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Officials: Northside-GMC merger near approval

BY ANDY MILLER

Georgia Health News

After years of delay, the merger between Northside Hospital and Gwinnett Health System may be close to becoming reality.

Health care industry officials say the deal is close to approval by the Federal Trade Commission. That approval may come within

a month or even sooner, say the officials, who are not associated with Northside or Gwinnett and who spoke to GHN on condition of anonymity.

Both Northside and Gwinnett spokespeople said Tuesday that they were not aware of any FTC decision. The federal agency was affected by the recent partial shutdown of

government operations.

The mega-deal of nonprofits Northside and Gwinnett was once forecast to close in 2016.

Northside operates hospitals in Canton and Cumming as well as its flagship hospital in Sandy Springs, which it says delivers more babies than any other U.S. hospital. It’s also among the state’s top providers of

surgical services.

The deal would create a mega-system across the northern suburbs of Atlanta into populous Gwinnett County.

The potential deal was originally announced in 2015, with a projected completion date of early the following year.

The state attorney general’s office approved the

proposed deal in mid-November 2017. Afterward, Northside said the combined system could start running in early 2018.

The overall length of time that the NorthsideGwinnett merger has taken — since 2015 — has baffled experts.

“One has to wonder how the feds can approve a $70 billion CVS-Aetna deal

yet delay the NorthsideGwinnett transaction,’’ said Chris Kane, a consultant with Progressive Healthcare.

Gwinnett Medical Center, whose parent company is Gwinnett Health System, operates hospitals in Lawrenceville and Duluth.

If the Northside deal is

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Man killed in shooting at Days Inn

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

A 28-year-old Snellville man was killed in a shooting at the Days Inn along Glenn Club Drive near Stone Mountain early Tuesday morning.

Just after midnight, several guests at the hotel called 911 to report shots fired, police said.

There, responding officers found Ronald Horton Jr. dead in a second-floor hotel room. Marijuana and cash were located at the scene.

“Detectives believe three suspects forced entry into the room, fired shots and fled the scene on foot,” said Cpl. Michele Pihera, spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.

“Our detectives are working with not only the hotel staff but also the guests to see if we can identify exactly who these See SHOOTING, Page 7A

Police investigate a deadly shooting at a Days Inn along Glenn Club Drive early Tuesday. (Photo: FOX 5 Atlanta)

Derrick Avery, left, a football coach at Booker T. Washington in Atlanta, and Jason Carrera, the football coach at Meadowcreek High School, were surprised with tickets to the Super Bowl during Opening Night on Monday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. (Staff Photos: Jason Braverman)

A Mustang moment

Meadowcreek team, coach get parts in Super Bowl

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DULUTH STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS

Mayor pokes fun at ‘rumors’ during address

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Duluth Mayor Nancy Harris doled out some project updates for residents while simultaneously shooting down some “rumors” about the MORE ONLINE city — and Visit gwinnettdailypost.com confirming for a photo gallery. others — during her State of the City address at Eddie Owen Presents on Monday.

Residents were handed “thumbs up/ thumbs down” paddles as they arrived at the event. The annual address had a See DULUTH, Page 6A

Duluth Mayor Nancy Harris delivers her annual State of the City Address at Eddie Owen Presents on Monday. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

The experience of a lifetime for the Meadowcreek football program got even better for head coach Jason Carrera at Monday’s Super Bowl LIII Opening Night.

Thanks to the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons, Carrera was one of four high school and youth coaches presented with two tickets to Sunday’s big game during media night festivities for the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots.

“It’s really a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” Carrera said. “It’s a big deal. Even though it’s in your town, not many people get the opportunity to go.”

Carrera was surprised with the tickets Monday night, when he was a special guest of the Falcons at the event, hosted at State Farm Arena.

Even when he was called on stage to be recognized with the other coaches, the 52-year-old had no idea it involved game tickets.

“I was really just amazed,” Carrera said.

Meadowcreek already was selected a few weeks ago for a unique opportunity that takes place Friday. The Mustang players are the centerpiece of CBS’ broadcast run-through at MercedesBenz Stadium.

Who: Los Angeles Rams vs. New England Patriots What: Super Bowl LIII When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday Where: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta TV: CBS

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football team participating in Friday’s CBS event, a reward for the work Carrera, his coaches and players have put in during his tenure. The Jason Carrera, second from left, and other winners show off tick- Mustangs, who struggled for ets they were awarded Monday to Sunday’s Super Bowl in Atlanta. decades with winless and one-win seasons as the norm, They will simulate Rams cons have told us how neat have garnered attention for and Patriots players through and how big of a deal it is to rapid improvement under pre-game festivities, and get that opportunity and to Carrera, who is 17-24 in four then run certain plays to prep get in (the decorated stadium) seasons at the school. the CBS staff for Sunday’s before anybody else. They’ll They are 13-8 the past two showcase. do player introductions, coin seasons with back-to-back “The NFL is providing toss. They simulate everywinning seasons, including a charter bus, we get down thing. They’ll have us run a 2017 season that featured there at 11:30 (a.m.) or so certain plays so we can simu- the program’s first win(Friday), and we’ll be there late both teams. Hopefully, ning record since 1989 and until almost until 5,” Carrera it will be something they’ll its first playoff appearance said. “They feed the kids; it’s remember for the rest of their since 1988. The Falcons have a really big deal. Everyone lives.”

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Budweiser’s Clydesdales to make appearances in Gwinnett this week FROM STAFF REPORTS The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdale horses are coming to the Atlanta area for the Super Bowl, and they’ll be in Gwinnett this week A team will make a hitch appearance at the Sugar Hill Kroger, located at 6001 Cumming Highway NE, at 3 p.m. Wednesday. A team of Clydesdales made an appearance at the same Kroger store last January, drawing a large crowd which watched as the team pulled the iconic Budweiser wagon around the parking lot.

This year’s appearance coincides with Super Bowl LIII. The famous horses will make several appearances in the metro area — with some stops including the entire hitch team

The Budweiser Clydesdales make their way around the Sugar Hill Kroger as part of a previous promotion.

(Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

and some featuring a single horse.

According to the Budweiser website and Gateway85 Community Improvement District Executive Director Marsha Anderson Bomar,

there will be a single horse appearance at the QuikTrip located at the corner of Brook Hollow Parkway and Jimmy Carter Boulevard in Norcross from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday.

Cities to hold alcohol votes March 19

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Lawrenceville and

Snellville officials have announced plans to have residents in their cities vote on whether to allow brunch-time alcoholic

beverage sales.

Both cities will hold referendums on March 19 to decide whether alcohol sales should be allowed at restaurants in their respective municipal limits during brunch time, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Sundays. State legislators passed legislation last year to let voters in local communities decide whether restaurant alcohol sales should be allowed earlier on Sundays.

Officials are warning voters that while the brunch referendums will be held on the same day as Gwinnett County’s MARTA referendum, voters will not be able to cast ballots on each issue at the same location. Ballots cast

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GTC receives $100K donation

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Gwinnett Technical College recently received a $100,000 gift from a Norcross-based heating and air company to expand the college’s career center and create the Mingledorff’s HVAC Scholarship Endowment.

“It is important to Mingledorff’s that we support Gwinnett Technical College because they educate our future employees on the latest heating and air industry equipment,” said David Kesterton, Mingledorff’s president. “Gwinnett Tech is vital to our regional employers and we are proud to support their programs, faculty and students.”

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 15 percent job growth for heating, air conditioning, refrigeration technicians between 2015 and 2025, which makes the impact of the donation even greater, said Gwinnett Tech President D. Glen Cannon.

“Mingledorff’s is a welcome partner to Gwinnett Tech,” Cannon said.

“Because of Mingledorff’s

and their commitment to education, we are able to reach and support more students on their journey toward careers in Georgia’s most in-demand fields.”

Graduates of Gwinnett Tech’s HVAC program have obtained jobs in equipment installation, as service and commercial maintenance technicians and as field service representatives, to name a few.

Launch Pointe, Gwinnett Tech’s Center for Career Experience, meanwhile, is “laser-focused” on providing work-based learning and career development, a news release said.

Working with both large and small local, regional and global business employers, Launch Pointe provides students opportunities to participate in internships, apprenticeships and entrepreneurship experiences designed to augment classroom activity and foster educational, occupational and personal growth.

For more information about Gwinnett Tech’s Launch Pointe, Center for Career Experience and the college’s HVAC program, visit gwinnetttech.edu.

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Voters who also want to cast ballots in Lawrenceville’s brunch alcohol sales referendum must go to Lawrenceville City Hall, which is located at 70 S. Clayton St. in Lawrenceville. Early voting will begin Feb. 25.

Meanwhile, voters who want to cast ballots in the alcohol referendum in Snellville — which is also holding a City Council special election on March 19 — must go to Snellville City Hall, which is located at 2342 Oak Road in Snellville. The city announced residents must be registered to vote by Feb. 19 to cast ballots in the special election.

Snellville officials said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that they were still finalizing details for early voting.

Gwinnett Tech received a $100,000 gift from a Norcrossbased heating and air company to expand the college’s career center and create the Mingledorff’s HVAC Scholarship Endowment. From left: Phoebe Coquerel, Jim Spanello, Michael Hopkins, Dr. D. Glen Cannon, David Kesterton, Matthew Holtkamp, Rob Willis and Harold Nelson attend a recent check presentation. (Special Photo)

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As talks go on, wall is still needed The first thing that needs to be said about President Trump’s decision to sign a measure re-opening part of the federal government without getting money for the wall he demanded is that his experience as a New York businessman was no help.

Perhaps he failed to recognize that Democrats are the party of government and no one guards the power, cost and perks of government better than they do.

As long as Democrats stuck together — and they did (RepubliCal cans should learn a lesson) — he Thomas was bound to lose.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were justified in their smirking reaction. Schumer bragged, “This agreement endorses our position.”

Of course a wall, or barrier or something, is needed to stem the tide of those who enter the country illegally, and some border patrol agents agree. “Absolutely” helpful, Brian Hastings, a U.S. Border Patrol chief of law enforcement operations, said back in November, as the immigrant caravan inched its way toward our border.

Aren’t these agents on the front lines more knowledgeable than career politicians playing their annoying games in Washington?

Does anyone expect promised “negotiations” between Senate and House Republicans these next three weeks to produce anything that successfully contributes to real border security? Democrats, flushed with at least a short-term victory, are not about to anger their base by compromising, and some in the Republican base are upset by the president’s so-called “cave” to Democrat demands.

In a Rose Garden announcement of his decision to re-open government, the president held out the possibility of declaring a national emergency if Democrats continue to refuse funding for his barrier wall. We know where that will lead, don’t we?

Democrats will likely go to a liberal federal judge, probably named by President Obama, and get a stay on the order. Any appeal process could take months, adding more fuel to the chaos stoking anger among many on the left and the right.

One way to get Democrats to focus might be to steer those entering illegally with criminal backgrounds to the states and districts where members of Congress who oppose the wall reside. Cynical, I know, but in Washington, since the 2016 election, cynicism reigns supreme. There are solutions to almost any problem, but it appears politicians prefer the immigration issue to run on as a means of raising money, garnering votes and harnessing power. It’s all about politicians and rarely about the rest of us, their claims about “the American people” notwithstanding.

President Trump made building a wall (and getting Mexico to pay for it) the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign and the first half of his term. If it doesn’t happen, with or without the help of Congress, he must find another way to do it that the courts will allow and that his base will accept. If he doesn’t his re-election chances may be hurt, assuming Democrats don’t come up with a hard-left candidate.

Maybe the president will do all these things. I hope he does. The alternative is likely a socialist government offering high taxes and even more debt, which would end the economic boon that has benefited a record number of new U.S. workers.

The Republican National Committee released a statement that said: “Although this bill does not provide wall funding, President Trump remains firmly committed to securing funding during ongoing negotiations. President Trump will not budge on building the wall.”

Speaker Pelosi remains just as committed not to fund a wall. The power center has shifted to her, no matter what some other House Democrats are saying about their support of a fence or other barrier.

Each time I travel internationally I must go through immigration and customs at the airport. If I attempted to re-enter this or another country illegally, I would be arrested. What’s the difference when Pelosi, Schumer and many other Democrats won’t stop non-citizens from sneaking into America?

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub. com.

‘Let them eat cake’ attitude is ruinous WASHINGTON — When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich.

They are different from you and me,” he inadvertently foreshadowed the government shutdown of 2018-19.

Fitzgerald was alluding to the wealthy class, which he had earlier portrayed in “The Great Gatsby,” the great American novel. Old money is also different from newly made fortunes, as Jay Gatsby himself discovered during his futile attempts to buy acceptance.

But Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ recent comment about furloughed government employees — that he didn’t “really quite understand” why unpaid workers were visiting food banks — confirmed Fitzgerald’s point. The very wealthy are different — and they think differently.

Ross furthered his disassociation from reality, saying that “the obligations that they (federal employees) would undertake — say, borrowing from a bank or a credit union — are, in effect, federally guaranteed, so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan against it.”

Yes, quite, quite.

Then again, if you’ve never lived paycheck to paycheck, as nearly 80 percent of Americans do, you might not be expected to really quite understand what it’s like. Although some banks have, indeed, been helping out with zero- to low-interest

born rich, it is very difficult to understand.” Which is to say, we have a failure of mutual understanding.

Ross and Trump are primarily businessmen and, thus, perhaps see people more as commodities than human beings.

