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Ex-football star claims toss game killed boy

By Joshua Sharpe joshua.sharpe@gwinnettdailypost.com

Scott Schoenthal has his daughter and son with him as the carry the banner to lead the Survivors’ Walk during Friday night’s Relay for Life at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville. (Photos: Karl L. Moore)

Celebrating survival

LAWRENCEVILLE — “Tye Toss” was exactly what it sounds like.

Steven Singleton, a former Buford High and Southeastern Conference football player, would pick up his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son Tye Hardin and toss him, aiming for a soft spot for him to land, sometimes the couch. Then the boy would get up and go back for more from the 6-foot-2, 300-pounder.

This friendly game, according to testimony given in court Friday, was Singleton’s most recent explanation for what caused the child’s fatal injuries in late April. Now charged with murder, Singleton reportedly claimed he missed the couch and Tye hit the floor.

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Relay brings awareness with carnival-like atmosphere

By Curt Yeomans

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Conventional wisdom says lightning does not strike in the same place twice.

Scott Schoenthal says it does, at least in a figurative sense.

Schoenthal, 34, was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1998.

He was treated for it and thought the worst was behind him. He was then diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2004. That news stunned both the Lawrenceville resident and his doctor.

“Honestly, my doctor looked at me and said, ‘Lightning struck twice,’” said Schoenthal, who has battled recurring metastatic germ cell tumors since 2013.

Several cancer survivors and fighters, like Schoenthal, said the day they received their diagnosis was the worst day of their lives. That sadness was a distant memory on Friday, however, when they attended the Gwinnett County Relay for Life at the county fairgrounds in Lawrenceville.

Fun was the name of the game at the relay. Although cancer is a solemn topic, the fairground was alive with the kind of sounds that are usually only heard at a fair.

Motorcycle police and a high school drum line led the Survivor Lap around the fairground’s track while supporters cheered them on from the sidelines.

Attendees laughed and cheered together as they did the Purple

Steven Singleton listens to testimony in court Friday in the case of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son Tye Hardin’s death. Singleton, a former Buford football player, is charged with murder. (Staff Photo: Joshua Sharpe)

Will Gov. Deal veto agency for senior citizens?

By Andy Miller Georgia Health News From left, Alyssa Annarelli, Shyneisha Roberson and Toni Warrington lead the line dancing during Friday night’s Relay for Life at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville.

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Glove Dance with a team of six Chick-fil-A cows.

“If we’re in town, we’re here,” said Clarkston resident and 13-year pancreatic cancer survivor Merle Griffin, 79, about the dedication of her and her See RELAY, Page 9A

Destinee McCall from Snellville looks for her great grandmother’s torch during Friday night’s Relay for Life.

Gov. Nathan Deal has held signing ceremonies across the state in recent days for a variety of bills passed by the General Assembly.

But one bill that passed overwhelmingly in the Legislature may not get a ceremony — or a signature. In fact, it’s expected to get a veto.

House Bill 86 would Nathan Deal move the current Division of Aging Services out of the Department of Human Services and create a new state agency. The proposed Adult and Aging Services Agency would be attached to the Department

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They plan to study medicine, neuroscience and enter the fields of academia, science and research. Thanks to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, they’ll do it with a $2,500 scholarship.

Six Gwinnett students were recently named National Merit Scholars that were judged by the organization to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential for success in college.

The students are Ryan C. Chen of Brookwood, who listed academia as

a probable career field; Laboni Hoque of Brookwood, who plans to enter the field of medicine; Katherine E. Moraes of Collins Hill, who has a probable career field of neuroscience; Dain Song of Lanier, who also seeks to pursue a career in medicine and Megan J. Paik and Ziyu Ding, each from

North Gwinnett, who plan seek careers in science/ research and neuroscience, respectively.

The students were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists.

The committee reviewed each student’s academic

record including difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned; scores from two standardized tests; contributions/leadership in school and community activities; an essay written by the student; and a recommendation written by a high school official.

The competition began when more than 1.4 mil-

lion students, who at the time were high school juniors, took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as the initial screening for program entrants. The highest scoring participants in each state were then selected as semifinalists.

AAA: Highest Memorial Day travel in 10 years expected

By Keith Farner

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The travel industry has reason to be excited for Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start to summer.

Rising wages and lower gas prices are expected to translate into the highest travel volume for the holiday in 10 years, according to a forecast from AAA. The motorist advocacy

group released its forecast on Friday, and it said 37.2 million Americans will drive 50 miles or more during the Memorial Day holiday weekend — May 21 to May 25. That’s nearly two million more than last year.

“Americans have more money in their pockets this year due to rising wages and lower gas prices,” Brent Stahlheber, senior vice president of Brand Marketing and Travel

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with AAA said in a press release. “This is welcome news for the travel industry, which should see this upward momentum carry into the summer.”

The national average on Friday for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $2.66, which is $1 lower than the average price for Memorial Day last year. The average price in Georgia is $2.54, and AAA predicts most U.S. travelers will pay the cheapest Memorial

Day gas prices in at least five years.

More than 88 percent of travelers — 33 million — will travel by automobile, an increase of 5.3 percent over last Memorial Day. Holiday air travel is expected to increase 2.5 percent to 2.6 million.

Travelers will encounter higher average daily car rental and lodging costs this year, while airfares are slightly lower compared to Memorial Day 2014.

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Deal creates new state criminal supervision department

Georgia gained a new criminal justice department aimed at fulfilling part of Gov. Nathan Deal’s goal of criminal justice reform this week.

The governor signed House Bill 310 into law on Thursday. The new law creates a Department of Community Services within the state’s government to streamline probation and parole services. Deal acted quickly to install leadership for the new agency by appointing State Board of Pardons and Paroles Executive Director Michael Nail as its commissioner.

Deal said Nail and the department will bring a “more efficient system of oversight” by supervising criminal offenders based on where they live instead of the crime they committed.

That will allow the state to quickly provide support to communities when it is

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“This is another step forward in our efforts to reform our criminal justice system to save taxpayer dollars while giving nonviolent offenders a second chance,” Deal said in a statement.

The state will combine funding from the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to help the new department focus on adult supervision.

The governor’s office

used the parole board as an example of how this will work. The board will provide technology support and officers to the Department of Community Services.

The heads of the departments of Corrections, Juvenile Justice, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the Division of Family and Children Services will join two representatives of the parole board and three appointees of the governor on a Board of Community Supervision that will oversee the new department.

Juvenile supervision is expected to the Department of Community Service’s duties at a later date, according to the governor’s office.

Isakson, Casey introduce bipartisan bill to fight world hunger U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Bob

Casey (D-Pa.) are taking a bipartisan approach to tackling hunger issues around the world.

The pair introduced the Global Food Security Act of 2015 this week.

The bill was fashioned under the idea that U.S. national security and the international economy are threatened by a lack of affordable, nutritious food in developing countries because it hurts their national economies.

“Chronic hunger continues to be a critical problem that has a particularly devastating effect on children,” Isakson said in a statement. “I’m proud to once again introduce the Global Food Security Act with Sen. Casey this year to combat hunger across the globe, improve nutrition in developing countries and bolster U.S. security.”

The act is designed to help other nations bolster their own agriculture and nutrition systems so that they can eventually function without U.S. support. The bill requires the White House to come up with a plan to address world hunger and global food insecurity with an emphasis on agricultural development and child nutrition. It also appropriates money for the next six years to support international development assistance programs included in the plan.

The White House would have to provide annual progress reports to Congress. The Government Accountability Office will be required to monitor the program and issue an evaluation report in 2019.

Upcoming • The Greater Gwin-

nett Republican Women will meet Monday, from 7:30 until 9 p.m. at O’Charley’s, 830 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, in Lawrenceville.

Georgia Association of College Republicans Past Chair Will Kremer will be the featured speaker.

• The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners will hold a town hall meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Hudgens Center for the Arts, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Building 300, in Duluth.

• The Gwinnett County Republican Committee will meet on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the party headquarters, 46 S. Clayton St., in Lawrenceville.

Doors will open at 7 p.m.

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

QuestBridge hands out scholarships to 31 local seniors

By Keith Farner

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Thirty-one of this year’s 440 recipients of the QuestBridge Scholarship are from Gwinnett.

Gwinnett County Public Schools announced this week that those students will be among the recipients in the QuestBridge National Match program that links high-achieving and lowincome students to select colleges.

QuestBridge partners with colleges that offer financial aid packages that cover 100 percent of demonstrated financial need, which makes them very affordable for low-income students.

QuestBridge Scholar.....College/University.......... H.S. Tahnee Muller..................University of Chicago........ Archer Brittany Osaseri...............Washington and Lee......... Archer Brianna Osaseri...............Washington and Lee......... Archer Michelle Samson.............Oberlin.............................. Archer Krystal Castanada...........Emory............................... Archer Sally Tran.........................Duke University................. Berkmar Karen Nguyen..................Emory............................... Berkmar Ugushi Ogonor................University of Chicago ....... Berkmar Christy Enriquez .............Davidson .......................... Berkmar Caterine Guevara ...........Colorado College ............. Berkmar Brian Hernandez ............Emory .............................. Berkmar Dulce Medina ..................Emory .............................. Berkmar Gerson Salmeron Rubio .Tufts ................................. Berkmar Sofia Ali ...........................Stanford ........................... Brookwood Andres Parra ...................Carleton College .............. Collins Hill

Nathaniel Forrester .........Rice University ................. Collins Hill Amethyst King ................Columbia University ......... Collins Hill Sarah Sanneh .................Princeton .......................... Duluth Samuel Zinga .................Emory .............................. GSMST Marcia Saetang ..............Wesleyan University ........ GSMST Aaron Wubshet ...............MIT .................................. GSMST Hayat Ramzi ...................Pomona College .............. Mtn. View Ivan Duong......................Dartmouth......................... Parkview Shehan Parmer...............Southern Cal .................... Parkview Ima Christian ..................Stanford University .......... Parkview Elshaddai Girma .............Emory .............................. Parkview Alexzandra Kellogg .........UGA ................................. Parkview Brendan J. Taliaferro .......University of Penn. ........... Parkview Jasmine Kamruddin ........Stanford University .......... P’tree Ridge Anna Truong ...................Rice University ................. N. Gwinnett Bradford Grant ................Davidson .......................... Shiloh

BOC OKs $1.3M in new sidewalks

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Gwinnett County commissioners decided this week that residents should have more places to walk, and they will soon get them.

The commissioners approved several contracts for new sidewalks on Tuesday. The walking paths will be installed in the Norcross and Dacula areas. The total cost of the four projects is

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The county hired Norcross-based CMES Inc. to install new sidewalks on the north side of McDonough Drive, from Dawson Boulevard to Graves Road, in Norcross. Curb and gutter improvements and the installation of the pads for future bus shelters will also be installed on the road.

Funding for the $334,544 project comes from the 2014 special purpose local option sales tax program.

Ohmshiv Construction LLC was hired, meanwhile, to handle three projects on Hog Mountain and Jim Moore roads in Dacula.

Crews will install sidewalks on the south side of Hog Mountain Road, between Mulberry Oaks Court and Hamilton Mill Parkway, and in multiple sections on the north side of Hog Mountain Road.

The north side sections will be located between Ridgemill Terrace and Green Side Court, and from Patrick Road to Pine Road.

A new sidewalk will also be installed to connect existing paths on the east side of Jim Moore Road near Greenside Court. The cumulative cost of the Dacula area projects is $879,255, with funding coming from the 2009 SPLOST program.

Construction on the sidewalks is expected to wrap up in mid-2016.

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Jerking legs? May be PLMS DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband will be 82 in July. About three years ago, I became aware of his sudden movements during the night.

We were renting in Florida, and the bed was smaller than our bed at home. His body would jerk, sometimes strongly. These movements would not wake him; he just seemed asleep. He does not remember anything about it in the morning.

We went to see his doctor at home, who said that he is in very good shape. He did not know what caused the movements.

We are once again staying in Florida, and his body movements are the same, sometimes strong enough to shake the bed. I find it hard to believe that this is normal.

Do you have any advice?

— B.N.S. ANSWER: This is a classic description of a condition called periodic limb movements of sleep. These usually involve the legs, and typically involve pointing the toe while flexing the ankle, knee and sometimes the hip.

Each movement lasts a few seconds and repeats every 30 seconds or so. Your story that he doesn’t remember them is very typical: It’s usually the sleeping partner who notices them. PLMS is more common in older adults.

PLMS by itself is not a disease and does not need treatment; however, it is often associated with other conditions, especially restless leg syndrome (WillisEkbom disease), rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (which includes sometimes violent movements) and narcolepsy.

Since your husband apparently has no symptoms, he does not need treatment.

However, he should be specifically asked about symptoms like an urge to move the legs while awake, abnormal feelings in the legs, difficulty falling asleep and sleepiness during the day. These would be likely to indicate RLS or its close relative, periodic limb movement disorder.

DEAR DR. ROACH: My wife, age 70, complains frequently of a sour taste in her mouth soon after eating.

I thought she had esophageal reflux, but I did not find that sour taste is one of the symptoms. She has no heartburn, but the taste occasionally improves after taking an antacid. — B.P. ANSWER: Gastroesophageal reflux disease can have no symptoms, or many. Sour taste is, in fact, a common symptom. This is the “reflux” of the condition’s name, since it refers to the backward movement of stomach acid — all the way into the back of the throat or even into the mouth.

Heartburn is perhaps the most common symptom, but so is difficulty swallowing. This is more common in people with longstanding symptoms.

Antacids neutralize the acid in the stomach but do not prevent the reflux of stomach contents. Widely prescribed medications, including H2 blockers like Zantac or Pepcid (“H2” is a type of histamine receptor, a stimulus for acid production) and proton pump inhibitors (like Prilosec or Nexium, which directly reduce acid secretion), also act on the acid in the stomach, and do not reduce reflux.

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Wife’s enthusiasm creates sexpectations DEAR AMY: I am 64; my wife is 62. We are empty nesters. My wife and I are intimate most often on Saturday and Sunday mornings, often Wednesday morning when I have a day off, and occasionally at other times as well. I have ED issues, which I deal with successfully.

My wife retired last year. She has a habit of always setting up sexual expectations of me: “Oooh, the weekend is coming,” or “Yay, Wednesday morning you’re off work,” or, “We get to stay in bed on Friday…”

I usually tell her to just live in the moment, and to stop looking forward.

She gets plenty of hugs, kisses, and grabs throughout the week. She believes she has the greatest life and is happy and fulfilled.

I am happy and content as well, but I am more centered, seemingly without the extreme highs and lows that she experiences. She does this forward-looking excited thing not just with sex, but with nights out, vacations, parties, etc.

Last night she did this morning-sex-expectation thing. I didn’t react with similar glee, so she got mad and I launched into an honest conversation asking her to please stop setting up these expectations because if we don’t follow through (rare) I don’t

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Amy Dickinson want to disappoint her.

Typically, she overreacted: “OK, I’ll NEVER say those things again,” which to me was a very unfair response. After several failed attempts to get her to understand my point, I told her she was nuts. Is my reaction normal?

— Living In the Moment DEAR LIVING: First of all — how awesome are you two?

Secondly, there’s this: If you ask your wife not to speak to you in a certain way and she responds with, “OK, I’ll NEVER say those things again,” don’t double down and question her tone. And do NOT tell her she’s “nuts.”

You and your wife are temperamentally quite different. She is effusive and you are more reticent. Mainly I assume this difference inspires some wonderful chemistry between you. In this regard, however, you are taking her excitement and encouragement as pressure

to perform. Given your ED issues, I can imagine this is stressful. Explain your situation to your wife this way: Her advance excitement creates “sexpectations” and stress, making it tougher to make the magic happen. If she can dial it down, it will be easier for you to dial it up.

DEAR AMY: We are in a group of couples who have been socializing and going on trips together two to three times a year for 20 years.

When our two sons were married we invited everyone to both weddings, which is what all the other couples have done when their children were married.

We recently received a call from one of the other wives that we weren’t being invited to their daughter’s wedding (two other couples are also not invited).

Her reason was that it’s her daughter’s call and she doesn’t want to talk her into it. To me that means we aren’t good enough friends for her to go to the effort.

What is your take on this and how should we react the next time we see them?

— Upset Friend DEAR UPSET: My take is that it is the daughter’s wedding and she (and her future husband) — not her mother — is making the decision about whom

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The way you should react to your friend is to be respectful and understanding. If you have a beef about being excluded, it should be with the daughter, not her mother.

DEAR AMY: I’m responding to “Dejected,” whose husband never complimented her. I’ve recently realized that both my husband and I respond in an unhealthy and inappropriate way to compliments.

When he says something positive I should accept it without trying to convince him that his observation is incorrect, and when I compliment him, he should do the same. We’ve both decided this comes from our childhoods and we’re working on just thanking each other.

— Barbara DEAR BARBARA: Some men have responded that their wives are terrible at accepting a compliment.

It’s good that you and your husband are working on this.

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Your ability to make the most of any and all changes that come your way will lead to success.

Don’t get hung up on schedules or timetables.

There will be some unexpected drawbacks, but flexibility and acceptance will help you reach your destination.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Being overly emotional will cause you to make questionable choices. Think twice before getting involved in a dubious venture. Jeopardizing your reputation or position could result in irreparable harm.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Time spent traveling, attending cultural events and learning new information will pay off.

Your increased credentials and skills will put you in line for advancement.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A change in your surroundings will brighten your day. Consider investing in items that will make your chores easier. Make sure that everyone you live with is on board with your plans.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Refrain from wearing your heart on your sleeve, but let your partner know how you feel. This is an ideal time to plan a trip or vacation that could strengthen your relationship.

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22) — Your easygoing personality and ability to get along well with your colleagues will be noticed and rewarded. Don’t be surprised if you receive a promotion or raise.

Celebrate with someone special.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Travel, romance and knowledge will all play a major role in your advancement. Don’t hesitate to invite a special someone on a romantic getaway.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Stick to your own schedule and don’t take on any extra tasks.

Give others the freedom to pursue their goals without interruption. That way, you will accomplish the most and avoid a disagreement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Do the groundwork, make up your mind and proceed to the finish line. Have faith in your own judgment, and refuse to let anyone interfere with your plans or your decision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you join a benevolent or charitable organization, you will meet someone who intrigues you. Working toward a common cause will give you a sense of belonging, satisfaction and accomplishment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Keep your personal and professional lives separate. Your anxieties will be lessened once you are able to find a balance between your career and home life.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Someone near to you will let you down. Don’t let what transpires ruin your plans.

Trust in your abilities and keep moving forward. You are capable of handling matters on your own.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your charm and charisma will bring you lots of favorable attention. This is a great time to present your ideas to those in a position to help you advance.

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Salvation Army honors Elliott Brack at annual luncheon

By Katie Morris

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DULUTH — Elliott Brack remembers having no choice in the matter when he was first introduced to The Salvation Army in 1989. He was drawn in by the energy and enthusiasm of Commissioner Andrew Miller Sr. “Andy Miller was perhaps the most amazing and godly man I have ever known, so accomplished, so smart, so unpredictable, so full of life, an evangelist wherever he was, a true man of God,” he said. “It was impossible for me to say no to this guy.”

After 26 years of helping others through The Salvation Army, Brack stood on stage with Miller’s grand-

From left, Elliott Brack accepts the prestigious Others Award from Commissioner David Jeffrey, National Commander of The Salvation Army USA, and Capt. Andrew Miller, Salvation Army of Lawrenceville Corps Officer, during the Salvation Army of Gwinnett’s annual luncheon Friday. (Staff Photo: Katie Morris)

son, Capt. Andrew Miller III, and Commissioner David Jeffrey to receive one of the highest honors given

by The Salvation Army, the Others Award.

Brack became the first Gwinnettian to receive the

prestigious award during The Salvation Army of Gwinnett’s annual luncheon Friday. A crowd of local supporters gathered in the ballroom of Sonesta Gwinnett Place for the fundraiser, which raised $84,595 for The Salvation Army of Gwinnett’s homelessness prevention, financial emergency assistance and children conservatory programs.

“We wouldn’t be able to serve the people we serve without the Gwinnett community and without people like Elliott Brack.” said Miller, Salvation Army Lawrenceville Corps Officer.

Brack led the 1999 campaign to raise the $4.5 million that enabled the

Salvation Army to build its Lawrenceville facility.

He has also served on the Gwinnett Advisory Council and is an active member of the Metro Atlanta Area Advisory Board.

The Norcross native and editor of the Gwinnett Forum said he was surprised to receive the award and also proud of his children for leading efforts to raise $52,000 for the Salvation Army.

In addition to receiving the Others Award, Elliott and his wife Barbara were also honored with the unveiling of a new focal point in Salvation Army of Gwinnett’s educational initiative — The Barbara and Elliot Brack Media Center. The center will be

a dedicated after-school space with wireless Internet, laptops, tablets and other media, encouraging young community members to use technology for the exchange ideas and news.

Friday’s luncheon also included an emotional testimonial from Pamela King about the support she and her two children, Jalen and Journey, recieved from the Salvation Army’s Home Sweet Home program, which helps lead homeless families to stable housing and self-sufficiency.

Keynote speaker Commissioner David Jeffrey, National Commander of The Salvation Army, also spoke to supporters about the organization’s Pathway of Hope initiative.

Graduate tells GIVE students how he left jail, built a 3.9 GPA

By Keith Farner

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NORCROSS — Jose Acosta hit bottom when a beer bottle cut across his face and left him with a gash that required eight stitches around his left eyebrow.

At that moment, Acosta looked down and saw warm blood that soaked his shirt and his buddies nowhere to be found.

“There I was, left alone with our rival gang,” Acosta told students at GIVE Center West on Friday morning about the time he was a leader of the gang Southside.

“All five of them soon had me cringing on the floor as they landed hit after hit, punch after punch, until I was nearly unconscious, leaving me on the floor, gasping for air.”

At some point during a four-hour hospital stay, a

doctor told him he was lucky that the beer bottle didn’t take his sight.

Acosta voluntarily told that story twice on Friday, and his message to the students was to not give up. He said many people label those GIVE West students as do-nothings and criminals. Acosta is a senior at Berkmar High now with a 3.9 grade-pointaverage, but he once was a student at GIVE Center West, and had 53 referrals to his

name.

Twice arrested during his two-year stint in the eighth grade, Acosta told students to never give up, not even if they’re in a youth detention center like he was. And not even if teachers, friends, or even parents told them it can’t be done.

“If you can believe that you can do something, by God,” he said, “go ahead and do it.”

That’s why he called Principal Todd Marschke two weeks ago because he recalled a time six years ago when he was in the same shoes as the students he talked to Friday. But this time he was wearing a suit and maroon tie. It proved to be a long way from his former life of, in his words, “gangbanging, doing drugs and headed down a dangerous road.”

In fact, it took two lessons to straighten up. The night he met the beer bottle was the second memorable incident he told the students. The first came after police served him an arrest warrant at school, and after he finally gained visitation rights, he talked with his parents from behind a glass screen — the “lowest low” of his life.

“Having that feeling where I was in a position where I couldn’t do anything,” Acosta said.

His father, also named Jose, said he didn’t move from Mexico and develop a work ethic to have a son end up in custody.

Berkmar High senior Jose Acosta, right, talks with, from left, Lauren Hagey, media specialist, and Denise Peagler, instructional coach, at GIVE Center West on Friday following a speech Acosta gave to middle and high school students about how he turned his life around. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

“When (my son) tried to be in gangs and drugs, I said, ‘Hey this is not a life for you. You’re going the wrong way. You want to start selling drugs? You think the food I’ve got in the freezer is because I’m selling drugs?’

I said, ‘No, I had to work for them. I had to be a good man and tell you that if I had something in the house, I never sold something to get something. When you want to be a good man, you have to prove to the world you work hard and not by selling drugs to have a good car and a good house.’”

The younger Jose said he had too much time on his hands on days when his parents worked late. That’s when he talked to the wrong people.

There are many success stories that come out of the GIVE Center, an alternative school, but Marschke said it’s usually school officials trying to track down their former students, not the other way around.

“That civic engagement of wanting to give back to the community is really what’s cool,” Marschke said. “This

is the first kid who’s sought me out. … The fact that he wanted to come back and give back to these kids at this school, that’s what’s so special to me.”

Since he came back with a certain amount of “street cred” as Marschke put it, Acosta’s story was a reason for the current GIVE students to listen.

“To hear it from somebody who’s actually experienced it means a lot more than if some speaker had come,” Acosta said. “… All I want is kids to hear it, and get that sense that it’s never too late.

If I could do it, they could do it. All I want is for people to learn from what I’ve been through.”

And he’s not just any visiting speaker. While Acosta has two arrests on his record, Georgia Tech has accepted him, he’s considering Purdue University and he has a $30,000 scholarship offer to Campbell University.

A prolific wrestler in the 285-pound class, Acosta was the first state wrestling finalist at Berkmar in 16 years and was ranked No. 16 nationally as a heavyweight.

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NATION Tropical Storm Ana brings rain to the Carolinas CHARLESTON, S.C., — Emergency officials warned of dangerous rip currents and surf shops enjoyed brisk sales as Tropical Storm Ana continued its slow trek on Saturday toward the Carolinas, getting the Atlantic hurricane season off to an earlierthan-usual start.

Ana is the year’s first named storm in a season that typically runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds near 60 miles per hour as it swirled about 85 miles southeast of the golfing and beach resort of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.

Its center was forecast to be “very near” the coasts of North Carolina and South Carolina by this morning, according to the weather agency.

U.S. asks for North Korean restraint following missile test report WASHINGTON — The United States called on North Korea on Saturday to refrain from taking actions that inflame tensions in the region after state media reported Pyongyang testfired a submarine-launched ballistic missile.

A State Department official would not comment on the reported test but said launches using ballistic missile technology violate multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.

“We call on North Korea to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its international commitments and obligations,” the official said in an email.

Great Plains expected to be hit by severe storms Residents in parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas were bracing on Saturday for severe thunderstorms that could spawn tornadoes, just days after a series of twisters tore through several Great Plains states, leaving one person dead.

The National Weather Service issued a warning saying there was an “enhanced risk” of severe weather beginning on Saturday afternoon that could bring hail, strong winds, flash floods and possibly conditions leading to tornadoes.

