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Lawsuit: Official made racist comments

Buford City Schools superintendent’s retaliation against ex-teacher also alleged

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A local school superintendent who is the subject of a racial discrimination lawsuit is also being accused of spewing racist comments about African-Americans, including using the n-word, a lawsuit and audio recordings show.

Mary Ingram, a former paraprofessional educator at Buford Academy, is suing Buford City Schools Superintendent Geye Hamby, Buford Academy Principal Kaleen Pulley and the school district for racial discrimination and retaliation after she was fired “without any justification,” the lawsuit says.

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pay, compensatory and punitive damages, attorney’s fees and trial by jury in the suit, which has a web link to two audio recordings attached.

In the recordings, which are presumably included to support Ingram’s charges against Hamby, a man said to be Hamby makes derogatory comments against black construction workers, referring to them by the

n-word and saying that he would “kill these (expletive).”

Hamby allegedly made racially charged comments during outburst In one of the recordings, the person presumed to be Hamby is speaking about black temp workers at a construction site, specifically one who

Family: Walmart shooting victim survived Bosnian concentration camps

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A man who was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Snellville Walmart after being involved in an argument with a couple had come to the United States for a better life after surviving Bosnian concentration camps, family members said.

Fadil Delkic, 49, was killed on Sunday after he, 27-year-old Grayson resident Troy Hunte and Hunte’s fiancée got into a verbal argument shortly before 6 p.m., according to Snellville Police Department Detective Jeff Manley.

“The verbal argument turned Troy physical when Hunte Mr. Hunte’s fiancée struck Mr. Delkic in the face,” Manley said. “Shortly thereafter, Hunte pulled a handgun from his pocket and shot Delkic one time in the chest.”

Delkic was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead, and Hunte was charged with voluntary manslaughter.

Though Hunte was denied bond on Tuesday because he poses a “risk of danger to the community” a judge said, Delkic’s friends and family, as well as citizens who have heard about the shooting, said the voluntary manslaughter charge is not enough.

“He should be charged with murder, and his (fiancée) should be charged with something for slapping the man,” one person wrote on the Daily Post’s website.

“I was there,” another person wrote. “Troy shot Mr. D in cold blood.”

But Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter told the Daily Post that Hunte See SHOOTING, Page 3A

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Hunnicutt defends his players amid practice flap

BY WILL HAMMOCK will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com

Fadil Delkic, 49, left, was killed on Sunday after he, 27-year-old Grayson resident Troy Hunte and Hunte’s fiancee got into a verbal argument shortly before 6 p.m. in a Snellville Walmart’s parking lot. (Family Photo via FOX 5 Atlanta)

A man who was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Snellville Walmart after being involved in an argument with a couple had come to the United States for a better life after surviving Bosnian concentration camps, family members said. (Photo: FOX 5 Atlanta)

A roster stacked with college prospects, the state championship favorite role and a national ranking have put the Grayson High School football program in the spotlight, for better or worse.

Over the past week, it’s been the latter.

Reports surfaced last week that all but 18 Rams players walked out of an Aug. 15 practice over disagreements with the physical workouts led by head coach Christian Hunnicutt and his staff. The disgruntled players were said to have asked for Hunnicutt to be fired, but in recent days both players and parents have said that isn’t true.

Addressing the issue for the first time publicly Tuesday afternoon, Hunnicutt said the meeting between players and coaches was to address practice concerns, but nobody walked out of practice or called for his ouster. The two sides held Christian a discussion that resolved Hunnicutt the matter, though it was meant to be internal, not a rapidly spreading news story.

All parties were content to focus on Saturday’s season opener versus Tucker on ESPNU, but as the story got out, the widespread narrative on the situation went one of two ways for those not connected to the Rams’ program. The first opinion vilified Hunnicutt for his over-the-top practices.

The other side bashed highly recruited Grayson players as soft.

Hunnicutt made it a point to defend his players Tuesday.

“We’ve all moved on from it,” he said.

“By no means are our kids soft or not tough or reluctant to work. By no means. In no way, shape or form are our kids reluctant to work, reluctant to practice. I want to be crystal clear about that. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Our kids work incredibly hard. They are very, very competitive.

We want everyone to know we’ve moved on from this.”

The coach said the Grayson administration didn’t want Rams players fielding questions about what has happened over the past week, but at least one responded via See HUNNICUTT, Page 7A

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Officials: Fires outside Lawrenceville-area home arsonist’s work

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Gwinnett County fire officials believe two small fires that burned outside a home in unincorporated Lawrenceville last week were set by an arsonist.

Firefighters were called to the home on the 1300 block of Dowry Drive at 8:11 a.m. on Thursday.

Capt. Tommy Rutledge said a woman who lives at the home had gone outside to walk her dog when she found one of the fires smoldering. She used a garden hose to put it out, but firefighters who responded to the home found the second fire as they checked the area.

“According to Fire Investigators, someone used an ignitable liquid to start two separate small

fires on opposite corners of the house,” Rutledge said in a statement. “The fires were found smoldering and caused minor cosmetic damage to part of an exterior siding board on one side of the house and scorched a flowerbed and wooden fence on the other side.

“There was no damage inside the home and no injuries were reported.”

Gwinnett County fire investigators are asking anyone who has information about the fires to call them at 678-518-4890.

Tipsters can also call the Georgia Arson Control Hotline at 1-800-282-5804 and provide information anonymously. They can receive a reward of as much as $10,000 from Georgia Arson Control, Inc. if their information leads to an arrest and conviction in the case.

Body found in Winder Walmart lot

BY CURT YEOMANS

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The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office is inves-

tigating a body that was found Monday night at the Walmart in Winder.

Maj. Ryan Sears said the body was found in the parking lot of the Walmart

located at 440 Atlanta Highway. At this point, the fact that a body was found is the only information officials are releasing.

Sears said the sheriff’s

office is waiting until it receives a medical examiner’s report before it releases any additional information, including the gender of the body.

Purported gang leader convicted of ordering man’s murder from prison

BY CURT YEOMANS

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The reputed leader of a branch of the Bloods street gang was convicted of a murder he ordered — from prison — of a man who owed him $500.

Gordon Evans was convicted of malice murder, three counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, aggravated battery and two counts of criminal street gang activity. He was accused of ordering the murder of Jeffery

Anderson, who was found in Lawrenceville with two gunshot wounds in the back of his head on Nov. 24, 2015.

Prosecutors said Evans ordered the hit because Anderson had failed to pay him back $500 that Evans had loaned to him to pay rent.

“Detectives determined that Gordon Evans sent two lower-level gang members, Dossie Mann a/k/a ‘Baby HD’ and Durell Lewis a/k/a ‘Bali,’ to kill Jeffery Anderson,” prosecutors said in a statement.

According to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office, Evans led the Nine Trey Gangsters,

which is part of the Bloods gang that was formed by inmates at RikGordon ers Island Evans prison in New York in 1993.

As they investigated Anderson’s murder, Gwinnett Police detectives were led back to Evans through a text message that the victim received less than a month before he died. The text message contained a threat and was sent from a contraband cellphone that Evans had while he was at Hays State Prison in

Summerville, according to prosecutors.

Evans was serving a 20-year prison sentence at the time.

Investigators obtained permission to do a wiretap on the phone and intercepted a conversation Evans was having where he bragged “he sent ‘Luca Brasi’ … to handle Jeffery Anderson.”

Mann pleaded guilty to the murder last year and received a life sentence.

Durell is awaiting trial.

Evans was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in addition to an extra 20 years in prison that must be served consecutively with the life sentence.

Duluth man convicted of molesting two of his teenage female relatives

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

This past week, a Gwinnett County jury convicted a Duluth man of molesting two teenage female relatives.

Thomas Lee McClure, 48, was convicted of three counts of child molestation, two counts of incest, two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of aggravated sexual battery Friday. Prosecutors said McClure began molesting one of the victims when she was 10 and that the abuse continued until she told her sister about in October 2016, when she was 15.

The sister is the other victim. She told her sibling that McClure molested Thomas Lee her when McClure she was about 13, prosecutors said.

The sisters reported the molestation to their mother, who then took steps to distance her daughters from McClure, but the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office said a police report was not filed until “months later.”

“At trial, both girls offered emotional testimony about their abuse and identified McClure without

hesitation,” the DA’s office said in a statement. “In support, ADA Matt Acuff deftly introduced a damning series of text messages, emails and a phone call from the defendant, lamenting that he was going to die in prison, admitting various sexual acts and apologizing to the girls.”

Prosecutors are not releasing information on the names of the victims, or how they are related to McClure, because of the nature of the crimes that were committed.

McClure was sentenced to life in prison, which is to be followed by an additional 15 years of confinement and five years on probation.

GCPS to hold second bus driver fair

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

officials said they are encouraged by the progress that has been made.

Because of the ongoing Gwinnett County Public vacancies, the district has Schools is continuing its combined routes to maxiquest to fill bus-driving mize its resources, school vacancies by holding officials said. the district’s second Bus “Many of our drivers Driver Recruitment Fair on will be required to run Saturday. two routes per school to The recruitment fair ensure that all students will take place from 9 are provided transportaa.m. to 1 p.m at the GCPS tion to and from school,” Hurricane Shoals TrainGCPS spokesman Bernard ing Center, located at 720 Watson said.

Hurricane Shoals Road The starting pay for a in Lawrenceville, as it bus drivers in the district attempts to fill more than with no experience is 100 vacancies. $15.42 per hour. GCPS During the district’s said its average bus driver school board work sesmakes more than $16.75 sion on Aug. 16 it was and has more than seven announced there are still years of experience. about 135 bus driver openWatson said interested ings available. However, candidates are able to

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receive paid training while getting their commercial driver’s license and passenger and bus endorsements.

“Candidates are required to be at least 21 years old, have a high school diploma or equivalent and three years of carrying an unrestricted driver’s license are also required,” Watson said. “In addition, candidates are also required to undergo a criminal background check, physical and take a drug test.”

GCPS officials said drivers work a 180-day schedule and enjoy time off on student holidays and during the winter and summer breaks.

Interested individuals can learn more online at http://bit.ly/Drive4GCPS.

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effective ways to limit the mosquito population around your home is to practice ‘Tip and Toss,’ which elimiA Gwinnett County nates mosquito breeding resident has been diagnosed grounds.” with the West Nile Virus Although mosquitoes and is recovering from it, can transmit the virus, it according to the Gwinnett cannot be directly passed County Health Department. from one person to the next.

The health department Some symptoms of the virus confirmed the diagnosis include headaches, fever, Monday, although no muscle and joint pains, information is available on diarrhea, rash and vomiting, the identity of the victim or but the health department where they may have consaid 80 percent of people tracted the illness, which is who are infected never show transmitted by mosquitoes. symptoms.

Health officials said they are There is a higher risk to investigating the case. elderly residents and people In the meantime, the with compromised immune health department is urging systems to develop comresidents to take precautions plications from the virus. so they won’t become sick. When symptoms do show “Preventing mosquito up, it is typically two to 15 bites is the best way to avoid days after infection, accordWest Nile Virus,” said Alana ing to the health department.

Sulka, director of epidemiolHealth officials recomogy for Gwinnett, Newton mend anyone who believes and Rockdale County they are infected with the Health Departments, in a virus to call the health destatement. “One of the most partment at 770-339-4260.

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New cream relieves arthritis pain in minutes after applying; uses the strongest approved dose of an anesthetic drug which numbs the nerves that cause relentless joint pain

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Initial users, including several clinical trial participants, say the relief is extraordinary and when you look at the science you’ll see why.

Anesthetics are highly regarded by physicians in the medical community.

They block nerve signals from the brain so that patients don’t feel pain and are incredibly effective.

“Those suffering with arthritis or joint pain can expect relief within minutes of their first application,” explains Dr. Henry Esber, creator of the hot selling drug Apeaz.

“There will be a pleasant warming sensation that is followed by a cool, soothing one.

This is how you know that the drug has reached the affected joint and tissue.”

Works In Minutes For sufferers of arthritis pain, Apeaz offers impressive advantages over traditional medications.

The most remarkable is how quickly it relieves difficult pain.

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Published pre-clinical animal studies have shown that the other ingredients in Apeaz can also prevent further bone and cartilage destruction.

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They are moving with less pain for the first time in years.

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“This is why Apeaz is so effective for people with arthritis pain. It reduces pain while adding an additional potential layer of joint support,” explains Esber.

A Better Way to Treat Pain A pre-clinical trial on Apeaz was carried out by Dr. Esber and his research staff shortly after its initial production.

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The study found that Apeaz induced an instant numbing effect, which blocked pain for several hours.

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may be additional charges in the case.”

While it may take some time to collect all those facts, in the days following the shooting, Delkic’s family set up a page on fundraising website GoFundMe to help pay for the cost of transporting Delkic’s body back to Bosnia, the funeral and a lawyer to “aid us in the trial,” Delkic’s niece, Emili Sabanovic, wrote.

was charged with voluntary manslaughter because of the argument.

“The reason that he was charged with voluntary manslaughter is that the shooting arose out of a provocation even if that provocation was from his own girlfriend’s actions,” Porter said. “The charges may be changed once all of the facts are in and there

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“Fadil Delkic, a father, friend, son, brother, husband, and amazing soul was shot and killed on August 19,” Sabanovic said on the page. “In his twenties, Fadil survived a concentration camp during the Bosnian War, exceeded as a refugee in several different countries and fought hard to give his family the life they have. It was not his time to depart our lives.”

Delkic and his wife, Bahra, had been married for 27 years and were parents of three children, Sabanovic said.

“The eldest daughter is pregnant and due in November, the middle daughter shares his humor and bright spirit and the 19-year-old son has inherited his father’s kind heart and selflessness,” she said.

“Fadil will now never get to meet his first granddaughter. He has three siblings that would give their lives for him. He was loved by all of his friends and did anything for anyone.”

Sabanovic said the family is “devastated” by Delkic’s death and in “extreme shock.”

“This tragedy is devastating for everyone that knew Fadil,” she wrote.

“He touched the hearts of hundreds of people. He was a selfless character with one of the purest hearts.

He was often heard singing loudly and laughing at the joys of life despite all that he has gone through and seen with the war.

“We hope that everyone remembers Fadil Delkic as the jovial, hard-working man that he will always be remembered as.”

No further court dates have yet been set for Hunte, and Porter did not rule out the possibility that Hunte’s fiancee would be charged.

Porter said, however, that arresting her at this time is “not necessary” for public safety.

Delkic’s GoFundMe page can be accessed at gofundme.com/support-forfadil-delkic039s-family.

