selected to host the Centennial Games in Atlanta in 1996, it was with the assurance that there would be no tax dollars spent on the construction of the venues and other details “inside the fence.”

But it did not mean we would not need government support “outside the fence,” such as security, traffic management, permitting and various other things too numerous to men-

preparing to tell him all the wonderful things I was planning to do when he interrupted me to tell me all the things we had been doing that were not so wonderful.

I didn’t see much of the game that day. I was too busy saying, “yes sir” as I got my Dick hide scalded by an obviously Yarbrough frustrated governor who had been waiting to let off steam. I tion. have had a few hide-scaldings Somehow, the public mantra over my career, but there is became “we don’t need the nothing quite like a Zell Miller government’s help.” Gov. scalding.

Miller knew we did and was I quickly discovered that planning on helping us, but he once he had his say, that was was getting more and more it. No grudges. No recriminairritated at hearing that stated tions. Just don’t make the same publicly. mistake twice. I made sure we I had joined the organizing didn’t. committee with responsibiliAs we got closer to the ties for media relations, but it opening ceremonies, the was decided that government governor called me one day relations would be added to my and asked me to check on portfolio. something for him but assured Fast forward to a Saturday me he didn’t want me to do afternoon at Sanford Stadium anything. He just needed some in Athens. We were invited to information. It seems that the sit in the president’s box at a Olympic torch was not coming UGA football game. I was told through Young Harris. His sisGov. Miller was on the front ter had called him to ask what row and I was to sit beside kind of governor he was if he him. I was also told that the couldn’t get the torch to pass governor was “delighted” that through his hometown. He just I was going to take over man- wondered what he should tell agement of the government his sister. relations function.

I told Gov. Miller I never Suitably puffed up, I sat made a commitment without down beside him and was having all the facts, but in this

case, he could call his sister and tell her the torch would indeed be coming through Young Harris. I then called the people organizing the route and was told the area was too mountainous and would take too long. After suggesting they might not be around to see the Olympic torch arrive in Atlanta, they suddenly discovered they could indeed run the torch through Young Harris. To say the governor was pleased would be an understatement.

Nobody wants to be fussed at by their sister, not even a governor.

After that rocky start on a Saturday afternoon in Athens, we managed to end our Olympic relationship on a high note.

He later appointed me to the State Ethics Commission and I saw him a number of times at functions around the state.

One of the last times I spoke to Miller, I told him Georgia is a better place because of him. He seemed really pleased to hear that, especially coming from a guy that got the Olympic torch to come through his hometown. And especially because it happens to be the truth.

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

Remembering when spring break wasn’t a break Spring break!

For most folks it has come and gone now, but for many, many people, it never came — and will not come next year or the year after.

Honesty compels me to admit that I never understood the concept of spring break until I was in college. We may have had spring holidays in the Newton County school system, but I honestly don’t remember ever doing anything special over that period.

I do remember that as spring approached during my freshman year at the University of Georgia, hallowed be thy name, the new friends I had made would ask me where I was going over the upcoming holiday. My answer was always the same — the Osprey Mill.

We lived with Bibb at my house. “The Bibb” was what we called the Bibb Manufacturing Company, out of Macon, in Bibb County. There was a time when the Bibb slogan, “First name in Textiles” was pretty accurate, at least in the North Georgia Piedmont.

The Bibb provided employment and housing for our family, and The Bibb subsidized our schools, our Scout troop, our Little League and everything else of significance in our little mill village of Porterdale, and it was understood that once we became of age, we would work for The Bibb.

I turned 16 on a Sunday.

We didn’t do anything in my

and I had gone out together, just the two of us, for a meal.

The fact that the restaurant was owned by my uncle — Kid — and my cousin — Buck — didn’t diminish the experience at all.

Our next stop was the Newton County Courthouse. I Darrell Huckaby was finally getting my driver’s license, after a year of learnfamily on Sunday except go to ing to manipulate an automochurch, have dinner and visit bile while operating under family. the auspices of the notorious But Monday, now that “learner’s license.” was a big day for me. I was I don’t think I had ever sitting in class, daydreaming been as nervous before — or about the freedom that would since, for that matter — as I come with the driver’s license was when I slid behind the I would soon be getting, wheel of my daddy’s Buick when our school principal, with a mammoth-sized GeorMr. Homer Sharp, called my gia State Patrolman riding classroom over the intercom shotgun. Somehow I managed with the remarkable news that the route around the Covingmy father was in the office ton square and beyond, got to check me out of school. back to the courthouse, and The only other time Daddy parallel parked my daddy’s had visited the schoolhouse car in the allotted space. I was was when I was in the fourth a licensed driver. They gave grade. That was also on my me a little piece of paper that birthday. He brought cupcakes said so. to my whole class and a baseI thought we were all done ball glove for me. and wondered if Daddy would I still have the baseball take me back to school or glove. I’ve had cupcakes let me go home a little early. since, but none so special as The answer was neither. He the ones Homer Huckaby let me get behind the wheel brought to Betty Robertson’s again, and then directed me to classroom that day. the Bibb employment office, And here he was again, which was upstairs, “above just six years later. Surely this the stores,” in Porterdale. would be a special day.

Mr. M. B. Shaw, the It was, too, for a while. He superintendent of The Bibb took me to the Buck and Kid in Porterdale, was expecting for lunch. It was the very first me. I signed a few papers and time in my life that my daddy got my Bibb badge, and when

3 o’clock came, I was in the Osprey Mill, about to go to work. It was as simple as that.

I was making $1.40 an hour.

Time-and-a-half for overtime.

For the next six years I would work in that mill, and the other two mills in Porterdale, after school, on weekends, and during the summer — and school breaks.

I got an amazing education.

I worked in every department of the mill, and at that mill they took raw cotton in big bales and produced cloth, so I learned it all. But I learned a lot more from the grizzled men, old before their time, that I worked with and listened to in the dope house during breaks.

Primarily I learned that as appreciative as I was for that $1.40 an hour, which had grown to $2 by the time I graduated from college, and the Osprey Mill, in 1974, that I didn’t want to spend my life working there.

By the way, I spent spring break this year on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. It wasn’t a bad gig, but if it hadn’t been for the contributions The Bibb made to my life, I would never have been able to live such a charmed existence, and I am thankful that God gave me the good sense to realize that fact.

Selah.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County.

Email him at dhuck008@ gmail.com.

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929-540021, 4/8,15

NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4257 Buford Drive, Buford, GA 30518, April 24, 2018 at 12:00 PM Barbara Alonso Unit 651 3 sofa, love seat, 2 table & chairs, washer and dryer, refrigerator, bedroom suite, file cabinet, bakers rack, high back chair, paintings, misc. household, 42 flat screen, 32 flat screen Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-542345, 4/8,15 Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 1172 Auburn Rd Dacula GA 30019, 770-236-0688 @ 04/24/2018 @ 3:00 PM 708: Timothy DaugettHousehold Items furniture and boxes 676: Chaka Campbell- Furniture and Household items 347: April Crockett- household items 700: Shaniaya CrewsHousehold Goods 1075: Dustin SmithHousehold Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-542420, 4/8,15 GWINNETT DAILY POST– GWINNETT COUNTY LEGAL ADS PS101 AUCTION DATES APRIL 24TH AND APRIL 25TH NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on April 24th and April 25th The below-listed units.

Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08464 10860 STATE BRIDGE ROAD. ALPHARETTA GA 30022 (678) 513-8185 April 24th 2018 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 2004 Martha Flores 2038 Edgardo Alcaraz Carreto 3015 William Schroeder 5008 Jennifer Harrison 6172 Angela Maynard 6220 Jesse Payne 7002 Frances Murry PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 25719 3550 PEACHTREE PKWY. SUWANEE, GA 30024-1031 (678) 513-8185 April 24th 2018 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A207 Mehdi Saeidi B305 Annie Parker B320 Monty Howard B394 Kirsten O’Hara B409 Omar Brown B489 Cristal Williams C511 R O D N E Y PARKS C533 Jeff Mogan C545 Timothy Payton C566 Flore Zambou C5714 LEIGH PULCHER D672 Nicole Richardson PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 25778 3900 MCGINNIS FERRY RD SUWANEE, GA 30024 (678) 513-8185 April 24th 2018 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A1008 Ryan Mitchell A1073 Caroline Roloff B2038 Andromache Snyder B2049 Elliot Jackson B2069 Brandy Curry PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25595 66 OLD PEACHTREE RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 (770) 338-1271 April 24th 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 00143 Joseph McDonnough 00170 Penny Karas 00181 Quentin Plair 00737 Petra Mendoza-Olivia 00812 Charles Simpson 1051 Melonie Moon 1059 Terry Cecil 2007 Terry Cecil 4007 Nigel Blackman 4090 Brian Dial PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28158 495 BUFORD DR. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (770) 338-1271 April 24th 11:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 118 Kevin Collins 153 Kellie Kelley 300 Steven Brown 306 Tamontra Carter 312 Monica Bonds 321 Dylan Dodson 409 James Jones 440X Reginald Alerte 628 Christopher Frank P012 Loiran Almanza P56 Jesse Hough PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08465

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08054 1395 PLEASANT HILL DR..

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044 (770) 925-9784 April 25th 2018 9:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 2503 DESIGN AVENUE INC. 3504 Kelly Brown 3523 Curtis Carrington 3525 Kanieshia Gee 4001 TOBY SELLS CREATURE MAKEUP FX SHOP, LLC 4002 Branden McCarter 6010 Marchris Perkins 6065 Ebony Walker 6070 Norma Galeana 6135 Clark Hill 7501 JAMAHL DONALDSON 8509 Cedric Williams 8519 Charles Carlisle PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 25982 2423 PLEASANT HILL ROAD DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 April 25th 2018 10:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS A046 Zandra Dockery A115 Mario Ruiz A155 Allison Mccowan A255 Kristen Ford A295 Delinda Feurtado A330 Michelle Cheeks A342 Nikita Curry A361 Kiana Coleman A382 JAMES THOMAS JR B022 Jean Bazne B032 Dainiel Lubin C522 Brian Pratt C528 Rose Marie Chavez C587 Diamond Mcnabb PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08057 4474 SATELLITE BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 April 25th 2018 10:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 0108 Francisco Ruiz 0225 Rannie Brown 0344 Ebony Walker 0345N Krystle Egbe 0513 Ebony Witherspoon 0525 Elmo Taylor 0621 Stephen Dewitt 0811 Waylon Robertson 2023 Keith Williams 3111 Avery Solomon 5101 Tanya Logan 6141 Jose Granados 6221 Karl Releford 7012 John Day PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08056 3865 PEACHTREE INDUSTRIAL BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 April 25th 2018 11:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 0115 Maurice Dailey 0121 Mark Lancaster 0123 george powell 0166 Tamika Ruskin 0223 Kashif Johnson 0294 Lindsey Cerna 0335 Ashley Gordon 0478 Emanuel Calvin 0543 Nifiteria Johnson 0583 Jose Silerio mata 0639 Saaeda Gayle 0663 Joy Storey 0774 Deandre Arnold 0843 Marlon Washington P3 Mehdi Saeidi All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 8th day of April 2018 and 15th day of April 2018 by PS OrangeCo, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

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

929-542424, 4/8,15

LIVE AUCTION MULTIPLE FACILITIES – MULTIPLE UNITS Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4755 Nelson Brogdon Blvd.

NE Sugar Hill, GA 30518, 04/24/2018, 10:00 AM Virginia Lincoln Unit 739 Personal furniture, antiques and personal belongings Melissa Argo Unit 204 Two leather chairs, Christmas decoration (boxes), Bed, Futon, Desk Vanessa Zimmerman Unit 616 Clothes, Christmas decorations, Books Syverria Ingram Unit 770 Household Items Betsy Harrison Unit 146 Household Items Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-541895, 4/8,15

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 3357 Breckenridge Blvd Duluth, GA 30096 770-891-4639 April 25th, 2018 at 12:00 PM 2057 Joclyn BranchMcCoy- household goods 2002 Tulani Kinard– Books, clothing & small furniture 3139 veronica martin- clean 3214 Christopher Finley–Dresser and Boxes 3115 Finniez Walker–Household goods 3104 harlem Watkins–bdrm, living set, dining set 2408 Rebecca Ahn– Household goods 2230 Shantiece Clay–Household goods 1106 Juan Martinez–Household goods 2008 Bridgette Sykes–Household Items 3120 Lora skinner– boxes bedroom set couch boxes The auction will be listed and advertised at Extra Space Storage 3357 Breckenridge Blvd Duluth, GA 30096. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-542173, 4/8,15 PUBLIC AUCTION On 04/25/2018 at 3:30 PM StoreSmart Self Storage located at 2914 Buford Dr. Buford, GA. 30519 will conduct a public auction of the following: Unit #1021 &1051 – Miranda Millions – Rolling Tool Chest, Pool Table, Microwave, Lawn Mower, Camping Grill, Chairs, Speakers, Dresser, Shelves, Mini Fridge, End Tables, King Bed, Dressers.

Unit #1064 – Crystal Johnson – Table, Sofa, King bed, Pictures, Rug, Boxes, Totes, Mirror, Box spring. Unit # 1071 – Lori Hill – Chairs, Dresser, Clothes, Totes, Boxes. Unit #1076 – Ericka Renee – Couch, Chair, stuffed animals, bed, foot rest. Unit #2062 – Moronda Howard – 2 King beds, Clothes, Bench, Chairs/Table, Wagon, Bedframe. Unit #2074 – Tony Bennett – Refrigerator, Table, Chairs, Dresser, Cooler, Computer Stand, Ladder, Display Case. Unit #2087 – Salene Clark – Kid’s seat, toys, shoe boxes, totes. Unit #2112 – Janell Walker – Chairs, Arm Chair, Lamp, Head Board, bar Stools, Display Cabinet, Vase, Exercise Equipment, Kitchen Supplies. Unit #2126 – Ufim Morris – Couch, foot rest, Toyota Bumper. Unit #2132 Gale Bremner, Bike, bed, dresser, boxes, White Christmas tree. Unit #2146 – Daniel Medellin – Desk, clock, TNMT Toy, amplifier, stools. Unit #3003 Penile Rock – Paint buckets, Cement Mix, Battery Charger.

Unit #3012 – Manuela Hires – Kid Toys, Keyboard, Boxes, Paintings, Christmas Decorations, Board Games, Books.

Unit #3029 – Terry Edwards – Love seat, dresser, 3 chairs. Unit #3042 – Kamiya Banks – Clothes, Chairs. Unit #3044 – Carolyne Sterling – Clothes, shoes, boxes. Unit #3053 Rodriques Flunder – Washer, Dryer, children bikes, fan, bleacher seat.

Unit #3079 – Robert Brown – Totes, washer, dryer, lamp, boxes, space heater, fan, lawn mower, bike, hose.

Unit #4012 – Adam Smith – Bassenette. Unit #4058 – Nicole Griffith – Sofa, loveseat pictures, Lamp, guitar, rugs, bed, dresser, clothes.

Unit #4083 – Maia Rivers – Chairs, Table, End Table, Stereo, Lamp, Chest of Drawers, Small flat screen TV, Artwork, Totes, Grill, Luggage, boxes, DVD Player, Dolly, Sports Equipment. Unit #4139 – Travis Hughes – Table, miscellaneous items. Unit #4144–Tara Wendler – Chair, Vacuum, rug, totes, wicker basket.

929-542577, 4/8,11 Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4400 Lawrenceville Highway, Lilburn GA 30047 at 2:00PM on April 26, 2018 Linda Hipp Unit #100 Rubbermaid boxes, household goods, tools Gregory Lillard U

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 3564 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 @ 1:00 PM, April 26, 2018 Benjamin Snead Unit# 0229 Landscaping Adriana Carvajal Unit # 4021 Household BraDana HurryClanton Unit # 0352 Household items Edith Rios Unit # 1114 Household Goods Keldrick Shaver Unit # 1120-A HouseHold Goods Patricia Diane MarionHudson Unit # 2052 1 Bedroom ,Loveseat ,Couch, Dining Room with 6 chairs, W/D ,Boxes Marquel West Unit # 2017 Household goods, Desk, 4 Mattresses Paola Galvez Unit #4067 Boxes,Table Van Simpson Unit # 1094 Household Kimberlee Veasy Unit #4018A Household Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-541899, 4/8,15 LIVE AUCTION Fac 1689 – MULTIPLE UNITS Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 2040 Lawrenceville Hwy, Lawrenceville, Ga, 30044 (04/26/18) 12pm 4113 siders keianna $346.60 household 048 Tiffany Williams $636.40 Household Goods 484 Megan Carter $321.01 Dresser chair table couch boxes 281 Camyn Bodden $277.01 Queen bed, full bed, boxes 481 Diavalo Spraggins $426.50 Sectional Queen and full mattress boxes bags 052 Charles Smith $445.00 Business Equipment 125 Johneisa Wiley $238.50 boxes 455 Alexander Gallo $456.40 HouseHold Goods 139 Horacio Rios Montoya $325.00 household, furniture, boxes, clothes 138 Earle Aimee Denina $368.60 Household Goods Remove 027 Steven Cornett $440.60 Tools [Tenant Name] [Unit Number] [General Description of Property] Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-541592, 4/8,15

Securlock Storage will sell personal property consisting of household and personal effects, office, and other equipment, toys and appliances will be sold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent due law 10-4-213. All items or spaces may not be available on the day of the sale. We reserve the right to refuse any and all bids, buyers must secure spaces with own locks. NO CHECKS. CASH ONLY. To claim tax-exempt-ORIGINAL RESALE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH SPACE PURCHASED IS REQUIRED. Time: 10:30 AM Date: April 26 2018 (Bidding Begins) 10:30AM - April 19 2018 10:30AM (Bidding Ends) Place: Storagetreasures. com Daniel Prejean – Twin Mattress, Kids Toys Larry Riegel – Boxes, Kitchen Chairs/Table, Generator Yvonne Dawson – Boxes, Speakers, Totes, Antique Sewing Machine 929-541737, 4/8,15 ONE FACILITY – MULTIPLE UNITS Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: Extra Space Storage 2044 Old Norcross Rd Lawrenceville, GA 30044 770-845-1926 Auction Date: April 26th, 2018 @11:00 AM Jennifer Boyd Unit: 117C Picture, boxes Heather Diemmer Unit: 6c21 Clothes, boxes, shoes Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the a

LIVE AUCTION ONE FACILITY – MULTIPLE UNITS Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 98 Hurricane Shoals Rd NE Lawrenceville, GA 30046 April 26th, 2018 at 10:00 AM 1233 Brenda Duckett household items 0732 Arturo Hurtado 1999 White Ford 0408 Melanie Herrera Furniture, clothing, washer and dryer, sofa CC214 B a r b a r a Woods household items 0306 Maurita Leann Graham House hold Goods CC285 Courtnie Rogers household items 1066 Justin Terrill Bennett Washer, Dryer Queen Mattress 0310 Lora Hill Household Items Remove Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-540023, 4/8,15 NOTICE OF SALE of Personal Property Georgia Self Storage Act (210-215) ATLANTA PEACH MOVERS, INC Notice is hereby given that the undersigned self-storage units will be sold at a public sale by competitive bidding, in their entirety to the highest bidder, on or after, April 28, 2018 to satisfy the lien of the Lessor, with Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc as managing agent for Lessor, for rental and other charges due from the undersigned. The said property has been stored and is located at the respective address below. The sale will be held at the address listed below and will begin at 9 a.m. or after on said date and will continue hour by hour until all units are sold. Atlanta Peach Movers 2913 Northeast Parkway, Doraville GA, 30360, 770-447-5121: Marty Rubin #S10066 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Gene Brosius #S10140 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Karen Lacour #S10333 / #753, #7-309, #7-315, #7-322 Household Goods; Susan Roldan #S10490 / #53-1376, #53-1377, #53-1378; #531381; #53-1392; #53-1396 Household Goods; Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems #S10554 / #29-637, #29-642, #29660, #29-700, #37-1327 Household Goods; Ken Gey #S10595 / #45-843, #45-845 Household Goods; Annabelle Valencia #S10723 / #43-807, #43-808, #43-811, #43-813, #43-828 Household Goods; Adrienne Williams #S10779 / #1-197, #3-35, #3-140, #3-216, #5-38, #5-62, #5144, #5-279, #5-358, #5371, #6-50, #6-131, #6-254, #6-314, #9-171, #28-601, #28-681, #30-682, #30-686, #30-706, Household Goods; Jerry McPherson #S10841 / #25-539, #25-541 Household Goods; Robert Dean #S10886 / #35-780, #351300, #35-1303, #35-1310, #35-1314 Household Goods; Chidi Ahanotu #S10944 / #67-1635, #67-1647, #671651 Household Goods; Angela Jones #S10988 / #47-938, #47-960, #47-999, #54-1350, #54-1368, #541387, #65-1649, #66-1616, #66-1639, #67-1600, #671615, #67-1643, #68-1677, #68-1685, #68-1693, #691665, #69-1688, #69-1694, #69-1702, #70-1725 Household Goods; Marcus Wilson #S1100 / #1-3, #1-13, #1-14, #1-17 Household Goods; Angela Cook #S11016 / #2243, #49-1191, #49-1235, #49-1242, #49-1252, #491255, #49-1258, #49-1262, #56-1359, #56-1373, #561393, #56-1428, #56-1472, #61-1432 Household Goods; Shobhna Singh #S11047 / #2-147 Household Goods; Victoria Epps #S11167 / #41-626 Household Goods; Lasharria Taylor #S11404 / Flat Storage Household Goods; Angie Baker #S11433 / #24-974, #24-1284 Household Goods; Kari Stephenson #S11549 / #53-1160 Household Goods; Niesha Butler #S11569 / 2 Sofas Household Goods; Cecilia Cox #S11651 / #68-1543, #681565, #68-1700, #68-1710, #68-1711, #68-1712 Household Goods; Justin Bousquet #S11735 / #1-852 Household Goods. The terms of the sale will be cash only and must be paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is. Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc reserves the right to withdraw any or all units, partial or entire, from the sale at any time. All contents must be removed completely from the property the same day as the auction.

