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Invasion, murder suspect charged

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett police have charged a man who they believe is responsible for several Snellville home invasions, one of which led to the shooting death of a father earlier this month.

Terrence Darnell Lee, 32, of Conyers was arrested Aug. 9 for an outstanding warrant Terrence for probation violation Darnell Lee after he was “developed as a person of interest” in the Aug. 2 murder of 27-year-old Kemar Hawkins, who was shot in his home shortly after 4 Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Kotowski participates in a scenario with the FATS 300LE, a law enforcement virtual training system. The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office is the second agency in the nation to test the system. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

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Gwinnett County Sheriff ’s Office second in U.S. to test virtual training system

BY ISABEL HUGHES • isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com “Units be advised, the license plate is expired and the registered owner has a possible warrant,” the 911 dispatcher’s voice crackled through the radio, alerting Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Kotowski to the driver he had just stopped.

“Hey, sir,” Kotowski said to a screen, which was projecting an image of the traffic stop and a man in a car. “So the returns came back and unfortunately, you have an

The FATS 300LE, a law enforcement virtual training system, is being beta tested by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, which is the second agency in the nation to test the system. It allows law enforcement to practice dozens of different real-world situations that are dictated by a training official, pictured here, who controls the scenario and can alter it as he or she wishes.

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outstanding warrant and we’re going to have to take you into custody and you’re going to have to go to jail today. Is there anyone we can call who can come get your car?”

As dispatch again radioed to Kotowski, he continued speaking to the screen as if the situation were an actual

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REVEL DEVELOPMENT

Dozens of restaurants, shops planned near Arena

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

As many as 70 restaurants and retail shops could be part of the Revel development at the Infinite Energy Center, according to an official at the firm that is developing the project.

North American Properties, which also created Avalon in Alpharetta and is behind the redevelopment of Colony Square in Atlanta, is looking at breaking ground next spring or summer, with construction expected to take about 18 months to complete.

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Wilbanks highlights performance awards for teachers in speech

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Thirty percent of Gwinnett County Public Schools teachers will receive onetime monetary awards a little more than a year from now — but which educators receive those awards will depend on how their students do this year.

Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks talked at length about the district’s new “performance-based

awards” during his State of the School System Address to the Gwinnett Chamber on Wednesday. The new program is part of the district’s efforts to address a national issue of district’s struggling to retain teachers.

But one thing is clear: Wilbanks does not want to hear the awards referred to as “merit pay.”

“It’s not merit pay, it’s not a bonus,” the superintendent said after his speech. “It’s a performance award for being recognized as being a

“The salary schedule, that’s good teacher.” where This is the second phase we need of an effort by Gwinnett to make County Public Schools to sure we’re Alvin Wilbanks address teacher retention. competiLast year, the district moved tive with away from the standard Forsyth, Fulton, DeKalb step salary schedule that is (and) Walton, but this is for commonly used by disthe purpose of recognizing tricts to determine teacher those teachers that are really raises and rolled out a new doing a great job,” Wilbanks performance-based salary said. “It has nothing to do schedule. with the degree that you’ve MORE INSIDE

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the average teacher’s salary for that school year, but there are three categories of awards.

The top category consists of the districtwide winners, and their award is worth 10 percent of the average teacher’s salary. There are then two categories of winners for the school year. The higher of the two categories gets an award equal to 6 percent of the average teacher’s salary and the

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In all, about 3,300 classroom teachers in Gwinnett County are expected to receive a performancebased award, but one-third of them will be chosen from a districtwide pool of all Gwinnett educators. The remaining two-thirds will represent the top performing teachers at each school in the district.

The amount a teacher receives with their award is based on a percentage of

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Penultimate Community Health Fair set for Saturday to 2 p.m. and will offer inflatables, games, train rides, free health screenings, giveaways and more.

The penultimate GwinThere will also be a nett County Community school supply drive to Health Fair will include benefit Gwinnett County a back-to-school bash Schools and a fire truck, Saturday. clothing giveaways, food The fair, which will be vendors and health and held at Buford’s Bogan back-to-school vendors.

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Educational speakers

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include a Gwinnett County Health Department representative who will talk about immunizations and requirements for school, the laws and forms needed, as well as other speakers and topics.

Free health screenings will also be offered, 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.

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 Associates and Gwinnett 200.

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

IF YOU GO What: Third Gwinnett County Community Health Fair and back-toschool bash Where: Bogan Park; 2723 N. Bogan Rd, Buford When: 10 a.m to 2 p.m.

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Gwinnett County preps for health science theme school

BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County Public Schools just opened the Paul Duke STEM High School, but officials are already looking ahead to the district’s next theme school, which is being built in the Meadowcreek cluster.

During Thursday’s school

board work session, school officials gave an update on the yet-to-be-named Meadowcreek Cluster Health Science High School set to open in August 2019. The school, which is under construction at the intersection of Club Drive and Steve Reynolds Boulevard, is expected to be 300,000 square feet and accommodate 1,500 students.

According to Associate

Superintendent of School Improvement and Operations Steve Flynt, the idea of a Meadowcreek theme school came around the same time discussions began regarding Paul Duke STEM in 2015.

“The idea was to have these two theme high schools instead of a new cluster to draw students and open space for students with-

in the clusters,” Flynt said.

“The Meadowcreek cluster is overcrowded and needing to see some relief. Next year, we will see that opportunity for relief through the opening of (a) new school.”

The new school will provide students with a variety of learning paths beyond the school district’s core curriculum. Those paths include college course credit

and industry certifications in critical health science areas.

Some of the courses that will be available include medical ethics and law, current issues in health science and introduction to healthcare science. Students will also have opportunities to obtain certifications in first aid and CPR, first responder, Microsoft Suite and HIPAA. “We know the workforce

is in need of additional people moving into this area,” Flynt said. “We’ve had a chance to meet people working in the health field and have discussions on the needs of some of the facilities across the county. Hopefully this provides students a chance to learn about these fields and understand them prior to moving to further certifications.”

Lawrenceville man blames sleepwalking for alleged rape

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at Cole’s Lawrenceville home around 1 a.m. when “she felt someone get into bed behind her.”

A Lawrenceville man “(She) said she thought who blamed sleepwalking it was her boyfriend,” the for allegedly getting into bed report said. “(She) said the with his son’s girlfriend and person then rolled down her trying to have sex with her pants and underwear” and was recently arrested and then tried to have sex with charged with rape for the her, though there was no incident. penetration.

Ricardo Arturo Cole, Sr., “(The victim) said she was arrested on Wednesday, turned around and realabout four months after the ized that the male was not April 8 incident occurred, (her boyfriend), but was his according to a police report. father, Rick,” the report said.

The victim did not report the “(She) said she pushed Rick crime until May 11. away and asked what he According to the report, was doing. (She) said Rick the victim was lying in bed apologized and said he was

sleepwalking.”

Cole reportedly left the room after the incident and the Ricardo victim told Cole police she thought her boyfriend would be upset if she went to the police, though later decided to report the crime.

The victim also said she has not had contact with the boyfriend or his father since the incident.

Cole is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.

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at no charge on Fridays through Aug. 31. On other days, animals can be adopted for $20.

Dogs typically cost $90 to adopt, and cats typically cost $30. Dogs and cats up for adoption at the shelter typically have been examined by Animal Welfare staff veterinarians and are ready to go home day-of.

It was not immediately clear whether the three roosters that recently became shelter inhabitants will also be free at the event or on Fridays.

This fall, the shelter is extending its hours from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays. Ice cream socials will be held on the last Thursday of each month through October.

For more information, visit gwinnettcounty.com.

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Looking for a furry friend Dogs and cats adopted at no cost? from the shelter are spayed The Gwinnett County or neutered, vaccinated and animal shelter is the place micro-chipped, and adoption to be this Saturday for such fees will be waived at the a deal. event.

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All hail the queen of soul WASHINGTON — Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was more than the undisputed “Queen of Soul.” She was one of the most important musicians of our time, a genius who soared above genres and expectations to create music that will live forever.

She was not an opera singer, yet she brought down the house Eugene at the Grammys in 1998 when Robinson she filled in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti and delivered an unforgettable version of the Puccini aria “Nessun Dorma.” She was not a jazz singer, but her renditions of standards such as “Love for Sale” and “Misty” were cited by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in awarding her the organization’s highest honors.

She was not primarily known as a gospel singer, but I defy anyone to hear her sing “Precious Lord” and not feel the spirit.

In 1972, veteran rock critic Robert Christgau set out to “explode the Aretha Franklin myth,” using her newly released album, “Young, Gifted and Black,” as his vehicle. But after listening to the LP he called it a “triumph” and declared: “Yes, yes, Aretha Franklin is a genius.”

Jerry Wexler, the legendary producer at Atlantic Records who shepherded much of Franklin’s oeuvre, wrote a piece for Rolling Stone in 2004 in which he recalled the day she told him about her idea for reworking a song that had already been a hit for the great Otis Redding. “It was already worked out in her head,” Wexler wrote.

The song was titled “Respect.” When Redding heard Franklin’s version, Wexler recalled, he said simply, “She done took my song.”

Franklin took a lot of people’s songs. Dionne Warwick’s version of “I Say a Little Prayer,” written for her by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, is better than good; she navigates the song’s tricky changes in time signature expertly, dancing across the melody. But when Franklin gets her hands on that same song, good Lord in heaven. She turns a bouncy little tune into an anthem of love, yearning and commitment. The quick switches from 4-4 time to 3-4 and back again are still there, but you don’t even notice them because all you hear is Franklin’s glorious voice telling a story that builds and builds.

When she breaks into the chorus for the final time, she says the word “ever” in three very different ways, and just melts every listening heart.

Then finally, in the coda, she gives us a moment to catch our collective breath.

“It’s a better record than the record we made,” Bacharach once admitted to NPR. Or consider a song like “Angel” from the 1973 album “Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky).” As a song, to tell the truth, it isn’t much to write home about. Cassandra Wilson, acclaimed as one of the best jazz singers alive, covered it in 1991 to little effect. Few others have bothered to try — perhaps because Franklin’s original version is transcendent. Her voice gradually rising in pitch and swelling in volume, she gets to the word “angel” for the last time and makes it “an-geh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-el,” turning two syllables into eight and a ho-hum composition into a masterpiece.

Franklin was blessed with great talent. Especially in her earlier recordings, you can hear that her voice had tremendous range, including a powerful upper register. Her father was the pastor of a Detroit church that was known for fiery sermons and sweet music, and she learned piano as a young girl, a skill that served her well. Producer Wexler encouraged her to play on her records.

“She was a brilliant pianist, a combination of Mildred Falls — Mahalia Jackson’s accompanist — and Thelonious Monk,” Wexler wrote.

“In other words, Aretha brought a touch of jazz to her gospel piano.”

Franklin also had an acute sense of history.

She broke through with “Respect” in 1967, just as the civil rights movement was breaking through. The song became a statement not just of women’s empowerment but of African American empowerment as well.

In the end, though, it was Franklin’s brilliant musicianship that allowed her to shape her talent and her ideas into an epochal body of work.

Her music was always soulful, whether she was singing a call-and-response gospel number or a spun-sugar confection aimed at the pop charts.

Her use of melisma was impeccably tasteful — always just enough, never too much. She told stories in a way that made you dance, cry, love, laugh, even try to sing along.

She was a towering, once-in-a-generation vocal artist. This is a very sad day.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

Not condemning bigots tars Trump presidency WASHINGTON — How can a president as successful as Donald Trump be so unpopular?

Fueled by his historic tax reform and an unprecedented regulatory rollback, the economy grew by 4.1 percent in the second quarter. The unemployment rate is just 3.9 percent — near the lowest it has been in nearly two decades — and the New York Times reports, “Job growth is on a record streak (and) American factories … are hiring at their fastest rate in two decades.” African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates are at near record lows.

And the unemployment rate for women is the lowest it has been since 1953.

Virtually everyone is doing better thanks to the Trump economic boom. And yet the president’s approval rating is stuck at 42 percent. Even worse, his disapproval rating has risen 11 points since his inauguration. When asked if Trump is doing an “excellent,” “pretty good,” “fair” or “poor” job as president, a stunning 45 percent say Trump is doing a “poor” job.

Part of his disapproval is driven by the intensity of the Democratic “resistance,” and the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has certainly taken its toll. Others are put off by his tweetstorms and the chaotic nature of an adminis-

the Right rally in front of the White House on Sunday fizzled does not let Trump off the hook. His defenders will argue that there are always protesters outside the White House, and none of his Republican or Democratic predecessors was expected Marc to comment on them. Why Thiessen should Trump have to do so?

The answer is simple: because tration that produces self-inthe ethno-nationalists of the flicted wounds such as family alt-right have embraced him, separations at the border. and Trump has failed to make But ultimately, what makes clear that he does not accept it impossible for many Ameri- their support. cans who approve of Trump’s This is not hard. After some policies to also approve of white nationalists praised a Trump’s presidency is his fail- recent monologue she delivure to definitively reject and ered, Fox News host Laura ostracize the bigots who inIngraham went on the air and habit the fever swamps of the blasted them, declaring to alt-right. A year after Charlot- “all white nationalists … you tesville, Trump has still not don’t represent my views, explicitly condemned them. and you are antithetical to the “Riots in Charlottesville a beliefs I hold dear.” year ago resulted in senseless Why can’t Trump bring death and division,” Trump himself to say the same thing? tweeted Saturday morning.

Trump’s failure to reject the “We must come together as a bigots of the alt-right not only nation. I condemn all types of tars his presidency, it also tars racism and acts of violence. his supporters. The overPeace to ALL Americans!” whelming majority of people Sorry, that’s not good who voted for Trump are not enough. Not all types of racists. They are good, decent, racists were marching in his patriotic Americans who were name in Charlottesville. Not sick and tired of being ignored all types of racists held a rally by the political establishments after his election in which of both parties in Washington. they shouted “Hail Trump!”

They had legitimate grievNot all types of racists conances that were not being tinue to claim to be a part of addressed, from the opioid Trump’s coalition. crisis to an economy that was The fact that the Unite not giving them the chance

to work and pursue lives of dignity.

Trump’s election finally gave them a voice. But his failure to condemn the altright allows his critics to dismiss his supporters’ valid concerns and lump them in with the tiny minority of bigots who have embraced the president.

His failure to condemn the alt-right has also prevented him from expanding his support beyond his core supporters. With his record, he should be winning over millions of Americans who did not vote for him in 2016 but whose circumstances have markedly improved under his presidency. Instead, his support is stagnant and his disapproval is growing. He would gain far more supporters by rejecting alt-right bigots than he would lose.

The fact is many Americans support Trump’s policies — from his outstanding Supreme Court picks to his bold economic reforms — but don’t support him for one simple reason: They don’t want to be associated with a man who seems to have so much trouble telling the white nationalists of the alt-right that they don’t represent his views and are antithetical to the beliefs he holds dear.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

Farmers markets can be anywhere I would bet my house (not really, it belongs to my wife) that you can go anywhere in the world and find a farmers market. From Lizella in the middle of our state to London; from Paris, Ky., to Paris, France; from Moscow to Ramallah in the West Bank. I know firsthand about those places.

However, I can’t remember much about what I saw at the farmers market in Moscow, but I have vivid and unforgettable memories of the overflowing fruit and vegetable stands in Ramallah. Please stand by regarding that.

If you grew up on a farm, you likely have contributed to a farmers market somewhere.

Recall your past, and if there wasn’t an organized farmer’s market at your town square, chances are that you had a farmer supplying vegetables to your local grocer or peddling to local housewives.

With a farming background, farmers markets are nothing novel here, but you can only imagine how taken aback I was when I discovered farmers markets in the capitals of the world such as Berlin, the Bahamas, Beijing, Normandy and Ketchikan. Not sure why I was surprised in that anywhere

Loran Smith there is a farm, there is the likelihood that you will find a farmers market nearby.

Recently, I was in the Orkney Islands, which are about as far north as you can journey in Scotland, and learned that in the capital city, Kirkwall, a farmer’s market is held there monthly rather than weekly, even in winter when it is dark most of the day.

All big cities have farmers markets, and people are pretty much the same, shopping for good food, making sure to get the best buy and keeping themselves abreast of all weights and measures.

Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, as I recall, is not a place for fruits and vegetables, but there is an overwhelming amount of food.

It is the last place to depart hungry.

Back to Ramallah: When I

was there 25 or so years ago, it was during the Israeli occupation. An Arab friend of a friend in the West Bank snuck me and a friend across the border into the West Bank city and an enclave of plenty. My memory is that there were countless fruit and vegetable stands and displays that seemed to stretch the length of downtown.

Except for the accents, geography, customs, dress and environment, it was what you might find in Waycross, Vidalia, Calhoun or Eastanollee, or the State Farmers Market in Forest Park, where I have spent many happy hours over the years in the company of my longtime friend Gene Sutherland of Sutherland Egg Co. He was the unofficial mayor of the market and could get you anything, from a pomegranate to flavored moonshine.

Georgians with a link to agribusiness gathered at the farmers market, historically for more than good food buys. They mixed business and politics, with the leading gubernatorial candidates always paying their respects to the powerful and influential agricultural interests across the state.

While I don’t frequent local

Saturday markets as in the past, there is nothing more emotionally enriching and fulfilling than to shop for a “mess of peas and butterbeans” and roasting ears — then take those garden staples home with you and help with preparing a down-home meal.

Grocery chains, food processors and high-end agricultural producers make it easy for kitchen straw bosses today.

Yesterday, everybody on the farm had a couple of gardens, one bringing about its produce in early summer and one late summer. Then there were winter gardens. The summer was also reserved for putting up for the winter. Putting up fruits and vegetables in those Mason jars meant that when the temperatures dropped and the wind ripsawed with its raw edge, you could enjoy a nice vegetable plate by a warm and cozy fire.

Farm-to-table resonates with our society today, which means we should be eating healthier. On the other hand, that could be fake news.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for University of Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

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Why should I vote for Dems?

with wealth redistribution is that everyone is poor except for the rulers.

Socialism is great in theory, In response to Eugene Rob- but in practice freedoms are inson’s column (“The table is stifled. Did socialism work in set for the Dems to take the Venezuela? Cuba? Russia? I House,” Aug. 10, 3A) I would would prefer to keep the freelike to ask him why I should doms and booming economy vote for the Democrats. we have now. And if Robert It appears their platform Mueller hasn’t found anyis impeach President Trump, thing in two years in regard raise taxes, strangle busito collusion with Russia, he nesses with more regulations, must wrap up this taxpayerget more people dependent on funded witch hunt. the government and wealth — John Cerny, redistribution. The problem Duluth

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Surrogacy at an advanced age comes with risk Dear Dr. roaCH: Would you please comment on common or uncommon issues that might be expected in a pregnancy at age 57? I am overall very healthy, with no issues other than slightly elevated LDL. I have not gone through menopause. I had four full-term pregnancies, the last at age 35 (after which I had my tubes tied), and no miscarriages. I asked my doctor two years ago if I would have an issue being a surrogate and was told there was no reason I couldn’t be, but my current physician told me that it can be very dangerous at my age. I am concerned that the practice is just covering itself against any liability. I realize that this is my decision alone and I would not hold my doctors accountable, but I’d also like the real truth regarding any potential issues I would be likely to encounter. I appreciate your thoughts.

— M.V. ansWer: I admire your willingness to consider being a surrogate.

However, the risks of pregnancy in a 57-yearold woman are significant.

A study from the U.K. from 2016 quantified the risks pretty thoroughly; however, of the 233 women studied, only two of them were older than 57, so your risks are probably higher than the average risk for an older mother in the study (which was defined here as 48 years or older at the date of delivery).

Before I go over the risks, let me point out that one major risk for older mothers. Down syndrome may not apply since the egg you would be carrying would come from another woman and it is her age that determines the risk for the fetus. Older mothers also are more likely to carry twins (or more than two fetuses).

Compared with younger mothers, older mothers have a higher risk for: high blood pressure during pregnancy (15 percent versus 5 percent); pre-eclampsia, also called toxemia (6 percent versus 2 percent); diabetes during pregnancy (18 percent versus 4 percent); hemorrhage after delivery (26 percent versus 15 percent); Caesarean section (78 percent versus 33 percent); preterm delivery (22 percent versus 8 percent); and admission of the baby to the intensive care unit (3 percent versus less than 1 percent).

Miscarriage rate (after 11 weeks) in women over 55 is estimated to be about 10 percent, compared with 1 percent in younger women. Maternal death is much more likely for older women than younger; however, that risk is small, less than 2 per 1,000 in a separate Swedish study of mothers over 45.

Overall, these risks are not small. You should think through your risks before making a decision. I’m disappointed in the lack of advice you received.

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In 1863, Union forces began shelling Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

In 1959, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck near Hebgen Lake in Montana, causing a landslide that later formed Earthquake Lake.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury and later apologized on national television for having a “wrong” relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

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•From Page 1A event, despite the fact that the dispatcher, driver, and later, two other participants, were not real people.

Thursday morning’s scenario, which was held in an unused jail pod at the Gwinnett County Detention Center, was a virtual training simulation that Gwinnett deputies, and likely other county and state law enforcement agencies, will be using for the next six to eight months.

The simulator, called FATS 300LE, is a virtual training system produced

by Suwanee-based Meggitt Training System that allows law enforcement to practice dozens of different real-world situations that are dictated by a training official, who controls the scenario and can alter it as he or she wishes.

“It’s 360 degrees of immersive training as far as use of force and (police-citizen) engagement,” said Jay Ayala, a representative for Meggitt.

“It’s very interactive with videos and footage, and officers will learn and actually

Virtual engage in de-escalation scenarios, verbally interacting with the subjects, and if they have to use force, understand what level of force to use.”

Even the weapons the officers use in the simulation mimic real weapons, Ayala said, with the guns — smart weapon simulators that look, feel and perform exactly like their live counterparts — programmed to give the same kickback and sound that one experiences when shooting.

Though visual simulators have been used for years, this system, of which Gwinnett’s is only the second in the country, is currently the most advanced technology and offers a much more realistic experience than officers previously have experienced, in part due to its five flat screens, it’s hit detection system, it’s surround sound features and its directional sound effects.

“At the end of the day, when you start adding screens, you start adding that situational awareness,” Ayala said. “We’ve adapted our training scenarios and videos to be more interactive as far

North American partner and Senior Vice-President Commercial Development John Kelley offered a tease of what can be expected during a panel discussion hosted by Bisnow on Wednesday.

Afterward, he laid out a bit more of the plans for the mixed-use project, including what residents can expect from it once it opens.