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Some steps the health department is recommending residents take to limit their chances of getting West Nile include: • Tip and Toss actions, including disposing of standing water in items such as tires, toys and trash and emptying and cleaning birdbaths, small pools and water features on a weekly basis.

• Treating larger bodies of water that can’t be emptied with a larvicide.

• Using insect repellents that contain DEET • Wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants that are loose fitting to minimize the amount of skin that is exposed • Minimizing the amount of time that is spent outdoors • Putting screens on doors and windows Gwinnett health officials also recommend residents educate themselves further on the virus by visiting www.cdc.gov/westnile.

Auburn-The City of Auburn anticipates that Property tax levies for the Gwinnett County portion of the City for the 2018 tax year will be set at 4.951 mills. The City of Auburn, per O.C.G.A. § 48-5-32, will hold a Public Hearing on September 6, 2018 at 6:00PM. The meeting will be held at the Auburn Council Chambers located at 1361 Fourth Avenue, Auburn, Georgia. The City will set the millage rate on September 6, 2018 at 6:00PM at the Auburn Council Chambers located at 1361 Fourth Avenue, Auburn, GA. The five year tax and levy history will be published no less than 14 days prior to the adoption.

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Reader fears plan for total knee replacement DEAR DR. ROACH: I am thinking of having a total knee replacement done, as recommended by my doctor.

I have bone on bone in my knee. What is your opinion? I know a friend of a friend who had one done three months ago and has had nothing but trouble. He has had two manipulations because he cannot bend past 95 degrees. Even though he goes to physical therapy, they have had no results.

Does this happen often with knee replacement?

How about stiffness?

How long before a patient is as good as new?

Would you recommend the surgery, and what percentage of patients have the issues he is having?

— Anon.

ANSWER: Knee replacement (also called “total knee arthroplasty”) is one of the most effective surgeries performed, in terms of improving quality of life. Studies have shown that about 80 percent of people are satisfied with the outcome of their knee replacement.

The reasons that the remainder are dissatisfied generally have to do with complications of surgery, including infection, nerve injury, instability and stiffness (the inability to properly flex the knee), which is the issue for your friend of a friend. Only about 5 percent of people have stiffness, according to a 2006 paper, and these mostly improved with manipulation, although some needed a second operation.

It is important to recognize the limitations of the surgery. You are never going to be as good as new — that is, as good as before the arthritis in the knee developed. But most people are much better than where they started within three to six weeks of the surgery. Physical therapy after surgery is critical for success (but, as your friend shows, not a guarantee of success).

My own patients’ experiences have been largely favorable. I have seen some bad complications, but most people are very satisfied, and the most common regret I hear is that they had not done the procedure earlier. Eighty to 90 percent of knee replacements are expected to last 15 to 20 years.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1851, the American yacht America won the first America’s Cup. In 1864, the first Geneva Convention, which established protections for those wounded in active warfare, was signed by 12 European nations.

In 1902, the Cadillac Automobile Co. was founded.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act welfare reform into law.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), composer; George Herriman (1880-1944), cartoonist; Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), author; Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), film director/actress; Ray Bradbury (19202012), author; Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-2012), general; Valerie Harper (1939- ), actress; Bill Parcells (1941- ),

football coach; David Chase (1945- ), screenwriter/producer; Tori Amos (1963- ), singer-songwriter; Layne Staley (1967-2002), singer-songwriter; Kristen Wiig (1973- ), actress/comedian; James Corden (1978- ), TV personality.

TODAY’S FACT: The Comics Journal named George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” the best American comic strip of the 20th century in 1999.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1989, Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A’s, becoming the first major league pitcher to reach 5,000 strikeouts.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” — Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451”

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DEAR AMy: I’m a man in my early 40s. Recently, through work, I’ve found myself in a mentor role with a 20-year-old girl.

(I feel I need to say, in this day and age, that there is nothing improper happening between us.)

Through the mentoring process, she recently confessed to me that she had been sexually assaulted (raped) her first semester of college.

She cried and referred to it over and over as “her fault,” due to the fact that she agreed to meet this person and got into a situation where it could happen.

I don’t know much about this stuff, but I do know that it was most definitely not “her fault.”

She told me that she has never told anyone, because she was ashamed. Sadly, she does not have a very open relationship with her parents and considers them very judgmental. She cried and cried and is obviously in great mental anguish over this incident. It was absolutely heartbreaking.

I know from a previous conversation that her family went to group therapy when she was younger.

So I suggested that she should see a therapist just to have someone to talk to. I suggested she contact her old family therapist for a referral, but she told me she would be ashamed and couldn’t.

As a mentor, I won’t bring it up again, but I know she needs help.

can initiate a text-based help session. A RAINN counselor could point her toward local services, but would also listen (anonymously).

She can recover from this, but she should have more support. Your compassion and concern is an important first step.

Amy Dickinson DEAR AMy: I have two different female I truly think this experi- friends who constantly ence is impacting her life. speak to me about how She seems to have issues horrible their husbands with self-esteem. are. This has been goShe thinks she can deal ing on for some time. It’s with this alone. exhausting. Neither of the What should I do? What women will leave their services exist to help her husband, and they don’t through this? She doesn’t listen to my suggestions. think she can talk about it I’m tired of hearing about with anyone, so is there a it, but at the same time, I solution for her? don’t want to shut them — Mentor Over out.

My Head They are both being gasDEAR MENTOR: Your lighted by their husbands, mentee entrusted you with and when I point it out, her traumatic story, and it I’m the crazy one. seems that she chose well.

One of the husbands is She obviously needs to physically abusive, and I talk about this, and she is feel like the other is surely willing to talk about it, un- on his way — based on der limited circumstances. scenarios I’m told about.

I hope you will follow I’ve given them both up with one more sugges- resources to utilize. I’ve tion for her: You should shared my story of how I point her toward RAINN. was able to get out of an org, where she can conabusive relationship. nect with an online or I really don’t know how phone counselor. She can to proceed. It’s taking a also connect with other toll on me. survivors, at her own pace.

— Tired Friend RAINN recently added DEAR TiRED: I a 24/7 “chat” function to prescribe a course of lovits website, so that people ing detachment. This is who really don’t use where you listen and bear telephones as often as text witness, but don’t weigh (any 20-year-old would in with advice, opinions or fit into this category) fixes.

You need only say, “Well, I hope that someday you will be ready to leave.

When you’re ready, I’ll do my best to help.”

It’s a perverse aspect of human nature that the more forcefully someone tries to fix another’s problems, the more forcefully they may resist. These friends might expect your exasperated and tense reactions to their stories.

When you change the script, their attitudes could start to shift.

You absolutely must take care of yourself. If this burden brings you way down, then these abusive relationships will have claimed another victim.

DEAR AMy: “Torn” relayed her shock that her husband of 16 years had been smoking cigarettes the whole time.

I was shocked at her sense of smell. Non-smokers can detect cigarette smoke on someone’s skin and clothing in a nanosecond.

— Non-Smoker DEAR NON-SMOkER: I had the same thought. Either “Torn’s” husband is extremely stealthy, or she should get herself to an ear/nose/ throat doctor.

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

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

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Put greater emphasis on who you are and how you treat others. You can be a problem or a solution when dealing with people. Do your best to move forward with kindness, appreciation and the desire to make the world a better place. How you deal with adversity matters.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Put in extra hours if it will help you bring about change or get ahead.

Contributing to society will raise your profile and encourage others to trust and support the choices you make.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Try something new. Make a point to do something that will make your and your family’s lives better. A move or educational pursuit will pay off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Head in the direction that shows the most promise. There is no point wasting your time on something or someone immovable.

Make your time and effort count.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — A business trip or discussion that will help you bring about personal change will pay off. A change of location, position or partnership is favored.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Your appeal will be on the rise when it comes to work, reputation or personal status. Stand tall and discuss what you want to see happen. Be true to your beliefs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A different approach to work or how you earn your living will improve your life. A new workspace at home or a change of pace or surroundings will make a difference moving forward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Look at your relationships carefully.

Size up who is good for you and who isn’t. Back away from those trying to entice you into things you know you shouldn’t be doing.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — What you do for those who cannot do for themselves will be rewarded. A gift or investment opportunity should be handled responsibly. Excessive generosity will be your downfall.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll face opposition if you try to stop progress. Adapting to the changes that take place around you will better position you moving forward. Don’t make a fuss unnecessarily.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your changing attitude will be confusing for others. Keep your thoughts a secret until you’ve made up your mind. Inconsistency will work against you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Concentrate on your physical appearance and your home and family. Take better care of your health and aim to live a moderate and simple lifestyle. Less fuss, less muss.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll have a better idea of what you want and how you should proceed. A relationship will take a positive turn, giving you more leeway to do things as you please.

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How to keep Aretha’s music going What does a white boy from the white suburbs of Washington, D.C., have to say about the passing of soul singer Aretha Franklin?

At 16, I was a DJ on a local radio station, playing the rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop recordings of the day. Many of the artists were black. Richard Penniman (aka “Little Richard”) tells a funny story about white kids back then.

In “Hail, Hail, Rock ’n’ Roll,” the 1987 documentary about Chuck Berry, Little Richard noted that white kids Cal would have Thomas Pat Boone’s albums on the top of their dressers to fool their parents, but the records of black artists hidden inside the dresser drawers.

The music of black artists like Aretha Franklin was soulful, and some of it was incredibly sexy, like Fats Domino’s “I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Hill.” Black artists, especially gospel singers, influenced Elvis Presley and other white singers of the day, who mimicked their style and artistry, sanitized it and then presented it to white audiences, many of whom would not have accepted music sung by blacks.

Aretha Franklin began singing in church, and her music, her soaring voice, which touched every part of one’s anatomy from head, to heart, to soul, soon became a vital part of the civil rights songbook.

It was my privilege to see many of these performers in person, including Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Duke Ellington and their orchestras, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway in the all-black cast of “Hello, Dolly” starring Pearl Bailey, and many others on TV and in film, such as Nat “King” Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Platters and the doo-wop singers of the ’50s.

These performers and their stories of racism and injustice helped form my positive views of the civil rights movement, along with my time at NBC News in Washington, where I listened to stories brought back by reporters who had covered demonstrations in the South, meant to be peaceful, but that quickly devolved into violent confrontation, and even acts of murder perpetrated by racists, a word that today is too lightly and too often overused.

Little Richard tells a story about how he and other black artists would write songs only to see the name of a white label owner or producer credited with their authorship, resulting in royalties going to them, leaving black artists with little to nothing.

Aretha Franklin suffered similar inequities. Take her most famous song, “Respect.” It was written by the late Otis Redding, but as The New York Times reported, “… every time the song is played on the radio, Mr. Redding’s estate … has been paid. Ms. Franklin never was.”

I count two of Franklin’s performances among my favorites. One is her role as a waitress in the cult hit “The Blues Brothers,” starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, which also included knockout performances by Ray Charles and Cab Calloway. Franklin sings “Think” in a scene so fantastically choreographed that it would have been a showstopper on the Broadway stage.

My other favorite performance is a duet with Tony Bennett titled “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” If you haven’t seen it, go to YouTube. I tear up every time I watch.

The opening lyric goes: “How do you keep the music playing?

How do you make it last?

How do you keep the song from fading Too fast?

How will we keep Aretha Franklin’s music from fading? By playing it over and over again and introducing future generations to it, as we might any other classic. Hers is a story in song and a life that inspired and influenced millions.

That’s not a bad epitaph for anyone.

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

Media’s Trump crisis of the week What’s the mainstream liberal media’s most overblown Trump crisis of the week?

First, it was the president’s tweet calling former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog” for betraying him and his administration with her new book “Unhinged” and her stash of secret White House recordings.

Then on Wednesday came the president’s revocation of the security clearance of John Brennan, Obama’s former CIA director and full-time Trump basher.

From the liberal media’s reaction, you’d have thought President Trump had sentenced Brennan to death and declared himself dictator for life.

The New York Times called it “a striking act of retaliation against an outspoken critic.”

Poor hysterical Andrea Mitchell of NBC, who pretended to worry that the president was “denying his own CIA … access to the wise counsel of Brennan,” said the action was “akin to the Nixon enemies list.”

Trump’s action was, as usual, pure Trumpian. Brennan definitely deserved to have his security clearance taken away.

Instead of acting like a respectable ex-government servant and keeping his partisan comments to himself, he’s been acting like a political hack or MSNBC talk show host.

After the Trump-Putin press

Michael Reagan conference in Helsinki, for example, Brennan tweeted that the president’s performance “rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’

It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.

Republican Patriots: Where are you???”

Other former Obama/Hillary partisans with security clearances who’ve been investigating or critiquing Trump and his staff are reportedly being considered for the same treatment — including James Clapper, James Comey and FBI super villains Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr. By the way, the whole security clearance issue for former intelligence officials has been blown out of proportion by the media.

There’s a long history of allowing the clearances for certain officials to continue from one administration to the next. It’s

practical. It has worked. That’s why it was done.

But in the past, the officials from the previous administrations were not professional public enemies of the new president.

Some people apparently think that Brennan and the other ex-Obama people with security clearances are able to just walk into their nearest federal building and start looking at topsecret stuff.

No, they can’t do that. They have to be invited by the current administration to come and look at material or give them advice based on their experiences or knowledge.

Even Mitchell knows there’s no way in hell the Trump administration is going to ask any of those Obama/Hillary partisans to come in to help.

As usual, the president messed up. He managed to turn a decision he had every right to make into a vindictive political and personal act. If he’s going to pull security clearances on Obama alums, he should have done it on everyone at the same time and done it a long time ago.

My problem with revoking the clearances is that once a president goes down this road, it’s bar-the-door, Sally.

We Republicans may all be happy and excited about what Trump did to Brennan, but one

day, we’re going to be angry and upset when a Democrat president does it to one of our guys.

We obviously live in a different presidency today than ever before. Things are much different.

Can anyone ever remember a former CIA director pointing a finger and speaking ill of a sitting president? Or a former president speaking ill of a sitting president?

This is the post-Trump world we’re living in now. We’ve lost complete respect for everything and everyone in Washington.

We’re now at a point where no one in D.C. works together.

No one looks for common ground.

The reality is, while this is going on in D.C., the American economy is growing at 4.1 percent, unemployment is down dramatically and taxes and regulations have been cut.

What gets lost in the big media’s over-the-top coverage of petty D.C. beltway crap like the Omarosa tapes and revoked security clearances is that America is doing pretty great — again.

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

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Why home ownership pressure is good Younger generations buying fewer homes than prior generations is not good for America.

