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Dad: Teen was killed shielding partygoers

BY JOSHUA SHARPE joshua.sharpe@gwinnettdailypost.com

An undocumented mom’s story of life during the Trump campaign

LITHONIA — Saviour Branch’s phone is ringing off the hook.

People are calling to talk about his son, a 17-year-old high school running back who was gunned down this past weekend at a house party in Gwinnett County. The boy’s mother is also in the hospital because she fainted at the news and hurt herself when she fell.

Pamela Branch wasn’t the only one shocked by the teen’s death.

The father said his son was never confrontational and, in fact, one of the callers was a young woman Jahlah who witnessed the shooting.

Branch She said the 17-year-old was shielding her and another girl when he was shot in the head in a packed two-story home on Aviator Circle, which is off CentervilleRosebud Road in unincorporated Snellville.

“Jahlah actually saved two people’s lives,” Saviour Branch said in an interview Thursday afternoon.

Gwinnett police, who are investigating the death, have released few details about what is believed to have happened or how

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BY JOSHUA SHARPE • joshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com The weight of the presidential campaign sinks in for Indira Ochoa on the night of Oct. 10, 2015.

The baby-faced Honduran immigrant, 28, is off from work at the cellphone kiosk, watching the TV glow in her apartment. She lives with her son near Norcross in an area known for carnicerias (butcher shops), panaderias (bakeries) and other businesses catering to Hispanic residents. The local news is covering a campaign rally held down the street at the North Atlanta Trade Center by the Republican front-runner.

Ochoa already knows about the man on the TV’s inflamma-

tory rhetoric on immigration — the comment about Mexican rapists, the call to deport 11 million people, his favorite refrain about making Mexico pay for a “great, great wall on our Southern border,” “the greatest wall you’ve ever seen.”

While not Mexican, Ochoa feels Donald Trump’s words are also intended for her. She came across the border to join her parents already in America when she was 16 years old. She remains here illegally, now with an 8-year-old son who is a U.S. citizen. Trump calls kids like hers “anchor babies.”

Ochoa’s been offended by his statements. But until this

moment, she’s brushed him off as just one rich guy talking.

Now crowds surround him on the TV. At the trade center, a thick line snakes around the side of the venue. People sell Trump masks and “Make America Great Again!” swag. Trump signs autographs and takes selfies with fans like a movie star.

Ochoa can’t believe the support.

Fear washes over her.

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Top, Indira Ochoa, a 28-yearold undocumented Honduran immigrant who has a son who is a U.S. citizen, said she has become more fearful of deportation since Donald Trump, shown at right in a file photo from an October visit to Norcross, began his bid for president.

(Photo: Cole McCauley)

Gwinnettians at RNC give nod to Trump

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Some local Republicans who attended this past week’s party convention in Cleveland are coming to terms with the reality that Donald Trump is their party’s nominee and showing some willingness to give him a chance.

U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., for example, said he is optimistic about the unity of the party coming out of the convention.

“I’m absolutely casting my ballot for Donald Trump in November,” Woodall said. “You know (the phrase) ‘Trump Train’ is a clever saying. … But I’ve got to tell you that suggests a cult of personality going on here, and I’ll tell you I think it’s a cult of ideas that’s happening here.”

Now that Trump is the GOP’s nominee, many Republicans are showing signs that they are willing to give him a chance, at least out of party loyalty. Several Gwinnett Republicans attended the convention.

Trump’s bid to be the party’s nominee was a divisive issue during the primaries with several opponents, particularly former presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, hanging on with their own passionate fan bases. When Cruz told convention goers to vote with their conscience, he was booed.

“I got the impression with that, and he held a public rally and met with key supporters, I took it as (Cruz) was essentially launching his 2020 presidential run, and I don’t really like that,” said state Rep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, who was an alternate at the convention and

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Zan Crocket of Atlanta said he attended Repticon,

an expo of reptiles and exotic animals, in Lawrenceville on Saturday to help others face their fears of them … as he held a huge lizard named Monster.

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“I enjoy when they pet him and aren’t afraid anymore,” Crocket said while standing near the entrance.

“If you like reptiles, respect them; if you’re afraid of reptiles, learn about them.”

A large crowd of reptile enthusiasts attended Repticon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. The two-day expo featured hundreds of different reptiles such as snakes, geckos and lizards; seminars; vendors and more.

The show takes place across the country but is held quarterly in Georgia.

Tina Russell, who manages the event, said it started almost a decade ago but is still popular.

“We hold the seminars to show how helpful reptiles can be to the environment and help everyone understand some are really gentle,” Russell said.

Emily Ozmar of Cumming said she tries to stop by the expo every time it is in town because she hopes to work with reptiles one day. Ozmar wants to handle — not harm — snakes on the loose and extract their venom for research.

“It’s something not many people want to do, but somebody has to do it,”

Above, Nelson Quinones shows Kayla Shadburn and Cameron Fouts an alligator during Repticon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

Ozmar said.

Ozmar and her sister, Jessie, had nine reptiles in their home but left the event with two more.

“A reptile isn’t something you should be afraid of,” Jessie Ozmar said. “You can’t listen to that tiny voice in your head saying these small animals will (harm) you.

They actually are good pets.”

For information, visit www.repticon.com.

Above, Jacob Trudeau pets Toothless, the bearded dragon, during Repticon.

Far left, Kat Hall handles a tarantula.

Left, Jason Gazaway looks at a chameleon.

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Filling 59 teacher vacancies, GCPS readies for school year

By Keith Farner

week about the readiness of opening schools for the new year.

“I think everything With just over two that’s not in order is weeks before the new certainly getting in school year begins, order,” he said. “We will teachers and staff across be ready for the opening Gwinnett County are put- of school. … We want to ting the final touches on make sure that all systems preparations to begin the are a go.” year.

The school district has For the human re3,236 active substitutes, sources department, that including 2,823 teacher means filling 59 teacher substitutes, and has added vacancies and hiring 64 27 on-call substitutes that bus drivers to fill in on a receive an additional $10 given day or route. The per day and aren’t placed teacher vacancies are until the morning of their fewer than last year’s assignment. Regular 73 openings at the same teacher substitutes are time. paid $87 and long-term Special education con- subs receive $97 per day. tinues to be the greatest “That’s one problem area of turnover among we were having last year, teaching positions, Asbecause people were callsociate Superintendent ing in at the last minute,” Frances Davis told the Davis said.

Gwinnett School Board Math and science areas on Thursday. The district are considered critical, has hired 348 special ed along with special ed, a teachers out of the 1,502 trend that has continued for this school year, for several years, Davis including 987 brand new said. teachers overall to the The district offers a district. $250 referral incentive The school district for employees to refer overall has about 10,900 someone who is qualified teachers and 24,000 emin those areas along with ployees and projects enforeign languages. rollment this school year, “We have great data to which begins on Aug. 8, show that our best referto be 177,843 students. rals come from people CEO/Superintendent J. within the organization,” Alvin Wilbanks said there Davis said. “We feel real will be an assessment this confident that we will be

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able to get those 59 teachers here and ready for the first day of school.”

Davis also noted that at the district’s new teacher orientation event on Tuesday, 368 of the 1,402 teachers in attendance are graduates of Gwinnett County Public Schools.

That signaled to her that the district’s branding of the education field is working.

“That we need to do more to brand teaching and teaching education as a viable profession,” Davis said. “Certainly we’re going to be looking at how we can expand this this year and doing everything we can do to make sure our students know that they can certainly move into education as teachers and come back home and work in Gwinnett County Public Schools.”

Davis said despite the 64 vacancies among bus drivers that drive 8,000 routes and make 45,000 stops, the district is ready now. There are 1,838 positions for drivers and monitors — 1,774 are filled and 33 are in a training class.

“The 64 vacancies will help us backfill should we have no shows on the first day, and we will have noshows on the first day,” she said.

NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE The Gwinnett County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 8.51 percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held in the Board Room at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center, 437 Old Peachtree Road, Suwanee, GA on Monday, August 1, 2016 at 8:00 a.m.

The tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 19.800 mills, an increase of 1.553 mills.

Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 18.247 mills.

The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $175,000 is approximately $102.30 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $550,000 is approximately $341.00 In setting the millage rate to support the budget, the Gwinnett County Board of Education will not increase the total school millage rate. Holding the total millage rate at the same level, by law, must be advertised as a property tax increase due to the higher value of property in the county. The total millage rate is not changing and taxpayers whose property has not been assigned a higher value this year will see no change in their school taxes.

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Gwinnett County Public Schools’ fiscal year 2017 budget provides resources to accommodate a growing student population. The primary resources of revenue to support the budget are state funding, which includes funding reductions (austerity reductions) for the 15th consecutive year, and the local tax digest. Other highlights of the FY2017 budget include: • Gwinnett County Public Schools will add almost 1,800 new students and two new schools next year.

• Enrollment is expected to reach almost 178,000 students in the 2016-2017 school year.

• Teaching and learning are the central focus of the budget, with 71% of the General Fund budget targeted for instructional services.

• Although the district will collect fewer local tax dollars than it did in FY2009, the adopted budget does not recommend an increase in the property tax millage rate.

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Bell’s palsy a possible chickenpox side effect Dear Dr. roaCH: I am 55. I was having numbness on the left side of my face, and my left eyelid started to droop. I thought I was having a stroke. I went to the hospital, and they told me this is Bell’s palsy.

I asked where it came from and the doctor asked if I ever had chickenpox. I told him I had, and he said this is just another consequence, like shingles. No one in my house was aware of this. Can I also get shingles along with this?

Now they say my face could clear up in a few weeks, or it could remain this way. It’s scary!

— M.N. anSWer: Bell’s palsy is a sudden (usually over a few hours) paralysis of the muscles of one side of the face. It is caused by damage to the facial nerve. The risk is greater in people with diabetes and in pregnant women.

It often makes people worry that they’re having a stroke, because stroke can look very similar. For this reason, urgent evaluation is called for.

A skilled examiner can tell the difference after a careful examination.

What they told you at the hospital is correct: One common cause of Bell’s palsy is a reactivation of varicella zoster, the virus in the herpes family that causes chickenpox. A different herpes virus, HSV-1, usually associated with cold sores, is the most common cause. For this reason, antiviral medicines, such as acyclovir, often are given to people with severe Bell’s palsy, along with the standard treatment of a powerful anti-inflammatory steroid, such as prednisone.

Lyme disease also can cause facial nerve palsy, so treatment for Lyme must always be considered in a patient with apparent Bell’s palsy.

As far as your prognosis, it depends on how severe the palsy is at the onset. If there is some movement of the facial muscles, a recovery is usually possible. However, if the paralysis is complete, or if there has been no improvement in the first few months, then disability is likely to be permanent.

The facial nerve also is responsible for taste and for eye fluid, so abnormalities of these functions can be problematic, especially excess eye dryness.

The booklet on herpes and genital warts explains these two common infections in detail. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Roach Book No. 1202, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.

Dear Dr. roaCH: What is your opinion of the safety of a medicine like omeprazole for long-term use, versus a calcium-based antacid tablet, for reflux?

— R.W. anSWer: Both treatments have some risks and some benefits.

Proton pump inhibitors, like omeprazole (Prilosec), increase the risk of infection, both with Clostridium difficile and with pneumonias, based on their suppression of acid secretion.

Both are pretty safe. PPIs are generally much more effective.

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Parents won’t forgive drunken rant Dear amy: I was with a man I loved very much for almost four years. He is now in recovery, but before he turned his life around, he had multiple issues with my family. While on a drinking binge, he had a verbal argument with my father, which he has tried to apologize for many times.

This was three years ago, and my family refuses to even speak his name.

A few months ago, I broke things off with my boyfriend because I thought my family would never accept him.

I am still very upset by this, because I can’t see myself with anyone else.

I know he would spend the rest of his life with me if that’s what I wanted. My family has never seen the good side of him. He treats me very well since getting sober.

My family doesn’t believe in alcoholism being a disease, and that he has been in treatment for it.

Should I get back together with him and risk my parents never accepting it?

— Heartbroken Dear Heartbroken: Please understand how upsetting it is for parents to see a child in a relationship with someone they fear is drunk and abusive.

Your parents don’t believe in the redemptive power of sobriety. They may think that they are

and I have been married for more than 20 years.

It seems that she is not keeping up with the basic table manners that she used to have.

It is starting to get embarrassing. She chews with her mouth open, has her elbows on the table and waves her fork Amy Dickinson around while making a point. protecting you, but they She will cut up all her are really controlling you, food at once and mash and you are letting them. it all together on the Alcoholism affects plate. If I point out (later, everyone it touches. privately) that she should Your guy’s own family, keep her hand in her lap, friends and co-workers for example, she just have likely been affected waves me off as if she by his drinking. Because can’t be bothered with of this, many alcoholics such things. working a 12-step proThis summer we have gram will make amends weddings and family and ask for forgiveness functions to go to. How from every single person can we get her to brush in their lives. up on her manners?

And this is when the — Napkin In Lap people sharing their lives Dear napkin: are called upon to step up I’ve always thought that and also work the proone of the advantages gram by forgiving. of being married is that If your guy is rockyou have a spouse who solid sober, loves and will tell you when you’re treasures you, and has trailing a piece of toilet asked for forgiveness, paper from your shoe on then I’d say that your the way out of the ladies family members are in room, or have a piece of worse shape than he is. kale stuck between your The way to work this teeth. out is for you to be brave What I’m saying is enough to love the person that our spouses should you want to love. You tell the truth, as kindly as will walk through this possible, and love each world together one day other anyway. at a time. You should ask If I were you, I’d byyour parents to accept pass the hand-in-lap rule this reality, but underand focus on the openstand that they may have mouth chewing. a hard time getting there.

You should say to her, Dear amy: My wife “Honey, we’ve all relaxed

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a lot since our own wedding day, but really — the food mashing, the chewing with your mouth open — can’t you brush up on your table manners before we go to these other weddings?”

Offer her a deal: She gets to correct you on something you do which drives her crazy, and you can both try to make some changes.

Dear amy: Responding to the letter from “Atheistic, but not Amoral,” for both theists and atheists, the matter of belief is not a choice.

People have choices over what religious or humanistic communities they join or don’t join, but cannot choose what they believe. The Hindu belief in reincarnation is appealing in many ways, but the appeal cannot transform a lack of belief into belief. The mother who wrote you did not make a “choice not to believe.” She simply does not have a theistic belief.

— Jerre Dear Jerre: Thank you for the thoughtful response.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@tribpub.com.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook. Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores.

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Take charge and bring about the changes that will help you indulge in the things you enjoy most. Make your own decisions and don’t look back.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Make a personal change that will allow you to enjoy some of the pleasures that life has to offer. A mental or physical challenge will spark your imagination, resulting in a new beginning.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Don’t let temptation take charge. Size up what’s going on around you and don’t fall into a situation that requires you to give in to unfair demands.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Volunteer your skills and services in order to gain access to valuable information and connections with people who can further your plans. A romantic adventure will improve your day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Stick to what you know best and enjoy doing most. A short trip will bring greater insight into what you should do next. Changes at home must be executed with care and understanding.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t be afraid to initiate change.

Someone is likely to try to lead you astray, but you must trust that you know better than anyone else what’s best for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It’s time to fulfill a promise that you made to yourself. Taking an active role in the way your personal or financial life unfolds will help improve your position and reputation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Someone you love will help you make the right choice. If you share your feelings, a strategy will develop that will give you hope and lead to greater happiness.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Don’t let brain fog hold you back. Snap out of it and take on whatever challenges come your way.

Use your imagination and shoot for the stars.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Engage in social events or make special plans with a loved one. A financial gain is apparent through a gift, winning or settlement. A personal agreement will be stabilizing.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Look for an opportunity to expand your mind. Engage in an unusual practice that will help you overcome a recent setback. Don’t let a personal matter disrupt your plans.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Avoid any situation that could cost you or put you in a compromising position. Focus on personal pleasures and improvements that will build your confidence. Romance is in the stars.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Host an event or invite friends or family over in order to get the help you need to make some adjustments to your living quarters.

Nurture an important relationship.

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Bus fire briefly shuts down I-85 south near Buford

By Curt yeomans

overpass at 5:36 p.m.

“Crews arrived to find flames showing from the bus,” Rutledge said in Forty-eight people had a statement. “Firefightto evacuate a charter bus ers were able to quickly that erupted into flames deploy attack hose lines and temporarily shut to extinguish the fire. down southbound traffic All southbound lanes on Interstate 85 near Bu- of the interstate were ford on Friday afternoon. initially closed as fireGwinnett fire Capt. fighters worked to bring Tommy Rutledge said the blaze under control. the bus was one of three Some lanes were able that were traveling to reopen a short time south together on the later.” interstate. He added that Rutledge said the firefighters responded to fire is believed to have the blaze on I-85 south started in either the near the Gravel Springs engine compartment or curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

the tirewell, and that the flames had moved to the area where passengers

sat before it was gotten under control. Everyone who was on the bus

‘Moorish National’ convicted of aggravated assault in Gwinnett By erika Wells erika.wells @gwinnettdailypost.com

A Gwinnett jury convicted a man for striking a victim with a steel pipe and said he did not have to abide by the law as a “Moorish National.”

On Friday, Randall Hampton, also known as “Nobleman Bey,” said he was defending himself when he hit his ex’s boyfriend in the leg, the District Attorney’s Office said in a news release Friday.

The incident occurred

in August 2015 after Randall, the mother of their child, and the victim got into a Randall dispute, Hampton according to the release. They were at Stone Mountain Family Practice in Gwinnett.

Judge Angela Duncan charged Hampton with aggravated assault, according to court documents.

Hampton said he is part of the Moorish Nation of black people whose

no one was injured, he added.

“The blaze caused heavy damage to the bus,” Rutledge said. “The exact cause of the fire is undetermined.”

The passengers were placed on the other buses in their group and continued heading to their destination, but Rutledge added it was not clear where they were headed or where they came from.

He added the Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia State Patrol are dealing with the incident.

A fire heavily damaged a charter bus that was traveling south on Interstate 85 on Friday afternoon.

The fire shut down the southbound lanes on the interstate for a bit. (Special Photo)

when the fire broke out was evacuated before firefighter arrived and

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ancestors were reportedly Africans who followed the Islam faith.

The term Moorish Nation is also used to refer to a “sovereign citizen,” according to court documents. The sovereign citizen movement reportedly involves a political group with anti-government sentiments. Both do not believe the legal system applies to them.

Duncan handed Hampton five years with the first 120 days in confinement, anger management classes and no contact with the victim.

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PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE The City of Buford Board of Commissioners today announces its intention to increase the 2016 property taxes it will levy this year by 4.84 percent over the rollback millage rate.

Each year, the county board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.

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When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

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The budget to be tentatively adopted by the City of Buford Board of Commissioners requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate, therefore, before the City of Buford Board of Commissioners may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.

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All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the Buford City Hall, 2300 Buford Hwy, Buford, GA 30518, on July 21, 2016 at 4:00 PM and on August 1, 2016 at 10:00 AM and also at 7:00 PM.

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NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

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The City of Buford Board of Commissioners has tentatively adopted a millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes of 4.84 percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at Buford City Hall, 2300 Buford Hwy, Buford, GA 30518, on July 21, 2016 at 4:00 pm.

Times and places of additional public hearings on this tax increase are at Buford City Hall, 2300 Buford Hwy, Buford, GA 30518 on August 1, 2016 at 10:00 am and 7:00 pm.

This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 12.850 mills, an increase of .593 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 12.257 mills. The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $175,000 is approximately $41.51 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $550,000 is approximately $130.46.

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2011 Real & Personal

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

$784,026,138 $775,350,237 $741,290,373 $779,889,323 $861,071,901 $942,349,954

Motor Vehicles & Mobile Homes

$30,968,869

$31,591,999

$33,308,969

$31,523,949

$23,268,135

$17,837,435

Public Services Corp.

$15,474,938

$19,644,928

$29,240,493

$30,472,547

$31,903,623

$31,925,034

Gross Digest

$830,469,945 $826,587,164 $803,839,835 $841,885,819 $916,243,659 $992,112,423

Less: Exemptions

-$63,188,360 -$62,913,171 -$60,410,114 -$62,050,446 -$54,661,078 -$59,625,813

Net Digest

$767,281,585 $763,673,993 $743,429,721 $779,835,373 $861,582,581 $932,486,610

Tax Levy

$10,051,389

$9,965,946

$9,664,586

$10,098,868

$11,114,415

$11,982,453

13.10

13.05

13.00

12.95

12.90

12.85

Net Taxes Increase ($)

-$1,062,346

-$85,443

-$301,359

$434,282

$1,015,547

$868,038

Net Taxes Increase (%)

-9.56

-0.85

-3.02

4.49

10.06

7.81

Millage Rate

The figures above contain both Gwinnett and Hall county property values as the City of Buford is located in both counties.

The City of Buford anticipates adopting its millage rate at its regularly scheduled Commission Meeting, at 7:00 P.M., August 1, 2016 at Buford City Hall, 2300 Buford Highway, Buford, GA 30518.