929-541553, 4/1,8

ZONINGS CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VARIANCE APPLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN (pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 3666-4) that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth Zoning Board of Appeals to consider a request (V#2018-002) from Luisa Mazzei on behalf of Peachtree Christian Hospice for a variance from the minimum parking requirements identified in the City of Duluth Unified Development Code on property identified as 3430 Duluth Park Lane, Duluth, Georgia 30097 containing approximately 8.66 acres of land, consisting of tax parcel 6295 099. The property is zoned C-2 (General Commercial District) and will not change.

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tend this meeting before the Zoning Board of Appeals on the Variance request at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: April 25, 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the Variance application, which is on file with the Planning & Development Department of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing. Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Dan Robinson 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: drobinson@duluthga.net For more information, contact Dan Robinson, Department of Planning & Development, at (770)476-1790. ********************* ********************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

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

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2) 5/3/2018, Norcross Downtown Development Authority at 6:00 PM 3) 5/21/2018, Norcross Mayor & Council Policy at 6:30 PM 4) 5/22/2018, Norcross Architectural Review Board at 6:00 PM 5) 6/4/2018, Norcross Mayor & Council Regular/ Public Hearing at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

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THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, at 6:30 PM, before the Norcross Historic Preservation Commission on April 26, 2018 for the purpose of due process of the following: HPC2018-0001, located at 60 Wingo Street, tax parcel ID: 6254 194, is requesting a Certificate of Appropriateness to build a rear addition on the existing historic building.

For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-542585, 4/8 THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, before the Norcross Planning and Zoning Board and Mayor and Council on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: SUP2018-0001, located at 5390 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, parcel identification number 6271 439, a special use permit request under C-2 zoning Section 115-84(b)(5)(i) to allow the expansion of an existing adult daycare facility. The Planning and Zoning Board hearing shall be held on 4/4/2018 at 7:00; the Mayor and Council Policy meeting shall be held on 4/16/2018 at 6:30 PM; the Mayor and Council Regular hearing shall be held on 5/7/2018 at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-542584, 4/8 THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, before the Norcross Planning and Zoning Board and Mayor and Council on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: A proposed text amendment to Section 115-90(b) to amend the allowable building height for the M-1 zoning district. The Planning and Zoning Board hearing shall be held on 4/4/2018 at 7:00; the Mayor and Council Policy meeting shall be held on 4/16/2018 at 6:30 PM; the Mayor and Council Regular hearing shall be held on 5/7/2018 at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-542583, 4/8 NOTICE Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, before the Norcross Planning and Zoning Board and Mayor and Council on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: MOD2018-0001, located at 5535 Buford Highway, parcel identification number 6242 139, zoned C2 RAOD, request for zoning approval under section 115-93(n)(3) (b),to allow for the modification of the existing site and building in excess of 15 percent of the county appraised value of the property and for modifications of the initial conditions of zoning.

1) The Planning and Zoning Board hearing shall be held on 5/2/2018 at 7:00 PM; 2) The Mayor and Council Policy meeting shall be held on 5/21/2018 at 6:30 PM; 3) The Mayor and Council Regular hearing shall be held on 6/4/2018 at 6:30 PM 934-542580, 4/8 THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, for the purpose of due process regarding the rezoning of 500 Thrasher Street, tax parcel ID: 6243 089, from M-1, light industrial, to DCD, design concept development district. Case number REZ20180002. The following are the boards, dates and times of each public hearing: 1) 5/2/2018, Norcross Planning & Zoning at 7:00 PM

THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, for the purpose of due process regarding the rezoning of 500 Thrasher Street, tax parcel ID: 6243 089, from M-1, light industrial, to DCD, design concept development district. Case number REZ20180002. The following are the boards, dates and times of each public hearing: 1) 4/4/2018, Norcross Planning & Zoning at 7:00 PM 2) 4/5/2018, Norcross Downtown Development Authority at 6:00 PM 3) 4/16/2018, Norcross Mayor & Council Policy at 6:30 PM 4) 4/17/2018, Norcross Architectural Review Board at 6:00 PM 5) 5/7/2018, Norcross Mayor & Council Regular/Public Hearing at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-538094, 4/8 THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, before the Norcross Planning and Zoning Board and Mayor and Council on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: SUP2018-0001, located at 5390 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, parcel identification number 6271 439, a special use permit request under C-2 zoning Section 115-84(b)(5)(i) to allow the expansion of an existing adult daycare facility. The Planning and Zoning Board hearing shall be held on 4/4/2018 at 7:00; the Mayor and Council Policy meeting shall be held on 4/16/2018 at 6:30 PM; the Mayor and Council Regular hearing shall be held on 5/7/2018 at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-538064, 4/8 THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071, before the Norcross Planning and Zoning Board and Mayor and Council on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: A proposed text amendment to Section 115-90(b) to amend the allowable building height for the M-1 zoning district. The Planning and Zoning Board hearing shall be held on 4/4/2018 at 7:00; the Mayor and Council Policy meeting shall be held on 4/16/2018 at 6:30 PM; the Mayor and Council Regular hearing shall be held on 5/7/2018 at 6:30 PM For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-538085, 4/8

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QBs, WRs put on a show in Ga. State’s spring game

By David Friedlander

themselves.

Returning letter winner Aaron Winchester, junior college transfer Dan EllingATLANTA — The battle ton and redshirt freshman for the starting quarterback Jack Walker all distinjob, which has been a major guished themselves as the focus throughout Georgia Blue team (offense) looked State’s spring football impressive in a 59-35 win practice, remained frontover the White team (deand-center during the Blue- fense) Saturday at Georgia White spring game.

State Stadium.

And as has been the case “First of all, it was a through the previous 14 very entertaining game,” practices, none of the three Panthers head coach Shawn major candidates separated Elliott said. “A lot of good

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catches. The offense moved the ball quite well up and down the field. The main thing was … they played with great effort. We came out of it healthy (and) clean.

That’s an important thing coming out of the spring.

Other than our quarterback situation, they weren’t taking the hits, but everybody else was live and delivering blows.

“All in all, I was very pleased with it. … Ready to move on to our summer

transition and get ready for our season.”

Ellington, who enrolled in January out of Itawamba (Miss.) Community College, had perhaps the best day among the Panther signal callers, going 21-for24 for 249 yards and four touchdowns.

Winchester, a Lawrenceville native who went to Mt. Pisgah High School and served as backup the See SPRING, Page 3B

Quarterback Dan Ellington, a junior college transfer, was 21-for-24 for 249 yards with four touchdown passes.

(Georgia State Sports Communications)

PLAY THE CLASSIC Sixth Mitsubishi Electric Classic ready to tee off

By David Friedlander

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MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CLASSIC When: April 9-15 Where: TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth Admission: Information on tickets or admission for the tournament and related events available at www.mitsubishielectricclassic.com *Partial schedule of events: Monday 10 a.m. — Matt Ryan Celebrity Challenge 10 a.m. — Georgia United Credit Union Executive Women’s Day Wednesday 7:56 a.m. — Maxwell Leadership Pro-Am Wednesday Thursday 7 a.m. — Maxwell Leadership Pro-Am Thursday Friday 10 a.m. — Mistubishi Electric Classic first round 11 a.m. — Adaptive golf clinic Saturday 8 a.m. — Cologuard Celebrity Challenge 10 a.m. — Mitsubishi Electric Classic second round 2:30 p.m. — Georgia Junior Golf Youth Skills Challenge Sunday 8 a.m. — Mitsubishi Electric Classic final round *A full schedule of related events can also e found at www.mitsubishielectricclassic.com The Mitsubishi Electric Classic returns to TPC Sugarlof, at top, beginning with the Matt Ryan Celebrity Am on Monday. The 2018 version of the tournament is the sixth editiion of the PGA Champions Tour event. Above, Stephen Ames won the 2017 Mitsubishi Electric Classic. (Photo: Michael Heape Photography)

Like those of most fans and competitors, the eyes of most of Gwinnett County’s professional golf fans are about 150 or so miles to the east at Augusta National this week.

But as has become customary, those fans won’t have to look far for top-notch golf action when the Mitsubishi Electric Classic returns next week.

And Gwinnett Sports Commission executive director Stan Hall is clear about what he respects when the the week’s activities surrounding the sixth annual PGA Tour Champions event begin Monday, leading up to Friday’s opening round of the 54-hole event at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth.

“I think it’s evolved at a slow, but steady pace,” Hall said. “Quite honestly, the pace that we are talking about today is one that has gone, really, as we planned. We wanted to make sure that we didn’t try to peak too soon and just took deliberate steps. What I think you’ll see this year in Year 6 … this is the biggest and best golf tournament we’ve had since we’ve bought PGA Tour Champions to TPC Sugarloaf. I’m totally excited about this year.”

There will be plenty for patrons to enjoy all week in addition to the golf tournament itself.

In addition to the usual related events that have been featured in the past, such as the Maxwell Leadership Pro-Am on Wednesday and Thursday and the Georgia United Credit Union Executive Women’s Day on Monday, a few new features will be debuting this week.

Among the biggest is the Matt Ryan Celebrity Am on Monday morning, in which the the Atlanta Falcons quarterback and several of his celebrity friends will play 18 holes of golf and greet the public.

“The nice thing about Monday is it’s open to the public. It’s free admission,” said Monte Ortel, in his second year as tournament director. “With the Matt Ryan Celebrity Am, we partner with Children’s Health Care of Atlanta. Matt Ryan’s out here playing 18 holes. … It’s nice because he can pick up the phone, make a few phone calls to his other celebrity friends, whether they’re athletes or in the entertainment area, and they come out and support his (event). … I would say you don’t know who you’re going to see out there.”

Another high-profile feature of this year’s tournament includes a cross-promotion with the Gwinnett Stripers in which tournament competitors are scheduled to help the Atlanta Braves’ Triple-A affiliate See CLASSIC, Page 4B

Reed leads Masters by 3; set for McIlroy showdown Field Level Media

it,” Reed told CBS Sports shortly after his round. “But to be able to play against The stage is set for the 82nd Masters Rory and to have him side by side with Tournament to be a showdown — or stare me, it’s going to be a lot of fun. down — between the marquee figures in “Every time we play each other, we the dramatic 41st Ryder Cup 18 months seem to have a lot of fun. And we seem to both play some good golf, so hopefully ago. we can get some fireworks out there and Patrick Reed shot a 5-under-par round of 67 in the third round of the Masters on have a fun Sunday.”

The forecast of heavy rain and winds Saturday to stake a three-shot lead over Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy. The two never materialized Saturday, and the best players in the world took dead-aim will be paired together in the final group at an Augusta National course stripped at Augusta National on Sunday.

The last time they went toe-to-toe with of some of its teeth. The pin placements so much at stake was at Hazeltine Nation- were made more accessible as organizers al Golf Club in Minnesota in 2016, when braced for the expected difficult conditions. Instead, players enjoyed softer United States Ryder Cup captain Davis fairways with greens that continued to run Love III paired Reed against McIlroy on Sunday. What ensued was one of the most firm and true thanks to the sub-air system installed in the course. dramatic singles matches in Ryder Cup Reed will begin the round at 14-under history, won by Reed.

202 for the tournament as he attempts to “Really excited.

Any time you can Patrick Reed hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during the third round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA Today come out and have a lead on Sunday, See MASTERS, Page 4B you’re always going to be excited about Sports)

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Defense could be trending positively after rough stretch

By Taylor Denman

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There’s an infamous cliche that sometimes appears in casual sports conversations: Defense wins championships.

There are some flaws in this sweeping statement. First, a team that plays stellar defense without the offense to back it up simply can’t win. You need points to win games in any sport. Take the 2017 National Lacrosse League Champions Cup winning Georgia Swarm as a counterpoint. The Swarm won last year relying heavily on a stellar season from the league’s leading scorer Lyle Thompson, and broke a league record by racking up 266 goals in 18 regular season games last season.

Georgia’s offense is down this season compared to its record-breaking heights of one year ago. Georgia in averaging 12.3 goals per game to last year’s 15 goals per game. Georgia is near the middle of the pack in that regard, fifth in the NLL in goals scored per game. When one unit trends toward the mean, something has to improve to keep the scales balanced.

While the Swarm can be streaky on offense, Georgia’s defense could be a contributing factor to its recent positive results — three wins in its previous four games, and four wins in its previous six games.

A defense, in its simplest function, tries to prevent the other team from scoring. One way to do that is by limiting an opponent’s opportunities to score, and the Swarm have improved since midseason in that regard based on a simple statistical analysis.

The Swarm held Eastern Division rival, the New England Black Wolves, to 42 shots on goal in its previous game on March 27.

That’s the lowest shots-against mark for the Swarm this season. Tracking an opponent’s shots on goal (OSOG) statistic is one objective method of evaluating a team’s defense.

If the opponent recorded fewer shots on target, there’s less pressure for Swarm goaltender Mike Poulin to act as the last resort.

Before delving into the data, it’s necessary to point out it’s reckless to draw a hasty conclusion based on tracking the trend of one variable over time. When analyzing any data, there are some additional variables that could skew the model which have little to do with Georgia’s defensive line changes. For example, if Georgia’s offensive lines held possession of the ball longer than usual, opponents would theoretically take fewer shots on goal since they have less time to do so. Staying on the subject of time, a game that went into overtime would logically lead to more

A graph depicting opponents’ shots on goal versus the Georgia Swarm during the 2017-18 season. (Created with Plotly)

shots than would have been recorded in a standard four-period game.

What if the opposing team strategically takes fewer shots, similar to a jump shooter in basketball? Missed shots create turnovers that give possession back to Georgia, so perhaps some of Georgia’s opponents decided to hold the ball for particular opportunities or higher-percentage chances at goals. Take those thoughts into account when analyzing this data.

In the graphic above blue line visualizes the trend in OSOG throughout the season, the red and green annotations note game results and the black annotations signal notable additions to the team’s roster. Games with an asterisk note Eastern Division opponents.

First, there is no apparent benchmark that guarantees a win for the Swarm. Georgia lost its season opener in New England, conceding 49 OSOG, but won when it conceded 58 OSOG to Toronto on Feb. 17.

Second, there was a spike in OSOG against Buffalo, Rochester on Feb. 10 and Feb 11 and Toronto on Feb. 17. Georgia had its worst defensive games back-toback-to-back in mid-February.

Here’s one explanation: Buffalo and Rochester are No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the NLL in total shots and No. 1 and No. 3 in SOG. As mentioned earlier with regards to offensive strategy, some teams seem to prefer firing lots of shots, while others prefer to prioritize quality by taking fewer shots. There’s arguably a risk using either strategy, but it’s likely dependent on how precise a team’s shooters are.

But that peak is, well, a peak. It’s the outlier example of an extremely poor defensive game for the Swarm, so it’s no sur-

prise they lost both of these games. Since conceding 63 shots on goal to Buffalo, there as been a steady, downward trend in OSOG. It’s natural to expect the graph to trend downward after an extreme outlier, but it’s not necessarily expected to continue to trend steadily downward.

There is a noticeable trend toward the mean OSOG that’s taken place over the past six games. Is it a strong trend? Perhaps not, but more data almost always helps clarify if Georgia’s game against New England was another outlier or part of a greater trend toward more hellacious defense. If the Swarm continue to limit its opponent’s opportunities for goals, it further proves there’s something more at work here than a new team diet or some unwashed lucky socks.

When it comes to limiting shots, head coach Ed Comeau credits the experience and energy of Georgia’s transition players, which have been close to full strength since Georgia activated Joel White before its March 2 game against Colorado. Georgia lost that game, but defensive strides were made. The Swarm conceded their lowest OSOG total since playing Vancouver on Jan. 27.

The transition and defense try to make his job easier, but Poulin could be the most important part of Georgia’s defense. Poulin has hovered around the top of the league in saves for most of the year. Leading the league in saves means Poulin has stopped more shots than other goaltenders, but it could also imply he’s had more opportunities to stop shots than other goalies, be it poor defense or time played (he leads the league in minutes played for goalies with 802:11).

“I would say goaltending is a function of defense, and defense is a function of goaltending,” Comeau said. “Your goalie looks a lot better when your defense is limiting the quality of opponent’s shots. I think we’ve been playing better and certainly Mike is a huge part of that. Certainly any team with aspirations of going to distance in the playoffs has to have good goaltending. … I think the defense helps compliment the goaltending.”

This season, Poulin is just below the average mark for save percentage for goalies who have logged at least 500 minutes this season. His total before Sunday’s game against Toronto is .770, and the average save percentage of the nine qualifying goalies is .778. Simply put, that clip doesn’t necessarily harm the Swarm, but it doesn’t give them a strong defensive advantage either.

Poulin’s only breaks this season came in a back-to-back game week in February, Georgia’s dreadful losses to Buffalo and Rochester. Backup goalie Warren Hill appeared in both games that week and logged 43 minutes in the crease. Comeau said that was more of a resting tactic than loss of confidence.

“Most teams that have a starting goalie, their starting goalie plays,” Comeau said.

“There may be an occasion where there are back-to-backs and a guy needs the night off. If a goalie is your starter, you play him. Those games we ran into a little bit of trouble, and our defense probably didn’t help out Mike on those nights.”

Could playing games on back-to-back nights had an effect on those games? Perhaps, but Georgia played another two-game week in early March, and conceded fewer shots on goal.

Sports such as baseball, hockey and basketball are prime for the application of analytics, given the high volume of games which provide large samples of data. The NLL season, at least as it currently exists, provides 18 games worth of data. While the statistics mentioned above certainly had an effect on the results of the games, it’s harder to link the cause-and-effect relationship between the data and results without What’s clear is Georgia’s opponents are finding it harder to shoot on target than they were when the Swarm fell to 3-5 after its home loss to Rochester on Feb. 11. While better defense doesn’t guarantee good results — see the 11-10 overtime loss to Rochester on March 10 — Georgia will accept as much help as it can get as it turns to Toronto today with four games left in the regular season.

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Prep Schedule

Today

SOCCER

• Discovery, Brookwood in Southern Coast Cup in Foley, Ala Monday

BASEBALL

4:30 p.m. — Providence at Hebron 5:45 p.m. — Archer at Grayson 5:45 p.m. — Shiloh at South 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — Buford at Flowery Branch 6 p.m. — Central at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Discovery at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — GAC at North Hall 6 p.m. — Gainesville at Dacula 6 p.m. — Lanier at Habersham Central 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — North at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Parkview at Norcross

LACROSSE

7 p.m. — Duluth girls at Norcross Tuesday

BASEBALL

5 p.m. — Hebron at Providence 5:30 p.m. — Weber at Wesleyan

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Wesleyan girls at Archer 5:30 p.m. — Wheeler at Lanier 7 p.m. — Dunwoody boys at Norcross 7 p.m. — Holy Innocents’ boys at Buford

SOCCER

4 p.m. — Pinecrest Academy at Providence 5 p.m. — Hebron at Athens Academy 5 p.m. — Wesleyan at George Walton Academy 5:30 p.m. — Archer at Rockdale Co. 5:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Collins Hill 5:30 p.m. — Buford at Lumpkin Co. 5:30 p.m. — Dunwoody at Dacula 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at Shiloh 5:30 p.m. — Lanier at Mill Creek 5:30 p.m. — Newton at South 5:30 p.m. — North at Discovery 5:30 p.m. — North Oconee at Peachtree Ridge 5:30 p.m. — Oconee Co. at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Riverwood at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — Chattahoochee at Duluth

TENNIS

• Region 8-AAAAAA tournament at Gainesville • Region 7-AAAAAAA semifinals at Rhodes Jordan Park • Region 8-AAAAAAA tournament at Rockdale Tennis Center 8 a.m. — Region 6-AAAAAAA girls tournament at Hamilton Mill 11 a.m. — Region 8-AAAAA tournament at Buford 4 p.m. — Lakeview Academy at Hebron 4 p.m. — Wesleyan at GAC

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N.Y. Mets 3, Xander Bogaerts Washington 2 clubbed a grand slam Todd Frazier and and had a career-high six Asdrubal Cabrera each RBIs to power the Boston drove in a run as the New Red Sox to their seventh York Mets scored twice consecutive victory with in the top of the seventh a 10-3 rout of the visiting inning and defeated the Tampa Bay Rays on Satur- Washington Nationals 3-2 day afternoon. on Saturday afternoon in It was Bogaerts’ second Washington. career grand slam and Cabrera tied the game the Red Sox’s first since with a run-scoring double Dustin Pedroia’s slam on before Frazier made it 3-2 Sept. 24, 2016 at Tampa on a groundout to second Bay. Bogaerts (2-for-3, baseman Howie Kendrick. walk) also hit a two-run Both starters — Stedouble, his major-league- ven Matz for New York leading seventh two-bag(6-1) and Gio Gonzalez of ger through eight games.

Washington (4-4) — alBrad Miller drove in a lowed only one run, and pair of runs and Denard each got a no-decision.

