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Commissioners OK MARTA-style heavy rail

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Gwinnett County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday to approve an outline for the next 30-plus years of transit in the county that includes MARTA-style heavy rail among other things.

The commission’s

adoption of the Connect Gwinnett Transit Plan means heavy rail will come to at least Jimmy Carter Boulevard — and maybe eventually Gwinnett Place Mall — as well as bus rapid transit, rapid bus routes, more paratransit, express and local bus services — they are all officially on the table for current and future county

leaders to consider.

“I think it’s a great plan and it just allows us to really have some options in the future for transit improvements,” Gwinnett County Director of Transportation Alan Chapman said.

The plan adopted by commissioners this week is the same version that was presented to them

earlier this summer.

One of the big items in the plan is an extension of heavy rail from the Doraville MARTA station to a planned multi-modal hub that will be located somewhere on the Jimmy Carter Boulevard corridor.

That is part of the longrange transit plans for the county.

It will certainly come

with a big price tag with conservative estimates projecting it to cost at least $250 million per mile.

If Gwinnett holds a transportation special purpose local option sales tax to fund projects in its transit plan, residents would likely have to wait 15 to 20 years before they see the rail line up and

running.

A long-range Phase II part of the plan — projects that would likely take more than 30 years to complete — includes an extension of heavy rail from Jimmy Carter to Gwinnett Place.

Another part of the long range plans include

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Police probe death of woman, 63

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett police are investigating the death of a 63-year-old woman who was found in the basement apartment of a Suwanee home.

Officers responded to a residence on Collins Port Cove in unincorporated Suwanee shortly before 1 p.m. Monday after receiving a call about the woman, who was later identified as Dorothy Ann D’Anna, from the homeowner, according to Cpl. Wilbert Rundles, a spokesman for the Gwinnett County

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Keynote speaker Kevin Brown speaks to new Gwinnett County public school teachers during Gwinnett County Public Schools 2018 new teacher orientation at the Infinite Energy Forum. (Photos: Cory Hancock)

Instructors schooled Teachers orientation provides guidance for new educators

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A decade ago, Ansley Butler couldn’t dream of being a teacher. She was struggling in high school, trying to figure out how to improve her grades.

During those tough times at Duluth High School, Butler found inspiration from a teacher who offered her compassion and guidance. That teacher helped her get on track in the classroom and motivated her to aspire to one day help students as well.

On Tuesday, Butler realized that dream as she joined more than 1,300 educators at the Gwinnett County Public Schools teacher orientation held at the Infinite Energy Center.

Butler, who is set to start her first year of teaching this year, is a 2011 graduate of Duluth High. She will teach 11th grade U.S. history as well as U.S. government at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, giving her the chance to help students like the teacher who guided her.

“I struggled when I was in high school and was not the type of person you would think would become a teacher,” Butler said. “I actually had a teacher that helped me become the first person in my family to graduate from high school and go to college. I realized how much of an impact that Mrs. Hudak had made upon me and decided that I was going to do the same thing.”

Gwinnett police are investigating a suspicious death on Collins Port Cove in unincorporated Suwanee. (Photo: FOX 5 Atlanta)

Grandmother of child who starved sues state welfare

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Crisp, a graduate of Brookwood High School in 1991, is an English to speakers of other languages teacher at Norcross High School.

“A lot has changed since I was a student,” Crisp said. “We have become more demographically diverse. All of these changes have called for ingenuity and resilience. We as a school system have adapted and are leading the way.”

Crisp recalled her experience with one of her students named

The grandmother of a 10-year-old who was starved before she died in 2013 is suing state child welfare officials for not doing enough to protect her granddaughter.

Attorneys filed the lawsuit against the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services as well as the state Department of Human Services on behalf of Robin Moss in Gwinnett County State Court last month.

Moss oversees the estate of her granddaughter, Emani Moss. The child weighed 32 pounds when she died, and her body Emani Moss was burned in a trashcan at the apartment complex where her family lived. Her father and stepmother were charged with child cruelty and murder.

The lawsuit claims an investigation by DFCS could have prevented Emani’s death.

“As a result of the negligence of DFCS and its agents, Emani suffered constant abuse and deprivation from 2008 until her untimely death,” the lawsuit states. “The constant neglect and deprivation caused her death on or about Nov. 2, 2013.”

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More than 1,300 new Gwinnett County public school teachers attend Gwinnett County Public School’s 2018 new teacher orientation at the Infinite Energy Forum.

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In the most up-to-date figures Visit gwinnettdailypost.com provided by GCPS, 1,568 new for a photo gallery. teachers were hired — including 800 teachers new to Gwinnett.

Being a product of GCPS, the According to school officials, diversity of Gwinnett County 317 teachers new to GCPS said is one of the reasons that Butler in their online application that said she decided to become an they graduated from a Gwinnett educator in Gwinnett. high school.

“I’m really looking forward It is not unusual for Gwinnett to touching lives and helping graduates to return as teachers. students reach their full potenGCPS High School Teacher of tial,” Butler said. “Every student the Year Amy Crisp spoke to the needs help to get on the right new teachers about the joys and path, so I feel like (at) the school challenges of teaching in a place I’m going to I’ll be able to do close to home.

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This screen capture was taken from the promo that Netflix released on Monday for the next season of “Stranger Things,” featuring Starcourt Mall, which is actually Gwinnett Place Mall. Crews took over parts of the mall in May to film parts of the show. (Photo: YouTube)

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On Monday, “Stranger Things” released a teaser for Season 3 of the Netflix series.

It is disguised as a commercial for a new mall in Hawkins, Ind., called Starcourt.

“Ahoy! Something is coming… to Hawkins, Indiana!” reads a tweet from the official Stranger Things Twitter account.

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It’s a bit of art imitating life since Gwinnett Place itself opened in the early 1980s.

Deal calls Cagle ‘best candidate’ to be next governor of Georgia

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assistance allowed many of the reforms and other big legislative changes that occurred during his After months of stayadministration to come to ing out of the race to see fruition. who will follow him in the “In order to get those governor’s mansion, Gov. major changes through the Nathan Deal offered his General Assembly, I had backing to Lt. Gov. Casey two partners,” Deal said.

Cagle.

“Because he has had a part The Cagle campaign an- in making these reforms nounced Deal’s endorsehappen, I think he is the ment Monday, a week best one to continue this before the Republican tradition. gubernatorial runoff show“My concern is let’s down between Cagle and not undo or transform in a Secretary of State Brian negative fashion the good Kemp. Deal said Cagle’s reforms that have been put

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in place. For that reason, I believe that Casey Cagle will be the best candidate for that position as the next governor of our state.”

The Republican race to replace Deal, who is term-limited and cannot run again, has heated up in recent weeks as Cagle and Kemp have taken aim at each other’s records.

The winner of the runoff will face the Democratic Party’s candidate, former House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, in the November general election.

Board of Education approves first millage rate decrease in six years

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means the debt-service millage rate will go from 2.05 mills to 1.95 mills.

The school system’s The Gwinnett County maintenance and operaBoard of Education tions millage rate is going voted to lower the school to remain at 19.8 mills. system’s millage rate for The maintenance and opthe first time in six years erations and debt-service Monday, but property own- rates combine to make up ers can still expect to pay the district’s overall millmore for the schools-relat- age rate. ed portion of their taxes.

Although the overall School board members millage rate went down unanimously opted to due to the decrease in decrease the debt-service the debt-service rate, the port of the overall rate, school board was required which is used to determine by state law to hold a how much property owners series of open forums pay in taxes to support since it was not enough Gwinnett County Public of a decrease to reach the Schools, by 0.1 mills. That revenue-neutral rollback

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Since it is not a full rollback, the millage rate will still generate more revenue than the one adopted last year did since the tax digest increased this year.

Gwinnett County Public Schools officials have budgeted for a roughly $17 million increase in local revenue. The net growth of the property tax digest is expected to be 3.1 percent.

According to the budget, the value of the tax digest is almost where it was a decade ago. The school system valued a mill at $31 million in its fiscal year 2009 budget, while this year’s budget pegs the value of a mill at $30.4 million.

All of the additional state and local revenue projected for fiscal year 2019 is needed to fund the projected student enrollment growth, give a salary increase for teachers and other school system employees and pay for the increases in employee benefit costs. All employees will get a 2.25 percent cost-of-living increase and, for those eligible, a salarystep increase.

The school district’s enrollment is expected to grow by just over 1,000 students, which would bring the total projected enrollment for next school year to more than 18,320 students.

The total cost of these salary improvements is $42.2 million.

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Cause of fire at apartments in Norcross still unknown

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Fire officials are still trying to determine the cause of a fire that ripped through a Norcross apartment building early Sunday morning and why the occupant of the unit where the fire originated left the scene shortly after police and firefighters arrived.

Fire crews responded to the blaze at 3:25 a.m. after receiving 911 calls about an apartment fire at

the KRC Hilltops Apartments, located at 5651 Brook Hollow Parkway N.W. in Norcross, according to Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services Capt.

Tommy Rutledge.

When firefighters arrived, they found smoke and flames showing from two apartment units on the front of a two-story, woodframe building.

“Residents were going door to door to evacuate the building as fire crews arrived,” Rutledge said.

Firefighters deployed attack hose lines to control the bulk of the flames as they made entry inside to complete extinguishment and conduct a search and “worked fast and successfully contained the fire to the original units involved,” Rutledge said.

While the exact cause of the fire is currently undetermined and is under investigation, the occupant of the apartment where the fire originated was home at the time of the blaze but left the scene shortly

after police and firefighters arrived.

Rutledge said as of press time Tuesday night that investigators had not yet spoken to him, though they “will be speaking to him soon. We have had contact with a family member thus far.”

In total, about 17 people were displaced by the damage, which may have been so detrimental, in part, due to the fact that the fire sprinkler system for the building was not operational at the time of the fire.

Firefighters responded at 3:25 a.m. Sunday to a report of an apartment fire at the KRC Hilltops Apartments, located at 5651 Brook Hollow Parkway N.W. in Norcross.

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Boys and Girls Club promotes healthy eating with salsa contest

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Chop, chop, chop.

The loud slicing sound of a knife cutting into a jalapeno echoed through the homey kitchen at the Lawrenceville Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday afternoon.

The aroma of chopped onions, peeled garlic, roma and cherry tomatoes as well as the jalapenos filled the room as five sets of hands busily prepared the ingredients for a salsa.

