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BOC OKs $950K to combat homelessness

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The commissioners unanimously approved the HomeFirst Gwinnett Initiative’s $950,000 request The organization that for funding to several efis working to coordinate forts designed to ultimateefforts to address Gwinnett ly get homeless residents County’s homeless situaback on their feet and tion got the funding green into permanent housing. light from county commis- HomeFirst Gwinnett was sioners Tuesday to proceed set up last year through a with plans that it unveiled partnership between the earlier this month. county, the United Way curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

and Primerica.

“We have many organizations and individuals in the community who are working on different aspects of service to the homeless population, but it is not always well-coordinated,” commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said. “Partnering with the private sector and with United Way, the county is

helping fund the HomeFirst Initiative in order to help create a system that is coordinated and that does the most with each dollar that is available to address the homelessness issue.”

The money is expected to be used to help with the setting up of a coordinated entry system, develop assessment centers, capacity expansion, emergency

housing and homeless diversion programs.

Earlier this month, HomeFirst Gwinnett director Matt Elder outlined some of the programs and steps the organization is planning to take this year to make headway on tackling the county’s homelessness issue.

“We’re trying to create an easier, more effective

and efficient system to connect people in need with those organizations that have the ability to provide assistance,” Elder said during a Feb. 5 presentation to commissioners.

The biggest step HomeFirst wants to take is the establishment of a coordinated entry system that is

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CineBistro opening in Peachtree Corners FROM STAFF REPORTS

Officials said a water main break caused a large sinkhole at the intersection of Indian Trail Road and Brook Hollow Parkway in the Norcross area on Tuesday, causing major traffic issues. (Photos: FOX5 Atlanta)

‘Avoid the area’ Norcross sinkhole can’t be fixed until weather dries

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A sinkhole caused by a water main break in the Norcross area wreaked havoc for drivers on Tuesday whose commutes were already disrupted due to the day’s stormy weather.

Norcross Police Department spokesman Sgt. Eric Butynski said the break in the 30-inch line happened shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Indian Trail Road and Brook Hollow Parkway. As of the Daily Post’s deadline Tuesday night, the busy intersection was still closed, as was the Indian Trail Road exit off Workers examine a large sinkhole overnight after a water main broke at about 1 a.m. Tuesday at

See SINKHOLE, Page 6A the intersection of Indian Trail Road and Brook Hollow Parkway in the Norcross area.

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The CineBistro in Peachtree Corners’ Town Center development has been long planned, but officials now have a rough idea of when it will open to the public — and it’s going to be pretty soon.

CMX Cinemas announced it will open CMX CineBistro Peachtree Corners sometime in early March, although an exact date was not immediately available Monday. It has long been viewed by city officials as the major anchor for the Town Center development, which is across Peachtree Parkway from The Forum shopping center.

The dine-in movie theater will be located at 5180 Town Center Blvd.

“As our company continues expansion throughout the United States, the new Peachtree Corners Town Center development was an ideal fit, as its offerings align with our mission of bringing an innovative, upscale experience to the community,” CMX Cinemas CEO Jose Leonardo Marti said in a statement.

Only customers over 21 will be allowed in the theater after 6 p.m., although anyone ages 3 to 20 will be welcome to any movie shown before 6 p.m. as long as they are accompanied by someone who is over 21.

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Local church begins series of ‘courageous conversations’

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“We as the pastors of The Church refuse for this to become a political, divisive debate; this will remain a conversation where we respect each other’s positions and opinions,” Williams said. “If we can just get people to listen and to hear, we will take major grounds from ‘the enemy.’”

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world&nation WorLd Iranian police attacked after women detained for wearing hijabs ‘improperly’ A group of Iranians attacked a morality police van in Tehran last week after two young women were detained for “improperly” wearing a compulsory headscarf, according to state-owned Iranian media and activists.

Officers fired shots into the air to disperse the crowd of people who tore off one of the doors of the vehicle, according to a report by the stateowned IRNA news agency about the Feb. 15 incident.

Iran’s morality police are tasked with enforcing the country’s strict social rules.

The group prevented the officers from driving the women away, IRNA said, citing an unnamed police official. The standoff ended when the women were released from the van, according to the police source.

The incident took place in the East Tehran neighborhood of Narmak, where Iran’s hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lives.

Hong Kong intends to jail vaping offenders Robert Chan lit his first cigarette at age 18. He quickly became hooked, smoking 15 a day for more than a decade.

Like so many other smokers, Hong Kong-based Chan didn’t savor his addiction. He wanted to quit smoking cigarettes, but struggled to end his nicotine habit.

Two years ago, on his 30th birthday, Chan started using a device that heats tobacco — instead of burning it — to release a nicotine-laced vapor.

But today that industry is facing a battle. While many smokers are embracing alternative devices in an attempt to quit cigarettes, governments around the world are divided.

This month, the Hong Kong government announced plans to push ahead with a controversial blanket ban on all e-cigarettes and heat-notburn products.

Under the sweeping draft law, anyone who imports, makes, sells or promotes new smoking products could face six months in jail or a $6,370 fine.

Maduro regime rejects aid, claims it’s sending food to Colombia Venezuela will send food to feed hungry Colombian children, communications minister Jorge Rodriguez claimed Monday — citing statistics about poverty in neighboring Colombia — even as citizens in his country struggle with food shortages at home.

Rodriguez said in a televised statement that more than 20,000 boxes of food aid would be sent to the Colombian border city Cucuta, in an apparent retort to international efforts to send food to hungry Venezuelans.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido called on the international community to help feed Venezuela earlier this month.

— From wire reports

CoLorado MissiNG MoM Case

New charges filed against fiance attorney said she was CNN refusing Nearly three months to testify after Colorado mother and not Kelsey Berreth went cooperatmissing, prosecutors ing with Patrick on Tuesday filed new Frazee the invescharges against her fitigation. ance before presenting Another witness, Patrol evidence and calling wit- Commander Chris Adams nesses during a prelimiof the Woodland Park Ponary hearing in Cripple lice Department, played a Creek, Colorado, west of recording of a November Colorado Springs. phone call with police in Berreth, 29, vanwhich Frazee said that ished last Thanksgiving Berreth had called him to near Woodland Park, end their relationship. He a city between Denver told police that she was and Colorado Springs. not suicidal and that he Authorities charged her returned personal items fiance, Patrick Frazee, to her, including a handwith murder — even gun. He said he was gothough the body has not ing to “give her space.” been found.

Cellphone records The couple has a produced at the hearing 1-year-old daughter, showed calls between Kaylee, who is now in Frazee and Berreth the custody of Berreth’s around the time of her parents. A judge scheddisappearance. Celluled an April 4 hearing to phone towers indicated determine the next steps both phones appeared in Kaylee’s custody case. to be near her home or On Tuesday, prosin the same location. ecutors filed additional There were also calls charges of tampering between Frazee and an with a dead body and Idaho nurse suspected of counts related to a crime disposing of Berreth’s of violence against phone.

Frazee before calling Records tracked the witnesses. nurse’s phone near BerThe first witness was reth’s apartment, and surFrazee’s mother Sheila, veillance video showed who invoked her Fifth the nurse and Frazee Amendment rights. Her together at a gas station

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toddler has seen her mom. Three months since anyone has seen the Colorado mother alive. (Family of Kelsey Berreth via CNN)

near his home as he filled a 5-gallon gas can on November 24.

Berreth’s parents, Cheryl-Lee Ellen Berreth and Darrell Lynn Berreth, believe a custody dispute was likely a “motive to kill Kelsey,” according to a wrongful death lawsuit they filed.

“Upon information and belief, Frazee had motive to kill Kelsey in that he wanted full custody of [their daughter] KB and/ or Kelsey to leave KB with him and Kelsey would not agree,” said the amendment, filed in a U.S. District Court on Friday.

Shakir replaces Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ first presidential campaign manager, who will stay with Sanders as a senior adviser.

Snow and ice expected to wallop more than 90 million people

Thomas calls for reconsideration of libel case Supreme Court JusMore than 90 million people from the Plains and Midwest tice Clarence Thomas on to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are under some sort of Tuesday called for reconwinter weather watch, warning or advisory. (CNN)

“This afternoon, the president is going to sign the Space Directive, Policy Directive that will establish the Space Force and give presidential direction to establish the Space Force within the Department of the Air Force,” Goldfein told an audience Tuesday at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Defense officials tell CNN that following Trump’s signing of the directive, the administration will then submit a legislative proposal Trump signs to Congress, seeking the necSpace Force essary authority and funds directive policy to establish the new military service.

President Donald Trump However, given that signed a new policy directive the Democrats control the Tuesday laying out his adHouse, congressional supministration’s long-awaited port for the initiative is not plans for establishing a Space guaranteed.

Force.

“With today’s action, we Census Bureau: will ensure that our people 630K expected to are secure, our interests are protected and our power not complete continues to be unmatched,” 2020 survey Trump said in remarks durThe Census Bureau exing the signing ceremony.

“The Space Force is a very pects that 630,000 houseimportant part of my admin- holds may not complete the 2020 Census because istration,” Trump said. of a potential question The document, officially asking about respondents’ called Space Policy Direccitizenship question, it tive-4, was discussed eartold the White House lier Tuesday by Gen. David Goldfein, the chief of staff of recently.

The estimate includes the Air Force.

Dolly Parton says her husband is not a big fan of her music

Dolly Parton says her husband is proud of her, but he’s not the biggest fan of her music.

Appearing Monday on the U.K.’s “Good Morning Britain” to promote the West End premiere of “9 to 5: The Musical,” Parton revealed that her husband of more than 50 years, Carl Thomas Dean, has only seen her perform a few times.

“Usually if I’m playing at state fairs,” she said, “he loves to go to the fair and go to the tractor pull, go to the stockyards and do all that.”

But the legendary country singer said, “He’s not necessarily my biggest fan” when it comes to her tunes.

“He’s proud of me and he loves that I love what I do,” she said. “It’s a touchy subject. I’m like his little girl I think, and he just worries It's been almost three months since Kelsey Berreth's about that.”

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A potent winter storm is poised to deliver a mixture of snow, sleet, freezing rain and possible flooding across much of the Eastern U.S. through Thursday.

More than 90 million people from the Plains and Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are under some sort of winter weather watch, warning or advisory.

Nearly 20 million are facing a flood warning, watch or a flash flood watch across the Southeast.

Warm moist air streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico were forecast to combine with a colder storm system exiting the Rockies to create an expected wintry mix last night into today.

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both those who return the survey but leave the citizenship question unanswered, and those that do not reply at all.