Span was 2-for-4) with Matz went five innings an RBI for Tampa Bay, and struck out eight while which dropped its sevGonzalez fanned six in 5 enth straight and hasn’t 1/3 innings. won since a 6-4 victory Hansel Robles (1-0) over Boston in the season got the win in relief, and opener on March 29. fellow right-hander Jeurys J.D. Martinez (1-for-2, Familia earned his fourth walk) hit a solo shot for save as New York won its his first home run as a fourth straight game.

Red Sox and drove in two N.Y. Yankees 8, runs while Rafael Devers Balitimore 3 (2-for-3, walk) added a David Robertson solo blast and had two recorded key strikeouts RBIs. Boston starter Rick of Manny Machado and Porcello (2-0) allowed Jonathan Schoop for the three runs on six hits with final two outs of the top of seven strikeouts in 7 1/3 the seventh inning Saturinnings. day afternoon as the New Rays starter Jake Faria York Yankees beat the (0-1) lasted 1 2/3 innings Baltimore Orioles 8-3. after surrendering a Robertson pitched 1 2/3 career-high eight runs on perfect innings and began five hits and five walks. his fifth appearance with The 24-year-old held the runners at second and Red Sox to a run on four third after Adam Warren hits and three walks with allowed a double down two strikeouts over four the right-field line to Trey innings in a no-decision Mancini.

The right-hander used his fastball to get Machado looking on a close pitch on a full count. He then quickly got ahead of Schoop and finished the inning by getting the second baseman to chase at a curveball on a 2-2 count.

St. Louis 5, Arizona 3 Michael Wacha allowed two runs on four hits in five innings and Jose Martinez hit a tie-breaking three-run homer in the bottom of the third inning and added an RBI single to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-3 win over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday afternoon at Busch Stadium.

On an 0-2 pitch with two men on base, Martinez smashed a Zack Greinke offering over the center-field fence. Tommy Pham and Marcell Ozuna also scored to give St. Louis a lead it would not relinquish as the Cardinals moved to 4-4. Bud Norris pitched a scoreless ninth with three strikeouts for the save.

Arizona lost for just the second time this season as Greinke had a rough outing. Greinke allowed more than four runs just four times last year and came into the game off a 5 2/3 inning, five-hit, nine-strikeout no-decision against Colorado in his first start of the season, which the Diamondbacks lost 2-1.

Seattle 11, Minnesota 4 Mike Leake pitched five strong innings, and Kyle Seager, Ryon Healy

and Guillermo Heredia provided the offense as the Seattle Mariners beat the Minnesota Twins 11-4 on a chilly Saturday afternoon at Target Field.

Leake didn’t have a strikeout and walked four but allowed only two runs on three hits. Seager and Heredia each hit two-run home runs, and Healy had a bases-clearing double in a five-run eighth inning for the Mariners, who bounced back from a loss to the Twins on Friday.

Detroit 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Miguel Cabrera drove in three runs, Michael Fulmer tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings and the Detroit Tigers downed the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on Saturday afternoon.

Fulmer (1-1) was a hard-luck loser in the first start this season, giving up one run in eight innings against Pittsburgh in a 1-0 loss on Sunday. This time, he benefited from strong run support and repeatedly got himself out of trouble.

He allowed six hits and three walks while striking out four.

Cabrera exited the Tigers’ 9-7, 10-inning victory over the White Sox on Thursday with hip discomfort. He was back in the lineup for the second game of the series and knocked in the first three runs of the game.

Dixon Machado had two hits, including his sixth double this season, scored a run and drove in two more for the Tigers.

TRACK AND FIELD

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at Norfolk 1:05 p.m.

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at Colorado at Washington at Washington 3:10 p.m.

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Wide receiver Tamir Jones from Norcross catches a pass during Georgia State’s spring football game. (Georgia State Sports Communications)

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Sports Calendar

ALL SPORTS

Ongoing through Aug. 3: All Sports Youth Camps, in partnership with Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation, will host spring break and summer break camps in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, lacrosse, softball and multi-sports this year. Locations include Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Summer camps are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, go to www. allsportsyouthcamps.com, email DLStancil@yahoo. com or call 770-356-6861.

FOOTBALL

April 14: Fellowship of Christian Athletes Gwinnett will host its Lunch with Legends fundraiser at North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrenceville. Proceeds fund FCA Gwinnett’s ministry programs. The event, which begins at noon, features six-time Pro Bowl selection and Super Bowl champion Jeff Saturday, who started at center with legendary quarterback Pey-

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The program also includes testimony from other athletes and coaches, including former NFL and Atlanta Falcon Kevin Shaffer. An auction also is planned with items like a football autographed by Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart and autographed items from 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers. The North Metro Baptist youth band also will perform at the event. Individual tickets and sponsorships are available. For more information, email cwest@fca.org or go to www.fcacoachesgwinnett.org.

GOLF

June 25: The 10th annual Archer Classic will be held at Summit Chase Country Club to benefit the Tigers’ high school football program. Shotgun start is at 9 a.m. Cost is $125 per player and sponsorships are available. For more information, email tjohnstone@eaglerocks.com.

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past two years to departing senior Conner Manning, completed 17 of 25 passes for 173 yards and three scores, while also catching a 17-yard TD pass from Jonathan Ifedi on a trick play.

Walker, the redshirt freshman from Madison, Miss., hit on 9 of 16 passes for 169 yards, including a 24-yard scoring strike to redshirt freshman Camryn Johnson.

With three of the four candidates for the job Saturday — redshirt senior Jaquez Parks sat out with an injury — the battle for the starting job will extend into preseason practice leading up to the Panthers’ Aug. 30 season opener against Kennesaw State at GSU Stadium.

And that suits Elliott just fine.

“You look at all three of them (Saturday) — Parks is a little banged up, so he couldn’t play — but all three of them went out and executed really well, delivered the football,” Elliott said. “We tried to limit them on their rushing (Saturday). We didn’t want them really taking the

Spring shots.

“It’s really a good situation. I think we’ve got three pretty good quarterbacks, and with Parks, when he comes back from injury, I think we’re in good shape at the quarterback position.”

Ellington was inclined to agree, and is eagerly looking forward to continuing the competition into the fall after an intensely competitive spring practice.

“It’s going to make it a lot of fun,” Ellington said.

“The competition’s going to be really good in the fall.

We all knew as quarterbacks that (the) competitions was going to go into fall camp. So we just all push each other and have fun doing it.

“We’ve got some really good guys that can play and go out and win games.

Coach Elliott and (offensive coordinator Travis) Trickett, they’re going to find the best guy.”

While Saturday’s spring game did little to determine which quarterback candidate is the best guy, one thing it did determine is that the Panthers have plenty of receivers who can catch the football.

Florida transfer tight end Camrin Knight had a big

day with six catches for 100 yards, including a 25-yard touchdown from Winchester on a tipped ball on the game’s final play, while Johnson finished with five catches for 108 yards and two touchdowns and senior tight end Ari Werts had five catches for 40 yards and two TDs. Norcross grad Tamir Jones also hauled in a touchdown pass, and displayed plenty of confidence after finishing third on the team with 33 catches for 396 yards as a true freshman during the Panthers’ run to the Cure Bowl last season.

“This year, I feel a lot more confident,” said Jones, who is GSU’s secondleading returning receiver behind only All-Sun Belt Conference redshirt junior and Buford resident Penny Hart. “We’ve got a great squad. Our linemen are all on the same page. The quarterbacks are on the same page. … I feel a lot more confident going into this year because we give great effort.

“A lot of big plays (Saturday), … whether it was the deep ball or screens.

Great blocking outside on the perimeter.”

Even GSU head basketball coach Ron Hunter — who was in attendance to be honored with his team, as well as Sun Belt Player of the D’Marcus Simonds, at halftime — got in on the fun, making a guest appearance and hauling in a pass from Ellington in the end zone to provide the crowd a bit of a laugh.

While all the offense of the game might not have seemed as much fun and games to the GSU defense, the White team did have its moments during the day, as well.

Included in those moments were a pair of pass breakups from Dacula grad Jaylon Jones in the secondary, as well as a batted pass at the line by North Gwinnett grad Brian Eberhardt on a pass rush. “(Saturday) wasn’t too much physical,” said Jaylon Jones, a 6-foot3, 210-pound redshirt freshman safety. “Spring (practice) was more like instructional and learning the basics and fundamentals.

Scrimmaging after almost every week is like putting everything together. …

That’s kind of what (Saturday) was, too. It’s just good to be out here competing.”

SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2018 • 4B

Tiger recovers from tough start at Masters Field Level Media

cess. Woods was 1-over on the par-5s Saturday — Tiger Woods recovered two bogeys, a birdie and a from a bogey-bogey start par — and is only 1-under to his third round at the on the par-5s this week.

Masters on Saturday to “Again, I didn’t play record an even par round the par-5s well and I of 72 and remain at 4-over didn’t hit a lot of good (220) for the tournament. iron shots,” Woods told He was in a tie for 42nd reporters after his round. when he walked off the “It was the same as yescourse shortly before 3 terday.” p.m. ET, with the leaders He has hit only 19 of 42 yet to tee off. fairways through the first Despite hitting only three rounds. four fairways Saturday, “This week, I’m hitit was Woods’ best round ting so many good putts, of the tournament after they’re just not going in,” recording a 73 in the Woods said, shaking his opening round and a 75 head. “But I’m not hitting on Friday. it close enough. I’m not Woods bogeyed each getting up there, I’m not of his first two holes taking advantage of the Saturday to fall back to par-5s, and consequently 6-over, but recovered the a good-fought round is shots with birdies on Nos. even par.”

6 and 8 to make the turn Woods did fare betat even par 36. He parred ter than Phil Mickelson, the first five holes on his who triple-bogeyed his back nine before a bogey opening hole en route to at the par-5 15th hole. a 2-over 74 on Saturday.

Woods followed that with Mickelson also bogeyed a birdie at the par-3 16th his second hole before and closed out his round recovering three shots with a pair of pars. with an eagle on the par-5 He hit 12 of 18 greens eighth and a birdie on No. and needed 29 putts to get 9 to make the turn in 37. around Augusta National He traded a bogey and on Saturday. He continues a birdie on Nos. 13 and 14 to fail to consistently take and closed with a bogey advantage of the par-5s on No. 18 after leaving that have long been a his third shot on the front source of his Masters suc- side of the green with a

back pin placement and two-putting.

Woods was asked what he hoped to accomplish during Sunday’s final round while being out of contention.

“Hopefully I can hit my irons better,” he said. “It’s been scratchy this week.

I just haven’t gotten it done. I feel like I’m driving it better than I have all year, but I am not capitalizing on it. And when I did miss, I missed in the wrong spots. My swing is just off with my irons, and just at the wrong time.”

Woods, who fell out of the top 1,000 while recovering from fusion surgery on his back last year, will return to the top 100 by making the cut this week.

“I’m just kind of gradually working on it,” he said when asked if it marked any kind of milestone in his comeback.

“Just gradually building. I was pretty far out there …

I’ve had some success so far in this comeback. I’m getting there. I wish this week was a little better.

“Hopefully tomorrow I can shoot something to get me to even par or even in the red. I think that will be a good goal tomorrow.

And I hope I can get it done.”

Tiger Woods taps in a putt on the 10th green during the third round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA Today Sports)

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Masters

ies, the eagle, but to also make some pretty good become the first player in par saves to keep the round modern Masters history going … all in all, just a to post four rounds in the great moving day,” said 60s (69-66-67). McIlroy is Fowler. “It’s the round that three shots back, with the I needed to give myself a likes of Rickie Fowler (9 chance.” under), Spain’s Jon Rahm Rahm posted the first 65 (8 under) and Sweden’s on Saturday with a round Henrik Stenson (7 unthat included an eagle on der) still within striking No. 8 to go out in 4-under distance.

32 and three birdies over McIlroy, Fowler and his final nine holes. Rahm Rahm all shot 7-under 65s shot a 75 on Thursday and on Saturday to tie for the was still 3 over for the low round of the tournatournament when he made ment. his turn on Friday. Since Reed, who had missed then, he has played his past the cut in two of his previ- 27 holes in 11 under. ous four Masters appear“I was playing really ances, had more eagles good golf even the first Saturday (two) than in day, but I put two balls his previous 14 rounds at in the water the last six Augusta National comholes,” he said. “Yesterday bined (one). That included on the back nine it kind a chip-in on No. 15 to of switched. I made a few extend his lead to five after putts, got the confidence narrowly clearing the water going. Then today, just that Sergio Garcia dumped kept that going. five balls into on Thursday.

“I would say the bigIt came just minutes af- gest difference is hitting a ter McIlroy had recovered couple more fairways and from a wayward tee shot then being able to convert to birdie the same hole to the putts. And then bereach 10 under for the first ing a little lucky like with the chip-in on eight, and time this tournament. hitting the flag stick on 13 McIlroy got off to a (after going in the water). blazing start with three You know, that is just part birdies and an eagle in of days like today.” a six-hole stretch on the Rahm is seeking to befront nine to make his turn come the fourth Spaniard in 31 shots. Along with to win the Masters, joining the birdie on No. 15, he closed with a birdie on the Seve Ballesteros (1980, ‘83), Jose Maria Olazabal final hole to post the third 7-under 65 of the round — (1994, ‘99) and Garcia last joining Fowler and Rahm. year.

“Shooting 7 under here “I got on a nice little run there on the front nine, and is like shooting almost 15 the birdies sort of dried up under somewhere else,” Rahm said. “Doing it at a little bit,” said McIlroy.

Augusta, where Spanish “But then to birdie two history is so big, Sergio of the last four holes was being the defending chamhuge. Patrick’s having a great day, and a great tour- pion and getting close to nament. At least I’m closer contention, so it’s really going to mean a lot.” to him than at the start of England’s Tommy Fleetthe day.

“I’m really excited to go wood entered Saturday at even par for the champiout there tomorrow, show onship, but got his round everyone what I’ve got, going with two birdies on show Patrick Reed what I’ve got. All the pressure is the front nine. He then on him tomorrow. He went reeled off five consecutive to Augusta State. He’s got birdies and had a chance to better Reed’s low round a lot of support here, and I’m hoping to come in and of the tournament to that point (66 on Friday) before spoil the party.” three-putting the 18th Fowler also played his way firmly into contention hole to settle for a 6-under round. for his first major victory.

“Apparently my iron He eagled the second hole play,” said Fleetwood, and poured in five more whose proximity to the birdies in posting his first career bogey-free round at hole with his approach shots Saturday improved Augusta. by 16 feet from the previ“To make the putts that we did today, to make bird- ous round. “The course

was playing a lot easier.

The greens were pretty soft, the wind wasn’t really blowing very hard. If you don’t shoot a good score, today was the day to do it, really. It’s a bit weird to walk off disappointed with a 66.

“There’s nothing you can do about the other guys. So for me, it will be same as I did last night.

Get some rest, just go out and see what we can do.”

All of those still in contention are at the mercy of Reed, who responded to every challenge from the surging first page of the leaderboard Saturday.

It appeared he let a host of players back into the tournament with a bogey on No. 3. He then birdied four of his next six holes and recovered from a bogey on No. 12 with the two eagles.

He did drop a shot with a bogey on No. 16, potentially providing a bit more hope to the chasing pack.

“I can’t control what he does,” Fowler said.

“Obviously, it’s tough to keep playing the way he is. Obviously he’s playing well. He’s riding the high, so I’m just going to go out and play my game. The golf tournament starts tomorrow on the back nine.”

“This is my first final group here since 2011,” said McIlroy. “I feel like I learned an awful lot from that day. Hopefully all that I did learn seven years ago I can put into practice today.”

Notes: World No. 1 Dustin Johnson shot a 1-under 71 on Saturday and is 10 shots behind Reed at 4 under. That is one shot behind secondranked Justin Thomas and No. 4 Jordan Spieth. …

Tiger Woods shot an even par 72 and is 4 over. He bogeyed each of his first two holes before battling back with two birdies on the front nine, and played the back nine in even par as well. … Phil Mickelson shot a 2-over 74 and is at 7 over for the tournament.

He triple-bogeyed the opening hole, including completely missing the ball while trying to recover from the trees. … Fleetwood is competing in his second Masters. He missed out on qualifying by a fraction of a point three years ago to Danny Willett, who went on to win the event.

Classic

way — fast greens, good condition. That’s really celebrate its 2018 Interall there is. You don’t find any slow greens here (at national League home Augusta National). You opener one night before don’t find them at Sugarthe tournament begins, loaf either. including defending “I played really good champion Stephen Ames the last round I had (on being scheduled to throw the Champions Tour) in out the ceremonial first Mississippi about 10 days pitch. ago. I hit all 18 greens As an added bonus fans in regulation and had who attends that game two easy putts. And (in Thursday night at CoolThursday’s first round ray Field will receive a of the Masters), I played complementary grounds played good again. So access ticket to one of the I’m excited about my ball competition rounds of the striking. I’ve just got to Mitsubishi Electric Claswork on my putting.” sic during the weekend.

Mize also always finds “It’s a great opportuhimself enjoying playing nity to go and support in the Masters and MEC the Gwinnett Stripers and in back-to-back weeks then also come and join because it provides him us for the next three days with a nice homecoming. at the Mitsubishi Electric “I love it,” said the Classic,” Ortel said. “It’ll Augusta native, a Columbe fun. We’re going to bus resident and former have some between inGeorgia Tech standout. nings, maybe some chip“I mean, the worst part ping contests, with some of our job is the travel. of our professionals. It’ll And having two (straight be a good full day for us. weeks) in Georgia, I don’t “At the end of the day, this event is a commuBernhard Langer hits his tee shot on the 12th hole during the second round of the Masters golf tournament at Au- have to travel very much.

So it’s really special. It’s nity-driven event. Yes, gusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA Today Sports) good to be close to home. it’s on an international I’ve got family in this stage with Golf Channel tion, and this year’s event gated at TPC Sugarloaf Those eight former winner Larry Mize and week. Not as much next coverage. You’ve got the figures to have one of its for this year’s Mitsubishi Masters champions 1991 winner Ian Woosweek, but I still get to see legends of the the PGA most star-studded fields Electric Classic, I just include the inaugural nam. friends. And it’s fun to Tour (Champions) comof 78 of the world’s best think it’s phenomenal.

Mitsubishi Electric ClasLanger and Singh will peting for a lot of money, golfers age 50 or older.

Then to have names like sic champion and threeboth be coming into TPC play in your home state.”

In addition to the and a great title sponsor “We’ve got (eight) for- Steve Stricker and David time Charles Schwab Sugarloaf after making former Masters champiin Mitsubishi Electric. mer Masters champions Toms — those are the Cup champion Bernhard the cut at the Masters, a But really this event is who will be playing with hot names on the PGA Langer, as well as fellow Georgia doubleheader the ons, World Golf Hall of Famers Tom Kite, Colin supported by, and really us this year,” Hall said.

Tour Champions as far World Golf Hall of Fam- former has particularly Montgomerie and Georan event for, this com“To have (eight) former as victories (this year) ers Tom Watson, Sandy come to enjoy. gia native Larry Nelson munity.”

Masters champions, — they’re all going to be Lyle, Mark O’Meara, Jose “I like both golf are also expected to be in Still, the golf tournasome who are multi-year here. So it’s a very, very Maria Olazabal and Vijay courses,” Langer said. ment is the main attracchampions, all congrestrong, competitive field.” Singh, plus 1987 Masters “They’re very similar in a the field.

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PENN FC AT ATLANTA UNITED 2 Today, 4 p.m. • Coolray Field, Lawrenceville

Homegrowns making their marks for United 2

By Taylor Denman

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George Bello had the week off — from school, not soccer.

The 16-year-old Atlanta United homegrown prospect made his professional soccer debut with Atlanta United 2 on March 31 against Charlotte Independence, which featured a forward that is Bello’s senior by 20 years. Charlotte’s 38-year-old forward, Jorge Herrera, has 10 years on the oldest United 2 player.

He may not get credit in the box score, but Bello went on attack from his position as a defensive winger and helped force an own goal in the first half.

Soccer is not Bello’s only concern these days since he’s enrolled at Rivers Academy in Atlanta where he’s working to earn his high school diploma, but it’s been his only concern this week since the private school is on spring break.

“It’s not that hard (to balance), because the school I go to is compliant with me,” Bello said. “Whenever I get back, they make it easy to catch up on homework. But by the summer I’ll be done.”

Bello is the youngest player on the professional side of Atlanta United’s farm system, which includes United 2 and the first team that plays out of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

said. “It’s part of the learning experience for younger players — and we certainly had a young lineup out — when a good, experienced team like Charlotte can catch one late and now when you think you’re going home with three points, you go with one point.”

Bello admitted he had to overcome some jitters he was experiencing early in his professional debut, but there are already signs he’s gaining confidence from the experience of playing against a mature Charlotte squad.

Breaking down Bello’s goal, the left back took advantage of a one-touch pass from left wing Carlos Carranza and sprinted into space. He had to abandon a good defensive position to MLS Homegrown and Atlanta United midfielder Chris Goslin (8) chases the ball with do so, but there’s no harm Chivas U-20s forward Jose Salas (103) in the second half during the MLS All Star if he’s able to finish the play confidently. The box homegrown game Aug. 1 in Chicago. (Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports) score won’t reflect his ofHe’s the only player curutes of the match by Jose experience dating back to ficial first goal, but even his rently solving high-school Carrera’s equalizer.

2012. coach will give him credit math problems in his time “Lagos went insane after The Charlotte match, in for making a smart tactical away from the Marietta he scored,” teammate Chris essence, is Atlanta United play. training facility, but United Goslin said. “George has 2 functioning at its fullest.