“The area of greatest concern is from southeast Colorado to portions of Texas,” it said in its advisory. “The primary threat with these storms will be very large hail, but damaging winds and even a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out.”

The storm system could bring lashing wind and rain as far north as Kansas and southern Nebraska, and to parts of central Texas, including Dallas and its suburbs.

— From wire reports

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world&nation Russia stages WWII victory parade

By Vladimir Soldatkin, Jack Stubbs and Timothy Heritage

Reuters

MOSCOW — Tanks and troops paraded across Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, an event boycotted by Western leaders over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the anniversary to whip up patriotism and anti-Western sentiment; at a parade in Kiev, President Petro Poroshenko said Moscow was trying to hog the credit for the World War II victory at Ukraine’s expense.

Though Western leaders stayed away, Putin was joined under the Kremlin’s walls by about 30 foreign leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, sitting on his right-hand side.

In a sign of closer ties between the two, a column of Chinese troops took part. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was also the spectators, as were dignitaries from India, former Soviet republics and communist-era allies such as Cuba.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel skipped

Belarusian servicemen salute from tanks as they take part in the Victory Day parade in Minsk on Saturday. Belarus marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe on Saturday. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

the parade, as did U.S. President Barack Obama and the French and British leaders, but was to attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Moscow today.

On show in Moscow was the Armata T-14, Russia’s first new tank for 40 years. Soldiers, some in World War II uniforms, filed past under blue skies and bright sunshine.

War veterans watched from the grandstand, chests bristling with medals, while crowds choked side streets around the Kremlin, cheering as fighter jets roared overhead.

“Victory Day is the

most important holiday for Russia. In practically every Russian family, someone has died fighting for this country,” said 43-year-old former marine Alexander Smolkin, wearing his light-blue beret, medals and military fatigues.

“My own grandfather died defending Russia, this is our day to remember them.”

Facism on the rise?

Putin has said fascism could be on the rise again and suggested other countries are rewriting history to play down Moscow’s role in winning the war.

WORLD Fifty inmates and 12 police killed in Iraqi prison break BAGHDAD — Fifty inmates and 12 police died in a prison escape organized by Islamic State, Iraqi officials said on Saturday, while supporters of the group acknowledged it staged the breakout but gave different details.

After a riot erupted, dozens of prisoners escaped from the Al-Khalis facility about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad, security and police officials said.

Militants of Islamic State, the group sometimes known as ISIS which has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, broke in with the help of explosives to free 30 inmates and get into the jail’s weapons stores, said Amaq News Agency, which supports the group.

The agency said Shi’ite militiamen then stormed the prison and killed about 60 militants in clashes.

“ISIS was responsible for the killings and the release of ISIS prisoners,” said Oudi Al-Khadran, mayor of the town where the prison, which holds hundreds of people convicted of terrorism, is located.

Saudi-led strikes in Yemen break international law GENEVA — Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on Saada city in Yemen, where many civilians are trapped, are in breach of international law, despite calls for civilians to leave the area, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator

Volunteers repack food rations for victims of Typhoon Noul at the Department of Social Welfare Development headquarters in Pasay city, south of Manila, on Saturday.

The Philippines evacuated thousands of people in the northeastern part of its main island of Luzon on Saturday, less than 24 hours before a powerful typhoon was expected to make landfall. (Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)

for Yemen said on Saturday.

“The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law (IHL),” Johannes van der Klaauw said in a statement.

“Issuing warnings of impeding attacks does not absolve the parties of their IHL obligations to protect civilians from harm.”

Scores of civilians were reportedly killed and thousands forced to flee their homes after the coalition, which includes Saudi Arabia and nine other Arab countries and is backed by the United States, Britain and France, declared the entire governorate a military target, he said.

Teen charged in thwarted terrorist attack in Australia

threat posed by radicalized teenagers in the country.

Acting on a tip-off from the national security phone line, police and security agencies began investigating the youth and later raided his home in Greenvale, 12 miles north of Melbourne, on Friday when the threat was “imminent.”

The bomb squad moved three improvised explosive devices to a nearby park where they were “rendered safe” and said there was no longer a threat to the community, police told a news conference.

Liberia declared Ebola-free, W. Africa urged to keep vigilant

MONROVIA — Liberia was declared free from PERTH — Australian Ebola by the government police said on Saturday and the World Health they had thwarted an imOrganisation (WHO) on minent terror attack after Saturday after 42 days withdiscovering explosives at out a new case of the virus, a Melbourne home and arresting a 17-year-old boy, which killed more than in the latest example of the 4,700 people there during a

“The basic principles of international cooperation have been ignored more often in the last decades — the principles that were hard won by humankind following the global hardships of the war,” he told ranks of soldiers standing to attention.

“We’ve seen attempts to create a unipolar world,” he said, echoing a 2007 speech when he lambasted the West’s world view.

Putin later led more than 500,000 people holding pictures of relatives who fought in the war through Red Square, one of the largest turnouts in memory for the “Immortal Regiment” march.

PEOPLE ‘Avengers’ still dominating, while ‘Hot Pursuit’ stalls LOS ANGELES — Disney-Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is heading for a second weekend in the $75 million to $80 million range in the U.S., lifting the tentpole well past $300 million in just 10 days.

The opening of Warner Bros. and MGM’s comedy “Hot Pursuit,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, has been cooler than expected, with a launch in the $12 million to $13 million area after it drew $4.2 million on Friday.

Early Friday estimates saw “Ultron” climbing as high as $90 million, but those appear to have been overly optimistic. It grossed $21.3 million Friday in the U.S., slightly below earlier estimates in the $22 million to $25 million range.

NBC greenlights Steve Harvey and Ellen DeGeneres’ kids’ variety show

LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Harvey are teaming up for “Little Big Shots,” a children’s comedy variety show, which has landed an eight-episode order from NBC. Harvey will host the series, which showcases some of the world’s most year-long epidemic. talented kiddos — young However, celebrations musicians, dancers, singers were muted by thoughts for and more — who engage in the dead and medical chari- hilarious conversations and ty Medecins Sans Frontieres interviews with the emcee.

(MSF) urged vigilance until The pint-sized contestants will “slay with their cutethe worst outbreak of the ness” and “wow with their disease ever recorded was also extinguished in neigh- accomplishments,” proving that talent is born, and not boring Guinea and Sierra made.

Leone.

The series, exec proA total of 11,005 people have died from Ebola in the duced by DeGeneres and Harvey, hails from Warner three West African neighHorizon Television, East bors since the outbreak 112th Street Productions began in December 2013, and A Very Good Producaccording to the WHO. tion. Jeff Kleeman and Gerald Washington will also Thousands are serve as exec producers.

The project marks a evacuated from continuation for DeGeneres Philippines as producing with NBC. Her typhoon nears short-lived sitcom “One Big Happy,” on which she was MANILA — The Philan exec producer, was canippines on Saturday evacu- celed on Friday in a slew of ated thousands of people comedy cancelations at the in the northeastern part of network. its main island of Luzon on Saturday, less than 24 New showrunners hours before a powerful announced for 8th typhoon was expected to make landfall. season of ‘Castle’ Typhoon Noul, a category 4 storm with winds LOS ANGELES — of 99 mph and gusts of up “Castle” is filling out its to 195 kph, was about 130 eighth season following miles north northeast of this week’s renewal.

Catanduanes island in the “State of Affairs” crecentral Philippines. ator Alexi Hawley, who It was expected to hit the worked as a writer and rice-producing provinces producer on early seasons of Cagayan and Isabela at of “Castle,” will serve around 5 a.m. today before as co-showrunner with weakening as it moved Terence Paul Winter, who across the Sierra Madre was announced yesterday, mountains and into northVariety has learned. eastern Luzon.

The duo will succeed The weather bureau David Amann, who is exitraised storm alerts in 19 ing the crime procedural areas on Luzon, warning after serving as showrunner that strong winds and infor one season, following tense rain could produce a his replacement of series 2.5 meter high storm surge creator Andrew Marlowe, along the coast areas and who has remained closely landslides in mountainous attached to the drama as an areas. exec producer.

— From wire reports — From wire reports

Cuban gays show pride in march and mass symbolic wedding

By Daniel Trotta

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society doesn’t,” said Raul Orta, who “married” his partner of 13 years, Yaimel Medina. “If one us is HAVANA — More than 1,000 pated in a “Celebration of Love,” no longer here tomorrow, the other gay, lesbian and transgender Cusymbolically exchanging vows as one loses everything. That’s not bans marched through Havana on same-sex marriage remains illegal right.”

Saturday, proudly displaying their in Cuba.

The parade, with the beat of truest selves for a day in a society Religious leaders from Cuba and conga drums and the waving of where they still endure discrimina- abroad huddled with couples in a rainbow-colored banners, gave gay tion. crowded pavilion in a ceremony Cubans and their supporters a rare The eighth annual March against inspired by the mass wedding of opportunity to celebrate without Homophobia and Transphobia more than 100 couples at the World fear. took on extra meaning this year Pride event in Toronto last June.

“For eight years we’ve been for about 20 couples who partici“Our family accepts us but living a dream we never thought Reuters

would have been possible,” Orta said of the parade.

For Cubans from the provinces, the open display in Havana was even more liberating.

“In the interior of the country, you couldn’t even dream about an event like this,” said Raiza Marmol, who moved from Camaguey two years ago and exchanged vows with her partner of two years, Yatiana Garcia. “It’s a unique event and surprising for gays who can show their faces without having to

hide from anyone.”

Cuba once sent gays to labor camps in the early years after the 1959 revolution, which retired leader later Fidel Castro admitted was wrong.

Cuban gays have made great strides in recent years with help from Mariela Castro, the daughter of current President Raul Castro and niece of Fidel. She is a member of the National Assembly and head of the National Center for Sex Education.

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Rethinking our treatment of animals WASHINGTON — We often wonder how people of the past, including the most revered and refined, could have universally engaged in conduct now considered unconscionable.

Such as slavery. How could the Founders, so sublimely devoted to human liberty, have lived with — some participating in — human slavery?

Or fourscore years later, how could the saintly Lincoln, an implacable opponent of slavery, have nevertheless spoken of and Charles believed in African Krauthammer inferiority?

While retrospective judgment tends to make us feel superior to our ancestors, it should really evoke humility.

Surely some contemporary practices will be deemed equally abominable by succeeding generations. The only question is: Which ones?

I’ve long thought it will be our treatment of animals. I’m convinced that our great-grandchildren will find it difficult to believe that we actually raised, herded and slaughtered them on an industrial scale — for the eating.

To be sure, there has been a salutary turn in our attitude toward animals, especially their display and confinement. To its credit, Barnum & Bailey is retiring its elephant acts. Festooning these magnificent creatures with comically gaudy costumes and parading them about, often shackled, is a reproach to both their nobility and our humanity.

Or consider those SeaWorld commercials reassuring us how well their orcas are treated.

The tone is contrite and almost apologetic, as befits a business that trains splendid creatures to jump high on command for fish — and for our amusement.

And although some of these measures are market-driven — SeaWorld has been hemorrhaging customers and Cirque du Soleil has been thriving without animals — they are nonetheless welcome. As are the improvements in zoos. The zoo animals I remember from my childhood were so sadly caged, so restlessly pawing the ground, so piteously defeated. Today, the enclosures are more forgiving, the bars largely gone, the running space more ample.

It’s understandable. The zoo used to symbolize man’s dominion over his menacing adversaries, his competitors for living space. Tigers still roamed, and could eat you. Now the competition is over. Our rivals have either been wiped out or driven back to the bush. Except for the occasional shark dining on some intrepid surfer, the threat is gone — and with it, the thrill of conquest.

No need, therefore, to display wildlife bound and tamed, King Kong-like. The overriding mission of today’s zoo is conservancy — the care, study, preservation and propagation of the various species, some of them endangered.

Another advance, and not just for them but for us. One measure of human moral progress — amid and despite the savageries we visit upon each other — is how we treat the innocent in our care. And none are more innocent than these.

Which brings us to meat-eating. Its extinction will, I believe, ultimately come. And be largely market-driven, as well. Science will find dietary substitutes that can be produced at infinitely less cost and effort. At which point, meat will become a kind of exotic indulgence, what the cigar (of “Cigar Aficionado”) is to the dying tobacco culture of today.

As a moderate carnivore myself, I confess to living in Jeffersonian hypocrisy. It’s a bit late for me to live on berries and veggies. My concession to my qualms is a few idiosyncratic distinctions (of no particular import). And while I don’t demand that every chicken I consume be certified to have enjoyed an open meadow and a vibrant social life, if I can eat free range, I will.

No. I’m not joining PETA. Indeed, I firmly believe that man is the measure of all things.

Sometimes you have to choose. I cringe at medical experimentation, but if you need to study cats’ eyes in order to spare some humans from blindness, do it. (Though not to test cosmetics.)

If the Delta smelt has to die to conserve 1.4 trillion gallons of water for the parched humans of California, so be it. If the mating habits of the Arctic caribou have to be disturbed so we can produce 1 million barrels of oil a day — on a drilling footprint the size of Dulles Airport in a refuge the size of Ireland — I say: Apologize to the amorous herd, then drill.

But some things are unnecessary. Caging beautiful creatures. Displaying them for spectacle. It’s good that these are being rethought.

The cheeseburger question we leave to our progeny. Though, when their time comes, they should refrain from moral preening. They will, by then, have invented abominations of their very own. Humans always do.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

Celebrating Mother’s Day in memory Mother’s Day. It has been a long time since I have been able to celebrate it with mine, but not really. Memories of my mother are with me every day. She gave me life and did her best to raise me right and every good thing I achieve in life is due, in great part, to her efforts on my behalf.

My mother and I spent a lot of time together when I was young, and if they ever want to illustrate unconditional love in the dictionary I would be happy to provide Mr. Webster — or whoever it is that publishes dictionaries these days — with a photograph of Tommie Huckaby.

She was so generous and gracious and tried so hard to help people — especially her people. She didn’t care who she had to take on — even the federal government — if somebody close to her needed something. I remember her contacting the Pentagon and convincing them to bring my cousin home from Vietnam for his brother’s funeral.

That’s commitment.

She was just as gracious toward me and my friends.

After I was out of the house and away at college I came home for the weekend and was surprised to see that her car was not at home.

Darrell Huckaby She had loaned it to one of my buddies, who shall go unnamed, to drive to the prom. He had promised to have it back by midnight but midnight came and went and no car. The next morning I got up at the crack of dawn and went looking for it and found it parked on a street in my friend’s neighborhood — wrecked.

I retrieved the car and my mother never said a word to the young man who had betrayed her trust — and the next time someone needed to borrow her car, she let them, without hesitation.

Mama could sew, and she made all my sister’s clothes.

She wore her fingers out sewing patches onto my Boy Scout uniforms, and those of my buddies whose mamas weren’t so handy with a needle and thread. She could crochet and quilt and do

cross stich and needlepoint, too, although she did get to the point where somebody else had to thread her needles.

Cook? Goodness gracious, what are you talking about?

Hers was the best fried chicken anybody ever cooked and don’t even suggest that your mother’s or grandmother’s was better because it is no contest. “Fried” corn was her next best dish. It wasn’t really fried, it was more like sautéed, but she cut it off the cob a special way and then milked the cob. I could eat a skillet full at one sitting without even trying hard.

Of course, her biscuits and cornbread were pretty good, too and … Well, like I said, my mama could cook.

I know I disappointed her many times. I wasn’t bad, but I was rambunctious and wasn’t always forthcoming in reporting my indiscretions.

Mr. Homer Sharp had to tell her that I had played hooky for three days during my senior year — the only days I had missed in school — on graduation night, when she inquired about the perfect attendance certificate that I didn’t receive. Mr. Hugh Steele had to tell her that I had driven her car off the road and into a ditch and

gotten two speeding tickets when she inquired about the astronomical increase in her insurance policy.

But she was like that great big tree in Shel Silverstein’s children’s book. She just kept giving and giving and giving of herself and when her body was old and feeble and just worn out from a life of hard work, and when she didn’t have anything else to give, I will always believe she just willed herself to die so that she wouldn’t be a burden on her children. Of course she could never have been a burden on her children except in her own mind.

Mother’s Day. I had a great one. She has been gone since 1999, and I miss her. I so wish she could have lived to see what wonderful human beings her grandchildren have become. I wish she could have lived long enough to see the wonderful people they have found to be their life mates. I sure wish she could have lived long enough to meet her precious greatgrandson, Henley.

And I wish she could have lived to know that her daughter-in-law, my lovely wife, Lisa, was just as good a mother to her children as my mama was to me. That’s saying a mouthful.

Celebrations cause trip down memory lane You are going to have to give me a little scat room today. I am having an attack of the nostalgias.

Going down someone else’s Memory Lane can be as boring as a lecture on the life cycle of guppies but this has been a reflective few weeks for me. My beloved Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia and the campus chapter of my college fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, both celebrated their 100th anniversaries this past month in Athens.

There were so many tuxedos spotted in town during these two singular events that rumors were rife Clarke County had been invaded by a horde of penguins.

Regrettably, I had to miss the Grady Centennial but I was there in spirit. I am always there in spirit as well as at the university on whose hallowed ground Grady College is located.

I am lucky I ever saw the inside of the place. A transfer student from Georgia State University, I had had several close calls academically. In one of the many divine interventions that have occurred in my life, I found myself in an English Literature class at Georgia State with a tough-love professor named Dr. Raymond Cook, who got me

Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, with the encouragement of a high school acquaintance, Paschal Glenn “Pat” Boggs.

I was not a distinguished member of the fraternity but I hung around with a couple of brothers who Dick turned out pretty well. Joe Yarbrough Frank Harris, of Cartersville, served as Georgia’s back on track. Without Dr. governor from 1983 to Cook, 94 years young and 1991. Ray Elrod, our chapstill grading my columns ter president, was a longfrom his home in Valdosta, time mayor of Dalton. we likely would not be havAfter graduation, I lost ing this conversation. contact with Pat. On a visit Grady College has to a newspaper office in given me more than I can Henry County in 1967, I repay. To remember the happened to glance at the anxiety I felt the first day current week’s edition and I walked into the school saw that area resident Maj. (and I remember it vividly) Paschal Boggs, a Marine and to walk into the curCorps fighter pilot, had rent facility today and see been shot down over North the portrait of an old but Vietnam and was missing grateful graduate in a room in action. His remains were named for him is as good never recovered. as it gets.

In one of the most There are a lot more unforgettable moments of students — and much my life, I was jogging in smarter ones — than there Washington in the early were in my time and the ’80s just after the Vietnam technologies are light years Memorial Wall had been beyond anything we could dedicated. I stopped to have imagined in the days take a look at this magof typewriters and Speed nificent tribute to a group Graphic cameras but there of great Americans who is a spirit within the place deserved better. The very that has endured. Being first name I saw among the a “Grady Graduate” is a more than 50,000 listed badge of honor. I wear it was my Lambda Chi Alpha proudly. big brother, Pat Boggs.

It is difficult even today While at UGA, I beto describe the emotions came a member of the Nu

of that experience. Some would call it a coincidence.

Not me. I have experienced a few coincidences in my long life. That was more than a coincidence. Pat Boggs was speaking to me.

I had the privilege of serving as master of ceremonies at the Nu Zeta chapter’s Centennial Celebration a couple of weeks ago at the Classic Center in Athens. I’m not sure why I was chosen except I work cheap and own a tuxedo.

More than 800 alumni and current members were in attendance, making it one of the largest gatherings — if not the largest — in Lambda Chi Alpha’s history. I talked to a lot of people that evening who read this column around the state. Many were surprised to learn I was a Lambda Chi. I didn’t tell them but I am surprised Lambda Chi would have me. For that, I thank Pat Boggs.

It has been an emotional month. Thank you for allowing me to share my trip down Memory Lane with you. As I look back on it, I wouldn’t change one step of the journey. Not one.

You can reach Dick Yarbrough at yarb2400@ bellsouth.net; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, GA 31139; online at dickyarbrough.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ dickyarb.

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said they expect Deal to veto the legislation. of Community Health, Brian Robinson, a the state agency that also spokesman for Deal, said handles Medicaid. in an email that the govThe votes in the Senate ernor will announce veto and House were 45-1 and decisions on Tuesday.

160-3, respectively.

Robinson did not comBut state Rep. Tommy ment on the fate of the Benton (R-Jefferson), the Aging Services legislalead sponsor of HB 86, tion. told Georgia Health News Speculation on reasons on Thursday that he “is for a veto have centered in the dark’’ about the on the potential budgetlegislation’s fate. ary impact of the bill. Yet “The governor’s office James Bulot, the director has not contacted me’’ of Georgia’s Division of about HB 86, Benton Aging Services, testisaid. “I’ve heard in a fied at a House hearroundabout way that it ing in February that it would be vetoed.” appeared that creating Health care experts a new agency would be who spoke to GHN on revenue-neutral for the condition of anonymity state.

Other possible reasons cited for a veto include the Deal administration seeking to focus on child welfare changes in the Department of Human Services. Another potential reason mentioned involves political payback — specifically, because Rep. Benton opposed Deal-supported legislation to create “Opportunity School Districts” to turn around failing schools in Georgia.

An increasingly important issue Proponents of the Aging Services Agency legislation have noted that Georgia is in the middle of an “aging boom.”

People are living longer, so there are more older people.

More than 1 million Georgians — or roughly 1 out of 10 people in the state — are 65 or older.

And over the next 30 years, Georgia is facing an estimated 143 percent increase in its senior population.

“We are getting older, and there are some things that need to be done’’ for this population, Benton said in February when testifying for the bill before the House Human Relations and Aging committee.

After testifying at the hearing, Benton said the bill could give services

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Gladys Adair Gladys Jones Adair, age 92, of Buford, GA passed away on Thursday, May 7, 2015. She was preceded in death by her husband, Sylvester S. Adair. She is survived by her children, Patricia and Jim Siros, Spring, TX, Steven and Nell Adair, Fayetteville, NC, and Richard and Penny Adair, South Lyon, MI; five grandchildren, Jimmy and Sabrina Siros, Jerry and Jessica Siros, Mark Adair, Ricky Adair, and Christian Adair; great grandchildren, Kalin Siros and Caitlynn Wellington. Mrs. Adair was born May 3, 1923 in Kansas.

She graduated from high school in Toronto, KS. She was a homemaker and member of New Bethany Baptist Church, Buford, GA aka Lanier Islands Community Church.

Funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Joey Jernigan officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens, Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.

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Millie Sue Brock Millie Sue Brock, age 62, of Jefferson, Georgia, who passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2015.

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Gregory L. Brown Gregory L. Brown, age 53 of Jefferson, GA died Thursday, May 7, 2015 after an extended illness. Funeral service will be held Monday, May 11, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel. Rev Randy Rhye will officiate.

Interment will follow at Hamilton Mill Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Monday, May 11, 2015 from 11AM – 2PM at the funeral home.

Greg was preceded in death by his father, Marvin Brown and sister, Michelle Lance. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Brown, Jefferson. Mother and Step father, Linda and Joe Jefferson, Jefferson. Brother, Keith Brown, Dacula, GA. Step sisters, Lisa Deebs, McDonough, GA and Debbie Bartlett, Lawrenceville, GA. Niece, Taylor Hewell, Oakwood, GA. Several other nieces, nephews and cousins. Greg was born in

Oneida, TN and was a lifelong resident of the Atlanta area. He was employed

by Sesco Lighting and a member of Rolling Hills Church. Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel 770-9456924 Share memories of Greg at hamiltonmillchapel.com

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Clyde Alvin Burnett Mr. Clyde Alvin Burnett, age 63, of Gainesville, Georgia, who passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2015.

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12:00 pm at Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, GA. The family will receive friends on Saturday, May 9, 2015 from 4:00 – 8:00 pm and again on Sunday from 12:30 – 2:00 pm at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in Memory of Vivian to the American Kidney Foundations at www.kidneyfund.org.

Condolences may be expressed at www.mcdonaldandson.com.

Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home, 150 Sawnee Drive, Cumming, GA 30040 (770) 886.9899

Nancy Dewitt Nancy Lynn Dewitt, age 63, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away on May 6, 2015. Tim Stewart Funeral Home in Lawrenceville, 300 Simonton Rd. SW Lawrenceville, GA 30045. 770-962-3100

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Hazel Gilleylen Mrs. Hazel Gilleylen of Snellville, GA passed on May 9, 2015. Services are entrusted to Gregory B Levett & Sons Funeral Home Gwinnett Chapel.

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Vivian Harris Vivian Storms Harris, 66, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at Gwinnett Medical Center, Lawrenceville, GA. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church, Lawrenceville, GA. She is preceded in death by her mother, Marcia Williams; son, Joseph F. Storms; sister, Sarah Devoe.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Harris of Staten Island, NY; father, George Williams of Wesley Chapel, FL; children, Rodney (Patrice) Storms of Alpharetta, GA, Sidney R. Storms of Staten Island, NY, Steven G. (Monica) Storms of Richmond, VA; sister, Regina Clark of Wesley Chapel, FL; brothers, Gerald Williams of Hyattsville, MD, George L. Williams of Maryland; eight grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews and family also survive.

Funeral Services will be held on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 2:30 pm in the McDonald and Son Funeral Home Chapel.

Interment will be held on Monday, May 11, 2015 at 1

Rufus Hughes Rufus Paul Hughes, 87, a native of Gwinnett County, GA, long-time member of One Heart Church (formerly Norcross First Baptist), and Past Master of Norcross Masonic Lodge #228 F. & A.M., went to be with his Heavenly Father and his beloved wife of 67 years, Sylvia, on Friday, May 8, 2015.

Graveside services will be held Monday, May 11, 2015 at 2:00pm at Peachtree Memorial Park with Rev. Steve Pritchett officiating.

Along with enjoying his western wear, Rufus loved to hunt, fish, sew and cook; but most of all, he loved to tell stories. He retired from General Motors in 1978 after 30 years and has spent the last 37 years making more friends and enjoying life.

Rufus is survived by his “favorite” daughter, Joyce Taylor; son-in-law, John Sanders; granddaughter, Emily; and two greatgrandsons, Jackson and Jacob; and his baby sister, Betty Waddell.

Rufus was preceded in death by his wife, Sylvia Greer Hughes; parents, Emily Lester Hughes and Robert M. Hughes; five sisters; and two brothers.