Despair is a market fluctuation Kathleen that cool investors simply wait Parker out. And massive inconvenience for the ordinary working stiff is loans, it wasn’t clear that every- represented as dots and jagged one would be eligible. Even the lines on a spreadsheet. fully employed suffer less-thanNevertheless, Trump, whose perfect credit. philanthropic pursuits end The notion, meanwhile, where the casino parking lot that all will be rectified in due begins, felt compelled to richcourse is cold comfort when splain the commerce secretary, you can’t meet your finansaying that although he hadn’t cial obligations. Now that the heard Ross’ statement, “I do government is reopened — for understand that perhaps he three more weeks, at least — should have said it differently. federal employees are still Local people know who they likely to face days of paperwork are when they go for groceries and telephone roulette as they and everything else. And I think try to correct their credit history what Wilbur was probably tryand satisfy debtors. ing to say is that they will work This isn’t end-of-world stuff, along.” obviously, but the shutdown Here’s the sad part: I know certainly wasn’t a “vacation,” what Trump meant. After two as President Trump’s chief eco- or more years of listening to nomic adviser, Kevin Hassett, “Trumplish,” a linguistic pattern suggested. Ross, who made his of half-thoughts, sentence fragbillions partly by buying disments and primary wordplay, tressed debt further revealed his one begins to get the hang of own cluelessness by dryly not- it. In this case, there’s actually ing that the 800,000 furloughed some consolation folded into and unpaid workers represent Trump’s translation of Wilburnonly one-third of 1 percent of omics: “Local people know our gross domestic product. who they are,” even if Ross Why all the sad faces? doesn’t.

Thanks to Fitzgerald, we Locals and nonlocals alike learn that being blessed with also know who forced the wealth “does something to government to shut down over them … that, unless you were an unpopular, expensive and

likely ineffective border wall.

Compute this: Landowner lawsuits and appeals over eminent domain could last years; construction of 1,000 miles of steel barriers could take a decade; and technology gallops along.

How soon before passenger drones are delivering migrants to Oklahoma?

This may seem far-fetched, but so, too, were mobile phones not so long ago.

Meanwhile, we face problems more pressing than our dysfunctional government.

Recent polling shows that America may be drifting away from capitalism and toward socialism. In 2018, Gallup found that fewer than half of young Americans view capitalism positively and 51 percent view socialism favorably. A Fox News poll released Thursday found that 40 percent of Democrats think a move toward socialism would be a good thing and only 34 percent disagreed.

Republicans are against a socialist shift (80 percent), but they also tend to correspond to a graying demographic.

When the very rich are exposed as removed and oblivious to American daily life, it becomes far easier for socialists to make their ideas, such as wealth redistribution, attractive.

Ironically, Trump’s true legacy may not be the wall but the fall.

Kathleen Parker received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2010. Her email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.

High tech is making ‘car guys’ endangered My Uncle Jimmy would’ve hated the late-model SUV I rented for a recent trip to New Jersey. I sure did.

You see, this modern SUV boasted “smart” technologies designed to keep me safe and happy.

It made me miserable.

Every time I switched lanes, the white stripes on the pavement triggered safety sensors, sending annoying vibrations to the steering wheel. It felt like the struts had just blown out.

Hey, automakers! I don’t need alerts every time I change lanes. And while we’re at it, I know when to turn my windshield wipers on (when rain starts) and off (when rain stops) — so I don’t need your computer deciding that for me.

Same goes for high beams.

I don’t need your computer for that, because I already have a powerful one: When I’m on a dark road, my retinas send signals to my optic nerves, telling my brain to tell my left hand to flick on the brights.

And what’s with your centerconsole touch screens? I had

Tom Purcell to pull that SUV over twice to figure out how to play music — because some “safety” sensor shut me down for trying to play music with the car moving.

Maybe you “modern” automakers have forgotten this, but for years, cars had a brilliant system for playing music: left knob for volume, right knob for radio stations. The knobs worked even if I had gloves on, and I didn’t need to take my eyes off the road to use them — unlike touch screens.

You automakers are overthinking cars. And in these divisive times, I fear that yet another fault line is forming — between those who love driving and want complete control over

cars, and those who see cars as just another app (Uber, selfdriving cars, etc.).

That brings us back to Uncle Jimmy.

Jimmy, like me, was a “car guy.” He loved building and talking about cars. He understood cars’ unique contribution to American culture and history.

A few years before he left us a decade ago, Jimmy spent five years restoring a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda fastback.

He even upgraded it with a monster Hemi engine. Restoring cars was his art.

And boy, did he love that Barracuda, his dream car as a 1960s teen. That Barracuda helped him relive his youth. To him, it symbolized freedom — the ability to go anywhere, become anything. And he enjoyed nothing more than driving that car after restoring it with his own hands.

Sadly, “car guys” like Uncle Jimmy are a dying breed.

The Atlantic says fewer people — especially younger people — are getting driver’s

licenses. In 1983, nearly half of teens had a license. Today, fewer than a quarter do.

The Chicago Tribune explains why younger Americans are falling out of love with cars.

One big reason, particularly when they have massive college-loan debt, is the expense of buying and maintaining cars.

Another reason is the easy accessibility of ride-sharing options such as Uber.

What it comes down to is that fewer young people are “car people.” They just don’t enjoy driving. They’d rather do something else, such as run apps on their smartphones.

I was lucky to attend a few car meets with my Uncle Jimmy. Dozens of car lovers would arrive in their classic rides, mingle, sip cold beer and talk about the artfulness of classic American cars.

I can’t imagine people ever getting together to do likewise at “smartphone meets.”

Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. Send comments to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

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PPIs not the best for occasional heartburn DEAR DR. ROACH: For the past 50 years I have been bothered by occasional indigestion or heartburn after eating a greasy or spicy meal. This might occur several times per month, but not more than once a week. I have always gotten instant relief through either calcium carbonate tablets (Tums) or a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in water.

Several years ago, I discussed this with my doctor, and he prescribed omeprazole with instructions to take one 20-mg capsule daily. After reading of the negative side effects of omeprazole, I began taking it only before I ate a heavy meal that might bring on the symptoms. My doctor agreed that it was not necessary to take it daily. I noted that omeprazole was effective only when taken before the meal and provided no relief when taken after the discomfort had started.

The Tums or baking soda seemed to be such a quick and easy fix. Is there a reason to use omeprazole instead of the antacids?

— S.D.K. ANSWER: Proton pump inhibitors like omeprazole are powerful medications that have made an enormous impact on improving the symptoms of people with severe heartburn.

However, not everyone needs such powerful medication.

PPIs also are slow to relieve symptoms. It takes several days of once-daily dosing of omeprazole to suppress acid secretion.

Because of this, dosing omeprazole on an as-needed basis is not going to be effective for most people.

For occasional symptoms of heartburn, it is far better to use an antacid, like Tums, or an H2 blocker (which blocks the histamine receptor in the stomach), like famotidine (Pepcid), which has a fast onset of action.

I don’t want to forget to mention dietary control.

It seems like you know what meals are likely to cause symptoms, and at the risk of sounding trite, you should avoid overdoing it.

Eat smaller meals, avoid late-night eating and stay away from food triggers, such as alcohol and caffeine — these all are ways of controlling symptoms without medication.

All medicines have the potential for side effects, so minimizing them is wise.

The list of potential complications from long-term use of PPIs is long.

Some people need to take omeprazole regularly, whether it’s because nothing else is effective or they have a condition like Barrett’s esophagus. Fortunately, most people do not.

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TODAY’S FACT: Charles I was the first king of England to be tried for crimes against his kingdom. He refused to enter a plea, insisting that the court had no authority over a monarch.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2002, Karl Malone became the second NBA player (after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to score 34,000 career points.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Let us not be afraid to help each other — let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt TODAY’S NUMBER: 5 — songs played by the Beatles in their last public performance as a group, on this day in 1969.

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people experience quickly, and which can accelerate an emotional bond.

Demisexuality presents the challenge of never feeling any sexual feelings at all until you’ve experienced many months of platonic friendship; some potential partners will have already moved firmly into the friend zone, and many truly platonic friends would be confused if you expressed sexual interest in them after the friendship is understood to be solidly nonsexual.

Because you are already in therapy, you could ask your therapist about sex therapy. You clearly want to feel sexual and to be sexual. There may be ways you can feel sexual without — or before — finding a partner, and with someone you already have a strong emotional bond with. (I’m talking about you!)

Yes, if you meet someone in a “romantic” or dating context, then you should be honest about this. I see this as a third date conversation.

The right person will give you the time you need.

Dear Amy: For Christmas I decided to open custodial savings accounts for my four grandchildren, as well as whole life insurance policies. I also

bought gifts for them (ages 1 through 7) to open and play with. My oldest son was OK with these for his kids. My youngest son was upset that his name wasn’t on the account so he could have access to what was in it for his kids. The bank required their Social Security number to open the accounts. He accused me of being untrustworthy. He said if I didn’t add his (and his wife’s) name on the account, he would sue me!

WHAAAT? I was creating these custodial accounts to be able to add money to be used for their college educations!

I am devastated. Today I closed his kids’ accounts and moved my money to the other grandkids’ accounts. What do you think of this?

— In Shock Dear In Shock: I hope you are receiving competent advice from a professional financial planner.

I think your son doesn’t want you to handle this in your own way. He has made a choice, followed up with a rude threat, and now he can bear the consequences.

Continue to try to maintain relationships with these grandchildren.

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Demisexual wants out of friend zone Dear Amy: I am a 24-year-old female, and I have never had sex. I am demisexual. This means that I am unable to feel sexually attracted to someone without first having an emotional bond. (I do want sex, and could have a normal and healthy sex life with someone I knew well).

I have always wanted, more than anything, to be in a loving relationship.

It is virtually impossible for me to tell, upon first meeting someone, if we will be friends, or if I will fall in love far down the road.

This makes dating really hard. I think I need to be more upfront with telling guys about demisexuality, and then hope that they will understand.

I keep falling in love with “best friends,” and then being rejected when I try to tell them that I want to be more than friends.

I am fit and attractive. I have wonderful friends and a promising career.

I realize this isn’t the most important problem in the world. I volunteer and try to focus on helping others, but I have always struggled with low selfesteem. I have a tendency to throw away any personal

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Amy Dickinson goals or sense of self in hopes of winning someone over.

I constantly work on selfimprovement, but I don’t understand how to fix this or what makes me so different from other girls. I feel so worthless, unattractive and unlovable.

I am already going to therapy, but have not had much luck with it. I just can’t take this pattern of loneliness and rejection.

Do you have any suggestions?

— Demi Dear Demi: Demisexuality is more than merely being “old-fashioned” and courting for long periods before having sex; a demisexual person simply does not feel attraction until after a strong emotional bond has formed.

This eliminates that butterfly-fluttery feeling many

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A straightforward approach to life, love and productivity will help you put an end to what isn’t working for you and secure and promote what is.

Words matter, and the way you use them will encourage others to support your efforts. Personal and professional changes will pay off.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Update the way you present yourself and your capabilities. Success is within reach if you are enthusiastic and open to suggestions. Personal gain is favored.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Rely on your allies. Call in favors and be prepared to face shady situations and manipulative people. Be on guard and prepared to protect your position.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Think things over and follow through on your conclusions. You’ll get the help you need to carry out your plans. A personal change will encourage you to take better care of your health. Romance is highlighted.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Take precautions while traveling or doing something physical. An argument over something insignificant will zap your energy. Do your best to get along with others and to look for positive alternatives.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — An opportunity that comes along should not be ignored. Not everyone will be in favor of a decision you make, but you have to do what’s best for you.

Personal improvements can be made.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Use your skills appropriately. A partnership will need an adjustment if you cannot agree on how to best move forward. Don’t rely on a handshake; get what you want in writing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Networking functions will promote new opportunities. If you connect with a former co-worker, you’ll be given inside information that can help you advance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Uncertainty regarding personal matters will develop. Take your time and wait for all the facts to be revealed before you take action. Someone you trust will offer sound advice.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — If you challenge yourself mentally, you will discover something you are not only good at doing but enjoy as well. You’ll make a good impression on someone who shows interest in you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Keeping a steady pace and sticking to interesting projects that require creative input will help keep you out of trouble.

Don’t reveal personal information or opinions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Listen to your heart and sign up for something that could help make your life better. Moderation, fitness and proper diet are encouraged, and romance is favored.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Be a leader, not a follower. If you let someone talk you into something that you have doubts about, you’ll end up regretting it. Do your own thing.

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world&nation WORLD Theresa May ordered to reopen Brexit negotiations

Britain is heading for a new showdown with the European Union after U.K. lawmakers ordered Theresa May to return to Brussels and reopen her hard-fought Brexit deal.

The House of Commons voted 317 to 301 to demand that the British Prime Minister seek new terms with the EU over the thorny issue of the Irish border, a totemic issue for Brexiteers that has dogged May for months.

But the EU said on Monday evening there was no chance of reopening the Withdrawal Agreement — signed by May in November but comprehensively rejected by the House of Commons a month later.

In a series of votes on Tuesday, lawmakers also rejected a no-deal Brexit, with 318 to 310 approving an amendment to May’s deal that seeks to take the option off the table. But that measure is not legally binding, and lawmakers failed to pass any amendment that would have prevented the U.K. to crashing out of the EU without a deal.

May said she would go back to the EU but admitted renegotiation with Brussels would be tough.

Records set as deep freeze grips nation

By Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris CNN

Millions of Americans grappling with this week’s deep freeze would be better off warming up in parts of Antarctica.

A mammoth blast of frigid air sweeping through the Midwest is headed toward the East, on track to shatter dozens of records along the way.

“The coldest air in a generation is sinking south, with below-zero temperatures already in the Upper Midwest,” CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said Tuesday. “And the worst yet to come.”

The deadly weather has already claimed at least two lives and snarled travel in even the hardiest cities.

Over 1,600 flights were canceled for Tuesday and today, including more than 760 in and out of Chicago airports, according to FlightAware.com.

Chicago could reach a new record low temperature of 27 below zero by Thursday morning. The city’s daytime high today might only reach 15 below zero.

