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Coleman to retire from legislature decided to not seek re-election so he After spending a quarcan spend ter century in the Georgia time General Assembly, state with his Rep. Brooks Coleman, grandchilBrooks R-Duluth, is planning to dren. His Coleman hang up his hat and retire decision from legislature. opens a big vacancy in Coleman told the Daily the Georgia House of Post on Friday that he has Representatives, where

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he served as chairman of the House Education Committee.

“It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to represent the citizens in my district under the Gold Dome all of these years,” Coleman said.

“Being a state representative for the last 26 years has allowed me to work alongside some incred-

ible Georgians and create education policies for the good of our state’s students and educators.

“I am sincerely grateful to have been able to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives for so many years, and I will greatly miss serving in this honorable role.”

Coleman joined the legislature in 1992 after

a long stint as an educator in Gwinnett County Public Schools. Over the past 26 years, he built up considerable ties with state leaders, prompting Gov. Nathan Deal to attend Coleman’s last re-election announcement in January 2016.

During that event, Deal held up a photo of a Native American in warpaint

who looked similar to Coleman and joked that it was what the representative looked like when he was “on the warpath.”

“This is Brooks in warpaint because when he gets a cause on his mind, he really goes to battle for it,” Deal said about his friend at the

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COACHES SUMMIT

Local figures among those at forum for leadership

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Coaches in any sport are used to being on the giving end of delivering lessons, whether it’s one directed toward their respective sports or life in general, to their athletes.

Saturday night, approximately 2,000 coaches in a variety of sports and their guests gathered at 12Stone Church’s main campus in Lawrenceville to voluntarily put themselves on the other end of the lesson at a coaches summit putting on by the Coaches Leadership Network.

They listened intently to master of ceremonies and noted sports broadcaster Ernie Johnson Jr., as well as two guest speakers — Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn and noted author, speaker and pastor John C. Maxwell — inspire them, challenge them and make them think about how they approached their profession and how to do it better.

“It’s not just about how (your athletes) play between the lines,” Johnson told the coaches in his opening remarks. “It’s developing the next generation of leaders. … Hopefully, you’ll take away information (Saturday) night that will help you do your job better.”

Both Quinn and Maxwell touched on a variety of topics designed to help provide the coaches in attendance such information.

For Quinn, who has led his team to a 30-19 regular season record and two playoff appearances, including a trip to the Super Bowl, in his three seasons as See SUMMIT, Page 5A

Right on pace

Hundreds of runners take off at the start of the 5K in the 2018 Run the Reagan held in Snellville on Saturday. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

Clear skies greet participants in annual Run the Reagan

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Thousands of people took in the good weather and hit the pavement for the annual Run the Reagan road race Saturday morning.

The normally busy Ronald Reagan Parkway in Snellville was shut down to provide race participants a chance to run and walk on the road, as well as for nearby residents to ride their bikes or walk their dogs on the course.

The race, which included a halfmarathon, a 10K, a 5K and a 1-mile fun run, drew contestants of all ages.

Families, couples and groups of people — such as 60 members of the Crews Middle School track club — Above, Lawrenceville’s Will Brey finishes the 5K as the overall winner during participated in the Peachtree Road Saturday’s Run the Reagan in Snellville. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup) Below, hun- Race qualifier. dreds took part in the 2018 Run the Reagan fun run, 5K, 10K and half-marathon Saturday. (Photo: Marcus Head)

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Ernie Johnson, left, an NBA analyst, and Dan Quinn, head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, talk at the Coaches Leadership Network event at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photo: Cory Hancock)

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Two Gwinnett County companies produce some of Georgia’s best food and drink products, according to the University of Georgia.

The university’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences announced Lawrenceville-based Olympus Greek Mountain Teas and Lilburn-based The Sauce Company Inc. made the list of finalists for the 2018 Flavor of Georgia Awards.

Olympus Greek Mountain Teas is a finalist in the Beverages category for its Blueberry Citrus Tea, while The Sauce Company Inc. is a finalist in the Condiments and Salsas category for its Georgia Gourmet Tomato Ketchup.

“Georgia is home to some of the best and most creative minds in the food business, and each year the Flavor of Georgia contest helps to showcase that talent,” Sharon P. Kane, contest coordinator and an economist with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, said in a statement.

The local products are among 33 finalists chosen from a field of 126 products. The final round of judging is expected to take place the week of March 19, Georgia Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Awareness Week in Atlanta.

Winners will be chosen by food brokers, grocery buyers and other experts in the food industry based

Lilburn-based The Sauce Company Inc.’s Georgia Gourmet Tomato Ketchup, above left, is a finalist in the University of Georgia 2018 Flavor of Georgia contest’s Condiments and Salsas category. (Photo: The Sauce Company Inc.) Lawrenceville-based Olympus Greek Mountain Teas’ Blueberry Citrus Tea, above right, is a finalist in the University of Georgia 2018 Flavor of Georgia contest’s Beverages category. (Photo: Olympus Greek Mountain Teas / Facebook)

on their Georgia-related theme, taste, commercial appeal, innovation and marketing potential in a “Shark Tank”-style presentation by the producers.

Products are chosen as the best in the state in the categories of Barbecue Sauces, Beverages, Condiments and Salsas, Confections, Dairy Products, Honey and Related Products, Jams and Jellies, Meats and Seafood, Sauces and Seasonings, Snack Foods, and Miscellaneous.

“The legacy of excellence and camaraderie that our Flavor of Georgia finalists and winners

have achieved continues to be remarkable,” Kane said. “It is a competition, but it’s also a family.

Over the years, contestants have built collaborations and networks that continue to support and enhance food entrepreneurship in Georgia, from the coast to the mountains.

“It’s not just great food; it’s economic development.”

Georgia’s Gourmet Tomato Ketchup can be purchased at www. georgiasauce.com, while Olympus Greek Mountain Teas can be found online at www.facebook.com/ olympusgreekteas.

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Police: Craigslist car ad Police academy is leads to home invasion taking applications

By IsaBel HugHes

black males were at the door and began asking where the car was isabel.hughes that was for sale on Craigslist.” @gwinnettdailypost.com “She stated it was not there, but What should have been a simple the males barged into the home,” online ad listing a car for sale the report said. “She stated one of turned into a violent altercation the males pulled out a handgun after two men showed up at the and pointed it to her head and beseller’s Lilburn home and robbed gan asking where the money was. her at gunpoint on Valentine’s Day. She stated the male then hit her in Around 10 a.m. Feb. 14, Gwin- the face and pushed her down.” nett police responded to a Bowers The men, the victim told police, Point Drive residence after receiv- then asked if anyone else was ing a 911 call from a man who home before walking through the said his wife was being robbed at house and stealing items. gunpoint in their home, a police “She stated they pulled the report said. television from the wall and threw There, police found the woman, a laptop on the floor,” the report who told officers “she heard the said. “They then grabbed the piggy doorbell ring” and that “two tall bank from the television stand and

threw it to the ground, shattering the bank.”

The men allegedly left through the front door after taking the approximately $4,000 in cash from the piggy bank.

The couple’s 10-year-old daughter, who was at school when the robbery occurred, was the only one who knew about the piggy bank’s money, the victim told police.

Her husband said he had only been contacted by two people about the car, though the family’s home address had been listed on the Craigslist ad.

Police said they have little to work with, other than that the suspects were wearing long pants, grey shirts and gloves.

nal background check.

The spring course will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Ever wonder what it’s like to between March 20 and May be a police officer?

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Curious residents will soon Applications will not be have the opportunity to step accepted later than March 13 into an officer’s shoes during and should be addressed to the Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Perkins or Sgt. ThompDepartment’s spring Citizens son.

Police Academy, which is open Residents who cannot make to all county residents ages 18 this session will have another and older. opportunity in the fall. They Participants will get classcan submit their applications room and practical applicanow for the fall session and be tion of policing and law while put on the list. meeting fellow residents who Applications can be found are just as interested as long as at gwinnettcounty.com/portal/ they pass an application progwinnett/Departments/Police/ cess and a driver’s and crimiVolunteerOpportunities.

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Norcross students walk out of class in protest Students take stance in wake of deadly Fla. shooting

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Protests against gun violence continued at schools in Gwinnett on Friday, this time with students at Norcross High School walking out and expressing anger about a shooting that happened at a Florida school last week.

The students walked out at about noon and held a rally in front of the school, holding signs and calling for an end to gun violence. The protest at Norcross came on the heels of similar walkouts at Lanier, Collins Hill and Mill Creek earlier in the week.

After the protest at Norcross High School, videos began emerging of the walkout on Instagram and Twitter.

“Them students in Florida, that could have been us,” one student is shown telling his classmates in a video on Instagram. “It could have been you, it could have been you, it could have been your little brother or sister so you think we’re just going to stand here and not say something about this? We’re going to be protesting about this until the day something happens.

“Today we got the movement started, but the revolution never stops.”

Walkouts and public protests have been taking place

around the country since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Seventeen people died from wounds they sustained during the shooting.

Brandi Kochan, a Norcross junior who participated in that school’s walkout, said students are angry because they feel not enough has been done to prevent mass shootings at schools and other public places from happening.

“We wanted to make some noise to get people to listen to us because we’re underage so, of course, we can’t vote, we can’t affect legislation,” she said.

“Although it was a protest that wasn’t in a particularly populated location, the point is if we have enough protests, someone will listen to us.”

There are differing accounts of what happened, though.

Kochan said there were three waves of protests and many students participated during their lunch break.

The first happened at noon and a second one started shortly afterward.

Amid the activity of those protests, students walked to a nearby Wendy’s and then returned to the school, she said. She also said police cars were parked in the entrance driveways to the school.

The third one happened

close to 1 p.m., and Kochan said when students tried to go back inside after that one, they found the doors locked.

“They locked all of the doors and (when) we attempted to go through the front entrance, they refused to let us in until we promised that we’d stay quiet and go back to class orderly,” she said. “Of course we said yes and as soon as we got into the building, we continued with our protest.”

School system spokesman Bernard Watson said administrators accompanied students during the walkout at Norcross to “ensure their safety.” He also said the students walked around the edge of the school campus and most of them went back inside the school by 12:15 p.m.

Watson said some students walked off campus, though, and were “shadowed by Gwinnett County Police as a safety precaution.” Those students did return to campus as officers followed them, the district spokesman said.

“A few of the students, who were loudly chanting, attempted to enter the school through some side doors which were locked,” Watson said. “Administrators at those doors did not let the chanting students inside as the chanting would cause a disruption to students in nearby classrooms.

“The students were routed to the front of the building, where they were allowed to enter. Upon entering the school, these students returned to class.”

Additional protests at Norcross are expected to take place March 2, March 14, March 24 and April 20.

The students have also set up an Instagram account at @nhs_protest.

“We’re scared,” Kochan said. “There’s so many kids at school, and we’re just scared that this could happen to us, that it could happen to our friends, our sisters and brothers, and there’s not much we can do about it. For a while, we all kind of felt helpless.”

Kochan said students who participated in the walkout want tougher gun laws, stricter tests for mental illness and more limitations on who can have a gun. They also want the age at which a person can buy a gun raised.

She was quick to point out that the students do not want all guns taken away, however. They are focused more on limited access to semiautomatic guns, she said.

“Quite frankly, you don’t need a semiautomatic weapon for self defense,” Kochan said. “No one here is saying we should get rid of guns completely. We’re saying we should get rid of excessive guns.”

But not all Norcross

A Norcross High School student holds up a sign with the names of many of the 17 victims of the fatal Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Fla. Norcross students staged a walk out to protest gun violence Friday. (Photo: Brandi Kochan)

students agree on how to handle the issue of gun violence in the schools.

Luke McGahren, who is a senior at the school and founder of its Young Americans for Freedom chapter, said he wants changes to happen in the aftermath of the shooting in Florida. He does not agree with classmates who favor limiting access to guns, however.

There should instead be a focus on improving security at schools and identifying students and other people in the school community who might be at risk of committing a school shooting,

McGahren said.

“What I’ve seen, basically, is like the purpose of these walkouts is pretty clear, that they want legislation that fights the ownership of guns, nothing specific but obviously assault weapons, assuming that kind of solves the problem,” McGahren said.

“My perspective is that that’s not able to solve the problem and those types of approaches are only going to disarm good people. The best approach would be to increase security and make sure these situations, of course, are dealt with.”

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This year’s cookie varieties include Do-si-dos, Girl Scout S’mores, Samoas, SaThough the increasingly vannah Smiles, Tagalongs, warm weather is reason Thin Mints, Trefoils and enough to rejoice, locals gluten-free Toffee-tastic. have another reason to be Each box of cookies sells joyful: America’s favorite for $4 with the exception cookies are back. of Girl Scout S’mores and Starting Friday, Girl Toffee-tastic, which sell for Scouts across metro Atlanta $6. are setting up tables outside Gwinnett mall locations malls and shopping center are: to sell their beloved cookies, Mall of Georgia including at several locaWhen: Through March

11; 4 to 7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday Location: 3333 Buford Drive, Buford, located on the Lower Level near JCPenney Sugarloaf Mills When: Through March 12; 4 to 7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday Location: 5900 Sugarloaf Parkway , Lawrenceville, located in Entrance 5 across from Shoney’s

Sheriff’s office to offer Girl Scout cookies return teachers gun training

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The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office announced on Facebook on Friday that it will offer Gwinnett teachers a class designed to train them on carrying and using guns.

The announcement comes a week and a half after a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which resulted in the deaths of 17 people.

The shooting has sparked a nationwide debate on how to respond to the issue of shootings at schools and other public spaces.

“We appreciate our community’s dedicated teachers and want to support them in any way that we can in regard to their personal safety outside the classroom, so

Sheriff Butch Conway is offering a Responsible Firearms Carry and Safety class for all local teachers at the end of March,” Sheriff’s Office officials wrote in the Facebook post.

The Sheriff’s Office said the training would cover weapon selection, holster and accessory options, situational awareness and Georgia laws dealing with the carrying of firearms on school grounds, using deadly force, open and concealed carry regulations and civil consequences related to the use of a firearm. Officials will also cover federal laws on the subject.

The Sheriff’s Office posting came a day after President Donald Trump broached the topic of teachers armed with guns on Twitter.

“History shows that a

school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes,” Trump said in the tweet. “It takes police & first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime.

Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive.”

The Sheriff’s Office’s offer of training was met with mixed reactions on Facebook, ranging from “There is a serious problem if teachers don’t already know what the laws are when it comes to firearms on their campus” to “Thank you for doing this! Our kids deserve every protection we can provide for them!”

Teachers who are interested in participating in the Sheriff’s Office training course are asked to send an email to sabrina.cooper@ gwinnettcounty.com.

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pet of the week Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m.

You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www.georgiaspca.org.

If you have peanut butter at home, perhaps you’d like some Jelly to go with it. If so, the Georgia SPCA has you covered.

Jelly is a 5-month-old, charismatic Tortie who will be sure to brighten these gloomy days and become the love of your life. She would love to find a forever home today.

Jelly has been spayed and disease tested for FeLV and FIV. She has been dewormed and given all age-appropriate vaccinations, and is up to date on flea/ tick prevention. She has also been microchipped, and her adopter will receive 30 days of Pet Emergency insurance.

Jelly is a 5-month-old charismatic Tortie. (Special Photo) If you are interested in seeing any of the pets up for adoption, visit the GA SPCA, located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, in Suwanee, or call at 678765-2726.

4A • SundAy, FebruAry 25, 2018 To Your Good Health

Keith Roach

Pregnant while on Pregabalin Dear Dr. roaCH: I’m 13 weeks pregnant, and I am on pregabalin (prescribed off-label for anxiety). I asked my GP if it is safe to continue to be on it while pregnant, and he was very dismissive and hurried me out the door without really telling me anything. I read about a very small study that was conducted that seemed to show a risk of birth defects, but due to its small size, it didn’t really help me either. I was wondering if you know anything about pregabalin and pregnancy.

— G.H. anSWer: While I understand the demands of a busy practice, your physician should have found time to talk to you about this important issue.

A study from Boston in 2017 looked at a large database and found no statistically significant increase in major congenital abnormalities in women taking pregabalin during pregnancy, but it could not exclude the possibility of a small risk of a harmful effect. Anxiety itself isn’t good for the baby, so the best option would be treatment that is effective but at lowest risk. It has been my experience that many women want to avoid the slightest chance of damage to their developing baby from medication, but my job often is to help them consider also the risks of not taking medicine.

In your case, given the large number of medicines for anxiety that are better studied in pregnancy, I would talk to your doctor about a different choice during pregnancy.

Benzodiazepines (including Valium, Ativan and others) are seldom my first choice for anxiety, but they are the first choice among many experts in treating anxiety during pregnancy.

Dear Dr. roaCH: I’m a 76-year-old woman. After having a discharge from my right nipple twice for the first time last August (I have family history of breast cancer — my mom and her three sisters), I had to undergo a mammogram, and then had an ultrasound where they found four more cysts (two cysts were from years ago).

A week later, I had a needle biopsy for all four, along with adding four markers, and they came back benign, which was good news. They said to be sure to get my routine mammogram next August, which I will. But my question to you is why have I had a clear, yellowish nipple discharge two to three times since then (the last discharge was last week, four months after my breast biopsies) ... is this normal, or do I need to get a second opinion or go through this ordeal again in case they made a mistake?

— C.D. anSWer: This is not normal. Discharge from one nipple is considered pathological, and it needs to be further evaluated.

The most common cause of nipple discharge in a postmenopausal woman is a papilloma of the breast, and although these are benign tumors, some contain atypical cells or another condition, ductal carcinoma-in-situ, which is a type of breast cancer.

The reason you need further evaluation is not that they may have made a mistake, but rather that they haven’t yet made a diagnosis.

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Police: Man’s body found in lake of apartment complex “The call came from a resi-

undetermined, a preliminary examination showed no signs of appeared to be a body floating in obvious trauma or foul play.

The Gwinnett County Media lake located inside the comThere were no forms of idencal Examiner’s Office is trying plex,” Smith said. “The Gwinnett tification located and it is still to identify a body that was found County Fire Department’s Swift unknown how long the body was floating in a Lawrenceville apart- Water Rescue team responded in the water, officials said. ment complex’s lake Saturday and removed the body from the Officers and detectives spoke afternoon. lake. The body was determined to with residents but were unable Gwinnett County police ofbe deceased and already in stages to locate any witnesses and there ficers, along with fire personnel, of decomposition.” are no cameras in the area of the responded to the Durant at SugThe Gwinnett County Medical lake. arloaf Apartments, located at 50 Examiner’s Office also responded The Medical Examiner’s OfSt. Marlowe Drive, around 3 p.m. to the scene to evaluate the body, fice took custody of the body for after receiving a 911 call from a which was determined to be an further examination and identiresident, according to Gwinnett adult male. fication and an investigation is Police Detective D.C. Smith.

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lic Education Innovation Fund Foundation. time.

Coleman has been known for his non-legislative activities The longtime legislator is and interests as well, including also the namesake of Brooks auctioneering, clock restoraColeman Middle School in tions and, for a long time, servdowntown Duluth. ing as the voice of Duluth High During his tenure in the School at football games.

House of Representatives, Coleman is the latest in a Coleman authored legislation that was designed to help low- string of Gwinnett legislative performing schools, eliminated delegation members — all Rethe high school graduation test, publicans — who have opted rewrote teacher recertification to not seek re-election to their current seats this year. Two of rules, raised compensation the others, Sen. David Shafer for math and science teachers and Rep. Buzz Brockway, are and introduced reforms to the Teachers Retirement System of running for higher office, and Rep. David Casas has opted to Georgia benefits. step away from elected ofHe also authored bills to fice to focus on his family and promote physical fitness for students and authorize the Pub- other pursuits.

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sell you stuff. This event is different because the community is investing in “We have a huge group of people that want to the kids.” stay healthy and active,” 20-year-old Hayden said Crews Middle School Francis participated in teacher Rod Hames. the 10K this year looking Hames said he sent to improve on her firstout a text to more than place finish in the 15-19 270 individuals that had women’s division last year, participated in the running which landed her third club’s activities last year at place overall. nearby Alexander Park.

“I always come here “We do a lot of training to the event every year and events at Alexander but didn’t start running it Park, which is great for officially until last year,” us because it’s a mile Francis said. down the road,” Hames She said this year she said. “Twice a week we’re didn’t hit her time goals as running 4 miles to keep well as she wanted to, but healthy and in shape.” she still was able to have a Along with the race, good result. there was a vendor area “I was able to finish first with local businesses hand- this year, which is a great ing out promotional items improvement from last and supporting the event. year’s third-place finish,” “These vendors came Francis said. “It’s a really out here to support the cool event to have a major community,” Hames said. road like this closed down, “You go to some commuand to finish the way I did nities and they try to just was good.”

Run the Reagan has been around for almost a quarter century, with the proceeds going to several organizations. This year, the Brookwood Schools Foundation, Lilburn Cooperative Ministry and Southeast Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry were the charities selected.

“All year we work on an event like this,” said event organizer John Allred.

“The last six months is the hard push with scheduling and making sure we have everything set up.”

Allred said the goal of the event is not only to raise money, but to continue to grow the community event each year.

“Next year, we want to expand from the Brookwood cluster to other school clusters in Gwinnett County,” Allred said. “It’s really great seeing all this out here and the support we have.”

Above left, Jameson Bilsborrow was the half marathon overall winner at Saturday’s Run the Reagan in Snellville. Above right, Lawrenceville’s Erin O’Brian, 11, was the women’s 5K winner at Saturday’s race. Below, there was a 1-mile family-friendly fun run at the race. (Photos: Anthony Stalcup)

Hundreds of runners take off at the start of the 5K in the 2018 Run the Reagan held in Snellville on Saturday. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

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•From Page 1A the Falcons head coach, his best advice came from a question he implored all coaches to ask themselves.

“The question I’d like to ask everyone here is, could you be coached by you?” Quinn said, challenging the coaches to take a look at how they delivered the message they wanted to convey to their players. “If the answer is no, the next one is, why not? If the answer is yes, you’re being true to your own standards.”

That message was one Quinn said he took to heart following one of the toughest times of his coaching tenure after the Falcons lost to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI just over a year ago after holding a 25-point lead in the second half.

“I felt like I’d let the whole city (of Atlanta) down,” Quinn said. “It hung on me for a while.

But as a coach, I owned that responsibility. This is the life we lie as competitors.”

Maxwell’s message to the coaches centered more on the general qualities of leadership, something he’s written about in more than 60 books on the subject.

“Leadership is influence. Nothing more, nothing less,” Maxwell said.

“You have to lead yourself before you can lead some-

Above, Jason Carrera, head football coach at Meadowcreek High School, speaks after winning the 2018 Coach of the Year Award at the Coaches Leadership Network event at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville on Saturday. At left, John C. Maxwell, leadership guru, reacts to a coach’s comment during the Coaches Leadership Network event at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photos: Cory Hancock)

body else. If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why would anyone else follow you? Start with yourself.”

But Saturday’s summit wasn’t only about defining leadership and inspiring to do so. It was also about honoring and recognizing those who have already done so.

Chief among those was Meadowcreek head football coach Jason Carrera, who was named the CLN’s 2018 Coach of the Year.

The plaque he received and the video that was shown in commemoration of that award was something he knew about

in advance, but there were other surprises in store for Carerra, who guided the Mustangs to its best record (7-4) in 20 years and their first postseason appearance in nearly 30 years last fall.

In addition to being presented with the trophy by three of his players — running back Chauncey Williams, defensive end Qu’Vella Calhoun and linebacker Kevin Martin — he also received other gifts from the CLN and various sponsors to help aid the Meadowcreek program.

Stan Hall, executive director of the Gwin-

“When you’re able to walk up on that stage and see kids like Chauncey and Q and Kevin walk out there, and you know that nett Sports Commission, there’s a love for those presented Carrera with a kids and they love each check for $3,500 to aid in other and there’s a broththe program’s expenses. erhood between those In addition, after Mead- kids, yeah, it means a lot,” owcreek’s “Uncle PigCarrera said. “It’s great skin” program — which to know that not only we was started by local busi- impacted a team of 55, nesses to provide, among 60 kids, we impacted a other things, transportaschool, we impacted a tion to Mustang players community and hopefully who can’t get a ride home we impacted a county from school after pracbecause they got to see tices — was mentioned in something — you know, the video honoring Carpeople came up to me and rera, a local automobile said, ‘I’ve been around dealership donated the here forever, and … I’ve use of a 12-passenger van, never seen Meadowcreek plus maintenance and tires do this.’ for five years.

“And it’s so generous Carrera found all those by 12Stone and (the CLN gestures overwhelming. and the local donations) to

do all this. It’s just amazing to come and help out our program.”

Overall, different coaches had different takeaways from the evening’s event.

For Mike Phillips, a former football coach and athletics director at multiple schools who serves as director of Gwinnett County’s adapted sports program, a reminder of how much coaches can affect the lives of studentathletes and being reenergized to do so.

“It was just an incredible night,” Phillips said.

“What I took away from it was that we have a tremendous opportunity to really influence young people. The key to it is to let them know that your really care for them.”

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RESTAURANT SCORES FEB. 14 INSPECTIONS Boss Wings 3725 Club Drive, Suite 102, Duluth Culver’s of Mall of Georgia 2924 Buford Drive, Buford Getaway Cafe 3030 Amwiler Road, Suite 3, Atlanta Parma Tavern 3350 Buford Drive, Buford Subway 1160 Old Peachtree Road, Duluth Taco Bell 3333 Buford Drive, Suite 1068, Buford Waffle House 2916 Buford Drive, Buford

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Volunteers prepare food for shipping at Mill Creek High School. Mill Creek’s Interact Club partnered with Kids Against Hunger to send food to people in Puerto Rico who were devastated by Hurricane Irma in early September.

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Volunteers prep food for Puerto Rico Packages will go to those devastated by hurricane Staff Correspondent

Mill Creek High School volunteers gave up their Saturday to package food to send to people in Puerto Rico who were devastated

by Hurricane Irma in early September.

Mill Creek’s Interact Club partnered with Kids Against Hunger to sponsor the event.

According to Mill Creek High School Interact Club adviser, Jennifer Cox, the idea for this event struck her when she met members from Kids Against Hunger while attending a Rotary International conference.

“Our school has done many things through the years, but this has been our biggest to help a neighboring (territory),” Cox said.

The event, sponsored by the Interact Club with coordinating partners Gainesville Rotary, Braselton Rotary, Jackson EMC and the service clubs within the school, made it possible for volunteers to package 1,188 bags of food, which amounts to 7,128 meals being sent to Puerto Rico.

Each bag contains rice, beans, soy and Latin spice, which contains a mix of vitamins, minerals and amino acids, enough for six meals.

The event was set up assembly line style. As students arrived, they signed in, were provided a hair net and then required to use sanitized wipes to clean their hands before putting on disposable gloves.

Each volunteer was assigned a specific duty in the process. The line began with volunteers placing labels on each bag. The labeled bags next went to the filling area, then onto the sealing table and, finally, to

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packing.

Mill Creek High School student Gabriella Cabrera, 17, had a personal interest in this event. She was happy to help those in need, including the possibility of some of the food reaching her own family members.

“A lot of my family is in Puerto Rico. My mom’s aunt was without power for an extended amount of time,” Cabrera said. “They are sending this to the area where my family is.”

Cabrera, along with her fellow students, were at a table scooping the food into the bags, before sending them down the line to the to the sealing table.

