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Family flocks to Rose Bowl to support UGA

BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

On any given Saturday in Athens, you’ll see tens of thousands of Georgia fans gathered to root on their Bulldogs. Fans, students and alumni alike all bond for 60 minutes “Between the Hedges.”

In a historic season for the

Dawgs, they are in Pasadena, Calif., for the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1943. To put that in perspective, there have been 13 presidents since Georgia last played in the Rose Bowl, and the last time it made the cross country trip, gas was an average of 15 cents per gallon.

With this rare and monumental occasion, people such as Rick Johnson and his fam-

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The Johnsons have a group of 21 people they regularly tailgate with for Georgia football games that will be in Pasadena, Calif., with them. (Special Photo)

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ily are taking full advantage of it. On Saturday morning, the CEO of Tom Wage’s Funeral Home — along with his wife, Tommie Ann, and sons Matthew and Sam — joined 139 Bulldog fans on See BOWL, Page 7A

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his past year, Gwinnett had some stories that mirrored the national stage, with a local commissioner finding himself in trouble for posts on social media, a police beating caught on camera and the opioid crisis claiming two students on the same street on the same day. The following are some of the headlines that made the biggest impact on the county in 2017:

STORIES OF P O T

Tommy Hunter gets in trouble for racially charged comments Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter’s comments on Facebook led to perhaps the most high-profile story to happen in the county in 2017.

Hunter became the source of controversy after he called U.S. Rep. John Lewis a “racist pig” and referred to Democrats as “Demonrats” and “Libtards” on the social media website the weekend before the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in January.

That sparked months of protests at commission meetings, as well as the filing of an ethics complaint by an Atlanta resident. After an ethics hearing, a panel that dealt with the complaint recommended county commissioners issue a written reprimand of Hunter in June, which they did.

Tropical Storm Irma hits Gwinnett, leaves devastation in wake and Georgia Gwinnett College canceled class due to the impending storm.

On Sept. 11, gusts reached 65 mph as Irma made its way through the county. Power lines and trees were downed, leading to temporary road closures.

Road closures weren’t the only concern for emergency manage-

Though Gwinnett was hundreds of miles away from where Hurricane Irma made landfall in northwest Florida, the effects of the Category 5 storm were devastating.

Leading up to the storm, Gov. Nathan Deal placed Gwinnett under a State of Emergency.

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ment services and residents.

Trees were uprooted, some crashing onto roofs, decks and even into one individual’s dining room.

Gwinnett County Police responded to 1,487 calls in a 16-hour period, while the Gwinnett County Fire Department took 1,036 calls from 7 a.m. Monday until noon Tuesday.

Police beating caught on camera Gwinnett County Police Department Chief Butch Ayers spent one April afternoon firing two officers after they beat an unarmed man who they had pulled over for traffic violations.

Former Master Police Officer Robert McDonald and Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni were captured on video punching and kicking the victim, Demetrius Bryan Hollins, who was handcuffed on the ground, April 12 after Bongiovanni stopped Hollins for driving without a license plate and changing lanes without a turn signal twice on Ga. Highway 29 near Patterson Road.

In a report, Bongiovanni wrote that Hollins

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wouldn’t stop for him and only came to a complete stop once his Acura stalled. He also wrote in his report that he could smell marijuana coming from the driver and that Hollins refused to cooperate.

The officers were later charged with misdemeanor battery and violating the oath of office, which is considered a felony. Ayers said the incident was extremely upsetting.

“I’m literally sick about it,” Ayers said. “Literally sick. These aren’t the standards that we have and this is not the culture that we promote within this department.”

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Developer seeks senior neighborhood near Lake Lanier

BY CURT YEOMANS

“The proposed R-SR development would provide a great choice for retiring or empty A senior-oriented com- nester Gwinnettians to be munity with 95 homes near great amenities like could be coming to a plot Lake Lanier and parks, of land located between while being close to their Lake Lanier and the grandchildren,” CKK county’s Shoal Creek Development President Water Filter Plant.

Duncan Corley wrote CKK Development in an Oct. 10 letter to LLC wants to build the county officials. neighborhood on 24.36 The Gwinnett County acres, with about 3.98 Planning Commission homes per acre, at the is scheduled to take up 1700 block of Buford CKK Development’s apDam Road, the 6500 plication for the project block of Old Garrett at its meeting at 7 p.m.

Road and 6200 and 6300 Wednesday at the Gwinblocks of Old Shadburn nett Justice and AdminFerry Road. istration Center, located The property also at 75 Langley Drive in backs up to U.S. Army Lawrenceville.

Corps of Engineers land A public hearing on the at Lake Lanier and is proposal was held in Nolocated in the Chattavember, so no additional hoochee River Character public comment will be Area, according to county taken at this week’s meetdocuments. ing. curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

In November, a representative of residents who live next in one neighborhood next to the proposed site expressed concerns about buffers, high density, street access and parking near the lake during the hearing.

Other residents who live on the opposite side of the site said they opposed it because of traffic concerns, and its potential effect on the lake, which is Gwinnett’s water source.

The county’s planning and development staff have recommended approval of the development with conditions such as restricting occupancy to people over 55 and barring the density of the development from exceeding three homes per acre.

“The proposed R-SR zoning may be appropri-

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This illustration shows one of the housing styles for a proposed senior-oriented development on Buford Dam Road, near Lake Lanier and the Shoal Creek Water Filter Plant. The county’s Planning Commission held a public hearing on the proposal in November, and it is scheduled to be on the agenda for the commission’s Wednesday meeting. (Special Photo)

ate at this location as it would provide a needed housing option for the area, while preserving the single-family detached residential character commonly found,” staff members wrote in their report.

The original request called for 97 homes to be built as part of the subdivision, but Corley told planning commissioners in November that he had reduced the proposal to 95 homes after meeting with members of the

community.

He also told the Planning Commission he wanted it to be walkable and therefore put in some pocket parks.

Home prices may be in the low $300,000s to low $400,000s range, he said.

In county documents, Corley said each home will have at least 1,800 square feet of finished space, a two-car garage and a three-foot brick or stacked stone water table on the rear and sides.

“Though the proposed development will have almost no impact to schools, it is very close to North Gwinnett, Buford and Lanier high schools,” Corley said. “The development would provide quality housing options for seniors in a beautiful part of the county.”

The Planning Commission’s decision will be a recommendation only.

The final decision will be made by the Board of Commissioners.

Polar Bear Plunge returns SLEEPING BEAUTY to Lake Lanier for 20th year S U N DAY FOX PRESENTS

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FROM STAFF REPORTS

Locals who want to start the New Year with a splash will have the opportunity to do so in Lake Lanier’s frigid waters Monday.

On New Year’s Day at noon, the Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club will host its 20th annual Polar Bear Plunge at the Lake Lanier Olympic Park Boathouse on Clarks Bridge Road in Gainesville.

The event, which has been held on New Year’s Day — though in past years, sometimes on New Year’s Eve — for the past 21 years with the exception of last year, which was canceled due to low lake levels, raises funds for the club, a legacy of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

Following the jump, club members will serve chili and hot drinks to participants in the boathouse.

The event is open to residents of all ages and awards for best jump, best splash, oldest and youngest jumper, best costume and funniest chicken — someone not jumping but dressed in a costume — will be awarded.

Spectating is free, though jumping costs $30 per person or $90 for a family of four.

To register, visit lckc. org/events/polar-bearplunge.

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Fire causes damage to used car dealership in Grayson FROM STAFF REPORTS Gwinnett County firefighters responded to a used car dealership in Grayson late Friday night after a passerby reported smoke pouring from the building.

Fire officials received the call around 11:25 p.m. to Atlanta Premium Cars, located in the 2563 block of Loganville Highway near Cooper Road in Grayson.

“Crews arrived to find heavy fire involvement in

a room on the back-middle of a single-story, woodframe structure,” Gwinnett County Fire Cpt. Tommy Rutledge said.

Firefighters quickly deployed attack hose lines and forced entry inside to extinguish the fire and conduct a primary search.

“There was no one inside the business when fire trucks arrived and no injuries were reported,” Rutledge said.

The dealership was closed at the time, according to the owner.

The blaze caused heavy damage to the room of origin and sent extensive smoke and heat throughout the rest of the building.

Rutledge said firefighters had to pull the sheet rock and ceiling in the adjoining rooms to control the flames and check for extension.

The exact cause of the fire is currently undetermined and is under investigation, Rutledge said. An employee of the business and the owner reported to the scene to speak with fire personnel.

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Lawrenceville and Gwinnett County officials join members of the Hooper Renwick Preservation Committee for a photo after the September announcement that the Hooper Renwick School would be preserved. The United Ebony Society of Gwinnett County announced alumni of the school will be the grand marshals at the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in Lawrenceville. (File Photo)

MLK parade to feature local history Hooper Renwick alumni to serve as grand marshals

BY CURT YEOMANS

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In keeping with the Gwinnett Bicentennial theme for 2018, the United Ebony society of Gwinnett County will recognize a piece of the county’s African-American history during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in a few weeks.

The group plans to highlight the history tied to the Hooper Renwick School during the parade by having its alumni serve as the grand marshals for the parade, which will be held Jan.15 in Lawrenceville. The theme for the parade will be Honoring The Past And Empowering The Future.

The school was built in 1944 and it remained the school that African-Amer-

ican families in Gwinnett sent their children to until Gwinnett County Public Schools desegregated in the late 1960s. The school that eventually became Hooper Renwick has roots that go back as far as the 1870s.

“It was the first and only public African-American High School in Gwinnett County,” the United Ebony society of Gwinnett County said in a statement.

“Students throughout Gwinnett County had to provide their own transportation to attend Renwick High.”

A ceremony before the parade will be held at 11 a.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville. Parade participants will then begin lining up at 11:20 a.m., which the parade is

expected to begin at noon.

After it leaves GJAC, the parade will head down Lawrenceville Highway to Moore Middle School.

The news that Hooper Renwick alumni will serve as the grand marshals for the 2018 parade comes three months after the city of Lawrenceville announced plans to preserve the original 12room school building as a museum and community space.

The entire building had previously been expected to be torn down to make way for the city’s south lawn mixed-use development. Instead, it will live on as a part of that development.

A new Lawrenceville library branch will built as an attachment to the old school.

Hooper-Renwick Legacy

Preservation Committee Chairwoman Theresa Bailey, a former student of the school, said the alumni look forward to the school building’s future and the fact that it will be used to tell the story of Gwinnett African-Americans. She said that story extends beyond the school.

“We, the life-long members of the African-American Community and sons and daughters of Gwinnett County … do carry within our hearts, the remembrance of the historic pains of rejection, insults, even the lack of documentation of not only our trials but also of our accomplishments,” Bailey said.

“Now, we acknowledge that our beloved Hooper Renwick, functioning with less than its institutional peers, was able to produce greater than expected.”

Victory World Church seeking OK to open school

BY CURT YEOMANS

curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Victory World Church leaders are looking to add a school to the church’s operations at its Hamilton Mill campus, but it’s not a traditional school.

The church has filed a petition with the county, seeking a special-use permit to operate the school.

The church is working with 3-D Project Management on the request.

This is not a private school, though, and it’s not likely drivers on Puckett’s Mill Road will have to navigate through large swaths of cars waiting to drop off or pick up students.

“The school will start with 20 students and could potentially grow over time, however, this location is geared toward home-school students that need additional help that a teacher can provide for assistance,” 3-D Project Management’s David Gay wrote in a Nov. 30 letter to county officials.

The Gwinnett Plan-

ning Commission is scheduled to consider the request at its February meeting, according to an early copy of the agenda packet for that meeting.

County documents show the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners granted a special-use permit in 1997 to let a church operate on the property at 3015 Pucketts Mill Road in unincorporated Buford.

Documents in the Planning Commission packet show the church is planning to use existing space to accommodate the school, which means no construction is expected to take place.

Gay said that, with the school geared toward home-school students, pupils would not come by on a regular schedule.

“Although the school operations will be full time, the students would fluctuate days and hours during the week as may be needed,” he said.

County staff have not yet issued a report with a recommendation on the proposal.

Foodie event to be held as part of College Football Playoff celebration

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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SENIORDAY If you’re 55 & older, Veteran or Active Military, it’s your day to save!

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Foodies looking to taste-test gourmet dishes and drinks from chefs and restaurateurs across the country will have the opportunity to do so while supporting Georgia’s teachers at an upcoming College Football Playoff Foundation event.

Taste of the Championship will be held Jan. 7 at the Georgia Aquarium, one of a number of events the CFP Foundation is hosting in the days leading up to the Jan. 8 College Football National Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta.

Proceeds from the event will go toward the CFP Foundation’s Extra Yard for Teachers platform, which “elevates the teaching profession by inspiring and empowering teachers through the implementation of programs in four focus areas: resources, recognition, recruitment and professional development.”

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verse culinary community at Taste of the Championship.”

The event will feature live music and cooking demonstrations from chefs, including: • Eddie Hernandez, executive chef, Taqueria del Sol; • Pat Pascarella, executive chef, The Optimist; • Jonathan and Justin Fox, chefs/owners, Fox Bros Bar-B-Q; • Rusty Hamlin, executive chef/partner, Atkins Park Restaurant; Touring Chef for Zac Brown Band, Food Network Star season 13 finalist; • Matt Basford, executive chef, Canoe; and • Sean Doty, Executive Chef, The Federal.

Tickets can be purchased at ATLchampgame.com/events. A list of other events, including free options, can also be viewed on the website.

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Discussing gun safety reduces risk DR. ROACH WRITES: As I write this, another gun tragedy has taken place in the United States. By the time it gets published, about 1,500 more people are likely to have been killed by guns, many accidentally. Physicians have a responsibility to protect the health of their patients and the public, and I can’t be silent on this any longer.

Gun violence is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. With over 10,000 deaths yearly, including accidental deaths and suicide, gun violence is a more important cause of death than many of the conditions I discuss in this column. Unfortunately, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly failed to fund research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best-placed U.S. agency to follow what can reasonably be described as an epidemic. This has prevented research on the best ways to reduce gun deaths.

Governments have attempted to keep physicians silent on gun violence. Florida passed a law preventing physicians from discussing gun safety with their patients (this was struck down in 2017 by a federal appeals court). The goals of discussing gun safety with patients are to educate and to consider a means of reducing risk of injury (such as trigger locks, gun safes and storing weapons and ammunition separately).

As a physician, it’s not my place to discuss changes in the law or in public policy.

It’s still up to politicians to write laws to protect the public; until that happens, a physician’s brief discussion on gun safety certainly won’t stop all gun violence, but it can reduce gun injuries, especially accidental ones, and especially in households with children.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I just read your article on the various types of flu vaccines.

I really need your opinion on whether I should get one of the vaccines. I am a 79-yearold woman in good health and not allergic to eggs.

I know the flu virus is dead and you can’t get the flu from a shot. But when it first became available in the 1950s, I had it in two doses and became very sick for about two weeks with flulike symptoms. So I avoided it, and throughout the years, I had the flu a few times — once, when I was in my 20s, very bad with type A, and it attacked my nervous system.

I was not able to drive for three months. I also got sick after a flu shot in the 1980s.

I am hounded to get the flu vaccine, but I am afraid to. Now that there are various kinds available, I wonder if I should try one. — M.T. ANSWER: I’d certainly recommend it. I normally would recommend a highdose version for a woman in her late 70s, but you clearly have a robust immune system and I suspect that is why you have had a strong reaction.

However, vaccine technology has dramatically improved, and I would recommend a standard-dose flu shot. You also might take a Tylenol right after having the vaccine. (There is some evidence that this may reduce the effectiveness somewhat; however, I still think it’s better than no vaccine at all.)

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1600, the British East India Company was chartered.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed a bill admitting West Virginia into the United States.

In 1879, Thomas Edison staged the first public demonstration of the electric lightbulb.

In 1999, the United States handed over complete control of the Panama Canal to Panama.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Henri Matisse (1869-1954), artist; George C. Marshall (1880-1959), U.S. military commander/diplomat; Anthony Hopkins (1937- ), actor; John Denver (19431997), singer-songwriter; Ben Kingsley (1943- ), actor; Diane von Furstenberg (1946- ), fashion designer; Donna Summer (1948-2012), singer; Bebe Neuwirth (1958- ), actress; Val Kilmer (1959- ),

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Cat ladies prefer cats to family members Dear Amy: My sister-in-law says she is very allergic to cats. She lives six hours away from my mom. My sister and I have cats and bring them with us when we visit our mom.

My sister-in-law asked us if we could put the cats behind a gate or upstairs when she and my brother visit.

We believe that our cats are our family members.

We refuse to put our cats away just because someone wants us to.

Because of this, our sister-in-law stopped visiting.

Now she has a baby and this is the first grandchild in the family.

She again asked if we would put the cats away while she visits so my mom can visit with her granddaughter.

Again, we have refused to do this because our cats are just as important family members as her baby.

We told her that she should drop off the baby with my mom, sister and me and that she can relax at the hotel while we visit.

She has refused to do this, and now just doesn’t visit. She tells my brother to visit whenever he wants, but that she and her baby will stay home.

My mom cannot drive to their house, and now my mom has not seen her granddaughter at all. She is very upset.

How do we fix this for our mom’s sake, without

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Amy Dickinson giving up our principles?

We need help soon because my sister-in-law is pregnant with her second child and we haven’t even met the first one!

— Animal-loving Aunt Dear Aunt: As a fellow cat-lover, I’ve often wondered why “cat ladies” sometimes get such a bad rap as being eccentric, sheltered and basically bananas.

Thank you for clearing that up.

You don’t mention your brother’s role in this. If he isn’t allergic to cats, he could handle a visit with the baby.

This is not a matter of “principles.” Given your collective attitude toward your sister-in-law, and your refusal to even attempt to make the house less toxic for her during a visit, she has no choice but to stay away. And no responsible mother would surrender her baby for an unsupervised visit with family members who are so obviously ill-equipped to care for a human.

If you want your mother to meet this grandchild, it would be kindest for you to drive your mother

to your sister-in-law’s house for a visit.

Dear Amy: My husband’s entire family discusses the costs of their possessions. Not only do they openly blurt out how much they pay for everything, but they also must know how much everyone else pays for things.

I grew up with the strict rule that it was rude to discuss someone’s personal finances.

My husband’s family, on the other hand, will undoubtedly ask what you paid for something.

It makes me extremely uncomfortable.

I want to correct them!

I want to say, “It’s considered rude to ask someone that.”

I asked my husband if I could politely say something. I explained to him how I was raised. He is used to them asking, and it took him a while (at my request) not to be so open about our finances.

He told me that it would be a bad idea to address his family on the matter, and that I would hurt their feelings. Meanwhile, it’s gotten to the point where I try to hide things I’ve purchased. I even once tried to jokingly say, “I should wear price tags around you” — to which I only got a deer-in-the-headlights response, while they waited for me to give them a price.

How can I get them to stop asking how much we/I have paid for things?

— Priceless

Dear Priceless: Your in-laws are behaving consistently across the board. Your assumption that you can find the perfect thing to say to them in order to force them to change is … “rich.”

You needn’t tell them what is “considered rude.” Obviously, in their world, this is not rude.

It’s how they relate.

Respond consistently and good-naturedly: “Aha! This? It’s priceless.

And you know — I’ll NEVER tell…”

Dear Amy: Oh, my heart broke reading the letter from “Troubled,” who was not receiving any support from her church family after her family member was shot in the Las Vegas shooting.

I also attended a church where fellow members seemed cold and nonreactive.

I found a different church, and guess what?

It’s wonderful.

— Happy Now Dear Happy: I believe that congregations follow their clergy’s lead regarding how they relate to one another.

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Don’t believe everything you hear or rely on people from your past to keep promises. Be ready to walk alone and to bask in the rewards you receive for whatever you accomplish. Secret information can be damaging. An honest and open attitude will help you avoid trouble.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Uncertainty shouldn’t ruin your plans. Do your own thing and don’t worry about other people. An interesting offer from someone unique will take you by surprise. Don’t share personal information.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Open your doors to friends and relatives. A heart-to-heart talk with someone you are emotionally attached to will give you clarity regarding the best way to make the most of next year.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Problems while traveling or dealing with authority figures will crop up if you haven’t made proper arrangements. Abide by the rules and avoid heading into the new year with unwanted baggage.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll come up with some good ideas and alternatives that will help you smooth over some of the problems you face. Discuss your long-term plans with someone you love.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Stick to your budget and head into the new year feeling good, healthy and ready to conquer the world. Don’t leave possessions or money out in the open.

Protect against personal theft.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — End the year on a high note. Implement the changes that will lead to a better life and new beginnings. Speak the truth and follow through with your plans. Celebrate the future.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Welcome the new year with family and friends. Sharing information will result in an unexpected offering that will help you move forward in a positive manner.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be responsible.

If you are going to ring in the year in an indulgent fashion, make sure you have arranged for a designated driver. Stay safe and you’ll have no regrets.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Don’t sit around when you should be getting out and having some fun. Do something you don’t do often and see what transpires. Go where the action is and join the fun.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Have an emotional chat with someone you trust. Find out the best way to go about making changes that will bring you closer together and encourage a better future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Be cautious with your money and possessions. Don’t leave personal information out in the open. Someone is likely to renege on a promise. Do your own thing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Share your feelings with someone you love. A romantic evening will change the way you move forward in your personal life. Make bold plans.

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Dacula assistant principal writes book, starts publishing company

By Isabel Hughes

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How to get home safely

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With New Year’s festivities just around the corner, people worldwide are making resolutions for 2018 — many of which center on health, wealth and happiness.

In order to keep revelers safe and healthy as they ring in 2018, law enforcement officials in Gwinnett County and across the United States are urging drivers to slow down, buckle up and steer clear of the roads if alcohol has been consumed.

Local fire officials are also warning of improper fireworks use and the dangers misuse can lead to, and how to stay safe tonight into Monday.

“The Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services is encouraging all residents to stay safe during festive holiday celebrations, especially when consumer fireworks are used to ring in the New Year,” said firefighter Capt. Tommy Rutledge, a spokesman for the department. “Firefighters suggest leaving fireworks to the professionals by attending a public gathering where approved pyrotechnics are being used. Sparks from the fallout of consumer fireworks could ignite nearby landscape material and spread quickly.

Avoid a New Year’s tragedy by celebrating safely and responsibly.”

In an effort to make the roads safer as well, since mid-December, police in Georgia, in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, have been cracking down on drivers operating a motor vehicle under the influence.

• “Tow to Go” — a free towing and transportation service provided by AAA and Budweiser where you and your car can be taken home, up to a 10-mile radius • Uber or Lyft — ride-sharing services that offer free rides for new users. Surge pricing may occur on New Year’s Eve • Drive Sober, Georgia — Governor’s Office of Highway Safety app that offers a list of free and safe rides home • Cab services

“The holidays should be a time for celebrations and making memories, not a time of tragedy,” Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Director Harris Blackwood said. “Not only do we want people to get a designated driver to begin with, but we want them to know that if they fail to do so, they will go to jail. No warnings, no excuses.”

According to NHTSA, in 2016, 37,461 people were killed in traffic crashes nationwide, with 28 percent of those fatalities involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration above the legal limit, which is 0.08 in every state.

In the same time period, Georgia recorded 368 alcohol-impaired fatalities — 10 more than 2015 — for a total of 24 percent of all traffic fatalities.

As of Friday, 1,493 people had been killed on Georgia roads, and while the majority of those have not come from impaired drivers, more than 60 percent of those killed in traffic crashes this year in Georgia were not wearing seat belts.

“Buckling up just may save your life or the life of someone you know,” GOHS posted on its Twitter page Thursday, “(Also,) go ahead and plan now for a sober ride home if you plan to celebrate the new year with alcohol. Georgia

law enforcement officers will be out and taking all impaired drivers they find to jail. Don’t start 2018 in the ‘Graybar Motel.’”

Drivers should also be careful on New Year’s Day, according to data from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, or IIHS, which showed the first of the year has consistently been the deadliest day for alcohol-related crashes.

“IIHS researchers found that every New Year’s Day, an average of 70 lives were lost in crashes in which at least one driver, pedestrian or bicyclist had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or higher,” the IIHS website said.

“Sixty-two percent of the average of 113 crash deaths on Jan. 1 were due to alcohol impairment. That is nearly double the overall impairment rate of 35 percent during the 201115 period.”

AAA and Budweiser have teamed up to give drivers a free ride home in Georgia with the “Tow to Go” program that runs until 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

Drivers can also find a ride home by downloading the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety “Drive Sober, Georgia” app, which is available for free. The app provides a list of cab companies and other ride services in cities across Georgia.

By Trevor McNaboe

By day, Nury Castillo Crawford is an assistant principal at Dacula Middle School. By night, she runs a publishing company and writes books.

Earlier this month, Crawford released her first book, “3,585 Miles to be an American Girl,” which she said was easy to write because she used her own life experiences.

“The title comes from the exact distance from Lima, Peru to Columbus, Ind.,” Crawford said. “I just thought it was a fitting title to show how far I’ve come.”

At the age of 10, Crawford and her family — including two younger siblings — moved from Peru to the United States, settling in Indiana.

“All we had to our name was the luggage in our hands,” Crawford said.

“We didn’t speak a word of English and stayed with my aunt and uncle on a farm.”

Her father didn’t want to split the family up and by high school the family had moved to Florida. She furthered her education at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and teaching as well as a master’s degree in educational leadership.

Five years ago, her mother passed away. Crawford credits her mother for her love of reading. As a child, she read books to her mom even though her mom didn’t speak English.

“Even though she didn’t know the language, she still wanted us to read her our books,” Crawford said. “If you sit there with your child and encourage them, it goes a long way. Confidence is half the battle.”

Crawford said the support she received from her parents at a young age was one of the reasons she had the confidence to

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Leonard Wilson Anglin Mr. Leonard W. Anglin, age 95, of Duluth, GA, passed away Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at his home in Duluth. Mr. Anglin was born in Hog Mountain, GA on May 3, 1922 to Jim and Florence (Tumlin) Anglin. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Hazel (Bradford) Anglin, his son, Norris W. Anglin, four brothers, Leon J. Anglin, Anderson Anglin, Harold Anglin, and Otis K. Anglin, three sisters, Ruth (Robert) Terrell, Mildred (Booth) Payne and Laverne (Doug) Burton.

He is survived by his son, Nelson E. (Kathi) Anglin of Suches, GA, his daughter, Glenda (William) Crissey, seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Mr. Anglin owned several businesses in Gwinnett County during his life. He was also well known for his great success in the garden.

The family will receive friends and family Tuesday, January 2, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Wednesday, December

3rd., from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home. The Funeral Service will be held Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Peachtree Corners Chapel of Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory, with Pastor Lamar Hansard and Pastor Tyrone Hutchinson officiating. Burial will be at Peachtree Memorial Park. Online condolences may be expressed at www.crowellbrothers. com. Arrangements by: Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Ind. Blvd., Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 (770) 448-5757.

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Luther Britt Jr. age 56 of Loganville, died December 28, 2017.

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Donald Frank Brush age 96, passed away December 26, 2017.

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Herschel C. Hallam Herschel C. Hallam, age 75, of Hoschton, GA passed away Sunday, December 24, 2017. He was preceded in death by his father, Herschel Hallam; mother, Lavada Ragusa; and sister, Ardie Womble.

Mr. Hallam is survived by his wife of fifty years, Peggy D. Hallam, Hoschton, GA; son, Herschel Brett Hallam, and daughter, Tonya Lavada Beck, both of Hoschton, GA; three grandchildren, Derek Thompson, Kannon Beck, and Lucas Penarredonda; sisters, Doanie Baker, Euna (Ray) Kirgan, Lolly (Earl) Overly, Dennie (Ben) Morales, and Sis (Larry) Loyd; brothers, Darry (Sheila) Ragusa and Jim Ragusa; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mr. Hallam was born February 19, 1942 in Streator, IL. He graduated from Centralia High School, and was a vet-

Dacula Middle School Assistant Principal Nury Castillo Crawford recently published her first book, “3,585 Miles to be an American Girl.”

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write “3,585 Miles to be an American Girl.” She named the main character of the story Sophia in tribute to her mom.

Getting the content of the book from her head to paper was the easy part, she said.

The hard part was finding a publishing company. After narrowing it down and doing research, she decided to start her own company.

“I had all the information and just decided to go for it,” Crawford said. “Right now I’m working with a group of promising authors to get their books together.

I just want to help other people reach their goals.”

What makes Crawford unique is the fact she plans on having all of her books be bilingual.

“If my mom would have had this, it could have exposed her to English and she could have read it in Spanish. We could’ve enjoyed moments like that,” Crawford said.

She said creating a children’s book takes three parts: the story and content, the pictures from the illustrator and the green light from the publisher. Crawford said one of the most important facets of a children’s book is the pictures that accompany the story.

“The story can be awesome in a children’s book, but without pictures you lose their attention,” Crawford said.

As they were putting the illustrations and text togeth-

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Helen Miriam Beatson Long, age 85, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 27, 2017.

Mrs. Long was born August 14, 1932 in Sumter, SC - the last child of James David Beatson and Pauline Andrews Beatson.

She was preceded in death by all her siblings - Clayton, Arnold, Louise, Kay and LeGrande; as well as her granddaughter, Tiffany Hulsey.

Mrs. Long has been married for 66 years to Richard C. Long.

Mrs. Long is survived by her daughter, Pamela Teresa Long Hawkins (Skip) Dawsonville, GA of Smyrna, GA; and sons, Sheryl Harrison Richard C. Long Jr. of El Paso, TX, and Kelly (Ford) Sheryl Ford Harrison, age Andrews Long (Shawn) of Sugar Hill, GA. Her 62, of Dawsonville, GA passed away Tuesday, De- beloved daughter, Melacember 26, 2017. Flanigan nie Elaine Long Ballew (Wayne) of Sugar Hill, GA Funeral Home passed away in June 2016.

Mrs. Long is also surSugar Hill, GA vived by grandchildren and great grandchildren who loved their Memaw.

They are Bonnie Ballew Neumeister (Michael) and son Harvey, Whit Hawkins (Rebecca) and son Hawk, Clint Hawkins, Helen Miriam Long Stephen Ballew and his (Beatson) s eran of the U. S. Marines.

Mr. Hallam was retired from Tomco Company after twenty-five years as a welder fabricator.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital (5901 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta, GA 30328) in memory of Herschel Hallam. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome.com.

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sons Maddox and Spencer, Lera Holden Long, Camille Long-Talamantes (Lindsay), Katie Long and Kenzie Long.

Mrs. Long was a graduate of Hapeville High School and eventually took up residence in Forest Park, GA. Mrs. Long faithfully attended Forest Park First Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School, two-year-old choir, and Vacation Bible School. She was very active in the Women of Georgia Power Club.