“The energy on the street will be very similar to what we created at Avalon,” Kelley said. “It will certainly be a different mix of merchandise and restaurants, but with the Infinite Energy Center bringing in over a million people a year, we’re just really excited about being able to build off of that and give people something to do before and after shows.”

Revel is one of several projects in various stages of progress at the Infinite Energy Center, along with an expansion of the enter for which county officials recently agreed to issue bonds. Construction is already underway on a parking deck that will replace some of the parking which will be taken out to make room for Revel.

A long-planned Marriott hotel that Concord Hospitality has been working on is going to be built in concert with Revel, Kelley said.

other one’s award is worth 3 percent of the average salary.

The criteria for deciding who gets the awards depends on student progress during the recently started school year. There is no one-size-fits-all bench mark that students must meet in order for their teacher to be eligible for one of the awards.

The recipients of the awards will be chosen on

Dacula, GA

Belinda Hall HALL - Belinda Hall, age 70 of Dacula passed away on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. A funeral service will be held 3:00 PM, Saturday, August 18, 2018 in the Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Lawrenceville, burial will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park. She was an account specialist with Carlson Wagonlit. Mrs. Hall was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Hall, and parents, Artis & Jimmie Jackson Britt.

She is survived by her Sons & Daughters-in-law; David & Shannon Martin, Lilburn, GA; Britt & Karrie Martin, Lawrenceville, GA; Joel & Melissa Martin, Blue Ridge, GA; Jason & Valerie Martin, LaGrange, GA; Brothers & Sisters-in-law; Lawrence & Joan Britt, Lawrencev-

said. “The scenarios are very important because we’re trying to get muscle memory.

Muscle memory with how to draw the weapon, when to draw the weapon, is it going to be lethal force, is it going to be the taser, what are we going to use? The simulator here is going to help the officer determine, ‘OK, what do I go to?’”

The system allows up to five officers to participate in any one scenario, which generally last two to three minutes.

“When (an officer) arrives at a house, all he can see, (for example), is people arguing with their backs towards him,” Solis said. “The guy turns around real fast and (the officer) has less than a second to react. Everyone’s already seen that, where the guy has a cellphone, but do we shoot or do we not shoot? Those are the things that we’re trying to get the officer used to — drawing that weapon but drawing it so it is at the ready, is it chest-high, or what are we going to do?”

Though the 300LE costs anywhere from $30,000 to

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as verbal communication goes.”

Back in the day, Ayala said, there was a single screen with a video.

“The subject was coming at you, and you had to shoot,” he said. “Now, we have to understand, ‘Hey, it’s not always a gun’ and be able to assess the situation, assess our surroundings and be able to verbally interact with the subject. If we are able to de-escalate the situation verbally, that’s a plus, and if we have to resort to some sort of use of force, then we acknowledge that and we use lethal or less lethal force as necessary.”

Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Lou Solis said the simulator’s training is no different than deputies’ requirements to practice their shooting at the firing range — it’s just a different kind of training.

“The governor’s initiative has de-escalation (training requirements), and this covers (that) and mentally ill suspects that we encounter on the street or encounter inside a house where we go to serve a warrant,” Solis

There is no firm date for when some Revel tenant names could be released, but Kelley didn’t rule out the possibility of an announcement happening in October, shortly before the International Council of Shopping Centers convention in Atlanta.

But while names are not yet available, there are some clues about the types of businesses that could be included in Revel. The development will include a food hall, but Kelley said there could be an additional 15 to 20 restaurants in the development as well.

Among the expected tenants are a mix of restaurants that include some chain names, but they are also planning to include several restaurants where the menus are crafted by chefs with at least some local ties.

Uncle Jack’s Meat House owner Willie Degel previously said he’d been approached about including one of his other restaurant concepts, possibly a Jack Shack, in the development. Kelley didn’t rule out the possibility that Degel could be involved.

“We want definitely local chefdriven restaurants,” Kelley said.

“That’s the most important piece of it, but we’ll certainly have some local and national chains mixed in, just like we have at

four metrics, but school system Chief of Staff Berney Kirkland said the main metric looked at will be how much the students’ grasp of the subject grows.

Kirkland said students will take assessments designed to show how much the students understand a course’s subject matter when the course begins, and then take another one when it ends.

“It’s how much growth your kids make, how far

ille, GA; Doyle & Bobbie Britt, Suwanee, GA; Sister; Carol Beverly, Mineral Bluff, GA; 12 Grandchildren; 2 Great Grandchildren, and numerous family and friends. The family will receive friends 1:00 to 3:00PM, Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home300 Simonton Road S. W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

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Avalon.”

Another aspect of Revel will be the events that North American Properties schedules to give people a reason to visit. Kelley said Gwinnett residents can expect some of the same types of events that the developer does at Avalon will be done at Revel as well.

The difference is that Revel will be built around the existing Infinite Energy Center, which already draws people in for graduations, conventions, theatrical performances and concerts featuring big-name artists such as Paul McCartney and Justin Timberlake.

Kelley said North American officials see a chance for the vibe in Revel to serve as a complement to what happens at the center.

“We wouldn’t influence (what the center does) other than giving people something to do before and after, but it’ll help sell tickets,” he said. “I mean Paul McCartney doesn’t need help selling tickets, but not everything there is a sellout.

“Even if you look at Major League Lacrosse, (the effect could be) helping boost ticket sales for that, or the high school graduations and having places to walk out to for a bite to eat instead of having to hop in the car.”

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do you take your kids,” she said. “That’s what makes it a sounder approach because you’re looking at ‘Where are your kids when you started and where do they go.’

“You may have a class of high flyers or you may have a class of lower learners, but you all have an opportunity to be rewarded for your performance because it’s all based on how far your kids can go.”

Some of the other new programs and efforts that

Duluth

John Y Keith, Jr., 92, passed away on August 11, 2018 at home with family by his side. He was born in Ripley, MS to Marie (Frazier) and John Y Keith, Sr. He is preceded in death by his parents, 3 siblings and his wife, Audrey Lee (Nelson) Keith, of almost 65 years. He is survived by his brother Bill Keith (and wife, Marcie) of Decatur, AL, his daughter Judy and her husband Ron Coleman of Duluth and by his son John W. Keith of Charlotte. “Papa” was wellloved by his grandchildren Keith (and wife, Melissa) Coleman of Atlanta, Andrew and Kaylee Coleman of Duluth and William and Jennifer Keith of Charlotte, NC. John is a United States Navy veteran, serving our country during

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mean it’s only just for us,” he said. “The good thing about it is that it’s the second one in the nation, which will be good for us, so of course we want to get our guys through, but when it’s not in use, it’s not just going to be sitting here. We’re going to have other departments or other sheriff’s offices or other agencies that want to come by and use it, and they’re more than welcome to.”

At the end of the day, Solis said, the sheriff’s office aims to provide its deputies with the best training possible, which the 300LE helps it do.

“It’s another tool in our belt that we have to help the officers make sure that they know which system to use correctly,” he said. “This system here is valuable. It’s a valuable tool not only for the law enforcement community, but also for the civilians out on the street. The reason I say that is because we’re learning what to do and how to do it correctly.

“We’re not perfect, but this is a tool we’re going to use to see if it will help us in our jobs.”

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murder; aggravated assault; home invasion and use of a firearm by a.m. after apparently interrupting a a convicted felon; another home home invasion, according to Cpl. invasion that occurred in the same Michele Pihera, spokeswoman Snellville neighborhood on July 28, for which Lee is charged with armed for the Gwinnett County Police robbery, home invasion, two counts Department. of aggravated assault and possession “After an extensive and thorough of a firearm during a felony; and an investigation, the lead detective assigned to this case has charged (Lee) armed robbery that occurred at 4183 Moonbeam Way in unincorporated with the homicide on Grand Manor Snellville on July 29. He is facing Trail in unincorporated Snellville,” warrants for two counts of armed Pihera said. “Shortly after the murrobbery, possession of a firearm der, a red Dodge Journey was seen leaving the area on a privately owned during a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon for that personal security camera. Terrence was developed as a person of interest crime.

“Based on all these investigations, who had access to the vehicle during Terrence is also a suspect in cases in the time of the homicide.”

Hillsboro County (Fla.), Rockdale After his arrest, Lee was brought County and the city of Snellville,” to Gwinnett police headquarters for Pihera said. “We are still looking at questioning and was later taken to the Gwinnett County Jail and booked other cases in Gwinnett County that may have been committed by Terin for the outstanding warrant with rence. Additional charges could be no bond, Pihera said. forthcoming in the coming weeks.”

“The detective used this time Pihera said Lee’s arrest was made to continue the investigation and possible by the “dedication” of the obtain valuable evidence positively department’s Criminal Investigations linking Terrence to the murder and Section, the Uniform Patrol Division other crimes around the area,” she and “other valuable units.” said. “On (Tuesday), Terrence was “Terrence targeted innocent formally charged in relation to people and created a fear within three separate crimes in Gwinnett members of the community,” Pihera County.” said. “His arrest should help ease the The three crimes include: the minds of those living in the southern home invasion-murder, for which end of Gwinnett County.”

Lee was charged with felony

Wilbanks highlighted during his speech included: • There are more than 20 schools in the district that are seeking STEM or STEAM certification. They would join eight Gwinnett schools that already have that certification; • English-Spanish dual language immersion programs, where students are taught in both languages, are being added at Level Creek and Meadowcreek elementary schools;

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$120,000, the sheriff’s office is beta testing the system so that Meggitt’s developers can make any necessary tweaks and alterations based on deputies’ feedback prior to putting it on the market.

The sheriff’s office will have the option at the end of the six- to eight-month period to purchase the system at a discounted price, though because it is so new to the agency, there is no indication yet as to what the decision will be.

“The thing we need to (remember) is, what’s the price of a life?” Solis said. “You can’t put a cost on a life, and you’ve got to look at it two ways. It’s not only the officer’s life, but the people that we encounter and their life as well. That’s very important, so for someone to come in and say, ‘This thing costs $300,000, $400,00,’ the thing is, how many officers are we putting through it?”

Solis said the sheriff’s office won’t be the only agency using the simulator, either.

“You’ve got to remember, too — just because we have this system here, doesn’t

• A mentoring program for Hispanic students, similar to an existing program for black students, is being started; • A new Junior Academy program at Parkview High School has been launched; • The existing Junior Academy program at Discovery High School is expected to be expanded; • A new satellite branch of Phoenix High School, called Phoenix High School at Sugarloaf Mills is being

launched in partnership with Simon Youth Foundation to target students who previously dropped out of high school or had decided they weren’t interested in traditional schooling; • The district is adding 10 additional school resources officers; and • The visitor management system, in which visitors have to be “buzzed” in to get past the front door, is being expanded to the county’s high schools.

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World War II. An Auburn University graduate and lifetime fan, John was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Then he began a 37 year career with Sears Roebuck and Co. that moved him from Atlanta, GA to Chicago, IL; Greensboro, NC; and Columbia, SC. He retired in 1986 to Russellville, AL until moving to Duluth in 1999. John sang in church choirs most of his life and was a member of First Baptist Church of Duluth.

He was a man dedicated to God, family and friends.

War Eagle! Condolences may be sent by visiting www.billheadfuneralhome.com. A celebration in honor of John Keith will be held at the Harris Orchards’ Clubhouse at 2 pm Friday 8.17.18.

Norcross, GA

James “Jim” Pruett James Harvey “Jim” Pruett, age 77 of Norcross, died August 16, 2018. A Graveside Service will be held 2:00 PM Saturday August 18, 2018 at Duluth Church Cemetery. Mr. Pruett was born in Atlanta, GA and was a retired manufacturing representative for a furniture company. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Atlanta and was an Air Force Veteran. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Beverly Pruett; daughter, Angela Davis (Ken) of Marietta; granddaughter, Elise Davis; brother, John Robert Pruett of Norcross; sister, Patricia Oxendine (Bobby) of Lilburn; aunt, Jean Polson of Suwanee. Jim was a l

loving husband, father, grandfather and brother and will be dearly missed by all that loved him.

Online condolences may be sent by visiting www. billheadfuneralhome.com.

The family will receive friends Saturday from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM at Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

Buford, GA

Marvin A. Waddle, Sr. Marvin A. Waddle, Sr., age 82, of Buford, GA passed away Wednesday, August 15, 2018.

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world&nation world Teens targeted, dozens killed in Kabul blast At least 34 people were killed in a suicide attack targeting an education center in Kabul on Wednesday, according to a government official. Among the victims were thought to be dozens of teenagers studying English.

Wahid Majroh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health had earlier released a higher death toll of 48. He later revised that figure down.

Dozens were also injured.

The attack on the Maw’ood education center in Dasht e Barchi area of the Afghan capital, came at 4 p.m. local time, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.

Former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies, 93 Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s tenth prime minister, died Thursday in New Delhi at the age of 93.

A statement released by the hospital treating him said “his condition deteriorated over the last 36 hours and he was put on life support systems. Despite the best of efforts, we have lost him today.”

“India grieves the demise of our beloved Atal Ji. His passing away marks the end of an era. He lived for the nation and served it assiduously for decades.

My thoughts are with his family, BJP Karyakartas and millions of admirers in this hour of sadness. Om Shanti,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.

Vajpayee was prime minister briefly in 1996 and 1998 before eventually serving a full term as premier from 1999 to 2004. He had been admitted in June to the All India institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, suffering from a urinary tract infection and chest congestion. His condition worsened, becoming fatal.

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, mourned photos, but she kept her struggles private.

In February 2017, Franklin announced she would stop touring, but she continued to book concerts. Earlier this year,

By Lisa Respers France, she canceled a pair of Dan Gilgoff and performances, including Todd Leopold at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, on doctor’s orders, CNN according to Rolling Aretha Franklin, whose Stone.

The singer’s final public gospel-rooted singing performance was last and bluesy yet expansive November, when she sang delivery earned her the at an Elton John AIDS title “the Queen of Soul,” Foundation gala in New has died, a family stateYork. ment said Thursday. She Aretha Franklin died Thursday from pancreatic cancer. The singer, known as the Queen Over the course of a was 76. of Soul, was 76. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images for The Fox Theatre) professional career that Franklin died at 9:50 spanned more than half a a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family “Aretha helped define her away from us,” he said dren, nieces, nephews and century, Franklin’s songs and friends, according to the American experience,” in a statement. “I’m going cousins knew no bounds,” not only topped the charts but became part of the a statement on behalf of former President Barack to hope, pray and count Franklin’s family said. vernacular.

Franklin’s family from her Obama said in a statement. on the fact that I will see “We have been deeply She made “Respect,” longtime publicist Gwen“In her voice, we could her again sometime. Rest touched by the incredible written by Otis Redding, dolyn Quinn. feel our history, all of it in the Lord’s arms in love, outpouring of love and a call to arms. “(You The “official cause of and in every shade — our Re.” support we have received Make Me Feel Like) A death was due to advanced power and our pain, our Franklin’s fans paid from close friends, suppancreatic cancer of the darkness and our light, our tribute with flowers and a porters and fans all around Natural Woman,” a Carole King song, was an earthy neuroendocrine type, quest for redemption and crown left on her Hollythe world. Thank you expression of sexuality. which was confirmed by our hard-won respect. May wood Walk of Fame star in for your compassion and Franklin’s oncologist, Dr. the Queen of Soul rest in Los Angeles. prayers. We have felt your “Think,” which she wrote with her then-husband, Philip Phillips of Karmaeternal peace.”

Her death comes three love for Aretha and it nos Cancer Institute in Legendary soul singer days after a source close to brings us comfort to know Ted White, became a ralDetroit,” the family stateand Franklin’s friend of Franklin told CNN’s Don that her legacy will live on. lying cry for women fed up with loutish men. ment said. more than 60 years, Sam Lemon that the singer was As we grieve, we ask that The first woman admitTributes and tears Moore, had words of sorin hospice care. you respect our privacy flooded in Thursday after row and comfort to offer.

“In one of the darkduring this difficult time.” ted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she had 88 news of her death broke.

“I adored her and I est moments of our lives, Funeral arrangements Billboard chart hits during President Donald Trump know the feelings were we are not able to find will be announced in the the rock era, tops among tweeted that Franklin “was mutual. While I’m heartthe appropriate words to coming days, the statefemale vocalists. At the a great woman, with a broken that she’s gone I express the pain in our ment said. peak of her career — from wonderful gift from God, know she’s in the Lord’s heart. We have lost the The singer had been 1967 to 1975 — she had her voice.” arms and she’s not in pain matriarch and rock of our reported to be in failmore than two dozen Top “She will be missed!” or suffering anymore from family. The love she had ing health for years and 40 hits. he added. the damn cancer that took for her children, grandchil- appeared frail in recent

Singer, 76, dies after pancreatic cancer battle

nation WWII destroyer remains found off Alaska coast

After 75 years, researchers have discovered the stern of a World War II destroyer off the coast of Alaska and presumably, the final resting place of 70 crew members who were never found after the vessel was hit by a Japanese mine.

Project Recover, a team funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Experts warn Administration, first found ‘thousands’ of the remains of the USS Abner Read in July, according bridges in Italy to a statement Wednesday may be at risk on its website.

Unknown numbers of The general area has people were still missing two been known for years, days after a highway bridge but researchers focused in northern Italy gave way, on finding the stern this authorities said, as experts year. In July, sonar found a warned Thursday that thoupotential site and the team sands of other bridges in Italy sent an unmanned vehicle could be at risk of collapse. down for a look.

The number of cars on The stern, 75 feet long the collapsed section of the and about 18 feet high, was bridge — and the number of encrusted with sea life but people that were in them — it was unmistakable. The is still unclear to those work- search team also saw a gun ing on the ground, Chief of and rudder control.

Fire Services Emmanuel Gissi told CNN. Manafort jury “We also don’t know the ends first day capacity of each car,” Gissi said. “There could be one of deliberations person or five. The only way without a verdict to find out is to break the The jury in the trial of concrete, remove it and then former Donald Trump send in the dogs.”

Thirty-nine fatalities campaign chairman Paul have been confirmed so Manafort did not reach a far, but the death toll may verdict after its first full rise. Prime Minister Giday of deliberations. useppe Conte announced Just before 5 p.m., jurors a 12-month state of emersent a note to Judge T.S. gency for the city of Genoa Ellis with four questions, on Wednesday night and including one asking him pledged five million euros to if he could “redefine” for tackle immediate costs of the them the meaning of “reasearch-and-rescue efforts. sonable doubt,” the legal — From wire reports threshold for acquitting a

discovered earlier this year — more than a decade after they were reported missing.

Authorities said Jewel King, 48; Verdell Jefferson, 41; and Dorothy Butts, 43, were all murdered — two dying from gunshot wounds and one from blunt force trauma.

Now investigators are tasked with unraveling the mystery surrounding their deaths and finding their killer or killers. The the Weld County Jail, north three women all vanished between April and Decemof Denver, the Frederick Police Department said in ber 2006.

Their disappearances a statement. He was set to were treated as missing appear in court Thursday persons cases, but that beafternoon. gan to change in April this Shanann Watts, who year when construction was 15-weeks pregnant, workers at a Washington was reported missing on apartment building called Monday along with her police to say they’d discovtwo daughters, Bella, 3, ered skeletal remains in a and Celeste, 4.

According to a recording crawl space. on the jail’s phone, Chris Watts has been charged Timothy Coggins’ with three counts of murkiller pleads guilty der in the first degree and 35 years after three counts of tampering with physical evidence. racial murder “At this point we have After 35 years, it’s over. been able to recover a Timothy Coggins’ killers body that we’re quite will spend many years, if certain is Shanann Watts’ body,” Colorado Bureau of not the rest of their lives, in Investigation Director John a Georgia prison.

Bill Moore, the second Camper said Thursday at a news conference. “We have man involved in the racially motivated 1983 slaying, strong reason to believe entered a plea Thursday that we know where the and will receive a 20-year bodies of the children are and recovery efforts are in sentence, plus 10 years of probation. process on that.”

Moore pleaded guilty in Remains of three Spalding County Superior Court to voluntary manwomen ID’ed 12 slaughter and concealing the death of another. He years after they will get credit for time went missing served. Moore claims to Police in Washington, be in poor health and apD.C., are working to peared before the judge in solve the killings of three a wheelchair.

— From wire reports women whose bodies were Searchers found a 5-inch gun of the USS Abner Read about 290 feet under the water near Kiska Island, Alaska.

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defendant. Ellis responded that the prosecutors had to prove their case not “beyond possible doubt,” but beyond “doubt based on reason.”

Jurors also asked questions related to Manafort’s tax filing and foreign bank account disclosure charges, including when a person is required to file a foreign banking disclosure, and the definition of “shelf” companies. Ellis instructed them to rely on their “collective recollection” and gave no additional explanation.

Jurors began deliberations Thursday morning.

Manafort is facing 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts brought by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump tells Sessions: Sue certain opioid companies

States.

“I’d also like to ask you to bring a major lawsuit against the drug companies on opioids,” Trump told Sessions during a Cabinet meeting Thursday. “Some states have done it. But I’d like a lawsuit to be brought against these companies that are really sending opioids at a level that it shouldn’t be happening.”

The Justice Department has joined state lawsuits against opioid companies that officials believe have helped fuel a national opioid crisis, Sessions said, but Trump said he would like the Justice Department to pursue a separate federal lawsuit against certain drug companies. Trump did not specify which companies he would like the Justice Department to sue.

Man charged with murder of missing wife, two daughters

A Colorado man faces three counts of murder after his pregnant wife President Donald Trump and two young daughters urged his Attorney General disappeared this week, Jeff Sessions to sue certain authorities said Thursday. pharmaceutical companies Chris Watts was taken that have contributed to the into custody Wednesday opioid crisis in the United night and is being held in

A contact lens was embedded in woman’s eyelid for 28 years

By Sandee LaMotte CNN

Calling all contact lens users: Do not panic. (Shuddering is fine.)

Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it’s a cyst and operates. Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid, gas-permeable one.

But you haven’t worn that type of contact in 28 years.

Must read That’s what happened to a 42-year-old British woman, according to a report recently published in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

Starting as a pea-sized lump just below her left eyebrow, the cyst grew over a six-month period until it was visible on an MRI. In addition to swelling and later pain when touched, her left eyelid

drooped.

When surgeons discovered the rigid contact, it was intact; it appeared to have been perfectly encapsulated by tissue. In the process of removing it, the contact was cracked and chipped.

The woman was bewildered.

Then her mother remembered an accident when the woman was 14 years old: While playing badminton, she was hit in the left eye by a shuttlecock. She wore rigid contacts at the time, and the con-

tact in the injured eye was never found. Because the injury resolved quickly with conservative care, the family assumed the contact had flown out of her eye and been lost.

She never used rigid contacts again after the accident.

