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Two killed in separate hit-and-runs Report: Suspect runs over woman Police: Driver ditches scene of one after altercation, flees the scene wreck, killed in another while fleeing

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Gwinnett police believe an argument between three women at a Duluth gas station Monday night led to one being run over and killed.

BY ISABEL HUGHES

Gwinnett County Police Department officers responded to the BP gas station at the intersection of Pleasant Hill and Venture Drive shortly after 11 p.m. after receiving 911 calls that 50-year-old Melissa See WOMAN, Page 3A

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A hit-and-run suspect who was located by police less than 20 minutes after leaving the scene of one wreck was killed in another

wreck as he attempted to flee officers early Tuesday morning, officials said.

According to Sgt. Jake Smith, a spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department, the initial hit-and-run occurred on Interstate 85 South between

Hamilton Mill Road and Buford Drive at about 4:10 a.m.

“The at-fault vehicle was a black Mini Cooper and (was) initially stopped on the interstate,” Smith said.

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Three get charged in violent pair of robberies Police: One man killed, one injured in incidents

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Seventh-graders pretend to be news reporters on the C-SPAN Bus, which visited Shiloh Middle School on Monday as part of the public affairs network’s Top Teachers Tour. The tour visits educators who have been recognized as top social studies teachers or those who creatively use C-SPAN Classroom. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

Newsroom to classroom

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When Shiloh Middle School social studies teacher LaCresha Williams-Pittman was chosen as a C-SPAN Fellow earlier this year and given the opportunity to travel to Washington for an educators conference in July, she was thrilled.

“I wanted professional development and I love CSPAN and always use their (content), so I applied for the (fellowship) program,” Williams-Pittman said.

“They picked me and paid for me to go to D.C., they paid for my food. My hotel was on Capitol Hill ... it was

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she couldn’t have anticipated that, several months later, CSPAN would come to her.

Yet on Monday, the CSPAN Bus, which has visited schools, book festivals, state capitals and political events across the country since 1993, made its way to Snellville and to the students of Shiloh Middle School as part C-SPAN Marketing Representative Doug Hemmig speaks to a of its Top Teachers Tour. group of Shiloh Middle School students on the C-SPAN Bus, The tour, which has travwhich visited the Snellville school on Monday as part of the eled to schools in South public affairs network’s Top Teachers Tour.

Carolina, Florida and Georamazing.” experience with her students gia and will conclude its Though Williams-Pittman and fellow teachers when she See C-SPAN, Page 3A had planned to share the returned to school in August,

Three Gwinnett residents accused of brutally attacking two men in two separate armed robberies over the weekend have been charged in connection with the crimes, one of which led to the victim’s death.

Glenda Carter, 20, of Lawrenceville and brothers Russell Williams, 22, of Lawrenceville and Zarius Williams, 21, of Dacula were charged with felony murder, Glenda Carter armed robbery and aggravated assault after police said they attacked 32-year-old Dacula resident Marcos Guerra with a baseball bat on Friday night and 48-year-old Jefferson resident Simon Fuentes on Sunday Russell afternoon.

Williams Detectives believe the motive for the attacks was robbery, as neither victim knew one another or the suspects.

According to Cpl. Michele Pihera, spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police Zarius Department, detectives Williams began investigating after officers were dispatched, at about 10:15 p.m. Friday to the Lealand Place Apartments in unincorporated Lawrenceville for reports of “suspicious activity.”

“When officers arrived, they found a Hispanic male, later identified as Guerra, with significant injuries to his face,” Pihera said. “Marcos was unconscious ... (and his) wallet and cellphone were missing.”

Guerra was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, where doctors attempted to treat his “serious facial injuries and head trauma,” Pihera said.

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Buford City Schools’ superintendent search committee has begun combing through applications, while the district’s new Diversity and Inclusion Advisory and Service Councils will begin meeting next month, school officials said at Monday’s board of education meeting.

The search committee, which is headed by former Buford City Schools Superintendent Beauty Baldwin, received 92 applications total — 61 of which were submitted by Georgia residents and 31 from non-Georgians, who hail from “15 different states, from Maine to Florida to Texas to Washington State,” Baldwin said Monday.

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The committee, which is tasked with finding the person to succeed Interim Superintendent Joy Davis, who took over following Superintendent Geye Hamby’s resignation in late August after audio recordings surfaced of him allegedly spewing racist rants, meets every Monday, sometimes as long as eight hours at a time.

Its final meeting of the year will be held on Dec. 17 and meetings will resume in January.

The district’s diversity councils, which are headed

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selection Monday afternoon, Smith said.

Originally, there was only going to be one council, though Smith said due to the large number of applications, she decided to create two councils — one comprised of community members and one of school district employees.

“Twelve district employees have been selected,” she said. “The council includes teachers, paraprofessionals, a school nurse and central office staff.”

While the exact number of community council members has not yet been set — 25 or 26 people were selected and emailed Monday, though not all may ultimately decided to join the council — Smith said she is looking forward to working with them as well as the district council.

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“We conducted a poll of our parade participants about a reschedule date prior to Christmas and nearly 70 percent are unable to participate in a rescheduled event,” city officials said on the event’s Facebook page. “Taking that into consideration, if the parade is canceled due to rain, it will not be rescheduled for 2018.”

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Mustafi then fled the scene, Rundles said.

Wheeler, of Decatur, had Wheeler was “quickly been run over by a woman transported by Fire Delater identified as 27-year- partment personnel to a old Lawrenceville resident local area hospital with Anita Mustafi, accordlife threatening injuries,” ing to Wilbert Rundles, a though later died, Rundles spokesman for the depart- said. ment.

Mustafi was identified “During the course of by a Lawrenceville Police the investigation, it was Department officer who learned that (Mustafi) had recognized her from “a an altercation with two previous encounter.” black females near the “Investigators from the gas pumps,” Rundles said. Accident Investigation “(Mustafi) went inside the Unit attempted to make gas station and paid for her contact with Anita but she gas and a few snack items was not home,” Rundles … A few moments later, said. “They did, however, she begins to leave (in locate the vehicle involved her car) and has a verbal in the incident. Investigaaltercation with two black tors are currently obtaining females that were at the a search warrant to search pump next to her.” the vehicle and process After Mustafi stopped it for evidence. Warrants her car, the women for Anita’s arrest will be “appear(ed) to try to open obtained and she will be her vehicle door and start charged with felony hit a physical altercation,” and run.”

Rundles said.

Anyone with infor“(Mustafi) flees by pull- mation about Mustafi’s ing around the gas pumps whereabouts is asked and one of the black to contact detectives at females tries to block 678-442-5653. To remain her in,” he said. “The anonymous, tipsters can two black females again contact Crime Stoppers at confront (Mustafi). They 404-577-TIPS (8477) or open her vehicle door visit crimestoppersatlanta. and a physical altercation org. ensues. (Mustafi) backs up Tipsters can receive up and (Wheeler) is struck by to $2,000 for information the vehicle door. She falls leading to an arrest and inand is ultimately run over dictment in this case. The by the suspect vehicle.” case number is 18-114649.

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Suwanee-based realtor gets sentenced for defrauding clients of $22 million tious closings and then pocketed the money. In other instances, she went through with the closing A formerly prominent and used the property Suwanee-based realtor as collateral for unauwho defrauded clients out thorized loans for her of more than $22 million own benefit, meanwhile over a two-year period embezzling hundreds of will spend the next seven thousands of dollars in years behind bars for her managing such propercrimes, a federal judge ties.” recently ruled.

According to Pak, Fu Emily Moerdermo Fu, founded Capital Managefounder of Suwanee’s ment, which offered a Capital Management, wide range of services to pleaded guilty to mail investors in commercial fraud in July, less than a properties around metroyear after several invespolitan Atlanta, including tors confronted her about investment recommendadiscrepancies in account- tions, property financing records, according to ing and acquisition and U.S. Attorney BJay Pak. management services.

“While Fu was a wellBetween 2004 and respected real estate and 2017, Fu created several financial professional, investment companies for she took advantage of her a group of clients under reputation and clients’ the guise that the compatrust to defraud them,” nies would purchase of Pak said. “In some commercial real estate in cases, she created fictiForsyth, Gwinnett, Fulton

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students were full of questions Monday trip in Tennessee, visits afternoon, something teachers who have been Williams-Pittman said selected by state social she hoped for when she studies associations for was told the bus would be their commitment to exstopping at the school. cellence and leadership in “What I love about the field.

C-SPAN is it’s unbiased,” It also travels to Williams-Pittman said. educators who have been “We’re inundated with recognized for their creopinions right now, and ative and innovative use (C-SPAN) is all factual. of C-SPAN Classroom, It’s not about what you an educational resource think or what I think, program offered by the but it’s, ‘Let’s look at nonprofit, said C-SPAN what’s actually being Marketing Representative said.’ Having kids infer Shannon Augustus. what could happen (in “We love to go out the future) based upon into the community and what the president said or spread the C-SPAN love,” what happened with the Augustus said. “The stu(Georgia) election and the dents have been great and voting stuff and having have been asking a lot of those conversations is rereally great questions.” ally important.”

Shiloh Middle School’s C-SPAN allows stu-

dents to make those inferences because the Washington-based public affairs network, which has three channels — CSPAN1 covers the U.S. House of Representatives, C-SPAN2 covers U.S. Senate and C-SPAN3 covers public affairs events, congressional hearings and history programming — broadcasts only unedited and uncut video and audio.

“We’re kind of a fly on the wall,” said C-SPAN Marketing Representative Doug Hemmig. “We don’t edit anything; if the President spoke here at the (middle) school for an hour, you’d see an hour and 10 minutes — five minutes before he went on the air and five minutes after. It’s very, very

Wreck

“That vehicle, driven by a male, fled the scene and was encountered by officers on Buford Drive at about 4:22 a.m. When

officers tried to pull the vehicle over, it fled and crashed into the median wall on the ramp from Buford Drive to I-85 South.”

The driver was pro-

nounced dead at the scene. Police have not yet released his identity, pending notification of next of kin.

This was the second hit-and-run in less than

different (from typical news media).”

That difference is what makes C-SPAN, and it’s trip to Snellville on Monday, so important, Williams-Pittman said.

“It’s really important for (students) to access that (unbiased) information and know where to go, because right now, if you’re on Instagram and something comes on your feed, they run with it,” she said. “Looking at the facts (allows students) to have a better understanding of what’s true and what’s not. You have to do that even when you’re young, and I thought it would be important for our demographics especially to see the opportunities they have with C-SPAN.”

six hours in Gwinnett that resulted in a fatality. In the first, a woman was run over by a SUV after an argument ensued between two other women at a Duluth gas station.

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•From Page 1A “On Sunday, the GCPD Homicide Unit was contacted,” she said. “According to the hospital, the victim was declared

deceased — no brain activity — on (Saturday).

The victim’s body is being kept on a ventilator for organ donation.”

In the days following the Friday attack, detec-

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purchases” for her own use.

Fu had been a “prominent real estate professional” before she committed the fraud, Pak said.

“This announcement serves as a reminder to scam artists who blatantly commit fraud that they will be held accountable through the judicial system,” said Scott Fix, Acting U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge of the Charlotte Division. “Postal Inspectors are committed to pursuing those individuals who violate the public’s trust and encourage customers to keep a watchful eye on their investments.”

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story sentenced Fu to seven years, three months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay more than $22 million in restitution.

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and other metro-Atlanta counties.

In November 2017, the investors discovered irregularities in the books of some of the companies and confronted Fu, who admitted to having embezzled around $930,000, Pak said.

“Through queries of county property databases and other investigations, it was determined that Fu had never followed through on several commercial real estate purchases, each valued in the millions of dollars,” he said. “The properties included medical and shopping centers in Atlanta and across the northern metro area.”

Fu told her victims that she had completed the closings and was managing the properties, but was actually diverting the loans and investment funds for these “ghost

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tives were able to generate a “solid lead” as to who the suspects were, Pihera said, and determined that Carter and Russell Williams were in the process of being evicted from Le-

aland Place Apartments.

Russell’s brother, Zarius Williams, was also in the area at the time of the crime, detectives found.

“While conducting research into this event, the detectives were notified of another victim, Fuentes, who had been transported to the hospital on Sunday at around 2 p.m.,” Pihera said. “After Simon was attacked, he drove away from the location and called for an ambulance to a nearby home. Simon and Marcos were both robbed and physically assaulted with a baseball bat by two black males and a white female. Simon sustained head trauma and a broken arm. He is expected to survive his injuries.”

Detectives arrested the Williams brothers and Carter on Monday after locating them at the Red Roof Inn on Brook Hollow Parkway in Norcross, charging them each with two counts of armed robbery, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of felony murder.

“The detectives are confident that there are no additional victims nor was anyone else involved,” Pihera said. “We are very fortunate that these suspects were caught as quickly as they were.

There is a strong possibility that more people could have been victimized

by Glenda, Russel, and Zarius if they were not caught when they were.”

The trio is being held at the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.

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Comparing the array of treatments DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently have been diagnosed with early prostate cancer.

My Gleason score is 7. My urologist has informed me that he doesn’t think I am a good candidate for surgery, due to having atrial fibrillation. My radiation oncologist has recommended traditional radiation therapy. However, I am worried about the possible side effects. I am 72 and in otherwise good health.

I am considering proton therapy and wonder if you have any thoughts. My research indicates that this has far lower risk of incontinence and impotence.

