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Hunter’s appeal of reprimand thrown out

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Commissioner Tommy Hunter’s appeal of the written reprimand his colleagues issued against him more than a year ago over disparaging remarks he made on Facebook about U.S. Rep. John Lewis has been dismissed by a Gwinnett County judge.

Superior Court Judge Randy Rich threw the appeal out on technical Tommy Hunter grounds, asserting that Hunter’s attorneys waited too long to submit a court transcript that they wanted included with the appeal filing.

Although the attorneys said they wanted the transcript attached when they filed the appeal in July 2017, they never requested the transcript be produced, according to Rich’s order. The attorneys filed an amended appeal in February that left out the request for the transcript, but Rich said there was no excuse or reason for not filing the transcript sooner.

“The appeal of this case has been unreasonably delayed by 224 days,” Rich wrote in his dismissal order. “This delay was caused by the petitioner’s specific inclusion of the June transcript and then complete failure to request that the transcript be prepared and filed with the clerk.”

The dismissal is the latest chapter in the ongoing saga that began in January 2017 when news broke that Hunter called Lewis a “racist pig” on Facebook. It’s a saga that is expected to continue on to Georgia’s highest court with a debate over the constitutional validity of the ethics panel that recommended Hunter’s reprimand.

Hunter’s attorney, Dwight Thomas, said Rich’s decision was “not in accordance with the law.” He also raised issues with an email sent to Rich’s office from the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit’s chief deputy clerk.

The email included a forwarded email

Discovery Principal Marci Sledge has been an educator and administrator in Gwinnett County Public Schools since 1999. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

One talented Titan

Discovery principal excels in more than education

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

“I thought while I was applying for medical school I would just go teach since I knew a lot of When new Discovery High science,” Sledge said. “I ended up teaching there because they needSchool principal Marci Sledge was young, she wanted to go into ed teachers, and that’s where I fell a profession where she could help in love with it. I never wanted to be a teacher — it wasn’t on my other people — it just wasn’t radar — but it was my first job.” the one in which she ultimately Sledge is no stranger to the ended up. principal ranks in Gwinnett It was being a doctor — the M.D. kind, not the Ph.D. kind — County Public Schools, but is looking at her latest posting at the that was the center of Sledge’s aspirations, but fate can be funny Lawrenceville school as a destinaabout steering people down a path tion, rather than just another stop.

She is one of nine principals they didn’t expect. who started the 2018-19 school While she was applying for year at a new school in the dismedical school, she taught at trict. Before coming to Discovery, John Muir Middle School in the Los Angeles Unified School Dis- Sledge held principal positions at trict from 1996-99. The rest, as See PRINCIPAL, Page 6A the saying goes, is history. trevor.mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost.com

During her junior year in 1985, Marci Sledge and her team made the state playoffs.

(Special Photo)

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Third community health fair to include back-to-school bash

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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The third Gwinnett County Community Health Fair is changing things up this Saturday and hosting a back-to-school bash as part of the event.

The fair, which will be held at Buford’s Bogan Park, will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will offer inflatables, games, train rides, free health screenings, giveaways and more.

IF YOU GO

The community health fair in May offered blood pressure checks, among other healthrelated services.

(Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

What: Third Gwinnett County Community Health Fair and back-to-school bash Where: Bogan Park; 2723 N. Bogan Road, Buford When: 10 a.m to 2 p.m. Saturday Cost: Free More Info: Visit www.scnievents.com

There will also be a school supply drive to benefit Gwinnett County Schools.

The health fairs — there are four total in 2018 — are presented by Gwinnett Medical Center and The

Ashford Center and sponsored by the Daily Post, Live Healthy Gwinnett, Gwinnett County Parks and Rec., Humana, Gwinnett Stripers, Buford Dental See HEALTH, Page 6A

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Former football star faces Snellville doubles salaries charge of armed robbery for City Council, mayor

BY ISABEL HUGHES

the resisabel.hughes taurant, @gwinnettdailypost.com China Taste, A former standout which is Peachtree Ridge High located School baseball and footat 3870 ball player who later went Peachtree Myron on to play wide receiver Industrial Burton for Auburn University Blvd., was recently charged in shortly before 5 p.m. last connection with an armed Tuesday after receivrobbery that occurred at ing a 911 call about the a Chinese restaurant last armed robbery, during week in Duluth. which Burton is accused On Friday, 21-yearof pointing a gun at the old Myron Burton, who restaurant owner and now lives in Duluth, was demanding cash. arrested at his home after Though he was able to Duluth police officers escape with $300, Burton executed a search warrant was charged with armed on the residence, acrobbery and possession of cording to Duluth Police a firearm during commisDepartment Officer Ted sion of a felony following Sadowski, a spokesman the search warrant and for the department. booked into the GwinPolice were called to nett County Jail, Duluth

police said.

Jail records show that this is not the first time Burton has been arrested on gun-related charges — in April 2017, he was charged with pointing a gun or pistol at another person. He was released a little less than a week after his arrest.

Burton graduated from Peachtree Ridge in 2014.

He took a redshirt season in 2014 at Auburn and was named Offensive MVP of Auburn’s spring game in 2015, but left the program unexpectedly just before the 2015 season.

“Myron Burton is no longer on our team,” Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn told reporters at the time. “It was a mutual decision and we wish him nothing but the best.”

BY CURT YEOMANS

office will be paid $12,000, as opposed to Snellville City Council the $6,000 members will receive a 100 salary percent raise — if they can currently get re-elected. tied to the Cristy The City Council apoffi ce.

Lenski proved the new salaries for “Councouncil members and the cilwoman Cristy Lenski office of mayor Monday. It proposed the change, noting is the first raise that Snellthe population of the city ville’s leaders have received since the last increase in in 35 years.

1983 has doubled and the The new salary for a duties and the responsibilimember of the City Council ties of mayor and council will be $8,000 per year, have increased,” city ofup from $4,000, while the ficials said in a statement. occupant of the mayor’s “Lenski also said an in-

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Police: 11 vehicles broken into at three local gyms in two days

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

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Gwinnett County Police Department detectives are enlisting the community’s help in solving a string of car break-ins that occurred at several local gyms over a two-day period.

On July 18 and 19, 11 vehicles were broken into at two different LA Fitness locations (5295 Stone Mountain Highway in Stone Mountain and 1860 Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville) and a Planet Fitness (1900 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain), according to Gwinnett police Cpl. Michele Pihera, spokeswoman for the department.

“Witnesses of these incidents provided similar infor-

Police believe this woman may be involved in a car break-in spree. She was seen in Best Buy purchasing an Apple MacBook Pro with a credit card stolen in one of the break-ins. (Special Photo)

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“The suspects may be driving a grey SUV, possibly a Volvo.

Several cases had fraudulent transaction card activity occur shortly after the vehicles were broken into.”

Most of the fraudulent transactions took place at the Chevron gas station at 2991 Everson Road in Snellville and at the Best Buy at 1875 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth, Pihera said.

“In the transaction at the Best Buy, a woman is seen entering the business and purchasing an Apple MacBook Pro,” Pihera said. “Though it is unclear if she is related to the Entering Auto thefts, the detective would like to identify her and determine her level of involvement in the crimes.”

Police recommend gymgoers and other potential victims to never leave their valuables in their vehicles, especially in plain sight.

The best advice, police say, is to either leave valuables at home or lock them in a locker with a “durable” padlock.

Anyone with information about the break-ins is asked contact detectives at 770-5135300. To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit crimestoppersatlanta.org.

Tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case by referencing case numbers: 18-066484, 18-066492, 18-066495, 18-066496, 18-066765, 18-066784, 18-066785, 18-066789, 18-066794, 18-066829 and 18-066839.

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Weekend’s hazardous materials event a big draw

BY CURT YEOMANS

on Winder Highway for hours.

That line of cars trying to get onto the property to Gwinnett County ofdrop off their materials was ficials learned at least two so long that people were things from this past week- still waiting to get in when end’s hazardous materials the event ended at noon, dropoff event. and they were turned away.

No. 1: There is a large That left some residents demand for a place to drop fuming. off those materials.

“I’m sure you’re aware No. 2: The county is of this by now, but Saturgoing to need a bigger day’s Household Hazarddropoff site. ous Waste Collection was The dropoff event a fiasco,” Buford resident was held for three hours Reniece Westmoreland Saturday at the Gwinnett wrote about her experience County Department of trying to get to the event in Water Resources central an email to county offifacility on Winder Highcials and the Daily Post on way in Lawrenceville. The Monday. “Traffic was gridevent turned out to be so locked on all roads leading big of a draw for residents to the drop off location.” that traffic was backed up The large turnout for curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

the event, which was the first such hazardous clutter collection event that the county hosted, has forced Gwinnett officials to reevaluate how to handle future collection events to accommodate the demand.

The event was an opportunity for residents to safely dispose of items with hazardous materials, such as pesticides, fluorescent light bulbs and ballasts, lawn care products and oils.

County spokesman Joe Sorenson confirmed that there were people still waiting in line to bring in their materials when the event was scheduled to end, and that those people were turned away.

“They did have a lot

more interest in that event than anticipated,” Sorenson said. “What I can’t tell you is when they’ll be doing another one, but I know they’re looking at how to make it successful. It looked like it has as much draw as the (county’s) big recycling events that have the more common materials.”

The county offers popular collection events for other types of materials, including electronics, tires and old papers that need to be shredded and disposed of. Those events, however, are held at larger venues, such as Coolray Field.

It’s not clear if the hazardous materials collection event could be moved to the stadium as well, or

to another venue in the county that has a large amount of space.

“They’ll be looking at how to do those in the future better,” Sorenson said. “We’ll need a bigger facility and a lot of things will have to be different but what it boils down to is there was just a lot more demand than they expected for that.”

Westmoreland said she and her husband each drove separately to bring items in because there was a limit of five containers per vehicle. They had some old paint and household chemicals that they wanted to dispose of.

They waited in the line of cars leading up to the Department of Water

Resources facility for more than hour, but got to the gate at 12:15 p.m. and were turned away because it was after the scheduled ending time.

“This is a county of almost 900,000 people,” Westmoreland said in the email. “Surely someone at Gwinnett County Solid Waste can see that allowing only three hours on one Saturday, once in a blue moon is not a sufficient amount of time for the residents to (exercise) their civic duty and dispose of hazardous household waste.

“And by the way, a fivecontainer limit is a little restrictive when the (collection) dates are so few and far between.”

oversaw the Atlanta Murdered and A former Georgia Missing Bureau of Investigation Children director who served in the Taskforce, position for eight years serving as James and spent nearly 50 in law supervisor “Robbie” enforcement has died at of investiHamrick the age of 78. gations.

James “Robbie” HamHamrick was appointed rick, who was born May director of the GBI on 16, 1940, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 1985, where he the GBI confirmed to the served until his retirement Daily Post. on Sept. 1, 1993, with The agency has not 35 years of service to the yet released a statement re- state under his belt. garding Hamrick’s death.

