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Police seek man in attempted abduction Suspect allegedly followed woman home from Buford Walmart

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and misdemeanor battery.

He’s described as a 6-foot-tall Gwinnett County police black man weighing about are looking for a man they 165 pounds. believe tried to kidnap a Maclin’s alleged victim woman after he followed her told police she was shophome from a Buford Walmart ping at the Walmart at 3795 on Wednesday night.

Buford Drive shortly before Detectives have obtained midnight on Wednesday warrants accusing Jamez Ma- night. When she left the store, clin, 23, of felony kidnapping she noticed a white BMW

parked behind her vehicle in the parking lot.

She said she saw the same car driving behind her on her way home but didn’t realize it was following her.

“The woman pulled into the driveway, got out of her vehicle and walked to her front door,” said Gwinnett County police Cpl. Deon

Washington. “As she opened the front door, the unknown man grabbed her from behind.”

The woman reportedly screamed, and her mother ran to the door. That’s when the man let her go and fled the scene in the white BMW. Officers later found the BMW in the Walmart park-

ing lot. The woman confirmed to detectives that the man who was listed as the registered owner of the car was the one who had tried to kidnap her.

That man was allegedly Maclin.

“Police reviewed Walmart video surveillance and were able to see that the same

vehicle followed the woman out of the parking lot,” Washington said. “As officers Jamez responded Maclin to Walmart during the initial response, it appears that the suspect

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Mayor of Norcross not seeking re-election

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Lessons in luxury

Mark Whittaker, right, talks with Jaylen Hines during Wednesday’s Mercedes-Benz USA partnership with Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville. (Photos: Karl L. Moore)

Students learn Mercedes-Benz service in Gwinnett Tech program

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Erik Barrett loves MercedesBenz.

“In a couple of years, I hope to be working at Mercedes,” the 19-year-old said. “Hopefully owning a couple, too.”

Thanks to a new partnership between Mercedes-Benz USA and Gwinnett Technical College, Barrett’s in a good position to achieve those goals.

He’s one of 25 students in the first cohort of MBUSA technicians at Gwinnett Tech.

Gwinnett Tech already had an automotive program students could take toward becoming mechanics and technicians. The new program fits under that umbrella but gets more specific.

For the next five semesters, Barrett and his classmates will receive classroom and hands-on training in the art of working specifically on MercedesBenz’s luxury cars.

And that’s important.

Robert Tomlin works as the supervisor of technician recruitment, development and retention at Mercedes-Benz USA. He said there’s a difference between working on most cars and working on a MercedesBenz.

“I think the distinction is because of the advancements in technology that Mercedes-Benz has had and will continue to have. We’re really seeing a need for a Mercedes-Benz technolo-

Qualifying for municipal elections wrapped up Wednesday and Thursday in most of Gwinnett County’s cities, but the biggest story could be a big change shaping up in Norcross — where qualifying hasn’t ended.

Norcross is one of two Gwinnett cities that won’t wrap up qualifying until Friday — Auburn is the other — but five-term Mayor Bucky Johnson told the Daily Post on Thursday that he won’t seek re-election, saying he was ready for a change after leading the city for 10 years.

“I’ve really enjoyed being mayor, but my wife has retired and I’m retired, and we have a new grandchild on the way,” Johnson said. “We also like to do a lot of traveling, so it seemed like the right time to move on to another chapter in my life.”

Councilman Craig Newton is the only candidate who has so far qualified to

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Top official at RaceTrac talks with Chamber

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RaceTrac President Billy Milam didn’t anticipate staying with the convenience store and fuel provider for very long when he joined the company about two decades ago.

Milam MORE ONLINE had a Visit gwinnettdailypost.com degree in for more photos from the talk. architecture from Clemson University and a business degree from the University of South Carolina. He’d done a stint at an architectural firm and decided it wasn’t quite for him.

His interest was in real estate, and after some stints with banks after college, he went to work with RaceTrac in the late 1990s, handling real estate transactions for new stores.

“I was going to do that for two years and Rob Tomlin of Mercedes-Benz USA talks with the students during Wednesday’s Mercedes-Benz USA partnership with Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville.

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gist,” Tomlin said. “A technologist as we see it is someone with advanced theoretical knowledge, attention to detail and professionalism.”

As Mercedes-Benz’s technology continued to evolve, it became more clear to company officials that dealers were starved for those highly skilled technicians who could keep up.

Tomlin said the relatively

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I think the distinction is because of the advancements in technology that MercedesBenz has had and will continue to have, we’re really seeing a need for a Mercedes-Benz technologist.”

— Robert Tomlin, supervisor of technician recruitment, development and retention at Mercedes-Benz USA

small car dealership employs about 6,000 technicians. Right now, those technicians train through the Mercedes-Benz Drive program in four different locations — Long Beach, Calif., Grape Vine, Texas, Jacksonville, Fla. and Norwood,

Mass. But those areas aren’t convenient for everyone.

“It makes the most sense to have training where someone grew up and where someone wants to live,” Tomlin said.

See PROGRAM, Page 10A

RaceTrac President Billy Milam talks about the company’s growth during the Gwinnett Chamber’s Executive Insights series at the Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta on Wednesday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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Police: Stabbed woman stops car on Oak Road FROM STAFF REPORTS

parking lot before driving back onto the road.

Police are trying to piece Then she stopped her car together the mystery that again and climbed out. She led a stabbed woman to was walking toward some stop her car on Oak Road nearby woods, covered in and head on foot toward blood, when a tow truck a nearby woodline early driver saw her and stopped Thursday morning. to help. At about the same Cpl. Deon Washington time, a crew of Gwinnett said a woman was drivCounty paramedics also ing down the road when stopped to render aid. she abruptly stopped and “She has since been was rear-ended by another transported to the hospital car just before 8 a.m. She and is expected to survive,” pulled her blue car into a Washington said.

Police have since discovered that the woman was involved in at least two other wrecks near the intersection of Five Forks Trickum and Oak roads.

That only raised more questions.

“At this point, detectives are working to determine where the stabbing took place, why the woman was involved in several accidents and why she stopped her vehicle in the roadway,” Washingon said.

Peachtree Corners officials join Assistance League of Atlanta volunteers to open the charitable organization’s new headquarters in the city on Monday. (Special Photo)

Assistance League opens Former Gwinnett bus driver HQ in Peachtree Corners accused of driving kids while intoxicated in Walton County year.

Walton County officials said Etheridge has no history of DUI arrests. But on Wednesday, they began to suspect she was under the influence. The Walton County Sheriff’s Office intercepted Etheridge at Loganville Middle School.

Etheridge was removed from the bus and a substitute driver finished her route. She was fired after the incident, according to Walton County officials.

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dren and adults. It has eight programs designed to help children who are staying in hospitals or are caught up in crisis situations, college students who need help paying for their education, homeless families, Shepherd Center patients and financially disadvantaged mothers.

One of their outreach efforts is a partnership with Norcross-based Project Kids Eat that makes sure female middle school students in the Meadowcreek cluster have access to feminine hygiene products.

Other programs include Bears for Children, Links to Education, New Beginnings, Operation School Bell, Waste Not, Wee Help and Shepherd Center Patient Support.

Gwinnett fire investigators are looking for this man in connection with a drug-related arson in a Norcross motel in July. (Photo: Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services)

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under the influence A school bus driver who of alcohol. once worked for Gwinnett EtherCounty was fired from Walidge is ton County on Wednesday a relaafter allegedly driving a bus tively new full of 31 kids while under employee Carole the influence. of Walton Etheridge Carole Etheridge, 49, County has been charged with 16 schools. Gwinnett County counts of child endangerschools spokeswoman ment along with DUI in Sloan Roach said Etheridge Walton County, according worked as a bus driver in to media reports. Police Gwinnett from Aug. 2, believe she was driving 2010 until Jan. 27 of this FROM STAFF REPORTS

that volunteers can have in our community,” Mayor Mike Mason said in a statement. “The organization is A 99-year-old charitable well-known for its benevoorganization’s Atlanta chap- lent contributions, and we ter has moved into new digs are delighted to have the in Peachtree Corners. opportunity to welcome AsThe Assistance League sistance League of Atlanta of Atlanta opened its new to our city.”

16,000-square-foot office Officials from the city’s at 6264 Crooked Creek government and business Road earlier this week. The community joined officials chapter, which was estabfrom the organization on lished 35 years ago, has Monday for a ribbon cutabout 260-270 volunteer ting ceremony at the new members. It had previously office. The facility will been located in Chamblee, serve as the Assistance but Peachtree Corners ofLeague of Atlanta adminficials said the organization istrative headquarters and outgrew that space, prompt- warehouse for clothing ing the move to Gwinnett. and other items used in its The chapter’s thrift shop programs. will remain in Chamblee.

The chapter works with “The Assistance League a network of community is a testament to the impact partners to help needy chil-

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Mrs. Green and her late husband Paul D. Green had three children. She has 7 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, 3 great-great grandchildren, and 13 nieces and nephews.

She now resides in Lawrenceville, GA.

Investigators already arrested Jennifer Marie Johnson, 49, in connection with the drug-related fire at Araamda Inn in unincorporated Norcross. Now, they’re looking for a man going by “Bob,” who may have been smoking crack with Johnson when the fire ignited.

Jennifer Marie AcJohnson cording to fire investigators, Johnson and the man were smoking crack when they sparked a fire on a bed in one of the motel rooms. The fire spread to a part of the carpet, too.

Johnson and the man allegedly left the room while the fire was still burning — without alerting motel staff or even trying to put the fire out.

“The senseless acts of these two individuals placed a number of people in extreme danger,” said Gwinnett Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge. “We are fortunate that the fire did not spread past the area of origin.”

Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the suspect should contact the Gwinnett Fire Investigations Section at 678-518-4890 or Georgia Arson Control, Inc at 1-800-282-5804.

Georgia Arson Control, Inc. offers a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people responsible for arson. All tips may be made anonymously.

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Lawrenceville resident joins Lawn care bidding app launches in Lawrenceville State Veterans Service Board

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have access to the ratings, reviews and prices for the bidding lawn care professionals when they make their decision on who to hire.

Once the work is done, the vendor will send the homeowner a time-stamped photo of the finished work.

The homeowner will then pay through the app and can set up additional appointments.

GreenPal was already set up to work in Atlanta; Tampa; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charlotte; Orlando; Houston; St. Louis; and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

BUSINESS BRIEFS Local re-elected to board position in credit, collection A Lawrenceville businessman has been picked to serve on an international organization for credit and collection professionals’ board for another term.

Capio Partners Jim Richards LLC cofounder Jim Richards was elected to the ACA International Board of Directors during the group’s recent 2017 Convention and Expo in Seattle. Richards is the group’s former president and recently led its ACA International Education Foundation.

“I am honored that my colleagues in the credit and collection industry supported my bid for an additional term on the ACA Board of Directors,” Richards said in a statement.

Richards has held various positions in the Atlanta area over the years, including

president of Integratec, presi- sales for Marriott branded dent of Medaphis Services hotels in Buckhead and Corp. and co-founder of Peachtree Corners.

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Hollywood Feed’s Infinite Energy Lawrenceville Center gets senior location now open sales manager Infinite Energy Center this week announced its hiring of a senior sales manager who comes with 25 years of experience.

Christina HowellScott will oversee the sales department Christina Howell-Scott for Infinite Energy Forum and she said her department’s goal is to be the best partner to the community and to be professional, profitable and progressive.

Howell-Scott previously worked in sales, marketing and business development for companies that include BellSouth/AT&T, TheMIGroup, a Canadian-based company, and most recently working as the director of

A new place to buy artisan pet food is now open in the Lawrenceville area.

Hollywood Feed recently opened its 4,399-square-foot store in the Shoppes at Webb Gin at 1250 Scenic Highway.

The store sells items including apparel, bones and rawhides, bowls and feeders, cat food, cat furniture, collars and leads, crates and kennels, dog beds, dog food, gift cards, grooming supplies, health and wellness supplies, home décor, litter accessories, stairs and ramps, toys, training accessories, travel gear, treats and chews and waste and cleanup supplies.

The store is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and from noon to 6 p.m. Sundays. The store is managed by Steve Phillips.

— From staff reports

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A Lawrenceville resident who spent four years in the Marine Corps is the newest member of the State Veterans Service Board.

Thomas Mash was recently sworn into his seven-year term on the board by Gov. Nathan Deal in the governor’s office. The seven-person board is appointed by the governor to advise the Georgia Department of Veterans Services on policies, procedures and work projects, effectively controlling the state’s overall policies regarding veterans.

Mash served in the Marines for four years, from 1972-76, after he attended Indiana University on a wrestling scholarship. He even won a Marine Corps freestyle wrestling championship in 1974.

After Mash was discharged at the rank of sergeant, he went into

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to the city of Duluth to make some provisions to help the property owners with that cost,” Chairwoman Charlotte What’s in a name? Well, Nash asked a Duluth official that depends on who you ask. on Tuesday.

In the case of ChattaThe issue came up at hoochee Drive, the city of the Board of CommissionDuluth is on one side, callers’ Planning and Zoning ing for the county to rename meeting, but the commission the street, between Rogers tabled it until Sept. 19 to Bridge Road and Peachtree evaluate it further.

Industrial Boulevard, to Chattahoochee Drive Main Street. On the other already becomes Main side are business owners on Street at Rogers Bridge Chattahoochee Drive, who Road. Although that is about are against it because of the 1.8 miles from the heart of cost of changing everything downtown Duluth, accordthat has their address on it. ing to Google Maps, city Caught in the middle are officials want to tie it into the county commissioners, who downtown district. have their own questions and “We’re really interested in concerns. creating a northern gate“Is this important enough way to downtown,” Duluth

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data processing at Pontiac Motors and moved to Lawrenceville in 1981, according to the Department of Veterans Services. He then launched Nature Craft Deck Company in 1985 and joined Abatement Technologies as an operations manager in 1992.

He retired from Abatement Technologies last year.

Mash is a life member of the Marine Corps League and has been married to his wife, Susie, for 30 years.

They have four children and 12 grandchildren.

Over the years, Mash has served as the finance officer, adjutant and commander of

Chattahoochee American Legion Post 251 in Duluth, which he joined in 1998. He also served as the American Legion’s Ninth District adjutant for 13 years and was elected as the Legion’s Georgia Department’s treasurer in 2007.

He served as the treasurer for four years before going on to serve as state junior and senior vice-commander.

He served as commander of the American Legion’s Georgia Department from 2015-16 and currently represents the state on the American Legion’s National Committee for Internal Affairs and Revenue.

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Lawrenceville resident and Marine Corps veteran Thomas Mash, left, is sworn into a seven-year term on the State Veterans Service Board by Gov. Nathan Deal in the governor’s office.

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Planning and Development Director Bill Akin told commissioners. “As people travel down Peachtree Industrial, often times they’ll take what’s currently Chattahoochee Drive to get to the downtown area.”

Business owners on the street, such as Atlanta Event Rental owners Pat and Jim Malkasian, said changing the street name would mean they have to spend money to update their website, as well as updating state paperwork.

“We would have a loss of business, a loss of income,” Pat Malkasion said. “We would have to hire experts to take care of our Google Map, our internet locations, our state corporations. Everything would have to change.”

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Keith Roach

Pneumonia can cause shortness of breath Dear Dr. roaCh: I am an active 68-year-old woman. I still work part time, walk 2-3 miles a day and enjoy gardening.

In late April, I noticed that I was short of breath after exertion, like when walking upstairs or with intensive gardening.

Two weeks later, I was so short of breath that I was hospitalized. I had a chest CAT scan, an echocardiogram and a nuclear stress test. The only finding was “a ground glass opacity in my lower lobes.”

I saw a pulmonary doctor and had pulmonary function tests, which were normal. I was treated with Levaquin when hospitalized and have been on Symbicort (two puffs twice a day). My doctor thinks I had viral pneumonia and will have an eight-week recovery.

I’m still not feeling well.

I tire easily and am short of breath on exertion.

Thoughts?

— M.L.N.S. anSWer: A “ground glass” opacity is a radiology term describing the appearance of the lung tissue on X-ray; it doesn’t mean anything literally about glass.

The list of possibilities (doctors call this a “differential diagnosis”) for a bilateral (both lungs) ground glass opacity is very large. There are a lot of lung diseases that may look that way.

Viral pneumonia is one. If that’s the case, the X-ray gradually will return to normal. The uncertainty is reflected in your treatment: Levaquin is a powerful antibiotic that treats both common and atypical bacterial pneumonia, whereas Symbicort is a medicine used mostly for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The fact that your pulmonary function tests were normal is very good news. Lung physiology (that is, how well your lungs work) is more important than how they appear on an X-ray. The symptoms you have are nonspecific and compatible with many lung diseases, including recent infection.

I wholeheartedly endorse going back to the pulmonary doctor. Some of the possibilities (such as pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis and fungal infection) will benefit from treatment. Sometimes a biopsy is necessary to make a diagnosis.

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Compromise will be very close with this sibling proach. Tell your parents to parties and often vacaabout them. required and moderation and would lose my primary that you simply aren’t tions with them. I still feel Dear amy: “Burned will be a necessity. caregiver responsibilities if willing to discuss this with very judged and excluded

by Grandma” told of her TAURUS (April my family found out I’ve them. (they are now avoiding me mother sending her an in20-May 20) — A getleft the church.

You are an adult, and at church). I feel as if my voice for expenses incurred together or intellectual My mother keeps stopyou have the right and son has been hijacked by during her granddaughchallenge is encourping by unannounced and responsibility to lead your this family. ter’s three-week stay. I aged.

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For the nation to heal, the statues must come down

WASHINGTON — It’s not surprising that we seem to be refighting the Civil War, since it never properly ended in the first place.

It might have, had Southerners listened to Robert E. Lee. The defeated general believed that erecting monuments to the Confederacy — such as his equestrian statue in Charlottesville, now shrouded with a black tarp in mourning of Heather Heyer — would be wrong.

“I think it wiser … not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered,” he wrote in 1869 about proposed memorials at Gettysburg.

As soon as they got the chance, Southerners ignored Lee’s advice. After the last federal troops were withdrawn from Eugene Southern capitals in Robinson 1877, whites began the process of resubjugating AfricanAmericans. It didn’t take long: By the 1890s, blacks were being deprived of voting rights and terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan as the scaffolding of Jim Crow oppression was erected.

The Confederate memorial in Orangeburg, S.C., my hometown, was dedicated in 1893. It was one of the early ones; most throughout the South were built after the turn of the century. They were symbols of defiance, intended to let AfricanAmericans and the federal government know who was back in charge.

My great-grandfather, Maj. John Hammond Fordham, was among the many black Southerners who were able to take advantage of the brief window of opportunity known as Reconstruction.

Born in Charleston in 1854, he became a lawyer and held a series of government jobs, working at the imposing Customs House near the port. He was called “Major” because he was one of the founders of the Carolina Light Infantry, equivalent to a volunteer national guard unit and described by the Orangeburg Times and Democrat as “the first colored brigade organized in the South.” He was active enough in Republican politics to correspond with Theodore Roosevelt.

Maj. Fordham moved to Orangeburg and built the house I grew up in. He and his wife had nine children, eight of whom survived to adulthood, and he was able to give them the education and resources they needed to build on the foundation he had laid. But the children’s options, and those of the following generation, were deliberately and systematically limited by Jim Crow. The Fordhams achieved much, but only in spite of the circumstances the white power structure imposed.

The triumph of the civil rights movement eliminated legal oppression, but in many ways the states of the old Confederacy never fully rejoined the Union. The South remained a region apart, with the Lyndon Johnson years becoming as solid a Republican bastion as it once had been for the segregationist “Dixiecrats.”

Now, however, the South is becoming a different and more complicated place. One of the biggest and most important changes is a widening urban-rural split. Cities have become increasingly cosmopolitan, home to growing numbers of minorities, immigrants and transplants from other parts of the country. On maps showing party affiliation, cities such as Dallas, Birmingham and Atlanta are bright blue dots on fields of red.

And cities are where some of the most prominent Confederate statues and other memorials happen to be. So it was inevitable that those monuments to a lost war fought in defense of slavery — or, if you prefer, symbols of the birth of Jim Crow segregation — would come under critical scrutiny.

As for me, I couldn’t care less about most street names. I sometimes commute to work on Lee Highway. I’ll bet half the people driving down that road at any given time — including millennials, Salvadoran immigrants, government workers who grew up in Utah or Vermont — wouldn’t know whether it was named after Robert E. or Spike.

Roads bearing a secessionist’s full name are a bit different. The United Daughters of the Confederacy intended Jefferson Davis Highway, which begins in Arlington, Va., to stretch through the South and beyond, all the way to the Pacific. It exists today in many disconnected segments. Alexandria, Va., has been working to rename its part of the road for some time. A plaque in a San Diego park designating the western terminus was quietly removed last week.

And the statues? As societies have done for millennia, we erect and prominently display likenesses of figures we admire. When citizens no longer admire the person being honored, they should haul the statues down. They can go to museums or onto the scrap heap of history, where the Confederacy belongs.

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

So nothing happened while I was away?

During the past two weeks, I’ve been conducting an experiment.

I took a vacation.

A real one, meaning I did nothing. Intentionally, I avoided newspapers, television, radio, social media (mostly) and Wi-Fi, except to check the weather or the elevation of this or that mountain.

Of particular interest was nearby Sugar Mountain.

Ski-lifted to the 5,300-foot summit, I joined a hundred or so others to observe The Great American Eclipse of 2017, the aptness of which can’t be overstated. What better way to celebrate the end of self-imposed nothingness than with a 100-year event that reminds us of our small-itude.

Being on vacation and disengaging is hardly unique in August, I hasten to say. My respite was notable only for its rarity. Except for time off for unpleasantries such as a family death, illness or injury, I’ve seldom vacationed for two consecutive weeks.

Unplugging from the susurrations of our hyped-andbuzzed world was a challenge.

Frankly, I wondered whether I would continue to be without knowing what was going on in the world — or whether wakefulness would be possible without the demands of perpetual deadlines. If we are what we do, then what am I without the news?

After 30 years of writing

Kathleen Parker columns — as of right now, actually — I’m easily an addict who needs a deadline the way normal people need oxygen. Tension, stress and adrenalin are my constant companions, friends of a sort that keep me motivated, engaged and reasonably punctual. Giving them up, ignoring the daily perambulations of the human experience and, most important, trying to sort out their meaning wasn’t easy. For a deadline-aholic and a compulsive seekerouter burdened with insatiable curiosity, unplugging required a massive cohesion of will and discipline.

This isn’t to say I was completely oblivious to the world’s goings-on. Given people’s delight in sharing news, I was blandly aware that North Korea was escalating, along with the president of the United States, but figured I’d know soon enough if things took a bad turn. No need to tune in.

I’d known pre-vacation of the coming eclipse. And

multiple dinners with family and friends forced knowledge of the White House staff changes, including the exit of chief strategist Steve Bannon.

I found, however, that such tidings were of little interest.

After a few days wandering South Carolina’s beaches and North Carolina’s mountains, I was becoming a human puddle, unperturbable and immune to the emotional weather of Washington, D.C. It is good to get away and to be reminded that, in the main, what most people care about are human stories, the meaning of things, the purposes to which we attach ourselves, how others muddle through. Yet, increasingly, we spend too much time obsessing over news nuggets, much of it generated by a nameless, inorganic, soul-less, buzz-fed entity that exists only if you seek it out. Social media, like the insect world, exists whether you see it or not. And it’s very-very-very busy.

This virtual world into which we umbilically plug ourselves as fetuses to nourishment is both unique to our times and predictive of a likely future that is disconnected from all previous history. We are between ages, which probably explains the explosive instability around the globe.

Not since early humanoids first stood upright and began the march toward civilization

have people been so disengaged from each other as well as from the natural world.

While parents battle young children addicted to iPads, iPhones, iEverything, terrorists create bloody havoc and marauders topple historical monuments to placate contemporary anxieties.

In the midst of such chaos and the potential for doom, it’s little wonder that a solar eclipse captured our imagination. Even though a total eclipse of the sun occurs somewhere on Earth every 18 months, this one was extra special primarily because it was ours, stretching over a 70-mile-wide swath from sea to shining sea.

But mainly, The Great American Eclipse was needed — not to make America great again but to make it real. In an age of narcissism and alienation, the eclipse provided not a rare event in the millennial scheme of things but a rare moment shared by humankind throughout the ages.

Shielding our eyes from the retina-burning infrared light of the magnificent and terrifying sun, we turned our faces to the moon and remembered that out yonder and beyond, there is something far greater than ourselves. What a relief.

And, yes, it is good to be back.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

London sees the most tourists in the world LONDON — Time spent in London through the years has always been an experience to savor with memories to keep. It was once described

by Roger Miller with his 1965 song which came about after he had visited the city for a performance at a country music concert: “England swings like a pendulum do, “Bobbies on bicycles two by two, “Westminster Abbey, tower of Big Ben, “The rosy-red cheeks of the little children.”

Ol’ Roger had a clever and gifted way with words and music. His ode to the land of the forebears of many Americans left not only country music aficionados amused but those who are not country advocates.

The city, where pavement paint at intersections reminds you to “look left,” has always been one of excitement and hospitality. The bobbies without handguns have always been an endearing sight — even today when you flash back to the coming of terrorists who want to kill innocent people in the name

Now when I walk down the streets of London, I wrestle with emotional discomfort. Could there be a gun underneath one of those robes? I have to fight off stereotyping when I take my seat on a flight or the Eurostar.

Loran Even with apprehension Smith invading my thoughts, I, nonetheless enjoy walking of religion. the streets of London and With the passing of time, marveling at the scenes which I feel that I have done it all reflect so many traditions. I in London, from riding the am always moved to pause in double-decker busses to the reverence when I hear the Big tube to the charming taxis Ben sounding forth. There to embarking on the Flying are bells that chime on the Scotsman from Kings Cross quarter hour, but on the hour station to Edinburgh. The its 118 decibels are as loud as museums, St. Paul’s, Tower a jet taking off.

