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Vol. 48, No. 70

Police: Teen stabs father, brother School: Student suspended for knife hours prior

BY ISABEL HUGHES

isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

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A Lawrenceville teen accused of stabbing his father and brother before fleeing police Wednesday afternoon had been sent home from school hours earlier for

bringing a knife to campus, according to a Gwinnett County police report.

Maxwell High School junior Maximilano Cardenas-Garcia, 17, was arrested shortly before 5 p.m.

Wednesday after dozens of Gwinnett police and SWAT officers descended on a

A teen allegedly stabbed his brother and father with a “sharp object” at this home on Spring End Court on Wednesday afternoon. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

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Lawrenceville neighborhood located off Patterson Road following reports of a See STABBING, Page 8A

Group sues over election boundaries

Suit alleges ‘racial gerrymandering’ in redrawing of lines

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

A Washington, D.C.-based group that is suing Georgia over boundaries drawn in 2015 for Rep. Joyce Chandler, R-Grayson — allegedly to reduce the effect of black voters — wants to stop the state from using those boundaries for this year’s elections.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced Wednesday that it filed an injunction trying to bar the state from usJoyce Chandler ing the boundaries late Tuesday. The group, along with the Georgia NAACP, is suing the state in federal court over redistricting done for the Grayson-area legislative district.

The groups allege the redistricting was done to make the seats safer for Chandler and other Republican legislators whose districts had higher percentages of black voters.

The injunction specifically targets boundaries drawn for Chandler’s district, as well as House District 111 in Henry County.

“Georgia’s mid-decade redistricting is an egregious example of the kind of racial gerrymandering that has no place in our democracy today,” Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Executive Director Kristen Clarke said in a statement. “In swing districts where margins of victory were close, Georgia lawmakers reopened legislative maps for the sole purpose of locking in favored non-minority incumbents.”

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wants the District 105 boundaries used in the 2012 and 2014 elections used in this year’s election.

One of the group’s claims is that officials in the House redistricting office adjusted district boundaries in 2015 to protect white Republican incumbents by reducing the number of minority voters in their districts.

One such accusation is that a House redistricting office contacted state Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, in August 2014 about swapping some Republican-leaning areas in his district with some Democraticleaning areas in Chandler’s district. Chandler had won a narrow re-election in 2014. She and Efstration represent Chuck Efstration neighboring districts.

Efstration refuted the lawyers’ committee’s claims.

“Liberal special interests are desperate to falsely attack bipartisan legislation that unanimously passed the Georgia House of Representatives,” he said in an email. “I’m disgusted, disappointed and saddened by their tactics.”

See BOUNDARIES, Page 8A

Hidden talent

Georgia Swarm forward Lyle Thompson, one of the world’s best indoor lacrosse player, has another skill few know about: graphic art. Thompson was able to showcase some of his talent at the Atlanta Sports Art Show at the Miami Ad School in Atlanta on Thursday night. (Photos: Anthony Stalcup)

Swarm’s Lyle Thompson presents designs at Art of Sport

BY TAYLOR DENMAN

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The Georgia Swarm’s Lyle Thompson is vocal regarding recognition of Native American culture in society and sports, but he also boasts a diverse resume.

He’s the reigning National Lacrosse League MVP, the first-ever back-to-back male Tewaraaton Award recipient — given annually to the top Georgia Swarm forward Lyle Thompson is the graphic artist for American college lacrosse Thompson Brothers, a company he and his two brothers started. player — he’s been the No.

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1 overall pick in two different professional lacrosse leagues, and he’s an accomplished graphic designer.

Thompson displayed his designs and artwork at “The Art of Sport” art show at the Spare Time Gallery inside the Miami Ad School on Thursday in Atlanta.

See THOMPSON, Page 9A

Students stage walkouts at three schools Participants meet briefly in wake of Fla. shooting

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

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Students from three Gwinnett County high schools walked out of classes Wednesday to raise awareness for school safety and gun reform laws.

Walkouts occurred at Collins Hill, Lanier and Mill Creek high schools.

According to Mill Creek senior Julian Ruiz, students initially were afraid they would get in trouble for walking out. However, the day of the planned walkout, he said, teachers received an email from school officials

victims and to protest,” Ruiz said. “I really hope that it makes an impact on legislation. Everyone who participated felt really empowered and motivated afterward.”

Mill Creek senior Rashawn Brown Jr. said he felt moved to be a voice for the voiceless.

“I felt something move within me that pushed me to the front of the crowd,” Brown said. “I left my fifth-period class and began typing. The rest was history.

I got to the platform and beMill Creek High School students gather Wednesday to pray dur- gan to speak not just written down words, but words from ing an organized walkout. (Special Photo) the heart.”

Brown said the atmosphere saying students who partici- tored. outside the school was filled pated in the walkout would “I was still pleasantly not be disciplined and that surprised to see a lot of my See WALKOUTS, Page 9A the event would be monipeers come out to honor the

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Suspect in pharmacy robberies arrested

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A Lawrenceville man accused of targeting pharmacies across the county and robbing their employees at gunpoint to feed his “hungry children” is now behind bars, Gwinnett police recently announced.

Aaron Neighbors, 24, was arrested on Feb. 12 at a Norcross hotel before being transported to the Gwinnett County Jail, where he was charged with four counts of aggravated assault, three counts of armed robbery, and possession of Schedule I and II controlled substances.

“We are very fortunate that this suspect was identified quickly and taken into custody before his violence escalated,” said Cpl. Michele Pihera, spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police

Department.

“Aaron is facing charges in reference to non(Gwinnett Aaron police) Neighbors cases too.”

Earlier this month, Gwinnett detectives had asked for the public’s help in identifying Neighbors, who was caught on several surveillance videos wearing the same clothing at each of his three alleged robberies, which occurred Jan. 8, 16 and 21.

In the first robbery, surveillance shows a man wearing a camouflage hooded sweatshirt and purple gloves entering the Rite Aid at 3295 Centerville Highway in unincorporated Snellville and then demanding money from a store clerk who was working at the

While the man believed to be Neighbors did not produce a handgun at the time, the victim told police he had something in his left pocket that was “shaped like a firearm.”

He left on foot after

taking $343.

Eight days later, the same man wearing the same clothes robbed the CVS at 4358 Burns Road in unincorporated Lilburn.

Similar to the first incident, he demanded money from the cash register, though this time he pointed a silver handgun at a customer and employees, according to an incident report.

He left on foot with $353, but not before allegedly apologizing and saying “that he had kids to feed.”

The third robbery, which occurred at the CVS at 2720 Loganville Highway in unincorporated Loganville less than a week later, mimicked the first two.

The suspect, the store clerk said, demanded money from the cash register then apologized, saying, “I hate to do this

to you, but I have hungry children.”

He made off with $623 in cash as well as the “entire bottom portion of the register,” which is valued at $200, a separate incident report said.

Detectives believe Neighbors may also be linked to a break-in at the Best 4 Less on Harmony Grove Road in unincorporated Lilburn.

In that burglary, a suspect is seen on surveillance peering into the front door before throwing rocks to break the glass.

After breaking the glass, he is seen reaching inside, unlocking the door and walking inside.

After attempting to steal the money from a secure area, the suspect is seen fleeing the location before responding officers arrive.

Additional charges are likely in reference to that robbery, Pihera said.

Blackwell said the process of getting a group of contestants on the stage Saturday night began The back in September with most information sessions to recent gauge student interest. winner “That’s what is excitof the ing about this event,” Miss Central Blackwell said. “Getting Pagthese girls interested and eant watching them progress was throughout this entire Stacy process.”

Powell From the initial inforlast mation sessions, there year.

(Special were about 80 entrants Photo) ranging from freshmen to seniors who signed up.

That number dwindled after the $50 entry fee was due. participate in this event “The $50 isn’t a small and it still is.” amount of money, but what they get out of this is worth so much more,”

said Blackwell.

As part of the process, Blackwell hosts workshop sessions that allow contestants to learn about etiquette and pageantry, and pushes them outside of their comfort zone.

Since it is a scholarship pageant, the contestants participate in community outreach and volunteering as well as selling advertisements to raise money.

Before one of the contestants is crowned Miss Central on Saturday, they will go through a busy day beginning that morning. First, the group will go through an interview with judges. They will then get ready for the personality and evening gown portions during the pageant. Contestants will

also have the option to showcase a talent before finding out the winner.

In addition to the title of Miss Central, there are additional awards — Miss Talent, Miss Photogenic, Miss Congeniality and Miss Ad, for the contestant that sells the most advertisements.

“It’s really getting down to making sure we have everything ready for these girls,” Blackwell said. “This event definitely couldn’t get down without my co-coordinator, Caryl Waller, and the effort put forth by these girls.”

Tickets are $8 at the door, and the event begins at 6 p.m. in the Central Gwinnett High School theater.

A man police suspect of multiple robberies in Gwinnett allegedly targeted pharmacies across the county and robbing them to feed his “hungry children.” He is wearing the same clothes in each of the three robberies and possible break-in. (Special Photo)

register.

The victim told police the suspect told him, “I don’t want to (expletive) shoot nobody, so put the money in the bag,” and threw a plastic bag across the counter.

Miss Central Scholarship Pageant set for Saturday

BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

For 13 contestants, Saturday night’s Miss Central Scholarship Pageant will not only be a chance to display their talents and charisma, but also a way to carry on a legacy spanning six decades.

Started in 1958, Miss Central has been a way for female students at Central Gwinnett High School to raise money for scholarships, while also learning career skills such as interviewing.

“There’s so much history with this pageant,” Pageant organizer. “In the said Teresa Blackwell, Miss Central Scholarship past it was a big thing to

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Former teacher pleads Costly Joint-Pain guilty in sexual assault Injections Replaced Paid Advertisement

By Curt yeomans

By New $2 Pill

New pill boosts the same lubricating joint ϐluid as expensive and painful injections - without using a needle. Users report dramatic relief from swelling, pain and stiffness without side effects and expense.

By Jack Isler, M.D. Health News Syndicate HNS—A popular needle injection for people with joint pain is now available in an inexpensive nonprescription pill. The breakthrough came when researchers discovered a way to deliver the injected “relief molecule” through the digestive system.

Top US clinics have used these needle injections for years because they deliver powerful relief.

Unfortunately, the shots are painful and expensive.

They also only work on the joint being treated.

The new pill, called Synovia, delivers the same “relief molecule” as the injections. However, it has some impressive advantages.

First, it’s inexpensive and nonprescription.

Also, relief is delivered to every joint in the body because it enters the bloodstream through the digestive system.

This gives it the ability to reduce a much wider variety of pain. Users report greater �lexibility and less stiffness in their knees. Hands and shoulders move painfree for the �irst time in years. Even neck and lower back pain improve dramatically.

All this without spending over $600 on needle injections and taking trips to the doctor every week.

The medical community is very excited about this new breakthrough. Dr. Jacob Moss says, “Synovia is a great option for those suffering from joint pain.

Injections are usually a last resort because of the pain and expense.

However, Synovia should be taken at the �irst sign of discomfort.”

NO MORE NEEDLES: A popular needle injection pain-killer for joint pain is being replaced. The key molecule in these injections can now be delivered by taking a new low-cost pill called Synovia.

trials show the pill form also delivers major relief.

One example is a landmark study out of Europe. In the study the active ingredient in Synovia was compared to a popular NSAID pain reliever. The goal was to see if it could reduce pain and swelling around the knee. The results were incredible!

After just 30 days, more than 8 out of 10 people who took Synovia’s active ingredient had NO swelling. However, only 2 out of 10 people who took the NSAID experienced reduced swelling.

The study also looked at cases of severe swelling.

Amazingly, zero cases of severe swelling were detected in the group taking the active ingredient found in Synovia. This means it was 100% effective for the cases of severe swelling!

In contrast, 9 out of 10 people taking the NSAID still had severe swelling.

McNeill points out, “The impressive thing about this study is the active ingredient wasn’t tested against a fake pill. It was up against one of the most popular NSAIDs people use every day. It’s easy to see why people in pain are excited to get relief New Discovery The needle injection without an injection.” procedure has been given The New Way It to hundreds of thousands Delivers Relief of patients over the last Getting relief without several years. injections has big Doctors use the shots advantages. The most to boost a critical element obvious is avoiding being of the joint called synovial stuck by a large needle �luid. This lubricating every week for 5 weeks. �luid is found between Another downside of the cartilage and bones of injections is the doctor every joint. can “miss”. The needle According to the �irm’s needs to be inserted into head of R&D, Mike McNeill, a precise spot in the joint “Researchers have been to work. Otherwise, you working for years to risk the treatment being �ind a way to boost this ineffective. �luid noninvasively. The However, boosting your problem was the molecule lubricating joint �luid by used in the injections was too large to absorb into taking a pill delivers relief to all your joints, not just the bloodstream.” one.

Top scientists There’s an additional conquered this obstacle the active by �inding a smaller form reason of the same molecule. ingredient in Synovia This new glucose form is works so well – it easily absorbed by your nourishes the cartilage.

McNeill says, “This is stomach and intestines!

Now those who suffer vital because cartilage from joint pain can get does not have blood relief without painful vessels. The �luid in the injections. At less than joint serves two very pain-relief $2 per day, early users important roles: lubrication and like Steve Young are impressed. He says, “I’ve giving the cartilage the tried more pills than I can nutrients it needs to start count, without any luck. re-growing.”

Synovia is different. My Approved By knees and hands haven’t Leading Doctors felt this good in years!”

The new delivery Impressive Clinical system for this molecule has caught the attention of Results Leading clinics use leading medical doctors.

“Needle injections injection therapy because it works. Recent clinical for joint pain have been

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ǣ BEFORE: No lubricating �luid or Ǧ Ǧ cartilage leads to painful bone-on Ǥ bone rubbing.

ǣ ǯ AFTER: Synovia’s active ingredients

lubricate joints and nourish cartilage Ǧ Ǩ so it can re-grow!

around for years because they work. Being able to get the same relief molecule through a pill is amazing. Injections may be a last resort, but I’d recommend Synovia at the �irst sign of pain,” said Dr. Marie Laguna.

Dr. Gerardo Pereira, a renowned surgeon from Florida says, “Injections aim to boost synovial �luid, which lubricates the joint. Those suffering from joint pain usually have very little of this �luid.

Synovia helps relieve pain by boosting this key lubricant without needles.”

Dr. Moss adds, “The research behind the active ingredient in Synovia is very exciting. This product is a great choice for those who haven’t had success with other joint pain treatments.”

110% Money Back Guarantee

Amazing feedback from users of Synovia has generated a wave of con�idence at the company. So much so that they now offer Synovia with a 110% money back guarantee.

The company’s president, Michael Kenneth says, “We’ve seen how well it works. Now we want to remove any risk for those who might think Synovia sounds too good to be true.”

Simply take the pill exactly as directed. You must enjoy fast acting relief. Otherwise, return the product as directed and you’ll receive 100% of your money back plus an extra 10%.

How To Get Synovia

Today marks the of�icial release of Synovia in Georgia. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to everyone who calls within the next 48 hours.

A Regional Order Hotline has been set up for local readers to call.

This is the only way to try Synovia with their “110% money back” guarantee.

Starting at 6:00 am today the order hotline will be open for 48 hours.

All you have to do is call TOLL FREE 1-888-9738248 and provide the operator with the special discount approval code: SYN18. The company will do the rest.

Current supplies of Synovia are limited, and callers that don’t get through to the order hotline within the next 48 hours may have to pay more and wait until more inventory is produced.

This could take as long as 6 weeks.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. ALL DOCTORS MENTIONED ARE REMUNERATED FOR THEIR SERVICE. ALL CLINICAL STUDIES WERE INDEPENDENTLY CONDUCTED AND WERE NOT SPONSORED BY MAKERS OF SYNOVIA.

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Henderson had been a math A Parkview High teacher at School teacher and former Parkview University of Georgia since 2013 football standout accused and had Mikey last year of being involved Henderson served as in a sexual relationship an aswith a student for at least sistant football coach. He two years has admitted his was arrested in May, and guilt in the case. an affidavit released at Mikey Henderson the time stated he let the pled guilty Wednesday student, who was in one to three counts of sexual of Henderson’s classes, assault by persons with “perform oral sex on supervisory or disciplinhim numerous times at ary authority, according Parkview High School.” to FOX 5 Atlanta. As part Three friends of the of his plea agreement, he student involved in the will spend five years in relationship with Henderconfinement and another son reported it to school 15 years on probation. He officials, who in turn forwill also have to register warded the information to as a sex offender.

Gwinnett County Public

Schools Police.

“The victim was subsequently interviewed and confirmed the allegations and the extent of her relationship with Henderson,” school system police officer Richard Herndon wrote in his report at the time. “Henderson was also interviewed and initially denied all allegations.

“After investigating and obtaining evidence to support the victim’s allegations, Henderson was interviewed again and admitted to the sexual relationship with the victim.”

Henderson, who had played sports as a student in Buford schools, resigned around the time of his arrest.

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for school by playing casino-style games like Texas Hold’em, blackjack, roulette and craps.

Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on items in the silent auction, including trips to Costa Rica and a Chateau Elan “Staycation Package,” local date night packages, golf packages, sporting and event tickets and a Green Egg package.

Proceeds from the event will go to support the five schools in the Lanier Cluster — Lanier High School, Lanier Middle School, Sugar Hill Elementary School, Sycamore Elementary School and White Oak Elementary School.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at www. laniereducationfoundation. org.

Rundles, a spokesisabel.hughes man @gwinnettdailypost.com for the Three out of four metro Gwinnett Atlanta residents who County have been linked to at Police Deleast six thefts, including partment Christopher vehicle thefts, throughout A McRae Gwinnett and DeKalb fourth counties have been arman, rested, and police are still 36-yearlooking for the fourth. old Jason Between Feb. 13 and King, is 16, Christopher McRae, still being 50, of Dunwoody, Judith sought.

Anderson, 45, of LawMcRae, renceville and Paul King, who was Judith Anderson 37, of Lilburn were ararrested rested and charged with Feb. 13, numerous counts of theft was later by taking and theft by released receiving stolen property, on a some of which are felony $36,000 charges and some of bond; which are misdemeanor Anderson, charges. who was The trio was also arrested Paul King charged with owning, Feb. 14, operating or conducting remains at the Gwinnett a chop shop for stealing County Jail on a $36,000 vehicles, trailers, artwork bond and King is beand multiple items from ing held without bond storage buildings durfor drug possession and ing thefts that happened fleeing and attempting from October to January, to elude a police officer according to Cpl. Wilbert charges, in addition to the

theft and chop shop charges.

Anyone with information about Jason Jason King King’s location is asked to contact Gwinnett detectives at 770-513-5300.

To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit crimestoppersatlanta.org. Tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case by referencing case numbers: • 18-000797 Dec. 2017 to Jan. 2018, Artwork; • 18-003974 Jan. 2018, Trailer & Landscape Equip (Storage Building); • 18-005610 Jan. 2018, Penske Rental Truck; • 18-006857 Jan. 2018, Hyundai Sonata; • 18-007130 Dec. 2017 to Jan. 2018, Household Items (Storage Building); and • 18-008631 Oct. 2017 to Nov. 2017, Trailer.

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Lanier foundation to host fundraising casino event trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

The Lanier Education Foundation is hosting Hook’em and Hold’em Casino Night at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center on Saturday evening.

At the event, which runs from 7 to 11 p.m., guests can “Up the Ante”

Three of four suspects in vehicle, art thefts arrested

By IsaBel HugHes

Bridges Peachtree Corners set to host black history breakfast

By Curt yeomans curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Members of Bridges Peachtree Corners will celebrate Black History Month this weekend by highlighting diversity.

The group will hold a breakfast with University System of Georgia Vice Chancellor for Internal Audit and Chief Audit Officer Terry Thompson as the guest speaker Saturday. The event will run from 9 to 11 a.m. at Landmark Church, 3737 Holcomb Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners.

“Our tag line is ‘Embracing Diversity To Build Community,’” Bridges Peachtree Corners President Joe Sawyer said. “What better way to appreciate the diversity in our city than to host a Black History Month event. We want all our citizens to understand and appreciate each other’s cultures so we can work to achieve unity in our community.”

In addition to Thompson’s keynote speech, the event will also feature a buffet breakfast provided by JR’s Restaurant and music by contemporary

gospel group Amayz.

Thompson lives in Peachtree Corners with his family and has 30 years of experience in internal audits and compliance. He received his bachelor’s degrees in accounting and business management from North Carolina State University, and a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Anyone interested in attending the event is asked to call 770-446-8611 or send an email to pat@vaildunlap.com.

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Keith Roach

Inflamed lips lead to much irritation Dear Dr. roaCH: For over two years, my wife has been having a problem with her lower lip. From morning on, it swells, irritating her and causing her to lick her lips constantly. She has seen doctors, dentists and specialists, all of whom have no answer and have no one to refer her to. It causes her no end of irritation. Do you have a reason, a cause or a medication that would resolve the problem?

She has tried Biotene lip balm and Vaseline, with no help. Each visit results in more bills, but no results.

— R.E. aNSWer: I think it’s likely that your wife has cheilitis, which isn’t a diagnosis, but a general term for inflammation of lips. It has numerous causes. Dryness, swelling, pain, burning and itching are common symptoms. The most prevalent cause is eczema, and often there is an irritant that people are using to help the problem, but which is actually making it worse. When I suspect this diagnosis, I tell my patients to avoid all lip balms except petrolatum (Vaseline), and sometimes I may try a course of topical steroids, though I prefer to let my dermatology colleagues manage this condition.

Unfortunately, your wife’s experience isn’t very uncommon, and at this point she certainly needs an expert to help make a diagnosis, as it seems the time for “therapeutic trial” (which just means to treat based on the presumed diagnosis, and if it gets better, you make a presumptive diagnosis) is over.

Dear Dr. roaCH: I have a few friends who have needed chemotherapy for different cancers, and some of them talk about interest in the Gerson diet. I have seen some information saying it works and some saying it doesn’t; I’m not sure which is valid.

Can you help me understand what it is, and if there is any evidence on whether it can cure cancer, or if it is helpful in any way?

— W.E. aNSWer: The Gerson therapy is a proposed treatment for cancer and other conditions. It involves a special vegetarian diet, drinking many glasses of juice daily, enemas and numerous supplements. The theory is that a high-potassium, low-sodium diet may have effectiveness for cancer treatment.

Unfortunately, there is no good evidence that the Gerson therapy is an effective treatment for cancer. A well-done 2007 case series suggested that the positive psychological experiences in the patients treated with the Gerson therapy may provide some benefit. Further, there is some good evidence that a vegetarian diet may help reduce progression of some cancers (such as prostate).

While I recommend strongly against the use of the Gerson therapy as a sole treatment for cancer, I think that traditional oncology treatment may benefit from paying attention to a cancer patient’s diet, in addition to his or her psychological and physical well-being.

It seems to me possible to use some “alternative treatments” for cancer along with, and with the explicit knowledge of and approval by, the person’s cancer specialist.

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We must act on guns if GOP won’t WASHINGTON — They won’t do anything meaningful about guns until you force them to with your votes.

This time, following the Parkland massacre, does feel different from all the other times. But I fear the outcome will always be the same — thoughts, prayers, furrowed brows and no real action — until the Republicans who control Congress and so many state legislatures start losing elections because of their obstinacy on gun control.