— R.O.B. ANSWER: Prostate cancer can be a challenging diagnosis, and I hope I can help clarify things a bit.

You have what would be termed intermediate-risk prostate cancer, based on your Gleason score, a measure of how aggressive the cancer appears on pathological slides. Most experts would recommend radiation or surgery. Atrial fibrillation itself is not necessarily a reason NOT to get surgery; however, the side effects probably are less with radiation compared with surgery.

Depending on the exact findings of your cancer, experts would recommend radiation in addition to surgery in some cases similar to yours.

The radiation is combined with hormone treatment in some people.

Radiation may be delivered from the outside, either with X-rays (traditional) or protons, or from the inside via internal radiation “seeds” implanted surgically, called brachytherapy. Cancer cells are more sensitive to radiation than surrounding healthy cells, so radiation has been an effective treatment for prostate cancer for decades. Unfortunately, healthy cells of the bladder and rectum still can be affected by radiation, so side effects of radiation include urinary complaints and rectal bleeding, pain and urgency.

Sexual function also may be affected; however, modern X-ray radiation techniques (called intensity-modulated radiation therapy) are much better at avoiding the structures that can lead to these complications.

The research data has shown that there is not a survival difference comparing radiation and surgery. When comparing IMRT and proton beam treatment, there is no convincing evidence that proton beam therapy is more effective, but there is weakto-moderate evidence of MORE side effects with proton beam, especially more GI symptoms (34 percent higher in the proton beam group).

A head-to-head trial would be needed for definitive data.

Proton beam is much more expensive. Brachytherapy, on the other hand, seems to have similar side effects and at least as good outcomes; again, there are not head-tohead trials to confirm this.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1901, the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission was received by inventor Guglielmo Marconi in Newfoundland.

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DEAR AMY: My sister and I have recently found out that our father has been seeing a woman who is not our mother.

Our parents’ marriage over the last 15 years has not been much of a relationship. They are more like roommates, just living in the same house. They each go about their own business and come together only at family functions that we kids arrange. They don’t seem to fight, but we observe a total disinterest in each other. Years ago, I remember my mother saying that “we are not a family who divorces.”

We would like to tell our father that we know about his lady friend. We would like to encourage him to pursue a life with someone who has made an obvious improvement in his life.

He has seemed happier over the last year, and we support any change he might make. We love our mother, of course, but she does nothing to be a couple with our father anymore. Sadly, couples’ therapy did not help because our mother did not want to change anything.

She prefers the company of her friends to him.

We also think our father

this particular path out of marriage?

You hold a distinctly negative view of your mother’s role in this drama. I don’t know how you can know what happened during their couples counseling, but I take your word for it that she has not demonstrated an interest Amy Dickinson in maintaining a thriving marriage. would not make any move Yes, you should comto separate or divorce municate with your father. without our input, as we Meet with him privately are sure he would think and tell him everything that we would think less you say above. Tell him of him, which is not true. you are aware of his How can we convey extramarital relationship, our feelings to him? Or, and say that you want should we even try? him to be happy. Say that Is it our place or respon- you will support whatever sibility to encourage at choice he and your mother least one of our parents to make — and that includes be happier? staying together. Be loving — Sympathetic Son and supportive, but don’t and Daughter involve yourself further.

DEAR SYMPAUnderstand that your THETIC: Thank you parents have created a for offering a somewhat life together that might refreshing take on a very not look ideal to you, but old story. I appreciate that which is a consequence you, as adult children, can of their choices over the actually see that your par- years. ents are individuals who Even though you cast have wants, needs, desires your mother as the viland paths to happiness lain here, if the marriage that extend beyond their breaks up, she will likely singular roles as parents. require — and probably All the same, aren’t you deserve — some empathy a shred disappointed that and understanding from your father has chosen her children.

DEAR AMY: My husband has very poor hygiene habits. He brushes his teeth only at the end of the day and showers once a week, in spite of the fact that he exercises daily.

Often both his breath and body odor are very unpleasant.

I have been upfront with him on countless occasions, gently explaining both the health benefits, as well as the “social” problem when he is in public. However, if he can’t smell the odors, he doesn’t believe they exist and that the problem is in my head. I’m only hoping that he and others like him will see this letter and make an effort to improve their hygiene.

— Nose-Plugged Wife DEAR NOSE PLUGGED: Does your husband like to have sex?

Does he want a morning kiss from you? Does he want to spend time with you in closed quarters?

You have some leverage here, and you should use it. If your husband is able-bodied and there are no obvious impediments to bathing, then he should clean himself every day, whether or not he has body odor, or regardless of whether he can detect it.

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Jane Alexander Jane Alexander of Lawrenceville, GA passed away December 11, 2018 at her daughter’s home.

She was born April 21, 1920 as Liza Jane Thigpen to Uyziah and Pearl Thigpen of Adrian, GA. She worked hard, while growing up with her nine brothers and sisters on the family farm. School was her passion and she was a very smart and conscientious student. Mrs. Alexander left home at eighteen and attended Rabun Gap two year college through the work-study program. She met her future husband, J.T. Alexander there.

While he was serving in World War II, she finished her degree in Business Education at Piedmont College. Over the years she earned two more degrees from the University of Georgia. J.T. and Jane married in 1946. In 1948, they bought a farm on Scenic Hwy in Lawrenceville, GA. There they built a home and had one daughter, Shirley. When Shirley was two, she went back to teaching business education and vocational office training. Through the years, she taught at Tucker High School, Old Grayson High School, and retired from South Gwinnett High School in 1976.

Some students, close to eighty years old, told her how well she had prepared them for their careers and helped them get their first job. Mrs. Alexander received many awards

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over the years and has given countless hours to volunteering. She has held leadership roles and been a member of Snellville United Methodist Women, Retired Teachers, Delta Kappa Gama, Homemakers, Eastside H2U and several other organizations. She has volunteered, until the last few months at Eastside Hospital for 28 years. Every Monday you would see her. She was the one with a hat on! Everyone seemed to know her and love her. Her Church, Snellville United Methodist, has been her anchor through the years. She taught Sunday School for over fifty-five years. Mrs. Alexander loved her home and family. A County Park was built in 2009 on the family farm. It was named Alexander Park which she was so proud of the honor.

She enjoyed watching the activity daily from her kitchen window. Mrs. Alexander was very outgoing and loved to be around people. She always had a smile on her face and a kind word for everyone.

She was known for coordinated outfits and hats worn daily. Her favorite verse, she repeated every day was “..This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it..” She lived it for 98 years. She is survived by daughter Shirley Smith, and son-inlaw Don Smith; Grandsons: Chad Smith and wife Rebecca, Brian Smith and wife Jenny; Five great grandchildren: Liza Jane, Everett, and Clay Smith.

Lily and Nile Smith. Visitation will be held from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Tom M. Wages Funeral Home, Snellville. Celebration of Life Services at 2pm Friday, December 14, 2018 at Snellville

United Methodist Church, reception following.

Interment following the reception will be held at Eternal Hills Memory Gardens, Snellville. In lieu of flowers, a Memorial Donation may be made to Snellville United Methodist Church, 2428 Main Street East, Snellville, GA 30078. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, A Family Company, 3705 Highway 78 West, Snellville, GA 30039 (770-9793200) has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Betty Rose Chilton Betty Rose Chilton age 85, of Dacula, GA passed away on Saturday December 8, 2018. She was preceded in death by her husband Ronald R. “ Ronnie” Chilton in 1991; her parents Albert and Alice Greeson; and her 10 siblings. She is survived by her children, Steve Chilton (Susan), Stanley Chilton (Laurie), Sharon Hinton (Doug) all of Dacula, GA, and Sonya Turner (Buddy) of Canton, GA; grandchildren, Summer Adcock, Stuart Hinton, Katie Rose Riche, Zach Chilton, Lee Turner, Hillary Nichols, Annie Chilton, Madison Davis, Savannah Turner, and Will Hinton; great grandchildren, Haley Rose Baltzell, Maxwell Adcock, Brewer Adcock, and Sadie Rose Hinton; Sister and brother-in-law Etta and Bobby Wages; brothersin-law Roy Emerson and Horace Johnson. Betty Rose was born and raised i

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Brenda Joyce Hornaday Brenda Joyce Hornaday, age 66, of Dacula, GA passed away on Friday, December 7, 2018. She was preceded in death by her father, Doyle C. Hornaday. She is survived by her mother, Joyce Louise Hankins Hornaday, Dacula, GA; sister, Barbara Lynn Hornaday, Dacula, GA; aunt and uncle, Dottie and Joe Adams, Savannah, GA; first cousins, Leslie Compton, Schler Compton, Scott Compton, Randy Hankins, Greg Hankins, Ann Mann, Allen Adams, Jeff Adams and Joey Adams; and numerous other relatives.

Miss Hornaday was born March 12, 1952 in Pine Bluff, AR. She was a 1970 graduate of Hall High School in Little Rock, AR, a graduate of Brenau University in Gainesville, GA with a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree and she also went to Tennessee Temple College. She had been working on her Doctorate Degree. She was a school teacher with DeKalb County School System in DeKalb County for the past twenty years.

Miss Hornaday was a member of Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, GA. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home, with the Rev. Mac Palmer officiating. Interment will be later in Pine Bluff, AR. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, December 12th from 3:30 p.m. until time of service at 4:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Hidden Miracle Sunday School Class at Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, GA in memory of Brenda J. Hornaday.

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Derotha Kimbro Mosley MOSLEY - Derotha Kimbro Mosley, age 91 of Dacula, passed away on December 8, 2018. Funeral Services will be held at 2 PM on Monday, December 10, 2018 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home.

Rev. Larry Wynn and Rev. Derek Spain will officiate.

Interment will follow at Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery in Dacula. Derotha was preceded in death by her husband, Junior Kimbro, husband, Willie Mosley; parents, Edzie & Mary Hall; brothers, Hinton Hall and J.T Hall; sister, Jeanette Griffeth.

She is survived by her Daughters & Sons-in-law: Hilda & Winfred Segars of Dacula, Donna & Jere Parker of Dacula; Grandchildren: Steve & Katie Segars, Jill & Kayo Elliott, Kim & Brett Daniel, Kelley Parker, Katie Parker and 14 Great-Grandchildren; Sister: Coeleanor Cox of Dacula; Brother & Sister-in-law: Louie & Margaret Hall of Bethlehem and numerous family and friends. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Ebenezer Baptist Church 2570 Harbins Rd. Dacula, GA 30019 or to Hebron Baptist Church 202 Hebron Church Rd. P. O. Box 279 Dacula, GA 30019. The family will receive friends on Sunday, December 9, 2018 from 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM at Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770962-3100. you may sign the online guest registry at www.stewartfh.com

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Mona Sue Rowland (Burnett) Mona Sue Burnett Rowland, age 82, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on Monday, December 10, 2018. She is survived by her children, Robert Rowland, Chattanooga, TN, Russell Lee and Polly Rowland, Lawrenceville, GA, Traci Ann Rowland, Chattanooga, TN and Tammi Dee Taylor, Federal Way WA; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Peggy Jo and Richard Lentz, Hobbs, New Mexico and Lea Criswell, Lubbock, TX. Mrs. Rowland was born February 6, 1936 in Wellman Texas.

She was a 1954 graduate of Wellman High School, Wellman, TX and a 1956 graduate of Lubbock Business College with an Associate’s Degree. She was an accounting clerk in the oil industry. Mrs. Rowland was a member of the Church of Christ of Wellman Texas. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Dr. Jim Ferguson officiating.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

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Betty McKnight Riddle Betty McKnight Riddle passed away peacefully and surrounded by her loved ones late Friday night at the age of 88.

She was born in Asheville, North Carolina on September 25, 1930 to Charles McKnight and Bonnie Crowell McKnight. Betty graduated from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and became a teacher whose intelligence and passion touched the lives of many. Betty married C.D. “Buck” Riddle in 1955, and was a devoted and loving wife throughout the entirety of their 63 year marriage. Betty had three sons, and as the mother of three boys, her strength and grace helped raise a tight-knit family, which grew to include five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Betty was a woman always on the go, who split her time between Atlanta, GA and her greatly beloved “Applehaus” in Burnsville, NC. She will always be remembered for her eloquence, selflessness, and strong spirit. Betty is survived by her husband and her three sons David, Mike, and Scott, as well as their respective families.

Those whose lives Betty shone her light upon are invited to celebrate the incredibly full life she led at 2:00 PM, Wednesday December 12th at Patterson’s, Arlington Chapel, 173 Allen Road, NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328.

A reception will follow. In the spirit of Betty’s altruism, the family requests donations be made to the Atlanta Humane Society in lieu of flowers.

Oscar “Brock” Shafer, age 80, of Lilburn, GA, passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, December 8, 2018, surrounded by family. Brock was born January 25, 1938 to Henry H. Shafer and Ruby (Johnson) Shafer. He married Sandra Pursell in November of 1958. Brock was preceded in death by his parents, and his brothers, Harry, James & an infant boy. He is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Sandra, and his son, Bruce, both of Lilburn; his daughter, Beth Orr (Mike) and his grandsons, Brock and Brandon, all of Onslow, Iowa. He is also survived by his brothers, Charles, Thomas (Janelle), Mark (Peggy) and Ray; and his sisters, JoAnn Shafer, Irene Shafer (Rick Bowie), Nancy Williams (Tim) and Rose Rogers (Jan). Services will be held at 12:00 Noon on Thursday, December 13, with a visitation immediately before from 11:00 am 12:00 pm, at Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/ Tucker Chapel. Burial will follow at White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Pleasant Hill Rd, Duluth, GA. Online condolences may be left at www. billheadfuneralhome. com. Visitation will be held Wednesday, December 12th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm at Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel, 6101 Lawrenceville Highway, Tucker, GA. (770) 564-2726

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Mean-spirited media do 180 on elder Bush Before George H.W. Bush fades from memory into the darkness of history books, one more point needs to be made. It is about the contrast between how most of the major media treated him when he was president and how they mostly (but not completely) did a 180 during their coverage and commentary of his funeral.

