Gwinnett Daily Post — November 4, 2016

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MAGIC AT THE MOVIES ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Trolls’ hit theaters • Weekend

Police ID body found on Snellville-area road

BY ERIKA WELLS

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News headlines have introduced the community to a former Duluth resident whose bullet-riddled body was found at the end of a Snellville-area road Wednesday.

But for those who knew him, Jabari Pettway, 23, was anything but a name-

less victim.

He was a constantly smiling, selfless and hardworking Jabari son, Pettway brother and friend. He was known for dressing to impress and doing what he could for his loved ones. That’s why

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they’re still reeling from the news.

Gwinnett police identified his body Thursday, a day after the discovery on Lenora Road near Lenora Church Road at about 8:43 a.m.

Pettway’s death was ruled a homicide shortly after, but detectives are still trying to determine the motive, spokesman Cpl. Deon Washington said. Police

are seeking information from the public.

The victim’s mother, Casandra Pettway-Mosley, hopes her youngest son — nicknamed Bari Baby — wasn’t killed over material things. She said his body was located without his belongings. She wonders what his last words were and how he felt, especially since he stayed out of trouble and mostly spent

time with relatives.

“Did he suffer? Was there a struggle?” his mother said. “If he was robbed, I’m sure he looked (the suspect) in the eye … and he would’ve said, ‘Just take everything I have.’”

A worker discovered Pettway’s body lying face up in a grassy shoulder in front of a private gated driveway to a pasture.

“The worker tried to get

the male’s attention, but he did not respond,” spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Pihera said.

When Gwinnett fire officials arrived, they pronounced Pettway dead.

The area is usually quiet but is a hangout for passersby to engage in illegal activity, said a neighbor who has lived farther down

See VICTIM, Page 9A

‘He’s a go-to guy’

Maxwell teacher wins national honor for aerospace education

BY KEITH FARNER keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com

Central alum writes, stars in long-awaited film ‘The Dissection of Thanksgiving’

Central Gwinnett grad Troy Hall wrote and stars in the independent film “A Dissection of Thanksgiving.”

(Special Photo)

LAWRENCEVILLE — To learn what kind of teacher Kenneth Phelps is, text messages from former students tell part of the story.

Another part is a wall of fame in his classroom where he freely discusses alumni and where they’re MORE ONLINE currently in Visit gwinnettdailypost.com school, or the for a photo gallery. latest certification earned.

And yet another take comes from a current student.

“He’s calm and chill, but you still learn,” senior Devin Alford said. “It’s not a pointless course. You’re going to use this in aviation, or whatever you decide to do.”

See AWARD, Page 7A

BY JON GALLO

and-answer session with executive producer Ryan Seger following the film. “But what It took a dozen years, but happens when it’s the family Troy Hall said it was worth breaking apart?” it.

“The Dissection of Hall, a 1993 graduate of Thanksgiving,” a 97-minute Central Gwinnett High who comedy that blends humor grew up in Lawrenceville, with the themes of love, will screen his long-awaited family and financial hardship independent film, “The Dis- and perseverance, is the brain section of Thanksgiving,” child of Hall and his friend a comedy with universal Kevin Logie, who wrote the themes, at the Plaza Theater screenplay 12 years ago. The in Atlanta on Saturday night duo and director and friend at 6:45. Tickets are $12.

Rafael Monserrate endured “At its core, it’s a film plenty of rejection, invesabout family, and when you tors pulling funding and the are faced with any kind of U.S. housing market crisis tragic situation, the one thing to make their critically acmost people can rely on is claimed film a reality. that they can fall back on “Just when you think their family,” said Hall, who you’ve seen everything a will participate in a question- movie can offer, along comes Staff Correspondent

IF YOU GO What: ‘The Dissection of Thanksgiving,’ a movie written by Central Gwinnett grad Troy Hall When: Premiere is Saturday, 6:45 p.m.

Where: Plaza Theater, Atlanta More info: www.thedissectionofthanksgiving. com

‘The Dissection of Thanksgiving.’ You laugh. You cry.

It’s a complex, wonderfully written, well-defined picture of how we decide to make the decisions we make,” Hollywood.com wrote of the film, which will be available for download on iTunes when it’s screened in Atlanta.

“It’s not just about divorce.

It’s about attraction, relationships in family, the weirdness we see in our brothers and sisters and coming to terms with the decisions we make. This is a must-see film. Get it. Sit back. Relax and pick and choose the characters that remind you most of someone in your family.”

Hall, who turns 42 next week, is no stranger to the entertainment business. He began his career with roles in “Another World” (19631999), the comedic fantasy “The Family Man” (2000) with Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and “Two Against Time” (CBS, 2001-02).

See FILM, Page 9A

Maxwell High School of Technology aviation teacher Kenneth Phelps works with senior Lesly Romero on a flight simulation program in class on Thursday. Phelps recently was awarded the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year honor. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

Job fair for military vets on Thursday FROM STAFF REPORTS

Central Gwinnett grad Troy Hall, second from left, wrote and stars in the independent film “A Dissection of Thanksgiving”. From left are Jay O. Sanders, Hall, Kathleen Quinlan and Deshja Driggs-Hall. (Special Photo)

About 30 employers will participate in the Veterans Services Job Fair event, which is open to all job seekers, in Lawrenceville on Thursday.

The Georgia Department of Labor and Gwinnett Technical College will sponsor the event, which will take place in Building 700 at Gwinnett Tech, 5150 Sugarloaf Parkway.

Veterans will be admitted at 11:30 a.m., and all other job seekers can enter at noon. The job fair will run until 3 p.m., and labor department staff will be available for assistance.

Recruiting employers will include Areas, Caterpillar, Charter Communi-

See JOB FAIR, Page 9A

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New Cream Works for Men in a Way Sex Pills Can’t!

New invention triples sensation and gives overwhelming pleasure to those who use it.

You may have a different problem than you think.

Specialist, Dr. James L. Yeager’s invention helps men suffering from RPS. Now you can double, even triple your penile feeling and sensation. The result?

MIND-BLOWING SEXUAL SENSATION! Steven Wuzubia Health Correspondent Clearwater, Florida – Think about it. No mater what drugs you take; If you don’t have enough “feeling” in your penis, it’s impossible to get an erection. The formula for great sex is simple. The more penile feeling, the more aroused you get, which provokes a firm and lasting erection and a full orgasm whenever you want.

For years, men begged Dr. Yeager for a solution that would work to end lack of penile sensitivity. But now, his new cream promises to give you what no other pill can… incredible sensation, even from the slightest touch. It’s fixing erection problems a whole new way.

The new cream makes penile sensitivity double, even triple. So even those that have little to no feeling at all in the penis suddenly experience mind blowing sex again! “Even men without E.D. problems are buying up more than we can produce”, says Dr. Yeager.

“Many men do not feel comfortable telling even their doctor about trouble with erections, and a lack of feeling and pleasure during intercourse.”

“They are too ashamed that they cant ‘make it work’ in bed. And if this is your problem, you’re not alone.”

These men suffer from Reduced Penile Sensitivity (RPS). This can cause loss of confidence, frustration, even depression and anxiety.

Let’s face it. The inability or long wait to reach orgasm is bad enough. But failure to achieve a firm erection is devastating! It’s one of the leading causes of relationship problems. And avoiding sex often leads to a failed marriage. It is a horrible problem.

Dr. Yeager wasn’t about to ignore the suffering of his patients. He wanted to make a mark and decided to do something about it.

He spent long sleepless nights locked up in his lab ... researching every study he could get his hands on regarding penis sensitivity and came up with a cream that changed sexual medicine as we know it.

He put special natural ingredients into a cream for men and the results have been remarkable. Men who use this cream report much more penile feeling, arousal, sensitivity and pleasure from their sexual intercourse.

They have less or no more difficulty in stimulating the penis, getting and keeping a hard erection, and achieving orgasm at the right time.

ED pills like Viagra, Cialis and natural pills work for many men, but men with RPS end up taking more than directed in the hope of increasing their penile sensitivity, and even then they often don’t work good enough.

WHY YOU NEED IT Reduced Penile Sensitivity (RPS) is commonly associated with aging, diabetes, circumcision, certain surgeries and prescription drugs.

RPS is estimated to strike over 500 million men on a worldwide basis. Dr. Yeager states “It’s not a man’s fault. They did nothing wrong. They are not any less of a man. And now, men don’t have to suffer any longer.”

HOW IT WORKS The name of the cream Dr. Yeager invented is SENSUM+®. Men rub the cream on their penis twice daily for the first two weeks then once a day for eight additional weeks. There is a nice cinnamon smell and no residues.

The main ingredient, natural Cinnamaldehyde, activates the TRPA1 receptor (IC50= 9.5μM). This increases the reaction of sensory neurons to stimulus such as warmth, cold and touch.

Dr. James L. Yeager This activation results in more sensitivity of the penis and a pleasurable sensation.

The nutrients in this cream help you get and keep a hard erection very easy, and also to climax when you want to.

For example, Joe Romas, 52, from Oakland, was not feeling any penile sensation during sex and it took too long to ejaculate because of this. And the lack of feeling made sex unpleasurable.

Within one week after he started applying SENSUM+® cream, he reported, “I now have my old feeling and pleasure back. Sex is fun again and feels great. My wife and I are much happier now.”

“A REAL MARRIAGE-CHANGER!” “This has caused our sex life to be like we are teenagers again! My wife and I are both much happier and more satisfied.

A real life-changer! I am so glad for Dr. Yeager’s invention to fix this problem with no dangerous prescription drugs.”

- Robert H., West Palm Beach, FL

North and central Georgia are currently in a drought, and no significant rain is in the forecast.

Our lawns and gardens are suffering and must be assisted with supplemental water to keep them healthy and attractive.

Natural areas along the roadsides and elsewhere appear quite dry. How serious is the drought and how can we deal with it?

Since Aug. 1, our area has received only six inches of rain as opposed to the same period last year when we received 13 inches. Severe to extreme drought conditions exist in the Gwinnett County area, with some northwestern parts of the state classified as exceptional, the most serious category.

Haralson County in West Georgia and the City of Blairsville in the northern section of the state have issued complete outdoor watering bans due to diminished quantities of water supplies.

Most of the other counties and cities in North Georgia (including Gwinnett and surrounding areas) are under Drought Level Response 1 issues by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Daily watering is allowed between 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. for lawns, trees, shrubs, garden flowers and other plants by the use of automated irrigation systems, lawn sprinklers and hand watering. Newly installed plant material can be watered anytime of the day for the first 30 days. Vegetable gardens

to ensure survival. Beds of annuals and vegetable gardens should receive enough water to keep them in optimal condition.

When applying the water, make sure it reaches the base of the plants and keep it off the foliage as much as possible. Using a two to four-inch layer of organic mulch, such Tim Daly as pine straw, pine bark or cypress mulch, will keep water in the soil and are exempt and can be reduce the need for waterwatered at any time. ing.

What are some ways The drought does not homeowners can miniappear to be letting up mize the impact of the anytime soon. The foredrought on their landscapes? Established lawn cast for the next 10 days has little rain in it. Even grasses can tolerate the with the dry conditions, dry conditions by going you can still maintain dormant. Since we are a healthy and attractive in the fall, warm season grasses, such as Bermuda home landscape.

Lawns are beautiful but and zoysia, are already doing so as a result of the require a lot of work to cooler weather and shorter keep up and can become a particular challenge in the days and can survive shade. Gwinnett County without watering. If you Extension is offering a have overseeded your class on alternatives to tall fescue or if sod has lawns, such as the use of been installed in the last ground covers like liriope. few months, these areas It will be held on Nov. 14 should be irrigated at from noon to 1 p.m. in the least a couple of times a week. Make sure the lawn second-floor conference room of the Gwinnett receives enough water to County Annex Buildpenetrate deeply into the ing located at 750 South root zone.

Perry St., Lawrenceville, For established trees and shrubs, supplemental GA 30046. The class is water is not crucial unless free, but please register by contacting the Extension the plants are showing symptoms of water stress. office.

Timothy Daly is a Most have deep-growing roots and can tolerate the County Extension Agent with the University of dry conditions. As the Georgia Cooperative Exweather begins to cool, tension, Gwinnett County. their need for water will He can be reached at be less. Newly installed 678-377-4011 or tdaly@ plant material will need to be watered periodically uga.edu.

Gardening in Gwinnett

“I have full feeling and sensitivity back in my penis. This cream has been a Godsend for me,” raves Otto Garangton of Seattle.

SENSITIVITY AND SATISFACTION DOUBLED, TRIPLED Clinical studies prove SENSUM+® ends these common male sexual problems fast and effectively. The result of two clinical studies on men, both circumcised and not, show SENSUM+® more than doubled penis sensitivity and more than tripled sexual satisfaction. (By the way, their partner’s sexual satisfaction also tripled.)

PRIVACY GUARANTEED SENSUM+® is patent-pending. The product is discretely shipped in a plain unmarked package so privacy and confidentiality is assured. It is for both circumcised and non-circumcised men. No side effects or medicine interactions have been reported.

Readers can now join thousands of other men who have ended their sexual issues and enjoy their sex life again like back when they were much younger. “Its almost like a miracle for men who want to improve their penis feeling and performance in bed” says Dr. Yeager.

The sooner you start using this cream, the sooner you can have more feeling in your penis again to get and keep a hard erection and enjoy sex more than ever.

SENSUM+® is NOT sold in stores. No prescription or doctor visit is required.

HOW TO GET SENSUM+® IN GEORGIA This is the first official public release of SENSUM+® in Georgia. In order to get the word out about SENSUM+®, the manufacturer, Innovus Pharmaceuticals is offering special introductory discounts to all Georgia residents.

A special phone hotline has been set up to take advantage of deep discounts during this ordering opportunity. Special discounts will be available starting today at 7:00am. The discounts will automatically be applied to all Georgia callers. The Special TOLL-FREE Hotline number is 1-800-902-5459 and will be open 24-hours a day.

Only a limited supply of SENSUM+® is currently available in your region.

Consumers who miss out on our current product inventory will have to wait until more become available. But this could take weeks. The maker advises your best chance is to call 1-800-902-5459 early.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN BY THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS BASED UPON AVERAGES. MODELS ARE USED IN ALL PHOTOS TO PROTECT PRIVACY. 26-1

Minimize drought’s effect on your home landscape

The Reverend Juan Herrera, far right, is the new pastor at Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church in Hoschton. He and his family will move to the area, and he will begin leading worship service Nov. 27. (Photo: Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church)

Hamilton Mill Presbyterian in Hoschton gets new pastor FROM STAFF REPORTS After a long search, Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church announced its new pastor is the Rev. Juan Herrera.

Herrera will lead his first Sunday worship service at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 27, according to a church

press release.

He was the associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Saint Petersburg, Fla. Herrera and his family will relocate to the Hoschton area this month.

The pastor earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Divinity

from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Church spokesperson Pat Weaver said the community is invited to attend worship services each Sunday at 5152 Braselton Highway in Hoschton.

For more information, visit www.hamiltonmillpc. com or call 678-714-3344.

Kroger hosting job fair to fill more than 1K positions Nov. 9 FROM STAFF REPORTS

Nov. 7. Applicants may use mobile devices to apKroger will host an ply online.

Atlanta division-wide job In 2011, the Veteran fair for veterans and their Jobs Mission was crefamily members to fill ated as an effort to bring over 1,000 permanent po- together companies comsitions at its 188 stores in mitted to hiring U.S. miliGeorgia, Eastern Alabama tary veterans. For more and South Carolina. information, visit www.

The one-day event will jobsmission.com. take place on Nov. 9 from “The Kroger Atlanta 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Those division is dedicated to who wish to attend should (contributing) to the hirfill out an application at ing of more than 100,000 www.jobs.kroger.com by transitioning service

members and military veterans by 2020 with the Veterans Jobs Mission,” said Glynn Jenkins, a spokesperson for Kroger’s Atlanta division.

“We look forward to hiring many hard-working veterans and their family members as associates who go above and beyond to create an exceptional shopping experience for our customers.”

To find the nearest store, visit www.kroger.com.

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No meds free from side effects DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 66-year-old senior in relatively good health.

I have occasional body aches after workout activity and sometimes just agerelated stiffness. I usually take one Advil to get me through the day or to help me sleep. I do this maybe three times a week.

I am concerned about detrimental side effects, such as damage to the stomach lining or liver damage, and I just read about Advil potentially causing some dizziness. (I do occasionally get mildly dizzy after floor exercises).

Could you please enumerate a few painkiller medications that are more benign and do not cause stomach irritation or other detrimental side effects?

— F.B. ANSWER: Unfortunately, there are no medicines (prescription, over-the-counter or supplements) that are free from the possibility of side effects. What works well for one person may not work or might cause terrible side effects for another, so it’s important to know the choices.

The oldest option, still used by many, is aspirin.

Aspirin works fine for most people and doesn’t cause them problems.

However, aspirin is probably the most likely to have side effects, and in high doses can be quite toxic. It is the most likely to cause bleeding, has the highest risk for stomach damage, can affect the acid-base balance of the body and should not be used in children with fever, due to the risk of Reye’s syndrome. I seldom recommend aspirin for treatment of mild pain.

There are over 20 different nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — called NSAIDs, including ibuprofen (Advil, Nuprin and many others) and naproxen (Naprosyn, Aleve and many others). These have less bleeding risk than aspirin (but still have some), irritate the stomach less (but can still cause ulcers) and with long-term use, can cause kidney damage.

They also increase heart risk, especially in people who already have heart blockages or those who are at high risk. Dizziness isn’t a common side effect, but is certainly reported. On the other hand, with 20,000 tons of ibuprofen produced each year, there are many rare side effects reported.

In my experience, most people do well with these, but taking lower doses for shorter times reduces side effect risk. People who need to be on them longterm should be monitored for development of side effects.

The COX-2 inhibitors, such as celecoxib (Celebrex), are a subset of NSAIDs with a lower risk of stomach problems, and are about as effective at pain relief.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is probably the safest option, but it also can cause problems. Very high doses can cause severe liver disease. Chronic use can lead to kidney disease in some people. Doses need to be adjusted in people who regularly use alcohol.

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In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began when militants loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini took 66 American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli gunman.

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Depressed person wonders, is therapy worth it?

DEAR Amy: I am 40 and have dealt with depression my whole life.

Depression runs in my family (father’s side). My father is an alcoholic. He was emotionally, verbally and physically abusive.

He also sexually abused one of my sisters and another female family member.

He and my mother are still married. I adore my mother, even though she has chosen to stay with him. So, being estranged from him means that I have very little contact with my mother, which is heartbreaking. I just know that after she passes I’m going to hate myself for not making more of an effort to keep in touch with her.

I live in that gray world of depression. I hate myself. I have an internal mantra that is basically me telling myself how much I hate myself. The only shining spot in my life is my husband. I love him very much, and he returns that love to me.

I am also somewhat dependent on alcohol. I don’t binge drink but I drink to be social, and also when I’m alone. It calls to me and I crave it.

I have never seen a therapist or counselor.

However, I have, in the past, been on antidepressants. I stopped taking them because I really didn’t think they helped (we tried several different medicines).

I haven’t been on antidepressants for more than 10 years.

Ask Amy

Amy Dickinson My insurance covers 12 visits a year to a therapist.

Would that be worth it?

Would 12 visits a year really help me?

— In Pain DEAR IN PAIN: Medications have changed over the last 10 years.

Please revisit this as a way to medically manage your depression, which could make it easier to deal with your other significant and important issues.

Therapy is worth it.

Your therapist can help you breach the gap between appointments by giving you reading materials and exercises to re-program that tape in your head. A therapist can also suggest nonmedical ways for you to cope with your depression. You are obviously extremely self-aware. A therapist can help you to use your self-awareness to gain more insight into ways to feel better.

I would highly recommend you attend a group for Adult Children of Alcoholics (adultchildren. org). Finding fellowship with others who have faced similar childhood challenges could help.

I hope you understand that your father’s depression and drinking have influenced your depression and drinking. Alcohol is a depressant. Your selfmedication is actually making your depression worse.

You can wrestle with this beast, and I want to encourage you to get professional help right away.

You won’t feel instantly better, and you may continue to struggle with this, but therapy will help.

DEAR Amy: My neighbor just buried her second husband.

The second husband was about two weeks gone and my neighbor didn’t know I was in the garage listening to her try to pick up my hubby as he was around the other side of the building.

I told him what she was doing.

Not that I’ve ever talked to this woman, but how does one stay comfortable as a neighbor after that?

— Perplexed in Canada DEAR PERPlExED: Perhaps if you bothered to speak to this woman, expressing your condolences and getting to know her, you wouldn’t feel threatened when she speaks to your husband in the driveway.

In addition to you just deciding to be a decent person, the closer you are to your neighbor, the less likely she would be to try to snag your husband to be her Husband No. 3.

DEAR Amy: I had to write to thank you

for your response to “Concerned Grandma,” who was worried that her granddaughters had not been notified that their birth was the result of egg donation. Thank you for stating that the twins’ “real mother” is the mother who is raising, loving and taking care of them.

I am a grown adoptee, and many times during my early life people asked me, “Don’t you want to find your ‘real mom’?” I replied with the same answer you gave the Concerned Grandma.

However, 12 years ago, when I was 56, I needed to locate my birth mother to discover my health history. After an on-again/ off-again relationship, I am still convinced that my real mother is the woman who raised me, and sadly died when I was only 15.

— Libby J. Atwater DEAR lIbby: I get a little riled when people refer to biological family as somehow more “real” than the family that raises you. All the same, these girls should be told the truth about their conception.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Amy Dickinson, c/o Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Drive, Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.

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Take your knowledge and experience and make them work for you.

A positive change in your professional goals and expectations will lead to greater stability. You will be granted favors, and an unexpected opportunity will help you make a decision you’ve been pondering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Make plans, set up interviews and delve into something that excites you. If you offer creative suggestions, you’ll persuade someone special to get involved in an important project.

Don’t let fear hold you back.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — An emotional matter will affect your ability to take care of your responsibilities.

If you use your imagination, you will come up with a solution that will help get you back on track.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Strong emotions will surface, but your gut feeling will be on target. Follow your instincts and do whatever you must to secure your position and brighten your prospects.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Give your honest opinion or don’t say anything at all. Your reputation will depend on how honest you are.

Personal change should be your priority. If you feel good, you will do even better.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Investigate your options and negotiate to get what you want. Take care of your health. A rigorous routine and proper diet will get you into tip-top shape.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Don’t let anyone or anything cause you stress or anxiety. Stay focused on what you do best, and spend time with someone supportive. Personal pampering will do you good.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Sharing information with a good friend will lead to an interesting venture. Personal changes should be made for the right reasons, not just in order to impress someone.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Don’t lend or borrow money or possessions. An offer made to you will have unfavorable strings attached. Don’t settle for less than you are worth or for anything that is not what you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — If you express your interest in others’ activities, you will gain insight into new possibilities. Exchange information and consider forming a partnership with someone heading in a similar direction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Broaden your horizons. Make changes to your lifestyle or profession. Offering a service or personal skill in a different capacity will lead to new possibilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Communication will be your forte. Don’t back away from trouble when you can use your insight to find workable solutions. You can’t make everyone happy, but you can make a difference.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Avoid arguments; it will be impossible to win them today. Take a time-out to work on your own problems instead of getting involved in someone else’s business.

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Drug Companies Fear Release Of New $2 Sex Pill For Older Men Men in clinical trial see huge boost in desire, strength of erections, and sexual activity without side effects.

NEW YORK - It’s hard to believe that in America today an affordable pill that could improve the sex lives of millions of men is in danger of being yanked from the shelves.

And it’s just because big drug companies fear for their profits.

The pharmaceutical industry is desperately trying to stop shipments of the remarkable new “JackedUp” pill.

Big Pharma is worried because men are reporting increased sex drive, stronger erections and more stamina - all without the side-effects and $40-per-pill price tag associated with drugs like Viagra.

Clinical results show men feel these benefits within just a few weeks of taking JackedUp’s active ingredient.

The pill, made for men over 50, was released early last month. Despite Big Pharma’s efforts, sales have already exceeded expectations.

North Georgia Modurail Club member Caleb Samples adjusts one of the group’s model trains during last year’s Model Railroad Days at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth. This year’s Model Railroad Days will be held Saturday and Sunday. (File Photos)

Big Pharma Worried: Older men are having better sex after taking the newly released $2 pill called JackedUp. Clinical trials show active ingredient triggers surge in desire, strength of erections, and sexual activity in older men.

The testing was done on men 40 – 65 years old, and the results were remarkable. The men who took the active ingredient in JackedUp reported major improvements in their sex lives. Their ability to get and keep erections went up by over 200%. Libido and sex drive surged. Even staying power and stamina during sex more than doubled!

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“If you’re over 50 and suffering from low sex drive, decreased stamina and inability to perform, low testosterone is the biggest factor. Drug companies do NOT want men to know about this affordable new pill…”

Exciting Benefits There are very good reasons why sales are booming and drug companies want it gone.

Apart from costing just two dollars per daily dose, the clinical results confirm JackedUp’s active ingredient is very impressive.

It greatly boosts a man’s ability to get and keep erections.

Stamina during sex also improves.

The product also has a unique ability to help men feel more passion, desire, and sex drive.

These impressive benefits come from boosting testosterone levels by up to a whopping 193%.

Doctors are astounded by its effects.

Why do drug companies want this pill stopped?

Since the “JackedUp” pill is natural, drug companies can’t patent it (like they did with Viagra) and make big profits. Plus, if you’re over 50 and suffering from low sex drive, decreased stamina and inability to perform, low testosterone is the biggest factor. If you can safely boost your testosterone, you won’t need their expensive pills.

That’s the very reason big business is trying to have it pulled from the shelves.

development, Dave McNeill, said the big drug companies weren’t worried at first. “They didn’t care because the active ingredient can take a few weeks before many men really feel the benefits. But these awesome clinical trials really got their attention.

They’re learning A LOT of men will wait a few weeks if it means avoiding negative side effects and saving money.”

How It Works The “JackedUp” pill works by helping older men produce more testosterone. It doesn’t force dangerous fake testosterone into your body like injections do.

Instead, it works with your body to produce testosterone naturally.

And the results have been extraordinary. It’s like your body reboots itself to feel like it did in the prime of your life.