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World Munich teenage gunman had no Islamist ties MUNICH — A GermanIranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday.

The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on Friday evening, triggering a lockdown in the Bavarian state capital.

Seven of his victims were themselves teenagers, who police said he may have lured to their deaths via a hacked Facebook account on what was the fifth anniversary of twin attacks by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.

The Munich shooting, in which a further 27 people were wounded, some seriously, was the third act of violence against civilians in Western Europe — and the second in southern Germany — in eight days.

Bavarian state crime office president Robert Heimberger said the gunman, who German media named as Ali David Sonboly, was carrying more than 300 bullets in his backpack and pistol when he shot himself.

Erdogan shuts schools, in state of emergency ISTANBUL/ANKARA — President Tayyip Erdogan tightened his grip on Turkey on Saturday, ordering the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions in his first decree since imposing a state of emergency after the failed military coup.

Turkish authorities also detained a nephew of Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused by Ankara of orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt, the Anadolu state news agency reported.

A restructuring of Turkey’s once untouchable military also drew closer, with a planned meeting between Erdogan and the already purged top brass brought forward by several days.

ISIS claims Kabul attack

Twin explosions leave 80 dead

By Mirwais Harooni Reuters

KABUL — Twin explosions tore through a demonstration by members of Afghanistan’s mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 80 people and wounding more than 230 in a suicide attack claimed

by Islamic State.

Graphic television footage from the site of the attack showed many dead bodies lying on the bloodied road, close to where thousands of Hazara had been demonstrating against the route of a planned multimilliondollar power line.

“Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a gathering of Shi’ites in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan,” said a brief statement on the group’s Amaq news agency.

If confirmed as the work of Islamic State, the attack, among the most deadly since the U.S.-led campaign to oust the Taliban in 2001, would represent a major escalation for a group hitherto largely confined to the eastern province of Nangarhar.

The explicit reference to the Hazara’s Shi’ite religious affiliation also

Nation Hillary Clinton chooses Kaine as running mate

WASHINGTON/TAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton named U.S. Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate on Friday, opting for an experienced governing partner who will help her present the Democratic ticket as a steady alternative to the unpredictable campaign of Republican presidential rival Donald Trump.

The selection of Kaine, a self-described “boring” Virginian with a reputation for low-key competence, could appeal to independents and moderates, but it quickly angered liberal groups that object to his advocacy for an Asian free-trade pact.

The Spanish-speaking Hollande support former Virginia governor and rating up despite Richmond mayor fit Clinton’s long-stated criteria that the Nice attack: poll vice presidential choice be a PARIS — French Presi- capable and reliable partner dent Francois Hollande’s who is ready to take over the popularity rating has inched presidency if necessary. up from a record low this Clinton made the anmonth despite the heavy nouncement via Twitter and criticism he has received a text message to supporters over security matters since after the first day of a two-day the Bastille Day attack in campaign swing in Florida.

Nice, a poll showed on She called Kaine to tell him Saturday. about 40 minutes before the Nineteen percent of announcement and called those surveyed said they President Barack Obama had a favorable opinion of shortly after Kaine.

Hollande, up from a record “I’m thrilled to tell you this low of 18 percent in June, first: I’ve chosen Sen. Tim according to the BVA poll Kaine as my running mate. for Orange and Itele.

Welcome him to my team,” The poll was conducted she said in her text message. on July 20-21, days after a delivery man in Nice killed Hundreds are 84 people when he drove his truck through a crowd evacuated in of revelers leaving a July California wildfire 14 fireworks display on the LOS ANGELES — A fastbeachfront promenade.

— From wire reports moving wildfire that has al-

People ‘Game of Thrones’ cast tight-lipped at Comic-Con

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — There is no shortage of gruesome, tragic deaths in HBO’s hit medieval fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” but the demise of the show’s friendly giant Hodor last season still affected the crowd at a Comic-Con panel on Friday, as they loudly cheered his name.

Actor Kristian Nairn received the loudest welcome as he entered the panel at the annual San Diego pop culture event, as fans chanted “Hodor” over and over again.

“The reaction has been overwhelming,” Nairn told the 6,500-plus audience as his voice quivered with emotion.

An Afghan woman weeps at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on SatShow creator Dan Weiss urday. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail) said the name Hodor, a truncated version of “Hold The Door,” had become a joke marked a menacing deparThe Persian-speaking albeit Sunni, enemy of as it was the only word that ture for Afghanistan, where Hazara, estimated to make Islamic State, denied any Nairn’s character could say, the bloody sectarian rivalry up about 9 percent of involvement and said in but became tragic once it was between Sunni and Shi’ite the population, are Afa statement posted on its Muslims typical of Iraq has ghanistan’s third-largest website that the attack was revealed to be the fate that been relatively rare despite minority but they have “a plot to ignite civil war.” leads to his death. decades of war. Islamic long suffered discriminaThe attack succeeded State is an ultra hardline tion, and thousands were despite tight security which ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sunni group. killed during the period of saw much of Kabul city dominates, blasts Officials in AfghaniTaliban rule. center sealed off before stan’s main intelligence “We were holding a the demonstration, with toward $60 Million agency, the National Dipeaceful demonstration stacks of shipping containLOS ANGELES — Pararectorate for Security, said when I heard a bang and ers and other obstacles mount’s “Star Trek Beyond” the attack was planned then everyone was escapand helicopters patrolling is dominating at the U.S. box by an individual named ing and yelling,” said overhead. office as the latest entry in the Abu Ali, an Islamic State Sabira Jan, a protester who An Interior Ministry durable franchise heads to militant they said was witnessed the attack and statement said 80 people a solid $60 million opening based in Achin district in saw bloodied bodies strewn had been killed and 231 Nangarhar. across the ground. “There wounded, with local hospi- weekend, estimates showed Saturday.

They said three bombers was no one to help.” tals straining to cope with The 13th “Star Trek” were involved in the attack.

The Taliban, a fierce, those being brought in. movie is performing in line with forecasts and will wind up the weekend with more down cartoon characters on a journey that took them than double the nearest rival — Illumination-Universal’s over the border. third frame of hit animated “Both juveniles were so comedy “The Secret Life of captivated by their ‘PokePets” with about $28 million mon Go’ games that they at 4,048 locations. “Pets” will lost track of where they finish with nearly $260 milwere,” said Michael Raplion in its first 17 days. pold, a spokesman for the Fox’s launch of animated agency. comedy “Ice Age: Collision The two were reunited Course” debuted in third with their mothers at a nearby border patrol station, place with a somewhat disappointing $21 million at 3,992 the agency said. sites as “The Secret Life of The game was also to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton re- blame for a rash of car acciPets” blunted its potential acts as Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator dents and a slew of mishaps attraction in the family space.

Tim Kaine speaks at a campaign rally in Miami, Fla., on stemming from distracted New Line’s opening of Saturday.(Reuters/Brian Snyder) horror-thriller “Lights Out” players. could edge past the fifth Ice ready blackened some 11,000 opioid overdose every day, Florida tests more Age film as it was outperacres of drought-parched land and noted that the legislation forming forecasts with $20.4 northwest of Los Angeles included only modest steps to than 200 residents million at 2,818 venues. was threatening some 1,000 address the epidemic. in Zika virus probe structures on Saturday, fire “I am deeply disappointed The Walking Dead CHICAGO — Health officials said. that Republicans failed to authorities in Florida have The so-called “Sand Fire” provide any real resources released trailer for tested about 200 people for broke out shortly after 2 for those seeking addiction season 7 debut p.m. on Friday afternoon treatment to get the care that the Zika virus as part of the LOS ANGELES — and spread quickly near they need,” Obama said. ”In state’s investigation of two AMC has set the premiere possible cases of infections Santa Clarita, about 40 miles fact, they blocked efforts by not related to travel to a region date and revealed the first northwest of the city, forcing Democrats to include $920 trailer for the next season the evacuation of some 300 million in treatment funding.” hit by an outbreak, officials of “The Walking Dead” people.

The bill was passed nearly said on Friday.

The zombie drama’s Florida’s health department It has nearly tripled in size unanimously by both the in less than a day and was House of Representatives and this week began looking into seventh season will debut what may be the first cases in Sunday, Oct. 23, at 9 p.m. only 10 percent contained. the Senate.

The 16-episode season the United States of Zika, a will be split into two parts, mosquito-borne virus that has Obama signs into ‘Pokemon Go’ with the first eight episodes spread rapidly through Latin law opioid bill to blamed for illegal America and the Caribbean, airing in the fall and the second half debuting in caused by the bite of a local protect newborns border crossing February, 2017. mosquito.

WASHINGTON — Two youths unaware of Comedian Chris HardAll prior cases of Zika in President Barack Obama their surroundings when wick moderated a panel the United States have been on Friday signed into law a they were playing ‘Pokemon linked with travel to a country Friday at Comic-Con feameasure that pledges greater Go’ on their cellphones turing the show’s cast and where the virus is circulating efforts to protect drug-demade an illegal border cross- or to sex with someone who creative team, where the pendent newborns and assist ing this week from Canada trailer debuted. It shows has done such travel. their parents. into the United States in a Health experts in the Unit- new villain Negan but The Comprehensive Adremote part of Montana, doesn’t hint at who he ed States have been watchdiction and Recovery Act U.S. Customs and Border killed in the season-six ing closely for the arrival of also stresses drug treatment Patrol said. finale. It also gives a first Zika, which has been shown and overdose prevention The two, who were not look at King Ezekiel, a to cause a birth defect called fan-favorite character of the to help stanch the nation’s identified, were found by microcephaly marked by comic books on which the heroin and opioid drug U.S. Border Patrol agents on small heads and undersized series is based. Actor Khary epidemic.

Thursday with their attenbrains that can cause severe Payton will play Ezekiel.

Obama said in a statement tion affixed to their phones developmental problems.

— From wire reports that 78 Americans die from as they were trying to hunt — From wire reports

Russian balloonist sets world record for circumnavigation

By Peter Gosnell Reuters

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has landed safely in a field on a private property in West Australia after setting a world record for circumnavigating the world solo in a hot air balloon.

The 64-year-old Konyukhov emerged from the balloon’s gondola after more than 11 days aloft, expressing his appreciation for the smell of the earth, and “how

Must read wonderful it is,” according to millionaire businessman and fellow aviator Dick Smith, who was on hand to assist with the landing.

Konyukhov, who embarked on his epic journey from Northam in Western Australia on July 12, set the record of just over 11 days when he passed above the township 100 km north east of Perth, Australian national broadcaster

ABC reported earlier.

The Russian balloonist beat the previous record of 13-1/2 days set in 2002 by the late Steve Fossett.

In completing the epic journey, Konyukhov flew directly over Northam, a feat described as “incredible” by Smith.

“After going 34,000 kilometers around the world he crossed the runway where he took off from,” Smith said. “That’s never happened before. It was mainly luck and it’s just unbelievable.”

Smith completed the first solo circumnavigation of the world by helicopter in 1983.

When Konyukhov broke the record he was directly over Northam at an altitude of approximately 6,000 meters and traveling at 60 kilometers per hour, Smith said.

He said the Russian had been advised to fly for another hour in search of safer terrain on which to land.

During the journey Konyukhov

flew as high as 10,000 meters and dealt with extreme temperatures — as low as minus 56 degrees Celsius — that caused his oxygen masks and drinking water to freeze, ABC reported.

Konyukhov also had to cope with the failure of his heating system and fierce electrical storms, ABC said. On the last leg of the journey he was pushed far south toward Antarctica as he crossed the southern ocean between the Africa and Australia.

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The two-part rebellion in Cleveland WASHINGTON — The main purpose of the modern political convention is to produce four days of televised propaganda. The subsidiary function, now that nominees are invariably chosen in advance, is structural: Unify the party before the final battle. In Cleveland, the Republicans achieved not unity, but only a rough facsimile.

The internal opposition consisted of two factions. The more flamboyant was led

by Ted Cruz. Its first operation — an undermanned, underplanned, mini-rebellion over Charles convention rules — was Krauthammer ruthlessly steamrolled on Day One. Its other operation was Cruz’s Wednesday night convention speech in which, against all expectation, he refused to endorse Donald Trump.

It’s one thing to do this off-site. It’s another thing to do it as a guest at a celebration of the man you are rebuking.

Cruz left the stage to a cascade of boos, having delivered the longest suicide note in American political history. If Cruz fancied himself following Ronald Reagan in 1976, the runner-up who overshadowed the party nominee in a rousing convention speech that propelled him four years later to the nomination, he might reflect on the fact that Reagan endorsed Gerald Ford.

Cruz’s rebellion would have a stronger claim to conscience had he not obsequiously accommodated himself to Trump during the first six months of the campaign. Cruz reinforced that impression of political calculation when, addressing the Texas delegation Thursday morning, he said that “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.” That he should feel so is not surprising. What is surprising is that he said this publicly, thus further undermining his claim to acting on high principle.

The other faction of the anti-Trump opposition was far more subtle. These are the leaders of the party’s congressional wing who’ve offered public allegiance to Trump while remaining privately unreconciled. You could feel the reluctance of these latter-day Marranos in the speeches of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

McConnell’s pitch, as always, was practical and direct. We’ve got things to achieve in the Senate.

Obama won’t sign. Clinton won’t sign. Trump will.

Very specific, very instrumental. Trump will be our enabler, an instrument of the governing (or if you prefer, establishment) wing of the party.

This is mostly fantasy and rationalization, of course. And good manners by a party leader obliged to maintain a common front. The problem is that Trump will not allow himself to be the instrument of anyone else’s agenda. Moreover, the Marranos necessarily ignore the most important role of a president, conducting foreign and military policy abroad, which is almost entirely in his hands.

Ryan was a bit more philosophical. He presented the reformicon agenda, dubbed the Better Way, for which he too needs a Republican in the White House. Ryan pointedly kept his genuflections to the outsider-king to a minimum: exactly two references to Trump, to be precise.

Moreover, in defending his conservative philosophy, he noted that at its heart lies “respect and empathy” for “all neighbors and countrymen” because “everyone is equal, everyone has a place” and “no one is written off.” Not exactly Trump’s Manichaean universe of winners and losers, natives and foreigners (including judges born and bred in Indiana).

Together, McConnell and Ryan made clear that if Trump wins, they are ready to cooperate. And if Trump loses, they are ready to inherit.

The loyalist (i.e., Trumpian) case had its own stars. It was most brilliantly presented by the ever-fluent Newt Gingrich, the best natural orator in either party, whose presentation of Trumpism had a coherence and economy of which Trump is incapable.

Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence gave an affecting, self-deprecating address that managed to bridge his traditional conservatism with Trump’s insurgent populism. He managed to make the merger look smooth, even natural.

Rudy Giuliani gave the most energetic loyalist address, a rousing law-and-order manifesto, albeit at an excitement level that surely alarmed his cardiologist.

And Chris Christie’s prosecutorial indictment of Hillary Clinton for crimes of competence and character was doing just fine until he went to the audience after each charge for a call-and-response of “guilty or not guilty.” The frenzied response was a reminder as to why trials are conducted in a courtroom and not a coliseum.

On a cheerier note, there were the charming preambles at the roll call vote, where each state vies to out-boast the other. Connecticut declared itself home to “Pez, nuclear submarines and …

WWE.” God bless the United States.

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Cruz came off as spoiled, smug Y’all remember Judy, from “Leave it to Beaver?”

She was the young brownnoser. She was the spoiled brat that we all had in our school classes, from first grade until graduate school. She was the one student who always reminded the teacher that she hadn’t taken up the homework on the one day that week that you had neglected to do yours.

“Miss Landers,” Judy would raise her hand and say. “Aren’t you going to take up last night’s homework?” Then she would turn around and look smugly at Beaver and Whitey and Larry Mondello because she knew they hadn’t done their homework because they had been hanging out at the firehouse talking to Gus and petting his Dalmatian.

Miss Landers didn’t even like Judy. She would roll her eyes and say, “Well, yes, Judy, I am. Thank you for reminding me. “ Then she would sigh and say “Alright, class. Please take out your homework and prepare to pass it to the front.”

You knew she wanted to say, “Why didn’t you keep your mouth shut, you little witch.

I have a hot date tonight with one of Betty Anderson’s old boyfriends from ‘Father Knows Best’ and I didn’t want to spend my time reading your creepy essay about what you did at summer church camp.”

Judy was also the kind of kid

Darrell Huckaby who tried to tell everybody else what to do on the playground and had to play by her own rules. If you didn’t she would pitch a hissy fit and take her ball and go home. If “Little House on the Prairie” had been a television show in the 50s, Judy would have been best friends with Nellie Olsen.

Judy was a lot like Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

The Grand Old Party, as Republicans refer to their little political group, held a convention this past week in Cleveland, Ohio, in which Donald Trump received the party’s nomination for president of the United States. They nominated Donald Trump. Trump was the people’s choice. He received 14 million primary votes, more than any candidate in Republican primary history. Mine was not one of them, but that’s beside the point.

When the new year began people were laughing at Trump’s candidacy and loudly proclaiming that he had no

chance of collecting the number of delegates necessary to obtain a majority at the convention.

Trump eclipsed that number and won overwhelmingly. He defeated 16 other candidates.

Cruz didn’t like that because, well, he wanted the job for himself. He wanted to be the anti-establishment candidate.

He wanted to be the people’s choice. Kasich, who happens to be the governor of Ohio, where the convention was held, wanted the job, too. Cruz, whom I actually voted for, looks like Grandpa Munster on the old “Munsters” television show, except Grandpa is a lot more likeable. Kasich is as boring as sawdust.

Kasich finished further back in the Republican balloting than the Atlanta Braves will finish in the National League East this year. Cruz finished second, but he was as far back as the second place horse in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, which was won by Secretariat by about a gazillion lengths.

Kasich refused to attend the convention, which he was supposed to have been hosting.

Cruz spoke but was so catty that his speech was all about himself and he refused to endorse The Donald as his party’s candidate.

But here is the thing. When this whole thing started, the Republican Old Guard were scared to death that

when Trump didn’t win the nomination he would run as an independent candidate, a la Ross Perot, paving the way for a Democratic victory in November. Someone came up with the idea of having all the Republican candidates take a pledge to support the eventual party nominee.

All of the candidates took the pledge. ALL of the candidates took the pledge.

Trump won. Cruz did not.

Kasich did not.

Trump has done everything he promised he would do so far. Trump has done EVERYTHING he promised he would do so far.

Cruz went back on his word.

Kasich went back on his word.

Cruz was booed off the stage at the convention. Kasich stayed home with his ball.

Trump proved himself to be the better man. I’m pretty sure that Beaver, Whitey and Larry Mondello will vote for Donald Trump.

Judy? You can find out what has become of her next week.

She grew up to be Hillary Clinton and is running for president as a Democrat. I’m pretty sure Eddie Haskell is her campaign manager.

Darrell Huckaby is a selfavowed linthead from Porterdale, a double graduate of the University of Georgia, a retired educator of 38 years and Henley’s papa.

There is no question that Answer Man knows it all Hey, boys and girls! What time is it? It’s time for Answer Man! The show where we delve into inquiring minds and show you how little is on ours.

Please note that all answers remain the exclusive property of the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company located in Greater Garfield, Georgia, and may not be rebroadcast, retransmitted or refried without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball. Let’s take our first question: Dear Answer Man: My wife has indicated that she is interested in running for president of these, the United States of America. She has a wonderful role model in a former president who not only brought peace on Earth but also found a novel use for cigars. Does she have a chance? By the way, if this isn’t a convenient time for you I can meet you on the airport tarmac and we can talk about this and our grandchildren.

(Wink! Wink!)

— Awesome Bill Dear Awesome: This is America. The land of equal opportunity. Women can aspire to be anything they wish from president of these, the United States of America, to CEO of a major corporation to an entrepreneur, an astronaut or an astrophysicist. Just not a Southern Baptist preacher.

However, given that I think I

Dick Yarbrough know who your wife is, the Baptists just might be right for once.

Dear Answer Man: This really isn’t a question. It is a fact. You are a terrible writer.

You are ugly. You chew with your mouth open and your socks don’t match.

— D.T. from NYC Dear D.T.: Thank you for the observations. It could be worse. I could have orange hair.

Dear Answer Man: Those of us under the Gold Dome who are beholding to the nefarious, deep-pocketed special interest groups that fund our re-elections and write our legislation took umbrage at your characterization of us as “bark lickers” in one of your recent columns. Your implication was that we would lick the bark off a tree if told to do so by these selfless organizations that only have our best interests at heart. That is patently wrong.

We would, however, lick their boots. Would you please

correct your erroneous depiction of us? Somebody might accidentally read your column and get the wrong idea.

— A Bunch of Boot-Licking Intrepid Public Servants Dear BLIPS: Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Please accept my apology. I wouldn’t want anything to damage the deep mutual respect we have for one another.

Dear Answer Man: Do you go out of your way to offend people or does it just come naturally?

