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Company reportedly under contract to buy mall retail space

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Gwinnett County’s first mall may soon be turned into a cricket stadium, according to a media report that surfaced Monday.

Business news site Bisnow reported Tuesday that a group calling itself CricRealty Company is

under contract to buy the indoor retail area at Gwinnett Place Mall for an undisclosed amount.

Bisnow cited Global Sports Ventures Chairman Jignesh Pandya, who is a lead partner in CricRealty, as its source.

Pandya’s partners in CricRealty reportedly include Texas-based Thakkar Developers and Moonbeam

Capital Partners — which is Gwinnett Place’s current owner. Bisnow reported that despite Moonbeam’s ties to CricRealty, Pandya would be the mall’s owner after the sale is completed.

Pandya could not be immediately reached Tuesday.

A website that had previously been set up for Global Sports Ventures, which was promoting a multi-city

professional cricket league two years ago, had been shut down and a website for CricRealty could not be immediately located. An attempt to reach Pandya through Facebook was not immediately successful.

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Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth is reportedly under contract to be purchased by a company that plans to turn its interior retail space into a 20,000-seat cricket stadium. (File Photo)

Convicted sex offender Ed Kramer back in jail

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Pam Greider donates blood on Tuesday as part of a drive held in honor of Gwinnett County Police Department Officer Antwan Toney, who was killed on Oct. 20 when investigating a suspicious vehicle in Snellville. The drive was hosted by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office and held at the jail. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

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Blood drive held in honor of fallen Gwinnett officer

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evident at a Tuesday afternoon blood drive held in honor of the fallen officer.

Hosted by the Gwinnett In life, Gwinnett County PoCounty Sheriff’s Office, the lice Department Officer Antwan drive was the largest in at Toney was full least a decade, sheriff’s office of heart, caring spokeswoman Deputy Shannon deeply about Volkodav said. the community “It’s meaningful to host a and the people blood drive in honor of Officer he served.

Toney, who lost his life in ser“As an ofvice of our community, because ficer, humaniboosting the blood supply is tarian, philanhelping to sustain life,” VolkoAntwan Toney thropist, he dav said. “That’s what Officer wanted to give Gwinnett County Police Department Chief A.A. “Butch” Ayers Toney died doing; he was prestands with Antoinette Page, the mother of Officer Antwan serving safety in the community back to different organizations, Toney, who was killed on Oct. 20 when investigating a suspi- when he was killed.” particularly dealing with children,” said Toney’s sister, Carla cious vehicle in Snellville.

Toney, who was days shy of Johnson. “He wanted to create his third anniversary with the a positive representation of law to connect with the community, In death, Toney’s effect on Gwinnett County Police Departenforcement and he wanted and thought by starting with the the community, and his fellow ment when he died, was gunned to be a mentor to children. He children, that was the best way officers, continues, Johnson said See BLOOD, Page 6A wanted to find different ways to do that.”

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Convicted child molester and DragonCon co-founder Ed Kramer is back in jail, having been arrested for allegedly photographing a girl in Lawrenceville.

While few details have been released, jail records show Kramer was booked into the Gwinnett County Jail on Tuesday. His charges were listed as “registered sex offender intentionally photograph(ing) a minor without consent of (the) minor’s parent/ Ed Kramer guardian.”

Kramer pleaded guilty to three counts of child molestation years ago and was sentenced in 2013 to an aggregate of 20 years, with the first five to be served in home confinement. He was also labeled a “sexually dangerous predator,” a classification he challenged last year in Fulton County Superior Court.

Kramer, a Duluth resident, co-founded DragonCon in 1987, though he has not been involved with the convention since 2000 when he was arrested for the alleged molestations.

His prosecution was delayed for years due to constant legal posturing and a litany of medical issues, reportedly ranging from neck pain and hearing issues to emphysema and psoriatic arthritis, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter previously said.

In September 2011, Kramer was arrested again after he was found in a Connecticut hotel room with a 14-yearold boy.

The stipulations of Kramer’s bond prohibited him from having any unsupervised contact with a child under 16 years old and he was extradited to Gwinnett following the arrest.

Kramer remained part owner of DragonCon until July 2013, when he was bought out by the organization, four months prior to his guilty plea.

It was not immediately known if the timing was connected to the plea, though many had urged DragonCon to cut ties with the co-founder in the years following his initial arrest.

Kramer’s bond for the most recent charges is set at $22,200.

MARTA early voting begins with expectations of high turnout

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elections director Lynn Ledford to predict a turnout that is at least twice as large as a typical special election might draw.

County officials expect county’s elections office in “For a true special election, Gwinnett’s MARTA vote to Lawrenceville and a few hand- it’s pretty high,” Ledford said of drive a higher voter turnout than fuls of additional voters swung the voter activity that happened usual for a special election, but by after that during the last hour as early voting began. “ObviMonday’s start of early voting that the poll was open that day. ously, it depends on the issue offered the first glimpse of what In addition to the votes cast and how interested people are in could be as about 900 voters Monday, 834 mail-in ballots whatever the issue is, but usucast ballots. have been sent out to voters as ally special elections don’t draw As of 6 p.m. Monday, 867 early voting began. votes had been cast at the See MARTA, Page 6A All of it is leading county curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

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Jail Dogs program celebrates its 500th adoption

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Billy Watkins didn’t know, when he entered the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office Jail Dogs program in 2010, how much of an impact it would have on him.

“I think I was the fifth person chosen (for the program) and Scrappy happened to be the fifth dog to come through the program; that’s how we got matched up,” Watkins said.

“We made the connection, and him living with me in my cell for three months and me training him up ... I regained a sense of responsibility, it gave me some direction in my life and (it was) pure joy.”

On Tuesday, Watkins returned to the Gwinnett County Jail, Scrappy by his side. This time, however, Watkins was a free man, at the jail to share his story about adopting Scrappy after he was released.

Above, Gwinnett County Jail inmate Jordan Buchner shows off the commands he has taught his dog, Bandit, while in the sheriff’s office’s Operation Second Chance, also known as the Jail Dogs program. Top right and bottom right, former inmate Billy Watkins is seen with his dog, Scrappy, at the Gwinnett County Jail. On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office celebrated its 500th dog adoption. (Staff Photos: Isabel Hughes)

“I begged Cpl. (Karen) Pirkle to let me adopt the dog,” Watkins said. “She went to Sheriff (Butch) Conway three different times, and the third time, he finally said yes. Ever

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since then, me and Scrappy have just shared love and joy. It’s a godsend, it really is.”

Sitting outside under Tuesday afternoon’s blue skies, sheriff’s office personnel, inmates, volunteers and Gwinnett community members celebrated Operation Second Chance, or more colloquially known, the Jail Dogs program, and its 500th dog adoption.

Since its inception in 2010, the program — a partnership between the

Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office and Society of Humane Friends of Georgia that saves dogs from the county’s animal shelter by using inmates to train the dogs until they are adoptable — has successfully adopted out 531 dogs, to be exact.

In 2013, the sheriff’s office added cats into the program for female inmates to work with. To date, 59 cats have been adopted.

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Watkins said while he’s The dogs sleep in their had ups and downs over primary handlers’ rooms, the years, the skills he though the secondary and learned in the program, tertiary handlers allow and the connection he has for more inmates to have with Scrappy, are unparalaccess to dogs while also leled. providing continuity for “It’s such a positive the dog, should one of its program,” he said. “It’s a handlers leave the unit. win for the inmates — they Trainers, who are comget a second chance to do munity volunteers, visit with the dogs and inmates something positive — it’s three times a week, where a win for the dogs — they they teach the inmates how get a second chance at life — and its a win for to train and care for the the community, because dogs while also forming they get to adopt animals bonds with the men and with training and hopefully the animals. (when) the inmates get out “Sheriff Conway saw they will do something the staggering number of positive.” animals being euthanized MORE ONLINE

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Vietnam to ‘spare no effort’ for summit President Trump, Kim Jong Un to meet today in Hanoi

By Ivan Watson CNN

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has rejected the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to the country’s semi-official Fars news agency.

“The presidential office said the resignation had not been accepted,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said, Fars reported Tuesday.

The nation’s top diplomat announced his intention to step down from his post, which he has held since 2013, on Instagram on Monday evening. Rouhani is required to accept the resignation in order for the move to go into effect, according to Iranian law.

“I sincerely apologize for the incapacity to continue serving and all the shortcomings during the service,” Zarif wrote on Instagram, adding, “Be happy and upbeat.”

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said his country will “spare no effort” to host a successful summit between North Korea and the United States because in the end, it would be less costly than a war.

“For the peace of the world, for a connected and developed world, let’s shake hands. We shall develop together and contribute to global stability,” Nguyen told CNN. In an international exclusive interview with CNN, Nguyen — the second in line of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party — said that the country hopes to play more than just host to U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but rather prove itself as an example of the benefits of peace, reconciliation and market liberalization.

Kim arrived in Vietnam Tuesday after a two-anda-half day train trip to the Pakistan vows country. He was welcomed retaliation after

by Vietnamese officials and a Indian airstrikes guard of honor in the border city of Dong Dang. Kim then Pakistan’s Prime Minister got into his Mercedes and Imran Khan has promised to headed to Hanoi, where he retaliate against India after will meet Trump today and it conducted airstrikes on Thursday. Trump arrived in an alleged terrorist training the city Tuesday night. camp across the Line of The country is expected Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, in a significant escalation of hostilities between Auto workers’ the two nuclear armed powers. union sues GM “India has committed to keep three uncalled for aggression to plants open which Pakistan shall respond at the time and place The United Auto Workers of its choosing,” Khan’s union sued General Motors office said in a statement. on Tuesday, claiming the The apparent strike took company’s plan to shutter place in the early hours of three auto plants violates the Tuesday morning, and came union’s labor contract. in response to what India The lawsuit, filed in the said was “credible intelNorthern District of Ohio, ligence” about potential ter- asks the court to order GM rorist attacks, Indian foreign to reverse its decision to secretary Vijay Gokhale told close plants in Baltimore; reporters in New Delhi.

Lordstown, Ohio; and WarIt was the worst attack on ren, Mich. It also seeks damIndian forces since the beages for affected employees, ginning of an insurgency in including back wages and the region in the late 1980s, benefits. according to analysts.

The UAW says the closings breach a 2015 labor agreement that “prohibits 800-year-old the Company from closing Crusader mummy or idling any plant during the term of the Collective decapitated at Bargaining Agreement.”

Irish church GM, along with Ford and An 800-year-old mumFiat Chrysler, has contracts my, believed to be the with the UAW that are set to remains of a Crusader, has expire in September. been decapitated by vanThe Lordstown plant is dals at a church in Ireland. scheduled to close next week Thieves broke into and the other two plants are the crypt at St. Michan’s set to do the same in coming Church in Dublin and months. vandalized the burial site GM said in a statement before making off with the that the company is not in head, the Church of Ireland violation of its labor contract said. with the union.

The mummy is thought to be a soldier who fought HHS documents in the Crusades, a seshow alleged ries of eight expeditions sanctioned by the Church incidents of between the 11th and 13th sexual abuse centuries, which resulted The Department of in a religious war between Health and Human Services Christians and Muslims.

Intruders turned the received more than 4,500 body over while removing complaints of sexual abuse its head, and also desagainst unaccompanied ecrated the 400-year-old minors from 2014-18, acremains of a nun, accordcording to internal agency ing to the Church. documents released Tuesday — From wire reports by Florida Democratic Rep.

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People Selma Blair talks about her MS diagnosis

Selma Blair opened up about her battle with multiple sclerosis in her first ever television interview and described the moment she learned of her diagnosis.

“I had tears. They weren’t tears of panic,” she told Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” in a taped interview that aired Tuesday. “They were tears of knowing I now had to give in to a body that had loss of control, and there was some relief in that.”