Initial Users Are Thrilled…And Worried “JackedUp has been awesome for my sex drive and performance!

I’m worried it may not be available in the future.

The idea that it may be taken away just to secure some big drug company’s profits is very frustrating.”

- Rob H., 49 years old, Colorado Springs, CO

Strong Clinical Results Worry Big Pharma

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Recent clinical trials on JackedUp’s active ingredient have made the drug companies more desperate. The trial results were published in major medical journals, and doctors are now recommending JackedUp to patients.

“My wife and I were both sexually vibrant until I had prostate cancer. After my surgery we tried everything my doctor recommended but nothing worked. Within a few weeks of taking JackedUp, everything has been functioning beautifully and we’ve been riding high ever since!”

- Ken S., 78 years old, Phoenix, AZ

Doctors Speak Out Drug are also

companies concerned

that doctors are now recommending JackedUp. The active ingredient has strong clinical results and lacks the side effects seen in current drugs on the market. This makes it an easy option for doctors to suggest.

Dr. Laguna-Bedia, a specialist in internal medicine says, “A lot of men think their lack of interest and inability to perform are simply parts of aging. This is just not true. JackedUp can help these men regain a healthy appetite for sex and the physical ability to perform.”

“JackedUp works by boosting key male hormones without side effects. The benefits of these hormones to sexual health are well known, but they actually do more than that. Men also report more energy, less body fat and higher motivation,” said Dr. G. Pereira, a renowned surgeon in Florida.

Dr. Jacob Moss notes, “I recommend JackedUp if you’re struggling with getting and keeping erections or low libido.

It’s also a great option for men who want to last longer and have more control over when they orgasm.”

Special Opportunity for Our Readers Drug companies are fighting hard to get rid of this product.

This is making inventory disappear fast. Thankfully, a special discounted supply has been reserved for Gwinnett Daily Post readers. But only for those who call within the next 48 hours.

This is the best opportunity to try JackedUp risk-free with their 100% results guarantee.

A Regional Order Hotline has been set up for local readers to call. This gives all men an equal chance to try JackedUp. Starting at 6:00 am today the order hotline will be open for the next 48 hours. All you have to do is call TOLL FREE 1-800-811-3093 and the company will do the rest.

Due to the possibility of JackedUp being pulled from the shelf, phone lines are often busy.

If you call and do not immediately get through, please be patient and call back. Current supplies of JackedUp are limited, and callers that don’t get through to the order hotline within the next 48 hours will be forced to wait for more inventory to be produced. This can take as long as 6 weeks.

THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. ALL DOCTORS MENTIONED ARE REMUNERATED FOR THEIR SERVICES. ALL CLINICAL STUDIES ON JACKEDUP’S ACTIVE INGREDIENT WERE INDEPENDENTLY CONDUCTED AND WERE NOT SPONSORED BY THE MAKERS OF JACKEDUP.

Museum in Duluth to host annual model train event

By Curt yeomans

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Some little trains will be big attractions at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth this weekend.

The museum is set to host its annual Model Railroad Days with the National Model Railroad Association and the North Georgia Modurail Club on Saturday and Sunday.

The event brings dozens of model train owners together with their elaborate sets to show off for museum visitors and other model train enthusiasts.

Touted as a “two-day extravaganza of model trains,” the event has had sets that took up half of a show room and featured tracks that spiraled around and went through tunnels in past years.

A model of a modern-day freight train chugs its way through a set created by the North Georgia Modurail Club during last year’s Model Railroad Days at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth. This year’s Model Railroad Days will be held Saturday and Sunday.

There have also been sets that included recreations of small town downtowns or big train stations and trolley cars.

The museum also has several real locomotive cars on site for visitors to check out in between watching toy trains whip

around small scale tracks.

The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. It is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens over 65 and $7 for children ages 2 to 12.

New GaBOE rule eliminates some testing requirements

By Keith Farner keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

The Georgia Board of Education on Thursday followed through on dropping a testing piece for students in many dual enrollment courses.

The issue was first raised in the most recent legislative session with the passage of Senate Bill 364 sponsored by Lindsey Tippins, R-Marietta.

In its action, the GaBOE approved State School Superintendent Richard Woods’ recommendation to eliminate end of course tests for students in many dual enrollment courses, provided those students pass the course and receive college credit.

With the exception of ninth-grade Literature and Composition, Algebra I, coordinate algebra and biology, students are now

exempt from taking the Georgia Milestones endof-course test for a core subject course if they earn a post-secondary credit in that course through dual enrollment.

The new testing rule eliminates testing requirements in third, fourth, sixth and seventh grades in science and social studies. It also addresses formative assessments in reading and math in first and second grades.

This language refers to diagnostic assessments that help teachers assess students’ progress, not end-of-the-year tests.

Students must take the EOC in ninth-grade Literature and Composition, Algebra I or coordinate algebra, and biology because of federal laws that require tests in math, English language arts/reading and science at least once in high school. All

other high school EOCs can now be exempted for students in corresponding dual enrollment courses.

“We have consistently heard from parents, educators, and students about the issues associated with requiring an end-of-course assessment for a college course, and we firmly agreed that a solution was needed,” Woods said.

“We are confident that students receiving postsecondary credit from Georgia’s institutions of higher education have met and exceeded the requirements set forth in a high school course. Providing the opportunity to exempt the EOC in the majority of cases where students are receiving college credit is another step toward responsible accountability and a further reduction of the volume of assessment required of Georgia’s schools and students.”

Gwinnett libraries receive grant for community gardening effort By muntah rahman

County’s libraries has been earmarked by system officials to cover the cost of The Institute of Museum setting up a “Homegrown and Library Sciences has Gwinnett” community awarded a $19,009 Sparks! gardening initiative at each Ignition Grant for Librarof its 15 branches. ies to the Gwinnett County “Gwinnett County PubPublic Library System lic Library is pleased to be to pay for a unique way awarded this IMLS grant to help the community which will strengthen and and teach patrons about enhance our educational science and technology, initiatives and outreach,” officials announced on Gwinnett County library Thursday. system Executive DirecThe grants are set up tor Charles Pace said in a within the IMLS National statement.

Leadership Grants for Gwinnett library ofLibraries program as a ficials announced the way to support the test gardens are a way to teach and evaluation of innovapatrons about STEM-relattive and groundbreaking ed fields while also providapproaches to library ing a fresh produce source operations and services. for local food banks.

The money to Gwinnett Library officials plan to

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get experimental with the effort by using aeroponic Tower Gardens, which they said are designed to save space.

“Local children will be able to learn about how food is grown as well as sustainable agricultural practices,” Pace said. “In addition, we plan on donating any surplus generated to local food pantries as part of a strategy to increase food security in our community.”

Officials said they expect the equipment installation and staff training needed for the project will take place over several upcoming weeks. They added that once that is finished, they plan to begin gardenrelated programming.

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A reminder of the stakes

WASHINGTON — This is no ordinary election. Time for a reminder of what’s at stake: Climate policy and the clean-energy economy: For anyone who accepts the scientific consensus that global warming poses a clear and present danger, there is only one choice.

Hillary Clinton will continue along the path laid out by President Obama and other world leaders. Donald Trump has claimed, ridiculously, that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.

For the first time, the three nations most responsible for spewing heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — China, the United States and India — have all formally agreed to curb emissions. The landmark Paris agreement is the biggest and most important step taken to date. Clinton would honor the accord; Trump would renounce it on his first day in office.

The rest of the world is moving rapidly toward renewable sources of energy, which recently surpassed coal as the largest global source Eugene of power-generating capacity. According to Robinson the International Energy Agency, last year an estimated 500,000 solar panels were installed worldwide every day. Clinton would encourage the growth of the clean-energy sector, which has the potential to create millions of jobs. Trump promises a renaissance of fossil fuels — mining more coal, pumping more oil — even though the electric-power industry is moving on.

The Western alliance: Since the end of World War II, NATO has been the globe’s most important military alliance, a bulwark against Soviet — now Russian — expansionism and a source of peace and prosperity. It is no accident that the United States and Europe are the world’s biggest economic powers.

Clinton may be a bit hawkish for some tastes, but she is firmly committed to the NATO security framework. Trump describes NATO as if it were a protection racket.

Trump has repeatedly and consistently expressed a desire for an alliance with Russia, even after it seized Crimea from Ukraine and intervened to save the murderous regime of dictator Bashar Assad in Syria. Trump often voices his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin — who, according to U.S. intelligence analysts, has deployed an army of internet hackers against the Democratic Party in a shocking and unprecedented attempt to meddle in our election. Trump has done nothing to refute Clinton’s claim that he would be Putin’s “puppet” in the White House.

Immigration reform: An estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live here, most of them from Mexico and Central America. Clinton supports commonsense immigration reform that would secure the southern border, modernize our system of legal immigration and bring the undocumented out of the shadows by giving them legal status and a path toward citizenship. Trump does not.

Trump launched his campaign by saying of Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

And some, I assume, are good people.” He has called for building a physical wall along the entire border with Mexico, and absurdly claimed that Mexico would somehow pay for it. And he pledges to deport all of the undocumented, in what would amount to a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing. Doing so would require a gargantuan and intrusive deportation force the likes of which this country has never imagined, let alone witnessed.

The social fabric: The country is undergoing a process of inexorable demographic change. By 2044, if not sooner, according to the Census Bureau, there will be no racial or ethnic majority; non-Hispanic whites, in other words, will be less than 50 percent of the population, becoming a minority just like every other group. This is already the case in California, Texas, New Mexico and Hawaii; and nationwide among children under 5.

Clinton understands and embraces these changes. Trump, by contrast, has become the champion of those whites who, like King Canute, would hold back the sea. It is no accident that he is avidly supported by the likes of David Duke, the unabashed white nationalist, Holocaust denier and former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. When Trump says “Make America Great Again,” many minorities hear “Make America White Again.”

Fiscal sanity: Clinton proposes new spending — including to improve the Affordable Care Act — that would increase the national debt by $250 billion over the next decade, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Trump’s combination of huge tax cuts and increased spending, however, would balloon the debt by a crushing $10 trillion over the same period.

I could go on, but you get the point. Donald Trump gravely threatens our future. He must be stopped.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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Bracing for final days of testy election These are not the best of times when it comes to politics. Nobody seems to be happy with either candidate with an eye on the presidency.

The castigation factor has never been more intense than it seems to have been in this year’s presidential campaign, but if you reflect back, you likely agree, we have elected some rather unsavory characters since ole George retired to his farm at Mount Vernon, where his most productive cash crop came from distilling rye whiskey.

There is a book with all the inauguration speeches that reflects that historically the men who have been elected to hold residency in the White House make beautiful speeches. Especially at the outset.

Sometimes there is head-turning verbiage sounding forth.

They touch on the most basic things that are important to Americans. They provide insight into what they want for our country, espousing the most uplifting preachments.

Then they get elected and that unifying speech on a blustery Washington January day will be given high marks, but more often than not, when retirement comes about and they pack up to move out of the White House, they depart

Loran Smith without glowing approval ratings.

Some of that is that the electorate is as fickle as a Monday morning quarterback. Some of it is that it is just plain hard to run this country to the absolute approval of a majority of Americans.

Scandal seems to be a White House plague for countless administrations.

Potomac Fever seems to trip up so many. No president is immune to controversy or shenanigan.

Affairs, even in the White House, have gotten traction countless times. Andrew Jackson was the Great Adulterer, having married a woman who was not legally divorced. Who said so? The Republicans, that’s who.

Each party seized on any opportunity to bash the party in

power. Nothing has changed.

It wasn’t scandalous, but when Republican William Howard Taft (332 pounds) got stuck in a bathtub, the Democrats had fun throughout Taft’s presidency. Nixon’s staff was so clumsy, becoming preoccupied with coverup phobia that he had to resign from office. Bill Clinton was impeached but kept on serving. History reminds us that the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren Harding’s administration involved a Cabinet member who traded influence for personal profit and cattle: “Just throw in a few head of cattle to boot.”

Everybody seemed to like Ike, who liked golf and played a few rounds with Arnold Palmer. About the only one to leave Washington unscathed was Harry Truman, who served one full term and a partial term after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in 1945.

Truman was the last president to campaign by train, a whistle-stop routine that must have worked since he upset the favorite, Tom Dewey,of New York, when the latter was the overwhelming favorite. In those days, there was not an abundance of polls that measured the intent and

mood of the populace as there is today.

The Chicago Tribune printed its morning edition the day after the election with a front page headline that screamed, “Dewey Wins.” Truman was photographed holding up the Chicago paper and displaying a wide grin that told the real story.

An apocryphal vignette about the election would become popular. On the eve of the election, Dewey is said to have been sitting in the parlor with his wife and remarked, “Tomorrow night, my dear, you will be sleeping with the next president of the United States.”

The morning after the election, the story goes, Mrs. Dewey said to her husband: “Let me get this straight, am I going to Washington or is Harry Truman coming here?”

Somehow or other, mudslinging seems to be the choice of all major political candidates. Will we ever see an election when there will be more civility, a candidate raving about good things and taking the high road?

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

I’m eating well, even without a kitchen We lost our kitchen on Aug. 27. No, we didn’t forget where we put it. A pipe got stopped up and we had a flood. It was a bad flood, from the dishwasher and the washing machine. When I was a kid we wouldn’t have had to worry about that, because we didn’t have either.

We turned both on and went to bed — to sleep. We had a rude surprise awaiting us the next morning.

Now if you have ever heard about or seen my $50,000 light bulb, you know that the last thing my lovely wife, Lisa, and I needed was to have our kitchen washed away, but that’s exactly what happened.

When we finally talked the insurance estimator into coming to our house the following Thursday we realized that we would need new floors, new walls, new paint and new cabinets.

Actually, we realized all of that long before the adjuster did, but by the time the mold and mildew were killed and everything in the kitchen was torn out, we finally all agreed on a plan to reconstruct what was destroyed and return our kitchen to its original state.

Well, that was the plan. We’ll see if it turns out that way, but a full 10 weeks later the jury is still out — and so are our sink and stove and just about everything else need-

weren’t having the good old-fashioned food that made the South great. When Lisa’s mama started cooking for us, however, she went out of her way to make sure that we were eating well. She cooked a meat and three or four vegetables every time she invited Darrell Huckaby us up, with sliced tomatoes — her garden is still produced to carry on housekeeping, ing, somehow — and pickles as of this writing. and all the trimmings.

Two-and-a-half months She even cooked cornwithout a kitchen is not a fun bread at least once a week, way to spend the fall. and that’s something for But they say it is an ill her because she has Yankee wind that blows no good and blood — Wisconsin, wasn’t something good has come disclosed until after the wedout of this construction cading — and doesn’t always tastrophe. My mother-in-law understand the need for havhas invited us to her house ing something to sop the pot for a lot of good meals. likker with. She even fried Honesty compels me to ad- chicken one night. mit that the cooking and eatYes, I married well. ing habits at our house had And at one such supper gotten a little slack since all several of our kids were the kids had gotten married home, too, and that led to and moved away. It’s hard conversations about Southto cook for just two people ern suppers in days gone — two-and-a-half when Sir by. When I was a kid we ate Henley the Adorable is with at six o’clock every eveus — and we had drifted ning — period. My daddy away from the large-scale worked on the second shift suppers I had grown accusin the Osprey Mill weave tomed to over my first 60 or shop and got 30 minutes for so years as a Southern-Amer- supper. His car would pull ican male. Now don’t hear up every evening while Perry something I’m not saying.

Como was singing the Lord’s I managed to get my two Prayer, which was the signthousand calories a day — off song for WGFS, our local and then some — despite radio station — “The voice Lisa’s efforts to limit my and choice of the Piedmont food consumption, but we Area.”

At 6:01 he would be saying grace and the four of us — Mama; Daddy; my sister, Myron, and me — would be in our appointed places having supper. There was no such thing as eating in front of the television or at independent times. We sat down together and ate and carried on a conversation, and you’d better not leave the table without telling Mama that you enjoyed your supper. Her reply was always the same.

“Glad you did.”

You’d better not leave without clearing the table and helping with the dishes, either.

My wife was raised in a similar fashion, and we raised our three kids the same way. Even now the two of us sit down at the table and eat together at meal time — or at least we did when we had a table — and a kitchen.

But I am hopeful. Progress has been made and we now have cabinets and a refrigerator and will soon have a stove and sink and perhaps even a floor. At least that’s what they tell me. Stay tuned.

We’ll see.

In the meantime, if anyone has any fresh pear relish, please let me know. My mother-in-law is a great cook, but she doesn’t fully understand about pear relish. I guess it’s a Wisconsin thing.

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Gwinnett rolling out text notifications for jury duty

BY CURT YEOMANS

based notification system for potential jurors with TextGov LLC. Residents will receive a text message to let them know they have jury duty coming up. The county will also send jurors nightly text messages during their week of service to let them know whether or not they need to come

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Gwinnett County has a new way of contacting residents to let them know they’ve been called up for jury duty.

County officials are launching a new text-

to the courthouse the next day.

“Jurors have been asking for an easier, more convenient way to get their juror status,” Gwinnett County Courts Jury Manager Abby Carter said. “With our new text messaging system, jurors receive proactive text messages without having to

Duluth firm paralegal earns national recognition

call or check the website — and they love it.”

The text-based service is intended to be a supplement to existing web and IVR-based systems that are already used to let jurors know when they need to be at the courthouse.

The court test drove TextGov’s Juror Notifica-

tion System for six months and county officials said jurors during that period praised the ability to receive regular updates on when they were needed.

They also said the county’s juror compliance rate went up during the test period, averaging about 96 percent of jurors showing up when

they were supposed to.

“The implementation with TextGov was incredibly smooth,” Circuit Court Administrator Phil Boudewyns said in a statement. “In addition to providing a better juror experience for the citizens of Gwinnett, the system is cost effective and efficient.”

FROM STAFF REPORTS Registered paralegal Janet Wilson Williams, who works for Andersen, Tate & Carr P.C., was named Paralegal of the Year by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations at its annual national convention in Vermont in October.

The award is one of the association’s highest honors, said Lisa Haden, a spokeswoman with the firm.

Williams, who also is part of the Georgia Association of Paralegals, has been a paralegal for 26 years and with the Duluth-based firm since 2006. She graduated from an accredited paralegal program, receiving a Certificate in Human Resources Management, and earning a Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam Registered Paralegal advanced national certification.

Since 2012, she has served as the Georgia

Maxwell High School of Technology aviation teacher Kenneth Phelps works with a student on a flight simulation program in class on Thursday. Phelps recently was awarded the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year honor. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner) Registered paralegal Janet Wilson Williams, right, who was named Paralegal of the Year by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations in October, shows her award with lawyer Michael Hay, both with Andersen, Tate & Carr P.C. (Special Photo)

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lines pilot, but he said he Capt. Phelps, as he’s worked a variety of jobs in known around Maxwell his younger days to reach Association of ParaleHigh School of Technology, specific certifications and organization. gals’ director of parahas a fresh frame on the wall experience as a pilot. But Williams advises legal certification and paralegal graduates about inside his classroom where he’s also been a pilot instucwas honored as National employment opportunihe teaches the Aircraft Flight tor since the 1970s.

Federation of Paralegal ties and improving inter- Operations Program after “I’ve had students beAssociations Certificahe recently won the A. Scott come really successful, and view skills and resumes, tion Ambassador of the Crossfield Aerospace Educa- they’ve been really good at speaks to paralegal Year in 2014. She serves classes about the career tion Teacher of the Year. For giving back to the current in several leadership and and is a mentor to parale- the honor, Phelps traveled group,” Phelps said. “It’s fun volunteer roles within the gals of all levels. to a black-tie dinner event at to see them go on and do the National Aviation Hall of something with their career.”

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continued in the industry,” Hall said. “And they all say it’s because of the education they received at Maxwell through Capt. Phelps. It really and truly is amazing.”

While Phelps realizes the number of students he impacts is limited, he hopes to play a small part in the unprecedented pending pilot shortage across the world.

China needs 200,000 pilots in the next 20 years, Phelps said, citing a report from Boeing, while the United States needs about 100,000.

It’s because of a generation of pilots are entering retirement and fewer pilots are entering the industry, particularly from the military, which used to be a reliable source.

Incentive programs geared toward various compensation bonuses have been rolled out, but they haven’t moved the needle significantly, Phelps said.

“I don’t know where they’re coming from, and the airlines don’t either,” he said, lamenting the notion of how much one teacher like himself can help.

But he admitted that most aviators had a mentor, or several people, along the way give them a hand.

Phelps had a cousin who flew planes, and a mentor who was a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot in World War II. “That’s what I try to do,” Phelps said. “That’s kind of the payback.”

Another text from a student read, “Hope you’re doing well. I owe all this to you.”

Phelps disagrees.

“Probably not. There’s some initiative there on his part. But that’s really the payback. That and having these guys (current students) get excited about going on and wanting to do something.”

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world&nation world Iraqis flee Mosul fighting with tales of horror A rising tide of humanity ebbed east from Mosul on Thursday as Iraqi forces entered the ISIS-controlled city for the first time in two years and engaged in up-close battles with the militants.

Aid groups have been warning for months that the Mosul campaign could lead to a human catastrophe. Thursday provided a glimpse of the potential tragedy.

Already, 18,000 Iraqis have been displaced from their homes since the Mosul offensive was launched Oct. 17, according to the International Organization for Migration. The agency warns that the weeks ahead will generate even greater displacement, especially now that the battle is being fought on the streets of Iraq’s second largest city.

It’s believed as many as 1.5 million people are still living there.

Iraqis fleeing fierce fighting in and around Mosul streamed down a main highway heading east, toward the border with Iraq’s Kurdish regions. They had risked all to escape from their homes, through gunfire and possible ISIS-laid booby traps.

2 U.S. troops, 30 Afghans dead in Kunduz Two U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Their deaths came during an operation that Kunduz officials say also left 30 Afghan civilians dead.

“On behalf of all of U.S. Forces — Afghanistan, today’s loss is heartbreaking and we offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of our service members who lost their lives today,” said Gen. John Nicholson, the USFOR-A commander.

The Defense Department is withholding the service members’ names until their next of kin can be notified.

The service members came under fire during a mission to train, advise and assist the American military’s Afghan partners in clearing a Taliban position and disrupting the organization’s operations in Kunduz district, according to a statement.

Obama defends health care law

President: Fixes to program obstructed by GOP in Congress

By Allie Malloy CNN

President Barack Obama, campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Miami, took time Thursday to defend Obamacare, amid news of skyrocketing premiums, saying his signature health law would be fixed had it not been for Republican obstruction in Congress.

“You can’t just be against something,” Obama said about Republicans at Florida International University. “You gotta be for something.

You can’t spend eight years being against me.

And now you’re gonna be against Hillary but you haven’t been for anything. Come on.”

Obama acknowledged that premiums have gone up but added it is better than the alternative of not having insurance at all.

Obama also strongly ridiculed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers for calling for the repeal of Obamacare, saying they are offering “nothing, zero, nada” to replace it.

nation Melania Trump: Ending bullying on social media would be focus

Melania Trump says she’d work to improve a social media culture that has gotten “too mean and too tough” — riddled with insults based on “looks and intelligence” — if she becomes first lady.

But she didn’t make any mention of the Twitter activities of her husband, Donald Trump, who has relentlessly attacked his political foes, journalists, critics and other entertainers for years with demeaning comments based on their appearances and intelligence.

In a rare appearance on the campaign trail — and her first solo speech since the convention this summer — the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump discussed her vision for her role in the White House for the first time Thursday in suburban Philadelphia.

“It is never OK when a Court ruling 12-year-old girl or boy is throws Brexit mocked, bullied or atprocess in doubt tacked. It is terrible when it happens on the playground, Britain’s plans to leave and it is absolutely unacthe European Union were ceptable when it is done thrown into confusion by someone with no name Thursday after a court ruled hiding on the internet. We that members of parliament have to find a better way to must be given a say in the talk to each other,” Melania process.

Trump said.

The U.K. High Court “We must find better ruled that lawmakers should ways to honor and supvote on whether the govern- port the basic goodness ment can begin the formal of our children, especially Brexit process by triggering in social media,” she said.

Article 50 of the EU treaty. “It will be one of the main The ruling is a defeat focuses of my work, if I for the government. Prime am privileged enough to Minister Theresa May had become your first lady.” said she plans to trigger Article 50 by the end of March Six die in crash 2017, meaning the U.K. would most likely leave the between buses A nearly empty school EU two years later.

— From wire reports bus crossed into oncoming

people GLAAD: LGBTQ characters on broadcast TV at all-time high

Broadcast television networks are doing a better job than ever at bringing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer characters into the storytelling fold, according to a new report from GLAAD. Of 895 regular characters anticipated to get screentime on a broadcast series in the period surveyed (June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017), 43 (or 4.8 percent) identified as LGBTQ, according to the organization’s annual “Where We Are on TV” President Barack Obama, campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Miami, took time Thurs- report. There were also 28 day to defend Obamacare amid news of skyrocketing premiums, saying his signature recurring characters who health law would be fixed had it not been for Republican obstruction in Congress. identified as LGBTQ. (Photo: CNN) That’s the highest percentage of LGBTQ series reguA light-hearted but At one point, while shine State to address lars noted since GLAAD fiery Obama seemed to touting his accomplishwhat he called Washingbegan tracking it 12 years take pleasure in adments in office, Obama ton’s “gridlock,” again libbing many parts of remarked on the low gas pointing to GOP obstruc- ago.

GLAAD also found his speech to the colprices he noticed while tion on making improverecord-high percentages of lege crowd. At one point driving in North Carolina ments to Obamacare. he led the crowd in a Wednesday, and shouted “Can I talk to the press black series regulars (20 percent) and characters with call-and-response of his to the crowd, “Thanks, for a second? What hapdisabilities (1.7 percent). favorite campaign quip, Obama,” a nod to a viral pened? Do we ever run There were also more LG“Don’t boo … vote!” meme of the President back the tape?” Obama BTQ characters on streamIt was the President’s that began as a Republiasked the audience. “Do ing series (up to 65 from 59). third trip to Florida in can critique. we ever kinda go, well, Cable’s total was even with three weeks. Later ThursObama also employed what happened? That’s the previous year (142). day, Obama was set to one of his most used what they said, and now deliver remarks in Jackcatch phrases, “Come on, they’re saying something sonville, also a campaign man!” multiple times in entirely different? Come CMA Awards stop for Trump. his speech in the Sunon, man!”