In both cases, Census Bureau employees follow up with mailings and inperson visits — the most expensive part of the decennial population count.

Sanders taps new campaign manager Sen. Bernie Sanders has hired Faiz Shakir, a respected progressive operative who had been serving as the national political director for the American Civil Liberties Union, to manage his presidential campaign, an aide told CNN on Tuesday.

Shakir previously worked as an adviser to former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and, before that, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

He joined the ACLU in January 2017, as President Donald Trump took office, and has emerged as a leading voice in a series of high-profile legal battles against the administration.

sideration of a landmark First Amendment precedent, criticizing the 1964 decision that the Constitution creates a higher barrier for public figures to claim libel.

Thomas wrote alongside a court decision not to take up the case of a woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct in 2014. He suggested that the seminal case New York Times v.

Sullivan, holding that public figures have a higher burden to prove libel, was wrongly decided.

“New York Times and the Court’s decisions extending it were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law,” Thomas wrote.

“If the Constitution does not require public figures to satisfy an actual-malice standard in state-law defamation suits, then neither should we,” the opinion states.

He continued, saying “We did not begin meddling in this area until 1964, nearly 175 years after the First Amendment was ratified.

The States are perfectly capable of striking an acceptable balance between encouraging robust public discourse and providing a meaningful remedy for reputational harm. We should reconsider our jurisprudence in this area.”

— From wire reports

Smollett’s siblings blame media As questions mount over Jussie Smollett’s report to police last month that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack, two of the actor’s siblings have taken aim at the media.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Jocqui Smollett posted a quote attributed to Malcolm X on Instagram.

“This is the media, the irresponsible media,” the posting said. “It will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal.”

Smollett-Bell reposted the image from her brother Jocqui, who also posted an image of a tweet in support of Jussie Smollett.

“I have a feeling even if we had video of Jussie (Smollett) being attacked…y’all would still discredit him,” the tweet read. “Because it’s easier to believe what aligns with your contempt for survivors of hate crimes, sexual abuse, etc who happen to be LGBTQ+, disabled, or women.”

Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation have told CNN that Chicago police believe Smollett paid two men to orchestrate the alleged assault.

In a statement from his attorneys issued Saturday, Smollett denied playing a role in the attack.

Karl Lagerfeld dies at 85

Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most influential and recognizable fashion designers of the 20th century, died Tuesday at the age of 85.

The German designer is best known for his work as the creative director of Chanel, the French luxury fashion house. He was a prolific designer, also at the creative helm of Fendi and his eponymous label at the time of his death.

Lagerfeld died Tuesday morning in Paris, the city he helped turn into the fashion capital of the world, his label said. Rumors had swirled about his health after he was absent from his Chanel show in late January, due to what the fashion house described as tiredness.

— From wire reports

What’s the weather on Mars? InSight can tell you every day

By Ashley stricklAnd CNN

If daily weather forecasts for your part of the world weren’t enough, now you can get the weather report from Mars, thanks to NASA’s InSight stationary lander. Beginning Feb. 19, InSight will provide a daily weather report everyone can see.

The report shares temperature, wind and air pressure recorded by the lander. It’s winter on Mars

Auxiliary Payload Subsystem, can provide weather information around the clock, recording data now, so the high temperature is each second of the day and send2 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low ing it back to Earth. of minus 138. The winds have The sensors are actually spares reached 37.8 miles per hour. that were refurbished when buildSo if it’s cold where you live, ing the Curiosity rover. They’re 10 rest assured that your temperature times more sensitive than the ones swings aren’t as rough as what used on the Viking and Pathfinder InSight has to bear. landers.

InSight has something that other Inside the lander is an air presmissions to the Martian surface sure sensor, and the deck carries didn’t. The sensors, called the two wind and temperature sensors.

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InSight was designed for a twoyear mission, so this will provide scientists with unique information about seasonal changes on Mars. It will also give them a better sense of the noise that could disrupt data gathered by the heat flow probe and seismometer. The seismometer is especially sensitive to changes in air pressure as well as wind flow, and those could prevent it from doing its job: detecting quakes on Mars.

“It gives you the sense of visit-

ing an alien place,” Don Banfield, who leads InSight’s weather science from Cornell University, said in a statement. “Mars has familiar atmospheric phenomena that are still quite different than those on Earth.”

The weather sensors can also help determine the amount of dust and sand that are lifted by the Martian winds. Currently, scientists don’t know how much wind it takes to lift dust from the surface or create dust storms.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: How does a medical condition get named? Once named, can the name be changed (for example, Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS)? I have a condition called hemiplegic migraines. It is rare and misunderstood. I am part of an online support group, and many people with the condition feel it should be renamed because the term “migraine” makes it seem less serious. Some were saying to call it TSS for “temporary stroke syndrome,” because it presents as a stroke but is temporary. What are your thoughts?

— E.D.V. ANSWER: Hemiplegic migraine is a rare disorder that is much more common in women and often runs in families. As its name and you suggest, it is different from a regular migraine because it causes motor weakness during the aura phase.

This can be terrifying for both the patient and the physician, as it can be indistinguishable from a stroke.

The symptoms often start in the hand and then move up the arm and into the face. This usually lasts for hours, although time courses of minutes up to weeks have been reported.

People also may experience a decreased ability to speak, dizziness, unsteadiness and even mental status changes ranging from confusion to coma during the event.

I guarantee you that anyone, patient or physician, who knows this disease does not minimize its severity. However, I don’t expect the powers-that-be who control nomenclature of diseases to be likely to change the name to TSS. Another condition, transient ischemic attack, is often called a temporary stroke because it has the same underlying cause as stroke (poor blood flow to an area of the brain). The term “hemiplegic” (meaning, “weakness on one side”) migraine is more accurately descriptive of your condition.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was first described and named in 1874. It is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease because he was such a famous person to be diagnosed with this uncommon disease, so it wasn’t exactly renamed. An example of a renamed disease is Reiter’s syndrome (a type of arthritis sometimes associated with eye and urethra inflammation following an infection), named after Hans Reiter, who was a physician leader of the Nazi Party.

The condition he named is now called reactive arthritis, both in condemnation of him as a war criminal, and because it is a more descriptive term.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1792, President George Washington signed into law the Postal Service Act, establishing the U.S. Post Office Deptartment.

In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits aboard the Mercury program’s Friendship 7 spacecraft.

In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the core module of the Mir space station.

In 2003, a pyrotechnics display during a Great White concert set fire to the Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 people.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer; Robert Altman (1925-2006), filmmaker; Richard Matheson (1926-2013), author/screenwriter; Sidney Poitier (1927- ), actor; Nancy Wilson (1937-

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TODAY’S FACT: More NASA astronauts (31 men and women, as of 2019) have come from New York than any other state.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1998, 15-year-old Tara Lipinski became the youngest person in history to win a singles figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 19) and last quarter moon (Feb. 26).

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DEAR READERS: I’ve stepped away from the Ask Amy column for two weeks to work on a new writing project. I hope you enjoy these edited “best of” columns in my absence. All of these questions and answers were first published 10 years ago. Today’s topic is: petty is as petty does.

DEAR AMY: I had a child before I met my husband. When we got married, my husband adopted my daughter, who was 1 year old at the time. We then had three more children together.

Now they’re all grown and have children of their own.

My mother-in-law wants to have a “generation picture” done. She plans to include only the children my husband and I have biologically together. My husband considers my daughter to be “our” daughter.

Is it rude of his mother to ask for pictures with our other children and to exclude her?

If my mother-in-law won’t include our daughter in the shot, I feel no pictures should be taken.

— Confused and Hurt DEAR CONFUSED: Your mother-in-law’s distinction between biological and adopted children is offensive. Adoptive parents are “real” parents in every way.

stopped breastfeeding two months ago, but she wasn’t ready to give up her “mommy-time.”

She continues to pump because it’s good birth control, and to continue to lose the baby weight.

None of us would be allowed to leave our desk an hour a day to exercise, so Amy Dickinson why should she be allowed to pump to lose weight?

It is somewhat surpris— Fairness for All ing that all of your children DEAR FAIRNESS: I are now adults and yet your applaud your college’s commother-in-law persists in mitment to supporting the differentiating among them. needs of mothers who want You and your husband to work and/or further their should have set her straight educations, while continuon this many years ago. ing to feed their babies If you didn’t, or if she has naturally. But let’s clear up a forgotten what makes a fam- few things: Your co-worker’s ily, now is the perfect time to baby might have stopped educate her on the subject. I breastfeeding, but her child completely agree with your could still be consuming conditions regarding this breast milk through a bottle, family photo. (April 2009) necessitating her pumping DEAR AMY: I work at during the day. a community college. The Lactation does not provide college recently installed consistent birth control. If two lactation rooms; the your co-worker believes this handbook states that students commonly held misconcepshould not bring children to tion (excuse the pun), it the classroom. could lead to an unexpected We have a staff member pregnancy — not to mention who had a baby nine months your further resentment reago. She leaves her desk garding her lactation breaks. to pump three times a day Also, breastfeeding does not for 20 minutes each (that’s necessarily hasten weight one hour a day). I had no loss after a baby’s birth. problem with this — until If your co-worker’s pumpshe told people that her son ing schedule is interfering

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with her work to the extent that it impinges on your (or her) ability to do yours — or disrupts the functioning of the office, then you should bring this up with your supervisor. Otherwise, stick to your own knitting. (May, 2009) DEAR AMY: My parents divorced when I was young.

I lived most of the time with my mother.

My room at my father’s house was sometimes used for guests when I was not visiting, and I had no objection to this.

Several years ago, I was visiting for Thanksgiving, and so was my stepmother’s sister. The room choices were to stay in either my room, or a guest/craft room.

My room was larger, and my stepmother’s sister arrived first and was put there!

When I arrived several days later, they told me that the first guest to arrive is usually given the larger room — so I stayed in the craft room. Shouldn’t they have saved my room for me?

— Displaced in VA DEAR DISPLACED: Shouldn’t you have offered to give up your room to your family’s guest? Yes, you should have. You have held onto this petty gripe for several years. Let it go.

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Much can be accomplished that will improve not only your relationships, but your environment and surroundings.

Romance is in the stars, and promises can be made.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you say what’s on your mind, you’ll find a way to solidify plans you’ve been wanting to make for some time. A promising relationship will become stronger if you speak the truth.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take care of responsibilities personally. If you trust someone to handle your affairs, you will be disappointed.

Gather information and avoid making a mistake.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Don’t lose sight of your target. If you put everything you’ve got into reaching your goal, the rewards will prove to be worthwhile. Plan to celebrate your victory with a loved one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Emotional matters will surface if you or someone close to you isn’t truthful or tries to skirt important issues.