After moving to Sugar Hill, GA, Mrs. Long became an active member of the Sugar Hill United Methodist Church. She retired from the Internal Revenue Service. Her family has always her greatest source of pride and she will be greatly missed by them.

A private family service will be held at a later date.

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er, there was one picture in the book that stood out, she said. In it, it shows a little girl on the bus looking out the window at her mother.

“When I saw that, it really struck me,” Crawford said. “My mom sent me to school and I was so scared and sad at that time.”

Seeing the final product gave her a sense of pride and excitement.

“The week before the holidays I donated one of the books to our school library,” Crawford said. “One of our students was having some challenges. I brought him to my office and let him read this book.”

Crawford has worked as an educator for the better part of the last two decades as a teacher, administrator and parent involvement coordinator. In her experience she dealt with a lot of challenges that parents had such as language and cultural barriers.

“A lot of people have asked me to write a parent involvement book,” Crawford said.

She said she’s about 85 percent done with that book, and hopes to have it out by May 2018.

Readers interested in “3,585 Miles to be an American Girl” can find it on 1010 Publishing’s website and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The book costs $12.95 for a soft cover and $14.95 for a hard cover.

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Eclipse-mania takes over the county If you looked outside the afternoon of Aug. 21, you might have noticed it getting progressively darker. No, it wasn’t a cloud, but rather a total solar eclipse — well, kind of. Gwinnett County wasn’t in the direct path of totality; instead, the sun was 98 percent blocked, leaving viewers a chance to see the moon cover up the sun in the

middle of the day.

Places such as the Duluth Town Green hosted viewing parties as people gathered to see the first total solar eclipse to pass through the contiguous United States since 1979.

The next eclipse will occur in April 2024 and, much like this one, it will only be viewed as a partial eclipse.

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Police: Mom stabs children, husband A Loganville mother accused of stabbing to death her four children and husband made a bizarre court appearance following the crime when she was seen smiling and giving a thumbsup in the courtroom.

In early July, Isabel Martinez, 33, was accused of killing five of her six family members in Gwinnett’s deadliest child-involved murder case in recent history, leaving only one, a 9-year-old, alive but injured.

The child told Georgia Division of Family and Child Services from her hospital bed on July 10 that the attack seemed to come out of nowhere, detailing that everybody in the house was asleep when Martinez slipped into the kitchen and grabbed a knife.

Martinez is accused of first stabbing Axel, who was barely 2 years old, then moving on to 10-year-old Isabela. The surviving child, Diana, said her father was still asleep when Martinez turned the knife on her.

At some point, Martinez allegedly woke the father to show him what she had done before killing him and two of her three other children. She then reportedly cut herself and called police.

At the initial court hearing, Martinez said she did not want legal representation, though she was later appointed an attorney.

She was indicted in September on the charges and is awaiting trial.

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Police helicopter crashes, leaves officer paralyzed The Gwinnett County community rallied behind two police officers who were seriously injured in early September — one of whom is paralyzed from the waist down — after the helicopter they were flying crashed at Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville.

The crash, blamed on a wind gust, occurred Sept. 1 as “Air One” approached the field’s

landing zone. It was carrying two officers: the pilot, Officer George McLain, and passenger, Cpl. Michael Duncan, who became paralyzed.

A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report issued in October indicated weather was a major factor in the crash, and Duncan told the Daily Post that he and McLain had seen a storm approaching

the area while participating in a fugitive search. The storm prompted them to attempt to return to the airport as quickly as possible, though the helicopter went into a spin before the men were able to land successfully.

McLain may return to work in the next several months, Gwinnett police Chief Butch Ayers said, while Duncan continues to recover.

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Several student deaths make headlines The past year brought tragedy with the deaths of several local students, including an October one-car accident that claimed the lives of three Meadowcreek teenagers.

The students — Brandon Martinez, 18, Nelson Umanzor, 18, and Naseer Alwakeel, 16 — died in a crash on Steve Reynolds Boulevard following a Mustang football game. A fourth individual, 17-yearold Mesiah Allen, suffered critical injuries.

In July, Parkview High rising junior Michael Jones died at a club soccer practice from cardiac arrest. Days later,

Mountain View High rising senior Perez Tamfu drowned after jumping off an old structure at Settles Bridge Park into the Chattahoochee River.

Archer High graduate Nick Blakely, a redshirt freshman linebacker at Stetson University, collapsed at practice Aug. 28 and died later that evening. He was taken to Florida Hospital Deland after complaining he did not feel well.

“My son set his goals high and he didn’t back down. He was doing what he really loved at the time when he met his maker,” Blakey’s father said.

Gwinnett County residents received a wake-up call of sorts about the presence of opioid addiction in the community in May when two teenagers who lived on the same Lawrenceville street were found dead separately from drug overdoses on the same morning.

The teens, Dustin Manning and Joseph Abraham, died May 26. It was the morning after state Rep. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, and Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader hosted a summit on opioid addiction at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville — which Abraham’s mother, Kathi, had

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Multiple teachers arrested

Multiple Gwinnett County full-time and substitute teachers were arrested throughout 2017. Three of them — Parkview math teacher Mikey Henderson, Providence Christian Academy community coach Derren Evans and Meadowcreek track coach Ronnie Jackson — were all booked into jail within a three-day period from May 17-19.

Evans was arrested for allegedly groping a female student on multiple occasions throughout the spring semester. He was placed on administrative leave when allegations surfaced.

Jackson was booked into jail following his resignation for an incident that occurred in the school’s training room. He was released the following day after posting his $20,000 bail. Jackson was accused of making sexual contact with a female track member.

Henderson was arrested after it was discovered he had been in a two-year relationship with one of his students. Henderson, a former UGA football star, was a member of the Panther coaching staff at the time of his resignation.

attended.

The parents of Manning and Abraham joined Unterman and Schrader at a press conference in June to talk about what happened to their sons.

The Abrahams also worked with Knights of Columbus St. Marguerite d’Youville Council 12905 to stage a golf tournament in the fall that raised $13,650 for Navigate Recovery Gwinnett in their son’s name.

Meanwhile, Unterman has said she plans to file an omnibus bill designed to target opioid addiction during the first week of the 2018 legislative session.

Long and winding lines stretched into Infinite Energy Arena’s parking lot the week of July 9 as the center played host to six events, including five sold-out concerts, marking “the busiest and most successful week in the history of the venue.”

From July 11-17, more than 51,000 guests entered the building’s doors, grossing about $6.6 million for the Gwinnett County venue.

At the top of the list, Paul McCartney’s concert sold 10,992 seats, grossing more than $2.3 million in sales.

The Roger Waters show came in second, selling 9,458 and bringing in a total of $1,386,524, with New Kids on the Block ranked third, selling 9,226 tickets and racking up a total of $1,071,186.

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Gwinnett, cities make advances on economic development projects throughout the year Several development projects around the county made headlines in 2017, mostly due to the scale of many of them.

One visible sign of the progress being made on economic development projects was the demolition of the Olympic Tennis Center near Stone Mountain. The county acquired the property in 2016, and the

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plans call for the site to be turned over to developers as a blank slate to see what they can turn it into. Officials held a ceremony in August to kick off the demolition.

In late September and early October, Lawrenceville made a series of economic development related announcements.

One was the releasing of plans

for a college corridor connecting Georgia Gwinnett College with North Clayton Street and downtown Lawrenceville.

Another was that the Hooper Renwick School, which served black students when schools were segregated, would be saved and turned into a community space with a new Lawrenceville library branch

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to be built next to it. Officials also announced the South Lawn mixed-use development, which will stretch from the Lawrenceville Lawn to Scenic Highway.

Meanwhile, North American Properties worked on the Infinite Energy Center mixed-use development.

The past year also brought

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the arrival of several new businesses in Duluth’s Parsons Alley entertainment and dining district. The first two businesses in the district opened in 2016, but five new businesses — Simply Done Donuts, Personify, Maple Street Biscuit Company, Good Word Brewery and Public House, and Noona — opened in 2017.

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ACA, opioid epidemic top health stories of 2017 crisis continued. Hospitals across rural Georgia struggled to keep their doors The following are Georopen in the wake of closures gia’s top health care-related over the past four years. A stories of 2017: legislative panel on rural de1. The Affordable Care velopment called for some Act rode a political roller ambitious (and potentially coaster. The law survived controversial) solutions, multiple attempts to repeal including extending medical it in Congress. But it did not authority to non-physicians, come out unscathed. The enabling “micro-hospitals,’’ White House cut marketing and revamping the state’s and enrollment time in the CON process that deterACA exchanges and halted mines the creation and cost-sharing payments expansion of health care to health insurers selling facilities. exchange policies. Then, 4. The state approved a in late December, ConLee County hospital. In the gress passed tax legislation biggest state licensing decithat abolished the ACA’s sion in years, the Departmandate for people to have ment of Community Health health insurance, a key approved a new hospital in provision. Still, in Georgia Lee County. This was seen and nationally, exchange en- as a triumph for competition rollment proved surprisingly in Southwest Georgia and a robust as the year ended. major setback for Albany2. The opioid epidemic based Phoebe Putney Health deepened. More people System, which has long died from overdoses of dominated the region. opioid drugs, which include 5. Weaknesses on testing heroin and prescription for lead contamination painkillers. Gov. Nathan exposed. Lead in water is Deal eased rules on the dangerous, especially to use of the anti-overdose children. But an investigadrug Narcan. But separate tion by Georgia Health episodes of street drug over- News and WebMD revealed doses in Middle Georgia, that testing for lead by local killing at least five people water systems was plagued and hospitalizing dozens, by poor record-keeping showed the problem was and an apparent failure to rampant — and difficult to follow a federal rule that’s deal with. been on the books for more 3. The rural health care than 25 years. About half of

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spending time with them, going to California and to the Rose Bowl. There’s nothing like it.”

The Johnson family is full of avid Bulldog fans with deep ties to the flagship state university.

Tommie Ann was a majorette for UGA back from 1974-1976.

“We went to the Tangerine Bowl in 1974 and lost, in ’76 we went to the Cotton Bowl and lost,” Tommie Ann said. “So I’m really

excited about this bowl game.”

The eldest son Matthew graduated from UGA with an undergraduate degree in political science and economics in 2003 and enrolled in law school, graduating in 2008 before joining the Marines as a JAG officer stationed in San Diego.

Though the family has been to the west coast before to visit him in San Diego, the more than five-

The Johnson family packed their bags for Pasadena and were joined by 139 other people on a charter plane Saturday morning. Pictured are, back row left to right, Sam Johnson and Rick Johnson and, front row left to right, Matthew Johnson and Tommie Ann Johnson. (Staff Photo: Trevor McNaboe)

hour flight is one they think is worth the trip for such a big game.

The group booked the trip through All Seasons Sports Travel with the four days in California filled with events. To bring in the New Year, they’ll be attending a party at The Lobster on Santa Monica Pier, before heading to the meat

of activities on Monday.

Monday, before the Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners kick off at 2 p.m. local time, the family will be off to the Rose Bowl Parade in the early morning hours and receive a behind-the-scenes tour of the parade. To get ready for the game they’ll have the chance to go to the Bulldog Bash, a pregame

event held at the Brookside Golf Club before finally making their way into the historic Rose Bowl.

The family is in unison when it comes to the outcome for Monday’s game.

“We’re probably going to win by 17,” Sam said.

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a chartered flight from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport bound for Burbank, Calif.

The idea came from Tommie Ann’s cousin, Larry Wages. A total of 21 people from the group the family tailgates with is making the trip together.

“We’re just gonna have a blast tailgating with this group,” Rick Johnson said. “We’re excited about

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ship at the facility as it dealt with sanitation and safety concerns.

10. Tom Price became HHS chief, then resigned.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price, a physician with a long involvement in health care policy issues, was picked by President Trump as his secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. But he was forced to resign a few months later amid controversy about his use of private jets for official travel.

Other big stories: • The Georgia Supreme In 2017, the opioid epidemic deepened. More people died from overdoses of opioid Court ruled in favor of open drugs, which include heroin and prescription painkillers. (File Photo) records access in a widely watched case involving the water systems did not gaining power in negotiadent Trump. Fitzgerald’s Northside Hospital. focus on homes at highest tions with health insurers. tenure at the Atlanta-based • The Georgia General risk of contamination, as 7. Funding for health federal agency got off to Assembly approved a bill required. State follow-up of care programs got bogged a bumpy start, with queslead problems showed gaps, down. As the year closed, tions about her investments allowing dental hygienists to practice in safety-net setand public schools’ testing long-term funding for and an alleged ban on use tings, schools and nursing for lead contamination was PeachCare (part of the Chil- of certain words by CDC homes without a dentist reported as often inconsisdren’s Health Insurance Pro- personnel. present. tent — or nonexistent. gram), community health 9. Prison health care • A young mother moved 6. Hospitals continued centers and indigent care for found substandard. Unsafe from Georgia to Colorado their “combination game.” hospitals remained up in the and unsanitary conditions Piedmont Healthcare, air, as congressional leaders at Georgia’s flagship prison to obtain better health care benefits for her disabled son.

Northside Hospital, Naviwrangled over the details of medical facility jeopar• Georgia continued to cent Health, Emory Health- how to pay for them. dized the health of inmates care and HCA all struck 8. Georgia’s Public already dealing with cancer get poor national grades on preterm births, infant mormajor deals to add hospital Health commissioner and other serious illnesses. tality, hospital safety and assets to their systems. It’s a became CDC director. Dr. The warden in charge the overall health of adults, “game” with major stakes.

Brenda Fitzgerald, widely at Augusta State Mediseniors and children.

Amid revolutionary changes praised for her tenure at cal Prison for the last 18 Andy Miller is editor and in health care payments, Georgia’s Department of months was reassigned, a such moves help cut costs Public Health, was appoint- signal that state corrections CEO of Georgia Health and give hospitals more bar- ed CDC director by Presiofficials wanted new leader- News.

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This illustration shows the building styles for town homes that are being proposed for land on Highpoint Road just outside the city of Snellville. (Special Photo)

Developer proposes building 49 town homes in outskirts of Snellville

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property owner.

“The proposed single-family community would consist of A developer is looking to build homes at a size, quality and price49 town homes on 6.17 acres of point commensurate with or exland that a well-known figure in ceeding homes in the surrounding Gwinnett politics and real state area,” Spartan Investors I attorney owns just outside the Snellville Shane Lanham said in a letter to city limits. county officials.

County documents show Spartan Investors’ request Spartan Investors I LLC’s rezoncalls for the rectangular-shaped ing request for the land, which is property, which is surrounded on the 2500 block of Highpoint by neighborhoods, to be rezoned Road, is scheduled to come up at from an office-institutional district the Gwinnett Planning Commisto a residential district. County sion’s Jan. 3 meeting. The land staff have recommended approval is located on the 2500 block of of the request with conditions.

Highpoint Road, between RoseOne of those conditions is dale Road and Spruce Circle. limiting the developer to build The documents from the Planno more 43 town homes, and ning Commission’s agenda packet requiring more square footage in list former county commission the homes. The staff also recomChairman Wayne Mason as the mended a 30-foot buffer be put curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

in place between the town homes and adjacent neighborhoods.

The town homes built along Highpoint Road would have to be brick on all sides as well.

“If developed with conditions that protect the single-family developments and create a visually appealing frontage along Highpoint Road, the proposed town houses may be compatible with existing development,” county planning staff wrote in their report.

The proposal shows the developer plans for the town homes to be 24 feet wide. There would be one entrance from the development onto Highpoint Road.

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Above left, Gwinnett County police officers joined Duluth-based Ordner construction for its Christmas party earlier this month. Above right, Gwinnett County firefighters joined Santa Claus at Duluth-based Ordner Construction’s Christmas party earlier this month. Company officials said they hosted public safety officials from the police and fire departments at their annual party this year. (Special Photos)

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•From Page 9A would have 1,000 square feet of heated floor space. The Planning and Development Department’s recommendation calls for it to be increased to 1,200 square feet, though.

The front-entry town homes would be accessible from internal streets and driveways, according to records in the application file.

Lanham said there are several duplex and quadruplex units on Highpoint Road and Spruce Circle, just north of the proposed town home site.

“An approval of the application would bring the property’s zoning classification in line with adjacent properties and reduce the intensity of development allowed on the property,” Lanham said in the letter.

The Jan. 3 Planning Commission meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville.

This site plan shows the layout of a proposed town home neighborhood on Highpoint Road just outside the city of Snellville.

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Hilton named deputy whip in Georgia House State Rep. Scott Hilton, R-Peachtree Corners, has picked up some new duties going into his second year in the Georgia General Assembly.

The state House of Scott Hilton Representatives announced House Majority Whip Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville, has picked Hilton to serve as deputy whip in the chamber. Hilton was elected last year to replace the retiring Tom Rice as the House District 95 representative.

“Rep. Hilton will be a great addition to our Whip Team,” Coomer said in a statement. “I’m thankful for Rep. Hilton’s willingness to serve the House in

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low representatives know and understand details contained in bills and resolutions that are moving through the General Assembly.

“It is an honor to serve my Majority Caucus colleagues as a Deputy Whip,” Hilton said. “I am grateful for the trust and confidence Curt Yeomans Republican House leadership and Chairman Coomer this new leadership role, have placed in me to and I look forward to colsupport our Caucus. I look laborating with him as we forward to facilitating pubwork to pass meaningful lic policy that will benefit legislation for the citizens families in our district and of Georgia.” across Georgia.”

Deputy whips serve a The other members of key role in the House of the Deputy Whip team Representatives because include Chief Deputy Whip they are tasked with keepBeth Beskin, R-Atlanta, ing an eye on legislation and Reps. Dave Belton, that is moving through both R-Buckhead, Shaw Blackthe House and the Senate. mon, R-Bonaire, John CorThey are also tasked with bett, R-Lake Park, Micah making sure their felGravley, R-Douglasville,

Dominic LaRiccia, RDouglas, Eddie Lumsden, R-Armuchee, Jesse Petrea, R-Savannah, Betty Price, R-Roswell, Bert Reeves, R-Marietta, and Bill Werkheiser, R-Glennville.

units and a ladder truck.

There are 12 part-time deputy positions proposed for the Sheriff’s Office.

A 4 percent pay for performance raise will be included in the budget, as will funding for additional Gwinnett County advance voting and one commissioners set to vote day of Sunday voting for on 2018 budget Tuesday the 2018 general election.

After a month of public Funding has also been review on the county’s included for additional proposed 2018 budget, the staff in the elections office Gwinnett County Board to help with Voting Rights of Commissioners will Act compliance issues make a decision this week concerning non-English on whether to approve the speaking voters. spending plan.

The nearly $1.7 billion Norcross to hold budget proposal includes history-making 151 new positions, about mayoral ceremony 66 of which would be Longtime Norcross City in the Gwinnett County Councilman Craig Newton police department. Another will trade in that title and 36 positions would be add- make county history this ed in the fire department to week when he is sworn in staff two new ambulance as the city’s new mayor.

Newton will be the first African-American to serve as the mayor of a Gwinnett County city. He

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Description Roads, Streets & Bridges Recreational Facilities Parking Facilities Administrative Facilities

$

$

5,579,062 1,000,000 250,000 1,000,000 7,829,062

Current Estimated Cost $

$

6,026,892 1,000,000 250,000 1,000,000 8,276,892

Prior Years Expenditures

Current Years Expenditures

$ 6,026,892 1,000,000 250,000 1,000,000 $ 8,276,892

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0 0 0 0 0

Total Expenditures $

$

6,026,892 1,000,000 250,000 1,000,000 8,276,892

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Description Roads, Streets & Bridges Recreational Facilities Water and Sewer Expansion

for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 Current Prior Estimated Years Cost Expenditures

$ $

4,824,094 1,357,465 1,618,824 7,800,383

$ $

4,707,581 1,324,679 1,579,725 7,611,985

$ 1,839,280 1,200,000 0 $ 3,039,280

Description Roads, Streets & Bridges Recreational Facilities

Original Estimated Cost $1,788,299 $4,172,696 $5,960,995

$ $

340,000 0 0 340,000

Total Expenditures $ $

2,179,280 1,200,000 0 3,379,280

Current Years Expenditures $77,042 $0 $77,042

Total Expenditures $77,042 $0 77,042

The City ofThe Buford entered into an intergovernmental agreement with Gwinnett County for the use and distribution of the proceeds generated by the 2005, 2009 City of Buford entered into an intergovernmental agreement with Gwinnett County for the use and distribution of the proceeds & 2014 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum. Per O.C.G.A. 48-8-122, the City is required to issue an annual report of original estimated cost, current estimated cost, prior years expenditures, current year expenditures, and the total amount expended for each project listed in the resolution.

As of June 30, 2016, the City of Buford had expended the funds shown above.

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Prototype Prime is located at 147 Technology Parkway in Peachtree Corners.

For more information, visit ajtata.com.

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for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 Current Prior Estimated Years Cost Expenditures $1,788,299 $0 $4,172,696 $0 $5,960,995 $0

The Southeastern Railway Museum will host the third annual Festival of Trees for the final day today. The event, sponsored by the Duluth Historical Society, will be open during the museum’s normal hours.

Admission to the museum is $10 for adults and $7 for children ages 2 to 12. The museum is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth.

For more information, visit www.train-museum.org.

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and new Councilmen Dan Watch and Chuck Paul will be sworn Craig in to their Newton posts during a ceremony that will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the Dan Watch Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, which is located at 10 College St. Chuck Paul A reception will be held afterward.

Political Notebook appears in the Wednesday and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post.

The MLK Day Parade will begin at the Gwinnett Justice Administration building at 11 a.m. and end at Moore Middle School at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 15. The Gwinnett Justice and Administration building is located at 75 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville. For more information, visit www.gwinnettmlkparade.com.

Jan. 18

Emmaus Church is hosting a event for individuals and families to learn about becoming a foster or adoptive family from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 18. Emmaus Church is located at

75 Maddox Road, 200, in Buford. For more information, visit www.emmausbible.com or call 678-8663332.

Jan. 20

Christ the King Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall is hosting Carmen Agra Deedy and John Mccutcheon for a Musical Children’s Performance starting at 4 p.m. Jan. 20. The event is free and open to the public. Books and CDs will be availible for purchase and signing. The church is located at 5575 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners. For more information, visit www.ctklutheran.org.

Jan. 25

Gwinnett County Public Library’s Mountain Park Branch is hosting a Resume and Interview Coaching Workshop starting at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 25. The event is free and open to the public.

The library is located at 1210 Pounds Road in Lilburn. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org.

Jan. 27

Prototype Prime is hosting a book talk and signing for Brad Taylor’s new book, “Operator Down,” from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 27.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Prototype Prime is located at 147 Technology Parkway in Peachtree Corners. For more information, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/ brad-taylor-american-author-tickets-41212054364.

Jan. 28

Gwinnett County Public Library’s Lilburn Branch is hosting a foreclosure prevention bilingual workshop starting at 2 p.m.

Jan. 28. Reservations to events@gwinnettpl.org are requested for this event.

The event will be presented in English and Spanish. The library is located at 4817 Church St. in Lilburn. For more information, visit www. gwinnettpl.org.

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When rights are imperiled Wisconsin’s Supreme Court can soon right a flagrant wrong stemming from events set in motion in 2014 at Milwaukee’s Marquette University by Cheryl Abbate. Although just a graduate student, she already had a precocious aptitude for academic nastiness.

On Oct. 28, in an undergraduate course she was teaching on ethics, when the subject of same-sex marriage arose there was no debate because, a student said, Abbate insisted that there could be no defensible opposition to this.

(Marquette is a Jesuit school.) After class, the student told her that he opposed same-sex marriage and her discouraging debate about it. She replied (he recorded their interaction) that “there are some opinions that are not appropriate that are harmful. … Do you know whether anyone in the class is homosexual? …

George In this class homophobic Will comments … will not be tolerated.” The student’s appeals to Abbate’s superiors were unavailing (the chairman of her philosophy department referred to the student as an “insulin (sic) little twerp”) so he gave John C. McAdams his recording of Abbate rebuffing him.

McAdams, a tenured professor then in his 41st year at Marquette and a conservative who blogs about the school’s news, emailed Abbate seeking her version of the episode. Without responding to him, she immediately forwarded his email to some professors. She has called McAdams “the ringleader” of “extreme white [sic] wing, hateful people,” a “moron,” “a flaming bigot, sexist and homophobic idiot” and a “creepy homophobic person with bad argumentation skills.” This aspiring philosopher’s argumentation skills can be inferred from her reliance on epithets.

Before McAdams had written a syllable, she claimed for herself the coveted status of victim, branding as “harassment” his request for her side of the story. Striking a pose of bravery, she accused him of trying “to scare me into silence.”

When, on Nov. 9, McAdams blogged, his post took no position on same-sex marriage but said this should be a debatable issue. The next day, Abbate drafted a letter asking that McAdams be disciplined. He was.

After this matter earned national media attention, she received some critical emails, some of them vile, and Marquette rightly branded them “hate mail.” However, for these, and for the unspecified “harm” that they supposedly caused Abbate, McAdams was held to be somehow blameworthy. Marquette, however, offered no evidence that he had anything to do with the emails. After a committee drawn from the university’s monochrome culture recommended suspending McAdams without pay for two semesters, Marquette’s president insisted that McAdams also express in writing “deep regret” and confess that his blog post was “reckless and incompatible” with Marquette’s mission and values. McAdams refused and has been unemployed ever since.

Being a private institution, Marquette had a right to be as hostile as it obviously is to the First Amendment — except for this: Its contract with tenured faculty says no one shall be disciplined for exercising “legitimate personal or academic freedoms of thought, doctrine, discourse, association, advocacy, or action” and that the threat of dismissal shall not be used to “restrain” constitutional rights. A circuit court, ignoring Marquette’s ignoring of a Wisconsin contract, refused to adjudicate this dispute. Deferring to Marquette, the court essentially held that a professor’s academic freedom exists only until some other professors, and university administrators, say it does not. So the deferential court allowed Marquette an unconstrained right to settle a contract dispute in which it was an interested party.

Because there is almost no Wisconsin case law concerning academic freedom that could have guided the circuit court, McAdams is asking the state supreme court to bypass the appeals court and perform its function as the state’s “lawdeveloping court.” He is also asking the court to be cognizant of the cultural context: Nationwide, colleges and universities “are under pressure” — all of it from within the institutions — “to enact or implement speech codes or otherwise restrict speech in various ways.”

This episode, now in its fourth year, began because McAdams tried to assist a student who suffered unprofessional behavior by a bullying instructor. Abbate has moved on. Now at the University of Colorado, she is still a (perhaps career) graduate student, writing a doctoral dissertation on the importance of the rights of … animals.

The wreckage she left in her wake illustrates how rights are imperiled when judicial deference becomes dereliction of judicial duty. Prospective Marquette students, and Marquette alumni, must decide whether this school, awash with the current academic hysteria and corruption, merits their confidence and support. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court must lay down the law that can stop some of the rot that this case illustrates.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@ washpost.com.

So long 2017— welcome new year 2017 is on her way out, and I have heard a lot of people saying good riddance to Father Time this week.

From the pulpit to Christmas parties, I have heard folks wringing their hands over what a horrible year it has been and praying that 2018 will make, perhaps, a kinder gentler mark on the annals of history.

Honesty compels me to admit that we have endured a plethora of horrible events since we welcomed the New Year last Jan. 1. The Las Vegas shootings at Mandalay Bay may top the list. A guy shot up a country concert, for goodness sakes, and aside from pure evil I don’t recall having heard a definitive motive for the largest mass murder in U.S. history. We don’t know what kind of flags to ban or what types of monuments to tear down to protest the massacre, but hundreds of families have had their lives altered forever, so I am certain those people will be anxious to ring out the memories of this year.

Terrorism also reared its ugly head in London — and Barcelona — and Manchester and New York and Ft. Lauderdale and Sulphur Springs, Texas. I’m sure there were attacks in other places, too. Yeah, I guess people are right. This has been a good year for mayhem and murder, which

areas of the country, even as blizzards are paralyzing our northern neighbors this very week.

So, yeah, it has been a very tough year, especially when you throw in the wars that continue to rage in the Middle East and the threat of Darrell Huckaby war from the diminutive dictator that rules North Korea makes it a bad year, in that and seems intent on trying respect, for humankind. to wage nuclear war on the Mother Nature has been civilized world. acting up as well. Almost But everything isn’t back-to-back earthquakes dismal. Now, I realize that in Mexico left almost 1,000 the highs may not be as high people dead. I am not sure as the lows are low, but we we can even estimate the should look at the positives. property damage or count the So while we mourn the number of people displaced. senseless death and carnage, But we didn’t tarry long on may we pay a small degree the bad news south of the of homage to the positive border because we were changes in our nation’s dealing with monster storms fabric. We had an eclipse in here in this country. Maria 2017, which was a fun little brought death and destrucdiversion and gave a lot of us tion in Puerto Rico, and that an excuse to drive up to the territory is still reeling. Hur- mountains and throw a party ricane Harvey hit Houston in the middle of the work with unprecedented flooding week. That doesn’t make in early September, and Irma up for the tragedies of the made her way across the man-made and act-of-God Southeast less than a week varieties, but it was fun. later.

And we got a new presiFor weeks all we saw on dent. I am aware that the the 24-hour newscasts was inauguration of Donald high water and wind damage. Trump might be one of the Americans dug deep and did things causing some people all we could to try and send to wring their hands and relief to the places that were shake their heads in disaffected, but our collective may. I am not one of those attention span is a little on people. I have found it rather the short side so there are inspiring for the country to still people suffering in many have elected a person and

then watch that person do his dead level best to do everything he promised he would do during the campaign. With just a little help from Congress he could have done a whole lot more. Even with his own party trying to fight him much of the time, President Trump has accomplished a lot.

Investors must be happy.

The Dow Jones, on the week before the election in 2016 was at 18,036. You can look it up. As I type these words it is hovering near record levels, above 24,700. I know that money doesn’t make up for loss of life and am not trying to equate the two, so save the complaints.

Speaking of money, almost everyone who wants a job has one as the unemployment rate this week is the lowest in about 17 years. Jobs are flooding back into the country at record rates, wages are on the rise and illegal immigration has dropped by 70 percent.

Almost everyone is getting a tax break in the coming year.

And ISIS has been dealt a major blow.

And Georgia won the Southeastern Conference.

So long to 2017. Here’s hoping for peace and prosperity in the year to come.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County.

Email him at dhuck008@ gmail.com.

Looking at the top 10 stats of 2017 Let us now praise Ben Beach, a Washington writer and longtime friend. Like me, Ben is a confirmed statistics buff. Unlike me, he’s disciplined. All through the year, he collects interesting stats with the intent of naming the 10 best at year’s end.

So I happily outsource my last column of 2017 to Ben’s list, which is in no particular order. It’s fantastic.

1. Motorists spend an average of 17 hours a year searching for parking spots.

Highest: 107 in New York City.

2. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Census of Agriculture reported that, for only the second time in the

Robert J. Samuelson past century, the number of farmers under age 35 is increasing. Sixty-nine percent of them had college degrees — a much higher rate than the general population.

3. The number of girls playing on boys’ high school football teams doubled in the past decade to more

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than 2,000, and leagues for females are expanding.

4. The World Economic Forum says all the plastic trash floating in the ocean will outweigh all the fish by 2050.

5. According to Pew Research Center, 58 percent of Republicans and conservative independents believe colleges are having a negative impact on the country.

6. Since peaking more than a decade ago at 716,268, sales of new motorcycles have plummeted to 371,403.

7. Americans make up 4.4 percent of the world’s population — and own 42 percent of the guns.

8. Ninety-one percent of

Trump’s nominees to federal courts are white, and 81 percent are male, according to an AP analysis.

9. The planet will produce only 247 million hectoliters of wine this year. That’s the lowest production level in more than 50 years, and down 8 percent from last year. Extreme weather in the three nations that produce the most wine is to blame.

10. In 1975 there were three metro areas with at least 10 million people: Tokyo, New York City and Mexico City. Now there are 31.

Thanks, Ben, for all the hard work. And to everyone else: Best for 2018.

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PUBLIC HEARINGS MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 12/21/17 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

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

The Vehicle was impounded from 1938 Valley View Rd Snellville Ga. On 11/11/17, at the request of the property owner or manager.

1977 Jeep CJ5 VIN# JBF93EH006351 TAG# 412RE GA 928-525120, 12/24,31

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on Jan 10th, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 3942 Stone Mountain Hwy 78 Snellville, Georgia 30039 770.891.1688 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

Unit 104 jada smith Household items Unit 550 Eugene Gilbert household furniture Unit 140 Stacy R. Walton furniture, household goods Unit 160 Deshanavi Murray household items Unit 441 Shanice Vereen Household items Unit 638 Demoyne Lane 3 bedroom house, living room set, etc.

Unit 624 Edward Muldrow Household Goods Unit 151 Damaris McDonald household goods Unit 742 Miyawna Harris household goods Unit 681 Yvette Grissett dresser, bed, night stands, boxes Unit 130 Kenyatta Newsome twin bed/studio Unit 233 Debra Ellis boxes Unit 320 Cheryl Williams household goods Unit 667 Erin Savage Bedroom suite, TV’s, dining room furniture, corner, shelf, etc.

Unit 399B India Cutler 2 couches, 1 3 seater and one sofa 3 small plastic tout dressers and 4 ft table with 4 chairs/ washer Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-524739, 12/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on January 10, 2018 at 1:00 PM at the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 3220 Centerville Hwy Snellville, Georgia 30039 770.680.3520 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

K1000 – Cameron Moorhead – Microwave, Bags, Boxes, Space Heater F1182 – Allen Taylor – Boxes, Totes, Hand Tools, Golf Clubs N115 – Thomas Colley – Bed, Couch, Bags, Boxes, Totes N116 – Thomas Colley – Bed, Chair, Dresser, Entertainment Center, Bags, Boxes, Exercise Equipment, Tools, Totes, Pictures M113 – Elizabeth Heath – TV, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Book Shelves I108 – Beverly Armstead Covington – Printer, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Movies, Sewing Machine, Bird Cages F1253 – Xavier Hogue – Bed, Dresser, Bags, Boxes, Totes J111 – Kelvin Sellers – Couch, Mattress, Microwave, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Toys, Hand Tools, Power Tools L123 – Donnell Lewis – Armoire, Dresser, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Hand Tools, Lawn Mower E102 – Joe Wimby – Bed, Chair, Couch, TV, Bags, Boxes, Totes, J127 – Denise Ellis – Chair, Printer, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Toys, Hand Tools, Drums, Records, CD’s F1000 – Teikiah Roberts – Chair, Couch, Dining Set, Dresser, Mattress, Table, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Exercise Equipment, Chest Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-524744, 12/24,31 Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 5151 Annistown Rd Stone Mountain GA. 30087 770.469.5363 JANUARY 10TH. 2018 @ 12:00PM Unit 108 Louis White Misc Household Items Unit 309 DeNiece Davis Household Items Unit 520B Brittany Rucker Household Furniture Unit 506 Anita Howard Household Furniture Unit 185 John Carraby Storing furniture and boxes Unit 213 Jamel Murphy Storing tools and lift disassemble and 2 bedroom misc home items Unit 382 LaTay Mays Full b

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bed mattress and boxes TV. Unit 357 Pamela McKinney Household Goods Unit 562 Tamara Wooten Household goods, sofa, table, clothes Unit 549 Giselle Browne Household goods, toys,bed Unit 131 Ernest L. Jones Books and Furniture Unit 197 Williams Pannell IV Storing a sectional couch and double bed and little coffee table Unit 307 Latunya Holmes Storing a couch, loves seat, couple tables, bed and boxes Unit 507B Ashley Taylor One bedroom apartment washer dryer Unit 188 Sabrina Ross House goods Unit 101 Sylvia Jean Mcbride Household ggods and furniture Unit 391 Kelli Lane Household Itmes Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-524747, 12/24,31

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding at 98 Hurricane Lawrenceville, Shoals GA 30046 on 01/09/2018 at 11:00 AM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 98 Hurricane Shoals Rd Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (770) 680-3688 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

1237 Brenda Duckett household items 1150 M a t t h e w Thomas household items 0510 Frances Polhill house hold items 1154 John Brooks Brooks House hold items and business supplies CC237 Hector Negron clothing and suitcases 1209 Shane Powell Jr household items Remove 0623 Claudia Evelyn Ruiz Household Goods 0442 Staci Knott totes CC341 Mary Waymon household items CC065 Patricia Howard Lazurick Queen bed, dresser, desk, kitchen table, small items Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-521604, 12/24,31

NOTICE Public Auction–In accordance with the provision of Georgia State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at AAAA Self Storages located at 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA, 30046.

470-299-0795. And due notice having been given to the owners of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Monday, January 22,2018.

The sale will be held at www.storageauctions.com at 12 PM for units at the Lawrenceville location on Monday, January 22, 2018.

Terms: Cash, Credit card, or certified funds at Sale.

12:00 PM 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA 30046 Unit # 2082 – Household goods etc Unit # 4015 – house hold goods etc Unit# 6018 – household goods etc Unit# 5049– household goods etc Unit # 2025 – household goods etc Unit # 1045– household goods etc 929-525477, 12/31,1/3 MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 findautoauctions.com towatl.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 6TH 2018@ 1:00PM 2002 Audi A6 WAULD64B82N071112 2007 Audi A4 WAUAF78EX7A072367 2006 BMW 750i WBAHL83526DT02517 2005 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZT54825F142326 1997 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS1441V8173996 2005 Chevrolet Equinox 2CNDL13FX56159746 2007 Chrysler Sebring 1C3LC66M17N589482 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan 1D4GP24R56B573183 2007 Ford Fusion 3FAHP06Z87R124697 2000 Ford F-150 1FTZF1720YNA65559 1998 Ford Expedition 1FMPU18L0WLC48985 2003 GMC Envoy 1GKDT13S732386201 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GS48K96C186886 1999 Lexus RX 300 JT6HF10U1X0017644 2005 Lincoln Town Car 1LNHM81W95Y640849 2005 Lincoln LS 1LNHM86S35Y616570 2006 Mazda Mazda6 1YVHP84D265M02912 2004 Nissan Maxima 1N4BA41E54C903312 2004 Nissan Sentra 3N1CB51D14L869157 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 1G3GM11Y8JP313447 2008 Pontiac G6 1G2ZH57N184193038 2006 Pontiac Torrent 2CKDL63F466129749 2005 Saturn VUE 5GZCZ53425S819875 2010 Suzuki Kizashi JS2RE9A31A6101591 2005 Toyota Sienna 5TDZA23C05S291416 2008 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR32E68Z972582 1998 Toyota Rav4 JT3HP10V3W7097442 2008 Volkswagen Eos WVWBA71F48V019649 929-525122, 12/24,31,1/5 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on Jan 9th, 2018 at 12:00 PM at the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 530 Athens Hwy Loganville, Georgia 30052 470.233.1499 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

Unit B140 Wendell English household goods Unit D109 Shonda Smith household items Unit B185 Charles Horne household items Unit C327 dwight gregory Household Goods Unit B189 Erik Adams Washer, dryer,2 beds, dinning table Unit C338 Karen Poston Household Goods Unit A151 Julie Walton Furniture, boxes Unit A167 Terri Alexander Househols items Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

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GWINNETT DAILY POST– GWINNETT COUNTY LEGAL ADS PS101 AUCTION DATES JANUARY 16TH AND JANUARY 17TH NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on January 16th and January 17th the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08464 10860 STATE BRIDGE ROAD. ALPHARETTA GA 30022 (678) 513-8185 January 16th 2018 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 4031 Boyer, Scott 5008 Harrison, Jennifer 6019 Silver, Darin 6051 Richardson, Naquorea 6220 Payne, Jesse 6423Harris, Pastor Tracey 7002Murry, Frances 7009Herd, Robert R PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25719 3550 PEACHTREE PKWY. SUWANEE, GA 30024-1031 (678) 513-8185 January 16th 2018 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B305 Parker, Annie B394 O’Hara, Kirsten B489 Williams, Cristal C511 PARKS, RODNEY C5636 Novajosky, Donald C566 Zambou, Flore C5747 TRIANTIS, MANOUEL C580 Bercy, Walter C590 Thomas, Marshal PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25778 3900 MCGINNIS FERRY RD SUWANEE, GA 30024 (678) 513-8185 January 16th 2018 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B2069 Curry, Brandy B2106 Davis, Destiny PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25595 66 OLD PEACHTREE RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 (770) 338-1271 January 16th 2018 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 00143 McDonnough, Joseph 00147 Houston, Desmond 00309 Edwards, Henry 00729 Crosby, Eric Mendoza-Olivia, 00737 Petra 00740 Heard, Don 00820 Mccaffrey, Robert 0905 Chartrand, Christian 1059 Cecil, Terry 2007 Cecil, Terry 3002 Tolliver, Michael 4001 Nelson, Rakeem 4048 Robinson, Lakita 4066 Mcmeans, Najee 4070 Hawkins, Elizabeth PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28158 495 BUFORD DR. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (770) 338-1271 January 16th 2018 11:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 139 Pierre, Patricia 215 Hinton, Krista 241Y Fortune, Jamilia 300 Brown, Steven 306 Carter, Tamontra 319 Hart, Jeffrey 337Y Jenkins, Derrick 423 Thomas, Laquanna 646 Jackson, Cynthia Kay PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08465 1856 RIVERSIDE PKWY. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30043 (770) 237-5010 January 16th 2018 11:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 3047 Thompson, Joseph 3055Gaskin, Miles 4022Urmetz, Melissa 4039Acoff, Corinne 4043Wingate, Gail 5001Lachover, Barbara 5014Pollard, Cartier 5179Lockwood, Jasmine 5202Thompson, Scott 5317Banda, Brian 5424Manning, Jacinta 5436gary, jalesa 6130Rajani, Jenna 6179Traylor, Debra 6183Mccauley, Taylor PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08054 1395 PLEASANT HILL DR..

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044 (770) 925-9784 January 17th 2018 9:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 1504Lawler, Joseph 4515Brewer, James 6

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 6010Perkins, Marchris 6014Stephens, Ashby 6018Walker, Chris 6065Walker, Ebony 6308Kim, So 6513Jones, Christianna 6516Lovett, Lucretia 7506Silva, Donta 7511Smith, Stephanie 7517Reyes, Diosy PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25982 2423 PLEASANT HILL ROAD DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 January 17th 2018 10:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS A012Pearson, Bernadette A034Freeman, Kristyon A156Butts, Alonzo A173MERZIER, GAZINDY A180Georges, Daphney A192Barbour, Sayid A299Gabow, Mariam A311Davis, Nicholas A380Blanchard, John A418Hobou, Mathieu B022Bazne, Jean C539Todd, Nickia C577Gooden, Teeonnica PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08057 4474 SATELLITE BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 January 17th 2018 10:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 0130Okon, Idongesit 0209Kwak, Dong 0225Brown, Rannie 0316Lucas, Keith 0344Walker, Ebony 0345NEgbe, Krystle 0347GHampton Erezih, Dana 0423Mckenzie, Marlene 0516Walker, Jarrrette 0528thorne, stephina 0812Jones, Regina 2103Miller, Ebony 3073JONES, CAROLYN 3133Brown, Pamela 3213Maya, Pablo 5184Martinez, Nelgero 6221Releford, Karl 7111Tate, Trevin PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08056 3865 PEACHTREE INDUSTRIAL BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 January 17th 2018 11:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 0121Lancaster, Mark 0130Metri, Emile 0171Dorsainvil, Steeve 0193creighton, Cordell 0223Johnson, Kashif 0251Reid, Dwayne 0256Carson, Amber 0325Tin, Tracy 0397Muldowney, Linda 0496Syphertt, Eric 0543Johnson, Nifiteria 0643Atwater, Christoper 0645Williams, Latosha 0674nasser, abdulla 0761Saeidi, Mehdi 0788Pena, Claudette 0808Brown, Rochelle 0821Huggins, Lonnie 0825Mccarthy, Rushena 0842Williams, Taj 0843Washington, Marlon P1Rivera, Natasha All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 31th day of Decemeber 2017 and 7th day of January 2018

by PS OrangeCo, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-524954, 12/31,1/7 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on January 18th, 2018 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28138 3679 McElroy Rd Doraville, GA. 30340 (770) 452-8144 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A010–Herd, Chevelle A028–bryant, chantal A102–Burchett, Rose Anna C008–Hughes, David D033–Champion, John D057–Mitchell, Derick E010–Pruitt, Jabrielle E033–Kortalla, Dorothy E050–Johnson, Mark F876–Bugg, Melanie F879–Tucker, Christopher G009–Reed, Austin PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28149 3055 Jones Mill Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30071 (770) 447-9755 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 15–Bermudas, Dilesha 169–Jones, Ricardo 194–Chavarria, Jose 209–Powell, Bobby 232–Acevedo, Tirrell 243–Jones, Jamarcus 316–Onamuti, Starkenia 333–Flores, Lizeth 361–Rebecca, Rachelle 378–Leonard, Charicka 491–Thomas, Beverly 523–Barry, Catherine 545E–Nelson, Perry 57–Mayfield, Eugene 66–NORCROSS DENTAL ASSOCIATES 76–Spigner, Tamyka 90–Spigner, Tamyka PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29104 3265 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30092 (770) 449-0384 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1227–Bowden, Ronald 1229–Bowden, Ronald 1403–Gregson, Rhonda 2103–Gidjunis, Allison 2222–Rudolph, Marcus 2232–Emanuel, Wayne 3227–Johnson, Shaborn 3527–Reid, Derrick 4227–Bekazua, Luwawu S 4409–CamKen Consulting Inc 4417–Joyner, Reginald 4504–Engram, Alicia Lavi 4511–STEWART, ROBIN Y 4604–Isom, Derran PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20171 6289 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30071 (770) 416-9275 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B034–Mccoid, Jason B053–Humphries, Demarcus B058–hardin, cindy C040–Mercado, Laura C063–Heiskell, Felicia C

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS C066–Kaphers, Ryan D014–Howard, Byron D020–Frett, Quaneise D065–Hancock, Jamon D074–Boling, Marque E014–Madison, Valerie E025–Moore, Cameron E040–Castro, Michael E065–Bankston, Hassan E069–Whiddon, Jonathan E077–Atkinson, Bushilly E084–Oglesby, Destiney E086–Herrera, Keyara E088–kamau, bernard E118–Walker, Marcella F041–Dailey, Sherika PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28150 6770 Dawson Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 448-2130 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A104–Schulze, MEYKEL A110–Mendoza Galaviz, Flor B125–Rios, Anabel C216–lissimore, elise D145–MCNISH, AMY D165–correa, julio E160–GARCIA, JOSE PABLO F134–Samaniego, Jennifer G101–Walker, Cecelia G190–Holmes, Khoren G210–Ballard, Kevin H152–jackson, temon H161–Temetan, Tashona I108–Hardy, Angela I240–Crawford, Oniel K220–CLARK, TERRY K229–Orellana, Sindy NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on January 19th, 2018 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20489 6000 Lawrenceville Hwy. Tucker, GA. 30084 (770) 923-9400 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: C052–Gray, Chasity C099–Butler, Clinton D001–SELLS, ALLYN D003–Wilson, angela D037–Salaam, Malak D038–Rivera, Blanca E021–GIVENS, REGINALD E029–Hughes, Frazier E040–Dennis, Travis E054–Grant, Hobart E058–banks, eric E061–TURNER, ERICKA E108–Perez, Joisiyerdy G027–benson, lchaunte G069–Clabo, Alex PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08049 5010 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 446-8358 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0109–Russell, Derrick 0206–Perez, Vinda 0215–Rawchaa, Yakira 0217–sampson, daron 0328–Wright, Ashaki 0501–Green, Kendrick 0502–Rogers, Marcus 0511–Reed, Chevis 0638–Diez, Joselyn 0719–Mcclendon, Thurayyaa 0841–CELORIO, LEIDY 0921–MARTINEZ, ROSALBA 0935–Elor, Nayida 1103–Whitlock, Nadia 1145–Pena, Alejandra PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29135 1755 Indian Trail Rd Norcross, GA. 30093 (678) 924-0203 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1085–Patel, Ashok 1104–Myers, Lyndsey 1205–Jones, sylvia 1219–Sanitago, Sugey 1224–Conover, Taheerah 1283–Blassingame, Alveda 1329–Lewis, Tesfa 2015–LEWIS, TIA 2170–Huey, James 2280–Young, Andre 2339–Broils, Debra 2392–Walker, Charlotte 3043–Futrell, Kassandra 3124–Rowland, Jacquelyn 3162–Jordan, Wandakee 3171–Vaughan, Andrew 3208–Melo Rubio, Dania 3244–Trice, Angela 3262–Infante, Antonio 3282–Imani, Faizah 3373–Green, Shakiyla 3422–Morgan, Sherri C017–Fuentes, Alejandro PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 24346 615 Indian Trail Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-0498 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A042–Jijon, Luis B002–Afriyie, Eric B036–Moody, Shawntell B050–Johnson, Netorya B051–Alvarez, Yesenia B053–Smith, Melvin B076–RICHMOND, GIGI C018–Mitchell, Michelle C046–Boger, Rebecca D017–Bates, Gecory PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 21901 95 Arcado Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-9211 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A003–Bravo, Katherine B022–Scott, Jochan B038–MCCALLIE, GRAHAM B083–Bernadette, Patricia B093–OUTLER, BRIAN B097–Thompson, Alexis B128–Farmer, Dustin C001–Brown, Quanvavious C017–Myles, Benjamin C024–Turner, Ashley C099–Payne, Curtis D004–Coco, Cristina D006–hardin, michael D015–Yonko, Peter D035–Fajardo, Jamie E019–Parkin, Keisa PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 23106 460 Beaver Ruin Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-1196 TIME: 12:00 PM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B104–Webb, Carlos B120–DELGADO, STEVEN B128–Rogers, Travis C151–Robinson, Norma D222–Heyward, Denzel D245–Rodriguez, Anthony E319–Toney, Frances E354–Toney, Gabriel F400–Walker, Chris F436–Anderson, Robert F443–Paul, Jared F466–Rodriguez-Hernandez, Melvi F470–BAKER JR, WILLIAM G520–BACKMAN, THEOD

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS DORA G533–Pruitt, Frank G543–Williams, Jessica All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 31st day of December 2017 and 7th day of January 2018

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ZONINGS CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SPECIAL CALLED MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth Planning Commission in a special called meeting to consider a request from Ken Wood (on behalf of the property owner, Thomas E. Raines) to rezone approximately 10.19 acres of property in Land Lot 292, 6th District, Gwinnett County, consisting of tax parcel 6292 004, from R-100 (SingleFamily Residential District) and HC-A (Highway Commercial-Auto District) to PUD (Planned Unit Development District).

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the Planning Commission on the proposed rezoning at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: January 16, WHEN: 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 INTERESTED PERSONS IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the proposed zoning, which are on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Bill Aiken 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: baiken@duluthga. net For more information, contact Bill Aiken, Planning & Development, at (770)4761790. ******************* In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

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at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

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for a person with a disability.

Please contact Teresa Lynn at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

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CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SPECIAL USE REQUEST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth City Council to consider a request (SU#2017-006) from Speedway, LLC for Special Use approval to operate a convenience store with fuel pumps on a +/- 1.98 acre property located at northeast corner of the Rogers Bridge Road and Buford Highway intersection, Duluth, Georgia 30096 (tax parcel 7201 002).

The property is currently zoned Duluth HC-R (Highway Commercial Retail District) and will not change.

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the City Council on the Special Use request at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: January 8, WHEN: 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 This Special Use request is tentatively scheduled for consideration by the Duluth City Council on December 11, 2017 at 7:00pm in the City Hall Council Chambers.

The Duluth City Council has the authority to revise and/ or amend the language of the proposed application considerably and may do so as appropriate during the reading of the Special Use. PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the proposed application, which is on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Dan Robinson 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: drobinson@duluthga.net For more information, contact Dan Robinson, Department of Planning & Development, at (770)476-1790. ******************* In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations f

FORECLOSURES NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER State of GEORGIA, County of GWINNETT. Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a Deed to Secure Debt given

by MIA FAYE PINKNEY to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., dated 11/18/2016, and Recorded on 11/29/2016 as Book No. 54761 and Page No. 0002, GWINNETT County, Georgia records, as last assigned to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. (the Secured Creditor), by assignment, conveying the after described property to secure a Note of even date in the original principal amount of $113,898.00, with interest at the rate specified therein, there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash at the GWINNETT County Courthouse within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in March, 2018, the following described property: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT 66 OF THE 5TH DISTRICT, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA, BEING LOT 42, BLOCK A, UNIT ONE, ROSE GARDEN SUBDIVISION, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 30, PAGE 127, GWINNETT COUNTY RECORDS, WHICH PLAT IS HEREBY REFERRED TO AND MADE A PART OF THIS DESCRIPTION. The debt secured by said Deed to Secure Debt has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Deed to Secure Debt. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in the Deed to Secure Debt and by law, including attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney’s fees having been given).

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. holds the duly endorsed Note and is the current assignee of the Security Deed to the property. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., acting on behalf of and, as necessary, in consultation with WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. (the current investor on the loan), is the entity with the full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all terms of the loan.

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FORECLOSURES Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44 14 162.2, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. may be contacted at: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., 3476 STATEVIEW BLVD., FORT MILL, SC 29715, 800 288 3212. Please note that, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44 14 162.2, the secured creditor is not required to amend or modify the terms of the loan.

To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party/parties in possession of the subject property known as 1561 ROSE GARDEN LN, LOGANVILLE, GEORGIA 30052 is/are: MIA FAYE PINKNEY or tenant/tenants.

Said property will be sold subject to (a) any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), (b) any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, and (c) all matters of record superior to the Deed to Secure Debt first set out above, including, but not limited to, assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, easements, restrictions, covenants, etc.

The sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the security deed.

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 9 13 172.1, which allows for certain procedures regarding the rescission of judicial and nonjudicial sales in the State of Georgia, the Deed Under Power and other foreclosure documents may not be provided until final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan as provided in the preceding paragraph.

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. as Attorney in Fact for MIA FAYE PINKNEY. THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 00000007237076 BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TURNER & ENGEL, LLP 4004 Belt Line Road, Suite 100 Addison, Texas 75001 Telephone: (972) 341 5398 950-525978, 12/31

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he year that finishes up today saw a lot of firsts in Gwinnett County’s sports scene — first state championships for a few of the county’s high school sports teams or first postseason appearance for others, as well as the first league title for one of the Gwinnett’s professional sports teams.

It also produced more success for some of Georgia Gwinnett College’s tennis program, auspicious debuts at the highest level of pro sports for some former Gwinnett high school athletes and the enshrining of several more in the Gwinnett Sports Hall of Fame.

Here’s a look back at 17 of the top sports stories from around the county in 2017.

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alk about a historic season coming full circle.

After dropping its first game of the season 31-28 to Walton at the Corky Kell Classic at the newly christened Georgia State University Stadium when his attempt at a game-tying field goal was blocked, North Gwinnett’s Cameron Clark was at the center of the team’s fortune 14 games later.

This time, the junior kicker made up for what seemed like a critical miss of an extra point to boot a 38-yard field goal with no time on the clock to lift the Bulldogs to a 19-17 win over Colquitt County, and the Class AAAAAAA state championship, behind touchdown runs from Tyler Goodson and Cam Butler, and a huge game from Daily Post Defensive Player of the Year Jayden McDonald.

Delayed one week and moved from the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium to North’s Tom Robinson Memorial Stadium to an unusual December snow storm, the win was the Bulldogs’ 14th straight under first-year coach Bill Stewart, and produced the program’s first state title in 56 years of varsity play.

NORTH WINS CLASS AAAAAAA STATE FOOTBALL TITLE

North Gwinnett’s Cameron Clark (93) celebrates the winning field goal against Colquitt County during the Class AAAAAAA state championship game at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee. (Photo: Will Fagan)

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pair of former Gwinnett high school baseball standouts, Duluth grad and former Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann and Providence Christian grad and right-handed pitcher Collin McHugh, helped the Houston Astros to the first World Series in franchise history by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.

McCann, who was acquired by the Astros in an offseason trade with the New York Yankees, hit .241 with 18 home runs and 62 RBIs in the regular season, and contributed a homer and two RBIs while playing in all seven World Series games.

Despite being limited to just 12 starts in the regular season due to injury, McHugh made two postsesason appearances out of the bullpen, including one in the World Series, plus four shutout innings, including three strikeouts, in an American League Championship Series game against the Yankees.

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n their second season since moving into Infinite Energy Arena, the Georgia Swarm collected their first NLL Champions Cup title in dramatic fashion in June.

Lyle Thompson set up his brother, Miles Thompson, for the game-winning goal 1:17 into overtime to give the Swarm a 15-14 win, and a 2-0 win in the championship series, over the Saskatchewan Rush at Saktel Centre in Saskatoon, Sask., on June 9.

The game got to overtime in equally dramatic fashion, with Joel White netting the game-tying goal with just two seconds left in regulation.

Lyle Thompson was named the Champions Cup Most Valuable Player after tallying three goals and four assists in the title game.

S Georgia Swarm forward Lyle Thompson celebrates with the Champion’s Cup in Saskatoon, Sask.

(Photo: Josh Schaefer/ GetMyPhoto.ca)

NEW NAME, NEW LOOK FOR BRAVES’ AFFILIATE

Houston Astros pitcher Charlie Morton (50) and catcher Brian McCann (16) celebrate after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series. (Photo: Gary A. VasquezUSA Today Sports)

earching for a unique identity and eliminate confusion with their Major League parent club in Atlanta, the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves announced in May they would be changing the team’s name, colors, logos and uniforms for the 2018 season.

After conducting a “Name The Team” contest, the team announced in July a list of finalists — Buttons, Big Mouths, Gobblers, Hush Puppies, Lamb Chops and Sweet Teas — which drew a strong reaction, many of them not so pleasant, from the G-Braves’ fan base.

Eventually, the club threw its fans a bit of a curveball Dec. 8 when it announced the new name was not among those finalists, though it was a variation on one of them.

Thus, the Gwinnett Stripers — named after the striped bass commonly found in nearby Lake Lanier and a similar fish to the large mouth bass, which inspired the name Big Mouths — were born.

The team will officially debut the new name, logo and uniforms when the 2018 season gets underway in April.

Gwinnett Stripers General Manager North Johnson, left, and Braves legend Phil Niekro are all smiles after the announcement of the team’s new branding. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

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CHICK-FIL-A PEACH BOWL Auburn (10-3) vs. Central Florida (12-0) • Monday, 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) • Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

Auburn stands in way of UCF’s perfect season

By Guy Curtright The Sports Xchange

ATLANTA — The Auburn Tigers hoped that the SEC Championship Game would be the first of two trips to Atlanta’s new Mercedes-Benz Stadium this season.

Auburn was aiming for the College Football Playoff title game, though, and not the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

Instead, Georgia ended the Tigers’ national championship hopes with a 28-7 victory in Atlanta on Dec. 2 and now Auburn is spending New Year’s Day in Atlanta with much less at stake.

The Peach Bowl is a consolation price for No. 7 Auburn (10-3). However, that isn’t the case for No. 12 Central Florida (12-0).

The Knights, winless just three seasons ago, are major college football’s only unbeaten team and in a New Year’s Six Bowl for the first time as the best of the non-Power Five conference teams.

Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham (8) throws the ball against Georgia during the SEC Championship game Dec. 2 in Atlanta. (Photo: Jason Getz-USA Today Sports)

UCF won the American Athletic Conference title with a wild 62-55, doubleovertime shootout against South Florida on Dec. 2 in what appeared to be third-year head coach Scott Frost’s final game.

Frost, though, is sticking with the Knights for the Peach Bowl before moving on, along with most of his assistants, full time to Nebraska.

“There’s some unusual circumstances, but our

staff is completely committed and we’re going to do everything we can for this football team,” Frost said.

“It’s an honor to be invited to this game. These players have poured their hearts out to accomplish a lot this year.”

Former Missouri assistant Josh Heupel, who quickly was named to replace Frost, will be a spectator for the Peach Bowl, spending his time in the Mercedes-Benz press box observing his

future team.

Some rumors also had Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn potentially moving on, but he signed a sevenyear contract extension worth a reported $49 million to stay with the Tigers.

“I’m happy at Auburn,” Malzahn said. “Any time you have stability, especially in this day and time in college football, I think it gives you an advantage.

We’ve got a very stable program right now. The future’s very bright.”

UCF comes into the Peach Bowl as the nation’s top scoring team at 49.4 points per game, while Auburn is ranked ninth defensively at 17.3 points.

The Tigers never allowed more than 28 points this season, while the Knights never scored fewer

than 31.

There’s no questioning Auburn’s credentials, but that isn’t necessarily the case with UCF. The Tigers beat No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama late in the regular season after an eight-point loss at No. 1 Clemson early in the year.

Auburn lost the rematch with Georgia, of course, but in that game, SEC Offensive Player of the Year Kerryon Johnson, who has 1,320 rushing yards and 19 total touchdowns, was severely hampered by a shoulder injury.

With the time off, the junior tailback is healthy now and he gives the Tigers a potent weapon on the ground to go with the passing of sophomore quarterback Jarrett Stidham.

UCF has a prolific sophomore quarterback to match Stidham, though.

McKenzie Milton ranks No. 5 nationally in passing touchdowns (35), No. 2 in passing efficiency (184.8), No. 2 in completion percentage (69.2), No. 5 in total offense (357.7 yards per game) and No. 6 in passing yards per completion (15.24).