Bridge, Piccadilly Circus and Fascination with Big Ben Trafalgar Square. The British brought about a search of Museum, Parliament, No. 10 facts which you can easily Downing Street, the River find on the internet. Big Ben Thames and the Churchill was commissioned by ParliaWar Rooms. ment in 1854. Parliament I can remember being wanted it to be the “biggest, smitten by the British accent most powerful charming on that first trip, along with clock in the world.” Anyone the charm and dress of an hearing Big Ben would readinternational population — ily assume that the governthe comingling of peoples, ment got its wishes. cultures and languages. There Big Ben dates back to Vicare over 300 languages spotorian times and went through ken in London.

World War II unscathed, and

that made it remarkable since the Germans did their best to level the city.

The magnitude of Big Ben is overwhelming. The bell weighs 14 tons. It is accurate to within two seconds a week. Its copper minute hands are 14 feet tall — as tall as a double decker bus.

Londoners tell time by looking up at the clock, which is one of the classic symbols of the city. Any movie set in London usually has a scene with Big Ben prominently featured.

London is the most visited city in the world when measured by international arrivals. All European capitals have redeeming features — from Paris to Rome to Brussels to Amsterdam, but London will always be a favorite. The language alone gives it a redeeming flavor.

We fought the British for independence, and they burned down the White House in the War of 1812, but since that latter skirmish, it has been the best of times.

If only our British cousins could learn to drive on the right.

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Guidance coming on transgender ban

George R.R. Martin sets the record straight

By Sophie Tatum CNN

The White House will send guidance to the Pentagon on President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban — including instructions to reject transgender applicants — “in coming days,” The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night, citing unnamed U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Among the memo’s directions: The military is to stop admitting transgender people; and for current transgender troops, the Pentagon should consider a service member’s ability to deploy when determining whether to expel them, the newspaper reported, citing the officials.

The memo also instructs the Pentagon to stop paying for transgender troops’ medical treatment regimens, the officials told the paper.

It is not clear if the Brazil opens a memo is finalized. The chunk of Amazon Pentagon said in a stateto mining reserve ment Wednesday night that it “has not received Brazil has opened a formal guidance from the massive swath of the Ama- White House as a followzon to mining. up to the Commander-inThe government has Chief’s announcement abolished a reserve that on military service by straddles the northern transgender personnel.” states of Pará and Amapá, “The (Defense) Departa move that opens the vast ment continues to focus area to mineral exploration on our mission of defendand commercial mining. ing our nation and ongoBrazil said that mineral ing operations against extraction would only be allowed in areas where there are no conservation controls or indigenous lands. An official report Navy suspends from 2010 said that up to two-thirds of the reserve rescue efforts on is subject to such protecU.S. destroyer tions.

The government, which The U.S. Navy has sushas previously said that pended its search-and-rescue the region is rich in miner- operations for nine missing als, gold and iron, framed sailors after the collision the decision as an effort between the U.S. destroyer to bring new investment John S. McCain and an oil and jobs to a country that tanker near Singapore, the recently emerged from the Navy announced Thursday. longest recession in its Navy divers have recovhistory. ered the remains of one The elimination of the sailor, electronics technician reserve sparked an im3rd class Kenneth Aaron mediate backlash from Smith, 22, from New Jersey, activists and environmen- and identified nine other tal groups. missing sailors, the service said.

Divers will continue reKim Wall case: covery efforts inside flooded Inventor to face compartments in the ship for the remaining missing murder charge sailors, despite the suspenDanish inventor Peter sion of rescue efforts at sea.

Madsen is to be charged The Royal Malaysian Navy with the murder of Swed- has located one body at sea, ish journalist Kim Wall and officials are working to as well as “indecent determine whether it is one interference with a human of the missing sailors, the corpse,” Danish prosecutor service said. Divers have Jakob Buch-Jepsen told located others.

CNN Thursday.

The White House on Wall, 30, had boarded a Wednesday expressed “great 17-meter submarine built sadness” about the incident

by Madsen on Aug. 10 for in a statement. “As the Navy a story and was last seen begins the process of recovon that day in an image ering our fallen sailors, our that allegedly showed her thoughts and prayers go out standing with Madsen in to their families and friends,” the tower of the submarine the statement said. in Copenhagen Harbor.

The submarine was Hurricane found about 15 hours after Harvey keeps it had departed Copenhagen, on Aug. 11. Madsen gaining strength was rescued from the As Hurricane Harvey sinking vessel by emergency crews, but there was gains strength, residents no trace of the missing along the Texas coast journalist. He was charged aren’t taking any chances; with manslaughter and or- they’re filling sandbags, dered to be held in custody stocking up on water and for 24 days. boarding up windows.

—From wire reports Harvey is rapidly At least 51 people were killed Wednesday in an airstrike that hit a hotel on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, officials and local medics said.

Ali Al-Asimi, a senior security official in Sanaa, blamed a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia for the attack on the Arhab district. Most of the dead in the hotel were merchants, Al-Asimi said.

Saudi officials were not immediately available for comment.

The strike was one of at least two dozen across the country, according to the Health Ministry. At least 26 people were reported injured. Yemen’s Interior Ministry said seven Houthi fighters died in coalition airstrikes at other locations in the capital.

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According to a Wall Street Journal report, President Donald Trump’s White House will send out guidance “in coming days” on the ban of transgender people in the military he first proposed in a series of tweets. (Photo: CNN)

our foes, while ensuring all service members are treated with respect,” the statement read.

The Pentagon said it would provide an update when the formal guidance is announced.

CNN reached out to the White House for comment Wednesday.

Trump said he would reinstate a ban on transgender troops in a string of tweets July 26, announcing that transgender individuals would not be eligible to “serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”

That reversed a policy, initially approved by the Defense Department under President Barack Obama and still under

final review, that would have allowed transgender individuals to openly serve in the military.

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote.

“Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”

That took the Pentagon by surprise. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were not aware of Trump’s inten-

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tion to tweet the ban on transgender service members, three U.S. defense officials told CNN in June.

Following Trump’s announcement, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told service members there would be “no modifications to the current policy until the President’s direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary has issued implementation guidelines.”

However, The Wall Street Journal now reports that the officials said the guidance would give Defense Secretary James Mattis six months to put the new policy into action. restaurant in the heart of downtown.

Still, onlookers could be seen gathering under a light rain and taking photos and video with their cellphones as helicopters buzzed overhead and police snipers took their positions. The Charleston School of Law and other downtown buildings were on lockdown.

John Aquino, a representative of the group that owns the restaurant, told CNN affiliate WCSC-TV that one shooting victim was a chef and the gunman was a former dishwasher.

Before you scorch the earth with Wildfire, “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin wants to reassure fans that he does in fact watch the HBO show that’s based on his famous books.

Metro reported on Monday that the author doesn’t watch the show because he’s too busy touring and writing.

The story came out of a series of interviews Martin did in Russia, and he told Entertainment Weekly in an email that a language mix-up may be to blame for the error.

He assured EW that he is a viewer, though he’s not caught up on season seven because he didn’t watch any TV while he was traveling abroad.

He’s involved in some “Game of Thrones” prequel projects HBO has planned. He’s writing “The Winds of Winter” which is the sixth novel in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy series; and he’s set to executive produce “Who Fears Death,” which is based on the fantasy novel by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor.

Martin might want to indulge in some binge watching soon as the seventh season finale airs Sunday on HBO.

Amy Schumer comments on equal pay deal

Amy Schumer is clearing up some controversy about her salary.

Variety published a story this week about gender pay inequality in Hollywood titled The Fight Hurricane Harvey is rapidly strengthening and is now for Equal Pay: Women, forecast to hit the middle Texas coast, the National HurMinorities on TV Still ricane Center said late Thursday morning. People were Making Less Than White loading sand bags in Texas to brace for the storm. (CNN) Men. The article highlighted strengthening and is a deal that Schumer had adult children, said her big forecast to become a with streaming giant plan is to retire early, and Category 3 hurricane with she’s already called her boss Netflix. winds of at least 111 mph “Amy Schumer and said, “I will not be com- Sears is closing couldn’t have been hotter by the time it hits the ing back.”

28 more Kmart as a personality when middle Texas coast late Friday or early Saturday, One dead in S.C. stores this year she set a deal last year to star in a comedy special the hurricane center said hostage situation Sears continues to for Netflix, ‘The Leather Thursday. After hitting A “disgruntled emSpecial,’ which premiered shrink. The once iconic Corpus Christi, the storm in March,” the story said.

American retailer is closis expected to stall over the ployee” who shot and “But when Chris Rock killed a person and wounded ing 28 more of its Kmart state, forecasters say. and Dave Chappelle made another at a Charleston, S.C., stores later this year. headlines for commandrestaurant was shot and critiThe new store closures Powerball cally wounded, Mayor John are on top of 180 Sears and ing eye-popping deals for $20 million per special, Tecklenburg told reporters Kmart locations that have winner nets Schumer’s team went Thursday.

Several hostages already been shuttered this $758.7 million back to Netflix and flatly were safely released. year. The company had And the winner is….

“This is not act of terpreviously announced that asked for more money.”

Mavis Wanczyk.

Citing an unnamed rorism,” Tecklenburg told another 150 stores will Wanczyk, 53, is the source, writer Daniel reporters Thursday while close by the third quarter. winner of the largest single Holloway wrote that the situation was unfolding.

Sears now has 1,250 lottery jackpot ever in North “This is not a hate crime. It’s stores overall in the United Schumer initially was America, the $758.7 million a disgruntled employee who States — 650 of them are paid about $11 million grand prize in Wednesday’s has come on the scene of his Sears branded and 610 are but “received significantPower Ball. ly more compensation employment.”

Kmart locations. A year The winning ticket with Several hostages were ago, Sears was at 709 Sears after she raised the quesnumbers 6, 7, 16, 23, 26, inside the restaurant, spokes- stores and 883 Kmart stores. tion of fairness relative to the Rock and Chappelle and Powerball number 4, man Charles Francis of the The company did not was purchased at the Pride Charleston police said earlier say how many jobs would deals.”

The “Trainwreck” acStation & Store in Chicopee, during a news conference. be affected by the new tress wrote, “Thanks for Mass.

The shooting was reported Kmart closings. but Sears chiming in on what you Wanczyk said she disshortly after noon. announced 400 layoffs in feel I deserve to be paid.” covered she had won soon About 3:30 p.m., the June.

“I believe women after she left work at Mercy mayor and police said the Sears made the anMedical Center, when a hostage situation was over nouncement in yet another deserve equal pay,” co-worker looked at her and several hostages released bleak earnings report. The she wrote in a caption.

“However I don’t believe ticket and told her she had safely. company said Thursday won. She said she couldn’t Police had asked people to that it lost $251 million in I deserve equal pay to Chris and Dave.” believe it. avoid the area near Virginia’s its second quarter.

—From wire reports Wanczyk, who has two on King, a Southern-style —From wire reports

East Africa is leading the world in drone delivery

By Matt McFarland

supplies. Rwanda has already completed 1,400 similar deliveries.

In little time, Tanzania’s governThe cutting edge of drone deliv- the U.S. While plenty of countries ment sentiment around drones has ery isn’t in one of the usual technol- have dabbled in drone delivery, shifted from “nervous” to “excited” ogy hotspots, such as Singapore no program has matched the scale according to Laurean Bwanakunu, or the United States. The honor and impact of what’s unfolding in who leads the government agency belongs to East Africa.

Rwanda and now, Tanzania. responsible for procuring and A second East African nation In January, Tanzania’s governstoring medical supplies for the announced Thursday it will launch ment will begin using drones to de- country. Leaders figured the system a fully automated drone delivery liver medical supplies such as blood couldn’t work — and if it did, a program. The drones will fly them- and vaccines to remote areas. The drone couldn’t carry more than a selves, far from the view of humans government expects to save lives few pounds.

— a move that’s not yet legal in thanks to faster delivery of medical Tanzania watched as its neighbor CNN

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Rwanda launched a drone delivery program with Zipline. It realized drones could complement its existing network of trucks, which deliver $600 million worth of medical supplies around the country.

“If an African country like Rwanda is doing it, and it’s just a stone’s throw away from where we are, why not us?” Bwanakunu said.

“The issue is being able to dare and try it. We made a decisions as a country that we wanted to move forward.”

Tanzania has committed to using the Zipline technology for one year.

If things go well, it plans to expand the program.

The government is confident the autonomous drones will be safe.

Bwanakunu’s group received permits from its aviation authority and minister of defense. The drones are required to stay below the height of traditional aviation and give airports a wide berth. They include a parachute that deploys if anything goes wrong.

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walked into the store and then out of the store ultimately fleeing the area on foot.”

Just after 8 a.m. on Thursday morning, Maclin called police and tried to report his car stolen from an address in Buford. Because 911 dispatchers and police were aware the BMW was involved in a kidnapping attempt, officers responded to the address.

But Maclin wasn’t there. Washington said officers believe Maclin tried to report the car stolen “to cover up the fact that he used the vehicle during a kidnapping attempt.”

Washington said police are urging women not to shop alone at night and to park in well-lit areas.

“This was a very dangerous situation that could have ended differently if the woman had not screamed and had help from her mother,” he said. “If you have suspicions that you are being followed, do not ignore them. Drive to the nearest police precinct or heavily populated area and call 911.”

Anybody with information on Maclin’s whereabouts or the case should call GCPD detectives at 770-513-5300. Tipsters can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477 or by visiting www.crimestoppersatlanta.org. Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.

ended up selling off a majority of our stores here in Atlanta,” then go off and be some real he said. “That was tough, and estate developer somewhere,” it left kind of a bad taste in our Milam said. “Didn’t know mouth.” where and didn’t care where, RaceTrac began investing but I was going to do that for elsewhere, in southern Louisitwo years — and 20 years and ana and other parts of Georgia. two months later, here I am.”

Its prime markets are Texas and Milam, who lives in GwinFlorida. nett County, recounted the But the lure of the company’s changes he’s seen over the years hometown proved too much to at RaceTrac as he addressed the resist.

Gwinnett Chamber at its ExThe company eventually ecutive Insights program at the came back to Atlanta, seeking Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta to reclaim its place against its on Wednesday morning. competitors, particularly QuiAmong the things he recalled kTrip — which Milam referred from his two decades with to only as “that OklahomaRaceTrac was the somewhat based company” after his initial distant relationship the Atlanta- mention of the rival store chain. based company used to have “There was sort of an unspowith its home market. Milam ken thing of ‘Stay away from said goes back decades to when Atlanta,’ until about five or six QuikTrip arrived in the market. years ago,” Milam said. “We The competition eventually led said, ‘You know what? This is RaceTrac officials to sell most our town. We know the area. of their stores and leave the We know the schools. We work market. with a lot of the people in this “In 1999, we said, ‘You know community. This is important what, we’re getting our tails to us.’ kicked here in Georgia,’ so we “Atlanta is an important

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Sara Davis Baker Sara Davis Baker, 84, of Dunwoody, GA passed away August 22, 2017.

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Frauline Golson Frauline “Fran” P. Golson, age 80, of Stone Mountain, GA, passed away on August 19, 2017.

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John Goza John Daniel Goza, age 74, of East Point passed away Tuesday, August 22, 2017.

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John Gray John Edward Gray, age 52, of Jefferson passed away Tuesday, August 22, 2017.

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Arline Holloway Arline Holloway, age 95, of Auburn passed away on Wednesday, August 23, 2017. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at Walnut Grove Baptist Church where she will lie in state from 1-2PM. Rev. Mike Freeman will officiate. Interment will follow at Walnut Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Holloway was preceded in death by; Husband of 47 years: Clyde Williamson Holloway, Sr.; Mother: Irene Ruby Nichols; Father: Pearl Jessie Cannon; Brothers: Albert Cannon, Gaines Cannon, Herman Cannon; Sister: Mae Belle Tyler. She is survived by; Son & Daughter-in-law: Billy & Debbie Holloway of Auburn; Grandson & Granddaughter-in-law: Andrew & Alicia Holloway of Watkinsville; Great Granddaughters: Daisy & Sally; Sister: Mary Higgenbotham of Flowery Branch; Several Nieces & Nephews; Loving Magnolia Estates family of the last 8 years. The family will receive friends from 4-8PM on Friday, August 25, 2017 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home300 Simonton Road S.W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

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market to us so we said, ‘Let’s ramp this baby up,’ and in 2012, we began building stores, and we built a bunch of stores. We debuted our new prototype here in Georgia. It’s a 6,000-squarefoot beast of a store, and that was really a game changer for us to build a store like that with the offers that it has.”

He also talked about the company’s recent growth — nearly 200 new stores over the last six years — and how it puts an emphasis on its people. A few years ago, the average store manager lasted just 36 days.

Now, by focusing on the people behind the counter and customer service, the average length of stay is more than five years.

“We decided our people are going to be our competitive edge,” he said.

Milam also previewed what customers could be expect in RaceTrac’s future.

He expects the company will have a big focus on food in the future. He’s a fan of the food the convenience stores sell, but couldn’t narrow his choices

down to one when he was asked to name just one favorite item on the menu.

“I love the meatball sub, but the chicken parm is pretty good too, and it’s hard to beat a good ol’ taquito or hot dog,” Milam said before adding the company uses Nathan’s Hot Dogs in a dig at QuikTrip’s hot dogs.

But just to clear up the air on where his loyalties lay as far as colleges go, Tiger fans shouldn’t get too upset about Milam’s business degree from archrival South Carolina. He swears his heart only bleeds orange.

He even took several opportunities to casually mention Clemson’s national football title from last season on Wednesday. After all, he said college football is his favorite sport to watch as he once again took an opportunity to name drop his alma matter — and its national title.

“I only have a few more weeks where I can talk about that,” Milam quipped in reference to the upcoming football season.

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friends attending. It was a special day for him and his siblings, a good time was enjoyed by all. He loved his family and will be greatly missed by his loving family and friends.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Neal Strong officiating.

Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA with Rev. Chuck Allen officiating and military honors.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday, August 25, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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He was born in Grenada, Ms. on September 21, 1925 to S. E. (Peck) and Jane Burkhalter Watters.

In 1931, the family moved to Greenwood, Ms., where he attended Greenwood Public Schools, graduating from Greenwood High School in 1943. In his senior year, he enlisted in WINDER the Navy Air Corps. Upon Charles Strickland graduating from High School, he reported for Charles R. Strickland, duty in the Navy, serving age 70, of Winder passed 27 months during WWII. away on Friday, August After being released from 18, 2017. Memorial the service, Sid attended Services will be held at Mississippi State College 4:00PM on Saturday, where he was a member of August 26, 2017 in the the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Lawrenceville Chapel After graduating from of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Pastor Aaron Watts college with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, will officiate. Mr. Strickhe was employed for a land is survived by; wife: Peggy Strickland, Winder; short time by General Motors Corp. Eventually, he daughter & son-in-law: went to work for the Ford Lynn & Chip Brand, Motor Company where he Lawrenceville; daughter spent 32 years. He served & son-in-law: Cathy & in several locations before Kurt Aldridge, Winder; moving to the Atlanta Assister & brother-in-law: sembly Plant in 1960. In Evelyn & Jack Webb, 1985, he retired from the Bethlehem; grandchilAtlanta Plant and settled dren: Lacey, Jessica, & in Lilburn, Ga. During his Chance Brand, Mason & retirement years, he enMaddie Aldridge; numerjoyed his family, traveling ous family & friends. In and woodworking. Sid is lieu of flowers, donations survived by his wife of 68 may be made to Bethleyears, Sarah Hall Pearce hem Christian Academy: Watters, two sons, Sid, III 548 Christmas Ave. GA (Kitty) of Duluth, Ga. and Hwy 11 N. Bethlehem, Ben (Carol) of Marietta, GA 30620. The family Ga., four grandchildren, will receive friends from Kathleen Watters Wilson 2-4 PM on Saturday, (Candler) of Savannah, August 26, 2017 at Tim Ga., Crysten Taylor WatStewart Funeral Home: ters of Marietta, Ga., Sid 300 Simonton Road S.W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. IV (Romana) of Sugar Hill, Ga., and Kathryn Jane 770-962-3100. Please Watters of Marietta, Ga. leave online condolences and five great grandchilat www.stewartfh.com. dren. His memorial service will be Sunday, August 27, 2017, at 2 pm in the Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel with Pastor Chris George OLATHE, KS of Smoke Rise Baptist Doris Mae (Huff) Vail Church officiating. Online Doris Vail passed Aug. condolences may be left 20, 2017. Funeral 3:00 pm at www.billheadfuneralAug. 24, 2017. home.com. The family will receive friends one hour $15 photos are available before the service in the with all Obituaries Bill Head Funeral Home and Death and Crematory, Lilburn/ Notices Tucker Chapel.

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New set of overdoses linked to ‘fake pain pills’ contained a mixture of two synthetic opioids, cyclopropyl fentanyl and U-47700.

WARNER ROBINS — Cyclopropyl fentanyl had The overdoses began Satur- not previously been seen in day night in Warner Robins. Georgia.

All told, at least eight The GBI is testing the pill people have overdosed linked to the latest overfrom street drugs that were doses, agency spokeswoman believed to be counterfeit Nelly Miles said Wednesday versions of Percocet, a preafternoon. scription painkiller.

The new pill is white, and Seven occurred in Warner a different shape from the Robins and one in nearby ones seen in June, but “it Macon. looks very real,’’ Jennifer The overdoses were eerily Parson, public information similar to a string of Middle officer for Warner Robins Georgia poisonings in June Police, said Wednesday. It that led to as many as five looks similar to Percocet deaths and the hospitaliza“except it is thicker and tion of dozens of people. glossier,’’ she said.

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patients, between the ages of 25 and 60, were found unresponsive and barely breathing when emergency officials arrived. The antioverdose drug Narcan was administered to victims, Parson said.

They were taken to Houston (County) Medical Center, Parson said.

“Some have been released,’’ while others are still on ventilator care, she said.

A Houston Medical Center official was not immediately available for comment Wednesday afternoon.

The Macon Telegraph reported that one person overdosed in Macon on Monday after taking some

of the round white pills that Bibb County Sheriff’s Lt. Randy Gonzalez called “fake Percocets.”

Parson said the investigation is a top priority for the Warner Robins police, who issued a public alert Tuesday.

The counterfeit pills, including the ones that turned up in June, are new to law enforcement in the area, Parson said.

Police said they don’t know whether all the pills are coming from the same source, the Telegraph reported.

“We can’t say that there is a for-sure link with that,” Warner Robins Assistant Po-

lice Chief John Wagner told The Telegraph. “But that is something that we definitely investigate to see if indeed they moved from yellow pill to white pill, the same person or the same supplier … or do we have a new person or a new type of pill that’s on the street that we need to be worried about from a totally different source?”

A GBI drug chemist told a Macon TV station recently that such street pills are getting stronger and deadlier.

The June outbreak in central Georgia involved about 30 overdoses from fake pain pills, officials said recently.

Five deaths were associated with the drug, Dr.

Chris Hendry, chief medical officer of Navicent Health Medical Center in Macon, told a July news conference at the state Capitol.

More than 15 of those cases were treated at the ER within 48 hours, Hendry said. Their care, Hendry said, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As to the latest overdoses, anyone with any information about the fake prescription pills is urged to call Warner Robins police at (478) 302-5380 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News.

HEALTH BRIEFS Eastside earns cancer care accreditation A national cancer quality program recently granted Eastside Medical Center’s cancer program three-year accreditation.

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•From Page 1A run for mayor. If Newton remains unchallenged in the mayor’s race, he will have a clear path to become Gwinnett County’s only AfricanAmerican mayor.

The changes in Norcross extend beyond the mayor’s office, though. Since Newton, whose seat was already up for election this year, is running for mayor, that leaves his council seat up for grabs. Meanwhile, Councilman Pierre Levy told the Daily Post that he too will not seek re-election.

“Basically it’s my age,” Levy said. “I’ll be 76 next month, so it’s time for a younger person to step in and serve.”

So far, Chuck Paul and Hoyt Hutcheson are running for Newton’s seat while Daniel Watch and Thad Thompson are running for Levy’s seat.

“No one can remember the last time we had three seats open at the same time,” Johnson said.

Elsewhere, Loganville could be facing a shakeup of its own. Mayor Dan Curry announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election. Former Councilman Rey Martinez and Donna Jones, wife of former councilman, mayor and city manager Bill Jones, are the two candidates to succeed Curry.

If Martinez is elected, Loganville would be the only city at least partially located in Gwinnett County that has a Hispanic mayor.

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non-factor for her. She said she’d just focused on get“And it also makes sense to ting her career started. In have training local to dealfact, she’s already thinking ers so they can have men beyond her impending job and women in their area.” as a technician.

When Mercedes-Benz “I want to be somebegan moving its headquar- where,” Tallent said. “Like ters to Sandy Springs in maybe at the top of the 2015, it was logical to test dealership somewhere or out a college program at something like that. Or Gwinnett Tech. maybe I’d go to engineerSo Mercedes-Benz USA ing, if there’s money there.” began investing in everyTallent and her classthing the school would mates are in luck. Because need to educate promising of Mercedes-Benz’s need technicians. It created opfor qualified technicians, portunities for each student all 25 of them are virtually to intern with a local dealer- guaranteed jobs upon graduship. The company also ation. Their starting salaries helped create the cohort’s could be about $50,000. own MBUSA classroom, And Tomlin said there’s complete with dealerships room for more training and signature emblem on its to move up. back wall.

“You’ll start to meet people and to know people,” The students also have he said. “Then if you imtheir own garage, stuffed press people and your name full with Mercedes-Benz vehicles they can use to get goes out there, it’ll go out there quick. It’s a real tight hands-on practice. Student family.”

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Gladiators hire Weber as coach The Atlanta Gladiators hired Chuck Weber, who won two Kelly Cups in Cincinnati, as their new head coach Thursday.

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Atlanta brings in two-time ECHL title winner to take reins

By Christine Troyke

“We’re really blessed to have Chuck on board,” Jeffreys said. “I have a great feeling about where we’re DULUTH — The headed. Change is never Atlanta Gladiators hired easy, but we will continue Chuck Weber, who twice to make the best decisions raised the Kelly Cup with to move this thing forward.