Working with Cabrera at the filling table was Mill Creek Beta Club member, Emily Wilbourn, 16, who volunteered to help those in need because she wants to make a difference.

“I just want to help make a difference for victims of Hurricane Irma,” Wilburn said. “I decided to get involved because this is a direct way to help them.

Instead of just writing letters, we are actually giving them food.”

The next step after filling, the sealing table, included volunteer Sarah Bonds, 17, another Beta Club member.

Bonds came to help because she enjoys doing community service work and this event was interesting to her.

“I heard they are going to Puerto Rico; that’s pretty cool,” she said of the bags of food she was sealing.

According Anne Horne, director and co-founder Kids Against Hunger in

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Latin rice mixture is labeled and ready to be boxed for shipping. Mill Creek High School’s Interact Club partnered with Kids Against Hunger to send food to people in Puerto Rico who were devastated by Hurricane Irma in early September.

Cairo, each bag of food costs 25 cents and has a shelf life of three unrefrigerated years.

“They tested it under hideous weather conditions,” Horne said.

Horne and her team brought all the supplies for the event up from Cairo and will be trucking it all back to their warehouse where one of their freight partners will be responsible for getting it to Puerto Rico.

“Our role is to get it to someone who is going to freight it,” Horne said.

When the people in Puerto Rico receive the bags of food, they can follow the instructions included on the bag labels. Preparation is as easy as pouring the food into boiling water and allowing it to cook for about 20 minutes.

All the food is gluten free and vegan, making it safe for those with food allergies.

The nutritional make-up of these bags is appropriate to feed the hungry in the United States, unlike their international food bags that are prepared for true malnutrition and contain additional ingredients for the additional nutritional needs.

Not all of the volunteers at the Mill Creek High

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School event were students. Carol Rodriguez is a Special Education teacher at the neighboring Osborn Middle School. She and a couple of fellow teachers from other schools heard about the event and decided to participate.

“As soon as I found out about this event, I was in, right then and there,” Rodriguez said.

According to Cox, the cost of this event was $5,700 and was made possible because of donations from the coordinating partners. Her hopes, and those of the others involved, is to continue these partnerships and sponsor an even larger event like this one next year.

Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit humanitarian organization with a mission to provide fully nutritious food to impoverished children and families around the world … and around the corner. The goal of the organization is for the meals to provide a stable nutritional base from which recipient families can move their families from starvation or food insecurity to self-sufficiency To learn more about Kids Against Hunger and their mission, visit kidsagainsthunger.org.

COLLEGE NOTES The following students graduated from Jacksonville Sate University in December: Courtney Conley of Lawrenceville and Wai Ng of Sugar Hill.

The following students graduated from the University of Iowa in December: Annika Olsen of Johns Creek, Anh-Vu Do of Norcross and Bianca Mason of Stone Mountain.

James Touchton of Braselton was named to the University of Hartford dean’s list for the fall 2017 semester.

The following students were named to the University of South Carolina Aiken dean’s list for the fall 2017 semester: Marissa Bruce of Dacula and Robert Hill of Lilburn.

Sarah Alexander of Suwanee was named to the Georgia College president’s list for the fall 2017 semester.

The following cadets and students were named to The Citadel’s dean’s list for the fall 2017 semester: Aaron Brawley of Grayson, Gabriel Gonzalez of Snellville and Marcus Milhouse of Buford.

The following cadets and students at The Citadel were awarded Gold Stars during the fall 2017 semester: Thomas Byelick of Lawrenceville, Grayson Cooper of Suwanee, DaSean Daniels of Lawrenceville, Richard Dekold of Johns Creek, Matthew Dittrich of Lawrenceville, Cecilia Gibson of Johns Creek, Tai Lum of Johns Creek and Denzel Wright of Lawrenceville.

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by his parents, Mary and Lloyd Russell; Wife, CaroRobert Joseph “Bob” lyn Hilker Russell; Sister, Corr Mary Chastain and Brother Bob Corr, age 83, John Russell. Some of his of Flowery Branch fondest memories were passed away on Frihis yearly gambling trips day, February 16, 2018. with his daughters, nephew Ken Chastain and his best friend Larry Laviola. He will be remembered as a great caring man and a Navy Veteran. After Buford, GA his struggles with cancer Julio Lionel Pimentel and complications from Dr. Julio Lionel Pimentel, dementia, may he find rest. He is survived by PhD, age 58, of Buford, GA passed away Thursday, daughters Laura Anderson [Jack] and Gail Conn February 22, 2018. Flani[Bill], brothers Bill Russell gan Funeral Home [Faye] and Jim Russell Loganville [Allison]; sister Jan Goldstein [George] He is also Robert Wayne Russurvived by granddaughsell ters Christina Anderson, Robert Wayne Russell Catherine Persson [Hen“Bob”, 78, of Loganville, rik], Melissa Conn and Ga passed away peacefully Nicole Conn and many on February 20, 2018 sur- nieces and nephews. A rounded by his family. He celebration of life is being will be missed by many. planned for a future date.

He was a loving father, proud grandfather, sucLoganville, GA cessful business owner and Dana Sell entrepreneur. Bob touched age 50 of Loganville, the lives of many others. passed away on 2/20/2018.

He is preceded in death b Flowery Branch, GA

Recently, Patricia Lavely, senior vice president and chief information officer of Gwinnett Medical Center, addressed the Georgia Senate during Health IT Day at the Capitol presented by the Technology Association of Georgia Health Society and Georgia Health Information Management Systems. She is pictured with Georgia State officials and Healthcare IT executives. Lavely presented a resolution to the health cyber security issues as it relates to the Georgia IT industry. She is also a TAG and GA HIMS board member. The presentation was followed by a health care cybersecurity luncheon panel. (Special Photos)

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GGC business school gets international accreditation

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The school of business at Georgia Gwinnett College recently received accreditation from the The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a global business accrediting body for business schools.

“AACSB accreditation recognizes institutions that have demonstrated a focus on excellence in all areas, including teaching, research, curricula development and student learning,” said Stephanie M. Bryant, executive vice president and Gwinnett 200’s STORY VAULT project was launched to commemorate Gwinnett County’s bicentennial by recording the stories of the people who live, work, and play in Gwinnett.

Gladys Harris is the oldest surviving telephone operator from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Watch as Gladys tells stories about her childhood, her “secret marriage,” her time working as a switchboard operator from 1945 to 1985, and more.

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chief accreditation officer of AACSB International. “We congratulate Georgia Gwinnett College and dean Tyler Yu on earning accreditation, and applaud the entire GGC School of Business team — including the administration, faculty, staff and students — for their roles in earning this respected honor.”

GGC joins a group of more than 800 other institutions from 53 countries that have received accreditation.

A total of 15 international standards are used to assess schools quality of education.

“We are extremely pleased that our business program has attained stature

among the top 5 percent of business programs in the world,” said Georgia Gwinnett College President Stas Preczewski. “Earning this accreditation so very early in the history of GGC is a testament to the diligence of our faculty, staff and supportive community to provide an outstanding educational experience from a credentialed business program. Our challenging curriculum affirms our dedication to meeting the highest educational standards, to enhance our academic reputation globally and to prepare graduates for careers in a global market.”

Library system set to host teen film awards ceremony

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Teenage filmmakers from around Gwinnett will be recognized by the county’s library system next week.

The Gwinnett County Public Library system announced it will host the 2018 Teen Film Challenge Awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. March 3 at the Suwanee library branch. The awards, which are presented by East2West Media Group, recognize teens

for short films they made in genres such as comedy, drama, horror, animation and documentary.

“We’re extremely pleased with the quality of films submitted this year,” library system Learning Labs Manager Tonya Aumack said in a statement. “This is our third Teen Film Challenge and the films are more powerful and more skillful each year. We are so proud of the filmmakers’ efforts and can’t wait to meet this year’s participants at the awards ceremony.”

The library system said the awards program is growing. There were 45 entries this year, compared to 16 last year, a factor that officials attributed to the growth in Georgia’s film industry.

The library system and film professionals will hand out $1,000 prizes in categories such as Best Picture and Best Performance. Officials will also screen a selection of films during the ceremony.

The Suwanee library branch is located at 361 Main St.

Registration open for Paddle Georgia

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Local residents will soon have the opportunity to get their feet wet when a weeklong canoe and kayak trip in mid-June begins on Gwinnett’s Yellow River.

Paddle Georgia, the nation’s longest river trip, is an annual seven-day paddle sponsored by the Georgia River Network, a nonprofit that works to protect Georgia’s rivers.

This year, the trip will be held on the Yellow and Ocmulgee rivers between Stone Mountain and Macon to highlight Georgia’s emerging water trail system.

“During the past several years, we’ve seen an explosion in water trail development,” said Gwyneth Moody, director of programs and outreach for Georgia River Network. “Local communities are rediscovering their rivers and recognizing them as a recreational amenity for residents and visitors on par with ball fields, parks, walking trails and other more traditional public recreation projects.”

Now in its 14th year, Paddle Georgia takes place on a different Georgia river each year, with last year’s participants kayaking and canoeing the Etowah River.

This year’s trip, which runs from June 16 to 22, charts a four-day course through suburban Atlanta on the Yellow River in Gwinnett, Rockdale and Newton counties to Lake Jackson, and then continues for three more days on the Ocmulgee River, flowing through Jasper, Butts, Monroe and Jones counties before finishing in Macon.

In addition to paddling about 12 miles each day, participants will learn about the river through nightly programs about the river’s ecology and cultural history, and be given special tours of historic sites and industrial facilities.

A street party that will feature music, food and canoe tug-o-war competitions is planned in Porterdale on June 17.

The seven-day adventure, which usually attracts more than 400 participants, is an

event many look forward to each year, organizers said.

That is the case for Covington resident Tonya Bechtler, who first participated in Paddle Georgia in 2009.

“After that trip I was inspired,” said Bechtler. “I saw we had a beautiful river in our own backyard that was worthy of paddling and wanted to see it made more available.”

Since her inaugural trip, Bechtler has worked to establish launch sites and other amenities along the river, which Paddle Georgia participants will use this year.

Those include camping for four nights at Porterdale’s Yellow River Park along the river in the heart of the historic Newton County textile mill village.

“We chose to venture on the Yellow and Ocmulgee this year largely because of the work taking place on the rivers to improve access and promote their use for recreational activities,” said Joe Cook, Paddle Georgia coordinator. “This is a chance for people to see two rivers that don’t get as much attention as some of the headline-stealing rivers like the Chattahoochee and Flint.”

Paddle Georgia serves as a fundraiser for Georgia River Network and local watershed protection groups.

Since the inaugural paddle in 2005, Georgia River Network has introduced more than 4,000 paddlers to more than 1,300 miles of water trails on 13 Georgia rivers and has generated more than $400,000 for river protection.

This year’s benefactors are the Yellow River Water Trail, Ocmulgee River Water Trail and Altamaha Riverkeeper.

Registration fees are $425 for adults, $230 for children 8 to 17 and $30 for children 7 and under. A very limited number of spaces are available for “Paddle Georgia Lite,” an abbreviated version of the trip that includes either the first two days of the trip (June 16 to 17) or the last two days of the trip (June 21 to 22).

Registration fees for Paddle Georgia Lite are $120, $70 and $15, respectively. Additional registration information is available at garivers.org/paddle_georgia.

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Annette Lance receives nose kisses from Mickey and Minnie Mouse at the Infinite Energy Arena on Thursday. (Special Photo)

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meet Mickey Mouse before she dies. isabel.hughes “‘The Mickey Mouse @gwinnettdailypost.com Club’ was my favorite show Annette Lance’s eyes growing up and my parents welled up as Mickey Mouse named me after the (origistepped backstage at the nal Mouseketeer/actress) Infinite Energy Arena on Annette Funicello,” Lance Thursday night, tears of joy said. “My nickname was dotting her cheeks. even ‘Mickey’ growing up Nearly overwhelmed by because I would say the the experience, the 48-year- word ‘mouse’ over and over. old, a terminally ill patient I loved anything Mickey.” who lives at a long-term care Knowing that Lance is home in LaFayette, grinned too sick to travel to Disney as Minnie Mouse entered World and that expenses behind Mickey, the pair would be an issue, when greeting Lance. officials at Lance’s care “Mickey Mouse has been facility heard that Disney my favorite forever,” Lance on Ice was coming to the said. “I love him.”

Duluth arena, they asked Though she and her care- Infinite Energy if it would givers had spent six hours in be possible for the woman to the car — a faulty GPS took meet Mickey. them from south Georgia When the arena said yes, to Midtown to Interstate Lance was ecstatic, said 285 before finally reaching Beth Carter, a spokeswoman Gwinnett — it was well for the show. worth the trip, said Lance, “Annette loves Mickey whose biggest wish was to Mouse so much that she has

a Mickey Mouse tattoo on her heart, which she showed me,” Carter said. “She also had her nails done in a Mickey Mouse theme just to meet him and (wore) a brand new Mickey Mouse T-shirt.”

Though the meet-andgreet was originally supposed to take place prior to the show, because of traffic and the GPS, the group didn’t arrive until right before the performance started, pushing back the meet-andgreet to afterward.

But the timing gave Lance a sneak peek of who she was going to meet and also allowed her to snack on popcorn and lemonade while buying souvenirs for her two granddaughters.

And while she said she loved the show, it was Mickey who she came to see.

“I love princesses, but Mickey Mouse was my favorite part,” she said, “every time he came out.”

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Park peeps: Please stop torturing yourselves My lovely wife, Bonnie, and I have become inveterate park walkers, mostly at that jewel of Gwinnett’s recreational system, Little Mulberry Park on Hog Mountain Road (or Fence Road, depending on where you’re coming from).

For a change of pace, we also enjoy the Ivy Creek Greenway, connecting the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center to the Mall of Georgia and the Suwanee Creek Greenway.

Both are nearly as pleasant, if not quite as challenging, as Mulberry.

We’ve even been known to walk indoors at the mall when the weather is really bad or Bonnie is looking for shoes.

But we’re at Mulberry at least twice a week, usually at the same time — about two hours before sundown.

That means we see many of the same people, to See JENKINS, Page 11A

Although relatively new, the Explorers program in Gwinnett County Public Schools is earning national attention. The program, sponsored by the Gwinnett County School Police Department, earned a third place finish in a competition involving more than 3,500 students.

The Explorer program provides young men and women interested in a law enforcement career an opportunity to better understand the role officers have in today’s society. The Explorer post also provides members with training and experience in leadership, teamwork and positive self-confidence.

The Explorers recently traveled to Gatlinburg, Tenn., for Winterfest, one of the largest competitions in the U.S. At Winterfest, cadets compete in more than 26 different law enforcement contests. Explorers from 103 law enforcement departments across the country were represented at the competition. Some of the events the Gwinnett Explorers competed in included class B uniform, mock interview, tactical fitness, officer survival, DUI traffic stop, felony traffic stop, trouble unknown and robbery in progress competitions.

The team placed third in the class B uniform competition, which involved measuring the proper placement of collar brass on a uniform.

Members of the team also finished in the top half of the rankings for felony traffic stop.

“We proved a lot of people wrong,” said Joe Barnes, a GCPS school resource officer who heads up the program. “We were told our team wouldn’t win anything our first time there, but we did and I am so proud of the students and grateful for the officers who give their time and effort to train the kids. Without time and commitment, this trip

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Trevor McNaboe would not have been possible.”

Barnes, who has been involved in this program since he was a teenager — both as a participant and an adult — said GCPS is encouraging more students to get involved with Explorers.

The Explorer program is open to all high school students in Gwinnett County.

Peachtree Ridge hosts Vietnamese New Year celebration Grayson High School hosts Peachtree Ridge High School technology playdate recently hosted its inaugural VietGrayson High School hosted namese New Year celebration. The the fourth annual Grayson Cluster school’s Vietnamese American Student Association, in partnership with Technology Playdate on Feb. 19 the International Newcomer Center, with students from Grayson cluster spearheaded the celebration. schools Grayson High School, Mountain View wins Close to 1,000 participants raised Bay Creek Middle School, Couch Georgia Southwestern’s more than $3,000 for the school’s Middle School, Grayson Elemenmath tournament VASA club, with support from tary School, Trip Elementary Mountain View High School School, Pharr Elementary School stood atop the standings at Georgia Vietnamese community members and local businesses. and Starling Elementary School Southwestern State University’s Future events of VASA and the leading teachers through sessions annual Jay Cliett and Bill Kipp High district’s newly formed Gwinnett on programs, websites and apps that School Mathematics Tournament, Vietnamese Family Association can be used for instruction. held Feb. 9.

The focus on this year’s event The math tournament, in its 44th will promote student leadership, community involvement and family was different technologies that year, drew more than 500 students, integrate well with the district’s teachers and sponsors from 42 high engagement in the schools. Nearly 100 student and parent volunteers eCLASS initiative. The initiative is schools across the state. the school district’s digital content, Mountain View was one of seven helped to facilitate the event, which included a fashion and talent show. learning, assessment and support Georgia High School Association Trevor McNaboe is the education system that enhances student enschools to win its classification, reporter for The Gwinnett Daily gagement and the learning process. GHSA AAAAAAA. During the During the three-hour event, event, teams competed in both writ- Post. He can be reached via email at trevor.mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost. teachers selected three technology ten and ciphering problem-solving com sessions to attend. exams.

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Brockway resolution calls on council to perform reviews State Rep. Buzz Brockway praised his colleagues in the House of Representatives this past week for recently passing a resolution he Buzz introduced Brockway concerning the Georgia Occupational Regulation Review Council.

The resolution was introduced in the waning days of the 2017 legislative session, but was passed by the House on Wednesday. Brockway, who is running for secretary of state this year, said the resolution calls on the council to periodically review existing occupation-

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State, I’ll make sure the Legislature is armed with the necessary information to properly regulate occupational licenses.

“To maintain our status as the best state in America to do business in, we must make sure occupational licenses protect the public from harm and Curt Yeomans fraud and are not keeping otherwise qualified people out of these jobs.” al licenses that are meant Brockway’s coto curtail over-regulation. sponsors on the resoluThat function is retion were Reps. Michael quired by law, he said.

Caldwell, R-Woodstock, “The Georgia OccupaSam Teasley, R-Marietta, tional Regulation Review and Dan Gasaway, RCouncil exists to help the Homer. Former Reps.

Legislature make sure Regina Quick and Geoff occupational licensing Duncan, who stepped regulations do not present down after the 2017 legan unnecessary burden on islative session, had also license holders,” Brockbeen co-sponsors when it way said. “As Secretary of was introduced.

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Former attorney general, ex-Kennesaw State president takes job at Dentons After a stint as Kennesaw State University’s president, former Attorney General Sam Olens has a new job that puts him back in the law profession.

Global law firm Sam Olens Dentons, announced this past week that Olens will be joining its Public Policy practice

and its State and Local Government Affairs team.

Olens was chairman of the Cobb County commission before he was elected as attorney general in 2010.

“Sam will be an asset to our clients who are seeking thoughtful and innovative solutions in navigating the intersection of law, business and government,” said Sharon Gay, managing partner of Dentons’ Atlanta office. “His connectivity in the legal, political and business communities is precisely what our clients in Atlanta and across the

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Olens left the attorney general’s office in late 2016 when he was appointed president of Kennesaw State University.

His tenure there did not last long and he resigned a little over a year after he began following criticism of his handling of students exercise of free speech.

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January, right after New Year’s, or in late spring. the point where, over the I understand what they’re years, we’ve come to know doing: trying get in shape, some of them on a firsteither to fulfill a resolution name basis. or look better in a swimsuit.

Then there are the folks Unfortunately, few of them we see once or twice and persist, much less sucnever again. They’re the ceed — and I suspect that’s ones who a) are attemptconnected to the tortured ing to jog, and b) wear an grimace. expression that can best Don’t get me wrong. I be described as a tortured see lots of people happily grimace. The best time to running at the park day after spot these folks is in early day, week after week. Most

are young(ish) and in exceptionally good shape.

Heck, I used to be one of them, back when I too was young(ish). I ran for years, at Mulberry and elsewhere, until chronic back pain (not to mention knee, ankle and hip pain) forced me to face facts. In other words, my chiropractor told me to stop running.

“But how will I stay in shape?” I asked.

“Walk,” he said, and he

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went on to explain that, in terms of exercise, walking 5 miles is just as good as running 5 miles. It just takes longer.

Maybe that’s not entirely true. I imagine there are benefits one can gain only from running 5 miles, such as the ability to run 5 miles.

No doubt, running is also a superior form of aerobic exercise.

That said, you don’t have to run to get in shape.

Walking at a brisk pace, especially over moderately hilly terrain, can help you lose weight, build strength and improve cardiovascular health. It’s also easier on your joints, which undergo far less pounding.

Best of all, walking doesn’t feel nearly as much like physical torture, especially for those new to strenuous exercise. That means you’re much less likely to quit after a day or

two.

So if you want to get in shape for summer, head to your nearest Gwinnett park.

Just walk, don’t run.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and college professor. He is the author of four books, including “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. The views expressed here are his own.

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The GOP tax reform now popular WASHINGTON — When the Republican-controlled Congress first approved its tax bill in December, most Democrats believed it would be a political loser for the GOP. Indeed, a New York Times poll found that just 37 percent of Americans approved of the plan. “To pass a bill of tax cuts and have it be so unpopular with the American people is an amazing achievement for the Republicans — it’s never been done before,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., crowed.

He’s not crowing Marc any more. In JanuThiessen ary, support had risen to 46 percent, and this week it reached a 51 percent majority. Meanwhile, disapproval has dropped from 57 percent in December to 45 percent this week. That is a swing of 26 points.

Why the change? Because taxes are personal. The tax bill is extremely complicated, and when it was passed, many Americans were confused about how it would affect them. A December poll found that only 17 percent believed they would pay less in taxes, while 32 percent thought they would pay more. In fact, about 80 percent of taxpayers will receive a tax cut this year averaging about $2,100, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

For the middle class, an even larger share benefit: More than 90 percent of taxpayers in the middle income quintile will receive a tax cut.

It is taking time for voters to figure this out. In 2001, when President George W. Bush passed his across-the-board tax cuts, his message was simple: Every American who pays taxes will get a tax cut. But in 2017, Republicans overhauled more of the entire tax code. They cut tax rates and doubled the standard deduction but also eliminated many traditional deductions for those who itemize. As a result, a lot of taxpayers didn’t know whether they would end up winners or losers.

Now, more Americans are starting to discover that they are winners. Millions are starting to receive their Trump tax cuts as employers lower their tax withholdings, leaving more money in their paychecks.

And the bill will become more popular as more people learn the good news. Even now, only one-third of Americans think they will see an income tax cut. Many voters are going to be pleasantly surprised when they discover their taxes are being reduced thanks to President Trump and Republican lawmakers. And that does not take into account the bonuses and raises that many Americans are receiving from their employers because of the corporate tax cuts — or the wage increases they will get from the economic growth that tax reform unleashes in the months and years ahead.

When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., dismissed these tax savings as “crumbs,” she came off as an elitist.

A couple thousand dollars a year may be crumbs to a San Francisco multimillionaire, but to most hard-working Americans that is real money. Indeed, Pelosi is getting slammed by her fellow Democrats for her out-of-touch response. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., warned that “language is important” and “we cannot be seen as patricians,” while Joseph Crowley, DN.Y., a member of the House Democratic leadership, said, “I think for people making $40,000 a year, any increase in their takehome is significant for them.”

Democrats are in a bind because they voted against that increase in take-home pay. The growing public support for tax reform is especially a problem for the five vulnerable Senate Democrats running for re-election in states that Trump won by double digits. All of them will have a hard time explaining why they sided with the “resistance” and opposed giving their constituents a tax cut.

The success is already bolstering GOP candidates. In North Dakota, a state Trump won by 36 points, the success of the tax bill has drawn Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp a strong challenger in Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer. Just last month, Cramer had announced that he was not going to run. Why did he change his mind? The Post reports that one reason was Cramer’s belief that Heitkamp’s vote against the tax bill was “fatal” for her.

Expect to see a lot of other GOP challengers — and purple-state voters — come to the same conclusion.

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UGA salute to Billy Payne brings back fond memories There are few people I admire more than William Porter Payne. In a fit of pique during my days at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, I told an associate that I was ready to whip somebody’s butt the next time anybody criticized Payne, the organization’s founder and CEO. My associate found that commendable but reminded me that Billy Payne was 10 years younger, a hard-nosed football player at the University of Georgia and someone who, no doubt, could take care of himself. Besides, my associate confided, I probably couldn’t whip a bowl of cream on a good day, let alone defend someone in combat. OK, maybe that was so, but it’s the thought that counts.

I remembered that story when I read that the University of Georgia will name its new $30 million indoor football facility for Billy Payne and his late father, Porter Payne, who himself was an outstanding all-SEC player at UGA and team captain in 1949. That is an outstanding decision on the part of my alma mater.

I backed into my relationship with Billy. I had an established career as a vice president at BellSouth Corporation and a reputation for successfully dealing with tricky external issues. Nowhere do they get

people ever get to participate in something as exciting as the Olympic Games? My recommendation upon arriving at ACOG was to drop Olympic golf in 1996.

It would require too many resources for too long to defend, and perhaps taint, everything Dick else we would be trying to do Yarbrough in showcasing the South to the world.

(Irony of ironies, Payne later trickier than in Olympic Games became chairman of Augusta planning.

National and is credited with Billy Payne had talked the helping opening the club to poohbahs in the International women and promoting an inOlympic Committee to include ternational appeal for the game golf as an Olympic sport in of golf. Campbell later became 1996, with the competition to mayor of Atlanta and ended up be held at Augusta National, in the federal pokey for tax evahome of the venerable Masters sion. God is good.)

Tournament.

It also became obvious to me An Atlanta city councilman that Billy was being underestinamed Bill Campbell, who I mated and undermined at every later told the Washington Post turn by a bunch of incompetent could make a racial issue out buffoons in city government, a of a lima bean (still one of my nervous-nelly business comfavorite quotes), was raising a munity and a provincial media furor over holding an Olymthat enjoyed taking ungracious pic event at such a privileged digs at him, rather than hold the facility. Billy, as is the wont of city’s feet to the fire. defensive ends, wasn’t about to What Billy Payne got with budge. An international incident me was not only somebody with was brewing, much to the con- a little walking-around knowlsternation of the IOC and to the edge of dealing with external delight of the media. issues but also a guy who was I was asked to join the commore than willing to take on mittee and get involved in the this small-minded bunch, one at issue. After much debate and a time or all at once, and keep hand-wringing, I decided to take him above the fray. This I did the plunge. After all, how many with great relish. He had made a

believer out of this old corporate cynic that there was an inherent goodness in the Olympic movement. He deserved to enjoy the fruits of his labors. I would take the heat.

One of my prouder moments was walking behind him one day as he was briefing the chairman of the upcoming 2000 Games in Sydney. “One of the first things you need,” he said, “is to get you a mean SOB.” Pointing over his shoulder, he said, “That’s mine.”

After the Games, our paths diverged. His to Augusta National where he served as chairman until his recent retirement and mine to these pages some 2,000 columns ago. We did cross paths briefly at the 20th anniversary of the Centennial Olympic Games a couple years ago.

Even in the long absence, I still consider Billy Payne my friend. I am honored to have known him and to have worked with him. And I hope he still considers me his favorite SOB. On the credenza in my office sits a photograph of the two of us with the inscription: “The Bulldog Brothers.” Amen to that.