They need to fear you and me more than they fear the National Rifle Association.

No amount of Eugene moral suasion will Robinson work. The slaughter of 20 first-graders in Newtown, the murder of 58 innocent country music fans in Las Vegas, the near-fatal shooting of one of their own, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La. — no atrocity has been senseless or vile enough to shame the GOP into doing something to keep military-style assault weapons out of killers’ hands. Why should the deadly rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School be the tipping point?

Optimists might point to two wild-card factors we’ve never seen before: the fierce eloquence of the young Parkland survivors and the inconstancy of President Trump.

The students’ activism began immediately, nullifying the customary first move in the GOP-NRA playbook, which is to solemnly pronounce that it is “too soon” after an act of unspeakable horror to even mention the instruments of that horror. Anyone who tries to open a debate on gun control is accused of politicizing tragedy.

“This is not the time,” Republicans say, fully intending to make sure that the time never comes.

In Parkland, though, the voices quickly calling for action on guns were those of students who hours earlier had seen their classmates mowed down by a troubled young man with an AR-15 — students who could easily have been victims themselves. No one could question their right to speak.

And they did not mince words. The issue, they made clear, was the gun.

A 19-year-old known to acquaintances and authorities as disturbed and potentially violent had been able to buy a powerful weapon designed to rip human bodies to shreds on the battlefield. Practically anyone can walk into a gun shop and buy such a weapon. As long as we make such instruments of mass destruction so available, what on earth do we expect?

Republicans would like to change the subject to mental health or background checks, but the students from Parkland have unique standing to keep the focus on guns, where it belongs. Opponents of sensible gun control are so unnerved that they have made shameful efforts to discredit these young activists — a slimy campaign of lies and innuendo that fortunately has backfired.

The kids are staying on message. The NRA’s little helpers can only bleat and squeal. Yes, this face-off is different. And yes, it’s encouraging.

And then there’s Trump. He took an absolutist guns-for-everybody position on the Second Amendment during the campaign, and stuck with it even after the Las Vegas mass shooting, the worst in modern U.S. history. But before he entered politics, he was no diehard opponent of gun control. He could not help but be affected by his meeting Wednesday with gun violence survivors. And despite what he told them, if you strapped him to a lie detector I’d bet you’d discover — before the exhausted machine gave out — that he doesn’t really think arming homeroom teachers is a solution.

Trump has talked about tougher background checks and promises to ban accessories, such as bump stocks, that can make semiautomatic weapons fire like machine guns. According to news reports, he has been muttering about the need to do more. He surely wants nothing more than to be lionized as a great president, and Republicans in Congress are afraid to cross him.

He could pull a Nixon-to-China and demand passage of a tough new ban on assault weapons.

But he won’t. He has neither the good sense nor the courage. The president and his party are not going to act, so we must.

The easy part is counteracting the gun lobby’s financial clout; if they want to, gun control advocates surely can match the NRA dollar for dollar in House and Senate races. The hard part is matching the gun nuts in sustained passion.

Gun control is a more important issue for opponents than it is for advocates.

When we begin to insist that our elected officials support life-saving gun control measures, and throw them out of office if they don’t, we’ll get a ban on the mass shooter’s weapon of choice. We just have to care. And vote.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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Billy Graham was consumed by grace WASHINGTON — Billy Graham was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century — a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley.

But this would be hard to tell from reading his sermons, which even close associates described as ordinary.

His books are hardly more memorable. So what was it that compelled hundreds of millions of people to attend and watch his evangelistic “crusades” and to find personal transformation in his words?

Graham’s global ministry was the triumph of complete sincerity, expressed with a universally accessible simplicity.

“There is no magic, no manipulation,” said publicist Gavin Reid. “The man just obviously believes what he says.” Graham could display charisma in meetings with presidents and queens. In the pulpit — the place of his calling from an early age — he was nearly transparent, allowing a light behind him to shine through him. He had the power of a man utterly confident in some other, greater power.

American fundamentalism, from the Scopes monkey trial to the 1950s, was traumatized, marginalized and inwardlooking. Graham’s achievement was to turn the face of fundamentalism outward toward the world — shaping, in the process, a distinct religious

to preach as he writes, people would be so bewildered they would walk out.”

Nearly 2 million people walked into Graham’s 16week, New York crusade in 1957. And Graham was joined one night at Madison Square Garden by Dr. Martin Luther Michael King Jr. Gerson There was also resistance among some fundamentalists. movement. His evangelicalism I grew up in a theologically was more open and appealconservative Calvinist church ing, more intellectually and in which the reformation was culturally engaged. Graham refought on a weekly basis. took his fellow evangelicals The man who would become from the margins to the center my father-in-law — blessed — from the sawdust trail to with a fine voice — decided the White House. He managed to sing in the choir at a Billy to be winsome without being Graham crusade that came compromised. And evangeliinto town. Afterward, he was cal Christians felt grateful to hauled in front of the elders have a public representative of the church to be queswho — through his integrity tioned. They were upset at this and consistency — brought participation because Graham credit to their faith.

— when people would come There was initial resistance forward during the altar call to Graham’s work among — would refer them back to mainline Protestants. As their home churches, includGraham announced more and ing Catholic churches. more crusades, theologian In fact, the tone of GraReinhold Niebuhr was not ham’s public voice changed amused. Graham, Niebuhr over the years, becoming warned, would “accentuate more ecumenical, less harsh every prejudice which the and nationalistic. Some of this modern, ‘enlightened’ but he credited to broader expomorally sensitive man may sure to the world. “I think now have against religion.” Grawhen I say something, ‘How ham responded: “I have read is this going to sound in India? nearly everything Mr. Niebuhr How is it going to sound has written and I feel inadeto my friends in Hungary quate before his brilliant mind or Poland?’” But this also and learning. Occasionally I involved a theological shift. get a glimmer of what he is “I used to believe that pagans talking about … (but) if I tried in far countries were lost if

they did not have the gospel of Christ preached to them,” he reflected in 1978. “I no longer believe that.”

His faith in the essentials of the Christian gospel, however, never changed. And it made him into a busy builder of institutions that still carry the Christian message. Graham was instrumental in the founding of Christianity Today, the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

He was a major supporter of the National Association of Evangelicals and Fuller Theological Seminary.

As in any long, public life, there were low moments, particularly when Graham came into contact with political figures such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

But he also had a powerful, positive influence in the life of the young George W. Bush and countless others. And this much is clear: For Graham, faith was not the instrument to some other end; it was the prize itself. He had no ulterior motives. No trace of cynicism.

He was consumed by grace, and spoke in gratitude.

For a Christian, it is not a small thing for a man to talk about Jesus Christ, face to face, to more people than anyone has ever done. Or to see how remarkably God used his servant Billy, just as he was.

Michael Gerson’s email address is michaelgerson@ washpost.com.

Stop politicizing the Russia investigation The indictment issued on Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller shows a conspiracy of stunning sophistication by Kremlin-connected Russians, posing as American citizens or using stolen U.S. identities, to influence the 2016 presidential election.

What it does not show is any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Quite the opposite, the indictment shows evidence of a lack of collusion. “Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign … to coordinate political activities,” the indictment reads. If these Russians were colluding with the Trump campaign, there would be no reason to hide their true identities from multiple campaign officials.

Moreover, the indictment states that the Russian effort began in 2014, a year before Donald Trump declared his intention to run for president.

No one, left or right or center, took Trump seriously as a candidate when he declared in 2015. The idea that the Russians saw what all of us didn’t — that Trump had a serious shot at winning the White House — and figured this out way back in 2014, before Trump even declared his candidacy, is absurd.

victory over Hillary Clinton with these unfounded collusion charges. They have put their partisan goal of bringing down President Trump ahead of what should be a national goal that unites both parties — uncovering and stopping Russia’s attack on our Marc democracy.

Thiessen The president’s critics complain that his response to The Russians did develop the Mueller indictment is dea preference for Trump, but fensive. America is under attheir effort was much bigger tack, they say, and all he can than Trump, according to talk about is himself. Well, the indictment. The Russian whose fault is that? For more influence campaign was part than a year, Democrats have of something called “Project repeatedly accused Trump Lakhta,” which “had multiple of colluding with Moscow. components, some involving Now the special counsel has domestic audiences within issued an indictment that the Russian Federation and shows — at least with regard others targeting foreign audi- to this element of the Russian ences in various countries, effort — that no collusion including the United States.” took place. Of course Trump The Russians’ stated goal was is going to claim vindication! to “spread distrust toward the Perhaps evidence of collusion candidates and the political between Trump officials and system in general.” In other Russia will still emerge. If it words, Russia was engaged does, those officials should be in a complex, well-funded, prosecuted to the full extent multinational effort to under- of the law. But Trump’s remine trust in the democratic sponse is not the behavior of process in the United States someone who is worried that and other countries.

Mueller will find evidence he This is a grave threat. knowingly engaged in colluRepublicans and Democrats sion. should be working together In fact, the only evidence in bipartisan way to confront so far of any cooperation it. So why is this not happen- between a hired operative of ing? Because Democrats have a 2016 campaign and Russian politicized the issue, weapon- officials is when the Clinton izing the Russia inquiry in an campaign and the Democratic effort to delegitimize Trump’s National Committee paid

Christopher Steele to collect dirt on Trump from Russian officials. If Trump had paid a former spy to collect dirt on Clinton from Russian officials, Democrats would be shouting that they had the “smoking gun.”

It is true that Russia wanted Trump to win. But the intelligence community report on Russia’s interference also stated the Russians had concluded “that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election.” Once they concluded Clinton would be elected, the Russian influence effort “focused on undermining her expected presidency.” One way to do that would be for Russian officials to provide her campaign with unverified dirt on Trump — fodder for Trump to claim that Democrats colluded with Moscow.

Russia’s effort was sophisticated and complex, and presents an ongoing threat not just to America but to our allies as well. Trump was not in office when the Russian effort began in 2014 … or in 2015 … or in 2016. For three years, President Barack Obama did virtually nothing in response to this attack on America. It’s way past time to address this threat, and we need to do it in a bipartisan manner. But for that to happen, Democrats need to stop politicizing the Russia investigation.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

6A • Friday, February 23, 2018

world Package sent to Prince Harry treated as ‘racist hate crime’ British police are investigating a package reportedly addressed to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as a “racist hate crime.”

The Metropolitan Police said that officers tested a substance in a package received at St. James’ Palace, which the London Evening Standard said was a white powder. Other U.K. media reports said the package also contained a racist letter.

The investigation is being overseen by the London counterterrorism command, a Metropolitan Police statement said. Investigators are treating the incident as a “racist hate crime,” the statement said.

Police would not say who the envelope was addressed to but said tests showed the substance to be non-suspicious. They said an allegation of malicious communications is being investigated.

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Billy Graham dies at 99

By CNN Staff Evangelist Billy Graham — a confidant to presidents, a guiding light to generations of American evangelicals and a globe-trotting preacher who converted millions to Christianity — died Wednesday at the age of 99, his spokesman confirmed to CNN. Graham passed away at his home in Montreat, N.C., spokesman Jeremy Blume said.

The skinny preacher with the booming voice evangelized to nearly 215 million people over six decades and prayed with every U.S. president since Harry Truman.

Several presidents, including Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, relied closely on his spiritual counsel.

He was tall and handsome, with a disarming aw-shucks demeanor and a Southern twang to his voice.

But Graham’s influence, historians say, was monumental. Some called him “America’s pastor,” others referred to him as the “Protestant pope.”

Graham is reported to have persuaded more than 3 million people to commit their lives to Christianity, and his preaching was heard in 185 of the world’s 195 countries, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

“He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era; no more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, could come close to what he achieved,” said William Martin, a former historian at Rice University and the author of “A Prophet with Honor: The

people School spreads kindness with positive note on every locker

After a difficult week at Carmel High School in Indiana, students arrived Thursday morning to some positivity.

A group of students put a positive note on every student’s locker, offering them encouragement.

The notes say things like “You are loved!” “You don’t need a reason to help people!” and “Be the type of person you want to meet!”

According to Carmel Clay Schools, there The Rev. Billy Graham, 99, died Wednesday morning at his home in Montreat, N.C. Gra- are more than 5,100 notes ham died of natural causes, according to Graham spokesman Jeremy Blume. (Getty across the school.

Images) The positivity comes at a good time, as two students were arrested this week Billy Graham Story.” in connection with threats Graham built his ministry made toward students and by bringing the gospel messtaff at the school. sage of tent-revival preachers into the modern media

By Maegan Vazquez gospel in 185 countries age, using any tool at his Brennan named CNN during his 99 years on disposal — from telegrams host of CBS’ Earth, touching the lives of to telephones to satellites and The Rev. Billy Graham many and forever changing ‘Face the Nation’ the internet — to “win souls will lie in honor in the U.S. the course of the world’s for Christ.”

Margaret Brennan will Capitol rotunda beginning spiritual health.”

In doing so, Graham succeed John Dickerson as next week, House Speaker Members of the public formed a bridge between Man throws the moderator of “Face The Paul Ryan said in a stateare invited to pay their the itinerant preachers like explosive at Nation,” CBS announced on ment Thursday. respects while Graham lies Dwight Moody and Billy Thursday.

Graham, an evangelical in honor Wednesday and U.S. Embassy, Sunday, who once criss“Face the Nation” is one minister and spiritual confi- Thursday. crossed the country in search then kills self of the highest-rated Washdant to American presiRyan and Senate Majorof lost souls, and contempoA man died after atington discussion programs dents, died at the age of 99 ity Leader Mitch McConrary Christian pastors like tempting to throw a on television, and one of on Wednesday. nell will take part in a serJoel Osteen, Rick Warren grenade over the wall of the longest-running; It was In his statement, Ryan vice when Graham’s casket and T.D. Jakes. the U.S. Embassy early started in 1954. said Graham “spread the arrives at the Capitol.

“He saw himself as using Thursday in Montenegro’s There was considerable new media to deliver a very capital of Podgorica, auspeculation about who old message,” said Ranbelieved in Jesus. the sins that had destroyed thorities said. dall Balmer, an expert on Avoiding the types of pub- the careers of other Christian would take over when DickA grenade appeared to erson moved to New York American religious history at lic scandals that befell other preachers. Money, sexual have gone off as it was Dartmouth College. prominent preachers was key temptation and hubris topped last month to co-host “CBS thrown into the air, and the This Morning.”

That message, as Graham to Graham’s long-running the list. man detonated a second Brennan is currently the said during thousands of al- success, Martin said.

Their pledge to avoid all device that killed him, poWhite House and senior tar calls, was that salvation is In 1948, at the beginning three came to be known as lice said, calling the death foreign affairs correspondent offered to one and all, black of his rise to fame, Graham the “Modesto Manifesto” a suicide. for CBS News. She will give and white, rich and poor, and his tight circle of travel- and was later adopted by The man’s body was up the White House beat but men and women, sinners ing evangelists gathered in other ministers looking to found 100 feet from the will retain the foreign affairs and saints, so long as they California and catalogued avoid public disgrace. beat. embassy’s wall, according Brennan will begin hostto Steve Goldstein, U.S. undersecretary of state teachers in its public schools ing “Face” this Sunday.

Thursday’s announcefor public diplomacy and and has more than 277,000 ment was well received public affairs. The man’s students enrolled, accordamong the press corps, with motive for throwing the de- Boston mayor: ing to Alyssa Keedy of the vice was unclear, Goldstein ‘Something West Virginia Department of many colleagues and rivals said. praising her reporting chops Education. wrong’ with our One grenade was thrown Teachers are walking into and curiosity. into the embassy courtyard, gun system Jake Tapper, who hosts the state Capitol building in In the wake of the while a second one killed Charleston, W. Va.,according CNN’s “State of the Union,” tweeted to her, “Congrats Parkland school shooting, the unidentified male, acto Christine Campbell, cording to the government Boston Mayor Marty Walsh In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, Boston president of the American and welcome to Sunday of the Baltic country. suggested that there needs Mayor Marty Walsh suggested that there needs to be a Federation of Teachers-West morning!”

In a statement, Monteto be a federal movement to federal movement to combat gun violence. (CNN) Virginia. They plan to sit in negrin police confirmed combat gun violence. the gallery during legislative Quincy Jones Security footage to confront the gunman. they had found the “lifeless “Every day we have sessions. Others are gatherbody of an unidentified a massacre in America’s In reality, the shooter had ing outside the full galleries sorry for lack of from school male.” streets. We have roughly already left Marjory Stone- and continuing their protests. filter in interviews massacre on 40 people killed every man Douglas High School 20-minute delay Quincy Jones might be an day in America with gun in Parkland.

Net neutrality Russian activist Surveillance footage 85-year-old musical legviolence,” Walsh told “I expected to be in a Alexei Navalny David Axelrod on “The Axe from the Florida high gun battle,” McKeone said. rules to officially end with nothing to prove, school where 17 people but that doesn’t mean he Files,” a podcast for the end April 23 could spend were fatally shot and isn’t still learning from his University of Chicago InstiWest Virginia’s election in jail The end of net neutrality more than a dozen others mistakes. tute of Politics and CNN. public schools Russian opposition acis officially set to come this wounded was not shown The musician apologized “There’s something tivist Alexei Navalny was spring. live, as responding officers close due to a Thursday for a string of wrong with our society. briefly detained in Moscow There’s something wrong The Federal Communica- headline-making recent initially thought. teacher walk-out on Thursday, ahead of tions Commission’s repeal It was on a 20-minute interviews that he said were with our system,” Walsh Public schools across the country’s presidential of net neutrality is schedfull of “bad-mouthing” and said, decrying what he sees delay, leading police to West Virginia were closed election from which he has as a lack of regulations and brace for a shootout when uled to take effect April 23, “inexcusable.”

Thursday as teachers and been banned. according to a copy of the The interviews Jones repercussions for improper the gunman was actually Navalny, the best-known gun purchasing and the other school employees hit order was published with the referenced were with GQ long gone, Coral Springs political opponent of the picket lines, demandFederal Register on ThursPolice Capt. Brad McKeand Vulture. In the chats, undue amount of influence President Vladimir Putin, ing higher wages and better day. one said.

Jones was candid about his held by the National Rifle reported his detention in The Republican-led FCC feelings about Taylor Swift “Nobody told us,” Coral benefits.

Association. (“We need more songs, man. a series of tweets and said According to Dale Lee, voted along party lines in Springs Police Chief Tony The Democratic mayor authorities had begun legal held up his state as an December to repeal Obama- F---ing songs, not hooks.”), Pustizzi told the Sun Senti- president of the West Virproceedings against him nel, which first reported the ginia Education Association, era net neutrality protections, Paul McCartney (“the worst example of effective gun for organizing anti-govern- control, pointing to Massa- tape delay. teachers in all of the state’s which were intended to keep bass player I ever heard”) ment protests. and Michael Jackson (whom the internet open and fair.

But McKeone, one of the 55 counties are participatchusetts’ own stringent gun It’s not clear when he ing in the planned two-day With the repeal, the FCC he called “greedy”), among responding officers, said regulations — including might face court, but he walkout, and a group was will do away with rules bar- others. the delay did not hinder its record as the first state could be jailed for a maxi- to ban bump fire stocks — Jones said it was a converto march Thursday mornring internet providers from access to the victims. mum of 30 days and could and regional conferences sation with his daughters that “It had no delay. It didn’t ing to the capitol building in blocking or slowing down opened his eyes to the error possibly still be in prison access to online content. slow us down to getting us Charleston. they’ve held around gun for the March 18 election. violence.

Organizers expect thouThe FCC will also eliminate of his ways. to anybody,” McKeone told His chief of staff, Leonid “I have LEARNED MY sands of teachers to particia rule barring providers CNN. “The thing that bothers Volkov, tweeted that he, LESSON,” he wrote in a pate. from prioritizing their own The main difference, me is the federal governtoo, had been detained. note posted to social media.

West Virginia employs content. he said, was that officers ment again is not involved — From wire reports in this space,” Walsh said.

— From wire reports nearly 20,000 classroom — From wire reports thought they were going

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Hedge fund billionaire: 70 percent chance of recession before ’20

By Matt Egan CNN

The roaring American economy will probably sink into a recession before President Trump stands for re-election in 2020.

At least that’s the view of Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor who predicted the 2008 financial crisis.

“The probability of a recession prior to the next presidential election would be relatively high, 70 percent or something like that,”

booming right now, Dalio noted that “for various reasons, there has been a lot of stimulation hitting Dalio said on Wednesday evening the gas.” He said that this raises during an appearance at the Harthe risk of interest rates going up, vard Kennedy School’s Institute of hurting all asset prices.

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Wall Street was rocked earlier Dalio, the mercurial chairman of this month by fears that higher hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater inflation will force faster interestAssociates, suggested Trump’s rate hikes. Goldman Sachs CEO efforts to pump up the economy Lloyd Blankfein told CNN last with massive tax cuts and surging week he’s concerned about the spending could backfire.

Trump administration’s spending Even though the economy is spree overheating the economy.

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Dalio believes the U.S. economy is in a “pre-bubble stage,” but warned it could quickly morph into a bubble — “followed by a bust.”

Of course, no one can predict exactly when the next downturn will occur. And there’s no sign a recession is imminent.

Dalio is best known for his peculiar management style of “radical transparency,” which among other things calls for recording most meetings. Bridge-

water, which manages about $160 billion and used to employ former FBI Director James Comey, has been called the world’s “strangest hedge fund.”

But Dalio knows a thing or two about economic busts. In 2007, he warned the Bush administration that many of the world’s largest banks could go insolvent, according to a 2011 article in The New Yorker.

“We anticipated the financial crisis,” Dalio said Wednesday.

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Sold under the brand name Neuronix, the new pill is specifically for men and women suffering with neuropathy, nerve pain and poor lower leg health.

This is due to the pills active ingredients, which help to repair nerve damage in the lower extremities.

Research shows that damaged nerves can cause the legs and feet to always feel pain. Many report this discomfort in the form of burning, tingling, and numbness.

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The company says this is what makes Neuronix is so effective and why it’s grown so popular so fast.

NEW HOPE FOR NEUROPATHY SUFFERS Since hitting the market, sales for Neuronix have soared and there are some very good reasons why.

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Several studies suggest that their ability to support in nerve repair may help those suffering with neuropathy and nerve pain who have burning, itching, tingling, and numbness in the arms and legs from nerve damage.

The ingredients in Neuronix come from natural compounds, which are both safe and healthy. There are also no known side effects in their history of use.

Studies show that they rejuvenate legs and feet by supporting vital nerves and stimulating circulation.

Research shows nerve damage in the lower extremities can cause them to feel pain all day long. It can also cause blood flow to slow, which can cause fluid buildup resulting in swollen, tired, and restless legs.

USERS THRILLED WITH RESULTS According to the makers of Neuronix, many of their users report back with rapid relief from daily pain and discomfort.

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Gwinnett County Public Schools is hosting its 12th annual Transition Fair, open to students with disabilities, their families and educators from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Peachtree Ridge High School, located at 1555 Old Peachtree Road in Suwanee, will host the event for a second straight year.

The free event provides information about commu-

nity services and resources for young people who have disabilities and may need assistance as they transition to adulthood.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with local agency representatives to discuss and research the various options available for schoolaged students as well as transitional services to post-school activities and employment.

