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Two dead, one critical after Lawrenceville wreck

BY CURT YEOMANS

to police.

Lawrenceville police Sgt. Chris Ralston said in a statement that LawrencevMore details may be ille resident Saad Varney, available today about a 34, lost control of the fatal two-car crash in which Acura that he was driving a Lawrenceville man and west on Johnson Road near a Decatur resident were its intersection with Graykilled in Lawrenceville on land Hills Drive at about Christmas Eve, according 4:15 p.m. Monday. The curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

car entered the eastbound lane of the road and hit a Mercedes that was driven

by Eunice Jones.

At this point, police have not identified a specific cause for why Varney’s car crossed the road and hit Jones’ Mercedes.

“The initial accident report will not be available

until Wednesday,” Ralston said in an email. “Alcohol and speed are two factors that are being investigated at this time which is customary in these types of investigations.”

A Decatur resident, Dionte Jordan, 34, was in the Acura with Varney and both of them died at the

scene. Jones was reported as being in critical condition and was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center for treatment, according to Ralston.

Some media reports have indicated that police were called to the scene on a report of a car hitting a pole.

Ralston said the Acura that

Varney was driving, and in which Jordan was a passenger, was heavily damaged in the accident and split into two pieces during the accident.

Police said it did not appear that charges will be filed in the accident, but the incident is still under investigation.

BRING ONE FOR THE CHIPPER

Christmas tree dropoffs begin today

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Suwanee resident Alessandra Ferrara-Miller, right, presents a check to Riverside Elementary School Principal Ben Pope to pay off all the school’s students’ delinquent meal balances. Ferrara-Miller founded a nonprofit, All for Lunch, less than two years ago with the goal of eradicating student lunch debt. (Special Photo)

Fighting hunger

Nonprofit presents first checks to pay off lunch debts

BY ISABEL HUGHES

that my daughter, at 5, wouldn’t isabel.hughes understand the concept of, ‘We @gwinnettdailypost.com don’t have money for food’ or ‘You can’t eat because you Two years ago, Suwanee resi- don’t have money.’” dent Alessandra Ferrara-Miller As Ferrara-Miller looked was eating lunch at her then-5- deeper into the issue, she found year-old daughter’s school when something alarming. she came to a realization.

“I started hearing all these “I remembered hearing on (similar) stories; it’s not a the news a story about a child unique occurrence, and it’s hapin another state who had gone pening throughout the whole through the lunch line and got- country,” she said. “I was just ten to the front and he didn’t like, ‘What can I do to make have funds in his account, so this stop?’ A child shouldn’t the lunch lady threw the food have to go hungry and be punaway and stamped his arm say- ished because of their family’s ing (he had no) lunch money,” financial situation that they Ferrara-Miller said. “I remem- don’t have any control over.” ber just looking around (the Taking matters into her own school cafeteria) and thinking hands, Ferrara-Miller decided

to form a nonprofit, All for Lunch, with the goal of paying off students’ delinquent school lunch account balances.

While still a fledgling organization, last month, FerraraMiller was able to present her first checks to four elementary schools in the North Gwinnett cluster: Suwanee Elementary, Roberts Elementary, Riverside Elementary and Level Creek Elementary.

“It was really exciting,” Ferrara-Miller said. “I almost felt nervous because I had planned on doing this since I started (All for Lunch), and I was like, ‘I’m actually getting to do this now; we’re going to help the kids of our community.’”

All for Lunch’s first check went to Level Creek Elementary School, where Ferrara-Miller presented it to Principal Daniel Skelton and Cafeteria Manager Myriam Workman.

“I sat with (Skelton) for maybe 30 minutes just talking about how (food insecurity) really is a problem in the school and how most people aren’t aware of what the children are going through daily there,” Ferrara-Miller said. “It was really insightful to see how much of an impact it has on the kids.”

According to Feeding America, a national nonprofit hunger relief organization, Gwinnett’s See HUNGER, Page 7A

The gifts have been exchanged. The Christmas dinner has been eaten. The holiday is over.

That just leaves Gwinnett residents who have live Christmas trees with one question: What are they going to do with their trees?

Well, they could give them to Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful officials and let them handle it from there. The organization is collecting live trees at 28 sites around the county through Jan. 20 for its annual Bring One For The Chipper tree recycling — or “tree-cycling,” as the group’s leaders like to call it — campaign.

And since there’s no time like the present, as the old saying goes, the environmental advocacy group said residents can begin dropping trees off today.

“Just as families have a tradition of going out together to a local farm or Christmas tree lot to pick up their perfect tree, we hope they will go together to drop off their tree at one of our local fire stations for Bring One For The Chipper,” Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Executive Director Schelly Marlatt said in a statement.

The dropping off of trees at the sites around the county will be a prelude to the annual Bring One For The Chipper event, which will be held from 8 to 11

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Volunteers feed Christmas trees to a wood chipper during the Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Bring One For The Chipper event in January. The organization will begin accepting tree dropoffs today for the 2019 event, which will be held Jan. 26.

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GMC employee receives Gwinnett Coalition’s highest honor

BY ISABEL HUGHES

they had fooled me, telling me that the hospital was getting an award,” Jordan said. “Even when Gwinnett Medical my bosses and my boss’ Center’s Director of Combosses showed up, I didn’t munity Benefit and Ethics, realize it was for me. As Martha Jordan, had no idea they were talking about the when she walked into the award, it sounded a little Gwinnett Coalition for different, but it wasn’t until Health and Human Serwhen they said, ‘Now we’re vices’ Dec. 4 board meeting going to welcome a special that she would be the star of guest’ and they opened the the show. door and my daughter and “Some of the hospital son walked in that I realized personnel were notified it was about me.” and they were there, but That award, the Barbara

Gwinnett Medical Center Director of Community Benefit and Ethics Martha Jordan, center, was recently presented with the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services’ Barbara King Community Hero Award. Jordan stands with Gwinnett Coalition Executive Director Ellen Gerstein, left, and The Primerica Foundation Chairwoman Karen Fine. (Special Photo)

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King Community Hero Award, is Gwinnett Coalition’s highest honor, given only to those who exemplify the traits of the late Barbara King, who worked tirelessly in the community and for Primerica.

But Jordan, who has worked with the Gwinnett Coalition for 27 years, is absolutely worthy of the honor, Gwinnett Coalition Executive Director Ellen Gerstein said. ““I could not think of anyone who exemplifies the

true meaning of the Barbara King Community Hero Award more than Martha Jordan,” Gerstein said.

“Martha is a true community hero. She has supported the Gwinnett Coalition in so many valuable ways.”

That support includes chairing Gwinnett Coalition’s Research and Accountability committee, which required “taking us through a rigorous process of strategic planning and See HONOR, Page 7A

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Snellville cancer survivor works Former Falcons at camp as a way to give back star arrested over With a childhood that included two bouts with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Mikaela “KB” Beck is all too familiar with the ravages of cancer. Fortunately, she’s also more than familiar with the healing influence of Camp Twin Lakes, which this year commemorated its 25th anniversary.

Beck, 20, a Snellville resident, was first diagnosed with ALL in 2005 but admitted she doesn’t have a lot of memories of the early years of her battle. But she does remember that at the age of 7, she was able to go for the first time to Camp Sunshine, a camp founded in 1982 for children with cancer, which is held each summer at Camp Twin Lakes’ Rutledge facility.

“I started going the first year I was eligible, which was when I was 7,” she said. “I know that my mom signed me up and she was scared for me to leave for that first week because you don’t have any contact and things like that. But I wasn’t scared. I was very open to it, especially when I was younger.

“When you go, you meet a bunch of kids that are just like you, but you really don’t know what to expect. It was like a great venture out — you have fun and you don’t have to worry about anything. You can get chemo at camp, and I did that a couple of times.”

Since 1993, Camp Twin

Mikaela Beck, a 20-year-old cancer survivor, works at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge to give back to the place that encouraged her to keep fighting and to keep living when she was battling cancer. (Special Photo)

Lakes has offered an oasis of activities to children parched from physical and emotional disorders and other life challenges.

According to its website, thousands of young people have been able to partake in the nonprofit’s offerings With programs that instruct — in all kinds of ways — the value of overcoming the combined roadblocks of being young and being ill, the network of locations that comprise Camp Twin Lakes is renowned for its “transformative” experiences, made with the help of some 3,500 volunteers.

Beck, who has been cancer-free for the last six years, was so taken with Camp Twin Lakes that she spent last summer on the staff there.

“I’ve been to Camp Sunshine for 12 years, and then this past summer I became a program staff member at Camp Twin Lakes,” she said. “Three whole months.”

With a career plan that includes working as a nurse, Beck said there was

one key reason why she signed on at Camp Twin Lakes.

“I’ve always wanted to volunteer for Camp Sunshine, but considering that I want to be a pediatric nurse, I wanted to be involved with different populations,” she said. “At Camp Twin Lakes, there’s a wide range of populations you work with.”

She said she also wanted to give something back to the locale that helped and encouraged her to keep fighting and to keep living.

“It’s different when you’re young and you’re there with your friends and they’re doing everything to make sure you have a great experience and you have the best week,” said Beck, who worked at Camp Twin Lakes Will-A-Way in Winder. “And that’s the goal — to give that back to the next child. That’s something I’ll always remember ... Camp can change lives in the most positive of ways. My 12 years at camp allowed me to get a different perspec-

tive and grow into the vibrant, spontaneous, compassionate person I am today. The opportunity to return as a counselor allows me to reinvest the power of my experiences as a former camper to new campers.”

Campers are usually on site for a week, but for the individuals who work and volunteer at Camp Twin Lakes, the summer at times seems never-ending.

“It’s definitely different; it’s a lot of work,” she said. “We have two weeks of training, and there are like 14-hour days because there’s so much to do and learn. I didn’t know I needed to know so much to be a part of it. It’s just camp after camp, and it’s definitely worth it. It doesn’t feel like a job.”

For Beck, working at Camp Twin Lakes affected her so much that she’s applied to work there again next summer. There are a variety of volunteer opportunities throughout the year at Camp Twin Lakes.

For more information, visit www.camptwinlakes. org.

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derson walked out of the gas station Jamal Anderson, the and began walking former Atlanta Falcon around the who created the Dirty parking Bird touchdown dance, Jamal lot while was arrested in LawAnderson a Lawrenceville over the weekrenceville police officer end for allegedly being was talking to the limo drunk in public when he driver. got into an altercation “The passenger was with a limo driver over an asked for his ID and he unpaid fare. pulled a pack of cigarettes Gwinnett County jail out,” the officer wrote in records show Anderson, his report. “He was asked 46, was booked into several times for his ID the jail at 5:31 a.m. on and he continued to presSunday, and released later in the day on a $213 ent the cigarettes. I asked bond. He was arrested by him if I could check his Lawrenceville police on a pockets for his ID and he stated yes. The male had public drunkenness citation, according to the jail no wallet, money or ID. “He was eating a bag of records. potato chips that someone A police report states inside the store had purthe altercation between chased for him. I could Anderson and the limo driver took place at about smell alcohol and determined he was under the 5 a.m. at a RaceTrac influence of alcohol.” located at 624 Buford The limo driver is not Drive. The limo driver pressing charges against told police that he had Anderson, according to picked up Anderson at the report. a QuikTrip on Sydney This was not AnderMarcus Boulevard in son’s first run-in with law Atlanta and that he was enforcement. Jail records told to drive the former pro-football player to 312 show he’s been arrested in the past on charges Buford Drive. such as driving under “When he arrived in the area he was unable to the influence of alcohol, locate any such address,” improper stopping and probation violations. the police report states.

In January 2016, “He parked in the (RaceAnderson pleaded guilty Trac) parking lot to find to DUI charges from a better address but the 2014, when he was found passenger walked inside passed out at the wheel of the store.”

The police report shows a Cadillac SUV on Interstate 85. He was put on the unpaid fare for the one year of probation, had limo trip was about $50. his license suspended, It also shows that Anwas required to complete 40 hours of community service and had to stay away from alcohol and drugs as a condition of his plea agreement.

Also in December 2016, Anderson was accused of allegedly exposing himself during a drunken stupor at a QuikTrip in Suwanee.

He was not arrested in that incident because the owner did not want to press charges. Police at the time were unsure how Anderson got to the gas station, saying the exfootball player couldn’t remember how he got there.