You can reach Dick Yarbrough at dick@dickyarbrough. com; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, GA 31139 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ dickyarb.

We need another Billy Graham I had been waiting for the news. After all, none of us live on this Earth forever. The key here is “on this Earth,” because the news I had been waiting for was that of the earthly demise of the Rev. Bill Graham, whom I believe to be one of the most influential men of the 20th and 21st centuries.

He spoke with presidents and kings and queens and never changed his message or his beliefs to cater to any of them.

He stood on the firm rock of Jesus Christ and offered love and hope and salvation to the whole world without bending his principles.

How does that song go?

“Southern Voice.” I think it belongs to Tim McGraw. “Smooth as the hickory wind that blows from Memphis down to Apalachicola …”

“Hank Aaron smacked it Michael Jordan dunked it Pocahontas tracked it Jack Daniels drunk it Tom Petty rocked it Dr. King paved it Bear Bryant won it Billy Graham saved it” Bill Graham would be the first to say that he never saved a soul. That job belonged to the Holy Spirit, but goodness gracious did he preach the word and present the Gospel to millions and millions of people, giving the Holy Spirit the

Darrell Huckaby chance to work.

Did you hear that rumor about Bill Graham and the woman he stepped out with? Of course you didn’t, because he never in his entire ministry put himself in a position that could even give conception to such a rumor.

Did you hear about all the funds Billy Graham absconded with? No, you didn’t, because he made sure that the finances of his organization were as transparent as clear clean glass.

I have revered and respected Billy Graham my entire life, from the time my mama sat me down on the linoleum rug of our living room, in front of the tiny space heater that provided warmth for our little mill house and made me watch the young preacher sermonize on our little black and white television set.

Later on, I was smart enough to watch Bill Graham of my own accord and I currently have a whole library of his sermons recorded. When I am in town I

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watch one or two every week.

Even though his hairstyles and clothes and glasses may date the presentations, the lessons themselves are purely Biblical, straight from the Word of God, and though the illustrations may also be a bit dated, the premises upon which he preaches are as true today as in 1959, or 1976 or 2002 or whenever they were recorded.

I’ve read just about every book the great servant of God has written and have read many books about him, most recently “The Preacher and the Presidents,” which goes into great detail about his relationships with and the influence he had upon all the presidents of my lifetime.

When I learned of Graham’s passing on Wednesday morning, I went online to see what people were saying about him.

I was heartened to find eloquent passages about his service and influence from such disparate personalities as Kathie Lee Gifford and Barack Obama. But

as I continued to read Twitter blasts on the subject I was shocked — although nothing should shock me in 2018 — to read posts filled with venom and hate. How, I wondered, could so many people slander this great man.

Upon further review, I realized that these people were slandering the message of God Almighty, not Billy Graham.

I went, as I believe he would have, to the Bible for answers, which I found in Matthew, 10:22: “You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”

If anyone ever stood firm to the end, it was Billy Graham. I hope God sends us another one soon because we sure need one.

As I reflected on his death, I remembered something he once said that has been written and rewritten this week.

“Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead.

Don’t you believe a word of it.

I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.” What a day, glorious day, that is for him. What a glorious day that will be for all of us who heed the message he preached.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County. Email him at dhuck008@gmail.com.

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Haley Arner GIRLS SWIMMER OF THE YEAR

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Collins Hill senior Haley Arner is the Daily Post’s girls swimmer of the year. (Photo: Will Hammock)

Distance freestyler closes career with two state titles

By Will Hammock

Eagles.

“I don’t really think of it that way,” Arner said. “I don’t know. I just think of Haley Arner added a it as I did my best. I don’t couple of state championthink about it as leaving a ships to her long list of legacy.”

Collins Hill achievements The Daily Post girls this season, cementing swimmer of the year’s her status as the best girls coaches and teammates swimmer in the high school don’t mind bragging about program’s history.

Arner, though. And they But it’s hard for her to have plenty to brag about. view her career in terms of Arner leaves Collins her lasting mark with the Hill with seven individual

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records, the 200-yard freestyle (1 minute, 49.04 seconds), 200 individual medley (2:09.11), 100 butterfly (58.83), 500 free (4:49.72) and 100 backstroke (59.69). She was just .05 seconds off the 100 free school record and swam on 200 and 400 free relay teams that set school records.

She also graduates as the first four-time MVP of the Collins Hill girls program,

scoring the most points on the team in each of her high school seasons.

“Haley is the only Collins Hill swimmer or diver, male or female, to score over 1,000 points in her high school career,” Collins Hill coach Paul Callis said. “This list obviously includes some very elite swimmers, but Haley topped them all. This statistic helps highlight her dedication to all of her high

school races. She didn’t miss many dual meets and she always showed up to race.”

She raced her best in her final high school meet, sweeping the distance freestyle championships at the state high school meet. That came on the heels of winning Gwinnett County titles in the 200 and 500 free.

At state, she won the 200 free in 1:49.04 and followed with an auto-

matic All-American time of 4:49.72 in the 500 free.

Both state times lowered her school records and bettered her times from the county meet of 1:50.56 in the 200 free and 4:53.30 in the 500 free.

The two state championships were her first in high school swimming after a career of top finishes at the See ARNER, Page 6B

Jake Magahey BOYS SWIMMER OF THE YEAR

Mill Creek • Sophomore

Titles, records add up to breakout sophomore season

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his sights, breaking the national public high school record of 4:16.39, which was set way back in 1983.

A margin of 0.49 secHe was less than a half onds kept Jake Magahey second away from toppling from a sweep of his goals an American record that this high school swimming was set 18 years before he season. was born.

The Mill Creek sopho“The 500, coming from more was dominant county to state, I thought otherwise, winning GwinI might have a shot at this nett County titles in the national record,” the Daily 200- and 500-yard freestyle Post’s boys swimmer of in record times and claim- the year said. “So that was ing state championships my goal the two weeks in those same two events. after county to state, just He broke the Georgia high focus on seeing what I can school record in the 500 improve in my 500. How free at the state meet in an can I go two seconds faster eye-catching 4 minutes, and get that record? I ended 16.88 seconds. up a half second off, which That swim trimmed I can’t really be mad at. almost two seconds off the But I will say I was a little old mark, held by former bit disappointed after. But a NCAA champion and day after, I got over it. It’s Olympian Matias Koski. still a great time.”

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Mill Creek sophomore Jake Magahey is the Daily Post’s boys swimmer of the year. (Photo: Will Hammock)

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Henderson helped build high school football in Ga. The contributions by high school coaches through the years to our communities have been monumental, and in some cases everlasting.

Coaches traditionally were men and women with a bent for helping kids, working to show them how to master a sport but also to provide leadership which underscored scholarship and citizenship.

It was a man named DeYampert who coached Erk Russell in high school in Birmingham. Erk wrote in his high school annual that it was his ambition to “succeed Mr. DeYampert.”

Any sports fan knows about the rest of the story.

Erk became the beloved defensive coordinator at Georgia and subsequently the head coach at Georgia Southern where he brought about the same emotional rush. All along, Erk followed the same basic principles he learned in his high school years. Play hard, play by the rules and give of yourself to the team.

Those principles work at every level of competition.

Leadership and inspiration do more in high school.

Kids developing physically can benefit from intangibles that allow them to gain an advantage.

High school coaches have often maintained grocery bills beyond enough to feed their families. Someone was always pulling up a chair at mealtime. There was always a player who was in need of a good meal. Then there were those who were passing through town who found it convenient to come visiting at the dinner hour.

To “come out” for football, there were farm boys who could only participate if the coach took them home

and quickness. He was an adroit and canny athlete with gifts that made him excel, in particular, at football and baseball. He was a lettermen on Bulldogs teams from 1946-49, which meant that he was a member of two SEC championship teams.

Not sure about the rules in those years, but college football players were allowed to play minor league baseball.

Billy and his Bulldogs teamafter practice. Hand-memate Chub Jenkins played downs went to kids who Class D baseball for my really needed such — from hometown of Wrightsville. shoes to sweaters to shirts Billy was a base stealing one size too small. marvel. I remember the old Billy Henderson, who timers saying that people went to that great gridiron came to the ballpark just to in the sky last week, was see Billy steal bases. He was one of those coaches who the fastest athlete to perform functioned in that element. in Wrightsville before Al In Billy’s day, coaches were Chamlee (played for Paul Dialways accompanied by aus- etzel at LSU) and Herschel terity. Money, however, was Walker.

Billy was an “Old Man not a priority. You wanted to take care of your family, but River” type who seemed it was the emotional rewards ageless for the longest time.

In my mind’s eye, I can see that were the conduit to fulhim, his crew cut suggesting fillment in the profession. that he would never grow old Seeing a kid segue from — jogging down Milledge awkwardness to fluidity, Avenue in the middle of the learning how to compete day. and succeed at sport is an In Henderson’s career, enduring emotional reward which started at Willingham for coaches. Seeing a colin Macon and extended to lection of kids submit to the Clarke Central in Athens, he greater goals of the team by subordinating their personal won state championships, he was blessed with promoobjectives is something a tional genius (most notably coach savors all his days. founding the Athens Hall Coaches, like Billy of Fame), and he preached Henderson, will all tell you selflessness and goodwill to that one must have the best athletes to win the big prize, his kids. He always did right but I’ve never known a coach by them, which made him who did not harbor affection and his times memorable for the kid and the team that for so many. His lifetime in coaching was well spent. succeeded with heart.

Loran Smith is co-host Billy was a gifted athlete of “The Tailgate Show” who was familiar with the and sideline announcer glory of the best of times at for Georgia football. He is Georgia, the Trippi years, after World War II. Billy was also a freelance writer and columnist. blessed with speed-a-foot

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Focus on history for Gwinnett’s remaining teams

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the state’s largest classification and five in the last six years. Twice in The further along the that run, they’ve beaten GHSA’s state basketball the Blue Devils in the title tournament progresses, game, with a third victory the more history comes over Norcross in the state into play for the teams semifinals. still playing in it.

In fact, the last state That includes the the girls champions over bulk of the nine Gwinnett the last eight years have County teams still alive been either Norcross or as the tournament moves McEachern, and the Blue into the quarterfinal round Devis do have a finals in each classification victory over the Indians Tuesday and Wednesday. in 2011.

For teams like the boys However, the more teams from Norcross, recent history favors Grayson and Greater McEachern, something Atlanta Christian and the Norcross interim coach girls teams from Collins Dani Wright says her Hill, Buford and Wesplayers are well aware of, leyan, the focus will be and want to reverse. simply on maintaining “They’ve beaten us recent history. twice for the championAll of those teams have ship since I’ve been here,” made it to the state Final Wright said after the Blue Four at least once in the Devils’ second-round win last five seasons, with the over South Forsyth. “So I Buford (Class AAAAA) know the girls will be up and Wesleyan (Class A fro that one.”

(Private)) girls having If the Norcross girls won a state title just last have extra motivation for year. their Elite Eight game, the Meanwhile, the NorGAC girls have at least as cross and GAC girls also much, if not more, when fit into that category, their they host Beach (27-2) at main objectives will be the Long Forum at 6 p.m to change recent history, on Tuesday. and for the Meadowcreek Aside from a strong boys, the task is to make desire to keep their hopes history. of getting back to the The Blue Devils (26-3) Final Four for the third and Spartans (23-4) will straight season and finally be out to exorcise some get over the hump to the demons, of sorts, when title game, the Spartans they host their respective are hopeful to gain a Elite Eight games in Class measure of payback from AAAAAAA and AAA last year’s overtime loss respectively. to Beach in Savannah that Norcross will welcome including the controversy McEachern (21-5) to the of an error in the official House of Blue as the front scorebook that would end of a doubleheader have given them the vicwith the Norcross boys’ tory in regulation. quarterfinal showdown Most of the players with nationally-ranked who endured that nightMcEachern on Wednesmare are back this year, day. and head coach Lady The Indians have won Grooms admits that while the last four state titles in it can sometimes be det-

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Collins HIll’s Jada Rice (23) blocks the shot of North Gwinnett’s Malia Fisher’s (13) during a Region 6-AAAAAAA girls semifinal game at Mountain View in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

rimental in a rematch situtaion to dwell too much on the past, she doesn’t mind her Spartans getting a little extra motivational boost against the visiting Bulldogs.

“It’s extra motivation for me, too,” Grooms said. “It’s not a negative.

In competition, you’re always looking for an angle. I’m sure (Beach coach Olufemi Gordon) is using (the fact) we have four Division I signees.

“I told our kids we want this to be ‘Redemption Tuesday.’ (Last year) was unfortunate because we went to overtime without our star player. … But we don’t blame anyone but ourselves. We didn’t play well. So (Tuesday) is going to be fun to play.

And playing at home is a blessing.”

Meanwhile, Meadowcreek’s boys (22-6) motivation is simply to make history.

The Mustangs’ home

game against Campbell (20-9) will be just the second time the program has made it to the state quarterfinals, and the first since 2006.

Given the history made by the school’s boys soccer team with a state title last spring and the football team with its first postseason appearance in more than two decades in the fall, a trip to the Final Four would continue a remarkably strong calendar year for the Meadowcreek sports program.

And coach Curtis Gilleylen says that opportunity is not lost on his players.

“They are aware of the history, and they want to make their mark and leave a legacy,” Gilleylen said.

“I feel like overall, they just keep on getting better.

We’re looking at how we can improve and focus on us no matter who we play.

If we do that, I can live with whatever happens.”

Hendrick drivers search for speed NASCAR Wire Service

HAMPTON — If Friday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying is any indication, Hendrick Motorsports has work to do.

Of the 34 drivers who posted times in the knockout sessions, Daytona 500 pole winner Alex Bowman was 18th fastest, and that was the best performance among the four HMS entries.

Seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson qualified 22nd, followed by rookie of the year contender William Byron in 23rd and Chase Elliott in 27th.

Asked what he and his team missed in preparation for the time trials, Elliott had a succinct answer.

“Everything, I think,” he said. “Some days you do, and some days you don’t, and we didn’t today. So, I don’t know. We were way off — not even close.

“So, I don’t really have much of an excuse for it.

We just didn’t hit it right today, and we’ll go to work tonight and work through it and hopefully get ready for (Saturday’s practice). It’s our only option now.”

On the other hand, qualifying was a relative success for Kasey Kahne, who landed a ride in the Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet after Byron took over Kahne’s former seat at Hendrick. Kahne failed to advance to the final round of qualifying by a mere .074 seconds and will start 14th in Sunday’s

Stripers’ staff preps for soccer pitch conversion

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worry about, after Daytona, you get down to Atlanta and get to some of these mile-and-a-halves, and you wonder where you’re going to be. You’ve had a competitor (Chevrolet) get a new body this year, so you worry about that. There are a lot of unknowns as you go into the season off of a long offseason like we’ve had, but to have all four Stewart-Haas Fords in the top 11 and NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Kevin Harvick (98) cel- making that final round is ebrates winning the Rinnai 250 at Atlanta Motor Speed- very, very good for everyway. (Photo: Adam Hagy-USA Today Sports) body involved.

“I have to thank the aero Folds of Honor QuikTrip Stewart-Haas drivers guys and the engine guys, 500 at Atlanta Motor will have leg up everybody that makes up Speedway.

Ford drivers don’t have Stewart-Haas. It’s so fun “We picked up in the a new car to decipher this to have a group like that second round, which I year — as the Chevrolet that’s all racers. They all thought was nice,” Kahne camp does with the Caget it. They know the task said. “It’s tough to do. maro ZL1 — but Stewart- at hand, and they all just I don’t feel great, but I Haas Racing did just fine get in there and get it done, doubt anybody does on with a familiar platform and it’s fun to see. There’s this surface. But it’s been in Friday’s qualifying ses- no oddballs at that place. an interesting day just try- sion.

Everybody fits in, and eving to understand.

With Atlanta maven erybody chips in, and it’s a “It’s a different car and Kevin Harvick leading the lot of fun to see.” a lot of different things way from the third position Short Strokes going on. We’re trying to on the grid, all four SHR Georgia native David understand that. Working drivers will start from the Ragan will make his 400th with the guys has been top 11 spots in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR good, but we have a long Folds of Honor QuikTrip Cup Series start on Sunday. way to go. So we’ll keep 500, the second Monster “I can remember watchafter it.”

Energy NASCAR Cup Se- ing from a condo building Undoubtedly, the ries race of the season and in the summer of 1996 Hendrick drivers feel the first without restrictor as they reconfigured this the same way. They just plates on the engines. place and just dreaming have farther to go after a Harvick’s teammates — of watching a race here,” qualifying session that saw Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer Ragan said. “I remember only one of their cars earn and Aric Almirola — will my Bandolero and Lega spot in the front half of start nose-to-tail on the ends Car days, where I just the field. inside row from seventh, basically lived here at the Johnson was sixth fast- ninth and 11th respecrace track during the summer months and we raced est in final practice on Sat- tively. To Bowyer, the a lot. For me to be able to urday, but his teammates organization’s excellent continued to struggle. performance in time trials start in one NASCAR race was a really big deal, but Bowman was 17th in represents a validation of to make 400 Cup races is Happy Hour, followed by their efforts. something I really never Byron in 26th and Elliott “That’s a good start,” in 28th.

Bowyer said. “You always thought about.”

Coolray Field might be hardly recognizable to the ballpark’s regulars in 2018.

The former Gwinnett Braves, now rebranded as the Gwinnett Stripers, are replacing the traditional red associated with the MLB parent club and some of its minor league affiliates with “Striper Green.” The giant neon sign mounted on the side of the stadium’s office building that faces northeast toward state Route 20 is obscured by a Gwinnett Stripers banner draped over it.

Then, on 17 days from March 24 to Oct. 13, the diamond will be transformed into a soccer pitch to accommodate Coolray Field’s newest tenant, United Soccer League expansion team Atlanta United 2. One of the pitch’s sidelines will be shared with the third-base/ left-field line, while one goal line will run the span of the first-base line.

It’s not uncommon for USL teams to host home matches on soccer fields.

The Harrisburg City Islanders, Louisville City FC, Reno 1868 FC and Tulsa Roughnecks FC all played on baseball fields in 2017. USL veterans like second team defender A.J. Cochran don’t lose sleep over playing half of the season at Coolray, and he even suspects it could be an advantage at some points during the season.

Defender Jack Metcalf has expressed his confidence in the Coolray Field turf management staff to create a functional, level pitch that will not disrupt the natural flow of home matches.

His confidence is mirrored by Stripters Sports Turf Manager McClain Murphy — Mac, to his colleagues — who is ready to seize the novel challenge of converting the field.

“It’s different,” he said.

“This is the first time we’ve ever done an outside event that wasn’t either baseball, softball or a concert. It’s a whole ‘nother dynamic, a whole ‘nother sport. I’m not familiar with it to the point I’ve never played, it’s going to be fun though.

It’s going to be unique for fans to come out, see the remnants of a baseball field and see a soccer field when they watch Atlanta United 2 play.”

ATL UTD 2 will play on 419 bermudagrass, the same grass the Stripers trample in the outfield at Coolray Field. Murphy and the turf management staff work with a Gwinnett County-based company called Precision Turf that will supply new rols of sod for each conversion. The rolls of turf will be approximately 40 feet long and will cover any dirt on the infield, warning track and slivers of foul territory. The pitcher’s mound will be uninstalled for each ATL UTD 2 match.

The mound is dug out, the hole is leveled with sand and sod is placed on top.

Turf management will grade the grass levels down to fractions of inches to accurately match the sod patches flush with the outfield grass for, ideally, a seamless a transition.

“There will be a few little differentiations from a normal, flat field — coming on the infield will be a little different — but you’re talking less than one-quarter of an inch of fall, one way or another,” Murphy said.

The biggest challenge, Murphy said, may not have revealed itself and will require a trial run to

become apparent. Finding the precise grade could take repetition to perfect over the course of the season, but field management staff size, cooperation between the two clubs and weather are all variables that could affect the transition.

While rain would postpone or delay a Gwinnett Stripers game, ATL UTD 2 will play through any damp weather, baring the conditions aren’t deemed dangerous to players or fans. There will be no tarp to protect the infield while ATL UTD 2 plays.

“They’re going to play like normal, and the water should drain,” Murphy said.

“We have a fantastic draining system, so the water should drain during that window of play. We haven’t done this before, so if it is raining during a conversion, we’ll figure it out as it comes.”

Fortunately, the Stripers’ season will not start until 13 days after ATL UTD 2’s first home match, allowing staff to eas into the first conversion. The Stripers’ schedule usually provides at least two-days’ buffer before and after a scheduled Atlanta united match before the baseball team requires the field to be converted. In some cases, the soccer team plays two home matches during a Stripers road trip.

ATL UTD 2 is scheduled to play at Penn FC and Tampa Bay Rowdies during the International League playoffs and the Triple-A championship series if Gwinnett should advance.

ATL UTD 2 closes out its regular season with seven home matches from Sept.

21 to Oct. 13.

Residents of Gwinnett County who are also MLS fans might be excited the Five Stripes brand is sprawling into the Northeast suburbs, but it’s a trek for players and management, who train and work out of the club’s training ground and offices in Marietta.

USL requires affiliates to host home matches in stadiums that seat at least 5,000 people, so sharing a stadium was essentially inevitable. Kennesaw State’s Fifth Third Bank Stadium met those seating requirements but accommodates college football, soccer and lacrosse as well as the Atlanta Blaze Major League Lacrosse team.

Atlanta United management also considered establishing the Atlanta United brand in the Charleston, S.C., market, given the relationship between ATL UTD’s former USL affiliate, the Charleston Battery, for the past two years.

Gwinnett County provided both proximity for athletes and better access to professional soccer under the Atlanta United brand for fans North of Atlanta in Forsyth, Hall and Habersham counties, and the precedent of field conversion in USL convinced the soccer club to settle in Lawrenceville.

“Fundamentally, it’s all about our fans,” Atlanta United VP of Business Operations Catie Griggs said. “We have thousands of season ticket holders for Atlanta United in Gwinnett County. We know when we look at the ZIP codes where our fans reside, we have a sizeable base in that area.

“We’re both (Atlanta United and Gwinnett Stripers) going to learn over the course of the season, and we’ll get stronger (and cooperate) with what makes the most sense. They’ve been good partners, and I hope we’ve been good partners.”

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Prep Schedule

Monday

BASEBALL

5:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Shiloh 5:30 P.M. — Central at Duluth 6 p.m. — Tucker at Norcross

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Brookwood at Meadowcreek 5:30 p.m. — Grayson girls at Lambert 5:30 p.m. — North girls at Gainesville 5:30 p.m. — North Oconee boys at Duluth 5:30 p.m. — Parkview girls at Norcross 6 p.m. — Duluth girls at North Forsyth 6 p.m. — Northview girls at Archer 7:30 p.m. — Mill Creek girls at Johns Creek 7:45 p.m. — Mill Creek boys at Lambert

TENNIS

3:30 p.m. — Grayson at South 3:30 p.m. — Parkview at GAC 4 p.m. — Norcross and Peachtree Ridge at Sugarloaf 4 p.m. — Pinecrest Academy at Wesleyan Tuesday

BASEBALL

5 p.m. — Chamblee at GAC 5 p.m. — Hebron at Collins Hill 5:30 p.m. — Loganville at Archer 5:30 p.m. — Social Circle at South 6 p.m. — Buford at Lassiter 6 p.m. — Parkview at Mill Creek

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Parkview at Peachtree Ridge 5:30 p.m. — Dacula at East Paulding 5:30 p.m. — Mountain View boys at Archer 7 p.m. — Cambridge girls at North 7 p.m. — Collins Hill girls at Mountain View 7:30 p.m. — Collins Hill boys at North Forsyth 7:45 p.m. — Milton boys at Grayson

SOCCER

5 p.m. — Weber at Providence 5 p.m. — Westminster at GAC 5:30 p.m. — Archer at Loganville 5:30 p.m. — Collins Hill at North Oconee 5:30 p.m. — Decatur at Buford 5:30 p.m. — Discovery at Berkmar 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at St. Pius 5:30 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Tucker 5:30 p.m. — Mill Creek at Hebron 5:30 p.m. — North at Parkview 5:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Brookwood 5:30 p.m. — South at Norcross 5:30 p.m. — Wesleyan at Riverwood 5:45 p.m. — Mountain View at Creekview

TENNIS

3:15 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Mountain View 3:30 p.m. — Central at Brookwood 3:30 p.m. — Collins Hill at Mill Creek 3:30 p.m. — Grayson and Newton at Bay Creek Park 3:30 p.m. — Lanier at Winder-Barrow 3:30 p.m. — Discovery at North 3:30 p.m. — Parkview at Norcross 3:30 p.m. — Shiloh and Archer at Rhodes Jordan 4 p.m. — Buford at Wesleyan 4 p.m. — Prince Ave. girls at Hebron

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UGA puts up season high vs. LSU

By Field Level Media Yante Maten scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Georgia compiled a season-high point total in a 93-82 win over LSU in an SEC game Saturday afternoon in Athens.

Maten, the leading scorer in the SEC with an average of 19.3 points per game, made 10 of 14 shots. Norcross grad Rayshaun Hammonds added 21 points, Juwan Parker scored 15 and Derek Ogbeide had 10 points and 10 rebounds.

The Bulldogs (16-12, 7-9 SEC) completed a season sweep of the Tigers. They rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to beat LSU 61-60 on Jan. 16 in Baton Rouge, La., as Maten scored the winning basket with 5.7 seconds remaining.

Tremont Waters scored 25 points to lead the Tigers (16-12, 7-9). Skylar Mays added 20 and Daryl Edwards scored 11.

Georgia led by 11 points at halftime and started the second half with an 11-0 run that ended with consecutive 3-pointers by Teshaun Hightower and Parker.

Wayde Sims’ layup ended the Tigers’ scor-

Georgia Bulldogs forward Yante Maten (1) is fouled while shooting by LSU Tigers guard Randy Onwuasor (14) during the second half at Stegeman Coliseum. (Photo: Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

ing drought and Waters scored five points as LSU trimmed the deficit to 60-43.

Jackson made a 3-pointer before the Tigers got within 65-51 on a layup

by Brandon Sampson.

Hammonds responded with a 3-point play for the Bulldogs and Maten added a free throw.

Waters’ 3-pointer cut the lead to 69-54, but back-to-back baskets by Maten and Hammonds pushed the lead back to 19 with 8:34 left.

Mays’ 3-pointer got the Tigers within 15 with six minutes left, but Nicolas Claxton’s basket and Hammonds’ 3-pointer gave Georgia an 81-61 lead with 4:56 left.

The Bulldogs’ lead didn’t shrink to fewer than nine points the rest of the way.

Maten scored nine points as Georgia built a 24-17 lead.

Sampson made one 3-pointer and Waters made two as LSU pulled even at 28 before the Bulldogs

scored six straight points.

After Waters made a free throw, Georgia extended the lead to 45-34 at halftime as Ogbeide made a tip-in just before the buzzer ending the half.

The Bulldogs finished with a 17-6 run to complete their highestscoring first half of the season. They had a 29-15 rebounding edge and blocked eight shots.

Georgia hosts Texas A&M on Wednesday. LSU visits South Carolina on Wednesday.

Clemson hands Tech 7th straight loss

By Field Level Media Gabe DeVoe scored 25 points as No. 15 Clemson defeated Georgia Tech 75-67 on Saturday in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Littlejohn Coliseum at Clemson, S.C. The victory snapped a three-game losing streak for the Tigers and inched Coach Brad Brownell’s team closer to securing its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2011.