Notable accomplishHamrick, who was born ments during his tenure in Carrollton, began his as GBI director include law enforcement career the coordination of state with the Georgia Departlaw enforcement for the ment of Public Safety in 1988 Democratic National 1959.

Convention and his title In 1969, he was apof state coordinator of the pointed Special Agent by Drug Abuse Resistance the GBI, where, during his Education program, which career, he supervised every is better known as DARE. section of the bureau’s Less than a decade after investigative division and his retirement from state

law enforcement, on Jan. 1, 2001, Hamrick was appointed Chief Deputy of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, which was then headed by Sheriff Ted Paxton. He worked there until his retirement in 2012.

“Chief Robbie Hamrick was an icon in Georgia law enforcement,” current Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Freeman told the Daily Post. “Robbie was a consummate professional and gentleman. Serving as the Forsyth Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy for 12 years, Chief Hamrick left an indelible impression on the Deputies who worked for him. He was a mentor and friend who exemplified the ideal of service before self.”

Following the Sept.

11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Hamrick was invited by the Department of Justice and the FBI to serve on

the National Infrastructure Protection Study Group as one of five representatives from local and state law enforcement nationwide.

Hamrick was a graduate of the FBI National Academy’s 100th session in 1975 and served as its president in 1997.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in criminal justice from Georgia State University, where he later served on the board of its Alumni Association and the school’s College of Public and Urban Affairs’ Advisory Board.

Hamrick is survived by his wife, Linda, their son, William, and a grandchild.

His funeral will be held at the Johns Creek Baptist Church from 3 to 4 p.m.

Sunday.

For more information, visit mcdonaldandson. com/obituary/jameshamrick.

Local students Former GBI director dies at age 78 to participate in fall film festival

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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filmmakers and media arts enthusiasts from around the world. The festival begins Oct. 3 with winners being Films created by Gwinannounced Oct. 7 in New nett County Public Schools York City. students are hitting the Big GCPS students and films Apple for the 2018 All selected for the festival American High School include: Film Festival this fall.

• Home Opener (AcThe school district antion Sports) — Ian Islam, nounced Tuesday that seven Thomas Harmond, and films created by Lanier Melanie Zburlea from High students and one Lanier; animated film created by a • Homecoming Promo Brookwood student will be (Action Sports) — Melanie shown in the AMC TheZburlea, Thomas Harmond, ater 25 in New York City’s and Ian Islam from Lanier; Times Square.

• We Are Lanier: LSLT “I’m extremely proud of (Documentary) — Barry the students. To be where Chen, Bruce Garcia and we are in our short history Chris Reyes from Lanier; as a program is a testament • Providence High (Drato the quality of work the ma) — Jordan Powell, Sara students have created,” Samuels, Lauraina Horack, Lanier film program teacher Faith Laws and Nichole Keith Phillips said. “I have Stringer from Lanier; all the resources and sup• Signing Day 2018 port a teacher could want.

Promo (PSA) — Andy The students don’t know Cole, Thomas Harmond, how fortunate they are to Valyn Turner from Lanier; have an administration that • Atlanta International supports their creations and Night Market (PSA) — a district that gives them the Barry Chen from Lanier; professional tools to begin • LANIER (PSA) — developing skills they can Thomas Harmond and use after they graduate.”

Andy Cole from Lanier; and The AAHSFF bills itself • Countdown (Animaas the world’s largest film tion) — Sebastian Soler festival for high school from Brookwood.

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Hice holding constituent event today Hice, R-Ga., will hold Braselton, “Coffee With Your Conbeing in gressman” from 2 to 3 p.m. his district.

Wednesday at TradeWind Hice is Gwinnett County resiCoffee Company, which is expected dents who live in U.S. Rep. located at 2300 Liam Ave., to give Jody Hice’s congressional Suite No. 200 in Dacula. a brief district will get a chance Hice is one of three update on Jody to sit down with him in congressmen who split legislative Hice Dacula Wednesday and Gwinnett, with the eastern matters talk politics over a cup of part of the county, includand their impact on his coffee. ing Dacula, Auburn and congressional district.

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Knowing the symptoms of surgical mesh complications DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a hernia operation in 2015. The repair included insertion of mesh patches that now have been recalled. Since the operation, I have had many health issues. Is there a blood test or other test to see if the mesh is the cause of my problems? Should I have it removed and replaced? I turned 83 in May. — J.C.L. ANSWER: Surgical mesh is commonly used in hernia repair, as well as in many gynecologic surgeries. Mesh reduces the need for re-operation. However, there is an increased rate of long-term complications that partially offsets the benefit of using mesh.

Complications related to the mesh can be very serious, such as bowel obstruction, perforation or bleeding; these usually require urgent surgery.

However, symptoms also may be less specific, and include pain, non-healing wounds and infection.

Four to 6 percent of people with a mesh repair had evidence of complications after five years of followup, according to a welldone study from Denmark.

I am aware of recalled mesh products (49 out of the top 50 results on a web search were from personal injury law firms; the 50th was from the Food and Drug Administration) and reports of significantly higher complication rates from recalled (as well as from counterfeit) mesh.

Without knowing more about your health issues, it is difficult to weigh in on whether the mesh is likely to be causing it.

There is no simple blood or imaging test that will give a definitive answer.

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solunar tables The Gwinnett Daily Post (UPSP 921-980, ISSN 10860096) is published Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by SCNI, 725 Old Norcross Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30045. Periodical postage paid at Lawrenceville, GA 30044. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Gwinnett Daily Post, P.O. Box 603, Lawrenceville, GA 30046-0603.

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Allatoona..............(840.0).........839.52

Lanier..................(1071.0).......1072.19

Blackshear............(237.0).........236.96

Nottely................(1779.0).......1776.52

Blue Ridge.........(1690.0).......1685.60

Oconee................(435.0).........434.44

Burton................(1865.0).......1864.98

Seminole.................(77.5)........... 77.88

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m........................ ..................... 11:29 a.m.-12:29 p.m.

Carters............... (1072.0).......1074.28

Sinclair.................(339.8).........338.55

Chatuge..............(1927.0).......1924.57

Thurmond............(330.0).........329.09

pollen counts

Harding.................(521.0).........520.53

Tugalo....................(891.5).........889.90

Hartwell................(660.0)......... 661.49

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1483, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel was consecrated.

In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened.

In 1947, India and Pakistan won independence from Britain.

In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon canceled the direct convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold.

In 2003, Libya accepted responsibility for the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, and agreed to pay reparations.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French emperor; Walter Scott (1771-1832), poet/novelist; Ethel Barrymore (18791959), actress; Edna Ferber (18851968), author; Julia Child (1912-2004), cookbook author/TV personality; Stieg Larsson (1954-2004), journalist/

author; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (1963- ), filmmaker; Debra Messing (1968- ), actress; Ben Affleck (1972- ), actor; Carl Edwards (1979- ), race car driver; Jennifer Lawrence (1990- ), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: The price of gold skyrocketed from $35 per ounce in 1971 to $800 per ounce in 1980 as a result of the economic measures undertaken by President Nixon in 1971.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1948, Babe Didrikson Zaharias won the third women’s golf U.S. Open, even after missing a 5-foot putt on the 18th hole.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.” — Walter Scott, “Rob Roy” TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (Aug. 11) and first quarter moon (Aug. 18).

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Dear Amy: My brother’s girlfriend is five months pregnant. She told him that it might be his or one other man’s baby.

There’s no way to tell who the father is until after the baby is born.

What do I tell my 9-year-old daughter? I don’t want my daughter to get excited about a new cousin, and then have to let her down.

If it’s my brother’s baby, I’d love to throw his girlfriend a baby shower and come to the hospital after the baby is born to see the baby. If it’s not my brother’s baby, I’m guessing that my brother and his girlfriend will break up, but I don’t know that for sure. I don’t have a very strong relationship with his girlfriend, but I want to be in this baby’s life if it’s my niece or nephew, and I know that this will depend on the girlfriend’s willingness to allow this.

Please help me navigate this. It’s not exactly something covered in etiquette books.

— Maybe Auntie Dear Maybe: This is a tough situation, to be sure. But what would happen if you just decided to love everyone anyway, regardless of the outcome?

You should be a supportive and positive presence to everyone involved.

You are already a parent, and so you have a lot to offer. Talk to your brother about what involvement

romantic relationship is emotionally draining, is this a sign of toxicity?

Or are all romantic relationships like this, to an extent?

My girlfriend and I have been together exclusively for four years, but she is my first girlfriend so I don’t have much to comAmy Dickinson pare our relationship to.

Everyone says that “rehe would prefer, but you lationships are hard work,” should offer to welcome but should I feel like it’s an this baby into the world re- emotional roller-coaster? gardless of its DNA. Host — Drained and a shower, pass along your Wondering favorite parenting advice Dear Drained: books and let your own Here are some life-events child get excited about a that can be emotionally new family member. Dedraining on a day-to-day pending on what happens basis: Raising an autistic after the child’s birth, you child, losing a loved-one should roll with it — or to dementia or caring for be willing to roll with someone at the end of life. it, based on the parents’ Being in a romantic recomfort, and depending on lationship should NOT be what they want. emotionally draining.

The thing about babies Yes, staying in an exis that they arrive, regardclusive relationship can be less of the complications hard work, certainly if you in their parents’ or other are currently experiencing adults’ lives. It is better for other events or stressors this baby to arrive into an that deplete you. But the open-hearted and loving relationship itself should family, versus one that is not send you on a daily waiting on testing to deroller-coaster ride. termine whether they will The romantic relationlove it. And so be brave ship should feed you. The enough to go ahead and relationship should be your love this baby, knowing soft place, your refuge and that you may at some point that safe and comforting lose access to the child. If thing that helps to fulfill this couple ultimately parts you during those times company, you can explain when the world seems things to your daughter, particularly crushing. holding no regrets over Even healthy and wellyour own actions. balanced relationships hit Dear Amy: If a snags. But some people

seem to enjoy relationship drama. For someone who likes drama, life might feel more vital when they are riding the relationship roller-coaster. Others don’t seem to know how to act in a way that is generous and loving toward their partner.

I suspect that if you ever left this relationship and subsequently found yourself with someone who was a better fit for your temperament, you would feel like that roller coaster you’d been riding had finally leveled out. You would feel like you were coming home.

Dear Amy: “Desperate” wondered what to do about the 10-year-old stepson she “couldn’t bear” to be around.

My heart broke. I was once that confused and disruptive stepchild forced into a family with a stepparent who didn’t like me.

It was awful. I’m still trying to recover.

Thank you for telling this woman that the child deserves better. I did, too.

— Healing Dear Healing: I’m so sorry you were robbed of a healthy childhood.

Yes, you deserved better — every child does.

