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Lawrenceville resident Elizabeth Allen holds a sign protesting hate during the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday. Allen was one of more than 100 people who showed up to protest Commissioner Tommy Hunter’s comments about U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Democrats on Facebook. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

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Protesters call for Tommy Hunter to resign after he calls John Lewis ‘racist pig’

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Gwinnett Commissioner Tommy Hunter came under fire from residents and civic leaders during the county commission’s meeting on Tuesday as they demanded he resign over disparaging remarks he made about U.S. Rep. John Lewis.

Hunter posted several comments on Facebook over the weekend that referred to Democrats as “Demonrats” and called Lewis a “racist pig.” Several speakers, including leaders of local and state civic and political groups, rejected Hunter’s effort to apologize for the remarks during the meeting.

Several speakers said Hunter not only showed disrespect for Lewis in his posts, but also for people who live in his district.

“His behavior is inappropriate, disappointing and is not demonstrative of community leadership,” Veronica Jones told the commission during public comment. “In fact, it demonstrates poor judgment and a lack of self-control necessary to represent all of his diverse constituents, especially those that do not agree with his ideals.”

The controversy surrounding Hunter’s comments brewed

Eastside Medical Center hopes to expand its surgery department.

The Snellville hospital’s plans are in limbo right now, pending the approval of the Georgia Department of Community Health.

Eastside submitted an official Certificate of Need to the department Jan. 12 describing its intentions for the project, according to documents obtained by the Daily Post.

Now, officials will need to wait 120 days while the department decides whether to accept or deny the proposal.

If it’s accepted, Eastside will spend about $4.5 million building a new operating room that will be used for both inpatients and outpatients.

About 30 days before submitting its Certificate of Need for the project, Eastside sent the Department of Community Health a letter of intent. That letter spelled out the center’s hope for its new project.

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$14M savings expected on new bonds

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett Commissioner Tommy Hunter listens as residents call for his resignation over disparaging comments he made about U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Democrats on Facebook during the Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday.

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throughout Monday and Tuesday as it became a national news story, and calls for the commissioner to resign or be denounced by his colleagues grew. Some local people called

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His behavior is inappropriate, disappointing and is not demonstrative of community leadership. ... it demonstrates poor judgement and a lack of self-control necessary to represent all of his diverse constituents ...”

— Veronica Jones, public commenter at Tuesday’s commission meeting

Hunter’s remarks a disgrace to the county.

“I and other Democrats are

calling on Mr. Hunter to resign,

Gwinnett County leaders expect to save $14 million on debt owed for the construction of Coolray Field after commissioners voted to take out new bonds that cut the interest owed on the stadium nearly in half.

The Board of Commissioners voted to issue new Development Authority bonds for the stadium to Raymond James and Associates. The bond measure is a sort of refinancing of the debt owed on the stadium in that county leaders will use proceeds from the sale of the new stadium bonds to pay off the debt from the original 2008 stadium bonds.

The county will still owe debt on construction of the Gwinnett Braves home field, but it will now have a significantly lower interest rate.

“Our current interest rate on the 2008 bonds is approximately 6.25 (percent) and with this new interest rate of 3.27 percent, the county can expect to achieve savings of about $600,000 annually,” Chief Financial Officer Maria Woods said. “Over the life of the remaining term of the bonds, debt service savings is about $14 million.”

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A man will spend life in prison for his part in the brutal rape of a woman outside a Norcross Mexican restaurant in 2013.

Marvin Leonel Sanchez, 20, was a 16-year-old Norcross High School student when he lured a then-33year-old woman outside of the Mexican restaurant on Buford Highway with two other teenagers at about 3

a.m. Sept. 28, 2013.

Sanchez along with Kevin Dominguez and Victor Cruz-Ramirez — 18 years old and 16 years old, respectively, at the time — allegedly convinced the woman they planned to share cigarettes with her. Instead, the group dragged her across the parking lot into some bushes.

“They beat the victim with their fists and took turns sexually assaulting her,” authorities said at

the time.

Sanchez urinated on her, according to the district attorney’s office The woman ran naked to a nearby apartment complex to get help after the attack. She left her shoes behind and was covered with bruises and cuts, said the DA’s office. She also vomited blood after she was taken to a sexual assault center.

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“made a reference to Mara Salvatrucha,” the full name of MS-13, an international street gang from El Salvador with a history in Gwinnett County.

But none of the three faced any gang-related charges. Instead, all were charged with rape, kidnapping, sodomy, aggravated battery and false imprisonment.

A jury convicted Sanchez Friday of kidnapping, sodomy and battery, but acquitted him rape, aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment.

Still, Judge Karen Beyers sentenced him to life in prison for the kidnapping followed by 25 years for the aggravated sodomy.

“During the sentencing, Beyers pointed out this was the worst case she has seen in her eight years as a judge and in her many years as a defense attorney,” according the DA’s office.

The sentence was a result of Sanchez’s second trial. He was also tried in October, but the proceedings were declared a mistrial, according to court documents.

It took less time to put Dominguez behind bars.

He was sentenced to 90 concurrent years in prison and life on probation after he pleaded guilty to rape, kidnapping and two counts of sodomy Feb. 2, 2015.

Cruz-Ramirez has yet to be tried in the case, according to court records.

transportation has an unclear future

only 15 percent of districts’ student transportation costs in the 2016 budget year, compared to 39 percent in A recent study on student 2000 and 49 percent in 1996, transportation costs gives an Suggs said.

One reason for the decline already grim situation for local school districts an even is the state provides only a small portion of its own cloudier transportation formula, outlook. which determines how much The each district should receive.

Georgia In addition, the numbers the Budget and Policy state uses to determine how many students should be alInstitute and Claire lotted transportation money are old. Statistics on regular Suggs, Claire Suggs a senior education students are at least 20 years old for 70 diseducation policy analyst, recently tricts and the same is true for released a report that said the special education students in Education Reform Commis- 80 districts.

The alarming part of the sion’s recommendations call issue, according to the refor eliminating the current port, is to offset the shortfall, grant program that sends transportation dollars to dis- school districts divert local revenue from classrooms tricts, and instead shifts the to cover transportation grant money to the general expenses. Districts compenper-student amount allotted sated by using local revenue to districts. for transportation expenses Low funding levels that instead of in the classroom are well-known to local as a result of declining state school district officials would be locked in, and the support.

Suggs suggests that shortchange would pose lawmakers can prevent new long-term financial chalfinancial hardship for school lenges for districts. districts if they keep student The issue is routinely transportation funding as a discussed several times a year in public meetings with separate program in any new funding formula for public Gwinnett County Public schools.

Schools officials.

This would account for Last month, CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks varied transportation costs among districts and state said when he became charter schools. Lawmakers superintendent in 1996, the district received $6.7 million can also ensure districts do not have to continue shiftto support an enrollment of ing local money from the about 83,000 students. The classroom to running school current budget figure from the state budget to Gwinnett buses by developing and funding a plan to increase for transportation is $5.7 million for an enrollment of state support for student transportation.

178,000.

The state mandates that The GBPI report said the districts bus students to and state accounts for 5 percent of Gwinnett’s transportation from school. That carries an obligation to cover its share funding. of the cost.

State money paid for

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Railroad crossings in Lawrenceville closed for repairs

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Barrow Regional Medical Center is now

Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow.

Railroad crossings in Lawrenceville at Maltbie and North Clayton Street were closed on Tuesday because of maintenance and construction work.

A city official said the crossings would be closed for about three to four days each, but could be longer because of weather or other factors.

“We would like to thank everyone in advance for their understanding and cooperation during the project,” Lawrenceville spokeswoman Marci Gross said. “Please follow the posted detour signs or seek alternate routes and plan to add additional time to your commute.”

Questions or comments about the project are directed to Lawrenceville’s Director of Public Works Dennis Billew at 770-277-7531.

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Small fire ignites inside Suwanee pet boutique

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began in a display case at the back of Pooch N’ Paws on Town Center Avenue.

He said the store’s sprinA few employees and kler system was mostly two dogs escaped uncontaining the flames when harmed after a small fire firefighters arrived at about ignited in a Suwanee pet 8:40 a.m. They were able boutique Tuesday morning. to bring the fire under con“There was no injury to trol by 8:52 a.m. the animals and no injury “I would say there to the employees,” said was minor fire damage,” Gwinnett Firefighter Capt. Rutledge said. “But there Tommy Rutledge. is damage by smoke and Rutledge said the the fire water to that one business.”

The blaze may have been small, but it was hard to miss in Suwanee’s town center. A spokesperson from the Suwanee Police Department said the fire brought out at least three fire trucks. At the same time, firefighters evacuated one person from an apartment on top of the pet boutique’s suite, just in case, Rutledge said.

It’s unclear at this time what caused the flames.

By Keith Farner

Pediatrics at Emory from 1993 until 2007.

Freed received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Pittsburgh before he earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Des Moines University in 1973. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and was a general pediatrician in private practice for nine years before he finished a fellowship in neonatology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Brunswick, N.J. Freed and his wife have been married for 48 years, and have two daughters and four granddaughters.

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An active member in state and national organizations involved with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has joined the Suwanee campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Gary E. Freed is a clinical professor in Clinical Education, and has a special interest in infant apnea, safe sleep and SIDS. Freed is on the board of directors for Safe Kids Georgia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing unintentional injury in children.

In 1990, Freed became

a faculty member at Emory University School of Medicine.

He Gary E. Freed served as director of the Term and Intermediate Care Nurseries at Grady Memorial Hospital until 1996, when he started the Apnea Center at Egleston Hospital in Atlanta. In 2001, he began a 10-year stint as director of the Pediatric Sleep Laboratory before he devoted his time to infant apnea and to teaching. Freed became a full-time professor at Emory in 2002. He was the Clerkship Director for

Gwinnett resident nominated to be commissioner of DDS

By Keith Farner

Officer of the Georgia DepartA Gwinnett resident ment of and Morehouse College Economic graduate on Tuesday Developwas nominated to be the ment and Spencer R. new commissioner of the the execuMoore Georgia Department of tive direcDrivers Services. tor of Georgia Allies.

Gov. Nathan Deal made Moore has served as the nomination for Spen- the deputy commissioner cer R. Moore to replace since December 2012. current Commissioner Moore’s worked in state Bert Brantley, and it’s government for 20 years, pending approval from including 14 years with the Board of Driver Serthe Governor’s Office of vices. Brantley is being Highway Safety, where tapped as Chief Operating he served as the deputy

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director of the agency for six years. Moore’s state career began as a parole officer with the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.

He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association and Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.

Moore also serves as a national highway safety expert for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

AAA: Gas prices trickling down

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Gas prices in Georgia are

down by nearly two cents from last week, but they are still up from where they were a month ago, as cuts in oil production continue,

according to AAA. The auto club announced the average price of a gallon of unleaded gas in Georgia was $2.243 on Monday.

That’s down slightly from an average of $2.258 a week ago, but up from the approximately $2.19 average seen a month ago. A year ago, Georgia drivers saw an average price of about $1.82 at the pump.

The national average on Monday was $2.343, compared to $2.369 a week ago, $2.229 a month ago and $1.91 a year ago.

“Gas prices are beginning to follow that downward trend we are used to seeing in January, as gasoline demand typically hits its lowest point of the year,” AAA — The Auto Club Group spokesman Mark Jenkins said in a statement. “It’s possible prices could slip another 5-10 cents by the end of the month, but continued volatility in the price of oil could play spoiler.”

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Medication, treatments have some limitations DEAR DR. ROACH: Your recent response to a woman who, later in life, experienced “people talking to me” was that she was having auditory hallucinations and that she should go to a doctor right away, “as there is very effective treatment to stop the voices and get your life back.”

If there really is such treatment, what is it? My son, diagnosed with schizophrenia at 18, has had voices screaming at him for 25 years now. He has had excellent medical attention, taken every drug known and never has had any relief. Promising effective treatment (for anyone and everyone) seems like a stretch. But if there really is a magic cure, would you mind sharing this info with me (his mother)?

— Anon.

ANSWER: I am very sorry to hear about the difficult time your son has had. I also am very sorry for implying that schizophrenia always can be successfully treated.

Unfortunately, “very effective” treatment is not the same as perfectly effective treatment; there are people whose schizophrenia cannot be successfully controlled.

There is no “magic cure.”

There are treatments that help the majority of people with schizophrenia, but I can’t suggest anything that hasn’t probably been tried in 25 years of doctors who know more about him, and more about schizophrenia, than I do.

There are conditions that current medical science is able to successfully treat or even cure in the majority of people — even in the vast majority. Unfortunately, I have seen people die from cancers that should have been curable, and from infections that people aren’t “supposed” to die from. It is a humbling experience.

If I have made it seem like I have all the answers, I apologize, as I don’t.

DEAR DR. ROACH: You recommended estrogen cream for UTI problems. I had breast cancer, and it was estrogen-positive. I was on tamoxifen for six years; it is an estrogen blocker. As a result, I am reluctant using any medicine that pertains to estrogen. Do you think this cream is safe to use in spite of my history of estrogenpositive breast cancer?

— R.E. ANSWER: To be specific, I recommended considering estrogen cream in post-menopausal women who have recurrent urinary tract infections due to vaginal atrophy.

Although a recent opinion by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology stated that “Data do not show an increased risk of cancer recurrence among women currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer or those with a personal history of breast cancer who use vaginal estrogen to relieve urogenital symptoms,” neither I nor they recommend using any kind of estrogen preparation, vaginally or by mouth, without a thorough discussion with the woman’s oncologist. Nonhormonal treatments certainly should be tried first, and the risks of estrogen need to be carefully balanced against the possible benefits.

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Couple should be smarter than their phones DEAR AMY: My husband and I each got an iPhone recently.

We each downloaded the “Find My Friend “app.

Ever since then, he has been tracking me when I go out, saying that he is “testing” the app.

I know this because the app occasionally does not work and when I get back home, he asks me repeatedly if I have turned it off, which I have not.

I suspect that he is “testing” this app more frequently then he admits to.

I have no problem having this app on my phone, and never go anywhere that I don’t want him to know about, but I think it is very creepy that he can track me.

I have asked him not to use the tracking app and to call me if he needs to get hold of me, and only if he is seriously concerned about my safety.

He thinks this is irrational and unreasonable. He brought up the possibility that I must be doing something that I don’t want him to know about. I’m not.

I am usually just running errands.

Am I wrong? I feel like I am being stalked.

—M DEAR M: You feel like you are being stalked, because you are being stalked. This is a “voluntary stalking,” because you deliberately downloaded the app, but all the same,

phone” be smarter than you are.

If your husband doesn’t like your choices regarding your right to run errands without revealing your every move, then too bad.

You trust him to conduct his day according to his own judgment, and he needs to trust you, too.

Amy Dickinson Your shared naivete concerning this technology you should not submit to is understandable; his acit. cusation is troubling.

You should either use DEAR AMY: I am a the “hide” feature or 42-year-old single woman. delete this application, I have been divorced for which makes it possible five years, but have yet to for people in your network find my Mr. Right. to learn your location, A co-worker set me up to stalk you, to rob your with a man about eight house while you are away months ago. We are both (if your husband’s phone at a very good place in life is lost or stolen, your loca- and are very picky, so findtion will be revealed). Un- ing “the one” has not been less you and your husband easy for either of us. are planning to attend He has been divorced for a music festival where four years and has not had you will need to find one any serious relationships another in a crowd, there is since his divorce. no reason for you to have Over the past eight it. months, he has made his You should also consid- intentions clear, through his er turning off the location actions (not words), that he tracker on your phone, does not want a relationwhich can additionally ship with me, but that he reveal your whereabouts enjoys my companionship (without you being aware and sex. of it). This is more of a Amy, should I stick threat to your security than around and see if he will a protection. eventually “fall into” a relaYou and your husband tionship with me, or should are both new to this, but I walk away? We have so what you need to adjust to much fun when we are tois the very real relinquish- gether, but getting together ment of your personal has not been regular and it freedom (and data). Please is always on his terms. don’t let your “smart— Don’t Want

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to Give Up Dear Don’t: As you state, this man has made it very clear that he does not want to have an exclusive and committed relationship with you.

If you are enjoying being this man’s “Miss Right Now,” then you should freely take whatever he offers and enjoy yourself.

However, if you are hoping to find “the one,” then you should keep looking. There is nothing preventing you from enjoying his company while still trying to meet and date other people, and you should assume he is doing the same.