Three female patients accused Krahling of rubbing up against them with his genitals while he was still clothed. In the first incident, a patient claimed Krahling put his genitals on her head.

Two more women came forward with similar abuse earlier this year. They even documented their experiences online when Melania Trump speaks at a rally in Berwyn, Pa., on Thursday. It was her first speech since the GOP convention. it happened. In a post on an anxiety blog dated in (Photo: CNN) January, one victim said traffic and slammed into 24, 2016 — a prosecutor she could feel Krahling a commuter bus in Baltinamed Richard Schmack “literally rubbing against more on Tuesday morning, informed a judge in my shoulder. His assistant killing at least six people, Sycamore that an injustice popped in to ask him a police said. had been done. He said question and he backed off The school bus, which the wrong man had been quicker than I could count was blocks away from its convicted in 2012 of the to 1.” first pickup of the day, had murder of Maria Ridulph. no children on board at the At the time, that convicAndroid runs time of the crash, Baltition was believed to have 90 percent of more Police spokesman solved the nation’s oldest T.J. Smith told reporters. cold case ever to go to phones shipped The crash, which intrial. in last quarter jured at least 10 people, The name of the new The launch of the sheared off the driver’s potential suspect, meaniPhone 7 recently occupied side of the commuter bus, while, arrived in that afSmith said. ternoon’s mail. The tipster the smartphone spotlight, “It literally looks like was shy, unlike others who but that doesn’t mean Ana bomb exploded in the came forward before with droid isn’t still king when it comes to global sales. bus,” he said. “It is catatheir suspicions in this According to a report strophic damage.” case. The letter was neatly from Strategy Analytics, The school bus rear-end- typed but unsigned. about nine in 10 smarted a car, then sideswiped Schmack immediately phones shipped in the a cemetery pillar near the turned it over to police. latest quarter ran Google’s road, then crossed into onmobile operating system. coming traffic and collided Conn. dentist Android accounted for a with the commuter bus record 87.5 percent of the around 7 a.m., Smith said. again charged 375 million smartphones with sex assault shipped in the third quarPossible new For the third time in two ter, ending Sept. 30. That’s suspect eyed in months, a dentist in Merup from 84 percent last iden, Conn., faces sexual year. While the gain may ’57 child murder assault charges. seem small, it highlights The Illinois State Police Police said Jeffrey Krah- Android’s continued domiare looking into a possible ling, 51, sexually assaulted nance in the smartphone new suspect in the 1957 patients as they were market. abduction and murder of a undergoing certain proceApple shipped 45.5 mil7-year-old Sycamore girl. dures at his office. He was lion iPhones in the period, The disclosure, buried charged with fourth-degree down 5.2 percent, while in an exhibit in a civil sexual assault on Oct. 28.

Android smartphone sales lawsuit, reveals an eyeKrahling, who practices hit 328.6 million, up 10 popping twist: The new at 12 Curtis St., Suite 14, percent. Apple posted its potential suspect emerged in Meriden, was charged first sales decline since on the very same day the with the same crime on 2001 last month, just old suspect’s murder con- Sept. 2 and Sept. 22. Poweeks after launching the viction began to unravel. lice called his court cases iPhone 7 line.

On that day — March “on going.”

— From wire reports

celebrate golden anniversary

Country music’s biggest stars put on quite a show to honor the 50th anniversary of the CMA Awards in downtown Nashville on Wednesday night.

The Country Music Association was established in 1958 and became the first trade organization formed to promote an individual genre of music.

In 1967, the first CMA Awards Banquet and Show was held. The following year, it was broadcast on NBC television for the first time.

Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the show once again this year.

The duo sang in the show’s opening act, which featured some of the biggest and most memorable names from the last 50 years of country music, including Charley Pride, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis.

Macy’s parade performers announced

There looks to be something for just about everyone at the 90th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The holiday event to watch while you wait for your food coma to kick in will feature performances

by Tony Bennett, hip hop group De La Soul, Fitz & the Tantrums, Kelsea Ballerini, Sarah McLachlan and Beyoncé protegees Chloe x Halle.

They’ll join other headliners including the Muppets and Olympic gold medalists Laurie Hernandez and Michelle Carter.

And even though MetLife gave him a pink slip, Snoopy will be returning to the parade as a big balloon, along with his pal Charlie Brown.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcasts live on Nov. 24.

— From wire reports

LifeWay stores won’t sell Amy Grant’s new Christmas album

By Heather Hourigan CNN

While some wait until after Thanksgiving, others have already started listening to Christmas music.

But one new country Christmas album is not being sold on shelves everywhere.

Amy Grant is known as the Queen of Christian Pop. She has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, has won numerous

and more recent classics, was deemed not Christian enough for the retailer.

Grammys and had the first ChrisIn an opinion piece for the tian album ever to go platinum.

Washington Post, Grant’s manager, However, her latest album, “Ten- Jennifer Cooke, said this reignited nessee Christmas,” will not be on a debate about how Christian a the shelves of LifeWay Christian product needs to be in order for stores.

Christian retailers to sell it.

“That surprises me, that really “I don’t know why they would does,” said Elizabeth Humphrey, a be saying that it’s not Christian LifeWay customer. enough,” Humphrey said.

The album, which features a LifeWay Christian Resources mix of traditional Christmas songs would only confirm for Channel

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4 that they are not selling it and would not comment further.

Amy Grant took to Facebook saying, “We respectfully accept LifeWay’s decision that my new Christmas album didn’t meet their criteria. Let’s all move on from that decision without arguing about it.

But let’s not stop asking the questions about what it means to live in faith and reflect love to the world around us.”

It was just last year the Nashville-based company announced

they would not be selling books that lay claims of experimental testimonies about heaven, including the best-selling book “Heaven is for Real.”

“I have to admit that I am not a big fan of ‘Heaven is for Real,’ but like I said, they have a lot of books in there that are questionable, like sorcery books,” Humphrey said.

There are several other places to get these books and Grant’s latest album, but LifeWay stores will not be one of them.

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Duluth officials plan to kick off the week leading up to Veterans Day by breaking ground on a patriotic piece of art on the town green.

The city will celebrate the beginning of construction on its 9/11-inspired Dream Keepers sculpture during a ceremony at 1 p.m. on Monday at the Duluth Green. The roughly 12-foot-wide piece of art will re-create artist Kathy Fincher’s painting by the same name. The painting featured a group of children painting an American flag on a wall after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Artist Kathy Fincher works on a sculpture of a child that will be used in the Dream Keepers sculpture that will be built on the Duluth Green.

The sculpture is based off a painting by the same name that Fincher created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Special Photo: Kathy Fincher)

Fincher and officials from the city and the

be erected in pieces, Fincher said. The initial piece will be a brick wall with painted class on it.

The glass will feature hand prints of Duluth residents, she added.

Bronze sculptures of the children are expected to be added during an unveiling ceremony next year.

“The city of Duluth is honored to be receiving such a monumental piece of public art,” Duluth Mayor Nancy Harris said in a statement. “The Dream Keepers has found the perfect home in a city that is filled with patriotic pride and the fact that the artist is a hometown girl makes it even more special.

“This destination piece of art will long be an in-

spiring piece that graces our town green, where families, locals and visitors will be able to enjoy this magnificent piece.”

The sculpture is largely privately funded, with Fincher raising about $150,000 through donations to pay for the sculpture’s construction. The brick wall that will be built first was donated by the Duluth Fall Festival, the artist said.

Fincher added that all but three children in the sculpture have been “adopted,” meaning a donor has made a contribution of $15,000 to pay for a child sculpture. The remaining children are the African-American, Hispanic and Asian children, and Fincher is hoping to find donors in the mul-

ticultural community to “adopt” them as well.

Fincher said residents who can’t afford the price of paying for a child’s sculpture can also make smaller donations though.

She said lesser donations levels of $5,000, $1,000 and $500 were created to help pay for smaller parts of the sculpture. All donors will be listed in a information book that will explain the sculpture for visitors to the city, Fincher said.

“I’ve gotten so much positive feedback from the community for this,” she said.

Anyone interested in making a donation, or helping “adopt” one of the remaining children can contact Fincher at kathy@kathyfincher.com.

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inspired. Not only was it hilarious, but also at its core, it was real.”

But a series of funding issues — most notably the financial crisis stemming from the housing market crash around 2008 that caused a major investor to withdraw — put the project in jeopardy.

However, the trio simply wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. The film has received awards from film festivals in eight states, from Florida to California, where it won Best Comedy at the Pasadena Film Festival this year.

“I won’t lie: We had a lot riding on this, and there were times in our house when money was very, very tight because we put so much into this film,” Hall said of “The Dissection of Thanksgiving,” which was shot on a $300,000 budget raised from a collection of friends, family members and investors.

“It’s hard enough to be an actor because you don’t know when you are going to work or get paid — and you have to pay for your house and groceries. But we always believed we had something special with this film.”

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•From Page 1A In addition to working on several lesser-known shows on PBS, he’s had roles on TV shows “Four Weddings” (TLC, 200914), “Extreme Royal Collections” (TLC, 2010-11) and “Four Weddings: More Big Blunders” (TLC, 201112). In 2011, he was in the Ben Stiller crime drama “Tower Heist,” which generated more than $152 million at the worldwide box office.

But “The Dissection of Thanksgiving” isn’t just about the fictitious Morgan family; it’s about Hall’s family, considering he and his wife of 15 years, Deshja Driggs-Hall, play feature roles alongside Logie, Oscar nominee Kathleen Quinlan and Jay O. Sanders (TVs “Blindspot,” “The Good Wife”).

The movie’s premise is simple. Set in 1980s New York., late night DJ Robby “Night Train” Morgan (Hall) comes home alone to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family after breaking up with his fiancee.

He and his hypochondriac younger brother Charlie (Logie), and his adopted sister, Brooke (DriggsHall), learn their father,

Duluth Fine Arts League have been planning to turn the sculpture in a 3-D piece of art in the city for more than a year.

“It’s really exciting,” Fincher said. “The sculptures of the children that will go in this are pretty much done. It’s been a lot of work to do this. The support I’ve gotten from the city and the people who have stepped up to support it financially have made this possible.”

The sculpture is sponsored by the Duluth Fine Arts League and Fincher will join officials from that group and the city in addressing attendees at the ground breaking ceremony. Lemonade and cookies will be served afterward.

The sculpture will

“There were times in our house when money was very, very tight because we put so much into this film,” said Troy Hall, left, with his wife, Deshja, and daughters Thaura and Mareau (Special Photo)

Cliff (Sanders), has been fired from a job he’s held for 20 years. But it gets worse: Parents Cliff and Carol (Quinlan) tell their kids they’re divorcing after 30 years of marriage.

“Anyone whose parents have split up can relate to the pain that you feel when your parents go from being together to being individuals,” Hall said during a phone interview from Montclair, N.J., where he lives with Deshja and their two daughters. “When everything in your life is being obliterated, the one thing you want to hold on to is your family, and you don’t want to lose it.”

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“Not only was it hilarious, but also at its core, it was real. I was compelled to tell the story of the Morgan family, a family we could all relate to and whose attributes we could all recognize in ourselves. I immediately knew that in order to translate this wonderfully crafted screenplay into an honest and moving film. As soon as I read the first draft, I was instantly

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He said he regularly monitors his surroundings because the area is somewhat remote, so he wasn’t surprised by the discovery.

Medical examiners and investigators were still on the scene by late morning as they tried to figure out if the man was killed at that spot or if his body was dumped there afterward.

Meanwhile, PettwayMoseley said family and friends were trying to figure out where Pettway could be, and she was headed to the police station to file a missing person report.

She said Pettway hadn’t returned home, his car was gone and he hadn’t shown up to class at Gwinnett Tech or at a Bojangles in Tucker, where he was an assistant manager.

The last time PettwayMoseley saw him was this past Friday at a family dinner, and they talked Tuesday night, she said.

But the last time his older sister Renee Meadows spent time with him was when he took her out to eat last week. He wanted to get the new mom of a one-monthold son out of the house, she said.

“He was so happy for me when I had Kaiden,” Meadows said. “He loved him and would lay the baby across his chest to put him to sleep. … Every time I needed something, he was there. I’m just going to miss his presence.”

A memorial is planned to be held at Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Home, 914 Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville, at noon Nov. 12.

Pettway-Moseley said she is trying to hold it together so she can bury her son, but she doesn’t wish bad things to whoever killed her baby boy.

“I don’t hold grudges; I’m a child of God,” she said. “You reap what you sow, and I’m leaving this up to Him to handle. I just want justice so I can start healing.”

Gwinnett police are asking anyone with information to share in the case to contact detectives at 770513-5300.

To remain anonymous, tipsters should contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577TIPS (8477) or visit www. crimestoppersatlanta.org.

Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case, No. 6-102392.

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PCOM signs agreement with Colquitt Regional Medical

BY KEITH FARNER

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A college that has a campus in Suwanee recently signed an agreement to expand its offerings in South Georgia.

The agreement is between the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie. They agreed to develop a feasibility plan and present it for approval to the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation to develop an additional location in South Georgia.

It was 11 years ago that PCOM brought a campus to Suwanee.

“The positive impact this endeavor to establish a location in South Georgia will have on physician recruitment and workforce development will be substantial,” Colquitt Regional President and CEO Jim Matney said in a press release. “Building a premier site for rural medical education has been a long-term goal for Colquitt

The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has a campus in Suwanee, recently signed an agreement to expand services with Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie. They agreed to develop a feasibility plan and present it for approval to the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation to develop an additional location in South Georgia. (Special Photo)

Regional, and we are glad to partner with PCOM in bringing a campus to this region.”

Colquitt’s regional academic institutions also involved in enhancing the medical education pipeline include Valdosta State Uni-

versity, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and Thomas University.

Jay Feldstein, president of PCOM, said he’s looking forward to bringing the college’s experience in educating physicians and health sciences profession-

als to the South Georgia area.

“While much has been done to get us to the point of signing this agreement, we all recognize that much remains to be done,” Feldstein said. “We enthusiastically look forward to

a successful outcome for all.”

Perry Mustian, president/CEO of Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, said a new campus in the region would have a tremendous economic, academic and clinical impact in addition to allowing the collaborative efforts of regional hospitals and physician networks to enhance the medical education pipeline and ensure access to quality care.

Ga.-PCOM, which has conferred more than 1,100 degrees to date, was formed to respond to the need for more health care providers to serve Georgia and surrounding states.

With more than 5,000 annual applications for its osteopathic medical program, the Suwanee campus now accepts 135 medical students each year. When it began, Ga. PCOM accepted 80 students into its first class. In 2010 the campus applied to COCA for a substantive change to increase its class size, which was approved and met all accreditation

standards with commendations.

This past year, the residency match rate for Ga.PCOM graduating medical students was 100 percent with 20 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine graduates matching to residencies in Georgia.

Three graduates were chosen for the inaugural class of the Georgia South Family Medicine Residency Program opened

by Colquitt Regional Medical Center in July.

This program is only the second residency program established in Southwest Georgia, with a program at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany formed about 20 years ago.

The Georgia South Family Medicine Residency Program, which began at Colquitt Regional Medical Center July 1, is affiliated with PCOM and works with the PCOM-MEDNet Osteopathic Post-Doctoral Training Institute, an American Osteopathic Association approved training consortium comprised of more than 40 hospitals.

Nonprofit breast cancer walk raises $1M Disaster prep event, FROM STAFF REPORTS The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk raised more than $1 million toward its effort to “create a world free from the pain and suffering caused by breast cancer,” the nonprofit recently announced.

More than 20,000 metro Atlanta residents attended the event at Piedmont Park on Oct. 29, spokeswoman Evelyn Barella said.

“Our Making Strides walk is a moving example of passion in action,” said Susan Laclaire, senior community manager.

“Making Strides Against Breast Cancer ensures no one faces breast cancer alone by bringing the community together, funding innovative breast cancer research, promoting education and risk reduction, and providing comprehensive patient

Women wearing pink tutus (the color for breast cancer awareness) were among that 20,000 metro Atlanta residents at the festive American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Piedmont Park on Oct. 29. (Photo: American Cancer Society)

support to those who need it most.”

Participants with Real Men Wear Pink, a new American Cancer Society program involving community leaders, raised $158,000, Barella said.

They wore pink each day

in October in exchange for donations.

“Not only are the men raising funds, they are committed to encouraging the women in their lives and in the community to take action in the fight against breast

cancer by learning more about prevention, early detection methods and scheduling a mammogram,” she said.

For more information, visit www.makingstrideswalk.org/atlanta and www.cancer.org.

blood drive set for Saturday in Suwanee Humayun said. The blood drive will take place from The Ahmadiyya Mus1 to 6 p.m.

This blood drive will be lim Women Association Georgia Chapter will hold followed by a presentation its Muslims for Life blood by the faith-based nonprofit Noah’s Ark & Co. drive in partnership with the Suwanee Ward of The from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Based in Suwanee, its goal is to Church of Jesus Christ partner with and educate of Latter-day Saints on faith leaders on disaster Saturday. preparedness.

The purpose of the The presentation is event is to strengthen the the first series of Noah’s relationships between Ark & Co. Know Your the organizations and Neighbor events. Present“to reinforce the idea of ers from the Islamic faith sanctity of life that both and Mormon religion will communities proudly share their beliefs. adhere to,” said Naseer The events will take Humayun, an association place the church on 4833 spokeswoman.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Suwanee Dam Road. For more information, visit Community USA started the blood drive campaign www.muslimsforlife.org on the 10th anniversary of and www.preparemychurch.org.

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Golf classic raises over $25K for disabled some golfers to play, said Lizbeth Dison, a Friends The nonprofit Friends of Disabled Adults and of Disabled Adults and Children spokeswoman.

Children’s charity event The first-place team last month raised more with a score of 53 was than $25,000 to support the foursome including its mission to provide Dwight Standridge of Jefdurable medical equipferson, Derek Conley of ment at little or no charge Athens, Justin Brown of to those in need.

Commerce and Zach Kles The organization held of Athens. its annual golf clasFriends of Disabled sic fundraiser, which Adults and Children, included 88 golfers, at based in Stone Mountain, Bear’s Best Golf Course has provided wheelchairs in Suwanee on Oct. 12. and other mobility items The Rotary Club of to people with disabiliStone Mountain provided ties since 1986. For more volunteers to work the information, visit www. tournament as well as fodac.org.

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SECTION B • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016

KICKOFF EDITION THE RUNDOWN A quick look at this weekend’s high school football in the Gwinnett area: TODAY’S GAMES 7:30 p.m.

• Athens Christian at Hebron Christian • Discovery at North Gwinnett • Fulton Leadership at Wesleyan • Flowery Branch at Buford • Gainesville at Lanier • Grayson at South Gwinnett • Greater Atlanta Christian at Dawson County • Mill Creek at Duluth • Norcross at Meadowcreek • Parkview at Central Gwinnett • Peachtree Ridge at Collins Hill • Providence Christian at Towns County • Shiloh at Archer • Lakeside-DeKalb at Brookwood • Winder-Barrow at Dacula

REMEMBER

THE TIE A decade later, shared 2006 state title remains impactful for Peachtree Ridge, state high school football

BY THE NUMBERS

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Victories by Grayson, all shutouts, in the last five meetings with tonight’s opponent, South Gwinnett — 34-0 last year, 42-0 in 2014, 41-0 in 2012 and 40-0 in 2011

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Central Gwinnett wins over tonight’s foe, Parkview, in the past four seasons after beating the Panthers just once in the previous 13 meetings from 1995-2011

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By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett teams, Mill Creek and Norcross, that can finish off 10-0 regular seasons with a victory tonight

Winning a state championship is supposed to have an impact on a high school football program, as well as its school and community. The Class AAAAA state title Peachtree Ridge claimed in 2006 definitely accomplished that feat.

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Incompletion last Friday by Peachtree Ridge quarterback Fred Payton, who was 14 of 15 passing for 200 yards and three TDs and ran for another score in a win over Duluth

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Shiloh wins over tonight’s opponent, Archer, since the two schools began playing in 2010 FANS CHOICE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Each week during the football season, the Daily Post will nominate four players for its Fans Choice Player of the Week. Online voting at www. gwinnettprepsports.com will begin by Monday morning and will end Thursdays at noon.

Who: Buford’s Garrett Scoggins Class: Senior Position: Offensive line Noteworthy: Had a 92 percent blocking grade with seven pancake blocks in the Wolves’ 35-10 win over Loganville Coach Jess Simpson’s take: “Garrett has played great his senior year. He possesses all the attributes of a great offensive lineman.

He is smart, tough and plays with an edge. He excels in the classroom and continues to be a leader on and off the field.”

Results: Scoggins beat out North Gwinnett’s Walker House, Peachtree Ridge’s Fred Payton and Wesleyan’s Harrison Cook in fan voting this week.

FLASHBACK On this week in 2000, Walker Sapp throws for 160 yards and rallies Brookwood to a 24-10 win over Dacula after trailing 10-7 at halftime. Dacula goes without a second-half first down until the game’s final minute. … Buford’s P.K. Sam catches a TD pass and returns an interception for another score in a 35-0 win over Wesleyan.

The happy memories generated by that team are still felt around the school’s northwestern Gwinnett neighborhood to this day, including the 10th anniversary celebration that was held earlier this season.

But the Lions’ championship also had an impact that stretched beyond Gwinnett’s borders, and even beyond neighboring north Fulton County, after they shared that title with Roswell.

The repercussions of that 14-14 tie between the Lions and Hornets in the title game would be felt throughout the state, as it was partially responsible for a change in the Georgia High School Association’s rules.

Yet looking back, none of those ramifications seem probable, or even possible, at the beginning of the 2006 season for a number of reasons, even as what was then a very young program See CHAMPIONSHIP, Page 4B

Grayson, South clash with region title on the line

By David Friedlander

that comes with it, while a loss will force either to settle for the No. 2 seed.

“We certainly hope While there are plenty they are,” Grayson coach of different playoff seed- Jeff Herron said when ing scenarios that can asked how much his team still play out in Region was thinking about the 8-AAAAAAA, the most implications of tonight’s important one will unfold game. “We’ve told them when South Gwinnett all week that region hosts Grayson tonight championships don’t at 7:30 at Richard Snell come along every day, Community Stadium. so we’d better be executA win for either the ing.” host Comets (7-2, 3-1) or The Rams have been No. 3 state-ranked Rams doing a solid job of (8-1, 4-0) will earn them executing with each week the region championship following an openingand the top playoff seed week loss to IMG Acad-

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emy in August.

Aside from a threepoint win over fifthranked McEachern in Week 2, Grayson has outscored its opponents by an average of 39 points on the season, including a convincing 36-14 road win at Alabama powerhouse Hoover last week.

And that execution has run across the board, from an offense led by playmakers like quarterback Chase Brice and other skill players Kurt Taylor, Jamyest Grayson quarterback Chase Brice (2) goes in for an ear-

ly touchdown against Shiloh in Friday’s Game. (Photo:

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Playoff berth, rivalry add spice to Lions-Eagles game

By David Friedlander

PEACHTREE RIDGE AT COLLINS HILL

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A high school football game in which the winner advances to the postseason while the loser’s season comes to an end should be enough to create plenty of excitement.

Throw in a neighborhood rivalry and the atmosphere should be even more pumped up when Peachtree Ridge visits Collins Hill for an important Region 6-AAAAAAA game tonight.

Despite a tough 2-7 season thus far, a date with the rival Lions (4-5, 3-2) is enough to light a fire under the Eagles (2-7, 2-3).

“I’m kind of glad we’re playing Peachtree Ridge because if we were playing someone else, it might be hard to motivate (the team despite the stakes),” Colllins Hill coach Kevin Reach said. “It’s been selfmotivating this week. Year in and year out, you throw everything else out the window. It’s a big rivalry.”

Peachtree Ridge coach

Peachtree Ridge Lions (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Mark Fleetwood Record: 4-5, 3-2 region Last week: Beat Duluth 38-20

Collins Hill Eagles (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Kevin Reach Record: 2-7, 2-3 region Last week: Lost to North Gwinnett 41-7

When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Peachtree Ridge won 28-13 last year Location: Collins Hill High School

Peachtree Ridge appears to have solved its biggest problem. After struggling with close games in the fourth quarter, the Lions have been much stronger in the final minutes the last two weeks by outlasting North in overtime two Peachtree Ridge quarterback Fred Payton (9) hands off to Alton Daniel (21) agaisnt weeks ago and pulling Mountain View. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) away from Duluth last Mark Fleetwood agrees get his team excited.

The two teams do apweek. that the rivalry adds a little “We control our own pear to be headed in differ“It’s maybe come at the spice to tonight’s game, as destiny, and it’s a rivalry ent directions. right time,” Fleetwood said does the winner-take-all game, so it’s a lot of fun,” Collins Hill had apof the Lions’ recent finishplayoff berth on the line.

Fleetwood said. “They peared to find itself with ing ability. “We’re still And despite the Eagles’ (Collins Hill) have a good consecutive wins last trying to focus on empharecord, he says they pose team, no matter what month, only to fall in sizing our closing games enough of a challenge with their record says. They’re consecutive weeks to out, not taking it to the end talented offensive playnot your average team.

Mountain View and North of the fourth quarter.” ers like quarterback Drew They’re a good Collins Gwinnett in big region Reach is hopeful his EaDinsmore and running Hill team and a good Col- games. gles can put a stop to that back Jonathan Postell to lins Hill program.”

On the other hand, momentum, but will have

a big job ahead of them in dealing with Peachtree Ridge playmakers like quarterback Fred Payton, linebacker Zane Ashley and the multi-dimensional Connor Hayward.

“They’re playing their best football right now after struggling early,” Reach said of the Lions.

“The thing that worries me is they’re starting to play better football with more and more confidence.

Heyward is probably as good as anyone in the county, and (Payton) is really good, and defensively, they run to the ball well and are good in the secondary. We’ll have to play well.”

GAC faces Dawson Co. for region title Lanier playing for No. 2 seed, home postseason game

By Paul Thomas

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Greater Atlanta Christian will travel up to Dawsonville today to face Dawson County High School for the Region 7-AAA championship.