— Coalition of HumorImpaired Persons Dear CHIPs: You obviously have me confused with someone else. I only offend supercilious liberals (or is that redundant?); right wingnuts; loud-talking Yankees; people who voluntarily choose to live in Malfunction Junction, aka the city of Atlanta, where the sewers don’t work and neither do a number of its citizens; You-Know-Where Institute of Technology athletic supporters and a guy in Acworth. And only because they deserve it.

Dear Answer Man: Do you believe that there is a heaven and when we die we will go there? We anxiously await your theological perspective.

— A Group of Readers Deeply In Prayer Dear DIPs: Yes, there is a

heaven. It is called St. Simons Island but I hope nobody else shows up there — dead or alive. Developers will just use that as an excuse to cut down more trees and build more condos and mini-marts. That would be hell on Earth.

Dear Answer Man: Could you please verify that the University of Georgia is the oldest state-chartered university in the nation and is located in Athens, the Classic City of the South? I think I read that somewhere.

— Uga X Dear Uga X: I am pretty sure that is still correct. By the way, did you know the University of Georgia also has had 23 Rhodes Scholars? I think I read that somewhere, too.

Oops, looking at the clock on the wall, I see we are out of time, boys and girls. I hope you will tune in next week when Answer Man will present a special report on how broccoli may be hazardous to your health and why banana pudding could be the only known cure. Thanks for being with us and always remember that Answer Man’s work is so secret, not even he knows what he is doing.

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Over 200 students received a blessing and a lesson at the Backpack Day event held by a nonprofit in Lawrenceville on Saturday.

StreetWise Georgia, which serves disadvantaged families, provided a free backpack with school supplies for each student at its facility on Cedars Road.

Each family also left with a bag of food.

Joe O’Reilly, director of operations, said the organization, which is a ministry and a charity, has held the event since 2007.

“Each time it gets better,” O’Reilly said. “We always strive for excellence, and it’s amazing to see the volunteers who are dedicated to helping the children.”

The registered families were divided into groups and led inside to the Message Room, where O’Reilly shared a message of faith and encouragement.

Then the group went to a tent outside to receive the backpacks and food before leaving.

Amanda Suarez, a parent from Lawrenceville, felt relieved to have the opportunity. Suarez attended with her four children — two in elementary school, one in middle school and another in high school.

“This helps a lot when you don’t have the means,” she said. “If it weren’t for (StreetWise), I would only be able to give my kids pencils and paper. I’m so grateful for what they have given my family.”

Suarez also said sending her children to school with the supplies they need will boost their confidence. She said they will not feel left out among schoolmates.

“All children want to feel equal to everyone else, no matter the race or color,” Suarez said.

In the late ’80s, StreetWise was originally founded to offer outreach in the cities.

Eventually the organization moved to Gwinnett County.

StreetWise has another location in Auburn.

In the last year, the nonprofit has given out about 1.3 million pounds of food.

It also provides clothing, toiletries, shoes and other items for those in need.

For information, visit www.streetwisegeorgia.org.

Left, StreetWise Director of Operations Joe O’Reilly shares a message of faith at the nonprofit’s Backpack Day in Lawrenceville on Saturday.

Above, a volunteer helps a toddler with his backpack he received at the event. (Staff Photos: Erika Wells)

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437,999

464,693

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477,241

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27,639,288

27,133,090

29,490,913

30,130,627

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(1,178,655)

(1,216,381)

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23,871,411

23,620,766

25,541,558

25,903,552

27,521,895

Heavy Duty Equipment Public Utilities

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2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

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2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

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$281,205

$174,794

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•From Page 1A the victim was struck.

No suspects have been named.

But the story the young woman told rings true to the father, particularly after all the calls.

People have been sharing stories about how the young man helped or encouraged them.

“Jahlah has affected a lot of people’s lives positively, in ways I’ve never known,” the father said.

Jahlah Branch, a DeKalb County native who lived in Lithonia, was in between high schools after transferring to Salem High in Conyers last year from Hapeville Charter Career Academy in College

Jahlah

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Saviour Branch is mourning the loss of his 17-yearold son, Jahlah, who was killed in a shooting in Gwinnett County this past weekend. (Staff Photo: Joshua Sharpe)

the party, the father said.

“She said, ‘He’s only 17. You can’t stop him from having fun.”

The parents didn’t realize the party would be so large and unsupervised. They certainly didn’t know guns would be involved, the father said.

He’s been frustrated with gun violence for Park. He was also looksaid. “Everybody went years and has been paying at colleges and had crazy.” ing attention to the gungone to football camps at The boy was hoping to control debate raging the University of Georgia go pro but also enjoyed around the United States and the University of training younger players in the wake of highAlabama, the dad said. in the i-DARE U youth profile mass shooting. He A few weeks ago, he football program. is more worried for the went to Olivet Nazarene The teen had trouble future than ever now.

University in Illinois. focusing in school but “It’s not like when “He made one of the had been doing better in we grew up,” the father most spectacular catches recent weeks. His mother said. “The world has out there,” the father agreed to let him go to changed.”

previously backed Sen. Marco Rubio’s bid.

Brockway said he’ll vote for Trump “if it’s close,” but he is undecided about what he’ll do if either candidate is leading by a wide margin. He added that he wants to hear Trump talk more about his policy plans, explaining that he disagrees with nominee on how to address trade deals that don’t work for the nation.

“I came into the convention a Trump skeptic (and) I still am,” Brockway said. “I think he was more disciplined and focused in his message than I’d seen him be previously. To me, the overall theme of his speech was ‘We’ve got turmoil around the world.

We’ve got porous borders and now we’ve got turmoil out on the streets with police shootings and retaliations.’

“I think his message, overall, was ‘I’m going to make people safe again,’ and if he can stick to that, I think it will be a powerful message.”

The choice on whether to back Trump now that he is the nominee is made easier for many Republicans because Hillary Clinton, a longtime target of Republican ire, is the Democratic Party’s nominee, Brockway and Woodall said.

“It’s a binary choice we have going into November,” Woodall said. “In any family discussion — and that’s what a primary is, a family discussion where you work out your disagreements — you’re always going to have disagreements with family members.”

“But, I’ll tell ya, I have more disagreements with Hillary Clinton than I have with Donald Trump.”

Fear

•From Page 1A A thought rushes to her mind: His dreams are going to come true.

——— There will be those who say she should’ve known better when she came here without documentation or she should’ve tried to become a citizen long ago — the right way.

Those people will have a point, and Ochoa acknowledges this.

She doesn’t want to offend anyone, even Trump supporters. She says she only wants to mind her business, raise her son and live better than she could in Honduras. The country faces rampant poverty as well as a historically unstable government and gang violence.

Ochoa, who asked to be identified only by the first half of her hyphenated last name, realizes she’s broken the law and understands why that may lead to her deportation.

But her case isn’t black and white.

Like untold numbers of immigrants before her, her life has been awash with grey, thanks to decisions made by the people who brought her into the world and because of societal problems thousands of miles away from Gwinnett County.

Her case illustrates the complexities of our country’s immigration issues. How the lives of people living here illegally intertwine with the lives of U.S. citizens in their family. How children can be influenced by their parents into immigrating without the proper documentation.

How Ochoa’s American dream and Donald Trump’s can’t coexist.

Ochoa is the focus of this story; she isn’t the only one.

News reports and surveys from around the country show immigrant populations, particularly those of Hispanic decent, are wondering how they fit in America if Trump wins. Will their families be fractured by deportations? Will there be more tension between immigrants and the government? More xenophobia?

In 2016, the year of the meteoric assent of a man who promises to open doors for Americans by building them walls, answers can seem complicated.

Just ask state Rep. David Casas, a Lilburn Republican.

In February, he endorsed Marco Rubio and urged fellow Republicans against voting for Trump in the primary.

“We cannot stand by while the conservative movement is hijacked by someone who has never held our beliefs — by a charlatan who has succeeded in deceiving so many,” he wrote on Facebook.

Five months later, Casas says he intends to “support the nominee of the party.”

That’s an outnumbered man’s way of saying he will vote for Donald Trump.

To feel the force of that fact, you need to know something about Casas: he is a Hispanic immigrant, born in Spain to Cuban parents.

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Hispanic residents around the country are reporting fear and offense to the Donald Trump campaign. Gwinnett has a large population of Hispanic residents and businesses that cater to them, such as Carniceria y Supermercado El Sol in Norcross. (Photo: Cole McCauley)

Casas, who wields clear intellect and knowledge of politics in conversation, can recite the “tired, poor, huddled masses” line from the Statue of Liberty and says he believes in America as refuge for people fleeing troubled states, for people like his parents, and, ultimately, people like Ochoa, though he may not necessarily agree with her methods.

How can Casas support Trump?

The short answer is he thinks the media often takes Trump’s statements out of context and that the New York baron sometimes says things he doesn’t exactly mean, making promises he can’t really keep because he’s gunning for the White House. Hillary Clinton makes empty promises, too, Casas says. And the voters have chosen Trump, he reminds.

Of course, along with all that, Casas has to accept that the things Trump says that Trump supposedly doesn’t mean often are seen widely as xenophobic and racist.

Casas understands why Trump’s support is surprising.

But Casas is a wellestablished U.S. citizen and elected official — doing fine.

This story is about those who aren’t.

——— It’s a hot summer night at the mall where Ochoa works outside Duluth. She is at the cellphone accessories kiosk where she sells OtterBox cases and tries to keep the fingerprint smudges Windexed off the glass counter.

It’s a slow night and she’s killing time.

She’s thinking about her childhood.

She grew up in Valle Department, a largely rural and poor area in the south of Honduras, on the Gulf of Fonseca. Opportunities for her family were few, she says. Even farming was a losing game of trying to keep crops alive in scorching heat.

Ochoa remembers swimming, climbing trees and picking mangoes with other kids. They painted rocks.

“Those were our toys,” she says, laughing at the thought.

Many kids didn’t have parents at home because the parents fled to America.

Ochoa was 3 years old when her mother and father left her and two siblings in Valle. The kids stayed with their grandma, Lucila, an elderly woman who made money cooking. More cash came from the parents in the U.S., and life was better for the kids.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to go to school, Ochoa says. (Central America has historically faced issues with education

and, according to the nonprofit The Borgen Project, 13 percent of Honduran children have no access to school at all.)

But it hurt Ochoa not having her parents home.

The memory brings fat tears to this day.

Wiping them away, she says she understands what her parents sacrificed for her benefit. But there is pain in her voice when she reveals that the first time she remembers seeing them in the flesh was when she was 16, after they paid thousands of dollars to have her smuggled through Guatemala and Mexico.

She walked the desert, swam in the Rio Grande and got arrested by border patrol in Texas, she says.

She ended up being released to her parents, who lived in North Carolina, while going through immigration proceedings.

In August 2005, Ochoa, still 16, skipped a court date because the family feared she’d be deported. She says they never heard anything about it and got on with their lives, putting off the consequences.

——— Ochoa began pursuing her own American dream.

She enrolled in public high school and graduated.

She met a boy from Honduras. They had a baby boy born in North Carolina and named him Enzo.

The family moved to Gwinnett about three years ago for Enzo’s father’s work.

This past August, the father got pulled over and arrested for driving without a license.

Ochoa was at the apartment with the boy, cleaning the bathroom, when the call came.

She knew it meant Enzo’s father, her boyfriend of 10 years, would be deported because the Gwinnett jail participates in a federal program to notify immigration of arrests. He had lost his work permit a decade earlier because of drunk driving but had straightened out, Ochoa says.

The couple decided to split up.

Ironically, Ochoa was arrested a few months later for driving without a license after an accident. (She says she regrets it but didn’t know what to do because she couldn’t afford to pay for rides.) But this was in Fulton County, where the jail doesn’t participate in the federal immigration notification program.

She got a fine.

——— In the background, she could hear the man on TV, and his crowds, growing louder by the day.

Ochoa began to think

often of the long separation from her parents. She worried about her son, a boy who is with his mother constantly, going to the park, praying at church or sitting around the apartment trying to convince her to love dinosaurs as much as he does.

If Trump is elected, Ochoa says she is terrified she’ll be deported and leave the boy without parents, as she was in Honduras. When parents of U.S. citizens are deported, the kids can end up with relatives or family friends in America.

Ochoa’s also been worried about being discriminated against. She thinks of it as she’s going to a crowded place, she says. She’s trying to save up in case she and Enzo need to move to Honduras. She’s asking him how he feels.

“No, no,” he says.

He has never been to Honduras. His mother can’t take him to visit, naturally, because she wouldn’t be able to come back here without sneaking across the border again, a U.S. citizen in tow.

——— Casas, the Lilburn rep, isn’t saying Ochoa’s fears, which the Daily Post described to him, are irrational.

He’s heard them from other fellow Hispanics. He says he tells them there will be no mass deportations, that it’s just political rhetoric, election-year stuff.

“I do not think this country can tolerate watching on Fox News and CNN mass deportation,” he says.

On the whole, the residents Casas has talked with lately agree that some of Trump’s proposals can’t come to fruition. They also say the immigration system is broken and often ineffective, sometimes leading to delays of years before people can immigrate here legally, as well as failing to keep out dangerous criminals.

But many people are afraid of Trump.

The Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights organization published a report in April detailing the effect of the campaign on American schools. Trump’s bid has produced “an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom,” the report says.

Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, is also hearing about local surges in applications for citizenship and voter registration among Hispanics. Such increases have also been reported around the country, according to the Washington Post.

“People are paying attention to his candidacy,”

Gonzalez says. “Not in a very good light.”

On one recent hot, sticky day, shoppers at a mall frequented by Hispanics spoke with the Daily Post, mostly through an interpreter.

It’s like they’re allergic to the man’s name.

Any mention of him and their faces contort. They grumble. They stare off into space, gathering their thoughts.

Then come succinct reviews: “Racista” (racist). “Niño” (child). “Payaso” (clown).

“Irrationale” (irrational).

Olga Erazo, 43, a native of Honduras, says she’s not worried about deportation because she’s here legally.

But she takes issue with him.

“For me, he’s not good because he doesn’t like Spanish people,” Erazo, who speaks English, says while flipping through a book of hair styles at a salon. She doesn’t like the tone he uses to speak of Hispanic criminals. “The whole people isn’t guilty because one person is wrong.”

Casas knows about the offense Trump’s statements have caused, too. He maintains that some statements have been misrepresented by the media and that Trump isn’t the only candidate to have missteps. The candidate and his most ardent supporters make the same argument.

But others statements were clear: Trump suggested a judge might not be fair to him because he’s Mexican.

(The judge was actually born in Indiana to parents from Mexico.)

“Nobody will defend that,” Casas says.

——— At the cellphone kiosk, the night is winding down.

It’s still slow.

Ochoa is watching the clock to see it strike 8 p.m. so she can go to the apartment, which she and Enzo share with another single mother and child. Ochoa plans to cook for Enzo, clean and maybe relax a bit, watch some TV. Lately, the stress has been mounting. She’s decided to see a lawyer to see if she has any chance at legal status.

“I’m just really tired of being in this situation all the time,” she says. “You can live more freely … when you are legally here.”

She dreams about becoming a nurse or getting another job where she can help people — something more meaningful than selling OtterBoxes and Windexing the counter.

But for now, 8 p.m. is approaching and she’s thinking about walking outside, wondering if immigration agents might catch her. “God protect me,” she says.

She knows it might not happen. But she has trouble shaking the thought.

“The things happen in just a second. You don’t even know the time, the second, the day.”

When the time comes, she closes up the kiosk and steps outside.

——— She doesn’t get picked up that night.

But a few days later, she

gets fired.

Her boss tells her she hasn’t been performing lately, Ochoa says; sales are down, and she is distracted on her phone. Ochoa disagrees, but it doesn’t matter.

A door is closed and the flood gates are open.

She goes out over the next few days looking for work. She finds a position that sounds something like a dream to a woman with few options: working as a leasing agent, Monday through Friday, standard hours, pretty good money.

But the company asks for her papers. She doesn’t get the job.

Another blow is at the meeting with the immigration lawyer.

“What can you do to help me become a citizen?”

Ochoa says she asks the woman.

Nothing, comes the reply.

The lawyer informs her a deportation order was issued for her in 2005 after she missed court, making it unlikely for her to get legal status.

The attorney does tell Ochoa she’s not a “priority” candidate for deportation. Agents tend to focus on people who are violent criminals first, rather than single mothers with children who were born here.

Of course, Ochoa fears things could change with Trump in office.

——— The next night Ochoa is at her apartment. Enzo is playing a dinosaurs game on a tablet, the mother watching the news on Telemundo.

It’s Thursday night.

In Cleveland, Ohio, the Republican National Convention is underway.

The Quicken Loans Arena is full of boisterous Trump supporters. There are Trump masks and people donned in “Make America Great Again!” shirts and hats.

Later in the night, Trump is going to put it all to bed, accept his coronation as the GOP nominee and bask in the adoration of supporters, who will chant “Send them home” and “Build the wall.”

But right now Ochoa’s mostly fretting over money.

She doesn’t want to try to get government assistance, she says, because she is proud and likes to work for herself. The only help she’ll accept is government health care for Enzo, the U.S. citizen.

She’s planning to get a copy of the Mundo Hispanico newspaper in the morning to look at the job listings.

Maybe she’ll go around to Hispanic businesses and see if they need anyone. She’ll be praying the whole time, as usual, that immigration doesn’t find her.

But all that’s in the morning.

Tonight she’s with Enzo, relaxing, trying to ignore the anxiety of her American dream unraveling as Trump’s thrives.

“God has a purpose for me,” she says. Her voice is soft, trailing almost to a whisper. “Everything is going to be OK. I don’t need to worry. I need to be calm and pray.”

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Efstration named to Judicial Nominating Commission State Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, was one of 20 people across political lines that Gov. Nathan Deal appointed to serve on the Judicial Chuck NominatEfstration ing Commission on Tuesday.

The nonpartisan commission is intended to be made up of people, including attorneys and “laypersons,”

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Curt Yeomans from across the state who will make nominations to the governor on who to appoint to judicial vacancies

across the state. In addition to Efstration, other local members of commission include Norcross attorney William T. Mitchell and Duluth lawyer Lee W. O. Shafer.

“It is a great honor and responsibility to serve on the Judicial Nominating Commission,” Efstration said in a statement. “I look forward to serving on this important board and working with the other members to advise Governor Deal in the area of judicial appointments.”

It is the second time in

the past month that Deal has appointed Efstration to serve on a board of panel.

He also appointed legislator and attorney to the Criminal Justice Reform Council last month.

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s Scott Holcomb hosting campaign Holcomb Democratic Convention website, watch party www.hillaryclinton.com, reLocal Democrats who are ported that Holcomb, whose looking for a place to watch district extends into a small President Barack Obama and part of southern Gwinnett, Vice-President Joe Biden will host a Hillary for Georaddress the Democratic Na- gia Convention Watch Party tional Convention this week on Wednesday. The party is can join state Rep. Scott expected to last from 7:30

to 11 p.m. at the Element Condominium Clubhouse, 390 17th St., in Atlanta.

Obama and Biden are reportedly expected to address the convention that night, which will also likely be the night U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., formally accepts the nomination for vice president. Clinton announced Kaine as her running mate in a text message to supporters Friday night.

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

As feds file suit over insurance deals, Georgia postpones hearing

By Andy Miller

Georgia Health News

The state’s Department of Insurance on Thursday postponed next week’s hearing on the Aetna-Humana merger after federal antitrust officials filed suit to block the proposed deal over anticompetitive concerns.

The feds also filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna.

Anthem has a significant stake here, being the parent company of Georgia’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia. But it’s the AetnaHumana deal, if consummated, that is expected to have the bigger effect on the health insurance business in Georgia.

The U.S. Department of Justice said the two multibillion-dollar mergers would reduce competition, raise prices for consumers and stifle innovation by reducing the number of large national insurers from five to three, Reuters reported.

It was the latest example of the Obama administration challenging massive combinations in major industries, from oilfield services to telecommunications, Reuters said.

According to the lawsuits, the deals would hurt consumers in the different markets served by the four companies, from medical coverage provided by large corporations to their employees to Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly and insurance sold

to individuals on exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. Georgia’s insurance officials said Thursday they would wait to reschedule the Aetna hearing until the Justice Department inquiry is resolved. A hearing on the Anthem-Cigna deal had not been scheduled and will also wait till the matter is resolved with the DOJ, the officials said.

About 20 state insurance departments were required to review the Aetna-Humana deal. One state, Missouri, came out firmly against it, while others, including California and New York, approved it after their concerns were satisfied by the companies, Reuters reported.

An Aetna spokesman declined comment on the

Georgia postponement Thursday.

Georgia is one of eight states to join the Department of Justice lawsuit against the Aetna-Humana merger and is one of 11 states to oppose the Anthem-Cigna deal. A spokesman for state Attorney General Sam Olens could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon about the Georgia action.

A consumer advocacy group, Georgians for a Healthy Future, reported this week that the insurance markets for individual, small group, large group and Medicare plans sold in Georgia are already “highly concentrated.”

Currently, the top four insurers in Georgia control more than 75 percent of the market, the report said.