Compare that to the relative warmth of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, which today will have a high temperature of 6 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 7 below zero.

While Hennen said Chi-

PEOPLE Possible hate crime committed in attack on star from ‘Empire’

“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.

Smollett was attacked by two people “yelling out racial and homophobic slurs” and “poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim,” police said.

According to police, one of Smollett’s alleged The river winding through downtown Chicago had already frozen over as of Tuesday. attackers also put a rope Temperatures could remain below zero in the city from around noon Tuesday until around his neck. Both fled around midday Friday. (CNN) the scene. cago will be “the epicenter Illinois Gov. J. B. found dead outside the Smollett took himself of the extreme cold,” its Pritzker declared a state home where he was stayto Northwestern Hospital misery will have plenty of of emergency, saying even ing with a relative. and “is in good condition,” company. a brief time outside with Ali Alfred Gombo, police told CNN. Temperatures will exposed skin can be life22, didn’t have keys to Later Tuesday, CNN’s plunge to 20 to 40 degrees threatening. the home and was unDon Lemon spoke to below zero between Tues“There is a real risk of able to enter after being Smollett and a mutual day and Thursday in the hypothermia and frostbite,” dropped off outside early friend who was at the hosUpper Midwest and Great Pritzker said Tuesday.

Sunday morning, CNN af- pital with the actor. SmolLakes, Hennen said.

“Even five minutes of filiate KIMT reported. The lett confirmed the incident And more than 83 milexposure can have very se- single-digit temperatures took place. lion Americans — about vere health consequences.” that dipped below zero He was shaken and 25 percent of the U.S. The Windy City might may have played a role in angry that an attack like population — will sufstay below zero degrees his death, Rochester police this could happen. Smollett fer sub-zero temperatures from Tuesday all the way said. told CNN he fought back sometime between today until midday Friday, HenAnd in Illinois, a man at the attackers. and Monday. nen said. was killed Monday “after The only numbers more Authorities are urging a roadway crash involving Popular ’90s shocking than the tempera- people to bundle up, stay a village plow truck and a album coming to tures are the wind chills. inside and check up on the pedestrian,” Libertyville Wind chills will plumelderly and vulnerable. police said.

Broadway stage met to 30 to 60 degrees beBut already, at least two The plow truck driver low zero this week in parts deaths have been attributed has been placed on paid You oughta know that of in the northern Plains to the extreme cold. administrative leave pend- “Jagged Little Pill” is comand Great Lakes region, On Sunday, a man in ing the results of an inves- ing to Broadway.

At least 40 killed Hennen said.

Rochester, Minn., was tigation, police said.

A musical based on Aladuring protests nis Morissette’s beloved 1995 album is set to be in Venezuela dock was similar in many reprised.

The United Nations Huways to other active shootThe singer tweeted the man Rights Office said at ers: He had no identifiable news on Monday. least 40 Venezuelans have grievance and had a desire Morissette also shared Abrams to give died in recent protests over to die by suicide. a photo on Instagram of the power struggle between Democratic The Las Vegas Review some of the principals response to President Nicolas Maduro Panel of the FBI’s Behavior- involved, including Oscarand self-appointed interim al Analysis Unit determined winnning “Juno” writer State of the Union president Juan Guaido. that Paddock acted alone, Diablo Cody, who wrote CNN cannot indepenFormer Georgia guberand that his attack “was the show’s book. dently verify the death toll natorial candidate Stacey neither directed, inspired, “Jagged Little Pill” was and no official figures have Abrams said Tuesday she nor enabled by ideologia hit with fans and came been released by Maduro’s has accepted an invitation cally motivated persons or to be as definitive of the Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams government. to give the Democratic groups,” the FBI said.

1990s as frosted tip hair will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Earlier on Tuesday, the response to the State of the and boy bands.

Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 5. (CNN) United Nations Human Union address.

The musical had an U.S. to become Rights Council said 850 Abrams has been talked continue to pose a serious to colleagues Tuesday durinitial 10-week run last net exporter of people have been detained about as a rising star in threat to us here at home,” a ing the first meeting of the year at American Repersince January 23, the day the Democratic Party. She move seen as a sharp rebuke House Ways and Means tory Theater’s Loeb Drama energy in 2020 Guaido declared himself gained a national following to President Donald Trump’s committee.

Center in Cambridge, Maspresident amid anti-govern- during her unsuccessful bid push to withdraw U.S. The Wisconsin Democrat, The United States, long sachusetts. ment protests. to become governor of Geor- troops from Syria. who is a new member of beholden to foreign oil, On Jan. 23, 696 people gia last fall. Senate Minority “It would recognize the the committee, said she was is poised to become a net Bachelorette were detained, the highest Leader Chuck Schumer dangers of a precipitous diagnosed with the disease energy exporter starting next Rachel Lindsay number of recorded detensaid Tuesday said he called withdrawal from either con- 10 months ago. year. tions in Venezuela in 20 Abrams three weeks ago to flict and highlight the need “This is a cancer I will Thanks to the shale oil has a wedding years, the United Nations discuss the idea and that she for diplomatic engagement live with for the rest of and natural gas boom, the date and dress Human Rights Council said. has since accepted. and political solutions to the my life but because of my United States will export Guaido, leader of the Abrams said on Tuesday underlying conflicts in Syria high quality health care more energy than it imports Rachel Lindsay and opposition and head of the that she is “honored” to give and Afghanistan,” McConand insurance coverage, in 2020 for the first time Bryan Abasolo are ready to National Assembly, quickly the Democratic response. nell said Tuesday from the it is not a cancer I will die since 1953, according to a take the plunge. energized the movement “At a moment when our Senate floor, announcing from,” Moore said in a news forecast published Thursday The season 13 “Bachagainst Maduro. nation needs to hear from the amendment to the bill, release. by the Energy Department’s elorette” and the man who leaders who can unite for which is currently being The announcement came statistics division. That’s two won her heart (and the final a common purpose, I am debated. during the committee’s years earlier than what was rose) are set to marry this Gardener who honored to be delivering Exact timing for the final hearing on protections for previously expected. summer, according to a post buried victims the Democratic State of vote on the bill, which at patients with pre-existing And it won’t be a one-off on her official Instagram this point enjoys bipartisan conditions. achievement. The United account. in potted plants the Union response,” she tweeted. support, has not yet been States is likely to be a net Lindsay posted a photo pleads guilty California Attorney Gen- determined. energy exporter through at of herself with celebrity FBI ends probe A serial killer who preyed eral — and former House McConnell also said, least 2050, the Energy Infor- wedding planner Michael without finding on men before burying member — Xavier Becerra “while it is tempting to mation Administration said. Russo, who she thanked on their bodies in potted plants will deliver the Spanishretreat to the comfort and “It’s a big deal. We’re Instagram for “making me motive in 2017 pleaded guilty to eight language response to the security of our own shores, not as reliant on foreign oil a bride.” shooting counts of first-degree murspeech. there is still a great deal of as we were,” said Michael “I’m beyond excited,” der Tuesday. work to be done … we’re We will likely never know Tran, managing director of Lindsay wrote in the capLandscaper Bruce McAr- McConnell gives not the world’s policemen, why Stephen Paddock shot global energy strategy at tion. “I cant wait to take thur, 67, was first arrested but we are the leaders of the into a crowd of Las Vegas RBC Capital Markets. you all along this journey proposal urging last January when he was free world.” concertgoers, killing 58 The seeds for this mileand share details with you.” charged with the murder people in the deadliest mass stone were planted by the Lindsay told “Entertaintroops to stay in of two men who had gone shooting in modern US shale revolution that began ment Tonight” she has a Syria, Afghanistan Wisconsin Rep. missing in 2017. Since then, history. last decade. New technology dress, a date she hasn’t says her cancer police have investigated Senate Majority Leader The FBI has concluded unlocked vast amounts of revealed and a location locations around Toronto Mitch McConnell is pushing is in remission its investigation into the Oct. natural gas and crude oil in — someplace tropical, where McArthur worked as an amendment to a Middle 1, 2017, massacre without the United States. Producalthough she wouldn’t a landscaper. The investiga- East policy bill that would Rep. Gwen Moore said finding a clear motive for tion of both skyrocketed, say where. She added a tion led to murder charrge acknowledge “al Qaeda, Tuesday she is in remission Paddock’s actions. which reshaped the global hashtag, #summer2019, to after murder charge.

ISIS and their affiliates from small cell lymphoma, But a list of key findings energy landscape. her post.

— From wire reports in Syria and Afghanistan making the announcement released Tuesday found Pad— From wire reports — From wire reports

NATION

Cold days, warmer climate not at odds with each other this talk of global warming is not overblown.

To understand why, you have to CNN first know the difference between It happens every winter. to get even colder,” the president weather and climate.

The first significant cold snap of wrote Monday night. “People can’t Weather is what happens today. the season hits and somebody, like, last outside even for minutes. What Climate is what happens over the um, the President of the United the hell is going on with Global long run.

States, wonders what happened to Warming? Please come back fast, Here’s how NASA explains it: global warming. we need you!”

Weather is the condition in the “In the beautiful Midwest, windParts of the U.S. are indeed atmosphere are over a short period chill temperatures are reaching facing some of the coldest temof time. Climate is how the atmominus 60 degrees, the coldest ever peratures the country’s seen in a sphere behaves over relatively long recorded. In coming days, expected generation. But, as cold as it is, all periods of time.”

By Doug Criss and Judson Jones

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CNN meteorologist Chad Myers clarified the same point when Trump made a similar quip last year, doubting climate change because of cold weather.

“Climate isn’t a day, climate is long term,” Myers said, as he also pointed out that the pre-Thanksgiving cold snap that the president was tweeting about at the time was mainly concentrated on just one part of North America and not over the whole world.

“There’s one real spot of blue

and that just happens to be over New York City, over Washington D.C., over Boston, over Ottawa and that’s the big cold mass,” Myers said, pointing at a temperature map of the world. “Just because we have one cold area with the rest of the area being red and well above normal, I don’t think that one little (blue) blob says anything at all.”

Climate skeptics have done this for years, i.e. point to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax.

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always give an answer that people want me to give.”

“Rumor Has It” theme In all, Harris said the and the paddles were for city is doing well as it a section of the event that begins 2019. There are highlighted that theme. some projects on the books Harris read a rumor — that are expected to begin some of which she came this year, including a new up with specifically for the downtown library branch activity — and residents that the city is working had to hold up their paddle with the county on and a and indicate whether they planned downtown Courtthought it was true or false. yard by Marriott that will The address’ overarchinclude a public parking ing “Rumor Has It” theme deck. was a way for Harris, who Harris told residents the has taken to using a talk city is gearing up for work show-style format for her on its Forward Duluth state of the city addresses 2040 comprehensive plan in recent years, to deliver this year. news about what will be “(The city is) strong and coming up in the city in forward-thinking and re2019. ally shaping the future with “I like to give informathe comp plan,” Harris said tion out every year that I afterward. “There’s just so think people want to hear, much interest in us now. so I felt like going with the People are coming to our rumor approach would kind door wanting to do projects of be a fun way to address here. That’s why it’s really some things that I can’t important that we have our

policies and procedures in place so we can be ahead (of those proposals).”

But the “Rumor Has It” segment allowed the mayor and residents to have a little fun with the event.

Some of the “rumors” were a bit outlandish — while professional wrestler Ric Flair does indeed live in Duluth, he does not have a penthouse apartment in The District apartment community. Cameras the city police have installed around the city also cannot be used to watch pool parties.

But there was the occasional “rumor” that Harris said was true, such as the fact that routine traffic stops are considered the No. 1 way to fight crime in the city. She also said Gwinnett Medical Center has indeed purchased the former Ingles grocery store near its Duluth campus to

accommodate a planned expansion.

“We will not know when this is going to happen until the merger with Northside is completed, but right now it’s in the works,” Harris told residents. “It’s going to be a very expansive campus. It’s going to be a brain concussion center with a lot of different parts and activities and walking trails.

“It’s hoped to attract athletes from across the nation to our city, so it’s going to be well worth waiting for.”

Harris said the fact that certain others were false — namely a “rumor” that the city was going to build a pedestrian bridge over Buford Highway to provide connectivity to downtown Duluth — might have been a disappointment for residents.

The bridge, Harris said, is an example where she

obituaries Dacula

Barbara Byers (Derreberry) Barbara Derreberry Byers, age 67 of Dacula, Georgia, entered into rest on Friday January 25, 2019 at Emory University Hospital after an extended illness. She is survived by her devoted husband of 48 years, Alfred Byers; son & daughter-in-law, David Byers and his wife, Shannon Bradley Byers of Lilburn, GA; daughter, Carrie Byers of Winder, GA; Mother, Gladys Owensby Derreberry, sister, Martha Davis both of Lawrenceville, GA; Barbara was predeceased by her father, Ward Curtis Derreberry; maternal grandmother, Rachel Watkins Owensby; father & mother-in-law, Robert Byers, Sr. and Catherine Parks Byers; other relatives and a host of friends.

The Service Honoring the Life of Barbara Byers was held on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 11:00 A.M. at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Pastor Lloyd Ferguson officiating. Interment followed at East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens.

In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be made to the Georgia Transplant Foundation, 2201 Macy Drive, Roswell, GA 30076 or www.gatransplant. org. Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company,” Lawrenceville Chapel was entrusted with the arrangements.

Dacula

Winford Allen Carlyle Winford Allen Carlyle, age 73, of Dacula, GA passed away on Sunday, January 27, 2019. He was preceded in death by his wife of thirty-two years, Gwinnell Porter Carlyle.