Clemson improved to 21-7 overall, including a 10-6 record in ACC play.

The Tigers are in fourth place in the league standings.

Georgia Tech slipped to 11-18, 4-12 with its seventh consecutive loss. Yellow Jackets coach Josh Pastner had never lost more than three games in a row prior to this season.

Clemson junior point guard Shelton Mitchell, who had missed the Tigers’ last two games while recovering from a concussion, scored 14 points.

Clemson Tigers guard Gabe DeVoe (10) goes in for the layup while being defended by Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets center Ben Lammers (44) during the second half at Littlejohn Coliseum. (Photos: Joshua S. Kelly-USA Today Sports)

Guard Marcquise Reed and center Elijah Thomas added 13 points apiece as the Tigers secured their third 10-win ACC campaign since the adoption

of an 18-game league schedule six years ago.

Sophomore guard Josh Okogie finished with 22 points for Georgia Tech while Tadric Jackson had

13 and Ben Lammers 11.

Clemson led by as many as nine points midway through the first half, but Georgia Tech’s Jackson made three consecutive 3-pointers to spark a 16-5 run that gave the Yellow Jackets their first lead of the game at 26-24.

Georgia Tech held a 37-33 halftime lead. Okogie scored 17 first-half points on 6 of 6 shooting while also grabbing seven rebounds.

The Yellow Jackets opened the second half with a 7-0 run to push their lead to 11 and still held an 11-point edge 5847 with 10 minutes left, but sparked by DeVoe and Mitchell, Clemson went on a 22-3 run over the next nine minutes to take control.

DeVoe, who had made just 2 of 14 from 3-point range in the Tigers’ last two games, went 4 of 7 from beyond the arc.

Clemson has two regular-season games remaining — Wednesday against Florida State and Saturday at Syracuse.

Tiger posts first sub-70 round since ’15 Field Level Media

week but needed 29 putts as he narrowly missed numerTiger Woods tapped in ous good birdie looks. on the 18th hole Saturday “For some reason, the for his first birdie on a par-5 sight lines fit me here,” this week to card a 1-under Woods said. “I feel very round of 69 during the third comfortable here, and I’m round of the Honda Classic used to playing in this wind. at PGA National in Palm That’s the way it is every Beach Gardens, Fla. day here. The hard part has It was Woods’ first sub-70 been trying to get the ball in round in more than 900 the hole.” days in an official PGA Woods opened with seven Tour event, dating back to consecutive pars before a 2015. He is even par for the birdie on the par-4 eighth tournament and was seven hole. He got to 2-under for shots off the lead when he the round with a birdie on finished his round.

No. 13 and was only four “That’s a long time, isn’t shots off the lead when he it? Geez, that’s a long time,” reached the infamous “Bear Woods told CBS Sports Trap.” shortly after his round when Woods pulled his tee informed of how long it had shots left on two par-3s been since he had posted a — the 15th and 17th holes round in the 60s. “Today, — and was unable to get even though I shot 69, it was up and down for par. He probably the highest score dropped back to 1-over enI could have shot today. I tering the final hole. Woods really hit it good.” made a bold decision to go Driving the ball more for the green in two from consistently than he has thus a bunker left of the 18th far this year, Woods hit nine fairway. He put his approach of 14 fairways and 13 of 18 left of the green and nearly greens. He has the closest chipped in for eagle. proximity to the hole on ap“At least I’ve put myself proach shots in the field this there where I’ve got a shot

Tiger Woods watches his drive off the 18th tee during the third round of The Honda Classic golf tournament at PGA National (Champion). (Photo: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports)

tomorrow,” Woods said.

“I’m going to have to shoot something under par, for sure. You just never know

what can happen the final few holes here. A lot of things can happen, they have happened in the past.

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Archer boys win home track meet

By Scott Smith

agreed that it’s a good investment that benefits the school and it helps Archer track build its program.”

LAWRENCEVILLE From a team stand— Most early meets in point, the Archer boys the track and field season had a stellar day and took feature two or three teams first place with 89 points. squaring off in an effort The Tigers had 15 difto ease into the competi- ferent athletes place, led tion. by a pair of first-place But it was a differfinishes from James ent scene on Saturday Cragin in the 1,600 run afternoon at Archer High (4:24.48) and 3,200 run School as 30 teams with (9:28). some of the top talent in Chidi Okebalama the Southeast gathered to also took first in the 110 compete in the Zaxby’s hurdles at 14.84 seconds, Archer Invitational. while Walter Klima added The corporate sponsor- second-place finishes in ship was the first in the both the discus (144-7) short history of the event and shot put (49-2). and helped the school “We’ve had a lot of accommodate the large great competition out field, including the adhere with over 30 high dition of a new jumping schools,” Archer co-head pit that helped keep the coach Ethan Kesson said. long jump and triple jump “I love being able to start competitions moving. the season by throwing “I met with coach the kids into the fire to Kasson and coach Shells kind of see what we got. and said this is what we Our goal is to score as can do for you and this is high as we can at state, what you can do for us, but that happens in April, and it’s a good partnerand our season starts now ship,” Zaxby’s Area in January and February.”

Marketing Director Leslie Christopher Mitchell Bowker said. “I met with III helped propel Grayson my supervisors and they to a fifth-place finish by

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winning both the high jump (6-2) and 300 hurdles (39.22) and taking third in the 110 hurdles.

Zachary Jones also ran well in the 200m run for third place at 22.34.

Shiloh also had a good day, scoring points with 10 different athletes, led by a win in the 4x400m relay. Also helping were Elijah Berry and Spencer Vitense, who were second and third respectively in the 800 run, while Derrick Gentry took third in the long jump (20-7.75).

Mountain View also had one winner in Adam Keller, who cleared 13-6 to win the pole vault, while Brookwood (11th place) saw Khalil Hassan and Toju Etiwe tie for second in the long jump at six feet.

Marietta won the girls team title, running away from the field with 93 points, led by three first-place finishes from Sterling Lester in the 100m run, 1,200 run and high jump.

North Springs tallied 71 points for second, while Shiloh came in third at 59.5, led by a win

in the 4x400 relay and a third-place finish from Aweng Mawien (5-4).

Jasmine Jones of Greater Atlanta Christian led the Spartans to a fourth-place spot at 55.5, winning the long jump (18-7.75), taking second in the 100 hurdles (14.29) and third in the 300 hurdles. Nia Brown (third in 100 run) and Danielle Ship (third in high jump) also had a good meet.

Other standouts on the day were Kendall McDaniel of Grayson (10th place) by tying Lester for first in the high jump at 5-6 and Nia McCain of Berkmar, who won the shot put with a heave of 35-5.5.

“A lot of college coaches were here today, so a lot of kids got some exposure,” Archer co-head coach Byron Shells said.

“Some colleges couldn’t be here because they are having their conference championships, but Milesplit.com was here shooting live, so they could get over and check results there. It’s a good, positive experience that benefits these kids.”

of 44-6, and Keith Williams, who won the 400 meters 49.09 seconds.

Meanwhile, Parkview’s girls rode a first-place finish by Skye Gross in the long jump (17-11 1/4) and several other top finishes to tie with St. Pius X for the team championships with 70 points.

Among other Gwinnett teams participating at the meet, South Gwinnett’s boys placed fourth in the

team standings with 66 points.

In the girls team standings, South placed ninth with 40 points, including a first-place finish by the 400 meter relay team of Aniya Outley, Jaedyn Bullock, Nu’mia Thomas and Faith Hill in 51.45, while North Gwinnett placed 13th with 10 points on the strength of a first-place finish by Kelsey Worthington in the pole vault (11-10).

Host Panther boys, girls defend track From Staff Reports Buoyed by several first-place individual finishes, host Parkview’s boys and girls had big performances in the team standings at the Parkview Invitational track and field meet Saturday at the Big Orange Jungle.

Led by a pair of firstplace finishes from Justin Long in the 100-(10.71 seconds) and 200-meter (21.64), the boys rolled

up 133 team points to run past runner-up St. Pius X (86) and Westminster (73.5) for the team title.

Also winning individual events for the Panther boys were Brandon Harvey, who tied for first with Apalachee’s Harry Malik Wiggins for the high jump title at 6-feet even, Brian Hauch, who cleared 15-0 1/4 feet to win the pole vault, Malik Thompson, who won the triple jump with a leap

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Hot weekend for softball, baseball From Staff Reports

side in order in the final inning in GGC’s 9-1 win The No. 7-ranked in Game 1.

Georgia Gwinnett softball The Grizzlies used fourteam extended its winning run first and third innings streak to 12 games with to gain a comfortable lead. a doubleheader sweep of Niki Cook, Aubree Cox Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) and Holly Janco each had and Reinhardt during a two hits and drove in one doubleheader Saturday run for GGC. Kellie Mcafternoon in Waleska.

Grail had a two-RBI since Starter Piper Wagner in the first inning. struck out two batters over The Grizzlies topped four innings and Alexis Reindhardt 11-4 in eight Eisenberg set down the innings in the second half

of the doubleheader.

Baseball No. 17 GGC baseball topped No. 17 Clarke (Iowa) 9-3 to open its Saturday doubleheader at home.

GGC starting pitcher Hunter Dollander dealt eight strikeouts over 6.1 IP and allowed two earned runs on eight hits and one walk.

The Grizzlies scored two runs in the first and

added insurance on solo homers from Brandon Frazier and Christ Jones in the second and third innings. The Grizzlies stretched their lead to seven runs with a four-run the fourth inning. John Collins and Joey Dodson both had two hits for GGC. The score Grizzlies’ final game against Faulkner (Ala.) was not reported by press time.

Dillon has a baller in his pit crew

By Holy Cain

me actually,” said Edwards, who last Sunday became the first member As a kid growing up in of NASCAR’s Drive for Baltimore or even a col- Diversity program to be lege student leading the a part of the winning High Point basketball Daytona 500 pit crew is team, Derrell Edwards and believed to be the says he would never first African-American have predicted that his to win the race as an greatest sporting honor over-the-wall crew would be celebrating a member.

Daytona 500 triumph in “Without any backNASCAR racing’s most ground of NASCAR, famous victory lane. it hasn’t sunk in to the “It’s been surreal for point it would if I had

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been a racer all my life.

But as an athlete, I’ve been an athlete all my life so it’s definitely the biggest thing I’ve ever felt.

“I’ve won championships in college and in high school, but this is those things on steroids.”

Edwards and his team are in Hampton this weekend for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speed-

way.

“It’s an exciting feeling and to do it with a special group of guys we have this year, has been just unbelievable, honestly,” Edwards said. “It still hasn’t sunk in fully yet, it’s been sinking in day by day by day. Actually one of the veteran tire changers told me, ‘Honestly, you won’t really understand what you’ve done for another 20 years.’ “

Gold means pink beard for Kelly CNN Newsource

had a chance to get his hair dyed he chickened You have to wonder out. whether US Ski and At the 1999 world Snowboard spokesman championships, snowTom Kelly has pink hair boarder Rosey Fletcher dye on his must-pack list was tinting the hair of before he heads off to the some athletes. At first, Winter Olympics.

Kelly agreed to get his For the third time in hair done, too, but then the past four Games, he backed out — with a Kelly has honored a condition. He told Fletchpink-haired athlete’s er he would dye his hair medal win by dying hair if she reached the podium on his head. at the Olympics.

“For me, it’s a comIn 2006 at Turin, Italy, mitment to our athletes,” she won a bronze in the says Kelly, who has a parallel giant slalom. pink beard thanks to KikAnd the pledge was kan Randall’s gold medal widened to other athletes. in cross-country skiing.

Four years later, moguls The first time Kelly skier Shannon Bahrke

won a bronze in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it was dye time again.

On Saturday, five-time Olympian Randall was the one grinning, posting a photo of her and Kelly to Instagram with the caption: “Be careful when you make bets with people who have pink hair… #medalbet #pinkhair #goodsport.”

Earlier this week, Randall teamed with Jessie Diggins (no, she doesn’t have pink hair) to take gold in the team sprint free and win the United States’ first Olympic medal in women’s cross-

country skiing.

Kelly doesn’t actually bring the dye with him, so found himself at the Olympic Village hair salon on Saturday, FaceTiming his granddaughter, who is a hair stylist, to make sure everything went well. Randall was also next to him, overseeing the operation.

Kelly says the pledge is a way to celebrate and also bring attention to the athletes and their achievements.

Kelly plans to keep the beard — which is gray for almost four years at a time — pink until the dye wears off.

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Banfield homers twice for Broncos From staff reports ATLANTA — Alex Flood notched his second win of the season for Brookwood (4-1) and five Broncos Will Banfield had multihit games in their 13-6 win over Marist.

Will Banfield was 3-for5 and launched two homers and drove in six runs.

Kameron Guidry drove in three runs on three hits, Tim Martin drove in two on three hits and Jaylen Young drove in one on two hits. Will Mize scored twice and went 2-for-2 at the plate.

BASEBALL BASEBALL Mill Creek 2, LaGrange 1 CUMMING — Mill Creek pulled out an eight-inning win over LaGrange at Lambert High School on Saturday.

Zach Green pitched 4 2/3 innings and struck out six batters, allowing three hits and one earned run. Alaska Abney earned the win thanks to his 3 1/3 IP and six strikeouts.

Parker Landua was 2 for 4 with one RBI, and Brenden York was 1 for 3 with a run scored.

North Paulding 10, Mill Creek 1 CUMMING — The Hawks (4-3) wrapped up their double header with a loss to North Paulding.

Brenden York drove in a run on a double and Drew Cadena was 1 for 3 with a run scored.

Grayson 16, Decatur 11 DECATUR —Josh Stinson hit two homers and starting pitcher Kendall Wesson had another in Grayson’s win over Decatur.

Stinson drove in four runs and Wesson drove in three.

Evan Beals had three hits; Ben Scartz, Henry Hunter and Bradley Blalock had two hits.

Redan 10, Grayson 3 DECATUR — Grayson (2-5) starting pitcher Riley Bishop struck out eight batters over 4.1 IP, but took his second loss for the Rams in the second half of their doubleheader.

John Anderson added two hits and drove in two runs.

Mountain View takes a pair LAWRENCEVILLE — Mountain View swept both of its games at the P4 tournament on Saturday. The Bears defeated Jackson County 3-2 and Archer 9-2.

Dylan Schuble threw five innings and allowed four hits and struck out four to earn the win against Jackson County. Gavin Collyer earned the save with two innings where he struck out three. Evan Kimbel hit a key home run in the fifth inning, Jackson Peck added a hit and a run while Chase Chaney contributed a hit and an RBI. Against Archer, Chaney was the winning pitcher by going five innings, allowing three hits and fanning six. Peck hit a two-run home run, Kimbel added a solo home run while Chase Powell scored twice for the Bears (4-0).

Peachtree Ridge splits DACULA — Peachtree Ridge fell to Rockdale County 6-4, but rallied to defeat host Dacula 7-2 in eight innings on Saturday. In the opening loss, Ashton Shepherd had three hits and and RBI while teammate Jack Rasmussen added a hit and scored a run for the Lions (6-2).

Peachtree Ridge scored five times in the top of the eighth against the Falcons to earn the split. Logan Telford earned the win in relief by throwing two and 2/3 innings. Dominick McIntyre had a hit, drove in two runs and stole bases and Matthew Gill added two hits and drove in a run for the Lions.

Discovery splits LAWRENCEVILLE — Discovery defeated Berkmar 12-4 but fell to East Jackson 15-8 on Saturday. Jack Oesterle was the winning pitcher for the Titans against Berkmar. Mark McGuire had three hits, including a home run and drove in three runs while Tyrique Weathers added two hits for Discovery (1-3).

Parkview wins two BUFORD — Parkview defeated Collins Hill 12-1 and Buford 8-4 on Saturday. In the opening win against the Eagles, Miles Garrett was the winning pitcher. Jonathan French had two hits, including a three-run home run and had five RBI.

Stephen Hrustich added three hits and three RBI, Michael Bryant contributed three hits and three runs while Logan Cerny also notched three hits and drove in a run.

Against the host Wolves, Braden Hays was the winning pitcher for the Panthers (3-1).

Hays went four and 2/3 and allowed five hits while striking out four. Bryant hadded four hits and scored twice while Isaiah Bryant added a hit and an RBI. Robert Bennett contributed three hits and drove in a run, while French added another two hits to his totals for the day.

Dacula splits DACULA — Dacula defeated Rockdale County 6-2 but fell to Peachtree Ridge 7-2 in eight innings on Satuday.

Against Rockdale, Jackson Smith threw a complete game and struck out three to earn the win for the Falcons (4-4).

JoJo Lopez and Marcerio Allen each had two hits to lead the offense.

Allen also threw seven innings as the starting pitcher in the second game but received no decision. Smith, Tyler Benton, Alex Ashe and Jarrett Jenkins each had two hits.

Lanier sweeps both in extra innings SUGAR HILL — Lanier needed eight innings in both of its games on Saturday but ended up winning each as the Longhorns defeated Tucker 2-1 and Providence Christian 1-0.

Against Tucker, Zach Murray tossed all eight innings and allowed four hits and struck out 10. Jadyn Jackson had two hits while Cole Kilgore added a hit and two walks for the offense.

In the bottom of the eighth against Providence, with the bases loaded, Kilgore hit a ball to shortstop. Sergio Vargas raced to the plate and scored as the throw sailed over the catcher’s head. Parker Marcantel was the winning pitcher, in relief of Will Hausknect. Marcantel threw three innings and struck out three while Hausknecht started and threw five innings and struck out nine.

Jake Ludwig had two hits for Lanier (3-5).

Wesleyan 13, Riverwood 3 SANDY SPRINGS — The Wolves used a 10-run fourth inning to top Riverwood in the first game of a double head Saturday.

Wyatt Copeland earned the win for Wesleyan with 4 IP, and Cameron Binney closed out the five-inning game with a strikeout through 1 IP. Mark Tucker had two hits and one RBI for Wesleyan.

Wesleyan 7, Walker 2 SANDY SPRINGS — The Wolves (5-0) swept their Saturday afternoon doubleheader with Walker School.

Starter Christopher Lee struck out five batters over 6 IP. Don Daniel was 2 for 3 with a double and London Parks with 1 for 3 with a double and two RBI. Providence Christian splits SUGAR HILL — Providence Christian defeated Tucker 15-8 but fell to host Lanier 1-0 in eight innings on Saturday.

Wesley Anderson notched the win, in relief, for the Storm versus Tucker. Anderson threw three innings and fanned six.

Cole Tillotson had two hits, including a grand slam home run, to lead the offense. Ben Honson had three hits and scored twice while Simon Graf also had two hits and drove in a run.

Lanier scored on an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth to win the nightcap from Providence. Tillotson threw six innings but did not factor into the decision. The tough luck loss went to Luke Matthews.

Tillotson had hit and David Sloan contributed a double for the Storm (4-2).

East Jackson downs local teams LAWRENCEVILLE — East Jackson (5-1), coached by Brookwood grad and longtime Gwinnett assistant Tedd Sims, defeated Discovery 15-8 and Berkmar 10-0 in five innings on Saturday.

GIRLS LACROSSE GIRLS LACROSSE Wesleyan 17, GPS 7 (Tenn.)

CHATTANOOGA — Whitaker Welch and Chloe Hangartner scored five goals and Wesleyan notched its fourth win of the season.

The Wolves’ (4-0) defense was led by Tabitha Conrad and Elise Harper.

GIRLS SOCCER GIRLS SOCCER North Gwinnett 6, James Clemens 2 AUBURN, Ala. — Alexis Cheek led the Bulldogs (4-0-3) with two goals in their victory at the Border Battle on Saturday afternoon.

Presley Phillips, Katie Tatro, Maddie Massoth and Gaby Zapata each had one goal.

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Sexton takes over Huckaby named Buford to host football showcase Hawks’ girls XC Hawks’ girls basketball coach From Staff Reports

By Will Hammock

coach at Duluth, going 73-38 in four seasons. He led the Wildcats to the state After going through the tournament for the first time 2017-18 basketball season in 32 years, took his 2008 with interim co-head coach- team to the state Final Four es, the Mill Creek girls now and led his 2009 team to the have a full-time solution.

Elite Eight.

The Hawks announced He left Duluth to become Friday night that longtime Lanier’s first head girls Gwinnett coach Jeremy basketball coach, a role he Huckaby has been named filled for one season before as the new head of the girls becoming the Longhorns’ program. He spent this head boys coach for the season as an assistant coach next six years. He will with the Mountain View return to coaching girls at boys, and was a head coach Mill Creek, which has a with Lanier and Duluth for tradition of winning. The the previous 11 seasons.

Hawks just made the state “We liked his experitournament for the 12th ence,” Mill Creek athletic time in the last 14 seasons. and activities director Gary “I know we’re only losLong said. “He was very ing one (senior, Bridget confident and very positive Mukasa) to graduation,” that he would continue the Huckaby said of Mill Creek. strong basketball tradition at “I think that’s encouragMill Creek.” ing on a team that made Mill Creek reached the it to the state tournament. state playoffs and finished Other than that, I don’t as Region 6-AAAAAAA know a lot (about personrunner-up with former asnel). I’ve already got some sistants Trisha Collier and film going. We’ll know a lot Tania Washington sharing more soon. … They have a the head coaching duties. great tradition and we hope They accepted the position to build on it. We’ll try to on a one-season basis when play full court, try to play Ashley Phillips, the girls fast, share the ball. I’m just team’s only head coach excited about the possibiliuntil this season, stepped ties in terms of what we can down after the 2016-17 do inside and outside and season. pressure wise.”

Long recently opened up the search for a full-time THE HUCKABY FILE coach and decided on Huck- Name: Jeremy Huckaby aby, who has ties to the area New position: Head girls for more than a decade. basketball coach at Mill “It’s the perfect fit,” Creek Huckaby said. “I’m excited. Former position: Assistant I’ve been in this commuboys basketball coach at nity. I’ve lived here for 11 Mountain View years. My son’s going to be Age: 43 a freshman (at Mill Creek). Education: Graduated My family’s entrenched in from Shiloh High School it. My wife (Kelly) is an in 1993; earned degree in eighth-grade teacher (at interdisciplinary social sciMill Creek feeder Osborne ence education from GeorMiddle). It’s the perfect gia State; earned master’s fit for me and I’m going degree in technology from to work hard to make sure Walden University it’s a perfect fit for the Mill Background: Just completCreek community. … I ed his first season at Mounguess everything works out tain View; previously was for a reason. I was a head at Lanier for seven years, coach the last 11 years, and six as boys head coach and I had a plan to take a couple one as girls head coach; led of years and be an assistant. the Duluth girls program “And I’m really happy for four seasons, taking the where I’m at. Coach (B.J.) Wildcats to the state Final Roy, it’s been awesome be- Four in 2008 and the Elite ing part of Mountain View. Eight in 2009; helped DuBut (Mill Creek) is a great luth break a 32-year streak situation and it was open. of missing the state tournaI talked to my wife and we ment; coached basketball, thought it was a perfect fit baseball and football as an for my family. I think we assistant coach at Grayson can do a lot of good things for six years before taking there.” the Duluth job; played footHuckaby, a Shiloh grad, ball at Shiloh; wife Kelly began his career in educais an eighth grade teacher tion at Grayson, where he at Osborne Middle, which was an assistant in basketfeeds into Mill Creek ball, baseball and football.

Family: Wife Kelly; son He then had a great run as Mason, 14; daughter Kiley, the head girls basketball 9

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Swimmers, divers of the month honored From Staff Reports The Gwinnett County Swim and Dive Booster Club announced its athletes of the month for January this week.

Each Gwinnett County Public Schools program had one boy and one girl selected for the honor.

The winners are as follows: Archer: Dylan Cook, Alyssa McGuffie Berkmar: Michael Stanfield, Charis Stanfield Brookwood: Aidan Stoffle, Tegan Sweeney Central Gwinnett: Nicolas Alarcon, Cordillia Le Collins Hill: Andrew Gautreaux, Nicole Melnik Dacula: Danny Mosaco, Nataly Flamenco Discovery: Kevin Tran, Olivia Gessner

Duluth: Ryan MacKinnon, Tyler Reason Grayson: Bailey Jurick, Abby Fuchs Lanier: Kaden Knudsen, Lilah Davis Meadowcreek: Christian Penaloza, Anette Manjarrez Mill Creek: Jake Magahey, Lainey Lioi Mountain View: Xzavier Reiter, Sarah-Grace Thompson Norcross: Carter Januzelli, Maggie O’Leary North Gwinnett: Sebastian DenBrok, Chantal Jordan Peachtree Ridge: Shwan Ahn, Adajia Leo Parkview: Jackson Atwater, Zoe Walker Shiloh: Ben Koschella, Isabel Arscott South Gwinnett: Alex Gabriel, Mia Williams

Buford’s stadium will be the home of the “Gwinnett vs. The World” high school football showcase Aug. 31, joining Grayson in a doubleheader that was announced officially Friday by event organizers.

Grayson plays the first game against defending New Jersey state champion Bergen Catholic, a powerhouse that finished 39th in USA Today’s 2017 national rankings.

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Buford then faces Deerfield Beach (Fla.) in the nightcap. It’s the second trip to Gwinnett in three seasons for Deerfield Beach, which lost 39-14 to Grayson in 2016.

Grayson went 10-2 last season and lost to eventual Class AAAAAAA state champion North Gwinnett in the second round of the state playoffs. Buford made the state semifinals before falling to eventual Class AAAAA state champion Rome.

season-ending meet. An injury-plagued junior season hindered her chances of winning titles at last year’s meet.

“I was definitely happy,” said Arner, who trains at SwimAtlanta. “One of my big goals since freshman year was to win an event there, so it felt good to do that. Also the Collins Hill girls team had a great year, the best we’ve had in a long time. It was fun to be part of that, too. …

X in 2014 before heading to Mill Creek as the boys Mill Creek High School assistant coach.

In his first season, Sexton announced it will promote and boys coach Andy Michael Sexton as the Hawks’ girls cross country Christie plan to develop a “blended program” by coach. combining boys and girls Sexton is a Snellville workouts. native 2009 Brookwood “I’m incredibly excited graduate who ran cross to be taking on the procountry and track for the Broncos. He continued his gram,” he said. “I’ve been cross country and track ca- watching first hand for the reers at Berry College from past two years, and know that our girls have been a 2009-13.

Sexton has four years of great group … We’re hoping to get some fast times coaching experience. He coached one year at St. Pius and some happy runners.”

Magahey

human being,” the Mill Creek coach said. “He has swim in the 500 free foltremendous passion for the lowed up his championship sport and his enthusiasm in the 200 free with an au- permeates throughout the tomatic All-American time entire team. He always of 1:36.11. It was a slight puts the team ahead of his improvement over his win- own personal goals. When ning time in that event at I congratulated him on setcounty of 1:36.17, which ting a new state record in broke the county-meet and the 500 free his reply was, all-time Gwinnett record.

‘We are not done yet.’ He His 500 free time of was referring that he still 4:18.13 at county also had unfinished business lowered the meet and allwith our relays coming time county marks, then he up. He never gives up and took it even lower at state. has a fighting spirit that It was a satisfying finish inspires everyone that is to the high school season blessed to know him. for Magahey, who was “He is definitely one of state runner-up in the 500 the top two swimmers I free and fourth at state in have ever had the honor to the 200 free last year as a coach. The other of course freshman. being (two-time Olympian Through two high and gold medalist) Eric school seasons, he already Shanteau.” has substantial resumé.

