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Police: Homeowner shoots, kills intruder

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SNELLVILLE — A roadside sign near the entrance of the Mountain Cove neighborhood in Centerville reads, “MAY YOU BE BLESSED.” But on Friday, several of the letters had fallen sideways.

The obscured message

was fitting for a morning when residents were reeling from a rare shooting in the close-knit leafy subdivision of split-level homes. Gwinnett County police said 25-year-old Michael Silva was killed while allegedly breaking into a neighbor’s house.

The homeowner, who police said was “well within” his rights to fire, and his

wife awoke to the sound of the apparent burglary attempt around 4 a.m. The intruder had used a ladder to climb onto the roof.

“The husband retrieved his firearm and went to investigate the sounds,” Cpl. Deon Washington said in a news release. “When he went into the master

Police say the homeowner of this unincorporated Snellville house shot and killed an intruder Friday morning. (Staff Photo: Joshua Sharpe)

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Michael Parker sets up a ladder while working with Habitat for Humanity in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

Gwinnett police recruits volunteer to paint woman’s house

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Gwinnett police chief Butch Ayers, who stopped by to visit with the recruits and homeowner, was proud.

“I think it’s great. It’s a project they picked,” he said. “It’s just indicative of the quality of employees we have.”

The recruits, who have another three weeks before they hit the streets for on-thejob training, arrived at McCpl. John Bailey paints a house for Habitat for Humanity in Gaughey’s house around 8 a.m.

Lawrenceville on Saturday. and planned to finish the job before the day was done, even have police officers in my fam- he said, with light green paint as the summer heat bore down ily up in Ohio. It’s dear to me. I drying on his fingertips. Such on them. know their heart, their charac- projects are particularly imThe project was the third ter and valor.” portant in today’s “tumultuous of its kind Gwinnett Habitat Travis Leslie, a police acad- times,” with tensions between for Humanity has done this emy recruit who helped plan residents and law enforcement summer, said Barry Blakley, a Saturday’s work, was humbled making headlines around the coordinator with the nonprofit. to hear McGaughey say that. country, he said.

“A Brush of Kindness” is “It feels great. It reassures Most people support the poSee HELPING, Page 9A the community is behind us,” lice, McGaughey assured him.

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LAWRENCEVILLE — After a year of searching for work and worrying about her aging home, Bonnie McGaughey beamed Saturday afternoon as work was finally underway.

“Happy doesn’t described it,” she said. “Pleased, blessed, humbled.”

Recruits from the Gwinnett County Police Department’s 95th academy class were painting the house on Creekwood Cove off Ga. Highway 20 as part of the local Habitat for Humanity’s “A Brush with Kindness” initiative. McGaughey applied for assistance from the program, which helps struggling homeowners with repairs, but she didn’t realize police recruits would be the workers.

She started to tear up in the driveway watching them.

“It’s stunning,” she said. “I

Jeff and Catie Francoeur were hardly more than kids themselves when they got involved with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta through the Braves 12 years ago.

The two Parkview grads remained involved even after Jeff went on to play for other MLB teams, but were back wearing their Braves’ gear Friday for the team’s annual Christmas in July event at Scottish Rite.

“Seeing the smiles, seeing the things that excite them, that’s the best,” said Francoeur with a familiar grin. “Not so much us, but Homer, Santa Claus, the toys. Going to other teams, we kind of stole the Christmas in July concept. It’s such a great chance to give back. It’s great that the organization donates the toys and has us come out here.

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Human skull, bones in suitcase found near I-985

BY ERIKA WELLS

The lead detective will research missing person Visit gwinnettdailypost.com cases in Gwinnett County for a video and photos. and work with other agencies and told his supervisor, the to try to link the bones to a supervisor called 911.” specific person.

The Department of TransOnce the person is identiportation is doing routine fied, the detective will look maintenance on the right lane into what led to the discovery. on the section of I-985.

If anyone has informaPolice responded to the tion on the case, contact call at about 11 a.m., Pihera the Gwinnett County said, and when they arPolice Department Criminal rived and went through the Investigations Section at bag they found the remains 770-513-5300. To remain of what appeared to be an anonymous, tipsters should 80-year-old. contact Crime Stoppers at “The responding officer 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit said that the suitcase appears www.crimestoppersatlanta. to have been in the woods for org. Crime Stoppers tipsters an extended period of time,” can receive up to $2,000 for she said. “No identification information leading to an has been made on the bones.” arrest and indictment.

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Gwinnett County police are investigating “a suspicious death” after a human skull inside a suitcase filled with bones was found Friday morning in the Buford area.

The bones were found along Interstate 985 northbound around Buford Drive by a construction worker who went to relieve himself, Cpl. Michele Pihera later said at a convenience store near the scene.

“That’s when he stumbled upon something that seemed out of place,” Pihera said.

“He immediately saw a suitcase, and when he went back

City of Norcross Notice to the Public Georgia FY16-17 Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Budget Review and Adoption Public Hearing on FY2016-2017 Budget The public is hereby notified that a public hearing is scheduled for the FY16-17 Proposed Budget on August 1,2016 at 6:30 p.m. in accordance with the provision of the state code of Georgia 36-81-5 (d and e) in the City Hall Council Chamber located at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, Georgia 30071. At this meeting the Mayor and Council will receive both written and oral comments about the annual operating and capital budget for the City of Norcross, Georgia. A qualified interpreter for the hearing impaired will be available upon request made at least seven (7) days in advance of this meeting. Please call (770) 448-2122 ask for Karen Slaton-Dixon Administrative Services Director to request an interpreter or for more information.

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Budget Adoption The Mayor and Council of the City of Norcross are scheduled to adopt the FY16-17 Budget at the regular scheduled August 1, 2016 Council meeting. The meeting will be held in the City Hall Council Chamber located at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, Georgia.

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Gwinnett Police investigate after a suitcase with a human skull and other bones inside was found on Interstate 985 near Buford Drive on Friday morning. (Special Photo)

Window-shattering brawl in Waffle House wounds two

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A brawl broke out at a Waffle House near Duluth early Friday morning, with two men sustaining cuts and a window reportedly being busted.

Gwinnett County police responded to restaurant located at 1825 Pleasant Hill Road just before 2:30 a.m. after a call saying six people were fighting, an incident report said. Ac-

cording to media reports, the two men were tossed through the window, though a police spokeswoman couldn’t immediately confirm the source of the cuts.

One man went to hospital before police arrived, the incident report said; the other was still in the parking lot with people standing around him and a tourniquet on a large laceration on his left arm.

The reason for the melee was as hard to suss out.

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In the report, the girlfriend of one of the injured brawlers said a woman she’d never seen got mad over someone laughing.

“She bucked on me so I fought back,” the girlfriend said.

In the back right corner of the restaurant, a man saw the fight start and took out his phone to record it.

He offered the video to police.

The report lists no charges for any of the participants of the fight.

Two men sought in Norcross burglary

BY ERIKA WELLS

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Gwinnett Police are seeking two men who reportedly pawned items they stole in a July 9 home burglary near Norcross, police said.

David McCray, 22, of Peachtree Corners and Chris Westbrook, 20, of Snellville are wanted for outstanding warrants David for recent McCray crimes, according to a Gwinnett Police news release.

Officers responded to a call Chris regarding Westbrook a burglary at Shenta Oak Drive near Norcross, Cpl. Michele Pihera, a police department spokeswoman, said in the release.

“The victim told the officers that his home was burglarized and several items were stolen including a firearm,” Pihera said.

The suspects may drive an Orange PT Cruiser or Chevrolet HHR with rims and dark-tinted windows, according to the release.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of the suspects, contact Gwinnett Police detectives at 770513-5300.

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

Also, text tips to “Crimes” (274637).

Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case.

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Deal appoints Gwinnettians to librarian, narcotics boards A pair of Gwinnett Political County residents found Notebook themselves appointed or reappointed

by Gov. Nathan Deal to state boards on Friday.

The governor reappointed Gov. Nathan Peachtree Curt Yeomans Deal Corners resident Judy Dyer to the State Dr. Susan Blank, to the State Board for the Certification Commission on Narcotic of Librarians. He also apTreatment Programs. pointed Snellville resident, Dyer is a retired research

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librarian who holds degrees in English and library and information science from the University of Tennessee.

She now works in the governor’s office, and authored “Vegetarianism: An Annotated Bibliography” which made Library Journal’s “Sci-Tech Books of 1982: 100 Outstanding Titles” and Choice Magazine’s “Outstanding Academic Books of 1982-1983” lists.

Meanwhile, Blank founded the Atlanta Healing Center and serves as its chief medical office. She is is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia and is also the Georgia Society of Addition Medicine’s presidents.

Additionally, Blank is a fellow with the American Board of Forensic Examin-

ers, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Academy of Antiaging and Regenerative Medicine, and serves on the boards governing the Council on Alcohol and Drugs and Let’s Be Clear Georgia.

Hice announces new time for ‘Coffee’ gathering U.S. Rep. Jody Hice’s office announced a time change for the “Coffee With Your Congressman” event set to take place on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. The event Jody Hice will now take place from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Winder

community Center, 113 East Athens St., in Winder. Hice will give a short legislative update and take questions from attendees.

Kemp to co-chair national committee Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced this past week that he will co-lead the National Association of Secretaries of State’s Standing Committee Brian on ElecKemp tions.

The association’s president, Connecticut Secretary of State Denise W. Merrill, appointed Kemp and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to jointly run

the committee for the next year. Each standing committee in the organization is jointly run by one Republican secretary of state and one Democratic secretary of state.

“We have recruited a team of dedicated state officials to build upon the association’s bipartisan record of success,” Merrill said in a statement. “They will be leading this organization through the 2016 election cycle to work with the new U.S. President and Congress, as well as governors and state legislators, as we collaborate on issues of mutual interest to Secretaries of State.”

Political Notebook appears in the Thursday and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post.

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Listen to Them. When they are ready to talk, be ready to listen, even if the topic is something you wish to avoid. They may not need advice, but a sounding board to help think through the issues and dilemmas they are dealing with. Make them feel affirmed by asking questions and listening carefully and patiently to their responses.

Maintain Dignity and Control. The impulse is to immediately take over when a terminal diagnosis is given. However, as much as possible, allow them to function as normally as possible for as long as possible. Defer to their wishes and opinions as much as you can, especially in small things that are easy to accommodate. Things like favorite meals, music, television shows are easy things to make them more comfortable.

Help Alleviate Their Fears. Just about everyone who is dying and still of sound mind has fears about the dying process and death. It’s important to address them. Gently encourage them to talk about their fears. Perhaps ask their pastor or a spiritual leader to speak with them. There are also professional counseling services available. If you are using hospice services, they will be able to help.