“It was a surreal moment, 2 will feature some young been working really hard — Head coach Scott Donnelly I was really happy with it,” lineups, even compared he’s the youngest guy — so believes his team could Bello said. “It was a great to typical United Soccer seeing those guys making have come away with three moment in my life and I’ll League’s other rosters. their debuts was awesome.” points at Charlotte, but always remember it, even United 2’s match against He’s approaching his there are lessons learned though it was an own goal.”

Charlotte was a showcase 18th birthday, but Goslin from a 2-2 result, which Notes: Today’s opfor homegrowns. Nineteen- is closer to the mean with will ultimately fade into ponent, Penn FC, is still year-old winger Lagos regards to experience, obscurity, perhaps before searching for its first win Kunga notched his first compared to his peers. The the season’s end.

(0-1-1). The club played professional goal against Locust Grove native had “I think we should to a 0-0 tie against PittsCharlotte, which at first one professional start prior have won, so I think — I burgh Riverhounds FC last seemed to grant his squad to Saturday for Charleston wouldn’t say disappointed week. ... First-team center its second win until it was Battery in 2017 and years — but we wish we closed back Leandro Gonzalez snatched in the final minof U.S. National Team the game out,” Donnelly Pirez was charged with

a red card during Atlanta United’s match against Minnesota United last week. He served a suspension during Saturday’s match against LAFC. Miles Robinson, who’s made two starts with United 2, and Mikey Ambrose filled the gaps left by Gonzalez Pirez and injured defender Greg Garza. That will likely keep them out for Sunday’s match with United 2. Robinson, according to Donnelly, is sharper with his passes, which the team has been developing. “He looked like (Franz) Beckenbauer,” teammate A.J. Cochran said with a smirk, regarding one of Robinson’s long runs against Charlotte. ... Goalkeeper Paul Christensen made his professional debut against Charlotte. He was credited with a save and a clearance in the game. After training on Tuesday, Donnelly touted his communication skills and ability to use his feet to start the team’s attacks. Since Saturday’s match was the first time the first and second teams’ schedules overlapped, Christensen figures to get his share of caps while Alec Kann backs up Brad Guzan for the first team. ... Goslin saw teammates Kunga and Bello make plays against Charlotte, and now the homegrown midfielder is hungry for his first pro goal: “I had a few chances, nothing dropped for though.”

Harvick enjoys phone-free Masters Lightning-fast first round gives Kurt Busch pole

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

FORT WORTH, Texas — Right off the truck, Kurt Busch’s No. 41 Ford was as fast as greased lightning.

That’s a good thing, because Busch’s first attempt in knockout qualifying put the No. 41 on the pole position for today’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway — when the threat of lightning in the area halted time trials after the completion of the first round.

Busch turned a lap in 27.360 seconds (197.368 mph) in the No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford at the 1.5-mile track, edging teammate Kevin Harvick (197.116 mph) by .035 seconds. With Martinsville winner Clint Bowyer taking the third qualifying spot, StewartHaas will start 1-2-3 in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race for the first time in the organization’s history.

The track record holder at TMS with a lap at 200.915 mph (26.877 seconds) last November, Busch claimed his third Busch Pole Award at the track, his first of the season and the 23rd of his career.

With afternoon storms threatening to shorten qualifying, Busch and his team made a concerted effort to put down a strong lap in the first round.

“You’ve got to play all three rounds as smart as you can,” Busch said.

“And so we went a little bit aggressive on that first round, and it paid off. I think in Round 2 we would have picked up even more speed, and then Round 3, that would have been where we would have needed to make a big gamble to see if we could maintain that pace.

“But I’m glad that we had the pace right off the truck, thanks to (crew chief) Billy Scott, Doug

Early in Saturday’s first practice session, after running his fastest lap of the day, Stenhouse veered into the outside wall, damaging his No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford beyond repair. The accident mirrored incidents at ISM Raceway in Phoenix and two weeks ago at Martinsville.

Stenhouse said his spotter saw sparks from underneath the car before it shot into the wall at Texas.

He’ll be joined at the rear of the field by Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron, whose No. 24 Chevrolet needed an engine change after losing oil pressure during Friday’s opening practice.

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

NASCAR What: Monster Energy Cup Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 When: Today, 2 p.m.

Where: Texas Motor Speedway TV: FS1

Yates and the engine department — those guys are building some good steam. … It’s really neat to have our Fords at Stewart-Haas hauling the mail like this.

When you go to attack the track and really stand on the gas hard, it’s a great feeling to know that it’s going to stick.”

Harvick was just a tick off Busch’s pole speed.

“We kept it in the family, and that’s a good thing for Stewart-Haas Racing,” said Harvick, a three-time winner already this season.

“And maybe we can continue the trend of running well for the rest of the weekend.”

Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney qualified fourth, giving Ford drivers the top four starting spots for the season’s seventh race. Denny Hamlin will start fifth on the grid, next to reigning series champion Martin Truex Jr. Joey Logano, series leader Kyle Busch, seventime Texas winner Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Larson claimed the seventh through 10th starting positions, respectively.

Notes: William Byron was 33rd fastest in the session but will drop to the rear for the start of the race because of an engine change. … Aric Almirola qualified 12th, putting all four Stewart-Haas cars in the top 12. … Trevor Bayne completed his qualifying lap after time expired, bumping Ryan Newman out of the top 24. … Brad Keselowski qualified 11th, Daniel Suarez 14th and Daytona 500 runner-up Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. 15th.

FORT WORTH, Texas — With the emphasis on staying connected through social media, it’s hard to find a cellphone-free zone, but that’s what Kevin Harvick encountered during a Thursday visit to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.

Cell phones aren’t allowed on the course during tournament rounds.

“We were talking about the trip this morning,” Harvick told the NASCAR Wire Service after qualifying second for Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway (2 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

“Everything around here is about trying to figure out who’s better on social media and connect on social media. And (there) they take your phone away.

“You can’t get on the property with your phone, and nobody’s worried about taking pictures.

Everybody is engaged in the event and it’s sold out every day. That’s intriguing, just because of the fact of how everybody else is thinking in every other sport. It’s one of those niche situations.

It’s outside of reality. It’s refreshing. You don’t even think about it because you don’t have it - that being your phone.”

With three professional golfers under his management umbrella — Jason Gore, James Hahn and Chesson Hadley — Harvick has a vested interest in the sport. In a global sense, he believes Chase Elliott could impact NASCAR racing the way Tiger Woods moves the needle in golf — provided Elliott can string together some victories.

“The guy that has the most potential is Chase Elliott with the traditional NASCAR fans,” Harvick said. “It’s just like when (we) talk; you have to win. There’s a difference between a superstar and a megastar. In the past, a superstar wasn’t a megastar because of the fact that he

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Jimmie Johnson (48) looks on during practice for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 on Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.

(Photo: Jerome Miron-USA Today Sports)

didn’t win enough. Chase Elliott is the next guy that can be a megastar — but you have to win.”

decent lap there (in the first round of qualifying) and making good gains.”

Those gains were apparent in Saturday’s first Drought breaker practice, too. In cold If ever there were a conditions after a drastic track where Jimmie John- overnight drop in temperason could be expected to ture, Johnson was fourthbreak out of his current fastest in the session at funk, Texas Motor Speed- 198.639 mph.

In final practice, Johnway would certainly be a son ran just three laps, likely candidate. but his third one was the After all, the seventime champion is a record fastest of the session at 198.143 mph. seven-time winner at the That’s a welcome omen, 1.5-mile speedway. And even though Friday’s qual- given that Johnson hasn’t led a lap yet this year. In ifying session was halted fact, the seven-time champ by the threat of lightning has led laps in only two and limited to one round, of the last 25 races (five at Johnson was encouraged that he had found speed in Dover and 24 at Martinsville last year). his car.

That wasn’t the case Stenhouse Jr. in backup when the team unloaded car after crash the No. 48 Chevrolet.

For the third time this “We started off and season and the second struggled pretty bad,” Johnson said. “I think the event in a row, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will start from track was just really far the rear of the field in a off from what we anticiMonster Energy NASpated. At the very end of (opening) practice, things CAR Cup Series race after started going much better crashing in practice and going to a backup car. for us and popped off a

2019 Cup schedule looks awfully familiar NASCAR has apparently found the schedule it likes.

A year after a schedule reboot which saw, among other things, a second race added to Vegas, track changes for two Chase races and the switch to the Charlotte road course for the Chase, the 2019 schedule release this week had a lot less drama.

In fact, the 2019 schedule is the exact same as the 2018 schedule in terms of order of races and track locations.

The season will again start off two weeks after the Super Bowl, with the Daytona 500 running on Feb. 17.

Atlanta’s race is Feb. 24.

With Easter falling three weeks later on the calendar in 2019 that it did in 2018, the season’s first bye week will be April 21, after Race 9 at Richmond.

Despite some speculation that the All-Star Race could be moved from its traditional Charlotte location, NASCAR confirmed in a news release Tuesday that Charlotte will again host back-to-back weekends of racing. The All-Star Race will be May 18 with the Coca-Cola 600 happening May 26.

Once again, the Chase will begin in Las Vegas (Sept. 15) and conclude in Homestead, Fla., on Nov. 17.

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GGC ROUNDUP

No. 2 baseball sweeps Stillman From Staff Reports

Los Angeles FC goalkeeper Tyler Miller is unable to make the save off of Atlanta United’s Julian Gressel (not pictured) during the first half of Saturday’s match at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Inset below, Miguel Almiron (10) celebrates his second half penalty kick score with teammate Kevin Kratz (32). (Staff Photos: Jason Braverman

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was waiting for a header that gave United a 2-0 lead Julian Gressel had a in the 67th minute. It was goal and assisted on Josef Martinez’s 24th goal in 25 Martinez’s second-half regular-season matches. tally, and Miguel Almiron Almiron tacked on goals capitalized on two penon penalty kicks in the alty kicks in the final five 88th minute and in stopminutes as Atlanta United page time to salt the game handed Los Angeles FC away late. United has its second straight loss 5-0 scored 11 goals in its three on Saturday at Mercedeshome games this season.

Benz Stadium.

United forward Romario Gressel opened the Williams scored his first scoring in the 17th minute. career MLS goal seven Almiron got inside the left minutes into stoppage time side of the box and found in the second half.

Parkhurst making a run to Atlanta (4-1-0) has won the back line. Parkhurst four straight games since delivered a perfect leftdropping its opener 4-0 at footed cross past multiple the Houston Dynamo.

LAFC defenders and right LAFC (2-2-0) got off to a wide-open Gressel for to a 2-0 start in its inauthe easy finish. gural season but has now Atlanta controlled the dropped two straight, first 45 minutes, but LAFC including last week’s delooked to have the momen- flating meltdown in a loss tum to open the second to LA Galaxy. half. But Gressel changed LAFC squandered a 3-0 that, putting a perfect first lead in a 4-3 loss to the touch on a ball down the Galaxy last week. right sideline and then Atlanta will host New lofting a pass toward the York City FC on April back post where Martinez 15. NYCFC is the only

unbeaten team in MLS one month into the season.

LAFC stays on the road for three more games,

before returning home to open their new stadium May 5. LAFC faces Vancouver on Friday.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS

LAWRENCEVILLE — The Georgia Gwinnett College baseball team used two different ways to earn a doubleheader sweep against Stillman College on Saturday afternoon at the Grizzly Baseball Complex. The Grizzlies picked up a 6-5 victory in the opener before scoring 16 times in the third inning of a 19-0 triumph.

GGC (29-8), ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, jumped out to a 6-1 lead through the first three innings of the first game.

All six of the early runs came with two outs.

Stillman (14-16) made things interesting in the top of the seventh by scoring four runs and placing the potential game-tying run at third base with no outs. However, junior reliever Jordan Tylski shut the door on the comeback effort.

Stillman’s Tres Wooten got caught while trying to steal second base for the first out of the inning.

Then, Tylski got two strikeouts to secure the victory.

In the second game, GGC sent 21 batters to the plate in the third inning. Senior Ryan Lark connected on a two-run home run after senior Marcus McCorkle and freshman Nick Barnes had run-scoring doubles.

The team collected eight of its 13 hits in the inning.

Tylski, the starting shortstop, hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning.

Juniors Tucker Plouffe and Caleb Gay picked up victories on the mound in both starting assignments. Gay allowed just two hits in the second game, while Plouffe registered five strikeouts.

Softball scores 22 runs in sweep The Georgia Gwinnett College softball players hit an inside-the-park home run and rounded the bases on a conventional homer as part of a 22-run offensive performance during Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of Talladega College at the Grizzly Softball Complex.

The Grizzlies (33-2) picked up 13-4 and 9-1 victories in two fiveinning games to run the team’s winning streak to 14 games.

After falling behind 3-0 in the top of the first inning, the hosts stormed back with a five-run inning to take the lead in the bottom of the frame. Junior Tori Robinson legged out an inside-the-park homer to score two runs and tie the contest. Sophomore Anya Vandersip followed with a run-scoring single to give the Grizzlies the lead. She then scored on a double steal attempt.

GGC had a seven-run fourth inning to break open the contest. Sophomore Sydney Willhite hit a two-run double during the frame. Robinson added a triple to bring home freshman Maegan Harden. A single from junior Aubree Cox scored Robinson.

In the second game, the Grizzlies scored runs in all five innings. The big hit in the game came off the bat from junior Brianna Fickes with a two-run home run in the third inning.

Cox gave the Grizzlies a 2-1 lead in the second inning with a run-scoring double. Freshman Holly Janco followed a few batters later with a triple to score Cox. GGC scored two runs in the fourth inning and got a run-scoring single from freshman Piper Wagner in the fifth inning.

FANS CHOICE SPRING ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Kennedy Jackson School: Mountain View Sport: Soccer Class: Sophomore Highlights: Had two goals and an assist in the Bears’ 4-0 win over White County, and also had the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Duluth Coach Donald Macoy’s take: “Kennedy was a great asset to our team last year as a freshman, leading our team in scoring. This year, she came out of club season with more confidence and an increased understanding of the game. She is not only leading our team in scoring, but also in assist. This has helped us have more success on the field as a team and to be more consistent against quality opponents.”

Atlanta Gladiators forward Stephen Pierog (9) drives into Greenville’s zone with Sergey Zboroskiy (5) defending during Saturday’s regular-season finale at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth. (Photo: Amanda Bingham)

Greenville blanks Atlanta in finale

By Christine Troyke

those dirty goals. We weren’t christine.troyke able to finish unfortunately.” @gwinnettdailypost.com The Gladiators had nine defensemen in the lineup, DULUTH — After Friday but two — Eric Shand and night’s thrilling win over Colin Sullivan — played forOrlando, Atlanta Gladiators ward. Weber moved Josh Athead coach Chuck Weber kinson, who had the gamepredicted an intense effort winning goal at forward from Greenville for the regu- Friday night, back to defense lar season finale. and added Taylor Doherty.

The Swamp Rabbits, who Sullivan and Doherty were finished in the division’s out (maintenance) Friday. basemen, lived up to the Forwards Phil Lane and Tanadvance billing and capped ner Pond remain on recall to their season with a 4-0 victhe AHL. tory over Atlanta in front After some initial disarray, of 9,890 on Saturday at the Atlanta got rolling and genInfinite Energy Arena. erated a number of premium Greenville’s rookie goalscoring chances. Bounces tender Chris Nell made all and the play of Nell kept the 49 saves for the shutout and Gladiators off the board.

Caleb Herbert scored two Greenville grabbed a 1-0 goals. lead with 1:36 left in the first “We chased the game,” period on a blueline blast Weber said. “We had chanc- from Matt Prapavessis. The es. But again, when you have shot through traffic went bar nine defensemen playing, down to beat goalie Sean you have to get a little puck Bonar. luck and you have to get “It was a quiet game

early and one where we knew if they got lucky early (it would be a problem),” Weber said. “It was a simple point shot that went straight in.”

A turnover allowed the Swamp Rabbits to extend the lead with the only goal of the second period. Wade Murphy was the beneficiary and roofed his shot from the crease at 8:53.

“Their first two goals were direct pucks that were on our sticks,” Weber said. “We turned it over and then we chased the game from that point.”

Greenville had a chance to push it to 3-0 on a penalty shot awarded to Johno May with 6:46 left in the second, but a patient Bonar stuffed him.

Bonar also made a flashy glove save in the final minute of the period to keep it close, but then Greenville broke through 1:08 into the third.

Herbert was sprung on a rush and handcuffed Bonar to score his team-best 23rd goal of the season. Hebert added insult to injury with a second goal in the final two minutes.

The Gladiators now prepare for a playoff matchup with Florida, the top team in the ECHL. The bestof-seven series starts with games in Florida on April 16 and 17. Games 3 through 5 are scheduled for the Infinite Energy Arena on April 19, 20 and 22.

Weber has to put in his playoff roster in the coming week. He had questions regarding who would be in with two games left in the regular season. Not all of those questions were answered.

“We had guys a few guys do some good things and a few guys who did some things I wasn’t as keen on,” Weber said.

IN BRIEF Georgia Tech extends Johnson through 2022 season Georgia Tech extended the contract of coach Paul Johnson through the 2022 season, the school announced Friday.

The move comes with Johnson having three years left on his current deal.

“Aside from Bobby Dodd, no head coach in Georgia Tech football history has won more games in his first 10 seasons than Paul Johnson,” athletic director Todd Stansbury said in a statement. “By extending Coach Johnson’s contract through 2022, we not only keep one of the most successful coaches in our illustrious history right here on The Flats, but we also ensure continued stability within our coaching staff.”

Johnson is 75-54 in his 10 seasons on campus and has guided the program to eight bowl appearances.

However, the Yellow Jackets have experienced losing campaigns in two of the past three seasons, including a 5-6 mark last season.

The legendary Dodd won 82 games in his first 10 seasons at Georgia Tech. The College Football Hall of Famer won a school-record 165 from 1945-66.

Johnson stands fourth on the school’s win list.

Johnson was appreciative of the latest show of support.

“The first thing that most potential student-athletes want to know is ‘Who is my coach going to be?,’” Johnson said in a statement. “So it’s good for our program and what we want to achieve to be able to tell recruits that the head coach is signed through 2022.”

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Fired restaurant Fire damages apartments near Norcross employee accused of stabbing manager

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in to detectives that were working at the A manager at the On location.”

The Border Mexican Grill Ingram and Cantina in Duluth was has been hospitalized Friday after an charged Kesely employee he had just fired with aggraIngram turned around and stabbed vated ashim, according to Gwinnett sault and aggravated battery.

County Police.

Meanwhile, the manager Kesely Ingram, 44, had was taken to a hospital with worked at the restaurant at severe injuries. He is still 2275 Pleasant Hill Road hospitalized. for about 10 years until he Flynn said anyone who was fired by the manager, has information that might who has not been identified. be related to the case is Police said that after Ingram asked to call detectives at was told he was being fired, 770-513-5300. They can he allegedly walked up to also call Crime Stoppers the manager and stabbed at 404-577-8477, or visit him in the neck. www.crimestoppersatlanta.

“After stabbing the org, to offer a tip and remanager, Ingram fled the main anonymous. scene,” Master Police OfCrime Stoppers tipsters ficer Collin Flynn said in a who provide information statement. “While officers that leads to an arrest or were responding to the indictment can receive a rerestaurant, Ingram traveled ward of as much as $2,000. to the Gwinnett County Anyone who provides inforPolice Department’s Central mation is asked to reference Precinct and turned himself case number 18-031685. curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Sixteen people in unincorporated Norcross were left without a place to stay after a fire damaged their apartments Saturday.

Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services Engineer Justin Wilson said firefighters were called to the Villas De La Vista Apartments on the 900 block of Sparrows Lane at 6:51 a.m. A 911 caller said smoke was coming from the roof and apartment units were being evacuated.

Firefighters arrived to find a three-story apartment building on fire.

There were 20 units in the building, but Wilson said only five units were affected by the fire. It is a two-three split building, with two stories visible from the front and three visible from the back, he said.

“Firefighters had smoke and fire through the roof on arrival,” Wilson said in a statement. “An aggressive interior attack was made by first arriv-

Gwinnett County firefighters work the scene of a fire at the Villas De La Vista Apartments complex in unincorporated Norcross on Saturday. Five units in the building were damaged by either fire, smoke or water damage. (Special Photo)

ing units. Multiple attack hose lines were operated to bring the fire under control. The building was divided by a fire wall that prevented fire extension to the other half of the structure.”

The fire began on the second floor of the building, in a wall between adjacent laundry rooms, but investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of the fire, Wilson said.

Two of the damaged units were affected heavily by the fire, as well as smoke and water. Wilson said two more units had moderate fire and water damage. A fifth unit, which was unoccupied, has minor water damage.

The number of people displaced by the fire includes eight adults and eight children. Wilson said they declined assistance from the American Red Cross.

There were no reported injuries.

Fire department officials are using the incident as an opportunity to highlight home fire safety practices that they recommend residents take.