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Right side of reforming our system of justice Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan “tough on crime” and its corollary “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” as electoral red meat. The problem is what to do when inmates are released with few skills, fewer job prospects and a bleak future that leads some to commit new crimes that land them in prison again at taxpayers’ expense.

The Senate, in what may be the only bipartisan act during the remaining two years of President Trump’s first and possibly only term, has overwhelmingly passed legislation that would significantly reform the criminal justice Cal system, which is Thomas often more criminal than just.

The measure revises a number of sentencing laws, including the “three strikes” penalty for drug felonies, reducing what is now a mandatory life sentence to 25 years. It also retroactively limits the disparity in sentencing guidelines between crack and powder cocaine offenses.

Civil rights groups have long argued that this disparity disproportionally impacted African-American offenders because they are more likely to use crack than powdered cocaine.

According to the Republican Policy Committee, the measure strives to “reduce recidivism by allowing low, or minimumrisk prisoners to earn time credits toward earlier transfer to prerelease custody such as a halfway house if they participate in certain recidivism-reducing programs while in prison.”

As the Associated Press reported, according to the Congressional Budget Office, “the bill would not cover state jails and prisons, (but) would reduce the federal inmate population by about 53,000 people in one year.”

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, seemed to acknowledge that current sentencing guidelines are not good for either the offender or the public when he said the legislation is “about being smart on crime and getting the best results.”

Quovadis Marshall, 38, lobbied Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, for reform. Marshall served more than seven years in prison for robbing a Waterloo convenience store. In a telephone interview, Marshall told me the bill not only restores to judges more leeway in sentencing, but it also allows for the convicted to be sent to prisons closer to their homes, preserving family ties.

Marshall believes intact families are the key to keeping people from returning to prison. One out of 28 children has a parent or relative in prison, he says, but that in the black community, it is one out of nine.

Marshall is now pastor of a church in Waterloo, Iowa. The church sits across the street from the store he robbed. It is a daily reminder, Marshall says, of his deed and how far he’s come.

He supports the bill because it also expands opportunities for faith-based programs, which he believes are key to reducing the recidivism rate. Statistics bear this out.

Like most legislation, this bill isn’t perfect, but it’s a start. It should not be the end.

Senators Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and John Kennedy, R-La., offered three amendments they said would protect the public from violent offenders. The amendments, Politico reported, “would bar more offenders from participating in the bill’s earned-time credit program and would require the Bureau of Prisons to notify victims when a prisoner is released early.

The amendments also would require authorities to track arrests of ex-convicts after they’re released from prison early.”

All were defeated by a wide margin.

Reforming the way we handle criminal offenders gives people hope that they can turn their lives around and that prison need not be the final verdict.

Growing numbers of Republicans are finally on the right side of criminal justice reform. They can help themselves politically and ensure a brighter future for exoffenders by telling stories of redeemed criminals. Quovadis Marshall is one such story that can offer hope to others.

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

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What Trump’s Syria decision means on the front lines of fight against ISIS WASHINGTON — The voice of Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, is tight and controlled as he describes President’s Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the country and leave America’s allies to their fate.

“This was something we never expected,” he said somberly in a telephone interview Saturday night from his command headquarters in northeast Syria.

“Honestly, until now, everything the Americans told us, they fulfilled, and the same thing for us. … So we were surprised and confused. We were not ready for a decision like this.”

Mazloum explained the dangers of a terrorist resurgence after Trump’s sudden decision.

Islamic State communications last week showed new hope they can restore their caliphate, which was on the way to destruction, he said. What’s more, Mazloum has been holding more than 2,200 Islamic State prisoners, including 700 foreign fighters. Without help from the United States and other coalition members, those deadly fighters may eventually escape.

What’s agonizing is that Mazloum has been fighting alongside U.S. Special Operations Forces that represent the steadfastness of this country’s military, and now he is experiencing a quite different American face. “To be frank, the first thing I thought about when I heard this decision was Ameri-

U.S. military spokesperson.

Mazloum said Trump’s decision was a shock because it came just a week after a personal visit from Ambassador James Jeffrey, the administration’s special envoy to Syria. Jeffrey promised that U.S. forces wouldn’t withdraw until David they had achieved the “endurIgnatius ing defeat” of the Islamic State, the expulsion of Iranian troops from Syria and a political settleca’s reputation,” Mazloum said. ment that stabilized the country.

“Because after this decision, Jeffrey’s promises “created a what are people going to say high level of morale,” Mazloum about America? All the credibil- explained, “but unfortunately, ity and trust that was built, we after a short period, the opposite have lost.” happened.”

Mazloum is a tough, unsentiThe Kurdish people have mental commander, in his early been abandoned by America 50s, with tight, curly hair and before, when they became a pitted face. When I’ve met politically expendable. I asked him on past visits to Syria, he Mazloum if he had ever thought, conveyed a quality of calm and in working with his U.S. advisdeliberative judgment that’s rare ers, that the same thing might among militia leaders in that happen again. “If you want the part of the world. The Kurdish truth, no,” he said. Now, after fighters have an almost cultTrump’s announcement, he’s like commitment to follow his scrambling to open channels orders and hold their ground, no with Russia and the Syrian matter what. regime, “to fill this vacuum left This willingness to fight and by America.” die under U.S. guidance has What astonished me most made the Kurdish-led forces during our hourlong conversaunique allies. With American air tion was that Mazloum’s forces support, SDF fighters destroyed continue waging their bloody the Islamic State’s capital of campaign against the remnants Raqqa and all its major strongof the Islamic State in eastern holds. The Kurds and their Syria, even though his fightSyrian allies paid a severe price: ers want to return home to They have suffered about 4,000 Kurdish areas and protect their dead and 10,000 wounded since families. Mazloum said his 2014. Over that same period, forces had suffered at least 27 the United States lost only three killed in action since Trump’s soldiers in Syria, according to a abrupt decision, and many

more wounded, as a revitalized terrorist adversary sent a wave of more than 10 suicide attacks against Mazloum’s front lines.

“Right now, we are fighting for ourselves, for our existence,” Mazloum said.

“Because all our fighters know that if they don’t defend themselves, (the Islamic State) will come back and be stronger, murdering and beheading their families.” He said the threat was especially severe for the Arab members of the SDF coalition who fear reprisals from both Sunni terrorists and Iranianbacked Shiite forces.

Mazloum believes that Trump made a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has threatened to invade Kurdish areas and destroy what he claims is Kurdish terrorism. Mazloum said he advised his commanders that this agreement was made by U.S. politicians, not soldiers.

“This is something immoral, leaving your ally in the battle alone,” he said, something American soldiers would never do by choice.

I asked Mazloum what he would be doing the following morning. He said he planned to go to the front lines, to bolster the morale of his 10,000 troops still battling the Islamic State.

In this holiday season, when we think about keeping faith, that’s the kind of ally we are betraying.

David Ignatius can be reached via Twitter @IgnatiusPost.

Children’s Christmas gifts to the adults I love Christmas.

I love it because my mother has worked hard to make the day magical and eventful for her family for more years than she will permit me to share.

My mother has six children, 17 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren — and counting. Every Christmas, we, along with a mix of cousins, aunts and uncles, gather in my parents’ home.

After we enjoy a Christmas feast — our dining room table abuts two folding tables borrowed from a local church — we enjoy coffee and desert as we talk about everything and nothing at all and marvel that another year has passed so quickly.

And then it’s time for the best part of our annual gathering: the gift exchange.

We retire to the family room in the basement, the only room big enough to hold everyone. My siblings and I helped my father remodel it into a family room years ago, and my mother’s elaborate Christmas decorations fill it with a warm glow.

Tom Purcell My mother plays the very Christmas albums, scratches and all, that we listened to as children 40-plus years ago.

These include “Holiday SingAlong with Mitch Miller,” “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” and Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.”

We adults usually do a modest grab-bag swap, but the gift ritual isn’t for us. It’s for the youngest family members in the room.

Our large, extended family has suffered its share of loss over the years. We are filled with grief as our older family members pass on to the next life, leaving a huge hole in our hearts.

But our grief is eased by

the energetic young souls who are born into our family — souls filled with boundless joy and wonder as they bask in the love of their extended family on Christmas.

There are few things more rewarding than to see the excitement and happiness in a young child’s eyes when she opens a gift you got just for her — there are few words more satisfying than “I love it, Uncle Tom!” We must learn from our children — we must remember the truths we knew so well when we were their age.

Children are curious.

“Why?” is the question they ask over and again. Their minds are wide open, trying to understand the world — not closed and judgmental, certain that their positions are correct and their opponents are fools.

Children are filled with love. Much of the evil in our world is caused by hatred.

Hatred is a learned behavior that some adults pass down to their children. Love is innate.

Adults must remember how to embrace love.

Children know how to laugh. Laughter is a cure for multiple ills, in particular stress. Laughter helps us escape the narrowness of our limited points of view — helps us escape selfimportance. Remember how easily laughter came as a child? Adults must remember to laugh.

I hope the eventfulness of my parents’ family room on Christmas will be a memory our youngest family members will cherish for the rest of their lives.

They have no idea how much their presence and excitement fills us adults with boundless joy.

How much better the world would be if we adults became more curious and loving and laughed more as we navigate the complexity of the adult world.

That’s why I love Christmas — and wish you, dear readers, and your families an uplifting holiday season!

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

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Ads saying that TB is side-effect troubling DEAR DR. ROACH: In all the warnings you see for prescription drugs on TV and in print, it seems like a disproportionally high number of them have some tie-in to tuberculosis.

They say to get tested for it and don’t take the medicine if you’ve had it or if you know someone who had it. Regular over-the-counter drugs don’t seem to have this connection to tuberculosis, at least from the labels. Why is it true for prescription drugs?

— C.W. ANSWER: Despite the feeling you are getting from television ads, only a handful of prescription drugs increase risk for tuberculosis, but among those that do are some of the best-selling drugs (by total amount of money, not by number of prescriptions) and thus they are advertised heavily. These include adalimumab (Humira) and other tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (Remicade, Cimzia, Simponi and Enbrel). These drugs increase risk of developing tuberculosis by between 50 and 100 percent, but that is still only about 1 person in 200 who takes these medications. Steroid medications like prednisone also increase risk for tuberculosis, but you won’t see those advertised on television.

I hear the ads as well, and am puzzled when they say “if you live in an area where certain fungal infections are common.” I bet that even people who do live in those areas may not realize it. They are referring (mostly) to histoplasmosis, which occurs in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. Other fungal infections are possible, including coccidioidomycosis in the Southeastern states and blastomycosis, which in addition to the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys occurs in the St. Lawrence River area and the Great Lakes. Only the Northwest and Northeast are really at low risk for any fungal infections.

Symptoms of fungal infection with histoplasmosis are similar to a mild pneumonia: Fever and chills, cough and chest discomfort are common, but some people have more vague symptoms, such as weight loss and just not feeling well. People on these drugs with these symptoms should discuss them with the prescriber.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1776, after staging a surprise attack, George Washington and the Continental Army scored a major upset victory over the British in the Battle of Trenton.

In 1908, boxer Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns, becoming the first African-American heavyweight champion.

In 1966, the pan-African holiday Kwanzaa, founded by UCLA professor Maulana Karenga, was celebrated for the first time.

In 2004, a powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a massive tsunami that claimed the lives of at least 226,000 in Southeast Asia and east Africa.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Thomas Gray (1716-1771), poet; Charles Babbage (1791-1871), mathematician/

inventor; Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese leader; Richard Widmark (1914-2008), actor; Steve Allen (1921-2000), entertainer; Alan King (1927-2004), actor/comedian; John Walsh (1945- ), TV personality/activist; David Sedaris (1956- ), writer; Lars Ulrich (1963- ), musician; Jared Leto (1971- ), actor/musician; Chris Daughtry (1979- ), singer-songwriter; Kit Harington (1986- ), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Despite its impact in the Colonies, the Battle of Trenton was fought by relatively small numbers on both sides — an estimated 2,400 Continental Army soldiers defeated the 1,500-strong British/ Hessian garrison.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1919, Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth’s contract to the New York Yankees.

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gotten to the point where I don’t want to share things with him because he overpowers everything.”

That’s not a middlin’ problem. That’s a big one.

