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County officials talk MARTA referendum cost

BY CURT YEOMANS

to county commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash’s citizens budget review committee. In all, the elections Although the proposed 2019 bud- budget is $3.25 million for regular get for Gwinnett County elections operations and a possible federal was presented Tuesday, the exact election runoff in January. cost of the MARTA referendum But how much the MARTA referset to take place in March remains endum — which has been speculatsomething of a moving target. ed in the past to possibly cost about Requests for the elections divi$500,000 — will cost hasn’t been sion was made during the Gwinnett determined yet.

County Department of Community “That’s all to be seen (and) Services’ business plan presentation that’s why it wasn’t in the budget,”

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Gwinnett County Community Services Director Tina Fleming talks about her department’s budget during a business plan presentation at the Gwinnett County Justice and Administration Center on Tuesday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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Community Services Director Tina Fleming said.

The numbers presented Tuesday for elections are the cost for other items related to the office, mostly regular costs including staffing and See MARTA, Page 7A

Decision on mystery project gets postponed

Buford High School student Cameron Hall, right, cries as she speaks with fellow student Avian Rossum, left, at the Buford City Schools Board of Education meeting Monday night. Hundreds of community members turned out for the meeting to express their frustration and hurt over the district’s lack of communication about a recent lawsuit and racist audio recordings.

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‘Your silence is

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Residents blast Buford school board over lawsuit

Buford City Schools Superintendent Geye Hamby spewing racist rants when speaking Visit gwinnettdailypost.com for a photo gallery. of black construction workers, calling them Cameron Hall paused, catching her the n-word and saying he would “kill these breath through her tears. matters, and I am heartbroken. This isn’t (expletive).”

“I just have two things to say,” the Bugood, this isn’t right, this isn’t equal, this She was also speaking about the board’s ford High School student said, addressing isn’t fair. This is affecting our school; this lack of comment — until Monday night’s the Buford City Schools Board of Educais dividing our school.” meeting — on the audio and on a lawsuit tion on Monday night. “One, being silent is Hall, who was packed into the room with brought by former paraprofessional educaagreeing with it. Two, the moment our lives several dozen other speakers and hundreds tor Mary Ingram against the school district, begin to end is the moment we become of community members, was speaking See SCHOOL BOARD, Page 6A silent about something that matters. This about audio recordings said to be of former

Business officials behind the mysterious distribution center near Stone Mountain, so far referred to only as Project Rocket, are going to have to wait a few more weeks to find out if they have the blessing of county commissioners.

The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners postponed a decision on a special use permit for the project to build a fourstory, 2.5-million-square-foot facility on West Park Place Boulevard that would be 80 feet tall, nearly twice as tall as what county zoning rules allow.

The center has generated interest for a variety of reasons, from its size to the mystery surrounding who is planning to occupy it. There has been heavy speculation that online retail giant Amazon is behind it, but local officials have remained mum on who is behind it.

The property straddles the GwinnettDeKalb county line, however, and it’s being postponed to see what DeKalb officials do

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Sheriff’s Office wants 105 new positions in county’s 2019 budget

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to be vetted by a citizen’s budget review committee.

Chief Deputy Bill Walsh highlighted the office’s perThe Gwinnett County sonnel requests on the first Sheriff’s Office is looking to day of business plan presenmake a major expansion in tations from county departits workforce with requests ments Monday. The business to create 105 new positions, plan presentations are an but those requests still have opportunity for department

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heads to make their budget requests, and the Sheriff’s Office wants to increase its general fund budget by 6.1 percent to more than $96.2 million.

The full budget request from the sheriff’s office, including the requested 105 positions, is $102.2 million.

over again, if you have 100 sworn positions increase at the police department, and all of the (city police departments) have increased their numbers over the recent years, it’s more work for us,” Walsh said. “It’s more warrants that are being taken out, it’s more people that are

being brought to the jail and it’s continuing to increase significantly.”

The large size of the personnel requests is due to the fact that nearly three-quarters of them are for deputy positions (36 sworn deputies

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The home is located near the Bear’s Best golf course in the exclusive Edinburgh community, and its owner told fire officials that it was vacant and up for sale.

At around noon, Rutledge said the bulk of the fire was under control.

The exact cause of the fire is undetermined and under investigation, but Rutledge said it appeared to have begun around a utility room in the basement. The home experienced heavy damage because of the fire.

“The owner stated that a realtor reported trouble with the electrical breaker box in the home yesterday,” Rutledge said.

At top, Gwinnett firefighters battled a large fire at a home in the 4900 block of Brendlynn Drive in Tuesday morning.

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In just over a week since the State Road and Tollway Authority introduced new toll rates on express lanes around metro Atlanta, the lanes on I-85 have hit $15.50 for a full trip between Old Peachtree Road and Shallowford Road on three occasions. It’s a new record price for use of the lanes for their entire stretch on I-85.

The first time was in the northbound lane, during the afternoon commute last Thursday, according to a SRTA spokesperson. It was first matched Monday and then matched again Tuesday morning.

Prior to Aug. 20, $13.95 was the maximum price that SRTA could charge for a full trip regardless of how many people were using the lanes. That policy was replaced last week, however, when a new one raised the minimum per mile rate and removed the cap on how much SRTA could charge a driver to use the lanes went into effect.

SRTA officials said in an informational document designed to explain the new policy on the Peach Pass website that the price to use the lane had often hit the $13.95 cap before the policy change.

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Gwinnett County firefighters had to call in extra fire crews to handle a large house fire in the Suwanee area Tuesday due to the magnitude of the fire, officials said.

The blaze was called in to 911 by a passerby just before 10 a.m. Capt. Tommy Rutledge said fire crews arrived to find heavy flames at a home in the 4900 block of Brendlynn Drive. Flames had broken through the roof and were “blowing out the front and side windows of the house,” according to a report from the fire department.

“Fire crews were not able to make immediate entry inside the burning home due to the magnitude of the fire and a partial collapse,” Rutledge said in a statement. “Firefighters reported heavy fire in the basement that burned through the upper floors and extended to the attic.

“Firefighters flowed water from multiple hand lines and an aerial ladder truck to bring the fire under control.”

The fire grew large enough and happened at a hot time of day, which resulted in two firefighters having to be checked out for a heat-related condition.

Rutledge said the firefighters did not have to be taken to the hospital and are doing OK.

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Turmeric known to help with arthritis DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 88 and have had osteoarthritis in my hands and knees since I was in my 50s. I began taking Tylenol and Advil for pain. But on a recommendation from a health food store clerk, I started taking turmeric.

Since that first dose, I have never had to take any pain medication again. I also have not had a knee replacement. My specialist is very pleased with my condition, and encourages my use of turmeric. I plan to up the dose from 150 mg daily because of research that shows its benefits in avoiding Alzheimer’s disease.

— D.D.L. ANSWER: Turmeric has been shown to be helpful in some people with osteoarthritis, and is unlikely to have serious side effects; however, stomach upset is possible, and turmeric should be used with caution in people on warfarin or other anticoagulants.

However, there is no good evidence showing that turmeric prevents or treats dementia.

DEAR DR. ROACH: My father is 72 years old.

This year he was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate. For now, the doctor has inserted a catheter.

My question is: What process or what treatment is best at his age? We are in the Philippines.

— M.M.C. ANSWER: Enlargement of the prostate gland is a common problem for men in their 70s and older.

Sometimes it gets so bad that a man cannot urinate at all or the pressure in the bladder is at risk of damaging the kidney. In those cases, a catheter often is used as a temporizing measure. Unfortunately, a catheter causes inflammation, so it may actually worsen the prostate problem temporarily while still protecting the kidneys. Because of this, the catheter usually needs to be kept in only for about one to two weeks.

During this time, medication usually is started to try to reduce prostate size.

For most men, a benign (not cancerous) enlarged prostate can be treated with medication — an alpha blocker, like tamsulosin, sometimes with a second medicine, like finasteride.

If that doesn’t work, there are several surgical options.

His doctor needs to be sure that the enlarged prostate isn’t cancer. A physical exam and blood tests may answer that question; other times, a biopsy is needed.

There is no best treatment for everyone. It depends on how large his prostate is, any other medical problems he may have and the expertise of the doctor treating him. In the United States, the options include a traditional surgery, called a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP); laser-based treatments; other heat-based treatments (microwave, water vapor ablation and radiowave); and even more newer treatments that are less well-studied. In general, medical therapy is worth a try for most men before considering surgery.

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In 1957, Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina concluded his 24-hour long filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In 1991, the parliament of the Soviet Union suspended all Communist Party activities indefinitely.

In 2005, Category 3 storm Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (18091894), author; Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), actress; Charlie Parker (1920-1955), musician; Richard Attenborough (1923-2014), filmmaker; William Friedkin (1935- ), film director; Elliott Gould (1938- ),

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advanced placement math class at her school she would receive $200 from her parents.

During the school year, she has been given $20 for every ‘A’ grade.

I find this approach over the top. What kind of message does this send to my granddaughter? What should I say about this?

— Upset Gram Dear Gram: Many parents find ways to incentivize their children to do well in school. Other parents provide negative incentives — they hold high expectations and then punish their children or take away privileges if they don’t meet these standards.

As she starts the school year, your granddaughter knows exactly what the potential rewards are for her to excel in school.

Issues arise when kids start to negotiate about these rewards: “Well, you seem to love this A more than I do, and so maybe you should pay me $30 for it.” And how much money might high SAT scores, or A’s in college, cost these parents?

I recently read the obituary for a poet whose father offered her $100 (as a young child) to read “War and Peace.” The child declined. But in offering the reward, her father was demonstrating how much he valued this literary experience. And the child did in fact, eventually adopt these values

— growing up to become a celebrated poet.

Your granddaughter can also decline her prize, or simply choose to follow whatever path she wants, regardless of the money attached.

As is the case with many aspects of the parenting experience, unless you see this as endangering your granddaughter, you should keep your opinion to yourself.

Dear Amy: In a recent column, you wrote about two couples, not married I presume, that referred to their significant other as a “partner.”

Relationships and having kids isn’t a business.

This term is just a new way to be hip and it lacks responsibility.

I was surprised at your lack of comment.

— Mike Dear Mike: Surely, this is the first time I’ve been accused of being “hip.”

I’m not sure what you would suggest as a way to refer to unmarried parents. Many couples refer to themselves this way (“Worried New Mother” did), and in the absence of alternatives, I’m fine with it, too.

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

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

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

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Newly discovered sister opens new wounds Dear Amy: Last year, I was “found” by a biological half-sister. She has spent her life looking for her biological father.

Her dad turned out to be my dad.

My parents were so in love, raised five kids and had a wonderful marriage.

They have both died, and I’m convinced after talking to family members that no one knew about this sister.

I have done everything I can to integrate her into our family. However, I didn’t ask her into my life.

I would be happier if I never knew about her!

I feel good about all I’ve done for her, and I would never tell her, but I am so angry!

This truly rocked my world. My dad was my hero, and she knocked him off my pedestal! Not fair!

She is a wonderful woman, (completely opposite of my sister I never got along with), but I am having an internal fight to accept this person into my head as my sister.

And I don’t know how to get over my resentment of this intrusion into my life.

I want my perfect dad back!

— Upset Daughter Dear Upset: I have yet to encounter a perfect person or a perfect parent.

And yet it is every parent’s dream to remain perfect in the eyes of their children.

I wonder if you have

Ask Amy

Amy Dickinson avenues yet to explore that might provide answers.

(For instance, was your father ever a sperm donor?)

If your father had a one-night stand, or even if he was unfaithful to your mother (secretly, or with her knowledge), does this diminish the love they felt for each other — and for you and your siblings?

Does knowing your father might have been flawed make him less of a father to you? Your parents chose to be — and stayed — together. That’s a good thing.

This woman’s sudden presence in your life has rocked you, and you have behaved generously and admirably (what a credit to your parents!). But I hope you don’t feel forced to have a relationship you aren’t ready to have. You have every right to take this at your own pace.

Talking with a therapist would help you to express, and accept, your “Not fair!” feelings.

Dear Amy: My granddaughter, who is 13, told me during a recent visit that if she got into an

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Be receptive and try something new to meet people from different walks of life. What you learn by jumping into unfamiliar territory will help you grow and will encourage you to head in a direction that promises greater success.

Partnerships, travel and changes look promising.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Bring about change. Look at your options and don’t shy away from doing something you’ve never done before. Take a leap of faith and trust in your ability to get things done.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Treat others with caution. Don’t let anyone take advantage of you or put unfair demands on you. An emotional situation can ward off someone’s bad intentions if handled properly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Participate physically, not verbally.

Discussions will prompt someone to pressure you into taking on more than you can handle.

