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Father not charged in deadly Tucker fire Cause of 2016 blaze that killed family still a mystery

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN

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A Tucker father won’t be charged, but questions still remain in the fire that killed his family.

“There are a lot of questions, but I’m just not sure we’ll ever have them answered,” Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny

Porter said.

Porter was speaking at a press conference Friday morning at which he announced his office would not charge Brent Patterson in regard to the fire in his two-story home Feb. 9, 2016, that killed his wife, Kathy, and their two daughters Madelyn, 9, and Kayla, 12. The case has been closed.

It was a decision, but it wasn’t an answer.

Investigators still don’t know for sure how the two girls and their mother ended up stuck in the deadly blaze. Porter said all they know is that there’s no “smoking gun” pointing at Patterson.

There would be no way to prove a case against him beyond a reasonable doubt.

Brent Patterson is pictured with his late wife Kathy and daughters Kayla, 12, and Madelyn, 9.

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“I came to this conclusion today because I don’t have anywhere else to go in the absence of somebody coming forward or there being some additional evidence discovered,” Porter said.

The case has baffled metro Atlanta for over a year ever since the media See FIRE, Page 7A

Hearing aid bill for kids will help, families say

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Race participant Stevens Vanduzer (589) runs in the Quarry Crusher Run at the Norcross Quarry on Saturday morning. (Photos: Dale Zanine)

Rock stars

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN

More than 700 people showed up at a rock quarry Saturday at about 7 a.m. to voluntarily run down and back up a 660-foot valley in 50-degree weather.

Why? “Because runners are crazy,” said Jaime Lomas, race director for Vulcan Materials’ Atlanta Quarry Crusher Run. Saturday’s race took place in a quarry at Vulcan’s Norcross plant. The quarry is a large hole in the ground that Vulcan uses to produce construction aggregates, meaning primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel that can be used in a wide range of construction materials. But Saturday, the path leading to the bottom of the quarry was filled with runners rather than Cater-

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Snellville resident Kimmone Knight noticed something was off with her 2-yearold son Ethan’s hearing when he responded differently to her voice from the way his twin brother did.

The sign that something was amiss came one day when the mother was interacting with her sons and noticed Joshua had a faster response than Ethan. The boys were about 6 months old at the time.

“They were both sitting in their high

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“That was kind of the idea when (the race) started was that we wanted to do something a little different.”

Kennesaw resident Jeff Stachowiak was one of those “crazy” runners looking for a new kind of runner’s high Saturday morning.

“It’s just the idea of running into a mining quarry,” Stachowiak said. “I told people I was doing it. They were like ‘Oh, Runner Candace Aaron-Paschal (1) poses for a photo during that’s awesome.’” the Quarry Crusher Run at the Norcross Quarry on Saturday In fact, Stachowiak was so morning. psyched about a new running pillar trucks and workers.

3.7 miles or almost 6 kilometers challenge that he registered to Lomas said most runners — that takes them down into a run a Double Crusher, a 7.4-mile showed up for the novelty. They quarry and back out. version of the race that takes enjoy the challenge of a unique “Runners want to do someSee RACE, Page 7A run slightly longer than a 5K — thing different,” Lomas said.

State Sen. P.K. Martin chats with Snellville youth Ethan Knight, 2, at the Lawrenceville Lawn on Tuesday. Martin introduced legislation this year that requires insurance companies to cover the costs of hearing aids for kids like Ethan, who has worn them since he was 6 months old. Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to sign the bill into law Monday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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GGC, other schools in holding pattern on gun policies

BY KEITH FARNER

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The campus carry legislation signed Thursday by Gov. Nathan Deal has put colleges across Georgia, including Georgia Gwinnett College, in a holding pattern.

University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley in a statement to presidents, provosts and police chiefs, said that the USG would issue implementation guidance to all institutions ahead of the July 1 effective date.

“Please do not make any changes to your policies until you receive this final guidance,” Wrigley said. “We recognize that many have strong feel-

ings about this new law.

It is important that we all work together across our campuses to implement the new law appropriately and continue to provide a top-quality education to our students.”

The legislation, House Bill 280, allows those with a Georgia weapons permit age 21 or older to carry firearms onto parts of public college campuses.

Until July, firearms are prohibited by state law.

The campus community at GGC on Friday received communication that said, “administrators and police have been planning for possible implementation since an earlier bill was under consideration last year, and will work with the USG and share more

information leading up to July 1.”

At a December breakfast with Stas legislaPreczewski tors, GGC President Stas Preczewski ducked behind a podium when the topic was raised.

“It’s a challenge,” Preczewski said then. “All the presidents have opposed it. All of the faculty senates have opposed it.

All of the student government associations have opposed it. … In terms of actual firearms on campus, everybody still remains, students, faculty, staff, presidents. And I’m a former Army guy.”

The legislation specified certain areas where someone can have a gun on a campus. It’s legislation that Republicans in the legislature have sought for years only to see it come up short time and again in the past.

Although the bill opens up some areas of campuses for people to carry firearms, it still prohibits the carrying of a gun in several other areas, such as on-campus preschool and child care spaces and areas where high school dual enrollment students would be located.

“It is altogether appropriate that weapons not be allowed in sensitive areas on college campuses, and I appreciate the thoughtful consideration given by

the General Assembly in expanding these excluded areas within a college campus in this year’s bill,” Deal said in a statement.

“While HB 280 addresses the rights and restrictions relating to weapons carry license holders on a college campus, it in effect may have greater significance for students who are going to or coming from a campus. Unfortunately, in parts of the state, the path to higher education travels through dangerous territory.”

Deal blocked a similar bill a year ago, suggesting at the time that the General Assembly instead increase the penalty for carrying an unauthorized firearm on campuses. On

Thursday, his office said the bill sent to him failed to address issues about taking guns in what it called “sensitive places,” such as disciplinary hearings, offices and on-campus preschools.

The legislation signed into the law by the governor on Thursday, however, included provisions that addressed those areas.

Additional areas where guns will still be prohibited include student housing areas such as dorms and fraternity or sorority houses, athletic event facilities, faculty and administrative offices, disciplinary hearings and classes that are part of college and career academy, or other specialized schools.

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I-85, Gravel Springs interchange agreement reached to oversee construction.

County commissioners approved a reimbursement agreement with GDOT this Gwinnett County officials past week that will see the have reached an agreecounty acquire the rightsment with their state-level of-way for the project and counterparts that will help allow it to be reimbursed advance a planned interwith federal funds. change at Interstate 85 and The interchange project Gravel Springs Road. will entail the addition of The Gravel Springs Road entrance and exit ramps at interchange project has been the existing Gravel Springs planned for a while with Road overpass bridge. the Georgia Department “Having talked with comof Transportation expected munity leaders throughout

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the area, we understand that traffic on the two lane connectors crossing the county between Buford and Dacula, over I-85, are overloaded,” Commissioner John Heard said in a statement. “Putting these ramps onto the interstate from the State Route 324 four-lane connector will tremendously relieve traffic at these two lane-lane crossings.”

County officials expect rights-of-way costs will add up to about $7.5 million, but

the new agreement means Gwinnett can be reimbursed for as much as $5.98 million in federal funding for eligible expenses. The county also received a $2 million grant from the State Road and Tollway Authority last year to begin acquiring rights-of-way for the project.

The overall project is joint venture, using a mixture of SPLOST, federal and state funds for engineering and right-of-way acquisition while only federal and

state funds will be used for construction.

“While there is an existing bridge over I-85, additional work is required to allow for the on- and offramps,” Gwinnett County Transportation Director Alan Chapman said in a statement. “We will also add turn lanes and traffic signals at the intersection of these ramps with State Route 324.”

Officials expect to begin construction by late 2018,

and it is expected to take about 18 months to complete. Although that is some time off from now, Heard expects it to have a big impact on the area once it’s done.

“The simple addition of these ramps will change the traffic dynamic in the entire northeast quadrant of the county and is just another step in proving Gwinnett County is the best place to do business in the country,” he said.

Under AHCA, Georgia would gain control but lose funds

BY ANDY MILLER

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ATLANTA — Georgia and other states would have more control over health care — its rules, spending and benefits — under the bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday.

The revised version of the Republican-backed health bill, approved narrowly in the House, would allow states to get waivers to create insurance regulations much different from the current Affordable Care Act requirements.

The plan, which would replace the ACA, now goes to the Senate.

It would retain the prior Republican plan to move the Medicaid program, which covers about 2 million Georgians, into a “block grant’’ format. That would limit federal spending and let states set their own eligibility and benefit rules.

Gov. Nathan Deal and other Republican leaders in Georgia, though, have expressed concern in the past about the effect of the Medicaid changes on the state.

The original bill this year would have based the per-enrollee block-grant funding on what each state spent in 2016. Georgia is a traditionally low-spending state on Medicaid, with one of the lowest perenrollee expenditure rates in the nation.

“We just don’t want to be punished’’ as a state under the proposed Medicaid changes, Deal told GHN in March.

Deal’s spokeswoman,

House Republicans marched to the White House on Thursday afternoon to celebrate their victory: Passage of the American Health Care Act. President Trump welcomed them with a Rose Garden celebration.

(Photo: CNN)

Jen Ryan, said Thursday, “The governor has not yet seen the text of the proposal and, as such, believes it’s too early to comment.’’

On Medicaid, a state such as Georgia may have to consider cutting benefits and eligibility in order to meet increased budget pressures from funding the program, said Bill Custer, a health insurance expert at Georgia State University.

Under the bill, Custer added, “states would have more power — and more responsibility,” including setting up “high-risk’’ pools and other insurance rules.

Custer estimates that at least 700,000 residents would be added to the state’s uninsured rolls under the legislation. He based that prediction on the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the law would lead to 24 million people losing coverage by 2026.

Georgia already has one of the highest uninsured rates in the U.S. The House bill, by ending a key ACA program, also would eliminate the opportunity for Georgia to expand Medicaid, a move

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the state’s political leadership has so far rejected for budgetary reasons.

That could mean continued financial trouble for some rural hospitals in the state, experts say, because these facilities treat many low-income, uninsured patients.

Still, state Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens reiterated Thursday his support of having more regulatory authority at the state level.

“The commissioner still feels that states should have more control over health insurance,’’ said Glenn Allen, an insurance department spokesman.

The American Health Care Act looked to be dead just days ago, though it was a GOP priority. The revived version — which passed along partisan lines (as did the ACA in 2010) — is opposed by groups representing hospitals, physicians, nurses and seniors, among other organizations.

The measure is expected to undergo substantial changes in the Senate, where passage is uncertain.

Nevertheless, it represents a major political triumph for President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other congressional Republicans who campaigned on a pledge of repealing and replacing the ACA. The effects of the GOP plan will focus mainly on people who buy insurance individually or as a family.

Those in job-based plans would largely be unaffected by the changes.

The legislation would allow insurers to charge older consumers as much as five times more for coverage than younger people. The ACA permits a 3-to-1 ratio. States would also be allowed to seek

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waivers to allow insurers to charge older consumers even more than five times younger ones.

The age change and other provisions could raise premiums for people older than 30, while those under that age could see lower rates, Custer said.

AARP issued a statement after the House vote that said the bill “will put an Age Tax on us as we age, harming millions of American families with health insurance, forcing many to lose coverage or pay thousands of dollars more for health care. In addition, the bill now puts at risk the 25 million older adults with pre-existing conditions, such as cancer and diabetes, who would likely find health care unaffordable or unavailable to them.’’

How the proposal would affect people with pre-existing conditions consumed much political attention in the hours before the vote.

The bill would provide $138 billion through 2026 to help states and insurers lower premiums and set up high-risk pools to cover those with pre-existing conditions.

States could get federal permission to let insurers return to their pre-ACA practice of charging more to customers with preexisting medical problems. The bill includes a newly proposed $8 billion intended to be spread over five years to states that back out of this part of the ACA. New research from the consulting firm Avalere, though, finds that the funding in the bill would not be nearly enough to cover all enrollees in the individual market today who have some form of pre-existing chronic condition.

Avalere estimates that

72,000 Georgians with health conditions currently are covered in the individual market.

The bill says insurers could charge such patients more only if states get a waiver from the feds, and the person would have to be uninsured and buying his or her coverage on the individual market.

The GOP’s bill would get rid of the ACA’s requirement that people have health coverage or face a tax penalty. It also would eliminate the mandate that employers with at least 50 employees provide coverage to their workers.

In place of governmentsubsidized insurance policies offered exclusively on the ACA marketplaces, the bill would offer tax credits of $2,000 to $4,000 a year, depending mainly on age.

A family could receive up to $14,000 a year in credits. The credits would be reduced for individuals making more than $75,000 a year and families making more than $150,000.

But Georgians in highcost markets, such as rural communities, might receive less favorable treatment because the financial help they get would no longer consider the higher cost of premiums, according to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

The nonpartisan CBO said the first version of the bill would trim the federal budget deficit considerably, the New York Times noted.

Insurance premiums would spike next year before settling lower after a decade.

States could also seek waivers that would allow insurers to sell plans that don’t include all the essential health benefits under the ACA, which are outpatient care, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity, mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs, rehabilitation services, lab work, preventative care and pediatric services.

Getting such a waiver could lower premiums somewhat and give consumers a wider choice of plans, CNN reported. But it would also make it more difficult for people to buy comprehensive coverage and weaken the protections for those with pre-existing

conditions.

Insurers could offer “skinny’’ coverage plans, without such benefits as coverage for substance abuse treatment, maternity and prescription drugs. Insurers might trim benefits to attract younger people, who have less risk of high medical bills, Custer said.

The House plan would end the additional help that individuals earning less than roughly $30,000 a year receive to cover their out-of-pocket costs. More than half of the enrollees on the ACA exchanges receive these cost-sharing subsidies.

Cindy Zeldin of Georgians for a Healthy Future, which is supportive of the ACA, said the GOP proposal would have “a devastating effect’’ on many Georgians, including children with disabilities, people who rely on Medicaid services, and those with health conditions.

Winners under the new bill would include highincome people, who would see a major tax cut, she said.

The Republican legislation would also eliminate taxes the ACA levies on health insurers, prescription drug makers, device manufacturers and others.

Reduced taxes on health plan premiums mean reduced, more affordable premiums for Georgians, Graham Thompson, executive director of the Georgia Association of Health Plans, said Thursday.

He also praised federal officials’ move to tighten up enrollment period rules.

And Thompson said insurers applaud the requirement of individuals to maintain continuous coverage or face higher premiums, “as broad consumer participation means more affordable plan options.’’

Thompson’s group and another industry trade organization, America’s Health Insurance Plans, called for further steps to stabilize the insurance markets nationally.

The way that the bill would change Medicaid has sparked concern from state Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, R-Rome. He told GHN on Thursday, “Georgia would get significantly less [Medicaid funding] than other states because it didn’t expand Medicaid.”

He said that the House bill’s pegging Medicaid funding to per-enrollee spending would hurt the state as well.

“My fear is that we’ll end up treating [more] people in the ER, where people are the sickest and costs are the highest,’’ Hufstetler said.

Under ACA repeal, the CDC would lose $890 million of funding annually, 12 percent of the Atlantabased agency’s budget, GHN reported in January.

And states would lose more than $3 billion over the next five years from grants and programs supported by the Prevention Fund, which is part of the ACA. That would include $20 million in public health funding to Georgia each year over five years, or a total of $100 million, according to a report.

Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News.

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Meds to thin blood don’t have to be pricey Dear Dr. roacH: I’m 83 and was recently diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. My doctor put me on Eliquis. I have had no problems with it, except the cost! Is there something comparable that is less expensive?

— D.C. ansWer: Apixaban (Eliquis) is one of the new oral anticoagulant drugs, often abbreviated “NOACs.” They are effective and have similar or lower bleeding risk than the older treatment, warfarin, but apixaban does not have an antidote in case of severe bleeding, as I recently addressed in a column.

I did not address cost.

The average retail price for a month’s worth of apixaban is $484, which is a huge burden for many people if their insurance doesn’t cover it or only partially covers it. Many insurers have a particular NOAC they will cover, and it may be that your prescriber can switch you to the preferred drug. There are drugassistance programs through the manufacturer; visit its website at www.bmspaf.org.

If that still doesn’t help, then you can take warfarin, which is very inexpensive.

However, the drug’s level has to be monitored via blood tests on an ongoing basis.

Dear Dr. roacH: I’m an 80-year-old woman with Parkinson’s disease.

It took eight years and four doctors to get a diagnosis.

Now I can’t taste anything, and I have lost 12 pounds in one year because it is so hard to eat. I sometimes vomit. I just started a Parkinson’s medication two weeks ago. I also take fluticasone nasal spray.

— B.R. ansWer: Loss of sense of taste is a common problem in Parkinson’s disease.

Twenty-seven percent of people with PD had impaired sense of taste in a recent study. Loss of sense of smell can cause poor taste sensation; however, that was not the case in this study on Parkinson’s patients. In contrast, there are reports of people on fluticasone nasal spray losing sense of smell.

In both cases, I would recommend evaluation by an ear, nose and throat physician to be sure there is not a separate problem.

Dear Dr. roacH: I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder called “idiopathic hypersomnia.” My symptoms are similar to narcolepsy: I fall asleep without warning. However, I can be woken. I fall asleep anywhere from two to 10 times per day. I have tried many medications, and nothing has worked at all. I have been told that nothing can help me with this rare sleep disorder. Do you have any suggestions?

— A.B. ansWer: What you have been diagnosed with, idiopathic hypersomnia, is rare; I have never seen a case. From what I have read, medications for narcolepsy often are tried (such as modafinil). I did read about flumazenil, an intravenous medication that is used for overdose of a specific type of sedatives, being formulated as a pill and used in idiopathic hypersomnia.

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TODAY’S FACT: In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby. The horse went on to win the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, becoming the 10th horse to win the Triple Crown, and the only one to do so while undefeated.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1982, a jury ruled in favor of Raiders owner Al Davis in an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, allowing Davis to move the team from Oakland, California, to Los Angeles.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Never the time and the place / And the loved one all together!” — Robert Browning

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Does shared custody require honest sharing?

Dear amy: I have a 4-year-old daughter. Her father and I separated when she was a baby. We share custody.

He has a long history of being hostile to me, including threats and insulting emails/texts, yelling for hours over actions I never did, not helping with chores or bills, etc.

Things between us have only moderately improved in the last four months.

I acknowledge that while he can be a jerk to me, he is caring and affectionate with our daughter.

When he comes over to pick her up, he waits outside.

Last week she asked, “Why doesn’t he come inside?”

I provided a one-sentence factual answer with age-appropriate vocabulary: “Because he was mean to me and the cat.”

I have never given her details of the hurtful words and actions I endured. Later, she repeated the phrase to him and he sent me texts/emails demanding answers.

I want them to have a healthy parent-child relationship, and I do not want to cause drama or problems for her. Typically, I do not talk about her father in front of her.

But as she ages, how do I answer her questions about him or our past together?

While I am willing to keep the past in the past, I do not want to lie or pre-

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Amy Dickinson tend these hardships never existed.

— Wondering Mom Dear WonDering: You might have used age-appropriate language and concepts with your 4-year-old, but you also burdened her with knowledge she doesn’t have the maturity or context to handle.

You also called her father a “mean” man, and then you sent her out into the world to be with him!

How confusing for her.

And — with your one sentence — you put her in the middle of your drama.

Children your daughter’s age are just starting to understand the concept of friendships, so you could frame your situation in those terms. You could say, “Daddy and I are trying to be better friends, but for now I just want to wave to him when I say goodbye to you. The most important thing is that we are both cuckoo-bananas about you, and I’m really happy that he is such a good daddy.”

There is never a need for you to tell your

daughter that her father is a mean jerk. Unless he presents a danger to her, this is one case where you should not be completely factual and truthful in order to allow your daughter to form her own relationship with him. If that feels like lying to you, then I give you permission to lie your head off. In time, she may ask more pointed questions, and, no matter how old she is, you should be extremely circumspect in your answers.

Dear amy: My fiance and I are getting married this summer. Well over a year ago, when we got engaged, my fiance and I told my younger sister that she would get a “plus one” to bring to the wedding.

She immediately said she was going to bring her best friend. I cautioned her at the time that she should wait to invite this friend, in case she got a serious boyfriend between then and the wedding.

Fast forward to now.

My sister is in a serious relationship, and my parents are pressuring us to allow her to bring both the boyfriend and her best friend.

My parents and fiance already have a somewhat rocky relationship. This might make it worse.

Am I wrong for my firm stance that she needs to bring just one person?

— Upset Bride to Be Dear Upset: This “plus one” business is

not your or your parents’ problem; it is your sister’s problem.

All the same, there are times when it makes sense to cave (or compromise).

If your sister (not your parents) comes to you two with this dilemma, you should talk to her about it.

There is a possibility that another guest will not be able to attend; if somebody backs out, you might be able to squeeze in her extra guest.

Dear amy: “Forgotten on the Fourth Floor” was upset that none of her hospital co-workers visited her after her knee replacement surgery.

I’ve worked in hospitals for 30 years.

There are very real concerns regarding patient privacy.

My rule of thumb is, if I am close enough with the co-worker that I would drive across town to visit them in the hospital, then I will go to see them in this hospital.

Otherwise, I stay away and send a card.

— Experienced Dear experienceD: Thank you.

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Explore what’s available to you, and be open to learning something new. Melding what you already do and know with bold new concepts will put you in a good position to conquer whatever you want to pursue. Make this a year to remember and build upon.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — You have the fortitude and insight to make things happen.

Taking short trips or sharing with someone who can shed some light on your situation will pay off.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Socialize, and enjoy friends, children and loved ones. A passionate encounter will improve your personal life, giving you a strong base on which you can build a brighter future.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Too much of anything will lead to disaster. Limit how much you spend, eat or drink.

Excess won’t reduce your troubles.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t let guilt set in and ruin a good time. Make the most of your day by surrounding yourself with the people you love and doing what you enjoy doing most.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — You can have fun on a shoestring with someone you love.

Taking a hike or just relaxing at home will give you time to discuss your plans and a new budget.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You’ll tend to overreact or be excessive when dealing with personal partners and domestic issues or spending money. Curb your emotions before trouble sets in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — An idea you have or that someone suggests may be interesting, but check out the cost involved before you advance. You’ll tend to overspend, indulge and overdo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Share your ideas with someone who will have something interesting to add. Collaboration will result in a long-term plan and a welcome partnership. Celebrate with someone you love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Travel may entice you, but if you cannot afford a fancy trip, settle for something entertaining and within your budget.

You can’t buy love, so don’t spend to impress.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Getting together with old friends or colleagues will be enlightening.

The opportunities that transpire will have an impact on what you do or how much you earn in the future.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Err on the side of caution when dealing with someone who is unpredictable, excessive or overly emotional. Let the dust settle before you take on a personal challenge. Time is on your side.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Do something that you find relaxing and conducive to happiness. Making a physical change or spending time with someone you love will help relieve pent-up anxiety and stress.

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Apartments proposed near I-85 Fire officials to

BY CURT YEOMANS

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A developer is planning to build a 292-unit apartment complex next to the old Dave and Buster’s location in the Gwinnett Place area, according to county documents.

Quintus Development’s proposal, which would be built on a 20.12-acre property between Satellite Boulevard and Interstate 85, is currently pending before the county’s Planning Commission. The planning body tabled a public hearing on the project this past week, but it is currently expected to come up again at the commission’s June 6 meeting.

County documents show Quintus plans to build a “quality residential development” that will be geared to millennials and other young professionals.

“The subject property is surrounded by aging residential developments and in need of a quality, high-end development to encourage the redevelopment of nearby properties,” Quintus Development officials said in a letter to county officials March 3.

“As currently zoned, a 20-acre industrial development is not consistent with

This artist rendering shows the planned look of the clubhouse and pool area at the proposed Satellite Point Apartments near Gwinnett Place Mall. The county’s Planning Commission tabled a public hearing on the project until June 6. (Special Photo)

or supported by the land use plans for this area.”

The proposed complex, known as Satellite Point Apartments, already has the backing of county staff, which have recommended approval with conditions.

Quintus wants to build 10 residential buildings, a mail kiosk and a club house with a pool on part of the property.

The property is currently a wooded area with Bromolow Creek skirting the western edge of it. However, a county report says all of the buildings and the property’s retention pond will be outside of the stream buffer zone for the creek.

“Recent Board approvals for similar multifamily developments in Gwinnett

County adjacent to Interstate 85 have been conditioned to promote a higher standard of design due to their high visibility,” county staff said in their report.

“Further, in 2016, the Board of Commissioners approved the nearby Venture Drive Overlay district with the intention of attracting to the area more intense multifamily and mixed-use development also built to higher standards.”

All hallways may have to be interior since county staff have recommended breezeways be forbidden. the county also wants it to be a gated community, and has recommended a condition that no more than 10 percent of the units can have more than two bedrooms.

Efficiency apartments would be banned as well.

It will be a while before a final decision on the proposal should be expected, however.

After the Planning Commission holds its public hearing and takes a vote on the project, its recommendation will go to the Board of Commissioners, which will make the final decision.

In their letter to county leaders, Quintus officials pointed to their past work on residential projects, including those in Gwinnett.

“One of its recent Gwinnett communities includes Suwanee Station, where amenities are geared towards millennials and young professionals who are looking to live near the growing job and tech opportunities, and nearby colleges,” the company’s letter said.

“The Subject Property’s location is similarly desirable to young professionals due to its proximity to 1-85, and because it is surrounded by a variety of diverse, award-winning restaurants, coffee shops and bakeries. The site is also conveniently located near numerous retail and shopping options, the Infinite Energy Center, and Satellite Boulevard.”

residents: Burn ban now in effect

BY CURT YEOMANS

counties is restricted during the warm-weather season.”

With the ban in place, In the immortal words residents will not be of Smokey Bear, “Only allowed to burn yard you can prevent forest and land clearing debris, fires.” and the use of air curtain Gwinnett County Fire destructors in land clearing is also prohibited. and Emergency Services Residential grilling will officials are hoping residents will do their part still be allowed, however — as long as it’s not to prevent fires in more on the balcony of an places than just forests, apartment building, which though. The department is banned all year by the sent out a reminder Monday saying the state’s county’s fire ordinance.