The team of 8-year-old Sakai McKnight, 10-year-olds Jayla Massalley and Abigail Tant and 11-year-olds Destiny Williams and Kayla Lewis are representatives for the Lawrenceville Boys and Girls Club’s Salsa, Salsa team.

The Salsa, Salsa event is an internal competition between different Boys and Girls Clubs in the metro Atlanta area to see which club can make the best salsa each year.

This year’s competition takes

“All five of these children are part of the gardening program that Mark Emwe have here as well,” said Rory mett helps Johnson, Lawrenceville Boys Salsa and Girls Club senior executive program team mem- director. “We’re trying to encourage them that a healthy lifestyle bers Sakai doesn’t have to just come from McKnight and Abigail their parents. They can initiate and Tant slice promote that lifestyle themselves.” a tomato.

While cooking is just one of (Staff Phothe programs that is offered by the to: Trevor Boys and Girls Club, the interMcNaboe) est of cooking goes beyond the kitchen.

Jayla said one of her favorite place at Greystone at Piedmont things to cook is spaghetti, while Park in Atlanta at 11:30 a.m.

Kayla and Destiny both agree that today. cooking desserts is one of their While the event brings out the favorite things to do. competitive nature of teams, it also The group began preparing the has a different purpose — promot- salsa Tuesday morning to allow ing healthy eating. it to fully cook and let the flavors

marinate for a night before making the trip to Atlanta.

Team members begin by chopping an assortment of vegetables and placing them in a pan. They proceed to roll limes on the table to soften them before slicing them in half and squeezing them over the top of the slices vegetable medley.

“We’ve got a winner here,” Johnson said. “Just take in this smell.”

A mixture of spiciness, tartness and sweetness hit the nostrils.

The smell intensifies following 25 minutes of broiling in the oven before the blending it together. As an added bonus, the group makes its own tortilla chips using tortillas, cutting them into small pieces before coating them with coconut oil and baking.

Vehicle loses control, Infinite Energy Center expansion OK’d two cars catch fire design work on the center’s expansion. It is being paid for from funds collected through the 2017 special Gwinnett County compurpose local option sales missioners signed off on a tax program that voters ap$2.59 million contract with proved in November 2016. an Atlanta-based archiThe tax program included tectural firm to design the $67.3 million for the expanexpansion and renovation of sion. the Infinite Energy Center The plans for the center in unincorporated Duluth on include doubling the size Tuesday. of the exhibit hall in the The commissioners hired Infinite Energy Forum Smallwood, Reynolds, by adding at least 60,000 Stewart, Stewart and Assquare feet of space, a renosociates Inc. to handle the vation of the forum’s grand

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Department Cpl. Wilbert Rundles said the vehicle that isabel.hughes was possibly driving reck@gwinnettdailypost.com lessly “crossed the median Two cars caught fire and and three other vehicles several people were injured became involved.” in a Saturday morning wreck “Two vehicles did catch on Ga. Highway 20 after a on fire, but both occupants vehicle that was “possibly were removed,” Rundles driving recklessly” lost con- said. trol, officials said.

While one of the injuries Though the accident was “more serious in nature,” report is not yet releasable, Rundles said it was not lifeGwinnett County Police threatening.

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ballroom and associated meeting spaces, the addition of a new grand entrance into the forum that will include event and meeting space and a renovation of the Infinite Energy Theater.

Gwinnett County Chief Financial Officer Maria Woods said the renovation of the ballroom and meeting space is being done so their design will match the look of the expansion area as well as a full-service Marriott hotel that will be built at the center. Officials have

previously said the hotel will serve as a sort of bridge between the forum and the Infinite Energy Arena.

The expansion and renovation of the center will coincide with the redevelopment of its parking area.

North American Properties is partnering with the Gwinnett Convention and Visitors Bureau — which oversees the center — to develop the mixed-use Revel project in what is currently the parking lots at the center.

EMC joins early cancer detection study Gwinnett County commissioners roll back millage rate

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Eastside Medical Center is joining a national study aimed at developing a test for early cancer detection.

On Monday, Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA Healthcare — Eastside’s parent company — announced that the hospital would participate in the study, called STRIVE, which is designed to determine if a blood test can complement mammogram screenings to detect breast and other cancers at their earliest stages.

“In line with our commitment to the care and improvement of human life, Eastside Medical Center is thrilled to partner with the Sarah Cannon team and the STRIVE research study,” said Dr. Stephen Higgins, Eastside’s chief medical

officer. “This study presents the opportunity to significantly enhance the care we provide to the women of our community in the future by helping develop a tool that we hope will facilitate the early detection of cancer at a more treatable stage.”

The study, which is sponsored by GRAIL Inc., is looking to enroll 120,000 women across participating sites nationwide, which, in addition to Eastside, include the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Sarah Cannon, Scottsdale Medical Imaging and Sutter Health.

Women who choose to participate in the study will give a blood sample and complete a short questionnaire when they go in for their regular mammogram screening.

Then, participants will be followed and their health records will be monitored for up to five years to check for

any new cancer diagnoses.

Eastside has two official STRIVE coordinators on-site in its Breast and Diagnostic Center.

Though mammograms remain the gold standard for breast cancer screening, they can sometimes miss cancer and in other cases yield false positive results.

With breast cancer being the second-leading cause of cancer death in women, the earlier cancer is detected, the more likely it can be successfully treated, and cancers diagnosed in early stages have survival rates that are five to ten times higher compared with late stage diagnoses.

More specifically, the survival rate for Stages 1 and 2 breast cancer is 90 percent, as compared to Stage 4, which has a survival rate of about 20 percent.

“By participating in this exciting research effort,

women in our communities will help GRAIL scientists in their efforts to develop a test that is intended to enhance our ability to detect cancer at early and more treatable stages,” said Dr. Dax Kurbegov, principal investigator of the STRIVE Study at Sarah Cannon.

“The study is designed to help identify tiny fragments of genomic material that may signal the presence of breast or other cancers and may help guide healthcare decisions by providing more information and reducing uncertainty.”

The study is being offered to women who receive mammograms at Sarah Cannon locations. For more information on the STRIVE Study and for a full list of participating sites, visit JoinSTRIVE.com, email STRIVE@sarahcannon.com or call 1-833-I-STRIVE (833-478-7483).

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to see lots recovery in the tax digest,” Nash said.

County officials previIt’s official. Gwinnett ously said the tax digest County residents will grew by 5.6 percent in see their property tax the last year and is now rate — or at least the valued at about $1.6 bilpart of the rate levied by lion. As a result, county their county government leaders opted to lower — go down this year. the millage rate to a Gwinnett County revenue-neutral level. commissioners rolled The millage rate back the county’s milldetermines how much a age rate Tuesday, setting person will pay in property taxes each year. The the general fund rate at 7.209 mills. The general county previously said its general fund millage fund rate is one part rate alone was being of the county’s overall millage rate, which also rolled back 2.58 percent includes rates for police, this year.

In addition to setting fire and emergency its own rate, the comservices, development missioners also signed code enforcement and off on the Gwinnett recreation funds.

County Board of EducaThe overall rate will be 13.315 mills. That is tion’s adopted millage rate of 19.8 mills. Under down from last year’s state law, the Board of rate of 13.51 mills.

Commissioners is the County Commission levying authority for Chairwoman Charlotte Nash attributed the abil- the Board of Education — although it’s more ity to roll back the rate to a level that keeps rev- of a formality since the enues flat with last year school board decides its rate before sending it off to a rebounding local to the commission for economy and tax base.

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Medical reasons for loss of fingerprint DEAR DR. ROACH: Are there any medical conditions that can lead to loss of fingerprints?

— Anon.

ANSWER: There are several skin conditions that can lead to loss of fingerprints, with nonspecific dermatitis leading the list, according to a recent study. Other causes identified were primary hyperhidrosis, irritant contact dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, dyshidrotic eczema, psoriasis and mechanical abrasion.

Criminals have tried countless methods to change or remove fingerprints, without much success. However, a journal article in 2017 noted that individuals treated with the cancer chemotherapy drug capecitabine (usually used for breast or colon cancer) may have a side effect called “handfoot syndrome,” which sometimes can lead to loss of fingerprints. Most people don’t notice it, unless their fingerprints are necessary for international travel or for security documents (and now, even your phone).

As fingerprints become used more often, it’s important to know about this potential side effect.

I am confident few criminals will take toxic doses of chemotherapy in hopes of this unusual side effect, which is only occasionally permanent.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was just diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Please send me a list, or tell me where to find one, of which foods I should eat.

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The person to help you come up with a list, or really a plan, is a dietician nutritionist, who will work with your diabetes provider and you to develop a personalized healthy eating plan.

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In 1936, Spanish army officials revolted, led by Gen. Francisco Franco, starting the Spanish Civil War. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the second Presidential Succession Act, designating the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate as next in line after the vice president.

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Family estrangement baffles parents Dear Amy: Our adult son “James” lives on his own and has a successful career. Suddenly, without notice or explanation, James has cut off all communication with his two loving parents — myself and my wife.

Just three months ago we were all together enjoying a birthday lunch (for me), where James introduced his new girlfriend. James and his brother provided a very thoughtful and generous gift, and I thanked them both, sincerely. Inexplicably, since that day James has not responded to any form of communication.

My wife and I are tearing ourselves apart seeking a reason for this estrangement. At first I was wondering if he was having professional difficulties, or even feeling suicidal, but he maintains a good relationship with his younger brother. It seems the grievance is with us.

James refuses to talk about it — with his brother or with us. I’ve offered multiple times to meet up and apologize for any transgression, but James won’t. I’ve offered that “adults can’t resolve problems in silence” — to no avail.

His new girlfriend seems to be the only variable in the family equation that has changed. Is she manipulating him?

Our family is small and we love being together a few times a year. James’ silent protest has, perhaps deliberately, now

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Amy Dickinson destroyed these future family functions.

Amy, we want our son back in our lives. What do we do?

— Shutout Dear Shutout: I shared your query with Karl Pillemer, director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. Pillemer is currently studying family estrangement.

He responds, “In a survey conducted by Cornell, I asked respondents whether they were estranged (that is, they no longer had contact with) one of these relatives: father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. Over one-fifth (22 percent) of this nationally representative sample reported having one of these estrangements. Therefore, people experiencing estrangement should know that they are by no means alone.”

Anecdotally, almost every family I know (including my own) has at least one estranged family member. The reasons can be varied, and complex.