Choose to go it alone and get things done without interference.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — A situation at home or a gathering of friends and relatives will bring you to some conclusions that will help you make a lifestyle change. Romance is in the stars.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t underestimate the capabilities of someone close to you. Protect your assets and don’t leave passwords out in the open.

Make changes to secure what’s yours.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Put more effort into making personal gains and physical improvements, and toward solving emotional issues that are troubling you.

Communicate and clear the air before someone takes advantage of you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Handle partnerships with care.

Emotional tactics will be used to pressure you into doing something that isn’t your responsibility. Make your position clear and only sign up for what’s reasonable.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Be clear regarding what you will and will not do. Listen to what’s being offered and negotiate to get what you feel is fair.

Nurture an important relationship.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Make change count. A lateral move will leave you unsatisfied and searching to fill the void you are feeling.

Use your experience to navigate your way to a better position.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Look for answers within. Discuss your feelings with the people you live with. Make a point of bringing about purposeful changes that will improve life for everyone affected by your decisions.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Socialize, network or make plans to do something with the youngsters or seniors in your life. Don’t let a personal situation turn into a dispute. Keep the peace.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be feeling playful, but that doesn’t mean you should spend foolishly or indulge to the max. If you take better care of yourself physically, financially and emotionally, you’ll have few regrets.

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world&nation World China moves to end decades of family planning

Vatican knew of a cover-up, Pa. AG says

Louis C.K. returns to telling jokes

By Holly Yan CNN

In the latest scathing allegation against the Catholic Church, Pennsylvania’s attorney general said the Vatican knew about a cover-up involving sex abuse allegations against priests.

“I can’t specifically speak to Pope Francis,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro told NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday. But “we have evidence that the Vatican had knowledge of the cover-up.”

The accusation comes two weeks after the release of a grand jury report saying hundreds of “predator priests” had abused children in six Pennsylvania dioceses over the past seven decades.

Shapiro did not specify Tuesday what evidence he has that would suggest the Vatican knew of a coverup.

“The only documents which are public are in the report itself, including the references to the Vatican’s N. Korea accuses knowledge,” Shapiro’s spokesman, Joe Grace, Japan of ruining told CNN. peace efforts “All else remains sealed through the grand jury North Korea has accused process.”

Japan of sabotaging peace Vatican spokesman efforts on the Korean penin- Greg Burke said the Vatisula “at any cost.” can would need to learn The ongoing animosity between Pyongyang and Tokyo threatens to mar progress as the region and the U.S. attempt to sway North Korea to abandon its Manafort’s Trump nuclear ambitions in excampaign work change for economic relief won’t come up and diplomatic acceptance. in second trial In the latest vitriol directed at Tokyo, North Opening statements for Korean state media claimed Paul Manafort’s second late Monday that Japan was criminal trial will be delayed engaged in naval exercises by a week and the special with British forces to police counsel’s office will not the shipment of goods to bring up Manafort’s work as North Korea “under the Donald Trump’s presidential pretext of strengthening the campaign chairman, it was capability of monitoring the revealed in court Tuesday. waters surrounding Japan.”

The judge in the case, Amy Berman Jackson, said All sides in Yemen potential jurors will be asked before jury selection if they conflict could have any Ukrainian ties, if they know anyone who be guilty of war crimes, U.N. says may be mentioned in court, and if they’ve posted about Parties fighting a brutal Manafort on social media. civil war in Yemen have “People may wake up conducted attacks that were in the morning and have a “disproportionate” and sense of the outcome (of a could be considered war presidential election) more crimes, a United Nations than in the Eastern District panel of experts announced of Virginia,” Berman JackTuesday. son said with a smile. She Their report, which said she’s not inclined to let comes after multiple recent the defense ask the specific civilian deaths, points to question of whether a potenthousands of civilian casual- tial juror voted in the 2016 ties caused by Saudi-led election, after the defense coalition airstrikes, wideteam asked for this. spread arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence and USDA spends the conscription of children $1.2 billion to as young as 8 into Yemen’s armed forces, all of which buy surplus food are crimes under international law.

The government is startAll sides are “responsible ing to pay farmers who have for a violation of human been hurt by the fallout of rights” and crimes “continue President Donald Trump’s to be perpetrated,” the report widening trade feuds. says.

The USDA announced “The violations we have Monday that it would documented were horrenrelease an initial $4.7 billion dous,” said Kamel Jendoubi, payment and buy $1.2 bilchairperson of the Group of lion of surplus food.

International and Regional The move is part of a Eminent Experts on Yemen, larger, $12 billion aid prothe report’s authors, at a gram that was announced in press conference Tuesday July. Since then, American morning. farmers have been waiting — From wire reports for details about how the The Chinese government could be moving to end birth restrictions, amid growing concerns over an aging population and a dropping birth rate.

Under current family planning rules, the majority of Chinese couples are limited to two children, following an easing of the country’s notorious “one-child policy” in 2016. These restrictions now look set to be further relaxed under a new draft reform to the country’s Civil Code, potentially allowing families to have multiple children for the first time in decades.

According to a brief statement released Tuesday by the National People’s Congress, the new revised code “will no longer retain the relevant content of family planning.”

The revised code won’t be completed until March 2020, and there is no indication yet how exactly the change would be made.

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Louis C.K. is back telling jokes.

The embattled comedian performed an unscheduled stand-up set at New York’s Comedy Cellar on Sunday, the club’s owner, Noam Dworman, told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin.

Louis C.K. performed for 15 minutes but did not address the sexual misconduct scandal he has faced, according to Dworman.

In November, five women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against the comedian. Louis C.K. acknowledged the ac“I can’t specifically speak to Pope Francis,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro told NBC’s cusations were true and “Today” show Tuesday. But “we have evidence that the Vatican had knowledge of the apologized. cover-up.” (CNN)

more details about the evidence before commenting.

Shapiro said the grand jury’s lengthy investigation into abuse by priests also revealed a widespread cover-up.

The 23 grand jurors met for two years and “unearthed over 301 predator priests (and) more than a thousand victims — children in Pennsylvania,” Shapiro told “Today.”

“They found that there was not only widespread sexual abuse, rape of children, but they found

that there was a systematic cover-up that went all the way to the Vatican.”

In the two weeks since the grand jury’s report was released, Shapiro said Pennsylvania’s clergy abuse hotline has received more than 730 calls.

It’s not clear how many of those cases — if any — could still be prosecuted within the statute of limitations.

But on the civil side, sex abuse cases have already cost the Catholic Church and its insurance companies billions of

dollars.

The Vatican has taken steps to root out some offending clergy members.

According to the grand jury report, in 2014, the Vatican said it had defrocked about 850 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned 2,500 worldwide during the previous decade.

The Pennsylvania grand jury report has put dioceses across the country on alert. Several other states have launched their own investigations into Catholic clergy.

When Paul Manafort faces his second criminal trial, his work as presidential campaign chairman for Donald Trump will not be discussed. (CNN)

to Hampton Beach, they’re going to get Legionnaires’ disease and they’re going to die. That’s what I’m getting for phone calls,” said Steven Chasse, owner of the Grayhurst Hotel.

Health officials said they’re releasing the information about the cluster so that people with weak or compromised immune systems can make an informed decision about where they travel.

Legionnella pneumonia is contracted by inhaling contaminated water droplets, which can be spread in a number of ways, including hot tubs and cooling towers.

The illness can’t be contracted by swimming in or drinking water and can’t be spread from person to person.

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money would be disbursed.

Many countries have slapped tariffs on American commodities in retaliation to the Trump administration’s move to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from much of the world, as well as on many goods from China.

The initial $4.7 billion of direct payments will go to corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean and wheat producers. Farmers can begin requesting the aid Sept. 4, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

3D-printed gun maker selling blueprints The owner of a company that builds 3D-printed guns said he has begun selling blueprints of the weapons to elude a court order on Monday that banned him from giving the plans away for free.

Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, said that he interpreted Monday’s federal court order to mean that he could not put gun blueprints online to be downloaded for free.

Instead, he said, he is now selling the blueprints to customers, letting them name their own price and then emailing or shipping it to them.

“Anyone who wants these files is going to get them.

I’m gonna sell it to them.

I’m gonna ship them. That began this morning,” Wilson said. “That will never be interrupted. The free exchange of these ideas will never be interrupted.”

Wilson spoke a day after a federal judge in Seattle granted a motion for a preliminary injunction that blocked him from releasing downloadable blueprints for 3D-printed guns until the litigation is resolved.

Aretha Franklin fans gather for public viewing LaTonya McIntyre made sure she was first in line outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit to say goodbye to Aretha Franklin.

“I’ve been waiting since Monday,” McIntyre told CNN early Tuesday morning. “I got in line at 4 p.m. on Monday.”

The Las Vegas resident joined other fans who sang, hugged and shared their memories of the Queen of Soul. Franklin died earlier this month at the age of 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

As the line of those wishing to pay tribute grew, cars rolled past the museum, honking horns, waving to those assembled and yelling “Aretha Franklin!” as they went by.

Franklin’s body will lie in repose at the museum through today, befitting a queen who was known as much in the black community as a civil rights symbol as she was for her music.

Jobs’ widow blasts memoir of stepdaughter

Steve Jobs’ widow and his sister are pushing back against a new blistering memoir written by the Apple cofounder’s daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

EA Sports cancels Her book “Small Fry” ignited controversy bethree remaining cause it portrays Jobs as a tournaments cold and sometimes inapEA Sports said it will propriate parent.

But Laurene Powell Jobs cancel three remaining Legionnaires’ and Mona Simpson, Jobs’ Madden Classic qualiconfirmed in fier events to review safety sister, say their memory of the late Apple cofounder protocols after a deadly New Hampshire shooting last weekend at an “differs dramatically” from Brennan-Jobs’ recollecState health officials event in Jacksonville, Fla. tion. confirmed Monday that “We’ve all been deeply They released a joint there have now been five affected by what took place confirmed cases of Legion- in Jacksonville,” EA Sports statement defending Jobs, which was originally pubnaires’ disease at Hampton CEO Andrew Wilson said lished by Business Insider Beach. in a statement released and obtained by CNN. Health officials previMonday. “This is the first “Lisa is part of our famously said there were at time we’ve had to confront ily, so it was with sadness least four people sickened something like this as an that we read her book, by the bacterial infection. organization, and I believe which differs dramatiAll had spent some time the first time our gaming within a half-mile stretch of community has dealt with a cally from our memories of those times. The portrayal Ashworth Avenue between tragedy of this nature.”

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— From wire reports “They think if they come — From wire reports

Rates of three STDs in U.S. reach record high, CDC says

By Jacqueline Howard CNN

Rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have climbed for the fourth consecutive year in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday at the National STD Prevention Conference in Washington.

Last year, nearly 2.3 million U.S. cases of these sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed,

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That’s the highest number ever reported nationwide, breaking the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, according to the CDC. “It is time that President Trump and (Health and Human Services) Secretary (Alex) Azar declare STDs in America a public health crisis,” David Harvey, executive

director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, which co-hosted the conference, said Tuesday.

“What goes along with that is emergency access to public health funding to make a dent in these STD rates and to bring these rates down and to ensure that all Americans get access to the health care that they need,” he said.

Rob Stephenson, a professor and director of the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities at the University of Michigan in Ann

Arbor, said that “it’s not a surprising trend.”

“I think over the last five years, we’ve seen a rapid increase in the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in the US, and we’re also starting to see a plateau in our fight against the HIV epidemic, as well,” said Stephenson, who was not involved in the new CDC research.

In 2013, there were 1,752,285 total cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis diagnosed in the United States. That number grew

to 1,811,850 in 2014; 1,945,746 in 2015; 2,094,682 in 2016; and 2,294,821 in 2017, according to the preliminary CDC data.

“We’re talking about millions of infections with just these three infections,” said Dr. Edward Hook, endowed professor of infectious disease translational research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Medicine and scientific committee chair of the National STD Prevention Conference.

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While Hamby submitted his letter of resignation Aug. 24, Hamby and Buford Academy Board of Education Chairman Principal Kaleen Pulley, which Philip Beard — who has since alleges racial discrimination been named in court docuand retaliation. ments as the man Hamby is At Monday’s meeting — speaking to in the recordings the board’s regularly called — said at Monday’s meetmonthly meeting — Hall ing that the decision had been echoed many others, who made the day before. blasted the board for what they “We were meeting the said was inaction following whole time,” Beard said. the suit and the release of the “There were laws that we audio recordings. were bound by that have to be “All of you, the world was adhered to. We tried to do our watching last week, and you best and we did our best. Y’all did nothing,” said Ben Haynes, don’t understand what went on the first speaker at the meeting. in the background, and we feel “Your silence is heartbreaking like the timetable was pretty and maddening at the same reasonable. We were working time. You have sat there doon (Hamby leaving); Thursday ing and saying nothing. The the decision was made, Friday fact that it took (several) days he resigned. That was the to put this man on leave is end of it. You know we lost a bad enough. Then to let him strong leader when Mr. Hamby resign? went down.”