In lieu of flowers, donations are requested for the Masonic Children’s Home of Georgia, 1417 Nottingham Dr., Macon, GA 31211 in memory of Rufus Hughes.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.billheadfuneralhome.com.

The family will receive friends Sunday, May 10, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Bill Head Funeral Homes & Crematory Duluth Chapel (770)476-2535.

for seniors more visibility and funding.

Previously, the Department of Human Services (and its predecessor agency) had housed public health and behavioral health divisions for the state. But beginning in 2009, state lawmakers passed bills that broke off both those units and turned each into an individual department.

If House Bill 86 were to be signed, Human Services would be left to focus on children.

Vicki Johnson, legislative chairwoman for the Georgia Council on Aging, told the House panel in February that Human Services is al-

ready putting priority on the welfare of children, so older people need a department of their own.

“We think the needs of seniors are quite different from the needs of children,” she said.

The Council on Aging said at the hearing that creating a new agency for seniors would make the contracting process quicker, and provide more transparency for the unit’s budget.

The state’s plan for dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia would have a better focus, Kathy Simpson of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Georgia chapter told lawmakers.

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James Jordan, Cynthia Jordan-Relford & Grandchildren HOMER

Charles King Charles “Cotton” Glenn King, age 65 of Homer, passed away, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. A memorial service was held Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 4PM in the Buford Chapel of Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, Benny Parker officiating. Cotton was the owner/operator of King Paint Contracting. He is survived by his ex-wife: Gloria King, of Flowery Branch; Children & Son-in-law: Annette & Michael Sorrells, Homer; Chari Shelton, Flowery Branch; Jennifer King, Buford; Charles Glen King, of Lawrenceville; Brother & Sister-in-law: LeRoy & Geraldine King, Sugar Hill; Grandchildren: James Christopher Brannon; Matthew Logan Brannon; Jenna Michelle Sorrells; Caleb Graham Shelton; Jacob Ryan Shelton. Arrangements were entrusted to Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 201 Morningside Drive/PO Box 2434, Buford, GA 30518.

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Margaret Marshall Mrs. Margaret “Maggie” Ellen O’Brien Marshall, age 84, of Atlanta, who passed away on Friday, May 8, 2015.

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Mary Callaway Mary Elizabeth “Scotty” McNabb Callaway 85, passed away Thursday, May 7th in Lawrenceville GA. She was very active in her community and supported whatever her children and grandchildren were involved in both financially and emotionally.

She lived out her faith with selfless generosity, continuing to help others even after becoming bedridden.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 40years, Dr.

Robert G. Callaway.

She is survived by her daughters, Dennie Hester (Cary), Judy Callaway, and Liz Grider (Ted); grandchildren, Nathan Frasher, Robert Grider (Deanna), Joshua and Daniel Grider, and Caleb, Catie and Anna Hester.

The family would like to express their appreciation for the loving care that the Longleaf Hospice and MeSun Hospice provided for their Mother.

Her funeral service will be 11 a. m. Wednesday at Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway, Louisville, KY with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 3 - 6 p. m.

Tuesday and after 10 a. m.

Wednesday.

Memorial gifts may be made to Longleaf Hospice, 2712 Lawrenceville Hwy., Decatur, GA 30083; or MeSun Hospice, 88 Johnson Rd., Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

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Ruby Morris Ruby Venable Morris, age 81, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Friday, May 8, 2015. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas C. Morris, Sr., and daughter, Ruby Ellen Morris Floyd. She is survived by her son and daughter-inlaw, Tommy and Cindy Morris, Sugar Hill, GA; grandchildren, Derrick and Amy Morris, Winder, GA, Selina and Raymond Melendez, Buford, GA, and Dakota Floyd, Sugar Hill, GA; great grandchildren, Ariana Melendez, Cheyenne Morris, Wyatt Morris, and Rayliana Melendez; first cousin, Grace Smith, Sugar Hill, GA; several sisters-inlaw and brothers-in-law; several nieces, nephews and cousins; and caregiver, Joycelyn Thrasher, Buford, GA. Mrs. Morris was born March 1, 1934 in Buford, GA. She was a 1951 graduate of Sugar Hill School. She was a homemaker and member of Sugar Hill Baptist Church. Funeral service is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. David Pruitt, Rev. Robbie Priest, and Rev. Arthur Southerland officiating.

Interment will follow at Sugar Hill Cemetery. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home on Monday, May 11, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.

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Donal Norton Donal H. Norton, age 74, of Dacula, GA, passed away on May 8, 2015. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.

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Nell O’Gorman Nell B. O’Gorman, of Dacula, GA passed away May 9, 2015 at home after a battle with cancer. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC “A Family Company,” Lawrenceville Chapel, 770-963-2411 www. wagesfuneralhome.com .

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Larry Walker Larry Gene Walker, age 74, of Lawrenceville, went to be with the Lord on May 7, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Monday, May 11, 2015 at Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel, with Rev. James Grady Shelton officiating. Interment will follow in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Tucker.

He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle and brother-in-law.

He was owner/operator of N&S Machine Co. in Lilburn for 29 years before retiring. Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Peggy Sue Young Walker of Lawrenceville; daughters, Shelby Greene and son-in-law Rodney Greene of Sugar Hill and Hollie Stiles and son-inlaw Jonathan Stiles of Ballground; sister-in-law, Betty Williams of Cumming; grandchildren, Sydney and Walker Greene.

Online condolences may be left at www.billheadfuneralhome.com. The family will receive friends Saturday, May 9th from 5:00–8:00 PM at Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel, (770) 564-2726.

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terms of its size. Thousands of people converged on the husband, Charles, to attend fairgrounds for the event. the Gwinnett relay.

Rhonda Rice, one of the “We love doing the Purple event’s organizers, said teams Glove Dance,” said Charles had raised $1.2 million comGriffin, an 18-year survivor ing into the relay, which was of prostate cancer. higher than the totals leading The Gwinnett relay is into each of the last three referred to by American Can- relays. cer Society officials as the “There’s nothing better largest relay in the world be- than having this much fun cause of the money it raises and raising more money than each year. It is also large in anybody else in the world,”

Relay Rice said. “I think a lot of the money comes because we’re having so much fun.”

Participants at team booths shouted out to attendees as part of the carnival-type atmosphere in a bid to get them to play games such as corn hole and basketball tosses. Vendors sold a variety of foods ranging from sandwiches, to flavored ice, to funnel cakes, and hot dogs and burgers.

The sweet and occasionally smokey scents of various foods drifted through the air, as if they were calling out to attendees’ stomachs.

All of it was a bid to raise more money for cancer research.

Schoenthal was joined by a group of families and old friends who sold food by one of the fairground gates.

His team had already raised more $2,000 during the event by 11 p.m. This was his first year at the Gwinnett County Relay for Life after years of attending the Walton County relay. He came away impressed by the scope of the event.

“All we’re doing is cooking and hanging out together,” he said. “It’s just unbelievable that doing this is helping the fight against cancer. It makes me realize I’m making a difference for so many people.”

There were solemn moments at the relay in addition to the fun, however. One of them was the Luminaria Lap around the track. All of the lights were shut down and the site was lit only by tiki torches, candle-lit Luminaria bags lining the track and candles held by walkers.

The North Atlanta Pipes and Drums corp led the lap, with a long procession of survivors and family members walking behind the

Members of the Berkmar High School Relay For Life team pose for a Snapchat picture during Friday night’s Relay for Life at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

musicians. As the sound of the bagpipes and drummers faded into the distance, there was an eerie silence broken only by the sound of the walkers shuffling feet. Their faces were illuminated by the candles they held in their hands.

Several of the relay participants had stories of survival that could be seen as inspiring.

Lawrenceville resident Juliana Herrera is one of those stories. She went into the hospital when she was 21 to have what she thought were cysts on her ovaries removed.

She woke up from the surgery in 2013 to hear her mother tell her something she was not expecting: The University of Georgia student from Lawrenceville had

ovarian cancer.

Herrera did not let the cancer keep her down. She fought back. She took a semester off from school for her treatments and then it was back to the books.

She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from UGA a year and a half after she received her diagnosis. Her cancer is now in remission.

“Now the cancer is too scared to come back,” she said.

Herrera is part of a team of cancer survivors who are part of the Circle of Caring support group at Gwinnett Medical Center.

Lawrenceville resident Marilyn Como, a three-year breast cancer survivor, is also part of that group. She said the moment in July 2011 when she received her diagnosis was surreal.

“It felt like it wasn’t me, like it was happening to somebody else,” Como said.

“Then the reality hits and the fear sets in.”

Como underwent a double mastectomy and has been cancer free for three years.

She said the group helped her get through the treatment process, but she added cancer proved to be a life altering event.

“You have to find your new normal because the life you had no longer exists,” she said. “I’ve fought it and embraced my new life.”

Their team leader, fouryear breast cancer survivor Bobbie Menneg, compared a diagnosis to being “hit by a freight train.” She said she has made several friends by participating the relay each year, but said there was a bigger reason why she does it.

“Them,” she said as she pointed to Como and Herrera. “This is why I do it.”

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By Curt Yeomans

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DULUTH — Jackson Rhyner proudly showed off his watercolor painting of animals on Saturday at Barefoot in the Park in Duluth.

The 4-year-old Duluth resident compiled an array of animals and insects that might be seen in a zoo or aquarium. A zebra, a one-winged bird, a snake, a swordfish and a trio of ants were present.

A green alien which looked like an upside down octopus was also visible.

When he looked at a gray streak at the bottom of the painting though, he found himself a bit confused.

“I can’t remember what that is,” Rhyner said.

“It’s whatever your imagination wants it to be,” his mother, Devon Rhyner, told him.

Residents and arts patrons filled the Duluth Town Green on Saturday for the first day of Barefoot in the Park. The two-day fine arts festival continues today, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., with families expected to fill the area in search of handmade gifts for Mother’s Day, said Barefoot in the Park Executive Director Caryn McGarrity.

The opening day also served as the kickoff to the city’s new Barefoot In the City Art Week. There will be a “Chicken Dash” where Dee Dee the Chicken, a symbol of the city, will make

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Dancer Calen Babz takes a bow after his performance at the Barefoot In The Park Festival in Duluth on Saturday.

Holly Welch, top, and her sister Sarah Welch enjoy a frozen lemonade at the Barefoot In The Park Festival in Duluth on Saturday. (Staff Intern Photos: Brian Hadden)

a week-long tour of the city, beginning today.

The week will also include art displays at Duluth businesses, dance classes, an open house at the Hudgens Center for the Arts at the Gwinnett Center, Twitterbased activities, musical performances and an art party with movies, games and food on Friday night on the Town Green.

The event’s opening day offered plenty of opportunities for festival attendees to enjoy themselves. There were juried-in artists selling their work, a beer garden, several performance stages for musicians, food and art stations for adults and kids.

Some residents took time to quiz artists.

“Is this cypress?” Duluth

resident Tim Shields asked while examining a wood lamp made by Greenville, Tenn.-based wood artist Cliff Garren.

“No, it’s juniper,” Garren replied.

Organizers also put “Before I Die …” chalkboards around the Town Green so attendees could list their bucket list items. The responses ranged from finding a cure for cancer, to racing a car, to taking a trip to Israel.

Other respondents had tongues planted in the cheeks.

“Before I die, I want to ride a unicorn,” one person wrote in pink chalk.

Art was everywhere on the town square on the festival’s opening day, and that resonated with attendees

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room when he heard a thud in the living room and But Gwinnett County found Tye on the floor near Police Detective Patrick the coffee table, “groggy.”

Watson said the autopsy He picked him up, headed findings suggest that Tye for the bathroom and accidied of another cause. The dentally hit his head on the boy’s injuries, which indoor frame. cluded hemorrhages in both The autopsy didn’t apeyes and bruising, appeared pear to match that story, to resemble “shaken baby Watson said. syndrome,” or close head In his next statement, trauma, the detective testiSingleton revealed the fied during the preliminary game, which he said they hearing. also played after they woke Watson offered no motive up that morning and had a for why the former Univer- workout together. After Tye sity of South Carolina ofhit the floor in the second fensive lineman would hurt game of the day, he was the boy. By the accounts unconscious, Singleton the detective has heard, Tye reportedly said. and Singleton had a loving By the end of the interrelationship. view, the suspect was “tearBut he said Singleton was ful and upset, distraught by the only person in his Law- the situation,” Watson said. renceville-area apartment Given the “Tye Toss” when Tye got hurt. He also story, Singleton’s attorney, offered different versions of Teri Thompson, asked Chief what happened before the Magistrate Judge Kristina boy was ruled brain dead at Blum to reduce the murder Children’s Healthcare of At- charge to involuntary manlanta — Scottish Rite, and slaughter.

Singleton ended up frantic The game, as the detecand distraught. tive described it, could’ve Singleton, a 26-year-old been “negligent or downwith a foreboding stature right dumb,” Thompson and black thick-rimmed said, but it wasn’t malicious. glasses, wore a jailhouse Blum declined. jumpsuit and hunched over She said Thompson may a table in court listening prove to be right in the end, intently and somberly as but that would be decided Watson detailed the case. later in the process, after Watson said he had more evidence came out in confirmed many statements a higher court. The detective Singleton made about the was the only witness Friday, events leading up to the and Thompson offered no Tye’s death. The man had evidence. Blum found probindeed been watching him able cause for the state to at his apartment in the 3400 proceed with its case.

Club Drive complex while Family members at the mother was away. They the hearing in support of had been to Zaxby’s and Singleton declined to comWalmart. ment, partly because they In Singleton’s initial said they felt the media interview, Watson said he was not reporting the case claimed was in another factually.

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and artists.

“It’s like this town was set up to love art,” said Fitzgerald resident Nancy Anthony, who helped her husband, Randy, sell his wood-carved sculptures at the event.

Devon Rhyner said she liked seeing the city promote art, especially among children. The Rhyner family moved to Duluth two months ago and they have already taken a liking to the city’s dedication to the arts.

“I think it’s wonderful that they take opportunities to expose kids to the arts,” Devon Rhyner said.

McGarrity said arts education is a key part of the festival, which helps raise funds for art scholarships. A popular part of the event is a kids art park, where children

Lily Kelly organizes some of the photographs she exhibits with her husband Brad Kelly at the Barefoot In The Park Festival in Duluth on Saturday.

can make their own artwork.

“It’s important to have the kids art park because we’ve got artists teaching art projects and there are studies that show kids who are exposed to the arts … become better students in school, better kids, better citizens and a

better community,” she said.

Randy Anthony summed up Duluth’s commitment to art in one short observation that he said artists love to see in a community.

“The people here are just well-educated on art,” he said.

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By Will Hammock

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Eddie Martin wasn’t jobless for long.

The veteran coach and Gwinnett County Sports Hall of Fame member was hired as Buford’s head boys basketball coach after meeting with school officials Friday afternoon, not quite two months after he stepped down at Greater Atlanta Christian to pursue other opportunities. He is considered Gwinnett’s most successful boys basketball coach, having won seven state titles (four at GAC and three at Norcross) and rolling up a career 713-227 record, all at Gwinnett high schools.

He hoped to stay in the county and was Eddie interested Martin in Buford, a place that he’s known since he was a boy. Martin’s grandparents lived less than a half mile from the old Buford gym on Hill Street and he spent plenty time in the city where his father grew up.

“There are a lot of great programs across the state of Georgia and the Southeast, but I’ve been doing this long enough that I wanted to be in a place that was a great fit for me, a place with tradition, involvement with the community and right there seems to fit the bill,” Martin said. “All of their programs are second to none in all sports, literary and academics as well. I like that, that’s the kind of environment I want to be in. I’m a firm believer that success breeds success and everybody up there is striving be the best they can be.

“Obviously the facilities that are built up there, and in the future a new arena, that is extremely exciting to me. And to be able to work with other coaches like (football coach) Jess Simpson, (girls basketball coach) Gene Durden and (baseball coach) Tony Wolfe, working around those people is a thrill to me, to be around them on a daily basis and feed off each other.

“It means everything to stay in Gwinnett. There were jobs that came open that were close enough not to have to move (from Grayson, where he lives), but it wouldn’t have been See MARTIN, Page 4B

Grayson’s Bobbi Ayres, right, hands the baton off to Sydney Davis during the Class AAAAAA 1,600-meter relay of the GHSA girls state track meet Saturday at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany. Below, Wesleyan’s Kylie Reed, left, embraces Cairo Booker after winning the Class AA 1,600-meter relay. (Staff Photos: David Welker)

Grayson, Wesleyan finish second at state

By Paul Thomas

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ALBANY — Three Gwinnett County teams secured team trophies on the final day of the girls state track and field finals Saturday at Hugh Mills Stadium.

In Class AA, Wesleyan finished in second place with 62 points, while Greater Atlanta Christian was right on its tail in third place with 55 points.

Lovett claimed the title with 105 points.

In Class AAAAAA, a great day from the Grayson sprinters put the Rams in second place with 42

dash with a state-record 53.10 seconds. TeamResults from the final day mate Davis also scored of track in Albany, 6B big points for the Grayson in the 400, finishing fifth. points. Westlake took home Abrams took second in the the title with 74 points.

200-meter dash and capped Gwinnett athletes also the day off by helping secured titles in six events Grayson finish second in on Saturday. the 1,600-meter relay to Grayson took two of the lock up second place.

“It’s awesome,” Grayson titles, winning the 400-mehead coach Jason Abner ter relay with a blistering 46.58 seconds from Aliyah said. “You’ve got three seniors that have been Abrams, Alexis Adams, working their tails off since Sydney Davis and Chika Motanya. Archer was third their freshman year and it’s just great to see the and Brookwood finished hard work translate over seventh. to a meet like this. It’s just In the very next event, been coming for us. I could the Rams secured their second title as Abrams took See TRACK, Page 4B first-place in the 400-meter MORE INSIDE

STATE TRACK NOTES

Grayson’s Abrams ends her career in style the state finals the last two years, Grayson’s Aliyah paul.thomas@ Abrams has always wongwinnettdailypost.com dered what she could do if ALBANY — After she ever entered the meet running through injuries in healthy.

By Paul Thomas

She found out on Saturday on the final day of the girls state track and field finals at Hugh Mills Stadium.

Abrams took home the

Class AAAAAA 400-me“I was very excited,” ter dash title with a time Abrams said. “I came to a of 53.10 seconds. The race point in the race where I knew I had to go and that’s didn’t just give her the title, it also gave her the See NOTES, Page 4B new state record.

Doubles heroics lift Wolves GAC follows plan Wesleyan girls defeat Lovett for state tennis title

By David Friedlander

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JONESBORO — Two previous meetings with Lovett this spring had produced two wins for Wesleyan’s girls tennis team.

The Wolves made it a hat trick with their 3-1 win over the Lions in the Class AA State championship match Saturday

at the Clayton County International Park Tennis Center.

But the latest win, which secured Wesleyan’s second state title and first since 2001, came in different fashion than the first two over Lovett.

The Wolves (19-1-1) had relied on their singles power in wins over the rival Lions in the regular season and the Region 6-AA tournament finals.

And they got victories once

again from Lauren Alexander, who downed Jennifer Heiman 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles and Savannah Strickland, who defeated Wendy Harrison at No. 3 singles.

But with Sophia Strickland embroiled in a three-set battle with Annie Mayfield, and trailing in the final set, at No. 1 singles, the Wolves needed a See WESLEYAN, Page 4B

to state tennis title

By David Friedlander

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JONESBORO — With players from Greater Atlanta Christian and Pace Academy trading figurative counterpunches all day, the Class AA state boys tennis championship came down to the single match that perhaps best symbolized the day’s events.

Dominant first and third sets

helped propel Kris Ippolito and Lane Langston to a grueling win at No. 1 double, and propel the Spartans to a 3-1 victory in the overall match, and the state championship Saturday at the Clayton County International Park Tennis Center.

The win by Ippolito and Langston, a 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 win over

See GAC, Page 4B

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Hawks beaten at buzzer by Wizards

By Benjamin Standig The Sports Xchange

WASHINGTON — Forward Paul Pierce banked in the winning jumper at the buzzer as the short-handed Washington Wizards defeated the Atlanta Hawks 103-101 in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series on Saturday night.

Guard Bradley Beal and forwards Nene and Otto Porter each scored 17 points as the Wizards took a 2-1 lead in the best-ofseven series against the top seed in the East.

Washington played its second straight game without injured All-Star guard John Wall and won despite blowing a 21-point secondhalf lead.

Sparked by its second unit, Atlanta stormed back with a 21-3 run, including 17 straight points, to make it 94-91 with 3:12 remaining. Forward Mike Muscala’s 3-pointer tied the game with 14.1 seconds left after guard Will Bynum hit two free throws for Washington.

Pierce, defended by

Atlanta Hawks guard Kent Bazemore (24) dribbles the ball as Washington Wizards forward Drew Gooden (90) defends in the second quarter in Game 3 of the second round of the NBA playoffs at Verizon Center on Saturday in Washington. (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports)

Hawks guard Dennis Schroder, hit a step-back jumper just inside the 3-point arc as the buzzer sounded. He finished with 13 points.

Even without Wall, who suffered five non-displaced fractures in his left wrist and hand in Game 1,

Washington led comfortably throughout and was up 91-70 with 9:54 remaining. The Wizards made 10 3-pointers.

Schroder and guard Jeff Teague each scored 18 points for the Hawks, who trailed by double digits for most of the game.

Forward DeMarre Carroll scored 14 points, snapping a streak of six games with at least 20. Atlanta forward Paul Millsap (flulike symptoms) came off the bench and had eight points.

Forward Kyle Korver, the only starter to play dur-

ing the final minutes, had six points. He missed his only two 3-point attempts in the fourth quarter.

Atlanta, second during the season in 3-point shooting percentage, went 7 of 23.

Center Marcin Gortat scored 14 points for the fifth-seeded Wizards, who shot 47.4 percent.

Washington entered halftime up 56-43 as Nene broke out of a slump with 13 points.

Nene struggled shooting during the first two games, going 0-for-9. He missed his first try in Game 3 but then sank six straight attempts in the first half.

Teague, who joined Wall in the All-Star Game this season, continued to play nothing like one in this series. He went 2 of 9 during the first half and received a flagrant foul after hitting Beal during a breakaway chance amid a 9-0 run that gave Washington its largest first-half lead, 4931. Teague finished 5 of 15 and is 12 of 41 (29.2 percent) in the series.

Notes: Wizards G John Wall’s status for the remainder of the series

remains uncertain, coach Randy Wittman said before tipoff. He was injured during a fall last Sunday in the first half. He played the remainder of the game, but significant swelling and pain eventually developed.

Washington’s primary ballhandler said this week that he struggled dribbling with his left hand. He remains the NBA playoff leader with 12.5 assists per game. … Hawks F Pero Antic replaced F Paul Millsap in the starting lineup.

It marked the first time Millsap had come off the bench since Dec. 28, 2011. … Wizards F Paul Pierce left in the first quarter after banging his shoulder, but he returned later in the period. … F Al Horford played in his 57th playoff game, surpassing Tree Rollins for the most by an Atlanta Hawk. … The teams split two regular-season games in Washington. The Wizards won the series finale on March 29 as the Hawks, having clinched the top seed in the East, rested all of their starters. … Washington hosts Game 4 Monday.

Braves fall on Harper’s homer

By David Driver The Sports Xchange

Chris Kirk hits his tee shot on the 16th hole during the third round of The Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass-Stadium Course. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)

Kirk works way into Players lead

WASHINGTON — Right fielder Bryce Harper hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning against reliever Cody Martin as the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 8-6 on Saturday before a sellout crowd of 39,193 fans.

It was the sixth homer in the last three games for Harper, who went deep for the 11th time this year.

It was the third walk-off homer in Harper’s four seasons in Washington.

The Nationals had a chance to take the lead in the eighth, but pinch runner Michael A. Taylor was thrown out at home by Atlanta left fielder Kelly Johnson on a single by pinch hitter Dan Uggla, a former Brave.

Atlanta had tied the game at 6-6 with three runs in the eighth. Second baseman Jace Peterson, starting on his 25th birthday, drove in a run with a groundout with the bases loaded against reliever Tanner Roark, and catcher Christian Bethancourt followed with a two-run double. Bethancourt was 2-for-4.

The Nationals (16-15) are over .500 for the first time this season after getting their ninth win in the last 11 games. Atlanta (14-16) has lost 11 of 16 to Washington since June 21, 2014.

The Nationals scored three runs in the second inning as catcher Jose Lobaton hit a two-run homer following a one-out single by shortstop Ian Desmond. Later in the inning, third baseman Yunel Escobar had an RBI single to score second baseman Danny Espinosa, who had doubled.

Lobaton was 3-for-4 and Escobar was 2-for-5.

Washington starter

nine Saturday to finish with a 67 that included six The Sports Xchange birdies and one bogey.

PONTE VEDRA Martin, who last played BEACH, Fla. — Steady the course in 2012 on the and consistent Chris Kirk Web.com Tour championput together a run of three ship, might have shared birdies on his last four the lead with Kirk except holes to post a 4-under-par for a bogey on his final 68 and grab the lead after hole. Martin’s drive found three rounds at The Play- the rough and his apers Championship on Sat- proach shot also landed in urday at TPC Sawgrass. deep rough off the green.

Kirk began the day two He chipped on but twoshots behind co-leaders putted from 18 feet.

Kevin Na and Jerry Kelly, Joining Na at 8-under but quickly changed that are Justin Thomas, whose with three birdies on his 65 was the best score of front side. the day, and Sergio GarKirk’s only trouble cia, who also moved into spots of the day came on contention with a 67. the 13th and 14th holes, Note: The longest streak where he made his only of not putting a ball in the bogeys. He quickly recov- water at No. 17 of The ered with birdies on Nos. Players Championship 15, 16 and 17 to move is over. Robert Allenby to 10-under 206 after 54 had gone 44 rounds at the holes. island hole without findThree golfers are a shot ing water until Saturday. behind Kirk at 9 under, Allenby’s tee shot hit on including Kevin Kisner the green and rolled off the and Ben Martin, both of back edge into the water. whom are playing in their He then moved to the drop first Players. Bill Haas, area and put another ball in who has missed the cut in the water, hitting a wedge four of his previous eight well short of the green. He Players events and has finished with a triple bogey never finished better than and finished the round with 25th in the tournament, is a 73. Allenby had not put a also at 9 under. ball in the water at No. 17 Kirk is looking for his since the final round of the first win this year after 2001 tournament. winning twice in 2014.