Stidham, a transfer from Baylor who ranks second in the nation in career passing efficiency, is second in the SEC in passing yards (2,827) and leads the SEC in completion percentage (66.7).

Since the creation of the College Football Playoff, the Group of Five representative is 2-1 in New Year’s Six games against Power Five competition.

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Championship Campus center of events prior to title game Fan Central tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the A busy slate of events door, with children 12-andis on tap this week in under admitted free with a Atlanta leading into the paid adult. A Chick-fil-A College Football Playoff Family Fun Pack deal also championship game, most is available that features of it centered around an four Fan Central tickets area near Mercedes-Benz and four Chick-fil-A meal Stadium. cards for $25 by entering Championship Campus, the promo code CFAFamthe main hub of activity ily at purchase. leading into the game that The other major event crowns college football’s at Championship Campus national champion, opens will be AT&T Playoff Saturday and runs through Playlist Live!, a concert Monday, Jan. 8, game day. venue set up at Centennial One of the biggest draws Olympic Park. The site of Championship Campus will include daily ESPN will be Playoff Fan Cenbroadcasts and fireworks tral, a 300,000-square-foot displays, but its centerinteractive experience at piece will be free concerts.

Georgia World Congress Jason Derulo and Charlie Center’s Building A. In Puth will kick off the conaddition to games and clin- certs Saturday along with ics, it will be home to pep special guest Lizzo. The rallies, band performances, Chainsmokers follow with guest appearances, autoa Jan. 7 performance, as graph signings, exhibits will other acts Bebe Rexha and more. and Spencer Ludwig. On

game day, the headliner is Darius Rucker and the opening act is Brett Young.

Another gathering place for fans is the Championship Tailgate Plaza, which will feature outdoor activities like zip lines, jumps and more.

A pair of special events also are planned to raise money for the College Football Playoff’s charity, Extra Yard for Teachers, which supports education.

Both are Jan. 7, beginning with the Extra Yard 5K road race that follows a path through downtown around the Championship Campus. Later that day, Taste of the Championship will be held at the Georgia Aquarium with food and beverages from top Atlanta restaurants and breweries.

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ROSE BOWL Georgia (12-1) vs. Oklahoma (12-1) • Monday, 5 p.m. (ESPN) • Pasadena, Calif.

Sooners take aim at UGA defense

a diverse corps of passcatchers. Wide receivers The Sports Xchange Marquise Brown, Jeff LOS ANGELES — For Badet and CeeDee Lamb, No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 3 tight end Mark Andrews Georgia, the chance to etch and running back Dimitri their names into the rich Flowers all caught between history of the Rose Bowl 23 and 58 passes, with Game in Monday’s 104th anywhere from three to edition also marks a step eight touchdowns among toward a national champithem and none going for onship. more than 981 yards.

The Rose Bowl, college Combined with an football’s first postseason equally multifaceted run game, also hosted the game — featuring a trio of first-ever College Football running backs in Rodney Playoff semifinal Jan. 1, Anderson, Trey Sermon 2015. The playoff makes and Abdul Adams — Oklaits return to Pasadena, Ca- Georgia linebacker Lorenzo Carter (7), a Norcross grad, homa’s variety will test pursues Georgia Tech quarterback TaQuon Marshall (16) a Georgia defense led by lif., pitting two programs during their game this season. (Photo: Will Fagan) with one appearance each All-American linebacker in the long and illustrious Roquan Smith. history of the Granddaddy week amid assertions that at 13.2 points per game While the clash of Soonof Them All. he was ill, Mayfield made allowed. ers offense and Bulldogs Oklahoma (12-1) earned a dramatic entrance at The Bulldogs (12-1) defense takes center stage, its way into the semifinal Saturday morning’s Rose rode that stifling defense the opposite sides of the with a Big 12 Conference Bowl media day. to the program’s first ball may shape Monday’s championship — its third He said he initially Southeastern Conference contest. straight and 11th since had decided not to attend championship since 2005 Georgia averaged 34.9 2000. The 2017 conference Saturday’s media gathering — a familiar formula for points per game, leantitle also marked a sucbecause he was suffering second-year head coach ing on a stable of running cessful debut for first-year from flulike symptoms.

Kirby Smart, who is backs in Nick Chubb, head coach Lincoln Riley, But then he turned on the actually making his third Sony Michel and D’Andre who replaced Bob Stoops television and saw reports appearance in the playoff. Swift; they carried the load following a surprise retire- that he was not at the meHe coordinated Alabama’s for the nation’s 10th-most ment in June. dia event. defense in the 2014 and prolific rushing attack.

For Riley, leading Okla“That’s when I realized 2015 seasons, the latter Michel credits the depth homa to the Rose Bowl this isn’t about me,” he of which culminated in a of the rotation for the for the first time since the said. “It’s about Oklahoma. national championship.

Bulldogs’ success running 2002 season has a surreal My teammates shouldn’t “It’s a different style,” the ball. quality. have to answer questions Smart said of Oklahoma’s “It’s just the competi“That was just always on my behalf.”

44.9-point per game oftive nature that’s in us that one of those places that you So he arrived and took fense. “They do a tremen- keeps us pushing each kind of put on the bucket his place to answer quesdous job of throwing the other to be better,” he said. list,” Riley said. “It kind of tions, said he has been ill, ball down the field, up“If I see something on the seems like a dream.” but expects to play. tempo, do a really good job football field that he does The Sooners’ dreamlike “I’m not dying,” Mayof that. … Baker Mayfield that’s out of character, even run to the playoff included field said in a scratchy is the great equalizer bein practice, I would tell quarterback Baker Mayvoice. “But I’m not feeling cause he extends that time, (Chubb).” field winning the Heisman 100 percent right now. I and he makes those plays An Oklahoma defense Trophy with 41 touchdown wouldn’t say it’s the flu. go longer where you have that surrendered at least passes and 4,340 yards It’s something bad. You to cover longer.”

38 points three times in through the air. He also don’t want it.”

Mayfield owes his the regular season showed ran for 310 yards and five The question is whether gaudy statistics in part to improvement down the scores.

Mayfield’s illness will that unique style under stretch, particularly in After being conspicuaffect his play against a Riley, as well as his own holding TCU to 20 and 17 ously absent for three vaunted Georgia defense, playmaking ability, but the points in their two meetnonfootball events this which is fourth nationally quarterback also throws to ings.

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NEW ORLEANS — ReThe rubber match figcent history indicates the ures to be a test of steel. road to the title, with very “All these games are like few detours, runs through a dogfight, so you have to Clemson or Alabama. be able to overcome adverFor the third consecutive sity and everybody has to year, top-ranked Clemson take ownership to do their will face Alabama in the job,” said Crimson Tide College Football Playoff. coach Nick Saban, who The two previous has won four national titles matchups were for the title: in his 10 seasons at AlaAlabama beat Clemson bama and another at LSU. 45-40 behind a pick-six “It comes down to what and a surprise onside kick do you want to accomplish in 2016, and Clemson and what you are willing to retaliated in 2017 by raldo to make it happen.” lying from an early 14-0 Clemson coach Dabo deficit to win 35-31 with a Swinney didn’t have to be The Sports Xchange

reminded what he liked about playing Alabama for the title the last two years.

“Well, I enjoyed it a lot last year — last year was great, it was wonderful, one of the best moments of my life — and it stunk the year before,” Swinney said.

“The fun is in the winning, and I don’t enjoy losing, ever. It’s been great to compete against Alabama.

“As we tried to grow our program the last eight years, nine years, one of the things that was a goal of mine nine years ago was to build a program that can be consistent and to build a program that can beat the

best — and Alabama has been the best.”

Even though Clemson had a superior regular-season resume and assumed the top ranking entering the playoffs, Alabama was installed as a three-point favorite. While that may have rankled the Tigers privately, in public, they have been dutifully circumspect.

“Well, that’s just a testament to Alabama and the program they’ve been,” said defensive lineman Christian Wilkins, a key member of Clemson’s stout front seven that rushes the passer and stuffs the run equally as well.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Forward Bonzie Colson registered a double-double with 22 points and 17 rebounds, and host Notre Dame cruised to a 68-59 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday afternoon at Purcell Pavilion in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams.

With the win, Notre Dame coach Mike Brey pulled even with Digger Phelps for first place in school history with 393 career victories.

“One-game win streaks in the ACC are the best,” Brey said after the game.

Brey will have an opportunity to become the Fighting Irish’s all-time winningest coach Wednesday against North Carolina State.

Notre Dame (11-3, 1-0 ACC) won its third straight game and improved to 5-0 in conference home games against

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that you’re getting media and college coaches out there to improve players’ stocks. And they can also Duluth High School improve their team. It was boys basketball coach pretty simple once we Cabral Huff has made con- asked around people who nections through his years were interested.” as a high school basketball Six Gwinnett County in Georgia, and they came teams are in the fold, in handy when he was including both the Dubuilding the field for Duluth boys and girls teams. luth’s inaugural Big South Dacula, Meadowcreek and Shootout.

Mountain View will bring The 27-game event betheir boys squads, and Bugins Monday at 10:45 a.m. ford’s girls squad will play and continues through Tues- Tuesday morning. day with the final games “We wanted to get some scheduled for 9:15 p.m. great high school girls acHuff and Duluth girls tion,” Huff said. “A lot of basketball coach April Tate times, these tournaments put together a massive bill just have boys. Although on more than 30 teams there aren’t as many games combined between boys as our boys, we think we’re and girls games. going to have some good “I’ve had the pleasure of girls games going on in the doing tournaments before Big South Shootout. at St. Francis,” Huff said.

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Notre Dame’s Bonzie Colson (35) grabs a rebound in front of Georgia Tech’s Abdoulaye Gueye (34) in the second half of Saturday’s game in South Bend, Ind. (Photo: Matt Cashore-USA Today Sports)

Georgia Tech. Colson scored in double digits for the 31st game in a row and became the eighth player in school history to post career marks of at least 1,500 points and 800 rebounds.

Georgia Tech (6-7, 0-1) suffered its sixth loss in the past eight games.

The Yellow Jackets were led by Shiloh grad Josh

Okogie, who scored 16 points to finish in double figures for the 37th time in 42 career games. Tadric Jackson contributed 15 points off the bench, and Ben Lammers notched his fifth double-double of the season with 11 points and 12 rebounds.

Both teams shot 38.3 percent (23 of 60) from the field.

different classifications, different areas in Georgia or out of state.”

In addition to some instate powerhouses, such as top-5 ranked Warner Robins and Class A dark horse Aquinas, a handful of teams hailing from Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida are participating.

For many teams, the tournament is the last chance for teams to prepare for region play, which starts for both Duluth squads Friday when they travel to North Gwinnett.

“It was another opportunity for us to get another chance to play good competition,” Huff said. “Our schedule has been tough as it is, but it’s another chance for us to get ready.

It can only prepare us for the grind of January and February.”

The full schedule is available online at bigsouthshootout.com.

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Stewart, Williams lead large local all-state contingent back Chauncey Williams.

Stewart was named Class AAAAAAA’s Coach of the Year after guiding Postseason honors the Bulldogs, which had continue to roll in for been 11-10 over the past representatives from two two seasons, to a 14-1 Gwinnett high school 2017 campaign and the football teams that recently program’s first state chamcompleted historic season pionship in his first season in 2017. as head coach.

The most recent comes Meanwhile, Williams’ from the Georgia Sports remarkable season came to Writers Association’s All- an end by being named the State football team, which Class AAAAAAA Offenwas released Saturday and sive Player of the Year. included several individuThe 5-foot-10, als for the county besides 185-pound senior ran for a the two most noteworthy school record and Gwinnett-best, 2,221 yards and Meadowcreek’s Chauncey Williams (10) was among a honorees — North Gwin30 touchdowns on 279 carlarge Gwinnett contingent selected for all-state honors. nett coach Bill Stewart and Meadowcreek running ries, and posted more than (Photo: Will Fagan)

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2,600 all-purpose yards.

Most importantly, he was perhaps the most critical component in what was Meadowcreek’s most successful season in years, during which the Mustangs tied the school record for wins (7) and recorded the program’s first winning season since 1990 and first postseason berth since 1989.

Williams was also one of 22 Gwinnett players named to the first-team in their respective classification’s All-State teams.

Joining Williams on the Class AAAAAAA firstteam were North’s Tyler Goodson, Warren Ericson, Jayden McDonald and War-

ren Burrell; Mill Creek’s John Harris; Brookwood’s Casey Holman, Matthew Hill and Chris Cotter; Norcross’ Terrion Dangerfield and Jake Camarda; Grayson’s Owen Pappoe and Archer’s Taiyon Palmer and Andrew Booth.

Other Gwinnett County first-team selections included Dacula’s Jalen Perry in Class AAAAAA; Buford’s Riley Simonds, Harry Miller, Austin Blake and Anthony Grant in Class AAAAA; Greater Atlanta Christian’s Christopher Hinton and Myles Hinton in Class AAA; and Wesleyan’s Banks Ramsey in Class A Private.

GEORGIA SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION ALL-STATE FOOTBALL All-Classification Player of the Year: Trevor Lawrence, Cartersville CLASS AAAAAAA Offensive Player of the Year: Chauncey Williams, Meadowcreek, 5-10, 185, Sr. Defensive Player of the Year: Tre Pinkney, Pebblebrook, 6-1, 220, Sr. Coach of the Year: Bill Stewart, North Gwinnett FIRST TEAM Offense QB Griffin Collier, Tift County, 6-2, 205, Sr. RB Chauncey Williams, Meadowcreek, 5-10, 185, Sr. RB Tyler Goodson, North Gwinnett, 5-8, 180, Jr. WR Rashod Bateman, Tift County, 6-1, 170, Sr. WR Noah Frith, Woodstock, 6-4, 175, Sr. TE Ben Bresnahan, West Forsyth, 6-4, 225, Sr. OL Warren Ericson, North Gwinnett, 6-3, 331, Sr. OL Jalen Goss, Lowndes, 6-7, 265, Sr. OL Kameron Duhunsi, McEachern, 6-3, 275, Sr. OL John Harris, Mill Creek, 6-5, 275, Sr. OL Casey Holman, Brookwood, 6-4, 285, Sr. ATH Matthew Hill, Brookwood, 6-1, 185, Sr. K Ryan Fitzgerald, Colquitt County, 5-11, 180, Jr. Defense DL Azeez Ojulari, Marietta, 6-4, 230, Sr. DL Trey Pinkney, Pebblebrook, 6-1, 220, Sr. DL Thurman Geathers, North Cobb, 6-4, 230, Sr. DL Latrell Bankston, Woodstock, 6-1, 270, Sr. LB Jayden McDonald, North Gwinnett, 6-0, 211, Sr. LB Terrion Dangerfield, Norcross, 5-11, 198, Sr. LB Chris Cotter, Brookwood, 6-0, 210, Sr. LB Owen Pappoe, Grayson, 6-1, 210, Jr. DB Warren Burrell, North Gwinnett, 5-11, 186, Jr. DB Taiyon Palmer, Archer, 5-11, 165, Sr. DB Andrew Booth, Archer, 6-0, 180, Jr. DB Derrik Allen, Lassiter, 6-2, 210, Sr. P Jake Camarda, Norcross, 6-2, 172, Sr. RET Tayvonn Kyle, Lowndes, 6-0, 160, Sr. SECOND TEAM Offense QB Jarren Williams, Central Gwinnett, 6-3, 215, Sr. RB Christian Malloy, Parkview, 5-10, 190, Sr RB Dante Black, Brookwood, 5-10, 200, Sr. WR Malachi Carter, Mountain View, 6-3, 190, Sr. WR Ramel Keyton, Marietta, 6-2, 180, Jr. TE Arik Gilbert, Marietta, 6-5, 232, Soph.

OL Jakai Clark, Grayson, 6-3, 300, Jr. OL Mark Haynes, Meadowcreek, 6-5, 365, Sr. OL Chris Biba, South Forsyth, 6-2, 290, Jr. OL Jordan Nelson, South Forsyth, 6-3, 270, Sr. OL Trente Jones, Grayson, 6-5, 300, Jr. ATH Michael Barrett, Lowndes, 6-0, 221, Sr. K Fernando Ramirez, Tift County, 5-9, 167, Sr. Defense DL Darnell Jeffries, Newton, 6-4, 270, Sr. DL Will Choloh, Archer, 6-0, 270, Sr. DL D.J. Horne, Brookwood, 6-0, 220, Sr. DL Ryan LaFlamme, South Forsyth, 6-1, 225, Sr. LB J.J. Peterson, Colquitt County, 6-2, 210, Sr. LB Andrew Johnson, Tift County, 6-2, 229, Sr. LB Jayden McCullough, Hillgrove, 6-2, 190, Jr. LB Aquinas Sanja, Pebblebrook, 6-0, 190, Sr. DB Jalen Alexander, Grayson, 5-11, 160, Jr. DB Kendall Williamson, Brookwood, 6-1, 190, Sr. DB Christian Jackson, Lassiter, 6-0, 185, Sr. DB Tyrese Ross, Westlake, 6-1, 187, Sr. P Bryce Christensen, Lambert, 5-11, 170, Sr. RET Juron Hull, McEachern, 5-11, 178, Sr. Honorable Mention: Carlos Ayala, Mountain View; Harrison Bailey, Marietta; Garrett Bass, Woodstock; Justin Blanks, Milton; Dominick Blaylock, Walton; Landon Bradley, Wheeler; Keyon Brooks, Kennesaw Mountain; Marquez Broughton, Mountain View; Paris Brown, McEachern; Matt Campbell, Mill Creek; Baylor Cantrell, Kennesaw Moutnain; Joe Charleston, Milton; Robert Cooper, South Gwinnett; Nasier Currie-Sudler, McEachern; Josh Downs, North Gwinnett; Jonathan Gipson, Mill Creek; Aidan Higgins, Mountain View; Jaelin Humphries, Mountain View; Kenyon Jackson, Grayson; Blake Jones, Etowah; Mike Jones, Tift County; Wanya Morris, Grayson; Chigoziem Okonkwo, Hillgrove; Fred Payton, Parkview; Rashad Revels, Colquitt County; Tommy Rogers, Parkview; Justin Scola, Brookwood; Brandon Shelnutt, Archer; Cam Singletary, Colquitt County; Chris Singleton, North Cobb; Khmari Thompson, Central Gwinnett; Cade Vela, West Forsyth; Blake Watson, Milton; Kenyatta Watson, Grayson; Jordan Yates, Milton CLASS AAAAAA Offensive Player of the Year: Justin Fields, Harrison, 6-3, 220, Sr. Defensive Player of the Year: Otis Reese, Lee County, 6-3, 215, Sr. Coach of the Year: Dean Fabrizio, Lee County FIRST TEAM Offense QB Justin Fields, Harrison, 6-3, 220, Sr. RB Zion Custis, Lovejoy, 5-8, 180, Sr. RB Kevin Harris, Bradwell Institute, 6-0, 210, Jr. WR Amir Abdur-Rahman, Mays, 6-4, 215, Sr. WR Ty Terrell, Lee County, 6-0, 190, Sr. TE Zach Williams, Johns Creek, 6-3, 205, Sr. OL Dylan Cole, Dalton, 6-4, 275, Sr. OL Dylan Wonnum, Tucker, 6-5, 279, Sr. OL Griffin McDowell, Lee County, 6-5, 285, Sr. OL Trey Hill, Houston County, 6-3, 345, Sr. OL Warren McClendon, Brunswick, 6-4, 270, Jr. ATH Jalen Perry, Dacula, 6-1, 160, Jr. K Austin Beaver, Lee County, 5-8, 145, Soph.

Defense DL Logan Cash, Winder-Barrow, 6-2, 250, Jr. DL Royce Francis, Allatoona, 6-3, 240, Sr. DL Derick Newton, Coffee, 6-2, 268, Sr. DL Mataio Soli, Douglas County, 6-3, 225, Jr. LB Ricky Williams, Harrison, 6-1, 220, Jr. LB Braelen Oliver, Douglas County, 6-1, 220, Sr. LB Zakoby McClain, Valdosta, 6-2, 205, Sr. LB Will McCarty, Harrison, 6-1, 210, Jr. DB Otis Reese, Lee County, 6-3, 215, Sr. DB Aaron Casey, Alexander, 6-2, 195, Sr. DB Jaycee Horn, Alpharetta, 6-0, 180, Sr. DB Dedrick Holmes, Evans, 6-1, 179, Jr. P Diego Huerte, Douglas County, 6-1, 190, Soph.

RET Jalen Morgan, Alexander, 5-9, 165, Soph.

SECOND TEAM Offense QB Max Brosmer, Centennial, 6-2, 185, Jr. RB Uriah West, Douglas County, 6-1, 220, Sr. RB Christian Royalston, Langston Hughes 5-9, 175, Sr. WR Jordan Young, Heritage-Conyers, 6-3, 185, Sr. WR Steven Peterson, Harrison, 6-3, 185, Sr. TE Raekwon Burch, Coffee, 6-1, 200, Sr. OL Collin Foster, Lanier, 6-3, 275, Sr. OL Jalil Irvin, Stephenson, 6-3, 245, Sr. OL Griffin Carder, Lee County, 6-5, 290, Jr. OL Casey Chenault, Harrison, 5-11, 245, Sr. OL Lawrence Lagrone, Douglas County, 6-2, 340, Sr. ATH Corey Watkins, Evans, 5-9, 185, Sr. K Cory Munson, Northside-Warner Robins, 6-4, 180, Jr. Defense DL Kurott Garland, Heritage-Conyers, 6-3, 295, Sr. DL Antonio Showers, Tucker, 6-2, 240, Sr. DL Jameon Gaskin, Coffee, 5-11, 215, Sr. DL Nick Markus, Alpharetta, 6-1, 242, Sr. LB Antonio Grier, Mays, 6-0, 220, Sr. LB Quin Geer, Lee County, 6-0, 215, Sr. LB Hunter Hall, Glynn Academy, 6-0, 205, Sr. LB Keith Harris, Gainesville, 6-0, 220, Sr. DB T.J. Harris, Lee County, 6-1, 190, Sr. DB Jaylen Jackson, Brunswick, 6-0, 190, Sr. DB Antonio Fletcher, M.L. King, 6-0, 190, Sr.

DB Michael Burrell, Dacula, 6-0, 190, Sr. P Carson Mistretta, Pope, 5-11, 178, Sr. RET Ridge Polk, Cambridge, 5-9, 170, Jr. Honorable Mention: Jase Orndorff, Lee County; Wade Sumner, Coffee; Damekus Taylor, Evans; Mason Wood, Alexander; Taurean Taylor, Tucker; Jonquavous Brown, Greenbrier; Cade Radam, Creekview; De’Mario Gant, Effingham County; Blake Mason, Centennial; Josh Vann, Tucker; Sam James, Richmond Hill; Maleak Bryant, Mays; Deondre Harvey, Douglas County; Mikey Magda, Lanier; Zebrandon Gant, Effingham County; Anthony Harvey, Lee County; Jonathan Jefferson, Douglas County; Greggory Rodgers, Grovetown; Tay Mayo, Lee County; Max Tyler, Evans; Evan Nabors, Alexander; Wesley Potter, Seqouyah; Alex Raynor, Harrison; Ivan Mora, Dalton; Kyle Neely, Johns Creek; Noland Edmonds, Alpharetta; Aaron Bedgood, Richmond Hill CLASS AAAAA Offensive Player of the Year: Dylan Fromm, Warner Robins, 6-0, 190, Jr. Defensive Player of the Year: Adam Anderson, Rome, 6-4, 214, Sr. Coach of the Year: John Reid, Rome FIRST TEAM Offense QB Dylan Fromm, Warner Robins, 6-0, 190, Jr. RB Jo’Quavious Marks, Carver-Atlanta, 5-11, 175, Soph.

RB Dameon Pierce, Bainbridge, 5-11, 205, Sr. WR Julius Cobbs, Warner Robins, 5-8, 160, Sr. WR Marquez Ezzard, Stockbridge, 6-1 1/2, 213, Sr. TE Nick Keou, North Springs, 6-1, 185, Jr. OL Christian Armstrong, Warner Robins, 6-5, 335, Sr. OL Tyler Lovingood, Rome, 6-4, 265, Sr. OL Riley Simonds, Buford, 6-4, 304, Jr. OL Harry Miller, Buford, 6-4, 300, Jr. OL Austin Blake, Buford, 6-3, 270, Jr. ATH Anthony Grant, Buford, 5-11, 187, Sr. K Eli Mashburn, Warner Robins, 6-0, 180 Defense DL Adam Anderson, Rome, 6-4, 214, Sr. DL Jatavious Ponder, Carver-Atlanta, 6-1, 220, Sr. DL Justin Talley, Kell, 6-0, 180, Jr. DL Brenton Cox, Stockbridge, 6-4 1/2, 247, Sr. LB Lavar Gardner, Columbia, 6-2, 190, Sr. LB Ernest Jones, Ware County, 6-2, 220, Sr. LB Marzavion Dix, Lithia Springs, 6-3, 225, Sr. LB Kevin Swint, Carrollton, 6-2, 220, Soph.

DB Kapres Forbes, Clake Central, 5-11, 170, Sr. DB Quindarious Monday, Carver-Atlanta, 6-4, 180, Sr. DB Nicario Harper, Carver-Atlanta, 6-0, 180, Sr. DB Trai Hodges, Rome, 6-0, 175, Sr. P Michael Luckie, Kell, 6-0, 180, Sr. RET Tony Jones, Carver-Atlanta, 5-6, 155, Jr. SECOND TEAM Offense QB Knox Kadum, Rome, 6-3, 181, Jr. RB Jamious Griffin, Rome, 5-10, 195, Jr. RB Cal’von Harris, Harris County, 6-1, 200, Jr. WR DeAnthony Ball, Carver-Atlanta, 6-1, 175, Jr. WR Ashby Cribb, Wayne County, 5-11, 175, Jr. TE De’Queze Fryer, Jones County, 6-2, 210, Jr. OL Austin Smith, Ola, 6-4, 295, Sr. OL Hamilton Hall, Chamblee, 6-5, 315, Sr. OL Jack Hurst, Decatur, 6-4, 195, Sr. OL James Ohonba, Woodland-Stockbridge, 6-4, 345, Sr. OL Jalynn Strickland, Ware County, 6-6, 295, Sr. ATH Derrian Brown, Buford, 5-11, 174, Jr. K Hayden Olsen, Buford, 5-8, 138, Soph.

Defense DL Solomon Mosley, Carver-Atlanta, 6-1, 190, Sr. DL Ja’Quon Griffin, Rome, 6-0, 265, Sr. DL Jamarcus Chatman, Rome, 6-3, 261, Sr. DL Caleb Tannor, Miller Grove, 6-3, 225, Sr. LB Trey Cobb, Ware County, 6-1, 212, Sr. LB Donovan Manuel, Stockbridge, 6-1, 210, Sr. LB Karlen Samples, Fayette County, 6-1, 230, Sr. LB Bryson Richardson, Buford, 6-1, 188, Sr. DB Nasir Greer, Stockbridge, 6-1, 175, Sr. DB Donte Burton, Loganville, 6-0, 174, Sr. DB Trevon Hudson, Harris County, 6-0, 170, Sr. DB Malik Taylor, Griffin, 5-10, 170, Sr. P Octavious Battle, Carver-Atlanta, 6-4, 200, Sr. RET Drake Bolus, Jones County, 5-8, 175, Sr. Honorable Mention: Evan Conley, Kell; Brantley Mauldin, Paulding County; Jaylan Thomas, Carrollton; Chris Rodriguez, Ola; Josiah Furtal, Kell; Kaveh Brantley, Lithonia; Johnathan Strickland, Carver-Atlanta; Trey Young, Riverwood; Darius Adams, Bainbridge; Martavous McCray, Thomas County Central; O’Rion Weems, East Paulding; Mikey McMorris, Buford; Trey Dean, Dutchtown; Logan Friddell, Eagle’s Landing; Michael Lantz, Starr’s Mill; Christopher Joyce, Dutchtown CLASS AAAA Offensive Player of the Year: Trevor Lawrence, Cartersville, 6-6, 208, Sr. Co-Defensive Players of the Year: Caleb Johnson, Northside-Columbus, 6-3, 250, Sr.; Markeith Montgomery, Ridgeland, 5-11, 185, Sr. Coach of the Year: Tim McFarlin, Blessed Trinity FIRST TEAM Offense QB Trevor Lawrence, Cartersville, 6-6, 208, Sr. RB Marco Lee, Hardaway, 5-11, 215, Sr. RB Kobe Lewis, Americus-Sumter, 5-9, 175, Sr. WR Jamari Thrash, Troup, 6-0, 170, Jr. WR Ryan Davis, Blessed Trinity, 5-11, 160, Jr. TE Oscar Gonzalez, Southeast Whitfield, 6-4, 205, Sr. OL Connor Brown, St. Pius X, 5-11, 220, Soph.

OL Fred Norman, Ridgeland, 6-6, 300, Jr. OL Lamarius Benson, Eastside-Covington, 6-3, 330, Sr. OL Peter Renkoski, Blessed Trinity, 6-1, 250, Sr. OL Logan Garner, Jefferson, 6-1, 240, Sr. ATH Steele Chambers, Blessed Trinity, 6-2, 215, Jr. K Conner Middleton, Ridgeland, 5-9, 180, Soph.

Defense DL Andrew Ogletree, Carver-Columbus, 6-3, 290, Sr. DL King Mwikuta, Troup, 6-4, 232, Jr. DL Luke Johns, Southeast Whitfield, 6-5, 250, Sr. DL Zach Goins, Heritage-Catoosa, 6-3, 230, Sr. LB Caleb Johnson, Northside-Columbus, 6-3, 250, Sr. LB Zaine Burton, Heritage-Catoosa, 6-2, 220, Sr. LB Tim Bowman, Ridgeland, 5-10, 200, Sr. LB Jatorian Hansford, Mary Persons, 6-4, 220, Sr. DB Kyle Hamilton, Marist, 6-2, 183, Jr. DB Milton Adams, Baldwin, 5-9, 170, Jr. DB Christian Tutt, Thomson, 6-0, 180, Sr. DB Markeith Montgomery, Ridgeland, 5-11, 185, Sr. P Jonathan Cruz, Cartersville, 5-9, 135, Sr. RET Ryan Carter, Heritage-Catoosa, 5-11, 190, Sr. SECOND TEAM Offense QB Montez Crowe, Troup, 6-5, 210, Sr. RB Colby Wood, Jefferson, 5-11, 190, Sr. RB Tahj Gary, Woodward Academy, 5-9, 205, Jr. WR Luke Grant, Heritage-Catoosa, 5-11, 185, Sr. WR Mike Ramsey, Columbus, 6-1, 180, Sr. TE Jarius Thomas, Carver-Columbus, 6-4, 220, Jr. OL Riley Maynard, Cairo, 6-5, 285, Sr. OL Josh Taylor, West Hall, 6-4, 305, Sr. OL Sam Barczak, Sandy Creek, 6-3, 265, Sr. OL Charles Dean, Mary Persons, 5-11, 250, Jr. OL Nick Root, Cartersville, 6-1, 260 Sr. ATH Dakota Cathey, LaFayette, 5-9, 165, Sr. K Alexander Rivera, Mary Persons, 5-8, 180, Sr. Defense DL Jacorey Johns, Cartersville, 6-4, 221, Sr. DL Marco Dinkins, Marist, 6-0, 225, Sr. DL J.R. Bivens, Blessed Trinity, 6-1, 240, Jr. DL Quentavious Morant, Howard, 6-1, 260, Sr. LB J.D. Bertrand, Blessed Trinity, 6-1, 215, Jr.