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Send a message this year that you are not putting up with any nonsense and are focusing on you and your accomplishments. Dig in and do what you must to turn your life into the one you want. Surround yourself with people who respect and care about you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Nurture relationships and concentrate on self-improvement, personal growth and how to best reach your life goals. Make progressive changes that will help to stabilize your life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — A lifestyle change that will add to your comfort and bring you greater security or cash flow should be considered. An older relative or friend will offer stellar advice.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Emotional situations will surface if you pay too much attention to one person and not enough to another. Try to appease everyone by offering equal opportunities to get involved in your plans.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Don’t trust in hearsay. If you want facts, go to the source and ask direct questions.

A last-minute change will lead to a unique chance to try something different.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ll make an impression at work that will help you build better relationships with your peers. A joint venture will interest you, but should be considered carefully.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t neglect your health. An emotional incident will lead to positive change.

Trust in your instincts and follow through with your plans. Protect your possessions and reputation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Use your charm to wheel and deal until you get what you want. Refuse to let anyone speak on your behalf. It’s your responsibility to set your goal and achieve it.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Look at your long-term goals and start heading in the direction that will take you where you want to go. A change at work will turn out to be to your benefit.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Size up whatever situation you face and figure out the best way to bring about positive change. A partnership will improve if you intelligently discuss problems or obstacles.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — You’ll discover information that will change your way of thinking. Consider your options and choose to head in a direction that will encourage cooperation. Be a team player.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Personal and physical changes will turn out well. A social event will lead to discussions that will encourage a better understanding of your feelings and intentions.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Get out and about. Embarking on a shopping spree or taking part in an event that will bring about positive change is favored.

Control your emotions to avoid getting into a shouting match.

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world 41 dead from Ebola in Congo; health officials are ‘worried’

Fifty-seven cases of Ebola have been identified in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, WHO said Tuesday.

Of those cases, 30 have been confirmed and 27 are probable cases.

Forty-one people have died from the viral hemorrhagic fever so far in this outbreak.

Seven health care workers have also been infected with Ebola.

The outbreak, in the North Kivu province, is challenging because it is an active conflict area, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing with reporters.

“After the visit (to Congo) I am actually more worried after what we observed,” he said, noting security challenges including violence and kidnapping.

Turkey’s Erdogan pledges boycott on U.S. electronics Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a boycott of American electronics Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to hike tariffs on Turkish steel imports.

“Whatever we buy from abroad we are going to produce here in better quality and export it. We are going to boycott U.S. electronics,” Erdogan said at celebrations of the 17th anniversary of his Justice and Development Party.

“If they have the iPhone on the other hand there is Samsung. In our country we have Venus and Vestel,” he said, referring to a Turkish-made phone made by electronics manufacturer Vestel.

“What we can do is proved by what we have done so far. Whatever we pay for from abroad, we will do here,” he said.

world&nation Italy bridge collapse kills at least 35

By Nic Robertson, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Judith Vonberg CNN

At least 35 people died after a section of a highway bridge in northern Italy partially collapsed Tuesday, the office of the Governor of the northwestern Liguria region said on its official Twitter account, citing unnamed sources from the fire department.

A further 13 people were injured, five severely, according to Angelo Borrelli, head of the Italian Civil Protection Agency.

Speaking to journalists Tuesday afternoon, Borrelli said that around 30 vehicles and several heavy-duty trucks were on the affected section of the Morandi Bridge, which lies to the west of the port city of Genoa, when it gave way.

The number of casualties is expected to grow as the rubble is removed, Borrelli said, but it is unlikely that anyone was underneath the bridge at the time of the collapse, he added.

According to police, violent storms were partly to blame for the disaster.

Maintenance works were also underway at the time to consolidate parts of the bridge, according to motorway operator Autostrade.

A bridge crane had been installed to allow those works to be carried out, the operator said in a statement.

nation W.Va. House impeaches state Supreme Court

Lawmakers in West Virginia did something Monday night that might be a first in American history: impeach an entire state Supreme Court.

The West Virginia House of Delegates’ impeachment of the justices on the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals is an unprecedented move spurred by an escalating scandal in the state’s judicial Crop-destroying system. But West Virginia worm reaches Democrats charge it’s just a ploy by Republicans to put Asia from Africa more conservative judges on After leaving a trail of the bench in the state’s highruined crops in Africa and est court. the Americas, an invasive The court’s justices — worm has been found in In- Chief Justice Margaret dia, prompting concern that Workman and Justices Allen it could have a devastatLoughry, Robin Davis and ing effect on the country’s Elizabeth Walker — are agriculture. accused of failing to carry Fall armyworm, a pest out the court’s administrative that feeds on maize and duties and wasteful spending other key crops, has been during office renovations. detected in the state of They were impeached Karnataka, according to on 11 articles of impeachofficials. In neighboring ment, dealing with wasteful Tamil Nadu, about 15 spending, maladministration, percent to 20 percent of the incompetency, neglect of maize crops on the campus duty and potential crimiof Tamil Nadu Agricultural nal behavior, according to University showed evidence a press release from state of the worm.

House Speaker Pro Tempore It has already ravaged John Overington. a dozen or so countries in The votes on the articles Africa, with some areas of of impeachment fell largely Zimbabwe suffering up to along party lines in the 70 percent crop destruction. Republican-led legislative According to the Center for body.

Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) and Former Baltimore the UK’s Department for International Development, officer indicted in African nations stand to beating that was lose between $2.4 billion caught on video and $6.1 billion due to the The former Baltimore worm.

— From wire reports police officer caught on

Several people have died after a section of a highway bridge in northern Italy partially collapsed Tuesday, according to rescue sources cited by Italian news agency ANSA. (CNN)

“The works and the status of the viaduct were subject to constant observation and supervision,” the statement said. “The causes for the collapse will be the object of an in-depth analysis a soon as it will be possible to safely access the site.”

The incident at the bridge, a concrete structure opened in 1968, occurred around noon (6 a.m. ET) Tuesday, Italian state police said.

The A10, which runs across the bridge, is a major highway for residents and tourists in Genoa, connecting the city with the nearby airport, and a key route along the Mediterranean, linking the Italian coast with French coastal cities to the west.

The disaster occurred during peak tourist season — when many French tourists would have been using the highway — and one day before a national public holiday when many Italians travel to coastal areas.

Davide Di Giorgio was filming the heavy rain from the window of his office in Genoa when he saw part of the bridge crash to the ground.

“As soon as I turned the camera on to record the rain, we heard a loud noise and the bridge collapsed,” Di Giorgio told CNN. “It took me three seconds to realize what happened.”

“My colleagues and I were shaking. It was frightening,” he added.

Eyewitness Davide Ricci

told local newspaper Il Secolo XIX that he thought he saw lightning hit the bridge shortly before it crumbled.

Flashes of lightning can also be seen in the footage shot by Di Giorgio.

“The debris from the collapsed (bridge) fell 20 meters from my car,” Ricci said, adding that he was driving south along the nearby river road at the time. “The central pylon crumbled, then the rest came down.”

Emergency services, including the fire department, police, ambulances and mountain rescue teams including sniffer dogs, soon arrived at the site. Several hours later, around 200 firefighters were still working at the scene, according to the Italian fire service.

investigates clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses dating back to 1947. Pennsylvania’s two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown, were the subjects of earlier grand jury reports, which found similarly damaging information about clergy and bishops in those dioceses.

“There have been other reports about child sex abuse Lawmakers in West Virginia did something Monday night within the Catholic Church. that might be a first in American history: impeach an en- But never on this scale,” the tire state Supreme Court. From left, Allen Loughry, Robin grand jurors wrote in TuesDavis, Elizabeth Walker and Margaret Workman. (CNN) day’s report.

“For many of us, those video punching a man for “The president addressed earlier stories happened 12 seconds was indicted that question directly,” she someplace else, someplace on assault and misconduct said, adding, “I’ve never away. Now we know the charges, Baltimore State’s heard him use that term or truth: it happened everyAttorney Marilyn Mosby anything similar.” where.” said Tuesday.

The question comes as Arthur Williams is acformer aide Omarosa ManFla. declares cused of first- and secondigault Newman has claimed degree assault, and misthere’s a tape of Trump using emergency conduct in office, she told the racial epithet on the set over red tide for reporters. of his NBC reality show seven counties Williams, who resigned “The Apprentice” — though Florida Gov. Rick Scott amid outrage over the attack there is no evidence such a issued an executive order last week, has “a history of tape exists.

Monday declaring a state of antagonizing and aggravatTrump tweeted Monday emergency for seven couning” that same civilian, the night: “I don’t have that man’s attorney said Monday. word in my vocabulary, and ties dealing with an unusually lengthy red tide algae Warren Brown represents never have.” bloom that has killed thouDashawn McGrier, who got sands of marine animals, his pummeled by the police Report details office said. officer Saturday morning. sexual abuse by The executive order gives Brown said his client was more state funding to local arrested by the same officer more than 300 governments and research in June and charged with priests in Pa. agencies in the seven southassaulting the officer, disorA new grand jury report western Florida counties. derly conduct, obstructing “Today, I am issuing an and hindering, and resisting says that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses emergency declaration to arrest. in Pennsylvania show that provide significant fundmore than 300 “predator ing and resources to the Sanders can’t priests” have been credibly communities experiencing guarantee that accused of sexually abusred tide, so we can combat ing more than 1,000 child its terrible impacts,” Scott Trump hasn’t victims. said in a news release. “This used the N-word “We believe that the real includes making additional Asked whether President number of children whose FWC (Florida Fish and Donald Trump had ever used records were lost, or who Wildlife Conservation the N-word, White House were afraid ever to come Commission) biologists press secretary Sarah Sand- forward is in the thousands,” and scientists available to ers would not definitively the grand jury report says. assist in clean-up and animal say, instead referring reportThe lengthy report, rescue efforts.” ers to a tweet. released Tuesday afternoon, — From wire reports

people Fans rally around reportedly ill Aretha Franklin In the wake of news that legendary singer Aretha Franklin is gravely ill, social media has been flooded with tributes.

Former President Bill Clinton tweeted late Monday asking others to “lift” the ailing star.

“Like people all around the world, Hillary and I are thinking about Aretha Franklin tonight & listening to her music that has been such an important part of our lives the last 50 years,” the tweet read. “We hope you’ll lift her up by listening and sharing her songs that have meant the most to you.”

He joined a chorus of other famous voices, including Mariah Carey, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chance the Rapper, who offered well-wishes and prayers for the 76-year-old singer.

Her popularity has spanned generations and some fans shared personal stories of having met the icon.

“I met Aretha Franklin when I was 9, my grandfather’s gf was her close friend,” one person tweeted.

“They took me to a concert and remember watching her backstage with her fur and diamonds commanding the room like a boss. I just knew I wanted to be like that!”

Pauley Perrette calls out ‘Feud’ for ‘filthy answers’

Pauley Perrette is a fan of “Family Feud,” but not some of its language.