His best finish in four years at The Players came a year ago when a finalround 67 vaulted him to a 13th-place tie.

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Doug Fister, who gave up three runs in 6 2/3 innings, did not allow a hit until third baseman Alberto Callaspo had a bloop single to left to lead off the fifth.

Center fielder Cameron Maybin doubled down the left-field line with two outs to drive in Callaspo and cut the deficit to 3-1.

First baseman Ryan Zimmerman gave the Nationals a 6-1 lead in the fifth when he hit a three-run homer just over the fence in left after the replay overturned the call on the field. It was the

third homer of the season for Zimmerman — his first since April 14.

The Braves trimmed the deficit to 6-3 in the seventh as Fister gave up a two-run, pinch-hit double to Pedro Ciriaco. The Nationals then brought in lefty Matt Thornton, who retired right fielder Nick Markakis on a liner to right as Harper made a fine running catch near the warning track for the final out.

Atlanta starter Julio Teheran, in his 10th career start against the Nationals, gave up six earned runs

on 10 hits in five innings, with six strikeouts, three walks and two homers allowed.

The winning pitcher was Drew Storen (1-0), who threw a scoreless ninth, while Martin (1-1) took the loss.

Notes: Braves LHP Alex Wood (1-2, 4.32 ERA) will face Washington RHP Jordan Zimmermann (2-2, 4.15 ERA) in the series finale today … Harper, who hit five homers in his previous two games, entered Saturday with 25 RBIs in 102 at-bats this year.

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7:30 a.m. — Formula One Spanish Grand Prix. From Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. NBCSP

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11 a.m. — Premier League Chelsea FC vs Liverpool FC NBCSP 3 p.m. — International Friendly: USA women vs. Ireland.

FS1 7 p.m. — MLS New York City FC at New York Red Bulls FS1

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2 p.m. — PGA Tour The Players Championship, Final Round. From Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. NBC

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3 p.m. — IIHF World Championship Slovenia vs. United States. From Ostrava, Czech Republic. NBCSP

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3:30 p.m. — Eastern Conference semifinal, Game 4, Cleveland at Chicago ABC 8:30 p.m. — Western Conference Semifinal, Game 4, Houston at Los Angeles Clippers TNT

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Ongoing through May 15: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett and Hall County will host multi-sport summer camps for four weeks this summer. Camps are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon for children ages 5 to 10. Register early at www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

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June 15-19: The 35th annual Robert Sapp Baseball Camp will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hog Mountain Sports Complex in Flowery Branch. Camp is $130 and open to ages 7 to 14.

For more information, call 770-287-3309, email to rsbbcamp@charter.net or go to www.robertsappbaseballcamp.com.

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May 26-29: The Jan Azar Complete Skills Basketball Camp, featuring Wesleyan’s head girls basketball coach, will be held at the Suwanee Sports Academy for girls in grades 3-8 and boys in grades 3-5. Camp is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Full-day camp cost is $200 and half-day (9 a.m. to noon) camp cost is $125. To register, go to ssasports.com/basketball-2/summer-basketball-

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camps#MP. June 1-5: The Harlem Legends Shoot for the Stars Basketball Camp, led by former Harlem Globetrotter Michael Douglas, will be held June 1-5 at the Bunten Road Park Gym from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $150 per camper, but $135 for City of Duluth residents. Camp is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14. For more information or to register, go to www.harlemlegends.com or contact Douglas at 678630-8843.

Ongoing through June 30: Former Philadelphia 76er and Harlem Globetrotter Harold “BoBo” Hubbard, now a Gwinnett resident, offers year-round basketball instruction through group or private lessons and the Professional Basketball Secrets program. Professional Basketball Secrets is an organization of former pro athletes that provides positive development for youth by introducing and promoting practices that are keys to a successful life. Sessions are open to ages 9 to 17 and space is limited. For more information, call 678-754-7571 or email to hubskids29@ netscape.net.

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Dacula’s Rachel Sherrill releases her pole to fly over the bar during Friday’s Class AAAAAA final of the GHSA girls state track meet at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany. (Staff Photos: David Welker)

Harris, Sherrill bring home titles

By Paul Thomas

10.5 inches in the long jump, while the defending champ Hambolu cleared 18-8.5. It was an improveALBANY — Day 2 of ment of her 17-9 jump that the girls state track and won her the title last year field finals at Hugh Mills in Albany.

Stadium in Albany was “I wanted two first places, but I’m happy,” the highlighted by a pair of competitive Hambolu said. championships for GwinThe senior also imnett athletes Friday in the proved on her jump of 39-5 Class AAAAAA field in the triple jump this year events. with a 39-5.5 jump to finParkview’s Vicki Harris ish second once again. won the title in shot put, Hambolu and Uche while Rachel Sherrill won each ran a leg for Collins the pole vault for Dacula.

Hill in the 400 meter relay Harris claimed the Parkview’s Vicki Harris stands on the podium after win- team that just missed out crown with a toss of 46 ning the Class AAAAAA shot put title Friday. on qualifying for the finals feet, 2.25 inches. It was with a preliminary time of her first throw of the final 48.46 seconds. round. is (cool),” she said. “Since vault coach Dennis Green Still, Hambolu was “I reached more than I couldn’t end basketball said they thought that happy that she and Uche I was hoping for,” Harris season (with a title) it Sherrill would have a put points on the board said. “My coach told me to feels good to end the track chance to win Friday, but early in the day for their go out hard the first throw season like that.” were surprised to do it at school, and all of Gwinnett so I went out hard the first While Sherrill win11 feet, 6 inches.

County. throw and all my other ning a title isn’t quite as “She’s been practicing “I think that was very throws weren’t as hard as surprising as Harris, it’s real well as of late,” Green important,” she said. my first throws. I did what the height at which she said. “We corrected a few I supposed to do.” won that was unexpected. technique issues she’s had “We’re from Collins Hill Harris came into the Sherrill thought she would and since we did that she’s and Gwinnett County. I meet seeded fifth in her have to clear a career-best been just super the last two feel like our points repinitial heat with a throw of 12 feet to knock of defend- and half weeks. We kind of resent Gwinnett County because most of the people 43-7 inches. ing state champion Shelby expected her to jump like scoring points aren’t from But Panthers throws Smith of Kennesaw Moun- this, but we didn’t expect coach Larry Satchwell felt tain, because that’s the the young lady from Ken- Gwinnett County so I was good about where the seheight that gave Smith the nesaw Mountain to not hit very happy about that.” nior was at technique-wise crown in the first place. her normal mark, so it all Patriot points after getting a late start due But after Sherrill cleared just came together and we Berkmar’s Faith Shears to basketball.

11-6 with ease on her first won.”

So he told her to let it rip try, Smith was unable to Gwinnett teams grabbed had just one goal coming right out of the gate when get over the mark cleanly plenty of points in the pole in to the AAAAAA state finals in the discus throw she made the final eight. and was forced to settle for vault as Norcross’ Bria “She was in a perfect second. Sherrill attempted Bowen finished third, Mill — to beat her own school spot to do that,” Satchwell the 12-foot mart just to see Creek’s Larsen Moore took record set in the state sectionals last weekend. said. “She was in fourth where she was at, but was fourth and South GwinOn her fourth throw of going in and I knew that if unable to clear it. nett’s Ayana Daniels was the final round that’s exactshe threw a big one on her “Overwhelmed,” Sherrill fifth in the event. ly what Shears did on her first one it would put a lot said of the feeling when fourth throw with a toss of of pressure on everyone she knew she had won.

Flying Eagles 132 feet and 3 inches. The and that’s exactly what “Excited, nervous, like Collins Hill was tied throw didn’t just give her happened.”

‘How did this happen?’” for second with 22 points Harris, who is signed to Understandably so the thanks to a pair of runner- a new school record, but it up finishes from Ijeoma was also good enough for play basketball at Rutgers junior was not totally Uche (long jump) and Bola second place. next season, said that win- focused as she tried for Hambolu (triple jump).

“I just wanted to beat ning the title was the best a new personal record way she could hope to end despite already having the Hambolu also placed third my school record and I did in the long jump. that, so I’m pretty happy,” her Parkview career. title locked up.

Uche cleared 18 feet, Shears said.

“To end school like that Both Sherrill and Dacula

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Lanier’s Trezha Berryman leaps in the air during the Class AAAAA triple jump final of the GHSA girls state track meet at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

State placers Hugh Mills Stadium, Albany Friday results Class AAAAAA FIRST PLACE Vicki Harris, Parkview, shot put, 46-02.25 Rachel Sherrill, Dacula, pole vault, 11-06.00 SECOND PLACE Faith Shears, Berkmar, discus throw, 132-03 Bola Hambolu, Collins Hill, triple jump, 39-05.50 Ijeoma Uche, Collins Hill, long jump, 18-10.50 THIRD PLACE Chelsea Igberaese, Dacula, discus throw, 130-07 Bola Hambolu, Collins Hill, long jump, 18-08.50 Bria Bowen, Norcross, pole vault, 10-00.00 FOURTH PLACE Jada Dunn, Norcross, high jump, 5-04.00 Larsen Moore, Mill Creek, pole vault, 10-00.00 FIFTH PLACE Ayana Daniels, South Gwinnett, pole vault, 10-00.00 Arielle Shaw, Brookwood, triple jump, 7-05.75

SIXTH PLACE Emily Toomer, North Gwinnett, high jump, 5-02.00 SEVENTH PLACE Natasha Stamp, Grayson, shot put, 38-07.00 Camille Bentley, Brookwood, triple jump, 37-01.00 Class AAAAA FIFTH PLACE Trezha Berryman, Lanier, triple jump, 37-07.00 EIGHTH PLACE Trezha Berryman, Lanier, long jump, 7-04.75 Class AA THIRD PLACE Abby Kettle, GAC, 1,600 run, 5:16.87 FIFTH PLACE Ellie Bradach, Wesleyan, 1,600 run, 5:32.86 SIXTH PLACE Jordan Zimmerman, Wesleyan, 1,600 run, 5:39.54 ,Class A Private SEVENTH PLACE Camille Humphrey, Hebron, pole vault, 8-00.00 EIGTH PLACE Maddy Howe, Hebron, 1,600 run, 5:25.43

4B • SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015 •From Page 1B see it building, building and building, they’ve been working hard and just getting after it. They’re such a core group of girls. It’s just exciting. I’m just blessed to be their coach. I didn’t do a whole lot of coaching, just make sure they didn’t mess it up.”

Gwinnett schools also scored points in several other AAAAAA events.

Archer’s Serenity Douglas finished third in the 400-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. Teammate Tatiana Wayne placed seventh in the 100-meter dash.

Berkmar’s Jirah Simpkins finished third in the 100-meter hurdles, with Brookwood’s Melyssa Haughton taking fifth. The Broncos scored two more in the 800-meter race with Mackenzie Ellison taking second and Ashton Askew seventh. The Patriots also got three more points from Mizani Simpson in the 300-meter finish with a sixth-place finish.

Central Gwinnett’s Ashley Davis finished eighth in the 400. Peachtree Ridge got on the board in the event’s final meet with a fifth-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay.

•From Page 1B exactly what I did.”

Despite setting a new state record, Abrams had to turn it on the final 100 meters or so thanks to pressure from McEachern’s Makenzie Dunmore and Archer’s Serenity Douglas.

Dunmore finished second with a time of 53.32 seconds, while Douglas was third as she ran 53.42 seconds. All three runners broke the old state record of 53.63 seconds set by Mill Creek’s Malayshia George in 2013.

Abrams began the day by running a leg in the 400-meter relay for Grayson, with the Rams winning with a time of 46.58 seconds. After her record performance in the 400, Abrams finished second to Rockdale County’s Candace Hill in the 200-meter dash, running it in 23.72 seconds.

The day ended with the Rams taking second in the 1,600-meter relay as Abrams ran in her fourth event.

“Today was basically bring it or go home type of thing,” she said. “We just fought to the very end in

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Track In Class AAAA, Buford’s Erin Marsh took the title in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 42.91 seconds. She also finished sixth in the 400-meter dash with a personal-best 56.48 seconds.

GAC and Wesleyan combined for three titles as they leapfrogged over each other throughout the day on the AA leaderboard.

Wesleyan secured a runner-up finish with a win in the 1,600-meter relay.

“Coming in we were hoping to go top four,” Wesleyan head coach Candler Baxley said. “We knew nobody was going to catch Lovett, but we thought we’d have a chance to come down and compete. We were just really excited with the way the girls competed.

To score 60 — we didn’t think we could score 60 honestly, but they came in and had a great day in the field events and distance events, then really closed it out today with some strong performances.”

The Wolves started the day by finishing sixth in the 400-meter relay and then secured a third-place finish from Cairo Booker in the 400-meter dash, with Sutton West right behind her in fourth. Kylie Reed

added another third-place finish in the 800-meter run and a fifth-place performance from Jayla Jones in the 300-meter hurdles.

Heading into the final event, the 1,600-meter relay Wesleyan led GAC and Thomasville by just two points for second place. The quartet of Maddie Jones, Reed, West and Booker clinched the runner-up finish with a 4-minute, 0.13 second performance.

Booker ran the final leg and held off a late push from Lovett in the final 100 meters.

“It felt really good considering I got third in the (400-meter dash),” Booker said of the win. “I just wanted to leave it all out there for the last race of the season and that’s just what I did.”

The Spartans got off to a fast start Saturday with a win in the 400-meter with a blistering 48.12 seconds from Nia Brown, Stephanie Reynolds, Jada Jones and Kennedy Street.

Jada Jones then put more points on the board for the Spartans, taking eighth in 100-meter dash.

Reynolds gave the Spartans a big boost in the following event as she took home the 100-meter

hurdles title with a 15.05 second finish. Street and Brown secured more points in the 200-meter dash with fifth and seventh place finishes, respectively.

The Spartans closed the day finishing fourth in 1,600-meter relay to secure third place.

“We battled all the way to the end,” GAC head coach Brad Kinser said.

“I was really proud of the (400-meter relay) starting us off great, they ran a super time, by far their fastest time of the year …

I was just super proud. It’s been a long hot three days, but a good team effort.

Wesleyan is a great rival of ours, but I really love their coaches, they’re super nice guys so it’s fun to battle against good guys and teams that are so close.”

The fourth-place finish in the final relay secured the fourth medal of the weekend for Reynolds, who Kinser said was “kind of the MVP.” The junior won the 100-meter hurdles, ran a leg on both relay teams and finished third in the high jump Thursday.

“Honestly I’ve been waiting three years to do that,” she said of the hurdles victory.

Notes some injuries her sophomore and junior year and this year we finally got her healthy and obviously you could see what she can do.”

Buford’s Erin Marsh leaps over a hurdle during Saturday’s girls state track meet in Albany. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

every race because it’s my final year. I’ve been injured the last two years and I’m finally not injured and ready to go and that’s what I did. I did the best that I could.”

Grayson head coach Jason Abner said he was thrilled that the senior sprinter was able to end her career on such a high note Saturday.

“Aliyah is unbelievable,” he said. “We’ve just been blessed and lucky enough to have an athlete like that come through our school and just see her accomplishments all through the years. I know she battled

Marsh in qualifying.

“I knew it was going to be a dogfight,” Snell said.

“I thought it might come down to the lanes. She had a great start, she broke Buford’s Marsh wins stride there at the second 300-meter hurdles title hurdle. She did her thing, Buford sophomore Erin she ran a great race and Marsh wasn’t thrilled I’m very, very proud of with how she finished the her. She worked very hard 300-meter hurdles Class to get here and when talAAAA final, but had gotten ent meets hard work good off to such a good start in things happen.” the race she still came away with her first state title.

A personal day Marsh posted a careerArcher sprinter Serenity best time of 42.91 secDouglas didn’t come away onds, just a year after with a title on Saturday, finishing second in the but was able to secure Class AAA finals. three medals.

“I kind of didn’t have a Douglas finished third good finish,” she said. “I in the 400-meter dash and had a really good start and fourth in the 200-meter a really good curve so it dash. Her time of 24.16 in was good.” the 200 and 53.42 in the Marsh also posted a per- 400 were both the fastest sonal-best in the 400-me- times she’s ever posted.

“I PR’d and that’s all I ter hurdles with time of 56.48 seconds, which put was looking forward to,” Douglas said. “My dad her sixth.

Buford head coach David always says, ‘Don’t give the race to anybody.’ I Snell thought that Marsh didn’t. Aliyah and Makenhad a chance to win comzie are really, really great ing into the race. Her odds competitors … It’s been a increased after Olympia good day. I’m happy.”

High from Mary Persons Abrams also ran a leg on had a false-start in the lane next to Marsh. High ran the the Tigers 400-meter relay second-fastest time behind team that finished third.

Martin

class since 1938-40. The former standout player at Name: Eddie Martin in Gwinnett County. This Central Gwinnett got his New position: Head boys basketball coach at Buford is where I grew up, where first head coaching job at Former position: Head boys basketball coach at I played ball, my famBrookwood, where he was Greater Atlanta Christian ily’s here, I’ve coached 350-180 in 20 seasons.

Age: 59 my entire career here. I Now he turns his atCareer record: 713-227 wanted to stay in Gwinnett tention to the Buford job Education: Graduated from Central Gwinnett High County and particularly up and building a coaching School; graduated from Freed Hardeman Univerin Buford because I’ve got staff that will have only sity with a degree in health and physical education; a lot of family ties there.” one certainty at this point, earned master’s degree in health education from the The courtship between University of Alabama Martin’s son Brent. He Background: Member of the Gwinnett County Sports Martin and Buford didn’t said he’s eager to build Hall of Fame; spent the past seven seasons at GAC, go too quickly, but the a powerful program at where he went 193-29 with four state championships; 59-year-old didn’t mind Buford, where he plans to previously was 170-18 with three state titles in a row the school taking its time. stay for quite awhile. at Norcross; was 350-180 in 20 seasons as Brook“I have to thank the “If I was only going to wood’s basketball coach; played high school basketboard of education, the do this for three or four ball at Central Gwinnett five members, the superinmore years, I would have Family: Wife Malinda; grown sons Clint and Brent; tendent Dr. (Geye) Hamby, stayed right where I was two grandchildren Dr. (Banks) Bitterman (at GAC),” Martin said. the principal and Dexter “I just felt it was the time the right fit for me, too.”

Wood the athletic direcwhile the girls program to step down age-wise if I tor,” Martin said. “That Martin takes over for has won four state titles were going to go after angroup of people took Allen Whitehart, who had since 2009 under Durden. other job. It was the right their time in the whole a nice run in five seasons Martin has won the time to do this. I can easprocess and I appreciate at Buford before resignstate’s ultimate prize ily see myself doing this that. They didn’t just hire ing. His first team was plenty in the past decade, another seven to 10 years, somebody on the spot just 24-9 and finished as state including four at GAC, I really do. One the things because they were availrunner-up (to Martin’s where he went an astonthat inspired me was the able. They interviewed lot GAC team) and he also ishing 193-29 and coached NCAA Final Four this of candidates and spent took another Wolves team three Daily Post players of year. (Kentucky’s) John time discussing the right to the finals. His first four the year, Isaiah Wilkins, Calapari was 56 and he fit for the school. I give teams at Buford won 22 Malcolm Brogdon and was the only (head coach) them credit for taking the or more games until going Trent Wiedeman. That younger than me. (Michitime to do that right and 17-13 this past season. came on the heels of going gan State’s) Tom Izzo was not rush. This group of School officials hope 170-18 with three straight 60, Mike Krzyzewski was people really spent the their new coach can get state titles in a row at 68 and Bo Ryan was 67, time because they wanted them to the pinnacle for Norcross. It was the first all older than me. If my to get the right person and the first time — no Buford run of three boys baskethealth holds up, I could I think they feel that way boys basketball team has ball championships in a easily do this for seven to right now. And I think it’s won a state championship, row in Georgia’s largest 10 years or more.”

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GAC

the No. 3 singles players just getting underway, all Pace’s team of Josh Nash eyes turned towards the and David Leven, avenged No. 1 doubles court. a 3-2 loss by the Spartans Ippolito and Langston to the Knights earlier this quickly took the first set season, and closed out the 6-1, only to see Nash and seventh overall state title Leven battle back with a for GAC (14-3), and the 6-4 win to set up a decidfirst since 2008. ing set.

It was also the final stage But it didn’t take long of the plan mapped out by for the GAC duo to quickly gather themselves.

Spartans coaches Jimmy “We just needed to take Chupp and Brett Harte. our time and go back to “We felt like we could what we were doing,” win (No.) 1 singles and Ippolito said. “Coming (Nos.) 1 and 2 doubles,” into the first set, we were Harte said. “Those were playing really confident. the two matches we felt Then I think we just got a like we had a pretty good little (too) relaxed in the chance of winning. (No.) 3 singles was one of those second. Lane started hitting matches where neither one out some big serves (in the of those players had played third), and that got us back.”

As solid as Langston’s each other (before). So, we didn’t know a lot about serving was in the final set, it was an early service (the match-up).” break that got the Spartans’ Sure enough, the rest pair back in control. of the road map worked And a second break a out pretty much as Chupp and Harte had planned and few games later, during which Ippolito and Langshoped.

Alex Kahn got GAC on ton came up with a big point following a lengthy the board with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Matthew Seaman rally on a deuce point, at No. 1 singles to counter only solidified momentum in their favor and allowed Pace’s Praskanth Kumar, them to close out the who outlasted Andrew match, and the title, for the Chitty in a tough 7-6 (3), Spartans.

6-4 battle to win at No. 2 “When we won that singles.

And with Stephen Lamb point on the deuce side on their serve when we were and Parker Bryant havup 4-1 was big,” Langston ing given the Spartans said. “That was a big point. the Spartans the lead with (That game) was just backa 6-3, 6-1 win over Ben Siegel and Daniel Blumen and-forth. When we won at No. 2 doubles, and with that point, that was big.”

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Wesleyan

The Lions got their only victory Saturday from the clutch performance from No. 2 doubles team of Kate one of their doubles teams. Harrison and Grey Poplin, who defeated Wesleyan’s And they got it from Elizabeth Bruehl and Katie the No. 1 combination of seniors Kaitlin English and McLaughlin 6-2, 6-2.

But Saturday was the Leila Jordan, who reboundWolves’ day. ed from dropping the first set to Lovett’s Mary Bryan Class AAAA Pope and Kate Marino to Woodward Academy 3, win a thrilling second-set Buford 0 tie-breaker to extend the Gwinnett’s other set match to a final set before prevailing 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 of Wolves couldn’t quite duplicate Wesleyan’s to secure the title. achievement, as Buford fell “Lovett has a great to Woodward Academy, team,” Wesleyan coach which secured its fourth Mary Wilson Schill said. state title in the last eight “We’ve always had some years with a 3-0 win. great matches. It’s always Emily Cease set the tone a battle all the way. The last (two) times we played early for the War Eagles (16-5) with a 6-2, 6-1 win them, we won all three over Buford’s Bailey Mcsingles. (Saturday), they Cammon at No. 2 singles. (the doubles teams) had The other two decisive to get it done. (English matches tested the players’ and Jordan) are seniors, endurance, with several and they’ve been big with long points causing the this program, and they’ve players to battle the near had some epic battles 90-degree heat, especially (with Pope and Marino).

This was just an awesome in lengthy first sets.

Ultimately, it was comeback.”

Woodward’s players who It was a comeback that coped better, with Cheythe duo have become accustomed to throughout the enne Early outlasting the Wolves’ Annalea Stevens season, though the stakes in a first-set tie-breaker (7for this one turned out to 4) at No. 1 singles before be considerably higher. taking the second set 6-1, “We’ve had a kind of while the No. 1 doubles pattern of losing the first team of Kaylie Lobel and set and playing real well Tyler Valastro holding off the second set,” English said. “So, we kind of said, Savannah Whaley and Abbey Mitchell 6-4, 6-3.

‘OK, the first set’s over.

“Being a softball coach Now we can move on.’ (also at Woodward), we “I feel we were a lot do a lot of conditioning,” smarter with our shots Woodward coach Eileen (in the final two sets). We McWhorter said. “All weren’t necessarily worried about (the team point) those rain days, we were in the gym. We were running. at that point.”

We were jumping rope.

The focus on the team That made the difference point became far more (Saturday). I truly believe intense as the match went that.” on, however, especially The loss didn’t disheartafter forcing the third set with the 7-5 victory in the en Buford coach Roger West, who saw his Wolves second-set tie-breaker. post a historic season with And the fact they had their state runner-up finish played Pope and Maand a program-best record rino several times before, of 20-3. and not just this season, “We’ve had a lot of close helped them relax during matches (this season),” a pressure-packed third West said. “We fought set, which they claimed by gaining a service break off two match points (in already leading 4-3 before a 3-2 quarterfinal win) against Marist. So, we serving to close out the know we were fortunate to match. be here. We were thrilled “This is our ninth time to be here. We’ve really playing them,” Jordan raised the bar for tennis said of Pope and Marino. here at Buford. We’re “We’ve gone back and forth. They’re a very, very excited about the seasons to come.” good team.”

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GAC cruises past Benedictine, into final four “I thought we could have scored a few more goals, but their keeper had NORCROSS — After a terrific day. He kept them watching his team cruise to in the game. I felt like in a pair of blowout wins in the first half we could have the first two rounds of the had four or five instead of Class AA state playoffs, two.”

Greater Atlanta Christian While improving to head coach Thom Jacquet 18-2-2 on the season, the was hoping for a competi- defending state champion tive match against BeneSpartans earned the right dictine Military School to face Thomasville, which in the quarterfinals on blew out Lovett 6-0 on SatSaturday afternoon. urday, in the semifinals.

Oh well, at least the Jacquet and his Spartans weather was beautiful. have to like their chances The Spartans faced little of returning to the title resistance at home and game. On March 31, they breezed to a 4-0 victory traveled to Thomasville over the clearly overand whipped the Bulldogs matched Cadets.

7-0.

“I was really pleased,” This one was not as Jacquet said afterward. close as the score might “I thought from the very indicate. beginning we were controlThe faster and more ling the tempo, we were athletic Spartans domifinding gaps and we were nated every aspect of the playing balls where we match, save for goalkeeper. needed to play them. So I Although, it was diffiwas very pleased. cult to rate that position

By John L. Byrwa Staff Correspondent

fairly as GAC keeper Jake Doiron faced just one shot the entire game.