Many very successful couples have very different tastes. But until you both stop seeing your taste as “wrong,” I don’t see much long-term hope for this relationship.

Ask him to reflect on his own behavior. Can he laugh about his own obsessiveness? Can your Mr. Darcy learn to truly love you exactly as you are?

You should find out.

Dear Amy: My wife had an affair with a man that began two years after we married and continued (on and off) for the next 20 years (which is when I found out about it).

She said she would not see him again, and she hasn’t.

I have just found out that they have regular phone conversations. Sometimes they talk just once a year on her birthday, other times more frequently.

She says there is nothing wrong since they are now just friends.

I say that a continued relationship with this man is just wrong.

What do you think?

— Troubled Dear Troubled: I agree. I suppose that — compared to 20 years of infidelity — you’re “supposed” to feel that an annual phone call isn’t so egregious, and yet, you

find this hurtful — and on this point, your feelings should carry greater weight than hers.

The classic and best “take” on this is the book, “Not ‘Just Friends’: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity,” by researcher and therapist Shirley P Glass, with Jean Coppock Staeheli (2004, Atria Books).

This would provide valuable insight into your feelings. Share this with your wife.

Dear Amy: In your written response to “Wondering Grand,” you said: “If you sent the check with a note addressed to both HE and his wife …” To HE? I see and hear the misuse of objective pronouns (“from Bob and I”) every day, but I honestly expected better from someone as articulate as you.

— Upset!

Dear Upset!: I am somewhat flattered by your shock at my mistake.

I only wish my error had been caught before publishing.

Many, many readers noticed this and wrote in to gently (or not so gently) correct me. Thank you all!

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

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

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

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Discerning boyfriend is no Mr. Darcy Dear Amy: My boyfriend is extremely discerning, and I am not.

When he cooks something, it’s after he’s watched 50 YouTube videos and read up on the history of the dish so that he knows the backstory of every aspect of it.

I enjoy cooking, but I keep it simple. Everything “Boyfriend” does has to be the best, the fanciest, the most gourmet, and while he’s never said anything insulting (it is purely in his demeanor), I can feel him look down on the simpler way I do things.

This happens with everything. When we watch a movie, I don’t analyze it as much as he does. When we drink coffee, I can’t taste the difference in acidity as well as he does.

I’m basically OK with things that are … mediocre.

I love this man very much, but I constantly feel out of my league. Sometimes I can let go and just learn from him because he does know so much, but most times it makes me feel inadequate. It seems he’s never admiring or learning from me. It has gotten to the point where I don’t want to share things with him because he overpowers everything.

I’ll cook on my own when he’s not here. I’ll listen to my subpar, repetitive (yes I know!) pop music when I’m driving alone.

His family members are not mean and intentionally

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Amy Dickinson condescending, and often I get “enlightened” to better techniques, and I always feel slighted and unnecessary.

What can I do to make the relationship seem more balanced? Am I just out of my league?

— Middlin’ Dear Middlin’: If your guy were only an obsessive cook I’d suggest that you sit back and enjoy his expertise. But, according to you, his demand for “excellence” applies to ALL things.

In some respects, I feel sorry for the guy. He will never know the exquisite joy of a ballpark hotdog, topped with sauerkraut and bright yellow mustard.

He will never “get” the steering wheel thumping ecstasy of a great Katy Perry hook.

He’s missing a lot of miracles that even you deride as “mediocre.” Stop stooping to his level. There is beauty in the quotidian.

It is exhausting to have to be educated about everything.

The key sentence in your question is: “It has

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Your desire for change shouldn’t be allowed to override what’s best for you.

Think matters through and consider the results you could get from various scenarios.

Time is on your side, and patience and planning will pay off. Do what’s right for yourself and you’ll have no regrets.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Get together with old friends or relatives you don’t get to see often. Sharing experiences will shed some light on how to make the most out of what you’ve got.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Be a leader and make a positive change. Your actions should influence others to think and be charitable. Make your feelings clear.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Honesty will be in your best interest. You don’t have to put on a show or hide your feelings. Walk away from an indulgent situation and take better care of yourself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Talk about the kinds of changes you’d like to see happen, and be open to suggestions made by the people who love and care about you. A positive attitude will make a difference.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Travel plans, friends and family will have an impact on how you decide to move forward. If you share your ideas, hopes and wishes, you’ll be surprised by the input you receive.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — If you make a promise, keep it, or you will make yourself look bad. Don’t expect someone to be honest with you when it comes to sharing intentions.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Spend time with a loved one. Share ideas and discuss plans that will help you get a foothold on the upcoming year. Embrace change and try something new.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Engage in festivities, but don’t let temptation lead you to overdo it. Put more thought into what you spend your money on, and take better care of your health.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Be practical in your effort to bring people joy. It’s what you do and say, not what you give, that will make a difference.

A romantic gesture is encouraged.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You can think big, but it’s the little things you do that will make you feel good.

Refuse to let anyone put you down or criticize you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Don’t look back with regret. Let fond memories rule the roost and lead you to a place of comfort and greater awareness.

Help others and spend time with your loved ones.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Say and do what’s in your heart, and make positive changes that will leave you feeling good about who you are. A revelation will set you on a new path.

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differences that Scottish immigrants faced when they came to America.

The Scottish influences on life in America will also be examined.

There will also be some haggis — a traditional dish in Scotland — available for attendees to try. The event will also include the reading of some poetry by Scotsman Robert Burns, who Griswell said is widely considered to be Scotland’s national poet.

In 1788, Burns wrote a well-known New Year’s poem that is often sung to ring in the arrival of a new year: “Auld Lang Syne.”

For Griswell, the event will also offer an opportunity to share some of his own family heritage as he has ancestors on his mother’s side who came to the U.S. from Scotland.

“It’s something that I’ve been digging into, so it’s fun for me to kind of get to present this and share a little bit of my own culture as I start exploring more of it,” he said.

McDaniel Farm Park is located at 3251 McDaniel Road in Duluth. The event is free to attend, and residents can register in advance by calling 770-814-4920 or visiting gwinnettparks.com and using registration code MFP18101.

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each. Rising College Junior/Senior Scholarship for Agriculture — This scholarship is for college students who have at least two semesters of college work remaining to receive an undergraduate degree from a unit of The University System of Georgia, Berry College, Emmanuel College or any accredited college/university in Georgia with an ag program. Applicants must be majoring in agriculture and environmental sciences, family and consumer sciences or an ag-related field. The GFB Foundation will award 10 scholarships of $2,000 each.

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Farm Bureau Foundation offers $58K in agricultural scholarships culture. This scholarship is for high school students The Georgia Farm who plan to enter a college Bureau Foundation for that is part of the UniverAgriculture is offering sity System of Georgia, $58,000 in scholarships to Berry College, Emmanuel Georgia students pursuing College or any accreddegrees in agriculture, vet- ited college/university in erinary medicine, family Georgia with an ag proand consumer sciences or a gram during the 2019-20 related field, John Archer, academic year to pursue Gwinnett County Farm an undergraduate degree Bureau president, recently in agricultural and enviannounced. ronmental sciences, family Since 1959, GFB has and consumer sciences or awarded scholarships to a related agricultural field. students entering colThe GFB Foundation will lege with plans to pursue award five scholarships a career in agriculture or of $3,000 each and seven family and consumer scischolarships of $1,500 ences. In 2016, the GFB each.

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“We thought we’d give it In Scotland, there is a a try as a twist on some of tradition that families wel- our normal farm tours that come a new year by practic- we do at McDaniel Farm.” ing a First Foot ritual in This will be the first time which gifts are brought into that McDaniel Farm Park their homes on New Year’s has hosted a “First Foot Day as a way of starting the Walk,” although Griswell year off on the right foot. said it is a natural fit since Gwinnett County resiMcDaniel is a Scottish dents who are looking for name. something to do on the Griswell said a colleague day after New Year’s Day of his found out about the will get a chance to learn First Foot walk tradition about that tradition, and try in Scotland and brought it some haggis, during a free up as a possible idea for a special event at McDaniel program that the county’s Farm Park next week. The Cultural and Natural Repark will host a “First Foot sources staff could tackle.

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“Really, we’re just doing to 2 p.m. Jan. 2. this like a lot of the proIt’s being held that day grams that we do, just to because county facilities, raise cultural awareness of including parks, are closed different cultures that are a on New Year’s Day. part of modern-day GwinBut despite not being nett,” Griswell said. “The held on New Year’s Day, it Scotch, especially with the will still highlight Scottish Scotch-Irish migration, culture as well as the hiswere a big part of the settory of settlers who came tling of Gwinnett.” to Georgia in its early days The event will include from Scotland. a variation on the usual “(A First Foot walk) is walking tour of the Mca way to ring in the new Daniel Farm, with Griswell year over there, basically leading it while wearing bringing bread and some a kilt and talking about other gifts into the home what life was like for early and across the threshhold Scottish-Americans who of the home on the first day immigrated to the U.S. That of the year to bring good includes talking about Scotluck,” said Gwinnett Cultish regalia and the cultural

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An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died Christmas morning in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency said.

The boy, who was detained with his father, died shortly after midnight at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, about 90 miles north of the border crossing in El Paso, Texas.

The boy was taken to the hospital Monday after a border agent noticed signs of illness, and the medical staff first diagnosed him with a common cold and later detected a fever.

“The child was held for an additional 90 minutes for observation and then released from the hospital mid-afternoon on December 24 with prescriptions for amoxicillin and Ibuprofen,” CBP said in a news release.

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Trump says events in U.S. ‘a disgrace’

Former Disney actor tried to meet 13-year-old for sex, police say

By Kevin Liptak CNN

In President Donald Trump’s Christmas Day telling, the drugs are flowing over the border, the Federal Reserve is imperiling the economy and the Democrats are preparing to harass him with oversight requests.

“It’s a disgrace, what’s happening in our country,” Trump fumed, seated behind the Resolute Desk on Tuesday, after decrying Democrats as hypocrites and recalling — unprompted — his firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

“But other than that,” he said, his hands gesturing outward, “I wish everybody a very merry Christmas.”

If most Americans were taking a break from their workplace woes on Christmas morning, the president was wallowing in them, even as he worked to project a festive demeanor amid a partial government shutdown and troubling economic news.

Celebrating the holiday at the White House instead of his Palm Beach estate, Trump used a phone call session with American troops to advance his case for a border wall, his isolationist foreign policy views and his insistence that his campaign did not collude with Russia.

Trump acknowledged the standoff with Democrats over funding for his longpromised border wall has no

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the government won’t reopen until funding is secured for his border barrier, and he plans to go to the border in January to visit a new stretch of wall. (Photo: CNN)

foreseeable end date.

“I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it,” he said.

As uniformed servicemen were beamed into the Oval Office via satellite from U.S. bases in Alaska, Bahrain, Guam and Qatar — but not war zones like Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria — Trump said he was pleased to see rich nations like Qatar — “There are many, many ways of pronouncing it,” Trump observed of the Gulf nation — chipping in for regional security efforts.

“It will be nice when we can ask for a lot less money for our military,” Trump said, without referring specifically to recent decisions to draw down troops in Syria

and Afghanistan. “We’re, right now, the policemen of the world and we’re paying for it. And we can be the policemen of the world, but other countries have to help us.”

And though he expressed confidence in Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who spooked investors on Monday by making public his calls with bank CEOs to check on their liquidity, Trump again faulted the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates too quickly, worrying investors and causing stocks to tumble. He insisted the market was ripe for buyers.

“I think it’s a tremendous opportunity to buy,” he said.

“Really a great opportunity to buy.”

Trump has spent the past several days cooped up in the White House, leaving

Millions in U.S. World to be driving on treacherous roads Indonesians worry another after Christmas As a record number of tsunami will strike nation Americans are traveling this holiday season, most of them hitting the road, huge swaths of the country will see some nasty winter weather.

Strong winds, heavy rain and mountain snow were in Tuesday’s forecast for much of the Western United States, and today the storm will push into the central part of the country, where more than 4 million people are under winter weather alerts.

Folks traveling through the Plains and Midwest after enjoying Christmas dinner and gift exchanges with family and friends will need to be extra cautious as roads throughout the region will remain hazardous into Friday.

Making the roads more treacherous, snowfall is expected to reach 8 to 12 inches in those regions, with parts of eastern Colorado, western Nebraska and the Dakotas possibly seeing more than a foot.