Both teams have already locked up a home game in the first round but will be looking to secure homefield throughout the postseason.

The Spartans (8-1, 5-0 region) are ranked No. 1 in Class AAA, while the Tigers (7-1, 5-0) are No. 8.

“We’re excited. Really impressed with Dawson and what they’ve done this year,” GAC head coach Tim Hardy said. “They have a really complete football team. They’re very good on offense, both in the passing game and the run game.

Good on defense with some really good players and their production on special teams as well. Just impressed with them every step of the way. We watched them and traded film with some other teams and they’re a cut above. In a lot of ways I just think they’ve been below the state-wide radar, but they’re definitely

GAC AT DAWSON COUNTY

GAC SPARTANS (7-AAA) Coach: Tim Hardy Record: 8-1, 5-0 region Last week: Had a bye

DAWSON COUNTY TIGERS (7-AAA) Coach: Sid Maxwell Record: 7-1, 5-0 region Last week: Defeated Lumpkin County 54-8

When: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: GAC won in 2005 27-14 Location: Dawson County High School

a statewide team that’s to be recognized and reckoned with. We’ve got a great challenge going up there.

Looking forward to it, we’re excited about playing up there, they’re a passionate fan base and it should be a fun environment for a region championship game.”

On paper the game looks to have the makings of a high-scoring affair. Dawson averages 36.5 points per game and has scored at least 23 points in every game this season. The Spartans average 39 points per game and have scored 35 points or more in every region game.

GAC has had a balanced attack with Kyler McMichael (957 yards and 12 TDs rushing) and Davis Mills (1,331 yards and 20 TDs passing).

Dawson quarterback Corey Watson is a dual-

threat under center. He’s throw for 1,440 yards and 14 touchdowns, while running for 555 yards and 14 touchdowns. Payton Myers also factors into the ground game with 515 yards rushing and nine TDs. Austin Young is the team’s top wideout, with 37 grabs for 698 yards and seven TDs. “They’re in the general spread kind of family. The quarterback is dynamic,” Hardy said. “Really throws an accurate ball, he’s quick and runs the ball well also.

He’s got a number of receivers. He’s got one receiver (Austin Young) who’s one of the statewide leaders in receptions, a tall athletic receiver who does a good job. They run precise routes, do some good things formationally to take advantage of their playmakers. They just

do a really nice job.”

GAC’s defense has also done a nice job this season.

The Spartans are giving up just 13.2 points per game this season.

They’ve had some strong individual performances from guys like David Markham (63 tackles) and Reid Smith (four interceptions), but Hardy said the key has been how the unit has played as a whole.

“Just consistent play,” he said of what the defense needs to do against Dawson.

“When a team has multiple weapons, at some point it’s your guy and their guy in open field and you either tackle him or you don’t.

So our guys need to do a good job of making plays, trusting their technique and trusting their scheme. We’ve really played good team defense this year. We have good players, but really it’s the collection, it’s the group of guys that has played well together. So as long as we’re continuing to trust each other and play our responsibility and make plays from there we’ll be in good shape. But I feel really good about our guys and the way we’ve played on that side of the ball.”

Parkview and Central battle for seeding

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Central Gwinnett head coach Todd Wofford and Parkview head coach Eric Godfree saw a lot of similarities on film this week as they prepared for tonight’s regular season finale.

The two teams have similar offensive styles and are each 3-2 in Region 7-AAAAAAA this season.

Parkview averages 37.2 points per game and Central averages 35.3. The winner of tonight’s 7:30 p.m. tilt at Central will earn the No. 3 seed and the loser will be No. 4.

“In a lot of ways it’s kind of like looking in the mirror,” Wofford said. “We’re both fighting for the same thing.

The last couple of years this game has been really big for us playoff-wise, for them playoff-wise, so I expect another really good game.”

The biggest similarity between the two teams this season has been that despite their spread offenses, they’ve been powered by their rushing attacks on offense.

Central (4-5) has been boosted by South Carolina move-in Josh Samuel. The 6-foot, 202-pound senior has run for 872 yards and seven touchdowns this

PARKVIEW AT CENTRAL GWINNETT PARKVIEW PANTHERS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Eric Godfree Record: 6-3, 3-2 region Last week: Defeated Meadowcreek 56-0

CENTRAL GWINNETT BLACK KNIGHTS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Todd Wofford Record: 4-5, 3-2 region Last week: Had a bye

When: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Central Gwinnett won last season 28-14 Location: Central Gwinnett High School

season. Quarterback Jarren Williams has also been a threat with his legs, running for 321 yards and seven touchdowns.

“You can’t really describe how much, even in these days of spread offenses, how much it means to have a solid running back,” Wofford said. “Josh is obviously more than solid, he brings something to the table not only from the running side of it — he’s caught the ball well. He has 24 catches on the year and (356) yards, so the defenses have to account for him in the passing game as well. I think he’s probably one of the best running backs I’ve coached in over 20 years. He’s a hard-working kid. He’s not only a guy that can get the long yards, he can pound it out too with his size. It makes the pass game a lot easier, because high school, college or pro, you’ve got to stop the run first. If by chance you sit

back and try to play the pass all night, Josh can hurt you.”

Parkview’s (6-3) rushing attack has been a threeheaded monster with Christian Malloy, Deion Slade and Malik Washington.

Slade, a senior running back, has led the way with 562 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns. Malloy, a junior running back, has run for 526 yards and six touchdowns. Washington, a sophomore, has lined up all over the field, including as a wildcat quarterback with 164 yards rushing and two TDs. “The biggest thing its helped with is we’ve got fresh legs back there,” Godfree said. “We’ve got guys that can go hard and go fast every snap. Deion catches the ball so well, and then yet he’s also a very physical runner. Then of course Christian’s speed is a factor that everybody has to worry about and contend with.

Having the both of them in the backfield has been a big advantage for us on offense. Then Malik, he can play anywhere: quarterback, running back and receiver.

That’s another great thing.

To be able to put him all over the field and teams have to notice where he’s at because anytime he’s got the ball in his hands he’s as dangerous as anybody.”

Both offenses have also been explosive in the passing game as well. Williams has thrown for 2,100 yards, 21 touchdowns and just one interception. Parkview senior quarterback Caleb Mitchell has thrown for 2,029 yards, 22 TDs and six interceptions.

No matter who the winner is tonight, each team will open up the state playoffs on the road. Depending on how things shake out in Region 5-AAAAAAA the two teams could face any of current title contenders West Forsyth, South Forsyth or Lambert.

The biggest advantage for the victor won’t necessarily be its playoff matchup, but rather the confidence from another region win.

“That’s really what this one is more about, momentum,” Godfree said. “It’s really more about momentum than where you end up in the playoffs.”

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Lanier’s run of region football championships came to a halt last Friday night in Dacula.

The Longhorns fell behind 14-0 quickly and never recovered, struggling offensively in a 20-0 loss.

“Sometimes I think a little humility is a good thing on a Friday night,” Lanier head coach Korey Mobbs said. “We still have a lot to play for, but hat’s off to Dacula. They were certainly hungry.

They’ve been through a bit this year as well and I think they wanted it more than we did. The good thing is we get to play again and we’re excited about it.”

The chance to rebound from a disappointing loss comes tonight when Lanier hosts Gainesville in an important Game 10 matchup. The winner will get the No. 2 seed from Region 8-AAAAAA — and a home playoff game in next week’s first round — and the loser will be No. 3 and traveling for the postseason.

Lanier has played just once on the road in the state playoffs in its history, a 2013 first-round game at Carver-Atlanta.

“We’d like to be able to play at home again next week,” Mobbs said.

“You always want to play at home.”

Mobbs’ Longhorns (6-3, 3-1 region) and Gainesville (5-4, 3-1) know each other well from previous seasons, including a 16-8 Lanier victory last season. Lanier also defeated Gainesville 26-23 in 2014.

The Red Elephants are traditionally one of the state’s best teams and the Lanier coaches are expecting a tough battle even though Gainesville quarterback D.J. Irons, a Central Gwinnett transfer, is out this week. He was ejected from last week’s win over Apalachee.

“Gainesville’s very similar (to previous years),” Mobbs said.

“They’re very athletic on defense. They have great team speed. Offensively, they’ve got playmakers that can really score at any point. They’re playing without their quarterback, which is kind of the

GAINESVILLE AT LANIER

Gainesville Red Elephants (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Bruce Miller Record: 5-4, 3-1 region Last week: Beat Apalachee 28-0

Lanier Longhorns (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Korey Mobbs Record: 6-3, 3-1 region Last week: Lost to Dacula 20-0 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Lanier won 16-8 last year Location: Lanier High School

unknown. If he’s playing, at least you know what to prepare for. The backup hasn’t played very much, so there’s not much film on him. It will be an interesting challenge for us.”

Regaining a little mojo before the playoffs will be important, too, especially with a tough postseason opener against a team like Dalton, defending state champion Allatoona or Harrison.

That means getting off to a better start than the Longhorns did against Dacula, and playing much better on offense than they did a week ago.

They had scored 35, 26, 34, 31 and 45 points in their five previous games before they got shut down last Friday.

“Dacula out-played us in all three phases of the game,” Mobbs said.

The showing left Lanier with plenty to work on this week, though there were some bright spots in the Dacula game. Juwuan Jones and Tyler Taylor combined for 31 tackles and seven tackles for losses, including a sackfumble by Taylor, and the defense played much better after giving up 14 points on Dacula’s first two possessions. Lanier never got anything going offensively and had a punt return touchdown called back by penalty.

A night like that has the Longhorns eager to get back on the field.

“We’re in the playoffs and we’ve still got a lot of our goals ahead of us,” Mobbs said. “We’re just hoping to get some momentum going into the playoffs.”

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A look at this week’s prep football matchups (all games at 7:30 p.m today unless otherwise noted)

ATHENS CHRISTIAN AT HEBRON CHRISTIAN ATHENS CHRISTIAN EAGLES (8-A) Coach: Chris Williams Record: 6-3, 5-3 region Last week: Beat Riverside Military Academy 41-7

HEBRON LIONS (8-A) Coach: Kevin Shaffer Record: 5-4, 4-4 region Last week: Lost to George Walton Academy 21-7

Sitting at No. 19 in the GHSA’s Class A (Private) state power rankings, the Lions appear to be in good shape to earn one of the state’s 24 state playoff berths.

But coach Kevin Shaffer wants to leave nothing to chance, and the Lions can improve their standing, including the outside chance of earning a first-round home game, and certainly a better first-round matchup, by knocking off the Eagles, who currently stand at No. 16.

“I’ve always been honest with our kids,” Shaffer said. “And I told them we’re probably in either way, but we could be anywhere 16 to 24. … We want to win every game, but especially this one, to put ourselves in a better position.”

To do that, the Lions will have to deal with an Athens Christian defense led Mike by linebacker Richard Jibunor, who boasts offers from Auburn, Tennessee and Sullivan North Carolina, among others. The Eagles have been plenty stingy throughout the season but especially the past four games, allowing just 25 points.

“Athens Christian is a very good team,” Shaffer said. “Athletically, they’re right up there with the best we’ve played this season. The have a lot of size and are very good on defense, and they’ve got a lot of speed on the outside.”

The physical matchup is something Hebron will have to deal with, but Shaffer is just as concerned with his team’s mental approach and eliminating small mistakes that have proved costly in the team’s losses. And he’ll look to experienced leaders like lineman Mike Sullivan to set an example in that area.

“We’ve changed our practice this week to focus on the mental aspects of the game,” Shaffer said.

“The game is so detailed. There are so many little things that have kept us from winning those games.

The little mistakes have hurt us.”

Last meeting: Athens Christian won 10-0 last year Location: Hebron Christian Academy

FULTON LEADERSHIP AT WESLEYAN FULTON LEADERSHIP GRYPHONS (5-A) Coach: Ryan West Record: 0-9, 0-6 region Last week: Lost to Our Lady of Mercy 47-0

WESLEYAN WOLVES (5-A) Coach: Franklin Pridgen Record: 7-2, 4-2 region Last week: Beat Strong Rock Christian 66-17

Wesleyan likely will get to rest up some key players before the playoffs begin next week thanks to a Week 10 mismatch between one of Class A Private’s top teams and a new Fulton Leadership program. The winless Gryphons have scored only 20 points all season in a string of lopsided losses.

“FLA is a team that is still trying to find its way,” Wesleyan head coach Franklin Pridgen said. “They certainly work hard and have invested a great deal in this game. For that, they have our sincerest respect. I remember what is like to start a program from scratch.”

Wesleyan is far more advanced in its development and has the potential to make quite a run in the state playoffs. Its only two losses this season are to the top Brae two teams in the state in Class A Private — a 34-31 loss to Eagle’s Landing ChrisDavidson tian and a 21-17 loss to Landmark Christian. The program is in the state playoffs for the fifth straight year and eighth time in the past nine years.

The Wolves rebounded from the Landmark loss with a decisive, 66-17 win on the road last Friday against Strong Rock Christian. Quarterback Banks Ramsey had another big game, competing 15 of 24 passes for 263 yards and six touchdowns. He also ran for a score.

Three of those TDs went to Ramsey’s favorite target, Harrison Cook. Cook had five catches for 105 yards, returned a punt for a score and intercepted a pass. But Ramsey spread the ball around to various targets, too, including three catches for 66 yards and a score to Brae Davidson. Tripp Copenhaver was among the defensive standouts with a pair of sacks.

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Wesleyan School

MILL CREEK AT DULUTH MILL CREEK HAWKS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Shannon Jarvis Record: 9-0, 5-0 region Last week: Had a bye

DULUTH WILDCATS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Bob Swank Record: 2-7, 0-5 region Last week: Lost to Peachtree Ridge 38-20

Mill Creek will travel to Duluth tonight looking to cap off a second straight undefeated regular season. The Hawks have already locked up the region championship, but won’t take it easy on the Wildcats as they try to gain some momentum ahead of the postseason.

“We’re trying to get healthy, but also we’ve got to make sure that we’re playing well right now and get over the off week and make sure we’ve got our execution in sync. … We treat this as if our playoffs have started,” Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said. “You don’t get a warm-up to it. You’ve got to get ready to play and focus on us and that’s what we’ve been doing this past week and want to do.”

Mill Creek’s defense has been dominant this season, allowing just 11.4 points Matthew per game. Impressive for a unit that had just one returning senior from last year’s Winston state semifinals team.

Jarvis said of his 10 new starters, “I probably would have been more surprised if they hadn’t played well.” Of those new starters players like cornerback Matthew Winston and defensive ends Ayoola Ogun-Semore and David Milon have really stepped up.

They’ll have to continue this week against Duluth, which has been much-improved this season despite a 2-7 record. Quarterback Jalil El-Amin and receivers Brandon Loftin and Cortez Buckholts have the Hawks’ attention.

“Their receivers and quarterback do a great job,” Jarvis said. “They do a tremendous job in the passing game and put pressure on you every snap. … Every play they put pressure on you where they can score. They have our attention. We’re preparing for them because I do feel they’re better than the record indicates.”

Last meeting: Mill Creek won 41-0 last year Location: Duluth High School

PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN AT TOWNS COUNTY PROVIDENCE STORM (8-A) Coach: Ken Robinson Record 1-8, 0-8 region Last week: Lost to Prince Avenue 76-0

TOWNS COUNTY INDIANS (8-A) Coach: John Cornett Record: 2-7, 1-7 region Last week: Lost to Lakeview Academy 42-35

Providence Christian will close out its third full season of varsity football tonight at Towns County. The Storm won their first game this season, but haven’t been able to grab a second victory.

Seniors like Daniel Martin and David Sloan have set the foundation for the future. It’s now up to guys like freshman safety Zach Douglas and sophomore defensive lineman Connor Mymudes to help the program take the next step.

“I think we’ve been resilient in that we started out with 24 guys on the roster this year. With injuries and different situations, we’ve had to move guys around, and our kids have responded to that and done whatever we’ve asked them to do,” head Zach coach Ken Robinson said. “Just from an intangible standpoint, they’ve done that. I Douglas think we’re better.

“If you look at the overall record from 2014 and ‘15, we’ve got one victory compared to zero those previous years, but I just think overall we’re a better team. Our program is better.

The core of our guys who have made up the last three teams is the same and they’ve grown.”

Robinson hopes to see that growth tonight at Towns County, which he says is much-improved from last season with its new coaching staff. He said quarterback Trent Bradshaw and the wideouts do a good job on offense, and it will be up to his guys to make plays in space..

“As I reflect on last year’s game they did what we thought they were going to do when those onon-one opportunities came up,” he said. “It’s just a matter of are our guys going to make those plays or are their guys going to make those plays? That’s what we talked about all week, so that’s what I’m looking forward to. To see if we’ve grown in that area.”

Last meeting: Towns County won 21-14 last year Location: Frank McClure Stadium

LAKESIDE AT BROOKWOOD LAKESIDE-DEKALB VIKINGS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Cam Jones Record: 5-4, 2-3 region Last week: Beat Berkmar 44-17

BROOKWOOD BRONCOS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Philip Jones Record: 6-3, 4-1 region Last week: Lost to Norcross 21-0

Brookwood got a disappointing result last Friday with a region championship on the line, falling to unbeaten Norcross.

“It was a frustrating night in a lot of ways,” Broncos head coach Philip Jones said. “But we did some things well. Our defense played really well. Our defense played well enough to get us a chance to win. Offensively, we struggled in the red zone. We’ve got to be able to punch it in when we get down there.”

Blake Chavis (10 tackles, three for losses, four quarterback pressures), Connor Artime (12 tackles, two for losses, one sack), Adrian Sims (seven tackles, one for loss, one QB pressure), Cantorian Weems (seven tackles, one pass breakup) and Connor Guillermo Luna (eight tackles, two for losses) were among the Broncos’ defensive Artime standouts vs. Norcross.

That unit will be tested by a Lakeside offense that has been a team strength this season, even scoring 10 points against a Norcross team that shut out Brookwood last week.

“Lakeside has a very good offensive line,” Jones said. “They’re physical. They come off the ball well.

They run the ball well. They have on just about everybody all year long. They have a good running back that gets downhill. He doesn’t dance. He just gets downhill and runs well. They’ve got a quarterback who’s 6-foot-5. He stands in there, has a good arm and makes good throws if you overcommit to the run.”

Regardless of the outcome, Brookwood is locked into the No. 2 seed for the state playoffs. It will host a home playoff game for the first time since 2010, when it won the state title. A victory would be the Broncos’ seventh, their most in a season since 2012.

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Brookwood High School

DISCOVERY AT NORTH DISCOVERY TITANS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Efrem Hill Record: 2-7, 1-4 region Last week: Lost to Mountain View 38-0

NORTH GWINNETT BULLDOGS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Bob Sphire Record: 5-4, 3-2 region Last week: Defeated Collins Hill 41-7

Despite an overtime loss to Peachtree Ridge two weeks ago, the Bulldogs can lock up a playoff spot with a win tonight against Discovery after blowing out Collins Hill last week.

If Peachtree Ridge defeats Collins Hill and North wins, it will be the No. 3 seed.

If the Eagles win, then North is the No. 2 seed.

“We’ve got to take care of business Friday night just to make sure everything works out the way it’s supposed to work out in our favor,” North head coach Bob Sphire said. “It’s been a process with this young team where I feel like they’ve gotten better throughout the course of the season and really pretty much have been gaining momentum. Had a setback a couple weeks ago at Peachtree Ridge in a Matt hard-fought game against a rival, which I think actually our guys used as another Haller learning opportunity and built upon it. Made no excuses, pointed no fingers, took full responsibility on getting back on the practice field and working harder and getting better.”

North took full control on Collins Hill last week with a 33-yard interception return for a touchdown by safety Matt Haller on the first play from scrimmage. The pass was tipped by linebacker Walker House.

They’ll try to keep that momentum going against Discovery, which saw its playoff hopes end last week with a loss to Mountain View.

“We respect what we see out of Discovery,” Sphire said. “It’s obvious they’re really working over there. They’ve been very competitive; they’ve had a chance to win some games, it’s the last game of the season (for them), so I feel like they’re going to come in here playing with nothing to lose and try to go out and maybe get a signature win. Hopefully our guys are dialed in on us and getting better and getting ready for the playoffs.”

Last meeting: First meeting Location: North Gwinnett High School

FLOWERY BRANCH AT BUFORD FLOWERY BRANCH FALCONS (8-AAAAA) Coach: Chris Griffin Record: 3-6, 2-3 region Last week: Lost to Clarke Central 44-21

BUFORD WOLVES (8-AAAAA) Coach: Jess Simpson Record: 8-1, 5-0 region Last week: Beat Loganville 35-10

Buford enters tonight’s game into what could be an awkward situation — having already wrapped up its region championship, but wanting to maintain momentum heading into the postseason, especially after last week’s big win over then-state-ranked Loganville.

“It’s senior week, and our kids finally felt good energy and momentum and finally put together a four-quarter game,” Wolves coach Jess Simpson said. “We don’t want to lose that momentum, and we know the rest of the way, however long that is, is going to be tough.”

It won’t help that tonight’s opponent, Flowery Branch comes into the the game with some uncertainty, having used three different quarterbacks in its last game, Joshua but having had an off week to try to heal up. So Simpson says the Wolves’ focus Blackwell will be more inward, including maintaining another strong defensive effort, as well as a good night throwing the ball like quarterback Mic Roof and the Buford passing game had last week.

“Can we be consistent and build on the positives we had last week? That’s the big thing,” Simpson said. “Mic Roof played so well, and we threw and caught the ball well last week. And the defense played really well. We just want to be consistent.”

The Wolves also got a boost last week with the return of a major weapon in running back/defensive back Joshua Blackwell, who had been out since a preseason injury. The senior Duke commit saw only a few plays last week, but figures to play a bigger role tonight to test his readiness for the playoffs.

Last meeting: First meeting Location: Buford High School

NORCROSS AT MEADOWCREEK NORCROSS BLUE DEVILS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Keith Maloof Record: 9-0, 5-0 region Last week: Beat Brookwood 21-0

MEADOWCREEK MUSTANGS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Jason Carrera Record: 1-8, 1-4 region Last week: Lost to Parkview 49-7

While this game has absolutely no bearing on the Region 7-AAAAAAA playoff race — Norcross has already wrapped up the region title, while Meadowcreek will not qualify for the postseason — both teams have plenty to play for.

Aside from trying to close out an undefeated regular season, the task for the Blue Devils is to keep their focus in order to take momentum into the state playoffs.

“Meadowcreek always plays us well, so we have to get ready for the game and try to improve on some things before the playoffs,” Norcross coach Keith Maloof said. “One of the things we don’t want to do is take our foot off the gas. We always want to clean up some things, and clean up penalties are the biggest things we’ve got to do. We’ll have one week where we have only three penalties, and then have Keon Carter 10 the next week. Some are aggressive mistakes, which are OK, but others are self-inflicted.”

As much as penalties have been an annoyance for Maloof and the Blue Devils, a stubborn defense, led by the linebacker Monty Montgomery and safety Keon Carter, has helped cover those mistakes up by posting two straight shutouts and allowing just 33 points in Norcross’ last five games.

That will make Meadowcreek’s goals, which are to try to send the senior class out on a high note and continue the development of underclassmen like juniors Chauncey Williams and Qu’Vella Calhoun and sophomore James King, a lot more difficult.

“I had to ask Keith if he’d sent me his game films or Alabama (vs.) LSU by mistake,” Mustangs coach Jason Carrera joked. “They’ve got a whole lot of speed and talent, and we’re still kind of beat up up front. Our goals are to get some (younger) guys some work and to try to send the seniors out in a big way.”

Last meeting: Norcross won 48-16 last year Location: Meadowcreek High School

SHILOH AT ARCHER SHILOH GENERALS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Ryan Andrews Record: 2-7, 1-3 region Last week: Lost to Newton 30-0

ARCHER TIGERS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Andy Dyer Record: 3-6, 2-2 region Last week: Lost to South Gwinnett 15-14

The scenario for this key Region 8-AAAAAAA game is clear-cut: the winner goes to the state playoffs, while the loser goes home.

It’s a scenario both the host Tigers and the visiting Generals relish.

“It’s a good thing for our program for us to be in this position, and it’s something we’re trying to build to become expected (every year),” Shiloh coach Ryan Andrews said. “We’ve had a chance the last two weeks to punch our ticket, but haven’t been able to get it done. That’s part of the process. Hopefully, the third time’s a charm.”

If the third time is the charm, the Generals will have to achieve two major tasks on offense.

Julian McDuffie One is to try to keep pressure that the Tigers are able to generate from the likes of linebacker Quinn Miller and Will Choloh off quarterback D.J. Walker.

The other, and perhaps more important, is to cut down on the turnovers that have plagued them in recent weeks and put Julian McDuffie and the Shiloh defense’s backs to the wall.

“This is a game of field position and turnovers,” Andrews said. “Whoever wins those two areas will win the game. We have to let our defense make plays. When we don’t give up a short field, we’ve actually played pretty good defense.”

Short fields would be a big help for an Archer offense that has been inconsistent in recent weeks.

“When we get the chance, we’ve just got to find a way to punch it in (the end zone),” Tigers coach Andy Dyer said. “I’m pleased with the effort despite the disappointing outcome (in last week’s loss to South Gwinnett). We just have to come back out and work hard.”

Last meeting: Archer won 56-7 last year Location: Archer High School

WINDER-BARROW AT DACULA WINDER-BARROW BULLDOGGS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Heath Webb Record: 5-4, 2-2 region Last Week: Defeated Habersham Central 35-28

DACULA FALCONS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Tommy Jones Record: 5-4, 4-0 region Last week: Defeated Lanier 20-0

After wrapping up the region title last week against Lanier, Dacula will close the regular season out tonight against another playoff team in Winder-Barrow.

The Falcons have won four straight games and will look to keep the momentum going despite the lack of playoff implications in tonight’s game.

“For as long as I can remember we’ve always tried to make every week a onegame season and play the very best we can play and work the process,” Dacula head coach Tommy Jones said. “We feel like that’s allowed us to get to this point in the season right now.

“We’re going to continue to take the same approach. I feel like our focus needs to be 100 percent on Winder-Barrow this week and making sure that we play the Kenny very best we can possibly play.”