The actress said that she reached out to fellow actor Michael J. Fox. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during an exclusive interview with CNN on Tuesday.

“I said, ‘I don’t know who (CNN) to tell, but I am dropping to reap some economic and important commitment and to sell North Korea on giving things. I’m doing strange things,’” Blair said. “He got public relations benefits by responsibility for us.” up its nuclear weapons in hosting the diplomatic event, The prime minister added: exchange for U.S. help to de- in touch with me and we and it is openly embracing its “We deeply appreciate velop its economy. Hanoi has began conversations. He really helped me … he gives role as host. North Korean, the meaning of peace and undergone a “remarkable” U.S. and Vietnamese flag reconciliation. Contributing transformation, as the World me hope.” displays can be seen through- towards peace is a responsi- Bank puts it, since embracout the city, and its vendors bility of each nation in this ing market liberalization in Perry reveals are selling shirts emblazoned day and age.” the 1980s without ceding how Bloom with Kim and Trump’s faces Vietnam is believed to political authority. in addition to their usual fare. have been chosen as the host The Trump administration popped the Nguyen said Vietnam’s of the summit for both practi- is expected to try to convince question war-torn history is an imcal and symbolic reasons.

Kim to embrace an economic Love really was in the portant motivator in hosting The country is accessible by model similar to Vietnam’s, the event: “Vietnam is doing train from North Korea and but it’s unclear how receptive air for Katy Perry when Orlando Bloom proposed to her best to successfully maintains diplomatic relaKim will be. her on Valentine’s Day. organize the second U.S.tions with Pyongyang. Kim Vietnam’s changed The singer appeared on DPRK summit in Hanoi. It’s visited his country’s embassy relationship with the United “Jimmy Kimmel Live” a historic moment in the path in Hanoi shortly after arrivStates is another point of Monday night and revealed toward reconciliation and ing in the Vietnamese capital. pride that Nguyen said he that Bloom took their peace-making on the Korean But Vietnam also is a pow- hoped North Korea could relationship to new heights peninsula. That is a very erful symbol for those trying find inspiration in. when he asked her to marry him in a helicopter above Los Angeles. congressional appearances However, in a scene this week, with one public reminiscent of a romantic and two private sessions.

As senators filtered in and comedy, Perry said that things didn’t go as planned. out of Tuesday’s daylong “Actually, the funny part interview with Cohen, they is we had champagne in the said he was being subjected helicopter and the box was to an “extensive grilling” in his pocket and he had by committee staff, includwritten down everything he ing about the lies he had told the committee when he wanted to say in a note to divert. He was going to pull first testified in 2017 about it out while I’m reading it, how far the Trump Tower The United Auto Workers union sued General Motors on Moscow project deliberaso I’m reading it but I’m Tuesday, claiming the company’s plan to shutter three tions extended into the 2016 hearing the champagne is auto plants violates the union’s labor contract. (CNN) like broken, the bottle’s campaign. everywhere. I’m still lookSen. Susan Collins, a Ted Deutch. hoc group” of scientists to Maine Republican, said that ing at the note but he’s In addition, 1,303 comre-evaluate the federal govCohen was “a very different pulling out this box that’s too big for his coat pocket plaints were reported to the ernment’s current concluguy” than the last time he and it rips his coat pocket Justice Department during sions about climate science appeared. and his elbow goes into the that same time frame, acand the negative impact of champagne.” cording to the documents. fossil fuels, The Washington Federal court Perry, whose been dating Deutch addressed the doc- Post reported Sunday. The rejects challenge Bloom on and off since uments during a high-profile group would include scien2016, says despite the minor House hearing Tuesday on tists “who question the seto Mueller’s hiccup they had a smooth the Trump administration’s verity of climate impacts and legitimacy landing on the rooftop of a “zero tolerance” policy that the extent to which humans Roger Stone associate building where her and famresulted in thousands of contribute to the problem,” Andrew Miller will have to ily and friends were waitimmigrant children being according to the paper. separated from their parents.

Schumer also took aim at testify to a grand jury in spe- ing. “He did so well,” Perry cial counsel Robert Mueller’s added.

He said that the docuRepublican leaders, saying ments “demonstrate over the that “it is long past time” for investigation or will go to jail, a three-judge panel at the Ariana Grande past three years, there have them “to admit that climate DC Circuit Court of Appeals been 154 staff on unaccom- change is real, that human to return to panied minor, let me repeat activity contributes to it, and ruled Tuesday morning, in that, staff on unaccompanied Congress must take action to an endorsement of Mueller’s Manchester authority as a prosecutor. minor allegations of sexual counter it.”

Ariana Grande will return The court agreed with assault.” to Manchester in August in a trial-level judge’s ruling “This works out on averCohen on that Miller should be held in order to headline the Pride age to one sexual assault by Capitol Hill for contempt of court and jailed festival, after a terror attack HHS staff on unaccompaoutside her show in May for refusing to testify under start of 3-day nied minor per week,” he 2017 killed 22. a grand jury subpoena from added. testimony Grande will lead the ManMueller.

President Donald Trump’s chester Pride Live lineup on The appeals court said Schumer vows former fixer and personal that Mueller was legally ap- Aug. 25, to be held at the pointed by Deputy Attorney city’s repurposed Mayfield to defund Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen Depot. The two-day concert, expressed contrition Tuesday General Rod Rosenstein as climate panel upon his return to Capitol special counsel in May 2017. part of the wider ManchesSenate Minority Leader ter Pride Festival, will raise Hill, apologizing to the Sen- Mueller has conducted a Chuck Schumer vowed ate Intelligence Committee grand jury investigation that money to “benefit LGBT+ Tuesday to defund a climate causes in Greater Manchesfor the lies he told during his is within his legal authority, science panel the White House 2017 testimony, according the court wrote in its opinion. ter.” is looking to create, calling it On Twitter, Grande said to multiple sources familiar Miller’s challenge had “fake” and criticizing Repub- with his interview. tested whether Mueller could she was “thrilled” to be lican leaders for their positions Cohen testified behind call witnesses to a grand jury headlining Pride, adding, “i on climate change. cant wait to see u and i love closed doors before the and take other prosecutorial The White House is con- committee on Tuesday, the u so so much.” steps.

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Cancer patient’s treatment leads to radiation in crematory

By Susan Scutti CNN

Radioactivity was detected on the oven, vacuum filter and bone crusher of an Arizona crematory where a deceased man who’d received radiation therapy was incinerated, according to a new case report. Worse still, a radioactive compound unrelated to the dead man was detected in the urine of an employee there.

“It is plausible that the crema-

Must read tory operator was exposed while cremating other human remains,” Dr. Nathan Yu of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and his co-authors wrote in the case report, published Tuesday in JAMA. Radioactive compounds are used in some medical procedures to diagnose and treat disease. PET scans, for example, use a radioac-

tive dye to help doctors see tissues and organs, and some cancer treatments use radioactive compounds to target tumor cells.

The case report tells of a 69-year-old man with a pancreatic tumor who was treated with a nuclear medicine at an Arizona hospital in 2017. He died days later and was cremated five days post-treatment.

On learning of the patient’s death, a safety officer from the hospital’s radiation department

notified the crematorium and, onemonth post-treatment, surveyed the equipment using a Geiger counter. A urine sample from an employee was also analyzed.

Incineration “volatilizes” radiopharmaceuticals in a dead body, and the radioactive contamination can be “inhaled by workers (or released into the adjacent community) and result in greater exposure than from a living patient,” Yu and his co-authors wrote.

The Geiger counter picked up

a range of radioactivity (primarily the isotope contained in the medicine given to the patient) on equipment in the crematorium: the oven, vacuum filter and bone crusher.

A different isotope was detected in the employee’s urine. Because he’d never undergone a medical procedure using radiopharmaceuticals, the researchers believe that he inhaled the radioactive contaminant while incinerating other bodies.

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Treating prostate cancer is individual process DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your recent column on prostate cancer treatments, and I must disagree on the differences between IMRT and proton radiation therapy.

IMRT or X-rays can cause secondary aggressive cancers of the bowels or bladder. I know of an individual who died from this type of cancer after IMRT. Proton radiation therapy does not cause secondary cancers because of the way protons work.

Secondary cancers due to IMRT occur in about 8 percent of patients. This may be acceptable odds for radiation oncologists, but not to patients who develop them.

Also, many doctors own the IMRT machinery and will send patients there for financial reward, which is what happened with my former urologist. When I found this out, I terminated my relationship with him.

I hope this explains why I consider any treatment other than proton radiation therapy for prostate cancer to be archaic medicine and not to be used.

— M.D. ANSWER: I always appreciate hearing differing opinions from my own, and here is why I disagree.

The lifetime risk of a second malignancy after IMRT (now considered standard radiation treatment) for prostate cancer has been estimated to be about 1 person in 220 in all patients, but as high as one person in 70 (about 1.5 percent) among those who are followed over 10 years — 1.5 percent is much less than the 8 percent you quote.

Proton therapy should have a decreased risk of secondary malignancy, but that is unproven. While early reports suggest that the risk of secondary malignancy in proton therapy may be about half the risk seen in traditional IMRT, proton therapy clearly does have an increased risk of secondary malignancy. Given a lack of proof of improved efficacy of proton therapy in survival in prostate cancer, and increased GI toxicity among proton-beam-treated patients, I reaffirm my recommendation that there is not yet a compelling reason to choose proton treatment over IMRT. That may change as further data accrues and as we learn how best to use proton treatments, which in theory could have less risk to surrounding tissues.

If you have proof that your urologist was benefitting financially from sending you to IMRT, you should report it to Medicare or Medicaid, as appropriate. That is a violation of the Stark Law and/or anti-kickback statutes, and it is both illegal and unethical for a physician to do.

Interestingly, I had several readers tell me that they felt their physician sent them for one treatment or another based on financial incentives (including IMRT, proton therapy and high intensity focused ultrasound, which is not yet considered a standard therapy for prostate cancer in the U.S. despite favorable data in Europe). Physicians know they are not allowed to refer to an entity that they or a family member has a financial stake in.

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In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting presidents to two terms.

In 1973, Native American activists and members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, beginning a standoff with federal marshals that lasted until May 8.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet; Hugo Black (1886-1971), U.S. Supreme Court justice; Marian Anderson (1897-1993), singer; John Steinbeck (1902-1968), author; Joanne Woodward (1930- ), actress; Elizabeth Taylor (1932-

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TODAY’S FACT: In 1939, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution when it barred African-American singer Marian Anderson from performing at Constitution Hall. Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial instead.

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TODAY’S MOON: Between last quarter moon (Feb. 26) and new moon (March 6).

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Political difference is evergreen issue Dear Readers: I’ve briefly stepped away from my column to work on a new writing project.

This week, I’m rerunning topical Q&A from 10 years ago. Today’s topic is: Politics and Tolerance.

I’m struck by how, even though there is a very different president in the White House from when these questions were originally published, the issue of how to tolerate an opposing point of view is evergreen.

Dear Amy: I find I need to make some changes. I try to be open-minded and to see people as humans first and not judge them by color, creed or educational background.

My specific areas of difficulty surround people who are blatantly of a different political stripe than I am, and those who are significantly and more openly religious than I am. I find that once I know people have sympathies with a political administration I don’t favor, then I’m apt to dislike them and am unable to appreciate other qualities they might have that I would find worthy.

The same goes for people who sprinkle their conversations with religion or speak of religion in a way that makes it seem that all their thoughts and decisions come from their deity. I feel very blocked in these areas and want to know which doors I need to open in my own mind

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Amy Dickinson to work this problem through. I’m asking you to please open my mind.