Reassure Them That Their Life Mattered. It is common for depression, doubt and regret to set in when someone accepts that they are approaching death. This seems especially true if they were a ‘take-charge’ person or a caregiver themselves. Take every opportunity to recall with the good and helpful things they did throughout their life for family, friends, co-workers and in their community. Everyone wants positive affirmation at all stages of their life, especially near the end as they reflect back.

Gwinnett Tech President Glen Cannon, center left, and Georgia Gwinnett College President Stas Preczewski, center right, sign an articulation agreement as officials from both schools look on Friday. The agreement is designed to make it easier to transfer course work in criminal justice from one school to the other. (Photo by Rod Reilly)

Create a Peaceful Atmosphere. If possible most people want to remain at home among familiar and comfortable surroundings. Should hospice be necessary, do whatever is possible to make it feel more like home. Keep the area free of clutter and harsh lights. Disguise medical supplies and surround them with favorite things: pictures, flowers, artwork, music and above all people they enjoy being around.

Agreement makes it easier for criminal justice students to transfer

Give Them Permission To Go. This is one of the last and most difficult services you can perform for them. Often they worry about leaving loved ones behind, especially those who have been devoted to their care. Assure them the everything has been taken care of. Do your best to remove any emotional obstacles that may remain. Doing this will help open the door to a peaceful passing.

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“Students work hard for their course credits and should be able to take those Gwinnett County’s credits with them wherever two colleges are working they continue their educatogether to help criminal tion if both institutions are justice students keep their accredited,” Cannon said course credits when they in a statement. “Gwinnett transfer from one school to Technical College welthe other. comes the opportunity to Gwinnett Technical forge partnerships like this College President D. one with Georgia Gwinnett Glen Cannon and GeorCollege so we can meet the gia Gwinnett College needs of our students and President Stanley C. “Stas” grow graduating classes to Preczewski signed an meet the workforce needs articulation agreement on of tomorrow.”

Friday. The agreement is Officials from the designed to make it easier schools said the agreement for students who get aswill help students by maksociate degrees at Gwining the transfer process nett Tech to transfer their smoother and reducing credits to Georgia Gwinthe likelihood of having nett College’s bachelor’s to repeat courses. Gwin-

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nett Tech offers a criminal justice degree program at its Lawrenceville and Alpharetta campuses, school officials said.

This is the second articulation agreement, also known as a transfer agreement, between the schools.

Gwinnett Tech officials said there was an existing agreement that allowed students to transfer classes in accounting, business administration, economics, management, marketing, art, English, history, humanities, music, political science, psychology, sociology, speech, biology, chemistry, math, information technology and physical science.

“The most important aspect of this agreement is

that it clears a path for students,” Georgia Gwinnett’s Senior Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs and provost, T.J. Arant, said in a statement.

“We appreciate the close collaboration of GTC’s Russ Pomrenke and GGC’s Dr. Ron Hunter in creating some of the new courses needed for Gwinnett Tech’s new associate of science in criminal justice degree program and for ensuring that all of the courses align with the courses in Georgia Gwinnett College’s bachelor’s of science degree program. Their dedication to students and commitment to providing quality education made this agreement possible.”

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Cataract surgery is complicated DEAR DR. ROACH: I went to the ophthalmologist to have my eyes evaluated.

After a series of tests, he told me that I have a cataract and normal eye pressure, but I also have a rare inherited disease called pseudoexfoliation. He said it will cause many complications if I have cataract surgery, and then he walked out before I could ask him what the disease involves. I went home and looked it up on the web. I totally frightened myself with what I read. I know sometimes the web isn’t the best source for medical advice, but since he left me with no knowledge of the situation, I wish you could explain what it is and what the implications are.

— E.H. ANSWER: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome causes the deposition of white, fluffy protein material in the front part of the eye. It is rare in young people, but is present in about 5 percent of people between 75 and 85. There is indeed a strong familial component to the condition, and a gene has been identified.

It increases the risk of cataracts, but especially increases the risk of glaucoma, with excess pressure in the eye. Both cataract and glaucoma treatment are more challenging in the case of pseudoexfoliation syndrome, but cataract surgery still can be done, with low risk, by an experienced surgeon.

It may be that your cataract is not yet bad enough to merit surgery; however, if you are having significant vision problems because of the cataract, it might be worthwhile to find an expert in cataract surgery with pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

About 15 to 30 percent of people with the syndrome will develop glaucoma, so you will need to see an eye specialist frequently to keep a careful eye on your pressure, and possible treatment (usually eyedrops) to prevent glaucoma.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 84-year-young Caucasian man in good health. In college, I donated blood and was told I was Type O-negative. Later in life, I donated many pints to the Red Cross.

About 45 years ago I was told by the Red Cross that my blood type had changed to O-negative Du-positive, and a year ago I received a letter saying I am now Type O-positive. How can this be?

— F.D. ANSWER: Your blood type hasn’t changed, but the way you are classified has.

A and B are proteins on the red blood cell, and although you have neither of these proteins (making you Type O), other people have one (Type A or B) or both (Type AB), since ABO blood type is based on the proteins on the blood cells. The “positive” or “negative” in blood typing refers to the Rh factor, which is not one but several different proteins. D is the most important of these.

Your Rh factor — “Du,” also called “weak D” — is a weakly positive Rh D factor.

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Personal improvements Dear Amy: I was It is time for you to stop ing on up there in his lair. and romance are feaAsk Amy 19 when I married my pursuing your ex. Stop If he is working and tured. husband, who was 27 at it. If he wants to come seems physically and PISCES (Feb. the time. He was here five back to you, he will. If he mentally healthy, then 20-March 20) — Projmonths before we started doesn’t want to come back, you shouldn’t interfere. ect a loving and caring dating. I was pregnant by his distance will help you Continue to encourage and attitude towards others. another man. My husto recover from this failed attempt to include him, but Your ability to see the band and I got married 10 relationship and make dif- don’t be alarmed unless good in everything and months later. ferent choices next time. your spidey sense tells you everyone will be enlightHe is a manager at a Dear Amy: My he needs some intervenening and will attract a chain pizza store that his nephew, who rents a room tion. positive response. Your Amy Dickinson family owns, so naturally in our home, is a 21-yearHis parents might have intuition won’t let you he works a lot — 60 to old good guy. some insight into this (if down.

70 hours a week. I was so me not want to. I’m torn, He is respectful, carthey are in the picture); if ARIES (March 21-April young, just got married, stressed and exhausted. I ing and a great cook. The you are truly concerned, 19) — You need to put just had a baby and just don’t know what to do. problem is his social life. reach out to them. more energy into looking landed a big-girl job. I left Please help!

When he gets home from Dear Amy: I got after your health. If you him.

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In terms of “wanting over, I invite him to join us If this dynamic doesn’t intelligence to help you It has been more than a cake,” it seems that your ex and have some fun, but he change, she should avoid making a poor year since I left. We still is now in that category. He just says “maybe later” and seriously reconsider this choice when it comes to see each other, hang out has the advantages of hav- heads back into his room. relationship. My motherwith each other and are ing a relationship with you He never shows up “later.” in-law treated me this way dealing with a loved one, children or someone caintimate with each other. I when he wants it. He might I asked him once why during our courtship, and want him back more than also be punishing you for he never goes out, and he then upped her game once pable of using emotional anything. your own rejection by simply told me that his we got married. It has been tactics to twist your way of thinking.

He says he loves and keeping you on the ropes. friends live too far away. hell.

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OTTAWA — More than 500 people rallied in Canada’s capital on Saturday to protest the death of a mentally ill black man following an arrest, marching against what they see as race-based police brutality in a country that prides itself for being tolerant.

Abdirahman Abdi, 37, died on Monday after being hospitalized in critical condition following his arrest. Witnesses told local media he was beaten by Ottawa police officers who responded to calls of a disturbance.

His death echoed events in the United States, where a string of killings of black men by police and allegations of brutality and racial bias have sparked protests.

Protesters chanted “Black lives matter!” as they started marching, a reference to the U.S.-founded anti-police brutality movement, which has an official chapter in Canada.

“They murdered him!

Enough is enough!” the protesters chanted as they approached the Ottawa police headquarters, where the march ended in the late afternoon.

Organizers had said they would respect the wishes of Abdi’s family for the event to be peaceful, and while some protesters were so angry that others had to calm them down, none crossed the police barricade.

Police said there had been no arrests.

Abdi’s family spoke briefly before the march, thanking supporters, although organizers have said they do not want to be interviewed.

The family held Abdi’s funeral on Friday, which was attended by at least 600 people, including Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and other local politicians.

The province of Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, is looking into the circumstances surrounding Abdi’s arrest. Some advocates have called for criminal charges to be filed.

There have also been calls for a probe into whether race was a factor as advocacy groups voiced concerns over police violence against minorities.

In a statement, organizers of Saturday’s rally called for the officers involved in Abdi’s arrest to be put on unpaid leave, for all officers to wear body cameras, and for a review into how they deal with minorities and people in distress.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported one of the officers had been taken off patrol and that the other has been on leave. It was unclear whether that leave was paid or unpaid.

Ottawa police declined to comment and referred further questions to the Special Investigations Unit.

The SIU said it does not comment on the “internal human resource matters” of individual police forces.

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world&nation world Iran’s problems with global banking deepen LONDON/ANKARA — Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the rise of U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump have paralyzed efforts by Western governments to encourage already highly reluctant international banks to do business with Iran.

Uncertainty is frustrating Tehran’s push for foreign investment to revive its struggling economy: over Britain’s political and economic future, over whether Trump ­— who wants to scrap a nuclear deal with Iran — will get into the White House, and over whether banks will fall foul of U.S. sanctions if they process transactions with the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s failure to get full access to the global financial system a year after it signed the nuclear deal with world powers has intensified domestic political infighting and turned up the heat on President Hassan Rouhani, who has gambled on attracting foreign investment to raise voters’ living standards.

Turkey frees 758 soldiers, Erdogan drops lawsuits ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey has released more than 750 soldiers detained after an abortive coup, state media reported on Saturday, while President Tayyip Erdogan said he would drop lawsuits against people who had insulted him, in a one-time gesture of “unity.”

More than 60,000 people have been detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with the failed putsch, when a faction of the military commandeered tanks, helicopters and fighter jets and tried to topple the government.

Turkey’s Western allies have condemned the coup, in which Erdogan has said 237 people were killed and more than 2,100 were wounded but have been rattled by the scale of the crackdown, which has targeted supporters of Fethullah Gulen.

Lula to stand trial for obstruction of justice: court SAO PAULO — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the former chief executive of investment bank Grupo BTG Pactual SA will stand trial for obstruction of justice, documents from a federal court in Brasilia showed on Friday.