A brief orientation session will begin at 9 a.m. to provide guidance and

suggestions for parents and students.

Following the session, participants will have the opportunity to attend three 45-minute breakout sessions to learn more about employment support, vocational training, day programs, community participation, recreation and leisure opportunities, funding and community resources.

For more information, contact the GCPS Special Education Office at 678301-7143.

Charter school students perform for lawmakers SAFE NEW PILL MADE FOR NEUROPATHY: Neuronix helps repair damaged nerves in the legs and feet, which can cause burning, tingling and numbness. No prescription is required. It is manufactured in the USA in a GMP rated facility. to walk around the ship or do the any of the island excursions.”

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Research shows that neuropathy, nerve pain, and many other leg issues may be caused by nerve damage that streams pain signals to your brain and because nerve cells are incapable of regenerating on their own, this pain never goes away.

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FROM STAFF REPORTS State lawmakers and visitors to the state Capitol were entertained by some special guests this week.

Students from the North Metro Academy of Performing Arts visited the gold dome and performed the state song, “Georgia on My Mind,” as well as several songs from their upcoming spring musical, “Oz.” The students, who were introduced by state Rep. Brooks Coleman, were invited to the Capitol by state Rep. Pedro Marin.

Students from the North Metro Academy of Performing Arts showcased dance, music and drama.

The group has performed in parades, festivals, churches and school events around Gwinnett County and later this year will perform with Georgia’s National Chorus in Athens.

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Students and administrators from North Metro Academy of Performing Arts, along with Rep. Brooks Coleman, right, made a visit to the state capitol this week. (Special Photo)

of Performing Arts is a Gwinnett County charter school in Norcross that was founded in 2014.

The school is designed to provide students access to an education that is integrated with music, drama and the arts.

“Experiences like the state Capitol performance give students a real-life

application of the integration of academics and performing arts,” said Beauty P. Baldwin, founder of North Metro Academy of Performing Arts. “They are not only proudly sharing their immense talents with state lawmakers, the students are also seeing firsthand how our state government works.”

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Florence Warbington Green’s painting of old downtown Norcross shows what life in the city was like 40 to 50 years ago. The city will hold a dedication ceremony for the painting at the Norcross Welcome Center on Saturday. The painting is on an extended loan to the center’s history museum. (Special Photo)

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Norcross residents will “With the county’s have a chance to celebrate Bicentennial festivities the city’s history this week- underway, many cities are end at a dedication ceremo- finding this to be a time of ny and historical tour. reflection and the City of The city announced Norcross is no different,” it will hold a dedication city officials said in an anceremony Saturday at the nouncement. “History is a Norcross Welcome Center major part of what makes for a painting of the city’s Norcross the charming, historic downtown that beloved town its residents was made by Florence call home today.”

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event as a time to reflect on the history of the city, which is nearly 150 years old. The dedication ceremony at the museum will begin at noon, with the tour set to begin at 1 p.m.

Green’s painting is on an extended loan to the welcome center’s history museum. It shows downtown Norcross with people walking past cars that are about 40 to 50 years old.

It also shows some of downtown Norcross’ old businesses, such as a Parsons Dry Goods store in the building that now houses Paizanos.

The walking tour that follows the ceremony will highlight the lives of people who lived in Norcross.

The cemetery itself dates back to the 1800s.

The Welcome Center is located at 189 Lawrenceville St., and the entrance to the cemetery is located at 110 S. Cemetery St.

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ing a knife at school,” the report said. “She stated that double stabbing at his home. after the argument, Max ran When officers arrived upstairs. She followed him at the Spring End Court up the stairs and saw him on residence about 3 p.m., top of his (brother) with a they found “small droplets ‘pointed’ object, which she of blood” that led to the could not identify but stated kitchen, where Cardenaswas not a knife. Garcia Garcia’s 24-year-old brother stated that (her husband) and 47-year-old father were grabbed Max around the found with stab wounds to waist in an attempt to pull various parts of their bodies, him off (his brother). … including the neck, back, Max then turned and atchest and shoulders, an inci- tacked (the father) with the dent report said. same pointed object.”

Cardenas-Garcia’s mother, After the attack, the teen Maria Garcia, told police allegedly ran back down the her son had been suspended stairs and “took off in an unfrom Maxwell High earlier known direction,” prompting that day for carrying a knife police to deploy K-9 units on school grounds, which and activate a SWAT team to was found after two stufind Cardenas-Garcia. dents reportedly notified the The family’s neighbor, school resource officer that Robert Pawlowski, said up the teen had a weapon on until Wednesday’s incident, him. there had never been any ob“Garcia stated that she vious problems at the home began arguing with Max or with Cardenas-Garcia. because this is not the first “I saw him a lot of times time he was caught carryworking with the doggie;

they got the small doggie,” Pawlowski said. “Normal kid, you know. No issue with neighbors, not with burglaries or anything like that.”

Officers were not able to immediately locate the teen after he ran off, though they were led to a nearby home after a woman who gave Cardenas-Garcia a ride took them to a Congress Parkway residence, which is blocks from the family’s home.

There, police found two teens who said they recognized Cardenas-Garcia from school and that he “told them he stabbed his family” before demanding a jacket from them.

“They were afraid for their safety and could hear the approaching sirens so they complied with the suspect’s orders to provide him with a navy blue jacket they had,” the report said. “The suspect stated he intended to use (the jacket) to conceal his identity from the police.”

Cardenas-Garcia was later taken into custody near Pew Creek.

Bernard Watson, spokesman for Gwinnett County Public Schools, said while he could not comment on the specific school incident, “the district’s policy is that if a student is caught on school grounds with a knife that has a blade longer than 2 inches, he or she will be suspended and must appear before a disciplinary panel.”

It was not immediately known the size of the knife, what exactly was used to stab Cardenas-Garcia’s father and brother, or what condition the men are in, though they were transported to a local hospital following the stabbing.

Cardenas-Garcia was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and remains in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.

FOX 5 Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Blair Yvonne Alexander

Buford, GA

Kerrey Michelle Elkins

Age 23, passed away Feb. Kerrey Michelle El16, 2018. Wages & Sons kins, age 46, of Buford Gwinnett Chapel. passed away Wednesday, February 21, 2018.

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Kathryn A. Baird Kathryn A. Baird, age 67, of Buford passed away Friday, February 9, 2018.

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Mr. J. Charles Freeman Lawrenceville, GA

James P. Banner

James P. Banner age 81 passed away on Wednesday, February 21, Arrangements by Byrd & Flanigan Funeral Service Lawrenceville, GA. Sugar Hill, GA

Peggy Cochling (Borders) Peggy Borders Cochling, age 76, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. She is survived by her children, Eddie William and Pamela Cochling, Flowery Branch, GA, Theresa and Perry Puckett, Winder, GA, Eric and Laura Cochling, Lawrenceville, GA; six grandchildren, Stephen and Grace Cochling, Michelle and Nick Clark, Eddie Cochling, Aidan Cochling, Elise Cochling, and Grant Cochling; six great grandchildren; brothers and sister-in-law, Paul Borders, Winder, GA, Tillman and Johnnie Borders, Villa Rica, GA; sister and brotherin-law, Frances and Emory Casper, Bethlehem, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Mrs. Cochling was born June 19, 1941 in Winder, GA. She was a graduate of Winder Barrow High School in Winder, GA and was retired from General Electric in quality control with over fifteen years of service. Funeral service will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 25, 2018 from 1:00 p.m. until time of service at 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502 in memory of Peggy Cochling.

Mr. J. Charles Freeman, 88, of Nicholson, passed away Feb 19, 2018.

Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson.

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James Timothy Holcombe James Timothy Holcombe, 51, Passed away Feb. 20, 2018. Visitation is Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 from 3-7pm. Funeral service is Sunday. Feb. 25, 2018 At 2pm in the Chapel of AS Turner Funeral Home.

Adrianne Nonh, Tyson Nonh, Daisy Stephens, and Rex Stephens; and several nieces & nephews.

Mrs. Rylee retired from Southern Bell/ AT&T after 33 years of service. The Funeral Service to honor and celebrate the life of Mildred Long “Did” Rylee will be held on Friday, February 23, 2018 at 1:00 PM at Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel with Reverend Greg Howell officiating. Interment will follow at Eternal Hills Memory Gardens, Snellville, GA. The family will receive friends on Thursday, February 22, 2018 from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, A Family Company, 3705 Highway 78 West, Snellville, GA 30039 (770-979-3200) has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Carolyn Houston (Neal) Carolyn Houston (Neal) age 61, of Ellenwood passed away on February 17, 2018. Arrangements

by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Lawrenceville.

Monroe, GA

Judy Huff Judy Huff age 72, passed away on February 22, 2018. Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home Monroe, GA. Lilburn, GA

Betty Jolly age 91, of Lilburn died Feb. 20, 2018. Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/ Tucker Chapel.

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Gaynelle Miller age 79, died February 16, 2018 Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel.

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Elizabeth Pulliam (Yancey) age 89, passed away February 20, 2018.

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Mildred Long “Did” Rylee Mildred Long “Did” Rylee, age 88 of Snellville, GA, passed away on Monday, February 19, 2018. She is preceded in death by her husband, Harold Rylee; her parents, Mary Elizabeth Long & Luther H. Long, Sr.; and 6 siblings. She is survived by her sons, John H. Rylee and Luther & Gina Rylee; daughter, Malinda & Rick Craig; grandchildren, Julie & Sam Nonh, Brad & Savanna Stephens, Andrew Rylee, and Steven Rylee; great- grandchildren,

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Patricia “Pat” Samples (Brown) Patricia “Pat” Brown Samples, age 76, of Buford, GA passed away on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. She was preceded in death by her husband of forty-eight years, Larry Samples; parents, Woodrow and Justine Anglin Brown; sisters, Barbara Goldberg, and Linda Johnson; and brother, Ricky Brown. Mrs. Samples is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Trina and Tony Worley, Buford, GA; grandchildren, Heather and Rev. Kenny Kuykendall, Loganville, GA, and Lindsey and Rev. Heath Granthum, Winder, GA; great grandchildren, Brady, Drew and Carson Kuykendall, and Hudson and Haddon Granthum; brothers and sister-in-law, Mark Brown, Flowery Branch, GA, Larry and Sheila Brown, Commerce, GA; sister-in-law, Brenda Brown, Buford, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Samples was born September 3, 1941 in Cumming, GA. She attended Sugar Hill School and was a retired hairdresser. She was a member of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Buford.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 23, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Kenny Kuykendall officiating. A graveside service

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In the motion, the group uses the 2016 election results, in which Chandler defeated McLeod by an even narrower margin than she won by in 2014, to back up its claims. Chandler’s victory two years ago was so close that a recount was needed to verify that she had won the election.

Democrat Donna McLeod, who narrowly lost to Chandler in 2016, has announced she will run for the seat again.

Chandler recently told the Daily Post, however, that she had not reached a definitive decision about whether she would seek re-election.

Georgia NAACP officials and other lawyers working with the two groups on the lawsuit reiterated in the joint statement with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law its message about district boundaries and this year’s elections.

“The Georgia NAACP will not abide by the 2018 election being conducted under racially gerrymandered district boundary lines,” Georgia NAACP President Phyllis Blake in the statement. “The right to vote rings hollow if elections are held in districts tailor-made to ensure that incumbents are re-elected.”

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will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford with Rev. Heath Granthum officiating.

The family will receive friends on Thursday evening, February 22, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Larry Wynn officiating.

Interment will follow at Ivy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday evening, February 23, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home in Buford.

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Patricia Thorpe age 78, passed away on February 14, 2018, Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home Lawrenceville, Ga. Buford, GA

Richard E. Tyler Richard E. Tyler, age 79, of Buford, GA passed away on Thursday, February 22, 2018.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Carlos, and mother, Christelle Barfield; and brother, Briggs Tyler. Mr. Tyler is survived by his wife of fifty-one years, Jeri Hatcher Tyler, Buford, GA; children, Brett and Andrea Tyler, Cumming, GA, and Kelli and Christopher Wilson, Peachtree City, GA; grandchildren, Colin Tyler, Ryan Tyler, Logan Wilson, Molly Wilson, and Hannah Wilson; sister, Elizabeth “Beth” Pitcher, Sarasota, FL; brother and sister-in-law, Jerry and Maryann Tyler, Roswell, GA; sister-in-law, Joanne Tyler, Marietta, GA; brothers-in-law, Joe and Barbara Hatcher, Helen, GA, Doug and Jami Fox, Dacula, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Tyler was born September 20, 1938 in Hahira, GA. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He was a 1956 graduate of Hahira High School in Hahira, GA and received his Associate’s degree from Southern Tech. Mr. Tyler was a retired commercial builder from Lisle Associates with over twenty years of service. He was a member of Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, GA and became a Deacon will attending First Baptist Church in Buford. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Ivy Creek Baptist Church in Buford, GA with Dr. Craig Dale, Rev. Jerry Tyler, and Rev.

Mr. Ralph William Wedd Mr. Ralph William Wedd, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away at the age of 95 on February 16, 2018. Born in Longford, Kansas on December 16, 1922 to William and Mabel Austin Wedd, Ralph celebrated his 95th birthday with his entire family and dear friends this past December.

Ralph married the love of his life, Jacqueline True Babcock Wedd in 1947, raised their 5 children in Akron, Ohio, and later Dunwoody, Georgia. They were married for 68 years.

He lived a life of service to his family, church, community and country and did so with love and a deep and abiding faith.

Ralph graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, and was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He served our country in the United States Navy during WW2 and after graduation, began his career with Akron Chemical Company in Akron Ohio, eventually retiring as Vice President of Sales.

During their time in Akron, Ralph and Jacqueline were members of First Presbyterian Church. He was also very involved in the community, serving as a host parent for AFS to two international students as well as serving as co president of West Side Neighbors. After their move to Dunwoody, GA, Ralph retired and traveled the world with Jacque.

He also volunteered for SCORE and was an active member of Church of the

New Covenant for over 30 years.

Ralph is preceded in death by his loving wife Jacqueline, his parents, and his sisters Ruth Parkinson and Mildred McKale. He is survived by their 5 children, William Edwin Wedd of Delaware, OH, Mary Elizabeth Petty of Alpena, MI, James Ralph Wedd of Celina, OH, Patricia Jane (Will) Crowther of Suwanee, GA, and Thomas Jeffrey (Luanne) Wedd of Sautee, GA.; Grandchildren, Alan William Wedd, Nicole Elizabeth Petty, Jon Winfield (Megan) Petty, James Cody (Allison) Wedd, Lonnie Russell Wedd, Michael William Crowther, Nicholas Arthur Crowther, Jennifer Brittany (CJ) Marcus, William Denver Corn, Thomas Bentley Corn, and Jason Nolan; Great Grandchildren, Hanna Marie Marcus, Christian Emmett Marcus, Ava Mae Wedd, Liam James Wedd, and sister Marian Louise Bickley.

A memorial service will be held at Church of the New Covenant, 3330 Chestnut Drive, Doraville, GA 30340 on Tuesday, February 27th at 2:00 PM. A reception at the church will follow. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Church of the New Covenant.

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BOC approves two new county park playgrounds Park playground,” Commissioner Lynette Howard said in a statement Thursday.

Mountain Park Park Landscape Structures in Lilburn is about to do Inc. will install the new something different from special purpose local opanything seen before at tion sales tax-funded playa Gwinnett County park grounds at both parks at a playground. cost of $750,192. George The park is one of Pierce Park will get a net two that will get new climbing tower, a slide, playgrounds approved a climber, a track and a by county commissiontunnel designed to let kids ers earlier this week. play with Hot Wheels or The other park is George Matchbox-style toy cars.

Pierce Park in Suwanee.

“As always, we’re What makes the new grateful to voters for Mountain Park Park play- their ongoing support of ground standout is that the SPLOST programs it will have the county’s that are making these first sensory tunnel, which park upgrades possible,” provides an interactive Commissioner Jace feature that is intended to Brooks said. “This new be touched by children. playground equipment “My inner child is will let all kids visiting really excited about the George Pierce Park enjoy fun wheelchair-accessible a playground designed for sensory tunnel, plus ramps universal access.” and decks where all kids Meanwhile, Mouncan play at the new and tain Park Park’s new much improved Mountain playground will include

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But the sensory tunnel that will also be a part of the new playground is the item that is getting the most hype from Howard, who represents the Lilburn area. She said the tunnel allows different colors appear to appear in the tunnel.

“It’s a really neat, cool way to look at colors, and when they blend like yellow and blue will make green and red and blue make purple,” Howard told the Daily Post earlier this week. “They can learn all sorts of things. My biggest thing about parks is not to set what exactly what they will play, but to let their imagination run wild.

“It could be the sky, it could be the sea, it could be all sorts of things.”

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•From Page 1A The show featured personal artwork from athletes on Atlanta’s top professional sports franchises — the Falcons, Hawks, Braves and Atlanta United — and the creative companies that work with them.

Thompson has always had a passion for drawing, enough to initially decided to major in art at the University of Albany.

Thompson changed his major midway through his collegiate career after his first child was born.

Art didn’t seem to be lucrative enough for a young father to support his growing family. But Thompson didn’t give up drawing, although it’s harder to find time between training for a professional lacrosse career and parenthood.

“My whole life I’ve always been an artist,” Thompson said. “I’m kind of learning. I’m not super familiar with graphic design, I get a lot of help with it.

“There are no shortcuts to art, you have to take your time. For me, I had two kids, going on my third. I wanted to be with my wife and my kids, and then I had lacrosse. I wasn’t forced, but it was the easiest route.”

Drawing was still a hobby for Thompson, who said he drew tattoos for friends before he started using his skill to market his own business.

When Thompson’s professional career started taking off, he and his brothers — also accomplished lacrosse players from upstate New York — formed their own lacrosse apparel brand, Thompson Brothers Lacrosse. Who better to design the logo than Lyle Thompson himself? His inspiration was drawn from their last initial infused with their signature braids that dangle from the back of their helmets.

The braid is a traditional Native American hairstyle.

Thompson’s art is profoundly influenced by his traditional upbringing on the Onondaga Nation

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Thompson

Above, Georgia Swarm forward Lyle Thompson, right, talks with visitors at the Atlanta Sports Art Show at the Miami Ad School in Atlanta on Thursday night. Thompson is the graphic artist for Thompson Brothers, a company he and his two brothers started. Below is a scene from his Sports Art Show display. (Photos: Anthony Stalcup)

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“That’s what I connect to,” Thompson said. “If you connect to something, that’s where I start.

I like to draw things that connect me to my culture and show who you are.”

Thompson partnered with Nike to inspire aspects of the design the N7 sneaker collection and an all-surface lacrosse cleat Alpha Huarache 6 LE. Thompson, who has an interest in collecting shoes, jumped at the

Walkouts

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“About 25 students met with hope with so many at the flag pole and were people from different out there for about eight backgrounds coming to 10 minutes,” Roach together to remember the said in a release. “The lives lost in Florida and to school is following up fight for gun law reform. with these students indi“We are the future of vidually to discuss their this country,” Brown said. concerns.”

“Me and some friends of Roach also said the mine are going to betCollins Hill staff superter organize the future vised about 50 students protests at Mill Creek and as they participated in a hopefully they continue walkout before returning to gain attention until our to class.

Congressmen hear our The demonstrations cries and take action.” come as a response to the According to Sloan death of 17 students and Roach, executive direcfaculty members at Martor of communication jory Stoneman Douglas and media relations for High School in Parkland, the Gwinnett school Fla. system, school leaders “We want to prove at Lanier High met with that our opinions on gun a group of 12 students control matter,” Ruiz who organized an event said. “We are afraid, and to talk about a platform we want change. There’s to express their voice nothing stopping somewithout taking away from one from doing the same

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“Nike takes control of the main aspects of things, bringing it to life,” Thompson said.

“With our latest shoe, I thought it was cool because I got to design the shoe and kind of innovate with them. For me, I came up with the design and they brought it to life.”

to our school.”

As a result of the shooting, The Women’s March Youth EMPOWER group has organized a national school walkout day March 14, exactly one month after the Stoneman Douglas shooting.

Fifteen-year-old Lane Murdock, a high school sophomore from Connecticut, also has organized a national walkout, taking place April 20 in remembrance of the Columbine shooting 19 years ago.

“As a district, we are aware of the days groups are organizing nationally in March and April,” Roach said. “We are working with principals as to how best to respond to these situations.”

Both Brown and Ruiz said they plan on participating in the two scheduled national walkouts.

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Buford’s comeback falls short

By Colin Hubbard Staff Correspondent

BUFORD — Buford boys basketball head coach Eddie Martin needed a baseball analogy to explain the outcome of Thursday night’s round of 16 matchup between his Wolves and Miller Grove.

“We tried to hit the home run instead of getting the single,” he said.

Leading by as many as eight points early in the third quarter, the Wolves went for the kill and were unsuccessful. The gamble put the Wolves in an eight-point hole of their own with 30 seconds remaining, but despite three consecutive 3-pointers in a 24-second stretch to cut the lead to two points, the comeback fell short.

The Wolverines knocked down two free throws with three seconds remaining to secure a 79-75 victory, ending the Wolves’ bid at back-toback state titles.

“We didn’t play our best game tonight, but that’s what the state tournament is all about,” Martin said. “If you don’t play your A-game, someone is going to beat you.”

Despite being outplayed both offensively and defensively for much of the second half, the Wolves (24-5) still found themselves with a chance to win the game in the closing minutes.

Down by 10, the Wolves used an 8-2 run to cut the lead to 70-66, and after forcing a jump ball that was awarded to Buford on the possession arrow, David Viti fired an open shot from behind the arc, but it missed.

The 3-pointer would have made it a one-point game with under two minutes remaining, but instead, the

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Newton rallies to Experience helps Grayson boys pull away nip Bears

Grayson’s Travis Anderson (0) gets fouled when shooting against Peachtree Ridge’s Devin Vassell (24) and Devon Higgs (3) during Thursday night’s second-round Class AAAAAAA state playoff game at Peachtree Ridge. (Photo: Craig Cappy)

from Peachtree Ridge for second-round win

By David Friedlander

nament games the last two-plus seasons to stay poised.

And behind its own leader Travis Anderson, plus sevSUWANEE — The way eral key free throws down Peachtree Ridge’s Devin the stretch, Grayson finally Vassell was trying to will his pulled away for a 75-66 win teammates back from behind at Peachtree Ridge to earn its throughout Thursday’s second- third straight trip to the state round Class AAAAAAA state Elite Eight. boys basketball tournament Anderson finished with 27 game, it would’ve been easy points to help counter Vassell’s for a team in Grayson’s posi32-point evening and help tion to panic. the Rams (21-6) earn a trip to But the Rams called on the Pebblebrook for next week’s experience of a team that had Elite Eight. battled through eight state tour“Experience. Pretty much

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experience,” said Anderson, who connected on four of his six made field goals from behind the 3-point arc and 11 of 12 from the free-throw line.

“We’ve got 10 seniors this year, and everybody played in the tournament last year.

“So it all came down to us having (enough) experience and us playing together for four years and … trusting each other.”

That experience and trust helped the Rams jump out early on Peachtree Ridge (245), with Anderson hitting four

straight free throws and Reco Hallmon knocking down a pair 3-pointers to a quick 10-2 lead just 1:47 after the opening tip.