In the South, about 12 million will be under a slight risk for severe storms today, possibly bringing strong winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes in the afternoon and evening.

Much of the South will see 2 to 4 inches of rain, possibly more in some areas, which could spur the threat of flooding through Friday.

— From wire reports

As the threat of more deadly tsunamis casts a pall over Indonesia, the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said Tuesday that more than 16,000 people are displaced.

That’s in addition to more than 420 confirmed dead, 1,485 injured and 154 still missing.

Even if no more disasters like Saturday’s tsunami strike the Java and Sumatra coasts, those numbers could still rise as authorities work to gauge the true scope of the disaster.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Indonesia expects the death toll to rise, spokeswoman Kathy Mueller said, explaining that the nonprofit is providing residents with basic household items, clean water and equipment to clear debris.

Doctors Without Borders also expects the number of injured to go up, as more victims were expected to arrive at hospitals over the coming days.

On top of the massive human toll, property damage is extensive. Early assessments indicate that more than 880 homes were destroyed, with 73 hotels, 60 restaurants and 435 boats also suffering heavy damage.

only on Christmas Eve for an evening service at the National Cathedral. Originally planning to spend the holiday at Mar-a-Lago, Trump canceled the trip after the partial government shutdown went into effect.

He’s the first president to spend Christmas at the White House in 18 years; the last was Bill Clinton in 2000.

“I love the White House, but I wasn’t able to be with my family. I thought it would be wrong for me to be with my family, my family is in Florida, Palm Beach, and I just didn’t want to go down and be there when other people are hurting,” Trump said Tuesday — speaking presumably about his adult children, since first lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Monday to spend the holiday with him.

Twenty-one others were injured in the attack, which took place at 3.20 p.m. local time Tuesday.

No motive has been given by authorities at this time.

CNN footage of tsunami-hit areas in Indonesia show rescue team looking through debris and K-9 unit dogs sniffing for survivors. (Photo: CNN)

intercepted and downed “a number of hostile targets” over the western countryside of Damascus on Tuesday, according to the Syrian staterun news agency SANA. SANA reported “the aggression” was carried out from Lebanese airspace.

Three Syrian soldiers were injured during an Israeli missile assault on an ammunition depot, SANA reported, citing a military source. Syrian Air Defenses intercepted and downed most of the missiles, with damage limited to the depot, the agency reported.

Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, said an aerial defense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria, according to a statement posted on the IDF official Twitter account.

No injuries or damage were reported, the IDF told CNN. CNN asked the IDF for more information on the reported attacks on Syria, but the IDF declined further comment.

On Nov. 29, Syria said its air defenses foiled an Israeli strike over al-Kiswah region in southern countryside of Damascus.

Syria Air Defenses intercept, strike ‘hostile targets,’ ISIS claims deadly reports claim bombing in Iraq Syrian Air Defenses

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At least 47 killed in attack on government building in Kabul

At least 47 people were killed and 25 were injured Monday during a seven-hour assault that began with a car bomb at a government building in the Afghan capital, authorities said.

A police officer and four attackers were among the dead after the standoff at the National Authority for Disabled People and Martyrs’ Families in Kabul, according to Najib Danish, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

The attack began Monday afternoon with the detonation of a vehicle bomb at the gates to the building, Danish said. Three gunmen then stormed the building, where hundreds were working.

Two police officers were wounded, the official said.

At least 350 workers were evacuated and the number of casualties could rise, according to Danish.

5 killed in China Local authorities had after hijacked earlier said the gunmen took bus drives into hostages in the building.

The attack comes at a time pedestrians when the U.S. military has Five people have been been ordered to begin plankilled after a hijacked bus ning to withdraw about half drove into pedestrians in the the troops in Afghanistan, as southeastern Chinese city of a U.S. defense official with Longyan in Fujian province, direct knowledge of the matauthorities said Tuesday. ter told CNN last week.

Police have detained a The official said planning man with a knife at the scene is underway, and it could and are currently investigattake months to withdraw the ing the incident, the Longyan nearly 7,000 troops.

City government office said.

— From wire reports and 13 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq on Tuesday, according to Iraqi military Brig. Gen. Abdul Jabbar al-Darraji.

The wounded were immediately evacuated to local hospitals and Iraqi security forces are investigating the incident, al-Darraji said.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the explosion, saying the car bomb targeted Shiites in the city, but the group did not provide any evidence to support the claim.

The terrorist group captured Tal Afar in June 2014, but the city was seized by Iraqi troops in August 2017.

However, ISIS is still able to stage deadly attacks in various parts of Iraq.

Former Disney actor Stoney Westmoreland has been charged with alleged attempts to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, according to an indictment.

An indictment from the Salt Lake County, Utah, district attorney states Westmoreland was charged Friday with one count of enticing a minor, four counts of dealing harmful material to a minor and one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.

According to the indictment, Westmoreland, 48, used a dating app to chat with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old boy. The indictment also states the actor used the app to send explicit pictures and to arrange a meeting for sex at his hotel.

When Westmoreland arrived at the arranged spot, he was arrested by Salt Lake City Police and members of the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force.

Westmoreland had appeared in 38 episodes of “Andi Mack” as Ham Mack, the main character’s grandfather.

Disney fired Westmoreland after he was arrested earlier this month.

Ellie Kemper bids farewell to ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Ellie Kemper doesn’t want to call the ending of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” “bittersweet.”

The star told CNN the show wrapped filming at the end of June.

“We were filming the fourth season and we found out as we were filming it that it would be the final season,” Kemper said. “In streaming age, that is actually like a fully lived life and feels like we had a lot of episodes given the world we live in now.

But it still felt sad because I love these characters, I love the people I get to work with and so it’s just a little bit of a loss.”

The second half of the show’s fourth season starts streaming on Netflix in January.

Greg Kelly released on bail in Tokyo Greg Kelly, the U.S. businessman accused of helping Carlos Ghosn under-report his income at Nissan, has been released from jail in Japan after being granted bail.

The Tokyo District Court set bail at 70 million yen ($635,000) for Kelly, who has been in detention since his arrest Nov. 19. An appeal by prosecutors was rejected and Kelly was released late Tuesday night in Japan.

Kelly and Ghosn were indicted two weeks ago on allegations they collaborated to under-report Ghosn’s compensation in Nissan’s securities filings by about 5 billion yen ($45 million) over a five-year period ending in March 2015, according to prosecutors.

— From wire reports

Ariz. man fulfills girl’s Christmas list sent by balloon from Mexico

By Derek Staahl CNN

The remnants of a red balloon in southern Arizona sparked a Christmas connection that lifted the spirits of two families, one on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Randy Heiss found the deflated balloon while hiking with his dog Dec. 16 in Patagonia, Arizona, about 20 miles north of the border.

At first, he thought it was trash, but then noticed a note attached to the balloon with ribbon.

Must read “I unfolded the note and I could see that it was in Spanish and written by a little girl,” he said.

It was a Christmas wish list, signed “Dayami.” The little writer was asking for things like paints, magic markers, a coloring book, some toys and clothes.

The balloon at Heiss’ feet, he realized, was intended to carry the note to the North Pole.

“It was a kid’s Christmas wish.

You can’t turn away from that,”

he said. “Some little kid put that list out there in good faith, hoping someone would fulfill it and so I just knew I had to do everything I could to fulfill that list.”

Heiss brought the note to his wife, who helped translate it. They began posting on social media in hopes of finding the author, without luck.

Then Heiss got an idea: based on the wind, he figured the balloon probably floated from Nogales, Mexico. He reached out to a Spanish-language radio station in Nogales, XENY AM, which agreed

to run a story about the Christmas list in its evening newscast and on Facebook.

The station tracked down Dayami’s family within an hour, Heiss said.

The radio station arranged a meeting between the two families last week. The Heisses bought all the gifts they could find for the 8-year-old girl and her younger sister.

“Their little eyes were just wide with wonder looking at the gifts.

‘How did this happen? It actually worked!’” he said.

It was a “healing experience” for Heiss and his wife, whose only son died nine years ago.

In an era when the border is a nearly constant source of controversy, Heiss said the experience highlights the humanity that he thinks is too often overlooked in the news coverage.

“It was beautiful to watch the border wall melt away for a day as if it wasn’t even there,” he said.

“There was no wall tall enough, no concertina wire, nothing was going to stop that little girl’s faith and her wishes from coming true.”

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a.m. Jan. 26 at Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville.

During the event, trees that have been dropped off throughout January are put into a wood chipper where they are chopped up and turned into mulch.

Marlatt said trees that are sent to landfills instead of being dropped off for wood chipping would take decades to decompose. This program allows the mulched wood to be used immediately as needed in the community, according to Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful.

“It’s a wonderful teachable moment for our children,” Marlatt said.

“We encourage parents to let their children know that the tree that they are dropping off could one day line pathways in their favorite park or help beautify the flower beds around their school.”

Before a tree is dropped off for Bring One For The Chipper, Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful requires that all ornaments and

Buford • Fire Station 14, 1600 U.S. Highway 23 • Fire Station 24, 2735 Mall of Ga. Blvd.

• Fire Station 29, 2800 Thompson Mill Road Dacula • Fire Station 17, 2739 Brooks Road • Fire Station 27, 2825 Old Fountain Road Duluth • Fire Station 5, 3001 Old Norcross Road • Fire Station 7, 3343 Bunton Road • Fire Station 19, 3275 N. Berkeley Lake Road Grayson • Fire Station 8, 2295 Brannan Road Hoschton • Fire Station 18, 1515 Mineral Springs Road Lawrenceville • Fire Station 9, 1900 Five Forks-Trickum Road • Fire Station 10, 1131 Rock Springs Road • Fire Station 20, 1801 Cruse Road • Fire Station 25, 3575 Lawrenceville Highway

lights be removed from it.

Marlatt said the organization needs volunteers who are willing to help put the trees through the chipper on Jan. 26. Families, individuals, school groups, civic organizations, companies, neighborhood associations and

• Fire Station 31, 1061 Collins Hill Road Lilburn • Fire Station 2, 12 Harmony Grove Road • Fire Station 3, 4394 Five Forks-Trickum Road • Fire Station 22, 2180 Stone Drive Loganville • Fire Station 28, 3725 Rosebud Road • Fire Station 30, 1052 Ozora Road Norcross • Fire Station 1, 165 Lawrenceville St. • Fire Station 11, 5885 Live Oak Parkway • Fire Station 23, 4355 Steve Reynolds Blvd.

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other community groups are invited to volunteer to help on that day.

Residents who are interested in volunteering to help with the event must register at www. gwinnettCB.org. They must also download a Volunteer Release form,

which they must bring to the event, from the website.

Anyone who has questions about dropping off trees or volunteering for the Jan. 26 event can send an email to gwinnettcb@gwinnettcb.org or call 770-822-518.

Hunger

•From Page 1A food insecurity rate in 2016 was 10.5 percent, down 0.5 percent from the previous year and down from 12.3 percent in 2014.

While the 2016 number is lower than other metro Atlanta counties — DeKalb had a food insecurity rate of 19.2 percent, Fulton had a rate of 17.8 percent and Cobb had a rate of 11.7 percent — it is still more than twice that of Gwinnett’s northwestern neighbor Forsyth County, which had a 2016 food insecurity rate of 5.5 percent.

“For some of these kids, (lunch) is their only meal of the day and if they’re get-

ting it taken away or only getting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it’s really hard on them,” FerraraMiller said. “It was emotional and it was exciting and it felt so good to finally be at a point where we can start making a difference.”

Per Gwinnett County Public Schools’ meal policy, students, even those with delinquent balances, never go without a hot meal, Ferrara-Miller said.

“Gwinnett County is unique, and I love it,” she said. “A couple years ago, they switched (policies); the policy used to be that (students) would get a substitute meal, which would be a ham and cheese

sandwich. Now, once your account balance goes past I think $11.25 in the negative, you can only get the entree.

You don’t get the option of sides or a drink, but you can still go through the line and get the entree. They’re not just getting the vegetables and the fruit.”

According to GCPS’ website, elementary school lunches cost $2.25, while middle and high school lunches cost $2.50.

Students who are on the reduced price lunch program pay only 40 cents per meal, however, meaning they could still get 28 full lunches before reaching the negative $11.25 balance.