Lula was previously under investigation in various jurisdictions in a sprawling corruption probe focused on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) but is now officially a defendant.

The case dates to last November, when former Senator Delcidio do Amaral and Andre Esteves, the founder and former CEO of BTG Pactual, were arrested for allegedly trying to stop a jailed former Petrobras executive from collaborating with Brazil’s largest-ever corruption investigation.

— From wire reports

Hot air balloon crash kills 16

By Robin Jerstad Reuters

LOCKHART, Texas — Texas state police confirmed that 16 people died on Saturday in the crash of a hot air balloon, which eyewitnesses said struck power transmission lines and burst into flames before plunging into a pasture.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the crash, one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record, occurred near Lockhart, about 30 miles south of Austin and that at least 16 people were on board the craft.

The FAA did not comment on fatalities, but Caldwell County Sheriff Daniel Law said there did not appear to be any survivors and that his office was working to determine the identities of those aboard.

A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety later confirmed that 16 people were dead.

Emergency responders in Texas said the fire hit the basket portion of the hot-air balloon.

The National Transportation Safety Board offered no details on what may have caused the accident, which occurred on a clear day. But a spokesman at the scene said a Federal Bureau of Investigation

The partial frame of a hot air balloon is visible above a crop field as investigators comb the wreckage of a Saturday morning accident that left 16 people dead when the balloon crashed in Maxwell, Texas, on Saturday. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman/ via Reuters)

team was being dispatched to help in evidence-gathering.

The spokesman said the balloon probably belonged to a tour group that offers hot-air balloon rides.

Margaret Wylie, an area resident, told reporters she believed that before the balloon crashed, it hit high power lines, which caused popping sounds like a gun going off.

“It went up like a big fireball,” she told reporters, adding the chase group for the balloon arrived on the scene after the sheriff’s department.

The crash of the balloon is the deadliest on record in the Western Hemisphere, said Jeff Chatterton, a spokesman for the Balloon Federation of North America.

“There are thousands of balloons that go up every year,” he said. “This is unspeakably tragic but it is rather unique.”

More than 150 commercial hot air balloon companies operate in North America, he said.

More than a dozen police vehicles could be seen on pasture land at the site of the crash, which

nation Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Dems

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — A computer network used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Clinton campaign spokesman said in a statement late on Friday that an analytics data program maintained by the DNC and used by the campaign and a number of other entities “was accessed as part of the DNC hack.”

“Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,” said Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill.

Deadly California wildfire expected to severely widen CARMEL-BY-THESEA, Calif. — A deadly blaze near California’s Big Sur coast could widen to more than five times its current size and has destroyed some 60 homes, threatened hundreds of others and spurred mass evacuations,

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks at a computer screen during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Mich., in March. (Reuters/Carlos Barria/File Photo)

authorities said on Saturday.

The so-called Soberanes Fire, which started on July 22 and is burning just south of the oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has roared through nearly 32,000 acres of droughtparched chaparral, grass and timber in the Los Padres National Forest.

The blaze is estimated to have a final size of 170,000 acres, according to California Interagency Incident Management Team 1, which is comprised of federal, state and local authorities. The cost of fighting the fire is now at about $6 million a day, it said on its Twitter feed.

day, seven-state campaign swing in Colorado on Friday, where for a fifth straight day his supporters chanted “lock her up” whenever he brought up Clinton’s name.

Trump supporters say Clinton deserves to be prosecuted for her handling of U.S. foreign policy as secretary of state and for her use of a private email server while in that office.

All week Trump has sought to tamp down the chants by stressing that his main goal is to simply beat Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

But as the crowd chanted the slogan in Colorado Springs, Trump finally relented.

“I’m starting to agree with you, frankly,” he said. “No more Mr. Nice Guy.”

the FAA said occurred at about 7:40 a.m.

Lockhart, a town of about 13,000 people near state parks, is home to a variety of barbecue restaurants considered to be among the best in the state.

The accident occurred about three years after 19 people, mostly Asian and European tourists, were killed in a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.

A year before that incident, a hot air balloon burst into flames and crashed in New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. minority voters.

U.S. District Judge James Peterson, ruling in a legal challenge to the laws by two liberal groups, said he could not overturn the entire voter ID law because a federal appeals court had already found such restrictions to be constitutional.

But Peterson, in his 119-page ruling, said the requirements that Wisconsin voters show either a photo identification or go through a special petition process had unfairly burdened minorities and needed to be reformed or replaced before the November presidential election.

“To put it bluntly, Wisconsin’s strict version of voter ID law is a cure worse than the disease,” the judge wrote.

people Minnesota judge denies 29 claims from would-be Prince heirs A Minnesota judge has excluded nearly 30 wouldbe heirs from the estate of the late pop star Prince, bolstering the inheritance claims of the performer’s sister and surviving halfsiblings, probate court records released on Friday showed.

The court order, issued on Thursday, came in response to a flood of individuals seeking a piece of an estate some have valued at more than $500 million, left by Prince when he died unexpectedly in April at the age of 57, apparently without a will.

Claims have poured into the probate court since Prince’s younger sister, Tyka Nelson, filed a petition seeking appointment of a special administrator for the estate and naming herself and five half-siblings as the only known heirs.

In his 19-page order, Carver County Judge Kevin Eide appeared to accept those six claims, stating, “The court is not aware of any objection or dispute with the statement that these persons are the siblings or half-siblings” of Prince.

‘Pokemon Go’ players robbed at gunpoint LONDON — Three teenagers playing the hit game ‘Pokemon Go’ were robbed at gunpoint in a north London park and forced to hand over their mobile phones, British police said on Saturday.

Armed robberies are rare in Britain and police said they were hunting three suspects thought to be aged around 16 or 17 in relation to the incident on Tuesday evening.

While one suspect demanded that the three teenagers hand over their phones, a second revealed what the police said was a handgun from his waistband. The three teenagers handed over their phones and left the scene unhurt.

Powerball jackpot Freeman may join cast of Disney’s at $478 million, fifth largest ever ‘Nutcracker’

The multistate Powerball jackpot grew to $478 million, the fifth largest in the game’s history and the eighth-biggest lottery prize ever in the United States, before an 11 p.m. drawing on Saturday, officials said.

It will be the 24th drawing since a ticket won the jackpot, matching all six numbers, on May 7, Powerball officials said in Donald Trump to a statement.

Clinton: ‘No more The Powerball game is based on lottery tickets Mr. Nice Guy’ sold for $2 apiece. It is Judge strikes COLORADO SPRINGS, played in 44 states, the down parts of Colo. — U.S. Republican District of Columbia, presidential nominee Donald Wis. voter laws Puerto Rico and the U.S. Trump said he was taking Virgin Islands.

A federal judge on Friday the gloves off in his battle If a single ticket wins, it struck down a string of against Democrat Hillary will be worth the winner’s Wisconsin voting restrictions choice of $478 million Clinton in the race for the passed by the RepublicanWhite House after taking spread over 30 years or led legislature and ordered a scorching from speakers $330.6 million in a lumpthe state to revamp its voter at the Democratic National sum payment, before identification rules, finding Convention. federal taxes.

Trump wrapped up a five- that they disenfranchised — From wire reports

LOS ANGELES — Morgan Freeman is in negotiations to star in Disney’s upcoming live-action film “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” opposite Misty Copeland and Mackenzie Foy. The live action project is based on the 1816 story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann in which a girl named Clara is charged by her parents with taking care of a Christmas toy Nutcracker doll — which comes to life and defeats an evil Mouse King with seven heads.

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned an Alexandre Dumas adaptation of the story into the ballet “The Nutcracker” in 1892.

— From wire reports

ACOG study: Planned home birth still carries risks

By Kathryn Doyle Reuters

Although women who plan to give birth at home end up with fewer medical interventions during labor, their babies have a higher risk of death and seizure soon after birth, experts warn.

Hospitals and accredited birth centers are still the safest places for women to give birth, accord-

multiples or when she’s had a Cesarean section in the past.

The last ACOG Opinion on ing to the American College of this topic was published in 2011.

Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Since then, a number of studies In a newly published Commit- have cleared up some uncertaintee Opinion, the College describes ties about birth outcomes, particutimes when home birth should not larly as home birth is practiced in be considered, such as when the the U.S., said primary author Dr. fetus is in a breech or transverse William H. Barth Jr., chief of the position rather than head-down, Division of Maternal-Fetal Mediwhen the mother is pregnant with cine at Massachusetts General

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“For example,” he told Reuters Health by email, “a large study of planned home birth versus planned hospital birth in Oregon, a state that probably leads others in the organization and reporting of planned home birth, has shown that planned home birth is associated with fewer labor inductions, fewer labor augmentations, fewer operative vaginal deliveries and

importantly, significantly fewer cesarean deliveries.”

“However, this and other more recent studies conducted in the U.S. confirm that planned home birth is also associated with higher rates of low Apgar scores, neonatal seizures or serious neurologic disorders and neonatal death,” he said. “The absolute rates of these are low, but they are consistently higher with planned home birth.”

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Bill failed to make a case for Hillary

WASHINGTON — “The best darn changemaker I ever met in my entire life.” So said Bill Clinton in making the case for his wife at the Democratic National Convention. Considering that Bernie Sanders ran as the author of a political revolution and Donald Trump as the man who would “kick over the table” (to quote Newt Gingrich) in Washington, “change-maker” does not exactly make the heart race.

Which is the fundamental problem with the Clinton campaign. What precisely is it about?

Why is she running in the first place?

Like most dynastic candidates (most famously Ted Kennedy in 1979), she really doesn’t know. She seeks the office because, well, it’s the next — the final — step on the ladder.

Her campaign’s premise is that we’re doing OK but we can do better. There are Charles holes to patch in the Krauthammer nanny-state safety net.

She’s the one to do it.

It amounts to Sanders lite. Or the short-lived Bush slogan: “Jeb can fix it.” We know where that went.

The one man who could have given the pudding a theme, who could have created a plausible Hillaryism was Bill Clinton. Rather than do that — the way in Cleveland Gingrich shaped Trump’s various barstool eruptions into a semi-coherent program of national populism — Bill gave a long chronological account of a passionate liberal’s social activism. It was an attempt, I suppose, to humanize her.

Well, yes. Perhaps, after all, somewhere in there is a real person. But what a waste of Bill’s talents. It wasn’t exactly Clint Eastwood speaking to an empty chair, but at the end you had to ask: Is that all there is?

He grandly concluded with this: “The reason you should elect her is that in the greatest country on earth we have always been about tomorrow.” Is there a rhetorical device more banal?