A recent Urban Institute study found home ownership among millennials, ages 25 to 34, is about 8 percent lower than it was for prior generations at the same age Which means many millennials are missing out on the misery of home ownership.

The quaint cottage-style house I’ve owned for 22 years has given me grief from day one. The latest incident involved my pressure washer.

I have a lot of grounds to maintain. A pressure washer is essential. A few years ago, I bought the best one I could find at a big-box store. It worked fine until this spring, when it went drier than the Mojave Desert at high noon.

I determined that the hose was the likely culprit — that something had collapsed inside, preventing water from flowing freely. I drove to the big-box store, where I was greeted by a highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic pres-

more times before I finally had the machine back together.

I started it up, eager to spray grass clippings and oak-tree gunk off my patios — but it wouldn’t spray. It was drier than Death Valley in August.

There was nothing to do but utter the three words my father Tom always uttered when his house Purcell made him miserable: “Son of a … !!!” sure-washer expert — Ha, ha!

Figuring the pressureThat didn’t happen. It took me washer pump was bad, I drove several minutes to find anyone to several big-box stores who worked there. One fellow looking for a new pressure told me which parts to buy. washer. I was delighted to find Back home, I immediately a refurbished, half-price unit. discovered he’d sold me the It was missing its nozzle tips, wrong parts. I drove back to but I knew my broken pressure the store, spent several minwasher’s nozzle tips would utes looking for someone who work just fine. worked there, bought more I got the refurbished presparts and drove home. None of sure washer home, connected those parts worked. I repeated its sprayer to the nozzle tip this exercise five times before from my broken pressure calling it a night. washer and started it up. It The next day, a Saturday, was drier than the Great Basin I went back to the store with Desert after a monthslong the disassembled pressure drought. washer, new and old parts, “Son of a … !!!” etc. I purchased more parts You probably figured out that didn’t work, drove home, that the nozzle tip was the then returned to the store three only thing broken — that all I

needed was a new, $3 nozzle tip, not the hose parts and a refurbished pressure washer that set me back $600. You probably chuckled at me wasting three days of my life in trying to get a lousy pressure washer to work.

You chuckled, no doubt, because you’re a homeowner and understand full well the highly creative ways our homes are hell-bent on destroying our weekends. Renters do not understand this misery. That’s why it’s bad that millions of millennials have not yet purchased a home.

You see, renters are more likely to be bamboozled by silver-tongued politicians who promise them free stuff, whereas grumpy homeowners vote for politicians who promise to spend less and keep our taxes low.

That leaves us homeowners with more money to pay for the things that endlessly go wrong with our lousy homes.

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

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world&nation world Iran unveils ‘first domestically manufactured’ fighter jet

Iran unveiled what it described as the country’s “first domestically manufactured” fighter jet Tuesday, state-run Press TV reported.

State media aired video and pictures of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the cockpit during its first public display.

Test flights of the jet, dubbed the Kowsar, took place Tuesday on the eve of the National Day of the Defense Industry, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency. It was unclear whether the jet’s first public display flight has yet taken place.

The Kowsar can be used for “short aerial support missions” and is equipped with systems that “promote precision targeting,” according to state media.

D.C. reacts to Manafort, Cohen cases Both former Trump allies guilty of eight charges apiece

By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb CNN

Lawmakers were watching the developments closely Tuesday afternoon as two of President Donald Trump’s former allies were ensnared in the courts on eight charges apiece.

Within minutes, Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on eight counts on financial crimes in Virginia.

Then, Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, entered a plea deal in New York on eight counts, too, and said that “in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office” he kept Pope to meet information that would Irish victims of have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign sexual abuse from becoming public.

Pope Francis will meet The shocking turn of privately with victims of events — just moments clerical sexual abuse durapart — left lawmakers on ing his visit to Ireland this Capitol Hill reeling, with weekend, the Vatican said Republicans trying to disTuesday. tance Trump from any leIt is also “very possible” gal ramifications his allies the Pope will publicly adwere facing and Democrats dress the abuse topic during arguing the latest news his visit, the Vatican’s press was deeply troubling and office director, Greg Burke, yet another reason why said during a media briefing. ongoing investigations into Burke added that the pon- the Trump campaign were tiff would pray at St. Mary’s relevant.

Pro-Cathedral In Dublin on “If Manafort and Cohen Saturday, where a candle did things that (they) has burned for years in reshouldn’t have done, membrance of the country’s which it sounds like they victims of sexual abuse. did, I think they ought to In 2009, Ireland was be held responsible for it, rocked by a report commissioned by the Irish government that found high-ranking church leaders covered up clerical child Category 4 storm abuse spanning decades.

Israel could allow 500,000 more civilians to carry guns Israel has relaxed the country’s restrictions on gun licenses, in a move that could make up to 500,000 more civilians eligible to carry firearms, provided they have a certain amount of military or security training.

The new regulations allow veterans of Israel’s infantry units to more easily obtain licenses, as well as allowing officers and commanders who have completed their reserve duty to keep their weapons.

The regulations also allow emergency responders and former police officers to obtain gun licenses more easily.

The change could potentially quadruple the number of civilians in Israel who have gun permits.

Roughly 145,000 civilians currently have gun permits, according to Israel’s ministry of public security.

The changes went into effect Tuesday, with Israeli minister of public security Gilad Erdan saying more armed civilians increases the chances of stopping attacks and preventing injuries.

— From wire reports

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heads for Hawaii

Another big storm is threatening to hit Hawaii this week, as Category 4 Hurricane Lane approaches the Central Pacific island chain just two weeks after Hurricane Hector passed the islands.

But Hurricane Lane looks poised to impact Hawaii much more than Hector did. The forecast puts the storm very close to the islands, with a direct landfall possible later this week.

Hurricane watches have been issued for Hawaii and Maui counties, in the eastern part of the islands.

A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area, according to the National Weather Service’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu.

Tuesday at 5 p.m. ET, Lane had maximum winds of 155 mph and was about 575 miles southeast of Honolulu.

The storm was moving westward at 9 mph and was likely to continue to move west through Tuesday night. But forecasts indicate Lane will turn in a more northerly direction by today, which will bring the center of storm very close to Hawaii and Maui on Thursday, the Hurricane Center said.

people Jeong on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: ‘The fans have spoken’

Ken Jeong is still pinching himself over the success of “Crazy Rich Asians.”

“This is beyond expected for all of us,” Jeong told CNN at the MTV VMAs on Monday night. “It’s been highly emotional for the whole cast and crew. The fans have spoken … I’m so grateful to the fans and it just shows that it’s time.”

“Crazy Rich Asians,” made $35 million at the U.S. box office over its five-day Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty to opening, exceeding projeccriminal charges Tuesday. The same day, a jury found former Trump campaign man- tions. Jeong is one of the ager Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight of 18 charges. (File Photo) stars of the film, based on Kevin Kwan’s best-selling but I don’t see any of this he said. nia lawmaker said. “The book of the same name. The having anything to do with Democrats, meanwhile, factual basis of the plea, the president and Russia,” argued the news had rami- potentially implicating the movie also stars Constance Wu and Henry Golding.

Texas Republican Sen. fications for the Russia President in illegal camThe last time a major John Cornyn told reporters. investigation. paign finance violations, Hollywood film featured “My expectation is that “The conviction of Paul adds to the president’s a mostly Asian cast was Mr. Mueller knows the lay Manafort on multiple legal jeopardy.”

1993’s “The Joy Luck Club.” of the land. The fact that he felony charges of bank Sen. Richard BlumenJeong said he hopes the interviewed Don McGahn and tax fraud marks a thal, a Democrat from popularity of “Crazy Rich for 30 hours with the presi- major turning point in the Connecticut, said in a Asians” will encourage more dent’s approval, strikes special counsel’s ongoing statement that the White inclusive casting and storyme as having nothing to investigation, and shows House was looking “intelling out of Hollywood. hide when it comes to the again that the president’s creasingly like a criminal Russia investigation. So, I campaign was populated enterprise.” hope this ends up conclud- by individuals with a his“Paul Manafort today Post Malone’s ing sooner rather than later tory of unscrupulous and faces, in effect, a life plane forced to and doesn’t continue to be dishonest business dealsentence. Michael Cohen make landing an issue in another elecings and concerning ties to should also face serious tion.” overseas interests,” Adam punishment for his crimes.

Musicians Post Malone Republican Sen. Lindsey Schiff, the ranking member Both should now cooperGraham of South Carolina of the House Intelligence ate — truthfully and fully,” and Andrew Watt were both on board a Gulfstream airalso noted there weren’t Committee, said in a state- Blumenthal said. plane that successfully made “any charges or convicment.

Sen. Susan Collins, a an emergency landing after tions for colluding with “Michael Cohen’s Republican from Maine, the Russian government by almost simultaneous guilty learned of the news just as experiencing issues during takeoff, according to a source any member of the Trump plea to felony counts of she walked off the Senate with knowledge of the flight. campaign in the 2016 elec- tax fraud and bank fraud, floor.

The Gulfstream IV jet tion.” and campaign finance “It seems to me the took off from New Jersey’s But, Graham added, the violations involving the prosecution built a pretty Teterboro Airport and was process needed to continue payment of hush money strong case, so I’m not originally bound for the “without interference.” to women alleged to have really surprised at those United Kingdom, but the “I hope Mr. Mueller can had affairs with Trump is convictions,” Collins said conclude his investigation yet another set of convicof Manafort. She declined plane was diverted to New York’s Stewart International sooner rather than later for tions of the president’s to comment further until Airport after it blew two tires the benefit of the nation,” inner circle,” the Califorshe learned more. upon takeoff, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday. in harm’s way.”

The plane safely landed In a statement addressed at 3:50 p.m. and then was to the community, the towed to the ramp, the FAA University said it made the said. choice “with sympathy for Post Malone, whose and in solidarity with victims real name is Austin Post, of sexual abuse in the Diois a 23-year-old rapper and cese of Scranton.” singer who rose to fame Russians target after his 2015 single “White Iverson.” Andrew Watt is a conservative musician and guitarist who Hurricane Lane, a dangerous Category 4 storm, is head- think tanks, has worked with Malone, ed toward Hawaii. (Photo: CNN) Senate websites including in their song “Burning Man.” Confederate Pa. university Parts of an operation statue knocked scrubs bishops’ linked to Russian military Madonna: VMA intelligence targeting the down at UNC names after sex U.S. Senate and conservative speech wasn’t abuse scandal About 250 protesters think tanks that advocated my Aretha tribute The University of Scranon the University of North for tougher policies against Madonna says she meant ton, a Jesuit university in Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Russia were thwarted last Pennsylvania, is removing campus knocked over the week, Microsoft announced no d-i-s-r-e-s-p-e-c-t when she shared a story about her school’s controversial Silent the names of three bishops early Tuesday. connection to the late Aretha Sam Confederate statue, the from school buildings in reThe disclosure, comFranklin during the MTV’s sponse to an ongoing sexual ing less than three months university said Tuesday. abuse investigation involving ahead of the 2018 midterms, Video Music Awards on The statue is the latest Monday night. among several Confederate several Catholic leadership demonstrates new ways in Madonna said she was monuments to be removed, figures from the state. which Russia is attemptasked to present the award They are scrubbing the and its toppling comes as ing to destabilize U.S. for video of the year at the names of Bishops Jerome D. institutions. The news also communities grapple with VMAs and told to “share the legacy of a contentious Hannan, J. Carroll McCorplaces additional pressure mick and James C. Timlin chapter in American hison President Donald Trump any anecdotes I had in my career connected to Aretha from campus buildings and tory. to take action, even though Franklin.” But she did “not will also be rescinding the A video and pictures he downplayed Russia’s intend to do a tribute to her,” bishops’ honorary degrees. from a student show the involvement as recently as according to a post the singer Hannan, McCormick statue coming down MonMonday. shared on Instagram. and Timlin were named day as students chant, “I In its announcement, “I shared a part of my in a stunning grand jury believe that we will win.”

Microsoft said it executed a report detailing the coverup court order giving it control journey and thanked Aretha Video footage from of credible sexual abuse CNN affiliate WRAL-TV of six websites created by a for inspiring me along the shows protesters putting up accusations against more group known as Fancy Bear. way. I did not intend to do a tribute to her!” Madonna than 300 state priests and poles and banners around The group was behind the encompassing more than the statue during daylight.

2016 hack of the Democrat- wrote. “That would be impossible in 2 minutes with 1,000 child victims. Accord- ic National Committee and By nightfall, video from all the noise and tinsel of an ing to the university, “these WRAL shows the statue directed by the GRU, the Bishops covered up the falling and students cheerRussian military intelligence award show. I could never do her justice in this context or crimes and misdeeds of men unit, according to cyberseing. Protesters can also be environment.” who were under their jurisseen kicking and putting curity firms.

— From wire reports diction and placed children dirt on the statue.

— From wire reports

‘Star Wars’ actress: I ‘started to believe’ trolls who pushed me off social media

By Sandra Gonzalez

“Star Wars” film.

Her accomplishment, however, left her targeted by a loud but tially, the deluge of hateful rhetoric minority sector of “Star Wars” Actress Kelly Marie Tran, who appeared in “Star Wars: The Last wasn’t easy to deal with. fans who have been denounced by Jedi,” made headlines in June when “It wasn’t their words, it’s that “Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson she deleted her Instagram post after I started to believe them,” Tran and many others in the fandom. receiving racist and misogynistic wrote. “Their words seemed to con“Their words reinforced a narracomments, but she’s not letting her firm what growing up as a woman tive I had heard my whole life: that trolls have the last word. and a person of color already taught I was “other,” that I didn’t belong, Tran wrote a powerful op-ed for me: that I belonged in margins and that I wasn’t good enough, simply the New York Times, about the ha- spaces, valid only as a minor char- because I wasn’t like them,” Tran rassment she faced and how she’s acter in their lives and stories.” wrote. “And that feeling, I realize moving forward from it.

Tran, 29, is the first woman now, was, and is, shame, a shame She admits, however, that iniof color to have a major role in a for the things that made me differCNN

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ent, a shame for the culture from which I came from. And to me, the most disappointing thing was that I felt it at all.”

These feelings, shared by many now and those who came before her, she said, have led to “a literal erasure of culture that still has me aching to the core.”

She said she has since realized “I had been brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person’s approval.”

“Yes, I have been lied to. We all

have,” she wrote. “And it was in this realization that I felt a different shame — not a shame for who I was, but a shame for the world I grew up in. And a shame for how that world treats anyone who is different.”

She’s intent on pressing forward with her goal to tell stories in “a world that for so long has tasted only one thing.”

“I know how important that is.

And I am not giving up,” she said.