It was a tough early hole that the Lions spent pretty much the entire evening trying to battle back from.

“They played very well,” Peachtree Ridge coach Keith Arrington said of Grayson.

“They made all their free throws down the stretch. And we never did quite get over that initial (run). … We just never See GRAYSON, Page 4B

Tri-Cities too much for Dacula in second round

By Will Hammock

Class AAAAAA second round.

“I just think (Tri-Cities) fought really hard,” Dacula DACULA — Still boys coach Byron Wilson within striking distance of said. “They played really a comeback early in the hard. I’ve been telling our fourth quarter Thursday guys all week, they play night, the Dacula boys bas- really hard. I think that’s ketball team ended up too the difference in the game. shorthanded to pull it off.

They just played harder.

Mekhail Bethea, its main I hate to say it, but they source of offense all night, played harder than us. My spent more than three (stat) guys had them with minutes on the bench with 27 offensive rebounds. … cramps. Brenden Tucker We just didn’t match their was called for his fifth foul level of intensity tonight.” on a charge early in the Tri-Cities (21-9) confinal quarter, culminating trolled the rebounding, a game full of foul trouble sporting a 39-20 edge that for the hosts. led to plenty of extra shots From there, Tri-Cities on the offensive end. It finished off the Falcons also stymied Dacula offor an 84-67 victory in the fensively for the most part

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outside of Bethea, who carried his team with 25 points and seven assists despite missing a chunk of time with cramps.

By halftime, Bethea had 10 points and five assists, playing a part in eight of the Falcons’ nine baskets.

He returned from cramps to score 11 in the fourth, but it was too late to make a sizable dent in the deficit.

“I thought (Bethea) played great,” Wilson said.

“He went down with cramps and he tried to fight through them. He was a floor general. Mekhail scores when he needs to score. He makes passes. There was one time when he found Shayne Dacula’s Quincy Ademokoya (23) shoots against Tri-Cities during Thursday’s game at

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By Manny Fils Staff Correspondent

COVINGTON — Newton started the fourth quarter with an 11-0 run as it took the lead and held on to beat Mountain View 85-81 in the second round of the Class AAAAAAA GHSA Boys Basketball Tournament on Thursday at Newton.

During the regular season, the Bears (22-6) beat Newton (26-3) 6665 in overtime at the Gwinnett Daily Post Metro Atlanta Challenge during the holidays.

The Bears gave Newton a scare as they overcame a 27-19 first-quarter deficit to take a 40-38 lead at halftime.

Naheim Allenye, who paced the Bears with 23 points, and Miles Long, who finished the night with 10 points, provided Mountain View with most of its scoring in the comeback, scoring seven points each.

Mountain View had two quick scores to take a 45-38 lead before the Rams closed the gap, making it 45-44 with 5:14 left in the frame.

The Bears started the final quarter with a two-point lead at 54-52, but Newton went on its 11-0 run to begin the final eight minutes.

It appeared as if the Rams had control of the game when they went up 71-61. Spencer Rodgers, who had 15 points, and Allenye combined to close the gap to 73-72 with 1:38 left in the game.

Both teams spent the rest of the game at the free-throw line, where they were nearly perfect, and the host Rams hit enough to stay in front for good, finishing the night 25 of 26 at the line, while the Bears were 13 of 18.

Also scoring in double figures for the Bears were Kevin Kayongo with 10 points and Alex Wesig scoring 14.

Mountain View also kept itself in the game with its 3-point shooting, with the Bears making 12 shots from behind the arc to Newton’s eight.

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5:30 p.m. — Loganville at Mill Creek 5:30 p.m. — Tucker at GAC 5:45 p.m. — Westlake at South 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Central 6 p.m. — Winder-Barrow at Peachtree Ridge 7 p.m. — North at Tampa Jesuit (Fla.)

LACROSSE

6:15 p.m. — McIntosh boys at Wesleyan 6:30 p.m. — Chamblee girls at GAC 7 p.m. — Brookwood boys at Peachtree Ridge 7 p.m. — Buford boys at North

SOCCER

5:30 p.m. — Cedar Shoals at Providence 5:30 p.m. — Central at Habersham Central 5:30 p.m. — Fellowship Christian at Hebron 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at Brookwood 5:30 p.m. — Lakeside-DeKalb at Shiloh 5:30 p.m. — Meadowcreek and Druid Hills at Adams Stadium 5:30 p.m. — Mill Creek at Dacula 5:30 p.m. — Northview at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Parkview 5:30 p.m. — Sequoyah at Buford 5:30 p.m. — South at Discovery 5:30 p.m. — Starr’s Mill at GAC 5:30 p.m. — Walnut Grove at Lanier 5:30 p.m. — Wesleyan at Blessed Trinity 6 p.m. — Norcross at Centennial

TENNIS

3:30 p.m. — Archer at South Saturday

BASEBALL

10:30 a.m. — Chattahoochee at Hebron 11 a.m. — Dacula and Rockdale Co. at Dacula 11 a.m. — Grayson and Decatur at McKoy Park 11 a.m. — Islands at Duluth 11 a.m. — Wesleyan at Riverwood 11:30 a.m. — Mill Creek and LaGrange at Lambert 11:30 a.m. — Norcross at North Forsyth Noon — Collins Hill at Buford Noon — East Jackson at Discovery Noon — Jackson Co. at Mountain View Noon — Tucker at Lanier 1 p.m. — Apalachee and Chattahoochee at Hebron 1 p.m. — Brookwood at Marist 1:30 p.m. — Wesleyan and Walker at Riverwood 2 p.m. — Grayson and Redan at McKoy Park 2 p.m. — Mill Creek and North Paulding at Lambert 2 p.m. — Norcross and Sequoyah at North Forsyth 2 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge and Rockdale Co. at Dacula 3 p.m. — Archer and Jackson Co. at Mountain View 3 p.m. — Berkmar and East Jackson at Discovery 3 p.m. — Parkview and Collins Hill at Buford 3 p.m. — Providence and Tucker at Lanier 3:30 p.m. — Apalachee at Hebron 5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Dacula 5 p.m. — Social Circle at Duluth 6 p.m. — Archer at Mountain View 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Discovery 6 p.m. — Parkview at Buford 6 p.m. — Providence at Lanier

LACROSSE

10 a.m. — Wesleyan girls at Girls Prep School (Tenn) 11 a.m. — Norcross boys at Centennial Noon — Dacula and Druid Hills at Adams Stadium Noon — Evans girls at Archer

SOCCER

4 p.m. — Duluth at Johns Creek

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Cummings hopes to lead GWU back to NCAAs

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on 10 of 16 shooting as the Bobcats improved to 16-10 overall and 13-7 in the conference. North Georgia fell to 22-4 overall and 17-3 in the Peach Belt.

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A promising career in the medical field awaits Brianna Cummings, so she made the decision a while back to bypass any future opportunities in overseas professional basketball that came her way.

That means her last competitive basketball game will happen this season for George Washington University. And the Greater Atlanta Christian grad wants it to be in the NCAA Tournament.

Cummings played on NCAA teams her first two seasons, then in the Women’s NIT as a junior.

“I’ve been to the NCAA Tournament a couple of times and we’re looking to continue that tradition,” she said.

The Colonials, coached by former Connecticut and WNBA star Jenn Rizzotti, are trending in that direction. They have won three in a row and six of their last seven, improving to 15-12 overall and 9-5 in the tough Atlantic 10 Conference.

“It will all be determined on our A-10 Tournament the first week of March,” Cummings said of the NCAA hopes. “We’ve definitely been picking it up in conference and we’ve put ourselves in a good position to win a few more and have a good seeding.

Hopefully, we’ll make it back again to the A-10 Tournament championship game and see how that goes.”

A big reason George Washington is in this position is the improved play of Cummings.

The 5-foot-10 guard was a key contributor in the past, starting 14 of 31 games as a sophomore and 20 of 30 games as a junior on veteran-laden teams.

She averaged 8.8 points as a sophomore and 6.5 as a junior, but has raised her scoring substantially in her final college season.

She leads the Colonials in scoring at 14.2 per game, in addition to averaging 5.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2 steals. She also averages a career-best 34.3 minutes (also first on the team) after playing 23.9 minutes a game last season.

“It’s been a process but every year our senior class has been relied on more and more and more,” Cummings said. “I’ve definitlely built up my confidence.

You know you can rely on me to get that basket or get that defensive stop.”

When basketball finishes, Cummings is in a good spot, too. She carries a 3.57 GPA in biology and works in the George Washington training room to help student-athletes with their rehabilitation. She is on track for a special graduation in May — George Washington holds its ceremony on the National Mall.

The focus then shifts away from basketball.

“I think this is going to be it (for basketball),” Cummings said. “I went back and forth on whether I want to continue overseas or not. But I’m going to go to either med school or

SOFTBALL Bell gives MSU walk-off win Senior Morgan Bell was the hero Tuesday night in Mississippi State’s 3-2 victory over Southeastern Louisiana.

The Mill Creek grad’s walk-off, RBI single in the eighth inning was the game-winner, helping the Bulldogs improve to 9-1 on the season. It was her second hit of the night.

Bell has a .391 batting average with two home runs, nine RBIs, two doubles and three walks this season.

TRACK AND FIELD

George Washington guard Brianna Cummings (34) is aiming to lead her team back to the NCAA Tournament.

(Photo: Geoff Burke-USA Today Sports)

PA school, so that’s going to be a few extra years (of school). I just decided why not just dive right into this.”

BASKETBALL Caver on a roll at ODU North Gwinnett product Ahmad Caver has put together another productive season for an Old Dominion team with NCAA Tournament aspirations.

The 6-foot-2 junior guard has played his best of late during a phenomenal four-game stretch, totaling 34 assists to just one turnover. ODU has improved to 21-5 overall and 12-2 in Conference USA play with its current five-game winning streak.

On the season, Caver averages 14.5 points, 6.4 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.3 steals. He ranks second in the conference in both

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Starks excels for Cowley Peachtree Ridge grad Jeremiah Starks has played well of late for the Cowley College (Kan.) basketball team.

The redshirt freshman averages 14.4 points, second on the team, including 31- and 25-point games over the past week. He also had a 34-point game Jan. 31.

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steals and assists.

He averaged team highs of 13.4 points and 4.9 assists last season, earning third-team All-Conference USA honors.

Smith named conference athlete, freshman of year Parkview grad Demarius Smith capped an impressive debut college season in indoor track and field with a pair of top awards.

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Duluth High School wrestling, track and field and cross country coach Steve Fairchild has been a fixture at the school for 21 years. Fairchild has built lasting relationships with his students over his two decades of teaching and coaching at Duluth.

Staff writer Taylor Denman asked Fairchild about his cancer diagnosis, world travels and favorite restaurants in downtown Duluth.

TD: You’ve been at Duluth for 21 years?

SF: Twenty-one years at Duluth High School.

TD: But you’ve lived in the area longer than that?

SF: I was born in Marietta. My first job was a college chaplain missionary. For eight or nine years I lived all over the world. My first teaching job was on the island of Guam. I coached wrestling. I worked with the peace corp over in Palau. I went to China, and went to Canada — two of my kids are Canadians — in Vancouver. I worked in mainland China for a while, then when Tiananmen Square happened, it shut down what I was doing in China. I went to seminary and became a pastor. It was a shift to be home more, because I was all over the place. So I had a teaching degree and started teaching and coaching. So it’s been 24 years of that.

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Duluth High School’s Steve Fairchild has coached wrestling, tennis, golf, cross country and track and field. (Photo: Taylor Denman)

through your mind when you get that prognosis?

SF: Everything stops.

Things that become important — you look at your kids. I have three kids, what’s going to happen to them? So it puts it in perspective. All three of my kids are married, I have a grandson. He calls me Coach. My (students) here are getting married, and they’re all over the world.

So it’s good to be alive and part of their lives now.

TD: How long have you been cancer-free?

SF: Seventeen years. I got a diagnosis about six months ago with a little melanoma, but they called it (stage) 0.

have stayed connected?

SF: I’ll blame social media. (Laughs) Staying in one place is good, they know where I am. And we stay connected — social media, emails, a text every now and then. I have a few in the military and I keep track of where they are, praying for them and their families. I think the priority of athletics is just an extension of pouring into someone what’s important.

You work them hard. They hate certain days, and I’m screaming and yelling at them, but they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I care about them and want to see them succeed.

But they’ll have to go another round.

who listens to music when you run?

SF: No, I solve all the world’s problems.

TD: It clears your mind?

SF: I honestly like to run alone, especially the Lake Lanier trails. It clears my mind. Then I’ll push myself and cry when no one sees me. It’s good, it clears everything out.

TD: When you were going through cancer treatment, was it hard to not be able to run?

SF: I remember the first time I came back with the treatments, I had anaphylactic shock — my heart stopped. I woke up three days later. So when I first TD: It seems like came back to even watch a wrestling is what you wrestling match, I passed TD: People reading came here for, but you’ve wouldn’t realize that out from blood pressure.

TD: You were travelturned out to work with you’re pretty soft-spoken They said, ‘OK, sit on the ing at a pretty young age, a lot of different athletics with me right now, but sidelines.’ So I couldn’t then? programs at Duluth. you’re telling me you’re a watch for a good year. BetSF: Yeah it was right out SF: When I first came ter now, heart’s good and all yeller, apparently? of college. here, I was head track is well. When I came back SF: Oh yeah. In a TD: How did that coach and the wrestling to wrestling, the first time I competitive moment. We affect your perspective, coach. I’ve done tennis, joke about it. When they’re stepped into the ring, twobeing so well-traveled at golf, cross country. thirds of the coaches were running — I run with a young age? them — and so when they the same. They welcomed SF: Duluth is like the TD: What sports did me right back, they’d been go around a corner I’m United Nations. You go to you play in high school? praying for me, missed me, there, and when they go our lunch, I think they said SF: I ran and wrestled in around another corner I’m and I did too. It’s a good (students speak) almost high school. Then I went there again. We joke about, family. We compete, of 100 different languages. … to college on a running course, but we care.

‘How did you get there?’

It’s a good perspective of scholarship. I transferred In wrestling, I could never the cultures and countries. to University of Georgia TD: If you weren’t a be hands-off. That’s why With that background — to wrestle. When I was I’ve broken my neck, broke coach, what would you trophies are great, and I’ve overseas, I wrestled with do? my nose five times. Yeah, coached wrestling and Campus Crusade and SF: Oh, my goodness ... we have fun. tennis. I came to Duluth to Athletes in Action. When I TD: Or can you not TD: That’s one way to coach wrestling and then came back to Georgia, they put it. even picture that?

I had cancer the second had canceled wrestling in SF: I can’t. My grandSF: Actually, that was year I was here. Students the Southeastern Conferbasketball right here (ges- son calls me coach. I walk call me and say, ‘Coach, ence because of Title IX. tures to his nose). That was to Publix, ‘Coach.’ My will you marry us?’ I’ve So I came back to Georgia yesterday. kids didn’t want to eat done almost 20 weddings and thought, ‘I’m not an in Duluth because if we for kids and baptized their athlete.’ That’s my love, TD: What’s your favor- did there was all of this ite place to eat in Duluth? conversation. I don’t know, kids. So it’s neat to stay in running and wrestling.

SF: We used to have one place. that’s pretty much who I Pepperoni’s. They were TD: You have a pretty am.

TD: Within a couple really a good supporter of big impact on your stuyears of starting here, our school. Now downdents. Is that important TD: I ask this quesyou were diagnosed with to you? town Duluth is amaztion to everyone: I’m on cancer?

SF: Yeah. I’m older now, ing. The Flying Biscuit a quest to find out what SF: I was Stage 4 mela- I’m 58. The medals are (Cafe) is phenomenal. I’m the best sports movie is, if noma. They basically said, great and what you did, excited what they’re doing you have to pick a favor‘You’re going to die, no to downtown Duluth. It’s but it’s about the team. ite, which do you pick? treatment.’ I found treatneat to see the shift, and My kids come back to SF: I’m old school, so ment in Amsterdam, of our town green is the most “Chariots of Fire” has althe wrestling room and I all places. I had I.V.s and fabulous thing ever. Duluth ways been my movie. The see them at the weddings. immunotherapies. I came has been my home for a They come to see meets. one after that, (“Prefonout of that and I’m still long time. taine”) is good for running kicking.

TD: Why do you sup… “Vision Quest” with TD: What goes TD: Are you a person pose so many students Matthew Modine.

At this stage of the high school baseball season, it’s very common to see one-day, multi-team events involving several different teams.

From a technical standpoint, the inaugural P4 Gwinnett County Invitational, which is scheduled for Saturday at six different sites around the county, fits that description.

However, it is also very different from most other early-season events in many respects.

For one thing, it is one of the larger events, with 18 teams from throughout Georgia set to participate, including Gwinnett teams Archer, Berkmar, Dacula, Discovery, Duluth, Hebron Christian, Lanier, Mountain View, Peachtree Ridge and Providence Christian.

For another, the goals of the organizers extend beyond each team being able to showcase their talents and get in good early season competition to partnering with the P4 Foundation to work directly with and provide support for families impacted by childhood cancer.

“We really believe in terms of the impact we can have on our kids, this is huge,” said Dacula coach Scott Gaffney, one of the event’s founders and coordinators. “We want to show our kids that God gave us a great gift. We can make a difference in other peoples lives. … The P4 Foundation seemed like the perfect vehicle (to do so).

“We want to take anything we can get through admissions to concessions

to donation tables that are set up — literally everything we can to help.”

Indeed, there will be plenty of focus on helping the P4 Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by former Mill Creek player Gino Vizzi during his own battle with cancer.

Of course, there will also be plenty of action on the baseball diamonds at the six different sites, with three teams at each site playing each other in a round-robin format throughout the day.

And while the large number of teams and sites involved in the event — which was the brainchild of Gaffney and fellow Gwinnett coaches Jonathan Wyman of Lanier, Jason Johnson of Mountain View and Ben Drust of Hebron Christian — already fairly large in scope, Gaffney says the hope is to get even more teams involved in the future.

“I started talking about this with Jonathan Wyman, Ben Drust and Jason Johnson two years ago, and it just kind of took off,” Gaffney said.

“We wanted to eyeball a couple of weekends (to play). Really, 2018 was a test run, and before we knew it, we had commitments from 18 teams.

“I’d like to see this thing expand to double, or maybe even triple (the teams involved). When you have guys like (Mill Creek’s) Doug Jones and (current Peachtree Ridge coach) Nick Hogan when he was at Central Gwinnett dealing with (having players battle cancer) personally, and with the fraternity we have as coaches, the potential to make a difference and an impact is huge.”

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL What: P4 Gwinnett County Invitational high school baseball event When: Saturday Where: Six different sites around Gwinnett County Tickets: $10 per site Schedule: at Dacula 11 a.m. — Rockdale County vs. Dacula 2 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge vs. Rockdale County 5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge vs. Dacula at Discovery Noon — Discovery vs East Jackson 3 p.m. — Berkmar vs East Jackson 6 p.m. — Discovery vs. Berkmar at Duluth 11 a.m. — Duluth vs. Islands 2 p.m. — Islands vs. Social Circle 5 p.m. — Duluth vs. Social Circle at Hebron Christian Academy 10:30 a.m. — Hebron vs. Chattahoochee 1 p.m. — Apalachee vs. Chattahoochee 3:30 p.m. — Hebron vs. Apalachee at Lanier Noon — Lanier vs. Tucker 3 p.m. — Providence Christian vs. Tucker 6 p.m. — Lanier vs. Providence at Mountain View Noon — Mountain View vs. Jackson County 3 p.m. — Jackson County vs. Archer 6 p.m. — Mountain View vs. Archer

Atlanta Speedway holds strong memories for Harvick

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

For so many longtime NASCAR fans, Kevin Harvick’s maiden win at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2001 was memorable for the context he scored it in.

It was only Harvick’s third start after suddenly being asked to drive Richard Childress Racing’s Chevrolet after Childress’ driver — the great seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt — perished on the final lap of the season-opening Daytona 500.

Harvick arrived in Atlanta full of emotion — a newlywed tasked to fill the sport’s biggest shoes at the time. And yet the Californian was able to focus and persevere en route to scoring one of the most popular victories in NASCAR history.

He’d like to take his new ride, the No. 4 Stewart-

IF YOU GO Monster Energy Cup Series What: Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway When: Sunday, 2 p.m. ( FOX) Distance: 500.5 miles (325 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 85), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 170), Final Stage (Ends on lap 325) Xfinity Series What: Rinnai 250 Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway When: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. (FS1) Distance: 251.02 miles (163 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 40), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 80), Final Stage (Ends on lap 163) Camping World Truck Series What: Active Pest Control 200 benefiting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway When: Saturday, 4:30 p.m. (FS1) Distance: 200.2 miles (130 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 40), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 80), Final Stage (Ends on lap 130)

Haas Racing Ford, back to Victory Lane this Sunday at Atlanta (2 p.m., FOX) for the first time since — and judging by his recent

showings at the 1.5-miler, he has to be considered a favorite.

Harvick has won a pole (2014) and led at least 100

laps in five of the last six Atlanta races. He’s been out front for 835 laps in that span. The next best lap leader, Joey Logano, led 165 laps in that timeframe.

In 2017, Harvick led a dominating 292 laps at Atlanta, only to receive a late race pit road speeding penalty which left him ninth at the checkered flag.

“As a driver, you just love the challenge that comes with racing at Atlanta,’’ Harvick said.

“This is always one that I circle on my calendar as a favorite and I look forward to racing in Atlanta this weekend.’’

Truex looks to continue strong start Ryan Truex makes only his second NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Atlanta on Saturday, but comes to the track full of confidence and well-earned optimism following a dramatic

seventh-place finish in the Daytona season-opener after leading three laps late in the multiple-overtime race.

The 25-year-old younger brother of reigning Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. heads to Atlanta ranked fourth in the championship. The top six in the Xfinity standings are separated by a mere 18 points and include new names atop the early championship board from leader Tyler Reddick to third-place Spencer Gallagher (-11) to Truex (-15), and sixth-place Kaz Grala (-18).

The series regulars stand to score substantial points at Atlanta with four-time NASCAR Xfinity Series race winner Kevin Harvick one of only three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars (also Joey Logano and Ty Dillon)

entered for Saturday’s Rinnai 250.

Up for grabs The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Atlanta has been one of the most competitive events on the series schedule – on any schedule, for that matter. There have been eight different winners in the last eight Truck Series races.

Five times this race has been won from the pole position including three times in the last seven races. Polesitter Christopher Bell won last March en route to winning the series title.

Johnny Sauter, the Daytona season-opening victor last week, has won back-to-back races three times in his championship career, but has never won in Atlanta. In fact, he has only one top-five finish (third place, last year) in seven starts.

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Buford The Wolves were outscored 22-10 in the third Wolverines followed with a quarter after the Wolverquick 4-0 run of their own ines shot 9 of 12 from the to go back up by eight. field.

However, the tide On the other hand, quickly turned back in the Buford converted just four Wolves’ favor after three field goals in the quarter, straight pull-up 3s, the first and turned the ball over four times, all of which led from Marcus Watson, and to points on the other end. the second and third from “We gambled too much Donell Nixon. on defense and took And after two missed ourselves out of position free throws from Wolverine center Kevin Paige, the instead of just playing solid defense,” Martin said.