— Closed-minded Dear ClosedMinded: I can’t open your mind — but you probably can. I love your question partly because — unlike many who write to me — you seem to want to change. (Most people want someone else to change.)

You could try to do something I’ve been doing lately, and that is to consume roughly an equal amount of media leaning toward both sides of the political equation. It also helps to realize that no political side has a lock on obnoxiousness, hysteria or foolishness.

The essential truth is that everybody is different, people have a right to paint themselves in any political or religious stripe they choose, and your inability or refusal to see the person beneath the beliefs tips you toward the bigot side of the scale.

The most gracious and socially adept people I know always find a way “in” as a way to get to

know someone. They dip beneath the surface, ask questions and listen to the answers. If you do this you’ll learn that even zealots have hometowns and favorite movies.

Commonalities will trump differences. (May 2009) Dear Amy: I have been enjoying a group of friends for the past 10 years.

During the past year, I have had a real problem over their pontificating about their political point of view.

I am the only person in the group with a different political view. The past four times I’ve seen them, I’ve come home feeling very upset about their bashing of the new president. I did not act like that when the previous administration was in office.

We have had some angry, awkward moments and it makes me want to stay home and avoid the whole thing. I have tried to tell them that I feel bullied, but they always say we all should be able to express our opinions and I shouldn’t take it personally. What would you suggest that I do?

— Linda Dear Linda: I recently heard Glenn Beck refer to the president as a socialist and call filmmaker Michael Moore a “fatty-fatty fatso.”

Is this the sort of civilized intellectual discourse our foremothers and fathers had in mind when building this great

nation? Probably not. But while you may have been sheltered from this sort of passion during the Bush years, I remember many heated, shocking and extremely disrespectful bashing sessions coming from the left — both through the media and privately.

Yelling is the unfortunate reaction of people trying to mitigate their powerlessness. We live in fascinating times, and you might benefit from understanding — or at least acknowledging — the passion of the other side.

Don’t let your friends bait or bully you, and don’t feel you must defend practices or policies they find indefensible, especially if they are disrespectful.

If you don’t want to participate, you can do your best to change the subject, but if you can’t and still want to spend time in their presence, listen passively or (my trick) offer to wash the dishes.

(November 2009) Dear Readers: You can follow me on Twitter or Instagram: @ AskingAmy; on Facebook at Facebook.com/ADickinsondaily.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: ASKAMY@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

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Live within your means. Don’t fold under pressure or let anyone convince you not to follow the path that will bring you the highest rewards. This year should be about getting ahead and following your dreams. Make the changes that will bring you inner peace and happiness.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Focus on work, how you earn your living and how can you use what you have to improve your life and the lives of those dear to your heart.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Don’t waste time trying to get others to pitch in. Your energy will be better spent taking care of business. A proposal should be looked at cautiously. Read the fine print.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Do what you can to help, but don’t let anyone take advantage of you. Offer suggestions, but be hesitant when it comes to financial involvement.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Put greater emphasis on your relationships. If you overreact or let someone take advantage of you, it will be difficult to reverse the damage. Moderation is your best bet.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Don’t let moodiness ruin your day. Look on the bright side and offer positive suggestions. Avoid excessive or indulgent behavior. Stick to people who share your interests.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Personal change can be made. Consider how you earn your living and what you would like to be doing with your time. Attend an event that will help you update your skills.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Mingle, share your thoughts and consider getting into a joint venture with a like-minded individual. A little romance will help cement your relations with someone special.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Weigh all sides of a situation before you decide to get involved in a debate.

It won’t be worth your while if you engage in a standoff with a stubborn rival.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Pay it forward. What you do for others will be admirable, but don’t jeopardize your beliefs or financial situation to take care of someone who isn’t willing to reciprocate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Keep your emotions tucked away somewhere safe.

If you are too revealing, someone will take advantage of you. Check the facts before you share information that someone offers you.

Truth matters.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Changes made at home may not be welcome at first, but you will eventually see the benefits. Review the past, assess the situation and prepare to move forward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Volunteer or make personal changes that will help you let go of the past. Don’t give in to temptation or get involved with anyone who is a poor influence.

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Legislators encourage voting in MARTA referendum

By Curt Yeomans

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Several Gwinnett County legislators had one message for voters as they addressed reporters in the rotunda of the state Capitol on Monday: Go vote.

The legislators, led by state Sens. Zahra Karinshak, D-Duluth, and Sheikh Rahman, D-Lawrenceville, held the press conference at the Capitol to mark the first day of early voting in Gwinnett for the special election on the county’s MARTA referendum.

Voters are being asked to approve a 38-year contract between Gwinnett and MARTA. Approval of the contract by voters means Gwinnett will join MARTA and a 1 percent sales tax will be levied until 2057 to pay for the county’s participation in the regional transit system.

“It’s critical that voters in Gwinnett make their voices heard on an infrastructure proposal that affect traffic, the economy and the environment,” Karinshak said.

Officially, the referendum special election is set for March 19, but Gwinnett is now in a three-week early voting period where voters who cannot make it to the polls on election day can come out and cast a ballot

in advance.

Rahman said he went to the county’s election office Monday morning to cast his vote and only saw three people there to vote at that time. He said it is important for residents to vote so they can make sure their voices are heard on the matter.

“It’s important for Gwinnettians,” he said. “It’s your voice. You have to make the decision. If you don’t show up, then you are not making decisions for yourself.”

The legislators made their pleas to voters while standing in front of a portrait of Georgia founder James Oglethorpe. While the location of the nearly 20-minute press conference may have been coincidence, it did mean they were directly facing a bust of Gwinnett County’s namesake, Button Gwinnett, the entire time.

The legislators were not focused on any significance of where they were standing though. They highlighted the historical significance of the referendum instead.

“This is about the future of Gwinnett County and the future of Georgia,” Rahman said.

The group speaking at the press conference was made up entirely of Democrats from the county’s legislative delegation, with none of

from those venues we have in Gwinnett,” Marin said.

Although it is a common belief that special elections and referendums tend to draw more conservative voters — which is one reason why local Democrats wanted the referendum placed on the county’s general election ballot last year — Gwinnett officials also believe this issue will drive a higher than normal turnout.

State Sen. Sally Harrell, center, speaks during a press conference that Democratic Some of the legislators members of Gwinnett’s legislative delegation held in the rotunda of the state Capitol in who spoke at Monday’s Atlanta on Monday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans) press conference said that could be a good sign.

“If more people go to the Gwinnett’s eight Republihigher density housing, state Rep. Pedro Marin, polls, I think it can pass,” can legislators present. retail and office uses in D-Duluth, said bringing Rahman said.

Although Gwinnett already congested areas, MARTA to the county Gwinnett will operate County Commission Chair- the amount of time it would would help with economic woman Charlotte Nash likely take — between 10 development in the county. early voting polling locais a Republican and was to 20 years — to get rail It’s an argument that Gwin- tions seven days a week until March 14, which involved in negotiating the service to the Jimmy Carter nett County Chamber of is the Friday before the contract, Democrats in the Boulevard area, potential Commerce president Dan special election date. The county and across the state plans to put a transit hub on Kaufman has also made, only early voting location have been more vocal than the OFS property that the and the chamber has open through Sunday is the their Republican countercounty recently purchased endorsed passage of the county’s elections headparts in getting the contract and plans to go through referendum. quarters, which is located approved. the legislature to expand Marin highlighted at 455 Grayson Highway, Some Republicans, such Norcross’ city limits to planned redevelopment Suite 200, in Lawrenceville. as state Rep. Brett Harrell, Interstate 85. around the Infinite Energy Starting March 4, seven R-Snellville, have been “(Transit-oriented deCenter as an example of satellite early voting locacritical of the plan. Harrell velopments are a) further the type of areas that can has posted several items concentration of population benefit from a transit expan- tions will open open around the county, joining the elecon Facebook criticizing the in an already congested sion. tions headquarters as places negotiated contract with area that will most certainly “Right now, there is a where residents can cast MARTA, including one on be zoned for high density development going on at Sunday where he outlined much higher than Gwinnett the (Infinite Energy Arena) their ballots.

Voting will take place six concerns he had about has seen to date,” Harrell called Revel so we need to from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the county joining the tran- said in the post. make sure that folks that throughout the early voting sit system.

But the head of Gwincome to Gwinnett have Those concerns included nett’s House delegation, transit to go back and forth period and March 19.

obituaries Lilburn

Stephen Jay Ames Stephen Jay Ames of Lilburn, Georgia passed away on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at Eastside Medical Center in Snellville, Georgia. Steve was born on September 8, 1946 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Jay Walter Ames (Martha Ames, his loving step-mother) and Julia Helmheckel. Steve was the eldest of five children.

He is survived by his wife, Teresa Strano Ames of Lilburn and Brookville; his three children, Stephanie Ames (Grady Karp) of Seattle, WA, Ryan Ames (Suzanne) of Snohomish, WA, Jay Ames of Lilburn, GA; his four grandchildren, Phoebe Karp, Levi Karp, Luca Ames and Sophia Ames; and four siblings, Chris Ames (Sharon), Brian Ames (Marina), Diana Ames (John Axtell), and Allan Ames (Karen). Steve was a graduate of Brookville High School Class of 1964.

He attended Youngstown Technical after graduation and served six years in the Army Reserves.

He married Teresa Strano on December 26, 1970 at Immaculate Conception Church in Brookville, PA. They moved to Atlanta in 1970 where he began his career in the burgeoning technical field as a software engineer and systems architect. He spent his next 40 years honing his analytical mind at work, teaching his kids the meaning of 0’s and 1’s, and muttering to many computer monitors until retiring in 2012. He put everything into his work and likewise put everything into his retirement.

He rediscovered some of his creative and artistic interests in his retirement, becoming a true leather craftsman, woodworker, banjo player, and gardener.

He drafted detailed plans of every project while listening to his eclectic musical collection with his cats close by his side. He loved

passing on his knowledge to his children and grandchildren, who hope to keep his talents alive for years to come. Our family hosted a small gathering to remember him on Sunday, February 24th from 2:00 5:00pm at Crowell Brothers Funeral Home, located at 201 Morningside Drive, Buford where he will be cremated. A memorial service and burial will be held in Pennsylvania this summer with details to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family would ask that you consider donating to The American Heart Association at https://www2.heart. org/ or Fur Kids Animal Shelter at https://furkids. org/ On-line condolences may be expressed at www. crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements entrusted to Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory, 201 Morningside Drive, Buford, Georgia 30518.

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Kenneth Carnes, Jr Kenneth Gordon Carnes Jr. (Ken), born March 15th, 1927, passed away on Feb. 23rd, 2019 at the age of 91. He is preceded in death by his first wife, Sarah Carnes; son, Bobby Carnes; father, Kenneth Carnes Sr.; and mother, Irene Carnes. He is survived by his wife, Harriet Carnes; son, Tommy Carnes (Joann); daughter, Kathy Price (Tully); daughter, Nancy Bozeman (Stacy); son, Jack Poulnott Jr. (Joni); daughter, Tami Easterday (Kent); and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

Ken, a United States Navy Veteran, retired after 25 years of service with Coca-Cola USA. Outside of work, Kenneth devoted his time in service of the church as an Emeritus Deacon both in Duluth and Dahlonega. On any given day, Ken could be f 15 photos are available with all Obituaries and Death Notices

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and June York, Hayesville, NC; aunts and uncle, Patricia Parker, Hayesville, NC and Jane and Earl Swain, Dahlonega, GA; and several cousins.