In your case, I agree that your son’s new rela-

tionship seems to be the main variable. Abusive or controlling partners can isolate people from their loved ones. You and/or your wife should call him at work to see if he could meet you that same day for coffee. Be very cautious about blaming his girlfriend for his actions; this would cause him to dig in further.

Do NOT allow this to “destroy” your family.

Painful as this is, you should carry on as a family. Continue to include and invite “James” (and his girlfriend) to all functions. Do your best to connect, without overwhelming him. The harder you push, the easier it is for him to resist.

You and your wife should see a therapist for support and ideas.

Dear Amy: My husband and I host an Independence Day barbecue every year and invite all of our friends. We provide all of the necessary food, including a vegetarian option.

Every year, at least 70 percent of the guests ask what they can bring. If I tell them not to bring anything, many bring things anyway, and then some of the folks who didn’t bring anything feel bad, so they bring things the next year.

Some of the guests seem annoyed that I don’t give them more direction on what to bring. I am a little annoyed that it doesn’t seem to be possible to host a party nowadays that’s not a

potluck. What are my reasonable options?

— Host with the Most Dear Host: A July Fourth barbecue is different from a dinner party.

People do feel compelled to bring something — anything.

You could handle this by giving people a clear and modest directive: “One bottle of root beer would be most welcome.”

Alternatively, you could use this party to host a mini food drive for your local pantry. Asking guests to bring canned goods might satisfy multiple needs.

Dear Amy: I could not believe your homophobic answer to “Mama Bear,” who was trying to protect her bisexual son from his homophobic aunt. You should never give advice to anyone.

— Disgusted Dear Disgusted: My answer was supportive of this teen (and his mother). I reminded them that it is not their duty to disclose or discuss his sexuality to someone who is bigoted and hateful toward gay people. Her bigotry is her problem; I felt these two were taking on her problem and in danger of making it their own.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

Look for ways to bring greater stability to your life. Money will not buy you the happiness you are searching for. Easing stress by living within your means will be the cure for any dissatisfaction you feel. Make the most of what you have.

Love is highlighted.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Personal improvements will set you on a new and exciting course. Offset anger or aggressive behavior by doing what’s right and best for you. Don’t fold under pressure.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Stick to the people you know well and who have your best interests at heart. Walk away from anyone trying to manipulate you or entice you to indulge or spend foolishly.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Put more time and effort into where and how you live. Alter what isn’t working for you and do your best to improve your prospects.

Hone your skills.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Head in whatever direction promises to bring you the most joy.

You’ll reach your expectations if you make wise choices and are willing to work hard.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Don’t let anger take the reins.

Success is the best revenge, so focus on what you can achieve instead of trying to block someone else from getting ahead. Strive for perfection.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Put your energy and enthusiasm into bringing in more cash. You can make gains through professional or personal investments that help you use your skills to the fullest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Keep your distance from anyone using emotional tactics to entice you to do something that isn’t in your interest. Align yourself with people who share your opinions, ethics and integrity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Put more energy into taking care of personal investments, settlements or health issues. Taking care of business will give you peace of mind as well as the desire to start something new.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A partnership will run amok if you or the other person uses force or emotional manipulation. Consider the motives that you or someone else might have, and ward off a problem before it begins.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Plans can be made, but iron out any potential problems before you share them with someone who may not be in favor of them. Being fully prepared will lead to success.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Change can be good, but before you take a leap of faith, look at every angle and make adjustments to ensure you don’t hit a roadblock that could be expensive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Talk the talk and walk the walk. If you live up to the promises you make, the results will be beneficial. Don’t let someone’s guilt tactics wear you down.

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World British officials to vote on early summer break The beleaguered government of British Prime Minister Theresa May is proposing that the U.K. parliament should break for summer five days earlier than planned, in a move that has been criticized as a desperate attempt to ease the pressure on her leadership.

Members of Parliament will vote on whether to start their summer recess five days early — beginning this Thursday instead of next Tuesday. They would not return to work until Sept. 4.

It comes as May faces one of the lowest points in her leadership since a snap general election last year that spectacularly backfired on her Conservative Party.

Earlier this month, two of May’s top Cabinet ministers — Brexit secretary David Davis and foreign secretary Boris Johnson — quit over what they see as a wateringdown of the U.K.’s blueprint for leaving the European Union.

EU and Japan sign trade deal slashing tariffs The European Union and Japan signed a huge free trade deal Tuesday that cuts or eliminates tariffs on nearly all goods.

The agreement covers 600 million people and almost a third of the global economy. It’s also a major endorsement of a global trading system that is under increasing threat from protectionism.

It will remove tariffs on European exports such as cheese and wine.

Japanese automakers and electronics firms will face fewer barriers in the European Union.

The dismantling of trade barriers stands in stark contrast to the approach taken by President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on a range of foreign goods and is threatening more action.

Israel tightens Gaza restrictions Israel is tightening restrictions on Gaza amid heightened tensions with militants in the coastal enclave.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said the passage of fuel and gas through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza would be stopped Tuesday, according to a statement released from his office on Monday.

The statement said the move was in response to what it called continued terror attempts by Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza.

Liberman also announced that Gaza’s fishermen would be restricted to a zone extending three nautical miles from the coast, cutting the permitted zone to half its previous size.

The restrictions would remain in place until Sunday, the statement said.

Food and medicine would be allowed through after approval on a case-by-case basis.

— From wire reports

world&nation Trump says he misspoke with Putin

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By Kevin Lipak

Jewel reflects on her music, fame

President Donald Trump, facing an onslaught of bipartisan fury over his glowing remarks about Vladimir Putin, said more than 24 hours afterward that he had misspoken during his news conference with the autocratic Russian leader.

In one of the only times of his presidency he’s admitted to a mistake, Trump said that when he returned Monday from the summit with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, he “realized there is some need for clarification” about his remarks on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

“In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word ‘would’ instead of ‘wouldn’t,’” Trump said Tuesday. He said he had reviewed a transcript and video of his remarks.

“The sentence should have been: ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia,’” he said. “Sort of a double negative.”

During Monday’s news conference, Trump said, “I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia who interfered in the election.

The admission came in the White House Cabinet Room, where Trump was sitting with lawmakers for an otherwise unrelated meeting. Reading

Her ethereal voice dominated the radio in the 1990s, but for singer-songwriter Jewel, her name on the top of charts wasn’t enough.

“Fame never was a lure for me; it was always sort of a false prophet. My currency has always been to have an authentic happy life,” Jewel told CNN’s Poppy Harlow in the latest episode of Boss Files.

The Grammy nominated artist has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Her debut album, “Pieces of You,” went platinum 15 times.

Jewel, 44, now thinks about her creative work more broadly. It’s something that has inspired her as a single mother to her 6-year-old son.

Jewel’s rags-to-riches success story is widely known. She lived in her car while traveling and doing street performances and small gigs.

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President Donald Trump voiced support Tuesday for U.S. intelligence agencies, a day after he refused to accept their findings on Russia’s election meddling over the denials of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and vowed to take action to prevent further interference. (CNN)

prepared remarks to reporters, Trump reiterated that there had been no collusion between his campaign and Russia and that the country’s efforts had no impact on the final election results.

And he voiced support for U.S. intelligence agencies — a day after he had refused to accept their findings on Russia’s election interference over Putin’s denials — and vowed to take action to prevent further attacks.

“I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place,” Trump said. But diverting from his typewritten notes, the president said: “It could

be other people also. A lot of people out there.”

It was an attempt at clarification that came after uproarious anger at Trump’s performance in Helsinki. Even many members of the president’s own party rebuked his statements from nearly the moment he departed the Finnish capital. Yet it took more than a day for him or the White House to offer any official walkback.

Top national security officials had huddled in the White House Situation Room on Tuesday to develop a response to the fallout. The meeting resulted in a determination that Trump would need to clarify his remarks. Top

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pumping oil everywhere, especially out of the Permian. Wells there can be profitable below $40 a barrel.

“The industry cracked the code on fracking,” McNally said.

Obama warns ‘strongman politics’ are on the rise

Former President Barack Obama mounted a passionate defense of democracy and warned against the rise of “strongman politics” in a speech in South Africa a day after his successor, Donald Trump, was heavily criticized for a news conference with Vladimir Putin.

In an address Tuesday in honor of the late Nelson Mandela ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Obama criticized populist movements toward authoritarianism around the world and ridiculed the “utter loss of shame among political leaders” who lie.

Obama has made an art of criticizing the current president’s values without explicitly naming Trump, peppering his speech Tuesday with warnings against some of Trump’s key policies, including protectionism, climate change denial and closed borders.

“The politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment began to appear. And that kind of politics is now on the move. It’s on the move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago,” he told the crowd of around 15,000 people in Johannesburg.

“I am not being alarmist, I’m simply stating the facts.

Look around — strongman politics are ascendant, suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained, the form of it, where those in powers seek to under-

officials, including national security adviser John Bolton, were involved in crafting the statement that Trump delivered from the Cabinet Room.

The president made some of his own additions to what his aides prepared; he scrawled in black marker that “THERE WAS NO COLLUSION” on one page.

The appearance was not without farce. As Trump was declaring his “full faith and support” for U.S. intelligence agencies, the lights in the Cabinet Room went dark.

“That must be the intelligence agencies,” he quipped.

The lighting was quickly restored.

New York, three other states claim tax law is unconstitutional Barack Obama addressed some 15,000 people in South New York, Connecticut, Africa on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of NelMaryland and New Jersey son Mandela’s birth, a day after his successor, Donald Trump, upbraided the U.S. in a news conference with filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming last year’s tax Vladimir Putin. (CNN)

sion of production out of the Permian Basin of West Texas. In fact, Texas is pumping so much oil that it will surpass OPEC members Iran and Iraq next year, HSBC predicted in a recent report.

If it were a country, Texas would be the world’s No. 3 oil producer, behind only Russia and Saudi Arabia, the investment bank said.

“It’s remarkable. The Permian is nothing less than a blessing for the global economy,” said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, a consulting firm.

The hyper growth out of Texas is needed because oil prices have risen sharply and major players like Texas to pass Saudi Arabia are quickly Iraq and Iran as maxing out their producworld’s No. 3 oil tion.

Much of the excitement powerhouse in Texas centers around the Don’t mess with Texas.

Permian Basin. Some oil It’s a global oil superpower. execs believe the amount The shale oil boom has of oil in the Permian rivals brought a gold rush mental- Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar ity to the Lone Star State, Field, the world’s largest which is home to not one conventional oilfield. but two massive oilfields.