“As always, people outdoor burn ban is now should exercise extreme in effect. caution when using The ban will last residential grills or through Sept. 30. campfires,” Rutledge said.

“During the summer Rutledge also said months in Georgia, residents will have to the ozone in the air get a permit for fires we breathe can reach that will be used for unhealthy levels,” Capt. agricultural purposes in Tommy Rutledge said areas zoned for residential in a statement. “The (Environmental Protection agricultural developments, as well as Forestry Division) has identified Service prescribed outdoor open burning as burns, firefighter training a significant contributor of the pollutants that form fires and any bonfire that is sponsored by ozone. an educational, civic, “Consequently, religious or other outdoor open burning in community groups. metro Atlanta and larger

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Gwinnett set to celebrate National Drinking Water Week

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“As the weather heats up, staying hydrated is important,” Shields said in a statement.

“Fortunately, Gwinnett County residents can drink freely with the knowledge that their tap water comes from safe, awardwinning facilities. The county’s two water production facilities, Shoal Creek and Lanier Filter Plants, have won numerous

awards from the Georgia Association of Water Professionals.”

The department is actually stretching its celebration of safe water practices beyond next week. Officials observed Water Professionals Appreciation Day on Monday by recognizing DWR employees, saying their work “often goes unseen.”

The county will also give

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Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources officials are planning to spend this month promoting, well, water.

Department spokeswoman Karen Shields said the week of May 7 will be National Drinking Water Week, and DWR

officials want to highlight the work that takes place at its Shoal Creek and Lanier Filter Plants. Shields pointed out the Shoal Creek plant won the Georgia Association of Water Professionals’ Plant of the Year award for 2017, making it the fourth time in the last 10 years that the facility has won that honor.

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residents a chance to see its water production up close from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 20, when the Department of Water Resources hosts its annual Shoal Creek Filter Plant open house.

The event will include crafts, games, fairground food, plant tours and kids activities. The plant is located at 1755 Buford Dam Road in Buford.

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world&nation world 82 Chibok girls released in Nigeria Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls have been released after successful negotiations between the terrorist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government, according to a government official close to the negotiations.

The source, who is not authorized to speak on the record about the release, told CNN the freed girls are in military custody in Banki, a town in northeast Nigeria.

They will be transferred to the capital, Abuja, where they will have medical checks and be reunited with their families.

They are believed to be among the 276 girls, ages 16 to 18, forced from their beds

by Boko Haram militants in the middle of the night in April 2014. The kidnapping from a boarding school in the town of Chibok sparked global outrage and the social media movement #BringBackOurGirls.

“I am very, very excited with this development. I cannot even sleep tonight,” said Yana Galang, whose daughter, Rifkatu, was among the girls kidnapped.

Galang said they don’t yet know who has been released, “but we’re very happy that many have been freed.”

As many as 57 girls escaped almost immediately after the mass abduction.

2 killed as bombs rock Manila Two bomb blasts killed at least two people and wounded at least six others Saturday in the Philippine capital, police told CNN. The explosions rocked the Quiapo district of Manila, police said, according to CNN Philippines.

National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde told CNN Philippines that investigators have not found any indication of terrorism.

Albayalde told reporters the first explosive was inside a small box delivered as a package. The two dead were identified as the person who delivered the package and the one who received it, he said.

Four others were wounded.

A second explosion went off a couple of hours later in the area, wounding two police officers.

The blasts come a week after a pipe bomb exploded in Quiapo, injuring 14 people, Albayalde said in a statement.

That bombing coincided with the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian nations, or ASEAN, the group that promotes economic growth and cultural development in the region.

Macron’s campaign gets hacked

By Steve almaSy

CNN

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been the victim of a “massive and coordinated hacking operation,” his campaign team said, slamming the attack as a last-ditch attempt to undermine him before today’s election.

The document dump happened Friday night, less than 48 hours before the country votes in the final round of the presidential election, which pits the independent centrist Macron against the far-right Marine Le Pen. The files were released just before 2 p.m. Friday, around four hours before the election campaign period officially closed with its restrictions on campaigning, reporting and polling.

These restrictions are aimed at preventing last-minute scandals from emerging and influencing the election’s outcome.

Around 14.5 gigabytes of emails, personal and business documents were posted to the text-sharing site Pastebin through links to more than 70,000 files, a CNN look at the data shows.

Officials from Macron’s En Marche! party said in a statement that the perpetrators of the hack had mixed fake documents with authentic ones “to create confusion and misinformation.”

France presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign was hacked before today’s French presidential election.

(Photo: CNN)

“The leak happened in the last hours of the campaign. This operation is clearly meant to undermine democracy, just like what happened in the U.S. during the last presidential campaign,” the statement read.

U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia meddled in the November elections, and Congress is investigating the allegations. Russia has denied any interference.

En Marche! said that some of the files circulating were obtained several weeks ago after personal and professional email accounts were hacked.

It was not clear who

was behind the document dump, but the hack targeting Macron’s campaign used methods similar to the suspected Russian hacks of the Democratic National Committee last year in the United States, according to a report issued in April by cybersecurity researchers.

Donald Trump won the election after information from Hillary Clinton’s campaign was released before the vote.

Other politicians back Macron If successful Sunday, Macron, 39, would become the youngest president in the history of France and

nation Miss. River cresting in Ill., southern Mo. Nearly 10 million people across the Midwest were under a flood warning Saturday as several spots along the Mississippi River were expected to reach nearrecord crests this weekend, the latest threats to a region that got slammed this week by severe flooding.

The river’s cresting — the highest stage or level of a flood wave — was due to affect communities in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said.

Even after a river crests, flooding can still be a problem.

Those who live near the Mississippi River in Cape Girardeau in southern Illinois and southeast Missouri prepared for an onslaught.

The Mississippi River, which separates the two states, crested late Saturday morning at 45.8 feet near Cape Girardeau, near its record high crest of 48.9 feet.

School bus crash kills 36 in Tanzania

Manslaughter charges filed in death of Penn State frat pledge

A school bus full of students swerved off a steep road in Tanzania on Saturday morning and fell into a ravine, killing 36 people — 33 of them children, authorities said.

The fatal crash happened in city of Arusha in Tanzania’s northern Karatu District, on the edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Aruba Police Commander Charles Mkumbo said investigators were still trying to determine exactly what caused the bus to leave the road.

— From wire reports

Eight members of a Penn State fraternity were charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a student after a night of heavy drinking, the local district attorney’s office said.

Timothy J. Piazza, 19, of Lebanon, New Jersey, died Feb. 4, two days after he was injured while pledging the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

The cause of death was traumatic brain injury that resulted from several falls, including a fall down a set of basement stairs, according to a 65-page statement issued

by Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller

Eighteen fraternity members and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity itself were charged in connection with the Feb. 4 hazing death of Timothy John Piazza, center, at Penn State University. Eight of those members were charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to a press release from the Centre County District Attorney’s office.

(Photo: Patrick Carns Photography)

after a county grand jury investigation.

A forensic pathologist calculated Piazza had a blood alcohol content between .26 and .36 percent at one point during the night — an amount that would render him “stuporous” and be “life-threatening,” the statement said.

The fraternity, the grand jury said, “cultivated such a permissive atmosphere regarding excessive alcohol consumption that Timothy Piazza’s death was not simply an unfortunate accident, but was the direct result of encouraged reckless conduct that demonstrated a reckless disregard for human life, or a reckless indifference to the possible consequences of such conduct.”

ted to carrying out my ethical responsibilities,” Pruitt said in the statement. “While I have recused myself from making decisions on specific cases, it is my duty and privilege as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to actively engage in rulemaking.”

Pruit said his duties will continue to include pursuing President Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda “by reviewing, revising or rescinding rules and regulations created by the previous administration that cause undue or unnecessary stress on American jobs or the economy.”

Pruitt formally recused himself in an agency memorandum Thursday, saying he will not participate in 12 lawsuits, all but one of which were filed against the EPA.

the nation’s youngest leader since Napoleon.

He has led a remarkable campaign, defying the traditional mainstream parties courtesy of his En Marche! movement. For many, however, the campaign has become less about backing Macron and instead about voting against Le Pen, the National Front candidate.

French President François Hollande, Republican candidate François Fillon and the Socialist Party’s Benoit Hamon have come together to back Macron, claiming a Le Pen presidency would be disastrous for France. small-arms fire.

Milliken was a member of SEAL Team Six, a defense official confirmed to CNN. The elite special operations unit, which led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was on a scheduled deployment to East Africa for training and carrying out counterterrorism missions. The target in Somalia was a local al-Shabaab leader who had been involved in planning attacks against facilities used

by U.S. and African forces in Somalia.

Milliken was on a mission advising Somali National Army forces.

“Senior Chief Kyle Milliken embodied the warrior spirit and toughness infused in our very best Navy SEALs,” Rear Adm. Timothy Szymanski, commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, said in a statement. “We grieve his death, but we celebrate his life and many accomplishments. He is irreplaceable as a husband, father, son, friend and teammate — and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and teammates.”

people Team USA bobsled driver Holcomb dies Steven Holcomb, who piloted the U.S. No. 1 fourman bobsled to Olympic gold in 2010, was found dead Saturday morning in his room at the U.S. training center in Lake Placid, N.Y., the U.S. Olympic Committee said.

He was 37 years old. No cause of death was given.

“Steve was a tremendous athlete and even better person, and his perseverance and achievements were an inspiration to us all,” United States Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun said.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Steve’s family and the entire bobsledding community.”

Holcomb’s victory was impressive considering in 2008 he had a procedure for an eye condition that could have led to him going blind.

The gold medal was the first U.S. win in the event since 1948.

Oldest American Olympic winner Keifer dies at 98 Adolph Kiefer, a 1936 Olympic swimming gold medalist who was America’s oldest living Olympic champion has died, the U.S. Olympic committee said.

He was 98 years old.

“A man larger than life, Adolph had such a huge passion and joy for swimming. He has touched many in this industry and paved the way for future athletes with his historic swimming career,” a statement by Kiefer’s company said.

Kiefer suffered from neuropathy in his legs and hands and was confined to a wheelchair, but he continued swimming daily.

Kiefer’s record-breaking career began when he was a 16-year-old high school student. He was the first person in the world to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke — and months later he became the youngest member of the US Olympic team.

In 1936, Kiefer won the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke competition at the Olympic games in Berlin, setting a record that would stand for 20 years.

White House curator to retire

White House curator William G. Allman has decided to retire, according to two people familiar with his decision.

After a career that spanned more than 40 years, Allman’s Lawyers call for departure will leave another release of terrorist key position open on the residence staff on the heels of who helped to Chief Usher Angella Reid’s stop al-Qaeda departure Friday. Residence Defense attorneys for staff positions are non-politiBryant Neal Vinas, an cal. The office of the curator American al-Qaeda recruit was created under first lady who rubbed shoulders with Jacqueline Kennedy. senior figures in the terThe curator works closely EPA’s Pruitt ror group in Pakistan, have with the White House interecuses self rior decorator and the ComNavy SEAL killed called for him to be sentenced to time served when mittee for the Preservation of from lawsuits in Somalia ID’d he appears Thursday in fed- the White House.

EPA Administrator Scott A Navy SEAL who was Allman worked alongeral court in Brooklyn, New Pruitt is recusing himself killed in an operation against York, citing their client’s side a team of curators who from lawsuits he was previ- terrorist group al-Shabaab will continue that work and exceptional cooperation ously involved in as attorin Somalia earlier this week with the U.S. government. served as the chief curator ney general of Oklahoma, has been identified by the since 2002. He was one of “Mr. Vinas was, during including litigation over the Department of Defense as the first members of resithe darkest period of his Obama-era Clean Power Kyle Milliken, 38, of Faldence staff to meet Melania life, a terrorist,” attorneys Plan and Waters of the mouth, Maine.

Michael Bachrach and Steve Trump; he gave her a tour United States rule.

Milliken, a senior chief Zissou wrote in a court filing when she came to visit with An official told CNN special warfare operator, was Friday that CNN obtained.

Michelle Obama days after on Saturday that Pruitt is killed Thursday in a remote the election, Obama White Vinas pleaded guilty in recusing himself only from area of Somalia 40 miles January 2009 to a variety of House press secretary Josh litigation, not regulations. west of Mogadishu when he terrorism charges.

Earnest told reporters.

— From wire reports “I am profoundly commit- and other troops came under — From wire reports

Aunt Jemima frozen pancakes, waffles and French toast recalled

By Faith Karimi CNN

A New Jersey food company is recalling Aunt Jemima frozen pancakes, waffles and French toast over fears of listeria contamina-

States and Mexico, but does not include dry mixes and syrups, the company said. tion.

It said it issued the recall after Pinnacle Foods’ voluntary recall testing showed the presence of Lisissued Friday night affects frozen teria monocytogenes in the plant products distributed in the United environment.

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“We are working in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration,” Pinnacle Foods said.

Listeria causes serious and at times fatal infections in children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems. It

can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths.

Affected products can be returned to the place of purchase for a refund, the company said.

No incidents of illness have been reported.

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Native American advocates size up Trump administration ence to Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas,” With President Donald have raised some concerns.

Trump’s first 100 days Lawmakers serving on in office in the rearview the Senate Committee on mirror, lawmakers and Indian Affairs have voiced advocates are uncertain but trepidation about the impact hopeful about the impact the new administration may the new administration will have on Native American have on the Native Amerihealth care, education fundcan community. ing and sovereignty, among Trump’s choice of Ryan other issues.

Zinke to be secretary of the However, community interior quelled the concerns stakeholders say they trying of some; as a former conto balance those concerns gressman from Montana, with optimism as the presiZinke has experience repdent’s first term unfolds. resenting Native Americans In interviews, lawmakers in Washington, which is expressed trust in Zinke’s seen as a promising sign by demonstrated ability to many of the community’s understand the issues imtop advocates. portant to Native Americans But some of the presiacross the nation. Hailing dent’s executive actions and from a state with seven Indicontroversial comments, an reservations, Zinke posincluding a recent refersesses “a degree of knowlBy Eleanor Mueller CNN

•From Page 1A chairs together, and I would call Joshua’s name and he would respond very quickly,” Knight said. “With Ethan, on the other hand, I noticed he would do a slow turn. After I had to call his name a couple of times before he would respond, I was like, ‘Hmmm, something doesn’t seem right there.’

“Fortunately, our medical provider was able to test him to see what was going on, and from there, we were able to get him aided with hearing aids at the age of 8 months.”

Gov. Nathan Deal will sign legislation designed to help families like the Knights into law Monday.

It will require insurance companies cover the costs of buying hearing aids for children who suffer from hearing impairments.

The bill, which was sponsored by state Sen. P.K. Martin, R-Lawrenceville, guarantees up to $6,000 coverage for a pair of hearing aids for kids, until they turn 18. Martin worked with the advocacy group Let Georgia Hear on it.

“The difference for a family who’s on a plan that is affected by this is immediate,” Martin said. “They’re gonna go from either they just can’t afford the hearing aids or they’re struggling to provide the hearing aids to now having coverage for that.”

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retailer REI. The Interior Department did not respond to requests for comment.

In 2015, then-Rep. Zinke sought to make tax breaks on coal mined from American Indian reservations permanent — a move viewed as boosting the communities’ revenue and creating jobs for tribal members. In a statement emailed to CNN, the National Congress of American Indians expressed their support for Zinke, citing “his approach to the (Bureau of Indian Affairs) as well as his commitment to giving tribal nations a seat at the table across the federal government.”

“Ryan Zinke has a long history of fighting for our country,” NCAI President Brian Cladoosby said in the statement. “Throughout his service as a congress-

man for Montana, he fought for Montanans and Montana’s tribes in the halls of Congress. We have no doubt that Secretary Zinke will continue fighting for all tribes as secretary of interior.”

The densest cloud of uncertainty surrounds the matter of tribal sovereignty, or the U.S. agreement to protect the ability of individual tribal governments to govern themselves.

While Zinke’s congressional track record reflects commitment to Native American self-determination, Trump’s past is not as clear.

“Secretary Zinke has always supported the principles of tribal sovereignty and self-determination,” McCain said. “That’s an important pillar of our tribal

relations.”

In 1993, Trump’s comments in a congressional hearing on Indian casinos shocked lawmakers and others.

“Go up to Connecticut, and you look (at the Mashantucket Pequots),” Trump told the House Natural Resources Native American affairs subcommittee. “They don’t look like Indians to me.”

In June, then-presidential candidate Trump labeled Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts “Pocahontas” — a reference to her claimed Indian heritage.

“Pocahontas is at it again!” Trump wrote in a tweet. “Goofy Elizabeth Warren, one of the least productive U.S. senators, has a nasty mouth.”

Race

•From Page 1A runners into the quarry and out twice. Not many people grin at the prospect of running uphill a combined 1,320 feet, but Stachowski said he could scarcely believe his luck when he found out he could double his quarry race experience.

“It was a bargain,” he said.

“Seriously, when I looked at the price for it, I thought, ‘OK, one time down the hole? OK, that’s fun. But wait, for only $15 more I can do it twice? Done.’”

Lomas said about 100 runners signed up for the longer race.

Vulcan’s Quarry Crush race series has been around for six years, but it only came to metro Atlanta two years ago. So most the runners who showed up Saturday — like Stachowiak — had never stepped foot in a quarry before.

“Every community we go to we’re so surprised that runners don’t even know this was in their own backyard,” Lomas said.

Vulcan made the most of the experience, parking Caterpillar bulldozers at the race site and letting participants climb on and take pictures with the equipment.

Bystanders were also allowed to stroll down toward the bottom of the quarry and enjoy the view.

“It’s sort of an amazing wonderland if you go down (the quarry),” said Louise Radloff, chairman of the Gwinnett County Board of

edge” not typical of the interior secretary position, said Sen. John McCain, the current longest-serving member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

“Secretary Zinke has much more experience on Native American issues than his predecessor — who had literally none,” the Arizona Republican told CNN in an interview. “My initial impression is President Trump and the people around him support sovereignty and the Native American population. They can have a degree of knowledge and involvement in Native American issues that was not the case amongst their predecessors.”

The interior secretary under former President Barack Obama was Sally Jewell, the previous CEO of outdoor

Brent Patterson walks on the scene of the fire that killed his wife and daughters in February 2016. (Special Photo)

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Runner Rick Moya (383) reacts as he crosses the finish line during the Quarry Crusher Run in Norcross on Saturday morning. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Education.

Radloff was there because, believe it or not, the Quarry Crusher Run was about more than racing through a scenic pit. The run benefits the Meadowcreek school cluster, one of the most challenged groups of schools in Gwinnett County. Radloff said Vulcan is a familiar partner to the school group.

“They’re always interacting in a number of ways,” she said. “It’s a real partnership. Meadowcreek and Vulcan have just done a lot of things over the years together.”

A handful of Meadowcreek High students showed up Saturday morning to show their appreciation for the runners who supported their school. Sophomore

varsity cheerleader Jamia Roberts shivered as she stood waiting for the race to begin at around 8 a.m. She and the rest of the varsity cheer squad stayed for the entire race, cheering on finishers from about 8:30 to 9 a.m.

Other Meadowcreek students volunteered to help hand out waters at the finish line. “(The runners) came out to support us, so we’ve got to support them,” Roberts said.

But Meadowcreek students didn’t just come out to support the race. They also crushed it (pun 100 percent intended). Meadowcreek High track and cross country team Coach Aimee Walthall ran Saturday and brought five of her best students

along with her. Among them were Biya Halaie, who won Quarry Crush last year, and Oscar Lazo, who Walthall said was slated to be the No. 1 runner on the team this coming year.

Lazo, a sophomore, placed second in the 3.7mile race Saturday morning.

He ran into and out of the quarry in just over 25 minutes. It was still cold outside by the time Lazo reached the finish line, but he was drenched in sweat. This young, crazy runner said he liked the experience, but had a caution for future runners.

“It was harder than I thought,” he said. “It was great when you were going down, but when you were coming back up — that’s what kills you.”

Hearing

Malachi, from left, and Koa Van Kirk play with their brother, Corban, 19 months, at the Lawrenceville Lawn on Tuesday. Doctors discovered Corban suffered from hearing loss when he was born and he has to wear hearing aids as a result. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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and Ryan Van Kirk are an example of how difficult it has been to pay for hearing aids. Their 19-month-old son, Corban, showed signs of a hearing impairment when he was tested as a newborn. He then underwent follow up test which confirmed he had bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.

The parents had trouble affording the $4,000 hearing aids Corban needed. Their insurance company had verbally agreed to pay much of the cost for the hearing aids, but Allison Van Kirk said that agreement didn’t stick.

“We had an agreement, at least over the phone that, ‘Oh yeah, we’re going to cover it,’ and we signed the

papers saying we would cover whatever they wouldn’t cover,” she said. “One of the scariest things was once we had the hearing aids in his ears, and he’s hearing these new sounds, we get this new news that they are not going to cover any of it.”

Eventually, a ministry group helped the family pay for Corban’s hearing aids.

Meanwhile, Kimmone and Patrick Knight fared a little better with their insurance company — it covered $1,000 of the costs for Ethan’s $6,000 hearing aids — but they still had to take out secondary insurance to cover more of the cost.

“From what I understand, we were fortunate to have that amount of coverage” with the initial policy, Kimmone Knight said.

Both Ethan’s and Cor-

ban’s mothers said their biggest concern when they learned their respective sons had hearing impairments was whether it cause developmental delays and if it would impair their speech.

Knight and Van Kirk said their sons have so far been able to stay on track with their development because of their hearing aids.

Ethan, who also has a cochlear implant, has even begun mimicking words he hears his older sister, Brooke, say.

But hearing development is why both families see Martin’s bill as a benefit for other families in their situations.

“It’s huge,” Van Kirk said.

“Corban is just a year and a half and we know that every three to four years, until he turns 18, he’s going to need new hearing aids. … We’re a (church) ministry family, so it’s not like we’ve got $4,000 laying around.”

Knight said, “It’s definitely a step in the right direction in terms of minimizing out of pocket costs, especially for those families that may have young children like ourselves. There’s so many expenses to begin with, with having a child, and adding something like that on top of it — it’s good to know the insurance companies will be working with families to ensure they have what they need at the time when it’s most crucial.”

Fire

captured Brent Patterson standing outside the crumbling figure of what used to be his home off Britt Road. He appeared dazed, like he’d been up all night.

He had no problem talking to reporters.

“They just — they got burned to death,” he said at the time.

Patterson also gave an account of what happened the night his family was killed. He said he was upstairs getting ready for bed with his family when he heard a pop and went downstairs to investigate.

“The original story that was reported to the media was that when he came downstairs there was smoldering, there was smoke,” Porter said. “He ran outside and the house exploded into flames. At that point, he went around the house breaking the windows or trying to get in the back door to rescue his family.”

But days later, Patterson shared a slightly different account to investigators. This time, he said that by the time he’d run downstairs, his house was already fully engulfed in flames.

Initially, the Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services ruled the fire an accident caused by an electrical malfunction in the Pattersons’ couch. That’s when Porter decided to get his office involved.

“I was not comfortable with the initial accidental ruling,” he said.

Over the past year, Porter put evidence, Patterson’s two statements and the fire department’s ruling before a team of veteran arson experts and independent investigators.

According to them, the DA office’s original hunch had been at least partially correct. For instance, arson experts agreed that the fire was of “human origin.”

That means the fire wasn’t set by an electrical malfunction — it was set by a person.

But that doesn’t mean that person set it on purpose.

“Human origin can mean either an intentionally set fire or an accidental fire,” Porter said.

He said investigators couldn’t agree on whether the fire had been intentional in this case.

“At least one expert felt

it was an arson fire,” Porter said. “Unfortunately, an equally qualified expert says that it is possible, but unlikely, that the fire happened the way (Patterson) initially described it.”

Confusion over the two different ways Patterson described the fire linger.

Porter said investigators concluded that Patterson’s second story — the one he told detectives shortly after talking to the media — could not be true. There’s no way Patterson could have run downstairs to find his house already engulfed in flames, the investigators said.

But some of the investigators working with Porter thought Patterson’s first story could be true. He could have heard a popping noise and seen smoke. And it could have seemed like the house burst into flame as soon as he tried to break some windows to save his family.

“One expert says, while it’s unlikely, that quick ventilation of a smoldering fire at a certain level can explode it into flames,” Porter said. “And then when you go around and break every window and pop open the back door, you just further ventilate the fire.”

Because the case against Patterson was considered circumstantial, the DA’s office needed to “exclude all possibilities except (his) guilt” to go forward with charges, Porter said.

“In my job, I have to rely on what I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said. “So my answer to you is that I can’t prove it is murder beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Murder has no statute of limitations. Porter said it’s possible Patterson or somebody else could be charged with starting the fire that killed Kathy, Madelyn and Kayla in the future if more evidence comes to light.

But for now, Porter said his office doesn’t have the evidence it would need to move that investigation forward. The fire could have been an arson, or it could have been a cruel accident.

At this point, officials say they just can’t get to the truth.

“I don’t think I can be pleased with it,” Porter said. “In my job, you want to either say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

I’m not saying either at this point. I don’t have enough evidence to proceed at this point.”

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gwinnettdailypost.com Andy Yang and Angela Yang were among the Wesleyan team members along with Daniel Baisier and Jack Lambert, coached by Wesleyan mathematics teacher Deborah Brown, that won the Class A division in the 41st annual state mathematics tournament on April 29 in Macon. (Special Photo)

Senior living facility proposed near Duluth obtained.

“We want to have some community meetings and have some input there.

