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GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

District improving Digital Learning Days

BY TREVOR MCNABOE

these digital days is due to the school system having already exhausted its three makeup days in September In December, Gwinnett because of Irma, then a tropiCounty Public Schools rolled cal storm. out a contingency plan of At the Board of Educausing Digital Learning Days tion’s work session meeting systemwide to substitute for on Thursday, the impact of canceled school days. Two Digital Learning was a major weeks into the second setalking point. mester and the school district According to Chief has already used three digital Information Officer Frank learning days.

Elmore, from a back end Part of the reason for technology perspective, the trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

school system’s portal in regards to bandwidth and infrastructure held up well.

Elmore said during the first Digital Learning Day on Jan. 8, the bandwidth peaked at 2.5 gigabits with 21 gigabits available at the district. Both Wednesdays and Thursday’s bandwidth peaked at around 3.5 gigabits.

“From a bandwidth utilization perspective, we are very strong,” Elmore said.

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“The infrastructure that is supporting our portal peaked at around 60 percent of our current capacity. We are comfortable at around 75-80 percent using our student portal at a constant state.”

The student portal Elmore refers to is the eClass course

Aiden Roth, a fourth-grader at Harbins Elementary School, does work during a Gwinnett County Public Schools DigiSee GCPS, Page 9A tal Learning Day this week. (Photo: Jessica Roth)

BOC OKs Planned PEThood vet services

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Cold weather chaos

Kacey Wyatt, right, with her two daughters Lily, 3, and Julie, 1, play outside in the snow near their Loganville home. (Photo: Susan Niles)

Officials: Assessment of response to storm will ‘take a little time’

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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As Gwinnett County continues to thaw, residents, law enforcement and government officials are assessing their response to the snow and ice storm Tuesday night and Wednesday that left cities, county and state offices closed.

Many schools throughout the north Georgia region remained closed on Thursday too, with Gwinnett government offices delaying openings until 10 a.m. and canceling court trials,

A car is seen in the ditch at Old Fountain Road and Prospect Road in Lawrenceville when roads were extremely slick from snow and ice. (Photo: Gwinnett Police)

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Gwinnett County officials are teaming up with Planned PEThood of Georgia Inc. to make sure animals housed in a shelter run by the county have access to medical care.

County commissioners approved a contract with Planned PEThood earlier this week to have the Duluth-based animal welfare nonprofit provide veterinarian services at the Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement Shelter in Lawrenceville. The annual contract is for $360,000.

Officials said having the veterinarian services at the shelter can expedite the adoption process because it means animals who are strays or have gone unclaimed can get vet care and sterilization faster.

“This contract increases the shelter’s efficiency by promptly evaluating, testing and treating contagious or infectious diseases such as parvovirus, feline distemper, mange, ringworm and flu,” commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said in a statement.

Under the terms of the agreement, Planned PEThood will provide a full-time veterinarian and veterinarian technicians on-site at the shelter. Depending on the season, those employees would be at the shelter five or six times a week.

The veterinarian and the technicians will evaluate animals and provide treatments ranging from vaccinations to surgery meant to heal fractures, cuts and wounds prolapses or to deal with sterilization. They will also test and treat animals for heartworm and Feline HIV. “The contract provides for veterinary examinations, surgical and diagnostic services, and the ability to work with our volunteers from UGA vet students and Gwinnett Tech vet students,” county Community Services Director Tina Fleming told commissioners Tuesday.

GWINNETT BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

11 couples exchange vows at mass wedding

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Eight is Orlando and Latosha Reese’s lucky number, so the couple decided it would be a perfect fit to join other couple and get married in a unique ceremony at the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse Thursday.

Eleven couples got married, or renewed their vows in the case of three couples, in the Two Be-

come One Mass Wedding at the historic courthouse.

The event was held at 1:18 p.m. on Thursday, offering the novelty of couples having a “1-1818” wedding date.

If that wasn’t enough eights for Orlando and Latosha Reese, they were also one of eight couples participating in the ceremony who were exchanging vows with each other for the first time.

“She has a Chinese friend who said eights

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are good,” Orlando Reese said. “It means good luck so it’s a good marriage day to have more than one eight and we have multiple eights in this date.”

The wedding ceremony tied into the county’s year-long bicentennial celebration as a reference to 1818, which was the

year Gwinnett County was established.

The ceremony was presided over jointly by Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Hammer Blum and Probate Judge Christopher Ballar, who added cravats — similar to what judges in the late 18th and early 19th centuries would have worn — to their robes for the occasion.

Blum said she and

Orlando and Latosha Reese share their first dance as a married couple after getting married in Gwinnett County’s Two Become One Mass Wedding at the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse Thursday. (Staff Photo: Curt See WEDDING, Page 7A Yeomans)

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Cold may be reason for Wednesday chimney fire

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Frigid temperatures may be to blame for a fire that damaged a Lawrenceville home Wednesday evening.

Around 6:45 p.m., Gwinnett County firefighters responded to reports of a fire in a house located in the 1400 block of Shelly Circle New Dawn Theater Company members act out a Christmas scene in one of the com- in unincorporated Lawpany’s shows. Theater officials said they are in danger of closing their doors if they renceville, where they found cannot quickly raise $10,000 to buy a fire alarm system. They canceled their January flames in the chimney chase shows and future shows are in limbo because of the issue. (Special Photo) on the side of the split-level, wood-frame house, according to Gwinnett fire Capt.

Tommy Rutledge.

Firefighters quickly deployed attack hose lines and entered the home to extinguish the blaze and

BY CURT YEOMANS tors Showcase and Motown being canceled. She also conduct a primary search for curt.yeomans Concert),” Ingbritsen said. the source of the fire. said rehearsals for “Joan @gwinnettdailypost.com Ingbritsen said the theater of Arc” have been sus“Crews found extension is in danger of closing perpended until they have more in the attic over the secondNew Dawn Theater offimanently if it cannot raise story and had to open up the information about whether cials put out an urgent call to the money for the fire alarm the alarm system will be supporters Wednesday, ask- system within the next week installed in time. ing them to help the acting or so. Even if it doesn’t “We also have audition company raise $10,000 to close, the lack of a fire alarm slated for the last week of buy a new fire alarm system system means the theater January for “Born Yesso it can continue staging may have to close temporar- terday,” which goes up in performances. ily and search for another April,” Ingbritsen said.

The company’s president location.

“None of this can or will

BY ISABEL HUGHES and artistic director, Sherry “This is a choice we don’t happen without your help. isabel.hughes Ingbritsen, said the theater want to make,” she said. “It In order for New Dawn @gwinnettdailypost.com has been undergoing a fire took us over two years to to continue to remain in The Lawrenceville Police inspection process. The last find where we are now, and our home, and bring you Department is looking for a thing they need to comwe certainly don’t want to such wonderful theater and new leader to take the reins plete that process is a fire close our doors.” events, we need to raise after its current Chief of Poalarm system that will cost In addition to the Januthe remaining $10,000 this lice Randy Johnson retires about $20,000. She said the ary shows that have been week. in March.

Duluth-based theater has canceled, the likelihood of “The process will take Johnson, who announced already paid about $1,000 at least two more shows, “A two to four weeks to install, his retirement last week, is of that cost and has about View from the Bridge” and so in order to continue as hanging up his badge after $8,000 more from ticket “Joan of Arc,” going forscheduled, we have to do 33 years of service, the last sales and donations. ward have been threatened this now.”

“The county has told us, 21 of which he has served by the situation.

Anyone who would like due to regulations, we canas head of the Lawrenceville Ingbritsen said “A View to make a donation to help not do any additional public from the Bridge,” which department. the theater raise the money performances until the alarm was scheduled to be staged “It has been an honor to can make a contribution by has been updated, which is Feb. 9 through 11, Feb. 16 visiting www.newdawnthe- serve my hometown and my why we had to cancel our through 18 and Feb. 23 atercompany.com or calling local community all these January events (Elvis, Direc- through 25, is in danger of years,” Johnson said. “Most 678-887-5015. importantly, it has been a privilege to serve with my

New Dawn Theater must raise $10K to avoid closure

wall and ceiling to control the fire,” Rutledge said. “The blaze caused extensive damage to the chimney chase and part of the attic space. There was residual water damage on the main-level and smoke throughout the house.”

The home’s occupants told officials they had built a fire to keep warm and that this was reportedly the first time they had used the fireplace.

Rutledge said a preliminary investigation indicated the blaze was sparked by a fire burning in the fireplace.

No one was injured, though the residents were displaced and are being aided by nearby family and friends.

Gwinnett firefighters also responded to a Buford apartment shortly before 7 p.m. in reference to a kitchen fire that they believe was caused by unattended food cooking

on the stove.

“Crews arrived to find light smoke showing from a single-story apartment building,” Rutledge said. “Firefighters made immediate entry and quickly deployed a water extinguisher to douse a small smoldering fire. The fire was contained to the kitchen and caused minor damage to the stove and cabinets.”

The residents of the apartment were not displaced by the fire.

In light of the two fires Wednesday evening, Rutledge reminded residents to practice home fire safety.

“Never leave food cooking unattended on the stove,” he said, “and turn the stove burners off when leaving the kitchen or going to sleep.

(Also) keep a portable fire extinguisher close at hand to douse a small fire before it spreads.”

Lawrenceville accepting applications for police chief Lawrenceville Police Chief Randy Johnson receives the Public Service Leadership Award during the Valor Awards banquet at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth on March 26. Johnson also won the State Police Chief of the Year award for Georgia this year. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

fellow officers, my work family and my friends. It is an awesome responsibility to serve as a law enforcement officer, and I am proud to have done so with some of the finest by my side.”

On Thursday, the city began accepting applications for the position, which will

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Candidates must have a minimum of 10 years of law enforcement experience, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, POST certification and other skills that will ensure the community’s safety.

“We are looking for the next public safety leader, not just an officer with the listed qualifications,” City Manager Chuck Warbington said.

“This position is critical to the stability of the community and must be a person who takes to heart the welfare of his or her employees.

Our officers do a remarkable thing, standing between order and chaos, between life and death, every single day. Their leader must be a remarkable individual capable of continuing to guide the department while caring for the community.”

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An enlarged prostate has reader asking for alternatives Dear Dr. roaCH: I’m a 75-year-old male with a prostate the size of a Buick.

I have to get up four to five times a night to urinate. After about the third time, I cannot get back to sleep. I can get about five hours before the problem occurs. My doctor prescribed 10 mg Ambien, and if I take half of the pill, I can get another two hours.

My family history is one of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. My wife tells me that if I continue to take sleeping pills, I will develop Alzheimer’s, too. My question: Do I take the pill to get more sleep, or be tired all day with five hours?

— E.H. ansWer: There are two questions here: The first is whether there is a better treatment for a Buick-size prostate than zolpidem (Ambien), and the second is how dangerous zolpidem is, in terms of causing Alzheimer’s dementia.

Certainly, there are effective treatments for most men with symptoms of a large prostate. One class, the alpha blockers, act on the muscles of the prostate, specifically a special kind of muscle, called “smooth muscle.”

Because the urethra, which carries the urine, goes straight through the prostate, relaxing the internal muscles of the prostate allows better urine flow. Another class, the 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, prevent the body from making a type of testosterone (dihydrotestosterone) that enlarges the prostate and promotes baldness. Men who don’t do well with medications can consider various surgical procedures, some using cold or laser, to reduce prostate size and improve urine flow. All men can get some benefit in alleviating nighttime symptoms by drinking less fluid in the evening and nighttime. Hopefully, with treatment, you can sleep through the night and won’t need a sleeping pill.

The second question is about the risk of dementia in people taking sleeping medications, such as zolpidem.

There have been a few studies that have suggested an increased risk of developing dementia with regular use of zolpidem and other sleep aids. In general, the more often they are used and the higher the dose, the higher the risk; however, it is hard to estimate the magnitude of the risk based on the types of studies done. I suspect the risk is fairly low. It’s also possible that early dementia, which can sometimes involve sleep disturbances, may have not been recognized, and thus the apparent relationship may not mean that the zolpidem is causing dementia at all.

However, there are many good reasons, especially in older adults, to use as little sleeping medication as possible. I worry about the other risks of zolpidem, including complex sleep behaviors (people have been known to eat and even drive while asleep on zolpidem). This is more common in women on higher doses (above 6.25 mg). The day after taking sleep medications, driving also may be impaired, and fall risk is increased. I’d get back with your general physician and see whether there might be some better ways of treating your automotivesize (should be only walnutsize) prostate.

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CANCER (June 21Dear amy: I am into discretely separate as they are coming in the Ask Amy July 22) — Do somea 21-year-old college areas, nor can I oversee door? This is the opposite thing different. Visit a student. I’ve been friends the food while babysitting of hospitality. destination you’ve never with a fellow student highly opinionated adults.

Your friend has a lot of been to before and asnamed “Rob” for the past I would like to nip this nerve in expecting this of sociate with people who three years. I have never in the bud. What do you you — and yet no nerve offer inspiration and known Rob to be anything think of putting the follow- in terms of trusting that motivation. Much can but a kind and trustworthy ing in a lovely frame on people will behave well person. For the past two an easel at the front door: during a social occasion in be accomplished if you years, Rob has been dating “Thank you for joining her own home. work alongside others. another student at our colthe festivities tonight. All If I were you, I’d stick LEO (July 23-Aug. Amy Dickinson lege, and their relationship opinions are respected, but with the casseroles. If your 22) — Invest your time seems very healthy. please, leave politics at friend can’t handle the and effort into bringing Last night, while scroll- about. the door for the evening. tension of hosting friends about worthwhile lifeing through Facebook, Your experience with Welcome!” in her own home, then style changes. Don’t feel I saw a post made by him seems to have been If things do get out perhaps she is not ready to obliged to pay for somesomeone Rob and I barely entirely positive. Until you of hand, I could remind open her home to others. one else. Share and be know, stating that Rob have believable and credthem that no one will Dear amy: “Unsure” fair, but don’t let anyone is “an abuser.” The post ible evidence that he has be convinced to change wondered whether to use you. used Rob’s full name, so abused others, you should their minds in a single continue to hide his (legal) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

I’m sure it was about my continue the friendship. evening. It would also be pot smoking from his kids.

22) — Explore new friend. I was shocked and Generally speaking, very tempting to slip out This is an issue that is goplaces and interests to don’t know what to do when a group of individu- through the garage and let ing to come up more and connect with someone now. als breaks off their friend- my friend deal with the more as marijuana is legalwho jogs your memory I sent Rob a simple mes- ships with someone over fallout. ized in various states. or gives you plenty to sage: “Is everything OK?” time, there is a reason, but I respect your approach But I was shocked that consider. A unique partbut haven’t heard back, and each of us has the right to to life. How should I you suggested that he nership will encourage I don’t believe Rob knows the presumption of innohandle this, Amy? should smoke in front of new beginnings. about the allegation. cence. I can imagine any — Foodie, not Referee them!

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Protect your physical and ing to Rob in the past few so this is no problem. behavior). Mainly, I spend You can contact Amy emotional health. months with no explanaAbout 15 folks are a lot of time pointing out Dickinson via email: SCORPIO (Oct. 24tion, and I’m starting to invited, including some on the obvious. askamy@amydickinson.

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NO opinions are respected. Texas, 75001. You can also quires a little nurturing and tender, loving care. about this post. It is vague Since this is a relatively Do you want to be that follow her on Twitter @ Offer peace and insight. and inflammatory. Ask small group, I can’t just finger-wagging person askingamy or “like” her SAGITTARIUS (Nov. him if he knows what it’s nudge opposing parties who tells people to shut up on Facebook.

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An administration with no credibility has no leadership WASHINGTON — The rude, petulant manchild in the Oval Office is reeling ever more wildly out of control, and those who cynically or slavishly pretend otherwise are doing a grave disservice to the nation — and to themselves.

How do you like him now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell? President Trump convened a made-for-television summit at the White House and said he’d sign any immigration bill Congress passes. “I’ll take the heat,” he boasted. So a bipartisan group of senators came up with a deal — and he rejected it out of hand, launching Eugene into an unhinged rant about “s— Robinson hole countries.”

What about you, House Speaker Paul Ryan? You came up with a clever way to get Democrats to agree to a stopgap funding bill, dangling the possibility of a long-term renewal of the vital Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). But the president tweeted that “CHIP should be part of a long term solution” and not a short-term measure to keep the government from shutting down.

Is this what you signed up for, chief of staff John Kelly? In a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, you said that some of Trump’s campaign positions on immigration were “uninformed” and that there will never be a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. You reportedly added that whatever partial barrier gets built, Mexico won’t pay for it. But the president slapped you down with another series of tweets, claiming that his promised wall “has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it” — and that Mexico will, too, pay for the wall, “directly or indirectly.”

How was your week, White House physician Ronny Jackson? You did what is expected of everyone who stands at the podium in the briefing room: lavish the president with flowery, over-the-top, Dear Leader praise. He is in “excellent health,” you announced. But the test results you released, according to many other doctors, indicate that Trump suffers from moderate heart disease and is on the borderline between overweight and obese. In your view, the next step down from “excellent” must be “deceased.”

Having fun, Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandowski? As bigwigs in the Trump campaign, you helped a manifestly unfit blowhard get elected president. This week, you did the White House a favor by stonewalling the House Intelligence Committee in a way that angered even the Republicans on the panel, which is hard to do. But you remain in the crosshairs of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and the best-case scenario is that you emerge unindicted but saddled with mountainous legal bills.

No one should feel sorry for those who choose to aid and abet this travesty of an administration. They made their choices. They elected to trust a man they know to be wholly untrustworthy, and to lie shamelessly to massage his swollen ego. At this point, I wouldn’t believe Sarah Huckabee Sanders if she told me that water is wet and the sky is blue.

But the larger impact is something we all must worry about: One year into the Trump presidency, we effectively do not have a presidency at all.

As McConnell noted in frustration Wednesday, he can’t orchestrate passage of an immigration bill unless he knows what Trump is willing to sign. Likewise, Ryan can’t pass spending legislation unless he knows what Trump will and will not accept. But the president has no fixed positions. His word is completely unreliable. How are congressional leaders supposed to do their jobs?

Regarding foreign policy, how can other nations take seriously anything Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says when he is subject to being countermanded on Twitter at any moment?

What is the point of Jared Kushner’s diplomacy, if you can call it that, in the Middle East?

Does “America First” really mean anything, or is it just Trumpian hot air?

And why, at this point, do reporters even bother to attend Sanders’ briefings, unless perhaps for the entertainment value? Past press secretaries all delivered pronouncements that were loaded with spin, but Sanders concocts laughable fantasies out of thin air — usually to “justify” crazy things Trump has said or tweeted.

The nation has never before faced a situation like this: It is unwise to take literally or seriously anything the president and his official spokespersons say. An administration with no credibility cannot possibly lead.

Trump is incapable of growing into the job; if anything, he is becoming more erratic. I fear the day when a crisis arises and we must face it with a bratty preteen at the helm.

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

We can’t let robots steal all our jobs CHICAGO — In a world that seems in constant danger of going over the edge, why isn’t more effort going into making sure robots don’t steal every last job and leave our kids fighting, cage-match style, for whatever’s left?

Jobs are a key measure of how well the economy is ticking along, but they have become a partisan battleground.

The elites of Silicon Valley, sensing a backlash against a system in which no-wage robots toil 24 hours a day without complaint, have suggested a universal income to provide those displaced by technology with a small, guaranteed stipend for basics like food, housing and health care.

Though initial research suggests that such a universal income wouldn’t lead to laziness (and might even increase productivity by leading people to take creative and entrepreneurial risks), it’s not an idea that has caught fire.

Douglas Rushkoff, the author of the magnificent book “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus,” recently noted that the instinct for some to jump on the bandwagon for a universal income is self-serving: “(Leaders at Silicon Valley tech firms) understand the basic math undermining their long-term business plans: If they automate all the jobs, who will be left to buy their services? Even the data that

Esther Cepeda companies such as Google mine from our otherwise free online activities would be worthless if we had no money to spend. The penniless have no consumer behavior to exploit.”

At the other extreme, the Trump administration ignored its own lamentation that midskill jobs have left for China when it issued guidance for “state efforts to test incentives that make participation in work or other community engagement a requirement for continued Medicaid eligibility” for able-bodied adults.

If it’s 100 percent true, as some research suggests, that employment is beneficial for physical and general mental health, then this would likely make Medicaid recipients less reliant on welfare in the future. It still leaves open the question of where the jobs are going to come from.

However, it’s not inevitable that automation will result in mass job loss, despite the scary statistics. (And they

are scary: According to a recent report by Bloomberg and the think tank New America, nearly one-quarter of the workforce is projected to be 55 or older by 2024, and we’re smack dab in the middle of a decades-long fall in the rates at which Americans start businesses, switch jobs or move for a new job.)

Those who look on the sunny side of automation love to cite economist David Autor’s observation that the introduction of the ATM increased, rather than decreased, the number of bank teller jobs that require more creativity and problem-solving than just counting money and making deposits.

The real problem underlying this tension is that it’s not anyone’s priority to figure out how U.S. corporations, societies and governments can work together to ensure the future holds meaningful jobs.

For their joint study, Bloomberg and New America convened a commission of more than 100 leaders in business, technology policy and academia. The resulting report, “Shift,” underscored these points about American labor: • The central role of employers in society has eroded, and we don’t know what will replace them — but we need “networks of small businesses, modern guilds, worker associations, and entrepre-

neurship training, while at the same time facilitating new ways to administer worker benefits.”

• “The future of work fails to align neatly with traditional political coalitions,” and “for the first time, automated systems could affect prospects for people in every demographic and skill level.”

• We worry about millennials’ ability to forge careers, but “the fastest-growing segment of the workforce … continues to be — and will be for the foreseeable future — older workers.”

• The richest cities aren’t reflective of the rest of the country: “Commission members from noncoastal areas and smaller towns pointed to discrepancies in education, technology, access to capital and networking opportunities.

Long-distance moves are on the decline.”

While it’s fantastic that a group of thoughtful experts came together to establish ideas for ensuring that the remainder of this century offers meaningful, decently paid work, it’s long past time that tomorrow’s jobs become a national priority.

One thing is for sure: We can’t let Silicon Valley and multinational corporations determine the future of our work for us.

Esther Cepeda’s email address is estherjcepeda@ washpost.com.

Remembering foundation my parents gave me DONOVAN — A little more than a mile from this rural community stands a white church, a steeped roof it’s only distinguishing feature.

Travel the back roads of our state and you see many such churches which are silent sentries to the passing of time.

There is a mix of hardwoods, mostly oak, and pine surrounding the church property in this Northeast section of Johnson Country. Across the road from the Beulah Baptist Church sanctuary is a cemetery where many of my relatives, including my mother and father, have been laid to rest.

Recently, on a chilly but sunny and pleasant day, I drove down to visit the gravesites of my parents, a trip I had planned to make for some time — but there was a reluctance to follow through on making the drive. Knowing what the emotions would be, I found reasons for not making the journey. It was something I was moved to do, however.

Growing up, the centerpiece of the family’s social life was this lonely country church. My dad’s faith never wavered. It helped him, a Great Depression alumnus, soldier through hard

the fields. That washing machine was literally a lifesaver.