Keep things in perspective and stick to details and facts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Trust and believe in your ability. Take the lead and make your voice heard. You can bring about change that will improve your life and important relationships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Put more time and effort into personal improvements. Spend less and do more. Concentrate on better health and less excess. Joint ventures will not offer the results you are hoping for.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Listen to what others have to say, but act on principle, facts and truth. Follow your instincts and be straightforward about your intentions and feelings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Keep personal matters a secret. If you listen to others’ complaints, it will provide insight into the incentives you can offer to help you get what you want.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Follow your heart and start acting on your plans. Speak your mind and share your feelings. Love and romance are highlighted and will improve your personal life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Be careful what you say and how you handle others. Saying the wrong word or exaggerating the facts will put you in an awkward position. Practice moderation and minimalism.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — Money matters, contracts and settlements should be handled personally. Know what you want and oversee anything that requires you to deal with government agencies, institutions or authority figures.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Don’t let the actions of others make you angry. Do your own thing and let your success speak for you. What you accomplish will be a reflection of you and your capabilities.

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Ivanka to visit Duluth A New Sex Pill Takes the President’s daughter traveling to UPS facility PAID ADVERTISEMENT

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is why the makers of Vesele say their pill has worked so effectively in clinical trials. It stimulates the two most important organs for great sex, the penis and the brain.

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

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

“And although they work for some men, the majority experience absolutely no fulfillment during sex.

According to research published by the National Institute of Health, 50% of men taking these drugs stop responding or can’t tolerate their side effects... and on top of that they spend $50 per pill and it doesn’t even work half the time.

This is what makes Vesele so different and effective. It floods the blood stream with key ingredients which cause arteries all over the body to expand. The patented accelerator speeds up this process even more.

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

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

Expiring Patent Opens the Door to a New Sex Pill: Vesele is a new pill that cost just $1 a dose does not require a prescription. It works on both body and mind to increase arousal and erection hardness. taken regularly, many men say they are energized and aroused all day.”

Great Sex At Any Age With the conclusion of their latest human clinical use survey trial, Dr. Esber and his team are now offering Vesele in the US. And regardless of the market, its sales are exploding.

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

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

Their erections also lasted twice as long.

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

Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day.

The anticipation before sex was amazing.

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

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

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

And although there are many theories as to why this happens (including a loss in testosterone) one thing is certain, inadequate blood flow is virtually always to blame.

That’s why sex drug manufacturers focus on blood flow, it makes your erection hard.

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

Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that lead to both the brain

and penis. The extreme concentration of the ingredients combined with the accelerator ensures that this process starts quickly.

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

This is why many men take it every single day.

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

That’s because the same arteries and vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the brain and genitals are the same in men and women.

Ivanka Trump will be in Duluth this morning, along with Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp.

Trump, who serves as an advisor to her father, President Donald Trump, will visit and tour UPS Integrad, a driver training facility, according to Jessica Ditto, White House deputy director of Communications.

“During the visit, Ivanka will receive a tour of the facility, experience the training program first-hand and meet with students,” Ditto said.

“Ivanka Trump will also participate in a roundtable discussion with Gov. Kemp and (UPS CEO David) Abney and hear directly from the UPS employees who are learning valuable skills to be able to succeed in their skills at UPS and beyond.”

Trump will also be briefed on UPS’ efforts to combat human trafficking.

By Curt yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County commissioners agreed to

You can imagine why some couples are taking Vesele together. Everything feels better. Everything works better. Everyone performs better. It’s truly amazing.”

A New Frontier of Non-Prescription Sex Pills With daily use, Vesele is helping men (and women) restore failing sex lives and overcome sexual lets downs without side effect or expense.

Through a patented absorption enhancer, the Vesele formula hits the bloodstream quickly, resulting in phenomenal improvements in erection firmness and hardness.

By boosting blood flow to the brain, users also experience sexual urges and arousal they often haven’t felt in years.

Where to Find Vesele This is the official release of Vesele in Georgia. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to any reader who calls within the next 48 hours.

A special hotline number and discounted pricing has been created for all Georgia residents.

Discounts will be available starting today at 6:00AM and will automatically be applied to all callers.

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Ivanka Trump, who serves as an advisor to her father, President Donald Trump, will visit and tour UPS Integrad, a driver training facility, today. (Special Photo)

“The Trump administration has made the fight against human trafficking one of its highest priorities,” Ditto said.

“The president recently signed into law four robust pieces of bipartisan legislation to prevent human trafficking, punish perpetrators and support victims.”

Ditto said the visit also “reaffirms the Trump administration’s commitment to workforce development and skills training.”

“Last July, UPS Chief Transformation Officer

Scott Price joined President Trump at the White House to sign a pledge to America’s workers, with UPS committed to providing 51,750 enhanced career opportunities and job training through their higher education (opportunities),” Ditto said. “The pledge to the American worker, since it launched last July, has amassed more than 6.5 million individuals pledged to the private sector and it continues to encourage more and more private sector support.”

Gwinnett to buy Waffle House for Harbins Road, Ga. 316 interchange

“In our most recent study, women taking Vesele saw a stunning 52% improvement in arousal and sex drive.

Perhaps more impressive, they also experienced a 57% improvement in lubrication.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS NOT TYPICAL.

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

as part of ‘workforce development’ initiative

become the proud owners of a Waffle House on Tuesday, but this is not a new scattered, smothered and covered business venture for the county’s

government.

The Waffle House, which commissioners agreed to purchase for $875,000, is located on a 0.734-acre parcel of land at the intersection of state Route 316 and Harbins Road in Dacula.

County and state officials are planning to convert that intersection to an interchange, with Harbins Road becoming an overpass, as work continues to make state Route 316 a limited access highway. That means existing properties that are close to the intersection — Waffle House included — must be torn down to make room for the interchange.

“The interchange is much more important than the Waffle House, but I’ve always termed that ‘my Waffle House’ because Mayor Jimmy Wilbanks from Dacula and I — that’s where most of our meetings occurred,” commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said before commissioners voted on the purchase.

The county also used declaration of taking condemnation proceedings on two properties owned by IMCC Harbins LLC south of state Route 316 to gain permanent drainage easements. Both properties are zoned for commercial development but they have not been developed.

Both properties have 862 Harbins Road listed as their address in property tax records. County officials will pay IMCC Harbins officials $7,100 for 5,670.25 square feet of easement at one parcel that is located farther away from the highway and $26,100 for 7,458.28 square feet of easement at a parcel that is located closer to the highway.

Acting County Attorney Mike Ludwiczak told commissioners the county had tried to negotiate a purchase of the space for the easements but could not reach an agreement with the owners.

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Gwinnett businesses’ products are finalists in ‘Flavor of Georgia’

By Curt yeomans

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Two foods made by Gwinnett County businesses are finalists in the University of Georgia’s Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest, school officials announced this past week.

The university said Habeebs’s Honey Braised Sauce, which is made by Kay’s Cookery in

Lawrenceville, and the chicken, butternut, leek and thyme pie made by Pouch Pies in Norcross will compete for top honors during the final round of judging next month.

Habeebs’s Honey Braised Sauce is a finalist in the sauces and seasonings category, while Pouch Pies’ chicken, butternut, leek and thyme pie is a finalist in the meat and seafood cat-

egory.

“Once again, the level of innovation and talent in represented our contest has left amazed and excited for things to come,” said Sharon P. Kane, the contest coordinator and an economist with the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.

“Georgia is home to some of

signed a lease for space in the old John Wesley intended to streamline the United Methodist Church process homeless resibuilding in Norcross for dents go through to get as- an assessment center, sistance to make it easier which is another big step to get help. The goal is to the organization plans to have that system up and take. The center will be a running by April. place where people who HomeFirst also recently need help can come in and

undergo an assessment to see which services they need.

It will also have a shelter with 20 beds for women and children. The center is expected to open in June, and Elder told commissioners earlier this month that HomeFirst

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plans to open a second assessment shelter somewhere in the county by the end of the year.

“Homelessness is a community issue that affects more individuals and families in Gwinnett than most people know,” Nash said. “The situa-

tion that faces children who are either homeless or precariously housed while they are attempting to attend school and learn is particularly compelling in terms of the long-term impact this can have when a child is unable to finish school.”

That also had an impact on the park-and-ride lot on Indian Trail, the Gwinnett County Transit Department tweeted at 6:30 a.m.

“Service Alert: Sorry for the inconvenience we are unable to service the Indian Tri Park & Ride routes 102, 110 due to road closure. We appreciate your understanding,” the tweet said.

The Park and Ride lot was expected to be closed through today. Service on Route 102 was canceled Tuesday, though Route 110 continued to service the Sugarloaf Mills Park and Ride lot as scheduled.

The closure also played a role in heavy delays on I-85 South om Tuesday morning, as did the day’s weather — something Butynski also said is going to continue to “hamper some of the (sinkhole) repairs.”

“With bad weather and dealing with everything in ground, the possibility of it interfering with repairs

is (great),” Butynski said.

While the Georgia Department of Transportation has been contacted about the sinkhole, because it is not its jurisdiction, the state agency’s “involvement is very limited,” GDOT District 1 spokeswoman Katie Strickland said.

The only role GDOT is playing is the closing of the I-85 southbound ramp, which Strickland said is estimated to be “about a 24-hour thing.”

GDOT will keep drivers updated on social media as to the ramp’s reopening, she said.

Butynski said because of the closures, Norcross police were urging people to avoid the area.

“If at all possible, avoid the area,” he said. “If (drivers) have to be in the area, please go slow and stay calm, and (prepare for) delays.”

Staff reporter Curt Yeomans contributed to this report.

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before the road can be fixed.

Interstate 85 southbound.

Richards said the “Officers were out in sinkhole formed in an the area and saw the water area served by the 30-inch and started telling people, water line. That line had ‘Hey, there’s a water main a 16-inch valve on it that break,’” Butynski said. dated back to the 1970s “Then, (because of) the and was no longer in use. water, there was a big “Basically, (the valve) collapse of dirt — the broke, so basically, you’ve sinkhole — which took got a 16-inch hole in a out a traffic control arm.

30-inch line,” Richards The Gwinnett County said. “The reason why we water (department) and the couldn’t get in and repair Gwinnett Department of it immediately is you had Transportation responded a pole that went in there and are in the process of … and there were also filling up the hole and put- cables there, and we were ting up a temporary traffic trying to determine if they signal.” were power lines.