On the opposite end of the field, Benedictine’s keeper, senior Awad Youseff, faced a barrage of shots from an opportunistic and efficient GAC offense.

He made several sparkling stops, and the four balls that made it past him came from quality shots that he had virtually no chance of stopping.

The Spartans were led by senior Nate Ream, who had two goals and an assist, senior Will Hamryka, who had a goal and two assists, and freshman Oscar Vanegas, who chipped in a goal and an assist.

Whether on defense or offense, GAC utilized its speed and skill advantage to dictate the pace of play and create opportunities. A little more than eight minutes into the game, Ream took a sweet pass from Hamryka

above the box, raced past a defender and scored with a hard low shot.

Fifteen minutes later, the Spartans put their passing skills on display.

After Michael Williams won a battle for the ball near midfield, he passed to Hamryka, who fed the ball to Ream, who chipped it to Vanegas. The diminutive freshman ripped a shot past Youseff and celebrated with a nifty cartwheel.

“They kind of played us higher than I expected, which opened up the game behind us,” Jacquet said.

“We’re quick on top and very fast on the back and it’s very difficult to beat our defenders one-on-one, so when we get it going, every time I feel like we’re going to win the game.”

Benedictine came out in the second half and competed but, like in the first half, could not put any serious pressure on the

Spartans. Whenever they attempted to create a rush, they were met by a solid wall of defenders led by Matthew Kenworthy and George Winfrey, and midfielders Jonathan Tesfaye and Richard Hamryka.

“We felt like we could control the game and limit their chances,” Jacquet said. “Once we get it going, too, I feel like no one is going to score on us.

Those guys are good in the back for us.”

Benedictine head coach Charlie Moore, whose squad ended the season 14-4-3, sounded almost resigned to the fact that his team faced a Herculean task.

“We always felt it was going to be a very difficult game,” Moore said.

“They’re a good side, particularly midfield and down forward. In the first 20 minutes, we made a couple of really poor

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mistakes and really poor decisions.

“At 2-nil, we rectified the shape, we rectified the personnel and it was a lot better and we competed. I felt like in the second half, as the game went on and our keeper kept us in the game, we were better.”

Benedictine’s lone scoring chance came midway through the second half, and could have made it a match. Freshman Tyrese Bennett outmuscled a Spartan defendee down low and managed to get off a shot. Doiron made the save with his chest, and the rebound bounded to sophomore Ross Monson, whose right-footed attempt clanged off the right post.

“That was a big turning point,” Moore said. “I think if that went in, at that point … they were panicking a little bit … if that goes in, who knows, we might have pushed on.”

Hawks fall to Roswell in top-10 showdown

By Cody Pace

Staff Correspondent

North Gwinnett’s Vinny Magro (10) moves the ball up field against Pope’s DuBose Bean (18) during the first half of Saturday’s Class AAAAAA quarterfinal playoff game at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

North succumbs to Pope onslaught

By Ken Chrzanowski Staff Correspondent

SUWANEE — North Gwinnett could not hold a second-half lead and fell to Pope 11-8 in the quarterfinals of the boys Class AAAAAA state lacrosse tournament Saturday.

“It was a combination of being a man down and they (Pope) were getting looks that they weren’t in the first half,” North Gwinnett coach John Palocsik said. “Conversely, we weren’t getting the looks we did in the first half.”

North Gwinnett (24-5) broke on top when Sam Gasta netted a shot to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead less than a minute into the game. North held the lead for five minutes until the Greyhounds (19-4) tied it up with six minutes left in the quarter. That is when North’s Jack Ryan answered with two goals to give the home team a 3-1 lead after the first quarter.

Pope responded in the second quarter by scoring three times to take a brief 4-3 lead. However, Ryan scored to tie the game with just over four minutes until halftime. Two minutes later, Harrison Olvey made a strong run on the attack, cutting left and then right to shake the defenders, Olvey’s goal gave North a 5-4 lead which it took into intermission.

The third quarter saw North take two successive penalties. One for a slash and when that one was

North Gwinnett’s Harrison Olvey (29) drives to the net ahead of Pope’s Steven Runge (5) during the first half of Saturday’s Class AAAAAA quarterfinal playoff game at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

killed off, the Bulldogs took a pushing penalty. Pope was finally able to take advantage at the 6:10 mark to score and tie the game at five. The Greyhounds added a goal to take the lead, but Ryan was able to come around from behind the goal to knot the game 6-6 with 3:31 left in the quarter.

Pope’s Tyler Borko scored twice in the final minutes of the quarter. The first coming on a rebound of a save made

by North goalie, Austin Wise. The second goal came with 22.6 second left to give the Greyhounds an 8-6 lead.

Before the ensuing draw

Pope’s Steven Runge was penalized for having an illegal stick. The one minute penalty gave North a glimmer of hope, however their shot attempt was saved just before the end of the third quarter and then they were unable to capitalize as the fourth quarter began.

Pope outscored North 3-2 in the final quarter to secure the win and move on to the semifinals. For the game, Ryan scored five goals while Wise registered 13 saves. Though it was not the outcome he wanted, Palocsik knows that the future is bright.

“We are losing three seniors,” he said. “No on put us in the second round of the state tournament before this year began, it has been a phenomenal year, though its hard to tell that to those players over there. I have to thank my assistant coaches, Coach (Jason) Puckett did a great job molding our defense with a unit of players that didn’t see the field last year.

“Coach (Michael) DeMaria did an amazing job with our offense. If you ask anyone, our offense is totally different than what it was and its very potent.”

ROSWELL — Roswell had it from the start.

Saturday’s matchup between two of the best lacrosse teams in the state of Georgia, the No. 3 Hornets and No. 8 Mill Creek, was primed to be a good matchup. But Roswell’s second-half surge led to a 16-9 final in the Class AAAAAA quarterfinals Saturday.

Roswell came out aggressively, looking to put away the Hawks early with five goals, including a hat trick from senior Garrett Blake, who finished with five goals, and stellar defense to jump out to a 5-1 lead at the end of the first quarter.

“I think the first quarter we were a little nervous,” Mill Creek head coach Bo Adams said. “I think they were maybe too hyped up, I guess. Just gave up five right there.”

But Mill Creek wasn’t going down without a fight.

The Hawks answered with a barrage of offense and stout defense, scoring six unanswered goals to take a 7-5 halftime lead.

Mill Creek excelled in the second quarter by playing patient offense and spreading the ball around. The six second-quarter goals came from five different players with senior Nick Eldridge having two.

“Second quarter I think we settled down and we’ve been talking about it all year — potential,” Adams said. “We have this much potential. In the second quarter I think we got to our potential and showed what we could really do.”

However, Mill Creek lost that patience in the second half as the game got out of hand.

The Hornets came out and scored two goals in the first 2:34 of the half to tie it back up.

After Eldridge scored his third goal of the game, Roswell went on a four-goal streak to end the third quarter and then added three more to start the fourth, increasing its lead to six and effectively putting Mill Creek out of the game.

“Halftime set in and we came out a little more jacked up, not as even keel,” Adams said.

“We started getting a little, a little rushed. Almost the same thing happened the third quarter (as the first quarter). They went on that big run and put up five again. And you say, ‘Hey, they get a quarter, we get a quarter, they get a quarter, let’s make this ours.’ It was just too much.

We were just spent.”

That rushed style of play manifested in the third quarter shot selection. Instead of moving the ball around to create good looks, the Hawks tried attacking the goal through double teams and made shots earlier in their offensive possessions.

“They were trying to make things happen,” Adams said. “We had guys trying to go through dodges they shouldn’t go through and that was, Roswell’s got a great defense, it’s tough to get through two dodges and taking shots.”

Although the outcome isn’t what the Hawks had hoped, it shows a step forward in the program being its first ever appearance in the second round of the playoffs. Although the season is over, Adams said this team and its 13 seniors have left a legacy for future teams to try to top.

“I’m proud of them,” Adams said. “Seventeen wins, that’s the most we’ve ever had, make it to the second round of the playoffs, first time ever. These guys leave a big legacy for upcoming Mill Creek teams. They’ve got a lot to live up to because this team’s done a great job.”

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STATE BASEBALL QUARTERFINAL CAPSULES CLASS AAAAAA Collins Hill Eagles Head coach: Paul Pierce Record: 21-8 Region: 7-AAAAAA, No. 1 seed Quarterfinal opponent: vs. Pope Tuesday at 4 p.m.

(DH); Wednesday at 4 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat South Gwinnett in two games in first round; beat Lee Co. in two games in second round Key players: 1B/LHP Cole Zabowski, Jr.; SS William Holland, Jr.; 2B Alex Keown, Sr.; RF Al Del Villar, Jr. Top pitchers: LHP Zabowski; LHP Mitch McCain, Sr.; RHP Monty Horn, Soph.

Mountain View Bears Head coach: Jason Johnson Record: 21-10 Region: 7-AAAAAA, No. 3 seed Quarterfinal opponent: at Walton,Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

(DH); Wednesday at 5:55 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Brookwood in three games in first round; beat Tift Co. in two games in second round Key players: IF/RHP Robert Kwiatkowski, Jr.; C Logan Irvine, Jr.; 2B Chandler Powell, Jr.; RF Zack Miller, Jr. Top pitchers: RHP Kwiatkowski; LHP Cameron Hankins, Jr.; RHP Tyler Zak, Jr. North Gwinnett Bulldogs Head coach: Ryan Moity Record: 22-10 Region: 7-AAAAAA, No. 2 seed Quarterfinal opponent: at Kennesaw Mountain, Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. (DH); Wednesday at 6 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Archer in three games in first round; beat Valdosta in three games in second round Key players: RF Blake Sangster, Sr.; 1B Wes Brooks, Jr.; CF Avery Kenyon, Sr.; LF Tanner Hanes, Jr.; 3B Cade Heil, Soph.; C Randall Watson, Jr.; SS Alex Hartz, Sr.; 2B Clay Davis, Jr. Top pitchers: RHP Adam Corn, Sr.; RHP Ben Carswell, Sr.; RHP Jake Brace, Soph.

Parkview Panthers Head coach: Chan Brown Record: 28-2 Region: 8-AAAAAA, No. 1 seed Quarterfinal opponent: vs.

Etowah, Tuesday at 5 p.m.

(DH), Wednesday at 5 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Mill Creek in two games in first round; beat Lowndes in two games in second round Key players: 2B Daino Deas, Sr.; CF/LHP Brandon Hill, Sr.; SS Trevor Brown, Sr.; C Austin Biggar, Jr.; LF David Draper, Sr.; 1B/C Jonathan Whitmer, Jr.; RF Brian Kregel, Jr. Top pitchers: RHP Ryne Inman, Sr.; RHP Will Ethridge, Jr.; LHP Cody Collett, Soph.; RHP Andy Albright, Sr. CLASS AAAA Buford Wolves

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Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 14, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2 Arizona 11, San Diego 0 Miami 7, San Francisco 2 Friday’s Games Washington 9, Atlanta 2 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 1 St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 6 L.A. Dodgers 2, Colorado 1, 6 innings San Diego 6, Arizona 5 San Francisco 6, Miami 0 Saturday’s Games Washington 8, Atlanta 6 N.Y. Mets 3, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 5 Chicago Cubs (Wood 2-1) at Milwaukee (Lohse 1-4), late San Diego (Ross 1-3) at Arizona (Anderson 0-1), late L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-2) at Colorado (De La Rosa 0-2), late Miami (Phelps 1-0) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-1), late Today’s Games Atlanta (Wood 1-2) at Washington (Zimmermann 2-2), 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Colon 5-1) at Philadelphia (Billingsley 0-1), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Lyons 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 2-2), 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-1) at Milwaukee (Garza 2-4), 2:10 p.m.

Miami (Latos 1-3) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-2), 4:05 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 1-5) at Arizona,

Head coach: Tony Wolfe Record: 28-2 Region: 8-AAAA, No. 1 seed Quarterfinal opponent: at Locust Grove, Tuesday at 4 p.m. (DH); Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Heritage-Catoosa in two games in first round; Beat Perry in two games in second round Key players: C Joey Bart, Sr.; SS Austin Wilhite, Jr.; CF Nick Wilhite, Jr.; 3B/RHP Griffin Jolliff, Jr.; RF Brandon Marsh, Jr.; LF Caleb Moore, Sr.; 2B Dillon Lancaster, Jr. Top pitchers: LHP Jake Higginbotham, Sr.; RHP Connor Bennett, Sr.; RHP Kevin Coulter, Sr.; RHP Keyton Gibson, Sr.; LHP Justin Glover, Jr.; RHP Jolliff CLASS AA GAC Spartans Head coach: Robbie Wilson Record: 26-4 Region: 6-AA, No. 3 seed Quarterfinal opponent: at Darlington, Tuesday at 2 p.m.

(DH), Wednesday at 5 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Bremen in two games in first round; beat Screven Co. in two games in second round Key players: OF Peyton McGuire, Sr.; SS Lucas Boudreau, Sr.; C Carter Lewis, Jr. Top pitcher: RHP Wes Bucher, Sr. Wesleyan Wolves Head coach: Brian Krehmeyer Record: 26-4 Region: 6-AA, No. 1 seed Quarterfinal opponent: vs.

Gordon Lee, Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. (DH), Wednesday, TBA (if necessary) How they got here: Beat Manchester in two games in first round; beat Metter in two games in second round Key players: OF Jahmai Jones, Sr.; OF Colin Hall, Soph.; SS Carter Hall, Sr.; 2B Will Collins, Sr.; C Sam McWhorter, Sr.; OF Christian Stark, Sr.; RHP/1B Andrew Sauer, Sr.; 3B Jake McCleskey, Jr. Top pitchers: RHP Sauer; RHP Jordan Ward, Soph.

CLASS A (PRIVATE) Hebron Christian Lions Head coach: Josh Carter Record: 20-9 Seed: No. 10 Quarterfinal opponent: at No. 3 Brookstone, Tuesday at 2 p.m. (DH); Thursday, 4:30 p.m. (if necessary) How they got here: Beat First Presbyterian Day in two games in first round; beat Providence Christian in two games in second round Key players: IF Parker Runnels, Sr.; C James Civelli, Soph.; IF Tyler Calvert, Jr.; OF Sloan Bennett, Jr.; OF Sid Turner, Sr. Top pitchers: RHP Ben Coker, Jr.; RHP Jake Hershman, Jr.; RHP Calvert; RHP Austin Jett, Jr.; RHP Matthew Cartmell, Sr.

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Parkview crushes No. 1 Hornets totaling eight in the first half.

This strategy didn’t pay ROSWELL — Parkview off early and the Panthers boys soccer coach Mididn’t seem to be getting chael Tolmich knew what off good shots, but fortunes his team would have to changed with 12:08 left do to take down Roswell, in the half as junior Louis the top-ranked Class Gratz put in the game’s AAAAAA team in Georfirst goal and then just six gia. minutes later sophomore “We’ve got good scout- Andrei Bajura tacked a ing reports, have good tape second goal on. on them,” Tolmich said.

“No, (that wasn’t the “We knew we had to take game plan), they got a little away their main scoring anxious,” Tolmich said. threats three (junior Cal “Some of them saw space Jennings) and four (senior and tried to take advantage Arturo Hernandez). Those of space but the space kids are about as dangerthey were taking advanous as they get, two of the tage of were 30-yards out, top kids in the state work- 35-yards out. So a lot of ing together. our shots that we took “So we said we’ve got to weren’t smart.” organize ourselves in the The defense matched back to keep three and four the offensive intensity of from taking us from winParkview, limiting the Horning this game. We really nets (16-3) to just a couple took them out of it.” shots on goal and defeating They did that — and both corner kick attempts. then some.

When the ball did get The Panthers routed to the goal, junior goalRoswell 6-0, advancing to keeper Austin Lu handled the semifinals of the state it cleanly and had several playoffs and ending the heads-up plays where he Hornets’ 11-game winning came out of the box to streak. prevent a shot attempt for Parkview (15-5) sucRoswell. ceeded by garnering pos“We had a lot better session early and often in communication, held the the first half. When it had ball well, moved a lot, did the ball, Parkview played the right things that we aggressively on the attack, needed to do to win,” segetting off shot after shot, nior defender Cole Brown

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said. “First half we did well. Holding the defense was the main thing. If we held them we got in the game.”

Lu came out of the game with just over 9:00 left in the game to an embrace from Tolmich.

“A junior, voted as a captain, has really just stepped up and been a true leader for us,” Tolmich said of Lu. “He didn’t really have to make too many fantastic saves but he came out and won balls to keep things from happening and that’s the kind of player that he’s been.”

With the two-goal lead and the defense playing so well, Parkview was able to play more relaxed in the second half and focus more on controlling the ball.

That style of offense seemed to suit the Panthers even better as they put up four goals in the second half on four shot attempts.

The six goals were scored by six players, including freshman John Michael Bandy, senior Connor Rosenthal, junior Ivan Hernandez and senior Alex Norton, as well as Gratz and Bajura from the first half.

“I think at halftime it was 2-0 so we talked about the need to stay composed, be smart, that if we get the

ball and we push outside we’re going to have success back inside,” Tolmich said. “We had people perform it perfectly today.

Exactly what we worked on.”

Part of the success came because Hornets starting goalie Jose Isidoro was red carded and removed from the game just 5:19 into the second half after having to be restrained from a referee. Isidoro was complaining that on the goal scored by Bandy on a free kick.

“He kept running his mouth and got a red card but because he had gotten cautioned first and was assumed to be off the field, the red card just meant that he couldn’t come back in the game,” Tolmich said.

“I think what it was we set the ball and the keeper was over setting the wall and we shot it so we shot it after the keeper was set so I think they were complaining that there wasn’t a whistle to restart. …

Very smart play from the freshman right there to see that.”

Parkview advances to play Brookwood for a chance to advance to the state championship. It would be the Panthers’ first boys state championship since 2005.

Duluth into semis with PK win

By Chris Stephens

Mozo made a leaping grab to keep the game scoreless.

From there, the Wildcats DULUTH — Through(16-2) went on the attack. out Saturday’s Class Thierry Jules had a AAAAAA quarterfinal chance midway through matchup with Habersham the first half, but his header Central, Duluth controlled went off the left post. the ball.

Carolos Delarosa had a However, the Wildcats chance as well, but his shot couldn’t put one in the in the box went wide left. back of the net, instead setDelarosa had his best tling for a win in penalty opportunity of the night kicks, 4-2, to advance to with three seconds to go in the semifinals Tuesday the first half, but Haberwhere they will host Alsham Central goalkeeper pharetta.

Wade Pulido tipped the “This is the first time ball over the crossbar to we’ve gotten this far since send the game into half2003, so we’re trying to time scoreless. make a statement,” said The second half was defender Mitchell McCur- much of the same as every ry. “We’ve got something time the Raiders would get going on here.” the ball in the offensive The Raiders pushed the zone, the Duluth back line issue early, getting two ensured nothing would shots on goal in the first come of it. seven minutes. The second “We just had to stay shot nearly went in, but tight back there,” said Duluth goalkeeper Edgar defender Daniel Arnstien.

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“We worked together and communicated and that’s what allowed us to be successful.”

However, the offense was still unable to put the ball in the back of the net, forcing the game into two five-minute overtime periods. There, neither team put the ball on goal, forcing the game into penalty kicks.

Habersham’s Johnny Zavala got PKs underway, but Mozo gave his team all of the momentum, diving to his left to block Zavala’s shot.

“That was so huge,” Arnstien said. “That allowed us to relax on our shots afterwards.”

And relax the Wildcats did.

Kevin Soto went bottom center as Pulido dove to his left, giving the Wildcats a 1-0 lead through the first round.

Cesar Valtierra tied it up for Habersham, but McCurry put the Wildcats back on top, going top center for the goal.

Then, in perhaps the most unforgiving moment for the Raiders, Adam Dowdy’s try hit off the bottom of the crossbar and bounced out, leaving the score at 2-1 with Duluth still to take its shot in the third round.

And Arnstien converted, going bottom left for the goal.

After that, it didn’t matter that Ian Sloat scored for the Raiders in the fourth round because Ramon Beltran’s shot into the bottom left of the net pushed the Wildcats onto the semifinals.

“We’ve still got two games to go,” McCurry said. “We’re going to celebrate this tonight, but get back to work tomorrow.”

Aliyah Abrams, Grayson, 400-meter run, 53.10 SECOND PLACE Mackenzie Ellison, Brookwood, 800-meter run, 2:13.76 Aliyah Abrams, Grayson, 200-meter run, 23.72 Grayson(Aliyah Abrams, Alexis Adams, Chika Motanya and Sydney Davis), 1600-meter relay, 3:47.04 THIRD PLACE Archer (Tatiana Wayne, Paris Warner, Andria Booth and Serenity Douglas), 400-meter relay, 47.40 Serenity Douglas, Archer, 400-meter run, 53.42 Jirah Simpkins, Berkmar, 100-meter hurdles, 14.47 FOURTH PLACE Serenity Douglas, Archer, 200-meter run, 24.16 FIFTH PLACE Sydney Davis, Grayson, 400-meter run, 56.37 Peachtree Ridge(Angela Opore, Adina Nimene, Kayla Harris and Meagan Henderson), 1600-meter relay, 3:57.27 Melyssa Haughton, Brookwood, 100-meter hurdles, 14.65 SIXTH PLACE Mizani Simpson, Berkmar, 300-meter hurldes, 46.20 SEVENTH PLACE Brookwood (Kayla Louie, Melyssa Haughton, Arielle Shaw and Rachel Blanding), 400-meter relay, 48.34 Ashton Askew, Brookwood, 800-meter run, 2:20.98 EIGHTH PLACE Ashley Davis, Central Gwinnett, 400-meter run,57.34 Tatiana Wayne, Archer, 100-meter run12.45 Class AAAA FIRST PLACE Erin Marsh, Buford, 300-meter hurdles, 42.91 SIXTH PLACE Erin Marsh, Buford, 400-meter run, 56.48 Class AA FIRST PLACE GAC (Nia Brown, Stephanie Reynolds, Jada Jones and Kennedy Street), 400-meter relay, 48.12 Stephanie Reynolds, GAC, 100-meter hurdles,15.01 Wesleyan ( Cairo Booker, Kylie Reed, Maddie Jones and Sutton West), 1600-meter relay, 4:00.13 THIRD PLACE

Cairo Booker, Wesleyan, 400-meter run, 58.90 Kylie Reed, Wesleyan, 800-meter run, 2:24.92 FOURTH PLACE Sutton West, Wesleyan, 400-meter run, 59.12 GAC (Abby Kettle, Jada Jones, Kennedy Street and Stephanie Reynolds), 1600-meter relay, 4:09.69 FIFTH PLACE Kennedy Street, GAC, 200-meter run, 26.00 Jayla Jones, Wesleyan, 300-meter hurdles, 47.70 SEVENTH PLACE Wesleyan (Jayla Jones, Sheridan Davenport, Meagan Lynch and Cairo Booker), 400-meter relay, 50.20 Nia Brown, GAC, 200-meter run, 26.20 EIGHTH PLACE Jada Jones, GAC, 100-meter run, 12.48 Class A Private EIGHTH PLACE Maddy Howe, Hebron, 800-meter run, 2:23.96 TEAM STANDINGS Class AAAAAA 1. Westlake, 74 2. Grayson, 42 3. McEachern, 38 4. Campbell, 28 7. Brookwood, 23 t8. Collins Hill, 22 14. Archer 18 16. Berkmar, 17 17. Dacula, 16 32. Mill Creek, 5 35. Peachtree Ridge, 4 38. South Gwinnett, 3.5 39. North Gwinnett, 3 42. Central Gwinnett, 1 Class AAAA 1. Marist, 81.5 2. Baldwin, 70 3. Redan, 56.5 4. Monroe Albany, 54 10. Buford, 18 Class AA 1. Lovett, 105 2. Wesleyan, 62 3. GAC, 55 4. Thomasville, 52 Class A Private 1. Our Lady of Mercey, 104 2. ELCA, 70 3. Athens Academy, 57.5 4. Landmark Christian, 57 24. Hebron Christian, 6.5

SPORTS AT A GLANCE 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-0) at Colorado (Kendrick 1-4), 4:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh (Cole 4-1) at Philadelphia (Williams 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Miller 4-1) at Cincinnati (Leake 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 2-2) at Milwaukee (Peralta 1-4), 7:20 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 New York................. 19. 12.. .613...... --...6-4 Tampa Bay.............. 17. 14.. .548.......2...6-4 Toronto.................... 16. 15.. .516.......3...6-4 Baltimore................ 13. 15.. .464....4.5...5-5 Boston.................... 13. 17.. .433....5.5...2-8 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Kansas City............ 19..11.. .633...... --...5-5 Detroit..................... 19. 12.. .613.......5...5-5 Minnesota............... 18. 13.. .581.... 1.5...9-1 Chicago.................. 10. 16.. .385.......7...3-7 Cleveland................ 10. 19.. .345....8.5...4-6 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Houston.................. 19..11.. .633...... --...6-4 Los Angeles............ 14. 16.. .467.......5...5-5 Seattle.................... 12. 17.. .414....6.5...4-6 Texas...................... 12. 18.. .400.......7...5-5 Oakland.................. 12. 19.. .387.... 7.5...3-7

Thursday’s Games Minnesota 6, Oakland 5 Detroit 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 4, Baltimore 3 Texas 5, Tampa Bay 4 Houston 3, L.A. Angels 2 Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 4 Toronto 7, Boston 0 Detroit 6, Kansas City 5 Minnesota 9, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay 8, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 2, Houston 0 Seattle 4, Oakland 3, 11 innings Saturday’s Games Baltimore 6, N.Y. Yankees 2 Toronto 7, Boston 1 Kansas City 6, Detroit 2 Minnesota 7, Cleveland 4 Tampa Bay 7, Texas 2 Houston (Keuchel 3-0) at L.A. Angels

(Shoemaker 2-2), late Oakland (Hahn 1-2) at Seattle (Happ 2-1), late Today’s Games Baltimore (Norris 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 4-0), 1:05 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 1-4) at Toronto (Dickey 1-3), 1:07 p.m.

Minnesota (May 2-2) at Cleveland (Salazar 3-1), 1:10 p.m.

Texas (Rodriguez 1-1) at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 2-3) at L.A. Angels (Richards 2-1), 3:35 p.m.