DEAR AMY: I liked your answer to “Bent out of Shape,” whose husband refused to clean out his car — until his pastor suggested it.

I agree that she should stop doing this chore for him. If she follows your advice, she will be more serene about a situation she cannot control.

— A Fan DEAR FAN: She should also refuse to ride in his car, if at all possible.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Don’t overreact to what others say or do. Follow your heart and make the changes that suit your needs.

An opportunity to make a financial move looks promising.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — How you handle other people’s affairs and questions will determine what you will be offered in return. Keep your suggestions straightforward and practical in order to reap the rewards.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Impulse can land you in a dangerous position. If you want to see things change, go about it the right way. Following protocol will enhance your chances of success.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — You’ll feel passionate about your beliefs. Your ability to be articulate and knowledgeable will attract followers.

Speak up and take your place as a spokesperson in order to make a difference.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Explore new avenues, but don’t break the bank in order to do so. Taking time out for younger or older relatives will show how you can make a difference frugally.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — An emotional situation at home will bring about an unexpected change to your lifestyle or finances. A unique approach to handling such situations is favored. Love conquers all.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — With a little extra effort, you can reach your goal.

A short trip or a visit with someone informative or encouraging will give you the boost you need to forge ahead.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Interact with people you can relate to.

Make a point to share ideas. The results will be good for you as well as your associates.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Emotions will surface, giving rise to confusion and difficulties communicating or getting your point across. Don’t force issues. Go about your business and strive to reach personal goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Take on a challenge that encourages you to strive to be your best. A physical change will turn out better than anticipated. Romance is featured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Deception and disillusionment will be at the helm of a disruptive situation. Keep your dialogue simple, honest and reflective of the facts, and avoid making assumptions. Truth and fair play will be required.

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world&nation world Istanbul gov.: Club shooting suspect confesses to crime A man arrested in Turkey has confessed to carrying out the deadly New Year’s gun attack at an Istanbul nightclub, the city’s governor has said.

“The terrorist actually said that he did it,” Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin told journalists Tuesday.

Sahin identified the suspect as Abdulgadir Masharipov from Uzbekistan. He was born in 1983 and was educated in Afghanistan, Sahin said.

The attack at the Reina nightclub left 39 people dead and dozens more injured after a gunman opened fire in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Police in Istanbul have arrested a suspect in the deadly New Year’s Eve attack on the Reina nightclub along with four others, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu.

war on isis

Pentagon readies aggressive plans

By Barbara Starr CNN

The Defense Department is prepared to provide the new administration with military options to accelerate the war against ISIS in Syria that could send additional U.S. troops into direct combat, CNN has learned.

These options would inherently increase the risk for U.S. troops compared to what President Barack Obama was willing to accept.

The options will be ready for President-elect Donald Trump to consider as soon as he takes office and would be presented by James Mattis as the new defense secretary and Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They would have the final say on any details being briefed to the new president for his approval.

Options to deal with other hotspots, including Iran, are also being prepared, according to the defense official.

Underwater The options had already search for MH370 been worked up by the plane suspended military during the Obama administration, but the The underwater search for authorities to carry them Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 out were never approved by has been suspended nearly President Barack Obama. three years after the plane New authorizations by vanished without a trace Trump, needed to act on over the Indian Ocean, acany of the proposals, would cording to a joint statement mean the U.S. is expanding from Chinese, Australian both its military strategy and Malaysian officials. on fighting ISIS and signal The three countries had been leading the search for MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, Schumer: Price with 239 people on board.

“Despite every effort may have broken using the best science availthe law in stock able, cutting edge technoltransaction ogy, as well as modeling Senate Democratic and advice from highly Leader Chuck Schumer skilled professionals who said Tuesday that Donald are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has Trump’s pick to quarterback the replacement of Obamnot been able to locate the aircraft,” the statement said. acare, Tom Price, may have Voice370, a support group broken the law with a quesfor family members of those tionable stock purchase. aboard the flight, released a “If he knew about it, it statement expressing their could very well be a violadisappointment. tion of the law,” Schumer “Commercial planes told CNN. “Now they say cannot just be allowed to there’s a broker; it’s kind disappear without a trace,” of strange that this broker the statement said. would pick this stock totally independently of him introDrone’s operator ducing legislation that’s so narrow and specific to this detained for company.”

Schumer also called for flying near plane an investigation of Price Chinese authorities have after CNN reported that taken a dim view of a close Price bought up to $15,000 call between a commercial worth of stock in Zimmer drone and a passenger plane. Biomet — a medical device The footage, shows the maker — and then introairliner descending for duced a measure that would landing, apparently taken have directly benefited the from the perspective of the company. One week after unmanned drone, flying Price bought the stock, he by at close range. Chinese put in a measure that would state media reports that have delayed a new regulathe drone’s pilot has been tion that would have harmed detained by police. the company.

The airport police at “This is a very narrow, Hangzhou Xiaoshan Interspecific company that dealt national Airport in Zhejiang with implants — hip and province investigated the knee — and the legislation footage, which appeared on specifically affects implants.

QQ, a popular instant mesHe puts it in a week after he saging app. buys the stock? That cries A briefing from the Zheji- out for an investigation,” ang Provincial Police states Schumer told CNN. that a 23-year-old Xiaoshan An aide to Price said that local launched the drone to the stock was purchased film the sunset. by a broker without Price’s “The drone ascended to knowledge at the time. This 450 meters and filmed mul- explanation led Schumer to tiple scenes including several offer the caveat that Price civilian airliners passing broke the law “if he knew by. The aerial shoot lasted about” the purchase before around 10 minutes.” introducing the bill.

— From wire reports Also on Tuesday, Ver-

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The Defense Department is prepared to provide options for President-elect Donald Trump to accelerate the war against ISIS in Syria that could send additional U.S. troops into direct combat, CNN has learned. (CNN)

the Trump White House is willing to take on increased military risk. None of the options being discussed contradict positions taken by Mattis publicly at this point.

Discussing ISIS on the campaign trail, Trump pledged to “bomb the s—t out of them.” And in September, he said, “I am also going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction: They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for defeating ISIS.” U.S. military planners and intelligence officials have now mapped virtually every airstrip and location in Syria that might have to be used

by U.S. troops, according to

the official directly familiar with the details.

One option would put hundreds, if not thousands, of additional U.S. troops into a combat role as part of the fight to take Raqqa.

Depending on progress in arming and training the full Syrian Democratic Forces — a local fighting force — in the coming months, the Pentagon could put several U.S. brigade-sized combat teams on the ground, each team perhaps as many as 4,000 troops.

There is no consensus on the size of any U.S. deployment being proposed, because a final decision on how many to send would depend on what is done with

issues like arming the Kurds, who are also US partners in the fight.

The U.S. troops would not enter Raqqa but would focus on territory outside the city, calling in airstrikes and controlling roads and towns around Raqqa.

In addition, heavily armed U.S. Special Operations Forces could be put in a direct combat role for the first time, beyond their current mission to advise and assist local forces.

Another key option is for Trump to authorize the Pentagon for the first time to arm Kurdish fighters, who would be used to control villages and roads around Raqqa.

people Sunny Pawar, star of ‘Lion’ meets with Obama One of Hollywood’s newest and brightest young stars, Sunny Pawar, met with President Barack Obama at the White House Monday to highlight an initiative focused on helping children in India.

Sunny, 8, who stars in the critically acclaimed film “Lion,” was in Washington to raise awareness for #LionHeart, a social impact campaign supporting the more than 11 million children living on the streets in India, according to a press release from The Weinstein Company.

Pawar captured hearts at the Golden Globes this month, introducing “Lion” with co-star Dev Patel.

Onstage, Pawar beamed at the audience holding his co-star’s hand before being lifted up to adorably announce, “This is our movie ‘Lion!’”

Fonda, Parton to present Tomlin with SAG

This year’s SAG Awards will also serve as a “9 to 5” reunion.

It was announced Tuesday that costars Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton from the hit 1980 movie will present Tomlin, who was also in the film, with the SAG Life Achievement Award at the 23rd annual SAG Awards.

Tomlin is being recoggence agencies after their nized for her extraordinary conclusion that Russia had career in Hollywood. Tomhacked the U.S. election in lin can add this to her many an attempt to undermine Democratic candidate Hill- accolades, which include two Peabody Awards, six ary Clinton.

“What is not healthy is for Emmy Awards, a Grammy a party or its leaders to cast and a 2014 Kennedy Center doubt on a unanimous, well- Award.

“Tomlin has been a cherdocumented assessment of our intelligence community ished star in the entertainthat a foreign government is ment firmament since she joined the groundbreaking seeking to harm our countelevision series ‘Rowan try,” Power said. and Martin’s Laugh-In’ in Citing Russia’s invasion Almost 100 false killer whales became stranded on a of Crimea, it’s interven1969, when it was rated the remote beach in Florida over the weekend, the largest No. 1 show and watched tions in Syria and Ukraine mass stranding of the mammals in the state’s history, by over 25 percent of all officials said on Monday. (NOAA Fish Southeast twitter) as well as what she called American television viewits meddling in European embedded in the mangroves, democracies, Power warned ers,” a statement from the mont Sen. Bernie Sanders SAG Awards said. “She and the National Oceanic and that a balance had to be was set to meet with Price Atmospheric Administration struck between cooperating the colony of characters she later Tuesday afternoon, said. with Russia where possible, created have continued to one day before Price is set Of the 95 whales spotwhile confronting the threat evolve, grow, deepen and to testify before Congress, adapt to this day, as Tomlin ted, 82 have died: Most died it poses in a clear-eyed CNN has learned. expresses her talents in on their own, while about fashion. nearly all forms of media.”

10 beached animals were More than 80 euthanized by scientists after Obama to travel false killer whales being found in “extremely to Palm Springs Lady Gaga die in Florida poor” condition.

Almost 100 false killer whales became stranded on a remote beach in Florida over the weekend, the largest mass stranding of the mammals in the state’s history, officials said on Monday.

Stuck in the mangroves, most of the animals either died or had to be euthanized.

Despite their threatening name, false killer whales largely feed on fish and cephalopods and are part of the dolphin family. The mammals are known to travel in large groups.

On Saturday, officials found 95 of them stranded near the western boundary of Everglades National Park, north of Highland Beach.

They ranged from young calves to mature adults, which can weigh about 1,500 pounds.

Efforts to herd the animals into deeper water were unsuccessful, as the mammals had become deeply

Obama U.N. rep rips Russia, rejects attack on intel agencies

after inauguration practicing for Super Bowl in President Barack Obama own backyard

plans to travel to Palm Springs after the inauguration Friday, White House Press Secretary Josh EarU.S. Ambassador to the nest said Tuesday.

U.N. Samantha Power on “The first family is Tuesday rapped Presidentlooking forward to flying elect Donald Trump for his to Palm Springs, Calif., defense of Moscow and on Friday,” Earnest said, delivered a stark warning noting the desert city fits about Russian efforts to the bill of a warm destinaundermine the international tion, which Obama has long order. promised.

Power’s remarks, at the “He and his family have Washington-based Atlantic enjoyed the time they Council, are just the latest spent there in the past, and warning by outgoing Obama they’re looking forward to administration officials traveling there on Friday,” of the need to be wary of Earnest added.

Russian intentions as Trump Obama will fly aboard repeatedly asserts his desire the presidential aircraft to for better ties with Moscow, the Coachella Valley oasis, sometimes criticizing U.S. where he’s taken frequent intelligence services in the golf trips as president, two process. sources familiar with his Power made indirect plans told CNN earlier reference to Trump, who Tuesday. denigrated U.S. intelli— From wire reports

You can get a sneak peek of Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime performance if you score an invite to her house.

The pop superstar has built a stage in her Southern California backyard to rehearse. And since it’s Gaga, we are not talking a little stage.

The singer posted a snippet of a video on Instagram showing her and her crew in front of a large white tent.

“SuperBowl Rehearsal is so fun,” the caption reads.

“We built a tent in my backyard with a dancefloor to practice! We love you monsters, can’t wait to perform for u!”

The Super Bowl will be Sunday, Feb. 5, at NRG Stadium in Houston.

— From wire reports

Ohio’s Colo, the oldest gorilla ever on record, dies at 60

By Alex Leininger

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said. “She was an ambassador for gorillas and inspired people There’s been another gorilla She was 60 and lived two deto learn more about the critically death at a zoo in Ohio. And while cades longer than most gorillas. endangered species and motithis one is of natural causes, it’s She leaves behind an extended vated them to protect gorillas in no less heart-breaking. family, including three children, their native habitat.”

Colo was the oldest gorilla 16 grandchildren, 12 great-grand‘The coolest animal’ ever on record and the first to be children and three great-greatColo wasn’t nearly as wellborn in human care. She died in grandchildren. known internationally as Haramher sleep at the Columbus Zoo “Colo touched the hearts be, the 450-pound gorilla at the early Tuesday. of generations of people,” the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed by CNN

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zoo personnel after a 3-year-old boy fell into its exhibit in May. But she meant a lot to zoogoers in Columbus.

Kayla Strother shared a photo of Colo and her daughter. “She just walked up to the glass and wanted to touch my baby,” Strother wrote. “She was kissing the glass and everything.”

Colo’s name, an abbreviation of Columbus, Ohio, came from a

national naming contest.

Last year, she celebrated her 60th birthday surrounded by thousands of fans.

“She was the coolest animal I’ve ever worked with, and caring for her was the highlight of my career,” said assistant curator Audra Meinelt.

She will be cremated and her ashes buried at an undisclosed location in the zoo.

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Ben Carson: Role model for people, government During his Senate confirmation hearing, Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Developmentdesignate, told a story. He said his mother was a domestic who cleaned beautiful homes.

One day she asked him if he would rather live in those nice houses or the house in which he and his brother lived in Detroit. She told him that only he could decide the type of home he would eventually live in by how much he studied in school and the choices he made for his life.

Thus motivated, Carson said he went from last in his class to first, and people who used to call him “dummy” Cal started asking him Thomas for help with their schoolwork.

He also said people used to tell his mother she could receive welfare payments, but she refused them, believing she could make it on her own without the government.

Carson said people on welfare are not “bad people,” they just don’t know any other life. He said he wants to take a “listening tour” of America to find out from people how best government can serve them and by implication how much more they can do to help themselves.

Stories about overcoming adversity, discrimination and poverty should be at the heart of the incoming Trump administration. It isn’t that government is all bad, as Carson stated, but that government is doing things it should not be doing. That is why it has become bloated, dysfunctional and detached from everyday Americans.

Carson spoke of the poor as “human capital.” When was the last time anyone said something like that?

Possibly it goes back to the days of HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, who did what Carson proposes by showing up at public housing projects and listening to the people who live there.

Everyone has a story. Some are very sad stories, but they don’t have to be the final chapter in one’s life. Bad conditions can be bettered. Inspirational stories like Carson’s can lead to change.

The rap against Carson is that he has no government experience. That should be considered an asset, not a liability. Unlike many top government officials who have enjoyed a life of privilege, Carson knows what it is to grow up in poverty.

That experience will count as he travels around the country telling people how they might overcome their circumstances today instead of someday.

Ben Carson is one of two people who could be this administration’s and the Republican Party’s greatest asset when it comes to reaching the poor. The other is Secretary of Education-designate Betsy DeVos, whose strong advocacy for school choice can liberate poor children from failing public schools, giving them a decent education, which is the ticket to success for anyone. Perhaps DeVos can make her own tour of failing public schools and shame those Democrats who have refused to let underprivileged children escape, while sending their own children to elite private schools.

Two quotes from Carson reflect an attitude that will serve him and the people who need decent housing well. One is: “It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”

The second is: “Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.”

Ben Carson could be the role model those striving to better themselves have been waiting for. Let’s wait and see.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Gwinnett students lead by example Some of the behavior and name-calling we’re hearing and seeing this week may make you question the direction our society is headed.

But a quick look around Gwinnett County and what students of various ages are doing should make you feel a little better.

On an individual level, a Grayson High School student is the impetus behind the Lawrenceville Police Department’s Bridge the Gap Forum, which will be held on Thursday night as a way to promote dialogue between police and the community.

On a school level, students from the Lanier cluster participated last week in a leadership conference which also focused on diversity and being inclusive.

In both cases, the message is about finding ways to bring people together, regardless of their backgrounds. If only more adults could buy into the same concept.

Todd Cline Editor Ephraim Kum is the student from Grayson High responsible for helping come up with the concept of Thursday’s forum in Lawrenceville. Kum, 18, wanted to do something to promote better race relations. He found an avenue for that by working with Capt. Tom Wallis with the Lawrenceville Police Department.