Rapid technological Plunging drilling costs advances have dramatically have sparked an explobrought down the cost of mine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning.”

Obama’s remarks come a day after Trump’s news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in which the U.S. leader sided with Putin over his own country’s intelligence agencies on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Obama mocked the way politicians lie and reminded his audience of the importance of facts.

“You have to believe in facts. Without facts there’s no basis for cooperation. If I say this is a podium and you say this is an elephant, it’s going to be hard for us to cooperate,” he said.

overhaul violated the constitution by unfairly targeting Democratic states.

The law puts a new cap on how much Americans are allowed to deduct for state and local taxes, or SALT, from their federal bill. Once unlimited, the deduction is now capped at $10,000. Deductions help reduce a person’s overall tax bill.

The cap will disproportionately harm high-tax states and their residents, the lawsuit said. It also claims the change in SALT interferes with states’ rights to make their own financial decisions.

New York has said the cap will increase New Yorkers’ federal taxes by $14.3 billion in 2018.

“New York will not be bullied. This cap is unconstitutional — going well beyond settled limits on federal power to impose an income tax, while deliberately targeting New York and similar states in an attempt to coerce us into changing our fiscal policies and the vital programs they support,” said State Attorney General Barbara Underwood in a statement.

— From wire reports

Kardashian West defends ‘self made’ Jenner The internet may not agree, but Kim Kardashian West totally believes her sister Kylie Jenner and the rest of her siblings are “selfmade.”

Controversy erupted last week after Forbes magazine touted “America’s Women Billionaires” with Jenner on its cover, noting, “At 21, she’s set to be the youngestever self-made billionaire.”

Many argued that coming from the first family of reality television hardly qualified the young makeup mogul as “self-made.”

But her older and successful sister argued to Refinery29 that she and her siblings absolutely deserve that description.

“I really didn’t get it, because she is ‘self-made,’ we are all ‘self-made,’” Kardashian West said. “What, because we came from a family that has had success? To me, that doesn’t really make sense.”

Taylor Swift shut out at VMAs Apparently bathing in a tub full of diamonds is not enough to snag one of the big MTV Video Music Awards nominations.

Taylor Swift — arguably one of the stars most associated with the awards show thanks to her now-famous 2009 onstage run-in with Kanye West — was shut out of the major categories this year.

The singer received three nominations: best art direction, best visual effects and best editing for her “Look What You Made Me Do” video.

That debut single and video from her “Reputation” album was much heralded and anticipated as Swift had been off the scene for a few years.

Suffice it to say, fans were not happy that “Look What You Made Me Do” was not nominated for best video.

Some tweeted using the hashtag “VmasAreOverParty.” ­— From wire reports

Burnt bread baked 14,400 years ago found in Jordan

By Tamara Qiblawi

CNN

Archaeologists have discovered the burnt remains of a bread baked 14,400 years ago, more than 4,000 years before the advent of agriculture.

The findings, excavated in northeastern Jordan’s Black Desert, reveal the oldest direct evidence of bread and are discussed Monday in the journal PNAS. Twenty-four

Must read bread-like discoveries were found in two fireplaces in a Natufian hunter-gatherer site known as Shubayqa 1.

“The presence of hundreds of charred food remains in the fireplaces from Shubayqa 1 is an exceptional find, and it has given us the chance to characterize 14,000-year-old food practices,”

said University of Copenhagen archaeobotanist Amaia Arranz Otaegui, the first author of the report, who is now on a dig in Iran.

“So now we know that breadlike products were produced long before the development of farming,” Otaegui said, adding that the bread production could have contributed to the agricultural revolution of the Neolithic period.

The Epipaleolithic period bread was made of domesticated cereals

and club-rush tubers, according to the study.

Otaegui said she tasted the tubers they used, and “they were a little sweet and a bit salty and had a gritty texture, but maybe that’s because we didn’t clean them well enough.”

Previously, evidence of bread production was found in late Neolithic sites in Turkey and the Netherlands. The charred remains in Jordan are the first direct evidence

that bread production preceded agriculture.

“Natufian hunter-gatherers are of particular interest to us because they lived through a transitional period when people became more sedentary and their diet began to change,” said University of Copenhagen archaeologist Tobias Richter, who led the excavations.

The authors of the report noted that cereal-based foodstuffs may have been considered luxury foods.

6A • Wednesday, July 18, 2018 •From Page 1A Robin Moss is seeking a jury trial to get “reasonable compensatory damages” from the state for the injuries her granddaughter received.

“As a direct and proximate result of defendant’s wrongful conduct, plaintiff is entitled to recover for the wrongful death of Emani, including the full value of the economic and non-economic value of her life had she lived,” the lawsuit states.

Georgia DFCS spokesman Walter Jones said the agency could not comment on pending litigation.

The lawsuit alleges a history of abuse by Eman Moss and Tiffany Moss toward Emani in the years leading up to her death. Eman Moss was the the girl’s father, and Tiffany Moss was her stepmother.

Although the lawsuit focuses on issues between 2008 and 2013, the earliest case listed in the legal filing of a report being made to DFCS about how Emani was being raised was in April 2003.

“DFCS reported alleged neglect in the form of inadequate food, clothing and shelter in regards to Emani,” the lawsuit states. “The report was unsubstantiated and closed in the same month.”

The suit also alleges that in 2008 and early 2009, there was a report to DFCS that the girl may have been sexually abused when she was 3. The person who reported the possible abuse told the agency that they had noticed blood in Emani’s underwear when they picked the child

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Lawsuit up from a day care.

The report also told DFCS that Emani did not receive medical treatment, according to the suit.

In 2010, police were called by Cooper Elementary School staff to investigate whether the little girl was being abused. Emani had told school staff that she was “afraid to go home with a bad report card.”

“The police later found welts, scraps, bruises on Emani’s arms, chest, back and legs from being beaten by a broken belt by Emani’s stepmother, T. Moss,” the lawsuit states. “T. Moss pleaded guilty to first degree child cruelty and was sentenced to five years on probation for the abuse of Emani.”

The lawsuit goes on to claim DFCS dismissed a case against Eman and Tiffany Moss related to that incident after they completed parenting classes.

Further reports about emotional and psychological neglect were sent to DFCS by officials at Emani’s school in May 2012, according to the legal filing.

“T. Moss had allegedly hit Emani on her back and head with a belt because she was eating breakfast too slowly which would make her late for the bus,” the lawsuit states. “Emani saw the school nurse for her injuries and received an ice pack to place on her back.

“In response to this report, DFCS opened an investigation. As part of the investigation, the DFCS case worker spoke to Emani, T. Moss and her teacher. No concerns

were noted by the DFCS case worker and Emani’s case was closed.”

The suit claims that those instances provided DFCS with multiple opportunities to investigate the Moss household and intervene on Emani’s behalf. It targets the investigation done in 2012 as being “incomplete and wholly inadequate,” and says it “revealed numerous red flags suggesting” Emani was being abused.

“A proper DFCS investigation required the social worker(s) and other agent(s) to conduct a much more extensive investigation into the home circumstances when confronted with a severe situation like that of Emani,” the suit states.

“Among the items a reasonable social worker should do in these circumstances before closing the matter are to (1)interview at least two non-family individuals familiar with the family, (2) conduct an unannounced home visit, (3) receive assurances the child is receiving proper medical care, incuding contacting the child’s doctor, and (4) conduct a complete risk assessment.”

After her death, Emani Moss’ case prompted DFCS to make reforms in its processes for dealing with child abuse allegations, including deeper looks at allegations of abuse. Gov. Nathan Deal also formed a council to look into ways the state’s handling of child welfare could be improved.

The criminal case against Tiffany Moss is still pending in Gwinnett County Superior Court.

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•From Page 1A Jose, an immigrant from El Salvador in 2013 who fled to escape gang violence.

“He had only been educated through the sixth grade, but because he was 15 years old he started school in the U.S. as a ninth-grade student,” Crisp said. “The odds were stacked against him. His mother did not have the opportunity to attend school, and his father only finished third grade.”

Crisp said that Jose’s drive to learn along with the care of teachers at the school working with him led him to become the first in his family to graduate high school this past May. “His perseverance and education will have an impact not just on him, but on future generations in his family, community and

obituaries Buford, GA

Robert Donald “Bob” Adams Robert “Bob” Donald Adams, age 88, of Buford, GA passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2018.

Loganville

Maxine Jane Brown Maxine Jane Brown, age 93 of Loganville, GA, passed away on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

Sugar Hill, GA

Stephen Wayne Carter CAPE CORAL, FL

VICKIE BAGGETT Vickie Lynn Baggett, 56, of Cape Coral, FL passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Arrangements by Mullins Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Service Atlanta, GA

Keeli Janelle Brendle

The death of Ms. Keeli Janelle Brendle, age 31 occurred in Buckhead. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2018 at the Voice of Truth Church in Irwinton, with Rev. Terry Sark officiating.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Keeli was born in Decatur and grew up in Lawrenceville, she graduated from the Manhattan School of Music of New York, she specialized in Viola Performance. After graduation she lived in California for several years working for CEG Worldwide before moving to Atlanta working for CTSI Global.

Survivors include her mother Cathy Gaston and her step-father Tom Gaston of Monticello, sister Katelin Warnock (Cannon) of Dudley, two brothers, Joshua Brendle of Winder, and Ethan Brendle (Angela) of Monroe; two nieces, Ellie Rose Warnock and Nora Warnock, two nephews, Asher Brendle and Silas Warnock; aunt and uncle, Ray and Dorothy Brendle of Buford, GA. The family will receive friends Friday, July 20, from 6:00 until 8:00 pm at Moores Funeral Home in Milledgeville.

Visit www.mooresfuneralhome.com to express tributes.

Moores Funeral Home & Crematory has charge of arrangements.

Stephen Wayne Carter, age 61, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Friday, July 13, 2018.

Snellville

Betty Smith Crowe Betty Smith Crowe, age 86 of Snellville, GA, passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

Loganville, GA

Tommie Still Dial age 102 of Loganville, GA passed away July 13, 2018. Arrangements

by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville.

Suwanee, GA

Leslie Nichole Durio (Roberts) Leslie Nichole Roberts Durio, age 46, of Suwanee, GA passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2018. A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, July 21, 2018 at Catholic Church of St. Monica in Duluth, GA.