Cincinnati, as their new “One of his things head coach. was, ‘Is this organization The announcement was committed to winning a made Thursday morning championship?’ We are. and majority owner Toby But we need to win some Jeffreys was thrilled to have home games and make the landed such a proven coach. playoffs first.”

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The Gladiators have missed the playoffs for four straight seasons and six times in the last eight years. They were contenders for the first six seasons here, including a trip to the finals in 2005-06, but it’s been quite a while since the organization won on a consistent basis.

“I know there’s been a tradition here,” Weber said as the franchise prepares for its 15th anniversary

season. “Unfortunately, to this point, they haven’t been able to raise as many banners as they’d like. I’m looking to change that.”

Weber guided the Cyclones to the third round of the ECHL playoffs in their inaugural season — and his first as a head coach — in 2006-07. Cincinnati won the Kelly Cup the following year, losing just

See WEBER, Page 6B

HIGH SCHOOL KICKOFF THE RUNDOWN

A quick look at this weekend’s high school football in the Gwinnett area: TODAY’S GAMES 7:30 p.m.

• BEST Academy at Wesleyan • Brookwood at Walton • Cedar Shoals at Discovery • Collins Hill at Norcross • Dacula at Central Gwinnett • Duluth at Berkmar • Hoover (Ala.) at Grayson • Melbourne Central Catholic (Fla.) at Buford • Mill Creek at Stephenson • Mountain View at Lambert • North Gwinnett at Milton • Peachtree Ridge at Archer • Shiloh at Parkview • South Gwinnett at Lanier • Westminster at GAC SATURDAY’S GAME 7:30 p.m.

• Meadowcreek at Alcovy

BY THE NUMBERS

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Greater Atlanta Christian grad Tyler Aurandt talks to his North Oconee football players during a recent practice. Below, former Gwinnett assistant coach Kevin Stewart works with the Titans. (Photos: Will Hammock)

TITAN TIES

Aurandt, assistant coaches bring local knowledge to North Oconee program victory last season and moved into new Vaught Stadium, its first oncampus football stadium at BOGART — North the Lamar Lussi Athletic Oconee’s football program Complex. It was tough embraces a frenetic pace for Robinson to leave an in most every activity, improving program, but he whether it’s a practice seswas excited about the opsion, in the weight room or portunity at North Oconee in a game. That’s the plan and the chance to scale for the Titans’ new head back from the ultra-busy coach, Tyler Aurandt. role of head coach.

Life off the field in Bo“That (Tyler was head gart doesn’t exactly match coach) played a part (in what happens in football, coming to North Oconee),” which is fine for Aurandt Robinson said. “And I’m and a handful of his new 53 and there are just other assistants from Gwinnett things I want to do in my who are used to a more life. I love coaching. I love hectic lifestyle. being with those guys.

“Hurry’s not always But you get to a stage in good,” said North Oconee get to school. For longtime Stewart said. “There’s still other new hires, though. your life where there are defensive coordinator Ken Gwinnett coach Kevin civilization around and Robinson, a former play- other things you want to Robinson, a past head coach Stewart, the drive is seven Athens is a great town for er at South Carolina and in do. It allows me to do that at both Greater Atlanta minutes. Former Parkview everything, so we’re really the NFL, runs Aurandt’s and still get to coach. A Christian and Providence assistant Kurt Doehrman happy.” defense. Aurandt graduated few weeks ago, my oldest Christian. “On the football has the longest trip of the Aurandt, a former from GAC before Robindaughter had to move and I field it is, but it’s not always Gwinnett contingent at GAC wide receiver, kept son arrived at the Norcross was able to make a fourgood in life. I love that. It’s eight minutes. some holdovers from the private school, but Robin- day trip up to Nashville a slower pace out here and The only journey that previous North Oconee son did coach Aurandt’s and back over to Knoxville, that’s good for us.” takes longer than it does in coaching staff, a group that younger brother. Robinson take my youngest to Bible Since moving near North Gwinnett is a walk around includes former Georgia spent eight years at GAC, camp. It freed me up to do Oconee, Robinson estithe sprawling high school Bulldog and NFL player the first six as defensive those kind of things. There mates his commute to his campus, much more spread Dennis Roland Jr., whose coordinator and the last are some other things I’m new job, thankfully minus out than the average metro late father Dennis was head two as head coach, before doing outside of coaching Gwinnett traffic, at five Atlanta high school. coach at both North Gwin- transitioning Providence and it allows me to do that. minutes. Aurandt, a GAC “It’s neat when five nett and Central Gwinnett. from a middle-school pro- Tyler’s very organized. I grad who coached at Gray- miles takes you five minRoland’s connection to gram to one that competes always tell him that. son and Parkview, said it utes instead of some of the Gwinnett football isn’t as in region play. takes him seven minutes to congestion of Gwinnett,” See TITANS, Page 4B deep as some of Aurandt’s Providence got its first

By Will Hammock

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Knockdown blocks by Lanier offensive lineman Collin Foster in last Friday’s win over Northview

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Tackles last Saturday by Norcross’ Terrion Dangerfield in a Corky Kell Classic loss to Colquitt County FANS CHOICE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Each week during the football season, the Daily Post will nominate four players for its Fans Choice Player of the Week. Online voting at www.gwinnettprepsports. com will begin by Monday morning and will end Thursdays at noon. This week’s winner is: Name: JonMichael Findlay School: Collins Hill Position: Quarterback Class: Senior Highlights: Was 10 of 13 passing for 184 yards and two touchdowns, rushed four times for 17 yards and was 2 of 2 on two-point conversions in a 48-12 win over Shiloh Coach Lenny Gregory’s take: “He’s a great kid, a program guy that bided his time here. He had a great summer. He’s had a little competition. I’m really proud of how he’s handled that. Sometimes when you throw competition at people they go the other way. But he’s responded really well.

He was voted as team captain and that speaks volumes. The team loves him. He’s a great kid from a great family, a good leader. He’s just really becoming an operator in our offense.”

Results: Findlay won a competition with Mill Creek’s Jonathan Gipson, Archer’s Semaje Banks and Parkview’s Tommy Rogers in fan voting this week.

CROSS COUNTRY

Saturday

• Archer, Mill Creek, Discovery in Lambert River Run • Hebron in Battle of Atlanta Invitational at Nash Farms Battlefield • Grayson in Charlotte Invitational 7 a.m. — Buford, Dacula in North Georgia Championships at Lamar Murphy Park 8 a.m. — Parkview in Spikes and Spurs Invitational 8 a.m. — GAC at East Jackson 8 a.m. — Discovery in Saucony XC Kickoff Classic 8 a.m. — Shiloh, Duluth in ASICS Bob Blastow Invitational at McIntosh Reserve 8:30 a.m. — Coillins Hill in Wesleyan Invitational

SOFTBALL

• Heard Co. at Wesleyan 9 a.m. — GAC at Mountain View 9 a.m. — Lanier at Jefferson 9 a.m. — Walnut Grove at Archer 11 a.m. — Parkview vs. Chapel Hill at Kennesaw State 11:30 a.m. — GAC vs. Shiloh at Mountain View 11:30 a.m. — Lanier vs. East Hall at Jefferson 1 p.m. — Parkview vs. West Forsyth at Kennesaw State 2 p.m. — Hillgrove at Archer 2 p.m. — Shiloh at Mountain View

VOLLEYBALL

• Aloha Bash at Brookwood • Buford in All-City Tournament at South Forsyth • Hebron at Pace Academy

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3 p.m. — WTA Connecticut Open, Final. ESPN2 5 p.m. — ATP Winston-Salem Open, Final. ESPN2

Buford hosts explosive M.C.C.

By Paul Thomas

MELBOURNE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (FLA.) AT BUFORD

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After a comeback win against Hillgrove 48-17 in the Corky Kell Classic last week, the non-region schedule doesn’t get any easier for Buford in Week 2.

The Wolves host Melbourne Central Catholic (Fla.) tonight at 7:30 p.m.

The Hustlers, who were a summer replacement on the Buford schedule when Bishop Timon (N.Y.) cancelled its varsity program, reached the Florida Class AAA state semifinals last season.

Tonight will be the Hustlers’ season opener, but they did defeat another Florida powerhouse, Cardinal Gibbons, 35-33 in a scrimmage last week.

“To me it’s just something that gets you ready,” Buford head coach John Ford said of the nonregion schedule. “(Class) AAAAA is loaded this year. You look at the teams in our region that have gotten better and you look at all the teams in AAAAA that are improving, you’re going to have to beat good teams consecutively within your region and within the playoffs so it’s something I’m excited about.”

Buford rallied from down 10 points, twice, last week to top Hillgrove, a playoff team a year ago in Class AAAAAAA. The Wolves offense was led by the rushing duo of Michigan commit Christian Turner (11 carries for 128 yards and two TDs) and Tennessee commit Anthony Grant (10 carries for 90 yards and a TD).

Freshman quarterback Aaron McLaughlin also put forth a heroic effort, throwing for two scores and running for another.

He completed 15 of 24 passes for 144 yards and ran for 28 yards.

Hillgrove scored 17 points in the first quarter, but gained just 76 yards the rest of the way. Linebacker Davin Bryant had a great game with nine tackles, one for loss and a forced fumble. Grant recorded seven tackles and Navy commit Mikey McMorris had an interception.

“I really was grateful for their resiliency and toughness,” Ford said.

“We’ve just got to start faster. We can’t make mistakes early. We can’t have a field goal blocked and we’ve got to make sure we start faster on offense and defense.”

The Wolves defense will have its hands full with MCC. The Hustlers are extremely athletic, especially on offense.

Senior running back and South Carolina commit Lavonte Valentine leads the way, along with receiver/defensie back and Georgia Tech pledge Zamari Walton. Senior quarterback Joaquin Collazo is also a threat.

Melbourne Central Catholic Hustlers (Class AAA Fla.) Head coach: Stacy Sizemore 2016 record: 11-1 Last week: Season opener

Buford’s Davin Bryant (30) and Kellen Neal (31) tackle Hillgrove tight end Chigoziem Okonkwo (1) after a reception in the second half of the Wolves 48-17 victory over the Hawks in the Corky Kell Classic last Friday night in Atlanta. (Photo: David McGregor)

“They can score on you in a hurry if you let him,” Ford said. “The quarterback is an athletic lefty with a good arm. Our

defense is going to have to play really, really well and our offense is going to have to avoid mistakes for sure.”

Buford Wolves (8-AAAAA) Head coach: John Ford Record: 1-0 Last week: Defeated Hillgrove 48-17 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

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THE BREAKDOWN

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

B.E.S.T. ACADEMY AT WESLEYAN

BROOKWOOD AT WALTON

B.E.S.T. ACADEMY EAGLES (6-AA) WESLEYAN WOLVES (5-A) Coach: Joshua Moore Coach: Franklin Pridgen Record: 1-0 Record: 1-0 Last week: Beat Landmark Christian 53-7 Last week: Beat Therrell 63-14 Wesleyan and B.E.S.T. Academy both won their openers handily, capitalizing on mistakes made by their opponents. The Wolves started seven drives inside Therrell’s 35-yard line and scored on all but one on the way to a 63-14 rout. Senior quarterback Banks Ramsey led a diversified attack. He was an efficient 8-for-11 with 104 yards and touchdowns to four different receivers.

The decisive victory might have gone to a few players’ heads, but Wesleyan’s coaching staff was there to remind them that no matter what happened the week before, it’s in the past.

“You have to flush it,” Wolves head coach Franklin Pridgen said. “We needed to bring some of the guys back to earth. Not our seniors. Those guys get it. But some Davis Moreland of the younger guys needed a moment of recalibration.”

B.E.S.T. Academy was just 2-9 last season, but got off to a good start last week.

“They have a lot of the same kids we saw last year, but I think, yeah, they are a year bigger, faster and stronger,” Pridgen said. “Landmark put them in a position to be successful, but we were really impressed with B.E.S.T. and Joshua Moore. They’re big up front like Therrell and more athletic, too. They don’t run a lot of plays, but they run them out of a lot of formations so it’s a mental challenge for us.”

The main goal for the Wolves during these nonregion games is clicking the last few players into place. One piece Pridgen is happy to have set is guard/defensive end Davis Moreland.

“Davis is a senior, a very patient kid who has been in the program for a really long time and trusted the process,” Pridgen said. “Now as a senior, he’ll be a two-way starter and one of the reasons why we’re going to have some success.”

Last meeting: Wesleyan won 48-34 last season Location: Wesleyan School

BROOKWOOD BRONCOS (7-AAAAAAA) WALTON RAIDERS (4-AAAAAAA) Coach: Phillip Jones Coach: Daniel Brunner Record: 0-1 Record: 1-0 Last week: Lost to Archer 25-17 Last week: Beat North Gwinnett 31-28 As tough an opponent as Walton figures to be, Brookwood coach Phillip Jones knows his team’s attention must be focused far more inward after the four turnovers and numerous other mistakes that doomed the Broncos to defeat in last week’s season opener against Archer.

“You can’t expect to win a game in (Class) AAAAAAA, especially against a good team, when you have four turnovers and five (other shotgun) snap errors,” Jones said. “So we’re focused on execution and getting back to the basics, focusing on fundamentals. We’ll have to because Walton is an excellent team.”

Indeed, the Raiders showed a lot in coming from two touchdowns down early in the second half to beat North Gwinnett last week primarily behind a running game Chris led by tailback D.J. Soyoye, who ran for 131 yards and two TDs on 20 carries.

Cotter But with dual-threat Austin Kirksey under center and the possible return of Georgia-committed WR Dominick Blaylock from injury, Jones knows the Broncos must be on their toes to defend a more diverse attack this week.

Brookwood will turn to veteran leaders like senior linebacker Chris Cotter to set the example.

“They’re very physical and want to run the ball, but in a lot of different ways,” Jones said of Walton.

“Their quarterback and run and throw, and we expect Blaylock to play this week. So they will be a big challenge for us to defend against. Their identity is to run first with play action, but they’ve got so many weapons. … It’s going to be an old school war.”

That’s where cutting down on turnovers on offense comes in. If the Broncos can win the time of possession battle, it keeps the Walton offense off the field and also gives their playmakers time to strike.

Last meeting: Brookwood won 40-13 last year Location: Walton High School

CEDAR SHOALS AT DISCOVERY

DULUTH AT BERKMAR

CEDAR SHOALS JAGUARS (8-AAAAA) Coach: Leroy Ryals 2016 Record: 4-6 Last week: Season opener

DISCOVERY TITANS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Efrem Hill Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Jefferson 43-0

After a tough opener against Class AAAA No. 4 Jefferson last week, the Titans welcome Cedar Shoals to Discovery Community Stadium for their home opener.

Coach Efrem Hill expects a tough clash against a Jaguars team that is not only strong, but also features an experienced quarterback in senior Kiyonnice Smith. “(Cedar Shoals) Coach (Leroy) Ryals has been doing this a long time and they have a really good bunch of players,” Hill said. “They didn’t play last week, so they’ve really had two weeks to prepare for us. They’ve got some good, physical kids, so it’s going to be a tough battle for us.”

Smith and company and the Jaguar offense, as well as a defense led by junior defensive end Rodney Wright, presents a formidable challenge, and Hill says the Jack Titans are going to try to stick with the basics.

Oesterle Even with the trouble they had against Jefferson last week, he said he saw enough positive signs to remain optimistic.

“In high school football, you have to be able to run the ball and stop the run,” Hill said. “If we can do that, we’ll be fine.”

A good running game could help open up the passing game led by quarterback Alex Drazic and slot receiver Kobe Johnson, while veteran safety Jack Oesterle could be a big key to the Titans’ efforts to limit the Cedar Shoals running game, as well as bolster the pass defense in the secondary.

Last meeting: Cedar Shoals won 42-6 last year Location: Discovery High School

DULUTH WILDCATS (6-AAAAAAA) BERKMAR PATRIOTS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Bob Swank Coach: Kenan Dever Record: 0-1 Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Alcovy 37-22 Last week: Lost to Rockdale Co. 75-8 After giving up a nightmarish 75 points, 69 of which came in the first half, in last week’s opener against Rockdale County, the task won’t be any easier this week for Berkmar. The Patriots will have their work cut out for them again against Duluth’s combination of strong-armed quarterback Jalil El-Amin and physical and speedy receiver Will Huzzie. Perhaps the best way to keep that pair, and the Wildcats’ other weapons, from hurting them will be for their offense to keep the ball out of their hands. And the good news there is that the return of starting center Raquan Strowbridge to add to veterans Cliff Rimple, Alejandro Campenzano and Bryan Zavala means the Berkmar offensive line will be back intact from the start of the game tonight.

“We were in a situation last Friday in which we had to do things in a situation Jalil El-Amin where we had some players out,” Berkmar coach Kenan Dever said. “But we’re back and full strength. … We need to control the clock with our running game, and having the full complement up front, we should be able to do more this week. “(Duluth’s) quarterback and receiver combination is a great combination. They’ve already put up some big numbers.”

Indeed, El-Amin and Huzzie were impressive in last week’s loss to Alcovy, but the Wildcats also committed turnovers and penalties at crucial moments that coach Bob Swank knows must be cut down on if they are to have a chance to win tonight. He is convinced the errors that caused the problems are correctable, something the Wildcats have worked hard on this week in practice.

“We never felt like (Alcovy’s) defense stopped us as much as we stopped ourselves,” Swank said.

“We had a bunch of holding calls. We have to cut those out. If we do that and just execute our game plan and play hard, we’ll be OK.” Last meeting: Duluth won 22-0 last year Location: Berkmar High School

MEADOWCREEK AT ALCOVY

MILL CREEK AT STEPHENSON

MEADOWCREEK MUSTANGS (8-AAAAAAA) ALCOVY TIGERS (3-AAAAAA) Coach: Jason Carrera Coach: Chris Edgar 2016 Record: 1-9 Record: 4-6 Last week: Beat Duluth 37-22 Last week: Season opener After being off last Friday, coach Jason Carrera knows his team is getting a bit restless to play as they open up on the road at Alcovy.

And with an extra day to wait thanks to the host Tigers sharing a stadium with two other Newton County schools, Saturday can’t get here soon enough for the Mustangs.

“They’re chomping at the bit,” Carrera said of his Mustangs. “It’s been a long two weeks (since the team’s preseason scrimmage), and then having to go in and play on a Saturday, we’ve gotten a lot done (in practice).”

That work will come in handy against an Alcovy team that showed plenty of ofMark fensive firepower in last week’s opening win over Duluth.

Haynes Tigers quarterback Cameron Anderson threw touchdown passes to three different receivers, which combined with a running game led by Quindrelin Hammonds and Andrae Robinson to provide a formidably balanced attack.

The defense won’t be an easy unit to crack either, and Carrera knows the Mustangs will have to be on their toes.

“Alcovy’s a really talented team,” Carrera said. “They’re very fast. They’ve gone to a spread set on offense, and their defense is very aggressive. But I think our kids are up for (the challenge). They’re ready to get after it.”

The Mustangs will rely on their large, powerful offensive line, led by 6-foot-5, 365-pound senior Mark Haynes, to make room for skill players like leading rusher Chauncey Williams, while defenders like senior Qu’Vella Calhoun will be needed to try to keep up with Alcovy’s speedy backs.

When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Alcovy won 28-15 last year Location: Sharp Stadium, Covington

MILL CREEK HAWKS (6-AAAAAAA) STEPHENSON JAGUARS (4-AAAAAA) Head coach: Shannon Jarvis Head coach: Ron Gartrell Record: 1-0 Record: 0-1 Last week: Defeated McEachern 23-19 Last week: Lost to Cedar Grove 34-13 With just four returning starters, Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis knew his team needed a big win early in the season to boost their confidence.

Fortunately for him, they did just that in a 23-19 comeback win against McEachern last Saturday in the Corky Kell Classic. The Hawks pitched a shutout in the second half and quarterback Blake Longenecker threw two touchdown passes.

“Going into the year we knew that it was going to take a win like that,” Jarvis said. “We didn’t know when it would happen. Just as a coach, you hope for it sooner obviously rather than later. But to see it unfold before your eyes, I think it’s huge. I think it’s huge for everybody, players, coaches.”

McEachern dominated the majority of the first quarter, until Jonathan Gipson Jonathan Gipson returned a pooch punt 97 yards for a touchdown. Despite having its defense on the field, Jarvis was pleased with the fact that multiple players, like senior linebacker Nehemiah Rowe, on the field knew the situation.

“What I was proud of was everybody was playing at that speed. It wasn’t like Jon was just running by himself,” Jarvis said. “We had a wall set up and we had two critical blocks on that play.”

Stephenson fell 34-13 to defending Class AAA state champion Cedar Grove in its opener. The Jaguars reached the Class AAAAAA state quarterfinals last season.

Jarvis said the biggest challenge Stephenson presents is the running game, powered by tailbacks Deondre Jackson and Jevon Goff, and Auburn offensive line commit Jalil Irvin.

“We have got to get everybody to the football, because when you play a great back — they break one tackle and they could be gone,” Jarvis said. “We’ve got to make sure everybody is gang tackling.

He loves to find little creases in there and get vertical and we have got to be gap sound on our all fits.

That’s going to be critical in this game.”

Last meeting: Mill Creek won 32-7 last season Location: Hallford Stadium in Clarkston

MOUNTAIN VIEW AT LAMBERT

NORTH GWINNETT AT MILTON

MOUNTAIN VIEW BEARS (6-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Nick Bach Record: 1-0 Last week: Defeated Osborne 71-0

LAMBERT LONGHORNS (5-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Louis Daniel 2016 record: 7-5 Last week: Bye

Last week Mountain View rolled Osborne 71-0 in its opener. This week the Bears travel to Forsyth County to take on reigning region champion Lambert.

Mountain View won last year’s game in Lawrenceville 28-24 and knows the Longhorns have likely been game-planning for them since last season, as tonight is their season opener.

“We had a war with them last year. It was down to the wire and we were fortunate to pull it out,” Mountain View head coach Nick Bach said. “We expect the same thing this year. Very well-coached, well-organized team, probably going to be a hostile environment over there. It’s their first game, so they’ve probably been preparing for us all summer. It’s going to be a big-time challenge.”

Matthew Nine different Bears scored touchdowns last week, with quarterback Matthew Edwards Edwards throwing and running for a score. Two-way senior Blake Carroll scored on a 4-yard run and also recorded a safety in the first quarter.

Bach said he was most pleased with his starters playing so well early in the game, because it allowed the younger players to get some game action. Something they didn’t get in a preseason scrimmage with Central Gwinnett that was cut short by lightning.

Lambert returns a strong defense, led by Wake Forrest commit Kenneth Dicks in the secondary.

Offensively, Bobby Gabriel takes over at quarterback and will form rushing duo with Justin Bruno.

“They’re pretty balanced,” Bach said of Lambert’s offense. “They’ll spread you out and throw it.

They’ve got a QB who can run the ball pretty well this year, I believe he was a receiver last year, so they’re probably going to try and run the ball with him. The running backs they’ve got are good too.”

Last meeting: Mountain View won 28-24 last season Location: Lambert High School

NORTH GWINNETT BULLDOGS (6-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Bill Stewart Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Walton 31-28

MILTON EAGLES (5-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Adam Clack Record: 1-0 Last week: Beat Alpharetta 31-9

North Gwinnett lost a heartbreaker, 31-28, to Walton in the Corky Kell Classic last Saturday in its season opener at Georgia State Stadium.

North led by two touchdowns in the second half, but surrendered the final 17 points to Walton. The go-ahead touchdown was a 1-yard run by D.J. Soyoye with 1:04 remaining. Bulldogs senior quarterback Cade Fortin, a Texas A&M commit, drove the ball down to the Walton 3-yard line with one second left in the game.

But North’s game-tying field goal attempt was blocked as the clock expired to spoil head coach Bill Stewart’s debut.

“We’re gonna get better,” Stewart said after the game. “It is the first game. It’s not the end of the world. We plan on getting better and getting after people down the Tyler road. We have to go back and re-evaluate and see what we did wrong.”

Goodson Stewart’s improvements will likely start this week on the defensive end after Soyoye ran wild in the second half last week. Offensively there was a lot for Stewart to be happy about.

Fortin was 15 of 21 for 183 yards and two scored, while rushing for 63 yards as well. Tyler Goodson finished with 137 all-purpose yards and a touchdown catch.

Milton trailed Alpharetta by three at the half last week, but scored 28 second-half points to secure the win in Adam Clark’s debut. The Eagles have a roster loaded with young talent, highlighted by junior four-star safety Joseph Charleston.

Charleston has offers from Alabama, Clemson and Georgia among several others. Senior receiver Dash Hariston, junior quarterback Jordan Yates and junior linebacker Allen Walker are all highly regarded prospects as well.

Last meeting: North Gwinnett won 43-29 last season Location: Milton High School

PEACHTREE RIDGE AT ARCHER

SHILOH AT PARKVIEW

PEACHTREE RIDGE LIONS (6-AAAAAAA) ARCHER TIGERS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Reggie Stancil Coach: Andy Dyer Record: 0-1 Record: 1-0 Last week: Lost to Parkview 50-13 Last week: Beat Brookwood 25-17 These two teams are quite familiar with each other after meeting four times in the last three seasons.

The fifth meeting features a pair of teams apparently heading in opposite directions after their respective openers, with Archer riding high following an upset of previously ranked Brookwood, while the Lions are trying to regroup after taking an early two-score lead over Parkview, only to have the Panthers roar back.

While turnovers were a big factor for both teams, Tigers coach Andy Dyer isn’t counting on his team being able to come up with the four takeaways that were key in last weekend’s win over Broowkood, nor is he counting on the Lions being as Jordan generous as they were in turning the ball over four times like they did last week.

Roman But he is counting on another strong defensive effort led by the likes of cornerback Taiyon Palmer and linebacker Jordan Roman.

“Turnovers are usually a result of being in the right place at the right time, doing your job and being good tacklers,” Dyer said. “We did a good job of that last week. We also have to keep eliminating the big play over the top. If we do that and keep tackling well, we can be in every game.”

Likewise, first-year Peachtree Ridge head coach Reggie Stancil is counting on his Lions taking better care of the football this week.