LB Jamarey Hull, Northwest Whitfield, 6-1, 195, Jr. LB Paul Stanley, Marist, 6-1, 227, Sr. LB Tajh Vicks, Cairo, 5-10, 210, Sr. DB Damari Kelly, Burke County, 5-11, 165, Sr. DB T.J. Shelton, Chapel Hill, 5-9, 170, Jr. DB Jordan Hughley, Ridgeland, 5-7, 160, Jr. DB Jaron Moore, Westover, 5-11, 175, Sr. P Brendan Farrell, Marist, 5-11, 185, Jr. RET Donovan Wright, Westover, 5-6, 160, Sr. Honorable Mention: Jake Smith, Blessed Trinity; Jalyn Shelton, Ridgeland; Malik Knowles, Richmond Academy; Nick Lyles, Chestatee; Braelin Williams, Americus-Sumter; Stephon Walker, Ridgeland; Zac Corbin, Jefferson; Jatavious Harris, Baldwin; Zach Goss, Pickens; Tyre Shelton, Chapel Hill; John FitzPatrick, Marist; Daveon Sanders, Westover; Malcolm Mercer, Americus-Sumter; Gyasi Revills, Westover; Derayl Helton, Ridgeland; Daniel Lavelle, Mary Persons; T.J. Peavy, Sandy Creek; Terrance Roberts, Ridgeland; A’Zavier Blakcwell, Ridgeland; Marshall Golick, Woodward Academy; Ryan Craft, Heritage-Catoosa; Steven Martinez, Chestatee; Robert Davis, Pickens CLASS AAA Offensive Player of the Year: C’Bo Flemister, Pike County, 5-11, 195, Sr. Defensive Player of the Year: Bailey Lester, Calhoun, 6-0, 210, Sr. Coach of the Year: Hal Lamb, Calhoun FIRST TEAM Offense QB Austin Parker, East Hall, 5-11, 170, Sr. RB C’Bo Flemister, Pike County, 5-11, 195, Sr. RB Ameen Stevens, Jenkins, 5-9, 200, Sr. WR Sedrion Morse, East Hall, 6-3, 195, Sr. WR Tyrone Scott, Jenkins, 6-3, 195, Sr. TE Nick Jackson, Lovett, 6-2, 212, Jr. OL Jamaree Salyer, Pace Academy, 6-4, 305, Sr. OL Christopher Hinton, Greater Atlanta Christian, 6-4, 275, Jr. OL J.C. Fuller, Calhoun, 5-9, 250, Jr. OL Luke Griffin, North Murray, 6-6, 280, Jr. OL Myles Hinton, Greater Atlanta Christian, 6-6, 315, Soph.

ATH Joe Egan, Westminster, 5-11, 182, Sr. K Charlie Ham, Westminster, 6-2, 175, Jr. Defense DL Tramel Walthour, Liberty County, 6-4, 280, Sr. DL Realus George, Pace Academy, 6-2, 245, Sr. DL Ben Brewton, Beach, 6-4, 220, Sr. DL Rashad Cheney, Cedar Grove, 6-3, 270, Jr. LB Bailey Lester, Calhoun, 6-0, 210, Sr. LB JaQuez Jackson, Peach County, 6-1, 220, Sr. LB Kalen DeLoach, Islands, 6-1, 205, Jr. LB Isaiah Ratcliff, Cedar Grove, 6-1, 200, Soph.

DB Brannon Specter, Calhoun, 6-1, 185, Jr. DB Jadon Haselwood, Cedar Grove, 6-3, 190, Jr. DB Shamarcus Redding, Peach County, 5-10, 190, Sr. DB Jordan Huff, Morgan County, 6-2, 185, Jr. P Alex Gracey, Westminster, 6-3, 195, Sr. RET Jammie Robinson, Crisp County, 5-11, 180 Sr. SECOND TEAM Offense QB Gavin Gray, Calhoun, 5-10, 170, Jr. RB Kris Coleman, Liberty County, 5-8, 160, Jr. RB SeVaughn Clark, Dawson County, 6-1, 206, Jr. WR Connor Rice, North Murray, 5-11, 190, Sr. WR Kearis Jackson, Peach County, 5-11 1/2, 203, Sr. TE Drake Starks, Ringgold, 6-3, 230, Jr. OL Cedric Hillsman, Peach County, 6-1, 253, Jr. OL Dawson Dominey, Dawson County, 6-4, 235, Sr. OL Brock Jones, Cook, 6-1, 240, Jr. OL Jacob Patterson, Pike County, 6-0, 280, Jr. OL Courtney Perkins, Monore-Albany, 6-3, 295, Sr. ATH Chandler Byron, Monroe Area, 6-0, 160, Jr. K Mitchell Fineran, Peach County, 5-11, 170, Sr. Defense DL Gamarcus Freeman, Dougherty, 6-3, 210, Jr. DL Truman Jones, Westminster, 6-3, 190, Sr. DL Javion Heard, Monroe Area, 6-2, 245, Sr. DL Johnathan Cutcher, Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe, 6-0 195, Sr. LB Quay Walker, Crisp County, 6-4, 220, Sr. LB Davis Allen, Calhoun, 6-5, 210, Jr. LB Drew Woodard, Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe, 6-1, 195, Sr. LB Noah Keaton, Ringgold, 6-1, 210, Sr. DB Noah Holman, North Hall, 6-2, 175, Sr. DB Trey Morrison, Greater Atlanta Christian, 5-10, 180, Sr. DB K.J. Wallace, Lovett, 5-10, 182, Jr. DB Logan Barnes, Dawson Co., 6-1, 185, Jr. P Charlie Harless, Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe, 5-8, 150, Jr. RET Max Burke, Greater Atlanta Christian, 5-11, 170, Sr. Honorable Mention: Antonio Gilbert, Peach County; Kyler McMichael, Greater Atlanta Christian; Chase Walker, Southeast Bulloch; Tucker Gregg, Murray County; Darious Cleveland, Cook; Andre Tarver, Ringgold; Nate Richey, Greater Atlanta Christian; Bucky Williams, Ringgold; Ford Roberts, Greater Atlanta Christian; Warren Breakfield, Monroe-Albany; Zac Baloga, Dawson County; C.J. Fuller, Calhoun; Markel Johnson, Liberty County; Sean Henderson, Greater Atlanta Christian; Lance Eldridge, Worth County CLASS AA Offensive Player of the Year: Bailey Fisher, Rabun County, 6-0, 195, Sr. Defensive Player of the Year: Christopher Smith, Hapeville Charter, 5-10 1/2, 169, Sr. Coach of the Year: Winston Gordon, Hapeville Charter FIRST TEAM Offense QB Bailey Fisher, Rabun County, 6-0, 195, Sr. RB Aaron Beasley, Heard County 6-0, 205, Sr. RB A.J. Brown, Harlem, 5-8, 180, Jr. WR Tahkwon King, Jefferson Co., 6-1, 165, Sr. WR Jaden Moreland, Heard Co., 5-10, 175, Sr. TE Katerian Legrone, B.E.S.T. Academy, 6-3, 230, Sr. OL Dustin Pope, Chattooga, 6-6, 300, Sr. OL Keiondre Jones, Callaway, 6-4, 310, Jr. OL Ousman Traore, Hapeville Charter, 6-3, 320, Sr. OL Willie Green, Glenn Hills, 6-4, 295, Sr. OL Austin Bedsole, Jordan, 6-6, 350, Sr. ATH Emory Jones, Heard Co., 6-3, 210, Sr. K Carl Blackmore, Thomasville, 6-2, 175, Sr. Defense DL Kingsley Enagbare, Hapeville, Charter, 6-4, 257, Sr. DL Eric Hicks, Benedictine, 6-3, 245, Jr. DL Jadin Johnson, Dodge County, 6-0, 230, Jr. DL Kierron Smith, Fitzgerald, 6-1, 195, Sr. LB Preston Daniels, Washington County, 6-0, 226, Jr. LB Jonathan Leonard, Callaway, 5-10, 185, Sr. LB Randy Green, Southwest Macon, 6-1, 230, Jr. LB Andrew Leak, Heard County, 5-11, 205, Jr. DB Christopher Smith, Hapeville Charter, 5-10 1/2, 169, Sr. DB Jakeen Harris, Benedictine, 5-11, 185, Jr. DB Karey Lee, Thomasville, 5-10, 160, Sr. DB Cole Keener, Rabun County, 5-10, 180, Sr. P Cullin Collins, Washington County, 5-9, 155, Sr. RET Austin Jones, Rabun County, 6-0, 180, Jr. SECOND TEAM Offense QB Hajj-Malik Williams, Hapeville Charter, 6-1, 180, Sr. RB Travis Blackshear, Benedictine, 5-10, 175, Sr. RB Zabrion Whatley, Rockmart, 5-8, 165, Jr. WR Kevin Cochran, Thomasville, 5-8, 145, Soph.

WR Andunte Devereux Hapeville Charter, 5-11, 180 TE Sean Brown, Coosa, 6-5, 241, Jr. OL Micah Lawson, Jefferson County, 6-4, 340, Jr. OL Harrison Sheeler, Jeff Davis, 6-2, 255, Sr. OL Keshawn Cameron, Callaway, 6-1, 310, Jr. OL Mason O’Neal, Coosa, 6-2, 252, Sr. OL Waylin Bell, Harlem, 6-3, 295, SR.

ATH Jalen Thompson, South Atlanta, 5-6, 150, Sr. Defense DL Kashawn Robinson, Screven County, 6-2, 215, Sr. DL C.J. Wright, Screven County, 6-0, 285, Sr. DL Rodricus Fitten, Washington County, 6-2, 230, Jr. DL Richard Benton, B.E.S.T. Academy, 6-2, 225, Jr. LB Quinton Arnold, KIPP Atlanta Collegiate, 6-1, 240, Sr. LB D.J. Coleman, South Atlanta, 6-5, 220, Sr. LB Rahjon Holden, Brooks County, 6-0, 215, Sr. LB Gavyn Jones, Rabun County, 6-0, 215, Sr. DB LaGandric Snell, Bacon County, 5-10, 165, Sr. DB Charlie Thomas, Thomasville, 6-2, 195, Sr. DB Courtney Williams, Callaway, 6-2, 180 Sr. DB Blaine Gibson, B.E.S.T. Academy, 6-0, 175, Sr. P Peyton Bush, Dodge County, 5-9, 145, Jr. RET Tyleek Collins, Hapeville Charter, 5-10, 167, Sr. Honorable Mention: Emmanuel Mann, Jordan; J.T. Rice, Thomasville; R.J. Carr, Dodge County, Jalyn Williams, Swainsboro; Keshawn Morgan, Toombs County; Juan Powell, Douglass; Cartavious Bigsby, Callaway; D.J. Winters, Temple; Leonard Hill, Heard County; Tyquan Johnson, Screven County; Rory Starkey, Hapeville Charter; Keenan Dixon, Coosa; Tay Huff, Elbert County; Trevor Thomas, Pepperell; Caleb Kelly, Hapeville, Charter; Daniel Lavender, Elbert County; Marc Davis, Thomasville; Ryan Dove, Banks County; Tae’Aviion Gray, Brooks County; Jalen Cannon, B.E.S.T. Academy; Chandler Hubbard, Coosa; Triston Williams, Harlem; Jonah Griffin, Benedictine; Kobe Jackson Callaway; Bryce Webster, Spencer; Evan Hodges, Jefferson County; Rig Tinoco, Toombs County; Kivante Johnson, Hapeville; Jarrett Heath, Early County CLASS A (PRIVATE) Co-Offensive Players of the Year: Adam Byck, Savannah Country Day, 5-9, 200, Sr.; Jacob Cedonya, Mt. Pisgah, 6-1, 190, Sr. Defensive Player of the Year: Harrison Taylor, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-4, 240, Sr. Coach of the Year: Josh Alexander, Athens Academy FIRST TEAM Offense QB Dalton Cox, First Presbyterian Day, 6-0, 180 QB Jacob Cedonya, Mt. Pisgah, 6-1, 190 RB Adam Byck, Savannah Country Day, 5-9, 200, Sr. RB Tijai Whatley, Darlington, 6-2, 195, Sr. WR Titus Moore, First Presbyterian Day, 6-1,180, Sr. WR Christian Parrish, Prince Avenue, 5-10, 185, Jr. TE Kellum Rowan, Mt. Paran Christian, 6-4, 225, Sr. OL Gavin George, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-5, 275, Sr. OL Hunter Nourzad, Walker, 6-4, 295, Sr. OL Dylan McMahon, Savannah Christian, 6-3, 265, Jr. OL Tate Rutledge, Darlington, 6-6, 271, Soph.

OL Elijah Ball, Darlington, 6-3, 280, Sr. ATH Banks Ramsey, Wesleyan, 6-6, 200, Sr. K Hawkins Pindar, Savannah Country Day, 6-2, 200, Sr. Defense DL Harrison Taylor, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-4, 240, Sr. DL Tobe Umerah, Stratford Academy, 6-4, 240, Sr. DL Jacob Hunt, Darlington, 6-3, 253, Sr. DL Konner Henkle, Mt. Paran Christian, 6-2, 205, Sr. LB Drake Harris, Mt. Paran Christian, 6-2, 210, Sr. LB George Shockley, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-1, 215, Sr. LB Thomas Joiner, Whitefield Academy, 6-0, 207, Sr. LB Joseph Douglas, Aquinas, 6-2, 200, Sr. DB Taj Dodson, Our Lady of Mercy, 6-2, 180, Jr. DB Tre Douglas, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-2, 180, Sr. DB Jalen Huff, Athens Academy, 6-0, 170, Soph.

DB Cameron Browning, Our Lady of Mercy, 5-9, 17, Sr. P Noah Chumley, Savannah Christian, 6-2, 168, Jr. RET Khaleb Hood, Eagle’s Landing Christian, 6-0, 170, Sr. Honorable Mention: Sayyid Stevens, Calvary Day; Mykel Tubbs, Holy Innocents’; Will Warbington, Hebron Christian; Jalen Leary, Calvary Day; Josh Mays, Eagle’s Landing Christian; Kai Williams, Mt. Pisgah; K.J. Millwood, Lakeview Academy; Kyle Holt, Whitefield Academy; Sammy Martin, Stratford Academy; Daniel Parrish, Prince Avenue; Zack Jones, Eagle’s Landing Christian; Chandler Whittington, Tattnall Square Academy; Al Hogan, Landmark Christian; Destin Mack, Tattnall Square Academy; Drew Byus, Athens Academy; Billy McCurry, Fellowship Christian; Taequan Washington, Calvary Day; Joseph Douglas, Aquinas; Richard Jibunor, Athens Christian; Michael Moyers, Hebron Christian; Jonathan Palmer, Savannah Country Day; Davis Stephens, Mt. Paran Christian; George Welch, Aquinas; Parker Rostowsky, Mt Paran Christian; Richard Hill, Brookstone; Chandler Webber, Mt. Paran Christian; Payton Bowles, Athens Academy; Zach Peterson, Wesleyan; Casey Barham, Fellowship Christian; Scott Queen, Eagle’s Landing Christian; George Bielen, Wesleyan CLASS A (PUBLIC) Offensive Player of the Year: Bo Lawson, Dooly County, 6-0, 181, Jr. Defensive Player of the Year: Jontavious Ferguson, Manchester, 6-1, 210, Sr. Coach of the Year: Jim Dickerson, Clinch County FIRST TEAM Offense QB A.J. Bell, Charlton County, 6-3, 160, Sr. RB Chris Stovall, Miller County, 5-11, 215, Jr. RB Brandon Mackey, Wheeler County, 5-6, 165, Jr. WR Desi Lester, Dooly County, 6-0, 175, Sr. WR Deondre Lester, Washington-Wilkes, 5-11, 165, Jr. TE Brock Jackson, Washington-Wilkes, 6-1, 197, Sr. OL Travis Glover, Dooly County, 6-5, 315, Sr. OL Christian Meadows, Macon County, 6-4, 330, Sr. OL Austin Connor, Marion County, 6-3, 270, Sr. OL C.J. Gwynn, Clinch County, 6-2, 270, Jr. OL Jerquavion Mahone, Manchester, 6-4, 299, Sr. ATH Bo Lawson, Dooly County, 6-0, 181, Jr. K Abisai Gutierrez, Macon County, Sr., 5-9, 150, Sr. Defense DL John Mincey, Clinch County, 6-4, 270, Sr. DL Curtis Fann, Emanuel County Institute, 6-3, 245, Jr. DL Marlon Jackson, Irwin County, 6-3, 235, Sr. DL Lorenzo Ramsey, Marion County, 5-10, 220, Sr. LB Jontavious Ferguson, Manchester, 6-1, 210, Sr. LB Logan Blevins, Trion, 5-11, 215, Sr. LB Trezman Marshall, Clinch County, 6-1, 230, Jr. LB Tahj Williams, Clinch County, 6-1, 215, Sr. DB C.J. Ackles, Mt. Zion-Carroll, 6-1, 190, Sr. DB Tyriese Farley, Mt. Zion-Carroll, 6-2, 185, Jr. DB Clayton Harvey, Montgomery County, 5-11, 185, Sr. DB Dewaun Jones, Pelham, 6-2, 155, Jr. P Kevin Umanzer, Marion County, Soph.

RET Raykwon Anderson, Charlton County, 5-9, 167, Jr. Honorable Mention: Ian Blankenship, Telfair County; Gunnar Watson, Taylor County; Travon Matthews, Marion County; Robert Coney, Jenkins County; Eric Dixon, Emanuel County Institute; D.J. Lundy, Irwin County; Tysean Carswell, Emanuel County Institute; Kelvin Turner, Manchester; Charles McClelland, Clinch County; Trezman Marshall, Clinch County; Branderious Rawlings, Johnson County; Trey Brown, Macon County; Jeremiah Johnson, Emanuel County Institute; Iaan Cousin, Mt. Zion-Carroll; J.P. Palmer, McIntosh County Academy; Kyre Ware, Commerce; Hunter Spires, Irwin County; Treci Boyington, Taylor County; Kalil Brawner, Manchester; Tyler Moore, Turner County; Braden Jarvis, Gordon Lee; Javon Reid, Lincoln County; C.J. Leggett, Macon County; Cade Ridley, Commerce; Rashawn Walton, Manchester, Trent Clark, Taylor County; Anthony McIntyre, Mitchell County; G.J. Douglas, Miller County; Cole Helton, Mt. Zion-Carroll; Malik Barnes, Mitchell County; Peyton Mercer, Emanuel County Institute; Hunter Henry, Emanuel County Institute; Keb Grady, Clinch County; Tra Mathis, Macon County; Tucker Miller Gordon Lee; James Mock, Randoph-Clay; Midarious Roberts, Lincoln County; Javon Stanley, Irwin County; Elder Morales, Trion; Matthew Tittle, Mt. Zion-Carroll; Trevor Byrd, Truetlen; Gian Davis, Washington-Wilkes

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Chaplin, ’Stangs South girls win McDonald’s Classic topple Generals PREP ROUNDUP

From Staff Reports

HARTWELL — Led by Tournament MVP Makala Torrence’s 20 points, South Gwinnett defeated host Hart County 70-45 in the championship game of the McDonald’s Classic on Saturday.

Jasmine Williams scored 19 points and was named to the all-tournament team, while Shaniya Gause pitched in with 11 for the Comets (12-1).

GIRLS BASKETBALL GIRLS HOOPS Henry Co. 56, Parkview 36 MCDONOUGH — Henry County defeated Parkview 56-36 in the championship game of the Chuck Miller Holiday Invitational on Saturday. Hannah Sadler had

nine points and 15 rebounds to lead the Panthers (9-6). Allyssia Duclos added 17 points and seven rebounds and Sussy Ngulefac pulled down eight rebounds.

Gabby Jester scored seven and dished out seven assists.

Mill Creek 43, Morgan County 41 MADISON — Mill Creek defeated host Morgan County 4341 in the championship game of the Sweet South Classic on Saturday. Madison Riley scored 12 points and was named tournament MVP. Anna Williams scored seven points and pulled down eight rebounds, while Sydnie Smith scored six points and was named to the all-tournament team for the Hawks (9-5).

Male (Ky.) 74, GAC 64 NAPLES, Fla. — Male (Ky.) downed Greater Atlanta Christian 74-64 at the Naples Christmas Tournament on Saturday.

Taylor Sutton had 22 points to

lead the Spartans (9-3).

assists and three steals.

Wesleyan 71, Strongsville (Ohio) 35 TAMPA — Wesleyan defeated Strongsville (Oh.) 71-35 in the championship game of the Silver bracket at the Tampa Bay Christmas Invitational on Saturday.

Amaya Register led the Wolves (11-1) with 17 points.

A.C. Carter added 13 points and eight rebounds. Izzy Larson provided 10 points and seven rebounds, while Sutton West scored 10 points and pulled down eight boards.

Buford 75, Vanguard (Fla.) 54 OCALA, Fla. — Buford rolled to the championship at the Kingdom of the Sun Tournament on Saturday, posting a 75-54 win over Vanguard (Fla.). David Vit led the Wolves (10-2) with 25 points. Donell Nixon poured in 18, Marcus Watson scored 17 and Alex Jones dished out 11 assists in the victory.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Dacula 62, Effingham County 46 SNELLVILLE — Dacula defeated Effingham County 62-46 in the Deep South Classic on Saturday.

Kendall Bollmer led the Falcons (6-6) with 19 points. Aiyana Hamilton added 16 points, 10 rebounds and three assists. Alex Criscolo chipped in with 10 points, four

Wesleyan 52, Madison County 50 HARTWELL — Wesleyan rallied for a 52-50 win over Madison County at the McDonald’s Classic at Hart County High School on Saturday. The Wolves (4-4) trailed at the half but rallied to lead by as much as seven in the second half.

Christian McLean led Wesleyan with 20 points while Warner Peak added nine. Micah Smith and Grant Summers provided defensive support down the stretch to hold off the Red Raiders.

Tigers win title in Deep South debut One other Tiger hit for double digits in scoring with 13 points from alltournament team member Bryce Brown, but seven other players chipped in, led by nine points from tournament MVP Malik Sproles.

Brookwood was led by 12 points from Alex Steele off the bench, and 11 points from Smalls, while Adams came off the pine to score nine points.

Adams was also named to the all-tournament team, along with teammate Justin Randle.

By Scott Smith

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SNELLVILLE — Competing in the Deep South Classic for the first time, the Archer boys claimed the tournament title Saturday night by fending off host Brookwood for a 58-55 win.

The victory capped off a perfect week for the Tigers (11-3), who reached the finals with wins over Nothview and Lanier before knocking off county rival Brookwood.

“This was essentially a road game, playing Brookwood at home, and they’ve improved a lot over the last month,” Archer head coach Joel Lecoeuvre said. “Our region is really tough, and this (tournament win) really helps our execution and confidence. We struggled a little bit at times today, but we’re getting better.”

Archer, which was led by 15 points and three assists from Justin Edmondson, was up 14-12 after the first and 30-23 at the half.

That lead would be extended to double-digits in the third quarter at 41-27, looking like Archer was going to cruise its way to the tournament crown.

But strong bench play for Brookwood, which received 30 points from its reserves, helped make the last few minutes of the game a lot more uncomfortable than what Lecoeuvre liked.

Up by a dozen at 44-32 entering the fourth, Brookwood (4-7) got within six at 51-45 with 1:53 to play, eventually getting within a basket at 55-53 with 30 seconds to go after a 3-pointer

Brookwood’s Justin Randle (5) take as shot over Archer’s Zion McCray (10) in the Brookwood Deep South Classic championship game Saturday night. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

from Chris Smalls.

Brookwood would foul on the inbounds pass and Brent Smith hit one of two with 26 seconds to play to put Archer up 56-53.

Archer got a big defensive play on the other end of the court on the ensuing possession when a tipped pass was stolen by Shakim Jenks, who would also hit one of two free throws after being fouled with 15.5 seconds left for a twopossession lead at 57-53.

A pair of free throws from Toju Eitwe, who finished with five points and 10 rebounds, got the Broncos closer at 57-55 with four seconds left, once again forcing Brookwood to foul.

Edmondson would go to

the line and hit one of two with 3.2 seconds to play for a 58-55 lead.

Brookwood used its last timeout and would get a decent look from half court, but a desperation heave from Taj Adams fell short after scraping the front of the rim.

“Our guys fought like crazy and put themselves in a position to win, and that’s all you can ask for,” Brookwood head coach Daniel Bowles said. “We had some turnovers and Archer got a lot of transition. It seemed like every time we turned it over, (Archer) turned it into points. They had some guys step up and hit some shots. They played well and they’re very good.”

Lanier 60, Effingham County 57 Lanier finished the Deep South Classic in third place as the Longhorns closed out the tournament with a 60-57 win over Effingham County.

Three Longhorns scored in double figures, led by 16 points from All Tournament Team selection Adrian Martin. Alex Walker added 15 points, while Sion James finished with 10 points.

Effingham was led by 15 points from Samari Westbrook, 13 points from Khaleed Stapleton and 11 points from Trevon Wilkenson.

GIRLS Holy Innocents’ 58, Cherokee 35 Holy Innocents’ held Cherokee to 15 points in the second half to pull away for a 58-35 win to capture first place in the Deep South Classic.

Kalia Hubbard, the tournament MVP, scored 20 points to lead the Golden Bears. Kennedy Suttle followed with 15 points, while Rachel Suttle scored 10.

Cherokee was led by nine points from Sydne Watts.

Brookwood 56, Hillgrove 55 Kierra “Kiki” Adams of Brookwood finished with 24 points to help the Broncos nip Hillgrove 56-55 in the third-place game of the Deep South Classic.

Jalyn Bell and Malia Grace also helped Brookwood (8-4) with 10 points each, while Adams was named to the alltournament team.

By Guy Curtright Staff Correspondent

MARIETTA — Despite the attention that Cory Hightower and Amari Kelly rightfully get, Meadowcreek is hardly a two-man basketball team.

Fellow senior Jamir Chaplin made that perfectly clear as the Mustangs won three of their four games in the Tournament of Champions Classic at Wheeler.

Chaplin was Meadowcreek’s leading scorer in each game, finishing the tournament with 23 points in a 57-47 victory over Shiloh on Saturday for fifth place in the Apple Division.

“He’s the heart and soul of our team,” coach Curtis Gilleylen said.

“He was out (most) of last season with an ankle injury and we were missing something. It’s good to have him back.”

The 6-foot-7 Hightower had 18 points and 12 rebounds for Meadowcreek (12-3), but the 6-foot-9 Kelly battled foul trouble and was limited to five points and five rebounds, meaning the 6-foot-4 Chaplin had to do a lot of work inside as well as outside.

Chaplin, who missed his only two 3-point attempts, was 8 of 10 from close range and drew plenty of fouls, going 8 of 13 from the foul line. He also had seven rebounds as the Mustangs won the battle of the boards 33-22.

“He’s versatile,” Gilleylen said. “He started out in the post when he was in ninth grade and he’s transitioning out to the perimeter. He’s starting to be able to score inside,

outside and midrange.”

Shiloh (4-9) gave up 11 straight points after scoring the first basket of the game, but was within 3332 late in the third quarter and 47-44 midway in the fourth before Meadowcreek took charge.

Junior Elias King led Shiloh with 23 points, going 5 of 7 from behind the 3-point arc. The Generals struggled at the foul line, making 14 of 27, and were outscored 30-14 in the paint.

Meadowcreek’s only loss in the event came in overtime to Virginia power Paul VI at the start of bracket play and the Mustangs defeated Florida’s powerful Blanche Ely in a showcase game.

“We were a couple of missed free throws from winning all four games against some really good teams,” Gilleylen said. “I liked what we got from this and hopefully we can use it for the second half of the season.”

Grayson 68, Miller Grove 48 Nick Edwards had 25 points and fellow senior guard Travis Anderson scored 18 as Grayson bounced back from a 71-52 semifinal loss to Pebblebrook, claiming third place in the Peach Division of the TOC with a 68-49 victory over Miller Grove. The Rams (10-2) led 3725 at halftime and had a 23-11 advantage in the fourth quarter after Miller Grove pulled within 45-37.

Duluth 45, Heritage 41 Duluth overcame shooting just 26.9 percent in the first half to defeat Heritage-Newnan 45-41 and claim third place in the Red Division of the TOC after trailing 20-19 at halftime.

Christian Kelly scored 10 points for the Wildcats (10-5), while Will Huzzie contributed 11 rebounds, eight points and four assists. Adam Flagler was 2 of 10 from behind the arc, scoring nine points.

Gladiators fall in S.C. power play.

Jacobs had a chance to NORTH CHARLESrestore the lead at 12:14 TON, S.C. — The Atlanta on a penalty shot, but Gladiators scored first Stingrays goalie Parker but were swamped by Milner made the save. three straight goals from South Carolina went South Carolina in a 3-1 ahead 2-1 shortly thereafloss Saturday at the North ter on Steven Whitney’s Charleston Coliseum. goal at 13:54 and pushed All the scoring came in the lead to 3-1 just 63 the second period. seconds later. Frankie Defenseman Taylor Simonelli capped the Doherty gave Atlanta a scoring with another pow1-0 lead at 3:22 on a goal er-play goal at 14:57. assisted by Phil Lane and Atlanta, which beat Colin Jacobs.

South Carolina a night Patrick Gaul answered earlier with a four-goal with his ninth tally of second period, had just the season less than four shots on goal in the three minutes later on a first period.

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Legendary Central hoops coach remembered fondly

By Will Hammock

“Coach Joe was tough but fair,” said Charles Anderson, who played for McKelvey at Central from This holiday season 1969-72. “He was very saw the loss of a Gwinnett disciplined and practices County basketball legend. were very structured, no Joe McKelvey, a sucwasted time. There was cessful coach and adminis- always extra conditioning trator for Gwinnett County for any player who was Public Schools for decades, not in sync with practice. passed Coach Joe knew what kind away Dec. of talent he had each year 23 at the and how each player could age of 85. contribute. He was the best He was at getting each player to known for play their role for the beta variety terment of the team. of roles lo“And any time Coach Joe cally, most Joe was on you, he made McKelvey notably as it a point to talk with you Central Gwinnett’s boys personally and you knew basketball coach. he cared about you. That’s He led Central to the why there was a room of Class A state championship former players wiping in 1962, as well as a state away tears at the funeral runner-up finish in 1969.