Warning signs of a trapped contact lens typically include sharp or scratchy pain, light sensitivity and redness, but the woman had no symptoms once the shuttlecock injury healed.

Her more recent problems sub-

sided after the wayward lens was removed.

Gas-permeable contact lenses are made of rigid, durable plastic that transmits oxygen, not to be confused with popular “soft” contacts or old-fashioned “hard” contacts.

Though losing one’s contact inside an eyelid is a common occurrence for most contact wearers, fewer than a handful of cases have been reported of the body encapsulating a lens as a foreign object.

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Police: Owner of sports company stole money, spent it on prostitutes of money for his services, and he would The owner of a Gwinnett keep some sports company that worked of it, which with youth athletic organiwas (lezations to provide umpires gitimate), Timothy and referees for baseball and but he was Ryan basketball games is accused supposed of taking money intended to to give the rest to the particupay the sports officials and lar umpires or referees who using it to pay for prostitutes. worked (the games).”

Last week, a Gwinnett Instead, Delfunt said, County grand jury indicted Ryan would take that money 55-year-old Dawsonville and use it to hire prostitutes resident Timothy Ryan on from the since shut down 32 counts of theft — four website backpage.com counts of theft by conver“It started out as late sion and 28 counts of theft payments, then turned out of services — for withhold- into obvious non-payment,” ing payments to officials Delfunt said. “The offiwho worked sporting events cials would still work the throughout the county in games because they were 2017, according to Gwinnett in the baseball or basketball County Assistant District At- leagues and didn’t want to torney Brandon Delfunt. leave kids without umpires “Mr. Ryan owned a and have to cancel the company — a legitimate games, but when it became business — where he proapparent he was never govided (officials) for different ing to pay, they called law sporting events and leagues,” enforcement.”

Delfunt said. “Youth sports Delfunt said in total, Ryan associations would pay his was paid about $50,000, company a certain amount of which he took nearly

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$22,000 that was supposed to pay the sports officials.

“He used a large portion of that to hire prostitutes and escorts off the backpage website,” Delfunt said. “Ultimately, he was arrested and confessed to as much.”

The FBI other federal law enforcement agencies shut down the website, which was primarily used to sell sex, in April of this year in an attempt to end forced prostitution and child exploitation.

Delfunt said Ryan hired the prostitutes in spring 2017, though, and possibly in fall 2016, nearly a year before the site was closed.

At least 28 theft victims have been identified as having their pay taken between February and July 2017, though Delfunt said there are likely more, given basketball season is held in the fall.

“I don’t think we, or Mr. Ryan, will ever know exactly how much was spent on (backpage.com), but it’s safe to say a large portion of the money was spent there,” Delfunt said.

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Buford’s Miller hopes to use platform for good

By Taylor Denman Harry Miller didn’t know much about Nicaragua or the turmoil between the government and its people as a seventh-grader.

The more than 6 million people in the Central American nation have lived through political instability over roughly the past decade. Protests against the government sometimes have become violent since President Daniel Ortega and his vice president wife Rosario Murillo have been in office.

fellow missionaries, is to spread a message of hope by rebuilding churches and connecting with locals.

Miller’s favorite thing to do is play soccer with local children.

While Miller, a senior offensive lineman at Buford and one of the nation’s top football prospects, sometimes wondered what the children were growing up for, he was struck by the locals’ resilience, despite their hardship.

“You think if there’s

THE RUNDOWN A quick look at this weekend’s high school football in the Gwinnett area: TODAY’S GAMES 5:30 p.m.

Buford vs. Tucker* 7:30 p.m.

Clinch County at Hebron Cross Keys at Providence Discovery at Dacula Lovett at GAC Mountain View at Parkview Peachtree Ridge at Lanier Shiloh at Duluth South at Central Wesleyan at Meadowcreek 8:30 p.m.

Archer vs. Milton* SATURDAY’S GAMES 11:45 a.m.

Mill Creek vs. Walton** 5:45 p.m.

Brookwood vs. North** 8:45 p.m.

Norcross vs. Mays** *Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State **Corky Kell Classic at Mercedes-Benz Stadium

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Miller began to understand the oppression the nation’s residents dealt with daily after returning several times on annual mission trips. He said he’s spoken to families that turn to prostituting their children for building materials for their houses. The government has been reportedly linked to the deaths of some protesters, and political turmoil continues as the government resists establishing dialogue with its people. His goal, with his

losses for North Gwinnett, which last won in the season-opening event in 2014

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Straight Corky Kell Classic wins for Mill Creek, which last lost in the event in 2014

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Gwinnett football teams whose head coaches make their debuts tonight — Dacula’s Clint Jenkins and Mountain View’s Rob Kellogg

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Tackles last season by Hebron Christian’s Michael Moyers, the county’s top returning tackler from 2017 NEW SKILL PLAYERS A large number of high-level athletes graduated from Gwinnett County football teams after last season, leaving a new group of skill players the chance to make their mark in 2018.

Gwinnett’s top seven rushers (in yards per game), top six receivers (in yards) and top four passers (in yards)

were all seniors in 2017.

Archer’s Carter Peevy is the only quarterback returning among the county’s top seven passers from last season, while North’s Josh Downs (824 yards) and Buford’s Derrian Brown (844 yards) are the leading stats guys back in receiving and rushing, respectively.

FLASHBACK On this week in 2010, Nick Tompkins rushes for 123 yards and Jamaal Cole rushes for 119 in Brookwood’s 27-10 win over Walton in the Corky Kell Classic. Ben McLane, now the Broncos’ quarterbacks coach, rushes for for one score and throws a 38-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Lynch, now an NFL linebacker. … Norcross’ Matt Poole throws three first-half TD pass, two to Bradley Coleman, in a 21-12 win over Dacula. … North Gwinnett makes its Corky Kell debut with a 34-14 win over Lassiter behind two TDs each from Ethan Kilgore and Donnie Miles.

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anywhere where there would be a lack of God, it would be there, but it’s crazy to go down there and see the sense of community,” Miller said. “When you come back, it’s so humbling, because you think, ‘Who am I to complain about going to school early?’”

Miller has been a standout football player for at least as long as he’s been making annual trips See MILLER, Page 6B

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Longtime Gwinnett football coach Dicky May, in white, addresses the Central Gwinnett football team Wednesday as a guest of Central head coach Todd Wofford, in yellow.

May played and coached football at Central for legendary coach Tally Johnson before embarking on a long coaching career that included stops at Dacula, Brookwood and Buford. May, who recently retired, spoke to the team about a variety of topics, including what this week’s game against longtime rival South Gwinnett means to the community.

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New pack of Hawks set for their debut at Mercedes-Benz Stadium 4-AAAAAAA championship, scoring 40 or more points in all but two games. That included WALTON RAIDERS As with nearly every scoring 31 in the 2017 (4-AAAAAAA) high school football team Corky Kell against evenCoach: Daniel Brunner 2017 record: 11-1 in Georgia, Mill Creek tual state champion North Last week: Season opener has zero experience at Gwinnett.

MILL CREEK HAWKS State runner-up Colquitt giant Mercedes-Benz (6-AAAAAAA) County ended Walton’s Stadium.

Coach: Shannon Jarvis 2017 record: 8-4 season in the second The Hawks will get Last week: Season opener round of the playoffs that Saturday in the Corky When: Saturday, 11:45 a.m. with a 28-21 victory. The Kell Classic against Last meeting: First meeting returning group is led Walton. They plan to Location: Mercedes-Benz

by Georgia commitment arrive early, sit in the Stadium Dominick Blaylock, a stands for the 9 a.m. East five-star recruit at wide Coweta-Kell game and get accustomed to a building sides of the ball. Some of receiver and the son of former NBA point guard that already has hosted the the first-time starters are Mookie Blaylock. He will Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta seniors, but Mill Creek United, the Southeastern also will rely on a handful test a young Mill Creek Conference Champiof young, talented players secondary of juniors and sophomores. onship Game and the in key spots.

“You hear about them College Football Playoff Tackle Austin Ruizand you hear about BlayNational Championship Velasco and linebacklock,” Jarvis said. “He’s Game. ers Brock Skinner and one of the top receivers in “I’m very excited about Myles Jackson are the that,” Mill Creek head only returning starters on the country and when you coach Shannon Jarvis defense, while four offen- watch him on film, he’s said. “When you go into sive linemen highlight the every bit as good as advertised. You don’t know Mercedes-Benz Stadium starters back on offense. for the first time, it’s “I’m excited about our until you break them down how good their impressive. For any fan team,” Jarvis said. “Like other skill guys are. Their who has not been in there, any other year, we’re skill guys are maybe as a $20 ticket (for the Corky having to replace a lot of talented as we’ll see this Kell) is a great opportuni- graduating, experienced year.” ty to see what is considplayers. But I like our Mill Creek sports a ered the greatest stadium team. We had a great three-game winning in the world. Once you preseason camp. It’s streak in the Corky Kell go there, you realize it not just young kids, it’s is. From the ground level inexperienced kids on that event with victories over top programs Brookwood, looking up, it’s a beautiful stage. I’m excited to see facility. how they respond. We’ve Colquitt County and “The locker room, been fortunate the last two McEachern. A fourth in a row won’t be easy against everything, is first-class. years that our kids have I did a tour and realized played well in that game. a Walton team that also how neat it will be for our It will be interesting to see faces two of Mill Creek’s 6-AAAAAAA rivals, kids. I hope they appreci- how our kids respond to Collins Hill (Aug. 24) and ate the opportunity.” some adversity.”

North Gwinnett (Sept.

The venue isn’t the only High-powered Walton 14), in non-region play. thing new for Mill Creek, presents a tough opening “We know Walton will though. challenge. not beat themselves and Graduation took a The Raiders went we know we’re not going big senior class, leaving unbeaten in the reguto be able to start slow batches of brand-new lar season on the way against them,” Jarvis said. varsity starters on both to last year’s Region

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North Gwinnett’s Tyler Goodson (5) tries to avoid Walton’s Mikey Farr (4) during the Corky Kell Classic last year at Georgia State Stadium in Atlanta. (Photo: Will Fagan)

North, Brookwood bring 2016 rematch to event

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Brookwood High School was part of the original Corky Kell Classic in 1992. The Broncos lost to McEachern 21-14 in the Georgia Dome, which was the only location for the season-opening showcase at the time. The only other game was a blowout for Newnan over SouthwestDeKalb.

Since then, the Corky Kell Classic has expanded to three locations: Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia State Stadium and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

“I just think it’s the best thing going,” North Gwinnett head coach Bill Stewart said of his 10th Corky Kell Classic. “I don’t know what other state has something like this with these matchups under one label.

Obviously, there are great games going on beyond (Mercedes-Benz Stadium), and the matchups in the stadium are for real. It’s such an honor to be a part

BROOKWOOD BRONCOS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Phil Jones 2017 record: 8-4, 5-1 region Last week: Season Opener NORTH BULLDOGS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Bill Stewart 2017 record: 14-1, 6-0 region Last week: Season opener When: Saturday, 5:54 p.m.

Last meeting: Brookwood won 37-23 in 2016 Location: Mercedes-Benz Stadium

of it because you have to have done something to be in it.”

North Gwinnett and Brookwood are scheduled to be the penultimate game Saturday at 5:45 p.m.

The last time Brookwood played North Gwinnett was another Corky Kell matchup in 2016. Bob Sphire’s Bulldogs topped the Broncos 37-23.

Brookwood and North Gwinnett are both presenting new starting quarterbacks. Brookwood is projected to start senior

Conner Chavis, while North Gwinnett is projected to bring out a junior in J.R. Martin.

While both teams are looking to get off to solid starts, season openers offer an opportunity for teams to measure themselves against potential contenders in an intense atmosphere. A good start is encouraging, but it’s not everything. Ask none other than Stewart, whose Bulldogs faltered in last year’s Corky Kell Classic against Walton.

That loss was the only one for North Gwinnett in the 2017 season.

“Our guys have worked hard and there’s part of that unknown in this first game when you figure out what you are,” Stewart said. “We lost this game last year to Walton, but it made us stronger. While it’s important to win, the big thing is that we’re competing against a good opponent the brings out the best of us. You have to achieve in this game and that helps you down the road.”

MILL CREEK VS. WALTON

Norcross enters tough Corky Kell opener against Mays

By David Friedlander

of a full year under center (5-6 in 2017) on Saturday and we can’t let him NORCROSS VS. MAYS and a number of fellow night, and it won’t be an extend plays. We have to NORCROSS BLUE DEVILS (7-AAAAAAA) skill position players who easy task considering the keep him in the pocket, but Coach: Keith Maloof talent Mays (11-2 last they’ve got good receivers, also got valuable experi2017 Record: 5-6 Last week: Season opener Normally, a team in year) possesses on offense. and their running backs run ence last year should help, MAYS RAIDERS (5-AAAAAA) Norcross’ situation would Raiders quarterback downhill. Our defense has there are several new startCoach: Niketa Battle enter into its season opener Jahquez Evans, a recent ers for the Blue Devils’ got to be ready to play.”

2017 Record: 11-2 with a little trepidation. commit to South Florida, is From an offensive stand- offense who will just be Last week: Season opener When: Saturday, 8:45 p.m.

The Blue Devils’ prea dual threat who accountpoint, Blue Devils quarter- getting their feet wet.

Last meeting: First meeting between the two schools season scrimmage was So Maloof’s goals, at ed for 994 yards through back Louis Williams should Location: Mercedes-Benz Stadium canceled due to inclement the air and 322 yards on least initially, are to keep be a little more ready to weather, which leaves their the grounds in just six things simple. play for Saturday’s game game against Mays, in the games last year.

“Offensively, we’ve got powerful running game. veteran front seven led by than he was a year ago, finale of this year’s Corky Junior Tyree Nelson, And with a strong ofseniors Christian Wright when he received a baptism to do what we can do and of fire in his first game as a find things that work for Kell Classic, as their first who ran for over 1,000 fensive line to pave the and Jaylin Carter. starter against eventual state us, move the chains and opportunity to see action yards last season as a way, Mays provides a “(Evans) is very athagainst an opponent other sophomore, complements challenge for Norcross’ de- letic,” Maloof said. “We’ve runner-up Colquitt County. score when we have the While having the benefit opportunity,” Maloof said. than themselves.

Evans’ talents by leading a fense, which will rely on a got to keep him contained, Doing so on a big stage against an opponent like the Raiders, a Class AAAAAA state quarterfinalist a year ago and ranked No. 5 in the 2018 Georgia Sports WritGwinnett Daily Post has a full-time 2nd shift position for a qualified individual. ers Association preseason poll, was already going to be a tough enough task.

Rather than bemoaning the circumstances, Norcross coach Keith Maloof, his staff and players are Hours are: heading into Saturday’s Tuesday-Saturday 8:45 p.m. kickoff at Mercedes-Benz Stadium 6pm to 2am. with a positive outlook.

“I feel pretty good,” Maloof said. “Our (team) chemistry seems to be good. As long as the chemistry is locked in and stays good, we can do some good things. Sure, we wanted some reps under our belts (from the scrimmage), but that didn’t work out. … They’re just ready to line up, and they’re tired of hitting each other.”

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THE BREAKDOWN

A look at this week’s prep football matchups (all games at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted)

CLINCH COUNTY AT HEBRON CHRISTIAN

CROSS KEYS AT PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN

CLINCH COUNTY PANTHERS (2-A) HEBRON CHRISTIAN LIONS (8-A) Coach: Jim Dickerson Coach: Jeff Saturday 2017 Record: 12-2 2017 Record: 6-5 Last week: Season opener Last week: Season opener Hebron coach Jeff Saturday wasn’t kidding around when he said he wanted some good tests for his team early in the 2018 campaign. After a scrimmage with Class A-Private semifinalist Prince Avenue Christian, the Lions open the regular season tonight by welcoming defending A-Public champion Clinch County to its newly refurbished stadium, which seems more like a final exam than a pop quiz.

“Playing Prince was a good test to see how we match up (with a tough opponent),” Saturday said. “Our kids were able to compete well, especially defensively in the running game. (Prince Avenue) had about three incredible plays, but our kids hung in well. … It showed us a a lot, and our kids’ effort was good.”

The Lions will definitely have to cram hard to pass the test that the Panthers Michael bring in, particularly with Division I college prospects like Georgia-committed TrezMoyers man Marshall, who sees time at quarterback, running back and linebacker, and junior athlete Jeremiah Johnson, a 6-foot-7 playmaker who can do a little bit of everything, as well.

“They’ve got about three or four guys who are going Division I (in college),” Saturday said of Clinch. “They’re as good a football team as I’ve seen. We’ll see right away how we measure up. …

We have to know our keys from a defensive standpoint. If we’re misaligned, they’re going to expose it.

While they may still beat you, we’ve got to try to make them beat us throwing the ball.

“Offensively, we have to try to match up with their two big interior (defensive) linemen. (Each offensive lineman) has to know his assignments and get to the guys he’s responsible for, and our skill guys have to make plays.”

The Lions will rely on veterans like linebacker Michael Moyers and two-way seniors Jeffrey Saturday and Will Warbington to lead the way as they try to fill in the right boxes in this multiple-choice test.

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Hebron Christian Academy

CROSS KEYS INDIANS (5-AAAAA) PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN STORM (8-A) Coach: Mark Adams Coach: Parker Conley 2017 Record: 0-6 2017 Record: 1-9 Last week: Season Opener Last week: Season opener Considering the struggles his team has endured during its brief varsity history, Providence coach Parker Conley is plenty happy about small victories.

“I’m happy with how healthy we are right now,” Conley said. “To have a full squad working coming out of camp is good.

“The big thing we’re trying to get them to do right now is to push past where they think they can be. We don’t have a culture of winning yet, so we have to build that day in and day out.”

The Storm will try to start the 2018 campaign with a much bigger victory against a Cross Keys team that has struggled even longer than they have.

But as Conley points out, the Storm are hardly in a position to take any oppoCallum nent for granted, especially an Indians team that he said will have a distinct size Mobley advantage across the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.

However, Conley has been pleased with the speed and athleticism his players have shown thus far in preseason practice, especially from the running game, led by senior running back Callum Mobley and a host of others.

“I’ve really liked the way our running backs have worked, as well as the our wide receivers running people off (in coverage),” Conley said. “Mobley had a good scrimmage and first few weeks of practice. (Cross Keys) has some good size on the line, and I’m confident they’re going to try to use it to their advantage. We’ve got to try to counter that by using our speed wide, and hopefully their size inside won’t be too much for us.

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Providence Christian Academy

DISCOVERY AT DACULA

PEACHTREE RIDGE AT LANIER

DISCOVERY TITANS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Efrem Hill 2017 record: 1-9 Last week: Season opener

DACULA FALCONS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Clint Jenkins 2017 record: 7-5 Last week: Season opener

PEACHTREE RIDGE LIONS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Reggie Stancil 2017 Record: 2-8 Last week: Season opener

LANIER LONGHORNS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Korey Mobbs 2017 Record: 6-5 Last week: Season opener

Dacula did not have the luxury of a preseason scrimmage, thanks to some evening thunderstorms that complicated a scheduled exhibition between the Falcons and Flowery Branch on Aug. 9.

Dacula now plays its first meaningful snaps of the high school season under a new head coach without having played a simulated game situation beforehand.

“You want your kids to get out there under the lights with that atmosphere,” Falcons head coach Clint Jenkins said. “You get a test run. I think it’s a good measuring stick, going in. Obviously, if you get a chance to play, you want to play. But, like I said, we’re going to make the best of it.”

Discovery coach Efrem Hill was impressed with Discovery’s energy level during Alex Drazic its preseason scrimmage, and the Titans’ offense made gains in its ability to run effectively. The coach also saw maturity in the decision-making abilities of his senior quarterback Alex Drazic.

“That was one of the things that we said, going into it, that we had to be able to control the line of scrimmage and run the ball well,” Hill said. “I think (Drazic) did a good job of taking what the defense gave them. It was a good job on offense.”

There’s a stark difference between the infant Discovery program, now in its third season, and Dacula, which has existed since the mid-1960s and owns 10 region titles since 1988 and is under the program’s ninth head coach. Discovery has more to look forward to this season with the wealth of returning starters on both sides. In addition to Drazic, four of the five offensive linemen projected to start are returners. Three defensive backs and four linebackers have starting experience for the Titans.

The Titans hope to glean a sense of progress from their game against an established program with four playoff appearances in the previous five seasons.

“If we — over the first four games compete — and grow, then we go into region, I think we’ll stand a chance,” Hill said. “Those are the things, I know it sounds simple — but continuing to compete throughout the game, no matter if you’re 21 up or 21 down.”

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Dacula High School

The records of the two teams from a year ago were uncharacteristic of each program’s success in previous years.

But when Lanier and Peachtree Ridge meet for the first time tonight, both coaches are expecting the kind of game that one might expect given their respective trademark style of play.

“No doubt, this will be a physical game,” Longhorns coach Korey Mobbs said.

“That’s why we like to play (Class) AAAAAA schools. It’ll prepare us down the line for games in our region. …. (Peachtree Ridge is) extremely athletic.

“Defensively, their front seven is probably one of the toughest we’ll see all season. … They look like a Peachtree Ridge defense you’d expect to see. So Jagger we’ve got to establish ourselves up front, and this will be a good test for that. …

Jones Protecting the quarterback will be huge.”

Indeed, it will be very important for the Longhorns to protect Texas A&M-committed signal caller Zach Calzada, a task that will fall to a fairly new offensive line, led by its sole returning starter, Jagger Jones.

That group will have its hands full with a Peachtree Ridge front seven that has vowed to be more physical this season, particularly with the move of several personnel around to maximize that trait.

According to Peachtree Ridge coach Reggie Stancil, the defensive line, led returning starters in seniors Dorian Williams and Terrance Harris and junior Mason Huntley to set the tone for the Lions and try to disrupt the Calzada and the Lanier offense.

“He throws the ball very well,” Stancil said of Calzada. “Our job will be to make him uncomfortable. … Our biggest reason for getting bigger (on defense) was to help stop the run. But the thing we saw on tape is that (Lanier is) not running it as much as they have in the past. With their quarterback, I don’t blame them.

“We think we can use some problems with our defensive line. If those guys come to play, we can cause some problems for us.”

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Lanier High School

MOUNTAIN VIEW AT PARKVIEW

SHILOH AT DULUTH

MOUNTAIN VIEW BEARS (6-AAAAAAA) PARKVIEW PANTHERS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Rob Kellogg Coach: Eric Godfree 2017 record: 9-3 2017 record: 9-4 Last week: Season opener Last week: Season opener Mountain View and Parkview faced a similar dilemma this offseason.