When they did last week, they actually did some good things, including the production of Jaylen Johnson, who averaged more than six yards per carry and scored in the first quarter to help give the Lions an early 13-point lead before the miscues and the Parkview offense came back to haunt them.

“The thing about last week is that it’s a situation where (the mistakes) are things we can fix,” Stancil said. “Everything that happened was more of a snowball thing. The first three or four series in, we were doing very well. “(Archer is) a better team than they were when we played them last year. They’re playing really good football right now, but our kids will be ready to compete.”

Last meeting: Peachtree Ridge won 28-23 in the first round of last year’s playoffs Location: Archer High School

SHILOH GENERALS (8-AAAAAAA) PARKVIEW PANTHERS (7-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Ryan Andrews Head coach: Eric Godfree Record: 0-1 Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Collins Hill 48-12 Last week: Beat Peachtree Ridge 50-13 Parkview and Shiloh had very different results in Week 1. The Panthers fell down early, but rallied for a 50-13 win over Peachtree Ridge. The Generals suffered a 48-12 loss to Collins Hill.

Parkview head coach Eric Godfree said it was apparent that the lack of a preseason scrimmage (cancelled due to weather) hurt Shiloh, and he expected to face a much better team tonight, which is why his team can’t afford to fall behind two scores like they did in the opener.

“A big improvement for us is we want to start faster, start more focused and start with more energy, and not have to wait,” he said.

Bryce Parkview’s defense spurred the comeback with four takeaways. Jack LaPenta Wilson and Derrick Brown each had an interception, while Tommy Rogers blocked a punt out of the back of the end zone for a safety.

Godfree credited the front seven for their play, with junior defensive lineman Bryce Wilson leading the way with 5 1/2 tackles, three for loss, and a forced fumble.

“Having that experience and those guys up front, I think is a big part of it and a big reason why we were able to play a little bit more physical and a little faster,” he said.

Despite the final score, Andrews was pleased with how his team handled itself in the loss to Collins Hill.

The Eagles took a big lead in the first half, but scored just once in the second. Quarterback Jase Ivey threw touchdown passes of 11 and 12 yards.

“I think the thing I’m most proud of, and it is what it is when I say this, this was the first time in three years that I didn’t feel like we quit,” Andrews said. “We got down, but it wasn’t a feeling of we gave up.

You look at that third quarter and they still had their starters in and we still had our starters in and they didn’t score. They did a good job of not giving up.”

Last meeting: Parkview won 37-12 last season Location: Parkview High School

4B • FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017

Top-10 tangle No. 1 Spartans square off with ninth-ranked Westminster

By Christine Troyke

WESTMINSTER AT GAC

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It’s not something you usually hear from coaches.

“What I liked is we didn’t start well,” Tim Hardy said of Greater Atlanta Christian’s season opener last week.

There was an explanation coming on the heels of that, of course.

“But mid-game, we sort of flipped that,” Hardy said.

“It showed maturity. We want to start well, but it didn’t takes a huge thing for us to get ourselves right.”

“The other side of the coin is we need to do a better job getting a good start,” Hardy added with a chuckle.

The Spartans rolled to a 46-14 victory over Lovett and now face a Class AAA top-10 matchup with Westminster.

The Wildcats, 2015 state champs and 2016 quarterfinalists, were shut out in their opener by Class AAAA’s third-ranked Blessed Trinity. Hardy didn’t think the final score was a fair barometer.

“Big picture, Westminster is a historic, accomplished program,” Hardy said. “Gerry Romberg is one of the longest tenured coaches in the state.

“They played a good Blessed Trinity team, which has an incredible junior class. It was a good game, but BT got a handful of big plays (to break away).”

GAC has the same big-play ability, especially with Super Six running back Kyler McMichael.

The Clemson commit had

WESTMINSTER WILDCATS (5-AAA) Coach: Gerry Romberg Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Blessed Trinity 28-0 GAC SPARTANS (7-AAA) Coach: Tim Hardy Record: 1-0 Last week: Beat Lovett 46-14 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: GAC won 19-16 in overtime last season Location: Greater Atlanta Christian School

80 rushing yards and a TD in the Spartans’ balanced attack last week. Quarterback Josh Rose was 10 of 13 for 164 yards and four touchdowns. His top target was Trey Morrison, who hauled in four catches for 99 yards and a two scores.

All of that is happening because one of the biggest strengths of this Spartan team is the offensive line.

“We’ve got some mature, seasoned players on that line,” Hardy said.

“That’s a big piece. Then, defensively, I think we can be really good. We’re off to a good start, but we’ve also got a good amount of depth. We have multiple guys who can rotate in and all of our guys train on both sides of the ball.

“I feel like the depth of our team is significant.”

Last week, outside linebacker Robby Fowler led the defensive effort and Christopher Hinton was, as usual, key to the offensive line’s efficacy.

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Titans •From Page 1B “We play fast. We practice fast. You should come watch us work out in the weight room. We do everything fast. He’s done a great job. The difference you’ll see is when we line up this fall, the expectations, the habits, all the things you talk about.”

Stewart, a Shiloh grad, coached previously at Buford and at Parkview, where his father, Jerry, was the defensive coordinator of the Panthers’ 2000-02 state championship teams.

He coached last year at St. Pius with his father for one final season — Jerry retired after the 2016 season — and made his way to North Oconee, where he is running backs coach and special teams coordinator on Aurandt’s first team.

“Having been here previously (at Oconee County), I knew what a great school system it was, what a neat area it was,” Stewart said. “It’s close to Athens. And the people North Oconee had in place and the ones they were able to attract excited me to be a part of it and bring my family here.”

Doehrman played high school football at Loganville under now-Parkview head coach Eric Godfree.

Godfree hired him straight out of college at Parkview, where Doehrman had been the last three seasons as wide receivers coach. He coaches the North Oconee wideouts, too, but also added the title of offensive coordinator. “(Aurandt’s) a guy, we have similar thoughts about the direction and the opportunity here,” said Doehrman, whose father Kent is a longtime basketball and tennis coach in

Former Providence Christian coach Ken Robinson works with his defensive players at North Oconee during a recent practice. (Photo: Will Hammock)

Gwinnett, most recently at Brookwood. “I think it’s a great community. The first time I met with the principal here (Philip Brown), he took me to breakfast and I don’t think I’ve ever met a guy more invested in his school. He was even out here today helping with wide receiver drills.

He’s a great guy. Me and my wife both went to Georgia, so we’re excited to move out this way.”

The coaches’ mission is clear — return the Titans to state prominence. They have had success in the past, making state eight times in an 11-year span under previous head coach Terry Turley, but they went 0-10 in 2016.

Aurandt is in charge of making those improvements in his first head coaching job.

“There’s a lot more on your plate as head coach than what you’re used to (as an assistant coach), but it’s been good,” Aurandt said. “I’ve had a lot of people I’ve been able to call and bounce ideas off of and get some insight.

Coach Godfree has always left that door open to be able to call him. I’ve talked to (former Grayson and current Clemson) Coach

(Mickey) Conn on a couple of different occasions.

And (Berkmar grad and Aurandt’s former Valdosta State teammate) Sean Calhoun, who’s over at Carrollton (as head coach).

Having (Calhoun become a first-time head coach) one year before I had the opportunity to do it, there were a lot of things he was able to tell me, ‘Hey, you need to make sure you do this and do this in your first year, so it will make your second year easier.’

Having those guys to lean on has been a huge blessing for me.”

Another blessing has come via the coaches with Gwinnett backgrounds.

“Football is everything in Gwinnett,” Aurandt said.

“So when you get a chance to hire guys from Gwinnett, you know they understand the commitment, the work ethic and how much it takes to win because everybody plays at such a high level in Gwinnett. To be able to bring that to a place outside of Gwinnett, it’s been extremely valuable to us. I don’t have to worry about guys putting in time. They’ve had a major impact on the other guys on our staff, too. You can see how they’ve grown

Rams prepare for another border battle

POST PICKS The staff makes its predictions for this week’s prep football winners

By David Friedlander

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BEST Academy at Wesleyan Brookwood at Walton Cedar Shoals at Discovery Collins Hill at Norcross

WILL HAMMOCK

CHRISTINE TROYKE

DAVID FRIEDLANDER

SCOTT SMITH

JESSE MCMILLAN*

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Cedar Shoals Cedar Shoals Cedar Shoals Cedar Shoals Cedar Shoals Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Dacula at Central Gwinnett

Central

Central

Central

Dacula

Dacula

Duluth at Berkmar

Duluth

Duluth

Duluth

Duluth

Duluth

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Hoover

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Mill Creek at Stephenson

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Stephenson

Mountain View at Lambert

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Lambert

North Gwinnett at Milton

North

North

North

North

Milton

Peachtree Ridge at Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

P’tree Ridge

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

South

South

South

South

Lanier

Westminster at GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

Meadowcreek at Alcovy

Alcovy

Alcovy

Alcovy

Alcovy

Alcovy

13-4

13-4

13-4

11-6

10-7

Hoover (Ala.) at Grayson Melbourne Cent. at Buford

Shiloh at Parkview South Gwinnett at Lanier

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just by having those guys on our staff.”

Each of Aurandt’s new assistants bring at least some knowledge gained via Gwinnett football.

“How much it means to folks in Gwinnett, I think that’s starting to grow here,” Stewart said.

“They’ve had good football in the past. They’ve had success in the past.

We’re just hoping to emulate or model that Gwinnett way of doing things.”

Whether that translates into more victories remains to be seen. North Oconee needs just one win to better last year’s record, and the community hopes it comes tonight in the season opener at home against Grovetown.

The schedule gets tougher in the coming weeks with non-region games against Morgan County, Cedar Shoals, Clarke Central and Winder-Barrow, followed by the gauntlet of Region 8-AAAA, one of the state’s toughest with Oconee County, Jefferson, Madison County, St. Pius and Stephens County.

“The first time I met with (the North Oconee players), I told them I can’t guarantee how many games you’ll win or lose, but I can tell you you’re going to have a great experience,” Aurandt said. “If you talk to our kids, they’re having fun.

That’s what it was all about to me, to bring the fun back into the game for some of them. And to get them invested and committed back into a program that’s had a lot of success. The expectation from everybody in the school is they just want to see our kids improve as individuals, not so much as a football player, but they want to see growth as a person.”

Throughout the past decade, which has seen Grayson capture two state high school football championships, the Rams have also gotten used to taking on powerful opponents from surrounding Southeast states outside of Georgia.

That trend will continue for the second straight year, and fifth season since 2010, when Alabama powerhouse Hoover makes the two-plus-hour drive from suburban Birmingham to Grayson Community Stadium today for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff in the season opener for both teams.

The Rams have fared quite well against the out-of-staters with a 6-1 record in those games, including a 36-14 over the Buccaneers last year at Hoover.

However, Grayson coach Christian Hunnicutt doesn’t think of today’s game in terms of being another border war.

“I think we’ll just approach it as our next game,” said Hunnicutt, who will be making his debut as the Rams’ boss after coaching at East Jackson last year. “We don’t get too caught up in that. … It’s still 11-on-11 football.

“We want to focus on communication. We want to focus on alignment.

We want to focus on ourselves. We want to focus on one play at a time and not get caught up with the peripheral things.”

The Rams, who won last year’s Class AAAAAAA state title, will be sporting a new look of sorts today, with 17 new starers.

That doesn’t necessarily mean a huge drop-off in talent, with no fewer than six players already committed to FBS college programs, and several more prospects, including returning starters like junior linebacker Owen Pappoe and Kansas State-bound senior receiver Jaquavious Lane.

Still, it will be the first extended playing time in meaningful situations for other prospects, such as junior

HOOVER AT GRAYSON Hoover Buccaneers (3-AAAAAAA) Coach: Josh Niblett 2016 Record: 12-2 Last week: Had a bye Grayson Rams (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Christian Hunnicutt 2016 Record: 14-1 Last week: Had a bye When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Grayson won 36-14 last year Location: Grayson High School Series History: 2016 — Grayson 36, Hoover 14

Florida State commits Ronald Thompkins at running back and Kenyatta Watson at cornerback and LSU-committed junior receiver Keynon Jackson.

And Hunnicutt is not only eager to see how those players react to the spotlight against a quality opponent, but also confident they will rise to the occasion.

“It’s their turn,” Hunnicutt said. “It’s their opportunity to be in a big game.”

Those newcomers, and the rest of the Rams, will get a test from a Hoover team that is not only coming off a 12-2 season that included a Class AAAAAAA Alabama state championship, the program’s 10th title since 2000 and fifth under coach Josh Niblett.

This year’s Buccanneers have a talented roster, including Auburn-committed receivers Shedrick Jackson, the nephew of Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, and George Pickens, as well as Georgia Tech-bound offensive lineman Michael Maye.

“They’re up-tempo offensively,” Hunnicutt said of Hoover. “They’ve got some elite playmakers at all positions, and they’re one of the elite defensive teams in Alabama. But the first thing we have to focus on is not beating ourselves with turnovers and sloppy penalties. … It should boil down to turnovers and stupid penalties and which team makes fewer of them.”

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Norcross, Collins Hill set for early-season showdown

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

After opening the 2017 high school football season in different fashions last week, both Norcross head coach Keith Maloof and his Collins Hill counterpart Lenny Gregory are taking a similar approach to their Week 2 clash.

“Like everyone else at this stage (of the season), we’re still a work in progress,” said Maloof, whose No. 6 state-ranked Blue Devils (0-1) will welcome the Eagles (1-0) to Blue Devil Stadium for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. “Everybody’s trying to create their own identity just like we are.”

For Collins Hill, that new identity represents somewhat of a radical departure from what the Eagles used to be — at least, on the offensive side of the ball.

They still employ some of the spread elements they’ve used for years, Gregory has also installed a wing-T package that worked well enough to roll up 329 yards on the ground, led by Jalen Johnson’s 125 yards, in last week’s 48-12 win over Shiloh in the season opener.

And with both Daily Post Fans Choice Player of the Week Jon-Michael Findlay and backup Kaleb Cook having seen action under center, it’s enough of a different look to keep opposing defenses guessing what will come next.

That’s not to say Gregory doesn’t think there’s room for improvement. Quite the contrary, he knows the Eagles must execute better against a stout Norcross defense.

“By no means are we satisfied where we’re at,” Gregory said. “Our goal is to get better each week. …

Now, we’ve really grown up. With only had one returning starter on offense

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Collins Hill quarterback Jon-Michael Findlay (4) hands the ball off to Najji Germana (1) in last Friday night’s game against Shiloh. (Photo: Jamie Akoubian)

… and we’ve been playing a lot of guys who were in backup roles (last year).

So to say I’m pleased is an understatement. Whenever you try to change a whole mindset, it’s hard, but the kids have bought into it.

“But Norcross is a topfive program in the state.

You have to give them respect. That said, I don’t think we have to adjust to them. We’re going to do what we do. If we focus on us, I think we’ll be OK.” After last week’s narrow 20-17 loss to No. 2 Colquitt County, Norcross’ identity remains relatively the same, at least in terms of a strong defense and special teams.

The Blue Devils not only tightened up and allowed the prolific Packers just 149 yards total offense and seven points after the first quarter — led by 14 combined tackles and assists, plus a sack, from Terrion Dangerfield — but also created two turnovers, both of which led directly to 10 of Norcross’ points, including a strip sack from Keyshaun Williford and 53-yard fumble return by Dareus Barnhill.

COLLINS HILL AT NORCROSS Collins Hill Eagles (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Lenny Gregory Record: 1-0 Last week: Beat Shiloh 48-12

Norcross Blue Devils (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Keith Maloof Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Colquitt Co. 20-17

Last meeting: Norcross won 17-14 last year Location: Norcross High School Series History: 2016— Norcross, 17, Collins Hill 14 2015 — Collins Hill 13, Norcross 9 2014 — Norcross 19, Collins Hill 17, OT 2013 — Norcross 28, Collins Hill 0 2012 — Norcross 35, Collins Hill 23 2011 — Norcross 42, Collins Hill 21 2010 — Collins Hill 42, Norcross 0 2009 — Norcross 25, Collins Hill 21 2008 — Norcross 17, Collins Hill 3 2007 — Norcross 31, Collins Hll 21 2006 — Norcross 39, Collins Hill 37, 3 OT

Meanwhile, the kicking and punting of Jake Camarda and Cole Hanna proved to be a weapon that helped the Blue Devils establish excellent field position in the second half, and help put them in position to tie the game late before the much talked about controversial ending.

“Dangerfield was making things happen,” Maloof said. “And the secondary did a better job once we figured out what they

(Colquitt) were doing throwing the ball against us.

“The kicking game is a huge weapon for us. It helped us flip the field. …

(But) we’ve got to keep improving. We’ve still got to tackle better and do better on special teams. …

Collins Hill has improved as a program from last year to this year. I feel like they’re doing things they’re capable of doing and putting their kids in position to be successful.”

eron King (two catches, 26 yards and a TD).

Running back Justin Wilkins also had a big After a 28-24 win at game with 73 yards receivSouth Gwinnett last week, ing and 40 rushing.

Central Gwinnett (1-0) re“Obviously Central turns home to host another Gwinnett has an outstandformer region rival tonight ing football team,” Jones — Dacula. said. “I think everybody The Falcons will be in the know understands making their season debut. that it all starts with their Dacula won 34-13 last quarterback. He’s tremenseason and holds an 11-7 dous. Just a tremendous advantage in the all-time talent. It’s no secret. He series.

Central Gwinnett’s Jarren Williams (2) looks for a receiv- can make all the throws, “The thing about er during last week’s night’s game at South Gwinnett in he’s mobile, he’s big, runs Dacula is they’re one of well and he makes a lot of Snellville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) those programs that have plays. Offensively they’re a program,” Central head very explosive. They can DACULA AT CENTRAL GWINNETT coach Todd Wofford said. score from anywhere on Central Gwinnett Black Dacula Falcons “It doesn’t really matter, the field.”

Knights (7-AAAAAAA) (8-AAAAAA) year in and year out, what Dacula will have to Head coach: Todd Wofford Head coach: Tommy team they put out there get a great game from its Record: 1-0 Jones on the field, it’s going to talented secondary, led by Last week: Defeated 2016 record: 7-5 pretty much be the same junior corner Jalen Perry, South Gwinnett 28-24 Last week: Had a bye mentality. Same type of who was offered by AlaWhen: Today, 7:30 p.m. kids, the same hard-nosed, bama, Georgia and Ohio Location: Central Gwinnett High School tough kids that don’t beat State over the summer, just Series history: themselves. I see that same to name a few.

2016 — Dacula 34, Central 13 exact thing again this year.”

It’s the second week in a 2015 — Central 25, Dacula 6 2014 — Dacula 20, Central 10 Last week against the row that Central’s receiv2013 — Dacula 24, Central 6 Comets, Central put forth a ers will get the chance to 2012 — Central 37, Dacula 20 solid defensive effort. The battle with a highly touted 2011 — Dacula 49, Central 21 Black Knights allowed 24 defensive back, after facing 2010 — Dacula 42, Central 14 points, but were constantly Minnesota commit Terell 2009 — Dacula 28, Central 19 put in short field situations Smith last week.

2008 — Dacula 47, Central 24 due to turnovers or poor “You have to respect 2007 — Central 31, Dacula 14 punts. Central’s defense him every snap,” Wofford had two interceptions, insaid of Perry. “That’s the cluding a 28-yard pick-six said. know that’s their bread and challenge in itself, espeby Eric Walker on the first The good news for butter. They have the huge cially coming after you’ve play of the second quarter. Dacula is that those three quarterback and they’re go- got the fastest kid in the Dacula’s option attack returning starters include ing to try and establish the state one week and you’ve will present a very differquarterback Shayne Buck- run game.” got one of the top cornerent look for Central this ingham and All-County Dacula’s defense will backs in the southeast the week. The Falcons return tailback Tre McMillan. also have its hands full next week. That’s Gwinnett just three offensive startThe 6-foot-4, 220-pound with Central. Last week County football. I know ers, but a handful of guys Buckingham is a load to Kentucky commit Jarren Dacula’s defense is going were forced into action last bring down, while McMil- Williams threw for 301 to be what they always are. season due to injuries. lan ran for 902 yards and yards and three touchThey’re going to be tough, “It’s going to be a lot of seven touchdowns last downs. The Black Knights they’re going to be strong, fun to look at the new faces season. may be deeper than ever they’re going to be physiand to see guys running “You’ve just got to be at receiver with Khamri cal and they’ve got the around and see how they sound, be fundamental and Thompson (eight catches skill guys in the secondary adjust to big boy football read your keys,” Wofford for 143 yards), Jallah Zeze that can cover. It’s another on Friday nights,” Dacula said of stopping the Fal(six catches for 63 yards tough Gwinnett County head coach Tommy Jones cons’ rushing attack. “We and two TDs) and KamFriday night.” paul.thomas@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Tough defenses highlight South vs. Lanier clash

By Paul Thomas

Central ready for ‘hard-nosed’ Dacula

By Paul Thomas

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017 • 5B

South Gwinnett and Lanier each had big second-half comebacks in their season openers.

Lanier was able to complete its comeback with 20 fourth-quarter points in a 33-24 win over Northview. South came up short in a 28-24 loss to Central Gwinnett.

The two schools will meet for the second time tonight at Lanier for a 7:30 p.m. start. South won last year’s matchup 17-0.

The Longhorns’ comeback was sparked by a 28-yard touchdown pass from Zach Calzada to Chris Lockett in the third quarter. Calzada threw another TD in the fourth quarter and Kevonte Polk and Larry Harper ran for a score each. Lanier’s defense also forced three turnovers with picks from Isaiah Smith and O’Darion Thompson.

“We’ve got a lot of kids that are playing on Friday nights for the first time,” Lanier head coach Korey Mobbs said. “I think we’ve got a lot of potential, but at the same time we’ve graduated a ton of kids. So the first half I think we kind of got our feet wet a little bit and then the second half our quarterback started making better decisions and we kind of sured some things up defensively.”

South climbed out of a 21-3 hole, getting to within four points twice in the second half but never getting over the hump.

Quarterback Treyvon Woodson threw two first half interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown and South was penalized 13 times for 121 yards. Head coach Steve Davenport was disappointed in dropped passes early in the game and the lack of physicality his secondary showed.

“You learn lessons the hard way, and that’s what we did on Friday,” he said.

“Fortunately for us we get an opportunity to go back and correct it immediately. We ain’t got to sit on it, and the other part of that is it’s not a region game, so we’ve got time to get better and we will. But when given the opportunity to make plays, we’ve got to make them and that was the message of Central Gwinnett and now we’ve moved on and are getting ready for Lanier.”

One unit that Davenport said didn’t leave anything on the field, was the defensive line. Clemson commit Justin Mascoll recorded a sack and forced a fumble in the first half, while Florida State commit Robert Cooper had two sacks in the second half.

Minnesota pledge Abi Okonji was disruptive as well, and defensive tackle Nick Grier had a fumble recovery. Mobbs knows that slowing down the aggressive Comets front will be the key for a young offense with an experienced

SOUTH AT LANIER

South Gwinnett Comets (8-AAAAAAA) Head coach: Steve Davenport Record: 0-1 Last week: Lost to Central Gwinnett 28-24 Lanier Longhorns (8-AAAAAA) Head coach: Korey Mobbs Record: 1-0 Last week: Defeated Northview 33-24 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Lanier High School Series history: 2016 — South 17, Lanier 0

line led by senior left tackle Collin Foster.

“I think you want them to see different looks,” he said. “I think you’ve got to do a lot early and get them to run around a little bit and hope — it’s hard with South because they play hard and they’re not necessarily a group that takes plays off. I think you’ve just got to account for them and get a body on a body, and really just challenge your guys to try to be as physical as they can and hope to have success doing that.”

South’s offense struggled to get going last week, but Woodson made some nice plays down the stretch with his arm and his legs. In the fourth quarter he connected with Minnesota commit Terell Smith for a 67-yard touchdown, to atone for a drop earlier in the game, and on the final play of the game the two connected for 59 more yards but Smith was brought down at the Central 3.

Mobbs said that his defense will have to make tackles when guys like Terell Smith and Adrian Compton get the ball out wide.

“They’ve got so many guys that make plays in space,” Mobbs said.

“Their quarterback is very effective getting the ball out quickly. They’ve got guys that can catch and go. When you’ve got speed like that, you’re going to have to have a lot of tackles that are 1-on-1 in open space. You’ve got to be sure tacklers and hope to hold on and wait for help when the time arrises, but really it’s just 1-on-1 matchups and hoping to win more of those than you less I guess.”

Davenport said that he was very impressed with what he saw from Lanier’s defense on film, singling out linebacker Kam Brown and corners Isaiah Smith and Jordan Moore.

“The front is pretty good,” he said. “That front box is pretty good and they all get to the ball aggressively. Then I think the corners kind of have enough speed to make up for some things.

The safeties dig down in the box, they’re a Cover 4 look. They tie the defense in well together. They all seem to be on the same page and they seem to be a really good unit.”

Lanier running back Tywon Reaves (4) gets gang tackled by South Gwinnett’s Justin Mascoll (7), Chabarri Thomas (26) and Allen Hersey (77) during last season’s game in Snellville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

6B • FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017

Weber •From Page 1B 12 regular-season games along the way and Weber was named coach of the year. The Cyclones won it again in 2009-10 before Weber was lured away by an AHL team.

He was 177-92-8-11 in four regular seasons and 45-23-3 in the playoffs with Cincinnati. The 44-year-old returns to the ECHL after seven seasons in the AHL, KHL and EIHL. “In the ECHL, there are a lot of factors — injuries, affiliates, players leaving for Europe,” Weber said.

“To win a championship does require some luck and health.

“But I think our (title winning) teams in Cincinnati, we had an average of 46 players wear the jersey.

So you have to be willing to make adjustments.”

Weber was the head coach of Rochester in 2010-11 and then in San Antonio for two years.

In 2013-14, the native of New York was an assistant coach and director of hockey operations for the Rampage.

The next year, he was hired by Medvescak Zabreb, a KHL team led in scoring that season by former Gladiator Pascal Pelletier. But the team played a number of the league’s premier franchises at the start of the season and the results reflected it.