On Monday she tweeted the Steve Harvey-hosted competition show.

“Dear FamilyFeudABC I love SteveHarveyFM and I love game shows,” she wrote. “WHY DO YOU MAKE YOU PROGRAM SO FILTHY? Even with child players? No reason.”

She followed that up with another tweet.

“I’m a sociologist, love FamilyFeudABC but WHY WHY are all the questions now filthy and sex questions?” she tweeted. “There’s so much more to humans.

Cmon.”

Grande, Corden’s musical ode to ‘Titanic’ is an ocean of emotion

James Corden’s latest musical celebrity segment will have you swimming in emotions.

On Monday night’s “Late Late Show with James Corden,” the late-night host and superstar singer Ariana Grande teamed up for a 13song tribute to “Titanic” that relived the movie’s plotline through tunes like “Come Sail Away” by Styx, “Rich Girl” by Hall & Oats and, naturally, “Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice. Grande took the part of Rose, played by Kate Winslet in the film, and Corden played Jack.

The segment, of course, closed with a Grande/Corden duet of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” from the blockbuster that pretty much sinks any other thing you’ve seen on late-night this year.

— From wire reports

Eco-friendly open-air urinals are causing an uproar in Paris

By Jessie Yeung CNN

An attempt by officials in Paris to tackle public urination by installing open-air urinals, or “uritrottoirs,” has outraged some residents of the French capital.

The new urinals, housed in flower boxes, aren’t subtle — they’re fully exposed on street corners, painted bright red, and have nearby signs adver-

Officials say the urinals are eco-friendly — they will harness nutrients in waste to tising their presence. produce compost for parks One in particular, located and gardens. According to near the Notre Dame cathethe statement, one year of a dral, has drawn attention for person’s urine holds enough its view of the River Seine. nitrogen, phosphorous, and poThe “intelligent urinals,” tassium to fertilize 400 square which have a straw layer that meters of wheat. eliminates odor, were installed However, these features have in areas where public urination done little to calm the ire of is a problem, according to a local residents, who have writstatement from city officials. ten to the town hall in protest.

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“I think installing a urinal in the streets of Paris for those who don’t respect their surroundings is a good idea, but in my opinion, this model is not attractive at all, and where it’s been set up is not appropriate at all,” one man told reporters.

Another resident complained, “it is definitely a desirable and historic neighborhood, but seeing people urinating right in front of your

door is not the nicest thing.”

Ariel Weil, mayor of the 4th district of Paris, tweeted in defense of the urinals on Monday, calling them “an invention of genius.” Four have been installed so far, with a fifth being planned.

Paris isn’t the first European city to install outdoor urinals.

Amsterdam has had them for years, and cities in Belgium and Australia have also trialed them.

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Snellville police use mobile simulator for driver training

By Isabel Hughes

video to show the driver the situation, discuss driving techniques that would apply and then have the Snellville police are get- driver repeat the same ting hands-on public safety scenario using the correct driver training without techniques. actually using their patrol Prior to using the cars. simulator, though, drivers Last week, officers took attend classroom trainpart in the decision-based ing that covers Georgia training, which was prerequirements on regular sented by Local Governand emergency response ment Risk Management driving, vehicle handling Services, a service organi- characteristics, physical zation of the Association driving conditions and County Commissioners of driving techniques to use Georgia and the Georgia during emergency response Municipal Association. situations.

During the training, The simulator, which is police practiced different mobile, was brought to the scenarios using a driving department by LGRMS simulator that puts officers instructor Mike Earl, who into everyday driving and has worked in law enforceemergency response situa- ment for 27 years and has tions without being out on more than 2,300 hours of the road in their vehicles. law enforcement training.

During the simulation, His career has included one student observes while working as a patrol officer, the other sits in a realistic investigator, detective, driver’s seat where they are special crime attack team, put through a series of situ- DUI Task Force officer ations from a list of more and training sergeant. He than 80 scenarios. is a Georgia Peace Officer When a driver makes Standards and Training an incorrect decision, the Council general instructor A Snellville Police Department officer takes part in hands-on public safety driver training using a driving simulator instructor can back up the and a firearms, defensive presented by Local Government Risk Management Services, a service organization of the Association County Comprogram and replay the tactics and Taser instructor. missioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Association. (Special Photo) isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

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company. “We have a great line-up of inside Associates and Gwinnett and outside fun and every 200. item you donate (for “(We are) looking for- school supplies), you ward to celebrating your will receive a raffle ticket health and back-to-school for your chance to win time this Saturday,” said Cirque du Soleil Corteo Noreen Brantner, directickets, Atlanta United 2 tor of events for SCNI, tickets, a Rockin’ Jump the Daily Post’s parent birthday party or a school

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supply basket.

“All donations to benefit Patrick Elementary and Twin Rivers Middle School in Buford.”

In addition to the games and inflatables, there will be a fire truck, clothing giveaways, food vendors, and health and back-to-school vendors.

from a Georgia Supreme Court docket clerk which said the case had been dismissed from that court’s system because it was still pending at the trial court level.

Rich referenced the email in his order, and it was attached as an exhibit.

Thomas said the commissioner’s team is planning to take the appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court.

“The judge relied on non-authenticated documents that were not examined under oath at the hearing,” Thomas said.

“The clerks file also contains notes from persons in the clerk’s office that are clearly contrary to the judge’s findings and we believe the (Georgia Supreme Court) will reverse and overturn that order for more reasons than one.”

Hunter’s comment about Lewis led to months of protests at county commission meetings, with many residents speaking against Hunter while some spoke on his behalf during public comment periods.

Ultimately, it was an ethics complaint filed less than a month after Hunter made the controversial remarks on Facebook that moved the issue from commission meetings to a court room.

The ethics panel, which serves as a recommending body, suggested county commissioners should issue a written reprimand of their colleague.

The reprimand was the harshest recommendation that the ethics panel could recommend. The Board of Commissioners voted to issue the reprimand, and to have it published in the Daily Post, in June 2017.

Since then, it’s been a legal battle over whether the panel had the authority DP_WED_OBITS_OBITSv2 8/14/2018 3:40 PM to recommend a reprimand.

estly, I’ve been given great opportunities.”

Trip Elementary in Grayson One of those opportunities and Pinckneyville Middle was opening Trip Elementary School in Norcross. in 2008.

Now she hopes to draw “I was a brand new prinon lessons she learned from cipal with no elementary her previous administration school experience but it was experiences and lead Discov- such a valuable learning ery with discipline, teamwork experience for me,” Sledge and consistency. said. “You learn so much and “A big thing I’m looking I gained so much admiration forward to here at Discovery for elementary school teachis consistency,” Sledge said. ers during those five years.”

“I’ve had the unique opOne of the things that portunity to lead an elemen- Sledge is looking forward to tary, middle and now a high in her first year at Discovery school in Gwinnett County is attending school events — and I hope this is my last especially basketball games. stop.”

“I sometimes get a bit After her stint in the Los rowdy and my husband has Angeles Unified School to calm me down,” Sledge District, Sledge decided to said. “I’ll be at as many keep going with the teaching school events, basketball thing. included. I won’t be coachThat led her to Gwinnett, ing from the stands. I’ll be where she recalls getting a cheering, though.” teaching position at Norcross Discovery’s new principal High School in 1999 from is not just an avid basketball principal Judi Rogers. fan. She’s a former high “It’s such a small world school star from Fort Gibbecause she saw on my son, a small town in eastresume that I taught in an central Oklahoma. inner city school in the same “I’m from a small town in district she had previously Oklahoma where everyone taught,” Sledge said. “That knew each other,” Sledge got her to pull my resume said. “You had to be wellout of the stack and hire me rounded at a small school. as a high school teacher.”

We had to do a little of “I’ve had great opportueverything.” nities and experiences in Living in a household Gwinnett. Forbes named us where she was one of five one of the 10 best places for kids — she has four older Page 1 women to work, and honbrothers — Sledge learned

obituaries Buford, GA

Bobbie Sue Bennett (Tuck) Bobbie Sue Tuck Bennett, age 75, of Buford, GA passed away Monday, August 13, 2018. She was preceded in death by her husband of thirty-eight years, Billy Bennett; and parents, Nelson and Ruby Pugh Tuck. Mrs. Bennett is survived by children, David Ray and Debra Ann Bennett, Sugar Hill, GA Chris Keith and Carmen Bennett, Winder, GA, Wayne Daniel and Kathy Bennett, Winder, GA; five

grandchildren, Thomas Patton, Chris and Jennifer Patton, Austin Bennett, Ashley Bennett, Kyle and Maegan Bennett; great grandchildren, Chandler Patton, Kenley Patton, Henzlee Bennett; sister, Linda Tuck, Atlanta, GA; sisters-in-law, Bobbie Bennett Swanson and husband, Pat, Hoschton, GA and Peggy Bennett Garner, Lavonia, GA; aunt, Billie Pugh Rawlins, Sugar Hill, GA; brother, Larry Hudson; and nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mrs. Bennett was born on January 2, 1943 in Buford, GA. She was a 1961 graduate of Buford High School. Mrs. Bennett was a retired manager from McDonald’s in Buford with over thirty years of service. She was a member of Gwinnett Hall

including cancer genetic screening, acupuncture tongue and pulse diagnosis, nerve system scans immunization and vaccine information and a blood pressure check.

LifeSouth will host a blood drive that includes free cholesterol screenings for donors.

Two previous health fairs were held in March and May at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville and George Pierce Park in Suwanee, respectively.

The fourth and final health fair will be held Nov. 10 at Lucky Shoals Park in Norcross.

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Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, GA. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Jody Everett and Rev. Rex Richards officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome.com.

how to be competitive at a young age.

“I think I was probably the most competitive out of the bunch even though I was the youngest,” she said.

“I loved softball but I think competitively I was best at basketball.”

She was the forward on a team that played together from fifth grade all the way through graduation. She credits the length of time the group played together to their success.

“I was tallish and my strength was scoring,” Sledge said. “We played together all the way through and our claim to fame is we were the first girls basketball team in school history to make it to the state playoffs.”

Discovery athletic director Chris Hall said he heard the rumors about Sledge’s scoring prowess when she was announced as the new principal in May. “I didn’t start the rumor I heard when she got hired on that she was a stud basketball player in high school and scored like 60 points,” Hall said. “I told her not to be embarrassed because a lot of principals were good athletes in high school.”

Sledge said she doesn’t recall scoring that many points in a game.

“I don’t know where that number came from,” she

said. “The most evidence I can find on how much I scored was 41 points (in a game). My mom probably started that rumor.”

Athletic events aren’t the only thing Discovery parents and students will be seeing her attending.

Sledge was a member of the Fort Gibson marching band, playing the flute.

She said her claim to fame as a flautist happened last school year before departing Pinckneyville Middle School.