Trump’s acceptance speech was roundly criticized for offering a dark, dystopian vision of America. For all of its exaggeration, however, it reflected well the view from Fishtown, the fictional white working-class town created statistically by social scientist Charles Murray in his 2012 study “Coming Apart.” It chronicled the economic, social and spiritual disintegration of those left behind by globalization and economic transformation. Trump’s capture of the resultant feelings of anxiety and abandonment explains why he enjoys an astonishing 39-point advantage over Clinton among whites without college degrees.

His solution is to beat up on foreigners for “stealing” our jobs. But while trade is a factor in the loss of manufacturing jobs, even more important, by a large margin, is the emergence of an information economy in which education, knowledge and various kinds of literacy are the coin of the realm. For all the factory jobs lost to Third World competitors, far more are lost to robots.

Hard to run against higher productivity.

Easier to run against cunning foreigners.

In either case, Clinton has found no counter.

If she has a theme, it’s about expanding opportunity, shattering ceilings. But the universe of discriminated-against minorities — so vast 50 years ago — is rapidly shrinking. When the burning civil rights issue of the day is bathroom choice for the transgendered, a flummoxed Fishtown understandably asks, “What about us?” Telling coal miners she was going to close their mines and kill their jobs only reinforced white working-class alienation from Clinton.

As for the chaos abroad, the Democrats are in see-no-evil denial. The first night in Philadelphia, there were 61 speeches. Not one mentioned the Islamic State or even terrorism. Later references were few, far between and highly defensive. After all, what can the Democrats say? Clinton’s calling card is experience. Yet as secretary of state she left a trail of policy failures from Libya to Syria, from the Russian reset to the Iraqi withdrawal to the rise of the Islamic State.

Clinton had a strong second half of the convention as the Sanders revolt faded and as President Obama endorsed her with one of the finer speeches of his career. Yet Trump’s convention bounce of up to 10 points has given him a slight lead in the polls. She badly needs one of her own.

She still enjoys the Democrats’ built-in Electoral College advantage. But she remains highly vulnerable to both outside events and internal revelations. Another major terror attack, another email drop — and everything changes.

In this crazy election year, there are no straight-line projections. As Clinton leaves Philadelphia, her lifelong drive for the ultimate prize is perilously close to a coin flip.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

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America unites when it matters As Americans, we’ve shown time and again throughout our history that above all else, we unite around what matters. We come together to accomplish remarkable things, protect each other and act as an ambassador for freedom and opportunity around the world.

We defend liberty passionately, and that all starts with the safety and security of the American people. In recent months we’ve seen terrorist attacks not only overseas, but tragically, here at home as well.

The attackers seek to destroy freedom, create division, and stoke chaos. As they are wrong about so much, so too are they wrong in their estimation of our national character. As Americans, we don’t panic; we don’t point the finger of blame amongst ourselves; we do not divide. Rather we unite to confront challenges, and we defeat the enemies we face as one nation.

The activity on Capitol Hill can often seem far removed from our communities or overshadowed by politics, but even Congress is united around national security. Even in divided government, Congress is moving measures forward and having them signed into law by the President; measures that are now making a difference for Georgians and Americans throughout the country.

An immediate example can be found in HR 2029, the “FY2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act” — now the law of the land — which contained legislation increasing our investment in border security

Rob Woodall surveillance technology. That technology was at the forefront of the capture of Taliban-linked individuals first reported by the Washington Times just this June. A group described by federal authorities as “involved in a plot to conduct an attack in the U.S. and/or Canada” had reportedly entered underneath a border fence, but thanks to the added surveillance technology we apprehended them within miles of their entry point.

The “Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act” is another example and has been fully implemented as of April 2016 according to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. As a result of this legislation, all travelers from Visa Waiver countries to the U.S. must have an e-Passport. The e-Passport contains the security feature of an electronic chip, which holds all of a passenger’s information including name, date of birth and other biographical information.

The e-Passport prevents identity theft travel fraud, and travelers who do not have an e-Passport from a Visa Waiver

country must obtain a visa to come to the U.S. In addition, any traveler who has visited an area known for terrorist activity such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, will receive a more rigorous security check before being allowed to enter the U.S. This law is the result of our focus on the direct threat of foreign fighters, and reflects our determination to keep them off our shores.

Our commitment to neutralize foreign fighters doesn’t stop there, though. We’ve begun implementation of another bill, HR 2835, the “Border Jobs for Veterans Act of 2015,” requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to grow its partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) to utilize the skills of returning veterans in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Since enactment, CBP has participated in 651 veteran recruitment events and has a target of 1,000 events for FY 2016. CBP has already experienced an improvement in applicant awareness and engagement and is currently partnering with the DoD transition offices across America to provide information sessions and workshops for service members transitioning back to civilian life.

One early success of the CBP and DoD partnership is the CBP Recruiting Center on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, which entails the DoD Transition Assistance Program Office providing space for CBP’s frontline agent and officer recruiters who offer informa-

tion to transitioning service members on a full-time basis.

As the first of its kind, I’m eager to see the program’s success continue and be replicated in states across the country.

By these agencies working together, we are able to better protect Americans and better serve those who have sacrificed so much to serve each of us.

I want America to be proud of these improvements and proud that there is still more that unites us than divides us in America today. But make no mistake: no amount of legislation will keep America safe; only the selfless sacrifice of those thousands of U.S. citizens serving on the front lines here at home and abroad does that.

We as a citizenry and we as a Congress must continue to support those who protect national security and give them the tools to succeed, for we know anger and blame don’t keep America safe; their hard work does. Thank a veteran; thank a law enforcement official; and thank God as He continues to bless the United States of America.

Congressman Rob Woodall (R) represents the Seventh Congressional District of Georgia, which includes the majority of Forsyth and Gwinnett counties, and currently serves as Chairman of the Rules Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process, as well as serving on the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, and Budget Committee.

Gaithers are a must on a bucket list I don’t have a bucket list, but if I did I would be hard-pressed to find room to add anything else. There is not much I have wanted to do that I haven’t done, from shooting the breeze with the president in the Oval Office to seeing the sun rise in the Scottish Highlands to being embedded with the brave men and women of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team in Iraq.

But until I was able to meet Bill and Gloria Gaither and tell them thank you for making my life infinitely richer, my bucket would have a serious hole in it.

They are to gospel music what Rembrandt is to art, what butter is to biscuits.

My musical tastes are eclectic. With the exception of rap (which isn’t real music), I enjoy everything from classical to rock — from Tchaikovsky to Ray Charles Robinson of Albany, Ga. — but especially do I love old-time gospel music. I grew up listening to the Statesmen Quartet, the Homeland Harmony Quartet, the LeFevre Trio, the Sunshine Boys and a lot of others I could name, except I might give you a serious case of eye glaze.

I have fond memories of going to the East Point City Auditorium with my parents to hear the LeFevre Trio — Eva Mae, Alphus and Urias — sing up a storm. Today, the ACLU would likely get their politically cor-

Dick Yarbrough rect shorts in a wad about folks singing and praising Jesus in a (gasp!) government building.

Bless their hearts.

Nobody has done more to keep gospel music alive and well than the Gaithers. Bill and Gloria Gaither are two former school teachers-turned-performers-turned-entrepreneurs from Alexandria, Ind., who reign over a global gospel empire featuring television shows, worldwide concert tours, music publishing, CDs, videos and the like. Despite their enormous success, I have a feeling they are what we call in the South “real people.” They still reside in in their hometown of Alexandria.

They are also outstanding songwriters. To date, they have written more than 700 songs, including, “Because He Lives,” “Sinner Saved by Grace,” “He Touched Me” and “Jesus, There’s Something About That Name,” among others. I know

them all by heart and am not hesitant about singing along (and loudly) while out driving around town. I do get some weird looks, but that’s OK. At least I’m not texting.

A Saturday night ritual at our house is watching the Gaither Homecoming Shows on television. Over the years, I have come to feel as though I know the performers up-close and personal. I grieved when we said goodbye to Eva Mae Lefevre, George Younce and Glen Payne; Hovie Lister and Jake Hess; Happy and Vestal Goodman; Jessy Dixon (my hero) and Anthony Berger and, just recently, Joey Feek, a woman who must have been as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside.

But we still welcome into our home David Phelps and Lynda Randle; Buddy Green and Mark Lowry, who collaborated on “Mary, Did You Know,” which has become a Christmas classic; the Martins, and the Gatlin Brothers.

Larry Gatlin and I were once tighter than ticks when he did a series of commercials for us at Southern Bell, but that was a long time ago.

And every time I hear Larnelle Harris and Sandi Patty sing “I’ve Just Seen Jesus,” I get goosebumps and wonder how anybody could be a nonbeliever after hearing this

electrifying performance.

The risk in meeting Bill and Gloria Gaither is that I might find out that everybody isn’t having as much fun as it looks like they are having and that like a lot of artistic endeavors, there are ego clashes, personality conflicts and contract disputes.

Something tells me that they just might be different. I attended a Gaither concert at the Gwinnett Arena a few years back. At the end of a long and celebratory night and after the obligatory encores, Bill Gaither came back on stage to tell a packed house getting ready to leave that his folks were having so much fun they wanted to keep on going if that was OK with the audience. I decided these people love what they do.

Bill and Gloria Gaither and their Homecoming friends have brought a lot of joy to my life and to millions of others with their music. I may never get the chance to tell them in person, but if you happen to see them, I hope you will let them know. That would fill my bucket to overflowing.

You can reach Dick Yarbrough at yarb2400@bellsouth.net; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139; online at dickyarbrough.com or on Facebook at www.facebook. com/dickyarb.

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“The tragic fire back in May serves as a reminder The Gwinnett County of the importance of fire department teamed up having multiple working Saturday with the Ameri- smoke alarms in the home can Red Cross and comand developing a fire munity volunteers to hold escape plan,” Battalion a Smoke Alarm and Fire Chief Robert Ogburn said Safety Blitz near where in the news release. an elderly man died in an The event featured the accidental fire on May 28. Gwinnett Citizen Fire Teams went door-toAcademy Alumni Asdoor to about 200 homes sociation, Gwinnett Fire to offer free smoke alarm Explorer youth cadets, checks and shared fire American Red Cross safety information with volunteers and missionarresidents in the neighbor- ies from The Church of hood where the 71-yearJesus Christ of Latter-day old man died on James Saints.

Street in unincorporated Firefighters say every Lilburn. Firefighters, fire home should be equipped educators and volunteers with a working smoke checked the batteries in alarm on every level and alarms and installed new in each bedroom. alarms as needed, accord“Time is your enemy ing to a news release. during a fire emergency,”

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Capt. Tommy Rutledge said. “You may have less than two minutes to get your family out safe.

Smoke alarms provide early warning and may allow added time for occupants to escape.”

In addition to maintaining smoke alarms, residents were also encouraged to eliminate hazards that could cause a fire to start and to hold fire drills regularly to test their escape plan.