Holder Dacula’s defense has been lights out this season, including last week when it allowed just 99 yards of total offense to Lanier. Kenny Holder led the team with nine tackles, including a sack.

Winder-Barrow’s offense has been the key to its season. The Bulldoggs have scored 21 points or more in six of their nine games.

“Coach (Heath) Webb over at Winder has done an excellent job,” Jones said. “They play a really fast tempo offensively. They score a lot of points, they’ve moved the ball on everybody they’ve played and played extremely well.

“Defensively they’re high-pressure with a lot of stunts and blitzes and have the ability to give you a lot of trouble offensively because of the different looks and ways they pressure you.”

Last meeting: Dacula won 22-15 in 2007 Location: Dacula High School

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•From Page 1B had begun to show signs of precociousness under second-year head coach Blair Armstrong.

“The program was only 4 years old,” recalled Armstrong, who has moved around to new coaching jobs several times since leaving Peachtree Ridge following the 2006 season, and is now back in his hometown of Monticello, Fla., to coach his alma mater, Jefferson County High School. “And it really started my first year (in 2005) getting momentum. Peachtree Ridge was formed from Collins Hill, Duluth and North Gwinnett. For a while, you’d see people wearing shirts from their (old) schools. But for the first time, we felt like the Peachtree Ridge Lions instead of other schools.”

Indeed, the Peachtree Ridge program had shown signs of growing up rather quickly. Following a combined 2-16 varsity record after the school opened in 2003, the Lions had improved to 6-4 in 2005 and had barely missed the state playoffs as the odd team out in a four-way tie for second place in Region 7-AAAAA. In addition, through their own experiences of having grown up together and through bonding outings like movies and and an Atlanta Thrashers hockey game, the players had begun showing signs of becoming more than just a team.

“It was a brotherhood that started way before (Peachtree Ridge),” said Zach Graham, the 2006 team’s starting quarter. “A lot of us guys on that team had been playing with each other since sixth-grade recreational sports. If not together, we played against each other and knew of each other. (It) was a blessing to come together and do something so special that many

people around the state remember 10 years later.”

Of course, while team chemistry is essential to the success of a football team, it also important to have talent. And make no mistake, the 2006 Lions had plenty of it.

Graham, who went on to have a successful college basketball career at Ole Miss and is now playing professionally for a championship team called Guaros de Lara in Venezuela, was just one of several players who would make their mark in big-time college and professional sports.

Most notable among that group were defensive end Cameron Heyward — who would go on to an AllAmerican college career at Ohio State before being a first-round pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers, whom he has spent the last six NFL seasons with — and placekicker/punter Drew Butler, who became an AllAmerican punter at Georgia and punted parts of four seasons in the NFL with the Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals.

However, even the lesser-known names on the Peachtree Ridge roster had been big-time contributors to the team’s success for several years leading up to 2006.

“That was a phenomenal group of young men,” Armstrong said. “The year before, our (junior varsity) team went undefeated, and many of those kids played for that team. So, we built from the bottom up, and those kids were used to winning.”

Still, the Lions were faced with an unenviable role for the state playoffs even after posting a 7-3 regular season record, the best mark in the program’s brief history to that point.

As the No. 4 seed from Region 7-AAAAA, Peachtree Ridge would have

a literal long, tough road to the championship game by having to play away from home in each round of the playoffs, though it would only have to play one of those teams on its own home field, thanks to tougher GHSA qualifications to host a playoff games at the time.

On that road, the Lions would have to beat a Wheeler team that was enjoying the best season its program has experienced since 1997 by a 17-3 score, and then follow up with a 16-14 win over a Campbell team in the midst of its best season in a generation.

And following wins of 12-9 over Stephenson at Hallford Stadium in DeKalb County and 13-7 over Warner Robins in the state semifinals at the Georgia Dome, the Lions suddenly found themselves on Georgia high school football’s ultimate stage.

“When I think about those games (individually), it was a heck of a climb,” Heyward said. “Each of those games was a different storyline. Against Warner Robins, I’d gotten hurt and I couldn’t even play (the whole game). But the guys around me responded.

Against Campbell, we had to block two field goals to win.

“We just got really hot at the right time, and that’s all it takes. … Even now playing in the NFL several seasons, to go on the road five times and be an underdog and to be able to overcome any situation … it was just amazing.”

As amazing as that playoff run was, it will probably be best remembered for the way it ended on Dec. 16 at Walter H. Cantrell Stadium on the campus of McEachern High School in Powder Springs, and the ramifications for Georgia high school football that resulted.

Having to fight back from

South Gwinnett’s Jalen Samuels (16) returns a kickoff in Friday’s game against Archer.

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Williams, Evan Sturgill and DeAngelo Gibbs to a defense with a host of contributors like Williams, Gibbs, Owen Pappoe and Breon Dixon, to a special teams unit keyed by kicker Will Van Pamelen.

But Herron knows the Rams can’t let up against a South team that has also been executing well of late.

The Comets’ defense has been quite stout all season behind a big, strong line that features the likes of major college prospects Robert Cooper and Justin Mascoll.

And in recent weeks, the option offense run by quarterback Seth Johnston and with a host of other contributors has also begun to find its stride.

“That’s one of my biggest concerns,” Herron said.

“They’re extremely big, fast and talented on defense, and they’re well coached. The flip side is, their offense has a great scheme and their quarterback is a tremendous player. Their outside guys are very fast, too.

As the year has gone on, their offense is starting to click.”

Likewise, South coach John Small has liked how far the Comets have come as the season has progressed, and he also

GRAYSON AT SOUTH GWINNETT Grayson Rams (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Jeff Herron Record: 8-1, 4-0 region Last week: Beat Hoover (Ala.) 36-14 South Gwinnett Comets (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: John Small Record: 7-2, 3-1 region Last week: Beat Archer 15-14 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Grayson won 34-0 last year Location: South Gwinnett High School

knows it will take their best effort in order to beat a very talented opponent in Grayson.

He also knows it will take a total team effort with everyone working together to get the job done.

“I just love how they’re here for one another,” Small said of his players. “They bend, but don’t break. I love them to death. (Tonight) is a huge game, and we’ve worked hard to get in the position we’re in now. The kids have to find a way to get it done.”

a 14-3 deficit, the Lions tied the game 14-all with just under five minutes left in the fourth quarter on a touchdown run and twopoint conversion by Graham, and got the ball back as the clock ticked down.

But with 40 seconds left facing fourth and 1 at the Peachtree Ridge 38-yard line, Armstrong elected to sent Butler in to punt instead of taking the risk to try to pick up the first down.

It was a calculated decision Armstrong made knowing that at the time, the GHSA constitution and bylaws did not have a provision for overtime in a state championship game, and mandated that a tie game after regulation play would result in the two teams sharing the title.

“Everyone wanted me to go for it because (Graham was) 6-foot-6 and 210 pounds,” Armstrong recalled. “But I knew that if we punted, our defense could hold them and if we wound up tied, we’d both be champions.”

And that’s what happened, as Butler boomed a punt that pinned Roswell inside its own 20-yard line, and the Hornets knelt down to run out the clock.

To this day, it’s not clear whether Roswell’s players or coaching staff were aware of the no overtime rule like Armstrong, his staff and most of his players were.

“They took a knee, and we were like, ‘You do know there’s no overtime, right?’”

Heyward remembered.

If they didn’t, they probably weren’t alone. Most of the estimated 12,000 people in the stands were likely waiting for an overtime that never came and were disappointed. And they weren’t alone.

“A good amount of (the Peachtree Ridge) team was aware,” Butler added. “I don’t think our cheerleaders

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or band or students were.

Most of the parents probably weren’t aware, either.

You just hope (Roswell) coach (Tim McFarlin) knew.

“I was pretty bummed out. It was pretty anticlimactic. And I missed two field goals in the game, so I remembered that. I just know that if we’d played overtime, we’d have won.”

Both Heyward and Graham have expressed similar sentiments, but both, along with Butler, defended Armstrong’s decision to punt the ball away in the waning seconds.

“I trusted his judgment the entire season,” Graham said. “At that point in the game I think we all felt the same, he believed in us and we believed in ourselves and made it work. … We had worked so hard to come back and take what we came there for, then to be told there was no more play. As a competitor you come to fight and win or go down giving it your all.

We fought back to win and gave it our all but it resulted in a tie. I do understand that the rule came from a serious situation that happened years in the past so I respect that.”

It wasn’t the first time a state championship game ended in a tie, nor was it the first time Armstrong had experienced a shared state championship.

“I had the same thing happen to me at Jefferson County in 1982 when we tied Clewiston,” Armstrong said about his first state championship during his first stint has coach at his alma mater. “I’m probably the only coach with ties in state championship games in two different states.”

The Peachtree RidgeRoswell tie wasn’t the only split state championship that year, as Charlton County and Dublin played to a 1313 deadlock that same eve-

ning in the AA title game at Dublin’s famed Shamrock Bowl.

As in the AAAAA title game, there was plenty of confusion and disappointment among the players, students and fans alike following the game.

And outcry from the public, and the media, in the days and weeks that followed led to the seventh and eighth split championships in GHSA history becoming the last.

The governing body eventually amended its rules to allow overtime to determine an ultimate winner should a championship game end in a tie after regulation.

And if the 2006 Lions wind up being remembered as part of an unusual set of circumstances that changed high school football in Georgia, that’s fine by them.

However, they would rather be remembered as a close-knit team that came together to accomplish something special on the field, while providing special friendships off the field that will last a lifetime.

In fact, Hayward says his most fond memory of the 2006 season was a moment that happened weeks before the title game — a senior night gesture by his teammates to honor his father, former NFL running back Craig “Ironhead” Heyward, who had passed away after battling cancer earlier that year.

“I was so looking forward to Senior Night with my dad,” Heyward said.

“And with him not being able to be there, (the team) all stood on the sideline at the 34-yard line (signifying the elder Heyward’s uniform number) in place of my dad. That was a nice sentiment.

“We were just a closeknit group. I still keep in touch with a lot of those guys.”

The staff makes its predictions for this week’s prep winners

WILL HAMMOCK

CHRISTINE TROYKE

DAVID FRIEDLANDER

PAUL THOMAS

SCOTT SMITH

JAN AZAR*

Athens

Athens

Athens

Athens

Hebron

Athens

North

North

North

North

North

North

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Flowery Branch at Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Gainesville at Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Lanier

Grayson at South Gwinnett

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

GAC at Dawson County

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

Mill Creek at Duluth

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Norcross at Meadowcreek

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Norcross

Parkview at Central Gwinnet

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Peachtree Ridge at Collins Hill

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

P’tree Ridge

Towns Co.

Towns Co.

Towns Co.

Towns Co.

Towns Co.

Towns Co.

Shiloh at Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Lakeside-DeKalb at Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

13-0 (133-29)

11-2 (126-36)

11-2 (121-41)

Athens Christ. at Hebron Discovery at North Gwinnett Fulton Leadership at Wesleyan

Providence at Towns County

Winder-Barrow at Dacula Last week (overall)

12-1 (133-29)

12-1 (132-30)

11-2 (129-33)

*Each week’s picks feature a guest picker. This week’s guest picker is Wesleyan head girls basketball coach Jan Azar, who has led her team to 11 state championships since 2002.

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Georgia

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TODAY NEXT UPCOMING Elmira Orlando Florida 7:35 p.m.

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Tues, 7:05 p.m.

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at North Carolina at Virginia Tech Sat, 12:30 p.m. Nov. 12, 3:30 pm CW/680-AM ESPNU/680-AM

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vs. Rochester Off Nov. 11, Noon

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TBD vs. Fisher Nov. 11-12 A.I.I. Tournament

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On TV AUTO RACING

Today

12:30 p.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: AAA Texas 500, Practice. From Texas Motor Speedway. NBCSP 2:30 p.m. — NASCAR XFINITY Series: O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Practice. NBCSP 3:30 p.m. — NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Longhorn 350, Qualifying. FS1 8:30 p.m. — NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Longhorn 350. FS1

COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY

1 p.m. — ACC Tournament First Semifinal: Teams TBA. From Winston-Salem, N.C. FSSO 3:30 p.m. — ACC Tournament Second Semifinal: Teams TBA. From Winston-Salem, N.C. FSSO

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

7 p.m. — Temple at Connecticut ESPN2 10:15 p.m. — San Jose State at Boise State ESPN2

NBA

7 p.m. — Atlanta at Washington FSSE 8 p.m. — New York at Chicago ESPN 10:30 p.m. — Golden State at L.A. Lakers ESPN Saturday

AUTO RACING

1:30 p.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: AAA Texas 500, Final Practice. From Texas Motor Speedway. NCBSP 3:30 p.m. — NASCAR XFINITY Series: O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Practice. NBC

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

11:30 a.m. — Notre Dame vs. Navy CBS Noon — Wisconsin at Northwestern ABC Noon. — Vanderbilt at Auburn ESPN Noon — Louisville at Boston College ESPN2 Noon — Texas at Texas Tech FS1 12:30 p.m. — Georgia Tech at North Carolina CW 1p.m. — Clark Atlanta at Kennesaw State PTV 3 p.m. — East Tennessee State at Mercer FSSE 3 p.m. — Virginia at Wake Forest FSSO 3:30 p.m. — Syracuse at Clemson ABC 3:30 p.m. — TCU at Baylor FOX 3:30 p.m. — Florida at Arkansas CBS 3:30 p.m. — Maryland at Michigan ESPN 3:30 p.m. — Oklahoma State at Kansas State ESPN2 3:30 p.m. — Oregon State at Stanford FS1 7 p.m. — Oregon at USC ESPN 7 p.m. — Kansas at West Virginia ESPN2 8 p.m. — Nebraska at Ohio State ABC 8 p.m. — Alabama at LSU CBS 10:15 p.m. — Utah State at Wyoming ESPN2 10:30 p.m. — Washington at California ESPN

HORSE RACING

8 p.m. — Breeders’ Cup. From Arcadia, Calif. NBC

NBA

7:30 p.m. — Houston at Atlanta FSSE

SOCCER

10:55 a.m. — English Premier League: Manchester City FC vs Middlesbrough FC NBCSP 1:30 p.m. — English Premier League: Chelsea FC vs Everton FC NBC

Sports Calendar

BASKETBALL

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at North Gwinnett Middle, Bogan Park gym and Discovery High. All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

FOOTBALL

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter flag football programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Gary Pirkle Park and Rhodes Jordan Park. All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

LACROSSE

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter programs for boys and girls

ages 3 to 18 at Gary Pirkle Park. All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

SOCCER

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Buford Elite Sports Training (indoor), Gary Pirkle Park (outdoor) and Rhodes Jordan Park (outdoor). All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

T-BALL

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Buford Elite Sports Training. Early registration deadline is Friday and saves on fees. All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports. com or call 678-472-2142.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016 • 5B

Getting to Know … Nathan Oystrick Atlanta Gladiators assistant coach Nathan Oystrick joined the team this summer following a 10-year pro career as a defenseman which included a season with the Atlanta Thrashers.

Oystrick, 33, was a player/ assistant coach in Elmira last season before being selected from more than 70 applicants for the job with the Gladiators.

Oystrick was drafted by the Thrashers in 2002 and spent four years at Northern Michigan (two as captain) before turning pro in 2006. He won a Calder Cup with the Chicago Wolves, then the Thrashers affiliate, in 2007 and ended up playing 338 AHL games. Four times during his AHL career, Oystrick had more than 40 points and 100 penalty minutes for the season.

In this installment of “Getting to Know …,” Oystrick talks with staff writer Christine Troyke about a variety of topics, including his first pro goal not being very pretty, some draft-day confusion and the first car he bought for himself while he was playing for the Thrashers.

CT: Any inside scoop on Elmira (today’s opponent)?

NO: To be honest, I’m not really sure. The last time I looked at their roster, they only had one player from the team last year. They have a new coach so they’ll be playing a different system, I’m assuming. But what I learned from being in Elmira for a year is they take pride in being a hard team to play against, so we expect a grinding, greasy game.

We’re going to have to be prepared.

CT: A few weeks in, how would you rate the transition to coaching?

Easier or harder than you expected?

NO: I love it. It’s been much easier to just be focused on coaching than it was coaching, playing, being a captain, a friend. Working with Andy (Brandt), being around the same age, it’s been an easy transition. He’s helped me a ton already. I’ve learned a lot from him. Mostly how to be sarcastic.

CT: I feel like you might have already known that.

NO: (chuckling) Yeah.

No, it’s been really fun.

One of the hardest things for me, coaching, has been realizing that you’re not their friend. You want to have a good relationship with your players and be upbeat, but at the end of the day, you’re their coach and not their friend. You’re going to have to sit guys down and talk to them.

You might have to yell and scream and get in their faces a little. For me, that’s probably been one of the toughest things so far. But for the most part, it’s been going well.

CT: Some of the defensemen that were initially expected to be here are starting to filter down now from the AHL. What does that do to your daily work?

NO: I don’t know if it changes much. We’ve got a couple of guys with more experience now so that’s always nice, but the hardest part is trying to keep everyone involved. With eight D, you don’t want to have a guy sitting out for three weeks and then putting him in the lineup and saying, “OK, here’s your opportunity.” We want to try to keep everyone as fresh as we can and gameready, but at the same time, we have to win games.

There are going to be decisions on nights that myself and Andy have to make that guys probably aren’t going to be happy with.

But we have a job to do —

that’s win and help develop players.

The message is the same to all eight Nathan guys.

Oystrick None of them get treated any differently. My first few years I played under Todd Nelson and he was the same way.

I learned from him. If you play well, you’re going to play.

It’s not just one game.

There was a great quote from Jim Playfair at the coaching conference I was at (this summer). My job as a coach, if you have a bad game, is to make sure you don’t have a second bad game. And if you have a second bad game, to make sure you don’t have a third. After that, OK, it’s on you.

when you came back.

NO: It was actually really easy. Even though it was six or so years ago.

CT: What were you doing on draft day?

NO: My draft day? (laughing) I was sitting at home on the couch and the draft was on TSN. There may have been a bottle of whiskey purchased. The first three rounds were live on TV. We sat and watched and nothing happened. So I went out with friends. I ended up sleeping over at a friend’s house and my mom called his house at 7 or 8 in the morning. She’s like, “Hey, you’ve got to get home now.” Why? She said I was just drafted. I asked her to who. She said, “I don’t know. I think it was Columbus, but I’m not sure, I couldn’t understand the guy.” I’m like, did you get his name? She said no. I was like, “Well, how am I supposed to call this CT: You’ve been in a person back?” multitude of situations So I went home, called during your playing my junior coach, Mark career. Does it help the Holick, and it was probrelationship with these ably, with the time change, players because they know you’ve been in their like 6 a.m. there. We didn’t have the internet at home shoes? so I asked him, “Hey, can NO: Definitely. There you go on the internet and were times, whether it was the KHL or the NHL, find out who drafted me?”

It was Atlanta. I asked him where I felt like I should if he knew who would have been playing and I wasn’t. I’ve always been a have called. He said it positive guy. I came to the was probably Dan Marr.

I said, “Do you have Dan rink with a smile on my Marr’s phone number?” So face and worked hard and did whatever I could to get I called and luckily it was back in the lineup. At times the right team and the right phone number. it was tough going home knowing I wasn’t going to CT: How did you deplay the next day, but it’s cide on Northern Michithe reality. This is professional hockey. If you’re not gan for college?

NO: When I was in prepared to be a healthy South Surrey (for juniors) scratch or sat, then you’re my first year, Dave Shyiak, not prepared to be a pro the assistant coach at the hockey player. time, recruited me. I had CT: You’re running the some offers from other power play. Is it a hybrid teams, but I felt like they really went through the of ones you found most wall for me. At the time, effective?

I had to go back and take NO: We’ve got one summer school the folunit running a 1-3-1 and lowing year because my the other unit running an overload. I always felt hav- grades weren’t all that ing two power plays giving awesome. They helped me get enrolled and that first different looks makes it harder on the opposition to year I verbally committed to them. I had such a good defend it.

Our first group, we have relationship with Shyiak and they were awesome. a lot of skill on it. The I don’t want to say I felt second group, there is still obligated to go there, but skill, but we’ve got big at the same time, I felt like bodies and guys that can shoot the puck up top. That they did whatever they could to get me and I really unit is more get pucks to respected that. the net, crash and bang.

The other unit is more set CT: What was your it up and look for a play. first pro game like?

My message has alNO: It was in Milwauways been if you don’t kee. Chicago just found shoot the puck, you can’t out they were mathematiscore goals. The first unit cally eliminated from struggled a little bit at the the playoffs. It was kind start of the season but got of a whirlwind. I’d been better this past weekend. practicing with the team That was my message for two weeks. Coming to them — you guys are from college to pro where doing a great job passing, I didn’t even have to wear but you can’t score if you aren’t getting pucks to the a visor, my first two games net. They got a couple this I didn’t wear one and I thought it was the coolest weekend and hopefully thing since sliced bread. that builds their confiBut it was a fun game. dence. A lot of times, that’s They were out of the all the power play is, is playoffs so I got opportuniconfidence. ties on the power play and had a regular shift so it was CT: What’s your fun. hometown like?

NO: Regina? It’s cold. It CT: How about your was a good place growfirst pro goal? ing up. Lots of hockey.

NO: That was in San Baseball in the summer.

My parents did everything Antonio on a power play, a one-timer that I completely under the sun to help me missed. I flubbed it and get to where I am. somehow it went five-hole on their goalie.

CT: What are some of CT: You can’t score if your favorite places to you don’t shoot. live?

NO: Exactly.

NO: We own a house in Colorado. We’ve enjoyed CT: What was your our time there for six summers. Atlanta, we love it first NHL game? here and are thinking about NO: It was at home possibly moving down. against Minnesota. We lost Chicago was nice. I don’t and I was minus-1. There know if I can pick one. was a play at the top of the Atlanta was awesome. circles. I didn’t pinch. I just Obviously, I was in the stood still. Their forward NHL. Even coming back high flipped it over me. I now for my first official tried to jump and get it and coaching job, Lindsay and obviously missed it. Their I realized how much we guy went in on a breakaway and scored. I think missed it.

CT: And you had some that was to either take the familiarity with this area lead or tie the game.

CT: Any moments of awe that first year in the NHL? NO: At times, yeah.

When you’re playing against Sidney Crosby and (Alex) Ovechkin and you get to play with (Ilya) Kovalchuk and guys like that, there were times where, I don’t want to say I felt out of place, but I was like, wow, this is why these guys play in the NHL. They do so many little things during a game that you don’t see. It’s amazing. I was lucky enough to play in that league. I obviously wish I’d gotten to play more, but it was great.

CT: It’s the start of Movember. Any guesses on who will have the best and worst mustaches?

NO: If I had to guess the worst, I’d have to say Colin Jacobs because I don’t think he can even grow a mustache. Best? There are a lot of fuzzy faces in that room. Maybe (Brock) Higgs. He’s got the handlebar thing going already.

CT: Is it fair to have a head start?

NO: I actually chirped (goalie Matt) Ginn today about it. He said it wasn’t against the rules. I always used to start with a little bit of a base. It’s fun though.

You might look like an idiot for 30 days, but it’s for a good cause.

CT: Do you golf?

NO: I do golf. I’ve only been once since I’ve been here, which is unfortunate, but back home I probably play three times a week.

I wouldn’t say I’m awesome. My low round is a 76 and my highest this past summer was probably 95.

Just inconsistent.

CT: Is there a course you’d love to play?

NO: Augusta. But any course that’s on the PGA Tour would be cool to see what it’s like.

CT: Who would you take with you?

NO: Oooh. Gretzky.

Just to talk to him about hockey. Chevy Chase.

My dad. And maybe early 2000s Tiger Woods when he was in his heyday to actually see how amazing he was.

CT: What was your first car?

NO: Honda del Sol. 1993. Two seater. Roof came off. My dad bought it for me. The first one I ever bought for myself was a 2008 Chevy Tahoe. That was in Atlanta. My wife had a 2004 Chevy Cavalier and I just made the NHL and it didn’t really look all that proper being parked next to Kovy’s Mercedes G-wagen and the Escalades and Kari (Lehtonen)’s Porsche.

CT: Had to step up your game a little?

NO: Yeah. (grinning) I was getting weird looks.

Security guys are like, “You don’t play for the team. Come on, you’re driving a Cavalier here.”

CT: What is your preferred method for passing the time on the bus?

NO: Now that I’m a coach, I watch video.

CT: Good answer.

NO: When I was a player, it was music and movies. I’d put my headphones on and kind of zone out.

CT: What kind of music do you listen to most often?

NO: Probably ’90s rock and alternative — Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam, that sort of thing.

CT: Any favorite shows to binge watch?

NO: “The Wire” was one of our favorites. “The Walking Dead” we were kind of in and out of.

“Sons of Anarchy,” “Dexter” and “Homeland.”

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Eagles release WR Josh Huff amid legal troubles The Sports Xchange The Philadelphia Eagles announced Thursday that they have released wide receiver/kick returner Josh Huff, who was arrested on firearm and marijuana charges earlier in the week.

Philadelphia executive vice president of football operations Howie Roseman told reporters that the decision to release Huff came after discussions with coach Doug Pederson, owner Jeffery Lurie and team president Don Smolenski.

“The last 48 hours we’ve spent a lot of time discussing this as an organization,” Roseman said. “For us, we want to go through a process — gather all of the information, then sit down and make a decision that is right for the Eagles.”

Huff released a statement on Thursday after his release from the team.

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Josh Huff (13) runs with the ball after a pass reception against the Minnesota Vikings during the second half at Lincoln Financial Field.

(Photo: Bill Streicher-USA Today Sports)

“First, I want to apologize to Mr. Lurie and his family, my coaches and teammates, and all Eagles fans,” Huff said.

“I’m sorry that any action by me brought negative light to this organization.

I want to thank the Lurie family, Howie, this community and the entire Eagles

organization for the opportunity I’ve had for the past three years. Most important, I want to let the fans and community as a whole know that I understand the responsibility I have as a professional athlete, and I will take all measures necessary to correct mistakes I have made.”

On Wednesday, Pederson expressed his dismay over Huff’s actions.

“Obviously disappointed,” Pederson told reporters. “Not what you want to see on a player’s day off.”