Both teams are filling positions vacated by last year’s leading passers, rushers and receivers.Tonight’s season opener can be seen as a sort of tryout for some of those spots, as the GHSA football season begins for both teams at Parkview.

Parkview begins the season receiving votes in Class AAAAAAA from the Georgia Sports Writers Association, perhaps a nod to its frequent contention and the program’s ability to advance deeper into the playoffs in each of the four seasons under head coach Eric Godfree.

“Any time you’re going into a Game 1, it’s very difficult to anticipate what you can see skill-wise or scheme-wise,” new Mountain View head coach Rob Kellogg said.

Matthew Edwards Kellogg was pleased with the attention to detail Mountain View showed during its scrimmage against Cambridge. The Bears showed good ball protection from turnovers and didn’t have an excessive amount of penalties, including no major penalties. Most importantly, the team returned totally healthly.

As the team’s former offensive coordinator, Kellogg said the Bears’ offense will look similar to last season when Matthew Edwards, Blake Carroll and Malachi Carter were the team’s leading producers.

The biggest difference, he said, is perhaps the integration of a handful of new formations that diverge from the team’s base playbook over the past few years.

Mountain View has had to make some adjustments of its own when it lost four-star defensive lineman and University of Florida commit Jaelin Humphries to a knee injury. He underwent a procedure late in the summer, and he’s expected to miss several weeks to start the season before being reevaluated prior to region play. For now, the Bears are looking toward depth to fill the hole on its new four-man defensive front.

Last meeting: Parkview won 48-13 last year in the state playoffs Location: Parkview High School

SOUTH GWINNETT AT CENTRAL GWINNETT SOUTH GWINNETT COMETS (8-AAAAAAA) CENTRAL BLACK KNIGHTS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Steve Davenport Coach: Todd Wofford 2017 record: 3-8 2017 record: 5-5 Last week: Season opener Last week: Season opener Gwinnett’s oldest rivalry dates back to before their current school names — when South Gwinnett was Snellville and Central Gwinnett was Lawrenceville.

Except for a two-year hiatus in the series in 1998 and 1999, the two have played each other every season since 1964.

This year’s meeting features two teams revamped after big graduation losses.

It’s the second season for South head coach Steve Davenport, who has just six returning starters from last year’s state playoff team.

The big losses were on defense with top recruits Justin Mascoll (Clemson) and Robert Cooper (Florida State) signing with ACC schools.

Nick Grier, Josh Sery and Jaden Woods are back on defense, while Jalen Justin Samuels, Adrian Compton and Josh Anderson are returning offensive players with Wilkins experience.

“We had a lot of seniors last year that we’re losing, but I think the case in most AAAAAAA programs is you always have a good junior class that has been in the program for quite some time and is now looking for the opportunity to be seniors and lead themselves,” Davenport said.

Central’s biggest voids entering the season were on offense, where running back Justin Wilkins and wideouts Skylar Adams and Kameron King are the only starters back. But head coach Todd Wofford likes the young talent on that side of the ball.

He expects the defense to be a strength with six regulars returning.

“I’m excited to see what the defense does,” Wofford said. “We were young on defense last year with a lot of juniors and sophomores out there.

“So those guys have a lot of experience coming back.”

Last meeting: Central won 28-24 in 2017 Location: Central Gwinnett High School

SHILOH GENERALS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Ryan Andrews 2017 Record: 1-9 Last week: Season opener

DULUTH WILDCATS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Bob Swank 2017 Record: 3-7 Last week: Season opener

After struggling for several seasons in recent history, both teams enter tonight’s opener looking for a quick start out of the gate.

Doing so could be particularly important for Duluth, which is not only breaking in a new starting quarterback in sophomore Jaiden Jones, but a brand new option offense behind experienced running backs Adam Mullins and Logan Goins, plus Tennessee move-in Deonte Miller, and a large, seasoned line.

“We’re just trying to control the ball, not turn it over, play solid on defense and in the kicking game and give ourselves a chance to win,” Wildcats coach Bob Swank said.

“It will be absolutely huge (for the line) to give our quarterback and running Jasheen backs time so they can take care of the ball. If they can, they’ll give us a chance Davis to win.”

Shiloh also will be trying to adjust to Duluth’s new offense, only the task for the Generals’ defense will be to apply pressure and gain penetration at the line of scrimmage to force Jones and the Duluth skill players into quick decision in their first time in the new offense.

Accordingly, the Generals will lean on athletic veterans like defensive lineman Jasheen Davis and linebackers Isaac Dowling and Cevon January to get that job done.

“Duluth bringing their triple option scheme and coming off the ball hard, that’ll be a big challenge for us to start the year with it,” Shiloh coach Ryan Andrews said. “But we’re looking forward to it.

We’ve got to play well up front. We’ve got to get off blocks.

“We can’t be blown off the line of scrimmage. If we’re able to do that, I like our chances. If we can’t, it’s going to be a long night.”

Last meeting: Shiloh won 28-21 in 2009 Location: Duluth High School

WESLEYAN AT MEADOWCREEK WESLEYAN WOLVES (5-A) Coach: Franklin Pridgen 2017 Record: 8-3 Last week: Season opener

MEADOWCREEK MUSTANGS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Jason Carrera 2017 Record: 7-4 Last week: Season opener

Class A Wesleyan will be facing a Class AAAAAAA opponent for the first time.

Meadowcreek is coming off a historic season, which included its first postseason berth in more than 20 years. The Mustang roster features plenty of size, including an offensive line that averages 294 pounds, led by returning starters James King, Francisco Moreira and Harry Torp. But it isn’t Meadowcreek’s size or the momentum it built that concerns Wesleyan coach Franklin Pridgen the most. It is their athleticism, including junior quarterback Quincy Bonner, who he believes the Wolves must try to keep in check and keep from wearing down many Wesleyan two-way starters deep into the game.

Promise “The big thing will be how quickly can we acclimate to their speed,” Pridgen Williams said. “We’ve got to get off to a good start, and we can’t let their athleticism overwhelm us. It will be what we do with our size and conditioning. Do we have the right rotations to keep us as fresh as possible? We have to makes some big plays early.”

It is actually Meadowcreek coach Jason Carrera that is concerned about Wesleyan’s size, particularly Wolves linebackers Josh Aspinwall and Jackson Turner. However, the biggest key he wants the Mustangs to accomplish is for the defense, led by linebacker Promise Williams, to bring early pressure on one of two young Wesleyan quarterbacks, either sophomore Andrew Van Wie or freshman J.C. French, and force them to adjust to the speed of the game.

“Where we’ve been successful defensively is dialing up pressure,” Carrera said. “That’s why we moved Promise Williams back to linebacker, and we’ve got a few other guys coming off the edge. So we have to have that kind of advantage so we can put pressure on their quarterback and make him make (quick) decisions.”

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Meadowcreek High School

GAC, Lovett square off in new installment of rivalry

By Taylor Denman

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Some research of Class AAA’s No. 7-ranked football team in the Georgia Sports Writers Association’s preseason poll reveals Lovett is built on a foundation of Division I recruits.

It starts with K.J. Wallace, a class of 2019 cornerback and Notre Dame commit.

He has support from Nick Jackson, a fellow

senior and Division I prospect at linebacker. Under center, Lovett projects to be commanded by junior signal caller Blaine McAllister, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound athlete.

Head coach Tim Hardy and the Spartans, ranked No. 3 by the same preseason poll, are starting the season with a potential playoff opponent tonight.

GAC and Lovett have met 15 times. GAC has won nine of the 15 meetings, including the last five.

Lovett and GAC played

twice in 2017. The Spartans’ first win was in the regular season, a 46-14 win. The rematch in the playoffs was a tighter game, but only mathematically. GAC knocked out Lovett in the second round of the Class AAA playoffs with a 38-21 win.

The two programs have played each other 11 of the last 12 years. It’s the seventh meeting between Hardy and Lovett head coach Mike Muschamp.

The rivalry began with a first-round playoff game in

1999. Then, both programs’ winningest head coaches were still at the helm. For Lovett, Bill Rainey was in the home stretch of his 23-year tenure, while GAC’s Jimmy Chupp was a first-year head coach for the Spartans. The rookie bit the veteran in that 1999 game, 24-21.

“This is as talented a Lovett team as they’ve had in a while,” Hardy said.

“We played them twice last year — in the first game and the second round of

the playoffs — there’s a lot of familiarity between Lovett and GAC.” The Spartans are coming off a scrimmage against Woodward Academy. Both Jackson Hardy and Josh Rose took reps at quarterback, and Hardy expects the same shared role to start the regular season.

Hardy and the Spartans came away feeling in control of its ability to improve from season start to finish. Talent and athletic ability aren’t a shortcoming for the Spartans in

2018.

“You turn on an NFL preseason game, you see some good things, you see some other things,” Hardy said. “For us to step out there in live-action and compete against a quality opponent — I felt the effort, I felt pretty good execution for Aug. 10, I saw some resolve in difficult situations.

“I’ve never met a coach that does back-handsprings after a preseason scrimmage, but I thought it was a solid next step.”

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Prep Schedule

Today

SOFTBALL

4 p.m. — Buford and Lambert at Mill Creek 4 p.m. — Harris Co. at North 6 p.m. — Buford and Northside-Columbus at Mill Creek 8 p.m. — Northside-Columbus at Mill Creek

VOLLEYBALL

4 p.m. — Landmark Christian, Tallulah Falls at Providence 5 p.m. — Friday Night Spikes at Discovery Saturday

CROSS COUNTRY

• Brookwood in Hoya 2-Mile Invitational • Central in Loganville Christian Academy Invitational • Mountain View at Westminster 7:45 a.m. — Parkview in Cumming Stage Races 8 a.m. — Discovery in Zach Wansley Clash at Chapel Hill High School 8 a.m. — GAC, North in 2-Mile Stage Races at Chattahoochee Point Park 9:30 a.m. — Duluth Stage Races at River Green Park

SOFTBALL

• Hebron and Mount Pisgah at Providence 9 a.m. — Harris Co. at Mill Creek 9 a.m. — Jackson Co. at Archer 9 a.m. — North Forsyth at North 10 a.m. — Mount Pisgah at Providence 10 a.m. — Shiloh at Stephenson 10 a.m. — Wesleyan at Parkview (DH) 11:30 a.m. — Mountain View and Jackson Co. at Archer Noon — Shiloh and Miller Grove at Stephenson 12:30 p.m. — Buford and Lowndes at Mill Creek 1 p.m. — Northside Columbus at North 2 p.m. — Mountain View at Archer 2:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge and Loganville at Mill Creek 3 p.m. — Forsyth Central and Grayson at Mill Creek 4 p.m. — Kings Ridge at Providence 5 p.m. — Grayson at North

VOLLEYBALL

• Aloha Bash at Brookwood • Hebron, Wesleyan at Holy Innocents’ Playdate • Mill Creek in Kick Off Klassic at SVC • Mountain View, Brookwood, Norcross at North Forsyth tournament

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Gladiators add toughness, depth Atlanta inks MacDonald, McKay, Cote for 2018-19 season

By Christine Troyke

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DULUTH — The Atlanta Gladiators announced the signing of forwards Justin MacDonald and Austin McKay, as well as defenseman Vytal Cote on Thursday.

MacDonald, 27, played for Fort Wayne with nine points in 28 regular-season games and added a goal and an assist in 13 playoff games in 2017-18.

“He’s an unbelievably hard working guy who will do whatever you ask him,” head coach Jeff Pyle said.

“A great penalty killer.

He’s great in the room. A professional. I wanted to get him to have a guy who knows me stuff and can can send my message, too.

“Best forechecker I think I’ve ever seen. Stops and starts on everything. I tried to get him back from (at Fort Wayne) last year right before the playoffs and he couldn’t give him up. If he’s in a better role, he’ll score more.”

The Atlanta Gladiators announced the signing of forward Justin MacDonald on Thursday. (Photo: Fort Wayne Komets)

MacDonald also played five games for Adirondack and 16 games — with 24 points — for Pyle’s Evansville team in the SPHLlast season. The eight-year pro has a total of 252 points in 241 games in the SPHL and FHL. In 117 career ECHL games, the 6-foot-1, 201-pound forward has 50 points for Evansville, Indy, Cincinnati, Fort Wayne and Adirondack.

“He can play in any role effectively and can adjust to any situation he is put in,” Pyle said. “Mac is a

Bello, 16, vying for United minutes

By Taylor Denman

a hip injury that sidelined him since April 22, saw his first 45 minutes of action with Atlanta United 2 durIt was a pair of Atlanta ing a start against CharlesUnited homegrown prodton Battery on Saturday. ucts, Andrew Carleton and He logged 239 profesGeorge Bello, who carried sional minutes since his bags of soccer ball off the debut with Atlanta United field after practice.

2 on April 1. Prior to his Carleton turned 18 in start against Charleston, June and Bello turned 16 however, he was on Atlanta in January. They’re two of United’s first team 18the youngest players on man active roster against the team, but are starting Toronto FC. to break into the first team.

Post-training chores Carleton has 90 minutes of may be a gentle reminder action in five appearances, that Bello is no longer an including one start. Bello, academy farmhand. He’s who recently returned from vying for meaningful min-

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“We’ll run one varsity guy in each of the five (stages) and just kind of get One of Georgia’s top a measuring stick to where early season high school we are,” said Parkview off-road running events is coach Mike Demarest, moving up the road. whose Panthers won the While the Peachtree boys varsity team champiRidge Stage Races will onship in last year’s race. shift venues to ChattaDemarest is hopeful his hoochee Pointe Park in Panther boys — as well as Suwanee, the competition the North Gwinnett girls, throughout the junior varsi- who won their team title — ty and varsity races figures can not only duplicate that to be as fierce when the finish, but also gain a little gun goes off for this year’s more momentum though event Saturday morning. the rest of the season.

Runners from boys and Parkview’s boys wound girls teams representing 18 up finishing 15th in the different schools throughClass AAAAAAA state out metro Atlanta, including meet, but after several in11 from Gwinnett County dividuals contributed to the will take to the 3,200-meter Panther track team’s state course for different “stagtrack title in the distance es,” with the first junior events, including Super varsity stage set to begin at Six selection Tristan Autry, 7:45 a.m. and the last of the Demarest is expecting five varsity stages getting more of his team this fall.

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Sports Calendar GOLF

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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Toronto FC. Greg Garza and Mikey Ambrose both sustained season-ending injuries, leaving an opening at left back. Chris McCann made the start for Atlanta United at left back, but Bello was in reserve as the only left-footed defender in the lineup.

“He’s done so well to get into the 18,” McCann said. “He’s a good player, a young player and he’s hungry player as well. I think if anybody saw his games with the youth team and the ATL 2 games, they see he’s a good athlete and good on the ball.”

Those expectations are no less than successful Parkview teams of the past have turned in.

“For us, it was kind of, ‘We’ve got the sprinters, we’ve got the field events, but we don’t want to just ride the coattails of a state championship. We want to contribute,’” Demarest said. “That was a big motivation for those top guys.

‘Lets work hard and contribute to that.’ It plays into it a lot, especially since the the last couple of years, we haven’t produced as much on the cross country side as well as I was hoping — guys and girls.

“Last year, the girls didn’t qualify for state for like maybe the second time in 20 years. Just a couple of things didn’t go right.

On the guys side, we had some injuries. So if you go to our cafeteria and see all

those (state championship) banners, and my guys, and the girls, too, say, ‘We want to be up there. We want to add to that. And I keep going back to helping win track helps. The whole success breeding success thing. You say, ‘Hey, look what it looks like to win a state championship in track,’ which still means a lot to them. … They’re wanted to put Parkview back on the map.”

While it uncertain which runners each coach will use, as many as four boys Super Six selections — Autry, Grayson’s Chris Cherono, Peachtree Ridge’s Chase Condra and Brookwood’s Luke McNeil — and three of the girls Super Six — Brookwood’s Hannah Gatland and Reese Saddler and North’s Makenna Kulzer — could be in action.

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Bello knows he hasn’t earned any regular playing time yet, and he’s doing what he can to earn the respect of his veteran teammates.

“It’s just out of respect,” Bello said. “If we’re the last one out there, we might as well pick up the balls. It’s the only respectful thing to do.”

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true team player.”

McKay, 27, spent all of last season in Greenville and put up a career-high 23 points in 61 games played.

During his rookie season, the 6-foot-5, 220-pound center appeared in three games for the Gladiators. He also played for Pyle that season, spending part of the 2016-17 season in Evansville.

The Toronto native played four years at Lake Superior State before turning pro and captained the Lakers as a senior in 2015-16.

“McKay has size and the physicality to make his presence felt on the ice,” Pyle said. “He has played for me before, so I know what he can do. I need him to be a shutdown guy that will chip in offensively when needed, and if he accepts his role he will be very effective for us.”

Cote, 22, recorded one assist and 62 penalty minutes in 35 combined ECHL games last season with Adirondack, Greenville, and Fort Wayne. The 6-foot-2, 201-pound defenseman appeared in 17 games for the SPHL’s Mississippi RiverKings with 12 points and a plus-8 rating.

During his rookie season in 2016-17, the Hollywood, Fla., played 40 games for Pyle in Evansville.

Prior to turning pro, Cote put up 34 points in 159 games in the QMJHL. “He is a big, tough defenseman that can be a shutdown force if he plays with an edge,” Pyle said. “When he is embracing his role as a physical presence, everyone hates to play against him.”

Buford’s Craig commits to Duke

The event, which raises money for the Lions’ athletic department and marching band, features local food vendors, non-food vendors, a DJ and a silent auction with items ranging from gift cards to gift baskets to sports memorabilia. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. An entry ticket allows patrons to get food from each vendor one time.

The participating restaurants are Arena Tavern, Dreamland BBQ, Friends American Bar and Grill, Meat Three former Gwinnett soccer House, Newk’s, Pepe’s, Red Ginger, Chef Pete’s Meat standouts make SEC list and 3, Five Spice, Cinco, Jason’s Deli, Marlow’s Tavern, Three former Gwinnett County standouts were among Little Caesar’s, Wayne’s World Italian Ice, Tin Lizzy’s, the players named to the Southeastern Conference Soccer Jim N Nicks, Frontera, Famous Toastery, Taziki’s, Preseason Watch List, released Wednesday by the league. Chick-fil-A, J.R.’s Log Cabin, Special Kneads and Treats The list features the top players from the SEC, which Bakery, MJay’s Bakery and the Kroger cheese shop. sent a record nine teams to last year’s NCAA Tournament.

Texas A&M senior goalkeeper Cosette Morché, a Mitsubishi Electric Classic Peachtree Ridge grad, was joined on the list by Buford alum Elexa Bahr, a junior at South Carolina, and former presents check to local charity Greater Atlanta Christian star Reagan Glisson, a sophoThe Mitsubishi Electric Classic presented a check more at Georgia. this week to the Women’s Club of Sugarloaf Country Morché had a 0.75 goals-against average with eight Club for $19,250, accumulated from the 2017 playing of shutouts and 70 saves last season. Bahr delivered eight Gwinnett’s PGA Tour Champions tournament. goals, including four game-winners, last season. Glisson, The charity’s mission is to mobilize the Sugarloaf who finished her high school career at Calvary Day, had community in support of local charities that are focused two goals and four assists in 14 starts last season at UGA. and committed to improving the financial, emotional and/or physical well-being of families and individuals in Taste of the Ridge set for Saturday Gwinnett County. In six years, the Mitsubishi Electric Classic has donated over $2 million to local charities.

The third annual Taste of the Ridge is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Peachtree Ridge High School.

— From staff reports Buford senior defensive lineman Ahmad Craig announced his commitment this week to the Duke University football program.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound defensive end had a long offer list that included Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Tennessee, South Carolina and others.

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Stripers stay red hot, beat Buffalo enough for the veteran catcher to take his place on second base.

Luis Marte then stayed LAWRENCEVILLE — hot by one-hopping the It may be a bit late in the wall for a double that 2018 season, but things are drove in Stewart to put the starting to come together Stripers up 1-0, and Danny for the Gwinnett Stripers.

Santana followed by Another good night at launching his 15th home the plate, capped by three run of the season onto the hits from Austin Riley and berm in right-center. a Danny Santana home When the dust settled, run, plus solid work from Gwinnett had four hits in four pitchers — includthe inning, three of them ing left-handed prospect for extra bases, and a 3-0 Luiz Gohara and the injury lead. rehabbing Sam Freeman Buffalo cut into that lead — helped the Stripers to Gwinnett Stripers Austin Riley hits against the Buffalo by parlaying a Kazmar their fourth straight win Bisons during Thursday’s game at Coolray Field in Law- error and a Tim Lopes hit renceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) with a 4-2 triumph over off reliever Pfeifer into two the Buffalo Bisons before unearned runs on sacrifice 1,505 fans at Coolray Field going five or six (innings). strikes. “All the work I’ve flies by Reese McGuire The bullpen has been good. been doing in the training on Thursday. and Darnell Sweeney in Six of the Stripers’ nine Coming down to the end room with the strength the top off the fifth, pulling hits on the evening went of the season, it’s not how and conditioning guys and the Bisons to within 3-2. for extra bases, including you (start), it’s how you the trainers and coaches, But the Stripers anfive doubles, while Phil end.

I really appreciate all the swered after their first two Pfeifer (1-2), Miguel Soco“We’re not really trying effort they gave me. hitters were retired in the lovich and Jacob Webb also to think of (the wild card “I was just spiriting bottom of the inning. contributed on the mound race). We’re just each and up a bit with a couple of Riley went the other way as Gwinnett improved to every day to go out there (pitches), but I figure I’ll for a double, his third hit 24-11 since July 4. and trying to win a ball make an adjustment before of the night, while Michael And while the Stripers game. At the end of the it was too late. It just made Reed drew a walk. remain 5 1/2 games behind day, everything else will the adjustment and kept That brought Rio Ruiz to Columbus in the Internatake care of itself.” pitching and don’t lose the plate, and the 24-yeartional League’s wild card Gohara, in his first start concentration.” old infielder delivered a spot with only 18 games since July 29 while resting Meanwhile, after a double to the gap in leftremaining, the team’s a tired arm, was solid after scoreless first two innings, center, the Stripers’ fifth recent surge has proven escaping a bit of firstthe Stripers began to get to extra base hit of the night, contagious throughout the inning trouble.

Buffalo starter, and former to extend the lead to 4-2. clubhouse.