Wolves appeared to have “That allowed them to take a chance to win the game advantage of a mismatch, on a 3-pointer with four so they were able to get seconds remaining. some easy buckets out of Unfortunately for the it.”

Wolves, a foul was called The swing in the third for a hold under the basket, giving the Wolverines two put the Wolverines out in front 53-48 heading into more free throws, both of the fourth quarter, and the which they made, subseeasy conversions from the quently putting the game field continued for Miller out of reach.

Grove.

“We did a poor job in The Wolves poured in 17 that situation,” Martin points in the final 2:45, but said. “They had one guy the deficit was too large to in the lane, and we didn’t box him out. If we get that overcome.

Watson finished with rebound, it’s a two-point ballgame. You never know a team-high 26 points on 10 of 17 shooting, includwhat’s going to happen. ing four 3-pointers. Jones But we didn’t do it.”

Buford will never know scored 11 in the loss and what might have happened dished out six assists, five in the first half, while if the defensive rebound Nixon scored 13, all of would have been secured, which came in the fourth but according to Martin, that wasn’t where the game quarter.

“You hate it for seniors, was lost.

“I’ve never thought that and particularly somebody like Alex (Jones) who has when you get down eight, meant so much to this 10 points, I never think program for three years,” we’re out of it, because Martin said. “You feel for I feel like we’ve got too many shooters that can get them, and you wish things us back in it,” Martin said. could have happened better, but we knew that only “But we have to get stops one team is going to win on the other end. We did that at the very end, but we this thing.

“It takes talent, and it didn’t do it particularly in the third quarter. We didn’t takes a lot of luck. Sometimes the ball has just got get any stops at all in the to bounce the right way, third quarter and that was and for us tonight it wasn’t the difference in the ballthat situation.” game right there.”

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Grayson’s D.J. Irons (22) drives to the basket while Peachtree Ridge’s B.J. Knight (23) and Devon Higgs (3) try to stop him during Thursday night’s second-round Class AAAAAAA state playoff game at Peachtree Ridge. (Photo: Craig Cappy)

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3:15 of the second half to give the Rams their largest really got over it. But lead of the game at 47-33 they’ve got a great team.” with 4:45 left in the third Actually, the Lions did quarter. answer Grayson’s openStill, Vassell and ing run with a 6-0 spurt of Peachtree Ridge wouldn’t their own, and they trailed go down without a fight. just 21-16 after the first The Florida State-bound quarter. senior scored six points, Hirum Maxey then hit a while B.J. Knight hit a pair of 3-pointers in a 9-0 3-pointer and set up two run over the opening 1:32 other baskets during a 13-3 of the second quarter that run that pulled the Lions gave Peachtree Ridge a as close as three points at 24-21 lead with 6:26 left one point, and to within in the first half.

50-46 with 1:26 left in the But once Grayson outquarter. scored the Lions 15-7 over But each time Peachtree the remaining 5:29 of the Ridge made a run, Grayhalf to take a 36-31 lead son would managed to into intermission, the Listay poised and come up ons were forced to spend with the answer. the rest of the evening “To come in here in a playing catch up. state tournament game on That task got even the road is huge,” Grayson tougher when Anderson coach Geoffrey Pierce hit a 3-pointer and two said. “But (the players) free throws to ignite an weren’t nervous, and 11-2 run over the opening they shouldn’t be because

they’ve been through it before. They’ve grown accustomed to winning games on the road.”

Even when Vassell scored nine points in an 10-3 run that helped Peachtree Ridge cut an 11-point Grayson lead down to just 61-57 after two free throws with 3:06 to play, the Rams stayed calm even in the face of intense full-court pressure from the Lions.

And when Peachtree Ridge was forced to start fouling in the waning minutes, Grayson managed to excel in an area it has struggled with at times this year — free-throw shooting.

Nick Edwards hit six straight from the line in the final 1:12, a good portion of his 15 points on the evening, while Anderson added four more from the stripe in the final 49.7

seconds to help Grayson finally pull away.

In all, the Rams were 22 of 26 from the line on the night, including 12 of 14 in the fourth quarter.

Joining Anderson and Edwards, who added four assists on the night, in double figures was Hallmon, who finished with 13 points.

The Rams also got strong contributions from Terance Porter (eight points, 11 rebounds) and Kenyon Jackson (six points, eight rebounds, four blocked shots).

While no other Peachtree Ridge players joined Vassell in doublefigure scoring, the Lions did receive a boost from Maxey (seven points), Knight (five points, six boards) and Devon Higgs, who had eight points and seven boards before fouling out.

Buford’s Marcus Watson takes a shot against Miller Grove during Thursday’s state playoff game. (Photo: Colin Hubbard)

IN BRIEF

Grayson’s Smith commits to Tech

Dacula’s Brenden Tucker (1) works against Tri-Cities John Young (12) during the first half of Thursday night’s game at Dacula. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

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had eight of his 11 points in the second quarter. That pair scored all of Dacula’s (Buckingham) against that 17 second-quarter points.

1-3-1 (defense), it was a The Tri-Cities lead phenomenal pass. He baited swelled to double figures the defense. He sees plays for the first time late in the ahead. I thought he played third quarter, around the really well.” time Bethea went out with Dacula (16-11) trailed cramps and Tucker headed just 32-28 at halftime thanks to Bethea and to the bench with his Quincy Ademokoya, who fourth foul, called on an il-

legal screen. Tucker had a tough time overcoming his foul woes, going scoreless until the fourth quarter and finishing with four points.

Arusha Hunter (13 points) made a pair of 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, but the margin never got to single digits.

Tri-Cities made 13 of 16 free throws in the fourth to

finish off the win.

Dacula also got eight points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots from Buckingham.

Eli Lawrence led TriCities with 23 points and 11 rebounds, reserve Titus Hunter had 17 points and nine rebounds and Da’Marcus Johnson had 15 points.

Grayson defensive back Jeremiah Smith has wasted no time in getting a jump on the 2019 college football recruiting period by giving a verbal commitment to attend Georgia Tech, according to multiple on-line recruiting services.

The 6-foot-1, 185-pound safety chose the Yellow Jackets over numerous other scholarship offers, including Cincinnati, Georgia State, Indiana, Iowa State, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest and West Virginia.

Through nine game in his junior season last fall, Smith tallied 44 combined tackles and assists, including two for loss, along with an interception, four pass break-ups, a fumble recovery and a blocked kick.

Lions’ Ferry commits to Mercer Peachtree Ridge senior Alex Ferry has made a commitment to the Mercer University football program.

Ferry is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound defensive prospect who can play safety and linebacker. He competed in the Rivalries of Gwinnett All-Star Game after his senior season.

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Frazier collects win as Generals edge out Longhorns wood defeated Collins Hill 2-0 on Thursday.

SNELLVILLE — Shiloh Erika Love and Olivia defeated Lanier 4-3 in a Sharp scored goals for non-region game on Thurs- the Broncos (3-1), while day at Shiloh. Chris Frazier Madison Brantley recorded was the winning pitcher for the shutout in goal for the Generals (1-1). Greg Brookwood.

Thornton had two hits to lead the Shiloh offense.

BOYS SOCCER Dylan Leahy gave the Longhorns (1-5) 2 Berkmar 1, 1/3 innings of scoreless Duluth 0 (PK) relief. Sergio Vargas had a LILBURN — Berkmar double, drove in a pair of defeated Duluth on penalty runs and stole two bases kicks 6-5 on Thursday to lead the Lanier offense, after the contest had ended while Ben Saxon added in a scoreless tie. Hector a hit and a run and Bryce Fuentes, Alberto Suazo, Bulls scored twice.

Lino Judino, Anthony Zamora, David Rodriguez BASEBALL and Chris Mendoza scored on their penalty kicks.

Mountain View 12, GAC 3 NORCROSS — MounGIRLS LACROSSE tain View traveled to Greater Atlanta Christian Brookwood 23, on Thursday and defeated Lakeside-DeKalb 2 the Spartans 12-3.

ATLANTA — BrookDominic Canale was wood downed host the winning pitcher for the Lakeside-DeKalb 23-2 on Bears (2-0), tossing five Thursday. innings and allowing just Haeun Jin had a hat trick two hits, no earned runs to lead the Broncos, while and striking out five.

Jalina Rodriguez had a Matthew Lee hit a solo goal and dished out three home run. Chase Powell assists and caused three scored three times and drove turnovers. in a pair of runs, while Ryann Riehle and Callie Chase Chaney added two Smith each scored twice, hits and an RBI and Jackson while Madi Davis added Peck had a pair of hits. a goal in the Brookwood win.

GIRLS SOCCER North Gwinnett 13, Brookwood 2, Peachtree Ridge 1 Collins Hill 0 SUWANEE — North SNELLVILLE — Brook- Gwinnett stifled visiting From Staff Reports

Peachtree Ridge 13-1 on Thursday.

Shannon Costelloe led the Bulldogs (2-0, 1-0) with five goals and six assists, Hannah Barber added three goals and forced three turnovers and Lana Puckett recorded five saves in net.

Mountain View 20, Norcross 1 LAWRENCEVILLE — Mountain View defeated visiting Norcross 20-1 on Thursday.

Baillie Brindle, Bella Darwish and Riley White all scored goals for the Bears (2-1).

made 15 saves to lead the Rams.

GIRLS TENNIS Mill Creek 3, Wesleyan 2 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Mill Creek held off Wesleyan 3-2 on Thursday behind singles wins from Brooke Bolton and Damira Augustin, plus a win by Allie Vela and Catherine Deer in doubles.

For the Wolves, (2-5), Ansley Carter won in singles as did the doubles tandem of Grace Tyler and Haden Jones.

North Gwinnett 3, West Forsyth 2 SUWANEE — North Gwinnett defeated visiting West Forsyth on Thursday.

The Bulldogs (4-1) swept the singles matches as Cassidy Rebol, Emma Fleming and Bri Olps all were victorious.

good team like that in the first quarter, it’s so hard to dig yourself out of a hole.

Our guys played hard, we FAIRBURN — The just thought we let the moLanier boys basketball ment get to us too much.” team outscored Langston Lanier struggled to sink Hughes 12-11 in the third 3-pointers, but Walker quarter and 21-17 in the managed to knock down fourth quarter, but it was his first at the 5:24 mark the 42 points allowed in in the second quarter, then the first half that buried drained another on the the Longhorns against the following possession. He defending Class AAAAAA finished the first half with state champions. three 3-pointers and totaled Langston Hughes topped four on the night. He Lanier 70-57, ending the finished with 13 points and Longhorns boys basketball Sion James finished with a team’s longest playoff run team-high 14 points with in school history. Lanier’s five rebounds and three 20 wins are also the most assists, but that wasn’t in the program’s history. enough offense to outpace “Heck of a run,” head Langston Hughes once the coach Branden MayweathPanthers took a 42-24 lead er said. “It’s been a special at halftime. season.”

“I think we were pressBranden Mayweather ing a little bit,” Mayweathwrapped up his first season er said. “You want those as the Longhorns’ head shots to fall, and when they basketball coach. He’ll don’t, you start aiming it start from scratch next rather than shooting it. It season after losing a senior got us off to a slow start.” class of 10 players, includ- Lanier’s Sean Foster goes for a shot during the LongFour Langston Hughes ing starters Alex Walker, horns’ second-round loss to Langston Hughes Thursday players posted double in Fairnburn. (Photo: Taylor Denman) Adrian Martin and sixth digits in points. Virginia man Jehloni James.

Tech commit Landers “They’re as good as they The first six minutes an 11-0 run to close out the Nolley finished with 20 come,” Mayweather said. of the game were tight quarter. points, five steals and six “They do everything that scoring-wise, and Langs“We played really hard rebounds. Tyler Smith you ask, they’re good peo- ton Hughes led 10-7 at the for four quarters, that first had 16 points and four ple — even better people first timeout with 2:32 left quarter we just weren’t rebounds, Patrick Carter than basketball players. in the first quarter. Then ourselves,” Mayweather had 13 points and Tyrel I’m forever in their debt.” the Panthers hauled off to said. “When you spot a Morgan had 12 points.

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ELCA ousts Wesleyan boys 60-46 history game after game and possession after possession. I’m very pleased MCDONOUGH — It with that.” took a quarter for the Thursday’s game was Eagle’s Landing Christhe first time that ELCA tian Academy Chargers had played since Feb. 10, to regain the form they and it showed in the early showed in the their region going. The Chargers startchampionship game during ed slow after the week-plus Thursday’s Class A Private layoff, and Wesleyan got second round matchup enough offense from Grant against Wesleyan.

Summers to take an early The second-seeded lead at 10-9. Carter Davis Chargers overcame an nailed a 3-pointer just early deficit en route to a before the buzzer to put the 60-46 win over the Wolves Wolves up 15-11 after one at ELCA. The Chargers quarter. will play Greenforest, “I think that was a big the team they beat for the part of it, being out for so region championship, next long,” Mason said. “We’ve week in the quarterfinals. been grinding for so long “It’s amazing. Amazand playing three games ing for our school and in a week and then not our kids. Just amazing,” playing one for almost two head coach Derrick Mason weeks was tough. In the said. “For never having second quarter I thought been before to the Georgia we picked up our stride.”

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Hebron Christian 3, George Walton 2 MONROE — Hebron Christian defeated host George Walton 3-2 on Thursday. Emma Brown and Gabby Rice won in singles as did the doubles tandem of Torry Bailey and Sydney Minard for the Lions (2-0).

Owoseni were winners for the Blues Devils (6-2, 1-0) in singles.

Sam Carton and Luke Nelson, along with James Swope and Cooper Wilson, took the doubles points in the victory.

Grayson 5, Shiloh 0 LAWRENCEVILLE — Grayson defeated Shiloh 5-0 in a match played at Rhodes Jordan park on Thursday.

Austin Stepps and Connor Barr won in singles.

Cole Jurick and Blake Lamp along with Jake Feinberg and Matthew Quinn won in doubles.

Hebron Christian 5, George Walton 0 MONROE — Hebron Mill Creek 3, Wesleyan 2 Brookwood 1, Christian swept host PEACHTREE CORCollins Hill 0 George Walton 5-0 on NERS — Mill Creek SNELLVILLE — defeated host Wesleyan 3-2 Thursday.

Brookwood held off ColCameron Cortman, Seth on Thursday. lins Hill 1-0 on Thursday.

Blahnik and Garrett Meeks Andre Izadi and Zach Harbin Ji scored the were winners in singles for Gates were winners for game’s only goal for the Boncos on a feed from Joel Brookwood 5, Berkmar 0 the Hawks in singles. Josh the Lions (2-0). Caden Luke McCarty.

NORCROSS — Brook- Kitzerow and Carter Smith and Grant Miller along with Garrett Perry and Jett took a doubles point.

Cristian Correa recorded wood swept Berkmar 5-0 Courtney won in doubles.

The Wolves (2-5) the shutout in net for on Thursday.

Brookwood (4-1).

Maci Davis, Allie Spyke received wins from Luke Riverside Military 4, and Sierra Richwine were Schiller in singles and the winners in singles for the Providence 1 doubles tandem of David BOYS LACROSSE Broncos (2-2, 1-0).

GAINESVILLE — RivAnderson and Harrison Madison Smeeton and erside Military Academy Leath.

Grayson 10, Emma Withrow along with defeated visiting ProviMill Creek 9 Abby Howell and Sydney dence Christian 4-1 on Norcross 5, LOGANVILLE — Weigand won in doubles.

Thursday.

Meadowcreek 0 Grayson moved to 3-0 on Jack Fowler posted the NORCROSS — Northe season with a 10-9 Grayson 4, Shiloh 1 cross swept host Meadow- only victory for the Storm win over Mill Creek on LAWRENCEVILLE — creek 5-0 on Thursday.

(3-3) in singles.

Thursday.

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Langston Hughes tops Lanier

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Rhodes Jordan Park on Thursday.

Jule Mooney and Adele Martin were winners in singles, while Kaitlyn Eagans and Luren Wyton, along with Sierra Etheridge and Iboku Olabeg, won in doubles.

period, ELCA cleaned up its offense and scored 22 points to Wesleyan’s 12 in the second quarter. K.J. Jones made three shots from behind the arc in the period, including two to begin the quarter, to tie the game at 17.

“Last year we made 36 3s on the season and we have K.J., who is a phenomenal shooter, shooting over 40 percent from behind the arc,” Mason said. “He works his tail off. He comes in at 6 a.m. and gets up shots and it pays off.”

Region 5-A Player of the Year Malachi Rhodes scored his first points of the game at the 5:40 mark to end a Wesleyan run, which keyed ELCA’s own 6-0 run. Jamaine Mann’s dunk with four minutes left in the half put the Chargers up 23-22.

ELCA extended the lead

to five points at the 1:40 mark after a thunderous dunk by Rhodes. Wesleyan answered, but Trevon Reddish drained a 3-pointer right before the buzzer to send ELCA into the locker room up 33-27.

Wesleyan got as close as seven points in the second half, but never truly threatened to recapture the lead.

The Wolves finished the season with an overall record of 14-12.

Mason was complimentary of coach Adam Griffin and the Wesleyan program after the game.

“They are probably the best-coached team we’ve faced this year,” Mason said. “I have a ton of respect for him as a coach.

That’s why I probably watched 20 hours of film on them because he is a very, very good coach.”

Summers led Wesleyan with 19 points.

BOYS TENNIS

Archer, Parkview hosting important early season meets

By David Friedlander

“We are expecting over 1,500 athletes to compete here on Saturday, over 50 individual state chamThe month of February pions, several national is the proverbial starting champions and even a block for the high school handful of Junior Olymtrack and field season. pic champions will all be It is a good time for taking part.” boys and girls teams to By contrast, the Parkview Invitational will get a good first look at their respective athletes in be a somewhat lower key event when the initial gun a competitive scenario. goes off Saturday mornTwo such meets will run Saturday in Gwinnett ing at the Big Orange County, and they are pro- Jungle.

More than 500 boys viding participating teams and girls athletes repa different approach to resenting 16 different their early assessments. schools, including the One approach is to go host Panthers and Gwinbig, like Archer will do nett rival South Gwinnett by welcoming 29 teams and AAA power Westfrom throughout Georminster, will participate in gia, including nine from the sixth annual event.

Gwinnett, as well as one According to Parkview from South Carolina coach Matt Henson, many (Spring Valley of Coof the coaches are taking lumbia, S.C.), to Archer an approach that will inCommunity Stadium for clude several top athletes this year’s edition of the in their normal events, but Zaxby’s Archer Invitaalso include some experitional. mentation and assessment More than 1,500 of other athletes. athletes are scheduled to “We’ve had one meet compete, including many already, but this might from some of the top be the opener for other teams in their respective (teams),” Henson said. classifications.

“We’re not going full “The field again this year is absolutely incred- speed in all events. We could mix and match ible,” Archer co-coach Ethan Kasson said. “It has (lineups). It gives us a chance to go live again eclipsed even last year’s overwhelming success in and maybe take a person who is not used to being terms of total numbers and this meet’s quality is under the lights and put second to none anywhere them in a competitive situation.” in the state.

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FANS CHOICE SPRING ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Alex Flood School: Brookwood Sport: Baseball Class: Junior Highlights: Threw a seven-inning nohitter with five strikeouts for a 1-0 victory over North Forsyth Coach Titus Martin’s take: “Alex is a great kid who strives for excellence in the classroom and on the baseball field. He is a leader in our school and I am proud of how hard he has worked this offseason to prepare for this year. He pitched a great game against North Forsyth and I am looking forward to him competing throughout this season.”

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CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS RFP SW 18-001 STREET SWEEPER ONCALL CONTRACTS CITY OF DULUTH, GWINNETT COUNTY Sealed proposals for furnishing all labor, material, and other ITEMS necessary for the following work will be received no later than 2:00 pm on MARCH 30, 2018 at the office of the city clerk in the Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096.

The bids will be publicly opened on, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2018 at 2:05pm at the Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096.

Copies of the request for proposal (RFP) documents will be available STARTING FEBRUARY 23, 2018, and may be DOWNLOADED FROM THE CITY OF DULUTH WEBSITE, WWW.DULUTHGA.NET . Proposal documents may be examined at the following location: City of Duluth, PLANNING & ZONING DEPARTMENT 3167 Main Street, 2nd floor Duluth, GA 30096 (770) 476-1970 (770) 814-3008 - fax NO PREPROPOSAL CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. STREET SWEEPER ONCALL CONTRACTS THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) IS TO SELECT QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS FOR ON-CALL STREET-SWEEPING FOR THE CITY OF DULUTH. INDIVIDUAL “PROJECTS” WILL BE BASED ON THE SUBMITTED UNIT PRICES PER THE VENDOR SELECTED. THE TERM OF CONTRACT SHALL BE FOR A ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD WITH TWO OPTIONAL ONE (1) YEAR RENEWALS. THE “PROJECTS” VARY IN MAGNITUDE AND SCOPE. TYPICAL PROJECTS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING: 1) SWEEPING OF OVERALL STREET NETWORK, 2) SWEEPING OF ISOLATED AREAS PRIOR TO AND/OR AFTER SPECIAL EVENTS, AND 3) CATCH BASIN AND DITCH CLEANING/VACUUMING. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The contract(s) will be awarded, if at all, within SIXTY (60) calendar days after opening of the proposal.

Any change to the conditions and specifications must be in the form of a written addendum to be valid; therefore, the city will issue a written addendum to document each approved change.

The city seeks to ensure that all segments of the business community have access to supplying the goods and services needed by city programs. The city affirmatively works to encourage utilization of disadvantaged and minority business enterprises in our procurement activities. The city provides equal business opportunity for all businesses and does not discriminate against any persons regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin or handicap.

902-534187, 2/23,3/9,23

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE February 20, 2018 Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Rahim Lakhani has applied for a license to sell beer and wine by the package at Lakeside Shell located at 2380 Buford Dam Rd, Buford, GA 30518. The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until March 2, 2018, at which time the City Manager will determine whether to issue the requested license.

This 23rd day of February 2018 City of Buford, Ga A Ga. Municipal Corp.

904-534391, 2/23,3/2

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE THERE WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC OUT CRY AT 5580 NEW PEACHTREE RD. CHAMBLEE, GA 30341 FREBRUARY 17/2018 AT 10:00 am THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE, DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA SECTION 40-11-5 AS FOLLOWS: YEAR MAKE MODEL V.I.N. # 2006 BMW X3 /WBXPA93466WD29778 928-534354, 2/23,3/2

THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following Public Hearings will be held before the Norcross Mayor & Council on Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6:30 PM, policy discussion, and Monday, April 2, 2018 at 6:30 PM, regular work session, in City Hall at 65 Lawrenceville Street for the purpose of due process of the following: VAR2018-0005: A request to modify a previously granted development regulation waiver that allowed a private street to access thirteen R100 single family lots on the property located at 273, 295 and 297 North Peachtree Street. The requested modification is to add a fourteenth lot, as presented at 93 feet wide (the rear portion of 313 North Peachtree Street) accessing a private road.