Lawrenceville, GA

Susan Michele Fore Susan Michele Fore, age 49, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Sunday, July 8, 2018. Flanigan Funeral Home, Buford Dacula

Tony Gallo Tony Gallo, 61, died Sunday July 15. Bearden Funeral Home Chapel, Dawsonville, GA.

Atlanta

Gordon Ray Harrison Gordon Ray Harrison, age 86 of Atlanta, GA, passed away on Friday, July 13, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

Atlanta, GA

Albert A. Howard Albert A. Howard died July 6, 2018 Byrd and Flanigan, Lawrenceville Auburn, GA

Florence Masters age 86 of Auburn, GA, passed away July 13, 2018.

Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Lawrenceville.

Loganville

David C. McCart MCCART - David C. McCart, retired auto mechanic (McCart’s Garage), of Loganville, passed away on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Graveside Services will be held at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at Haynes Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

Jimmy R. Griffeth will officiate. Mr. McCart is survived by his Wife of nearly 70 years: Betty Griffeth McCart; Daughter: Brenda McCullers; Granddaughter: Kristy McCullers, all of Loganville; Sisters: Opal Moore of McDonough, Patsy Fowler of Snellville. The family will receive friends from 5-8 PM on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, GA 30052. 770-466-1544.

Please sign the online guest registry at www. stewartfh.com Lawrenceville, GA

Mary Patricia “Pat” Sizemore (Boles) Mary Patricia (Pat) Sizemore, born April 20, 1940, and died July 14, 2018.

She was a true Proverbs 31 woman.

Pat was preceded in death by her Grandparents, John and Mattie Blackburn and Charles and Luna Boles, her Father and Mother, William Gerard and Mary Emma Boles, and by three of her b

Death er of frequent parties and suspicious activity at the home as recently as last week.

Gwinnett police are asking anyone with information to contact detectives at 770-513-5300.

To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404577-TIPS (8477) or visit crimestoppersatlanta.org.

Tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case by referencing case number 18-065625.

FOX 5 Atlanta contributed to this report.

Teachers country,” Crisp said. “The work we do as teachers is so very important.”

GCPS Associate Superintendent Jonathan Patterson said he remembers nervously being in at the teacher orientation 23 years ago with the desire to make a difference in the community.

Patterson gave attendees three pieces of advice to follow during their first year as a teacher in the school district.

“Know yourself, know your people and know your stuff,” Patterson said.

“Know your strengths and weaknesses. You bring your own unique value to our team.”

Patterson was one of several speakers on Tuesday, including Board of Education Chair Carol Boyce, Gwinnett Chamber President Dan Kaufman

and CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks, who all shared their opinions on the value of education and teachers.

Later this week, the orientation and training continues across the county.

On Wednesday, middle school and high school teachers will convene at Peachtree Ridge High, while elementary teachers will gather at Discovery High for grade-level and curriculum-specific professional learning sessions.

They will learn about the GCPS curriculum, as well as the various digital and print instructional resources provided by the district to support their teaching and learning efforts.

The school district, which expects to surpass 180,000 students in August, is the 13th largest in the country.

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brothers, William Gerard Boles, Jr., Charles Hugh Boles, and Walter Earl Boles. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Calvin Jack Sizemore, her son, Mark Sizemore (Toni), her daughter, Lisa Poss (Butch), her Grandchildren, Clint (Ashley), Charlie (Brittani), Henry and Madison Sizemore, Amanda, Mason and Wesley Poss, Great Grandchildren, Amelia, Tucker and Harley Sizemore, her brothers, Hamp Boles (Margaret), Ronny Boles (Pat), Arnold Boles, (Ann) and Gerard Boles (Genie), and numerous nephews and nieces.

Pat grew up in Macon County, Alabama. She was a Mary Kay Director and an insurance executive administrator. Pat always has been a servant to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; many years, along with Jack at North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Pat said many times that there was no way to count her many blessings including meeting, marrying and loving her husband Jack, and loving her children and their spouses, her grandchildren, great grandchildren, other family members, and a deep, sincere and real love for, and trust in, Jesus Christ.

The celebration of Pat’s life will be conducted Wednesday July 18 at North Metro Baptist Church, Georgia, with visitation beginning at 9:30 am and the service at 11:00am (Eastern Standard Time). The graveside service, assisted by Corbitt’s Funeral Home, will be at 3pm (Central Standard Time) on the same day at Little Texas Community Cemetery which is behind Williams Chapel, 745 County Road 69, Tuskegee (Little Texas), Alabama 36083.

In lieu of flowers, Pat requests that contributions be made to North Metro Baptist Church, 1026 Old Peachtree Road, N.E., L

Lawrenceville, GA 30043.

Arrangements handled by Wages and Sons Gwinnett Chapel, 1031 Lawrenceville Hwy., Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770-277-4550.

Online condolences can be expressed at www. wagesandsons.com

Homer

Mr. Troy W. Sudderth Mr. Troy W. Sudderth, 85, of Homer formerly of Buford passed away at his residence on Saturday, July 14, 2018.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Griffin will officiate. Interment will follow in White Hall Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Born on August 2, 1932 in Buford, Mr. Sudderth was the son of the late J. D and Rona Mae Hammonds Sudderth. He was a veteran of the United States Army having served during the Korean Conflict. He was a member of The Buford Masonic Lodge #292 F&AM where he was also Past Master. Mr. Sudderth was retired from General Motors where he worked in the paint department.

He attended New Haven Congregational Holiness Church.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Sudderth is preceded in death by his sons, Ricky Sudderth and Douglas Sudderth, siblings, Walter Ray Sudderth, Lois Farmer, Frances Mullinax, Edna Howington; sister in law, Marilyn Hamby.

Mr. Sudderth is survived by his wife of 62 years, Barbara Buffington Sudderth; grandson Brian Sudderth ; granddaughters, Jessica Kinney, Jacqueline Long, great grandchildren, Hunter Sudderth, N

Nathaniel Long, Brianna Long, Christopher Kinney; brother, W.H. Sudderth of Sugar Hill; sister in law, Janie Fauscett of Gainesville; brother in law, Raymond Buffington of Fontana, CA and many beloved nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA 30504 is in charge of arrangements.

Send online condolences to www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com Roswell

Charles Edward Wells Sr. Charles Edward (Ed) Wells Sr. of Roswell, GA, died on July 6, 2018 Byrd & Flanigan Lawrenceville Winder, GA

Carolyn Patricia Wilson Carolyn Patricia Wilson, age 83, of Winder, GA passed away on Friday, July 13, 2018.

Stone Mountain

Eddie Lamar Wilson Eddie Lamar Wilson, age 76 of Stone Mountain, GA, passed away on Thursday, July 12, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel Norcross, GA

Sandra Kay Wright Sandra Kay Wright passed away July 6, 2018 Byrd and Flanigan Lawrenceville Gainesville

Cecil Young Cecil L. Young, age 72, of Gainesville passed away Saturday, July 14, 2018.

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Police: Lilburn woman killed in shooting that started in Gwinnett

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Gwinnett and DeKalb County police are investigating the shooting death of a 25-year-old Lilburn woman who died Tuesday morning while riding in a car with two men.

Shortly after 4 a.m., Avery Birthrong was shot while riding in the area of Five Forks Trickum Road in unincorporated Stone Mountain in Gwinnett, though the driver

of the car she was in left the area and drove to a gas station on Lilburn Stone Mountain Road in DeKalb County before calling police, according to Cpl. Wilbert Rundles, a spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.

“DeKalb police responded at approximately 4:20 a.m. and contacted Gwinnett police when it was discovered where the shooting occurred,” Rundles said. “Police are speaking to witnesses to

determine the cause of this incident. The driver of the vehicle the victim was in is cooperating with detectives.”

One of the witnesses at the scene was “visibly distraught,” FOX 5 Atlanta reported. He told the news station that the victim was his girlfriend.

The circumstances that led to the shooting are not yet known, though anyone with information is asked to contact Gwinnett detectives at 770-513-5300.

To remain anonymous,

tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit crimestoppersatlanta.org. Tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case by referencing case numbers: 18-065876, 18-065877 and 18-065878.

FOX 5 Atlanta contributed to this report.

Authorities said the shooting happened in Gwinnett County, but was discovered in DeKalb County at a gas station on Hugh Howell Road near Lilburn Stone Mountain Road.

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The Norcross Cooperative Ministry, Georgia Department of Labor and Norcross First United Methodist Church are encouraging potential job seekers to update their resume and brush up on their interview skills.

The three organizations are hosting the 2018 Careerfest Job Fair on Thursday at Norcross First United Methodist Church, located at 2500 Beaver Ruin Road. The job fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

According to job ministry member Frank Estill, the free annual event has been going on for about 15 years.

The event features hiring employers, educators, community service organizations and workshops to help in the job search process. In addition, all veterans will have priority admission, entering 30 minutes early.

“It’s our biggest event of the year,” Estill said.

“We’ve got around 70 employers that will be

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Hundreds of people are expected to attend the 2018 Careerfest Job Fair in Norcross on Thursday. (File Photo)

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Businesses such as Lowes, UPS, Mighty Auto Parts, NavexGlobal and Amazon all are signed up to be at the job fair as well as public employers like the Gwinnett County Police Department and Fire Department will also be present.

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Other Events tab.

“One of the hardest things for a job seeker to do is get quality face-time with a potential employer. Our job fair aims to provide a professional and friendly environment for the two to connect,” said Leslie Buchanan, who serves as Job Services Coordinator for the Norcross Cooperative Ministry.

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Job seekers are able to submit a resume online ahead of the job fair at employgeorgia.com.

“We expect anywhere from 200-300 people to come to this,” Estill said.

“We’ve had as many as around 500 people come before.”

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“We are fortunate that no one was hurt and A lightning strike that the damage was not caused the roof peak on more severe,” Rutledge said. a home in Sugar Hill The strike happened to catch fire Monday, according to a Gwinnett as a heavy thunderstorm moved through Gwinfire official.

Gwinnett County Fire nett County. Rutledge and Emergency Service said the storm was “packing cloud-toCapt. Tommy Rutledge ground lightning” as it said crews were called to the two-story, wood- moved through the area.

The fire department frame home on the 5500 is using the incident block of Blue Cedar Drive on a report of the to remind residents to stay aware of weather roof being on fire at conditions throughout 3:13 p.m. The exterior the year. Residents who roof peak was on fire when firefighters arrived think their home may and they got the flames have been struck by put out 15 minutes later lightning should check the attic and basement before the fire could areas before checking spread into the house.