He is survived by his children, Lynn and Keith Ledford of Grayson, GA, Richard Carlyle of Walnut Grove, GA, Lisa Carlyle of Lula, GA, Sandy and Heath Lawson of Covington, GA, Tracy Gaddy of Aniston, AL; stepson, Tony and Jackie Hinton of Dacula, GA; six grandchildren; four great grandchildren; sister, Joanne Blackwell of Dacula, GA; brother, Virgil and Felisia Carlyle of Conyers, GA; sisters-in-law, Ruth Porter Knight of Lawrenceville, GA, Martha Porter Pugh of Cleveland, GA; brotherin-law, Rev. Lamar and Lois Porter of Lula, GA, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Mr. Carlyle was born on November 10, 1945 in

Conyers, GA. He was the owner of Carlyle Roofing Company and a member of New Rock Springs Baptist Church, Dacula, GA. Funeral services will be held, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Ralph Romans officiating. Following the service, interment will be held at Gwinnett Memorial Park, Lawrenceville, GA. The family will receive friends Tuesday, January 29, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Opp, AL

Dr. Martha Katherine Hicks (Hicks) Dr. Martha K. Hicks, of Opp, AL and formerly of Selma, AL, passed away January 26, 2019 at the age of 65 after a two year battle with cancer.

She was preceded in death by her parents, James Robert and Frances Earline Hicks.

Surviving are her siblings, Betty Hicks Elliott (Raymond), Kenneth E. Hicks (Kay), Nancy Hicks Cole (Leroy) and :Lisa Hicks Sexton (Bill); nieces and nephews, Fran H. Wilson (Lee), Pam H. Nevin (Donnie), Christy K. Thompson (Joey), Matt Elliott (Cody), Chad Elliott, Joshua Cole (Stacy), Katie Machen (Rick) and Alex Baker and fourteen great nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will the Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at Elkdale Baptist Church with Dr. George “Butch” Washburn officiating.

Interment will be in New Live Oak Cemetery with Selma Funeral Home directing. Visitation will be prior to the service from, 12-2:00 p.m.

Her nephews will serve as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Therapy Dogs International, 88 Bartley Road, Flanders, NJ, 07836 or www.tdi-dog.org.

You may go online to view obituaries, offer condolences and sign the guest book at http://www. selmafuneralhome.com/.

Lawrenceville, GA

Charles P. Knotts Charles P. Knotts, age 95 of Lawrenceville, GA, died Sunday, January 27, 2019. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 3 PM at Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel. Pastor Richard Moeller will officiate.

Interment will follow at Hamilton Mill Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Wednes-

day, January 30, 2019 from 1-3 PM at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to Prospect United Methodist Church, Lawrenceville (1549 Prospect Rd. Lawrenceville, GA 30043) in memory of Charles. Charles was preceded in death by his daughter, Sharon Knotts Rodgers. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Knotts, Lawrenceville; daughter, Lana Sue Johnson, Lawrenceville, GA; son in-law, Michael E. Rodgers, Follansbee, WV; grandchildren, Scott Patrick Rodgers, Jennifer Lynn Jensen (Chris), James Brian Johnson; great grandchildren, Madison Lilly Warner, Ashley Rodgers, Jacob Rodgers; brother, Kenneth O. Knotts (Betty), Fellowsville, WV. Charles was born in Kingwood, WV and moved to the metro Atlanta area in 2002. He is a Veteran of the United States Navy and retired as a professor at Ohio State University.

Charles was a member of Masonic Lodge 118 F & AM, Norwich, OH, member of the Rotary Club and a member of Prospect United Methodist Church, Lawrenceville. Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel 770-945-6924. Share memories of Charles at hamiltonmillchapel.com

Lilburn

Mary Leach Mary Scigliane Leach, 77, of Lilburn, Georgia passed away on January 24, 2019. She is survived by her husband of fiftyfour years, Maj. Willie C. Leach, Jr. (Air Force - ret); son Jonathan and wife Marlo; son Gregory, wife Jennifer and daughter Carolyn; son Andrew; sister, Louise Bauman; and ten beloved nieces and nephews.

Mary, the oldest daughter of Luis & Mary Scigliane, was born in March, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York.

The family moved to the Panama Canal Zone in her youth. Mary spent her high school years back in Brooklyn with her maternal grandparents and graduated in 1962 from the State University of New York - New Paltz, receiving a degree in Education.

Mary returned to the Canal Zone to begin her teaching career. It was while she was teaching in the Military Dependent

can’t provide the answer people want to hear when she’s asked about it. When she said any rumor that such a bridge was coming was false, a picture of a pouting child appeared on the screen behind her.

“I knew they wanted that pedestrian bridge,” she said. “That’s why I chose that pouting face. I knew that was going to be the reaction.”

Still, the exercise gave Harris a chance to provide some project updates while having a little fun with residents.

At one point, Harris dispelled a “rumor” that the city’s new library branch will not be located on the third floor of City Hall. However, a design has been set for the new downtown branch, and a groundbreaking is expected to take place sometime in the fall.

“It tells a story within itself,” Harris told residents.

“It is actually designed and modeled after the old cricket box factory that used to sit on Main Street where Madcaps sits now.

We’re really excited about it.”

And no, while the Courtyard by Marriott hotel that is planned for downtown Duluth will be located roughly on the Eastern Continental Divide, it will not charge different rates depending on which side of the divide a visitor’s room is located.

However, construction on the hotel will begin soon.

“The groundbreaking for this Marriott will be in about 60 to 90 days, and from there, it will about 18 months to two years before it opens,” Harris said. “It’s getting close and we’re excited about it.”

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School System that Mary met her husband, an Air Force pilot, at Howard Air Force Base. They were married in November 1964. They left Panama in 1967, with one son, and eventually settled in New York. Their second son was born there while her husband served in Vietnam. Upon his return, they lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where their third son was born. Upon Maj. Leach’s retirement from the Air Force in 1972, they moved to Atlanta.

After living in Decatur for seven years, Mary and her family moved to Lilburn, where she resided since 1979.

Mary returned as a fulltime teacher for Gwinnett County in the early 1980’s, teaching first at Dacula, then Snellville, Middle Schools until she retired in 2003.

In the 1970’s, Mary was a tireless advocate for POW-MIA organizations.

Also, in the 1970’s, Mary, with her family’s support, sponsored a family who had escaped from Laos.

They have since thrived.

Outside of her direct family, she would consider this her greatest accomplishment and legacy.

Mary was an avid pet lover, having numerous wonderful dogs and cats over the years while saving many others. Upon her retirement, Mary focused much of her time on one of her true passions, becoming a Master Gardener. Additionally, she and her husband spent considerable time working as volunteers at the Lilburn location of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul store.

Mary was an active Zonian, and maintained ties and lifelong friendships with so many she knew from her youth in the Canal Zone.

Visitation will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2019, from 2-6 p.m. at Eternal Hills Funeral Home and Memory Garden, 3594 Stone Mountain Highway, Snellville, Georgia. Funeral services will be on April 4, 2019 at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Lilburn, Georgia. In lieu of flowers, Mary’s family asks that you consider donations to World Vision, www. worldvision.org, her favorite charity.

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James Pickett, Sr. James (Jim) Pickett Sr., passed away on January 2, 2019. He is survived by his son Jim Jr., daughter-inlaw, Donna, 5 grandchildren, (April, Jimbo, Jackie, Macy and Cody), 14 great grandchildren, his brother J

John Pickett of Tennessee and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held Saturday February 2nd at 12 noon at Tim Stewart Funeral Home (Lawrenceville). A burial for Jim and his beloved wife Betty will follow at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church (Grayson).

havenmemorialgardens. net). The family will receive friends on Monday, January 28, 2019 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Buford Lanier Women’s Club Charities in memory of Willena Smith Robinson.

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Willena Robinson (Smith) Willena Smith Robinson, age 92, of Buford, GA passed away Friday, January 25, 2019. She was preceded in death by her husband of 33 years, Raymond Wells and her husband of 16 years, Ralph Robinson. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Wells Evans, Buford, GA; son-in-law, Gary B Evans, Buford, GA; three grandchildren, Raelyn Wells (Andy) Phlegar, Marietta, GA, Deanna Wells (Doug) Stein, Pensacola, FL, and Diana Wells DelGiudice, Tampa, FL; great grandchildren, Jessica (Doug) Menard, Daniel (Sydney) Phlegar, Makenzie Stein, Kyle Phlegar, Jordyn Phlegar, Riley DelGiudice, Karli DelGiudice; two great great grandchildren, Callie Menard, and Cayson Menard; one beloved sister, Carolyn Hattaway, Macon, GA, nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.

Mrs. Robinson was born February, 7, 1926 in Dexter, GA to Walter Eubena and Susie Butler Smith.

She graduated in 1944 from Hillsborough High School in Tampa, FL. She worked for Tampa Federal Saving and Loans from 1955 to 1975 and retired.

Willena meet her second husband, Ralph Robinson and moved to Buford, GA in late 1979. She remarried in 1982. She became active in the Buford Lanier Women’s Club and worked on numerous projects that benefited the community and the Tullagha Fall School. She was a member of the Daughters of the Nile, El Tehran Temple No. 122, Atlanta GA. There she worked on projects with the Nile that benefited the Shriners Hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Ted Williams and Mr. Ken Ledbetter officiating and the eulogy will be given by Gary B. Evans.

Following the service, interment will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens, 7070 Houston Road, Macon, GA 31216 (www.glen-

Barbara Lucille Rutherford (Hudson) Barbara Lucille (Hudson) Rutherford, 87, of Suwanee, Georgia passed away January 25, 2019.

She leaves behind four sons: Donald Jafroy Griffin (Nancy Cook) of Durham, NC, Darrell Lynn Griffin (wife Bernice Griffin), Dean Gordon Griffin (wife Teresa Griffin) and Dave Stuart Griffin (wife Gail Griffin) as well as one stepson, Rusty Rutherford (wife Sherri Rutherford). She was preceded in death by one son, Dennis Boyd Griffin as well as her husband, Harold Young Rutherford and two sisters Betty Jo Jones and Jean Askew. Barbara also leaves behind ten grandchildren, eleven greatgrandchildren and other extended family. Born and raised in Fulton County the daughter of James and Arabella (Hayes) Hudson, Barbara was a resident of the Atlanta area for the majority of her life. She was proud to be a working mother, but her greatest joy came after retirement when she began taking care of her grandchildren as babies and also after school as they grew up.

Their beloved ‘Gramie’ was a warm and loving grandmother that helped give her grandkids the best possible foundation to learn and grow.

A memorial service will be held at Collins Hill Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, GA at 2:00 pm on Sunday, February 3rd, 2019. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to Collins Hill Baptist or to the charity of your choice.

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ket, with giant systems of Emory, WellStar and Piedmont expanding their portfolios.

Hospitals have pursued consolidation to reduce costs and increase their leverage in negotiations with health insurers over reimbursements for medical services. But insurers argue that such deals actually raise hospital prices.

“It’s all a land grab,’’ said Dave Smith, a consultant with Kearny Street Consulting. “Everybody is trying to stake out their territory.’’

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GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GRADUATION Gwinnett County Public Schools has released graduation dates and times for the district’s 22 high schools, with the majority being held at the Infinite Energy Center complex in unincorporated Duluth.

This year the only schools holding graduation ceremonies on campus will be Brookwood, Central Gwinnett, Mill Creek and Parkview.

The first graduation ceremony will be held Monday, May 20, when Phoenix High School holds commencement at 7 p.m. at the Infinite Energy Theatre. That begins a week of graduations that will culminate May 27 with Dacula graduating at 8:30 a.m. and Discovery graduating at 2 p.m. at the Infinite Energy Center.

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May 22, Infinite Energy Arena • Mill Creek High School, 8 p.m. May 22, Mill Creek Community Stadium • Parkview High School, 8 p.m. May 22, Parkview Community Stadium • Meadowcreek High School, 8:30 a.m. May 23, Infinite Energy Arena • Duluth High School, 2 p.m. May 23, Infinite Energy Arena • GSMST, 5 p.m. May 23, Infinite Energy Exhibit Halls A/B • Gwinnett Online Campus, 7 p.m. May 23, Gwinnett Online Campus Auditorium

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Grizzlies hungry to take next step after semifinal run

By Christine Troyke

Lanier grad Cam Coursey led the NAIA in batting during the 2018 regular season, his freshman campaign at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is part of a deep returning corps hoping to claim a national title.

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Georgia Gwinnett College’s baseball team returns the core of what got the Grizzlies to the NAIA semifinals last season and they’ll get a sense early on how well they did fine-tuning in the offseason.

GGC opens its season with the defending World Series champs, top-ranked Southeastern University, on Friday on its home field in Lawrenceville.

“I would think the first month and a half will be a pretty good gauntlet,” head coach Brad Stromdahl said.

What: Season opener Who: No. 3 Georgia Gwinnett College vs. No. 1 Southeastern University When: Friday, 3 p.m.; Saturday, noon (doubleheader) Where: Lawrenceville

“We should have a pretty good idea after 10 or 15 games where we’re at. We always have to make adjustments as we get into the season.”

The Grizzlies won 50 games last season and made the deepest postseason run in program history before falling to Freed-

Hardeman two steps from claiming the title. They return their top five hitters, including Lanier grad Cam Coursey, who as a freshman had the nation’s top batting average during the regular season. Also returning are C.J. Ballard, Alex Garland, Nick Barnes and Onassis Matos.

“We’ve had an addition of Brody Wofford in the outfield, who was a 14th-round draft pick two years ago,” Stromdahl said. “Then Brent Burgess was a two-time draft pick. He transferred into us and he’ll be our shortstop and our closer

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Brookwood’s Reuben Dayal is part of the 2019 Daily Post Super Six boys tennis team. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

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Even at 10 years old, Reuben Dayal knew he had some catching up to do.