Their work together has resulted in the forum, which will feature a panel made up of two law enforcement officials and two civic members.

The event, which will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday on the fourth floor of Law-

renceville City Hall, will also include feedback from residents who attend.

“My hope was that it would just promote a desire of collaboration and peace in the community,” Kum said. “And it’ll spark future forums and other collaborative events.”

Most of the students at the Lanier leadership conference held last Friday at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center are younger than Kum. With older students from Lanier High serving as mentors, the partipants learned about how to relate to and how to forgive others.

Because of the tensions the country is currently feeling, school officials said the conference also added elements of diversity and inclusivity into the conversation. The theme of the conference was “One Voice, One Community, Lanier Cluster Schools.”

More than 150 students, ranging from third-graders to

seniors in high school, took part in the conference, which is held in high regard by the kids.

“The children really feel important and really have an opportunity to feel like part of something greater than themselves,” said Crystal Cooper Johnson, who is principal of Sycamore Elementary.

For older students like junor Austin Paschall, it was a chance to also pass along knowledge to the younger kids. He said the basics of leadership aren’t that complicated but sometimes the implementation can be.

“Being a leader is more than just telling people what to do,” Paschall said. “It’s about connection with other people and actually listening to them.”

And trying to find some common ground.

Email Todd Cline at todd. cline@gwinnettdailypost. com. His column appears on Wednesdays.

Republicans set to dismantle Obama legacy The Obamas have said their goodbyes to America.

The president and first lady have made their rounds on the late-night shows.

President Obama delivered his farewell speech the other night on national TV. It was one of his best. The man knows how to write and deliver a speech. No one can ever deny that he’s good with words.

Unfortunately, what President Obama actually accomplished as president is another story.

For the past few weeks his liberal friends in the media have been desperately trying to come up with a list of his lasting accomplishments.

Obamacare, “saving” the economy from the Great Recession by spending trillions of federal dollars and issuing executive orders to please liberal voting blocs top the list of his domestic legacy.

But if Donald Trump and the Republicans keep their word, Obama’s domestic “triumphs” won’t last more than a few months.

Obamacare will soon go the way of HillaryCare, President Trump will trump Obama’s executive orders and a semblance of fiscal sanity will return to Washington.

Michael Reagan President Obama’s real legacy is the bloody mess his foreign policy left us in the Middle East.

His teary-eyed friends don’t like to bring up the civil wars, the Syrian bloodbath, the rise of Isis, the global threat of radical Islamic terrorism or the shabby treatment of Israel when they review his record.

No wonder. The Middle East — a mess Obama inherited but made much worse — will cause the United States and future presidents trouble for decades.

No one can deny that President Obama and the First Family have been tremendous role models for the entire country.

The president has shown what it means to be a good father and husband.

First Lady Michelle Obama has charmed the pants off

everyone with her grace and strength and she and her husband have raised their two daughters into fine young women.

But during the last eight years, one of the things that has been most disappointing to me was that President Obama didn’t use his own life and his family as examples to be emulated by blacks in the inner cities.

For more than half a century the federal government’s harmful social welfare policies have done serious damage to the black family, allowing fatherless “families” to exist and making drug gangs places where many black boys find their male role models.

As the president, as a respected hero to every black person in America, as a good father and family man, President Obama was in a unique position.

He should have constantly sent the message of the importance of strong families to the inner cities.

He should have worked tirelessly and publicly to end the deadly black-on-black gang violence in Chicago and other cities.

But our first black president said and did virtually

nothing to address the serious social, economic and law enforcement troubles of the inner cities.

It’s a shame he didn’t spend more of his spare time working to solve the problems of the cities and less time screwing up the Middle East and playing golf.

I remember the night he was elected in 2008. I was watching the celebration on TV when a reporter asked a young black teenager what he had learned from Obama’s victory.

The kid — who was dressed almost like a gang member — said, “what I learned tonight is that if I put on a suit and tie and get an education I can grow up to be anything I want to be.”

That kid got the message.

But eight years later thousands of black kids are still shooting each other in Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore and elsewhere.

If President Obama had paid more attention to the inner cities, things might be better today — and he’d have a lasting legacy to be proud of.

Email Michael Reagan at Reagan@caglecartoons.com.

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Marian Gayle Brown Marian Gayle Brown age 92 of Dacula, GA; passed away on January 10, 2017.

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Royce Bunn, Sr. Mr. Royce E. Bunn, Sr. died January 16, 2017.

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Visitation will be held on Friday January 20, 2017 from 1:00pm until 8:00pm and on Saturday from 8:00am until prior to the funeral service. The funeral service will be held at 1:00pm Saturday January 21, 2017 at the chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with Rev. David Byess officiating. Interment at Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers that served: Charles Anglin, Chuck Anglin, Stacy Hall, Bob McLelland, Macko Parks, and Steve Kirk.

The family will accept flowers but prefer donations to be made to a charity of your choice.

Cagle Funeral Home is honored to serve the Byess family. Online condolences may be made at www. caglefuneralhome.com.

Betty is preceded in death by her parents, Leonard J. and Effie Mae Cody, her stepdaughter, Nique’ Leili, Mother-in-Law Gilmer Chatham, Father-in-Law Hugh Chatham, and her beloved canine companions Mack, Murphy, Abby, Daisy, and Buttercup.

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Ann is preceded in death by her parents, Wallace and Mary Newman and siblings Walter and Thomas. She is survived by two daughters Betty (Bob) Moon, Valdosta, GA; and Faye (Jimmy) Henning, Nicholasville, KY; three grandchildren, Sarah (Danny) Rathel, Macon, GA; Joshua (Chrissie) Moon, Louisville, KY; and Anna (Nick) Watts, Lexington, KY; and four great grandchildren, Sophia, Madelyn, Caleb and Winston. A memorial service will be held at 11 AM Thursday, January 19, 2017 at First United Methodist Church, Lawrenceville, GA with Dr. Bill Burch officiating. Memorial gifts may be made to the Music Ministry, First UMC Lawrenceville, GA or the Hope Clinic, Lawrenceville, GA.

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Betty Hughes Betty Holcomb Hughes, age 79, of Buford, GA passed away Monday, January 16, 2017. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wiley Holcomb and Bonnie Holcomb Phillips; sisters, Grace Grogan and Sara Mauldin Scott. She is survived by her husband of sixty years, William “Bill” Hughes, Buford, GA; children, Teresa and Waymon Wilson, Buford, GA, Terry and Terry Lynch Hughes, Doraville, GA, Dottie and Robby Corley, Covington, GA; grandchildren, Karen Baker, Shannon McDaniel, Teasha Hughes, Billy Hughes, Niki Norberg, Cassey Corley, Lee Oliver, and Rachel Oliver; fourteen great grandchildren; brother-in-law, Harold Grogan, Lawrenceville, GA; sisters-in-law, Kathryn Powell Hughes, Buford, GA, Sue Harrison Hughes, Buford, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Hughes was born December 28, 1937 in Winder, GA. She was a retired seamstress and a member of New Prospect United Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Ron Cansler officiating. Interment will follow at New Prospect United Methodist Church Cemetery in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends Wednesday evening, January 18, 2017 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the

James Nathan Manders, age 5 of Bethlehem, GA, passed away on January 12, 2017. Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Road SW Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. 770962-3100. stewartfh.com

cal Center Lawrenceville, with special gratitude to Dr. Louis Heller, Peggy Lyden, Barbie Kozlowski, and Brandi Turner for their loving care and support.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel, 3705 Highway 78 West, Snellville, GA. A service to celebrate Minnie Lou’s life will be held at 2:00 pm Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Poplar Tent Presbyterian Cemetery, 6841 Poplar Tent Road, Concord, NC 28027. She will lie in state from 1-2:00 pm in the church fellowship hall prior to the funeral service.

Interment will follow in the Poplar Tent Presbyterian Church Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Minnie Lou McCorkle to the Cemetery Fund at Poplar Tent Presbyterian Church, 6841 Poplar Tent Road, Concord, NC 28027. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Mary Tuggle Mrs. Mary Gary Tuggle, age 83 of Commerce, Georgia who entered into rest Sunday, January 15, 2017.

LAWRENCEVILLE

Elizabeth Vanover

Elizabeth B. Vanover, 85, of Lawrenceville, GA died January 11, 2017. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. at the Duluth First United Methodist Church with Rev. C. Kay Fuino officiating. Mrs. Vanover, a native of Atlanta, GA was a member of the Duluth First United Methodist Church, and was a retired Human Resources assistant with Schlumberger.

She was associated with Bob Wood Realty and was a volunteer with Gwinnett Medical Center. Preceded in death by her husband, Edward Vanover, she is survived by her, sons and daughter-in-law, Stephen David and Loy Scott of Suwanee, GA, William Stacey Scott of Vero Beach, FL; sister, Jean Leffingwell of Homerville, GA; grandchildren, Christopher Stephen Scott, David Carter Scott, Savannah Delaney Scott all of Suwanee, GA, David Ryan Scott and his wife Holly Scott, Laura MonetWINDER Scott all of Jacksonville, Henry Pennington FL; great grandchildren, Mr. Henry H. Pennington, Landen Thomas Scott, age 93, of Winder, passed Claire Elizabeth Scott, away January 16, 2017.

Preston David Scott all of Jacksonville, FL. The JEFFERSON family will receive friends Dumitru Roman Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. until Mr. Dumitru Roman 85, of Jefferson, Georgia, who the time of the service at the church. passed away Monday, Bill Head Funeral Homes January 16, 2017. & Crematory Duluth COMMERCE Chapel (770)476-2535.

Raymond Shapland

Mr. Raymond F. Shapland, age 85 of Commerce, Georgia who entered into rest Monday, January 16, 2017.

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James Skinner James “Snooks” Skinner, age 89, of Winder, passed away January 15, 2017.

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Minnie Lou McCorkle Minnie Lou McCorkle age 90 of Snellville, GA, passed away peacefully Saturday, January 14, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband, Merrill David McCorkle; her parents, Franklin Stafford Goodman, Sr. and Emma Louise (King) Goodman; son, Franklin Merrill “Chip” McCorkle; and a brother, Franklin S. Goodman, Jr. She is survived by her daughter Faye L. McCorkle of Lilburn, GA; sisters, Winifred Hall and Lalla Faye Goodnight, both of Concord, NC; sister in law and brother in law, Rachel and Ben Overcash of Concord; and numerous nieces and nephews. A Concord, North Carolina native, she was a graduate of Odell School and Pheiffer College. She married Merrill David McCorkle, in November 1946, upon his return from service in World War II. She and Merrill were blessed with many life-long friends from the many places they lived. She will be missed by her numerous friends and especially by her beloved dog Ellie Mae. The family is extremely grateful for the care provided by the 5th floor North staff at Gwinnett Medic

John Strickland, Jr. John “Jay” Candler Strickland, Jr., age 81, of Dahlonega, GA, passed away on January 18, 2017.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Howard Swinks, Sr Howard Lee Swinks Sr. age 89 of Scottdale, GA; passed away on January 15, 2017. Arrangements

by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory and Funeral Service Lawrenceville, GA (770)962-2200, Please sign our online condolence book at ByrdandFlanigan. com

JEFFERSON

Frances Thomas Mrs. Frances Corene Durden Thomas, age 100 of Jefferson, Georgia, formerly of Birmingham who entered into rest Sunday, January 15, 2017.

MONROE

Macky Waters Macky Loyd Waters, age 81, of Monroe, formerly of Tucker, passed away on Monday, January 16, 2017. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM and 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Bill Head Funeral Home, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel.

The funeral will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Tucker First Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Bible Baptist Church, 1180 Old Monroe Madison Highway, Monroe, GA 30655, Samaritans Purse, P. O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607, or First Baptist Church Hazelhurst, Building Fund, 30 N. Tallahassee Street, Hazlehurst, Georgia 31539. Arrangements by Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Lilburn/ Tucker Chapel, (770) 5642726.

NORCROSS

Robert Xander

Robert “Eric” Xander, age 56, of Norcross, passed away on Wednesday, January 11, 2017.

Peachtree Cremation Society -329 Gees Mill Business Pkwy NE, Suite 300, Conyers, GA 30013.

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MLK event continues tradition of inclusion, service

By Erika Wells

erika.wells @gwinnettdailypost.com

You might wonder what social activist Martin Luther King Jr. would say if he saw the large group of people gathered in his honor in Lawrenceville on Monday.

Frances Davis, the retiring Gwinnett County Public Schools associate superintendent who served as grand marshal, said King would tell the attendees to do even more for their community than gather one day out of the year.

“When speaking of the near silence of the noble people in America during dangerous struggles of the civil right movement, King indicated the greatest tragedy of that time would be the appalling silence of the good people,” she said, reciting King’s adaption of an 18th century quote.

“That is the clarion call of today.”

The greatest failure would be for the local public to not become engaged in their community, she said, and everyone should be involved in activites such as government meetings and public school functions.

The national holiday has become known as a “day on” for community service instead of a day off, but everyone should strive to do more, Davis said.

•From Page 1A as this kind of behavior is not fitting for a County Commissioner,” state Rep. Dewey McClain, D-Lawrenceville, wrote in an email to constituents on Tuesday.

Hunter’s posts came after Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump made critical remarks about each other. In an advance clip from NBC’s “Meet the Press” released on Friday, Lewis said Trump was not a legitimate president.

Trump responded on Twitter early Saturday morning, saying the cvil rights leaders should focus more on his “horrible” Atlanta-centric district than on the election.

Hunter, who voted for Trump, told the Daily Post on Monday that he felt as if Lewis was calling him illegitimate as well when he made his remark about the president-elect.

“I got upset because of what Lewis said about ‘Oh, Trump’s illegitimate,’” Hunter said. “I voted for (Trump). I don’t think my vote’s illegitimate, and I let my emotions get ahead of me and typed something up. Looking back on it, it was probably not the best decision.

“I tell people all of the time, ‘Don’t let your emotions get the best of you,’ but I’m the world’s worst sometimes about letting them do it. That’s what happened.

It definitely wasn’t the best choice of words.”

On Tuesday, Hunter apologized for the comments at the beginning of the meeting, prompting audience members to say it was too late. He also called accusations of racism made against him “baseless,” and said Lewis should be commended for his work in the Civil Rights movement.

“I’ve learned a lot from this and will continue to work hard to represent all of District 3,” Hunter said before audience members drowned him out with loud, repetitive chants of “Resign, Resign.”

Several residents linked Hunter’s comments to statements President-elect Donald Trump made during last year’s campaign season, as well as the two months after the election.

Hunter’s comment has to be where a line is drawn in the sand, Tucker resident

Above left, 10-year-old Kyra Simon carries a sign during the 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade on Monday afternoon in Lawrenceville.

Above right, Frances Davis, associate superintendent of district performance and community engagement, was the grand marshal for the parade.

(Photos: Anthony Stalcup)

“This is not a day on; this is a lifetime on,” she said, “and it’s time that you become informed for yourself and make decisions for yourself, based on your own knowledge.

“We come here every year in the name of Martin Luther King Jr. and we say every year we believe in this legacy. I challenge you — put this legacy into action. Let this be the last year that we come here and we have nothing to show for what we’ve done the past year.”

Davis was a fitting grand marshal for the event, which had the theme “Striving for Excellence: Awareness, Education and

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Service.”

A large crowd filled with people of all ages and backgrounds turned out for the 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

The United Ebony Society of Gwinnett hosted the event that featured a parade, special performances, vendors and most notably, a spirit of togetherness — despite a few light rain showers. Attendance for the event has grown from 50 people in its first year to around 1,500, according to

organizers.

The nonprofit’s mission is to bring about change for the better in the lives of Gwinnett residents by encouraging community involvement. The organization hosted the festivities to foster inclusion a day after King would have turned 88 years old.

County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash stepped up to speak and said she thinks of people as batteries, each with their own energy.

“Our world needs folks that are willing to use their energy for positive purposes,” Nash said.

“It is those people who make lasting change in the

Hunter

We don’t resign over things people say.

People are going to say stuff that they shouldn’t. That’s always going to happen, but people don’t resign over bad decisions like that.”

— Tommy Hunter, Gwinnett County commissioner

Lucille Golden-Blakey said.

“He thinks he has the right to say whatever he wants to say because Donald Trump has been doing that without any repercussions,” Golden-Blakey told commissioners. “Tommy Hunter has to go.”