The homeowner, who other parts of the home, Rutledge said. was not hurt in the in“If you see smoke or cident, told firefighters there was a “loud boom” flames, get out fast and and the power went out call 911,” he said. “If in the home. He discov- your home is clear, look outside to see if lightered the fire when he ning may have struck went outside to check a neighbor’s house. for lightning damage.

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Wolves shuffle the deck

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Graduation hits Wesleyan hard

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Wesleyan had a lot of questions to answer when summer training and 7-on7 season started.

The Wolves lost firstteam all-county quarterback Banks Ramsey, who threw for 1,875 yards as a senior, and all but one of a deep starting corps of receivers. The lone returner is a big one, though: team captain J.D. Kavel.

“He’s our bell cow,” head coach Franklin Pridgen said. “But he’s going to have help.”

Wesleyan played in five 7-on-7s this summer, including the one it hosted Friday with Decatur, Dunwoody, Stone Mountain, Winder-Barrow and South Gwinnett. The Wolves also attended two large competitions at St. Pius and McEachern.

“The No. 1 thing I’ve wanted to accomplish is evaluating players, since this is the third really big senior class in a row we’ve lost, and for a small school, that’s tough,” Pridgen said.

“The good news is we have a lot of possibilities. The challenge is, they’re all inexperienced.”

If it’s just about the scoreboard, the Wolves haven’t fared as well as a year ago 7-on-7.

“We’ve made a ton of mistakes,” Pridgen said.

“But we’ve absolutely assessed and improved.

We’ve answered a lot of questions, but we’ve also found more that need addressing.”

One change this year is the size at the line. It’s one of the biggest Pridgen has had during his tenure at Wesleyan.

“It’s always been a concern before, but I feel really good about the line of scrimmage — on both sides of the ball,” Pridgen said. “Now we have to answer the questions about See WOLVES, Page 2B

Atlanta Gladiators defenseman Zach Malatesta (74) skates with the puck ahead of Florida’s Steven Lorentz (16) last season at Infinite Energy Arena. Malatesta was re-signed by the Gladiators on Tuesday. (Photo: Taylor Trebotte)

The Atlanta Gladiators re-signed young defensemen Zach Malatesta and Jack Stander, announcing them as the first players added to the roster for 2018-19 on Tuesday.

Malatesta, who turns 22

at the end of this month, returns after an injuryhampered rookie campaign with the Gladiators. The Boston native played just 36 games with 11 points for Atlanta.

“He was hurt most of the year and I think from his numbers and everything, he’s a guy who could come back and play a huge role,”

new head coach Jeff Pyle said. “He’s got good skill and skates well.”

Malatesta began 201718 at AHL Providence’s training camp and after being released from his tryout contract, played 27 of the first 30 games of the season for Atlanta. He

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The Lansmoore Lasers celebrate winning at the Gwinnett County Swim League championships Sunday at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Nicole Seitz)

Lansmoore wins Gwinnett Swim League championship

By Ken Chrzanowski Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA — The Lansmoore Lasers have finally won it all. The swim team that had finished in the top five at the Gwinnett County Swim League Championship every year since 2010 without the

top prize finished with 3,978 points to claim the championship Sunday at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in a meet that saw 10 records broken.

The Lasers finished 173 points in front of the Thunderbolts, withstanding a late challenge for the top spot. Rounding out

the top five were Spalding Corners (3,391), Chateau Elan (3,805) and last year’s champions Wild Timber, which finished fifth (2,756).

For second-year Lansmoore coach Jordan Jones, the win was all done by the swimmers. As he accepted congratulations

from his team, Jones told team score (as they always each one that this was all do to build drama) I was their doing, not his. getting a little nervous.”

“Each child comes to Jones saw the Lasers’ practice to get better and 726-point lead when I can instruct them how to swimming began on get better but they have to Sunday, trimmed to 332 want to put the effort in to points by the end of the make this happen,” Jones morning session. Knowing said. “I have to admit that when they turned off the See LANSMOORE, Page 6B

Getting to Know ... Kyle Norton Kyle Norton is a 2010 graduate of North Gwinnett and finished his baseball playing career at Georgia Gwinnett College. Now, he is an assistant baseball coach and the facilities and grounds manager for the athletic department. Norton has played and coached in the NAIA World Series.

In this installment of Georgia Gwinnett College baseball assistant Kyle Norton “Getting to Know …,” is a North Gwinnett grad and finished his playing career Norton talks with staff with the Grizzlies before getting into coaching. (Photo: writer Christine Troyke about a variety of topics, Tom Grason)

including moving to Gwinnett from Philadelphia after eighth grade, transferring to GGC and his go-to karaoke song.

CT: You’re a North Gwinnett grad, but were you born and raised here?

KN: No. I’m originally from Philadelphia. We moved in 2006. I was here for eighth grade and then high school.

CT: That’s a little bit of a change.

KN: Yeah. It’s nice

down here. I like it. A little less snow and the baseball was better down here.

School, too. It was overall a great move for my family.

CT: Did you play sports other than baseball?

KN: Basketball and wrestled up until when I moved. Basketball was big up north.

CT: Did you celebrate when the Eagles won?

KN: Uh, I’m more of a Steelers fan, even though

I was outside of Philadelphia. But I’m happy they won.

CT: How did you make your college decision?

When you graduated, there wasn’t a baseball program at GGC yet.

KN: I think the article came out in 2011 that they would have it in 2012. I remember, I was at East Georgia for junior college, which was a startup program as well, and my mom

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“We’ve always taken pride in throwing the ball, but this year, it takes on extra weight because we are looking for a quarterback — and I think we’ve found more than one.”

Andrew Van Wie was 24 of 50 for 205 yards in short spells as a freshman last season.

“He’s showing a great deal of progress, but he’s also being pushed by a rising freshman, J.C. French,” Pridgen said.

Kavel led the Wolves’ multi-faceted receiving corps with 390 yards last year. Rising junior Micah Smith, who also plays a significant role on the basketball team, joins Kavel in the secondary.

Wolves “Micah Smith was second-team all-region on defense last year, but he’s going to play a much larger role on offense,” Pridgen said. “He’s caught some incredible passes in 7-on-7.”

Josh Morris returns as a junior slot receiver after missing all of last season with an injury and the Wolves have another bright prospect in rising freshman Cooper Blauser, the son of former Atlanta Braves pitcher Jeff Blauser.

They also have a pair of 6-foot-5 rising seniors in Michael Nicklaus and Connor Thompson.

“These are guys I’m calling out with ‘If not now, when?’” Pridgen said.

“They’re seniors. They’re going to respond.”

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ers at Class A Wesleyan play both sides of the ball, so graduation took its toll there, too. Kavel and Smith are the only returning starters. Josh Aspinwall started as a sophomore on the offensive line and is joining the linebacking crew. Rising seniors Donald Conley and Andrew Lore are in the mix as well as rising sophomore Luke Carroll and Mill Creek transfer Jackson Turner.

“It’s been a great, productive summer,” Pridgen said. “The 7-on-7 is huge.

I’m not a pioneer, but it’s been a big part of what we’ve done for a long time.

At the same time, we can’t worship the god of 7-on-7 success because this is not real football. But it’s as close as we can get.”

Wesleyan’s J.D. Kavel (14) fights off a tackle against Strong Rock during a game last season at Wesleyan. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Norton •From Page 1B showed me the article. She was like, “Hey, you might want to check into this.”

I didn’t think much of it, to be honest with you. It would have been nice, but I didn’t get recruited by the Grizzlies then. I was going to Norcross as a lay coach and over the summer I just couldn’t stand it anymore.

I thought I had my mind set that I wouldn’t play baseball and I decided to come in here and talk to (head coach Brad) Stromdahl. He gave me an opportunity. The best coach I’ve had.

CT: So you finished two years at East Georgia and came back here to figure things out?

KN: Yeah. I coached with (Jonathan) Wyman at Norcross. He kind of started my coaching career.

It was put on hold for a little bit because I decided to come here. But I was planning on coming to school here anyway, but if they were building a baseball field, I wanted to be on it.

CT: When you went off to college, was baseball your sole focus?

KN: For the most part.

We own a hitting facility in Suwanee, my family, so coaching was always a part of my life. Choosing East Georgia was definitely baseball related. They said, “Hey, we’ll give you a shot down here.”

CT: You went to the World Series as a player and a coach. Is it a markedly different experience?

KN: Yes. Man, as a player, it’s one of my greatest memories. Probably the greatest memory.

The best trip we’ve ever taken. And I thought we’d make it back every year after that.

I talked to Coach Stromdahl and he said, “You can come back and coach with us.” He gave me an opportunity to coach with him. After that, we were that good, we were going to recruit and we were going to keep going back. To not know that four years later you would end up back there, it was a really special moment as a coach. More watching the

players and watching their experience. I wanted them to experience what I felt as a player. It was awesome.

And to go that far, to be in the semifinals with that group of guys, it was really special to watch them.

CT: Cam Coursey (a Lanier grad who led the team in hitting as a freshman) said you were a big factor in his coming to GGC. Is word getting out among the talent in this county that this program is on the map?

KN: I think so. I’ve known Cam for a long time. He was special back then. We just kept in touch.

But as far as talent coming to GGC, I think we’re on the map more than ever.

We directed our recruiting more toward freshmen the past couple years and that’s really paid off for us.

I think those freshmen are excited to be here. I think our staff here does a really good job of promoting them. Parents are excited they can come see their kids play in their backyard.

CT: What are your responsibilities here?

KN: With the facilities, taking care of the playing surface this year, John Ihlenburg helps me out a lot in softball. He kind of directs that side. Anything from cleaning the dugouts to painting, hanging banners.

CT: You’ve had a lot of banners to hang.

KN: Yeah, all of Chase (Hodges)’s banners down at the tennis facility.

CT: You’re going to have to build some more walls down there.

KN: Yep. Then it’s just day-to-day operations and event setup is a big one for Doug (Court) and I. Anything Doug asks. He’s the greatest boss you can have.

When that guy says jump, you ask how high.

CT: Well, it always looks immaculate around here, so you must know what you’re doing.

KN: We try.

CT: Is it fair to assume your first job ever was at your family’s hitting facility?

KN: Yeah. I wouldn’t call it a job. I don’t think I’ve ever worked a day in my life. But that was the first gig. We opened that

when I was 14 and it was fun. Then little coaching gigs with North Gwinnett teams out of the park. I worked at a few restaurants in college. This was the first actual resume/interview job I’ve had.