The 22-year-old leftGeorgia Tech standout, And the Gwinnett “Up and down the hander allowed just one hit Cumpton in the bottom of bullpen made sure that was lineup, the bats are swing- and one walk with three the third. enough, with Socolovich, ing it right now,” said strikeouts over 3 2/3 shutSean Kazmar Jr. led Freeman and Webb each Riley, who finished the out innings before reaching off with a double and was tossing a scoreless inning night 3-for-4 with a run his pitch limit. caught in a rundown on and each pitching around a scored and raised his sea“I feel pretty good,” Chris Stewart’s grounder walk, to close out the game son average to .284. “The said Gohara, who threw back to the mound, but with Webb picking up his starters are doing their job 31 of his 54 pitches for stayed in the rundown long ninth save of the season.

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Sims returns to Coolray as visitor

By Christine Troyke

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Lucas Sims sat in the visitor’s dugout at Coolray Field for just the second time Tuesday afternoon and chuckled when he looked over to the home bench, starting to fill up for batting practice.

The first time was Monday.

Sims, the former Brookwood phenom drafted in the first round by the Atlanta Braves in 2012, was a visitor in his old home this week. The Braves traded Sims to Cincinnati on July 30 and the Reds’ Triple-A team arrived Monday for a three-game series.

Sims pitched Wednesday, but on Tuesday just took a moment to look at the park from the other side after spending big chunks of the last three seasons playing for the Gwinnett Stripers.

“It’s kind of funny once the game starts, you look over and see all the old familiar faces,” Sims said. “It’s definitely a new perspective.”

There is one big drawback to the visitor’s clubhouse.

“No ping-pong table,” Sims said with his habitually cheery grin. “But that’s OK.” The Reds acquired the 24-year-old along with fellow right-handed pitcher Matt Wisler and outfielder Preston Tucker from Atlanta in exchange for outfielder Adam Duvall.

Sims had pitched twice for Louisville with 13 strikeouts and a 1.63 ERA over 11 innings in a pair of no-decisions coming into Wednesday’s showdown with Gwinnett.

Louisville’s Lucas Sims, a Brookwood grad, started against his former teammates, the Gwinnett Stripers, for the first time Wednesday at Coolray Field. Sims was traded by the Atlanta Braves to Cincinnati on July 30.

(Photo: Bernie Connelly/Gwinnett Stripers)

“It’s been a pretty easy process so far,” Sims said.

“A lot of it’s been that everybody welcomed me in with open arms. It’s only been two weeks, but I kind of feel like I’ve known everybody for a decent amount of time already.

I feel like that’s just kind of how a lot of baseball clubhouses are.

“Even when I was with the Braves, any new clubhouse, everybody just comes in and at the end of the day, we all have the same goal — and that’s to play in the big leagues.

It’s very similar. It’s just

a new uniform and a new opportunity.”

Sims made 14 appearances, with 10 starts, for Atlanta in 2017, but got just 10 1/3 innings of work with the big club this season. He had good numbers for Gwinnett with a 2.84 ERA and 83 strikeouts to 34 walks over 73 innings.

“I left on great terms,” Sims said after six years in the Braves’ system. “It’s a new chapter and it’s exciting to know that the Reds were excited to have me.

“At the end of the day, there’s 30 Major League clubs and the goal doesn’t

change. For me, I try to stay in my own lane, focus on the stuff I can control.

Because ultimately my goal is to be the best majorleague pitcher that I can possibly be. It doesn’t matter where or what team.”

Consistency is Sims’ byword.

“The big key at the major league level, and I’ve gotten a small taste of it so far, the guys that go up there and stick, they’re consistent,” he said. “The name of the game is to throw up zeros.

“I also think, my big mindset when I go out on the mound is to try and win the ballgame. I don’t try to think about strikeouts or walks or whatever it is. If I go out there and give our team a chance to win, I think those things take care of themselves.”

Sims took the loss Wednesday as his former teammates manufactured one run each in the second and fourth before salting things away in the sixth.

Sims struck out six but allowed the four runs over 5 1/3 innings in his first trip back to Coolray Field.

Reliever Domingo Tapia allowed the two inherited runners to score at Sims’ expense in a 4-3 loss that finished off a sweep of Louisville.

Stripers catcher Alex Jackson led the offensive effort against his recently battery mate. But he still had high praise for Sims.

“It’s really weird (facing Sims) because just recently I was catching him,” said Jackson, who was 2-for-4 with an RBI. “He’s a competitor and an amazing pitcher. He had really good stuff. We were just able to get some good pitches to hit and put them in play.”

Stripers announce 2019 schedule From Staff Reports

home Thursday, April 4, with a 7:05 p.m. game The Gwinnett Stripers, against the Norfolk Tides.

Triple-A affiliate of the Standard home game Atlanta Braves, announced times are unchanged from their baseball schedule 2018. for 2019, the team’s 11th Typical Monday-Friday season at Coolray Field, games will start at 7:05 on Wednesday. p.m., Saturday games The Stripers open the will start at 6:05 p.m. and 140-game campaign at Sunday games will start

at 1:05 p.m. Specialty times for Education Days, Daycare Days and other promotional dates will be released at a later date.

Gwinnett is home for 11 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in 2019, and hosts holiday games on Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 12), Memorial Day

(Monday, May 27) and Independence Day (Thursday, July 4).

The Stripers play 13 homestands in all, including April 4-9 vs. Norfolk and Durham, April 15-18 vs. Charlotte and April 23-28 vs. Indianapolis and Toledo in the season’s first month.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 • 5B PREP ROUNDUP

Hebron sweeps three matches From Staff Reports

LILBURN — Despite facing larger schools, Hebron Christian Academy won all three of its matches on Thursday. The Lions defeated Dacula 25-9 and 25-7, they pushed through Archer 25-11 and 25-5 and closed out with a win over host Parkview 25-8, 25-12.

Hayden McGee led Hebron with 22 kills. Emma Tennant provided 39 digs and 11 aces while Carly Heidger made six blocks for the Lions (5-0).

VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL North downs Buford SUWANEE — North Gwinnett swept Buford 25-23, 25-16 and 25-20 on Thursday. Caitlin O’Farrell led the Bulldogs with 11 kills and four blocks. Alexa Fortin added four kills, 10 digs and 30 assists. Malia Fisher supplied seven kills and Autumn Hamilton provided four blocks for North (3-2).

Brookwood wins two HOSCHTON — Brookwood defeated Winder-Barrow 25-21, 25-22 and host Mill Creek 26-24 and 25-18 on Thursday. In the win over the Bulldoggs, Hailey Bolton had six kills and three blocks, while Maddie McCormack dished out 12 assists and Cydney Gardner provided three aces.

Against the Hawks, Bolton had five kills and McCormack added 23 assists and three aces. Abbey Tucker recorded five kills and 17 digs to go with Gardner’s three blocks and 12 digs for the Broncos (5-1).

Norcross splits ROSWELL — Norcross split a pair of matches on Thursday.

The Blue Devils lost to host Roswell 25-12, 25-21 but defeated Cambridge 25-21, 25-16.

Janna Schlageter led Norcross (4-3) with 16 kills and nine digs.

Bella Murray dished out 17 assists, Ava Byfield provided 11 digs and Serenity Owens recorded seven kills.

Archer takes two of three LILBURN — Archer defeated Parkview 25-13, 25-16 and Dacula 22-25, 25-16, 25-14 but fell to Hebron Christian 25-11 and 25-5 on Thursday. Nyah Barney and Becca Balon were leaders for the Tigers (3-2).

Eagles fall in three-setters SUWANEE — Collins Hill fell to Discovery 25-20, 22-25, 2325 and to Providence Christian 25-23, 17-25 and 18-25 on Thursday. Anika Sebudde led the Eagles (0-2) with 11 kills, Teagan Walsh had 23 digs and Tiye Brown notched seven aces.

Shiloh splits NORCROSS — Shiloh defeated Meadowcreek 26-24, 21-25, 25-14 but fell to Lanier 25-10 and 25-14 on Thursday.

The Generals are now 2-2 on the season.

Wesleyan splits ATLANTA — Wesleyan defeated Lovett 13-25, 25-16, 25-21 but fell to Holy Innocents 25-17, 21-25, 24-26 on Thursday. Grace Tyler led the Wolves (1-5) with 13 kills and eight aces. Alden Pridgen and Grace Carroll had nine and eight kills, respectively.

Storm sweeps SUWANEE — Providence Christian defeated Discovery 25-10, 25-14 and host Collins Hill 23-25, 25-17 and 25-18 on Thursday. Alex Gonzalez had 10 aces to pace the Storm (5-2).

Maisy Hufford added 13 kills and Margaret Kaine provided 14 digs on the night.

SOFTBALL SOFTBALL North Gwinnett 17, Duluth 0 (3 innings) DULUTH — North Gwinnett needed only three innings to defeat Duluth 17-0 on Thursday.

Chandler Dennis pitched two innings and struck out six to earn the win for the Bulldogs (6-0, 1-0). Dennis helped her own cause with a double and an RBI. Paige Nellis tossed an inning in the circle and contributed a double and two RBIs as did

Riley Jackson.

South Gwinnett 23, Discovery 5 (3 innings) LAWRENCEVILLE — South Gwinnett defeated Discovery 23-5 on Thursday. Ari Sneed led the Comets (1-2) with four hits, scored two runs and drove in five. Keira Hartley had three hits, scored four times and drove in two while Awtum Lewis and Kolaiah Thurman and Neeyah Reid each had three hits.

Janiece Long had a three-run triple and Alanah Perry contributed a double play for the Titans (1-2).

Mill Creek 1, Peachtree Ridge 0 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek’s Natalia Herrera hit a sacrifice fly to left, scoring Taylor Stancil in the fourth inning and the Hawks held on for a 1-0 win over Peachtree Ridge on Thursday.

Sara Shaw tossed a complete game in the circle to earn the win for Mill Creek (5-0, 1-0).

Shaw allowed five hits and struck out three. Hanna Smith also had two hits and stole two bases while Emily Ammons Dallas Goodknight provided two hits and a stolen base apiece.

Mountain View 5, Collins Hill 3 SUWANEE — Mountain View defeated host Collins Hill 5-3 on Thursday. Sarah Currie allowed one earned run to notch the win in the circle for the Bears (5-1, 1-0). Lauren Evens had two hits and an RBI while Chloe Shrope and Hannan Razeq each provided a runs scoring triple.

Chloe Sneed had two hits and drove in a run for the Eagles.

Parkview 6, Shiloh 5 LILBURN — Parkview held off Shiloh 6-5 on Thursday. Maya Watson threw four innings in relief to earn the win for the Panthers (3-2). Grace Hrustich led the offense with two hits and an RBI while Kyla Tuner also had two hits in the win.

Trinity Spear had two hits, including a three-run triple for the Generals (2-1).

Dacula 7, Habersham 3 DACULA — Three Dacula players hit home runs as the Falcons defeated Habersham Central 7-3 on Thursday. Jin Sileo, Elsie Igberaese and Sammy Costa all connected for home runs.

Sydney Boulware tossed four innings to earn the win in the circle while Khayden Harris recorded the save for Dacula (1-2, 1-1).

Wesleyan 7, Strong Rock 0 LOCUST GROVE — Wesleyan’s Madison Koepke allowed only one hit and whiffed 14 as the Wolves defeated Strong Rock 7-0 on Thursday. Riley Keller led the offense with three hits and drove in a pair of runs.

Jahni Kerr had two hits, including a solo home run and Graci Taylor added two hits and two RBIs. Savannah Sommers contributed two RBIs, scored twice and stole two bases while Elizabeth Bertram recorded two hits.

Towns County 15, Providence Christian 14 HIAWASSEE - Providence Christian fell just short, falling 15-14 to Towns County on Thursday. Logan Mymudes had four hits and drove in two runs.

Claire Owens contributed four hits, including a home run and four RBIs. Hannah Nolan and Sydney Flood each had a RBI double for the Storm (0-4, 0-2).

George Walton 12, Hebron Christian 2 DACULA — George Walton downed Hebron Christian 12-2 on Thursday. Layton Morris led the Lions (3-1, 1-1) with two hits while Macy Poisal provided a two RBI double.

CROSS COUNTRY CROSS COUNTRY Shiloh sweeps tri-meet SNELLVILLE — Shiloh won both the boys and girls divisions at a tri-meet held at Lenora Park on Thursday. In the boys race, the Generals finished with 17 points to defeat Berkmar (54) and Meadowcreek (65). Shiloh’s Robert Cranston won the race in 18:04.

In the girls race, Shiloh finished with 29 points to out pace Berkmar (35) and Meadowcreek (74). Berkmar’s Devani Rodriquez won in 22:28.

— Compiled by Ken Chrzanowski

Rams resolve issue From Staff Reports

Atlanta report. A source estimated only 18 players Almost a week away went through the session from its season opener, because of concerns over Grayson High School’s physical practices. football team dealt with But the coaches met some practice-related with the players, Hunissues that head coach nicutt said, and sorted out Christian Hunnicutt said their differences. Thurshave been resolved. day’s practice was back to A large number of Gray- normal for the Rams, who son players walked out sport a USA Today nationof Wednesday’s practice al ranking and the No. 1 and initially demanded spot in Class AAAAAAA that Hunnicutt be fired, in the Georgia Sports Writaccording to a Score ers Association rankings.

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Daily Post Picks The staff makes its predictions for this week’s prep football winners

Buford starts with 3rd-ranked Tucker Taylor Denman

WILL HAMMOCK

CHRISTINE TROYKE

DAVID FRIEDLANDER

Archer vs. Milton

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Buford vs. Tucker

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Clinch County at Hebron

Clinch Co.

Clinch Co.

Clinch Co.

Clinch Co.

Hebron

Clinch Co.

Cross Keys at Providence

Providence

Providence

Providence

Providence

Providence

Providence

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Peachtree Ridge at Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

Shiloh at Duluth

Shiloh

Duluth

Shiloh

Duluth

Duluth

Duluth

South Gwinnett at Central Gwinnett

Central

Central

South

Central

South

Central

Wesleyan at Meadowcreek

Meadowcreek

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Brookwood vs.

North Gwinnett

North

North

North

North

North

Brookwood

Mill Creek vs. Walton

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Walton

Mill Creek

Walton

Norcross vs. Mays

Norcross

Norcross

Mays

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Discovery at Dacula Lovett at GAC Mountain View at Parkview

TAYLOR DENMAN

SCOTT SMITH

ALESSANDRO CASTRO*

*Each week’s picks feature a guest picker. This week’s guest picker is Alessandro Castro, a former Parkview soccer player who recently signed with Atlanta United 2.

taylor.denman@gwinnettdailypost.com

BUFORD VS. TUCKER

There’s no testing the waters for the Buford Wolves football team in 2018.

The Wolves’ first test is Class AAAAAA 2016 finalist and 2017 semifinalist Tucker tonight at Georgia State Stadium. Tucker is the No. 2 team in its class.

“We’re jumping right into the deep end to swim with the sharks,” Buford head coach John Ford said.

Tucker was 9-1 during the 2017 regular season. The meeting in the Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium on Friday night marks the first between the two programs since 1955.

But that was last season. The Tigers scored an average of 39 points per game last season with a margin of victory of 29 points.

What can Buford expect from Tucker this season?

More of the same, Ford said.

“I think their quarterback and offensive line and the wing-T offense is more in sync than it is normally is because of their returning starters,” Ford said. “This is a team with a lot of speed. Two good blocks and they’re out the front door. We have to have a plan and make a tackle every play.”

Tucker’s lone loss was in Moultrie against Class AAAAAAA runner-up Colquitt County, 35-21. Tucker’s nextclosest regular-season test was also in last year’s Corky Kell Classic. Tucker edged Kell High School 28-27 last year at Georgia State Stadium. The Tigers conceded an average of 5.4 points per game in region play.

Perhaps the best returner is 6-foot-3 senior defensive end, Derrick McLendon.

“They have a lot of good players that play physical and play hard,” Ford said.

Buford is projected to start sophomore Aaron McLaughlin at quarterback, who earned the starting job and started 14 games as a freshman. He threw for more than 1,700 yards and completed more than 55 percent of his passes. McLaughlin’s 6-foot-4, 225-pound frame makes him an ideal Division I prospect, but Ford was simple when explaining what made him the ideal candidate for the starting spot as a freshman in 2017.

“He earned it,” Ford said.

“He’s a hard working kid, and he’s worked hard this offseason.”

Friday night’s game is the third Corky Kell Classic Ford, who played in three Corky Kell Classics at Brookwood, has coached in. So far, Ford’s teams are 2-0 in the Corky Kell Classic. Ford’s debut with Buford was a decisive 48-17 win over Hillgrove, in which Buford trailed early on. Ford’s first Corky Kell was with Roswell.

The Hornets’ 24-17 win in the 2016 Corky Kell Classic was against none other than Jess Simpson’s Buford Wolves.

“It’s turned into the premiere weekend high school event in the country,” Ford said.

BUFORD WOLVES (8-AAAAA) Coach: John Ford 2017 record: 11-2, 6-0 region Last week: Season opener TUCKER TIGERS (4-AAAAAA) Coach: Bryan Lamar 2017 record: 12-2 Last week: Season opener Last meeting: Buford won 7-0 in 1955 Location: Georgia State Stadium

Archer ‘D’ takes on highpowered Milton

By David Friedlander

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Buford’s Harry Miller is part of the Daily Post’s football Super Six this season. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

Miller •From Page 1B to Nicaragua. He was around 300 pounds when he made the Buford High School varsity team as a freshman and saw plenty of playing time. It wasn’t until recently, though, that he took steps to combine his two dedications in hopes they would mutually benefit each other.

Former Florida head coach Urban Meyer met with Miller on a visit to Columbus and told him a story about his former quarterback Tim Tebow, who wrote the Bible verse, John 3:16, on his eye black during a game. That verse became one of the most searched on the internet. Miller saw an Ohio State presentation of brand-growth opportunities, targeted to prospective professional athletes regarding how to safely save and invest money for post-football careers.

It was at a prayer house in Nicaragua when Miller said he had a sort of epiphany. If all of the eyes of the nation would be on Ohio State on Saturdays for the foreseeable future, why not utilize it for good?

“One of my goals is — if God allows it — to get drafted, and they talked about how a lot of guys lose their money when they’re out of the NFL,” Miller said. “For me, I want to do a really good job of being smart with money. Not just saving or investing it, but making it move and making partnerships, being a brand ambassador.”

Jack Snook is a co-founder of the foundation Mission to Nicaragua with his wife, Hilary.

Their organization helps Miller and other metro Atlanta teens organize missions. He and his connections to Ohio State helped nudge Miller in the direction toward Columbus.

THE MILLER FILE Name: Harry Miller School: Buford Height: 6-foot-4 Weight: 300 pounds Place of birth: Atlanta Role model: Dad, Sean Miller Favorite restaurant: Bravos Favorite store: Amazon Favorite teacher: Coach Andrew Eager Favorite subject: Math How many texts do you send in a month?: (After some rough calculations) Around 3,000 Superstitions: Wearing the same pair of gloves for the whole season.

Pregame song: “Power” by Kanye West Life’s dream: Be named Walter Payton Man of the Year Best player in Gwinnett County besides me: Grayson’s Wanya Morris Coach John Ford’s take: “He obviously has a great mind.

He’s a brilliant thinker — systematic, organized, diligent, curious — but he also has a great heart. It’s not often you find people with great minds that also have great hearts.

He’s truly unique in that sense.”

“He came up to me jokingly and said, ‘What more do you need? A burning bush?’” Miller said. “(Ohio State) was just hitting on things that had been talked about three years before that.”

John Ford became head coach at Buford in Miller’s junior season. Miller’s provided Buford’s offensive line with versatility — he’s played every position from left to right — and a critical thinker in the trenches.

Ford is also impressed that he hopes to use his platform in an altruistic way.

“It’s fun getting to talk to him and get to know him and learn about what he wants to use football for, in terms of impacting the world around him,” Ford said. “He’s even got a vision to do that on a global scale, which I think is something that is really cool.”

Miller also practices with the defensive linemen, but his biggest impact is on Buford’s interior as a center or a guard. He’s the No. 2 center prospect in the nation according to 247Sports and the No. 8 overall recruit in Georgia.

“It’s fun to play all of the positions because they’re all really similar. They just have their nuances,” Miller said. “I like how each position is different. It’s not hard to transition between positions because the coaches are always working with us on fundamentals. There are slight differences here and there, but it’s more, ‘You’ve got this guy, block this guy here, cut this guy there.’”

In Ford’s first season with Buford, the program’s streak of 10 consecutive trips to the state championship was cut short in the semifinals. The first-year growing pains of new routines and a new system are over, and Miller said the Wolves and their coaching staff shared a more common direction this offseason.

The senior also realizes that the road back to the state championship won’t be easy.

“It’s been really exciting this year, being a senior and having this class. I feel really good about where we are right now,” Miller said. “When I say that, I mean that there’s so much room for improvement. It’s crazy to see the ceiling we can reach.

I know there are guys that are willing to put (work) in every day and chip away until we reach as high as we can reach.”

On paper, the key to Archer’s season opener against Milton in the Corky Kell Classic might come down to the axiom about the immovable object — the Tigers’ defense — clashing headto-head with the irresistible force — the Eagles’ offense.

To be sure, Archer coach Andy Dyer’s team is approaching the Milton offense with plenty of respect heading into today’s 8:30 p.m. kickoff at Georgia State University Stadium.

“On the offensive side, their quarterback makes them go,” Dyer said. “They’ve got a couple of big, tall receivers and a big offensive line. We’ve got to do a great job of putting pressure on the quarterback and not let him get comfortable. It’ll be a big test for us.”

That won’t be an easy task considering the quarterback in question, Georgia Tech commit Jordan Yates, can do plenty of damage with both his arm (threw for 2,011 yards and 19 TDs last season) and his legs (893 yards, 9 TDs).

And in addition to having several targets to throw to, the Eagles’ offensive line, led by sophomore major college prospect Paul Tchio, provides plenty of protection.

The Tigers (12-1 last season, No. 4 in the 2018 Georgia Sports Writers Association preseason rankings) are well-equipped to counter Milton’s weapons with a few of their own.

Super Six cornerback and Clemson commit Andrew Booth and major college prospect Jalyn Phillips lead a stacked Archer secondary.

Meanwhile, defensive end Colby Wooden, who committed to Auburn on Thursday, leads a front seven that could help bottle up Yates and the Milton offense.

ARCHER VS. MILTON ARCHER TIGERS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Andy Dyer 2017 Record: 12-1 Last week: Season opener MILTON EAGLES (5-AAAAAAA) Coach: Adam Clack 2017 Record: 9-3 Last week: Season opener When: Today, 8:30 p.m.

TV/Radio: WATL/1380-AM Last meeting: First meeting Location: Georgia State Stadium

But Dyer knows it will take a top-flight effort both physically and mentally from his defense.

“One of the things we’re hoping is that we’ve worked hard and gotten the kids in game shape,” Dyer said. “We also need to be playing the mental side of the game well and get lined up right.”