For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

928-534784, 2/23

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NOTICE UNKNOWN 4-Wheeler VIN LWOXCMKCX51041739 This 4-Wheeler was removed at the request of GCPD from Chestnut Dr., Norcross GA 30071 on November 20, 2017. The 4-Wheeler is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770945-7580. The 4-Wheeler will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN Go Cart No VIN This Go Cart was removed at the request of GCPD from Chestnut Glen Dr., Norcross GA 30071 on November 11, 2017. The Go Cart is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville GA 30340.

Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580. The Go Cart will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 2003 Mazda Mazda 6 VIN 1YVFP80D835M53047 This Mazda 6 was removed at the request of Private Impound from Mall of GA Mazda in Buford on December 22 2017. This Mazda 6 is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 719 W Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The Mazda will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN Utility Trailer This trailer was removed at the request of GCPD from Hwy 20@Lara Truck Sales on December 18, 2017. This trailer is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 719 W Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA, 30518. Willard’s phone number is 770-9457580. The trailer will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 2001 Mercedes-Benz ML320 VIN 4JGAB54E91A241192 This Mercedes-Benz was removed at the request of GCPD from 85N/ north of Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross GA 30071 on June 26 2017. The Mercedes-Benz is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The Mercedes-Benz will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

928-532866, 2/16,23

cross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorhome is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-532484, 2/9,16,23

on the draft Title V Operating Permit are required to submit their comments, in writing, to EPD at the above Atlanta Air Protection Branch address, or via email to epdcomments@dnr.ga.gov (email comments must include the facility name and “Air Permit” in subject line). Comments must be received by the EPD no later than 30 days after the date on which this notice is published in the newspaper.

(Should the comment period end on a weekend or holiday, comments will be accepted up until the next working day.) The Division, in making its final decision to issue the Title V permit, will consider all comments received on or prior to that date.

Any requests for a public hearing must be made within the 30-day public comment period. A request for a hearing should be in writing and should specify, in as much detail as possible, the air quality related issues that constitute the basis for the request. Where possible, the individual making the request should also identify the portion(s) of the Georgia Rules for Air Quality Control and/or the Federal Rules that the individual making the request is concerned may not have been adequately incorporated into the draft permit. If a public hearing on the draft Title V Operating Permit is to be held, the date, time, and location of the hearing will be provided in a subsequent, separate public notice. At that hearing, anyone may present data, make a statement or comment, or offer a viewpoint or argument either orally or in writing concerning the draft Title V permit. During the Division’s decision-making procedures to issue the Title V permit, any information received during a public hearing will be considered together with information received during the comment period.

Following this 30 day public comment period, the draft permit will undergo a 45 day review by U.S. EPA in accordance with 40 CFR 70.8.

Information pertaining to U.S. EPA’s review period can be found on their website at http://www.epa.gov/caa-permitting/georgia-proposedtitle-v-permits.

After the comment period has expired, the EPD will consider all comments, make any necessary changes, and issue the Title V Operating Permit. Copies of the final Title V Operating Permit, comments received, EPD’s responses to comments, and any other relevant information will then be made available for public review during normal business hours at the office of the Air Protection Branch. A summary of comments and any changes made to the final permit will be found in an addendum to the narrative. A copy of this narrative and the final Title V permit will be added to the information already available at the internet address given above.

For additional information, contact the manager of the Stationary Source Permitting Program, at the Atlanta address, or by phone at 404/363-7000. Please refer to this notice when requesting information.

928-533545, 2/23

STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: Comfab Trailer (Jetski Trailer) VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLUE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Willowrun Condominiums located at 1015 Country Court in Lawrenceville, GA. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Wellcraft Boat HIN NO HIN REGISTRATION NO. NO Reg.No COLOR BLUE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above boat was initially removed from Jessica Darron Court and Paxton Lane located in Stone Mountain, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The boat is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 52-7-71 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2008 Quality Trailer VIN 404QT117187386789 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR Brown TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Jessica Darron Court and Paxton Lane located in Stone Mountain, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 1972 Dodge Cabana Motorhome VIN M49CN2J556698 LICENSE PLATE NO. RKD657 COLOR TAN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorhome was initially removed from 3280 Sophia Street located in Snellville, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norc

STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 2014 SYM Lance PCH Scooter VIN RFGBS1D05EXAE2113 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR GREEN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Intown Suites, 4142 Stone Mountain Highway located in Snellville, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2015 TaoTao Scooter VIN L9NPEACB9F1006323 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR SILVER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Centerville Rosebud Road and Mink Livsey Road located in Snellville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Car Hauler Trailer VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Residence Inn, Gwinnett Place located at 1760 Pineland Road in Duluth, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Dual Axle Metal Frame Trailer VIN Z204399 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR SILVER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from 2774 Laurel View Drive located in Snellville, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-534776, 2/23,3/2,9 NOTICE OF THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION AIR PROTECTION BRANCH STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF GWINNETT NOTICE OF DRAFT TITLE V OPERATING PERMIT To All Interested Parties: The Georgia Environmental Protection Division announces its intent to issue a Title V Air Quality Operating Permit to UWL/Richland Creek Road Sanitary Landfill. The facility is located at 5691 South Richland Creek Road, Buford, Georgia. The primary purpose of this permit is to identify and consolidate existing State and Federal air requirements applicable to UWL/Richland Creek Road Sanitary Landfill and to provide practical methods for determining compliance with these requirements.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is preparing Title V Operating Permits in accordance with Title V of the Clean Air Act. This permit will be enforceable by the Georgia EPD, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other persons as otherwise authorized by law.

UWL/Richland Creek Road Sanitary Landfill is a municipal solid waste landfill with a landfill gas collection and control system, one enclosed flare, and two open flares.

The draft permit and all information used to develop the draft permit are available for review. This includes the application and all other relevant materials available to the permitting authority. This information is available for review at the office of the Air Protection Branch, 4244 International Parkway, Atlanta Tradeport–Suite 120, Atlanta, Georgia 30354. Copies of the draft permit, narrative, and permit application will be available through our internet site http://epd.georgia. gov/air/draft-title-v-permit.

(Please note that the Internet is generally accessible from most public libraries in Georgia.)

If copies are desired, a copying machine for public use is provided by EPD at the Atlanta Air Protection Branch office. There will be a copying charge of $0.10 per page. Copies will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Files are available for review and copying 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday–Friday, excluding holidays.

You are hereby notified of the opportunity to submit written public comments concerning the draft Title V Air Quality Operating Permit.

Persons wishing to comment o

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON FEBRUARY 24, 2018. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 24 FEBRERO 2018 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com Basketball Goal NO VIN John Deere DCA 7055JU Generator 7302295 2004 Honda CBF1000 JH2SC57054M005879 2015 Chevrolet Cruze 1G1PA5SH7F7203262 2013 Kia Rio KNADN4A35D6150043 2003 Lexus ES 300 JTHBF30G830107094 2007 Hyundai Tiburon KMHHN66F17U241180 2006 Mercedes-Benz C230 WDBRF52H06E020636 2003 Toyota Corolla JTDBR32E530044153 2009 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZH57B79F118327 2004 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WF52E449274756 2004 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WF52E549314889 2000 Mercedes-Benz ML430 4JGAB72E5YA145505 1998 Chevrolet C3500 1GCHC33J9WF029972 1995 Ford Mustang 1FALP4040SF125136 2007 Nissan Versa 3N1BC13E87L393274 *Not Actual Mileage, Rebuilt, Salvage* 2005 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E45M208970 1994 GMC Suburban 1GDEC16K5RJ742540

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 1995 Honda Civic JHMEG8540SS030147 1999 Volkswagen New Beetle 3VWCA21C5XM442663 2001 Nissan Pathfinder JN8DR09X01W570655 2006 Buick Lucerne 1G4HD572X6U223767 2002 Mercedes-Benz S430 WDBNG70J42A251649 2004 Lincoln Aviator 5LMEU68H54ZJ27876 1999 Toyota 4Runner JT3GM84R4X0043457 2002 Toyota Camry 4T1BE32K72U611628 2009 Pontiac G6 1G2ZH57N394114096 2001 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K01U107036 2006 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D16N450986 1990 Ford F-150 1FTDF15N6LNA18200 1996 Ford Ranger 1FTCR10A8TUC99610 2006 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS51F16F203382 2006 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WB58K969143544 2000 Pontiac Grand Am 1G2NF52TXYC513201 2002 Honda Civic 2HGES26742H518242 2002 Nissan Altima 1N4BL11E22C115786 1996 Honda Civic 1HGEJ8240TL005303 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AL55F677177880 *** REBUILT *** 2008 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWRJ71K38M183218 1978 Dodge Motorhome F33BF8V737217 2003 Ford F-150 1FTRW076X3KB29629 *** SALVAGE *** 2004 Chrysler Sebring 4C3AG52H14E153319 2002 Jeep Liberty 1J4GK48K02W136144 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AK52F057632260 Honda Fourtrax 250 FourWheeler NO VIN 929-532487, 2/9,16,23 MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH 2018@ 1:00PM 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 1GCHC24U07E192780 1997 Chevrolet C2500 Pickup 1GCFC29R1VE143709 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer 1GNDT13S622455364 2002 Chevrolet Express 1GBFG15R121149165 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 2C4GM68425R353933 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 1D7HA18276S564307 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15L41LA25094 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac 1FMZU77E91UC39011 2002 Honda Accord 1HGCF86662A130630 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM222X1L004059 2004 Honda Accord 1HGCM56314A125140 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG2252YA015295 2009 Hyundai Accent KMHCM46CX9U288265 2002 Isuzu Axiom 4S2CE58X324615848 1977 Jeep CJ5 JBF9BEH006351 2008 Kia Spectra KNAFE122285549551 2007 Mazda Mazda3 JM1BK323X71751400 2002 Mercedes Benz S430 WDBNG70J12A280798 2010 Mercury Mariner 4M2CN8H72AKJ19120 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder 4A3AE55H23E170799 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander JA4MS41X77U007894 2005 Nissan Quest 5N1BV28U55N112022 2008 Suzuki Forenza KL5JD56ZX8K880822 2000 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K9YU639721 Yamaha Motor Corp Waverunner YAML6041A494 929-534773, 2/23,3/2,9 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY In accordance with the GA Self Service Storage Facilities Act notice is hereby given that the undersigned will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder in order to satisfy lien of the owner. The auction will be held at www. lockerfox.com with bids finalizing on March 14, 2018 at 10am for the Space Shop Self Storage facility located at 2350 Ronald Reagan Pkwy Snellville GA 30078 UNIT:1119 Paulk, April Bar stools, tubs, ceiling fan, twin mattress. bed frame, picture frames, workout equipment, lounge chair, office chairs, end table UNIT: 1017 Robinson, Dominique Office Chair, Dresser, Mattress, Bed Frame, Wood, desk The auction will be listed and advertised on www. lockerfox.com. Space Shop Self Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-533519, 2/23,3/2 NOTICE THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON MARCH 10, 2018. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 10 MARCO 2018 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www.swsatlanta.com 2005 Polaris Phoenix FourWheeler 4XAPB20A15T000311 2013 Jonway Sunny Scooter L8YTCAPP2D4803079 Camper NO VIN 2004 Freedom Scooter L4BSDE2944Y007515 1997 Great Dane Trailer 1GRAA9626VS033116 1992 Wabash Trailer 1JJV281X1NL166423 2006 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEU46F76H054162 2007 Chrysler Pacifica 2A8GM68XX7R336982 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche 3GNEK12T14G254497 2013 Kia Optima 5XXGM4A76DG095786 1998 Acura Legend JH4KA3242JC008381 2001 Chrysler Sebring 4C3AG52H11E185201 2001 Nissan Sentra 3N1BB51D91L106729 1999 Cadillac Seville 1G6KS54Y2XU939866 Univega Prestige Bike M9E34288 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier 1G1JC1240X7271877 2000 Mercedes-Benz S430 WDBNG70J8YA112326 2001 Audi A4 WAUAC68D11A105791 1995 Mercedes-Benz C220 WDBHA22E8SF192660 *** REBUILT *** 2000 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K6YU952418 2008 Nissan Versa 3N1BC11E78L356415 1997 Acura CL 19UYA1250VL019217 2004 Jeep Liberty 1J4GK58K14W273635 1992 Honda Prelude JHMBB2159NC024102 1998 Ford Explorer 1FMZU32E5WUC60171 2016 Harley Davidson XG750 1HD4NBB17GC501219 2002 BMW 325i WBAET37402NG78583 *** REBUILT *** 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4EX58S9TC133941 2005 Mazda Mazda6 1YVFP80C055M76879 2003 Mitsubishi Outlander JA4LZ41G93U042180 2003 BMW 325xi WBAEU33483PM54922 1994 Ford Ranger 1FTCR10A1RUA97524 2006 Hensim Mini Bike Scooter LUAHYB10261008601 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD7250TA003693 1960 Homemade Trailer T228154 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer 1GNDT13S252106383 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4FX58S4WC366926 2008 Ford Crown Victoria 2FAFP70V78X123842 2007 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS58F27F103377 2004 Honda Civic 2HGES16544H552743 2002 Dodge Durango 1B4HS48N42F214295 2004 Honda Odyssey 5FNRL18684B120875 2001 Mazda Tribute 4F2CU09131KM44525 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3A4FY48B97T619090 2007 Honda CR-V JHLRE38767C036105 1997 Honda CR-V JHLRD1846VC009738 2003 Mercedes-Benz E320 WDBUF65J93A172870 929-534780, 2/23,3/2,9

NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, MARCH 3, 2018 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: ear Make Model VIN 1 2001 Buick LeSabre 1G4HP54K31U215045 2 2000 Saturn SL2 1G8ZK5272YZ182066 3 1993 Toyota Previa JT3AC12R2P1073439 4 2007 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS57F47F249040 5 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe KM8SC73D92U227380 6 1999 Volkswagen Passat WVWMA63B3XE169862 7 2005 Audi A 4 WAUDG68EX5A459941 8 2008 Chevrolet Avalanche 3GNFK12338G258223 9 2005 Dodge Durango 1D4HB38N25F613937 10 2005 Nissan Sentra 3N1CB51D05L504700 11 2002 Ford Focus 3FAFP37322R176340 12 2007 Chrysler Sebring 1C3LC46R37N604595 13 2008 Chrysler 300 2C3KA43R68H189370 14 2007 Volkswagen New Beetle 3VWRF31Y17M400701 15 2003 Ford Mustang 1FAFP40443F307954 16 2002 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS145X28227171 17 2006 Nissan 350Z JN1AZ36A66M480447 18 2001 Wabash Trailer 1JJV532W41L737042 19 2000 Jaguar S-Type SAJDA01D8YGL51517 20 2009 Honda Accord 1HGCP26349A170215 21 1993 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNCS13W0P2113174 22 2004 Hyundai Sonata KMHWF35H34A956075 23 2012 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB6AP3CL661528 24 2012 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB6AP2CL717474 25 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AK15F777313834 26 2006 Mercury Mountaineer 4M2EU47E06UJ08133 27 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AK15F277282976 28 2006 BMW 330i WBAVB33516PS19801 29 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid KMHEC4A43BA002792 30 1997 Honda Accord 1HGCD568XVA176200 31 1999 Ford Crown Victoria 2FAFP71W5XX239997 32 1999 Toyota Camry JT2BF28K1X0168757 33 2007 Honda Civic 1HGFA16857L039493 34 2004 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL36X04N255115 35 1992 Toyota Corolla JT2AE94A3N0293714 36 2004 Acura T L 19UUA66234A034817 37 2004 Honda Accord 1HGCM66844A024255 38 2007 Hyundai Sonata 5NPET46C77H258468 39 2015 Kia Rio KNADM4A38F6520620 40 2002 Mercury Sable 1MEFM50U32A636812 41 2006 Audi A 4 WAUAC48HX6K008243 42 2008 Nissan Xterra 5N1AN08U18C519285 43 2006 Pontiac G 6 1G2ZH558464109370 44 2000 Volkswagen J e t t a 3VWTE29M8YM120795 45 2006 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEU46F26H030299 46 2016 Gator Scooter 1YDY5TBBXG1500064 47 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GW58N02C169358 929-532865, 2/16,23,3/2

NOTICE PREMIER STORAGE AT HAMILTON MILL 3220 Sardis Church Rd. Buford, GA 30518 Notice is Hereby Given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to the Georgia Self-Storage Facility Act, Georgia Code Section 10-4210 to 10-4-215. The undersigned will sell by competitive online bidding beginning March 2, 2018 at 12:30 pm at www.selfstorageauction. com. Online bidding will end at 12:30 pm on Friday, March 9, 2018.

UNIT #204, Paula Blackburn: washing machine, dryer, 2-night stands, bed frame, box spring and mattress, Misc. bags, plastic containers, boxes, 4 chairs, large planter, ladder, Christmas decorations, table, large head board, cabinet, trash cans with misc. items.

Purchase must be paid for on the day of the auction with cash or a credit card with valid ID at the location of the unit. All items are sold as is and must be removed from the property within 72 hours, unless otherwise approved by the Manager, after the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of a settlement between the owner and the obligated party.

929-534769, 2/23,3/2 NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION; Lawrenceville Safe Storage 201 New Hope Rd Lawrenceville GA 30046 770-963-8858 Lawrenceville Safe Storage is auctioning off several units.

Go to storagetreasures. com for bidding, all bidding is done on this site.

No walk in’s online bidding only.

Auction is scheduled for March 6th, 2018 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Angela McCray unit #072 Carlos Aldaba unit #077 Carrie McPherson unit #094 Crissy Smith unit # 274 Cynthia Robertson unit #001 Danny McPherson unit # 099 Danny McPherson unit # 100 John H Le unit #030 Mary Farmer unit #095 Michael Williams unit #060 Michael Williams unit #088 Terrel Lee unit # H01 Terrel Lee unit #H02 William Thomas unit # 057 929-533316, 2/16,23

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #6929, 5985 South Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross, GA 30093, to satisfy a lien 03/08/2018 at approx. 2:00 PM.at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Eboni Joe A022 Adrienne Gillis B029 Richard Lamar Dunbar B039 Deyvi Rosique –Osegueda B082 Jordana Livingston B116 Victoria Cisneros C022 Terion Spurling C027 Oscar Madradiaga Juanes C032 Demetria Atalie Booker C056 Franklin L.Stephens C060 Universal Services Associates Inc. C074 Wayne D. Johnson C074 Mary Freel D055 Nikki L. Stewart E031 Eduardo Ramirez Leon E043 929-533544, 2/16,23

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALE The following rooms will be sold at the public auction on March 6, 2018. The auction will be starting at 3657 Memorial Dr Ste A Decatur Ga, 30032 it starts at 8:30a.m.

3657 Memorial Dr Decatur Ga, 30032 404-286-9752 776028 BELINDA ADAMS V050 776028 Janese Scott 1238 776028 FRED DYER AA0825T 776028 DANA BLE AA0959T 776028 Cheryl Oates 1101 776028 Warren Williams 1386 776028 CHRISTY PARK AA0773T 776028 Tyheisha Carpenter 1599 776028 michelle lett 1042 776028 MARANDA WELCH AA0736T 776028 MARANDA WELCH 051568 776028 STARLENE ANDERSON AA0979T 776028 DANA BLE AA0796T 776028 MATTHEW STONE AA0874T 776028 Lucie lane 2205 776028 DAVID SAYRES AA0999T 776028 issac tucker 1040 776028 DANA BLE AA0793T 776028 MATTHEW STONE AA0812T 776028 CHRISTY PARK AA0804T 776028 GLENN TEAGUE AA0905T 776028 robert pintor 2160 776028 GLENN TEAGUE AA0906T 776028 leatecia williams 2241 776028 MARANDA WELCH AA0741T 2951 NE Expressway Chamblee Ga, 30341 770458-8353 776058 JARVIS FARLEY 2504 776058 Erwin Johnson 1408 2885 Clairmont Rd Ne Atl Ga, 30329 404-315-0681 776034 BROOKE VAN DYKE B399 776034 Who Room A348 776034 MAHBUBUR MIAH A380 776034 DAVID GRANT A409 2175 Piedmont Rd Ne Atl Ga, 30324 404-815-0262 776035 amber hayes A752 776035 who who A738 776035 sye kidane A597 776035 MATTHEW CUTBILL A227 776035 chris purvis A751 776035 antywone brewster A527 776035 brenda COPELAND A106 300 Peters St Sw Atl Ga, 30313 404-681-0502 776053 SHANTEAL WEBB 4995 776053 Deangelo Cromer 4858 776053 who room 2420 776053 who room 1517 776053 alfred edwards 3131 776053 CHRISTINA CARROLL 6004 776053 LAKKIA WHITE 6170 776053 Joseph Brown 1119 776053 Avery Fears 6497 776053 Tameka Johnson 6180 776053 PATRICIA BANKS 3136 776053 CHAKA CAMPBELL 6184 776053 sherrie thompson 3178 776053 marlener perkins 6082 776053 DAVID CASTLE 6473 776053 Todd Jenkins 6524 776053 Jimmy Jackson 6626 776053 JOEL MOGWERA 2500 776053 Mike Owens 4008 776053 chanel allen 6027 776053 Kareal Corynn 3060 776053 SEKINAH BROWN 3049 776053 STEFIN JACKSON 3054 776053 PATRICIA BANKS 6179

776053 Kanilya Walker 4622 2866 Forest Hills Dr Sw Atl Ga, 30315 404-47680781 776060 lisa gardner 3109 776060 KILEY BARNES 0140 776060 Annette Amey 3177 776060 Jamie Hancock 3181 776060 Joseph porter 0190 776060 KEYHONA CAMPBELL 3214 776060 LARQUIETTA GRADY 3080 776060 360 CAFE 3124 776060 willy faust 2015-16 776060 nelson moon 3142 776060 patrick holmes AA4454C 4374 Thurman Rd Forest Park Ga, 30297 404-3663620 776054 ABRAHAM COROMA 1303 776054 Chiquitta McDowell 1608 4540 Washington Rd College Park Ga, 30337 404763-0000 776084 DANYSHA MOORE 0117 776084 mario roscoe 0911 776084 Lorain Dilworth 0535 776084 FELICIA GRIGGS 0346 776084 james ross 0505 776084 BERNITTA KENNEBREW 0728 776084 LEJON WILKERSON 0170 776084 karland robinson 0818 776084 RONALD THOMPKINS 0645 776084 ANTHONY ZEIGLER 0421 776084 james ross 1193 776084 Gina Chambers 0416 776084 karland robinson 0706 776084 Jennifer Turner 1183 776084 leon glenn 0149 776084 LISA BASSETT 0641 776084 ARIKA ANDERSON 0906 776084 zanthea heflin 1008 776084 keilisha jackson 0218 776084 takenya patrick 0854 776084 Shannon Wimberly 0449 776084 Khan Singleton 0212 776084 TONYA WOODS 1107 776084 DEMONTRE WALKER 0630 929-532656, 2/23,3/2

ZONINGS NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the public that an application for a Special Use Permit to allow 24-Hour access to Body Plex Gym members located at 2445 Moon Road, Grayson, GA has been filed with the City of Grayson, GA

by Body Plex Fitness/Adam Shields for the following described property: EXHIBIT”A” LEGAL DESCRIPTION All that tract or parcel of land lying and being located in Land Lots 15 5 and 134 of the 5th District, City of Grayson, Gwinnett County, Georgia being known as Lot #3, containing 2.985 acres according to a Final Plat of “Bay Creek Village” prepared

by Bauknight & Associates, Inc., by W. Slate Bauknight (Georgia Registered Land Surveyor No. 2534), dated October 9, 2004 and being more particularly described according to said plat as follows.