“Be sure to install working smoke alarms on every level of the home and in each bedroom,” Wilson said. “Develop a home escape plan and practice fire drills regularly.”

college notes The following students were named to the dean’s list at Mercer University for the fall 2017 semester: Ronald Acoff of Lawrenceville, Monique Aguirre of Peachtree Corners, Daniela Agudelo of Lawrenceville, Sumeja Aljic of Lawrenceville, Rebecca Allen of Sugar Hill, Vanessa Alva-Corral of Norcross, Daniel Amankwah of Grayson, Ashley Antoine of Grayson, Emma Applegate of Suwanee, Victoria Bahena of Norcross, Matthew Bajakian of Lilburn, Arjun Bakshi of Suwanee, Aleycia Ballantyne of Sugar Hill, Jin Bang of Suwanee, Lucas Bennett of Lawrenceville, Brady Berman of Suwanee, Jeremy Booth of Norcross, Jewell Boyd of Norcross, Tamika Brown of Snellville, Alison Buhler of Dacula, Jenna Bruck of Duluth, Nile Campbell of Lawrenceville, Dana Chen of Duluth, Andrew Chiang of Lawrenceville, Emily Cmiel of Peachtree Corners, Victoria Collins of Suwanee, Robert Colvin of Grayson, Daniel Cowart of Duluth, Aditi Dave of Suwanee, Rachel Dreggors of Dacula, Thomas Eads of Duluth, Katherine Eckrote of Suwanee, Jasmine Garrett of Snellville, Blair Gatland of Snellville, Erica Golden of Dacula, Jiyeon Ha of Suwanee, Arlette Hernandez of Suwanee, Mukonde Hikeezi of Lawrenceville, Jarrick Hillery of Lawrenceville, Dawson Hilliard of Snellville,

Maria Ilyayeva of Lilburn, Jonathan Jenkins of Lawrenceville, Angela Johnson of Lawrenceville, Jada Johnson of Dacula, Savannah Jones of Buford, Jeesa Joseph of Lilburn, Seo Ho Kim of Duluth, Khang Le of Norcross, Lauren Lightfritz of Suwanee, Weizin Liu of Lilburn, Vikram Lokasundaram of Duluth, Nicole Lutch of Buford, Jennifer Mazurkiewicz of Grayson, Patrick McClellan of Lawrenceville, Bruce Meneses of Suwanee, Joseph Miller of Peachtree Corners, Kyle Mullen of Dacula, Jadon Murad of Lawrenceville, Blyss Musonera of Grayson, Zachary Musser of Berkeley Lake, Latonya Murphy of Snellville, Helen Mwaura of Norcross, Alexandra Nasoulis of Dacula, Jessica Noviani of Lawrenceville, Samuel Orjuela of Buford, Madison Orr of Grayson, Sydney Parker of Suwanee, E’majah Parson of Dacula, Chase Peplin of Buford, Kirsy Ramirez Tineo of Lawrenceville, Jaclyn Ramkissoon of Snellville, Christian Reynolds of Snellville, Ana Riveron of Suwanee, Mary Roark of Suwanee, Micayla Rood of Buford, Rachel Rosenmeyer of Suwanee, Pierce Smith of Snellville, Morgan Stanley of Grayson, Monica Stephenson of Suwanee, Elizabeth Stewart of Buford, Philip W. Stewart of Lawrenceville, Anish Sutaria of Suwanee, Katherine Tak of Snellville, Preston Thomas of

Snellville, Zhinea Thomas of Lawrenceville, John Thompson of Suwanee, Shannon Titus of Johns Creek, Sebastian Tomala of Peachtree Corners, Aditya Trivedi of Lawrenceville, Thomas Truong of Lawrenceville, Simran Vaghela of Suwanee, Christian Vann of Lilburn, Debora Vizcarra Guevara of Suwanee, Shruthi Vikraman of Duluth, Long Vo of Snellville, Morgan Wade of Grayson, Kimberly Wallace of Buford, Kimberly Whiting of Suwanee, Tiffany Wilkerson of Lawrenceville, Elizabeth Yavnel of Lawrenceville, Tewodros Yehualashet of Snellville and Eli Young of Lawrenceville.

The following students were recently named to the president’s list at Georgia Southern University for the fall 2017 semester: Courtney Avera of Suwanee, Nyjah Banks of Lawrenceville, Jasmyn Bell of Lawrenceville, Bryton Bergman of Sugar Hill, Costandinos Boudouris of Duluth, Brandon Brinson of Suwanee, Brielle Butler of Lawrenceville, Evan Butterworth of Lawrenceville, Casey Carroll of Suwanee, Jacqueline Chambers of Johns Creek, Samuel Choi of Norcross, Arielle Clark of Dacula, Henry Clayman of Johns Creek, Collin Cook of Suwanee, Isabel Cortez of Snellville, Katherine Darby of Lawrenceville, Gabrielle Darr of Suwanee, Deshae Deans of Snell-

ville, Manisha Dhanani of Lilburn, Arturo Diaz of Lawrenceville, Olivia Diedrich of Sugar Hill, Ashley Dixon of Buford, Robert Doehling of Lawrenceville, Moses Douglass of Grayson, Claire Doroff of Norcross, Kimberly Dozier of Lawrenceville, Carlie Farber of Lawrenceville, Zaria Floyd of Lawrenceville, Michael Gibson of Hoschton, Brent Goldman of Braselton, Addison Goodnight of Dacula, Morgan Guthrie of Auburn, Sonya Hall of Buford, Clark Hall of Lilburn, Autumn Hamre of Dacula, Jessica Hamrick of Duluth, Mary Harles of Suwanee, Jordan Harris of Suwanee, Abbey Hays of Lawrenceville, Erin Hembree of Duluth, Kadien Hill of Snellville, Michael Hinson of Sugar Hill, Shelby Holland of Suwanee, Matthew Holley of Auburn, Klaudia Holt of Lawrenceville, Jordan-Lee Howell of Grayson, Eric Irish of Lilburn, Nicholas Johnson of Suwanee, Rachel Johnson of Suwanee, Honora Jones of Lawrenceville, Landon Kell of Buford, Brady Kelly of Dacula, Mary Kempf of Dacula, Cameron Kennedy of Duluth, Krista Kight of Buford, Lauren Klein of Suwanee, Alyssa Knowles of Lilburn, Jessica Kolman of Lawrenceville, Taylor Labuz of Buford, Cameron Lacks of Suwanee, Avery Lamb of Suwanee, Elizabeth Lennon of Dacula, Athaiah Lewis of Duluth, Madison Loyd of Suwanee, Alesha Mann of Lawrenceville,

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Gabrielle Martin of Lawrenceville, Raelin McCall of Lawrenceville, Julia Metteauer of Lawrenceville, Hannah Meyers of Buford, Tasia Millward of Snellville, Lukmon Mohammed of Grayson, Kaleem Morrow of Duluth, Thomas Mulkey of Duluth, Quincee Mundy of Lilburn, Aaliyah Mustafaa of Duluth, Alexis Myers of Suwanee, Jared Nichols of Dacula, Laura Parker of Grayson, Brijan Patel of Grayson, Desiree Penton of Lawrenceville, Kyle Philpott of Snellville, Spencer Philpott of Snellville, Olivia Pienaar of Suwanee, Lauren Putman of Dacula, Shannon Rainey of Suwanee, Cameron Richards of Auburn, Andrea Rivera of Dacula, Ashley Rivers of Dacula, Eric Ryll of Lawrenceville, Parker Sechrest of Suwanee, Morgan Settle of Suwanee, Sydnee Shaw of Hoschton, Haley Short of Suwanee, Victoria Spitler of Peachtree Corners, Kiera Stripling of Buford, Sharon Stubblefield of Lawrenceville, Jackson Taylor of Lawrenceville, Emily Thompson of Lawrenceville, Mikhael Tomlinson of Sugar Hill, Pastula Travis of Lawrenceville, Stephanie Triplett of Duluth, Alexis Tulloch of Lilburn, Courtney Tulloch of Lawrenceville, Jamarri Walker of Dacula, James Walker of Lilburn, Tess Whitridge of Johns Creek, Jackson Wiggs of Lawrenceville, Farida Wilson-Sowah of Grayson and Alexis Young

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Mississippi College for the fall 2017 semester: Catherine Landers of Lilburn and Gracie Temple of Lawrenceville.

Morgan King of Grayson was named to the dean’s list at Luther College for the fall 2017 semester.

Tiarra Legion of Norcross was named to the dean’s list at Saginaw Valley State University for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the president’s list at Clemson University for the fall 2017 semester: Melanie Kaye Aycock of Suwanee, Katherine C. Burdick of Duluth, Caitlin N. Costello of Snellville, Andrew S. Hopkins of Peachtree Corners, Steven Patrick Jeanfreau of Lawrenceville, Elizabeth D. Moss of Suwanee, Kelly A. Raines of Braselton, Sarah M. Razavi of Peachtree Corners, Kevin Davis Shrake of Duluth, Sydnie Elizabeth Smith of Suwanee, Katherine E. Smotherman of Norcross and Nathan Andrew Weingarth of Lawrenceville.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Wheaton College for the fall 2017 semester: Eun Suk Ha of Duluth and Jessica Smith of Duluth.

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world&nation World 2 dead after delivery van hits crowd in Germany

A van slammed into a crowd Saturday in an apparently deliberate act in the German city of Muenster, killing two people and leaving 20 others injured, officials said.

The driver also shot and killed himself, a police spokeswoman said. The driver was a German citizen, said Herbert Reul, state minister for internal affairs in North Rhine-Westphalia state.

Authorities are treating the incident as an attack.

There is no known connection to radical Islam but investigators are still looking into the driver’s background, Reul said.

At least 14 killed after Canadian junior hockey team bus wrecks A small town in Canada’s Saskatchewan province mourned Saturday after a bus carrying a junior hockey team collided with a tractortrailer, leaving 14 people dead and at least 15 injured.

“This is a dark moment for our city, our community, our province,” Humboldt Mayor Rob Muench said Saturday afternoon at a news conference. “There is no playbook on what to do in cases like this.”

Members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team were headed to the town of Nipawin for a playoff game Friday night when the crash happened north of Tisdale, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Three of the 15 injured people were in critical condition, the RCMP said.

Authorities have not identified the victims and would not confirm whether they were players or coaches.

Twenty-nine people were on the bus.

Rep. Norman pulls out pistol at meeting

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Republican wanted to make point in debate on gun violence

Russell Crowe is selling old items at divorce auction

By Annie Grayer CNN

Russell Crowe is sharing mementos from his marRepublican Rep. Ralph riage — at a price.

Norman pulled out his The actor is hosting a loaded, personal .38-calidivorce-themed auction in ber Smith & Wesson Sydney on Saturday, the handgun Friday and laid same day as his birthday it on the table at a diner and wedding anniversary. where he was meeting As part of the auction with his constituents in

by Sotheby’s Australia, Rock Hill, S.C. Crowe will part with an Norman told CNN he eclectic mix of items and wanted to make a point movie souvenirs collected in the debate over gun during his nine-year marviolence. riage to Danielle Spencer.

“I merely proved a The couple called it quits point that guns themin 2012. selves are not the issue,” Items on sale at the he said. auction include his leather Norman said that havjockstrap and midnight ing a loaded gun in the blue satin boxers, along with art, watches, diamond room should, if anything, have made people feel Republican Rep. Ralph Norman pulled out his loaded, personal .38-caliber Smith & rings and a Mercedes safer.

Wesson handgun Friday and laid it on the table at a diner where he was meeting with Benz.

The official poster for “Given the scenario his constituents in Rock Hill, S.C. (Photo: CNN) the auction, aptly titled The that if someone had Art of Divorce, features a walked into that diner ing, but whoever shoots from what responsible conversation.” tuxedo-clad Crowe grinand began to fire a me better shoot well or gun ownership looks Arizona Republican ning as he raises a cocktail weapon, I told them I I’m shooting back.” like,” Lori Freemon said Sen. Jeff Flake tweeted glass in a toast. would be able to defend In a statement to CNN in a statement released early Saturday morning “Apart from watching as myself and them as well,” provided by his comby Everytown, the gunthat he thought Norman’s an online bidder, you can he said. munications director, control organization for remarks about Giffords just tune in as an observer The Post and Courier Norman added: “Mental which she volunteers. were inappropriate. as it will be live-stream on previously reported the health, and more impor“I had looked forward “I sincerely hope you incident. tantly, a lack of morality, to a respectful dialogue never have to experience Facebook,” Crowe tweeted.

Hundreds of items are “I’m not going to be a is the driving force bewith my representative what my friend @gabGabby Giffords,” Norman hind this epidemic. Guns about common-sense bygiffords experienced,” up for grabs and come with told the newspaper, refer- are not the problem.” gun violence prevention Flake wrote. “But to sug- descriptions of their role in the Academy-winning ring to the Democratic At least one of Norpolicies,” the statement gest that she might have actor’s personal or movie former congresswoman man’s constituents pressaid. “Instead, I felt avoided being shot had life. from Arizona who was ent at the meeting took unsafe when he insisted she carried a weapon as shot at a constituent gath- issue with his actions. on showing us his loaded she spoke to constituents ering in her district in “Rep. Norman’s behav- gun and keeping it out on that morning is inapproBollywood star 2011. “I don’t mind dyior today was a far cry the table for much of our priate and inconsiderate.”

Nation Teens who dropped sand on car, killing man, sentenced

Four Toledo, Ohio, teenagers accused of killing a man when they dropped a sandbag from a highway overpass have been ordered to a youth treatment facility, a court official said.

“The youth treatment center is a lockdown facilBrazil’s former ity in Toledo. The program president to runs six months, but there is no set time to release. surrender to The average youth spends federal police eight months there,” Lori Former Brazilian PresiOlender, juvenile division dent Luiz Inacio Lula da deputy chief for the Lucas Silva said Saturday he will County Prosecutor’s Office, turn himself over to federal said in an email. authorities to begin serving a Besides being ordered 12-year prison sentence for to the youth treatment corruption. facility, the teenagers were “I believe in justice and given four-year suspended know I am not above the sentences, placed on probalaw,” Lula da Silva, 72, said tion and ordered to perform from a stage outside the 30 hours of community steelworkers’ union headservice, Olender said. quarters. “I will prove my One was charged with innocence.” murder and felonious It is not clear when the assault and three were former president will surcharged with involuntary render to authorities. manslaughter and vehicular Lula da Silva, a former vandalism, she said. All steelworker union leader, four pleaded guilty, The remained at the union head- Toledo Blade newspaper quarters Friday, defying an reported. order to turn himself in to police by 5 p.m. local time in Pruitt faces the southern city of Curitiba. questions over The union building is in the city of Sao Bernardo do cost of 24-hour Campo in Sao Paulo state, security detail more than 260 miles to the EPA Administrator Scott north.

Speaking to supporters Pruitt is facing renewed from a memorial for his late questions about the size wife, Marisa Leticia Lula da and cost of his 24-hour Silva, Lula da Silva said his security detail, adding to a arrest is politically motivated string of ethically quesand that “history will prove” tionable arrangements or that he is not guilty. actions on his part that — From wire reports have surfaced over the past

ensure no other children fall into the same predicament.

Jesse Hernandez, 13, fell 25 feet down a pipe into the underground sewer system while playing with other kids near an abandoned shed in Griffith Park, where his family was picnicking on Easter Sunday. He was eventually pulled out the next day, about a mile east of where he had plunged in, after crews worked through the night.

Hernandez smiled ruefiling late Friday night. fully as he stood alongside Manafort asked the some of the city officials judge overseeing his who helped to locate him case in D.C. to suppress on Friday. evidence FBI agents col“I’m so thankful to evlected from his Alexandria, erybody who was involved Va., storage unit last May, in my rescue,” he said. which was only 10 days af- “Because of them I’m ter Robert Mueller was ap- back with my family. And pointed as special counsel God for giving me another to look into possible colchance to live.” lusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Two killed in Manafort has pleaded Army helicopter not guilty to charges related to his foreign crash in Kentucky lobbying work and other fiTwo soldiers were nancial decisions before he killed in an Army AHbecame Trump campaign chair. Even so, prosecutors 64E Apache helicopter have made it clear they are crash at the local training still pursuing other angles area of their base in Fort Campbell, Ky., Friday of the investigation that involve Manafort, and have night, a statement from the 101st Airborne Divifought his team at every sion said. step of the case.

The accident happened at about 9:50 p.m. local Teen rescued time Friday evening and from L.A. sewer involved two soldiers from the 101st Combat Aviasystem thanks first responders tion Brigade, the statement said.

A boy who spent 12 The crew was conducthours floating through a ing routine training when maze of pipes that carry the accident occurred and Los Angeles residents’ there were no other casualwaste publicly thanked ties, it said. The cause of the first responders who the accident is under invesrescued him on Friday, as tigation, the Army said. city officials promised to — From wire reports Authorities said three 14-year-olds and a 13-year-old threw sandbags and other objects onto the southbound lanes of I-75 on December 19.

One of the bags crashed through the window of a car traveling below, hitting passenger Marquise Byrd on the head. He later died. Seen here is Byrd, left, his brother and their mother.

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year.

Pruitt’s security team currently consists of 19 agents and includes a fleet of at least 19 vehicles, a source with direct knowledge of Pruitt’s security detail said. With the cost of maintenance, gas and training for agents, that leaves the dollar amount for his round-the-clock security in the millions.

The size of Pruitt’s security is unprecedented.

No previous EPA chief has ever received a 24/7 security detail, the agency’s inspector general has said.

Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who served under George W. Bush, has told CNN she walked to work alone even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and although she traveled with security, it was never this large.

Paul Manafort accuses federal prosecutors of illegal search Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has accused federal prosecutors of carrying out an illegal search of his property, according to a court

Khan out of jail while appealing poaching charge

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was released from jail Saturday after a court granted him bail while he appeals a prison sentence he received two days earlier for poaching in a case that has riveted India.

Khan, one of India’s most recognizable and bankable actors, was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for killing two blackbucks while working on a film in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan in 1998. The blackbuck is a type of antelope found in India that’s considered an endangered species.

Khan’s attorneys filed an appeal against the sentence in a higher court and asked for bail, which was granted Saturday.

Hundreds of fans and supporters celebrated the bail decision by cheering and setting off firecrackers outside the court Saturday in the Rajasthan city of Jodhpur.

His trial generated significant media coverage throughout India, with many news channels giving his case wall-to-wall coverage.

Khan, after posting $770 bail and leaving jail, was driven to Jodhpur’s airport and was expected to return home to Mumbai.

As conditions for his bail, Khan has been banned from traveling outside India without the court’s permission and has to appear before the court May 7, said one of his attorneys, Anand Desai.

— From wire reports

Vaping and e-cigarettes now an epidemic in U.S. high schools

By Roni Selig, Davide Cannaviccio and Charlotte Hawks

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to 2015, and the 2016 National Youth Tobacco Survey noted that A sharp spike in vaping and the 1.7 million high school students use of e-cigarettes by students has said they had used e-cigarettes in grabbed the attention of the U.S. the previous 30 days.

Food and Drug Administration.

For middle school students, the The rapid spread of the fad was number was 500,000. flagged in a 2016 report from the Now, the alarming trend is US surgeon general. It cited a 900 prompting concerns that some percent increase in e-cigarette use companies are taking direct aim by high school students from 2011 at teenagers by tailoring and CNN

marketing e-cigarettes and vaping products to younger users.

“No kid should be using any tobacco product,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said.

“We’re going to be taking some enforcement actions very soon to target companies that we think are marketing products in ways that they’re deliberately appealing to kids,” Gottlieb told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Analysts point out that flavors

like tutti frutti, cotton candy and sour gummy worms are likely to attract some younger users to e-cigarettes.

Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has conducted a study on the presence of artificial flavoring chemicals in e-cigarettes. “To me, these are products that are really appealing to kids. … Millions of kids are trying these e-cigarette products.

Studies show that one in five eighth-graders that currently use tobacco products got there by starting with e-cigarettes.

“So these e-cigarettes are also a gateway for traditional tobacco use for many young kids,” he said.

There are, however, warnings on the labels of some vape liquids containing nicotine that are pretty clear: “Nicotine is an addictive chemical; For use by adults 18 and older.”

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Duluth Co-op volunteer Enid Deheney packs a bag for a family of one. The food pantry has a set system as to how much food each family, based on its size, receives.

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‘meeting their BASIC NEEDS’

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Margy McLynn has always been a big believer in community service.

“I’ve heard if you want your child to be involved in community service as an adult, you really need to start them at 10 years old, and for the last 20 years, I have volunteered with various (entities),” McLynn said. “I’ve always been a big believer in that and also, volunteering makes sense for everybody because research shows the happiest people are those that volunteer. It’s a win-win situation to get involved.”

So when McLynn was offered the job of director for Hands of Christ Duluth Cooperative Ministry, the decision was a no-brainer.

What: A Night for Our Neighbors fundraiser to benefit Hands of Christ Duluth Co-op Where: The Payne-Corley House; 2987 Main St., Duluth When: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 13 Cost: $50, visit duluthco-op.org for more information

“I’ve volunteered at the center on and off for probably the last 15 years,” McLynn said. “The way that it works is the sponsoring churches, one month per year, each send volunteers, and I was always part of the contingency from my church. More recently, I was volunteering on Fridays, so when

BY THE N UMBERS Duluth residents helped in 2017

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Duluth Co-op Ministry director working to expand the nonprofit’s options, offerings

Mary Roberts, the long-term director, decided to retire, they asked me to interview.”

That was last year.

Now, just more than three months into McLynn’s new position — her official start date was Jan. 1 — the nonprofit is already making changes for the better, including offering a reception and dinner to support the ministry on Friday.

The Duluth Co-op, as it’s called for short, is a faithbased ministry that provides emergency assistance to Duluth residents, which often See CO-OP, Page 2C

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In the past, we’ve given out food to the hungry, which is a significant issue in Gwinnett, and we’ve helped some people that qualify with financial aid. But we want to provide more services to help empower people to be self-sufficient.”