“Truthfully, you should Amid uproar at Beard’s have never been at this point, “strong leader” comment, because he should have been many stressed that Hamby’s fired on the second day, or resignation was not the end of better yet, he could have been it, however, with some specififired when you all first knew cally noting that Ingram’s lawabout this in July.” yer, Ed Buckley, filed an moIngram’s suit, which intion in federal court Thursday cludes a web link to the two naming Beard as being present audio recordings, was filed in during the racist rants. federal court June 27, a little “On the morning of Aug. 23, more than a year after she was 2018, it came to the attention terminated June 14, 2017. of counsel for Plaintiff that the The district’s response, audio recording identified in which uniformly denies any Plaintiff’s original complaint discrimination or retaliation … appears to reflect the presagainst Ingram, was filed Aug. ence of Philip Beard, School 1, court records show, though Board Chair and City Comthe first personnel action was missioner, during Defendant not taken until Aug. 22, when Hamby’s racially-charged the board placed Hamby on rant,” say court documents, leave — a day after the record- which were obtained by the ings surfaced and the audio Daily Post. “Although he was and news about the suit went present during the rant, Mr. viral.

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Hamby’s racially charged rant to the rest of the School Board, upon information and belief.”

Community members seized upon that information Monday, with one resident, Erica Gwyn, asking Beard directly, “Was that your voice on the recording we all heard?”

“We’re getting it — it was put together,” Beard said. “I’ve got an expert that’s going to take that tape and say who said what. I don’t know if that was me on the recording; I don’t know how that was all put together, but I’ll find out and then we will know, OK? If I’m guilty, I’m guilty, and it will come out. We’ll see.”

Samaria Blow, a Buford resident who has played an active role in protests the last weekand-a-half, said she didn’t want to wait and see, though.

“When are you going to resign, because you should,” she asked Beard. “When you do resign, we don’t want your family members to take over.”

“I’m not resigning,” Beard said, which prompted questions about the district’s future actions.

“I am deeply troubled by what I heard on the tapes, and for you who don’t know, I’ve had the tapes for quite a while now,” said the Rev. Avery Headd, the pastor of Buford’s Poplar Hill Baptist Church.

“You might ask, what did I do about it? I prayed over it, I prayed over the city, I prayed over the administration and I asked God to let the evil come out if it was there to come out.

“Certainly it has come out, and the (question) now on the table is, ‘What do we do about it from this day moving

forward?’”

Buford resident Nicholas Harrison had an answer to that question.

“The plan moving forward — and I’m going to also task you with that, because I’m going to be here representing it — is I’m going to be a part of my son’s education, as I’ve always been,” Harrison said to the board. “But I’m (also) going to be looking for more diversity and inclusion and at the plan you have to find the next superintendent.

“I want to look at a plan that shows that the former superintendent did not allow his friends to get into a position of power and to continue that behavior, because that’s what nepotism is. We will be (here) and we will watch these things.

And, oh, I will continue to pray.”

While Buford school board members Bruce Fricks and Beth Lancaster offered an apology to the community Monday night, saying they would take a hard look at the district’s policies and procedures moving forward, the three other board members — Beard, Pat Pirkle and Daren Perkins — did not offer a plan for the future or reply to attendees, aside from Beard’s occasional comment to individual speakers.

The board also did not announce an interim superintendent nor did it set a date for future meetings to discuss such a replacement, which some said was discouraging.

Blow told the Daily Post, however, that while no direct action may have come from Monday’s meeting, the community got its message across.

obituaries Fair Play, SC

Gregory Dean Bohanan Mr. Gregory Dean Bohanan, age 52, of Fair Play, SC, formerly of Dacula, GA. Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson, Georgia. 706367-5467.

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Box 48857, Athens, Ga 30604. The family will receive friends on Friday, August 31, 2018 from 5 PM - 8 PM at Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road, SW, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-962-3100. Please sign the online guest registry at www.stewartfh.com

Dacula

Sandra Keaton Holloway HOLLOWAY- Sandra Keaton Holloway, age 69 of Dacula, passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018. A Memorial Service will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, September 1, 2018 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Minister Sheri Smith and Rev. Tommy Jordan will officiate. Inurnment will follow at East Shadowlawn in Lawrenceville. Sandra was retired from Gwinnett County Public Utilities.

Sandra was preceded in death by her husband: Alfred Ross Holloway; parents: Hulon Johnson & Ruth Ann Kennedy Johnson; sister, Debbie Johnson and is survived by her daughter & son-inlaw: Stacy & Jim Bluse of Bethlehem; son: Darren Keaton of Dacula; stepdaughter: Stacey Riggs of Dacula; step-son: Al Ralph Holloway of Dacula; step- daughter-in-law: Daisy Holloway; sister & brother-in-law: Susan & Ray Patrick of Loganville; sister: Shirley Johnson of Lawrenceville; brother & sister-in-law: Douglas & Phyllis Johnson of Grayson; grandchildren: Steven Bluse, Alex Riggs, Jonathan Bluse, J.R. Holloway, Andrew Holloway, Jackson Bluse, Brittany Holloway, Kassie Holloway and Xander Holloway; former spouse: James Don Murphy and numerous family and friends. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Lawrenceville Co-op Food Ministry 176 Church St. Lawrenceville, Ga 30046 or to Food Bank of NE GA - Barrow Co Food 2 kids- In Memory of Sandra Holloway, P.O.

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Amy Katherine Lee On August 22, 2018, heaven gained a sweet angel when Amy Katherine Lee, age 21, of Dacula, Georgia died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Born April 8, 1997 in Lawrenceville, Georgia to Karl and Karen Lee, Amy was a senior, Special Education Major at the University of Georgia.

Amy was passionate in her care of people with special needs and planned to use her education to enrich the lives of others through education and therapy. From the day she set foot on campus, Amy was an active member of the UGA Wesley Foundation. She poured her faith into others by serving as a small group leader for freshman, a discipler for 3 younger girls and a mentor for at-risk children in Athens. She was equally enriched by those who discipled her. Amy was also a proud student ambassador for the College of Education where, as a junior, she served as the Co-chair of Recruitment and, at the time of her passing, was the Vice President. In addition, Extra Special People, Inc. captured Amy’s heart and she considered herself extremely blessed to serve as a buddy in their afterschool program.

During summer breaks, Amy worked as a camp counselor at Extra Special People, Inc. and Camp All

American. She loved caring for younger children and, by setting herself as an example, introduced them to a closer relationship with Jesus. Amy had a heart for those in need and was eager to share the teachings of Jesus Christ with everyone. Amy drew energy from working with others and found immense satisfaction working with those she felt needed an extra dose of care. Amy was a friend to all. She could brighten any room with her contagious smile and was quick to express her care and concern with a giant hug. Her hugs and smiles were like wildflowers sprouting in everybody she encountered and everywhere she went.

Amy is survived by her father and mother, Karl and Karen Lee (Dacula, GA); her brother, Timothy Lee (New York City, NY); paternal grandmother, Joyce Lee (Hubbard Lake, MI); her maternal grandmother, Lois Thomsen and step-grandfather, Ken Thomsen (Essex, CT); and her maternal grandfather, David Schuman and step-grandmother, Valerie Schuman (Northport, NY); aunts and uncles Kevin Lee (Alison), Karen Hiser (Chris), Kirsten Lee & Janet Schuman (Matthew); cousins Aaron, Adam and Andrew LaPointe, Alexis Hiser, Lydia Lee & Marlon Andrew; numerous extended family; two amazing roommates Caroline & Cristina and a host of phenomenal friends.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Richard Lee. Although Amy has left us for a better place way too soon, her impact on those around her can be seen in the groundswell of support from her family, friends, church, former teachers & schools, and the UGA community. As one friend stated, “It’s so beautiful that even though Amy isn’t here, her kindness and loving nature is reflected in all of these people who are coming together for her family. She still brings out the best in people.” Amy’s wish for the world would be that each of us make an effort to help those less fortunate

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with its part of the property, where a driveway is proposed. Gwinnett commissioners will take it up again at their 2 p.m. meeting Sept. 18.

“I have a lot of questions about this, and I would like to see at least the DeKalb Planning Commission act on that request,” said County Commissioner Tommy Hunter, whose district includes the proposed site of the center.

It has been speculated that the facility could employ as many as 1,800 people because of the amount of parking it would have. In all, it would have 1,806 automobile parking spaces and 200 truck parking spaces, according to county documents. There would also be 65 loading dock doors on the west and south sides of the building.

Development of Regional Impact information filed with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs shows it is expected to be finished around June 2020.

It is a complicated case because the property crosses the Gwinnett-DeKalb line, although 78 acres are in Gwinnett, while the remaining 11.5 acres are in DeKalb. While the building itself is on the Gwinnett side of the county line, a corner of the property where a driveway leading to Bermuda Drive would be located is on the DeKalb side.

But the project has brought opposition from residents in the area, on both sides of the county line, who are concerned about the truck traffic on Bermuda Drive as well as automobile traffic on West Park Place Boulevard.

Four residents from the area spoke against the proposal, citing its impact on traffic on Bermuda Road, West Park Place Boulevard and U.S. Highway 78, as well as the potential impact on home values and wildlife in the area.

“A development of this nature and magnitude, we believe, is not suitable for this area,” said Stone Mountain resident Paul Najjar, who said he was speaking on behalf of neighbors in his subdivision. “We believe that because there is nothing like it anywhere near this area, we believe that a development like this belongs, for example, up on the (Ga. Highway) 316 corridor.”

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and to simply hug each other more often. Amy was a beautiful human indeed.

Two services are planned: 1) Thursday, August 30, 2018/4:30pm at the University of Georgia Wesley Foundation, 1196 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30605 2) Sunday, September 2, 2018/3:00pm at McKendree United Methodist, 1570 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30043. There will be a visitation period at 2:00pm at McKendree United Methodist prior to the 3:00pm service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to one of two organizations that were dear to Amy: Extra Special People, 189 VFW Drive, Watkinsville, GA 30677 (https://extraspecialpeople.kindful. com/?campaign=334106) and The Wesley Foundation, 1196 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30605 (http://www.nowsprouting.com/ugawesleyfoundation/give/ onations/?view=mobile)/) Suwanee

Thomas Allen Starnes The story of Thomas Allen Starnes began on August 8th, 1925. His parents, Perrie Covier (Starnes) and Thomas Floyd Starnes received him into this world in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.

He left us far too early on August 21st, 2018 in Suwanee, Georgia. He married the love of his life, Maryann, on June 28th, 1946 in Buffalo, NY. He was heartbroken to lose her on July 4th, 2005. Tom was a lover of hunting, helping fix things, serving others and in his later life, traveling in his car to visit family. He was a member of the Kenton Masonic Lodge #1186, a dedicated patriot, World War II Navy Veteran and loved to spend time at his Niece Pat’s ranch. Tom loved his

silly jokes, ice cream, a beer with some cheese and crackers and making pancakes for breakfast. His smile was always biggest when he was surrounded by family on his birthday. Tom had two sisters, Regina Louise and Anna Ruth, both of whom went before him. He loved them both dearly. Tom was the proud father of 4 children, Paulette (Fred), Connie, Janice and Will (Jeanette).

Tom had his role extended from father to grandfather with the arrival of Rob (Stefanie), Jennifer, Cindy (Tim), Melissa (Matt), Morgan, Hunter and Joseph (Taylor). The family tree grew further under his watch with arrival of his great-grandchildren, Sandrine, Bram, Colton, John, Luke, Madelyn, Meridian and Evelyn. We all now have an empty place in our heart. You will be missed. Visitation for Tom will be at Level Creek Methodist Church in Suwanee, Georgia at 1pm on Saturday, September 1st.2018, followed by a service at 2pm and afterwards a reception. In lieu of flowers, Memorial Gifts may be made to the level Creek United Methodist Church or please consider a donation to the Shriners Hospital for Children https://www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org/shc/ donate. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome.com.

Norcross

Wayne Michael Womack Wayne Michael Womack, age 68, of Norcross, GA, met his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ face to face on Monday evening, August 27th, 2018 at Season’s Hospice in Cumming, GA. Funeral services for Wayne will be held on Friday, August

31st, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. in the Peachtree Corners Chapel of Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory. Interment will follow at North Atlanta Memorial Park, Dunwoody, GA. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening, August 30th, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Friday morning, August 31st, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. Wayne was an outstanding athlete in his days at Norcross High School, excelling in baseball, basketball and football and his love for sports continued for the remainder of his life.