Huff, 25, was arrested in New Jersey on Tuesday morning and charged with possession of a 9mm handgun as well as possessing a small amount of pot. The arrest occurred after Huff was pulled over for speeding on the Walt Whitman Bridge connecting Philadelphia and Camden County, N.J. “I’m a professional athlete; what professional athlete (doesn’t) have a gun?” Huff told reporters Wednesday. “I have a wife and I have a son at home.

My job is to protect them at all costs, and my job is to protect myself as well, even though I know I have security here, but I have to

protect myself as well.”

Huff, the Eagles’ thirdround selection of the 2014 draft, has 13 receptions for 72 yards and a touchdown in seven games this season.

Bills RB LeSean McCoy returns to practice Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy returned to practice as he attempts to work his way back from a hamstring injury.

While pleased with seeing McCoy back on the practice field, coach Rex Ryan remained cautiously optimistic for the 28-yearold’s availability for Monday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks (4-2-1).

Sherman blames Goodell for NFL ratings Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman took aim at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell over the NFL’s declining television ratings, saying the league

isn’t fun because the NFL is not allowing players to display their personalities.

Entering Week 9, Monday Night Football ratings are down 20 percent from last season, according to Nielsen data. The Sunday Night Football package is down 18.5 percent and Thursday games are down 21.8 percent.

“Because the league isn’t fun anymore,” Sherman told reporters. “Every other league, you see the players have a good time.

It’s a game. This isn’t politics. This isn’t justice.

This is entertainment. And they’re no longer allowing the players to entertain.

“They’re no longer allowing the players to show any kind of personality, any kind of uniqueness, any individuality. Because they want to control the product.

They want to control the messaging, etc., etc.”

Bulldogs look to regroup against UK Ga. Tech readying for UNC’s offense

By Jon Gallo

Staff correspondent

ATHENS — Georgia senior linebacker Chuks Amaechi said the Bulldogs have a simple mindset heading into the final third of their season.

“We’re just trying to keep the mentality of being undefeated each week, and try to become 4-0,” Amaechi said. “So we can become 8-4 and go to a pretty good bowl game.”

Georgia (4-4 overall, 2-4 SEC) needs to win at least two of its final four games — at Kentucky (5-3, 4-2 on Saturday night at 7:30 and at home against No. 11 Auburn (6-2, 4-1), Louisiana-Lafayette (3-4) and Georgia Tech (5-3) — just to be eligible to play in a bowl game for the 20th straight season.

The Bulldogs entered the season with sky-high expectations, but losses in four of their past five games have grounded any hopes of winning their first SEC East title since 2012. Georgia is simply trying to avoid its first losing season since a 6-7 finish in 2010, when it started a true freshman quarterback named Aaron Murray. This year’s squad is led by true freshman Jacob Eason.

Georgia, hasn’t been this bad in conference play since finishing 3-5 in league play under Jim Donnan in 1996 — the last year in which Georgia failed to play in a bowl game. However, the Bull-

Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart talks with punter Marshall Long (95) during the first half against the Florida Gators at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Fla. (Photo: Kim Klement-USA Today Sports)

dogs are focused on the present instead of a future that could have them watching the bowl season from home for the first time since Bill Clinton was in the White House.

“I’m not even thinking about it,” coach Kirby Smart said. “My sole purpose is on Kentucky, giving these kids an opportunity to go play, and have success in this game, and that’s really what we’re thinking about.”

The Bulldogs can’t afford to be as abysmal on offense against the Wildcats as they were in a 24-10 loss to then-No.14 Florida on Saturday.

Georgia rushed 19 times for 21 yards, including 20 by junior running back Nick Chubb, in its lowest rushing output since losing to Kentucky in 1996.

“We stick together,” senior center Brandon Kublanow told reporters. “We want to build a program. Coach Smart’s building a program here.

And we believe in that.

And I know there’s a bright future for UGA, and we’ve just got to keep working.”

The Bulldogs went three-and-out or four-andout nine times, with their other possession ending when the first-half clock expired, as they didn’t score after taking a 10-7 lead with 12:02 left in the second quarter.

Eason threw for 143 yards and a touchdown on 15-of-33 passing, but was again plagued by drops, just as he’s been all season. Jayson Stanley, who started his fifth game of the season against the Gators, is still looking for his first reception.

Stanley missed numerous practices this week because of an infection, while defensive tackle DaQuan Hawkins-Muckle has missed practices this week after spraining his ankle against Florida.

Fortunately for Georgia, Kentucky’s defense

hasn’t been nearly as formidable as Florida’s.

The Wildcats allow opponents an average of 30.9 points per game and have given up at least 34 five times this year.

Florida controls its destiny to win the SEC East for the second straight season largely because it has held opponents to an average of 11.7 points per game, second best in the country.

Offensively, Kentucky is averaging 28.5 points per game this season. But the Wildcats have been even more potent during their three-game conference winning streak, averaging 31.6 in wins over Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and Missouri.

Kentucky is in contention to win the SEC East and needs one victory to be bowl-eligible and secure its first winning record in conference play since 1977.

“We’ll have another opportunity this week but I have been proud of the growth we’ve made,” Kentucky coach Mark Stoops, who has failed to lead the Wildcats to a bowl game in his three pervious seasons, told reporters.

“We’re going to challenge them to continue to push forward.”

Kentucky is powered by the trio of junior quarterback Stephen Johnson (1,128 yards, 7 TDs, 3 INTs), sophomore running back Stanley Williams (109 carries, 821 yards, 3 TDs) and junior receiver Jeff Badet (20 catches, 496 yards, 4 TDs).

Local runners named all-area From Staff Reports Gwinnett’s Class AAAAAAA runners earned all-area honors after the recent Area 4-AAAAAAA and 1-AAAAAAA meets at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers.

Runners who placed first through seventh in the area meet made the first team, while the second-team runners placed eighth through 14th at area.

The all-area selections are as follows: Area 4-AAAAAAA Boys First team Patrick Smith, Brookwood Christian Corsello, Parkview Merrick Rizzo, Collins Hill Jordan Bullock, Brookwood Chase Condra, Peachtree Ridge Axel Avalos, Central Gwinnett Alex Haggard, Peachtree Ridge Second team Zunair Manzoor, Brookwood Steven Velazquez, Mill Creek Jordan Smith, Central Gwinnett Tyler Harkins, Mountain View Jackson Reilly, Norcross Bobby Tucker, Mountain View Gruem Tesfamariam, Brookwood Area 4-AAAAAAA Girls First team Mary Kathryn Knott, Peachtree Ridge Camryn Petit, Mill Creek Elizabeth Saliba, Brookwood Lauren Flynt, Brookwood Lyndsey Fowler, North Gwinnett

Reese Saddler, Brookwood Second team Maggie O’Leary, Norcross Hannah Gatland, Brookwood Jamie Freeman, Parkview Alaina Burnside, Peachtree Ridge Olivia Fuller, Mill Creek Hannah Olive, Mill Creek Alexis Carter, Mountain View Area 1-AAAAAAA Boys First team David Gunn, Grayson James Cragin, Archer Emmanuel Devore, Grayson Gabe McNett, Grayson Myles Collins, Archer Second team Daniel Robertson, Archer Kai Langston, Grayson John Klima, Archer Derrian Wright, Archer Robert Cranston, Shiloh Iyasu Binchamo, Grayson Area 1-AAAAAAA Girls First team Grace Spivey, Archer Olivia Henry, Archer Kelly Connerly, Archer Kayla Langston, Grayson Natalie Lopez, Archer Second team Emily Doyle, Grayson Molly Doyle, Grayson Vanessa Mosley, Shiloh Rowan Irons, Shiloh Sarah McCartney, Archer Eva Ross, Grayson

By Stan Awtrey Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech won’t have to worry about seeing quarterback Marquise Williams in the North Carolina huddle on Saturday. He graduated after tormenting the Yellow Jackets for the last two seasons with his feet and his arm.

But the Yellow Jackets won’t get a break. Mitch Trubisky has taken the reigns and has proven to be as formidable as Williams, who finished his career as No. 4 on the all-time ACC total offense list.

“They’re both good players,” Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. “Marquise Williams was a really good player and I think that Trubisky is a very good player as well.”

Trubisky gave the Tar Heels a peek of his ability a year ago when he completed 40 of 47 passes, an unbelievable 85.1 percent, for six touchdowns. This season Trubisky has completed 203 of 285 passes (71.2 percent) for 18 touchdowns and a 160.8 passing efficiency rating.

To put it in perspective, Trubisky is almost comparable to Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, who is being touted as a Heisman Trophy contender. Trubisky has a higher rating and trails Jackson by only 144 yards and four touchdowns.

“He’s very accurate,” Johnson said. “I think it helps that he’s surrounded by really good skill play-

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ers. But there’s no question he understands the system and he fits it well. He does a really, really good job of distributing the ball. He’s a good player. There’s no question about that.”

North Carolina’s bye advantage?: The Tar Heels will be rested and ready after an off week that gave them extra time to prepare for Georgia Tech. But coach Larry Fedora dismissed the idea that the additional week will work to their advantage.

“We didn’t have a bye week against them last year and we did OK,” Fedora said. The Tar Heels won 3831 last year.

“I think really the bye week for me is more about the health, the mental and physical health, of our football team and where it is in the season. I don’t know if you get to pick the ideal time, but for us, we really needed it. We were beat up physically and mentally and it just so happens that it gives us some extra practices on Georgia tech, so you have that that’s beneficial.”

Roster update: A-back J.J. Green will miss Saturday’s game with a right leg injury and B-back Dedrick Mills is eligible to return after clearing the concussion protocol.

IN BRIEF Ridge’s Holt commits to Ga. Southern Peachtree Ridge senior Klaudia Holt has made a commitment to the Georgia Southern swimming program.

Holt placed seventh in the 500 freestyle and 12th in the 200 freestyle at last season’s state high school championships, as well as taking second in the 200 free and third in the 500 free at the county meet. She has been a top-10 finisher at the county meet each of her first three high school seasons.

Holt, who trains with SwimAtlanta, was a firstteam all-county selection as a junior. She also has a 4.0 GPA, is a member of National Honor Society and vice president of the French National Honor Society.

Wesleyan’s Sophia Kidder to run for Mercer Wesleyan senior So-

phia Kidder has made a commitment to the cross country and track and field programs at Mercer University.

Kidder, a team captain, placed 17th in this year’s Area 2-A Private Championships.

Gwinnett Heat head to Final Four in handball Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Adapted Sports team, the Gwinnett Heat, finished off an unbeaten regular season in handball with 13-1 and 11-2 victories over the Clayton Eagles last Saturday.

The Heat will play in the American Associated of Adapted Sports Program State Wheelchair Handball Tournament on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Stockbridge.

Their semifinal opponent will be the West Georgia Wolverines, with the winner facing the Houston County Sharks-DeKalb Silver Streaks winner for the state championship.

Gwinnett is led by Meadowcreek junior Derek Clarous and Osborne Middle eighth-grader Seth Earley. McConnell Middle eighth-grader Will Millikan has played well in goal, giving up just three goals per game while the Heat’s offense scores 11 per game. Shiloh senior Giselle Zavala, Archer sophomore Sam Millikan and West Jackson Middle eighth-grader Kathy Luna also have contributed this season.

Peachtree Ridge’s Roby gets AFC honor

Peachtree Ridge grad Bradley Roby was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week after helping the Denver Broncos to a win over the San Diego Chargers.

Roby had seven tackles, two passes defensed and a 49-yard interception return for a touchdown in the victory.

— From staff reports

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INVITATION FOR BID #2017-20 FOR MARTIN FARM ROAD BRIDGE REHABILITATION & GUARDRAIL WORK AND STRIPING ON VARIOUS CITY STREETS – 2016 LMIG SAFETY PROJECTS SUWANEE, GEORGIA The City of Suwanee is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified contractors for BRIDGE REHABILITATION & GUARDRAIL WORK ON MARTIN FARM ROAD AND STRIPING WORK ON VARIOUS CITY STREETS. Sealed bids will be received by the City of Suwanee, Public Works Department, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024, until 1:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, December 1, 2016, and then publicly opened and read aloud at the “Public Bid Opening” at 1:10 P.M. at City Hall Meeting Room, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024. Any bid received after 1:00 P.M. will not be accepted. Bid envelope must be marked on the outside with Bid Number, Name of Bidder, date and time of opening and Contractor’s License Number. A 5% bid bond is required as part of the bid submittal.

Work required under the Contract generally includes traffic control, bridge rehabilitation, guardrail work, grading, shoulder work, turf establishment, and installation of pavement markings on various City streets, Suwanee, GA. Bids in the case of Corporations not chartered in Georgia must be accompanied by proper certification stating that said Corporation is authorized to do business in the State of Georgia.

Award will be made to the vendor submitting the lowest responsive and responsible bid. The City of Suwanee reserves the right to reject any or all bids as deemed in its best interest.

Interested parties should contact Nicole Schnepper at nschnepper@suwanee.com or 770-945-8996 to request a bid package, or additional information is available at the City of Suwanee Public Works Department, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee GA 30024.

CITY OF SUWANEE GWINNETT COUNTY, GA 902-453540, 11/4,16

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross, Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit: Applicant/Owner: BIAN GANGHUA Registered Agent: LI GUANG DA Business Name: CHOW KING GRILL BUFFET Location: 2055 BEAVER RUIN RD. NORCROSS, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 5 0 9 5 4 , 10/26,27,28,11/2,3,4,9,10, 11,16

PROBATE COURT ADMINISTRATION IN THE PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF GWINNETT STATE OF GEORGIA GEORGIA GWINNETT COUNTY ESTATE NO. 16-E-0001406 IN RE: ESTATE OF MARK ANTHONY BROWN DECEASED PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION NOTICE TO: ALL HEIRS AND INTERESTED PARTIES IN THE ESTATE OF MARK ANTHONY BROWN: JAMES LOUIS BROWN, has petitioned to be appointed Administrator of the estate of MARK ANTHONY BROWN deceased, of said County. The Petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond and/or grant of certain powers contained in O.C.G.A. §53-12-261. All interested parties are hereby notified to show cause why said petition should not be granted.

All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and must be filed with the court on or before NOVEMBER 21, 2016.

BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the Petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All objections should be sworn to before a notary public or before a Probate Court Clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact Probate Court personnel for the required amount of filing fees.

If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the Petition may be granted without a hearing.

CHRISTOPHER A. BALLAR PROBATE JUDGE By:-s- SYDNEY BOSTWICK Clerk/Deputy Clerk of the Probate Court 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30046 770-822-8315 9 1 9 - 4 5 1 3 6 3 , 10/27,11/3,10,17

PROBATE COURT DISCHARGE CITATION ESTATE NO. 15-C-000647 PROBATE COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY RE: ESTATE OF ISTVAN NADASI, FORMER WARD. Date of Publication, if any: NOVEMBER 3, 2016 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AND: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY REGISTERED AGENT FOR PLATTE RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY: The conservator of the above estate, has applied for Discharge from said trust.

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cause, if any they can, why said conservator should not be discharged from office and liability. All objections must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and filed with the above Probate Court, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 on or before, DECEMBER 5, 2016, said date being more than 30 days from the date of publication, or if personally served, then 10 days from the date of such service. All pleadings must be signed before a notary public or probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel at the below address/telephone number for the required amount of filing fees.

If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled for a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.

CHRISTOPHER A. BALLAR PROBATE JUDGE BY:-s- BONNIE CUSHING PROBATE CLERK/ DEPUTY CLERK 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 770-822-8350 927-452823, 11/3

LUTH, GA. 30096, 1998 GMC SAVANA G3500, VIN: 1GDHG31R2W1046828; AL’S AUTO REPAIR, 6020 BUFORD HWY. SUITE C NORCROSS GA 30071, 2002 MITSUBISHI LANCER, VIN: JA3AJ86E22U059466.

TJ AUTOMATICS & SERVICES LLC, 655 LIVELY AVE. STE- 301, NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 1998 CHEVROLET SILVERADO, VIN: 1GCEC14R8WZ181557.

QUALITY AUTO CARE CENTER, 3222 LEONORA CHURCH RD STE.200 SNELLVILLE GA 30039, 1988 MAZDA CN, VIN: JM1FC3516J0106944, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 40-11-5 929-451678, 10/28,11/4

2205 BLANK Queenie Bell 0515 household goods Ryan Kensinger 0609 household goods Davis Christopher 0404 BLANK BROWN JOHN 3119 Household furniture RICE IRENE 0304 BLANK Sisson Delores 0422 BLANK Life Changers Family Worship Center 5504 Church goods White Ronny 0110 BLANK Kyle Brogdon 0451 household goods Life Changers Family Worship Center 4103 church goods Cooper Henry 2101 Furniture Shuler Lavaine 3500 BLANK Richard Staten 3306 Blank Wagner Aaron 0528 Blank Walter Bercy 4325 Household goods Cherokee Butts 0316 mattress, boxes, bed Valerio Wilson 0448 household goods Demorrius Venquis 0226 Household goods Nicholas Brown 0212 Household goods Yong Chang 3115 Dining table, dishes, household items.

Ade Gibson 2311 Household items Kelly Nelke 0326 Household Goods, Furniture Shaunice Williams 5508 household items Wendell Lewis 3323 household items Nequana Holmes 0349 Queen mattress, end tables, lamps Yineira Hartog 4121 household, two beds, nightstands, mini fridge Dolores Carston 0224 household items, furniture Charles Pittman 0543 a few boxes Santia Registre 3411 household items Darren Hutcherson 0541 couple boxes and bags Yalunda Winters 0532 2 washer and 2 dryers table and 4 chairslamps end tables J L Bean 0616 pallets, no goods Elan Ivy 0537 household goods.

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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Barnes 1140, Ronda Crawley 1161, Carlos Knight 1154, Cedric Goodin 0803, Jamel Lee 0921, Harlem Watkins 1722, Travis Colclough 2622.

5365 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross, GA 30093: Tyrelle Hobbs 1038, John Garner, Sr. B128, Gloria Ann Williams 1060, Brittany Hutcherson A105, Bernarda Henriquez B203, Carrie Delong AA4114A, Jaylee Ortiz A106, Marcstephen Mauge B201, Cayla Moore, B115, Natazba Brock 1054, Marquita Galbreath 1080, Jillian Hearn B204, Gloria Ann Williams 1058, Remonica Peterson B112, Michael Olayiwola B223, Kalel Ibrahim 1051.

2161 Hewatt Rd., Snellville, GA 30039: Latoya Jackson 228, Anne Lawson 107, Jean Dukes 022, Mauricas Zachery 044, Tammy Brown 229, Victor Grimes 203-204, Victor Grimes 128, Shelanda Ogletree 226, Keith Wilson 237, Shynethia Russell 118, Dwayne Harrigan 246 140 Rockbridge RD NW, Lilburn, GA 30047: Kenyon Bishop 4141, Rolando Gomez 474, Travis Dennis 3147, Family Dermatology 466, Theodore Barker, Jr. 4107, Anna- Marie Bennet-Odlum 3157, Diana Williams 5001, Calvin Erby, Jr. 406 929-449787, 10/28,11/4

1HGCB7656LA111851 16 1994 Isuzu Rodeo 4S2CG58V9R4339775 17 2001 Toyota Camry Solara 2T1CF22P31C444921 18 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AK24F48E042160 19 1999 Nissan Quest 4N2XN11T3XD820118 20 1997 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D6VT834712 21 2000 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46L8YE177093 22 2015 Utility T928198 23 1998 Ford Expedition 1FMPU18L5WLB39678 24 1996 Buick Roadmaster 1G4BT52P2TR401536 25 2002 GMC Yukon Denali 1GKEK63U72J225132 26 1998 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 3 B 7 H C 1 3 Y4WG209229 27 1996 Ford F Super Duty 1FDLF47G6TEB20135 28 2004 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62K54UC23531 29 2013 Hyundai Elantra 5NPDH4AE1DH230599 30 2011 Chevrolet HHR 3GNBABFW1BS584974 31 2004 Ford Mustang 1FAFP40604F203917 32 2003 Jeep Liberty 1J4GK48K13W614699 33 2000 Ford F-150 2FTRX07L6YCA84283 34 1998 Mercedes-Benz C280 WDBHA29G2WF728208 35 1992 Lexus ES 300 JT8VK13T0N0048258 36 2005 Hyundai Elantra KMHDN46D35U983692 37 2003 Cadillac CTS 1G6DM57N030158169 38 2001 Honda Accord 1HGCG225X1A024235 39 1994 Mazda MX-3 JM1EC435XR0303005 40 1995 Geo Prizm 1Y1SK5267SZ079212 41 1998 Ford Explorer 1FMZU32E6WZA60970 42 1993 Toyota Camry 4T1SK12E1PU202121 43 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AK54F7WE050350 44 2003 Buick Century 2G4WS52J931150913 46 1996 Toyota Camry 4T1BG12K3TU671373 47 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD5636TA263951 48 1991 Chevrolet Camaro 1G1FP23E8ML147513 49 2003 Ford Econoline 1FTRE14273HA32928 50 1996 Ford Taurus 1FALP52U3TA226513 51 1999 Ford Explorer 1FMDU32E4XZA45671 52 1994 Ford Bronco 1FMEU15H9RLA79920 53 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1 J 4 G W48SX4C245526 54 2000 Toyota Corolla 2T1BR12E0YC349223 55 1998 Ford Tr u c k 1FTRX18L6WNA13810 56 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis 2MEFM75W3WX606986 929-452588, 11/4,11,18

PUBLIC HEARINGS THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held before the Norcross Board of Appeals on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM in City Hall at 65 Lawrenceville Street for the purpose of due process of the following: a proposal for a variance (VAR2016-0015) to Section 115-115- Walls & Fences, (2) b. For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-4212027.

928-453531, 11/4 City of Lawrenceville, 70 S. Clayton St., Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. Park Place Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project. Separate sealed bids for the Park Place Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project will be received by the City of Lawrenceville City Hall located at 70 S. Clayton St., Lawrenceville, Georgia until 3:00 P.M. local time on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from PreQualified Gwinnett County DWR CIP Contractors and then at said office will open and publicly read aloud. The proposed project includes site clearing, grading, excavation of existing pavement, demolition of existing concrete driveway entrances and drainage pipe and structures necessary for the installation of 2130 square yards of 3000 psi concrete for driveways, 8800 lf of 24” curb & gutter.

Bid packages are available at Lawrenceville City Hall, City Administration, 70 S. Clayton St., Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046 or on the City website www.lawrencevillega.org . To obtain further information, please email Steve Murray, Purchasing Manager, steve. murray@lawrencevillegaweb.com.

928-453020, 11/3,17 GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF VOTER REGISTRATIONS AND ELECTIONS PUBLIC NOTICE A special called meeting of the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections is scheduled on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 6:30 pm for the purpose of computation, canvassing and tabulation of the election results for the November 8, 2016 General Election. The meeting will be held in the Voter Registration and Elections Office Conference Room located at 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

Dated this 1st day of November 2016.

-sLynn Ledford Elections Director Voter110816 928-453537, 11/4 CITATION A petition having been filed

by Carl J. Frasier and Gail P. Frasier to have a section of right-of-way known as Hamilton Mill Lane abandoned as a public right-of-way, said right-of-way located in Land Lot 222 of the 7th Land District, Gwinnett County, Georgia, as more particularly described in said petition, a hearing will be held before the Board of Commissioners on November 15, 2016, at 7:00 P.M. to consider said petition. The referenced CITATION will be at the Gwinnett County Department of Support Services, Real Estate and Records Division, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045-6935 from 8:00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M., starting Thursday, November 3, 2016 through Tuesday, November 15, 2016.

Written comments should be forwarded to: Gwinnett County Government Department of Support Services Real Estate and Records Division Tom Davidson, Real Estate Specialist 75 Langley Drive Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045-6900 770-822-7069 928-453520, 11/4,10

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC SALE There will be sold at public auction on Saturday November 12, 2016 at 11:00 am the following vehicle at BOSSI AUTO SALES LLC, 4598 BUFORD HWY. STE-B. NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 2002 JAGUAR X-TYPE, VIN: SAJEA51C82WC81378, DZ MECHANIC MOTORS LLC, 3668 WILLOW WOOD WAY. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. 30044, 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan, VIN: 2D4GP44303R155781, and 2005 Chevrolet Uplander, VIN: 1GNDX33L05D264427; REYNA’S AUTO SERVICE, 3634 E. LIDDELL RD, DUL

PUBLIC AUCTION THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON NOVEMBER 12, 2016. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 12 NOVIEMBRE 2016 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com 1994 Honda Civic 1HGEJ2123RL023896 2004 Chevrolet Suburban 1GNFK16Z34J142754 1996 LandRover RangeRover SALPV1244TA324775 2012 Mazda Mazda5 JM1CW2BLXC0110119 2012 Ford Escape 1FMCU0D75CKA05904 2008 Dodge Nitro 1D8GU58KX8W167434 2009 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT57K291234737 2001 Lexus GS 300 JT8BD69S310116880 2004 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15W04LB55839 2014 Shenke YY50QT-6 Scooter L8YTCAPF1EY400776 1997 Toyota 4Runner JT3HN87R9V0117837 2013 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WF5E36D1215748 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J8GW68J92C152320 2009 Saturn Vue 3GSCL33P79S623253 1998 Ford F-150 2FTRX08LXWCA90356 2009 Ford Fusion 3FAHP02169R136401 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD5631TA127016 1998 Dodge Dakota 1B7GL22X8WS532394 2000 Honda Civic 2HGEJ6614YH540997 2003 Ford Focus 3FAFP313X3R133066 2001 Honda Accord 1HGCG16401A059989 1999 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB41D8XL104100 2008 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS58F48F100367 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AL55F367815548 929-453576, 11/4,11 On 11/15/2016 at 1:00 PM StoreSmart self storage located at 2914 Buford Dr. Buford, GA. 30519 will conduct a public auction of the following: Unit #1009 Dorothy White, Couch. Unit #1071 Lori Hill, Float, Boxes, Table.