For now, it’s unclear “We had Georgia Power when the sinkhole will come up, and Walton be fixed. Gwinnett DOT EMC, and they weren’t Director Alan Chapman either one of those. I think and Gwinnett Departthey decided it was some ment of Water Resources kind of other cable that I Assistant Director Tyler think they were able to get Richards told the Daily around. Then a crane came Post it will depend on the out and removed the base weather. They said the rain of that hole, and unfortumust stop before crews nately, it started pouring. can fix the water line, and There’s a storm drain that the ground has to dry out came into that hole, so it’s

full up with water now.”

Richards said crews are waiting for the rain to slow down enough so the water that is in the hole, which is 30 feet wide by 30 feet long and 15 feet deep, can be pumped out.

“But even if we get it pumped out and repaired, it’s going to be a while before we’ll be able to fill it up with dirt and pave it over if it keeps raining like it is,” she said.

While crews worked to determine the cause of the water main break, drivers had to figure out other routes on Tuesday, given Indian Trail Road was virtually shut down.

“There are some movements that are open,” Chapman said. “If you’re going northbound on Brookhollow, you can take a right and get to the southbound on ramp to I-85 or you can also cross the bridge, but almost all of the movements have been closed all morning and all day.”

obituaries Jack A. Marshall Jack A. Marshall, age, 95, of Buford, GA, passed away Monday, February 18, 2019. He was preceded in death by parents, Henry and Lula Marshall; sisters, Floyce Lynn, Montine Earl; and brother, Durward Marshall. Mr. Marshall is survived by his wife of seventy years, Regina T. Marshall, Buford, GA; sons and daughter-in-law, Ricky and Susan Marshall, Buford, GA, Jeff Marshall, Buford, GA; grandchildren, Hunter Marshall, Whitney and Michael Pass, Toccoa, GA, and Jerica Marshall, Toccoa, GA; two great grandchildren, Rowan Pass, Aemon Pass; sister-in-law, Carrie Lou Grizzle, Murphy, NC; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Marshall was born August 3, 1923, in Buford, GA. He was a retired building contractor and owner of J. A. Marshall Construction, Buford, GA. Mr. Marshall was of Baptist faith. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, February 21.

2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Mr. Dale Jones and Mr. Royce Lynn officiating. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery, Buford, GA. The family will receive friends from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at the funeral home.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.

“Shark Tank”-style pitches.

The judges will include food brokers, grocery buyers and other food industry experts who will grade products based on their taste, innovation, market potential and “Georgia theme.”

The university said a full list of finalists can be found at flavorofgeorgia.caes.uga.edu. The finalists were picked from 138 products in 11 categories.

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Buford, GA

the most creative minds in the food business, and the Flavor of Georgia contest is our yearly reminder of lucky we are to live in state that values entrepreneurship and good food.”

The final round of judging will occur March 19 at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in Atlanta. During the final round, contestants will serve samples to the judges and make

Commerce

Shirley Jean Still Masters Shirley Jean Still Masters age 79 of Commerce formerly of Lawrenceville passed away February 17, 2019. She was preceded in death by her sons Mark Masters, Benny Still, grandson Michael Masters, parents Herman & Lilly Still, brother Ernest Still, sister Sara Buice.

She is survived by her son & daughter in law Ronnie & Debbie Masters of Alto, daughter & son in law Damaras & Jason Reese of Dacula, grandchildren Tabitha Turner, JJ Nichols, Rochell Ridlehoover, step grandchildren Christie Higgins, Bobby Reese, great grandchildren Callie, Sam & Hunter Turner, Asa Nichols, sister Carolyn Norrid of Danielsville.

Funeral Services will be held Wednesday February 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm from the chapel of Byrd and Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Shane Robertson officiating. The family will receive friends Wednesday February 20, 2019 from 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm at the funeral home.

Byrd and Flanigan Crematory & Funeral Service, Lawrenceville in charge of the arrangements. 770962-2200

ceased by her parents, Ted and Tina Mullinax; her husband, Don E. Miller; and brother, Ronald Mullinax. She is survived by her two sons, Garrett L. Miller, of Cheyenne, WY, and Jeffrey S. Miller of Lilburn, GA. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Phyllis Miller, of Kingsport, TN, and several nieces and nephews, as well as many good friends.

Beverly was an avid reader and very well versed in what was going on in the world. She loved her church, Harmony Grove United Methodist Church, and her neighbors. She arranged for her body to be donated to the Emory School of Medicine. Both she and her late husband suffered from Type 1 diabetes and Beverly also battled depression for many years.

Despite that, she could always be counted on for a good joke or humorous story.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 3525 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30305.

A memorial service was held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 19, 2019, in the chapel of A.S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home, Decatur, GA, with Reverend Jim Landis officiating.

Online condolences may be made at www.ASTurner.com.

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Lilburn, GA

Beverly Anne “Bev” Miller (Mullinax) Beverly Miller, 82, of Lilburn, GA, passed away Tuesday, February 12, 2019. She was prede-

Benjamin Nguyen Benjamin Nguyen, age 15, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away Saturday, February 16, 2019. He is survived by father, Do Nguyen and mother, Trang Duong, Lawrenceville, GA; brother, Andrew Nguyen, Lawrenceville, GA; grandfather, Lai Duong, Buford, GA; other relatives and a host of friends. Benjamin was

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The 35,132-square-foot theater is expected to offer a premium cinema experience with reclining leather love seats and foot rests and in-theater dining. It will have six curved high-grain screens as well as an immersive bar where moviegoers can hang out before and after the film they are seeing at the theater.

CMX officials said the number of love seats in each auditorium at the theater will range from 90 to 100.

It will also have Barco 4K laser projectors, RealD XL 3D and a digital 7.1 sound system.

The menu will feature chef-driven American bistro cuisine made in-house from scratch, and moviegoers can either eat in the bar and lounge or have the food delivered to their seats in the auditorium.

There will also be a VIP private dining room for special movie screenings, corporate events, celebrations and other special occasions.

“CMX CineBistro Peachtree Corners will be the preferred entertainment destination in the area, offering a luxurious dinnerand-a-movie experience that will take the guesswork out of any night out and with premier dining options, the latest projection technology and comfortable seating,” Marti said.

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born May 1, 2003, in Snellville, GA. He was a student at Collins Hill High School, Lawrenceville, GA, where he was a member of the band.

He was a member of St. Marguerite d’Youville Catholic Church. A Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, February 22, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 319 Grayson Hwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30046. Interment will be at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens, Buford, GA. Family will receive friends from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Funeral Home.

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Dr. Victor Lee Puckett Dr. Victor Lee Puckett, age 86, of Canton, GA, passed away on February 16, 2019. Victor Lee was born on December 6, 1932 to the late Henry Alvis Puckett and Lottie S. (Johnson) Puckett in Buford, GA. He was the youngest of their 9 children.

Victor Lee graduated from Buford High school and then from the University of Georgia in 1954 with a Degree in Agriculture Engineering. Upon his graduation, Victor Lee joined the United States Navy and served during the Korean Conflict. After 4 years of Navy duty, Victor Lee decided to further his education and went back to the University of Georgia where he received a Degree in Veterinary Medicine. Victor Lee

ultimately retired from the Navy after 22 years of service. On November 22, 1961 Victor Lee married his wife, Dorothy Knox Dean Puckett, at the Duluth United Methodist Church.

Victor Lee is preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Hettie Ellen Puckett; his brother, Warren Ovid Puckett; his sister, Lou Anna (John) Stowe; his brother, Henry Allen (Delsie) Puckett; his sister, Mary Alice (Art) Santora; and his brother, William Edward (Mary) Puckett.

Victor Lee is survived by his wife, Dorothy; his daughter, Toni (Robert) Dillard; and his brother, Bona Puckett (Sue Smout).

Victor Lee’s family will receive friends on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at Northside Chapel from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.

A Funeral Service will be held at Orange United Methodist Church on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 2:00pm with an additional visitation held one hour prior to the service. A graveside service will be held at Georgia National Cemetery on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or Orange United Methodist Church.

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Edgar Black Sterrett, Jr. Ed was born in 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. He was the son of Edgar B. Sterrett, Sr. and Elizabeth Frailey Sterrett. He graduated from Overbrook

High School and enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17, right out of high school, and five months prior to the end of World War II. He signed up for another two years in the Navy after the war ended.

Ed attended and graduated from Gettysburg College and was active in ROTC, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, intramural sports, and the college choir. He also met his future wife, Nancy, there. They spent 65 happy years together before his death.

After graduation, he worked for Armstrong World Industries and had assignments in Chicago, Minneapolis, Lancaster, PA, Los Angeles, Gaithersburg, MD, and Atlanta before retiring.

Ed and Nancy have four children: Elizabeth (William White), Virginia (Jerry Chen), Thomas (Linda McVey), and Carole (Kurt Doner). They have 10 grandchildren, one step-grandson, and six great grandchildren. His sisters, Jane Acton and Thelma Nulton, are both deceased.

Ed was a member of the Button Gwinnett Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and served a term as Georgia State President. He also was a member of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Lawrenceville and sang in the church choir.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 11 AM at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church 3305 Lawrenceville Hwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30044.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Ed’s memory to Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry.

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also had an eye on the future, one that appears to be very bright based on their performances.

MACON — Like every “We’re climbing,” said team with at least one Collins Hill coach Nate individual competing, Ethridge, whose Eagles the main focus for Gwinrode the strength of seven nett County’s high school state placers, including wrestling teams was on state champions Lucas the present for the 2019 DeSilva and Tomari Georgia High School Asso- Fox, to a state runner-up ciation’s State Traditional finish behind champion Wrestling Championships Camden County in the this past weekend at the Class AAAAAAA team Macon Centreplex. standings. “We’re doing However, many Gwinthe right things, and the nett teams and individuals kids are believing. You

david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com Collins Hill’s Lucas DeSilva reacts after winning in the Georgia High School wrestling championships on Saturday.

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Top 10 opponents Norcross, Grayson meet in second round state basketball doubleheader

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By definition, no state basketball tournament game is ever supposed to be easy.

Yet it has been quite common, especially in recent years, to hear coaches, players and fans alike bemoan the number of heavyweight matchups in earlier rounds of the Georgia High School Association’s state tournament given the practice of matching up certain regions with each other in each classifications’ brackets.

Sure enough, the luck of the draw has produced at least two such matchups in the second round of this year’s Class AAAAAAA when Norcross’ boys and girls teams travel to Grayson for a doubleheader Thursday.