But even those 40 cents

can be difficult for some parents, Ferrara-Miller said, as was made evident by the $518.52 in delinquent lunch balances All for Lunch paid off for the four North Gwinnett schools.

“It’s such a big problem that I want to get the word out about it and see if we can just wipe out (delinquent balances),” FerraraMiller said. “There’s no reason (students) should go hungry when a meal is $2.50 (or less).”

All for Lunch is always accepting donations, Ferrara-Miller said, of which 100 percent go toward helping feed children. For more information or to donate, visit allforlunch.com.

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“Through her tireless efforts, our comprehensive plan is now integrated as one community health improvement plan,” Gerstein said. “Martha’s expertise has made her a shining star and leader among all that have the privilege to know and work with her.

Her passion for helping others learn about and understand the benefits of engaging with the Gwinnett Coalition has helped our organization achieve unprecedented results.”

A public-private partnership with the mission of facilitating collaboration that improves the well-being of the community, Gwinnett Coalition identifies community needs and resources, sets priorities and works on solutions to produce results, while also educating and motivating the community to action.

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Center and Jordan are a large part of that, with Jordan specifically working to identify what the community needs are then helping the hospital and community pool resources to meet those needs.

“The coalition is a great platform for me to do my work through, and I’ve always believed in it and the way they bring together people from all different backgrounds,” Jordan said. “I’ve worked with the coalition for a number of years and I love my work, but I just never expected to receive this award because my work is in the background, (doing) planning and programming.”

Jordan said once she got over the initial shock, she felt humbled.

“I was very honored,” she said. “I feel like it is such a special thing to receive this type of recognition, and I am so grateful to have this opportunity to participate with the coalition.”

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA ADOPTION OF 2019 BUDGET The public is hereby notified that the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners intends to adopt a Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 during the commission meeting to be held on Thursday, January 3, 2019, at 2:00pm in the auditorium of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, located at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

A copy of the proposed Budget may be inspected during regular office hours (8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday) in the office of the Department of Financial Services, located on the second floor of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, located at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

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SECTION B • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2018

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Kameron Brown LANIER • SENIOR

Lanier senior linebacker Kameron Brown is the Daily Post’s Defensive Player of the Year. (Photo: David Friedlander)

Brown emerges from brother’s shadow to make major impact

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

SUGAR HILL — It’s the proverbial 2,000-pound elephant in the room. Or more accurately, it’s the 325-pound Tiger in the room.

The formidable shadow that

Lanier grad and Auburn defensive lineman Derrick Brown casts is one that can swallow up a lot of people, particularly when you’re as close to him as his younger brother Kameron.

However, the 6-foot, 230-pound linebacker has cast quite the large shadow of his own throughout his career at

Lanier, and no more so than his senior season this fall.

And as the 2018 Daily Post Defensive Player of the Year’s career comes to an end, he has made his own name one to look up to in Longhorns history.

“He’s always been a kid who’s had a nose for the ball,”

Lanier coach Korey Mobbs said of the younger Brown brother. “There’s no doubt he was a starter for us from his sophomore year all the way to his senior year and never missed a game. People might argue this, but I think he’s had just as much, if not more, impact on our program than his

brother did. I’d say that with his brother in the room, and as well, I think his brother would agree with that. “(Kameron) was a team captain, the heartbeat of what we do. An emotional leader. He’s a really talented young man, not See DEFENSE, Page 8B

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Derrian Brown BUFORD • SENIOR

Numbers don’t lie for Buford’s phenomenal back Brown

By Taylor Denman

time, ‘Is he the best I’ve ever coached?’” Davis said. “I’ve coached some phenomenal backs. I’ve Buford running back only been to two high coach Fyrone Davis speaks schools. One was Fredhighly of all of the athletes erick Douglass and here. he’s coached.

I tell people all the time, It’s not forced either. He’s ‘The numbers don’t lie.’ coached numerous Division You want to know if he’s I running the greatest back? The MORE backs — numbers don’t lie.”

INSIDE most reBrown, a University of • Dacula’s Jenkins earns cently 2018 Texas signee, rushed 246 graduates times for 1,908 yards (7.8 Coach of Year honors, 4B Anthony per carry) in his senior • Complete all- Grant and campaign to lead the councounty football Christian ty in rushing. His rushing teams, 5B Turner — total is second all-time on and state champion athletes Buford’s single-season in track and field. Buford’s rushing list after Buford girls team won the Class Darius Walker’s 2003 camAAAAA state championpaign (282-2,406). ship and looks poised to His 30 total touchdowns contend again.

— 28 rushing, one receivDavis talks about Buford ing and one punt return — running back Derrian are the finishing touches of Brown in a different tone.

Buford running back Derrian Brown is the Daily Post’s 2018 Offensive Player of the Year. (Staff Photo: Taylor Denman) “People ask me all the See OFFENSE, Page 8B taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

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GEORGIA TECH VS. MINNESOTA Quick Lane Bowl • Today, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) • Detroit

Johnson era ends with final bowl From Staff Reports While the transition to a new head football coach is underway, the Paul Johnson era ends today for Georgia Tech.

The Yellow Jackets face Minnesota in the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, Mich., hoping to send their coach out with a win.

Johnson announced his retirement last month, and Tech hired Temple head coach Geoff Collins, a Rockdale County native, as his replacement.

The game ends an 11year tenure as Tech head coach for Johnson, whose 40-year coaching career includes 22 seasons as head coach.

“I guess it’ll hit you when you’re out there (that it’s the last game),” Johnson said. “You don’t really think about it. My big focus on this game is it’s about the players. It’s not about me. And everything I want to do, I want to do about the players.

They’re the ones who got here. They’re the ones who won six of the last eight games.

“I’m sure that you’ll think about it when it’s over or maybe towards the end or whatever, but as I told somebody before, this is my 40th straight year of coaching without a break, and it’s probably time for a break.”

Johnson, 61, ranks fourth in Tech history in wins (82) and winning percentage (.582). He came to Atlanta after highly successful tenures at Georgia Southern (1997-01) and Navy (2002-07), winning the 1999 and 2000 national titles at Georgia Southern.

His current team finished strong with six wins in its final eight games, ending

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets head coach Paul Johnson talks with quarterback TaQuon Marshall (16) during a game this season at Bobby Dodd Stadium. (Adam Hagy-USA Today Sports)

with a 7-5 record. Minnesota (6-6) had an opposite stretch with six losses in an eight-game span after a 3-0 start.

The Golden Gophers’ challenge is slowing down Johnson’s typical, rushheavy offense. Georgia Tech leads the nation in rushing yards at 334.9 per game, with quarterbacks TaQuon Marshall (896 rushing yards, 11 touchdowns) and Tobias Oliver (807 yards, 12 TDs) leading the way. B-backs Jordan Mason (640 yards, 7 TDs) and Jerry Howard (561 yards, 5 TDs), and A-backs Clinton Lynch (a Norcross grad) and Qua Searcy also have been important.

They hope to capitalize on a Minnesota defense weakness — the unit ranks 118th nationally in yards allowed per carry (5.22).

“Playing Georgia Tech,

especially on defense, is a major challenge, not only just because of the players they have and the coaching they have, but the system and the style’s different,” Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck said. “You change a little bit of your defensive system to be able to stop the triple option and to be able to stop that type of scheme.”

Georgia Tech’s defense also gets a favorable matchup — Minnesota’s offense ranks 85th nationally in total offense (378.6) — but the Golden Gophers do have a major playmaker at wide receiver in Tyler Johnson, an All-Big Ten first-team selection. The junior has 74 catches for 1,112 yards and 10 TDs this season.

The Georgia Tech defense, which ranks 46th nationally in total offense allowed, features two key

Gwinnett grads as starters in defensive end Anree Saint-Amour of North Gwinnett and linebacker David Curry of Buford.

Saint-Amour has 45 tackles (11 for losses), four sacks, nine quarterback hurries and two interceptions.

Their goal is to give Johnson a sendoff victory into his retirement, which may or may not be permanent. He plans to take at least one year off from coaching after the bowl game.

“I’ll take a break and reevaluate, and who knows?”

Johnson said. “If it’s the last game, it’s the last game. If I decide I can’t live without it, I may come back. Right now, I just don’t know. I know that I’m going to take a year off and evaluate where I am.

It’s hard to tell you how you’re going to react. I don’t know.”

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Getting to Know ... Tim Slater

Like a lot of coaches, Lanier girls basketball coach Tim Slater has had a number of different people who have influenced his coaching philosophy. The 35-year-old Miami native recently spoke with staff writer David Friedlander to discuss those influences, which include Buford girls coach Gene Durden and former Buford boys coach Allen Whitehart from his days as an assistant with the Wolves boys programs, among a number of other subjects.

DF: When you were hired at Lanier about nine months ago, you spoke glowingly not only about Allen Whitehart, under whom you worked under as an assistant at Buford, but of Gene Durden, whom you also listed as a major influence on your career. What are some of the more important things you learned from those two guys?

TS: You couldn’t have two more different coaches that have both achieved excellence in different ways. The biggest thing I learned from Gene is just how to manufacture intensity. How to make sure your kids are playing hard.

Sometimes as coaches, we try to overthink it. We try to find a scheme or a strategy. A lot of times it’s, ‘Just do what we’re asking you to do harder,’ and that’s one thing he does really, really good. He gets his kids to play hard, and that’s something I try to model myself after.

DF: Now, I can’t imagine you try to trap all 94 feet of the court the entire game like Gene often likes to do. That style of play seems awfully tough to duplicate.

TS: Well, with the athletes we have, we do.

We run a lot of the same pressing principles. One small difference we have this year that Gene’s been blessed with in the past is we have a couple of really good bigs. So we tend to slow it down in the halfcourt a little bit more just to try to focus on getting the ball inside, but we press probably 80 percent of our possessions, and we’re really pushing tempo.

DF: So who are some of your other basketball influences?

TS: Like I said before, it’s two sides of the coin with Allen Whitehart on the other side. Allen is very set oriented, but he’s not a system guy. He’s going to look at what he’s got and he’s going to find the best thing to fit his players, and that’s one thing where I’ve got that happy marriage.

We like to press, but at the same time, I’ve got Christabel Ezumah right now, who as a junior is probably one of the best bigs in the state. … She’s got a chance to be really, really special.

So we try to find ways to get her involved. So that’s kind of the two different viewpoints, I guess, and the two battles I have. You have the one coach sitting

Tim Slater is in his first season as the head girls basketball coach at Lanier. (Photo: David Friedlander)

on one shoulder and the other sitting on the other shoulder, and I’ve got to find that happy medium.

DF: You can’t argue with the success each of them have had in their respective careers.

But are there any other people from your past who has been a big influence on your career?

TS: The first guy who ever gave me a job, because I’m a career coach.

But the first guy who ever gave me a shot was (Bulloch Academy coach) Chandler Dennard, and the biggest thing I took from him is just love for the game and how much he loves kids. That’s really why you’re in (coaching) — you love kids and you want to see them be successful and move them onto the next level and see them get better as people and better as players.

That’s my coaching tree, so to speak.

DF: As far as your personal background, you grew up in the Miami area and eventually came to get your degree from Georgia Southern. I guess the latter was what eventually helped bring you up this way to the metro Atlanta area. But since you’ve been here, you’ve always seemed to come back to this general area, whether it was your time at Buford, or at Johnson of Gainesville and now at Lanier. What’s kept you coming back to the northeastern corner of the metro area?

TS: For me, Gene is the reason I got my job at Buford, got me out of the private school ranks and I ended up going to the GHSA. So this was kind of an area where I’ve always felt comfortable. You know, I’ve got a 6-year-old (child) and a 5-year-old (child). So as a coach, I have an opportunity to get back to an area that you know, that your kids know, you have family, you’ve got friends. You know where the grocery store is. You know where your church is. That was a huge draw for me, to be able to be in a community that is like Sugar Hill and at a school that is like Lanier.

That’s what really attracted me to this job.

Lanning have taken charge in running the defense, along with head coach Earlier this month, Kirby Smart. former Georgia defensive But the relationships coordinator Mel Tucker Tucker forged while at took a job to be the head Georgia leave a lasting coach at Colorado, leaving imprint on the program.