After high school, Wayne developed a love for the game of golf and finished his race on earth serving the member and staff of the Piedmont Driving Club. Wayne was also an avid Georgia Bulldog Fan. Wayne was preceded in death by his parents, Rev. Ed and Bonnie Womack; siblings, Robert, Gene, and Deborah. Wayne is survived by his brothers, James (Betty) Womack of Covington, GA, Lamar (Shirley) Womack of Lagrange, GA; sisters, Jeanette Roper of Dawsonville, GA, and Darlene (Rupert) McDaniel of Flowery Branch, GA; along with numerous nieces and nephews whom he loved with all his heart.

The Womack family would like to express our most sincere and heartfelt appreciation to the members and staff of the Piedmont Driving Club. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Harvest Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 686, Dawsonville, GA, 30534.

Online condolences may be expressed at www. crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements entrusted by Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. 770-448-5757.

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The Sheriff’s Office wasn’t the only office asking for court services, 18 depu- for additional personnel ties for the county jail, 16 Monday, but it did make deputies for field operations, the largest request for new two master deputies and employees. three part-time deputies for A couple of other officials jail courts). from different departments “I know you’re seeing a that made presentations lot of numbers, but in the Monday, including District last four years, since before Attorney Danny Porter, also Chief Walsh and I got here, asked for additional emwe’ve only had 11 full-time ployees. Their new position sworn positions given to us requests, however, were and six full-time civilian po- significantly smaller — two sitions given to us, so a total or three new positions for of 17 people given to us over each department. the last four years,” Chief More personnel requests Deputy Lou Solis told the will likely come this week, citizens review committee. particularly with officials “So I know it’s a big from the Gwinnett County number, the 105, but I just fire and police departments wanted you to take into set to make their business account that over the last plan presentations today. four years, that’s what we’ve In addition to the full- and received.” part-time deputies, other

positions that the Sheriff’s Office wants to create include areas such as the jail kitchen, open records requests and warrants administration, fleet coordination, building services, processing, warehouse storage and maintenance and information technology for body cameras.

Some of those roles, such as fleet coordination and warehouse technician work, are being handled by sworn deputies, but Walsh said the office wants to move deputies out of those roles.

“We’re trying to get some of these sworn positions back where they need to be, and that’s serving warrants and taking care of inmates in the jail, as well as court security,” he said.

Other factors influenced

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Applications must be filled out and submitted online.

The waiting list will remain open until Sept. 30, 2018 at 11:59 pm.

Persons with disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation in completing an application may call the WHA to make special arrangements. Hearing impaired individuals may call our TDD number at (770) 868-0675 (please note that this line will only accept TDD hearing impaired calls/signals).

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Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Bill Walsh presents the office’s business plan and funding requests for the 2019 budget Monday. The office is seeking funding for 105 new positions as part of the budget. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

the requests as well. The requests for additional court services deputies, for example, is in part due to the construction of an expansion wing at the Gwinnett Justice

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Next year is a municipal election year, so most of the attention will be on races for mayoral and city council seats, but Nash said that didn’t necessarily mean there hadn’t been anticipation of a countywide vote — even before the MARTA referendum special election was called.

“There was going to be a referendum in March,” Nash said. “It was either going to be our transit referendum or it was going to be the school system’s bond referendum, so the tax payers were going to pay for a referendum in March no matter which way it went.

“The school system lucks out because they get to do theirs in November so the cost of that March referendum will come from the county’s budget rather than the school system’s budget.”

and Administration Center, which will add several new courtrooms.

The citizen’s budget review committee will go over budget requests from

each department and make a recommendation to county commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash on which requests should be included in her 2019 proposed budget.

The proposed budget is set to be unveiled in November and voted on at the beginning of January, which is when it will go into effect.

A breakdown of the requested 2019 budget for the Sheriff’s Office shows the money would be spent in the following areas: • Administration: $17.3 million; • Court Services: $11.6 million; • Jail Operations: $54.4 million; • Field Operations: $9.2 million; • Support Services: $1.5 million; and • Immigration Enforcement (287(g) program): $2 million.

MARTA The county’s MARTA referendum loomed over two business plan presentations Tuesday. In addition to the elections presentation, it came up during the Department of Transportation’s presentation, which included funding requests that anticipate passage or rejection of the MARTA referendum.

On the one hand, Transportation Director Alan Chapman said the department is budgeting for $17.5 million for transit, including a full year of funding for the existing Gwinnett County Transit — a precaution in case voters reject MARTA. “We have to do that and then we can always make adjustments later,” Chapman said.

On the other hand, the transit funding request also includes $100,356 for a requested transit contracts manager position that would manage the MARTA contract in case the referendum passes. The position isn’t necessarily being requested because of MARTA, but

Chapman said the referendum did make 2019 the right time to ask for it in case MARTA passes.

“I do think this was already a need but with the call for the referendum and the potential contract with MARTA, which would allow us to drastically expand our transit system, I think it’s even more needed at this time,” Chapman said.

The transit contract manager would work with whichever agency manages the county’s transit system to ensure it meets a standard set by the county, develop a scope of work for capital projects and handle the carrying out of projects outlined in Gwinnett’s transit development plan.

“I think because we’ve got the opportunity to implement the transit development plan and provide all of that additional service that we need that position,” Chapman said after his presentation. “I think it works well to coordinate with MARTA as our potential operator.”

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Lawrenceville man sentenced for identity theft, wire fraud

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A Lawrenceville man who fraudulently obtained more than $1.3 million after stealing victims’ identities has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his crimes.

Justin Tony Walker, 29, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, who also ordered Walker to two years of

supervised release following his prison term and to pay about $515,000 in restituJustin tion.

Walker Walker pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft May 29.

According to U.S. Attorney BJay Pak, from July

2015 to March 2016, Walker ran a scheme to steal money from various banks and their customers’ accounts by using fraudulently obtained personal information to impersonate the account holders.

To get the money, Walker would contact the banks’ customer service representatives using the true account holders’ personal information.

He would then obtain additional information about

the customers, which he used to either take over existing accounts or create new accounts. After that, Walker would wire money from those accounts to accounts held by his co-conspirators.

He ultimately defrauded banks and customers of more than $1.3 million, Pak said.

“Walker was crafty and knew no limits on how far he would go to commit fraud, even while on probation,” Pak said. “We encourage

citizens to regularly monitor their bank statements to ensure their accounts have not been compromised.”

Prior to these crimes, Walker had been arrested four times for various forms of fraud and identity theft, including financial transaction card fraud, Pak said.

In 2011 and 2015, Walker violated his probation by committing additional acts of fraud and identity theft, and “the conduct in this case was in contravention of a

previous judicial sentence.”

The case was investigated by the FBI, with assistance from the Atlanta Police Department.

“The FBI treats these types of financial crimes targeting individuals and the banking industry very seriously,” said J. C. Hacker, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta division. “Anyone considering this type of criminal activity should take heed of the punishment imposed in this case.”

Porter wants advocate position to finish special victims unit

BY CURT YEOMANS

positions that Porter is asking for in Gwinnett County District his 2019 Attorney Danny Porter budget retold a budget review panel quest. The Monday that the gradual other is for Danny build out of the special $89,412 to Porter victims unit that his office add an ashas been putting together in sistant district attorney who recent budget cycles should will serve as the office’s be finished in 2019. second appellate attorney.

Porter’s budget proposal In recent years, Porter for next year includes a has gotten three assistant request for $53,268 for a district attorneys, three victim’s advocate position criminal investigators and in the unit. It is one of two one legal associate for the curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

special victims unit. Now it will have some one specifically intended to deal with the needs of victims of certain crimes, such as child molestation, child abuse, elder abuse or exploitation.

“What we’re asking for is to let me complete that unit with a specialized victim advocate for those specialized victims,” Porter said.

“We’re handling about 700 or 800 cases a year in there so you’re talking about victims that require significant service. They require significant resources.

“They’re damaged.

They’re people who have been crushed. They’re not like somebody who had their house broken into.

They’re a different kind of victim and we need a different kind of victim advocate.”

Porter’s total general fund budget proposal is $15.8 million, including $12.6 million for “personal services” and $1.03 million for general operations.

The budget proposal also includes $332,064 for the Crime Victim Fund and

$150,338 for the Law Enforcement Accounts.

While the victims advocate for the special victims unit will complete work to build out an area that Porter has been working on in recent years, the new assistant district attorney position that he is asking for will target an area that is growing: appeals.

Porter said his office has one attorney on staff who deals with appellate cases, and the requested position would double that number.

The county’s top prosecu-

tor said about 96 percent of trial cases that end in convictions are appealed by defendants.

That leads to a lot of work for the District Attorney’s Office staff.

“Basically, I think the easiest thing to attribute that to is once they’re convicted, they don’t have anything else to do so they might as well go ahead and appeal it, and so they do,” Porter said.

“We have one assistant DA (handling those cases), but the appellate work has outrun him.”

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Perfect Fit

PREP FOOTBALL NOTES

Lanier’s Calzada out with injury

Brookwood grad Chesnut well suited for job as KSU’s offensive coordinator

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

When Brian Bohannon was hired to start Kennesaw State’s football program, the Owls’ first head coach knew he was going to need someone deeply

familiar with the spread option attack.

On paper, it seemed like Grant Chestnut was the perfect choice.

A product of a run-based offense while playing high school football at Brookwood, Chesnut got quite the education in the spread

option while playing as an offensive tackle at Georgia Southern.

After all, he learned from then-head coach Paul Johnson, who perfected the offense in Statesboro before moving on to the FBS

Snellville native Grant Chesnut has been the perfect fit as offensive coordinator for Kennesaw State’s spread See CHESNUT, Page 4B option attack. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

Central Focus

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His part-time role became more permanent this past offseason. “(Wofford) texted and said, ‘I need a favor. I want you to be my offensive line coach,’” Kugbila said. “I said, ‘All right, let’s go.’”

Kugbila’s coaching resume wasn’t extensive, but Wofford still had confidence in the 27-year-old, — Central Gwinnett who launched 70KG Elite coach Todd Wofford Performance when his playing career ended. To to Gwinnett, where he complicate matters more, spent his free time at his graduation wiped out old high school as a volun- Central’s entire starting ofteer assistant for Wofford. fensive line from 2017.

His teaching techniques he’s learned from college to the pros, that’s priceless.

You have guys that go to the book for drills. He lived it at the highest level. He has passion, a fire that rubs off on the guys.”

Through the spring and summer, Wofford knew he made a good hire. He feels even better after last Friday, when Kugbila’s line paved the way for a 35-7 win over Lanier.

“One thing (Kugbila) brings is creditability with the fact that he’s played, he’s been where they are,” Wofford said. “Second, as an offensive lineman, he’s got his jersey on the wall (of the fieldhouse) from the Carolina Panthers.

Everything he tells them they know will get them to where they want to go. His teaching techniques he’s

Lanier head football coach Korey Mobbs said its loss to Central Gwinnett on Friday night was humbling, but it also cost the Longhorns one of the county’s top passers for an extended period.

Texas A&M commit and three-star pro-style quarterback Zach Calzada exited Friday’s game after going 8 of 23 passing for 114 yards.

Calzada was coming off a stellar opening week performance against Peachtree Ridge when he was 7-for12 with 181 yards passing.

The blowout gave way for senior Bryce Satterfield to take reps, though he attempted just three passes against Peachtree Ridge.

Calzada’s injury made him a victim of a hellacious pass rush from Central Gwinnett.

“He’s dinged up a little bit; I don’t really know the specifics of it but we’ll evaluate and see where he’s at,” Mobbs said following Friday’s game.

“Central did a really good job of giving us a lot of different looks and they have really good team speed on defense. Their plan was to get him uncomfortable and we just weren’t in sync offensively.”

Lanier’s next game is against Alpharetta.

learned from college to the pros, that’s priceless. You have guys that go to the book for drills. He lived it at the highest level.

“He has passion, a fire that rubs off on the guys.

He’s a true, hard-nosed offensive line coach, then right after practice he’s loving them up. That’s what those guys respect about him the most.”

Football wasn’t always such a passion, though.

Kugbila was born in Ghana and moved, when he was in elementary

Kugbila steps up as offensive line coach at alma mater Edmund Kugbila never played football for Todd Wofford at Central Gwinnett, but the two became acquainted during Kugbila’s college career because he lived on the same cul-de-sac as the Black Knights’ head coach.