Maybe reporters and anchors considered their largely favorable Cal and complimenThomas tary coverage of the man in death as penance for their earlier sins during his life, but they still should be held accountable for what they said about him when it mattered.

CBS News anchor Dan Rather interviewed Vice President Bush in 1988, before the Iowa caucuses. This was at the height of the Iran-contra affair during which the White House sought to circumvent a law banning funds to aid the Nicaraguan contras who were fighting communist forces. Bush and Rather shouted at each other in the 10-minute interview on live television.

CBS began its segment on Bush with a taped report that suggested the vice president had played a greater role in the Iran-contra affair than Bush has acknowledged, and Rather hammered Bush about it during the interview, The New York Times reported. The candidate said he had been deceived about the true intent of the interview.

Phone calls swamped switchboards at CBS News in New York and at Bush’s presidential campaign office in Washington. A CBS News official and Bush’s spokesman said calls were overwhelmingly supportive of the vice president and negative toward CBS, The Times reported. Bush won the nomination. There would be other moments when the two would face off but with advantage to Bush.

There was pressure from Democrats and others for Bush to break the famous pledge he made at the 1988 Republican convention: “Read my lips. No new taxes.” They knew it would erode his base of support. At the 1992 Republican convention, he apologized for breaking the promise. His concession won him no media kudos, however, and he was pilloried in the press.

Even when it came to his most successful foreign policy achievements, many in the media found something to criticize.

After Bush sent U.S. troops to topple and arrest Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian dictator, CBS White House correspondent Wyatt Andrews worried: “Mr. Bush is erasing his old image of being timid, but the new question now, almost overnight, is whether this president is exhibiting signs of being reckless.”

It was for such moments that the phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” was created.

In 1987, shortly after Bush announced his presidential candidacy, Newsweek ran a cover story in which Evan Thomas called Bush a “wimp.”

Last week, Thomas wrote a piece for Yahoo News, admitting he was wrong.

A little late, I’d say.

During funeral coverage, a panel of NBC journalists recalled a story that received a lot of attention during Bush’s 1992 re-election bid. Bush visited a grocery store and it was reported that he was amazed by the barcode on a carton of milk. The Associated Press noted that reporters later learned it was a special scanner with advanced features, including a scale to weigh produce — uncommon then — and the ability to read barcodes even if they were torn up.

The New York Times in its obituary chose to allude to the alleged incident as fact. Fake news dies hard.

Most of the media coverage of Bush’s death and funeral was favorable. NBC ran a warm one-hour special on which Bush’s granddaughter Jenna compiled interviews with her “Gampy.”

This would have been something inconceivable when Bush was alive and it does not make up for the biased coverage of the past.

For the major media, it would appear the only good Republican is a dead Republican.

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

Preston was ‘dreamer’ of Lilburn EDITOR’S NOTE: This column was written in honor of the City of Lilburn declaring Dec. 12 as “Diana Preston Day.” Preston, the former mayor of Lilburn, passed away Nov. 5 after battling cancer. City officials said the day in honor of Preston will be observed every year on this date.

Diana I met DiPreston ana Preston in 1994. We were both active in the Lilburn community so our paths would cross often. She served on the City Council and I was serving as chairman of the Planning Commission and we became good friends, working on a number of projects together.

Over time, we discovered we had very similar ideas to help improve Lilburn’s future and developed a great working relationship by supporting each other’s ideas, causes and initiatives.

After my 2004-08 term as Lilburn’s mayor, I felt I had achieved my goals and de-

that houses City Hall and a branch of the Gwinnett Public Library, the preservation of the Wynne Russell House and the construction of the popular Camp Creek Greenway Trail were all a direct result of Diana’s hard work.

Jack Diana was a dreamer, Bolton but she always found a way to take action and get cided to not seek re-election. things done. She never met I encouraged Diana to fill a stranger and she wasn’t my seat. Though it is unbashful about asking for usual for a sitting mayor to help. When we discussed the endorse another candidate, I need for a Lilburn Commucampaigned for her because nity Improvement District, I felt so strongly about her as mayor, she couldn’t offileadership abilities and how cially advocate for the CID, she would carry the torch on so she formed the Lilburn continuing to grow Lilburn. Community Partnership.

And I couldn’t have been Through the LCP, she was more right. Diana became able to campaign and help the first female mayor of establish the LCID by reLilburn, and she made a cruiting members. The City lasting impact on the city. In of Lilburn then funded the 2010, Diana was instrumen- loan to LCP to help create tal in rebranding Lilburn the CID, which was paid in with a new logo that capfull earlier this year — just tured the energy and vibran- seven years later. cy of the city, creating the When I talked to Emory tagline, “Small Town. Big Morsberger, LCID executive Difference.” director, he told me that the And she breathed life CID is forever in Diana’s into that tagline. In fact, debt — figuratively speakLilburn’s new building ing, of course — and that

the city of Lilburn is a better place because of Diana Preston. He was impressed with how she helped get the police department organized and is pleased to report that Lilburn now has the lowest crime rate in Gwinnett County. He admired how she always put Lilburn and its people first.

It’s going to be hard to imagine a Lilburn without Diana Preston. Everything happening in the city now is happening because of her.

The people she hired, like Bill Johnsa as city manager, continue her legacy by adding excellent staff members to run the city professionally and advance her initiatives.

Diana Preston was a selfless, caring person who loved her family and community. She dreamed, took action and made a big difference for our small town.

We will all miss her dearly.

Jack Bolton is the former mayor of Lilburn. He retired from his job in information technology in 2004 and still lives in Lilburn, where he is president of the Lilburn Community Partnership.

I’m dreaming of a debt-free Christmas Merry debt-fueled Christmas, America!

According to a recent NerdWallet study, nearly 40 million Americans are still struggling to pay off credit-card debts from last Christmas.

Here’s what’s worse: NerdWallet finds that this Christmas, “American consumers plan to spend more, charge more to credit, and take a longer time to pay it all off.”

Good grief!

The grand irony is that the gifts we go in hock to give our kids and each other are often forgotten before the debt is paid off.

I was a kid in the ’70s.

But aside from a Huffy “Spyder” bike I got when I was 10, I can’t remember a single gift I received — though I vividly remember the extraordinary blessings my parents bestowed on me.

I remember going from lot to lot with my father in search of the perfect Christmas tree. We’d bring it home and set it on a sturdy plywood platform he built.

We’d decorate the tree as a family, and my mother

old records would finally lull me to sleep.

I remember it suddenly would be morning. I’d jump out of bed and run around, waking my sisters. Opening our gifts, torn wrapping paper would fill the living room. We’d laugh out loud Tom as Jingles, our beloved mutt, Purcell rolled around in it.

But I don’t remember the would explain the history of gifts. antique ornaments handed I remember my five sisdown by family members no ters, my parents and I were longer with us. together and happy and I remember that our next- healthy. All family conflicts door neighbors, the Kriegand disputes were set aside ers, would always visit on on Christmas morning. My Christmas Eve. Tremendous father would make a masfestivity would fill the air. sive breakfast and we’d sit Donny Krieger, the big around, laughing and talking brother I never had, would for an hour or more. Then, make me laugh out loud despite his repeated warn(and would be taken from ings that we’d better arrive this Earth far too early). at church early, we’d stand I remember that sleeping in the aisle because some on Christmas Eve would once-a-year churchgoing be nearly impossible. My family would be sitting in father would stack the old our regular seats. stereo console in the dining Aside from the spiritual room with every Christmas element, memories are what record we had — Mitch Christmas is most about.

Miller, the Munchkins, My Christmas memories are Snoopy and the Red Baron, about togetherness, joy and and Bing Crosby’s “White gratitude for my family’s Christmas.” The scratchy many blessings — things

that cannot be acquired through credit-card debt.

Which makes our growing debts all the more ridiculous.

By the end of 2018, American debt will exceed $4 trillion for the first time — $1 trillion in credit-card debt, $1.5 trillion for auto loans and other debts that do NOT include mortgage debt, and $1.5 trillion in studentloan debt that is wreaking havoc on the average millennial’s cash flow.

We should spend less on Christmas, not more.

We should give more of our time and love, and be charitable, with some of the limited funds we have, to those in greater need.

We certainly should not borrow money we don’t have to purchase things that will soon be forgotten.

All I want for Christmas this year, and every year, is the health and happiness of my loved ones — and more memories, of course.

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

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world&nation World Gunman opens fire on church in Brazil, killing 5 A gunman opened fire on a church in the Brazilian city of Campinas on Tuesday, killing five people before turning the gun on himself, CNN affiliate Record TV reported.

The victims include four men and a woman, in addition to the gunman, Record TV reported.

Police initially said nine people were injured but have revised that number down to three.

The shooting occurred in the Metropolitan Cathedral, according to a statement from local police to Record TV. The Archdiocese of Campinas tweeted that they don’t know the motive for the shooting and that the Cathedral remains closed while police conduct their investigation.

They also said, “We ask for your prayers at this moment of deep pain.”

1 dead, several hurt in shooting at French market At least one person has been killed and 10 others injured after gunshots were fired in the center of the northeastern French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, the national police spokesman told CNN. Police said they had identified the shooter, who remains at large.

The individual opened fire in the center of the city at 8 p.m. local time on the Rue des Orfevres, police said on Twitter.

Live images from the scene indicate the incident took place near the Christmas market and that there is a large police presence.

Those who were injured were taken to a Strasbourg hospital.

The interior ministry said in a tweet that there was an “incident” in Strasbourg and urged the public to stay indoors.

French President Emmanuel Macron was monitoring the situation and asked the Interior Minister to go to the scene, an Elysee spokeswoman said.

Trump clashes with top Dems over wall

‘Person of the Year’ announced

by Time magazine

By Alex Rogers and Jeremy Diamond CNN

President Donald Trump publicly clashed Tuesday with the top House and Senate Democrats over funding for the border wall and the prospects of a government shutdown during an Oval Office meeting that was open to the press, a sign of what divided government in Washington may look like next year.

Trump repeatedly touted the importance of securing funding for border wall construction and was rebuffed

by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who made clear that they would hold Trump responsible if the government shuts down later this month.

While the parameters of the political impasse have been known for months, the scene inside the White House Tuesday was a new escalation between emboldened Democrats, who will have the House majority starting in January, and Trump regarding his signature campaign promise.

The deadline for funding is Dec. 21.

No progress toward averting a shutdown appeared to be made following the meeting, which for a sizable part was broadcast live around the world and featured the president and the heads of the opposing party openly

People

President Donald Trump, pictured second from right, met Tuesday with the House and Senate Democratic leaders, Nancy Pelosi, left, and Chuck Schumer, right, in order to find a way to avert a partial government shutdown on Dec. 21, when funding for the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies expires. Second from left is Vice President Mike Pence. (CNN)

interrupting each other to question motives and dispute facts.

At one point, Trump appeared to sum up where this was heading: “If we don’t get what we want, one way or the other … I will shut down the government.”

Schumer has urged Trump to either accept the Senate’s bipartisan agreement to spend $1.6 billion to boost border security measures, or agree to a one-year spending resolution that would keep those funded at the current level of around $1.3 billion.

Schumer said last week that money can be used for fencing and other features, rather than “to construct any part of President Trump’s 30-foottall concrete border wall.”

The sparks started to fly after Pelosi characterized the possibility of a partial shuttering of the federal government as a “Trump shutdown,” a term Schumer also used.

Trump also claimed that he had the political momentum given that Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, leading Schumer to take a jab.

“When the president brags that he won North Dakota and Indiana, he’s in real trouble,” Schumer said.

After the meeting, Schumer said he had not expected the reality TV atmosphere of the event and put the pressure to act on Trump.

“It’s up to the president.

We don’t want it,” Schumer said of the shutdown. “We gave him a good plan not to shut down the government and it will be a Trump shutdown and then on Jan. 3, if it happens, the House will open us up again.”

Trump and Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, have pushed for $5 billion for the wall and put as much pressure as they can across the aisle.

In an interview on Fox Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said, the migrant caravan moving toward the U.S.-Mexico border is a “game-changer” and urged the president to “dig in and not give in on additional wall funding.”

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Food Safety and Inspection Service to let them know they had found metal pieces Ex-Baylor frat in the sausage, according to the U.S. Department of president indicted Agriculture. for sex assault The Owingsville, won’t go to prison Kentucky-based company Even though Jacob Walter recalled the product MonAnderson was indicted on day. There are no reports of four counts of sexual assault, anyone getting hurt by the the ex-fraternity president metal, but the USDA said won’t spend a single day in A former Baylor University student indicted on four there are some concerns that prison. counts of sexual assault won’t spend a single day in some people may unknowInstead, a plea agreement prison, according to local reports. (Special Photo: Jerry ingly still have the packages Larson/WACO Tribune Herald via AP) allowed the former Baylor in their freezers.