“Unfortunately, in Eastern Europe, if you don’t get off to a good start, you get let go,” Weber said.

He took the opportunity to travel around for about a month before returning to the U.S. Just after Thanksgiving, about the time he was getting antsy, a team from the the U.K. called. Coventry was ninth in the 10-team EIHL when Weber took over Dec. 1.

Weber got the Blaze into a playoff spot and then ran the table. Coventry won the league championship and then made it back to the finals in Weber’s first full season.

“We turned it around,” Weber said. “It was enjoyable. My son was born over there. And it’s a lighter schedule with two games a week so you have a chance to travel, too. But I wanted to get back to North America, so when Rochester called, I jumped at it.”

The Amerks brought Weber back last season as an assistant to Dan Lambert.

When general manager Tim Murray was relieved of his duties during the offseason, Weber was part of a wholesale change.

He was exploring his options — though he could have taken the season off with Rochester still paying him — when Jeffreys called.

“The biggest thing that appealed to me was when I was getting background, I couldn’t get anyone to say a bad word about Toby,” Weber said. “He and I had some hard talks about what my expectations were and what their expectations were, just to make sure it was the right fit.”

Weber also talked to Atlanta’s most recent head coach, Andy Brandt, captain Derek Nesbitt and returning equipment manager Patrick Houlihan. He spoke with the Gladiators’ NHL affiliate in Boston, too.

“I did my due diligence before I took the job,” Weber said. “The organization wants to do things the right way and put a successful team on the ice.”

Weber’s name was one of the first to surface when Brandt put in his notice earlier this month to take an associate coaching position with St. Norbert College in his home state.

“When Andy told me, I let it sit for a day or two and then I contacted the league office,” Jeffreys said. “Through a couple of the higher-up guys at

The Atlanta Gladiators hired Chuck Weber, who won two Kelly Cups in Cincinnati, as their new head coach Thursday. (Photo: Cincinnati Cyclones)

the ECHL, they had a few candidates and once we made the announcement that Friday (Aug. 11), we started receiving resumes.

We also had other coaches call to suggest candidates and I talked to Don (Sweeney) and John (Ferguson) in Boston.”

The Gladiators never even posted the job opening. Seven of the candidates had AHL or ECHL head coaching experience.

“We had a total of about 16 candidates, which for a one-week period, I thought was pretty good,” Jeffreys said. “The key thing was within our ownership group, we knew what we wanted to go for in a head coach. Forty-five days from training camp, we wanted someone with head coaching experience who could move forward as fast as possible.”

Weber becomes the fifth coach in team history, joining Jeff Pyle (20032011), John Wroblewski (2011-13), Rick Emmett (2013-2014) and Brandt (a mid-season replacement of Emmett in December 2014 to present).

Brandt left Weber with a good base for the team with about a dozen players so far.

“Andy has done a great job building a foundation,” Weber said. “For me, it’s more looking for those high-end guys.”

Those are the players who typically don’t sign an ECHL contract until later in the summer if it becomes clear NHL or AHL offers fail to materialize.

“You have to be patient and I’m in a position where I can be a little choosy,” Weber said. “What you don’t want to have happen is when a higher-end kid calls at the end of September and you don’t have a spot for them.”

Weber is coming to Gwinnett next week to look for a place to live and talk in person with Brandt and Jeffreys.

“And probably not sleep for a few days,” Weber said with a chuckle.

He expects to be here fulltime by Sept. 12, but he’s already recruiting and working the phones.

“Fortunately, with cellphones and laptops, I can work from anywhere,” he said. “But it’s been a crazy turnaround to say the least.

“This is the most demanding job in hockey. If you’re not able to jump in with both feet, you’re going to be in trouble.”

Weber’s hiring completes a whirlwind three weeks for Jeffreys and the Gladiators. Team president Joe Gelderman resigned at the beginning of the month and Brandt announced his departure a week later.

Atlanta hired Scott Henrichsen as its new president Tuesday and locked down Weber hours later.

Jeffreys heard many of the same things about Weber as he did in researching Henrichsen with former employers.

“He’s a character guy,” Jeffreys said. “The character, the credibility, the way he runs the business side of the hockey ops, is all invaluable.”

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Getting To Know ... Richard Burnett In his first season as Greater Atlanta Christian’s varsity volleyball coach, Richard Burnett is finding himself having to learn on the fly. But while his new job seems a little different from his main area of expertise as a strength and conditioning coach, it’s not as far out of his lane as it may appear, as he explained when he chatted with staff writer David Friedlander this week. The Corpus Christi, Texas, native also shared his feelings about the pressure of having to follow in the footsteps of longtime GAC coach Kristy Shelton, as well as the remarkable story of how he came to the Norcross private school.

DF: So you grew up and went to college in Corpus Christi. What brought you to Georgia?

RB: Well, it’s a cool story. Basically, I really consider it divine intervention, and I’ll explain why.

I was at a point in my career where I was at the top of my career as a strength coach at a Division I school (at Texas A&MCorpus Christi). I didn’t make a ton of money. I made about $35,000 (per year), which is decent. My wife and I had a 1-yearold at the time, and we realized that … with her working full-time and me working and traveling with the (TAMU-CC) basketball team as much as I did that we just didn’t really have much family life. We didn’t have time (together) at all. So she was at the point to where she was ready to just stay at home and for me to find a way to compensate us without her salary.

That was a heavy burden to think about, so I just remember not really having an answer because I was already at the top of the institution I was at as head strength coach, and I was only there a year and a half.

Either I’d have to find another Division I program that pays better or beg my (athletics director for a raise). I begged my A.D. and he didn’t budge on it. So I basically started praying about it, hoping for an opportunity to come up. I didn’t share the news with anybody that I was looking (around) because I didn’t want to stir any trouble.

Three months later (in early 2016), I get a phone call indirectly from (GAC’s head strength and conditioning coach) Gary Schofield. I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t know what GAC was. I’d never even heard of the school.

Basically, two people had name dropped me for this position he created for assistant strength coach at a Christian school. I still to this day don’t know who those people are.

Richard Burnett is the new head volleyball coach at Greater Atlanta Christian. (Photo: David Friedlander)

the university I was at. I was very involved in youth groups. I think people knew that about me to the extent they were willing to say, ‘Hey, there’s this guy over here.’ But nobody knew that I was looking for a job. It was just, like, ‘Hey, ask him.’

It’s just kind of funny that the one person on planet Earth that I had told I was looking for a job was Dr. Don Melrose.

Dr. Melrose is a department chair of Kinesiology (at TAMU-CC), and he’s Gary’s friend. He knew to contact him to get ahold of me, and … he was like, ‘Hey, he might be interested.’ So Don was one of my friends and was one of my professors because I went to school there to get my masters and my undergrad (degrees).

He came to me and said, ‘Hey, Gary Schofield’s a great guy. You need to look into this job.

Just because it’s a high school, don’t give up on it.’ I initially did see it was a high school, and I was like, ‘Ah, you know I worked really hard to get where I was at in college (athletics).’ It seemed like a step backwards. But the more I looked into it and the more I chatted with Gary that night, the more I realized that this is exactly what I’ve been wanting all along — to work with youth, to work at a school like this and to get paid more. So it was a big pay raise. My wife would be able to stay home. So we pulled the trigger and decided to make it a reality. Gary invited us for an interview, and here I am.

and I basically helped him fill in the blanks with whatever performance deficiency that there was with any of his athletes that needed to be addressed, as well as basic strength and conditioning.

Fast forward to getting the job here. The two sports they really needed help with (for strength and conditioning at GAC) were volleyball and tennis.

So the first thing I know, I’m (offered another job as) assistant volleyball coach under Kristy Shelton, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.’ I’d met her at my interview. She’s an amazing person. I knew she’d been here so long.

I was basically under her wing and learned the sport as well as I could with her guidance. That was a great experience with her.

I knew she was trying to retire, but it was positive.

DF: That leads into my next question. You don’t always like to following the footsteps of someone like Kristy, who was not just the icon of the GAC volleyball program, she started it from scratch. Did that ever enter into your mind?

RB: We actually had a failed search (for a new coach). … This was (last) spring, and we had nothing. I initially said I’d take the job if I had a really good assistant, knowing that Kristy was still going to be here to help me with scheduling and working around to make sure my first year was going to be a good one. She’s still very much involved. She’s not hands on in communicating (directly with the DF: So with your main players), but she’s helping me with all the things, just area of expertise being with (my) lack of experiin strength and condition in general athletics, ence, I’d need help with.

More on the organizawhat made you decide tional side of being a head to take the head volleycoach. ball coaching job when My assistant that I was it came open? And for that matter, what is your hoping to hire actually fell through also. So here background in volleywe are, two weeks from ball?

RB: That’s a great ques- tryouts, and we’re about tion. So I’ve only had two to cancel tryouts. … And conference championships I stopped and said, ‘You know, that’s so unfair (as an S&C coach) in my time at A&M-Corpus, and to the girls. We can’t be those two sports were vol- doing that to them. They need to know the program leyball and tennis. So I’d is still very much intact DF: You just answered been the strength coach for the volleyball program and be excited about going my next question. You forward. So I decided to don’t have any idea who the last four years. With tennis, the same thing. … not only keep tryouts — I mentioned you to Gary think we pushed (the date) With volleyball, we won Schofield? back a week — but that … our first-ever conference RB: I still don’t know.

God was going to provide He got to the point where championship in (proa solid assistant for me. gram) history. In tennis, he had 42 applicants for I love doing the team we’d won three. So to be his position. He didn’t building. I love doing the a part of that high-level feel as comfortable with communicated. championship team gave them, not because of an What I needed was expertise issue, but he just me an affinity for the somebody who lived volsport. didn’t feel like they were leyball and knew it as a I was really involved. a great fit for the school. second nature thing.

I traveled with the teams … He’d been part of the It was summer now, school for so long that he on occasion. Also, I just and I reached out to every kind of knew exactly what really learned the sport club (program) in metro he wanted as a fit for him because i was exposed to Atlanta. I’m knocking on it so much and because I and the school. I was a was around it. Me and the every door. How can we Fellowship of Christian get the right assistant? head coach were close, Athletes huddle leader at

Unfortunately at the time, so many club coaches were taken up (by other schools) because it’s late in the game already.

So there was one more chance. This is another miraculous thing. A parent of a new GAC student — a seventh-grader whose parents we’d heard were volleyball coaches. So I knew it was a long shot, but it was Kristy’s idea. So we reached out.

That same day that I reached out to Stacy Bakarich, she was like, ‘My husband (Derek) will do it. He’ll come in and help you, and he wants to.’ He actually showed up to our practice that night.

He’s 47. He coached at Northview (seven) years ago and took them to the state (Final Four) two years in a row. He kind of helped that program out of a similar situation with their head coach departing. That team had only one senior. This team only has one senior. A lot of parallels here. He’s exactly who we needed to fill whatever voids there were.

My mindset went from, ‘OK, first-year head coach trying not to mess things up and give these girls what they deserve’ to ‘Now, I think we can win a state championship.’

We’re all feeling confident about it going forward.

So as far as filling Kristy’s shoes, going back to your original question, with her sanctioning and support and with the mission of our school and the mission of the program staying intact, it’s just a new team and a principled program. We’re not really deviating from the mission that has been well-established as far as reflecting Christ and serving the school and serving each other. We’re just trying to win some volleyball matches now.

DF: So are you still doing some strength and conditioning coaching?

RB: Yeah, I’m busy. I get here 5:30 in the morning, just like Gary does.

We set up for our first class at 6:30 and then I run five classes a day. He runs seven classes a day, as well as after-school programs. I don’t do the speed and agility stuff.

Gary does that. Then I go to volleyball practices and matches. So I’m cranking out emails all day and all that stuff. But it’s all really a joy. None of it seems really burdensome. I love this team. I love Derek.

It’s all fun.

DF: I guess one of the benefits of your experience in strength and conditioning coaching is that you should have one of the best-conditioned teams in the state. You’re not going to see your team run out of gas often.

RB: Absolutely, and I know have much of a factor that (often) is. We train hard. We practice hard.

We really accomplish that in our practice time. Only a few of our girls take the (physical training) classes that we offer. A lot of it is because of the academic load and the schedule. But the girls who really need it are already in the class and it’s already paid off for them.

To be able to connect the dots for them and for them to see the value of conditioning in the sport and see it pay off for them is pretty rewarding.

FANS CHOICE FALL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Terrica Williams School: Archer Sport: Softball Class: Senior Highlights: In four games, hit .786 with an .812 on-base percentage, four home runs (one

grand slam), 12 RBIs and two doubles Coach Eric Stoker’s take: “Terrica had a great first week. Terrica is a four-year starter. She is committed to play at Southern Mississippi. We look for her to anchor our offense this year.

She’s a great third baseman who we rely on.”

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017 • 7B

Duluth volleyball on fast track to success with hot start tournament berth and a silver bracket championship in the Gwinnett County tournament in Boes’ first When Allison Boes first season a year ago. took the head volleyball “Our goals this year is coaching job at Duluth first to make it to the state High School prior to the playoffs (again), and then 2016 season, her first goal we want to try to win our was to help establish a new first (round game),” Boes winning culture for a prosaid bluntly. “That’s the gram that hadn’t enjoyed goal. But this team is a lot much success. different from last year’s At the time, she took a team. We spent a lot of patient, “Rome wasn’t built time last year working on in a day” attitude. team building and culture But two years into the changing. So this year, it job, Boes’ initial plan wasn’t as tough at the very seems to be on a faster beginning of the season to track than even she imagreally build that.” ined, with the Wildcats Aside from their speed, standing at 9-2 following what makes the program’s a split with Dacula and accomplishments over the Parkview in a tri-meet last calendar year even Tuesday at Dacula. more impressive is that And that quick start they’ve come from a group comes on the heels of a of players that has worked 23-16 record that included hard to overcome their a Class AAAAAAA state limitations — most notably

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their lack of height along the front row.

“Our team has really worked hard on (a) small girls game this year,” Boes said. “We’ve got a couple girls who are decently tall, but we’ve spent a lot of time on serving, serve receive and passing. That’s helped us a lot over the season.”

Standing roughly 5-foot7, senior outside hitter Taylor Hentz is one of the hitters, along with fellow senior Serena Farmer in the middle. They are charged with dealing with taller, and often stronger, opponents at the net.

The key to doing so, according to Hentz, is simply not to get to caught up in matching an opponents’ power.

“My job is just to try to play smarter and put the ball where nobody else is,” Hentz said. “It’s about strat-

egy when your team is short and everybody else is tall.

It’s about strategy. We have to be more controlled with that than anything else.”

Meanwhile, the other key that Boes mentioned — the back row play that carries the burden in serve receive, passing and setting — has fallen to other experienced players like juniors Carter Drake at libero and Meredith Eckard at setter.

Both agree that was what helped them, and other teammates in similar roles, transition from defense to offense in critical situations comes down to experience, and not just in high school volleyball.

Another of the initial goals Boes set when she took over the Duluth program just over a year ago was to get more of the players in the program involved in high-level club

volleyball.

It was a process that was already beginning before Boes took over as coach, and both Drake and Eckard credit playing on a high level year-round with having helped the Wildcats take their game to a likewise higher level.

“It’s helped so much,” said Eckard, who is also teammates with Drake and Hentz with the Atlanta Extreme club program.

“The workouts we did after school helped a little bit, but when everyone got involved in club, … everyone got so much better. Everyone was hungry to get better because they tasted (success).

“We’re all more disciplined (on the court). We know how to play now.

You don’t have to teach anyone how to pass or how to hit. We got the training

somewhere else, and it’s easier to apply it here.”

With the wins and the added skill level has come more confidence and more importantly, more respect from opponents, something Drake says the Wildcats are determined to continue into the rest of the 2017 season and beyond.

“We’re definitely getting more confident,” Drake said. “Before the start (of the season) in June, we wanted to build (the team’s) confidence. … (Opponents) always thought of us as, ‘Oh, it’s (only) Duluth.’ But now our record is (better), and we want to keep it that way. Now they see us (as more a challenge).

“I want to be better and keep that (momentum) and keep building progress and take it even further than we did last year.”

Four promising rookies changing Buford gets revenge on Bulldogs Gwinnett’s NFL running back luck PREP ROUNDUP

From Staff Reports

A total of 26 Gwinnett products were in NFL training camps last August. Not one was a running back.

Far from a one-time occurrence, it has been the local trend for years — the county funnels football talent to the professional ranks, but rarely turns out impact players at the running back position.

Thanks to a promising group of rookies, that’s about to change.

Norcross grad Alvin Kamara (third round), Grayson’s Wayne Gallman (fourth round), Parkview’s Chris Carson (seventh round) and Dacula’s Alex Armah (sixth round) all were selected in this year’s NFL Draft, and all four are in good positions to make final rosters halfway through the preseason schedule.

Armah is a fullback, but the other three will make their contributions as ball carriers, in addition to being potent receivers out of the backfield.

Kamara may force his way onto the field in the regular season despite being on a roster with 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and newly signed Adrian Peterson, one of the game’s all-time greats alongside him at running back. Ingram and Peterson haven’t played in the New Orleans Saints’ first two preseason games, leaving Kamara a chance to show his skills off.

The 5-foot-10, 215-pounder hasn’t disappointed. He had four carries for 35 yards in the preseason opener, and followed that up with five rushes for 61 yards in Game 2. He had an impressive 50-yard TD run in his second game, and also turned a short catch into a 22-yard gain. His pass-catching ability, a strength dating back to his Norcross days, is why the Saints envision the former Tennessee standout in the receiving playmaker role manned by guys like Reggie Bush and Darren Sproles in the past.

Carson also was a threat catching the ball as a high-schooler, and that

Will Hammock hasn’t changed. But he also has bulked up greatly since his Parkview days, carrying 218 pounds on a 6-foot frame. He’s now a powerful runner between the tackles.

The Oklahoma State product got first-team reps in the Seattle Seahawks’ last game, carving out a spot in a crowded backfield. He has 13 carries for 46 yards and two catches for 20 yards in the two preseason games, and also has a pair of TD runs. He also showed his value as a special-teamer, forcing a fumble on a kickoff already.

Gallman, fresh off winning a national title with Clemson, figures prominently in the New York Giants backfield. He has looked good in the preseason with 10 rushes for 43 yards and three receptions for 24 yards.

Those three feature backs have bright futures in the NFL, but so does Armah, a Carolina Panthers rookie. The 6-foot-2, 255-pounder is a physical blocker who also has a 20-yard TD catch in the preseason. We know him more as a defensive player, but a shift to offense as a senior at West Georgia had NFL teams after him as a fullback.

His defensive background also adds to his promise on special teams.

It’s exciting just to see all four of those guys in training camp and in the preseason, but it will be even better having them on rosters in the regular season. Expect them to stay there for years, too, ending Gwinnett’s typical NFL fortune at the running back spot.

Will Hammock can be reached via email at will. hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com.

New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara (41), a Norcross grad, rushes during a preseason game Aug. 20 in Carson, Calif. (Photo: Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

SUWANEE — After falling to North Gwinnett on Tuesday night, Buford returned the favor on Thursday with a 5-3 win over the Bulldogs in a nonregion game.

The win went to Ansleigh Hollifield (3-0), who pitched five innings with three runs (one earned) on six hits with two strikeouts.

Logan Caymol followed with two perfect innings of relief for the save, striking out three.

Arielle Oda led off the game with an inside-thepark home run and finished the game 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run for Buford (10-2). Janelle Mathis also went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI, while Kelsey Bennett added a solo home run in the top of the seventh.

Chandler Dennis allowed nine hits and struck out seven in seven innings in taking the loss for North (5-3) while delivering two hits at the plate.

Erin Wilbur also had an RBI double for North with Lauren Prescott and Brooke Lougher each adding a hit and an RBI. Allison Roach and Emily Brown also each had a single for North.

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Mountain View 8, Duluth 0 LAWRENCEVILLE — Mountain View won its Region 6-AAAAAAA opener Thursday night with an 8-0 shutout at home over Duluth in six innings.

Sarah Currie started and went four innings to record the win for the Bears (4-7, 1-0), giving up just one hit and no walks with six strikeouts. Ashlyn Porter delivered two perfect innings of relief with one strikeout.

Currie supported herself at the plate, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Hailey Cronic added a 2-for-4 day with two runs and an RBI, while Leah Coker had a two-run triple.

Samira Simmons had the hit for Duluth.

Archer 11, Shiloh 4 LAWRENCEVILLE — Madison Abell of Archer struck out eight Generals on Thursday night as the Tigers topped Shiloh 11-4 in Region 8-AAAAAAA play.

Kayleigh Moore had two hits and three RBIs for Archer (5-2,

2-0) with Faith Barth adding three hits with a double and two runs. Mackenzie Martin also finished with two hits and two runs.

Grayson 11, Newton Co. 2 LOGANVILLE — Grayson improved to 6-2 overall and 2-0 in Region 8-AAAAAAA with an 11-2 win in five innings at home over Newton County on Thursday night.

Grayson was led by Conner Batchelor (6-0), who went five innings for the win, allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts.

Batchelor also led the offense with three hits and five RBIs. Madelyn Goodman and Kayla Grace Lang each had two hits with Gracie Wyatt driving in a run with a triple.

Brookwood 6, Norcross 0 NORCROSS — Brookwood stayed unbeaten in Region 7-AAAAAAA with a 6-0 shutout at Norcross on Thursday night.

Kelsey Parks struck out 13 and went the distance to improve her mark to 5-1, scattering five hits and walking none.

The offense for the Broncos (6-3, 2-0) was led by Danielle Taite, who finished 3-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBIs. Anna Dover also went 3-for-4 with Morgan Hall adding an RBI double.

Parkview 9, Central 0 LILBURN — Parkview’s Jahne Bowen had two hits and drove in four runs Thursday night to propel the Panthers 9-0 over Central Gwinnett in five innings.

Ashleigh Lawson added a pair of hits and two RBIs as the Panthers improved to 6-0 overall and 2-0 in Region 7-AAAAAAA. Addie Stewman was the winning pitcher, striking out four in three innings of work, while Maya Watson followed in relief with two scoreless frames.

Discovery 16, Meadowcreek 7 LAWRENCEVILLE — Discovery won its first game of the season with a 16-7 defeat of Meadowcreek at home on Thursday night.

Tyeler Prater, Maria Diaz and Emily Wright each had two RBIs for Discovery (1-4), while Shanderia Pygum added a hit and a run.

The winning pitcher was Honyst Lewis, who finished with 11 strikeouts.

Dacula 5, Habersham 3 DACULA — Dacula notched its first win in Region 8-AAAAAA with a 5-3 triumph at home over Habersham Central on Thursday night.

Sydney Boulware was the winning pitcher with a completegame effort and helped herself at the plate by going 2-for-3 with an RBI. Dacula (4-4, 1-1) also received an RBI from Mary Beth Lord,

Walk leads Bulls past G-Braves From Staff Reports

a three-run inning and gave the Bulls a 2-1 lead.

DURHAM, N.C. — Later in the inning, Patrick Jake Bauers drew a bases- Leonard drew a basesloaded walk in the eighth loaded walk, scoring Justin inning, leading the Durham O’Conner.

Bulls to a 3-2 win over In the top of the ninth, the Gwinnett Braves on Gwinnett cut into the lead Thursday. on a double by Kade ScivDiego Castillo allowed icque that scored Micah a run, but struck Ronald Johnson.

Acuna out with a runner Jaime Schultz (1-0) on second to end the game got the win with a scorefor his sixth save of the less inning in relief, while season.

Enrique Burgos (0-1) took The walk by Bauthe loss in the International ers came in the midst of League game.

who finished 2-for-3, while Jin Fileo had a hit and drove in a run.

Other offensive contributors were Elsie Igberaese (3-for-4 with a double) and Jeah Williams (2-for-4).

Winder-Barrow 9, Lanier 6 WINDER — Winder-Barrow outlasted Lanier 9-6 on Thursday night in a Region 8-AAAAAA battle.

Payton Franklin led Lanier (3-3, 1-1) with a 4-for-4 night, including two doubles, an RBI and one run. Maygan Loparo also went 3-for-4 with a run, while Makenzie Wismer was 2-for-3 with a run.

Ashley King added a 2-for-4 game with a run and two RBIs for Lanier.

GAC 10, Fannin Co. 3 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian won its first game in Region 7-AAA with a 10-3 victory at home over Fannin County on Thursday night.

Amanda Briskin sparked the offense for GAC (2-4, 1-3), going 3-for-4 with two RBIs, while Maddie Marchiando went 4-for5. Tatum Lowe also went 2-for-4, while Faith Vento was the winning pitcher.

Wesleyan 18, Landmark 0 FAIRBURN — Wesleyan needed just four innings to dispose of Landmark Christian on Thursday night, blanking the War Eagles 18-0 in Region 5-A play.

Madison Kerpics pitched three hitless innings with six strikeouts for the win, while Jennifer Nolan surrendered one hit in one scoreless relief inning.

Ann Margaret Jones went 3-for-4 and had two RBIs to lead the offense for Wesleyan (7-2, 1-0), while Nicole Azar had a hit and an RBI. Elizabeth Bertram and Emma Nydam also each went 2-for-3.

Commerce 14, Providence 1 COMMERCE — Commerce defeated Providence 14-1 on Thursday night in a Region 8-A game.

Liberty Schultz and Sydney Flood each had a hit for Providence (0-9, 0-3), while Claire Owens had an RBI.

VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL Brookwood wins twice SUWANEE — Brookwood stretched its record to 9-4 with a pair of wins on the road Thursday night, beating Flowery Branch in three sets 25-18, 21-25, 25-23 and sweeping host Collins Hill 25-19, 25-21.

Lauryn Tillman had 13 assists in the Collins Hill match, with Olivia Laplume recording 13 digs.

Cydney Garnder also had 10 digs and seven kills, with Sophia Koop getting eight kills.

Tillman added 18 assists and seven kills in the match against Flowery Branch. Laplume tacked on 19 digs and three aces with

Hailey Bolton adding seven kills, three blocks and one ace.