Wofford helped Kugbila find an agent after his playing career ended at Valdosta State and watched as the big offensive lineman was drafted in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers. When injuries derailed Kugbila’s pro career, he moved back

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Patriots Point In Berkmar’s first game of the 2018 season, the Patriots matched up with the perfect opponent. Riding a 47-game losing skid that spanned five seasons, Berkmar thrashed a struggling Class AAAAA program in Cross Keys, which itself hasn’t won a game since September 2016.

Berkmar’s last win was Sept. 13, 2013, against Shiloh. The Patriots suffered a narrow 15-12 defeat to Central Gwinnett in the following week, but the Patriots didn’t realize that would be the beginning of a five-year spiral.

While 47 consecutive losses certainly do nothing to help Berkmar’s overall winning percentage, the Patriots’ winning percentage of 32.6 percent is hardly the worst compared to other programs historically in Gwinnett County.

The two lowest are two of the smallest sample sizes to pull from. Providence Christian has won 6

Central Gwinnett grad Edmund Kugbila, a former All-American at Valdosta State and NFL player for the Carolina Panthers, is a first-year offensive line coach for the Black Knights. (Photo: Will Hammock)

By Will Hammock

By Taylor Denman

Getting to Know ... Mike Demarest Compared to some cross country coaches, Mike Demarest is a relative newcomer to the sport. Despite only taking up the sport after being talked into it by a friend while attending Dacula High School, he’s been a quick study. After turning into a solid runner for the Falcons under then-head coach (and now Mill Creek coach) Andy Christie before graduating in 2004, Demarest went on to become an honor roll

runner at Georgia College and State University before getting into coaching.

Now in his fifth season as Parkview’s head boys and girls cross country program, as well as coaching distance runner for the track program, Demarest recently spoke with Daily Post staff reporter David Friedlander on subjects ranging from his introduction to competitive running to how much Christie has had on his coaching style

to how much the contributions of the distance runners to the Panther boys track team’s state championship last spring has carried over to the cross country season DF: It has been 14 years since you were running for Andy Christie at one Gwinnett County school, and now into your fifth coaching at another one.

MD: Yeah, it flies by.

But yeah, I ran three years

under (Christie). I didn’t run as a freshman because I didn’t know what cross country was.

DF: Was he the one that kind of introduced you to cross country?

MD: So I had a friend, his name is Lance Davis, who brought me out. He said, ‘Hey man, I’m running cross country. You want to run?’ I was like, ‘OK, cool,’ and I had no Dacula grad Mike Demarest coaches cross country and

See DEMAREST, Page 8B track at Parkview. (Photo: David Friedlander)

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Gladiators sign former A New Sex Pill Takes the MSU goaltender Minney Spotlight as the Viagra Patent is About to Expire

By Christine Troyke

his college career was complete. He played one game for the Fuel and posted a .900 save percentage.

DULUTH — The AtlanThe 22-year-old only ta Gladiators signed rookie played in nine games for goaltender Ed Minney, a the Spartans last year, but product of 25 as a junior in 2016-17 Michigan with an .883 save percentState and age. former “He’s a good kid who gold can develop into a good medalist pro,” Gladiators head for the coach Jeff Pyle said. “We U.S. at the had a kid like that last year Ed U18 World (in Evansville), Tomas Minney Junior Sholl, who was like nothChampionships. The ing I’d ever seen before contract was announced and was great for Idaho.

Tuesday.

(Minney) is a big kid with Minney had brief stints a good pedigree and a with Indy and Kalamazoo at good background. He just the end of last season once needs an opportunity.” christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Minney, from Wind Gap, Pa., is a 6-foot-5 goalie who played for the U.S. National Development Program as a teenager. He was on a gold-medal winning U18 team in 2013-14 in Lappeenranta, Finland, going 2-0-0 with a perfect 1.000 save percentage.

That season, Minney posted a 22-9-1 record with a 2.64 goal-against average and .900 save percentage in 38 games for the U18s. He appeared in 35 games for the U17 team in 2012-13 and led the U.S. to first place at the 2012 Four Nations Tournament in Monthey, Switzerland, going 3-0 with a 2.25 GAA and .912 save percentage.

A patented pill costing less than $1 a dose stands to help millions of men with failing sex lives; no prescription will be required

By Ray Wilson Associated Health Press AHP− A new sex pill is set to take the spotlight with the Viagra patent about to expire. But unlike the former, it won’t require a prescription and is priced just under a $1 a dose.

The new pill called Vesele is part of a new class of performance enhancers for men, which work instantaneously on the body and mind triggering arousal and firmer, harder erections.

Formulated with a special compound known as an “accelerator”, Vesele can transport its active ingredients faster and more efficiently into the blood stream, where it begins to work its magic.

The patented ingredient blend initiates a process known as vasodilation, which causes arteries and vessels throughout the body to expand.

This allows blood to flow directly to penis and genitals, resulting in harder erections which last longer. Cialis and Viagra are based around a simlilar concept.

Gwinnett Stripers starter Touki Toussaint pitches against Buffalo on Saturday at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Bob Chadwick/Gwinnett Stripers)

Stripers’ Toussaint named league’s pitcher of week From Staff Reports

average, holding them to three hits and a walk while Gwinnett Stripers right- striking out eight. hander Touki Toussaint has The outing marked his been named the Internafifth quality start in seven tional League Pitcher of starts with Gwinnett. the Week for Aug. 20 to Since joining the club 26, the league announced July 5, he ranks second Monday. in the IL in ERA (1.62) He is the second conand has not allowed more secutive Stripers pitcher to than three runs in a start. win the award after Bryse He has also struck out at Wilson was named Pitcher least eight batters in five of the Week on Aug. 20. of his seven starts with the Toussaint, rated AtStripers. lanta’s No. 7 prospect by The 22-year-old, acMLB.com, went 1-0 with quired by the Braves from a 0.00 ERA (0 ER in 7.0 the Arizona Diamondbacks IP) in one start during the in 2015, is 4-0 with a 1.62 week, Aug. 23 at Durham. ERA (8 ER in 44.1 IP), 49 He shut down a Bulls strikeouts and a .198 oplineup that night ranked ponent average. Between second in the league in Gwinnett and Double-A wins and team batting Misssissippi, he leads the

But what makes Vesele so remarkable, and what these other sex pills can’t do, is that also directs a small portion of this blood flow to the brain, which creates feelings of intense arousal. In laymen’s terms, users become incredibly excited and turned on.

Braves organization with a 2.49 ERA (36 ER in 130.1 IP), going 8-6 with a .204 opponent average in 23 starts. Toussaint is also 1-0 with a 1.50 ERA (1 ER in 6.0 IP) after making his Major League debut vs.

Miami on Aug. 13.

It is the first career IL Pitcher of the Week award for Toussaint. He is the fifth Stripers player to earn an IL weekly award this season, joining Dustin Peterson (IL Batter of the Week for April 23-29), Danny Santana (IL Batter of the Week for May 21-27), Lucas Sims (IL Pitcher of the Week for July 2-8) and Wilson (IL Pitcher of the Week for Aug. 13-19).

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The Brain Erection Connection Until now, medical researchers did not fully understand the brainerection connection. It has now been made clear with Vesele. When both are supplied with a constant blood flow, men are harder and firmer for longer... and have unbelievable sex drives.

“Most of the research and treatment methods for men’s sexual failures have focused on physiological factors and have neglected the emotional ones. For the leading sex drugs to work, like Cialis and Viagra, you need visual stimulation” explains Dr. Henry Esber, the creator of Vesele.

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The result is a rush of blood flow to the penis and brain, helping to create an impressive erection and a surging desire for sex.

Often, this is all men need to get going. And when

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Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be.

In the trial above, as compared to baseline, men taking Vesele saw a staggering 85% improvement in erection hardness over a fourmonth period.

Their erections also lasted twice as long.

These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners.

Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing.

They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.

Faster Absorption into the Blood Stream Vesele is made up of three specialized ingredients: two clinical strength vasodilators and a patented absorption enhancer often called an accelerator. According to an enormous amount of clinical data, each is very safe.

Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration.

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But what’s more surprising, and what these manufacturers have failed to consider, is that lack of blood flow can also kill your sex drive. That’s because blood supplies energy for the brain. This energy is required for creating brainwaves that cause excitability and arousal.

Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that

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The sexual benefits of Vesele are also multiplied as its ingredients build up in the system over time.

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Recent Studies Show Positive Effects on Women In the same study referenced throughout, Vesele was also shown to have an amazing (and somewhat surprising) effect on women too.

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PREP FOOTBALL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

REGION FOOTBALL STANDINGS

Who: Mountain View’s Tommy Stewart Position: Wide receiver Class: Senior Highlights: Caught seven passes for 184 yards and three touchdowns in the Bears’ win over Langston Hughes Coach Robert Kellogg’s take: “Tommy has been very patient, learning how to work for success. He is very physical for a receiver. Tommy is a passionate teammate so the coaches look to him for leadership. The way he played against Langston Hughes was critical for our team.”

Who: Mill Creek’s Brock Skinner Position: Linebacker Class: Senior Highlights: Had 12 tackles, eight solos and two for losses, in the Hawks’ victory over rival Dacula Coach Shannon Jarvis’ take: “Brock represents all that you would want in a defensive player. Every quality he possesses is what you are looking for in a player, with his character being his greatest. In everything he does, he approaches it with a relentless spirit and competitive toughness that sets the tone for our entire team. He is a wonderful young man that has many great accomplishments ahead of him.”

n Region 8-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week Grayson 0-0 1-0 Bergen Catholic (N.J.) South Gwinnett 0-0 1-0 Brookwood Newton 0-0 1-1 Bye Shiloh 0-0 1-1 Wheeler Archer 0-0 0-1 at Spartanburg (S.C.) Rockdale 0-0 0-2 at Discovery n Region 7-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week Meadowcreek 0-0 2-0 Bye Berkmar 0-0 1-0 at Lithia Springs Norcross 0-0 1-0 Mill Creek Parkview 0-0 1-0 Lowndes Brookwood 0-0 1-1 at South Gwinnett Central Gwinnett 0-0 1-1 Bye Lakeside 0-0 1-1 Bye n Region 6-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week North Gwinnett 0-0 1-0 at Wekiva (Fla.) Discovery 0-0 1-1 Rockdale Mill Creek 0-0 1-1 at Norcross Mountain View 0-0 1-1 Dacula Collins Hill 0-0 0-1 at Marietta Duluth 0-0 0-2 at Lakeside-Evans Peachtree Ridge 0-0 0-2 Bye n Region 8-AAAAAA School Region Overall This week Dacula 0-0 1-1 at Mountain View Habersham 0-0 1-1 at White County Lanier 0-0 1-1 Alpharetta Winder-Barrow 0-0 1-1 Bye Apalachee 0-0 0-2 Madison County Gainesville 0-0 0-2 Lambert n Region 8-AAAAA School Region Overall This week Buford 0-0 2-0 Deerfield Beach (Fla.) Clarke Central 0-0 2-0 at Flowery Branch Cedar Shoals 0-0 1-1 at Greenbrier Johnson 0-0 1-1 Cherokee Bluff Loganville 0-0 1-1 North Oconee Walnut Grove 0-0 0-1 at Morgan County n Region 7-AAA School Region Overall This week Dawson County 0-0 2-0 Bye North Hall 0-0 2-0 Cherokee Fannin County 0-0 1-1 Bye GAC 0-0 1-1 Bye Lumpkin County 0-0 1-1 Jackson County Cherokee Bluff 0-0 0-2 at Johnson-Gainesville East Hall 0-0 0-2 at Woodland-Cartersville n Region 8-A School Region Overall This week Division A Prince Avenue 0-0 2-0 at Wesleyan Athens Academy 0-0 1-0 at Stephens County Providence 0-0 1-0 at King’s Ridge George Walton 0-0 1-0 at Stratford Athens Christian 0-0 1-1 at Landmark Division B Commerce 0-0 2-0 Hart County Towns County 0-0 1-0 Union County Hebron 0-0 1-1 Bye Riverside Military 0-0 1-1 at Christian Heritage Lakeview 0-0 0-1 at Georgia Force n Region 5-A School Region Overall This week Trinity Christian 0-0 2-0 Tattnall Square Strong Rock 0-0 1-0 at Union Grove ELCA 0-0 1-1 at Heritage Holy Innocents’ 0-0 1-1 Bye Landmark 0-0 1-1 Athens Christian Mount Vernon 0-0 1-1 at First Presbyterian Our Lady of Mercy 0-0 0-2 at Manchester Wesleyan 0-0 0-2 Prince Avenue This week’s state games of interest Locust Grove at Camden County Thomasville at Colquitt County Tift County at Worth County Newnan at Alexander Banneker at Hillgrove Riverwood at Kennesaw Mountain Cherokee at North Hall Etowah at South Forsyth Lassiter at Kell Centennial at Roswell Walton at Pope Woodstock at Cambridge Cass at Forsyth Central Lambert at Gainesville