University student to plead The packages suspected no contest to a lesser charge counts of aggravated maliMembers of McConnell’s of contamination contain of unlawful restraint. cious wounding, the jury own caucus — most vocally the code A6382168, with a If the 24-year-old success- said Fields should receive Arkansas Sen. Tom Cottime stamp range of 11:58 fully completes three years 350 years and a $350,000 ton — came out strongly through 01:49. This is the of deferred probation and fine, and for the three counts against the legislation, op23.4-oz pouch that is called pays a $400 fine, his crimiof malicious wounding, he position that seemed like it “Jimmy Dean Heat ’n Serve nal record will be wiped should get 60 years and a could sideline the legislation Original Sausage Links clean of the charge, and he $30,000 fine. For the final for the foreseeable future Made with Pork & Turkey” won’t have to register as a count of leaving the scene without assistance from Mc- with a “use by” date of Jan. sex offender, CNN affiliate of the accident, the jury said Connell.

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Fields should be imprisoned The legislation, known as 19085” on the back of the Kenya promotes The plea agreement for nine years. the First Step Act, would al- packaging. wildlife heritage between Anderson’s defense Judge Richard Moore will low some current and future formally sentence Fields on prisoners to get out earlier, on new currency team and the McLennan Disney bus crash County, Texas, district atMarch 29 and can rubberand rehabilitate into society in parking lot at The Central Bank of Ke- torney’s office infuriated the stamp or overrule the jury’s through halfway houses, nya on Tuesday unveiled Epcot injures 15 victim and her attorney. decision. Moore will also home confinement or other four new currency coins “The evidence is indecide if the sentences will supervision, by reducing Fifteen people were treatwith inscriptions depicting credible,” Vic Feazell, the run concurrently or consecu- drug-related mandatory the country’s rich wildlife. woman’s attorney, told tively. sentences and making more ed after a bus crash Tuesday Kenya’s new 1, 5, 10 in the Epcot parking lot, fire KWKT. “He nearly choked offenders eligible for early and 20 shillings coins officials said. her to death. He raped her release.

For a prisoner to McConnell says feature images of a giraffe, violently. He left her passed Officials with the Florida reduce his or her sentence, rhino, lion and an elephant out in her own vomit — the Senate to take up they’d need to be determined Highway Patrol said the respectively on one side rape exam confirmed rape.” criminal justice by the Bureau of Prisons as a crash happened around 10 with the Kenyan coat of “low risk” for recidivism and a.m. in the Epcot Center bill this month arms on the other. parking lot. earn credits through certain Charlottesville The old coins had Senate Majority Leader Troopers said one Disney activities and programs. killer should get portraits of the country’s Mitch McConnell anbus rear-ended another former presidents Jomo nounced Tuesday that the Disney bus. life, jury says Jimmy Dean Kenyatta and Daniel arap Senate will take up a signifiTroopers said there were A jury wants James Moi. cant criminal justice reform sausage recalled a total of 51 people on board The country’s Apex Fields, convicted of killing bill this month to overhaul the two buses at the time due to metal bank in a statement said it paralegal Heather Heyer the nation’s prison and senof the crash. Fifteen people contamination sought the public’s opinion during a white nationalist tencing laws, paving the way were taken to a hospital with A popular breakfast before it adopted the wild- rally in Charlottesville, Va., for its passage before the end minor injuries, troopers said. life images on the coins, sausage is taking itself off to serve life in prison on the of the year.

Troopers said there was adding that features on the murder charge, it decided the menu. CTI Foods LLC, White House officials minimal damage to the new currency will make is recalling 29,028 pounds of buses.

Tuesday. and outside advisers who them “more accessible to frozen, ready-to-eat poultry Jurors also recommended have been championing the The crash remains under visually impaired persons.” a $100,000 fine on the and pork sausage links after investigation.

First Step Act are celebrat— From wire reports murder count. For the five five people called the U.S. ing McConnell’s decision.

— From wire reports

On Tuesday morning, Time magazine announced that its “Person of the Year” for 2018 was “The Guardians” — a group of reporters, led by murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, seeking truth around the globe in the face of persistent attempts by governments and radical individuals to stifle their coverage and their voices.

Wrote Karl Vick in Time’s piece: “This ought to be a time when democracy leaps forward, an informed citizenry being essential to self-government. Instead, it’s in retreat. Three decades after the Cold War defeat of a blunt and crude autocracy, a more clever brand takes nourishment from the murk that surrounds us. The oldschool despot embraced censorship. The modern despot, finding that more difficult, foments mistrust of credible fact, thrives on the confusion loosed by social media and fashions the illusion of legitimacy from supplicants.”

The Time cover makes no mention of President Donald Trump. But the president looms over the choice as a silent presence — a symbolic stand-in for the “war on truth” that Time sees its “guardians” fighting.

Kathie Lee Gifford is leaving ‘Today’ TV icon Kathie Lee Gifford will leave NBC’s “Today” show next April.

“As we all know, Kathie Lee’s plate has been overflowing lately with film, music and book projects, and after giving us eleven extraordinary years, she’s decided to focus her attention full-time on those other creative endeavors,” NBC News President Noah Oppenheim wrote in an internal memo Tuesday morning.

Oppenheim called her a “legend” for her “enduring and endearing talents in morning television.”

Golden Globes names new award after Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett is now a major part of Golden Globes history.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the annual awards ceremony, announced on Tuesday a new award named in honor of the TV icon. The Carol Burnett Award will be awarded annually to someone who “has made outstanding contributions to television on or off the screen,” according to a statement from HFPA. Burnett, a five-time Golden Globe winner, will accept the inaugural award at the upcoming Golden Globes on Jan. 6.

“For more than 50 years, comedy trailblazer Carol Burnett has been breaking barriers while making us laugh,” said HFPA President Meher Tatna in a statement. “We are profoundly grateful for her contributions to the entertainment industry and honored to celebrate her legacy forever at the Golden Globes.”

— From wire reports

Delta to introduce new process for boarding planes in January

By Jordan Valinsky CNN Business

A new boarding process is coming to Delta Air Lines.

Beginning Jan. 23, the airline will ditch zone boarding in favor of a new, more complex process based on ticket type and color.

Despite the expansion in number of groups from six to eight, Delta said the new format hopes to “encourage fewer customers to line up in the gate area” and ultimately

Must read speed up boarding.

The Atlanta-based carrier will still begin boarding with passengers that need extra time, followed by premium passengers sitting in its Delta One suites (applicable on select domestic and all international flights) and then its new Premium Select cabin on some international flights or First Class on domestic flights.

After that, it gets complicated: The airline used to board the Sky Priority zone — passengers sitting in Comfort+ and Gold and Platinum Medallion members — together.

Moving forward, that group will split into two, with Comfort+ passengers boarding first followed

by Sky Priority, meaning highspending members of its frequent flier program will have to wait a little bit longer.

Following that, Delta will board

economy passengers by announcing Main Cabin 1 though 3, instead of Zone 1 though 4.

Fliers that purchase Delta’s cheapest tickets will board last in a new group: Zone 4 will now be called Basic Economy. Delta credit card holders and Silver Medallion members will board with Main Cabin 1.

Each section will have different colors displayed when they purchase their ticket on Delta’s website and on airport screens to

help.

“This latest enhancement further refines how Delta’s process works and is designed to better link the Delta product they purchased to differentiated experiences throughout their journey,” said Tim Mapes, Delta’s chief marketing officer, in a statement.

Delta joins United and American, which both recently revamped their boarding processes. The goal is to minimize delays and load planes quicker.

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Atlanta United wins over city, claims MLS Cup

By Taylor Denman

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It would be hard to write a work of soccer fiction more unlikely than Atlanta United’s swift rise to the 2018 MLS Cup. The nonfiction of the two-year ascent is full of footnotes with details of record and shortlists on which the newly crowned MLS champions have staked fire territory.

In MLS history, one expansion club — a team that was formed through an expansion draft — advanced to and won the finals. That team — the 1998 Chicago Fire reached in the inaugural season — also won the MLS Cup. Atlanta United and its front office didn’t just

Atlanta United player Julian Gressel hoists the MLS Cup trophy after defeating the Portland Timbers 2-0 on Saturday at MercedesBenz Stadium. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

Gwinnett’s best clash in high-profile tournament

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Another holiday season brings another high-profile high school basketball showcase event at Norcross High School.

This time, it’s the 2018 Hawks-Naismith Holiday Classic, which includes 12 games featuring some of the top boys and girls teams from around metro Atlanta on Friday and Saturday.

Among those games are some intriguing matchups featuring Gwinnett County teams, including three Gwinnett vs.

Gwinnett battles.

Perhaps the most fascinating of those local games pits Brookwood’s girls against Wesleyan on Saturday, with a scheduled 4:15 p.m. tipoff.

In addition to two talented local teams, the game will also feature second-year Broncos coach Carolyn Whitney against her former mentor Jan Azar, whom she played for and served as an assistant

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Atlanta United 2, Portland Timbers 0

Atlanta United players, including team captain Michael Parkhurst, hoist the MLS Cup trophy as team owner Arthur Blank, foreground, and his wife, Angela Macuga, celebrate with them after defeating the Portland Timbers 2-0 on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Below, Atlanta United players, including Josef Martinez and Miguel Almiron, run on the pitch following the team’s victory. (Staff Photos: Jason Braverman)

Atlanta United wins title in second season

By Taylor Denman ATLANTA — An MLS Cuprecord 73,019 fans held their collective breathe for the final 41 minutes of the Atlanta United’s match against Portland Timbers, but the train horn that reverberated through Mercedes-Benz Stadium at full time cued a collective sigh that morphed into an impassioned yell. It sealed with lock and key the undeniable fact that Atlanta United were officially MLS Cup champions.

Josef Martinez scored the 35th goal of his historic 2018 season and Miguel Almiron’s bending free kick in the second half set up a brace from Franco Escobar, the breakout player of the 2018 playoffs for Atlanta United. Atlanta United beat the Western Conference champion Portland Timbers 2-0 on Saturday night.

“I think, first and foremost, it’s huge for the city,” said goalkeeper Brad Guzan, who saved three shots in the match. “It’s big for us as a team, being our second year, but most importantly, it’s huge for the city. These fans and these supporters have been behind us since Day 1, when this was just an idea. To be able to now give them a championship after two years is huge.”

Atlanta United (22-7-6) is the second MLS expansion club to reach the MLS Cup in two seasons after Chicago Fire did so and won the cup in 1998. Atlanta United beat a Portland (15-11-9) squad that won the 2015 MLS Cup and still featured eight members from that team. Atlanta United midfielder Darlington Nagbe was a member of the 2015

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ROAD ROAD TO TO THE THE CUP CUP Record (points): 21-7-6 (69) Goals scored: 70 Goal differential: 26

PLAYOFF RESULTS Playoff Results Eastern Conference Semifinals Nov. 4 at NYCFC W, 1-0 Nov. 11 NYCFC W, 3-1 Eastern Conference Finals Nov. 25 New York Red Bulls W, 3-0 Nov. 29 New York Red Bulls L, 1-0 MLS Cup Final Dec. 8 Portland Timbers W, 2-0 ATLANTA ROSTER Atlanta United Roster

championship team and spent his entire professional career with Portland Timbers prior to being traded to Atlanta United in the offseason.

The match was the last for Atlanta United head coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino, who has been reportedly linked to the Mexican National Team head coaching position. Martinez and Almiron, who finished Nos. 1 and 2 in league MVP voting, played on the same pitch in the same uniform for possibly the last time. Both players have been linked to negotiations with clubs in Europe. The tandem comprises two of Atlanta

United’s original designated players signed before the 2017 inaugural season.

Three total shots and one shot on goal from Almiron left Atlanta United empty through the first 39 minutes of the match. A slide tackle from Atlanta United center back and captain Michael Parkhurst prevented a Portland Timbers clearance and counter-attack, but also set up the first goal.

Parkhurst slid, leading with his right leg, and nudged the ball back to Martinez. The 2018 MLS MVP found himself behind every Portland Timbers player and eventually goal-

keeper Jeff Attinella. He scored from an acute angle and gave Atlanta United a 1-0 lead heading into halftime.

Atlanta United held the advantage in time of possession in the first half with 56.8 percent and held Portland to one shot.

Atlanta United also won 72.5 percent of duels in the first half.

Guzan saved the only shot Portland delivered on target in the 43rd minute. Portland Timbers midfielder Sebastian Blanco possessed the ball near the Atlanta United goal and delivered a volley to striker Jeremy Ebobisse, who delivered a headed shot on target.

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Name Pos. Brad Guzan GK Franco Escobar D Michael Parkhurst(C) D Greg Garza D Leandro Gonzalez Pirez D Darlington Nagbe M Josef Martinez F Ezequiel Barco M Romario Williams F Miguel Almiron M Eric Remedi M Miles Robinson D Jose Hernandez D Sal Zizzo D Tito Villalba M Chris McCann D Jeff Larentowicz M Brandon Vazquez F Chris Goslin M George Bello D Mikey Ambrose D Lagos Kunga F Julian Gressel M Alec Kann GK Jon Gallagher F Mitch Hildebrandt GK Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu M Oliver Shannon M Andrew Carleton M Kevin Kratz M

build a winner, it built a 70-goalper-season offensive juggernaut that raised the bar for the reach and influences an MLS franchise can have.

Soccer — unlike basketball, baseball and football — has to earn its respect in the consciousness of American professional sports fans.