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Jaccon Bruce Bailey age 34, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on July 21, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Kitty Strickland Hanebrink age 65, of Buford, GA passed away on July 21, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Dwight Cheek Dwight David Cheek, age 60, of Hoschton passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

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Alexander Heslop Mr. Alexander Heslop of Grayson, GA passed July 21, 2016. Services are entrusted to Gregory B Levett & Sons Funeral Home Gwinnett Chapel.

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Joanne Cullinan Joanne Pauline Cullinan age 71 of Statham, GA passed away July 21, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Brenda Drukenmiller Brenda Drukenmiller age 60, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away July 19, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

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James Fleck James Edward Fleck age 77, of Suwanee, GA passed away on July 23, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Margie Hitt Margie Stewart Hitt, age 83, of Buford, GA passed away on Saturday, July 23, 2016. She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty-eight years, David Hitt; daughter, Pamela Hitt Pearman; mother, Zonie Samples Stewart; father, Ancil Stewart; and step mother, Ruby Samples Stewart. She is survived by her children, Robin and Billy Davis, Buford, GA and Patricia and Lynn Dampier, Hendersonville, TN; son-in-law, Rod Pearman, Dawsonville, GA; special daughter, Sheila and Jeff Autry and son, Zack, Jefferson, GA; grandchildren, Kim Davis, Kristen Keen, Brian and Annmarie Davis, Dr. Loucinda Dampier Sawinski and husband, Adam; Leslee Dampier Bryan and husband, Joseph and Dr. Trey Evans and wife, Megan Dampier Evans; four great grandchildren; sisters and brother-inlaw, Lillian Mullinax, McDonough, GA, Mary Martin, Cumming, GA and Brenda and Tommy Estes, Ball Ground, GA; brothers and sisters-in-law, Rev. Jackie and Arlene Stewart, Canton, GA and Jerry and Geraldine Stewart,

Ranger, GA; brotherin-law, Garston Green, Cumming, GA; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Hitt was born July 17, 1933 in Cumming, GA. She retired from Gwinnett County Public School System at North Gwinnett High School in the cafeteria.

She was a former member of Shadowbrook Baptist Church in Suwanee, GA and a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Buford, GA. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Michael Davis, Rev. Danny Newbern and Rev. Jackie Stewart officiating. Interment and graveside service will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA with Rev. Matt Calvert officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday, July 25, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. until time of service.

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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Ron Hunter Mr. Ron Hunter of Lawrenceville, GA passed July 18, 2016. Services are entrusted to Gregory B Levett & Sons Funeral Home Gwinnett Chapel.

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O. B. Johnson, Jr. Mr. O. B. Johnson, Jr., age 79, of Alto, formerly of Flowery Branch, passed away Thursday, July 21, 2016.

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Thomas Matthews Mr. Thomas Matthews, age 65 of Winder, passed away July 22, 2016.

“History and research have shown that large mergers of this size do not create greater efficiency, lower costs, or increase quality of care despite insurers’ claims to the contrary,’’ the group’s report said. “Mergers, once approved, cannot be unwound. Therefore, extreme caution should be taken in reviewing whether the mergers should be approved at all.”

Meredith Gonsahn, health policy analyst at Georgians for a Healthy Future, said the DOJ action was a victory for Georgia consumers, and also commended state insurance officials for postponing Tuesday’s Aetna hearing.

“The stakes for consumers are high, and today regulators acted to ensure that consumers are not left pay-

ing more for fewer options,” she said.

Earlier this year, Georgia Health News, citing a state insurance department document, reported that the two pending mega-mergers, if approved, would tighten an already compressed health insurance market in Georgia.

The combination of Aetna and Humana would have the greater impact of the two deals, according to a letter that a state insurance official wrote to a law firm.

The Aetna/Humana merger would give the combined company 58 percent of the individual policy market in Georgia. Anthem has 27 percent, and if it acquires Cigna, that total would increase to 29 percent, the letter said, basing its figures on 2014 data.

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The Thi Nguyen The Thi Nguyen age 87 of Snellville, GA passed away July 21, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Mary Oliver Mrs. Mary Lou Bryant Oliver, age 90 of Jefferson, Georgia who entered into rest Friday, July 22, 2016.

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Geraldine Rogers Geraldine Rogers age 81, of Suwanee, GA passed away on July 23, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Carlos Rosas Carlos Polidura Rosas age 62, of Loganville, GA passed away on July 20, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Roger Smith Mr. Roger Byron Smith, age 68 of Buford, Georgia who entered into rest Friday, July 22, 2016.

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Marvin “Dude” Stanley Marvin “Dude” Roy Stanley, age 77, of Ellijay, GA passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2016. He was born on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 to wonderful parents Viola Spain Stanley and Johnny Lee Stanley whom have both preceded him in death. Also going before him Loraine Johnny Louie and Larry.

He is survived by two sisters, Betty McCallister and Sarah Stanley both of Athens; his loving wife of 55 years, Charlene Sikes S

Stanley; three children, David (Kim) Stanley, Keith (Debbie) Stanley, and Leiane (Frank) Hovers. He was also blessed with amazing grandchildren, Josh (Gena) Hovers, Ashley (Ryan) Rickard, John (Lana) Stanley, Ben (Hifza) Stanley, Stephanie (Nick) Conner, Susan Hovers, Jeremy Hovers, Aaron (Amanda) Stanley, and Kody Stanley. He also has seven great grandchildren, Steven, Harlow, Carson, Tatum, K.K., Ellie, and Piper; as well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins that he loved.

Marvin worked many years with his daddy and brothers at J.L. Stanley Co. He retired in 2000 from Atlanta Coca Cola Bottling Co. Marvin was a member of Calvary Way Baptist Church in Ellijay.

A Funeral Service Honoring the Life of Marvin will be held on Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 2:00PM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with his friend and former Pastor Alton Wilson officiating.

Interment will follow at East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 28th from 11:00am until the time of service at 2:00pm in the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome. com. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service LLC, “A Family Company” 120 Scenic Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 770-963-2411 .

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awarded the Purple Heart & Bronze Star. Roy, besides being a farmer, was a master carpenter, building houses for many years for Fortenberry Brothers, then as an independent contractor. He built many homes throughout Gwinnett County. He also worked for Gwinnett County Board of Education Maintenance Department. Mr. Wallis was preceded in death by; Wife: Evelyn Wright Wallis; Infant Son: Doyle Wallis; Parents: John & Florence Wallis; Siblings: Wreatha Wallis, Ruth Pruitt, Edgar Wallis, JP Wallis. He is survived by: Daughters & Sons-in-law: Donna & Gene McMillian of Monroe, Danell & Clint Baber of Canton; Sons & Daughters-in-law: Wayne & Sereta Wallis of Auburn, Grant & Mary Sue Wallis of Monroe; Brother & Sister-in-law: Marvin & Irene Wallis of Dacula; Grandchildren: Darryl (Brenda), Amy, Beth; Emily (Carl), Scott (Kari); Ben (Julie), Jonathan (Amanda), Katie (Mark); Ryan (Dallas), Joy; 20 Great Grandchildren; Several Nieces & Nephews; Special thanks to Caregivers: Wendy, Joyce, Ricky, Brenda. In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to The Hope Clinic: 121 Langley Dr. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. The family will receive friends from 2-4PM & 6-8PM on Saturday, July 23, 2016 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home 300 Simonton Road S.W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770-962-3100.

Please leave online condolences at stewartfh.com.

Roy Wallis Roy D Wallis, age 92, of Monroe, formerly of Lawrenceville passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2016. Funeral Services will be held at 2:30 PM on Sunday, July 24, 2016 at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Rev. Scott Cramer & Rev. Ben Wallis will officiate. Interment church cemetery. Mr. Wallis was a WWII Veteran of the U.S. Army’s Americal Division, 182nd Infantry; He was wounded in the invasion of Cebu Island, Philippines, in March, 1945. Mr. Wallis was

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Brenda Weaver Ms. Brenda Weaver of Lilburn, GA passed July 19, 2016. Services are entrusted to Gregory B Levett & Sons Funeral Home Gwinnett Chapel.

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Steven Yurk Steven Yurk, age 46 of Winder, passed away July 20, 2016.

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MYTHS ABOUT GRIEVING

BY KEITH FARNER

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I deal with many people, some literally crying on my shoulder about grief and how they should deal with it. Like all stages of life, there are myths surrounding grief.

Here are some thoughts on how to deal with it and mental traps to avoid.

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Myth 1: Grief has a timeline.

Just as no two people or situations are similar, how long grief lasts is different with everyone. The grief process is a personal experience and influenced by many factors. Don’t tell yourself or let others tell you to ‘just snap out of it!’ It is also common for grief to return years after a death. A familiar song, returning to a mutually enjoyed place, holidays, birthdays can all trigger grief. It doesn’t mean you haven’t gotten better. It means you have gotten through this season which is part of the process. Grief is not a scorecard that you simply can check off.

Myth 2: If I Stop Hurting, I’ll Forsake my Loved one It is very common to feel you are forsaking a loved one if you smile, laugh or realize you are no longer dealing with grief. Holding onto pain to stay close to a loved one can slow down or block the healing process. Failing to move on often leads to guilt. Living through a loss and then eventually thriving does not diminish love for that person. If you find you cannot move forward, consider counseling or joining a support group. Talking with others and being candid is a tried and true way to work through grief.

Myth 3: Crying is a Sign of Weakness To the contrary, crying is nature’s way of releasing physical and emotional pain. Our culture has long made it unacceptable for people to cry, especially in a public place. Crying can actually make you stronger as it reflects that you are truly dealing with the grieving process rather than repressing it.

Myth 4: Grief Should be Experienced Alone Like crying, many of us are conditioned to think that sharing our grief is a sign that we are weak and somehow flawed. Many think they shouldn’t bother others with their sorrow. In reality friends, co-workers and neighbors have dealt with grief in some fashion. They will help you through yours. Also remember to be easy on yourself.... like you would if you were recovering from surgery. Experiment with social situations and find a comfortable balance of staying home or going out. Try to do one thing everyday that provides happiness.....listening to favorite music, taking a walk in a park, enjoying a hobby. It doesn’t have to be expensive or dramatic. Just some time to look forward to.

All of us will go through the grieving process at some point in our lives.

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FIRST launched the STEM Equity Community Innovation Grants this year to ensure more students and communities are exposed to creative problem-solving and hands-on learning opportunities regardless of economic or social backgrounds. Applications were evaluated based on alignment with FIRST in its goal of increasing diversity; demographics affected; community need; execution strength; track record of serving targeted students; and the value of proposed activities.

The program will bring First LEGO League Jr. teams to Ferguson, Graves, Lilburn, Meadowcreek, Nesbit and Rockbridge elementary schools. This will be the first opportunity for kindergarten through third grade students to explore real-world scientific challenges and learn teamwork while working with motorized LEGO elements. These elementary schools and Lilburn and Radloff middle schools will receive the materials and instructional resources necessary to add additional First LEGO League teams for fourth- through eighth-grade students.

Georgia’s First Lady will be the keynote speaker at next month’s Georgia Gwinnett College graduation, the school announced Sandra on Friday.

Deal About 150 students are expected to receive bachelor’s degrees and hear from Sandra Deal at the event at 10 a.m. on Aug. 2 at the Infinite Energy Center arena in Duluth.

Deal was a teacher for more than 15 years and retired from teaching sixth grade in Hall County.

Promoting literacy is one of her top priorities and she often visits Gwinnett schools to read to children. Deal has visited and read in all 159 counties and 181 school districts and overall visited more than 630 schools across the state.

In 2011, Deal launched “With a Servant’s Heart,” which began as a statewide day of service and grew into regular participation in community service programs and volunteer events across Georgia.

She serves as chairwoman of the Georgia Children’s Cabinet, which coordinates policies and resources to improve outcomes for children and families.

Nationally, she serves as a Scholastic Reading Ambassador and a national representative for the annual “We Give Books: Read for the Record” campaign by Jumpstart.

Deal grew up in Gainesville and graduated from Georgia College and State University, where she is a member of the board of trustees.

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Investigators: Arson cause of Sugar Hill home fire

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Gwinnett fire investigators declared on Friday a fire that damaged the basement of a home in Sugar Hill on Wednesday to be arson.

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Gwinnett County fire officials announced on Friday that they believe a fire at a home in Sugar Hill on Wednesday afternoon was a case of arson.

Capt. Tommy Rutledge said investigators ruled the fire to be arson after they determined the suspect forced their way in through a basement door of the home on the 4800 block of Parkview Mine Drive and started the fire. The fire was contained to the basement, but smoke spread throughout the home and two men who lived there were displaced by the incident.

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Infant safe following SWAT situation, but suspect at large A Gwinnett County SWAT team was called in after police believed a man barricaded himself in a Loganville area home with an infant. It turned out the man and the infant were not in the home.

Police Cpl. Collin Flynn said officers arrived at the home on the 200 block of Jarrod Oaks Court around 8 p.m. in response to a report of a domestic incident and found the man barricaded inside.

Flynn said that when officers arrived, a female

complainant informed them that the father of her child, Keandre Davis, 19, had barricaded himself inside of his residence with their infant child after a dispute.

The complainant stated that Davis was armed with a firearm and had made threats to hurt himself and their child.

Officers surrounded the residence and attempted to call Davis out. They received no response from inside, so the SWAT team was activated and responded, Flynn said.

Warrants for Davis were obtained for simple battery and simple assault.

“After the SWAT team responded, it was discovered that Davis had fled the residence prior to police arriving,” Flynn said. “He left the infant in the care of a family friend who returned to the scene after the SWAT team responded with the child. The child was returned to its mother and was not harmed” The whereabouts of Davis are unknown at this time.

The Gwinnett County Police Department requests that anyone with information about this case or the location of Davis notify police immediately.

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Mykelle McDaniel (91) of the Grayson Rams celebrates after recording a sack during the Class AAAAAA first round state playoff game against the Wheeler Wildcats at Grayson High School in Loganville. (File Photo)

McDaniel signs with Tennessee

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said of signing his letter of intent.

McDaniel has been a highly sought after At the end of his prospect throughout weekend visit to the his career at Grayson University of Tennessee as a three-star prospect on Saturday, Grayson and the No. 42 player grad Mykelle McDaniel in Georgia according to was handed scholarship 247sports.com. But he papers from head football had to put his recruitment on hold as he awaited the coach Butch Jones. results of his Gateway The idea was for McDaniel and his mother to test, which he needed to become a full academic travel back to Gwinnett NCAA qualifier.

County and think about He had to sit and watch the decision, but McDanas his fellow Grayson seiel was tired of waiting.

He and his mother had niors signed scholarships already decided earlier in in February on National Signing Day, and then the visit that Tennessee had to wait even more as was the place for him, freshmen began reporting and he signed with the to campuses across the Volunteers on Saturday country. as a late addition to the Finally, last week he 2016 signing class. He received the news that reports back to Knoxhe had passed his Gateville, Tenn., in 11 days. way, which along with “It felt like a billion pounds had been lifted See MCDANIEL, Page 5B off my shoulders,” he

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By Will Hammock Grayson grad and South Carolina freshman Aliyah Abrams, right, will compete in the Rio Olympics for Guyana.

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Abrams will run for Guyana in Olympics

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As a true freshman, Grayson grad Aliyah Abrams ran a time of 52.04 seconds in the 400-meter dash at the SEC Championships to finish fourth for South Carolina.

It turned about to be a life-changing sprint for the 2015 Daily Post girls runner of the year. The time eclipsed the Olympic qualifying mark of 52.20 and punched her ticket to the Rio Olympics in the event for Guyana.

Both of Abrams’ parents are from the South American country, which allows her to compete

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reprsent Guyana on the international level.

When Abrams posted the time in May on the campus of the University of Alabama, the Olympics were the furthest thing from her mind. She was just trying to score points for the Gamecocks and didn’t even realize she had just become an Olympian.

In fact, she didn’t notice until days later when

the Guyana Olympic Association posted on its Facebook page that she was one of four athletes to qualify for the games.

“Actually at that time I wasn’t even thinking about qualifying,” she said. “I was just wanted to score some points for my team. Basically I just surged, gave it everything I had and scored some points for my team. At the end of the day it was a qualifying time.”

Once she realized she was headed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abrams was obviously thrilled.

Like any sprinter, the Olympics have always been the “ultimate goal” for Abrams. She also said the plan was to run for

the country her parents, Claudia Lloyd-Abrams and Denzel Abrams, are from.

“It’s just exciting,” she said. “It’s going to be a great experience for me and I’m just proud to represent Guyana and I’ll just go and do my best.”

Abrams was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but grew up in Loganville. Her older sister Jasmine ran for Grayson and told track coach Jason Abner that the youngest Abrams — they also have a brother Christopher — was going to be a stud for the Rams.

After a strong freshman season, followed by two injury-riddled seasons, See ABRAMS, Page 5B

ever, and definitely biggest, offensive line.

“The linemen this year, the offensive and Size always has been defensive line, are proban issue in the stillably the biggest we’ve young history of the ever had,” Bach said.

Mountain View football “It’s probably the most depth we’ve ever had on program. the line and probably The high school enthe most talented from a rollment, on the lower end of the classification standpoint of size, speed and football knowledge. for the state’s biggest We’re pretty good across schools, has made it tough to match the depth the board. … We’ve never had (the big lineof some of the Bears’ opponents. Then finding men) here.

“That’s one of the football players within that student body who fit hardest areas as a the bill of a big Georgia small school in (Class) AAAAAAA. I think lineman has been difwe’re the secondficult, too. smallest school in Mountain View has AAAAAAA. It’s hard found big linemen here to build depth and find and there but rarely big guys. But I think more than one or two that we’ve finally got the at a time, a trend that guys like that who can finally has changed. compete in this league.”

The team enters the The offensive front’s 2016 season with what head coach Nick Bach See BEARS, Page 5B feels could be its best-

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Strug less in control thanks to children

By Pritha Sarkar Reuters

LONDON — As a selfconfessed control freak whose gymnastics career was all about regimentation, Kerri Strug cannot quite believe how her life has spiraled out of control over the past four years — all thanks to her children Tyler and Alayna.

“Because of my athletics background I thought I’d be a really strict mom and that I’d put my children on really tight schedules. But once I had them, it’s not how it’s gone,” 1996 Olympic champion Strug told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“I like to be in control. As an athlete you are focused on you and your actions. But my kids don’t necessarily always want to do what I want them to do.

“I don’t discipline them as much as I should. They just have to give me a cute smile or shed a few tears and then usually they get what they want.

“I’m hoping as they get older I get back a little bit more power in the relationship.”

“Control” and “discipline” were the two buzzwords that dictated Strug’s life for almost two decades.

It was that single-minded focus which, despite being in excruciating pain, allowed the American to take a leap of faith at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and ended with her landing a vault on an already damaged ankle.

The fact that three seconds later she had collapsed to her knees, or that she had to be carried back into the arena by her coach Bela Karolyi for the medal ceremony will forever remain as one of the abiding images of the Olympics.

While 20 years have passed since that vault led

1996 Olympian Kerri Strug waves during the Parade of Olympians Celebration at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif.

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to her face being plastered on a Wheaties box — which now lies “empty without the cereal in it at my parent’s house” — for Strug that iconic moment is more about her failures than triumphs.

“I was very upset at what happened as I had anticipated competing in the individual (apparatus) and all-around finals,” said Strug, whose bravery helped the United States to seal their first ever women’s Olympic gymnastics team title.

“Winning individual medals was why I had stuck in for another four years after Barcelona. So my mindset at the time was that I didn’t accomplish all my goals, that I didn’t win as many medals as I had wanted.

“But over the years I have come to understand the impact of that vault and what transpired probably superseded winning numerous individual medals, in terms of notoriety,” added Strug, who had injured her left ankle when she crash landed following her first vault.

“A lot of athletes win a lot of medals, but it’s the story behind them that people remember. I would have liked to have performed a vault to inspire … but not to have injured myself to the degree that I had.”

Love conquers all for Douglas

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Gabby Douglas during the floor exercise in the women’s gymnastics U.S. Olympic team trials at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro-USA Today Sports)

“missed gymnastics too much” while taking a twoyear hiatus following the London Games. “(Being away from gymnastics) was bittersweet for me because my body and my mind needed the break but at the same time I wanted to get back out there and I want to start doing it again,” said Douglas, who is the first American to win a team and all around gold at the same Olympics.

“I was so excited to be back out there competing on one of the biggest stages and doing very well after taking two years off.

It was great. When I was competing, I was thinking: ‘Yes I’m back, it’s official’.”

During her time away from the sport, Douglas watched her fellow American Simone Biles burst on to the world stage and wipe out the opposition.

That left many Douglas supporters wondering whether it was wise for her to come back into top-flight gymnastics and risk tarnishing her record of winning at least one gold medal at every major global meeting she had entered.

They need not have worried as Douglas — whose surname is an anagram of “USA gold” — not only

helped her country to win team title at the 2015 world championships, she also kept Biles on her toes in the all-around before settling for silver.

That performance proved her gamble had paid off.

“I’m more excited this time because I’ve been there so I know what to expect. I’m used to the pressure. I know the process and the procedure so I’m finding it more fun this time around,” said Douglas, the first African-American gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title.