For more information about home fire safety or to schedule a similar event in your neighborhood, contact the Gwinnett Fire Community Risk Reduction Section at 678-518-4845 or email fireprograms@gwinnettcounty.com.

Gwinnett County firefighters, along with many volunteers, installed and checked smoke alarms Saturday in the neighborhood where an elderly man died from a fire in May. (Special Photo)

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Erdogan: Close military schools, rein in armed forces

By Yesim Dikmen Reuters

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will shut down its military academies and put the armed forces under the command of the defense minister, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday in a move designed to bring the military under tighter government control after a failed coup.

The changes, some of which Erdogan said would

likely be announced in the government’s official gazette today, come after more than 1,700 military personnel were dishonorably discharged this week for their role in the abortive July 15-16 putsch.

Erdogan, who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup, told Reuters in an interview last week that the military, NATO’s secondbiggest, needed “fresh blood.” The dishonorable

discharges included around 40 percent of Turkey’s admirals and generals.

Turkey accuses U.S.based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the putsch, in which a faction of the military commandeered tanks, helicopters and fighter jets and attempted to topple the government.

Erdogan has said 237 people were killed and more than 2,100 wounded.

Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the

United States for years, denies the charge and has condemned the coup. So far, more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and schools have been either detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with Gulen.

Turkey’s Western allies condemned the attempted putsch, but have been rattled by the scale of the resulting crackdown.

“Our armed forces will be much stronger with the

latest decree we are preparing. Our force commanders will report to the defense minister,” Erdogan said in an interview on Saturday with A Haber, a private broadcaster.

“Military schools will be shut down. … We will establish a national defense university.”

He also said he wanted the national intelligence agency and the chief of general staff, the most senior military officer,

to report directly to the presidency, moves that would require a constitutional change and therefore the backing of opposition parties.

Both the general staff and the intelligence agency now report to the prime minister’s office. Putting them under the president’s overall direction would be in line with Erdogan’s push for a new constitution centered on a strong executive presidency.

UK’s May intervened with Hinkley project

By Kate Holton and William James Reuters

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May was concerned about the security implications of a planned Chinese investment in the new Hinkley Point nuclear plant and intervened personally to delay the project, a former colleague and a source said on Saturday.

The plan by France’s EDF to build two reactors with financial backing from a Chinese state-owned company was championed

by May’s predecessor David Cameron as a sign of Britain’s openness to foreign investment.

But just hours before a signing ceremony was due to take place on Friday, May’s new government said it would review the project again, raising concerns that Britain’s approach to infrastructure deals, energy supply and foreign investment may be changing.

The decision could prove a test for May, with any attempt to renegotiate the terms of the project potentially straining relations with Paris and Beijing at a time when Britain is seeking to build trade deals following the country’s vote to leave the European Union.

“When we were in government Theresa May was quite clear she was unhappy about the rather gung-ho approach to Chinese investment that we had,” Vince Cable, Britain’s

former business secretary, told BBC Radio.

He later told Sky News her concerns over China’s involvement were linked to national security. “This was an issue that was raised in general but it was also raised specifically in relation to Hinkley,” he said.

May alerted French President Francois Hollande to her intention, a government source told Reuters.

She explained to him that she would need time to consider the project when they met in Paris nine days ago and when they spoke in a phone call. “They agreed on the timetable,” the source said.

But state-controlled utility EDF, which went through a bruising boardroom battle in order to agree backing for the project on Thursday, said it had no advance warning of the review.

Britain and EDF first reached a broad commercial agreement on the project in 2013. China got involved two years later when Downing Street laid on a state visit for President Xi Jinping, designed to cement a “Golden Era” of relations between the two countries.

Cameron said he wanted to build a “lasting friendship” with Beijing and George Osborne, his chancellor, pitched Britain as China’s “best partner in the West” even as other Western nations took a more cautious view of Chinese investment.

Carlene Lawla speaks with reporters Friday morning after her neighbor shot and killed a man who was reportedly trying to break into the neighbors’ house.

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bathroom, he discovered a male climbing through the window. At that point, the husband fired one round that struck the suspect in the face.”

The husband and wife, whose identities weren’t released, didn’t speak with reporters in the neighborhood Friday morning.

Carlene Lawla, who lives next door on Hadley Place, said the couple were shaken by the incident.

“They woke up with someone trying to come in their window, violate their space,” she told reporters at her front door.

“This was a very unfortunate incident.”

Phil Thomas, who’s been in the neighborhood some 30 years, felt the same. It’s tragic for both sides — a young man “obviously on the wrong road” in life and the husband and wife who have

to live with the horror of situation forever, he told reporters.

Washington said the couple were released after interviews with investigators, and they “will not face any criminal charges.”

The connection, if any, between Silva and the couple wasn’t clear Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, neighbors had heard the deceased was a young man who grew up with his family across the street from the couple, but Silva actually lives a short walk away on nearby Mountain Way. Public records show Silva had an arrest history in Gwinnett, including an arrest earlier this month for allegedly being a drunken pedestrian in a road. He was serving a five-year probation sentence after conviction of aggravated assault and terroristic threats in a January 2013 case.

Jeff Francoeur gets a picture with Santa during the Atlanta Braves annual Christmas in July visit at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on Friday. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

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A cadre of players, coaches and their wives spent the morning visiting individual rooms and then converging on The Zone — a rec room with everything from video games to air hockey — for the Christmas party. The team handed out Braves T-shirts, hats, blue bats and foam tomahawks along with all the toys.

“We walked around some of the floors because not all the kids can leave their room,” said Catie, now a mother of two. “So you also get to see their siblings and parents, because when your child is sick, it affects the whole family.

“I wish everybody could do this — and that we could all do it once a week.

To realize that hey, my 2-year-old just dropped an entire bucket of sand on the floor or spilled this Koolaid everywhere, but at the end of the day, we’re good.

There’s no bigger blessing than your health.”

Braves manager Brian Snitker, who managed the Gwinnett Triple-A team until being promoted, agreed that events like this one keep everything in perspective.

“It probably does as much, or more, for us as it does the kids,” Snitker said.

“For me, I don’t think we can do this too much. Being a father, a grandfather, what these kids are going through, just if you can get them to smile and maybe forget about their problems for an hour. Many of the guys have their own kids, too, so it hits home.

“What we’re going

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Coach Brian Snitker holds Gabriel Bryson during the Atlanta Braves annual Christmas in July visit at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on Friday.

that inspire you to go out.

Especially now it means a Visit gwinnettdailypost.com lot for me having two kids, for a photo gallery. knowing there’s a place like through isn’t that bad. this in our backyard.”

When you come here and A grinning Mike see what some of these Foltynewicz got ahold of young kids and their the selfie stick and took parents are going through, several photos, includwhat we’re doing doesn’t ing one with Snitker and even compare. It’s a wininfielder Brandon Snyder, win. They couldn’t care less who later demonstrated the what our record is. It makes proper chopping motion us feel good, too.” for a little boy. Lefty Matt The decibel level in Marksberry sat in a beanthe room jumped markbag chair and played video edly when the players and games with a couple of the coaches joined the party. older kids. Francoeur said “Baseball is beside the he might try the air hockey point today,” Jeff said. but not the video games.

“This is bigger than base“I’m the worst video ball. Any time you get a game player,” he chuckchance to spend time with led. “I would probably get kids like that, what’s better crushed.” than that?

Catie said she talked to “You try to explain to one little girl who was not them that they’re the ones nearly as excited about more online

Santa as seeing the players.

“We started with the Braves that first year and just immediately fell in love with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and, really, the kids,” she said. “That’s who you fall in love with. The whole concept, just to have a hospital that is so good in our town, you realize what a blessing it is.

“You’re thankful that you’re not here, but you’re even more thankful that there actually is a place like this. God forbid anything happens to any children, there is a place like this.

It’s not just because it’s the Braves are here, everyone at Children’s Healthcare is amazing. For us, we’re just humbled to be a part of it.

You feel it right when you walk in, this is a special place.”

Helping

and planned to go home to Ohio, but the deal fell similar to the organization’s through. Her son, who well-known house-building is finishing up school, projects. Grant or sponsor didn’t want to move again funds pay for the supplies anyway. to do necessary repairs, The mother finally found such as putting a fresh coat a job recently as a school on McGaughey’s siding, bus driver; she’s in training. which was becoming water- Then she found the Habitat logged. for Humanity program.

She’d been struggling Watching the faded blue to pay for the job. Mcon the siding painted over, Gaughey, who worked McGaughey seemed conin school lunchrooms tent to stay put a while. She until a year ago, tried to was grateful, after a long sell the house last year year, to see a change.

Tim, Christian, Caroline and Ryan Dunaway paint a house while working with Habitat for Humanity in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photo: Cole McCauley)

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Gwinnett Rotarians Willard Swanson, far left, and Mark Willis (kneeling) help a foster family explore their many shoe Third-grader Brandon Villa, left, stands proud with volunteer Brandon Williams and shows off his new shoes. options. (Photos: Paige Havens)

Rotary, church help provide Kicks for Kidz

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out of business.

“Dick’s Sporting Goods Visit gwinnettdailypost.com really stepped up to help us, for a photo gallery.

BUFORD — There’s an even giving us a 20 percent old saying that you can tell students be able to return to discount on all shoes,” he a lot about a person by their school with a new pair of said. shoes. shoes as a part of the Kicks “At Dick’s Sporting For some students return- for Kidz program Saturday. Goods, we believe in giving ing to the classroom in a “We just wanted to be back to the community,” week, the fact that they able to meet a need that we said Mike Lee, community won’t have a new set of believe exists in Gwinnett marketing manager. “This shoes like many of their County,” said Marlon Allen, is a great back to school classmates opens up the pastor of the church. “Many event and we’re happy to be possibility of being told of us came from families a part of it.” they aren’t cool enough that could buy us new shoes The event saw more than because of what’s on their before school and I think 200 children come to the feet. we sometimes take that for store and be given the full Members of the Gwingranted. There are many shopping experience of trynett County Rotary Club families who cannot do this ing on a new pair of shoes and Victorious Living for their children for variup to $40.

Church in Dacula partous reasons, and this allows Gwinnett Rotary Club nered with Dick’s Sportus to help them.” president Karen Saltiel, ing Goods at the Mall of For Allen, this year was said they did notice some Georgia, Gwinnett County special considering the fact high school boys who had that the previous events large feet were unable to Gwinnett Rotarian Mark Willis helps 8-year-old Deianira Department of Family and find sh soes in their size for Jose tie the shoes she’ll get to wear next week when she Children Services and View have taken place at Sports starts third grade.