OFFENSIVE HONOR ROLL Brookwood Aidan Perkins, 87 percent blocking grade, 7 knockdown blocks Chris Carter, 18 rushes for 113 yards, 2 TDs Eli Kohl, 12 rushes for 91 yards, 3 TDs, 30-yard catch Lorenzo Britt, 3 catches for 21 yards Buford Derrian Brown, 10 rushes for 155 yards, 3 TDs Drew Gutierrez, 3 catches for 78 yards Riley Simonds, 93 percent blocking grade, 8 pancake blocks Malone VanGorder, 91 percent blocking grade, 6 pancake blocks Central Gwinnett Justin Fomby, 18 of 29 passing for 241 yards, 5 rushes for 42 yards Justin Wilkins, 21 rushes for 83 yards, 3 TDs, 5 catches for 38 yards Kameron King, 6 catches for 146 yards, TD, 3 tackles on special teams Collins Hill Tommy Turnage, 96 percent blocking grade, 1 pancake block Cody Hutchison, 93 percent blocking grade, 2 pancake blocks Jaquan Reece, 91-yard kickoff return, 3 tackles on kickoff coverage Dacula Jarrett Jenkins, 19 of 29 passing for 203 yards, 2 TDs Trenton Jones, 19 rushes for 78 yards, TD Deontaye Brown, 7 catches for 129 yards, TD Riley Adcock, 89 percent blocking grade, 6 pancake blocks GAC Ty James, 4 catches for 147 yards, 2 TDs Josh Rose, 172 passing yards, 2 TDs, 94 rushing yards, TD, 39-yard punting average Grayson Ryan King, 4 catches for 45 yards, TD Jamal Haynes, 3 catches for 27 yards, two-point conversion J’Kori Jones, 11-for-19 passing, 2 TDs Kenyon Jackson, 2 catches for 42 yards, TD Garrett Brophy, zero loafs, 82 percent assignment grade, 1 pancake block Jakai Clark, 91 percent assignment grade, zero pressures, zero loafs, 3 pancake blocks Trente Jones, 92 percent assignment grade, 5 pancake blocks Hebron Colten Gauthier, 16 of 22 passing for 294 yards, 3 TDs Will Warbington, 4 catches for 117 yards, 2 TDs Logan Johnson, 5 catches for 87 yards, TD Brennan Myers, 85 percent blocking grade, 3 pancake blocks Lanier Zach Charles, 5 catches for 70 yards Jagger Jones, high blocking grade Meadowcreek Quincy Bonner, 5 of 8 passing for 159 yards, 3 TDs, 3 rushes for 52 yards, 2 TDs Alonzo Howard, 95-yard kickoff return, 3 catches for 75 yards, 3 TDs Jaylon Dickson, 2 catches for 87 yards, 8 tackles on defense Mill Creek Parker Wroble, 11 rushes for 55 yards, 2 TDs, 3 catches for 77 yards Chancellor Lee-Parker, 18 rushes for 196 yards, TD Ryan Stokes, winning blocking grade, 4 pancake blocks Bryce Hancock, winning blocking grade, 4 pancake blocks Jonathan Leech, winning blocking grade, 4 pancake blocks Mountain View Aidan Higgins, 95 percent blocking grade Will Jones, 90 percent blocking grade Davian Criss, 17 rushes for 119 yards, TD Peachtree Ridge Devin Williams, 1 rushing TD, 1 passing TD

DEFENSIVE HONOR ROLL Brookwood Sterling Ross, 4 tackles, 2 interceptions, 1 big hit, 1 breakaway save Ethan Quarshie, 3 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack, 1 caused fumble, 1 quarterback pressure Jake Winskie, 5 tackles, 2 for losses, 1 QB pressure Derrell Holston, 4 tackles, 1 for loss Buford Jalar Holley, 5 tackles, 2 for losses, 1/2 sack Davin Bryant, 8 tackles, 2 for losses Xalan Taylor, 4 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 pass breakup Central Gwinnett Kevon Blackwood, 10 tackles, 3 for losses, 1 sack, 4 QB hurries Joe Gracia, 11 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 QB hurries Aubrey Smith, 5 tackles, 5 QB hurries Collins Hill Jared Bartlett, 13 tackles (8 solos), 4 for losses, 4 QB pressures, 1 sack, 1 pass breakup, 1 forced turnover, 1 TD Tomari Fox, 4 tackles, 2 for losses, 1 caused fumble, 1 sack, 4 QB hurries Dacula Sean McDaniel, 14 tackles (10 solos) GAC Christopher Hinton, 5 tackles, 1 for loss, winning blocking grade Jeffrey Blake, 7 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack Cole Jolly, 8 tackles Elijah Pryor, 5 tackles, 1 sack Grayson Tre Brown, 6 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 2 sacks Hayden Gilford, 6 tackles (4 solos), 1 QB pressure, 1 sack Owen Pappoe, 6 tackles, 1 for loss, 2 special teams tackles Kevin Harris, 6 tackles, 1 QB pressure, 1 sack Jadyn Bost, 6 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack Kenny Edwards, 5 tackles, 1 for loss Jeremiah Smith, 6 tackles, 3 special teams tackles Kenyatta Watson, 92 percent production grade, 3 tackles, 1 blocked punt Jalen Alexander, 2 blocked kicks Marvin Smith, 1 special teams TD Lanier Jacoby Sharpe, 10 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 sacks, 1 QB pressure Josh Townes, 10 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 QB pressure, 1 caused fumble Jake Ludwig, 5 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 QB pressure Meadowcreek Joe Jenkins, 3 tackles for losses, 1 sack, 1 forced fumble O.J. Edmunds, 1 tackle for loss, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery Promise Williams, 8 tackles, 1 for loss Desmon Jackson, 5 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 fumble recovery Mill Creek R.J. Smith, 4 tackles (2 solos), 1 interception for TD Noah Faircloth, 11 tackles (8 solos), 2 for losses Ronald Clarke, 6 tackles (5 solos), 2 pass breakups Josh Battle, 3 tackles, 1 pass breakup Mountain View Kai Hill, 11 tackles (8 solos), 1 sack, 1 caused fumble Peachtree Ridge A.J. Murdock, 6 tackles, 1 forced fumble Trent Brown, 5 tackles Jalen Lee, 9 tackles Dominic Jones, 6 tackles Terrance Harris, 6 tackles Amari Davis, 5 tackles, 3 batted passes Wesleyan Micah Smith, 5 tackles, 2 for losses Honor roll players are nominated by their coaches. To be included, coaches are asked to email their nominations to will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com by noon Monday.

GWINNETT FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE WEEK The Gwinnett Football League’s players and cheerleaders of the week (athletes were selected by his or her coach): FOOTBALL Archer 8-year-old: Timothy Cole 10-year-old AL North: Jonathan Stafford 11-year-old: Kristion Bivens Buford 6- and 7-year-old NL North: Cooper Kilman 6- and 7-year-old: Jeremiah Powers 8-year-old NL North: Keshon Blow 9-year-old NL North: Braden Cook 9-year-old NL South: Cody Clarke 10-year-old NL North: Malcolm Millsap 12-year-old NL South: Jeremiah Colbert Dacula 9-year-old: Israel Williams 10-year-old: Ibrahim Konate 11-year-old NL South: Donovan Quary Jr. Eighth grade: Jayden Betheq Duluth 6- and 7-year-old: Bryson Jones 8-year-old: Dominic Williamson 10-year-old: Rhari Thomas 11-year-old: Michael Barlow 12-year-old: Baraka Waruiru Eighth grade: Mahari Smith Grayson 6- and 7-year-old: Josiah Stone 8-year-old: Jaryn Williams Lanier 6- and 7-year-old: A’marion Thompson 8-year-old: Copelan Dover 9-year-old: Jameer Cantrell 10-year-old: Colson Fuller 11-year-old: Ethan Montenegro

12-year-old: Tayo Ashadele Eighth grade: Bryan Williams Lawrenceville 7-year-old: Ethan Miller 8-year-old: Joshua Hammonds 9-year-old: Devin Montgomery 10-year-old: Damyon Pearson 11-year-old: Irick Wilson 12-year-old: Nicholas Slidell Eighth grade: Emilio Garcia Mountain View 9-year-old: Juelz Mouzon 12-year-old: Richard Rojas Eighth grade: Zay Wilson Norcross 6- and 7-year-old: McCoy Johnson 10-year-old: Ryan Kinyanjui 11-year-old: Tyson Higginbotham 12-year-old: Jordan McCoy Eighth grade: Nakai Poole North Gwinnett 8-year-old NL South: Reece Higgins 9-year-old NL North: Even Hawkins Eighth grade: Gavin Smith Parkview 6- and 7-year-old: Kaejean Fitzgerald 10-year-old: Bryce Green 12-year-old: Johnny Petrucelli Peachtree Ridge 9-year-old NL North: Gavin Lawrence 10-year-old NL North: Kris Birmingham 10-year-old NL South: Jaden Willis 11-year-old NL South: Jaylen Brown 11-year-old NL North: Lionel Burns 12-year-old NL South: Michael Straughter Eighth grade NL South: Whole defense Shiloh

10-year-old AL North: Aiden Manavian 11-year-old AL North: Scott Jalivay CHEERLEADING Archer First/second grade: Abbie Page Fourth grade: Maci Rigney Fifth grade: Anniyah Talabes Sixth grade: Evie Archer Seventh grade: Genesis Turcios Buford First/second grade: Andie Fischer Third grade: Sarah Patterson Third grade: Keris Collins Fourth grade: Piper Woods Fourth grade: Allison Todd Fifth grade: Georgia Ackermann Sixth grade: Gracie Bruce Seventh grade: Addie Wilson Dacula Seventh grade: Harmonie Welch Duluth Second grade: Emilie Martinez Third grade: Dream Goodwin Fourth grade: Madison Gonzales-Byrd Fifth grade: Aniya Overton Sixth grade: Taliah Sanford Seventh grade: Zakiya Sonnier Eighth grade: Laila Moore Grayson First/second grade: Macie Mealor Seventh grade: Crystal Esquivel Lanier First/second grade: Isabella LaRocca Third grade: Yamari Barbosa Fourth grade: Jaylynn Homer Fifth grade: Kayla Rogers Sixth grade: Jalenda Rogers

Seventh grade: Natalie Rybin Eighth grade: Kelleen Schwimmer Lawrenceville First/second grade: Jaliah Tyus Third grade: Ayana Bohannon Fourth grade: Azaria McAllister Fifth grade: Amyra Anderson Seventh grade: Naliyah Huger Eighth grade: Jaylin Kelly Mountain View First/second grade: Cherish McInnis Third grade: Layla Abram Fourth grade: Chloe Myers Sixth grade: Georgia Vanoy Seventh grade: Danielle Lewis Eighth grade: Emily Pizzino Norcross Sixth grade: Caroline Hamilton Eighth grade: Aaliyah Jones North Gwinnett Fifth grade: Hannah Sytsma Parkview First grade: Caylee Vaughn Second grade: Gabrielle Parker Fourth grade: Leanna Scarborough Eighth grade: Tomas Conlon Peachtree Ridge Fourth grade: Morgan Baccus.

Fifth grade: Celeste Tirado Sixth grade: Mia High Seventh grade: Ta’Shyla Jones Eighth grade: Taylor Tran Shiloh First/second grade: Taylor Edwards Third grade: Nataliya Brown Fourth/fifth grade: Destini Anderson Sixth/seventh grade: Gracey Garcia

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ondeck Prep Schedule

SOFTBALL

Today

5 p.m. — Clarkston at Meadowcreek 5 p.m. — Shiloh at Norcross 5:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Grady 5:30 p.m. — Cedar Shoals at Discovery 5:30 p.m. — Central at Johnson 5:30 p.m. — Collins Hill at Archer 6 p.m. — Loganville at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Wesleyan at GAC Thursday

SOFTBALL

4:45 p.m. — Providence at George Walton Academy 4:45 p.m. — Towns Co. at Hebron 5:30 p.m. — GAC at Cherokee Bluff 5:30 p.m. — Duluth at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Apalachee at Lanier 6 p.m. — Archer at South 6 p.m. — Discovery at North Oconee 6 p.m. — North at Mountain View 6 p.m. — Parkview at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — Rockdale Co. at Grayson 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Newton Co. 6 p.m. — Wesleyan at Eagles’ Landing Christian 6 p.m. — Winder-Barrow at Dacula 6:15 p.m. — Berkmar at Norcross

VOLLEYBALL

4:30 p.m. — Parkview, North Oconee at Winder-Barrow 5 p.m. — Apalachee at Brookwood 5 p.m. — Buford, Chattahoochee at St. Pius 5 p.m. — Grayson, North Cobb at Norcross 5 p.m. — Mountain View, Kennesaw Mountain at Milton 5 p.m. — North, Collins Hill at Lanier 5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge, Mill Creek, Central at Dacula 5 p.m. — Shiloh, Discovery at Archer 5 p.m. — Wesleyan, Pinecrest Academy at Hebron 6 p.m. — Duluth, Meadowcreek at Berkmar 6 p.m. — GAC, Landmark Christian at Mount Vernon 6 p.m. — Providence, South Effingham at Savannah Christian Prep

The Home Teams

United

United 2

Stripers

Braves

TODAY NEXT UPCOMING

Off

at D.C. United at Colorado Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15, 3:30 p.m.