Both games feature a clash of teams ranked in the Georgia Sports Writers Association/Kyle Sandy top 10 rankings, with the host Rams (26-2) girls checking in at No. 2 and awaiting the ninth-ranked Blue Devils (18-10), while the boys game will be a top-five clash between the second-ranked Rams (253) and fourth-ranked Blue Devils (20-8).

The boys game, which tips off at approximately 7:30 p.m. following the girls game at 6 p.m., is one of several big-time boys second-round matchups involving Gwinnett teams, including all-Gwinnett games with Shiloh visiting No. 7 Discovery and Archer traveling to Peachtree Ridge, plus third-ranked Meadowcreek hosting No. 9 Newton.

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Surviving loaded Region 8-AAAAAAA was a huge task in itself for the Archer boys basketball team.

The vertically challenged Tigers, with no player on the roster taller than 6-foot-4, barely accomplished that mission with a 50-49 win over South Gwinnett in a region tournament elimination game. They entered the state playoffs as an underdog on paper with a sub-.500 record, a No. 4 seed and an apparent slim chance to MORE defeat No. 1 INSIDE seed Milton Second-round in the first state playoff round Satschedule for urday. boys and girls Yet they hoops, 8B did just that in the opener, shocking the Region 5-AAAAAAA champion Eagles 57-52.

“Everything in Region 8 just prepares you for those moments (in the state tournament),” Archer head coach Joel Lecoeuvre said.

“There are no nights off in Region 8. We felt like if we could get in the tournament, we’d have a chance.”

Archer (14-14), which plays at Peachtree Ridge in Thursday’s second round, likely would have a better overall record in a more friendly region. It went a combined 0-8 during the regular season against region foes Grayson, Newton, Shiloh and South Gwinnett.

Those losses are far from embarrassing — Grayson (25-3), Newton (22-7) and Shiloh (17-8) all join the Tigers See ARCHER, Page 8B

know, Camden’s a great team. I believe they’re the best team in Georgia, no disrespect to anybody else.

They just had more (placers) than we did. We did our best.”

With DeSilva and four other state placers being underclassmen and scheduled to return next year, the chances are good for Collins Hill to stay strong in the coming years.

The same can be said of a number of other Gwinnett

Norcross’s Morgan Robinson (30) scores as Brookwood’s Kiki Adams (21) looks on during the Region 7-AAAAAAA basketball tournament last week at Meadowcreek High School. (Photo: Craig Cappy)

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Getting to Know ... Kelly Brooks Whether it’s been as a player, coach or administrator, Kelly Brooks has been participating in athletics as long as he can remember, and he has enjoyed all three areas.

But perhaps the athletic pursuit he has enjoyed the most is the role he filled as academic and membership affairs director for the NCAA, which included roles in rules enforcement and the legislative relief process for athletic programs and student-

athletes. Having moved to Buford about four years ago, Brooks now hopes to use his experience to help bring knowledge and awareness of NCAA rules and enforcement to student-athletes and their families around metro Atlanta through a new consulting firm he is starting up. He recently spoke with staff writer David Friedlander about that venture, as well as his experiences with coaching college basketball and working in

the NCAA office, as well as other subjects.

DF: Before we talk about your career as an administrator, take me back to your experience as an athlete yourself.

What sports did you play?

KB: I grew up (in Starkville, Miss.) playing soccer and basketball, which is a great combination because soccer gives you the footwork and helps you along the way with a lot of different things.

… In Mississippi during that time, soccer and basketball were played on the high school level at the same time during the year. So you had to choose, and I ended up choosing basketball and played basketball in high school. … Then I started coaching (while still) in college. …

I coached three years at the Division II level, and then I went on to coach (women’s basketball as an Kelly Brooks of FCA Gwinnett worked for eight years at

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got wins from Phoenix Armstead (100, 12.76), Kimberly Harris (200, 24.35), The Buford girls and Shiloh boys track Callie Snell (pole vault, 8-0) and Hayley and field teams won the titles this past Iverson (long jump, 17-8 3/4).

Saturday at the Parkview Invitational.

Meadowcreek’s Sideequa AbdurrahBuford topped the girls standings with man won the girls discus at 117-0.

147.33 points, Parkview was second at 85 Shiloh’s first-place boys had three inand Shiloh was a close third at 83.33. The dividual event winners, including runners Meadowcreek girls placed 10th.

Omar Simpson (400, 50.25) and Elijah In the boys division, Shiloh edged run- Berry (800, 1:56.29). The Generals’ Isaac ner-up East Coweta 135-130.5. Parkview Dowling won the shot put at 49-8. was third at 115, Buford was fifth and Host Parkview also had three individMeadowcreek was ninth. ual champions, all in field events. Brian Britiney Johnson led the Buford girls Hauch won the pole vault (15-4), Matwith victories in both the high jump (5 thew Chavers won the long jump (22-11 feet, 1 inch) and the 800-meter run (2 3/4) and Cody Brown won the discus minutes, 31.54 seconds). The Wolves also (141-6).

IN BRIEF the hosting rights to this year’s Peach Spartans’ Hutchinson Junior State Championships tennis honored with USTA award State tournament.

Greater Atlanta Christian tennis direcThe event, held in late May, had tor Scott Hutchinson was given the state’s previously been held in Macon. One United States Tennis Association Tennis Love, established in 2000, hosts youth Director of the Year Award earlier this tennis tournaments in the Gwinnett area month. throughout the year.

Award winners were nominated by their peers for their work in 2018. The Serena climbs back to USTA Georgia Awards Committee selects Top 10 in WTA rankings the final winners.

Serena Williams has made her way “Since our inception in 2017, the GAC back to the Top 10 in the WTA rankings Tennis Academy has focused on one for the first time since the birth of her primary goal, to provide a pathway for daughter in September 2017. all abilities to learn, engage and develop Williams is No. 10 in the latest rankas great tennis players,” Hutchinson said ings released Monday. in a press release. “This award is a direct Japan’s Naomi Osaka remained No. reflection of the passionate work that our 1. Simona Halep of Romania and Sloane staff has put into obtaining that goal. I Stephens each moved up a spot to Nos. 2 couldn’t be prouder of the work we are and 3, respectively. doing to inspire young athletes. This has Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam been evident in the completion of our two indoor tennis courts, the only indoor champion, is next scheduled to play in the courts on a school campus in the state of BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., in March — the same tournament that Georgia. The indoor courts have been a marked her return to the tour last spring. game-changer for our academy, providThe 37-year-old has not played since ing the ability for kids to engage in tennis the Australian Open last month, which before, during and after school.” she exited in the quarterfinals.

Williams first appeared in the Top 10 One Love Tennis to host on April 5, 1999. This is her 793rd career state championships week in the Top 10.

One Love Tennis has been awarded — From staff, wire reports

Mueller wins Bassmaster Elite shootout title on Lake Lanier From Staff Reports

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Preece makes splash in debut Cup rookie pushes veterans to last lap at Daytona

3 p.m. — Lanier and Duluth at Suwanee Station 3 p.m. — Shiloh at Grayson 3:30 p.m. — Discovery at Apalachee 3:30 p.m. — Mill Creek at Westminster 3:30 p.m. — Norcross boys at North 3:30 p.m. — North girls at Norcross 3:30 p.m. — North Hall at Dacula 3:30 p.m. — Parkview at Brookwood 3:30 p.m. — Rockdale Co. at Shiloh 3:30 p.m. — West Hall and Mountain View at E.E. Robinson Park 4 p.m. — Collins Hill at North Oconee 4 p.m. — Hebron girls at Prince Avenue 4 p.m. — Lakeview Academy at Providence

plate races,” Preece said.

“I have a good relationship with Joey. Other than that, DAYTONA BEACH, he’s really good at making Fla. — As far as Dayholes. He got me to third tona 500 debuts go, Ryan and I didn’t do a good Preece was plenty encourenough job blocking and aged if not wholly satisfied trying to help him move with his eighth-place finish forward to.

Sunday night.

“This is a learning experience. Everyone talks He was running top-five, about learning and I can had even pushed into the tell you multiple things I top three with a lap to go, learned today to help me but got shuffled out by better my career but also veterans as the checkered learn what I need to do flag flew to close out the overtime season-opener.

NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Preece (47) waits dur- different the next time I In the moments after ing practice for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International come.”

A two-time winner in climbing out of his No. 47 Speedway. (Mike Dinovo-USA Today Sports) the NASCAR Xfinity JTG Daugherty Chevrolet Series, Preece eventually Camaro ZL1, he stood on so committed to pushing field approached the most walked off pit road much pit road and looked at reJoey (Logano), I focused famous checkered flag in more encouraged than plays of the race finish on more on him than I did NASCAR. frustrated. This is the bigthe giant television screen some of the runs I probably The reigning NASgest opportunity of his life a few yards away. should have focused on.

CAR Cup champion Joey and Sunday night was a There were the final two “All in all it’s a good Logano, was certainly good start. laps for review. Toyota day. It’s an eighth-place complimentary of his fel“I’m a racer. … and I’m driver Denny Hamlin finish, a great day for low Connecticut native. competitive so I’m going earned his second Daytona JTG.” “It was intense as you to nitpick myself right 500 win and on the last Another replay of the would expect with the now,” Preece said. “When lap, it looked as if Preece race finish showed again Daytona 500 on the line I get in my truck and drive may finish on the podium over the speedway as Pre- and I had a great push by in his 500 debut. Instead, a ece finished speaking with the 47 of Ryan Preece and home and watch this finish I’m going to say, ‘Man, last lap shuffle — so typi- reporters.

I thought that was cool,” cal of this race — resulted “It’s so frustrating Logano said after climbing I could have had fifth. I could have had third.’ But in Preece losing positions watching it,” Preece said, out of his car. “We grew at the end of the day, it’s as the field took the check- obviously trying to sumup racing quarter-midgets ered flag. mon a smile. “We were in against each other in Con- still a great day.

“All in all, today’s been But the 28-year old third place on the white necticut and it just shows about finishing the race, Connecticut native still flag lap and got flushed.” that dreams can really but hopefully gaining peomanaged a smile at his Perhaps in the coming come true. top-10 standing by his car days, the Monster Energy “I’m proud to be racing ple that will work with me in the future. If I can keep and shaking hands with his NASCAR Cup rookie will with him in the Daytona on putting that group of smiling JTG Daugherty look back at the closing 500. I think that’s superpeople together for maybe Racing crew. laps as encouragement. His cool.” the July race (at Daytona) “Sitting here watching competitors were imPreece also recognized or Talladega, I can build this I’m probably gopressed with the job he did the opportunity to partner that reputation of ‘Hey, we ing to get frustrated with and the crowd seemed to with Logano, a former can work with him.’ myself because there’s a be as well. He was comDaytona 500 winner, and “Then we will run up couple things I could have petitive all day, avoided appreciated the restrictor front more at the end of done different to help my multiple late-race accidents plate lesson. chances,” Preece said as he and put himself in posi“I know he does a really these races and put ourwatched the replay. “I was tion to be a factor as the good job at these restrictor selves in a good situation.”