Georgia without a defenTucker recruited a lot of sive coordinator for the the players on Georgia’s Sugar Bowl. defense, including sophoIt shouldn’t have much more linebacker Monty effect on the game itself.

Rice. Rice was a sophoInside linebackers coach more in high school when Glen Schumann and outTucker first reached out to side linebackers coach Dan him.

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DF: You’ve said before that Rome was the first time you coached a girls team, and there are some differences in coaching girls from boys. How big an adjustment for you was that?

TS: You know, when I called some people in my life up and said, ‘Hey, I’m thinking about coaching girls.’ They kind of laughed because when I grew up, I have all sisters. I’m the only boy in my family. So I kind of thought, ‘You know, you’ve been prepping for this your whole life.’ So to be honest, the transition is not that different. I treat my girls just like basketball players. They’re athletes.

I think they really respond to that. I think that’s the big misnomer in athletics is that it’s ‘girls athletics.’

No, it’s not. It’s athletics.

So when you treat your players like players, you expect the same things, you expect the same level of output, you expect the same level of intensity, they really respond to it because it’s very rare. Again, that’s something I learned from Gene.

DF: You mentioned your sisters. Were any of them involved in athletics when you were growing up?

TS: Not at all. I’m the tallest person in my family by about six to seven inches. I come from a short, stubby line of (people). … I’m the biggest person and I got into athletics. I was very fortunate my father was not an athlete, but I told my dad that I wanted to play basketball. So he drove me into Miami Killian (Senior High School), which is an inner-city school in Miami and he said, ‘If you want to play basketball, the best food is in the pressure cooker.’ So that’s where I went. My sisters went to a different high school than I did. We had a lot of success (at Miami Killian).

(Former NBA player) Steve Blake (and) Raja Bell played there and Tim Slater. Three big names (laughs). … Raja Bell was my two guard. He made me look really good. A lot of my (assists) stats were padded because he could finish.

Departure of Tucker causes no change in Georgia’s bowl prep

By Michael Hebert

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2018 • 3B

“Coach Tuck will be missed ... we were tight,” Rice said.

Senior linebacker Juwan Taylor said Tucker informed players on the team of his intentions to leave for Colorado before the hiring was official. But Taylor said they knew his departure was imminent.

Soon enough, Tucker was on his way, with mutual respect between the players and their former coach on the decision.

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COACH OF THE YEAR

Clint Jenkins DACULA

Jenkins took Falcons to greater heights in debut season

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Nearly two decades into high school football coaching career, Clint Jenkins was rewarded with his own program.

Dacula’s longtime defensive coordinator was a popular pick in the community to be head coach, a promotion he received in January. He was excited because, as he said at the time, he “wasn’t ready to say goodbye to those kids,” and he got to keep that connection with his players.

He inherited talent and a strong program from previous head coach Tommy Jones, and also took on high expectations. He was tasked with taking over a program that had won two straight region championships and reached the state playoffs four times in five seasons.

All he did this year was take that program to greater heights.

The Gwinnett Daily Post Coach of the Year led the Falcons to an 11-3 record and a trip to the Class AAAAAA state semifinals, matching the deepest playoff run in school history established by the 2005, 1990 and 1988 teams.

The season was even more fun than he expected.

“I think just with the year we had, obviously it was probably better than I would have thought,” Jenkins said. “It was just a really magical year for us. To be able to win 10 (straight) down the stretch and beat Valdosta at home (in the quarterfinals). It ended up being better than what I thought. …

We’re still hurting a little bit (about a 14-7 loss to

Northside-Warner Robins in the semifinals). It’s going to take a little more time. I’ve said it over and over again, I’m just really proud of our kids. I don’t think when this thing started anybody put us in the Final Four. For them to have the kind of run they had in the playoffs and for them to improve and buy into what we were doing, I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

That isn’t to say everything went perfectly.

Dacula started slow against a non-region schedule heavy on AAAAAAA competition with a 1-2 mark, falling in back-toback games to playoff teams Mill Creek and Mountain View. It followed the path of Dacula’s 2016 and 2017 teams, who each started 1-4.

A 40-6 win over Central Gwinnett in Game 4 made sure another 1-4 start wasn’t going to happen.

That victory was the first of 10 in a row that didn’t end until the state semifinals. Along the way, the Falcons extended their region winning streak to 15 games.

Jenkins, a former Marine and the son of a longtime Georgia high school football coach, also proved himself as the head of a program.

“Every one of us in this profession, you get excited when you see a man like him who’s been at Dacula awhile and who’s been very successful, to get this opportunity to become a head coach and he absolutely did a phenomenal job,” Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said.

“Going from an assistant coach to head coach, you’ve got to be able to look at it globally and I’m

sure that was a transition he made. What I admire the most is the culture and the personality of his defense didn’t change one bit. You can see Clint Jenkins is still there. I know he’s the head coach but the kids are still playing that same brand of football.

I know that’s something he’s proud of. I couldn’t be more proud to be a colleague of his. He’s going to be a phenomenal head coach for years to come.”

The defense looked a lot like Jenkins’ because he was still in charge. He remained defensive coordinator, his job the previous seven seasons at Dacula.

“That means (Jenkins) has got a lot of good coaches around him,” Jarvis said. “That’s the key to being successful in Gwinnett as head coach because you have so many hats you have to wear with recruiting, touchdown clubs, community.

To be able to do what you truly love, which means to scheme and hands-on coach, you’ve got to have good people around you and that’s what Clint has at Dacula.

“He’s such a good man he’s going to continue to have good coaches that work around him as well.”

Jenkins echoes Jarvis’ comments about his coaching staff, but first he gives credit for the 2018 season to his players, particularly a core group of seniors.

“I told them in the locker room that they were my first group of seniors (as head coach) and obviously we’re not going to forget this group and what they’ve done, what they’ve done for Dacula,” Jenkins said. “There are going to be a lot of memories about these guys.”

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Dacula’s head coach Clint Jenkins works on the sidelines against Northside during the state semifinals this season. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Gwinnett players make TD Club of Atlanta all-star team From Staff Reports A number of Gwinnett County players will be honored Jan. 24 at the Touchdown Club of Atlanta’s annual awards banquet.

The event at the Wyndham Atlanta Galleria honors Georgians as well as awards like the Bobby Dodd National Back of the Year, which goes to quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa of Thompson (Ala.) High.

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Lake (Miss.) is the Bobby Dodd National Lineman/ Linebacker of the Year.

Dylan Fromm of Warner Robins is the Mr. Georgia Football Award winner, and the club’s LitMalik tle Peach Washington Award (for the state’s top underclassmen) goes to Warner Robins’ Marcayll Jones

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ALL-COUNTY FOOTBALL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Derrian Brown, Buford, Sr. The 5-foot-11, 188-pound senior led all Gwinnett County running backs with 1,908 yards and 28 TDs on 246 carries in helping the Wolves to another Region 8-AAAAA championship and a berth in the Class AAAAA state quarterfinals. Brown, who has signed to play college football at the University of Texas, also caught 10 passes for 162 yards and a TD, returned 11 kickoffs for 196 yards and two punts for 94 yards, including a TD DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Kameron Brown, Lanier, Sr. The 6-foot, 230-pound senior led all Gwinnett County defenders with 187 combined tackles and assists, including 24 tackles for loss and six sacks, and added 14 quarterback hurries, five pass breakups, two fumble recoveries and one caused fumble in helping the Longhorns to their first Class AAAAAA state semifinal appearance in school history. Brown still has official visits to take and intends to sign with a school from among a list that includes GardnerWebb, The Citadel, Chattanooga and Mercer in February COACH OF THE YEAR: Clint Jenkins, Dacula First-year head coach led the Falcons to the Region 8-AAAAAA championship, trip to Class AAAAAA state semifinals FIRST TEAM OFFENSE QB Carter Peevy, Archer, Jr. 179 of 269 passing for 2,565 yards, 27 TDs, 5 INTs RB Cody Brown, Parkview, Soph.

183 car., 1,588 yards, 25 TDs rushing RB Davian Criss, Mountain View, Sr. 221 car., 1,446 yards, 18 TDs rushing; 6 rec., 77 yards receiving WR Ty James, GAC, Sr.

49 rec., 1,145 yards, 13 TDs WR Jeffrey Saturday, Hebron, Sr. 55 rec., 1,035 yards, 11 TDs WR Braylen Weems, Archer, Sr. 63 rec., 993 yards, 11 TDs OL Ja’Kai Clark, Grayson, Sr. Graded out at 93 percent of his blocking assignments this season; 91 pancake blocks; only one sack allowed OL Jonathan Leech, Mill Creek, Sr. Graded out at 86 percent of his blocking assignments; 38 pancake blocks; played 655 total snaps; all are team bests OL Harry Miller, Buford, Sr. Ohio State signee paved the way for highscoring offense OL Wanya Morris, Grayson, Sr. Graded out at 91 percent of his blocking assignments; 122 pancake blocks, only two sacks allowed OL Riley Simonds, Buford, Sr. Florida recruit helped Wolves average 41.7 points LS Quentin Skinner, Buford, Sr. Signed with LSU as a long snapper; had 45 tackles, 3 TFLs, 1 sack, 2 QB hurries, 1 caused fumble, 1 PBU on defense All-purpose: Malik Washington, Parkview, Sr. 56 rec., 792 yards, 5 TDs receiving; 43 car., 287 yards, 9 TDs rushing; 11 punt ret., 217 yards; 5 KO ret., 147 yards K Kellen Grave de Peralta, Norcross, Jr. 10 of 11 FG, 35 of 37 PATs DEFENSE DL Kevin Harris, Grayson, Sr. 71 combined tackles, 13 1/2 TFLs, Gwinnett-best 12 1/2 sacks; 41 QB hurries, 1 fumble rec.

DL Christopher Hinton, GAC, Sr. 59 tackles, 6 1/2 sacks DL Colby Wooden, Archer, Sr. 75 tackles, 21 TFLs, 10 sacks, 14 QB hur-

ries, 1 caused fumbles, 2 fumble rec., 1 blocked FG LB Emmanuel Michel, Archer, Sr. 65 tackles, 2 TFLs, 1 INT, 4 sacks, 8 QB hurries, 1 PBU, 2 caused fumbles, 1 fumble rec., 1 blocked punt LB Owen Pappoe, Grayson, Sr. 112 tackles, 14 TFLs, 4 sacks, 5 QB hurries, 7 PBUs, 2 fumble rec., 1 blocked punt, 1 blocked FG LB Kobe Wilson, Parkview, Jr. 126 tackles, 7 TFLs, 7 sacks, 13 QB hurries, 1 caused fumble, 1 fumble rec.

LB Christian Wright, Norcross, Sr. 183 tackles, 36 TFLs, 3 sacks, 1 QB hurry, 1 caused fumble, 1 INT, 1 PBU DB Andrew Booth, Archer, Sr. 52 tackles, 2 TFLs, 2 INTs, 9 PBUs, 1 caused fumble, 1 blocked FG DB Warren Burrell, North Gwinnett, Sr. 24 tackles, 1 INT, 3 PBUs, 1 blocked FG DB Jalen Perry, Dacula, Sr. 28 tackles, 1 TFL, 3 INTs, 12 PBUs DB Jalyn Phillips, Archer, Sr. 91 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 INT, 3 PBUs P Albert Jang, Peachtree Ridge, Jr. 45-yard average; 6 punts over 50 yards, longest punt of 55 yards SECOND TEAM OFFENSE QB Louis Williams, Norcross, Sr. RB Tyler Goodson, North Gwinnett, Sr. RB Chancellor Lee-Parker, Mill Creek, Jr. WR Josh Downs, North Gwinnett, Jr. WR Kobe Johnson, Discovery, Sr. WR Isaiah Wilson, Norcross, Sr. OL Aidan Higgins, Mountain View, Sr. OL Myles Hinton, GAC, Jr. OL Trente Jones, Grayson, Sr. OL Ethan Lane, Archer, Jr. OL Aidan Perkins, Brookwood, Jr. LS Christian Johnstone, Archer, Sr. All-purpose: Parker Wroble, Mill Creek, Jr.