Then the day came when an electric stove was installed.

My brother and I gloried in that as well. It meant we no longer had to split stove wood for the kitchen stove. It was not a burdensome chore, but Loran required energy and effort and Smith was replete with relentless boredom. One of the happiest times. Those times were days of my life was to see my not hardscrabble, but they mother enjoy a dishwasher were certainly not a bed of and air conditioning. Those roses. He gloried in the work came along in her sundown ethic, believing in the Biblical years. preachment that a “man shall It was a signature day when earn his daily bread by the my father paid off the loan for sweat of his brow.” a two row John Deere tractor.

As I stood at their markers, That old John Deere made life I was overcome with a sense easier for him, if that were of guilt. Why have I been the possible. My parents gardened beneficiary of such a good into their late eighties. They life? My thoughts rambled loved living off the land. A through tears. My parents freezer had become their best would be considered “salt of friend. When they grocery the earth.” They had a simple shopped, they scrutinized the goal: To teach their children prices intently. If one brand of to do right and act right and peanut butter costs 39 cents to enjoy a better life than they and another 38 cents, they had experienced. saved the penny.

Milestone events were They never visited the things taken for granted those capitals of Europe. They days. There was the day my never walked the streets of mother got a washing maManhattan. Rome. Paris. Lonchine. In addition to being a don. They never saw the sun housewife and mother, she set at Key West. They never worked alongside my father in saw the changing of the guard

at Buckingham Palace. They never visited Red Square or the Forbidden City. They never flew over the Grand Canyon in a twin engine plane. They never attended a World Series, a Super Bowl or Wimbledon. They never dined at the Ritz, they never were feted with a meal at a posh country club.

They were frugal, hardworking and were forever good neighbors. Monday through noon Saturday was their work week. Sunday, as ordained by the Good Book, was a day of rest.

My father knew that even a high school diploma would have made a difference in our lives so he was always underscoring the value of education. He had to quit school in the 7th grade to work on the farm to help support his family.

He never complained about the hand dealt him. He moved forward, making the best of things. He lived to pay off the debt on his farm, a day of thanksgiving and gratitude.

My parents were great Americans.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and is also a freelance writer and columnist.

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GOP tries to avert federal shutdown

By Lauren Fox and deirdre WaLsH

Trump seeks to keep some parks open

CNN

House Republican leaders were moving toward a vote on a stopgap spending measure Thursday to avoid a shutdown, but it was unclear if there were enough GOP votes or if President Donald Trump’s tweets would derail their efforts.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and his lieutenants were up against the clock and their own ranks as they scrambled to lock down votes, and that was before Trump tweeted that a key sweetener for Senate Democrats — a six-year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program — shouldn’t be included in a short-term measure.

“CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!” Trump wrote in a tweet originally interpreted as disparaging the current proposal to keep the government funded, though congressional Republicans later said the President was Oil spill off China fully on board with that plan. coast now the If Congress doesn’t size of Paris send a bill to the President approving more money An oil spill from an by midnight on SaturdaIranian oil tanker that sank day, most federal agenin the East China Sea is now cies will be forced to stop the size of Paris. operations. GOP leaders The slick covers an area of in the House can’t count 39 square miles, after almost on Democrats who have doubling in size from the said they will not support start of the week, according a short-term spending bill to figures released Wednesthat funds the governday by the Chinese State ment into mid-February Oceanic Administration.

Chinese authorities said there were four separate slicks that had formed after the Panama-registered Sanchi tanker sank Sunday. The Cops: Serial killer largest oil slick is 19 square behind 9 slayings miles, it added. in Phoenix area The administration did not respond Thursday to a Arriving on the scene of request for additional infor- a double slaying last month, mation.

Phoenix police took a man The tanker burned in the — the son of one of the East China Sea for a week victims — into custody, not following a collision with knowing they were handanother vessel. All crew cuffing a suspected serial members, 30 from Iran and killer. two from Bangladesh, are Officers felt Cleophus presumed dead.

Cooksey was acting strangely, perhaps trying to conceal something. They India tests-fires arrested him in the Dec. 17 long-range ICBM deaths of his mother, Rene India has successfully Cooksey, and his stepfather, test-fired a long-range inter- Edward Nunn, but that continental ballistic miswas just the beginning of a sile, the country’s Defense multi-jurisdiction investigaMinistry said Thursday. tion, Phoenix Police Chief The nuclear-capable Jeri Williams said.

Agni-V is believed to be InCooksey, 35, would soon dia’s most advanced ICBM. be linked to seven more It was fired Thursday morn- killings over a three-week ing India time from Abdul period in the Phoenix metro Kalam island off the coast of area. the eastern state of Odisha, “Our detectives didn’t the ministry said in a tweet. stop there (with Cooksey’s It called the test a “major arrest),” Williams said. boost” to the country’s “They kept digging because defense capabilities. that’s what good police ofIndia is believed to have ficers do.” around 120 to 130 nuclear Using technology for warheads in its arsenal, acforensics analysis, investigacording to the Federation of tors soon linked Cooksey American Scientists, comto a total of nine killings pared to several thousand for in Phoenix, Glendale and the US. Avondale, the chief said.

Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political Trend continues: science at MIT who studies 2017 one of the nuclear proliferation, said Thursday’s test did not dem- hottest years yet onstrate any “new capability, 2017 was once again (this) was simply a developmental test before India one of the hottest years inducts it into operational on record, ranked as the range.” second-warmest by NASA — From wire reports and third-warmest by the France and Britain signed a new treaty Thursday aimed at speeding up asylum applications for migrants entitled to claim refuge in the U.K. The new pact, which French President Emmanuel Macron said was the first border treaty between the two countries in 15 years, will cover unaccompanied children and will reduce the processing for cases from six months to one month for adults, and from six months to 25 days for minors.

Ahead of the meeting, Macron indicated France would not tolerate another camp being built in Calais, saying the port town will not be used as a “side door” for migrants to gain access to the U.K. Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Theresa May at the U.K.’s Sandhurst Military Academy, Macron said the treaty would ensure a “more human” approach to border control.

By GreGory WaLLace

CNN

A child stands on the barricade around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2013, during a federal government shutdown. The Trump administration looked to keep national parks open in the event that lawmakers failed to avert a new shutdown. (Photo: CNN)

if it does not include a fix for DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that expires in March. That left Ryan looking to pass the spending bill with just Republican votes.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, sent a tweet that was seen as a response to Trump’s tweet, clarifying that the short-term measure to keep the government included a six-year reauthorization.

“The current house Continuing Resolution package has a six-year extension of CHIP, not a 30 day extension,” Cornyn wrote.

Ryan said at a news conference Thursday that whipping efforts on the proposal are “doing fine” and that Trump’s tweet on CHIP was not causing “problems at all.”

“I have confidence we’ll pass this because I think

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members understand, why on earth would we want to have a government shutdown, hurt the military … that is not in anyone’s interest,” Ryan said, adding that he spoke with Trump earlier in the morning and that the President “fully supports” their plan.

White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah issued a statement pushing to keep the government funded and didn’t mention CHIP. “The President supports the continuing resolution introduced in the House,” Shah said. “Congress needs to do its job and provide full funding of our troops and military with a two year budget caps deal.

However, as the deal is negotiated, the President wants to ensure our military and national security are funded. He will not let it be held hostage by Democrats.”

Even if the federal government runs out of money and shuts down this weekend, the Trump administration is working to keep the gates to some national parks open.

That would stand in sharp contrast to the last government shutdown, in 2013, when officials closed park entrances, erected barriers around national monuments and dispatched law enforcement to turn away visitors. Among the defining images of that shutdown were children locked out of parks and veterans protesting at barricades in front of the World War II Memorial in Washington.

At the time, Republicans, who controlled the House, accused Democratic President Barack Obama of closing the parks out of “spite” as each side sought to blame the other over the funding impasse.

The new policy could limit those pictures — and perhaps public reaction to a shutdown.

Under the new plans, public lands would “try to allow limited access wherever possible,” Interior Department spokeswoman Heather Swift told CNN.

employees were involved in a series of incidents on Interstate 280. Another inciOhio teen shot dent, involving an Apple bus, dead by deputy in occurred last week.

The California Highway courthouse fight Patrol told CNN Tech sevAuthorities have identified eral windows were shattered a teenager fatally shot by in the five cases. a deputy in an Ohio courtIt’s unknown who is room as 16-year-old Joseph behind the incidents, but Haynes. considering the buses were Haynes, whose grandunmarked, the perpetrator mother told CNN affiliate might not be targeting one WSYX he was trying to turn specific company, according his life around, was killed to CHP Officer Art Montiel. during a hearing in a juvenile courtroom in Columbus on Facebook adds Wednesday, Chief Deputy Rick Minerd of the Franklin its first black County Sheriff’s Department board member said in a news conference.

Facebook is adding AmerThe teenager was attending a hearing on a menacing ican Express CEO Kenneth Chenault to its board. with a gun charge when his The move is significant family members and a depfor the company: It marks uty got into an altercation, Minerd said. At some point, the first black member appointed to Facebook’s curthe deputy was knocked to the ground and fired a single rently all-white board.

Chenault announced gunshot, hitting Haynes in in October that he would the abdomen. step down from American Haynes was taken to a Express in February, after 16 hospital about a mile away, years at the company. He is where he died. The deputy one of a few black leaders at was taken to a separate hospital with unspecified but a Fortune 500 company.

“I’ve been trying to recruit non-life-threatening injuries, Minerd said. The deputy was Ken for years,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerthe only law enforcement berg in a Facebook post on officer in the courtroom.

Thursday. “He has unique expertise in areas I believe Apple, Google Facebook needs to learn and buses vandalized improve — customer service, direct commerce and on highway building a trusted brand …

Buses carrying Apple and Ken and I have had dinners Google employees to and discussing our mission and from work in the San Franstrategy for years, and he cisco Bay Area have been has already helped me think the target of flying objects. through some of the bigger On Tuesday, four buses issues I’m hoping we take on carrying Apple staffers this year.” and one shuttling Google — From wire reports occurred since 2001.

Cleophus Cooksey was accused of 22 violations during a 16-year spell in prison. Now he is suspected of serial killings in the Phoenix area. (Photo: Arizona Department of Corrections)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The findings “continue the planet’s long-term warming trend,” according to NASA — a trend that is driven predominately by human activity through carbon dioxide emissions.

Temperature records for the planet, monitored independently by both agencies, go back to 1880.

The announcement came at a joint press conference on Thursday in Washington.

The hottest year on record remains 2016, while 2015 ranks second according to NOAA and third by NASA, which means the top three years have been the most recent three.

Though 2017 was slightly cooler on average compared to 2016. the trend toward a warmer planet has never been clearer.

The six hottest years have all occurred since 2010 and 17 of the 18 hottest years on record have

people SAG Awards show gets set for #MeToo close-up Following a Golden Globes that made headlines with its Time’s Up theme, the Screen Actors Guild is leaning into that discussion with its annual presentation Sunday. Yet with several more star-studded ceremonies to come, questions linger as to how well Hollywood’s awards apparatus can juggle serving as a rallying point for that movement with its more prosaic, self-congratulatory business.

Even before the Globes, which were punctuated by Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech, SAG — Hollywood’s largest guild, representing 160,000 performers and journalists — had announced plans for an all-female presenter lineup.

The event’s producer told the Hollywood Reporter the goal was to offer “a unifying salute to women who have been very brave and speaking up.”

Still, the entertainment industry’s efforts to address sexual harassment and inequality, unleashed by allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein and a host of others, has stoked some reservations about whether award shows, and organizations like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are particularly well equipped to tackle problems that require action by studios and other major employers.

Cardi B passes Beyonce’s record on the charts Cardi B has topped Queen Bey. The breakout rapper has surpassed Beyoncé as the first woman to have five Top 10 singles simultaneously on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop songs chart. The former reality star was tied with Beyoncé before with four singles on the chart.

According to Billboard, Cardi B is only the third act to achieve this distinction. The others are also rappers — Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

Dylan Farrow talks on abuse

by Woody Allen in TV interview

Dylan Farrow broke down in tears in her first televised interview and said she wishes her father, director Woody Allen, had been charged with assaulting her.

“He’s lying and he’s been lying for so long,” she said after watching a clip of a 1992 “60 Minutes” interview in which Allen denied abusing her. “It is difficult for me to see him and to hear his voice.”

Farrow, 32, sat down with Gayle King for an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday and provided graphic details about how Allen allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was seven years old.

“I want to show my face and tell my story,” she said. “I want to speak out, literally.”

— From wire reports

‘Depraved conduct,’ DA says of Calif. couple accused of torturing kids

By Madison Park and Jason Hanna

hands. As far as where they’re going to end up, I don’t know.”

The 13 siblings range in age CNN counts of torture, Riverside County from 2 to 29. Six are minors.

A California district attorney District Attorney Mike Hestrin Other charges for the parents painted a horrible picture of said. David Turpin also was include seven counts of abuse of a physical and emotional abuse as he charged with a lewd act on a child dependent adult, six counts of child announced torture charges Thursby force or fear of duress. abuse or neglect and 12 counts of day against a Riverside County “This is severe, emotional, false imprisonment. couple accused of keeping their 13 physical abuse. ... This is depraved The Turpins each pleaded not children captive and malnourished conduct,” the prosecutor said. guilty on all counts when they were in their home.

Of the victims, Hestrin said: arraigned Thursday afternoon. A David Turpin, 56, and Louise “They’re relieved. ... Their health judge set bail at $12 million for Turpin, 49, were charged with 12 is being looked at. They’re in good each defendant. The Turpins’ next

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court date is Feb. 23.

If convicted of all charges, they could face a maximum sentence of between 94 years and life in prison.

“What we would like the public to know is that our clients are presumed to be innocent, and that’s a very important presumption,” David Macher, a public defender for David Turpin, told reporters.

When asked about the number of counts and the nature of the charges, Macher said: “It’s going to be a challenge.”

The allegations cover the time the Turpins have lived in California, but Hestrin said the abuse started while the family lived in Texas.

It “started out as neglect” and became severe, pervasive child abuse, getting worse when the family came west, Hestrin said.

Most of the children were severely malnourished and, as a result, some have cognitive impairment, he said while describing the conditions the siblings reportedly endured.

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other. “(It was chosen) behearings and Transit Express Ballar often work tocause of the novelty of bus service. GCPS will open gether on special wed1/18/18 as your wedding two hours late on Friday. dings and enjoy coming date because of the bicenWhile many used Wednesup with quirky dates and tennial,” Sandra Bradford day as a mid-week rest day, times to hold mass wedsaid.

Harrison Bradford said, Gwinnett law enforcement dings. They once married “That way, you can’t and fire personnel, as well 35 couples at 10:11 a.m. forget it.” as Georgia Department of Dec. 13, 2014 — giving Lawrenceville residents Transportation and county them a wedding time and Chad and Dawn Royer roads crews, remained busy date of 10:11 a.m. on throughout the storm and 12/13/14 — for example. said they had planned to get married in Florida into the following days.

“Every year, we try From 12:01 a.m. Wednesin September, until they to come up with a free day through noon on heard about the mass wedding event for the Thursday, Gwinnett police wedding. public,” Blum said in an responded to 1,140 traffic “We saw the flyer for email a few days before related calls — from reports this event, and we just the ceremony. “Because of accidents to cars stuck in decided to go ahead with A snow covered Mitford Lane is seen in Dacula on Wednesday morning. (Photo: Jes- the county is celebrating sica Lehmann) the ice and snow.

1818 all year, we had the this date, the bicentennial In the same time period, date, and cancel Florida,” idea to kick off Gwintemperatures may be to the Gwinnett Fire DepartDawn Royer said. nett’s next 200 years by blame for a fire that damment reported it also reChad Royer said, “Most aged a Lawrenceville home creating some new ansponded to numerous vehicle of our friends are here and niversaries.”

Wednesday evening, fire to get them to come to accidents, with one instance The date had an extra officials said.

Florida was too much.” in which a medical unit was significance for Buford A preliminary investigaThey’ll now do a recepstranded down a hill due to residents Oliver and tion indicated the blaze, tion in May at the courticy conditions in a Norcross which displaced the home’s Vivien Rayam though — house. apartment complex. occupants, was sparked by a it was their fourth wedNone of the accidents Some couples, includfire burning in the fireplace. ding anniversary. resulted in serious injuries, ing Winder residents The couple had been The residents told officials though officials continued to looking for a special way Abrahim and Nerrisa they had built a fire to keep urge drivers throughout the to celebrate their anniver- Mahaboob and Atlanta warm and that this was day on Thursday to remain residents Katherine Bolreportedly the first time they sary, and then they got a cautious on the roads. ling and Amy Ferrero, community update email had used the fireplace.

“We are urging folks to came from other counfrom the county. The While initial feedback of give it more time for the sun email listed several bicen- ties to participate in the county storm response was to help us out, but if you ceremony. tennial-related events. largely positive, a complete must be on the roads, please “We liked the idea of “I call it divine interassessment may take several use extreme caution entering the history and the date, vention because I open weeks, officials said. and exiting ramps,” DOT and we wanted to be a up my email and saw the “Command staff will officials said. “Icy patches part of something and Gwinnett County email, assess the response in the are out there and we need besides it wasn’t planned and so I looked at it and next week or so,” Gwinnett you to slow down and drive long in advance,” Nerrisa see that they’re doing a police Sgt. Jake Smith said. with caution even though the Mahaboob said.

“And (we) don’t have a good mass wedding at 1:18 sun is up.”

Meanwhile, Katherine p.m., and I thought ‘Well, Collin Cline, 9, plays in the snow outside his Lawrencev- comparison at this point (to ille home. (Photo: Meagan Cline) Several major thoroughBolling said she and FerI guess that’s what we’re last month’s storm.)” fares, such as Ga. Highway rero thought it would be going to do for our anCounty communicaeffect until 10 a.m. Friday.

316, remained snowy and sharp winds pummeled the tions Director Joe Sorenson niversary,” Vivien Rayam fun to exchange vows on Gwinnett County Public icy into Thursday afternoon, region, prompting Gwinnett echoed Smith. that date along with other said.

Schools will delay school with dipping evening temofficials to open a warming Lawrenceville residents couples.

“It takes us a while to peratures making the roads start times by two hours shelter on Tuesday.

“I really enjoyed it,” Sandra and Harrison determine exactly our she said. “This courthouse once again treacherous for today. County officials said The shelter, which offered response,” Sorenson said.

Bradford, who hadn’t is lovely. I read before we motorists.

Gwinnett’s courts will also temporary refuge from reached on a decision “What it comes down to is A National Weather came out that it was the operate on a delayed sched- extreme cold at Norcross’ there are 437 square miles of on a wedding date until Service severe weather alert ule, with trials and hearings Hopewell Missionary Baptist Gwinnett and there are a lot they heard about the mass 200th anniversary and I issued Thursday morning think that’s great, and I set to begin at 10 a.m.

Church, helped make the of roadways, so we had a lot wedding, also liked the warning residents about In addition to snow and storm largely manageable of ground to cover. It’ll take date. It was their first time think they did a beautiful refreezing roads remains in job.” ice, frigid temperatures and for residents, though frigid exchanging vows to each a little time.”

obituaries Decatur

Iris L. Alexander Iris L. Alexander, age 84 of Decatur, GA, passed away on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

Dacula

Cathy Virginia Guthrie GUTHRIE - Cathy Virginia Guthrie, 73, of Dacula, GA died December 30, 2017. A memorial service will be held Monday, January 22, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel. Mrs. Guthrie, a native of Mississippi, was a retired benefits coordinator with the Shelby County Government in Memphis, TN after 25 years of service. She liked going to the casino, traveling, traveling to Canada and to the western United States. Made friends easy and would help anyone in need. She is survived by her husband of 22 years, William R. Guthrie; son, Michael Osment; daughters and sons-in-law, Tammy Gitchell all of Dacula, GA, Diane (Tony) Theriault of Snellville, GA, Jennifer (Mark) Smith of Salt Lake City, UT; grandchildren, Amanda (Claudiu) Aciu, Wesley Gitchell, Jin Smith, Meghan Overmire, Sarah Overmire, Hannah Overmire; her grandson, Lee Gitchell preceded her death; 5 great grandchildren, Kaitlyn Aciu, Alyassa Aciu, Ava Aciu, Logan Nordrum; other family in Tupelo,

MS. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Gwinnett Humane Society, PO Box 750, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (770)798-7711, www. gwinnetthumane.com.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.billheadfuneralhome.com. The family will receive friends Monday, January 22, 2018 from 12:00 p.m. until the time of the service at Bill Head Funeral Homes & Crematory Duluth Chapel (770)476-2535.

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Herbert Olander Hamby, Jr Herbert O. Hamby, Jr. age 80 of Dacula, GA passed away January 15, 2018. Herb graduated in 1958 from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. He was the Owner of Hamby Construction Company for over 40 years and an avid Golfer.

He was a member of Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church and the Wesley Class and was Past President of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and the Gwinnett Rotary Club. He is survived by his wife of 59 years June Payne Hamby; daughter Judy Bryan and her husband Scott of Dacula; son, David Hamby and his wife Michelle of Dacu la; grandchildren; Kristin Welshans, Lauren Bryan,

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A funeral service will be held Friday, January 19, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church with burial to follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park. Rev. Dr. Royeese Stowe and Rev. Dr. Steve Dodson will officiate. The family request the Wesley Class and the Gwinnett Rotary Club serve as Honorary Pallbearers. In lieu of flowers please make donations in Herb’s memory to Hope Clinic 121 Langley Dr. Lawrenceville, GA 30046 or Wishes 4 Me Foundation, Inc. 1971 Sumter Ct. Lawrenceville, GA 30044 or Lawrenceville Co-Op Ministry 176 Church St. P.O. Box 1328 Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 2:00 until 4:00 and 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. at Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770-277-4550.

Online condolences may be expressed at www. wagesandsons.com

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Mary Johnson Mary Alice Johnson, age 90, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2018. She was born on February 16, 1927 in Harbins, GA to the late Albert and Alice Greeson.

She was preceded in death by her parents, 4 brothers, 5 sisters, and granddaughter, Stephanie. She is survived by her loving husband of 64 years, Edwin Horace Johnson; children, Gail (Jimmy) McGill, Tony (Jessenia) Johnson and Terry Johnson; grandchildren, Nathan (Christy) McGill, Daniel McGill, Miranda (Russ) Bennett, Megan (Robert) Vaughn,

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and Missy (Jeremy) Orr; Ten Great Grandchildren and one on the way; sister, Betty Chilton and Etta Wages; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Sue Clark, Sarah Johnson, Linda Nodine, James Nodine, Roy Emerson and Bobby Wages. A Funeral Service Honoring the Life of Mary will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 2PM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Pastor Steve Doyle and Pastor Demer Webb officiating.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends on Friday, January 19th from 2pm-4pm & 6pm-8pm. Mary was employed with Gwinnett County Schools as lunch lady. She was known for her caring and loving ways towards others but especially her grandchildren. Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

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Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; four great grandchildren: William Bennett Crout and Caroline McCord Crout, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Ryan Christopher Crout and Mason Dean Crout, of Summerville, S.C. She was a mother, a Sunday school teacher, a Toastmistress, artist, and a member of the Peace Corps, where she served in Costa Rica. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Abbey Hospice, 215 Azalea Court, Social Circle, GA 30025 or the charity of your choice. Arrangements

by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, GA 30052. Please leave online condolences at www.stewartfh.com Arrangements

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Dana Caroline Perry (Moser)

Dana Caroline Perry was born September Monroe 12, 1969. Dana lived in Hattie Mulligan (Tu- Lawrenceville, Georgia ten) and passed away Tuesday, January 16, 2018. A age 91 passed away graduate of Fayetteville on Wednesday, January County High School and 17, 2018. A Celebration the University of Georgia, Of Life will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2018 Dana invested her life in from 1 - 4 PM at Snellville children. Through public school, home school, and Church Of Christ Fellowhybrid environments, she ship Hall, 3025 Lenora has loved, and been loved, Church Road, Snellville, GA 30078. Mrs. Mulligan by many.