— Margy McLynn, Hands of Christ Duluth Cooperative Ministry director

Residents who were fed by Duluth Co-op

1,000

Residents who were helped by Duluth Co-op in non-food or monetary aid

211 Families that received emergency housing

183 Families that received utility assistance

119 Families that received rent assistance

Ralph McGee, a volunteer for Duluth Co-op, bags mushrooms for families who receive food assistance.

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PET OF THE WEEK

Gwinnett grads spend break cutting trails

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

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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.

Coco is a gorgeous 3-year-old female Shepherd mix. She is so well-mannered, and she would make a great family pet. Coco has been fully vetted: She has been spayed, dewormed, given all age-appropriate vaccinations, microchipped and is up-to-date on flea/tick/heartworm meds. She also comes with 30 days of emergency pet insurance. She is looking for the perfect home.

Two Gwinnett County residents spent their spring break in the mountains with more than a dozen other students and staff members from the University of North Georgia’s four campuses — Castiel Dixon Cumming, Dahlonega, Gainesville and Oconee.

Sophomore Paul Shorter from Lawrenceville Paul Shorter and senior Castiel Dixon from Buford participated in the school’s Alternative Service Break from March 9-14 at the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City.

The program, which was launched in 2017 through a Presidential Incentive Award, provides students a servicelearning experience, said Lindsay Bailey, director of student involvement at UNG. During the week, students worked together on a servicebased project and reflected on their experience.

“We try to teach students

UNG students and staff spent the week of March 9-14 developing trails at the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City. (Special Photo)

to be active citizens,” Bailey said.

Dixon, a Buford High grad, said the reflection time at the end of the day was meaningful to him.

“The reflections were great because usually in class people don’t talk a lot,” he said. “But here, we had to take turns because people wanted to talk about the experience.”

Dixon used the trip not only as a way to give back, but also to broaden his horizons beyond the classroom.

“I didn’t know that Appalachia existed or that there is an Appalachian culture before I entered college and learned a little about it in college courses,” Dixon said. “The service break trip interested me because I was curious to learn more about Appalachian culture beyond what I

had learned in classes.”

Together, the North Georgia crew cut a few trails among the historically accurate log cabins, added log steps to one area and cleared out a cabin to be used for wood stove cooking demonstrations.

For Shorter, a graduate from Collins Hill High School, it was the second time he decided to spend spring break doing servicebased projects.

“I like giving back,” he said. “Service has always been a big part of my life during high school and college.”

Shorter said the team only experienced one surprise during the trip.

“It snowed and sleeted on us on the second work day,” Shorter said. “We knew it was going to be cold and a chance of snow, but we

weren’t expecting it.”

Despite the surprise, the team finished the project and enjoyed a bit of downtime as well.

The trip to Foxfire was an opportunity for students to branch out and experience new things.

“It was great to get to know students from the other campuses that we normally wouldn’t get to interact with them,” Shorter said. “I had never heard of Foxfire before this.”

One day was geared toward exploring the area, visiting shops in downtown Clayton and sightseeing at nearby waterfalls.

Because of the experience, many participants including Shorter plan to return to Foxfire to continue the progress accomplished during the service break.

Co-op •From Page 1C comes in the form of food supplies or monetary assistance.

“We’re open three days a week, and each day we have a team of volunteers working,” McLynn said.

“We have one person who greets and helps people fill out the required paperwork, we have another person who answers the phones — we get a lot of calls from people who are really looking for help and there are so many options in Gwinnett County — and it’s important that our volunteers have a sense of all the different services that are available in the county, what we can help with and what other services can help with.”

While the co-op’s impact on the community has been positive, McLynn said she is working to expand the organization, both physically — she wants to use the entire building’s space — and with its offerings.

“Since January, I’ve been working on putting together a plan for what we’re looking to accomplish, which is, along with the Board of Directors, aside from being the go-to

The co-op is tucked in an apartment complex in Duluth.

Willie Vazquez, a lead volunteer, explains to Enid Deheney, a newer volunteer, how the food pantry system works. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

destination for people in Duluth who need food and financial aid, to be a gathering place for those looking to help or looking to be helped in our community,” McLynn said.

“In the past, we’ve given out food to the hungry, which is a significant issue in Gwinnett, and we’ve helped some people that qualify with financial aid.

But we want to provide more services to help empower people to be

self-sufficient.”

According to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, in 2015, 94,680 people in Gwinnett were food insecure, making for a food insecurity rate of 11 percent.

While that percentage was lower than the state as a whole — in the same year, Feeding America recorded a food insecurity rate of 16.2 for Georgia — is still represents a large

problem, McLynn said, which is why the Duluth Co-op is working to increase its offerings.

“We’re in a 9,000-square-foot facility.

However, we’re only using half of that,” she said. “I saw that space downstairs — it’s an amazing space to do a lot of things, including being a community gathering spot as well as an education center — and we cleaned it all out and we are planning on hosting

classes down there. We also have a food pantry, a bakery and we also (offer) holiday programs.”

The classes McLynn has proposed include budgeting classes; personal safety classes taught by Revved Up Kids, a nonprofit that offers self-defense classes for children in Atlanta; and more social opportunities for seniors.

“We’re doing important work and it’s only going to become more and more important given the population (growth) expectations,” she said. “People are just so appreciative of the help that we give; I mean, can you imagine that you’re a student starting school who doesn’t

have any school supplies?

Or their friend had a big Thanksgiving dinner and they didn’t have one? It really makes families stronger to know that they’re meeting the basic needs of their children, and that’s what we’re (trying to) do.”

Tickets to Duluth Coop’s fundraiser, A Night for Our Neighbors, which will be held April 13, cost $50.

One hundred percent of the ticket sales go to the ministry and a cash bar with beer and wine will be available at the event.

Attire is dressy casual and the event includes a reception and dinner.

For more information, visit duluthco-op.org.

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Locals accepted early into pharmacy program

Mill Creek senior Katie Kreusel and Grayson senior Lauren Wyton have earned spots in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s Early Entry program.

The Early Entry program offers highachieving high Katie school seKreusel niors early acceptance into the professional pharmacy program and will Lauren allow Wyton Kreusel and Wyton to avoid the competitive pharmacy school application process that normally occurs during a pre-pharmacy major’s junior year of college.

Kreusel said she is excited about joining the program after her biology teacher, Pamela Perry, inspired her to pursue science. Kreusel has taken several AP science courses to prepare for pharmacy school.

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Trevor McNaboe “I’m thrilled to attend Ole Miss because there is a sense of close community and bringing each other up that is very different from other colleges,” Kreusel said. “I feel that I would be very happy and successful in this very positive environment. I also love the large amount of research and hands-on experience offered at Ole Miss.”

Wyton has taken rigorous courses and participated in the gifted students program at Grayson. She hopes to work in a hospital or retail pharmacy setting after she earns her doctor of pharmacy degree.

“I have always known I wanted to do something in the medical field, and this pharmacy program is a perfect fit for me at my dream school,” Wyton said. “I am

so excited to be attending the University of Mississippi in the fall.”

“The Early Entry program offers a one-of-akind opportunity for high school seniors interested in a career in pharmacy,” said Seph Anderson, academic adviser for the Early Entry program. “The EE1s, or first-years, truly become like family to one another thanks to a variety of programs such as EE1-only classes in the fall, a strong mentoring program led by older students and the opportunity to live alongside fellow EE1s in a residence hall community.

Norcross Elementary School to install mosaic panels Norcross Elementary School art teacher Bobbie Adamczyk is spearheading an effort to turn a bland, brown retaining wall located on Mitchell Road into a mosaic that will highlight the surrounding community.

Norcross Elementary students and local volunteers began work March 18 on a five-panel cement-board that features mosaics and painted images depicting

Volunteers began work on a mural located on Mitchell Road in Norcross on March 18.

The mural will be constructed by volunteers and both students and staff from Norcross Elementary School.

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the seasonal colors of nature, wildlife and plants.

The Norcross City Council and Gwinnett County are funding the cost of materials to create the 5-foothigh, 26-foot-long mural.

According to the project’s GoFundMe page, organizers hope to complete the project in the next few weeks, barring any inclement weather.

team also won $1,500 for the school’s running program to promote health and fitness for young people.

Central Gwinnett places second in drone competition A team of students from Central Gwinnett High School took second place in the Horizon Education Drone Competition at the Georgia World Congress Baldwin Elementary Center.

School wins Fun Run Twelve teams featuring For the second year in students from around the a row, Baldwin Elemenstate competed in events tary School’s running club where their drone had to finished first place at the Be perform certain criteria Healthy Georgia Fun Run. including: In addition to bragging • Successfully pick up rights for another year, the and deliver a package as

close as possible to its intended target; • Conduct a surveillance mission; and • Complete an obstacle course race.

Central Gwinnett High took first place in surveillance and second in delivery, and was a single point from first place overall.

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.

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Secrets of the Dead ’ (CC) (DVS) American Experience ’ (CC) (DVS) American Experience “Oklahoma City” The Oklahoma City bombing. ’ (CC) (DVS) Treblinka’s Last Witness ’ (CC) Modern Family ’ (CC) Modern Family ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Nikita ’ (CC) Major Crimes “I, Witness” (CC) Major Crimes “D.O.A.” (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) (:01) Storage Wars ’ (:32) Storage Wars ’ (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (6:45) The Walking Dead ’ (CC) (7:46) The Walking Dead ’ (CC) The Walking Dead “Worth” (N) ’ (CC) (:15) Talking Dead (N) (CC) (:15) The Walking Dead “Worth” ’ (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (N) (CC) Your Husband Is Cheating on Us (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of Potomac (N) (CC) Watch What Housewives/Atl. CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) American Dynasties: The Kennedys (N) (CC) Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (N) American Dynasties: The Kennedys (CC) (6:20) ›› “Horrible Bosses 2” (2014, Comedy) Jason Bateman, Charlie Day. (CC) (8:50) ››‡ “Due Date” (2010, Comedy) Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis. (CC) South Park (CC) South Park “D-Yikes” Naked and Afraid “The Hunted” ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid “Swamp Queen” ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid: Uncensored (N) ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid “Episode 12” (N) ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid “A Screw Loose” ’ (CC) Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown (N) MLB Baseball New York Mets at Washington Nationals. From Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special SportsCenter Special (6:30) ››‡ “27 Dresses” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Katherine Heigl, James Marsden. (CC) The Arrangement “You Are Not Alone” (N) (CC) (:01) The Royals Robert exiles a disloyal Cyrus. (:02) The Arrangement “You Are Not Alone” FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace (N) (CC) Legends & Lies: The Civil War (N) (CC) The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton (N) (CC) Life, Liberty & Levin (N) (CC) Legends & Lies: The Civil War (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (Part 2 of 4) (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (Part 3 of 4) (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (N) (Part 4 of 4) (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (5:35) ›‡ “Grown Ups” (2010) Adam Sandler. (:05) ››› “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis. ’ (CC) (:45) ›››› “Forrest Gump” (1994) Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise. ’ (CC) World Poker Tour King of the Club.

World Poker Tour King of the Club. (Taped) UFC Main Event World Poker Tour King of the Club.

World Poker Tour King of the Club.

(5:00) 22 Jump Street ››‡ “Jurassic World” (2015, Adventure) Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan. ’ (CC) Trust J. Paul Getty refuses to pay the ransom. (:13) Trust “La Dolce Vita” ’ (CC) “Once Upon a Prince” (2018, Romance-Comedy) Megan Park, Jonathan Keltz. (CC) When Calls the Heart “Weather the Storm” (N) Meet the Peetes “Women of Wisdom” (N) (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) House Hunters (CC) House Hunters (CC) How Close How Close Caribbean Life (N) (CC) Caribbean Life (N) (CC) Island Life (N) (CC) Island Life (N) (CC) Hawaii Life (CC) Hawaii Life (CC) American Pickers “Hello Jell-O” ’ (CC) American Pickers: Bonus Buys (N) ’ (CC) God Code (N) ’ (CC) (:03) American Pickers “Slim Pickings” ’ (CC) (6:00) “Evil Doctor” (2018) Dina Meyer. (CC) “Twin Betrayal” (2018, Suspense) Jen Lilley, Peter Douglas, Jason Olive. Premiere. (CC) (:02) “My Husband’s Secret Life” (2017, Suspense) Kara Killmer, Brett Donahue. (CC) Game Shakers (N) (CC) School of Rock (N) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) (:34) Friends ’ (CC) (:05) Friends ’ (CC) (:36) Friends ’ (CC) (6:30) ››‡ “San Andreas” (2015, Action) Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino. (CC) (DVS) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Final Space (CC) (DVS) Final Space (CC) (DVS) (5:45) ›››‡ “The Black Stallion” (1979) ››› “Gidget” (1959, Romance-Comedy) Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson. (CC) ››› “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” (1961, Comedy) James Darren, Deborah Walley. (CC) (5:45) ››› “Cinderella” (2015) (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. (CC) (DVS) “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” Reba ’ (CC) Reba “Switch” ’ (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ ›››› “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994, Drama) Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) (:02) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Cage” (:02) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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(Local Programming) The Goldbergs (N) ’ Alex, Inc. (N) ’ Modern Family (N) ’ American Housewife Designated Survivor “Overkill” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live (N) (Local Programming) Survivor “Fear Keeps You Sharp” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) SEAL Team “Credible Threat” (N) ’ (CC) Criminal Minds “All You Can Eat” (N) ’ (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Harry Potter: A History of Magic (N) ’ Masters of Illusion ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Empire A health scare shakes up Empire. (N) ’ Star “Dreamers” Rapper Quavo is recruited. (N) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The Blacklist “Zarak Mosadek” (N) ’ (CC) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Service” (N) Chicago P.D. “Payback” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Nature Moose in the Canadian Rockies. ’ (CC) NOVA Discovery of a tunnel in Lithuania. ’ “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” (2017) Premiere. ’ (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ Dateline “The Devil in Disguise” ’ (CC) Dateline A 29-year-old woman goes missing. ’ 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Antiques Roadshow ’ (CC) Finding Your Roots “In Search of Freedom” ’ Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service (CC) Penelope Keith Antiques Roadshow ’ (:06) Secrets of Chatsworth ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) ER ’ (CC) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Pie” ’ The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars Storage Wars (:01) Flip Wars A house with bullet holes. (N) (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (5:00) ››› “Independence Day” (1996) (CC) ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. (CC) ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton. (CC) Million Dollar Listing New York (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (N) (CC) Sell It Like Serhant “All Bottled Up” (N) (CC) Watch What Housewives/NYC Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) South Park Animated. Coon and friends help victims. (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition Street Outlaws: Full Throttle “Episode 5” (N) ’ Street Outlaws (N) ’ (CC) Street Outlaws “Episode 6” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Twin Turbos “Bullring Battle” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Street Outlaws “Episode 6” ’ (CC) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Milwaukee Bucks at Philadelphia 76ers. From Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Utah Jazz at Portland Trail Blazers. (N) (Live) (CC) NFL Live (CC) College Softball Florida at Florida State. From JoAnne Graf Field in Tallahassee, Fla. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (N) (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (CC) E! News (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs “Finale” (CC) Iron Chef Gauntlet “Resourcefulness” (CC) Iron Chef Gauntlet “Innovation” (N) (CC) Iron Chef America (CC) Iron Chef America “Symon vs. Nunez” (CC) (6:00) ››› “Despicable Me” (2010) ’ (CC) Famous in Love “Totes on a Scandal” (N) (CC) (:01) ›››‡ “The Lion King” (1994) Voices of Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) College Softball Wichita State at Oklahoma. (N) NHRA Drag Racing Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals. From Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Fla. World Poker Tour King of the Club.

Transformers ››› “Deadpool” (2016, Action) Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein. ’ (CC) The Americans Handling things with Paige. (N) The Americans Handling things with Paige. (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers “Big City Move” (CC) American Pickers “Shocked and Loaded” ’ American Pickers “Hydro Homestead” ’ (CC) American Pickers “Hot Rods and Customs” (N) (:03) American Pickers “Junkyard Wizard” ’ (:03) American Pickers “Backwoods Pickin”’ ’ Little Women: LA “The Boss Is Back” (CC) Little Women: LA (N) (CC) Little Women: LA “Sour Grapes” (N) (CC) (:02) Glam Masters “The Glam Slam” The first six winners return. (N) (:24) Little Women: LA Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House (CC) Full House (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Conan Conan enjoys Italian food and culture. (N) Conan (N) (CC) “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” ›››› “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Captain Blood” (1935, Adventure) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. (CC) Bones A dead body with diamonds inside. (CC) ››‡ “The Intern” (2015, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo. (CC) (DVS) ›‡ “The Boy Next Door” (2015) Jennifer Lopez. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H “Fallen Idol” Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Suits Harvey faces a difficult decision. (N) (:03) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (:03) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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(Local Programming) Once Upon a Time “Chosen” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (:01) Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (N) ’ (CC) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) MacGyver A billionaire’s son is kidnapped. (N) Hawaii Five-0 (N) ’ (CC) Blue Bloods “Risk Management” (N) (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Life Sentence “Pilot” ’ (CC) Jane The Virgin “Chapter Eighty” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef The cooks run room service at a hotel. (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Taken A bomb goes off in Washington D.C. (N) Dateline NBC (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) In Principle (N) (CC) Soundbreaking “Sound and Vision” ’ (CC) Soundbreaking Listening formats. ’ (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ American Ninja Warrior “St. Louis Qualifying” American Ninja Warrior “Miami Qualifying” (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Father Brown Lady Felicia lands in the hospital. Death in Paradise ’ (CC) New Tricks Gerry faces a blast from the past. The Doctor Blake Mysteries “A Difficult Lie” ’ Secrets of Scotland Yard ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) ER ’ (CC) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Wife” ’ The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) (5:00) Live PD ’ (CC) (:06) Live PD: Rewind (N) ’ (CC) Live PD “Live PD -- 04.13.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ››› “Twins” (1988, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston. (CC) ››› “Blazing Saddles” (1974, Comedy) Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn. (CC) The Walking Dead (CC) (6:30) ›› “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection” (2012) Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy. (CC) Your Husband Is Cheating on Us (N) (CC) ›› “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection” (2012, Comedy) Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy. (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) The Office (CC) (:25) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) ››› “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore. (CC) Kevin Hart: I’m a Grown Little Man (CC) Gold Rush The crew heads off into the jungle. Gold Rush Parker is injured by a hose. (N) (CC) Gold Rush (N) ’ (CC) Bering Sea Gold Shawn and Kris battle miners. Gold Rush ’ (CC) NBA Playoffs Special (N) (Live) MLS Soccer Orlando City SC at Philadelphia Union. From Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, Pa. First Take (N) ’ (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) Highly Questionable NBA G League Basketball Finals, Game 3: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) High School Basketball Nike Hoop Summit. (N) (Live) E! News (N) (CC) ››› “Wedding Crashers” (2005, Comedy) Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken. (CC) ››› “Wedding Crashers” (2005) Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn. (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (N) (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (6:40) ›››‡ “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) Voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal. ’ (CC) (8:50) ››‡ “Hocus Pocus” (1993, Comedy) Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs. From Wrigley Field in Chicago.

UEFA Europa League Highlights MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs.

(4:30) ››› Furious 7 ››‡ “Fast & Furious 6” (2013, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. ’ (CC) Trust J. Paul Getty refuses to pay the ransom.

(6:00) “Home by Spring” (2018) Poppy Drayton. “Love, Once and Always” (2018, Drama) Amanda Schull, Peter Porte, Anna Van Hooft. (CC) Meet the Peetes “Women of Wisdom” (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Bahamas Life (CC) Bahamas Life (CC) Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens “Decoding the Cosmic Egg” ’ Ancient Aliens: Declassified “Ancient Redux” The Ark of the Covenant. (N) (CC) Grey’s Anatomy “Fear (of the Unknown)” (CC) Grey’s Anatomy Amelia overhears a secret. (CC) Grey’s Anatomy “Puzzle With a Piece Missing” (:02) Grey’s Anatomy “Got to Be Real” ’ (CC) (:02) Grey’s Anatomy “Fear (of the Unknown)” Alvinnn!!! and Henry Danger ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) ›› “The Hangover Part III” (2013, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. (CC) (DVS) ›› “The Hangover Part II” (2011, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. (CC) (DVS) ELEAGUE (5:45) ››‡ “Band of Angels” (1957) (CC) ››› “The Tall T” (1957) Randolph Scott, Richard Boone. (CC) ››‡ “Ride Lonesome” (1959) Randolph Scott, Karen Steele. (CC) ››‡ “Decision at Sundown” (1957) (CC) NCIS: New Orleans “Father’s Day” (CC) (DVS) ›› “Get Hard” (2015, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Craig T. Nelson. (CC) (DVS) ››‡ “Focus” (2015, Comedy-Drama) Will Smith, Margot Robbie. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) M*A*S*H “Images” M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Chicago P.D. “The Docks” ’ (CC) (DVS) To Be Announced Chicago P.D. Atwater settles into his new role.