While most of his competition had been playing tennis since they were 6 years old, Dayal was slogging through match after match as a beginner. He never started in T2 or ALTA. He was playing competitive tournaments a few months after he started taking two lessons per week.

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He wasn’t the best player at his academy at the start, but has risen through the ranks. tournament in the beginning.

Had Dayal given up tenBut as time went on, he saw nis, he might have excelled in marked improvement. something else. But he stuck He said he brought intensity with tennis, even while it was and dedication to training evhard to swallow. ery day from early in his tennis “Every bad loss, every bad career. He doesn’t want anyone tournament, you think, ‘Is this to work harder than him, and worth it?’” he said. “The good he takes pride in building a results make up for that.” reputation as a hard worker.

That rough start turned

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You only realize how good — or not — you are until you’re losing to people who are better than you, he said.

“I had to work a lot harder because of that,” said Dayal, now a senior at Brookwood High School.

Dayal said he was getting drilled in tournament after

Dayal into a humble character.

“You go watch him play tennis, you’re amazed at his game,” Brookwood coach Kent Doehrman said. “He’s so consistent, but you kind of get amazed. If you’re able to talk to him off the court, you wouldn’t know he’s a high-level tennis player. If you have a son like Reuben, you did well See DAYAL, Page 3B

Getting to Know ... Sean Bonar Atlanta Gladiators goaltender Sean Bonar has been a workhorse since coming to the team last year. The 27-year-old is tied for first in the ECHL with a .930 save percentage and is sixth overall with a 2.26 goals-against average. He was named the league’s goalie of the week for Jan. 14-20.

In this installment of “Getting to Know …”, Atlanta Gladiators goaltender Sean Bonar is tied for first Bonar, a native of Delta, in the ECHL with a .930 save percentage this season. The British Columbia, talks Princeton product is in his fifth year as a pro. (Photo: to staff writer Christine Dale Zanine) Troyke about a variety of

CT: Have you always been a goalie?

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Arena in Duluth) Usually most people don’t Today: vs. Greenville like it, so you end up getThursday: vs. Florida ting stuck with it.

Saturday: vs. Orlando CT: What is your afterpractice schedule like? topics, including his career SB: I usually try and do at Princeton, restoring a some sort of workout, but pop-up camper for crossthe intensity of that really country trips and what he’s vary. It just depends on reading right now. when we’re playing and

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how I’m feeling.

Then I try to keep myself busy away from the rink, too, with other hobbies and interests. I go fly fishing every now and again — although I haven’t been in a while. A lot of rain. There’s an archery range in Snellville that I go to quite a bit. I think it’s pretty helpful; a good way to think about doing something else.

Then I actually bought a pop-up truck camper at the

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3:30 p.m. — Berkmar and Mountain View at E.E. Robinson Park 3:30 p.m. — Centennial girls at Norcross 3:30 p.m. — Discovery at Berkmar 3:30 p.m. — Norcross boys and Centennial at East Roswell Park 4 p.m. — Chamblee and Peachtree Ridge at Sugarloaf Country Club Thursday

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3 p.m. — Duluth at Johns Creek 3 p.m. — Mountain View vs. Lanier at E.E. Robinson Park 3:15 p.m. — Parkview vs. Archer at Rhodes Jordan Park 3:30 p.m. — Chattahoochee boys at Norcross 3:30 p.m. — Loganville at Dacula 3:30 p.m. — Norcross girls at Chattahoochee

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6 p.m. — Archer at Newton Co. 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Lakeside-DeKalb 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Parkview 6 p.m. — Collins Hill at Duluth 6 p.m. — Dacula at Winder-Barrow 6 p.m. — Grayson at Rockdale Co. 6 p.m. — Lakeview Academy at Hebron 6 p.m. — Lanier at Gainesville 6 p.m. — Norcross at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — North at Mountain View 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Discovery 6 p.m. — Prince Avenue Christian at Providence 6 p.m. — South at Shiloh 7 p.m. — Clarke Central at Buford 7 p.m. — Fannin Co. at GAC

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Bears bring in best for banquet Buchanan, Polk don’t disappoint as guest speakers

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Mountain View’s Jason Johnson has met a lot of baseball men in his years coaching in Gwinnett County. He met even more during his days in college at Auburn and in the minor leagues.

For the third year, Johnson reached out to a pair of baseball legends to speak at the Bears’ annual preseason banquet, one from the college ranks and another from a short drive to Lilburn. For the third year, the guest credentials and personalities did not disappoint.

Hugh “Buck” Buchanan was Parkview’s first baseball coach and won 546 games, 12 region titles and three state championships.

He served as the head softball and football coaches briefly and has been inducted into five different halls-of-fame, including the Gwinnett Sports Hall of Fame, the Gwinnett Dugout Club, Georgia Dugout Club, Georgia Athletic Coaches Association and National Baseball Coaches Association.

His counterpart is known as the “Godfather of Southeastern Conference baseball.” Ron Polk is a former longtime coach at Mississippi State University and a volunteer coach at the University of AlabamaBirmingham. Polk has recorded the most wins in the history of SEC baseball coaching with 1,373 wins to go with five SEC Championships and eight College World Series appearances. Polk is a member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame, American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame and a Lefty Gomez Award recipient, the highest award given by the ABCA. Banquets scheduled post-season are reflective, award-centric and celebra-

Former Parkview head basketball coach Hugh “Buck” Buchanan speaks to members of the Mountain View High School baseball team at the preseason Night in the Big Leagues banquet at 550 Trackside on Sunday. (Staff Photo: Taylor Denman)

tory. Mountain View’s Night in the Big Leagues is centered around keynote speakers that are typically motivational in nature.

Buchanan’s remarks were cursory compared to the man following him, but Parkview’s Hall-of-Fame coach remarked on the opportunity Polk provided him at Georgia Southern as a graduate assistant.

That motivated Buchanan and sparked his legendary coaching career in Gwinnett County.

“It was an opportunity I probably didn’t deserve,” he said. “I feel like the lead act for a rock star.”

Buchanan is still an active scout, and he remarked on the frequently asked question: What are you looking for in a baseball prospect?

His answer had little to do with fielding grounders, executing pitching mechanics or the proper launch angle. There’s no “magic bullet,” he said, but he spent time elaborating on the concept of “makeup,” a colloquial baseball scouting term that pertains to a player’s character.

Buchanan’s philosophy of good makeup is not about a consistent routine; it’s about repetitions. He encouraged Mountain View players to take responsibility for their own development rather than expect the tools to success

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May 4: The Gwinnett County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in partnership with The Fortitude Foundation, will host its 5K Crimson Run/ Walk on May 4 at Tribble Mill Park. All proceeds benefit GCAC’s scholarship program for Gwinnett County students. Entry fee is $35, but runners who sign up by Jan. 31 are $30.

The race, a 2020 Peachtree Road Race qualifier, begins at 8:22 a.m. Registration is at 7:30 a.m., followed by welcome and warm-up at 8 a.m. For more information, email 5K@gwinnettdst.org.

Registration is available online at runsignup.com/ crimson5K.

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April 27: The Harlem Legends, made up of past Harlem Globetrotters and other pro athletes, will host a Hoops and Health Celebrity Basketball Show at the Dacula High School

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gym. The event features a 3 p.m. youth basketball clinic, a 4 p.m. VIP meet and greet and a 5 p.m. show that pits the Legends against the Gwinnett County All-Stars, made up of local educators, law enforcement members, politicians and other community leaders. For more information, go to www. harlemlegends.com, call 678-630-8843 or email harlemlegends24@harlemlegends.com.

June 3-7: The Shoot for the Stars Basketball Camp, presented by the Michael Douglas Youth Foundation and led by former Harlem Globetrotter Michael Douglas, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Rhodes Jordan Park gym. Camp is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 14 and cost is $140 per camper.

For more information, go to www.harlemlegends.com, call 678-630-8843 or email harlemlegends24@harlemlegends.com.

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day to the Carson-Newman Bulls committed recently University (Tenn.) football to the University of South program.

Carolina-Aiken baseball Archer senior EmmanThe 6-foot-2 1/2, program. uel Michel announced his 270-pound offensive lineThe 5-foot-11, commitment Sunday night man earned second-team 160-pounder is an outfieldto the U.S. Air Force Acad- All-Region 6-AAAAAAA er and middle infielder and emy football program. honors as a senior, and is ranked with an 8.5-point Michel made 150 tackles also was an honorable grade out of 10 by Perfect and 10 sacks the past two mention all-county selecGame. seasons as a linebacker tion by the Touchdown for Archer’s state playoff Club of Gwinnett.

Hebron track teams. He also was a contributor on offense during shines at Lanier’s Bulls his career, and also is a Alabama meet prospect at running back to play baseball Hebron Christian earned for Air Force. at USC-Aiken a program-best, four As a senior, Michel was Lanier senior Bryce podium finishes over the a first-team all-county selection by the Daily Post and the Touchdown Club Join us at these of Gwinnett.

weekend at the 150-team Last Chance Invitational in Alabama.

Senior Micah Harden topped the 46-foot mark for a first-place throw in the shot put, leading the Lions. Fellow senior Max Bennett, in his first high school meet, was third in the long jump.

Brandon Potra, also a senior, was third in the 3,200-meter run in 10 minutes, 2 seconds. Sophomore Rachel Ruff also was third in the pole vault.

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The Georgia Bulldogs football program landed a commitment Sunday from Buford senior J.C. Vega.

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speech sometimes went from a roast session — no one, including players and coaches, was safe — then shifted to stories of his childhood and disciplinarian father.

Late in the evening, he started to relish his outlook on high school baseball.

He pleaded for attending parents to support their children. He remarked on the differences between growing up as a distracted teenage baseball player in the United States and an impoverished teenager training in a Dominican Republic baseball academy.

He ended the session with his personal keys to success. Polk’s first coaching job was as a graduate assistant at the University of Arizona, where he was a 21-year-old third base coach on a College World Series team. That was when he decided he no longer wanted to be “a” coach, but “the” coach. He gave credit to his faith in Christianity first. He used anecdotes to apply the idea that a person is only as good as their worst bad day. He emphasized the importance of a determined work ethic and his desire to make a difference to one person at a time.

He concluded the night by shaking the hand of every Mountain View player at the door and talking to them one-on-one.

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Buchanan wrapped up with a concept he developed during his tenure at Parkview. He gave a name to the wall that he saw right when players walked into the Panthers’ locker room. That was “The Wall.” He wanted to remind his players of “The Wall,” or the inevitability of adversity, and he wanted them to remember the positive ways to react to hitting that wall.

He encouraged Mountain View’s players not to just run through the wall, but accelerate through it.

Polk took the podium with a demeanor that more closely resembled a stand-up comedian than a longtime baseball man.

He rattled off anecdote after anecdote — at first mostly about his lack of remorse for being thrown out of hundreds of baseball games. In each story, he seemingly had a witty response to everything.

“If I wanted to get thrown out of a game, I knew what I had to say,” Polk said. “‘How did we get a high school umpire in an SEC baseball game?’”

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SUPER SIX TENNIS GIRLS Ami Grace Dougah • School: Central Gwinnett • Class: Senior • Hometown: Togo • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coaches: Stafford Tennis, CoCo Missodey and Grant Stafford • Noteworthy accomplishments: Won back draw of a women’s 15K pro circuit • Best player in Gwinnett besides me is ...: Bradon Ly • Favorite teacher: Lisa Bell • Favorite pros: Naomi Osaka and Angelique Kerber • Most of my rackets are this brand: Babolat Pure Drive • Nickname: AG • Favorite surface: Hard court • Coach Blaise Chamberlin’s take: “Ami defines what it is to be a student-athlete. She not only trains diligently on the tennis court but in the classroom as well. She will be graduating a year early and beginning her college tennis career next year. We are all so proud of her at Central Gwinnett and looking forward to bearing witness to all that she will soon accomplish throughout the rest of her senior year and into college.”

Alexandria Mann • School: Buford • Class: Sophomore • Hometown: Flowery Branch • College choice: Liberty University • Tennis academy/coach: TTS • Noteworthy accomplishments: 2018 MVP Buford Tennis Girls, 2016 Georgia State Open Champion, 2017 Peach State Singles Champion, 2018 Peach State Doubles Champion • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Jo Yee Chan • Song/artist I listened to the most: No favorites • Favorite teacher: Mrs. Rhymer • Favorite pro: Roger Federer • Most of my rackets are this brand: Head Instinct • Nickname: Alex • Favorite surface: Hard court • Coach Sean Gilbert’s take: “Alex has been a joy to watch on the court. She is such a class act on and off the court. Alex works so hard at her game and it shows in her smooth, polished game. She never gets rattled and is always under control. Her maturity and calm demeanor defy her age.”

Brooke Bolton • School: Mill Creek • Class: Sophomore • Hometown: Dacula • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Formerly KEMP with coach Calvin Kemp • Noteworthy accomplishments: Invited to play in a game during the professional BB&T Atlanta Open tournament; given the “Most Outstanding Player” award; played Line 1 singles on varsity as a freshman • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Dean Kingsley • Song/artist I listened to the most: Khalid • Favorite teacher: Mrs. Wenger • Favorite pros: Roger Federer and Kei Nishikori • Most of my rackets are this brand: Wilson • Nickname: No nickname • Favorite surface to play on: Clay • Coach Tim Schroer’s take: “I am thrilled to get the opportunity to coach Brooke. She is a gamer.

If the match is tied 2-2, she is who you want on the court as the deciding point. She is a team player.

She has the ability to motivate the entire team through her passion for the game and her outstanding work ethic. She fights and grinds.

Her attention to details and high expectations of herself and her teammates are a couple of reasons why she is not only a leader in our program but also one of the top players in the region. Brooke drills with our girls team each day then turns around and drills with our boys as well. Brooke doesn’t shy away from tough competition, she always welcomes the challenge.