(Friday). We are going to The ’62 title is still the only miss him.” state championship won by McKelvey is a graduate a boys program in school of Duluth, where he played history. It also was the basketball and was captain Lawrenceville high school’s of the 1948 team, earning only state title of any kind all-county and all-region until 2001, when the Black honors. He attended West Knights won girls basketGeorgia and signed a proball and softball. fessional baseball contract The Lawrenceville resi- with the Atlanta Crackers, dent’s funeral service was spending time with minor held Friday. league teams in Waycross will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

and Panama City, Fla., before graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in education.

He coached high school sports for 21 years, the first three at Duluth and the last 18 at Central, where as head boys basketball coach he became an important mentor to one of his players, Eddie Martin. Martin has won eight state championships in his long Gwinnett coaching career at Brookwood, Norcross, Greater Atlanta and Buford, where he currently is head coach.

Martin got into coaching in large part because of McKelvey’s influence.

He played at Central for the legendary coach from 1970-74. “(McKelvey) has always been a mentor to me,” Martin said. “He’s one of the reasons, if not the reason, I went into coaching. The thing I got most from him was fundamentals. He was a very strict fundamentals coach. That helped me getting started and to this day I still use it. The game may change but fundamentals don’t change. … You can ask any of his former players what kind of relation-

ship they had, and it was professional, but you knew he cared about you not only as a player, but as a person. … You knew not only was he your basketball coach, but he cared about you as a person. You felt that. You knew that. We all try to teach our kids in any sport we coach a lot of life lessons with what we do today and even back then. My work ethic is something he instilled in me back when I was in high school.”

In addition to basketball, McKelvey also coached state playoff teams in football, baseball and golf.

He was president and vice president of the Gwinnett Tipoff Club, and later in his career was the principal at Lawrenceville Middle School until his retirement in 1984. While at Lawrenceville Middle, he hired Martin for his first coaching job. “(McKelvey’s) been in the gym several times over the years while I was at Brookwood, Norcross and GAC,” Martin said. “I think his health has kept him from coming since I’ve been at Buford. He would show up at the gym

to watch us play. From my perspective, that means a lot to us that he would come out.”

Lawrenceville mayor Judy Jordan Johnson, a 1970 Central grad who later taught and coached at her alma mater for 30 years, has plenty of memories of McKelvey.

“Coach Joe was an engaging teacher and coach,” Johnson said. “He engaged us to have conversations during homeroom and encouraged us to discuss what we had learned during class. He engaged the entire student body to support the various teams of the school, not just athletic teams but academic teams also. He believed in the fundamentals of life, whether it was the fundamentals of the lesson he was teaching, the fundamentals of the skills of the various sports, or more importantly, the fundamentals of respect for all, humility in success and gracefulness in loss.

“When I would meet Coach Joe in the hallway, he would always acknowledge me, as he did other students. Coach Joe had time for everyone. I have

been blessed because Coach Joe’s path intersected mine at Central Gwinnett High School.”

Central grad Mark Kimbro, a longtime baseball coach and administrator at Central and Brookwood, knew McKelvey through his years of being a student and employee at Central.

McKelvey became Lawrenceville Middle’s principal when Kimbro was an eighth-grader there.

He got to know him more as he got older when his parents sat with McKelvey at Central basketball games.

“From the time I was little, I knew him,” Kimbro said. “I knew him as Coach Joe. That’s what everybody called him. … He was a good basketball coach. I don’t know if he got as much credit as he should for being a good basketball coach. He got a lot out of his players. He never had big kids. He would put five guards out there. …

He was just a neat guy to hang around. I learned a lot about coaching riding on the bus with him to basketball games when my mom drove the bus.”

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Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 4:25 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m.

Seattle needs win, help to keep playoff hopes alive The Giants (2-13) have endured one of the worst seasons in franchise history and their coach and general manager have already been fired. This week, safety Landon Collins called cornerback Eli Apple “a cancer” during a radio interview, and Apple has been suspended for this game.

The Sports Xchange SEATTLE — If the Seattle Seahawks are going to extend their streak of consecutive seasons in the playoffs to six straight years, they’re going to have to find a way to solve the Arizona Cardinals’ recent string of success at CenturyLink Field.

Otherwise, their season could be over on the same day as Arizona’s.

In order to reach the postseason, the Seahawks (9-6) need to beat the Cardinals (7-8) and also need the Panthers to beat the Falcons. In that scenario — and only that scenario — the Seahawks will clinch the sixth and final playoff seed in the NFC. “It’s a championship game for us,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said of today’s contest.

Carolina at Atlanta 1 p.m. today The Panthers will have two veteran defenders back this week. Defensive end Charles Johnson has been out for four games because of a violation of the league’s PED policy. Linebacker Thomas Davis missed one game with a suspension for a vicious hit in the Green Bay game.

Coach Ron Rivera tried to put a positive spin on what Johnson and Davis might bring at the end of the season. Because they are veterans in the league, the time off could provide them with extra energy for these post-Christmas games.

The loss of wide receiver Damiere Byrd to a seasonending injury just one quarter after he returned a kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown was another blow to the receiving corps.

At least this isn’t the first time quarterback Cam Newton has been forced to adjust.

The Panthers traded top wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin in the fall. Since then, rookie speedster wide receiver Curtis Samuel went down for the season with an injury.

“A little bit of shock with what we’re trying to do, but we have people who can come in and fill that role,” Newton said of the loss of Byrd, who went on injured reserve with lower leg injury.

Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. today The Lions (8-7) won at Lambeau Field in November by shutting down the Packers’ (7-8) running game and

Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. today A year ago, the Eagles and Cowboys faced each other in Week 17. The Eagles were 6-9 and out of playoff Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan (2) throws against contention. The 13-2 Cowthe New Orleans Saints during the second quarter at the boys already had locked up Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Photo: Derick E. Hingle- the NFC’s No. 1 seed.

This time, the roles are USA Today Sports) reversed. The 8-7 Cowboys forcing Brett Hundley to beat healthy as they take care of were eliminated from playoff the bye themselves. them through the air, and contention last week when Howard is the NFL’s fifththey’ll no doubt take a similar they lost to the Seattle leading rusher with 1,113 approach this time.

Seahawks, while the 13-2 Hundley completed just 17 yards, a 4.2 average and Eagles already own the No. nine touchdowns. If he gets of 40 passes with two inter1 NFC playoff seed. rolling, the Vikings would ceptions last week, and the Packers could be without top lose the massive down-andCleveland at Pittsburgh, distance advantage they receivers Davante Adams 1 p.m. today and Jordy Nelson. The Lions normally enjoy at home. If The Steelers’ (12-3) goals they can contain Howard, have picked off six passes for this game are to win and their talent and schemes will get out of it with zero injuries. in the last three games, but overwhelm rookie quarterthey need to keep Hundley It doesn’t always happen that back Mitchell Trubisky. from beating them with his way though. Two years ago, The second overall pick in the Steelers lost running legs.

Offensively, Marvin Jones last spring’s draft, Trubisky back DeAngelo Williams in has 2,015 passing yards and a season finale against the has dominated the Packers is now the top rookie passer Browns, and he ended up in his three games against in franchise history. But he them as a Lion. He’ll be a missing both playoff games. still has a long way to go — focal point of the offense.

For that reason, don’t and will probably be making If starting linemen Rick expect to see the SteelWagner, Travis Swanson and the trek with a new coaching ers’ stars very much in this staff next season.

T.J. Lang return, the Lions game. It remains to be seen might even take some shots how much the Steelers rest N.Y. Jets at New England, their stars, but the players downfield again.

1 p.m. today who do dress on offense Defensively, the Jets have figure to be blocking for runHouston at Indianapolis, made only one interception 1 p.m. today ning backs an awful lot. the last five games, and that Offensively, the Texans Whether it’s Le’Veon Bell was by defensive end Leon- or backups Stevan Ridley need to do a better job in ard Williams. Strangely, Tom pass protection. They’ve and Fitzgerald Toussaint, the allowed 11 sacks in the past Brady has thrown at least Steelers will test the Cleveone pick each of his last five land (0-15) run defense, two games. games. If the Jets can nab Defensively, the Texans which is seventh in the (4-11) are led by outside line- one, it should go a long way NFL. The latest word is that toward avoiding a blowout. backer Jadeveon Clowney.

Landry Jones will start inThe Jets’ (5-10) defense The Pro Bowl selection stead of Ben Roethlisberger is lackluster against both provides the only pass rush at quarterback and Bell also the pass (23rd) and the run a declining defense has to won’t play.

(19th). Certainly, Patriots (12show for a rough season.

3) coordinator Josh McDanThe game plan for the Buffalo at Miami, iels will look to find improveColts hasn’t changed much 4:25 p.m. today ment on third downs, which since the beginning of the Miami (6-9) must limit have been an issue in recent two players — running back season. weeks, as well as utilize a Offensively, IndianapoLeSean McCoy and quarterstill-strong cast of complelis has to be able to score back Tyrod Taylor. Doing that mentary weapons, but he touchdowns in the red zone starts with fundamental footwill also likely continue to instead of settling for field ball — sure tackling, playing feed Rob Gronkowski as the your assignments, minimizgoals. The Colts (2-12) focal point of the passing need to be more efficient in ing penalties, etc. — and game and running back Dion that’s where the problems goal-line and short-yardage Lewis as the lead back on situations. start for the Dolphins. the ground.

The Bills (8-7) were unChicago at Minnesota, able to get their wide receivWashington at N.Y. Giants, ers involved in the first game 1 p.m. today 1 p.m. today While Minnesota (12-3) as Kelvin Benjamin, Zay The Redskins (7-8) have has clinched a playoff berth, Jones, Brandon Tate and won two in a row after bethe Vikings need a win over Deonte Thompson combined Chicago (5-10) or a Carolina ing knocked from the NFC for four catches for 57 yards. playoff race and a .500 finish Last week at New England, loss at Atlanta to clinch a would be the first time they first-round bye.

Taylor had much more suchave gone three consecuThe Vikings will look to cess throwing the ball to his tive years without a losing contain Jordan Howard, not wideouts and he finished season since 1999-2001. turn the ball over and stay with 281 yards.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. today The Buccaneers (4-11) rank last in the NFL in pass defense and sacks, which should allow Drew Brees to have success. Whether he’s utilizing running backs Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara out of the backfield or going farther downfield, Brees should have time to pick apart the Tampa Bay secondary.

Saints (11-4) defensive end Cam Jordan is having his best year, with 12 sacks, which is fifth in the NFL. The Saints will focus on containing running back Doug Martin so they have a better chance of pressuring Winston and disrupting the Bucs’ passing game.

Bernard, with guards Christian Westerman and Alex Redmond earning their most snaps of the season and Clint Boling shifting to tackle. With Joe Mixon most likely out, Bernard could see plenty of action.

Collins leads the team with 895 yards and five touchdowns. Allen is second with 554 yards and four touchdowns.

Quarterback Joe Flacco will take some shots downfield against the Bengals’ seventh-ranked pass defense to open up the running game. However, Flacco will need to avoid the turnovers that have hurt him and the Ravens (9-6) at times this season.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:25 p.m. today The Jaguars (10-5) are locked in as the No. 3 playoff seed in the AFC, but the Titans need to win this one (or get losses by both Buffalo and the L.A. Chargers).

The Jaguars’ ground attack has struggled the second half of the season and that has been Tennessee’s defensive strength, ranking fifth (89.1) in the NFL. The Jaguars still lead the league in rushing, but the per-game average continues to fall.

The Titans (8-7) want to stop Leonard Fournette (if he plays) or T.J. Yeldon and make Bortles uncomfortable in the pocket and in reading the coverage. It worked in Week 2, but Bortles has had flashes of improvement since then.

Oakland at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. today The Chargers (8-7) have a chance to make the playoffs and know they need to take care of their end. That means Philip Rivers will have to shine.

Melvin Gordon is ailing with a bum ankle and probably won’t hold up over four quarters. If Gordon can’t go, Branden Oliver will get the call. But Rivers will do the heavy lifting against an improved Oakland defense.

The Raiders (6-9) are in an excellent stretch, giving up 287 yards per game with John Pagano in charge.

Khalil Mack has moved around and Bruce Irvin has rushed the passer more frequently, and the increased pass rush has forced quarterbacks into mistakes.

Rivers had no interceptions in the first meeting, but the Raiders will hope their rush changes that this time.

Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m. today This game represents a step into the relative unknown, as Paxton Lynch is likely to start for the Broncos (5-11) , while rookie Patrick Mahomes will start for the Chiefs.

The Broncos want to get a look at Lynch, but they also want to make sure running back C.J. Anderson hits 1,000 yards. Their running game has been by far the best aspect of their offense, so look for the Broncos to keep it on the ground to allow Lynch to get comfortable.

The Chiefs (9-6) plan to rely on youth as well, so the defense needs to make an impact against Lynch.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. today Who starts along the offensive line for the Bengals (6-9) might not be set until just before game time. But the Bengals might be inclined to just stick with what works.

The Bengals rushed for 142 yards last week, including 116 from Giovani

San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. today While that ultimately might mean facing a more highly regarded opponent in the first and second rounds, the Rams (11-4)have decided that’s still not worth the risk of key starters getting injured or squandering the chance to rest some veterans in advance of the postseason.

Among the starters who coach Sean McVay will sit are quarterback Jared Goff and running back Todd Gurley.

McVay, though, said he will be cognizant of players who have incentive clauses tied to statistics and playing time.

The 49ers (5-10), meanwhile, are looking to finish 5-0 and send a message that they will be a team to be reckoned with next season. That starts with Jimmy Garoppolo, who is 4-0 as a starter and has brought a renewed confidence to the 49ers.

New year may be brightened by Garoppolo, Gruden

By Ira Miller

The Sports Xchange

It has been an intriguing season in the NFL, with the re-emergence of Todd Gurley, the continued brilliance of Tom Brady, four new division winners in the NFC and all manner of off-field diversions ranging from anthem protests to the status of Roger Goodell, the commissioner.

Yet, as we approach the season’s final weekend, two of the biggest stories in the league involve none of that but, instead, a coach turned broadcaster and a quarterback on a losing team.

Jon Gruden and Jimmy Garoppolo could emerge in 2018 as two of the league’s biggest names.

That is, if Gruden finally

leaves the broadcast booth to take over a team that has a quarterback with whom he can win. Let’s consider the Bucs or Raiders, places he has succeeded in the past, or the Colts or even the Texans, who have an owner willing to spend money.

And there is Garoppolo, whose four-game run in San Francisco has triggered memories of the 49ers’ past glory. Consider if he can perform near that level over a full season for a team that has a Fort Knox full of salary-cap room to improve itself at other positions by next season.

For all of the NFL’s wellknown issues that have been front and center this year, what continues to make the league the country’s No. 1 sport is the anticipation and

excitement fueled by yearto-year and even week-toweek uncertainty.

Every team has a chance.

Except, maybe, Cleveland.

All of those who thought the Eagles, Vikings, Rams and Saints or Panthers would be the NFC division winners this year, raise your hands.

Didn’t think so.

And for bonus points, who thought the untested pairing of head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch would have the 49ers dreaming of the 2018 playoffs even before the end of the 2017 season, let alone the 2018 draft?

Again, didn’t think so.

With that sole change, the 49ers, who were 1-10 after 11 games with a victory only over the Giants

while averaging 17 points a game, would go on to win four straight, averaging 27.5 points a game including 44 against the divisionwinning Jaguars, who had allowed the fewest points in the league.

Certainly, San Francisco is a team that needs help at multiple positions, but history has shown that stable, solid play at quarterback can cover for multiple problems at other positions.

In his four games for the 49ers, Garoppolo completed 69 percent of his passes, averaged 8.74 yards per attempt and compiled a passer rating of 98.9. He has not thrown enough passes to qualify for the league rankings, but if he had, those figures would rate second, first and seventh, respectively.

It is, of course, ridiculously early to make any comparisons or blanket statements about the future, but the Patriots’ trade of Garoppolo late in their dynasty is reminiscent of what happened to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early ’80s.

Heading into the 1983 draft, Terry Bradshaw was about to turn 35 and had a sore arm. But Bradshaw and the Steelers believed he still had several years left, so the team passed on drafting Dan Marino, a hometown hero at the University of Pittsburgh. As it turned out, Bradshaw would start only one more game, and the Steelers would go more than two decades before winning another Super Bowl.

There is no comparable indication that Tom Brady’s

career is near an end, but Brady is, after all, 40 years old, and now, with Garoppolo gone, head coach Bill Belichick hopes Brady can continue to play until the coach finds and develops another potential successor.

Gruden’s situation is potentially even more intriguing. He has not coached in the NFL since 2008, with Tampa Bay, and seems well settled in his TV role. But it’s well-known that ESPN is cutting back on spending; whether that would touch Gruden’s role is uncertain.

But, it is believed he would only be willing to return to a team with a quarterback in place ready to win, which is why the volume may be turned up on a possible return to the sidelines during the offseason.

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orcross grad and 2013 Daily Post Offensive Player of the Year Alvin Kamara burst onto the National Football League scene with a huge rookie season after being drafted in the third round by the New Orleans Saints in April following a strong finish to his college career at Tennessee.

Heading into today’s regular season finale, the 5-foot-10, 215-pound running back has run for 684 yards and seven touchdowns, caught 75 passes for 742 yards and five TDs and posted 1,618 all-purpose yards in helping the Saints to the NFL South Division title.

Those numbers were good enough to get Kamara named to the NFC roster for the 2018 Pro Bowl, which will be played Jan. 28 in Orlando, Fla. He is one of only four rookies to earn Pro Bowl honors, joining Saints teammate Marshon Lattimore, Kansas City’s Kareem Hunt and Arizona’s Budda Baker.

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KAMARA CAPS BIG ROOKIE SEASON WITH INVITATION TO THE PRO BOWL New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) runs the ball ahead of Los Angeles Rams inside linebacker Mark Barron (26) during a game this season. (Photo: Gary A. Vasquez-USA Today Sports)

MEADOWCREEK BOYS, WESLEYAN GIRLS EARN THEIR FIRST STATE SOCCER TITLES

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fter struggling for decades in many different sports, the students, faculty and community from Meadowcreek High School reveled in its first state championship following the Mustangs 2-0 win over Pebblebrook in the Class AAAAAAA boys soccer title game before more than 4,000 fans at Walter H. Cantrell Stadium in Powder Springs.

A pair of goals by senior Maverick Lobo and a shutout by goalkeeper Jose Alvarado were the difference for Daily Post Coach of the Year Tyler LaFleur and the Mustangs. One day earlier, Wesleyan’s girls also reached the Class A Private championship game after several near misses. The Wolves claimed that program’s first state title with a 4-1 victory over First Presbyterian Day in Macon behind a goal and an assist each from Lucy Mitchell and T.J. Anderson.

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strong first half of the 2017 season proved noteworthy for Gwinnett Braves starting pitcher Lucas Sims. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound right-hander was selected to represent the team, along with prized second base prospect Ozzie Albies, at the Triple-A All-Star Game

ALL-STAR NOD TURNS INTO BIG LEAGUE SPRINGBOARD FOR SIMS Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Lucas Sims (50), a Brookwood grad, smiles in the dugout during a game this season in Atlanta. (Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

MEADOWCREEK MANIA CARRIES OVER TO FOOTBALL SEASON

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hile Meadowcreek’s athletic struggles have been well documented, few of the Mustangs’ programs have had tougher times than football.

But a special 2017 campaign made up for those struggles.

Led by Daily Post Coach of the Year Jason Carrera, a 2,000-plus-yard rushing season from Chauncey Williams and a powerful offensive line, the Mustangs started the season with a school-record six-game winning streak on its way to a 7-4 record, tying the school’s single-season record with seven wins.

Though they made an early exit in the first round of the Class AAAAAAA state playoffs, that game represented the program’s first postseason berth since 1989 and ended its first winning season since 1990.

GGC SWEEPS NAIA NATIONAL TENNIS TITLES FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR

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or the second straight year, Georgia Gwinnett College left little doubt which school rules the NAIA tennis scene, with both the Grizzlies men’s and women’s teams sweeping the national championships in back-toback seasons in May. The men went first, sweeping to a 5-0 victory over Xavier University of New Orleans to claim their fourth straight national title, close out a perfect 23-0 season and run their current winning streak to 55 matches, dating back to the 2015 season.

A day later, the GGC women closed out its second national title, and third in four years, with a 5-3 win over Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), ending a perfect 26-0 season and running their winning streak to 33 matches, dating back to 2016.

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GFL ALL-STARS WIN THEIR THIRD FBU EIGHTH-GRADE NATIONAL TITLE

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aced by National Player of the Year Chad Mascoe of Peachtree Ridge and championship game Most Valuable Player Alexander Diggs of Brookwood, the Gwinnett Football League’s Eighth-Grade AllStar team won another FBU National

Championship tournament earlier this month in Naples, Fla. The GFL stars posted wins over Dallas and Maryland before beating Dade County (Fla.) 37-6 in the finals to lock down their third national title in the last four years.

in Tacoma, Wash., in July.

Sims, a Brookwood grad and 2012 Daily Post Pitcher of the Year, was 7-4 with a 3.75 ERA and 132 strikeouts in 115 1/3 innings with Gwinnett, which eventually earned him a promotion to the Major League club in Atlanta, joining Albies and several other of the

OLSON CELEBRATES MLB PROMOTION WITH A MAJOR POWER SURGE

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fter getting brief experience in the Major Leagues late in the 2016 and early in 2017, Parkview grad Matt Olson made the most of his third opportunity when he was called up from Triple-A by the Oakland Athletics for a third time in August.

The 6-5, 230-pound first baseman/outfielder and two-time Daily Post Player of the Year smashed 20 home runs in his last 40 games, and finished the season with 24 homers and 45 RBIs, to go with a .259 batting average, in just 216 at bats over 79 major league games.

That performance was good enough for Olson, whose ninth-inning homer broke up a no-hit bid by Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Foltynewicz in his first big league call-up in June, to finish fourth in the American League Rookie of the Year voting.

team’s top prospects, in August.

Though he struggled at times with a 3-6 record in 10 starts and 14 overall MLB appearances, Sims figures to be among several prospects like lefties Sean Newcomb, Max Fried and Luiz Gohara competing for a spot in Atlanta’s 2018 rotation in spring training.

SIMPSON LANDS A JOB WITH FALCONS

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ormer Buford coach Jess Simpson dropped a bombshell when he ended 2016 by resigning after guiding the Wolves to 10 state championships in 12 seasons to take a job on Sean Elliott’s new staff at Georgia State.

But less than two months into that opportunity on the college level, an even better one opened up on the professional level just after national signing day.

And he quickly jumped at it to become a defensive line assistant on the Atlanta Falcons’ staff just weeks after the NFC Champions’ trip to Super Bowl LI in Houston.

GWINNETT SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTS ANOTHER STAR-STUDDED CLASS

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he Gwinnett Sports Hall of Fame welcomed yet another prestigious class in 2017 in a ceremony that featured Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn as the keynote speaker in May. Jack Britt, a longtime multi-sport coach at Lawrenceville and South Gwinnett High Schools in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, former Berkmar and Georgia Tech basketball standout Tony

Akins, former Providence Christian and Auburn gymnast Courtney PuckettOros, former Wesleyan three-sport standout and NFL receiver Chad Hall and Collins Hill grad Kyle Maynard, who overcame a rare condition known as congenital amputation to become a standout amateur wrestler and briefly mixed martial arts fighter, rounded out this year’s honorees.

MOORE GETS ANOTHER WNBA RING, WINS SPORTS ILLUSTRATED AWARD

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aya Moore added on to her already impressive resume in 2017.

In addition to helping the Minnesota Lynx to their fourth WNBA championship in the past seven years, the Collins Hill grad and former Daily Post Player of the Year was also named Sports Illustrated inaugural Performer of the Year after averaging 17.8 points, 6.0 points and 2.0 assists in helping the Lynx come back from a 2-1 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Sparks in five games for the title. In all, the 28-year-old Moore has won four WNBA titles, two NCAA championships, three Chinese professional league titles and two Olympic gold medals.

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ith the goal of winning a medal at the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City, her first in international competition, Dacula native McClain Hermes did herself three better.

She won four medals in all, including her first gold with a time of 5:46.00 in the 400-meter freestyle, which set an American record in that event.

Hermes, who competes with Wagner Syndrome, a hereditary disorder that causes progressive vision loss, also won silver medals in the 100 free and 100 backstroke, as well as a bronze medal in the 50 free.

BUFORD SWEEPS BASKETBALL TITLES

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he Class AAAAA state championship won by Buford’s girls in March was nothing new.

A convincing 60-42 win over Southwest DeKalb at the University of Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum behind 18 points, seven rebounds and six assists from Tory Ozment was the Wolves’ fifth in the last nine seasons.

However, when Buford’s boys followed that title up with one of their own following a 75-61 win over Cedar Shoals behind 27 points from Marcus Watson, it not only gave the school a rare state title sweep, but also gave the boys program its first state championship.

It also made Eddie Martin just the second coach in GHSA history to coach three different schools — Norcross, Greater Atlanta Christian and Buford — to state boys titles, trailing only David Boyd, who coached Berkmar, Milton, Campbell-Smyrna and Tucker to titles.

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world&nation world Iran’s government warns against ‘illegal’ gatherings Several Iranians were shot during protests late Saturday, a source tells CNN, after Iran’s government warned citizens against holding “illegal” public gatherings, following two days of rare anti-government protests that spread to a number of cities.

One local source told CNN that during protests in Dorud, in the Lorestan province of western Iran, his family witnessed a mob storming the governor’s office and setting it on fire.

Protesters were fired upon and five people were shot, the source said.

The protests — described as the largest public display of discontent since the 2009 Green Movement in Iran — have emerged against a backdrop of rising food and gasoline prices.

Three students were arrested in unrest outside Tehran University on Saturday, an official with the Ministry of Science told Iran’s semiofficial Iran Labor News Agency. Two have since been released, it said.

The demonstrations began Thursday in the northeastern city of Mashhad before spreading to cities across the nation Friday. They included Tehran, Kermanshah, Arak, Qazvin, Khorramabad, Karaj and Sabzevar, according to First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, cited by official news agency IRNA. Iranian media outlets reported a number of arrests.

Papadopoulos: Russia had dirt on Clinton

Activist Erica Garner, 27, dies after heart attack

By Daniella Diaz CNN

George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russia had “political dirt” on Hillary Clinton in May of last year, a conversation that might have played a role in the FBI’s decision to open an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report published Saturday.

The New York Times reported that Papadopoulos, then a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, was drinking at an upscale London bar when he told Australia’s top diplomat in Britain, Alexander Downer, that Russia had political information on Clinton.

A few weeks before their meeting, Papadopoulos was told Moscow had thousands of emails relating to Clinton, CNN has reported.

About two months after the meeting with Downer, after WikiLeaks posted hacked Democratic National Committee emails online, Australian officials passed Papadopoulos’ information along to their U.S. counterparts, the Times reported, citing four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.

Lawyers for Papadopoulos and Australian officials did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment Saturday. White House

George Papadopoulos is pictured second from the left in March 2016 in a National Security Meeting with President Donald Trump, far right. (Photo: CNN)

special counsel Ty Cobb declined to comment on the Times’ report.

“Out of respect for the Special Counsel and his process, we are not commenting on matters such as this,” Cobb said in a statement, referring to Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “We are continuing to fully cooperate with the Special Counsel in order to help complete their inquiry expeditiously.”

The news appears to add to the number of pieces of intelligence, separate from a dossier compiled by a former British spy about Trump-Russia ties, that raised concerns among U.S. national security officials and propelled an investigation.

Trump, the White House and Trump campaign officials have downplayed Papadopoulos’ role in the campaign, dismissing him as a “low-level volunteer” and just a “coffee boy.” But Papadopoulos represented the Trump campaign at various meetings with foreign officials up until Inauguration Day. Papadopoulos’ fiancee, Simona Mangiante, told CNN in a recent interview that Papadopoulos was anything but a coffee boy.

Mangiante, who said she spoke out because Papadopoulos could not, said he worked with senior members of the Trump campaign.

“He worked with Michael Flynn during the transition, and he was actively contributing to the foreign policy

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Two people have been arrested in the “horrific” murders of two women and two children in Troy, New York.

James W. White, 38, and Justin C. Mann, 24, were each charged with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder, Troy Police Department Capt. Daniel DeWolf told CNN. The victims — Brandi Mells, 22, Shanta Myers, 36, and Myers’ children Shanise, 5, and Jeremiah, 11 — were found dead in a basement apartment on Tuesday in what police called a “horrific” homicide that shook the upstate New York city.

Police haven’t released details of the killings, but Troy Police Chief John Tedesco said earlier this week that he couldn’t describe the “savagery” of the killer.

“I don’t know of a word that can say it,” Tedesco told reporters.

The two women were in a relationship, Tedesco said. A property manager in the upstate New York city alerted police after finding the four in a basement apartment.

Trump to Iran: ‘The world is watching!’

President Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted his support for protests taking place in Iran this weekend, writing, “The world is watching!”

strategies for the campaign,” she said. “He didn’t take any initiative on his own without campaign approval.”

In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI “about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials,” according to court filings.

Papadopoulos pushed to set up a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-candidate Trump, and had a meeting in April 2016 with a professor who told him that “the Russians” possessed “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” according to court filings.

Erica Garner — an activist for social justice and the eldest daughter of the man who died from a police chokehold in New York in 2014 — died Saturday morning days after suffering a heart attack, her mother Esaw Snipes said.

“She was a fighter, she was a warrior and she lost the battle,” Snipes said of her daughter. “She never recovered from when her father died. She is in a better place.”

Garner went into cardiac arrest earlier in the week and suffered major brain damage from a lack of oxygen, her Twitter account said.

Erica Garner is the eldest daughter of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six. In July 2014, police attempted to arrest Eric Garner for allegedly selling cigarettes illegally in Staten Island.

Video of the incident shows New York Police officer Daniel Pantaleo tackling Garner from behind and taking him to the ground using a department-banned chokehold.

Report: Pence’s neighbors hung ‘Make America Gay Again’ sign

Vice President Mike Pence’s neighbors hung a “Make America Gay Again” banner outside his Aspen-area residence, acThe international recording to a report pubtailer Claire’s Stores Inc. lished Friday.