A new senior living … We feel one month community could be isn’t enough (time), and coming to the area near two months hopefully the Infinite Energy Cenwill be enough to get out ter and Primerica offices the information,” Planin unincorporated Duluth. ning Commissioner Paula Georgia Senior Living Hastings said as she LLC is proposing to build asked for the cases to be a three-building, 186-unit tabled. development, called The This isn’t the first time Meadow, on Meadow a senior living facility, Church Road, about with medical offices, halfway between Sugarhas been proposed for loaf Parkway and Duluth the site, which is across Highway. The company Meadow Church Road expects the development from the Charleston Row will create 60 new perma- subdivision. County nent jobs in the area. documents show a proTo get the development posal to build a 128-bed built, however, they need assisted living facility on Gwinnett County leadthe property was denied ers to rezone the propby the Board of Commiserty from a single family sioners in 2009. residence district to an County planning staff office-institutional dishave recommended aptrict, and issue a special- proval of this project with use permit. conditions, such as limitThe county’s Planning ing the medical building Commission postponed and sales office to 3,500 a public hearing of the square feet in size. They 7.68-acre development also recommended allowuntil July 10 so coming the residential portion munity feedback can be to only be used for a curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

continuing care and independent living retirement community that would only be open to people over 55.

The project includes two residential buildings, a medical building and a one-story parking garage that would have a roof top patio garden. One of the residential buildings would be three stories, and have 146 independent living units, 20 assisted living units, a main activity area, a kitchen and a dining area that would be open to all residents.

The other residential building would be a one-story facility with 20 memory care assisted living units. the medical building would be open for use by residents of The Meadow, as well as the surrounding area.

“The subject property is located on Meadow Church Road and the property was cleared for a subdivision that was never built,” Georgia Senior Living representatives said in a letter to county officials. “The request

is to utilize the existing detention pond that was built for the subdivision and of course upgraded to the requirements for the new project.”

Staff said in their report that other properties along Meadow Church road have been developed for various uses, including apartments, town homes, condos and office space, in recent years.

“Approximately 367,000 square feet of office was built between 2011 and 2013, with Primerica Parkway extending from Meadow Church Road to Duluth Highway,” the staff said in the report. “Also, in 2011 an assisted living facility was approved along Meadow Church Road south of the subject property.

“The zoning and development pattern of the area suggests that the subject proposal is located in an area that has been developed with a mix of residential uses that could lend support to this request.”

Duluth girl places second in state design contest

By Keith Farner

keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

Sharona Huang not only picked up a statewide award last week, she received a $300 scholarship and lunch with Gov. Nathan Deal.

Sharona, a sixth-grader at Coleman Middle in Duluth took second place in the 2017 Manufacturing Appreciation Week student design contest in the sixth through eighth grade category. She received the honors at an awards luncheon at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta.

Students from around

Sharona Huang, a sixth-grader from Duluth’s Coleman Middle School, stands with her mom, Ann, as she showcases her winning design in Georgia’s Manufacturing Appreciation Week student design contest. Huang won second place in the middle school category. (Special Photo)

the state submitted design entries featuring Georgia manufacturers and their

products to teach students about the importance of manufacturing.

Ann Sechrist, director of Economic Development at Gwinnett Tech, said there was nearly 20 submissions from the local community alone.

“The manufacturing industry has changed significantly in the last few decades,” Sechrist said in a press release. “These are clean, high-tech jobs that pay well above average.

Graduates in this field are in high demand.”

Co-hosted by the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, MAW brings attention to this component of Georgia’s economy.

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Eugene Sawhill Eugene Wesley Sawhill, 85, of Duluth, GA died May 5, 2017. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

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Bobby Evans, Sr. Bobby Gerald Evans, Sr., age 54, of Conyers passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017.

many, many friends. She is survived by her three Dorothy Hilliard daughters and son-inDorothy Ann Hilliard, laws, 8 grandchildren, 15 age 89, of Snellville, great grandchildren and passed away on May 5, many nieces and nephews.

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Wesleyan wins state math tournament; GSMST finishes fifth math team.

At the state competition, competitors individually completed a 50-question A quartet of Wesleyan multiple-choice test and students had reason to a speed round followed have a bounce in their by teams that worked step at school Monday together to complete a set after they won the 41st of a dozen challenging annual state mathematis problems. The questions tournament on April 29 in came from topics included in the standard high school Macon. curriculum up to and Wesleyan won the including calculus, as well Class A division with as topics not traditionally team members Daniel found in the curriculum, Baisier, Jack Lambert, such as number theory and Andy Yang and Angela combinatorics.

Yang and Wesleyan math The Georgia Council of teacher Deborah Brown, Teachers of Mathematics who coached them at the sponsored the event.

Middle Georgia State Schools sent four of University Conference their best math team stuCenter. Mu Alpha Theta, dents to compete. Schools the national mathematics earned an invitation to honor society, made cash prizes available to the top the state math tournament based on their perforthree individual winners.

Andy Yang was selected mance at other tournaments throughout the state. for the all-state math team, which will represent Schools from all Georgia Georgia at the nationwide High School Association classifications as well as American Regions Math League tournament June 3. non-GHSA schools comA team of four students peted together.

“We make every effort — Julius Tao, Shawn Zhu, Jason Fan and Albert to invite the schools with Kim — from the Gwinnett the best math teams in Georgia so that this is School of Math, Scitruly a battle of champience and Technology in ons,” Tournament Director Lawrenceville took fifth place. They were coached and GCTM Vice President of Competitions Chuck

by GSMST math teacher Michael Burbine. Kim was Garner said in a press also named to the all-state release.

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Patrick New, Sr. Patrick New, Sr., age 76 of Monroe, GA passed May 3, 2017. Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 209 South Hammond Drive, Monroe, GA 30655. 770-2672594. www.stewartfh.com

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Interment will follow at 2PM at Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA. Mr. Pass retired from McNaughton McKay Electric with 24 years of service in 2014.

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tory would include the Eastern Seaboard.

A longtime educator and “I will administrator in Gwinnett miss the on Friday announced his kids, the resignation to pursue an students Banks opportunity in the private — the Bitterman sector that he said he students couldn’t pass up. are my absolute passion,” Buford High School Bitterman said. “Anybody Principal Banks Bitterman who knows me knows said he would finish the I will do anything for school year and leave Buchildren. I will also miss ford City Schools effective my school family. I have June 30 to become vice been truly blessed to work president of an undisclosed with some of the best company where his terrihuman beings in Buford keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

City Schools and Gwinnett County Public Schools, and they have mentored me and loved me, and made me into the success that I am.”

Bitterman was proud to note that during his tenure in Buford, the school won 45 state championships and had high marks in state test results and assessments, a marked improvement from before he arrived.

“It’s time for me to look for a new challenge,” the Douglas County native said. “I absolutely love the new challenge.”

Bitterman came to Buford from the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology, where he was principal when the school opened in 2007, and stayed for one year.

He previously served as dean of academics at GSMST. Before GSMST, Bitterman was an assistant principal, teacher and wrestling coach at Brookwood High from 2001-07, and was a teacher and coach in Carroll County Schools from 1999-2001.

The move returns Bit-

terman to his roots in the business world, where he worked for about 10 years.

Before he worked in education, he owned a sportsplex and sporting goods store in Carrollton.

He holds degrees in business administration and business education from the University of West Georgia, and specialist and doctorate degrees in educational leadership and educational administration from the University of Alabama.

“I was told a long time ago that with great risk

comes great reward,” he said. “I have to try this opportunity, and if I don’t try this opportunity I’ll look back with regrets. I instill in students every single day to push themselves to be the best they can be and I have to do that myself so I can show them that that’s what I want from them and I have to have the courage to do it.”

Bitterman said he could see himself returning to education one day, and that he’s been honored to work in the industry for nearly 20 years.

he worked since July 2014.

A Gwinnett County Public Schools police report said that an 18-year-old A South Gwinnett High female student said she was School band director reraped on multiple occasions signed Thursday following with the last incident in his arrest March by a South Gwinon four nett teacher. At least one of counts of the incidents happened at sexual as- school. The report also said sault. the victim provided names Villie of other students who were Jones was involved in a sexual relationheld in the ship with the teacher.

Gwinnett Principal Monique Lee Villie Jones jail without wrote in a letter to parents bond following his resigna- and guardians that, “this tion from the school, where individual has not been at

our school since the beginning of the investigation on Wednesday.” Lee said the teacher resigned before he was arrested. The principal also described it as an “inappropriate relationship with several students.”

“I share with you that as an educator and a South Gwinnett parent myself these allegations are very disturbing,” Lee wrote.

“This type of behavior between a teacher and students is not acceptable. Our students, our community, and the teaching profession deserve better.”

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Droves of comic lovers geek out over Free Comic Book Day in Lawrenceville

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On Saturday, 6-yearold Tristan Sorrows got to meet one of his heroes.

“I love the Ghostbusters,” Sorrows said.

“They’re really cool.

I like the Stay-Puft (Marshmallow Man).”

Sorrows was in luck — a giant Stay-Puft man loomed over him as he stood near an Ecto1 Ghostbusters car in downtown Lawrenceville on Saturday afternoon. A real-life Atlanta Ghostbuster was signing his “Ghostbusters” comic book.

Sorrows’ was just one of hundreds of kids — and adults — geeking out at Lawrenceville’s celebration of Free Comic Book Day, led by downtown comic book store Galactic Quest.

“Free Comic Book Day, this is the 16th year.

We have been involved every single year,” store owner and manager Cynthia Puttkammer said.

“And it gets bigger and bigger every year.”

Puttkammer said Galactic Quest expected to give away 2,378 pounds of comic books between its store in Lawrenceville and its other location in Buford.

Based on the crowd in downtown Lawrenceville, that seemed like an obtainable number. A line stretched from Galactic Quest all the way to Special Kneads, a bake shop about four doors down, as

Left, Tristan Sorrows, 6, gets his free comic book signed by an Atlanta Ghostbuster during Free Comic Book Day in Lawrenceville. Above, a crowd waits outside Galactic Quest comic book shop in Lawrenceville on Saturday.

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Thor left the store with his pile of comic books Visit gwinnettdailypost.com and a satisfied smile on for more photos of Free his face, the day had only Comic Book Day. just begun for Puttkammer and her employees. soon as the free comic The day also remained book giveaway began at busy for Adam Hughes.

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Hughes, the artist Hardcore fans stood in behind the new verline adjusting capes and sion of the “Betty and clutching props, dressed Veronica” comic books, as their favorite comic began signing copies of book characters. Trevor his work when GalacYoung, 8, was one of the tic Quest opened that first customers in cosmorning. “Black Panther: tume to make it into Ga- World of Wakanda” artist lactic Quest on Saturday. Afua Richardson and Young dressed as Thor. “Hero Cats” artist Omaka In one hand, he clutched Schultz also stopped by the Norse god’s mythical the Lawrenceville locahammer. In the other, he tion to sign comic books. held nine comic books.

By noon, Hughes said “Most of them that I he’d signed about 100 read are superheroes,” copies of “Betty and Young said. “I love Veronica.” He said he superheros and their was told he could leave powers, and I want to at noon, but the steady learn about some of those stream of fans hadn’t superheros.” stopped. So neither had By the time young Hughes. mOre OnLine

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Hughes was a big part of it in Lawrenceville.

An employee handing out free copies of “Betty and Veronica” ran out continuously. As of noon, the line of customers outside Galactic Quest still stretched back to Special Kneads.

Luckily, a handful of local businesses downtown stood ready with boxes of free comic books to give away that customers could read while they stood in line for Galactic Quest.

Realtors Larry Clemmons and Fatimah Mustafaa stood outside True North Real Estate giving away free copies of “The Loud House.” They estimated they’d given away about 50 copies of the

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The kids, including Sorrow, also loved the Ghostbusters display set up across the street from Galactic Quest. The display was hosted by costuming group Atlanta Ghostbusters and included ghostbusting equipment.

A constant stream of kids and adults came by to play with the equipment and take pictures with the Ghostbusters.

Ghostbuster Bob Cronin, also known as DJ BC, said he was happy to be a part of Lawrenceville’s Free Comic Book Day. He’d even brought his son, Bowie, dressed in his junior division Ghostbusters costume.

“It’s a great sort of community gathering — sort of a celebration around comics,” Cronin

said. “It’s really great to see so many people excited to read some comics.”

He also said he’s aware the day is an important one for local comic book stores, like Galactic Quest. Cronin said he and Bowie took a break from trapping ghosts to pop into the store not only to pick up free comic books, but to buy some, too.

“Bowie and I went in and got a big pile so his sisters would have some when we got home, too,” he said.

Between the free comic giveaway, the increased sales and the popular book signing, Puttkammer’s comic book shop was nonstop busy Saturday. Puttkammer said she wouldn’t have it any other way, especially on Free Comic Book Day. “It’s the happiest day of the year,” she said.

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Shown at top, Harue Food and Cafe in Duluth is one of several Korean restaurants that were featured on a pilot version of Explore Gwinnett’s Seoul of the South Korean Food Tours last year. Above, a display case shows off the many pastries available at Tree Story Korean Bakery in Duluth in 2016. Right, Explore Gwinnett international marketing coordinator Sarah Park, center, talks to participants during a pilot version of the tourism group’s Seoul of the South Korean Food Tour in 2016. (File Photos)

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Explore Gwinnett officials have long promoted the county as the “Seoul of the South” because of its large Korean community, but foodies now have a chance to find out what that moniker really means.

The county’s tourism group is launching Seoul of the South food tours for the general public, starting this month. The tours take participants to four Korean

restaurants in the county, and four tour dates have been set up so far for this year: May 13, June 24, Aug. 19 and Sept. 30.

“In 2016, we tested the waters by inviting journalists, hoteliers and bloggers on a Korean food tour,” Explore Gwinnett executive director Lisa Anders said in a statement. “The Gwinnett Place and Suwanee dining districts are known regionally and nationally as the place for authentic Korean food, and our tours confirmed it — our guests

loved it, and we knew immediately that we wanted to offer these same tours to the public.”

The tours are immersive experiences in Korean culture. Participants are taken in a trolley to Korean restaurants to sample their dishes and to interact with chefs and other staff at those eateries. The also get “K-Swag Bags” that include Korean gifts such as Korean beauty products, snacks and a guide to Korean restaurants in the county.

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plore Gwinnett employee Sarah Park will lead the tours and talk to participants about Korean culture between stops. She also teaches them about Korean eating customs at each stop on the tour.

The pilot tours conducted last year highlighted Breaker’s Korean BBQ, Harue Food and Cafe, Tree Story Bakery and Cafe, The Stone Gill and Arte 3. Explore Gwinnett said it would announce the restaurants that will be featured on each of its 2017 tours before each

tour date arrives.

“We are working to showcase high-quality restaurants that would pique a visitor’s curiosity,” Anders said. “Our hope is that the Seoul of the South Food Tour is another memorable experience that both our residents and visitors can enjoy, return home and share with others.”

The cost to take a tour is $50 per person, and that covers the costs of eating at each restaurant, as well as tips for restaurant employees. A registration website has been set up at www.

seoulofthesouthtour.com, and officials recommend that participants be over the age of 13 — although anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Officials warned in a frequently asked questions section on the tour website, however, that the trolleys used on the tour are not handicap accessible.

Although alcohol will be available at each stop, participants must be over 21 to consume it. Explore Gwinnett officials said IDs will be checked.

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“It may be your last chance to see the candidates locally before the convention … Be there by 7 p.m. to get a good seat,” Gwinnett Republican Women President Linda Williams said of this week’s forum in an announcement on Facebook.

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President: ‘normalized’ but still scary WASHINGTON — With near unanimity, my never-Trump friends confess a sense of relief. It could have been worse. They thought it would be worse. A deep apprehension still endures but the international order remains intact, the republic still stands, and no “enemy of the people” has (yet) been arrested.

Admittedly, this is a low bar. And this is not to deny the insanity, incoherence and sheer weirdness emanating daily from the White House, with which we’ve all come up with our own coping technique. Here’s mine: I simply view President Trump as the Charles Wizard of Oz. Krauthammer Loud and bombastic. A charlatan. Nothing behind the screen — other than the institutional chaos that defines his White House and the psychic chaos that governs his ever-changing mind. What to do? Ignore what’s behind the curtain. Deal with what comes out in front: the policy, the pronouncements, the actions.

And so far they hang together enough — Neil Gorsuch, Keystone XL, NATO reassurances, Syria strike, Cabinet appointments — that one can begin to talk plausibly about the normalization of this presidency.

Hence the relief. But there are limitations to the Wizard of Oz approach. Some things do extrude from behind the curtain that are hard to ignore. And here I am not counting the gratuitous idiocies that can, despite their entertainment value, be safely ignored — for example, Trump’s puzzlement as to why the Civil War was not avoided and how Andrew Jackson, who’d been dead 16 years, was so upset by its outbreak.

These are embarrassments, but they don’t materially affect the course of his presidency or of the country. Some weirdnesses, however, do.

Such as, Trump’s late-April pronouncements on South Korea. Being less entertaining, they were vastly underreported. Here’s the context: Trump is orchestrating a worldwide campaign to pressure North Korea on its nukes and missiles. He dispatches (finally) the USS Carl Vinson strike group to Korean waters and raises the possibility of a “major, major conflict” with Pyongyang. Meanwhile, we are working furiously to complete a THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea to intercept North Korean rockets.

At which point, out of the blue, Trump tells Reuters that Seoul will have to pay for the THAAD system. And by the way, that 5-yearold U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement is a disaster and needs to be torn up.

Now, South Korea is in the middle of a highly charged presidential campaign. The proAmerican president was recently impeached and is now under indictment. The opposition party is ahead. It is wary of the U.S., accommodating to North Korea and highly negative about installing that THAAD system on its soil.

We had agreed with Seoul that they would provide the land and the infrastructure, and we would pay the $1 billion cost. Without warning, Trump reneges on the deal, saying South Korea will have to foot the bill. This stirs anti-American feeling and gives opposition candidate Moon Jae-in the perfect campaign issue.

What is it with this president insisting that other people pay for things we want? And for what? In a $4 trillion budget, $1 billion is a rounding error.

So self-defeating was the idea that within three days, national security adviser H.R. McMaster had to walk it all back, assuring the South Koreans that we would indeed honor our agreement and send no $1 billion invoice.

But the damage was done. Moon’s campaign feasted. The pro-American party was thrown on its heels. And the very future of THAAD — and a continued united front against Pyongyang under a likely Moon administration — is in doubt.

As for the trade deal, the installation of THAAD has so angered China that it has already initiated an economic squeeze on South Korea. To which Trump would add a trade rupture with the United States.

The South Korean blunder reinforces lingering fears about Trump. Especially because it was an unforced error. What happens in an externally caused crisis? Then, there is no hiding, no guardrails, no cushioning. It’s the wisdom and understanding of one man versus whatever the world has thrown up against us. However normalized this presidency may be day to day, in such a moment all bets are off.

What happens when the red phone rings at 3 in the morning?

I’d say: Let it ring. Let the wizard sleep.

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Perdue serving up common sense There’s a new deputy sheriff in Washington, D.C. — Agricultural Secretary Sonny Perdue — and he is wasting no time in correcting one of the most heinous acts of the Obama administration. The government had messed up school lunches so bad that the kids wouldn’t eat the food.

Much of the tasteless offerings became garbage — not speaking metaphorically here, it was raked into giant garbage bins daily — and millions and millions of dollars were wasted.

Not only that, but school lunch programs could not make ends meet because they couldn’t sell the unappealing food to the students. We were losing money in school lunchrooms across the nation.

But former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, in one of his first acts as secretary of agriculture, has taken steps to reverse that trend. Sonny is taking the black specks out of school lunch grits! Hail to the Chief — of agriculture.

Lest you think I am making light of this action, I am not. I am always happy to see a degree of common sense return to educational policies.

I was a classroom teacher for 38 years. I was a student for 16 years before that. I have eaten a lot of school lunches.

I mean, I have eaten a lot of school lunches.

I began my long romance with cafeteria food as a small child in Porterdale. Our school

never saw the contents of trays being raked into the garbage can — except for that one day when she served that government issued chopped liver and we all thought it was hamburger steak. It’s hard to forget something like that, even if it did happen in 1961.

Darrell The food at my high school Huckaby was pretty good, too. It must have been. We all made a had the best food of any in the beeline to the cafeteria when nation — including Cordon the bell rang to end fourth Bleu. Mrs. Effie Boyd was period, and more than one day our lunchroom lady. She also I begged for double servings. was the owner of the Village As a teacher I came to apInn restaurant at the Porterdale preciate the lunchroom ladies Hotel. The Porterdale Hotel and the usually thankless was named the best place to job they performed. At every eat in this state by Brown’s school at which I taught I Guide to Georgia year after made it a point to make friends year after year. Folks would with the lunchroom ladies and come from all over the North the custodian on the first day.

Georgia Piedmont — and I was rewarded with a clean beyond — to eat Mrs. Ef’s classroom and plenty to eat — fried chicken and yams and and the food was universally biscuits and such. She was a tasty — until the government genius in the kitchen, and she began to take away resources brought that same genius to and demand that schools serve the Porterdale School lunchfood so devoid of taste as to room every day. be almost unpalatable — all For 52 cents a week we in the name of nutrition, of little linthead children ate course. like kings and queens. Close The guidelines forced upon your eyes. Relax. Imagine the school systems were ridicusweet aroma of freshly baked lous, as might be expected cinnamon rolls, hot out of when one considers the source. the oven, wafting through the Salt was suddenly Public room. No matter how good Enemy No. 1. you are at conjuring up delecIt is written, “You are the table cinnamon rolls in your salt of the earth, but if salt imagination, the real thing has lost its taste, how shall was better. All of her food was its saltiness be restored? It is delicious and nutritious, and I no longer good for anything

except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”

While that may be a little out of context, school food that has lost its saltiness was being thrown out and trampled under people’s feet, and it wasn’t providing any nutrition in the garbage cans of our nation’s cafeterias.

Anything bread-group served on the lunch lines had to contain at least 51 percent whole grain — thus grits with little black specks. And only non-fat milk could be served.

Really, do we need the government telling us what we can and cannot eat? Are we ready for a complete nanny state?

Methinks not. More importantly, Secretary Sonny thinks not and is in the process of restoring sanity and common sense to the Department of Agriculture and the school lunch regulations. Good for Sonny.

Now if he can just make sure they resume the production of cinnamon rolls on Friday mornings and those big yeast rolls — and that they eliminate any chance of serving chopped liver that looks like hamburger steak — I believe we’ll be good to go around here.

Thanks, Sonny, for bringing some red-clay-style common sense to Washington, D.C. It’s a rare commodity up there.

Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County.

Email him at dhuck008@ gmail.com.

Repaying a debt owed to my alma mater There are few people, places or things for which I have more passion than the University of Georgia and the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications there.

This love affair goes back decades to when I was an incoming junior at UGA. I walked into Grady on the first day so nervous that I thought seriously of walking back out and going home and getting a job at the General Motors assembly plant like my high school buddies. Instead of going home, I found a new home.

In the intervening years, I have had the privilege of serving as president of the National Alumni Association, being named an Outstanding Graduate of UGA, a Fellow of the Grady College and to have had a room named in my honor there. I am glad I decided not to join the assembly line at the GM plant.

Getting to this point in my life has been the result of a lot of help from a lot of people who took an interest in me and in my career. Now, it is incumbent on me to offer that help and to show that interest in the next generation. One of my greatest satisfactions is being able to provide funding at the Grady College for students to travel to conferences and to

ion — the media have never been more clueless as to how to restore our trust in them.

Here is hoping the Grady graduates and those who have taught them will have some answers as to how to reverse that trend. Arrogance and defensiveness are not answers.

Dick On the corporate side, many Yarbrough institutions and organizations handle crisis situations network with industry profes- abysmally. That is because sionals and provide interndecision-makers tend to give ships and fellowships to some more credence to legal counsel outstanding young people. than they do to understanding Proceeds from this column the public’s (that is your and go toward that effort. I have my) reaction to the crisis and the best of both worlds. Not forgetting that the Court of only do I get to play a small Public Opinion has the final part in helping young people say on a company’s reputation. at a time when they are evaluOne of the primary reasons ating their career choices, I for this is that while there are also get to jerk the chains of some good public relations the humor-impaired and report practitioners around, there are on politicians acting like — far too many who are better at well — politicians. My cup telling each other how wonrunneth over. derful they are than at convincThere is an ulterior motive, ing their boss that good legal I must confess. The majority counsel is not always good of my career has been spent in external counsel and making communications, either as an it stick. Facing down attorneys external counselor on the cor- in a crisis is not fun and it porate side or for the past 20 doesn’t particularly make you years tossing opinions around popular with your peers. Trust on the media side. Today, I am me on that one. worried about both sides. The Recently, I endowed a public’s opinion of the news professorship in Crisis Commedia has never been lower. munications Leadership at the The credibility of the media Grady College. While I am has never been under greater hopeful that Grady journalism suspicion and — in my opingraduates can help stem the

negative perceptions of the media, I am equally anxious that the college turn out future generations of external counselors who can earn a seat at the head table and have substantive input when critical issues are being discussed.

It is my intent that the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications becomes the go-to place for the media and for companies seeking expertise on crisis situations. Recently, Dr. Bryan Reber, who heads up the crisis communications leadership discipline, was interviewed

by CNN about the United Airlines fiasco. That is a good start, but there is much more to be done if we are to be a nationally recognized leader in crisis communications. For me, being No. 1 at UGA is about more than football.

The time and tithes I have been able to give to the University of Georgia and to the Grady College have truly been labors of love. The place has given me much and I am trying to give back as best I can.

But I owe both a debt I will never be able to fully repay.

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

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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that this office received an application for a distilled spirits license from BLAZIN CAJUN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT located at 4500 SATELLITE BLVD., STE 1180, DULUTH GA 30096. Said establishment is owner VIET FUSION RESTAURANT AND CATERING LLC. Please submit in writing any information affecting the issuance of a license at said establishment to this office by MAY 17, 2017.