“My real name is Loan. And I am just getting started.”

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•From Page 1A “got smart” with a man Hamby knows.

“He said he worked for the temp service and he didn’t have to do what the (expletive) we tell him to do,” the person alleged to be Hamby says. “(Expletive) that (n-word.) I’ll kill these (expletives) — shoot that (expletive) if they let me. Alright. Well, check out what’s going on with all the (n-words) down here. Bye.” In the second recording, the man who is allegedly Hamby is again speaking about the construction workers, calling them “deadbeat (n-words).”

“Don’t send us a deadbeat (n-word) from a temp service,” the man is heard saying. “Well, look, we’ve got, we’ve got young kids right here that put in the work. They can do more than the (expletive) deadbeat (n-words).”

When reached by the Daily Post for comment, Hamby wrote via email, “This is a personnel and legal matter pertaining to a disgruntled employee.

District council (sic) has advised not to comment.”

The lawsuit does not say where the recordings came from, when they are from or who the other people heard in the conversations are, nor does it provide any proof that the man in the recordings is, in fact, Hamby.

Walt Britt, a Buford lawyer who is representing the school board, could not be reached for comment by the Daily Post on Tuesday, but told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the recordings have not yet been able to be verified as authentic or unadulterated.

But Ingram’s lawyer, Ed Buckley, who also could not be reached by the Daily Post on Tuesday, told the AJC that he hired an expert to examine and analyze the audio and that he was sure it was Hamby in the recordings.

Participation in school board, city council meetings allegedly prompted retaliation Ingram’s suit, which was filed on June 27, a little more than year after she was terminated on June 14, 2017, alleges that she was first disciplined, and then fired, for her participation in Board of Education and City Council board meetings.

She began attending the meetings in September 2014 after noticing the color gold was not included in Buford City Schools’ new multipur-

Buford, GA

Betty Jo Kerlin (Arthur) Betty Jo Arthur Kerlin, age 85, of Buford, GA passed away Monday, August 20, 2018. She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty-four years, Bobby E. Kerlin, and grandson, Justin Cates. Mrs. Kerlin is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Lee Ann and Jeff Patton, Dacula, GA; son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Jeannette Kerlin, Scottsville, VA; grandchildren, Kady Cates, Bethlehem, GA, and Joseph Kolback, Jr, Scottsville, VA; great grandchildren, Jackson Sutton and Stella Sutton; sister, Pearl Fowler, Crawfordville, GA; several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mrs. Kerlin was born on August 7, 1933 in Greensboro, GA. She was a graduate of Union Point High School

Suit pose facility. Only green and white were present.

Gold was one of the colors used in Buford’s black high school, Greenard-Watson, prior to the school system’s desegregation in 1969. Green and white were the colors of Buford High School, the white school.

Ingram graduated from Buford’s racially-integrated high school in 1970, though the school colors did not become green, white and gold until 1971 “after racial issues between some black students and white students were settled,” the suit says.

In Ingram’s letter of termination, “Pulley recited, among other things that Ms. Ingram was ‘perceived as being disrespectful, arguKaleen Pulley mentative and unfriendly and not a good fit in a school environment,’” the suit says.

However, according to the suit, it was not until Ingram started participating in the Board of Education and City Council meetings that she ever received any write-ups or disciplinary action from the school.

The first write-up came in January 2015, less than four months after Ingram took a signed petition to the Buford Board of Education on Sept. 29, 2014, requesting that the color gold be represented in the multipurpose facility’s colors.

It was not immediately clear whether Hamby was present at the school board meeting, though the suit says that on Nov. 4, Ingram saw Hamby in a hallway and commented to him that he didn’t acknowledge her when he saw her earlier that day.

“He looked at Ms. Ingram with contempt in his eyes and told her, ‘No, I didn’t speak to you and I don’t have to and probably would never speak to you again,’” the suit says.

“Later, Ms. Ingram was called into a meeting with Dr. Hamby in Ms. Pulley’s office.

“During the meeting, Dr. Hamby kept referring to Ms. Ingram as ‘that one.’ He told Ms. Pulley that ‘not only is she going to the Board of Education meeting, but now she is going to the City Council board meetings.’”

In response to Hamby’s alleged comment to Pul-

where she played on the basketball team that went to state. Mrs. Kerlin was retired from Southern Bell after thirty-three years of service. She began her career as a telephone operator in the Ivy Building downtown Atlanta and later was promoted to management. Mrs. Kerlin was a member of First United Methodist Church of Buford where she taught the United Methodist Youth Fellowship. She was a member of Pioneers Telephone Association, and she also made Teddy Bears for the police department. A Celebration of Life service will be held on Saturday, August 25, 2018 in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Jim Buckman officiating. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday, August 24 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may

ley, Ingram said she asked the superintendent if her job would be in jeopardy if she went to the meetings.

The suit says he replied that he could not stop her from going to the meetings, but “for her to express community concerns would be a conflict of interest.”

“Ms. Pulley (then) asked Ms. Ingram to run by with her what she would say at the Board of Education or the City Council board meetings so that she could let Dr. Hamby know ahead of time,” the suit says. “Ms. Ingram told them no, because that would infringe on her constitutional rights.”

Written up multiple times for various reasons The suit does not say whether Ingram had any more discussions with Pulley and Hamby after the Nov. 4 meeting, nor does it mention any other interactions with the principal and superintendent prior to Pulley writing up Ingram for the first time on Jan. 20, 2015, “for requesting children to smile and accusing colleagues of deliberately not closing a bus hallway door.”

Ingram responded to the write-up, the suit shows, saying she had “asked for a smile from the kids as they entered the building from the beginning of the year.”

“She also told Ms. Pulley that she had brought to her attention that the children were being exposed to the cold needlessly out of concern for their wellbeing,” the suit says. “Ms. Ingram had never once expected to be written up for being concerned about the children being cold.

Ms. Ingram expressed in her rebuttal that she felt this was a direct retaliation against her because she refused Ms. Pulley’s request to tell her what she would say in advance before school board or City Council meetings.”

Ingram was not written up again until October 2016, when she was disciplined “for allegedly clipping coupons, wearing headphones while in class, cleaning her purse, and inconsistent/inaccurate grading of papers.”

Ingram admitted she clipped some coupons while her students were doing independent reading and that she had a Bluetooth headphone around her neck, “but that she never used it in the classroom and never cleaned her purse,” the suit said,

and that “the inaccurate grading of papers was never discussed with her and the answer key came from the teacher, not from Ms. Ingram.”

In April of 2017, Pulley told Ingram she took her off fifth grade lunch duty “because Ms. Ingram ‘argued with her’ and she made a child curse,” the suit says.

“Ms. Ingram did not argue, but simply stated that she did not make the child curse, nor had she ever taught, encouraged him to curse or ever witnessed him curse,” the suit says. “Ms. Pulley insisted that Ms. Ingram made the child curse.”

Several days later, on April 14, Ingram was again written up — dated to April 12 — for allegedly refusing to let fifthgraders enter the cafeteria before their lunch time, being confrontational with a student (the same child she was accused of causing to curse), not letting parents enter the building when dropping off students or having large items and for discussing inaccurate information with colleagues regarding the security door installation.

A week later, Ingram rebutted the write up from Pulley, saying she was “concerned this is a direct retaliation against me because of our conversation on Nov. 4, 2014 when I refused your request for me to tell you what questions I would raise or statements I would make at the City of Buford Council Board and Buford Board of Education meetings.”

“I have worked for this school for nearly 15.5 years without any issues.

In fact, I had a excellent record until I started attending the City of Buford Council Board and Buford Board of Education meetings,” the rebuttal said. “…

I feel this is an act of retaliation and discrimination. I love my job, my students, and my co-workers, and at this point, I am an a loss of what I could do to lessen the threat of losing my job short of stopping attending the City of Buford Council Board and Buford Board of Education meetings.

“I will not stop attending these meetings and I will not be threatened or harassed into doing so. I will continue to be professional and courteous to all that I encounter.”

Less than two months later, Ingram was fired.

Staff reporters Curt Yeomans and Trevor McNaboe contributed to this report.

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be made to Eagle Ranch, P. O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502 in memory of Betty Jo Kerlin.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.

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Jack “Robert Jr” McDaniel Jack “Robert, Jr” McDaniel, age 83, of Buford, GA passed away Monday, August 20, 2018. He was preceded in death by father, Robert McDaniel; mother, Ruby Lynn McPherson; and brother, Jerry McDaniel. Mr. McDaniel is survived by his wife of sixty years, Martha Ann Loftis McDaniel, Buford; children, Robin Ann McDaniel, Suwanee, GA and Amy McDaniel Roberts, Buford, GA; granddaughter, Martha Olivia Roberts; great grandson, Bentley Keith Roberts; brothers, Wayne McDan-

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Twitter.

“For the last time, no kid tried to get Coach Hunnicutt fired and ain’t no one walk out of no practice. We good over here!” Texas commitment Kenyatta Watson II posted in a tweet on Sunday.

Watson and his teammates are part of a Grayson senior class with remarkable football talent, something college coaches have known for years. It’s predicted that the Rams will send 40 players from the class of 2019 to college football programs, including nearly 20 to Power Five schools. Having such high profile players, such as Watson, Owen Pappoe (Auburn), Wanya Morris (Tennessee), Trente Jones (Michigan), Kevin Harris (Alabama) and others, puts every action, good or bad, into the limelight.

A meeting between players and coaches about practice conditions? That may happen discreetly at some high school football programs. At Grayson, one leak of the meeting made it buzzworthy.

“We’ve handled it in-house and our kids have been great,” Hunnicutt said. “Our kids have been great throughout this.”

While his players have been attacked for not being tough, Hunnicutt has endured the other side. He has been labeled through news reports and social media posts as being too hard on his players, a hot-button issue at the forefront after a University of Maryland player’s death this summer resulted in head coach D.J. Durkin being placed on administrative leave.

The assertion that Hunnicutt’s practices were dangerous drew notice from some of his former players at Buford, where he spent the longest chunk of his coaching career from 1997 to 2011 as a top assistant for both Dexter Wood and Jess Simpson. He was the Wolves’ offensive line coach throughout that tenure, as well as offensive coordinator from 2004-11, during a time when the program racked up seven state championships.

“Coach Cutt cares a lot more about his players as young men having success in life than he does about your success on the field,” said former Buford lineman Ian Merrow, whose two brothers also played for Hunnicutt. “He coached it that way. Coach Cutt was tough, but he was the right kind of tough. He wasn’t off the wall or anything like that. When you’re 16, 17 years old, a little toughness is not a bad thing. Toughness goes a long way on the field, but it goes even further in the real world. He pushed you to make you better. And he never pushed you to hurt you.

“He was always the guy

you could have the worst practice and he’d put his arm around you and walk down to the fieldhouse with you after practice. He pushed you to your limits but he was never over the top and never unfairly tough. I’d say the right kind of tough.”

Hunnicutt also served as head wrestling coach at Buford for six years and was respected as an Advanced Placement American government and psychology teacher, earning the school’s STAR Teacher honor in 2003. “(Hunnicutt) was hardnosed,” former Buford lineman Tyler Burge said.

“When they say the practices are tough, no doubt about it, the practices are tough. That’s why a 6-foot-2, 195-pound center can play and compete with Gabe Wright from Carver (Auburn, NFL player) and go up and block A.J. Johnson that went to Tennessee when we played Gainesville. He takes guys that shouldn’t play on any team and turns them into something decent. You call any of these guys that played on my teams, whether they started or didn’t start.

They would do anything for him because you know he’s going to do the same thing for us.”

“He was tough, but he was always fair,” said former Buford lineman Trey Chandler, who played college football at Georgia. “I can’t recall any situation where I’d look around at me and my teammate and think this is ridiculous. In no instance was it where it was unreasonable, unsafe or anything like that. … I’ve had the opportunity to play and be around a lot of great coaches. And I’ve said, even before this, I’ve said it forever now that I consider him the best football coach I’ve ever had.”

Hunnicutt only discussed his coaching style briefly in the wake of news reports that were critical of it.

“All of us coach, obviously not for the money, but because we want to be around the kids and in some way, shape or form help them, whether it’s in the classroom or on the playing field,” he said. “That’s why we coach, to try to help kids. Nobody wants to hurt kids.”

More than anything, Hunnicutt said his coaches and players are ready to put their discussions in the past and play a meaningful football game. The Rams have plenty of them in a regular season that also includes games with Bergen Catholic (N.J.), Marietta, Westlake and Colquitt County before region play begins.

“We’re past (any issues),” Hunnicutt said. “Honestly, our focus has really been getting ready for Tucker. That’s it.”

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iel, Buford, GA and Ray McDaniel, Huntsville, AL; sister, Mary Jeffreys, Athens, AL; sister-in-law, Polly Loftis Moore, Dawsonville, GA; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mr. McDaniel was born on June 9, 1935 in Atlanta, GA. He was retired from Scientific Atlanta as manager of the paint department after twenty-five years of service. He attended (and his family continues to attend) New Prospect United Methodist Church in Buford, GA. Mr. McDaniel enjoyed quail hunting, was an avid fisherman, and enjoyed boating on Lake Lanier. He was a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather, and also a great father-figure to his many nieces and nephews. “He will be greatly missed by his family.”

The funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Jimmy Dunn officiating.

Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, August 22 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.

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Alyce Kyle Williams Alyce Kyle Williams, 87, died peacefully on Sunday, August 19, 2018 in Suwanee, GA. She was born March 21, 1931 to Hudson Sims and Dorothy West Kyle of Clarksdale, MS. Her parents were well known philanthropist in the Delta and raised her in the farming community of Roundaway. She raised 5 children, pursued her love of art and retired as a Farmer of Prairie Plantation. She later moved to Duluth, GA to be near her daughter. She is survived by her daughter, Amanda (Jeff) Borgognoni of Johns Creek, GA; sons, Walter Williams, Jr. of

Knoxville, TN, Kyle Williams of Memphis, TN; and Robin (Cydne) Williams of Knoxville;11 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents and daughter, Elizabeth Williams Eason The Funeral will be held Wednesday, 8/22 beginning with a receiving line at 3:00 p.m. followed by the service at 3:30 p.m. at Duluth First United Methodist Church in Duluth, GA. Guests are invited to a reception next door at the Odum Party Shack following the service. A family graveside service will be held Friday, 8/24 in Sardis, MS at Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitors are invited to join the family at a reception from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at Heflin House Heritage Museum in downtown Sardis. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Alyce’s name to the Alzheimer’s Association at alz.org

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GMC offers concussion baseline tests to young athletes skills that are sensitive to the effects of a concussion.