Magahey didn’t tap into Veteran coach Rick Creed his vast swimming potenputs Magahey in rare com- tial immediately, though. pany with his talent.

He picked up the sport “Jake is not only an when he was 3 and began outstanding swimmer, swimming year-round at he is also an outstanding SwimAtlanta when he was student, teammate and 8, but admittedly just went

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through the motions without much focus or desire.

He got into swimming only because his older sister Shay did it.

One disappointing practice then changed his mindset.

“There was a long period where I just didn’t care about swimming,” Magahey said. “I just went to practices, swam around a bit, didn’t really care.

One morning, I remember when it all changed. One morning I was not caring, not making intervals, and coach said we were doing 200 for time at the end of practice. So my coach points at me and says, ‘Jake you’re done.’ That was so embarrassing for me. Basically, I got kicked out of practice. I thought, ‘I don’t want that to happen again.’ So from that point on, I think I was 12 or 13, from that moment on, I’ve been constantly improving.”

Before this high school season began, Magahey

offered a preview of big things to come. He broke two Georgia Swimming records when he swam the 1,000 free in 8:55.33 in October. His time was the sixth-fastest 1,000 free ever in the 15- and 16-year-old division.

He carried that momentum into a big high school season, then shifted focus to his next goal with SwimAtlanta, making the U.S. Junior National Team this summer. He still has two more high school seasons to chase more records and championships, which is exciting for Creed and the Hawks.

“At this point, I’m just trying to build a legacy,” Magahey said of high school swimming. “I’m probably going to go for the 200 (free state) record next season. I think I’ll definitely swim the 500 and 200 again. But I think I might be done with the 500 after next (high school) season, just to try something new.”

Arner The 200 was good. I kind of shocked myself with the 500, but I was really happy with it.”

Arner has a bright future beyond high school in the classroom — she maintains a 3.9 GPA and is a member of Collins Hill’s top chamber orchestra — and in the pool — she has signed with South Carolina. She chose the Gamecocks over Florida State and LSU. The team aspect of college swimming is appealing, much like it was at

Collins Hill.

“Probably the team atmosphere is what I’m most looking forward to,” Arner said. “Everybody who goes off to do college athletics always talks about how amazing it was to be a part of a team like that. You get to train with them. In high school, I get to compete with the team but we don’t get to train together. I get to compete with my team here (at SwimAtlanta), but we don’t go to school together. It’s kind of the best of both worlds in col-

lege. I’m looking forward to that.”

As she looks ahead to college swimming, she also can look back on a phenomenal high school career. But her victories only carve out a small part of her best high school memories.

“I’ll definitely miss the team most (in high school swimming),” Arner said.

“We always have so much fun. The girls, we sing all the time, we dance all the time. We just have fun. I’m going to miss that.”

GWINNETT DAILY POST ALL-COUNTY SWIMMING TEAM BOYS Boys Swimmer of the Year: Jake Magahey, Mill Creek, Soph.

State and county champion in both the 200 and 500 freestyle Boys Coach of the Year: Jack Gayle, Brookwood Led the Broncos to the Class AAAAAAA state championship Boys First Team • Shwan Ahn, Peachtree Ridge, Jr. Third at state, county in 500 freestyle, seventh at state, county champion in 100 breaststroke • Tommy Cangelosi, North Gwinnett, Sr. Eighth at state, fourth at county in 100 freestyle, eighth at state, fifth at county in 50 free • Bradley Dunham, Dacula, Sr. State, county champion, county record in 100 backstroke, state runner-up in 200 freestyle • Drew Grier, Brookwood, Sr. Fourth at state, second at county in 100 butterfly, ninth at state, sixth at county in 50 freestyle • Dylan Scott, Brookwood, Jr. Fourth at state, county runner-up in 200 freestyle, fifth at state in 500 free • Aidan Stoffle, Brookwood, Jr. State, county champion in 100 freestyle, state champion, county runner-up in 100 backstroke • Nathaniel Stoffle, Brookwood, Fr. Fifth at state, fourth at county in 100 backstroke, seventh at state, third at county in 200 individual medley • Jordan Thompson, Peachtree Ridge, Sr. Second at state, third at county in 50 freestyle, third at state, second at county in 100 free • Keegan Walsh, Brookwood, Sr. Sixth at state, third at county in 100 backstroke, eighth at state, second at county in 200 individual medley • Andrew Winton, Collins Hill, Sr. State champion in 100 breast, state runner-up, county champ in 200 individual medley, county champ in 100 fly Boys Second Team Sebastian DenBrok, North Gwinnett, Sr. Jon Hunt Ficken, Wesleyan, Sr. Conor Gamble, Brookwood, Sr. Carter Januzelli, Norcross, Jr. Nicholas Kalenik, Mill Creek, Soph.

Nelson Montini, Buford, Sr. Ethan Moon, Wesleyan, Sr. Xzavier Reiter, Mountain View, Jr. Arion Solomon, Norcross, Jr. Daniel Tran, Brookwood, Soph.

GIRLS Girls Swimmer of the Year: Haley Arner, Collins Hill, Sr. State and county champion in both the 200 and 500 freestyle Girls Coach of the Year: Jack Gayle, Brookwood Led the Broncos to the Class AAAAAAA state championship Girls First Team • Marianne Allard, North Gwinnett, Sr. Fourth at state, county champion in 200 individual medley, fifth at state in 100 breaststroke • Lily Burke, Brookwood, Fr. State champion, county runner-up in 100 freestyle, third at state, county runner-up in 200 individual medley • Caroline Irwin, Buford, Fr. State runner-up in 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly • Chantal Jordan, North Gwinnett, Jr. Third at state, county runner-up in 50 freestyle, sixth at state, third at county in 100 free • Abigail McCulloh, Parkview, Fr. Second at state in 500 freestyle, third at state 200 free, county runner-up in both • Reagan Sweeney, Brookwood, Fr. Fifth at state, county champion in 100 butterfly, fifth at state, fourth at county in 200 freestyle • Tegan Sweeney, Brookwood, Sr. Fourth at state, third at county in 200 freestyle, seventh at state in 500 free • Sarah-Grace Thompson, Mountain View, Soph.

Fourth at state in 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke, county champion in both • Zoe Walker, Parkview, Sr. Sixth at state in 50 freestyle, seventh at state in 100 breaststroke, county champion in both • Hannah Wasmuth, Wesleyan, Soph.

Second at state in 100 backstroke, third at state in 200 freestyle Girls Second Team Juliana Carey, Brookwood, Jr. Emma Claire Cohen, Brookwood, Jr. Holland Danskin, Norcross, Jr. Sarah Jahns, Parkview, Jr. Caroline Khan, Greater Atlanta Christian, Soph.

Thien-An Maynard, Greater Atlanta Christian, Soph.

Ashley Neas, Duluth, Jr. Courtney Niemann, North Gwinnett, Soph.

Abigail Tashlein, Mill Creek, Soph.

Leila Taylor, Brookwood, Sr.

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Darracott, Buford lead Takedown Club honors From Staff Reports Buford’s Charlie Darracott was named the county’s wrestler of the year by the Gwinnett County Takedown Club, which announced its season-ending honors this week.

Darracott, a sophomore, won the 145-pound state championship this season and helped the Wolves sweep the traditional and duals state titles. Buford also was selected as the team of the year for its impressive season.

Wesleyan’s Dennis Stromie was named the club’s coach of the year, while David Key earned the Matt Peddicord Persever-

ance Award. The other top honors went to Randy Kawa as Walt Hennebaul Man of the Year and Evan Burchette as Randy Bortles Official of the Year.

The Takedown Club also recognized its all-county wrestlers and scholar-athletes. Those winners are as follows: All-County First Team 106 pounds: Clint Gilbert, Collins Hill 113: Logan Ashton, Buford 120: Noah Bullock, Dacula 126: Harrison Dearth, Wesleyan 132: Nick Stonecheck, Buford 138: Blaine Bergey, Buford 145: Charlie Darracott, Buford

152: Peter Myndresku, Archer 160: Marquel Broughton, Mountain View 170: Gabriel Lee, Brookwood 182: Tristan Bozoian, Buford 195: Harrison Spikes, Mountain View 220: Tomari Fox, Collins Hill 285: Will Choloh, Archer All-County Second Team 106: R.J. Aguirre, Mountain View 113: Rick Shores, Mountain View 120: Nick Marbut, Mountain View 126: Kyle McCullough, Buford 132: Rex McDaniel, North

Gwinnett 138: Gavin Smith, Archer 145: Lucas DeSilva, Collins Hill 152: Donald Conley, Wesleyan 160: Chase DeGrenier, Archer 170: Cooper Roberts, Buford 182: David Key, Brookwood 195: Matthew Key, Brookwood 220: Justin Oldknow, Brookwood 285: Cody Hutchison All-County Honorable Mention Logan Smith, Archer; Cameron Sapp, Archer; Arash Mohebi, Berkmar; Christian Cruz, Berkmar; Chandler Mullis, Brookwood; Lawrence Martin, Brookwood; Nick Cambria, Buford; Billy Barber, Buford; Christopher Castaneda, Central Gwinnett; Joey Felix, Collins Hill; Elijah Griffin, Collins Hill; Jaquan

Reece, Collins Hill; Phillip Lawson, Dacula; Marcus Martin, Discovery; Ian McGhee, Duluth; Austin Muir, Grayson; Na’im Moss, Greater Atlanta Christian; Makenzie Rannals, Lanier; Josh Speight, Lanier; Joellius Rodriguez, Meadowcreek; Zachary Fix, Mill Creek; Chase Standridge, Mountain View; Shlomo Boyd, Norcross; Ross Daniel, North Gwinnett; Lucas Haller, North Gwinnett; Oscar Balog, Parkview; Kyle Brown, Peachtree Ridge; Bryce Jones, Peachtree Ridge; Connor Bradley, Peachtree Ridge; Jakobi Givens, Shiloh; Bruce Fersuon, South Gwinnett; Corey Berry, Wesleyan; Matthew Brown, Wesleyan; Willem Conley, Wesleyan; George Bielan, Wesleyan; Ellis Schmitt, Wesleyan Scholar-Athlete Award Archer: Logan Smith Berkmar: Rani Rutledge

Brookwood: Chase Hornsby Buford: Charlie Darracott Central Gwinnett: Moses Pryor Collins Hill: Tomari Fox Dacula: Anderson Bailey Discovery: Sean Donaldson Duluth: Logan Chanthavong GAC: Garrison Ferrell Grayson: Hunter Smith Lanier: Michael Kim Meadowcreek: Daniel Gutierrez Mill Creek: Harrison Hoffmann Mountain View: Garrett Spikes Norcross: Schlomo Boyd North Gwinnett: Ross McDaniel Parkview: Sophie Boone, Joey Thomas Peachtree Ridge: Beverly Sylvester Shiloh: Elijah Blige South Gwinnett: Rebecca Buchanan Wesleyan: Matthew Brown

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world&nation world Twin suicide blasts hit Yemen

Democratic intelligence memo released

Warren Buffett wins 10-year-old hedge fund bet

By Jeremy Herb CNN

Twin suicide blasts in Aden, Yemen, killed six people and injured 31 others, according to the health ministry office in Aden.

Two car bombers targeted the Aden counterterrorism headquarters building in the southern port city, two senior security officials told CNN. Most of the injured are being treated at nearby Jimhori Hospital, the officials said. Some are reportedly in critical condition.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement by its Amaq news agency. However, the group did not offer any evidence to support the claim.

The House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a Democratic memo in redacted form that seeks to undercut Republican claims of FBI surveillance abuses.

The committee made the Democratic memo public after the White House signed off following negotiations between the FBI and the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, over what in the document should be redacted.

Earlier this month, the White House objected to releasing the memo, saying that sensitive material had to be removed first.

Schiff’s memo was written to rebut a Republican memo that accuses the FBI of suppressing Democratic ties to an opposition research dossier on then-candidate U.N. Security Donald Trump and Russia Council adopts used in the FISA warrant Syria ceasefire for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter resolution Page.

After multiple delays, The memo defended both the U.N. Security Council the FBI and Justice Departon Saturday unanimously ment’s role in obtaining the adopted a resolution call- FISA warrant —- agencies ing for a 30-day ceasefire that have been under fire in Syria. from Republican critics who The truce would allow have also sought to disfor the delivery of emer- credit special counsel Robert gency aid and the evacu- Mueller’s investigation. ation of the wounded in “The Democratic response some of Syria’s hardestmemo released today should hit areas, including the put to rest any concerns that besieged Eastern Ghouta the American people might region near Damascus.

Diplomats said Saturday’s vote ended up being a bit of a showdown between Nikki Haley, Rare White House the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and photos being her Russian counterpart, digitally archived Vassily Nebenzia, over In a nondescript office the timing of a ceasefire.

Moscow remains a building steps away from staunch advocate of the White House, a small Syrian President Bashar team of librarians at the al-Assad’s regime.

White House Historical The diplomats said Association is working on the United States fought a massive puzzle. to keep language in the As of this week, the resolution that called for group has now spent two an immediate start to years chipping away at the ceasefire and unfetdigitizing approximately tered humanitarian access 25,000 previously uncatawithout delay. The Ruslogued slides of photosians kept trying to water graphs documenting years it down to delay impleof White House history. mentation, the diplomats “We wanted to be the said. authoritative source for White House history,” said Lauren Cahill, the associaAfghanistan tion’s digital asset librarsoldiers killed in ian, who says their mission is to educate and make the Taliban raid on White House more accesmilitary base sible.

Taliban militants killed The project, they es18 soldiers in a pre-dawn timate, is about halfway assault on a military base done. in Afghanistan’s western Farah province, the Min- Delta and United istry of Defense said, in join companies the deadliest of a string of attacks that shook Af- to cut ties ghanistan on Saturday. with the NRA Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Two major airlines. A Waziri said two Afghan cybersecurity firm. Six car soldiers were also injured rental brands. A home sein the 3 a.m. raid on a curity company. An Omaha small base in Balabluk bank. Companies have district. scrambled to cut ties with A Defense Ministry the National Rifle Associastatement said “a large tion over the past couple of number” of insurgents days, and the list continued were killed during the to grow into the weekend. confrontation, but did not Delta Air Lines anspecify how many. nounced Saturday morning Taliban spokesman that it’s ending discounted Qari Yousof Ahmadi rates for NRA members. claimed responsibility “We will be requesting that for the attack in a statethe NRA remove our informent to journalists. mation from their website,” — From wire reports the company said in a tweet.

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Rep. Adam Schiff’s memo was written to rebut a Republican memo that accuses the FBI of suppressing Democratic ties to an opposition research dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia used in the FISA warrant for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. President Trump on Saturday agreed to release a redacted version of the Democratic memo. (Photo: CNN)

have as to the conduct of the FBI, the Justice Department and the FISC,” Schiff said in a statement. “Our extensive review of the initial FISA application and three subsequent renewals failed to uncover any evidence of illegal, unethical or unprofessional behavior by law enforcement and instead revealed that both the FBI and DOJ made extensive showings to justify all four requests.”

The White House said in a statement that nothing in the Democratic memo counters Trump’s statements that neither he nor his campaign colluded with Russia.

“While the Democrats’ memorandum attempts to undercut the president politically, the president

supported its release in the interest of transparency,” the statement read. “Nevertheless, this politically driven document fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority’s memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign.”

Schiff and other Democrats charge that the Republican memo, led by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes of California, is misleading and omits key facts, including that the

FISA application did state that ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, was paid by a political entity. FBI Director Christopher Wray also expressed concerns about the Nunes memo, publicly warning the White House that omitted information could affect the memo’s veracity.

Speaking Saturday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Nunes said that he wanted the Democratic memo released “because we think it is clear evidence that the Democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they’re also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up.”

One decade ago, Warren Buffett took a $1 million wager that stashing money in an index fund would make you richer than if you entrusted it with hedge fund managers.

He won — big time — and in his annual letter Saturday, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. outlined the final tally. He also took a jab at the hedge fund folks at the losing end.

His pick, the S&P 500, gained 125.8 percent over ten years. The five hedge funds, picked by a firm called Protege Partners, added an average of about 36 percent. The names of the funds were not disclosed.

The hedge funds “got off to a fast start, each beating the index fund in 2008.

Then the roof fell in,” Buffett said. The S&P 500 won every year after.

He detailed a few key takeaways from the experiment.

Making money on the stock market “does not require great intelligence, a degree in economics or a familiarity with Wall Street jargon,” he wrote. “What investors then need instead is an ability to both disregard mob fears or enthusiasms and to focus on a few simple fundamentals.”

“Stick with big, ‘easy’ decisions and eschew activity,” Buffett said.

That’s essentially the cornerstone of Buffett’s investment philosophy, and proving that point is part of the reason he took the bet in the first place, he said.

An Army veteran, Mast said the rifle he used during combat in Afghanistan is “very similar to the AR-15style semiautomatic weapon used to kill students, teachers and a coach I knew at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, NBA star Curry Fla., where I once lived.” says Florida His combat weapon, he said, was “the best for killing shooting is our enemies.” And for that ‘tough to digest’ reason, he said, “I cannot NBA sensation and fasupport the primary weapon ther of two Stephen Curry I used to defend our people This photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson meetreacted this week to the ing in the Cabinet Room was taken by James P. Blair on being used to kill children I Stonemason Douglas High April 28, 1966. The photo is one of many being digitized swore to defend.” school shooting, saying by the White House. (Photo: James P. Blair/White House that the death of 17 people Historical Association) Marijuana legal was “tough to digest.” in Vegas but not “Obviously as a parent, be firearms adept & have United Airlines followed a short time later, saying the annual training. Should get at Vegas airport thinking about the world that you want your kids company will no longer offer yearly bonus. Shootings will After spending time into grow up in and trying not happen again — a big & discounts on flights to the dulging in the pleasures of to protect them at all cost, very inexpensive deterrent.

NRA annual meeting.

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NRA as of Feb. 28.

The sale of recreational with CNN’s Van Jones on The companies were the deputy press secretary Raj Shah told reporters, “I think marijuana has been legal in “The Van Jones Show,” on latest to abandon partnerNevada since last summer, Saturday. ships with the NRA amid a that if we find the policy The Golden State Warrenewed public debate over solutions that make the most but pot is not legal at Las Vegas’ McCarran Interna- riors’ point guard praised tightened gun laws follow- sense that we can get buy the gun control activism tional Airport. in for, we’ll figure out the ing a school shooting in that has taken place since So to keep travelers rest of the pieces that you Florida last week that left the shooting, in a week from getting in trouble in outlined.”

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“Very smart people. Must — From wire reports — From wire reports

InfoWars’ main YouTube channel two strikes away from ban

By Paul P. Murphy CNN

InfoWars, a far-right media organization run by Alex Jones and known for peddling unfounded conspiracy theories, is on thin ice with YouTube after it posted a video that portrayed the survivors of the Parkland school shooting as actors.

The Alex Jones Channel, Infowar’s biggest YouTube account, received one strike for

given him a powerful platform — but it has also made him the subject of demonstrably that video, a source with knowl- false conspiracy theories that edge of the account told CNN. claim he’s so skilled as a public YouTube’s community guidespeaker that he must be a paid lines say if an account receives actor. three strikes in three months, On Wednesday, YouTube the account is terminated. removed the video from InThat video focused on David foWars’ page for violating its Hogg, a strong voice among policies on harassment and survivors of the mass shooting bullying. The video was titled, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas “David Hogg Can’t Remember High School. The attention has His Lines In TV Interview.”

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It used screenshots of an interview Hogg did with with CNN affiliate KCBS, in combination with other images, in an attempt to suggest that Hogg and other students are “crisis actors.”

The term refers to people who are paid to play disaster victims in emergency drills. More recently, though, the phrase has been co-opted by conspiracy theorists who claim mass shootings are events staged to achieve

a political goal.

InfoWars repeatedly showed its 2.2 million YouTube subscribers the video before it was taken down.

“Last summer we updated the application of our harassment policy to include hoax videos that target the victims of these tragedies,” a YouTube spokesperson said. “Any video flagged to us that violates this policy is reviewed and then removed.”

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From 1818 to 2018

Crogan Street in Lawrenceville is shown in this old, undated postcard. The east-facing card shows the multistory Hotel Pharr on the right. The hotel was partially destroyed by fire but was remodeled into a two-story building that was later home to the Button Gwinnett Hotel. It now houses Dominick’s restaurant. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)

Gwinnett’s story is one of growth, change

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GWINNETT COUNTY’S POPULATION GROWTH SINCE 1820 IN CENSUS YEARS 1820 — 4,589 1830 — 13,289 1840 — 10,804 1850 — 11,257 1860 — 12,940 1870 — 12,431 1880 — 19,531 1890 — 19,899 1900 — 25,585 1910 — 28,824 1920 — 30,327 1930 — 27,853 1940 — 29,087 1950 — 32,320 1960 — 43,541 1970 — 72,349 1980 — 166,903 1990 — 352,910 2000 — 588,448 2010 — 805,321 2018* — 961,307 (*estimated)

Sources: Gwinnett Historical Society, U.S. Census Bureau, Gwinnett County

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t would have been hard to envision Gwinnett County as a place that could be home to nearly 1 million people when it was established in 1818.

The county’s population was about 4,589 people — smaller than the current populations of many of its 16 cities — a couple of years after its founding, according to 1820 census figures.

But it didn’t take long for Gwinnett to become one of Georgia’s most populous counties. The 1830 U.S. census showed Gwinnett, with a population of 13,289 people, was the state’s sixth most populous county out of about 76 counties.

“Early pioneers came for opportunity, primarily the chance to own land,” Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said during her recent bicentennial-inspired State of the County Address. “During the decades from 1818 to 1950, we slowly grew as a community of farms and small towns, with some trade and manufacturing.”

Over the course of the 19th century, other counties grew faster than Gwinnett, eventually pushing the county out of the list of the state’s 10 most populous counties. It wasn’t Gwinnett’s time to really boom yet.

In those early days, Gwinnett’s economy was also a far cry from what it is today. Instead of corporate headquarters, technology companies, manufacturing hubs and malls, there were farms.

Gwinnett’s population took a hit during the 1830s, as the frontier boundary was pushed westward. During that decade, new counties began to pop up, including Forsyth County

Construction crews work on the Pleasant Hill Road bridge over Interstate 85 in this 1983 photo. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)

ing that decision came in January 1861.

Take a look at Gwinnett’s past and present The county sent three representathrough various topics: tives — J.P. Simmons, Richard D. Cities............................................4C Winn and Thomas J.P. Hudson — to Education.....................................6C the secession convention in MilledFire...............................................2C geville that year. All three men voted Government ...............................13C against secession, according to the Law Enforcement .........................3C Gwinnett Historical Society.

Medical ........................................3C Still, Gwinnett County remained Sports ........................................14C loyal to Georgia as the conflict raged.

“During the war, Gwinnett raised in 1832, in former Native American 12 companies of infantry, five troops lands west of the Chattahoochee River. (companies) of cavalry and one artilThe 1860s also brought a drop in lery battery,” the historical society’s the county’s population, but likely for website states. a different reason: The Civil War. Gwinnett was not the scene of any Gwinnett sent men to fight in the major battles during the Union Army’s Confederate Army during the Civil larger Atlanta campaign, but it did see War, but interestingly enough it didn’t several skirmishes and raids. One such support Georgia seceding from the See growth, Page 8C United States when the time for makmORE INSIDE

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Tragedy brings change Gwinnett’s fire department formed after loss

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For the past four decades, the Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services has responded to residents’ calls for help across the county.

But before the inception of a countywide fire department, there were individual fire departments representing each county district.

The city of Lawrenceville established its own fire department in 1912.

In Mary Frazier Long’s book “About Lawrenceville,” she describes the city in the early 20th century as a place in need a fire department.

“All the downtown buildings were wooden buildings and so were the houses nearby; that combined with the open fireplaces made fire a constant threat to the safety of the town and its citizens,” she wrote.

Volunteer firefighters made up a majority of the local fire departments across the county until the 1940s.

Laws and insurance regulations then made it necessary to have an organized department and regularly appointed firefighters.

Changes were once again on the horizon in 1967.

Seven lives were lost in the Norcross area due to fires.

The loss prompted commissioners to propose a deal that would offer districts a countywide fire protection plan, according to the Gwinnett County Fire Department’s history.

According to “About Lawrenceville,” in 1970 a countywide referendum was held to consolidate fire protection into a countywide

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said in a continuance of its growth, an agreement was signed between Gwinnett County and the Hospital Calls taken by Authority. On July 1, 1986, Gwinnett County Emergency Medical Services Fire and Emergency were incorporated into the Services in 2017 fire department. Medical units were initially placed at Station 2 in Lilburn, Staprotection plan, rather than tion 7 in Duluth, Station protection plans for each 11 in Norcross, Station 12 district. The vote failed by in Snellville, Station 14 in a 4-1 margin, with the sole Buford and Station 15 in yes vote coming from the Lawrenceville.

Pinckneyville District.

The Gwinnett County DeCommissioners made partment of Fire and Emeranother effort to consolidate gency Services responded to fire protection by mandating 79,650 calls for assistance that if one district wanted in 2017. The department fire protection by the county, has an authorized force of individual districts could 952 employees and operlater on vote to be included ates 31 fire stations. The fire in the plan. That same year, department also includes 31 the Pinckneyville District engine companies, 11 ladder was the first area to vote in trucks and 29 Advanced Life favor of county fire protecSupport medical units. The tion and the formation of department has an annual the Gwinnett County Fire budget of $116 million and Department. is divided into four divisions The Gwinnett County Fire in the department — busiDepartment received its first ness services, community assignment on the morning risk reduction, employee of March 30, 1971. Initially, support and initiatives, and the department was under operations. contract with Norcross, had In May 2017, the depart10 firefighters, one engine ment’s business model and and a budget of $89,000. industry practices, along Over the next decade, with the job performance other cities and districts by personnel across the voted to join the county’s fire organization, helped it to protection plan. The result earn recognition as a nationwas growth of additional ally accredited fire service fire stations and personnel agency by the Commission positions. on Fire Accreditation InterThe department’s history national.

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Gwinnett County celebrates 200 years of history in 2018!

We were the 50th county formed in Georgia, are the 50th in landmass, and are now well on our way to becoming Georgia’s most populous county in the not-too-distant future.

Through it all, Gwinnett developed a can-do attitude and tradition of working together to make our community the best place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

Today, that distinct Gwinnett spirit is reflected by over 960,000 residents who call our community home.

We are indeed vibrantly connected! From December 2017 to December 2018, we’re commemorating our bicentennial by paying homage to our shared history, recognizing and remembering the people who make our community great, and highlighting the vision for our promising future. Visit Gwinnett200.com to learn more, add an event to the calendar, or add your voice to our Story Vault.

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Law enforcement growth:

From 1 to nearly 1,700

By Isabel Hughes

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As cars pulled to the side of the road, blue lights flashed by, sirens wailing as two police cars raced through the traffic-swarmed highway.

To what emergency officers were responding, it wasn’t not known; having responded to approximately 730,000 incidents or calls for service in 2016, the Gwinnett County Police Department is almost constantly busy.

From traffic stops to homicides, with a July 2016 Gwinnett County population estimate of 907,135 residents, county law enforcement personnel interact with hundreds of residents per day, the white police cars and black sheriff’s office vehicles visible during almost any 15 minute-plus drive on county roads.