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Iris Dawn Hosch Anglin March 13, 1936 - July 28, 2016 Iris Anglin, 80, of Buford went home to be with our Lord on July 28, 2016 following a sudden illness.

She was born in Buford, GA, the only child of the late Ira and Myrtle (Pass) Hosch. Growing up in the local community, she attended and graduated from Buford High School with honors in 1954. During high school, she worked at Allen Five and Ten where she met the love her of her life. Bill worked across the street as a pharmacistapprentice to Chief Garner of Garner’s Drugstore. In later years, she worked as the bookkeeper for Drake Furniture on Main Street Buford until just after the birth of her first son. After the death of Chief Garner, his widow, Florence, sold the drugstore to the young pharmacist, and Iris continued as a fulltime homemaker for their family.

Early in her life, she was

a member of First Baptist Church Buford, until later in her life when she and Bill joined New Bethany Baptist Church, the home church of her mother’s family.

Iris was also a loving daughter, wife, and mother. Surviving family members include her husband of almost 60 years, William “Bill” Anglin; son, Randy Anglin; son and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Sandra Anglin. Her gift for loving and encouraging others also led many to consider her a special sister, friend, or second mother.

She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Ira and Myrtle Hosch; and generations of family and friends to greet her in heaven.

Special thanks to the staff of Caring Hands Personal Care Home, including the family of Asmira and Tony Becic; caregivers, Charlene Perry, Patsy Samples, and Vickie Brannon.

The family will receive friends at Flanigan Funeral Home in Buford on Saturday, July 30, 2016, from 6:00-9:00 pm and Sunday, July 31, 2016 from 12:302:00 pm. Her funeral service will be led by Rev. Ron Cansler, Sr and Rev. Mark Spence at Flanigan l i f d

Funeral Home in Buford on Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 2:00 pm, followed by a graveside service at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens. For details and directions, you may call Flanigan Funeral Home at 770-932-1133.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Lonzo Evans Mr. Lonzo E. Evans, age 86 of Bogart, Georgia who entered into rest Friday, July 29, 2016.

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Melvin Frank Melvin S. Frank, age 68 of Lawrenceville, Ga died July 23, 2016. A Memorial Service will be held at the Auburn Seventh Day Adventist Church on the 7th of August, 2016 at 6 PM. Mr. Frank was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey and was a retired IT Professional and an Army Veteran. He is survived by his son, Martin Frank of l h d h

“There was enough money raised to ensure they could still walk out with a new pair of shoes,” she said. “Seeing many of these kids come in saying what they want, and then seeing the excitement on their faces when they get those pair of shoes makes it all worthwhile.”

Allen said he remembers when he was in school how some kids were made fun of because they didn’t have a new pair of shoes to start school.

“They always had some kind of name to call the kids to make fun of them,” he said. “For many of these kids, they come from broken homes or have other issues they’re dealing with. This makes one thing less that they have to deal with.”

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Flowery Branch; daughter, Georgiana Simmons of Sugar Hill; grandson, Palmer Ross Simmons, granddaughter Natasha Simmons and Katy Simmons; wife, Lenuta Frank along with Lenuta’s three children and three grandchildren and brother, Albert Frank of New Jersey.

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Haynes Garner Haynes M. Garner, age 76, of Tucker, passed away on Friday, July 29, 2016.

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Charles Hall Mr. Charles David Hall, age 73 of Oakwood, Georgia who entered into rest Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

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George Perry, Sr. George E. Perry, Sr. age 75, of Gainesville, GA passed away on July 29, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Joey Smith Mr. Joey Franklin Smith, age 50 of Jefferson, Georgia who entered into rest Tuesday, July 26, 2016.

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Joy Torrance Joy Lee Owen Torrance, 81, of Duluth, died July 29, 2016.

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Barry Monroe Perry Barry Monroe Perry age 63, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Maria Lopez helps her cousin Johnathan Garcia throw a basketball at the back-to-school giveaway at Shoe Carnival in Lawrenceville on Saturday.

Sommors Daniels and David Jordan look at some shoes during the backto-school giveaway at Shoe Carnival in Lawrenceville on Saturday.

Parents and students gather at the back-to-school giveaway at Shoe Carnival in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

Kids get new shoes courtesy of police

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the sneakers. “(It’s) very helpful.”

Visit gwinnettdailypost.com The event, which is for a photo gallery. similar to the Cops and Kids LAWRENCEVILLE kids looking over the Christmas event held each — More than 115 Gwinshelves.

December, is its third year at nett County kids got help Natanael Islas checked the Shoe Carnival. It began preparing for the upcomout the Converses with his “organically” after Connie ing school year Saturday mom, Nacisa.

Chesser, president of Lodge morning.

David Jordan, an 11-year- 66, stopped in to shop and The kids and their parents old Shiloh Middle student, started talking with the mandescended on Shoe Carnival chose a pair of Nike Air agement, said regional store on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Max Crushers, second edi- manager Eric Lott.

Road to pick out a pair of tion.

“As a company, we go shoes, along with backpacks His mother, Sommors out to help with the commuand school supplies.

Daniels, who also brought nity,” Lott said.

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“Kids are getting picked on because they don’t have the right shoes,” Chesser said.

And, of course, the families can use help with the cost of preparing for another school year with growing children.

Kameelah Wynn brought her kids Esmerlda, 9, and Ines, 7.

“We come every year,” Wynn said. “This is our third year coming. It’s really helpful. I really do appreciate it. It’s part of giving back. You don’t have (enough) companies or organizations that give back like this.”

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BeautyMaster will hold the grand opening for its new location at Gwinnett Place Mall on Thursday. It will be the chain’s seventh store in metro Atlanta. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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A beauty supply store with six locations on the southside of Atlanta will open its only northside store this week when BeautyMaster opens its newest shop at Gwinnett Place Mall.

The beauty supply store will hold a grand opening celebration for its Duluth location, 2100 Pleasant Hill Road, at 9 a.m. on Thursday. The locally based chain sells a variety of salon-quality products, including clothing, hair dryers, flat irons, hair braiding kits, shoes, leggings, body shapers and virgin human hair.

“BeautyMaster is committed to providing exceptional service and quality products to their customers at an affordable price,” Jason Park, the company’s executive director, said in a statement.

“Here at BeautyMaster, customers come first. We are constantly striving for

new and innovative ways to better serve you and to enhance your experience with our company.”

BeautyMaster is planning to hold raffles and giveaways as part of the celebration. There will also be free yoga and Zumba classes from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Park said the store will offer free yoga and Zumba classes daily after the grand opening celebrations subside.

The new store is taking the place of the old JC Penney that closed last year at the mall.

“We are excited to welcome our newest anchor store, BeautyMaster to Gwinnett Place Mall” said Anna Khavulya, Director of Marketing & Leasing for mall owners, Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC, in a statement.

“BeautyMaster, located in the former JC Penney store, is a great addition to an already diversified shopping experience at the Mall.”

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Former Thrasher back in Atlanta

Gwinnett and the metro area after a season with the Thrashers in 2008-09.

Nathan Oystrick officially joined the Gladiators coaching

By Christine Troyke staff Saturday, and they might, christine.troyke@gwinnettdailypost.com in small part, have captain Derek DULUTH — The Atlanta Nesbitt’s broken nose to thank.

Gladiators’ new assistant coach Oystrick and Nesbitt played comes with a wealth of experiagainst each other in college and ence, having just retired from a in the AHL before becoming 10-year pro career which includ- teammates in 2010-11 with the ed seasons in the NHL and KHL. Peoria Rivermen.

He also knows a fair bit about “I remember when I got to

Peoria, he was one of the first guys to come up to me,” Nesbitt said. “But I did end up having some pretty major surgery Nathan thanks to him.”

Oystrick One of Oystrick’s shots from the blue line was deflected into Nesbitt’s face during a game about two months into the season.

Moore gold

“Coming out of surgery, I couldn’t lie down for two weeks,” Nesbitt said. “He had a recliner than I basically sat and slept in for weeks. His wife was super nice. He broke his jaw the year before so he knew what it was like. He splurged on the grocery bill. I just remember living on vanilla pudding and vanilla Ensure.”

Both of them chuckle at the story.

“My wife made him soup while

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Jones keeps Brookwood roots in mind

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Brookwood football enters its 35th season of varsity competition with a second-year head coach, but one who knows the program’s roots deeply.

Philip Jones made his mission clear when he was named the Broncos’ head coach — just the fourth in school history — before last season. He intended to put his stamp on the program, while also maintaining the long-standing traditions that have accumulated in a history of mostly successes.

Jones has a closer tie to that history than most through his father, Tom, Brookwood’s offensive line and strength and conditioning coach from 1988-2015.

He also was a lineman for the Broncos, playing for the two head coaches who won state titles at the Snellville school, Dave Hunter and Mark Crews.

When building his first staff at Brook-

Collins Hill grad aiming to add to her medal total this summer

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Maya Moore was just 7 years old when the Olympics came to Atlanta, so it’s understandable that she doesn’t remember much about the Summer Games.

In 2000, though, she started to pay attention to the United States women’s basketball team, and in 2004 she realized that it was something she wanted to be a part of.

“There was a only a couple that I really remember growing up,” she said.

“More so probably the 2000 Olympics was probably the one where I was actually aware of what was going on as a 10-year-old and going into 2004 I really started to see, ‘Yeah, this is the best of the best.’

“And seeing the dominance of USA Basketball and having my first opportunity as a senior in high school to compete on the youth team, it’s definitely one of the highest achievements in your basketball career.”

Moore made her Team USA debut as a senior at Collins Hill, winning a gold medal in the U-18 FIBA Americas Championship. The next summer as a freshman at the University of Connecticut, Moore won another gold medal in the 2007 FIBA U-19 World Championship and another in the 2009 World University Games.

She was called up to the senior national team in 2010 while still at UConn and helped the USA capture gold again at the FIBA World Championship. In 2012, she finally got the opportunity to represent the USA in the Olympics in London.

Moore averaged nine points per game, making five starts in the USA’s

we were on the road,” Oystrick said. “I couldn’t let him live with two rookies who would feed him grilled cheese the whole time.”

The two have remained friends and when Gladiators assistant Mike Flanagan opted to go back over to Europe to coach, Nesbitt thought of Oystrick right away.

Oystrick was a player/assistant in Elmira last season and Nesbitt knew he wanted to make a full

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Brookwood head coach Philip Jones talks to his team prior to last year’s high school football game against the Dacula Falcons. (File Photo)

Defensive trio gives South a boost

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USA BASKETBALL: American women open preliminary round play in Group B against Senegal on Aug. 7.

SNELLVILLE — South Gwinnett has gone through a plethora of growing pains the past two seasons as it has played freshmen and sophomores at key positions on both sides of the ball.