Mr. Hoffman was born October 19, 1964 in Atlanta, GA. He was a 1982 graduate of Berkmar High School in Lilburn, GA. He Duluth, GA was employed with Arris Leroy Gravitt Company with twenty-two Mr. Leroy Gravitt, a kind years of service as a senior buyer. He was a member and gentle man, passed of Little Creek Preserve away Thursday, February in Gray, GA. A memorial 21, 2019 at the age of 82. service will be held on Mr. Gravitt was born on Sunday, February 24, 2019 December 9,1936 in Duat 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel luth, Georgia where he was of Flanigan Funeral Home a lifelong resident to Paul and Evie Gravitt who have with Pastor Jalen Sowell preceded him in death. He officiating. The eulogy will be given by David loved his family, friends Frazier and Jake Hoffman. and his Chevy Silverado.

Along with his parents his The family will receive friends at the funeral home sister Louise Bogar has also preceded him in death. on Sunday, February 24, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. until He is survived by his life time of service at 3:00 partner Carolyn Cook, his p.m. In lieu of flowers, daughter Karen Gravitt, memorial donations may his sister Annie Pearl Hamrick, and many nieces, be made to Lanier High School Baseball Fund, 918 nephews and other extended family. A memorial Buford Highway, Sugar service will be held on Sat- Hill, GA 30518 in memory of Jeffery Hoffman. urday March 2, 2019 at 2 To express condolences, o’clock in the afternoon at please sign our online Mt. Tabor Baptist Church guest book at www.fla4175 Buford Hwy. Duniganfuneralhome.com. luth, Georgia 30096. J.C. Harwell and Son Funeral Home, 2157 East Street, SE, Covington, GA 30014 is in charge of the arrangements. A guest book may be signed on-line www.

Braselton harwellfuneralhome.com. found sitting in his chair by the window with a Louis L’Amour western novel, drinking a cup of black coffee, and watching the birds play. Ken lived a compassionate life and his eyes always seemed to radiate with unconditional love.

Sugar Hill, GA

Jeffery Lynn Hoffman Jeffery Lynn Hoffman, age 54, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. He was preceded in death by his mother, Shirley Ann Hoffman. He is survived by his wife of twenty-eight years, Sandra Michele Hoffman, Sugar Hill, GA; children, Michael and Colleen Fay, Foley, AL, Emily Hoffman, Sugar Hill, GA and Jake Hoffman, Sugar Hill, GA; grandchildren, Cameron Fay and Austin Fay; father, Willard and Patsy Hoffman, Jefferson, GA; uncle and aunt, Jerry

Dr. James L. Markham, Jr. Dr. James Markham, Jr., age 76, of Braselton, Georgia passed away on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at his residence in Braselton following an extended illness.

A visitation will be held on Saturday, March 2 from 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. at Memorial Park Funeral Home Braselton.

Dr. Markham was born Wednesday, February, 3, 1943 in Atlanta, Georgia to the late J. Louis Markham, Sr. and Gloria Anne Markham. He served in the United States Army and was a high school principal at Berkmar High

School and served as the founding principal for Mill Creek High School. He is preceded in death by his parents and sister, Betty Jean Markham.

Dr. Markham is survived by his loving wife, Ruth; brother and sisterin-law, Joseph and Julie Markham; niece, Hannah Markham; brother-in-law Larry Young of Waleska, Georgia; sister-in-law, Joanie Young of Waleska, Georgia.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to: Gwinnett Relay for Life 6500 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Ste. 260 Duluth, Georgia 30097, (770) 814-0211 www.relayforlife.org/ gwinnettga Memorial Park Funeral Home Braselton Chapel, 5257 Green Street Hwy 53, Braselton, GA 30517 is in charge of arrangements.

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JoAnn Shafer JoAnn Shafer, age 78, of Lilburn, GA passed away Sunday, February 24, 2019. Born in Lilburn, she was a retired custodian for Berkmar High School after 15 years and formerly a verification clerk for Doctor’s Hospital in Tucker for 16 years.

She is survived by her life partner of 43 years, Sandra Woodyard; sisters, Irene Shafer, Nancy Williams and Rose Rogers; brothers, Charles Shafer, Thomas Shafer, Mark Shafer and Ray Shafer; her “boys”, Jesse, Jeramy, Josh, Trey and John; many nieces and nephews. Her funeral will be Wednesday, February 27, 2019, at 11:00 am at Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/ Tucker Chapel. Burial will follow in Luxomni Baptist Church Cemetery.

Online condolences may be left at www.billheadfuneralhome.com. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel, (770) 564-2726.

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James “Jim” Williams Williams - James “Jim” Williams age 91 of Dacula, passed away on Saturday, February 23, 2019.

A funeral service will be held 11:00 AM, Saturday, March 2, 2019 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home, with Rev. Derrick Spain officiating. Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park. Jim was the former owner of J&L Auto Service. Jim played the steel guitar professionally in the 40’s and is a member of the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame; past President of the Georgia Cutting Horse Association; and he enjoyed traveling across the country with his wife and grandchildren.

He was loved and well respected in the community. He was a member of Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula. He was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Louise Benson Williams in 2011, daughter, Janis Smith in 2012, and grandson, Matthew Henderson in 2003. Jim is survived by his daughter & son-in-law, Susan & Tom Henderson, El Prado, NM; son-in-law, Art Smith, Dacula, GA; grandchildren, Kevin & Katya Smith, Signal Mountain, TN; Erin & Wayne Lauritzen, Georgetown, TX; Allison Smith, Atlanta, GA; great grandchildren, Hannah Lauritzen; Olivia Smith; Kendall Lauritzen; Reed Smith. The family will receive friends 5:00 to 8:00 PM, Friday, March 1, 2019 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road, S.W., Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770962-3100. Please leave online condolences at http://www.stewartfh.com.

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to see the name,” Christian said. “We’ll continue to add the other six names, but we’re still waiting on that year when we don’t have anybody (killed).”

Blood donor Pam Greider, whose son is a K9 officer in Gwinnett, said her family is also waiting for that year, which is part of the reason she wanted to give blood on Tuesday. “(Toney’s death) was a huge, huge blow, not only

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until March 14. It will only be available this week at but maybe 10 to 12 percent, the elections office, which maybe 15 percent … is located at 455 Grayson “But where we’re headed Highway, Suite 200, in now, it could be 25 to 30 Lawrenceville. Early voting percent if the rate keeps up.” will expand to several satelVoters are being asked to lite locations March 4. Polls approve a contract between will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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MARTA, which would result The special election date in the county being brought is March 19, when more into the regional transit than 150 polling sites across system. A 1 percent sales tax the county will be open. would be levied in GwinThe elections office was nett to pay for the county’s not especially busy Monday. participation in MARTA and Since it is a single question the contract lasts through ballot, many voters walked 2057. in, filled out their voter MARTA would be tasked paperwork, cast their ballots with implementing the and walked out within a few Connect Gwinnett Transit minutes.

Development Plan, which “We’ve not had a line, but county commissioners apit’s been a steady stream all proved last year. day,” Ledford said.

The transit development Voters who showed up on plan calls for an initial the first day of early voting expansion of bus routes said they did so to make sure throughout the county with their voices were heard on longer term projects includ- what several officials have ing extending heavy rail termed a “historic election” from the Doraville station to in the county — while also the Jimmy Carter Boulevard ensuring they beat any lines corridor, the expansion of that may be present closer to paratransit and flex service, the March 19 election date. and the implementation of “I figured I’d beat the bus rapid transit service. lines and it’s for a good “I’m so thrilled that we’re reason because I do think we actually having this vote be- need the MARTA transporcause we really, really need tation stretching out more,” rapid transit,” said LawLawrenceville resident renceville resident Loretta Nicolette Pinnock said.

Mirandola said after she Lawrenceville resident voted Monday. “Everybody Resa Cooper-Morning needs it to alleviate all of brought her young grandson the traffic woes and for just with her to the poll. She the people who have trouble declined to say which way getting around.” she voted, but she said feels Early voting will conit is important to participate tinue daily for three weeks in any election. She also said

•From Page 1A as well as leaders at Partnership Gwinnett and the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District for years.

If the purchase goes through, plans call for the mall’s indoor retail area to be converted into a 20,000seat cricket stadium, according to Bisnow’s report.

There is one issue that may complicate plans to turn Gwinnett Place Mall into a cricket stadium: Moonbeam does not own all of what is collectively referred to as Gwinnett Place Mall.

Moonbeam owns the interior retail space — including the food court that was used as a set for season three of the Netflix series “Stranger Things” — and the former Parisian anchor space. The rest is split up between four other owners.

Macy’s, Beauty Master and Mega Mart own the anchor spaces that they occupy, and high-end apartment developer Northwood Ravin purchased the former Sears anchor space last year.

But Moonbeam’s ties to CricRealty could also cause

for the officers but for their families,” Greider said. “I feel like, as a community, we have to come together for these guys, because if we don’t, nobody else does for them. We never know when we are going to need this blood — not just the officers, but the whole community — and in this world, if we can just come together for one thing, just this one thing, we can show that we all are one.”

making a decision on which way to vote on the MARTA contract wasn’t easy to do.

“It was very difficult for me because I could see pros and cons of not having the transit and in having transit, but I still had to make my thoughts and my voice heard either way,” Cooper-Morning said.

But Lawrenceville residents Lynn and Marvin Charles said they were firm in their decision to vote for approval of the MARTA contract. They pointed to congestion around the county at various times of the day as a reason why they feel Gwinnett should join the regional transit system, and why they are willing to pay the 1 cent tax to be in MARTA. “When I think that most rush house traffic is gone, you still sit in a lot of traffic and that can be anywhere between 1:30 to 2:30 (p.m.),” Lynn Charles said. “So if I could go park our vehicle somewhere and go to where I need to go (on transit), then it would be a lot better.”

Grayson resident Cassandra Bryers said she also voted for approval of the contract because she felt it would help with congestion.

“Even a bit of an expansion would help take some of the traffic off of the roads and make getting into Atlanta easier,” she said. “I’ve tried getting into Atlanta just to spend time with friends and it’s awful because you’re trying to get through the turn around and everything.”

Cricket local business officials to have reservations about celebrating news of the impending purchase or the stadium plans.

In December, CricRealty and Moonbeam announced the first major cricket stadium project, a 35-acre International Cricket Council certified cricket ground, training facilities and clubhouse with 25 acres of mixed uses including offices, entertainment centers and hotels in Allen, Texas.

At the time, the two groups announced in a joint statement that additional stadium projects in Atlanta, New Jersey, New York, California, Washington, Orlando, Fla., and Chicago were planned.

“MCI, with a number of retail properties containing ample space for the construction of stadiums and related facilities, and substantial expertise in redevelopment, is ideally situated to become an important player in the creation of a United States professional cricket league,” Moonbeam officials said at the time.

Moonbeam Capital CEO Steven V. Maksin further said, “our vision is to identify strategic locations

to build such complexes and thus provide hi-end, easy access venues across the country to facilitate the game” in that joint statement.

Moonbeam has had a complicated relationship with Gwinnett officials.

Nearly two years ago, Partnership Gwinnett Chief Economic Development Officer Nick Masino publicly criticized the company for its management of the mall and called for new ownership of the troubled shopping center.

At the time, Masino said Moonbeam had repeatedly made promises for redeveloping the mall, but did not deliver on any of them.

“When I talk to developers and investors about coming to Gwinnett, I intentionally try to strike up their interest in buying Gwinnett Place Mall because (Moonbeam) has done nothing with it,” Masino told the Daily Post in June 2017.

Masino could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Gwinnett Place CID Executive Director Joe Allen said he officially could not confirm or deny the report from Bisnow.

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But while Unterman weighs whether to run for Woodall’s seat in Congress, another Democrat has made the leap into the race last week while a Republican announced that he will run for Unterman’s Senate seat.

Lawrenceville resident and community organizer Nabilah Islam announced that she is jumping into the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the Seventh Congressional District.

She joins attorney Marqus Cole and college professor Carolyn Bourdeaux — who was the Democrats’ 2018 nominee for the seat — in the race.