Did she not think she had more to lose than gain by going to a second Olympics?

“Before London I didn’t get to do some of the competitions that I wanted to do,” explained Douglas, who grew up idolizing Dominique Dawes, a member of the triumphant 1996 Magnificent Seven team.

“I wanted to go to another world championships, to win the American Cup. So I’m checking off my list the competitions I always dreamed about going to.

“I feel like it’s a big gain, because in the process I am learning more skills and difficult gymnastics.

“In gymnastics everything is mental, so you have to fully enjoy it. I love what I do.”

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LONDON — When it comes to discussing her love life, Gabby Douglas is ready to bare all.

“I have one relationship: His name is Gym … Nastics,” the Olympic champion declared during a scene in her reality television show “Douglas Family Gold.”

For the 20-year-old American, gymnastics has been the one true love that she simply cannot walk away from.

When she fails to strike gold in a competition, it causes her a lot of heartache.

When she trains for hours in a gym, it causes her a great deal of pain.

When training sessions and competitions clash with her social life, it isolates her from her friends.

Despite all the pitfalls of being an elite gymnast, and her scrappy performance during the U.S. Olympic trials when she finished seventh, Douglas will be in Rio next month as she bids to become the first woman since Czech Vera Caslavska in 1968 to win back-to-back Olympic allaround titles.

“Oh my gosh, that’s so crazy that no one’s gotten back-to-back golds for so long,” Douglas, who is bidding to become only the third woman to do the Olympic all around double, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“I would definitely love to add my name (to that exclusive club), you know, going back and defending my title. So yeah, I am very confident.”

In a grueling sport that leaves champions on the scrap heap at a young age, Douglas has bucked the trend as she discovered she

Failing to fulfil her goals is something that haunted Strug throughout her sporting career, but rather than getting depressed about it, she chose to use it as a motivational tool.

“Not getting what I wanted in (the 1992) Barcelona (Games) made me want to get it at Atlanta that much more and allowed me to work that much harder to get there,” Strug said.

“I was just 14 (in 1992) so I wasn’t allowed at the opening ceremony. … so there was some disappointment.

But as I’ve gotten older I appreciate … it was a big deal to be the youngest Olympian there.

“I realize we learn more from our failures than our successes, and had I made it to the all around final or individual event finals in Barcelona and won any color medal, I may not have stuck with it for another four years for Atlanta.

“So I’m glad things did not go exactly how I wanted in Barcelona. It was a good thing.”

Strug’s post-Atlanta activities included an appearance in teenage drama Beverly Hills 90210, tossing the coin at an NFL game, ringing the bell to open trading on the New York Stock

Exchange and attending then U.S. President Bill Clinton’s 50th birthday bash.

But rather than becoming a permanent fixture on the celebrity circuit, the 38-year-old is now happy being “just another mom, another colleague or another co-worker.”

Describing herself as “a worker bee,” Strug is responsible for motivating the country’s next generation in her job as a “program manager for Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention”.

Being a federal civil servant might not have been one of her childhood ambitions, but it is a job that has allowed her to move back to the Tucson neighborhood she grew up in, and live five doors away from her parents.

“When I was really young … I wanted to be a pediatrician, because my father’s a cardiovascular surgeon,” said Strug, whose parents help take care of her 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter whenever she has to go away for business trips.

“As I grew older, I realized I didn’t really love science. So although I wanted to help people, and being a doctor sounded good, I realized I would have to take a lot of classes in science, which I was not good at and didn’t really love.

“I don’t believe I would have made a very good pediatrician. I would get upset with the parents instead of calming them down.

“When you are a child, I don’t think anyone says, ‘I want to work for the federal government.’ In a sense, I’m still helping people, just not in the way I had dreamed of.

“I’m a person who had a dream, attained it and now want to be a good wife and good mother. Everything works out for the best.”

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Kyle Busch adds Xfinity win at Indy to successful day

By Reid Spencer

The Sports Xchange

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — About the only thing Kyle Busch didn’t win Saturday was the one prize he wasn’t eligible for.

But Busch won everything else, capping a phenomenal day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a victory in the Lilly Diabetes 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race — and he did so with tires that were 23 laps older than those of his pursuers.

Busch led 62 of 63 laps but had to hold off Kevin Harvick during a two-lap dash in overtime to win for the third time at the Brickyard, the seventh time in 11 starts this season and the 83rd time in his career, extending his series record.

The Xfinity race was actually the fourth competition that Busch won Saturday. First, he won the top starting spot for the Lilly Diabetes 250, the 54th pole of his career. Next, he won the pole position for Sunday’s Crown Royal 400 (3 p.m.

ET on NBCSN), one of the marquee NASCAR

NASCAR Xfinity driver Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha Busch kiss the bricks while son Brexton Locke Busch watches after Kyle Busch won the Lilly Diabetes 250 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Photo: Brian Spurlock-USA Today Sports)

Sprint Cup Series events of the season.

After that, Busch led all 20 laps and took the checkered flag in the first heat race under the Xfinity Series’ final Dash 4 Cash event of the season.

Busch didn’t win the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus, a prize available only to series regulars.

That check went to Justin Allgaier, who rolled home in fifth place, the highest finisher among the four drivers who earned eligibility in the heat races.

Busch, however, has one more mountain to climb. On Sunday, he’ll attempt to complete his second straight weekend sweep at the vaunted

Brickyard.

Busch held off Harvick, third-place finisher Paul Menard and fourth-place Kyle Larson even though Busch had stayed out on old rubber while those behind him pitted for new tires under the first caution on Lap 50.

“The new tires for those guys were good for them

but not so good for us,” Busch said. “I just dug in deep and gave it everything I had. I knew I had to get really good restarts.

On the second-to-last one (on Lap 54), I got a really good one, and then the last one (on lap 62 in overtime), it was OK. “I got an OK one, and I saw Harvick pull out … but he never got alongside of me. I never felt him close enough that he was going to pull alongside. … It’s a pretty awesome feeling to be able to go back to Victory Lane here this year. We’re sitting on the pole tomorrow, and hopefully we can have another sweep here.”

Busch had a lead of more than eight seconds on Lap 48 of a scheduled 60 when JGR teammate Erik Jones, the wire-towire winner of the second heat race, blew a right rear tire entering Turn 1 and spun, causing the afternoon’s first caution.

While Busch and series leader Daniel Suarez stayed out on old tires, the remaining eight lead-lap cars came to pit road.

Busch survived the restart on lap 54, but a lap later,

Ray Black Jr. and Harrison Rhodes wrecked off Turn 2 to bring put the second yellow and force the overtime.

On the Lap 62 restart, Harvick pushed Larson, then ducked to the inside but was reluctant to take a bad angle into the first corner. As Harvick and Larson battled briefly for second, Busch pulled away and ultimately crossed the finish line .411 of a second ahead of Harvick.

“I really thought I could beat him down the backstretch if I got off of (Turn) 2 well and could clear the 42 (Larson),” Harvick said. “I got to the inside and kind of hit the chip and decided to hold the line up a little bit and try to get a run, and the 42 got stuck on the outside and that ruined my plan.

“But our goal was to overachieve today, and we did that and capitalized on some situations and had a couple of good restarts and wound up second.

All in all, it wasn’t a bad day.”

Just nowhere near as good as the one Busch had.

Kyle Busch wins pole for Brickyard 400 Gordon adjusting to being back in the driver’s seat

By Reid Spencer

The Sports Xchange

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — A sweep at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nothing new to Kyle Busch.

But this year, he started early.

With a lap at 184.634 mph (48.745 seconds) in the final round of Saturday’s knockout qualifying, Busch claimed the pole position for today’s Crown Royal 400 at the Brickyard (3 p.m. on NBCSN).

Earlier in the day, the driver who swept both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and XFINITY Series races at Indy last year earned the top starting spot for Saturday afternoon’s Lilly Diabetes 250 XFINITY race.

But the Sprint Cup pole that completed the Saturday sweep was special, because it was the first for Busch at the vaunted Brickyard.

“I haven’t been great at qualifying here, but the guys gave me a great piece this time around, and I’m real pumped about that,” said Busch, who claimed his second Coors Light Pole Award of the season and the 19th of his career.

“We’re starting first in both of these (races), and hopefully we can end that way.

“It means a lot (to win the pole). It’s definitely pretty special to be running

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch pulls out of the pits to make his qualifying run for the Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Photo: Brian Spurlock-USA Today Sports)

the way that we’re running and to have the success that we’ve had here the last couple of years at Indy, and I’d love nothing more than to try to win here again.”

Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was .023 seconds faster than the No. 19 of teammate Carl Edwards (184.547 mph).

“I was happy with my lap,” Edwards said. “I was surprised Kyle got me.

That was a good lap for him — I mean, that was a good lap that he ran because I felt like my lap was pretty good — but, yeah, it’s frustrating right now to be second because it’s so close, and the pole position is obviously huge here.

“But by tomorrow, the race gets started and I

think I’ll be pretty happy with that starting spot, so just good job by all my guys.”

Making his last appearance at Indy as a Sprint Cup Series driver, Tony Stewart earned the third starting spot with a lap at 184.328 mph and knew exactly where he had lost critical speed.

“I just wish I could do lap three (final round) one more time and not clip the apron in (Turn) 4,” Stewart said. “I think we could have been on the pole.”

Denny Hamlin qualified fourth, giving JGR three of the top four spots. Brad Keselowski in fifth has the top Ford. Ryan Newman, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson will start from positions six

through 10, respectively.

The time trials were a disappointment for the Hendrick Motorsports drivers, who failed to place a car in the top 12.

Jimmie Johnson ran the fastest lap of the day in the first of three rounds, touring the 2.5-mile speedway in 48.435 seconds (185.816 mph). But the six-time series champion failed to advance beyond the second round, losing the 12th and final position to Kurt Busch by .008 seconds.

Johnson will start 13th, Chase Elliott 14th and Jeff Gordon, subbing for ailing Dale Earnhardt Jr., claimed the 21st spot on the grid.

“I felt really comfortable right there,” said Gordon, who was 15th fastest in the first round. “I feel like today I’m much calmer than I was yesterday (in practice). Usually, my heart is beating more for qualifying than it is for practice, but that wasn’t the case.

“So, today I feel more relaxed and comfortable in the car. I hope to feel the same way tomorrow.

Tomorrow’s challenge is going to be being around traffic, and also trying to get the balance of the car right and do that when you’re by yourself as well as when you’re around other cars.”

Snedeker leads Canadian Open by 1 shot The Sports Xchange Brandt Snedeker finished his 6-under-par 66 so early on Saturday that he was able to spend about an hour helping the CBS television crew with commentary.

By the time the third round was over, Snedeker held a one-stroke lead over Dustin Johnson and amateur Jared du Toit of Canada in the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario.

Snedeker holed a sevenfoot eagle putt on the final hole and had a 54-hole total of 9-under 207.

“It was a great way to finish, but I didn’t expect to be ahead at the end of the day,” said Snedeker, who needs some good results to make the United States team for the Ryder Cup at the end of September. “It’s important that I make that team.

“I have to get my game in shape and this was a

Brandt Snedeker (USA) tees off the 11th hole during the third round of the RBC Canadian Open golf tournament at Glen Abbey Golf Club. (Photo Eric Bolte-USA Today Sports)

good start. I just have to pull on my experience tomorrow and play well again. There are a lot of guys right there and I will need to play another great round to win.”

Du Toit, trying to become the first Canadian to win his national championship since Pat Fletcher in 1954, sank a 40-foot eagle putt on the last hole

to complete a 70 and will play in the final twosome with Snedeker today.

“It feels good,” said du Toit, who will be a senior at Arizona State and is playing in his first PGA Tour event. “I’ve never been here before, but I’m looking forward to it.

“This will be a new type of pressure and atmosphere for me, but I’m just trying

to have fun and golf my ball.”

Johnson, the U.S. Open champion and secondranked player in the world, was tied for the lead after each of the first two rounds but needed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to shoot 71 and grab his share of second.

Steve Wheatcroft made a 43-foot eagle putt on the last home to card a 64 for the low round of the day, and was two shots back in a tie for fourth with Alex Cejka, who holed a 84-foot birdie bomb on the closing hole.

Martin Laird of Scotland finished at 68 and was another stroke behind in a tie for sixth with Cameron Tringale (69), Matt Kuchar (70), Chad Campbell (70), Ricky Barnes (71) and Jon Rahm (72) of Spain.

Top-ranked Jason Day of Australia, the defending champion, followed his second-round 76 with a 69 and was seven shots down in a tie for 28th.

By Reid Spencer The Sports Xchange

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — For substitute driver Jeff Gordon, practice didn’t make perfect on Friday afternoon.

Instead, it reminded Gordon just how difficult driving a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car can be.

In all fairness, Gordon has scant experience with the 2016 competition package, a version of which was used on a test basis only at Kentucky and Darlington last year in what was supposed to be Gordon’s final season in Sprint Cup. But concussion-like symptoms have forced Dale Earnhardt Jr. out of the No. 88 Chevrolet and simultaneously pressed Gordon into unexpected service. To say the least, Gordon’s first lap at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, site of today’s Crown Royal 400 at the Brickyard, was an eye-opener.

Gordon hadn’t driven a Cup car since the 2015 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and he had less than three days to prepare after returning from vacation in France on Tuesday.

“Being out of the car that long and not really having a lot of experience with this package, it was a tall task, I’ll be honest,” Gordon said. “It was one of the most challenging days I’ve had in a race car to try to get comfortable, be consistent, have the speed and give good feedback.

“I mean, I still love this track and I’m glad that we are doing this this weekend, because I think that helps me have the confidence to be able to learn faster, but it’s tough. It was tough. That first run I was like, ‘Wow, I forgot how hard of work this is.’”

Hendrick hoping his teams can turn a corner Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s exit from the No. 88 Chevrolet because of concussion-like symptoms couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time for Hendrick Motorsports.

The organization that dominated the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for

much of the first decade of the 21st century has fallen on hard times lately, as Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske have gained ascendancy in the sport.

Hendrick driver Jimmie Johnson won for the second time this season in the fifth race of the year, at his home track in Fontana, Calif., but Gibbs and Penske have combined to win 12 of the 14 races since then.

It’s true that Kurt Busch triumphed at Pocono and Tony Stewart at Sonoma in equipment supplied by Hendrick, but the flagship organization can count only Johnson’s two victories this season.

Even before Earnhardt stepped out of his car for last week’s New Hampshire race, Chase Elliott in eighth place was the leading Hendrick driver in the Sprint Cup standings.

Johnson, a six-time champion and a perennial top-10 machine, has but one finish better than 12th in his last 10 races, and as a whole, the team have been plagued by an uncharacteristic spate of accidents.

“It seems like when it rains, it pours,” said team owner Rick Hendrick. “I think at Daytona (in July) we wrecked three or four cars. And then we went to Kentucky and wrecked again. We were in good shape in New Hampshire, but wrecked again.

“Our place looks like a salvage yard where all of the cars have been tore up. But that just makes us dig harder.”

Losing Earnhardt for an indefinite period of time hasn’t helped.

“You never like having a curveball,” Hendrick said. “This is kind of one of the toughest things you have to go through, (when) one of your star drivers can’t drive. And so, the encouraging news is that everybody just stepped up and is working harder.

“We’re determined to work in every area from the engine to the chassis and aero and everything. And the teams are excited. It’s kind of our ‘refuse to lose’ belief.

But we didn’t need this, for sure. We didn’t need the wrecks we’ve gone through.”

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Dacula’s Allen Daniels finds a home at Boston College

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DACULA — Dacula senior defensive lineman Allen Daniels didn’t have a single scholarship offer at this time last year.

As the summer turned into the fall, he began to worry a bit but opted to let his play speak for itself.

Playing outside in the Falcons’ 3-4 defense, he recorded 55 tackles with five sacks last season as a junior.

During the year, Miami (Ohio) was the first school to offer him in November.

In the spring, Georgia State, Coastal Carolina and Ohio University were among those who offered him, with Appalachian State, Purdue and Boston College beginning to show interest as well.

After visiting Boston College and receiving an offer last week, he ended

the Boston College coaching staff at Central Gwinnett’s satellite camp with Ohio State, Mississippi State and other college coaching staffs earlier this summer. BC defensive line coach Al Washington liked what he saw and invited the 6-foot-1, 290-pound lineman to visit Chestnut Hill, Mass., for head coach Steve Addazio’s camp.

Daniels researched the school online before the trip and liked what he saw. He also clicked with Washington, who reminds Daniels of Dacula’s defensive line coach Jed Aldridge. The academic prestige of the ACC school was the cherry on top when Dacula’s Allen Daniels (49) rips the jersey of Parkview quarterback Jack Chambers (8) he and his family made the to make the tackle during last season’s game at Parkview in Lilburn. (Photo: Karl L. decision.

Moore) “I just felt like if I went his recruitment on Wednes- have happened a year ago,” There’s millions of kids out there I’d come out a way day by verbally committing he told the Daily Post. “I there that want this oppor- better person,” he said. to play for the Eagles next was just talking to my dad tunity but can’t get it. Only “Not just a better player, season. about this last week. It’s the 1percent make it. All but a better person in “I would have thought just a blessing in general to praise be to God.” general.” literally none of this would be in the position that I am.

Daniels worked out for At Boston College he’ll

Richt part of a trio of new ACC coaches The Sports Xchange

to play for a guy who has that mentality.”

CHARLOTTE — The Fuente, who began arrival of new coaches working on campus in the Coastal Division before Beamer took the dominated much of the Hokies to a 2015 bowl conversation during the game, said he’s happy Atlantic Coast Conferwith the way the change ence Kickoff. was orchestrated.

Three of the ACC’s “The transition has four new coaches are in been extremely smooth the same division, with thanks to the profesMark Richt taking over at sionalism of people …

Miami, Bronco Mendenwithout worrying about hall in charge at Virginia who gets credit,” Fuente and Justin Fuente at the Miami Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt speaks with said. helm for Virginia Tech.

North Carolina, the the media during the ACC Football Kickoff at Westin Richt, a Miami grad Charlotte. (Photo: Jeremy Brevard-USA Today Sports) reigning champion of the who had been coaching Coastal Division, faces at Georgia, probably sees do?’” Richt said. “I really “I think that has been the seven teams with firstdon’t know for sure. The biggest change, earned the ACC in a different year coaches, beginning only thing I promised is light considering he’s confidence through our with non league foe that we’re going to work preparation.” also a former assistant Georgia on Sept. 3. hard and try to do things coach in the conference Virginia Tech coach “Where it hurts us in the way everybody will while at Florida State.

Justin Fuente takes over these early games, that “I really look forward be proud of us.” after the retirement of makes it much more diffito the changes that have There’s plenty to fix legendary Frank Beamer, cult when you’re trying to happened,” Richt said. at Virginia and Virginia who was the winningest prepare for them without “More teams. I think the Tech as well. active Division I coach any film,” North Carolina league is much deeper “We’re ahead of when he stepped away. coach Larry Fedora said. and tougher top to bottom schedule in terms of the Fuente said it’s imporGeorgia Tech coach than when I remember culture, with the executant to understand and Paul Johnson might have leaving it.” tion to follow,” Menden- embrace the foundation a different vantage point.

In each of the cases, hall said. that Beamer established, The Yellow Jackets plays the programs they take Mendenhall, who rebut that building on that Miami annually in the over have been struggling placed Mike London, said is the best way to show Coastal Division, so to find stability in recent he has seen confidence the proper respect for it. facing off with a Richtyears, with even Virginia blossom in his team since “Something he said coached team will come Tech showing signs of the first team meeting. right away that stuck with earlier in the season than decline.

“If you believe you’re me,” Hokies fullback the typical late-November Richt succeeds Al capable, you kind of Sam Rogers said, “is matchup with non-league Golden with the Hurriare anxious to take on that he wasn’t going to rival Georgia. canes. challenges rather than tear anything down that “Certainly he brings “The thing that people be hesitant or apprehenCoach Beamer started. some credibility to their want to ask, ‘How do you sive about what might He was starting with that program and to the conthink the team is going to come,” Mendenhall said. foundation. It’s awesome ference,” Johnson said.

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Abrams

in the 400 in the event but said it was a great Abrams made good on experience. her older sister’s predic“The crowd and all the tion as a senior. She led people were just very Grayson to a secondsupportive,” Abrams said. place finish at the state “(They were) very happy track meet, winning the that another person is state title in the 400 with going to represent them. a state record time of It was overall a good 53.10. She also ran a leg experience to see where on the Rams’ state chammy family is from all that pion 400-meter relay good stuff.” team.