The neighbors posted the said it took nine makeup words, which were writproducts off the shelves ten on a rainbow flag, on a following a report by stone pillar that sits at the CNN affiliate WJAR-TV end of the driveways to that tremolite asbestos was found in the makeup. both homes, Pitkin County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael If swallowed or inBuglione told The Aspen haled, tremolite asbestos Times. can lead to lung damage Pitkin County Sheriff and cancer, including mesothelioma, an aggres- Joe DiSalvo said when a man who lives in the home sive and deadly form of hung the banner, the Secret cancer.

Service didn’t stop him.

In a statement Friday, “He was real sheepish Claire’s said initial testing and thought he might be found the cosmetics to confronted by the Secret be asbestos-free, but that Service or deputies who’d “out of an abundance of caution, additional testing tell him he couldn’t do it,” DiSalvo said. “When they is underway.” said, ‘We’re not here to control your free speech Record cold, rights,’ they came out with snow grips chili and began feeding much of the U.S. them.”

He continued: “They’ve Across the United been really nice to us.”

States, temperature records are falling faster Most anticipated than this week’s snowmovies, TV of ’18 flakes in Erie, Pa., and it’s only going to get After a year bursting worse.

From Portland, Maine, with great storytelling, 2018 has a lot to live up to. to Danville, Va., temLuckily, the future looks peratures fell overnight Friday to lows not seen in bright.

Marvel will bring to decades. It was 8 degrees theaters a superhero story Fahrenheit in Worcester, that’s long overdue with Mass., breaking a record that had stood since 1903. “Black Panther,” Ava DurVernay will make About 70 million people, mainly in the North- magic with “A Wrinkle in Time,” Ryan Murphy east and northern Plains, will follow up the success were under a wind chill of his O.J. Simpson tale alert Saturday morning.

That’s up from an already with “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American 30 million a day earlier.

Crime Story,” and that’s just Temperatures will the tip of the entertainment also be unusually low as iceberg that will sink your far south as Texas and social life in the new year.

Georgia.

— From wire reports — From wire reports

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S. Korea seizes Two arrested ship it claims gave in quadruple oil to N. Korea N.Y. murders South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of United Nations sanctions.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said the Lighthouse Winmore left the port of Yeosu in South Korea carrying refined oil which was then transferred to a North Korean ship in international waters Oct. 19.

The U.S. Treasury Department released satellite imagery in November of two ships allegedly performing an illegal ship-to-ship transfer in international waters the same day.

It identified one of the ships as a sanctioned North Korean vessel, the Rye Song Gang 1, but did not name the other. The U.N. Security Council on Thursday added the Rye Song Gan 1 and three other vessels to a list of ships banned from docking at ports worldwide for breaching North Korea sanctions.

South Korean officials could not confirm Friday whether the second ship was the Lighthouse Winmore.

“U.N. Security Council sanctions prohibit the transfer of anything to a North Korean ship,” a South Korean Foreign Ministry official told CNN, adding the Lighthouse Winmore was seized when it re-entered Yeosu on Nov. 24.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Beijing had been “caught red-handed,” after the satellite images were republished in South Korean media earlier this week.

— From wire reports

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New York authorities have arrested two men in connection with the deaths of four people after the bodies were found in a basement apartment in Troy, a day after Christmas 2017. (Photo: Nicholas Buonanno/The Record via AP)

In a pair of tweets, the president wrote: “The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most….”

Trump continued: “Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice.

The world is watching!”

In the tweets, Trump posted videos of a speech he gave to the United Nations in September, in which he said, “The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change.”

tages. Family members identified the man as Andrew Thomas Finch, CNN affiliate KAKE reported.

The suspect is Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles, according to Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department.

In the prank call, the caller said someone had an argument with their mother; that the dad was accidentally shot; and that a brother, a sister and the mother were held hostage, Wichita police Deputy Chief Troy Livingston said.

“We learned through that call that the father was deceased, shot in the head.

So that’s the information we were working off of,” Livingston said. “Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation. SevPolice kill man eral got in position. A male at his home came to the front door, and while responding one of our officers discharged his weapon.” to a fake call Police shot Finch after A prank call to police they said he moved his led to a man’s death at a hands to his waistline, Livhome in Wichita, Kansas, ingston said. He was taken — and a man in California to a local hospital, where has been arrested in conhe died. Livingston said nection with the crime.

Finch was not armed.

In Wichita, a 28-year-old Three or four people man was shot and killed from the home were taken Thursday after police to be interviewed. Nobody responded to a call about a was found dead at the shooting involving hoshome.

Polling trends of 2017 reveal new highs, new lows

By Ryan Struyk CNN

The year 2017 is almost in the books — and so are another 12 months of public opinion polling.

The calendar year that President Donald Trump spent settling into the White House has been marked by consistently low ratings from a majority of the American public.

This year also has seen new highs for the economy, growing popularity for Obamacare and widening

Must read public opinion gaps ahead of the 2018 midterm elections next year.

Here are some of the polling trends observed from 2017: 1. Trump’s job approval hits record-breaking lows Trump will finish his first calendar year in office with just a 35 percent approval rating — the lowest at this point in a new president’s term stretching back to

the Eisenhower administration, according to polling by CNN, CNN/ ORC, CNN/USA Today/Gallup and Gallup.

But it’s not only low for the beginning of a new term. Trump’s quarterly approval numbers are some of the lowest since Gallup began tracking them for presidents — falling in the 11th percentile of out of 288 presidential quarters tracked by Gallup over the last half century.

2. GOP share of the electorate

shrinks to new low The number of Republicans in the American electorate has shrunk to its lowest in a quarter century after Trump’s election last year, according to numbers from Gallup.

Only 38 percent of Americans self-identify as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents during 2017, while 45 percent of Americans say they are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.

3. Economy soars to new

heights — and Trump gets some credit Some good news on the economy: A broad 68 percent of Americans now say the U.S. economy is in good shape, the most since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Still, the gap — 33 points — between the opinion on the strong economy and Trump’s low approval rating is the largest negative split in more than two decades of polls from CNN and Gallup.

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HO TOS OF P P O T

Lula Jobir and her son, Mussab, react to seeing the inside of their new furnished home as Warrick Dunn leads them inside during a presentation in March. I loved the story of Warrick Dunn helping to provide this home to the mother and son in need. The look on their face as they saw the inside of their new home was priceless. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

The photo of Morgan Stokes running for shelter with a failed umbrella at the 2017 Gwinnett County Relay for Life is the perfect example of how a story can change in an instant. Instead of photos of people camping out, playing games and the Survivor’s Walk, the skies got dark and a monsoon-type rain was unleashed on the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. They had to cancel the event because of lightning. I was in the fairground pavilion taking pictures of people running for cover and I saw Morgan sprinting for the doors and her umbrella giving way. It was the perfect photo to illustrate how hard the rainstorm was that ended the event. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

Sorry, Falcons fans.

This is one of my selections for 2017.

Why? The look on Matt Ryan's face is exactly how we all felt. Yes, I had other photos I liked from my time in Houston, but I thought this one told it the best. When I found out that I was going to cover my first Super Bowl, it was pure excitement.

When we arrived, it was overwhelming, but an absolute blast.

I got to see radio row, celebrities, concerts and, best of all, shoot a Super Bowl. Like all of us, we were on cloud nine during the first half. Heck, I was already thinking about the parade.

But then, it all went downhill. The look on Matt's face was the look on mine for a couple days as well.

(Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

Sign language interpreter Sally Slay communicates with Brookwood Bronco Dahrien Beasley. It was cool photographing the interaction between Dahrien and his interpreter, Sally, before and during the football game. Their respect for each other and enthusiasm for the game was heartwarming to witness. (Photo: Chris Roughgarden)

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Trish Lowrie of Hamilton Mills, used tennis as an escape during her year-long battle with breast cancer. I enjoyed meeting and photographing this courageous woman.

Her humor and bright spirit were inspirational.

(Photo: Chris Roughgarden)

I started shooting for the Gwinnett Daily Post on a regular basis again after a 10-year hiatus. I have truly missed being a photojournalist, being there to document the highs and lows of life and how it affects people in a community. One of the sad parts of the job is that out of tragedy come some of the most powerful and beautiful images, like this one of family and friends coming together at a candlelight vigil for three Meadowcreek students killed after a football game in a car crash. It was very moving, and you cannot walk away from an event like this without being effected.

It is a tribute to the human spirit that we can come together during times of great loss to comfort one another. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

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GIVE Center East students sponsor a child for Christmas In the Christmas season of giving, students from Gwinnett County’s GIVE Center East Campus continued a holiday tradition of adopting a child for Christmas.

The idea was born last year during a meeting between Assistant Principal Dan Schuster and a student to discuss a disciplinary matter. Instead of suspending the student, Schuster challenged her to do some form of community service project.

The pair agreed to have students from its New Hope Academy program adopt a child through the Grayson Children’s Fund.

New Hope Academy is a program that targets students who are over aged and under credited.

Students focus on just two academics at a time and are expected to work at a fast pace to recover the credits they are lacking.

The program has a total of 83 students, eight teachers, an instructional clerk, a counselor and an assistant principal.

In the school’s first year

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other two programs at the school — GEAR and Life Academy — to do the same.

“Our students are the most at risk in the county, Many have dropped out before or were likely to age out before graduating,” Schuster said. “Here, they have found a second, or third chance. To see them give to someone else makes it all worthwhile.”

Trevor McNaboe of fundraising, the students compiled a total of $157. This year, Grayson Children’s Fund paired the school with a young girl.

To make sure the girl they adopted would have gifts for Christmas, students invited the teachers to partake in a competition to see who could donate the most money to sponsor the child.

“They were constantly checking the posters to see who was in the lead and encouraging each other to contribute. You could see the joy on the faces of the kids who went shopping and wrapping presents for our little girl. They are already talking about how

Special education job fair scheduled Gwinnett County Public Schools has scheduled a job fair for special education teachers on Jan. 27 from 8 a.m. to noon. The fair comes at a time when the district recently announced at its monthly GIVE East students visited Walmart to purchase books work session on Dec. 21 to give to the child they adopted this Christmas from that there were 10 special Grayson Children’s Fund. (Special Photo) education teaching vacanto raise more next year,” to someone less fortunate cies.

Schuster said. at this time of year,” said GCPS says the fair will The New Hope Acadjunior Brittany Cook. be invitation only and emy group raised more With the increase in consist of prescheduled than $260 this holiday fundraising this year, the interviews. Interested canseason, all of which went New Hope Academy plans didates will have to comto presents and wrapping to adopt a second child plete a two-step process to paper for its adopted girl. next year for Christmas request an interview: “It was fun to give back as well as challenge the • Complete a GCPS on-

line application and have supervisory references submitted along with a copy of GACE Program Admission Assessment and GACE Content Assessment or state certification documentation.

• Visit the GCPS website and fill out a Request to Attend form. Slots for interviews opened up the week of Dec. 15 and registration to attend the fair will close on Jan. 22 or when all interview times have been filled.

Prospective candidates must be certified in a field of Special Education by July to qualify. Current student teachers required two references must be from their Cooperating Teacher and a University Supervisor. Current teachers, on the other hand, must submit two references from a current principal and another supervisor.

Trevor McNaboe is the Gwinnett Daily Post’s Education Reporter. He can be contacted at trevor. mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost.com or on Twitter at @ GDP_TrevorMac.

New Year’s resolutions I may Sunbury DAR members provide Christmas stockings to 95 veterans actually keep, for a change

BY CURT YEOMANS

It’s the time of year when people traditionally make resolutions for the new year, preceding by roughly two weeks the time of year when people traditionally break those resolutions.

I’m no different. Every year, I know exactly what improvements I need to make, and I can resolve to change with the best of them. It’s actually making those changes that presents a problem.

As the Apostle Paul so succinctly put it, in his letter to the Romans, “The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”

That pretty much sums up my resolution history for the past, oh, forever.

Well I’m done making promises to myself that I know I won’t keep. This year, my resolutions are going to be more realistic.

(That’s resolution No. 1, by the way.)

For instance, in 2018, I resolve to stop eating fast food. No I have no intention of giving up McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A. I’m just going eat a lot slower when I’m there.

I resolve to stop watching cable news and reading newspapers (except this one, of course), which are generally full of fake news and depressing stories (again — present company

Rob Jenkins excepted). From now on, I’m going to get my information from more reliable sources, such as Facebook.

Speaking of which, I resolve to waste less time on the internet. This year, whenever I’m online, I intend to engage exclusively in constructive activities, such as stalking my cousin’s ex-wife’s new boyfriend and finding out whatever became of the Brady Bunch.

Correspondingly, I resolve to read more in 2018.

Last year, I averaged only about a book a week. I’m pretty sure I can improve on that, especially if I jettison certain non-essential activities, such as bathing and home maintenance.

Unfortunately, this may conflict with some of my wife’s resolutions on my behalf.

I resolve to watch less television this year. I don’t actually intend to spend fewer hours in front of the tube, I’m just downsizing

from a 56-inch screen to a 42-inch.

I resolve to be less obnoxious to people I meet this year. I believe I can accomplish this quite easily, not by abandoning my obnoxious behavior, but by meeting fewer people.

I resolve not to drink a drop of alcohol in 2018.

Since I already don’t drink, this one should be a cinch, unless the Democrats retake Congress, in which case I might start.

I resolve not to let myself get my hopes up for Tennessee’s 2018 football season. I mean, they probably are going to win the SEC East and maybe a national championship, but there’s a small chance that won’t happen. No sense setting myself up for disappointment.

And finally, I resolve to keep writing columns that cause a significant percentage of my readers to question my intelligence.

That one should be the easiest to keep, by far.

Rob Jenkins is a local college professor and freelance writer. He is the author of four books, including “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. The views expressed here are his own.

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Members of the Sunbury Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently made sure veterans being cared for at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur weren’t forgotten at Christmas.

The chapter, which has several members from Gwinnett, stuffed stockings for the veterans. The gifts included in each stocking included handmade wooden projects that were made by veterans, snack foods, playing cards, puzzle books and notebooks.

The veterans at the hospital also received colorful

Sunbury Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution members, from left, Anne Brown, Ann Beach, Frances Johnson, Corrine Potts, Carol Tanner, Susan Gwaltney, Frances Brooks, Sandra Dixson and Ann Pilgrim show off some of the stockings they stuffed for veterans who are being cared for at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur. (Special Photo)

Christmas cards, Sunbury chapter officials said.

In all, the chapter’s

members, also known as daughters, filled and delivered 95 stockings.

PET OF THE WEEK Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m. You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www.georgiaspca.org.

This week’s pet of the week is Lacey, an eight-month-old domestic shorthair/mix.

Lacey is all kitten, which means she is a precocious young girl who is always ready for fun. She is happy, curious and sure to brighten up your home. Come meet sweet Lacey today.

She has been spayed and disease tested for FeLV and FIV. She has been dewormed, given age-appropriate vaccinations, and is up to date on flea/tick prevention. She has also been microchipped, and her adopter will receive 30 days of Pet Emergency Insurance.

RESTAURANT SCORES Restaurant ............................................Address...................................................................... Score DEC. 20 Buffalos .................................................. 991 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 104, Suwanee ... 82 Cantonese Cuisine................................ 2300 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite B6 133-134, Duluth .... 93 Cattywampus Grill ................................. 3127 Process Drive, Peachtree Corners..................... 100 L’Thai Organic Cuisine and Wine Bar .. 5450 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 7D, Norcross .............. 87 Loving Hut.............................................. 6385 Spalding Drive, Suite E, Norcross ....................... 83 Suwanee Chicken ................................. 1291 Old Peachtree Road, Suite 204, Suwanee ......... 84 DEC. 21 Checker’s ............................................... 1947 Scenic Highway, Snellville .................................... 96 Chick-fil-A Dwarf House........................ 1570 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth ................................. 100 Chipotle.................................................. 860 Duluth Highway, Lawrenceville............................. 100 Denny’s .................................................. 5534 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross .............................. 99 Embassy Suites Sugarloaf ................... 2029 Satellite Blvd., Duluth ............................................ 90 Gokul Sweets ........................................ 4315 Abbotts Bridge Road, Suite 384, Duluth .............. 95 P.F. Chang’s China Bistro ...................... 3333 Buford Drive, Buford ............................................. 95 Paris Baguette ....................................... 3492 Satellite Blvd., Suite 100, Duluth .......................... 54 Poke Bar ................................................ 6135 Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Corners............ 100 Sportsline Bar and Grill......................... 2100 Riverside Parkway, No. 104B, Lawrenceville ....... 98 Sweet Point Bakery and Cafe............... 5385 Five Forks Trickum Road, Stone Mountain ....... 100 DEC. 22 Bananas ................................................ 6054 South Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross ............ 100 Brown Bag Deli and Cafe ..................... 340 Towne Center Ave., Suite A-2, Suwanee ............... 86 Gopchang On Fire ................................ 1291 Old Peachtree Road, Suite 205, Suwanee ......... 88 Kang Buk Restaurant............................ 2790 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee ......... 100 Orient Garden........................................ 2880 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee ........... 99 Quality Inn.............................................. 1595 E. Park Place Blvd., Stone Mountain ................. 100 Sam Won Kag ....................................... 1291 Old Peachtree Road, Suite 103, Suwanee.......... 97 Waffle House ......................................... 5245 Stone Mountain Highway, Stone Mountain ......... 95 DEC. 27 Shabuya................................................. 2550 Pleasant Hill Road, Suite 103, Duluth.................. 95

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lifestyles

A resolution to stay true to your dreams It was many years ago — over two decades now — that I attended a writer’s conference in hopes of learning how to write a book and get it published.

Since I was a small child of four or five, I knew I was born to write and tell stories. As you may have read before, my childhood game of pretend was packing the family suitcase (I literally packed my clothes in it) and going to New York on “book business.” In this beloved childhood game, I was always warmly welcomed in New York and the books I wrote were celebrated. I have no idea how a little girl on a farm in the deep South could

heart dream and began, in earnest, to seek my true calling. I signed up for a writer’s conference where New York Times best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb was keynote speaker. It was a day that fueled my hopes. I hung Ronda on every word.

Rich I will never forget what she said, “The best way to know of such things. Still, get published is to actuthis is the unvarnished ally write. I meet people truth. I am grateful to the all the time who want good Lord that I stayed to be authors but say, ‘I the path. don’t write. I can’t find Years passed, the little the time.’ Well, let me tell red-headed girl grew, you: I had MORE time to gathered a couple of col- write before I was publege degrees, chased adlished than I do now.” venture and worked some McCrumb, at the menial jobs. I was past beginning, was working 30 before I picked up the on a master’s degree and strands of my childhood raising a family when

she wrote her first novel.

As she explained, “Now, there are so many demands on my time that came with the success of my books. Speaking engagements, a publisher who wants more books, book signings. I have to make time to write.”

It’s funny how words, that have no relevance to you at the time, will stick like thick mud to your soul. Those words never left me. After the success of my first book, I found the truth in what she said.

Almost 20 years and seven books later, I have found that each year it is harder to squeeze into my schedule the creation of new books.

Thus, I come to what

my New Year’s resolution will be: I am bound and determined to return the roots of my dream. Every morning I set out to do that but get distracted by everyday life. Recently, I went to my childhood home where first that dream of writing books was born. I stood in my bedroom, long reprieved from the mingled, pink shag carpet, pink chiffon bed spread and matching curtains, and I listened.

I heard her, just as she sounded at five years old when she squealed with excitement over seeing her publisher when she arrived in New York.

I saw her sit down the Samsonite leather luggage she had carefully packed with her Sunday clothes and rush across the room to hug her editor, a man dapper in a suit and tie.

I owe it to her. She’s asked so little of me over the years, but to that little red-headed girl, I must be

true. I must finish what she began those long years ago.

In January, I will start revising and updating the book that started it all as Penguin-Putnam prepares to release a 20th anniversary celebration in 2019 of “What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should).”

Less than two percent of books are still in publication many years later so it is a touching, humbling experience that I wrote one that will have a special 20th anniversary edition.

“Thank you,” I whispered to the little girl whose laughing spirit still lives within the walls of that tiny bedroom.

To her, I owe so much.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of “Mark My Words: A Memoir of Mama.” Visit www.rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Well, sort of.

I call it The Bookcase Problem. It’s when people take something excellent, then pile mediocre stuff on top of it and ruin it.

I dubbed it The Bookcase Problem after an experience with my dad.

He was cleaning out his house after my mom died. Carloads of stuff went to Goodwill. Then the remodeling began.

The result was a beautiful, clean, uncluttered space with two large bookcases right near the front door.

I came in to help my dad arrange furniture and fill the bookcases. My Dad had boxes of boating books, nautical decor and Navy memorabilia.

It took lots of editing; I convinced him to let go of some items and store others. The end result was two beautiful bookcases showcasing his love for boating, reading and his pride in the Navy. One look at those bookcases and you knew exactly who my dad was and what he stood for.

There was plenty of “white space” around the important pieces to draw attention to them.

My father loved it. The next week he had friends over, they loved it. It was the same stuff he’d always had, but instead of it being cluttered with a million other things, it was edited to showcase what mattered most.

When I returned the following month, my Dad said, “I’m really excited for you to see the house.

I loved what you did so much, I did more!”

I arrived to see the beautifully edited bookcases that now had 50 percent more stuff in them. He’d gone out and bought more stuff.

Now instead of a single antique anchor, there were three. The stunning pair of large underwater photos with white space on either side had been joined by seven or eight smaller photos.

Everything was consistent with the original theme, only now you didn’t see any of it. More of a good thing didn’t make it better — it made

Forget Perfect

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Lisa McLeod it less distinct.

The same thing happens in organizations. We create a crisp positioning statement. Then everyone adds in their favorite adjectives and adverbs, and what was once clear is now cluttered. Behind every two-paragraph mission statement is a team of well-intentioned people who fell in love with their own words and couldn’t bear to edit any of them.

It’s why marketing messaging that starts out crisp gets clunky.

It’s why once-elegant products end up with extra drop-downs, clunky buttons and ugly stickers all over the packaging.

No one wants to edit; everyone wants to add.

When I work with teams, I tell leaders every meaningful idea is one committee meeting away from being mundane.

The problem isn’t that people don’t like the crisp version — on the contrary, they love it.

They love it so much, they want to be part of it. But there’s a better way. It’s stories. When I asked my Dad to tell me the story of each object, he became animated and engaged. He pulled out the new stuff he bought and was able to appreciate the essence, because now he’s part of it.

The same thing works with teams. They don’t need to add to the elegant messaging, they need to find the story that helps them own it. If you want to keep things compelling and clear, don’t add to it.

Edit it. Then ask people to tell you why the simple elegant version matters to them.

Lisa McLeod is the global expert in Noble Purpose. She is the author of the bestsellers “Selling with Noble Purpose” and “Leading with Noble Purpose.”

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AUBURN Bookworms book club reading ‘Pax’ for January The Bookworms, a book club for children aged 8 to 12, is reading “Pax” by Sara Pennypacker for its January meeting.

“Pax” tells the story of a 12-year-old boy and his pet fox caught in an increasingly dystopian nightmare.

The book begins with an act of betrayal as the boy’s father forces him to abandon the fox and describes the two friends’ struggle to find each other and make things right, according to the Common Sense Media book review.

“Pax” was named a 20172018 finalist for the Georgia Children’s Book Award.

The club will meet at 4 p.m.

Jan. 27.

BARROW COUNTY Barrow County Sheriff’s Office offering newsletter subscriptions The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office is launching a newsletter in an email subscription platform.

The newsletter is scheduled to start in the winter quarter of 2018. It is designed to help the public learn more about the Sheriff’s Office.

To subscribe to the newsletter, email newsletter@barrowsheriff.com.

BERKELEY LAKE Pinckneyville Park hosts Lucky in Love pottery event The Pinckneyville Park Community Recreation Center has planned an event for couples celebrating Valentine’s Day. Lucky in Love will feature hors d’oeuvres, a photo booth and an opportunity for couples to build their own clay creations in the recreation center’s pottery studio.

The event, scheduled from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 16, is open to those who are 16 or older.

The cost is $36 per couple.

Participants must register by Feb. 10.

Pinckneyville Park is located at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Berkeley Lake.

For information, call 678-2770920.

BRASELTON Downtown hosts Chocolate Walk The fourth annual Chocolate Walk in downtown Braselton will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 3.

The event is organized

by Braselton Main Street.

Participants can stroll through downtown Braselton and collect a chocolate treat from each participating business.

The chocolate will come in a variety of forms.

To purchase tickets, email apinnell@braselton.net.

BUFORD Bogan Park offers Winter Wind Down Bogan Park Community Recreation Center in Buford is hosting a Winter Wind Down event from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 13.

A movie will be shown at the event. Participants are invited to wear their pajamas.

The event is free, but those interested in attending can register online at www.gwinnettparks.com with activity code BOP11600 or by phone at 678-277-0850.

DACULA Stars and Strikes plans New Year’s celebration Stars and Strikes will ring in the new year with a Noon Year’s Eve celebration.

The family-friendly event, which begins at 10 a.m. today, features a prize-filled balloon drop at noon and an apple juice toast.

The family entertainment center is also offering $20 worth of arcade game cards for $10.

Stars and Strikes is located at 1700 Winder Highway N.E. in Dacula. For more information, call 678-965-5707.

DULUTH Duluth Spring Arts Festival accepting artist applications The Duluth Spring Arts Festival is accepting applications from artists who are interested in participating in the two-day event.

The event, organized by the Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces, features up

Runners from several Gwinnett high schools carry the county’s Bicentennial Torch Dec. 19 on the first leg of a relay that will eventually take it around the county. They took it from the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse to the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center during the first leg of the trip. (Photo: Gwinnett County)

LEADING THE WAY

Gwinnett kicks off its Bicentennial Torch Relay

By Curt Yeomans

Johnson, who organized the run.

“As the torch is carried to historical sites, I hope the past is Gwinnett County’s Bicentenilluminated. When the torch stops nial Torch Relay is now officially at city halls, I hope the present is off and running. Sort of. illuminated, and as the torch is The torch went on the first leg carried by young runners, I hope of its run Dec. 19, when athletes the future is illuminated.” from several Gwinnett County The torch relay is part of schools carried it from the Gwin- Gwinnett’s year-long bicentennial nett Historic Courthouse to the celebration, which will culminate Gwinnett Justice and Administra- with the county’s 200th birthday tion Center in Lawrenceville. The on Dec. 15, 2018. It was unveiled runners carried the LED-torch on the county’s 199th birthday, into the Board of Commissioners during the Frontier Affair event at meeting for a presentation. the historical courthouse.

The torch will remain on Johnson said the torch will be display at GJAC, with panels taken to a new location on the highlighting Gwinnett history, 15th day of each month. The through the middle of January symbolism in doing it on that when it will go on the move date stems from the fact that again.

Gwinnett County officially began “Light — whether it be from on Dec. 15, 1818. The path, a candle, a Christmas tree or a including visiting historical sites torch — illuminates,” said Lawand city halls, is intended to trace renceville Mayor Judy Jordan Gwinnett’s growth and develop-

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to 125 painters, photographers, sculptors, leather and metalworkers, glass blowers, jewelers and crafters. The festival will also offer artist demonstrations, live acoustic music, a children’s play area, and festival food and beverages.

The festival will take place April 28 and 29. Artists’ applications are due by midnight Feb. 21.

Artists must submit five images, including a booth shot, and a $25 jury fee along with the application. To apply or for more information, visit www. zapplication.org/event-info. php?ID=5869.

GRAYSON City seeks applicants for new Community Development director The city of Grayson is seeking a new Community Development director.

The new director is expected to start in early March.

The Community Development director is responsible for directing, managing, overseeing, coordinating and promoting the activities and events that foster a strong and active community, according to a job description posted on the city’s website.

Those interested in the position can submit a resume by emailing admin@cityofgrayson.org. Resumes may also be mailed to the city of Grayson, P.O. Box 208, Grayson, GA 30017 or dropped off at City Hall, 475 Grayson Parkway.

The deadline to submit a resume is Feb. 2.

LAWRENCEVILLE Police Department hosts ‘Bridge the Gap’ forum The Lawrenceville Police Department will host its second “Bridge the Gap” Forum, an event to establish communications with residents, strengthen community and police relations, and discuss the roles, rights, and responsibilities of both parties.

The Forum will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Law-

renceville Police Department.

Melvin Everson, director of Business and Industry Training at Gwinnett Technical College, will moderate this Forum. Everson has served in many political capacities for the Gwinnett County area, is a former State House representative, and has held appointments as the director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development and executive director and administrator of the Georgia Office of Equal Opportunity.

The Forum will also employ a four-member panel comprising two law enforcement officials and two civic members.

The Lawrenceville Police Department is located at 300 Jackson St. in Lawrenceville.

For more information, visit www.lawrencevillega.org.

LILBURN Lilburn employees recognized for service The city of Lilburn recently presented its employees with awards and recognitions at a holiday dinner.

This year, City Manager Bill Johnsa created a special award — the City Manager’s Award — which went to City Planner Joellen Wilson.

Johnsa said Wilson has “unparalleled dedication to the city where she lives and works,” according to the city website.

Lilburn Police Chief Bruce Hedley presented the entire Criminal Investigations Division — which includes Lt. Chris Dusik, Investigator Bert Ross, Investigator Cody Belcher, and Investigator Sabrina Thornton — with the Lilburn Police Department Achievement Award for its impeccable record solving serious crimes over the past year.

Other honorees included: • Officer of the Year — Matthew Legerme, who is credited with over 70 physical arrests involving burglaries, drugs and armed robberies in 2017.

• Supervisor of the Year — Lt. Tim Allen • Police Ambassador — Seung Suk

ment over the last two centuries.

The plan is to have high school track and cross country athletes carry the torch from each destination to the next. In cases where the torch will be carried to a city hall, the athletes will hand the torch off to the mayor of that city, so it can be run the last few feet.

Runners from Buford City Schools will join their counterparts from Gwinnett County Public Schools in carrying the torch.

“My fellow commissioners and I are very excited about the bicentennial’s potential to get our residents involved with their local government,” Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said. “The torch relay gives our high schoolers the opportunity to contribute to the celebration, and we love seeing them excited about the important role they get to play.”

• Non-sworn Police Ambassador — Monica Sims • Meritorious Service — Belcher and officer Andy Blimline, who saved the life of a man severely injured on the railroad tracks.

• Meritorious Service — Legerme, who placed himself in danger to apprehend a disturbed woman so that she would not cause further harm to herself or others.

• Officer of the 4th Quarter — Thornton, who willingly transitioned from her role as an investigator to patrol officer to cover a staff shortage, while also continuing her IT, property/evidence and Police Explorer duties.

• Top Gun — Belcher, who made the highest range qualification score.

• Safe Driving — Blimline, who has not had a vehicular accident in his 10 years of service to the department.

LOGANVILLE Loganville police raise $10K for Special Olympics Loganville police officers recently presented the proceeds from the fifth annual Donut Dash to representatives of the Walton County Special Olympics.