Jasper Watkins, who narrowly lost to Hunter in last November’s District III election, said there is a moral and character standpoint that commissioners need to meet. He said the commissioner’s comments had “torn asunder” efforts to bring Gwinnett’s diverse population together.

“I love Gwinnett County and this is not representative of District 3 where there are more than 100 different languages spoken,” Watkins said. “I think there needs to be accountability on this right away and I think we need to move. And sir, with all due respect, you need to do the right thing.”

Snellville resident Jaime Winfree, who lives in Hunter’s district, called her commissioner’s comments sub-human and said he needs to be held to a high standard. She held up a sign saying “You sir, are the racist pig” during the meeting.

“I’m absolutely disgusted for him to come for Rep. John Lewis … a civil rights hero, and for him to call him a pig and for him to call Democrats ‘Demonrats,’ and God help us for him to quote Rush Limbaugh as a source,” she said. “I do not believe he would have the guts to do this had this kind of behavior not received an endorsement by the presidential election.

“But he’s about to find out what happens when you behave this way, especially as an elected official. An apology is unacceptable.

He needs to resign. It needs to be shown in public that elected officials have a higher standard of behavior.”

Many of the other commissioners did not address Hunter’s comments during the meeting. Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash distanced herself and the rest of the board from those comments, however, as she

read a letter that she sent to Lewis earlier in the day.

The letter also rebuked Hunter’s posts.

“I would like to offer my sincere apologies and regrets for the disrespectful comments about you posted on social media by a Gwinnett County commissioner,” Nash said. “I would further welcome the chance to apologize to you face to face if you are willing to give me a chance to do so.

“I want to assure you the comments posted by one commissioner do not reflect the opinions of the commission as a whole, nor do we condone the use of social media to spread negative thoughts about any individual.”

Several of the people who showed up to call for Hunter’s resignation thanked Nash for sending the letter, but asked her to amend it to specifically name Hunter.

The Gwinnett NAACP also weighed in on the comments on Tuesday morning by denouncing Hunter’s comments and calling on the other members of the Board of Commissioners to do the same. However, the group did not call for Hunter’s resignation in its statement on the matter.

“Hunter not only lacks the proper decorum of his office, but also the knowledge that race is a social construct which is utilized to reinforce power,” the local NAACP branch said in a statement.

“Gwinnett County officials continue to apply their tin ear when dealing with affairs that impact people of color.”

The Georgia chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations demanded Hunter either apologize to Lewis or resign from office.

The group called out the commissioner while adding “Bigots who have the audacity to accuse civil rights leaders of racism live in a hypocritical fantasy world in which up is down and left is right.”

The chapter is calling on Georgians, regardless of race, religion or personal background, to put pressure on Hunter by speaking out.

“Georgia Muslims feel a special affection for Congressman John Lewis, whose legacy reminds our community that advancing civil rights and defeating bigotry are achievable goals,” CAIR-GA Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.

“If a civil rights icon like Representative Lewis is not safe from vile words of hatred, no one is. Mr. Hunter should apologize without reservation or resign without delay.”

Hunter told the Daily Post on Monday that he did not plan to resign because of the controversy.

“We don’t resign over things people say,” he said.

“People are going to say stuff that they shouldn’t.

That’s always going to happen, but people don’t resign over bad decisions like that.

If they make bad decisions that hurt people financially and in living and their quality of life, that’s where you get into that.

“You don’t put the county through $1 million of an election just because of something somebody said.

That’s stupid. You don’t silence people you don’t agree with.”

Lewis isn’t the only metro Atlanta Democrat that Hunter has been critical of in the last week, though.

He also criticized U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., in another since-deleted post last Thursday with a link to the Daily Post’s Jan. 12 Political Notebook article and a reference to a 2010 gaffe Johnson made about Guam tipping over because of a heavy military presence.

The article Hunter linked to ran under a headline about Johnson hosting a day of resistance against Trump and GOP’s congressional agenda. Part of Johnson’s congressional district overlaps with Hunter’s commission district in southern Gwinnett County.

“I’m the type of person, where I just get tired of hearing stuff and start fuming,” Hunter said. “I’ve always been bad about letting myself say something that I might not should have but that’s who I am. I’ve never hid from that. I’ve always told you straight up what I thought about stuff that we did and I’ve never tried to be politically correct and sugarcoat stuff.”

lives of others and in the lives of the community. I want to ask each of you to use your energy in a positive way for Gwinnett County.”

The parade started with a ceremony at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center’s Fallen Heroes Memorial. Business, community groups, fraternities, sororities, school bands and citizens were represented on the route.

Members of the community lined sides of the roadways for the parade that went from Langley Drive to West Crogan Street, which becomes Lawrenceville Highway,

and then south to Moore Middle School.

Following tradition, the parade stopped at the school named for the late church and community leader Robbie Susan Moore. She has been remembered as a pillar of Gwinnett.

Her husband, Eron Moore Jr., who died Dec. 30, was acknowledged for his community involvement and for the many roles in which he served including as grand marshal of the parade in the past.

The event was one of several commemorations going on in the county to keep alive King’s legacy.

Grayson approves property rezoning Randy Louis Cox Staff Correspondent

GRAYSON — The Grayson City Council approved Tuesday the rezoning of property at 2395 Loganville Highway for owners to build a two-story storage facility addition to the Champion Storage Company located there.

There were several staff recommendations okayed with the rezoning, including a 38-foot buffer area with evergreen trees between the building and adjacent singlefamily residential houses.

According to City Planner Steve Sappington, the 50,000-square-foot building is not to be used for manufacturing or retail business, nor will it have any public restrooms.

In addition, the owner will have to construct an access drive on the property frontage, based on a recommendation by the city planning commission.

A Champion spokesman said at the public hearing that this will be a “totally secure property” with 24/7 security cameras.

The area formerly was zoned R-100 (residential), but now will be converted to C-2 (commercial).

In other business, the council: • Set a $10 qualifying fee for the 2017 city election; • Adopted the city meeting and holiday schedule for 2017; • Renewed the annual memorandum of understanding with Georgia Classic Main Streets.

Coolray •From Page 1A

Similarly, they had hoped to save nearly $500,000 anrate of 3.27 percent on the nually on debt service paynew bonds brought praise ments. They exceeded those from county commissionsavings by about $100,000. ers who were surprised by At the same time that the low figure. Commission commissioners agreed to Chairwoman Charlotte Nash move forward with issuing called it “great results” as the bonds, they also agreed she congratulated Woods on to make Regions Bank the the lower interest rate. debt administrator for activi“It’s always hard to pick ties related to the old bonds the right time to get the best as well as the one ones. savings possible,” Nash said.

Commissioner John “Sometimes you just have to Heard told Woods that he take as good as you can get felt the new interest rate and go with it. This is better showed the county’s busithan what I expected we’d ness acumen as well as see.” staff’s ability to save tax When county leaddollars. ers began the process of “I think what this does is looking into saving money not only do a great justice by issuing new bonds in for the people of GwinNovember, Woods told the nett in terms of saving tax Daily Post that she and other dollars, but it also speaks loudly to the fact that, by the officials were hoping to way this government is ran, save between $3.6 million and $6.1 million. In the end, Gwinnett is indeed the best they more than doubled that place to do business in the country,” he said. savings.

Eastside •From Page 1A

a Siemens Bi-lane Angiography Imaging System, equip“Eastside will use the ment that allows physicians operating room primarily for to perform complex neuro neurosurgical cases, which procedures. The project will require oversized operatalso feature “support space” ing rooms and and in-room for the operating room, acimaging capabilities that cording to the letter of intent.

Eastside does not currently The Daily Post could not have,” Eastside representareach a representative from tives wrote in the hospital’s Eastside Medical Center letter. for comment as of Tuesday The new room will feature afternoon.

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SECTION B • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2017

Dacula boys, girls survive for region sweep of Lanier

By David Friedlander

cal Longhorns to prevail in overtime 64-60.

Meanwhile, Dacula’s girls got a 3-pointer from SUGAR HILL — Sur- Chelsey Abel with 29 vive and advance is the seconds left to break a tie mantra of any basketball game, and then hit 3 of team during the postsea4 free throws in the final son, but it was also the 16.1 seconds to seal a 41rallying cry for both of 35 road victory.

Dacula’s varsity teams in In the boys game, the their Region 8-AAAAAA Falcons (14-5, 4-0) were doubleheader at Lanier on simply trying to persevere Tuesday night. despite a bug that has The Falcon boys fought swept through the locker through illness and inroom, as well as a feisty jury that has ravaged the and physical Lanier (9-9, locker room all week, as 1-3) team to keep a share well as the big and physi- of the region lead with david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Gainesville, whom they play Friday.

“We’re an absolute M.A.S.H. unit right now,” Dacula boys coach Russ Triaga said. “We’ve got people sick and hurt.

We’re just surviving. We didn’t play well (Tuesday), and (Lanier) played terrific.

“Right now, we just need some rest. We played four games in 90 hours last week. Sometimes, you think a couple days off would help, but we were tired in practice (Monday). You could see

it. When you get tired physically, it’s hard to stay attached. … We just fought that one out. I’m glad we won, but when we play Gainesville on Friday, we’ve got to play better.”

As for Lanier, it wasn’t just Adrian Martin’s 25 points or the physical presence all over the court of Tyler Taylor and Juwuan Jones that Dacula had to fight off.

It was also fate, or so it seemed.

Lanier defender Edmund Ruiz (23) tries stopping Dacula’s Mekhail Bethea (22) from driving in Tuesday’s game played at Lanier High School.

(Photo: Craig Cappy)

See DACULA, Page 4B

Bronco girls rally to beat Hawks

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

HOSCHTON — Brookwood’s girls basketball team had ample opportunities to fold Tuesday evening at Mill Creek.

A first quarter that saw the visitors go 1-for-16 shooting with six turnovers was the first blow.

A second came in a rough N’dea Jones start to the fourth quarter that saw No. 2 scorer Kiki Adams foul out with 5:19 left.

That’s when the Broncos found a renewed spirit.

Brookwood, with the typical big game from N’dea Jones and two big 3-pointers from sophomore Mariah Callaway, closed with a flurry for a 54-47 victory that handed Mill Creek its first loss since Dec. 1, and just its second loss of the season.

The Hawks (16-2) also saw an 11-game winning streak come to an end two nights before a key Region 6-AAAAAAA showdown with Collins Hill.

“I’ll be really honest,” Brookwood girls coach Mark Isenhour said. “If you had said before the game Kiki would spend the whole fourth quarter on the bench, the first quarter we wouldn’t have hit a field goal inside the paint — I think we were 0-for-9 — against a really well-coached team that’s that talented, I would have said you’re crazy.

“I’m really proud of the kids for finding another way to win. Late in the game we went away tactically from things that we do in and out, every game, no matter what.

Things we don’t practice often and the kids executed.

And they just really kept fighting. I could see their confidence growing. It’s one thing for me to try to instill it, but in games like this when you beat a really good team that’s when confidence truly shines.”

The non-region matchup didn’t mean much to the playoff chase, but it was an intense atmosphere between two likely high seeds for the state tournament. It was important enough that Angie Hembree, coach of the nationally ranked Norcross girls, was in attendance scouting.

She saw a rough first quarter from the Broncos (13-5), who trailed by eight after a quarter and by as See BRONCOS, Page 4B

Go-to guy

Brookwood’s Andrew Huenniger competes in the boys 100-yard butterfly during last year’s state swimming championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (Photos: Kyle Hess)

Huenniger steps into important role for Broncos

By Christine Troyke

As Alex Taylor powered to the wall in last year’s state final 400-yard relay, the reaction of his three Brookwood teammates said it all.

Andrew Huenniger was among those, arm muscles clenched and a triumphant shout echoing across the Georgia Tech pool deck.

Once Taylor was out of the water, in state-record time, Huenniger wrapped him in a bearhug.

The relay performance capped a runaway win for the Bronco boys, their fourth state title but first since 2010, and put Gwinnett back on the top of the mountain.

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COUNTY SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE Today At Mountain park 4 p.m. — Boys diving Thursday At West Gwinnett 5 p.m. — Boys swimming prelims Friday

“That was a proud moment,” said Huenniger, who committed to Kentucky in November.

Perennially powerful Brookwood remains a contender for the championship this year, but many of the leaders from last season

At West Gwinnett 5 p.m. — Girls swimming prelims Saturday At Mountain Park 9 a.m. — Girls diving At West Gwinnett 5 p.m. — Swimming finals

are gone.

“Andrew was always a contributor to the team and had his strengths in certain events that others might not have, but was rarely called on to be that go-to person,” See SWIMMING, Page 4B

Brookwood’s Andrew Huenniger, right, celebrates with his 400-yard relay teammates as the Broncos set a state record and won a gold medal at last year’s championship meet at Georgia Tech.

Gwinnett Braves announce 2017 promo schedule From Staff Reports

Fireworks displays are scheduled for that openThe Gwinnett Braves ing night game, as well announced their prelimias Saturday, May 13 (Star nary promotional schedule Wars Night); Saturday, for the 2017 season, their June 24 (First Respondninth at Coolray Field, on ers Night),;Tuesday, July Tuesday afternoon.

4 (Independence Day); This year’s slate Saturday, July 22, Saturfeatures seven postday, Aug. 12 (Chopper’s game fireworks shows, Birthday Celebration); four bobblehead doll and Saturday, Sept. 2. giveaways and various Bobblehead giveother promotions and aways, for the first theme nights. The At2,500 fans, will feature lanta Braves’ Class AAA a Sean Kazmar Jr. “Star affiliate opens its home Wars” Bobblehead (Star schedule Thursday, April Wars Night, May 13), a 6, against Durham.

Rio Ruiz “Super Hero”

Bobblehead (Super Hero Night, June 10). a baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro Bobblehead (July 22) and a G-Braves radio voice Tony Schiavone and his Chihuahua, Bug, Bobblehead (National Dog Day, Aug. 26).

Gwinnett’s weekly promotions also were announced. They include Dog Day Monday (each purchase of a Coolray Field berm ticket gets your dog in free), Twofor-Tuesday (All dug-

Gwinnett Braves mascot, Chopper, uses a water gun to spray down young fans during a minor league baseball game between the Norfolk Tides and the Gwinnett See G-BRAVES, Page 4B Braves at Coolray Field this past season. (File Photo)

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gwinnettdailypost.com SWIMMING & DIVING ROUNDUP

Brookwood wins Battle of Five Forks From Staff Reports

Fung (boys 200 free, 2:00.39 and 100 fly, 55.30), Ashley Neas (girls 200 free, 2:09.63 and 500 free, 5:36.15), Margaux Ratcliff (girls 200 IM, 2:31.95), Nicolas Finol (boys 50 free, 24.60), Melody Giberson (girls 50 free, 27.06), Jordan Arredondo (boys diving, 151.50), Matthew Lee (boys 100 free, 52.61 and 100 back, 59.66), Molly Botting (girls 100 free, 59.18), Justin Portillo (boys 500 free, 6:14.75) and Tyler Reason (girls 100 breast, 1:20.39).

Archer’s winners were Alec Young (boys 200 IM, 2:09.24 and 100 breast, 1:05.59) and Hannah Mahaffey (girls 100 fly, 1:00.50 and 100 back, 1:04.37).

South got a victory from Jaida Garrett (girls diving, 199.85).

(girls 500 free, 7:19.82), Sam Downs (boys 100 breast, 1:17.86) and Ally Swain (girls 100 breast, 1:22.80).

First-placer finishers for Lanier were Seth Johnson (boys 200 free, 1:55.80 and 500 free, 5:14.96), Katie Spathelf (girls 200 free, 2:16.16 and 100 back, 1:07.87), Wyatt Penland (boys 50 free, 25.53) and Nathaniel Larrazabal (boys 100 fly, 1:08.45).

Discovery’s winners were Christine Nguyen (girls 200 IM, 3:03.08) and Jordan Geter (girls 100 free, 1:04.08).

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47.42), Stoffle (50 free, 22.39), Drew Grier (100 Brookwood swept its fly, 53.54) and Wren Shiannual swimming and div- moji (100 breast, 1:04.67) ing competition with rival won boys races in that Parkview, retaining the meet. Girls event winners Battle of Five Forks Trophy vs. Mill Creek were Devan they compete for each high Sweeney (200 IM, 2:10.31 school season. and 100 fly, 58.15), Maddy The Broncos earned Cohen (50 free, 25.02 and the trophy by winning the 100 back, 59.78), Maddie overall points 378-247 — Cordle (200 free, 2:04.62), their boys won 172-140 Leila Taylor (100 free, and the girls won 206-107. 55.69) and Haley Burke They won five of the six (500 free, 5:42.98). relays at the meet.