But it wasn’t always so.

Established within months of the county’s founding in December 1818, law enforcement in Gwinnett traces back to a single home located on Dacula Road near the intersection of Hurricane Shoals Road, east of the Appalachee River.

The home — that of Elisha Winn, a Virginiaborn man — served as the first county seat, housing the first courts, elections and sheriff’s sales, or public actions where mortgage lenders, banks, tax collectors and other litigants can collect money lost on property.

It was also at that home where Gwinnett’s first sheriff, William Blake, received his commission from the governor of Georgia on March 25, 1819.

With an 1820 population of 4,589, in its beginning years, Gwinnett sheriffs largely served as auctioneers during sheriff’s sales, the first of which was advertised in a Milledgeville newspaper in September 1819.

As the county grew, the roles sheriffs played shifted, their influence on forming what is now Gwinnett County’s government growing.

Still, it wasn’t until the 1920s that additional law enforcement was proposed in the county.

Mostly known for cockfighting, car theft and illegal liquor sales, in 1919, the Gwinnett County Grand Jury recommended the hiring of two police officers to help combat the ever-increasing liquor trafficking.

A year earlier, Georgia had ratified the 18th Amendment for national prohibition, which ultimately forbid the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” across the United States. Though county officials considered alcohol sales a growing problem in Gwinnett, it wasn’t until October 1921 that three police officers were hired.

Dr. Jack Cain, left, his nurse and volunteers at the Joan Glancy Clinic are pictured with the vehicle that allowed them to bring medical care to rural areas circa 1941. (Photo: Gwinnett County)

In 1953, the Gwinnett County Police Department — which wasn’t formally structured until that year — began a traffic safety campaign, erecting speed limit signs on roads throughout the county. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)

men who were attempting to disguise the Oldsmobile they had stolen in Atlanta.

According to Maj. Alan jail capacity as of 2018 Doss, who helped write an official history of the department, the criminals monthly salary of disarmed the policemen Gwinnett police officers and cuffed them together, in 1953 though not before questioning what to do with the men.

“When they put the Gwinnett sheriffs over uniform on, they automatithe last 199 years cally become dirty sons of bitches,” one of the suspects, Venson Williams, initial number of reportedly said. “It don’t sheriff’s office employees matter to me.”

After deliberating for a short time, the men made a decision: kill the officers. recruits in the current police academy With 14 total shots — 12 to the officers’ heads — the story made national headlines. civilian and sworn law The last of the murderers enforcement personnel died in 2016. currently employed for In the years following Gwinnett County the officers’ murders, the department grew rapidly and in 1977 welcomed its police department current Hi-Hope Road precincts headquarters.

Alongside the Gwinnett But, just as the sheriff’s County Police Department’s office grew slowly, so too growth, so too grew the did the Gwinnett County sheriff’s office, which now Police Department, taking employs 725 personnel. until 1953 before a formal The current police destructure of the department partment is even larger, with was attempted, with minan authorized 783 sworn utes from a March 2 county positions — 697 of which commission meeting detail- are filled — and 280 civiling that each officer was to ian positions, 252 of which be paid $225 per month and are filled. the county “to furnish one As Gwinnett continues car.” to grow — in 2016, the By 1960, the departAtlanta Regional Commisment had its first police sion predicted the county chief and four total officers, would overtake Fulton’s whose primary job was population by 2040 — law “traffic regulation,” though enforcement continues to newspapers from the time play an essential role in the detailed frequent seizures of county. moonshine.

With nearly 1,700 people Less than five years employed in various roles later, in April 1964, tragedy across the two agencies, the struck the department when blue lights will continue three officers were found to flash and peace officers handcuffed and murdered will continue to respond to in a wooded area in the emergencies. southwestern portion of the And, like every day for county. the last 200 years, the resiUnknowingly, when dents, and Gwinnett’s law responding to a call about enforcement, will continue “suspicious activity,” the of- to write the county’s rich ficers had interrupted three history.

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It wasn’t until 1953 that a formal structure of the county’s police department was attempted. At the March 2 county commission meeting, minutes detail that each officer was to be paid $225 per month and the county “to furnish one car.” This is the car. (Photo: Gwinnett County)

How a boy’s death kick-started a hospital

By Isabel Hughes

Joan Glancy Memorial hospitals, the hospital authority’s three-hospital system plan was complete.

When 6-year-old Olin As each facility quickly Burnett fell ill around reached and exceeded 1941: The Joan Glancy Christmastime 1940, there capacity, coupled with the Memorial Clinic is was little his family could steady stream of new resifounded in Duluth dents into Gwinnett County, do except tend to the boy.

1944: The Joan Glancy the authority recognized the Burnett’s father, Henry Memorial Clinic opens in need for a new, centralized Burnett, worked as a tractor Duluth hospital. mechanic and cow milker 1948: Hutchins Memorial Hospital opens in By 1969, authority at Irvindale Farms Dairy Buford members and county ofjust outside of Duluth, and 1957: The Hospital ficials were pushing for the with at least a half a dozen Authority of Gwinnett new hospital, though due to children to take care of, County is established President Richard Nixon’s neither Henry nor his wife, 1959: Button Gwinnett veto of the Medical ConAlice, could bring their son Hospital is constructed struction and Modernization to a doctor. and opens with 35 beds Act in 1970 — the veto After several days of the 1965: The Joan Glancy cut off federal funding for younger Burnett feeling Memorial Hospital joins the hospital’s construction “puny,” the book “Gwinthe Gwinnett Hospital System — the facility did not open nett: A little above Atlanta” 1966: Buford General until 1984, several years details, on Christmas Eve, Hospital’s 40-bed facility after Snellville’s Eastside Dick Hull, manager of the is completed Medical Center opened. dairy farm and Henry Bur1966: Button Gwinnett A nine floor, 190-bed nett’s boss, heard a knock Hospital expands to 74 facility with general, medion his door. beds cal, surgical and diagnosOpening the door, Hull 1966: Hutchins Memotic services and 24-hour found Henry Burnett at his rial shuts its doors emergency room coverage, feet, who brought devastat1969: Hospital Authority its name is one that many ing news: Olin had taken a members and county officials are pushing for a recognize today: Gwinnett turn for the worse and died new, centralized hospital Medical Center. of kidney failure.

1970: President Richard More than 30 years later, Hull, who was married Nixon vetos the Medical the hospital has expanded to the daughter of General Construction and Modseveral times to several and Mrs. A.R. Glancy, Nora, ernization Act in 1970, different Gwinnett cities called a town meeting. which cuts off federal and now offers an array of While accounts in several funding for the central services, including neonatal history books vary in what hospital’s construction intensive care, open-heart exactly was said, Hull asked Early 1980s: Eastside surgery, robotic procedures the townspeople, who were Medical Center opens 1984: Gwinnett Medical and many others. mostly cotton farmers, Center opens as a nine The Women’s Pavilion, “Why can’t we have a clinic floor, 190-bed facility which opened in 1991 as an in Duluth?”

1991: GMC’s Women’s innovative facility geared Despite still reeling from Pavilion opens specifically at a variety of the money-strapped years 2012: GMC’s Women’s women’s services, averages of the Great Depression, the Pavilion welcomes its about 5,000 births a year. In townspeople raised $450 100,000th child 2012, it celebrated the birth to establish a clinic, which 2017: The Georgia of the 100,000th child there. touched Nora, who wrote Office of the Attorney “Here in Gwinnett, we a letter to her parents about General approves a merger between Gwinnow have access to thouthe campaign. nett Medical System and sands of doctors and other The Glancys, who lived Northside Hospital medical professionals who in the metro Detroit area practice in all specialties,” — Gen. Glancy had been Gwinnett Board of Coma vice president of General missioners Chairwoman Motors’ Pontiac, Mich., beds.

Charlotte Nash told the division — knew the pain of With a population of Daily Post in 2014. “This is losing a child. about 30,000 at the time, very different from the situSeventeen years earlier, 44 hospital beds wasn’t their youngest, Joan, had enough, and county leaders ation prior to the opening of the facility in 1984. At died of pneumonia at age realized the need for more.

4, and Nora’s letter touched In 1957, they established the that time, we had a limited their hearts.

Hospital Authority of Gwin- number of doctors in GwinSoon, a check for $500 nett County, an organization nett and most of them used was in the mail, along with that would oversee a county hospitals outside the county.

Having an up-to-date a promise that every year hospital system. hospital was the first step in on Joan’s birthday, they’d The system, the authormoving us to the medical send another check in her ity planned, would consist community we now take for memory. of three hospitals of 70 to Within months, the Joan 75 beds each and one large, granted.”

With the county continuGlancy Memorial Clinic central hospital with 200 ing to grow — the U.S. was founded in a threebeds.

Census Bureau’s 2016 room frame cottage on DuThe authority’s first Gwinnett County population luth’s school grounds, and facility, Button Gwinnett estimate surpassed 900,000 from Day 1, the clinic was Hospital, was constructed inundated with patients. under a grant by the federal — the hospital systems, too, will continue to expand, and Realizing the need for a Hill-Burton Act and began with the November approval larger facility, Gen. Glancy operations in 1959 with 35 offered a deal to the people beds, though was expanded of Northside Hospital and Gwinnett Medical System’s of Duluth: provide land and to 74 beds in 1966. a well, and he would build In the meantime, in 1965, merger by the state’s Office of the Attorney General, that them a hospital. the Joan Glancy Memorial expansion may be available Glancy kept his word, Hospital joined the Gwinas soon as later this year. and in July 1944, the Joan nett Hospital System, and One thing, however, is Glancy Memorial Hospital by 1966, Buford General sure: Hospitals in Gwinnett opened as the first in Gwin- Hospital’s 40-bed facility are still adding services and nett with 27 beds. was completed. will always still serve the Several years later in That same year, after 18 community.

1948, Hutchins Memorial years of service, Hutchins Various history books and Hospital opened in Buford, Memorial shut its doors, documents were consulted though the facility was though with Button Gwinin writing this story. smaller, holding only 17 nett, Buford General and

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Establishment of county’s 16 cities spans across nearly two centuries

From Lawrenceville to Peachtree Corners

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AT A GLANCE

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It didn’t take long after Gwinnett County’s establishment for cities to begin showing up.

The first of these cities, Lawrenceville, was officially established three years to the day after the county was established, taking its name from War of 1812 Naval hero Capt. James Lawrence of “Don’t give up the ship” fame.

In 2016, Lawrenceville historian Mary Frazier Long told the Daily Post that Lawrenceville’s founders wanted to name the city after someone prominent. With the War of 1812 fresh on their minds, and Lawrence’s exploits in the war well known, they settled on naming the city for him.

“People were still kind of enthused on that war,” Long said in 2016. “They’d about run out of Revolutionary War people to name things after. … It was just the thing to do back then.”

Lawrenceville is considered the oldest city in metro Atlanta, although it just barely beats out another city named for a naval hero, Decatur, for that honor.

The idea behind placing the county’s seat in the middle of the county came down to one factor: It was centrally located and therefore easy for anyone in the county to get there, do their business and get home in one day.

Keep in mind this was the early 19th century and there were no cars at that time. The only ways to get somewhere were by walking, riding a horse or riding in a horse-drawn buggy.

It wasn’t long after Lawrenceville was founded — 17 years actually — before the community that would eventually become the city of Suwanee began with the establishment of a post office near the site of an old Native American village with a similar name.

Although the post office was created in 1838, the city wouldn’t be officially incorporated until 111 years later.

Still, Suwanee showed up as a town on U.S. census records as early as the 1890 census — although that population report also listed a population from 1880.

The growth of cities in Gwinnett really didn’t begin taking off until the 1870s, when the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway built a north-south running railroad line in the western part of the county.

In the span of six years in that decade, the cities of Norcross, Buford and Duluth were incorporated along the railroad.

Norcross was named for Atlanta Mayor Jonathan Norcross, a friend of town founder John Thrasher, while Buford took its name from Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway Algemon Sidney Buford.

Duluth, which was originally known as Howell’s Cross Roads before it was incorporated, took inspiration for its name from the town of Duluth, Minn., when the rail line was built.

Communities within Gwinnett first begin to appear in U.S. census records on their own in 1870. That was the same year that Norcross was incorporated, but it doesn’t appear as a city in the census records.

What does show up alongside Lawrenceville in the 1870 census, however, are some familiar communities including Harbins, Pinckneyville, Hog Mountain — and Sugar Hill, which wouldn’t become a city in its own right until nearly 70 years later.

Five years after the Civil War ended, the Sugar Hill area — which included what would become Buford a few years later — was home to 874 residents. By comparison, the Harbins area, including

Top, cars drive past construction crews working on the widening of Scenic Highway in this photo from the mid-1990s. Traffic has continued to build on the highway to the point that the county now plans to widen it again to six lanes. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County) Left, this copy of an 1847 map shows Gwinnett County, as well as its neighboring counties. The copy is held by the Gwinnett Historical Society at its office in Lawrenceville.

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the modern day Dacula area, was home to 1,050 people. The Pinckneyville area was home to 1,120 people and another 851 people lived in the Rockbridge area.

Other communities in Gwinnett listed in the 1870 census include Ben Smith, Goodwin’s, Berkshire, Cate’s, Martin’s and Cain’s.

Over the last two decades of the 19th century, the cities of Loganville and Auburn also came into existence. Loganville, which straddles the Gwinnett-Walton County line, was incorporated in 1887, and Auburn came along five years later.

The city of Auburn’s origins go back nearly 70 years before its 1892 incorporation, with the establishment of the Loughridge Post Office in about 1825 (its name changed to Auburn Post Office in 1837), according to the city’s website.

Gwinnett also welcomed another new city in 1884: Jug Tavern, which is now known as Winder.

Yes, that’s right. Winder was once part of Gwinnett County. Although the city is now located inside Barrow County, that county wasn’t created from parts of Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton counties until 1914.

The first decade of the 20th century brought the founding of Grayson in 1901 and Dacula in 1905.

Dacula’s name was created by its postmaster in 1893 through a mash up of the names Decatur and Atlanta, according to the Gwinnett Historical Society.

Grayson’s incorporation didn’t come without a couple of hiccups. Originally known as Trip as early as 1881, the city wanted a new name when it was incorporated, so Berkeley was chosen. But it turned out that name was already taken by another city in Georgia.

Graymont was tried, too, but a post office with that name already existed so the U.S. Postal Service nixed that idea.

Eventually, the name Grayson was chosen after its first mayor, John E. Jacobs,

received a letter from his wife who was visiting family in a county in Texas with that name. The name intrigued Jacobs, according to the city’s website, and it didn’t conflict with other Georgia towns or post offices, so it became the town’s name in 1902.

Two other Gwinnett cities established in the early 20th century had their own false starts in their early years.

Lilburn was first incorporated in 1910, although the city is not mentioned in the 1920 census. As the economy crashed in the Great Depression, the city’s government went defunct. It was eventually reincorporated in 1955 and has existed since then.

Meanwhile, Snellville had its own starts and stops early in its existence. The town was incorporated in 1923 but its initial government didn’t last long.

In the late 1920s, the government went dormant and stayed that way through the Great Depression before it was resurrected around 1940, only to go defunct again during World War II. The city’s government eventually got restarted again in 1947 and has operated continuously since then.

But the Great Depression didn’t just see a pair of Gwinnett cities go dormant. Two other cities in northern Gwinnett were born during that time period.

Rest Haven got its start on the Gwinnett-Hall county line in 1938. A year later, the city of Sugar Hill was officially incorporated.

Although the two cities were officially created a year apart, their paths since then have been very different. While Sugar Hill has grown and is now in the process of developing a downtown district centered around its City Hall, Rest Haven’s leaders have spent much of the 21st century’s early years trying to find ways to end the city’s existence.

Rest Haven has allowed Buford to annex pieces of the town gradually, and

LAWrENCEviLLE Incorporated: Dec. 15, 1821 Population in 1860: 1,591 Estimated 2016 Population: 30,127 NorCroSS Incorporated: 1870 Population in 1880: 500 Estimated 2016 Population: 16,293 BuFord Incorporated: Aug. 24, 1872 Population in 1880: 896 Estimated 2016 Population: 13,927 duLuTH Incorporated: 1876 Population in 1880: 242 Estimated 2016 Population: 28,681 LoGANviLLE Incorporated: 1887 Population in 1890: 338 Estimated 2016 Population: 11,072 AuBurN Incorporated: 1892 Population in 1900: 161 Estimated 2016 Population: 7,291 GrAySoN Incorporated: Dec. 16, 1901 Population in 1910: 278 Estimated 2016 Population: 3,008 dACuLA Incorporated: 1905 Population in 1910: 169 Estimated 2016 Population: 5,053 LiLBurN Incorporated: 1910, 1955 (original government went defunct during Great Depression, but the city was reincorporated in 1955) Population in 1960: 753 Estimated 2016 Population: 12,481 BrASELToN Incorporated: 1916 Population in 1920: 148 Estimated 2016 Population: 8,409 SNELLviLLE Incorporated: 1923 Population in 1930: 105 Estimated 2016 Population: 19,395 rEST HAvEN Incorporated: 1938 Population in 1940: 91 Estimated 2016 Population: 88 SuGAr HiLL Incorporated: 1939 Population in 1940: 599 Estimated 2016 Population: 20,889 SuWANEE Incorporated: 1949 (Listed as a town in U.S. census records dating as far back as the 1890 census, but that census report included an 1880 population number as well) Population in 1880: 215 Estimated 2016 Population: 18,001 BErkELEy LAkE Incorporated: March 6, 1956 Population in 1960: 94 Estimated 2016 Population: 1,924 PEACHTrEE CorNErS Incorporated: July 1, 2012 Estimated 2013 Population: 38,446 Estimated 2016 Population: 41,268 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Gwinnett Historical Society, Buford History Museum and cities of Auburn, Berkeley Lake, Braselton, Dacula, Duluth, Grayson, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Loganville, Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Snellville, Sugar Hill and Suwanee

in 2015, legislation was passed to transfer half of what was left of the city to its larger neighbor. Similar legislation that would have transferred the remaining half of the city over to Buford stalled in the General Assembly in 2016.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 population estimates 88 people live in Rest Haven and 20,889 people in Sugar Hill.

A decade after Sugar Hill’s incorporation, Suwanee was officially incorporated as well.

Then Berkeley Lake was incorporated in 1956, three years after the establishment of a civic association for the community.

It is named for the nearby lake that was created in 1948 — although that body of water is named Lake Berkeley.

The most recent city to come into existence in the county was Peachtree Corners. Voters approved the city’s creation in 2011 as part of a wave of new cities that have formed in the metro Atlanta area, and its government officially formed in 2012.

Peachtree Corners celebrated its fiveyear anniversary last year.

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GCPS: From rural to state’s largest system

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

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In just under 200 years, schools in Gwinnett County have blossomed from a cluster of small community schools and academies educating hundreds of students, to 139 schools offering enrichment to more than 180,000 children.

Gwinnett County Public Schools has had a meteoric rise from having “nearly or quite the highest adult illiteracy in the state of Georgia” according the U.S. census in 1920 from the book “Gwinnett County GA Schools 1923” to the state’s largest public school system.

It has gone from a collection of small schoolhouses ranging in value of $50 to $20,000 to a multibillion dollar organization finishing construction on the Paul Duke STEM High School, costing more than $25 million.

Gwinnett’s transformation from a rural area of farmland outside of Atlanta to home of one of the United States’ largest school districts has been a process.

Education in Gwinnett County officially began in 1821 with an act passed allowing trustees to build a county academy. Due to the lack of funds, the academy was not opened until five years later in 1826 and given the name Lawrenceville Academy in honor of Captain James Lawrence, a U.S. naval officer and the namesake of the county seat.

Academies such as the Washington Academy in

is done, the teachers will know where to find their children, the children will know to which school they Total schools in the must go, and the comdistrict missioner and board of education will be able to ascertain the reasons for non-attendance in any school clusters district in the county.”

During the 1920s, the Gwinnett County Board of Board of Education Education adopted a stance districts of having better schools rather than just having more schools. As a result, consolidation of schools FY18 budget for began the following decade Gwinnett County — with 71 schools being Public Schools reduced to under 30 under superintendent R.S. Simonton in 1933.

Students in Gwinnett County riding a Model T school bus, circa 1925.

(Photo: Courtesy teachers in first county During consolidation, of Gwinnett County Government) education report in 1871 Norcross, Dacula, Duluth, Grayson and Snellville were part of the county monthly pay for male school system, while Lawteacher in 1871 renceville and Buford were accredited, independent school systems.

The genesis of presentstarting salary for new day Gwinnett County teacher in 2017-18 Public Schools started in the late 1940s with the Lawrenceville school 1827, the Gwinnett Manual system joining the county Labor Institute in 1835, the school system. The issuing Female Seminary in 1837 of a bond in 1955 resulted and Center Academy in in the funding for construc1839 were the first education of South Gwinnett tional instiututions to open High School in Snellville, in Gwinnett.

Central Gwinnett High By the 1850 census, School in LawrencevGwinnett County had ille, West Gwinnett High grown to a total of 31 one- This postcard shows an early incarnation of the old Lawrenceville High School that School (presently, Norcross High School) and North teacher schools educatonce stood on a hill on Perry Street overlooking the Lawrenceville Square. (Photo: Gwinnett High School in ing approximately 1,186 Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society) Suwanee. students. In a diary kept by In addition, the bond isSuwanee resident Lucretia education did not undergo groundwork for some sioner James A. Bagwell Douglas in 1852, she dereformation until after the modern policies, such as said changes in the district sue provided funds for the building of Hooper-Renscribes teaching “an infant Civil War, when in 1870 changing teacher pay from were needed. wick School in Lawrencevschool in one room of her the Georgia General Asa system based on daily “The board of educaille and Hull Elementary family’s home.” Pupils sembly provided funds for attendance to a salary scale, tion decided to lay off the came from neighboring a statewide public school and dividing the county county into school districts, School in Duluth, both farms, and one student even system. into local school districts. and it is now high time that all-black schools.

One year later, a policy boarded with the Douglas The end of the 19th According to GCPS his- the school territories should family. century and the turn of tory records, then-Gwinnett be definitely known,” said See SCHOOLS, Page 7C Gwinnett County the 20th century laid the County school commisBagwell. “When this work

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referendums for capital building projects. However, on how the board of educa- according to the district, tion was selected with one the bonds were a reactive member being from one measure moreso than a of the five districts in the proactive one. county was adopted. The Change came in 1996 policy included the stipula- with the ascension of J. tion that the superintendent Alvin Wilbanks to the role would be appointed by the of superintendent, a change board. in the county’s educational The late 1960s saw standards and state legislaanother round of consolida- tion allowing for Gwinnett tion, this time in the form County voters to approve a of integration of both local sales tax that would white and black students benefit the education in Gwinnett County. Hull system called E-SPLOST. Elementary and HooperThe five-year penny sales Renwick School were shut tax allowed for the school down, with a majority of system to fund additional the students of the former buildings for classrooms, going to the newly crepay down existing debt ated B.B. Harris Elemenand provide additional tary School while most of technological instruction to Hooper-Renwick students students. attended Central Gwinnett Since the E-SPLOST High School. referendum first appeared The school system began on a ballot in 1997, it has to see a rapid increase in its been passed four additional student population durtimes, most recently in ing the 1980s and 1990s, 2015. and the county as a whole The change in educationwas named one of the five al standards more than two fastest growing counties in decades ago was designed the country. With the influx to challenge students with a of students coming into more rigorous and comthe school system, classprehensive new curriculum room space became a huge known as the Academic problem.

Knowledge and Skills curGCPS issued bond riculum. The change in cur-

riculum not only has given Gwinnett notoriety for being the 12th largest school district in the country, but also for its achievement, winning the Broad Prize for Urban Education, given to the top urban education systems in the country, in 2010 and 2014, and being named a finalist in 2009, 2010 and 2014.

Looking toward the future, Gwinnett County has begun to shift its focus toward STEM/STEAM programs and specialized schools. Paul Duke STEM High School, in the Norcross cluster, will open this fall, while the Meadowcreek cluster will be opening a school that will be focused on health sciences.

In its 147 years as an organized school system, Gwinnett County Public Schools has grown by 81 times its initial population of 2,200 students. While numbers are a telling factor, they don’t tell the whole story of hundreds of thousands of educators that have molded students or the millions of taxpayers that have made a small farming community into a thriving academic hub.

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A Norcross Elementary School class in 1923. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)

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George D.N. Coletti wrote in his book, “Stone Mountain: The Granite Sentinel,” that Minty led troops on the raid and encountered Confederate soldiers as they approached Lawrenceville, near Tilford McConnell’s farm, and captured them after a brief skirmish. Coletti also wrote that since a cotton mill in the city had recently burned down, there was little for Minty to take.

Minty’s own description of July 23, 1864, in a report that is now posted on www.7thpennsylvania cavalry.com, offers an unremarkable description of what happened in the Lawrenceville area.

“July 23, marched to Lawrenceville,” was all he wrote about it.

After the war, the county experienced its first major population boom as railroads were built in the county in the 1870s, when the county’s population increased by more than 50 percent in 10 years. What would become Gwinnett County Public Schools also traces its roots back to 1871.

After the railroad’s initial impact in the the 1870s, however, the county grew steadily but slowly over the following decades.

By 1920, U.S. census records show the county’s population ballooned to 30,327 residents. That is more than twice the 12,431 people who lived in the county in 1870, but only a little over 10,000 people

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more than the 1880 population of 19,531.

The county’s biggest population and economic boom period, which brought it to where it is today, is a more recent event.

Even in 1950, Gwinnett was still a small community of about 32,320 residents, according to that year’s census. Then the changes started coming.

The 1950s saw the creation of Lake Lanier, and Interstate 85 followed in the early 1960s.

Census records show that over the course of the 1950s, Gwinnett’s population increased by 11,221, the largest 10-year increase in the county’s population up to that point. During the 1960s, the population grew by 28,808 people. By 1970, Gwinnett was home to 72,349 people.

The expansion of what is now known as HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport south of Atlanta came along in the 1970s, and Nash said that was another factor that contributed to the county’s growth.

“The impact of these decisions is a reminder that Gwinnett is tied to our region and to the rest of Georgia and beyond,” she said.

During the 1970s, the population increased by 94,554 people, climbing to a total of 166,903 residents in 1980.

A countywide water network, an expansion of the county’s road network, development of the school system and modernization of public safety services happened during that time period.

“Those initial investments transformed Gwinnett from an outlying slice of rural landscape into a desirable suburban bedroom commu-

nity,” Nash said. “Residential development exploded, and, as businesses took note, commercial growth began to parallel our residential growth.”

Over the course of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, the number of new residents who moved to the county each decade numbered in the hundreds of thousands. During the 1980s, the population increased by 186,007 people. In the 1990s, the amount of growth totaled 235,538 people. The population grew by another 216,873 people between 2000 and 2010.

“Success bred success,” Nash said. “Our residential and commercial boom continued unabated during the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Gwinnett began to mature, becoming more urbanized and more diverse.”

Gwinnett County officials estimate the county currently has more than 960,000 residents.

“We’re not a bedroom community anymore,” Nash said. “We’re an employment center and a destination.

Together, county government, our schools, Chamber of Commerce, cities, CIDs and so many other Gwinnett institutions have created a strong brand of excellence that other communities seek to copy.”

In the coming decade, Gwinnett’s population is expected to cross the 1 million people mark, and by 2040, the county is expected to have about 1.5 million people, projected to be the most populous county in Georgia.