BRANDI EVERETT Licensing & Revenue Supervisor Gwinnett County Department of Planning & Development 446 WEST CROGAN STREET SUITE 125 LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30046 904-485615, 5/3,10

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 16th day of May, 2017, at 12L00 p.m., at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046, before the Honorable Randy Rich, Judge Gwinnett Superior Court, will hear the case of the STATE OF GEORGIA, Plaintiff, v. DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF GWINNETT COUNTY and PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC., Defendants, Civil Action File No. 17-A-04200-4, in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, the same being a proceeding to confirm and validate an issue of Development Authority of Gwinnett County Taxable Revenue Bonds (Publix Expansion Project), Series 2017 (the “Bonds�), in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $49,000,000. The Bonds are to be issued by the Development Authority of Gwinnett County (the “Issuer�) for the purpose of financing or refinancing, in whole or in part, the cost of acquiring, constructing and installing an expansion to a manufacturing, warehouse and distribution facility in Gwinnett County, Georgia for Publix Super Markets, Inc., a Florida corporation qualified to conduct business in Georgia (the “Company�), including acquisition, construction and installation of certain land, buildings, structures, equipment and machinery (the “Project�), in order to develop and promote for the public good and general welfare trade, commerce, industry and employment opportunities and to promote the general welfare of the State of Georgia, particularly Gwinnett County. Said Project will be leased by the Issuer to the Company pursuant to a Lease Agreement (the “Lease Agreement�), to be dated as of its date of execution and delivery. In said proceeding the Court will also pass upon the validity of said Lease Agreement, an Indenture of Trust, a Bond Purchase Agreement, a Guaranty Agreement and a PILOT Agreement in connection therewith.

The Bonds will not constitute a debt or a general

obligation within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction or a pledge of the faith and credit of the State of Georgia or any political subdivision thereof, including the County of Gwinnett, Georgia, but will constitute limited obligations of the Issuer and will be payable solely from the Trust Estate (as defined in the Indenture) pledged to the payment therefore, including the revenues to be derived under the Lease Agreement together with all other rents, revenues and receipts arising out of or in connection with the Issuer’s ownership of the Project (other than certain unassigned rights).

The Issuer will not conduct any “performance audit� or “performance review� with respect to the Bonds as such terms are described in Section 36-82-100, Official Code of Georgia Annotated.

Any citizen of the State of Georgia residing in Gwinnett County, Georgia, or any other person wherever residing who has a right to object, may intervene and become a party to this proceeding.

This 1st day of May, 2017.

RICHARD T. ALEXNADER, JR. CLERK, SUPERIOR COURT, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA 928-486278, 5/5,10

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Georgia Law Chapter 40-11-5 the following vehicles have been deemed abandoned and will be sold at a public sale on 5-24-17 @11:00 Said Vehicles are located at: 4930 Buford Hwy Norcross, GA 30071 VIN# KMHHN65F53U057551 03 HYUNDAI TIBURON Sale will be held at 11:00 on 5-24-17 Location 4380 Buiness Pk#B Lilburn, GA 30047 929-485235, 5/3,10

Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, 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 770-856-1130 Wednesday, May 17, 2017 JanMichael Burch Unit 1625 Household goods Charles Prather Unit 3318 Boxes Robert Phillips Unit 3533 Furniture 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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PUBLIC AUCTION In accordance with the provision of Georgia State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at AAAA Self Storages located at 4365 Commerce Dr., Buford, GA 30518 770-282-8047 and at 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA, 30046.

470-299-0795. And due notice having been given to the owners of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Monday, May 15,2017. The sale will be held at www. storagetreasures.com at 10 AM for units at the Buford location and 12 PM for units at the Lawrenceville location on Monday, May 15,2017.

Terms: Cash, Credit card, or certified funds at Sale.

(678) 513-8185 May 16th, 2017 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 4009–Bannister, Kwan 4026–Mccoy, Kianna 5006–Murry, Jazmine 6011–Michaud, Jeffrey 6053–Burl, Charmaine 6250–Miller, Angela PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25719 3550 PEACHTREE PKWY. SUWANEE, GA 30024-1031 (678) 513-8185 May 16th, 2017 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A105–Wilson, kiersten B390–Waters, Jerry B446–Nemorin, Ivory B488–Garlick, Lue D620–White, Dana D629–SANDERS, MICHAEL PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25778 3900 MCGINNIS FERRY RD SUWANEE, GA 30024 (678) 513-8185 May 16th, 2017 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A1012–Virgil, Claudia A1019–Morgan, Carole A4045–Shakir, Ibn B1020–Purchas, Charlene B1082–Purchas, Charlene B2216–Morgan, Greta PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25595 66 OLD PEACHTREE RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 (770) 338-1271 May 16th 2017 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 00116–Maybeth, Jacklyn 00229–Bowman, Andrea 00234–Massey, Rachael 00402–Gloss, Robert 00608–Shakes, Brandon 00812–Catalog, Don 00817–Gomes, Mario 3021–Kuchenbrod, Joseph 4006–Green, Lamarr 4069–Knibbs, Andrew PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28158 495 BUFORD DR. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (770) 338-1271 May 16th 2017 11:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS 129–Moore, Albert 136–Peterson, Dustin 148–Darden, Jeanine 150–Cody, Pamela 231–Hazel, Rebecca 301–Robinson, LaToya 322–Hazel, Rebecca 333–Burdett, Dee Ann 410Y–Oats, Roheen 427–Ellstein, Joann 433–Mayo, Gloria 436Y–Gilmer, Melody 442–Kawan, Paul 503–Long, Kimberly 628–Ogletree, Amy 634–Hodge, Alissa P051–DESAYOU, DOROTHY P55–Garcell-Hernandez, Carlos PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08465 1856 RIVERSIDE PKWY. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30043 (770) 237-5010 May 16th 2017 12:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 2005–Brannnon, Tina 3014–Fernandez, Emerson 3043–Crumpton, Sabrina 5005–Fretter, Shellene 5039–Marks, Michael 5116–Cleveland, Deborah 5142–Boone, Elaine 5238–Webb, Shamecca 5350–Morrow, Joshua 5467–Davis, Bryant 6139–Randell, Jerry 6143–Roberts, Lynn 6175–Marseille, Patricia PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08054 1395 PLEASANT HILL DR..

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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30044 (770) 925-9784 May 17th , 2017 9:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1513–witcher, christopher 1515–Young, Perdita 3508–Graham, Zoe 3549–Harris, Reverle 6043–Hicks, Kimberly 6053–Ramu, Cindy 6061–Verner, Daphne 6220–Mercer, Diane 6257–James, Zymeerah 6503–WALKER, FINNIEZ 6518–Byron, Charles 7514–Hines, Lyndell 8502–Houston, Dianne PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25982 2423 PLEASANT HILL ROAD DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 May 17th , 2017 10:00AM A010–Kamwana, Chim A046–Dockery, Zandra A116–Kinsey, Kenteryon A118–Parrow, Clarissa A156A–Louis, Erby A192–Rowe, Christian A258–Harris, Delisa A290–White, April A432–Howell, Lynnette A449–Hill, Latoya A463–Brown, Aiesha A465A–Carlisle, Sabrina B022–Bazne, Jean C518–Kuebler, Julie PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08057 4474 SATELLITE BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 May 17th ,, 2017 10:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0203–Runnings, Kool 0246–Richardson, Donnie 0248–Lind, Casi 0300–Penick, Kristal 0307–Fernandez, Jorge 0323–Donaldson, Brian 0332–Ndjoli, Mandy 0345C–Jones, Meghan 0517–White, Arianne 0601–Campbell, Natasha 0614–Malone, Vashay 0711–Kendall, John 2184–Botex, Claire 2203–Yerzhan, Shynybekov 2283–Wilson, Malcolm 3214–Arrington, Cozina 3254–Catrice, Brooks 5004–Voss, Wilbert 5022–Dixon, Tyronia 5084–Moon, David 5124–Gomez, Pablo 5203–Mollie, Theo 6082–Green, Michelle 6293–Grant, Lodaus 7091–Jenkins, Joe’ L PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08056 3865 PEACHTREE INDUSTRIAL BLVD. DULUTH, GA 30096 (770) 416-1069 May 17th , 2017 11:00AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0118–Dixon, Lorenzo 0123–powell, george 0128–Lovejoy, Wendy 0171–Mims, Christopher 0182–Bray, Melanie 0220–Marsh, David 0269–Gray, Jeff 0470–Melendez, Ariana 0571–Ivey, Bertrand 0604–Yehl, Timothy 0616–Flowers, Heloise 0618–Howell, Paris 0649–Peak, Tyesha 0650–Grimes, Gregory 0653–Faddies, Jason 0718–Agee-Goldwire, Constance 0758–Chancey, Lisa 0787–Starnes, David 0789–Smith, Ernest 8681–Goldwire, Courtney All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulati ill be made available p

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10:00 AM 4365 Commerce Drive, Buford, GA 30518 Unit # 5005- Kelly Henderson-- Misc. & Household Items 12:00 PM 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA 30046 Unit #1021 – Houdges, Nicole- dirt bikes & misc items Unit #1081 –Thomas, Lawrence - Misc. & Household Items Unit #2048 –Stewart, Willie - Misc & Household Items Unit # 6008-Wright, Courtney - Misc. & Household Items 929-484782, 4/30,5/7 NOTICE The following facilities under Absolute Storage Management Inc. will sell the contents of the following units to satisfy the owner’s lien at public sale by competitive bidding on www. storagetreasures.com under the provisions of the Georgia Self-Storage Facility Act. The contents, generally described as household goods, will be sold, for cash, to the highest bidder, on May 23, 2017 at or after 1:00 PM. All vehicles are sold as is, for parts only.

All sales are final, cash only, management reserves the right to withdraw units from sale and refuse any bid.

Killian Hill Storage 4139 Five Forks Trickum Rd. Lilburn, Ga. 30047 Emory Clark J24 Elizabeth Mines D21, D22, H12 929-483714, 4/30,5/7 PS101 Auction dates May 16th and May 17th NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on May 16th and May 17th the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

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PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28138 3679 McElroy Rd Doraville, GA. 30340 (770) 452-8144 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A009–Yong, Sonyta A010–Smith, Stacey A018–Hernandez, Elizabeth A048–Bailey, Charis D025–Bailey, Xiomara F611–BROUSSARD, ANTONNE F615–Sweatte, Greg F863–Moore, Paige PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28149 3055 Jones Mill Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30071 (770) 447-9755 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 258–Erwin, Sherrie 306–ASHLEY, CHRISTIAN 311–ROBINSON, ZACH 329–Diaz, Guillermo 344–Jackson, Jefferson 425–Thomas, Stanley 432–mendoza-velgara, jose 474–Sissoho, Rose 499–Ortiz, Ashley 544B–Samuels, Eddie 57–Mayfield, Eugene PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29104 3265 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30092 (770) 449-0384 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 2325–Williams, Akin 3214–Vance, Talaya 3325–Muhammad, Ruqayyah 3506–Carlisle, Hazel 3513–Pace, Paul 3518–Hairston, Kanesha 3616–Shirley, Sarah 3721–Freeman, Vanessa 4618–Forte, Wylette 4640–Slade, Karen PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20171 6289 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30071 (770) 416-9275 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A022–Alabi, Victoria B011–Growdy, Denise B015–Jua, Raphael C002–Samuel, Kevana C013–Harris, Aleec C030–Porter, Jeremie C060–Duron, Ignacio D027–Duncan, Candice D072–MONFORT, WILLIAM E022–Williams, Jurmar E078–mcclain, sean G015–Burnett, Jaimee G017–Long, KaTesha PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28150 6770 Dawson Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 448-2130 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A104–Schulze, MEYKEL, Chevy Belair 9137 A129–Gonzalez, Paul B109–Ragland, Whitney D115–Walcott, Imani D159–Tate, Angela E156–Mckoy, Billy E180D–Harris, Danica F142–Anuar, Brito J101–goree, Kenneth J190–Winfield, Latoya K220–CLARK, TERRY NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on May 19th, 2017 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20489 6000 Lawrenceville Hwy. Tucker, GA. 30084 (770) 923-9400 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B008–Knighton, carmen B022–Michelsen, Dorenda C099–Butler, Clinton D020–Harvey, Jeremy E087–Joseph, Jarvis E096–CAMPBELL, MELISSA F036–Martin, Troy G025–Murphy, Arin

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 24346 615 Indian Trail Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-0498 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A036–Crawford, Stephanie B083–Hemphill, Steven C006–Brown, Shamika C046–Boger, Rebecca C066–Casas, Fernando C069–Carlyle, Chyran C070–Beebe, Chassy PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 21901 95 Arcado Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-9211 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B031–Robinson, Darlene B076–Brown, Lonnie C015–Mickles, Amber C017–Myles, Benjamin C070–Adams, Mary D059–Cook, Joshua E050–Mccleary, Khaleelah F029–Randolph, Ursula PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 23106 460 Beaver Ruin Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-1196 TIME: 12:00 PM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B104–Webb, Carlos B108–Boyd, Paige B145–RUFFIN, ALICE E254–Wakefield, Cheryl E256–BRANNAN, SCOTT E267–Montgomery, Jermaine E273–Hernandez, Josselin E305–Jones, Alfred E346–Wahl, Stephanie F405–O’Neal, Iyesha F452–Martin, Tasheba G493–Barrera Calderon, Brenda G500–Wimpey, Johnny G517–Gaines, Samantha G526–Konate, Debrah All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 30th day of April and 7th day of May 2017 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

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’Stangs headed to Final 4

By Greg Oshust Staff Correspondent

WOODSTOCK — Meadowcreek boys soccer advanced to its first ever Final Four on Saturday with a 2-0 win at Etowah in the Class AAAAAAA state tournament.

Meadowcreek scored both of its goals in the second half to end Etowah’s season and advance to the semifinals, where the Mustangs will play on Roswell Tuesday.

“Sometimes the ball bounces your way and sometimes it doesn’t,” Etowah coach Robert Holman said. “We had our opportunities and the ball didn’t fall. Both teams played really hard, but they got the two goals and we didn’t. Soccer can be a cruel game — you can play really hard and still walk off with a loss. We played really well, but it just wasn’t enough.”

It was the first time that Meadowcreek made it to the quarterfinals, so the Mustangs accomplished another milestone with the victory as they advance to their first-ever semifinal berth.

“With each victory, we’re setting new precedents and new standards for the Meadowcreek program,” Mustang coach Tyler LaFleur said.

The first half was a scoreless defensive battle, though Meadowcreek dominated possession of the ball.

The Mustangs came close to scoring on a couple occasions in the initial 40 minutes. Fabian Rivas’ shot his the crossbar with 27:43 remaining and Maverick Lobo’s attempt on a free kick with 25:05 left was deflected

by Etowah goalkeeper Joe Goharioon.

The closest the Eagles came to scoring was at the 4:47 mark when Pete McCoy’s shot went over the goal. Etowah began to pick up the pace at the beginning of the second half as Reece Lavery just missed scoring on a bicycle kick that went over the goal with 38:00 remaining in the game.

Meadowcreek finally broke the ice shortly after that when Rivas blasted a shot into the Etowah goal with 37:20 left to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead. The Eagles proceeded to go on the offensive as Rhys Jeffery just missed on a couple of scoring attempts — first on a long shot that was grabbed by Mustang goalkeeper Gerardo Casillas-Fierro with 34:10 left and a shot that went left of the goal at the 28:20 mark.

The two teams continued to battle on even terms until Lobo scored on a cross from Henry Benavides with 10:28 left to give Meadowcreek its final margin of victory.

“I’m proud of our team,” LaFleur said. “We just kept fighting. Injuries started to accrue and (Etowah’s) intensity kicked it up to a whole ‘nother level and we were able to match up with it. We kept them out of the net and pulled off the shutout, so I’m very excited about that. I’m very happy about how great we played and how we put together an entire game where we got the shutout and pulled See MUSTANGS, Page 4B

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Parkview’s Demarius Smith competes in a relay at the Parkview Invitational. (Photo: Chris D’Aquin)

Smith grows into force for Parkview track and field

By Will Hammock

LILBURN — Finding a niche athletically in Georgia’s biggest high schools is a challenge, even more so for someone who enters ninth grade a shade over 5 feet tall and maybe 115 pounds.

That was Demarius Smith when he got to Parkview.

“Freshman year, I couldn’t even pick up a rake,” a laughing Smith, now a senior, said before a recent meet. “I couldn’t pick up a rake. I was really, really, really weak. I had to start getting in the weight room to get bigger, faster, stronger.”

Mission accomplished.

Smith still isn’t the biggest guy around at 5-9, 160 pounds, but he has grown literally and figuratively into an important, two-sport standout for the Panthers.

“We met (Smith) coming into football and track as a freshman, and he was one of those kids who wanted to be around ev-

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Parkview’s Demarius Smith talks to a Berkmar athlete at the Class AAAAAAA Sectional at Mill Creek. (Staff Photo: Will Hammock)

erything,” said Parkview head track and field Matt Henson, also an assistant on the football team. “He tried so hard to do everything. He was kind of an afterthought. Obviously, we we coached him but he was not necessarily

a focus for us. But the way he has evolved as an athlete and as a person is incredible.”

Height and weight aren’t the only figures that back up Smith’s progression.

He ran the 100-meter

dash in 12.2 seconds as a freshman, and he has lowered that mark to 10.6. In the 200, his time dropped from 25.46 to 21.7. In the 400, he has gone from 1:02 to 48.0.

Most of Smith’s improvements came prior to

his junior track and field season, when he became a bigger contributor for the Panthers’ track and field team, tapping into some good athletic genes — his mother Tenetrice Smith played college basketball at Southern and his father Derrick Williams played football at Kansas State — and mixing in lots of hard work.

“Freshman and sophomore year, I was just trying to get the feel of it,” said Smith, who moved to Gwinnett from New Orleans after being displaced

by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “Junior year, I realized I’m trying to get on the field and be something. I started weight room, weight room, weight room, getting in there and working hard.

I was trying to get there.

The weight room became my friend. Eating, trying to get stronger, a lot of peanut butter and jelly. …

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Scrimmages bring competitive element to spring

By Paul Thomas

In addition to to the chance line up against a true opponent, spring will carry extra weight this Football players around year for several programs the state will have a little around the county. extra giddy up this month Buford, Collins Hill, Grayson, Hebron Christian, during spring practices.

North Gwinnett, Peachtree Thanks to a GHSA rule Ridge, Providence Chrischange, this spring teams tian and South Gwinnett all will finally be able to have new head coaches and scrimmage another school staffs. Those schools will for their spring games. use the spring as an audiWith the exception of tion period for the players area private schools, all of with new coaches, as well the Gwinnett schools will as two weeks to allow them take advantage of the opto get acclimated to their portunity to play against an new systems. actual opponent.

There will be five spring “We got a lot out of games that feature Gwinspring practice in the past nett teams on both sides, with what we do training beginning with Peachtree our kids, but it’s really addRidge at Norcross and ed a competitive element to Discovery at Central spring practice,” Parkview Parkview’s Malik Washington (2) tries to elude Christ Presbyterian’s defenders James Gwinnett on Friday. On head coach Eric Godfree Deaton (34), Brad Smith (33) and Bryce McCormick (17) during last season’s (Photo: May 19, Dacula will travel said. “Everybody is not Craig Cappy) to Archer, Parkview to going to look as good (as Collins Hill and Lanier they will in the fall), we’ve doing baseball, so nobody erybody having an opporwhen you’ve got to play got track kids doing track, will look like they will in tunity to compete at a level yourself, it’s not the same See FOOTBALL, Page 4B we’ve got baseball kids game time form. But evthat we try to simulate, but competitive nature.”

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Almirola edges Sadler for Xfinity win

By Reid Spencer The Sports Xchange

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Aric Almirola charged into the lead with four laps left in Saturday’s Sparks Energy 300 at Talladega Superspeedway and held off Elliott Sadler at the finish to win the third NASCAR Xfinity Series race of his career.

With the Ford of Darrell Wallace Jr. plowing into the inside backstretch wall behind him on the final lap, Almirola held the top spot to the finish, beating Sadler, the series leader, to the finish line by .142 seconds.

The win was Almirola’s first of the season in four starts and his first at Talladega. The No. 98 Ford he drove was fielded by the Biagi DenBeste race team.

“They let me run this thing seven or eight times a year, and I have so much fun, especially at the speedway races,” an elated Almirola said in Victory Lane. “Doug Yates (of Roush Yates Engines) brings some awesome horsepower, and our Ford Mustang was super-fast.

“I knew it right from the beginning of practice. We ran about 10 laps in practice and I said, ‘Put it on jack stands. We’re ready to go.

This thing is fast.’

“What an awesome day.”

NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Aric Almirola (98) celebrates winning the Sparks Energy 300 at Talladega Superspeedway.

(Photo: Peter CaseyUSA Today Sports)

In a race that featured five cautions and two wild wrecks, Almirola unintentionally did his own part to help thin the field. Attempting to bump-draft Ryan Reed’s No. 16 Ford on Lap 50, Almirola tapped the rear bumper of the Roush Fenway Racing car too far to the right side and turned it toward the outside wall.

The result was a sevencar collision that eliminated polesitter Blake Koch and Brendan Gaughan, among others.

“I feel bad about the 16 — I got into the back of the 16 and tore up a lot of cars,” Almirola said. “But I got a good push and I got in the back of him. I was trying to

help him, trying to make the Fords work together and I hooked him, so I feel sorry about that.”

Joey Logano ran third, followed by Ben Kennedy and Erik Jones, who led the race with five laps left but couldn’t hold off the charge of Almirola on the next-tolast lap.

Matt Tifft, Michael Annett, Justin Allgaier, Daniel Suarez and Jeff Green completed the top 10.

Sadler scraped the outside wall on Lap 5, thanks to a misguided push from Logano, but he recovered to snag the runner-up spot. In fact, Sadler felt his team’s need to work no his No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet

kept him out of harm’s way with respect to the later wrecks.

“We were just one spot short today,” Sadler said.

Kennedy was racing for the first time since the 2016 season-ending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

“It was a blast out there … we had a great car,” Kennedy said of the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“I wish we had another shot at it. It was fun.”

Notes: There were 28 lead changes among 14 drivers in a highly competitive race. …

Winner Aric Almirola was out front for a race-high 24 laps.

COLLEGE BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Earnhardt goes for first win of season

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

By Reid Spencer

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No active driver boasts more wins at Talladega Superspeedway than Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s six.

In fact, only one competitor claims more victories at the 2.66-mile behemoth overall — his father, NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt, who amassed 10 victories there.

Earnhardt Jr. has struggled this season with only one top-10 showing in the first nine races, so today’s GEICO 500 at Talladega (2 p.m. on FOX) couldn’t be coming at a better time.

“We haven’t done anything to make our fans too happy here lately, so we’ll try to change that at Talladega,” Earnhardt said.

In addition to his six wins, the Hendrick Motorsports driver has 12 top fives, 16 top 10s and a 15.4 average finish at the Alabama track. Among active drivers, he claims the second-best driver rating (92.0) and third-best average running position (14.4).

Earnhardt, who has also won four times at Daytona International Speedway, is considered the top restrictor-plate racer on the planet. He ranks 24th in the series standings following his slow start — 257 points behind leader Kyle Larson. “(No. 88 team crew chief) Greg (Ives) told me last week that we aren’t going to look at points anymore, we’re just going to try to go win a race,” Earnhardt said. “We had a great car in Daytona, just had some bad luck when we were leading, so we’re looking forward to Talladega.”

Can Kyle Larson sustain the run he’s on?

Kyle Larson is enjoying himself — and with good reason.

With a victory from the pole at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., and four second-place finishes in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series this season, the driver of the No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet has posted an average finish of 6.4 through nine races.

Larson tops the series standings by 40 points over second-place Martin Truex Jr. And for good measure, he’s added two victories in five NASCAR XFIN-

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Sports Calendar

BASEBALL

June 12-16: The 37th annual Robert Sapp Baseball Camp will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hog Mountain Sports Complex in Flowery Branch.

Camp costs $135 and is open to ages 7 to 14. For more information, email to rsbbcamp@charter.net or go to www.robertsappbaseballcamp.com.

BASKETBALL

May 30-June 2: Complete Skills Academy will host a boys and girls basketball camp for grades 3 through 8 at Pinckneyville Middle School from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Register at www. completeskillsacademy. com. For more information, email Chris Luke at christyluke1@hotmail.com.

GOLF

May 19: The Mountain View Football Touchdown Club will host its second annual fundraiser golf tournament at Legacy on Lanier Golf Club. Tee off is

at 2:30 p.m. and registration is at 1 p.m. Online registration is available at www.mtnviewfootball.com/ golf.

June 26: The ninth annual Archer Classic will be held at Summit Chase Country Club to benefit the Archer Touchdown Club and the high school football program. Shotgun start is 9 a.m. and entry fees are $125 per player or $500 per foursome.

Sponsorships also are available. To register, go to eaglerockdistributing. formstack.com/forms/archer_golf.

Aug. 4: Global Marketing Concepts and Eagle 7 will host the GMC Golf Tournament at Stone Mountain Golf Club to benefit the Shiloh High football program and the John and JeJuan Stewart Foundation. Sponsorships and playing spots are available. For more information, go to www. gmcgolfclassics.com.

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NASCAR Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) looks on during qualifying for the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. (Photo: Peter Casey-USA Today Sports)

ITY Series starts, with an average finish of 2.8. It’s almost too good to be true.

“Yeah it’s been cool,” Larson said. “I expected to … well, I wanted to start the season off good. I didn’t know I would start the season off being the point leader and carrying it through like we have been.

It’s just been a lot of fun to show up to the racetrack knowing we’ve got a fast car and capable of winning almost every race.

“Just got to keep, myself, got to keep working hard. Everybody at the race shop needs to keep working hard to build on

what we currently have and make it even better.

Just enjoying my time right now and having fun each and every week.”

The race track isn’t the only place Larson is having fun.

On Friday night at Talladega, he was out on the midway with former Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron.

“Became a big fan of @10AJMcCarron tonight,” Larson tweeted, along with a picture of himself wearing a sombrero.

After all, it was Cinco de Mayo and it is Talladega.

Polls are open for All-Star Race fan voting If your favorite driver isn’t eligible for the May 20 Monster Energy All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, you can lend a helping hand.