Lest anyone pay too much attention to the Archer defense versus Milton offense, the opposite matchup features some intrigue.

Experienced, and perhaps underrated, quarterback Carter Peevy, Gwinnett’s leading returning passer after throwing for 2,038 yards and 20 TDs last season, leads a Tigers offense that is fairly experienced, and very athletic.

Milton counters with some weapons on the defensive side, including Clemson-committed safety Joe Charleston (53 solo tackles, 2 INTs in 2018).

But Dyer is pleased with his offense’s progress during preseason practice and the team’s scrimmage against Warner Robins, and hopes that momentum carries over into Friday. “(The offense has) had a good week of practice,” Dyer said.

“The kids are growing. Hopefully we can get a rhythm going offensively. It’s usually harder (for the offense) getting started (on the season), but we’ve got a good game plan. We just have to go out and execute.”

Wooden commits to Auburn defensive end chose Auburn over Clemson, joining Grayson Auburn’s football program linebacker Owen Pappoe.

Wooden is a three-star recruit landed a second major defensive in the 247Sports composite piece from Gwinnett County rankings, which also have the on Thursday, securing a commitment from Archer defensive 6-foot-4, 230-pounder as the end Colby Wooden. The senior No. 52 player in Georgia.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 • B7 GWINNETT DAILY POST ADVERTISING DEADLINES LINERS: Pub. Date: Wednesday Deadline: Monday 3 pm Friday Thursday 3 pm Sunday Friday 11:30 am DISPLAY AD: Pub. Date: Wednesday Deadline: Friday 3 pm Friday Tuesday 3 pm Sunday Wednesday 3 pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018 CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Annandale at Suwanee, Inc. July 30, 2018 Published in Gwinnett Daily Post Annandale at Suwanee, Inc. is accepting separate sealed bids for design / installation services of a TPO heat reflective and energy efficient roof system for a program center facility in Suwanee, GA. This project will be funded from the Gwinnett County Community Development Block Grant program and therefore services provided must comply will all applicable federal government statutory and regulatory requirements.

A Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at Annandale Village, Building O (Patricia Brown Program Center) 3500 Annandale Lane, Suwanee, GA 30024. All potential bidders are encouraged to attend this conference.

Bids will be received at the Annandale Village campus located at 3500 Annandale Lane, Suwanee, GA 30024 until 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 24, 2018. The bids must be addressed to Annandale at Suwanee, Inc. and designated as bid for the Program Center Roof Project. Any bid received after said time and date will not be accepted.

All firms submitting bids will be notified of the bidders submitting bids and the amounts of all bids received.

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

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

Procurement will be in compliance with the Uniform Administrative Requirements, 2 CFR 200.318?326. Potential respondents are particularly called to the requirements of Title VI; Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 24 CFR 570.602; and Executive Order 11246 ? Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. The work to be performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, 12 USC 1701u (Section 3). The purpose of Section 3 is to ensure employment and other economic opportunities generated by HUD assistance or HUD-assisted projects covered by Section 3, shall to greatest extent feasible, be directed to low and very–low income persons, particularly persons who are recipients of HUD assistance for housing. For more information on Section 3, contact the Fair Housing Act and Equal Opportunity representatives of HUD at (404) 331-5001, Ext. 2473. Neither the United States nor any of the departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party of any contract awarded pursuant to this invitation to bid.

In order to assure that Bidders receive all addenda and or clarifications to the bid documents in a timely manner, it is highly recommended that all bidders obtain at least one complete set of Bid Documents directly from Annandale at Suwanee, Inc. Entities that do not obtain Bid Documents from this source will not receive addenda and or clarifications to the bid documents directly from Annandale Village. Bidders relying on other services to obtain the Bid Documents, rather than obtaining them directly from the source are doing so at their own risk.

9 0 2 - 5 6 0 1 6 8 , 7/29,8/1,3,5,8,10,12,15,17, 19,22,24 INVITATION TO BID RFP NO: PWUP 18-13 CURED-IN-PLACE STORM PIPE RELINING PROJECT LOCATION: VARIOUS LOCATIONS–NORCROSS, GA, 30071 Proposals for the Curedin-Place Storm Pipe Relining Project will be received by the City of Norcross at the Department of Public Works, Utilities & Parks, 345 Lively Avenue, Norcross, GA 30071 Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018 by 9:00am. Any proposals received after the designated closing time will be returned unopened.

This project intends to address storm pipes that are in need of repair in the City of Norcross and will extend the life of the storm pipes and culverts in the following vicinities: 1. Lanier Boulevard 2. Glochester Place 3. Winchester Lane 4. Camelot Way 5. Sheffield Road The storm pipes are located on the accompanying maps. The quantities and sizes are summarized on the accompanying bid sheet.

The pipes are intended to be rehabilitated in place by the cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) method following the accompanying specifications.

The specifications given are estimates based on GIS data and subject to change-order additions and deductions.

Proposals will be contingent upon CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) verification.

Please see full details at the following link: http:// www.norcrossga.net/bids.

aspx?bidID=89 An original and one (1) paper copy a total of two (2) plus 1 copy of the proposal on CD in PDF or other electronic format of the proposal shall be submitted in sealed envelopes/packages addressed to Mary Beth Bender, Public Works, Utilities & Parks, City of Norcross and marked Cured-in-Place Storm Pipe Relining Project– PWUP 18-13.

Proposers desiring information for use in preparing proposals may obtain a set of such documents from the Department of Public Works, Utilities & Parks Office, 345 Lively Avenue, Norcross, GA 30071 Telephone (678) 4212069 or copies of the RFP NO: PWUP 18-13 requirements may also be obtained by sending an email request to Melissa Zeigler at melissa. zeigler@norcrossga.net.

The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive any technicalities or irregularities therein. The City further reserves the right to award the contract to the proposer whose proposal best complies with the RFP NO: PWUP 18-13 requirements.

Proposers may not withdraw their proposal for a period of ninety (90) days from the date set for the opening thereof.

902-562089, 8/10,17

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2018-07-072 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 310 Technology Pkwy DATE & TIME: August 28, 2018 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Wholesale–Distilled Spirits, Malt Beverage and Wine APPLICANT: Aiko Importers, Inc. 5824 Peachtree Corners East Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-562992, 8/17,24 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2018-07-071 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 310 Technology Pkwy DATE & TIME: August 28, 2018 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Retail/Package Malt Beverage and Wine APPLICANT: Ali Nur, LLC – D.B.A. Circle K 6385 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-558921, 8/17,24 NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit: Application / owner TIRSO BENITEZ Registered agent CARLOS TAVAREZ Location: BOGA LATIN CUISINE 193 NORTH NORCROSS TUCKER RD NORCROSS, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 5 5 8 9 2 0 , 7/20,25,27,8/1,3,8,10,15,17, 22 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2018-06-070 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 310 Technology Pkwy DATE & TIME: August 28, 2018 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Retail/Package Malt Beverage and Wine APPLICANT: Confettis Bar & Grill 6470 Spalding Drive, Ste A Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-562991, 8/17,24 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2018-07-073 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 310 Technology Pkwy DATE & TIME: August 28, 2018 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Consumption on the Premises–Distilled Spirits, Malt Beverage and Wine APPLICANT: Rinconcito Centro Americano 7050 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Ste 124 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-562994, 8/17,24

NAME CHANGES SUPERIOR COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA Civil Action File No.: 18A-06677-8 In re the Name Change of: Saddaf Saba (alias), Petitioner NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME OF ADULT An action was filed in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County on ____, to change the Petitioner’s name as follows: Petitioner’s Name: Saddaf Saba Desired new name: Roya Sadaf Saba Any interested party has the right to appear in this case and file objection before the final judgment is ordered in this case.

Dated: August 1, 2018 ~s~ Saddaf Saba Petitioner Pro Se Saddaf Saba 176 Berkten Ln Lawrenceville, GA 30043 9 1 6 - 5 6 2 3 6 5 , 8/15,17,22,29,9/5

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE There will be sold a t public outcry at 4875 JIMMY CARTER BLVD., NORCROSS, GA 30093 08/10/2018 at 3:00 P.M. The following vehicle, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5, as follows: 2004 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG/WVGCM77L04D071753 928-562889, 8/17,24

Oak Rd, Norcross GA 30071 on April 12, 2018. This trailer is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Road, Doraville GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The trailer will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN Scooter VIN NO VIN The Scooter was removed at the request of Suwanee PD from 3330 Westbrook Rd. in Buford, GA 30518 on May 6, 2018. The Scooter is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 719 W Shadburn Avenue, Buford, Ga 30518. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The Scooter will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 2014 Bashan Scooter VIN LHJTLBBN9EB000583 This Scooter was removed at the request of GCPD from Singleton Rd @ SugarWood Ln., Norcross, GA 30071 on May 18, 2018. The Scooter is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd., Doraville GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The Scooter will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 2008 Utility Trailer VIN 3CVU6121782125332 The Trailer was removed at the request of GCPD from 85N @ MM117 Buford, GA 30518 on May 23, 2018. The trailer is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 719 W Shadburn Avenue, Buford, Ga 30518. Willard’s phone number is 770-9457580. The trailer will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

928-560911, 8/10,17

NOTICE COFFEE WITH NORCROSS CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 18, 2018 8:00 AM 45 SOUTH CAFE NORCROSS, GA 30071 928-562890, 8/17 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE 1964 LAND ROVER 109-Series II -A VIN: 26100827B The above vehicle was left for repair or diagnostics and is presently located at Tran’s Auto Repair, 4757 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga 30071.

The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-112 and will be disposed of if not redeemed by owner or lien holder within 10 days of this notice. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia law.

928-562007, 8/10,17 Notice Of Abandoned Vehicles: K.O. Towing, 344 Kathleen Dr Se, Marietta, Ga 30067. 770-650-1413.

In accordance with OCGA Section 40-11-2, the following described vehicles/ vessels have been towed/ deemed abandoned and will be sold at Public Auction if not claimed. The vehicles are being stored at K.O. Towing, 344 Kathleen Dr Se, Marietta, Ga 30067. 770-650-1413 2000 Mazda Protege DX/ LX White. Vin# JM1BJ2224Y0246027. No tag#.

From 1564 Herrington Rd, Lawrenceville GA 30043.

928-562988, 8/17,24 NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 W. Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA, 30518, on Saturday, August 25th, 2018 at 11:00 AM, the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: 1. 2004 Mini Cooper WMWRC33474TJ61655 928-560910, 8/10,17 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 8/6/18 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 4700 N Hill Pkwy, Chamblee, Ga on 7/25/18, at the request of the property owner or manager.

2012 Bashan Scooter VIN# LHJTLBBN9CB102043 TAG# No Tag 928-562117, 8/10,17 NOTICE Notice of Abandoned Vehicle. The following motor vehicle advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A CODE SECTION 40-11-2. Being stored: 3949 VALLEY BROOK RD SNELLVILLE 30039.

2012 MERCEDES E350 VIN# WDDHF5KBCA604325 This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by legal owner or lienholder by (date) AUG 24, 2018.

928-562023, 8/10,17 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 8/6/18 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 1225 Fairburn Rd SW, Atlanta, Ga on 7/29/18, at the request of the property owner or manager.

2018 Nissan Versa VIN# 1N4AL11D93C110864 TAG# No Tag 928-562121, 8/10,17 NOTICE UNKNOWN Sterling Box Truck VIN 2FZAAKAK21AH77840 This Sterling Box was removed at the request Private Company Myles Truck Repair located at 192 Swanson Drive, Lawrenceville Ga 30043 on March 26, 2018.

The Sterling is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 719 W ShadBurn Avenue, Buford GA 30518.

Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580. The Sterling Truck will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage VIN ML32F3FJ3HHF10113 This Mitsubishi was removed at the request of GCPD from 6659 PIB Norcross GA 30071 on April 7, 2018. This Mitsubishi is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Road, Doraville, GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The Mitsubishi Mirage will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN Utility Trailer No Vin This trailer was removed at the request of PPI from 5990 O

STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: Fiberglass Custom Kit Car VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR White TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above vehicle was initially removed from 26 Jordan Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Truck Bed SERIAL # NONE LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR Red TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above item was initially removed from 26 Jordan Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The item is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 1972 MG BMC A-Series Midget VIN GAN5UC115578 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR Red TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above vehicle was initially removed from 26 Jordan Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Truck Cab SERIAL # NONE LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR Red TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above item was initially removed from 26 Jordan Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The item is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-562021, 8/10,17,24

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION: The following vehicle was declared abandoned and foreclosed, pursuant to OCGA section 40-11-5, will be up for public auction at DANZ Auto Repair, 5402 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Norcross, Ga 30093, on 08/24/2018 at 4:00 pm.

2004 NISSAN MAXIMA 3.5 SL VIN: 1N4BA41E34C907827 2005 FORD EXPEDITION XLT VIN:1FMPU15585LA87483 929-562008, 8/10,17

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, AUGUST 25TH 2018@ 1:00PM 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2G1WJ15KX79292272 2002 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2G1WX15K329312577 1998 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS1446WK135605 2006 Chrysler Pacifica 2A4GM48426R885652 2006 Chrysler Pacifica 3C3JY45X86T268109 2005 Dodge Caravan 1D4GP24R85B404600 2006 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL46X26N147829 2013 Ford Focus 1FADP3F23DL211534 1994 Ford F-350 Super Duty 1FTJW35K2REA03061 1998 GMC Sierra 1500 1GTEC14R8WZ505641 2000 GMC Yukon 1GKEK13T7YJ145672 2000 GMC Savana 1GTEG15WXY1159442 2006 Honda Odyssey 5FNRL38896B029260 2001 Honda Odyssey 2HKRL18521H599525 1999 Jaguar XJ8 SAJHX1041XC862385 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GW48S34C105074 2000 Lexus GS300 JT8BD68S9Y0095142 2006 Lifan Motorcycle LF3PCM0G36B006366 2001 Mercedes Benz ML320 4JGAB54E51A280278 1997 Nissan Pickup Truck 1N6SD11S8VC321242 2015 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB7AP3FY251597 2001 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31D81T821606 2008 Nissan Xterra 5N1AN08U08C522193 2008 Nissan Versa 3N1BC11EX8L455472 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix 2G2WP552371113182 2002 Toyota 4Runner JT3GN86R020231024 2011 Toyota Corolla JTDBU4EE7B9135662 2008 Toyota Camry 4T1BE46K08U236982 2001 Toyota Camry JT2BF28K710318975 929-562015, 8/10,17,24 There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, August 25th, 2018 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: # Year Make Model VIN 1 2002 Nissan Maxima JN1DA31D62T453691 2 2003 Nissan Maxima JN1DA31DX3T518575 929-562020, 8/10,17 Notice is hereby given that on ugust 27th 2018 uhaul moving company of Atlanta North will be offering for sale under the contractual landlords lien process by public auction the following storage units. The goods to be sold are generally described as household goods. U-Haul reserves the right to refuse any and all bids.

Your goods will be sold online at storageauctions.com U-Haul Moving & Storage @ Lawrenceville: 1290 Pleasant Hill Rd, Lawrenceville GA 30044 -(770) 381-9793: neydy pichardi unit 1205, melissa glichrist unit 1524, wilson murray unit 1119, tamika bailey unit 1135, francis childress unit 1616 amd 1618, marilyn portis unit 565, burl bernard unit 209, katlin stinson unit 1735, itesha courtney unit 403, charles smith unit 1046, erika bedell unit 136, james jenkins unit 1034, angela hodges unit 2012, raheim riley unit 205, benjamin taylor unit 309, vanessa lanier unit 2084-85, alanis turner unit 2014, 2014, 2026, chin pak unit 708, brian west unit 218, chris campbell unit 2069, izuchukwu isima unit 2217, carlos cruz unit 103, thomas harris unit 308, chaz fortune unit 2243, samuel bowman unit 525.

Uhaul Moving & Storage @ Snellville: 2161 Hewatt Rd, Snellville GA, 30039- (770) 979- 5237: yvonne diaz unit 132, 216. edythe blackwell unit 009, aubrey jenkins unit 253, alhaji soya bongay unit 44, michelle moore unit 258, anjanette ward unit 47, seymour buress unit 22 and 33, travis woods unit 126, abdirizak mohamed unit 133, maceo lofton unit 45.

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON AUGUST 25, 2018. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 25 AUGUSTO 2018 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 3B7HC13Z3XG166352 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GW58S3XC581030 2002 Honda Civic 1HGES16522L082440 2008 Nissan Altima 1N4AL21E18C231068 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 1D7HA18N18J185757 2011 Honda Fit JHMGE8H59BC011366 2003 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1NE52J93M716928 2006 Mercedes-Benz ML350 4JGBB86E86A058411 2003 Ford Explorer 1FMZU73K53ZA79985 2010 Dodge Charger 2B3CA3CV2AH252138

2000 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31D9YT757943 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GS48K66C218399 2004 Nissan Murano JN8AZ08T74W205170 2000 Ford Explorer 1FMDU84P3YZA26445 John Deere Eagle 250 Spreader NO VIN Headache Rack NO VIN 2007 Dodge Nitro 1D8GT28K37W734115 2000 Honda Civic JHMEJ8648YS003545 2002 Ford F-150 1FTRF17262NA96175 Single-lid Crossover Truck Toolbox NO VIN 2003 Ford Expedition 1FMFU17L03LB08606 *** REBUILT *** 2002 Acura MDX 2HNYD18232H524089 1997 Volkswagen Cabriolet 3VWBA81E4VM809081 2009 Ford Fusion 3FAHP06Z89R204326 2006 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WB55K269113029 1998 Volvo S90 YV1KS960XW1140441 2003 Acura RSX JH4DC54843C008691 *** SALVAGE *** 2012 Lexus IS 250 JTHBF5C26C5173335 ** Not Actual Mileage; SALVAGE ** 2007 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS58F57F101798 2004 Toyota Camry 4T1BE32K24U797503 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C8FY68BX3T506520 1999 Lincoln Continental 1LNHM97V2XY705435 1999 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E0XZ243240 1997 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K6VU167277

Uhaul Moving & Storage @ Norcross: 5365 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Norcross GA 30093(770) 447-5017: , alejandro lopez pena unit 1058, claudia williams unit a210, darrell toliver unit 1036, eric chism unit a213, sherry jackson unit b216, marilyn pittman unit b214, bernarda henriquez unit b203, angela elion unit a203.

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2007 Chrysler Pacifica 2A8GF68X07R299970

2002 Honda Accord 1HGCG32752A023941 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 2C4GM68485R273617 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan 1D4GP24R44B537451

2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4G258S0YC328860 1997 Toyota Rav4 JT3GP10V7V7011589 2005 Honda Accord 1HGCM56455A019879 1998 Nissan Altima 1N4DL01D0WC194150 2000 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31D7YT755172

Unit #C35 – Keyona Wright - Unit is said to contain: Dining Table and Chairs. 10 Boxes. 2 Candle Stands. WiFi router.

Unit #203 – Jarrius Moon - Unit is said to contain: Queen Bed w/Rails. Dresser w/Mirror. Totes. Shelf. Bag of Shoes.

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THE GWINNETT DAILY NEWSPAPER AD PUBLISH DATE: 8/10/18 AND 8/17/18 LIFE STORAGE # 413 875 MARATHON PARKWAY LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 678-242-1441 AUCTION DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 28TH 2018 @ 10:30 AM In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, August 28th 2018 @ 10:30 AM 875 Marathon Parkway Lawrenceville, GA 30046 678-242-1441 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 2058 Ariemetta Radden Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliances; Office Furniture/ Machines/Equip.

2069 Joan Thompson Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliances.

2166 Jennifer Hancock Household Goods/Furniture.

3107 Evita Charles Household Goods/Furniture.

4027 Crystal Smith Household Goods/Furniture.

4184 Tamara Skinner Household Goods/Furniture.

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IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2017 SUZUKI HAYABUSA JS1GX72B6H2100521 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 1700 HORIZON PKWY BUFORD, GA 30518 *7944 929-562800, 8/17,24

36 2003 BMW 525i WBADT43443GY98285 37 1999 Honda Accord 1HGCG5657XA152842 38 2005 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D45N483429 39 2002 Acura TL 19UUA56952A000219 40 1997 Toyota Corolla 1NXBB02E5VZ615201 41 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe KM8SC73D02U267203 42 1995 Acura Integra JH4DB7551SS006193 43 1991 Dodge Dakota 1B7FL26X9MS326794 44 2005 Lincoln Navigator 5LMFU27565LJ08858 45 2005 Ford Escape 1FMYU93135DA09559 46 2000 Honda CR-V JHLRD1861YC003495 47 2005 Mazda RX-8 JM1FE173650152695 48 2000 Dodge Intrepid 2B3HD46R9YH408624 49 1997 Nissan Altima 1N4BU31D2VC205461 50 2003 Ford E-350 Super Duty 1FDWE35F93HB39183 51 2003 Toyota Corolla 2T1KR32E03C065837 52 2004 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWRK69MX4M045585 53 2001 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWTG69M81M225859 54 2001 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS14W718218712 55 2004 Toyota Celica JTDDR32T440171677 56 2006 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AB36F46E063235 57 2006 Pontiac G6 1G2ZF55B164232013 58 2005 Toyota Matrix 2T1KR32E25C432210 59 2000 Honda CRV JHLPD2847YC008513 60 2007 Ford Focus 1FAFP34N37W190323 61 2004 Buick Rainer 5GADT13S842321128 62 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1GBJC34U55E238659 63 1998 Buick Century 2G4WS52M1W1467602 64 1994 ACURA INTEGRA JH4DC4351RS007479

2007 Dodge Caliber 1B3HB48B37D374231

2006 Chrysler Pacifica 2A8GF68416R652544

Unit #B66 – Patricia Collins - Unit is said to contain: End Tables. Box Fan. Office chair.

Floor lamp. 10 Boxes/Totes.

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

2015 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWD17AJ1FM229160

Uhaul Moving & Storage @ Rockbridge: 140 Rockbridge, Lilburn GA, 30047-(770) 717- 9666: tonya thompson unit 3145, jauvis singtleton unit 317, delores cooper unit 215, samuel williams unit 4146, barry bigsby unit 112, william gonzalez dominguez unit 3128, john zankowski monet cap. corp.