Unit #1097 Philip Dobbelmann, Coffee Maker, Toaster, Boxes. Unit #2033 Reginald Harris, Washer, Dryer, Boxes, Bed. Unit #2036 Reginald Harris, Speaker, Tires, Vacuum. Unit #2079 Yahrdana Baskerville, Cooler, Bed, Boxes. Unit #2094 Barry Moon, Bed. Unit #2112 Janell Walker, Chairs, Boxes, Lamps, Couch. Unit #2119 Ian Green, Bike, Fridge, Washer, Boxes. Unit #3035 Christian Blythe, Couch, Dresser, Table. Unit #3082 Dierdra Baptiste, Boxes, Bike, Table.

Unit #3134 Temacca McMurtry, Bed Couch, Chair. Unit #3145 Temacca McMurtry, Washer, Dryer, Bed Frame.

Unit #4068 Alena Marbury, Table, Freezer, Boxes. Unit #4090 Shanice Barnes, Dresser, Bed, Washer. Unit # 4117 Alejandra Delacruz, Totes, Microwave, Couch.

Unit #4135 Warren Pyles, Clothes, Tires.

929-449938, 10/28,11/4 NOTICE 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: 2801 N Berkeley Lake Rd, Duluth, GA 30096 770-856-9676 November 16, 2016 12:00PM Tomira Jiles 5404 Blank Paul Poston 0524 Household goods Beasley Patrick 0704 Homegoods Steve Carter 4112 Household goods Azelia Cutts 5304 Household goods Kim Sang Tae 1101 Household goods Kelley Jay

NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Eagle Towing, located at 115 Arcado Rd. , Lilburn , GA , 30047 , 770-279-1646. Saturday November 5th , 2016 @ 11:00 am. The following vehicles, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5 as follows: 2005 Ford Taurus VIN: 1FAFP53U85A113655 Tag: PLU 5461 GA 2014 Chevrolet Cruze VIN:1G1PC5SB4E7439288 Tag: VFG 4091 VA 1999 Nissan Altima VIN: 1N4DL01D8XC101912 NO TAG 2004 Jeep Liberty VIN: 1J4GK58KX4W320757 Tag: PXK 8401 GA 1995 Hyundai Accent VIN: KMHVD14N9SU044222 NO TAG 2006 Jeep Commander VIN: 1J8HH48N66C107024 Tag: PTY 5053 GA 1999 Plymouth Voyager VIN: 2P4GP25G3XR181442 NO TAG 929-451672, 10/28,11/4 PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that on November 16, 2016, UHaul Company of Atlanta North will be offering for sale under the contractual landlords lien process by public auction the following storage units. The goods to be sold are generally described as household goods. U-Haul reserves the right to refuse any and all bids. Payment will be made in cash only. The sale will begin at 8:30 AM at 1290 Pleasant Hill Rd. Lawrenceville, GA. 30044 and continue to each location. Location stops subject to change or cancel.

1290 Pleasant Hill Rd., Lawrenceville, GA 30044: Teniqua Wright 0517-0519, Jon Foster 0317, Celeste Garcia 0300, Nikolay Etov 1157, Lester Gil 2217, Margoth Rodriguez 1043, Taneiqua Cobb 0001, Jasmin Thomas 1723, Janaya Talley 1614, Rodrick Sargent 0501, Krystal Ridley 1019, Julio Vargas 0575, Sharese Davidson 1041, Kevin Hayes 0213, Kimberly Thioye 2719-2721, Jeremy Bradshaw 320, Sarah Jackson 2638, Teddy Thomas 0203, Ali Koita 0412, Diavalo Spraggins 0323, Ninoska Pena 0318, Darnell Sharif Carston 1135, Ayrrecia Boyd 0504, Egypt Steed 1608, Ayrrecia Boyd 0508, Janet Ball 2064, Nickcho Pulce 0531, Nathaniel Nevills 0105, Toni Taylor 0609, Erika Parades 2516, John Victorian 2601, Charles Oladimeji 1239, Stephen Rogers 2242, Colin B

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: 3357 Breckinridge Blvd, Duluth, GA, 30096, (770)891-4639 11/16/2016 1:00PM Leblanc III Cleveland 2042 household goods Ethel Pruitt 1707 Household goods Shavonne Greer 3131 Household Items Demerrio Jefferson 3104 Household items Renada Chase 1121 Household goods Matthew Melchiore 0108 Household items Faith Bankston 2008 Household Michael Newman 3117 Household Items Renaldo Levy 3410 Household Items Darling Manzano 1154 Household items Brian Chestand 3618 Household Items Ama Okivie 2617 Medical files and medication Shannon Powers 0118 Household Goods Raymond Smith 1144 Household items and furniture.

Selma Grant 2004 Household items and furniture.

Linda Cummings 3303 Household goods Charles Blakeney 2119 Washer & dryer, china hutch, 2 beds Monnie Grimes 3609 Household Items Charles Blakeney 1601 Tools Gregory Johnson 3046 Household items Jose Gomez 0106 Appliances Lavette Furge 1410 Couch, kitchen table, two beds, clothes, accessories Strolley White 0096 Van vehicle Minnu Kalapala 3429 Boxes, misc household items Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-449937, 10/28,11/4 There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 W. Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA, 30518, on Saturday, NOVEMBER 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM, the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: Year Make Model VIN 1 2002 Isuzu Axiom 4S2CE58X624612863 2 2006 MercedesBenz CLS500 WDDDJ75X16A020960 3 2006 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 1D7HA182X6S673098 4 2000 Volkswagen G o l f WVWBF21J2YW294794 5 1989 Plymouth Horizon 1P3BL18D7KY445188 6 2002 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46GX2E117357 7 2007 Toyota Avalon 4T1BK36B97U237615 8 2000 Pontiac Montana 1GMDX03E3YD149622 9 1996 GMC Sonoma 1GTCS19X8T8525245 10 2000 Lincoln Continental 1LNHM97VXYY779431 11 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD562XTA067048 12 1996 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D8TT121291 13 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1 J 4 G W58S3XC521300 14 1997 Mercury Sable 1MELM50U5VA662626 15 1990 Honda Accord

ZONINGS CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville is proposing to amend the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map, as amended, to expand the area designated as Town(e) Center Commercial by adding an additional 84.58± acres containing 52 parcels to the Town(e) Center Commercial area to bring it in conformity with the area identified in the City of Snellville 2035 Downtown/Town Center Visioning and Master Plan, adopted by the Mayor and Council on 5-2-2011.

The parcels which are included in the proposed expansion of the Town Center Commercial area designation of the City of Snellville 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map are identified as being in: Land Lot 26 of the 5th District, Parcels 038, 039, 041, 041B, 041E, 041G, 138, 236, 284, and 300; Land Lot 38 of the 5th District, Parcels 002-005, 121, 131, 135, 137, 143, 147-150, 152, 154167, 174, 181-185, 187, 189, 191, and 193; and Land Lot 39 of the 5th District, Parcels 005, 006, 182, and 214.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the City’s website at www.snellville. org.

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ZONINGS

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CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville is proposing to amend the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Development Map to expand the Downtown character area as shown on the Future Development Map by adding an additional 84.58± acres to the Downtown character area to bring it more into conformity with the area identified on the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map, as amended.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the City’s website at www.snellville. org.

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public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the Cityís website at www.snellville. org.

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CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville is proposing to amend Section 4, Future Land Use of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Community Agenda, adopted 2-9-2009, to add the TC-MU (Towne Center Mixed-Use) District and TC-R (Towne Center Residential) District to the list of associated zoning districts allowed in the Towne Center Commercial Future Land Use designation and to further describe the Towne Center Commercial land use designation.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the Cityís website at www.snellville. org.

934-453513, 11/4 CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville is proposing to amend the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Development Map to expand the Downtown character area as shown on the Future Development Map by adding an additional 84.58± acres to the Downtown character area to bring it more into conformity with the area identified on the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map, as amended.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the Cityís website at www.snellville. org.

934-453511, 11/4 CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville is proposing to amend the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map, as amended, to expand the area designated as Town(e) Center Commercial by adding an additional 84.58± acres containing 52 parcels to the Town(e) Center Commercial area to bring it in conformity with the area identified in the City of Snellville 2035 Downtown/Town Center Visioning and Master Plan, adopted by the Mayor and Council on 5-2-2011.

The parcels which are included in the proposed expansion of the Town Center Commercial area designation of the City of Snellville 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map are identified as being in: Land Lot 26 of the 5th District, Parcels 038, 039, 041, 041B, 041E, 041G, 138, 236, 284, and 300; Land Lot 38 of the 5th District, Parcels 002-005, 121, 131, 135, 137, 143, 147-150, 152, 154167, 174, 181-185, 187, 189, 191, and 193; and Land Lot 39 of the 5th District, Parcels 005, 006, 182, and 214.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a

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CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville will consider an amendment (case #ZOA 16-02) to the text of the 2001 Zoning Ordinance of the City of Snellville, Georgia to adopt the following three (3) new sections: Section 9.23, Towne Center Districts; Section 9.24, TC-MU (Towne Center Mixed-Use) District; and Section 9.25, TC-R (Towne Center Residential) District.

The proposed Towne Center Districts amendment includes language governing: a) Title; b) Establishment of Zoning Districts; c) Applicability; d) Purpose; e) Text and Graphics; f) Definitions; g) Blocks; h) Lots; i) Vehicle Cross-Access; j) Streetscapes; k) Planter; l) Improvements along State Highways; m) Parking and Loading; n) Driveways; o) Design of Parking Structures; p) Loading; q) Vehicle Access and Parking Locations; r) Walls and Fences; s) Landscaping and Screening; t) Building Types; u) Building Design; v) Uses Allowed

by District; w) Specific Use Standards; and x) Storefront Street Requirements.

The proposed TC-MU (Towne Center Mixed-Use) District and TC-R (Towne Center Residential) District amendment includes language governing: a) Purpose; b) Building Types Allowed; c) Dimensional Standards; d) Building Placement; and e) Bulk and Mass.

A copy of the proposed text amendment is available for review on the City of Snellville website (www.snellville. org) and in the office of the Director of Planning and Development for the City of Snellville located in Snellville City Hall, 2nd Floor, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia. For inquiries please call the Public Information Office 770985-3517.

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said amendment and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action at a Specially Called Meeting and Public Hearing on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend the public hearings. All citizens are advised that the adoption of the proposed text amendment could affect: the use of any property located within the City; the definitions of words as applied to the zoning and use of any property located within the City; the display of any signs within the City; procedures contained in the Zoning Ordinance; and other conditions, requirements or allowed uses/items contained in the Articles of the Zoning Ordinance listed above.

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FULL TIME LAND SURVEYING Lawrenceville based land surveying firm has immediate openings for an experienced Crew Chief and Instrument Person. Send resume to bcrowe@mcnal lypatrick.com or call 770-963-8520. EOE

Construction Workers 50 temp/full time Construction Workers needed for S&D Drywall and Construction, Inc. Duluth, GA @ sddrywallconstruction@yahoo.com, from 01/09/1709/30/17 to work mult. worksites within Gwinnett and Cobb Counties, transport provided to and from worksites from a central location. No education req., 6 mo. exp. req. $14.08 hr. 7am-4pm, no O/T, Mon-Fri. Wkly pay, all deductions required by law will be made.

Duties include assist in constructing, erecting, installing, and repairing structures aligning, straightening, or squaring forms and fixtures.

Duties also include using, supplying or holding materials, tools and cleaning work area. The employer will provide workers at no charge, all tools, supplies, & equip. req. to perform the job. Employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least ¾ of the workdays in each 12 wk period of the total employment period. Transport (including meals and; to the extent necessary, lodging) to place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes ½ of the work period.

Return transport will be provided if worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer.

Apply at your nearest SWA office, typically: Gwinnett Career Center, 2211 Beaver Ruin Rd. Ste. 160, Norcross, GA 30071 Job# 780612348 Ad pd. by E.O.E. Laborers 55 temp/full time Laborers needed for S&D Drywall and Construction, Inc. Duluth, GA @ sddrywallconstruction@yahoo.com, from 01/01/17-09/30/17 to work mult. worksites within Gwinnett and Cobb Counties, transport provided to and from worksites from a central location.

No education req., 6 mo. exp. req. $12.81 hr. 7am-4pm, no O/T Mon-Fri. Wkly pay, all deductions required by law will be made. Duties include manually move freight, stock, or other materials or perform other general labor. The employer will provide workers at no charge, all tools, supplies, & equip. req. to perform the job. Employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least ¾ of the workdays in each 12 wk. period of the total employment period. Transport (including meals and; to the extent necessary, lodging) to place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes ½ of the work period.

Return transport will be provided if worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer.

Apply at your nearest SWA office, typically: Gwinnett Career Center, 2211 Beaver Ruin Rd. Ste. 160, Norcross, GA 30071 Job#772422496 Ad pd. by E.O.E.

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RET TAIL MERCHANDISER AMERICAN GREETINGS is looking for Retail Merchandisers in Norcross, GA. As a member of our team, you will ensure the greeting card department is merchandised and maintained to provide customers the best selection of cards and product to celebrate life’s events.

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Find true work related independence. I believe a career in real estate is one of the last true bastions of free enterprise for the little guy. For all intents and purposes, your boss is you. Can’t get along with the boss, there are other issues which may require an intervention with Dr. Phil! Of course, there is supervision, training, and accountability, but for the most part, you make your own schedule and your own decisions. Any opportunity can be misused; any blessing can become a curse. It is true, some people are not self-motivated.

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Changing perspective. There was a time when real estate sales were KICKOFF 2017 at the NAMAR Expo on January 19, 2017! considered an opportunity only for those retired or looking for a second or part For more information or if you’re interested in having a booth at Expo, contact: time job. With the training and career guidance now available, the perspective Ron Hawley at ron@namr.org or 770-670-6417. is changing. The business is looked at by many as a true profession.

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Four days out from Election Day, here’s a countdown of the 10 best politicalthemed television shows, according to the staff at online magazine Paste.

the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the 10. “The Thick of It,” a British satire 1980s, (2013-present), available on (2005-12), available to stream on Amazon.

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4. “Parks and Recreation,” an NBC 9. “Homeland,” a Showtime original sitcom starring Amy drama starring Claire Poehler as a midlevel Danes (2011-present), municipal bureaucrat available to Showtime (2009-15), availsubscribers. able on Netflix and 8. “Deadwood,” Amazon.

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Upscale Asian buffet Chow King opens in Norcross

a look ahead Friday, Nov. 11 • “Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus Live!” — A two-night show that continues on Saturday is hosted by the Infinite Energy Center. Tickets cost $50.

The Off-Broadway hit comedy is a one-man fusion of theater and stand-up, a light-hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times No. 1 best-selling book by John Gray. The show covers everything from dating and marriage to the bedroom, and couples are expected to elbow each other all evening as they see themselves on stage.

Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday and 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday.

• Veterans Day Ceremony — The annual event will begin at 11 a.m. to celebrate military veterans and public service personnel. The ceremony takes place at the Fallen Heroes Memorial located at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville.

Saturday Nov. 12 • Stone Mountain Chorus presents “The Music Man” Songbook — The Stone Mountain Chorus brings you “The Music of the Music Man,” a celebration of a classic American musical. The event includes the Barbershop Harmony from The Stone Mountain Chorus, our Chapter Quartets and a special appearance by Atlanta Harmony Celebration Women’s Chorus and featuring special guests, the 2015 International Quartet Champions “Instant Classic.” Event times are 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church. Tickets are $15 to $20.

Sunday, Nov. 13 • Lanier Under the Lights 5K — This 5K run/walk will take visitors through 3.1 miles of glowing Christmas light displays and the beautiful scenery that surrounds Lanier Islands. Magical Nights of Lights will be in full effect around Lake Lanier. Saturday’s race is closed. Sunday’s race is scheduled for 5:45

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Chow King Grill & Buffett 2055 Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross 470-395-3333

Crawfish and shrimp are among the items on the buffet at Chow King Grill & Buffet in Norcross. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

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Open since: Oct. 1 Owner: Yun Da Chen Location: Inside a shopping center at the busy corner of Indian Trail Lilburn Road N.W. and Beaver Ruin Road.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Friday; 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Atmosphere: The upscale Asian buffet offers 650 seats and serves 250 food items daily. The restaurant has been busy since opening, and on a recent Tuesday afternoon well past the lunch hour, Chow King Grill & Buffet, an upscale Asian buffet, opened last month in Norcross on the lobby was full of the Beaver Ruin Road. The restaurant seats 650 people and serves 250 daily food items. hustle and bustle of em-

ployees and customers.

This is the 25th restaurant that owner Yun Da Chen has opened in 30 years, General manager Gene Leong said. Chen passed by the formerly vacant shopping center space and saw an opportunity, Leong said, so he invested $2 million to remake the space and offer an upscale environment with plenty of seating to keep wait times short.

“This area has been dead for a while,” Leong said. “Mr. Chen drove by and decided to open a restaurant here.”

A market study by Chen found that in a 5-mile radius of the restaurant is some 500,000 Asians, including people who are Korean, Cambodian and Laotian.

Chen said each weekend since opening, the

restaurant has turned over those 650 seats twice each day.

The restaurant serves food from around the world, including Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and American, including pizza, crawfish, sushi, soup and dessert. Other seafood includes snowcrab, oyster, clam on the shell and flounder.

Chen owns a similar restaurant in Valdosta and one about twice the size in Orlando, Fla. He plans to open another location next year in Marietta.

Something You Might Not Know: The restaurant monthly holds a drawing for a car giveaway at the end of each month. At the October drawing, the restaurant hosted several local dignitaries, but also former NBA player Charles Oakley.

feel, and that atmosphere is evident upon entering the restaurant.

Visitors are greeted by a wraparound solid wood bar that evokes the feel of an old New York City pub or saloon with a large mirror prominently featured amid wine racks on the wall behind the bar. There is the occasional sign tucked away here and there that throws back to New York.

The menu consists of several salads, appetizers, pasta dishes, Italian baked specialties and pizzas for less than $25.

One option for an appetizer for large groups is the Garlic Knots served with a spicy marinara sauce.

Paizanos features a long list of specialty pizzas with New York-themed names, such as Hell’s Kitchen Sink, Bronx Bomber, Greenwich Village, Penn Station, Bensonhurst and Staten Island Ferry. Pizzas come in medium, large and Sicilian sizes, and prices for each size vary from pizza to pizza.

7 Jones St., Norcross. 770300-0250. www.paizanos.com

pictures of old school New York dot the walls. Wooden rafters and beams along with a dangling chandelier complete the look.

Mari’s intricate menu features a wide range of options for guests: Sicilian tastes, cheese boards, soups, salads, pizzas, pastas, specials, entrees and desserts. However, the diverse menu is a personal expression for the owners.

The numerous items represent a broad idea of a Sicilian Italian meal. Everything is from scratch, including the warm bread. Mari’s even uses semolina flour from Italy.

2100 Ray Moss Connector, Johns Creek. 770-766-5407. www.mariscucinamenu.com

GWINNETT TASTES FROM STAFF REPORTS A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: Kremo Kremo’s shop takes a minimalist approach to the traditional ice cream shop layout with white walls, wood furniture and wall decorations.

An open kitchen approach is also used at the counter where customers place their orders and see their ice cream being prepared.

Kremo serves gourmet ice cream that is rolled in a manner similar to Little Debbie Swiss Rolls (albeit without the coating). Co-owner Tom Nguyen said rolled ice cream originated in Thailand and has been around for a couple of years.

Each ice cream roll is made when the customer places his or her order, which means the preservative-free ice cream is fresh when customers receive it. Employees use natural ingredients to make each flavor, which means if a customer orders strawberry ice cream, the employee will mix in an actual strawberry with the cream.

Customers get three toppings and one sauce on their rolls, and the finished product can be served on a waffle cone, a waffle bowl or a soft dough “Kremo Bun.” 2180 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth. 470-375-8185 The 5 Spot Cafe The 5 Spot Cafe has the look of an upscale all-American cafe with an open layout, but at the same time, the yellow exterior its owners added

helps it stand out in a business area where a restaurant is a rarity.

The interior paint scheme includes yellow and two tones of gray, set off by deep red bench seats in the booths, as well as wood chairs and a multitone brick wall behind the bar area. It has a wood ceiling, and the ceiling fans hanging from it have chic cylindrical white globes over the lights.

Lovers of breakfast foods will be in luck at The 5 Spot Cafe because it serves breakfast all day.

Of course, it serves lunch and dinner menu items all day, and everything on the menu is under $13.

The owners say a wide range of dishes have been hits with customers. Favorites include the Hawaiian French Toast (it has pineapple baked into it), various omelettes, breakfast burritos, chicken Parmesan, chicken cordon bleu, meatloaf ciabatta, French dip, corned beef dip, lobster mac and cheese and the Reuben sandwich.

555 Progress Center Ave., Lawrenceville. 470-294-1456 Piatto Fresh Kitchen and Bar Piatto looks like an old house on the outside but has a modern rustic look on the inside.

The restaurant also appears from Main Street to be a one-story restaurant, but it is in fact a two-story business with a dining area on the street level and a bar and event room downstairs.

Raj Mittal, who owns the restaurant along with his wife,

and Executive Chef Morey Anderson described the menu as Italian and Mediterranean “with a twist.”

That twist comes from infusing the dishes with flavors they’ve discovered in their worldly travels. Anderson is a New York native who has also lived outside the U.S., while Mittal is a native of Nepal who spent years living in Sydney.

Most of the pastas, pizzas and salads on Piatto’s lunch and dinner menu range in price from $11 to $18, although starter dishes range in price from $1 to $12.

3140 Main St. Duluth. 678349-2845 Umaido This Japanese Ramen noodle restaurant has a range of seating options, including counters by the open kitchen that give patrons the opportunity to see their food being prepared.

It also has traditional tables for seating, as well as a long high-top table in the dining area.

Umaido’s most popular main dish with customers is its Tonkotsu Ramen Bowl. It features an original broth made from tree ear, garlic oil, bean sprouts, a seasoned half hard boiled egg, scallions, sesame and two slices of roasted pork and costs $10.

The Tonkotsu is hardly all Umaido is known for, however.

One of its best-known dishes is the Ultra Spicy Ramen bowl, which costs $11. It comes in 50 levels of spiciness so customers can test their tolerance level for hot foods before settling on a

preference.

2790 LawrencevilleSuwanee Road, Suwanee.

678-318-8568 O4W Pizza O4W Pizza is in the heart of Duluth on Main Street just over the railroad tracks and off the intersection with West Lawrenceville Street/Duluth Highway.

Anthony Spina grew up in the pizza and restaurant business in New Jersey, and when he moved to Georgia, he made it a point to keep up the family atmosphere he remembers as a kid.

He simply wants people to experience what he did growing up in a town where there were some 10 pizzerias that had been there some 60 years.

He aims to offer a place that stands out from the restaurant crowd.

That includes the restaurant’s own mozzarella cheese, croutons made from dried garlic knots and cutting fresh pepperoni and bread, among other menu selections.

Among these menu items are the Mr. DiMarco, which is Jersey Round topped with fresh mozzarella, pecorino, asiago, parmigiano, reggiano, EVOO and fresh basil ($20.50) and Sausage, pepper, onion hero, homemade Berkshire pork sausage topped with house tomato sauce ($7/11) 3117 Main St., Duluth. 678587-5420. O4wpizza.com Paizanos Italian Bistro Paizanos goes for an old school New York restaurant

Mari’s Cucina and Social House Walking into Mari’s is like stepping back in time to New York during the 1920s.

Spacious windows offer open light to the dining area, and its white walls while black tables and chairs are set off with blood red napkins. Two closed red curtains line one wall while a black and white movie plays on them, with soft music playing overhead on speakers. Black and white

Abbotts Bar & Grill Striking remarkably close to an Irish pub with its dark wood decor with green, blue and red walls, Abbotts provides a friendly, welcome persona for its customers. “Our goal is to be the neighborhood place to go,” said Ryan Ortlep, one of the owners.

Abbotts features neighborhood American-style food.

The menu is broken down into several segments: appetizers, soups and salads, steak and chicken, seafood, pasta and flat breads, sandwiches, burgers and desserts.

The full-service bar provides another wide range of options. With 10 beers on tap, a full wine menu and a full liquor menu, Abbotts also offers specialty cocktails and martinis.

10900 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 104, Duluth. 770495-7110. abbottsbar.com

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Stone Mountain Barbershop Chorus will once again celebrate the nation’s veterans and entertain their enthusiastic audiences with a concert Nov. 12. This celebration of men’s four-part harmony highlights the buoyant, melodic tunes from one of America’s most well-loved musicals, “The Music Man.” (Special Photo)

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Barbershop chorus to deliver ‘The Music Man’ Art Beat

There Was You.’” There could even be a bit of “Music Man” costuming on singers.

“There will be some ‘towns folk’ costuming done,” Phillips said. “Perhaps some will be striped or plaid jackets and time appropriate hats.”

Guest group Instant Holley Calmes Classic will perform acapella songs that are not can probably guess which from “The Music Man.” songs those will be. It will Advanced purchase be great having AHC! sing regular tickets are $18, and with us again this year. all tickets purchased at the We shared the fall show door are $20. with them last year and Groups of 12 or more, have performed with them senior adults 60-plus and at Barefoot in the Park in full-time students may take Buford this year. advantage of a $15 dis“The second half of the counted advanced purchase show will feature ‘Instant ticket price for all perforClassic’ and the closing mances. selection of songs by the The chorus is also offerchorus will wrap up the ing a limited number of “up show.” close” VIP tickets for $20.

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This celebration of men’s four-part harmony highlights the buoyant, melodic tunes from one of America’s most well-loved musicals, “The Music Man.” The festivities will take place at the Peachtree Corners Baptist Church in Peachtree Corners from 2 to 8 p.m.

SMBC’s special guest this year is Instant Classic, a group that was 2015 Barbershop Harmony Society quartet champions. Instant Classic hails from Indiana and was the surprise gold medal winner at the International Barbershop Harmony convention last year in Pittsburgh.

“The first half of the show will be 100 percent ‘The Music Man,’” SMBC representative Scott Phillips said. “The performances will be by the full chorus, plus Chapter Quartets, and very large quartets of eight voices or more. We will also have Atlanta Harmony Celebration! perform with our chorus on two of the songs.

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A former Lawrenceville resident has been doing stand-up for the last seven years, but this weekend he’ll stand before one of his toughest audiences — his family and friends.