“Two hundred years after our founding, we remain a community of pioneers, with many of our residents having come from across the U.S. and from around the globe, seeking opportunity and prosperity,” Nash said.

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The City by the River

Just a century ago…

Just a century ago…

The land was once a farming settlement with a tavern, an inn, a church and a post office on a dusty stagecoach stop to Atlanta – today the area, once known as Pinckneyville, is a thriving city of over 40,000.

This fall the city’s 21-acre town center featuring restaurants, retail shops, a Cinebistro, and Town Green will be complete.

We invite you to shop, dine and enjoy our city by the river and its many amenities.

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Incorporated in July 2012, Peachtree Corners is Gwinnett County’s newest – and largest – city.

Technology-related businesses drive the city’s economic growth today, thanks to the dreams of businessman Paul Duke, who in the 1960s pitched the idea of creating Technology Park.

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AUBURN Public library hosts Maker Monday event The Auburn Public Library will host its monthly Maker Monday session from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday.

Participants will use science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics — or STEAM — concepts to make creations based on a fandom, such as Harry Potter or Star Wars.

The program is for children ages 7 to 12 with a parent, guardian, or other caregiver.

The Auburn Public Library is located at 24 5th St. in Auburn.

For more information, call 770-513-2925.

BARROW COUNTY Thinking Money exhibit teaches financial literacy The Winder Public Library is currently hosting Thinking Money, a museum-quality exhibition that is traveling to 50 U.S. public libraries.

Thinking Money strives to teach tweens, teens and their parents, caregivers and educators about financial literacy topics — like saving, spending and avoiding fraud — in a way that is not only understandable, but fun, according to the American Library Association website.

Through an adventure story, interactive iPad content and other hands-on activities, the exhibition explores personal finance concepts such as wants vs. needs, earning and paying interest, saving for emergencies and the future, avoiding financial fraud and money behaviors, the website states.

The exhibit is for all ages.

Thinking Money was developed by the American Library Association Public Programs Office in collaboration with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation. The Winder library, located at 189 Bellview St., is the only host site in Georgia.

For more information, visit apply.ala.org/thinkingmoney.

BERKELEY LAKE Easter Egg hunt planned for kids 4 and under The Pinckneyville Park Community Recreation Center is planning an egg-citing Easter egg hunt, crafts, games and a visit from the Easter Bunny for children aged 4 and under.

The Easter Pails and Bunny Tails Jr. Egg Hunt will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. March 24 at the Recreation Center, located at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. in Berkeley Lake.

There is a $6 fee for Gwinnett residents and a $12 fee for participants who live outside of the county. Participants must register by March 20. Online registration is available at www.gwinnettparks.com with code PVP11620.

For more information, call 678-277-0920.

BRASELTON STEMI Summit features cardiac continuing education The Northeast Georgia Health System is hosting the 10th annual Northeast Georgia STEMI Summit from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 23 at Chateau Elan Winery and Resort, 100 Rue Charlemagne Drive in Braselton.

The event provides continuing education units for emergency medical services workers, registered radiologic technologists, registered cardiovascular invasive specialists and nurses and continuing medical education for physicians.

Keynote speakers include Allison Dupont, the director of the regional out of hospital cardiac arrest and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation programs; J. Jeffrey Marshall, who serves serves on the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease for the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Georgia State Board of Medicine; Brenda Hott, the medical director of the heart failure programs at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center and Northside Hospital — Forsyth; Bryan McNally, the executive director of Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES); and Peter Kudenchuk, the principal investigator at the University of Washington for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.

Registration is $25 for general attendees. Lunch is

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seat by calling 678-421-2049.

Concert attendees can bring their own food and beverage to the event.

First Friday Concerts take place at the Norcross Community Center, 10 College St., on the first Friday of the month from January to April and October to December.

For more information, visit aplacetoimagine.com/events/ concerts.

Lanier Islands recently won wedding-planning website The Knot’s 2018 ‘Best of Weddings’ award. (Special Photo)

ibly honored by this distinction from The Knot,” said Stephanie Orr, vice president of A local lakeside resort sales and marketing has been recognized at Lanier Islands. “As as a top destination for the go-to source for so weddings, recently win- many young brides and ning wedding planning grooms, I think it’s safe website The Knot’s 2018 to say ‘We’ve arrived’ Best of Weddings award. by being named among Lanier Islands, a BuThe Knot’s Best of Wedford-area resort located dings. It’s not only an on the shores of Lake accolade we treasure, it’s Lanier, was recently also one we’ve worked named the winner for its extremely hard to attain more than 20 indoor and over the course of the outdoor event venues, a last decade.” “variety of activities to In 2018, only 3 perentertain and lodgings to cent of the approximateaccommodate guests,” ly 300,000 local wedding and “a talented wedding professionals listed on team and culinary staff to The Knot’s website had bring the big day to life.” received the Best of “We are incredWeddings award, which

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For more information, visit www.nghs.com/form/stemi, email STEMI.systems@nghs. com or call 770-219-5416.

BUFORD Lanier Community Garden now accepting applications The Lanier Community Garden is now accepting applications for plots in time for the spring growing season.

The garden, located on the property of the Lanier Water Filter Plant at 2547 Buford Dam Road in Buford, offers 79 garden plots for residents to grow fruit, herbs, vegetables and flowers for their families, local food banks and other charitable organizations. Plots come in two sizes; larger plots have an annual fee of $45, and small plots cost $22.50 per year.

Plots are available on a firstcome, first-served basis.

For a membership application, visit www.laniercommunitygarden.org.

DACULA Library offering class on new online catalog The Dacula branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library will teach patrons how to use its BiblioCommons catalog to find books and interact with the online community at a workshop in March.

The workshop, titled “Navigating Our New Catalog,” will take place from 1 to 2 p.m.

March 7.

BiblioCommons is a Toronto-based software company that provides features that help patrons search, explore, borrow and do more in the online library, according to the Gwinnett County Public Library website. Features include improved search functionality and the ability to create a user name, curate reading lists and rate, review and tag materials.

The Dacula library is located at 265 Dacula Road. For more information, visit www. gwinnettpl.org.

DULUTH Rotary Club hosts Coffee with a Cop The Rotary Club of Duluth will host Coffee with a Cop, an initiative of the Gwinnett County Police Department, from 9 to 11 a.m. March 23 at the 1818 Club, located on the third floor of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce building at 6500 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.

The mission of Coffee with a Cop is “to break down barriers between police officers and the residents they serve by removing agendas and allowing opportunities to ask questions, voice concerns, and get to know the officers in your community,” according to a news release. The theme of “building relationships, one cup at a time” conveys the intention to foster meaningful conversations that are possible when individuals are genuinely interested in what one another have to say.

The public is invited to attend, but space is limited.

Those planning to attend should reserve their spot by calling 678-442-6504 or emailing David.D.Wood@gwinnettcounty.com.

GRAYSON SAT Essay Prep offered at library The Grayson branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library will offer an SAT Essay Prep session from 2 to 3 p.m.

Saturday.

The program will provide information about the requirements and expectations for the SAT Essay, which requires writers to analyze a text. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to examine samples of scored essays.

Lanier Islands resort makes 2018 Best of Weddings list

PEACHTREE CORNERS Horizon Toastmasters hosts open house at YMCA The Horizon Toastmasters Club will have an open house from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. March 6 at the Robert Fowler YMCA, 5600 W. Jones Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners.

Attendees can network and learn new ways to improve their communication and leadership skills. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

The Horizon Toastmasters meet at 7 p.m. each Tuesday in the YMCA’s Senior Center Activities Room.

Toastmasters is an international organization that provides an opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills in a structured, friendly, and supportive environment.

For more information, visit www.horizonclub.toastmastersclubs.org.

SNELLVILLE Master Gardeners award grant to Snellville garden For the third consecutive year, the Community Garden at Snellville has been awarded a grant from the Gwinnett supports local wedding support team for our County Master Gardeners vendors. brides and grooms, Association.

The $500 grant will help To determine the win- honed our culinary support the garden’s greenners, The Knot looked menus to perfection and house operations with the at nearly 3.6 million created a number of purchase of supplies, includreviews across the variincredible destination ing pots, potting soil, organic ous vendor categories wedding packages for fertilizer, rooting hormone and — venues, musicians, those couples who want vegetable and flower seeds, florists, photographers, to extend their event out according to a news release. caterers and more. over several days. Wed“We will now be able The winners represent dings are a very happy to grow more flowers and the best of the best wed- business to be in, and we vegetables for the community, making a better environment ding professionals that are truly privileged to be for all of us,” said master a bride or groom would a part of so many special gardener Wes Nettleton, who want to consider bookbeginnings.” was instrumental in applying ing for their own unique In addition to the most for the grant. wedding. recent award, Lanier The garden’s greenhouse “We’ve crafted new Islands was recently is maintained by a team of venues and re-imagined named Best Rehearsal volunteers. existing ones to give our Dinner Site by Best of The team plans to have couples the very best Atlanta Bridal Awards. plants available for sale at this backdrop for their big For more information year’s Snellville Days, May 5 day,” Orr said. “Lanier to 6 at T.W. Briscoe Park. about weddings at the In addition to its primary Islands Weddings has resort, visit lanierislands. purpose of providing space also built an amazing com/weddings. for families to grow flowers and food for their own The Grayson library is loEnglish, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi consumption and to donate to cated at 700 Grayson Parkway. and Mandarin. Assistance will local charities, the CommuFor more information, visit be provided to attendees on a nity Garden at Snellville also www.gwinnettpl.org. first come, first served basis. adds to Snellville’s sense of The Lilburn branch is community, the news release located at 4817 Church St. in LAWRENCEVILLE states. The garden is located Lilburn, in the same building as in T. W. Briscoe Park on the Roundabout to be corner of Marigold Road and installed at Sardis Church, Lilburn City Hall.

For more information and a Sawyer Parkway. Currently Doc Hughes list of required documents to the garden includes 48 raised The intersection of Sardis bring, visit gwinnettpl.org/N400 beds, a pavilion, beehives, a Church and Doc Hughes or email events@gwinnettpl. greenhouse, tool shed and a roads will be transformed into org. large perennial garden. a roundabout.

For more information on the Peach State Construction LOGANVILLE garden visit www.snellvilleCo. LLC was the lowest of 11 communitygarden.com.

Home buyer workshop bidders at $518,453.25, acoffered by DHI Mortgage cording to a news release. The SUGAR HILL DHI Mortgage will present a cost includes curb and gutter, Bilingual cop to read workshop for those interested lighting and sidewalks. in buying a home from 11 at library story time Funding will come from the a.m. to 2 p.m. March 10 at the 2014 special purpose local The Buford-Sugar Hill Reserve at Logan Point, 213 option sales tax, or SPLOST, branch of the Gwinnett County Logan View Drive in Loganville. Public Library will host a bilinprogram, the news release “Overcome Your Fears of states. The contract was apgual story time with a police proved by the Gwinnett County Buying a Home” will present officer at 11 a.m. March 10. information about the benefits Board of Commissioners.

The Buford-Sugar Hill li“I’m optimistic about the po- of pre-qualifying and getting brary is located at 2100 Buford a realistic price range before tential to improve traffic safety Highway in Buford. shopping for a new home, with this intersection design,” The police officer will read knowing which loan programs stories in English and SpanDistrict 4 Commissioner John are available, and the DHI Heard said in the news reish. The program is intended lease. “Innovative solutions like Mortgage Buyers Club, a for children ages 3 and up service that teaches you how this roundabout make Gwinand their parent, guardian or to overcome credit challenges accompanying adult. nett County the best place to and prepare for successful do business in the nation.”

For more information, visit home ownership.

For more information on www.gwinnettpl.org.

The event is free. Those Gwinnett County Transportainterested in attending should tion projects or to learn more SUWANEE register no later than Saturday about SPLOST, visit www.

Run for the Rescues by contacting De’Angela Balgwinnettcounty.com. raising money for SPCA lard by email at DMBallard@ The 8th annual Georgia drhorton.com or by phone at LILBURN SPCA Run for the Rescues 404-392-1542.

Library offering help 5K and Fun Run will take for citizenship paperwork place from 8 a.m. to noon NORCROSS The Gwinnett County Public March 24 at Suwanee Town First Friday concert Library, in conjunction with the Center Park. features Legacy Music Latin American Association The run will go toward and Asian Americans AdvancThe Atlanta-based variety helping homeless pets at ing Justice Atlanta, will host the Georgia SPCA adoption band Legacy Music will perfree N-400 Citizenship Apcenter in Suwanee. form at the city of Norcross’s plication Assistance programs First Friday concert from 7 to Register online at runsignup.com/runfortherescues, at in March and April for lawful 9 p.m. Friday at the Norcross any Big Peach location or on permanent residents at the Cultural Arts and Community site on race day.

Lilburn library.

Center.

Adoption opportunities Sessions are from 10 a.m.

The free concert will take featuring SPCA animals and to 1 p.m. March 16 and April place in the Community Centhose in the care of other 20. Qualified legal representer’s banquet room. Seating animal rescue groups will be tatives will be available in is limited, so those interested available. multiple languages, including in attending can reserve a

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Aunt Ozelle and the great magnolia tree

Frequently these days, my sister and I are brought together for a funeral or funeral home visitation of yet another family member, mostly those from Mama and Daddy’s generation although our cousins have begun dying off.

On one of the most recent visitations, we stopped for an early dinner and encountered the greatgranddaughters of my beloved Aunt Ozelle, Mama’s oldest sister. I stopped at their table to chat.

“It’s so funny that we should run into you today,” said the pretty Mary Beth, who was with her pretty sister, Hannah. “I just went

by Nanna’s house today. I know how close you were to her.”

Tom out of the mountains and into a town to make a living. Their baby had died. Their cow, their reliable source of milk and butter, had choked to death when she got her head stuck between slabs in the stall. And their beloved ronda dog had died, too. rich “If we’d stayed, we’d probably’ve died, too,” Mama used to say that she recounted in a nonof all the cousins, I loved sentimental tone. That Aunt Ozelle the best. I was was Aunt Ozelle. She was devoted. And not because stoic, somber and smart she was warm, cuddly and as they come. She knew soft. She wasn’t. She was the Bible up one side and a product of a hard raising down the other. She did and a hard beginning of not suffer fools well, beher own family life in the lieving as the King James desperately poor mounBible teaches that a “fool” tains. She once told me it is the worst thing you can was the winter of 1937 that call someone. had forced her and Uncle When I was 5 and 6,

then the summer between my first and second grades, I stayed with Aunt Ozelle while Mama labored in a sewing plant. Aunt Ozelle took no money for this child care. She was doing what mountain people always do — watching out after one of their own.

There are many things I remember about those days: the musty root cellar in which I loved to play; Aunt Ozelle’s devotion to “Days of Our Lives,” which we watched faithfully; the bed with the handmade quilt on which I took a nap; how she mixed grape and orange soda together for my refreshment after naptime; and how her little house was always neat, dusted and perfect.

They didn’t have a lot, but they took mighty good care of what they had.

Every day at noon on the dot, she called me for lunch to her kitchen, so tiny that her small table, covered with a red checkered oil cloth, was pressed against a wall. She always delivered a delicious lunch. As we ate, a rich baritone voice filled the room, coming from the little radio she kept above the stove.

“Hello America, this is Paul Harvey.” His melodic sounds would fill the air as we both listened and ate.

In front of the little shotgun house that Aunt Ozelle and Uncle Tom bought brand new in 1945 was a joyous magnolia tree. I played for many hours under that majestic tree. I loved it. In later years, I would realize that it was truly the most beautifully shaped and enormous magnolia I’d

ever seen.

Shortly before Aunt Ozelle died at 91, I was visiting. We sat on the screened-in front porch, rocking and talking.

“Did you plant that tree?”

She nodded. “Just a seedling when I put it in almost 70 years ago.”

After her death, the house sold. I have intentionally not been by it there, fearful of one thing.

“I hate to ask you this because I hate to know this answer but …” I paused, reaching for nerve, “Did the new owner cut that magnolia down?”

Slowly, Mary Beth nodded “yes.”

There is nothing more I can say. The sadness is too great.

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Imagine your spouse calls to say, “I lost my job.”

What are the first words out of your mouth?

Do you blurt out, “Oh god, what are we going to do for money?” Or do you pause, and think about how your spouse feels in this moment?

If you’re like most people, a spouse losing their job is panic inducing. It’s natural to worry about how you’re going to pay your bills.

Your natural first thought is how will we pay our bills. But just because that’s your first thought doesn’t mean it has be your first words.

Put yourself in your spouse’s shoes; imagine you lost your job. You’re scared, humiliated, and likely angry. When you tell your spouse, which reaction would you prefer? How are we going to pay the mortgage? Or, “Oh baby, I’m so sorry, tell me all about it.”

The person who lost their job already feels terrible. They’re likely in full throttle panic. Adding more shame and fear won’t make things better.

There will be plenty of time for shared panic in the coming days. In that critical moment — when the person first shares the bad news — what they need most is support.

The first words out of your mouth will be what they remember most. You can make the person feel loved, or can leave them feeling alone.

When someone shares bad news, it’s natural to think first about how it will impact you. But again, the first thing you think doesn’t have to be the first thing you say.

This principle applies at work as well. Imagine your sale rep calls and says she lost the big deal you were counting on to make the quarter. Do you immediately blast her with, “No way, you lost it? This is awful, we needed that deal.”

Or do you empathize with their loss, “Oh gosh, I’m so sorry. I know you were counting on it. What happened?”

The deal is already lost. Even if you can

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lisa mcleod save it, three minutes on the phone with your rep won’t make a difference.

The question in that moment is, how do you want your employee to feel? If they’re a low performer and you’re already frustrated, letting them know you’re angry is appropriate. But if the person is a valued team member, who simply had something go the wrong way, shaming and blaming them is not going to improve their performance in the future. Nor will it improve their alliance with you.

Good performers hate failure, and they really hate having to tell their boss they failed. You may be thinking, “Oh crap, how am I going to tell my boss?” Again, your first thoughts do not need to be your first words.

Though job losses and lost deals are high stakes situations, the same dynamic plays out in lesser circumstances.

Your kid dings up the car, your coworker erases the file, your neighbor’s tree swings the wrong way and falls onto your garage. We’ve all seen that person who gets bad news, tenses up, acts like it’s a calamity and makes everyone around them feel worse. It’s never helpful.

When someone confesses a problem or mistake to you, the best thing you can do in that moment is empathize and connect. Deal with the person first, the problem second.

The people you care about will thank you.

Lisa McLeod is the global expert in Noble Purpose. She is the author of the bestsellers “Selling with Noble Purpose” and “Leading with Noble Purpose.”

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(N) (Live) NBA Basketball Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Clippers. (N) (Live) College Basketball Mississippi at Kentucky. From Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky. (N) (Live) College Basketball Houston at Southern Methodist. From Moody Coliseum in Dallas. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (CC) Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (Season Premiere) Jim Parsons; Kristin Cavallari. (N) (CC) E! News (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games “Funny Food” (CC) Guy’s Grocery Games “Noodle Games” (N) Guy’s Grocery Games “Big Bacon Battle 2” Guy’s Grocery Games “Frozen Food Fight” (6:00) ››› “Despicable Me” (2010) (CC) grown-ish (N) ’ (CC) (:31) Alone Together (:02) ›‡ “Big Daddy” (1999, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart. (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) (6:30) Women’s College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Focused College Basketball Syracuse at Boston College. From the Conte Forum in Boston. (N) (Live) World Poker Thor: The Dark World ››‡ “Iron Man 2” (2010, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. ’ (CC) The Assassination of Gianni Versace The Assassination of Gianni Versace Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers “Building a Solid Foundation” Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers “Mad About Plaid” (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers (CC) American Pickers “Pedal Pushers” (CC) (DVS) ››› “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (1976, Western) Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke. ’ (CC) (:03) American Pickers “Picker’s Code” ’ Little Women: Atlanta “Another Bad Romance” Little Women: Atlanta (N) (CC) Little Women: Atlanta “Girl Power” (N) (CC) (:02) Glam Masters “Made You Look” (N) (CC) (:02) Glam Masters “Made You Look” (CC) (6:30) Henry Danger ’ Lip Sync Battle ››› “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” (2004, Children’s) Voices of Tom Kenny. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Conan (N) (CC) (6:00) ›››› “Father of the Bride” (1950) ›››› “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957, War) William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa. (CC) ›››› “Patton” (1970) George C. Scott. (CC) Bones Corpse at the bottom of a gorge. ’ (CC) ›› “We’re the Millers” (2013, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter. (CC) (DVS) ››‡ “Magic Mike XXL” (2015) Channing Tatum. (CC) (DVS) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ ›››‡ “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015, Action) Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. (CC) (DVS) ››› “Remember the Titans” (2000, Drama) Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Adeosun Faison. (CC) (DVS)

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(Local Programming) Once Upon a Time “Secret Garden” (N) ’ (:01) Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (N) ’ (CC) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) MacGyver “Hammock & Balcony” (N) ’ (CC) Hawaii Five-0 (N) ’ (CC) Blue Bloods Danny investigates a man’s death. (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) iZombie Liv has a surprising vision. ’ (CC) Jane The Virgin Jane decides to pursue writing. (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef (Season Premiere) Cooks prepare filet mignon and chicken. (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Blindspot Roman and Blake grow closer. (N) ’ Taken A foreign diplomat is kidnapped. (N) (CC) Dateline NBC (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) MeToo, Now What? (N) Frontline Accusations against Harvey Weinstein. Makers Women influence entertainment. (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ American Ninja Warrior Competitors try stage 1. American Ninja Warrior Competitors try stage 1. 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (N) ’ Corrupt Crimes (N) ’ Father Brown Father Brown is trapped. ’ (CC) Death in Paradise ’ (CC) New Tricks Practitioners of witchcraft. ’ (CC) The Doctor Blake Mysteries ’ (CC) Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ Dateline ’ (CC) CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Ticket” The Game ’ (CC) The Game “Baby B.S.” (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 02.24.18” ’ (CC) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 89” (CC) Live PD “Live PD -- 03.02.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ›››› “Jaws” (1975) Roy Scheider. A New England police chief, a shark hunter and a scientist have a showdown with a huge white shark. (CC) ››‡ “Jaws 2” (1978, Suspense) Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. (CC) Married to Medicine “Circle of Truth” (CC) Married to Medicine “D.N.A. D-Day” (CC) Married to Medicine “In the Black” (N) (CC) Relative Success With Tabatha (N) (CC) Married to Medicine “In the Black” (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) The Office (CC) (:25) The Office ’ (CC) The Office ’ (CC) The Office “Initiation” ››‡ “Wayne’s World” (1992, Comedy) Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe. (CC) Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (CC) Gold Rush Parker suspects Tony of sabotage. Gold Rush: Pay Dirt “King Kong” (N) ’ (CC) Gold Rush Tony’s dredge teardown hits a wall. (:01) Gold Rush: White Water “Hypothermia” ’ (:02) Gold Rush “Independence Day” ’ (CC) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Toronto Raptors at Washington Wizards. From Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Minnesota Timberwolves at Utah Jazz. (N) (Live) College Basketball Texas-Arlington at Texas State. From Strahan Coliseum in San Marcos, Tex. College Basketball Iowa State at Oklahoma. From the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla. (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) ›››‡ “The Help” (2011, Drama) Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard. (CC) (DVS) E! News (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Sorcerer’s Apprentice (:45) ››‡ “The Da Vinci Code” (2006, Mystery) Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen. Premiere. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Women’s College Basketball Women’s College Basketball ACC Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Women’s College Basketball ACC Tournament, Second Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (6:00) ›‡ “Wild Hogs” (2007) Tim Allen. ’ ›› “Ride Along” (2014, Comedy) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo. ’ (CC) ›› “Ride Along” (2014, Comedy) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart. ’ (CC) (6:00) “Summer of Dreams” (2016) (CC) “Royal Hearts” (2018, Comedy) Cindy Busby, Andrew Scott, James Brolin. (CC) Meet the Peetes Holly plans a trip with Dolores. The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Fixer Upper Gayle and Tim need help. (CC) Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens “The Mystery of Rudloe Manor” Ancient Aliens “The Replicants” ’ (CC) Ancient Aliens “The Mysterious Nine” ’ (CC) (:03) Ancient Aliens “Aliens in America” ’ (CC) (:03) Ancient Aliens “The Other Earth” ’ Bring It! (CC) Bring It! “Special” (N) (CC) Bring It! Coach D begins a new season. (N) (CC) (:02) Laurieann Gibson: Beyond the Spotlight (:02) Glam Masters “Made You Look” (CC) Knight Squad ’ (CC) Lip Sync Battle ›› “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (2007, Children’s) Jason Lee, David Cross. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ ›‡ “Red Dawn” (2012, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson. (CC) (DVS) ELEAGUE Final Space (CC) (DVS) Final Space (CC) (DVS) (5:15) ›››‡ “The Guns of Navarone” (CC) ›››› “Annie Hall” (1977, Comedy) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts. (CC) ›››› “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979, Drama) Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry. (CC) Bones Heart failure. ’ (CC) ››› “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” (2011, Suspense) Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer. (CC) (DVS) The Alienist Sara looks into Kreizler’s past.

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(Local Programming) Grey’s Anatomy “You Really Got a Hold on Me” Scandal Olivia gets an unexpected visit. (N) (CC) How to Get Away With Murder (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) The Big Bang Theory (:31) Young Sheldon (:01) Mom (N) ’ (CC) Life in Pieces (N) (CC) S.W.A.T. “Fences” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Supernatural “Good Intentions” (N) ’ (CC) Arrow Two teams fight about Black Siren. (N) ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Gotham A doctor is targeted for assassination. Showtime at the Apollo “Premiere” (N) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Superstore (N) ’ A.P. Bio (N) (CC) (DVS) Will & Grace (N) ’ A.P. Bio (N) (CC) (DVS) Chicago Fire “The F Is For” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) The This Old House Hour ’ (CC) Victoria on Masterpiece Victoria is threatened by a relative. ’ (CC) POV “Last Men in Aleppo” Daily struggle in Aleppo, Syria. ’ (CC) 11 Alive News at 7PM Daily Blast Live (N) ’ Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Shrink-Wrapped” Law & Order: Criminal Intent “The Saint” (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Killer Mysteries (N) ’ Corrupt Crimes (N) ’ Africa’s Great Civilizations ’ (CC) Independent Lens ’ (CC) Movie Finding Your Roots ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ College Basketball North Carolina State at Georgia Tech. From McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta. (N) Inside Edition (N) (CC) Seinfeld “The Pitch” The Game ’ (CC) The Game ’ (CC) The First 48 A double shooting in New Orleans. The First 48 “Devil in Me & Trail of Blood” (CC) The First 48 A killer targets the law. ’ (CC) 60 Days In Nate expands his meth investigation. (:03) The First 48 “Mother of Two” ’ (CC) (5:45) ››‡ “Uncle Buck” (1989) John Candy. ››› “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006, Comedy) Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Adrian Grenier. Premiere. (CC) ››‡ “Bruce Almighty” (2003) Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman. (CC) The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (CC) Top Chef Visitors from home surprise the chefs. Top Chef The chefs get a lesson in fly fishing. Bethenny & Fredrik Bethenny & Fredrik Watch What Real Housewives Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) South Park Animated. Cartman freezes himself. South Park (CC) South Park (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 “Kitten Play” Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) The Daily Show The Opposition Street Outlaws vs. Fast N’ Loud (CC) Street Outlaws vs. Fast N’ Loud (N) (CC) Street Outlaws (N) ’ (CC) (:01) American Chopper “Welcome Back” Estranged motorcycle builders. Street vs. Fast College Basketball Wichita State at Central Florida. From CFE Arena in Orlando, Fla. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) Women’s Soccer United States vs Germany. From Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. (N) (CC) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Oregon State at Washington.