Mill Creek’s first-place Brookwood’s boys team finishers were Christogot wins from Dylan Scott pher Pierce (boys 200 IM, in the 200- and 500-yard 1:56.69 and 100 back, freestyle with times of 52.84), Hunter Misuraca 1 minute, 43.92 seconds (boys diving, 191.00), Amand 4:37.50, respectively. bria D’Alonzo (girls divHe was joined by fellow ing, 222.05), Jake Magahey first-place finishers Andrew (boys 500 free, 4:34.38) Huenniger (50 free, 21.80), and Bailey Williams (girls Aidan Stoffle (100 but100 breast, 1:11.95). terfly, 53.15) and Keegan Norcross, Mill Creek split Walsh (100 backstroke, Norcross won the girls division 53.14).

186-129, while Mill Creek took The Broncos got girls the boys title 165-132 in a dual meet last week. event wins from Emma Event winners for Norcross Claire Cohen (200 free, were Carter Januzelli (boys 200 1:56.52 and 500 free, IM, 2:04.83), Charlotte Whitmer (girls 200 IM, 2:27.22), Arion 5:08.55), Devan Sweeney Solomon (boys 50 free, 22.16 (200 individual medley, 100 fly, 52.73), Sarah Gries 2:11.24 and 100 fly, 59.58), and (girls 50 free, 25.43), Holland Maddy Cohen (100 free, Danskin (girls 100 free, 55.26), 53.43 and 100 back, 57.72) Christina Dwier (girls 500 free, 6:06.13) and Colton Kryski (boys and Elizabeth Harriman 100 back, 56.69). (diving, 194.45 points).

Mill Creek’s victors were Parkview’s wins came Christopher Pierce (boys 200 free, 1:48.05 and 100 breast, from Alex Norcini (boys 1:00.18), Bailey Williams 200 IM, 1:56.78), Adair (girls 200 free, 2:04.79 and Kimbrough (girls 50 free, 100 breast, 1:09.94), Hunter 25.91), Zavier Barker (boys Misuraca (boys diving, 177.20), diving, 225.75), Jacob Fin- Ambria D’Alonzo (girls diving, 266.75), Isabelle Andrews (girls co (boys 100 free, 48.59), 100 fly, 59.61 and 100 back, Victor Jemison (boys 100 1:02.80), Brian Smith (boys 100 breaststroke, 1:01.19) and free, 48.90) and Owen Pendley (boys 500 free, 5:15.07).

Zoe Walker (girls 100 breast, 1:11.10).

Duluth tops Archer, South Brookwood also swept a Duluth won a tri-meet with meet with Mill Creek last Archer and South Gwinnett last week, winning 175-125 in week.

Wildcats had 294 points in the boys division and 204- theThe boys division to Archer’s 205 110 in the girls competiand South’s 90. In the girls meet, Duluth had 310 points to Archer’s tion.

196 and South’s 116.

Huenniger (200 free, Duluth got wins from Jimmy 1:42.30 and 100 free,

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Prep Schedule BASKETBALL

Today

6 p.m. — Duluth at Peachtree Ridge

SWIMMING & DIVING

4 p.m. — Gwinnett County boys diving at Mountain Park

WRESTLING

5 p.m. — Duluth, Madison Co. at Dacula 5 p.m. — Lanier, Newnan at Mill Creek 5 p.m. — South at Grayson 5:30 p.m. — Shiloh at Marietta Duals Thursday

BASKETBALL

• Hebron at Commerce 6 p.m. — Archer at Grayson 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Berkmar 6 p.m. — Dacula at Gainesville 6 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Lakeside-Dekalb 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Discovery 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Duluth 6 p.m. — Parkview at Central 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at North 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Rockdale 6 p.m. — South at Newton 6 p.m. — St. Francis girls at Buford 6 p.m. — Wesleyan at Mount Vernon 7 p.m. — Athens Christian at Providence 7 p.m. — GAC at Union Co. 7 p.m. — Habersham Central at Lanier

SWIMMING & DIVING

4 p.m. — Gwinnett County boys swimming prelims at West Gwinnett

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7 p.m. — Oklahoma at West Virginia ESPN2 7 p.m. — Notre Dame at Florida State FSSO 8 p.m. — Virginia at Boston College WPCH 9 p.m. — Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech FSSO 8 p.m. — Milwaukee at Houston ESPN 8 p.m. — Atlanta at Detroit FSSE 10:30 p.m. — Oklahoma City at Golden State ESPN

NHL

8 p.m. — Boston at Detroit NBCSP 10:30 p.m. — San Jose at Los Angeles NBCSP

SOCCER

2:30 p.m. — FA Cup Plymouth Argyle FC vs Liverpool FS1

TENNIS

9 p.m. — Australian Open Tennis Second Round. From Melbourne, Australia. ESPN2 3 a.m. (Thurs.) — Australian Open Tennis Second Round. From Melbourne, Australia. ESPN2

Sports Calendar BASKETBALL

Ongoing through Feb. 8: Complete Skills Academy will have tryouts for girls (grades 4-9) and boys (grades 4-6) travel teams.

Girls tryouts begin Jan. 22 and boys tryouts begin Feb. 5. All tryouts will be at Pinckneyville Middle School. Go to www.completeskillsacademy.com for registration and more information.

FOOTBALL

Ongoing through May 31: Multi-County Football Officials Association has openings to officiate high school football games.

Training is provided and no experience is necessary. For information, go to www.MCFOAfootball.org or text to 404-376-5957.

RUNNING

Jan. 28: The seventh annual Norcross Blue Devils Run, a Peachtree Road Race qualifier, will feature a 5K and 1-mile fun run at Pinckneyville Middle School in Peachtree Corners. The 5K starts at 8 a.m. and the fun run starts when 5K finishes.

Early registration is $25 and race-day registration is $30. Proceeds from the student-led event will benefit the high school’s cross country and track and field

programs. For more information or to register, go to bluedevilsrun.wixsite.com/ norcross or run signup. com/BlueDevilsRun. Feb. 4: Meadowcreek will host its fourth annual Stampede in the Park 5K Trail run Feb. 4 at Yellow River Park. The course covers soft surfaces and paved trails. All proceeds benefit the high school’s cross country program.

Registration is available at active.com, and more information is available at stampedeinthepark.wix. com/5k1kfunrun. Email stampedeinthepark@ gmail.com with any questions.

SOCCER

Jan. 21, 28: Atlanta Fire United will host walk-up registration for its recreational soccer program Jan. 21 and 28. Jan. 21 event is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bunten Road Park Community Center. Jan. 28 event is 1 to 5 p.m. at the George Pierce Park Community Center. Registration closes Jan. 28 for the spring season. Practices begin Feb. 23 and games begin March 4. For more information, go to atlantaunitedsoccer.com or email judas.kinchen@ atlantaunitedsoccer.com.

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the record for the Open Era, held by Steffi Graf.

Serena Williams opened “Right now, I have nothwith a win in straight sets, ing to lose,” Williams said.

Karolina Pliskova breezed “Every match, every point, through her first match, I’m playing for fun. I get and Johanna Konta also to travel the world and advanced with a win in play in these great areas, women’s play at the Ausso it’s self-motivating.” tralian Open.

Next up for Williams Williams, the 2015 is a match against Lucie champion and runner-up Safarova, a Czech player last year, downed Belinda who pushed Williams Bencic of Switzerland 6-4, to three sets in the 2015 6-3 on Tuesday at Rod French Open final. SafaLaver Arena in Melbourne, rova defeated Belgium’s Australia. Williams led Yanina Wickmayer 3-6, 5-0 in the second set but 7-6 (7), 6-1 in her first lost the next three games match. before finishing off the Pliskova, a U.S. Open match. finalist in September, “She’s such a great routed Spain’s Sara Sorplayer. She was just ribes Tormo 6-2, 6-0 at recently in the top 10, so Rod Laver Arena. The she’s been playing great,” fifth-seeded Pliskova, Williams said. “I knew it from the Czech Republic, would be one of the tough- prepped for the first major est first-round matches I’ve of the year by winning the played, so I knew I had to Brisbane International. come out strong.”

Konta’s first match The tournament’s second was a bit tougher, but she seed, Williams is bidding posted a 7-5, 6-2 victory for her 23rd Grand Slam over Belgium’s Kirsten title, which would break Flipkens at Margaret Court

Parkview wins tri-meet Parkview swept last week’s tri-meet with Peachtree Ridge and Archer.

The Panthers’ boys team had 270 points to Peachtree Ridge’s 243 and Archer’s 127. Their girls posted 263 points to Peachtree Ridge’s 208 and Archer’s 146.

Parkview got first-place showings from Alex Norcini (boys 200 free, 1:48.11 and 100 fly, 54.79), Caitlyn Petmecky (girls 200 IM, 2:28.02), Jacob Finco (boys 50 free, 22.08 and 100 free, 49.48), Natalie Goza (girls 100 fly, 1:06.59), Adair Kimbrough (girls 100 free, 56.94), Will Mahone (boys 100 back, 57.57) and Adele Henderson (girls 100 breast, 1:16.03).

Peachtree Ridge’s event winners were Klaudia Holt (girls 200 free, 2:01.85 and 500 free, 5:16.75), Jonathan Yang (boys 200 IM, 2:05.95 and 100 breast, 58.02), Oliver Stephan (boys diving, 201.55), Jaclyn Bulluck (girls diving, 170.50) and Shwan Ahn (boys 500 free, 4:50.08).

Archer got victories from Hannah Mahaffey (girls 50 free, 25.51 and 100 back, 1:02.04).

Archer swims to tri-meet win Archer won a close boys competition and dominated the girls division of a tri-meet last week with Lanier and Discovery.

The Tigers edged Lanier 219213 in the boys meet (Discovery had 92), while the girls had 266 points to Lanier’s 177 and Discovery’s 134.

Archer’s event winners were Jonah Genge (boys 200 IM, 2:23.79), Jayla Gillis (girls 50 free, 27.67), Ellie Cano (girls diving, 141.95), Jayla Gillis (girls 100 fly, 1:10.57), Mike Donnelly (boys 100 free, 51.96 and 100 back, 1:06.80), Kelli McKenzie

Arena. Konta is coming off a title in the Sydney International last week.

Pliskova has never made it past the third round in this event, falling to Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova the past two years. However, she was on her game in the opening match Tuesday, registering six aces, 26 winners and 84 percent first-serve accuracy.

“I feel good on the court, especially when I win my first title in the first week of the year,” Pliskova said. “So I’m ready for the tournament.”

The ninth-seeded Konta, a Briton who was an Australian Open semifinalist last year, struggled in the first set before gaining control in the second set.

“She has the kind of game that can make any player feel uncomfortable out there,” Konta said of Flipkens. “I’m just enjoying playing and getting better each day.”

Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland de-

Berkmar tops South, Central Berkmar took both divisions of a meet last week against South Gwinnett and Central Gwinnett.

The Patriots won the girls competition with 258 points to South’s 200 and Central’s 81, as well as the boys title with 267 points to South’s 169 and Central’s 82.

Berkmar got first-place efforts from Tony Perez (boys 200 free, 2:13.99 and 500 free, 6:09.87), Annalee Hernandez-Cruz (girls 200 free, 2:44.22 and 500 free, 7:20.80), Kevin Cervantes (boys 200 IM, 2:49.00 and 100 fly, 1:10.78), Claudia Leonel (girls 200 IM, 2:43.73 and 100 fly, 1:14.14), Joseph Lacy (boys 50 free, 26.14), Kendall Castaneda (boys diving, 155.95) and Lauren Leung (girls 100 free, 1:07.07 and 100 back, 1:18.44).

South’s winners were Aliyah Berry (girls 50 free, 30.62), Jaida Garrett (girls diving, 193.00), Benjamin Rohrer (boys 100 free, 56.39 and 100 breast, 1:14.63), Bryan Cleek (boys 100 back, 1:16.92) and Kale’alani James (girls 100 breast, 1:24.48).

Wesleyan wins tri-meet Wesleyan’s swimming and diving team finished second in both divisions of a tri-meet with Cambridge and Johns Creek last week.

The Wolves finished second in the boys competition with 214 points to Johns Creek’s 258 and Cambridge’s 178. They also took second in the girls meet with 231 points to Johns Creek’s 233 and Cambridge’s 220.

Wesleyan got individual wins from Hannah Wasmuth (girls 200 free, 1:59.31 and 100 back, 1:01.92), Jon Hunt Ficken (boys 50 free, 22.74 and 100 free, 49.56), Abby Gardner (girls 50 free, 25.73 and diving, 309.10), Joseph Berney (boys diving, 235.35), Ethan Moon (boys 500 free, 5:18.34), Isaiah Erb (boys 100 breast, 1:05.60) and Gabby Hernandez (girls 100 breast, 1:15.36).

feated Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.

In other women’s matches, No. 21 Caroline Garcia of France beat Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine 7-6 (4), 6-4, and No. 30 Ekaterina Makarova was pushed to three sets before defeating fellow Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-0, 4-6, 6-1.

American Nicole Gibbs upset No. 25 Timea Babos of Hungary 7-6 (3), 6-4.

Great Britain’s Heather Watson knocked out 18thseeded Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.

Other women’s winners Tuesday included No. 6 Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, No. 12 Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland, No. 14 Elena Vesnina of Russia, No. 16 Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, No. 17 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, No. 22 Daria Gavrilova of Australia, No. 28 Alize Cornet of France and No. 31 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.

Nadal rolls into second round down under The Sports Xchange

Grand Slam finals from 2005-14 and winning four Rafael Nadal, coming off of them, Nadal struggled his worst Grand Slam seathe past two years in the son since he was 18 years majors. He got to the ago, started the first major quarterfinals in Melbourne of 2017 in fine fashion. and at the French Open in The ninth-seeded Span2015, then failed to get past iard rolled to a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 the fourth round in his next win over Germany’s Florian five major events. He hasn’t Mayer on Tuesday in the reached a Grand Slam first round of the Austrasemifinal since winning the lian Open at Melbourne, French Open for the ninth Australia. time in 10 years in 2014.

“For me this is a great In other men’s action victory,” Nadal said in his Tuesday, second-seeded on-court interview. “Very Novak Djokovic of Serbia happy to keep having posted a 6-1, 7-6 (4) 6-2 chances to play here in victory of Fernando VerdasMelbourne. Body is good, co of Spain and third-seedand that’s the key.” ed Milos Raonic of Canada Nadal won the 2009 experienced little difficulty Australian Open title, and in his opener, dumping Gerhe reached the final in 2012 many’s Donald Brown 6-3, and 2014.

6-4, 6-2.

After advancing to 20 Djokovic, who is at-

tempting to win a record seventh Australian Open, didn’t feel comfortable when he saw Verdasco’s name on the draw but had few issues while dispatching him in the first-round match.

“It feels like home,” Djokovic said after the match. “Feels like coming back to the place where I have an incredible amount of beautiful memories.

Every time I land in Melbourne I get to relive those memories.”

A semifinalist in Melbourne last year, Raonic dispatched Brown in 92 minutes, never losing his serve. He won a dominant 19 of 26 net points.

Eleventh-seeded David Goffin of Belgium needed five sets to shake free of

19-year-old Michigan native Reilly Opelka, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Opelka, who is ranked 208th in the world, was appearing in the first Grand Slam event of his career.

Also prevailing was 6-foot-11 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia as the No. 20 seed survived a five-hour, 15-minute match with Horacio Zeballos of Argentina — 6-7 (6), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 22-20.

“This is what I will, after my career, remember,” the 37-year-old Karlovic said afterward. “If it was an easy match or I lost easy, I wouldn’t remember. But this one, definitely, I will remember forever.”

Karlovic fired 75 aces and 141 winners in the victory.

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Poise key for Falcons against Packers The Sports Xchange FLOWERY BRANCH — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan gathered the team up on the sidelines in the third quarter of the divisional playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks.

He sensed that the team was being baited into bad football by a desperate Seattle team. There were a few skirmishes and things got chippy.

He had a clear message to the team that will serve it well in the NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

“Yeah, I think so,” Ryan said. “In those situations, you’ve got to remember at the end of the day our objective. Our objective is to win the game. In order to do that, I thought we needed to keep our composure and that was it.”

Ryan didn’t want his players to back down, though.

“Just a reminder to play to the whistle and not worry about all the stuff that was going on,” Ryan said.