Win or lose, she sees it as an opportunity to grow and mature as a player.”

Cassidy Rebol • School: North Gwinnett • Class: Senior • Hometown: Duluth • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Next Level Tennis Academy, Torrey Hawkins • Noteworthy accomplishments: Gwinnett 2018 Player of the Year • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Katie Massey • Song/artist I listened to the most: “My Heart Will Go On,” Celine Dion • Favorite teacher: Mr. Yike • Favorite pros: Roger Federer and Ana Ivanovic • Most of my rackets are this brand: Babolat • Nickname: Cass • Favorite surface to play on: Hard court • Coach Katie Massey’s take: “I am so excited for Cassidy’s senior season. Not only does she do an awesome job in No. 1 singles position, but brings so much fun to our team dynamic.”

Emma Withrow • School: Brookwood • Class: Junior • Hometown: Snellville • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: R and G Tennis Academy, Mark Wylie • Noteworthy accomplishments: Making it into National Honors Society for Academics; named to All-County Doubles; making varsity as freshman; undefeated in regularseason matches • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Reuben Dayal • Song/artist I listened to the most: Taylor Swift • Favorite teacher: Mrs. Gayle (math) • Favorite pro: Roger Federer • Most of my rackets are this brand: Head Speed • Nickname: Em or Egg • Favorite surface to play on: Hard court • Coach Daniel Bowles’ take: “Emma has been a huge part of our successes the past two seasons. She was an all-county doubles player as a freshman and sophomore and this year will transition our singles lineup. Emma has always been one of those players that will do whatever it takes to benefit the team — regardless of her position in the lineup, she’s always been a team-first player.

Emma is a 4.0 student taking many AP and gifted classes along the way. She is the true definition of a student-athlete and I’m lucky to have players like her on our team.”

Kendra Womack • School: Brookwood • Class: Senior • Hometown: Lawrenceville • College choice: Deciding between colleges in Virginia, Georgia

and Florida.

• Tennis academy/coach: Dynamic Tennis Academy, private coach Claudia Trandafir • Noteworthy accomplishments: Ranked No. 21 player in the state for the Class of 2019 by tennisrecruiting.net; Overall School Record 41-13 with no regional match losses (Singles 30-10, Doubles 11-3); first team allcounty in doubles as a freshman (undefeated with a record of 9-0 for in-state and out-of-state matches); second team all-county tennis in singles as a Junior; starting lineup player for the past three years, contributing to region championships and state playoffs; contributed to the Granger Invitational Division 1 Girls Championship win at singles Line 3; ranked No. 41 in Georgia and No. 224 in South for girls 18s by the USTA; JR USTA Georgia; Spotlight Player of the Month for Dec. 20, 2017 • Best player in Gwinnett County that’s not me: Alexandria Mann • Song/artist I listened to the most: BTS (aka Bangtan Sonyeondan) • Favorite teachers: Ginny Hanley and Dana Kling • Favorite pros: Roger Federer, Venus Williams, Naomi Osaka • Most of my rackets are this brand: Prince • Nickname: Special K or Kenny • Favorite surface to play on: Hard court • Coach Bowles’ take: “Kendra is one of the best teammates I’ve ever had the pleasure of coaching.

It may sound cliche, but Kendra is one of only a few players I’ve had who honestly cares as much or more about her teammates than she does herself. Not only is she a very talented player, but she’s one of our hardest workers and an amazing person. I would describe Kendra as a servant leader who is constantly sacrificing for the good of the team. Kendra has put up some overwhelming statistics in her three years at BHS, but the stats pale in comparison to the type of person that Kendra is. Next year, some lucky college program will figure out how valuable Kendra is both on and off the court.”

BOYS Brady Todd • School: Buford • Class: Junior • Hometown: Buford • College: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Georgia Gwinnett College’s Chase Hodges • Noteworthy Accomplishments: 2018 Super Six; Deco Turf Div. MVP; Region Player of the Year; 2017 All-County Team • Best player in Gwinnett besides me is…: Simar Bajwa • Last artist I listened to: Led Zeppelin, The Ocean • Favorite teacher: Mrs. Shoemaker • Most of my rackets are this brand: Solinco • Favorite surface: Clay • Coach Sean Gilbert’s take: “Brady has been our No. 1 singles player for the last two years, since he was a freshman. Despite his youth, he has never backed down from some tough competition, taking on our opponent’s top player in every match. He has steadily improved and grown physically. Brady is a quick, explosive player and a fiery competitor. This year we will be counting on him to lead our young team on and off the court.”

Frank Zhou • School: North Gwinnett • Class: Sophomore • Hometown: Suwanee • College choice: Stanford • Tennis academy/coach: Nspire

Academy, Naiim Azhar • Noteworthy accomplishments: 2018 USTA scholar athlete of the year; 3 star TR; Top 20 GA USTA ranking; 10 UTR; member of the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra; American Protege Piano 2nd place; 4.0 GPA; Presidential National Service Award • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Matthew Sloan • Song/artist I listened to the most: “A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie” • Favorite teacher: Coach Shuler • Favorite pros: Rafa Nadal • Most of my rackets are this brand: Babolat • Nickname: Big Frank • Favorite surface to play on: Clay • Coach Starr Shuler’s take: “Frank is such a well-rounded and talented student-athlete. He always shows the absolute best attitude and determination and approaches tennis with a poise and confidence beyond his years. His leadership manages to bring out the best in each of his teammates.”

Matthew Sloan • School: North Gwinnett • Class: Sophomore • Hometown: Sugar Hill • College choices: University of Georgia or University of Southern California • Tennis academy/coach: Universal Tennis Academy, David Stolle • Noteworthy accomplishments: Top 10 in Georgia; volunteer youth tennis coach Atlanta Youth Tennis Education Foundation; Washington Park volunteer coach; North Gwinnett Co-op Volunteer; Beta Club Member; Big Picture Foundation member • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Thomas Montroy • Song/artist I listened to the most: Quality Control or Travis Scott • Favorite teacher: Coach Shuler • Favorite pros: Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer, Jack Sock • Most of my rackets are this brand: Wilson and Solinco • Nickname: Sloan • Favorite surface to play on: grass • Coach Starr Shuler’s Take: “Matthew is a great competitor who is always looking to improve his game and that of his teammates.

His leadership is beyond that of most sophomores, making him such an asset to our program both on and off the court. I am looking forward to watching him move to that No.1 singles spot this season.”

Reuben Dayal • School: Brookwood • Class: Senior • Hometown: Lawrenceville • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Summit Chase Tennis Academy • Noteworthy accomplishments: 53-3 overall high school record, undefeated in regular-season matches, named to Decoturf B Division All-Tournament team in 2017, reached as high as 284 in the nation and 15 in Georgia for class of 2019 on Tennis Recruiting • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Thomas Montroy • Favorite teacher: David Dimsdale • Favorite pros: Roger Federer • Most of my rackets are this brand: Solinco • Nickname: Reub/Ruby • Favorite surface to play on:

Indoor hard • Coach Kent Doehrman’s take: “I love watching Reuben play tennis and as he has matured and gotten stronger, I am still amazed.

He is a surgeon on the court.

Reuben learned the defensive side of tennis as he was growing up. He is able to always fall back on this until he can become the aggressor on a point or in a match. He can hit with power or he can take pace off. He is mentally very strong and is able to focus and refocus on each new point. Reuben is a true gentleman on the court also.”

Thomas Montroy • School: Brookwood • Class: Senior • Hometown: Snellville • College choice: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Summit Chase Tennis Academy • Noteworthy accomplishments: Player of the Year for the 2017-2018 season • Best tennis player in Gwinnett County besides me is…: Reuben Dayal • Song/artist I listened to the most: Post Malone • Favorite teacher: Mr. Hanik or Mr. Dimmsdale • Favorite pros: Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer • Most of my rackets are this brand: Wilson • Nickname: Tommy • Favorite surface to play on: Clay • Coach Kent Doehrman’s take: “Thomas has great focus and drive during a match. His ability to adapt and change tactics during a match is one of his strong suits. If something is not working against a certain opponent, he tries to find something that will. He is a true gentleman on the court. He plays the game the way that it is supposed to be played regardless of the opponents’ ability. A true champion.”

Simar Bajwa • School: Peachtree Ridge • Class: Junior • Hometown: Duluth • College: Undecided • Tennis academy/coach: Ace Tennis Academy, Jeff Weaver • Noteworthy accomplishments: First team all-county as a junior; two-star rating on tennisrecruiting.net; No. 15 rank in Georgia for juniors; ranked as high as No. 30 in Southern Region and No. 3 in state; won several region tournaments • Best tennis player in Gwinnett besides me…: Brady Todd • Song/artist I listened to the most: Don’t have one • Favorite teacher: Gabriel Pak • Favorite pros: Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev • Most of my rackets are this brand: Solinco • Nickname: Stonewall Simar/SimCard • Favorite surface to play on: Hard court • Coach Sally Taylor’s take: “Simar has been a pleasure to coach and to watch develop over the past two seasons. He is extremely hardworking and highly motivated, especially when playing guys he has lost to before or that are higher ranked than he is. Last season, he used the fact that he was not nominated as a Super Six to motivate him throughout the season and went 3-1 against other Super Six players. Simar has become a leader on our team and is a great teammate. As soon as his matches are over, he is cheering on his teammates in their matches as well.”

Dayal •From Page 1B as a parent.”

Just before high school, Dayal was starting to catch up. “(I noticed improvement) when I started beating people I lost to toward the beginning, or when I was competitive with top players that I wouldn’t have been before, getting into bigger tournaments,” he said.

There was a crucial turning point, however, that showed Dayal his dedication was starting to produce tangible results.

Dayal said his biggest tournament success came in his sophomore year of high school. He won his first USTA Southern Level 3 tournament in Augusta.

In the semifinals, Dayal

to his future coach on the phone about enrolling in December or January, he soon proved to Doehrman that he was “the real deal.”

“He could have been the No. 1, but Brooks had put in his four years and he had earned that,” Doehrman said. “Reuben was very content. He was still not as strong as he is now.

He was such a solid No. 2 and playing against the older kids.”

That was the 2017 tennis season, and Brookwood Brookwood’s Reuben Dayal is part of the 2019 Daily Post looked poised to make a Super Six boys tennis team. (Photo: Kyle Hess) run for the state title. Unfaced an opponent he’d lost wood as a sophomore after fortunately, disaster struck to twice. The last time he he took online classes for Brookwood at the wrong lost was the semifinals of a what would have been his time. Berry came down Level 3 tournament when freshman year. Former with mono and Dayal he lost a tiebreaker 12-10 Brookwood player Brooks contracted strep during the after having match point.

Berry was one of the first region tournament. BrookHe won in straight sets. to tell Doehrman about wood lost in the region Dayal came to BrookDayal. After Dayal spoke semifinals to Norcross and

in the first round of the state tournament to Milton, an eventual semifinalist.

Dayal struck Doehrman as a good defensive player when he came to Brookwood. Dayal can cover the baseline well and turn the pressure back on his opponents. That doesn’t mean that Dayal never plays aggressively.

“He doesn’t play defensive, but when the other guy becomes aggressive, he’s able to play that and turn it around,” Doehrman said. “He can stay in the points. A lot of guys can’t do that. They might pin him back, but all of the sudden he’ll turn the table with his forehand.”

Dayal is still polishing his technique and mechanics. He’s remarked that his net game is most improved

during his time off from Brookwood’s high school season.

That could prove a dangerous addition to an already well-rounded game. Brookwood returns its top two players, including reigning boys Player of the Year Thomas Montroy.

The Broncos suffered a difficult draw with Lambert, a Class AAAAAAA semifinalist, in Round 2 of last year’s state tournament in 2017. This year Dayal said Brookwood has the talent. Their success will be determined based on everyone’s focus in the late months of spring. “(Thomas and I) both have solid work ethics, and we hope the younger players take that for Brookwood tennis to come,” Dayal said.

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By Jerell Rushin Staff Correspondent

Collins Hill graduate Devin Mitchell said that he wanted to improve by gaining the ability to score at any moment of a game as his junior season wrapped up last March.

He has done just that this season, his senior year, since returning from a knee injury he suffered during a scrimmage against Kennesaw State that caused him to miss Georgia State’s first seven games.

Despite missing 35 percent of the season, Mitchell leads Georgia State in 3-pointers made with 52.

His 50 percent mark from deep is by far the team’s best out of volume 3-point shooters.

Mitchell has made three or more 3-pointers in 12 of his last 13 games and had a 6-for-13 night from behind the arc against Texas State last week. He had a Georgia State-high 20 points in the team’s first home loss of the season.

“It’s been great, man,” Mitchell said. “I learned how to fight some adversity. You never really know why things happen, but I had to get through that, and I think it has made me better as a player.”

The seven-game absence

He couldn’t play for over a month and became out of shape. However, he gained back his rhythm and flow as he played more games.

Mitchell said he rebounded well because he put in a lot of work during the summer leading up to season.

“Devin has always been a good shooter, even in his first year at Alabama,” Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter said. “What has made him great is his dedication to improving, especially during the summer. The summer months are when good players can become great and great players can become professionals. Devin has taken advantage and become a lot better every summer Georgia State’s Devin Mitchell, a Collins Hill grad, works against Georgia Southern on and we are seeing it in his Jan. 20 in Atlanta. (Photo: Jason Getz) play.” was a new experience adversity and get through it trying to live up to that.

Mitchell is on pace for for Mitchell, who hasn’t and get back and help the Whether I am or not, in my another career year after missed a game since his team.” head, that’s what I kind of improving again. He’s senior year at Collins Hill.