Shiloh tops Titans, Knights LAWRENCEVILLE — Shiloh’s record improved to 8-5 on Thursday night with sweeps over Discovery (25-15, 25-23) and Central Gwinnett (25-14, 25-10).

Stephanie Burke led the Generals in the win over Discovery with three aces, three kills, five assists, four digs and one block.

Keliz Hunt helped with four solo blocks, three assisted blocks, two kills and one ace, with Faith Collector adding 16 digs, seven kills and an ace.

Burke was also solid in the match against Central, recording nine assists, four aces, three digs, two blocks and two kills.

Collector chipped in with seven kills, five digs, one assist and one ace, while Deborah Head had four aces, three assists, three digs and two kills.

Hawks down South Forsyth HOSCHTON — Emily Walter of Mill Creek dished out 43 assists on Thursday night to guide the Hawks past South Forsyth in a three-set sweep 25-22, 25-20, 25-16.

Rebekah Machovec and Rachel Machovec each led the Hawks (10-1) up front with 17 kills, while Natalie Boyd led the defense with 16 digs.

Grayson splits LAWRENCEVILLE — Grayson ended its night 1-1 on Thursday, defeating Providence in three sets 25-13, 25-27, 25-19 but falling in two sets to host Mountain View 25-23, 25-16.

Kennedy Jackson ended the night with 10 kills and eight blocks, while Courtney Presley delivered 18 kills. Lauren Wyton also served eight aces for Grayson (7-4).

Providence (8-10) ended its night with a 25-22, 25-16 loss to Mountain View. Alex Gonzalez led the Storm by going 9-for-9 on defense and dishing 13 assists.

North gets two wins SUWANEE — North Gwinnett picked up a pair of wins Thursday night, sweeping North Forsyth 25-23, 25-21 and Cambridge 25-19, 25-20.

Alexa Fortin had 40 assists for North (10-3), feeding Caitlin O’Farrell for 15 kills, Lizzy Packer for 14 kills and Autumn Hamilton for 13 kills. Packer also had 10 digs.

Hebron records sweeps LILBURN — Hebron’s record improved to 13-3 on Thursday night on the strength of three sweeps against Archer 25-12, 25-6, North Oconee 25-16, 2520 and Parkview 25-14, 25-20.

Abbi Luke directed the offense with 87 assists, while Hayden McGee led the team in hitting with 28 kills. Rahela Olariu was the top server with 15 aces.

— Compiled by Scott Smith

Parkview’s Corsello, Dacula’s English named runners of week From Staff Reports Parkview’s Christian Corsello and Dacula’s Skylar English have been named Gwinnett runners of the week by the county’s cross country coaches.

Both runners were selected based on their performances at last weekend’s Stage Races in Duluth.

Corsello had the third-fastest time overall and was runner-up in the top stage, while English had the girls’ fastest time of the day with a victory in the top stage.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017 CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The City of Peachtree Corners is seeking a qualified contractor for the construction of a partial multi-lane roundabout, splitter islands, and multi-use trail facilities on Peachtree Corners Circle at the existing intersection with Medlock Bridge Road.

As a first step in this process, the City is issuing an Invitation to Bid to identify qualified contractors. Bids are to be submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to: The City of Peachtree Corners 147 Technology Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 Attn: James Nguyen, Transportation Engineer Bidders shall provide one (1) original and one (1) copy of the Bid. Bids must be submitted no later than 10:00 a.m. September 1, 2017.

Any and all Bids received without the criteria outlined in the official bid document will be returned to the Bidder.

Any Bids received after the aforementioned deadline will be marked late and will not be opened. No extension of the bidding time will be made.

Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 10:00 a.m. on September 1, 2017 in the Training Room of the Peachtree Corners City Hall.

Interested parties may obtain a set of project plans, and specifications, and bid documents from the office of LDI Norcross, upon payment.

LDI Norcross 3030 Business Park Drive, Suite A Norcross, GA 30071 Phone 770-263-1010 Email: norcross@ldireproprinting.com Bidders are asked to register an email address with the City’s Engineer by contacting Steve Bitney at POND via email, bitneys@ pondco.com. Requests for Interpretation (RFI) and other general questions regarding this announcement, the plan set, specifications, or the bid document shall be made in writing to Steve Bitney at POND via email, bitneys@ pondco.com, no later than 4:00 p.m., August 18, 2017.

Questions via phone calls will not be accepted.

The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities or informalities in any of the bids.

Each qualification bid shall be submitted only on the prescribed forms included with the Bid Document.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF GRAYSON The City of Grayson, Georgia is soliciting competitive sealed proposals from qualified solid waste and recycling providers to provide residential refuse, solid waste, recycling, yard waste and white goods collection services. Proposals will be accepted for the following collection services: (1) Residential refuse pickup (including recycling, yard waste or trimmings and white goods collection at no additional charge), (2) Residential refuse pickup excluding recycling (including yard waste or trimmings and white goods collection at no additional charge), and (3) Residential recycling only. A proposer may submit a sealed proposal for any single service or any combination of services.

Sealed proposals will be received by the City Administrator for the City of Grayson, 475 Grayson Parkway, Grayson, Georgia 30017 until 10:30 a.m. on Friday, September 15, 2017. Proposals will be publicly opened at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 15, 2017 at the Grayson City Hall. Any proposal received after 10:30 a.m. on Friday, September 15, 2017 will not be accepted.

The proposal must be in a sealed envelope and marked “Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Service� and contain the name of the proposer and the date and time of the bid opening.

The services to be provided under this proposal and the resulting contract include the furnishing of solid waste containers, recycling containers, and collection of residential solid waste, recyclables, yard trimmings and white goods on a specific day each week, 52 weeks per year and other necessary items and services related to residential refuse collection. Any special conditions applicable to the requested services are contained in the proposal packet. All services performed and materials provided must be performed and provided in accordance with all state, county and city standards. Proposal information and packets are available from the City Administrator of the City of Grayson at 475 Grayson Parkway, Grayson, Georgia 30017, and may be obtained beginning Wednesday, August 23, 2017. Proposal packets may be picked up between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Proposers are required to submit a proposal bond or a certified check made payable to the City of Grayson in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). The proposal bond or certified check must be enclosed in the envelope with the sealed proposal. The successful proposer(s) will be required to furnish a contract performance bond in the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).

The City of Grayson will award the contract to either a single qualified proposer or a qualified recycling proposer and a qualified refuse proposer subject to the City’s right to reject any and all proposals, to waive technicalities, irregularities and/ o

or informalities and to make an award deemed in the best interest of the citizens of Grayson. Price shall not be the sole consideration in awarding the contract.

Mayor and Council City of Grayson 902-504699, 8/25,9/1

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE August 21, 2017 Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Bo Young Kim has applied for a license to sell beer by the drink at Chicken Run, located at 1325 Buford Hwy Ste 100, Buford, GA 30518. The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until 8/31/17, at which time the City Manager will determine whether to issue the requested license.

This 24th day of August 2017 City of Buford, Ga A Ga. Municipal Corp.

904-504677, 8/25,9/1

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE To: RESIDENT/TENANT/OCCUPANT GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA C/O COMMISSION CHAIRMAN STATE OF GEORGIA C/O NATHAN DEAL, GOVERNOR CITY OF SNELLVILLE, GEORGIA C/O ITS MAYOR JEFFREY TROY FLOWERS Take Notice That: The right to redeem the following described property to wit: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in District 6 Land Lot 36 known as 2940 SPRING RIDGE CIR and parcel R6036 156 per records of Gwinnett County and plat maps of the County Tax Assessor’s Office, subject to restrictions on record with the Clerk of Superior Court, Gwinnett County, Georgia, and excluding rights of way and easements. The property is more particularly described in the Gwinnett County deed records at Deed Book 51867, Page 881. Plat and deed are a part hereof. will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after September 25, 2017.

The tax deed to which this notice relates is dated July 5, 2016, and is recorded in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia in Deed Book 54464 at Page 396.

The property may be redeemed at any time before September 25, 2017, by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address: Deed Co, LLC 1266 West Paces Ferry Road #517 Atlanta, GA 30327 Please be governed accordingly.

928-503426, 8/18,25,9/1,8 NOTICE To: RESIDENT/TENANT/OCCUPANT STATE OF GEORGIA C/O NATHAN DEAL, GOVERNOR GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA C/O COMMISSION CHAIRMAN CITY OF LOGANVILLE, GA C/O ITS MAYOR TAYLOR BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP TAYLOR BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP C/O C T CORPORATION SYSTEM, RA JUDY ROSEBERRY Take Notice That: The right to redeem the following described property to wit: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in District 5 Land Lot 558 known as 3150 SPINCASTER WAY and parcel R5228 065 per records of Gwinnett County and plat maps of the County Tax Assessor’s Office, subject to restrictions on record with the Clerk of Superior Court, Gwinnett County, Georgia, and excluding rights of way and easements. The property is more particularly described in the Gwinnett County deed records at Deed Book 26654, Page 209. Plat and deed are a part hereof. will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after September 25, 2017.

The tax deed to which this notice relates is dated July 5, 2016, and is recorded in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia in Deed Book 54464 at Page 390.

The property may be redeemed at any time before September 25, 2017, by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address: Deed Co, LLC 1266 West Paces Ferry Road #517 Atlanta, GA 30327 Please be governed accordingly.

928-503425, 8/18,25,9/1,8 NOTICE To all persons claiming an interest in 1979 20’ Cobalt FGE9B261M779J Roberto Reyes, apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803) 734-3858. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title.

Case no. 20170621950446 928-504678, 8/25,27,30 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE/ AUCTION A public sale the following cars: 2002 LAND ROVER 4S – VIN: SALPM16482A465263 2004 LAND ROVER MP – VIN: SALMF11404A144373 Will be conducted on SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 AT 2: 00pm Location: 727 W PEACHTREE ST | NORCROSS, GEORGIA 30071 Lienholder reserves the right to refuse the final bid.

The vehicle will be sold to the highest bidder NOTTCE OF PLBLTC SALE/ A

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AUCTION Pursant to OCGA Section 40-I 1 -6, notice is hereby given that the following motor vehicle will be sold to the highest and best bidder AT 727 W PEACHTREE ST | NORCROSS, GEORGIA 30071 Date: 09/01/2017 Time: 2:00pm 2002 LAND ROVER 4S – VIN: SALPM16482A465263 2004 LAND ROVER MP – VIN: SALMF11404A144373 Court orders obtained on May 9, 2017 928-504109, 8/25,9/1

150, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046. Interested persons may call BOB WHELCHEL PE, STORM/WATER/SEWER PLAN REVIEW SECTION at 678-518-6185. For additional information from SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 to SEPTEMBER 15, 2017.

928-504253, 8/25

STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 2002 Cargo Craft Enclosed Trailer VIN 4D6FR12242A012209 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR WHITE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Carrington Point Apartments located at 50 Carrington Lane in Douglasville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Ford Focus VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BURNT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above vehicle was initially removed from Interstate 85 SouthBound and Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth, Georgia.

It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Dual Axle Trailer VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Woodcliff Drive and Lawrenceville Highway in Lilburn, Georgia.

It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 1994 Kawasaki KX250 Dirtbike VIN JKAKXMK13RA002666 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR GREEN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above dirtbike was initially removed from 2295 Oakland Chase Court in Lawrenceville, Ga. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The dirtbike is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-505165, 8/25,9/1 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 8/15/17 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

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

The Vehicle was impounded from 3400 Winterset Pkwy, Marietta, Ga. On 06/14/17, at the request of the property owner or manager.

Yamaha Wave Runner VIN# YAML6041A494 TAG# AL5992FC AL 928-504131, 8/18,25 NOTICE The UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, hereby gives notice of UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY’S intent to revise the flood hazard information, generally located between LAWRENCEVILLE HIGHWAY/SWEETWATER CREEK BRIDGE AND APPROXIMATELY 2500’ UPSTREAM OF SAID BRIDGE. Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along SWEETWATER CREEK from a point approximately AT THE WEST SIDE OF THE SWEETWATER CREEK/ LAWRENCEVILLE HIGHWAY BRIDGE to a point approximately 2500 FEET UPSTREAM OR WEST OF PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED BRIDGE, AND BEAVER RUIN CREEK FROM THE CONFLUENCE OF BEAVER RUIN CREEK AND SWEETWATER CREEK TO A POINT 1,780’ UPSTREAM OF CONFLUENCE. As a result of the revision, the floodway shall narrow, the 1% annual chance watersurface elevations shall increase and decrease, and the 1% annual chance floodplain shall widen and narrow within the area of revision.

Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at the DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT at 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, SUITE

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: Year; Make; Model; VIN 1 2000 Suzuki SV650 JS1VP52A3Y2102200 2 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C4FY48B54T301209 3 2000 Volvo S40 YV1VS2558YF474300 4 1999 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWSA29M9XM021778 5 1989 GMC S-15 1GTCS14Z6K2516229 6 2011 Toyota Camry 4T1BF3EK0BU132136 7 1997 Audi A6 WAUJC84A2VN033862 8 2004 Chrysler Pacifica 2C8GF68464R179193 9 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer JA3AJ26E92U022461 10 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C4FY58B25T640243 11 1995 Honda Odyssey JHMRA1876SC026310 12 2003 Cadillac deVille 1G6KD54YX3U184986 13 1992 Buick Roadmaster 1G4BN5376NR464926 14 2006 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEU46FX6H038828 15 2001 GMC Sierra 1500 2GTEK19V911379431 16 1987 BMW 325i WBABB2308H1940172 17 1996 Ford Explorer 1FMDU32X5TZA27336 18 2010 Nissan Altima 1N4AL2EP8AC195154 19 2002 Toyota Celica JTDDR32T320137243 20 2005 Jeep Liberty 1J4GK58K25W600139 21 1998 Kia Sportage KNDJB7238W5552162 22 2005 Chrysler Town and Country 2C8GP64L35R197422 23 1998 Honda Civic 1HGEJ7122WL034378 24 2003 Suzuki XL7 JS3TY92VX34102259 25 2000 Ford Ranger 1FTYR14V0YPA26461 26 2000 Infiniti I30 JNKCA31A2YT103965 27 1998 Chevrolet C1500 2GCEC19R9W1100941 28 1998 Nissan Altima 1N4DL01DXWC121853 29 2002 Oldsmobile Alero 1G3NL52F02C253901 30 1998 Chevrolet Astro Van 1GCDM19W1WB156368 31 1984 Chevrolet S-10 1GCBS14B5E8245101 32 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD5655TA160618 33 1998 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K0WU224168 34 2003 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46G43E183047 35 2003 Ford Expedition 1FMFU17L93LB39496 36 2000 Yamaha Motor Corp.

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YZF-R6 JYARJ04E2YA010542 37 1993 Toyota Camry 4T1SK12E4PU226008 38 2005 Ford Focus 1FAFP34N95W149062 39 2001 Oldsmobile Alero 1G3NL52T51C200812 40 2001 Honda Civic 2HGES16511H532638 41 1993 Chevy Lumina 2G1WN54T4P9112449 42 1998 Honda CR-V JHLRD1745WC045987 43 1999 Honda Civic 1HGEJ8647XL049203 929-502292, 8/11,18,25

THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON SEPTEMBER 02, 2017. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 505 BUFORD DR STE F, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30045 (Yr/Make) 2008 HONDA ACCORD VIN# 1HGCP26708A109025 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 8-24-2017.

929-504876, 8/25,9/1

MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, AUGUST 26TH 2017@ 1:00PM 2001 BMW 330i WBAAV53431FJ66218 2002 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WH55K829332893 2007 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZT58N67F283466 1999 Chevrolet Express 1GCGG25R9X1093618 2000 Chevrolet Suburban 3GNFK16TXYG167069 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3A8FY48B88T130390 2005 Chrysler 300 2C3JA43R75H122297 2004 Dodge Durango 1D4HD38N44F194451 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 1D7HA16N54J227800 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan 2D8GP44L26R679789 2005 Ford Focus 1FAFP34N95W312504 2005 Ford Taurus 1FAFP53UX5A273617 2002 Ford Mustang 1FAFP40462F173754 2002 GMC Sonoma 1GTCS19W328118181 2004 Honda Accord 3HGCM56324G702162 2002 Honda Accord 1HGCG56762A022514 2002 Honda Accord 1HGCF86622A105899 1999 Honda Prelude JHMBB6149XC007799 2003 Jaguar X Type SAJEA51D93XD25702 2001 Jaguar S Type SAJDA01P21GM18998 1999 Lexus RX 300 JT6GF10U9X0037099 2004 Lincoln Aviator 5LMEU68H44ZJ28209 2002 Mazda B3000 4F4YR16UX2TM01671 2001 Mercedes Benz CLK430 WDBLJ70G21F187531 2002 Mitsubishi Diamante 6MMAP87PX2T021463 2005 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AB46F45E044236 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder 4A3AE55H94E046336 2004 Saab 9-3 YS3FB49S841053442 2006 Saturn ION 1G8AJ55F16Z117449 2006 Suzuki Aerio JS2RC62H265351885 2006 Suzuki Forenza KL5JD56ZX6K443898 2001 Toyota Avalon 4T1BF28B51U130595 2004 Volvo C70 YV1NC62D04J041268 929-504112, 8/18,25 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #6929, 5985 South Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross, GA 30093, to satisfy a lien 09/14/2017 at approx. 2:00 PM.at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Rita Coger C079 Ginger Meadows A048 Edgar Sanchez Garcia B013 Warrenette Ward B037 Deyvi Rosique-Osegueda B082 Estefanny I. Torres C051 Santiago Andino C053 Courtnei Kasey C055 Moises M Mendez E0014 929-503604, 8/18,25 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 3766 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 to satisfy a lien on September 14, 2017 at approx. 2:00 pm at www. storagetreasures.com] Name Unit # General Description of Property Steven Michael Gregory 191 Household Items Adrienna Anderson 379 Household Items Angela Snipes 120 Household Items Antonia Joseph Colina Jr. 375 Household Items Robert H. Citronberg 370 Household Items Oloyo Odwori 3 8 1 Household Items Kaya Mason 3 5 4 Household Items Gina Lanis 4 5 1 Household Items Paul Williams Jr 375 Household Items 929-504911, 8/25,9/1

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 3568 B BUFORD HWY STE 104, DULUTH, GA 30096 (Yr/Make) 1992 GMC RALLY WAGON VIN# 2GKEG25C5N4526994 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 8-24-2017.

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ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 02 SEPTEMBRE 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com 2014 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEB4AC9EH849442 2006 Ford F-150 1FTPX12V46FB75818 2009 Lincoln Town Car 2LNHM84V29X600315 1998 Ford Explorer 1FMZU32X1WZA54575 2002 Lexus IS 300 JTHBD192920059234 2000 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E9YZ407568 2001 Honda Accord 1HGCG665X1A101252 *** REBUILT *** 2001 Honda Accord 1HGCG16501A063789 2004 GMC Envoy 1GKDS13SX42185770 2003 Infiniti I35 JNKDA31A33T106998 2006 Mercury Grand Marquis 2MEFM74V86X651317 2000 Buick Lesabre 1G4HP54K0Y4103006 2006 BMW 325i WBAVB135X6KX51968 Marquis Caribbean Boat MRJ56364M8 Boat Trailer NO VIN 1997 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K9VU796290 1988 Ford Ranger 1FTBR10A5JUC77329 2007 Dodge Magnum 2D4FV47V87H744183 2005 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL46X15N504979 1997 Toyota Camry JT2BF22KXV0005790 2004 Cadillac CTS 1G6DM577440126392 2008 Nissan Altima 1N4AL21E68C239733 *** REBUILT *** 1990 Dodge Ram Van 2B6HB21Y2LK769071 1999 Honda Civic 2HGEJ6616XH527361 *** REBUILT *** 2004 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62K64UA85840

NOTICE The following rooms will be sold at the public auction starting at 3653 Memorial Dr Decatur Ga, 30032. The auction will be held at 8:30a.m. on Sept 5, 2017 3653 Memorial Dr Decatur Ga, 30032 776028 STELLA FALCONER AA0738T 776028 Travis Walker 1670 776028 MATTHEW STONE AA0812T 776028 STELLA FALCONER AA0819T 776028 MATTHEW STONE AA0874T 776028 NATHANIEL RAY 1675 776028 FRED DYER AA0825T 776028 Deja Lomax 1460 776028 STELLA FALCONER AA0858T 2951 NE Expressway Chamblee Ga, 30341 776058 GAYLA WILLIAMS 1105 776058 SHELLI WESSON 1112 776058 Hashima Rose 1801 776058 KELLY HUGHES 1719 776058 CYNTASHA JONES 2313 776058 SELENA SIPLIN 2101 776058 APRIL ASHE 2515 776058 DILLON MOSES 1809 776058 KEVIN FORD 1723 776058 Kenneth McClam 2414 776058 ALCIDES RIVERA 1827 776058 Shamika Harris 2113 2885 Clairmont Rd Ne Atl Ga, 30329 776034 BRITTNEY WILLIS A392 776034 CURTIS FAIRBANKS F010 776034 thomas rowland A362 776034 Judy BrownLee A315 776034

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS JAMIE HARRIS B121 776034 TOMMIE TOLIVAR B367 776034 JAFAR IBRAHIM ALI B320 776034 ALICIA MING A336 776034 michael alford B309 776034 Jason Smith B255 2175 Piedmont Rd Ne Atl Ga, 30324 776035 keith gaines A776 776035 KAMEL SHERROD A026 776035 christopher jackson A316 776035 CHARLES IRVING B402 776035 HARRIET WILSON A365 776035 samuel smith B409 776035 Anya Jenkins A598 776035 DAVID ALBERT C001 776035 Lether Rhodes A514 776035 Alisa Ashouri A345 776035 Tim WIlliams A790 300 Peters St Sw Atl Ga, 30313 776053 WESLEY GOGGINS 4410 776053 Shirley Woodward 1001 776053 ANITRIC THOMAS 4709 776053 PATRICIA BANKS 4517-19 776053 jill cartwright 3183 776053 Dominique Samuel 1906 776053 JANNA BROWN 4100 776053 shronda hall 6652 776053 robert bailey 2215 776053 WILLIAMS ADLER 1406 776053 ERROLL MARSHALL 3268 2866 Forrest Hills Dr Sw Atl Ga, 30315 776060 bridgett hull 0194 776060 WILLIAM STUBBLEFIELD 1054 776060 ERICKA ARMSTRONG 3098 776060 MICHELLE FAVORS 3045 776060 KEEONNA WESTBROOK AA0065J 776060 Miranda Perkins 3060 776060

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 360 CAFE 3118 776060 ROBERT TANNER 0105 776060 ALBERT REMLER 0233 776060 Quantavious Zachary 0167 776060 patrick holmes AA4454C 776060 roshunda bracey 1024 776060 ruth barr 3178 776060 Artrail Printup 1055 776060 ANGELIQUE MOTON 3230 4374 Thurman Rd Forest Park Ga, 30297 776054 URA MCRAE 1501 776054 FREDERICK WHITE 1505 776054 RICARDO WALDEN 1806 776054 Shyreeha Ibraheem 1205 776054 Raquelita Leon 1125-27 776054 SABRINA BURTON 1610 776054 chandra vaughn 1415 776054 GLORIA SYKES 2115 776054 TINA HAYES 1521 4540 Washington Rd College Park Ga, 30337 776084 AUDREANA RICHARDSON 1134 776084 Shannon Wimberly 0449 776084 Johhny Rider 0218 776084 Nicole Lyons 0614 776084 Kerrence Thomas 0915 776084 Eric Goosby 1127 776084 donnell favors 0149 776084 abram caulton 0328 776084 KESHIA REED 0172 776084 JASMINE ALLEN 0433 776084 Who 0709 Room 0709 929-505010,8/25,30

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NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 505 BUFORD DR STE F, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30045 (Yr/Make) 2005 HONDA ACCORD VIN# 1HGCM66525A005971 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 8-24-2017.

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FULL TIME ACCOUNTANT (Buford, GA) Prep asset, liability, & capital account entries in Quickbooks by compiling & analyzing account info. Prep accurate account entries from estimating, invoicing, to receipt of payments.

Create & submit pay applications, progress payments, & retainage. Handle accurate entry, verification, & coding of expenses & budget accountability/ reconciliation. Work with Quickbooks Enterprise, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook & AIA ACD5. Supervises 1 Accounting Clerk.

Send resume to: Wendy Heath, R.A. Heath Construction, Inc., 2770 Faith Industrial Dr., Buford, GA 30518.

LEADERSHIP SPECIALIST CONSULTANT, HR Solns Co. Suwanee, GA. Min. Associates/ equiv. in or 2 yrs post-secondary educ. in Leadership. Meet with client companies, assess and refine skills of client co. execs/managers. Use web-based tools. Background/ reference check/drug testing req’d. Consulting position requiring local travel. 40 hrs/wk, 8A-5P. Email resume/ references to Right Path Resources: pmabe@ rightpath.com.

HOUSES FOR SALE WINDER, GA 30680 321 DREAMLAND CT.

3 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths with hardwood entry and carpets in bedrooms.

Large vaulted family room with laminate floors.

Kitchen w/large island.

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COMPLIANCE MANAGER ¡Responsible for development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems based on lean manufacturing methodologies. ¡Related college degree and/or appropriate technical courses or Associate’s degree ¡Computer literate ¡Minimum 10 years of experience associated with quality and safety management in manufacturing environment ¡Candidates are preferred who offer prior work experience in the corrugated industry and have engineering background

HOUSES FOR SALE GRAYSON, GA 30017 1688 SILVERGRASS LANE

DACULA, GA 30019

Please email resumes: resumes@progress container.com CORRUGATED MACHINE OPERATOR Job will include working on various machines in the factory. Mechanical skills and experience in a corrugated packaging & design environment a plus. Computer literacy, ability to learn how to set up, clean and shut down machines. Able to read a tape measure with speed and accuracy. We offer health benefits, 401(k), paid holidays, vacation.

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PERFECT FOR ESTATE HOME! 0 DROWNING CREEK RD. Gorgeous +/- 15.87 Acre Tract With 694 Feet Of Road Frontage Zoned RA200 $350,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

EATONTON, GA 31024 176 Twisting Hill Rd.