Abrams said her famShe carried the moily has encouraged her mentum over to her to make the most of her freshman season at South trip to the Olympics. The Carolina this year. Her games begin on Aug. 5, Olympic qualifying time Grayson grad Aliyah Abrams capped off her stellar track begins on Aug. 12 in the 400 at the SEC freshman year for South Carolina by earning a trip to and Abrams opens her Championships was the the Olympics to compete for Guyana. (Photo: Kim Spir/ competition the next day ninth-fastest time in pro- South Carolina Athletics) in the 400 preliminaries gram history and earned at 11 a.m. The 400 finals her a spot in the event at some.’ It’s just great to people I talked to said are set for Monday, Aug. the NCAA Championsee her talents and really that usually freshman 15, at 9:45 p.m. ships. She was part of just her being healthy and year people don’t do as While competing will South Carolina’s thirdjust enjoying running. well because it’s a transi- certainly be a career place 1,600-meter team That’s the key for her. If tion year. I was able to highlight for Abrams, she at nationals and she also she stays healthy and she overcome that.” plans to make sure she ran the second-fastest keeps doing what she’s Now Abrams will be soaks in the whole expe200-meter time of the doing, she’s going to be looking to surprise even rience in Rio. year for South Carolina successful, no doubt.” more people in the Rio “I think the one thing at 23.92.

Her early success in Olympics. She is one of I’m looking forward to “It’s just crazy,” Abner the SEC as a freshman just six Olympians for the most is seeing all said. “You look at it. did surprise Abrams a bit, Guyana, a country with the other sports,” she A year ago she was in she said. The toughest an estimated population said. “Being able to see high school, she was just part of the transition was of almost 800,000 people athletes from all the graduating. Now seeing the fact that the season is just north of Brazil and other sports and really how successful she was a grueling stretch from east of Venezuela. just appreciating where at the University of South indoors in the winter to Last month Abrams everyone is coming from Carolina, now she goes to outdoors in the spring. got the chance to run in and seeing how they’ve the Olympics. You kind “I was pretty sura meet in Guyana in the already got to where they of step back and it’s like, prised,” she said. “A lot Aliann Pompey Invitaare, and seeing some ‘Holy cow. This is aweof the upperclassmen and tional. She finished third great performances.”

likely line up inside in its 4-3 defense, but said he’ll play wherever he’s asked.

With his his recruitment wrapped, Daniels is now focused on his senior season for Dacula. Despite losing defensive talent to graduation, Daniels feels good about the Falcons defensive unit in Class AAAAAAA. “We’re about to do it,” he said. “We’re planning on doing some great things. I plan on doing great things.

I feel like we’re a team to watch out for in (Class AAAAAA). We want to have the best defense in the state and that’s what I think we can do. We’ve got Brandon Jones on the outside playing end, we’ve got (defensive back) Jaylon Jones, we’ve got (linebackers) Ty Harris and Kenneth Holder. We’ve got weapons on defense. We have an attitude of everybody run to the ball, we don’t care who we’re going against.”

McDaniel

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Even with continued interest from ACC, SEC his GPA and ACT score and Big 12 programs, made him a full qualifier the waiting weighed to sign with any school. heavy on the 6-foot-4, He let former Gray240-pound defensive son community coach end.

“It was very stressful,” Kenyatta Watson know, he said. “Very stressful. and Watson alerted the slew of Power 5 schools At times you just really who had been recruiting want to give up, but I give credit to my mom.

McDaniel in the fall.

She had the most faith in Since Signing Day, me and kept me going, McDaniel has taken visits to South Carolina, kept me pushing.

McDaniel recorded Mississippi State and 89 tackles and 10.5 Texas A&M in addition sacks last fall as the to Tennessee.

Rams reached the Class “Overall (Tennessee) AAAAAA state semifit the best from the opfinals. He is the third tions I had left after me going through everything Gwinnett prospect in The Vols’ 2016 class, I had to go through of joining Peachtree Ridge getting eligible,” McDaniel said. “I had (Ten- grads Nigel Warrior and Baylen Buchanan. nessee,) Texas A&M, Asked how he thinks FSU, Oklahoma and a he’ll fit into the Voluncouple other smaller teers defense, McDanschools, and they were the best one as far as my iel simply responded, playing style and me be- “Sacking the quarterback.” ing successful.”

Mountain View’s Jonathan Stewart poses for a portrait at Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

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Bears

biggest player is a top college prospect, 6-foot8, 290-pound Jonathan Stewart. The left tackle’s 2015 season was his first in football, but he has made great strides in a short span and already racked up double-figure scholarship offers from Division I schools.

“I love his progression, his attitude and effort,” Bach said. “He got our hardest-worker award for the offseason.

He’s a guy who goes as hard as his body will let him. The improvements he’s made from last year to now are staggering — how much weight he’s put on, how much faster his 40 (-yard dash) is, he’s added to his vertical leap. He’s become an excellent college prospect. It all really starts with him.”

Bryan Alvarenga, a 6-1, 230-pounder, also returns up front and a third senior, 6-4, 275-pound Elijah Watson, also will help up front, though Watson will be more heavily involved on the defensive front. They will

line up alongside two impressive sophomores, 6-4, 280-pound Jaelin Humphries and 6-0, 255-pound Aidan Higgins. Humphries already is getting heavy attention from colleges and Higgins comes from a family of linemen — his oldest brother Andrew, a Duluth grad, is Mountain View’s offensive line coach and played football at Tulane, while middle brother Alex is a Peachtree Ridge grad who plays at Elon.

“The starting linemen are good and we’ve got a couple of other guys who are providing good depth,” Bach said.

The line will fuel an offense that features a talented group of wide receivers alongside promising quarterback Matthew Edwards.

Will the group be good enough to reach the postseason, which would be a first for Mountain View?

“We have a make the playoffs kind of attitude right now,” Bach said.

“Anything less than the playoffs would be a disappointment around here.”

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Silverbacks fall to Middlesbrough G-Braves win 2-1

By Colin Hubbard Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA — It’s not that often that a member of the English Premiere League makes a trip across the pond to play a friendly in the United States.

The Middlesbrough FC U23 team made its way to Silverbacks’ park to take on the freshly crowned South Atlantic Conference champions. And while the match meant little, it was a great experience for both teams to play one another.

Middlesbrough held a one-goal lead at halftime and scored the deciding goal in the 84th minute to knock off the Silverbacks 2-1. Anthony Tokpah scored the Silverbaks’ lone goal in the 50th minute on a penalty kick.

The outcome might not have ended the way the Silverbacks would have liked, but they were given their conference championship trophy at the conclusion of the game.

“This was a good experience for the kids,

part of our three-game preseason program and we knew that it would be a good test physically from our opponents. We were delighted to be given the opportunity to come over here.”

Brad Fewster scored the first goal for Middlesbrough and was thrilled to be playing in his first game in the U.S. “I think America is a beautiful country and I’ve never been, so I couldn’t wait to come,” the 21-yearold said. “I was happy to score, happy to get a win against first-team players.”

Not only did MiddlesAtlanta Silverbacks defender Mitch Garcia (18) fights for brough play the game the ball against Middlesbrough U23 team on Saturday at against the Silverbacks, but the team also held a Silverbacks Park. (Photo: Colin Hubbard) clinic for younger players for the players and for the in the U.S. roughly 20 earlier in the day. fans,” Silverbacks head years ago, knew what the “These kids are the fucoach Jacenir Silva said. “I experience of coming over ture of the game,” Jenkins made a lot of subs to give was going to be like. said. “It was important everyone a chance to play, And he knew that his to do what we did for so I’m very happy because players would really enjoy the community promote I saw everyone enjoy the it.

Middlesbrough football game.”

“For me it’s always a club, and by doing the Middlesbrough head pleasure to come out to coaching clinics we want coach Paul Jenkins, who the United States,” Jenkins to encourage young people started his coaching career said. “This game was a to play soccer.”

From Staff Reports

Jimenez.

Jimenez hit a ground BUFFALO, N.Y. — ball to second baseman Omar Infante, but he beat For the fourth straight the throw to first. Brown game, the Gwinnett rounded third and tried Braves scored the winto score the tying run on ning run in their last atbat and edged the Buffalo the play, but first baseman Reid Brignac threw Bisons 2-1 on Saturday night in game three of the home to catcher Michael four-game series at Coca- McKenry, who tagged out Brown for the final Cola Field. out.

Gwinnett’s decisive Gwinnett (45-56) had run came in the top of scored the first run of the the ninth. With one out, George Kottaras doubled game in the top of the fifth as McKenry doubled and to right off Buffalo scored on a ground out reliever Ben Rowen and was replaced at second by from Emilio Bonifacio.

The Bisons (52-49) pinch runner Matt Lipka. tied the game in the Rio Ruiz then stroked a bottom of the eighth single to right, scoring as Brown doubled off Lipka to break a 1-1 tie.

Ramirez, moved to secThe bottom of the ninth had plenty of drama ond on a ground out and as well. Jose Ramirez al- scored on a sacrifice fly lowed a leadoff double to to center field by Dalton Pompey.

Domonic Brown and afFormer Bisons’ rightter one out was replaced hander Roberto Hernanby Matt Marksberry. dez started for Gwinnett Marksberry got pinch and pitched five scorehitter Matt Dominguez to pop out to right for the less, five-hit innings in a second out. Maikel Cleto no-decision. Ryan Weber worked two scoreless inwas then called out of nings with two strikeouts. the bullpen to face A.J.

Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Piazza set for Cooperstown induction

By Jerry Beach

The Sports Xchange

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — To glance around this small upstate town is to understand that Hall of Fame weekend is about a couple franchises unaccustomed to being represented on baseball’s ultimate stage.

For the last three days, thousands of fans adorned in the hats and shirts of the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets have descended upon Cooperstown to celebrate the induction of Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza into the Hall of Fame. The two men will be officially enshrined Sunday afternoon at the Clark Sports Center.

Griffey will be the first inductee to wear a Mariners hat into the Hall of Fame, though the Hall considers Randy Johnson — who went in last year wearing the cap of the Arizona Diamondbacks — to represent the Mariners because he pitched more games for Seattle.

“The history that the Mariners had when I got drafted (in 1987) — the team was 10 years old, so not a whole lot of history,”

special,” Griffey said.

“And obviously it was going to be the Mariners, because of the history that I have with the team.”

Some of the Mariners fans in Cooperstown this week have piled out of cars sporting Washington and Montana license plates. It’s a far easier trek for Mets fans to get to the Hall of Fame, which is located about four hours from New York City. With The Ken Griffey Jr. display at the National Baseball Hall the weather forecast calling for a warm and rainof Fame. (Photo: Gregory J. Fisher-USA TODAY Sports) free Sunday, Hall officials Griffey said during a press made the playoffs for the expect a sizable contingent conference Saturday after- first two times in franchise of Piazza supporters to noon. “To be able to be the history, in Seattle. He make the day trip north. first to go in — it’s some- then requested a trade to Piazza will be the secthing that I talked about the Cincinnati Reds, who ond Mets representative as and dreamed about, going held spring training near well as the second ininto the Hall of Fame, his off-season residence in ductee to sport a Mets hat once you get past a certain Florida and whose midon his plaque. He follows point in your career when western locale made for an in the footsteps of Tom you finally realize that you easier commute home on Seaver, who was enshrined have a chance to be a Hall off-days. in 1992. of Fame member.”

Griffey was plagued “As a ballplayer, to go to Griffey, who earned a by injuries with the Reds New York and be somerecord 99.3 percent of the for whom he averaged what successful is truly an vote and fell three votes just 105 games per season amazing part of my career shy of being a unanimous before being traded to the that I’ll always remember,” selection, hit 417 of his Chicago White Sox in Piazza said.

630 career homers and 2008. He returned to the For one afternoon, Mets won all 10 of his Gold Mariners for the final two fans will get to enjoy Gloves with the Mariseasons of his career. a perk experienced on ners. He played the first “To be able to choose a regular basis by their 11 seasons of his career, what team I wanted to go rival New York fans. The during which the Mariners in (with) was something Yankees have 28 represen-

tatives in the Hall of Fame, 21 of whom are pictured wearing a Yankees hat on their plaque.

In addition, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter are expected to cruise into the Hall of Fame when they first appear on the ballot in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

“Look, the one thing I love about Mets fans is that it’s tough being in the same town as the Yankees, with all their World Series and their accomplishments,” Piazza said.

“There’s no better fans.

It’s obviously a natural for me. They’ve been so amazing to me and my family.”

Piazza goes in with the team he joined in 1998 following a pair of blockbuster trades. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who drafted Piazza in 1988, traded him to the Florida Marlins on May 14, 1998. Eight days later, the rebuilding Marlins sent Piazza to the Mets, whom he led to a pair of playoff appearances and the 2000 World Series. He batted .296 with 220 homers through 2005 before finishing his career by playing a season apiece with the San Diego Padres

and Oakland Athletics.

Piazza hit his most famous homer on Sept. 21, 2001, when his cathartic two-run homer lifted the Mets to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the first sporting event played in New York following the 9/11 terror attacks.

“I don’t want to sort of telegraph my speech, but obviously that’s a huge part of my history with the city,” Piazza said.

Notes: The Hall of Fame announced Saturday a reconstruction of the timelines for the era committees, which considers players who have fallen off the ballot as well as managers, umpires and executives. The “Golden Era,” which used to encapsulate 1947-1972, and the “Expansion Era,” which formerly encapsulated candidates from 1973 to the present, have been broken up into “Golden Days” (1950-1969), “Modern Baseball” (1970-1987) and “Today’s Game” (1988-present). … The Hall also announced Ozzie Smith, the former Cardinals and Padres shortstop who was inducted in 2002, has been added to its Board of Directors.

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from Nashville (PCL). Transferred RHP Fernando Rodriguez from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL. SEATTLE MARINERS— Placed SS Ketel Marte on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 20.

Recalled LHP David Rollins from Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS— Claimed 3B Matt Duffy off waivers from the Houston Astros, optioned him to Round Rock (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES— Sent RHP Shae Simmons on a rehab assignment to GCL Braves. Signed C Michael McKenry to a minor league contract.

COLORADO ROCKIES— Placed RHP Chad Qualls on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 16.

Recalled RHP Scott Oberg from Albuquerque (PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS— Sent RF Domingo Santana on a rehab assignment to Wisconsin (MWL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES— Optioned RHP A.J. Schugel to Indianapolis (IL). Placed C Eric Fryer on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Tyler Glasnow and C Elias Diaz from Indianapolis (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS— Outrighted LHP Nick Lee to Harrisburg (EL).

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

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W L Pct GB L10 Chicago.................. 58. 37.. .611..... —...6-4 St. Louis.................. 52. 44.. .542....6.5...8-2 Pittsburgh................ 50. 47.. .515.......9...5-5 Milwaukee............... 40. 54.. .426...17.5...3-7 Cincinnati................ 37. 59.. .385.. 21.5...5-5 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 San Francisco......... 58. 39.. .598..... —...4-6 Los Angeles............ 54. 44.. .551....4.5...6-4 Colorado................. 45. 51.. .469..12.5...6-4 San Diego............... 42. 55.. .433.....16...4-6 Arizona................... 40. 56.. .417...17.5...2-8 Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 6, Washington 3 Miami 9, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 6, San Diego 5 Colorado 7, Atlanta 3 Friday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 5, Washington 3 Cincinnati 6, Arizona 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 4, L.A. Dodgers 3, 16 innings Colorado 4, Atlanta 3 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 4 San Diego (Jackson 1-0) at Washington (Scherzer 10-6), late Arizona (Ray 5-8) at Cincinnati (Sampson 0-1), late

Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-6) at Milwaukee (Davies 6-4), late N.Y. Mets (deGrom 6-4) at Miami (Fernandez 11-4), late L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 8-7) at St. Louis (Leake 7-7), late Atlanta (Wisler 4-9) at Colorado (Anderson 2-3), late Today’s Games Arizona (Godley 2-1) at Cincinnati (Finnegan 5-7), 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matz 7-6) at Miami (Urena 1-1), 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Velasquez 8-2) at Pittsburgh (Taillon 2-1), 1:35 p.m.

San Diego (Friedrich 4-6) at Washington (Giolito 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 10-4) at Milwaukee (Guerra 6-2), 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Jenkins 0-1) at Colorado (Chatwood 8-6), 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 8-3) at St. Louis, 8:08 p.m.

Monday’s Games Philadelphia at Miami (Chen 5-4), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Martinez 9-6) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-4), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona at Milwaukee (Anderson 4-10), 7:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 5-0) at San Francisco (Peavy 5-8), 10:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 Baltimore................ 55. 40.. .579..... —...6-4 Boston.................... 54. 40.. .574.......5...8-2 Toronto.................... 54. 44.. .551....2.5...5-5 New York................. 49. 48.. .505.......7...6-4 Tampa Bay.............. 38. 58.. .396...17.5...4-6 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Cleveland................ 56. 39.. .589..... —...5-5 Detroit..................... 51. 46.. .526.......6...6-4 Kansas City............ 48. 47.. .505.......8...4-6 Chicago.................. 46. 50.. .479..10.5...2-8

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Minnesota............... 36. 60.. .375..20.5...6-4 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Texas...................... 55. 42.. .567..... —...2-8 Houston.................. 52. 44.. .542....2.5...6-4 Seattle.................... 50. 47.. .515.......5...6-4 Los Angeles............ 43. 53.. .448...11.5... 7-3 Oakland.................. 43. 54.. .443.....12...6-4 Thursday’s Games Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Boston 13, Minnesota 2 Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 7 innings Tampa Bay 7, Oakland 3 Friday’s Games Baltimore 5, Cleveland 1 Seattle 2, Toronto 1 Minnesota 2, Boston 1 Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Houston 2, L.A. Angels 1 Kansas City 3, Texas 1 Oakland 1, Tampa Bay 0, 13 innings Saturday’s Games Seattle 14, Toronto 5 Cleveland (Tomlin 10-2) at Baltimore (Gausman 1-7), late Minnesota (Nolasco 4-8) at Boston (Price 9-7), late Detroit (Boyd 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Albers 2-4), late L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-7) at Houston (McHugh 6-6), late Texas (Hamels 10-2) at Kansas City (Ventura 6-7), late Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-11) at Oakland (Graveman 6-6), late Today’s Games Seattle (Miley 6-7) at Toronto (Happ 12-3), 1:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 9-8) at Baltimore (Worley 2-1), 1:35 p.m.

Minnesota (Milone 3-2) at Boston (Porcello 12-2), 1:35 p.m.

Detroit (Sanchez 5-11) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 8-8), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Lincecum 2-3) at Houston

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(Fiers 6-4), 2:10 p.m.

Texas (Griffin 3-1) at Kansas City (Volquez 8-8), 2:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Snell 2-4) at Oakland (Hahn 2-4), 4:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas (Lohse 0-2), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 8-4) at Kansas City (Kennedy 6-8), 8:15 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Game N.Y. Yankees 3, San Francisco 2 Saturday’s Game San Francisco (Cueto 13-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 7-5), 4:05 p.m.

Today’s Game San Francisco (Samardzija 9-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 8-6), 1:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Colorado (De La Rosa 6-7) at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 5-4) at Toronto (Sanchez 10-1), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 12-4) at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

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HR—Peterson (5), Arenado (24), Story (24). SB—Blackmon (11). S—Teheran, Recker.

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Umpires—Home, Marty Foster First, Mark Wegner Second, Mike Muchlinski Third, Mike Winters.

T—3:18. A—35,880 (51,267).

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES— Placed RHP Ubaldo Jimenez on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Tyler Wilson from Norfolk (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS— Signed LHP Joe Thatcher to a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS— Optioned C Juan Graterol to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled C Carlos Perez from Salt Lake (PCL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS— Placed C Stephen Vogt on the family emergency list.

Selected the contract of C Bruce Maxwell

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS— Re-signed PG Tim Frazier to a two-year, $4.1 million contract.

Signed PF Terrence Jones to a one-year contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS— NFL suspended DT Arthur Jones four games for violating the league’s performance enhancing drugs policy.

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Saints contract talks with Brees stalled Report: Steelers The Sports Xchange Quarterback Drew Brees apparently won’t have a new deal in place before the New Orleans Saints kick off training camp next week even though he heads into the final season of his contract.

Brees said Saturday the Saints haven’t resumed negotiations with him in the last three months.

“Not sure why things have not progressed,” Brees told ESPN.com in Metairie, La. “They made an offer in March, we made an offer shortly thereafter. And besides the Josh Norman deal (when the Saints approached Brees about restructuring his contract to try to fit the free agent cornerback under their salary cap), there has been no talk about a contract since.”

The 37-year-old Brees was confident last month of a new contract coming from Saints. Without a new deal, the Saints would let Brees play out

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) throws the ball against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season at the MercedesBenz Superdome. (Photo: Chuck CookUSA Today Sports)

the year with a salary-cap figure of $30 million.

Brees, who has said he would not discuss his contract during the season, reiterated he wants a deal done by the start of the season on Sept. 11.

“I would say the deadline is the start of the regular season, not training camp,” Brees told ESPN. Brees led the NFL in passing for the fourth time in five seasons last year with 4,870 yards in just 15 games played. He completed 68.3 percent of his 428 passes with

32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, keeping his average during the lifetime of his current deal with the Saints over 5,000 yards and 37 touchdowns per season.

Brees became the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history in 2012 when he signed a fiveyear, $100 million contract with the Saints.

The two sides have been discussing a fouryear extension, according to reports, that would keep Brees among the top-paid players at his position.

Brees’ age may be working against him when compared to younger star quarterbacks.

Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts and Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens have gotten longterm extensions done this offseason.

Flacco signed for a $22.13 million per year in new money in March, with $44 million guaranteed, and then Luck shattered the mark with $24.6 million per year in new money last month that includes a record $87 million guaranteed.

RB Bell missed several drug tests

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last season — which was later reduced to two A day after reports games — for violating surfaced that Pittsburgh the substance-abuse polSteelers running back icy after he was arrested Le’Veon Bell faces a for DUI and marijuana four-game suspension for possession in the summer of 2014. missing a drug test, the Bell, who had right NFL Network reported knee surgery last NovemSaturday that Bell actuber, said recently he was ally missed several.

Those missed tests vio- on schedule for when late the NFL’s substance- the Steelers’ camp opens on July 28. He suffered abuse policy. a torn MCL and PCL in Friday, sources told ESPN that the suspension Week 8.

The 24-year-old fourthis the result of a missed year running back played drug test, not a failed in six games last year and one. Bell’s appeal is expected to be heard before rushed for 556 yards with three touchdowns. the start of the season.

Bell, who is enterIf the appeal is not ing the final year of his overturned, Bell would miss the first four games rookie contract, was a Pro of the season. Players are Bowl and First-Team AllPro choice in 2014 after tested once for recrerushing for 1,361 yards ational drugs between and eight touchdowns, April 20 and July. with 854 receiving yards Bell was suspended and three TDs. for the first three games

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928-432853, 7/24, 31 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 2025 MAIN ST EAST, SNELLVILLE GA 30078 (Yr/Make) 2005 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN VIN#3GNEC16Z65G111929 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 7-25-2016.

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Household Items Sam Bell Unit 0334 Household Items Desermithe Brune Unit 1207 Household Items Bruce Crayton Unit 1148 Household Items Viviana Porcayo-Martinez Unit 0536 Household Items LaToya Robinson Unit 1012 Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 5180 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross, Georgia 30071 to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 1:30 PM at www.storagetreasures.com

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1790 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Duluth, Ga. 30097 770-814-7776 August 10, 2016 @ 2:00PM

1702 Nya Whitaker Washer, wicker chair, boxes 2300 Mintoria Johnson printer, books, magazines, boxes 2607 Andwele Beatty Boxes, folding table, clothing The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-431981, 7/24,31

Nightstand, Tubs, Mattress, Box Springs, Bedding, Clothes, Boxes Carlene Reid Unit 0332 Armoire, Boxes, China Cabinet w/base Dawn Ivery Unit D406 Boxes, Totes, Shelves, Fishing Rods, Cabinets, Bedding Audric Owens Unit 2030 Leather Sectional, Clothes, Shoes, TV Stands, Stereo, Vacuum, Bike Omar Glenn Unit 2078 Stereo, Speakers, Mickey Mouse Phone, Boxes, Tubs, Clothes, Copier Sonya Littles Unit 2090 Bedroom Set, Lamps, Podiums, TV, Mattress, Kitchen Metal Rack, Boxes, Artwork, Vacuum Ravin Redd Unit 2114 Dresser, Tire, Mattress, Box Spring, Office Chair, Boxes, Totes, Fans, Mirror Rafaela De Ledesma Unit 3073 Washer, Dryer, Pictures, Head/Foot Board, Luggage, Kitchen Items, Shelf, Misc.

Household Courtney Randle Unit 4022 Stereo, Speakers, Luggage, Clothes, Books, TV, Chair, Bags, Totes, Vacuum La Shone Thomas Unit 4085 Eliptical, Carpet Cleaner, Bedroom Set, Boxes, Totes, Shelfs, Washer/Dryer, Keyboard, Table The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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Joseph Simpson (2 units) – Couch, Chairs, Bike, Mattress, Box Spring, Dresser, Entertainment Center, Glass Coffee Table, Totes Kathy Ellis – Couch, Armoire, Shelves, 20+ Boxes, 5+ totes, Childs ATV Pamela Harris-Evans – Bikes, Toys, Refrigerator, Chair, 10+ Boxes, Totes Gloria Royal – Large Fish Tank, Baskets, Suitcase, Flat Screen, Toys, 5+ Totes Joseph Chermak – Pool Table, Dresser, Couch, Kitchen Table, Yard Items Candaz Walker – Baby Items, TV, 5+ Boxes, Bags, 2+ Totes 929-429950, 7/24,31

NOTICE The Superior Court Judges of the Gwinnett Judicial Circuit will appoint a juvenile court judge for the circuit on or about October 1, 2016.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 98 Hurricane Shoals Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-682-4990, August 10th, 2016 at 1:30PM Bertha Ledesma Unit 1027 Household Items James C Harris Unit CC039 Household Goods Vincent E Townsend Unit CC243

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #698, 3495 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd, Suwanee, GA 30024, to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 10:00AM at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Antulio Ferrer DBA Ferrer Flooring LLC 153 Christopher Staton 233 & 235 Yadi Perez AKA Yadira Perez 261 Danielle Binion 1052 Daphne McCann 3042 929-430591, 7/24,31

Cube #337, Dashee Marie Tarver; Cube #967, Ruth A. Spencer; Cube #649, Kevin King; Cube #316, Jaylen Manuel; Cube #936, Troy C Banks.

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Please Recycle This Newspaper NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart [3494 Gwinnett Place Dr.] to satisfy a lien on [Aug. 10, 2016] at approx. [10:00AM] at www. storagetreasures.com Cube # 1020 Bessie L Willams Cube # 2000 Nesa Thomas Cube # 2025 Zakarya A Almariri Cube # 3032 Darnell Vernon Cloud Cube # 3081 Angela P Dockery Cube # 3103 James Cambridge III 929-431696, 7/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #714, 105 Old Peachtree Road NW, Suwanee, GA 30024, to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 10:00AM at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Wanda Renetta Jones 516 Liz McDonald 303 Latosha Lowe 591 Leanne Polke 111 929-432400, 7/24,7/31

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 5151 Annistown Rd Stone Mountain GA 30087 770.469.5363 August 10th, 2016 at 12:00 PM 312 Tonia Sturges Household 341 Johnny J. Cooper Wheels, tires,piano,lawn equipment 318 Dianne Thomas Household Goods 456 Louis White misc household goods 342 Wanda Holland couch,patio furn,xmas decor,books, 325 Shawn Campbell Household furniture 565 Laverne Hypolite household items 377 Rod Caddele 5 bedroom home 122 Tanisha Donald Household items 572 Montisa Beck Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-432302, 7/26,8/2 PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: Auction Date: 08/10/2016 Address: 3564 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 Phone: (770) 286-9209 Time of Sale: 4:00 Pm John Kinlaw Unit 0233 Bed Frame, Dresser, Tubs, Boxes, Computer Monitor, Childs Bed, Box Springs Robert Chastain Unit 0236 Boxes, Book bags, Crates, Tub Toni Cunningham Unit 0241 Ni ht t d T b M tt

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 2050 Gravel Springs Road Buford, GA 30519 678-492-4958 August 10th, 2016 at 11:00 AM Unit C1005 – Michelle Stephens – Household Goods Unit C2098 – Joshua Bogos – Household Goods Unit E622 – Anthony Vick – Household Goods Unit E650 – Jerry Woods – Household Goods Unit E709 – Kevin Smith – Household Goods Unit F815 – George Robinson Jr. – Household Goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-432717, 7/24,31 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: August 11 2016 Place: 1573 Athens Hwy Grayson Ga 30017 Grace MacDonald – 14 Boxes, Books, Jewelry Boxes J h Simpson (2 units)

STATE OF GEORGIA GWINNETT COUNTY NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY/ COLLATERAL Gwinnett Community Bank (“GCB”) hereby gives notice that the Promissory Note and Security Agreement by Relax Restaurant and Bar, LLC and Yanis Latsis payable to Houndstooth Grill, Inc. and Ken Weatherford, and related loan documents, which constitute collateral for the loan by GCB to the Debtor/Borrower, Houndstooth Grill, Inc. (the “Collateral”), will be sold to the highest bidder at auction on Friday, August 5, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. at the offices of Andersen, Tate & Carr, P.C., One Sugarloaf Centre, 1960 Satellite Blvd., Suite 4000, Duluth, Georgia 30097. The sale is conducted pursuant to the Collateral Assignment of Promissory Note and Security Agreement from Houndstooth Grill, Inc. and Kenneth Weatherford to GCB, dated June 26, 2014, and the Promissory Note dated June 26, 2014 by Houndstooth Grill, Inc. to GCB and related loan documents, as may have been amended.

The Collateral is being sold “as is, where is, without warranty of any kind” including, but not limited to, warranties of fitness or warranties for a particular purpose. The sole exception is that GCB shall warranty title to the Collateral to the Buyer.

The debtor is entitled to an accounting of the proceeds of sale and the unpaid indebtedness.

ANDERSEN, TATE & CARR, P.C. One Sugarloaf Centre 1960 Satellite Boulevard, Suite 4000 Duluth, Georgia 30097 R. Matthew Reeves, Esq. (770) 822-0900 THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 929-432912, 7/22,28

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Out with the old Clockwise from top left, Jordan Katz takes a swing at the buildings during the demolition of Proctor Square in Duluth on Tuesday. The start of the demolition of Proctor Square begins in Duluth on Tuesday. George nichici operates the excavator to start tearing down Proctor Square in Duluth on Tuesday. mayor of Duluth nancy Harris takes a swing at one building in Proctor Square during the demolition on Tuesday in Duluth. (Photos: Cole mcCauley)

Duluth topples old Proctor Square, looks toward future with redevelopment

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DULUTH — Rita Bowens remembers the excitement of the arrival of Winn-Dixie more than three decades ago because as a Duluth native, it meant she and her family no longer had to drive to Doraville or beyond for shopping.

Her mother loved Parsons, the original general store shopping destination in Duluth that “had everything.”

But Bowens, 61, admitted she was a bit melancholy last week as she stood at the corner of Buford Highway and Duluth Highway and watched heavy excavator construction equipment demolish the vacant building at Proctor Square.

“It is part of my history, my parents are no longer living so representing them and knowing that for them to be able to see the change,” Bowens said. “I see the change for them. … I think it’s a good change for the city because change is everywhere. You can’t stay stagnant.”

Born and raised in Duluth, Bowens remembers the Proctor Square heyday in the 1970s and ’80s and when Gwinnett Place Mall opened and pulled customers

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paign 10 years ago.

Once home to the Rexall Grill before it moved across the street, Proctor Square had 43 years of retail service before a developer from Dunwoody, Residential Group, acquired Proctor Square along with Duluth Corners, Georgia Cremation, and FM Appliance.

The expected $64 million project across eight acres will become a 375 unit rental complex with 11 retail and office store fronts with connected living space above and two corner restaurant sites. The development will feature a wrapped parking deck accessible to the public on the first two levels, tree-lined boulevard with parallel parking, sideThis aerial rendering shows what the intersection of Buford and Duluth highways walks and public art sites.

It’s expected to take two years to would look like if the Residential Group’s proposed The Village at Duluth is built.

The mixed-use development is expected to go before the Duluth City Council for finish. approval on Feb. 8. (File Photo) “The whole design of the building is kind of an early industrial design,” from the Winn-Dixie, a five and dime about the property have buzzed around developer Kurt Alexander said. “It kind store called Elmore’s and Western Auto. the city for the last decade, and were of ties back into the railroad, early city While the property had stores as one of the first things asked of Mayor See proctor, Page 2c recently as a few years ago, questions Nancy Harris when she began to cam-

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Bob Norris, Stefan Nation, Robert Nation, George Nichici and Mynor Guevara wait to start tearing down Proctor Square in Duluth on Tuesday.

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•From Page 1C of Duluth, and if you look at a lot of the architecture, signage, buildings in place, we’re pulling off of those ideas and bringing it into our project. It is a new property, but it does reach back to the history of Duluth and what’s existing now.”

He added that it’s an urban project in a suburban location that offers urban amenities with restaurants and outdoor space.

As she spoke to a gathered crowd in the parking lot, Harris said she expects this to be a catalyst for further development. The brick, wrought iron and public art is also designed to mix old and new, like the remade downtown area that has a late 1800 design.

“Yes, we’re getting rid of something really old, but it had no use,” said Harris, a former Winn-Dixie cashier. “… We feel like by doing this, that place is going to get better, and that place is going to get better, and the place down the road is going to get better. We just feel like it’s really going to be a trigger for economic growth on Buford Highway.”

Councilman Billy Jones remembers the property as a young boy after it first constructed in the late

Above, residents of Duluth gather to watch the demolition of Proctor Square in Duluth on Tuesday. Right, Mascot DD “Demolition Director” ignites the explosives to indicate the start of demolition of Proctor Square in Duluth on Tuesday.

1960s on one of the highest points in Duluth. It was the first true shopping center outside of Parsons.

When Jones was a young teenager, he worked at Western Auto, and that helped him buy his first car at the bottom of the hill, a 1973 Chevrolet Nova.

“I remember working in this store looking out the window going, ‘I’m going to buy that car one day,’” Jones said. “It sat there a long time — it seemed like it took me a year to get my down payment.”

Jones’ parents had a

television sales and service business and a laundromat at one end of the property, and between his job and after-school time with his father, Jones said he “hung out here a lot.”

Jones’ grandmother lived just behind the property, and because of his family ties, he said history is very important and recalled a one-time city motto: having pride in old and new.

“On the flip side, you’ve got to move ahead with some things,” he said.

“There’s got to be a mix. … Some things have to

come down for advancing, but there’s a mix, a fine balance.”

Jack Dopp sits on Terry Dopp’s shoulders while they wait for the tearing down of Proctor Square to begin in Duluth on Tuesday.

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A little Old Testament parenting goes a long way When you saw that title, you probably assumed I was going to talk about corporal punishment — “spare the rod and spoil the child” and all that.

Nope. As a parent, I almost never spanked my kids. I’m not necessarily opposed to it; I just found other approaches more effective. About the only time I ever resorted to spanking was when my kids were little and doing something that could get them badly hurt, like running out in the street.

“If you go in that street,”

Rob Jenkins I’d tell them, “you ARE going to get hurt. Just pray it’s only my hand on your backside.”

But I digress. This column isn’t about spanking.

It’s about a different Old

Testament principle.

But first, the following caveat: It doesn’t matter what faith you are, or even if you’re not particularly religious. Doesn’t matter whether or not you take the Bible literally. These are timeless principles that will work for anyone. They certainly worked for me.

The passage I’m referring to is Deuteronomy 29:9, which in the King James version reads: “Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.”

A covenant is basically an agreement, in this case between God and the Israelites. If they obeyed His commandments, He was saying, they would prosper.

Acknowledging that God is our Father — either literally or metaphorically, depending on what you believe — we as parents can apply this same principle to our own children: Obey the commandments and you’ll prosper. Otherwise, not so much.

Perhaps “commandment” is a strong word, in this context. In our home, we didn’t have rules so much as we had expectations. We expected our kids to stay out of trouble, at school and elsewhere, to make good grades, to

attend church with the family, to be home by the stipulated time, to participate in something extracurricular (like sports or music), and generally to behave in a way that reflected well on our family.

By the same token, we didn’t talk about “chores” so much as “responsibilities.” Our kids knew they were responsible for keeping their room clean, helping with the house and yard work, and pitching in on big projects, like the family garden.

If they did those things, we as parents made sure they “prospered,” as much as it was in our power: that they had nice clothes (if not the latest name brand), the necessary gadgets (like

a cellphone), a car to drive when they were old enough (even if it was a 1995 Cherokee), and some pocket money to go out with their friends occasionally.

They understood if they didn’t live up to their end of the bargain (the “covenant”) then all those perks (“prosperity”) would dry up in a heartbeat. It was amazing how well it worked — almost as if we’d gotten advice from God Himself.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and the author of “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon.

Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

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A PAIR OF TICKETS

U.S. Army National Guard Pvt. April D. Morgan has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Jackson, S.C. She is the daughter of Alicia D. Beamon of Snellville and the granddaughter of Cecil Beamon of Snellville.

U.S. Air Force Airman Anthony J. Ramirez has graduated from basic military training at Joint Bas San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. He is a 2013 graduate of Meadowcreek High School in Norcross.

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Stuart I. Chambers has graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. Chambers is the son of Amy and Stuart Chambers of Flowery Branch. He is a 2011 graduate of Buford High School in Buford.

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Army National Guard soldier Angel Parrales of Duluth serving with the 37th Finance Detachment was recently promoted to the rank of Specialist.

U.S. Air Force Airman Britney N. Wilcox has graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. Wilcox is the daughter of Tracy and Unhui Wilcox of Lawrenceville and the sister of Otis Wilcox. She is a 2014 graduate of Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville and a 2016 graduate from Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville.

Program. Boussou is the son of Genevieve Kouassi of Lawrenceville. He is a 2016 graduate of Abidjan Secondary School in Lawrenceville.

Champeria Cobb has joined the United States Army under the Delayed Enlistment Program. Cobb is the daughter of Latarsha Goodwine of Grayon. She is a 2017 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

Davantay Brown has joined the United States Army under the Delayed Enlistment Program. Brown is the son of Donna Brown of Atlanta and Ethan Brown of Duluth.

He is a 2016 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee.

Anthony Greene has joined the United States Army under the Delayed Enlistment Program. He is a 2015 graduate of Central High School in Lawrenceville.

Austin Boussou has joined the United States Army under the Delayed Enlistment

Tascheaca T. Bryan has joined the United states Army under the Delayed Enlistment Program. Bryan is the daughter of Leon Bryan of Loganville. She is a 2017 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

Biana Buchanan has joined the United States Army under the Delayed Enlistment Program. Buchanan is the daughter of Shelia and Bertchel Buchanan of Stone Mountain. She is a 2016 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

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AUBURN Youth baseball registration window open Auburn has a new youth athletics program, and parents hoping to get their kids in the program’s fall baseball league should visit City Hall.

The city announced registration for the league is now open. Children can be signed up for the baseball program until Aug. 19. The fees for the program at $85 for kids ages 3 and 4 who will go into the Rookie program, $115 for kids ages 5-12 while will go into the T-Ball and Majors programs and $150 for kids ages 1319 who will be in the Dixie Boys program.

The sign-up costs cover the cost of jerseys and hats, player insurance, umpires, field maintenance and other playing-related fees. Officials warned individual teams may have additional fees.

Kids can be signed-up Mondays through Fridays, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, at City Hall, 1369 Fourth Ave., in Auburn. Additional sign up periods will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Aug. 6, and from 6 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 9, at the Auburn Ball Fields on Mary Carter Road. The application can be found at www.cityofauburn-ga.org/parks.aspx.

Any questions should be directed to Auburn Parks and Leisure Director Dan Pruehs at parksdirector@ cityofauburn-ga.org, or by calling 770-963-4002, ext.

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BARROW COUNTY Barrow County school district earns four stars following assessment The College and Career Ready Performance Index gave the Barrow County School System four stars for its Financial Efficiency Star Rating on July 14, the district announced Tuesday.

The measure determines how much money districts spend per student and examines student achievement over a three-year period. The financial rating is part of the CCRPI, which takes into account how well schools prepare students for college and a career.

“Barrow County spends in the bottom 20 percent of Georgia districts, but produces results in the top third of all state school systems,” Ken Greene, a spokesperson, said in a district news release.

The Georgia Department of Education released results for Barrow County that reflect from 2013 to 2015, Greene said. One star is the lowest, and four stars are the highest ratings.

Greene said Barrow’s three-year per student expenditure average of $7,388.49 was lower than 88 percent of all state school districts.

Barrow’s three-year CCRPI average of 76.2 was higher than 67 percent of all school systems in Georgia, according to the release.

Greene said Barrow is one of 30 out of 180 districts to earn a four-star or higher rating.

For information, visit www. gadoe.org.

BERKELEY LAKE ‘Back to School Family Night’ swimming event set for July 29 The West Gwinnett Park Aquatic Center will hold its “Back to School Family Night” event including “swimming with an educational twist” at 6:30 p.m. July 29.

The event will feature education-centered games with math and reading in the water.

The aquatic center is at 4488 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

No registration is required.

Pool rules and admission fees apply and Twilight rates will not.

For information, visit www. gwinnettcounty.com or call 678-407-8801.

BRASELTON Blood drive planned The American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive in Braselton on July 27, the Downtown Braselton orga-

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“During the band breaks, concert-goers can take an easy stroll and check out the deals in Norcross’ downtown shops.”

Eric Thomas is the featured musician for the August concert. Based in Atlanta and a graduate of Georgia State University, he has performed at various shows and events from Bermuda to California.

Tony Hightower will perform in September event “where concert-goers will experience his new age cool that is part homage and part regeneration.”

Rounding out the series, Gabbie McGee will perform at the October show. Based in Atlanta for the last 15 years, she has been honing her skills as a vocalist and building her resume as a music industry professional.

For more information, visit aplacetoimagine.com.

Back row, from left to right: Daniel Lammons, Brad Miller, Philip Jenny, Jordan Rubin and Arthur Bedard.