K Hayden Olsen, Buford, Jr. DEFENSE DL Tomari Fox, Collins Hill, Sr. DL Chris Miles, North Gwinnett, Sr. DL Austin Ruiz-Velasco, Mill Creek, Sr. LB Jared Bartlett, Collins Hill, Sr. LB Sean McDaniel, Dacula, Sr. LB Nick Pucciarello, North Gwinnett, Sr. LB Phillip Webb, Lanier, Jr. DB Jalen Alexander, Grayson, Sr. DB Quinton Newsome, North Gwinnett, Sr. DB Jeremiah Smith, Grayson, Sr. DB Kenyatta Watson, Grayson, Sr. P Michael Decu, Lanier, Sr. THIRD TEAM OFFENSE QB Jordan Williams, Parkview, Jr. RB Semaje Banks, Archer, Sr. RB Trenton Jones, Dacula, Jr. WR Kenyon Jackson, Grayson, Sr. WR Christian Sims, Norcross, Sr. WR Tommy Stewart, Mountain View, Sr. OL Jagger Jones, Lanier, Sr. OL James King, Meadowcreek, Sr. OL Cameron Kinnie, Collins Hill, Jr. OL Justin Bullock, North Gwinnett, Sr. OL Seth McLaughlin, Buford, Jr. LS Joseph Lopez, Dacula, Sr. All-purpose: J.D. Kavel, Wesleyan, Sr. K Dylan Schefske, Brookwood, Sr. DEFENSE DL Noah Duba, Dacula, Sr. DL Jalar Holley, Buford, Sr, DL Jake Ludwig, Lanier, Sr. DL Solomon Zubairu, Archer, Sr. LB Anthony Gorney, Brookwood, Sr. LB Brock Skinner, Mill Creek, Sr. LB Michael Moyers, Hebron, Sr. DB Matt Chavers, Parkview, Sr. DB Jaiev Khan, Dacula, Sr. DB Michael Killebrew, Brookwood, Sr. DB Trent Bartlett, Wesleyan, Jr. P Alex Drazic, Discovery, Sr.

2018 GWINNETT COUNTY FOOTBALL LEADERS Last First Derrian Brown Cody Brown Davian Criss Chancellor Lee-Parker Javion Johnson Trenton Jones Jonathan Halyard Tyler Goodson Isaiah Love Taj Barnes Jalen Samuels Tre Truitt Chris Carter Justin Wilkins Eli Kohl Phil Mafah Semaje Banks Luke Hennebaul Devin Crosby Ras Johnson Arthur Rodgers Parker Wroble Josh Rose Donte Henry Montae Bailey Deonte Miller Shamenski Rucker Kyle Efford Donald Conley Ethan Burroughs Enoch Walters DeAngelo Oliver Remari Hudson Lance Jackson Kameryn Jackson Luke Carroll Quincy Bonner Kobe Johnson Elijah Turner Tyler Bride Zach Calzada Jonathan Wiley Jakeim Thompson Josh Battle

Rushing School Gms Att Yards TD Ave. Buford 13 246 1,908 28 146.8 Parkview 12 183 1,588 25 132.3 Mountain View 11 221 1,446 18 131.5 Mill Creek 12 173 1,284 13 107 Meadowcreek 10 152 959 11 95.9 Dacula 14 202 1,330 15 95 Grayson 12 166 1,122 9 93.5 North 12 159 1,121 25 93.4 Collins Hill 11 127 1,019 8 92.6 Lanier 13 174 1,149 7 88.4 South 6 87 515 10 85.8 South 8 81 678 1 84.8 Brookwood 11 151 905 14 82.3 Central 11 148 874 11 79.5 Brookwood 11 112 844 8 76.7 Grayson 10 89 720 10 72 Archer 14 176 1,004 17 71.7 Mountain View 11 119 767 4 69.7 North 12 75 731 10 66.5 Shiloh 9 98 569 3 63.2 Shiloh 10 104 559 7 55.9 Mill Creek 12 86 663 7 55.3 GAC 12 79 644 10 53.7 Berkmar 10 87 510 5 51 GAC 12 109 596 4 49.7 Duluth 5 40 247 0 49.4 Discovery 10 119 492 5 49.2 Dacula 14 102 683 8 48.8 Wesleyan 8 74 373 5 46.6 Hebron 10 111 455 2 45.5 Mountain View 11 80 494 5 44.9 Collins Hill 11 119 493 1 44.8 South 4 21 177 0 44.3 Norcross 12 118 526 6 43.8 Norcross 12 118 516 7 43 Wesleyan 8 76 336 3 42 Meadowcreek 8 55 332 4 41.5 Discovery 10 52 402 3 40.2 Buford 13 65 489 7 37.6 GAC 12 64 414 10 34.5 Lanier 11 57 361 8 32.8 Berkmar 8 62 257 4 32.1 Parkview 11 44 340 5 30.9 Mill Creek 12 78 361 10 30.1

Receiving Name School Braylen Weems Archer J.D. Kavel Wesleyan Malik Washington Parkview Jeffrey Saturday Hebron Kobe Johnson Discovery Tommy Stewart Mountain View Ty James GAC Konata Mumpfield Dacula Parker Wroble Mill Creek Isaiah Wilson Norcross T.J. Ellis Central C.J. Daniels Parkview Josh Downs North Daejon Reynolds Central Logan Johnson Hebron Justin Wilkins Central Cole Thornton Lanier Hayes Sutton Norcross Zion Mills Central Javonni Cunningham North Zach Charles Lanier Shamenski Rucker Discovery Christopher Scott Dacula Jahkai Richardson Lanier Micah Smith Wesleyan Kameron King Central Kenyon Jackson Grayson Christian Sims Norcross Jake Floyd GAC Josh Stinson Grayson Cooper Blauser Wesleyan Antonio Meeks Shiloh Ryan King Grayson Will Warbington Hebron Jalen Perry Dacula Xyrie Wilson Buford DeShaun Robinson South Alonzo Howard Meadowcreek Semaje Banks Archer Trey Messer Archer Darrell McDowell Jr. Shiloh Jake Hicks GAC Thomas Jones Discovery

Rec 63 57 56 55 54 50 49 47 45 42 42 39 37 37 37 37 36 36 36 34 34 34 33 32 31 31 30 30 30 30 29 29 26 26 26 25 23 23 23 22 22 21 21

Passing Name School Comp. Att. Carter Peevy Archer 179 269 Louis Williams Norcross 140 253 Colten Gauthier Hebron 145 259 Jarrett Jenkins Dacula 150 261 Jordan Williams Parkview 124 183 J.C. French Wesleyan 153 247 J’Kori Jones Grayson 108 199 Josh Rose GAC 94 180 J.R. Martin North 109 163 Zach Calzada Lanier 111 220 Alex Drazic Discovery 139 265 Justin Fomby Central 149 254 Aaron McLaughlin Buford 80 152 Luke Hennebaul Mountain View 77 165 Quincy Bonner Meadowcreek 59 127 Baxley Harris Mill Creek 85 191 Skylar Adams Central 66 120 Jackson Hardy GAC 53 97 Vince Goffney Shiloh 59 126 Donte Henry Berkmar 50 118 Conner Chavis Brookwood 47 86 Trey Truitt South 53 108 C.J. Dixon Grayson 24 41 Jarvis Evans Buford 22 45 Jordan Goodyear Shiloh 25 74 Bryce Satterfiled Lanier 23 46

Yds TD YPC 993 15.8 11 738 13 4 792 14.1 5 1,035 18.8 11 848 15.7 5 738 14.7 7 1,145 23.4 13 525 11.2 4 698 15.5 3 805 19.2 10 436 10.4 5 596 15.3 6 624 16.9 9 472 12.8 2 385 10.4 3 384 10.4 3 513 14.3 4 500 13.9 1 357 9.9 4 610 17.9 5 406 11.9 0 189 5.6 0 606 18.4 7 441 13.8 6 463 14.9 3 438 14.1 3 711 24.7 9 525 17.5 7 405 13.5 5 343 11.4 3 391 13.5 3 351 12.1 2 432 16.6 5 380 14.6 4 297 11.4 3 488 19.5 7 376 16.4 0 336 14.6 4 270 11.7 4 409 18.6 4 296 13.5 0 373 17.8 2 232 11 1 Yds 2,565 2,198 2,088 2,080 1,978 1,909 1,821 1,784 1,694 1,592 1,529 1,502 1,403 1,174 1,101 1,091 853 801 762 616 579 491 309 263 222 203

TD Int 27 5 20 9 19 14 19 7 13 2 13 5 19 6 16 7 20 4 14 5 8 11 13 13 18 4 10 10 10 6 6 9 9 3 10 2 2 4 5 2 4 2 5 4 5 2 1 0 1 2 0 0