But Atlanta’s city of transplants didn’t bring previous allegiances with them to the Empire State of the South. That made Atlanta United’s supporters section a melting pot of baptized soccer fans, rather than converts.

Striker Josef Martinez left the toils of European soccer to feature as a designated player for Atlanta United.

He has 54 MLS goals in 59 career appearances. He was the fastest to 50 goals in terms of games played in MLS (54), he holds the record for

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Buford senior guard Marcus Watson grew up in the “hoops state.”

He’s a native of Clemmons, N.C., a suburb of Winston-Salem. He might have spent his formative years a short drive from Wake Forest, but the college basketball cathedrals in Chapel Hill and Durham occupied his attention.

The Duke-North Carolina college basketball rivalry consumes Watson’s home state, and he found himself sucked into it as well. He started playing basketball at 6 years old. He played football until sixth grade when he gave it up to focus on basketball.

“It’s either Duke or North Carolina. People grew up liking either Duke or North Carolina,” Watson said. “I grew up a Carolina fan. I always loved the colors and I always liked Roy Williams growing up. The atmosphere in North Carolina — they call it the hoops state — growing up, I just went to the gym and played all day.”

He went through a big life change his sophomore year when he moved to Buford and started a new chapter of his high school basketball career with head coach Eddie Martin. He was struck by something specific with regards Martin’s philosophy: he wanted Watson to play his natural position at shooting guard, the position he’s likely

What: 2018 Hawks-Naismith Holiday Classic basketball showcase When: Friday-Saturday Where: Norcross High School Friday’s games 4 p.m. — Newton vs. Sandy Creek (girls) 5:30 p.m. — Dacula vs. Sandy Creek (boys) 7 p.m. — Norcross vs. Buford (girls) 8:30 p.m. — Buford vs. Wheeler (boys) Saturday’s games 10 a.m. — Mays vs. North Forsyth (girls) 11:30 a.m. — GAC vs. Spalding (girls) 1 p.m. — GAC vs. North Atlanta (boys) 2:30 p.m. — Woodward Academy vs. Pace Academy (boys) 4:15 p.m. — Brookwood vs. Wesleyan (girls) 5:45 p.m. — St. Pius X vs. Milton (boys) 7:15 p.m. — Upson-Lee vs. Langston Hughes (boys) 8:45 p.m. — Norcross vs. Discovery (boys)

Archer, Grayson, Norcross and North Gwinnett had two top award-winners each, highlighting the Touchdown Club of Gwinnett’s annual awards celebration at Infinite Energy Forum.

Archer’s Andrew Booth was Gwinnett’s Defensive Back of MORE the Year, while teamONLINE mate Colby Wooden For event phoshared Defensive Linetos, go to www. man of the Year honors gwinnettprep with Greater Atlanta sports.com.

Christian’s Christopher Hinton. Grayson’s top winners were Offensive Lineman of the Year Wanya Morris and Outside Linebacker of the Year Owen Pappoe.

Norcross had the Quarterback of the Year, Louis Williams, as well as the Tight End of the Year, Christian Sims. The Running Back of the Year was North Gwinnett’s Tyler Goodson and the Wide Receiver of the Year was North’s Josh Downs.

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Getting to Know ... Franklin Pridgen Wesleyan head coach Franklin Pridgen hit the 100win benchmark this season, his 13th at the helm of the Wolves football program.

Pridgen, a Westminster grad who played college basketball at Washington and Lee, led Wesleyan to a state title in just his third year after being promoted from defensive coordinator at the small private school in Peachtree Corners.

In this installment of “Getting to Know …,” Pridgen talks with staff writer Christine Troyke about a variety of subjects, including his love for ’80s rock, being set up with his wife, Amy, and what he learned from playing for one of the state’s winningest coaches in high school.

has maintained its Christian mission. The school has maintained itself as a place of academic excellence. So those things won’t change, but every institution evolves and develops.

I wish I got down there more often because I’ve still got a lot of friends there. I even think I’ve got a couple of teachers that are still there, from what I’ve heard. And I work with a lot of people up here that have connections to Westminster.

CT: It ends up being a Wesleyan’s head coach Franklin Pridgen on the sidelines durlittle bit of a small world. ing a game at Wesleyan. (Photo: Dale Zanine) FP: It’s very much a CT: Was the Westminster Schools back in the ’80s when fraternity of sorts in coachyou attended, what we see I was there was a lot smaller. ing — and I think that’s one now?

So in that regard, that was a FP: No. Westminster big difference. The school See PRIDGEN, Page 4B

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Prep Schedule WRESTLING

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• Collins Hill, South Forsyth at Forsyth Central • Shiloh at Grayson 5:30 p.m. — Chamblee at Berkmar 5:30 p.m. — Milton at Mill Creek Friday

BASKETBALL

• Hawks Naismith Classic at Norcross 5:30 p.m. — Dacula boys vs, Sandy Creek in Hawks Naismith Classic at Norcross 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — Dacula girls at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Discovery at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Grayson at Archer 6 p.m. — Lakeside-DeKalb at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Loganville at Hebron 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — North at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — Parkview at Central 6 p.m. — South girls at St. Pius 7 p.m. — GAC at Lumpkin Co.

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5 p.m. — Dunwoody at Wesleyan 7:20 p.m. — Shiloh, Discovery and Dacula at Mtn. Park 7:20 p.m. — Archer, South and Lanier at West Gwinnett 7:20 p.m. — Central and Meadowcreek at Collins Hill

WRESTLING

• Mountain View in Bradley (Tenn.) Invitational • Takedown Sportswear Invitational at Buford 5 p.m. — Discovery at Berkmar 5 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Woodward Academy 5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge in McCallie (Tenn.) Invitational Saturday

BASKETBALL

• Norcross girls vs. Buford in Hawks-Naismith Invitational • Collins Hill boys in Julio Jones Classic at Cobb Civic Center 11:30 a.m. — Lithonia girls vs. Berkmar at Archer 11:30 a.m. — Spalding Co. girls vs. GAC at Norcross 12:30 p.m. — Loganville Christian at Hebron 12:30 p.m. — North vs. Union Grove at Lanier 1 p.m. — Discovery girls vs. Archer at Lithonia 1 p.m. — North Atlanta boys vs. GAC at Norcross 2 p.m. — Duluth vs. Riverwood boys at Lanier 2 p.m. — Providence at Strong Rock Christian 2 p.m. — Shiloh girls at Peachtree Ridge 2:30 p.m. — Berkmar boys vs. Jonesboro at Wheeler 3 p.m. — Dacula boys vs. North Cobb Christian in Lake Pointe Showcase 3:30 p.m. — Central boys vs. South at Grayson 3:30 p.m. — Mill Creek girls vs. Lambert at Lanier 3:30 p.m. — Fulton Leadership boys at Wesleyan 3:30 p.m. — South boys vs. Central at Grayson 4:15 p.m. — Wesleyan girls vs. Brookwood at Norcross 4:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge boys vs. Newton at Archer 5 p.m. — Brookwood boys vs. Gainesville at Grayson 6:30 p.m. — Mountain View at Lanier 7 p.m. — Meadowcreek boys vs. Holy Spirit at Wheeler 7 p.m. — Mill Creek boys vs. Dutchtown at Archer 8:30 p.m. — Parkview boys vs. Lambert at Archer 8:45 p.m. — Discovery boys at Norcross

SWIMMING AND DIVING

• Hebron in Jingle Jam at Ruby Fulbright Natatorium 8:05 a.m. — Collins Hill and Parkview at Mountain Park 8:05 a.m. — North, Mountain View and Grayson at Collins Hill 8:05 a.m. — Norcross and Peachtree Ridge at West Gwinnett 10 a.m. — Wesleyan in Madeline J. Brown Diving Invitaional at Emory 1 p.m. — Gwinnett 11 Diving Invitational at Mtn. Park 7:20 p.m. — Duluth, Berkmar and Mill Creek at West Gwinnett

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Henderson, Smithson set records From Staff Reports Dacula’s Lauren Henderson and Collins Hill’s Peter Smithson broke the existing Gwinnett County diving records at this past weekend’s Bettie Hudson Invitational.

Henderson’s record 11-dive score was 497.10 points, and Smithson’s total was 626.35, breaking his own record from last year’s state meet. The two seniors are the reigning Daily Post divers of the year.

Norcross’ Abby Camarda was second in the girls division with 434.30 points, and Dacula’s Lauren Cummings was third at 407.25. North Gwinnett’s Kennedy Turner (358.70) and Mountain View’s Maggie Hennebaul (336.05) rounded out the top five.

Other top-10 girls finishers at the meet were Brookwood’s Jordan Wolfe (sixth, 321.25), Jessica Evenchick (seventh, 314.95) and Alala Cantrell (eighth, 283.20), Mountain View’s Mary Margaret Duffey (ninth, 270.50) and Lanier’s Katelyn Hartwig (10th, 268.45).

North’s Valentino Sorto (417.95) and Parkview’s Carter Bennett (404.85) were second and third in the boys division. Mill Creek’s Hunter Misuraca (365.15) was fourth and Brookwood’s Collin Jarnagin (328.00) was fifth.

North’s Nicholas Starks was sixth (321.35), followed

by Norcross’ James Moebes (seventh, 305.10), Meadowcreek’s Ronaldo Bolanos (eighth, 299.90), Lanier’s Kenneth Walter (ninth, 276.05) and Berkmar’s Richard Tep (10th, 274.55).

In other Gwinnett diving competitions, Brookwood’s Gillian Lee (162.85) and Parkview’s Maxwell Pate (199.20) won the six-dive events at the Clody Invitational.

Gawronski, Pingel lead way in Clody meet Brookwood’s Ava Gawronski and Ashley Pingel won two events each over the weekend in the Clody Invitational division at Mountain Park.

The Broncos won eight individual events, five from girls

• Collins Hill in Beech (Tenn.) Invitational • Mountain View in Bradley (Tenn.) Invitational • Takedown Sportswear Invitational at Buford 8 a.m. — Black Knight Duals at Central 9 a.m. — Archer, Mill Creek, Lanier in Battle at the Bluffs at Cherokee Bluff 9 a.m. — Discovery at Berkmar 9 a.m. — GAC in Coal Mountian Classic at North Forsyth 9 a.m. — Gorilla Warfare at Berkmar 9 a.m. — Meadowcreek at Woodward Academy 9 a.m. — Peachtree Ridge in McCallie (Tenn.)

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Wesleyan splits tri-meet Wesleyan’s boys team won a tri-meet with Lovett and Cambridge last Friday, finishing with 298 points to Lovett’s 204 and Cambridge’s 151. The Wolves’ girls took second with 218 points to Cambridge’s 290.

Wesleyan got boys victories from Colton Villa (200 free, 1:55.19), Ian Venkatesan (200 IM, 2:10.24), Christopher Harrell (50 free, 23.25 and 100 free, 52.36) and Jacob Price (diving 260.80).

The girls event winners for Wesleyan were Carson Schiller (50 free, 26.27 and 100 free, 58.09) and Ansley Feininger (diving, 236.35).

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Swimmers post double wins at Clody Duluth’s Melody Giberson, Mountain View’s Elizabeth Grow, Norcross’ Ethan Howe and North Gwinnett’s Ayden Meierarend were all double-winners this past weekend in the Clody Invitational division at West Gwinnett.

Giberson’s wins came in the girls 50 free (24.91) and 100 free (55.30). Duluth also got a girls victory from Amelia Hildebrand in the 100 breast (1:10.55).

Grow won the girls 200 free (2:07.83) and the 100 back (1:05.02), and Howe won the boys 50 free (23.16) and 100 free (51.17).

Meierarend won the boys 200 IM (2:04.17) and the 100 breast (1:04.47). In addition to his two wins, North’s boys added victories from Mike Shields II (200 free, 1:54.55) and Eiza Gantus (500 free, 5:21.10). The North girls got a win from Joyce Kim

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swimmers. Gawronski won the 200 IM (2:24.46) and the 100 fly (1:03.91), and Pingel was first in the 200 free (2:14.55) and 500 free (5:59.81). Teammate Kaylee McLester won the 100 free (1:00.24).

The Brookwood boys got wins from Roman Gibbs (200 free, 1:52.53), Rulon Frandsen (200 IM, 2:14.27) and Joshua Pingel (500 free, 5:05.60).

Three Parkview boys were event-winners — Lucas Cliatt (50 free, 22.88), Dylan Yin (100 fly, 55.89) and Jacob White (100 free, 52.49).

Other first-place finishers in the meet were Discovery’s Abby Wenham (girls 50 free, 25.80), Dacula’s Ethan Van Nus (boys 100 back, 1:00.37), Central Gwinnett’s Hannah Doglod (girls 100 back, 1:03.11), Grayson’s Daniel Myrick (boys 100 breast, 1:05.89) and Shiloh’s Toria Coffey (girls 100 breast, 1:09.88).

(200 IM, 2:24.98).

Two Mill Creek girls swimmers had event wins — Tristen Thompson in the 100 fly (1:01.67) and Bailey Williams in the 500 free (5:36.42). Other event winners were Collins Hill’s Hunter Hall (boys 100 fly, 56.22) and Peachtree Ridge’s Raja Crosby (boys 100 back, 58.17).

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Bears’ Higgins commits to play football at Mercer

Mountain View lineman Aidan Higgins announced his commitment Sunday night to the Mercer University football program.

Higgins, a center, was a first-team all-county selection this season by the Touchdown Club of Gwinnett, and was a four-year varsity starter. He also maintains a 3.9 GPA. His older brothers, Andrew (Tulane) and Alex (Elon), both played college football, and his late father Mark played major league baseball.