Mitchell, a 2018 All-Sun tell myself. I think that’s averaging 14.1 points — “I missed two games Belt Conference third-team what I bring to our team. second-highest on the with an ankle injury (at selection, has confidence That’s my biggest asset I team behind D’Marcus Collins Hill),” Mitchell that never wavers, somecan bring to our team — Simonds’ 19.5 — 1.6 said. “I’ve never missed six thing head coach Ron my veteran leadership and rebounds and 1.5 assists on weeks. I’ve never been out Hunter desires in his play- being able to knock down 49.2 percent shooting. a whole week. That’s never ers. shots for us.”

“I want to try to make happened to me before, “It’s a lot of work,” The injury sidelined a team next year whether so it was definitely tough Mitchell said. “I think Mitchell because he it’s overseas or playing in to deal with. It’s my first I’m the best shooter in couldn’t move laterally the NBA, so just continutime in my career having to the country, so I’ve tried like he would have liked ing to get better each and go through it, so I’m glad to hold myself to that to, so he then went into every game, showcasing I was able to face some standard this year. So just intense rehab. what I’m doing, and hope-

fully someone picks up the phone and calls,” Mitchell said on his personal goals besides helping Georgia State reach a second consecutive NCAA Tournament.

Hunter offered Mitchell, a former 4-star guard, after seeing him play during a camp at Georgia State.

He signed with Alabama and transferred after one season to Georgia State, the first school to offer him.

“From the day we started to recruit him, we knew that Devin was a special player,” Hunter said.

“Just with his shooting ability, he has continued to work on his leadership, approach and focus to get better every year. I have no doubt that even after his collegiate career is over that he will continue to work on these things at the next level.”

He didn’t expect to return to the Gwinnett area for his college career, but he’s glad to be home.

“Georgia State’s always had a special place in my heart just because it was my first college offer,” Mitchell said. “(I) didn’t really see myself coming here at first, but crazy things happen. So I’m back, and I think this is where I’m supposed to be.”

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Georgia Gwinnett College’s Hunter Dollander returns as part of a deep pitching staff hoping to take the next step. (Photo: Tom Grason)

GGC •From Page 1B this year.

“The addition of just another year with Coursey, (Brandon) Frazier, Garland, Ballard, Barnes. Cord Johnson is going to be a huge piece of that, too. It allows us to get into some coaching IQ and developing them as better players as opposed to getting them started with our team philosophy. We can just hop right in and take it to a much deeper, more thoughtful level in terms of approach.”

Coursey can feel what it means to start the season without major changes in the lineup.

“This year, we do have a couple of new guys, but it was filling in spots,” the All-American second baseman said. “The whole core is back and we all know what it takes to get back to the World Series.

“We came in and we knew everybody. It was like, ‘Let’s get back to work.’”

The hunger is high after coming so close to winning it all.

“We did taste how close we were and it just makes it that much more reachable,” Coursey said. “We saw it. It was there in our hands and we lost it. So I feel like we’re very motivated to get back to where we were last year and complete the goal.”

the pitcher credited with a win in close to 35 of those is coming back this year.

Lefty Gregory Loukinen was 7-1 with a 2.73 ERA as a junior. Reliever Tucker Plouffe posted a 2.93 ERA and Hunter Dollander was 8-1 with a 2.97 ERA. One significant pitching loss is Cole Uvila. The reliever was drafted by the Texas Rangers and spent the summer playing Class A short season with the Spokane Indians where he continued to deal strikeouts with regularity.

New to the starting rotation is junior transfer Pedro Garcia.

“Then we have some guys that just need to step up,” Stromdahl said.

“Richard Triplet, Jonathan McKinney, Tucker Plouffe — those guys are going Georgia Gwinnett College senior Alex Garland is part of a strong leadership core for to step up into a position where they need to fill in the Grizzlies. (Photo: Tom Grason) for those victories we lost.

Coursey is part of a men, to go local freshmen, high schools here in the And it’s their time. They’ve strong returning infield to build on.” metro area. And to be able been here for a year or two along with Garland and Only four players on the to build on that, reachand I think we’re expecting Frazier, both seniors, at the roster are not from Georgia ing into Atlanta and south great things.” corners. and many are Gwinnett na- Georgia.

GGC, which is ranked “We return so many guys tives who are continuing to “But for the most part, No. 3 in the preseason poll, we’re still coaching for build this relatively young it’s right here and homehas 38 home games on its next year,” Stromdahl said. program. grown. I think name schedule and the first 16 “We see this as a three-, “That goes back to a recognition continues to straight are in Lawrencevfour-, five-year lineage shift we made with Cam grow within the baseball ille. of freshmen through the Coursey’s class — guys community.”

“The reality is hopefully system and laying the long- like Cord Johnson, Nick One county product, they’re a year wiser and term foundation. We’ve had Barnes, Michael Cherwen- Shiloh’s Myles Smith, we’re able to continue to a bunch of wonderful kids ka,” Stromdahl said. “We returns after missing last build on the foundation and players come through made a definitive effort season with an injury. He we’ve put in place,” Stromhere for one or two years to get into Gwinnett and adds another weapon to an dahl said. “We have to go in the past, but we’ve made try to have our foundation already deep pitching staff. out and work hard for what the transition to go freshbuilt around the county, the Of the 50 wins last season, we’re going to earn.”

Friday: 3 p.m. vs. Southeastern (Fla.) Saturday: Noon (DH) vs.

Southeastern (Fla.) Feb. 8: 4 p.m. vs. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Feb. 9: 2 p.m. vs. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Feb. 10: 1 p.m. vs. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Feb. 13: 3 p.m. vs. Tennessee Wesleyan Feb. 15: 4 p.m vs. Webber International (Fla.) Feb. 16: 1 p.m. vs. Webber International (Fla.) Feb. 17: 1 p.m. vs. Webber International (Fla.) Feb. 20: 3 p.m. vs. Reinhardt Feb. 22: 1 p.m. vs. Clarke (Iowa) Feb. 23: 1 p.m. (DH) vs.

Clarke (Iowa) Feb. 24: 1 p.m. vs. Clarke (Iowa) Feb. 26: 3 p.m. vs. TruettMcconnell Feb. 27: 6 p.m. at Middle Georgia State March 2: 6 p.m. vs. St. Xavier (Ill.) March 3: 1 p.m. (DH) vs. St. Xavier (Ill.) March 8: 6 p.m. at Thomas March 9: 5 p.m. at Thomas March 10: 2 p.m. at Thomas March 12: 3 p.m. at Bryan (Tenn.)

March 15: 4 p.m. vs. Indiana Tech March 16: 1 p.m. (DH) vs.

Indiana Tech March 19: 5 p.m. (DH) vs.

Thomas March 20: 3 p.m. at Cumberland (Tenn.)

March 22: 4 p.m .vs. Lyon (Ark.) March 23: 1 p.m. vs. Lyon (Ark.) March 24: 1 p.m. vs. Lyon (Ark.) March 26: 6 p.m. at Reinhardt March 29: 3 p.m. at Edward Waters (Fla.) March 30: 2 p.m. at Edward Waters (Fla.) March 31: 1 p.m. at Edward Waters (Fla.) April 5: 3 p.m. vs. Edward Waters April 6: 2 p.m. (DH) vs.

Edward Waters April 9: 7 p.m. vs. William Carey (Miss.)

April 10: 3 p.m. vs. William Carey (Miss.)

April 12: 4 p.m. at Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) April 13: 2 p.m. at Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) April 14: 1 p.m. at Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) April 16: 6 p.m. vs. Middle Georgia State April 17: 3 p.m. vs. Cumberland (Tenn.)

April 19: 4 p.m. at Talladega (Ala.) April 20: 2 p.m. at Talladega (Ala.) April 21: 1 p.m. at Talladega (Ala.) April 23: 3 p.m. at Tennessee Wesleyan April 24: 6 p.m. vs. Bryan (Tenn.)

April 27: 6 p.m. vs. USCBeaufort April 28: 1 p.m. (DH) vs.

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Zimmerman scores in U.S. victory Midfielder Djordje Mihailovic (40th minute) and The Gregg Berhalter forward Christian Ramirez era for the U.S. men’s (89th) became the 52nd national team began with a and 53rd U.S. players to 3-0 defeat of Panama in a score in their debuts. friendly Sunday in GlenAlso, defender Walker dale, Ariz.

Zimmerman, a Brookwood Berhalter, the former grad, scored his second coach of Major League Soc- goal in five matches in the cer’s Columbus Crew, was 80th minute with a header named to the U.S. position from 8 yards off a cross on Dec. 4. He replaced inby defender Nick Lima, terim coach Dave Sarachan, another debutant. who took over in November Berhalter, a former U.S. defender, is tasked with U.S. defender Walker Zimmerman (25) heads the ball in 2017 after Jurgen Klinsrevitalizing the program. for a goal against Panama during the second half of an mann and Bruce Arena international friendly soccer match Sunday in Glendale, failed to qualify the U.S. for Others to play their first the 2018 World Cup. U.S. matches were deAriz. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports) Field Level Media

fender Daniel Lovitz and midfielders Corey Baird and Jeremy Ebobisse.

Before the breakthrough goal by Mihailovic, the Americans had a flurry of near-goals.

Gyasi Zardes, who had his career resurrected in Columbus last season by Berhalter, had layoffs that Corey Baird in the 25th minute and Lima in the 27th sent wide of the right post.

A minute later, Baird had a flick from Aaron Long, in his first match as captain, go over the goal.

Zardes was involved in the first goal, putting a pass to Baird on the right flank.

Baird’s service to Mihailovic was slotted from 15 yards.

Zack Steffen, the 2018 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year for the Crew, made a left-handed stop of Edson Samms in the 56th minute.

Steffen made three saves before being relieved by another Brookwood grad, Sean Johnson (one save), in the 74th minute.

The U.S. next plays Costa Rica on Saturday in San Jose, Calif.

comes up and shakes your hand. The quality of people on that Princeton team is very, very high. There’s not really anyone there who hasn’t had success in one thing or another. Everyone there knows how to work.

It always, especially in that era when I was committing there, with Coach (Guy) Gadowsky there, he made it pretty easy (to pick Princeton). He’s a pretty impressive guy and now he’s got the job at Penn State. They’ll win a national championship. He’s something else.

CT: When you do grow up in Western Canada, is there still an aura around Ivy Leagues? Does that permeate?

SB: No. I mean, some people know about it, but really, going to school in the States, it’s just a blank screen for most of us. We don’t even really see behind that veil. There were a handful of guys from my high school that took their SATs and tried to see what that would be like, but, especially for me, I really didn’t know anything about it. Growing up, you’re just trying to make sure you’ve got good enough grades to get into UBC, which is a great school, or somewhere like McGill. We have the University of Waterloo, which is a great engineering school. That tends to be how even good students in Canada think.

CT: How did you decide on major?

SB: I knew I wanted to do engineering before I went into university. It was just what type I wanted to do. I’ve always been someone who enjoys figuring out how things work, taking things apart. My dad taught me how to use power tools pretty early, so I was always building stuff in our garage. I built skateboards growing up. A lot of them. I built bike ramps. All kinds of stuff. I enjoyed that side of engineering, the practice side of it.

Actually when I went to Colorado College on my visit, they don’t have engineering. When I went to New Hampshire, they told me I’d have to be there five years and they had one (athlete) in the program.

Then you go to Princeton and there’s five guys on the hockey team that are lights-out engineers. Taylor Fedun, who plays in the (Dallas Stars system), he was a 3.7 GPA in mechanical engineering. He built a hovercraft for his senior thesis. Unbelievable guy.

He was my captain when I was a freshman. His buddy, Cam Ritchie, was a 3.9. Like one A-minus his whole time. Ridiculous.

With Feds, his intensity level was through the roof. Everything was at a 10. And there are a lot of those guys at Princeton. I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t do both. I couldn’t do hockey and school at the same time. My hockey suffered at school. But lots of guys, that’s just how they’re wired, just winners in everything.

My captain my junior and senior year, Jack Berger, 99th percentile MCAT score. He also had an

America League two-way on the table after his senior year. He left that, played in Sweden for a year and now goes to Columbia med.

Then he’s doing an MBA at the same time.

CT: Do you have a roommate here?

SB: Joel Messner.

CT: So sometimes you have a roommate (since he’s been called up to the AHL several times).

Do you guys have a good division of labor?

SB: For sure. I love cooking, and so does he. He’s always making healthy food and we’re in the kitchen a lot. It’s been good.

CT: What do you remember most about your first pro game?

SB: It would have been with Indy in preseason and it was in Alaska. I played really well, and it was awesome. I really liked Anchorage. That game, the rink was a great atmosphere. I got scored on and they threw a full salmon on the ice. I was like, “That’s so cool.” It almost took the heat off getting scored on.

But I played well and kind of played my way onto that team. Then I had some real bad games after that, but the first game was pretty great. I got pulled from two straight, I think, and sent down to Fayetteville.

CT: What music do you like away from the rink?

SB: I listen to a little bit of everything, which is a pretty standard thing to say. I probably listen to more alternative rock and alternative country. One of my favorites to listen to right now is Sturgill Simpson. I actually like listening to his interviews, too. He’s a pretty interesting guy. A guy who got famous when he was 35 instead of 10. I relate a lot more to someone like that who didn’t figure it out right away.

CT: What about on game days?

SB: I listen to some of the Canadian band Arkells, maybe some rap, even some Sturgill those days, too. But nothing really consistent. I try to mix it up. I don’t like getting super attached to anything silly like that.

CT: Any favorite TV right now?

SB: I’ve been watching “Atlanta,” actually. Donald Glover is just unbelievable.

I could watch anything that guy does, but that’s a really funny show.

CT: If you were going to have dinner with three other people, dead or alive, famous or not, who would it be?