Last year the Comets went just 2-8, but head coach John Small is excited about his team heading into the fall.

“The last two years we’ve played a lot of young kids,” he said. “Last year we were hoping we’d see a lot better results, but even in the 2-8 season we saw a lot of positive things in some of these kids.

You can start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. They’ve been growing and developing and I’m really excited about them.”

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7:30 a.m. — Formula One German Grand Prix. From the Hockenheimring in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

NBCSP 1:30 p.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Pennsylvania 400. From Long Pond, Pa. NBCSP 4 p.m. — NHRA Drag Racing Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals. From Sonoma, Calif. FOX

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Docs preach patience to Earnhardt

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LONG POND, Pa. — When you’re driving a race car, intent on winning, it’s difficult to be patient.

For Dale Earnhardt Jr., it may be tougher to be patient when he’s outside the car.

Earnhardt updated his health status on Twitter on Saturday morning, indicating there had been little change since last week.

“Update: No change lately,” Earnhardt wrote.

“Symptoms have plateaued over the last week. Balance/Gaze/Stabilization are only issues. Docs preaching patience.”

Earnhardt has been sidelined for three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races with concussion-like symptoms, and his lack of progress in the past week raises the possibility that he may miss next Sunday’s event at Watkins Glen International.

Jeff Gordon finished 13th in a fill-in role last Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the four-time series champion is subbing for his former teammate in today’s Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway (on NBCSN at 1:30 p.m.). Gordon is a four-time winner at Watkins Glen.

The Sprint Cup Series has an open week after Watkins Glen, which would give Earnhardt additional time to recover. As of Friday, Gordon was still waiting for a decision on Earnhardt’s status beyond Pocono. Earnhardt must be cleared medically before he can race again.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Gordon said. “I wouldn’t be here in Pocono if I wasn’t committed to be there for Hendrick Motorsports and this team in any way that they need me. I think there is a balance between trying to make this transition.

“First of all you want Dale to have the comfort of knowing that somebody is there for him. He doesn’t have to worry about that aspect of it through this process. Just get well at the pace that is the right pace to do it. So, nobody is putting any pressure or time frame on that. He may be putting that on himself more than anybody else.”

Earnhardt missed two races in 2012 for concus-

drivers, but it’s not easy working for family. To be honest with you when Paul gets in our Xfinity car or even (during Friday’s practice at Pocono), it’s weird.

“It’s all business. You’re there to do a job. You’re there to race. You’re there to perform, and there is just not a lot of outside other stuff that’s bothering you. All you’re working on is trying to make the race car faster and give him the feel that he’s after.”

Mission accomplished, Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon, left, talks to crew as far as performance is chief Greg Ives during qualifying for the Pennsylvania concerned. Seeking his 400 on Friday at Pocono Raceway on Long Pond, Pa. first top-five finish of the (Photo: Matthew O’Haren-USA Today Sports) season, Menard led opension-related issues after a I’m not going to go against ing Sprint Cup practice on Friday and qualified third wreck at Talladega Suthat (doctors’) advice, no for today’s race. In race perspeedway. Wrecks this matter what. I can’t play around at this age. And trim, he was eighth fastest year at Michigan on June 12 and at Daytona on July with my history, I definite- in final practice on Saturly don’t need to get cute.” day.

2 possibly produced the concussion-type sympMove to Cup relieves Lug nuts toms, Earnhardt has said. stress for Stockman Pole winner Martin NASCAR requires drivIn Sunday’s Pennsylva- Truex Jr. paced the field ers to submit a baseline in NASCAR Sprint Cup neurocognitive assessment nia 400 at Pocono Raceway, Danny Stockman will Series Happy Hour on Satsuch as an imPACT test, call his first race as a NAS- urday with a lap at 176.377 which is only one tool as mph. Brad Keselowski was CAR Sprint Cup Series a prerequisite for being crew chief from the pit box second fastest at 176.136 licensed to compete. The mph. Stewart-Haas Racing of driver Paul Menard. mandate followed a comteammates Kevin Harvick If you think the deprehensive industry-wide and Kurt Busch were third education process launched but might be a source of and fourth, respectively, by the sanctioning body in great anxiety, think again.

Stockman felt much more on the speed chart. Busch 2013. stress as crew chief for the is the defending winner of Earnhardt said this grandsons of his employer, the Pennsylvania 400. … week on “The Dale Jr. Mack Trucks is showcasDownload” podcast that he Richard Childress, when ing its custom-built “Mack he ran teams for Austin would have an update on his condition after a Mon- Dillon and Ty Dillon in the Jack” this weekend at NASCAR Camping World Pocono. The giant truck is day visit with doctors. leading the parade laps be“There are certain things Truck and Xfinity Series. fore the NASCAR Camp“I’ve worked with the that you can race through, boys, both Dillon boys, my ing World Truck Series but one of the things that whole career until midway race on Saturday and the you cannot race through NASCAR Sprint Cup Sethrough last season and is concussion-like sympries race on Sunday. Mack this season,” Stockman toms,” Earnhardt said Monday. “The balance deal said. “I will be right honest Jack features an 800-cubicinch turbo diesel engine with everybody that is a is a critical part of being that makes 800 horsepowstressful deal working for able to drive a race car. er, roughly equivalent to a “This process is going to the family. It’s not easy.

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LONG POND, Pa. — Saturday’s Pocono Mountains 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Pocono Raceway featured no Sprint Cup drivers in the field.

Then again, the race didn’t need any representation from NASCAR’s top division, as dominant as William Byron was.

The 18-year-old from Charlotte, N.C., led 44 of 60 laps in the No. 9 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota in a caution-filled event and pulled away to beat runner-up Cameron Haley to the finish line by a comfortable 1.407 seconds.

The victory was the fifth in 12 starts this year for the first-year driver, who broke Kurt Busch’s rookie record of four wins in 2000.

“That 9 is so fast,” Haley said. “We need to really go back and look at things, because he’s definitely a step above us. But we worked hard all day, and we were able to come out at least for a second-place finish.

“We would have liked to win, but that 9 is pretty fast, so we’ll keep trying.”

Byron had his sights set on the rookie record from the outset.

“It means a lot,” said Byron, who pitted for fuel for the last time on Lap 25 and spent the rest of the race saving gas. “It was definitely a goal — I can’t lie about that. I knew that was something to beat, and we just show up with so much focus.

“We never get off track, I feel like. It’s just a credit to where we are as a race team, the work we’re doing, the work they’re doing in the shop on the trucks, and we’re putting it all together when we get to the race track.”

Byron’s wasn’t the only mark set on Saturday. The race produced a record nine cautions for 27 laps, and the spate of yellow flags allowed both Byron and Haley to get 35 laps out of their last tanks of fuel.

Christopher Bell, the victim of an early wreck when John Wes Townley knocked his No. 4 Tundra into the outside wall, lost five laps under repairs, but Bell received a series-record five free passes under caution as the highest-

scored lapped truck and returned to the lead lap in time for the final restart on Lap 57.

Bell rescued an unexpected 10th-place finish.

“I was just out there trying to log laps,” Bell said. “And the next thing you know, there was a yellow. Then there was another yellow, and they said, ‘You’re the lucky dog, come on around.’ The last yellow put us on the lead lap, and we were able to capitalize on it.

“To come out of here with a top 10 was remarkable for us.”

Brett Moffitt ran third in a substitute role for Matt Tifft, who is undergoing treatment after surgery to remove a brain tumor.

Timothy Peters came home fourth, followed by Cole Custer.

Byron increased his lead in the series standings to 25 points over second-place Matt Crafton, who finished 12th on Saturday. Daniel Hemric, who spun and collected Brad Keselowski Racing teammate Tyler Reddick to cause the fifth caution, is tied with Peters for third in the standings, 37 points behind Byron.

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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, facing front, talks to members of the media at training camp Friday in Flowery Branch. Below, Ryan passes the ball. (Photos: Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

Ryan: Camp critical learning period they’re supposed to be.

I think that’s been really good.”

FLOWERY BRANCH Ryan’s offensive line — Matt Ryan is entering was thrown together last his ninth training camp minute in 2015 and that with the Atlanta Falcons played a role into the and the pressure to succeed season that they had. But is at an all-time high.

Atlanta is featuring the The Falcons are mired exact same lineup plus the in a three-year playoff new acquisition of All-Pro drought after coming up center Alex Mack which one drive short of playing has him very excited. in Super Bowl XLVII in “I think this year there is the 2012-13 season and a little bit more continuity Ryan is at the focal point there,” he said. “They’re that’s the mindset of this of it all.

That’s why this time of the guys that have been in the And after speaking with team. I think everyone is in year is so critical. You try system a little bit longer, the media on Day 2 of a good spot and we’ve got and get every rep that you guys that have played next camp, Ryan knows exactly a long way to go in traincan. You have to soak up to each other longer. All what kind of pressure each ing camp.” everything that you can those kinds of things help season holds for him and Ryan will be the first to during those practices so and especially when it his team. admit that he struggled in that you’re prepared when comes to that the run game “I think that’s the the first year of offensive things come up throughout or pass protection. When expectation that you put coordinator Kyle Shanathe season.” guys can trust each other, on yourself every year,” han’s system and knows Not only is Ryan more trust the guy next to them, Ryan said. “This league is how important each rep is comfortable, his teamthat’s when you start playextremely competitive and in practice. mates are, too. ing good football.” it brings out every ounce of “I think that’s it,” Ryan “I think everyone’s Ryan and the rest of the competition that you have said. “Experience and befamiliarity with what we’re Falcons were be in pads for in you. You need to be your ing comfortable and seeing doing is way further along the first time Saturday. sharpest and your most every play you can with than we were last year,” “The good thing about competitive every year, every look that you can he said. “Just even getting training camp is that we’re every week, every day, and and being able to underin and out of the huddle, getting right back on the that’s always the mindset stand when things are there play calls are coming out field tomorrow and getting that I’ve had and I think and not there, that’s huge. faster, guys knowing where after it,” he said.

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Jones has been consistent bright spot

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Jones said.

Jones’ team-first attitude is something he takes pride FLOWERY BRANCH in and knows how impor— The Atlanta Falcons tant his leadership is headhaven’t been very good ing into the season. for the past three seasons, “I just try to give these but one thing has remained guys advice,” he said. constant “What Roddy passed on throughout to me, I pass on to those it all. guys because I was in that Julio position. Sanu has been in Jones has the league a few years, but amassed he’s a new guy so I have to 3,464 teach him how they expect yards on things and we expect Julio 240 recep- things as far as the tempo, Jones tions over the way we’re going to the past two seasons and practice, attacking the ball. was ranked the eighth-best Just little things. We have player league wide for a lot of new additions to his record breaking 2015 the team and it’s all about season. protecting the team. The Jones’ 1,871 receiving team is first.” yards in 2015 were the The Falcons put on the second-most in a single pads for the first time on season in the NFL history, Saturday morning but but Jones has set much Jones wasn’t a full parhigher goals for the future. ticipant. He was pulled “We’re just trying to midway through Day 1 of achieve one goal and that’s camp after appearing to to win the Super Bowl,” tweak something and has

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been limited ever since.