Mill Creek’s Magahey wins twice at Winter Juniors

University in Tempe, Ariz.

Bogard, an outfielder/left-handed pitcher, is one of 64 high school players nationwide to be invited to the event. It is the second major showcase he was invited to after being selected for the MLB/ USA Baseball Breakthrough Series this past summer in Bradenton, Fla. He has been listed as a preseason All-American

by Under Armour.

The 6-foot-3 sophomore is a two-sport athlete at Grayson as a key reserve guard with the basketball team.

Dacula to celebrate Hall of Famers on Jan. 11

The Dacula Athletics Hall of Fame will celebrate its latest class of inductees Jan. 11 during the high school’s night of basMill Creek’s Jake Magahey won two ketball games with Habersham Central. events at the Speedo Winter Junior ChamA reception for the inductees will be pionships’ East competition in Greensheld at 5 p.m., then they will be recboro, N.C. ognized with a ceremony between the Magahey won the 1,650 free in varsity girls and boys games. The varsity 14:51.54 and the 500 free 4:14.61, which girls game tips off at 6 p.m. was just off meet record of 4:14.40. He This year’s individual inductees are also was fourth in the 200 free (1:35.64). Brandon Bullock (Class of 2011), Larry Parkview’s Abigail McCulloh finished McDaniel (1972), Marcus Cox (2013), second in the 1,650 free (16:25.45).

B.J. Puckett (2001), Brandon Goodson (2013), Aaron Reynolds (2011), Amanda Lions’ Collins picks Duke Lomax (2002), Dexter Walker (2011), Peachtree Ridge senior Felise Collins Kelsea Martin (2008) and John D. Wilhas signed a letter of intent with the Duke liams (1974). Five teams will be celebratUniversity softball program. ed — 1994 football, 1998 girls track and Collins was an all-county player for the field, 2007-08 wrestling, 2008 softball Lions. and 2008 girls tennis.

Dacula also plans to induct a community loyalty member, Hayes Automotive Buford’s Lewis signs with Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and owner Ted Jacksonville lacrosse Hayes.

Buford senior Taylor Lewis recently signed with the Jacksonville University Collins Hill grad Miles Fox (Fla.) men’s lacrosse program. to play graduate season Lewis was an all-state goalkeeper last season for the Wolves, as well as a Daily for Wake Forest football Post Super Six selection.

Former Collins Hill standout Miles Fox will play one more season of college football at Wake Forest.

Wolves’ Blow commits The defensive lineman was a key to Newberry lacrosse player for Old Dominion the previous Buford’s Calvin Blow has made a comfour years, but he took a redshirt in 2018 mitment to the Newberry College (S.C.) after seeing action in only four games bemen’s lacrosse program. cause of injury. That allowed him to play Blow is an important defensive midthe 2019 season as a graduate transfer, fielder for the Wolves. choosing Wake over the weekend.

The 6-foot-1, 292-pounder had 116 Grayson’s Bogard draws tackles (16 1/2 for losses) and eight sacks in slightly more than three seasons at Dream Series invite Old Dominion. He joins a Wake Forest Grayson sophomore Justin Bogard roster that already includes five Gwinnett will participate in the 2019 MLB/USA Baseball Dream Series, a special develop- County players, including fellow Collins mental camp over the Martin Luther King Hill grad Peyton Woulard.

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Pridgen •From Page 1B of the things I love about it. People I’ve worked with are now working in other places and people I’ve known because we worked at schools that were opposing one another, or we got to know each other at conferences or maybe we played together, it makes this job a lot of fun.

CT: I always get a sense of mutual respect, too.

FP: As far as what I’ve experienced in my 25 years in this business, I haven’t seen a whole lot of animosity between coaches, even in rivalry games.

CT: Because, who else knows how hard you guys work?

FP: It really is kind of an esprit de corps. We all realize, even if our schools are different, our programs are all trying to do the same things, for the most part, and we’re trying to do it the right way, for the most part. Very, very rarely have I ever run into a situation with another coach where I really felt like he and I were adversaries. Our teams were opponents, but most of the time it’s very collegial.

CT: You played for Wayman Creel, one of the winningest coaches in state history, near the end of his career. Are there things you learned from him that still resonate?

FP: I remember Coach Creel as a very genuine person and a very hard man. I had a tremendous amount of respect for him and, honestly, the older I get and the longer I’m in this profession, the more I respect him and the more fondly I remember him.

But, I gotta tell you, at the time, I was terrified.

CT: It was a different era.

FP: It was a different era. I don’t think I responded to Coach Creel the way I wish I had in hindsight. I think I’m a better coach than I ever was a player, which may not be saying a whole lot about my playing career.

Or my coaching career. (laughs) But Coach Creel was a “what-you-see-iswhat-you-get” kind of guy.

He wasn’t relational by 2018 standards.

He was a man who respected strength and he demanded toughness. I learned the value of both of those things through my experience with him, although I’m not sure I demonstrated much of each at the time.

CT: That’s probably true for most of us at 16 and 17.

FP: I think so. I think if Coach Creel were here today, I think he would be shocked that Franklin Pridgen is a high school football coach. And probably he would get a big laugh out of it. But the older I get, the more I appreciate him, the more I miss him, the more I wish I could have one more conversation with him and tell him thank you for the impact that he had on my life. Because at the time, it seemed very detrimental. But in hindsight, I can clearly see there was a method and a value to that.

CT: Is that one of the things that had you leaning toward basketball for college?

FP: Yeah, I think so.

Because my football experience wasn’t great. I loved my teammates and I loved the atmosphere, but I definitely coming out of high school thought of myself as more of a basketball kid. And that played out in college for me. But, again, as I got a little bit older, I realized that my closest friends, I also played football with.

And then I was tremendously under the influence, and still am, of Marc Khedouri, who’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever

known and just so happens to be the AD here. He was one of my high school coaches. That’s where our connection started. It was really Marc Khedouri who had the relational piece that Coach Creel was missing at times. He’s the one that took an interest in connecting with myself and with my teammates on a personal and spiritual level. He was an incredible role model. He was in his early 20s when I was playing in high school so there wasn’t much age difference between us.

So while Coach Creel was the hammer, I think Marc Khedouri, as tough as he was, was more velvet in that regard. He’s really someone I credit with guiding me toward this profession and he was a reminder of the good that came from my football experience.

It’s been the positive side of my football experience that I’ve tried to amplify in our own program here at Wesleyan and diminish some of the negative things that I experienced. I think a lot of guys my age look back on their experience and say, ‘it’s a whole lot different today.’ I mean, no water breaks and that kind of stuff.

I’ve always thought my challenge was to bring the value of that era into current times while trying to get rid of some of the stuff that quite frankly needed to be jettisoned. Abusive language and a lack of awareness of the toll that football takes on a body.

We want this to be an uplifting experience. Football can, and is, and should be.

So I want to bring all of the amazing lessons that I learned playing for a really hard man in Wayman Creel forward and I want to leave the few negative things in the past.

CT: Was one of the things that drew you to Washington and Lee that you could play both basketball and football there?

FP: I went up there with the intent of doing both and then I migrated quickly toward basketball.

Washington and Lee appealed to me because of that. It appealed to me because I kind of thought of myself as more of a smallschool kind of guy. At the time, Westminster felt like a small school and I liked the idea of being able to maybe become a big fish in a small pond. I love the history, the background of the place. Robert E. Lee is in my family tree, so that was interesting to me. So in a sense, I felt a personal connection.

It had at the time, and still does, a tremendous academic reputation. So it was a great opportunity for me.

CT: Were coaching and teaching the intent when you went off to college?

FP: Not at all. Law school, international business, banking — these were all things my parents talked to be about. Being a coach and teacher never once crossed my mind.

Until about my sophomore or junior year. Incidentally, going back to Marc Khedouri, he went to graduate school at Liberty University in Lynchburg, for a couple of years while I was at Washington and Lee in Lexington, Va. We were about an hour away so we spent some time together and I remember, I think it was my sophomore year that he began to talk to me about, ‘you may want to think about education.’

It got to the point that, as a senior, it was like, my plan is to go to law school and see what doors that opens for me. But I really don’t want to go straight from a rigorous academic environment like Washington and Lee, and go straight into law school. I

thought, ‘What can I do for a year or two to catch my breath, study for the LSAT, get my self some experience?’

A teaching opportunity opened up at Athens Academy. A friend of a friend at W&L was an Athens Academy graduate and he heard that they were looking for someone.

I went to Athens Academy in 1992 thinking, ‘Perfect. I’ll teach in Athens for a couple of years and I’ll make some contacts at the law school.’

It’s my home state university with a great law school — makes perfect sense. Obviously my path changed.

CT: You never went to law school.

FP: I never went to law school. I realized I loved teaching and coaching. I loved relationship building. I loved working with young people, the energy and the optimism and the excitement. I loved the opportunity to feel like I was having a positive influence on those young people just like so many of my teachers and coaches had a positive influence on me. I was really happy and after two years, with my parents saying, ‘OK, time to go to law school.’ I finally said I didn’t want to.

Another one of my mentors at Athens Academy, Stuart Todd, who is there longtime athletic and admissions director, said, ‘Listen, if I had it to do over again, I don’t think I’d go get a master’s degree in education. I think I’d go get a master’s degree in business administration and learn the skills of organizational management and marketing. If you want to move up in education and coaching, I think that’s where I would spend my time.’ That’s what I did.

I went to business school at night. I thought about going fulltime at the University of Georgia, but in all this, Amy and I met. We came to Atlanta in 1996 because she had been accepted into Emory’s physical therapy program.

We were married in ’95.

Her father introduced us.

He was a teacher at Athens Academy. He tried for about three or four months to get me to take her out.

She was a senior at Vanderbilt at the time. I was horrified at the prospect of some girl’s dad trying to get me to take her out.

I was like, ‘I do not feel good about this. I think this poor, homely, socially awkward girl must have no charms whatsoever.’

Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, she was hearing about me and saying, ‘There’s no way, Dad, that I’m going out with someone that you picked for me.’

He finally put us both in a position where we couldn’t refuse. And it worked out. That was in ’93. We were married in ’95. He takes full credit for it and I think he should.

He tells his grandchildren about it all the time.

But in ’96, she was accepted to Emory’s physical therapy school so me going to Georgia’s business school and her going to Emory didn’t work. We didn’t want to be apart or live in between.

So I entered the MBA program at Georgia State and took a job at Lovett coaching with Bill Railey, who is another dear friend and somebody else in my past that helped mentor me. I coached varsity football and middle school track. I bring that up only because on my middle school track team when I was 26 years old was an eighth-grader named Chip Myrick, who is our defensive coordinator here at Wesleyan and one of my closest friends. He reminds me, quite often, about what a better coach I am today than I was as a middle

school track coach back in 1996.

CT: At least you know you’re making progress.

FP: But that’s a small world right there. Then in 1997, I was approached

by Zach Young, who I had known at Westminster. He had just become the headmaster here and he wanted to start a football program and a high school. It was a great opportunity to be a high school administrator and defensive coordinator. At 27, that was pretty good. I leaped at that chance.

I worked for Zach and for Brian Kennerly, who was our first high school principal, and of course for probably my greatest coaching mentor, Will Jackson, who started the program and is a father figure in my life.

CT: Who is legitimately one of the best people I’ve ever met.

FP: He’s so nice and so kind. As great a man as he is, it’s not going to surprise anybody that he’s an incredible coach. That began our lifelong friendship. He never misses a Wesleyan game, even today.

After our last game when we lost to Prince (Avenue Christian) and played so well but came up short, (my son) Andrew and I were having a moment. It was his last game. I’m tearing up and Andrew’s tearing up. Amy, of course, is tearing up.

But the person who was just dissolved in tears was Will Jackson. Because he understands and he appreciates. It was meaningful.

CT: So what was your first date with Amy when you finally both were cornered by her dad?

FP: I had been pressed into service to coach the Athens Academy basketball team at a Christmas tournament. I was the assistant and I had to take over for a couple of games.

He came into the locker room, Andy Simmonds, my father-in-law, and said, ‘Great half. Keep it up.

Good luck in the second half.’ And I though that was so strange.

He reached out to shake my hand and in my palm he pressed a K-Mart receipt. He had been shopping at K-Mart for towel racks. On the back of that receipt he wrote his daughter’s name and phone number. He gave me a wink and walked out the door.

I was like, ‘This is so weird.’ But I felt like, after he did that, it would be rude now if I didn’t call. Because, like I said, he’d been trying for three months. So I called her and it took a couple of days to get connected — because she didn’t want to hear from me anymore than I wanted to call. I didn’t know her. I’d never seen a picture or anything.

CT: And there was no internet. You can’t go creepin.

FP: We finally got together and went to dinner in Athens at an Italian place called DePalmas.

We talked for a really long time and ended up going to Waffle House because it was December and drank hot chocolate and then walked around Five Points.

That was our first date and we were married two years later to the day.

In a few weeks, we’ll celebrate 23 years. Three kids and one about to graduate from high school.

CT: What’s her best quality?

FP: Oh, my gosh. My wife’s best quality is really hard to determine because there’s a long list of possibilities, but I would say her heart for other people.

She is the greatest caregiver, the most compassionate and the most loving person that I’ve ever seen.

She raises our children that way. She conducts her business as a physical ther-

apist that way. Her friends, her coworkers universally agree that the level of care and compassion that she shows for other people is uncommon.