SB: Let’s say Steve Rinella, who is the host of a show called “MeatEater” on Netflix. He’s written a couple of books. Wildlife biologist. Interesting guy.

Then I would pick Sturgill in there. He’s unique in the music world. And then I’ve got to pick someone in hockey. I actually had dinner with Pierre McGuire once, which was pretty interesting. But there’s a goalie coach whose books I’ve read several of, Mike Valley. The way he thinks is interesting and it’s been very helpful to me.

Bonar •From Page 1B beginning of the season so I’ve been trying to work on restoring that. Lots of little things to do to focus on other than hockey, which I think is pretty important.

CT: Did you get the pop-up camper with the intention of using it during the offseason?

SB: For sure. I’ve done a whole bunch of trips driving. Whenever I’m on the way home (to British Columbia), I always spend time on the road. I spent two weeks in Colorado with my girlfriend, who is from here. We did five weeks on the road from New York to Vancouver.

It’ll be a lot easier with the truck camper instead of sleeping in the back of the truck.

And especially when I’m back home in Vancouver, I try to get outside as much as possible. It’s pretty beneficial and I really love it. When you’re in Vancouver, everything is close by. But, man, even when you’re here, you’re only three hours from some pretty great national forests and national parks so I’m looking forward to exploring here at the end of the year, too.

CT: Do you have some favorite spots?

SB: This past summer, actually, Emily flew out and we did two weeks around Jasper and Banff area. There were a lot of highlights, but one of the coolest was we backpacked into Mt. Robson, one of the tallest mountains in Canada and the tallest in the Rockies. There’s a phenomenal backpacking trail that goes all the way up to the foot of it. We did two nights, three days in that area. It’s very rare to get any sort of clear weather on Mt. Robson and it was crisp. It was awesome.

The stretch of highway between Banff and Jasper is called the Icefields Parkway and I think it’s one of the coolest highways in the world.

CT: I need to go back since I was 12 the last time I was there. And I think I spent a lot of time listening to my yellow Walkman while my dad was driving.

SB: Jasper is an awesome little town, too.

There’s a guy who used to paint my masks who lives in Jasper and I think that guy has the coolest life ever. I follow him on Instagram. He just paints goalie masks, does art and goes hiking all the time.

CT: You’ve talked about how important it is to celebrate the successes in comparison to learning from the mistakes. Have these last couple of weeks been a little more of the former, thankfully?

SB: Yeah, absolutely.

Over the last couple of weeks some of the work that, not only we’ve been doing, but also our coaching staff has been doing in terms of changing personnel has really started to pay off. When you have guys buying in and things start snowballing in the right direction, it’s really easy to use that momentum.

You remember why

Atlanta Gladiators goaltender Sean Bonar is tied for first in the ECHL with a .930 save percentage this season. The Princeton product, who is in his fifth pro year, is sixth in the league with a 2.26 goals-against average. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

you got to this point in the season and for us we had quite a long stretch of disappointment. So it’s a lot easier to remember, in the back of our minds, how close that is and how fine that line is. Just because we’re on the right side of it now, we have to keep doing the things that got us here instead of getting complacent.

CT: You haven’t been in a lot of shootouts this season. How was the one (on MLK Day last Monday against Jacksonville) for you?

SB: It was stressful.

It was a game where I thought we played one of our best games defensively.

They were on the end of a really tough road trip. They didn’t have the legs they sometimes do against us.

They played a very locked down game so for me, that can be pretty tough because you’re not getting the same sort of action that you usually are. A pretty light workload night for me. And their goalie played phenomenally. That always makes it tough going into a shootout.

CT: Does it help to have your teammate convert on the first shot?

SB: No question. And (Nick) Bligh has been so hot for us recently. He’s got so much confidence — and deservedly so. He shoots the puck so well. He made no mistake on that shootout move, too.

CT: If it had been Bligh coming in on you, would you have tried the poke check (as Jacksonville’s Mikhail Berdin did)?

SB: I would have just closed my eyes and hoped it hit me, I think. That’s about all you can do with him right now.

CT: You guys still do shootouts fairly regularly at practice. Other than Bligh, who’s got worthy moves?

SB: There’s a lot of guys who have some pretty good moves. Obviously Bligh, but also some of our new guys. Joe Widmar has some really good shootout moves. Avery Peterson, he’s really, really strong on the puck and he has a quick release. He has some good shooting moves on the breakaways. (Luke) Stork has beaten me a couple of times. (Defenseman Zach) Malatesta even has some crazy ones he tries. Sometimes it works.

Then Justin MacDonald, he tries even dumber stuff.

He’s actually really good. (smiling) It just pisses me off to say it because he always scores on me.

CT: Anyone try the lacrosse move?

SB: No one’s tried it, but if someone was going to do it, it would be J-Mac. For sure.

CT: What books have you read lately?

SB: A book by Dr. Gabor Mate, who’s brother is actually my neighbor at my cabin in the Gulf Islands and he’s up there. He spent 10 years working on the downtown eastside in Vancouver so really interesting takes on drug addiction and drug policy. Right now I’m reading two. “The Game” by Ken Dryden, which I’ve actually never read before. He came and talked to us at school. He’s just got so much self-confidence and rightly so. He’s lights-out smart and he was one of the best goalies off all time. Imagine to have the confidence to say, “You guys aren’t paying me enough. I’m going to go finish my law degree.”

When you’re playing for the Canadiens. But also a guy that had lots of outside interests — and that probably made him a better goalie as well.

Then my brother game me that “Sapiens” book.

It’s pretty cool. All about how humans evolved.

CT: Is that usually your preferred method for passing time on the bus rides?

SB: It is, but I’ve been playing more cards this year.

CT: How are you on the card front?

SB: Not very good. Horrible actually.

CT: Did you guys have some fairly long road trips though when you were playing junior in the B.C.?

SB: Oh, God, yeah.

From Penticton where I played, it was 10 hours to Prince George — and you’re not even halfway up B.C. Then you go play in Trail and it’s a six-hour drive the other direction.

Then we’d do an island road trip every now and again. You have to drive the four or five hours to the ferry, a two-hour ferry and then another couple hours across to Port Alberni. And if you want to go to Powell River, then it’s two ferries.

Powell River is an insane

piece of geography. It’s on the mainland, but you can’t get there by road.

CT: And you guys are doing it on coach buses.

SB: I remember bringing stuff to sleep on the floor.

CT: If someone were to visit your hometown, where would you send them?

SB: Whenever people come to Vancouver, I tell them to check the sea wall out. That’s really worth the walk-around. It gives you an appreciation for the unique geography that Vancouver has, situated right in the mountains but then also right beside the ocean.

And if you get a chance to drive out toward Whistler, it gives you an even better idea of that.

CT: Is there any place you have to eat at first when you get back home?

SB: Not particularly.

My mum makes great food and we don’t eat out a ton, but there are some places I really like. The biggest thing is how good sushi is in Vancouver, and seafood in general.

CT: What was your college decision-making process like?

SB: That was pretty interesting. When you grow up in Western Canada, a lot of times, you don’t really know anything about college hockey. I had not been exposed to it at all. I didn’t even really know it was an option, honestly. Then in midget hockey, we played in some tournaments and, I mean, those colleges need to be recruiting so early that they were at those. I remember they’re not even allowed to talk to you at that point, if you haven’t taken your SATs. But I remember hearing that there was interest from Princeton and thinking that was crazy I could potentially go somewhere like that for hockey.

The next year, playing juniors, I took my fly-downs to a couple of different schools — to UNH, to Colorado College and Princeton. Colorado College was very, very cool. Colorado Springs is a beautiful place and their rink is sweet. It’s such a good program. That was tough to say no to. But at the end of the day, it’s Princeton. When I went on my visit there, I was just blown away by how hardworking and everyone

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SUPER BOWL LIII L.A. Rams vs. New England • Sunday, 6:30 p.m. (CBS) • Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

Rams’ Robey-Coleman: Opposing coaches McVay, Brady is showing his age Belichick are pals via text “Whatever he was doing — because of his age and Los Angeles Rams all that — he’s not doing cornerback Nickell Robey- as much of that anymore.

Coleman delivered some He’s still doing the same bulletin-board material things; he’s just not doing Monday in advance of as much of it. And someSuper Bowl LIII. times, it’s not the sharpest.

His target was New But it still gets done.”

England Patriots quarterRobey-Coleman saw back Tom Brady and the Brady and the Patriots message is that Father twice a year from 2013-16 Time is getting the best of when he was a member of the 41-year-old future Hall the Buffalo Bills. of Famer.

He is in the second “Age has definitely taken season with the Rams, but a toll,” Robey-Coleman hasn’t set aside his dislike told Bleacher Report. “For of the Patriots. him to still be doing it, “I’ve got Buffalo blood that’s a great compliment running through my veins, for him. But I think that so you know I hate these he’s definitely not the same guys,” Robey-Coleman quarterback he was. Move- said. “I naturally hate ment. Speed. Velocity. Arm them. I never liked New strength. He still can sling England.” it, but he’s not slinging it Robey-Coleman has had as much. an eventful postseason. He Field Level Media

wasn’t penalized for either of two fouls on one late fourth-quarter play — pass interference or helmetto-helmet hit — in the controversial finish to the NFC Championship Game, when the Rams defeated the New Orleans Saints.

Robey-Coleman blasted Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis right as the ball arrived with no call being made. He was later fined $26,739 for the helmet-tohelmet hit.

The 27-year-old RobeyColeman has six career interceptions in 95 regularseason games (20 starts).

Brady has completed 71.1 percent of his passes this postseason for 691 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He has won five Super Bowl rings with the Patriots.

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New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay will be rivals in Super Bowl LIII after being texting buddies all season.

McVay said he has gotten to know Belichick after talking to him at the NFL combine last spring.

“He was really great in the conversation we had, really enlightening,” McVay told Peter King of NBCSports.com.

“This is wild: This season, he has basically texted me after every one of our games. After we beat Minnesota in September, he texted, ‘Man, you guys are really explosive and impressive and fun to watch. Congratula-

tions — keep it rolling.’

“For him to even take the time to say congrats, it’s pretty cool. That’s one of the things I like about our business, our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can. I’m still young, still figuring it out. That stuff’s been really helpful to me.”

McVay, who turned 33 last week, is the youngest head coach in the NFL and will be the youngest head coach ever in a Super Bowl. Belichick, 66, is going for his sixth Super Bowl title with the New England Patriots since 2001. He will be trying to become the oldest head coach to win a Super Bowl.

Despite being at vastly different points in their

careers, Belichick and McVay have found mutual respect.

“I have a ton of respect for Sean,” Belichick said on a conference call with reporters last week.

“He’s done a great job in the two years he’s been with the Rams. His teams have performed at an extremely high level.

They’re very consistent; they’re well coached. He has a great scheme. The players execute it on a consistent basis at a very high level.

“He’s got a great coaching staff on offense, defense and special teams.

They’re good in every area. Coach McVay has done a tremendous job.

He’s got a great team.

They’re going to be very hard to beat.”

NFL responds to lawsuit over blown call in New Orleans Field Level Media

seeks to have the suit dismissed.

The NFL has admitted in “And, because the ofa document filed in court ficials on the field are huthat an officiating mistake mans, like the players and was made in the NFC coaches, errors will hapchampionship game. pen,” the document said.

Last Sunday, the league “The NFL parties do not responded to a lawsuit filed dispute that they have preby New Orleans Saints viously advised the Saints, fans seeking NFL comincluding the club’s head missioner Roger Goodell coach, that one or more to use his powers to order penalties for pass interferthe end of the game to be ence or illegal helmetreplayed. The league’s fil- to-helmet contact were ing in U.S. District Court mistakenly not called late in the Eastern Division of in the NFC Championship Louisiana, while acknowl- Game, and that the NFL edging “ticketholders and would like its officials on fans’ disappointment and the field to make these even anger over the outcalls. This was acknowlcome of last week’s game edged immediately after is entirely understandable,” the game to the coach of

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the New Orleans Saints by NFL Senior Vice President of Officiating Al Riveron.”

The NFL still had not issued a public statement on the matter, more than a week after the Jan. 20 game between the Saints and the Los Angeles Rams.

The documents also state that a court cannot order Goodell to take action, in the league’s opinion.

“The Commissioner’s discretion under NFL Rule 17 to take ‘corrective measures,’ even to direct the re-playing of all or a portion of a game, is just that — discretion — and not a mandate or a ministerial act a Court can require him to undertake.”

The play in question happened with less than two minutes left in the game. On a third-and-10 play from the Rams’ 13yard line, Saints quarterback Drew Brees threw a pass intended for Tommylee Lewis, and it appeared that the Rams’ Nickell Robey-Coleman interfered with the play.

Instead of gaining a first down and a chance to score a touchdown, the Saints were forced to kick a field goal, giving them a 23-20 lead. The Rams had enough time on the clock to kick a field goal of their own to send the game to overtime. L.A. won 26-23.

With a week behind him

since the controversial loss, Brees went on social media Monday morning to share his thoughts about how his team’s season ended and to address New Orleans fans.

“I’ve spent this last week navigating the heartache and disappointment from the game,” Brees wrote in an Instagram post. “Some things within our control and some outside our control that caused us to fall short. So much of our motivation is to represent the Who Dat Nation with determination and resiliency. We want to play for you, fight for you, and win for you. You deserve that.”

Brees, 40, got an upclose look at the play that

potentially cost the Saints a trip to the Super Bowl. He threw the third-down pass to Lewis that the officials ruled incomplete.

“Everything that has ever happened to this community, we have bonded together, galvanized and leaped forward every time,” Brees said. “The frustration we feel now can be channeled in the same way. Pour that passion and emotion into your families and communities. Inspire others with your focus and determination and positive outlook. This will make us stronger, this will bond us tighter, this will be a source for our success in the future.”

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