Tackles Will Hunter North 10 46 Name School Games Tackles Jared Ivey North 10 46 Kameron Brown Lanier 13 187 Christian Wright Norcross 12 183 Sacks Sean McDaniel Dacula 14 150 Name School Sacks Anthony Gorney Brookwood 11 127 K.G. Harris II Grayson 12.5 Kobe Wilson Parkview 12 126 Phillip Webb Lanier 10.5 Tyler Moore Norcross 12 125 Colby Wooden Archer 10 Michael Moyers Hebron 12 124 Jake Ludwig Lanier 9 Joshua Townes Lanier 12 115 Chris Miles North 9 Kai Hill Mountain View 11 112 Tomari Fox Collins Hill 8 Owen Pappoe Grayson 13 112 Austin Ruiz-Velasco Mill Creek 8 Joseph Lopez Dacula 14 110 Jacob Lund Mountain View 7.5 Tony Ward Brookwood 9 107 Jeffrey Blake GAC 7 Blamassi Meite Discovery 10 102 Cornelius Evans Central 7 Trey Short Lanier 13 101 Kobe Wilson Parkview 7 Kameron O’Rourke Archer 12 98 Josh Arnold South 6.5 Noble Joyner Discovery 10 96 Hayden Gilford Grayson 6.5 Jaiev Khan Dacula 14 96 Christopher Hinton GAC 6.5 Emannuel King Norcross 12 96 Jalar Holley Buford 6.5 Damian Nytko Lanier 11 94 Cooper Andolsek Mill Creek 6 Brock Skinner Mill Creek 12 94 Kameron Brown Lanier 6 Kevon Blackwood Central 10 92 D.J. Ivey North 6 Micah Harden Hebron 11 92 Blamassi Meite Discovery 6 Jaylin Carter Norcross 12 91 Brock Skinner Mill Creek 6 Jalyn Phillips Archer 14 91 Solomon Zubairu Archer 6 Kendall Davis Collins Hill 11 89 Davin Bryant Buford 5.5 Jeremy Tuider Mountain View 11 85 Ahmad Craig Buford 5.5 Kenyatta Watson Grayson 12 85 Jared Bartlett Collins Hill 5 Evan Dimaggio Buford 13 83 Tre Brown Grayson 5 Jake Winskie Brookwood 11 83 Jasheen Davis Shiloh 5 Isaac Dowling Shiloh 9 82 Kai Hill Mountain View 5 Jacob Lund Mountain View 11 82 Jacoby Sharpe Lanier 5 Ethan Quarshie Brookwood 11 82 Chris Smith Dacula 5 Lex Stocker South 9 82 Shane Word Duluth 5 Cardo Gottlich Wesleyan 12 81 Tyren Long Norcross 4.5 Phillip Webb Lanier 13 81 Michael Moyers Hebron 4.5 Derrick Brown Parkview 12 80 Harrison Spikes Mountain View 4.5 Nick Perez Brookwood 11 80 Lex Stocker South 4.5 Jeremiah Smith Grayson 13 80 Noah Duba Dacula 4 Isaiah Smith Lanier 13 79 Lamar Hardrick Collins Hill 4 Jared Bartlett Collins Hill 11 78 Desmon Jackson Meadowcreek 4 Zane Harkness Buford 13 78 Jalen Jackson Norcross 4 Austin Ruiz-Velasco Mill Creek 12 78 Caelan Johnson Grayson 4 Keyshaun Williford Norcross 12 78 Charles Jordan Parkview 4 Jalen Alexander Grayson 13 77 Noble Joyner Discovery 4 Quinton Hyde Mountain View 11 77 Emmanuel Michel Archer 4 Choe Bryant-Strother GAC 12 76 Deonte Miller Duluth 4 Colby Wooden Archer 13 75 T.J. Mullix South 4 Zach Hamilton Parkview 12 74 Owen Pappoe Grayson 4 Jake Ludwig Lanier 13 74 Alex Pawson Hebron 4 Winston Gassant Hebron 10 73 Jackson Powell Buford 4 Chris Miles North 13 73 Elijah Pryor GAC 4 Enyinna Nwagbara Mountain View 11 73 Aubrey Smith Central 4 Trent Bartlett Wesleyan 12 72 Joshua Townes Lanier 4 Tanner Bivins Wesleyan 12 72 Tommy Turnage Collins Hill 4 D’Ante Carr Collins Hill 11 72 Josh Velago Archer 4 Tomari Fox Collins Hill 11 71 Sean Griffin Mountain View 9 71 Interceptions K.G. Harris II Grayson 13 71 Name School Interceptions Chris Smith Dacula 14 71 Trent Bartlett Wesleyan 9 Tyler Roach Archer 13 70 Randy Cochran Norcross 6 Jacob Allen Mill Creek 12 69 Matt Chavers Parkview 5 Noah Faircloth Mill Creek 11 69 Michael Killebrew Brookwood 5 R.J. Smith Mill Creek 12 69 Jalen Alexander Grayson 4 Noah Duba Dacula 14 68 Tavian Coleman Parkview 4 Amos Dahn Archer 12 67 Nicktroy Fortune Central 4 Moses Pryor Central 10 66 J.D. Kavel Wesleyan 4 Nicholas Pucciarello North 13 66 Jaiev Khan Dacula 4 Quincy Bryant Parkview 12 65 Tyan Milton Central 4 Emmanuel Michel Archer 12 65 Christopher Quaites Collins Hill 4 Harrison Spikes Mountain View 11 65 Isaiah Smith Lanier 4 Myles Jackson Mill Creek 12 64 Josh Graham Norcross 3 Cole Jolly GAC 10 63 Kobe Hylton South 3 J.D. Kavel Wesleyan 12 63 Jalen Perry Dacula 3 Promise Williams Meadowcreek 10 63 Sterling Ross Brookwood 3 Derrell Holston Brookwood 11 62 Chris Smith Dacula 3 Kaleb Edwards Dacula 14 61 Jeremiah Smith Grayson 3 Jaquan Reece Collins Hill 11 61 Jaden Woods South 3 Tre Brown Grayson 13 60 Cooper Andolsek Mill Creek 12 60 Punting Cornelius Evans Central 10 60 Name School Punts Yds Avg Davin Bryant Buford 13 59 Michael Decu Lanier 49 1,871 38.2 Christopher Hinton GAC 12 59 Maceo Thornhill Grayson 38 1,432 37.7 Josh Arnold South 9 58 Carter Peevy Archer 17 625 36.8 Jalen Cole Dacula 14 58 Josh Rose GAC 23 846 36.8 Trevon Salter Grayson 11 58 Cameron Orr Parkview 33 1,212 36.7 Kenny Edwards Grayson 10 57 Jarvis Evans Buford 2 73 36.5 Ronald Clarke Mill Creek 11 55 Zack Gerks Dacula 50 1,812 36.2 Joe Gracia Central 9 55 Alex Drazic Discovery 23 812 35.3 Jack Ihm Hebron 12 54 Harrison Larner Wesleyan 46 1,614 35.1 Jaden Woods South 9 54 Brock Pellegrino Mill Creek 40 1,404 35.1 Tavian Coleman Parkview 12 53 Max Bennett Hebron 34 1,167 34.3 Jalen Jackson Norcross 12 53 Kellen Grave de Peralta Norcross 43 1,448 33.7 Cevon January Shiloh 10 53 Sam Horn Collins Hill 20 672 33.6 Dennarrio Stewart Brookwood 11 53 Hayden Olsen Buford 30 1,008 33.6 Josh Aspinwall Wesleyan 9 52 Rafa Fernandez Mountain View 35 1,171 33.5 Andrew Booth Archer 14 52 Matthew Nalls Discovery 20 670 33.5 Luke Carroll Wesleyan 8 52 Carlos Sanchez Central 26 851 32.7 Alex Pawson Hebron 12 52 Hunter Hall Brookwood 43 1,325 30.8 Micah Smith Wesleyan 12 52 Cameron Clark North 42 1,143 27.2 Connor Wright Mountain View 10 52 Miles Lewis Shiloh 45 1,105 24.6 Barrett Carter North 11 51 Jasheen Davis Shiloh 9 51 Kicking Jalar Holley Buford 13 51 Name School FGM FGA XPM XPA Pts Justin Howell Shiloh 10 50 Hayden Olsen Buford 6 9 62 66 80 Amani Johnson Norcross 11 50 Cameron Clark North 8 10 50 53 74 Tank Pritchett Collins Hill 10 50 Nolan McCord Parkview 5 9 54 55 69 Nicktroy Fortune Central 10 49 Zach Gerks Dacula 6 8 47 52 65 Tyriek Johnson Mountain View 10 49 Kellen Grave de Peralta Norcross 10 11 35 37 65 Jackson Turner Wesleyan 11 49 Harrison Larner Wesleyan 8 13 33 34 57 Solomon Zubairu Archer 14 49 Dylan Schefske Brookwood 9 13 29 29 56 Jeffrey Blake GAC 12 48 Michael Decu Lanier 7 12 34 38 55 Jordan Coggins Duluth 5 48 Jacob Waters Archer 4 6 43 45 55 Jackson Powell Buford 13 48 Beck Naegele GAC 4 6 38 40 50 Aubrey Smith Central 9 48 Aidan Meek Hebron 6 8 30 32 48 Tyren Long Norcross 12 47 David Alvarado Meadowcreek 5 8 27 30 42 Zion Pullins Brookwood 11 47 Alex Drazic Discovery 8 9 18 19 42 Major Carlberg North 12 46 Garwood Collins Grayson 2 3 34 41 40 Randy Cochran Norcross 12 46 Nick Calabrese Mill Creek 3 7 23 24 32 Donald Conley Wesleyan 8 46 Eli Marshbank Collins Hill 4 7 17 20 29 Cherome Ducking Jr. Meadowcreek 8 46 Carlos Sanchez Central 1 4 24 29 27

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time did come.

“He’s not the first back (at Buford) to have to be patient,” Davis said. “But he’s the first back to have to be patient with that type of talent. That’s different, he never wavered. His junior year and sophomore year I said, ‘I’ve got to play this guy. He’s too good.’”

Brown’s 2018 season got off to a confident start against Tucker in the Corky Kell Classic. Brown rushed for 178 yards and scored four TDs in a 40-14 rout.

Brown’s signature run of the season was against Jonesboro, when he rushed for 155 yards and three TDs in the first half.

Brown took a TD run through the line of scrimmage and angled it toward the sideline for 67 total yards.

“I ran up the middle,” Brown said. “It was all clogged up, and I was just throwing defenders off. I came out to the outside and took it all the way down the sideline.”

Buford was on upset alert in its second-round playoff game against Kell. Brown played a part in the Wolves silencing the critics when he totaled 81 yards on 14 carries and scored three TDs. What Davis said Brown does better than perhaps any running back he’s coached is using the ability to turn his shoulders and squeeze through tight holes at the line of scrimmage.

Not that holes were often tight with Buford’s numerous Division I offensive line prospects, but Brown’s reaction and agility make him hard to bring down. Davis said it’s probably resulted in a bonus 200 yards this season.

“He takes his body and turns

Brown’s Daily Post Offensive Player of the Year resume.

Brown totaled those numbers while taking a load off at times during the season. Buford had an average margin of victory of 28 points and conceded 9 points in five region games. Brown and his counterpart Elijah Turner sometimes split carries and Brown took a seat late in games when Buford was coasting.

He also waited his turn behind Grant and Christian Turner as a sophomore and junior.

It was clear to Davis early that a unique talent was on his way to Buford’s high school ranks.

Under state guidelines, transfers and move-ins are becoming part of the reality of high school athletics, and a school like Buford in a wealthy district is a target for athletes looking for the best possible high school facilities and exposure.

Brown is Buford through and through. He came up through the Buford GFL ranks and attended youth camps at the high school up until he became a ninth-grader. That’s when Davis first encountered him.

As Brown transitioned to high school, the youth program prepared him to never miss a beat when it comes to high school practices.

Something Brown perhaps did not expect was to have to wait his turn. Grant is at Florida State and Turner is at Michigan. Brown got to play in spurts, mostly stepping in to run a flare route from the backfield, mostly out of Davis’ inclination not to miss out on his upside. His patience never wore thin, however, and his

Defense it clean sideways to run through a hole with his shoulders going sideways,” Davis said. “I’ve never seen that before. That’s what makes him special.”

At Texas, Brown is the next back in a long line who have been honed by the tutelage of running backs coach Stan Drayton. The former Ohio State assistant helped unlock the full potential of all-pro Ezekiel Elliott.

Elliott was the back on Drayton’s resume that stood out to Brown the most. Brown has a nostalgic connection to former Chicago Bear Matt Forte which convinced Brown that Drayton and Texas could help build his brand the most.

“My dad always told me about the great running backs growing up,” Brown said. “We would play Madden and my dad was always the Bears because of Matt Forte. I thought, ‘He must be something special.’ When I met Coach Drayton, he told me that he coached Matt Forte and Zeke Elliott and those guys.”

Brown has touted the abilities of his offensive line this year, and at the end of Buford’s season, he directed credit for his record-setting season to Buford’s coaches. “(Credit to) Coach Davis teaching me, from freshman year to now, all the traits and abilities that I was able to create and get better at to take to games on Fridays,” Brown said.

“I give (credit) to (former coach John Ford) for working every day and setting up all the competition for us. Us working hard in the weight room — coach (Bryant Appling and coach Tom Hall) — all the coaches for pushing me and getting me to where I am today.”

•From Page 1B just on the field, but off the field, too.”

He was definitely a leader on the field for not only the Longhorns, but all Gwinnett players, in many ways this fall, including leading all county tacklers with 187 combined tackles and assists, as well posting a team-best 24 tackles for loss and adding 14 quarterback hurries, six sacks, five pass break-ups, two fumble recoveries and a caused fumble.

And he did it from a far different position than he thought he’d play while growing up looking up to big brother Derrick. While hardly small, being less massive than his brother meant making adjustments to his plans, and his style of play.

“In the beginning, I was thinking, ‘OK, maybe I’ll come to high school and be like a D-end (like Derrick),” Kameron Brown said.

“But then, my size was different.

But ever since I was young, it’s been a journey. He’s pushed me a lot, and I’ve always pushed myself.

He always said, ‘Be your own person.’ This year, I figured out that you’ve got to leave a legacy behind you.”

The younger Brown and his Lanier teammates have definitely left a legacy behind them that future Longhorns will remember for years to come after helping lead this year’s team to its first appearance in the semifinals of the state football playoffs.

But for Brown himself, his main legacy will be how aggressive he played and his incredible knack of being around the ball on nearly every play.

It is a phenomenon he said began years before he entered high school at Lanier, and it’s an ability that’s only grown over time.

And oddly enough, as much as

he’s looked up to his brother and tried to emulate him over the years, it was another Derrick that proved to be his biggest influence.

“It developed over time,” Brown said. “I watched the ESPN (documentary film) on (NFL Hall of Famer) Derrick Thomas and how good he was and how committed he was to make a play. For me, it came from that, it came from being doubted a lot. … As soon as I came to high school, I wanted to make a point.”

While he’s definitely made his point, Brown may still have another point to make as he prepares to take his skills to the next level.

As good as he was on the high school level, the major college programs weren’t as eager to pursue Kameron Brown as they were in pursuing Derrick Brown a few years ago, perhaps because of his smaller size.

However, the younger Brown will take his game to the college ranks — he still has visits set up for after the holidays, and intends to choose among a list that includes Gardner-Webb, The Citadel, the University of Pikeville (Ky.), Chattanooga and Mercer during the later signing period in February.

And make no mistake, he intends to make a big impact no matter where he goes, which would not surprise Mobbs in the least.

“I know we get wrapped up in (recruiting-ranking) stars and measurables at the college level,” Mobbs said. “But whoever ends up with him is going to get an unbelievable player who’s going to be extremely productive. Kam’s just an incredible football player.

Every now and then, you get a case like this where it’s frustrating as a coach. It’s not necessarily anybody’s fault. It’s just going to be a blessing wherever he ends up.”

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