“I paid the guy that worked with our instruments at Pinckneyville to get my flute fixed up and I played at the sixth grade concert,” Sledge said. “I figured I’d give it a whirl again and it turned out decently. I was nervous since there were only three of us in the flute section, but it was fun.”

Sledge is taking over as Discovery’s third principal since it opened in 2015, but is optimistic about the trajectory of the school going forward.

“There has been some really good things going on at this school in the past year and a half for student learning,” she said. “We’ve got some awesome people doing some great work with kids.

Continuing that and not taking our eye off the ball is the No. 1 priority.”

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Roger Lee Wilmot Roger Lee Wilmot, age 88, passed away on August 7th, 2018 at his home in Buford, Ga. Roger is survived by his children, Julie Henry and Lee Wilmot; along with their spouses, Dan Henry and Shannon Wilmot; his grandchildren, Caroline Cetrulo, Philip Henry, Presley Wilmot and Spencer Wilmot; his great grandchildren, Henry Cetrulo, Andie Cetrulo, Grace Cetrulo and Payton Cetrulo and his brother, Bud H

Hochemier. He is preceded in death by his wife, Sandra Sessions Wilmot; his parents, Ray and Bessie Wilmot and his step mother, Bernice Wilmot .

Roger was born on February 23th, 1930 in Holbrook, Nebraska. Roger proudly served in the Air Force before joining the private sector to continue supporting our country in the form of communications. He moved to Mobile, AL where he met his wife, Sandra Sessions. Roger’s work in the government allowed him to live in Germany with his family for 4 years. He worked in the Pentagon for 20 years and after retirement, settled with his wife in Buford, Ga. Through all this time and different locations, Roger r

remained a Nebraska native at heart. A funeral and viewing is scheduled for Roger Wilmot and will be held at Flanigan Funeral Home & Crematory in Buford Georgia. The viewing will be held on Thursday, August 16th 6 to 8 pm, followed by the Funeral on Friday, August 17th at 11 am. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome.com

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Lilburn breaks ground on police HQ, municipal court Crist. “We want to give this facility to the police department to not only make (their) presence As the late-afternoon known, but as a tool to sun beat down on Lilburn create that place of safety city officials and law en- we all long for.” forcement personnel, the Monday’s groundmen and women gathered breaking event marked just off Lawrenceville the official start of work Highway smiled at one on the 10-acre building, another, digging their which will be located shovels into Georgia’s at 4572 Lawrenceville red dirt.

Highway across from the The addition of footOur Lady of the Ameriprints to the construction cas Catholic Church. site’s backhoe tracks The project, which is signaled a new beginbeing designed by Precining for the piece of land sion Planning Inc. and on Monday, which will constructed by BM and be home to the Lilburn K Construction, costs Police Department’s new $4.9 million. It is being headquarters and the completely funded by the city’s municipal court. special purpose local op“What we’re building tion sales tax. here is a tool for our poWhile the SPLOST lice force to make them funds aren’t immediately more efficient,” said available — the money Lilburn Mayor Johnny is coming from the 2017

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SPLOST — the city is financing the project through the Georgia Municipal Association’s Bricks and Mortar Program, a lease-purchase agreement that officials said will potentially save millions of dollars.

Lilburn City Manager Bill Johnsa said while the building is needed for space reasons, it will also be in the area of the city that sees the most traffic.

“We want to build a police station that gives us a presence on the busiest corridor that we

have in the city,” Johnsa said. “I think we have a daily volume (here) of about 40,000 cars, so this will give us a lot of presence and people will know where our police are. It’s also accessible and very easy to get in and out to respond to emergencies. We have a fantastic response time as it is, but I see it getting even better with this.”

Crist said with much of the crime occurring on Lawrenceville Highway and down that corridor, the headquarters is in an ideal place, strategically.

“There are several reasons we’re moving out of downtown Lilburn, number one (being) there ain’t no more room down there,” Crist said.

“The second reason is because this is where the action is. In downtown Lilburn, we see the lights

and hear the sirens, (but) we speed to get out here.

It’s just a better choice to have our PD here than snuggled downtown.”

In its entirety, the project is expected to take about 12 months, Crist said, largely because the land was already graded and the underground structures required for the project were already in place.

“Every place we go in the city, people say, ‘Thank you for the Lilburn police,’” he said. “(Municipal police) make a huge difference in making a community a community and our predecessors have valued police presence above almost everything else, so within a year, we’ll be here cutting a ribbon and moving into our 24,000-square-foot facility.”

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Morris brings fun, talent to the 2018 Grayson football team Ask Wanya Morris what he brings to Grayson’s football team and he answers without hesitation: fun and energy.

His teammates and coaches agree about the affable lineman’s personality, which is as big as his 6-foot-6, 300-pound frame.

When they need someone to lighten the mood, they can count on Morris, considered one of the most humorous players on the Rams’ stacked roster.

What Morris has brought to the team in recent seasons is even more encouraging to the Grayson staff. He knows when to be funny and when to get serious.

“I think he’s learned when to be gregarious and funny and just be one of the guys,” Grayson head

coach Christian Hunnicutt said. “He’s also learned the time to be disciplined and have extreme focus. That’s where I think he’s grown in a lot of ways.”

One of Hunnicutt’s favorite stories involving Morris happened over the summer at The Opening, Nike’s prestigious, invitation-only competition with the top players nationally at each position. He was regarded widely as one of the event’s top performers at offensive tackle, a reward for how seriously he took the opportunity.

“There’s not many kids that go to The Opening if their workout is scheduled at 8 (a.m.), they show up at 7:02,” Hunnicutt said.

“I’m telling you, that doesn’t happen. I’ve been around Gatorade players of

the year. I’ve been around kids that have played in the NFL. And I’ve never had a kid that would show up that early to make sure they’re the first one in the door. … That will be something I’ll always tell kids. Wanya Morris was a kid that went to The Opening and was here an hour early just to stretch, get a little lift in of his own, whatever. It meant enough to him to be there an hour early. When somebody from the NFL sends me that questionnaire, I promise you that’s going on there. For somebody who has that kind of character, that speaks volumes.”

Morris’ body of work at The Opening paid off in the recruiting rankings.

He moved from a four-star to a five-star and now is

rated as the nation’s No. 1 offensive tackle, the No. 2 player in Georgia and the No. 7 player nationally in the 247Sports composite rankings.

“It was fun (at The Opening),” Morris said.

“It was a lot of talent just competing every day.

That’s not something everybody gets the chance to do. I had the blessing to go out there and it was fun.”

The athletic tackle grew even more appealing in the eyes of college recruiters after The Opening. He committed to Tennessee in May over his No. 2 choice, Auburn, but colleges continue to pursue a player with the size and skills of a prototypical left tackle.

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“You can’t beat hard work.

You can’t make excuses. I was taught from an early Bailey Ivemeyer has age that excuses don’t fly.” never been the sort of Last week, the hard young man to shy away work and determination from a challenge. When paid off when coach Paul he decided to walk on at Johnson announced that Georgia Tech, he underIvemeyer had been placed stood the obstacles that on scholarship. His teamfaced a guy with his physi- mates whooped in approvcal limitations who wanted al when Johnson told them to play on the offensive at a team meeting. line for a Division I foot“He’s not the most imball team. posing guy, but he started Ivemeyer is 6-foot-1, against Virginia Tech, 270 pounds, small by played a lot of snaps,” comparison in today’s Johnson said. “When he world of big-time college gets out there, he’s one of football. Still, he turned those guys who’s better down offers from several in pads than he looks in smaller schools where he shorts. He understands would have played right what we’re doing, and it’s away and signed on at fun to be able to reward Georgia Tech. him.”

“My dad taught me to Ivemeyer was a threework hard,” Ivemeyer said. year starter at Brookwood, Staff Correspondent

where he was also a threeyear letterman in lacrosse.

He played offensive and defensive line and was the team captain as a senior.

He chose Georgia Tech for the academics – he’s going to be a mechanical engineer and will graduate in the spring — and because of his heritage.

His father, John Ivemeyer, walked on and made the team in 1982, earned a scholarship and started the next year years. He was a captain — along with Ted Roof — of the 1985 team that went 9-2-1 and won the Hall of Fame Bowl.

Despite the lack of Division I offers, Bailey Ivemeyer remained confident he could play with the big boys.

Brookwood grad Bailey Ivemeyer (62) earned a football scholarship at Georgia Tech

See TECH, Page 8B after impressing his coaches as a walk-on. (Photo: Georgia Tech)

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Koepka holds off Woods, Scott for win PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Field Level Media There were plenty of rooting interests on Sunday during the final round of the 100th PGA Championship. Most observers weren’t backing Brooks Koepka, the two-time defending U.S. Open champion who started the day at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis with a two-shot lead.

Plenty of fans were behind Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters Tournament winner, as he battled Koepka through the final holes while carrying the mantle of fallen Aussie comrade Jarrod Lyle, who died this week after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Even more were rooting for plucky defending PGA Championship winner and world No. 2 Justin Thomas, who was in the hunt until he lost his focus over the final five holes.

And then there was the multitude that roared in utter delight when Tiger Woods made a run up the leaderboard, all but urging the 14-time major champion into

contention as he battled his swing through the front nine and his stamina down the stretch.

Through it all, Koepka was calm, making shot after shot when it was needed the most.

Koepka shrugged off challenges from Woods, in a turn-back-theclock performance, and a resurgent Scott to capture the Wanamaker Trophy.

Koepka signed for a 4-underpar 66 on Sunday and finished at 16-under 264, two strokes clear Woods, who has won this event four times, and another shot ahead of Scott. Woods fashioned a roundlow-tying 64 on Sunday to finish at 14 under while Scott shot a 3-under 67 with a bogey on the closing hole.

A 28-year-old Florida native, Koepka joined Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Woods as only players to win the U.S. Open and the PGA in the same season.

Koepka set the PGA Champion-

ship’s 72-hole scoring record at 264. The old mark of 265 (15 under par) was established by David Toms in 2001 at Atlanta Athletic Club’s Highlands Course.

Koepka now has three wins in the past seven major championships — and he didn’t play in this year’s Masters because of a wrist injury.

The victory Sunday was just the fourth of Koepka’s career, with the only non-major title coming at the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open. He captured the 100th PGA Championship in his 100th career start.

On his ability to come through on the big stage, Koepka told CBS Sports after accepting the trophy, “I think it’s my focus. I don’t know what it is, but I need to take it over into regular Tour events as well.

“For some reason, the majors just get my attention. Every shot is so important, and when you’re out here grinding away, firing at the flags, firing at the middle of the

greens, you just have to be very patient. And I seem to do a good job of that in the majors.”

Stewart Cink, the 2009 Open Championship winner, shot a 67 on Sunday and finished in a tie for fourth with Spain’s Jon Rahm (68) at 11 under.