Dana’s “boys” have been was born on December the delight of her life. She 19, 1926 in Furman, S.C. She is survived by her two was always quick to praise and lift up her handsome daughters: Frances Mulhusband, Chris, along with ligan Crout, of Isle Of Palms, S.C., Olivia Mulli- sons, Sam and Ben. Dana gan Moore of Monroe; sis- was a dearly loved friend ter: Helen Tuten McAdams to many. Her encouragement, laughter, and insight of Loganville; two grandwill be greatly missed. sons: Kevin Christopher In addition to Chris, Sam Crout of Summerville, S.C. and Kyle Adrian Crout, of and Ben; Dana is also s M

survived by her father, Stanley Luther Moser (Brenda); her brother, John Michael Moser (Becky); her sister, Lisa Bryant (Terry); step sister, Kim Gulnac (Mike); and her step brother, Johnny Smith (Kellie). Dana is preceded in death by her mother, Rosalind Rucker Moser.

As the past month has been filled with the unexpected news of a glioblastoma, we are thankful for the professional care of Gwinnett Medical Center, along with the tender love and support of Chris’s mom, Joanne Perry, along with countless other family members and friends.

A celebration of life service will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Sugar Hill Church, 5091 Nelson Brogdon Blvd.

NE, Sugar Hill, GA 30518 with Rev. Kevin Bacon officiating. The family will receive friends at the church on Saturday, January 20, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service at 11:00 a.m. A reception will follow.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the GoFundMe account which will be used for Sam and Ben’s educational expenses https://www.gofundme. com/dana-perrys-careteam in memory of Dana Perry.

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Robert M. Thornton age 84, of Duluth, GA died January 15, 2018.

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Ana Rosa Vasquez Ana Rosa Vasquez, age 90, of Buford, GA passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2018. Flanigan Funeral Home, Inc.

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Lawrenceville Middle Casas announces plans to retire from General Assembly alums to hold reunion

By Curt yeomans

Georgia General By trevor mCnaBoe Assemtrevor.mcnaboe bly for @gwinnettdailypost.com One of the longest16 years, Lawrenceville Middle serving Hispanic members beginning School stu“The Road Ends Here” of the Georgia General after his dents Holly might have been LawrencevAssembly is planning to first elecNunn and David ille Middle School’s class of retire from the legislature tion to the Casas Jodi Sears 1994 slogan back then, but after this year’s legislative chamber are shown in for one night the road will session. in 2002.

He was one of a picture from continue.

State Rep. David Casas, the early members of the 1994. (Special On Saturday, the school’s R-Lilburn, told the Daily Hispanic caucus in the Photo) class of ’94 will host a Post on Monday night General Assembly and reunion to reconnect with felabout his plans to not seek is currently one of only low classmates as one of the re-election. He was one of a handful of Hispanic of their class. last classes to walk through “It was disheartening and the few Hispanic elected legislators in the legisla“We were so close as a the now-defunct middle officials in state governbittersweet because a lot of tive body. class,” Lancaster said. “We’re my friends went to Collins school. ment — and the only one Casas’ parents were “Alot of us have kids trying to show our kids that elected as a Republican Hill,” Fletcher said. from Cuba, but they fled that are around the middle you can make and keep With Facebook and differ- — and his decision to not the country and he was school age and we were just friends even from that age.” seek another term means ent social media platforms, born in Spain. His family reminiscing about when we Planning began back in the small Hispanic caucus then moved to Georgia, former students have been were that age,” said Kalli November with the creation able to reconnect. in the Georgia General As- where he has remained for Lancaster, an organizer of the of a Facebook event group sembly will lose one of its 44 years.

“We’re really looking reunion. that not only served as a members. forward to fellowship and Although a few more Lancaster said the idea save-the-date for the event, It also means another real world interaction on SatHispanics have been started back when her sixth- but also as a place where urday,” Fletcher said. “Most seat in Gwinnett’s legiselected to the General grade daughter told her she classmates could share old of us are connected on social lative delegation will be Assembly over the years, was running for student photos and bring back old media and we have been able open and up for grabs this Casas remains the only council at her middle school. memories. year. to keep in touch.”

Republican Hispanic to Lancaster posted on Face“What’s really cool about “I wish to spend more According to Lancaster, ever be elected to an office book asking fellow classthis is the opportunity to retime with my wife and my in Georgia’s state governthere is a good contingent mates if they remember ever connect with people that you of classmates that will be teenage children,” Casas ment. having a student council. were separated from after gathered at Parma in Buford, said in an email. “In addi“I ran for office after She found out they in fact being together for eight years the site of the reunion. tion to my private sector being married only two did, and she was the class of schooling,” said Fletcher. responsibilities as a col“It’s going to be a great years, and both my chilpresident.

With the opening of lege professor and admin- dren were born during my time and I’m really excited The responses she got Collins Hill High School in istrator, I want to focus for everyone to see each tenure,” Casas said. “All sparked an idea, and she 1994, students were split be- other,” Lancaster said. “We more attention to writing they have ever known is and fellow classmate Tim tween the new feeder school were known as the ‘End of and invest more time in dad as their state represenFletcher began to coordinate of Collins Hill and Central the Road class,’ but the road my church family.” tative. It is a bittersweet a reunion between members Gwinnett.

Casas has served in the moment, but I have great never ended for us.” curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

anticipation for what God has for us in the coming years.”

He is an assistant professor at Luther Rice College and Seminary in Stonecrest, where he teaches a course in the Old Testament.

Over the years, he has served as vice-chairman of the House Education Committee, tackled legislation that was intended to help fight gang activity, and authored legislation to create a tuition tax credit that encouraged school choice.

He also co-authored legislation to create school choice vouchers for special-needs students.

“It has been a privilege for me to have served the people of Lilburn, Lawrenceville and Snellville for the past sixteen years and to have had the honor to help Georgia’s families,” he said. “I made a promise in my first campaign to ‘put Georgia families first,’ and I am thankful for the opportunities to have done just that.”

Gwinnett’s legislative delegation is also losing state Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, and Rep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, who are both seeking higher office this year.

GMC plans to turn women to ‘superheroes’ for Wellness Day

By Curt yeomans

The hospital will host Women’s Wellness Day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the center, which Gwinnett Medical Center is located at 6400 Sugaris inviting women across loaf Parkway in Duluth.

Gwinnett County to visit The event will include the Infinite Energy Center wellness workshops, nutrithis weekend and learn how tion demonstrations, fitness they can become “superhe- demonstrations, exhibitors roes” for their children. and a keynote speech by curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

comedian and author, Anita Renfroe.

“Women’s Wellness Day is a day experience to help women as the ‘chief wellness officers’ of their families learn life changing and saving wellness practices, build great relationships with medical providers, and start the new

year the best they can be — as a superhero,” hospital officials said on the event website, gmcwomenswellness.com.

“Our goal is to help ensure you and your family are healthy, happy and thriving.”

Women who want to participate in the event

can register by visiting the event website, or when they arrive at the Infinite Energy Center. The cost to participate is $10 for people who register online and $15 at the door. Proceeds from the event will go toward the Women’s Advisory Council’s efforts to get a Carestream DRX-Revolution

for the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Workshops include how mothers can protect their children, managing menopause, caring for aging parents, responding to emergencies, weight loss, handling aches and pains, self defense, fitness and nutrition.

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Gee named Rock Springs principal

BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

At Thursday’s Board of Education meeting, Gwinnett County Public Schools named Mountain Park Elementary School’s Dr. Allan Gee as principal of Rock Springs Elementary.

Gee has been an educator since 1993 beginning as a Allan Gee teacher at West Hall Middle School. He has made stops as a Principal at Centerville Elementary School, Homer High School

in Alaska and most recently Mountain Park Elementary.

Gee will transition to the position as Principal Penny Clavijo retires at the end of this Carole Boyce month.

BOE member Carole Boyce was elevated from the position of vice chairman Louise Radloff to chairman during the board’s annual officer election. Boyce was nominated

by outgoing chairman Louise Radloff and seconded by Dr. Robert McClure.

“I appreciate the vote of confidence that this group has in me,” Boyce said. “I will serve to the best of my capacity. At the same time, I want to thank Louise Radloff for doing an excellent job.

She’s been an outstanding representative of our board.”

Dan Seckinger was voted by the board as the vice chairman for the 2018 calendar year, filling in the position previously held by Boyce.

In an added item to the agenda, Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks informed the board it would be voting on a resolution for a General Obligation bond at the next monthly meeting. The

bond will be used for school projects and is estimated to range between $300 million to $350 million. Wilbanks said there would be no tax increase with a bond of that amount.

Last month’s board meeting had both a public forum and public comments to the board dominated by residents concerned about the school district’s sexual education curriculum. This month was no different with five of the seven speakers touching on the matter.

The Board of Education will next meet Feb. 8 and will honor the AAAAAAA State Football champion North Gwinnett Bulldog team as well as 157 teachers systemwide with perfect attendance.

Jaden Solarte, a fifth grade student at J.A Alford Elementary, does his work for the GCPS Digital Learning Day this week. (Photo: Sujeiry Solarte)

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“We received feedback on the length of assignpage, which allows students ments and how students to complete assignments were spending too long and activities and view on assignments as well as discussions posted by their device sharing for homes instructors, while allowwith more than one student in them,” Patterson said. “We ing students an avenue to had some slow down in our communicate when they Desire 2 Learn platform and need help. For high school how we addressed it was by students, a typical digital closing the browser and pulllearning day would consist of an assignment for each of ing it back up.”

One concern voiced by their six courses they attend

BY CURT YEOMANS board member Louise Raon a daily basis. of the suspects. curt.yeomans dloff was whether students With the Jan. 8 being the Anyone who has infor@gwinnettdailypost.com who did not have access to mation on the identities of first time the school district the suspects is asked to call used Digital Learning Days, a computer were still having Gwinnett County police detectives at 770-513-5300. there were some tweaks and the opportunity to complete are looking for suspects improvements they gathered their work.

They can also provide who are believed to have According to district from it. information anonymously taken a woman’s wallet at policy, students are allowed Jessica Roth, a parent of through Crime Stoppers by a Walmart in Buford and three days to make up the two middle school kids and calling 404-577-8477 or then used her credit cards work, something Patterson a fourth-grade student said, visiting www.crimestopsaid most schools have incorat a grocery store in Sugar Gwinnett County police released these surveillance im- persatlanta.org.

“The biggest improvement ages of suspects accused of taking a lost wallet at a porated time during the day Hill. from the fi rst digital learning There is a reward of Buford Walmart and then attempting to use credit cards for students to work on.

Cpl. Wilbert Rundles day to the two this week was up to $2,000 from Crime found inside it at a Kroger in Sugar Hill. (Special Photo) Parent Carol Barnes says said the victim lost her walthe workload. A typical midStoppers for information this is a good concept but let at the Walmart located Highway. purchase was declined, ac- that leads to the arrest and dle school period is around needs a bit of adjusting.

3795 Buford Drive on Someone tried to use her cording to a police report.

50 minutes but my children indictment of someone in “The concept is great, they Monday. She then realcredit union debit card to Police are asking the the case. Tipsters are asked were working for more than just have to find a way so it ized that her credit cards buy $500 worth of items public’s help in identifying to reference case number two hours on assignments.” is beneficial to all students,” had been used at a Kroger at the Kroger but were the suspects and have reRoth says this week the 17-115301 when they prolocated at 6001 Cumming unsuccessful because the leased surveillance photos vide information. amount of time spent on as- Barnes said. “My son has a phone, but you can’t do signments was more in line DISNEY DREAMERS ACADEMY with a typical class period in everything on that.”

One of the purposes beschool.

“It’s a great and innovative hind Gwinnett County’s Digway to keep from adding on ital Learning Day is allowing students an avenue to get additional days of school,”

BY TREVOR MCNABOE information outside of the out the Disney theme parks Tracey D. Powell, Walt Roth said. “Things are dreams is a personal mistrevor.mcnaboe and behind the scenes, turn- Disney World Resort vice sion,” Harvey said. “Having trending to more technology classroom. While technology @gwinnettdailypost.com is becoming more involved ing the vacation destination president of commercial geared, whether it’s in cola dream is one of the most in academics, Superintendent into a vibrant classroom for management — resorts and important things in life. lege or in the work force.”

It’s become an iconic J. Alvin Wilbanks believes students to discover new Disney Dreamers Academy That is why engaging with Assistant Superintendent phrase uttered by athletes the value of a teacher is still careers, pursue their dreams executive champion. “It is these students is an annual Dr. Jonathan Patterson said after winning a champion- and interact with television our hope that this potential- highlight for me, and the very important. one thing that was worked “Good teachers are always ship: “I’m going to Disney personality Steve Harvey ly life-changing program on during the three Digital 2018 Disney Dreamers World.” Three Gwinnett and other motivational will help create the next Academy will be no excep- Learning Days was commu- in demand and you can’t replace them,” Wilbanks said. high school students — speakers and celebrities. generation of great dream- tion.” nication.

TaMya Woodard, Deka The program, entering ers and achievers.’’

Bonner and Kayla Brown its 11th year, has a goal Students will also — will join 97 other of inspiring and making participate in hands-on, students from around the a difference in teens lives immersive career-oriented country on a trip there as at a critical point in their workshops, ranging from part of the Disney Dreamdevelopment. animation to zoology. Each ers Academy.

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THE HEAT OF COMPETITION

Michael Rowe makes a pass during the Gwinnett Heat’s practice earlier this month at Hull Middle School in Suwanee. (Photos: Karl L. Moore)

Adapted Sports program celebrates 10th anniversary

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@gwinnettdailypost.com

After graduating high school, one student-athlete wrote Mike Phillips a letter.

She thanked him for getting her involved in the county’s adapted sports program, the Gwinnett Heat.

When Phillips, who helped start the Heat 10 years ago and now oversees it, talks to prospective students about joining, one line in particular stands out from that letter.

“I’m paraphrasing a little, but she said, ‘Before I got involved with the Gwinnett Heat, I used to feel like I was invisible. Being involved in this

program allowed me to become somebody,’” Phillips said. “To me, that sums up everything we were doing.

“This is my 39th year in education.

The 10 years I’ve been involved in this program, have been my biggest thrills in education. Understanding how important athletics are and the impact it has on a student’s life, to be able to give that to these kids is what makes it so great.”

Keitra Douglas, who started with the team in 2013, adapted more easily than many to the sport-style wheelchair and found a whole new perspective.

“Besides making me more comfortable with my body, it showed me the See HEAT, Page 4B

Gwinnett Heat coach Len Boudreaux grabs a rebound at the Gwinnett Heat’s practice earlier this month at Hull Middle School in Suwanee.

Norcross adds some Heat to big showcase

By David Friedlander

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PREP BASKETBALL What: Peachtree Corners Invitational When: Saturday Where: Norcross High School Tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for students Schedule: 10:30 a.m. — Gwinnett Heat vs. Clayton Eagles (GHSA/AAASP Wheelchair game) 12:30 p.m. — Lambert vs. Cardinal Newman (S.C.) 2:15 p.m. — St. Pius X vs. Pinson Valley (Ala.) 4 p.m. — Jonesboro vs. Ben Smith (N.C.) 5:45 p.m. — Norcross vs. Riverdale Baptist (Md.) 7:30 p.m. — McEachern vs. Village Christian (N.C.) 9:15 p.m. — Wheeler vs. Christ School (N.C.)

After already hosting two major high school basketball showcases already this season, Norcross’ program has become quite experienced in it.

However, the 12th annual Peachtree Corners Invitational that will take place Saturday at the House of Blue is a completely different event.

For one thing, Norcross five different boys basketwill be hosting this showball games pitting some case, which will feature of metro Atlanta’s top

programs against strong foes from out of state, plus a special feature game,

without input from outside sources like ontheradarhoops.com or the Atlanta Hawks.

But then, that’s nothing new considering this event has been a late January staple on metro Atlanta’s prep basketball scene for more than a decade.

“The Peachtree Corners Invitational is a little more intense for us because it’s all in-house, everything from scheduling travel to the officials,” Norcross boys head coach Jesse McMillan said. “Historically, we’ve tried to have each

year some of the top metro Atlanta teams play against some great programs from outside the area, and we’ve been able to do that again this year.

“We’re very excited about it. This year, we’ve got a good mix of styles playing against each other in each game with a similar level of talent.”

McMillan’s Blue Devils will once again participate in this year’s event, taking on Riverdale Baptist of Upper Marlboro, Md., at See NORCROSS, Page 4B

As is usually the case when schools are closed thanks to inclement weather, several of Gwinnett’s boys and girls basketball teams were sent into scramble mode with the most recent winter storm that moved through North Georgia on Tuesday night.

While a few games scheduled for Tuesday night did get played before an 8 p.m. deadline set by either the Gwinnett County School System or Buford City Schools, many of the 10 scheduled doubleheaders for Tuesday, as well as a handful of games set for Wednesday, were postponed.

For a few teams, like Buford’s boys, the unexpected night off was somewhat of a break.

While the Wolves girls team wound up playing its sixth game in eight days, beating Loganville 64-23 at the Buford City Arena, the boys, who had also played five games over the previous seven days, had their game postponed.

With only a few weeks left in the regular season, available dates for make-up games are at a premium and will cause several teams to be very busy.

One such team is Peachtree Ridge’s boys, who are not only making up Wednesday’s postponed Region 6-AAAAAAA game at Duluth, which is rescheduled for Feb. 1, but are also set to make up a game against Shiloh that was originally scheduled as part of a showcase event at Buford but was postponed by a different snowstorm back in December.

As a result, both the Lions and Generals will have full slates with the former playing seven games and the latter six over the final two weeks of the regular season.

“The last two weeks, we’re going to be very busy,” Peachtree Ridge coach Keith Arrington said.

“Hopefully, it won’t snow again (in that time).”

Buford Arena lands semis The Georgia High School Association announced the sites for the semifinal round of its state basketball tournament in the eight different classications Thursday afternoon, and one of those sites is in Gwinnett County.

The Buford City Arena is scheduled to host the two Class AAAAAAA state

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Tigers stretch streak of state duals finals berths to 6

to the finals the following year, edging North Forsyth taylor.denman@ in the state semifinals and gwinnettdailypost.com losing to Camden County Archer High School in the finals. But surely Artopped North Forsyth in the cher’s streak was over this 2016 Class AAAAAAA year, as the team battled inwrestling state duals, and juries and illnesses and lost head coach Keith Jannett in the Area 8-AAAAAAA said some doubted whether duals to Rockdale County. the Tigers could return The Tigers’ road back to after graduating six state the finals last week led finalists, despite the fact them to a quarterfinals Archer was a four-time match against No. 3 seed defending champion.

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North Forsyth, before finally meeting Camden County in the finals for another rematch.

After Archer took a brief lead to start, Camden ran away with its second consecutive title 47-13. There was plenty of Archer to be proud of, Jannett said, with Archer wrestling’s streak of six consecutive finals berths in state duals intact.

“It was still a good accomplishment,” he said.

“Your goal is always to win

state, but after you graduate six state finalists, a lot of people don’t expect you to get back there and most people weren’t counting us as a team to be there.”

Archer didn’t start state duals with the position it desired after losing to Rockdale in the area duals finals. The contest was tight and came down to the final match. Nonetheless, the Tigers were going into

Archer’s Peter Myndresku works from the top during his victory over Camden’s Raydan Wilder during the Jan 13 See ARCHER, Page 4B AAAAAAA state finals. (Photo: David McGregor)

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forced, but you’ve got to give Virginia credit.

Coach (Tony) Bennett and his staff, their team is an ATLANTA — Georgia excellent club. But (the Tech knew what they were turnovers) were unforced, getting into with Virginia a lot of them. It’s somecoming to town for a key, thing we’ve got to be betearly-season Atlantic ter about.”

Coast Conference game.

Tech also had a solid The second-ranked night on the defensive end, Cavaliers gave the Yellow and the anticipated defenJackets all of that, and sive battle was every bit as more, with a stifling, phys- advertised in the first half. ical defensive effort to end Ben Lammers served as Tech’s modest three-game an eraser in the lane with winning streak with a 64- six first-half blocked shots, 48 win Thursday before a and the Tech defense sellout crowd of 8,600 at forced Virginia into some McCamish Pavilion. tough shots.

De’Andre Hunter led Meanwhile, the Cavafour Virginia (17-1, 6-0 liers forced the Jackets in the ACC) players in into nine turnovers and double figures with 17 held them to just 38.1 points, while Ty Jerome percent shooting from the added 12. floor in the opening 20 But as is often the case, minutes. it was on the other end Still, Tech managed to of the court in which the to stay close most of the Cavaliers, who lead the half thanks to six points ACC in scoring defense each from reserves Tadric (52.9 ppg) and defensive Jackson and Curtis Hayfield goal percentage (36.4 wood II. percent), really made life The Jackets trailed just miserable for the Jackets 14-11 on a layup by Lam(10-8, 3-2). mers with 6:08 left in the Virginia forced Tech half, and just 24-19 folinto 18 turnovers, which lowing Haywood’s second turned into 16 points on 3-pointer of the half with the other end, while hold- 17 seconds left. ing the Jackets to just 40.5 But Hunter quickly percent shooting from the answered with a 3-pointer floor. of his own from the left “You can’t have 18 corner with a second left turnovers,” Tech coach and drew a foul from AbJosh Pastner said. “It’s like doulaye Gueye before hitwhen we played Wofford. ting the free throw to send We shot 57 percent from Virginia into intermission the field, but we had 18 with its largest lead of the turnovers, and we don’t game at 28-19. win the game. Or Wright “(Tech) came out and State, we shoot over 50 hit a tough (3-pointer) percent, but we had 18 … and I was thinking, turnovers.

‘Should I call time out,’” “(Some of the turnBennett said. “The reason overs) were really unwhy I didn’t was … I

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thought Josh might go into a zone … and I just wanted to flow with it.

And the guys made the right play.”

The momentum gained

by Hunter’s four-point play then carried over into the second half, as Virginia took advantage when Pastner when to a smaller lineup, inserting Jackson for Gueye to start the final 20 minutes.

It didn’t take long into the second half for Virginia to push the lead to double figures, with a quick 6-2 run making the Cavaliers’ lead 34-21 following a jumper by Jerome with 17:47 remaining.