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(Local Programming) Grey’s Anatomy “Beautiful Dreamer” (N) (CC) Station 19 Miranda Bailey visits Ben at work. (N) Scandal “Standing in the Sun” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live (N) (Local Programming) The Big Bang Theory (:31) Young Sheldon (:01) Mom (N) ’ (CC) Life in Pieces (N) (CC) S.W.A.T. “Armory” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Supernatural Things don’t go well for Lucifer. Arrow Oliver wonders if he has failed. (N) (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Gotham “A Dark Knight: That’s Entertainment” Showtime at the Apollo “Week 7” (N) ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Superstore “Lottery” (:31) A.P. Bio (N) ’ Will & Grace ’ Champions (N) ’ Chicago Fire “When They See Us Coming” (N) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) The This Old House Hour (N) ’ (CC) The Tunnel: Sabotage ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Portland” (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ Law & Order: Criminal Intent ’ (CC) Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Gone” ’ (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Defying the Nazis “Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria” (2016, Documentary) Independent Lens “My Nazi Legacy” Hans Frank and Otto von Wachter. Finding Your Roots “In Search of Freedom” ’ Black America ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) ER ’ (CC) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 ’ (CC) Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 ’ (CC) Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 “Chandra Levy” A case of politics, sex and murder. (N) ’ (:03) Grace vs. Abrams “Chandra Levy” (N) ’ ›››› “Titanic” (1997, Historical Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. A society girl abandons her haughty fiance for a penniless artist on the ill-fated ship’s maiden voyage. (CC) In the Heart of the Sea Southern Charm (CC) Southern Charm “The Break-Up Bunch Part 1” Southern Charm Kathryn finally meets Ashley. Imposters The Bumblers hide out in Mexico. (N) Watch What Southern Charm (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 “Possum Lady” Tosh.0 “Three Cheese” Tosh.0 “On Da River” Tosh.0 (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition Naked and Afraid Gary and Karra are tested. Naked and Afraid Survivalists in Guyana. (CC) Naked and Afraid “Ashes to Ashes” ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid Pop-Up Edition “Episode 12” Naked and Afraid “Hearts of Darkness” (CC) We the Fans: Dallas (N) We the Fans: Dallas (N) We the Fans: Dallas (N) We the Fans: Dallas (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) 2018 WNBA Draft (N) (Live) (CC) Boxing (Taped) Boxing Rod Salka vs. Francisco Vargas. (N) (Live) E! News (N) (CC) ››‡ “27 Dresses” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman. (CC) E! News (CC) Sex and the City (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream (N) Chopped The chefs embrace imperfections. (CC) Chopped Black garlic and coconut vinegar. (CC) Chopped “Wild Game Plan” (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (6:00) ›››‡ “The Lion King” (1994) ’ (CC) Siren Military facility on high alert. (N) (CC) (:01) ››‡ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (2010, Fantasy) Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) UFC Reloaded Featherweight champion Conor McGregor takes on lightweight king Eddie Alvarez.

College Softball Wichita State at Oklahoma. ››› “Furious 7” (2015, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. ’ (CC) Atlanta (N) ’ (CC) Atlanta Darius trips. ’ Atlanta ’ (CC) ›‡ R.I.P.D. (2013) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House “Air Jesse” Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop Vegas (N) Flip or Flop Vegas House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l All Star Flip (N) (CC) House Hunters (CC) Swamp People The Cajun Cartel devise a plan. Swamp People: Blood and Guts (N) (CC) (DVS) Swamp People “Black Lagoon Battle” (N) ’ (:03) Truck Night in America “Buy the Farm” (N) (:04) Swamp People “Black Lagoon Battle” ’ (6:00) ›› “First Daughter” (2004) (CC) ››‡ “Heaven Is for Real” (2014, Drama) Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Margo Martindale. (CC) (:02) ››› “Marley & Me” (2008, Comedy-Drama) Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) ›› “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (2007, Children’s) Jason Lee, David Cross. ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Last O.G. Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Conan (N) (CC) (6:00) ›››‡ “Night Must Fall” (1937) (CC) ››› “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1941, Horror) Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman. (CC) (DVS) ›››› “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956, Comedy-Drama) David Niven, Cantinflas. (CC) NCIS: New Orleans “Blue Christmas” ’ ›› “Divergent” (2014, Science Fiction) Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd. (CC) (DVS) (:45) ››‡ “Insurgent” (2015) Shailene Woodley. (CC) (DVS) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja (N) (:01) Modern Family ’ (:31) Modern Family ’ (:01) Modern Family ’ (:31) Modern Family ’

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(Local Programming) The Crossing “Pilot” ’ (CC) Station 19 Miranda Bailey visits Ben at work. ’ Marvel Cinematic Universe-Iron Man to Infinity (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Ransom Eric and Zara are taken hostage. (N) 48 Hours ’ (CC) 48 Hours ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje - Prelims UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje (N) ’ (Live) (Local Programming) Love Connection “White Chocolate & Roses” (Local Programming) NHL Hockey Conference Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) ’ (Live) (Local Programming) Saturday Night Live (N) (Local Programming) Austin City Limits “James Taylor” ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Wheel of Fortune (CC) Jeopardy! ’ (CC) Saving Hope “Contact” ’ (CC) Rookie Blue A bomb goes off at the station. ’ 11Alive News at 10PM Sing Like a Star (N) ’ Ring of Honor Wrestling (CC) (6:00) Best of ATLPBS Best of ATLPBS Best of ATLPBS Atlanta Eats The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Nikita ’ (CC) ››› “The Howling” (1981, Horror) Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan.

(5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 04.06.18” ’ (CC) (:06) Live PD: Rewind (N) ’ (CC) Live PD “Live PD -- 04.14.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (CC) ››› “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003, Adventure) Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom. ››› “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) Johnny Depp.

(5:30) ›› Enough ››› “The Other Guys” (2010, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes. (CC) ››› “The Other Guys” (2010, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes. (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) CNN Special Report Hate in the 21st century. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (CC) Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown “Congo” (6:20) ››› “Friends With Benefits” (2011) Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis. (CC) ››‡ “Step Brothers” (2008, Comedy) Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins. (CC) Friends With Benefits (6:00) Deadliest Catch “Captain vs. Captain” ’ Deadliest Catch (N) ’ (CC) Bering Sea Gold Shawn and Kris battle miners.

(5:30) NBA Basketball First Round: Teams TBA. NBA Basketball First Round: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball First Round: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) SportsCenter Special The Draft: Featured The Draft: Featured Welcome/NFL E:60 SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) (5:30) ››‡ “Meet the Fockers” (2004) (CC) ››› “Meet the Parents” (2000, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner. (CC) ››‡ “Meet the Fockers” (2004) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller. (CC) Fox Report (N) (CC) Watters’ World (N) (CC) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) (CC) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) (CC) Watters’ World (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (6:20) ››› “Monsters University” (2013) Voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman. (CC) (8:50) ›››‡ “Inside Out” (2015, Children’s) Voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith. (CC) (10:55) Siren “Pilot” (CC) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs. From Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Braves Hall of Fame: Class of 2018 MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs. ›››‡ “The Martian” (2015, Science Fiction) Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig. ’ (CC) Trust “The House of Getty” John Paul Getty III is kidnapped. ’ (CC) Trust “Lone Star” (CC) “Once Upon a Prince” (2018, Romance-Comedy) Megan Park, Jonathan Keltz. (CC) “Destination Wedding” (2017, Romance-Comedy) Alexa PenaVega, Jeremy Guilbaut. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Fixer Upper A home close to Baylor University. Fixer Upper Empty nesters Kelvin and Culetta. Fixer Upper (CC) Lakefront Bargain Hunt: Renovation (N) (CC) Bargain Mansions (CC) Bargain Mansions (CC) Forged in Fire “The Kpinga” ’ (CC) Forged in Fire: Cutting Deeper “Greco-Roman Weapons” Metal from construction equipment. (N) ’ (CC) (:03) Forged in Fire “The Pata” ’ (CC) (6:00) “Deadly Delusion” (2017) Haylie Duff. “The Midwife’s Deception” (2018, Suspense) Katie Savoy, Penelope Mitchell. (CC) (:02) “Twin Betrayal” (2018, Suspense) Jen Lilley, Peter Douglas, Jason Olive. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger (N) (CC) Knight Squad (N) (CC) Star Falls “The Play” Full House ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal The Last O.G. (5:45) ››‡ “There Was a Crooked Man” ››› “The Eagle and the Hawk” (1933) Fredric March, Cary Grant. ›››‡ “Hell’s Angels” (1930, War) Ben Lyon. British brothers become World War I pilots and fall for a platinum blonde.

(5:00) “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” (1983) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015, Science Fiction) Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. (CC) (DVS) ›››‡ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ To Be Announced Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and B.I.G.

bestbets SUNDAY 8 p.m. on CBS Instinct No investigator is happy when a probe that he or she started is taken over by someone else, but that’s especially the case for Dylan (Alan Cumming) in the new episode “I Heart New York.”

His case, involving a chemical attack in the city’s subway system, is appropriated by his estranged father (guest star John Doman, “Gotham”) and the latter’s FBI squad. Dylan and Lizzie (Bojana Novakovic) are given a Central Park murder to solve instead, but Dylan comes

Juliet Rylance

to believe the two cases are intertwined.

phia Freedom” and ”Bennie and the Jets.”

MONDAY

9:30 p.m. on CBS Living Biblically Though Chip (Jay R. Ferguson) clearly is all in as far as following the Good Book goes, his mother-in-law (guest star JoBeth Williams) takes a different view in the new episode “Let Us Pray.” Her scientific background does much to fuel her opinions, leaving Leslie (Lindsey Kraft) to mediate between the people she loves. Ian Gomez, David Krumholtz, Tony Rock and Camryn Manheim also star.

10:05 p.m. on AMC McMafia To protect his parents and sister, Alex (James Norton) poaches a member of Semiyon’s (David Strathairn) staff to organize a bodyguard team in London in the new “Episode 6.”

He also initiates a spat with Rebecca (Juliet Rylance), prompting what he hopes will be only a temporary split between them that will keep her out of harm’s way from thugs who are working for Vadim (Merab Ninidze). Unfortunately, the ruse is exposed

by Benes (Karel Roden).

WEDNESDAY

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TUESDAY 9 p.m. on CBS Elton John: I’m Still Standing — A Grammy Salute One of the most enduring stars of modern music gets a tribute from a number of his peers in this new special, recorded in January at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Among those performing his classic songs: Alessia Cara, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Kesha, Little Big Town, Chris Martin, Shawn Mendes, Maren Morris, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and SZA. The honoree also takes the stage himself to render such tunes as “Philadel-

8 p.m. on FOX Empire “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts appears as herself in the new episode “Sweet Sorrow,” as Jamal (Jussie Smollett) makes a stunning confession while doing a live television interview with her. A health crisis shakes the Lyon family.

Eddie (guest star Forest Whitaker) draws others’ suspicion.

Hakeem and Tiana (Bryshere “Yazz” Gray, Serayah McNeill) reach an accord. Rapper Lupe Fiasco also appears as himself.

Vivica A. Fox also guest stars.

Taraji P. Henson also stars.

8 p.m. on NBC The Blacklist Paris is the destination of Red (James Spader) and the Task Force in the new episode “Zarak Mosadek,” as they search for a heroin marketer who could be key to their taking down Ian Garvey (guest star Jonny Coyne).

Uncertain of Red’s ultimate aim, Liz (Megan Boone) decides to take her own route against Garvey. Harry Lennix also stars.

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on FOX Gotham With the Arkham escapees on the loose throughout Gotham, Gordon (Ben McKenzie) comes up with a capture plan that involves Bruce (David Mazouz) in the new episode “A Dark Knight: That’s Entertainment.” Barbara (Erin Richards) gets insight into her new acquaintances. Donal Logue, Morena Baccarin, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Camren Bicondova and Cory Michael Smith also star.

FRIDAY 10 p.m. on CBS Blue Bloods This show’s fictional New York mayor isn’t in the new episode “Risk Management,” but a real one is: past officeholder David Dinkins, playing himself. He turns up to present Sean (Andrew Terraciano) with a medal for winning a contest. Another story puts Sean’s dad, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), in a race against time to find a missing girl who needs heart medicine.

Frank (Tom Selleck) is concerned about the outcomes of a number of lawsuits against

police officers. Bebe Neuwirth reprises her guest role.

SATURDAY 8 p.m. on CBS Ransom Eric and Zara (Luke Roberts, Nazneen Contractor) experience a hostage situation from the other side as they become captives of an armed man while they’re working for an investment bank in the new episode “Alters.” The instigator is seeking revenge against an accountant, and Eric has to put twists on his usual negotiation tactics. Callum Blue and Matthew MacFsdzean guest star Sarah Greene and Brandon Jay McLaren also star.

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AUBURN Library to host course on sexual assault prevention Representatives from the Piedmont Rape Crisis Center will discuss sexual assault prevention techniques during an upcoming workshop at the Auburn Public Library.

The workshop, #fightback: Preventing Sexual Assault, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Auburn Public Library, 24 Fifth St. Workshop participants will also learn about the resources available for victims of harassment and abuse.

The Piedmont Rape Crisis Center offers educational and support resources to adult victims of sexual assault in Barrow, Jackson and Banks counties. To reach the Center’s crisis hotline, call 770-586-5423.

For more information about the program, call the library at 770-513-2925.

BARROW COUNTY Earth Day celebration planned at Fort Yargo Fort Yargo State Park will celebrate Earth Day on April 22 with a river cleanup, crafts and a sunset paddle.

From 9 a.m. to noon, volunteers can participate in a river cleanup and water quality monitoring program.

Participants will meet at 9 a.m. at the Birdberry Trail. To register, call the park office at 770-867-3489.

At 1 p.m., crafters of all ages are invited to participate in an Earth Day craft.

The event will take place at the amphitheater in Campground 2. Participants should use the overflow parking at the Campground 2 boat ramp. There is a $2 supply fee for all participants.

Those participating in the sunset paddle will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the boat house.

Rentals of single or double kayaks, canoes and paddle boards are available for $15 per participant. To register, call the park office.

Parking is $5 for a daily pass or $50 for an annual ParkPass, valid at all state parks. For more information, visit gastateparks.org.

BERKELEY LAKE Sunday concerts return to Berkeley Lake shores The Sunday Kind of Groove concert series will return to the shores of Berkeley Lake this year, with the first concert planned for 6 p.m. April 22.

The concert will feature jazz vocalists Gwen Hughes, Melanie Dobbins and Pam Cushenan singing the greatest hits of Carole King, Linda Ronstadt and Stevie Nicks.

The concert will take place directly behind the Lake Berkeley Chapel at 4043 S. Berkeley Lake Road.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $30 for a family of four. Tickets can be purchased online at www. freshtix.com/events/sundaygroove422.

The concerts benefit the Duluth Cluster Schools Foundation, which awards grants and awards to teachers, administrators and schools in the Duluth cluster.

BRASELTON Braselton Antique Festival features three-day market The 15th Braselton Antique and Artisan Festival will line the streets of downtown Braselton from April 27 to 29.

More than 250 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, home decor, jewelry and more will be available from noon to 7 p.m. April 27, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 28 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29.

Admission and parking are free. The event will take place rain or shine.

From Interstate 85, take exit 129 and head east on Ga. Highway 53 toward Braselton. Signs for the event will be located about 1 mile from the interstate exit.

For more information, call Countryside Antiques at 706824-7204.

BUFORD Buford library to host workshop on use of Job and Career Accelerator Looking for a job?

The Buford-Sugar Hill branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library is hosting a workshop on how to create or update a resume

McKendree’s Monsters make their way around the Historic Courthouse during the 2017 Family Promise Bed Race. This year’s race will be held April 21. (File Photo)

Push for charity

Family Promise Bed Race rolling through April 21

By Curt yeomans

curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

What is on four wheels and only seen on the Lawrenceville Square — in that setup — once every spring?

A bed, of course.

Family Promise of Gwinnett County will hold its annual Bed Race at 10:30 a.m. April 21 on the square. During the event, local organizations enter beds on wheels with a team of volunteers pushing them and one person handling the steering for 228 yards. The race begins at the intersection of Perry and Pike streets.

“The Bed Race is always a lot of fun as we see the creativity teams put into their bed design and their determination to win the race,” Family Promise of Gwinnett Director Matt Elder said in a statement.

The race raises money for Family Promise’s programs, which

and write cover letters using LearningExpress Job and Career Accelerator, which provides personalized, step-by-step job search assistance.

The workshop will take place at 2 p.m. April 23 at the Buford library branch, 2100 Buford Highway.

For more information, visit gwinnettpl.org.

DACULA Wind and Waves Festival planned to benefit cancer-fighter Jeff Little The Northeast Georgia Homeschoolers Chick-fil-A Leader Academy group will host the Wind and Waves Festival to benefit Jeff Little, who is battling sarcoma.

The festival will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Hebron Christian Academy, 775 Dacula Road.

The event will feature inflatables, games, food, a silent auction, a karate demonstration, a dance performance and more.

For more information, visit www.windandwavesfestival. com.

DULUTH Duluth library to host altered books workshop Make a forgotten book an altered book.

The Duluth branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library is hosting a workshop for patrons to create altered books. An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance or meaning.

The class, “Books with Benefits — Loving Books Again with Altered Books,” will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Duluth library, 3480 Duluth

are designed to help homeless residents. The organization served 494 people from 280 households last year. More than 5,500 volunteers spent more than 27,000 hours doing work for the group in 2017 as well.

This year’s race is sponsored by Not My Roof, Peach State Federal Credit Union, Primerica, Southeast Culvert, ViaStat and WSB’s Family to Family program. There will be a parade of beds at 10:30 a.m., with the race getting underway at 11 a.m. There will be youth, adult and clergy categories, and awards will be presented at 12:30 p.m.

“The Bed Race is a unique way to draw attention to this serious problem,” Family Promise officials said in a statement.

This year’s event will include a new addition to the festivities.

Three demonstrations of places homeless people use for shelter will also be set up at the race so attendees can learn more about the

Park Lane.

Participants should bring a book they don’t mind altering.

For more information, visit gwinnettpl.org.

GRAYSON Grayson library to celebrate National Poetry Month The Grayson branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library will celebrate National Poetry Month with a blackout poetry class.

Participants in the workshop will create their own poetry using a page of text.

With the blackout poetry technique, poets will black out or color over the text except for a select few words.

The select words can be read as a poem.

The workshop will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

April 26 at the Grayson library, 700 Grayson Parkway.

For more information, visit gwinnettpl.org.

LAWRENCEVILLE Aurora Theatre to perform ‘Hunchback’ on Lawrenceville Lawn The Aurora Theatre will give a free performance of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at 7 p.m. April 28 on the Lawrenceville Lawn.

Based on the Victor Hugo novel, the “Hunchback” musical traces the journey of Quasimodo, a deformed bell ringer, as he discovers his inner strength.

The presentation is part of the Aurora Theatre’s Musicals by Moonlight, which will be performed for one night only in select cities. The April 28 performance is part of ArtsFest Gwinnett, which will be held from noon to 6 p.m. on the Lawrenceville Lawn, 210

county’s homeless situation.

Family Promise officials said there are an estimated 8,000 people in Gwinnett County who are homeless, including people who live in hotels or motels. The group said 118,000 were listed in the 2010 Census as living in poverty, which Family Promise said means they are categorized as “precariously housed.”

The displays that Family Promise will set up at the race will include a car that family sleeps in, an extended stay hotel or motel, and a bed at a Family Promise program. The organization runs the SaltLight Center homeless shelter, a Homeless Recovery program and an After Care program.

“We are adding the staged areas this year to help people better understand suburban homelessness,” Elder said.

More information about the race can be found at http://familypromisegwinnett.org/event/bed-race.

Luckie St. Lawn seating will begin at 5 p.m. for the show.

For more information, visit www.auroratheatre.com/ hunchback-in-lawrenceville.

LILBURN St. John Neumann hosting Color Run to raise money for Catholic school St. John Neumann Catholic School is hosting a Color Run to raise money for its playground.

Registration and check-in will begin at 8 a.m. April 21, and the fun run will start at 9 a.m. in Lilburn City Park on the track in front of the bandstand.

Registration is $25 for students and staff of St. John Neumann and St. Pius, and $35 for all other participants.

For more information, visit www.sjnrcs.org/color-run.

LOGANVILLE Kroger Chef Junior features salad recipe at upcoming class Kroger Chef Junior will teach participants how to make a zesty Spring Fling Salad during an upcoming workshop.

The event will take place Saturday at Kroger, 4753 Atlanta Highway in Loganville. The workshop is recommended for children ages 4 to 10. Each class takes about 20 minutes to complete.

Participants will receive a Kroger Chef Junior juicer, apron, chef’s hat, recipe card and box, and a patch.

The class costs $7. To register, visit www.eventbrite. com and search for Kroger Chef Junior — Loganville.

NORCROSS Norcross hosting event for cleaning, recycling The city of Norcross is

hosting a Neighborhood Cleanup and Recycling Day on Saturday.

From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Cleanup Day, residents will be able to bring bulky items such as trash, appliances, furniture and other non-hazardous items to the Public Works Facility, 345 Lively St. The event is free and open to city of Norcross residents only. Proof of residency will be required to dispose of items.

Two other events will be open to city residents as well as the public.

American Security Shredding will arrive at 9 a.m. at Norcross City Hall, 65 Lawrenceville St. The shredding event will be held until noon or until the truck is full. Each person can bring five medium boxes of documents, which will be shredded on-site.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., an electronics recycling event will take place at the Norcross Community Center, 10 College St. Atlanta Recycling Solutions and city volunteers will accept old cellphones, computers and keyboards. Televisions can be recycled for a $20 fee, and CRT monitors can be dropped off for $10.

Console and projection televisions cannot be accepted.

All participants are encouraged to bring canned or nonperishable goods to support the 2018 “Can” Do for Hunger Campaign. Donations will be accepted at each cleanup or recycling location, and collected items will be given to local food banks.

For more information, visit norcrossga.net or call Sonya Isaac at 678-4212027.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Veterans Monument Association initiates fundraising campaign The Peachtree Corners Veterans Monument Association has launched a fundraising campaign for a monument to honor the city’s military veterans.