Thomas Pieters of Belgium (66), reigning Open champion Francesco Molinari of Italy (67), Thomas (68) and first- and second-round leader Gary Woodland (69) ended up tied for sixth another stroke in arrears.

While everyone was focused on Woods and Koepka, Scott stayed in contention, canning mid-length putts on the 12th and 13th holes to climb into a tie for the lead at 14 under.

Koepka broke the deadlock when he rolled in an 8-foot birdie putt on the 15th to move to 15 under. He then ripped a 4-iron to within 7 feet on the monster, 237yard par-3 16th and calmly rolled in the putt to build his lead to two

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Scott missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th that would have created plenty of drama on the closing hole. Instead Koepka went to the 18th with his two-shot lead intact. He finished with six birdies and two bogeys in the final round.

“I was feeling really good out there, but I just missed putts on 14 and 15 and Brooks made them, and my momentum was gone,” said Scott, who produced his first top10 finish of the season. “I didn’t play the last two holes very well.

I had high hopes for today — I’m definitely playing a lot better, and that will be important with the playoffs coming up.”

Woods had four birdies and a bogey on the front nine, making the turn at 32, and was within one shot of Koepka’s lead when he began the back nine. He left a 28-foot putt for birdie on the 11th short on the lip of the hole before jumping into a tie for second at 12 under with a 5-foot birdie putt on the 12th.

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3 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge and North Forsyth at Mill Creek 3:30 p.m. — Central at Discovery (DH) 3:30 p.m. — South Forsyth at North 5 p.m. — Lambert at Brookwood 5 p.m. — Pace Academy at Providence 5:30 p.m. — Johnson at Berkmar 6 p.m. — Dacula at Archer 6 p.m. — Westminster at Norcross 7 p.m. — Buford and Cambridge at Mill Creek 7 p.m. — Forsyth Central at North 7 p.m. — West Forsyth at Brookwood Thursday

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4 p.m. — Providence in Tallulah Falls Relay Carnival 5 p.m. — Lanier, Central, Dacula in Winder Tune Up at Russell Middle School

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4 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Berkmar 4:45 p.m. — George Walton Academy at Hebron 4:45 p.m. — Providence at Towns Co. 5 p.m. — GAC at Fannin Co. 5 p.m. — North at Duluth 5 p.m. — South at Discovery 5:30 p.m. — Wesleyan at Strong Rock 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Winder-Barrow at Lanier 6:15 p.m. — Milton at Norcross 6:30 p.m. — Habersham Central at Dacula

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4:30 p.m. — Archer, Hebron, Dacula at Parkview 5 p.m. — Berkmar, Chattahoochee, Gainesville at Duluth 5 p.m. — Brookwood, Winder-Barrow at Mill Creek 5 p.m. — Buford at North 5 p.m. — GAC, Fellowship Christian at Pope 5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge, South at Grayson 5 p.m. — Providence, Discovery at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — Central at Mountain View 6 p.m. —Lanier, Shiloh at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. —Norcross, Cambridge at Roswell 6 p.m. —Wesleyan, Lovett at Holy Innocents’

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Ongoing through Aug. 20: The Middle School Golf League, featuring golfers from Gwinnett middle schools and nearby counties, will hold registration for its fall season until Aug. 20.

League play begins Aug. 26.

Individual golfers can register and be placed on teams for their middle school.

Beginner golfers use the first weeks on ball striking, rules and etiquette before joining advanced players for matches. Matches are held at Summit Chase Country Club, Country Club of Gwinnett, Cedar Lake Golf Course and Collins Hill Golf Course. The spring season featured teams from Bay Creek, Couch, Creekland, Crews, Dacula, Five Forks, McConnell and Trickum middle schools. For more information and registration, go to www.middleschoolgolfleague.com.

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Ongoing through Aug. 31: Registration for

lacrosse is open to boys and girls in elementary and middle school for the Gwinnett Lacrosse League’s fall season, which features 7 vs. 7 games focusing on teamwork and fundamentals. Beginner players are welcome. Games are Sunday afternoons at parks throughout Gwinnett County in September and October. To find your closest athletic association and park, and to sign up, go to www.gwinnettlax.com.

Ongoing through Sept.

15: Gwinnett Lacrosse Academy will host three events on Sundays beginning at noon — A Learn to Play Clinic, A Skills Improvement Clinic and a Men’s Indoor Lacrosse League — at the Silverbacks Indoor facility in Suwanee. The Learn to Play and Skills clinics are for grades 1-8. The men’s league is for post-high school players ages 19-35.

For more information, go to www.gwinnettlacrosseacademy.com.

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Grizzlies ahead of learning curve

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A week ago, in one of the first practice sessions for the men’s soccer team at Georgia Gwinnett College, head coach Steve DeCou realized its a good thing he always has a few extra drills in his back pocket for the end of a workout.

Because the new guys are picking things up quickly.

“Things we had worked on in years past that we would have to teach more — this group gets it,” DeCou said. “The upperclassmen have done a really good job of instructing the young guys and the young guys are good enough, smart enough that it’s going smoothly.

“We’re kind of looking at each other like, ‘Okay, moving on.’ You allot 20 minutes because that’s what it’s taken in years past and after six minutes, you’re thinking, ‘They got it; let’s go.’”

The Grizzlies are coming off their deepest postseason run after a quarterfinal appearance in the NAIA tournament last season and no one will be taking them lightly.

“We’ve got the bullseye on our back and everybody is gunning for us,” DeCou said. “They take pride in that but we try to keep them hungry. You’ve got to find those things to keep them motivated.

This year, it’s easy.

“We got further than we ever had before, but the team that won the national championship came out of nowhere. Why not us?”

To do it, GGC will run a regular-season gauntlet.

The Grizzlies benefitted from one of the country’s toughest schedules last season and this year’s might be even harder. The campaign begins Saturday at Life College in Marietta and is followed by a tournament at University of Northwestern Ohio.

“One word: Brutal,” DeCou said of the schedule. “In a good way. We have six teams from last year’s national tourna-

Leading scorer and all-conference midfielder Michael Weber returns for the Georgia Gwinnett College men’s soccer team for his sophomore campaign. (Photo: GGC Athletics)

ment and then a bunch of historically dominant teams.

“It’s the, I don’t know — curse? — or just where we are as a program that our success, but only the big boys called me to schedule games.”

The first home game is Sept. 1 against Johnson and Wales (Fla.), “There are no cupcakes,” DeCou said. “Everybody (on our schedule) was at or above .500 last year. Even the teams that didn’t make the national tournament, made conference semifinals or finals.

“But when we play that tough of a schedule and your RPI is that high, we’re always in the mix for top 10 seeding and hosting an opening round game. We want to win everything. That trophy needs to come back home.

That’s the goal.”

The Grizzlies are led this season by a stalwart defense, including all-conference selections senior Andrew White and junior Sagi Hirsch. The pair have started 37 of the team’s last 38 matches.

GGC has junior Malik Thornell at outside back to pair with Hirsch and senior Junior Ametepe returning.

One newcomer DeCou is looking forward to seeing in action is Italian Gianmaria Fiore, “He’s athletic with

great feet and reads the game exceptionally well,” DeCou said.

White and midfielder Toni Tiente both played this summer for GGC assistant coach Stephen Magennis with the Georgia Revolution of the NPSL. “So they got to play together and get more experience against quality competition,” DeCou said. “Toni Tiente probably had one of the biggest jumps from Year 1 to Year 2.”

Tiente and fellow sophomore Michael Weber both earned allconference accolades in their debut seasons.

Weber led GGC with seven goals and 18 points as a freshman. He scored three game-winning goals, including in the NAIA Opening Round match against Southern Oregon University.

Fellow sophomores Alfredo Rivera and Alex Rivera, both Brookwood grads, saw valuable playing time in 2017, with Alfredo starting 10 matches.

Weber with Ian Aramburu, with Alfredo Rivera, I mean that is a quality group,” DeCou said. “The question is going to be at the front of the team.”

Sophomore Krishna Clarke had a fair for scoring goals in critical moments last season, with three game-winning goals among his four tallies

spread across his first collegiate season.

Junior Carlos Delarosa appeared in 16 matches and scored three goals in a reserve role. He had the game-winning goal in GGC’s home triumph against Lindsey Wilson College (Ky.).

Freshmen Omar Thali and James Forester are talented newcomers who are seeking to make big contributions on the college scene.

“Then we’ve got some other young guys who are very athletic but just raw and new to the college game,” DeCou said. “That’s the question mark. Who is going to step up and take it? But there are enough individuals and enough quality that someone is going to.

I just don’t know who.”

GGC has the defending conference goalkeeper of the year, sophomore Matija Gligorovic, back along with Riley Wildeman in net. Gligorovic, from Montenegro, won 12 matches in 18 starts last season with five shutouts as a freshman.

“He’s a smart kid,” DeCou said. “He’s driven.

And that relates to the field. As the language (skills) improved, as he found a comfort level in his environment, he just thrived. We expect bigger and better things out of him this year.”

Harvick’s focus lets him enjoy season

By Holly Cain

he ultimately climbed out and playfully splashed a water bottle on Harvick’s At this point, Happy business manager standing must be Ecstatic. nearby.

Kevin Harvick, nickGood fun. Great day. named “Happy Harvick” And if it sounds a little years ago collected his like a Disney fairytale, series-leading seventh win there are some that would of the Monster Energy argue that’s exactly how NASCAR Cup season at Harvick’s 2018 season has Michigan International gone. But the success is Speedway Sunday aftertruly a result of the hard noon — leading a domiwork from the No. 4 Stewnant 108 of the 200 laps — art-Haas Racing Ford team feeling so good he escorted — work that is propelling his six-year old son Keelan the 42-year old Californian out to the front-stretch to toward a historic champipick up the checkered flag onship run. and wave to the enthusiasA win or two early in tic crowd. the season would have Then together, father secured Harvick’s place in and son rode to Victory the Playoffs and his team Lane in Harvick’s winning could have simply shifted No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racits efforts to preparing for ing Ford Fusion, Keelan the season-ending chamholding the flag out of the pionship run. But instead passenger side door en of coasting, this group has route. After deciding to been in high-gear, superwait inside his dad’s car focused and the mindset during the Victory Lane and hard work has prochampagne spray bath, duced an epic year.

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Harvick has only finished outside of the top-10 four times all year and three of those were DNFs after being collected in a incident. The other nontop-10 one was a 35thplace finish at Auto Club Speedway in California — a long day nursing an “off” car to the checkered flag.

His season win total (seven) is already a single season career high — with 13 races still remaining on the calendar. He and fellow member of the season’s “Big 3” championship contenders Kyle Busch have earned 21 victories each in the past five years — most among their competitors.

Seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson – who is still looking for his first win of the 2018 season – has 17 wins in that time frame as does reigning Cup champ Martin Truex Jr. Those four drivers (Harvick, 2014, Busch, 2015, Johnson, 2016 and Truex

2017) are the last four series champions.