Tech eventually pulled as close as 48-38 after an 8-2 run that culminated with freshman Jose Alvarado’s 3-pointer with 8:42 to play.

But Virginia countered with a run of eight straight points, capped by a jumper from Hunter with 5:21 left that pushed the lead to 5638 and essentially put the game away.

Devon Hall and Kyle Guy each had 11 points for Virginia, while GAC grad and former Daily Post Player of the Year Isaiah Wilkins had a solid game with nine points, five rebounds, two blocked shots and three steals.

Jackson was the only Tech player in double figures with 14 points, while Josh Okogie and Haywood each added nine.

For Okogie, the Shiloh grand and two-time former Daily Post Player of the Year, Thursday’s game ended his streak of doublefigure scoring outings and 25 games.

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In most places, Katie Powell is considered tall.

Just not in her own family.

One of her cousins is 7-foot-2. Another male cousin and her brother are both 7 feet exactly. Her mother, former Georgia player Barbara Bootz Powell, and her aunt, former Georgia Tech player Dolores Bootz-Mulkey, are 6-7.

She also has a female cousin, former McDonald’s All-American and Rice sophomore Nancy Mulkey, who is 6-9.

What could Powell do if she was 6-9?

“I don’t even know,” the UNLV junior said. “I think about that all the time. I wish I was a little bit taller.

It would be crazy.”

At 6-4, Powell does just fine, though.

The Duluth grad is in the middle of the best season of her college basketball career, averaging 14.1 points (second on the Rebels) and 9.5 rebounds (first). Both categories are up from last season, her first at UNLV after a transfer from Arkansas forced her to sit out 2015-16. She averaged 7.5 points and 6.8 rebounds as a sophomore.

Those numbers have nearly doubled this season for a team that sat at 9-7 overall and first with a 3-1 record in the Mountain West Conference.

“This season I feel like I’m a little more hungry and I’m a lot more confident in myself,” Powell said. “I’m getting older now, so I’m starting to produce on the court. I’ve been getting to the gym a lot more. I worked really hard this summer. … I’m doing a lot more post stuff this year, getting a lot more rebounds, which helps.

It’s funny. My jumpers haven’t been falling at the beginning of the season.

But I’ve got to make my layups.”

An excellent perimeter shooter in high school, Powell was a matchup nightmare because she stretched defenses beyond the 3-point line. She has made just 11 of 54 3-pointers (20.4 percent) this season, as well as 34.7 percent of her shots overall.

However, she has played well otherwise and has shot 76.4 percent from the free-throw line, up from 62.9 last season.

Her play has kept UNLV near the top of the confer-

UNLV’s Katie Powell, a Duluth grad, in action during a game this season. (Photo: UNLV Photo Services)

indoor school mark in the 500-meter run at last weekend’s University of Alabama-Birmingham Invitational. Harris, a Parkview grad, officially has the record with a time of 1 minute, 5.79 seconds and Hayes, a Mill Creek grad, has the No. 2 all-time performance right behind him at 1:05.86.

Smith gets conference honor Parkview grad Demarius Smith excelled in his first college meet, earning MidSouth Conference indoor track athlete of the week honors.

The University of the Cumberlands freshman reached the NAIA A standard in the 200-meter dash at 21.71 seconds in preliminaries last week, then improved to 21.57 in the finals to place third at the East Tennessee State University Invitational.

His finals time was just .01 seconds off the school record.

Smith, who placed 14th in the 60-meter dash at 6.97 at the meet, also is a cornerback on the CumberTRACK AND FIELD lands football team, seeing action in seven games as a Troy freshmen true freshman. lower school mark Gwinnett Grads is a colGwinnett freshmen Amir Harris and Jared Hayes are umn that runs on Fridays spotlighting achievements listed side-by-side on the Troy men’s track and field of past Gwinnett standouts. roster, now they also are Coaches and parents are urged to send suggestions together in the university via email to will.hamrecord book. mock@gwinnettdailypost.

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Troy’s previous men’s ence despite losing some key players off a 2016-17 team that won 22 games and made the Women’s NIT. The Rebels took a three-game winning streak into this week.

“Of course we want to win the Mountain West Conference,” Powell said.

“I think we can do that.

We’re on track for that.

Our main goal after that is to make the NCAA Tournament. … The team is good. I feel like we’re a lot better than last year chemistry-wise.”

Beyond college, Powell hopes to play pro basketball overseas. Both her mother and her aunt played outside the U.S., and she wants to give that a shot after she finishes at UNLV, where she has one more season of eligibility in 2018-19.

“I really want to play in Australia, that’s my main goal (after college basketball),” Powell said. “Hopefully, I get an offer from there. If I got that offer, I would take it.”

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No. 11 Xavier 88, St. John’s 82 Shake Milton scored 33 Presented with a challenge by the Big East’s lastpoints and Jahmal McMurplace team, the Musketeers ray added 16 as hot-shootrallied in the second half ing SMU shrugged off a to secure a victory over the ragged start and rolled to Red Storm in Cincinnati. a 83-78 victory over No. 7 Xavier coach Chris Mack Wichita State on Wednesearned his 203rd win at his day in Wichita, Kan. alma mater. That lifted him Ethan Chargois added 12 above his coach, Pete Gilpoints for SMU (13-6, 3-3 len, for first on the school’s American Athletic ConferTexas 67, all-time list. Mack owns ence) while Ben Emelogu No. 8 Texas Tech 58 scored 10 for the Mustangs, Kerwin Roach II scored a .684 winning percentage during his eight-plus who halted a three-game 20 points off the bench, seasons at Xavier. losing streak. SMU made leading the Longhorns to Kerem Kanter produced 63.8 percent of its fieldan upset victory over the 22 points and 13 rebounds goal attempts.

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Bluiett posted 23 points, No. 1 Villanova 88, Texas has won 22 and J.P. Macura notched 16 Georgetown 56 consecutive home games points for the Musketeers Jalen Brunson scored against Texas Tech, with (17-3, 5-2 Big East). St. 18 points, Mikal Bridges the Red Raiders’ most readded 17 and the Wildcats cent win in Austin achieved John’s (10-9, 0-7) lost its placed six players in double during the 1995-96 season seventh in a row despite a figures as they cruised past when both schools were in career-high 28 points from the Hoyas in Washington. the Southwest Conference. Justin Simon.

Omari Spellman contributed 14 and Donte DiVincenzo had 13 for Villanova (17-1, 5-1 Big East). The Wildcats led from the second possession to the final buzzer and won their seventh straight against the Hoyas, converting a seasonhigh 17 shots from beyond the arc on 33 attempts.

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Friday

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5:30 p.m. — Mount Vernon at Wesleyan 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Central at Parkview 6 p.m. — Discovery at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Grayson at Archer 6 p.m. — Duluth at Mountain View 6 p.m. — Newton Co. at South 6 p.m. — North at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — Providence at Athens Christian 6 p.m. — Rockdale Co. at Shiloh 6:30 p.m. — Commerce at Hebron 7 p.m. — Gainesville at Dacula 7 p.m. — Lanier at Habersham Central 7 p.m. — Union Co. at GAC

WRESTLING

5 p.m. — Dacula in East Metro Invitational at Alcovy 5 p.m. — North Metro Invitational at Brookwood 5 p.m. — West Forsyth at Wesleyan

SWIMMING AND DIVING

• Boys county swimming preliminaries at West Gwinnett Saturday

BASKETBALL

• Peachtree Corners Invitational at Norcross 1:45 p.m. — GAC girls at Holy Innocents’ 2:30 p.m. — Collins Hill at Discovery 2:30 p.m. — Gainesville at Buford 3:30 p.m. — Wesleyan at Blessed Trinity 4:30 p.m. — Brookwood at South 4:30 p.m. — Southside Christian boys at Hebron 6 p.m. — Lanier at Centennial 6 p.m. — Miller Grove boys at Parkview 6 p.m. — North at Grayson 7:30 p.m. — GAC boys at Marist

WRESTLING

9 a.m. — Archer Invitational 9 a.m. — North Metro Invitational at Brookwood 9 a.m. — Dacula in East Metro Invitational at Alcovy

SWIMMING AND DIVING

• Boys county diving championships at Mountain Park • Girls county diving championships at Mountain Park • Girls swimming preliminaries at West Gwinnett

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Ongoing through May 15: The Georgia Force home-school football program is accepting registration for its 2018 season in the Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association. The team accepts players who are home-schooled (homebased, co-ops and online courses) or who attend private or Christian schools without sports programs. It fields middle school, junior varsity and varsity teams, so registration is open to

sixth- through 12th-graders.

Spring practice begins in May. For more information or to register, go to www. forcehsfootball.com.

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Feb. 3: The fifth annual Stampede in The Park 5K Trail Run, a benefit for Meadowcreek’s cross country program, will be held Feb. 3 at Yellow River Park. For registration or more information, go to stampedeinthepark.wixsite. com/5k1kfunrun or email to stampedeinthepark@gmail. com.

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Getting To Know ... Pat Standard Many people involved with Norcross’ football program consider themselves to be part of a family, and that concept takes on almost a literal meaning for Pat Standard that goes far beyond his many years on the Blue Devils’ coaching staff. The team’s current defensive coordinator and linebackers coach has coached with Norcross head coach Keith Maloof for pretty much all of his 28 years in coaching. And going back even further, Standard and his older brother, St. Pius X head coach Paul Standard, have been involved in football with the Maloofs — Keith, older brother Kevin Maloof and their late father George Maloof — more than 40 years.

Standard recently spoke with staff writer David Friedlander about that relationship, how it’s shaped his coaching career and other football-related topics.

DF: You’ve worked with Keith and/or Kevin Maloof basically since you started coach. And with you and Paul having played for George Maloof, your two families have been involved with each other in football for more than four decades.

How cool is it that your two families have had such a close relationship for so many years?

PS: It’s 39 years. It’s very special. Actually, it does (go back further) because (George Maloof) coached me (at St. Pius X).

It goes back to 1977. But it’s very special.

DF: Given your respective ages, I guess you played with Keith, didn’t you?

PS: Well, when he was a freshman in college, he basically helped his father coach me. Kevin was already out (of the St. Pius prorgram) by then, but Kevin got me my (first coaching) job at Meadowcreek.

DF: That’s right, you and Paul and Keith were on Kevin’s first staff over at Meadowcreek. That’s got to be really special given how close you all have been over the years.

PS: Very special because you’re in this industry so long and some people don’t ever have those special bond relationships that we have. Their father coached all of us, and to have that carry on (is special). In fact, I was fortunate enough to coach with Coach (George) Maloof because he retired (after serving as an assistant under Kevin) at Meadowcreek. My very first year, when I was doing freshman (coaching), he was the freshman head coach. That (experience) is something that’s invaluable.

DF: So as great as the

Pat Standard is defensive coordinator for the Norcross football team. (Photo: David Friedlander)

personal relationship has been between the Standards and Maloofs, what do you think you’ve taken away from it from a football standpoint?

PS: Caring for the players more than just on the field. That’s something they’ve taught me. … You can’t care enough. When kids know that, they’re going to sell out for you, whether it’s in the classroom or the field.

DF: Do the players notice the interaction between you and Keith?

PS: Yes sir. Me and Keith’s relationship is very unique and different from the rest of the staff.

For example, … he can chew my rear end (about something), and I’ll say, ‘Yes, sir.’ Whether it’s a bad defense or coverage.

Other coaches, sometimes they get their feelings hurt.

But that’s a whole (other) ball of wax.

DF: So over the years, Kevin went off and became a head coach. Keith eventually landed at Norcross as a head coach.

Paul winds up getting the job at your alma mater at St. Pius. Has there ever been any thought about you trying to be a head coach somewhere?

PS: The passion of being a head coach was with me for a while. And then when Keith (hired) me to be his coordinator, I realized there was more to coaching than being a head coach. I know my brother enjoys coaching, and Keith, they do so much more than the Xs and Os. Would I say it’s beyond me? No, but I want to keep on coaching defense and hopefully help us win more state championships.

DF: I was about to say that defense has been a passion of yours for a while. What position did you play in your playing days?

PS: Middle linebacker.

DF: That’s a position

that requires not only a lot of physical demands, but a lot of intensity. I guess those demands kind of stay with you when you become a defensive coordinator?

PS: Yes sir, it does. You hope your excitement and intensity gets into the players’ heart and soul. Not just the brain, but the heart and soul because that’s when they start playing to sell out for their coaches — a brotherhood, as we call it.

DF: Do you think your intensity is reflective in some of the really good linebackers you’ve had at Norcross over the years? Guys like Terrion Dangerfield this year and guys like Kevin Mouhon, Tommy Tate, both Warren and John McWilliams, Jaquan Frazier in years past.

PS: They even have that bond. In fact, two of them called me — obviously, it’s been seven years now — but they called me the other day and said, ‘How you doing, Coach? We were looking at our (state championship) ring and thought of you.’ That’s special. You can’t describe how you impact these guys’ lives. You almost end up being a father figure to them.

DF: So over the years, your core philosophy on defense has worked well.

Even in a tough year like this last one was, you guys played fairly sound on defense most of the year. What do you feel has fit so well between you and the defense?

PS: Just (having) hardnosed, blue collar, true grit kind of kids. They’re not born with silver spoons (in their mouths). They know how to overcome and persevere. That’s why as long as I’ve been here, defense has been the filler to have that tenacity. And I’ll tell you this, we’ve had the same defensive staff for

the last 18 years.

DF: There’s something to be said about continuity. How do you think in this day and age when it seems like individuals are coming and going each year that you’ve been able to do that?

PS: It’s a brotherhood. We care about each other so much. We tell our wives, and we plan our coaches clinics and vacations together. That’s very unique. The wives know that we’ve got to go certain places (at certain times of the year), and they know we build that around each other.

DF: I have to imagine that makes for a great working environment.

PS: Oh yeah. I mean, we don’t (really) work. That’s why my wife, bless her, she’s a real motivator for me. She goes, ‘I hope you realize how great you’ve got it because you don’t work.’ And I say, ‘You’re right,’ because we spend 17, 18 hours a day here, and we don’t think about it. When you’re in a 9-to-5 job, they’re looking at the clock.

DF: So going back through the years, you’ve picked up a lot playing for and coaching with George Maloof. How much has the game in general, and defense specifically, changed in that time, and what kind of adjustments has it forced you to make?

PS: Definitely, the game has changed so much. … All these (new) rules favor offenses. And it’s changed so much, but what has stayed with us and has stayed true to form is Coach Maloof’s saying that you as a coach get the best out of yourself. Because then, you’ll get the best out of your players.

If they do the best of their ability that God has given them, they’ll be champions no matter what the scoreboard says.

Snow alters swim, dive schedules From Staff Reports Back-to-back days of school closings caused major schedule changes for this week’s Gwinnett County Swimming and Diving Championships.

The annual high school meet for Gwinnett County

Public Schools saw its Wednesday and Thursday sessions postponed thanks to the winter weather, pushing its conclusion back to Monday, when the swimming finals will be held at West Gwinnett Aquatic Center. The swimming finals had been

scheduled for Saturday.

The girls diving scheduled for Wednesday was backed up to Saturday — it will be held after the boys diving competition finishes. Both diving sessions are at Mountain Park Aquatic Center.

The boys swimming pre-

liminaries will be contested Friday as planned at West Gwinnett, while the girls swimming preliminaries were moved to Saturday in the time slot initially planned for the finals.

Monday’s swimming finals will begin with 3 p.m. warmups and 5 p.m. races.

IN BRIEF has opened up registration for the 2018 spring season.

The golf league, open to beginners anf Norcross senior Isaiah McKoy made accomplished junior players, is organized his college decision this week, commitwith parents through the South Gwinting to the Ball State football program. nett Athletic Association. Players are The 6-foot-3 wide receiver was the assigned teams based on middle school Blue Devils’ top playmaker in the passing attendance and receive golf shirts with game this season, helping them reach the their middle school or feeder high school state playoffs. He had 29 catches for 571 colors. Spring season matches will be yards (19.7 per catch) and eight touchheld at Collins Hill Golf Club, Summit downs as a senior.

Chase Country Club, Country Club of Gwinnett and Cedar Lake Golf Club. The Middle School Golf fall season featured middle school teams League opens registration from Bay Creek, Couch, Crews, Dacula, Gwinnett’s Middle School Golf League Five Forks, Loganville, McConnell and

Trickum.

Registration is available through Feb. 20 for the spring season, which begins March 11. For more information or to register, go to www.middleschoolgolfleague.com.

Archer’s Barth commits to Georgia Tech softball Archer freshman Faith Barth has made a commitment to the Georgia Tech softball program.

Barth, a middle infielder, hit .442 in her first high school season with two home runs and 34 RBIs. She also had 14 doubles, two triples and scored 29 runs.

Brookwood’s Key to wrestle for Navy

Brookwood junior David Key has made a commitment to wrestle for the United States Naval Academy.

Key won the Class AAAAAAA state championship at 160 pounds as a sophomore, earning first-team all-county honors from the Daily Post. He also was runnerup at 160 pounds in last summer’s Cadet Freestyle National Championships in Fargo, N.D. As a freshman, Key was the state runner-up, area champion, sectional champion and county champion at 152 pounds.

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•From Page 1B true definition of living and not just for a moment,” Douglas said. “Sometimes I look back and want to cry from the impact it’s made in my life.

“I was chosen for awards ceremonies, went to the state capitol building and met the governor, but nothing compares to bonding with amazing people and experiencing long nights at practices or games. I could sit here and brag about my success, but it wasn’t my doing. It took a team effort every day and that’s far more valuable than trophies.”

Phillips retired in 2008 and got involved in the adapted sports program the same year.

The Heat, who open their 10th basketball season Saturday as part of Norcross’ prestigious Peachtree Corners Invitational, first fielded a team in the winter of 2009 with basketball.

Phillips and the other coaches went to a sort of boot camp to learn how to teach the sport from wheelchairs.

“It was a lot of the fundamentals and it also helped bring us together as a coaching staff,” Phillips said. “We weren’t real sure what we were getting into, to be honest.

“We had to do some training — and find players.”

One of those players was Brice Croxton, who had been paralyzed in an accident barely a year earlier.

“Coach Phillips came to my high school and brought me out of class,” Croxton said of his introduction to the newly formed program. “I said, sure, I’ll give it a shot.’”

A soccer player before a skiing accident in January 2008, Croxton was already an

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athlete. But this was entirely different, trying to play basketball in a wheelchair.

“We were all terrible the first time we did it,” said Croxton, now a consultant with a tech firm. “It’s a big learning curve. To do everything with your hands isn’t easy. But we got better, especially Martinez (Johnson). I was just helping him score for the most part.

“It’s very different from able-bodied sports. It’s a lot to learn.”

For Croxton, though, it made an enormous difference in his life.

“What the Heat did for me was it kept my life more of the same,” the North Gwinnett and Georgia Tech grad said. “My association with sports didn’t change and that was huge for me. That would have been difficult.

“Sports are still my favorite thing to do, my favorite thing to watch. To be able to do that in high school was huge.”

One of Croxton’s teammates that first year was Trintney Whitsel, whose twin sister was born able-bodied and would come help at practice.

“It took four years for her to make a basket and she was part of that state championship (in 2012),” Phillips said. “We won a state championship and got them rings and that’s part of being in athletics, but beyond that is the impact you have on someone’s life that goes way beyond championships.”

Kathy Luna plays all the time now as a ninth-grader.

But it was a different story when she first joined the program as a third-grader.

“Early on, Kathy was content coming to practice, but as she got more comfortable,

Archer

program while they coached at Parkview. The Smiths both state as No. 6 seed. It was there gave Archer points in the 138 the team banded together and and 145 weight classes. returned some wrestlers after “Gavin won state last year bouts with illnesses. The Tigers and Logan was third in state,” steeled themselves for a stretch Jannett said. “I expect both of run. those boys to compete for a “If they only wanted the top state title this year.” team from each area, that’s There’s still plenty of all they would take, but they competition ahead for Archer, take the top two,” Jannett said. which hosts state champs “A lot can happen at the state Buford and North Hall, in additournament. Doing this for 20 tion to local programs Meadyears, I’ve seen teams go on owcreek and Lassiter among runs that people did not expect. others. Then area traditional I’ve seen teams pull together tournaments begin on Jan. after a disappointing weekend. 27, where the top four wresI had told them that we had a tlers from each weight class week of practice to get prewould advance to sectionals pared and fix some things. If at Lowndes High School in they believed we were better Valdosta. The top eight wresthan we showed and we could tlers from each weight class show everybody at the state from sectionals qualify for the tournament. state traditional tournament “The goal is to win a state in Macon. Originally set to be championship, but I was really hosted by Infinite Energy Area, proud to make it back there.” the venue and GHSA could not Archer leaned on some of come to an agreement regardits most consistent wrestlers ing the price to host the event, throughout the season to score so wrestlers will return to against Camden. Peter MynMacon where state duals were dresku scored an early point for held last week.

Archer, and Will Choloh put For now, Jannett and Archer the Tigers back on the board are focused on the first step at before Camden pulled away. area in nearly one week.

Jannett said he was im“I think it will probably pressed with the consistency of be between us and Rockdale twin brothers Gavin and Logan again,” he said. “I think it will Smith, two wrestlers that start- be really close. I think it will be ed in Jannett and Buford head a good battle between us and coach Tom Beuglas’ youth Rockdale.”

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we got her into the games for short periods,” Phillips said.

Students enrolled in the school system in grades 1 through 12 are welcome in the program, which also fields a handball team in the fall and a football team in the spring. There’s a wide range of ability levels on the team as well. Athletes can be hearing impaired or have a blood disorder that prevents them from playing standard sports. They might have cerebral palsy like Whitsel or be paralyzed like Croxton.

“In the past, there wasn’t a program like that so you had kids sitting off on the side,” said Len Boudreaux, who coaches the basketball team and has been involved with the program for the last seven years. “This way, with adapted sports, we’re able to get them off the couch and into the game.

“For some of the girls who have never even played basketball, they’re like, ‘What am I doing out here?’ It’s new to them and it’s a lot of fun because you get also some athletes who are like, ‘Oh, I’ll teach you that.’ They feed off each other and help each other out.”

A lot of the players still come via word of mouth and there’s very little attrition.

“I’ve always felt like if we could get a student and parent there at practice, let them see it, I think I can keep them until they graduate,” Phillips said.

“If I can get them there, they’ll enjoy it, especially if they want to compete.

“This is where they get to be on a team. This is where they get to compete.”

Of course, none of it would

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we thought it would be fun and different for our event to 5:45 p.m. kick off the day. Maybe it’s But they won’t be the only something other events around Gwinnett team playing in the county can start doing, as the event, and the other local well.” representative represents a new Other teams scheduled feature to this year’s showcase. to play in Saturday’s event The Gwinnett Heat adapted include metro Atlanta teams sports program team will tip Lambert, St. Pius X, Jonesoff Saturday’s action with a boro, McEachern and Wheeler, plus out of state teams Cardinal wheelchair game against the Newman (Columbia, S.C.), Clayton Eagles at 10:30 a.m.

Pinson Valley (Pinson, Ala.), It will be the first time an Ben Smith (Greensboro, N.C.), adapted sports game will be Village Christian (Fayetteville, part of the Peachtree Corners N.C.) and Christ School (ArInvitational, and McMillan says it will bring a unique new den, N.C.).