E! News (N) (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) E! News (CC) The Story With Martha MacCallum (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The Ingraham Angle (N) (CC) Fox News at Night (N) (CC) Chopped “Healthy Rivalry” (CC) Chopped “Light Makes Right” (CC) Chopped Light on calories but big on flavor. Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (6:00) ›‡ “The Waterboy” (1998) ’ (CC) Beyond “Stir” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) ››› “Matilda” (1996, Children’s) Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Women’s College Basketball Women’s College Basketball ACC Tournament, Second Round: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Women’s College Basketball ACC Tournament, Second Round: Teams TBA. ››› “Straight Outta Compton” (2015, Biography) O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell. Premiere. ’ (CC) Atlanta “Alligator Man” Atlanta “Alligator Man” Atlanta “Alligator Man” Straight Outta Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop Nashville Flip or Flop (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Swamp People “Hunting Houdini” (CC) (DVS) Swamp People: Blood and Guts (N) (CC) (DVS) Swamp People “Texas 911” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) To Be Announced (:03) Swamp People “Texas 911” ’ (CC) (DVS) Project Runway All Stars (CC) Project Runway All Stars (N) (CC) Project Runway All Stars Colorful party looks. (:02) Glam Masters “Made You Look” (CC) (:02) Project Runway All Stars (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Lip Sync Battle ››‡ “The Princess Diaries” (2001, Children’s) Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Héctor Elizondo. Premiere. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld “The Strike” Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Conan (N) (CC) (6:00) ›››› “Sounder” (1972) Cicely Tyson. ›››› “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957, War) William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa. (CC) ›››› “Patton” (1970) George C. Scott. (CC) NCIS: New Orleans “Musician Heal Thyself” ’ NBA Basketball Philadelphia 76ers at Cleveland Cavaliers. From Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (N Subject to Blackout) NBA Basketball Minnesota Timberwolves at Portland Trail Blazers. (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H “Cowboy” Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (6:15) ››‡ “Shooter” (2007, Suspense) Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña. (CC) (DVS) American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja (N) (CC) (:01) ››‡ “Shooter” (2007, Suspense) Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña. (CC) (DVS)

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(Local Programming) NBA Countdown (N) NBA Basketball Boston Celtics at Houston Rockets. From the Toyota Center in Houston. (N) (Live) (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) To Be Announced 48 Hours ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef Girls must make a filet mignon dish. Showtime at the Apollo “Premiere” (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Love Connection “Brace Yourself for Love” ’ (Local Programming) NHL Hockey Toronto Maple Leafs vs Washington Capitals. From Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (Local Programming) Saturday Night Live (N) (Local Programming) Austin City Limits Robert Plant performs. (CC) (Local Programming) Wheel of Fortune (CC) Jeopardy! ’ (CC) Saving Hope Alex is tricked into a blind date. ’ Rookie Blue “Going Under” ’ (CC) 11Alive News at 10PM Sing Like a Star (N) ’ Ring of Honor Wrestling (CC) Finding Your Roots DNA analysis. ’ (CC) Atlanta Voices (N) To Be Announced Atlanta Eats The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory CBS46 News at 9pm (N) Movie (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 02.23.18” ’ (CC) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 90” (N) Live PD “Live PD -- 03.03.18” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ››‡ “Jaws 2” (1978, Suspense) Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. (CC) ›‡ “Jaws 3” (1983, Suspense) Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale. (CC) (:45) Jaws the Revenge To Be Announced ››‡ “Baby Mama” (2008, Comedy) Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear. (CC) ››‡ “Baby Mama” (2008) Tina Fey. (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) The History of Comedy “F... Funny” (CC) The History of Comedy “Politics Aside” (CC) The History of Comedy “Making Fun” (CC) (5:50) ››‡ “Wayne’s World” (1992) (CC) ›‡ “Big Daddy” (1999, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart. (CC) ›‡ “Big Daddy” (1999, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart. (CC) Fast N’ Loud: Fast Lane “Camaro Heaven” (N) Fast N’ Loud: Fast Lane (N) ’ (CC) Fast N’ Loud “Team Gas Monkey” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Misfit Garage “Misfit Mischief” (N) ’ (CC) (:02) Fast N’ Loud “Team Gas Monkey” ’ (CC) (6:00) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (:15) College Basketball North Carolina at Duke. From Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. (:15) College Basketball UCLA at USC. From Galen Center in Los Angeles. (N) (Live) (CC) (6:00) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Ohio Valley Tournament, Final: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball WCC Tournament, Third Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) ››› “The Blind Side” (2009, Drama) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron. (CC) ››› “The Blind Side” (2009, Drama) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron. (CC) Fox Report (N) (CC) Watters’ World (N) (CC) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) (CC) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) (CC) Watters’ World (CC) Worst Cooks in America (CC) Worst Cooks in America (CC) Worst Cooks in America “Celebrity: Get Baked” Worst Cooks in America (CC) Worst Cooks in America (CC) (5:25) ››› “The Italian Job” (2003) Premiere. (:05) ››› “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011, Action) Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan. ’ (CC) (:45) ››› “X-Men: First Class” (2011) James McAvoy. Premiere. (CC) Women’s College Basketball Big 12 Tournament, Third Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Hoops Extra Women’s College Basketball Big 12 Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) In the Spotlight (5:30) ››› “22 Jump Street” (2014) ’ (CC) ››‡ “Fast & Furious 6” (2013, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. ’ (CC) The Assassination of Gianni Versace “Falling for Vermont” (2017, Romance) Julie Gonzalo, Benjamin Ayres, Peter Benson. (CC) “Frozen in Love” (2018, Comedy) Rachael Leigh Cook, Niall Matter. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) House Hunters (CC) House Hunters (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers “Lakeside Dreaming” (CC) House Hunters Renovation (N) (CC) Log Cabin Living (N) Log Cabin Living (N) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars: Pumped Up ’ (CC) (6:00) “From Straight A’s to XXX” (2017) (CC) “Bad Tutor” (2018, Suspense) Vanessa Marcil, Alex Frnka. Premiere. (CC) (:02) “The Good Mistress” (2014, Suspense) Annie Heise, Kendra Anderson, Antonio Cupo. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) The Thundermans (N) Knight Squad (N) (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) The Goldbergs ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Seinfeld “The Frogger” Seinfeld “The Maid” The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal The Detour (CC) (5:30) ›››› “The Yearling” (1946) ›››› “Gandhi” (1982, Biography) Ben Kingsley. Richard Attenborough’s Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India’s independence. (CC) ›››‡ Braveheart (6:00) ›››‡ “Shrek” (2001) (CC) (DVS) ››‡ “Maleficent” (2014, Fantasy) Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley. (CC) (DVS) ››› “Cinderella” (2015, Children’s) Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden. (CC) (DVS) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Mom “Pilot” ’ (CC) Mom ’ (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ NCIS ’ (CC) (DVS) NCIS ’ (CC) (DVS) Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and B.I.G. Falling Water “Risk Assessment” (N) (CC) (:01) NCIS ’ (CC) (DVS)

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9 p.m. on AMC The Walking Dead Is Carl (Chandler Riggs) really dead, or at least dying? That question is likely to be foremost in the minds of this show’s fans as season 8 resumes with the show’s winter premiere, “Honor.”

In the midseason finale, they saw Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) son bitten by one of the walkers, which generally signals imminent death.

And it’s not as if Rick doesn’t have enough on his plate already: His attack on Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) was a bust that left devastation in its aftermath.

8 p.m. on NBC The Voice The Emmy-winning singing competition begins its 14th season with “The Blind Auditions” (of course) and someone new on the panel of coaches and judges: Kelly Clarkson, who served as a guest adviser last time — and who surely knows how such contests can go, since she was the first “American Idol.” She joins returnee Alicia Keys and seriesfounding mentors Adam Levine and Blake Shelton to gauge the new crowd of hopefuls. Carson Daly continues as the host; another episode airs Tuesday.

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Chandler Riggs

8 p.m. on PBS We’ll Meet Again Host and executive producer Ann Curry’s series, driven by yearslater reunions of people who met under specific and historic circumstances, concludes its season with “Coming Out” — bringing back together several individuals who were active in the gay-rights movement at its birth. One man wants to find the person who inspired him to his acknowledge

ously made either help or hinder the latest contenders. Of course, Jeff Probst is back as host.

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“Survivor” his orientation to others, while another man looks for the fellow student who motivated him in a similar way.

WEDNESDAY 8 p.m. on CBS Survivor If it’s almost spring, it’s time for another group of castaways to begin the quest to outwit, outlast and outplay all rivals as this granddaddy of reality-competition series launches its 36th season with “Can You Reverse the Curse?”. The overall theme this time is “Ghost Island,” and it involves the legacies of past “Survivor” players as mistakes previ-

8 p.m. on CW Supernatural Jim Beaver guest stars as an acquaintance made by Jack and Mary (Alexander Calvert, guest star Samantha Smith) after they get away from Michael (guest star Christian Keyes) in the new episode “Good Intentions.” Sam, Dean and Castiel (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins) are unaware that someone supposedly on their side actually is working against them.

8:30 p.m. on NBC A.P. Bio With Seth Meyers and “Saturday Night Live” mentor Lorne Michaels among its executive producers, the new school comedy lands on its regular night with “Burning Miles” — Miles (Tom Bennett) being the target of a revenge plan that Jack (Glenn Howerton) lures his students into.

Jack also has another concern in the persona of Helen (Paula Pell), who is determined to have him contribute something to a bake sale. Patton Oswalt also

stars. Another episode airs an hour later.

FRIDAY 9 p.m. on NBC Taken A disappearance has major personal significance for Santana (Jessica Camacho), as a foreign diplomat’s kidnapping reveals the victim’s connection to sex traffickers in the new episode “Absalom.” Given Santana’s own background, the resulting mission has its share of uncomfortable moments for her. Clive Standen, Jennifer Beals and Adam Goldberg also star.

9:01 p.m. on ABC Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The effects on one member of the team are destined to be profound as Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his colleagues try to save the human race in the new episode “All the Comforts of Home.” They have no idea what their efforts ultimately will mean for one of their own.

Patrick Warburton (“Seinfeld”) and Catherine Dent (“The Shield”) guest star. Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Henry Simmons also star.

SATURDAY 8 p.m. on NBC NHL Hockey The NHL’s Stadium Series makes a stop at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland as the Toronto Maple Leafs and Washington Capitals square off outdoors.

These two teams met in the first round of the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs where despite the efforts of then rookie sensation Auston Matthews, the Capitals prevailed.

With the NHL season starting to wind down, both teams are poised for a return to the post season.

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Role, size of county government has grown

By Curt yeomans

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In the beginning, there was the Elisha Winn House.

One of the oldest homes in Gwinnett County, it was the original seat of government 200 years ago. It served as the first voting location in the county and its courthouse when Gwinnett was established in 1818.

Elisha Winn was the county’s first Inferior Court judge after all.

“That’s the original (location in Dacula),” Gwinnett Historical Society Co-President Betty Warbington said of the house, which is now a historic site run by the group.

“In that parlor is where Elisha Winn sat and dictated the government, things that were going to take place, so it’s very significant.

“Of course, later on, his wife asked that (the government and court activities) be moved to the barn because she didn’t want all of that going on in the house with the kids.”

Since those early days, county government has grown and changed. The Elisha Winn House didn’t remain the center of county government for long as the county seat of Lawrenceville was established, and then grew. A courthouse was built in the 1820s as the center of government came together.

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The Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse is surrounded in snow in February 1908. This photo was taken months before the now-familiar clock tower was added to the then 23-year-old courthouse. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)

of the county government’s early history was lost in 1871, however, when the courthouse burned down, so many of the county records from before that year are believed to no longer exist.

In 1885, the building now known as the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse was built and it became the symbol of county government, if not its center point, for the next century.

One thing that has gone back and forth since the 19th century has been the size of the county’s Board of Commissioners.

Due to the 1871 fire, it’s difficult to know for sure what the county commission looked like before then, but there are records available since then that show the changes in the commission’s size. Local historian Elliott

Rogers. More victories and participation followed, culminating in the county’s first football state championship (Buford in 1978) and Gwinnett County Public Schools’ first football state title (Brookwood in 1996).

From there, Gwinnett has become nationally known for its football talent. ESPN released statistics earlier this month that ranks Gwinnett as the No. 4 county nationally over the past 10 years for producing ESPN top 100 recruits.

Only three counties have produced more ESPN 100 recruits over the past decade than Gwinnett — Los Angeles County, Calif., (48), Broward County, Fla. (38) and Harris County, Texas (26).

But those three counties feature huge populations — Los Angeles County (10.7 million), Broward County (1.89 million) and Harris County (4.54 million).

Meanwhile, Gwinnett produced its 24 ESPN 100 recruits over the last 10 years with a population of slightly more than 900,000.

Brack published detailed lists of the county commission members since 1873 in his book, “Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta.”

Brack’s book shows that from 1873 to 1915, the commission’s size was the same as it is now with five commissioners, one of whom served as the chairman. In 1873, the Board of Commissioners included Chairman R.D. Winn and Commissioners Burton Cloud, E.J. McDaniel, W.W. Parks and D.W. Byrd.

The board was downsized in 1916, however, when it was reduced to three commissioners, C.A. McDaniel, Paul Dover and W.R. Hurst, with McDaniel serving as chairman.

It wasn’t until 1969 that the commission returned to the five-member setup that

Warren Davis held court in an old school building, Conner said.

“That’s one thing to say, ‘OK, the lawyers and the judges are in different buildings,’” Conner said. “Jurors walked all over downtown Lawrenceville to get to the court they were supposed to exists today. The 1969 board be in. Litigants would go to of commissioners was made the old courthouse and (offiup of Chairman W.R. Pruitt cials would) go, ‘Oh no, you and Commissioners Ray W. need to go down to the old Gunnin, Carvis P. Williams, post office, you need to go to Maron Buice and Julian the furniture store back here Archer. behind the post office.’ It was In 1985, the county got truly an experience.” its first female commission The spread-out nature of chairwoman, Lillian Webb, the county government and who served in that role courts ultimately led to the until Wayne Hill took over in construction of the Gwinnett 1993. Hill was then followed Justice and Administration

by Charles Bannister, who Center, which opened in was succeeded by current 1988 and centralized county Chairwoman Charlotte Nash government. in 2011.

Over the years, the look Eventually, the county of county government has government’s growth reached changed. In 1911, for exthe point where it was spread ample, the Georgia General out across several buildings Assembly created an elected around Lawrenceville by commissioner of roads office. the 1980s. Gwinnett County There had been road Superior Court Chief Judge commissioners in GwinMelodie Snell Conner said nett at various times before this past week that it wasn’t then. Thomas P. Hudson, just the government offices for whom the Hudson-Nash that were spread out.

House is named, held the The courts were spread all position at one point in the over downtown Lawrencev- mid-19th century. ille as well. Conner said the But the position created first criminal case she tried as in 1911 shows the back and a lawyer was held in a post forth nature that once existed office. The first domestic in Gwinnett government. case she tried was held in a “(Said) Commissioner of movie theater.

Roads shall have exclusive Then-Magistrate Judge jurisdiction over the public

roads and bridges of said county, the location, building and improvement thereof, and, when changes are, in his judgment, necessary or would be advantageous, may, at his discretion, employ a competent engineer, at the of the expense of the county, to assist him in the prosecution of such particular work,” the legislation said.

The position didn’t last long. A year after the office was created, the General Assembly repealed the law creating it, thereby erasing it from existence.

Today, the county has an appointed transportation director, Alan Chapman, whose department oversees roads, bridges, transit and other items related to the county’s transportation network.

Gwinnett’s modern transportation network includes more than 2,500 miles of roadway, an airport and the Gwinnett County Transit bus system.

The county government has many more functions these days than it did in 1818, though.

It also includes departments that oversee about 47 parks, trails, elections, planning and development, countywide police and fire departments, a prison, facilities and fleet maintenance, county finances, water resources, tax collections, human resources, information technology, senior services, libraries, and animal welfare.

years. Whether it be youth, high school and now college and the professional ranks, Gwinnett County sports are now firmly placed in the spotlight of national exposure and great success.

“With the addition of the Atlanta United 2 profes-

everyone, from participation levels of all abilities to spectator opportunities including the professional ranks. More importantly, the level of excellence concerning sports in Gwinnett appears to be on a trajectory of increased success for years to come.”

Sports

ern gyms, stadiums, courts and aquatic centers, taking miles or more away.” advantage of high school facilities that are better than Other ways to play many colleges.

While Buford and “Now you see athletes at Norcross boasted strong the elementary school level baseball programs, the taking pitching lessons and sport was played in other hitting lessons for softball,” areas of Gwinnett, ranging Brogdon said. “Playing yearfrom towns like Grayson round, they’re developing at and Lawrenceville to teams a young age. When they get from small communities to high school, they’re playmost Gwinnettians wouldn’t ing on a very competitive know in 2018, like Brushy level. If you’re not playing at Fork and Redland. a young age now, you’re goBut baseball wasn’t the ing to have trouble making overwhelming favorite the high school team.” everywhere. Both Dacula The Gwinnett sports and Grayson had successful landscape also has reached basketball programs. beyond the youth and high Dacula claims Gwinschool levels over the past nett’s oldest Georgia High two decades, in part from School Association state the construction of Infinite championships on record, Energy Arena, which has winning boys basketball hosted events ranging from titles in 1938 and 1945. It Southeastern Conference also claims a state crown in championships to WNBA 1932, while Grayson won title games to high school a boys basketball title in championships. Though it 1925. Even Gwinnett girls just fielded athletic teams basketball teams got in on beginning in 2012-13, the success, winning state in Georgia Gwinnett College 1946 (Bethesda) and 1954 already boasts nationally (Dacula). ranked NAIA programs in The basketball wins hapbaseball, soccer, softball and pened on modest basketball The championship tennis. courts. and pro sports era Gwinnett’s footprint “Grayson had a makeGwinnett gets plenty of in pro sports continues to shift gym,” said 91-year-old credit for the high school expand as well.

Jack Britt, who played for football state championships ECHL ice hockey’s Grayson’s 1942 county it has racked up, with good Atlanta Gladiators, formerly championship basketball reason. Since Brookwood in the Gwinnett Gladiators, team and whose name 1996, 22 local football teams have called the county home currently adorns the Rams’ have won state titles. since 2003. The Gwinnett high school game field. “It But the success hasn’t Stripers, previously known had a good floor on it. Of been limited to football. as the Gwinnett Braves, course the (roof) wasn’t any By the 1980s, more sports have served as the Atlanta good, so when it rained, we were offered and more Braves’ Triple-A affiliate in would have to mop it up and championships were won. minor league baseball since put gas on the floor, and set The victories have accumu- 2009. The Georgia Swarm it on fire to dry the floor out. lated at an even more aclacrosse team, fresh off a That’s where the 1925 (state celerated pace over the past National Lacrosse League championship) team played. 20 years. Of Gwinnett’s 409 championship, launched loIt was indoor and had a coal all-time team state champically in 2016. stove on each end. It stayed onships, 334 have happened Duluth’s TPC Sugarloaf pretty warm.” between 1996 and 2018. has hosted PGA and PGA By the 1950s, football In addition to improvChampions Tour events began to take hold in Gwin- ing at established sports, regularly since 1997. It curnett. student-athletes also have rently hosts the Champions Buford embraced the more sports available Tour’s Mitsubishi Electric sport quickly, even reachthan ever. Within the past Classic, scheduled this year ing the Class C state finals 20 years, volleyball and for April 13-15. Atlanta in 1954, falling 7-0 to lacrosse have boomed since United 2, an affiliate of MaHawkinsville. Britt started being introduced as varsity jor League Soccer’s Atlanta Lawrenceville High’s high school sports.

United, begins play this year football program in 1952, Gwinnett teenagers turn at Coolray Field. putting in the foundation for those opportunities into “Gwinnett County has a school that became Central college scholarships by the always enjoyed a rich hisGwinnett and finished as hundreds. Well over 100 tory in sports,” said Stan Class A state runner-up in high-schoolers sign with Hall, executive director of 1966. college football programs on the Gwinnett Sports ComDuluth football had state National Signing Day alone, mission. “However, there runner-up finishes in 1973, in addition to the hundreds is no doubt that the level of 1975 and 1980, and also who take advantage of colsports, relative to tremenproduced the 1980 Heislege options in other sports. dous success, has been on man Trophy winner, George They compete in modthe rise for the past several

sional soccer team coming to Gwinnett this year at Coolray Field, there are few places in our area that can boast of a sports scene that has a swath that spreads as widely from start to finish as it does in Gwinnett. There truly is something from

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Top left, The 1953 Lawrenceville High School boys basketball team poses for a photo in the school’s old gym. (Special Photo) Top right, Duluth grad George Rogers poses for a photo after winning the 1980 Heisman Trophy as a South Carolina running back. (Photo: University of South Carolina) Above right, Tthe 1952-53 Lawrenceville High girls basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special Photo) Above left, brothers and major leaguers Ivy, left, and Absalom “Red” Wingo played baseball for Norcross. (Special Photo)

Gwinnett’s rise from humble beginnings to sports mecca was a long journey

By Will Hammock

existence, but so were residents.

The county’s minimal population was spread among small, agrarian As tall and athletic as she was, communities from the time it was Cindy Brogdon didn’t have many founded in 1818 through well into avenues for participation as a the 20th century. youngster in small-town Buford, Eventually, those communities then part of still heavily rural discovered America’s pastime: Gwinnett County. baseball. Norcross and Buford, She joined other girls on bustling because of railroad lines slowpitch, church-league softball that split through their downteams at the American Legion town areas, formed teams that Field until, through an incredible competed with others in the area, bit of good fortune, she discovered and their games were must-see basketball. Or better put, basketentertainment for decades. ball coaches discovered her.

Nowhere was baseball bigger Then a Buford seventh-grader, in the area than Norcross, a city she was asked to join the eighththat was founded in 1870 and has grade basketball team because it its own Norcross Baseball Hall of didn’t have enough girls to fill out Fame, which houses artifacts that a roster. include photos of town teams as “I was one of the tallest ones far back as 1910. in physical education classes,” “The boys (from Norcross), Brogdon said. “They asked me to they wanted to play baseball,” come play and I said, ‘Yeah, that former Norcross player Troyce would be fun.’ Because I loved Cofer, who died in 2014, told the sports. Back then, we played Daily Post in a 2003 interview, 3-on-3. The first game we played, when he was 83. “That’s all they I scored 52 points. I thought, thought here. We didn’t play foot‘Yeah, I kind of like that.’ Plus I ball. We didn’t play basketball. got new tennis shoes. And I liked Former Greater Atlanta Christian basketball star Cindy Brogdon Even in high school, we didn’t that. That’s how simple it was. We poses for a portrait in her Suwanee home in 2008. (File Photo) even have a basketball court. All played for fun.” we thought here in Norcross was That said, basketball created op- looked in an area that was known Olympic gold medalist. baseball. portunities that weren’t available almost exclusively to that point for Moore was the first female ath“I guess the older ones talked to in the 1970s for female athletes. baseball, basketball and football. lete signed to Nike’s prestigious the younger ones and talked them Had she stuck with softball, or Males who wanted to pursue ath- Jordan Brand after college, an into playing baseball. I’ve never joined the track and field team, her letics beyond the borders of Gwin- endorsement deal Brogdon never seen or heard of a town like Norcollege scholarship options would nett County in college and beyond could have imagined in the 1970s. cross. It’s a baseball town. Always have been nonexistent. had a few options, but even those “It’s great that (high-schoolers) has been.”

Instead, she became the first options were limited largely to are able to have more opportuniThe proliferation of baseball Georgia female to earn a full those big three sports. ties now than when I came around, talent, and the regular games, creathletic scholarship after leading Since her playing days ended, and it’s great to see the opportuni- ated pro baseball opportunities for Greater Atlanta Christian to state Brogdon has watched with amaze- ties girls are provided,” Brogdon a number of Norcross natives. In championships in 1972, 1974 ment at how much Gwinnett said. “When I was younger, the 1920s, the city of roughly 600 and 1975 (and earning four state athletics have grown. Though she everybody was getting opportuni- residents saw two sets of brothers tournament MVP awards). The worked until her recent retirement ties just in basketball. Now it’s — Ivy and Absalom Wingo, and 5-foot-11, long-range shooter as a teacher in Fulton County, she through all the different sports.

Roy and Cleo Carlyle — reach signed with Mercer, where she has lived in Suwanee for years Everybody’s offering scholarships the major leagues. In addition to spent two seasons, before playand marveled at the changes in her in every different sport that girls those four, Norcross had 12 other ing her final two years with the sports-crazed home county. are able to play now. It’s not that, players during that era compete Tennessee Lady Volunteers and The Gwinnett of Brogdon’s ‘If I’m not a basketball player, in some level of professional head coach Pat Summitt (then Pat youth has been replaced by one I’m not going to get a scholarship. baseball. In 1929, Roy Carlyle Head). Her 3,204 career points that funnels hundreds of athletes Now if you have a sport and you put his hometown in the national are still the fifth-most scored in to colleges yearly. Brogdon is no do well, you have an opportunity spotlight with his 618-foot home women’s college basketball. longer the county’s most famous to get a scholarship.” run while playing for the Pacific Those accomplishments, along women’s basketball alum. She has Coast League’s Oakland (Calif.) with a silver medal in the 1976 been replaced by Collins Hill grad Where baseball was king Oaks that was billed as the lonOlympics, almost didn’t happen Maya Moore, already a four-time Sports were scarce in Gwinnett gest, tape-measured home run in because her talents were overWNBA champion and two-time for a large chunk of the county’s baseball history.

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“You could go knock on the doors around town and put together a team that could beat anybody around,” the late John Adams, who played for Norcross and in pro baseball before serving in World War II, told the Daily Post in 2003. “Some people worked on farms and couldn’t play all the time, but there were always enough people to get up a ball team.”

Up the railroad line in Buford, another town loved its baseball.

The city’s park and wooden bleachers hosted games for the widely successful Bona Allen Shoemakers, sponsored by the Bona Allen Company, a tannery that flourished alongside the city’s railroad tracks. As other areas struggled through the Great Depression, Buford survived in large part thanks to its leather business and baseball. In some cases, those two intertwined. Bona Allen Company had a contract to supply sporting equipment company Spalding with the material for baseballs and gloves.

The semi-pro Shoemakers launched in 1933, winning 56 of their 61 games. The success continued and included a 1938 Semi-Pro World Series championship.

Buford’s beloved team played in a ballpark that rivaled the Atlanta Crackers’ famous home, Ponce de Leon Park. It hosted more than 2,500 fans on June 8, 1937 for the first night baseball game held north of Atlanta. Even when the Shoemakers played road games, fans gathered at the park.

“Play-by-play accounts of (the) tournament games were received at the Bona Allen office by teletype and broadcast by loudspeaker to an eager crowd assembled (at) the ball park,” Hansel Grady Morgan wrote in his book, “Historic Buford,” published in 1993. “It was just like any other game. The concession stands were open and several hundred people would sit, staring at an empty field, listening to a ball game being played 1,000 See sports, Page 13C