Pleasantdale Storage of Doraville shall conduct an online auction at www. selfstorageauctions.com to conclude on Monday, August 27th, 2018 at 12:00pm

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG1655YA022875 2006 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS51F16F105887 2011 Dodge Durango 1D4RD2GG9BC616634 2004 Mazda Mazda6 1YVFP80DX45N28638 2003 Jeep Liberty 1J4GL48K63W732390 2005 Ford Mustang 1ZVFT80N455165245 2004 GMC Canyon 1GTDT136948179628 929-562022, 8/10,17,24

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, August 28th, 2018, 10:45 AM. 420 Grayson HWY Lawrenceville, GA 30046 Phone: 770-682-7717 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 1004 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn/tv/ Stereo/Equip/Tools/Appliances Other: Boxes Office Furn Mach Equip 1014 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn 1036 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn 1038 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/ Furn 1039 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn 1043 Elliott Peterson HouseholdGoods/FurnOther: Clothes 1133 Courtney Davis TRue Blue Logistic HouseholdGoods/Furn 1139 Shondreail Williams HouseholdGoods/Furn/Tools/ appliances 1245 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn/tv/ Stereo/Equip/Tools/Appliances Other: Boxes Office Furn Mach Equip 1248 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn/tv/ Stereo/Equip/Tools/Appliances Other: Boxes Office Furn Mach Equip 1292 Shalanda Perser HouseholdGoods/ FurnOther:Boxes/Bags 1299 Zephry Moving co HouseholdGoods/Furn 1314 Zephry Moving co Household Goods/Furn/tv/ Stereo/Equip/Tools/Appliances Other: Boxes Office Furn Mach Equip 929-561957, 8/10,17 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 AGS TOWING SERVICE, ?WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 1988 CHEVROLET C1500 2GCDC14H7J1139806 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 5589 NOBLETT RD STONE MOUNTAIN, GA 30087 *7941 929-562801, 8/17,24 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 BLUE COLLAR SCULPTOR, INC., WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 1999 GULF STREAM SUN VOYAGER 3FCNF53S2XJA27644 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 3929 WOODWARD MILL RD SUGAR HILL, GA 30518 *7934 929-562811, 8/17,24 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 GWINNETT CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2009 DODGE RAM 1500 1D3HB16P69J522556 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 5054 HIGHWAY 78 STONE MOUNTAIN, GA 30087 *7947 929-562812, 8/17,24 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 THE RIGHT CHOICE COLLISION ?CENTER, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2011 TOYOTA CAMRY 4T1BF3EK8BU595724 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 700 PEACHTREE INDUSTRIAL BLVD SUWANEE, GA 30024 *7935 929-562805, 8/17,24

There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: #; Year; Make; Model; VIN 1 1998 Honda Accord 1HGCG564XWA127410 2 2001 Saturn SL1 1G8ZG52881Z333802 3 2001 Suzuki Grand Vitara JS3TX92V214107035 4 2006 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E76M518760 5 2001 Buick Century 2G4WS52J411333939 6 2010 Chrysler Sebring 1C3CC4FB5AN170982 7 1998 Mercedes-Benz C230 WDBHA23GXWA572005 8 1985 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS14B6F8141495 9 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J8GS48K87C569704 10 1999 Jeep Cherokee 1J4FF68SXXL605180 11 2003 Pontiac Vibe 5Y2SL64833Z413341 12 1997 Dodge Ram Wagon 2B5WB35Z3VK555584 13 2017 Ford Escape 1FMCU0F72HUA18828 14 2011 Dodge Challenger 2B3CJ4DG9BH603425 15 2005 Honda Civic 1HGES16315L002371 16 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GX48S41C684682 17 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AZ55F267783044 18 2015 Cadillac CTS 1G6AR5SX4F0144017 19 2003 BMW 530i WBADT63433CK36295 20 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 1D7HU18247J614403 21 2004 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZT54844F152354 22 2006 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D46C172614 23 2005 Nissan Titan 1N6BA07A65N520537 24 2013 Kia Forte KNAFW4A34D5670259 25 1999 Lincoln Navigator 5LMPU28A2XLJ16524 26 2000 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46L0YE175824 27 1996 Chrysler Town and Country 1C4GP54L9TB403530 28 2002 Honda Accord 1HGCG56422A007448 29 1999 Honda Civic 1HGEJ6678XL048107 30 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AC44G93E062818 31 2005 Chevrolet Equinox 2CNDL13F156027622 32 2003 Acura TL 19UUA56883A077840 33 2005 Acura RSX JH4DC54805S004288 34 2002 Infiniti G20 JNKCP11A82T504172 35 2001 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62E31ZA43232

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PUBLIC NOTICE Homemade tow dolly trailer with NO VIN OR TAG was impounded on Monday, May 21st 2018 at 5:08p.m.

From 1956 Tanglewood Drive Snellville GA 30078. This vehicle and its contents will be considered abandoned on September 4th, 2018 and processed accordingly.

Claims to this vehicle should be made at Eastside Towing of Atlanta, Inc. 4410 Tuck road, Loganville GA 30052 Phone number 770466-7050 929-561855, 8/10,17

SERVICE

BY PUBLICATION IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA Civil Action No. NC-18-13 City of Lawrenceville vs.

118 Dogwood Lane Tax Parcel No. R7010A 035 and Vira Skrypa and Heorhiy Skrypa NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that a Nuisance Complaint was filed in the City of Lawrenceville Municipal Court on August 6, 2018, Civil Action File No: NC-18-13, in compliance w

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BY PUBLICATION with Chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia and pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 412-7 et seq., with reference to and against the dwelling, building, structure, or property at the above-referenced location within the municipal boundaries of Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A hearing on the issue shall be held before the Municipal Court of said City at 70 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia at 9:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of August, 2018.

By publication of this notice, the owner and any parties in interest shall be given the right to file an answer to the Complaint and to appear in person or otherwise and give testimony at such time and place.

Frank Hartley, Esq. Attorney for the City of Lawrenceville Thompson, Sweeny, Kinsinger & Pereira P.C. P.O. Drawer 1250 Lawrenceville, GA 30046 930-562126, 8/10,17 IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA Civil Action No. NC-18-14 City of Lawrenceville vs.

442 Shoal Circle Tax Parcel No. R5180 245 and Mohammed Karim Amiri NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that a Nuisance Complaint was filed in the City of Lawrenceville Municipal Court on August 6, 2018, Civil Action File No: NC-18-14, in compliance with Chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia and pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 412-7 et seq., with reference to and against the dwelling, building, structure, or property at the above-referenced location within the municipal boundaries of Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A hearing on the issue shall be held before the Municipal Court of said City at 70 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia at 9:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of August, 2018.

By publication of this notice, the owner and any parties in interest shall be given the right to file an answer to the Complaint and to appear in person or otherwise and give testimony at such time and place.

Frank Hartley, Esq. Attorney for the City of Lawrenceville Thompson, Sweeny, Kinsinger & Pereira P.C. P.O. Drawer 1250 Lawrenceville, GA 30046 930-562128, 8/10,17 IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA Civil Action No. NC-18-15 City of Lawrenceville vs.

Phillips Street Tax Parcel No. R5142 037 and Joseph Malouf NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that a Nuisance Complaint was filed in the City of Lawrenceville Municipal Court on August 9, 2018, Civil Action File No: NC-18-15, in compliance with Chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia and pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 412-7 et seq., with reference to and against the dwelling, building, structure, or property at the above-referenced location within the municipal boundaries of Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A hearing on the issue shall be held before the Municipal Court of said City at 70 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia at 9:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of August, 2018.

By publication of this notice, the owner and any parties in interest shall be given the right to file an answer to the Complaint and to appear in person or otherwise and give testimony at such time and place.

Frank Hartley, Esq. Attorney for the City of Lawrenceville Thompson, Sweeny, Kinsinger & Pereira P.C. P.O. Drawer 1250 Lawrenceville, GA 30046 930-562100, 8/10,17 IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA Civil Action No. NC-18-16 City of Lawrenceville vs.

East Pike Street Tax Parcel No. R5175 021 and Mercer Harris, Jr. NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that a Nuisance Complaint was filed in the City of Lawrenceville Municipal Court on August 9, 2018, Civil Action File No: NC-18-16, in compliance with Chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia and pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 412-7 et seq., with reference to and against the dwelling, building, structure, or property at the above-referenced location within the municipal boundaries of Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A hearing on the issue shall be held before the Municipal Court of said City at 70 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia at 9:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of August, 2018.

By publication of this notice, the owner and any parties in interest shall be given the right to file an answer to the Complaint and to appear in person or otherwise and give testimony at such time and place.

Frank Hartley, Esq. Attorney for the City of Lawrenceville Thompson, Sweeny, Kinsinger & Pereira P.C. P.O. Drawer 1250 Lawrenceville, GA 30046 930-562102, 8/10,17

ZONINGS GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 The following Rezoning, Change-in-Conditions, Special Use Permit and other items of business, located within Unincorporated Gwinnett County, are scheduled for public hearings as stated above. Site plans, legal descriptions, and other information are available in the office of the Planning Division, 446 West Crogan Street,

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RZM2018-00003, Applicant: Brand Partners, LP c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: Perimeter Group Corporation, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R7207 085, M-1 to RM-24; Apartments (Buffer Reduction), 1600 Block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, 16.07 Acres. District 1/Brooks RZR2017-00011, Applicant: Home South Communities, LLC c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: John T. Lamb, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R7136 001, RA-200 to OSC; Single-Family Subdivision, 2400 Block of Sunny Hill Road and 2500 Block of Morgan Road, 86.15 Acres. District 4/Heard RZR2018-00017, Applicant: The Providence Group of Georgia, LLC, Owners: Myron & Linda Baynes, Baynes Family, LLC and Yuling Hayter, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R7166 001, 043, 045 and 047, R-100 to TND; Traditional Neighborhood Development (Buffer Reduction), 3200 Block of Suwanee Creek Road, 49.73 Acres.

District 1/Brooks CIC2018-00011, Applicant: Ariston Group, LLC c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: Ariston Group, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R7177 047, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned MU-R, 2600 Block of Mall of Georgia Boulevard and 3100 Block of Woodward Crossing Boulevard, 16.0 Acres. District 4/Heard RZC2018-00013, Applicant: John E. Swiney, Owner: Mustafa Sharif, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R7039 845, C-1 to C-2; Commercial/ Retail Uses, 2700 Block of Cruse Road and 2700 Block of Old Shackleford Road, 1.50 Acres. District 4/Heard SUP2018-00045, Applicant: John E. Swiney, Owner: Mustafa Sharif, Tax Parcel No. R7039 845, Application for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 (Proposed) Zoning District for a Billiard Hall, 2700 Block of Cruse Road and 2700 Block of Old Shackleford Road, 1.50 Acres. District 4/Heard RZR2018-00019, Applicant: Stone Manor Holdings c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owners: Stone Manor Holdings, LLC, Mary Imogene Fowler, JML Rev. Trust U/T/A and Timothy J. Boyle, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R7182 009B, 033, 044, and 045, RA-200, R-75 MOD and C-2 to TND; Traditional Neighborhood Development (Buffer Reduction), 3100 South Puckett Road and 3400 Block of Hamilton Mill Road, 27.84 Acres. District 4/Heard RZR2018-00020, Applicant: Quyp Development Services, LLC c/o Alliance Engineering and Planning, Owners: Dwain N. Kilgore and Grace N. Kilgore c/o Alliance Engineering and Planning, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R2003 026 and 263, RA-200 to OSC; Single-Family Subdivision, 100 Block of Auburn Road and 3600 Block of Bailey Road, 56.58 Acres.

District 3/Hunter RZR2018-00021, Applicant: Pulte Group, Inc. c/o Alliance Engineering and Planning, Owners: Janice F. Lee, Whitney Corbin Lee, and Brenda Corbin Lee c/o Alliance Engineering and Planning, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R6108 007, 201, 272 and 273, R-100 and RA-200 to OSC; Single-Family Subdivision, 3500 Block of River Drive, 21.8 Acres. District 2/ Howard RZR2018-00022, Applicant: GCIP SIX, LLC, c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: GCIP SIX, LLC, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R5127 090 and R5128 002, R-100 to OSC; Single-Family Subdivision, 3900 Block of Lake Carlton Road, 55.23 Acres. District 3/Hunter SUP2018-00044, Applicant: Alegre Farm, Owners: Juan and Pilar Quintero, Tax Parcel Nos. R5280 017 and 130, Application for a Special Use Permit in a RA-200 Zoning District for a Special Events Facility, Outdoor Recreation and Farmers Market (On and Off-Site Products), 2200 Block of Givens Road, 14.67 Acres. District 3/ Hunter P&D PC TBL 9-4 934-562885, 8/17

017, R-100 to R-SR; Senior Oriented Residences, 14001600 Blocks of Temple Johnson Road and 1500 Block of Range Road, 25.78 Acres.

District 3/Hunter RZR2018-00025, Applicant: Atlanta Maxim Realty International c/o Kia Lam, Owner: Kia Lam and Tam Van Nguyen, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R6058 002, O-I to R-100; Single-Family Residence, 2200 Block of Rockbridge Road, 0.52 Acre.

District 3/Hunter RZR2018-00026, Applicant: CKK Development, Owner: Charlotte Chaffin, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R5124 002, R-100 to R-TH; Townhouses (Buffer Reduction), 2800 Block of Rosebud Road, 8.06 Acres. District 3/ Hunter RZR2018-00027, Applicant: Ensite Civil Consulting, LLC, Owner: Shirley Investment Partners, LLC, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R5268 035 and 039, R-100 to R-60; Single-Family Subdivision, 700 Block of East Campbell Road, 6.63 Acres. District 3/ Hunter CIC2018-00013, Applicant: Sugarloaf Hotel Group, LLC c/o Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: Sugarloaf Hotel Group, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R7081 127, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned C-2, 2100 Block of North Brown Road, 2.15 Acres. District 1/Brooks SUP2018-00047, Applicant: Kiaoco McGhee, Owner: Kiaoco McGhee, Tax Parcel No. R6015 121, Application for a Special Use Permit in a R-100 Zoning District for a Personal Care Home (Family), 3600 Block of Killarney Trail, 1.04 Acres. District 3/ Hunter SUP2018-00048, Applicant: Fatih Aydin, Owner: L and T Family, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R7176 070, Application for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 Zoning District for Tattoo and Body Piercing, 1800 Block of Mall of Georgia Boulevard and 3100 Block of Buford Drive, 1.92 Acres.

District 4/Heard SUP2018-00050, Applicant: Efrain A. Chavarria, Owner: C.E. Smith, Tax Parcel No. R7028 005, Application for a Special Use Permit in an M-1 Zoning District for Automobile and Truck Repair Shop (Renewal), 900 Block of Buford Drive, 2.01 Acres.

District 4/Heard SUP2018-00051, Applicant: Stor-All Acquisitions, Owner: Redus Georgia Commercial, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R7124 093, Application for a Special Use Permit in C-2 & MUO Zoning Districts for a Self-Storage Facility, 1000 Block of Old Peachtree Road, 1.30 Acres. District 1/Brooks SUP2018-00052, Applicant: Anthony Wiggins, Owner: Philadelphia Romanian Church, Tax Parcel No. 7149 013, Application for a Special Use Permit in a R-100 Zoning District for a Private School, 500 Block of Old Peachtree Road, 9.11 Acres. District 1/ Brooks SUP2018-00053, Applicant: Sophia Huynh, Owner: Pleasant Hill Road Plaza LLC, Tax Parcel No. R6204 030, Application for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 Zoning District for Pool or Billiards Hall, 1600 Block of Old Pleasant Hill Road, 8.7 Acres. District 1/Brooks P&D PC/BOC 9-4 & 9-25 934-562886, 8/17

GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 The following Rezoning, Change-in-Conditions, Special Use Permit and other items of business, located within Unincorporated Gwinnett County, are scheduled for public hearings as stated above. Site plans, legal descriptions, and other information are available in the office of the Planning Division, 446 West Crogan Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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casually fine Grace 17:20 mixes dining aesthetics

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Aug. 24 Lawrenceville Summer Concert Series — The Stranger, a Billy Joel tribute band, will play from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Lawn. For more information, go to lawrencevillega.org.

Aug. 25 Hoofin’ For Habitat 5K — The event, which costs $35 with proceeds going to Gwinnett’s Habitat for Humanity, takes place at Suwanee Town Center Park. For more information, call 678-644-6777.

Michael Bolton — Michael Bolton brings his music to the Bowl @ Sugar Hill for a concert that begins at 8 p.m. General admission lawn seats are available for $21. For more information, go to thebowl@sugarhill.com.

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The Maple Leaf Duck Breast at The Forum at Peachtree Corners’ Grace 17:20 is made with potato gnocchi, wild mushrooms, roasted baby carrots, shallots, arugula and finished with a cherry Cabernet sauce. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

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Owners: Terry and Buddy Johnson Manager: Kateryna Sopizhenko Chef: Tino Salazar Sous Chef: Michael Couri Open Since: 2004 Hours: Monday through Saturday; lunch beginning at 11:30 a.m., dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m., closes at 10 p.m.

Closed on Sundays, though open for private parties and events.

Location: In The Forum at Peachtree Corners, next to the Gymboree Atmosphere: Stepping through the large metal doors of Grace 17:20, a staircase appears immediately to the left, while the bar/happy our area is tucked into the right corner, giving the restaurant an inviting, homey feel.

As a fine-dining restaurant, the owners, Terry Johnson and his father, Buddy Johnson, wanted to make it a place where people feel welcome and unintimidated by the high-quality food and wine, Assistant General Manager Kyle Goolsby said.

“We’re a casual, fine dining (restaurant),” Goolsby said. “We’ve been here for 14 years and we’re the only restaurant that originated with The Forum, we’re the only people that have ever been in this spot and we’ve had the same owners. Our owners are from this area and they wanted to have a place that they felt comfortable where they could go.”

That comfort, while immediately felt when entering Grace 17:20, extends to the dining room and patio, too.

ON THE MENU • Burrata Salad: Baby heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and basil, balsamic reduction. $12 • Maple Leaf Duck Breast: Potato gnocchi, wild mushrooms, roasted baby carrots, shallots, arugula, cherry cabernet sauce. $26 • Vegetarian Penne Pasta: Zucchini, red peppers, sun dried tomato, mushrooms, spinach, kalamata olives, white wine butter sauce, shaved parmesan. $20 • Warm Blueberry Cobbler: Served with vanilla bean ice cream. $9

With tables close to one another, though not so close patrons would bump into each other, and only one dining room, the warmth is felt in the room.

Grace 17:20’s patio adds to that feel as well, with a wood-burning fire built along one of the side fences and a small water fountain backed up against the restaurant’s outdoor wall.

“I think this is kind of what (the owners) envisioned in a restaurant where they would want to be at,” Goolsby said.

“They kind of consider this part of their neighborhood, so they wanted a place where, if it wasn’t owned by them, they would still go.”

Menu: For a restaurant that makes all its dishes in-house, Grace 17:20’s menu is quite extensive, though there are some overlaps on the lunch and dinner menus.

The menu, while “southern-style American,” draws its influence from all over the world, which Sous Chef Michael

that’s very eclectic,” Couri said. “It’s not an egg roll — we use a very light spring roll wrapper, which is rice paper — and it is fried, but it’s thinner and much flakier than an egg roll. And the ingredients in it make it Asian, but it’s also Southwestern. It’s blackened grilled chicken, which is Cajun, and then sour cabbage slaw, which is very Asian, and then raw pumpkin seeds, fresh poblano and then aged, grated mozzarella. We used to use white cheddar, but mozzarella is stringy and just so much better. Then it comes with a jalapeno honey aioli.

“There’s so much going on, but it’s all good things Grace 17:20 is located next to the Gymboree at The Forum at Peachtree Corners. that came together in the perfect combination, and that’s everything we have here.”

Couri said nothing — except, perhaps, for the wine and brined olives — is imported; it’s all made in-house, almost daily.

“Our menu is so large that we don’t cross-utilize items, meaning you won’t find one sauce on two different dishes,” he said.

“You might, but it’s rare.”

Couri also said the food is fresh.

“I try to get as much local ingredients as I can,” he said. “We don’t have a large food purveyor; we don’t use Sysco or U.S. Foods. A local produce company brings us our produce every day, we go Grace 17:20 has a “casual fine dining feel” and is located in The Forum at Peachtree to the farmer’s market a few times a week and we Corners. visit local butchers.”

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GAC grad makes mark at annual Jimmy Awards “I had such a fantastic week in New York City in June,” Greater Atlanta Christian School graduate Parker Jennings said. “I am fortunate to have visited the city a lot throughout my life, but its vibrancy and passion never fail to amaze me.”

Likewise, Jennings’ own vibrancy and passion have amazed audiences who have had the pleasure of seeing her perform. She is the only Georgia high school actor to win three consecutive Shuler Awards that celebrate excellence in high school theater.

Her award-winning performance this year as Eliza in GAC’s “My Fair Lady” qualified her for a third consecutive trip to the Big Apple for the Jimmy Awards, a national celebration of outstanding student achievement in musical theater.

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Holley Calmes Gwinnett’s Parker Jenning, right, and friend Laughton Berry take a selfie during the Jimmy Awards rehearsals in New York City in June. (Special Photo)

The 2018 “Jimmy Awards” took place June 25 at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. The most talented and recognized high school musical theater artists from across the country participated.

“Throughout the week, we met amazing professionals in the business such as Pasek and Paul, the writing duo behind the movie ‘The Greatest Showman,’” Jennings said.

In addition to question-

and-answer sessions with Broadway star Jenn Coella, participants also got to work one-on-one with famous coaches, all working professionals, as they prepared for their Jimmy Awards performances.

“My coach for the week was Howard McGillan, who is most famous for being the longest running ‘Phantom’ on Broadway,” Jennings said. “He provided

amazing insight and a really fresh and clear-cut approach to working on our solo choices.”

What “blew her away” was the immense talent Jennings saw at every turn.

“Not only was I surrounded by the most talented teenagers I have ever had the privilege to work with, but also by our phenomenal choreographer, Kiesha Lalama, our wonderful

director, Van Kaplan and amazing journalists, stage managers, and photographers,” Jennings said. “The talent was broad, diverse and mind-blowing.”

Jennings began her performing career at age 4 in a ballet recital.

“Since then, I have been dancing, singing and acting pretty much non-stop,” she said.

This year’s GAC production was particularly memorable.

“Eliza’s journey in ‘My Fair Lady’ is absolutely incredible, which I think is what makes it my favorite role to date,” Jennings said.

“I was singing, dancing, acting and on my feet for three hours with eight costume changes and six songs. It was a glorious, breathtaking, ‘loverly’ marathon.”

Fashioned after Broadway’s Tony Awards, the

Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards — Shuler Hensley Awards celebrate excellence in high school musical theater. Named for Georgia native Shuler Hensley, winner of a Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award, the Shuler Awards are supported by The Artsbridge Foundation.

Jennings departs for Boston Conservatory at Berklee this fall, where she will pursue a BFA in musical theater.