Among some of the national look for the event. caliber players who will be “We had a coaches meeting at Norcross at the beginning of in action include Norcross’ the year, and Mike Phillips (the Joseph Toppin and Kyle Sturdivant, Wheeler’s E.J. Montarea coordinator for Gwingomery, Christ School’s Jalen nett County Public Schools’ Lecque and Justice Ajogbor, adapted sports program) was Ben Smith’s Isaiah Bigelow at that meeting,” McMillan and Jaylan Gainey, Riverdale recalled. “From that, we had Baptist’s Donovann Toatley a conversation and (Norcross athletics director Kirk) Barton and McEachern’s Babatunde Akingbola, Isaac Okoro and and I started throwing some Sharife Cooper. things off the wall. … And

be possible without the support of the parents and school system.

“It’s hard to find kids and hard to get them, because parents do have to make such a big sacrifice,” Boudreaux said. “I’ve got kids coming from the Grayson cluster, from Meadowcreek, from Mill Creek. Then you put the traffic in there, just to make it here at 6:30 (p.m. at Hull Middle School twice a week), they’re sacrificing, which is great.”

It’s also the board of education and Gwinnett County Public Schools superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks, Phillips said.

“People stop me in the hall and ask what’s up with the Heat,” he said. “They understand the impact we’re having. They’ve supported us the whole time and we couldn’t do it without them.”

The Heat season opener against Clayton is at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. They were invited to participate in the Blue Devils’ national basketball showcase in Norcross.

Their first home game at Hull Middle is at 11 a.m. on Feb. 3 against Houston, which is also celebrating its 10th anniversary season.

“I’m proud of what they have accomplished in 10 years and hope it continues to grow,” Douglas said. “Many people don’t understand how important this program is to physical challenged individuals. It’s more than a game, winning or scoring. What you learn can’t be put in words, but seeing it is all the evidence you need.

“I would join again if that was possible because the positive influence is mindblowing.”

Hoops •From Page 1B semifinal games for both the boys and girls on Saturday, March 3.

The 5,500-seat arena, which opened in December of 2016, was originally set to host the AAAAAAA semifinals last year, but officials from the GHSA and Buford City Schools, which owns and operates the arena, could not come to a final agreement.

Other sites announced for Final Four games by the GHSA on Thursday include the University of West Georgia in Carrollton (AAAAAA, March 3), Fort Valley State University (AAAA, March 2 and AAAAA, March 3), Armstrong State University in Savannah (AAA, March 3), Georgia State University in Atlanta (AA, March 3), Columbus State University (A (Private), March 2) and Valdosta State University (A (Public), March 3).

“Titanic” wins for Discovery girls Discovery’s girls program reached not one, but two different milestones in its brief history last weekend.

The first, the Titans’ 45-34 victory at Duluth in a Region 6-AAAAAAA contest last Friday, was the first victory in a region game since the program began playing in the 2015-16 season behind 20 points from Akaya Chaney and nine points from Keyala Wooden.

One night later, the Titans provided another moment of history with a 49-34 home non-region victory over Lithonia, which was led by Chaney and Kyasia Overstreet.

The win was the seventh on the season for Discovery (7-11 overall, 1-5 in region play), which breaks the previous school record of six set last year.

Beyond the historical significance, the two wins have had more intangible positive effects on the team, according to coach Tamara Brooks.

“In a (relatively) new program like ours, you set up for yourselves certain hurdles you have to get over,” Brooks said.

“We needed this. Now the conversation has changed. The (team’s) confidence level has definitely increased. Now (the players) believe they can win.”

Rush hour on the ’M’ Train The letter M is the Roman numeral for 1,000. It also the

first letter in the word ‘milestone,’ and four boys players around Gwinnett County have reached an important one over the past week by scoring the 1,000th point of their respective high school careers.

Two of those players come from Buford, with junior forward Marcus Watson being the first to reach the 1,000-point mark during the Wolves’ 80-51 win at Loganville on Jan. 10.

Just four days later, senior guard Alex Jones also joined the 1,000-point club during an 89-68 road rout of Harrison.

In addition, Dacula’s Arusha Hunter and Norcross’ Kyle Sturdivant also posted the 1,000th point of their respective careers during the week.

And the list of recent 1,000-point scorers figures to grow even further.

After scoring 28 points in Peachtree Ridge’s win over Milton in the Blue Collar Basketball Showcase on Monday, senior wing Devin Vassell now has 995 points for his career, and figures to pass the 1,000 mark when the Lions return to the court Friday at home against North Gwinnett.

Recovering Rams The Grayson boys’ 65-64 victory over Langston Hughes in Monday’s Blue Collar Basketball Showcase, in which the Rams (14-3, 4-1 in Region 8-AAAAAAA) rallied from an 18-point deficit in the second half to win on Nick Edwards’ layup with a second left, was impressive under any circumstances.

That they did so against a powerful Panthers team led by four-star Virginia Tech signee Landers Nolley without two of their best players — leading scorer Travis Anderson, who has missed the last three games with an injured finger, and 6-foot-6 rebounder and shot blocker extraordinaire Kenyon Jackson, out the last two games with an sore knee — was even more impressive.

Even better news for Grayson is that coach Geoffrey Pierce is hopeful that it won’t be long before both are back in action, perhaps as soon as Friday’s scheduled game at Archer.

“We’ll see,” Pierce said Monday. “We’ll play it by ear. I doubt they’ll play for a non-region game (Tuesday’s postponed game against Brookwood), but we’ll see for Friday.”

FANS CHOICE WINTER ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Who: Bianca Fizouaty School: Grayson Sport: Basketball Class: Senior Highlights: Had 31 points in a 57-39 victory over Rockdale, and had 23 points and five steals in a 43-33 win over Heritage Bianca Coach Robin Potter’s Fizouaty take: “She’s really coming on here in the past few games with her scoring. We only had her half a year last year, but she ended up as our leading scorer on average.

She struggled a little bit early on in the season but seems to be coming into her own now. Hopefully, that can keep going through end of the year here. When I got to Grayson and found out who she was, other coaches told me what a great scorer she was.

She’s been a good senior leader for us as well.”

GWINNETT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL LEADERS BOYS SCORING Name School GP Pts PPG Devin Vassell P’tree Ridge 15 365 24.3 Marcus Watson Buford 13 303 23.3 Kyle Sturdivant Norcross 14 272 19.4 Jamir Chaplin Meadowcreek 15 277 18.5 Christian McLean Wesleyan 12 222 18.5 Brenden Tucker Dacula 17 306 18 Adam Flagler Duluth 20 350 17.5 Kalu Ezikpe Discovery 17 272 16 Arusha Hunter Dacula 17 269 15.8 Travis Anderson Grayson 14 220 15.7 Spencer Rodgers Mtn. View 16 243 15.2 Alex Calvert Hebron 15 225 15 David Viti Buford 14 210 15 Brandon Boston Norcross 16 235 14.7 Mekhail Bethea Dacula 17 244 14.4 Donell Nixon Buford 14 195 13.9 Nick Edwards Grayson 15 206 13.7 Will Huzzie Duluth 20 271 13.6 Ahmir Langlais Parkview 18 239 13.3 Justin Randle Brookwood 16 206 12.9 REBOUNDS Name School GP Reb RPG Kalu Ezikpe Discovery 17 179 10.5 Ahmir Langlais Parkview 18 166 9.2 Cory Hightower Meadowcreek 15 137 9.1 Christian McLean Wesleyan 12 106 8.8 Will Huzzie Duluth 20 157 7.9 Devin Vassell P’tree Ridge 15 113 7.5 Marcus Watson Buford 13 97 7.5 Leslie Nkereuwem Discovery 17 119 7 Jamir Chaplin Meadowcreek 15 89 5.9 Arusha Hunter Dacula 17 100 5.9 Amari Kelly Meadowcreek 15 89 5.9 Brandon Boston Norcross 16 93 5.8 Kevin Kayongo Mtn. View 16 93 5.8 Shayne Buckingham Dacula 11 63 5.7 Amari Kelley Brookwood 16 89 5.6 Terrance Porter Grayson 14 78 5.6 Will Warbington Hebron 15 84 5.6 Alex Wesig Mtn. View 16 86 5.4 Stevie Crawford Wesleyan 12 62 5.2 Matthew McDowell Mill Creek 14 73 5.2 ASSISTS Name School GP Ast APG Alex Jones Buford 10 79 7.9 Lamont Smith Duluth 20 119 6 Dalvin White Norcross 16 85 5.3 Mekhail Bethea Dacula 17 71 4.2 D. Nichols Meadowcreek 15 60 4 Mitchell Miller Providence 14 53 3.8 Kyle Sturdivant Norcross 14 53 3.8 Adam Flagler Duluth 20 66 3.3 Jack Kostel Mill Creek 16 50 3.1 Donell Nixon Buford 14 43 3.1 STEALS Name School GP Steal SPG Donell Nixon Buford 14 38 2.7 Lamont Smith Duluth 20 54 2.7 Grant Summers Wesleyan 12 25 2.1 Alex Calvert Hebron 15 30 2 Jamir Chaplin Meadowcreek 15 28 1.9 BLOCKS Name School GP Blk BPG David Bowling Hebron 15 33 2.2 Amari Kelly Meadowcreek 15 28 1.9 Kalu Ezikpe Discovery 17 29 1.7 Joseph Toppin Norcross 16 26 1.6 Brandon Boston Norcross 16 22 1.4 GIRLS SCORING Name School GP Pts PPG Kierra Adams Brookwood 16 286 17.9 Jazmine Robinson Grayson 14 246 17.6 Robyn Benton GAC 10 171 17.1 Taylor Sutton GAC 16 264 16.5 Kamryn Collins Mtn. View 16 261 16.3 Myra Srickland Norcross 20 314 15.7 Amaya Register Wesleyan 14 216 15.4 Lillian Kennedy Mtn. View 16 245 15.3 Morgan Rob.-Nwagwu Norcross 21 319 15.2 Asia McCoy Archer 18 270 15 Devyn Wilson Norcross 21 313 14.9 A.C. Carter Wesleyan 14 198 14.1 Bianca Fizouaty Grayson 14 195 13.9 Malia Fisher North 14 191 13.6 Hannah Sadler Parkview 18 236 13.1 Jaron Stallworth Collins Hill 17 214 12.6 Bridget Mukasa Mill Creek 14 167 11.9 Caria Reynolds GAC 15 179 11.9 Briana Harmon Collins Hill 17 193 11.4 Alea Spears Mtn. View 15 167 11.1 REBOUNDS Name School GP Reb RPG Clara Hammel Providence 11 151 13.7 Jazmine Robinson Grayson 14 168 12 Lillian Kennedy Mtn. View 16 176 11 Asia McCoy Archer 18 198 11 Malia Grace Brookwood 16 154 9.6 Javyn Nicholson Collins Hill 17 155 9.1 Makayla Schymanski North 14 126 9 Caria Reynolds GAC 15 132 8.8 Devyn Wilson Norcross 21 177 8.4 Sutton West Wesleyan 15 113 8.1 Jada Rice Collins Hill 16 127 7.9 M. Turner GAC 16 126 7.9 Helena Lee Dacula 9 69 7.7 A.C. Carter Wesleyan 14 103 7.4 Morgan Rob.-Nwagwu Norcross 21 148 7 Sacha Washington Parkview 20 132 6.6 Kierra Adams Brookwood 16 104 6.5 Chelsey Abel Dacula 14 88 6.3 Yamani Paul Norcross 21 129 6.1 Ashleigh Boulin Berkmar 8 48 6 ASSISTS Name School GP Ast APG Kennedi Williams GAC 16 83 5.2 Bryanne Buch.-Cummings Mill Creek 17 83 4.9 Alea Spears Mtn. View 15 68 4.5 Morgan Rob.-Nwagwu Norcross 21 90 4.3 Nyla Moore Dacula 13 48 3.7 Bridget Mukasa Mill Creek 14 52 3.7 Kierra Adams Brookwood 16 58 3.6 Taylor Sutton GAC 16 54 3.4 Robyn Benton GAC 10 32 3.2 Lillian Kennedy Mtn. View 16 51 3.2 STEALS Name School GP Steal SPG Robyn Benton GAC 10 45 4.5 Morgan Rob.-Nwagwu Norcross 21 80 3.8 Kennedi Williams GAC 16 59 3.7 Taylor Sutton GAC 16 49 3.1 Myra Strickland Norcross 20 58 2.9 BLOCKS Name School GP Blk BPG Lillian Kennedy Mtn. View 16 42 2.6 Jada Rice Collins Hill 16 40 2.5 Clara Hammel Providence 11 26 2.4 Sutton West Wesleyan 14 28 2 Jaron Stallworth Collins Hill 17 31 1.8

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Quinn: Sarkisian will still be Falcons’ OC in 2018

By Colin Hubbard Staff Correspondent

Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff, left, and head coach Dan Quinn, right, answer questions at a press conference Wednesday at the Falcons’ training complex in Flowery Branch. (Photo: Colin Hubbard)

QB Matt Ryan’s extension Falcons’ offseason priority

By Colin Hubbard

will end after just one season when he accepted the OC job with the University FLOWERY BRANCH of Washington.

— With the 2017 season The top three candiofficially over for the dates for the job are Greg Atlanta Falcons, head Knapp, Jedd Fisch and coach Dan Quinn and Ken Dorsey. Knapp was general manager Thomas the Falcons OC from Dimitroff placed a point of 2004-06 while Michael emphasis on several items Vick was patrolling the for the offseason. backfield as the quarterThe biggest thing on back. Fisch served as the the list: Figure out what UCLA Bruins OC and to do with Matt Ryan. The quarterbacks coach in former MVP is entering 2016 and previously held into his final year of a five- the Jacksonville Jaguars year, $103.8 million deal OC job from 2013-14. that he signed before the Dorsey was recently fired start of the 2013 season, by the Carolina Panthers and it’s something that after spending five years in Dimitroff is making a top the position from 2013-17. priority.

When asked at the “(Matt Ryan’s contract) Falcons final press conferwill be the No. 1 focus this ence of the season about offseason,” Dimitroff said. the coaching search, Quinn “That is one that interestwas quick to respond. ingly enough will help “We are right in the create flexibility in what middle of it,” Quinn said. we’re doing going forward Quinn also said that with a number of moves Ryan will play no role that we may be making.” in who they hire for the Not only will 32-yearposition, but are aware of old Ryan be a free agent what type of coach Ryan is after next season, but so looking for. will Georgia native Grady Falcons special teams Jarrett (DT) and running coach Keith Armstrong, back Tevin Coleman. who has spent nearly a As for this offseason, decade with the team, is 16 Falcons are listed as headed to Arizona for a unrestricted free agents. second interview with the That list includes Adrian Cardinals for the head Clayborn, who led the coaching position.

Falcons in sacks with 9.5, The 54-year-old has defensive tackle Dontari spent the past 24 years Poe, wide receiver Taylor coaching in the NFL Gabriel, starting fullback and had received high Derrick Coleman and praise from both Quinn kicker Matt Bryant. and Dimitroff, as well as Dimitroff would not around the league. comment on who he will Armstrong has intertry to re-sign, or who he viewed for head coaching would go after this offsea- positions in the past and is son in free agency. considered to be one of the Out with the old, favorites for the Cardinals in with the new job.

While the Falcons will Dead zone retain offensive coordinaback to red zone tor Steve Sarkisian for the It was no secret that the 2018 season, they will not Falcons struggled in the have the same quarterred zone in 2017. The team backs coach return. Bush scored touchdowns on 49 Hamdan announced in percent of their trips to the early December that his red zone, ranking the Faltenure with the Falcons cons at 23rd in the NFL. In Staff Correspondent

2016, the Falcons were the eighth-best team in the red zone at 65 percent.

Even worse was Julio Jones’ production in the red zone. The all-pro receiver caught one pass all season from within 20 yards of the end zone on 19 targets.

“That’s like a stat that you don’t want to hear as a coach,” Quinn said about Jones’ red zone numbers.

“One of the top areas of focus, and you’re going to get tired of hearing me talk about this offseason, is the emphasis and importance that we’re going to put on (the red zone).”

Quinn broke down the red zone into two parts: high red zone and low red zone.

The high red zone was explained as being from the 20-yard line to the 10, and the low being from the 10-yard line to the 1. It was very clear to Quinn as to which one they need to improve on more heading into next season.

“Where we need the most work is going to be in the high red zone,” Quinn said. “That’s where we didn’t even get some of our drives extended. “Midway through (the season) I thought it was improving.

We worked at it and added extra time to it. And then over the last month, that part of our game didn’t come through like I hoped it would.”

Quinn thought that his team’s production in the low red zone was something that they had done “well” with the exception of the teams’ NFC Divisional round loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Quinn hopes to find better ways to better feature the likes of Jones and Mohamed Sanu in the red zone next season and expects the scoreboard to reflect that in that with Sarkisian running the show.

Truck series legend Ron Hornaday earns HOF spot

By Holly Cain

both of their paths have led to similarly significant achievements.

The genuine excitement “They [NASCAR] had a for earning a place in the five-year plan for the trucks NASCAR Hall of Fame and I think the first year, we was evident last week as exceeded that five-year plan Ron Hornaday Jr. spoke to of what we thought it was reporters about the upcomgoing to do,” said Hornaday, ing milestone in his life. who also exceeded his own The always colorful, ever expectations, winning 51 humble four-time NASCAR races in a four-championship Camping World Truck 17-year career competing Series champion was upbeat in the truck series. Three of recalling important moments his four titles came after the in his career and telling clas- age of 40. He won the 2009 sic stories about those who championship at the age of helped him make it.

51.

And while the 59-year old Hornaday also won four Californian may not have times in the XFINITY Series ever predicted he would be and finished a career-best a NASCAR Hall of Famer third place in the 2004 one day, he definitely knew championship. He finished the sport’s truck series was top-five in the championship destined for greatness. And in three of the four full-time NASCAR Wire Service

seasons he ran in that series.

Hornaday won two NASCAR Southwest Series titles in what was the preamble to his Hall of Fame tenure in NASCAR’s trucks.

“I was pretty humbled,” Hornaday said of getting the news last May that he was NASCAR Hall of Fame bound. “I thought it was pretty cool to be the first one [truck champion] in there.

“I hope I can represent the truck series since they put my career on the map, what they’ve done for my whole family. Definitely, I owe everything to NASCAR and the France family for starting the truck series and the phone call from [the late Dale] Earnhardt of giving me an opportunity to make it big time.’’

FLOWERY BRANCH — They say football is a game of inches, and that stood true when the Atlanta Falcons hopes of playing in back-toback NFC Championship games went up in smoke just 72 inches away from the end zone.

A failed fourth-and-goal attempt from the Philadelphia Eagles’ 2-yard line was the talk of the town after the game ended, and the dialog continued when head coach Dan Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff sat down with media for the final press conference of the season.

Offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who dialed up the failed fourthdown conversion, will be retained heading into next season. Some wondered whether or not that would be the case after his questionable play calling against the Eagles, and throughout the season, but Quinn made it very apparent Thursday that he would be staying.

“Sarkisian is coming back in 2018,” Quinn said.

“So I want to be clear with you. If this was about one person, that decision would have already been made. I have no issue with making changes. No problem with that. But I have no interest in making change just for the sake of change.”

It’s easy to place the blame on Sarkisian by looking at the Falcons dramatic offensive dropoffs from a season ago that coincide with Sarkisian’s arrival. Matt Ryan threw for 4,095 yards, his fewest since 2010. His touchdowns (20) were the fewest since his rookie season in 2008.

This comes after Ryan’s phenomenal 2016 season under offensive coordi-

nator Kyle Shanahan in which he won the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award while setting his career-best in yards passing (4,944), touchdowns (38), completion percentage (70 percent) and QBR (79.4).

But Quinn was quick to point out the fact that the same unwanted noise surrounded Shanahan after his first season as the coordinator.

“We’ve done this dance before,” Quinn said.

“Back in 2016, I stood in front of you, and we had some conversations about Kyle (Shanahan).

And a number of people wanted his head. But what has stayed the same, and what I learned during that process is that in order to build consistency, you better be consistent.”

Instead, Quinn placed the blame on the team as a whole. In his eyes, from the coaching staff to the players themselves, everyone played a contributing role in the Falcons’ offensive struggles.

“Placing blame on one person would be wrong in this instance,” Quinn said.

“To examine what was wrong with our scoring is not an indication on one play caller or on one player. It’s on all of us.

There are plenty of plays that Sarkisian would like to have back, there are some throws that Matt (Ryan) would like to have back, and I am sure there are some drops from our receivers, tight ends, and running backs that they would like to have back.

And myself, some calls that I would like to have back.”

Quinn said that the transition from Shanahan to Sarkisian was challenging, but he added that it was a culmination of a lack of experience with the players and a lack of NFL experience that led to some of the transitional struggles.

“I thought heading in, this is a really good coach,” Quinn said about Sarkisian. “I was really firm about making sure that the system was going to stay very much the same. But yeah, it was harder than I thought.

Looking back, how can I help make that transition better? That’s been a big part of my offseason notes.”

Quinn said that with a full year under his belt, Sarkisian will be better prepared for the 2018 season and has a lot of faith in his ability to be a play caller.

“You have to really understand what nuances the guy has, how to feature him from this player to this play,” Quinn said.

“He (Sarkisian) didn’t get a chance to see Julio Jones or Taylor Gabriel until almost the regular season. So I would hope that one of the areas that we can really improve on as we’re heading into the offseason and into training camp is featuring the guys in the very best way. And you can only know that through your experience with them. He certainly now has all of that experience to pull back from.”

In Quinn’s and Dimitroff’s eyes, the Falcons did not underachieve in 2017. According to them, it was a matter of “under executing,” and that is something that will be a point of emphasis throughout the offseason.

“Between Thomas (Dimitroff) and myself, trying to build the most unique culture in all of pro ball here in this building, (Arthur Blank) has certainly provided that for our fan base with having the best stadium in pro ball,” Quinn said. “So between those two things, you can see why I am so excited about where we are at even though I sit here pissed today.”

HOF recongnizes Ray Evernham’s innovations

By Holly Cain

torsports’ triumphant return to Monster Energy Series racing in 2001. Fellow Hall CHARLOTTE, N.C. — of Famer Bill Elliott earned Even before answering the Evernham Motorsports first question from a ready its inaugural victory in group of racing reporters that 2001 season finale at about his induction Friday Homestead, Fla. – the first into the NASCAR Hall of 15 total wins for Evernof Fame, Ray Evernham, ham’s team.