Islam is a first-generation American and the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants.

In her campaign announcement, she criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of immigrant issues.

“Donald Trump attacks people in our community just like my family who weren’t born with everything handed to them,” Islam said in a statement. “I’m going to be a Congresswoman with a bold, progressive, immigrant, working-class voice who won’t be silenced.”

Islam worked on Jason Carter’s 2014 gubernatorial bid, as well as Atlanta City councilman Andre Dickens’ at-large council seat bid and was Hillary Clinton’s southern states deputy finance director in 2016. She was named the Democratic National Committee’s southern states finance director in 2017 and is a past president of the Gwinnett Young Democrats.

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Davis said Monday that she was “thrilled” Downs had officially taken over the new superintendent position, and the board thanked Davis for her work over the last six months, with Board of Education Chairman Philip Beard saying Davis navigated the district “through a hard time.”

“We all appreciate (Davis) for it,” he said.

Also at Monday’s meeting, the board congratulated Buford Middle School Principal Melanie Reed for her appointment as Buford’s next assistant superintendent.

Effective June 1, Reed will replace current Assistant Superintendent Rita Cantrell, who is set to retire May 1.

Cantrell worked for Gwinnett County Public Schools in the mid-2000s

before leaving in 2007 to accept a position in Alabama.

She later returned Melanie to the Reed area and became Assistant Superintendent for Buford.

Reed, meanRita while, has Cantrell worked for Buford City Schools for about two decades. She was previously a teacher and an assistant principal before serving as principal of Buford Elementary School, a position she left in 2015 to lead Buford Middle.

The district said Monday it is currently in the process of interviewing candidates for the open Buford Middle School position.

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward Jaron Blossomgame (4) guards Denver Nuggets guard Brandon Goodwin (6) in the fourth quarter at the Pepsi Center. (Photo: Isaiah J. Downing-USA Today Sports)

Norcross grad, Denver Nugget Goodwin returns home after impressing in NBA

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NORCROSS — Since he graduated from Norcross High School back in 2013, Brandon Goodwin has been very well traveled.

While the former Blue Devils star and 2013 Daily Post Boys Player of the Year has enjoyed a good bit of success in the six years since leaving Gwinnett County, particularly on the college level, it took him a little while to find a basketball home on the professional level.

While he finally appears to have found that home with the Denver Nuggets, the 6-foot-2 guard found a little time to return home to Norcross during NBA’s All-Star break earlier this month.

“It’s pretty cool. This is my first (Norcross) game in like five years,” Goodwin said following Norcross’ win over Mountain View in the first round of the Class AAAAAAA state tournament Feb. 15 at the House of Blue.

It may have been the first time seeing his alma mater play in a while since his final game in a Blue Devils uniform, the final game of the

Denver Nuggets guard Brandon Goodwin (6) shoots against Houston Rockets guard Gerald Green (14) during the fourth quarter at Toyota Center. (Photo: Troy Taormina-USA Today Sports)

program’s most recent state title in 2013, though it wasn’t the first time Goodwin has come back to Norcross.

The 23-year-old guard often returned during the offseason of years past to see

later generations of Norcross players grow up before his very eyes, including several members of the current Blue Devils.

“It’s real cool to see all the young ones all grew up,”

Goodwin said. “I think to watch some of my guys like Kyle Sturdivant and Brandon Boston, just to see them competing (is great). I come back See GOODWIN, Page 2B

Getting to Know …

Lindsey McDaniel Lindsey McDaniel is the head girls cross country coach at Mountain View.

She was a three-sport softball, tennis and basketball athlete in high school. In 2014, McDaniel joined Mountain View staff as an English teacher. She coached Chloe Hetherington, the 2018 Gwinnett Daily Post Cross Country Girls Runner of the Year and Georgia Tech signee.

McDaniel’s husband, Travis McDaniel, is an assistant basketball coach at Discovery. They met each other through sports during their senior years at the University of West Georgia. Staff correspondent Jerell Rushin spoke with her about her career and more.

JR: How did you land the job at Mountain View?

LM: It’s an interesting story really and probably one that doesn’t Lindsey make a whole bunch of McDaniel sense. This is my fifth year here. Originally, when we came here, I taught at a school in Griffin — I coached softball down there — and that was what always drew me into teaching. I always knew I wanted to coach. I played softball in high school. I played in college. I was not a runner at all. When I came up here and interviewed, me and my husband (Discovery assistant boys basketball coach Travis McDaniel) — he’s a teacher as well — they needed a cross country coach and a tennis coach. I was like well, ‘I enjoy running. I’m a distance runner. I run half-marathons, but I have no experience coaching cross country, and I have no experience coaching tennis. I played competitively in high school growing up.’ So I just said, ‘I can do it.’ Coaching softball is what got me into teaching, and I’m not even doing that. But honestly, I don’t think I would go back. I honestly do enjoy the sport. That first year, I’ll be honest, I had no idea what I was doing. I learned so much in that first year coaching up here.

JR: Where did you go to college?

LM: I went to Piedmont. I’m from Hall County. We’re not far from here.

JR: You mentioned tennis as well.

LM: I played softball, tennis and basketball all through high school. I was a three-sport athlete. Running was not my thing. I did not enjoy it. That was one of those things, running was punishment for my sports.

JR: I’m pretty sure you had just a hectic schedule back then.

LM: At the same time, we were on block schedule in high school. So, we’d only had four classes a semester, so it was doable.

JR: Which sport were you most successful in back then?

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Hyatt trains for combine Saint-Amour working to while living in moment sustain senior-year strides

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North Gwinnett grad and former Clemson University offensive lineman Mitch Hyatt has tried never to get caught up in his future.

He stayed in the moment as his recruitment started to ramp up during his sophomore and junior years of high school. The former five-star tackle did the same when he committed to Clemson as a junior. He wasn’t looking towards Clemson 11 months later during North Gwinnett’s state championship game defeat to Norcross.

Starting at offensive

Anree Saint-Amour stretched out with a handful of other former college athletes at GATA (Goldin Athletic Training Association), a sports performance training center in Duluth, on Feb. 19.

He’s been working out with some local players regularly for about a month. Saint-Amour is turning the page on his college career at Georgia Tech, and he hopes GATA can help him begin to write a new chapter as a professional. His senior season at Georgia Tech was not wholly unsuccessful. In fact, personal-

Clemson Tigers offensive tackle Mitch Hyatt (75) blocks against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2019 College Football Playoff Championship game at Levi’s Stadium.

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tackle in the first game of his freshman season at Clemson guaranteed nothing to him except

an opportunity to prove himself. He wasn’t lookSee HYATT, Page 4B

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defensive end and North Gwinnett grad Anree Saint-Amour (94) celebrates after sacking Virginia Tech Hokies quarterback Ryan Willis (5) in the second half at Lane Stadium. (Photo: Lee Luther Jr.-USA Today Sports)

ly, the season was perhaps Saint-Amour’s best since his last season at North Gwinnett in 2014. SaintAmour led the team in tackles for loss (12) and

sacks (4). He also tallied two interceptions and forced three fumbles.

Saint-Amour, 22, also See STRIDES, Page 4B

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Lanier grad Coursey gets Hitter of the Week honor From Staff Reports Georgia Gwinnett College sophomore baseball player and Lanier High School grad Cam Coursey was named the Association of Independent Institutions’ Baseball Hitter of the Week for the second time this season on Monday.

Coursey went 5-for-7 (.714 batting average) with four RBIs and scored four runs when No. 3 Grizzlies swept a doubleheader Sunday against No. 10 University of Northwestern Ohio.

Coursey hit a grand

Lanier grad Cam Coursey led the NAIA in batting during his freshman campaign at Georgia Gwinnett College.

(Photo: Tom Grason/GGC)

slam that stretched the team’s 6-5 lead into a commanding 10-5 advantage in Game 1, then went 3-for-3 performance with

two runs scored in Game 2.

The Sugar Hill native also was recognized by the A.I.I. on Feb. 11.

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Cox, Hansis sweep weekly AII hitter, pitcher awards From Staff Reports Georgia Gwinnett College softball seniors Aubree Cox and Taylor Hansis were named Association of Independent Institutions’ Softball Hitter and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, on Monday.

Cox as 5-for-6, scored four runs and legged out a double and triple Sunday’s doubleheader against No. 17 William Carey University (Miss.). She collected four hits in four at-bats in Game 2, scored the game-tying hit in the seventh inning and tallied two RBIs. The No. 5 Grizzlies won 13-7 in eight innings.

Cox leads GGC softball with a .485 batting average, 15 runs scored and .548 onbase percentage through the first 14 games.

Hansis struck out 11 batters in 8.2 innings in

GGC pitcher Taylor Hansis She is a two-time conference Pitcher of the Year Award recipient, earning the honor in 2018 and 2017 (Photo: Tom Grason/GGC)

two scoreless appearances against William Carey. She allowed two hits in the first game, which the Crusaders won 2-1 when scoring two unearned runs.

She entered the second game with GGC trailing 7-6 in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Grizzlies tied the game in the seventh inning

and Hansis retired three straight William Carey batters in the bottom half of the frame to force extra innings and then was in the circle to nail down the victory after her teammates had taken a commanding lead in the top of the eighth frame. Hansis held opponents to a .071 batting average in two games.

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Atlanta remains winless after loss to Birmingham Field Level Media

with scores of 5, 1 and 6 yards. He is averaging just Trent Richardson rushed 2.5 yards per carry (59 for three touchdowns, dou- carries, 145 yards) through bling his season total, and three weeks of play, but the visiting Birmingham his six rushing TDs lead Iron moved to 3-0 with a the league by four.

28-12 victory over the AtIron quarterback Luis lanta Legends on Sunday. Perez, who went undrafted A 2012 first-round pick in 2018 out of Texas of the Cleveland Browns A&M-Commerce and who last played in the spent training camp with NFL in 2014, Richardson the Los Angeles Rams, had 17 carries for 46 yards finished 17 of 31 for 160

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yards and an interception.

Birmingham and Orlando, both 3-0 atop the East Division, are the AAF’s only undefeated teams.

Legends signal-caller Matt Simms, formerly of the New York Jets, went 28-for-48 for 328 yards, a touchdown and three picks. Atlanta joined Memphis as the only winless teams through three weeks.

Goodwin

… I played pretty well. … From there, I signed home in the summer and with a G-League team I play one-on-one with the Memphis Hustle, and them.”

I played really well. I That said, it is more of started out the season with the other work Goodwin two 30-point games.” did this past summer that Indeed, a solid stretch has given him his NBA in which he averaged opportunity after a college 22.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, career that started at Cen- 4.6 assists and 1.4 steals tral Florida before eventu- per game, and shot 48.4 ally landing him at Florida percent from the floor, Gulf Coast University. including 39.8 percent Goodwin went un-sefrom 3-point range, in lected after the 2018 NBA 18 combined G-League Draft last June following games with the Memphis a solid college career that Hustle and Iowa Wolves included him being named opened some eyes. the Atlantic Sun ConferBut it also took a little ence Newcomer of the good timing and a little Year in 2016-17 and its luck for Goodwin to get Player of the Year, plus his first shot at the NBA. honorable mention All“I was kind of making a American by the Associname for myself because ated Press last season. He nobody had really heard was left to try to get his of me coming out of colfoot in the door with NBA lege,” Goodwin said. “But teams anyway he could. the only reason (Denver) “I came out of college signed me was because (at Florida Gulf Coast of the (NBA’s) injury last summer) and had like hardship (rule). They were two workouts with the signing me to a two-way (Memphis) Grizzlies and (contract) to start. When Atlanta Hawks,” Goodwin (one of the injured players recalled. “The Memphis came back), they cut me, Grizzlies invited me to but I guess I made a good play Summer League, and impression. Five days

after they cut me, they wanted to sign me back.”