“The confidence is high, and right now you just don’t want to screw it up,” Harvick said Sunday afternoon. “I think the biggest thing that it does is it actually makes you work harder because of the fact that you want to cover all the details because you’re fairly certain that when the car rolls out of the hauler that it’s going to be fast, and if it’s not, you have the tools and the people to be able to figure it out and fix it.”

Yet even with the statistics and the performance Harvick must both figuratively and literally spend time looking in his rearview mirror. He’s having a career year and yet Busch is still on his heels and at his bumper every step of the way creating – a thrilling championship race for fans and keeping the SHR team honest and motivated.

Furyk won’t commit to Tiger making Ryder Cup team Field Level Media

and Webb Simpson at next month’s event at Le Golf Jim Furyk tried to keep National in Paris. the focus Monday on the What remains is for eight automatic qualifiers Furyk to determine his four for the United States Ryder captain’s picks. He will Cup team following the PGA announce the first three on Championship, but even the Sept. 3 after the Dell Techcaptain acknowledged that nologies Championship and Tiger Woods “is a story.” will fill the last spot on the Brooks Koepka vaulted team on Sept. 9 following the into first place in the standBMW Championship. ings with his third major title, “I’m excited, and I know and will be joined by Dustin these eight players are exJohnson, Justin Thomas, cited as well,” Furyk said at Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson, Monday’s press conference Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler officially announcing the

top eight spots. “I’ve been waiting 18 months to get a touch, to get a feel, for who our eight qualifiers would be, who the eight players would be. Those 18 months has flown by in some respects, and it feels like it has taken forever in others.

“I wanted guys who really enjoy that atmosphere, and these eight guys, when I look at them, they’re guys that enjoy that challenge. This eight is exciting for any captain, and I love having this group.

They bring a lot to the table.”

As much as Furyk wanted to focus on the top eight, the attention quickly turned to the final four spots. Bryson DeChambeau sits in ninth, followed by Phil Mickelson, who missed the cut at the PGA, and Woods, who climbed nine spots to No. 11 with his second-place finish in St. Louis.

Prevailing wisdom says Woods has done enough to make the team, although Furyk would not commit to that decision Monday.

“That’s a good question,”

Furyk said. “He’s playing very well. I think there are a lot of folks out there who probably think that he can help us. Really what we wanted to talk about today was the top eight players.

I realize Tiger is a story, I realize that he’s playing very well and I’m excited to see that.”

Woods, who will be at Le Golf National as a vice captain, has a 13-17-3 record in seven previous Ryder Cup appearances as a player, and is 4-1-2 in singles.

“I’m not sure that numbers are always that important when I look down the list,” Furyk said when asked if Woods’ chances of making the team are far greater at No. 11 in the rankings rather than the 20th he was last week. “What is important is how well Tiger has played.

Sixth place at the Open Championship, second at the PGA… his game, I think the word he used was ‘trending?’

His game is trending, so it’s great to see him playing well.”

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An unlikely GOP issue: Prison reform

Prison reform has normally been an issue embraced by Democrats, not Republicans. But, perhaps, like so many other things in the Trump administration, this, too, is about to change.

Last Thursday, President Trump held a roundtable discussion at his Bedminster, N.J., property; five governors were in attendance.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 37.8 percent of Cal prison inmates Thomas in the U.S. are black, 58.3 percent white, 2.3 percent Native American and 1.6 percent Asian. Yet, blacks are arrested more, charged more, sentenced more harshly and confined to prison longer, even for minor infractions.

In Georgia, according to Department of Corrections; U.S. Census Bureau data, 61.6 percent of prisoners were black and 33.7 percent were white, while the general population in the state in 2013 was 31.4 percent black, 54.8 white.

Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia spoke of the progress made in his state in reducing the disproportionate number of blacks in prisons: “We have seen, since I became governor, a 10-percent decrease in violent crime in our state, a 20-percent overall decrease in crime. We have seen our African-American percentage in our prison system drop significantly … black males has dropped almost 30 percent.”

Black female inmates, he said, “dropped about 38.2 percent. Our African-American commitments to our prison is at the lowest level it has been since 1987.”

Deal said re-entry into society is a vital part of lowering the recidivism rate.

Common among those in prison was a lack of education. Seventy percent, he said, had not graduated from high school. Georgia stepped up its GED program and job training. “We found that if you give them a blue-collar skill, you reduce your recidivism rate by 24 percent. If you give them just the education of getting a high school diploma, it’s reduced by 19 percent.”

This issue has been kicked around for years with little done. Prisons are overcrowded and antiquated.

A disparity in sentencing, lack of competent legal representation for poor and minority defendants, overcrowding — and the fact that prisons aren’t known primarily for reforming too many inmates — all contribute to a system that has placed 2.3 million criminals behind bars, “more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London,” reports The New York Times. These include a sizeable number of non-dangerous, nonviolent offenders who would be better off outside prisons and in programs designed to change their life direction, even paying back those from whom they have stolen or otherwise harmed. It’s called restitution.

Politically, this is an issue that will resonate well in minority communities for obvious reasons, but more than politics should be involved. Reforming our criminal justice system, which is often more criminal than just, is the moral and right thing to do.

The Senate is expected to consider a modified version of a House bill that would reduce the current mandatory life sentence for some drug offenses to 25 years. The Senate bill would also prohibit the doubling of mandatory sentences for some drug and gun crimes, and it would give more sentencing discretion to judges. It also would make retroactive the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act that narrowed the discrepancy in sentencing guidelines for crack versus powdered cocaine, another issue that has disproportionately affected the black community.

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry noted that, while governor of Texas, he was able to “shut down eight prisons, saving more than $3 billion dollars a year in prison costs, and conservatives look at that now and go, ‘That was smart on crime.’”

Saving money while instituting programs that work, giving people hope and another chance at a better future are Republican themes. Democrats should join them. If they do, they can share the credit for things that succeed in transforming troubled lives.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Home alone not always the best way to work Just as more private-sector organizations are calling telecommuting workers back to the office, two politicians in Washington hope to encourage federal agencies to allow more government employees to work from home.

As it goes, the Trump administration is seeking to cut back on federal employee telework programs. But Reps.

Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and John Sarbanes, D-Md., are promoting the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act to prevent telework reductions.

That’s probably not a good idea.

Look, as a freelance writer and author, I’ve been telecommuting for years. I’m alone in my home office all day long.

It’s not for the faint of heart.

I hardly ever see real humans during the day. Every time the FedEx guy shows up, I demonstrate how much this isolation is getting to me.

FedEx guy: “Sign here, please.”

Me: “I hear it’s going to rain tomorrow. Would you like a cup of coffee?”

The other day a telemarketer called. Ordinarily, I’d rush

Tom Purcell such a fellow off the phone, but not anymore.

Telemarketer: “Would you like to buy our ACME health insurance policy?”

Me: “No, but how’s the weather where you are? Can I send you a gift card for a cup of coffee?”

I was so desperate for human interaction this morning, I spent 20 minutes talking with my 90-year-old neighbor Orville about his compost pile.

There are other problems caused by working alone out of one’s home. On the rare occasions when clients visit my office, I’m embarrassed to give them directions to my country home.

Client: “How do I get to your house?”

Me: “Make a sharp left at Homer’s bug zapper, then turn right at Orville’s compost pile.”

So, you see, I’m not so enamored with the home-office concept anymore. And I think I know why.

Human beings don’t like to be alone. We are social animals — so social, in fact, that we would rather spend long days in corporate offices with other people than suffer longer days in utter freedom working alone in our homes.

That’s why, according to Forbes, more private-sector organizations are calling teleworkers back to the office.

IBM, Apple and Google have discovered that when employees encounter each other in the office, they become more creative and productive than they are working alone at home.

Even Generation Z and millennials, according to a new study by HR staffing firm Randstad USA, prefer faceto-face conversations over electronic conversations and corporate offices over telecommuting.

“While technology can

make us more efficient, and feel highly connected to one another, it will never replace face-to-face conversations,” reports Forbes.

In any event, just as many organizations in the private sector are reversing course on employee telecommuting, two congressmen are pushing for full steam ahead.

“Federal government telework programs not only improve productivity, but also save taxpayer money by increasing efficiency, strengthening employee retention and reducing costs for federal office space,” Sarbanes told the Federal Times.

If you say so, congressman.

All I know is that I’m spending way too much time alone in my home. And as much as it worries me, it worries my neighbors more. No matter how often I tell them I’m a freelance writer, they don’t believe me.

They think I’m in the witness protection program.

Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. Send comments to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

Tweet like a president should, Mr. Trump Trump is still being Trump.

Whether he’s holding his stand-up political rallies in Wilkes-Barre or Ohio, or delivering his incendiary early morning tweet storms, he’s not going to change his wild and crazy ways.

He’s been doing a lot of great stuff in Washington, but if he wants to stay there he’d better be careful.

The raw party numbers are against him.

Last time around, in 2016, the Democrats had a deplorable candidate — Hillary Clinton — who lots of Democrats didn’t like, either, and therefore didn’t show up to vote for at the polls.

Now Democrats have someone even bigger to collectively hate: Donald Trump.

He’s already given them plenty of reasons to put on their “Impeach Trump Hats” and get out and vote for Democrats in the November congressional elections.

But last week the president made things more difficult for himself by foolishly making a few million new enemies in the sports world by personally attacking LeBron James.

Responding to the negative things the NBA superstar had said in a CNN interview with professional Trump-hater Don Lemon, the president tweeted:

have been pleased with himself for scoring a few political dunks and inflaming the antiTrump media for the millionth time.

But if he wants to keep Congress Republican this fall, or have a second term, he’s going to have to change — Michael and learn.

Reagan We know he gets beat up unfairly by the liberal media “LeBron James was just in- and Democrats every day, all terviewed by the dumbest man day. But so did Ronald Reaon television, Don Lemon. gan, who fought back on the He made LeBron look smart, issues or made jokes but never which isn’t easy to do. I like attacked anyone personally.

Mike!”

President Trump should Though the president sided not have kept quiet about the with Michael Jordan fans in Lemon and LeBron insults, the great debate over who’s but he’s got to learn how to the greatest NBA player of all turn his enemies’ blind hatred time, “Mike” sided with LeB- of him to his own advantage. ron James, who had charged He should have tweeted the president with using athlet- something like, “I’m sorry ics and athletes to divide the LeBron disagrees with me percountry. sonally and doesn’t appreciate Through a spokeswoman, the historically low unemployJordan responded, “I support ment rates and middle-class LeBron James. He’s doing an tax cuts my policies have amazing job for his commucreated. But I like what he’d nity.” doing for those third- and Though the Lemon interfourth-graders in Akron. Our view included CNN’s standard star athletes can do great anti-Trump political slant, it things for their communities, was focused on James’ founand I hope others follow LeBdation’s contribution of $2 ron’s generous example.” million to help at-risk public It wouldn’t have been very school kids in his hometown Trumpian. It wouldn’t have of Akron, Ohio. fit in a tweet. And it wouldn’t The tweeter in chief might have gotten the liberal media’s

panties in a twist for three days. But it would have immediately turned Lemon’s and LeBron’s cheap shots back on them and the rest of the liberal media and allowed the president to score a few political three-pointers of his own.