60, insisted on making an And the veteran Elliott important point. added a dramatic Brickyard “I want to make it clear 400 trophy for the team the to everybody on the [convery next year – in one of ference] call, I know you the most celebrated victothank me for the time, but ries in NASCAR. it’s an honor to be able to sit Young Washington-state here and take questions for bred Kasey Kahne joined the Hall of Fame,” Evernthe operation to earn Rookie ham said. of the Year in 2004 and then “I can do this all day if immediately challenged for you want,’’ he added, with the series championship a laugh. with six wins the following He certainly would have season. Kahne also hoisted plenty to discuss in his all five of the Evernham NASCAR Hall of Fame team’s XFINITY Series career that began at Bill Da- race trophies as well. vis Racing guiding a young It is the definitive Jeff Gordon before servmodern-day NASCAR ing as crew chief for three success story of a two-fold of Gordon’s four Monster career that produced troEnergy NASCAR Cup phies, championships and, Series championships at ultimately, Hall of Fame Hendrick Motorsports and recognition alongside the then owning a flagship team most important people in himself that led to some of the sport’s history. the sport’s great crowning No question, Evernham’s moments. work with a young Gordon Under Evernham’s is what put his name in the leadership with the famed NASCAR vocabulary.

“Rainbow Warriors” No. He is only the third 24 Chevrolet team, Gordon designated “crew chief” to rolled to 47 premier series be voted into the Hall of wins in just seven full Fame, and the first in five seasons before Evernham years. And considering he transitioned to a comworked with Gordon for a pletely new role and fresh relatively short term – seven challenge: Premier series years – the huge success ownership. they enjoyed is even more Evernham operated and remarkable. succeeded in similar style, Obviously, Gordon’s imspearheading Dodge Momense talent had a lot to do

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with the results, but Evernham proved to be an expert at making it all possible.

“You know, there’s a big difference in what I call ‘coaching’ and ‘managing,’” Evernham said. “I don’t like to be a manager. I don’t like to be a businesstype manager where you’re just directing people. But I really enjoyed the coaching, working with people together, solving problems, being part of a team, that kind of environment.

“Whether I should try to think I deserve to be even mentioned in a Lombardi style or not, that’s kind of who I patterned after. Tough on people, drive them hard, but cared about them.

You’ve got to be able to have that compassion along with determination.

“That part I enjoyed. I loved working down on the floor with the guys. I loved being at the race track.’’

Evernham still insists that it was a difficult decision to step off the pit box with certain future Hall of Fame driver in order to develop his own team with Dodge.

But the New Jersey native also conceded it was just in his makeup, to pursue and continually challenge himself. The opportunity with Dodge was intriguing and proved Evernham’s abilities on a grander scale. And he certainly delivered on the big stage - again.

“It wasn’t a no-brainer,’’ Evernham explained of his decision to leave the championship Hendrick organization to start his own.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018 PUBLIC HEARINGS

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR ALCOHOL LICENSE AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED ON DECEMBER 12, 2018 WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE FOR A LICENSE TO SERVE Alcohol. BY THE FOLLOWING APPLICANT AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATION, TO WIT: APPLICANT/OWNER: Patricia A. Brown REGISTERED AGENT: Patricia A. Brown BUSINESS NAME: Brushstrokes and Corks, LLC DBA Masterpiece Mixers Paint & Party Studio LOCATION: 162 E Crogan Street Suite D Lawrenceville Ga 30046 A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH A LICENSE WILL BE MADE BY THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE NO LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS FROM THE DATE THE FILED APPLICATION IS DETERMINED TO BE COMPLETE. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO NOTE ANY OBJECTIONS, IN WRITING, THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH A LICENSE BY FILING SAID WRITTEN OBJECTIONS WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE. 9 0 4 - 5 2 7 1 7 9 , 1/10,12,17,19

JUVENILE COURT FAMILY COURT FOR THE STATE OF DELAWARE NOTICE OF FAMILY COURT DEPENDENCY AND NEGLECT CUSTODY ACTION TO: Lakia Campbell_ __ D.O.B: 12-161974 Respondent FROM:Tyrone Harper, DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES Minor Female, DOB: 06/20/2001 A hearing has been scheduled at Family Court, 500 North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware, on _Monday February 5, 2018 , at __9:30______ A.M./P.M. If you do not appear at the hearing, the Court may grant custody of your child(ren) to the Division of Family Services without your appearance.

IF YOU WISH TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY IN THIS MATTER BUT CANNOT AFFORD ONE, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO HAVE THE COURT APPOINT AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU FOR FREE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK AT FAMILY COURT, (302) 255-0239.

913-528199, 1/17

PUBLIC HEARINGS ACCOUNT: New Life Academy of Excellence 4725 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

Duluth, GA 30096 ANNOUNCEMENT: New Life Academy of Excellence Board Meeting Saturday, January 20, 2018 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

4725 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

Duluth, GA 30096 928-528887, 1/19 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE THERE WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC OUT CRY AT 5580 NEW PEACHTREE RD. CHAMBLEE, GA 30341 ON 12-19-2017 AT 12:10 pm THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE, DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA SECTION 40-11-5 AS FOLLOWS: YEAR MAKE MODEL V.I.N. # WAUGL78E77A014557 928-527892, 1/17,24 2018 CITY OF LILBURN ANNUAL PLANNING RETREAT The City of Lilburn Mayor and Council will meet for the purpose of a long range planning work shop at the following location and time: Saturday, January 20th, 2018 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Evergreen Marriott Conference Center 4021 Lakeview Drive Stone Mountain, GA 30083 928-528244, 1/19 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: 525 HURRICANE SHOALS LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 07 STRICKLAND TRAILER AVW-5357-S-C-AR VIN# 1DW1A532X7S945316 Is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the owner by 2-2-18 928-528680,1/19,26

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE 2007 JEEP COMMANDER VIN: 1J8HG48P17C577628 The above automobile was initially removed and presently stored at 5402 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross, Ga 30093, in possession of DANZ Auto Repair. Attempt to locate the owner(s) of this vehicle’s have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A.40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia law.

928-527563, 1/12,19 STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 1997 Kawasaki JetSki HIN KAW02200E797 REGISTRATION NO. GA1039EV COLOR RED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above boat was initially removed from Willowrun Condominiums, 1015 Country Court located in Lawrenceville, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The boat is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 52-7-71 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Yamaha Engine VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above listed engine was initially removed from 3178 Meadow Point Drive located in Snellville, GA. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The engine is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2005 Bashan Mini Chopper Motorcycle VIN LHJPCAL335B002225 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR ORANGE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from 1775 Logan Ridge Circle located in Loganville, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 263 Luxomni Road in Lilburn, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-527949, 1/12,19,26 PUBLIC NOTICE The Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Department of Natural Resources, State of Georgia (EPD) has placed this site on the Hazardous Site Inventory pursuant to its authority under the Hazardous Site Response Act and Rules promulgated thereunder. As required by the Rules for Hazardous Site Response, the responsible party for this site was required to investigate the site and submit a compliance status report to EPD summarizing the results of that investigation. EPD is currently reviewing the compliance status report to determine if corrective action is needed for regulated substances that have been released at this site. Before EPD decides whether corrective action is needed, the public has the opportunity to review the compliance status report and provide comments to EPD about the report.

Site Information: North Berkeley Lake Road Site, Gwinnett County, Duluth, Georgia 30096, HSI # 10844.

HSI # 10844 currently consists of four (4) parcels held by separate owners. This public notice is being made on behalf of one property that is owned by Gwinnett County, as listed below: Property Owner Information: Gwinnett County Fire Station 19, 3275 North Berkeley Lake Road, Duluth, Georgia 30096.

Parcel Identification Number R6267-028.

Written and oral contact can be made to the following: EPD Contact Person: Tom Brodell, 2 Martin Luther King Jr Drive, SE Suite 1056 Atlanta, GA 30334.

Phone: 404-657-8600.

Gwinnett County Contact Person: Richard Schoeck, Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources, 684 Winder Highway, Lawrenceville, Georgia, 30045-5012.

Phone: 678-376-6700.

A copy of the Compliance Status Report is available for review and copy at the Gwinnett County Public Library, Peachtree Corners Branch, 5570 Spalding Drive, Peachtree Corners, Georgia.

928-528579, 1/19

Please Recycle This Newspaper NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: 525 HURRICANE SHOALS LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 07 STRICKLAND TRAILER AVW-5357-S-C-AR VIN# 1DW1A532X7S945316 Is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the owner by 1-26-18 928-527750, 1/12,19

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INTRODUCE LOCAL LEGISLATION Notice is given that there will be introduced at the regular 2018 session of the General Assembly of Georgia a bill to authorize the governing authority of Gwinnett County to levy an excise tax pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 48-13-51 of the O.C.G.A.; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

-sRepresentative Scott Hilton District 95 928-528868, 1/19

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-1105, as follows: #; Year; Make; Model; VIN 1 2008 Ford Focus 1FAHP35N68W138189 2 1996 Honda Civic 1HGEJ6120TL020730 3 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15L81LB83017 4 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 1GCEK19T64E403587 5 2015 Nissan LEAF 1N4AZ0CP2FC321392 6 2005 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL46X35N525588 7 2006 Kia Spectra KNAFE121865366269 8 2007 Saturn ION 1G8AJ55F07Z186781 9 2006 Scion tC JTKDE177060137744 10 2010 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZC5E0XAF174511 11 2001 Mazda 626 1YVGF22D315212253 12 1999 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E4XZ146476 13 2005 Hyundai Elantra KMHDN46D25U925069 14 2001 Ford Focus 1FAFP36321W295602 15 2006 Pontiac G6 1G2ZG558464151685 16 2017 Toyota Camry 4T1BF1FKXHU290544 17 2006 BMW 325Ci WBABD33436PL09195 18 1999 Infiniti QX4 JNRAR07Y8XW061058 19 2003 Honda Odyssey 5FNRL18903B022545 20 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU73E92UB87046 21 2005 Cadillac CTS 1G6DP567450139685 22 1999 Toyota Camry JT2BF28K1X0230481 23 2005 Scion xB JTLKT334850209739 24 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix 2G2WP552X81157195 25 2008 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WB58K089255054 26 2004 Buick Century 2G4WS52J041182005 27 2013 Lexus GS 350 JTHCE1BL8D5020032 28 2001 Ford Explorer Sport 1FMYU70E41UB01771 29 1995 Honda Civic del Sol JHMEG1241SS006144 30 2005 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E55M201168 31 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan 1D4GP24R37B253183 32 2008 BMW 335i WBAVB73508VH23622 33 2004 Oldsmobile Alero 1G3NL52F44C114356 34 1996 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB41D0TL021464 35 2004 Mercury Sable 1MEHM50U84G602437 36 2001 Infiniti QX4 JNRDR09X51W200975 37 1998 Hyundai Sonata KMHCF34T5WA070142 38 1999 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K0XU502262 39 2004

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Nissan Sentra 3N1CB51D24L882595 40 2000 Dodge Stratus 1B3EJ46X9YN137243 41 2001 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46H11E149721 42 2005 Kia Sedona KNDUP131956646455 43 2005 Toyota Matrix 2T1LR3E85C347344 44 2002 Toyota Sienna 4T3ZF13C82U446784 43 2005 Toyota Matrix 2T1LR32E85C347344 2013 Nissan Versa 3N1CN7AP6DL893001 929-526628, 1/5,12,19

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON JANUARY 27, 2018. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 27 ENERO 2018 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com Boat Trailer NO VIN 1994 Monark 16ft Boat NO HIN 2008 Sunl Moped L8YTCKPF68Y012128 2000 Wabash Trailer 1JJV532W9YL630594

NOTICE There will be sold at public auction on Saturday 27 of January, 2018 at 11:00 am the following vehicle at ANGEL AUTO REBUILT , 660 OLD NORCROSS RD, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. 30046, 2004 HONDA ELEMENT, VIN: 5J6YH28604L034180; declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 40-11-5.

929-528164, 1/12,19 MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH 2018@ 1:00PM 2009 BMW 328i WBAPH775X9NL82391 2009 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT57N091301104 2015 Chevrolet Cruze 1G1PG5SB3F7111494 1997 Chevrolet C1500 1GCEC19W5VE213451 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2G1WK15K379115625 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2G1WW12E159286101 2010 Chevrolet HHR 3GNBABDB5AS508852 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 2C4GM68465R305271 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 2C4GM48L75R268792 2006 Dodge Magnum 2D4FV47T26H262287 2003 Ford Expedition 1FMPU17L63LA91993 2003 Ford Explorer 1FMZU63K43UA92637 2001 Ford E250 1FTNS24211HA03922.

2005 Ford Expedition 1FMPU15575LB05729 2007 Ford Explorer 1FMEU64E97UA78620 2001 Ford F150 1FTRX17W81NA38731 1999 Ford F 350 Super Duty 1FTWW32S8XEA89287 2001 GMC Savana 1GTGG25R111150482 2005 Honda Civic 2HGES16585H531301 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM21571L030792 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG2250YA036811 2012 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEB4AC2CH500586 2004 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E64M611413 2004 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E34M616701 2001 Jeep Cherokee 1J4FT48SX1L627359 2001 Mercedes Benz C320 WDBRF64J51F082316 2001 Mercedes Benz C240 WDBRF61J01F093163 2000 Mercedes Benz E320 WDBJF65J7YB117192 2009 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AB36F29E024955 2005 Nissan Xterra 5N1AN08W75C630968 2000 Nissan Frontier 1N6DD26S8YC434216 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 1G3GM11Y8JP313447 2008 Pontiac G6 1G2ZH57N184193038 2001 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E21Z484465 2000 Toyota Camry Solara 2T1FF28P3YC406278 1999 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22KXXU446766 929-527734, 1/12,19,26 LIFE STORAGE # 413 875 MARATHON PARKWAY LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 678-242-1441 AUCTION DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30TH 2018 @ 10:30 AM In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manages’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location (s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, JANUARY 30th 2018 @ 10:30AM 875 Marathon Pkwy Lawrenceville, GA 30046 678-242-1441 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 1033 Christine Ceasar Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Office Furniture/ Machines/Equip.; Account Records/ Sales Samples.

1154 Lamarr E Allen Household Goods/Furniture; Tools/ Appliances.

3031 Christine Ceasar Household Goods/Furniture.

4105 Laroyce Nelson Boxes 929-526877, 1/12,19

2005 Isuzu NQR/NRR JALE5B16157902109 2016 Kia Forte KNAFK4A61G5487735 2006 Land Rover Range Rover Sport SALSF25456A974714 2010 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WA5EK0A1103108 2003 Mercedes-Benz E320 WDBUF65J93A172870 2011 Mazda Mazda3 JM1BL1VF6B1495837 2001 Ford Taurus 1FAFP55U81A172034 2007 Chevrolet HHR 3GNDA13D67S509717 1998 Acura 3.2 TL JH4UA3641WC006289 2001 Ford Ranger 1FTYR14VX1TB07495 1994 Nissan Quest 4N2DN11W5RD802218 2004 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx 1G1ZT64824F169367 2011 Ford Fusion 3FAHP0HA7BR149980 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 2C4GM68485R655582 2000 Chrysler Town and Country 1C4GP44GXYB644629 2003 Honda Accord 1HGCM56363A070408 2003 Toyota 4Runner JTEZU14R130010711 2003 Acura MDX 2HNYD18633H522167 2001 Lincoln Town Car 1LNHM83W11Y688840 1994 Chevrolet C1500 1GCDC14H8RZ185227 2006 Hyundai Sonata KMHEU46C06A148960 2004 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15W44LA15616 2002 Mercedes-Benz C230 WDBRN47J72A269929 2004 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E84M106487 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C8FY68B42T241236 2000 Mercedes-Benz CLK430 WDBLJ70G1YF142347 1998 Ford F-150 1FTDF17W5WNA08042 2002 Dodge Caravan 1B8GP45312B599207 2004 Hyundai Sonata KMHWF35H54A958670 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier 1G1JC1242Y7246867 1993 Honda Accord 1HGCB765XPA025819 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG5550YA071510 *** REBUILT *** 1995 Honda Accord 1HGCD7133SA030546 1994 Toyota Corolla 1NXAE04B0RZ215994 2002 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWSB69M42M102135 1997 Isuzu Rodeo 4S2CK58V3V4309471 2016 Gator 50-S Scooter LYDY3TBB9G1500272 1995 Lexus ES 300 JT8GK13T4S0122883 1997 Honda Civic 1HGEJ7125VL114417 2003 Honda Odyssey 5FNRL18973B040220 1999 Volkswagen Passat WVWNA63B9XE352915 1999 Toyota 4Runner JT3GN87R5X0118692 1999 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D5XT217112 2008 Honda Civic 2HGFA16958H523705 929-527951, 1/12,19,26

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 QUALITY AUTO CARE CENTER, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 1999 BMW 528i WBADM6335XBY20939 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JANUARY 31, 2017 AT 10 AM. AT 3222 LENORA CHURCH RD SNELLVILLE, GA 30039 *7764 929-527282, 1/12,19

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS THE GWINNETT DAILY NEWSPAPER AD PUBLISH DATE: 1/12/18 AND 1/19/18 LIFE STORAGE # 861 420 GRAYSON HWY LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 770-682-7717 AUCTION DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30TH 2018 @ 10:45 AM Note: In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below. And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on.

Below you will find the Space Number(s), and Customer’s Name for the next auction at Life Storage (861).

This printed list is provided in addition to the signed Form F-026, and is intended to clarify the spelling of all names submitted for the requested ad.

Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 1084 Selena Harris Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools and appliances 1238 Colette Rollins Household Goods/Furniture 1340 Demetrice Williams Household Goods/Furniture; TV/ stereo equipment; Tools and appliances; Office Furn/ Machines/ Equipment 1344 Ralph Tull Household Goods/Furniture; TV/ stereo equipment; Tools and appliances 1345 Demetrice Williams Household Goods/Furniture; TV/ stereo equipment; Tools and appliances; Office Furn/ Machines/ Equipment; Acct records/ Sale Samples 929-526634, 1/12,19 NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION “In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location(s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 @ 10:00 AM. 2655 Langford Road Norcross, GA 30071 (770) 242-0468 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 037 Shatarra Anderson Houshold Goods/Furniture/ Boxes/Patio Furniture 131 Erica Crews Household Goods/Furniture 145 Dionisio Baptiste Household Goods/Furniture 190 Milad Golshan Household Goods/Furniture 195 Trena Gamble Household Goods/Furniture 252 Alfredo Ambrosini Household Goods/Furniture 259 Randall Johnson Household Goods/Furniture/ Sporting/Goods 322 Lavon Vaughn Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment/Tools/Appliances 437 Trena Gamble Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment/Tools/Appliances 929-527287, 1/12,19 There will be sold at public auction on Thursday 1 of February, 2018 at 11:00 am the following vehicle at PPK Automotive Inc, 506 Lyle Cir, Lawrenceville GA 30045, 1986 CHEVROLET ASTRO, VIN: 2GBEG25H8G4116575; 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO; VIN: 1GCEC19T21Z188727; 2005 FORD EXPEDITION; VIN: 1FMFU19525LB00329; 2006 FORD 500, VIN: 1 FA H P 2 5 1 0 6 G 1 5 8 9 5 4 ; and Dz Mechanic Motors LLC, 3668 WILLOW WOOD WAY, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. 30044, 2002 MERCEDEZ BENZ C240, VIN: WDBRF61J32F184199; 2007 CHEVROLET HHR, VIN: 3GNDA13D77S562149, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 40-11-5 929-528811, 1/19,26 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY In accordance with the GA Self Service Storage Facilities Act notice is hereby given that the undersigned will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder in order to satisfy lien of the owner. The auction will be held at www. lockerfox.com with bids finalizing on February 4, 2018 at 10am for the Space Shop Self Storage facility located at 2350 Ronald Reagan Pkwy Snellville GA 30078 UNIT: 2182- Pat Greer:– Boxes, bags, totes, chairs, rugs, wood frames.

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. lockerfox.com. Space Shop Self Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-528188, 1/19,26 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 MALL OF GEORGIA FORD, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2006 BMW 750 LI WBANH833JX6DT9039 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON FEBRUARY 6, 2018 AT 10 AM. AT 4525 NELSON BROGDON BLVD BUFORD, GA 30518 *7836 929-528795, 1/19,26

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #6929, 5985 South Norcross Tucker Road, Norcross, GA 30093, to satisfy a lien 02/08/2018 at approx. 2:00 PM. at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Uriel Adam Jaimes B088 Cira I. Salazar B114 Jordana Livingston B116 Ronnie Williams B117 Carlonna Spence C020 Chantell Bender C031 Attallah Williams C089 Aquino Atl.Roofing, LLC C091 Juan Tomas Aquino Hercules C091 Mary E Mande C094 Chantel Bender D029 Rufus Wimberly D050 Erasmo E Soliz Perz E004 Sharronda Hogges E024 Angelica Maria Poveda E033 929-528806, 1/19,26 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 3766 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 to satisfy a lien on February 8th, 2018 at approx. 2:00 pm at www. storagetreasures.com] Name Unit # General Description of Property Jules Rhodes 232 Household Items Monique Randle 190 Household Items Leah Curry 4 0 7 Household Items Gina Lanis 4 5 1 Household Items Summer Blakeny 433 Household Items Lasnosha Snowden 432 Household Items Natalie Kio 3 3 6 Household Items Anastasio Morales 449 Household Items Zenobia Hopkins 308 Household Items Lamont Graham 285 Household Items 929-528825, 1/19,26 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES: K.O. TOWING, 344 KATHLEEN DR SE, MARIETTA, GA 30067. 770650-1413.

In accordance with OCGA Section 40-11-2, the following described vehicles/ vessels have been towed/ deemed abandoned and will be sold at Public Auction if not claimed. The vehicles are being stored at K.O. Towing, 344 Kathleen Dr Se, Marietta, Ga 30067. 770-650-1413 2000, Lexus ES 300, Gold, Vin#JT8BF28G3Y0257829, no Tag#. From 259 Mediterrianean In, Lawrenceville GA 30046 929-528025, 1/12,19

ZONINGS THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held before the Norcross Architectural Review Board and the Norcross Mayor and Council on the following dates: 1.

Mayor and Council Policy: Monday, February 19th 2018 at 6:30 PM 2.

Architectural Review Board: Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 at 6:00 PM 3.

Mayor and Council Regular Meeting: Monday, March 5th 2018 at 6:30 PM The meetings will be held at City Hall at 65 Lawrenceville Street for the purpose of due process of the following: BLD2018-0025/COA20180002: Peter and Michelle Crofton, residing at 34 S. Barton St. Norcross, GA have submitted an application for the demolition of the entire building located at 198 Park Drive (Tax Parcel #: 6254 147). Said structure was built in c1940 and is within the National Historic District as shown on the official zoning map.