The assessment is used to objectively evaluate an athThe rise of brain injuries lete’s post-injury condition in contact sports is causing and to help track recovery. players to change how they Each athlete participated play and making parents in an ImPACT test, or Imfearful of future injuries. mediate Post-concussion Gwinnett Medical Center Assessment and Cognitive brought its mobile Care-A- Testing. The 20- to 30-minVan to George Pierce Park ute test is a computerized in Suwanee on Monday. It concussion evaluation provided free concussion system that helps medical baseline testing for the practitioners and trainers in North Gwinnett Bulldogs diagnosing and assessing 12-year-olds team that concussions. competes in the Gwinnett “Recently, GHSA has Football League, hoping to a law that makes concusease any concerns parents sion testing mandatory at have at the start of football the high school level,” said season.

Celeste Brown, an athAccording to Gwinnett letic trainer with Gwinnett Medical Center’s ConcusMedical Center. “It’s not sion Institute, a baseline required at the recreational assessment takes place level, so it’s really imporprior to any concussion and tant to reach out to these measures neurocognitive rec teams and educate them

By Trevor McNaBoe trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

on what their options are, signs and symptoms and how they should react if they think their child has a concussion.”

Georgia’s Return to Play Law requires public and private schools to provide information on the risk of concussion and head injuries as well as establishing concussion management and return to play policies.

Brown, who spent the last three years as an athletic trainer at Norcross High School, said the baseline testing is vital to diagnosing and educating young athletes.

“If something does happen to one of these kids they can follow up and they have numbers and data to back up whatever treatment is needed,” Brown said. “This is giving measurements on neu-

rocognitive functioning, whether that be memory or reaction time. This creates a baseline on how your brain functions on a dayto-day basis.”

Paul Cross, head coach of the 12-year-old team, said baseline testing takes guesswork out of whether a player might have a concussion with the information it provides.

“This enables us to put a child back on the field and gives the parents a sense

of security in knowing that their child doesn’t have a concussion,” Cross said. “It kills a little kid when they don’t have the opportunity to play a sport they love.”

Andrew Doherty, 12, said he feels safer after taking the test with his teammates before practice Monday.

“I feel safer if I do have a hard hit to the head that it will be easier to tell if I have a concussion,”

Doherty said. “Sometimes they don’t know and I don’t want to risk having to sit out six weeks.”

Doherty has played football for the past six years and is starting this year as a linebacker, a position that will subject him to a lot of contact.

“I love hitting,” he said.

“This testing is important to know if you’re healthy or not. I love football, and I don’t want to miss any games.”

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OF SUWANEE, GEORGIA PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE The City of Suwanee has tentatively adopted a millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 2.52 percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia on August 28, 2018 at 12:00 pm.

Times and place of additional public hearings on this tax increase are at 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia on August 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm.

This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 4.93 mills, an increase of .121 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 4.809 mills.

Andrew Doherty, 12, gets instructions from Gwinnett Medical Center trainer Celeste Brown on the ImPACT test. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

Five Gwinnett teachers win honors at GACTE workshop

The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $30.24 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $720,000 approximately $72.58.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OF SUWANEE, GEORGIA PUBLIC HEARING

By Trevor McNaBoe trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE The City of Suwanee has tentatively adopted a millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 2.52 percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia on August 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm.

This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 4.93 mills, an increase of .121 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 4.809 mills.

Dacula Middle School teacher Keri Beth Jones received the Counseling and Career Development Association 2018 Carl Perkins Outstanding Service Award. (Photo: GCPS Academies and CTE Twitter)

The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $30.24 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with

gia Association of Teach- now finalists for the ers of Family and Constatewide GACTE Teacha fair market value of $720,000 approximately $72.58. sumer Sciences Teacher er of the Year honor.

560947-1 of the Year award; and Jones, a business teacher at Dacula Middle, received the Counseling and Career Development The City of Auburn City Council does hereby announce that the millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held at the Association 2018 Carl Auburn Courthouse/Council Chambers located at 1361 Fourth Avenue, Auburn, Georgia on September 6, 2018 at 6:00 PM and Perkins Outstanding Serpursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 48-5-32 does hereby publish the following presentation of the current year’s tax digest vice Award.

All five teachers are and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.

NOTICE

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Five Gwinnett County Public Schools teachers were recognized for their professional work this summer at the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Educators Summer Leadership Conference.

On Monday, the school district announced Kimya Rainge, Lt. Col. Rob Rooker, Krystal Tomlin, Jackie Emmons and Keri Beth Jones received honors during the state conference in July.

Rainge, a marketing teacher from South Gwinnett High School, was named the Georgia Marketing Education Association’s 2018 New Teacher of the Year; Rooker, a JROTC instructor at Discovery High, received the 2018 Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Teacher of the Year award; Tomlin, a health care teacher at Shiloh High, was named the Healthcare Science Technology Educators Association’s 2018 Postsecondary Teacher of the Year; Emmons, a family and consumer sciences teacher at Archer High, received the Geor-

CURRENT 2018 TAX DIGEST AND 5 YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY City of Auburn Gwinnett District Real & Personal

2015

2016

2017

2018

$2,104,860

$3,200,320

$3,220,680

$4,495,710

$5,436,510

$5,856,190

$418,070

$369,660

$220,720

$220,720

$125,150

$81,580

Mobile Homes

$2,000

$2,000

$2,000

$2,000

$2,000

$1,880

$2,562,890

$3,571,980

$3,443,400

$4,718,430

$5,563,660

$5,939,650

$282,000

$278,000

$264,210

$268,000

$270,000

$248,000

$2,280,890

$3,293,980

$3,179,190

$4,450,430

$5,293,660

$5,691,650

4.951

4.951

4.951

4.951

4.951

4.951

0

0

0

0

0

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Net M&O Millage

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Husband convicted of 2017 murder of wife

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A man accused of shooting his wife in the head and leaving her to be discovered by her children was recently found guilty of murder, aggravated assault, family vioWalter Lowe lence and a number of other charges in connection with her death.

Walter Jerome Lowe, 52, was convicted of two counts of felony murder, two counts of battery-family violence, aggravated assaultfamily violence, simple battery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, cruelty to children in the third degree, hindering a 911 call and obstruction of a law enforcement officer

in connection with the July 20, 2017, murder of his wife, Erica Powell.

According to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Erica Powell office and previous reports by the Daily Post, Powell and Lowe had been married less than a year, but their relationship was “filled with domestic violence.”

At the time of the murder, Lowe was facing charges for attacking Powell in the same home on Aug. 19, 2015, though Powell had asked the court to drop the charges against the man.

“Powell and Lowe reconciled after the 2015 attack and Powell allowed Lowe back into the marital home,” the DA’s office said.

“The violence continued at the hands of Lowe, and Powell began telling family and friends that she wanted

a divorce. Powell gave Lowe an ultimatum and asked that he stop the substance abuse, find employment and be a better role model or else she would leave him.”

According to the DA, in the weeks leading up to the murder, Lowe was “distraught” over the thought of Powell leaving and he was seen crying and despondent, though after learning that his wife was offered a new job and planned to leave, Lowe told a neighbor “it’s all over, you’ll see.”

On the night of the murder, after Powell returned home from work, Lowe walked into their bedroom with a 9 mm gun and shot Powell twice in the head.

Then he left the home, just as Powell’s then-10year-old son was arriving home.

The boy, who had been in and out of the house all day, didn’t think anything of it, police said at the time.

“Between 9 p.m. and midnight, the child was in-

side the home unaware that his mother was deceased inside another bedroom,” Gwinnett police Cpl. Michele Pihera said.

He later found Powell’s body when he went into the bedroom to check on her, and called 911. When officers got to the home,

they tried unsuccessfully to revive Powell, who was already dead.

At trial, Lowe testified that Powell aimed the gun at him during an argument but that he wrestled the gun away from her and accidentally discharged the weapon, the DA’s office said.

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“However, during meticulous cross examination, Lowe could not explain why his version of events did not match the evidence,” the office said.

A jury convicted Lowe after a nine-day trial. Sentencing will be held at a later date.

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have established a uniform approach to toll rate pricing,” SRTA Executive Director Chris Tomlinson said earlier Everything Gwinnett driv- this month. “The Northwest ers thought they knew about Corridor Express Lanes join the cost to use the tolled the I-85 Express Lanes and Express Lanes on Interstate the I-75 South Metro Ex85 is changing this week. press Lanes, as well as future The State Road and tolled express lane projects Tollway Authority rolled in improving the commuting out a new pricing plan for experience of Georgia resithe toll lanes that, among dents and others who drive other things, raises the cost in our state.” of using the lanes and does The new pricing plan will away with the $13.95 per upend the costs Gwinnett trip price cap. The new County had gotten used to pricing plan, which starts since the toll lanes on I-85 at a 10 cents per mile, was opened at the beginning of approved by SRTA’s Board the decade. of Directors earlier this Until Sunday, drivers who month and went into effect used the toll lanes on I-85 in Monday.

Gwinnett paid as little as 1 It comes as the state precent per mile, although the pares to open the Interstate price fluctuated and goes 75 northwest Express Lanes up depending on how many in Cobb and Cherokee coun- cars were in the lanes. It ties. had originally been 10 cents “For the ease of cusper mile when it opened in tomer use and a consistent 2011, but it was dropped to customer experience on a a minimum of a penny the Georgia Express Lanes, we following year.

In a document posted on the Peach Pass website to explain the new prices, officials said prices for using the full 16-mile leg of the existing toll lanes in Gwinnett County often hit the $13.95 per trip cap during rush hour period during the week.

The new plan has prompted speculation that prices could rise as high as $16 to use the 16-mile length of the existing toll lanes on I-85.

SRTA did not mention how much a person could end up spending for a full trip in its explanation document on the Peach Pass website.

“Rates greater than the uniform minimum toll rate will be set and managed

by SRTA for each Georgia Express Lane, according to the lane’s levels of congestion, individual demand management needs and debt service requirements (if any),” SRTA officials said on the website.

“There is no maximum charge. The maximum

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“Chateau Elan is a stunning property,” said Mitch Harrell, president, Troon.

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charge for the longest trip possible on each toll road is determined based on traffic conditions and level of congestion in the lane.”

The effects of the changes will not only be evident during the day, however.

Another change is new a 50-cent per trip flat rate that will be imposed between midnight and 5 a.m.

The I-85 toll lanes were the first to open in metro Atlanta. When they opened seven years ago, it drew ire from commuters along that corridor who were upset that existing traffic lanes were converted to become Express Lanes.

The lanes were previously high occupancy vehicle lanes that didn’t charge drivers, though at least two

In this file photo, cars travel in the toll lanes while the southbound traffic on Interstate 85 is backed up during a morning rush hour. The State Road and Tollway Authority rolled out a new pricing plan that includes higher prices for toll roads in the state. (File Photo)

people had to be in the car.

The fact that drivers had to begin paying a toll to use the lanes led to the rise of the term “Lexus Lanes.”

The original 16-mile stretch of toll lanes on I-85 remain the only express

lanes that were carved out of existing roadways. The I-75 express lanes north and south of Atlanta, as well as the I-85 extension lanes, are all new lanes that have been built alongside existing roadways.

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Gladiators re-sign goalie Bonar

By Christine Troyke

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The Atlanta Gladiators re-signed goaltender Sean Bonar, a favorite among fans and teammates last season, and announced the contract Tuesday.

Atlanta’s primary NHL affiliate in Boston liked what it saw from the 27-year-old netminder and is bringing him to camp with AHL Providence.

“Boston wasn’t sure of

the (goaltending) situation they had,” Gladiators head coach Jeff Pyle said. “We talked and they just said they wanted to bring him to camp and see what he could do. I thought that was a great opportunity and it was really nice of Boston to reach out that way. They saw he worked hard and wanted to give him a shot.

“It’s a good story of how this league (the ECHL) should work. Boston, and Providence, made a good

decision on a guy who deserves it.”

Atlanta called Bonar up from SPHL Pensacola in November last year when Boston assigned Dan Vladar to Providence.

Two days after he was signed, Bonar made 34 saves to beat Kansas City in his Gladiators debut.

He was returned to Pensacola shortly after, but brought back again a week later when Matt Ginn went down with an injury.

By mid-January, Bonar

was 6-1-0-1 with a 2.06 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage for Atlanta. The Gladiators even opted to keep him as a third goalie during a stretch in December when Nashville had sent Matt O’Connor despite not being primarily affiliated with Atlanta.

Bonar finished the season with a team-best .921 save percentage and 2.69 GAA in 29 appearances.

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Atlanta Gladiators goalie Sean Bonar reaches out to make a save with teammate Ryan Lannon (15) defending Jacksonville’s Matt Ustaski (27) during a game last season at Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo: Taylor Trebotte)

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Archer’s Phillips chooses Clemson From Staff Reports

Norcross’ Lance Jackson (3) and Louis Williams (10) react after a touchdown against Mays during the Corky Kell Classic on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Norcross shows surprising polish against Mays

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

ATLANTA — Coming off the program’s first losing season since 1998, Norcross head football coach Keith Maloof had set his expectations, and his players’, much higher

for 2018.

But as confident as he was heading into the season opener in the Corky Kell Classic, the Blue Devils’ 42-26 win over Class AAAAAA No. 5 state-ranked Mays late Saturday night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium was a better start to the season

than he imagined.

The Norcross (1-0) offense was particularly effective, rolling up 389 yards of total offense, and balanced, with 198 yards coming in the air and 191 on the ground.

Considering that senior tackle Zarritt Mumphrey is the only returning starter

on the offensive line and some skill players were getting their first extensive playing time, the results were remarkably polished.

“I’m very proud of the offense,” Maloof said. “We were very efficient. And for having four new starters on the offensive line, to do things they did was

unbelievable. I couldn’t be prouder.”

The Blue Devils surely weren’t perfect. Maloof specifically cited the stalled opening drive of the second half, which, combined with an improbable score by Mays in the

Clemson’s defensive backfield added a second big recruit from the same Gwinnett County high school football program Monday afternoon.

Archer senior Jalyn Phillips announced on his birthday that he committed to the Tigers over his other top two choices, Alabama and Oklahoma. He joins teammate Andrew Booth, a five-star cornerback, who chose the Tigers in late July.

Phillips, a 6-foot-1, 190-pound safety, is ranked as a three-star prospect and the No. 34 player at his position nationally in the 247Sports’ composite rankings. He racked up more than 50 offers before paring his list down to his three favorites.