The Donut Dash, which is organized by the Loganville Police Department, took place in October and raised more than $10,500 for the Special Olympics. The check presentation took place at the Loganville City Council meeting.

Special Olympics Georgia provides year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. For more information about the organization, visit www.specialolympicsga.org.

NORCROSS Sustainable Norcross seeking new committee members Sustainable Norcross is seeking four new members for its award-winning committee.

Recent retirements, work schedules and family commitments have recently left

the Sustainable Norcross board with four seat openings, according to the city website.

Those who are interested in serving on the committee can submit an application to City Hall.

The committee advises Norcross’s mayor and council on sustainability and environmental matters through the development of a measured sustainable city plan.

The seven-member Sustainable Norcross board meets at 6 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month.

Public information meetings are held quarterly in March, June, September and December to provide updates on sustainability issues.

The committee helped obtain recognition for the city of Norcross by the Atlanta Regional Commission as a Platinum-level Green Community.

To apply, visit norcrossga. net online and search for Board and Commission Application. Follow the directions provided in the paperwork. For more information, email info@ sustainablenorcross.net.

PEACHTREE CORNERS City purchases land adjacent to Town Center The Peachtree Corners City Council announced at its recent meeting that it has entered into a contract to purchase a tract of land that borders the Town Center.

Purchasing the 5.762acre property, located along Medlock Bridge Road and Peachtree Corners Circle, will allow the city to control how this piece of real estate is developed, according to a news release. The purchase price was $6.9 million.

“We are pleased that the city had the chance to purchase this land,” Mayor Mike Mason said. “We recognized the benefit of acquiring the property when it became available and knew this was an opportunity we could not pass up because it would never come again.”

The additional acreage abuts the 21-acre Town Center

site currently under construction. A small portion of the acreage will be needed for the traffic roundabout that is planned for the intersection of Medlock Bridge Road and Peachtree Corners Circle, but the city has no specific plans for the remaining acreage at this time.

The Town Center, designed to be a centerpiece for the 5-year-old city, will feature entertainment venues, restaurants, shops, office space, townhomes and a two-acre Town Green.

The Town Green will feature an open-air pavilion, amphitheater, fire pit, open lawn, café tables and a community garden. It will also be the site of a veterans’ monument that will honor all who served or are serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. The 21-acre site is expected to be complete by December 2018.

“The purchase of this land is a big step for our city, and we give our mayor and council credit for taking the initiative to purchase the property,” City Manager Brian Johnson said.

SNELLVILLE Senior Center trip to tour retirement community The Snellville Senior Center is taking a trip Jan. 26 to Stone Mountain to tour the Park Springs Retirement Community.

Park Springs, which opened in 2004, offers residential options for people who are at least 62 years old. Housing options include single-family homes, cottages and villas. The community also offers on-site wellness programs and health care.

Amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, greenhouse, parks, and an 18-hole golf course.

The Snellville Senior Center’s trip is scheduled from 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will be served. The trip fee is $5.

Those who wish to attend can sign up at the Senior Center’s front desk. The Snellville Senior Center is located at 2350 Oak Road in Snellville.

For more information, call 770985-3580.

SUGAR HILL Russian ballet dancer to teach in Sugar Hill Valery Lantratov, a Moscow-born principal ballet dancer with the Moscow Stanislavsky and Kremlin ballets and general director of the Russian National Ballet Foundation, will teach ballet technique classes on Jan. 23 at All Stars Performing Arts Academy in Sugar Hill.

A class for beginning to intermediate dancers will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and a class for intermediate to advanced dancers will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The classes are open to dancers ages 10 and up. A session costs $40 to attend.

Dancers with at least two years of pointe experience may register for an additional pointe class from 8 to 9 p.m.

The class costs $25.

Lantratov, who graduated from the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, was awarded the Honored Artist of Russia in 1986 and was named the People’s Artist of Russia by Boris Yeltsin in 1997. He formed the Russian National Ballet Federation, a Moscow-based charitable organization that promotes the traditional art of Russian classical ballet and provides aesthetic education.

Students of All Stars Performing Arts Academy should register for the master classes with Lantratov at the front desk. Others can register online at www.eventbrite.com.

All Stars Performing Arts Academy is located at 5700 Cumming Highway.

SUWANEE North Gwinnett Soccer Sprint 5K runs through Suwanee on Jan. 6 The 2018 North Gwinnett Soccer Sprint 5K will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday.

The race, which is a Peachtree Road Race qualifier, is open for registration online at www.active.com or at any Big Peach Running Company store. The registration fee is $28; race day registration will be $30.

The race course will begin and end at Suwanee City Hall in Town Center Park.

For more information, email soccersprintnghs@gmail.com.

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(Local Programming) The Bachelor (Season Premiere) Arie meets the 29 bachelorettes. (N) ’ (CC) (:01) The Good Doctor “Pilot -- Burnt Food” ’ (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) The Big Bang Theory Young Sheldon ’ Young Sheldon ’ Young Sheldon ’ SEAL Team “The Exchange” ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Supergirl “Wake Up” An alien ship crash lands. Valor An important message must be decoded. (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Lucifer A flashback to Lucifer’s arrival. (N) ’ The Gifted Reed fears for his family’s safety. (N) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The Wall Veteran and his wife vie for the prize. Better Late Than Never (N) (CC) (DVS) Better Late Than Never (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Antiques Roadshow “Knoxville” (CC) Great Performances The Vienna Philharmonic performs. (N) ’ (CC) Independent Lens Storyteller Armistead Maupin. (N) ’ (CC) 11 Alive News at 7PM Sister Circle ’ (CC) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (CC) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) 11Alive-Untold Atlanta Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) The Doctor Blake Mysteries ’ (CC) Midsomer Murders ’ (CC) Midsomer Murders ’ (:40) Luther ’ (CC) (:36) Luther ’ (CC) Rick Steves’ Europe The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The First 48 “Bad Tempered; The Bully” (CC) The First 48 “Devil in Me & Trail of Blood” (N) 60 Days In “The Beginning of the End” Phase Two will shatter expectations. (N) (CC) To Be Announced (6:32) Breaking Bad (:40) Breaking Bad “4 Days Out” Walt and his family wait for news. (CC) (8:48) Breaking Bad “Over” A heated argument. (9:56) Breaking Bad “Mandala” (CC) (:04) Breaking Bad “Phoenix” (CC) Vanderpump Rules Never-before-seen footage. Vanderpump Rules “Back in the Saddle” (CC) Vanderpump Rules Lala drops a bombshell. (N) RelationShep The dream house turns tense. (N) Watch What Vanderpump Rules The Nineties “The One About TV” A wide range of television shows. (CC) The Eighties “Raised on Television” VCRs; remote controls; family sitcoms. (CC) The Seventies “Television Gets Real” (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Chappelle’s Show (CC) Street Outlaws: Countdown to Bristol (N) (CC) Street Outlaws “Bristol: Road to $100K” (N) ’ Street Outlaws “Bristol: Race to $100K” The 405 go to Bristol, Tenn. (N) ’ (CC) Street Outlaws ’ (CC) (5:10) Rose Bowl Georgia vs Oklahoma. (N) (Live) (CC) (:40) Pregame Rush (N) (8:50) Allstate Sugar Bowl Alabama vs Clemson. (N) (Live) (CC) (5:10) 2018 Rose Bowl (N) (Live) (CC) (:40) Pregame Rush (N) (8:50) 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl (N) (Live) (CC) (6:00) ››› “Mean Girls” (2004) (CC) ››› “Freaky Friday” (2003, Children’s) Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon. (CC) ››› “Mean Girls” (2004, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey. (CC) Interview With a Monster OBJECTified “Shaquille O’Neal” (CC) President Trump’s First Year (CC) Interview With a Monster Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Kids Baking Championship (CC) Kids Baking Championship (CC) Kids Baking Championship “Cookielicious” (N) Ridiculous Cakes (N) Ridiculous Cakes (N) Vegas Cakes (N) (CC) Vegas Cakes (CC) (6:15) ›‡ “The Waterboy” (1998) Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates. ’ (CC) (:20) ›› “Just Go With It” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) World Poker World Poker World Poker World Poker World Poker (5:00) ›› Ted 2 ’ ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, Science Fiction) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. ’ (CC) ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, Science Fiction) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House (CC) Full House (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Beach Hunters (N) (CC) Beach Hunters (N) (CC) HGTV Dream Home 2018 (N) (CC) Home Town (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Forged in Fire “The Kpinga” ’ (CC) Forged in Fire “Zulu Iklwa” ’ (CC) Forged in Fire “The Gladiators’ Scissor” (CC) Forged in Fire “The Charay” ’ (CC) Forged in Fire Smiths must forge a bowie knife.

(5:00) ››‡ “The Holiday” (2006) (CC) ›››› “Titanic” (1997, Historical Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. A society girl abandons her haughty fiance for a penniless artist on the ill-fated ship’s maiden voyage. (CC) The Thundermans (CC) SpongeBob Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) (5:30) ››› “Knocked Up” (2007) Seth Rogen. Family Guy (CC) (DVS) Family Guy (CC) (DVS) Family Guy (CC) (DVS) Family Guy (CC) (DVS) American Dad ’ American Dad ’ Conan Actor Adam Sandler; actor Evan Peters.

(6:30) ››› “Cheaper by the Dozen” (1950) ›››‡ “Charade” (1963, Suspense) Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau. (CC) (:15) ›››‡ “Gambit” (1966, Suspense) Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom. (CC) “Lord of the Rings: The Return” ››› “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012, Action) Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy. (CC) (DVS) War of the Worlds Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Flight” ’ WWE Monday Night RAW (N) ’ (Live) (CC) NFL Football Fanatic NFL Football Fanatic

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America’s Funniest Home Videos (CC) (DVS) Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2018 “Part 1” (N) (CC) Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (Local Programming) Dick Clark’s NFL Football 60 Minutes (N) ’ (CC) S.W.A.T. Jim Street tries to bust a trafficker. ’ SEAL Team The team rescues a CIA operative. Bull Bull and Chunk’s friendship is tested. (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) NFL Football The OT (N) (CC) Fox’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square (N) ’ (Live) (Part 1 of 2) (CC) (Local Programming) Fox’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live Football Night in America (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (:20) NFL Football Teams TBA. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Victoria on Masterpiece “An Ordinary Woman” Live From Lincoln Center A tribute to Leonard Bernstein. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve ’ (CC) Terms of Endearment Forensic Files ’ (CC) Rookie Blue “For Better, For Worse” ’ (CC) The Simpsons ’ (CC) The Simpsons ’ (CC) 11Alive News at 10PM The List (N) ’ (CC) Unexplained Unexplained PBA30 Specials For updates call (678) 553-9093.

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PBA30 Specials Modern Family “Fears” Modern Family ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Major Crimes Rusty’s biological mother returns. Major Crimes “Foreign Affairs” (CC) (6:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 06.03.17” Riding along with law enforcement. ’ (CC) Live PD “Live PD -- 11.04.17” Riding along with law enforcement. ’ (CC) (6:28) Breaking Bad (:35) Breaking Bad “Crazy Handful of Nothin”’ (:42) Breaking Bad Walter embraces new identity. (CC) (9:49) Breaking Bad “Seven Thirty-Seven” (CC) (10:56) Breaking Bad “Grilled” (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) Married to Medicine “Mama Drama” (CC) The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (CC) ›› “The Break-Up” (2006) Vince Vaughn.

CNN Special Report (CC) New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve celebration. (N) (Live) (CC) (5:50) ›› “The Hangover Part III” (2013) Bradley Cooper. (CC) (:20) ››› “Wedding Crashers” (2005, Comedy) Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken. (CC) ›› “The Hangover Part III” (2013) (CC) Street Outlaws: Countdown to Bristol (N) (CC) Street Outlaws: Countdown to Bristol (N) (CC) Street Outlaws: Countdown to Bristol “Episode 22” (N) ’ (CC) Street Outlaws Track racers from Tulsa. (CC) (6:00) College Basketball Georgia at Kentucky. SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E:60 E:60 SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College Basketball Basketball College Basketball Washington State at USC. From Galen Center in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) (CC) SC Top Plays of the Year Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Fox Report (N) (CC) Countdown to 2018 (N) (CC) All American New Year (N) (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games “Carnival Games” (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games “Family Food Feud” (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives “Rockstar Chefs” Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives “Real-Deal Diners” Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (CC) (5:30) ››› “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” (2010) Daniel Radcliffe. ’ (CC) ›››‡ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” (2011, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. ’ (CC) World Poker World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic - Part 1. College Basketball North Carolina State at Clemson. From Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson, S.C. World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic - Part 1.

(5:00) Jurassic World ››› “Ted” (2012, Comedy) Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Voice of Seth MacFarlane. ’ (CC) ›› “Ted 2” (2015, Comedy) Mark Wahlberg, Voice of Seth MacFarlane. ’ (CC) (6:00) “Christmas Connection” (2017) (CC) “Coming Home for Christmas” (2017, Romance) Danica McKellar, Neal Bledsoe. (CC) “Royal New Year’s Eve” (2017, Romance) (CC) Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Forged in Fire The Ethiopian Shotel. ’ (CC) Forged in Fire “The Yatagan” ’ (CC) Forged in Fire “Tabar-Shishpar” ’ (CC) (DVS) (:03) Forged in Fire “The Roman Gladius” (CC) (:03) Forged in Fire Smiths create a boar spear.

(5:00) ›› “Stepmom” (1998) Julia Roberts. ››‡ “The Holiday” (2006, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law. (CC) Married at First Sight Married at First Sight ››› “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” (2004, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. ’ (CC) ››› “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” (2015) Voice of Tom Kenny. ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Family Guy (CC) (DVS) Family Guy (CC) (DVS) ›‡ “New Year’s Eve” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi. (CC) (DVS) ›‡ “New Year’s Eve” (2011) Halle Berry, Jessica Biel. (CC) (DVS) (5:45) ››‡ “The Poseidon Adventure” (CC) ›››› “The Thin Man” (1934) William Powell, Myrna Loy. (CC) (DVS) (:45) ››› “After the Thin Man” (1936, Comedy-Drama) William Powell, Myrna Loy. (CC) (DVS) (:45) Another Thin Man (5:50) “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” ›› “We’re the Millers” (2013, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter. (CC) (DVS) ››› “Knocked Up” (2007) Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl. (CC) (DVS) Reba ’ (CC) Reba ’ (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (:08) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (:15) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ (:08) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) (10:53) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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(Local Programming) The Goldbergs (N) ’ Speechless (N) ’ Modern Family (N) ’ American Housewife Match Game (Season Premiere) (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) The Amazing Race (N) (CC) SEAL Team “Pattern of Life” (N) ’ (CC) Criminal Minds “Submerged” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Riverdale Veronica learns her father has arrived. Dynasty Fallon’s job is lost to someone else. ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The X-Files “My Struggle III” (N) (CC) 9-1-1 “Pilot” (Series Premiere) (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The Blacklist “Ruin” Liz abandons her old life. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (N) ’ Chicago P.D. “Rabbit Hole” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Nature Snow monkeys in Japan. ’ (CC) (DVS) NOVA Hubble Space Telescope’s discoveries. Aurora - Fire in the Sky ’ (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Sister Circle ’ (CC) Dateline A man is killed in his backyard. ’ (CC) Dateline A Chicago woman goes missing. (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Naughty or Nice” ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow ’ (CC) Call the Midwife “Holiday Special” The midwives face a cold winter. (CC) To Be Announced The Collection on Masterpiece ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour “Blizzard of Oz” (:01) Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour (N) (CC) (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (4:30) ››‡ “Armageddon” (1998) (CC) ››› “Enemy of the State” (1998) Will Smith. A former NSA operative aids the innocent victim of a politically motivated assassination cover-up. ›››‡ “Black Hawk Down” (2001, War) (CC) The Real Housewives of New Jersey (CC) The Real Housewives of New Jersey (CC) The Real Housewives of New Jersey (N) (CC) The Real Housewives of New Jersey (CC) Watch What Housewives/NJ Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park “TSST!” South Park (CC) South Park (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition (6:30) Street Outlaws: Full Throttle “Bristol: Race to 100K” (N) ’ (CC) Street Outlaws “It’s Bristol, Baby” (N) ’ (CC) Fast N’ Loud: Demolition Theater (N) ’ (CC) To Be Announced NBA Countdown (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Cleveland Cavaliers at Boston Celtics. From TD Garden in Boston. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Oklahoma City Thunder at Los Angeles Lakers. (N) (Live) College Basketball North Carolina at Florida State. (N) (Live) College Basketball Missouri at South Carolina. From Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C. (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) Total Divas Brie struggles to enjoy her vacation. Total Divas “Fake It ’Til You Make It” (CC) Total Divas “Single in the City” (N) (CC) WAGS Atlanta “Peaches, Prayers and Players” E! News (N) (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Iron Chef America “Guarnaschelli Vs. Kalt” (CC) Iron Chef: Behind the Battle “Battle Paiche” (N) Iron Chef Showdown “Battle Fruit and Fowl” (N) Iron Chef Showdown “Battle Bar Food” (CC) Iron Chef America (CC) (6:00) ›››› “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) grown-ish (N) (CC) (:31) grown-ish (N) (CC) (:02) ›››› “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) Voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) College Basketball Clemson at Boston College. From the Conte Forum in Boston. (N) (Live) College Basketball Miami at Georgia Tech. From McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta. (N) (Live) World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic - Part 1.

(6:00) ››› “Goosebumps” (2015) Jack Black. ››‡ “Hotel Transylvania 2” (2015) Voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg. ’ (CC) ››‡ “Hotel Transylvania 2” (2015) Voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle “Pilot” ’ The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle “The Trip” The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers “Building a Solid Foundation” Property Brothers Move-in ready mansion. (CC) Property Brothers (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers (CC) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Vikings “The Message” Lagertha is betrayed. Vikings “Full Moon” Bjorn returns to Kattegat. (:01) Knightfall King Philip fears an attack. (N) (:02) Knightfall King Philip fears an attack. ’ Little Women: Atlanta “Caught in the Middle” Little Women: Atlanta (N) (CC) Little Women: Atlanta “You’re Fired” (N) (CC) (:02) Little Women: LA (N) (CC) (:02) Married at First Sight “Wedding Prep” The Thundermans (CC) SpongeBob Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Conan Actor Anna Faris; actor Nathan Fielder.

(6:15) ›››› “Forbidden Planet” (1956) ››› “The Boy With Green Hair” (1948, Drama) Pat O’Brien. (CC) ›››‡ “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964, Western) Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Joe Edger. (CC) Pather Panchali (1955) (6:00) ››› “Shrek 2” (2004) (CC) (DVS) The Librarians “And the Disenchanted Forest” ››‡ “Shrek the Third” (2007, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy. (CC) (DVS) The Librarians “And the Disenchanted Forest” M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ NCIS A murder probe uncovers a theft ring. ’ NCIS A Marine falls to her death. ’ (CC) (DVS) NCIS The team investigates an abduction. ’ NCIS “Pay to Play” ’ (CC) (DVS) NCIS A 14-year-old stops a home invasion. ’

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(Local Programming) Child Support Contestants Monica and Martin. (:01) Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (N) ’ (CC) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) MacGyver Mac’s nemesis traps him and Jack. Hawaii Five-0 “Ka Hopu Nui ’Ana” (N) ’ (CC) Blue Bloods A journalist goes missing. (N) ’ (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend “Nathaniel Needs My Help!” Penn & Teller: Fool Us “Teller Flips a Bird” ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Hell’s Kitchen “Trying to Pasta Test” (N) ’ (:01) 9-1-1 “Pilot” ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships Ladies’ Free Skate. From SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) To Be Announced Great Performances ’ (CC) Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs ’ (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Sister Circle ’ (CC) American Ninja Warrior “Orlando Qualifying” American Ninja Warrior “Orlando Qualifying” 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (CC) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Father Brown ’ (CC) Death in Paradise ’ (CC) New Tricks ’ (CC) The Coroner ’ (CC) Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 11.03.17” ’ (CC) (:06) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 74” Live PD “Live PD -- 01.05.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (5:30) ››‡ “Demolition Man” (1993) (CC) ››‡ “Rambo III” (1988, Action) Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge. (CC) ››› “300” (2006, Action) Gerard Butler, Lena Headey. (CC) Married to Medicine Simone plans a surprise. Married to Medicine “Mama Drama” (CC) Married to Medicine “Fly Girls & Low Riders” Married to Medicine “Fly Girls & Low Riders” The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Special Report The stories of the Trump Tower meeting. (N) (CC) CNN Special Program ››‡ “Austin Powers in Goldmember” (2002, Comedy) Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles. (CC) ››› “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” (2004) Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor. (CC) Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself (CC) Gold Rush: Pay Dirt “The Devil’s Finger / The Holy Grail” (N) ’ (CC) Gold Rush “Eclipsed/Beyond The Wall” ’ (CC) Gold Rush “Eclipsed/Beyond The Wall” ’ (CC) NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Miami Heat. From the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Washington Wizards at Memphis Grizzlies. From the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tenn. (N) (Live) College Basketball Wisconsin at Rutgers. From Rutgers Athletic Center in Piscataway, N.J. (N) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) He’s Just Not ›› “He’s Just Not That Into You” (2009, Romance-Comedy) Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore. (CC) Red Carpet Icons “Golden Globes” (N) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive The Grill Dads (N) (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (5:30) ›› “The Prince and Me” (2004) ’ ››› “Freaky Friday” (2003, Children’s) Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan. ’ (CC) grown-ish ’ (CC) grown-ish ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) College Basketball UCLA at Stanford. From Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif. (Taped) UFC Reloaded Robbie Lawler fights Carlos Condit. See the entire main card, including the heavyweight bought.

(6:00) ›‡ “Fantastic Four” (2015) ’ (CC) ››‡ “Jurassic World” (2015, Adventure) Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan. ’ (CC) ››‡ “Jurassic World” (2015, Adventure) Chris Pratt. ’ (CC) (6:00) “Love on Ice” (2017) Julie Berman. (CC) “Love Struck Café” (2017, Romance-Comedy) Sarah Jane Morris, Andrew Walker. (CC) The Middle “Siblings” The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Beachfront Bargain Beachfront Bargain Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens Gigantic lines extend for miles. Ancient Aliens: Declassified (N) (CC) Bring It! Oz-inspired choreography challenge. Bring It! Secret plans for a slumber party. (N) Bring It! Coach D calls it quits. (N) (CC) (:02) The Rap Game JD switches up the teams. (:12) The Rap Game To Be Announced The Thundermans (CC) SpongeBob Movie ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ ›‡ “Red Dawn” (2012, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) ››› “Team America: World Police” (2004) Voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Premiere. (CC) (6:45) ››› “Having Wonderful Crime” (1945) ››› “The Naked Prey” (1966, Adventure) Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu. ›››› “Deliverance” (1972, Adventure) Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty. (CC) Bones A celebrity chef is found dead. ’ (CC) ›› “Rambo” (2008, Action) Sylvester Stallone. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) (:45) ›‡ “Red Dawn” (2012, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) (:45) Ender’s Game M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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(5:00) ››› “Enemy of the State” (1998) (CC) ››‡ “Demolition Man” (1993, Science Fiction) Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock. (CC) ››› “Under Siege” (1992) Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones. (CC) Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (CC) Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (CC) Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (N) (CC) Top Chef The chefs are sent camping. (N) (CC) Watch What Million Dollar LA Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) South Park “Butt Out” South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 “Jedi Realist” Tosh.0 “Buff Correll” Tosh.0 (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition (6:00) Moonshiners ’ (CC) Killing Fields “Killing Fields: Isle of Wight” (N) Killing Fields: Murder Isle “A Body in the Field” The Interrogation Room Detectives team up. (N) Killing Fields: Murder Isle “A Body in the Field” College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) (6:00) High School Football Under Armour All-America Game. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Basketball NFL Live (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians “Dog Tired” Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) E! News (N) (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Chopped “Light Makes Right” (CC) Chopped “Healthy Rivalry” (CC) Chopped The chefs must make healthy dishes. Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (6:00) ›› “Miss Congeniality” (2000, Comedy) Sandra Bullock. (CC) ›› “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (2005, Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Regina King. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Women’s College Basketball North Carolina at Boston College. From the Conte Forum in Boston. World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic - Part 1. Tennis PowerShares Series: Newport.

(5:30) ››‡ “Men in Black 3” (2012) ’ (CC) ››‡ “Iron Man 2” (2010, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. ’ (CC) ››‡ “Iron Man 2” (2010, Action) Robert Downey Jr.. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop Fort Worth Flip or Flop Fort Worth House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l American Pickers A garage door in Indiana. ’ American Pickers “The Greatest Pick on Earth” American Pickers (N) (CC) American Pickers “Another Brick in the Wall” American Pickers “Raze the Roof” ’ (CC) Project Runway Tim visits the five finalists. (CC) Project Runway The winner is chosen. (CC) Project Runway All Stars “Rookies vs. Vets” (:11) Married at First Sight “Wedding Prep” (:02) Project Runway All Stars (CC) The Thundermans (CC) SpongeBob Movie ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Conan (CC) (6:00) ››› “Deception” (1946) Bette Davis. ››› “Love Affair” (1939) Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer. (CC) (:45) ››› “All This and Heaven Too” (1940, Drama) Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil. (CC) (DVS) NCIS: New Orleans ’ (CC) NBA Basketball Golden State Warriors at Houston Rockets. From the Toyota Center in Houston. (N Subject to Blackout) NBA Basketball Oklahoma City Thunder at Los Angeles Clippers. (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Nashville (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Damnation “The Goodness of Men” (N) (CC) (:01) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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College Basketball Maryland at Michigan State. From Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich. ›‡ “Grown Ups” (2010, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock. ’ (CC) › “Grown Ups 2” (2013, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock. ’ (CC) 9-1-1 “Pilot” ’ (CC) “A Royal Winter” (2017, Drama) Merritt Patterson, Jack Donnelly, Samantha Bond. (CC) “Love on the Slopes” (2018, Romance) Katrina Bowden, Thomas Beaudoin. Premiere. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Fixer Upper A dream home to raise daughters. Property Brothers “Not Ready for the Suburbs” Property Brothers (CC) House Hunters Renovation (N) (CC) Log Cabin Living (N) Log Cabin Living (N) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) (6:00) “A Mother Betrayed” (2015) Lynn Collins. “A Tale of Two Coreys” (2018, Docudrama) Elijah Marcano, Justin Ellings. Premiere. (CC) (:02) Corey Feldman Interview (N) (CC) (:02) “A Tale of Two Coreys” (2018) (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) The Thundermans (CC) Game Shakers ’ (CC) Nicky, Ricky Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal 2 Broke Girls ’ (6:00) ››› “The Thrill of It All” (1963) (CC) ›››› “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, Science Fiction) Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester. (CC) (DVS) (:45) ››› “David and Lisa” (1962) Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin. (CC) (6:00) ›‡ “Wrath of the Titans” (2012) ››‡ “The A-Team” (2010, Action) Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel. (CC) (DVS) ›› “Need for Speed” (2014, Action) Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (4:37) Ocean’s Twelve ››› “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001, Comedy-Drama) George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia. Premiere. (CC) Falling Water “Shadowman” (N) (CC) (DVS) (:01) Damnation “The Goodness of Men”

bestbets SUNDAY 8 p.m. on FOX Fox’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square The man with 100 television jobs these days (or so it seems), Harvey has been no stranger to Fox lately, having hosted the Miss Universe Pageant and “Showtime at the Apollo” specials. Now, he becomes Mr. New Year’s Eve for the network in New York’s Times Square, welcoming music acts and celebrity guests to help get 2018 off to a festive start.

Maria Menounos serves as cohost, with Celine Dion, Neil Dia-

mond, Backstreet Boys, Flo Rida and Macklemore featuring Skylar Grey among the scheduled performers.

MONDAY 11 a.m. on HALL 129th Rose Parade An actor very familiar to television and movie viewers presides as Grand Marshal of the latest edition of the New Year’s Day event: Gary Sinise (“Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,” “CSI: NY,”“Forrest Gump”), also widely known as a humanitarian for his tireless support of America’s military. He surely exemplifies this year’s parade theme, “Making a Difference” — as will the many floral floats winding their way through the streets of Pasadena, Calif. As always, marching bands will perform as the parade is shown by multiple networks.

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9 p.m. on FOX LA to Vegas “Wings” was a comedy about an airline, and while this new one — from executive producers including Will Ferrell and Steve Levitan (“Modern Family”) — also is that, it has a different tone. The

Dylan McDermott route is the same every weekend (check the title again), with the passengers taking a gamble on being much richer on the trip back. Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”) makes a departure from his usual dramatic work here, co-starring with Peter Stormare (“Fargo”) and Ed Weeks (“The Mindy Project”) in this series ‘Pilot.”

WEDNESDAY 8 p.m. on FOX The X-Files If the truth about supernatural activities is still out there, you can’t stop FBI veterans Mulder and Scully from seeking it. David

Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return, along with original executive producer Chris Carter, for what effectively is the 11th television season of the franchise with a limited run of 10 new episodes, starting with “My Struggle III” — and hinging in part on the search for the couple’s son. Barbara Hershey and Haley Joel Osment (”The Sixth Sense”) are among new cast members, with Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis also back.

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on FOX The Four: Battle for Stardom Television certainly has had its share of singing contests, so one way to do a new one is to invert the process, starting with four singers determined to be terrific ... which they have to continue to prove, to keep a challenger from knocking them out of the competition. So it is with this series, which also boasts some wellknown talents as it premieres: host Fergie and judges Sean Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor and music executive Charlie Walk.

9 p.m. on LIFE Project Runway All Stars Alyssa Milano returns to host Season 6 of this “Project Runway” spinoff, in which eight veterans of this show go up against eight former designers from the original “Runway,” who are competing on this field for the first time. Marie Claire editor-in chief Anne Fulenwider is the new resident mentor this time around; Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman return as judges.

FRIDAY 8 p.m. on ABC Child Support The title of this premiering series is appropriate, but may suggest that it’s something it isn’t.

It’s actually a game show, with Ricky Gervais among its creative forces. The sly actor-comedian chats with five youngsters and gets them to answer questions — which then are posed to adult contestants, who can rely in the kids to “save” them if they’re stumped. Fred Savage, who’s been doing quite a bit of sitcom directing lately, is the host.

SATURDAY 9 p.m. on ABC Ten Days in the Valley The “days” are done as the last two scheduled episodes of this drama series air back-to-back — and with the home-video set’s release several days earlier, those who can’t wait to see how the mystery turns out have a chance to see it before this telecast. Kyra Sedgwick wraps up her role as television producer Jane, whose young daughter’s (Abigail Pniowsky) abduction set the story in motion. “Day 9: ReCast” is followed by “Day 10: Fade Out.” Erika Christensen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kick Gurry, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Josh Randall also star.

Abigail Pniowsky