• Providence in F.A.T. All Comers #1 at George Walton Academy 4 p.m. — Duluth at Parkview 4 p.m. — Notre Dame, Riverside Military at Wesleyan

Bowyer’s last-ditch effort ends in wreck

Prep Schedule

Today

BASEBALL

3:30 p.m. — Discovery at Meadowcreek (DH) 5:30 p.m. — Apalachee at Duluth 5:30 p.m. — Brookwood at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Dacula at Berkmar 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at Loganville 6 p.m. — Archer at Buford 6 p.m. — Collins Hill at Forsyth Central 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Lanier 6 p.m. — Winder-Barrow at Peachtree Ridge

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Mill Creek girls at Blessed Trinity 5:30 p.m. — North Springs girls at Norcross 6 p.m. — Brookwood girls at South Forsyth 6 p.m. — Dacula boys at Gainesville 6:30 p.m. — Wesleyan boys at Lovett 7 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge girls at Johns Creek

SOCCER

5 p.m. — Wesleyan girls at Woodward Academy

TENNIS

3:30 p.m. — Fellowship Christian at Providence 3:30 p.m. — Mill Creek and South Forsyth at Fowler Park 3:30 p.m. — Mountain View at Dacula 3:30 p.m. — Parkview at Hebron 4 p.m. — Mount Pisgah at Wesleyan 4 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Northview Thursday

BASEBALL

5:30 p.m. — Discovery at Central 6 p.m. — Lakeside-DeKalb at South

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Chattahoochee girls at Wesleyan 5 p.m. — Grayson girls at Collins Hill 5:30 p.m. — Archer boys at Dunwoody 7:30 p.m. — Norcross boys at Peachtree Ridge

SOCCER

5:30 p.m. — Prince Avenue Christian at Hebron

TENNIS

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

7 p.m. — Louisville at Syracuse ESPN 7 p.m. — Florida at LSU ESPN2 7 p.m. — Boston College at N.C. State FSSO 7 p.m. — Villanova at Georgetown FS1 7 p.m. — Tulane at Memphis ESPNU 7 p.m. — Women, West Virginia at Oklahoma St. FSSE 9 p.m. — North Carolina at Duke WPCH 9 p.m. — Stanford at Arizona State ESPN2 9 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech FSSO 9 p.m. — St. John’s at Providence FS1 9 p.m. — Wichita State at Tulsa ESPNU 9 p.m. — Creighton at DePaul FSSE 11 p.m. — Utah at Washington FS1

NHL

7:30 p.m. — Chicago at Detroit NBCSP 10 p.m. — Boston at Vegas NBCSP

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RUNNING

May 4: The Gwinnett County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in partnership with The Fortitude Foundation, will host its 5K Crimson Run/Walk on May 4 at Tribble Mill Park. All proceeds benefit GCAC’s scholarship program for Gwinnett County students. Entry fee is $35.

The race, a 2020 Peachtree Road Race qualifier, begins at 8:22 a.m. Registration is at 7:30 a.m., followed by welcome and warm-up at 8 a.m. For more information, email 5K@gwinnettdst.org.

Registration is available online at runsignup.com/ crimson5K.

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April 27: The Harlem Legends, made up of past Harlem Globetrotters and other pro athletes, will host a Hoops and Health Celebrity Basketball Show at the Dacula High School gym. The event features a 3 p.m. youth clinic, a 4 p.m.

VIP meet and greet and a 5 p.m. show that pits the Legends against the Gwinnett County All-Stars, made up of local educators, law enforcement members, politicians and other community leaders. For more info, go to www.harlemlegends. com, call 678-630-8843 or email harlemlegends24@ harlemlegends.com.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The timing was right. Unfortunately, from Clint Bowyer’s standpoint, the execution left something to be desired.

Bowyer was running out of time after a restart with two laps left in regulation in Sunday’s Daytona 500. On the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway, he ducked to the inside of Michael McDowell’s Ford in a three-wide attempt to move forward from his fifth running position.

But contact with McDowell’s car ignited a nine-car wreck that sent the race into overtime — without Bowyer in it.

“Hey, it’s the Daytona 500 — I had to go for it,” said Bowyer, who was credited with a 20th-place finish. “I was a little bit frustrated with the lineup (for the Lap 199 restart).

I know I was ahead of the 22 (Joey Logano) when the caution came out, but I guess it went back to the last scoring loop or something.

“This just sucks, man.

We had such a good Rush Truck Centers, Mobil 1 Ford Mustang. This is my best foot forward I have ever had here. We had a shot at it, and I took it. I had a big run on the 34 (McDowell), and knew that I had to make quick work of him because in the mirror they were going three-wide and losing their minds, so you knew that was going to come down on you.

“So I decided to lose my mind, too.”

NASCAR Cup Series drivers William Bryon (24), Brad Keselowski (2), Jaime McMurray (40), Brendan Gaughan (62) and Erik Jones (20) wreck during Sunday’s Daytona 500.

(Mike Dinovo-USA Today Sports)

doubling the 23 he had led in his previous 140 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts combined.

In his first race in the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Toyota Camry, DiBenedetto was running near the front when Paul Menard’s Ford hit him from behind and turned him into the outside wall as the cars approach Turn 3. By the time the sparks stopped flying, 21 cars had been involved in the wreck, and DiBenedetto had been eliminated from the race.

“Just one of those racing deals,” DiBenedetto said ruefully after leaving the infield care center. “I talked to Paul there, and he was just trying to get to my outside and got into my right rear. This is the first time that I’m seeing it (on replay), and he just got to my right rear and was trying to push. I was focused on trying to help my DiBenedetto’s run Toyota teammates. This comes to violent end was the best speedway Matt DiBenedetto’s event I’ve had in my life – 28th-place finish hardly being able to lead and do did justice to the way the some incredible things.

Grass Valley, Calif., driver “This is such a great performed in Sunday’s team and I know we can Daytona 500. show them what we’re doAfter all, DiBenedetto ing here. I’m just so proud held the top spot for a race- to be a part of Toyota and high 49 laps, more than Procore as my sponsor —

cars ripped the left rear quarter panel off Johnson’s Chevy, leaving the fuel coupler dangling without support. With multiple trips to pit road, the crew got the car in running condition, but NASCAR held Johnson for two laps because it took an extra man to fuel the car.

Ultimately, Johnson got both laps back as the highJohnson scores est scored lapped car under miraculous Top 10 two late cautions, and Advance Auto Parts managed to avoid major Clash winner Jimmie damage the rest of the way Johnson finished ninth in Sunday’s Daytona 500, to roll home ninth. but the top-10 result was “Yeah, I’ve never been hardly routine. hit like that on pit lane,” Driving in his first Johnson said. “That was Monster Energy NASCAR the start of the craziness. I Cup Series points race don’t know if that kept us with new crew chief Kevin out of trouble and got us Meendering on his pit box, a good finish or what, but Johnson had been fighting certainly not something teammate and pole winner that we were anticipating.

William Byron for the lead That just set off a chain before heading for pit road reaction of events from on Lap 159. there.”

That’s when a chain“There was a lot to manreaction wreck changed the age that last 30 laps from nature of his race. Contact an issue with trying to get between the Rick Ware the fueler neck in place to Racing cars of Cody Ware fuel the car, which resulted in a penalty. Getting those and BJ McLeod started a two laps back, working pinball-like sequence that on the car multiple times, sent the No. 31 Chevrolet multiple crashes, for a of Tyler Reddick sliding first true race together as a toward Johnson’s No. 48 group, a really, really brilChevrolet. liant day.”

Contact between the all these guys — Leavine Family Racing and Toyota, they all took a heck of a chance on me, and I’m glad we proved what we’re here to do. I’m pretty heartbroken, but appreciative to be here. Thank you so much to all the fans for all the support, just happy to be here.”

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down to 170 eventually,” said Spikes, a three-sport underclassmen to place this standout at Mountain View past weekend, including who is committed to play Mountain View’s Garrett baseball at Georgia, and Spikes and Brookwood’s finished third at 170 pounds Chase Hornsby, as well as as a sophomore in 2018.

Buford, which had at least “I’ll probably be at about seven state placers as under- 195 by the end of baseball classmen, including Nick season, and I’ll probably Stonecheck, who won his start out next (wrestling third straight state title, and season) at 195 before tryfirst-time champions Blaine ing to cut down to 182 (for Bergey and Nick Corday. wrestling).”

In Spikes’ case, he is But perhaps the brightest already planning strategy to future lies with Gwinnett’s try and get back to the top of contingent of female wresthe podium next year after tlers, which had a big day in winning the 170-pound state Saturday’s finals. title in Class AAAAAAA Three different girls — this past Saturday, even with North Gwinnett sophomore a very important baseball Dianna Holmes and Duseason ahead for the Bears’ luth’s Aki Choates and Coljunior. lins Hill’s Tiyahna Askew, “I was at 185 at the end both juniors — will return of football season and got as defending state champi-

ons after becoming the first Gwinnett wrestlers to earn those titles in the GHSA’s first season for offering a separate girls division.

And with other underclassmen state placers, Gwinnett’s girls division appears to have set a good foundation for the future.

“It says that we’re trying to take steps,” Holmes said after her pin of Stephens County’s Athena Malek in 2:47 to win the girls 106-pound weight class Saturday. “You never know if it’s going to be the correct steps, so I’m glad we’re taking those steps forward.

I’m not sure what it’s going to mean … but I think it’s going to mean we’re involving more girls and building more and more and growing (girls wrestling).”

Duluth’s Aki Choates competes in the Georgia High School wrestling championships on Saturday. (Photo: Cory Hancock)

Buford’s Nick Stonecheck competes in the Georgia High School wrestling championships on Saturday. (Photo: Cory Hancock)

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ting my foot in the door in a position like that so early, assistant) at the University it did have a lot to do with of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. my background.