CT: What do you teach?

FP: I teach AP micro and macro economics. I teach a standard economics class. And I’m really proud that I teach what I consider to be a rigorous academic class and coach football.

I’m really proud of my education and my background. I’m not in any way ashamed to me learned and at one time I was the only head football coach in Georgia with an MBA. I don’t know if that’s true anymore, but when I took over this job it was. That was a point of pride for me.

CT: You won a state title in just your third season as the head coach and sort of did it without a superstar. What first comes to mind when you think of that team?

FP: The incredible camaraderie, the team chemistry we had amongst us as a coaching staff and as players. The youthful energy of myself and key coaches on that team like Brian Krehmeyer coupled with the wisdom and experience of guys like Will Jackson, who was our offensive line coach, and Larry Sherrill, a longtime Gwinnett County coach who was our running backs coach.

I have so many memories of that team and what got us there, especially now that we’re celebrating 10 years since it happened.

How did we do it? The question is an answer unto itself — ‘we’ did it.

We had an incredible young tailback, Kyle Karempelis, that year. We had an incredible young lineman named David Andrews, who’s doing OK (as a Super Bowl winner with New England) that year.

But we also had dynamic leadership in all levels. We had young and old players that were completely bought in. We had an incredible junior quarterback, Connor Welton, and Merritt Hall, who went on to play at Georgia also and was the Class A defensive linebacker of the year twice.

We had players at every level making significant contributions. We only had nine seniors that year and they every single one played.

But what clicked was the identity of our team, the oneness we felt for each other and for our mission.

That team started off 1-2.

Not unlike 2018, starting off 0-3. There was power in the moment we realized, ‘Guys, there’s nobody else that cares about us except us. Nobody wants to join this bandwagon so let’s stretch out and get to work.’

There’s power in that — and in any group that feels the only people they can really count on are to their right and left.

Will Jackson pointed out to me at the end of our 2018 season that there was a lot of that going on from what he saw. He saw that connection and that made me feel really good. Especially coming from Will.

CT: What’s the offseason like for you?

FP: This is a really nice time of year because the season is wrapped up. I meet with all of our players individually to hear about their experience and set some goals for the future. We don’t begin our offseason training in earnest until January, but high school football in this state, if you take it seriously, has become a fulltime job. There’s always something for me to be doing before and after the school day regarding our football program.

We get a lot of kids

who come wanting to hear about our program and I really enjoy sitting down with families and telling them about Wesleyan football and Wesleyan School.

And, to be honest, because football takes up so much of my time from June 1 to now, I spend a lot of time at home with my family. Andrew is about to graduate.

Being as much a part of his life as I can is extraordinarily important to me — more important to me that coaching — and I have two incredible daughters.

Fortunately they’re going to be around a little bit longer around the house, but that has become a priority to me in the offseason. In season, too, but it’s a little bit different. I want to go to every swim meet and every lacrosse game and I’m looking forward to Andrew’s theater season coming up.

And every chance I get, I want to take my wife on a date. That’s what the offseason looks like for me.

CT: How did you guys decide on the names for your kids?

FP: Andrew is my father-in-law’s name.

Andrew’s first name is Benedict. Amy’s uncle, my father-in-law’s brother, was a Benedictine monk.

He passed away not too long ago, but for the latter half of his life he was a Trappist monk. Lived in a monastery.

CT: I really like their beer.

FP: Yes. Unfortunately they made fruitcake and not beer.

But his monastic name was Benedict. So Andrew is named after his grandfather and his great uncle.

Alden’s first name is Amy’s middle name. On her mother’s side, they are descendants of John Alden who was a pilgrim on the Mayflower. Alden’s middle name is Virginia and that’s my mother’s name.

Mamie Carroll, both names come from my side of the family. Mamie was a matriarchal name on my mother’s side and Carroll is my paternal grandmother’s maiden name. We gave her an opportunity, shortly before she passed away, to help us name Mamie and she asked us to use her maiden name.

CT: If you have the music turned up loud, what’s it likely to be?

FP: Bon Jovi. Def Leppard. Tom Petty. Maybe a little Aerosmith. Maybe a little Journey. Maybe Foreigner thrown in there.

Are you seeing a trend?

It’s going to be ’80s rock.

Then some contemporary country. I don’t go for the twangy stuff.

CT: If you could have a talent you don’t, what would it be?

FP: I really love to cook and I am trying to work on that talent. I’ve got a good buddy around here, Chad McDaniel, who is our track and cross country coach, and he and I have explored outdoor cooking.

We love it. We did it on Instagram stories and we have a very unofficial amateur cooking show. We are cooking over the fire, both basics like smoking pork shoulder but we’re also getting into some more exotic things like a prime rib over the holiday and maybe some smoked oysters. Maybe a brisket.

But it is great fun and great food, and we can involve our families. So instead of playing golf, which I also wish I was better at, or hobby has become outdoor cooking.

CT: Far less frustrating than golf.

FP: That’s right. I just want to get really good at it — the cooking, not the golf. I think sometimes Amy would say I’m really good at it and sometimes I miss the mark. But I really enjoy it and I really want to get better at it.

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convincing 83-55 win over Huntsville (Ala.). The to play in college. game is a continuation of At 6-foot-6, Watson the narrative Watson has will be taller than most of been writing for Buford the players he plays with early this season. He in high school basketball. provided exactly half of Coaches have a tendency Buford’s offense in a 66to move their tallest play55 win over Woodland on ers to the frontcourt and Nov. 17. Two days later, utilize them in the post. he scored 23 points — 15 While that can create havin the second half — in oc during the high school a 67-58 win over South season, it’s a different poGwinnett at Parkview in sition with different skills the Thanksgiving Tip-off compared to the position a Classic.

6-foot-6 college basketball “It’s been a great start,” prospect will play in colWatson said. “I want to lege. He’s guard-sized for potentially go undefeated Division I basketball. this year. The next few Watson was 6-foot-5 as games are going to be a freshman. Before attendchallenging. It’s really ing Buford, Watson was going to prepare us for confined to the post where March. he backed down players “Our chemistry is getBuford’s Marcus Watson is having a productive senior and camped out under the season. (Photo: Kyle Hess) ting there. Our chemistry basket. off the court is amazing.

“When I first came to betterment of both (WatHis aunt, Darene Thomas, We have a new player this talk to him, he told me, son and the team),” Martin and brother, Nick Thomas, year, so we have to figure ‘I’m going to play you at said. “His betterment was trained him and put him out what he’s doing. The your position and prepare part of it. But at the same through intense condipast four games, we get you for college,’” Watson time, even though he’s tioning. He has tried to better and better every said. “That’s one thing that on the perimeter, there a develop agility for defense game. We have an opreally brought me to this a lot of situations for us and his jump shot. Driving portunity to be great this school. My coach in ninth to take him inside and to the basket comes natuyear.” grade tried to play me in post him up some. It’s not rally for him. He’s most Watson is careful not the post. When I first got like he’s a post player, dangerous for Buford with to let the good times here, I’ve played my posi- but we’re trying to utilize the ball in his hands on the pass him by, although tion and he hasn’t tried to his strength, especially perimeter. he’s months away from change me at all.” on mismatches. If we get As a member of the 16U fulfilling his dream of This approach is a win- someone mismatched on Georgia Stars AAU team, playing college basketball. win situation for Martin. him, we’re going to take Watson began to garner He’s not complacent with Featuring Watson as a him into the post. I want college attention. His first contributing at Oklashooting guard gives him to play people at their offer came from Mercer homa State, he said. He’s the flexibility to move. It’s strengths, and his is not and more Division I promodeling his game after using a player for what going inside and posting grams followed suit. the basketball players he’s he’s best at, according to up. He’s a better perimeter So far, Watson’s senior only seen in videos — Martin. player when he can catch season has been a produc- University of Kentucky’s He repeats a common and drive and shoot the 3.” tive one. Buford improved R.J. Barrett, Houston refrain, almost a mantra, The first few months to 5-0 coming off its Rockets’ James Harden, that describes Watson’s Watson spent training after home showcase at Buford Kobe Bryant and Michael abilities as a basketball transferring to Buford City Arena on Saturday.

Jordan. He intends for his player: He’s wired to included some of the hard- Watson and teammate studying to give him the score. est training sessions he’d Donell Nixon led the team opportunity to rub shoul“I think it was for the ever been through, he said. with 19 points each in a ders with a few of them.

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“It’s always a good test when you play a Jan under at Wesleyan.

Azar-coached team. It’ll It is the first time the be a good test to see where two coaches have opposed we are. We’ll learn a lot no each other on the court, matter what the outcome something that has been a is.” topic of plenty conversaAnother all-Gwinnett tion between them since girls matchup features host the game was scheduled.

Norcross against Buford “It’s much anticipated,” on Friday at 7 p.m. in Whitney said. “I learned a rematch of an intense a lot from Jan. She knows matchup from the Blue what she’s doing. It’s going Collar Basketball showto be fun. She’s looking case last January, a game forward to it, and I’m look- won 62-58 by the Blue ing forward to it. But in the Devils. end, it’s a basketball game.

The third county matchWe’re going to try to com- up will be the event’s pete and beat each other. finale, with the Norcross

•From Page 1B Athlete of the Year, Lanier’s Kameron Brown was Inside Linebacker of the Year and Buford’s Quentin Skinner was Specialist of the Year.

Archer and head coach Andy Dyer received the Sports Medicine South Beyond Better Awards for outstanding character and leadership. Dyer and the Tigers won for their support of Compassion International and sponsoring two young men in Honduras.

The following is a breakdown of other players, coaches and boosters honored at Monday night’s event: All-County First Team Offense QB Jordan Williams, Parkview RB Derrian Brown, Buford RB Cody Brown, Parkview WR Javonni Cunningham, North Gwinnett WR Kobe Johnson, Discovery WR Jeffrey Saturday, Hebron WR Parker Wroble, Mill Creek TE Dom Maggio, Buford OL Ja’Kai Clark, Grayson OL Aidan Higgins, Mountain View OL Ethan Lane, Archer OL Jonathan Leech, Mill Creek OL Harry Miller, Buford KR Eli Kohl, Brookwood PK Hayden Olsen, Buford Defense DL Tomari Fox, Collins Hill DL Chris Miles, North Gwinnett DL Austin Ruiz-Velasco, Mill Creek OLB Jared Bartlett, Collins Hill OLB Kevin Harris, Grayson OLB Phillip Webb, Lanier ILB Emmanuel Michel, Archer ILB Nick Pucciarello, North Gwinnett ILB Kobe Wilson, Parkview ILB Christian Wright, Norcross DB Jalen Alexander, Grayson

boys taking on Discovery at 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

It will be the end of a very busy and competitively taxing week for the Blue Devils, who will be playing their fifth game in nine nights in that game, a stretch highlighted by three Region 7-AAAAAAA games — including Monday’s showdown with Meadowcreek in a rematch of last year’s state championship game — and two high-profile showcase games.

“It’s a tough opening month for us,” Norcross boys coach Jesse McMil-

lan said. “Every game is a tough game, but we do it for a reason. We learn a lesson from every game we play. It’s the same thing this week.”

Other games featuring Gwinnett teams in the two-day showcase include Dacula’s boys taking on Sandy Creek on Friday at 5:30 p.m., Buford’s boys taking on Wheeler at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Greater Atlanta Christian’s girls facing Spalding at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, followed immediately by GAC’s boys against North Atlanta on Saturday at 1 p.m.

SwimAtlanta wins Senior State

15- to 16-year-old boys, who broke three state reA big meet by Brookcords. T.J. Shannon, Tyler wood’s Lily Burke helped Schroeder, T.J. Pittenger Gwinnett-based SwimAtand Brett Sasser swam lanta to the team title at the 200 relay in a record the Georgia Senior State 1:25.77. Schroeder, Grant Championships over the Clark, Preston Browne and weekend at Georgia Tech. Nicholas Kalenik lowered SwimAtlanta had the state mark in the 200 2,035.5 points to defeat medley relay to 1:35.49. runner-up Dynamo (1,777) Schroeder, Sasser, Brown and third-place Chattaand Kalenik also teamed hoochee Gold (1,488). The up on a state-record 400 competition featured 40 medley relay (3:32.34). year-round swim clubs and Kalenik also won an 642 swimmers. individual state chamBurke was named the pionship in the 500 free meet’s Outstanding Female (4:32.41). SwimAtlanta Swimmer as the top point- also got two victories scorer. The sophomore from Amanda Weir (500 won the 200-yard breastfree, 4:52.70 and 200 IM, stroke in 2 minutes, 20.42 2:02.70) and one from seconds, the 400 individual Mia Walters (200 butterfly, medley in 4:20.29, the 200 2:02.08). freestyle in 1:49.48 and the Summit Swimming got 100 IM in 56.93. a state title from Aidan SwimAtlanta also got Stoffle in the 100 backa great weekend from its stroke (49.92).

From Staff Reports

WRESTLING ROUNDUP

Mountain View wrestlers compete in Cleveland (Tenn.) duals

Mountain View’s wrestling team finished the Cleveland (Tenn.) Duals with a 3-2 record, posting wins over Bartlett (Tenn.), Vestavia Hills (Ala.) and North Gwinnett.

The Bears (13-5) defeated Bartlett 56-14, Vestavia Hills 54-24 and North 54-24. They lost 35-28 to Gilmer and 52-12 to Cleveland (Tenn.), which is ranked 47th nationally.