FS1/92.9-FM Unimas

at Toronto FC II at Penn FC Off Fri, 8 p.m.

Sept. 8, 7 p.m.

ESPN+ ESPN+

Norfolk Norfolk Charlotte 7:05 p.m.

Thu, 10:35 p.m. Fri, 7:05 p.m.

97.7-FM 97.7-FM 97.7-FM Tampa Bay Chi. Cubs Pittsburgh 7:35 p.m.

Thu, 7:35 p.m. Fri, 7:35 p.m.

FSSE/93.7-FM FSSE/93.7-FM FSSO/93.7-FM FSSE = FOX Sports Southeast, FSSO = FOX Sports South

On TV MLB

Today

7:30 p.m. — Tampa Bay at Atlanta FSSE

SOCCER

9 a.m. — Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach vs.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen FSSO 3 p.m. — Champions League, Benifica at PAOK, playoff, second leg. TNT

TENNIS

Noon — U.S. Open, second round. From Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. ESPN 7 p.m. — U.S. Open, second round. From Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. ESPN

Sports Calendar LACROSSE

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

Ongoing through Sept.

15: Gwinnett Lacrosse Academy will host three events on Sundays beginning at noon — A Learn to Play Clinic, A Skills Improvement Clinic and a Men’s Indoor Lacrosse League — at the Silver-

backs Indoor facility in Suwanee. The Learn to Play and Skills clinics are for grades 1-8. The men’s league is for post-high school players ages 19-35.

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

RUNNING

Nov. 3: The Atlanta Gladiators professional hockey team’s inaugural 5K, Circus Maximus, will be at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 3 at the Infinite Energy Center. The start and finish will be inside the Gladiators home rink. All proceeds benefit the Atlanta Gladiators Foundation. Cost is $30 for the 5K and $15 for the 8 a.m. kids fun run. The race is the day between two games and all participants receive a free ticket offer to one of the two games.

For more information, go to atlantagladiators.com.

Today in Sports History 1885 — Boxing’s first heavyweight title fight with 3-ounce gloves and three-minute rounds is fought between John L. Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey 1965 — Willie Mays sets the National League record for home runs in a month with his 17th of August 1968 — In the first U.S. Open tennis match Billie Jean King beats Vija Vuskains 1977 — St. Louis’ Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb’s 49-yearold career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3

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Kugbila •From Page 1B

season practice as a rookie, forcing season-ending surschool, to the U.S., where gery. During rehabilitation, his size eventually steered he suffered a back injury him to the gridiron. He and eventually had spinal played for three different fusion surgery that forced coaches at Central — Bradhim into retirement. ley Warren, Dennis Roland “I would rather be out and Ed Stokes — and one there playing, that’s for in particular made a huge sure,” Kugbila said. “I tell impact on his life. these guys you’ve got to “Going back to Dennis give every play like it’s Roland (who died from your last. You never know cancer in 2008), it started when your last play will with him,” Kugbila said be.” of his interest in coachHis new mission, posting. “How he talked to us. football, is working with What kind of a leader and young people, something coach he was, what kind he has enjoyed immensely. of mentor he was, it really That he gets to work with touched me. He was the offensive linemen, and at first coach who really behis alma mater, makes it lieved in something in me. even sweeter.

After Dennis Roland, I al“I love influencing these ways knew I wanted to do kids,” Kugbila said. “Gwinsomething with football. I Central Gwinnett grad Edmund Kugbila lines up during nett County is the hub right didn’t know it was coacha practice with the Carolina Panthers, who made him a now for football. College ing. I talked to college coaches come in all the fourth-round draft pick in 2013. (Special photo) coaches and NFL coaches time. If I can help these and they said, ‘Do you reThe 6-foot-4, years ago and figured into guys get better, get a scholally want to do this?’”

325-pounder, an All-Amer- an offense with guys like arship, go to school for He admittedly didn’t ican at Valdosta State, was Cam Newton and Steve free, either go to the league want to get into coaching a promising Panthers ofSmith. But he tore knee or get life started, that’s my so quickly. fensive lineman just a few ligaments during a prepassion right now.”

Chesnut •From Page 1B level at Navy, and eventually at Tech, where Johnson served as Bohannon’s mentor.

Chesnut has proven to be just as good a fit into Bohannon’s system as was expected, as Kennesaw State has quickly become an FCS offensive juggernaut since their program began in 2015.

When the Owls open up the 2018 campaign against Georgia State on Thursday night at Georgia State University Stadium in Atlanta, their first game against an FBS opponent, the Snellville native is hoping it will be the first step for the offense taking itself to a new, higher level.

“Offensively, we want to field the most explosive offense we can, and we want to maximize our talent as much as we can,” said Chestnut, who coached on the college level at Presbyterian and in high school at Mary Persons, Camden County, Thomasville, Pickens County and CentralCarrollton. “If that means running the ball, so be it. If that means we have to throw the ball more, we’ll do that. We want to do what we need to do to be the most explosive offense and most dynamic offense in the country and to be able to recruit the best players to help us do that.”

Recruiting was definitely the first task Chesnut, Bohannon and the rest of the Kennesaw State coaching staff faced when they came to campus in spring 2013, two full years before the Owls’ played their first game.

While he knew he and his cohorts had a monumental task building from the ground up in those humble beginnings, he knew the relationships he forged growing up in Gwinnett County, and then coaching at nearly every corner of Georgia, would come in handy.

“When we came in here, it’s going on five years now, there weren’t any players,” Chestnut said. “So we sat out there that first spring and the four guys we had on staff, including myself and the head (Bohannon) and Liam Klein, our recruiting coordinator, and our linebackers coach at the time, a guy named Shane Bowen.

Shane’s now the linebackers coach with the (Tennessee) Titans. We all headed out on the road visiting every

Snellville native Grant Chesnut has been the perfect fit as offensive coordinator for Kennesaw State’s spread option attack. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

(high) school in the state of Georgia that plays football. That includes eight-man football schools. So we’re all incredibly invested in what has occurred here these last few years.

“The relationships, particularly over in Gwinnett County and throughout the state, as a coach, you tend to as you work your way up move around a little bit. I think I’ve touched every corner of the state.

So the good part about that is that you’re able to build a lot of relationships, and you know a lot of people.

That’s definitely been beneficial as we built the program. It’s definitely been a grassroots effort. We’ve been very intentional about walking into every school, shaking hands and spreading the gospel of Kennesaw State. It’s been a great experience thus far. We’ve got to keep working.

We’ve got to keep grinding.”

Once the players eventually got to Kennesaw State, Chesnut’s offenses have done an extremely effective job of grinding down opposing defenses.

The Owls set the tone by rolling up 56 points against East Tennessee State in their debut game in September 2015 and eventually put up the fifth-highest single-season rushing yards (3,398) in Big South Conference history, rushing for five 300yard games on the year.

The second season saw KSU become the only FCS team to rank in the top 10 nationally in total offense,

rushing, scoring, pass efficiency and third-down and fourth-down conversions.

Last season, the Owls continued to dominate behind quarterback Chandler Banks, the Big South Offensive Player of the Year, and was a big key in helping the team not only claim its first conference title, but advance to the quarterfinals of the FCS national playoffs and a No. 8 ranking in the final national FCS poll.

But Chesnut said he and his players and coaches are looking for more in 2018, especially with Banks and several other members of the initial recruiting class — such as running back Darnell Holland, receiver Justin Sumpter and linemen C.J. Collins, Joseph Alexander Jr. and Ryan Warrior — all back for their senior season.

“It was a very exciting year (in 2017),” Chesnut said. “A lot of positive things occurred. As far as the offense, these guys have had a ton of reps, particularly the older guys, the guys you call the O.G.s. Those guys have had a large number of reps.

They practiced 78 times before playing a game (in 2015). So you’d expect those guys to be able to execute and perform at a high level, and they were able to do that last year.

“Now our goal — or now our challenge, I should say — is to fill in those younger guys that we recruited in recent years and get them up to speed as quickly as possible.

That’s the challenge in continuing to maintain our offensive output at a high level. … We’ve got to stay hungry. We cannot be complacent, and that’s the danger for every team that’s experience any kind of success. And the offensive unit is having success. If you allow yourself to get complacent, you lose your edge. You lose your hunger. You lose that chip on your shoulder. e play here with a chip on our shoulder. We coach with a chip on our shoulder. We have a lot to prove. Nobody expects anything of us, and that’s been a great motivator for us. But as we transition into a more experienced program, we’ve put years under our belts, so to speak, we have to be able to transition and stay hungry and keep our edge and not be satisfied with success.”

Football •From Page 1B percent of its games dating back to the program’s first season in 2012. Discovery’s 18.2 winning percentage dates back only to 2016.

The county’s thirdlowest percentage could perhaps give programs some hope. Meadowcreek has won 20 percent of its games in 33 seasons, but with each new season comes a new slate. Last season, Meadowcreek made the state playoffs for the first time since 1988 and just the second time in program history.

Now the Mustangs are off to a 2-0 start to the 2018 season.

No passing? No problem Had Collins Hill been able to pull off an upset of then-Class AAAAAAA

No. 4-ranked Walton, the win would have kept the Eagles’ spirits soaring well past Friday night. But 22 fourth-quarter points for the Raiders doomed Collins Hill, which fell short 29-25.

Those who follow Georgia high school football learned a few things: Walton is mortal, and Collins Hill could be better than advertised.

“I learned we’ve got a good football team,” Collins Hill head coach Lenny Gregory said after the game.

But it’s not necessarily that Collins Hill gave Walton a competitive fight, it’s how the Eagles did so.

Collins Hill produced 100 percent of its offensive yards on the ground and totaled zero passing yards.

That is the epitome of how the wing-T offense —

despite its heyday in the 1940s — is still effective in high school football and has evolved to work its way into certain spread offensive formations.

One of Collins Hill’s three returning starters, Deangelo Oliver, led the team with 67 yards on 14 carries.

Last season, Lanier beat a different Raiders team with zero passing yards.

Lanier out-gained Habersham 382 to 161 to edge its opponent 25-21.

Interstate play The final day in August will kick off a handful of cross-state matchups.

Buford will host a showcase between a pair of Gwinnett County teams and two teams from opposite ends of the East Coast.

Grayson faces Bergen Catholic from New Jersey

and Buford hosts Deerfield Beach from the Atlantic Coast of Florida.

North Gwinnett will also host a Florida opponent this season. The Bulldogs will host Wekiva High School from Apopka, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. Archer is the fourth Gwinnett team to play an out-of-state team, but the first to travel.

The Tigers will play Spartanburg (S.C.) in a showcase at Wofford College.

Greater Atlanta Christian will be the team to travel the farthest when it heads to Plano, Texas, to face Prestonwood Christian.

Last year, Gwinnett teams were 5-2 against foreign opponents. That was largely due to Grayson’s 4-0 record against Hoover (Ala.), John Curtis (La.), International School of Broward (Fla.) and Ramsay (Ala.).

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The double standards with Trump

Finding someone in Washington who is nonpartisan and puts the nation’s interests ahead of their own is so rare these days that he or she, if found, might well qualify as an endangered species.

But once in a while — call it the law of averages — someone speaks the truth.

It happened last week when Mark Penn, former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, wrote a column for The Hill newspaper in which he claimed there is a big difference between how Hillary Clinton and President Trump have been treated when it comes to allegaCal tions of criminal Thomas behavior.

Penn then appeared on Fox News, where he spoke of the “double standard” applied to Trump and his associates compared to how Clinton was exonerated by FBI Director James Comey over her private email server and her handling of classified information. “The investigations related to the email were handled with kid gloves, and the investigations related to Trump … with all-out prosecutorial force of government and deep state might,” Penn said.