Go to NASCAR.com/ fanvote on the web and cast a ballot. The polls are open, and the driver with the most votes at the cutoff (11:59 p.m. on May 19) will earn the final spot in the exhibition race that will make an instant millionaire of the winner.

The drivers on the Fan Vote ballot are: AJ Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Ryan Blaney, Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, Matt DiBenedetto, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chase Elliott, Timmy Hill, Erik Jones, Corey LaJoie, Michael McDowell, Paul Menard, Danica Patrick, David Ragan, Reed Sorenson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Daniel Suarez and Cole Whitt.

Fans can vote once per day, and votes shared on Facebook and Twitter count double. To engage in the social media conversation, use the hashtags #AllStarRace and #FanVote.

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Patrick Reed surges to top of Wells Fargo leaderboard

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for a birdie on No. 18.

“I’m not that used Patrick Reed has won to playing over here; it each of the last four years feels a little different, but on the PGA Tour, but some courses are similar,” 2017 has been something said Noren, who won of a struggle. four times in Europe last However, Reed put year. “But it’s still golf himself in position to and I am trying my best win again when he shot to get used to it. Only a 5-under-par 67 on Saturfew guys can (play both day to take a one-stroke tours), with the travel and lead over Alex Noren of family considerations.

Sweden and rookie Jon I’m trying to adjust my Rahm of Spain after three game and life to be able rounds of the Wells Fargo to do it.

Championship at Eagle “I’ve played with Point Golf Club in WilmPatrick Reed before and ington, N.C. I know how good he is.

Reed finished 54 holes It’s wide open tomorrow at 8-under 208 and his and I’m just going to try lead could have been bigto play well and see what ger, but he barely missed happens.” a 30-foot eagle putt on the Patrick Reed tees off on hole No. 4 during the third round of the Wells Fargo ChampionSaid Rahm: “I kept ship golf tournament at Eagle Point Golf Club. (Photo: Jim Dedmon-USA Today Sports) final hole and settled for a waiting for something January at Kapalua. tap-in birdie.

“I can just control what ful on both major tours, good to happen on the “I don’t know how that “Today was the calmI do tomorrow, keep the held the lead before mak- back nine, but that chip-in missed, but it’s always est of the three days so ball in front of me and ing his only bogey on the was just a bonus.” nice to have a no-stress far, even though the wind make some more putts.”

16th hole.

Francesco Molinari of birdie,” said Reed, whose was still blowing about 15 Noren, who played at Both he and Rahm, who Italy, who led after each only top-10 finish in 14 mph, so you can see that Oklahoma State before won Farmers Insurance of the first two rounds, starts this season was a tie the scores are lower. It winning eight times on Open in January, finished made three bogeys and for sixth in the SBS Tour- was nice to see some putts the European Tour and at 69, with the Spaniard no birdies on his last 10 nament of Champions in go in. now hopes to be success- chipping in from 23 feet holes to shoot 72 and is

two shots back in a tie for fourth.

Also in the tie for four are Seung-Yul Noh of South Korea, who made a 12-foot putt on the 17th hole in a 67, and Brian Harman and Vaughn Taylor, who both totaled 70.

Byeong Hun An of South Korea lipped out what would have been a double eagle from 231 yards on the last hole and his eagle capped a 69.

That put him another shot behind in a tie for eighth with Zac Blair (69), Kevin Tway (69), Pat Perez (70), Nick Taylor (71) of Canada and Billy Hurley III (72).

World No. l Dustin Johnson, playing for the first time since a back injury knocked him out of the Masters last month, finally got it going with four birdies in his last eight holes and his 67 left him four down in a tie for 14th that included Phil Mickelson, who carded a 69.

GGC’s Figueroa, Stromdahl honored Atlanta United’s

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LAWRENCEVILLE — The Association of Independent Institutions announced its yearly honors on Friday evening, selecting Georgia Gwinnett’s Jean Figueroa as the league’s Player of the Year.

Figueroa carried a .407 batting average through 45 games for the Grizzlies. The Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, native drove in 43 runs on 70 hits, including 15 doubles, four triples, and two home runs all while slugging .576.

Talladega (Ala.) took home three of the five individual awards on the day. Kyle Chavez was named the A.I.I.’s Pitcher of the Year while teammates Wilkin Louis and Emilio Martinez were named the Freshman of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, respectively.

Chavez guided the Tornadoes to an 11-4 record in 16 appearances. The sidewinder struck out 94 batters in 91 1/3 innings of work while accumulating a 2.46 ERA. Chavez also racked up five complete games and a shutout in the 2017 season.

GGC’s Brad Stromdahl was also awarded the A.I.I.’s Coach of the Year honor for a fourth consecutive season.

A league-best seven GGC players were named to the All-A.I.I. First Team, including infielders Brady Hamilton and Marcus McCorkle, catcher Brady Shoppe, outfielders Rodney Tennie and Figueroa, and pitchers Tyler Souris (starting) and Stone Kelly (reliever).

Both Talladega and Edward Waters (Fla.) posted three first-team selections. Talladega’s Chavez, Louis, and designated hitter Broderick Johnson received first-team honors while Edward Waters was represented by pitcher Richard Edwards, shortstop Jordan Pontious, and outfielder Miguel Beltre.

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Georgia Gwinnett College’s Jean Figueroa was named A.I.I. player of the year Friday night. (Special Photo)

A.I.I. BASEBALL YEARLY HONORS Player of the Year: Jean Figueroa (Georgia Gwinnett) Pitcher of the Year: Kyle Chavez (Talladega) Freshman of the Year: Wilkin Louis (Talladega) Newcomer of the Year: Emilio Martinez (Talladega) Coach of the Year: Brad Stromdahl (Georgia Gwinnett) All A.I.I. First Team SP — Kyle Chavez (Talladega) SP — Richard Edwards (Edward Waters) SP — Tyler Souris (Georgia Gwinnett) SP — Zachary LeBlanc (Fisher) RP — Stone Kelly (Georgia Gwinnett) C — Jaime Villafane (Fisher) C — Brady Shoppe (Georgia Gwinnett) 1B — Brady Hamilton (Georgia Gwinnett) 2B — Marcus McCorkle (Georgia Gwinnett) SS — Jordan Pontious (Edward Waters) 3B — Deshawn Pittman (Tougaloo) OF — Jean Figueroa (Georgia Gwinnett) OF — Miguel Beltre (Edward Waters) OF — Rodney Tennie (Georgia Gwinnett) OF — Wilkin Louis (Talladega) DH — Broderick Johnson (Talladega)

Fisher’s Zachary LeBlanc, pitcher, and Jaime Villafane, catcher, along with Deshawn Pittman of Tougaloo (Miss.) and Dylan Heitz of College of the Ozarks (Mo.) rounded out first-team selections.

Georgia Gwinnett and College of the Ozarks led the way on the second team with each program posting three honorees.

Representing GGC was

UTL — Dylan Heitz (Ozarks) All A.I.I. Second Team SP — Frederick Belz (Edward Waters) SP — Collan Thrasher (Ozarks) SP — Trevor Bradley (Georgia Gwinnett) SP — Brock Trexler (Lincoln Christian) RP — Bryan Marquez (Talladega) 1B — Emilio Martinez (Talladega) 2B — Angel Perez Vargas (Fisher) SS — Garrett Mack (Voorhees) 3B — Brad Isaac (Voorhees) OF — Jesse Fisher (Ozarks) OF — Cody Mercier (Fisher) OF — Austin Schweiss (Ozarks) OF — Hunter Wilcher (Central Christian) DH — Kyler Timmerman (Georgia Gwinnett) UTL — Deion Sellers (Georgia Gwinnett) Gold Glove Recipients C — Troy Carrigan (Central Christian) 1B — Emilio Martinez (Talladega) 2B — Deion Sellers (Georgia Gwinnett) SS — Jordan Pontious (Edward Waters) 3B — Manuel Caballero (Talladega) LF — Chris Jones (Georgia Gwinnett) CF — Gustavo Castellano (Talladega) RF — Miguel Beltre (Edward Waters) P — Brock Trexler (Lincoln Christian)

pitcher Trevor Bradley, designated hitter Kyler Timmerman, and utility player Deion Sellers.

Ozarks’ Collan Thrasher, Jesse Fisher, and Austin Schweiss represented the Bobcats. Talladega, Fisher, and Voorhees (S.C.) each claimed two second-team selections while Lincoln Christian (Ill.) and Central Christian (Kan.) rounded out the

squad with one honoree apiece.

Talladega placed three players on the A.I.I.’s Gold Glove team while Georgia Gwinnett and Edward Waters had two individuals apiece on the 2017 team. Central Christian and Lincoln Christian also had an honoree each, rounding out the A.I.I.’s Gold Glove team recipients.

A number of key players will be missing when Atlanta United FC visits New York City FC this afternoon at Yankee Stadium in New York.

NYCFC (4-3-1) is two points ahead of Atlanta United (3-3-2) in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference with 13 points.

New York is coming off a 3-2 victory over Columbus. Jack Harrison scored twice, including the goahead goal. Yangel Herrera had a goal and an assist in his first start since signing with NYCFC on loan from Manchester City.

NYCFC was without team captain David Villa, who was stricken by illness. Villa, who signed a one-year contract extension this week, has been deemed fit for action against Atlanta United.

Ronald Matarrita and Khiry Shelton are still sidelined with injuries.

Herrera will stay with the team this weekend but will soon depart for the Under-20 World Cup. Following the win over Columbus, NYCFC coach Patrick Vieira addressed his decision to start Herrera instead of Andrea Pirlo, who has been a fixture in the NYCFC lineup since signing with the club in 2015.

“When you want to be a little more solid defensively, that’s why I chose Yangel,” Vieira said.

“When we have a time when we’re going to have more possession, where we want players to create and build from the back, I would go with Andrea.”

Atlanta United is looking to bounce back from a 3-1 loss to D.C. United.

Atlanta United took 26 shots but converted only once against D.C. United goalkeeper Bill Hamid.

Atlanta’s Kenwyne Jones (9) leaps and stops the ball during the first half of last Sunday’s match against D.C .United at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

UP NEXT What: Atlanta United at New York FC When: Today, 4 p.m.

Where: Yankee Stadium TV: Univision and streamed in English on Facebook Live

“Well, when you create as many chances as we create, you’re going to miss some,” Atlanta United captain Michael Parkhurst said following the loss. “I think, overall, our percentage of finishing quality chances has been pretty high.”

Yamil Asad and Josef Martinez have combined for eight goals, but neither will be available for Atlanta United today. Asad is serving a one-game suspension for violent conduct in the loss to D.C. United. Martinez is recovering from a quad injury.

Kenwyne Jones has scored two goals in his last three matches. Atlanta United will also rely heavily upon Tito Villalba and Miguel Almiron. Villalba has four goals and two assists. Almiron has two goals and four assists.

IN BRIEF niger (Kentucky), Lindsey Garrison (South Georgia State), Abby Culbertson (Ohio Wesleyan) and Michael Thompson (South Georgia State).

Family Center. The ceremony begins at 3:30 p.m.

The college signees being honored include four baseball players — Brookwood will host a Adam Carver (Covenant celebration Tuesday in The College), Johns Hamilton Lodge at the high school to GAC to honor (Georgia Southern), J.P. celebrate seniors who will McGuire (Gardner-Webb) compete for swimming and eight college and Erik Smith (Prairie diving teams in college. signees Monday View). Lacrosse teamThe event begins at 2:20 mates Bo Powell and afternoon p.m.

Jonathan Rose, who will The college signees Greater Atlanta Chrisplay together at Utah, will at the ceremony will be tian will honor eight be celebrated, as will two Maddy Cohen (Florida college-bound athletes girls — Abby Kettle, who State), Devan Sweeney Monday with a celebration will run cross country and (Missouri), Andrew Huen- in the school’s Student track for Miami (Fla.), and

Tamiah Lewis, who will play basketball for North Carolina-Asheville.

Dacula to host college recruiting seminar Tuesday

Dynamite Sports. He will share guidance on marketing athletes to colleges and universities of all levels.

All attendees will receive a free ACT/SAT prep DVD. The event, in Dacula’s theater, begins at 7:30 p.m.

Dynamite Sports Events Archer, Buford will present its nationally acclaimed program, “Guid- snappers shine ing the College-Bound at Rubio camp Athlete,” for free TuesThree Gwinnett County day night at Dacula High football players were School. named standouts at the RuThe featured speaker bio Long Snapping Camp is Rick Wire, president of

on April 30.

The camp at North Forsyth featured 85 participants from 15 states who came to work with Chris Rubio, a renowned snapping coach who has sent more than 260 snappers to college over the past two years.

The Gwinnett players honored were Buford sophomores Quentin Skinner and J.C. Vega, as well as Archer sophomore Christian Johnstone.

— From staff reports

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Keene’s onslaught too much for Mountain View

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

LAWRENCEVILLE — Mountain View simply had no answer for the one-man wrecking crew that was Andrew Keene in Game 3 of its secondround Class AAAAAAA state playoff series with Etowah.

The senior right-hander threw a five-inning nohitter with nine strikeouts and belted two home runs with eight RBIs at the plate to help the Eagles win the series with a 10-0 victory Saturday at the Top of the Mountain.

“He was pretty impressive, obviously,” Mountain View coach Jason Johnson said after Keene helped end the Bears’ season at 19-17. “He

swung the bat real well, to say the least. And we just couldn’t get anything going offensively. It was just a tough day for us.”

It was a tough day for Mountain View early, as Etowah (22-14) took advantage of two firstinning walks from Bears starter Chase Chaney to jump out on top 1-0 on Keene’s RBI single.

But the junior righthander managed two avoid further damage in the inning, and kept dodging bullets by stranding five base runners in the next two innings to keep his team in the game despite walking four and hitting three other Etowah batters.

The Bears even had chances to score in the early inning as Keene (41) battled control issues

of his own, walking a batter in each of the first three innings.

But he regained his control every time he needed it, striking out two hitters with courtesy runner Cole Johnston on second following Matthew Lee’s one-out walk in the first, fanning two more after Garrett Spikes’ one-out walk in the second and getting another strikeout with Mason Goolsby representing the tying run on third after his leadoff walk in the third.

“I just needed to pitch over the mound, and I just needed to stay through (the pitch),” Keene said.

“Other than that, (the control) just came. I felt good.”

Still, Mountain View felt good about their

chances down only one run until Etowah came to bat in the bottom of the fourth.

Connor Bowen drew a one-out walk and went to second when Chaney hit Nick Bartosz, and Drew Waters, one of the top-rated seniors in the nation, drove in a run with a single to extend the Eagles’ lead to 2-0.

Keene then followed by launching a line drive just high enough to catch the gusty wind blowing out towards right that carried the ball over the wall for a three-run homer, and gave himself and Etowah valuable breathing room at 5-0.

“It’s like (Etowah) coach (Greg) Robinson says all the time, hitting is contagious,” Keene said. “It felt like once I

Always Dreaming wins Kentucky Derby The Sports Xchange Trainer Todd Pletcher and his go-to jockey, John Velazquez, had each won the Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, they fulfilled their dream of winning it together.

Always Dreaming took command at the top of the stretch and easily held off long shot Lookin at Lee to become the fifth straight favorite to win the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. “He’s an incredible horse,” Velazquez told NBC Sports after the victory. “We wanted to get in a position we like to have, in a comfortable position.

“At the quarter pole, when he got down and started running, I thought, ‘They’re gonna have to run really hard to get him because he was really running.’”

The race was contested under mostly sunny skies, but the track was labeled sloppy because of rain on Friday and Saturday morning.

Pletcher and Velazquez are horse racing’s leading money winners and frequently teamed up over the years, but had combined for two Derby wins in 63 starts.

“I think this is even more special than the first (Derby win),” Pletcher told NBC Sports. “There’s been a lot of talk about our Derby record. This one is all the more sweet.”

Forwardly placed from

of the pack down the backstretch and was forced to run wide around the final turn. He rallied for fourth, but was beaten almost nine lengths.

The buzz around Always Dreaming began April 1 after his runaway win in the Florida Derby, but he entered 2017 winless. He got his first win on Jan. 25, the latest first victory for a Derby winner since 1933.

Pletcher tied his menJohn Velazquez aboard Always Dreaming (5) leads the tor, D. Wayne Lukas, field and wins the 2017 Kentucky Derby at Churchill with his 48th Derby Downs. (Photo: Jamie Rhodes-USA Today Sports) starter (he had three on Saturday). Pletcher won the beginning, Always from the back of the pack the race in 2010 with Dreaming tracked long along the inside to finish Super Saver. Velazquez shot State of Honor from second, beaten by 2 3/4 won it a year later aboard the rail. lengths.

Animal Kingdom.

On the far turn, Always It was another five “We’ve run a lot of Dreaming poked his nose lengths back to Battle of horses in (the Derby), in front and then withMidway, who followed and some haven’t run so stood a challenge from Always Dreaming around well,” Pletcher said when Irish War Cry. the track on the inside asked about his record “I thought we had a big and held on for third. in the Run for the Roses. shot when we turned for None of the other “But now you look at home,” Pletcher said. “I come-from-behind horses it, and I think out of 17 was a little worried down challenged the top three. years we have two wins, the back side. I thought The second- and third- two seconds and three he wasn’t completely in place finishes of Lookin thirds. It’s become a little the bridle, but I could tell at Lee (33-1) and Battle more respectable now.”

Johnny was riding him of Midway (40-1) keyed Dubai invader Thunconfidently.” some monster payouts. der Snow was pulled up Always Dreaming The $2 exacta paid shortly after the start, but opened a clear lead in the $336.20, the $1 trifecta appeared to be OK after stretch and finished the was worth more than the race, according to 1 1/4 miles in 2 minutes, $8,000, and a $1 superNBC Sports.

3.59 seconds. He paid fecta bet, which included Despite the inclement $11.40 as the 9-2 favorite. fourth-place Classic Em- weather, the announced The rail was the place pire, returned $75,974.50. crowd at Churchill to be on Saturday.

Classic Empire, last Downs was 158,070. The Velazquez and Always year’s champion 2-yearDerby attendance record Dreaming hugged the old and the morning-line of 170,513 was set in rail from gate to wire, Derby favorite, was 2015 when American and Lookin at Lee, a jostled leaving the gate.

Pharoah began his march deep closer, advanced He raced in the middle to the Triple Crown.

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slam that gave Etowah the walk-off win, and a date with Brookwood in the state quarterfinals beginning Wednesday at the Dave Hunter Complex in Snellville.

For Johnson, it had him looking optimistically for towards the future, with several key players set to return for the Bears next season.

“A lot of young guys out there for us,” Johnson said. “We’re pretty excited about that. We’re indebted to what our seniors did for us, obviously, and they battled and they led us this year.

But it’s pretty exciting to look out there and see six juniors and a freshman out there (in the starting line-up) and knowing we’re going to be around for a little while.”

Mustangs

a 2-1 second-round win over Peachtree Ridge on off the win.”

Wednesday.

With the loss, Etowah “It’s been a great year,” (14-3-1) saw its hopes of Holman said. “We made a semifinal berth come to it to the quarterfinals last an end after making it to year and our goal was to the quarterfinals in 2016. even further and I thought The Eagles advanced to we had a chance after our the Elite Eight with a 4-0 great win over Peachtree victory over Newnan in Ridge, but it didn’t hapthe first round April 28 and pen.”

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Football

Day 1 getting out there, but then that dies down pretty to North Gwinnett. Other fast knowing that you really intriguing match-ups don’t have a game to look include Tucker at Grayson, forward to. Our kids, you Houston County at Buford can tell, there’s a little pep in their step. I’ve already and Stephenson at South heard from parents, parents Gwinnett.

Godfree’s team opens up talking about how excited spring practice on Monday their kids are, they’re coming home talking about and he’s already seen a football and they’re ready. peaked interest from his I think having the opporplayers..

“We really have,” he said. tunity to play an actual game definitely adds to the “Everybody is always excited about spring practice, excitement.”

SPRING FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGES Friday May 12 Peachtree Ridge at Norcross, 6:30 p.m.

Discovery at Central Gwinnett, 7 p.m.

Friday May 19 Houston County at Buford, 6 p.m.

Northview at Duluth, 6 p.m.

Shiloh at Langston Hughes, 6 p.m.

Dacula at Archer, 7 p.m.

Berkmar vs. Dunwoody at Adams Stadium, 7 p.m.

Brookwood at Milton, 7 p.m.

Parkview at Collins Hill, 7 p.m.

Tucker at Grayson, 7 p.m.

Lanier at North Gwinnett, 7 p.m.

Therrell at Meadowcreek, 7 p.m.

Mill Creek at East Cowetta, 7 p.m.

Stephenson at South Gwinnett, 7 p.m.

Saturday May 20 Hiram at Mountain View, 11 a.m.

Smith

•From Page 1B Starting junior year I saw the transformation. Me coming to the A team for the 4 x 1 relay with Justin (Long), Amir (Harris) and A.J. (Shuford), I started seeing where I could help them.”

Smith, also known affectionately as “Peanut” and “D.J.” around the team, seized his chance on Parkview’s relays as a junior and helped the foursome to an All-American time last summer.

“Junior year in football for us, he was getting some reps on JV but wasn’t getting much on varsity, but going into track season we’re missing a relay leg, so we said, ‘Let’s give Demarius a shot,” Henson said. “And we’ve never looked back.”

Now a senior, Smith is a vital piece of a Parkview team that enters next week’s state meet as the top challenger to championship favorite Westlake.

He ran on two first-place relays at the county and region meets, claiming the Region 7-AAAAAAA individual title in the 100 with a time of 10.74. He ran the same time in the 100 at sectionals, finishing

hit (the first home run), it kept coming.”

Indeed, while Keene retired the final nine Mountain View batters he faced in order, the Etowah offense kept coming in the bottom of the fifth, when the Eagles cashed in on back-to-back singles

by Bryant Madden and Bowen off reliever Dylan Schuble and a throwing error to extend the lead to 6-0.

Another single by Bartosz put runners on second and third with nobody out, prompting the Bears to intentionally walk Waters to load the bases in an attempt to set up a force play at every base.

But Keene confounded that strategy by crushing a pitch into the teeth of the wind for a long grand

third and advancing safely to state.

The physical growth over the past few years is eye-popping, but the Parkview coaches are just as excited about what Smith has become as a leader. He is team captain, the first liaison between coaches and athletes, and a positive force for one of the state’s top programs.

Henson cites the county

meet as the prime example of Smith putting his team first. A hip flexor issue was causing Smith problems, but he opted not to run the 100 at full speed and vie for an individual county championship so he could save himself for the more important, meet-ending 1,600 relay. His coach suggested jogging the 100 to make sure his team got points, so he coasted to

sixth in 22.30 to avoid additional injury, then put all of his energy into the Parkview relay. “(Smith) earned the right to sell out in the 100,” Henson said. “He earned the right to do that. … But he put his team before his own individual achievement. He’s so selfless.”

It was a no-brainer to have an athlete like that as

them helping me.”

Smith’s improved physical stature has helped him improve in his favorite sport, too. He will play cornerback after high school at University of the Parkview’s Cumberlands (Ky.), in addition to being a member Demarius Smith (4) of the school’s track and waits for field team. the baton “It’s basically testament during to a kid who wanted to the recent keep working hard and see Class AAAAAAA where he could go,” Henson said. “I think his best Sectional years of track and football at Mill Creek. are yet to come. … He (Staff wants to be a coach. I told Photo: Will him, ‘Get you a degree and Hammock) come back. I’ll hire you.’”

That Smith has grown from barely 5 feet into such an accomplished athlete amazes his coaches, but it also amazes him.

He said it’s crazy to think about how far he has come from freshman year until team captain. now.

“It means a lot to be a “It shows I’ve worked, leader,” Smith said. “It’s that’s one thing,” Smith more toward my team. said of his transformaI thank them for helption. “But it also shows ing me get here. I thank that my team has pushed Justin. He got me faster. me to work even harder. I I thank Amir. He got me faster. I thank A.J. He got just thank Coach Henson for staying in there and me faster. And the newbelieving in me, and for comer, Keith Williams, my teammates for staying he helped me out, too. in there and believing in It’s helped me grow into me.” a leader and captain by

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Hebron boys advance to semifinals

By Colin Hubbard Staff Correspondent

DACULA — When Tyler Kasten saved a penalty kick for the Hebron Christian Academy Lions in the first half, he didn’t know that it would wind up being the save that would win the game over Pinecrest Academy.

But in fact, it was.

The Lions went on to win 2-1 in their Class A quarterfinal matchup with the Paladines after a headed goal from Isaac Bender in the game’s 72nd minute, and have secured a spot in the Final Four for the first time since 2013.

Jake Major, who was responsible for the Lions’ first goal of the game could barely put into words what was going through his mind when he saw Bender put his team out in front.

“Man, I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “We’ve been practicing headers in practice during yesterday’s practice and he (Bender) hit a couple. So to see him come from left back position and to see him get up to center mid and score the winning goal as a junior. …it was a big night for him.”

The Paladins were the first team to get a good shot off on goal, but it was the Lions that finished first.

Major put the Lions up 1-0 in the 12th minute after he sidestepped past a defender and slipped it into the back of the net past the Paladin keeper.

However, Pinecrest’s Stuart Jeans was tackled in the box with just under six minutes remaining before halftime and had a prime opportunity to tie the game up at 1-1.

But Kasten wasn’t going to let that happen.

Jeans fired the ball right down the middle and the ball was corralled in between Kasten’s legs for an incredible save.

Hebron Christian keeper Tyler Kasten (0) celebrates after making a save on Saturday in the state quarterfinals against Pinecrest Academy. (Photo: Colin Hubbard)

“I just made sure that I kept my eye on it,” Kasten said. “But once you get it with the feet, you’ve got to keep watching it and make sure you get it before it goes in. So I just got on it right after.”

It appeared that the Lions had a 1-0 halftime lead all but locked up, but the Paladins went right back on the attack and knotted the game up on a beautifully struck ball from Dominic Piron with 49 seconds remaining in the half.