Oakland (Chavez 1-2) at Seattle (Hernandez 5-0), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit (Greene 3-2), 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Toronto (Estrada 1-1) at Baltimore (Jimenez 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-5) at Tampa Bay (Colome 2-0), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Texas (Lewis 2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Boston at Oakland (Kazmir 2-1), 10:05 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3), ppd.

Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 10, Chicago White Sox 4 Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Cincinnati (Lorenzen 1-1) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 1-3), 2:10 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association Playoff Glance Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Chicago 2, Cleveland 1 Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 Wednesday, May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 Friday, May 8: Chicago 99, Cleveland 96 Sunday, May 10: Cleveland at Chicago, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: Chicago at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.

x-Sunday, May 17: Chicago at Cleveland, TBA Washington 2, Atlanta 1 Sunday, May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98 Tuesday, May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90 Saturday, May 9: Washington 103, Atlanta 101 Monday, May 11: Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Atlanta at Washington, TBA x-Monday, May 18: Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Western Conference L.A. Clippers 2, Houston 1 Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 Wednesday, May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 Friday, May 8: L.A. Clippers 124, Houston 99 Sunday, May 10: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 9:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Houston at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBA Golden State 1, Memphis 1 Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Tuesday, May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90 Saturday, May 9: Golden State at Memphis, late Monday, May 11: Golden State at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Memphis at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, TBA x-Sunday, May 17: Memphis at Golden State, TBA

Track & Field State placers Girls state track and field championships Hugh Mills Stadium, Albany Saturday results Class AAAAAA FIRST PLACE Grayson (Aliyah Abrams, Alexis Adams, Sydney Davis and Chika Motanya), 400-meter relay, 46.58

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PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice is hereby given that the Partnership Gwinnett Public Funding Entity (501c6) shall hold a board meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. The meeting shall take place at Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Paul Duke Conference Room, 6500 Sugarloaf Parkway, 2nd Floor, Duluth, GA 30097. The public is invited to attend.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY GEORGIA SELF STORAGE ACT (210-215) ATLANTA PEACH MOVERS, INC Notice is hereby given that the undersigned self-storage units will be sold at a public sale by competitive bidding, in their entirety to the highest bidder, on or after, May 16, 2015 to satisfy the lien of the Lessor, with Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc as managing agent for Lessor, for rental and other charges due from the undersigned. The said property has been stored and is located at the respective address below. The sale will be held at the address listed below and will begin at 9 a.m. or after on said date and will continue hour by hour until all units are sold.

Atlanta Peach Movers 2911 Northeast Parkway Doraville 30360, 770-447-5121: Diana Whitson #13211 / #201 #202 #204 #205 Household Goods; Simpson #VC0117 / #109 #110 Household Good; Malik Dauda #18393 / #308 #310 #316 Household Goods; Carl Woods / #18 Household Goods; Teresa Williams #20539 / #683 #687 #690, #692 Household Goods; Marco Coleman #20444 / #517 #518 Household Goods; Deborah Black #0384 / #291 #326 Household Goods; Mark Skaeffer #10174 / #21 #22 Household Goods; Gwen Lee #14567 / #258 #259 #264 #265 #266 #378 Household Goods; Antoinette King #10254 / #100 Household Goods; Jina Elliott #25328 / #1168 #1169 #1170 #1171 #1172 #1173 #1174 #1175 Household Goods; Michael Antar / #1671 #1729 Household Goods; Craig White #31906 / #783 #793 #794 Household Goods; Allison Franklin #21717 / #284 #368 #373 Household Goods; Oscar Ayala #32132 / #1510 #1513 Household Goods; Larry Compton #13163 / #1607 Household Goods; Mike Rucker / #Vault1 #Vault2 #Vault3 #Vault4 #Vault5 Household Goods; Julian Loube / #Vault6 #Vault7 #Vault8 Household Goods; John Doe #AA1771 / #16 #19 #28 #29 #98 #99 #117 #127 #141 #157 #208 #209 #1155 Household Goods.

The terms of the sale will be cash only and must be paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is. Atlanta Peach Movers, Inc reserves the right to withdraw any or all units, partial or entire, from the sale at any time. All contents must be removed completely from the property the same day as the auction.

929-253347, 5/3,10 PUBLIC AUCTION In accordance with the provision of Georgia State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at AAAA Self Storage located at 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA, 30046. 770-237-8673. And due notice having been given to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Monday, May 18, 2015. The sale will be held at www.storagebattles.com at 3:00 PM on Monday, May 18, 2015.

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Unit #1021- Parkerson, Remieash - Misc. Household Items Unit #5026- Jones, Christopher - Misc. Household Items 929-253351, 5/3,10 PUBLIC AUCTION Securlock Storage will sell personal property consisting of household and personal effects, office, and other equipment, toys and appliances will be sold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent due law 10-4-213. All items or spaces may not be available on the day of the sale. We reserve the right to refuse any and all bids, buyers must secure spaces with own locks. NO CHECKS. CASH ONLY. To claim tax-exempt-ORIGINAL RESALE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH SPACE PURCHASED IS REQUIRED. Time: 11:30 AM Date: May 18 2015 Place: 1573 Athens Hwy Grayson Ga 30017 Stephen Roper – Tools, Clothing, Couch, 3+ Boxes (1 Unit), King bed set, Livingroom set, outside yard tools, 10+ boxes (2 Unit) Adrian Doku – Suitcases, Pictures, Treadmill, 10+ Boxes, 2+ Bags Patricia Hoskins – Dresser, Chairs, Pictures, 4+ Totes, 10+ Boxes Cynthia Manson – 2 TV’s, TV Stand, 20+ Boxes, Armoire, Totes 929-252016, 5/3,10

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the provisions of Georgia State Code Sections, Peachtree Corners Self Storage, LLC located at 2991 Cole Ct; Norcross, GA 30071; (770) 662-0496; will sell at Public Online Auction on May 19, 2015 personal property belonging to the following tenants to the highest bidder. The sale shall be held Online at the website www.

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1. Unit A144 Tag 0001935 Jermaine Wilson: Kenwood Stereo Receiver, Coffee Table, Roll Imitation Leather, Travel Bag, Chemicals, Drill 2. Unit A111 Tag 0001910 Lamont Warren: Toy Chest, Golf Clubs, Rope Wicker Chair, Hope Chest, Bowflex Dumbbell Set, Misc Toys, 4 Plastic Chairs, Toro Cordless Trimmer, Small Desk, Sofa, Echo Blower & Weed Trimmer, Basketball Goal, Decorative Plants, Coolers, Lamp, Folding Chair 3. Unit B87 Tag 0001909 Rosemary Rouse: King Size Mattress Set, Head & Foot Boards, 2 Ficus Trees, Microwave, PC Tower, Car Seat, High Chair, Baby Stroller, Fan, Misc Clothes, Toys, Plants, Cleaning Supplies, Boxes & Cookware 4. Unit C2 Tag 0001931 Sarina Moore: Dell Monitor / Tower, Casio Keyboard & Stand, Suitcase, Double Mattress / Box spring, Phillips CD Player, Misc Wall Hangings, Misc DVD’s / CD’s, Misc Books, Misc Bed sheets, Small Entertainment Center All sales are subject to prior cancellation. Sale rules and regulations are available at the time of sale.

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NOTICE PLEASANTDALE STORAGE OF DORAVILLE , 2370 PLEASANTDALE ROAD, DORAVILLE, GA 30340 SHALL CONDUCT AN ONLINE AUCTION ON STORAGE TREAURES.COM TO CONCLUDE AT 12:30 PM ON MAY 27, 2015 RITA JOHNSON, UNIT 228/229: UNIT IS SAID TO CONTAIN: 2 plant stands, headboard and footboard, 1 Sofas,golfclubs,table,end table, folding table and chairs, suitcases, Christmas decorations, misc. tables, lamppshades,bedrail,chest of drawers, and many boxes.

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HARLAN FIELDS, UNIT D016: UNIT IS SAID TO CONTAIN: 2 helmets, Hecker 625, trailer, laundry basket with clothes, cane, towing security kit.

MICHAEL THOMPSON, UNIT D032: UNIT IS SAID TO CONTAIN: Small sofa bed, love seat, chair and bottom of coffee table 929-253631, 5/10,17 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on May 19th & May 20th the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08464 10860 STATE BRIDGE ROAD. ALPHARETTA GA 30022 (678) 513-8185 May 19th, 2015 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 3014–Swaggard, Nicole 3025–Sir Charwin, Inc. 4009–Bannister, Kwan 6008–Jackson, Neal 6119–Fletcher, Ternia A 6312–Paris, Martin 6443–Portee, Regina ----------------------PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25719 3550 PEACHTREE PKWY. SUWANEE, GA 30024-1031 (678) 513-8185 May 19th , 2015 9:45 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B320–free, john B392–Eskander, Nagwa C570–Wood, Teri D629–SANDERS, MICHAEL --------------------------PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25778 3900 MCGINNIS FERRY RD SUWANEE, GA 30024 (678) 513-8185 May 19th , 2015 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A1005–Bottoms, Chris A1040–Tyler, Aretha A2058–Berry-Hall, Bertina A4058–Moore, Zandra A4083–garner, Patrick B1051–Bermudez, Brooke C1013–Mickens, Charles C1046–HOWELL, WILLIAM -------------------------PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25595 66 OLD PEACHTREE RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 (770) 338-1271 May 19th , 2015 10:15 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 00176–French, Lucius 00203–Sweet, Tracee 00211–Scott, Phyllis 00336–Howell, Nancy 00838–Kennedy, Tara 00840–Ferguson, Kenon Michael 0904–Jennings, Spencer 4006–Green, Lamarr 4026–Watters-Fletcher, Terran 4031–Watters-Fletcher, Terran 4040–Clark,Oxendine & Sauls LP --------------------------PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28158 495 BUFORD DR. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (770) 338-1271 May 19th , 2015 10:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 128–Hernandez, Ismael 130–Hollins, Lorriane 144–White, Ricardo 147–Cofield, Justin 155–Willis, Kyle 322–Neisler, Brandon 404–Walker, Latanya 425–Sykes, Kevin 444B–Tanner, Renee 618–GADLIN, WILEY

All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 3rd day of May and 10th day of May 2015 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

(818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-253025, 5/3,10 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on May 27th, 2015 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28138 3679 McElroy Rd Doraville, GA. 30340 (770) 452-8144 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A002–RIVERA-MERA, SAUL C019–Ancrum, Nelson D001–johnson, arletha D045–Harris, Janice D086–Freeman, Mario F847–Mcnutt, David F865–Ozbey, Jaliesha PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28149 3055 Jones Mill Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30071 (770) 447-9755 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 154–Turner, Karen 238–Pettis, Melinda 410–Bennett, Muneera 411–Heard, Dmarcus 485–Johnson, Antonio 486–Freeman, Adrain 544B–harvey, mark PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29104 3265 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30092 (770) 449-0384 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 3333–Williams, David 3519–Zambezi, Joseph S 3725–Barnett, Keith 4313–Lee, Kyle 4616–Rose, Amia 4627–langley, dionne PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20171 6289 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30071 (770) 416-9275 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A026–WHITE, PHIL A051–Jones, Jakeia A056–Bennett, Macarthur– vehicle B042–Blackburn, Charles B058–JONES, UNITI C030–Porter, Jeremie C054–Lee, Gregory D037–Stringer, Chawanda D046–Mcnease, Marcus D051–Johnson, Lashay

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS E002–Miller, Hans–vehicle E031–Blalock, Terrell E060–thorpe, angela E084–Knight, Kendall E092–Carter, Shareen E141–Davis Jr, Albert E148–ARCHIE, LATICIA F038–Wilson, Neonta PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28150 6770 Dawson Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 448-2130 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A106–Warren, Tyrese B107–MERCADO, JOCELYN B115–Mckinney, Elisha C126–Doerr, Amy C127–Vure, Dumle D117–Douglas, Demeteria D133–SCHACHTEL, NEAL D140–Cornett, Steven G199–Arreguin, April I145–ARNOLD, PETR I189–Hunt, Paul I247–odom, william K242–Watkins, Hiram OS5–phiri, Philip–vehicle NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on May 28th , 2015 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20489 6000 Lawrenceville Hwy. Tucker, GA. 30084 (770) 923-9400 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B016–Quinn, Alshunda B018–Punch, Michelle B023–Williams, Tiffany C009–Curtis, Katrina C047–Horne, Tonya G032–Rey, Danene G072–Haulk, Owen PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08049 5010 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 446-8358 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0105–Stottlemyer, Mark 0223–Ayala, Norman 0334–Palache, Larkland 0417–Spencer, Regina 0602–Carlyle, Chy 0639–Lorick, Lavarius 0704–Brown, Barbara 0710–Harris, Deborah 0741–Murphy, Cloyd 0801–Wallace, Ashley 0811–Lopez, Julie 0822–Benavides, Crystal 1046–Hernandez, Tiffany 1130–Mynes, William 1143–Miller, Ejean 2012–Wells, Rhonda–vehicle PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29135 1755 Indian Trail Rd Norcross, GA. 30093 (678) 924-0203 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1005–Sirmons, Sandra 1206–Jean-Pois, Claude 1246–PIZARRO, RAFAEL 1257–Hardy, Shantanna 1355–Hubbard, Beverly 1358–Atwell, Alterik 2035–Watkins, Trina 2127–IPDA MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 2156–Deveaux, Russell 2169–Rhodes, J.R., Nathaniel 2385–Bryant, Fernando 3082–Brand, Heidi 3171–Vaughan, Andrew 3275–Brisco, Carlos 3419–Lipscomb, Devin 3422–Day, Leslie C001–hough, kasandra C002–Carver, Phyllis E012–GONZALEZ, JORGE E030–Guzman, Johnathan E039–Mapp, Sharon E043–Kendrick, Kim PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 24346 615 Indian Trail Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-0498 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A029–jones, matt A046–HUBBARD, REGINALD A048–Sanders, Derek B008–Daniel, Norris B062–McCampbell, Leon C056–Spears, Renaldo D002–Brisco, Reginald D023–GADSDEN, IRA D025–Moore, Ebony D028–Espinoza, Lucero D030–Bryant, Anthony PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 21901 95 Arcado Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-9211 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A003–Moore, Mary B053–Uresti, Violet B061–Knott, Karl B070–Newell, Anthony B089–Sargent, Rodrick C070–Castillo, Bernardino C076–Dubois, Brian D014–Wiggan, Andrea D029–Johnson, DaShauna D056–Nolley, Doreen E051–Farula, Anthony PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 23106 460 Beaver Ruin Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-1196 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B120–DELGADO, STEVEN B145–RUFFIN, ALICE C154–beher, alex–vehicle D180–Bryant, Jutanza E307–Hatton, Tracie E316–Malone, Michelle E323–Watkins, Tyneshia E333–Coleman, William E359–Johnson, Stacey F383–Bolus, Christina F398–Pearson, Bernadette F409–Edwards, Donna F431–Eckels, Rachel G535–Ray, Meredith All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 10th day of May and 17th day of May 2015 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

(818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-254166, 5/10,17

FORECLOSURES NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding via www.storagetreasures.com on May 27, 2015 at 12:00PM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 3220 Centerville Hwy. Snellville, GA 30039 770.985.4287

The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

H125 – Doi Mbanefo – bags, boxes, linens, mirror J114 – Jannie Lakes – sofa, refrigerator, washer, chairs, table F1068 – Trinis Sanders – CD player, wicker baskets, totes, chair L108 – Kelvin Sellers – chair, bicycle, clothes, shoes, vending machine H121 – Doi Mbanefo – refrigerator, sofa, chair, table, mattresses F1210 – Brenagin Brock – chair, sofa, grill, metal bench D109 – Atlanta Home Care Carpet Pros - sofa, bicycle, vacuum, carpet cleaner, treadmill D109 – Jay Hinton – sofa, bicycle, vacuum, carpet cleaner, treadmill F1023 – Michael Polley – mattress, crock pot, side tables, artificial trees F1093 – April Dalton – sofa, mattresses, printer, TV, lamp I123 – Kenneth Stephens – nightstands, race car bed, metal bunk bed I103 – Yasmeen Young – mattresses, sofa, clothes, totes, lamp J149 – Elizabeth Blackwell – sofa, loveseat N115 – Thomas Colley – tools, paint sprayer, saw, construction material Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-254102, 5/10,17

GARAGE SALES

LOST & FOUND PETS

DRYER/WASHER $125 ea.; Super Capacity $175 ea.

Front Loader Set $450 & up; Regular Refrig. & Ranges $175 & up; SXS Refrig. $300 & up.

Dishwasher $100 & up.

Different colors. Del/ warr. Tim 404-205-2222 FURNITURE/ HOUSEHOLD GOODS BED QUEEN PILLOW TOP MATTRESS Set-NEW-still in plastic.

Can Deliver. $200.00 706-347-4814

LOST DOG Senior Male German Shepard HiHope rd 5/2/15 Needs DAILY MEDS! missed by his owner. Any info 678-923-7986

ITEMS FOR SALE: Corner Desk $40, 2 Piece Desk w/Hutch $55, Entertainment Ctr. $65, Dining Table $35, Loveseat w/cover $45, Meadowbrook Horse Cart $950, Hoyer Lift-up to 500 lbs. $550. 678-860-7701

VEHICLES

CHRYSLER 200, 2014 Bright White Clearcoat, Stk#8215 $14,950 877-698-5030

HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2013 Alabaster Silver Metallic, Stk#8271 $15,950 877-698-5030

LEXUS ES 350, 2012 Satin Cashmere, Stk#U40404 $28,990 770-680-1000

DODGE RAM, 2004 2500 HD 4x4, 18k mi. single cab, vinyl int.

Long bed tow package, work truck. $13,000 770-490-3265

HONDA CR-V LX FWD, 2013 Alabaster Silver, Stk#EBB60145A $20,351 800-PREOWNED

LOST DOG Senior Male German Shepard HiHope rd 5/2/15 Needs DAILY MEDS! missed by his owner. Any info 678-923-7986 LOST DOG: Blond Pomeranian/ Terrier mix. Male with lots of energy! Went missing in Dacula near Ewing Chapel and Brooks roads. Please call 770-318-3871.

ACURA TSX SEDAN, 2010 Palladium Metallic, Stk#530011A $16,950 877-698-5030

BMW Z3 ROADSTER, 1998. Dark blue w/tan interior, low miles, good condition, new tires. $7500 OBO. Call 770-868-9070.

BUICK CENTURY CUSTOM, 2002. A-1 condition, 1 OWNER, 144K miles, very clean in/out, garage kept, everything works. Only $3,350. 678-200-0812

BUICK PARK AVE, 2001 ULTA. $3500.

Owned by 85 year old man who babied it.

WOOOOOOOOOW. Very rare sought after Buick. Driven 9K per year. Has supercharger and runs fantastic.

Beautiful pearl paint with tan leather. The nicest you will ever find. Only one for sale in 500 miles & all are selling from $5K-$7K. 770-899-5856

FORD C-MAX SEL FWD HATCHBACK, 2013 Ruby Red, Stk#P7593 $17,999 800-PREOWNED

FORD ESCAPE S, 2013 Tuxedo Black, Stk#P7521A $15,814 800-PREOWNED

FORD F-150, 1999 Long bed, Triton V-8, CNG, single cab.

Needs transmission & fuel lines fixed.

Must sell! $1000.

770-490-3265

FORD FIESTA SE FWD, 2014 Race Red, Stk#P7629 $12,503 800-PREOWNED

CHEVROLET CHEVELLE 350 MALIBU, 1970 4 door, restored, RARE Vehicle, New Condition. $15,000 OBO. 770-967-0751 FORD FOCUS SE, 2013 Sterling Grey, Stk#FUB77883A $10,493 800-PREOWNED

CHEVROLET CRUZE LS, 2012 Silver Ice, Stk#FC238500A $11,800 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

FORD FOCUS, 2012 Silver, Stk#8211A $13,550 877-698-5030

TOOLS & EQUIPMENT LAWNMOWER, 50” Troy Bilt Zero Turn Mower 23 HP Briggs and Stratton; Excellent condition; Garage kept. $1,500. 706-207-7753

CHEVROLET CRUZE, 2011 Silver Ice Metallic, Stk#520193A $10,550 877-698-5030

HONDA RIDGELINE RT 4X4, 2008 Formal Black, Stk#550163A $15,498 877-698-5030

HYUNDAI ELANTRA GLS RWD, 2013 Black, Stk#F5379810A $13,992 800-PREOWNED

DOGS

CHEVROLET IMPALA, 2010. Great car at super low price. $6400.

Looks and runs great.

Red with black interior.

Great CarFax, no accidents. 3.5 V6. Flex fuel.

114K hwy. miles, priced way under the market.

Call 770-895-7161

DODGE RAM 1500 SLT, 2006. short bed with 4.7L V-8, automatic.

All SLT options. Excellent, near mechanically perfect. $8900.

770-335-9516

LEXUS GS 350, 2013 Starfire Pearl, Stk#U40438 $39,990 770-680-1000

LEXUS IS 250, 2012 Starfire Pearl, Stk#U40421 $27,990 770-680-1000 JEEP PATRIOT LATITUDE, 2014 Silver, Stk#P7603 $16,594 800-PREOWNED

KIA AMANTI, 2005, Look Like New, Runs Great!

Maintenance Records Available. Very Well Maintained. 4 Door With Leather Interior. Side, Front And Rear Airbags.

Heated Seats, Center Console, V6.Tires Are Almost New. $3400.

678-549-0051

LAND ROVER DISCOVERY SE, 2003.

2 Owner fabulous 4WD babied beauty.

Rare burgundy with black leather. This is as nice as you can find. It spent all its life in this area and was not off roaded. 141K miles.

Exceptional in every way. 0 Accidents and great CarFax with the highest score possible only $5800.

Call 770-873-2627

LEXUS IS 250, 2013 Starfire Pearl, Stk#U40364 $29,990 770-680-1000

LEXUS RX 350, 2012 Nebula Gray Pearl, Stk#U40384 $33,990 770-680-1000

LEXUS RX 350, 2013 Silver Lining Metallic, Stk#U40389 $37,990 770-680-1000

MERCEDES BENZ 500 SEL, 1985.

Runs & looks good.

Asking $2750.

Call 404-354-8363 or 404-416-5589

HONDA ACCORD SEDAN, 2012 Polished Metal Metallic, Stk#540064A $14,950 877-698-5030

LEXUS CT 200H, 2014 Stk#G141073L $28,990 770-680-1000

CHRYSLER 200 TOURING SEDAN, 2013 Tungsten, Stk#P4844 $13,500 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place SHIH TZU PUPPIES 2 Females & 2 Males BORN 04/06/15. Ready 06/06/15. AKC, CKC Registered Litter. First puppy shots. Deposit $300 to hold w/Signed Puppy Sale Agreement.

Balance due at time of Pick-up. CASH ONLY. Call 678-633-1305

LEXUS ES 350, 2014 Starfire Pearl, Stk#G141050L $36,990 770-680-1000

JEEP COMPASS SPORT SUV, 2014 Dark Blue, Stk#P4838 $16,900 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

FORD MUSTANG DELUXE, 2014 Sterling Grey, Stk#P7626 $21,999 800-PREOWNED

PETS/LIVESTOCK

DOBERMAN PINSCHERS Gorgeous AKC registered Doberman Pinscher for sale. All black and tan, male and female available. Tails docked and dew claws removed, will come with their registration papers and first set of vaccinations. If wanted ears cropped and full set of vaccinations call for more information and pricing. Parents on site when viewing puppies.

Call for more information and pictures.

678-749-0726

LEXUS ES 350, 2013 Starfire Pearl, Stk#U40420 $36,990 770-680-1000

VEHICLES

DINING SET Dining Set: Solid Pine Wood (Distressed Look); Table 67L x 35W x 30H; 6 Side Chairs (Cushioned); Good Condition; $350.00 MISC. FOR SALE

VEHICLES

LOST CHIHUAHUAmale, white w/tan.

Painted green toenails in Snellville area, 1800 North Rd. Call 770-5728202

LAWRENCEVILLE Large Community Yard Sale Sat. 5/16, 8am-2pm. Chandler Pond Subd., near Collins Hill Library.

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VEHICLES

HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2011 Crystal Black Pearl, Stk#540303A $11,550 877-698-5030

LEXUS ES 350, 2011 Matador Red Mica, Stk#U40434 $24,990 770-680-1000

MERCEDES BENZ E320, 2001 7 PASSENGER STATION WAGON. Great example of a super rare and desirable Mercedes. 7 passenger station wagon gorgeous silver with excellent grey leather interior. Driven 9K per year. Only 2 for sale in 500 miles. Great body and interior and runs great. Mercedes luxury and low price. $4700.

770-895-7161 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS LS, ‘99, Same as a 2007. 100K mi, like new, loaded, leather, like new tires/ wheels, garage kept. $3,895. 770-616-7399

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NISSAN ROGUE S SUV, 2013 Brilliant Silver, Stk#P4766 $17,300 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

TOYOTA SOLARA SLE, 2005 CONVERTIBLE. $8400. Super desirable and runs great. Beautiful black with excellent black top. Gray leather interior. Has great CarFax. Driven 10K per year.

Priced way under the market. Avg. price on autotrader is $10,400.

Very desirable reliable car at bargain price.

Call 770-873-2627

NISSAN SENTRA SV SEDAN, 2014 Amethyst Gray, Stk#P4832 $14,900 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

NISSAN ALTIMA S FWD, 2014 Super Black, Stk#FUB36081A $17,991 800-PREOWNED

NISSAN FRONTIER S TRUCK, 2014 Brilliant Silver, Stk#FN702781B $16,995 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

NISSAN ALTIMA S, 2014 Super Black, Stk#FUB36081A $17,991 800-PREOWNED

NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S SEDAN, 2015 Super Black, Stk#P4745 $16,500 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS CIERA, 1994, 4 dr., low miles, one owner, still runs in good shape for a 21 year old car. Classic car would be good local work car or excellent for rebuilding or parts. $700. 770-335-6490

TOYOTA YARIS, 2013 Black Sand Pearl, Stk#8238 $12,498 877-698-5030

VEHICLES

NISSAN PATHFINDER SE, 2007 Graphite, Stk#FC102804A $12,500 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

TOYOTA MR2 SPYDER, 2002 CONVERTIBLE. $5,500. Super desirable sports car unmatched by any other convertible on the road. MID engine great handling car that gets 37 mpg. Babied beauty that has a great CarFax. 132K miles.