Front row, from left to right: Reagan Balog and Holly Smith. (Special Photo)

Gwinnett County lifeguards win state competition fifth year in row

By Kate Croxton

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For the fifth year in a row, Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation won first place at the annual Georgia Recreation and Park Association State Lifeguarding Competition. The event was held at Lake Oconee in Greene County on July 18.

Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation lifeguards came from several different aquatics facilities throughout Gwinnett County and were selected based on their outstanding lifeguarding, CPR/ AED, first aid, teamwork

nization annoucned on its website.

The event is at the Braselton Community Room in the Police & Municipal Court building. It’s located at 5040 Ga. Highway 53.

For more information, call 706-654-3915.

and athletic skills. Guards practiced and honed their abilities throughout the summer with quizzing, skill practice sessions, conditioning and studying written materials.

The team consisted of seasoned veterans of lifeguarding who have participated in the state competition in prior years. Jordan Rubin is a college student working summers as a pool manager at Rhodes Jordan Park Pool in Lawrenceville. Holly Smith is a pool manager at Dacula Park Pool. Daniel Lammons and Reagan Balog are both upcoming freshmen in college and work sum-

DULUTH Hudgens hosts educational summit for makers The Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth on Aug. 27th will host a Maker’s Rally, an all-day summit featuring classes led by experts and fellow makers to teach BUFORD the business and marketing Free family-friendly movie sides of selling handmade ‘The Good Dinosaur’ products. to be screened For $55, the ticket covDisney-Pixar’s “The Good ers a variety of classes as Dinosaur” will be featured at well as lunch. Professionthe Cinema Under the Stars als will present information event at the Buford Commu- on product photography, nity Center Amphitheater at getting handmade products 8:45 p.m. July 29. into retail, social media for The movie tells the businesses and working with story of Arlo, a dinosaur, who Etsy. befriends Spot, a little boy.

This event is being held Throughout the film, Spot in conjunction with The Hudhelps Arlo gain confidence gens made exhibit featuring while on an adventurous the handmade artwork of journey. four major Southern artAdmission is free for the ists which will be on display event that will be held at until Sept. 24th. The first 100 2200 Buford Highway. registrants to The Maker’s For more information, visit Rally will receive a “rally www.bufordcommunitycenswag bag.” Presenters and ter.com. speakers include crafters such as Tiffany Barry from Lillian Eve, a cruelty-free DACULA beauty brand and Kristen Library closing out Bach from Treehouse, a kid summer reading program and craft store with locations in Athens and Decatur. with a magical show To see the full lineup of The Electric Light Orpresenters and to register for chestra once sang, “I get the event, visit makersrally. a strange magic, Oh what com. a strange magic,” and kids who visit the Dacula library branch this week may end GRAYSON up saying the same thing.

City welcomes The branch will host “magChristmas early with ical educator” Chad Crews upcoming festival at 3 p.m. on Thursday for For most of the world, its Summer Reading Finale Christmas will come on Dec. program. Officials said it will 25, but not for Grayson. mix magic with storytelling, The city will celebrate the music and book showcases holiday on Saturday with its that tie into the routines in Christmas in July Arts and Crews’ show.

Crafts Festival. It will run Families with children from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at ages 5 and up are invited to Grayson Community Park, 1 attend, and kids are asked Park Drive. to bring in their completed The festival will feature reading logs so they can arts and crafts, music by get their reward for reading DJ Ryan, food vendors and books throughout the sumfamily friendly activities such mer. as inflatable water slides, The library is located at 265 Dacula Road, in Dacula. photos with Santa Claus,

mers at Collins Hill Park Aquatic Center alongside Brad Miller and Philip Jenny.

The competition consisted of several events evaluating teamwork, athletic ability and lifeguarding knowledge.

The Gwinnett County team earned 43 points with high finishes in the majority of the events.

“They had a lot of pressure on them to do well,” said Aquatics Coordinator Christine Greenfield.

“They rose to the challenge and had the best attitude out there. Gwinnett takes a lot of pride in their training. They had a good skill set going in to

pony rides and a bounce house. Attendees are asked to bring their own cameras to snap photos of kids with Santa, or selfies with the jolly old man.

Anyone who has questions about the festival can call Gail Lane at 770-9638017 or send an email to communitydevelopment@ cityofgrayson.org.

LAWRENCEVILLE City Council names open records officers Lawrenceville residents have people to go to when they want to file an open records request with the city.

Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson and the city council recently designated City Clerk Karen Pierce as the person all request should go to. If she is unavailable, then the requests should go to her administrative assistant, who will act as the records officer in her place.

The designation covers requests for documents made about city administration, planning and zoning, engineering, streets and sanitation, utilities, gas, water, damage prevention, electric, meter, human resources, police, finance, municipal court, information technology, economic development, risk management and purchasing.

Requests can be submitted by sending an email to city.clerk@lawrencevillegaweb.org. They can also be sent by mail to City of Lawrenceville, Attn: Open Records Officer, P.O. Box 2000, Lawrenceville, Ga. 30046.

LILBURN City of Lilburn will host annual National Night Out event Aug. 2 Lilburn’s seventh annual National Night Out event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

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The event is free and will

the challenege.”

The team took first in the written exam, CPR, triathlon and rescue events, second in the swim relay and rescue paddle board event.

The team was coached

by Arthur Bedard from Mountain Park Aquatic Center.

“Winning five years in a row is a tribute to our aquatics training program,” Greenfield said.

“We are extremely proud of the lifeguard team for their victory at state. Our lifeguard team takes great pride in their training and skill execution and they were excited to use it in a competition setting.”

PEACHTREE CORNERS Sewer work underway near The Forum Gwinnett County was set to start last week a multiweek project installing a new sewer extension next to The Forum in Peachtree Corners.

“In the coming weeks, expect to see the county working in the parking lot between J. Alexander and Atlanta Bread Co.,” the city said in a statement.

The line will run under Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. Traffic isn’t expected to be affected, the city said.

SNELLVILLE One more chance for crafts class There’s one more chance for kids to enjoy the “No Sweat” crafts event at the Snellville branch of the public library, which has hosted it through the past two months.

The event is for kids in grades 2-5 on July 26 from 2 to 3 p.m.

The library said the students will make a sportsthemed craft during the class.

The library is located at 2740 Lenora Church Road.

SUGAR HILL The Fish: Back To take place at Lilburn City School Blast Park, 76 Main St. The Bowl in Sugar Hill The purpose of the nationwide event is to encour- at noon on Saturday will age citizens to get involved host an event put on by The Fish 104.7 and Voice in anti-crime efforts; foster Today Inc. featuring artist relationships between the Aaron Shust, Johnny Diaz, community and local law enforcement; and strength- and The JJ Weeks Band and other special guests en the community. including founder Angela For more information, visit www.cityoflilburn.com. Williams.

Voice Today Inc. is a nonprofit whose mission is breaking the silence and LOGANVILLE Police urge precautions cycle of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Williams against car break-ins Loganville Police officials will speak an encouraging are urging residents to lock message to youth helping them to focus on Christ their car doors following a in their daily lives, and to rash of break-ins, specifiinspire youth to prepare for cally last month in the Fox Chase subdivision. An out- the new school year ahead door home security system and any obstacles they captured limited information may face with Jesus.

There will be a surprise of the incidents. Police offrom Grant and Gracie from ficials addressed the issue at a recent Triad meeting at the books: “Gracie and Grant’s Big Win, Gracie Southern Plantation.

Police said all of the cars Finds her Voice, and Grant Finds his Voice” along with were unlocked, and added story time. that criminals typically test Any questions, call car doors to see if they’re Charmika Placide at 404locked. They added that 620-1519 or at voicetodaycriminals typically take volunteers@gmail.com. electronics, wallets and credit cards.

SUWANEE So police are asking August Concert & Wing residents to lock doors and leave windows and sunFest roofs closed when a car is The city’s annual August unattended. concert, this year set for Aug. 13 at Town Center Park is scheduled to be NORCROSS City hosting jazz concert headlined by Toad the Wet Sprocket.

The city of Norcross is The alternative rock playing host once again to its Jazz in the Alley concert band was popular in the series on Aug. 13, Sept. 24 1990s with singles including “Walk on the Ocean,” and Oct. 8, the city an“All I Want,” “Something’s nounced recently.

Always Wrong,” “Fall Down,” The event is at Betty and “Good Intentions.”

Mauldin Park from 7:30 to The band’s newest album, 9:30 p.m.

The Architect of Ruin, was “Experience jazz at its released last summer. best as the tunes take The event begins at 5 over Betty Mauldin Park p.m. with a performance late summer through early

by LJ3 before Luke Wade fall. Local eateries will be jazzing things up with some hits the stage at about 6:15 p.m. and the wing-eating delish chef specials to-go contest at about 7 p.m. that will help make Jazz in New Mantra will follow the the Alley the perfect date night or girl’s night out,” the wing contest leading into Toad. city said in a statement.

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Homecoming celebration

Rock Springs UMC to mark 150 years

By Erika WElls

Aug 7.

The Rev. Tom Laney, the former pastor, will preach at the church at 1100 Rock Rock Springs United Springs Road in LawrencevMethodist Church will ille. The Rev. Bob Lawrence reflect on the past, celebrate is the current pastor.

The chapel, top left, at Rock Springs United Methodist Church was built in 1882 and still the present and look forward Lunch will be served after stands across from the church’s current building. The church will hold its 150th Homecom- to the future at its 150th the service in the Fellowship ing at 1100 Rock Springs Road in Lawrenceville at 11 a.m. Aug. 7. (Special Photo) Homecoming at 11 a.m.

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In the weeks leading to Homecoming, there will be trivia about the church on its Facebook page for a chance to receive a gift basket that Sunday.

For information, visit www.rsumc.org and www. facebook.com/rockspringsumc or call 770-945-7329.

GCPS receives regional award for academies Gwinnett County Public Schools has promoted its work with career-themed academies for three years, and now the hardware is beginning to roll in.

Earlier this month in Louisville, Ky., the school district received the Using Career-Themed Academies to Transform Large High Schools Award from the Southern Regional Education Board. Jonathan Patterson, Gwinnett’s associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction, accepted the honor at the 30th annual High Schools That Work Staff Development Conference.

Two years ago, the district transitioned five high schools into college and career-themed academy high schools. It added two more schools last year.

They are designed to improve instruction, make it more relevant for students and connect them with local and regional workforce demands at local businesses. The career themes include international business; media,

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to participate in the annual FCCLA National Leadership Conference.

Kristina Hesson, Mountain View’s student organization adviser, said the conference provided Mountain View students opportunities to come together for energizing learning while listening to inspiring speakKeith Farner ers, expanding leadership skills, sharpening talents arts and communications; and exploring career health sciences and human pathways. The theme of services; and STEM. this year’s conference The SREB works with was “Empowered,” which states and educators to inspired attendees to make improve public education the right choices and comat every level, from early mit themselves to making a childhood through postsec- positive impact within their ondary education. families, schools, FCCLA and communities.

Mountain View students Katelynn Reece, Sally attend FCCLA National Smith and Nicole St. Clair Leadership Conference from Mountain View parMembers of Mountain ticipated in one of 30 FamView High School’s chap- ily and Consumer Sciences ter of the Family Career related competitive events and Community Leaders of offered at the conference, America joined more than including Students Taking 8,500 FCCLA student lead- Action with Recognition ers, members, and advisers events and the FCCLA/ at the San Diego ConvenLifeSmarts Knowledge tion Center in San Diego, Bowl. These events support Calif., earlier this month foundational, leadership

Mountain View High School students Katelynn Reece, Sally Smith and Nicole St. Clair, who are members of the school’s chapter of the Family Career and Community Leaders of America, earlier this month joined more than 8,500 FCCLA student leaders, members and advisers at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. (Special Photo)

and workplace skills in areas such as advocacy, culinary arts and entrepreneurship.

Competing with more than 4,500 STAR Event

participants in San Diego, Reece earned a silver medal in the sports nutrition competition, while Smith and St. Clair earned a gold medal in the life event

planning competition.

Keith Farner writes about education. Good News from Schools appears in the Sunday edition of the Daily Post.

Duluth, Cassandra Anderson of Grayson, Laura Elizabeth Hartlage of Grayson, Chaney Moon of Grayson, Oluseye Odugbesan of Grayson, Roshni Thomas of Grayson, Laura Thompson of Grayson, Sarah Catherine Webster of Grayson, Christin Agnew of Lawrenceville, Amaka Asaije of Lawrenceville, Cassandra Bartlett of Lawrenceville, Joshua Crawford of Lawrenceville, Emalyn Elmer of Lawrenceville, Shaun Foley of Lawrenceville, Alejandro Daniel Granda-Malaver of Lawrenceville, Sharon Grason of Lawrenceville, Isioma Houenou of Lawrenceville, Robin Jacob of Lawrenceville, Taylor Jemison of Lawrenceville, Naveed Lalani of Lawrenceville, Jin Lee of Lawrenceville, Jennie Mathen of Lawrenceville, Marina Mathew of Lawrenceville, Amita Nawathe of Lawrenceville, Krishna Patel of Lawrenceville, Brianna Proctor of Lawrenceville, Mark Aston Riggins of Lawrenceville, Vanessa Rivero of Lawrenceville, Manisha Ruhani of Lawrenceville, Robert Eduardo Sanchez of Lawrenceville, Sheetal Sethi of Lawrenceville, Kim Strain of Lawrenceville, Jenna Straughan of Lawrenceville, Mancilla Surujnath of Lawrenceville, La Kim Trac of Lawrenceville, Cory Randall Zeller of Lawrenceville, hibbah Agha of Lilburn, Franklin Gaddy of Lilburn, Kimberly Lynn Harris

of Lilburn, Preethy Mathew of Lilburn, Lauren Elizabeth Ochs of Lilburn, Catherine Orr of Lilburn, Bangarutalli Palipudi of Lilburn, Irena Seferovic of Lilburn, Sisi Wang of Lilburn, Rasheed Jammal Anifowoshe of Norcross, Daniel Boyd Arndt of Norcross, Ibirimote Diane Feghabo of Norcross, Leigh Holden of Norcross, Flora Le of Norcross, DeEdra Lynn Magee of Norcross, Binh Nguyen of Norcross, Nhut Van Nguyen of Norcross, Gordon Bentley Spears of Norcross, Kathryn Berg of Peachtree Corners, Robert Akers of Snellville, Christopher Clute of Snellville, Ryan Alexander Jones of Snellville, Daniel Mathew of Snellville, Anvi Patel of Snellville, Zachary Simmons of Snellville, Vicki Warren of Snellville, Martha Woodruff of Snellville, Louise Jones of Sugar Hill, Amanda Akana of Suwanee, Mei Oree Brasel of Suwanee, Michelle Vitoria Cato of Suwanee, Ashley Choi of Suwanee, Jennifer McDowell Christian of Suwanee, Olivia Croxton of Suwanee, Misty Hemm of Suwanee, Colin Conway Massa of Suwanee, Abigail Polson of Suwanee, Amanda Clyatt Reichert of Suwanee, Shawn Michael Schneider of Suwanee, Brielle Stephania Scutt of Suwanee, William Douglas Wesley of Suwanee, Morgan Dean White of Suwanee, Xiaobo Zhao of Suwanee.

college notes The following local students recently graduated from Mercer Univeristy: Adrain Maria Woods of Alpharetta, Amanda Marie Brown of

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How the legacy of Jack Daniel lives on A while back, a Los Angeles-based producer approached Tink and me to gage our potential interest in writing a historical mini-series about the life of whiskey maker Jack Daniel. Though most people in Hollywood are incredulous that an accomplished television writer like John Tinker would just up and move to the Deep South, they are smart enough to know that it does, in fact, increase his creative IQ. He is developing material by simply living among of a region of people so different from Beverly Hills or Pacific Palisades.

The first words out of Tink’s mouth were, “Definitely! My wife’s

Ronda Rich people come from those whiskey making mountain renegades.”

Then he repeated a line from my second book, a line he totes around like a little boy with his favorite truck, “There is a chasm that runs through those mountains that separates the righteous and the renegades. The righteous love the Lord with all their

hearts and the renegades run from Him with all their might.” For effect, he will pause, smile big then add, “My wife comes from both.”

Later, on a Skype call with the producers, Tink interrupted long enough to dash off to the fridge and return with a Mason jar, full near to the brim of crystal clear liquid. “This is moonshine,” he announced proudly.

The producers in Los Angeles laughed merrily around the table in that kind of stuttered way that Skype sometimes offers.

“Where did you get that?” asked one.

Tink grinned and shrugged. “We don’t know.

When we got married,

someone left it outside the front door with a note of congratulations, welcoming me to the South.” It wasn’t necessary to add the following but Tink did. “Ronda gargles with it whenever she’s getting a sore throat. More likely than not, it knocks it right out. Kills every germ.”

We felt pretty certain, of the various writers being considered for the project, we were the only ones who could lay claim to the fact that we had actually visited the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn. We had been in Nashville for the wedding of Darrell and Stevie Waltrip’s youngest girl, Sarah Kate (I was instrumental in naming her but that’s another story),

and had gathered postwedding morning at the Waltrip home for brunch.

When we mentioned over a sausage and egg casserole that we were thinking of stopping in Lynchburg, several other guests enthusiastically promised it would be worth our time.

It was. The town and the distillery sit far away from the interstate, cloaked beautifully in towering hardwood trees and thick, green grass. The rivers and creeks that ripple through are perfectly clear. Jack Daniel, impressed by the local, sparking rivers spent a lifetime buying up land with water on it. We visited his office and I touched the mountainous black safe that is reputed to have brought the tough man to his knees. One morning, Jack Daniel again couldn’t remember the combination to the safe. His ScotchIrish temper roared and he kicked the safe with all his lower might. His foot was badly injured which would lead to infection, then to amputation and, after almost two years of decline,

his death.

There was something we learned in our research that we didn’t learn on the tour that day (though we did taste Jack Daniel Whiskeyflavored ice cream). Those waters that made Jack Daniel a legend would also make him a saint.

He wasn’t too much interested in religion though he was a generous man who gave away a lot of money including large contributions to the churches whose people railed against the sin of his brew. As death drew nigh, Jack, a well-loved bachelor gentleman, found the Lord.

He sealed the deal with God Almighty by taking a full emersion baptism in the very river that had sustained his distillery for decades. He shall never thirst again.

Funny how history ebbs and flows, isn’t it?

Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of “What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should).” Visit www.rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

I’m sorry and it will happen again

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How often do you find yourself making the same mistake? Again. And Again.

I was talking to a colleague, who also happens to be my daughter. She was describing a client scenario; I jumped in quickly assuming I knew what they wanted.

She paused, annoyed, then went on to describe something completely different from what I was envisioning.

As we began scoping out what the client actually needed — instead of my trigger-happy perceptions — I said, “I’m sorry I wasn’t listening earlier.”

I was about to reflexively add, “It won’t happen again.” Then I realized, who am I kidding? This will totally happen again.

And again, and again.

I routinely move too fast, and don’t listen as well as I should. I’m working on it, but let’s be realistic, this is a lifelong challenge for me, and it ripples over to the people I work and live with. Instead of pretending it was a one-time event, I said, ‘I’m sorry, and we both know this will happen again. I appreciate you calling me on it when it does.”

Your greatest strengths are always going to be your greatest weaknesses.

For example: If you’re good at quickly assessing situations and articulating solutions; you’re probably too quick at times.

If you’re a good talker, you’re likely missing opportunities for listening.

Popular leadership thinking is that leveraging your strengths provides greater opportunity for growth than trying to fix your weaknesses. This is certainly true. Yet for most of us, our strengths and our weaknesses are often one in the same.

The last thing you want is to fixate on the weaknesses side of equation at the expense of eroding your most valuable strengths.

The secret lies in transparency.

Let’s face it; the people around you already know what you’re good at.

They also know what you’re not so good at.

You’re not fooling anyone.

Think this doesn’t apply to you? Let’s flip

Forget Perfect

Lisa McLeod it, if I were to ask you, “What’s your boss, coworker, spouse, etc.’s greatest strength? You would know. You’re probably also pretty well acquainted with their weaknesses, and would have no trouble articulating those, at length.

The same holds true for your team. The people around you know what you’re good at and where you’re awful. What creates a negative dynamic is not the weakness itself.

Negativity occurs when the offender (in the case of the above, me, the trigger-happy talker) stresses strength, while their colleagues keep waiting for the person to acknowledge the weakness.

Aristotle spoke about the “golden mean,” the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. Wikipedia says, “In the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness.”

You’ll make life much easier — for you and them — if you’re transparent about who you are, warts and all.

Perhaps you’re an introvert who practices deep listening, and needs to get better at articulating your needs. Or maybe you’re like me, the raging extrovert, who talks over people, yet is good at summarizing situations.

Whatever your strength, let your team know you’re also aware of the ugly underbelly.

Say you’re sorry when it reveals itself, and give them permission to call you on it.

No one is perfect, the best we can do is be honest about where we’re not.

Lisa McLeod is the creator of the popular business concept Noble Purpose and author of the bestseller “Selling With Noble Purpose.”