With the momentum leaning on the side of the Palidns to start the second half, the Lions did everything they could to weather the storm. Zack Queen saved a would-be goal for the Paladins with a sliding save right in front of the goal.

Two corners from the Paladins were also saved to keep the game tied as the game rolled into the

60th minute, but the Lions couldn’t get anything going on offense.

But looking back, Major knew that the Lions’ ability to keep the Paladins from scoring after some good second-half looks was huge.

“When the ball is bouncing around, it’s scary,” Major said after he was able to clear some crucial balls out. “Whenever I could get a big foot on it and just see it go out of the danger zone, it takes a lot of stress off. Just being able to regroup and set up for the next attack, so yeah, it played a big part.”

After a couple of decent looks by the Lions in the 65th and 66th minutes, they finally got the look that they had been waiting for.

Kyle Garnett controlled the ball on the right and delivered a low line drive cross that found the head

of Bender for the go-ahead goal with eight minutes to play.

“All of the time and dedication in practice really paid off,” Bender said. “It’s just, wow. It’s amazing.”

The Paladins’ had one last run in them as the clock continued to run under one minute, and got as far as the box, but the Lions managed to clear it out one last time to preserve the win.

Much like Major, Garnett gave a lot of credit to his defenders and to his keepers for keeping the Paladins from scoring on numerous chances.

“Our defenders have worked hard all year,” Lions head coach Sean Garnett said. “The defenders never get very much credit and they should. They had some good chances and we did a good job of keeping the ball out of the net.”

Playoff soccer is something that Garnett knows all about and couldn’t be more excited to see his team have this much success, especially for the six seniors that started the game.

“This is my third school that I’ve coached at in Georgia and it’s a lot of fun to be able to not only coach, but also try to have an impact as far as spiritually on these guys,” he said. “I felt like that was one of the reasons God was leading me to this school.

I’m excited for the boys to be able to experience a Final Four and to experience a nice run in the playoffs.

This is something that they will cherish forever.”

This is second time the Lions have beaten Pinecrest after winning 4-3 in the regular season and they will face Whitefield Academy in the semifinals next Tuesday.

“It’s amazing, Final Four, what can you say?”

Kasten said.

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Wesleyan girls lax reaches Final Four From Staff Reports ATLANTA — Wesleyan girls lacrosse defeated St. Pius 17-16 in the quarterfinals of the Class A-AAAAA state playoffs on Saturday.

It’s the Wolves’ (15-5) first trip to the state semifinal since 2004. Lindsey Hayes led Wesleyan with seven goals.

Chloe Hangartner and Quinn Kaloper added four goals apiece. Tabitha Conrad had six draw controls and goalie Alyssa Bedard made 11 saves.

Wesleyan led throughout the game.

The Wolves will face the winner of McIntosh and Kell in the semifinals.

innings.

Anderson also went 1-for-3 at the plate, as did Jake Mattix, Cole Tillotson, Crawford Hansard and Desmond Jacobs.

Desmond and Crawford also stole a base each, but Providence stranded five runners in scoring position on the day.

BOYS BOYS LACROSSE LACROSSE

GAC 19, Marist 14 ATLANTA — Greater Atlanta Christian rallied from a second-quarter deficit in its Class AAAAAA state playoff game to defeat Marist 19-14 Saturday night at Hughes Spalding Stadium.

BASEBALL Bo Powell scored seven BASEBALL goals and added two assists, while Nick Jones King’s Ridge 4, Providence Christian 0 won 26 of 39 face-offs to help the Spartans (12ALPHARETTA — 6) advance to the state Providence stayed close semifinals, where they in Game 3 of its secondwill travel to Westminster round Class A-Private on Wednesday. state playoff game, but GAC was down 7-3 couldn’t come up with the in the second quarter big hit when needed in a and 8-6 at the half, but 4-0 loss to King’s Ridge never trailed again after on Saturday at Legion taking 9-8 lead in third Field. quarter. Jordan Arona Wesley Andeson took the loss on the mound for also had a strong game the Storm, whose season for the Spartans with five goals and an assist, while ended at 19-15, despite Jonathan Rhodes finished a solid outing in which with three goals and he scattered six hits and Brooks Buce added a pair two earned runs with of goals. two strikeouts over six

Swarm to face Rock From Staff Reports DULUTH — The league-leading Georgia Swarm (13-5) discovered its playoff opponent Saturday night, and will face the Toronto Rock

(10-9) in the 2017 NLL East Division Finals.

Toronto defeated the New England Black Wolves 18-10 in the East Division Semifinal at Air Canada Centre on Saturday evening.

Diaz, Leake help Cardinals to 5-3 win over Atlanta Braves

By Guy Curtright

victory and is 10-for-13 in his past three games.

Leake, who led all NaATLANTA — Aledmys tional League starters with a Diaz continued his torrid hit- 1.35 ERA in April, allowed a ting and Mike Leake allowed second-inning single by Nick just one hit until the seventh Markakis. That was the last inning as the St. Louis Carbase runner for the Braves dinals defeated the Atlanta until a walk and error in the Braves 5-3 on Saturday night. sixth.

Diaz was 3-for-4 with two Matt Kemp doubled and RBIs, Matt Carpenter and Freddie Freeman walked in Matt Adams each homered, the seventh before Garcia and the Cardinals withstood picked on a too-fat first pitch a three-run homer by Adonis from Leake and sent his third Garcia that broke Leake’s homer of the season over the spell. center-field fence.

Diaz was 4-for-4 with Leake (4-1) threw 61 of his three RBIs in Friday’s 10-0 90 pitches for strikes in his The Sports Xchange

Baseball

Major League Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 Washington............... 20.... 9.. .690......—.....7-3 New York................... 13.. 15.. .464.... 6.5.... 5-5 Philadelphia.............. 12.. 16.. .429.....7.5.... 3-7 Miami........................ 12.. 16.. .429.....7.5.... 2-8 Atlanta........................11.. 16.. .407....... 8.... 5-5 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Chicago..................... 16.. 13.. .552......—.... 5-5 Cincinnati.................. 15.. 14.. .517....... 1.... 5-5 St. Louis.................... 14.. 14.. .500.....1.5.... 6-4 Milwaukee................. 15.. 15.. .500.....1.5.... 6-4 Pittsburgh.................. 13.. 16.. .448....... 3.... 5-5 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Colorado................... 18.. 12.. .600......—.... 4-6 Arizona...................... 18.. 13.. .581...... .5.... 5-5 Los Angeles.............. 16.. 14.. .533....... 2.....7-3 San Diego................. 12.. 19.. .387.... 6.5.... 4-6 San Francisco............11.. 19.. .367....... 7.... 4-6

Friday’s Games Cincinnati 13, San Francisco 3 Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 0 Washington 4, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 8, Miami 7 St. Louis 10, Atlanta 0 Arizona 6, Colorado 3 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 2 Saturday’s Games Milwaukee (Garza 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Cole 1-3), late Washington (Cole 0-0) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 2-2), late Miami (Despaigne 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Gsellman 1-2), late San Francisco (Blach 0-1) at Cincinnati (Garrett 2-2), late St. Louis (Leake 3-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-2), late Arizona (Corbin 2-3) at Colorado (Anderson 1-3), late L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 4-2) at San Diego (Richard 2-3), late Today’s Games Miami (Urena 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 2-2), 1:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Davies 2-2) at Pittsburgh (Glasnow 1-1), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 2-1) at Atlanta (Dickey 3-2), 1:35 p.m.

Washington (Roark 3-1) at Philadelphia (Hellickson 4-1), 2:35 p.m.

Arizona (Walker 3-1) at Colorado (Chatwood 2-4), 3:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Cueto 4-1) at Cincinnati (Feld-

seven-inning outing, logging his sixth quality start and fourth consecutive victory.

Cardinals closer Seung Hwan Oh pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save of the season.

Braves starter Julio Teheran (2-3) labored through five innings on 110 pitches as he lost his third straight home start. He gave up nine hits and two first-inning walks while striking out three.

Teheran has given up 17 runs in 15 innings during the home losing streak, allowing five homers, 22 hits and

seven walks.

The Braves have lost seven of their past eight home games after sweeping a four-game series with San Diego to break in SunTrust Park.

The Braves gave up a first-inning run for the fifth straight game as Diaz delivered a two-out RBI single.

In the third, Carpenter went deep for his sixth homer of the season.

Teheran left a 2-2 pitch in the middle of the plate and Carpenter smashed a two-run blast to the Chop House in right field.

Atlanta Braves third baseman Adonis Garcia (13) hits a three-run home run against the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh inning at SunTrust Park. (Photo: Brett DavisUSA Today Sports)

SPORTS AT A GLANCE man 1-3), 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (McCarthy 3-0) at San Diego (Cahill 2-2), 4:40 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Game N.Y. Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Saturday’s Game N.Y. Yankees (Montgomery 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Anderson 2-1), late Today’s Game N.Y. Yankees (Severino 2-2) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 New York................... 18.... 9.. .667......—.....7-3 Baltimore................... 18.. 10.. .643...... .5.... 5-5 Boston....................... 16.. 14.. .533.... 3.5.... 5-5 Tampa Bay................ 16.. 16.. .500.... 4.5.... 5-5 Toronto...................... 10.. 20.. .333.... 9.5.... 4-6 Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Cleveland.................. 16.. 13.. .552......—.... 6-4 Chicago..................... 15.. 13.. .536...... .5.... 6-4 Detroit........................ 15.. 13.. .536...... .5.... 5-5 Minnesota................. 15.. 13.. .536...... .5.....7-3 Kansas City............... 10.. 19.. .345....... 6.... 3-7 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Houston..................... 20.. 10.. .667......—.... 6-4 Los Angeles.............. 15.. 16.. .484.... 5.5.... 6-4 Seattle....................... 13.. 17.. .433....... 7.... 5-5 Texas......................... 13.. 17.. .433....... 7.... 4-6 Oakland..................... 12.. 17.. .414.....7.5.... 2-8 Friday’s Games Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 4, 10 innings Minnesota 4, Boston 3 Kansas City 3, Cleveland 1 Detroit 7, Oakland 2 Houston 7, L.A. Angels 6, 10 innings Texas 3, Seattle 1, 13 innings Saturday’s Games Boston 11, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 1 Cleveland 3, Kansas City 1 Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-2) at Baltimore (Bundy 4-1), late Detroit (Zimmermann 3-1) at Oakland (Hahn 1-2), late Houston (McCullers Jr. 2-1) at L.A. Angels (Ramirez 3-2), late Texas (Perez 1-4) at Seattle (De Jong 0-2), late Today’s Games Toronto (Biagini 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 2-2), 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-4) at Baltimore (Tillman 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Boston (Sale 2-2) at Minnesota (Santana 5-0), 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Clevinger 0-0) at Kansas City (Duffy 2-2), 2:15 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 0-1) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-1), 3:37 p.m.

Detroit (Norris 2-2) at Oakland (Gray 0-1), 4:05 p.m.

Texas (Cashner 0-3) at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Cleveland 3, Toronto 0 Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto 105 Wednesday, May 3: Cleveland 125, Toronto 103 Friday, May 5: Cleveland 115, Toronto 94 Sunday, May 7: Cleveland at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 9: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA x-Thursday, May 11: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-Sunday, May 14: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA Boston 2, Washington 1 Sunday, April 30: Boston 123, Washington 111 Tuesday, May 2: Boston 129, Washington 119 Thursday, May 4: Washington 116, Boston 89 Sunday, May 7: Boston at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 10: Washington at Boston, TBA x-Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington, TBA x-Monday, May 15: Washington at Boston, 8 p.m.

Western Conference San Antonio 2, Houston 1 Monday, May 1: Houston 126, San Antonio 99 Wednesday, May 3: San Antonio 121, Houston 96 Friday, May 5: San Antonio 103, Houston 92

Sunday, May 7: San Antonio at Houston, 9 p.m.

Tuesday, May 9: Houston at San Antonio, TBA x-Thursday, May 11: San Antonio at Houston, TBA x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio, TBA Golden State 2, Utah 0 Tuesday, May 2: Golden State 106, Utah 94 Thursday, May 4: Golden State 115, Utah 104 Saturday, May 6: Golden State at Utah, late Monday, May 8: Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 10: Utah at Golden State, TBA x-Friday, May 12: Golden State at Utah, TBA x-Sunday, May 14: Utah at Golden State, TBA

Hockey National Hockey League Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1 Thursday, April 27: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 Saturday, April 29: Pittsburgh 6, Washington 2 Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Wednesday, May 3: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 Saturday, May 6: Pittsburgh at Washington, late x-Monday, May 8: Washington at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 10: Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2 Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, NY Rangers 1 Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, NY Rangers 5, 2OT Tuesday, May 2: NY Rangers 4, Ottawa 1

Thursday, May 4: NY Rangers 4, Ottawa 1 Saturday, May 6: Ottawa 5, NY Rangers 4, OT Tuesday, May 9: Ottawa at NY Rangers, TBA x-Thursday, May 11: NY Rangers at Ottawa, TBA Western Conference Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2 Wednesday, April 26: Edmonton 5, Anaheim 3 Friday, April 28: Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1 Sunday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Edmonton 3 Wednesday, May 3: Anaheim 4, Edmonton 3, OT Friday, May 5: Anaheim 4, Edmonton 3, 2OT Sunday, May 7: Anaheim at Edmonton, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 10: Edmonton at Anaheim, TBA Nashville 3, St. Louis 2 Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3 Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2 Sunday, April 30: Nashville 3, St. Louis 1 Tuesday, May 2: Nashville 2, St. Louis 1 Friday, May 5: St. Louis 2, Nashville 1 Sunday, May 7: St. Louis at Nashville, 3 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 9: Nashville at St. Louis, TBA

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series GEICO 500 Lineup After qualifying, race today At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Alabama Lap length: 2.66 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 191.547.

2. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 190.78.

3. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 190.427.

4. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 190.177.

5. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 190.155.

6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 190.023.

7. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 190.011.

8. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 189.921.

9. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 189.643.

10. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 189.582.

11. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 189.47.

12. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 189.077.

13. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 189.35.

14. (77) Erik Jones, Toyota, 189.313.

15. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford, 189.286.

16. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 189.256.

17. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 189.036.

18. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 189.036.

19. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 189.021.

20. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 188.961.

21. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 188.448.

22. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 188.345.

23. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 188.219.

24. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 187.901.

25. (34) Landon Cassill, Ford, 187.883.

26. (32) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 187.794.

27. (47) A.J. Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 187.776.

28. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 187.416.

29. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 187.405.

30. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 187.361.

31. (10) Danica Patrick, Ford, 186.995.

32. (75) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 186.155.

33. (55) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 186.119.

34. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 186.047.

35. (7) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 185.895.

36. (83) Corey LaJoie, Toyota, 185.144.

37. (23) Gray Gaulding, Toyota, 184.172.

38. (72) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 183.807.

39. (15) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 183.353.

40. (33) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet,

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Wesleyan boys survive wind, Fellowship for Final Four berth

By Ken Chrzanowki Staff Correspondent

Greater Atlanta Christian’s Oscar Vanegas (10) works against Sonoraville’s Brian Jacobo in Saturday’s Class AAA state playoff match. Below, Sonoraville’s Kevin Villatoro (11) takes a penalty kick. (Staff Photos: Will Hammock)

No. 2 GAC eliminated by Sonoraville

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

NORCROSS — Appearances in the boys soccer Final Four have been commonplace for Greater Atlanta Christian for two decades.

Some of the Spartans’ history is listed on their scoreboard, where Sonoraville’s players and coaches posed for photos after Saturday’s Class AAA quarterfinals. It offered a visual reminder of what the visiting Phoenix had just accomplished.

Unranked Sonoraville not only upset No. 2 GAC 1-0, it also made the state semifinals for the first time with a victory over a proven program.

“Last year was the first time we made the Elite Eight, but we wanted to make it more,” Sonoraville head coach Hector Holguin said. “We felt like the Elite Eight was good, but we wanted more. The guys bought into it. We’ve been working since June and it’s paid off. We’re in the Final Four, but we don’t want to be done yet. … I thought we played good.

GAC is a program with a lot of history. Not only one of the best in the state,

but in the nation. You look at those state championships (on the scoreboard).

We knew coming in they were going to be wellcoached, very technical.

We knew it was going to be tough, but my guys responded well.”

Sonoraville (13-7-1) opened in 2005 and made just one trip to the playoffs prior to the run last year, Holguin’s first as head coach. The Phoenix entered the state playoffs on a three-game losing streak, but had a veteran team with seven seniors and juniors in the starting lineup.

GAC (14-6) started seven sophomores and freshmen, along with two juniors and two seniors.

“The year was great,”

GAC head coach Thom Jacquet said. “We were so young. These are the games we struggle in. Not that they were better than us. They were just bigger than us, faster and stronger than us. We found ways most of the time to win those battles (this season).”

Sonoraville pressured the GAC net constantly, particularly in the first half, but goalkeeper Angello Lazar and teammates Chris Barbieri, Trey Kenworthy, Mekhi Royce and others held the match scoreless through halftime.

Lazar had three saves at the break, but the most dangerous attempt came from Sonoraville’s Alexander Soldevilla, who fired a shot off the post.

In the 50th minute, GAC

was called for a foul in the box, setting up Kevin Villatoro for a penalty kick.

Villatoro sent the PK over the frame, though, giving the hosts a break.

Villatoro, a physically strong senior who controlled the central midfield, made up for it a little more than four minutes later. He jumped on a short punt, raced into space and got free enough from the GAC defense to convert the match’s only goal with a well-placed shot. “(Villatoro) just kind of slipped free that one time and that was the difference,” Jacquet said.

Down 1-0, GAC pressed forward with more success but never converted an equalizer. A couple of dangerous free kicks just outside the Sonoraville box didn’t materialize into a goal, and neither did the other attacks.

The Phoenix salted away nearly all of the final two minutes with possession near the GAC corner flag, finishing off a historic victory over a longtime state power.

“It seemed like we were in second gear,” Jacquet said. “We couldn’t get into a rhythm on the ball. …

It was going to be hard to find a goal, I thought.”

Mill Creek baseball advances over Walton

By Carlton D. White

contest at 1-all in the bottom of MARIETTA — Walton the fourth. could not execute defenBloodsively, from the mound, in worth the batter’s box or emoreached on tionally Saturday, losing a two-out Davis 6-2 to Mill Creek in the single Sharpe decisive third game of before the second-round Class courtesy runner Alex BenAAAAAAA state playoff nett scored on a three-base series at Raider Mountain. error on Tucker MacDenied the chance to Meekin’s fly ball to right. follow up on its state title Tied 1-all in the fifth, from last year, Walton (27- Mill Creek’s Beau Jones 8) committed four errors reached on a throwing erand allowed a run on a ror to lead off the inning, passed ball as four pitchmoved to second on Phillip ers — Cameron BloodGreen’s sacrifice bunt and worth, Forrest Wilson, scored on pinch hitter Alex Henry Litman and Game Boychuk’s double.

1 starter Luke Bartnicki The Hawks added three — combined to allow six more runs after Steven unearned runs on nine hits Kirk flied out to center, as while striking out four and Pendley, who was 2-for-4 allowing three walks. and scored twice on the Mill Creek (31-5) did day, blasted a two-run shot most of its damage in the over the center field wall fifth inning, scoring four off the first pitch he saw of their five runs with two from Wilson. outs, including back-toNext, Turley belted a 1-1 back home runs by Jay offering from Wilson over Pendley and Cameron the fence for a 5-1 advanTurley. tage.

Two Walton errors in The Hawks staked a the second inning allowed 6-1 margin in the seventh.

Dylan Wilson, who had Pendley singled to lead off, reached with a two-out went to second on Davis single, to score, giving Sharpe’s single, and scored Mill Creek a 1-0 advantage following a Bartnicki wild in the first inning. pitch and passed ball by Walton knotted the reserve catcher Jack Schad.

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Walton’s rally came up short in the seventh.

Pierce Gallo hit a two-out double and scored on Jason Rooks’ single. A fly out, however, ended the Walton threat and the game.

“We kind of beat ourselves (Saturday),” Walton coach Shane Amos said.

“We didn’t come out and play with a lot of emotion.

They came out and got the momentum and when they got it, we couldn’t get it back. We played hard and had a great season. It just wasn’t in the cards for us.

“With everything that goes on this time of the year, you never know what gets in these kids’ heads.

Whatever it is, I don’t know. It’s a baseball game, sometimes they work out for you and sometimes they don’t. (Saturday) it didn’t work out for us.”

Walton’s Jason Avers, who went hitless in two at-bats in the finale, was thrown out of the game in the fifth inning after tagging out courtesy runner Nick Kross at the plate.

Kross, who tried to score from second off a Wilson single, collided with Avers at home plate for the third out of the inning. Avers got up first following the collision, and stepped on Kross’ back before heading

to the dugout. The umpire decided to eject Avers for the act after consulting with one another. “(Avers) just let his emotions get to him a little bit, and we’ll move on from it,” Amos said.

Turley wound up 1-for-3 with an RBI for the day, while Sharpe went 2-for-4 and Wilson was 2-for-3.

Pendley had two RBIs and Boychuk was 1-for-1 with an RBI double.

Sharpe, who gave up two hits and struck out four in three innings of relief to get the win in Game 2 Wednesday, pitched a complete-game victory in Saturday’s clincher, allowing two runs — one earned — on six hits while striking out eight and walking three. “(Sharpe) came out and did what he had to do to win a game,” Amos said.

Mill Creek advanced to the state quarterfinals, where they will travel to take on North Paulding in a best-of-three series that begins with a doubleheader Wednesday.

After back-to-back state championship series appearances and winning the title last season, Walton failed to reach the state quarterfinals for the first time since 2014.

PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan’s Marco Kruger scored the tie-breaking goal early in the second half and the Wolves held on to defeat Fellowship Christian 3-2 in the quarterfinals of the Class A boys state tournament on Saturday. The win means that Wesleyan will host Walker next week with a trip to the state finals on the line.

The biggest story in the game was the wind. Fellowship Christian had it at their back in the first half.

“I decided to take the wind in the second half and I’m not sure if that was right or wrong,” Wolves coach Billy Coxhead said. “Soccer is influenced by climate and today proved that.”

Though trying to pass into a brisk breeze, Wesleyan (15-3-3) was still leading in possession early in the game. However, Fellowship used a Wesleyan miscue to score the first goal.

A free kick with just under 16 minutes left in the half was misplayed

by Wolves goalie Mateo Rengifo, who dropped the ball behind him. Casey Barham raced behind the leaping Rengifo and buried the ball in the back of the net.

The Paladins (11-8) nearly extended their lead later when two shots beat Rengifo, but were cleared from the goal line.

The first was a header off the goal line from the Wolves’ Javy Martinez.

The second one turned into a Wesleyan goal when Mitchell Robinson turned away a certain goal and kicked the ball off the line. Nick Eversbusch gathered in the ball and dribbled 80 yards through the defense. Eversbusch passed to Bryce Cook, who put the ball through to Abraham Lopez, who scored to tie the score at one.

With one minute left in the half, Cook scored from 25 yards out on a free kick that found the upper corner of the net as it fought through the wind. It appeared the Wolves would take a 2-1 lead into halftime, however, thirty seconds later, Barham took in a pass in the box and netted his second of the game to tie the score.

Fifty eight seconds into the second half, Robinson made a pass to Lopez down the right sideline.

Lopez then crossed the ball to Kruger who chipped the ball over the goalie for what turned out to be the game winner.

The Wolves were able to thwart the Paladins’ attempts to tie over the tense 39 minutes that remained in the game.

Coxhead praised the contributions of several of his players.

“Marco Kruger, Josh Cotter, Eric Panther, they all came up big at critical times,” Coxhead said. “Fellowship is a big physical team and Drew Masters made a huge clear for us in the second half. Everyone stepped up.”

North, Wesleyan girls fall 3-0 in state tennis finals From Staff Reports

still in limbo late, and all three of our singles JONESBORO — It players had some really wasn’t a particularly good long points. We weren’t day on the scoreboard just laying down, but (Walton) ended up putting for both of Gwinnett’s it together in those long representatives at the GHSA state tennis cham- points. We knew we had pionships Saturday at the our work cut out for us.

We had to play our best to Clayton County International Park Tennis Center. have a chance, and hat’s off to (Walton).”

North Gwinnett fell Wesleyan, meanwhile, to dominant powerhouse had already established Walton 3-0 in the Class itself on the state level afAAAAAAA girls final, ter winning titles in Class while Wesleyan’s girls AA the last two seasons, saw their two-year reign but had similar trouble as state champions come to North in Saturday’s to an end with a 3-0 loss to Brookstone in the Class match with Brookstone, the reigning A (Private) A (Private) finals. champion.

The Bulldogs (21-3) However coach saw their program’s best Jonathan Sykes appreciseason come to an end ated the effort his Wolves in their first trip to the state finals by falling to a (18-3) gave in keeping Walton team that has now every match competitive, and was excited about the won 15 state titles in the future of a program that last 17 years. included several underBut coach Forrest Wood said he appreciated classmen in Saturday’s the fight his team showed lineup, including junior singles players Elizabeth during the match, and Bruehl and Harrison is optimistic this year’s team has laid the ground- Feininger and the allsophomore No. 2 doubles work for a sustained team of Grace Tyler and period of success on the Ansley Feininger. state level.

“It was an honor just to “I thanked the sebe in (the finals),” Sykes niors who got us to this said. “It underscores point,” Wood said. “And how strong a program I immediately turned to we have. We played two the underclassmen and sophomores out there said, ‘Tomorrow starts the track towards getting who weren’t even part of the team three years ago, back here.’ so we continue to feed “There were two singles matches that were our program.”

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Peachtree Ridge’s Nechanicky earns fencing scholarship to Air Force Academy

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Peachtree Ridge senior Mackensie Nechanicky went 220-0 in her high school fencing career and earned a scholarship to the Air Force Academy. (Photos: Mindi Nechanicky)

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Mackensie Nechanicky never lost a bout in high school.

The Peachtree Ridge senior fencer went 220-0.