COA2018-0001: Application for a new residence within the National Historic District For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

934-528804, 1/19 GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITIONS, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER I

ZONINGS INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RZR2017-00020 — APPLICANT: BULK BUYS CORPORATION; OWNERS: SARAH & PEGGY BRODNAX; REZONING OF R-100 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 036 PARCEL 004; 2900 BLOCK OF BETHANY CHURCH ROAD; 33.74 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZC2017-00025 — APPLICANT: COPART, INC.; OWNERS: LYNN & PATRICIA MOON; REZONING OF R-100 TO M-2; AUTOMOBILE STORAGE LOT; DISTRICT 4 LAND LOT 272 PARCEL 001; 6200 BLOCK OF CENTERVILLE ROSEBUD ROAD; 43.3 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZR2017-00011 — APPLICANT: HOME SOUTH COMMUNITIES, LLC, C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: JOHN T. LAMB; REZONING OF RA200 TO OSC; SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 136 PARCEL 001; 2400 BLOCK OF SUNNY HILL ROAD; 2500 BLOCK OF MORGAN ROAD; 86.15 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2017-00022 — APPLICANT: CKK DEVELOPMENT; OWNERS: NOORUDDIN PANJWANI & SHEREZA TAJUDDIN; REZONING OF R-100 TO R-60; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 021 PARCELS 006C & 072; 500 BLOCK OF ARNOLD ROAD; 2400-2500 BLOCKS OF FIVE FORKS TRICKUM ROAD; 10.42 ACRES. DISTRICT 2/ HOWARD RZR2017-00018 — APPLICANT: CKK DEVELOPMENT LLC; OWNERS: IH KENNEDY GROUP, LLC (JOE KENNEDY), STELLA MOONEY, AND PHILLIP & HOLLY BAGWELL; REZONING OF RL TO R-SR; SENIOR ORIENTED RESIDENCES; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 362 PARCELS 029, 030, 031, 069, & 070; 6200-6300 BLOCKS OF OLD SHADBURN FERRY ROAD; 1700 BLOCK OF BUFORD DAM ROAD; 6500 BLOCK OF OLD GARRETT ROAD; 24.36 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2017-00026 — APPLICANT: SMITHTON HOMES LLC; OWNERS: DEWEY J. BENTLEY ETAL, JERRY W. BENTLEY, JEFFREY D. COOPER, & KAREN ATHA COOPER; REZONING OF R-100 TO OSC; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 4 LAND LOT 301 PARCEL 001; 2800 BLOCK OF CENTERVILLE ROSEBUD ROAD; 25.78 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER RZR2017-00029 — APPLICANT: ARROWHEAD INVESTORS, LLC; OWNER: ROBBIE PRUETT; REZONING OF RA-200 TO OSC; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 060 PARCEL 001; 2300 BLOCK OF OLD PEACHTREE ROAD; 31.65 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD RZR2017-00030 — APPLICANT: JLCS ENTERPRISES, INC C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNERS: ELLEN C. BEAVERS, RICHARD SORRELL, & LANSKY PARTNERSHIP, LLLP; REZONING OF RA-200 TO R-60; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 102 PARCELS 017, 025, & 027; 2100-2200 BLOCKS OF SUNNY HILL ROAD; 20.55 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD CIC2017-00021 – APPLICANT: TAYLOR MORRISON OF GEORGIA LLC C/O MITCH PEEVY; OWNER: TAYLOR MORRISON OF GEORGIA LLC C/O MITCH PEEVY; CHANGE IN CONDITIONS OF ZONING FOR PROPERTY ZONED TND; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 261 PARCEL 012; 2800-2900 BLOCKS OF PLEASANT HILL ROAD; 3600 BLOCK OF SUNSET STREET; 3000 BLOCK OF REGAL PARK COURT; 3800 BLOCK OF VILLAGE PARK DRIVE; 2.14 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS RZC2018-00001 — APPLICANT: ASC ACQUISITIONS, LLC; OWNERS: JLC HOLDINGS, LLLP, VINNIE LUCILE CLARK, RICHARD L. & JOYCE HARRISON; REZONING OF R-100 TO O-I; RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (INDEPENDENT LIVING AND CONTINUING CARE)(BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 106 PARCELS 003, 067 & 278; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 087 PARCEL 120; 1100-1200 BLOCKS OF WEBB GIN HOUSE ROAD; 56.12 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD SUP2018-00003 — APPLICANT: ASC ACQUISITIONS, LLC; OWNERS: JLC HOLDINGS, LLLP, VINNIE LUCILE CLARK, RICHARD L. & JOYCE HARRISON; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN O-I (PROPOSED) ZONING DISTRICT FOR A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (INDEPENDENT LIVING AND CONTINUING CARE)(BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 106 PARCELS 003, 067 & 278; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 087 PARCEL 120; 11001200 BLOCKS OF WEBB GIN HOUSE ROAD; 56.12 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD SUP2018-00004 — APPLICANT: ASC ACQUISITIONS, LLC; OWNERS: JLC HOLDINGS, LLLP, VINNIE LUCILE CLARK, RICHARD L. & JOYCE HARRISON; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN O-I (PROPOSED) ZONING DISTRICT FOR A BUILDING HEIGHT INCREASE (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 106 PARCELS 003, 067 & 278; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 087 PARCEL 120; 11001200 BLOCKS OF WEBB GIN HOUSE ROAD; 56.12 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2018-00001 — APPLICANT: PULTE GROUP, INC.; OWNERS: CAREY A. CASH, LOUISE S. CASH, WILLIAM DAN TANNER, PACTRICIA C. TANNER, JACK ERIC CAIN, & MELANIE TANNER CAIN; REZONING OF RA-200 TO O

ZONINGS REZONING OF RA-200 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 344 PARCELS 001, 005, 023 & 064; 2500 BLOCK OF BERRY HALL ROAD; 72.16 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER P&D PC TBL 2-6 934-528874, 1/19 GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2018 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITION, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RZC2018-00003 — APPLICANT: RON SURANI C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: GWINNETT COMMUNITY BANK; REZONING OF O-I TO C-2; COMMERCIAL & CONVENIENCE STORE W/FUEL PUMPS; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 012 PARCEL 010; 2800 BLOCK OF FIVE FORKS TRICKUM ROAD; 2700 BLOCK OF JO BETH DRIVE; RONALD REAGAN PARKWAY (RAMP); 6.56 ACRES. DISTRICT 2/ HOWARD RZC2018-00004 — APPLICANT: THE WORTHING COMPANIES C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: THE LOWE CORPORATION; REZONING OF C-2 TO MU-R; MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 124 PARCEL 005; 1300-1400 BLOCKS OF NORTHBROOK PARKWAY; 1000 BLOCK OF OLD PEACHTREE ROAD; 18.65 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS RZR2018-00003 — APPLICANT: ANDREW VAZEMILLER; OWNERS: PAT & WENONA VAN DERHEI, & ANDREW VAZEMILLER; REZONING OF OSC TO RA-200; SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE; DISTRICT 3 LAND LOT 001 PARCELS 131 & 132; 3600 BLOCK OF HOG MOUNTAIN ROAD; 10.64 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER SUP2018-00006 — APPLICANT: ERVIN AUTOMOTIVE SOLUTIONS, LLC; OWNER: JEREMY CRAFT; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT FOR AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 110 PARCEL 008; 500 BLOCK OF TAYLOR ROAD; 0.622 ACRE. DISTRICT 4/HEARD SUP2018-00007 — APPLICANT: JUSTINA OBODE; OWNER: JUSTINA OBODE; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A RA-200 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGMENT (RENEWAL); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 201 PARCEL 061; 1600 BLOCK OF NEW HOPE ROAD; 1.05 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER SUP2018-00008 — APPLICANT: 3D PROJECT MANAGEMENT; OWNER: DAVE NOWAK/VICTORY AT HAMILTON MILL; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A RA-200 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A SCHOOL; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 139 PARCEL 004; 29003000 BLOCKS OF PUCKETTS MILL ROAD; INTERSTATE 85; 25.6 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD P&D PC/BOC 2-6 & 2-27 934-528872, 1/19 CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN (pursuant to O.C.G.A. §3666-4) that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth Planning Commission to consider amendments (TA#2018-001) to the following sections to the City of Duluth’s adopted Unified Development Code: Article 2. Use of Land and Structures Other sections of the Code may be amended as needed to ensure the fair and consistent enforcement of the regulations.

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the Planning Commission on the proposed amendments at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: February 5, 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the proposed amendments to the Unified Development Code, which are on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Bill Aiken 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: baiken@duluthga. net For more information, contact Bill Aiken, Planning & Development, at (770)4761790. ****************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

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934-528880, 1/19 CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN (pursuant to O.C.G.A. §3666-4) that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth City Council to consider amendments (TA#2018-001) to the following sections to the City of Duluth’s adopted Unified Development Code: Article 2. Use of Land and Structures Other sections of the Code may be amended as needed to ensure the fair and consistent enforcement of the regulations.

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the City Council on the proposed amendments at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: February 12, 2018–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 The Duluth City Council has the authority to revise and/or amend the language of the proposed application considerably and may do so as appropriate during the reading of the Ordinance.

PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the proposed amendments to the Unified Development Code, which are on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Bill Aiken 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: baiken@duluthga. net For more information, contact Bill Aiken, Planning & Development, at (770)4761790. ****************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

Please contact Teresa Lynn at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

934-528883, 1/19 CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN (pursuant to O.C.G.A. §3666-4) that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth City Council to consider a request from Ken Wood (on behalf of the property owner, Thomas E. Raines) to rezone approximately 10.19 acres of property in Land Lot 292, 6th District, Gwinnett County, consisting of tax parcel 6292 004, from R-100 (Single-Family Residential District) and HC-A (Highway Commercial-Auto District) to PUD (Planned Unit Development District). The proposed rezoning request is for an entitlement to construct seventy-nine (79) attached single-family townhomes and a commercial outparcel.

The public is invited to attend this meeting before the City Council on the proposed rezoning at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: February 12, 2018–7:00 p.m.

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Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Bill Aiken 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: baiken@duluthga. net For more information, contact Bill Aiken, Planning & Development, at (770)4761790. ****************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

Please contact Teresa Lynn at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

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Jan. 26 Ron White — The comedian, best known for his part in the “Blue Collar Comedy” tour, plays a pair of shows at 7:30 and 10 p.m. at the Infinite Energy Center. Tickets are $44.50.

For mature audiences only.

Feb. 9-11 North Atlanta Home Show — The home show and outdoor living expo takes place at Infinite Energy Center for three days.

General admission is $8.

For more information, go to www.atlantahomeshow.com Feb. 11 Suwanee Gateway Half Marathon — The fourth annual event starts and finishes at Suwanee’s City Hall. Cost is $60 and wil be $70 day of race. For more information, go to www. suwaneehalf.com.

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1. Carrie Underwood 2. Dolly Parton 3. Shania Twain 4. Patsy Cline 5. Martina McBride

6. Taylor Swift 7. Miranda Lambert 8. Reba McEntire 9. Faith Hill 10. Linda Ronstadt

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The La Terroir is one of the most popular versions of a galette served at The Galloping Galette in downtown Braselton. It includes mozzarella, sausage and creamy mushrooms on a folded galette. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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Owners: Yannick and Viviane Fronfrede Open Since: Oct. 16 Location: Next to Artistic Expressions Hair Salon inside the old Braselton Tile Factory, which is attached to the old Braselton Market and Braselton Brothers Department Store at the intersection of David Street and Ga. Highway 53. The restaurant’s patio overlooks Davis Street.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

Atmosphere: The restaurant is intended to be as similar as possible, given its space, to a creperie that a person might visit in the Brittany region of northwest France, which is near the Fronfrede’s hometown of Nantes.

First-time customers don’t have to worry about trying to figure out a French dish, the galette, that they may not have heard of before on their own. Viviane Fronfrede takes time to explain what it is for newcomers as soon as they are seated at their table.

“This is what you would find if you were to go into a French crepe restaurant,” Viviane Fronfrede said as she went through the presentation. “So you have the first course with the galette, hence The Galloping Galette, and then you would have the crepe which you have as a second course.”

The restaurant has the feel of a cafe with a small sign welcoming customers in from a hallway inside the old Braselton Tile Factory building.

There are three plush red booths along the back wall in the dining area, but much of the seating is at cozy twoperson tables that can be

La Terroir Galette: $10. Includes mozzarella, sausage and creamy mushrooms on a thick crepe-like pancake.

La Complete Galette: $9. Includes Swiss cheese, ham and an egg on a thick crepe-like pancake.

La Chocolat Crepe: $8. Includes butter, sugar, homemade Chantilly, chocolate syrup and almonds on a crepe.

Build Your Own Crepe: $4.50 for one ingredient, $7 for two ingredients, $9 for three ingredients and $10 for four ingredients. Ingredients options include apples, bananas, strawberries, homemade caramel, homemade Chantilly, chocolate syrup, Nutella, four fruit jams, almonds and maple syrup.

Val de France organic sparkling juice: $3 for eight ounces or $9 for 25.4 ounces. Flavors include apple, peach, pear, pomegranate, cranberry or raspberry.

moved together to accommodate larger groups. Each table has small ceramic coffee cups.

There are some photos hanging on the walls that are from Nantes. There is also a photo of the famous French landmark the Eiffel Tower in the restaurant as well.

Tiles that form elaborate designs also cover the upper portions of the counters in the restaurant.

Menu: The food served at The Galloping Galette is intended to be similar to what people eat in Brittany.

The main thing customers may notice is the prominence of galettes on the menu. A galette and its French culinary cousin, the crepe, have some similarities but also some differences.

Although both look like thin pancakes, they are made with different ingredients. A galette, for example, uses buckwheat instead of white flour.

As a result of that change, the galette has a heavier, more filling texture while the crepes are lighter.

“A crepe is more for desert,” Yannick Fronfrede said.

The menu mainly features different types of galettes and crepes.

Some popular versions of the galettes — which can be eaten for lunch or dinner — include La Terroir

and La Bretonne, the couple said. La Terroir includes mozzarella, sausage and creamy mushrooms on a folded galette. La Bretonne includes mozzarella, sausage and apples on a folded galette.

“It’s a competition between La Terroir and La Bretonne (for the title of ‘most popular’),” Yannick Fronfrede said.

There are other versions of the galettes though, including La Complete, which includes Swiss cheese, ham and eggs on a folded galette.

The restaurant also offers two other styles of galette as well as a “Build Your Own Galette” option where customers can add up to five ingredients.

The price range on the “Build Your Own Galette” option range from $4 for one ingredient to $13 for five ingredients. Ingredients include different types of cheeses, vegetables and meats.

On the crepe side of the menu, the restaurant also offers a “Build Your Own Crepe” option with different types of fruits and sweets available as ingredients.

Prices range from $4.50 for one ingredient to $10 for four ingredients.

There are some crepes on the menu that have a fixed set of ingredients, such as La Chocolat, which includes

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The Braselton-based French creperie, The Galloping Galette, has a cafe feel with nods to France, where co-owners Yannick and Viviane Fronfrede are from.

This example of one of The Galloping Galette’s ‘Build Your Own Crepe’ dishes includes almonds, sliced strawberries, chocolate sauce and a chocolate creme on a crepe.

butter, sugar, homemade Chantilly, chocolate syrup and almonds on a crepe.

There is also La Caramel, which has butter, sugar, vanilla ice cream, homemade caramel and almonds on a crepe.

Prices for crepes with fixed sets of ingredients range from $5 to $9. The cost of a galette with a fixed set of ingredients ranges from $9 to $10.

Customers also have the

option to drink coffee, tea or a sparking juice with their meal.

Viviane Fronfrede said a galette in France would typically go with either a hot cider or a glass of wine.

The restaurant is still going through the process of getting its alcohol licenses, however, so Fronfrede suggested the sparkling apple juice as the best option for a drink until the restaurant has its licenses.

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Miranda Lambert will perform at Gwinnett’s Infinite Energy Center on Saturday. (Special Photo)

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three “M’s.”

“Music and mutts,” she told Redbook magazine. “That’s Miranda Lambert, the two-time pretty much all I live for are those Grammy Award winner who will two things.” perform at Infinite Energy Center What about the third “M”? It on Saturday, has reorganized her used to stand for “men,” at least priorities, which she calls her when she was married to fellow

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country music star Blake Shelton.

But not anymore.

“The last one is Miranda,” she said.

Lambert, 34, will have the spotlight all to herself when she brings her “Livin’ Like Hippies” Tour to Gwinnett. Lambert

has emerged as one of country music’s biggest stars, as she’s won 13 Country Music Association awards and her most recent platinum-selling double album, “The Weight of These Wings,” won the Album of the year at last year’s Academy of Country

Music Awards.

Still, she doesn’t think her music — or that of any other female artist — is getting the respect it deserves when it come to radio air time.

“Carrie Underwood still struggles to get her songs played on the radio, and that just blows my mind because she’s got a million hits and she’s Carrie Freakin’ Underwood,” Lambert said. “I tell them at the radio stations, ‘Just play one of us; it doesn’t have to be me. Then we all win.’ I’ll fight for it until I can’t no more.”

Lambert will have no shortage of songs to choose from when she takes the stage. Her debut album, “Kerosene,” in 2005 went platinum in the U.S., as it included “Me and Charlie Talking,” “Bring Me Down,” “New Strings” and “Kerosene.”

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Singer and radio host Elizabeth Cook to play Red Clay Music Foundry

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Cook, who hosts her own show, “Apron Strings,” on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Elizabeth Cook will take Country, will sing about all the stage at the Red Clay she’s overcome, and more, Music Foundry a much at the Red Clay Foundry different — and muchin Duluth on Saturday to improved — singer than she support the latest of her six was when she released her albums, “Exodus of Venus,” last album in 2010. as part of the “Down South Cook is still the veteran Tour.” Darrin Bradbury will artist who has performed open the show. more than 400 times at the Cook’s life story mirrors Grand Ole Opry. But she’s a country music song. She had to overcome a divorce, began playing music with a house fire and death of her father after he returned loved ones, in addition to home from prison where he learning how to deal with played upright base while bi-polar disorder to get incarcerated. Cook had her where she is today. own band when she was 9

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and graduated from Georgia Southern University with degrees in accounting and computer information systems in 1996. But her passion was music, which is why she moved to Nashville to pursue her dream.

She released her first album in 2000, but it was her 2010 album, “Welder,” which was nominated for Album of the Year at the American Music Awards in 2011. The next year, she performed on the Late Show with David Letterman.

But the following years brought plenty of pain

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caused by the divorce from her husband, Tim Carroll, and the deaths of several family members, which led to her management cancelling her tour so she could

Elizabeth Cook, host of Sirius Radio’s “Apron Strings,” will play at the Red Clay Music Foundry on Saturday.

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Children’s entertainment duo McCutcheon, Deedy coming to Gwinnett

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Grammy-nominated folk musician John McCutcheon, above left, and New York Times bestselling author Carmen Deedy, above right, will hold a live musical performance and storytelling at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Peachtree Corners in collaboration with a Gwinnett County Public Library program, North Georgia Reads. (Special Photos)

A nationally known children’s entertainment duo is coming to Gwinnett County.

On Saturday, folk musician John McCutcheon and his wife, Carmen Deedy, will hold a storytelling and live performance event at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Peachtree Corners as part of a Gwinnett County Public Library program, North Georgia Reads.

The program, a collaborative partnership between 46 north Georgia

What: Storytelling and live music event with folk musician John McCutcheon and his wife, Carmen Deedy Where: Christ the King Lutheran Church, 5575 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners When: 4 p.m. Saturday Cost: Free; no registration required

library systems, brings best-selling authors to the community in an effort to increase library participation and interest.

Saturday’s event is open to the public and free to

attend.

Books and CDs will be available for purchase and signing by Deedy and McCutcheon, who have performed together across the nation for years.

Deedy, a New York Times bestselling children’s author of nine books, has been writing for more than two decades, while her husband, a Grammy-nominated artist most well known for his children’s music, has produced 34 albums over the years.

The event will begin at 4 p.m. at the church, which is located at 5575 Peachtree Parkway.

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Live Arts Theatre’s upcoming production of “Beauty and the Beast” will present a family friendly, heart-warming adaptation of a familiar fairy tale classic.

It will also showcase the talents of individuals in the theater’s Intensive Program.

The Intensive Program, now in its second year, trains participants for a career in professional theater, from acting to directing to stage crafts of all kinds.

Actors learn about directing, aspiring directors learn about acting, and stage crews might do a little bit of everything.

“Beauty and the Beast’s” multi-talented cast and crew will be onstage Jan. 19 through Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays and at 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

The play will be offered in the Belfry Playhouse, downstairs at Norcross Presbyterian Church located at 3324 Medlock Bridge Road.

Tickets are $12 to $25 with an option for ticketholders to purchase dinner prior to the show. Dinner consists of pizza and drinks.

To purchase tickets, visit www.liveartstheatre.org, email boxoffice@liveartstheatre.org, or call 603-8672200.

“This version of the fairy tale is an adaptation based on the Perrault telling of the story,” Live Arts Theatre Artistic Director Becca Parker

their father, Troy.

“This is such a great script,” Parker said. “It’s the story, plain and simple, told in the way the original fairy tale was presented. The fact that the show is 90 minutes makes it a perfect first introduction to theater for families with children.”

Right after “Beauty” closes, members of the DiHolley Calmes recting Intensive Program have another rewarding said. “A handsome, but conceited and selfish prince theatrical experience on tap: The August Wilson Century is transformed by a wise Project on Feb. 8 and 9. The spirit. He is condemned to directing participants along live as a beast until he can learn to love and be loved in with Parker and LAT Board Member Andrea Hermitt return.” will present readings of Said director Bethany nine of the 10 Century Bing: “Beauty is the eldest Plays by Wilson. Each readof Poppa’s five children ing features a “talk back” and instinctively extends after the show pertaining to her nurturing hands out to black history. everyone she meets. Her “I’m looking forward sweet, good-natured spirit to being a part of this leads by example, never powerful, demanding, and harsh with discipline, but she does not hesitate to call rewarding project,” director D. Norris said. out rudeness or cruelty in Applications for the others. It is this quality that 2018-19 Live Arts Intensive has a transformative effect Program are being accepted on the Beast.” until Jan. 26.

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Margot Robbie plays Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya.” (Photos: Neon)

“Normally when taking this ‘everything plus the kitchen sink’ approach, you end up with total drek, yet the final product here is an instant, albeit darkly twisted masterpiece.”

Left, from left to right, Sebastian Stan plays Jeff Gillooly and Margot Robbie plays Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya.”

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BY MICHAEL CLARK this “everything plus the Movie Critic kitchen sink” approach, you end up with total drek, yet There have been few the final product here is an events which took place in instant, albeit darkly twisted the sporting world in the masterpiece. modern age that have reOpening with Jeff, ceived more notice than the Tonya, her coach Diane 1994 attack on figure skater Rawlinson (Julianne Nancy Kerrigan. Almost Nicholson), “Hard Copy” immediately, fellow skater producer Martin Maddox Tonya Harding (Margot (Bobby Cannavale) and Robbie) and Harding’s hus- Tonya’s mother LaVona band Jeff Gillooly (Sebas(Allison Janney) speaking tian Stan) became the prime directly to the audience, suspects and in less time the movie grabs you by the than the click of a mouse throat and never lets go. the world was engulfed in This movie doesn’t want a tabloid scandal which you to embrace or love it; dominated the news cycle it wants you to revel in it, for months. be angry with it, scream at Rather than treat the it and laugh at — but never story as tragedy, comedy, with it. It doesn’t want docudrama or a full-blown to you think of Tonya as biography of Harding, either a villain or a victim screenwriter Steven Rogers but rather a product of her

squalor-riddled upbringing and trying to succeed in a sport only occupied by upper-crust princesses.

Tonya had immense talent but was always dragged down by her rough and unseemly edges, her trailer park mouth, her love of heavy metal, her handmade polyester and rhinestone costumes, make-up as applied by a spackle and midnight blue nail polish.