TO FIND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGlNNING, BEGIN at an iron pin set at the northernmost point of the mitered intersection of the southwesterly right of way line of State Route #20 a/k/a Loganville Highway (Right of Way Varies) with the northwesterIy right of way line of Moon Road (70’ apparent RIW); run thence along the aforesaid miter South 06 degrees 59 minutes 50 seconds West a distance of 54.04 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set; run thence along the aforesaid right of way line of Moon Road South 40 degrees 01 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 19.19 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set; continuing along the aforesaid right of way line, run thence South 55 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds West a distance of 168.97 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set and THE TRUE POINT OF BEGlNNING; leaving the aforesaid right of way line, run thence North 41 degrees 45 minutes 10 seconds West a distance of 443.82 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set; run thence North 40 degrees 46 minutes 15 seconds West a distance of 40.01 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set; run thence North 41 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 15.00 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set; run thence S

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South 48 degrees 11 minutes 40 seconds West a distance of 272.68 feet to a point; run thence South 42 degrees 09 minutes 30 seconds East a distance of 463.10 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set on the northwesterly right of way line of Moon Road; run thence along the aforesaid right of way line North 55 degrees 46 minutes 10 seconds East a distance of 271.06 feet to a point marked by an iron pin set, said point being the point of BEGINNING. A Public Hearing on the proposed Special Use Permit application will be held before the City of Grayson Planning and Zoning Commission in the Grayson Senior Center located directly behind City Hall at 475 Grayson Parkway, Grayson, GA 30017 on Monday, March 12, 2018 at 7:00 PM and before the Mayor and City Council on Monday, March 19, 2018, 2017 at 7:00 PM. The City Council has the authority to approve the SUP as requested in the application or to place such other conditions on the property as the Council deems appropriate, constitutional and in the best interest of the citizens of Grayson. The public is invited and encouraged to attend these meetings.

MLMI TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006HE1 in Deed Book 51456, Page 7, Gwinnett County records, the undersigned will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, before the Courthouse door in said County, or at such other place as lawfully designated, within the legal hours of sale, on April 03, 2018, the property in said Security Deed and described as follows: THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT 5 OF THE 7TH DISTRICT, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING SHOWN AS UNIT NUMBER 401 OF THE ARBORS AT SUGARLOAF CONDOMINIUM ON PLAT RECORDED IN CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 3, PAGES 293 THROUGH 295, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA RECORDS, WHICH PLAT IS INCORPORATED HEREIN

BY REFERENCE AND MADE A PART HEREOF; AND AS SHOWN ON FLOOR PLANS RECORDED AS CONDOMINIUM FLOOR PLANS 3939 THROUGH 3940, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA RECORDS; WHICH FLOOR PLANS ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AND MADE A PART HEREOF; TOGETHER WITH ITS APPURTENANT PERCENTAGE OF UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS OF THE ARBORS AT SUGARLOAF CONDOMINIUM, AS SET FORTH AND PROVIDED IN THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM FOR THE ARBORS AT SUGARLOAF CONDOMINIUM BY BEAZER HOMES CORP., A TENNESSEE CORPORATION, RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 37467, PAGE 247, AFORESAID RECORDS; AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME AS PROVIDED THEREIN; SAID UNIT BEING KNOWN AS UNIT 401 IN BUILDING 4 AND HAVING AN ADDRESS OF 765 ARBOR GATE LANE, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. Said property being known as: 765 ARBOR GATE LN UNIT 401, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044 To the best of the undersigned’s knowledge, the party or parties in possession of said property is/are PATRICIA ANN REID or tenant(s).

The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due and payable because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as provided for in the Note and said Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of sale, including attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney’s fees having been given).

Said property will be sold subject to the following: (1) any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, whether or not yet due and payable); (2) the right of redemption of any taxing authority; (3) any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property; and (4) any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.

Said sale will be conducted subject to the following: (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed.

The name, address, and telephone number of the individual or entity who has full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all terms of the mortgage is as follows: Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper 8950 Cypress Waters Blvd. , Coppell, TX, 75019 1-888-480-2432 Note that pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.2, the above individual or entity is not required by law to negotiate, amend, or modify the terms of the mortgage.

THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE TO MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-HE1, as Attorney-inFact for PATRICIA ANN REID RAS Crane LLC 10700 Abbott’s Bridge Road Suite 170 Duluth, GA 30097 Phone: 470.321.7112 Firm File No. 18-128817– JaG 9 5 0 - 5 3 4 2 4 7 , 2/21,3/7,14,21,28

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER GEORGIA, GWINNETT COUNTY By virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Security Deed from FRANCES OWENS to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC AS NOMINEE FOR REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE NETWORK INC. A CORPORATION, dated August 11, 2011, recorded September 13, 2011, in Deed Book 50868, Page 0763, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, said Security Deed having been given to secure a Note of even date in the original principal amount of One Hundred Four Thousand Six Hundred Two and 00/100 dollars ($104,602.00), with interest thereon as provided for therein, said Security Deed having been last sold, assigned and transferred to LakeView Loan Servicing, LLC., there will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash at the Gwinnett County Courthouse, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in April, 2018, all property described in said Security Deed including but not limited to the following described property: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT 268 OF THE 5TH DISTRICT, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA AND BEING LOT 19, BLOCK E, WOLF CREEK SUBDIVISION, UNIT 4-B, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 99, PAGES 295-296, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA RECORDS, WHICH PLAT IS INCORPORATED HEREIN AND MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE. PARCEL ID NO.: R5268135 Said legal description being controlling, however the property is more commonly known as 1099 MITFORD LANE, DACULA, GA 30019.

The indebtedness secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of default under the terms of said Security Deed and Note. The indebtedness remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same, all expenses of the sale, including attorneys’ fees (notice to collect same having been given) and all other payments provided for under the terms of the Security Deed and Note.

Said property will be sold on an “as-is” basis without any representation, warranty or recourse against the above-named or the undersigned. The sale will also be subject to the following items which may affect the title: any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, whether or not now due and payable); the right of redemption of any taxing authority; matters which would be disclosed by an accurate survey or by an inspection of the property; all zoning ordinances; assessments; liens; encumbrances; restrictions; covenants, and any other matters of record superior to said Security Deed.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the owner and party in possession of the property is FRANCES OWENS, or tenants(s).

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

Please note that, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.2, you are not entitled by law to an amendment or modification of the terms of your loan.

The entity having full authority to negotiate, amend or modify all terms of the loan (although not required by law to do so) is: M & T Bank, Loss Mitigation Dept., 1100 WEHRLE DRIVE, WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221, Telephone Number: 1-800-724-1633.

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC. as Attorney in Fact for FRANCES OWENS THE BELOW LAW FIRM MAY BE HELD TO BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR, UNDER FEDERAL LAW. IF SO, ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Attorney Contact: Rubin Lublin, LLC, 3145 Avalon Ridge Place, Suite 100, Peachtree Corners, GA 30071 Telephone Number: (877) 813-0992 Case No. MTB-1700066-14 Ad Run Dates 02/21/2018, 03/07/2018, 03/14/2018, 03/21/2018, 03/28/2018 w w w. r u b i n l u b l i n . c o m / property-listings.phpc 9 5 0 534249,2/21,3/7,14,21,28 STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF Gwinnett NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER Pursuant to the power of sale contained in the Security Deed executed by PATRICIA ANN REID to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR ACOUSTIC HOME LOANS, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS in the original principal amount of $129,608.00 dated September 27, 2005 and recorded in Deed Book 44933, Page 32, Gwinnett County records, said Security Deed being last transferred to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE M

FULL TIME YARD PERSON Norcross based vehicle upfitter is seeking a dependable, reliable person with attention to detail. Responsibilities include maintaining and cleaning shop areas and disposing of trash.

Cleaning and inspecting all vehicles prior to delivery.

Benefits - Co. contributed health insurance and 401K, uniforms and paid holidays and vacation. email resume to commtruckequip@ gmail.com

FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE

PETS/LIVESTOCK

SNELLVILLE, GA 30078 BIRD LANE

DOGS

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BROOKWOOD SCHOOLS 1.03 Acre Wooded Zoned RS180. Lot located in Snellville in older established neighborhood in Brookwood Elementary School district.

Water, gas, and electric available.

No disclosure.

Owner purchased as investment property. $29,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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PRESA CANARIO 2 year old male, fawncolor, FCI registered, great temperament, good with children and other pets, very athletic and energetic, requires daily exercise.

Purchased at $1,600 asking $800. For more details, call Jude @ 404-379-1165.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE MONROE, GA 30655

North Broad St.

HOUSES FOR SALE

JEFFERSON, 30549 109 WOODS WAY

1 ACRE LOT 2 Story with Master On Main!

Entry foyer, formal dining room, vaulted family room with fireplace.

Breakfast area and bar. ½ bath on main.

2 bedrooms up with shared bath plus bonus. Full basement, partially finished w/rec room & bath. $239,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE

COVINGTON, GA 30014 1750 Georgia Highway 138

WALNUT GROVE AREA 11.57 ACRES Of Land with +/-411 Feet of Road Frontage On Busy Highway 138.

Sewer is available to this property.

Suitable for grocery store or any type business. $2,225,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

DACULA, GA 30019 DROWNING CREEK RD.

ZONED COMMERCIAL Drastically Reduced, Bring All Offers!

Commercial Property in Monroe City Limits Zoned B-3. This piece is suitable for any type business. All utilities are available including sewer. $175,000.

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MONROE, GA 30656 1730 River Bluff Rd

MERCEDES-BENZ C-300, 2011 4 Door Sedan, Excellent Condition, Always Garaged, Gold, Mileage 46,725.

Call 10AM-8PM est.

470-558-8579. $21,900 CAMPERS/RVS

AUTO SERVICE TECH To do oil changes & light mechancial work. Some driving & light clean up work. Must be willing to learn & work M-F w/a valid GA license. Call John, 770-934-4679

BARBERS New Barbershop Opening in Norcross is looking for friendly barbers. For more information email: navell.28@hotmail.com

MONROE, GA 30656 OLD ATHENS HWY

PLUMBERS

NOW HIRING! PLUMBERS for Residential Roughing and Finishing.

Starting at $24/hr.

HELPERS w/2 yrs. exp. with established company.

Starting at $17/hr.

Apply In Person 9am - 4 pm 2218 Old Covington Hwy., Conyers

NO SUBDIVISION Beautiful 2.89 Acre Tract of Land close to vicinity of Athens. The front is open with a small, shared pond & the back is heavily wooded.

County water is available at the street. $32,900.

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Formal living & dining rooms, spacious kitchen.

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CEMETERY LOTS FOR SALE

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GWINNETT, SNELLVILLE Eternal Hills Memorial Gardens: 2 Burial Plots w/2 vaults, opening & closing in the Dogwood Estates, section B, Spaces 1 & 2.

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a look ahead March 2 First Friday Concert: The Legacy Band — This event in Norcross will give families an opportunity to enjoy rock, Motown, rhythm and blues, country, Horas, and Latin American music by The Legacy Band. Residents can bring their own food and drinks, but they are encouraged to get food to go from one of the downtown Norcross restaurants. The concert will last from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center at 101 College St. Call 678-4214028 or 678-421-2049 to RSVP and reserve a seat.

March 3 Harlem Globetrotters — The world famous Globetrotters visit Infinite Energy Center for a pair of performances at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets start at $22. For more information, go to www.harlemglobetrotters.com.

March 10 Gwinnett County Community Health Fair — The Daily Post, in conjunction with Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation and Live Healthy Gwinnett, presents the Gwinnett County Community Health Fairs series starting with one at Rhodes Jordan Park Recreation Center in Lawrenceville. For more information, go to www.SCNIevents.com/healthfairs.

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taurant’s signature burritos, Austin’s Burritos also offers • The El Macho burburrito bowls, salads, a rito: A 2.5-pound number of side dishes such burrito filled with oven Open Since: January as a roasted corn salad with roasted chicken, beef Owners: Matt and Shancotija cheese and quesadilbrisket and roasted non DeBusk las for children. pork. Topped with Location: In Hamilton “We don’t serve tacos, sharp cheddar and Jack cheeses, rice and Mill Village Shopping but we have almost (everybeans, pico de gallo Center, several storefronts thing else,)” DeBusk said. and crisp romaine letdown from Publix, which “We’ve got phenomenal tuce, $12.50 is located at the intersection vegan options, with roasted • Roadie No. 3: Spiced of Braselton Highway and broccoli that people go barbacoa beef, cheddar Hamilton Mill Road. gaga over, a crisp potato cheese, rice and beans, Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and handmade guacamole. pico de gallo and crisp daily The rice is vegan, the beans romaine lettuce, $5.75 Atmosphere: As country are vegan, obviously the • The Moontower music singer Chris Young’s broccoli is vegan — we’re Salad: Romaine lettuce topped with roasted “Aw Naw” booms through going beyond vegetarian, chicken, shredded Jack the speakers inside Ausand we’ve got those vegan cheese, beans, pico items. We also make the hot tin’s Burritos, owner Matt de gallo, sauteed red roja (red) salsa and the salsa DeBusk smiles, his enthuonion, roasted corn verde (green) in house.” siastic energy matching the with rice, beans, cheese, ensalada and honey Something you might restaurant’s air. pico de gallo and lettuce, chipotle vinaigrette on “What we built the brand not know: Two years ago, and then you can add things the side, $6.95 around is speed,” DeBusk DeBusk’s son “got into this like sauteed mushrooms, • Queso and Bansaid. “We can, in the setup guacamole phase,” DeBusk Cotija cheese — which is dito: Warm homemade said. that we have — which is a crumbly but very flavorqueso cheese topped with premium grilled “I go get all these ingreorder first, pay first — we ful Mexican cheese — or steak, beans and pico can actually push people’s broccoli. We wanted to do a dients — tomatoes, garlic de gallo, $5.50 orders through the line faster number of things to set our- powder, garlic — and we make like five different than a Moe’s or Chipotle. selves apart from others.” all of which is handmade variations of guacamole,” At (those places), there’s Some of those differor reclaimed, from old barn all these back-and-forth ences include a spice blend DeBusk said. “So we land wood to refurbished factory questions you have to ask, the cooks add to the freshly on this guacamole that he loves and I love, and he so what I wanted to do was lights — paired with the fried chips — DeBusk said mostly-country music fits take my experience and the restaurant “takes it to the goes, ‘Dad, you have to promise me when you open together seamlessly. knowledge in the food sernext level by adding a little up that restaurant you keep “My name’s not Austin, vice industry and try a new bit more flavor to the chips Top, shredded cheese is sprinkled on top of rice, pico de talking about, you’re going I don’t have a dog named model.” than anybody else does” — gallo, beans and other foods in a burrito bowl. Above, the That model essentially to serve this guacamole,’ Austin, my child’s name and the homemade queso, vibe is an almost eclectic feel, and the furniture and lightboils down to two employand I go, ‘Sure, no probis not Austin and I’m not ing is all handmade or reclaimed, from old barn wood to which is never frozen and ees per customer: a cashier lem,’ because I’m mister from Austin,” DeBusk said, refurbished factory lights. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes) constantly being stirred to who walks first-timers software sales guy and I laughing. “Those are all the keep from burning to the through the menu and the don’t think this is ever goboxes that people want to the energy and how do I incorporate into the decor to bottom of the pot. assembler, or the person stop me and say, ‘Is this why feel when I’m in there?’” fit the (atmosphere.)”

“I see this as a full-service ing to happen.” who actually builds the bur- (you named the restaurant) When DeBusk and his DeBusk said. “To get the Menu: Like the restaurestaurant jam-packed into a rito or bowl.

Austin?’ And when people (Austin feel), the furniture is rant, the menu is made up of fast-casual model,” DeBusk wife, Shannon, decided “Because we have the are leaving, they always all hand-built, the lamps that of many different pieces that said. “The quality of braised to open Austin’s Burritos, person making your food though, DeBusk said his go, ‘Bye, Austin.’ So at this are above the service table somehow fit together delibarbacoa beef that we have standing right next to the son was ecstatic. point, I just say, ‘Bye.’ But were reclaimed from an in- ciously, from what DeBusk — the steak is a phenomcashier, they’re already “He was like, ‘Dad, really what (the restaurant) dustrial factory, taken down, said are steakhouse-quality enal cut that we marinate starting to make your food is trying to do is capture that stripped down, powdermeats to vegan options. in a marinade that we make remember your promise? before you even whip out spirit and vibe of Austin, coated and rewired to fit “Again, the menu goes overnight, and then we grill You have to serve the your credit card to pay,” Texas.”

American electricity. back to speed and efficiency, it to order — everything here guacamole,’” DeBusk said.

DeBusk said. “We’re trying Part of that spirit means “The sconce lighting is so I have some names that is the (way it) is because we “So this is the recipe we to focus primarily on speed activating a person’s five from a manufacturer on are catchy and memorable pay so much attention of the landed on and when people and accuracy, and the energy senses — sight, smell, the West Coast, the (table) that still go with the theme quality of ingredients that we stop and tell me how much and ambiance is trying to touch, taste and hearing. lamps are from somewhere and the ambiance,” he said. use and the detail of how we they love the guacamole, be the vibe you’d find in I’m always like, ‘That was “When I closed my eyes in the Midwest from the “You can order by name, prepare them.”

Austin, Texas.” my, at the time, 8-year-old and envisioned this restau1950s and the barn wood is by number or by protein — Though the menu is That vibe is an almost son’s recipe.’ It’s fun little rant, I thought, ‘What’s the literally 100-year-old barn chicken, beef, steak — and centered on burritos and eclectic feel, though the fur- music that’s playing, what’s wood, so there are all these things like that that make we’ll recognize that any way roadies, which are slightly niture and lighting — almost the flavor profile, what’s little touches we wanted to you want. Everything comes smaller versions of the res- this place.” isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

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for the top prize, with more expected to register in before pit masters light their What: Sip and Swine BBQ Festival smokers. But the cuisine Where: Coolray Field, isn’t limited to barbecue, Lawrenceville as at least 73 food and craft When: 3 to 10 p.m. vendors will be in attenMarch 2; 11 a.m. to 6 dance offering an array of p.m. March 3 different cuisines. Last year, Tickets: Free, as is 98 barbecuing teams and 65 parking vendors set up shop at the More Info: Looking festival. to enter the barbecue Visitors can also pay $10 competition or sponsor the event? Visit sipandto participate as a judge swine.com. in the People’s Choice category March 3. Taster Company and Clear Chan- Kits, which are $10 and can be purchased from 11:30 nel Outdoor as Pitmasa.m. to 1:30 p.m., include ter sponsors. Advanced Disposal, Pinnacle Custom nine barbecue samples from various teams in the Admission is free to the Signs, KICKS 101.5 FM competition. event, which runs from 3 to and Foggy Bottom BBQ Lloyd expects this year’s 10 p.m. March 2 and from will be Que Crew sponsors, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 3. while other entities, such as Sip & Swine BBQ Festival to be the biggest one yet.

As the top sponsor, Insur- Georgia Power and Gwin“Now that we have two anceHub, which has offices nett Chamber are also supyears under our belt and in Lawrenceville, Dougporting the event, which is lasville and Atlanta and expected to draw thousands word continues to spread throughout metro Atlanta serves more than 15,000 based on previous years. customers nationwide, will The barbecuing competi- about Sip and Swine, we’re hoping 2018 will mark headline a sponsorship tion should be fierce, with our best year ever in terms field that includes Brand at least 78 teams — both of attendance and funds Properties, SEI Group, professional and amateur Devil’s Backbone Brewing squads — ready to compete raised,” Lloyd said.

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Jim Lloyd said the recipe for concocting the best barbecue and charity event is simple.

“Good things happen when you bring great food and great people together for a great cause,” said Lloyd, the president of InsuranceHub, which will return as the Grand Champion Sponsor of the Sip and Swine BBQ Festival for the second straight year when it takes over Coolray Field on March 2 and 3.

While barbecue competitors will be looking to get their hands on awards at the Kansas City Barbecue Society event, the biggest winner will be the Home of Hope at Gwinnett Children’s Shelter, which will receive all of the proceeds from the event for the event for the third straight year.

The Sip and Swine BBQ Festival has raised more than $110,000 for Home of Hope the past two years, when it has treated visitors with two days of food, music and other entertainment.

Like Rock’n Ribville, a barbecue competition that was held on the Lawrenceville Lawn in September, Sip and Swine BBQ Festival is a sanctioned barbecue

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Last year, Jason Bishop, the pit master for Lawrenceville-based Tenacious Q barbecue, donated all of proceeds of his sales to the Home of Hope because he said it was the right thing to do.

The Home of Hope is a residential care facility that provides shelter to minors and their mothers. The nonprofit positions children and their moms for better

futures by providing them with physical, emotional and educational support while helping them find permanent residences.

“This event provides our neighbors with an opportunity to have fun and enjoy some amazing barbecue while raising funds for Home of Hope,” said Lloyd, who serves on Home of Hope’s Board of Directors. “Impacting the lives of two generations at once and serving as their next best step towards independence, this incredible nonprofit teaches these families valuable life skills while giving them a true sense of community and empowerment.”

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Theater community comes together for ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Live Arts Theatre’s production of “Fahrenheit 451” is a testament to the spirit of family which is alive and well in Gwinnett’s theater community.

When Ray Bradbury’s thought-provoking story opens March 2 in the Belfry Playhouse at Norcross Presbyterian Church, members from other theater groups will have helped bring it to the stage.

“Fahrenheit 451” will run weekends through March 17. Tickets are $18 for adults, and tickets for students and seniors cost $15. The fee for LAT Members is $12. There is a small service fee added to these prices. For tickets and information, visit www.liveartstheatre.org.

Bringing this classic science-fiction tale to life is a crew which includes artists from different Gwinnett community theatre companies. Live Arts Theatre’s Mere Jones is a first-time director at the helm. Accompanying her as assistant director and sound designer is Scott Piehler, who is artistic director of The Player’s Guild @ Sugar Hill.

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ing. When I knew I was going to have an opportunity to direct a show after completing the Live Arts directing intensive program, this show was the first one that came to mind. I always knew the story had a lot to say about where society is today. As I read it again, Holley Calmes it dawned on me. We’re much closer to reaching other’s shows,” said this dystopian future than Piehler. “We’re in this anyone realizes.” together. If an audience Said Piehler: “When member has a great time you use the term scienceat Live Arts, they’ll look fiction, most folks think for more community of mega-budget movtheater to attend. Maybe ies filled with starships, that’s at The Player’s space battles and strange Guild, or Staged Right, or creatures on impossible Lionheart or New Dawn. alien worlds — not something you would normally It’s a win-win.”