I coached there for four DF: So what do you years on their staff. think you learned most DF: Tell me how you from those experiences, got to coaching at that and how did you apply level. You don’t see a lot it to your career going of people get to coaching forward? at a major power conferKB: The experiences ence without extensive of just working for really playing and coaching good people that trusted in experience. So how did my skills and abilities, that you get your foot in the allowed me to grow, more door at Alabama? than anything else. I was KB: It’s a struggle. A able to do things that most lot of people try to figyoung people at my age ure out how to get their didn’t have the responsifoot in the door. Well, bility or opportunity … my first coaching job, I to do things like that. So worked for my (old) high those experiences to get school coach. That person my foot in the door and coached me my junior and work in college athletsophomore years in high ics at 19 and 20 years old school and then went on got me a really fast start from coaching high school to a career. I transitioned and coached in college. So out of coaching into the when I went on to coladministrative world. I lege, he asked me to come figured out that I didn’t and join his staff as an want coaching to be my undergrad student. He had lone approach with having known me for years and a family and supporting years, had coached both of them and being with them. my older siblings in high So I transitioned to workschool, so there was a com- ing as an administrator, fort level with my family. and my first position as an It felt more comfortable administrator was working than your normal 19-year- in academic support at the old coming to join your University of Alabama. staff. So that was my first And I worked specifically job. Then on at Alabama, with the football team, it was a similar story. The the men’s and women’s guy that I worked for at basketball teams and the Alabama by the name of baseball team. So I was Richard Moody actually actually a part of those coached one of my older coaching staffs, but I was sisters at the University of the academic (administraAlabama. So once again, tor). we had a history and a trust DF: So that leads to that allowed me to come your job with the NCAA. onto his staff as his direcHow did that come tor of basketball operations about? right out of college. I was KB: From Alabama, I 21 years old, so yeah, get- went on to Xavier Uni-

versity in Cincinnati, and I oversaw the academic support for their entire athletic department. During my time there, I came into communication with an individual that was one of my graduate assistants at Alabama who went on to finish their law degree at Alabama and then went on to work at the NCAA headquarters as an enforcement investigator. During those couple of years, he just kept telling me, ‘Hey, you should come on over here. You’d be great here.

The NCAA needs a person like you.’ Then he finally talked me into submitting some information, and that gave the transition from working at Xavier and overseeing their academics at athletics and working with the NCAA. I was at the NCAA for eight years working there at the headquarters.

DF: What exactly was your job there?

KB: I was in the academic and membership affairs department, which is essentially the rules and academic eligibility department. In that area, it’s analogous to woking for congress, working in the area where you’re actually the person sitting down and working with the schools when they are deciding what the rules are and helping the schools interpret them when they just can’t figure out how it applies to their situation.

DF: So to use the congress analogy, you were kind of like one of the people who would help draft the actual language of the laws being passed

and interprets what it means?

KB: Correct. That’s exactly right. And along with that, there are waiver processes at the NCAA where you’re trying to do something that a rule doesn’t allow you to do, and you’re trying to do it proactively because when you do it reactively, you’re breaking the (NCAA) law. That’s when you get in trouble. So you have the opportunity through waiver processes to be more proactive and say, ‘We have these extenuating circumstances that we feel the rule shouldn’t apply to (us).’ I oversaw that team of individuals, which was about 20 people on that staff. So the schools would submit requests to my staff to decide.

DF: We’ll get back to that job in a second, but how did you transition out of that job into what you’re currently doing?

KB: I was there for eight years, … and my wife is from Eufala, Ala., and so we have siblings and parents who started getting older, and we just wanted to get closer to home.

DF: So how did you get to metro Atlanta?

KB: It’s funny. I was actually at an NCAA meeting at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, and my brother-in-law was teaching at Radloff Middle School here in Gwinnett County. He gave me a call and said, ‘Hey, I know you guys are looking to make the move closer to Hoover (Ala.) because that’s where my wife’s corporate office is, outside of Birmingham.

Gwinnett County brings — I’ve been here for about a year, maybe you should take a look. The school systems are great.’ So I canceled my flight home, told my wife, ‘Put the kids in the car and drive down here.’ Then I called (former Georgia Tech athletics director) Mike Bobkinski.

He was my boss at Xavier.

And I said, ‘Hey, you just got here. You’re not that far from dealing with a real estate agent. You got a good Realtor for me?’

He gave me his Realtor’s number and he drove us around and hung out with us for about four days here in Atlanta. We didn’t find a house then, but we did (eventually) around the Buford, Sugar Hill area.

DF: So you mentioned in a previous conversation we had that educating student-athletes and their parents about the NCAA processes is a big passion for you. I know there is probably more than just one thing, but what do you think is the most important thing parents and athletes should know about making the transition from high school to college athletics?

KB: That’s a huge passion of mine, and that’s the foundation for a small consulting firm I’ve just started here in 2019. The team of people that are going to be part of that firm are individuals that have worked in the NCAA academic and compliance world, and they’re experts.

And what we’re looking to do is educate people nationally — high school

administrators, AAU and travel programs — on what those NCAA eligibility rules are, transition from high school to college, and how can we help you one-on-one if the NCAA doesn’t have the ability or the bandwidth to work with a family one-onone on their particularly student’s eligibility situation? So we’re going to do workshops, we’re going to do presentations, we’re going to do webinars to help educate families and coaches on the details on how to get there, but also talk about what happens at the NCAA that they don’t know that we know.

Here are the roadblocks and potholes to avoid, and we’re going to sit down with them … and review their transcripts, their SAT and ACT scores, and determine, ‘Here’s where you’re eligibility situation is, and here’s a report … for you to look at.’

DF: Since you’re just starting this up, how much of an impact have you made thus far?

KB: I haven’t had much of an opportunity to make much of an impact (yet) locally, but I’ve been consulting for the last five years to just assist people working with another company that actually inspired my athletic department to help with academic processes for their studentathletes.

I’m actually having meetings with the Gwinnett County Public School System to hopefully talk about how we can engage here locally to help educate their individuals.

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Began with the wrong premise Here is the problem for Trump critics.

They began with the wrong premise. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election. Then they deluded themselves by embracing the notion that Trump was illegitimate, unstable, stupid and an offense to everything they consider normal.

This led the Obama holdovers in the Justice Department and the major media to construct a Russian collusion scenario, based on evidence they had to know is false. These included Cal Andrew McCabe, the Thomas former deputy director of the FBI, who was fired for lying to government investigators.

In his new book and in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, McCabe admits he was part of a coup attempt to remove Trump from office, using the 25th Amendment as the means. McCabe said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was not joking, as Rosenstein claims he was, about wearing a wire, hoping the president would say outrageous things Rosenstein could take to the vice president and the cabinet to convince them that Trump was unfit to hold public office.

There’s your real collusion and also a conspiracy to oust a duly elected president.

On his radio program last Thursday, Rush Limbaugh said he thinks the entire Russian collusion investigation is a waste of taxpayer money and has come to nothing. About McCabe, he said: “He is bragging about his efforts to undermine and overthrow Trump.

He’s admitting, essentially, that he and his buddies put in motion a silent coup to get rid of Donald Trump. He admits that the talk of wiring Rosenstein to entrap Trump in an Oval Office conversation was real.”

At the same time, various leaks and reports, even from NBC News, which has been among the numerous media outlets promoting collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, are beginning to back off. On the NBC News website there is this headline: “You may be disappointed by the Mueller Report.” That seems to suggest the special counsel has found nothing to prove collusion and the “disappointed” will be those who believed he would. The antiTrumpers need not worry, though. Having failed to prove collusion, the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives and attorneys in the Southern District of New York will keep investigating the Trump organization in an attempt to find anything that might sour his re-election prospects, or lead to his impeachment, as unlikely as that seems.

What is needed is a special counsel to investigate numerous allegations of wrongdoing, not only by McCabe, but the rest of the cast of characters from Hillary Clinton and her “missing” emails and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, to those Obama holdovers who conspired to overturn election results.

The next step for Trump haters will be an effort to thwart his national emergency declaration in order to finish building his promised border wall.

“According to the Federal Register, 58 national emergencies have been declared since the National Emergency Act of 1976 was signed into law by President Gerald Ford,” writes ABC News, though many of those froze funds rather than appropriated new ones. Thirty-one are still in effect. President Obama declared 10 national emergencies, including actions blocking property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in Somalia, in respect to threats posed by Somali pirates; blocking property of certain persons contributing to the situation in Burundi after a failed coup; and blocking property and suspending entry of certain persons contributing to the situation in Venezuela in response to human rights violations.

Axios, a conservative news and information website, quotes an outline it received from the White House that says the president plans to “…unlock access to up to $8.08 billion dollars for physical barriers, including the funding dedicated in the (Department of Homeland Security) appropriations bill.”

The funding will “…come from Treasury Forfeiture Funds” and other sources, which might include billions seized from drug cartel leader “El Chapo” and the Defense Department’s military construction projects.

It’s an interesting premise. The courts will likely decide whether it is constitutional.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub. com.

The three amigas of Congress WASHINGTON — By the Republican response to the three most-famous Democratic freshmen in Congress — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or AOC) of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — you’d think these women were Shakespeare’s Three Witches rather than the three amigas seen chumming and laughing in countless photographs.

But then, you’d also infer from Democrats’ counter-response that the GOP’s reaction has been solely an expression of racism, misogyny and antiMuslim sentiment, rather than the result of legitimate observations of concern.

Let’s break it down.

First, shame on the media for giving these three women ohso-much attention. Yes, they’re unique and interesting. AOC, 29, is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Omar is the first representative to wear a hijab. And Tlaib, also Muslim, is the first PalestinianAmerican woman to serve in the chamber.

Bravas all around. Their elections, as well as those of two Native American women, are all news- and noteworthy.

After just a few weeks in office, AOC miraculously produced a big bill — the Green New Deal, a joint resolution co-introduced

by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.

Of course, such bills don’t just happen overnight. Undoubtedly, lots of planning, strategy and little elves with pockets of

mother———,” referring to President Trump. Like AOC, she’s a declared democratic socialist, and she has been a harsh critic of the Israeli government, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel.

Not least, Omar, too, has invited accusations of antiKathleen Semitism for recently tweetParker ing that Washington politicians push pro-Israel policies political savvy pulled the legbecause they’re funded by islation together and handed it lobbying organizations such off to Markey and the youngest as the American Israel Public member of Congress, ensuring Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. a Big Green Splash and further After incurring a firestorm from burnishing AOC’s star. nearly all corners, including In a brief sidebar: Texas’ the Democratic leadership, she Beto O’Rourke is experiencing issued an apology that was both a similarly sudden star turn. It’s quick and appropriate, even easy to see why so many are though the American president attracted to him. He’s young declared it “lame.”