The monument will be located on the city’s new Town Green. The monument will feature seven sculptures donated by Chad Fisher, including a central pillar topped with a sculpture of an eagle atop the globe to represent the presence of U.S. Armed Forces around the world, five sculptures to represent each of the Armed Forces, and one sculpture to honor the veterans of the National Guard, Federal Reserves and Merchant Marines.

Individuals and businesses can order brick pavers to honor veterans residing in Peachtree Corners or those who are related to residents of the city.

The Peachtree Corners Veterans Monument Association is also accepting donations for the monument.

For more information, visit www.ptcvets.net.

SNELLVILLE LeVell to attend Snellville’s upcoming Business Dinner The city of Snellville will host a series of Business Dinners that will serve as a forum for discussion of a variety of business-related topics.

“City Councilman Dave Emanuel has had great success with the Civic Dinners he has hosted, so his suggestion to use a similar format to discuss topics of interest to local business owners fit perfectly with our efforts to develop innovative ways to help Snellville business owners,” Economic Development Director Eric Van Otteren said in a news release.

Snellville’s first Business Dinner is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at GarageWorx, 2385 Clower St. Bruce LeVell of the Office of Advocacy for the U.S. Small Business Administration will attend and listen to suggestions and insights regarding the challenges facing today’s small businesses.

The dinner is open on a first come, first served basis.

Space is limited. For more information, call Van Otteren at 770-985-3502.

SUGAR HILL Sugar Hill plans city cleanup week The city of Sugar Hill and Advanced Disposal are offering residents an easy way to participate in an upcoming cleanup week.

During the week of May 7, residents can place discarded items by the street on their normal trash pickup days. The following items will be accepted: broken or discarded lawn and garden equipment, broken or discarded appliances (except refrigerators and freezers), a maximum of three small pieces of furniture and other general debris.

Household garbage must be in a Sugar Hill bag or cart.

Items that cannot be accepted include construction debris, yard trash or trimmings, hazardous materials or chemicals, engines containing gas or oil, propane tanks and gasoline cans, automotive parts, tires, batteries and mattresses.

For more information, visit cityofsugarhill.com or call 770-945-6716.

SUWANEE 5Queso 5K planned for Cinco de Mayo Taco ’bout a party.

The Jeff and Jenn Show, Star 94.1 and Tin Lizzy’s Cantina have planned a 5Queso 5K. The race, which is a Peachtree qualifier, will start at 8:30 a.m. May 5 at Suwanee Town Center. The cost is $30 per runner.

Awards will go to the top runners in all age groups.

Participants will also receive a medal and a race T-shirt.

To register for the race, visit runsignup.com/jeffandjenns5queso5k.

The Jeff and Jenn Show’s 5Queso 5K will kick off Star 94.1’s Woofstock, the annual pet party in the park. For more information, visit woofstockatl.com.

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We always need to think it’s our idea Do you like being told what to do?

Most of us don’t. As humans, we want to feel in control of our own destiny, or at the very least, our day. To thrive, we all need a sense of agency. Without it, we’re powerless, flung about by the winds of chance or directed by whims of others.

When my younger daughter was 5, we had an experience that shall forever be referred to as “The Christmas Tree Incident.”

We’d gone to a tree farm to cut our holiday tree. Armed with the saw supplied by the farm, the four of us — my husband, myself and our 5- and 10-year-old daughters — trekked out across acres of pines, firs

Forget Perfect

was symmetrical. But no, according to the 5-year-old, it was totally unacceptable.

We did what any other overly indulgent parents would do: We kept looking.

We made a mental note of where the tree was, took her down a few other paths to disorient her and then found our way back to the Lisa McLeod perfect tree, only this time with the 5-year-old in the and Leyland cypress to find lead. She spied the tree, the perfect tree. and pronounced it perfect, After reviewing and without realizing it was the rejecting several trees, we exact same tree she had found it. Or at least, my rejected 10 minutes earlier. husband, myself and our We “oohed” and “aahed” oldest daughter thought we and Dad bent down to cut had found it. Our 5-yearthe tree, and we hauled old said, “No.” It was it home. The entire drive shaped “funny.” We put a home she kept saying, measuring tape to the tree: “Aren’t you glad we looked It was the perfect size. It further? The one I found

was so much better.” The entire rest of the holiday, she joyfully showed everyone the tree “she found.”

Our 10-year-old was in on the gag. In a private conversation, she wisely said of her younger sister, “She needs to feel like she’s in charge of something.” It’s no surprise the oldest went on to become an industrial psychologist.

The Christmas tree incident illustrates some truisms in human nature.

Weather they’re 5 or 55, people need to feel in charge of themselves. If you want people to embrace something new, ask them to help you create it.

Instead of telling, ask.

This takes time and effort from leadership, but

it pays off. The extra 10 minutes we spent walking around the tree farm gave us a great holiday with a proud 5-year-old. But employees aren’t 5; they’re not going to be fooled by a few manipulative twists and turns. As a leader, you need to authentically engage them.

The tree incident also illustrates the very thing that impedes progress. As humans, we often reject good ideas simply because we didn’t come up with them. We’ve all known the boss whose employees have to dance around trying to make the boss feel like they’re the genius who comes up with everything.

A few years after the tree incident, I fessed up to my younger daughter. I told

her, “It’s fine when you’re 5, but as you grow, you don’t want to be the person whose ego is so fragile you can’t embrace good ideas from others.”

When someone feels their sense of agency threatened, they’re more likely to dig and reject anything that isn’t their own. They’ll take control by simply saying no.

If you’re trying to get something done, put the team in the lead early on.

You’ll save yourself a few rounds around the Christmas tree farm.

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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The kindness of a beauty queen It is rarely the large kindnesses or generosities that are remembered (unless, of course, your name is on a building). It is generally the small kindnesses that people cherish and often recall. Those are the ones that make the biggest difference.

Such as what happened with a homely young girl and a gorgeous beauty queen.

When I was 12, the handsomest man I’d ever seen began attending our tiny church. He was tall, blonde, mid-20s, and as close to a movie star as anything we’d seen. He’d always come in after church started, but my cousin, Lynn, and I sat on the front row of the choir and usually we’d stop singing in order to concentrate on watching him.

We’d elbow each other and smile broadly.

There was a story of some kind connected to him which, apparently, was “not for young ears” but I gleaned enough to know his life had been troubled and he was trying to straighten up.

Trouble or not, I was completely dreamy-eyed about him.

A year or two after he started his church-going, something tragic happened. I don’t remember how I found out the news but I recall clearly the tremendous sadness that covered my heart and how Mama and Daddy had talked of it quietly and with such mournfulness.

The trouble he had been running from chased him down. One night, when he wasn’t in full possession of his mind and body, he passed out on a railroad track and was killed by a train. All that blonde beauty gone in a moment.

Daddy presided over the funeral which was held in our little church.

It wasn’t a large gathering of people, perhaps 15 or 20, mostly church folks and his family. There in the midst, though, was a stranger. She was as perfectly beautiful and blonde as he had been.

Her hair was long and thick, her body curvy, her legs slender, and she was dressed in a stunning, fashionable outfit.

She was a multititled beauty queen, the church folks said. Outside of my blonde, curvy Barbie doll with whom I spent most of my playtime as a child, I had never seen such loveliness.

The story they told was that this beauty queen had been his girlfriend.

His troubles, though, had forced her away so she had long expected his

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I was 13 years old and that was the first time anyone had ever called me ‘pretty.’

Usually, I was called ‘smart’ and, on occasion, ‘sweet’ but never, under the best of circumstances, did anyone say ‘pretty.’”

premature death. She was sad but composed with a weary resignation. Mama approached her and I tagged along in order to be closer to such extraordinary beauty. I stared at her as they talked.

Aware, apparently, of my unhidden fascination, she looked down and smiled.

“Is this your daughter?” she asked. Mama nodded and gave my name.

She reached out and touched the shoulder of my green, quilted homemade jumper under which I wore a matching turtleneck.

“She’s so pretty,” she said, smiling.

I was 13 years old and that was the first time anyone had ever called me “pretty.” Usually, I was called “smart” and, on occasion, “sweet” but never, under the best of circumstances, did anyone say “pretty.”

It changed my selfesteem. I was chubby plain, and had an overbite, but, from that moment forward, I stood taller and held my head higher. The most beautiful woman I had ever seen said that I was pretty.

I’m sorry that I don’t know her name. I regret that I cannot tell her that she put me on a new path that would lead me to heightened confidence which led to strong success. But this I would like for her to know: Because of her kindness, I have repaid it often. Whenever I see a young girl who is shy, chubby and plain, I lean down, touch her shoulder and say, “You’re so pretty.”

And the bright smile she gives me always repays the words.

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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Local resident, educator Zaheer honored by UConn

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

said Steven J. Smith, retired assistant dean of the Neag School of Education.

Zaheer has taught Lawrenceville resident domestically as well as Mohammad Zaheer was internationally at institutions named the 2018 Outstanding such as Punjab University in Higher Education ProfesPakistan, Kenyatta Universional Award recipient by sity and the United States the University of ConnectiInternational University in cut’s Neag School of EducaKenya. tion Alumni Board. The Zaheer taught economrecognition for Zaheer took ics at Southern Connecticut place on March 17 at the State University, Albertus Neag School’s 20th annual Magnus College and ManAlumni Awards Celebration chester Community College, in Storrs, Conn.

Lawrenceville resident Mohammad Zaheer was one of retiring in 1997.

Zaheer received his Ph.D. seven University of Connecticut Neag School graduates During his two-decade in 1973 from UConn in recognized at the school’s 20th annual Alumni Awards tenure at MCC, he served as Celebration on March 17. (Special Photo) technical education. Prior a department head for two to receiving his Ph.D., he years and chair of several from Punjab University in completed his master’s and sional based upon demcommittees. He was also a Pakistan. doctorate degrees in busionstrated excellence as a member of the Connecticut “Dr. Mohammed Zaheer ness education from Indiana higher education profession- Joint Council on Economics deserves to be recognized as al, significant contributions University and received a Education and Pakistanmaster’s degree in econom- the Neag School of Educato the educational environAmerican Cultural Association’s 2018 Outstanding ics and a bachelor’s degree ment, and service to the tion. in management and finance Higher Education Profesprofession and community,” “His commitment to stutrevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

‘Perfect’ has become the new ‘awesome’ Just when I’d gotten used to hearing millennials describe anything that’s not positively terrible (and a few things that are) as “awesome,” they’ve come up with a new buzzword.

Now, everything isn’t just awesome. Apparently, it’s “perfect.”

Which is a shame, because I had grown rather fond of “awesome.” There’s something about the word that’s just, you know, kind of awesome. Every time I hear it, it makes me think of awesomeness.

I especially like it when millennials use “awesome” to describe normal, everyday activities: Me: I’d like to check into my room, please.

Millennial clerk: Awesome!

Me: I think I’ll have the honey chipotle wings.

Millennial server: Awesome!

Me: I have a $5 off coupon.

Millennial checker-outer: Awesome!

I confess: Constantly hearing someone describe my most mundane behaviors as awesome makes me feel, well, awesome.

I’m convinced there’s nothing I can’t do, or at least nothing that wouldn’t be truly awesome. Talk about building your self-esteem!

I’ve even started using the word myself, perhaps because I’m around millennials all the time. I realize that, to many actual, sentient adults, this probably makes me sound frivolous and a little dopey, but I can’t help it. I just open my mouth and the word “awesome” pops right out, probably because I’m so awesome.

Random person: Hi, how are you?

Me: I’m awesome!

See, you might be fine or good or very well or whatever. But me? I’m awesome.

Sadly, being awesome is no longer enough. In a classic case of hyperbole creep, now everything must be “perfect.”

I began noticing this trend a few weeks ago when I went to pick up a rental car. My conversation with the millennial behind the counter proceeded as follows:

Rob Jenkins Millennial car-rental dude: Hi, may I help you?

Me: I’m here to pick up my rental car.

Millennial car-rental dude: Perfect! May I see your driver’s license and a major credit card, please?

Me: (Handing over driver’s license and major credit card.)

Millennial car-rental dude: Perfect! Would you like to upgrade to a full-size vehicle for only $10.00 more a day?

Me: No, thank you.

Millennial: Perfect!

That last one threw me. He was trying to upsell me — goaded, no doubt, by his corporate masters — and I declined. In what way was that perfect? The situation certainly wasn’t optimal for him, as he failed to pry more money out of me. Nor was it perfect for me, as I ended up with a smaller car.

Heck, it wasn’t even awesome.

So I’m not sure this new phrase will catch on. If “awesome” was an exaggeration, “perfect” clearly ups the ante.

That’s a pretty high standard, one usually reserved for my wife’s famous dinner rolls and the afternoon my son and I caught 32 small-mouth bass on a pristine Canadian lake.

In fact, if I never hear another millennial say “perfect,” that would be awesome.

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 Books for Less in Lawrenceville and on Amazon.

The views expressed here are his own. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@ yahoo.com.

dents and his desire to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to be contributors to their selected fields of study and career aspirations, as well as their communities, was evident in his approach and delivery,” Alfred L. Carter, retired dean of students at MCC said.

Because of his dedication to the field, Zaheer received the Connecticut Community Colleges Board of Trustee Faculty Merit Award, Connecticut Community College Board of Trustees Educational Excellence and Distinguished Service Award and the State of Connecticut Award for Exemplary Contributions to the Community College System.

“He has been and always is an educator. Now in his 80s, he has not ‘retired.’

Mohammad continues to

contribute to his field and will continue to do so to his last breath, I suspect,” said Charles A. Plese, dean of institutional development emeritus at Manchester Community College. “It is one thing to talk about his skills as a teacher, something he was excellent at, but another to say he cares about people.”

In addition to teaching, Zaheer has published a number of studies, articles and books on economics and business education. He is fluent in English, Panjabi and Urdu, and reads and writes Arabic and Persian.

The Outstanding Higher Education Professional Award annually honors a graduate of UConn’s Neag School of Education who demonstrates excellence and has made significant contributions to his/her profession.

COLLEGE NOTES The following students were named to the dean’s list or the president’s list at the University of Alabama for the fall 2017 semester: Sara Carmichael of Berkeley Lake, John Dollar of Braselton, Annika Rainey of Braselton, Hannah Abel of Buford, Jordan Brooks of Buford, Jacob Cerneka of Buford, Matthew Hachtel of Buford, Emma Miller of Buford, Timothy Smith of Buford, Sarah Westmoreland of Buford, Erica Carrega of Dacula, Norris Davis of Dacula, Chesney Jensen of Dacula, Alexandria Pace of Dacula, John Skeean of Dacula, Amelia Whitmire of Dacula, Laura Williams of Dacula, Darby Davenport of Duluth, Stephen Davis of Duluth, Conor Lazarus of Duluth, Griffin Loflin of Duluth, Symone Maduro of Duluth, Ibukunoluwa Afon of Grayson, Jasmyne Allen of Grayson, Lauren Sivils of Hoschton, Cade Auerbach of Johns Creek, Knox Auerbach of Johns Creek, Gracie Clough of Johns Creek, Asha Fuller of Johns Creek, Nicole Lane of Johns Creek, Shannon Marsh of Johns Creek, Madison Martin of Johns Creek, Anna McCormick of Johns Creek, Lawson Mohl of Johns Creek, Jackson Morgan of Johns Creek, Emma Provost of Johns Creek, Amber Scales of Johns Creek, Sophie Simon of Johns Creek, Sarah Valleroy of Johns Creek, Desiree Wilkins of Johns Creek, Jacob Williams of Johns Creek, Thomas Williams of Johns Creek, Michaela Bostick of Lawrenceville, Brianna Brown of Lawrenceville, Victoria Clark of Lawrenceville, Allison Cummins of Lawrenceville, Kendall Day of Lawrenceville, LaDaria Duffie of Lawrenceville, Joshua Focht of Lawrenceville, Kynnedi Fye of Lawrenceville, Taylor Gillespie of Lawrenceville, Mallory Ivy of Lawrenceville, Sela Ivy of Lawrenceville, Bradley Jackson of Lawrenceville, Kathrine Lane of Lawrenceville, Bryan Lappert of Lawrenceville, Rachel Sills of Lawrenceville, Nora Stone of Lawrenceville, Sara Taylor of Lawrenceville, Peyton Yurk of Lawrenceville, Kelsey Hyatt of Lilburn, Benjamin Thompson of Lilburn, Jasmine Willingham of Lilburn, Margaret Boucher of Norcross, Allison Diamond of Peachtree Corners, Mackenzie Koch of Norcross, Mariah Maiorano of Norcross, Avital Sabag of Norcross, Audrey Throckmorton of Norcross, James Todd of Norcross, Catherine Stone of Peachtree Corners, Raine Cook of Snellville, Makenna Cross of Snellville, Christopher Hall of Snellville, Katherine Read of Snellville, Carlin Dedecker of Stone Mountain, Taylor Smith of Stone Mountain, Carli Hardon of Stone Mountain, Roswyn Asher of Sugar Hill, Makalya Chalacoff of Sugar Hill, Taylor Sullivan of Sugar Hill, Thomas Adams of Suwanee,

Lauren Armitage of Suwanee, Bridget Baker of Suwanee, William Bolton of Suwanee, Barnez Chatelain of Suwanee, Rachel Cochrane of Suwanee, Gavin Conley of Suwanee, Alexander Evans of Suwanee, Emma Hackstadt of Suwanee, Cassidy Hanley of Suwanee, Sydney Hicks of Suwanee, Kayla Keller of Suwanee, Abigail Kunis of Suwanee, Andrew Mapes of Suwanee, Victoria Mattison of Suwanee, Ryan Miller of Suwanee, Ambika Nainani of Suwanee, Cayleigh Osterloh of Suwanee, Nicole Raicik of Suwanee, Alexandra Richart of Suwanee, Hannah Riggs of Suwanee, Emily Robinson of Suwanee, Nicholas Rodriguez of Suwanee, Winston Shelton of Suwanee, Sidney Sheppard of Suwanee, Godfrey Torrance of Suwanee, William Webster of Suwanee and Carter Wilkey of Suwanee.

briel Fresa of Lawrenceville, Jagroop Singh of Lilburn, Mason Borucki of Norcros, Olivia Larner of Norcross, David Savini of Norcross, Allison Davis of Snellville, Connor Horne of Sugar Hill, Savannah Carnahan of Suwanee, Charle Thomes of Suwanee and Kendall Towe of Suwanee.

Jared Barkin of Norcross was named to the dean’s list at Denison University for the fall 2017 semester.

Haroon Syed of Lawrenceville was named to the dean’s list at DePauw University for the fall 2017 semester.

Madison Lord of Suwanee received the Chancellor’s Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stout for the fall 2017 semester.

Harrison Breyo of Buford was named to the dean’s list at Siena College for the fall 2017 semester.

Regina Wright of Lawrenceville was named to the dean’s list at Cedarville University for the fall 2017 semester.

Elizabeth Van Winkle of Lawrenceville was named to the dean’s list at the University of Delaware for the fall 2017 semester.

Alexis Reed of Braselton was named to the dean’s list at Azusa Pacific University for the fall 2017 semester.

Julia Cuendet of Suwanee was named to the dean’s list at Worchester Polytechnic Institute for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at the University of South Carolina Upstate for the fall 2017 semester: Hunter Fry of Dacula and William Hardigree of Auburn.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Emerson College for the fall 2017 semester: Khyati Sehgal of Lilburn and Ava Feneberger of Duluth.

D’Laney Bowry of Duluth was named to the dean’s list at Ithaca College for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Harding University for the fall 2017 semester: Kira Kulp of Lawrenceville, Daniel Reed of Berkeley Lake and Bridgette Tomlinson of Grayson.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Wofford College for the fall 2017 semester: Kelsey Bryn Aylor of Lawrenceville, Joshua Stone Crawford of Norcross, Leila C. Shearer of Duluth and Olivia Virginia Vasquez of Duluth.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at Furman University for the fall 2017 semester: Meghan Bullard of Buford, Katie Wooten of Dacula, Ashley Godwin of Duluth, Rebecca Graham of Duluth, Ju Sun Yoon of Duluth, Grace Broadbent of Johns Creek, Emma Allison of Lawrenceville, Joshua Brickell of Lawrenceville, Ga-

The following students were named to the president’s list at Mercer University for the fall 2017 semester: Brennan Bogdanovich of Suwanee, Madison Clark of Peachtree Corners, Adam Corn of Suwanee, Courtney Czerniak of Suwanee, Alexandria Davis of Buford, Cameron Dawkins of Duluth, Elizabeth Durham of Duluth, Amanda Ernst of Grayson, Srividya Ganapathy of Duluth, Brittany Gary of Lawrenceville, Amy Jenkins of Lawrenceville, Genice Johnson of Lilburn, Timothy Jones of Norcross, Yea Kim of Duluth, Lady Marin-Arbelaez of Lawrenceville, Winston Miller of Duluth, Karsten Montgomery of Buford, Alondra Munoz Gonzalez of Lilburn, Claire Pak of Duluth, Linzi Prpich of Lawrenceville, Donna Roy of Buford, Kudzaishe Rwizi of Suwanee, William Shannon of Lilburn, Mirna Shaw of Lilburn, Kimberly Smith of Snellville, Yael Tessler of Duluth, Krysta Therieau of Snellville, Caitlin Turner of Lawrenceville, Duyen Vo of Lawrenceville, Ye Yoon of Duluth, and Elise Young of Lawrenceville.

Madeline Hill of Dacula was named to the dean’s list at Saint Joseph’s University for the fall 2017 semester.

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