Now Nechanicky, who graduates on May 27 with a 3.94 GPA, is headed to the Air Force Academy on scholarship.

Not bad for someone who really “didn’t want to stab anyone.”

Nechanicky played soccer until sixth grade and still referees games.

But everyone else seemed to hit their growth spurts before her and Nechanicky was taking a beating on the field.

“Plus I wasn’t really good anyway,” the effervescent 18-year-old said with a laugh. “So it wasn’t a loss.”

It was her grandmother who suggested fencing.

“My mother was all over me,” Mindi Nechanicky said with a knowing laugh like her daughter’s. “Finally I said I’d look it up, but if I have to drive downtown, I’m not doing this.”

There was a club seven minutes from their house in Suwanee.

“So in the beginning, I don’t know if I was any good,” Nechanicky said, grinning again. “It’s a lot of just kind of swashbuckling, trying to stab someone. And I didn’t want to stab anybody. I just stayed at the end of the strip and let them come to me and maybe they’ll miss. That’s a lot of what I banked on.

“Over time, I put more hours in and I came out of my shell a little bit. But in the beginning, it was a rough. And I kind of got lost in the shuffle.”

Nechanicky didn’t get into real competition fencing until two years later — and then really blossomed. But she’s not sure why she stuck with it early on.

“Maybe trying to prove myself,” she said. “My brothers were all good at sports. A lot of it was self-fulfillment. Because when you get better, it’s a confidence boost.”

Meeting Nechanicky now, it’s hard to imagine her as anything but outgoing.

“Through fencing, I get used to walking up to random people and just talking to them,” she said. “I really feel like I wouldn’t be able to do that without it.

“And in fencing, it’s really just you at all times so you learn to rely on yourself.”

What made all the difference in her development was moving to Olympic Fencers Club in Johns Creek as an eighth-grader.

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Peachtree Ridge senior Mackensie Nechanicky went 220-0 in her high school fencing career and earned a scholarship to the Air Force Academy. (Photos: Mindi Nechanicky)

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taught her to be aggressive,” Mindi said.

“They put a lot of effort Diaz also coaches the into me and I put a lot of wheelchair fencing teams effort into myself,” Nefor Atlanta’s Shepherd chanicky said.

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Nechanicky said.

“Being there pushed me Nechanicky went every to look at biomedical enginight for hours at a time neering because I wanted and then also started getto make the sport easier ting private lessons, includ- and more fun for (the ing with Julio Diaz at wheelchair athletes),” she Eagle Fencing Club. said. “It intrigued me.”

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Most recently, she was one of just three Georgians to qualify for the Junior Olympics tournament and finished among the top 50 in the country.

“I started thinking I could use it to go into college,” she said.

Nechanicky got offers from Air Force and Northwestern. She also got into Georgia Tech, but the school only has club fencing. The trip to Colorado Springs, also where the U.S. Olympic training center is located, wowed Nechanicky.

“Their fencing was the best facility I’ve ever seen,” she said. “It was so nice, I can’t really express it.”

It still wasn’t an easy decision. Her AP credits don’t count there — “I would have taken pottery or something fun,” Nechanicky said with a laugh.

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After a junior year spent under pressure to earn those scholarship offers, Nechanicky was fully able to enjoy her senior season.

“Fencing was fun again,” she laughed.

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The three disciplines — foil, saber and epee — are based on where touches count. Foil is the strictest and, consequently, the traditional training ground.

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“It prepares you for the other weapons. Saber was used on calvary, it’s waist up, including arms and head. That’s a slashing. All the blades are different.

It’s also right of way. It’s very quick compared to the other ones. They just go. They don’t even need a timer.”

Epee is full body and point thrusting.

“It’s really cool in moments,” Nechanicky said.

“But in epee it helps to be taller because there’s no right of way.

“Foil is very much a mind game.”

She uses that as a recruiting tool for getting kids into join the high school team.

“We just had an extra curricular night at school when all the eighth graders come in,” Nechanicky said.

“I had to tell them all you really don’t need to know how to fence and your body type doesn’t matter at all.”

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South Gwinnett JROTC gets special designation Good News from Schools

Keith Farner The South Gwinnett High School Comet Battalion recently went through an intensive formal inspection and came out with high marks, which gave the unit a special designation.

The JROTC program received the Honor Unit with Distinction label, the highest accreditation level that an Army JROTC program can receive across the country. The Comet Battalion received an overall score of 95.8 percent.

“Our cadets have been working very hard to become an Honor Unit with Distinction for approximately six years, and they have finally accomplished their mission,” said retired Lt. Col. Nathaniel Flegler Jr., the senior Army instructor in charge of the program.

The purpose of the inspection was to assess and validate the growth and compliance of the program. The accreditation consisted of a Cadet Continuous Improvement Briefing, Cadet Service Learning Project, drill/ ceremony and portfolio interviews by cadets and instructors.

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See a Film in Fernbank’s The South Gwinnett Army JROTC program recently received the “Honor Unit with Distinction” label, the highest accreditation level that an Army JROTC program can receive across the country. The Comet Battalion received an NEW Giant Screen Theater overall score of 95.8 percent out of a possible 100. (Special Photo) that as a group we can accomplish challenging tasks,” said Cadet Tasheaca Bryan, the public relations officer for the Comet Battalion.

Randy Smith and Max Denniston, the inspectors from Sixth Brigade, Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, said the cadets were thoroughly prepared for the inspection and they were impressed with the cadets’ hard work and dedication.

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GSMST senior receives Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Albert Kim, graduating senior from the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology, was recently named a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship recipient.

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Selected from a nationwide pool of applicants, up to 40 students will become Jack Kent Cooke Scholars.

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GCPS academies director receives state award Jody Reeves, Gwinnett County Public Schools’ executive director of Academies and Career and Technical Education, was recently named Administrator of the Year by the Georgia Technology Student Association.

Reeves has been involved with career and technical education for 27 years, and is a former family and consumer sciences teacher at North Gwinnett High School.

Since Reeves has worked with the Gwinnett CTE program, it’s grown to almost 400 teachers teaching courses in 58 pathways in all 17 of the national career clusters.

Since March 2016, Reeves has been recognized with the Administrator of the Year Award also by two other organizations: Future Business Leaders of America and the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America.

Keith Farner writes about education. Good News from Schools appears in the Sunday edition of the Daily Post.

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Earl Marshall has lived through a lot of key moments in modern history.

He was born March 30, 1917, just days before the U.S. entered World War I. Woodrow Wilson was president. Although he was still a toddler when the war ended, it was just a pretext of a historical events that would mark the next century.

He was a child in the Roaring 20s and was approaching his teenage years when the 1929 stock market crashed, kicking off the Great Depression. By the time the Lilburn man marked his 100th birthday last month, many more wars, periods of financial boom and bust and social change had come to pass in his lifetime.

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Earl Marshall smiles during his recent 100th birthday party in Snellville. The Lilburn resident was born March 30, 1917. (Special Photo)

child, daughter Rosemary Robinson, from Florida,” his granddaughter, Debbie MacLean, said.

Marshall’s milestone birthday — it’s not often someone makes it to 100 after all — was recently celebrated with family and friends at J and M Home Cooking in Snellville, according to his granddaughter.

It could be argued that Marshall has had an eventful century to celebrate in more ways than one. The world has seen two world wars, a Cold War, the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, a war on terrorism, the resignation of one president of the United States and the impeachment of another in the last 100 years.

For Marshall, the last century has been colorful in its own right.

He was married to his wife, Theressa, for more than 50 years, and they’ve had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

He also served as a welder at the Charleston Navy Yards during World War II. The armed forces tried to draft him multiple

times and they were all unsuccessful. The family story goes, according to MacLean, that the president of the United States himself eventually intervened to get the military to stop trying to draft Marshall.

“He was called up to the draft office four times, and sent back to the Navy Yard each time,” she said. “The fourth, and final time, they asked him who he knew in Washington. He said he didn’t know anyone in Washington. They said they had a letter from President Truman telling them to ‘take seven men, and leave Marshall here,’ that he was more valuable here welding than he would be over there.”

There were other events in his life around that time which have given him some unique stories to tell. How many people these days can claim they were recruited by multiple Major League Baseball teams while simply playing for their company’s baseball team?

MacLean said her grandfather played shortstop for the naval yard’s team, and got some looks from pro teams as a result.

“Several different professional teams made him offers to come play with them, including Cleveland, St. Louis and Philadelphia, but he said he couldn’t go play baseball while there were so many of our boys fighting overseas,” she said.

Eventually, he became an Atlanta Braves fan — although from a historical perspective, the team was the Boston Braves when he was a boy and up until he was a young adult.

“When asked about living to be 100, he says God has always looked after him and he smiles a lot,” MacLean said.

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AUBURN AuburnCon returns to library May 13 Get out your cosplay gear, Auburn, because it’s almost time for an annual celebration of comic books and dressing up as characters from cartoons, comics and fantasy and science fiction shows.

That’s right, AuburnCon is back.

The Auburn Public Library will host the event from 1 to 4 p.m. on May 13.

Attendees are invited to dress up as their favorite character and enter a costume contest. Library officials also play to have games, craft-making activities, draw your own comics activities and other fun events throughout the afternoon.

The library is located at 24 Fifth St. in Auburn.

BARROW COUNTY City of Winder to host job fair The city of Winder will host a Public Safety Job Fair this week.

The fair will be held in the Winder Community Center on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Officials will be looking to fill police officer, police detective, sheriff’s deputy, detention officer, firefighter, EMT and 911 dispatcher positions.

The Winder Community Center is located at 113 E. Athens St. For more information, visit winderpd. com.

BERKELEY LAKE Local outreach group to host annual Senior Luncheon It’s almost time for Berkeley Lake’s annual Senior Luncheon.

The BLOSOMS put on the lunch each year for residents of Berkeley Lake who are 65 years or older.

The year’s lunch will be held at the Chapel on May 16 at 11:30 a.m.

BLOSOMS will provide car service to anybody who needs a ride. Anybody interested in attending or helping with the lunch should contact Jill Rice by email at Jill.Rice@me.com or by phone at 770-3307477.

BRASELTON Braselton Library Yarners to knit cares away Tuesday Time to stitch and purl at your local library, Braselton.

The Braselton Library Yarners will meet Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m. to sharpen knitting skills. The group, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, meets once a week at the library.

The library is located at 15 Brassie Lane in Braselton. For more information, visit http:// braselton.prlib.org/events.

The Snellville Police Department and pharmacy students from PCOM collected 300 pounds of unwanted prescription medications Saturday. (Photo: Facebook)

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The Snellville Police Department collected a massive amount of unwanted prescription drugs this past weekend.

“We collected 300 pounds during Saturday’s event,” SPD Lt. Andre Sullivan said.

The department worked with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia

and run through Sunday.

Last year, more than 38 artists participated, and organizers expect to double that number this year. Painting is limited to the Duluth area and to 80 participants. Oil, acrylic, watercolors and pastel mediums are acceptable.

The Duluth area will give artists the opportunity to paint Old southern homes, downtown Duluth, the Duluth City Hall and town green, the Southeastern Railway Museum, which features 90 items of rolling stock, including historic DACULA Pullman cars and classic steam locomotives, a Library hosting Teen historic railroad station, Book Club on Monday Dacula teens will have a the Chattahoochee river with tubers, rafters and chance to share what they felt was the most important fly-fishermen and nearby farms with cattle, hay bales part of a book that is, and old barns. interestingly enough, not This event is a fundraiser about the most important for the Duluth Arts thing in the world this Foundation. week.

The display and sale The city’s library branch of all art will be at Adrian will host a meeting of Collaborative at 3150 Main its Teen Book Club from St. in Duluth. An awards 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on show and reception will be Monday. Participants will on Sunday, May 14. The be discussing Shelley work will be on display and Pearsall’s “The Seventh for sale for the following Most Important Thing,” week in the afternoon. which is about a boy who All art must be picked has to spend 120 hours up no later than 5 p.m. on performing community Monday, May 20, and 70 service by collecting percent of the art sales seven important items — goes to the artist, and 30 including glass bottles, percent goes to the Duluth wood, coffee cans, light Arts Foundation. bulbs, cardboard, foil and For more information, mirrors — for a homeless man that he hit with a brick. call Larry Smith at 404314-3669.

The library is located at 265 Dacula Road.

GRAYSON Family Fun and Fitness DULUTH Festival set for May 20 Plein Air event Come on Grayson, it’s set for this week time to channel your inner Paint Duluth 2 is a Olivia Newton-John and juried plein air adventure get physical. in its second year and The Grayson Cycling set to begin on Thursday

Campus to facilitate a National Drug Take Back event on Saturday. Residents drove by the department’s headquarters drop off their unwanted prescription drugs.

The SPD Reserve Officer Unit volunteered its time to man the event. So did PCOM pharmacy students.

“The partnership with The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia

Club will host the inaugural Family Fun and Fitness Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 20 in Grayson Community Park. As the name suggests, the activities at the festival will revolve around fitness, but don’t worry — they are designed to be fun for the family.

Different clubs and vendors associated with fitness will be on hand to demonstrate what they do.

City officials said there will also be demonstrations of different fitness activities, including cheer leading, yoga, cycling and running, during the event.

Music, food, a kids zone and a family bike parade at 11 a.m. will also be included in the festival.

LAWRENCEVILLE Pizza With The Police rescheduled for May 11 Not even rain can keep Lawrenceville from a good pizza party.

The city announced its annual Pizza With The Police event, which had been scheduled to take place this past week, was rescheduled for 6 p.m. on May 11 at the Lawrenceville Lawn. City officials postponed the event because of weather forecasts that called for a 100 percent chance of rain on the day it was originally scheduled to take place.

Pizza With The Police is an opportunity for residents to come out and meet their police officers, and show their support for them, in a casual setting — and to enjoy some pizza.

LILBURN Food Truck Tuesdays start this week It’s time to go “Nom!

Snellville police, pharmacy students ‘take back’ 300 pounds of prescription medications

Campus has also allowed the pharmacy students to interact and provide information to participants on proper disposal,” SPD Lt. Andre Sullivan said.

It’s just one of many Take Back events the department has hosted in 2011, each year with more and more success.

“In the fall of 2011, we only collected 35 pounds at the first event that SPD participated in,” Sullivan said. “Since then,

Nom! Nom!” in Lilburn.

That’s because the Lilburn Food Truck Tuesday season kicks off this week.

Food trucks will be set up in City Park, 76 Main St., from 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday. They will be back on the second tuesday of each month through October.

City officials the participating food trucks this month include Bento Bus, Cattywampus, Cousins Maine Lobster, Deep South Biscuit Co., Fry Guy, Mac the Cheese, Peace of Pita, Tex’s Tacos, King Of Pops, Simply Done and Vintage Frozen.

The Hax will provide live music beginning at 7 p.m.

LOGANVILLE Have lunch with American Legion Riders The American Legion Riders are inviting Loganville residents out to lunch in Grayson.

The ALR Lunch Bunch will meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. May 10 at Main Street Cafe in Grayson.

For more information, email twilliams@adittech. com or call 770-313-5348.

Main Street Cafe is located at 1142 Athens Highway Suite 115 in Grayson.

NORCROSS BBQ competition looking for entrants Organizers are looking for competitors for the Discovery Garden Park Smokin’ In Alley BBQ on May 21 on Skin Alley.

This event is the Discovery Garden’s premier fundraiser. As a nonprofit organization of volunteers, the Garden relies on charitable contributions to support its mission to cultivate

the community has responded tremendously each and every time.”

As a result, the department has collected more than a ton of prescription pills as of Saturday.

“I would like to thank the Snellville and surrounding communities, PCOM PharmD students, my reserve officers and the DEA for making this event a success,” Sullivan said.

green spaces and inspire lifelong appreciation of nature through gardening, education and demonstration.

This is a people’s choice competition, the dinner attendees will vote for the best BBQ and sauce in several categories.

First place and runner up awards will be given in each category.

Competitors will need to provide 10 pounds of cooked meat, excluding bone weight, and sauce if you enter the sauce category. All meat must be smoked/grilled at home and brought to Skin Alley for serving. Sample-sized portions for the competition tasting are needed. Table decorations to personalize your serving station and serving utensils are optional.

For more information, visit the Norcross Discovery Garden Park Facebook page, or contact Laura at lmr30307@gmail. com or Deb at deb.ndgp@ gmail.com.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Peachtree Corners Library to host Toddler Time Babies need reading, too — and they can get it this week at the Peachtree Corners Branch Library.

Toddler Time for is a story time designed for babies and toddlers ages 2 and under. It uses simple books as well as music, rhymes and movement activities in order to introduce story time to young readers.

Toddler time will be held Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Peachtree Corners Branch is located at 5570 Spalding Drive.

SUGAR HILL Collective Soul to play The Bowl Collective Soul is set to play Sugar Hill on May 26 on a night when doors will open at 7 p.m., with the opening band at 8 p.m. and Collective Soul set for 9 p.m. Tickets are available at thebowlatsugarhill.com.

Collective Soul was formed in Stockbridge in the early 1990s. The band’s debut album was originally released in 1993 on Atlanta indie label Rising Storm, featuring “Shine.” Eight albums later, the group is still performing and creating new music. Collective Soul was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

And as principal songwriter and front man, Ed Roland, puts it, fans can continue to expect “lots of guitars and a fun attitude from the southern gentlemen of rock and roll.”

SUWANEE Arts in the Park set for May 13 Town Center Park will host the annual Arts in the Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday as all forms of art will be on display, including elements, pottery, painting, photography and jewelry. There will be awards in all those categories and Best in Show.

It’s a family-friendly event with music, food and an artists’ hospitality suite with food and drinks.

All artists’ work and presentation is evaluated before acceptance to this event.

A separate panel of judges will judge the show Saturday morning and awards along with award monies will be given to the winners that afternoon.

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(Local Programming) The Goldbergs (N) ’ Speechless (N) ’ Modern Family (N) ’ (:31) blackish (N) Designated Survivor “Bombshell” (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) Survivor (N) ’ (CC) Criminal Minds “Red Light” (N) (CC) (DVS) Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders “Obey” (N) ’ (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Arrow A corpse is sent to Oliver’s office. (N) ’ The 100 Clarke faces consequences. (N) (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Shots Fired Preston makes a rash decision. (N) Empire “Absent Child” (N) ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Blindspot A member of Sandstorm finally talks. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (N) ’ Chicago P.D. A vigilante murders pedophiles. (N) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Nature “Dolphins: Spy in the Pod” (N) NOVA “Arctic Ghost Ship” ’ (CC) Plants Behaving Badly (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM The Andy Griffith Show Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Spacetime” ’ Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Paradise Lost” 11Alive News at 10 (N) Corrupt Crimes (N) ’ Forensic Files ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Virginia Beach” (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Kirby Hall 2” ’ (CC) Home Fires on Masterpiece ’ (CC) Home Fires on Masterpiece ’ (CC) Secrets of Her Majesty’s Secret Service (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Law & Order: Criminal Intent ’ (CC) Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars ’ (CC) Storage Wars (N) (CC) Storage Wars (N) (CC) Billy the Exterminator Billy the Exterminator (:03) Storage Wars ’ (:33) Storage Wars ’ (5:30) ›››‡ “Lethal Weapon” (1987) (CC) ›››‡ “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989, Action) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci. (CC) ›››‡ “Speed” (1994, Action) Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper. (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (CC) The Real Housewives of New York City (N) (CC) Andy Cohen’s Then & Now (N) (CC) Watch What Housewives/NYC Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park “TSST!” South Park (CC) South Park “Butt Out” South Park (CC) The Comedy Jam (N) South Park (CC) The Daily Show At Midnight With Chris The Last Alaskans “Spirit of the Hunter” (CC) The Last Alaskans “Pray for Snow” ’ (CC) The Last Alaskans “Race Against the Sun” (N) (:01) Where the Wild Men Are “Texas” ’ (CC) (:02) Alaskan Bush People “Dead In The Water” MLB Baseball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) NFL Live (CC) 30 for 30 Investigating the relationship between crime and sport in Colombia. (CC) 30 for 30 (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Total Divas Nicole struggles. (CC) Total Divas “Total Summerslam” (N) (CC) Total Divas “Total Summerslam” (CC) E! News (N) (CC) The First 100 Days (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) The Five (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (CC) Chopped Risotto in the first round. (CC) Cooks vs. Cons “Fry, Fry Again!” (CC) Cooks vs. Cons “Cajun Nation” (N) (CC) Cooks vs. Cons “Crab Cake Crazy” (CC) Cooks vs. Cons “Gone Bananas” (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) ›››‡ “Aladdin” (1992, Children’s) Voices of Scott Weinger, Robin Williams. ’ (CC) Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Destination Polaris UEFA Highlights NHRA Drag Racing NHRA Carolina Nationals. From Charlotte, N.C. World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open - Part 3.

(6:30) ›› “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (2014, Action) Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing. ’ (CC) Fargo Gloria learns more about Maurice. (N) ’ (:12) Fargo Gloria learns more about Maurice.

Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers: Buying & Selling (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers: Buying & Selling (N) (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers (CC) American Pickers “Signs of Struggle” ’ American Pickers “Jersey’s Jackpot” ’ American Pickers (N) ’ (CC) (:03) American Pickers “Hello Jell-O” ’ (CC) (:03) American Pickers “Mike’s Bikes” ’ (CC) Little Women: Atlanta “Good Deed Gone Bad” Little Women: Atlanta (N) (CC) Little Women: Atlanta (N) (CC) (:02) Little Women: Dallas “Mini-Disaster” (N) (:07) Little Women: Dallas “Mini-Disaster” (CC) The Thundermans (CC) The Thundermans (CC) Nicky, Ricky Game Shakers (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Conan (N) (CC) (6:30) ›› “Gambling House” (1950, Drama) ››› “Cover Girl” (1944, Musical Comedy) Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Eve Arden. ››› “How to Marry a Millionaire” (1953, Comedy) Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall.

NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. Playoff action from the NBA’s conference semifinals. (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. Playoff action from the NBA’s conference semifinals. (Live) (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Nobodies (N) (CC) Lopez (N) (CC) The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ NCIS Grooming a Marine to be a supersoldier. NCIS Ducky and Bishop go to London. ’ NCIS A vessel is commandeered by pirates. ’ NCIS A therapist is murdered. ’ (CC) (DVS) NCIS: Los Angeles “The Only Easy Day” ’

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(Local Programming) The Toy Box (N) ’ (CC) Shark Tank Franchised art studios. (N) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) Undercover Boss (N) ’ (CC) Hawaii Five-0 (Season Finale) (N) ’ (CC) 48 Hours: NCIS (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) The Originals “Voodoo in My Blood” (N) (CC) Reign An earthquake hits Scotland. (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Lucifer Lucifer must ignite the flaming sword. Lethal Weapon “As Good as It Getz” ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) First Dates A dater brings a game on the date. Dateline NBC (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) Charlie Rose Bill Murray: The Mark Twain Prize ’ (CC) Washington Week (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM The Andy Griffith Show American Ninja Warrior “Orlando Finals” ’ American Ninja Warrior “Orlando Finals” ’ 11Alive News at 10 (N) Corrupt Crimes (N) ’ Forensic Files ’ (CC) Father Brown “The Labyrinth of the Minotaur” Death in Paradise ’ (CC) New Tricks An old woman is found dead. (CC) The Coroner Hidden remains are unearthed. ’ Grantchester on Masterpiece ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Happy Family” Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Seinfeld ’ (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 05.06.17” ’ (CC) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 16” (N) Live PD “Live PD -- 05.12.17” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (6:00) ›››‡ “The Matrix” (1999, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. (CC) ››› “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) Keanu Reeves. Freedom fighters use extraordinary skills and weaponry to revolt against machines. (CC) ›› “Maid in Manhattan” (2002, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes. (CC) ›› “Maid in Manhattan” (2002, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes. (CC) ›› “A Cinderella Story” (2004) Hilary Duff.

Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff (CC) Yukon Men Charlie confronts an outsider. (CC) Yukon Men A mom teaches a lesson in survival. Yukon Men “Less Than Zero” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Homestead Rescue Hacks Revealed (N) (:02) Alaska: The Last Frontier ’ (CC) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. Playoff action from the NBA’s conference semifinals. (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) 30 for 30 (CC) NFL Live (N) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (CC) ›› “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” (2003, Romance-Comedy) Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey. (CC) Sex and the City (CC) E! News (CC) The First 100 Days (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) The Five (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Ginormous Food (N) Ginormous Food (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (6:00) ›› “She’s All That” (1999) ’ (CC) ››› “Dirty Dancing” (1987, Romance) Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach. ’ (CC) Truth & Iliza ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Miami Marlins. From Marlins Park in Miami. (N) (Live) Braves Live! Postgame ACC All-Access ’ MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Miami Marlins.

(5:00) ››› “Star Trek” (2009) Chris Pine. ’ ››› “Star Trek Into Darkness” (2013, Science Fiction) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban. ’ (CC) Star Trek-Dark.

Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Tiny House Hunters Tiny House Hunters Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home Lottery Dream Home House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens “Destination Mars” ’ (CC) Ancient Aliens: Declassified “Alien Messages” Ancient Aliens “The Mystery of Rudloe Manor” (:03) Ancient Aliens “Forged by the Gods” (CC) (:03) Ancient Aliens “The Satan Conspiracy” ’ (6:00) ››‡ “Just Wright” (2010) (CC) ››‡ “Jumping the Broom” (2011, Comedy) Angela Bassett, Paula Patton. Premiere. (CC) (:02) “Love by the 10th Date” (2017, Romance-Comedy) Meagan Good, Kelly Rowland. (CC) ›› “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” (2009) Zachary Levi, David Cross. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House “Pal Joey” Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Seinfeld “The Opera” Seinfeld “The Virgin” ›› “Get Hard” (2015, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Craig T. Nelson. Premiere. (CC) (DVS) ELeague “Street Fighter V- Group D” Street Fighter V Invitational playoffs. (N) (Live) (CC) (6:45) ›› “The Return of Doctor X” (1939) ›››› “The Graduate” (1967, Comedy) Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross. ›››› “In the Heat of the Night” (1967, Crime Drama) Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger. ››› “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004, Action) Matt Damon, Franka Potente. (CC) (DVS) American Race “Entertainment Still So White” American Race (Season Finale) (N) (CC) ››‡ “Limitless” (2011) Bradley Cooper.