She was shorter and thicker than most within her sport and — let’s be completely honest here — she’s not exactly classically beautiful.

Even those who have heaped praise upon the film and Robbie’s performance have pointed out that Robbie is far too gorgeous (and tall and old) to play Tonya.

While all of this is complaining is understandable, Robbie does everything she can to — not imitate — but rather embody Tonya; to go Plain Jane and within 15 minutes she makes us

completely forget we’re not looking at the genuine article.

The second and final time the principals address the camera is with their dry yet detailed description of the famed triple axel jump. In 1991, Tonya was the first American woman to do this in competition and it became her instant, go-to trump card. The skating hierarchy could say whatever they wanted but Tonya finally made history. She was, if just for a moment, the finest figure skater in the world.

Then the bottom fell out.

To their immense credit, the filmmakers take as long as possible before getting around to “The Incident.”

The narrative shifts to the politics of figure skating and the full-fledged introduction of Shawn Eckhardt (played by his doppelganger Paul Walter Houser), a friend of Gillooly’s who thought himself to be some kind of International Man

of Intrigue. Eckhardt was in fact a slovenly blowhard who hadn’t a clue as to what he was doing but did it well enough to persuade Gillooly into agreeing to “bracing” Kerrigan.

Long before the actual event, Tonya and Gillooly are presented as pure white trash with him beating — and shooting her — and her taking him back multiple times before enough became enough. Even during these harrowing and cringeinducing scenes — some of which may or may not have ever happened — the black humor is always lurking on the margins.

From this point until the conclusion, Gillespie goes full-tilt gonzo “GoodFellas” Scorsese and it is gut-punching. The crack editing, the cheesy pop song accompaniment, the thunderously dumb mistakes by below-amateurish criminals and the blur of reconstructed recollections is beyond priceless and — in

a disheartening way — tremendously heart-crushing.

“I, Tonya” is not a movie to be celebrated but one to be observed, appreciated and absorbed, hopefully while laughing and doing some major soul searching.

Is it better to be unknown and completely bereft of attention or scandal-ridden, forever famous (or infamous) and soaked to the bone in ruin?

At this week’s Golden Globe Awards, Janney won the Supporting Actress Award and pointed out that Harding was in the audience. Harding beamed and played the good sport. The next day, Harding cut an interview short because a press member wished to ask her about her participation in “The Incident.” Once again, Harding went from being in good graces to someone still not getting it and made us feel mad and, sadly, sad for her all over again.

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‘Forever My Girl’ is innocuous, safe, shallow winter B-product Forever My Girl (PG) ★★★★

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With all of the 2017 Oscar bait titles finishing their platform releases, it’s time for Hollywood to start churning out their Winter B-product to fill in the gap before the start of summer — which, if you didn’t know, actually starts in winter (“Red Sparrow” on March 2).

“Forever My Girl” is everything we’ve come to expect from the new year deep freeze season. It’s a low-budget, innocuous, safe as milk affair and stars a bunch of people most folks won’t be able to readily identify by name —

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the lone exception being Marietta native Travis Tritt in a fleeting cameo. Save for some way off-screen premarital sex, the closest this “PG” rated yawner gets to dangerous is a lead male character (Alex Roe as Liam) with a drinking problem and someone maybe choking on a hot dog. This movie could play on the Hallmark Channel without a single edit or omission.

In real life, Roe is veddy British yet, like most of his countrymen past and present, he totally nails the southern accent thing.

Adorned in a series of blue T-shirts, baseball caps, perfect three day stubble and baby blue peepers, Liam is the prototypical modern country singer and, if it is Roe who is actually singing, he’s got a solid fall-back career option.

It’s hard to grade Roe’s skills as an actor because the dialogue he’s fed by writer/director Bethany Ashton Wolfe (adapting the book of the same name

by Heidi McLaughlin) is pathetically pedestrian and Petri-dish deep. It doesn’t help that Liam (by design) is forced to deliver half of his lines while completely hammered, mumbling or in tear-drenched heaps. One thing is certain — many women gazing at Roe’s frequently bared chest and ripped abs are going to lose their minds and won’t care at all what he’s saying.

Faring slightly better, solely because her character is slightly better written, is Jessica Rothe (imagine Blake Lively without the attitude) as Josie, the girl Liam left standing at the altar eight years earlier.

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Lambert, whose “Livin’ Like Hippies” Tour will stop in 23 three hit singles — “Famous cities nationwide, she told in a Small Town,” “GunpowRare Country. “That’s sort of der & Lead” and “More Like how I heard him. I had never Her.” Her next three albums met him, really. Now, we’ve — “Revolution,” “Four the Re- met and talked. He’s such a cord” and “Platinum” featured sweet guy. He’s just doing his an array of hits, including thing. He seems really fun. I “The House That Built Me,” think it’s going to be a great “Heart Like Mine,” “Bagtour.” gage Claim,” “Fastest Girl in Pardi is excited for the opTown,” “Over You,” “All Kinds portunity to open for one of of Kinds,” “Automatic” and the industry’s biggest super“Vice.” stars.

“Livin’ Like Hippies’ takes “Miranda is awesome and a its name from lyrics in her great songwriter,” he told Rare song “Highway Vagabond,” Country. “She knows exactly which is off “The Weight of who she is and she knows These Wings.” Brent Cobb exactly what she wants to do. and Jon Pardi, the latter of She doesn’t take any shit from whom she became a fan of nobody. She’s a true Texan. while listening to his music on As an artist who knows who radio, will open for Lambert in I am, I totally respect her and Gwinnett. all she does, from the singles “When I lived in Oklahoma, she releases to the songs she they played him all the time writes I love Miranda. She is a on our Red Dirt stations,” said genuine, great artist.”

her turn as a self-centered jagged pill in “Happy Death Day,” Rothe embraces the plucky southern girl-nextdoor archetype without turning it all into a grating stereotype and as Josie, she makes Liam really work for it when he shows up out of the blue trying to win back her heart.

Even though Josie plays somewhat hard to get, there’s going to be a large number of women that will think she’s still being far too easy on Liam — an argument with significant merit considering a wrinkle in the third act which will make some roll their eyes and others to scream and bellow at the screen. As this is an (eventual) upbeat romance, everything that takes place prior to the last 15 minutes is essentially by-the-numbers filler. This is not a movie that is going

enter rehab.

But Cook, who was named Outlaw Female in the 2014 Ameripolitan Music Awards, was adamant she wasn’t addicted to drugs or was suffering from an eating disorder, even as her weight plummeted.

“I wasn’t addicted to anything.

I knew I didn’t have an eating disorder. I was just skinny from being stressed out,” the 45-year-old told Rolling Stone Country. “But people in positions of power in my life didn’t believe me. There was really nothing else for me to do. I was tired and I knew that there would be some facets of help from a rehab experience that I could probably take, so I should probably just have an open mind and go in there and do it.”

Cook was diagnosed with “a personality disorder that’s pre-bipolar and a precursor to manic depression. It’s about finding the right medication, which is a dragon’s tail

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Also looking fantastic amidst the overwhelming mediocrity of the story is the state of Georgia, which stands in for the fictional St. Augustine, La. While exact locations were not made available to the press prior to deadline, anyone with a passing working knowledge of the state’s geography and landmarks could safely guess filming took place in Savannah, Macon, Roswell, Marietta, Valdosta and Hiram (the location of the Travis Tritt Highway).

As good as “Forever Your Girl” might look, it’s only surface deep. Apart from Forston and the gorgeous scenery, there’s no reason whatsoever to rush out and see it now. Stay in, stay warm and wait for the home video release which will likely be available before the last spring frost.

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to take anything resembling genuine narrative risk.

Amongst all of the pabulum and water-treading, dramatic inertia and connect-the-dots storytelling is nine-year-old Abby Ryder Forston as Billy, Josie’s seven-year-old (hmmm) daughter. Cuter than the law should allow — and the most talented performer in the film — Forston steals in grand theft form every scene in which she appears.

Charming, precocious and totally at ease with dialogue that could cause other juveniles to freeze up, go fulltilt blathering or over-thetop, Forston never breaks a sweat and easily works her way deep into our hearts.

She is the film’s sole saving grace and all casting directors in the industry need to consider her for every future late toddler or early preteen female role.

Elizabeth Cook is touring in support of her latest album called “Exodus of Venus.” (Special Photo)

you’re always chasing. It ebbs and flows. I’m sort of coming to accept that and understand that and go on that journey, and try to — within that — pick up pieces of life.”

“Exodus of Venus” includes 11 songs, including the title track, as well as “Methodone Blues,” “Dying” “Straightjacket Love”and “Tabitha Tuder’s Mama,” which is about a 13-year-old girl who disappeared one day while walking to her school bus stop in Nashville.

She’s expected to play most of the album, in addition to several of her previous hits, including “Yes to Booty,” “El Camino,” “Magnolia” and “Hear Jerusalem Calling.”

“Everything’s different, everything’s new,” Cook, who was nominated as DJ of the Year in the 2015 and 2016 Ameripolitan Music Awards, told Rolling Stone Country. “How can the record not be different? I’m on a different planet than I was six years ago.”

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Pass: The cast was one of the best aspects of this film, with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks playing the lead characters. The set design and costumes were impeccable and did their job of conveying the fact that the movie took place quite a few decades ago.

Fail: The storyline was a bit difficult to follow. The audience understood the overall plot, but there were a lot of the details could have been better communicated throughout the film.

Meryl Streep made this film.

She was a breath of fresh air in what would have been a fairly bland movie without her. She played Kay Graham, who was a slightly flustered, strong-willed woman who fights to keep her newspaper alive.

I think anyone who appreciates a historical drama will enjoy this movie. This movie is low in the action/ suspense department but has a fair amount of drama in it. I also think audience members who lived through and remember the Vietnam War might especially be interested in this film.

This movie does not need to be seen in theaters to be appreciated.

However, I doubt anyone would regret seeing it in theaters because it is such a quality film and cast.

I thought the plot was a bit hard to follow. It was not a nail-biter due to the lack of suspense. However, Steven Spielberg did not disappoint with his directing or cinematography. And again, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks were a powerful duo who brought this film to life. This movie conveys an important message and leaves the viewer feeling content and satisfied.

Pass: Historically accurate and as real as it gets, the all-star cast does an excellent job of portraying its characters. They often made me feel as if I was watching the events as they actually occurred in 1971. All of the acting in practically every role was completely believable.

Fail: It is very difficult to say that anything could have been better. The one minor drawback was the limited use of veterans Sarah Paulson and Bruce Greenwood, who could have made more of a contribution if their roles were expanded.

Outstanding performances, as usual, by Tom Hanks as executive editor Ben Bradlee, and Meryl Streep as Kay Graham, the publisher and owner of the Washington Post. Streep once again fits so well into her role that it seems as if it was written just for her. It was a real pleasure watching them both work.

Any fan of similar films that portray historically accurate, real-life events, and may have actually lived through them themselves, will love this film. If you enjoy watching stories revealing the political and personal turmoil of the early ’70s, similar to “All the Presidents’ Men”, or dramas such as “Spotlight”, then you will love this movie.

If this is your type of movie, by all means go and see it now. This is the type of movie that you will want to see more than once, and maybe even own it on DVD when it’s available.

An excellent presentation of the events that occurred in 1971 involving the Pentagon Papers, the national attitude toward the Vietnam War and the growing distrust of the government. A prequel to the Watergate conspiracy and the contentious relationship between the White House and the journalists who wanted the truth to be told. Another fine example of Steven Spielberg’s work.

Pass: Excellent casting; taut and well-paced direction by Steven Spielberg; authentic dialogue and props; excellent acting all around.

Fail: The first 15 minutes of the film are used to the set up the story line in Vietnam in 1971, so the actual account of the face-off behind the leaking of the Pentagon Papers doesn’t start until then. It’s a minor distraction mostly included for those too young to have lived through these historical times. Otherwise, “The Post” is a tense and though-provoking film that raises issues that are still very relevant to our present times.

Meryl Streep, as usual, turns in an excellent performance as Katherine “Kay” Graham, owner of The Washington Post. Her portrayal is one of a woman playing hardball in a man’s world, struggling to balance the financial needs of her family business with the Constitutional rights of a free press. She’s a Washington insider with links to several of the key players in this drama, and is also fighting to separate herself from the legacy of her deceased husband who once ran the paper. Tom Hanks is dependable as always as Ben Bradlee, the “pirate” editor of The Post who doggedly pursues the story revealing that the American people have been lied to about the Vietnam War for over 20 years by their own government. Lending some fine supporting work is Bruce Greenwood as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a key figure in the cover-up and a person friend of Graham’s.

Historical drama fans will really enjoy “The Post,” particularly those who get into investigative journalism stories such as 1976’s “All The President’s Men,” which detailed the follow-up conspiracy behind the Watergate scandal. Fans of Steven Spielberg will also appreciate the good pacing and camera work that are his hallmarks, especially in the scenes where the Supreme Court must rule on whether The Post (and other newspapers) are guilty of treason for divulging the leaked reports.

“The Post” is a must-see film for anyone who appreciates great drama flicks that feature moral dilemmas and nailbiting finishes.

This will be an Oscar contender for sure.

“The Post” features two of the finest actors of our time who are both allowed to develop their characters independently.

Streep’s Kay Graham must come out from the shadow of her dead husband’s legacy, facing the dual challenges of taking the newspaper public at the same time the story leaks, which threatens the very existence of her business and her reputation. Hanks brings a swagger to the character of Ben Bradlee that on one hand seems reckless, yet you can tell that he deeply cares for his boss, his paper and his country. In light of contemporary real-life events such as those portrayed “Snowden,” “The Post” draws the viewer into the entire debate about a government’s right to secrecy versus the peoples’ right to be informed — and does a dandy job on all counts.

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COMING SOON TO OWN • “Geostorm” (Jan. 23): The scientist (Gerard Butler) who developed a weathercontrolling satellite system tries to correct its errors that are threatening the world.

(PG-13) • “Goodbye Christopher Robin” (Jan. 23): Domhnall Gleeson plays “Winnie-thePooh” creator A.A. Milne, whose son (Will Tilston) was the real Christopher Robin.

(PG) • “Jigsaw” (Jan. 23): Gruesome death traps abound again in the eighth chapter of the “Saw” horror franchise; cast member Tobin Bell returns. (R) • “Thank You For Your Service” (Jan. 23): Several veterans of the Iraq War try to assimilate back into their daily lives; stars include Miles Teller and Amy Schumer. (R) • “Ray Donovan: The Fifth Season” (Jan. 30): A round of the Showtime series that features Susan Sarandon in a major guest role also sets up the Liev Schreiber-starring drama’s forthcoming sixth year. (Not rated) • “The Deuce: The Complete First Season” (Feb.

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13): James Franco plays dual roles in the HBO drama series about the birth of the pornography business in early-1970s New York. (Not rated) • “Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A

Madea Halloween” (Jan. 30): Perry’s ever-sassy alter ego and others enter a haunted campground to retrieve a young partygoer. (PG-13)

One of just a few sequels (“The Godfather II,” “Terminator 2”) which equaled if not exceeded the quality of the originals, the 164-minute “Blade Runner 2049” goes by in a relative flash thanks to a water-tight screenplay by returning writer Hampton Fancher and Michael Green (“Logan”), and the laser-focused attention of director of Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”). Ryan Gosling plays LAPD detective K who stumbles upon the decades-old murder of a early model replicant which leads to him tracking down the long-inhiding Decker (Harrison Ford) for possible assistance. The real star here is legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, a 13-time Oscar nominee still Special features include: in search of his first Academy Award.

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NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters.

Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• Molly’s Game (R) — 3 stars Based on the true story of Poker Princess Molly Bloom, “Molly’s Game” tells the story of how she came to run exclusive high-stakes poker games for a decade before being arrested by the FBI. Jessica Chastain takes center stage as Molly Bloom, and Idris Elba shines as Charlie Jaffey, her attorney. Aaron Sorkin directs, so expect a lot of witty banter.

While it may run long at 140 minutes, “Molly’s Game” delivers a solid hand. — Kristen Hansen

• Pitch Perfect 3 (PG-13) — 2 stars The last in the trilogy following the singing a cappella group the Barden Bellas, “Pitch Perfect 3” is a sequel that I can’t imagine a lot of people were clamoring for. Does it hit all the right notes? No. Is it still entertaining to watch? Yes. And it is entertaining enough that I think most will enjoy it.— KH • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (PG-13) — 3 stars This Dwayne Johnson-led sequel/reboot of the Robin Williams classic is better than expected. Instead of a supernatural board game, the young heroes are trapped in a video game jungle as the characters

they selected, to disconcerting results. Also starring Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan, it’s part “The Goonies,” part “Tron” and part “The Breakfast Club” — and all escapist fun. — Khari J. Sampson • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (PG-13) — 2 1/2 stars Episode VIII of the Disneyrevived space fantasy picks up where 2015’s “The Force Awakened” left off, with the Resistance on the run from the evil First Order while new heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) seeks training in the Force from Jedi master Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). It’s a different sort of Star Wars movie, one that refuses to answer fans’ questions

and subverts their expectations. You’ll either love it wildly or be wildly disappointed.— KS • Coco (PG) — 4 stars Disney/Pixar brings the Land of the Dead to life with this story surrounding Miguel, an aspiring musician, and his family on Dia de los Muertos. Set in Mexico, Miguel accidentally is transported to the Land of the Dead where he must get his family’s blessing to play music to return to the living world. Filled with beautiful animation, an authentic score and funny, clever jokes, “Coco” will entertain all generations and hopefully start a conversation about family and heritage. — Alex Tostado

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‘Den of Thieves’ entertaining but not a great film Den of Thieves (R) ★★★★

Enemies,” “Set It Off” and even “Swordfish.”

Some are great, some are good but none of them is by any means bad, which brings us to “Den of

BY JON GALLO Thieves.” Christian GudeStaff Correspondent gast’s directorial debut stars Gerard Butler (“300,” “GeIf there’s one genre Hol- ostorm”) as a dirty cop and lywood never screws up, it’s Pablo Schreiber (“American bank robberies.

Gods,” “Orange Is the New Go ahead, take your Black”) as a just as dirty pick: “Point Break,” “Dead bank robber.

Presidents,” “Now You See Their target is essentially Me,” “The Town,” “Inthe same: the bank of banks, side Job,” “Heat,” “Public the U.S. Federal Reserve

in downtown Los Angeles.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, which holds billions of dollars, makes for an intriguing target since it is about as heavily guarded as the White House.

But the line between cops and criminals is blurry, at best. Butler stars as Nick Flanagan from the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Office, who is just as good at breaking the law as Merrimen (Schreiber), whose gang includes Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr.

(“Straight Outta Compton”) and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.

It’s easy to compare “Den Of Thieves” to the 1995 hit “Heat,” which took home more than $187 million at the worldwide box office, because the plots are very similar. But it’s also unfair because “Heat” starred Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Natalie Portman.

“Den of Thieves,” however, is entertaining,

which is a credit to Gudegast. He wrote 2003’s “A Man Apart,” which starred Vin Diesel, but his biggest film was 2016’s “London Has Fallen,” which starred Butler and took home more than $205 million worldwide.

Now, Gudegast and Butler team up again and the result is a good but not a great film that makes the most of its cast that lacks star power outside of Butler.

But once bullets start flying and bodies start dropping,

it’s exactly the type of movie you would expect.

And that’s exactly the problem. “Den of Thieves” picked a bad weekend to open. For moviegoers looking for an action film, “12 Strong,” starring Chris Hemsworth who leads a U.S. Miliary contingent in Afghanistan to take down the Taliban in the days after the 9/11 attacks, is better, as is “Hostiles,” a western featuring Academy Award winner Christian Bale.

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‘12 Strong’ a 9/11 film more likely to fatigue than inspire 12 Strong (R) ★★★★

want to pay money to get depressed while being reminded of the most horrific event many of us will ever experience.

With that out of the way,

BY MICHAEL CLARK “12 Strong” doesn’t rehash Movie Critic the same story yet again (although it opens with footIn the nearly 17 years age of the collapse of the since the terrorist attacks of Twin Towers), likely won’t Sept. 11, 2001, there have depress you and might been over 50 feature films actually provide you with a dedicated to those events tad of uplift and a modicum and the two ongoing wars of national pride. It helps started in their wake and ex- a great deal that this story actly two of them (“United is populated with (mostly) 93” and “The Hurt Locker”) non-fictional American were any good. “The Hurt soldiers who overcame Locker” is also the all-time overwhelming odds while worst performing Best Pictaking out thousands of ture Oscar winner at the box militant Islamic terrorists office bringing in a paltry while not being portrayed as $17M domestic, which is blood-thirsty warmongers or still more than many of most jarhead zealots. of these other well-intended Even with all of the posibut misguided flops. tive vibe stuff going on, “12 You would think that Strong” never rises above after four dozen clunkers generic war flick territory with a bare minimum of and coupled with a 130 critical acclaim and awards, minute running time (which the powers that be in the feels more like 160), you’re movie business would have likely to leave the theater detected a pattern by now feeling more fatigued than but apparently not. No one inspired. This is a relawith purse-string control has tively lean and simple story yet figured out that Ameridragged down by fat, padcan audiences simply do not ding and a little too much

other.

With a resume that consists of a single documentary short (“Exfil” — aka “Return of the Exiled”), the Danish-born Nicholai Nuglsig was given the director’s chair by co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer based largely on Nuglsig’s experience as a war photographer covering the Kosovo War. A longtime Hollywood power player with a slew of blockbuster action flicks (the “Bad Boys” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchises among many others) to his credit, Bruckheimer also shepherded Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down” to both minor commercial success and considerable critical acclaim and that’s probably why he’s been leading the charge on “12 Strong” since 2011 when he optioned the book “Horse Soldiers” by Doug Stanton. It is perhaps the miserable track record of “post 9/11” films that resulted in Bruckheimer having to pitch this film to three major studios before he got a green light.

Given what takes place in the movie and the feel-good yet generic fuzziness of

Chris Hemsworth, left, is Captain Mitch Nelson and Jack Kesy is Charles Jones in “12 Strong.” (Photo: David James)

unchecked testosterone.

Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”) stars as Captain Mitch Nelson, a man who had never served “in country” yet was eminently confident he could lead a covert operation deep inside enemy territory in Afghanistan mere weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. Although Nelson’s superiors were leery, they gave him the gig based mostly on the recommendation of Warrant Office Cal Spencer (the largely underused Michael Shannon) who soon becomes Nelson’s de facto second-in-

command.

Nelson is quite confident he can finish a proposed 90-day mission in a third of the time all while playing mind games with General Abdul Rashid Dostum (Navid Negahban), an Uzbek native and former Communist known for flipping sides (note: Dostum is currently the vice-president of Afghanistan). Some of the best scenes in the film are between Nelson and Dostum as they size each other up, exchange menacing glares and grudgingly come to respect, if not admire each

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If you are a war-flick junkie, a Hemsworth or Shannon fan or would like to see how New Mexico doubles for Afghanistan, “12 Strong” might be worth your time and the pricey investment of a first-run ticket but for everyone else, you can wait for the streaming and home video options which will likely drop sometime around Easter. Whatever your choice try to avoid watching the trailer or looking up the real story online — each will spoil if not completely ruin your possible viewing experience.

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