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Expo •From Page 1A and national retailers and more than 50 local artisans and crafters who sold handcrafted arts and crafts, gourmet foods, apparel, jewelry, home decor, commercial products and services The event that began on Saturday and continues from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Infinite Energy Forum in Duluth saw a steady crowd of attendees buying gifts, visiting Santa and on-stage holiday performances featuring local school choirs, bands and dance groups. Admission for the twoday shopping event, presented by the Daily Post, is $8 on Sunday, and attendees who came on Saturday will be allowed re-entry on Sunday. Through participation with the 11 Alive Holiday Can-A-thon, tickets will be $1 off per canned item donated at the event. Susan Dillingham of Duluth said she’s looking for the first-year event to return next year. “It’s local and people look for that rather than going to stores,” she said. Santa was a popular destination in the Kringle’s Kids Korner, where children made ornaments, wrote letters to Santa and had face painting. Pictures with Santa are from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. The Gunslinger monster truck will also make an appearance on Sunday. “Definitely plenty of time to shop (on Sun-
Gwinnett County Solicitor General Rosanna Szabo was the guest speaker at the graduation of the Seeking The Right Amendale Path program, or STRAP, and said her path with the youths happened for a reason. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner) Attendees have their gifts wrapped for free during Saturday’s Holiday Expo at the Infinite Energy Forum in Duluth. (Photos: Kyle Hess)
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random. Szabo maintained throughout her message enlisted and received the that the youths were likely help of Judge Rodney on a path that wouldn’t end well, and a police officer Harris and fellow church members Edgar and Angie likely stopped it from being worse. Derricho to launch the “You know who policeSTRAP program. men are?” Szabo said, The program this year “Prosecutors, deputies, received 501(c)(3) status, judges? We are the people which completed a threewho are patrolling the year process, but needs boundaries of human funding to keep classes running consistently. Som- conduct. There are lines, times, students wait six or there are boundaries. God gives us free will; there’s a eight months to enroll. lot of things that God gives It was at times an us the freedom to choose emotional event as Elise Sheppard, who announced to do. But there are certain the award winners, shared things that you can’t do. Those are the boundaries a story of her son going of human conduct.” down a path that led him Szabo said the justice to the STRAP program. So system is designed to be The first 200 attendees enter with the choice of free tickets to the circus or Disney On she personally trumpeted adversarial, but she prefers the value of it. Ice during Saturday’s Holiday Expo at the Infinite Energy Forum in Duluth. the bird’s-eye view of Juvenile Court Judge day),” said Noreen Brant- Just holiday shopping things. so the families have been Stephen Franzen said the ner, director of events “I prefer to think for unique and different coming out and taking goal for the law enforcewith SCNI Events and the items, and then families. their free photos with about myself as more of ment, attorneys and Daily Post. “It’s two-fold: Santa’s been really busy, Santa.” a mother, actually,” she judicial personnel who said. “Because much like a are active in the program mother, or parent, someis to find young people times they’ve got to tell who are not investing in •From Page 1A “I’m over here at the you things you don’t want the Volvo, police officers themselves, or believing He’s cut back on Uber Krogers on 78,” McCastle swarmed the house. Two in themselves, and explain to hear. They’ve got to driving. tells the call taker, not force you to do things you When McCastle pulled of them took off. One laid why that’s important. To “Safety is more imporup to the hotel, the susexplaining. down on the ground, givtant than anything to me,” offer them value, self-con- don’t want to do, but they pects — young men from “What’s going on over ing up. fidence and self-awareness. do it with care and love.” he said. “There needs to Snellville and Lawrencev- there? Sir, are you OK? The end goal, Szabo McCastle stayed as The youths, ages 13 be some kind of safety ille — still snoozed. He What’s happening?” far from the chaos as he through 17, each Saturday said, is for the graduates features for the drivers,” woke one up and, seeing McCastle won’t say. could. for six months attend class to be happy, successful, maybe a panic button in police at the Days Inn, the “What’s the emergenThe men were soon all from 9 a.m. to noon. Many productive members of a the app. suspect told the driver to cy?” community of people. in custody. Police idenof the participants attend McCastle said he has a go to the Krystal restaurant “If I (knew) right now,” “This is our tribe, and tified them as McKoy, the program through court master’s degree, a backnext door. McCastle said, “I would we need you,” she said. Thomas Nikay Shatner, ground in human resources order, but some do so Though he hadn’t heard tell you.” “Our tribe doesn’t survive 21, of Lawrenceville, and voluntarily. and photography and is about the shooting, the The series of 911 calls, Reggie Tequen Greene, Gwinnett County Solici- without you. But we need going for a doctorate from driver sensed something with the driver hanging up 21, of Snellville. All three Trident University Interna- tor General Rosanna Szabo you to be in a way that’s off from the beginning, and the operator calling good for all. If you will do remain in the county jail tional and, naturally, never was the guest speaker at when the men wanted to back, went on for more without bond. the event and said her path that, the tribe will care for expected his stop-gap gig go all the way from Cony- than 20 minutes before the you too, and your life will A week and a half later, would bring him such with the youths happened ers to Snellville. It was driver dropped the suspects McCastle is still stressed. be better.” for a reason; it wasn’t trouble. odd, he said, considering off at a house on Newtons that Uber is $2 a mile. The Court in Snellville. The police presence at the hotel accused shooter in the robconfirmed his suspicions. bery, 19-year-old Richard At some point, the driver Anthony McKoy, lives dialed 911. there. In the call, released to The driver had been the Daily Post this week, giving the 911 operator McCastle doesn’t speak at discreet hints about where first. he was — a street name The call disconnects. here and there. By the time The operator calls back. the suspects got out of
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