(46), charismatic, has a beautiOmar said she meant no ful family and appeals to a offense to Jewish Americans cross-section of Americans. But and that “we have to always something about him seems be willing to step back and manufactured. A leaner, lankier think through criticism, just version of two likely role mod- as I expect people to hear me els, Bobby Kennedy and when others attack me for my Barack Obama, his practiced identity.” Trump, meanwhile, performances tend to make said she should resign, which one wish for the real McCoys. is ridiculous. She, like Trump, With unmistakable echoes of was duly elected.

Obama’s cadences and KenRegarding money, AIPAC, nedy’s mannerisms, O’Rourke though a pro-Israel lobbying seems to have been created by group, does not actually finance an artificial intelligence that politicians. Omar was also was informed by polls and quite wrong about the nation’s demographic projections. pro-Israel stance being “all Tlaib, too, became newswor- about the Benjamins, baby,” a thy when the Detroit lawyer reference to $100 bills. As most was caught on video early last readers know, the U.S. supports month telling a MoveOn.org Israel in large part because it gathering that she had come to is surrounded by countries, inWashington to “impeach the cluding Iran, that deny its right

to exist, as well as other states that harbor or support terrorism or are, in the case of Gaza, run by a terrorist organization. It is, in other words, in our national interest to support Israel.

But Omar is right on the money when she expresses broad concern about the degree to which legislators do receive contributions intended to curry favor. In her apology, she said she is being educated on anti-Semitic tropes — and is “listening and learning,” which is good advice for all concerned. Republicans, rather than trying to villainize these three new congresswomen and make them the faces of the Democratic Party, should bow to the positive while drawing important distinctions.

And isn’t it time Democrats discarded their own arsenal of tropes about Republicans? It isn’t racist to openly worry that Democratic newcomers are expressing anti-Israel views. The fact that the three are female is irrelevant to those concerns.

And, it certainly isn’t anti-Muslim to observe that expressed sentiments might be influenced by one’s heritage or religion.

A diverse country requires that all voices and perspectives be heard. An intelligent future demands that the best ideas, not the personalities presenting them, win the day.

Kathleen Parker received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2010. Her email address is kathleenparker@washpost. com.

Living the cord-cutting dream I’m so unhappy with my cable TV and internet services that I’m going to do what I’ve long dreamed of doing: Cancel my subscription!

I’m not alone in my unhappiness.

Consumer Reports says cable providers “have consistently rated below average among services we cover.”

A 2014 Consumer Reports survey of 81,848 customers “found almost universally low ratings for value … especially for TV and Internet.”

What’s worse, the costs of those services keep going up!

In 2014, reported the Mintel Group, home cable TV and internet services’ average cost was $154 monthly — or $1,848 yearly, more than that year’s average household spent on clothing, furniture or electricity.

Consumer Reports says cable prices have risen faster than inflation, despite some competition from fiber-optic and satellite providers.

BGR reports cable giant Comcast boosted fees for 2019, which means “some plans under Comcast’s Triple Play Package branding … will

will introduce your kneecaps to a Louisville Slugger.”

Cable providers weren’t always so universally disliked.

Consumer Reports says the “industry began in the late 1940s as ‘community antenna television,’ or CATV,” capturing good reception of over-theTom air TV broadcasts and distributPurcell ing the signals where reception was poor. “Since then cable has cost as much as $215 a month evolved from a small, localized ($2,580 over the course of a service into a gigantic industry year) once the promotional … .” offer ends.”

That industry’s big providers Ah, the old “promotional have gobbled up smaller ones, offer” tactic! Big Cable likes limiting competition — which locking us into long-term con- enables them to get away with tracts with discount packages poor service and increasing that keep our monthly bills costs. down for a while. But when Free-market advocacy orgathose discounts expire, our bills nization capitalism.com says soar. This recently happened to another reason competition is me — again. so limited is big cable providI was paying about $155 a ers’ powerful lobbyists have month — at least I think I was. persuaded legislators to create I’d need a busload of Harvard laws and regulations that “limit lawyers and CPAs to undermarket entry for smaller, more stand all the charges. affordable competitors.”

When my bill shot well past A quick search of broad$200 a month, I called the bandnow.com shows the cable provider. A customer ser- limited options in my ZIP vice rep essentially told me to code: a giant cable company “either sign on for another two and a giant fiber optic comyears or Vinny the Cable Guy pany. They’re the only viable

options, because while satellite services are available, too, big trees around my house likely would interfere with reception.

So what am I going to do? What thousands of other agitated cable customers are finally doing. I’m cutting the cable cord!

Since the only customers Big Cable and Big Fiber treat well are new customers, I’ll cancel cable and subscribe to fiber-optic internet service for about $40 a month.

I’ll get a digital TV antenna to watch local channels — no fees! And I’ll subscribe to a no-contract internet streaming service to watch other channels — for another $40 a month.

I was an English major, but even I can tell that $80 a month is a lot less than the $200-plus that a cable behemoth demands for essentially the same channels.

I’ve been dreaming of this moment for years, and it’s finally at hand — the moment when I tell that cable behemoth to go pound salt!

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

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a favorable matchup with smallish Archer because its in the Sweet 16 after lineup wasn’t overwhelm8-AAAAAAA went 4-0 in ingly tall, and was without the first round. South also a true post presence inside. finished the season with a “We just focused on winning record. guarding and everything “You go through that stems from there,” LecoeuRegion 8 January and vre said. “If we can get there are no easy nights stops, we’ll have a chance. out there,” Lecoeuvre said. If we can’t get stops, we “We had Shiloh, Grayson can’t beat anybody.” and Newton three games in Juniors Justin Edmonda row twice. It’s the same son, a starter since his schedule, so you get those freshman season, and C.J. three games in a row twice. Hines have been consistent Those are tough stretches. scorers all season. Senior Trying to keep the confileaders and captains Iven dence level up was tough.

Souffrant and Gabe Price You can kind of doubt also have played integral yourself after a couple of roles, while Brent Smith losses to teams like that.”

(6-3) and Aeryon Johnson The Tigers kept their (6-2) face nightly battles spirits up, though, and felt against taller opposition. positive about their first“(Smith and Johnson) round road trip to Milton do a lot of dirty work,” Lecoeuvre said. “They’re Archer’s Justin Edmondson dribbles during Archer’s game against Grayson earlier (20-8), which had its share of good shooters but offered the unsung heroes. They this season. (Staff Photo: Taylor Denman)

rebound, they’re 6-2 post players. They’ve got to burn a lot of energy the way we play. They play bigger than they are.”

Their next test is a Peachtree Ridge lineup that features 7-footer Richard Rivers. The opponent is fairly familiar because the two programs have played each other in a preseason scrimmage for nearly a decade.

“They’re tough,” Lecoeuvre said of Peachtree Ridge. “They’re man-to-man defense, up in you, typical Peachtree Ridge stuff. They’ve got the bigs inside, a good point guard, (B.J.) Knight on the wing is a good player. He makes shots inside and out. It’s a tough test. We’re just excited to have a chance to compete one more time.”

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STATE HOOPS Today’s Games GIRLS Class AAAAAAA 6 p.m. — Duluth at North Forsyth 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Rockdale 6:30 p.m. — Archer at Collins Hill Class AAAAAA 6 p.m. — Dacula at Harrison 7 p.m. — Sequoyah at Lanier Class AAAAA 6 p.m. — Carrollton at Buford Class AAA 6 p.m. — Jefferson at GAC Class A Private 5:30 p.m. — Savannah Christian at Wesleyan Thursday’s Games GIRLS Class AAAAAAA 6 p.m. — Norcross at Grayson BOYS Class AAAAAAA 6:30 p.m. — Newton at Meadowcreek 7 p.m. — Archer at Peachtree Ridge 7 p.m. — Shiloh at Discovery 7:30 p.m. — Norcross at Grayson Class AAAAA 6 p.m. — Villa Rica at Buford Class AAA 7 p.m. — GAC at Morgan County Class A Private 7 p.m. — Hebron vs.

Greenforest at Redan 7 p.m. — Wesleyan at Christian Heritage

•From Page 1B cannibalize each other in the inset two rounds (each year),” Grayson boys coach Geoffrey Pierce said. “(The game with Norcross) is a Final Four-caliber game, but coming into the season, we knew what the bracket was going to be. …

We can’t really focus on what we can’t control.”

Several intriguing individual matchups should highlight the boys game, with the Rams’ loaded backcourt, led by senior Jevon Tatum and juniors Deivon Smith and Reco Hallmon, taking on the Blue Devils’ terrific guard and wing trio of senior Kyle Sturdivant and juniors Brandon Boston and Caleb Murphy.

The matchups could be just as intriguing in the low post, with Grayson’s 6-foot-7 sophomores Ian Schieffelin and Taje Kelly and athletic 6-6 senior Kenyon Jackson set to do

Meadowcreek’s Isaac Johnson (25) and teammate Jalen Benjamin (5) try to stop the drive of Norcross’s Kyle Sturdivant (3) during the Region 7-AAAAAAA basketball tournament last week at Meadowcreek High School. (Photo: Craig Cappy)

battle with Norcross’ rotation of 6-9 Issa Muhammad, 6-8 Daniel Ramsey and 6-5 reserve Louis Williams.

“Our (regular season) schedule prepared us for (games like) this,” Nor-

cross boys coach Jesse McMillan said after his Blue Devils eliminated Mountain View 76-58 in the first round Friday. “We’ve been in tough environments and played a lot of good teams. … It should be a good

environment, and we’ll be ready.”

The girls game should also feature some intriguing first-class individual matchups, though there are a few more unknowns involved with Grayson starters Jazmin Robinson and Victoria Dames having missed the team’s first-round 68-49 win over South Forsyth, and both unavailable for Thursday.

Though the Rams will be missing more than 25 points and nearly 15 rebounds per game with those two absences, coach Robin Potter is confident other players will step up, like freshman Catherine Alben, sophomore Nadia Howard and junior Malia Grace did in last Saturday’s win over South Forsyth, to take up a leadership role.

“It’s unfortunate, and it creates its own challenges,” Potter said of missing two frontline starters. “So, for us, it’s about getting after

it on defense and pushing the ball (up the court) on offense. “(Norcross is) very talented, which presents its own challenges. Definitely perimeter play will be important, and from what I understand, they’re also talented in the post.”

Indeed, the Blue Devils have increased their depth in the low post with senior Tionna Carter and junior Yamani Paul back at full strength after early-season injuries, which complements an already strong backcourt duo of Morgan Robinson-Nwagwu and Myra Strickland.

But for Norcross coach Dani Wright, it’s all about having the proper mindset in the postseason.

“What we tell our kids is, it’s anybody’s game in (state) playoff time,” Wright said following the Blue Devils’ first-round win over Mountain View last Friday. “Everyone’s bringing their best.”

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