“Thank you to all the coaches who gave me the opportunity to play at their university,” Phillips said in a tweet. “I appreciate all the relationships I’ve gained throughout the process. This recruiting thing is great until you have to choose one school. It took countless prayers, and long conversations with people I love. I understand it can only be one. I always knew where my heart was, and it has never changed.”

Phillips made 69 tackles last season as a junior, earning honorable mention all-county honors.

At Clemson, he will play for former Grayson head coach Mickey Conn, the Tigers’ safeties coach.

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Confident Clark sterling in North’s Corky Kell victory

By Taylor Denman

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Cameron Clark

As a high school junior, North Gwinnett placekicker and punter Cameron Clark already faced the most bloodchilling, heart-pounding

scenario a kicker can face.

His right foot helped North Gwinnett to a state championship on a 38-yard field goal in freezing temperatures at Tom Robinson Memorial Stadium.

With that kick, came some new confidence and poise as a senior which Clark displayed

in the Bulldogs’ season opener against Brookwood on Saturday night.

Clark drilled three field goals — all from more than 40 yards out — five extra points and averaged 35 yards per punt in the Corky Kell Classic. He delivered

five consecutive touchbacks to start the game, another shorter kick that Brookwood returned to its 17-yard line and also booted a safety punt in the third quarter. Kickers are typically high on the list

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Archer Tiger’s Jalyn Phillips (5) celebrates after recovering a fumble in a state playoff game last season. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

Senior-laden GGC women set for challenging slate — and perhaps the season’s most important one. Berry buried a game-tying tally in the final The Georgia Gwinnett College two minutes of regulation in the women’s soccer roster has 15 semifinal of the Association of seniors, including its two leadIndependent Institutions tournaing scorers from a historic 2017 ment. It propelled GGC to a win season. in penalty kicks.

Ana Gonzalez is the reigning The Grizzlies won a school-reconference MVP who earned cord tying 14 matches, captured honorable mention NAIA Alltheir first conference champiAmerica team accolades last onship and qualified for their season. She set single-season second appearance in the Openschool records with 15 goals and ing Round of the NAIA national 40 points. tournament.

Caitlin Berry added nine goals Along the way, they set

By Christine Troyke

christine.troyke@gwinnettdailypost.com Georgia Gwinnett College midfielder Nicole Rodriguez is back as part of a senior-laden 2018 Grizzlies squad.

(Photo: GGC Athletics)

numerous team and individual single-season benchmarks, including a school-record 66 goals.

“There are different schools of thought about where to rank experience,” said head coach Mike Giuliano, who is in his second season at the helm. “Sometimes it can be negative. Sometimes they can experience mediocre play and that’s their experience.

But I think it’s going to help us a lot.

“That was nerve-racking last See GRIZZLIES, Page 2B

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Bonar •From Page 1B

Georgia Gwinnett College leading scorer Ana Gonzalez is back as part of a senior-laden 2018 Grizzlies squad.

(Photo: GGC Athletics)

Grizzlies •From Page 1B year. We were two minutes away from ending the season in the exact same place they ended the year before I got here. And they found a way to win it. They were awesome the next night.

We weren’t quite up to Southeastern’s level so that didn’t go as well. But I’m thrilled that we have 15 seniors.”

One thing not to underestimate, though, is the graduation loss of forward Dominique Fletcher.

“When you have a player that fast and that physical, I know, because I’ve talked to our opponents, they focused so much on her because of her amazing athleticism that it gives the others some space,” Giuliano said. “We really have to see what that is going to look like. We have a number of other people battling for other minutes.”

Mill Creek grad Melissa Hankin scored multiple goals last season and returns. The No. 20-ranked Grizzlies also landed a topend recruit from Germany, Lena Balck. Giuliano made a trip to see her, and several other players, in person in the middle of last season.

“My wife was with me and she said, ‘Wow. Is all German soccer this violent?’ I said, ‘Man, I hope so,’” Giuliano said. “It was such big-girl soccer and she was the youngest by far on the team.”

Balck already had verbally committed when Giuliano got over to Germany to watch her play.

“My nervousness was

The Atlanta Gladiators resigned goaltender Sean Bonar on Tuesday. (Photo: Amanda Bingham)

where he got a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Orlando called him up at the end of his senior season in 2013-14, but he didn’t play a game for the Solar Bears.

As a rookie in 2014-15, Bonar bounced around the ECHL with Indy, Orlando, Wichita and Cincinnati. He played a collective nine games, including four with Fayetteville in the SPHL. The following year, he played 13 games for the FireAntz and was loaned to Brampton, Fort Wayne and Wichita for a total of 18 games.

In 2016-17, he was with Fayetteville, played 49 games and was voted the league MVP. “When you have a guy like Bones around, his work ethic is contagious,” captain Derek Nesbitt said. “He always makes the team better. Even in practice, he never gives up on any play and forces guys to have to really battle to score.

“He is aggressive and great in scramble situations around the net which makes him so effective at this level because there are more defensive break downs than you see in the AHL and NHL. He is always there to make up for our mistakes.”

from the scouting trip to Germany. No. 15 Tennessee Wesleyan is coming off a trip to the NAIA quarterfinals.

“I think it’s certainly the hardest non-conference schedule in the country,” Giuliano said.

GGC is slated to play six of the top 12 ranked teams this season.

“So I won’t judge the season specifically on wins and losses versus last year,” he said. “I will judge it Georgia Gwinnett College midfielder and third leading based on how we’re doing scorer Lauren Moss is back as part of a senior-laden against the best of the best, like Southeastern and Mar2018 Grizzlies squad. (Photo: GGC Athletics) tin Methodist. Definitely, that, despite coaching since “And we’ve added to it’s be the best, play the there were square wheels, that mix a really outbest. I believe that. It’s the I hadn’t ever recruited standing 5-foot-11 demodel that worked for me through video tape befender from Sweden in Joy in two other schools — and fore,” Giuliano said. “I’d Mertzig,” Giuliano said. one of those we really did only ever seen players in “We have a lot of depth take our lumps in Year 2. person. So I was nervous and opportunity in the back “I think the NAIA does a about recruiting so many that we can explore all good job of taking strength Europeans from video. kind of options.” of schedule seriously come “She was everything I In goal, the Grizzlies playoff time. Now, it’s high could hope for. In fact, I’d have juniors Sophie Hoare, risk, high reward. We have say she’s even more than I who had 12 wins and a six I think we will be clear hoped for.”

0.91 goal-against average underdogs in. If we lost all Another bright newcom- in 2017, and Elisa Randel. six of those, then there goes er is Swiss midfielder Vic“There are very few an at-large possibility.” toria Bischof. The day she college programs that only arrived in Lawrenceville have two, but the good two weeks ago, Bischof news is they were the 1 and was out on the field at 8 2 last year coming back,” p.m. for a workout, which Giuliano said. “They’re was 2 a.m. her time. She is about to have a great, epic among a number of players battle for the starting job competing to join allbecause the No. 2 came conference seniors Nicole on at the end of the season Rodriguez and Lauren and was great in the spring.

Moss in the midfield.

It’s head-to-head and we’ll “They truly are, in every see what happens. We may cliched sense of the word, split time early in the seathe heart of our team,” son to figure it out.”

Giuliano said.

The season starts at They won’t be this age for long. So make every The starting back four home Aug. 28 against Tenare all returning seniors — nessee Wesleyan, the only second count with a family vacation in Florida.

Stina Andersson, Maddy match Giuliano missed last It’s time to make moments that shine.

Keenan, Macarena Erraseason when travel complizuriz and Amanda Yarger. cations delayed his return

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“It would mean a lot for me to earn a contract in the AHL but that’s not my main focus right now,” Bonar said. “My goal all summer was to find a way to re-sign with Atlanta no matter what that took.

“With the guys we have coming back, the way I was treated last year by everyone and how unbelievably the fans embraced me like I’ve never felt before, I can’t see myself being anywhere else in this league except Atlanta.”

The 6-foot-1, 175-pound goalie was 13-10-1-1 overall, sharing time in net with Vladar, and stopped 38 of 41 shots in an overtime loss to Florida in his one playoff appearance.

“I never thought I was an undersized goalie until I constantly stood next to Dan Vladar last season,” he said. “The new wave of goaltenders are all big and that’s what scouts are looking for. I battle through that, use my work ethic and compete level. I take massive pride in my intensity and determination while I also realize that sometimes I need to tone it back and keep my emotions in check.”

Bonar had three shutouts for Atlanta, tied for fifth among all ECHL goalies.

“He had a good season and having a winning record as a second guy says a lot,” Pyle said. “I know him from seeing him in the SP and I tried to sign him. He’s a leader.

He wants challenges.

He wants to be in tough situations. When you’re creating a culture in the locker room, those are the guys you want. He competes and he’s such a good guy.”

Bonar, a native of British Columbia, played four years at Princeton —

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4:45 p.m. — Commerce at Providence 5 p.m. — Berkmar at Lakeside-Dekalb 5 p.m. — Collins Hill at Duluth 5:30 p.m. — GAC at Lumpkin Co. 5:45 p.m. — Rockdale Co. at South 6 p.m. — Archer at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Norcross 6 p.m. — Discovery at Denmark 6 p.m. — Grayson at Newton Co. 6 p.m. — Lanier at Dacula 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at North 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Mountain View

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at Toronto FC II Aug. 31, 8 p.m.

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Sports Calendar LACROSSE

Ongoing through Aug. 31: Registration for lacrosse is open to boys and girls in elementary and middle school for the Gwinnett Lacrosse League’s fall season, which features 7 vs. 7 games focusing on teamwork and fundamentals. Beginner players are welcome. Games are Sunday afternoons at parks throughout Gwinnett County in September and October. To find your closest athletic association and park, and to sign up, go to

www.gwinnettlax.com.

Ongoing through Sept.

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

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

In Brief

Hetherington’s top finish helps Bears to third at weekend race Mountain View distance runner Chloe Hetherington finished first at the Westminster Kosh Klassic on Saturday at Westminster School in Atlanta.

Her 5K time was 20:10, and the Bears’ Madison Watts finished fourth to help Mountain View girls cross country place third overall in the event.

Gwinnett’s Wilson tabbed as IL’s Pitcher of Week

Gwinnett Stripers right-hander Bryse Wilson has been named the International League Pitcher of the Week for Aug. 13-19.

Wilson allowed no earned runs in eight innings and posted league-bests in WHIP (0.13) and opponent average (.042) in one start on Aug. 15 vs. Louisville. He set Gwinnett’s single-game strikeout record with a careerhigh 13 over eight scoreless, one-hit frames to lead the Stripers to a 4-3 win over the Bats.

Wilson bested the previous Gwinnett record of 12 strikeouts, set by Charlie Morton in the fourth game in club history, April 12, 2009 at Charlotte.

The Atlanta Braves’ fourth-round selection in 2016 out of Orange High School (Hillsborough, N.C.), Wilson is 3-0 with a 4.50 ERA (10 ER in 20 IP), .205 opponent average, two walks and 24 strikeouts in three starts with the Stripers.

Between Gwinnett and Double-A Mississippi, he has combined to go 8-5 with a 3.27 ERA (45 ER in 123 2/3 IP), .231 opponent average, 35 walks and 139 strikeouts in 23 starts.

It is the first career IL Pitcher of the Week award for Wilson.

He is the fourth Stripers player to earn an IL weekly award this season, joining Dustin Peterson (IL Batter of the Week for April 23-29), Danny Santana (IL Batter of the Week for May 21-27) and Lucas Sims (IL Pitcher of the Week for July 2-8).

Scenes from the 8-year-old Peachtree Ridge vs. Buford GFL game Saturday. Peachtree Ridge beat Buford 33-6 at Peachtree Ridge Park in Suwanee. (Photo: Nicole Seitz)

GWINNETT FOOTBALL LEAGUE ATHLETES OF THE WEEK The Gwinnett Football League’s players and cheerleaders of the week (athletes were selected by his or her coach): FOOTBALL Archer 8-year-old: Jackson Salain 11-year-old: Corbin Connors Buford 6- and 7-year-old NL South: Colt Gindlesperger 6- and 7-year-old NL North: Bryson Bradley 8-year-old NL North: Jackson Walker 9-year-old NL South: Kavon Blockum 9-year-old NL North: Marlin Wilcox 10-year-old NL North: Mason Litt 11-year-old NL South: Benji Wyatt 12-year-old NL North: Brennan Wansley 12-year-old NL South: Nicco Maggio Eighth grade: Ryan McKinnis Collins Hill Eighth grade: Sharief Pennington Dacula 6- and 7-year-old: Malik Rolle 8-year-old: Nicolas Richardson 9-year-old: Alex Dickens 10-year-old: Garrett Royals Duluth 6- and 7-year-old: Mickoi King 8-year-old: Jaquayveon Kinyon 8-year-old: Branden Tyson 10-year-old: Sedruc Addison 11-year-old: Mike Carpenter 12-year-old: Amareon Kinyon Eighth grade: David Jamieson Grayson 8-year-old: Maddox Book 9-year-old: Chase Williams Lanier 6- and 7-year-old: Dion Thompson 8-year-old: Tryston Carter 9-year-old: Silas Knuckles 10-year-old: Kash King 11-year-old: Colins Fon 12-year-old: Kameron Moore Eighth grade: Jordan England Lawrenceville 7-year-old: Kameron Mays 8-year-old: Tylen Burrell 9-year-old: Cayden Macon 10-year-old: Damyon Pearson 11-year-old: Ariel Ramirez 12-year-old: Markel Montgomery Eighth grade: Justin Johnson Mountain View 9-year-old NL South: C.J. Johnson 12-year-old: Owen VanHorn Eighth grade: Jaiden Criss Norcross 6- and 7-year-old NL South: DeSean Green 8-year-old NL North: Danny Anderson 9-year-old NL South: Eric Pitts Parkview 6- and 7-year-old: Ziare Pruitt 8-year-old: Taleeb TchaTcha

Peachtree Ridge 6- and 7-year-old AL South: Amari Farrar 8-year-old NL South: Sterling Norfleet 9-year-old NL North: Matthew Moon 10-year-old NL North: Jayden Revill 10-year-old NL South: Darryl Timmons 11-year-old NL South: Nick Lumpkins 11-year-old NL North: Lionel Burns 12-year-old NL South: James Washington Eighth grade NL South: T.J. Wells Shiloh 6- and 7-year-old AL South: Marquar Broyles 8-year-old AL South: Entire defense 11-year-old AL North: Scott Jalivay South Gwinnett 6- and 7-year-old: Terrell Russell 10-year-old: Desmont’e Brown 12-year-old: Kendall Beard CHEERLEADING Archer First/second grade: Emily Matson Third grade: Malanee Pierre Fifth grade: Ava Register Sixth grade: Ashanti Sproles Seventh grade: Maggie Scarborough Eighth grade: Gabbie Clark Buford First/second grade: Lauren Whyte First/second grade: Braelyn Esco Third grade: Zoey Wiist Fourth grade: Emily Fernandez Fourth grade: Bayla Huskin Fifth grade: Celia Lowery Sixth grade: Jayla King Seventh grade: Ana Womack Eighth grade: Halle Gunter Dacula Sixth grade: Toni Prophette Seventh grade: Kyndal Edwards Duluth