Black with tan leather and top. Very rare car that averages over $7,800 in AutoTrader.

Should appreciate greatly in price.

770-882-4605

TOYOTA SIENNA, 2003, 7 PASSENGER VAN. This hard to find van is beautiful inside and out. It has been driven careful and maintained. Driven 10K per year. Excellent gold with tan interior. Has power sliding door, many options and is exceptional. V6 should last a family for many miles. Very reliable and sought after.

Only $4500.

Call 770-899-5856

YAMAHA VINO SCOOTER, 50CC, 2011, no license or registration. Ideal for the college student around campus. Only 300 miles. Includes 2 helmets, basket, manual, cable and lock. $1400. 770-363-0791

UTILITY WENCH 4X4, 8500 lb.

Hand held remote, 94 ft. cable. $400 OBO. Call 678-618-5521.

BOAT MOTOR & TRAILER 15.5 Ft. Deep V-Hull, Good Fishing, 35HP Motor - Many Extras! $1200 Cash 404-697-7605 or 678-546-4637

HOT NEW LISTING! PEMCO-HUD HOME #105-712353

10 ACRES Wooded With Large Oak & Pine Trees.

882 Foot Of River Frontage.

404-313-1188

LAND FOR SALE: · OGLETHORPE CO. 57.56 Ac.+/-, $2090/ac. Good wood, long road frontage. Creek. · GREENE CO. 59.58 Ac.+/-, $1855/ac. Branch, Creek all site prep with planted pines long rd. frt. · GREENE CO. 290Ac.+/-. $1980/ ac. Creek, all site prep with planted pines 5000’ paved rd. frt. · GREENE CO. 62 Ac+/- $4345/ ac Long Hwy 15 Frntg, Greensboro Nat gas at site, Topo available · MADISON CO. 284 Ac.+/- $2950/ ac Nice Lake, 20yr Planted pines, 5000 ft. paved rd. frt.

CALL J.R. Smith with Southern Land Exchange Cell – 706.207.0152 or Office – 706.549.5050 MAYSVILLE, GA 81 ACRES, Dry Pond Exit, 2500 ft. paved road frontage, creek & spring head. $5600/ac.

OBO. 770-354-7589

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UNDER CONTRACT! OFORI HUD HOME CASE # 105-345663 Adorable 3BR/2BA Ranch With Split Bedroom Plan With Pond In Back Yard $116,000 INSURABLE W/ ESCROW. EHO. Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

LAKE/RIVER/COASTAL PROPERTY FOR SALE

121 S. Sugar Creek Rd. 3BR/2BA on 2.7 acre in the lake Oconee area w/wrap around front porch. $110,000 EHO. Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com EATONTON, GA 31024

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1763 Miller Springs Dr BOATS/MOTORS

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By Curt Yeomans

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BUFORD — Gwinnett County pumps about 33 million gallons of clean, treated water into to Lake Lanier every day.

It is water that has been used in homes and businesses in the county. Although it originally came from Lake Lanier, it has been through a lot in its trip to residents’ homes. It has been used as toilet water and drinking water. People have bathed in it. It has even been used to wash bacteria off food slated for consumption.

It is not clean water by the time it comes back to the 700-acre F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment Center in Buford. After a long process, however, it is clear and bacteria free by the time pipes funnel it back into the lake it originally came from.

“That is whole reason this plant is here, to return water — high quality, reusable water — to the lake,” Gwinnett County Water Resources Deputy Director for Facilities Jeff Boss said Gwinnett County has invested nearly $1 billion over the last 18 years to make sure the Hill plant is capable of putting clean water back into Lake Lanier. The lake is the primary water source for much of the county with 65 millions gallons removed from it each day.

“We have no easy alternatives,” Boss said. “We can’t really take water out of the Chattahoochee River. We can’t take water from the Tennessee River. The Savannah River, the Atlantic Ocean is too far and local reservoirs — we use a lot of water and a local reservoir would have to be huge to service Gwinnett County.

“Basically, we have no alternatives except to take water from Lake Lanier,” he said.

A ‘world wide example’ for treating and reusing water The facility processes more than 50 percent of the water used in Gwinnett, and it began pumping purified water back into the lake in 2010.

While it pulls about 65 million gallons of water from the lake each day, that amount is offset by the 33 million gallons of purified, used water it pumps back into it at the same time. The net

Water Resources Facilities Deputy Director Jeffrey Boss describes the process happening inside the screening and grit removal building at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment facility in Buford on Thursday. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

Water Resources Facilities Deputy Director Jeffrey Boss holds up a beaker of fresh water at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment facility in Buford on Thursday.

The water in the beaker is a sample of what is released back into Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River from the plant.

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result is about 32 million gallons out of Lanier on any given day because of Gwinnett County.

Lake Lanier Association Executive Director Joanna Cloud said Gwinnett County is one of several counties, including Hall and Forsyth, which pulls water from the lake. She considers Gwinnett the leader in terms of how it puts water back into Lanier.

“I think they set a world wide example on how

to treat and reuse water,” Cloud said. “We have other counties that pull water from Lake Lanier, and we point them to Gwinnett and say, ‘This is an example of what you can do.’”

Boss said the facility is permitted to pump up to 40 million gallons of water into Lake Lanier and another 20 million gallons into the See WATER, Page 6C

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Gwinnett schools earn state technology awards Four Gwinnett schools qualified to compete at the national level after they won the Georgia competition of the Technology Student Association.

Student teams from Parkview, Grayson, Collins Hill, and the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology were recognized. Parkview was named the top chapter in the state.

The competitions included software, fashion and tech bowl, and many of the winners will go on to compete at the national conference in Grapevine, Texas, June 28 to July 2.

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nationally as a SkillsUSA Models of Excellence recipient.

Chapter representatives will participate in the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Ky., June 22-26.

Activities include Models of Excellence Keith Farner finalist interviews, an awards dinner at the Maxwell SkillsUSA Kentucky Derby Museum, chapter among and recognition during tops in state the Awards Ceremony in The SkillsUSA chapter front of more than 50,000 at Maxwell High School SkillsUSA members and of Technology was reguests. The chapter is also cently named among the the recipient of a $2,000 top 24 SkillsUSA chapters award grant from program

sponsor Lowe’s.

“The Models of Excellence program represents the very best in chapter achievement and community involvement,” said Tim Lawrence, Executive Director of SkillsUSA. “The Maxwell High School of Technology chapter defines excellence across the board, serving as a model for other chapters to emulate in strengthening their local programs. Students impacted by a quality chapter not only represent our future workforce, they reflect the future of the communities in which

they reside.”

are prize giveaways.

The school offers lesLawrenceville-Suwanee sons in voice/singing, School of Music piano, guitar, ukulele, Open House violin, guitar, flute and A ribbon-cutting and bass guitar for 4-yearopen house is scheduled olds to adult. The school for 6 p.m. on Saturday, is located at 2001 Lawwhile from 10 a.m. to renceville-Suwanee Road 2 p.m. the same day in Suwanee. students will hold their The facility will offer own ceremony to celfree trial music lessons ebrate the opening of the throughout the day. For Lawrenceville-Suwanee more information, visit School of Music. www.lawrencevillesuThe ceremony will waneeschoolofmusic.com. include inflatables, free Keith Farner writes face painting, free chair about education. Good massages, free pizza, News from Schools apchicken and drinks. Live pears in the Sunday edimusic is also scheduled as tion of the Daily Post.

GWINNETT GAB Mall of Georgia to host Kidgits Lil Chefs event

Shane’s Rib Shacks to hold Rib Giveaway

it organization each time an Atlanta Braves pitcher strikes out an opponent.

The 2015 recipient of Mall of Georgia will In honor of National the Bring the Heat camhost its annual Simon Barbecue Month and as a paign fund is The Salvation Kidgits Club Lil Chefs thank you to loyal custom- Army of Metro Atlanta, event, helping families ers, Shane’s Rib Shack will which is celebrating 125 build their culinary skills hold its seventh annual Rib years of “Doing the Most while giving back to the Giveaway Saturday, May Good” in Atlanta this year. community on Saturday, 16.

Last season, the Atlanta May 16.

The first 100 patrons at Braves pitchers recorded The event will be held participating locations will 1,301 strikeouts, resultfrom 1 to 3 p.m. in the receive a free half rack of ing in $32,525 raised for Mountain Court at the slow-cooked baby back Atlanta area nonprofits.

Mall of Georgia, 3333 ribs, a 20 oz. beverage and Gas South, the official Buford Drive in Buspecial edition Rib Givenatural gas provider and ford. Young foodies can away T-shirt. sponsor of the Atlanta participate in a variety of For more information Braves, has contributed family-friendly activior to find participating $235,525 to nonprofit orties, including cooking Gwinnett locations, visit ganizations since the camdemonstrations, prize shanesribshack.com. paign’s inception in 2008. giveaways and more. AtFor more information, tendees are also encour- Gas South to visit gas-south.com. aged to help those in Gwinnett Gab appears donate for Atlanta in the Thursday and Sunneed by bringing a nonperishable food item to Braves strikeouts day editions of the Gwinbe donated to local food nett Daily Post. To submit For the fifth straight banks. an item to Gwinnett Gab, For more information, year, Gas South will doemail gab@gwinnettdailyvisit mallofgeorgia.com. nate $25 to a local nonprof- post.com.

South Gwinnett student Sadrac Desert speaks to a crowd on Wednesday night at the end-of-the-year celebration dinner for the Community-Based Mentoring Program at the Gwinnett County Public Schools district cafeteria in Suwanee. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Gwinnett County mentoring program for black youths celebrates success at banquet

By Keith Farner

said the program, in its seventh year, which started with 37 students and 53 SUWANEE — They mentors, now counts 425 saluted the mentees whom students and 170 mentors. they vow will not be a sta- Figures from last year said tistic, who will not show 28 percent of students in up on the nightly news, the program had perfect and who could one day be attendance, and 44 percent a school principal. had less than three abThe statistics splashed sences. on a screen during a banThe message is clear, quet Wednesday night at Rayford said. an end-of-the-year celebra“Hey, you can be suction of the Communitycessful in school despite Based Mentoring Program of what you’re going were positive, and trumthrough,” he said. peted academic success.

The program also anThirty-six percent were nounced two $500 college involved in zero incidents scholarships, including and another 24 percent the first recipient, Dumbi were involved in one to Ogwu of Berkmar, who three incidents last school has a 3.2 grade-point averyear. The program, which age and has been accepted serves African-American to Georgia State Universiboys, reported that 77 ty. The other recipient has percent of the students not been announced yet. involved in the program Another proud student, passed all four core acaSadrac Desert of South demic subjects.

Gwinnett High, said he The program is designed was unsure of the program to build relationships that when he first heard about help make responsible it — other than free food decisions and curb risky and field trips. But things behaviors like skipping changed when he gave school or using drugs.

Rayford a firm handshake, James Rayford, director and later when he earned of the department of acathe best grades of his life demic support at Gwinnett as a high school sophoCounty Public Schools, more.

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He also praised his mentor, Darren Providence.

“When I had no father to lean to, or even when I was driving my mom crazy, or when my grades were terrible, he was someone I could turn to,” Desert said.

As for the program, Desert said it made a difference in his life and, “It changed me to be a better man for my momma and for myself.”

The dinner, which filled the cafeteria inside the district office with families, administrators and district leaders, included comments from CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks and Bishop William L. Sheals, Pastor of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Norcross.

Sheals said that the mentors selected the mentees because they sensed that their mentees had potential, and therefore has a reason to give them hope.

“Young men, mentees,” Sheals said, “you must receive this hope that has been poured into you by your mentors and be grateful for it, but do something with it, which means you must have drive.”

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Tuesday Big daddy’s pizza; black bean empanadas; deli fresh subs; PBJ’wich; mellow yellow corn; farm fresh produce Wednesday Mozzarella sticks; oven roasted chicken; vegetarian burger; signature salads; PBJ’wich; roasted zucchini; farm fresh produce Thursday Seasoned baked wings; old world lasagna; lasagna marinara; deli fresh subs; PBJ’wich; local green beans; farm fresh produce Friday Pancakes and sausage; poppin’ shrimp poppers; yogurt basket; pinwheels; PBJ’wich; hashbrown sticks; farm fresh produce

MIDDLE SCHOOL Tuesday Spicy chicken sammie; calzone dippers; vegetarian burger; deli fresh subs; signature salads; PBJ’wich; farm fresh produce Wednesday Oven breaded chicken; mini corn dogs; cheese quesadilla; homestyle sammies; signature salads; PBJ’wich; farm fresh produce Thursday Tex-mex nachos; country style steak sammie; mexi bean pizza; wrap n’ roll wraps; signature salads; PBJ’wich; farm fresh produce Friday Chicken & waffles; catch of the day; yogurt muffin basket; deli fresh subs; signature salads; PBJ’wich; farm fresh produce

HIGH SCHOOL Tuesday Chicken tenders; big daddy’s pizza; Gwinnett’s best burger; empanadas; deli fresh subs; signature salad; fiesta burrito Wednesday Oven roasted chicken; stuffed crust pizza; ultimate hot dog bar; vegetarian burger; wrap n’ roll wraps; signature salad; quesadilla pizza Thursday Speciality flatbreads, big daddy’s pizza; Asian wings; cheesy grilled cheese, deli fresh subs; signature salad; Asian rice bowl Friday Brunch 4 lunch; big daddy’s pizza; seafood basket; black bean burger; homestyle sammie; signature salad; cuban sub

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family record ENGAGEMENTS

Vasilakos — Leadingham Peter and Cynthia Vasilakos of Coshocton, Ohio, announce the engagement of their daughter, Dr. Katherine Vasilakos of New Bern, N.C., to Robert Leadingham of New Bern, son of Paul and Lori Leadingham of Dacula.

The bride-elect is a graduate of Ohio Northern University. She is employed as the pharmacist in charge at New Bern Walmart.

The future groom is a graduate of University of Katherine Vasilakos and Robert Leadingham Georgia. He is currently Station Cherry Point, serving in the United April 11 at Saint Paul’s N.C. States Marine Corps Catholic Church in New The wedding was held Bern. aboard Marine Corps Air

Griffin — Bell

Emily Griffin and Chandler Bell

Phillip and Amber Griffin of Snellville announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Griffin of Athens, to Chandler Bell of Athens, son of Stacey and Lisa Bell of Fitzgerald.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Michael and Dee Dameron of Summerfield, Fla., and Leonard and Phyllis Griffin of Athens. She is a graduate of Brookwood High School and is expected to graduate from University of Georgia in May with a degree in social studies education.

The future groom is the grandson of Lee and Francis Stanley of Blue Ridge and Darrell Bell of Hawkinsville, and the late Emmitt Bell. He is a graduate of Worth County High School and is expected to graduate from University of Georgia in May with a degree in social studies education.

The wedding is planned for July 18 in Washington, Ga.

Audrey Stanek and Anthony Carter

Stanek — Carter Thomas and Barbara Stanek of Ottumwa, Iowa, announce the engagement of their daughter, Audrey Stanek of Lilburn, to Anthony Carter of Lilburn, son of Kay Correll and Scott Carter of Lilburn.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Jim and Mary Moffitt of Eagle Grove, Iowa. She

is a 2007 graduate of Ottumwa High School and a 2011 graduate of St. Ambrose University.

The future groom is the grandson of Joan Correll of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Johnny and Harriet Carter of Decatur.

He is a 2004 graduate of Parkview High School.

The wedding is planned for Nov. 11 in Norcross.

VOLUNTEER

OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK HUDGENS CENTER

The Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth is in need of volunteers to work events that are just on the horizon including: • Highlights of The Hudgens – Donor Cultivation Evening on May 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. Four volunteers are needed — they must be at least 21-years-old and come dressed business or business casual. Duties include greeting guests and visitors, setting up, serving and restocking food and drinks, directing guests to different parts of the building, assisting staff and helping with post-event

clean-up.

• Artist Talks held on Saturday, May 16 and 30, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. One volunteer position, ideal for a high school students, is available for each event. They should come dressed in business or business casual.

Duties include greeting visitors and directing them to the event location inside building.

For more information, contact The Hudgens Center for the Arts at 770-623-6002.

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Finding royal treatment for thin skin The first time I heard the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” I just knew I had been switched at birth. I bruise so easily that I knew that if I slept on 20 mattresses with a pea slipped underneath them that I would wake up totally black and blue. I just had to have been born of royal blood. But while fantasizing about being a princess may add a little levity to dealing with my delicate dermatological condition, I still would rather have been born with tougher skin.

What’s most frustrating

I was able to pinpoint the cause and effect. My husband was concerned about the sudden appearance of two levels of black and blue stripes on my thighs and little blue dots on my arms. When I stopped to think about it, I realized that the stripes were the Susan result of bumping into Larson the little tables and chairs and the blue dots were is that I bruise so easily, mementos of the little most of the time I have no kids poking me with their idea how it happened. Now fingers, crying, “Teacher, there was the time about teacher,” to get my atten10 years ago that I took a tion. But other than that, long term subbing position most of my bruises are in a kindergarten class and mystery marks.

Now it wouldn’t bother me that much if my husband were the only one who noticed.

But, no. Total strangers, store clerks, cashiers, people standing behind me in line feel like it’s their business to know the story behind my bruises.

And what I really hate is when I walk into the gym and someone from clear across the room shouts, “Susan, how did you you get that huge black and blue mark?” causing every one in the room to drop their dumbbells and pivot towards me.

My daughter: One of my favorite moms Over the years, I’ve used this space on Mother’s Day to sing the praises of mothers in general and a few mothers in particular, like my wife and step-mother.

Today I hope you’ll indulge me as I pay tribute to my newest favorite mom: my daughter Jenny, who is expecting her second child in July.

Longtime readers no doubt remember when I used to write about Jenny’s teenage exploits.

Now you’re hearing that she’s a soon-tobe mother of two, and you’re probably wondering, “Where did the time go?”

Tell me about it. The only consolation is that there are few things in life more satisfying than seeing your kids grow up to be well-adjusted, productive adults.

And by the way, one of those things is becoming a grandparent, which is generally a result of the above — ideally, at

She struggled for several years to sustain a pregnancy; there was a time when she and Ben feared they might not be able to have children at all.

You can read about their journey on her blog, Peachesandpotatoes.

Rob blogspot.com (so named Jenkins because she’s from Georgia and he’s from Idaho). least.

I’ll warn you in In any case, I’m happy advance that you probto report, for those of ably won’t be able to get you who have followed through a post without her life all these years, tearing up. Jenny is a that Jenny has indeed wonderful writer, chronigrown up to be a remark- cling their struggles with able young woman. She admirable grace and graduated from college candor. Here’s a brief with honors and held excerpt from her latest a top job in her field installment, in which she for several years while writes about her second her husband finished pregnancy: his schooling. Now she “I know well enough stays home with their that not all pregnancies little boy, who will be end with healthy babies. welcoming a sister soon. I’ve lost three. But just Ever since she was a like I did with Caleb, toddler, Jenny has want- I’ve tried not to fear ed to be a “mommy,” what I can’t control and and I’m grateful she instead trust in God’s finally has that chance. plan. Every day and

Mother’s Day is a special day set aside for loving and honoring our Mothers, but for those who have lost their Moms, it can be a difficult day and painful reminder of her absence.

There are still ways to honor her even though she may be gone from sight.

You might put together a photo album, or a scrapbook of treasured memories.

You could plant a flower, bush, or tree that might bloom annually around Mother’s Day.

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Donations to charities to whose causes she may have related would be welcomed.

Recognizing other women in your life who have been special to you a grandmother, favorite aunt, a friend’s mother, a lonely widow a card for “one like a mother to me” may make their and your Mother’s Day special again.

As difficult as the day can be, giving thanks for the years you had her and the treasured memories you have of her may just be the most comforting way for you to spend the day.

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week and month that this baby continues to grow inside of me is a miracle and a gift.”

I, too, know well enough that not all women are fortunate enough to be mothers or to be able to raise their children in an ideal environment. But I am concerned that our society seems to be devaluing motherhood — that our best and brightest young women are more focused on their careers than on marriage and family.

I hope at some point they’ll come to realize that, as the poet Walt Whitman said, there is nothing greater than to be a mother. And if anyone has any doubts about that, they should read my daughter’s blog.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and the author of “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less and on Amazon.

Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter @ FamilyManRob.

Of course, there are things I can do about it. I can stay home. I can wear a full body suit at all times and in all places. I’ve even thought about taking a blue marker and outlining my bruises to look like an eagle or a dragon or whatever animal the shape might suggest. That would keep all the strangers quiet. They would just think it was a tattoo — most of which, as far as I’m concerned, look like black and blue marks anyway — and ignore me.

But then there are my friends and people who

know me well. They would be the ones to yell across the room, “Susan, I can’t believe you got a tattoo!”

But then, I just thought of another alternative.

I could have a T-shirt made with a picture of a princess sleeping on top of twenty mattresses with the words, “If you want to know, I slept on a pea.”

Hmm. I wonder. If I had a bunch of them made, would they sell?

Susan Larson is a writer from Lilburn. Email her at susanlarson79@gmail. com.

PET OF THE WEEK

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

Lily is just over a year old — she is a small brown and orange domestic shorthair/mix.

Beautiful young Lily, not much more than a teenager herself, came to us from Cleveland, Ga., expecting kittens. Sadly, her entire litter died, one by one, shortly after birth. Lily is pretty lonely and hoping for a forever home with extra love and attention. This sweet girl is just waiting to go home with you.

Come see Lily at the GA SPCA shelter and let her show you how exceptional she is. Our cat adoption fee includes spay/neuter surgery, disease testing for FeLV and FIV, age-appropriate vaccinations, deworming, flea/tick prevention, heartworm prevention, microchipping, and 30 days of pet insurance.

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City by City is a weekly look at the happenings in the places you call home

AUBURN Auburn Public Library hosting ‘Meet The Candidates’ event Residents will come face-to-face with Auburn City Council special election candidates at the city’s library on May 18.

The library will host a “Meet The Candidates” event from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. REsidents who attend the event will have a chance to question the office seekers about their backgrounds and stances on city issues. Library staff will serve refreshments.

The council candidates are Richard Dell, Jay Riemenschneider, and Jon Swift.

The Auburn Public Library is located at 24 Fifth St. The special election will be held June 16 at Midway United Methodist Church, 215 Kilcrease Road, in Auburn. the Advanced Voting period will run from May 26-June 12 at the Barrow County Elections Office, 233 East Broad St. in Winder. The office will be open for voting from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day.

BARROW COUNTY High-ranking deputies attend statewide safety, leadership training The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office announced some of its deputies participated in a Georgia Sheriffs’ Association training program on highway safety and leadship in late April.

Col. Mike Hamm, Capt.

Robert White, Capt.

Vince Henderson, Capt.

Matt Guthas, and Lt. Ryan Sears represented the office at the training, which was held as part of the association’s 2015 Command Staff Training Conference in Chatham County. They were among more than 200 sheriffs, chief deputies and high-ranking command officers who attended the session.

BERKELEY LAKE Elementary boasts 100 percent staff joining PTA Berkeley Lake Elementary recently received an award from the Area II Gwinnett County Council PTA for 100 percent of its staff joining the Parent Teacher Association at the beginning of the year. The Berkeley Lake PTA is still looking for members and volunteers to be a part of it.

It’s also looking for a secretary to serve on the PTA Executive Board. Contact Principal Susan Bearse for more information.

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Corners last week for a meeting on the Community Oriented Policing Services program, which aims to spawn greater relationships with authorities and the public.

In Peachtree Corners, 27 neighborhoods support the program; many were on hand for the annual meeting held at Christ the King Church. The event was sponsored by the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association.

“The Peachtree Corners community is very supportive of the program,” said Gwinnett County Police Department Officer Shane Kelly, according to a news release. “And we have three more neighborhoods in the pipeline to join the program.”

For more information on the COPS program, contact Kelly via email at shane.kelly@gwinnettcounty.com.

Gwinnett County’s newest paramedics line up for a photo in front of a fire truck on April 30 before their graduation ceremony at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. (Special Photo)

Gwinnett fire department welcomes 19 new paramedics

By Curt Yeomans

community colleges.

“We are extremely proud of all of you,” fire Chief Casey Snyder Gwinnett County has 19 told the graduates. freshly-minted paramedics to The paramedics graduating help residents with medical from the academy included Alex emergencies.

Armstrong, Matt Broom, Steve The new emergency mediCaron, Jamie Cote, Luke Cown, cal technicians joined Gwinnett T.J. Crowe, Jace Kaigler, Will County Fire and Emergency Ser- Kinard, Corey Olson, Brian vices existing paramedic ranks O’Shea, Zachary Phillips, Kevin on April 30 during a graduation Reinertson, Adrian Rusch, Adam ceremony at the Gwinnett JusSwindler, Anthony Weatherford, tice and Administration Center Whitney Westbrooks and Taylor in Lawrenceville.

Wirthman.

They include 17 paramedics The two personnel who comwho graduated from the fire de- pleted programs at community partment’s training academy, and colleges were Jeff Helzerman two fire department personnel and Jason Turgeon. who graduated from programs at The academy class began curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

bubbles, how to make the perfect bubble solution and experience on bubbles of all sizes. On May 19, a variety of card, dice and board games will be available, and students can create their own board game. Classes meet in the lab from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, contact the EHC at 770904-3500.

follows a robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who forms a superhero team to combat a masked villain. The event runs each Friday through September with a variety of movies, and food trucks will be available in June.

their lessons at the county’s fire training academy last September, and completed their coursework last month. The academy graduates spent more than 1,120 hours learning about trauma care, pregnancy labor and delivery, general medical care, and how to treat geriatric and psychiatric patients.

They worked with emergency room doctors and nurses and learned about hospital and ambulance clinical rotations as well.

Fire department officials said the class had a 100-percent firstattempt passing rate on the National Registry’s computer-based testing, compared to national average of about 70 percent.

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Fans who submitted that name will receive emails with details about their prize, which is four upgraded tickets to a show and a horseshoe.

LILBURN Farmers market gets grant The Lilburn Farmers Market has received an $8,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. The funds will support the farmers market incentive programs with Wholesome Wave and The My Market Club and for community coaching to provide marketing support, according to a news release.