True, while his overall numbers aren’t particularly eye-popping — he’s averaging just 1.4 points, 0.2 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 3.6 minutes in 14 games with the Nuggets — Goodwin is clearly doing something right in the eyes of the team’s coaching and front-office staff.

And he is quite confident even more opportunities to show what he can do will come as he literally catches his breath and gets more comfortable not only with the speed and skill of the NBA game, but also with the thin atmosphere of Denver.

“I’m still adjusting,” Goodwin said with a laugh. “I’ve been out there a month, but I’m still trying to adjust to it. It’s just crazy. When I first got out there, I was getting sick. It was hard to adjust to, but I’m getting better every day.

“I’ve always been a confident person. I just believe in myself, but it definitely helps that NBA teams are taking notice.”

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BASEBALL

5 p.m. — Parkview and Jserra, Cal. at Hoover, Ala. 5:30 p.m. — Berkmar at West Hall 5:30 p.m. — Chattahoochee at Duluth 5:30 p.m. — Shiloh at Dacula 6 p.m. — Johns Creek at Norcross 6 p.m. — Lanier at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — Lovett at Providence

LACROSSE

4:30 p.m. — GAC girls at Archer 5 p.m. — Norcross girls and Dunwoody at North DeKalb Stadium 5:30 p.m. — MLK girls at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Duluth girls at Chattahoochee 6 p.m. — Whitewater boys at Archer 7 p.m. — Northview girls at Peachtree Ridge 7:45 p.m. — Grayson boys at Mill Creek

TENNIS

3:15 p.m. — Parkview and Grayson at Rhodes Jordan Park 4 p.m. — Pinecrest Academy at Wesleyan

TRACK AND FIELD

4 p.m. — Collins Hill, GAC at Wesleyan 4 p.m. — Grayson F.A.T. All Comers #1 Thursday

BASEBALL

5:30 p.m. — Apalachee at Shiloh 5:30 p.m. — Cherokee Bluff at Meadowcreek 5:30 p.m. — GAC at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Galloway at Wesleyan 6 p.m. — Apalachee at Central 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Greenbrier 6 p.m. — Norcross at North Springs 6 p.m. — South at Redan 7 p.m. — Buford and Brookwood at LaGrange College

LACROSSE

5:30 p.m. — Norcross at Meadowcreek 7 p.m. — GAC boys and North at George Pierce Park 7 p.m. — Lanier boys at Mill Creek 7:30 p.m. — Kell boys at Buford 7:30 p.m. — Mill Creek girls at Bishop Moore, Fla.

SOCCER

6 p.m. — East Coweta at Duluth

TENNIS

3 p.m. — Grayson and South at Summit Chase CC 3:30 p.m. — Archer at Rockdale Co. 3:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Norcross 3:30 p.m. — Brookwood at Central 3:30 p.m. — Dacula at Cherokee Bluff 3:30 p.m. — Discovery at North 3:30 p.m. — Duluth and Mountain View at E.E. Robinson Park 3:30 p.m. — Lanier at Hebron 3:30 p.m. — Parkview at Meadowcreek 3:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Collins Hill 3:30 p.m. — Shiloh and Archer at Rhodes Jordan Park 4 p.m. — Buford at Clarke Central 4 p.m. — Prince Avenue at Providence 4 p.m. — St. Pius at Wesleyan

TRACK AND FIELD

4 p.m. — Brookwood at Meadowcreek 4 p.m. — Gary Billion Invitational at North

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Heberling steps down at Hebron

By David Friedlander

and effort. But I feel like in the last three years, we’ve solidified the program and continued the success (forLess than a week after mer coach) Will Cantrell it 2018-19 season came to started.” an end, Hebron Christian’s Indeed, the Hebron proboys basketball program gram is in the midst of its is looking for a new head longest sustained period of coach. success since it began play Derrick as a Georgia High School Heberling Association program in the confirmed 2005-06 season.

Monday While the Lions went that he is 39-41 during Heberling’s stepping three seasons as coach, down after they posted a 15-12 record three seasons Derrick this season — the fourth Heberling at the helm, winning season in the citing a program’s GHSA history desire to spend more time — and made their fifth state with his family. tournament appearance, in“Coaching is a difficult cluding the fourth trip to the thing,” Heberling said Sweet 16, all of which have Monday. “It takes a lot of occurred since the 2011-12 time away from your family season. david.friedlander @gwinnettdailypost.com

With several key players expected to return next season, the cupboard will hardly be bare for Heberling’s successor.

“Someone should be able to come in here and win,” said Heberling, who came to Hebron in 2016 after serving six seasons as an assistant at Central Gwinnett. “We return four sophomores with varsity experience … and all of them have played in the Sweet 16. And we did it this year with kids who have all been at Hebron since the eighth grade. That’s probably the biggest thing I’m most proud of — the success we had with homegrown kids.”

While expressing disappointment to see Heberling step down, Hebron athletics director Taylor Davis

said the search process will commence immediately, and he is confident a new head coach can be found quickly.

“It’s tough seeing Derrick step down, as he has done a terrific job over the last three years with our entire boys basketball program,” Davis said in a texted statement released Monday.

“He has truly left a lasting impression with our youth (program) all the way through our varsity. I wish him and his family the best as they move on next year.

“We will be starting a search immediately to replace our head boys varsity coach position for the 2019-20 season. This job (opening) will be posted on our website by the end of the week.”

Keselowski beats illness in Atlanta Field Level Media Teams don’t get much more innovative than Team Penske, which showed its creativity amid this season’s mountain of NASCAR rule changes as Penske driver Brad Keselowski won Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Keselowski took the lead for good when he stole the lead away from teammate Joey Logano with 32 laps to go, and from there, he held off a charging Martin Truex Jr. of Joe Gibbs Racing and drove to the victory.

“This day is, wow, I don’t know how to put it in words,” the 35-yearold Michigan native said.

“First race with the new rules, or whatever they’re called now, and to be able to win it is really special.

Just a great day for Team Penske and our Ford Mustang.”

Truex finished second, and Kurt Busch of Chip Ganassi Racing was third, while Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer of StewartHaas Racing rounded out the top five.

“I could taste that win,” said Truex, who finished .218 seconds behind the winner. “We had the best car. We probably should have won that one.”

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Brad Keselowski (2) celebrates after winning the Folds of Honor QuickTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. (Photo: Adam HagyUSA Today Sports)

The race was the first run under the new rules package that NASCAR mandated — rules that included a much larger rear spoiler and tapered engine spacers which chopped some 200 horsepower from the cars.

The 2012 Series champion’s participation in Sunday’s race was questionable. Keselowski had been suffering the effects of a stomach virus over the weekend and had to sit out practices sessions. Austin Cindric was ordered to stand by, either to start for Keselowski or relieve him during the

race.

But Keselowski decided to tough it out and was rewarded with his 28th Cup victory.

“I was good enough to get the job done,” said Keselowski, who was administered IVs before the race.

The win was the 60th for Keselowski at Team Penske. That moved him past the legendary Mark Donohue as the top winner for the team owned by the iconic Roger Penske.

“Any win means a lot, but that’s a big number,” Keselowski said. “Now I get to wear that yellow

Mark Donohue helmet.

We’re going to wear it next week. What a tremendous honor.”

Were it not for lousy late-race luck, Penske would have dominated the podium.

Logano, the reigning series champion, was running second when he had to pit with just over 20 laps to go. He had led 22 laps.

The third Penske driver — Ryan Blaney — led 41 laps late in the race, but a untimely caution and then a bad pit stop cost him the lead and a shot at the victory.

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Sports Calendar

BASKETBALL

June 3-7: The Shoot for the Stars Basketball Camp, presented by the Michael Douglas Youth Foundation and led by former Harlem Globetrotter Michael Douglas, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Rhodes Jordan Park gym. Camp is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14 and cost is $140 per camper.

For more information, go to www.harlemlegends.com, call 678-630-8843 or email harlemlegends24@harlemlegends.com.

GOLF

March 23: The Gwinnett Bandits Golf Tournament will be held at Lanier Islands Legacy Course to raise money for the youth baseball program. The fourperson scramble begins with 11:30 a.m. check-in and a 1 p.m. shotgun start.

Cost is $100 per golfer and

includes green fees, carts, practice range, lunch, silent auction and appetizers.

Registration deadline is March 1. Email gwinnettbandits@gmail.com with any questions.

RUNNING

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

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

Registration is available online at runsignup.com/ crimson5K.

Former Archer star WR Davis signs with CFL team Former Archer star Kyle Davis decided recently to turn professional, signing with the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Davis, a wide receiver, entered the NCAA Transfer Portal in January after deciding to leave Florida Atlantic. He spent a year at FAU, but did not play.

The former Super Six selection and top recruit played slightly less than two sea-

The Gwinnett Lacrosse League’s players of the week (athletes were selected by his or her coach): Archer Bantam Boys: Eric Wellington Brookwood Junior Girls Gold: Kaylee Rosales Junior Girls Maroon: Lauren Hamilton Lightning Boys: Entire team Buford Senior Girls: Sophia Aluia Bantam Boys: Ellington Lashley Lightning Boys: Jack Miller Junior Boys: Evan Oskarson Senior Boys: Vaughn Palmer Collins Hill Lightning Girls: Lilian Allen Senior Girls: Kennedy Bingham Bantam Boys: Michael Masters Senior Boys: Ilyas Muhammad George Walton Lightning Boys: A.J. Dillard Mill Creek Lightning Girls Martin: Lucy Vorderlandwehr Lightning Girls Eichenberger: Kayleigh Moore Junior Girls: Kayla Forand

Senior Girls: Macie Pennebaker Bantam Boys Cardinal: S.J. McLendon Bantam Boys Navy: Jack Rodriguez Junior Boys Navy: Gabe Kaderli Junior Boys Cardinal: Jackson Maloney Senior Boys: Jackson Deal Mountain View Bantam Boys: Sebastian Chesney Senior Boys: Dallen Rawson Norcross Bantam Boys: Adam Goring Notre Dame Senior Boys: Bailey Dawkins Parkview Lightning Girls: Gabby McGaskill Junior Girls: Ansley Everett Senior Girls: Brenna Everett Bantam Boys: Marcus Gunn Junior Boys: Jarred Turner Senior Boys: Caleb Hamilton Peachtree Ridge Lightning Girls: Clara Matesvac Junior Girls: Bailey Park Senior Girls: Kaelyn Owens St. Pius Junior Boys: Alex Romano

IN BRIEF sons at Auburn, where he caught 19 passes championship. for 458 yards and two touchdowns. He was dismissed from the team in Oct. 2017.

Archer’s Chester

Dacula grad Igberaese wins A-Sun title Liberty University (Va.) freshman Chelsea Igberaese, a Dacula grad, won the weight throw title at last weekend’s Atlantic Sun Track and Field Championships.

Igberaese won with a throw of 64 feet, 7 3/4 inches, helping the Flames to the team

season.

to play for Lake Erie College

Buford’s Gilbert commits to Erskine

Archer senior Kaleb Chester announced his commitment over the weekend to the Lake Erie College (Ohio) football program.

Chester has been a key offensive lineman throughout his high school career, helping the Tigers to four state playoff trips, including a semifinal appearance last

Buford senior Emily Gilbert committed this weekend to Erskine College (S.C.), where she will play for the beach volleyball program.

Gilbert, a 5-foot-10 outside hitter, played high school volleyball for the Wolves’ powerhouse program.

— From staff reports

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•From Page 1B ing toward the NFL when Clemson beat the University of Alabama in the National Championship in 2017, avenging a loss to the Crimson Tide during his freshman season. He felt the same when he was named an Outland Trophy semifinalist as one of the nation’s top offensive linemen and after Clemson drubbed the Tide again in the National Championship two months ago.