As some point President Trump has to rise above this personal crap.

His family already knows how to do it. First lady Melania Trump publicly supported James’ work in Akron through a spokesman. First daughter Ivanka supported the press against her father, saying she didn’t think journalists were the “enemy of the people.”

In one smart tweet the president could have turned the tables on Lemon and LeBron.

The liberal media would never have given him credit for taking the high road, but that’s OK. It’s time the man who is president of us all starts acting presidential.

It’d be for his own political good. But more important, it’d be for the good of the country.

Michael Reagan is a political consultant and the founder of the email service reagan. com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his websites at www.reagan. com and www.michaelereagan.com. Send comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com.

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Gladiators land veteran blueliner Montgomery

By Christine Troyke

satile D-man that excels in both ends of the rink with a ton of AHL experience that can bring a lot DULUTH — The to any role he is put it.”

Atlanta Gladiators signed Montgomery returned high-octane defenseman to North America to play Kevin Montgomery, a 35 games for the Florida veteran with a wealth of Everblades in 2015-16, overseas and AHL expe- but then took a season rience, and announced off and came back last the contract Tuesday. year to play for a team in Montgomery, 30, spent Denmark. his first three pro seasons “It was an easy choice in the AHL before pursu- to decide to play in ing opportunities across Atlanta this season after Europe, including a brief seeing Coach Pyle get stint playing for Atlanta hired here,” Montgomery head coach Jeff Pyle in said. “I had the privilege Italy. to play for Jeff for a “I got him at Christshort time in Europe and mas for about five games I wanted another opporand he fits the mold of tunity to that again. He the kids I like — and he’s is brilliant hockey mind, got the pedigree,” Pyle but more importantly, an said. “Monty is a big even better person who pickup for us not only makes the game fun and for his excellent playing always has me excited to abilities, but what he’ll come to the rink.” bring to the team’s culMontgomery played ture and chemistry. for the U.S. national “Kevin is a very verteam and was selected

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for the World Junior U18 and U20 Championships in 2006 and 2008, respectively. The 6-foot1, 190-pound blueliner helped the Americans to the gold medal in 2006.

The Rochester, N.Y. Native was drafted by Colorado in the fourth round in 2006.

Montgomery racked up 43 points in 192 AHL games with Lake Erie and Oklahoma. He went to play for Lillehammer in 2012-13 then spent a year in Germany. In 2014-15, Montgomery started the season in Slovakia before going to Italy.

“I’m at the point in my career where I want to go to an organization that will be successful,” Montgomery said. “It’s not about individual success for me anymore and I feel Atlanta is in a great position to accomplish a lot this season as a team.”

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•From Page 1B wanted to be a part of something different,” Morris said. “I changed my mind to go to Tennessee the night before I committed actually because I just wanted to be different and have my name part of a dynasty that’s going to rebuild to win another national championship.”

Morris sits as the topranked recruit in new Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt’s class of current seniors.

“Obviously, (colleges) love his measurables,” Hunnicutt said. “I think he’s very competitive, very competitive. He’s really learned to become a very good practice player. From the time he gets out of the fieldhouse, from the time he gets to the grass, he’s really improved as a practice player. Even when he’s not in, making sure he’s getting vicarious reps.

When he’s not in, coaching other players, asking questions. And really learning how to watch film. Not so much punching the clock, but watching film with the intent to learn and try to pick up any tactical cues. That’s where I think he’s really really grown. … He’s never been a kid that’s been bad in the weight room, but I think the difference between Wanya now as he’s grown and matured is now I think he attacks the weight room.

“It’s no longer an issue of I have to put the time in.

I think he goes in with the

THE WANYA MORRIS FILE Name: Wanya Morris School: Grayson Height: 6-foot-6 Weight: 300 pounds College choice: Tennessee Place of birth: Savannah Role model: Trent Williams Favorite restaurant: Fudrucker’s Favorite store: Don’t shop in stores, I’m too big Favorite teacher: Camila Thompson-Stith Favorite subject: Math Number of text messages I send in a month: I don’t know Favorite pregame song: Anything by Lil Baby Life’s dream: Take care of my mom Best player in Gwinnett not on my team: Archer’s Andrew Booth Coach Christian Hunnicutt’s take: “Obviously, (colleges) love his measurables. I think he’s very competitive, very competitive. He’s really learned to become a very good practice player. From the time he gets out of the fieldhouse, from the time he gets to the grass, he’s really improved as a practice player. Even when he’s not in, making sure he’s getting vicarious reps. When he’s not in, coaching other players, asking questions. And really learning how to watch film. Not so much punching the clock, but watching film with the intent to learn and try to pick up any tactical cues. That’s where I think he’s really really grown.”

mindset of improving my numbers, improving my flexibility. That’s where I think he’s really really grown.”

Morris, who lived in Savannah until he moved to Gwinnett in elementary school, played for the Gwinnett Chargers in youth football leading into high school. A number of his fellow classmates at Grayson also were Chargers who have grown into heavily recruited college prospects.

“We’ve been playing together so long,” Morris said. “I consider them all family. It doesn’t really come to me that we’re big

college players. We just do what we do best, play football. A band of brothers having fun.”

He hopes their last game as teammates — before roughly 40 Rams from the Class of 2019 scatter to college football programs around the country — ends with a state championship, a distinct possibility for a team ranked third nationally by USA Today. “(A state title) would mean everything,” Morris said. “That would be our last game playing together really as a whole, so that would be really emotional for us to have that feeling.”

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Wanya Morris is a five-star University of Tennessee commit. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

The Gwinnett Daily Post is once again launching its High School Football Pick’em contest. Each week, users can pick the winners of that week’s high school games.

For the fourth year, FlatOut Automotive in Buford is sponsoring the contest — giving away a JBL Splashproof Portable Bluetooth Speaker each week to the

user with the most correct games.

“We are very excited to have FlatOut sponsoring the contest again,” said Jason Braverman, web operations manager for Southern Community Newspapers, the parent company of the Daily Post.

The contest has always been one of the more popular contests that the Daily Post manages.

“Football in Gwinnett is

huge. This is another way our readers can be involved and feel like they are a part of the action,” Braverman said.

The Daily Post also runs a college and pro football pick’em contest. To play any of these games, go to gwinnettprepsports.com/contests.

Gwinnett’s football season begins with 11 regular-season games Friday, followed by three Corky Kell Classic Games on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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Chaney lends thoughts on quarterbacks

By Michael Hebert The Red & Black

Georgia football just finished its eight practice on Saturday, and after the team’s first full week of camp, here are some takeaways and observations from the Red & Black.

Competition at every position It sounds cliche, but when Kirby Smart and offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said there is competition in a lot of areas on Georgia’s football team, they really meant it. The Bulldogs have been rotating players at right tackle, left guard, inside linebacker and at the “STAR” position— a hybrid of a linebacker and a defensive back.

Redshirt freshman Isaiah Wilson and freshman Cade Mays have been taking reps at the right tackle position, while freshman Jamaree Salyer and senior Kendall Baker have been working at left guard.

Sophomore Jake Fromm has looked sharp at quarterback, but freshman Justin Fields continues to play well also.

At inside linebacker, Georgia rotates senior

Natrez Patrick, sophomore Monty Rice and senior Juwan Taylor. The “STAR” position has seen the likes of sophomores William Poole and Mark Webb.

“There are not a lot of positions that are locked up on an individual right now,” Chaney said. We have a tremendous amount of competition going on throughout our football team, which I’m tickled with.”

A few players injured The biggest question mark from the last few days of camp has been the status of senior Terry Godwin.

Smart said before the Bulldogs started practice that Godwin has a left knee injury and will be limited. On Saturday, Godwin wasn’t present at practice.

Freshman Kearis Jackson has not been participating in practice during the media viewing periods and sophomore Nate McBride was riding a stationary bike on Saturday, as well.

Freshman Divaad Wilson is still recovering from an ACL injury, so he is not practicing. However, he has suited up the last few days of practice and appears to be running well.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 • 8B

gwinnettdailypost.com •From Page 1B “I played in a pretty big high school and I competed against four- and five-star guys just about every week,” he said. “I chose to go this route because Georgia Tech gave me a great opportunity to play against good Division I players and the ACC is probably the most challenging league out there.

I’ve really enjoyed my time here and worked my way up.”

Ivemeyer was redshirted his first season and played only one game as a redshirt freshman. His effort, however, did not go unnoticed. He was voted Offensive Scout Team Player of the Year in 2016.

“It was hard at times,” he said. “My family gives me a lot of support. I have a lot of friends who encourage me, tell me to keep my head up. And, honestly, they treat walkons pretty well around here.”

He began to play a larger role in 2017. Because of his knowledge of the system and his versatility,

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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets offensive lineman Bailey Ivemeyer (62) carries the Georgia state flag as the team runs onto the field before its game against the Pittsburgh Panthers at Bobby Dodd Stadium. (Photo: Jason Getz-USA Today Sports)

Ivemeyer was able to play in eight games. His shining moment came against Virginia Tech, when he started at left tackle and helped the Yellow Jackets upset the No. 17-ranked Hokies.

“To get that first start and follow in my father’s footsteps was cool,” he

said.

Ivemeyer will play a role this season in what has turned into a deep offensive line. His versatility enables him to roll into numerous spots, his brain allows him to adapt and his determination pushes him to compete. He was listed as a possible starter

at right tackle on the preseason depth chart.

“For me, the big thing was the speed of the game,” Ivemeyer said.

“You’ve got to get faster and faster and get your footwork down. I’m not as big as other people, so I’ve got to be a technician guy.”

Koepka, Tiger shoot up rankings Field Level Media

tin Thomas and England’s Justin Rose and now sits Brooks Koepka rose behind only Dustin Johnson. two spots to No. 2 in the Tiger Woods climbed 25 official world golf rankspots with his solo secondings on Monday, a day after place finish to No. 26 in the claiming his third career world. He has moved up major title at the 100th PGA 630 spots since the beginChampionship. ning of 2018.

Koepka vaulted past JusSpain’s Jon Rahm also

climbed one spot to No. 5, followed by Italy’s Francesco Molinari, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, Americans Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler and Australia’s Jason Day in the Top 10.

Fellow Australian Adam Scott jumped 31 places to

No. 45. He needed a special exemption to get into the PGA and extend his streak to 70 consecutive starts in majors, and was in contention until a bogey on the final hole dropped him into third place. It was Scott’s first top-five finish in a PGA Tour event since 2016.

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