As a result the market will be able to match Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars spent and offer shoppers rewards.

“After serving the greater Lilburn community for the past 5 years, the Lilburn Farmers Market is proud to partner with these outstanding organizations to reach out to new potential customers and continue to bring locally grown and produced products to our area,” said Mandy McManus, Lilburn Farmers Market manager.

Lilburn Farmers Market is a seasonal produceronly market located at 1400 Killian Hill Road, operating every Friday night in June, July and August.

Visit www.lilburnfarmersmarket.org for more information.

GRAYSON Grayson Farmer’s Market set to open in June Fans of fresh produce DACULA have a chance to get their Residents encouraged to filling at the Grayson Farmrecycle ers Market, which will open Dacula officials urged on June 3 for the 2015 residents last week to take season. advantage of recycling opThe market will be open portunities in the city. every Wednesday until Residents pay for single- October. Residents can BRASELTON sort recycling as part of visit Grayson Community Movie series starts the sanitation fee which Park between 3:30 p.m.

Walt Disney’s animated shows up on their tax bills and 8 p.m. to check out superhero action comedy, and recycling containers the foods and other items “Big Hero 6,” kicks off the can be picked up city hall, available for purchase. movies under the Bra442 Harbins Road. There The variety of items which selton stars for the 2015 is no fee for the containers, can be found at the market series. the city announced on its ranges from fresh proThe movie will be website. duce, to jams, jellies and featured on Saturday, May The city will accept honey, to fresh-cut flowers, 16 in the Braselton Park the following items for to handmade soaps and at dusk. The Academy recycling: newspapers, baskets.

Award-winning movie is newspaper inserts, magarated PGr and runs 102 zines, catalogs, junk mail, LAWRENCEVILLE minutes. The familiar voic- envelopes, cardboard, Medieval Times rees of Ryan Potter, Scott office and school paper, veals new colt’s name Adsit and Daniel Henney box boards such as cereal Medieval Times Dinner are featured. boxes, brown paper bags, and Tournament in LawConcessions are availaluminum cans, tin and renceville announced the able as movie patrons are steel cans, glass jars and winning name in its “Future invited to bring chairs or bottles, plastic milk jugs, Star of our Shows Name” blankets for the free event, plastic bottles which have contest and it is a pretty which is presented by the necks and phone books. well-known name among Braselton Visitors Bureau.

Officials said items do history buffs.

The park is located at not need to be sorted The dinner theater at126 Harrison St. when they are placed in traction solicited customer the containers. Crews pick assistance to find a name BUFORD up recyclables on Fridays. for the new colt. The name Two sessions remain had to begin with an “N” in EHC Homeschool DULUTH though. The submissions Maymester Flicks on the Bricks have been reviewed and Two sessions remain return Medeival Times’ “King” anin the weekly Maymester This week’s showing of nounced on Facebook that classes at the Environmen- the “Flicks on the Bricks” the horse would be named tal and Heritage Center. event will feature “Big Hero after a French emperor LOGANVILLE On Tuesday, children 6” at dusk on the Duluth who was also well-known Grayson students win fuages eight through 12 can Town Green as part of for his military leadership. ture health professional explore bubble science, a night the also features The faithful steed shall awards and learn the history of live music. The film’s plot hence be known as NapoCaitlin Wonnacott and

Madison Grubbs, two Grayson High School Technical Educational Program students, won first and second place, respectively, in the HOSA-Future Health Professionals state competition.

The pair also earned the right to compete in the HOSA National Conference, which will be held June 24-27 in Anaheim, Calif. Future Health Professionals is a student organization with a mission to promote career opportunities in healthcare and to enhance the delivery of quality healthcare to all people.

SNELLVILLE Market showcasing town center plans on the way Soon, an open field on Wisteria Drive will be transformed into a symbol of the city’s economic potential.

The Wisteria City Market will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:50 a.m. May 16 and will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. across from the police department at Wisteria Drive and Clower Street.

The event will be filled with local businesses with products for sale, food and drinks, artists demonstrating and selling their crafts and engaging information sessions.

The Wisteria City Market will be a one-day event, a demonstration of what a possible Towne Center @ Snellville could look like in the future.

There will be a number of activities, such as yoga lessons on the lawn and a celebratory dinner. The Season 8 winner of the Fox Television hit “Hell’s Kitchen,” Nona Johnson, will serve as chef at the event.

For more information contact Economic Development Director Eric Van Otteren at 770-985-3502 or evanotteren@snellville. org.

SUGAR HILL City hosting ’90s Forever concert The City of Sugar Hil will host a ’90s Forever concert on May 23, featuring Who’s Bad — The ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band.

The concert will be held NORCROSS at The Bowl @ Sugar Officials welcome new Hill. doctor’s office Who’s Bad bills itself Norcross City Counas the longest running cil members, city staff Michael Jackson tribute and Southwest Gwinnett band and the only one Chamber members welto pre-date his untimely comed Dr. Jennifer Hamlin, passing. The ultimate of Hamlin Psychological tribute to “The King of Services, to the community Pop” has continued to during a recent ribbonimpress fans of all ages cutting ceremony. for 10 years. Who’s Bad Hamlin Psychologihas sold out venues such cal Services is a mental as London’s O2 Arena in health practice focusing on December of 2010. The children, adolescents and band is from Chapel Hill, families. HPS also proN.C. vides specialized services Jordan Humphrey, a for very young children. local artist, will open the According to a news show. Food trucks will be release, Hamlin has for 20 on hand as will Daddy-o’s years dedicated her life’s Ice Cream. work applying practical The event starts at strategies and research4 p.m. with Who’s Bad based interventions that scheduled to go on state strengthen children and at 7 p.m. Admission is families. free.

The business is located at 748 Holcomb Bridge SUWANEE Road, Building 6. For more Patriotic concert returns information, call 770next weekend 492-0005 or email info@ The city will have its hamlincares.com. annual patriotic concert on the Friday of Memorial PEACHTREE CORNERS Day weekend when an Residents embrace event called “Red, White, COPS program Bluegrass and Bach.” The More than 175 residents event will run from 7 p.m. turned out in Peachtree to 9:30 p.m.

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Water pumps in the membrane filtration building are seen at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment center in Buford in April. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

Water •From Page 1C Chattahoochee River each day. The county prefers to put the water into the lake, however, because any water pumped into the river will quickly flow downstream, away from metro Atlanta, to the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials say Gwinnett’s efforts to put the water it uses back into the lake is key when arguments take place about the availability of water down the Chattahoochee River in south Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

“Anytime there is a crisis down south of metro Atlanta, Lake Lanier gets tapped,” Cloud said.

Microorganisms and bugs clean the water early on The Hill treatment plant is the largest ozone and membrane water treatment plant in the world, according to Boss.

Water that flows through there is first screened and grit is removed. It is then sent through several more processes designed to filter the solids out of the water.

It goes through a primary clarifier and is then sent to a biological reactor, which looks like 20-foot deep swimming pools filled with bubbling brown water.

Those pools are home to microorganisms and bugs which help break down bacteria and waste that is still in the water. It bubbles because air is pumped into the water for the microorganisms and bugs .

“The bugs and microorganisms in here have to have oxygen to live,” Boss said.

The water is then sent to a secondary clarifier which resemble large circular pools from the air. This is where the solid and water treatment processes split.

Solids that are still in the water when it enters this clarifier sink to the bottom of the tanks. Vaccums on a slow moving spinning arm then suck them up and send them through extra steps used to process solids.

All solids which are removed from

Water in a secondary clarifier trickles through teeth at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment center in Buford in April.

(Staff Photo: David Welker)

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Boss said are so small that virtually only water molecules can pass through them. He said a small number of small Water Resources Facilities Deputy Director Jeffrey Boss, right, talks with Curt viruses — if they have made it this far Yeomans, center, and Andrew Vickery, left, how the secondary clarifiers sort out — can get through the process, but not waste from the water at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment center in Buford on many.

Thursday. (Staff Photo: David Welker) “You’ve got bacteria that can’t get through and solids that can’t get the water are sent on to centrifuges to the teeth, in 90 percent of the water through,” Boss said. condense the solids. Methane gas is also treatment plants in the world, they put The water then goes through preextracted to power facilities at the plant. (that water) back into the lakes and ozonation, activated carbon and post The solids final stop is egg-shaped con- rivers because this is basically the end ozonation steps which finish the process tainers which hold the waste until it can of their waste water treatment process,” of cleaning the water. By that point, be carried off to a landfill.

Boss said. “At this point, you’re only the only thing keeping the water from halfway through the treatment process officially being drinkable is the lack of Gwinnett’s extra steps at the Hill plant.” chlorine and fluoride.

While the solids sink to the bottom of From there, water goes through extra But then again, Gwinnett officials the secondary clarifier tank, clear water filtration processes. Twenty million don’t send the water through all of those overflows through teeth at the top. gallons go through a sand filtration pro- steps just to make it drinkable. They The process of removing solids cess. Another 40 million is sent through could let businesses use the finished form the water is finished at this point. membranes. product for irrigation, but Boss said that Gwinnett County officials are not done The membranes are long straws isn’t the point of the process either. cleaning it up, however. which are submerged in water. Each “We want to put it back in the lake,” “The water that is coming out over straw if covered in tiny holes which he said.

Chemical clarifiers are seen at the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment center in Buford on Thursday. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

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GGC students take home national technology awards

By Keith Farner

2,000 students from the United States and Canada took part in the competiGeorgia Gwinnett College tion. It all took place at the students fared well recently Association of Information in a national competition of Technology Professional students pursuing a career in National Collegiate Conferthe technology industry. ence.

Three students won first GGC’s Lissa Pollacia, asplace awards and the team sistant dean and professor of won second place in 14 information technology, said categories as more than she’s taken students to the

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conference for many years, but it’s the first time a team won three national championships.

“I call it the triple crown because, like in horse racing, it is such a rare occurrence,” Pollacia said in a press release. “This shows that with hard work and preparation, an ITEC degree from GGC can take you

COLLEGE NOTES The following local student was named to the dean’s list at Fairfield University: Hayley FitzPatrick of Johns Creek.

The following local student was named to the Provost’s List at Troy University: Juan Lopez of Duluth.

The following local students were named to the dean’s list at Washington University: Alena Antonowich of Norcross, Shi Qing Ma of Suwanee.

The following local student was named to Reinhardt University’s Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges 2015: Gregory Slusher of Lawrenceville.

The following local students were named to the dean’s list at Samford University: Macy Barnett of Suwanee, Emma Christ of Lilburn, Gracen Dod of Duluth, Megan Eberhart of Berkeley Lake, Sara Fortenberry of Atlanta, Brent Hansen of Lawrenceville, Brandon Hayman of Braselton, William Hemby of Suwanee, Thomas Jenkins of Atlanta, Robyn Lowndes of Grayson, Charles Merrill of Atlanta, Madison Miles of Duluth, Kaitlin Mullen, James Newell of Grayson, Johnathan North of Snellville, Carson O’Brien of Duluth, Charles Scott of Snellville, Katherine Scott of Snellville, Elizabeth Smith of Stone Mountain, Hannah Wilbanks of Lawrenceville, Taylor Yungk of Duluth, Kathryn Saunders of Peachtree Corners, Brittany Stevens of Norcross, Katherine Hubbard of Lawrenceville, Matthew Azemar of Johns Creek.

The following local student was named to Emory University’s Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges 2015: Viktoriya Seredyuk of Lilburn.

The following local students have been named to the dean’s list at Georgia Institute of Technology: Jessica Britt of Auburn, Maryam Al-Atassi of Grayson, Tyler Knight of Grayson, Brianna Eck of Dacula, Amber Fleeman of Dacula, Vivianne Hutt of Dacula, Nicholas Orangio of Dacula, Paige Orangio of Dacula, Lindsey Peterka of Dacula, Matthew Tate of Dacula, Ali Azadi of Suwanee, Kaitlin Becker of Suwanee, Emily Benjamin of Suwanee, Kirsten Carella of Suwanee, Clarence Chang of johns Creek, Benjamin Cho of Suwanee, Brice Croxton of Suwanee, Allison Dell of Suwanee, Brandon Dudgeon of Suwanee, Haley Fordham of Lawrenceville, Leah Ginsberg

of Suwanee, Hareen Godthi of Johns Creek, Christopher Harwell of Suwanee, Rahul Iyer of Suwanee, Katherine Kenna of Suwanee, Sharadha Krishnappan of Suwanee, Hyunsuk Lee of Suwanee, Jordan Leroux of Suwanee, Mark Miller of Johns Creek, Kelliann Morrisey of Suwanee, Dalton Nechanicky of Suwanee, Tu Nguyen of Johns Creek, Kate Overstreet of Suwanee, Chad Pollitt of Suwanee, Emily Ritter of Suwanee, Kyle Scott of Suwanee, Ikenna Uzoije of Suwanee, Divya Vedula of Johns Creek, Garrett Hutchins of Lawrenceville, Ha Kim of Lawrenceville, Julianne McCallum of Lawrenceville, Anita Nguyen of Lawrenceville, Hunter Ray of Lawrenceville, Jennifer Sanders of Lawrenceville, Nadia Sanjaya of Lawrenceville, Anthony Tsou of Lawrenceville, Kate Unsworth of Lawrenceville, Katherine Watkins of Lawrenceville, Lydia Wilmer of lawrenceville, Christina Zachary of Lawrenceville, Lauren Clark of Lawrenceville, Destiny Cobb of Lawrenceville, Helen Cohen of Lawrenceville, Sebestian Garcia of Lawrenceville, Jessica Hambrick of Lawrenceville, Noora Khorsandzadeh of Lawrenceville, Rebecca Lally of Lawrenceville, Nicholas Lamontagne of Lawrenceville, Colin McRae of Lawrenceville, Jennifer Morris of Lawrenceville, Anna Tran of Lawrenceville, Coleen Tran of Lawrenceville, Bejamin Ceron of Lawrenceville, Paige Selent of Lawrenceille, Bailey Berick of Lawrenceville, Francis Kallon of Lawrenceville, Ian McCellan of Lawrenceville, Victoria Palacios of Lawrenceville, John Reddaway of Lawrenceville, Samiha Chodhury of Lilburn, Austin Dong of Lilburn, Holly Eaton of Lilburn, Kevin Edwards of Lilburn, Victoria Falk of Lilburn, Gabriela Granados of Lilburn, Nija Kurien of Lilburn, Gnade Li of Lilburn, Lauren Merritt of Lilburn, Rochelle Orlando of Lilburn, Tilak Patel of Lilburn, Allie Schureck of Lilburn, Jeremy Stephens of Lilburn, Giabao Tran of Lilburn, Daniel Watts of Lilburn, Yon Jung Yanng of Lilburn, Fonjah Fon of Lithonia, Jay Mehta of Norcross, Felicia Escobar of Snellville, Fariha Hassan of Snellville, Jameel Merali of Snellville, Claire Rohrer of Snellville, Tanaporn Ruengvivatpant of Snellville, Lindsey Thomson of Snellville, Matteo Valles of Snellville, Robert Agocs of Stone Mountain, Phyllis Montgomery of Stone

Muntain, Julio Morales-Perez of Stone Muntain, Julianna Trimm of Stone Mountain, Param Bodiwala of Norcross, Emily Cowart of Norcross, Jonathan Edwards of Peachtree Corners, Meghan Feeney of Norcross, Sam Medinger of Norcross, Tevor Slack of Norcross, Ian Taylor of Peachtree Corners, Sean Warner of Norcross, Karim Amirali of Duluth, Kamilah Bakari of Duluh, Yoo Han Cho of Duluth, Tazeen Hossain of Duluth, Bitguseul Kim of Duluth, Nicole Alampi of Johns Creek, William Coons Johns Creek, Michael DeLaGuardia of Johns Creek, Austin Delk of Johns Creek, Andrea Fletcher of Johns Creek, Nicholas George of Johns Creek, Kelly In of Johns Creek, Samir Jain of Duluth, Arshiya Lal of Johns Creek, Arush Lal of Johns Creek.

The following local student was honored at Wofford College’s Greek Awards Program: Kelsey Aylor of Lawrenceville.

The following local students were named to the president’s list at the University of North Georgia: Hope Cramer of Lawrenceville, Yusan Humphrey of Lithonia, Shannon Coulombe of Duluth, David Meuesen of Hoschton, Anela Camdzic of Lawrenceville, Elizabeth Jordan of Lawrenceville, Gabriela Varga of Sugar Hill, Mackenzie Fink of Buford, Samantha Keating of Dacula, Dalton Kane of Suwanee, Hannah Hudgins of Hoschton, Darrelyn Thomas of Lawrenceville, Caleb De Avila of Braselton, Kaitlyn Magnes of Buford, Megan Morrisey of Suwanee, Rachel Funston of Lawrenceville, Nina Siso of Lawrenceville, Katherine McGinty of Snellville, Si Kyung Yoo of Duluth, Shannon Haxton of Dacula, Emaly Latsis of Suwanee, Samantha Wright of Auburn, Cassidy Barker of Lawrenceville, Rachel Uhrinek of Braselton, Teri Cameron of Buford, Kayla Lewis of Auburn, Rachael Bryant of Dacula, Laura Hyatt of Dacula, Bindhu Thomas of Lawrenceville, Emily Jackson of Sugar Hill, Destiny Mahoney of Buford, Christopher Kerr of Buford, Andrea Russo of Dacula, Bryan Montemayor of Dacula, Zachariah Ivins of braselton, Ashley Gannon of Braselton, Davis Beard of Buford, Caylee Franklin of Dacula, Hannah Rosenblatt of Dacula, Andrew Udell of Dacula, Chelsea Nabb of Suwanee, Aneta Galazka of Braselton.

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Preparation for the event took many hours and weekends, and Evelyn Ruth Brannock, an assistant professor of information technology, prepped the students for the Java competition.

Aida Syrkett of Lawrenceville won first place in database design individually.

She and Matthew Berger

of Loganville teamed up to win both mobile application development and Java developer. The team of Yury Park, originally from Seoul, South Korea, and Quan Tran, an international student from Chau Duc, BRVT, Vietnam, earned a second place win in the Code-a-Thon.

Syrkett is scheduled to graduate this spring and

Park is transferring to study artificial intelligence/machine learning.

“It is evidence that we have one of the best IT programs in the nation and are quickly becoming known for the excellence of our students and faculty,” said Thomas Mundie, dean of the School of Science and Technology.

Gwinnett Master Gardeners hosting tour of local gardens From Staff Reports

discover hidden treasures within the community The Gwinnett Master while collecting ideas for Gardeners Association is their own gardens. Each inviting locals to treat a stop on the self-guided tour family member, friend or focuses on an educational neighbor to an outdoor ex- component with Master perience celebrating spring. Gardeners on site to answer The GCMGA is sponsor- questions and provide ing a tour of hand-picked, information. picturesque gardens that The Gwinnett Master were designed, installed Gardeners Association Garand maintained by master den Tour will be held from gardeners. Attendees will 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 16, be able to tour 10 gardens, featuring gardens located in seven private and three the Lilburn, Lawrenceville, public, next Saturday.

Grayson and Loganville Guests will be able to areas. Tickets are $15 in

advance by cash or check, $16 online through May 11 and $20 the day of the tour by cash or check only.

The GCMGA is an educational, nonprofit, adult volunteer group working to educate the community about horticultural practices that will foster both beautiful gardens and a healthy environment.

For more information about GCMGA and the Garden Tour, visit gwinnettmastergardeners.com or email GCMGAtour2015@ gmail.com.

Street sweeping returning to county after six-year absence

By Curt Yeomans

we’ve been able to add this item back,” Chapman told commissioners. “It allows us Gwinnett County to clear debris and sediment residents will soon behold from the roads, improve the a sight they haven’t seen appearance of the roads and in about six years: street keep sediment out of our sweepers clearing debris off storm drain system.” county roads.

County documents show Commissioners voted the street sweeping money 3-1 this week to approve will be split between the a one-year, $97,015 street 2015 and 2016 fiscal years sweeping contract with so $48,508 will be spent in Austell-based Sweeping each budget cycle for the Corporation of America Inc. service. The contract expires Interim transportation Direc- May 5, 2016. tor Alan Chapman said the There were doubt about county has not contracted whether street sweeping out the service since it was would improve the look of cut in 2009 because of bud- Gwinnett County streets get constraints. though.

“This is the first year Commissioner John

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Heard cast the dissenting vote. His opposition stemmed from concerns he had about whether the requested funding would be enough. He told his colleagues used and discarded cigarette butts were the biggest issue which needed to be addressed at intersections.

The money would be better spent on litter prevention efforts, Heard said.

“I would much rather see that $97,000 go towards signage requesting people to quit throwing out their butts at intersections and respect the environment and avoid the fire hazard as well as littering,” Heard said.

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Mama B: A most memorable mother It was at lunch after a morning revival service last summer that a few of us sat around, munching on Southern casseroles and talking about one of the most memorable mothers any of us had ever known.

Bedelle Nix. A memorable name attached to an unforgettable woman.

As my sister’s mother-inlaw, Mama B, as she was known all over the countryside, became part of our family when I was seven.

This introduction into our family meant that Mama B, a strong, mindful woman, would meet the closest thing to a match she would ever encounter: My mama.

Since Mama’s name was Bonelle, the singsong sound of “Bonelle and Bedelle” would chime often through the stories told round the dinner table.

queen was enthralling, had given to her his Baby Ruth candy bar, quite a generous gift for a poor mountain boy during the Depression.

For a long time, Mama simply seethed as Mama B proudly recounted the story. Finally, several years Ronda after Daddy died, Mama Rich had had enough. This was never a pretty sight. If you As the two grew older and, never saw Mama when she thus, more willful and can- had had enough, consider tankerous, the tales of their yourself properly anointed stand-offs and put-downs and blessed. became legendary. EspeWe were sitting at the cially at the beauty shop dinner table. Mama pursed where my sister would take her lips tightly and put up them together for perms her hand. “Bedelle, that’s and wash-and-sets. enough. Just hush,” she Mama B particularly commanded firmly. “I relished the telling and don’t want to hear no more constant retelling of being about you and Ralph and 11 years old and my daddy, that dang Baby Ruth candy a smitten 12-year-old who bar. He married me.” thought the future Miss Before she could say Lumpkin County beauty more, I stepped in to

quickly change the subject. Mama B, to her credit since it was against her nature, shut her mouth.

But the long entertaining, often laughable saga of Bedelle and Bonelle is not the purpose of this story. It is to tell you how Mama B, a woman of the most remarkable faith I have ever seen, served the Lord to the immense discomfort of all the sinners who tripped across her path. Mama B could spot the most downfallen sinner anywhere. She was especially adept at finding them at the grocery store.

I was about 9 when I tagged along with her to the small Mauney’s grocery store in her little town.

She was in the canned goods when a beleaguered man had the misfortune of

looking for a can of soup while Mama B was studying a Campbell’s label. She looked up, saw him and grabbed him by the arm.

Apparently, she knew him and some of his history.

“Where are you with the Lord now?” she demanded.

Instantly terrified, he mumbled something about being ‘right with the Lord now.’ Aw, but Mama B never stopped with that.

Her questions fluttered around him like a mockingbird flapping its wings.

“Did you get saved?

Have you been baptized?

Did you join the church?

Did you go to church last Sunday? Where? Who’s the preacher? Whatta he preach on?”

The man was red-faced flustered, Mama B was determined and I was bored so I wandered off. I have

no idea how the conversation ended but I did see the man hurry out the door, having not tarried long enough to buy anything.

The conversation that day at lunch was how many owed their salvation to Mama B’s constant pestering. One preacher allowed how his own daddy owed his trip to heaven to Mama B. “He’ll tell you to this day about how he hated to see Mama B comin’. She’d start on him about findin’ the Lord before it was too late.”

What a mama. What a legacy. What a gift to so many.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of “There’s A Better Day A-Comin’.”

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When it comes to life, your backstory matters Have you ever listened to a boring accountant?

Not to be dismissive of entire professions, but some groups have a reputation for being less than stellar storytellers. Full disclosure, my husband is a former finance guy.

Now for the tough question, when you describe your own job, do people lean in and want to know more? Or do they nod their heads saying, “That’s nice.” as they quickly search for the bar.

If you find yourself on the giving or receiving end of a boring job description, it’s probably because the conversation focused on the front story instead of the backstory.

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Lisa McLeod Mark Levy illustrates the importance of a compelling backstory, by describing one of his clients, a financial planner, who was struggling to get business.

Like many personal finance experts, this planner (we’ll call him Milt) gave free seminars to drum up business.

Milt had fairly decent

attendance for his seminars. People would show up, listen to Milt’s advice, then thank him and leave.

Milt always offered a free personal assessment at the end, but very few people took him up on it.

Then Mark Levy taught Milt about the value of the backstory.

Levy asked Milt, “Why did you choose to become a financial planner?”

Milt said, “When I was very young my parents passed away and I went to live with my grandparents. They were great people and I loved them dearly. They both worked at blue-collar jobs for the gas company, but they had always dreamed of owning their own business.

“One day my grandmother saw an ad in the paper, a local butcher shop was up for sale. When my grandfather came home, she showed it to him, saying “I think this is it, this is the business we’ve always dreamed about.’

“My grandfather agreed.

They took their life savings and purchased the butcher shop. The first year, they didn’t make any money.

The second year, they lost a little money. The third year, they lost all their money, and went out of business.

“Their life savings was gone. They went back to their jobs at the gas company, where they both worked until they died.

They never got to retire.

They made a horrible mistake that cost them their golden years simply because they didn’t have good financial advice. I decided that I didn’t want that to happen to other people. So I became a financial planner.”

Levy, told Milt, “The next time you give a seminar, I want you to tell that story before you start.

Don’t change any of your other content; just start the seminar by telling your backstory.”

Milt began his next seminar saying, “I want to tell you why I became a financial planner.” He spent 3 minutes telling the story about his grandparents, then ran the seminar the same way he always

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Most wound up becoming clients.

So what was the difference? How did Milt go staid financial planner with a pathetic win rate to a compelling rock star that everyone in the room wants to do business with?

Simple. Once people knew the backstory about why he was in the profession, the front story about how he did it became much more interesting.

Intent is always more interesting than implementation. If you want to be more compelling, start sharing your backstory.

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