It doesn’t matter. The long knives have been drawn by those who want to reverse the results of the 2016 election and put themselves back in power. They will not be sheathed until blood is drawn, preferably the blood of the president, whose personality might not win him any good deportment citations on a grade school report card, but whose policies are making the nation stronger.

Neither does it matter that no evidence of Russian “collusion” by the Trump campaign has yet to be uncovered. That train seems to have long ago left the station, replaced by other strategies to bring down the president, none of which were part of the special counsel’s original mandate.

Indeed, on July 13 when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 Russians for their alleged roles in hacking computers at the Democratic National Committee and other sites, he said: “There’s no allegation in this document that any American citizen committed a crime. There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.”

Rosenstein knows the indicted Russians will never be extradited and tried, so it looks to most conservatives like a public relations stunt designed to show that Robert Mueller was pursuing what he had been tasked with discovering.

Having failed to achieve that objective, the tentacles of his office have spread out in other directions, now reaching the Trump organization where its CEO has been granted full federal immunity and will likely be required to divulge anything — perhaps even those long-hidden Trump income tax returns, which Democrats have wanted made public since the 2016 campaign.

President Trump needs to refocus and stop attacking his political enemies, and even his friends, and start worrying about his most pressing problem. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized, “The biggest political threat to Mr. Trump is a Democratic election victory in November, which will trigger a drive for impeachment. Mr. Trump isn’t going to persuade anyone to vote for Republicans by railing against a Republican attorney general he selected.”

He should stop publicly admonishing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who early on recused himself from all things Russian. After the president’s latest criticism of Sessions, Sessions issued a statement defending the law and the integrity of the Department of Justice against the president’s constant criticism.

Yes, the DOJ has behaved differently under Sessions (and Rosenstein) than it did when Eric Holder, described as President Obama’s “wing man,” held that post, but nothing can be done about that now. The president should concern himself with what is being done on other fronts where he can credibly claim success. The problem is that his constant attacks on others, which achieve little, have obscured many of his accomplishments.

Americans want to be happy about the present and optimistic about the future.

This president — any president — should see that as his main calling and pull back on his Twitter barrages. There should be only one standard for a president’s behavior.

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

Purging church’s predatory priests Am I the only Catholic who thinks the church needs to consider getting rid of the old guard — all the way up to the pope? That may be the only way to finally purge the predatory priests who have been allowed to exist within the bowels of the Catholic Church for so long.

The church has been rocked in recent years by sexual abuse scandals in Ireland, Australia, Chile, Boston, L.A. … Then two weeks ago we got the shocking results of the country’s largest investigation ever into the sex crimes of Catholic priests.

A grand jury in Pennsylvania identified more than 300 “predator priests” in six dioceses, who over the course of 70 years, had molested and raped nearly 1,000 children, mostly boys.

The bombshell report named the priests who had been caught abusing kids, and in graphic and sordid detail it described what they did — again and again, even after their superiors learned of their molesting.

According to the grand jury report, the priests’ serial sexual abuse was only possible because of a churchwide cover-up that reached all the way to the Vatican.

for “the little ones,” whose pain “was long ignored, kept quiet or silenced.”

No kidding.

The pope also vowed to prevent further cover-ups of what he correctly called “crimes” and promised accountability for the abusMichael ers — and those above them Reagan who permitted the abuse to continue or covered it up.

The scandal in PennsylThat sounded good, but at vania is the familiar horror least one Cardinal, Sergio story: The children who Obeso Rivera of Mexico, were victimized were not didn’t get the message. believed while the pedophile Obeso Rivera said this priests were protected by the week that victims of priestly church. The priests were not sexual abuse — i.e., children defrocked, not reported to — should be “ashamed” to police and were often moved accuse “men of the church.” to other parishes where their Maybe something the carhistory of abuse was kept dinal said was lost in translaquiet and they were able to tion, but if Pope Francis is prey on more children. serious about cleaning up the As usual, the Vatican’s church, it has to get rid of PR machine said all the men like Obeso Rivera. It’s right things. A spokesman his generation that has been expressed “shame and sorprotecting pedophile priests row” and decried the pattern for decades. of abuse and cover-up in It’s because of old men Pennsylvania as “criminally like him that the people in and morally reprehensible.” the pews don’t believe the He said the abuse “robbed church is ever going to do survivors of their dignity and what it should to solve its their faith. predatory priest problem.

Earlier this week, Pope It’s because of old men like Francis himself issued a let- the Mexican cardinal that the ter in seven languages admit- church is fighting for a statting the church had shameute of limitations on filing fully failed to protect or care child sexual abuse charges

instead of fighting to have no statute of limitations on sex abuse at all.

There’s no statute of limitations for murder and there shouldn’t be one for child molestation. The molesting of a child is the murdering of a soul. I know from experience that when a young boy is molested, as I was by a camp counselor in 1953, it is something that affects you for the rest of your life.

Maybe the Catholic Church needs to start with a clean slate.

It does no good for the pope to meet with kids who’ve been sexually abused and tell them how sorry he is when he has old cardinals in power like Obeso Rivera who believe it’s the child’s fault. If the pope doesn’t have the guts to take away the red cap, the miter, from a Mexican cardinal who makes that kind of idiotic statement, then maybe the pope needs to be replaced also.

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

School lunch debates are here again School is back in session for many American children, which means it’s time to debate the federal government’s role in deciding what our kids should eat for lunch.

To understand how the federal government got into the nutrition business, a little history is in order.

The government got into the school nutrition business during the Depression.

FDR saw an opportunity to feed kids while winning the favor of farmers by buying their food with government money.

In 1946, the Truman administration formalized the feds’ school-nutrition role. During both World War I and World War II, the government had noticed some recruits suffered from malnutrition and stunted growth. To address the problem — and win the favor of food producers — the National School Lunch Act was passed into law.

Though there was lots of debate and politics still surround the program, the premise is reasonable enough: For some of

wish I could have enjoyed hot, government-subsidized grub at St. Germaine School in the 1970s. But my mother, a master at pinching pennies, packed our lunches every day.

Early in the school year, she approached the daily Tom burden with great enthusiPurcell asm. We never got namebrand treats, such as Hostess America’s poorest kids, a hot Ho Hos, but she’d make a breakfast or lunch at school fresh ham sandwich, give may be the only decent food us a fat peach or pear and they have all day. sometimes mix up a batch of In response to America’s butterscotch pudding and put obesity epidemic, first lady it in a small thermal conMichelle Obama champitainer. oned good nutrition through Unfortunately, her enthuthe Healthy, Hunger-Free siasm waned by the second Kids Act of 2010. It limited week of school. The rest of fats, sodium and sweets in the year, my lunch consisted school lunches, as it reduced of two end pieces of Celportion sizes. lone’s Italian bread and a The Trump administration, hunk of bologna glued towhich argued that many kids gether by warm mayonnaise, refused to eat the healthier, plus some celery or carrots, less-tasty fare, relaxed the some peanut butter crackschool-lunch rules. Accorders, and a Washington apple ing to Business Insider, kids for desert; the apple was are again consuming “sugary usually littered with mulchocolate milk, fewer whole tiple half-moon cuts, as my grains, and around 300 extra sisters examined every apple milligrams of salt.” with their fingernails before All I know is that I surely choosing one to eat.

And every day, I sat next to Jimmy Schmidt. His lunch consisted of peanut butter and jelly on fresh Wonder Bread, a can of Coke, Hostess Ho Hos and a Nestle Crunch bar — not exactly nutritious, but lunch heaven for a kid back then.

Every day, I asked Jimmy if he wanted to trade. Every day, he looked at me like I had rocks in my head.

In any event, we now live in an era in which the federal government and politics are involved in every aspect of our lives.

Various congressmen have sponsored bills to repeal or replace the Hunger-Free Kids Act. Rep Tom Marino, R-Pa., recently sponsored a bill to allow kids to consume whole milk in school lunches, rather than the less-tasty 1-percent milk that is mandated by school-lunch law.

Looks like another schoollunch battle in Washington is inevitable.

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

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plus degrees and sometimes these kids have to idea what it was. He was work and have to run after. like, ‘We go after school I want to reward them for and we run every day.’ And working hard, especially in I was like, ‘OK, sure. Let’s the summer. do it, man.’

DF: So you mentioned DF: Had you even run about getting started in track before? cross country. I imagine MD: No. I played basethat carried over into ball in middle school and running distances for the basketball in elementary track team in the spring. school. I played basketAnd you’ve done that as ball in eighth grade, and a coach, as well. When all that. So I’d never run you’ve got a program like before, other than just Parkview’s that has so kind of running around many good sprinters and for the fun of it in middle field athletes recently, school. I didn’t know what having competitive (cross country) was. Once distances can make a big I started running, I fell in difference. It may have love with it really quick. helped put the boys team Coach Christie kind of got over the top for their me hooked almost imstate title last spring, mediately. Just his attitude Parkview coach Mike Demarest talks to his team prior to the boys championship race right? and he’s just a great guy MD: I’m a big believer during the Coach Wood Invitational at the University of North Georgia in Gainesville. overall. He just kind of got (Photo: Karl L. Moore) that success breeds sucme into it. cess. So (in spring 2017), DF: Was there any one hard, this could happen.’ runner, and I like to tell the after school ended (the our track team was second moment that told you I did break 17 as a senior. guys that on the guys’ side. previous year) and would place (at state), so there that you could be pretty So it took an extra year to Especially as a freshman. go all the way through was a lot of unfinished good at it? get to. One of his biggest You’ve got three years (af- pre-planning. He’d also do business (this past spring).

MD: Sort of. So afgoals for new runners is ter that), so keep working. this thing called Mileage Last year, we only scored ter my sophomore year, to break 20 minutes. So I It’s kind of like in track Clubs. I definitely got that in the (3,200 meters among (Christie) wrote in my broke 20 minutes my first like breaking five (minutes from him. Starting at 200 the distances races) at yearbook, ‘If you keep year, so that was kind of in the mile). It’s kind of (miles) and going all the state. This year, I was talkworking hard, you’ll break his staple, especially if like a barrier that new run- way up to — like this year, ing to our guys and said, ‘I 18 (minutes) as a junior you’re a freshman, though ners like to look at. Once the most we had anyone want to get a guy (qualified and you’ll break 17 as a I was a sophomore. If you they’ve done that, it’s like, do is 620. So he handed for) state in every distance senior. And I didn’t break can break 20 your first year ‘OK, I’ve hit that one. Now out these T-shirts after the event. The 800, the mile 18 as a junior. I was pretty and keep working hard, I can kind of keep going mileage. We wrote in on a and the (3,200). I want far off of that. I didn’t have you’re going to see a lot of and move on from there. sheet of paper. Nowadays, us to pull our own weight as great a season, and I progress.

DF: Is there anything they can log it online. to win this thing.’ And remember talking to him DF: Is that one of the else you took from Coach They’d have these mileage we did. Christian (Corabout it. He said he sort things you took most Christie’s playbook, so to club T-shirts. My kids (got) sello), who graduated last of regretted writing that from him and incorspeak? theirs (in mid-August). So (spring), got fourth in the because he was giving porated into your own MD: He was really big that was one of the things, 800 and sixth in the mile. me a little too much to go coaching? on summer mileage. Real just kind of reward them Then Tristan Autry, who is for. But senior year, he MD: Yeah, sub-20 is big on summer mileage. for coming out here. We a junior now, he got sevset the goal to break 17, always a great barrier, He used to use an 11-week do practice in the morning, enth (in the 3,200). So for or he said, ‘If you work especially for a first-year cycle. It would start right but it’s still hot. It’s 80us, it was, ‘Hey, we’ve got

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the sprinters. We’ve got the field events. We don’t want to just ride the coattails to win a championship. We need to contribute.’ That was a big motivation for those top guys. Let’s work hard and let’s contribute to that.

DF: I also have to think that since Parkview has such a long winning tradition in cross country that feeling has carried over into this fall, no?

MD: It plays into (the season) a lot, especially since the last couple of years, we just haven’t produced on the cross country side as well as I was hoping, guys and girls. Last year, the girls didn’t qualify for state. It was … maybe the second time in like 20 years that they hadn’t. Just a couple things didn’t go right. On the guys’ side, we had some injuries. So when you … go to our cafeteria and look and see all those (championship) banners.

You see cross country ones and my guys, and girls now, are like, ‘We want to be up there. We want to add to this.’ Again, going back to track, I think, really helps because of that whole success breeding success thing. We say, ‘Hey, look what it looks like to win a state championship in track,’ which still means a lot to them. … So they’re kind of wanting to put Parkview back on the (state cross country) map because there is a rich tradition here.

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