M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) M*A*S*H (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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(Local Programming) Grey’s Anatomy “True Colors” (N) ’ (CC) (:01) Scandal “Head Games” (N) ’ (CC) The Catch Alice and Ben must face their pasts. (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory (:01) Mom (N) (CC) Life in Pieces (N) (CC) The Amazing Race (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Supernatural Sam and Dean worry about Mary. Riverdale Archie and Veronica grow closer. (N) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef The remaining contestants compete. Brooklyn Nine-Nine ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Genes” ’ Chicago Med “Love Hurts” (N) (CC) (DVS) The Blacklist A mercenary goes after Liz. (N) ’ (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) The This Old House Hour (N) ’ (CC) Home Fires on Masterpiece ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Virginia Beach” (CC) (Local Programming) 11 Alive News at 7PM The Andy Griffith Show Bones A death at a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy camp. Bones Bodies of two witches are discovered. ’ 11Alive News at 10 (N) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Forensic Files ’ (CC) Africa’s Great Civilizations “Empires of Gold; Cities” Complex trade networks; ancient cities. (CC) The Klondike Gold Rush ’ (CC) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Momentous Northwest expedition.

The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Sound Bodies” Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ The First 48 “Stray Shot” ’ (CC) The First 48 “Deadly Premonition” ’ (CC) 60 Days In (Season Finale) (N) ’ (CC) (:03) The First 48 “Secrets and Lies” ’ (CC) (5:30) ›››‡ “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989) (CC) ››‡ “Sherlock Holmes” (2009, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams. (CC) “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” (CC) Then & Now The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta (CC) The Real Housewives of Potomac (CC) Unprotected (CC) Watch What Southern Charm (CC) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) Soundtracks “Hurricane Katrina” (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 “Pee Lady” Tosh.0 (CC) The Daily Show The President Show Naked and Afraid “Curse of the Swamp” (CC) Naked and Afraid XL Pop-Up Edition ’ (CC) Naked and Afraid XL Pop-Up Edition (N) (CC) To Be Announced (:02) Naked and Afraid “Melt Down Under” (CC) NBA Countdown (N) (Live) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. Playoff action from the NBA’s conference semifinals. (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) (CC) NFL Live (N) (CC) We the Fans We the Fans We the Fans: Section 250 of Soldier Field (CC) Baseball Tonight (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Keeping Up With the Kardashians (CC) Second Wives Club “Mermaid Meltdown” (N) Second Wives Club “Mermaid Meltdown” (CC) E! News (N) (CC) The First 100 Days (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) The Five (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (CC) Chopped “Oodles of Noodles” (CC) Chopped The chefs must make dumplings. (CC) Chopped “Jump for Bok Choy” (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) My Best Friend’s ››› “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006, Comedy) Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Adrian Grenier. (CC) Pretty Little Liars “Power Play” ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) ACC All-Access ’ College Softball ACC Tournament, Fourth Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) UFC Knockouts College Softball ACC Tournament, First Quarterfinal: Teams TBA. (4:30) ›› “Transformers: Age of Extinction” ››‡ “The Maze Runner” (2014, Science Fiction) Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Aml Ameen. ’ (CC) ››‡ “The Maze Runner” (2014) Dylan O’Brien, Aml Ameen. ’ (CC) Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Middle ’ (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop Vegas (N) Flip or Flop (CC) House Hunters (N) (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Swamp People Joey goes after his white whale. Swamp People: Blood and Guts (N) ’ (CC) Swamp People “The Hunt Ends” Troy’s future is on the line. (N) ’ (:33) Swamp People “The Hunt Ends” Troy’s future is on the line. ’ Married at First Sight “The Wedding Night” Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Three couples go on honeymoons. (N) (CC) (:17) Married at First Sight: Second Chances Discussing past mistakes.

The Thundermans (CC) The Thundermans (CC) ›› “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” (2009) Voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends (CC) Friends (CC) Seinfeld “The Trip” Seinfeld “The Trip” Seinfeld “The Pitch” Seinfeld “The Ticket” The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Conan (N) (CC) (6:15) “The Wacky World of Mother Goose” ›› “Rodan” (1957, Science Fiction) Kenji Sawara, Yumi Shirakawa. ›‡ “The Black Scorpion” (1957) Richard Denning, Mara Corday. (:15) ›› “The Deadly Mantis” (1957, Horror) ›‡ “Law Abiding Citizen” (2009, Suspense) Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler. (CC) (DVS) American Race “Baltimore Rising” (N) (CC) American Race “Muslim Is the New Black” (N) ››‡ “Con Air” (1997, Action) Nicolas Cage.

M*A*S*H “Check-Up” (:36) M*A*S*H (CC) (:12) M*A*S*H Frank, in charge, bans drinking. Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Delinquent” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Smoked” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Inside the FBI: New York “The New FBI” (N) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Liberties”

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(Local Programming) ››› “Monsters University” (2013) Voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman. ’ (CC) (DVS) (:07) 20/20 Saturday ’ (Local Programming) (Local Programming) 48 Hours ’ (CC) Training Day “Elegy” Frank breaks Kyle’s trust. 48 Hours ’ (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) MasterChef The cooks make entrées for VIP guests. ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) MasterChef “Junior Edition: An Extra Serving” NHL Hockey Conference Final: Teams TBA. NHL playoff action from the conference finals. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) Saturday Night Live (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Saturday Night Live (N) (Local Programming) Austin City Limits ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Wheel of Fortune (CC) Jeopardy! ’ (CC) The X-Files Scully fears her partner’s behavior. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Aftershocks” 11Alive News at 10PM Corrupt Crimes (N) ’ Ring of Honor Wrestling (CC) NewsHour Wk Ray Stevens CabaRay ››› “Carousel” (1956, Musical) Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell.

Carol Burnett: The Mark Twain Prize ’ (CC) Atlanta Eats The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Movie Family Guy ’ (CC) Family Guy ’ (CC) (5:00) Live PD ’ (CC) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind No. 17” (N) Live PD “Live PD -- 05.13.17” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (6:30) ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. (CC) The Son Young Eli must navigate tribal politics. The Son Young Eli must navigate tribal politics. ››› “The Perfect Storm” (2000) (CC) (5:00) ››› Superbad ››› “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore. (CC) ››› “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling. (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) (CC) Soundtracks Following the killings at Kent State. Soundtracks “Hurricane Katrina” (CC) Soundtracks Music after the terrorist attacks.

(6:50) South Park (CC) (:25) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) South Park (CC) ›› “We’re the Millers” (2013, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter. (CC) (6:00) Street Outlaws “Episode 9; Episode 14” Deadliest Catch: On Deck (N) ’ (CC) Vegas Rat Rods “Water Rat” ’ (CC) (DVS) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College Softball SEC Tournament, Final: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Boxing Premier Boxing Champions. (N) (Live) 30 for 30 (CC) MLS Soccer Seattle Sounders FC at Chicago Fire. From Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Ill. (N) (Live) 30 for 30 (CC) (5:30) The Ugly Truth ›› “Couples Retreat” (2009, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau. (CC) ››› “Bridesmaids” (2011, Comedy) Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne. (CC) Fox Report (CC) Watters’ World (CC) Justice With Judge Jeanine (CC) The Greg Gutfeld Show (CC) Watters’ World (N) (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (CC) Chopped “Thanks, Mom!” (CC) Chopped Chicken noodle soup and salsa. (CC) Chopped “Momumental” (CC) Chopped Four TV moms compete for the title.

(6:45) ››› “Matilda” (1996, Children’s) Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman. ’ (CC) (8:50) ››› “Despicable Me” (2010, Children’s) Voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel. ’ (CC) ››› “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) Robin Williams.

MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Miami Marlins. From Marlins Park in Miami. (N) (Live) Braves Live! Postgame Focused MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Miami Marlins.

UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2 - Prelims (N) UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2 - Prelims (N) ’ (Live) (CC) ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, Science Fiction) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. ’ (CC) “A Dash of Love” (2017, Romance-Comedy) Jen Lilley, Brendan Penny. (CC) “Birthday Wish” (2017, Drama) Jessy Schram, Luke Macfarlane. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers “Not Ready for the Suburbs” Lakefront Bargain Hunt: Renovation (N) (CC) House Hunters Renovation (CC) Mountain Life (N) (CC) Mountain Life (N) (CC) Counting Cars (CC) Counting Cars (CC) Counting Cars ’ (CC) Counting Cars ’ (CC) Counting Cars Counting Cars (N) (CC) (:01) Counting Cars ’ (:32) Counting Cars ’ (:03) Counting Cars (:33) Counting Cars (6:00) “The Psycho She Met Online” (2017) “Sinister Minister” (2017, Drama) Nikki Alexis Howard, Rachel G. Whittle. Premiere. (CC) (:02) “Sometimes the Good Kill” (2017) Susie Abromeit, Amanda Brugel. Premiere. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Game Shakers (CC) Game Shakers (N) (CC) Nicky, Ricky Henry Danger ’ (CC) The Thundermans (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Angie Tribeca (6:00) ›››‡ “Chisum” (1970) John Wayne. ›››› “East of Eden” (1955, Drama) James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey. (:15) ››› “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” (1955, Biography) Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert.

(5:30) ››› “The Bourne Identity” (2002) ››‡ “Olympus Has Fallen” (2013, Action) Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart. (CC) (DVS) (:15) ››‡ “Eagle Eye” (2008, Action) Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan. (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ NCIS Gibbs’ former mother-in-law. (CC) (DVS) NCIS Investigation into a Marine’s shooting. ’ NCIS Evidence leads to McGee’s grandmother. NCIS A man in a diner pulls a gun on Gibbs. ’ NCIS The team investigates a murder. ’

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9 p.m. on ABC The Last 100 Days of Diana Martin Bashir, the former “Nightline” co-anchor who conducted a very personal interview with Princess Diana two years before her 1997 death, is the host of this new special focusing on the last summer of her life. The concentration isn’t on the fatal car accident in a Paris tunnel, but rather on two post-divorce romances she had. Interviewees including Paul Burrell, who was Diana’s butler, offer insight into her mindset during that pretragedy period.

10 p.m. on NBC The Wall

9:31 p.m. on ABC blackish In the comedy’s third-season finale, “Sprinkles,” Dre (Anthony Anderson) wants Bow’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) baby shower to be the best such event ever staged.

It does not turn out that way, though, when Bow has to make a medical visit because of what seems to be a headache. Daveed Diggs (“Hamilton”) continues his guest role. Laurence Fishburne, Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi, Miles Brown, Marsai Martin and Jenifer Lewis also star.

Before its full-fledged return in June, this competition series offers a new episode to get viewers reacquainted with it. As teammates respond to questions correctly or not, the cash value of the answer is added to or deducted from their winnings — signaled by balls colored green (for “right”) or red (for “wrong”).

More than $12 million is available to the players in any given episode. Also the host, Chris Hardwick is an executive producer with LeBron James here.

TUESDAY 8 p.m. on CW The Flash

Princess Diana

While Barry (Grant Gustin) decides on an all-out offense to put the threat of Savitar to an end, H.R. (Tom Cavanagh) takes a different route — involving Tracy Brand (Anne Dudek, in her continuing guest role) — in the new episode “Cause and Effect.”

Killer Frost (Danielle Panabaker) makes an unexpected suggestion. Jesse L. Martin, Candice

Eliza Dushku Patton and Carlos Valdes also star.

9 p.m. on CBS Bull Eliza Dushku (“Tru Calling”) begins a guest-starring arc in the new episode “Welcome Back, Dr. Bull,” playing J.P. Nunnally, a criminal attorney who strikes a deal with Bull (Michael Weatherly). If he’ll work with her on several cases, she’ll defend Benny (Freddy Rodriguez), who’s facing misconduct charges for his earlier work with the district attorney’s office. Geneva Carr, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Annabelle Attanasio and Christopher Jackson also star.

THURSDAY 10 p.m. on ABC The Catch The second season of the show, which revised the approach considerably by going for a lighter tone overall, concludes with “The Mockingbird.” The past rises up for both Alice and Ben (Mireille Enos, Peter Krause), resulting in a betrayal that may change the game for them — romantically and otherwise — as well as for everyone around them.

Sonya Walger, John Simm, Jay

Hayden, Rose Rollins and Elvy Yost also star.

10 p.m. on NBC The Blacklist Liz (Negan Boone) evidently has racked up a debt that only can be settled with her death, since in a new episode titled “The Debt Collector,” an enemy with that identity has her in his sights. Red (James Spader) tries to save her by making a surprising alliance.

Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff) runs into trouble while trying to beat Gale (guest star Enrique Murciano) at his own game. Fisher Stevens also guest stars. Harry Lennix also stars.

FRIDAY 9 p.m. on PBS Bill Murray: The Mark Twain Prize Recorded at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., this special features a star-studded lineup of entertainers saluting actor and comedian Murray as he receives the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Among those appearing is Murray’s former “Saturday Night Live” castmate Jane Curtin, along with Steve Martin, Aziz Ansari, Bill

Hader, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, Sigourney Weaver and Roy Blount Jr.

SATURDAY 11:29 p.m. on NBC Saturday Night Live Melissa McCarthy has been no stranger to this program lately, having made several guest appearances as a certain White House press secretary — and expect her to reprise that role yet again as she returns as guest host of this new episode. It’s one of the show’s telecasts to be aired live in every time zone, so West Coast viewers will see what happens right when it unfolds on the East Coast.

Melissa McCarthy

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A yankee gets the perfect country music experience Tink returned from a trip to Los Angeles and was recounting a conversation between himself and a friend during lunch. (Many in Southern California continue to be amazed that Tink, a Yankee-bornturned-Southern-Californian has found his very happy place in the South.)

“Do you have to listen to country music all the time?” asked Tink’s friend in a tone that was a mixture of disbelief and sympathy.

“Did you tell him that you went to a country music concert where a fight broke out during a patriotic song?” I asked. Tink threw back his head and laughed heartily.

“No. I wish I had thought of that.”

It’s hasn’t been long since I took John Tinker of

to go backstage and meet Tracy Lawrence but the photo of that moment was forever ruined because Tink chose to wear the ugliest shirt possible. On purpose.

“Where did you get that shirt?” I asked.

Ronda “I was at a friend’s house and he was throwRich ing out some old shirts so I took them.” the New England proper That’s another story.

Tinkers to his first counTink sat in the audience try music concert. I am a and watched the blue collongtime fan of Tracy Law- lars and white collars mix, rence so when I found out the drunks shout out their he would be performing requests, and the cowboys close by, I bought tickets. tip their hats to the ladies Tink was out of town, who walked by. He shook shooting on location, so I his head in wonder and called to tell him. smiled with amusement.

“That’s fine. I’ll just be “How did I get here?” he glad to be back home with asked. “Never in a milyou. I’m happy to go.” lion years would I have It was quite an experithought…” ence for him. We even got At that show, the

promoter announced that hardcore country music songwriter/singer Jamey Johnson was scheduled for an upcoming concert.

“I love Jamey Johnson,” I exclaimed. “We’re coming back.” So, I bought tickets and that’s how we wound up in the midst of an audience of “Duck Dynasty” men and women who looked tough enough to out-hunt and out-drink any of the men.

It was a standing room only crowd which surprised me because I didn’t realize that many people knew his music. As evidenced that night, though, Johnson has a cult-like following. The audience knew every word to every song. Except Tink. He didn’t know one word to one song. But he enjoyed the show.

Johnson, a former Marine, asked everyone in the audience who had a phone with a flashlight to turn it on and stand in respect for our country’s military. We did and he began to sing one of the greatest country songs ever written (by Johnson, of course). It tells the story of a young man who is looking through black and white photos with his grandfather who says, “You should have seen it in color.”

Just as the song got to the part about a winter’s battle during World War II, Tink nudged me with his elbow and said, “Look! A fight’s breaking out!” This was big news to Tink. In the South, we fight you to your face. In Hollywood, they stab you in the back.

Dadgum. It was a beautiful, awe-inspiring moment

interrupted when two men nearby started exchanging words. There were three benches between them but one of the men took a flying leap to grab the mouthy guy, and suddenly it was like television wrestling. Really ruined the moment. But Johnson, who eyed it calmly from the stage, never stuttered or faltered. He coolly carried on. Just like the kind of Marine you’d want to have your back.

“I don’t know which I enjoyed better,” Tink said.

“The show or the fight.”

It may be a completely different life for Tink but it’s never boring.

Ronda Rich is the bestselling author of “What Southern Women Know.”

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Reap the rewards of doing low cost, high gain favors “Could you do me a favor?” It’s a common phrase, but it’s packed with meaning.

Most of us like to do favors. But we’re often uncomfortable asking for favors.

I had to ask a favor recently, from someone I didn’t know. It got me thinking about how asking and granting favors affects our brains.

I was shooting video courses for LinkedIn Learning. We’d chosen my wardrobe earlier in the week, but now, the jacket we’d planned for the second course didn’t work on camera. The shine threw off the lighting. All of my other jackets were back

Forget Perfect

Lisa McLeod at the hotel. We’d have to shut down the shoot for an hour for me to get another jacket.

But, I’d noticed a whole slew of great jackets in my dressing room. They belonged to another author also shooting videos. I didn’t know her, but she was an HR expert, and

looked nice, so I decided to ask a favor. I found her studio, explained the problem, and asked, “Can I please borrow a jacket for the day?”

She couldn’t have been more gracious. “Of course” she said, “I brought extras, take the blue one, it will look great on you.” She had about 10 jackets, so it was an easy favor for her to grant. But it meant the world to me, and an hour of set time to the team.

Afterward, we were laughing about it. She said, “I totally get it. Last time I was here, I almost ran out of jackets, I was panicked.

This time, I brought my whole closet, so I’m happy to help you.”

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This what I call the super easy, high gain favor. It was not a big deal to her, but everything for us. We should all look for opportunities to do these kinds of favors.

Not just because you want to be a good person, which I’m sure you do and are.

But also because you get three huge benefits: 1. Elevated mood When people sincerely thank you, the interaction creates a cascade of positive chemicals flowing in through your brain. Your body responds to their gratitude with serotonin, a feel good hormone that lifts your mood immediately.

2. Improved performance In addition to feeling

better, you also perform better. Professor Norihiro Sadato, from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, and who published a study on the phenomenon says, “To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded money. We’ve been able to find scientific proof that a person performs better when they receive a social reward after completing an exercise.”

It’s likely when my fellow author continued her afternoon shoot she did so with renewed energy and delight.

3. Increased social capital My fellow author didn’t

loan me a jacket hoping to garner anything from me. She was being genuinely nice. But now I’m invested in her. If she sends me a copy of her next book, I’m excited to discuss it. If she ever gets stranded in my city, I’ll happily help her. Doing easy favors increases your social capital in a completely authentic organic way.

Next time someone asks you for a favor, if it’s easy, say yes immediately. You’ll get more benefits than you realize.

Lisa McLeod is the author of the bestsellers “Selling with Noble Purpose” and “Leading with Noble Purpose.”

Lawrenceville resident named the naval Reserve Blue Jacket of Year

BY ZACH MILES Staff Intern

Getting inspiration from a former naval officer who happened to be her supervisor at Georgia Gwinnett College’s library, Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Ying Meng of Lawrenceville decided to serve her country. Due to her outstanding service, Meng was recently named Reserve Blue Jacket of the Year at the Navy Operational Support Center of Atlanta.

Meng, who is originally from China, is a member of the Surge Maintenance Atlanta unit since 2013

and serves with her husband. She was recognized for her “superior performance” throughout 2016 as she helps to protect our country.

While balancing being a full-time student working toward her bachelor’s degree in information technolYing Meng ogy and working as a student assistant at Georgia Gwinnett College’s library, Meng serves as the recall bill and assistant plan of the month

petty officer for her unit.

In addition to her Reserve Blue Jacket of the Year honor, Meng recently received the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal for her efforts toward the National Park Service, cleaning beaches, supporting Earth Day events and serving her church as a videographer and video editor.

After receiving her Blue Jacket of the Year award, she became even more motivated to serve even more in 2017. “It’s a reward for what I have achieved, and it encourages me to continue to work hard and be a better me,” Meng said.

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Gwinnett County Clean and Beautiful collected 30.2 tons of paper in just three hours during its Earth Day Recycling event last weekend.

“To say we are thrilled with the turnout and results would be a major understatement,” said Schelly Marlatt, executive director for Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful. “We nearly doubled the results of our last recycling event in November 2016.”

The local Keep American Beautiful affiliate co-hosted the Earth Day event with Gwinnett County Solid Waste and Recovered Materials Division at Coolray Field on April 22. The two organizations had a team of 80 volunteers ready and a steady line of cars streamed through the minor-league baseball stadium’s parking lot between 9 a.m. and noon.

The cars brought up to five copier boxes of paper to be shredded and recycled

Volunteers collected more than 30 tons of paper during Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful’s Earth Day event at Coolray Field on April 22. (Photo: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful)

free of charge.

“The paper collected was securely shredded on site and will be recycled for use in producing toilet paper, paper towels and more rather than cluttering up our neighbors’ homes or winding up in a landfill,” Marlatt said.

Local businesses and residents also took part in the event. The Gwinnett Braves and JW Mobile Shredding

also helped make the event a success.

“We are so proud to unite with a global community of 193 countries that celebrate Earth Day in their own variety of ways to show our love for the planet we call ‘home,’” Marlatt said.

For future events and volunteer opportunities with Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, visit www.gwinnettcb. org.

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‘University model’ may be answer to Christian dilemma Public schools in this country — no doubt taking their cue from society — are becoming increasingly inhospitable to Christians. That may be less true here in the affluent Atlanta suburbs, for now, but I fear it’s just a matter of time.

What the clueless educationists fail to grasp is that if they drive away the Christian families, with their strong moral values and old-fashioned work ethic, the public schools will lose some of their best, brightest and most success-oriented students. Test scores will inevitably plummet as disciplinary issues proliferate.

But that’s their problem. The problem for Christian parents is find-

Rob Jenkins ing a suitable alternative to a system that rejects their core values — one that actually educates their children without subjecting them to ridicule and leftist indoctrination.

The traditional alternative, private school, is simply out of reach financially for most hard-working families.

Home schooling is an at-

tractive option for many, but some parents simply aren’t in a position to home school. Others, understandably, worry that students might fall behind socially.

The answer to this dilemma may just be the “university model,” represented locally (for me) by the Dacula Classical Academy. I’m sure there are other fine university model schools in the area, but I was invited to visit DCA recently and took them up on their offer.

What I discovered was something I wish I’d known about 12 years ago, when my older kids were still in middle school. It’s a kind of hybrid model, combining the best aspects of

both private education and home schooling — at half the price (or less) of most traditional private schools.

At DCA, which is fully SACS-accredited, students meet for academic classes two days a week — hence the term “university model,” because it mirrors the two-day-aweek schedule common on college campuses.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students in grades one through 12 spend all day in a classroom setting with a qualified, professional teacher. Grades four and up change classes every hour, while younger students stay with the same teacher all day.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, students

work on assignments at home. Since teachers are instructed to give them about an hour of homework in each subject, those two days are also, basically, full school days.

Fridays are half-days, reserved for “special” classes like fine arts and physical education.

There are some drawbacks. For one, DCA does not offer intramural athletics, although of course students are free to participate in county recreational leagues.

Also, the at-home portion of the schedule — DCA students are actually registered with the state as homeschoolers — can be a challenge for families

where both parents work.

However, DCA works to keep tuition low so that, if possible, one parent can afford to stay home.

I no longer have any skin in this game, as all my kids are now (thankfully) finished with public school. But if I still had younger children, I would seriously consider the university model.

Rob Jenkins is a local college professor and freelance writer and the author of four books, including “Welcome to My Classroom” and “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@ yahoo.com.

restaurant scores Restaurant Address.................................................................................Score Costa Azul Mexican Seafood 1200 Rockbridge Road, Norcross ...........................................100 J. Christophers 3517 Braselton Highway, Dacula...............................................82 Kangbuk Restaurant 2790 Lawrenceville Suwanee Road, Suwanee......................100 770 Korean BBQ 80 Horizon Drive, Suwanee.......................................................75 Waffle House 5245 Stone Mountain Highway, Stone Mountain .....................95 El Torero Mexican Restaurant 1944 Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain..................................87 American Deli 4030 Lawrenceville Highway, Lilburn ........................................83 Best Wings 2522 Cruse Road, Lawrenceville ............................................100 Ottoogi Snack 3360 Satellite Blvd., Duluth ........................................................90 Thank U Chicken 3473 Old Norcross Road, Duluth ..............................................92 Do Re Mi Karaoke 2550 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth ...............................................89 El Huarache Veloz 6065 S. Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross .................................58 Dave and Busters 4000 Venture Drive, Duluth ........................................................88 Kings Cafe Restaurant 2055 Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross ...........................................93 Wendys 1935 Indian Trail Road, Norcross ..............................................87 Courtyard Marriott 1405 Mall of Georgia Blvd., Buford............................................92 The Onion Bay Cafe 5775 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross ..........................................96 Einstein Bros. Bagels 3675 Satellite Blvd., Duluth ........................................................87 Siamese Basil Thai Restaurant 6034 S. Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross .................................81 Moe’s Southwest Grill 3455 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Duluth....................................96 Bonefish Grill 1350 Scenic Highway, Snellville ................................................92

pet of the week

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

Virgo is an 8-month-old American Terrier mix.

She is a medium-sized girl who is filling into her adult body. Though she is a little older than some other puppies, she still has plenty of energy to play.

She just sits at the Georgia SPCA, wishing for her forever family to come and get her. She keeps getting looked over just because she has a stage 4 heart murmur. She can live a fairly normal life, she just needs daily medication and a relatively calm lifestyle.

If you are looking for a friendly addition to your family, come on over to the Georgia SPCA or call 678-765-2726.

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