Mountain View’s Drew Risley (132 pounds), Garrett Spikes (170) and Harrison Spikes (220) each went 5-0, while Mason Askew (113) and Luke Hennebaul (195) each went 4-1.

Key, Brookwood wrestlers excel in Tennessee tournament

Brookwood’s wrestling team placed sixth in the prestigious U.S. Army Indian Classic in Kingsport, Tenn., over the weekend.

David Key led the Broncos by winning the tourney in his weight class, and Justin Oldknow also was impressive with a second-place finish. Chandler Mullis and Ethan Quarshie added fifth-place finishes.

Collins Hill wrestlers win Santa Slam

Collins Hill won the 30-team Santa Slam at South Forsyth on Saturday, and Buford was second to give Gwinnett a 1-2 finish.

The Eagles had a total of 237.5 points to Buford’s 226.5, and got individual tournament championships from Powell Gilbert, Joey Felix, Lucas DeSilva and Cody Hutchison.

Clint Gilbert, Elijah Griffin and Fredrick Carson had runner-up finishes for Collins Hill.

Buford’s first-place finishers were Nick Corday, Logan Ashton, Nick Stonecheck, Blaine Bergey and Evan Dimaggio. Nick Cambria was second and Dylan Bozoian was third. The Wolves were without two-time state champion Charlie Darracott, who missed the meet to take the ACT. — From staff reports

Honored DB Warren Burrell, North Gwinnett DB Jalen Perry, Dacula DB Jalyn Phillips, Archer P Albert Jang, Peachtree Ridge All-County Second Team Offense QB Carter Peevy, Archer RB Chancellor Lee-Parker, Mill Creek RB Justin Wilkins, Central Gwinnett WR C.J. Daniels, Parkview WR Kenyon Jackson, Grayson WR Ty James, GAC WR J.D. Kavel, Wesleyan WR Braylen Weems, Archer WR Isaiah Wilson, Norcross TE Josh Jones, Providence OL Trente Jones, Grayson OL James King, Meadowcreek OL Cameron Kinnie, Collins Hill OL Aidan Perkins, Brookwood OL Riley Simonds, Buford KR Nahil Perkins, Lanier PK Dylan Schefske, Brookwood Defense DL Jalar Holley, Buford DL Jared Ivey, North Gwinnett DL Solomon Zubairu, Archer OLB Jeffrey Blake, GAC OLB Sean McDaniel, Dacula OLB Jasheen Davis, Shiloh ILB Anthony Gorney, Brookwood ILB Michael Moyers, Hebron ILB Brock Skinner, Mill Creek DB Randy Cochran, Norcross DB Michael Killebrew, Brookwood DB Quinton Newsome, North Gwinnett DB Jeremiah Smith, Grayson DB Kenyatta Watson, Grayson P Cameron Orr, Parkview Kevin Maloof Award (For player who puts team above himself) Archer: Josh Valego Berkmar: Fernando Contreras Brookwood: Sterling Ross Buford: Clayton Nelson Central Gwinnett: Skylar Adams Collins Hill: Kendall Davis Dacula: Joseph Lopez Discovery: Blamassi Meite Duluth: Josh Johnson Grayson: Javian Boykin

GAC: Josh Rose Hebron: Blake Scarberry Lanier: Jason Wallace Meadowcreek: Promise Williams Mill Creek: Cooper Andolsek Mountain View: Quintin Hyde Norcross: Zarritt Mumphery North Gwinnett: Major Carlberg Parkview: Justin Triplet Peachtree Ridge: Josh Keomysay Providence: Josh Jones Shiloh: Ras Johnson South Gwinnett: Josh Arnold Wesleyan: Dawson Carr Cecil Morris Award (For all-county caliber player whose season was cut short by injury) Buford: Carter Colquitt Central Gwinnett: Daejon Reynolds Dacula: Deontaye Brown GAC: Jake Floyd Peachtree Ridge: Brandon Wright Shiloh: Dakota Thomas Scholar-Athlete Award Archer: David Brueland Berkmar: Fernando Contreras Brookwood: Jake Winskie Buford: Harry Miller Central Gwinnett: Moses Pryor Collins Hill: Miller Horn Dacula: Jalen Perry Discovery: Mustafa Alkhatib Duluth: Adam Mullins Grayson: Tre Brown GAC: Sam Collins Hebron Christian: Will Warbington Lanier: Zach Calzada Meadowcreek: Harry Torp Mill Creek: Nicholas Darby Mountain View: Aidan Higgins Norcross: Baylor Amason North Gwinnett: Will Hamilton Parkview: Malik Washington Peachtree Ridge: Alex Carman Providence: Josh Jones Shiloh: Justin Howell South Gwinnett: Jaden Woods Wesleyan: Wood Reeves Tally Johnson Award (Assistant Coach of the Year) Archer: Micheil Hill Berkmar: DeRoss Polhill Brookwood: Mike Hill

Buford: Tom Hall Central Gwinnett: Brandon Horton Collins Hill: Rob Patton Dacula: Ken Burnette Discovery: Justin Carlyle Duluth: Paul Carter Grayson: Jonathan Sanks GAC: Joe Sandoe Hebron: Greg Lester Lanier: Mike Dunning Meadowcreek: Roy Groshek Mill Creek: Charles Jordan Mountain View: Brandon Gill Norcross: Jatavis Sanders North Gwinnett: Stevie Jackson Parkview: John Rolader Providence: Martrez Milner South Gwinnett: Terrence Stover Wesleyan: Chris Paroli Dave Hunter Award (For outstanding community service) Archer: Tammy Bryant Berkmar: Alvin Duncan, Sr. Brookwood: Jocelyn Ross Collins Hill: Brian Arnold Discovery: Bertha Hernandez Duluth: Darryll Stinson Grayson: Kenyatta Watson Sr. Hebron: Britteny Scarberry Lanier: Joe and Andrea Beasley Meadowcreek: Tom and Cathy Scribbens Mill Creek: Sheri Lawton Mountain View: Anne Barlan Norcross: Jeff Holcombe North Gwinnett: Eric Walker Parkview: Sheila Wyatt Peachtree Ridge: Roxanne Anderson Shiloh: Kisha Smith South Gwinnett: Felicia Buck Wesleyan: David Carr Honorable Mention All-County selections: Archer: Semaje Banks, Amos Dahn, Christian Johnstone, Tyler Roach Berkmar: Alvin Duncan, A.J. Feleciano, Donte Henry, Nick Martin Brookwood: Chris Carter, Sean Hill, Ethan Quarshie, Tony Ward Buford: T. Lee, Aaron McLaughlin, Seth McLaughlin, Jackson Powell

Central Gwinnett: Kevon Blackwood, T.J. Ellis, Nick Fortune, Chris Williams Collins Hill: Kendall Davis, Cody Hutchison, Anthony Vinson, Antar Williams Dacula: Noah Duba, Trenton Jones, Jarrett Jenkins, Jaiev Khan Discovery: Ellis Cummings, Noble Joyner, Alexander Drazic, Wilson Ruiz Duluth: Jordan Coggins, Logan Goins, Marvin Jules, Justin Richardson Grayson: Zachary Bush, Jonathan Halyard, J’Kori Jones, Trevon Salter GAC: Tyler Bride, Choe BryantStrother, Elijah Pryor, Josh Rose Hebron: Colten Gauthier, Micah Harden, Alex Pawson, Will Warbington Lanier: Zach Charles, Jagger Jones, Jake Ludwig, Damian Nytko Meadowcreek: Quincy Bonner, Jaylon Dickson, Javion Johnson, Promise Williams Mill Creek: Ronald Clarke, Myles Jackson, Ethan Marshall, Ryan Stokes Mountain View: Davian Criss, Luke Hennebaul, Kai Hill, Thomas Stewart Norcross: Jaylin Carter, Josh Graham, Emannuel King, Hayes Sutton North Gwinnett: Justin Bullock, T.J. Skinner, Garrison Manor, Bryson Scruggs Parkview: Quincy Bryant, Matt Chavers, Justin Triplet, Bryce Wilson Peachtree Ridge: Trent Brown, Terrence Harris, Dominic Jones, A.J. Murdock Providence: Zach Douglas, Hunter Giella, Jordan van den Berg Shiloh: Isaac Dowling, Malik Head, Ras Johnson, Arthur Rodgers South Gwinnett: Adrian Compton, Nick Grier, T.J. Mullix, Jaden Woodss Wesleyan: Trent Bartlett, Tanner Bivins, Andrew Pridgen, Micah Smith

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Blanco — someone is able to step into those extra career hat tricks in MLS guys,” Larentowicz said. “I (6) and his prowess earned thought we did that. If they him the Golden Boot dinked it to Ebobisse at the and the 2018 MLS MVP point … we cut it off. Or Award. if they played it short to Atlanta United broke Blanco I was stepping out. seasonal, single-game and We kind of had it covered.” playoff attendance records Saturday was Larentoin the inaugural season wicz’s fourth MLS Cup before the club had won a appearance and his second championship. The 70,019 victory. His previous MLS fans that attended the MLS Cup triumph was in 2010 Cup were the most to ever with the Colorado Rapids. witness one in person. The Larentowicsz ranks No. club filled Bobby Dodd 4 in both MLS regular Stadium for the inaugural season games started and match against New York games played. He is one Red Bulls before the club start from tying third place even notched a win. on both lists. Kyle BeckerAtlanta United finished The Atlanta United soccer team celebrates on a bus during the MLS Cup Champions man and Chad Marshall Parade on Monday in Atlanta. (Brett Davis-USA Today Sports) second in the MLS Supare both active players curporters’ Shield race to New rently pacing the No. 1 and York Red Bulls. Atlanta mation that its professional dreamed of what it would from there,” Parkhurst said. No. 2 spots, respectively, United’s 69 points amount- sports demons are vanbe like to be in the locker “He did what he always on both lists. ed to an average of more quished, it need only reach room with the champagne. does and found the back of He said after the game than two points per game. out and grab it.

I’ve heard it from the other the net.” he had not made a decision Atlanta United and New locker room. It was worth on his return to soccer in York Red Bulls were the Parkhurst gets his cup the wait.”

Taking a step back 2019. fourth and fifth teams ever Captain and center back Parkhurst played a Jeff Larentowicz was out to pass the two-point-perMichael Parkhurst was on crucial part in the win with of position against PortTata for now game threshold. the losing side of the 2015 perhaps the most imporland.

Gerardo “Tata” Martino “Everyone wants to MLS Cup. He heard the tant slide in Atlanta sports That was intentional and had suffered heartbreak in know, ‘What’s the secret Portland Timbers celebrate history since 1992. His perhaps the most pivotal championship scenarios sauce?’” general manager as he and his teammates assist to Josef Martinez’s part that won the game for with former clubs Newell Darren Eales said. “(Atlan- prepared to sullenly leave first-half goal was sort of Atlanta, which held PortOld Boys and Barcelona ta) embraced the identity the Columbus Crew locker an accident, as he narrated land to one real chance all in 2013 and 2014, respecbehind this club, because room. He was on the losing post-game. A scouting night. It was saved by Brad tively. In his second season it’s a city of transplants. end of the MLS Cup finals report of the Portland Tim- Guzan in the first half.

Martino recorded a 35-16Look, success — and now on three other occasions bers revealed that striker Larentowicz, who typi16 record and has the best we’ve bloody gone and with the New England Jeremy Ebobisse has a ten- cally works in the midfield, winning percentage (.647) won something, which Revolution. dency to move to his right was part of a three-man of any MLS manager with everyone tells me never On Saturday, Parkhurst when he checks to the ball. defensive line that strayed a minimum of 50 games. happens in Atlanta — that got to hoist the cup before Parkhurst read the play and from the two-centerback “This club had a plan only cements our position his teammates, crowded on timed a daring slide in an formation that was prevafrom the very beginning as the club that unites the a podium at midfield after attempt to cut off a pass, lent for the club throughout from the first time we city.” the game. but the ball rolled to the the season. spoke in September of If Atlanta sports fans “I looked up in the Golden Boot winner, who “I think when we have 2016 in Rosario,” Martino want to accept an MLS 93rd minute, and I knew rounded Portland goalthree central defenders — said. “The club never modCup (or a 2017 NLL it, it was over,” he said keeper Jeff Attinella. and there’s (Diego) Valeri, ified any of those plans that Champions Cup) as confir- postgame Saturday. “I’ve “Josef just did the rest Ebobisse and (Sebastian) they told me, and that’s

important. It’s what makes this club successful and the directors have followed that plan.”

His prowess in Atlanta has earned him the manager position of the Mexican National Team, adding another task to the front offices’ to-do list.

The most satisfying thing, Martino said, was seeing through the plan he and the Atlanta United staff set out to execute.

It couldn’t have ended sweeter for the club’s only head coach.

What comes next?

Atlanta United has the opportunity to make some offseason transfers. Some may be sales of top talent to European clubs.

Atlanta United announced roster moves after the MLS Cup. The club declined the options of midfielders Oliver Shannon and Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu, defender Sal Zizzo and goalkeeper Mitch Hildebrandt. The club declined a contract option with Parkhurst. However, it has already begun new contract negotiations.

Atlanta United drew Costa Rican club C.S. Herediano in the Round of 16 for the 2019 Concacaf Champions League. The club resides in Heredia, Costa Rica, and qualified for the 2019 Concacaf Champions League after winning the 2018 Concacaf League, an annual competition between teams from Central America and the Caribbean.

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