Live Arts Artistic Direc- associate with the stage. tor Becca Parker immedi- But there is a quieter side ately saw that “Fahrenheit to sci-fi. The tradition of thought-provoking 451” was a perfect fit for the theme of their current stories like those of ‘The Twilight Zone.’ This is season, which is, “Look why we have been hard at again. Things are not work to bring Bradbury’s always as they seem.” classic ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Parker says, “So many to life.” people think that (the For more information show) is about governabout Live Arts Theatre, ment censorship. But if visit its website at www. you look again, it’s all about a personal turning- liveartstheatre.org, its Facebook page at faceaway from having to book.com/liveartsgwinthink.” nett or call 603-867-2200.

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UPCOMING GWINNETT 200 EVENTS Bicentennial Night at the Georgia Swarm Professional Lacrosse Game Friday, March 2 • 7:35pm Gwinnett Infinite Energy Arena • 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth Admission: $24 to $69 Come cheer on our home team against the Colorado Mammoths, and celebrate Gwinnett’s Bicentennial with the Swarm! Purchase your tickets at www.GeorgiaSwarm.com.

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Gwinnett Historical Society Speaker Series: 366 Facts about Gwinnett Monday, March 19 • 7:00pm Gwinnett Historic Courthouse • 185 West Crogan Street, Lawrenceville Free!

Guest speaker Elliott Brack will reflect on 200 years of Gwinnett’s history and share more about his 366 facts about Gwinnett, one fact for each day December 15, 2017, to December 15, 2018.

Let Freedom Ring Festival Saturday, March 24 • 10:00am Isaac Adair House • 15 South Clayton Street, Lawrenceville Admission: $8 Celebrate Gwinnett’s namesake, Button Gwinnett, and discover his role in the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Engage with costumed reenactors as you step back in time to 1776. Play old-fashioned games and enjoy hands-on activities. Register at www.GwinnettParks.com by March 22.

Gwinnett Senior Golden Games: Bicentennial Edition Wednesday, March 28 – Wednesday, May 9 Various locations throughout Gwinnett Admission: $8 Let the games begin! In celebration of Gwinnett’s bicentennial, the 2018 event will include games from yesteryear. The Gwinnett Senior Golden Games are for seniors 50 and up to compete in a variety of sports and participate in special social events. Participants must pre-register by March 15. For a full schedule of events, information about cost, and to register, visit www.GwinnettSeniorGoldenGames.com.

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The 2018 Multicultural Festival hosted by Gwinnett County Police Crime Prevention and featuring the County Government Open House promises fun activities for kids like bounce houses and face painting, plus a naturalization ceremony in which foreign-born residents will be sworn in as American citizens. Local groups will entertain the crowd with folkloric and traditional dances and songs, and food trucks will sell international culinary treats. Residents can meet officers from the police department and examine equipment, including a helicopter, police vehicles, and a SWAT vehicle.

Youngsters can learn what to do in a house fire, and firefighters will conduct free car seat inspections. County departments will also be present to discuss programs and services. Join us for this traditional celebration of community during Gwinnett’s bicentennial year!

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‘Fantastic Woman’ offers insight into transgender woman’s grief

A Fantastic Woman (R)Woman A Fantastic (R) 3 out★★★★ of 4 stars

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Sometimes we are guilty of being comfortable in the bubbles in which we live.

Sometimes we need to see somebody else’s perspective on life to remind us that the people we pass throughout our daily lives may be going through a harder time than we can imagine.

That’s where “A Fantastic Woman” (original title is “Una Mujer Fantastica”) comes in. This modernday drama set in Santiago, Chile, focuses on Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega, “The Guest”), who is a transgender woman, in the aftermath of her much older boyfriend’s death.

The movie opens in a very naturalistic style of the boyfriend, Orlando Onetto (Francisco Reyes, “The Club,” “Donde Esta Elisa?”), searching his office, car, home, athletic club, everywhere for Marina’s birthday present — a getaway scheduled for 10 days in the future.

He visits a swanky bar with live music where Marina is the lead singer of the band playing. The two then celebrate Marina’s birthday before going back to Orlando’s apartment, one into which Marina is in the process of moving.

The movie takes a huge turn with Orlando’s sudden death.

Marina is questioned about her relationship with Orlando every step of the

At left, Francisco Reyes stars as Orlando and Daniela Vega as Marina in “A Fantastic Woman.” Top and above, Vega is seen as Marina in “A Fantastic Woman.” (Special Photos: Sony Pictures Classics)

way. It becomes painfully obvious that Marina is alone in her grieving process.

Orlando’s ex-wife, Sonia (Aline Kuppenheim, “Machuca”), is very disapproving of Marina and Orlando’s relationship, tell-

ing Marina she thinks it’s “perversion.”

A police investigator with a sex crimes unit visits Marina at work and basically forces Marina to go through a humiliating process of proving her relationship with Orlando

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Even her voice coach essentially tells her he only wants to hear her sing, not about her life.

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Like many realistic films, this is a story about somebody’s life, so don’t expect Hollywood’s fingerprints to be on this movie.

There isn’t a moment at the end where all of a sudden everybody has a realization of some sort and wraps up with a nice, big bow on top.

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to show what Marina is feeling through the abstract, rather than letting Vega continue to carry the film.

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Kylie Bunbury stars as Michelle, Lamorne Morris as Kevin, Billy Magnussen as Ryan, Sharon Horgan as Sarah, Jason Bateman as Max and Rachel McAdams as Annie in “Game Night.” (Special Photos: Warner Bros.)

‘Game Night’ partially entertains but can’t hit the sweet spot Game Night (R) Game Night (R) 2 1/2HHHH out of 4 stars

By Michael clark Movie Critic

Providing promise that the winter cinematic freeze is starting to give way to spring, “Game Night” is better than it should be but not quite as funny or clever as it would like to be. Although tagged “black comedy” by the studio, it has more in common with mainstream action-comedies such as “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Lethal Weapon” than the two dark classics (“Fight Club,” “Pulp Fiction”) it respectfully references.

Set and shot entirely in and around Atlanta, “Game Night” makes two critical mistakes that could have easily been remedied in the drawing board stage which will likely cost it big time at the box office.

Infrequently profane and violent, it’s still far beyond PG-13 territory, but also far too tame for what we’ve come to expect from the usual R material. If you’re going to go R, go all the way or don’t go at all. With minimal tweaking, this could have been a PG-13 movie and thus made far more accessible for the family and date demographic, many of whom will never, ever watch an R-rated movie.

This is all the more perplexing given the quasisoftball premise.

Meeting at a bar trivia contest heading opposing teams, Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) soon turn their shared obsession of useless information into true love. They get married

Top, Rachel McAdams stars as Annie and Jason Bateman as Max in “Game Night.” Above, Sharon Horgan stars as Sarah and Billy Magnussen as Ryan in “Game Night.”

At left, Jason Bateman stars as Max, Kyle Chandler as Brooks and Lamorne Morris as Kevin in “Game Night.”

and try to start a family but cannot. According to a doctor, Max might be “underperforming” in the bedroom because of his preoccupation with his older, hipper and wealthier brother, Brooks (Kyle Chandler). This might be the first time in movie history (or even real life) when a doctor has tried to connect sibling rivalry with low sperm count. Yet all involved sell it so well

that it becomes semibelievable.

Now hosting weekly “game night” get-togethers with a reasonably stable couple and a toothy, blonde dim-bulb male bimbo (a spot-on Billy Magnussen) with a turnstile of equally vacant dates of the week, Max and Annie regularly have to deal with creepy next-door neighbor Gary (Jesse Plemons, picture

a chunkier Matt Damon with a skin condition).

A former member of the group, Gary — a cop who is never out of uniform — was jettisoned by the gang after his wife, whom everyone liked more, split the scene. He has transformed himself into a huge ball of resentment channeled into an unusually close relationship with a dog that could double as a rolled-up throw.

In an effort to even further emasculate Max, the just-visiting Brooks invites everyone (but Gary) to his high-end rental where he promises the ultimate game night scenario. An event will take place which will be so close to a true crime that everyone will be fooled, but each couple will also receive a dossier that will help them claim a huge prize (related to a childhood fantasy of Max)

if they solve it first.

The first act concludes with the start of Brooks’ “event,” and the seasoned members of the group love it. Choreographed like nothing they’ve ever seen, the realistic nature of the event once again confirms Brooks’ ability to smack down Max — or maybe not.

If you think you’ve been made privy to too much plot detail, you haven’t.

The narrative goes through many more gestations before it concludes. There are so many more gestations that it feels more like a parody of a comic crime thriller that is piling on than an actual comic crime thriller. It wants to be both light and hard-hitting, and most of the time, when that happens, you end up with two watered-down halves.

If not for the dedication of the cast, “Game Night” would have become a less-crass version of co-director John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s “Horrible Bosses” installments, which they only wrote. This movie was written by infrequent Disney scribe Mark Perez (“The Country Bears,” “Frank McKlusky, C.I.”), and he pulls off the semiamazing task of making about half of the story feel original.

If you’re looking for a thriller involving games that messes with your head, contains sibling rivalry and authentic black humor, check out director David Fincher’s oft-overlooked 1997 gem “The Game.” Michael Douglas and Sean Penn star as brothers with the latter buying the former a birthday experience he’ll never forget.

(Warner Bros./New Line)

Annihilation is a journey into the unknown worth taking Annihilation Annihilation (R) (R) 3 outHHHH of 4 stars

“Area X.” It’s an ominous place, filled with treacherous terrain and terrifying creatures that jeopardized Kane’s life when

By Jon Gallo he ventured into its great Staff Correspondent unknown. Now, it’s up to Portman to lead a team to Talk about girl power. learn how an environmenThere have been very tal wasteland became a few films — if any — that living, breathing organism have even tried to accomthat devours everything in plish what “Annihilation” its wake. has done: prove you don’t Director Alex Garland, need men to carry a horror who was behind “Ex sci-fi odyssey.

Machina,” should be com“Annihilation,” which mended with his decision is an adaptation of Jeff to let five strong-willed VanderMeer’s “Southern women carry the film when Reach” trilogy, uses five it would have been much soldiers — a biologist easier to cast a crew of (Lena, played by Natalie muscle-bound men, like Portman), psychologist (Dr. “The Expendables.”

Ventress, Jennifer Jason The five women, who Leigh), a paramedic (Anya, are armed with guns as big Gina Rodriguez), a physias their suspicions of each cist (Josie, Tessa Thompother, captivate the audison) and an anthropologist ence from the start. The (Cass, Tuva Novotny) film gets better with each — to do what Portman’s step they take into “Area on-screen husband, Kane X.” (Oscar Isaac), couldn’t do: The cinematography find out what’s going on in makes the audience feel

Jason Leigh, Rodriguez, Thompson and Novotny play each off each other brilliantly, as they complement each other instead of detracting from one another, which elevates all of their performances. Often — and almost always with a male-driven cast — actors try to seize the spotlight, much to a film’s detriment.

But the female five’s biggest opposition isn’t any of the monsters they face.

It’s likely “Black Panther,” which debuted to a record $242 million at the North American box office, the second-highest total ever for a film in its first four days. It’s sandwiched between “Star Wars: The From left to right, Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson star in “Annihilaton” from Par- Force Awakens” ($288.1 amount Pictures and Skydance. (Special Photo: Paramount Pictures) million) and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” ($241.6 they are taking the jourevery tree, rock and aban- the last. Each creature and million). “Black Panther” took home $426.6 million ney, step by step, with doned building. special effect has its purthe women into the great That’s what makes “An- pose, with one building off globally.

Still, taking a journey unknown. The suspense nihilation” so enjoyable. another instead of trying to increasingly builds as the It’s not a string of scenes compete with it for best in into “Area X” is just as exciting as a trip to Wakanda. audience waits to see what in which one creature tries show.

(Paramount) creature is lurking behind to be more terrifying than Meantime, Portman,

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STANDOUT PERFORMANCE

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OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pass: “Black Panther” succeeds on every level. From the writing and direction to casting and even the soundtrack, it not only meets but exceeds expectations. In addition, it deftly balances action and drama with good heartfelt humor that never goes over the top.

Fail: The closest thing to a fail with this movie would be that it sticks to the tried-and-true formula that all comic book movies have in common, setting up a somewhat predictable ending. However, that doesn’t take away from the journey to get there.

There are quite a few standout performances in Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan being the biggest one.

However, all the ladies of the Wakandan tribe deserve huge recognition for not only standing out, but almost stealing the movie in the process.

As with any of these movies, anyone who enjoys the Marvel movies would enjoy it, but it also would appeal to anyone who enjoys comic book movies in general, as well as those who enjoy a good action film.

While it can be enjoyed on the small screen, this one is best enjoyed in the theater.

Overall, “Black Panther” is yet another massive success for writer/director Ryan Coogler. The entire cast has great chemistry, and the movie is a fun ride. It’s filled with plenty of action but has many great heartfelt messages, even at the very end of the movie. While it’s a part of the Marvel Universe, it manages to be a distinct movie that stands on its own.

The movie appeals to younger and older viewers alike and is filled with action, drama and a lot of humor. It works perfectly on every level and is well worth the price of admission.

Pass: The entire cast is superb and all of the boxes were checked off and at a pace that kept your interest from beginning to end.

Fail: The explanation as to how to identify a person from Wakanda was not shown nor explained, just inferred. If you didn’t look closely you would have missed it, and you would have been a little confused.

The soundtrack should have featured more African artists and their music to really transport the viewer to Africa.

This is the first major motion picture for Winston Duke, the Trinidad and Tobago-born actor, and from his believable portrayal of M’Baku, it was apparent to the viewer that it is definitely not his last. The entire cast excels and does a great job.

Superhero fans, especially Marvel fans, will love this movie. And parents who want to share a family-oriented movie with their children should also see it.

The big screen is the best place to experience the full magnitude of the Black Panther. It is worth the price and trip to the theater for the whole family. When it is release on blue ray then definitely buy it for your collection.

This movie has lived up to and surpassed all of the hype and expectations. I was really excited to see this movie because I like superhero movies and the introduction of the Black Panther in “Captain America: Civil War” only whetted my appetite for a full back story about this new addition.

Being Trinidadian-born, I was very excited and full of expectation to see a fellow countryman Winston Duke on the big screen.

The atmosphere of the theater was one full of pride, and I was pleasantly surprised to see people dressed in African clothing. The viewing experience was one that I have never experienced before — it was a very enjoyable and positive experience.

Pass: The most successful aspect for me was the social commentary. The film examines classical issues in innovative ways. I’ve never seen a superhero film convey social and political commentary as effectively and as powerfully as this film.

Fail: Black Panther’s least successful aspect would have to be its dialogue. There were a few places where I think the script could have been improved to remove awkward moments.

How do I choose one?

I was impressed by every actor and actress in this movie. From the hilarious Andy Serkis to the impressive and believable female roles (including Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o and Letitia Wright), the acting in this film was phenomenal. But if I must choose one, it would be the lead, played by Chadwick Boseman. He embodied the role of this wise warrior-king beautifully through his look, his facial expressions and his personality.

Fans of every genre will enjoy this film! It’s exceptional.

But fans of the action genre will likely enjoy it most.

I would definitely recommend seeing this film in theaters. Its cinematography, visual effects and sound effects are incredible, and it’s worth paying for the theater ticket to enjoy this film to the fullest possible degree.

This is a truly extraordinary film, and it’s one everyone should see.

The pacing was excellent with a nice mixture of slow and fast scenes, and there was a satisfying blend of serious and comical moments that granted the viewer relief from the earnest social commentary while also allowing them to take that commentary seriously. Essentially, by not taking itself too seriously, this film allows audience members to fully appreciate its prominent themes and enjoy all that it has to offer.

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COMING SOON TO OWN • “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (Feb. 27): The 1970 sci-fi drama about a super-computer that links dangerously to a Russian counterpart, makes its Blu-ray debut; Eric Braeden stars. (PG) • “Just Getting Started” (Feb. 27): A retirementcommunity resident (Morgan Freeman) gets a rival (Tommy Lee Jones) who later becomes an ally. (PG-13) • “MacGyver: Season 1” (Feb. 27): Lucas Till has the title role in the CBS reboot of the series about a particularly inventive adventurer; George Eads also stars. (Not rated) • “Murder on the Orient Express” (Feb. 27): Also the film’s director, Kenneth Branagh heads an all-star cast as detective Hercule Poirot probes the title crime in the classic Agatha Christie mystery. (PG-13) • “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Feb. 27): A woman (Frances McDormand) takes an unusual step to try to get her daughter’s murder solved; Sam Rockwell and Woody

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Harrelson also star. (R) • “Thor: Ragnarok” (March 6): The Norse god (Chris Hemsworth) has family problems and a showdown with the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) as he tries to save his home world. (PG-13)

• “Major Crimes: The Complete Sixth and Final Season” (March 13): Switching to a more serialized format for its concluding round, the “Closer” spinoff stars Mary McDonnell. (NR)

The third feature from writer/ director Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards” is in the same vein as his first two (“In Bruges,” “Seven Psychopaths”): pitch black comedy mixed with searing drama. Months after the investigation of the death of her daughter has gone cold, Mildred (Frances McDormand) taunts the police (Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell) with three shaming billboards which divide a small town to the breaking point. The winner of three SAG, four Golden Globe and five BAFTA awards, it’s also a heavy Oscar favorite next week.

Worth owning if only for the inclusion of “Six Shooter,” McDonagh’s 2004 Oscar-winning short film.

Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.39:1/2160p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), French and Spanish (DTS 5.1), subtitles: English, French and Spanish.

Special features include: Featurette Short film “Six Shooter” Additional Blu-ray and HD copy First edition slipcover packaging (Fox, $39.99)

NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters. Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• Black Panther (PG-13) — 4 stars As much a political thriller as it is a top-flight superhero film, “Black Panther” (starring Chadwick Boseman as the title character) is easily among Marvel Studios’ finest movies. Director Ryan Coogler’s third feature is whip smart without being pretentious, and subtly political without being heavy-handed. With an almost entirely African-descended cast yet devoid of stereotypes, it’s like nothing we’ve seen on this scale.

— Khari J. Sampson • Peter Rabbit (PG) — 2 1/2 stars The classic children’s book character gets a 21st-century update, mixing its animated anthropomorphic animals with live action leads Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson.

Though predictably cute, it bears an

unexpectedlyadult wit. It’s not nearly as terrible as it looked at first. — KS • Call Me By Your Name (R) — 2 1/2 stars Set in the early 1980s Italy, this same-sex summer love story is nearly sunk by a first act whose central conflict is as deeply closeted as its leads, 17-year-old Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and visiting professor’s assistant 24-year-old Oliver (Armie Hammer). Gorgeous but too often boring, it’s still worth toughing out to the end. —KS • The Shape of Water (R) — 3 1/2 stars A mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) befriends The Asset (Doug Jones), a mysterious being that is held captive at a secret government facility in this excellent film. Known for his playfully quirky pop-horror fare, director Guillermo del Toro makes perhaps his first grown-up movie with this Cold War sci-fi thriller romance that delivers on all those descriptors

without collapsing into a puddled mess. —KS • The Post (PG-13) — 3 1/2 stars This film about the Washington Post newspaper’s 1971 decision to publish the then-still-top-secret Pentagon Papers might look like a pointed jab at today’s politics, but in truth it is in every way merely a period piece. Featuring a crack ensemble cast led by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as, respectively, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the paper, this movie serves as an important reminder of the power and responsibility of a free press. — KS • Phantom Thread (R) — 3 stars Set in postwar England, this piece about a fastidious dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) and the model he falls for (Vicky Krieps) threatens to be a bore but takes a turn into something more interesting. Almost entirely character-driven, “Phantom Thread” is a film that haunts after the final reel. — KS

• Maze Runner: The Death Cure (PG-13) — 3 stars The “Maze Runner” trilogy comes to a close, but not before dealing out a healthy dose of action. Thomas and friends head straight to WCKD headquarters to rescue hostage Minho and settle the score with the entity that put them in the maze and started it all. This epic ending is tons of fun but has a few flaws. — Jacee Sellers • Molly’s Game (R) — 3 stars Based on the true story of Poker Princess Molly Bloom, “Molly’s Game” tells the story of how she came to run exclusive high-stakes poker games for a decade before being arrested by the FBI. Jessica Chastain takes center stage as Molly Bloom and Idris Elba shines as Charlie Jaffey, her attorney. Aaron Sorkin directs, so expect a lot of witty banter. While it may run long at 140 minutes, “Molly’s Game” delivers a solid hand. — Kristen Hansen

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3375Church ChurchLane, Lane,Duluth, Duluth, GA GA 3375 ChurchOffice: Office:770-497-8227 770-497-8227 •• Fax: Fax: 770-497-9775 770-497-9775 Church Rev.Ronald Ronald L. L. Bowens, Bowens, Pastor Pastor Rev. Warmerthrough through Fellowship Warmer Fellowship Deeperthrough through Discipleship Deeper Discipleship Larger through through Evangelism Larger Evangelism Sharing through Sharing throughMinistries Ministries ANDStronger Stronger through God AND throughWorship Worshipand andthe theWord Wordofof God

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Rev. Ronald L. Bowens

Pastor

Services........... 7:30 AM, Sunday Worship Worship Services................7:30 AM,11:00 11:00AM AM 7:30 AM, Children’s Church......................

Church............................7:30 AM,11:00 11:00AM AM 9:45 AM Sunday School.............................................

School .................................................

9:45 AM Wednesday, 7:30 PM Bible Study (all (all ages) ages)............... ...................Wednesday, 7:30 PM

GIBBS GARDENS 20 MILLION DAFFODILS “The Most Stunning Daffodil Garden Ever!”

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Gibbs Gardens Seventh Annual Daffodil ColorFest bursts on the scene when more than 50 acres of blooming daffodils create a feast for the senses—beginning in March and continuing through mid-April. Gibbs Gardens has the distinction of being recognized as an American Daffodil Society Display Garden, one of only 25 in the U.S. Over 20 million blooms, including 100 different varieties, is what Southern Living calls “the most spectacular display of blooms this side of Holland.”

Church of God 1132 Buford Hwy 770-271-5610 Dr. Terry Reece • Senior Pastor

“Come and get connected to Jesus”

Sunday 10:30 AM Worship Sunday 10:30 AM “J” Town Kids Church Wednesday 7:00 PM Bible Study & Youth regencycog.com

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770-893-1881 1987 Gibbs Drive Ball Ground, GA 30107

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LAWRENCEVILLE

MARCH 17TH - 2-9PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

IRISH FOOD, BREW GAMES & MORE

HISTORIC DOWNTOWN SQUARE

MORE S T N E V E T A E R G COMING SOON! March

April

8th – 31st Aurora Theatre Presents: 1st Gwinnett Historic Courthouse Hosts: Mamma Mia! Breakfast with the Easter Bunny 16th Gwinnett Historic Courthouse Hosts: 1st – 22nd Aurora Theatre Presents: Homeschool Prom: Back to the Mamma Mia! Future 6th – 29th Aurora Theatre Presents: El Gran Día 17th St. Paddy’s on Perry de la Madre/The Great Mother’s Day 20th Gwinnett Historic Courthouse Hosts: 14th Bicentennial Bus Tour Courthouse Craft Night: Native 17th Gwinnett Historic Courthouse Hosts: American Beaded Earrings Courthouse Craft Night: Vintage 21st Bicentennial Bus Tour Games 31st Lawrenceville FBC Easter Egg Hunt 21st Family Promise Bed Race 28th ArtsFest Gwinnett

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FOR COMPLETE LIST OF 2018 EVENTS, GO TO:

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