CT: You went to high school with your fiancee (Sarah Murphy), but were you dating then?

KN: We did not. We were just friends in high school. Then she went to Truett-McConnell and I went to East Georgia. We connected back here.

CT: Independent of each other, you both ended up at GGC? KN: Yep. CT: Did you have an official first date?

KN: Uh, yeah. We ordered pizza in one night.

We were really good friends here for a long time before we started dating.

Everyone saw it but us, of course. One of those stories. But it’s pretty cool to end up engaged to your best friend.

CT: If the sun’s out and the windows are down in the car, what kind of music do you want to listen to?

KN: Probably country.

I’m from the North, but I have adapted. My dad was a big country guy even though he was from New Jersey. So we listened to country when I was a kid. I was probably odd-man out in the North.

CT: What song have you karaoked?

KN: “Fly Me to the Moon” by Frank Sinatra.

CT: Have you bingewatched anything lately?

KN: I’m a big “House of Cards” fan. I’m excited to see what Mrs. Underwood does. That’s a pretty good twist. Other than that, we don’t have cable at the house. Costs way too much. Then there’s the yard work. I come here and mow and then go home and mow. It’s kind of my life.

CT: What’s the next vacation spot you’d pick if money was no concern?

KN: I’d probably go to Italy, the Vatican. I was a history major. I did my whole final thesis on Roman waterworks, so I would head to that side of the world.

Why Haven’t Senior Homeowners Been Told These Facts?

Keep reading if you own a home in the U.S. and were born before 1955.

It’s a well-known fact that for many senior citizens in the U.S. their home is their single biggest asset, often accounting for more than 50% of their total net worth.

Yet, according to new statistics from the mortgage industry, senior homeowners in the U.S. are now sitting on more than 6.1 trillion dollars of unused home equity.1 With people now living longer than ever before and home prices back up again, ignoring this “hidden wealth” may prove to be short sighted.

All things considered, it’s not surprising that more than a million homeowners have already used a governmentinsured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or “HECM” loan to turn their home equity into extra cash for retirement.

However, today, there are still millions of eligible homeowners who could benefit from this FHA-insured loan but may simply not be aware of this “retirement secret.”

Some homeowners think HECM loans sound “too good to be true.” After all, you get the cash you need out of your home but you have no more monthly mortgage payments.

FACT: In 1988, President Reagan signed an FHA bill that put HECM loans into law.

liens on the property, which frees up cash flow, a huge blessing for seniors living on a fixed income. Unfortunately, many senior homeowners who might be better off with HECM loan don’t even bother to get more information because of rumors they’ve heard.

That’s a shame because HECM loans are helping many senior homeowners live a better life.

In fact, a recent survey by American Advisors Group (AAG), the nation’s number one HECM lender, found that over 90% of their clients are satisfied with their loans.

While these special loans are not for everyone, they can be a real lifesaver for senior homeowners.

The cash from a HECM loan can be used for any purpose.

NO MONTHLY MORTGAGE Many people use the money PAYMENTS?2 EXTRA CASH? to save on interest charges by paying off credit cards or other It’s a fact: no monthly high-interest loans.

Other mortgage payments are required common uses include making with a government-insured home improvements, paying off HECM loan;2 however the medical bills or helping other homeowners are still responsible family members. Some people for paying for the maintenance simply need the extra cash for of their home, property taxes, everyday expenses while others homeowner’s insurance and, if are now using it as a “safety net” required, their HOA fees. for financial emergencies.

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Source: http://reversemortgagedaily.com/2016/06/21/seniors-home-equity-grows-to-6-trillion-reverse-mortgageopportunity. 2If you qualify and your loan is approved, a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) must pay off any existing mortgage(s). With a HECM loan, no monthly mortgage payment is required. A HECM increases the principal mortgage loan amount and decreases home equity (it is a negative amortization loan). AAG works with other lenders and financial institutions that offer HECMs. To process your request for a loan, AAG may forward your contact information to such lenders for your consideration of HECM programs that they offer. When the loan is due and payable, some or all of the equity in the property no longer belongs to borrowers, who may need to sell the home or otherwise repay the loan with interest from other proceeds. AAG charges an origination fee, mortgage insurance premium, closing costs and servicing fees (added to the balance of the loan). The balance of the loan grows over time and AAG charges interest on the balance. Interest is not tax-deductible until the loan is partially or fully repaid. Borrowers are responsible for paying property taxes and homeowner’s insurance (which may be substantial). We do not establish an escrow account for disbursements of these payments. A setaside account can be set up to pay taxes and insurance and may be required in some cases. Borrowers must occupy home as their primary residence and pay for ongoing maintenance; otherwise the loan becomes due and payable. The loan also becomes due and payable when the last borrower, or eligible non-borrowing surviving spouse, dies, sells the home, permanently moves out, defaults on taxes or insurance payments, or does not otherwise comply with the loan terms. American Advisors Group (AAG) is headquartered at 3800 W. Chapman Ave., 3rd & 7th Floors, Orange CA, 92868. (Residential Mortgage Licensee #22849) V2017.08.23_OR 1

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It was a bad week to be anti-Trump Last week was not a good one for anti-Trumpers, who include virtually all Democrats and most establishment Republicans.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein picked last Friday, just three days before President Trump was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to announce the indictment of a dozen Russian intelligence Cal agents for their alleged Thomas involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee records.

The timing seems more than coincidental. The real headline in Rosenstein’s announcement was that the special counsel has found no evidence any votes were changed in the 2016 election as a result of Russian meddling. That won’t stop Trump haters, however, whose goal continues to be to see him impeached, or quit, or indicted or not run for re-election, because like someone who can’t give up on an old flame, they seem unable to get over the fact that Hillary Clinton isn’t president.

President Trump tweeted from Scotland before heading to his meeting with Putin: “The stories you heard about the 12 Russians … took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?”

President Obama ridiculed Donald Trump in 2016 for suggesting a U.S. election could be influenced by a foreign power. “No serious person out there … would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections,” Obama said. Nevertheless, he did “something” by expelling 35 Russian officials as part of a larger set of sanctions after acknowledging that Russia did, in fact, try to influence the election’s outcome.

American hands are not completely clean when it comes to meddling in the elections of other countries. In a Dec. 22, 2016, interview on National Public Radio, Carnegie Mellon University researcher Dov Levin told host Ari Shapiro the U.S. has meddled in the elections of other nations more than 80 times between 1946 and 2000. Levin didn’t include the Israeli parliamentary election in 2015. A congressional committee was told that the State Department, then run by Secretary John Kerry, who succeeded Hillary Clinton, “paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” the Washington Times reported.

Democrats also found themselves in the position last week of defending FBI agent Peter Strzok, who claimed the animus he and his mistress and fellow agent, Lisa Page, exchanged in emails about their hatred for Trump as well as Strzok’s promise Trump would not be elected because “we will stop him” had no influence on their ability to perform their jobs. That Strzok smirked in response to many of the questions from Republican committee members did not help his credibility.

Trump haters will not give up no matter how many times they fail. Republicans are increasingly positive they will maintain their House and Senate majorities in the November election. That’s because consumer confidence is high due to strong economic growth and an unemployment rate that is at a 16-year low.

Hate is not a policy, and the Democrats are so devoid of policies that they have run out of even bad ones. This once-great party used to have at least some leaders with integrity. Now they are only about destroying the president and grabbing power once again. What would they do with power if they got it?

Just think President Hillary Clinton and imagine how everything good that is happening would never have occurred if she occupied the White House and was naming justices to the Supreme Court.

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

Saving NATO from Donald Trump WASHINGTON — When it comes to President Trump, it’s hard to pick his worst decision from the plethora he has provided.

His most recent — to brazenly insult our NATO allies — surely ranks among the top three in my book, the others being his romancing of Russia without commensurate leverage and, likewise, rushing to legitimize North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, without substantive concessions.

His topsy-turvy approach to foreign policy seems to be: Love thy enemies as thyself — and screw your pals. The result is that our enemies think us foolish and our allies find us both inscrutable and untrustworthy.

Contrary to what some Trump supporters might wish, this isn’t the work of a genius whose strategy is too sophisticated for the ordinary mind to grasp. It’s the work of a man who thinks the tools of his former trade as a real estate developer can be as easily applied to complex, global, diplomatic challenges.

The differences are manifest.

If a Trump hotel falls through, the wheeler-dealer moves on to the next, filing for bankruptcy if necessary to fund the next project. If a denuclearization agreement falls through, ka-boom!

— the world tips on its axis at a precarious angle. In particular, NATO’s increasing fragility, thanks to Trump’s recent barking

Kathleen Parker performance in Brussels, invites a range of potentially catastrophic repercussions, including, not least, a strengthened Russia with a bearish taste for empire expansion.

Watching and listening to the U.S. president deride NATO members last Thursday was akin to observing a small child building a sandcastle in a minefield.

Does Trump really not understand that NATO’s stability benefits the U.S. as well? Or does he consciously seek to destabilize the world, one relationship at a time? If so, to what end?

Notwithstanding his later comments expressing support for NATO, Trump spoke otherwise. It is likely the case that he’s performing for two audiences: Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he met with privately in Helsinki on Monday; and his American base, which sets its clock by campaign promises kept. Trump repeatedly has pledged to bring NATO to heel and force it to pay more so the U.S. could pay less.

Besides being false, the premise is ridiculous. First, “paying more” means that each country commits to allotting at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product to defense spending by 2024. This, all have agreed to. But the U.S. isn’t going to adjust its own military budget up or down based on what NATO nations do, nor is the U.S. going to save money if other countries dedicate more funds to their own militaries.

Yet, Trump, nevertheless, felt it necessary to chide fellow leaders, presumably to enhance his manly-tude. One tries to imagine any previous, modern president excoriating European leaders on the world stage, while also praising Putin periodically from the stump, when the Russian leader obviously represents the single greatest threat to European border countries. Certainly not Ronald Reagan, who is credited with bringing down the Berlin Wall; not Bill Clinton, who sought to expand NATO membership to include former Eastern European and Soviet states. Certainly not George W. Bush, who turned to NATO for military support after 9/11; nor Barack Obama, who was the biggest American rock star to hit Europe — ever.

The point of NATO’s formation, meanwhile, seems to have eluded Trump. It is to maintain and defend allied nations by treating an attack against one country as an attack on all. In an

alliance of this sort, especially given Europe’s understanding of America’s overwhelming military contributions of the past, it isn’t necessary for the big dog to anoint NATO’S hydrant.