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30043 1169 MAUDE WAY

MOTIVATED SELLER! Beautiful Lake Front Property On Deeded Lot! In-ground Salt Water Pool, Detached 2 Car Carport, Front/ Back & Side Porches!

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PENDING OFFER! HUD CASE #105-296897 LOVELY 3BR & 2.5BA CAPE COD With Master On Main.

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NEW HUD LISTING! HUD Case # 101-972903 Elegant 2-Story Traditional Home On Level Lot. • 2 Story Foyer Entrance • Hardwoods. • Separate Formal Living & Dining Room Area. • Spacious Kitchen Has All Appliances.

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DACULA NICE 2BR DUPLEX New Carpet. No Pets.

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ASHEVILLE, NC 3.1 Acre MountainTop w/Layered Long Range Views! Amazing 500ft. on cold Stream, steps to Park Land, Sub-dividable w/easy Access & Paved Roads. Must Go Price $16,000!

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Furn., 1950s Singer sewing machine, wall decor, crystal glassware & much more! Must see to appreciate! Cash or credit card.

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2995 ASPEN RIDGE CT GWINNETT DUPLEXES One on Singleton Road & One on Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ville-Suwanee Road! 2BR & 3BR, 2BA, Fireplace, Vaulted Ceilings, Off Street Parking.

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B.C. PROPERTIES 770-446-1550 770-995-8828 MOBILE HOMES & LOTS FOR RENT BARROW-AUBURN 1-2-3 BEDROOMS IN MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY. Rent Starting at $100/ week. Large Lots.

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APPLIANCES REFRIGERATOR A+ REFRIGERATOR 14 ft. with ice, textured white doors, Hotpoint, perfect condition, $125.

770-316-3777 FURNITURE/ HOUSEHOLD GOODS FREE FURNITURE Dressers (3), kit. table, ent.center, desk, cabinets, TV. Free, but you have to load and remove by yourself.

Lawrenceville area.

864-415-2074 LAWN & GARDEN

MUSCADINES 135 VINES

BOTH COLORS $6 A GALLON YOU PICK ONLY Call Ahead at 770-267-0443 For Safety Reasons No Children Under 10 Allowed In Vineyards.

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COMMERCIAL SPACES FOR LEASE SUITE 100 Available for Immediate Occupancy!

Is 1,319 Sq. Ft. $1,485 Per Month

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GARAGE SALES AUBURN DOWNSIZING GARAGE SALE Fri., 8/25 & Sat., 8/26, 9am-4pm.

690 Rock Elm Dr. Brookside Crossing on S.R. 324, between Fenced and Bailey Rd. New kitchen items, air tools, clothes, exercise equipment, fabric, new guitar w/ accessories, and Much More!

770-237-8236 CONYERS, 30094 ESTATE SALE CLEARANCE 3210 Klondike Rd. THURS.- SAT. AUG.24 - 26, 9AM 4:30 PM DAILY. Two very nice bedroom suites & lots of other stuff. Moving sale, All must go!

Domestic Short Hair Playful Grey, orange, and white cat free to good home. She is 2 years old and can sit on command. Her name is Stella. Call for more information.

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VEHICLES CADILLAC DEVILLE, 2001, 93K mi., 1 elderly owner, garage kept. Loaded, new tires.

Like New! $3995.

770-616-7399

CHEVROLET CAMARO, 2014 Convertible, 43k miles, charcoal gray, loaded.

Driven by senior. $15,750. 404-314-8966

LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 4665 Atlanta Highway

SUITE 200 Available October 1st Is 1261 Sq. Ft. $1,839 Per Month

MOUNTAIN PROPERTY FOR SALE NOW HIRING: Public Works Department is hiring an Equipment Operator I FT Position at ($15.33/hr.) & Police Department is hiring a Communications Officer ($16.92 hr.)

Both with full benefits.

Details on www. suwanee.com. Mail application/resume to City of Suwanee HR, 330 Town Center Ave, Suwanee, GA 30024 or Fax 678- 546-2120.

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LILBURN - SAT. 8/26, 9-4. 4254 Dorsey Court Antiques, small furn., collectibles, golf items, lots of kit. & hshld. items, some baby items, indoor plants, books & Much, Much More!

2 Communities!

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TWO CEMETERY LOTS Green Meadow Memorial Gardens Conyers. $3,000 for both. 678-635-0342

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770-617-0060.

HONDA ACCORD EVXL (TOP MODEL), 2008: 4 door, white, tan interior, only 32,000 miles, new tires, minor passenger door panel damage, otherwise clean. Cash Only. No Checks.

Covington. $8,900.

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1. Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que, Kansas City, Kan. 2. the Salt Lick, Driftwood, Texas 3. Pappy’s Smokehouse, St. Louis, Mo. 4. La Barbecue, Austin, Texas

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Mercedes-Benz Stadium to open Saturday with variety of affordable, specialty foods

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Sept. 1 A1A at Norcross Summer Concert Series — The orginal Jimmy Buffett tribute band will play at Norcross’ Thrasher Park, starting at 7:30 p.m.

The show is free but attendees are encouraged to bring a canned food donation for the Norcross Co-Op. For more information, go to aplacetoimagine.com.

Sept. 2 Banks and Shane — These legendary Atlanta performers will play at the Red Clay Music Foundry Labor Day Weekend. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $22. For more information, go to eddieowenspresents.com.

Ben Folds And A Piano — The music star will play at show at The Bowl @ Sugar Hill as part of the city’s concert series. The show starts at 7 p.m. For more information, go to www.thebowlatsugarhill.com.

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The brisket grilled cheese, served at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is priced at $10 and is braised beef, BBQ aioli, fontina cheese served on Texas toast with kettle chips.

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Opens: Saturday Owner: Arthur Blank Location: Off Northside Drive N.W. next to the Georgia Dome Atmosphere: MercedesBenz Stadium will make its debut Saturday as the Atlanta Falcons host the Arizona Cardinals in preseason NFL action. The stadium will be home to the Falcons, Atlanta United, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, the SEC Championship Game and the GHSA state football championships among other events.

The stadium holds 71,000 seats and can be expanded to 75,000 for premium events like the College Football Playoff National Championship (2018), the Super Bowl (2019) and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four (2020).

Food will be a big draw to the new stadium with popular Atlanta eateries like Fox Bros. BBQ, King of Pops, The Varsity, The Iberian Pig and Antico Pizza among those that will have locations inside the stadium. But with the help of Levy, Arthur Blank and his franchises have made sure that fans who have already had to dish out money for seat-licensing fees and for tickets won’t then have to break the budget at the concession stands.

Blank made headlines when he announced that stadium food staples would be available for $5 or less.

Sodas are just $2 with unlimited refills, hot dogs and popcorn cost $2, nachos are $3 and a 12-ounce domestic draft beer is just $5.

The stadium also has a wide range of specialty items available at all three seating levels that all come in for $11 or less.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is better equipped to host all the food options than the Georgia Dome was.

MBS has 673 points of sale for food and beverage (compared to 407 at the Dome), it has 24 bars/ restaurants around the concourse (compared to four at the dome) and has 1,264 beer taps (compared to 30 at the Dome).

With a retractable roof — that likely won’t be fully operational until later in the fall — 63,800 square feet of video boards and more space than the Georgia Dome, MBS will be a paradise for sports fans and concertgoers alike with a plethora of food options.

Menu: The stadium’s specialty items are generally your standard stadium food options, each with a unique twist.

“It’s really been about the fans,” MBS executive chef Charles Walker said. “For the last several years we’ve researched the

ON THE MENU Brat Burger: Swiss, sauerkraut slaw, Budweiser aioli. Served at Bud & Burgers, section 118. $10 Burnt End Nachos: Burnt ends of brisket, tortilla chips, white cheese sauce, Budweiser BBQ sauce, jalapenos. Served at Smoke & Pour portable carts, sections 117 and 316. $10 Vegetarian Cobb Salad: Romaine lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, red onion, gorgonzola cheese, chopped eggs, blue cheese dressing. Served at ATL Fan Fare, sections 105, 113,205,308, 322 and 329. $7 Dos Tacos: Barbacoa beef or ancho chicken, white cheese, jalapenos, shredded lettuce, pico de gallo. Served at Fresh Mex stands, section 123. $7

Brisket Grilled Cheese: Braised beef, bbq aioli, fontina cheese, Texas toast, kettle chips. Served at Hot Press Express portable carts, sections 104, 226 and 307. $10 Portobello Mushroom Burger: Portobello Mushroom cap, lettuce, tomato, herb aioli, challah bun.

Served at ATL Grill, sections 107, 133, 210, 234, 318, 338 and 347. $6 Hand-Breaded Free Range Fried Chicken Sandwich: Crispy chicken thigh, douz south chow chow, honey hot sauce.

Served at West Nest by Westside Works in section 324. $11 ATL Pretzel Co.: Salted Bavarian Pretzel with IPA mustard ($6); Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel with cream cheese icing ($6); Pretzel Bites with IPA mustard ($5). Served in section 120.

The ATL Grill is one of many concession stands in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The burnt end nachos, served at Mercedes-Benz Stadi- One of the bar areas on the club level of Mercedes-Benz Stadium is pictured above. um, is priced at $10 and includes burnt ends of brisket, tortilla chips, white cheese sauce, Budweiser BBQ sauce school actually teaches and jalapeños. classes in the stadium and

Dos Tacos, served at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, are priced at $7 and are barbecue beef or ancho chicken, white cheese, jalapeños, shredded lettuce and pico de gallo.

The hand-breaded free range fried chicken sandwich, served at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is priced at $11 and includes a crispy chicken thigh, douz south chow chow and honey hot sauce.

fans, we’ve taken surveys with the fans, we’ve done tastings as (AMB Sports & Entertainment Group senior vice president of fan experience Mike Gomes) said. And that’s what led to these wonderful items.

This was not the chefs coming up with an item, this was the fans coming up with an item. So the fans should be very proud of (the menu).”

In section 118, Bud & Burgers sells a Brat Burger with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut slaw and Budweiser aioli. For a healthier burger option, the ATL Grill (located all around the stadium) serves a Portabello Mushroom Burger on a challah bun. Another healthy option is the Vege-

tarian Cobb Salad served at ATL Fan Fare, also found on all three levels.

In section 123, Fresh Mex offers barbacoa beef or chicken tacos. The Hot Press Express portable carts found in sections 104, 226 and 307 serve a Brisket Grilled Cheese on Texas toast with kettle chips.

Brisket lovers will also enjoy the Burnt End Nachos served at Smoke & Pour in sections 117 and 316. The burnt ends come from the brisket that’s smoked in the main kitchen on the event level of the stadium.

“We cook them for 12 hours, it’s slow smoke,” Levy senior executive chef John Nicely said of the

The ATL Pretzel Co. serves its salted Bavarian Pretzel with IPA mustard at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, priced at $6.

brisket. “We pull them out when we get here in the morning. Some items we have to pull the meat, some items we have to slice and then whatever is left over — those burnt ends — is what we get for the Burnt End Nachos.”

Fans in the 300 level will have access to the Hand-Breaded Free Range Fried Chicken Sandwich served by West Nest in section 324. West Nest is operated by Westside Works Culinary Arts graduates and trainees. The culinary

a portion of the profits from West Nest will go back into the arts program.

West Nest also will have Kool-Aid pickles available, but the chicken sandwich is the main draw.

“It’s not too hot, but not too sweet, mixed together with lettuce pickling and that seasoning together with that chicken sandwich is a really good chicken sandwich,” Nicely said.

The stadium will also have a variety of alcoholic drinks available throughout. Speciality beers will be $7 for domestic imports and $9 for craft (20 oz.). In the club levels there will be two frozen drink options in the Neighborhood Punch ($12), a frozen mai tai, and the Signature MBS Margarita ($12), complemented by a Sangria float.

Other options will be The Weekend Bloody Mary ($12) and the Southern Mule ($12) with fresh strawberries and mint leaves.

Something You Might Not Know: MercedesBenz Stadium will also feature a Southern-style chop house in the east end zone named Molly B’s, on behalf of Blank’s mother, Molly Blank. The restaurant is run by the creators of ONE midtown kitchen and TWO urban licks. It will be open to the public for lunch on non-game days.

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James to bring ‘Reckless Abandon’ to Buford JON GALLO

“Hunter” and “Morgan James Live: A Celebration of Nina Simone,” in addition to Morgan James is coming her widely popular YouTube to Buford direct from, of all videos, feature her covering places, Hollywood. songs by Prince, the Beatles, Six days after the soul Sting, Beyonce, Aerosmith, singer performed at the Justin Timberlake, Stevie iconic Hollywood Bowl — Wonder and Aretha Franklin, the 95-year-old California among others. venue that has been graced ”I always knew to make by perhaps every famous a neo-soul pop record,” musician in history — James James said. “The foundation takes the stage on Saturday is all real ingredients, and night at 8 at the Buford those roots of soul and R&B Community Center, a place are pretty strong. It’s the very few outside of Gwinnett culmination of my musiCounty know. cal life up to this point. The James, 35, first made a painful songs are straight out name for herself on Broadof a bad relationship with way, where she starred in someone from my past. The “Motown: The Musical,” joyful moments are wonder“Godspell” and “The Adful memories. It’s all coming dams Family.” Now, she’s from me. I’ve lived every thriving in the next chapter one of these stories, and I of her career as a singer. love the genres I’m repreJames, an Idaho native, senting. It’s one point-ofwill be promoting “Reckless view—mine.”

Abandon,” which marks her James is focusing on first album of new material singing her own songs after featuring her own songwrit- becoming widely popular ing. Her previous albums, singing other people’s songs.

Post-Dispatch. “It also has R&B elements, for sure, and blues elements, and there are When: Saturday, 8 p.m. some straight-up pop tunes.

Where: Buford CommuWhat’s unifying it all is my nity Center Tickets: $25-30 and soulful voice. I like music can be purchased at that has a lot of real ingredibufordcommunitycenter. ents.” com “Reckless Abandon,” contains a dozen songs co-wrote with several musiJames said she sings cians, including her guitarist/ covers during her shows because that’s what the audi- producer/husband Doug Wamble, whom she married ence wants. last year.

“Sometimes people call James got into singing out and want to hear certain when she received a karaoke songs they know me for,” machine when she was 11 she told reporters. “My job and became passionate about is to give the best live show music, even falling asleep possible. They may be begging for a Postmodern Juke- being serenaded by opera box cover, but come with me after spending her days listening to Joni Mitchell and and trust what I do.” the Beatles.

James’ latest album has “I wanted to sound like given her a creative freedom Joni Mitchell and Mariah she’s never had, as writing Carey and Aretha (Frankand singing her own songs lin),” she told The Huffingmeans she doesn’t have to ask for anyone’s permission ton Post. “It’s funny, ’cause it’s kind of like I think I’ve to own them. been trying to put those three “I make soul music,” together my whole life.”

James told the St. Louis

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The first song of her first album, “Hunter,” was a cover of Prince’s “Call My Name,” which the late singer gave her permission to include. “(I was told by executives) that Prince doesn’t approve anything,” she said. “I said if he heard it he would love it.

Prince, the minute he heard it, said ‘Yes.’ I felt honored.”

James’ work with Postmodern Jukebox — a collective in which singers perform popular modern music in different genres, including swing and jazz, has fueled her rise in popularity.

The platform has generated more than 750 million YouTube views and 2.8 million subscribers.

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The rock orchestra announced this past week that it will perform “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” at the Infinite Energy Arena on Dec. 9 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

“Over the past 20-plus years, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has become a critically acclaimed, multiplatinum, musical powerhouse,” according to a press release. “And its annual winter tour is a beloved, multi-generational holiday tradition.”

“Ghosts of Christmas Eve” is described as a rock opera and will include songs such as “Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24,” “O, Come All Ye Faithful,” “Good King Joy,” “Christmas Canon” and “This Christmas Day.” “(This year’s) tour will also boast a rousing second set containing more of

new take on ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’ for the 2017 tour,” according to the What: Trans-Siberian press release.

Orchestra Winter Tour 2017, The Ghosts of Each year, a portion of Christmas Eve every ticket sold for TSO’s Tickets on sale: Sept. winter tour benefits select 15 at 10 a.m. local charities. TSO has To purchase tickets: given more than $13 milVisit the arena box oflion has been to charities fice, call 770-626-2464 across North America, acor visit www.InfiniteEncording to the release. ergyCenter.com This year, TSO also enWhen: Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. courages fans to do someand at 8 p.m.

Where: Infinite Energy thing nice for somebody Arena, 6400 Sugaroaf less fortunate in O’Neill’s Parkway, Duluth name or in the name of their longtime bassist David TSO’s greatest hits and fan- Zablidowsky, aka Dave Z, pleasers,” according to the who passed away in July. press release.

Tickets for “The Ghosts TSO is dedicating this of Christmas Eve” go on year’s show to the group’s sale Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. late creator, composer and Pre-sale opens to fan club lyriscist Paul O’Neill “and members on Sept. 6 and his inimitable creation, runs through Sept. 10. Tickwhich he dubbed ‘Rock ets are available at www.

Theater,’” according to the InfiniteEnergyCenter.com, release. at the arena box office or by “Prior to his untimely calling 770-626-2464. passing, O’Neill worked For more details on tour tirelessly with his close-knit dates and on sales, visit team preparing an exciting www.trans-siberian.com.

in the publishing world because of its soundtrack.

To sample Cowan’s music, visit www.somewherecallednow.com.

Copies of “Somewhere Called Now” and its CD will be available for purchase and signing on Friday. Visit EddieOwenPresents.com to reserve a seat to the free event.

Tickets that aren’t picked up 30 minutes before showtime will be released to the public.

The Red Clay Music Foundry is located at 3116 Main Street in Duluth.

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Cowan, also known as The Gwinnett County Dan Random, is an author, Public Library will treat musician, singer, comthe community to a unique poser and producer. He — and free — perforhas created nine CDs and mance featuring both scibeen nominated for three ence fiction and live music. Grammys.

The library and Eddie “In the last 10 years, he Owen Presents will host has written and copyrightDaniel Cowan and the Dan ed close to one hundred Random Band at the Red musical compositions, Clay Music Foundry on along with several poFriday at 8 p.m. Cowan ems,” according to a press will read from his book, release.

“Somewhere Called Now: That’s not including To Arrive Before You “Somewhere Called Now,” Leave,” while his six-man Cowan’s first science ficband performs music from tion novel and a rare book

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There’s no stopping chart-topping Ed Sheeran

BY JON GALLO

Staff Correpsondent

Ed Sheeran, the British singer who has been stringing together sold-out shows and chart-topping hits, recently sent a message to his fans: If you want to hear what I have to say, you better see me in concert.

Sheeran, who has always shied away from talking with the press, said he’s no longer going to be engaging his 20.4 million followers on Twitter after he felt he was the target of a barrage of negative tweets.

“I go on it, and there’s nothing but people saying mean things. Twitter’s a platform for that,” Sheeran, who last tweeted July 17, told London’s The Sun. “One comment ruins your day. But that’s why I’ve come off it.”

Nielsen Music. The album, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart when it was released in January of this year, could surpass the 1.51 billion streams generated from his previous album “x” (Multiply), which also debuted atop the Billboard 200 when it was released in 2014.

Sheeran’s biggest hit off “÷” is “Shape of You,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Castle on the Hill” charting Ed Sheeran will play at Infinite Energy Arena today and at No. 6, making him the Saturday. (Special Photo) first artist in the chart’s 58 history to have two singles Fortunately for his fans ity crowds is nothing new debut simultaneously in the in Gwinnett, they’ll be able to Sheeran, whose latest top 10 to hear what he has to say album, “÷” (Divide), is “I’ve never actually made Friday and Saturday night dominating the music scene. an album with time off. I’ve at 7:30 at Infinite Energy Songs from the album had always made my album on Arena. Both shows, which collectively earned more the road where … well, it’s feature James Blunt as the than 1.02 billion on-demand not the most stable place opening act, are sold out. audio streams in the U.S. for a relationship or a life,” Playing in front of capac- as of July 13, according to the 26-year-old multiple

Gridlife three-day party speeds and drifts into Road Atlanta

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Chris Stewart, the founder of Gridlife, said his event isn’t striving to be the biggest festival of cars and music when it comes to Road Atlanta this weekend.

“We just want to be the best at what we do,” he said. “We want to be a festival that has something for everyone.”

So far, Gridlife, a three-day party that fuses what you see in the “Fast and the Furious” movies with Lollapalooza, is well on its way to living up to Stewart’s expectation when it comes to Braselton from Aug. 25-27 for the second straight year.

Ludacris, a hit rapper who stars in the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, headlines an array of performers who will take the stage to complement the one-of-a-kind automotive showcase that will dominate the track.

“We want to make Gridlife a destination event that draws people from all over,” Stewart said. “We want everyone who has a passion for cars and who have a passion for music to find a home here.”

Gridlife features racing, High Performance Driving Education sessions and drifting — a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels or all tires, while maintaining control – to coincide along with a showcase of automobiles that include everything from supped-up Porsches to Corvettes to Civics to

Gridlife features racing, High Performance Driving Education sessions and drifting — a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels or all tires, while maintaining control — to coincide along with a showcase of automobiles that include everything from souped-up Porsches to Corvettes to Civics to BMWs to Volvos. (Special Photo)

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BMWs to Volvos.

“No matter what kind of cars you like, we’ll have it,” Stewart said.

“What’s great is whatever kind of car you’re into, you’ll find someone you’ve never met who likes that car as much as you do, so we’re like a family in that sense. We want Gridlife to be one big all-inclusive community.”

Stewart said the reason he expects a crowd of 4,000 at this year’s event after 3,500 attended in 2016 is Gridlife is geared toward a wide audience.

“This just isn’t for car guys,” he said. “It’s for everyone who thinks cars are cool. We’re a grassroots event and we’ve grown into an event that people have embraced

because the love of cars and music has no boundaries.”

Gridlife will arrive in Hall County after its event at Gingerman Speedway in South Haven, Mich., in June. The sellout crowd was treated to a field of notable racers such as Canadian Pro Drifter Riley Sexsmith, who was racing for NV Auto with a Subaru BRZ and Irish Pro Drifter Darren “D-Mac” McNamara, who was racing for Falken Tires.

While Ludacris is the unquestioned musical headliner, other acts such as Savoy, The Hood Internet, Willy Joy, Air Credits, Grandson, Dogma and Xcape will also perform.

“We are bringing together two fan bases — those who are into music and those who are into cars — that are extremely passionate,” Stewart said.

“We want Gridlife to be a car show first, and then a music festival. We want for our fans to view this as a weekend party at the track.”

Grammy winner told etonline.com. “You know, you kind of live in a bubble that you create. That’s how tour is, but it’s a very weird environment to be in (while) making an album.”

The success of “Divide” led Sheeran to book his third world tour, which began in Italy in March. By the time it concludes Aug. 12, 2018, he will have played 187 concerts — 80 in Europe, 60 in North America, 18 in Oceania, 15 in Asia and 14 in Latin America.

However, the number of shows has grown since demand for tickets has been so high venues have added performances. Sheeran was initially scheduled to play in Duluth on just one night — Friday — but added a second show because the demand for tickets was overwhelming.

Sheeran, who has sold more than 22 million albums, sticks to the same 15-song set list, starting with “Castle on the Hill,” “Eraser,” and “The A Team.” He also plays “Dive,” “Bloodstream,” “Happier,” “Galway Girl,” “Photograph” and “Perfect” before closing with “Thinking Out Loud.”

His two-song encore consists of the mega-hit “Shape of You” and “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You.” “The staging and what’s behind me (is going to be different from my past tours),” Sheeran said told etonline.com. “I’ve put a lot of the time and effort into it, and it’s gonna look impressive. In terms of it being a show… now I can do a show where it’s singles, which is something I haven’t been able to do before.”

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Atlanta Harmony prepares for new season of competition, outreach

One of the area’s musical treasures — Atlanta Harmony Celebration!

— is looking forward to a big season with new members and plans for continued successful competition. The exclamation point at the end of the organization’s name is there for a reason, characterizing the group’s enthusiasm and “joi de vivre.”

The nonprofit a cappella singing group (in the barbershop style) of all-women voices was founded in 2006. As a registered chorus of the International Barbershop Organization, Harmony Inc., Atlanta Harmony Celebration! competes in area and international contests. The group is currently ranked No. 7 internationally.

“Although a cappella music has experienced a surge of popularity due to the television and movie industry, many are still not familiar with the barbershop art form.

Atlanta Harmony Celebration! strives to not only perform within the community but also to

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Holley Calmes educate the community,” spokesperson Kim Johnston said.

This year the group has brought in new members Karen White, Ava Malouf and Blair McKinney.

“These three women are wonderful additions to the chapter,” Johnston said.

In the competitive arena, AHC! has had great success. The group took home the Area 6 Harmony Inc. Championship for the fifth consecutive year last April and qualified to compete in the International Convention and contests this November in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Of the 45 choruses that competed in their respective areas, 24 choruses qualified to compete at

the international level.

With only 17 members on stage, Atlanta Harmony Celebration! had the fewest number of participants of all the internationally qualifying choruses.

One of the organization’s missions is to educate the public about their very specific style of music.

One way the musicians share their art is through community involvement and public performances.

“Throughout the year,

Festival and Brookdale Roswell Senior Living Community,” Johnston says.

“As part of their educational efforts, AHC! developed a program to reach different segments of the population, introducing high school aged young ladies to barbershop. The program was implemented for the first time this summer.,” Johnston says.

“Entitled AHC! Chord Camp, the program offered students the opportunity to sing with AHC! during the summer months. The invitation required no commitments AHC! took their singing and allowed participants out into the community to to experience tips in vocal many favorite places such production, breathing and as Barefoot in the Park enhanced performance

techniques, and to simply enjoy some good ole’ a cappella singing,” Johnston said. “The AHC! Chord Camp culminated with an evening of entertainment by the entire chorus including summer students, several quartets and special guests, the Stone Mountain Men’s Chorus.”

AHC! Is always looking for new voices.