“That’s what happens this time of the year. Games get tough and physical. I thought our guys stepped up to that challenge and kept their composure really, really well.”

The Falcons hope to have All-Pro wide receiver Julio Jones, who aggra-

NFL PLAYOFFS Who: Green Bay at Atlanta When: Sun., 3:05 p.m.

Where: Georgia Dome TV: FOX

ries and also own nine other NFL championships.

The Falcons are seeking their second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history after they lost the 1999 Super Bowl (following the 1998 season) to the Broncos.

In a previous meeting this season, the Falcons beat the Packers 33-32 on Oct. 30 at the Georgia Dome. The Falcons Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Mohamed Sanu (12) catches a touchdown pass against opened as 4-point favorites the Green Bay Packers in the fourth quarter at the Georgia Dome. The Falcons dein the rematch before the feated the Packers 33-32. (Photo: Brett Davis-USA Today Sports) betting line quickly moved vated his foot/toe injury different guys are going to Quinn said he wasn’t sure to 5 points, according to against Seattle. They lost step up and make plays.” if he would pull for the ESPN gambling writer defensive end Adrian Wide receiver Mohamed Packers against Dallas, al- Dave Tuley.

Clayborn, who suffered a Sanu played well down the though he wanted a home The Falcons had the torn biceps. stretch. game “for the fans.” league’s best offense all The game will pit the “He’s just so physical “Past that, the coaching season and thrashed Seresurgent Packers against and clutch at the end of side of me and the match- attle’s third-ranked scoring Ryan and the Falcons the game,” Ryan said. “On ups, I’ll have to go in and defense. Injuries have high-flying offense. a third down and 3 or 4 find that out,” Quinn said. hurt their defensive depth “I think we are all an and down in that low red He must now focus but the unit improved as extension of one another,” zone area. He’s got an op- on the Packers. And it’s young players developed.

Ryan said “I think when tion route and does such a possible that, even on After eliminating Julio gets going it opens great job of getting lever- the road, they are the Seattle, the Falcons could things up for other guys. age and being physical. tougher foe for the NFC make a credible case that When other guys get On the touchdown catch, championship. Rodgers, they weren’t concerned going, it opens things up that’s just him using his a two-time league MVP, about which opponent for our running backs or body and being big, agcarried the Packers to a they would meet in the Julio. That’s kind of been gressive, and physical. We last-second 34-31 victory NFC championship game. one of the coolest things are lucky to have him.” at the Cowboys.

“For us, it’s just focusabout our offense and our After the Falcons beat The Packers have ing on us,” safety Keanu team this year is at differ- the Seahawks at the played in five Super Neal said. “We are focused ent times during the game Georgia Dome, coach Dan Bowls with four victoon us and the process.”

Packers WR Nelson unlikely to play vs. Falcons The Sports Xchange

ers’ AFC divisional game at the Kansas City Chiefs, but Green Bay Packers won’t be heading to Gillette wide receiver Jordy NelStadium for the AFC title son’s chances of playing game. in the NFC ChampionGoodell will instead be ship Game are slim to present for Sunday’s NFC none. title game between the host The four-time Pro Falcons and Green Bay Bowler has “only a small Packers, ESPN reports. chance” to play in SunThe 57-year-old has day’s game against the become a top antagonist Atlanta Falcons, a source for New England fans ever told ESPN. since he suspended Patriots The 31-year-old Nelson quarterback Tom Brady suffered two broken ribs Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson (87) four games for his role in in Green Bay’s 38-13 rout runs past Atlanta Falcons strong safety Keanu Neal the Deflategate scandal.

(22) after a catch during the first quarter at the Georgia of the New York Giants Brady was asked about Dome. (Photo: Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports) in the NFC wild-card the possibility of Goodell round. Nelson made one this week.

Goodell won’t attened showing up during his catch for 13 yards in the “Can’t tell you if AFC Championship weekly radio interview victory.

Jordy’s going to practice Roger Goodell won’t be with WEEI in Boston on Nelson was ruled out Wednesday, but he did all walking through that door Monday. before Saturday’s lastthe work in the (regenwhen the New England “He’s the commissioner, second 34-41 win over eration) workout today,” Patriots host the Pittsburgh so obviously whatever he the Dallas Cowboys in McCarthy told reporters Steelers in the AFC Cham- wants to do, he can do,” the NFC divisional round Monday, via ESPN.com. pionship Game on Sunday Brady said. on Sunday, and he told “So that’s a good sign.” in Foxborough, Mass.

Goodell hasn’t attended NFL Network before the A member of the PackThe NFL commissioner a Patriots game in Foxgame he was still strugers’ Super Bowl XLVattended last Sunday’s borough since the 2015 gling to breathe. winning team in 2011, NFC divisional round game playoffs, a divisional round Packers coach Mike Nelson caught 97 passes between the Atlanta Falcons contest against the BaltiMcCarthy was unsure if for 1,257 yards and 14 and Seattle Seahawks bemore Ravens on Jan. 10.

Nelson would practice touchdowns this season fore traveling to the SteelNew England escaped with

a 35-31 win but lost to the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game.

Broncos elevate Woods to DC, replacing Phillips The Denver Broncos promoted defensive backs coach Joe Woods to defensive coordinator on Tuesday.

Woods, 46, joined the Broncos in 2015 and has 25 years of coaching experience, including 13 coaching secondaries in the NFL with Denver, the Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“Joe Woods is ready for this opportunity,” newlyhired Broncos coach Vance Joseph said. “He’s been a long-time NFL assistant coach and has done great work at the secondary position. No one will outwork Joe. He’s got tremendous attention to detail as well as a lot of familiarity with our players.

“It’s his time, and he’s ready for it. I’m very excited to watch Joe grow as a coordinator.”

Central’s Francis Kallon shines at Tropical Bowl From Staff and Wire Reports Former Georgia Tech and Central Gwinnett defensive tackle Francis Kallon was named Overall Lineman MVP of the 2017 Tropical Bowl, which was played on Sunday at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Fla. Kallon led all players with two sacks, matched a game-high with two tackles for loss and tallied three total tackles to help lead his National team to a 28-14 win over the American squad in front of more than 70 professional football scouts, including representatives from 26 NFL teams. In its second year, the Tropical Bowl is a college football all-star game that showcases some of the nation’s top seniors to professional scouts and front-office personnel, not just during the game but for a full week of practice leading up to the contest.

Kallon, a London, England native who did not start playing American football until his junior year at Central, played

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defensive lineman Francis Kallon (92) chases Kentucky Wildcats quarterback Stephen Johnson (15) in the TaxSlayer Bowl at EverBank Field. (Photo: Logan Bowles-USA Today Sports)

in 36 games at Georgia Tech and made six starts in 12 contests as a senior in 2016. The 6-foot-5, 294-pounder had two sacks and three tackles for loss while helping lead the Yellow Jackets to a 9-4 record and TaxSlayer Bowl championship during his final collegiate campaign.

Three new members added to CFP commitee Former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer is one of three new members of the College Football

Playoff selection committee, the entity announced Tuesday.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Robert Morris president Chris Howard were also appointed. All three will serve three-year terms.

“Frank, Chris and Gene will each bring a wealth of knowledge to the selection committee,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said in a statement. “All three played college football.

And they will continue the

CFP tradition of committee members with high integrity and a passion for college football.”

Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt will return as chairman.

“We are also delighted that Kirby will return as chair,” Hancock said. “He did a tremendous job of leading and facilitating the committee’s deliberations, and he was also an excellent representative with the media and public.”

Among the outgoing members are former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez. The ending of Rice’s three-year term means there are no females on this year’s committee Oregon trio hospitalized after workout Three Oregon football players were hospitalized after participating in what several sources told The Oregonian were “military style basic training” strength and conditioning workouts last week in Eugene, Ore. Ducks tight end Cam McCormick and offensive

linemen Doug Brenner and Sam Poutasi were admitted Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, Ore. late last week and are in fair condition, a hospital spokesperson told the newspaper.

Poutasi’s mother told The Oregonian her son has been diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a condition in which skeletal muscle rapidly breaks down and can leak into the blood stream.

The workouts purportedly included up to one hour of continuous pushups and up-downs. An Oregon official disputed a report that one player passed out, saying they were not aware of any players fainting.

The Oregonian reports several other Oregon players had discolored urine, and some were found to have high levels of creatine kinase, both common symptom of rhabdomyolysis.

Newly-hired Ducks coach Willie Taggart reportedly visited with the sickened players in the hospital.

IN BRIEF

Coombs named McDonald’s All-American Wesleyan senior Mikayla Coombs has been named to the roster for the prestigious McDonald’s All-American High School Basketball Game.

Coombs, a Connecticut recruit, is the Daily Post’s reigning girls player of the year. This year’s McDonald’s event is March 29 in Chicago.

Peachtree Ridge’s Crowe signs with Reinhardt lax Peachtree Ridge senior Alana Crowe signed with the Reinhardt University women’s lacrosse program last week.

Crowe, a defender, has been an all-county selection the past two seasons.

She also served as team captain for the Lions.

Wolves’ Kerpics commits to play for Louisville Madison Kerpics of Wesleyan made a commitment over the weekend to the University of Louisville women’s softball program.

Kerpics, a freshman, made the All-Region 5-A Softball Team back in November. She helped the Wolves to a state runnerup finish in her first high school season.

Buford wrestlers win first county ninth-grade title

Buford won its first Gwinnett County ninthgrade championship in wrestling on Monday.

The Wolves were followed by runner-up Archer, third-place Brookwood and fourth-place Mountain View.

Dylan Bozoian, Todd Hill, Javier Uriostegui, Braden Hartman and Avery Siebrasse won individual county titles for Buford. The Wolves also got top finishes from Griffin Caldwell (second), Jacob Downing (second), Jacob Whitt (third), Trey Smith (third), Jose Franco (fourth), Jorge Soto (fourth) and Joey Overman (fourth).

Dacula’s Jefcoat second in Tenn. indoor meet Dacula’s Hannah Jefcoat placed second overall in the pole vault at the KYA High School Indoor Classic last weekend in Johnson City, Tenn.

The senior cleared 12 feet with her best effort in the competition with some of the nation’s top vaulters. She holds the Dacula indoor record in the event at 12-1 3/4.

North’s Brown, GAC’s Abernathy named to SEC leadership council Two Gwinnett grads were named to the Southeastern Conference Football Student-Athlete Leadership Council, announced Tuesday by the league.

The council, consisting of one representative from each SEC football program, will hold its first meeting Feb. 4 at the SEC’s headquarters in Birmingham, Ala. Among the 14 selections were North Gwinnett grad Nate Brown and Greater Atlanta Christian grad Micah Abernathy. Brown is a wide receiver for Missouri and Abernathy is a defensive back at Tennessee.

Georgia’s selection was Aaron Davis.

— From staff reports

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to allow the Falcons to escape with the region Leading 58-55 with road win. time winding down in Justin Goodson led the regulation, the Falcons way for Dacula with 17 caught a break when Taypoints, while Mekhail lor was double-teamed Bethea chipped in 15 at the right elbow of the points and a game-high lane, which prompted six assists, and BuckLanier coach Jeremy ingham contributed a Huckaby to call a timeout solid nine points, eight rejust when he was able to bounds and three blocked find Edmund Ruiz for an shots. open 3-pointer.

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•From Page 1B many as nine in the second quarter before tying the score just before halftime.

A 3-pointer at the secondquarter buzzer by Wynter Webb (22 points, four steals) gave Mill Creek a 28-25 edge at intermission.

The game stayed close until Webb scored the first five points of the fourth quarter for a 45-38 Hawks lead. During that sequence, Mill Creek’s Morgan Simmons drew two charges on Adams (12 points), then Adams picked up her fifth foul on the defensive end.

Brookwood answered the adversity with a gamechanging, 13-1 run.

“I feel like towards the end we didn’t give up,” Callaway said. “We were down seven two minutes into the fourth quarter. I think N’dea hit (a shot) and gave us more energy, made us want it more.”

Jones started the run with a steal near halfcourt and a bucket with 3:53 remaining. The Texas A&M recruit was a matchup problem for the shorter Hawks and finished with

•From Page 1B Broncos head coach Greg Puckett said. “Now that all of those upperclassmen ahead of him have graduated and moved on, he has stepped into the role of being that go-to person very well.

“In recent meets especially, he has been the individual that had those amazing swims that you hoped were there, but hadn’t quite seen yet against tough competition.”

Huenniger didn’t get really serious about swimming until just a few years ago.

“Definitely my biggest influence my freshman year was Austin Harmel,” Huenniger said. “He was a senior but he didn’t treat me like a freshman. He treated me as an equal. When we got that No. 1 200 free relay in the state, that’s when I really wanted to keep doing this and get better at it.”

As a sophomore, he was still splitting his extracurricular time between swimming and marching band, but won the county title in the 100 butterfly and was eighth at state. At the end of the year, Huenniger went all-in with swimming.

“I couldn’t see myself marching in college, but swimming is definitely what

Broncos 27 points, 21 rebounds, six blocked shots and two steals.

Another Bronco steal resulted in a layup by Tori McGhee. The visitors chipped away from there until Callaway’s first 3-pointer with 1:30 left gave Brookwood its first lead of the game at 46-45.

Mill Creek’s Kim Forbes made a single free throw seven seconds later to tie the score, though that was a rarity — the Hawks made just one of their first six free throws in the final quarter, missing the front end of three one-and-one attempts.

As the game clock ticked under a minute, Callaway provided the dagger with a 3-pointer for a 49-46 lead.

“I felt great (on the 3-pointers),” said Callaway, who also grabbed five rebounds.

Mill Creek never recovered from her second 3-pointer.

“To only have six points and have them be the (decisive) six points of our game was huge,” Isenhour said.

“To go from down two to up three is pretty big.”

While Brookwood finding some offense late was important, its defense was just as vital. Mill Creek made 2 of 11 fourth-quarter shots and its only scoring the final six-plus minutes came on single free throws from Forbes and Simmons.

Simmons, the Hawks’ leading scorer and fresh off a 31-point game last week against Mountain View, had 13 points at halftime, but the Broncos held her to the one free throw in the final two quarters. Webb scored 14 of her points in the second half, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Mill Creek’s first loss since Dec. 1 against Wesleyan.

Meanwhile, Brookwood picked up a big win to regain momentum after last Friday’s loss to Norcross.

The Broncos had won eight of nine entering the Norcross game.

“I just liked the resolve of our kids to keep fighting,” Isenhour said. “I think early in the season when we get down like that, take a punch in the teeth, we kind of maybe don’t battle back. We would kind of give an effort and we want-

ed to show the effort. But tonight I truly saw a belief that we’re going to win the game, we’re going to find a way to win the game.”

Brookwood boys 69, Mill Creek 65 Brookwood’s boys completed the sweep of Mill Creek, building a 17-point halftime lead and hanging on for a 69-65 victory.

The Broncos (7-11) led 45-28 at halftime, but the Hawks (8-10) trimmed the lead to seven after three quarters. Mill Creek’s rally even netted a brief 58-57 lead with 5:38 left in the fourth quarter on Kendall Latney’s 3-pointer.

However, Brookwood scored the next seven points — a 3-pointer and a basket by Markus Smith sandwiched a Bubba Parham tip-in — and never let its lead slip to a onepossession game the rest of the way.

Parham finished with a game-high 25 points, and Trae Higginbotham scored 22. Smith had 14 points.

Mill Creek was led offensively by Christian Mancillas (15 points) and Noah Kenney (14 points).

Swimming

Brookwood’s Andrew Huenniger competes in the boys 200-yard freestyle during last year’s state swimming championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

I love doing — even though the practices are super hard,” Huenniger said with a laugh. “But I love working hard. It feel great to get all that done — and it pays off in the end. That’s the best part.”

Last year, Huenniger defended his county championship in the 100 fly and was fourth at state while swimming two gold-medal relays for the Broncos.

“He’s a different athlete than he was even last year,” said Chris Davis, his yearround coach at SwimAtlanta. “He had a very late start because he was in marching band. He was sort of half-heartedly training and then about two years ago, he said, ‘I think I’m going to go for swimming.’

“When that happens, it takes you a little while to catch up. But he had a

really, really good junior nationals where he swam lifetime bests in everything.”

Huenniger finally went under 50 seconds (49.62) in the 100 fly at junior nationals in December, something he’d been struggling with for two years.

In the 200 fly, he hadn’t dropped time since the 2015 junior nationals and again broke a threshold with a 1:47.89.