Now, living in the moment means thinking about, preparing for and waiting on the NFL Draft.

“For me, I’ve always taken one thing at a time, just being happy enough to make the high school team and play, and then start to get some college offers,” Hyatt said. “I was just happy enough to have that opportunity. I’ve been just taking in one step at a time, having a college career that now gives me the chance to play in the NFL.” Hyatt has been staying near his hometown of Suwanee training at GATA (Goldin Athletic Training Association) for slightly more than one month since his college career’s fairytale ending. He trains there six days per week — four days of strength, speed and agility training and two of recovery days.

On Tuesday, Hyatt left for Indianapolis, Ind., for the NFL Combine. He will perform drills for scouts on Friday. After that, he heads back home. He’ll continue to train until he waits to hear someone call his name during the NFL Draft the week of April 25.

It’s no surprise, perhaps, he’s made no draft

Hyatt plans beyond being with his family.

Preparing for the combine is sort of like preparing for a standardized test. A 40-yard dash time, bench press or shuttle run may not fully illustrate Hyatt’s athleticism at left tackle, but it provides, objective measurable data with which NFL scouts make conjectures when evaluating prospects.

“We do the drills so much and it’s so meticulous going through the drills that it’s muscle memory for us when we go do our pro day or combine,” he said. “Instead of getting that mental repetition (for a standardized test), you’re getting that physical muscle memory.

Going out there, you don’t have to think about it.”

GATA owner and veteran athletic trainer Ryan Goldin, whose facility is near McGinnis Ferry Road in the tri-city vicinity of Duluth, Suwanee and Johns Creek, said the combine will improve Hyatt’s stock as a potential draft pick.

“Mitch is going to really surprise some people with what a great athlete he really is,” Goldin said.

“He’s a technician, he’s going to do things right.

He’s going to mentally beat the man in front of him, but he’s also athletically better than the person in front of him. That’s what people are going to find out soon.”

GATA has churned out professional athletes and worked with current pros for seven years. New England Patriot center and University of Georgia grad David Andrews is one of several framed and signed jerseys in the lobby of the facility. Goldin and

his team of trainers cap their draft prep at 10 players. This allows detailed meticulous instruction, as well as a monitor of athletes’ nutrition and sleep.

“Every morsel they put in their body, to their sleep to their flexibility routine, to their lifting, speed measurables — we have nine guys on staff and three main guys that coach every single thing they do during that time period,” Goldin said.

GATA has built up its clientele from relationships with local players, agents and word of mouth.

Hyatt is one of those local players introduced to GATA while at North Gwinnett. He reached out when he left Clemson, and the transition to a new regimen began swiftly.

Hyatt also gained some advice from former pros that will check in to work out and talk to trainees.

Hyatt said Clemson taught him that adaption to the NFL will start with his preparation, similar to his transition from high school to becoming a starting left tackle as a freshman.

“I just think (college) makes you become more of an individual,” Hyatt said. “Day-to-day things about managing your time. They do help you as a student athlete with that stuff. For the most part, it’s budgeting time and money and some of those life skills you learn.”

As for more banal trials of the real world, Hyatt said he’s adapting on the fly. Last week, Hyatt used his last pair of universityprovided contact lenses.

It was a rude reminder that he wasn’t at Clemson anymore. Time to see an optometrist.

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MLB shortstop Gordon Beckham and returned graduated from Georgia Atlanta Brave and fourTech in 3 1/2 years to time Tommy John surgery focus on his pro day and recipient Jonny Venters. prepare for the NFL Draft.

Saint-Amour works with The 2018 Georgia Tech local trainer and pass rush football season, however, specialist Chuck Smith, will ultimately be known whose list of NFL prodas the last for former head ucts is in the 500s and Paul Johnson. Ironically, it swells every year. Saintwas the first and only sea- Amour builds relationships son for defensive coordiand takes advice from nator Nate Woody, whose current and former pros 4-3 defensive scheme that come back to continue showcased Saint-Amour’s to train with Smith and talent for wreaking havoc Goldin. in opposing backfields.

Saint-Amour said the GATA trainer Ryan intensity of his pre-pro day Goldin said Saint-Amour’s regimen at GATA surstrengths got to stand out passes that of his in-season under Woody’s scheme workouts at Georgia Tech. this season. It means he The focus GATA emphamight have some catchsizes is with speed and ing up to do compared to agility training, which is other NFL Draft prospects, what Saint-Amour was but is athleticism could stretching and preparing jump out to scouts during for on Monday.

Georgia Tech’s pro day on “I feel like it’s definitely March 12. more (strenuous),” Saint“With the system, they Amour said. “In-season ran at Georgia Tech his you don’t really do as last year, he got to thrive much lifting. This is kind some and show people of for training, trying to what he can do,” Goldin maximize our speed, maxisaid. “Each year is going mize our strength.” to be better and better.

Saint-Amour has tried He’s a great athlete and never to get caught up in very explosive. You can his NFL ambitions and see at the end of his (coltake on-field moments in lege career) he’s starting high school and college for to peak as we go. He’s not granted, but there are alwinding down.” ways those ultimate goals Goldin has been trainon his mind. ing draft prospects for the Saint-Amour’s last high NFL Combine and pro school game was a loss days for seven years. He’s in the state championbeen an athletic trainer ship to Norcross, and his for 22 years. The lobby to last college game was a GATA is decorated with crushing 34-10 loss to the signed jerseys of some of University of Minnesota his former clients. Signed in the Quick Lane Bowl in Wesleyan and University Detroit. Saint-Amour isn’t of Georgia jerseys from a stranger to unceremoniDavid Andrews bookend ous ends. the collection, which also The prep that started includes former Chattasince he left Georgia Tech, hoochee High School alum though, is his weapon and Cincinnati Bengals against an unceremonious offensive lineman Clint end to his football career.

Boling, John Busing — He hopes to impress some also a Chattahoochee alum scout who might recomand former Houston Texmend he at least have a ans safety, now a trainer shot to prove himself in an at GATA. The collection NFL training camp. He’s is not limited to football had the NFL in the back of players and features West- his mind since his days at minster grad and former North Gwinnett. He tried

never to get too ahead of himself. The hustle and grind between the NFL never burnt him out. He also realizes that the work isn’t over after draft day, whether his name is called or not.

Saint-Amour has improved his stock in four years at Georgia Tech, since coming out of North Gwinnett as a three-star weak-side defensive end.

The Suwanee native also learned to grow up fast, and the real world of rent, bills and adult responsibilities loom for the 22-yearold football prospect.

Saint-Amour said college life has prepared him for those fast-approaching responsibilities.

“Football-wise, the speed of the game changes a lot, and in college, you have so much more responsibility,” Saint-Amour said. “You really have to take responsibility with your own time and time management. All that responsibility is on your own shoulders, all of that extra work you have to put in to become greater.”

Saint-Amour is staying with family in Suwanee while he trains at GATA. Saint-Amour hopes to show NFL scouts during pro day at Georgia Tech what was hidden by the Yellow Jackets’ old defensive scheme in years past. It will include some standard drills the NFL Combine: 40-yard dash, bench press, the shuttle run. Saint-Amour also hopes to stand out in position specific drills as well.

Football-wise, SaintAmour intends to approach the increase in the rigor of professional football the way he did in college.

After all, it is his physical and mental preparation that grants him an opportunity to perform for pro scouts in a few weeks.

“The more you know about what you do before you do it, the speed of the game slows down,” SaintAmour said.

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Back to Munich “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

One might think that after denying the evidence of Adolf Hitler’s rise and objectives that resulted in World War II, Europeans might be more attuned to modern threats.

Last week on a visit to Munich (oh, the irony), Vice President Mike Pence criticized Europe’s continued support of the Iran Cal nuclear deal from Thomas which President Trump has withdrawn. According to BBC.com, under the deal, which was never ratified by the Senate, “Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.”

And why didn’t the Senate ratify the Iran deal? Because, writes National Review, it was “…deliberately negotiated by the Obama administration in a way that enabled it to evade the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that treaties be ratified by the Senate.”

Pence said, “The time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.” He called Iran a “murderous regime” and “the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world.”

Speaking at the same gathering, German Chancellor Angela Merkel sounded as if she was channeling the late British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when she acknowledged Iran’s military buildup and the threat it poses to Europe and the world. In spite of those known facts, Merkel, like Chamberlain, remains in denial.

Merkel said, “I see the ballistic missile programs, I see Iran in Yemen and above all I see Iran in Syria. The only question that stands between us on this issue is, do we help our common cause, our common aim of containing the damaging or difficult development of Iran, by withdrawing from the one remaining agreement? Or do we help it more by keeping the small anchor we have in order maybe to exert pressure in other areas?”

This takes wishful thinking to an entirely new level. Better to help the younger Iranians who hate the regime to topple it as the U.S. is doing in Venezuela. How can Merkel acknowledge the threat that Iran represents and in the next breath diminish it? Not surprisingly those assembled, many of whom believe as Merkel does, gave her remarks thunderous applause.

The flaw in this thinking — and in the Munich Agreement, the 1938 settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, which led to World War II — is that Westerners too often impose our morality on those who are evil. Evil should not and cannot be accommodated, or “contained.” Evil must be crushed and eliminated. Imagine if the policy of the United States and Britain had been to contain Hitler and his Nazi regime instead of defeating it.

For decades, containment of the Soviet Union was the policy of the United States (authored by the U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan) until Ronald Reagan had a better idea. His goal was to eliminate “the evil empire” of Soviet communism.

Students of Scripture will recall God’s admonitions to the Israelites: “You must purge the evil from among you.” Deuteronomy 13:5 is one of many such commands in both Testaments.

Purging evil is not easy and requires a choice. It may be more difficult at the start, but if delayed it becomes costlier in lives and the destruction of property on the back end.

In her speech, Merkel defended and promoted the importance of a multilateral approach to global affairs. Under the right circumstances and with the right policies, multilateralism can work, but not when proponents of a multilateral approach to serious problems choose to play down the threat before them.

World War II should have taught Merkel and the rest of Europe a lesson about denial. One hopes it won’t take another disaster with many more deaths caused by Iranian nuclear weapons to show those who survive how mistaken they were.

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

Donations to pay U.S. debt pointless With America’s national debt surpassing a frightening $22 trillion, it makes sense that fewer people are volunteering their hard-earned dough to help reduce it.

Since 1961, the Bureau of the Public Debt has allowed Americans to “gift” money to the Treasury Department — on the condition that the money be used only to pay down the debt.

Last year’s donations totaled about $775,000 — “only the fourth time in 20 years that the fund didn’t reach at least $1 million in actual dollars,” says U.S. News & World Report.

“Over the last five years the amount of gifts to reduce public debt has shrunk substantially from about $5 million to under a million,” a Treasury spokesman told U.S. News.

Why the drop? Nobody’s certain. But I have a theory.

It isn’t related to politics. The pattern of annual donations, high and low, is nearly even during both Democratic and Republican administrations.

So, who volunteers their money? And why do they even bother?

When I looked into this a

Kennedy signed the program into law in 1961.”

Regrettably, that’s a drop in the bucket — and perhaps the reason donations are dropping.

In 2014, Americans donated $5.1 million. That fell to $3.8 million in 2015, $2.7 million in 2016, $2.6 million in 2017 Tom and $775,000 in 2018. Only Purcell $185,000 has been donated so far in 2019 — despite a roaring decade ago, a Bureau of the economy.

Public Debt senior adviser (now Perhaps donations are down retired) told me the givers she because government spending encountered seemed to be patri- has long been out of control — otic citizens wanting to do their regardless of which party is in small part to help their country. charge.