Second grade: Nia Little Third grade: Dahlia Sheeter Fourth grade: Ava Newsome Fifth grade: Zulay Burgos Sixth grade: Anylah Austin Seventh grade: Jade Sierra Eighth grade: Fallin Stout Grayson Fourth grade: Sasha Vickers Seventh grade: Morgan Smith Lanier First/second grade: Makenzi Johnson Third grade: Mary Liz Barfield Fourth grade: Lorika Raka Fifth grade: Sammie Mosier Sixth grade: Brooke Ziemann Seventh grade: Corrine Coar Eighth grade: Paige Booth Mountain View Fourth grade: Samantha Campbell Sixth grade: Leighton Freyre Seventh grade: London Lindie Eighth grade: Lainey Pylant Norcross Second grade: Arianna D’Aversa Third grade: Keilani Williams Parkview Fourth grade: Riley Robinson Peachtree Ridge First/second grade: Taniya Douglas Third grade: Sophia Naranjo Fourth grade: Christina Taylor Fifth grade: Aubrey Schmidt Sixth grade: Nicole Fresolone Seventh grade: Kaila Ware Eighth grade: Yeonje Choi Shiloh First/second grade: Tia Portis Third grade: Nataliya Brown Fourth/fifth grade: Tuere Rowe Seventh/eighth grade: Sky Atkinson

— From staff reports

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Scenes from the 6- and 7-year-old GFL game Saturday at Peachtree Ridge Park. Peachtree Ridge beat Lanier 1913. (Photo: Nicole Seitz)

Scenes from the 8-year-old Peachtree Ridge vs. Buford GFL game Saturday in Suwanee. (Photos: Nicole Seitz)

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Getting to Know ... Nadiya Miller

Mill Creek graduate Nadiya Miller is operations manager and assistant basketball director at Suwanee Sports Academy, where she worked while attending Georgia Gwinnett College until joining the operation full-time.

Miller earned all-county and all-region honors as a high school player at Mill Creek, tying school and county records by making eight 3-pointers in a game. In this installment of “Getting to Know…”

Miller talks with sports editor Will Hammock about her job, the best shooter on Mill Creek’s coaching staff and her affinity for Chick-fil-A. WH: How long have you been (at SSA) and how did you get this role?

NM: I’ve been here since 2013. I actually started training with the previous director of basketball, Coach (Emmanuel) Blackwell. He got me into coaching. Then from that, he got me to working the front desk. From there, I got moved up to operations manager.

WH: And you were going to college the whole time you were doing this?

NM: Yes, full-time student taking 12 to 14 credit hours a semester. Just finished last August. It’s been a year. It was a year back on (Aug. 8).

WH: What was it like balancing all that with school?

NM: It was hard, but it’s great because they were flexible here. But it was definitely hard between working, coaching and going to school.

WH: So you didn’t play college basketball?

NM: I didn’t. I wish I did, but coaching definitely has made an impact on my life. Going back if I could do it all over again, I’d do the same thing. But I would have loved the college basketball experience for sure.

WH: What are your duties here? What does your job entail? Anything and everything?

NM: I touch literally everything in this building. As operations manager, I touch our after

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school, I touch our HoopSeen department, I touch all our fall programs, volleyball, I do that. I do all the behind the scenes stuff that you wouldn’t think I would do, I do.

WH: Did you ever envision when you started out coaching here that this was a career path for you, that you would be moving up the ladder here?

NM: Definitely moving up the ladder in terms of the coaching aspect. It wasn’t until I moved to the operations side where I began to love handling that as well. Definitely wanting to grow in the company was a path I saw.

WH: What do you do coaching-wise now? Do you do a lot of coaching still?

NM: I don’t do a lot of coaching now, just because I’m assistant basketball director. But when I’m able to get on the court and help out a lot, I try to. It’s hard not being able to be on the court and help the kids. I have kids asking, “Why aren’t you coaching, Coach Nadiya?”

I’m like, ‘I’ve got to make sure y’all are getting what y’all need first before I can be on the court.’

WH: Do you still play?

How’s your game?

NM: We haven’t played in awhile. Last summer we played every Tuesday, about 2 1/2 hours. I’ve still got my shot. I’ve still got it.

WH: That was your thing, right?

NM: Yes, yes. All the coaches now tell the kids, ‘Don’t let Coach Nadiya fool you. She can shoot the ball for sure.’

WH: That’s what I remember you for, being a shooter in high school.

What are your favorite memories from high school?

NM: Obviously, basketball seasons stood out. I would say junior year and senior year were my favorites. Just being able to bond with those girls over the three years, then the incoming freshmen being able to bond with them

and being the big man on campus as they say. I do miss high school basketball, though. It’s changed now, but it’s something that I do miss.

WH: How did the shooting come to you?

Did it come to you naturally or did you really have to work at it?

NM: Actually, I got it from here. I trained here when I was about 8. It was back when we had the shooting lab and Mark Price camps. I learned from them. Before I used to not be able to shoot at all. I had no shot whatsoever. I came here and I learned how to shoot. It was not until sophomore year until it all fell into place.

WH: Who was the best shooter on the Mill Creek coaching staff back when you were there?

NM: Ooh, they’re going to hate me on this one. I would say (Ashley) Phillips. Phillips for sure.

WH: Not Trisha (Collier).

NM: Oh, that’s a hard one.

WH: She was a gunner like you in high school.

NM: Yes, yes. But Phillips can still knock them down.

WH: He still plays a lot.

NM: Oh yes. What I’ve been told, he still plays at Buford in the mornings.

Still lighting them up.

WH: Was it hard for you coming out of high school to pass up college basketball and not follow that path?

NM: It didn’t hit me until about my sophomore year of college and I’m seeing all of the girls I played against and how well they were doing, and all of that. Knowing that I could have went and played but I didn’t, that’s when it really started to hit me.

WH: What do you like most out of this job?

What’s the most rewarding thing about working at this place?

NM: The kids. Being

Mill Creek graduate Nadiya Miller is operations manager and assistant basketball director at Suwanee Sports Academy and former all-county basketball player. The former Hawk tied school and county records by making eight 3-pointers in a game. (Staff Photo: Will Hammock)

able to impact the kids in every aspect, from basketball to becoming a better person. That’s what keeps me around. Seeing the kids. Seeing them love the game, smile, having fun. That’s what I get up every morning and come here for.

WH: Is there ever a down time here? Is there ever a slow period?

NM: Right now. We actually had a week where there was nothing. That was the end of July after all the tournaments were done. But we very rarely get slow time around here.

WH: You have some pretty big tournaments and players coming through, who are the people you’ve enjoyed meeting or seeing play?

NM: We really haven’t had a lot of girl tournaments. We had the Mike White Tournament here.

It was here for 10 days.

He had FBC teams here. … That team was stacked with the top players. I like watching the boys tournaments. Out at Lake Point, where we have Best of the South, just seeing all the talent from the South. Last year for Best of the South, we had Zion Williamson. He was there. That was ridiculous. Literally everybody was crowded around one court. It had to be at least 200 people just on that one court. And if you’ve been out there, there’s really no seating. Trying to find a spot where

you could actually watch and enjoy it was hard. …

We did have Paul Pierce come in two years ago I believe. He was here for a big tournament. And we do have a lot of big college coaches come through here.

WH: And Dominique (Wilkins’ camp) is here every summer.

NM: Dominique, he’s always a pleasure. People don’t realize how much of a personable person he is. He talked to most of the parents. He connected with the kids. He was here the whole time. The kids love him. That’s what I like about Dominique.

He’s not here for other reasons. He’s here for the kids.

WH: What are your long-term goals in this career path? Where do you see yourself in the future?

NM: Definitely something to do with sports, preferably basketball.

Something in basketball operations, being able to run stuff.

WH: When you’re not here and not working basketball, what are you doing with your free time?

NM: If I’m not here, which is very rare because I’m here all the time, I definitely try to spend time with my family.

Especially my brother because he’s a senior now and he’ll be going off to school next year. Some friends. But mainly fam-

ily.

WH: So you’ve settled back in Gwinnett.

NM: I just moved to Suwanee. I was in Buford.

I’ve got my own place.

I’m a big girl now. Gwinnett is definitely home.

WH: You must have liked this area to come back.

NM: It’s a lot of people. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

WH: What kind of music are you into?

NM: I listen to everything. A lot of people don’t think I listen to everything. But my Pandora I was just listening to I have R and B, rap, country, electric, dance, all of that. I listen to everything.

WH: What’s your favorite place to eat? If you had to pick a place for a meal, what would it be?

NM: Actually, just Chick-fil-A. I could eat Chick-fil-A every single day and not get tired of it.

Between Chick-fil-A and Chipotle.

WH: No. 1 combo at Chick-fil-A? Or do you mix it up?

NM: I mix it up. I just had a grilled chicken sandwich that was really good.

WH: What’s the go-to at Chipotle?

NM: I do the chicken bowl. The burritos are too big. I can’t handle the burritos. Chicken bowl and guacamole on the side, extra guacamole on the side.

Atlanta United 2 hosts rematch against FC Cincy

By Taylor Denman

MLS expansion club.

“That’s been, I think, one of the issues for us all year,” captain Jack Metcalf said.

Atlanta United 2 and “We’ve had a lot of the head coach Scott Donball, and I think that’s been nelly stresses possession one of the biggest learning as a key statistic regarding curves, finding out some the team’s effectiveness in teams are more dangerous mimicking the first team when we have the ball. club’s style of play. Atlanta Obviously we’re looking to United 2, like its MLS par- set up an attack and teams ent club, produces goals are looking to capitalize on from launching attacks that.” that sometimes begin in A few variables in addithe defensive side of the tion to some lapses on the formation, work the ball counter attack hurt Atlanta through the midfield or United 2 in that first meeton the wings, then end by ing. Atlanta United 2 used advancing the ball to the a 3-4-2-1 formation, opting wingers or striker to score to replace the wing back from close range. positions with defensive While Atlanta United players Metcalf and Shawn 2 has been able to win Nicklaw higher up in the possession in a handful of formation. There was also matches, the score doesn’t some inexperience in the always reflect that success. back line in academy standThat was the case in out Kendall Edwards, who Atlanta United 2’s match was not accustomed to the against FC Cincinnati on three-man back, opposite May 5, in which five of Mikey Ambrose. the match’s six goals were Despite the offensive scored in the first half, and pressure applied by FC Cincinnati’s Emmanuel Cincinnati, Atlanta was able Ledesma scored another to respond with goals from in the 46th minute of the Jon Gallagher and Laurent match. Atlanta United 2 lost Kisseidou in the first half, in Nippert Stadium 4-2. before the match was out of Atlanta United 2 held 55 hand. percent possession in that “Like us, they like to atmatch — 53.3 percent at tack,” Donnelly said. “Each halftime and 56.9 percent time we kind of fought our in the second half. Despite way back. … We go into that, though, Atlanta United halftime at 3-2, then com2 was assaulted by a baring out of halftime there rage of goals from arguably was a bit of an error in the USL’s top team, which was back at 4-2.” announced this year as an Lapses on counters are

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sometimes a symptom of inexperienced players, but Donnelly said he was nonetheless pleased that his team not just won the ball, but won the ball in a crowded Nippert Stadium.

Atlanta United 2 isn’t the only team to be burned by FC Cincinnati’s blazing attack. FC Cincinnati has scored at least three goals in seven matches, including three matches with four goals. The club is unbeaten since a May 26 match against Louisville FC and sits atop the USL’s Eastern Conference table with 24 points.

The squad may have gotten better with the addition of some players that boost the club’s competitive level when it graduates to MLS. The club added Fanendo Adi from Portland Timbers on July 30.

“I think from what you can see, they’ve got a core group of guys who’ve really stood out this year,” Metcalf said. “They have a bunch of guys with MLS experience … They have a strong team.

I’m sure you’ll see some of those guys transfer over to MLS.” Ruthven returns to Atlanta Atlanta United 2 an-

FC Cinicinnati’s Emmanuel Ledesma shoots on Atlanta United 2 goalkeeper Nico Caraux during a May 5 match at Nipper Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo: Brett Hansbauer/4th Floor Creative)

nounced its newest signee is another native of the Atlanta suburbs.

Tyler Ruthven is a professional veteran from Alpharetta. He graduated from Milton and played under current Atlanta United academy director Tony Annan with the Concorde Fire as an academy player.

Annan was the only youth coach Ruthven ever played for.

“He’s like a second father to me,” Ruthven said.

“It’s kind of a relationship that I don’t talk to him often, but I’d take a bullet for him, and I think he’s always looked out for me.

That makes the transition smoother knowing that

there’re people here that I know and have trusted a really long time.”

Ruthven brings a partial season of MLS experience as a center back. He was playing in the North American Soccer League with Atlanta Silverbacks in 2011 before he was acquired

by New York Red Bulls.

He made five consecutive appearances, including four consecutive starts, at center back during the 2012 season.

Ruthven logged more than 2,300 minutes for Atlanta in NASL to earn the attention of New York Red Bulls.

“When I was first getting started as a professional,

I got a chance to play in Atlanta and it helped me tremendously,” Ruthven said. “It got me into MLS. It earned me a move to Red Bull, which obviously changed my career.

It was a rough year, but I was thankful for the time (with Atlanta Silverbacks) because I was young and it got me (27) games.”

Ruthven has been a sort of journeyman since, playing some overseas, then back in the states in USL. He returned to NASL and spent the previous season with Miami FC in 2017 (he was in Miami’s 18 when the club eliminated Atlanta United from the U.S. Open Cup).

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OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Who: Greater Atlanta Christian’s Josh Rose Position: Quarterback Class: Senior Highlights: Completed 12 of 18 passes for 188 yards and a touchdown, in addition to rushing for two scores, in the Spartans’ season-opening win over Lovett Coach Tim Hardy’s take: “Our game Friday night was a significant team win to start the season. Josh made a number of key plays to help lead our team to victory, including running for the game-winning touchdown in the final minutes.”