The trouble with Trump is that he’s a wise guy from Queens and apparently hasn’t yet managed to overcome childhood insecurities. Men who must possess the biggest and best — from buildings to women to boats and planes — and boast incessantly of their accomplishments are usually compensating for something else.

This has long been obvious to at least some Americans (and the rest of the world), who recognized the danger of Trump from the get-go. His impulsiveness, braggadocio, absence of conscience, and an unburdened preference for dictators and tyrants — all serve our enemies well. As to what end the president’s childish strategies might serve? Quite possibly, Trump doesn’t even know. But chaos seeks fissures in stability — and order often follows at the heel of a boot.

For the past 69 years, NATO has been the world’s best defense against such instability — and Trump, ever the pompous pout, is cheering the offense.

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

You might be an irresponsible pet owner if …

As a responsible pet owner, I’m usually exasperated by the human race at this point every summer.

I have to endure listening to the media remind knuckleheads that animals do need fresh water and don’t need to be locked in hot vehicles. (“But I’ll only be at the DMV for a minute! Unless I run into Joey and have to spend a few seconds catching up on everything since he moved away after sixth grade.”)

This follows Valentine/Easter warnings about what candy dogs can safely consume. (“But I’ve already paid the renovator to take out the downstairs toilet and replace it with a chocolate fountain!”)

And of course, there’s the year-round pleading for pet owners to do the right thing and avail themselves of a spay/neuter clinic. (“Doggone if I can figure out where all these puppies and kittens keep coming from! Surely there are union rules that stop storks from delivering anything but human babies.”)

Yes, a combination of laziness, ignorance, cheap-

in your goldfish bowl. … dispense with daily “pooper scooper” activities and wait for your brother-in-law who drives the dumpster-emptying rig. … get frustrated when your parrot can’t do all the things Siri and Alexa do.

Danny … think that your giving Tyree strays a “forever home” means you’ll never have to pay off ness and orneriness can make your reverse mortgage. KAsome people a nuisance to the CHING! general public and a genuine … manage to teach an old hazard to their “fur babies.” dog new tricks, but only by Let’s face it: Some people resorting to a Common Core just don’t have the wits, emcurriculum. pathy and patience to be pet … deal with scheduling owners. In fact, you just might conflicts by combining your be an irresponsible pet owner if daughter’s pony party with you … your re-enactment of the Battle … think the Second Amend- of Gettysburg. ment has something to do with … think “puppy mills” is a arming bears. division of General Mills and … point a laser pointer in that purchasing one more teryour cat’s eyes while he’s tryrier will get you a free crate of ing to fly a passenger plane.

Cheerios. … make your hamster run … think having “exotic” pets on the little wheel 24-7 just so means boa constrictors and he’ll generate enough electric- llamas will be dancing around ity for you to “live off the grid.” a pole. … keep hoping against hope … take your fishbowl outthat Meghan Markle will poke side in stormy weather because her head out of the little castle you think it’s the only way to

get Syfy to read your script for “Guppy-nado.” … assume the same grandkids who played with the box instead of the $500 Wonder Woman jeep will form a lifelong bond with that listless Easter rabbit. … think “flea dip” is one of those trendy new insect-based food products. … deal with your dog’s anxieties by buying him a “thunder shirt,” when it might be more appropriate to buy him a “drunken master stumbles home yelling, ‘I ought to shoot your &^%$# brother for giving us the mutt in the first place’” shirt. … ask your pet, “Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy?” in order to evaluate a Supreme Court nominee.

Treat your pets right and you’ll have unconditional love for years to come — both at home and while traveling. But if the cockpit “hairball alert” light comes on, get off the plane.

Danny Tyree welcomes email responses at tyreetyrades@aol. com and visits to his Facebook fan page “Tyree’s Tyrades.”

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6B • WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018

Hockey •From Page 1B

Gladiators. He was signed at the completion of his semissed seven games, came nior year with Canisius Colback for nine and then was lege where he finished with out of the rest of the year.

29 points in 137 games.

“I’ve had a great off“Just talking to him, he season so far and want to seems like a great kid,” ride that momentum going Pyle said. “I’ve always to next season,” Malatesta been big on the young kids said. “I can’t wait to get and I think he’s a good back out there and put my two-way guy and will get injury behind me. The way better as he goes.” last season ended for me The 6-foot-2, 194-pound was frustrating, but now blueliner joined the team it’s time to prove what I during a road trip in Cincan do in a full year on the cinnati and immediately ice.” made a difference.

He plays a heavy game, “That was a big weekend too, at 5-foot-9 and 185 for us and he played well,” pounds. said Nesbitt, who played in “For a littler guy, he college with Canisius head throws a big body,” Gladi- coach Trevor Large. “You ators captain Derek Nesbitt could tell, he went about said. “He doesn’t back his business. down from anybody.”

“He surprised me with Malatesta had 92 points some plays he made where and a plus-18 rating in it wasn’t necessarily talked 191 games in the QMabout. He has skill and I JHL with Moncton and think he’ll be a really good Acadie-Bathurst before first-year pro at adapting turning pro. He had the to the game. I’m excited to best numbers of his career see him as a first-year guy.” after being dealt near the The Grosse Pointe trade deadline to AcadieWoods, Mich., native Bathurst with 28 points played in 55 USHL games and a plus-27 rating in 33 for the Sioux Falls Stamgames. pede before joining the “Last year we made the college ranks. playoffs for the first time “Looking back on in a while, but now it’s my short stint last year, time to take the next step I thought Atlanta was a and make some noise in first-class organization the postseason,” Malatwith a passionate fan base esta said. “We have a new and was a great place to coach and great core of play,” Stander said. “We players returning all with have some good building the mindset of making a blocks to work off of from legit run at the Kelly Cup.” last season and I’m going Stander, despite going the to do my best to contribute college route, is just 23 and to a longer playoff run and played eight games at the have a successful first full end of last season for the season in pro hockey.”

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were highlighted by Cedar Creek’s Matthew Scalzi’s how each team is scoring, scorching performance Jones had to make sure in the 11-12 boys divithe Lasers squeezed every sion. Scalzi set two new point out of their indicounty bests, the first in vidual events as well as the 50 backstroke where make sure that none of the he put up a 26.52 and then relays were disqualified. finished his day with a His patience and coaxnew county best in the 50 ing worked out, but he butterfly in 25.33. was also quick to credit The Peachtree Corners his predecessor, Charlene 9-10 boys medley relay set Wilson, who established a new record of 1:03.44. the Lasers as a powerEthan James, James house.

Sorenson, Vincent Bash “The year before Char- and Jacob Todebush were lene, came they finished the members who set the 27th at the county meet mark. and by the time she retired Wesley Carter, Aiden in 2016, they were always Stoffle, Chris Scalzi and a top team and finished Nathaniel Stoffle set a new that year as a runner-up,” record for Cedar Creek Jones said. “She set the in the boys 15-18 200 standard.”

Freestyle (1:24.63). Aiden The 10 new records Stoffle also set an individ-

ual record as he won the 50 backstroke in 22.40.

Yuri Sago of the Thunderbolts set a record in the boys 10 & under 100 individual medley (1:07.82).

Jessica Parrish, of Lansmoore, established a new record in the girls 13-14 50 backstroke (27.27).

Andrew Winton of Edgewater won the boys 15-18 100 individual medley in a record 50.40.

Tyler Schroeder of Steeplechase established two new records in the boys 13-14 division. Schroeder set new marks in the 50 freestyle (21.53) and 100 freestyle (47.68).

Winning multiple events for Lansmoore were Parrish, who captured the aforementioned backstroke record to go along

with titles in the freestyle and individual medley.

Marianne Allard won titles in the girls 15-18 breaststroke and individual medley. Addison Pierce picked up multiple titles in the 9-10 butterfly and freestyle.

The Lasers also got wins from Gretchen Collett 7-8 girls 50 freestyle, Nathian Terriot boys 7-8 25 backstroke, Caroline Irwin girls 15-18 butterfly and Jamison Tiller in the 13-14 butterfly.

Coming into this year off a fourth place finish at the 2017 county championships, Jones knew the Lasers had a shot. And now, as their slogan states, the Lans4 Lasers are no more. They are champions.

GWINNETT COUNTY SWIM LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS At McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech Saturday-Sunday High-Point Scorers 6-and-under girls 1. Lanie Kok, Chateau Elan, 69 1. Annaclaire Bruce, Thunderbolts, 69 3. Alara Pruitt, Waterton, 58 6-and-under boys 1. Henry Crutchfield, Peachtree Station, 69 1. Jason Cocian, Thunderbolts, 69 3. Warren Stanton, Connemara, 62 7-8 girls 1. Savannah Hook, Rivermoore, 105 1. Susie Kang, Morning View, 105 3. Aleah Zafft, Edinburgh, 97 3. Gretchen Collett, Lansmoore, 97 7-8 boys 1. Ryan Qi, Berkeley Hills, 105

2. Nathan Terriot, Lansmoore, 102 3. Adel Skopljak, Edgewater, 97 9-10 girls 1. Hailey Dopson, Flowers Crossing, 105 1. Addison Pierce, Lansmoore, 105 3. Cameron Pritchett, Daniel Park, 102 9-10 boys 1. Thien Nguyen, Flowers Crossing, 105 2. Yuri Sago, Thunderbolts, 102 3. Carson Waters, Rivermoore, 98 11-12 girls 1. Maria Fitzsimmons, Rivershyre, 105 1. Rachel Todebush, Peachtree Corners, 105 3. Emma Morris, Bright Water, 99 11-12 boys 1. Matthew Scalzi, Cedar Creek, 108 2. Blake Burnley, Edinburgh, 102

3. Jake Stout, Youth, 99 3. Nolan Patterson, Connemara, 99 13-14 girls 1. Jessica Parish, Lansmoore, 108 2. Jamison Tiller, Lansmoore, 102 3. Samantha Stoffle, Cedar Creek, 95 13-14 boys 1. Tyler Schroeder, Steeple Station, 108 2. Dylan Yin, Mountain Park, 101 3. Charlie Stout, Youth, 100.5 15-18 girls 1. Sarah-Grace Thompson, Wild Timber, 105 2. Marianne Allard, Lansmoore, 103 3. Delaney Carlton, Hanarry Estates, 101 15-18 boys 1. Aidan Stoffle, Cedar Creek, 105 2. Andrew Winton, Edgewater, 104 3. Jake Magahey, Hamilton Mill, 101

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