He’s probably seen the biggest gains in the 200 freestyle.

“I remember my freshman year, I was not that good at the 2 free,” Huenniger said. “I was like a 1:49 low. Then I started training with Chris and he put me in middle distance.

After doing that for a while, I’ve gone from a 1:49 my freshman year and this year at juniors I went down to a

1:39.”

Huenniger is comfortable in a leadership role, but more likely to offer some comic relief in high-pressure situations.

“We set the bar kind of high, but we have fun,” he said. “We like to goof around. I think Puckett has said when I’m out of the water, I’m very goofy. I like to dance around and have fun with everybody.

“But once we get on the block and into the water, that’s when the seriousness kicks in.”

Puckett also said Huenniger’s progress encourages the rest of the team.

“Some of those recent amazing swims in both individual events and relays have helped to bring out a little more in his teammates that perhaps they didn’t know they had,” Puckett said. “As a coach, I always like to have an athlete that goes out there and performs at a level that was once thought to be ‘beyond their ability’ because it ends up inspiring others on the team to perhaps also push themselves beyond their limits.

“That is what I hope that Andrew’s recent performances have done for the team and will continue to do for the team at the championship meets coming up.”

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other end to Abel.

And the 6-foot sophomore buried the open look from the left wing with 29 seconds left to put Dacula up 38-35.

“Chelsea hitting that 3 right there really helped,” Dacula girls coach Jason Adams said. “Helena Lee, she’s kind of become a go-to player inisde, even though she’s a little undersized as a post player.

She’s hitting a high clip from the free-throw line.”

That included two free throws with 12.3 seconds left after Abel had hit 1 of 2 from the line with 16.1 seconds remaining following a pair of Lanier turnovers, which helped the Falcons — who hit 13 of 16 from the line on the evening, including 8 of 9 in the fourth quarter — put the game away.

Lee led all scorers with 15 points and pulled down six rebounds, while Abel finished with 11 points and Kandy Brown as a defensive force by pulling down 12 rebounds and blocking nine shots.

Kezyah Hollimon led Lanier with nine points, while Ezumah had eight rebounds to go with her eight points for the Longhorns (12-5, 1-3).

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Curry repeats as Gatorade POY Bulldogs’ Young wants to coach

From Staff Reports Buford’s Gabby Curry was announced Tuesday morning as the 2016-17 Gatorade Georgia Volleyball Player of the Year.

It’s the second straight year Curry has earned the honor.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes Curry as Georgia’s best high school volleyball player.

She is now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Volleyball Player of the Year award to be announced later this month.

The 5-foot-9 senior outside hitter and libero led the Wolves to a 41-4 record and the Class AAAAA state championship this past season. The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, Curry recorded 405 digs, 254 kills and 72 service aces.

A 2016-17 Under Armour first-team All-American, she was also a first team All-State selection and was named AAAAA Player of the Year.

Buford’s Gabby Curry (7) makes a dig during the Gwinnett County volleyball championship against North Gwinnett at Shiloh in Snellville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

A member of the National Honor Society as well as her school’s Beta Club and peer leadership team, Curry has volunteered locally on behalf of Kids & Pros athletic camps.

“Curry’s greatest strengths are her mind and her leadership,” said John Frederick, head coach at St. Pius X Catholic High. “She has such a will to win, and a will to drag her team on her back to a victory. She

makes every ball contact like it’s the most important of the season.”

Curry has maintained a 4.0 GPA in the classroom.

She has signed a National Letter of Intent to play volleyball on scholarship at the University of Kentucky this fall.

Two-time winner Curry joins Gatorade Georgia Volleyball Players of the Year Paige McKnight (2014-15, Dunwoody High School), Haley Templeton (2013-14, Chat-

tahoochee High School), Teegan Van Gunst (201213, Whitewater High School), Mary Hannah Arrington (2011-12, Pope High School), Kelly Murphy (2010-11, Walton High School), Mary Hoey (2009-10, Pope High School), Monique Mead (2008-09, Landmark Christian High School) and Betsy Smith (2007-08, Wesleyan School) among the state’s list of former award winners.

Gladiators acquire veteran Rawlyk From Staff Reports DULUTH — The Atlanta Gladiators acquired defenseman Rory Rawlyk from the Florida Everblades in exchange for cash considerations Wednesday.

Rawlyk, 33, has 658 professional games in the

AHL, ECHL and various European leagues under his belt. The Edmonton native has spent the majority of his 14-year career in the ECHL, skating in 314 games with 156 points and a plus-19 rating. In addition to his regular season totals, the veteran has appeared in 59 pro playoff games.

So far during the 201617 campaign with the Everblades, the 6-foot-5, 218-pound blueliner has two points and is a plusone in 14 games.

Atlanta plays in Greenville on Friday and is back home Saturday for a game against South Carolina.

In separate transactions,

the Gladiators released forward Mike Moran and defenseman Ryan Michel from their standard professional contracts.

Injury update: Forward Eric Neiley is nearing a return. Defenseman Tyler Shiplo is day-to-day.

Thomas Frazee is out 3-5 weeks with a leg injury.

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Berkmar boys top Meadowcreek 61-56 From Staff Reports LILBURN — Berkmar logged a win in Region 7-AAAAAAA on Tuesday night by edging Meadowcreek 61-56.

Three players hit for double digits for Berkmar (16-5, 7-1), led by 23 points, five assists and four rebounds from Al Durham.

Jay Estime added 13 points and four rebounds with Zach Cooks finishing with 13 points and four assists.

Meadowcreek fell to 11-8 overall and 3-3 in the region.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Central 59, Archer 57 LAWRENCEVILLE — Bernard Kasanda of Central Gwinnett scored in the final minute to put the Black Knights up 58-57 and Derrick Lawrence tacked on a free throw to lift Central to a 59-57 win at Archer on Tuesday night.

Kasanda finished with 10 points, while Jalen Hillery led Central (12-10) with 20 points.

Grayson 71, North 53 SUWANEE — Grayson ran its winning streak to four with a

Basketball

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto................27.. 13.....675.......— Boston.................26.. 15.....634......1.5 New York.............18..24.....429...... 10 Philadelphia........13..26.....333... 13.5 Brooklyn................8..32.....200...... 19 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta.................24.. 17.....585.......— Washington.........21.. 19.....525..... 2.5 Charlotte..............20..21.....488........ 4 Orlando...............17..26.....395........ 8 Miami................... 11..30.....268...... 13 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland............29.. 11.....725.......— Indiana................21.. 19.....525........ 8 Milwaukee...........20..20.....500........ 9 Chicago...............21..21.....500........ 9 Detroit..................19..24.....442.... 11.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

71-53 win at North Gwinnett on Tuesday night.

Travis Anderson finished with 29 points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocks to lead the Rams (12-6), while Gerald Buncum added 10 points, six rebounds and two blocks.

Grayson also received help from Nick Edwards (nine points, five assists and two steals) and Terrell Greene (eight points, five rebounds).

GAC 57, Dawson Co. 48 DAWSONVILLE — Greater Atlanta Christian stayed atop Region 8-AAA at 7-0 with a 5748 win at Dawson County.

Charlie O’Briant led GAC (144 overall) with 20 points, while Branden Harris followed with 16 points. Chris Hinton also chipped in with six points.

Wesleyan 53, W.D. Mohammed 47 ATLANTA — Wesleyan won its fourth straight game with a 53-47 defeat of W.D. Mohammed on Tuesday night in a Region 5-A game.

Chrstian McLean led the way for Wesleyan (10-9, 6-2) with 22 points. Sean McDonough followed with 13 points, while Grant Frerking scored 12.

Providence 67, Weber 59 ATLANTA — Parker Trump of Providence set a new career

high in points with 37 on Tuesday night in leading Providence to its first win of the season 67-59 over the Weber School in a non-region game.

Providence is now 1-15.

GIRLS BASKETBALL GIRLS HOOPS Archer 70, Central 39 LAWRENCEVILLE — Archer received 15 points from Asia McCoy and 14 more from Kyleeyah Whitehead as the Tigers defeated visiting Central Gwinnett 70-39 on Tuesday night in a non-region game.

Hannah Dunston added 10 points for Archer (14-4, 3-1).

Grayson 50, North 41 SUWANEE — Grayson evened its overall record at 8-8 on Tuesday night with a 50-41 win at North Gwinnett in a nonregion game.

North (4-12) was led by 12 points from Makayla Schymanski and 11 points from Jessica Belcher.

Meadowcreek 61, Berkmar 49 LILBURN — Meadowcreek had two players post doubledoubles on Tuesday night as the Mustangs pulled away with a 61-49 win at Berkmar.

Arian Rumph finished with 18 points and 17 rebounds to lead Meadowcreek (2-15) with Kiana Thaddies following with 18

points and 10 rebounds.

Buford 47, Loganville 35 LOGANVILLE — Buford improved to 16-0 overall and 7-0 in Region 8-AAAAA with a 47-35 win at Loganville on Tuesday night.

Marissa Bruce was the leading scorer for Buford with 14 points, while Tory Ozment and Snoody Johnson each finished with nine points.

GAC 63, Dawson Co. 34 DAWSONVILLE — Robyn Benton of Greater Atlanta Christian scored 16 points Tuesday night in helping the Spartans to a 63-34 win at Dawson County in Region 8-AAA. Tamiah Lewis added 12 points for GAC (11-5, 6-1) with Kennedi Williams and Caria Reynolds each finishing with 10 points.

WRESTLING WRESTLING GAC 66, Tucker 12 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian received six pins on Tuesday night as the Spartans rolled to a 66-12 win at home over Tucker.

Seniors Ben Cheatham (120) and Ian Politz (160) each scored pins to celebrate senior night, while other pins were recorded

by Sam Marchiando (106), Garrison Ferrell (126), Josh Swope (182) and Elijah Pryor (195).

Brandon Young, a well-rounded Georgia senior guard, is a throwback to the ’50s era of his grandfather, which means he is buttoned down, hair trimmed neat, manners that make mothers swoon, an overachieving studentathlete whose priorities are what most adults would prefer all students to underscore.

Brandon gets high marks in the classroom.

His coaches sing his praises for his all-around inclinations, which would have made his grandfather proud. Bill Young Sr. grew up with a single mother who worked two jobs to support him and his sister. Austerity hovered about, but positive attitude and due diligence were his partners when he took advantage of a football scholarship at the University of Georgia.

The rest of the story is that B.Y., Bill Young senior’s nickname — which is also Brandon’s — became a highly successful businessman who learned that the value of hard work and the advantage of a degree could be difference makers in his life.

His sons, Bill Jr., Howard and Steve have followed in his footsteps, all imbued with an overt familial allegiance to the University of Georgia.

The family business, General Wholesale, is where Brandon’s father and uncles manage a wholesale beer, wine and spirits operation.

There would be an opportunity for Brandon, a management major, Terry College of Business, with the family business, but he has other plans. The National Basketball Association is not in his future, so what is the next best option for a young man with a deep and abiding commitment to his sport?

Coaching, like Georgia, has always been on his mind.

Brandon’s next move will be to become a graduate assistant and enroll in graduate school for a masters degree. He has been a staff member at basketball camps since he was in high school.

“I have tried to learn from all the coaches I have played for and have seen how they manage players and games. Even though I don’t experience that much playing time, I feel very much part of the team,” Young said. “When I do get into a game, there is a great adrenalin rush.

Although I try to focus on what I need to do on the court, I experience the greatest of feelings to be playing for the University of Georgia; and to see my parents in the stands just gives me the most uplifting feeling.”

All of this means that he has the coaching makeup to connect with players, and his goal is to allow his experience to segue into a coaching career where he can teach young boys that they can

Loran Smith learn the benefits of a being part of a team.

“It gives you a foundation to compete; to learn to balance things in your life,” he said.

That balance is confirmed in Brandon’s campus experience. He has always been a serious student, and last season’s highlights included: Honored with the team’s Most Inspirational Award, he was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll while logging playing time in four games.

One of the most accomplished academic athletes at UGA, he has won the UGA Top Dog Academic Award: The Joel Eaves Scholar-Athlete Award which honors the Georgia male and female studentathletes with the highest GPA entering the fall semester of his or her senior year. Brandon is the third basketball player to claim this honor since its inception in 1991-92.

It was easy to confirm that the former Georgia athletic director would have had the highest regard for Brandon’s commitment to excellence on the court and in the classroom. When you played for Eaves, who was the Auburn basketball coach before becoming AD at Georgia, you were expected to, among other things, make free throws and earn a degree. You might not have the talent to compete at the highest level, but practice at the foul line would bring you efficiency, and good study habits, work ethic and commitment would enable you to take home a sheepskin.

Brandon often flashes back to the time when he was a precocious basketball player at Marist and he would come to Athens for Bulldog basketball games. He got a poster of Jonas Hayes, who signed it to Brandon. That poster, along with one from Jarvis Hayes, proudly hangs at his family home in Atlanta. Now Jonas is a Bulldog coach with whom Brandon interacts on a daily basis. The coaching atmosphere is something Brandon wants to continue to experience.

Generously appreciated by the Bulldog coaches, Coach Mark Fox says: “Brandon is quietly one of the most valuable parts of our program. He is extremely dedicated and contributes in practice on a daily basis. He really has become a coach on the floor for us. He is one of the best Bulldogs we have ever had.”

The original B. Y. would be greatly pleased.

SPORTS AT A GLANCE

W L Pct GB San Antonio.........31....9.....775.......— Houston...............32.. 11.... .744....... .5 Memphis.............25.. 18.....581......7.5 New Orleans.......16..26.....381...... 16 Dallas..................13..27.....325...... 18 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah.....................27.. 16.....628.......— Oklahoma City....25.. 18.....581........ 2 Portland...............18..25.....419........ 9 Denver.................16..23.... .410........ 9 Minnesota...........14..27.....341...... 12 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State.......35....6.....854.......— L.A. Clippers........29.. 14.... .674........ 7 Sacramento.........16..24.....400... 18.5 L.A. Lakers..........15..30.....333...... 22 Phoenix...............13..28.....317...... 22 Monday’s Games Atlanta 108, New York 107 Washington 120, Portland 101 Philadelphia 113, Milwaukee 104 Indiana 98, New Orleans 95 Denver 125, Orlando 112

Boston 108, Charlotte 98 Golden State 126, Cleveland 91 Utah 106, Phoenix 101 L.A. Clippers 120, Oklahoma City 98 Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Brooklyn, late Houston at Miami, late Dallas at Chicago, late Minnesota at San Antonio, late Denver at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Washington, 7 p.m.

Portland at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Houston, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.

College Monday’s Games EAST Iona 82, Manhattan 67 Siena 78, Rider 68 St. Peter’s 69, Fairfield 55

SOUTH Arkansas 62, Texas A&M 60 Baylor 74, Texas 64 Central Florida 86, South Florida 64 Kentucky 88, Mississippi St. 81 N.C. State 79, Pittsburgh 74 Vanderbilt at Georgia, late Tennessee at Mississippi, late MIDWEST Akron 83, Ohio 68 Ball St. 98, Central Michigan 83 Buffalo 82, Kent St. 69 Eastern Michigan 86, Western Michigan 80 Illinois-Chicago 71, Wis.-Milwaukee 57 Purdue 91, Illinois 68 Toledo 85, Bowling Green 73 Miami (OH) at Northern Illinois, late Michigan at Wisconsin, late Wichita St. at Evansville, late St. Bonaventure at Saint Louis, late WEST San Diego Christian at Grand Canyon, late San Diego St. at UNLV, late New Mexico at Boise St., late

Today’s Games EAST Duquesne (9-9) at George Washington (9-9), 7 p.m.

Indiana (12-6) at Penn St. (11-7), 7 p.m.

VCU (14-4) at Fordham (7-11), 7 p.m.

St. Joseph’s (8-8) at Massachusetts (11-7), 7 p.m.

Colgate (4-15) at Boston U (10-8), 7 p.m.

Lehigh (10-7) at Navy (8-10), 7 p.m.

Holy Cross (9-10) at Army (8-10), 7 p.m.

Loyola-Maryland (9-8) at Bucknell (13-6), 7 p.m.

Oklahoma (7-9) at West Virginia (152), 7 p.m.

Lafayette (6-11) at American U. (413), 7:30 p.m.

Virginia (13-3) at Boston College (9-9), 8 p.m.

Georgia Tech (11-6) at Virginia Tech (13-4), 9 p.m.

SOUTH Florida (14-3) at South Carolina (143), 6:30 p.m.