She said most givers mailed Perhaps donations are down checks without notes. Some because they are, essentially, signed tax-refund checks over to useless.

Treasury.

Say the national debt stopped Occasionally, individuals left growing at $22 trillion (quit large portions of their estates to laughing!). Say that for the rest the government. The largest es- of time, our government would tate gift on record, $3.5 million, never spend a penny more than came in 1992. it takes in.

The Congressional Research And say well-meaning Service reports the largest single Americans then gifted $5 milgift came in fiscal year 1994 — lion every year to pay down that $12 million from someone who $22 trillion — with zero interest remains anonymous. on that debt.

“In total,” says U.S. News, Even then, it still would “about $100 million has been take 4.4 MILLION YEARS to donated since President John F. reduce the debt to zero.

What’s worse: These gift donations technically aren’t paying down the debt anyhow.

The donations are recorded on the receipts ledger of the federal government’s general fund.

So, rather than actually paying down the national debt, these donations just reduce the amount of money our government will borrow as it continues to run massive annual deficits.

That’s why, in my humble opinion, fewer good-hearted Americans see any point in gifting their hard-earned money to our spendthrift government.

No matter how much patriotic citizens want to do their part, and no matter how much they donate, it won’t make a real difference.

They know that. And they know that so long as our politicians remain unserious about reducing spending and deficits, the national debt will continue to explode.

It’s no wonder why fewer Americans are willing to throw good money after bad.

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

How Senate Bill 59 will protect the bad guys Nightclubs catering to underage teens, a significant security breach at HartsfieldJackson airport, a con artist ripping off brides-to-be. Each one was exposed through the work of undercover journalists in Georgia who made secret recordings. The recordings both proved and vividly illustrated the shenanigans, leading to change and significant action.

Recording in secret is a tool journalists use to help them protect the public’s interest and uncover the less savory parts of our society. For most news organizations, going undercover is reserved for the most difficult stories and often means some personal risk for the journalists.

Right now, in Georgia and 37 other states, that kind of investigative journalism is legal. Only one participant in a conversation needs to agree to a recording that secretly captures evidence of bad behavior. Georgia’s current law matches federal statutes.

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in the race. The embarrassing recording was made public during Cagle’s GOP runoff against Brian Kemp; voters Richard T. resoundingly rejected Cagle.

Griffiths The power of that recording got lawmakers’ attention.

But a bill proposed by state Now some want to make such Senate Rules Committee Chair recordings illegal, and in the Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, process they would make it a would change that. His bill, criminal act for journalists to Senate Bill 59, would require use one-party recordings to that all parties agree to being expose wrongdoers. recorded. It would change But it’s not just journalists Georgia from what is called a who would become criminals. “one-party consent state” to an • A domestic abuse victim “all-party consent state.” who records threats or abuse Why would lawmakers on a concealed mobile phone propose or support such a would be a criminal, too. change? Here’s the backThe illegal recording might ground: be thrown out as evidence in A recording last year of Re- court. And the victim of abuse publican gubernatorial frontcould actually end up being runner Casey Cagle seriously prosecuted. damaged the then-lieutenant • Even going live on Facegovernor’s campaign. The book could create risks. Would secret recording was made by everyone being recorded have another gubernatorial candito agree before the recording date, Clay Tippins. In it, Cagle is posted? Would video of a could be heard saying he sup- street-corner shouting match ported “bad” policy because it cross a legal line? Would powould hurt another candidate lice have the only authority to

record video of a traffic stop?

• And what about those doorbell cameras? Would recording a conversation with a suspicious visitor at your door be illegal? Would your effort to fight crime by posting that video to alert your neighbors now itself be a crime?

• And if you recorded a scammer who keeps calling an elderly relative offering highcost services they don’t need, that could be illegal, too.

This bill would take away from Georgia citizens’ ability to protect themselves.

The only people in Georgia who would benefit from Senate Bill 59 are bad guys who are likely to be embarrassed by or even imprisoned because of undercover recordings. For the millions of Georgians who don’t break the law, don’t do or say things they shouldn’t, there’s no reason for this misguided proposal.

Richard T. Griffiths is president of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation.

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•From Page 1B LM: Probably softball.

That was sort of my first love. I didn’t start playing tennis until I decided I needed something to do in the spring.

JR: It seems like you’re a person that likes to stay busy. Where’d you develop that at?

LM: Absolutely. I don’t know, I’ve always been very goal-oriented, looking short-term but also looking long-term. I do that now too. I’m back in school doing my specialist now, teaching dual-enrollment and English to my high school kids, coaching cross country and then balancing coach life, home life and book life.

JR: What do you think has been your most challenging time while managing several projects at the same time?

LM: I feel like I’m most successful the busier I am.

I do well under pressure, so the more stuff that’s going on, the better. So this past season, when we had probably our most successful season team-wise, I just started back in school. In the beginning of school, it’s always crazy anyway sorting the school out, balancing work and practice every day after school and just finding out I was pregnant.

Then I was sick basically all season, so that was not fun. I’m having a baby in like two months. It was just a lot.

JR: Have you guys come up with a name?

LM: We have name. We haven’t really told people yet. This will be our second kid. I also have a 3-year old daughter at home. In the five seasons that I’ve coached, I’ve only been healthy to run with them (my players for) two of the years. This past year I was pregnant, I was sick a lot.

Another year I was very

much so pregnant with my daughter. Last year. I was recovering from knee surgery.

JR: What’s the process that you guys go through to pick a name?

LM: With my daughter it was kind of easy. We could agree on something, so we had name picked really early. For some reason, boys names are a lot tougher, so we’ve struggled. And even though we think we’ve settled on one, we’re still not 100 percent sure.

JR: What do you like about being a cross country coach?

LM: I didn’t honestly fall in love with running.

I’m amazed at what these kids can do because even though I enjoy running — I’ve enjoyed distance running — I’ve never had the speed. Some of the stuff they do is absolutely amazing. I didn’t actually start running until after my first knee surgery. I’ve torn my ACL twice now. I made it through high school and college sports fine, tore my ACL six years ago playing basketball. Then it was I was like, ‘I can’t walk.

I’m on crutches. I just want to run.’ And for that reason when I could start running, I fell in love with it. I said I’m going to do a half marathon. So I did, and since then I’ve done several. That’s my favorite distance. The speed stuff, what our sport does, I can’t do it. But I’ve learned so much to where I understand the process.

JR: What was it like to coach Chloe Hetherington, the 2018 Gwinnett Daily Post Cross Country Girls Runner of the Year?

LM: Chloe is rare. I’ve never had anyone like that to coach. Well, our No. 2 runner, she’s pretty special too. She’ll be our top runner next year. Chloe’s personality, her work ethic, I enjoy coaching her. It

was an interesting dynamic because she was kind of in a field of her own even amongst our team. But you adjust things a little bit, you adjust your expectations for the team and for the individual. But it was a good problem to have because I’ve never had that problem before in seasons before. I didn’t have a true standout runner. We adjusted things a little bit. It worked out a little bit, but it was a learning process.

JR: What went into deciding to go to Piedmont College? Was it a good fit?

LM: It was and it wasn’t.

I only ended up staying there two years, and then I transferred. I wanted to stay somewhere close to home. That was a big part of it. I could’ve gone elsewhere and to a bigger school and played at some other places. My brother was still in high school. I wanted to come to some of his stuff. I also had a 4-year old sister at home that I didn’t want to just think that I abandoned her.

JR: Where did you transfer to?

LM: West Georgia, and I graduated from there.

JR: How was West Georgia?

LM: I loved it out there.

It’s a good school. But I didn’t play out there. I just played at Piemont for two years, and when I transferred, I just decided to give college sports a break.

I was burned out by that point, honestly.

JR: How’d you keep yourself busy since you stopped paying sports?

LM: I got a job, I was in the gym, I did intramurals.

I did intramural basketball, softball, soccer flag football— all the sports.

JR: Where’d you get a job at?

LM: I got a job at Longhorn Steakhouse. Pretty much all through college,

off and on through college and after I graduated. When I went back to school to get my master’s.

JR: Are you Mountain View’s track coach as well?

LM: No, I don’t do track., The track coach is different.

JR: Did you ever imagine yourself teaching?

LM: No (laughs). My degree is in psychology. I always thought I wanted to do some sort or counseling or work in a hospital setting or something like that.

My husband is a teacher as well, and he teaches at Discovery. When we got engaged — because we met in college — when we got engaged and married and I moved down to where he was teaching. The school he was at needed a softball coach. So I started coaching there, and I was going back to school to get my teaching degree because I was like, ‘I love coaching. This is awesome, What job can I have where I can continue doing this?’

So that’s how it started.

JR: What high school was he coaching at?

LM: It was his old high school, Pike County High School down in Zebulon.

It’s a tiny little school. It’s one elementary, one middle and one high school for the county. I think it helps too that when I was coaching down there that we were good, so that makes a difference. I coached softball there for two years, and in those two years, we were fifth in state and state runner-up. I coached some good athletes down there.

JR: Are you guys pretty competitive with each other?

LM: He’s a former baseball player. I think we used to be more competitive. I feel like not so much anymore because we don’t really overlap. I think when I coached softball and he

coached baseball, we were more competitive.

JR: Did he play in college?

LM: He played baseball for three years, and then he messed up his shoulder.

JR: Who was the better player in college?

LM: Oh, I don’t know.

We met in our senior year of college, so it was after we were both done playing.

I would say I’m a better athlete, but that’s probably not accurate. We do different stuff now. I’m a runner.

He hates running. That’s sort of what I fell back on, and I still play tennis. He can’t play with me.

JR: Will you get on the court with him?

LM: That’s funny because that’s actually how we met was in the basketball gym at West Georgia. I used to play pick-up all the time with just whoever was in there, and that’s kind of how it started.

JR: So it was a pick-up game that was the first encounter?

LM: Well he played intramurals with some guy friends of mine. He was on their team. [I] didn’t really know who he was, and actually our first date was decided over a game of HO-R-S-E, believe it or not.

My story is that I let him win, and I’m still sticking to that story that I let him win so he could take me out. And the rest is history.

Here we are 10 years later, almost 11 years later.

JR: What do you like about Mountain View?

LM: The kids here are good, (and) I enjoy coaching. I enjoy what I do here, what I teach, the schedule that I have, being able to coach and do something that I truly enjoy. The spring is kind of tough because I’m not in season.

I like the fall even though it’s hectic. I get through the day going, ‘All right, well we’ve got practice, we’ve

got a meet this weekend.’

It’s always something to look forward to.

JR: What do you look forward to now in the spring?

LM: Honestly, I look forward to being able to run again once this baby is born. I’ve already started to look at some fall races for myself. I‘m looking forward to getting back to doing things for me.

JR: What are some of your favorite things to do in your leisure time besides run?

LM: I just spend time with family, hang out with my daughter, my husband and do family stuff. We go to the park. I enjoy reading, although I don’t do much of it anymore.

JR: What’s the best vacation that you’ve been on?

LM: Every summer we usually go to the beach. I would say our honeymoon down in Mexico. That was a fun trip. I don’t feel like I’ve been on a bad vacation.

JR: Have you ever been to a concert?

LM: Yes, it has been a while.

JR: What was the last one you went to?

LM: Oh gosh, I don’t know. Actually, I do know.

Last spring I went to the Jimmy Buffet concert with my mom, randomly. She was like, ‘Hey, I have an extra ticket. Let’s go.’ It was fun.

JR: Do you have a college sports team that you root for?

LM: I grew up a Tennessee fan. I’m a pretty diehard Tennessee fan. My husband is a Georgia fan, so we clash on head-tohead weekends. We used to be pretty competitive really with that. We’ve kind of relaxed a little bit. When Georgia and Tennessee play each other, we don’t watch the games together.

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