For two days only, Mike Albanese will take the stage at the Aurora Theatre, 128 E. Pike St., not far from where he grew up. Albanese is curious to see the reactions from those who’ve never seen him in action.

“It’s kind of nerve-racking because I’m not filthy, but I speak my mind,” he said. The shows set for today and Saturday will be his first time as a headliner in the Atlanta area.

The “comedian/actor/ food junkie,” as he calls himself, is originally from Philadelphia. He attended Dyer Elementary and Creekland Middle and graduated from Collins Hill High in 2002 before studying at Valdosta State University.

Albanese said his routines are based on his life experiences, but he is usually private about certain situations. For his first time, he plans to discuss undergoing heart surgery at age 31 in 2013.

“I’ll let people know what’s been going on in my life for the last decade,” Albanese said.

He hones his skills nightly in the modern stand-up capital of the

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world when he isn’t traveling two weeks out of each month.

“My faMike vorite part Albanese of living in New York (City) is that I get to leave every couple of weeks,” he joked.

Albanese moved to the city about five years ago, and he admits it has been a grind. He produces several showcases there, but the Brooklynite is not afraid to leave his borough. He also is behind the annual Red Clay Comedy Festival in Atlanta.

Recently, Albanese performed in Chicago, and following his Georgia trip, he will head to North Carolina.

His travels have led to many opportunities including interviewing business mogul Mark Cuban and humorist Morgan Spurlock, known for his award-winning documentaries.

Over the years, Albanese has been in national commercials, TV shows and movies. He had a recurring role in the BET sitcom “The Game” and was in the 2015 comedy “American Dirtbags.”

Albanese will be showcased at the theater at 4, 5, 7:15 and 9 p.m. each day.

Tickets are $18 each.

For more information, visit www.auroratheatre. com and www.inmyownhead.com.

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movies ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ proves Gibson still has creative juice Hacksaw Ridge (R) ★★★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

Already being compared to “Saving Private Ryan,” director Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” more resembles Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” crossed-pollinated with Clint Eastwood’s backto-back “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” from 2006. The movie will also likely bring with it the crossover appeal of Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” as it can be perceived as both pro- and anti-war.

Considering what happens in the second half to Army private Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), it’s dumbfounding no one has made a live-action movie about him before. It’s worth noting that Doss was the subject of the barely seen documentary “The Conscientious Objector” from 2004 and this film (under various titles) was in “development hell” since 2001. As the title of the documentary indicates, the Seventh Day Adventist Doss was opposed to killing — even in war — and as such refused to ever pick up a weapon, even in basic training. Like most men at the time Doss was

Vince Vaughn stars as Sgt. Howell in “Hacksaw Ridge.” (Photo Credit: Mark Rogers)

compelled to volunteer to serve in World War II and believed the best utilization of his talents would be as a medic (something he was qualified to do).

When his intentions were revealed to his fellow trainees and immediate commanding officers, Doss was bullied, beaten, pushed to take a discharge and when all of that failed, a courtmartial was put in motion.

If you think you’ve been given too much plot here, rest assured — you haven’t.

After a warm and wellintended but somewhat clunky opening act showing Doss growing up with an abusive father (Hugo Weaving) and eventually falling in love with a comely nurse named Dorothy (Teresa

Palmer), the basic training chunk of the narrative kicks in and it borders on the laughable.

As with “Full Metal Jacket” it’s set in South Carolina and features a bigoted drill sergeant (Vince Vaughn as Howell) who is fond of screaming and doling out nicknames based on appearances and/or ethnic origin. After asking one guy “How long have you been dead?” he nicknames him “Ghoul.” Howell then insists a soldier of European ancestry is actually “Injun,” calls him “Chief” and belts out a mocking battle cry. The remaining dozen or so men with minor speaking parts all fit neatly into stock movie compartments: the tough guy, the

country bumpkin, the fast talker from New Yawk, the big oaf and the oddball: a pretty boy who (really) is introduced doing pull-ups in the nude. They call him “Hollywood.”

The third act takes place at the Battle of Okinawa — a full three years after the events of basic training with all of the same guys — including Howell and Capt.

Glover (Sam Worthington).

Anyone familiar with armed forces procedure knows this would be improbable if not outright impossible. Even Kubrick recognized this and the second half of “Jacket” reflected such. It’s a good bet the filmmakers and/or studio suits brought up this commercial argument: why introduce a battery of color-

ful supporting characters if they can’t be utilized for the duration? Here’s a rebuttal: it would NEVER happen in real life.

Once the battle begins, the movie really starts earning its hard “R” rating and for 20 of the 45 or so minutes spent on it, most of it clicks. Gibson and his production crew employ a bare minimum of CGI effects while presenting the battle scenes that are ballet-like in execution and gruesomely brutal. The problems start when the scenes begin to, if not repeat, begin to take on an air of sameness. There’s only so many ways you can depict a soldier getting shot or blown up and even less when showing a flamethrower in action against “Nips.” At one point Gibson breaks away from the battlefield to show a Japanese officer underground committing “Seppuku” (ritual suicide) and he gets it wrong.

After five features as a director, it would be clear that certain summations and opinions can be made regarding the Gibson’s films.

He’s won two Oscars and the four movies that have come and gone thus far have pulled in close to $1 billion at the box office with an average take of $240 million per film. That’s pretty good for non-comic book/non-franchise type of productions.

If you toss out his iffy

debut (“The Man Without a Face”), the connections between the remaining four movies are many and say a great deal about the man behind the camera.

“Braveheart,” “The Passion of the Christ,” “Apocalypto” and now “Hacksaw Ridge” are all rooted in faith with underdog leads, lots of slow-motion photography, unrelenting violence and repeated accusations of fact twisting. The many events in Gibson’s personal life (rumors of spousal abuse, anti-Semitic remarks, issues with alcohol, et. al.) turned him into an industry quasipariah and he’s essentially been out of the game for a decade.

“Hacksaw Ridge” — even with all of its shortcomings and inconsistencies — could return Gibson to his former major player status — but only if it makes a tidy profit.

“Braveheart” raked in cash and awards. “The Passion” spoke to the choir and is still the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time.

“Apocalypto” was a misunderstood gem that still managed to land in the black.

“Hacksaw Ridge” is not Gibson’s finest hour but neither is it the last gasp of a talented filmmaker on their way out. He’s still got the creative juice and hopefully he’ll find another worthy project or two before taking his final bow.

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movies ‘Doctor Strange’ might be too stuffy for Marvel fans

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Doctor Strange (PG-13) ★★★★

The movie’s arguable high water mark comes in the third act set in Hong Kong, where now-master Strange and fellow good guys Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Wong (Benedict Wong) again mix it up with Kaesilius and his goons.”

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

Arguably one of the lesser-known characters in the Marvel Universe, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is also one of its deepest in complexity. “Deep” and “complex” are good when put in the context of serious drama, but in a comic book adaptation, maybe not so much. While stuffed to the rafters with the usual Marvel CGI action sequences and pithy humor, “Doctor Strange” might be too angular — and yes, intellectually stuffy — for the generally easy-to-please, hard-toupset mammoth Marvel fan base.

Unlike Marvel stable mate Tony Stark/Iron Man, who is an egomaniacal, devil-may-care playboy, Strange is bullheaded, largely unlikeable and has a huge God complex. A prominent neurosurgeon living in posh Manhattan digs, he saves lives that should be lost and drives his Italian sports car too fast at night in the rain and suddenly realizes he isn’t as bulletproof as he’d thought.

With the important tools of his craft (his hands) essentially mangled in an accident, Strange goes through some of the typical stages of grief — anger and denial, for instance — but little resembling acceptance. After exhausting all medical options and draining his coffers, Strange decides to trek to

guys Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Wong (Benedict Wong) again mix it up with Kaesilius and his goons. Taking on characteristics of “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Groundhog Day,” director Scott Derrickson (“Sinister,” “Deliver Us From Evil”) Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Dr. Stephen Strange in “Doctor Strange.” (Special Photos: Disney/Marvel) and co-writer C. Robert more or less becomes Obi Cargill’s narrative takes the frequently tired and Wan Kenobi from “Star thread-worn time travel Wars.” shtick and turns it on its His persona not quite fully fleshed out, Strange ear.

Although her presence is given his first major challenge during a toe-to- is welcomed in every movie she in which she toe tussle with Kaesilius appears, Rachel Mc(Mads Mikkelsen), a former student of the An- Adams as Dr. Christine cient One gone rogue with Palmer barely registers here. Strange’s former runny black and purple lover and current comascara reminiscent of Tammy Faye Baker, early- worker, the Palmer character is largely ornamental era Alice Cooper and and further reinforces Marilyn Manson. They toss each other about like Marvel’s semi-boys only chew toys on sets that are club perception.

As of this week, there de facto copies of those in are no plans to make a “Inception” — buildings “Strange” sequel, although folding in on each other with landscapes taking on given the movie’s $80 million-plus opening weekthe properties of kaleiend in Europe and Asia Tilda Swinton portrays The Ancient One, left, and Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mordo the new doscopes. It’s in 3-D and last week, that decision impressive, but for those in Marvel film “Doctor Strange.” with motion sickness ten- could be a complete noKatmandu on a tip seekhead, Celtic origins and and the drill sergeant dencies, it might not work brainer. What is known for sure is that Cumberbatch ing out a less conventional an Eastern mindset. She in “Full Metal Jacket.” out well. will reprise the character cure to his ills. (actually a he in the comic It takes longer than it The movie’s arguable It is there Strange meets books) is part Morpheus should, but Strange even- high water mark comes in in “Avenger’s Infinity War Part I,” planned to drop in The Ancient One (Tilda from “The Matrix,” the tually falls in line, gets the third act set in Hong Swinton), an androgynous blind, white-eyed dude in his Zen on, settles on his Kong, where now-master May 2018.

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From left, Poppy’s best friends Fuzzbert, Guy Diamond (voiced by Kunal Nayyar), Smidge (voiced by Walt Dohrn), Mr. Dinkles, Biggie (voiced by James Corden), Cooper (voiced by Ron Funches), DJ Suki (voiced by Gwen Stefani) and The Fashion Twins, Satin & Chenille (voiced by Aino Jaiwo and Caroline Hjelt of Icona Pop) in “Trolls.” (Special Photo: DreamWorks Animation)

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Kids should adore it, but don’t let that scare you — the movie is every

By Owen GleiBerman 3-D-psychedelic inch a Reuters fairy tale for adults. It’s There are certain another antic pop-culture animated films — like, whirligig, with some of the say, “Inside Out” — that fast-moving prankishness achieve rarefied levels of of “The Lego Movie,” but feeling, imagination and it has a touching theme that head-boggling audacity. In dips into a major issue — their kid-friendly way, they namely, what’s the nature aim high and sail over the of happiness? “Trolls” is bar of their own ambithe right film to pose that tion. But in our desire to question, because it’s an celebrate them, let us not ecstatically happy movie, a overlook the unadulterated giddy EDM-kiddie musimagic of a Day-Glo ride cal that sends you out on a for tots like “Trolls.” high.

On the surface (and what A storybook prologue a surface! — it just about done in felt colorforms pops your eyes open with tells us that Trolls are “the delight), the new feature happiest creatures the from DreamWorks may world had ever known.” not be the kind of blatantly “Trolls,” though it’s always brainy and profound adult- light and fun, has nothing movie-in-toon-drag we’re quaint about its motivating accustomed to seeing from conflict: The Trolls live Pixar. Yet the enchantment like blissed-out Hobbits that “Trolls” achieves is in the middle of a woods, all too real and, in its way, but they also live in fear of

their sworn enemy — the Bergens, a tribe of giant dyspeptic ogres who are miserably unhappy but don’t want to be, and the way they’ve devised to become happy is: to eat Trolls. They do it ritualistically, once a year, on the day they call Trollstice.

The most devious Bergen is Chef (voiced by Christine Baranski), who looks like the Abominable Snowman from NBC’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” with an added touch of Carol Burnett.

The Trolls have managed to keep themselves hidden from the Bergens for 20 years, but when they hold a raging party that throws off a great big beam of light, they give themselves away, and the Bergens go on a rampage, looking for Trolls to capture and chomp.

Justin Timberlake is one of the film’s two lead actors and he does a superb job of voicing the role of

Normally Zen-like Troll Creek (voiced by Russell Brand) lands in hot water in “Trolls.” (Special Photo: DreamWorks Animation)

Branch, who’s a kind of Chicken Little/Debbie Downer among Trolls. He always thinks everything is going to turn out badly, and that attitude has made him — literally — gray, with dark hair and a slightly beetle-browed expression.

But what might have been a one-joke character (the token unhappy Troll!) here becomes something more.

Timberlake makes Branch an understated neurotic, who has good reason not to trust happiness (or even singing), and the film portrays his arc as a true journey. It’s an obvious variation on the one undertaken by Shrek in the first film of that franchise, but this one carries its own wry sense of discovery, as in the terrifically funny scene where a character known as Cloud Guy — yes, he’s a walking cloud who looks like a wad of cotton in gym socks — tries to get Branch to give him a simple high

five. It’s not that intense a demand, but Branch has too much grouchy pride to do it. You want to get him some therapy.

The director, Mike Mitchell (whose credits range from “Shrek Forever” to “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” to “Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo”), with Walt Dohrn as his co-director, keeps the jokes — and the backgrounds — in constant flux, so that in the course of one musical number the pink heroine, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) will fall through a chain of giant spider webs, only to balloon up moments later like Violet Beauregarde transforming into a giant blueberry in “Willy Wonka.” “Trolls” is ruled by the spirit of metamorphosis, most deliciously in the glorious geek romance of Prince Gristle (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), the young ruler of the Bergens, and his scullery maid,

Bridget (Zooey Deschanel), who’s secretly in love with him.

The Trolls are happy, but the Bergens, in their depressive and unkempt brown-walled village, actually want to be happy as well. What they don’t realize is that you can’t achieve happiness by stuffing your face with Trolls.

The feelings already have to be there — and, in fact, they are. That’s a lesson that Branch the faithless Troll needs to learn, too, and when he does, to a rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” the use of that song — for once!

— meshes so perfectly with the movie’s form and content that as a critic, I hereby defy you not to cry.

The movie’s message, and it’s a lovely one, is that we all have a wild-haired, beaming doll of happiness inside. “Trolls” will put you in touch with yours.

(20th Century Fox)

Rebecca Hall shines in ‘Christine’ title role Christine (R) HHHH

By michael clark Movie Critic

Imagine a low-budget version of “Network” that is based on a horrific true event and you’ll have an idea of what’s going on in “Christine.” This is a movie that puts the viewer inside the head of a reporter who — for about the same reasons as Howard Beale in “Network” — decides to go off the reservation.

Christine Chubbock (Rebecca Hall in a career defining performance) is a mid-rung, on-air field journalist working for a third-rate TV affiliate in Sarasota, Florida in the mid ’70s. Top-loaded with personal issues, Christine is a tightly wound woman sorely lacking in people skills and possesses old fashioned ideas of what makes for interesting news.

She favors quaint, upbeat, human interest “slice of life” fluff at a time when the industry is rapidly shifting towards a “if it bleeds it leads” business model.

She’s constantly at odds with station manager Mike (Tracy Letts), who only puts up with her because, as he accurately states, she’s

the soundtrack purposefully wanting and the color palate dingy. The inclusion of background TV screens covering the Watergate scandal was a nice touch, as well. They get all of the technical stuff right. It’s with the actual nuts and bolts that the film shows signs of strain.

A sub-plot where Christine puts on hand puppet shows for physically challenged children is creepy, and another where she is constantly at odds with her live-in mother Peg (J. SmithCameron) feels as if it is still in the rough-cut or rehearsal stage. The sole glimmer of hope in Christine’s life is the crush she has on George (Michael C. Hall), the exjock anchor who regularly flirts with her, yet she reacts in a manner as if she’s blowing him off.

Regarding the horRebecca Hall plays the title role in “Christine.” (Special Photo: Borderline Films) rific true event previously always the smartest person the Sarasota talents to his that comes into her head. demands it. He’s crude and mentioned … if you don’t know exactly what it is yet, in the room, a fact that is recently purchased station The slippery slope Hall blunt, but he’s doing what don’t try to find out. It is frequently negated by her in Baltimore, the collective navigates throughout is he is supposed to do. shocking and sad and will perpetual negativity and radar of the possible six beyond impressive. She siDirector Antonio not carry nearly the same surly disposition. or so candidates slips into multaneously plays the pro- Campos and screenwriter impact if you know in adAs is almost always the overdrive. One of the many tagonist and the antagonist Craig Shilowich get many vance that it’s coming. case in small TV market problems for Christine is and practically dares the things right; the most beAlthough lacking as an operations, all of the onthat while everyone else audience to find anything ing the correct capturing A-to-B story, “Christine” is air talent is looking for wisely keeps their yaps shut likeable about her. The of the time period and the employment upgrades, and and ears open, she blathers Mike character is certainly internal workings of a news mostly recommendable for Christine is no exception. on about this, that and the no day at the beach either, gathering operation during Rebecca Hall’s throttling performance. Any aspiring When Mike announces that other and it reeks of parabut he is motivated by busi- a time when the industry actors would serve themthe owner of the station noia and desperation. She ness concerns; his job as was making mega-steps selves well by watching it.

(John Callum) is looklacks a brain-to-mouth filter the manager and a partner forward. The set designs (The Orchard) ing to transfer just two of and vocalizes every thought with financial interests are appropriately tacky,

8C • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016

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‘Inferno’ film fans

Alfred Richner, Duluth

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STANDOUT PERFORMANCE

PASS/FAIL

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OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pass: As a fan of Dan Brown books, this movie felt true to the convoluted story both my spouse and I read many years ago. This installment of the Robert Langdon saga is a fast-paced puzzle by itself and had the personal benefit to have been filmed in two places we have both visited, bringing out beautiful memories. Both of us felt the movie was good, with a storyline matching quite close to what we both remembered about the book.

Fail: It has been seven long years since the last installment, thus if you were not familiar with the character and the story, you would have thought the movie was a complete mess.

Ron Howard as a director and Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon played the best cards this weird tale gave them. There were too many partial stories hard to understand their relevance that came out in furious pace in order to all come together in just two hours, giving the movie a bad rap.

All can be blamed to Dan Brown’s 578-page story.

Even though he was the main character of the movie, this one will come down not as one of Tom Hanks best acting since his TV days.

You must be a fan of Dan Brown’s novels to enjoy this movie.

Only the people who know about Dante, the Divine Comedy and love Florence would appreciate this dark psychological thriller puzzler.

Skip this one (OK to watch the DVD, but only if a fan).

Fully enjoyed the movie because I was able to finally understand the book I had read a long time ago which left me very confused and unsatisfied. With that partial mind fog similar to Tom Hanks’ in the movie, it all made sense and brought closure to a very weird story. Ron Howard’s excellent film-making skills showed with flawless portrayal of such a weird story filmed in Florence, Venice and Istanbul.

I can empathize with moviegoers that came in without any background knowledge of the story and it clearly explains the low viewer scores and bad reviews in the press. I would have rated this movie much lower star rating if without that prior story knowledge.

Pass: Good acting, particularly from the supporting cast; excellent cinematography of Florence, Italy and Istanbul, Turkey; plenty of good action and suspense at the end of the film.

Fail: Quirky film editing that makes the film a chore to watch for the first 3040 minutes; chase scenes that, while intensely entertaining at times, required a ton of suspended disbelief; the movie’s ending will surely rile a number viewers familiar with the book.

Tom Hanks is reliable as he reprises his role as symbologist Robert Langdon, but he also looks pretty tired in this third installment of the Dan Brown books made into film that began with “The DaVinci Code” and continued with “Angels & Demons.” Felicity Jones was very good as Sienna Brooks, Langdon’s hospital doctor who ends up tagging along with him as they’re chased around the streets of Florence. However, the best performance actually was by Irrfan Khan as Harry Sims, CEO of a shadowy group called The Consortium and one of the villains after Langdon, who’s trying to thwart the release of a deadly virus that is supposed to wipe out half of the Earth’s population within days.

Those who read Dan Brown’s bestsellers and saw “The DaVinci Code” and “Angels & Demons” will travel in droves to see “Inferno.” However, they probably will also be very displeased at some of the storyline changes made, and will not be happy with the way the movie ends vs. the book. The good thing is, “Inferno” stands alone pretty well so the viewer doesn’t have to rely on knowledge from the first two movies to enjoy this one.

“Inferno” is tense and actionpacked from the beginning, and is worth a matinee trip to your local cinema. However, you could also wait for the DVD.

With all the jerky-motion filming and editing at the beginning of the film, “Inferno” was taxing for me to watch during the first hour, but it eventually settled down into a pretty decent thriller. However, the idea that Langdon and Brooks could constantly outrun and outfox the sheer number of professional hunters hot on their trail was outright ridiculous at times.

Director Ron Howard did a good job with his part, and although the end result could have been a much better film, at least “Inferno” doesn’t completely go up in flames.

Pass: Good acting and an intricate, twisting plot that attempts to follow all the twists and turns in the book it is based on. The scenery at all of the various locations was excellent, especially the museums in Florence, and the mosque in Istanbul.

Fail: The story line was extremely fast paced, a bit confusing, and difficult to follow. Entertaining, but not one of Ron Howard’s best efforts.

Tom Hanks returns in this third movie, taken from Dan Brown’s latest book, as professor Langdon, and does an adequate job with his character, but I was more involved with the character of Sienna, played by Felicity Jones, as Langdon’s companion, that helps him follow the clues, a la Indiana Jones, to find the location of the hidden virus.

Any fan of Dan Brown’s series of books, beginning with “The DaVinci Code,” will enjoy this movie, but may be a bit confusing for anyone not familiar with his style. I recommend seeing the movie first, then reading the book to fill in the blanks.

The book made more sense to me.

See it now, strictly for the benefit of enjoying the scenery and scope of all the venues visited in their quest.

As for the story, you can wait for the video and not miss much.

As I said before, this is a pretty good movie, but not one of Ron Howard’s best.

The story moves around at a reasonably fast pace, with intricate clues similar to Nicholas Cage in “National Treasure,” hidden in obscure places around Europe. I always enjoy watching Tom Hanks’ work, but even he can’t save this mediocre effort. It is really hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys until the end, where the payoff is all too predictable. Worth a look but no need to hurry.

★★★★

Tim Weekley, Suwanee

★★★★

Steve Kalberg, Lawrenceville

★★★★

COMING SOON TO OWN • “Billions: Season One” (Nov. 8): A federal attorney (Paul Giamatti) sets his sights on the hedge-fund king (Damian Lewis) who employs the lawyer’s wife (Maggie Siff).

(Not rated) • “Sausage Party” (Nov. 8): Looks can be deceiving as Seth Rogen’s very racy animated comedy that looks at life of groceries in a supermarket isn’t for kids. (R) • “Finding Dory” (Nov. 15): In the sequel to DisneyPixar’s animated “Finding Nemo,” fish Dory (voice of Ellen DeGeneres) sets out to find her parents. (PG) • “Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season” (Nov. 15): The fate of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is a major element of this most recent round of the hugely popular HBO series. (Not rated)

DISC SPOTLIGHT MICHAEL CLARK

Bad Moms Blu-ray (R) Movie: ★★★★ Disc: ★★★★ Earning five times its budget at the box office, “Bad Moms” is also the kind of movie to become a monster best-selling home video title. A chick flick on the surface, it’s a profane, sexually frank, “girls gone wild” sort of affair as well. The overworked and underappreciated Amy (Mila Kunis) decides to take an extended time out. Along with two other similarly frustrated mothers (Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn), Amy lets her down and decides to get in the face of PTA battle-axe Gwendolyn (a perfectly snide Christina Applegate).

Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.40:1/1080p), audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS-HD MA 7.1), subtitles: English, French and Spanish.

Special features include: • Digital and UV copies • Additional DVD disc • Gag reel • Deleted scenes • Cast & Mom interviews • First edition slipcover packaging (Universal, $34.98)

• “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years” (Nov. 18): The Ron Howard-directed documentary compiles footage of the Fab Four’s live performances in the mid-1960s. (Not rated) • “Mechanic: Resurrection” (Nov. 22): A former assassin (Jason Statham) must carry out three kills to ransom his new love interest (Jessica Alba). (R) “Hell or High Water” (Nov. 22): Two brothers (Chris Pine, Ben Foster) who feel they have no choice but to commit robbery are chased by a Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges). (R) • “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” (Nov. 29): Jennifer Saunders (also the writer here) and Joanna Lumley reprise their television roles as the high-living Edna and Patsy. (R)

NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films by movie critic Michael Clark now playing in metro area theaters.

• Inferno (PG-13) — 2 stars The third and probably last in director Ron Howard’s series of hack Dan Brown novels is easily the worst of the bunch and even the loveable Tom Hanks can’t save it. Deviating greatly from the book, the story is as deep as a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery.

• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG-13) — 2 1/2 stars A competent if unspectacular follow-up to the equally disposable original, “Never Go Back” stars Tom Cruise as Jack, a former Army cop who is drawn into a situation involving a female officer and a teen who might be his daughter.

• Keeping up with the Joneses (PG-13) — 2 1/2 stars Set and shot in Atlanta, “Joneses” so wants to be

Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff in “The Accountant.” (Special Photo: Warner Bros.)

“The Whole Nine Yards” or “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” but is really just “Spy Kids” for adults. Jon Hamm, Gil Gadot, Isla Fisher and the untalented Zach Galifinakis star as the four co-leads.

• The Accountant (R) — 2 1/2 stars Given its odd premise — an autistic bookkeeper doubling as an assassin — it’s surprising “The Accountant” works as well as it does.

Using his limited range as a plus, Ben Affleck plays the title character. Co-starring J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick.

• The Birth of a Nation (R) — 2 1/2 stars In the works for over a decade, director/writer/ leading man Nate Parker’s “Birth” is a fact-based story of a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 that gets high marks for passion and acting but is

also a cornucopia of genre clichés and recycled ideas.

• Denial (PG-13) — 3 stars Based on a true story, this courtroom drama set in the late 1990s/early 2000s involves an Emory professor (Rachel Weisz) who is being sued by a Holocaust denier (Timothy Spall). The film would’ve been better if it also included what happened after the trial.