Missouri (5-11) at Alabama (10-6), 7 p.m.

Notre Dame (16-2) at Florida St. (16-2), 7 p.m.

Texas Christian (14-3) at Texas Tech (13-4), 7:30 p.m.

Miami-Florida (12-4) at Wake Forest (10-7), 8 p.m.

Central Arkansas (4-14) at McNeese St. (5-11), 8 p.m.

Louisiana State (9-7) at Auburn (116), 8:30 p.m.

Football NFL DIVISIONAL ROUND AFC Saturday, Jan. 14 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh 18, Kansas City 16 NFC Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 Sunday, Jan. 15 Green Bay 34, Dallas 31

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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: RAMANPANKAJKUMAR BHAI PATEL Registered Agent: MUNIRA ALI Business Name: VP FOOD INC Location: 5245 LANGFORD PARK DR STE E NORCROSS, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 6 4 7 4 4 , 1/13,18,19,20,25,26,27,1,2, 3

PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice of Sale of Unpaid Storage and Transportation Charges In accordance with the provisions of the Georgia Uniform Commercial Code, there being due and unpaid storage for Graebel Atlanta Movers, Inc. is entitled to a lien as warehouseman on goods hereinafter described and due, notice having been given to parties known to claim an interest therein and time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, notice is hereby given that these goods will be sold at public auction by competitive bidding Graebel Atlanta Movers, Inc., 5150 Avalon Ridge Pkwy, Norcross, Georgia 30071, County of Gwinnett on the 25th day of January 2017 at the hour of 10:00 A.M. Should it be impossible to sell all the lots on the above date, the sale will be continued until all lots are sold. Auction shall be live open-outcry auction on-site, optional bids may be accepted by phone, fax and/ or Internet bidding with cash deposit.

The items to be sold are generally described as follows: Clothing, furniture, and/or other household items stored by the following persons: Name (Last Contact Location) Telicia Campbell (Orrville, AL) Deborah Harris (New Orleans, LA) Cynthia MaGregor (Atlanta, GA) Peter Young (Roswell, GA) Claudia Ford (Melville, South Africa) Jennifer Russo (Atlanta, GA) Pamela Whitfield (Ellenwood, GA) Any and all additional unknown accounts This notice is given in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Georgia. The owner reserves the right to bid at sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is� and must be paid for and removed at the time of sale. Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party.

By: THOMAS HAYWARD AUCTIONEERS State of Georgia Auctioneer License AUNR002956 888-255-7633 Toll Free www.ThomasHaywardAuctioneers.com 1/11, 1/18/17 CNS-2963101# GWINNETT DAILY POST 928-464108, 1/11,18 NOTICE OF QUALIFYING FEE FOR TOWN OF BRASELTON NOVEMBER 7, 2017 GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Please be advised that pursuant to O.C.G.A. 21-2-131, the Town of Braselton establishes and fixes the qualification fee for its November 7, 2017 General Municipal Election as follows: Mayor $360 Town Council Members (2) $180 928-465024, 1/18 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 12/14/16 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 5501 Glenridge Dr Sandy Springs, Ga on 12/06/16, at the request of the property owner or manager.

2013 Bashan Motorcycle VIN# LHJPJNBU8DB100043 Tag# No Tag 928-465436, 1/18,25

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored since 11/14/2016 at: Dz Mechanic Motors LLC, 2570 MISTLETOE LN, SNELLVILLE, GA, 30039, the following vehicle: Green, 2005 CHRYSLER PACIFICA, VIN: 2C4GM48L65R368138.

This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder.

929-465398, 1/18,25

FULL TIME PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on January 23rd , 2017 UHaul Company of Atlanta North-East 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 1150 Dogwood Dr Se, Conyers, Ga at 8:30 am and continue to each location as follows. Location stops subject to change or cancel.

-1150 Dogwood Dr, Conyers, Ga -4360 Covington Hwy, Decatur, Ga -4940 Memorial Dr, Stone Mountain, Ga -855 Northern Ave, Clarkston, Ga -3605 Sams Rd, Clarkston, Ga -2040 Scenic Hwy, Snellville, GaADRIENNE HAMILTON-1002, SHEBA GRAY-1707, NICOLE THOMPSON-1241 -3804 Buford Dr, Buford, GaKEVIN COX-0348, JENNIFER RIGDON-0239, JOSE VASQUEZ-0370, ALBERTHA GHOSON-0302 -4211 McEver Rd, Oakwood, Ga -2900 Atlanta Hwy, Athens, Ga(NO SALE!) 929-464390, 1/11,18 NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Eagle Towing, located at 115 Arcado Rd. , Lilburn , GA , 30047 , 770-279-1646. Wednesday January 25th , 2016 @ 11:00 am. The following vehicles, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5 as follows: 2005 Jeep Laredo VIN: 1J4HR48NX5C638837 Tag: RBD 2287 GA 2005 Dodge Neon VIN: 1B3ES56C25D250453 NO TAG Trailer VIN: 1JJV532D2EL822417 NO TAG 929-465387, 1/17,24 PUBLIC AUCTION  American Storage Center, Pursuant to Georgia SelfStorage Facilities Act shall conduct a Public Auction at the following storage spaces at 3464 Stone Mountain HWY, Snellville, GA 30078 on Thursday, January 26th, 2017 at 1:00 pm: Name: Unit#: Description G. Jones: A-04-J: Golf Clubs; Tires; many boxes S. Beard A-22: Household Items; Clothing; many boxes A. McCuen: A-26: Household Items; Clothing; many boxes; Washing Machine; HOusehold appliances G. Burnett: B-70: Matress set; luggage; many boxes A. Tesfamichael: D-06; Television, Entertainment center; Household Furniture; many boxes B. Moody: D-09: Black Sofa L. Mitchell: D-43: Chairs; Ceiling Fan; Cabinets A. Davis: D-46: Chairs; Clothing; many boxes T. Ross: G-25: Hand Tools, Power Tools, Gas Container; Tires T. Keener: H-49: Display Cabinets; Misc. tools; many boxes 929-464232, 1/11,18 NOTICE Scotty’s Thrifty Storage Duluth shall conduct a public sale on the following spaces at 3280 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Duluth, GA 30096, Thursday January 26th, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

Unit A42 James Rambeau Unit is said to contain file boxes, PCs, Computer Keyboard, TVs, Monitors, office chair, bicycle with child’s seat attached, chairs, file cabinets, suitcase, desk, misc tubs and boxes, pots and pans.

Unit B24 Joe Beck Unit is said to contain bookcases, misc tubs and garbage bags, sofa, lamps, pictures, blower, misc chairs, plastic storage drawers, bunk beds, Christmas decorations, hand weights, dolls, odd and ends furniture, table.

CARE AIDES/CNA’S NEED HOME CARE AIDES/CNA’S to work in Gwinnett County. Also need Bilingual Spanish/English.

Apply online www.homenurse.net and call Holly at 770-229-9153 ext. 1249 CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT NURSE Must be a patient relationship builder, independent and collaborative team player, familiar with EMR and data collection. Well established clinic in the heart of Lawrenceville with a faith and family centered atmosphere.

Send cover letter and resume to luke.lenahan@ hopeclinicinc.org

PAYROLL SPECIALIST Snapping Shoals EMC is recruiting for the position of Payroll Specialist. A qualified applicant will have the ability to work independently in a fast paced environment. Organizational skills and attention to detail are a must.

Knowledge of payroll laws and the ability to exercise discretion and use sound judgement in dealing with confidential information is required. A certification in payroll is preferred. This position is responsible for multiple payrolls.

Responsibilities include balancing time entry, processing semi-monthly payrolls as well as all court required deductions, quarterly tax reports and year end processes, including W-2’s. Educational requirements: A high school diploma and seven years of progressive experience in payroll administration. Application packets are available on line at www.ssemc.com or you can pick up a packet at our office located at 14750 Brown Bridge Road in Covington, GA, M-F from 8-5.

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PLUMBING

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NOW HIRING FOR: • Plumbers ($26/hr) New, Rough In, and Remodels • Exp’d Helpers ($20/hr) - 3 yrs exp with company • Crews Slab Subs, Rough In Subs, New Construction Set Out Apply In Person 8:30 – 9:30am or 4:00 -5:00pm 2218 Old Covington Hwy., Conyers

770-483-8564

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY BUSINESS FOR SALE Used Car Dealership, Established Turn Key Since 2003.

Gwinnett County includes inventory, 500,000, installment contracts of 500,000, solid customer base, zone-permitted-on going. Immediate Occupancy for tax season.

Family business, retiring. $1,000,000.

Call for additional info.

404-934-0279

NOW HIRING APPLY TODAY The Hampton Inn and the Homewood Suites in Lawrenceville, GA are now hiring for multiple positions. Hotels are now accepting applications for the following positions:

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All positions will be filled with self-motivated candidates with positive attitudes! Hotel experience is a plus!

Flexible schedule including weekends is a must!

Complete benefits package, including 401k and profit sharing, offered for F/T employees.

If this is the opportunity for you, please apply online at

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CLEANING

CLEANING HOMES & APARTMENTS Weekly & Bi-Weekly One Time Cleanings Will Work Weekends • 26 Yrs. Experience • Exc. References Pets No Problem All supplies furn.

FOREST REMODELING, INC. •Finished Basements •Bathroom Remodeling •Kitchen Remodeling •Custom Cabinets •Room Additions •Garages/Carports •Screened Porches •Custom Decks •Siding All Types

All Home Remodeling Projects & General Repairs Including: HVAC troubleshooting & more!

Over 25 years of exp. in all home repairs & improvements. *Licensed & Insured*

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404-936-3377

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

MIKE’S TREE SERVICE Experienced Tree Work 20+ Years All Phases of Tree Work

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References Available

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

COUNTRY BOY TREE REMOVAL Expert Take Downs √ 20Years Experience √ Insured √ Free Estimates √ Stump Grinding

POWER WASHING

PRESSURE WASHING HOUSES STARTING AT $89 • Roof Cleaning • Black streaks removed from roof • Mold & Mildew removed from homes • Drives-WalkwaysPatios-Decks cleaned/sealed • Gutters cleaned For a FREE Estimate

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Oak 1/2 Cord - $100 1 Cord - $190

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HOUSES FOR SALE

MONROE, GA 30655 3595 BRISCOE DR.

HOUSES FOR SALE

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA 30025 935 LITTLE RIVER RD

GRAYSON, GA 30017 1688 SILVERGRASS LANE

STUNNING LISTING! Beautiful 2 story with massive space and extensive moldings & trim. Sits on full unfinished basement.

5BR/4.5BA. A must see! $415,900. EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

TONS OF SQUARE FOOTAGE! 5BR/3BA RANCH With full finished basement! On 1.22 Acres. Vaulted Family Room with Fireplace, Formal Dining Room, Oversized Kitchen with Breakfast Area.

Split Bedroom Plan.

EHO - $199,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

PROTECT OUR PLANET LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30045 1359 GREAT OAKS CT.

MONROE, GA 30656 2300 ACORN WAY

JUST LISTED! HUD CASE # 105-305453 4BR/2.5BA TRADITIONAL HOME Separate living/dining room. Kitchen with center island.

Family room with fireside Fireplace.

Insured with Escrow.

EHO - $210,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

UNDER CONTRACT! Brick Front 2-Story On Huge .66 Corner Lot • New Carpet • Formal Living / Dining Rooms • Open Kitchen • Family Room • 2nd Kitchen in Finished Basement EHO • $229,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 807 BRADLEY CIRCLE

MONROE, GA 30656 506 MORGANS LANDING

BEAUTIFUL 2 STORY TRADITIONAL 3BR/2.5BA 2-STORY TRADITIONAL With stone accent.

Inviting front porch entry with living/ dining room.

Fireside fame rams with fireplace & open kitchen.

EHO • $160,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

ELEGANT TRADITIONAL! Lovely 4BR & 2.5BA 2 Story is Simply Elegant!! Open floor plan, family room with firplace and includes an above ground pool.

EHO • $175,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

MOBILE HOMES & LOTS FOR RENT

NEW LISTING! HUD CASE #101-975414 Ranch On 5 Plus Acres with Rocking Chair Front Porch.

Entrance with Views To Fireside Family Room with Fireplace & Bright Sun-Room.

Insured with Escrow.

EHO - $120,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com LAKE/RIVER/COASTAL PROPERTY FOR SALE

MUSICAL EQUIPMENT

BARROW-AUBURN 1-2-3 BEDROOMS IN MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY. Rent Starting at $100/ week. Large Lots.

770-513-3151 COMMERCIAL RENTALS

LAWRENCEVILLE OFFICE/ WAREHOUSES SPACE AVAILABLE 750 to 3600 sf Mike 404-375-5438.

PIANO 1961 Sohmer Studio Piano and Bench Bought from Cooper Music, April 22, 2008— restored; Original purchase price $1995.00 price —Asking $1200.00 Have original sales from documentation Cooper Music. Piano has been maintained and kept tuned; played for worship services through January 1, 2017 by the same pianist.

Reverend Contact Wayne Reed 404 6956496 cell phone

GARAGE SALES MISC. FOR SALE

EATONTON, GA 31024 210 RIVER LAKE DR.

GORGEOUS LAKE LOT! Beautiful Shaded Lake Lot With Hardwoods With Great Views of Lake Oconee.

EHO • $245,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

APTS/DUP/CONDOS/ T’HOMES FOR RENT

GWINNETT DUPLEXES

2 Communities!

One on Singleton Road & One on Law’ville-Suwanee Road! 2BR & 3BR, 2BA, Fireplace, Vaulted Ceilings, Off Street Parking.

Starting @ $900/mo.

B.C. PROPERTIES 770-446-1550 770-995-8828

BUFORD Church Moving Sale, Fri., 1/20 & Sat. 1/21, 8am- 1pm Impact Church, 2000 Gravel Springs Rd. Something for everyone!

DACULA ESTATE SALE, Sat., 1/21, 9-4 & Sun. 1/22, 9-3. (Half Price Day) 3284 Brooksong Way. Mid Century bedroom set, dining room and kit furn. baseball and military collectibles, Noritake China, trunks, artwork, vintage accent tables, whale teeth, jewelry, workshop & garage tools.

CABINETS: THREE 4 Drawer Filing Cabinets includes racks/hanging folders, slightly damaged appearance, 3 for $25 or $10 each. Heavy Old Wooden Desk, 54�X32�, 6 drawers, $20. Indoor/ Outdoor Coffee Table, like new, 44�x24�, $15.

Cushioned Rocking Chair with Ottoman, good for nursery, $20.

770-490-6378

FIREWOOD

FIREWOOD Seasoned Oak & Hickory.

Delivery or Pick Up. Call For Prices.

770-962-8744 SEASONED OAK FIREWOOD 4x8 Rack $125.

Delivered & Stacked.

Lawrenceville/Buford area. 678-997-5675.

Proceeds for funding Helping Hands Missionary Trips.

FURNITURE/ HOUSEHOLD GOODS DESK Very nice executive medium size Heckman desk w/in-laid leather 8 drawer. $675 Compare at $1500$2000 678-665-6626 PETS/LIVESTOCK LOST & FOUND PETS

Unit B33 Mark Kavanagh Unit is said to contain rug, misc chairs and tables, boxes, shelves, plant stands.

929-465419, 1/18,25

FOUND CAT Long haired calico cat, about 1 year old, found at Beaver Ruin and Hwy 29. Pls call 770-921-4432

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2000 Windridge Dr, GA, 30518 Windridge Buford, Affordable 1&2 Apartments Bedroom Apartments

NOTICE There will be sold at public auction on Thursday 2 of February, 2017 at 11:00 am the following vehicle at BOSSI AUTO REPAIR, 4598 BUFORD HWY. STE-B, NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 2003 ACURA MDX, VIN: 2HNYD18643H521979, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 40-11-5 929-465401, 1/18,25

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Hall County, Georgia and Incorporated Areas The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report, reflecting proposed flood hazard determinations within Hall County, Georgia and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway.

Technical information or comments are solicited on the proposed flood hazard determinations shown on the preliminary FIRM and/or FIS report for Hall County, Georgia and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence o

of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. However, before these determinations are effective for floodplain management purposes, you will be provided an opportunity to appeal the proposed information. For information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, as well as a complete listing of the communities affected and the locations where copies of the FIRM are available for review, please visit FEMA’s website at www.fema.gov/ plan/prevent/fhm/bfe, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877336-2627).

928-464518, 1/18,25

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