Who: Norcross’ Christian Wright Position: Linebacker Class: Senior Highlights: Had 18 tackles, four for losses, as the Blue Devils opened the season with a win over Mays in the Corky Kell Classic Coach Keith Maloof’s take: “Coming in with such a young team around him with inexperienced guys, he really stepped it up and has been the bell cow of the defense. He’s really taken that leadership role, which all our middle linebackers should. But he’s really taken pride in it with helping the players around him get lined up, calling the defensive plays and being able to do what he needs to do for us to be successful also.”

DEFENSIVE HONOR ROLL

OFFENSIVE HONOR ROLL Archer Braylen Weems, 8 catches for 97 yards, 3 TDs Carter Peevy, 15 of 24 passing for 209 yards, 3 TDs Kaleb Chester, 87 percent blocking grade Brookwood Eli Kohl, 11 rushes for 64 yards, 2 catches for 24 yards Mekal Fuller, 2 catches for 45 yards Buford Derrian Brown, 24 rushes for 142 yards, 3 TDs, 2 catches for 39 yards, TD Austin Turner, 3 catches for 106 yards, TD Harry Miller, 90 percent blocking grade, 4 pancake blocks Seth McLaughlin, 93 percent blocking grade, 6 pancake blocks Hayden Olsen, 5-for-5 PATs, 1-for-1 FGs Central Gwinnett Justin Wilkins, 17 rushes for 61 yards, TD, 5 catches for 36 yards Zion Mills, 5 catches for 48 yards Dacula Jarrett Jenkins, 17 of 21 passing for 204 yards, 2 TDs Trenton Jones, 19 rushes for 100 yards, TD Deo Brown, 3 catches for 72 yards, 2 TDs, 4 punts for 36yard average, 2 punts inside 10-yard line Konata Mumpfield, 7 catches for 81 yards Riley Adcock, 92 percent blocking grade, 6 pancake blocks Discovery Alex Drazic, 15 of 32 passing for 211 yards, TD Kobe Johnson, 9 catches for 162 yards, 4 rushes for 58 yards Nathan Fortune, blocking grade above 85 percent Cristian Beltran, blocking grade above 85 percent Duluth Justin Richardson, 95-yard kickoff return GAC Montae Bailey, 12 rushes for 98 yards Ty James, 6 catches for 102 yards, TD Lanier Jagger Jones, winning blocking grade Taj Barnes, 9 rushes for 66 yards, 62-yard TD catch Cole Thornton, 3 catches for 40 yards, 2 TDs Jahkai Richardson, 2 catches for 77 yards Zach Calzada, 7 of 12 passing for 194 yards, 3 TDs, 5 rushes for 47 yards, TD Meadowcreek Omie Huntley, 10 rushes for 65 yards, TD, 2 catches for 19 yards, TD Javion Johnson, 15 rushes for 79 yards Mill Creek Chancellor Lee-Parker, 122 rushing yards, 3 TDs Jonathan Leech, winning blocking grade, 5 pancake blocks Parker Wroble, 69 rushing yards, 41 receiving yards, TD Bryce Hancock, winning blocking grade, 3 pancake blocks Ryan Stokes, winning blocking grade, 1 pancake block Mountain View Aidan Higgins, 87 percent blocking grade Tommy Stewart, 6 catches for 106 yards, TD Norcross Louis Williams, 17 of 21 passing for 198 yards, TDs, 8 rushes for 44 yards Kameryn Jackson, 21 rushes for 69 yards, TD Lance Jackson, 13 rushes for 64 yards, 2 TDs Isaiah Wilson, 6 catches for 82 yards, 2 TDs Hayes Sutton, 2 catches for 52 yards Christian Sims, 3 catches for 31 yards North Gwinnett Tyler Goodson, 20 rushes for 143 yards, 3 TDs Cameron Clark, 4-for-4 PATs, FGs of 46, 42, 41 yards Will Hamilton, high blocking grade Tucker Heck, high blocking grade Eugene Kim, high blocking grade Justin Bullock, high blocking grade Wright Deas, high blocking grade Parkview Jordan Williams, 9 of 11 passing for 141 yards, TD Cody Brown, 12 rushes for 65 yards, 3 TDs Jakiem Thompson, 6 rushes for 68 yards, 2 TDs C.J. Daniels, 4 catches for 68 yards Malik Washington, 4 catches for 29 yards, TD, 3 rushes for 15 yards Peachtree Ridge Dorien Cook, 21-yard kickoff return average Providence Hunter Giella, 4 of 5 passing for 176 yards, 3 TDs Callum Mobley, 3 rushes for 82 yards, 2 TDs Josh Jones, 2 catches for 129 yards, 2 TDs South Gwinnett Tre Truitt, 9 rushes for 108 yards, 7 of 14 passing, 2 TDs Adrian Compton, 35-yard TD catch DeShaun Robinson, 23-yard, game-winning TD catch Wesleyan J.D. Kavel, 6 catches for 81 yards, 5 tackles, 1 caused fumble, 2 pass breakups on defense

Archer Emmanuel Michel, 10 tackles (7 solos), 1 QB pressure, 1 sack Solomon Zubairu, 3 tackles, 1 sack Colby Wooden, 3 tackles, 1 for loss Brookwood Tony Ward, 13 tackles, 3 QB pressures Anthony Gorney, 9 tackles, 2 QB pressures Ethan Quarshie, 5 tackles, 1 interception, 1 blocked punt for safety Buford Davin Bryant, 5 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 QB pressure Jalar Holley, 3 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack, 1 QB pressure Central Gwinnett Kevon Blackwood, 9 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 QB hurries Joe Gracia, 7 tackles, 1 QB hurry Cornelius Evans, 4 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack Discovery Noble Joyner, 9 tackles (6 solos), 1 1/2 for losses, 1 forced fumble, 1 sack Blamassi Meite, 14 tackles (8 solos), 1 for loss, 1 sack Mustafa Alkhatib, graded above 85 percent Duluth Jordan Coggins, 9 tackles, 1 sack Brennon Julio, 2 tackles for losses, 1 sack GAC Christopher Hinton, 5 tackles, 1 for loss, 2 sacks, winning blocking grade on offensive line Jeffrey Blake, 7 tackles, 2 sacks Sam Collins, 8 tackles Jake Floyd, 7 tackles Lanier Trey Short, 11 tackles Isaiah Smith, 3 tackles, 2 pass deflections, 1 interception Phillip Webb, 4 tackles, 2 for losses, 4 QB pressures, 1 caused fumble, 1 fumble return for TD, 2 pass deflections Kameron Brown, 8 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 QB pressure, 1 fumble return for TD Meadowcreek Promise Williams, 5 tackles, 2 for losses, 1 sack Stanley Nkereuwen, 5 tackles, 1 for loss Desmon Jackson, 4 tackles, 1 sack Mill Creek R.J. Smith, 8 tackles (6 solos), 2 for losses, 1 pass breakup, 1 fumble recovery Brock Skinner, 10 tackles, 3 for losses, 1 pass breakup Austin Ruiz-Velasco, 6 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack, 1 QB hurry Mountain View Harrison Spikes, 9 tackles (6 solos), 1 sack Norcross Tyler Moore, 13 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 sacks, 1 big hit, 1 pass breakup Keyshaun Williford, 9 tackles, 1 for loss Jaylin Carter, 7 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 sacks Tyren Long, 3 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 sacks, 1 blocked punt North Gwinnett Nick Pucciarello, 5 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack Will Hunter, 7 tackles (5 solos), 2 sacks Barrett Carter, 9 tackles (7 solos), 2 for losses Jared Ivey, 9 tackles (6 solos), 3 for losses, 1 sack, 2 QB hurries Chris Miles, 7 tackles (5 solos), 2 1/2 for losses, 1 sack, 1 QB hurry Tristan Weddington, 2 tackles, 2 pass breakups Parkview Justin Triplet, 4 tackles, 1 fumble recovery Kobe Wilson, 10 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack Quincy Bryant, 11 tackles, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery, 1 blocked kick Peachtree Ridge Justin Brown, PAT block AzRi’el Mitchell, punt block Mason Huntley, 6 tackles Terrence Harris, 6 tackles Trent Brown, 2 sacks A.J. Murdock, 5 tackles Albert Jang, 41-yard punting average Shiloh Entire defense, 6 turnovers, 1 TD Issac Dowling, 9 tackles, 1 interception, 1 TD South Gwinnett Lex Stocker, 14 tackles, 2 for losses, 1 sack, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery, 1 interception Derrick Billings, 2 interceptions T.J. Mullix, 4 tackles for losses, 1 1/2 sacks Wesleyan Trent Bartlett, 1 interception, 1 fumble recovery Dawson Carr, 2 tipped passes, 3 tackles, 1 for loss Andrew Lore, 7 tackles, 1 for loss

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Collen earns monthly honor Falcons sign Collins From Staff Reports

The Dream won its first The Atlanta Dream’s Nicki six games Collen Monday was named in August, the WNBA Coach of the highlighted Month for games played in by an 86-66 August. road win over Collen guided the Eastthe defending Nicki Collen leading Dream to a 7-1 mark champion Minin August, which tied the Con- nesota Lynx on Aug. 5. necticut Sun and the WashingIn its four home games, ton Mystics for the league’s Atlanta posted wins over the best record for the month.

Chicago Sky, Las Vegas Aces, Atlanta went 4-0 at home and Los Angeles Sparks and Dal3-1 on the road to finish the las Wings. season at 23-11 overall, securUnder Collen, Atlanta ing the No. 2 seed in the 2018 outscored opponents by 7.3 WNBA Playoffs and a double- points per game in August bye into the semifinals. (tied for fourth in the WNBA).

On the defensive end, the Dream led the league in forced turnovers per game (14.0), blocks per game (6.88) and opponents’ three-point field goal percentage (30.0).

Atlanta averaged the thirdmost points per game (91.1) and finished fourth in overall field goal percentage (47.4).

The other nominees for the WNBA Coach of the Month were the Connecticut Sun’s Curt Miller, the Seattle Storm’s Dan Hughes and the Washington Mystics’ Mike Thibualt.

The 2018 WNBA Playoffs began Tuesday.

Hill grad Williams From Staff Reports

20 yards and two rushing touchdowns. He also hauled in six On Monday, the Falcons anreceptions for 58 yards and one touchdown. He was most recently nounced the signings of fullback with the Seattle Seahawks.

Jalston Fowler and wide receiver Williams is a Collins Hill Julian Williams. graduate from Suwanee. During In addition to those moves, his time at Florida International the team waived fullback Luke McNitt and wide receiver Taj Wil- University, he posted 41 receptions for 483 yards and two touchliams. downs.

Fowler was drafted by the Williams is a Class of 2012 Tennessee Titans in the fourth graduate of Collins Hill. He had round of the 2015 draft. During 47 catches for 568 yards for Colhis three-year stay in Nashville, lins Hill.

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•From Page 1B of statistical scoring leaders, but it’s the consistency Clark has shown early in the season that presents a potential sign of growth.

“During the year (2017), he was kind of sporadic,” North Gwinnett head coach Bill Stewart said. “He’s worked a ton in the offseason, not only in kicking, but in the weight room. It shows. He put just about every kickoff in the end zone. He kicked a 46-yarder. Him doing that, that’s a defense’s best friend and it makes everybody understand that you can’t give us a field goal range if he can put it in from the 40.”

Clark felt honored for the opportunity to deliver such a performance on a televised stage that will host the Super Bowl in February.

“Our coach described this as a privilege, and he’s absolutely right,” Clark said. “It’s a privilege to play a good team in a good spot as this one. I’m just blessed to play on a good team.”

North Gwinnett’s defense pitched a shutout — the two points North Gwinnett allowed were a safety on a blocked punt from the 2-yard line. The Bulldog defense was also efficient, and left the North Gwinnett offense with some short fields. Stewart, again, offered credit to Clark, whose touchbacks consistently pinned Brookwood back to start drives.

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North Gwinnett Cameron Clark (93) kicks the winning field goal during last year’s Class AAAAAAA state championship game. (File Photo)

cess) is our kicking game,” Stewart said. “We kicked in the end zone every kickoff, so they start on the 20.

For defensive people … for us, we weren’t doing that last year. This year, that’s awesome.”

Clark said he’s shaken off the jitters that used to come before attempting pressure kicks. Perhaps some of that confidence stems from the game-

winner he drilled to win North Gwinnett’s first football state championship in 2017. Though Clark said he thinks back on that memory fondly, he’s not recalling it every time he stands next to his holder.

“I’m still reminded of the kick often, but I just keep it out of my head,” Clark said. “Every game is a new game, and it doesn’t matter what happened last

season. We’re a new team with new faces and a new goal.”

His confidence includes his ability to change surfaces from grass to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium turf, at home, on the road or a neutral site in the Corky Kell Classic.

“Going into senior year, I’m pretty confident in myself and comfortable on whatever field,” Clark said.

leader, and he was.”

He also had plenty of final seconds of the first help, with six different half, allowed the Raidreceivers coming up with ers to climb back into at least two catches each, led by Isaiah Wilson’s five the game, as an area of receptions for 77 yards improvement. and two TDs, while KaHowever, the poised meryn Jackson (21 rushes play of the most experienced player on the offen- for 76 yards, TD) and sive unit helped Norcross Lance Jackson (15-68, 2 TDs) combining to lead regained control. the running game.

Senior quarterback Despite a couple of Louis Williams, who big plays by Mays, the accounted for 243 of the Norcross defense did a Blue Devils’ total yards solid job of keeping Raidby completing 17 of 21 ers weapons like South passes for 198 yards and Florida-commit Jahquez three touchdowns and Evans and Tyree Nelson ran for 45 more yards relatively in check. on eight carries, showed The Blue Devils sacked the kind of poise Maloof was looking for out of his Evans six times, two second-year starter under each from Tyler Moore, Jaylin Carter and Tyren center.

Long, and held Nelson, With Mays having a 1,000-yard rusher from closed to within 28-20 with 2:29 left in the third last year, to 31 yards on 11 carries. quarter, Williams led a Add it all up and Satur13-play, 67-yard drive, day’s win could be a nice including coming back a play after tweaking a foot springboard for the rest of the season for the Blue to toss a 4-yard TD pass to Ryan Slaton to help the Devis, provided they keep Blue Devils regain control the focus and team unity at 35-20 with 9:29 left to Maloof expects from them. play.

“The chemistry of this “You have to give it to Louis,” Maloof said. “He team is good,” Maloof came out and showed that said. “If you’re focused and the chemistry in the he’s a seasoned quarterback. He didn’t panic. We locker room is good, needed him to be a poised (games) like this happen.”

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