Weekly rehearsals are from 7:15 to 9:45 p.m.

Thursdays. For more information, visit www. atlantaharmonycelebration.org.

Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the arts.

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Robert Pattinson stars as Connie Nikas in “Good Time.” (Photo courtesy of A24)

Not a ‘Good Time’

Danielle Macdonald stars as Patti in “Patti Cake$.” (Special Photo: Andrew Boyle/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

Gritty film starring Safdie, Pattinson ‘Patti Cake$’ nearly pitch perfect a realistic look at a night of crime Patti Cake$ Good Time (R) HHHH

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fully agree — I LOVE noticing film score — but “Good Time” proves the point somewhat.

For “Good Time,” the film’s strengths are also

By Khari J. SampSon its shortcomings. Trusting khari.sampson their audience, the Safdies @gwinnettdailypost.com give just enough information to help smart viewers Many years ago, my fill in the gaps (as when, parents surprised me by say, an unknown neighbor going far against type briefly witnesses a hallway and seeing the 1990 mob fight, leading to a police movie “Goodfellas.” They chase shortly after). But later explained that they’d as in the scene alluded thought it would be a to above, it occasioncomedy. (My brother and ally makes it criminally I, then both of college age, tors Ben and Josh Safdie difficult to follow and to forbade them from ever — drag us from scene to scene empathize with the main EVER! — picking movies with no context other than character, who’s a mess what we’re given. Charac- of conflicting motivations without consulting us). ters come and go, and we Now that I’m somewhat that we can’t quite suss closer to the ages they were never get any more insight out. Is he really concerned or information into their in 1990, I found myself about his brother? Or is lives aside from what the making a similar faux he merely wanting to keep notoriously dishonest pro- Nick from talking to the pas with this film, “Good Time.” I thought it might be tagonist says or sees. It’s as cops? a darkly humorous look at though they want us to feel That ambiguity, anNew York City street crime. as bewildered and at the chored in Pattinson’s perIn fact, there are next to mercy of the manipulative formance, actually makes no laugh moments. For a Connie’s schemes as Nicky “Good Time” work despite movie called “Good Time,” and the other characters. its being a frenemy of a it really isn’t one. It’s as And it works. film. Pattinson has the difdark as Scorsese’s masterThe cinematography, ficult job of making us root piece. jittery and grainy, also for a scumbag, and though It opens on Nicky Nikas does an admirable job in he’s not entirely successful, (Ben Safdie, also one of keeping viewers offit’s only because his Conthe directors), 20-somebalance and reflecting the stantine IS such a scumbag, thing and developmentally mounting desperation of after all. After the purely disabled, being apparently Connie and the petty life of heroic roles he’s generally roughly removed from a street crime in which he’s filled in his career, Pattinpsychology counseling embroiled himself (and, son’s heel turn here renders session by his brother, Con- somewhat by accident, his him almost unrecognizable. stantine “Connie” Nikas more innocent brother).

But not entirely. It’s notable (Robert Pattinson, miles Most of the time, this that the Safdie brothers’ away from “Twilight”), visual style is highly effec- NYC is ethnically highly who’s got a bank robbery tive, but in a key moment diverse, showing how Patin mind. The heist goes mid-film, it had me wontinson’s character frequentperfectly — at first. But dering for several minutes ly trades on his blue-eyed getting the cash and actuwhy a certain character good looks to weave in and ally getting away with the had a complete change of out of situations that, say, cash are two different efpersonality. The untrusthis more ethnic-looking forts, and things soon spiral worthiness of the probrother would find more out of Connie’s control. tagonist and the directors’ difficult to navigate even Along the way, a cast of stinginess with exposition without his disability. characters includes Jennifer don’t help.

That said, this ironiJason Leigh as an apparent The soundtrack bears cally titled chronicles the girlfriend, Taliah Webster some mention. The synth- limits of how well even a as an apparent new — and driven pieces by electronic smart crook can navigate criminally young — love musician Oneohtrix Point this underworld milieu. interest and Buddy Duress Never sound as though There’s no clever, intricate as an ex-con who fatefully unearthed from a lost heist here. Plans go astray. encounters Connie in an 1980s film score. Like the Good intentions go awry. apparent jailbreak. rest of the film’s elements, And, as said, “Good Time” I write “apparent” a lot it’s effective at delivering really isn’t a good time at because the script and dithe mood, but also like the the movies. But it’s worth rectors don’t explain much rest, it is a bit overdone. watching to see a coldof anything throughout the There’s a film scoring eyed, street-level deconfilm. Similar to how Conadage that says good film struction of a night — and nie yanks Nicky about in music should not call life — of crime. the outset, so too do direc- attention to itself. I don’t (A24) That ambiguity, anchored in Pattinson’s performance, actually makes ‘Good Time’ work despite its being a frenemy of a film.

Pattinson has the difficult job of making us root for a scumbag, and though he’s not entirely successful, it’s only because his Constantine IS such a scumbag, after all.

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What if the winning 2013 musical “Pitch Perfect” ditched all those chicks except Rebel Wilson, added in a pinch of Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” and the Eminem vehicle “8 Mile”? You’d get something like “Patti Cake$,” starring Danielle Macdonald, another plussized Australian blonde.

But it wouldn’t be as good as this film, especially if you’re a fan of hip-hop music (like me).

Danielle Macdonald is Patti “Dumbo” Dombrowski, a 23-year-old New Jerseyite caught between a dead-end job as a bartender and acting as caretaker for both her grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and her alcoholic mother, Barb (a hilarious Bridget Everett), when all she really wants to do is spit some bars over some fire tracks.

That’s hip-hop slang for “she wants to be a rapper” like her idol, the wildly successful O.Z. (Sahr Ngaujah, looking like a doppelgänger of Samuel L. Jackson).

“Killer P” has a partner in crime in best friend Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) but can’t get anyone else to believe in her — not her mom (herself something of a failed musician), not the other wannabe white rappers, no one. It doesn’t help that she has a penchant for daydreaming she’s entering O.Z.’s inner circle and having to endure constant micro aggressions over her size (Exhibit A: her demeaning nickname).

In a career-making turn, Macdonald is superb in the lead. She manages comedy and pathos from the smart script time and time again. She’s well complemented by the supporting cast, especially Moriarty (who steals

From left to right, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie and Danielle Macdonald star in the film “Patti Cake$.”

(Special Photo: Jeong Park/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

entire scenes with single lines) and Everett who comes off as a cartoon at first but accounts for the film’s emotional arc.

Dhananjay is fun as Patti’s best friend. Though his soft-spoken character is sometimes hard to parse, Mamoudou Athie is a revelation as well.

Speaking of revelations, it’s hard to believe this is director Geremy Jasper’s first feature film.

Also the film’s writer (including all its inventive rap lyrics), Jasper has crafted that rare comic drama that manages to be very funny without being a string of “SNL” sketches stretched into R-rated territory — and then too long into unfunniness.

The editing is sharp like a hip-hop rhyme scheme, accounting for much of the film’s humor.

Many times the film seems headed straight for the cliche of these sorts of movies: “If only the heroine can get her shot, she’ll blow them all away.

If only these jerks didn’t keep getting in her way!”

Well, “Patti Cake$” takes it there, then takes a hard left turn almost every time. It’s both refreshing and jarring: the former because it’s not the same old thing, the latter because you really want Patti to get a solid “W” and the movie keeps ruining it for her.

The film also has lots of social commentary for the attentive, conscious viewer but it never belabors any of its points. For instance, there’s a scene where a New Jersey police officer comes to the scene of a rap battle and

makes some potentially racist assumptions. And then the movie moves on without speechifying or anything. There’s a place and film for such messaging, but “Patti Cake$” wisely knows it’s neither.

“Patti Cake$” is a bit troubling in that while it’s a very diversely cast film, it still centers on a white woman appropriating black culture, something that grows a bit tiresome in the real world. The fact that she’s a fat girl does little to leaven this discomfiting element of the story. But Jasper bitingly addresses this in the movie’s turning point and frankly made me reframe my thought. That’s good art.

Unfortunately, said scene sends the film into a draggy zone as it dumps Patti into the toilet almost literally. Again, you want her to succeed but so much of the third act is a spin cycle of failure and the movie begins to feel a bit longer than its 108 minutes. (It’s the only reason I didn’t rate it four stars.) Still, it’s a great strength of the film that, unlike a “Pitch Perfect,” you really don’t know how it’s going to actually end, even if you think you do.

“Patti Cake$” is a great film that defies convention at every turn, like its heroine. She’s too fat.

She’s too demure. She’s too raunchy. She’s too white. She’s too “black.”

She’s too much, and that’s why they can’t contain her. Watch this one, world; she’s got bars.

(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

‘Letters From Baghdad’ documentary a treasure trove of history Letters From Baghdad (NR) HHHH By michael clarK Movie Critic

Any full understanding of Iraq and Syria in the early 21st Century requires knowledge of events from about the same time in the 20th Century and “Letters from Baghdad” proves to be a historical treasure trove on the subject.

Pulling double duty as a biography of British socialite Gertrude Bell (voiced by co-producer Tilda Swinton), the film

isn’t quite a documentary as it includes actors playing other historical figures and it is this facet that robs the production with its unnecessary and unwanted “docudrama” flourishes.

An academic with impeccable breeding and an innate curiosity of photography, history and archeology, Bell served her government in multiple capacities after it became clear her extensive travels and connections in the Middle East would greatly benefit the British Empire.

Although never proven, it was widely speculated that Bell also operated as a spy — something the film-

makers insinuate without outright confirming.

When the talking heads aren’t on screen surrounded by purposefully distressed black and white film stock, co-directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum fill the rest of the space with authentically distressed black and white film stock that is in a word — amazing. Considering when it was shot — from about 1915 through 1925 — it’s a wonder so much of these de facto high-end home movies have survived this long and are of such relative high quality. The movie is a must see for scholars and film students

— particularly those with editing and restoration aspirations.

The most interesting — or at least most historically significant — of the talking heads is T.E. Lawrence (Eric Loscheider) whose life story provided the basis for “Lawrence of Arabia.”

If given what is said by Lawrence about Bell here is true, it is dumbfounding that she wasn’t included even with a mention in the 1962 David Lean-directed epic.

Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” fame also plays Lawrence in “Queen of the Desert,” the 2015 live action production directed by

Werner Herzog and starring Nicole Kidman as Bell.

Never released theatrically in the U.S., it will be available on DVD and through a number of streaming services Dec. 5, but unless you’re a Bell, Kidman or Pattinson completist it should probably be skipped.

Considering what Bell achieved in her short life — and the mysterious details surrounding her death — it’s a wonder there haven’t been a dozen films made about her. Even at well over two hours, “Queen of the Desert” felt incomplete and “Letters from Baghdad” goes far in filling

some of the gaps while acting as a great primer for the uninitiated.

Bell’s is the sort of story that requires an eight to 10 hour HBO mini-series in order to serve her legacy correctly. This woman did 100 years ago what few women — particularly white women — could ever attempt even now: become a major political player in a region of the world where females were, are still and at least for the foreseeable future treated as second- or third-class citizens.

Presented in English and infrequent Arabic with English subtitles.

(Vitagraph Films)

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Dancing after your Dreams In “Leap!”, 11-year-old orphan Félicie (Elle Fanning) must pretend to be the child of a wealthy family in order to gain admittance to the prestigious and competitive Opera Ballet School in Paris.

‘Leap!’ has a message the entire family can get behind Leap!

(PG) HHH By alex TosTado

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Bye-bye, orphanage, and hello, Paris.

“Leap!” is an animated film that is sure to captivate the family and inspire youngsters to pursue their dreams.

Set in France in the mid1800s, we see preteens Felicie (voiced by Elle Fanning, “Maleficent,” “The Neon Diamond”) and her best friend at their rural Brittany orphanage, Victor (Nat Wolff, “The Fault in our Stars,” “Paper Towns”), come up with plot after plot to escape the orphanage to pursue their dreams — Felicie wants to be a ballerina in Paris and Victor wants to be the world’s greatest inventor.

Victor finally comes up with a plan that will work, and

although it is not as flawless as he would have liked — the orphanage’s supervisor, Luteau (Mel Brooks), chases after them — the children still catch the train to Paris as planned.

Once in Paris, the pair is quickly separated. Felicie wanders the streets all night before stumbling upon the Paris Opera Ballet. She sneaks in and sees the most beautiful — and the only — ballerina she has ever seen. The janitor catches her spying, calls her a thief and is trying to punish her when Odette (pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen), a worker with a limp at the ballet, steps in and allows Felicie to go in peace. Felicie then follows Odette outside to thank her. It is obvious Odette wants nothing to do with the child, but Felicie is determined to stay with Odette for two reasons — Odette works at the ballet so she must have connections, and Felicie has nowhere else to go. We then learn Odette

has a second job, being a housekeeper for wealthy restaurant owner Regine (Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live,” “Rough Night”) and her snobby daughter, Camille (Maddie Ziegler, “Dance Moms”), who has been training all her life to get into the ballet school.

Odette agrees to let Felicie stay with her as long as she continues to help clean Regine’s mansion.

We learn Camille is only waiting on a letter to begin her audition process. Felicie intercepts the letter and poses as Camille at the audition, and trains night and day with the help of Odette, who we find out used to be a ballerina.

Meanwhile, Victor is an apprentice for Gustave Eiffel, the architect of the Eiffel Tower. Felicie realizes that she and Victor are more different than she thought and kind of casts him to the side to pursue her own dream.

Victor grows jealous when Felicie starts hanging around

Rudi, the best boy dancer in the school with a charming Russian accent.

I really enjoyed the balance that directors Eric Summer and Eric Warin achieved in this film. Finding a way to make a children’s movie appealing to adults isn’t easy, but the message in “Leap!” is one that parents and children alike can get behind — follow you dreams and never give up.

The major thing I noticed was its similarity to 20th Century Fox’s 1997 film “Anastasia.”

Both leads start out in an orphanage, both pretend to be somebody they are not, both end up in Paris, both have a music box from their childhood that they know is important but can’t quite remember how long they have had it or why. Even Victor’s new sidekick looks like the child version of Dimitri’s sidekick in “Anastasia.”

I docked this film a star rating for its overdone storylines

— the romance between best friends, running away from an orphanage, pretending to be someone you’re not to pursue a dream, etc., etc.

There is a lot of humor in this film directed at young ones — obviously — such as Victor, who is over the top goofy and clumsy. But it is not so overdone that adults won’t enjoy it, too.

This film was released under the title “Ballerina” in France in December and Canada in February. It hits theaters here today. Wolff replaces Dane DeHaan from the French version, and McKinnon and Brooks are added for the American version.

The animation is beautiful and definitely worth the watch on the big screen, and in 3-D if you have the opportunity.

This is a film that is sure to please little ones, especially those interested in dance and ballet. I even saw a few girls doing ballerina-style turns on their way out of the theater.

(The Weinstein Company)

In “Leap!”, 11-year-old orphan Félicie (Elle Fanning) must pretend to be the child of a wealthy family in order to gain admittance to the prestigious and competitive Opera Ballet School in Paris. (Photos courtesy of The Weinstein Company)

‘Rumble’ honors oft-forgotten Native American musicians Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (NR) HHHH

By Michael clark Movie Critic

Even when they’re bad (and “Rumble” most certainly is not), music documentaries — especially those of the rock ’n’ roll variety — are rarely without merit. Given the current hyper-sensitive, politically correct climate in which we operate, including the word “Indian”

in the title as a reference to a race of North American people is a no-win proposition and really not a smart marketing move.

Thankfully, this is the only real complaint for “Rumble.”

To be clear, “Rumble” is an overview of the contributions of Native Americans — not Eastern Indians — to 20th century music in general and Rock in particular. It takes a few liberties with the clear definition of “native” and meanders a bit out of the gate but eventually finds its footing and is chock full of incidental treasures.

Co-writer/directors Catherine Bainbridge and

Alfonso Miaorana take a big chance by not including the basic history of Natives as a whole but just as it applies to music and then do it out of sequence — a very bold move.

It stars with the first of several performances of guitarist Link Wray’s 1958 “Rumble,” the only fully instrumental song to be banned from U.S. radio because of the title itself and the belief that the rough, suggestive edges of the song might incite violence. Oh, the ’50s — such a great time of insight and openmindedness. The song gained renewed interest when featured in “Pulp Fiction” during the “Jack

Rabbit Slim’s” dining sequence.

The filmmakers’ greatest achievement is during the extended mid section when they make the connection between the origins of the seminal Mississippi Delta Blues movement and its relationship to Native Americans. Although learned American historians might already be aware of this, it’s a good bet even the most astute music buffs will not. It’s a major eye-opener on a number of levels.

Also coming as something of a surprise is the non-musical inclusion of sidebars covering the U.S. government’s banning of

Natives performing music of any sort, the illegal transport of Native men to Africa and the targeting of all tribes by the Ku Klux Klan.

If you find yourself scratching your head trying to come up with the names of Native American rockers and can’t, don’t feel uninformed; it’s a relatively limited list.

There’s legendary blues pioneers Howlin’ Wolf and Charley Patton, jazz singer Mildred Bailey, the afore mentioned Wray, folk singer Buffy Saint Marie, co-founder of the Band Robbie Robertson, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, prolific ’70s session guitarist

Jesse Ed Davis and the one-hit wonder group Redbone (“Come and Get Your Love”).

Although not quite in the same league as other top-shelf rock documentaries such as “Muscle Shoals,” “The Filth and the Fury,” “The Kids Are Alright,” “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,” “Stop Making Sense,” “The Last Waltz,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Don’t Look Back,” “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” or “The Beatles Anthology,” “Rumble” is a must see for any serious music fan and those looking to broaden their knowledge of U.S. history.

(Kino Lorber)

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Pass: A good action movie with a good cast and some laugh out loud moments.

Fail: Although Samuel Jackson and Reynolds sounds like a great pairing, the working dynamic wasn’t up to its full potential. Ryan Reynolds was really underutilized and not a likeable character.

Everyone pretty much lived up to their type-cast performance, but I think it was Salma Hayek who was the scene stealer.

This movie was pretty similar to a typical buddy cop movie: lots of action, some laughable moments and an odd working dynamic between the two main characters.

Unless it’s a rainy day, I think this one could wait for the rental.

I was hooked the first time I saw the trailer. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” appeared to have a good recipe for a summer movie hit with famous actors, action and comedy. Although the recipe looked good, the end result felt like something was missing. Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy it, but I felt like it should have been a lot better. Maybe the story could have been more interesting.

Maybe Reynolds and Jackson should have had more banter.

Or maybe I’m overthinking it and should appreciate for what’s it worth. Sure the story was unbelievable, but I wasn’t bored and it made me laugh.

Pass: Great casting. Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson embody their characters perfectly.

Fail: The plot is weak. The idea of a hitman needing a bodyguard because he’s a witness against a political dictator’s crimes is a good one. However, the action sequences soon descend into chaos and nonsensical violence. The action scenes lack the realism in combat and the brilliance in cinematography seen in films like “Atomic Blonde” or “The Avengers.”

Salma Hayek has the best peformance.

Playing Jackson’s wife, she only has a few scenes but makes every second county with her stunning combat skills and beauty.

Action junkies will enjoy this film. If you’re looking for a serious action film with a deep, meaningful plot, this one is probably not for you. But if you’re a fan of Reynolds’ and Jackson’s acting styles, and if you don’t mind action movies that frequently mix in comedy, this film might be your cup of tea.

Unless you have money to blow, this movie is not worth seeing in theaters.

The best part of it wasn’t even the cinematography or action scenes, so the theater screen and speakers don’t make much of a difference. The most enjoyable aspect of the movie is the relationship between the characters and that can be witnessed just as well at home.

Compared to 2016 and 2017’s other releases, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” falls flat. Its action and chase scenes are repetitive, and its plot is ridiculously long.

It’s a funny movie, but its comedy doesn’t always match the action scenes and at times, they feel like an interruption. That being said, the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously, and that can be seen as a refreshing, revitalizing change for the movie industry.

Pass: Exciting chase scenes in various locations in the UK and Netherlands; interesting premise for a movie.

Fail: A convoluted story line that makes no sense much of the time; overreliance on crude language vs. witty dialogue to generate the few laughs in the movie; at two hours, a running time that’s WAY too long and drawn out.

Ryan Reynolds (“Deadpool”) tries his best as Michael Bryce, a disgraced world-renowned bodyguard recruited by Interpol to escort international hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) who’s supposed to testify at the war crimes trial of a former Belarus president. While Ryan’s character is somewhat appealing and a bit sympathetic, Jackson plays what has become his typical one-dimensional character in films: a deranged sociopath who is constantly loud, obnoxious, violent and foul-mouthed. The chemistry between the two is OK but nothing special, as the two former adversaries eventually must team up to defeat the forces bent on keeping Kincaid from testifying.

Salma Hayek is wasted in her role as Kincaid’s wife Sonia, basically mimicking Jackson’s dialogue in female form, and was a real disappointment on the screen.

Action film fans will like the chase scenes in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” which sure destroyed plenty of vehicles and real estate along the way, plus spraying lots of blood and guts everywhere. You might also like this if you’re into the “mismatched buddy” flicks, although I really didn’t end up liking either protagonist a lot by the end of the film.

“The Hitman’s Bodyguard” would make a pretty decent Redbox rental on a rainy afternoon, but it’s not worth plunking down top dollar to see in first release.

“The Hitman’s Bodyguard” is basically a series of car chases with half-baked plot and dialogue as filler. Describing it as a “hot mess” would be rather kind, although the movie does have its moments. It was directed by Patrick Hughes, who gave us the trainwreck of a film called “Expendables 3” back in 2014, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” wasn’t exactly a thinkingman’s film. All in all, I think I would rather have just watched a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon marathon all afternoon than this flick.

Kenny Grams, Lawrenceville

★★★★

Robi McGarvey, Lawrenceville

★★★★

Tim Weekley, Suwanee

★★★★

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Your Local Church Welcomes You

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Building People of Prayer, Purpose and Power

Friendship Baptist Church

A Purpose Driven Church

3375 Church Lane, Duluth, GA Church Office: 770-497-8227 • Fax: 770-497-9775 Rev. Ronald L. Bowens, Pastor

Changing Lives through Faith

Warmer through through Fellowship Warmer Fellowship Deeper through through Discipleship Deeper Discipleship Larger through through Evangelism Larger Evangelism Sharing through Ministries Sharing through Ministries AND Stronger throughWorship Worshipand andthe theWord WordofofGod God AND Stronger through

SUWANEE WORSHIP CENTER A United Methodist Congregation

Two services 9:00 and 11:00 am Rev. Ted Rollins

OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pastor

Poplar Hill Baptist Church

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Sunday Worship Services................7:30 AM, 11:00 AM Children’s Church............................7:30 AM, 11:00 AM Sunday School ................................................. 9:45 AM Bible Study (all ages) ...................Wednesday, 7:30 PM

Regency

Church of God 1132 Buford Hwy 770-271-5610

770.945.6131 234 Shadburn Ave, Buford

Pastor: Rev. Avery Headd B.A., M. Div.

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Times of Worship Sunday • 8 am & 11 am Times of Instruction Sunday • 9:45 am Church School Sunday • 10 am Invitational Counseling Wednesday • Youth Bible Studies 7 pm Wednesday • Adult Bible Studies 7 pm

Dr. Terry Reece • Senior Pastor

“Come and get Jesus” “A Church forconnected Hurting to People”

Sunday 10:30 AM Worship Sunday 10:30 AM “J” Town Kids Church Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study & Youth regencycog.com

“A Christ Centered Church Where Love is the Greatest” 134557

COMING SOON TO OWN • “My Cousin Rachel” (Aug. 29): In the Daphne du Maurier tale, a man (Sam Claflin) begins to fall for the woman (Rachel Weisz) he believes killed his benefactor.

(PG-13) • “Born in China” (Aug. 29): From frigid mountains to the heart of the bamboo forest, filmmaker Lu Chuan follows the adventures of three animal families in China: the majestic panda, the savvy golden monkey and the elusive snow leopard. (G) • “Dean” (Aug. 29): An illustrator falls in love with a woman while trying to keep his father from burning down the family home after his wife dies. (PG-13) • “Inconceivable” (Aug. 29): Angela develops a friendship with a mysterious woman named Katie and offers her a job as a live-in nanny. The natural bond soon turns into a dangerous obsession as Katie becomes overly attached to the family’s young daughter. (R) • “A Family Man” (Aug. 29): Dane Jensen is a

hard-driven headhunter who works at a cutthroat firm. When his boss pits him against the equally driven Lynn Vogel, Dane gears up for the professional battle of his life. (R) • “Killing Hasselhoff” (Aug. 29): A man involved in a high-stakes celebrity death pool resorts to desperate measure to pay off a loan shark. (R) • “Baywatch” (Aug. 29): When a dangerous crime wave hits the beach, the legendary Mitch Buchannon leads his elite squad of lifeguards on a mission to prove that you don’t have to wear a badge to save the bay. (R) • “Hawaii Five-0: The Seventh Season” (Sept. 5): Say farewell to Chin Ho and Kono, since this turned out to be the last round of the CBS reboot for Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park. (Not rated) • “Queen of the Desert” (Sept. 5): Gertrude Bell’s life as an explorer, cartographer, and archaeologist for the British Empire. (PG-13)

DISC SPOTLIGHT MICHAEL CLARK

Barton Fink Blu-ray (R) Movie: ★★★★ Disc: ★★★★

Not the greatest Coen brothers film but far from the worst (that would be the similarly themed “Hail, Caesar!”), “Barton Fink” is a movie about the movie business and one with limited mainstream appeal.

Instead of something sexy and lascivious (“All About Eve,” “The Player”), this is a dry take on writer’s block a la “The Shining” minus the horror elements. Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a promising upstart with talent but perhaps too much idealism who is called on to write a commercially viable screenplay and hits a creative brick wall. Coen regular John Goodman turns in a stellar supporting performance as Fink’s new friend-turned-foil.

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Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (1.66:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 2.0, stereo), subtitles: English.

Special features include: • Featurette • Interviews • Deleted scenes • Trailer • First edition slipcover packaging (Kino Lorber, $29.95)