“I am so excited to learn, grow, and take new risks,” she said. “I plan to be in musicals for the rest of my life and cannot wait to be taking the next step towards making that a reality.”

Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the arts. Email her at hcalmes@mindspring.com.

TinyCON back again at Children’s Museum of Atlanta celebration falls over Labor Day Weekend.

The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, and tickets for non-member children and adults cost $15.95.

Babies under 1 year old are free.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit childrensmuseumatlanta. org.

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‘Wayward troubadour’ Mike Aiken to perform at Red Clay Music Foundry

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What: Wednesday Writers Series When: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22 Where: Red Clay Music Foundry, 3116 Main St., Duluth More info: eddieowenspresents.com

the songs should be. … I knew so many musicians in the Nashville area, For Mike Aiken, the notion of being and I had a good feeling that (they) a “wayward troubadour” is something would be able to bring out the sound I familiar. wanted.”

As a licensed U.S. Coast Guard capHe added that he “went looking for tain who’s lived on a sailboat for the other producers but really wasn’t findpast 27 years, Aiken has sailed more ing a match for someone who heard than 30,000 miles of open water. He’s what I thought this record should be.” also spent decades on the road, tourWhen it comes to producers, Aiken ing and performing in the continental said “sometimes a producer can bring United States and Europe. so much out of you that you didn’t During an Aug. 22 performance at know you had, and it’s really a good Red Clay Music Foundry in Duluth, thing. But, you have to have somebody the “Rootsy” traveling songwriter … who knows what you want out of plans to play selections from his latit — the sound you’re after.” est, the aforementioned “Wayward Having made music for as long as Troubadour,” as well as music spanhe has, Aiken said his songwriting has ning nearly two decades of previous evolved in that he’s “learned to be a records. better observer of life.”

Aiken is part of the Wednesday Aiken added: “Writing for me isn’t Writers Series at Red Clay Music about ‘me, me, me’ in a song. What Foundry, which starts at 7:30 p.m. and I like to do is pick up little stories … also showcases Johnny Roquemore, and you have about three minutes to Candy Fernaux and Brian Perry. tell that story. A novelist has 300 pages Originally from western New York, to do that, but (a songwriter) has three Aiken said that while he doesn’t like minutes to get a story across, so you to “leave the saltwater,” he can often have to learn how to be really concise be found in the Nashville area, which in every word. There’s no filler. I think, is where he rounded up many of the over the years, it’s been about learning musicians featured on his new album, to be a better writer and observer, and which came out in June. hopefully being able to put the right According to a news release from music behind it to tell that story.” the public relations firm representHe said spending decades sailing ing the musician, Aiken’s seventh the open sea has helped him as an artstudio album is the “much anticipated ist, in that he has lots of “alone time” follow-up” to the Grammy-nominated to write songs.

“Captains & Cowboys,” which was He said he looks forward to sharing produced by Dan Baird of the Georgia some of those songs with the audience Satellites.

Aug. 22 at Red Clay Music Foundry.

For the new record, Aiken went the Advance tickets for the show are self-producing route. $15. Tickets on the day of the show “This record was about three years are $20. For more information or to in the making,” Aiken said. “I had a purchase advance tickets, visit http:// real clear picture in my head of what eddieowenpresents.com

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Ian Ziering fights ‘Last Sharknado’ as Syfy franchise ends

BY JAY BOBBIN For all the crises the world has to deal with, there’s about to be one less: the Sharknado.

An annual event for Syfy and fans of the horror-adventure-satire franchise, the popular cable-movie series that has shown its teeth from the start is coming to an end. Debuting Sunday, “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time” calls it six and done by sending chainsaw-wielding hero Fin (Ian Ziering) and his true love, April (Tara Reid), back in time in order to end what, indeed, is destined to be the final tornado to drop sharks onto a terrified

Neil deGrasse Tyson, music’s Dee Snider, “Saturday Night Live” alum Darrell Hammond and — of special interest to “Beverly Hills, 90210” devotees — Tori Spelling, in a cameo with husband Dean McDermott that reunites her with Ziering, who was Steve Sanders to her Donna Martin. make it onto the screen. beginning, with a new “It was the best,” We shot everything, and vision of the future and a Ziering said. “I’m still the big challenge was to new appreciation for what very good friends with whittle it down to telecast we have. That might not Tori, so getting a chance constraints.” make sense until you see to work with her again The anticipated the movie, and then you’ll was just awesome.”

“Sharknado” basics go, ‘Oh! I get it!’”

Noting such other remain, though, and Part of the “Sharkplayers along the Ziering believes the result nado” fun has come from “Sharknado” way as “wraps up the series quite familiar faces in guest David Hasselhoff, Vivica nicely. roles. The sixth and last A. Fox and Judd Hirsch, We go full-circle edition features LaToya Ziering said, “I’ve been through time back to the Jackson, astrophysicist very fortunate to work Ian Ziering stars in “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time” on Sunday, on Syfy.

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“Usually, it was me saying, ‘Oh, this has got to be the last one,’ but this was the first time I’d heard it from the network,” Ziering said. “This script came in with so many more pages than what’s customary for a movie of this length, I wasn’t sure what was going to

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with some incredible people in this series, and they’ve all elevated the material.”

With television’s many revivals of late, Ziering doesn’t dispute “Sharknado” might have its day again. For now, he admits he was “expecting a far different outcome” from the original 2013 movie.

“I didn’t think it was going to be ‘must-see TV’ for anyone, but this has broken all the rules.

It’s created its own genre where everyone is in on the joke except for the characters in it, and it’s risen to iconic status.

There are ‘Sharknado’ parties, and people are gearing up for Aug. 19.

And it’s great.”

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By Michael clark Movie Critic

For the last 10 years or so, all of the major studios have been producing and marketing their action movies primarily for foreign market consumption in general, and Asia in particular, and it’s easy to understand why. The success or failure of action flicks isn’t contingent on plot, dialogue or character development but rather the audio/visual component — and the more extravagant the better. A good case in point is with last week’s “The Meg,” the extremely silly shark movie set in Asia. It pulled in more than $45 million in the U.S. but more than doubled that overseas.

The same studio (Warner Bros.) that brought you “The Meg” is trying something completely different with “Crazy Rich Asians,” a (mostly) English language romantic comedy set (mostly) in Asia with an all-Asian cast. The last time anything like this was attempted was 25 years ago with “The Joy Luck Club,” a superb yet depressing art-house film that pulled in a relatively paltry $32 million. Studios have made comedies geared toward the Latino and AfricanAmerican audiences for a while now, so tapping the ultra-ripe domestic Asian market makes all kinds of sense.

The good news is that “Crazy” is quite enjoyable and doesn’t play out like a stunt or novelty film only Asian audiences will “get” as many had feared. While

Michelle Yeoh, from left, stars as Eleanor Young, Henry Golding as Nick Young and Constance Wu as Rachel Chu in “Crazy Rich Asians.” (Special Photo: Warner Bros.)

there are some minor bits that come with negative Asian stereotypes, they are few and far between.

At two hours, it’s about 20 minutes too long and could have benefited greatly from further editing and the jettisoning of some scenes featuring strained stabs at “PG-13” grade ribald humor.

Directed by Jon M. Chu (“Now You See Me 2,” “Justin Beiber: Never Say Never,” the “Step Up” franchise) and written by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim (based on the novel

by Kevin Kwan), “Crazy” does us the huge favor by avoiding any back story at the beginning and opens with the introduction of leads Rachel (Constance Wu, “Fresh Off The Boat”) and Nick (Henry Golding, also in the upcoming

thriller “A Simple Favor”).

Rachel and Nick live in New York City and have been dating for about a year. She’s a muchrespected college professor and he’s — well, it’s not immediately clear what Nick does.

Wanting to move their relationship to the next level, Nick invites Rachel to join him in his native Singapore, where he will be the best man at his friend’s wedding. The first sign Rachel gets that Nick might have a higher profile than he lets on is during their private jet trip where they have their own posh make-shift bedroom and fancy-schmancy pajamas.

As it turns out, Nick is an heir to a vast real estate empire and is referred to as the Prince William of Singapore, although he

thinks he’s more like Prince Harry.

After catching up with her former college roommate, Peik Lin (rapper Awkwafina in a comic Oscar-caliber performance) after landing, Rachel attends a party hosted by Nick’s mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh). A woman who shares Rachel’s humble beginnings, Eleanor is nonetheless oblivious to her son’s heartfelt desires and makes it clear marrying an “American” is not an option. Never mind that both of Rachel’s parents are Chinese-born and she speaks semi-fluent Chinese.

At various points, “Crazy” resembles “Cinderella,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the Jane Fonda/Jennifer Lopez disaster “Monster-In-Law”

minus the screeching bile, “Bridesmaids” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” Gorgeously framed with award-worthy set and costume designs, the film is also a foodie’s dream, particularly during an extended scene taking place amid several gourmet street vendors.

Industry expectations and the early critical praise for “Crazy” are huge and, as a result, are levying mostly unfair pressure on it to perform like gangbusters. The dearth of high quality romantic comedies (a genre that has been running on fumes for at least a decade) only adds to these unwarranted perceptions.

Given the wanting options of late August, “Crazy” will almost certainly score big with the date night and girls-night-out demographics, but to think it will

automatically jump start an entire segment of the market is ludicrous and delusional.

On the other hand, “Crazy” could become the next “When Harry Met Sally …,” “Pretty Woman,” “There’s Something About Mary” or “Love, Actually.” It’s going to strike a chord with people of all colors, races, nationalities and backgrounds, and will probably become one of the best selling hard-copy home videos in many a moon (probably just in time for Christmas!). It’s fun, sexy, tense, honest and touching in all the right places. Let it do its thing and sink or swim on its own merits.

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PACK LEADER Unflinching prehistoric epic ‘Alpha’ is top dog among films Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as Keda in Columbia Pictures and Studio 8’s “Alpha.” (Special Photo: Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures)

COMING SOON TO OWN • “Blue Bloods: The Eighth Season” (Aug. 21): A shocking revelation that has a major impact on the entire Reagan family starts this round of the Tom Selleck-starring CBS police drama. (NR)

• “Deadpool 2” (Aug. 21): Ryan Reynolds returns as the very offbeat — and very profane — superhero, with a “Super Duper Cut” of the sequel adding 15 minutes of new material. (R and unrated versions) • “Gotham: The Complete Fourth Season” (Aug. 21): Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) makes major strides toward becoming Batman in this round of the Fox drama series.

(Not rated) • “NCIS: The Fifteenth Season” (Aug. 21): An arrival (Maria Bello) and a departure (Pauley Perrette) mark this year of the globally popular CBS adventure-drama. (NR) • “The Walking Dead: The Complete Eighth Season” (Aug. 21): Rick (Andrew Lincoln) leads an alliance in a major offensive against Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) followers. (Not rated) • “Book Club” (Aug. 28): Four friends (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) delve into racier reading that ends up inspiring their lives. (PG-13)

(Alden Ehrenreich) finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers, including a 196-year-old Wookiee named Chewbacca.

Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium.

In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian, the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission — the Millennium Falcon. (PG-13) • “Woman Walks Ahead” (Aug. 28): A widowed artist (Jessica Chastain) meets with opposition when she travels to late 19th-century North Dakota to do a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull. (R)

• “Adrift” (Sept. 4): Their new romance takes two young people (Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin) on a quest to • “Solo: A Star Wars Story” return a boat — which turns into a fight to survive. (PG-13) (Aug. 28): Young Han Solo

Alpha (PG-13) ★★★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

Bearing a strong resemblance to “Quest For Fire,” “The Revenant,” “Jeremiah Johnson,” “The Grey,” the first chunk of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and maybe even a little bit of “The Lion King,” “Alpha” deftly mixes the survival, comingof-age and shaggy dog genres to brilliant, mesmerizing effect.

Set 20,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic period somewhere in Europe, “Alpha” is an intense, unflinching film which refuses to dull or soften its edges for the sake of commercial viability.

By almost anyone’s definition, it’s an art film, but also one completely lacking in pretense or any trace of egghead intellectualism that often turns off mainstream audiences. Far too many movies are crafted (or churned out, if you will) with a specific target demographic in mind with the hope of some spillover. “Alpha” doesn’t have a specific demographic; it can literally be appreciated by anyone over the age of 10.

The narrative kicks off with the adult and teen members of a tribe hunting for bison on a vast plain.

Leader Tau (Johannes Haukur Johannesson) is also using this excursion as a right-of-passage for his elder teen son, Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is not quite ready to move on to full-fledged manhood. Tentative and lacking a honed killer instinct, Keda winces at the sight of animal slaughter and it is clear Tau is going to stick to his tough-love mission to get his son over the hump.

All preconceived notions and game plans take a permanent powder when Keda becomes the target of a cornered bison and is tossed off a towering cliff. Landing about halfway down on a thin shelf, it’s assumed he’s dead and a crestfallen Tau reluctantly returns to base camp with the rest of the hunters.

This scene is repeated in condensed form at the start of the second act, and for the bulk of the remainder of the film, Keda is the only living human we see on screen as he is put through a series of life-threatening scenarios that would break the will of most.

Through baptisms of all sorts, he eventually becomes the man and warrior Tau had envisioned.

One of Keda’s first obstacles comes in the form of a pack of hungry wolves that chase him up a tree (a practical carbon-copy of a passage in “Quest For Fire”). Just before climbing to safety, Keda severely injures one of the wolves

NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters. Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• “BlacKkKlansman” — 3 1/2 stars Director Spike Lee delivers a great movie with a powerful message and humor inserted throughout at the right moments. John David Washington shines as Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Based on real events, Stallworth teams up with Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”) and other fellow officers to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan.

Topher Grace turns in a great performance as national Klan leader David Duke. The movie has a couple of slow parts, but the simultaneous investigation of local black activists provokes thought and parallels some present-day events. — Michael Buckelew • “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” — 3 1/2 stars Tom Cruise again doesn’t disappoint in the latest entry in the action series. Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt to stop three pieces of plutonium from getting sold to terrorists who want to weaponize them. Director Christopher McQuarrie’s film takes a lot of twists that can at times make following all the events tricky, but the overall product doesn’t suffer much. The action sequences are spectacular, and the characters’ banter lightens up the movie at the right times.

Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Sean Harris return in their roles from previous installments, and Henry Cavill (“Justice League”) is a welcome addition as CIA operative August Walker. — MB • “Ant-Man and the Wasp” — 3

who is also eventually left for dead by its traveling companions. After what appears to be days and under the threat of a band of hyenas, Keda climbs down and carries the wounded animal to safety in a remote cave.

For the next 45 or so minutes, Keda and the wolf he names Alpha — after going through an often testy love/hate getting-to-knowyou phase — are put through the proverbial ringer, dodging death at every turn. The movie is being billed “how mankind first discovered man’s best friend” and it is squarely on the mark. Rarely has a movie tagline been this, honest transparent and accurate.

Penned by first-time screenwriter Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, “Alpha” was conceived and directed by Albert Hughes who, along with his twin brother Allen, created the mid ’90s game changers “Menace II Society” and “Dead Presidents” as well as the highly underrated Jack the Ripper horror/thriller “From Hell” in 2001. Though set in different centuries on different continents, these films share unforgiving urban settings where life is fleeting and death is treated as a blasé matter of course.

At first blush, “Alpha” is as far away from anything Hughes has made before, but it is also unforgiving with death arriving without notice only this time taking place in unchartered ancient territory with mankind still in its infancy stage. As much a thriller as it is survivalist drama and, yes, buddy picture, “Alpha” will keep you riveted and in wrapped amazement every single second of its sturdy and economic 96 minutes.

It also delivers and 11th hour twist which, unless you’re clairvoyant, will overwhelm you in a most positive and heartwarming manner.

It’s been written in this column before; movies like “Alpha” don’t come down the pike very often. It tells a story with minimum embellishment and makes the viewer earn its many rewards. While some of it may be too intense for some easily upset pre-teens (as the MPAA rating indicates), “Alpha” really is something the whole family can enjoy and in many instances will bring them closer together.

It is one of the finest films of 2018 and arguably the best of this surprisingly above-average summer season.

With any luck, you’ll choose a theater where you will be able to enjoy the film without people talking non-stop, using their cellphones or getting up for food every other minute.

Presented in an unknown, likely made-up language with English subtitles.

(Sony/Columbia)

stars After the regal “Black Panther” and everything-plus-kitchen-sink throwdown that was “Avengers: Infinity War,” this latest Marvel Studios movie feels even more like the featherweight fluff it is — and that’s OK. Evangeline Lilly is as winsome as Wasp as Paul Rudd remains gregarious as Ant-Man. Though the film is missing the wit of the 2013 original written (and initially directed) by Edgar Wright, it benefits from a much improved villain in Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost. — Khari J. Sampson • “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” — 3 1/2 stars In what is the best of this franchise’s installments since the original “Jurassic Park,” “Fallen Kingdom” brings back Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) to what they think is helping rescue the dinosaurs from ruins of the Jurassic World park.

But after Owen leads a strike force to the lone surviving velociraptor, Blue, they find out they’ve been misled. Owen and Claire battle to save the lives of the dinosaurs before Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) can sell them to the highest bidder. The movie is enjoyable from start to finish, and it smartly explores the morality of creating and controlling life. — MB • “Incredibles 2” (PG) — 3 1/2 stars It can’t quite live up to the near-perfect superhero family original but it far outdoes every Pixar sequel effort not named “Toy Story.” Set just 14 seconds after the first film (which came out 14 years ago), this one focuses on Elastigirl’s fight to restore superheroes’ status in the world — and her husband’s reaction to being stuck

at home with the kids: volatile teenaged Violet, still-impetuous Dash and toddler Jack-Jack. Great fun ensues. — KS • “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (PG-13) — 3 stars Featuring a younger version of the rogue made famous by Harrison Ford decades ago, “Solo” is a fun enough romp to warrant a trip to the big screen. Alden Ehrenreich is better than expected in the title role (though still not great), and Donald Glover shines as Han Solo’s longtime frenemy Lando Calrissian. — KS • “Deadpool 2” (R) — 3 stars This sequel to the 2016 raunchfest superhero original is both better and worse than its predecessor. As the title character, Ryan Reynolds continues to send up the superhero genre to hilarious effect and the whole shebang has surprising heart, but it also plays into a couple of well-worn tropes — most courtesy of new antagonist Cable (Josh Brolin). No one will really care, especially when it shreds twice as many such cliches. — KS • “Avengers: Infinity War” (PG13) — 3 stars Ten years’ worth of Marvel Studios superhero movies deliver payoffs galore in this massive mashup.

Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) come together — sort of — to stop genocidal galactic baddie Thanos (Josh Brolin) from collecting the Infinity Stones he plans to use to wipe out half the universe. One could call it a love letter to fans if not for its gut punch of a cliffhanger ending.

— KS

8C • FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2018

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Stoner dramedy is as funny as it is sad Never Goin’ Back (R) ★★★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK

Movie Critic

At once coming across as wholly original and unashamedly derivative, “Never Goin’ Back” is a stoner dramedy that is as funny as it is sad. While featuring two female leads and being led by a female writer/director/editor, it doesn’t come close to anyone’s definition of a chick flick. For some, it will cut far too close to the bone with its clear-eyed portrayal of dead-end, middle-American squalor, a point being lost thus far on far too many haughty and joyless critics.

BFFs for life, Angela (the Australian Maia Mitchell, “The Fosters” TV series) and Jessie (model Camila Morrone, “Death Wish”) are not-quite-legal-age teens sharing a run-down Dallas house with Jessie’s feckless, brain-dead brother, Dustin (Joel Allen), and Brandon (Kyle Mooney, “SNL”), a slovenly sub shop employee whose dream is to be simultaneously intimate with the — again, underage — girls.

Both high school dropouts, Angela and Jessie wait tables at a second-rung pancake house and are constantly faking illnesses — chickenpox, stomach flu, car accidents — to get out of work. Their collective gonowhere, slacker attitudes get tested when Angela blows their rent on a birthday beach trip to Galveston to celebrate Jessie’s upcoming 17th birthday. To make up for it, they now have to work 10 straight shifts each,

a mini-marathon that will probably conclude on the 12th of Never.

For the first 30 of the 85 total minutes, rookie feature filmmaker Augustine Frizzell — the granddaughter of country singer Lefty — moves from one hairbrained set piece to another while recalling past titles such as, but not limited to, “Dazed and Confused,” “Dumb and Dumber,” the “Harold and Kumar” franchise and even the TV series “2 Broke Girls.” A running joke regarding constipation gets old fast, and before it’s all over, there will be a projectile vomit scene that rivals the one shown in “The Exorcist.”

Needless to say, this all plays out terribly low-brow and sophomoric, yet it is the unwavering, “Thelma & Louise”-level bond and

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Above, Camila Morrone, left, stars as Jessie and Maia Mitchell as Angela in “Never Goin’ Back.” Right, Maia Mitchell, left, stars as Angela and Camila Morrone as Jessie in “Never Goin’ Back.”

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chemistry between Angela and Jessie that saves the movie from landing squarely in the trash heap. They sleep in the same bed and frequently touch and kiss each other, but it is never in any way suggested that they

are lovers. Angela and Jessie would probably die for each other if need be, and even at this young, turbulent and confusing age, it’s more than clear nothing will ever come between them.

It is at the halfway point

when the film shifts gears slightly, tones down the comedy just a hair and introduces touches of far more serious fare reminiscent of “Go,” “Springbreakers,” “Thirteen” and “The Florida Project.” Without

ever ignoring the absurd, inane and downright idiotic, the film never lets us forget that Angela and Jessie will probably never amount to much and will forever operate within a “one step forward, two steps back” framework. The film also suggests they will be more content and happier than many who are far smarter and wealthier.

It’s worth mentioning that the film more than warrants its “R” rating. There is no nudity and very little violence, but the dialogue is sexually blunt, the drug use is rampant and there’s a marked flippancy toward criminal behavior. It wouldn’t be going out on a limb to suggest that there are millions of older U.S. teens who behave exactly like the ones seen in “Never Goin’ Back” and parents should think twice about letting their under-16 children see it.

The movie doesn’t condone failure but neither does it look down on it, and the film’s lack of elitist, judgmental airs and tsk-tsk finger-wagging is summarily refreshing. There’s nothing taking place within its frames that couldn’t happen in real life, which only adds to its charms — and its many warning signs.

Music plays a big part in “Never Goin’ Back” — the bulk of it is rap and hip-hop, and all of it fits quite well.

Bully to any movie that can include both Michael Bolton’s painfully earnest “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” and a cover of Barry Manilow’s “Mandy” in comic contexts while convincingly pairing them in scenes featuring drugs and food.

(A24)

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