But Jones made it very clear that nothing is wrong with him.

“I feel great,” he said.

“Definitely nothing to worry about. I’m 100 percent. We’re just taking it slow, that’s all. I’m just so explosive so I always get something that’s tight or something so it’s good. I just keep getting treatments and stretching it out. I’m eating right, I’m hydrating.

“It’s nothing serious or anything like that, that would prevent me from playing.”

Jones was then asked by a reporter that joined the interview session late and asked him if he had banged anything up in practice and he jokingly reiterated again for him.

“I didn’t bang anything up,” he said. “You didn’t miss it because I didn’t bang anything up.”

Despite not playing in 11-on-11 drills, Jones did

run routes in the individual drills and felt good about it.

“First day in pads it was a little hot,” he said. “It felt great just being out here with my teammates with the hard work that we have already put in early on for mini camps. It was good today.”

Falcons’ head coach Dan Quinn will continue to ease Jones into the fold, but expects him to be a full participant in no time.

“He (Quinn) just wants me to take it slow,” he said. “We’re not out here trying to prove anything to anyone right now.”

But with some of the media still unsure of that were true or not, Jones set them straight with a simple, yet spiteful statement when asked if he was going to come to practice tomorrow.

“I was here today,” he said in a joking matter. “I was here today.”

One of the most important seasons in San Diego Chargers history got off to somewhat of a shaky start.

When all the players reported for camp, there was one notable Charger missing: rookie Joey Bosa.

The team’s top pick out of Ohio State remains unsigned and out of sight for the Chargers, a team looking for a fast start leading up to its November ballot initiative to fund a new stadium.

“He definitely needs to be out here,” coach Mike McCoy said. “But we’re just going to keep working on it and eventually it will get done.”

It doesn’t appear the parties are that far apart.

The biggest issue is when, not if, Bosa would receive his $17 million signing bonus.

Quarterback Philip Rivers, isn’t concerned about Bosa’s absence.

“It’s not like anyone (in the locker room) is upset with him,” said Rivers, a celebrated holdout in 2004 after being drafted by the New York Giants and traded to the Chargers. “I know what it’s like.”

camp. A big part of the Texans’ future involves Hopkins, whose $7.915 million fifth-year team option was exercised to keep him under contract through the 2017 season.

The Texans’ stance is to not negotiate contracts with two years remaining on current deals. They did that for defensive end J.J. Watt when they signed him to a $100 million contract extension with two years left on his rookie contract, but that was viewed as an exception for the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year.

Gordon defends friendship with Manziel Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon, who was reinstated to the NFL this week from his indefinite drug ban, defends his friendship with former teammate Johnny Manziel, the troubled quarterback who is currently out of a job.

Gordon had a meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week and was welcomed back to the league Monday on a conditional basis. He can join the team at training camp, which started Thursday, and participate in meetings, conditioning work and similar activities. He will be permitted Hopkins no-show to participate in all preat Texans camp season activities, includDisappointed with ing practices and games. a lack of contract neGordon will be susgotiations and playing under his original rookie pended for the first four games of the regular deal, Houston Texans season and will be eliPro-Bowl wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins didn’t gible to return to the team beginning Monday, Oct. report for training camp 3. During this suspension, and is holding out.

Hopkins is entering the Gordon may participate in team meetings and fourth year of a $15.552 other activities but may million rookie contract not attend or participate that included a $3.926 million signing bonus and in practices or games. a total of $6.181 million Chiefs give OT Fisher guaranteed. $48 million extension The Texans officially The Kansas City Chiefs placed Hopkins on the gave offensive tackle Eric reserve/did not report Fisher a contract extenlist. He can be activated from that list whenever he sion Saturday.

The extension is for reports to camp. Howfour years and worth ever, Hopkins is subject $48 million, according to fines of up to $40,000 per day for missing camp. to NFL Media. Fisher had his fifth-year option The Texans’ first day of picked up by the team in practice is Sunday. the spring. Overall, his “We are disappointed DeAndre has elected not contract is for six years to report to training camp and $63 million, with $40 with the rest of his team- million guaranteed.

“We were able to reach mates,” Texans general manager Rick Smith said an agreement with Eric and his representatives in a statement. “He has on a contract extension,” expressed his position general manager John regarding his contract status, and we have been Dorsey said in a press release. “In three seasons clear with both he and he’s grown significantly his representatives of as a football player in ours. Our focus is on the our system. He’s a tough, 2016 season and all of our collective efforts and physical presence and a attention will be centered leader on our offensive line. We look forward on that endeavor.” to keeping him as a part Paid a $1.098 million of our organization and guaranteed base salary community.” last season, Hopkins is Kansas City made due a $1 million nonFisher the No. 1 overall guaranteed base salary pick in the 2013 draft this season and is due a $445,004 roster bonus on after a stellar career at Central Michigan. the fifth day of training

Optimism rampant as Raiders training camp opens The Sports Xchange NAPA, Calif. — Pretty much everyone was present and accounted for when the Raiders opened training camp Friday.

Although coach Jack Del Rio said at the close of the team’s offseason program that was the goal, it was easy to be skeptical. Most every team has players that aren’t ready to play, are wearing a red jersey for no contact or simply aren’t ready to resume playing football in late August.

Question marks for the Raiders included Karl

Joseph, a first-round draft pick out of West Virginia and probable starting strong safety, free agent free safety Reggie Nelson and right tackle Austin Howard.

Joseph played only five games in his senior year with an ACL tear and didn’t practice in the offseason. Neither did Nelson, who had an undisclosed injury, nor did Howard, who missed the end of the 2015 season with a knee injury.

Yet all were practicing no with no restrictions, albeit in a non-contact first practice.

“For the most part, we’re

coming in to camp pretty healthy, and that’s a good sign,” Del Rio said. “It was a good first day.”

The only veteran player on the physically unable to perform list is defensive end Denico Autry, who doesn’t have a listed injury but arrived at the Napa Valley Marriott with one wrist in a splint.

The good health enables the Raiders to hit the ground running at a time when they are one of the trendy playoff picks after an absence of 13 seasons — and in none of those years were the Raiders over .500.

Del Rio is pleased people think so much of his team after showing improvement last season at 7-9 and with a solid offseason of free agency, but realizes that doesn’t count for much.

“Winning the division is our goal, and we’re certainly not going to back away from anything like that,” Del Rio said. “But how do you accomplish your goals? You put in the work.

There’s no shortcut to it.

“There’s an eagerness here because the guys that are h ere see the work that’s being put in, they see the accountability around

them and you know, when you do good things, you can expect good things to be a result.”

Quarterback Derek Carr, who said with a straight face he was still thinking about playing in the Super Bowl when the Raiders started 0-10 in his rookie season in 2014, is toeing the company line.

“Talking to a lot of guys around the league, a lot of friends that I have, they all know we have a great group of guys here that don’t get caught up in anything, good or bad,” Carr said. “So far everybody is doing the right things.”

Carr and defensive end Khalil Mack have gotten much of the offseason publicity and were popular among national media which attended camp on the first day. But Mack is similar to Carr in that he won’t fall into the trap of thinking the Raiders are anything special until they prove it on the field.

“It’s all about the mindset,” Mack said. “We have the talent. I feel like the work we put in out there is going to give us the confidence when the season hits to go out and win games consistently. That’s what we look forward to doing.”

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Watson transfers to IMG Academy thank all the coaches at Mountain View High Mountain View defen- School and all the people sive lineman Elijah Watwho supported me to this son is the fourth Gwinnett point. In order to make player to me the most prepared transfer for the next level, I have to IMG decided to transfer and Academy spend my senior year in Braat IMG Academy,” he denton, posted.

Fla., this Watson joins fellow offseaGwinnett prospects RobElijah son. ert Beal (Norcross), T.K. Watson The Chimedza (Dacula) and 6-foot-4, 275-pound Ari- Isiah Pryor (Archer) on zona commit announced the IMG Roster. his decision on his Twitter Grayson will host IMG page. on Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. on “I would first like to ESPN2.

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Moore •From Page 1B eight games and again capturing the gold medal.

This summer she’ll again represent the USA in the Rio Olympics as she looks for her second Olympic gold medal.

Despite members of the USA Basketball men’s team pulling out of the games due to injuries or concerns of the Zika virus, Moore never hesitated at the chance to wear the red, white and blue again this summer.

The USA roster has plenty of familiar faces on it for Moore, including three of her WNBA teammates from the Minnesota Lynx, Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve as an assistant coach, former UConn teammate Tina Charles and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma.

“It’s a huge honor to be on the Olympic team,” Moore said. “It’s such a blessing and opportunity to be able to represent my country. To have that time with those awesome athletes and all the staff are just world class and to be able to travel and play together and just make so many great memories.

To have four Lynx be a part of that team it’s just really cool. It’s really fun. … I’m looking forward to competing hard in Rio with my USA teammates.”

According to USA Basketball, Moore is one of only eight players to win a World Championship gold medal, an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA title and a WNBA championship. She’s led the Lynx to three WNBA titles, was named league MVP in 2014 and the 2013 Finals MVP. This season Minnesota is 21-4 with Moore averaging 19.4 points per game with 5.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists.

Reeve said that Moore

has been so effective this season because she’s started working smarter on offense to get her points.

“She’s got more of veteran’s mentality understanding our schemes, offensively, defensively and being a leader in those schemes,” Reeve said.

“So she talks a ton and just focuses on execution and I think that leads to higher efficiency and I don’t see her working as hard to get shots. Not to say that people aren’t guarding her, it’s just her efficient movements — she’s not running around seeking shots and taking hard shots, so that’s kind of put her in position where she’s been able to preserve energy for the moments that really matter.”

In college Moore was primarily a post player as UConn reached four Final Fours and won two NCAA titles. After the Lynx took her with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 draft she’s become more of a perimeter player.

Moore said that she is now comfortable with that transition and its starting to show on both ends of the floor for the Lynx and Team USA. The U.S. begins Olympic play on Aug. 7 against Senegal.

“I think I play with a little more poise and understanding of the rhythm of the game as a pro,” she said. “I’m really understanding where I’m getting my shots, how I can defend on the perimeter.

“Coming from college, I was more of a four so just making that adjustment defensively and I think just being able to more so than any year, allowing my offensive attention to result from my defense more so than any year before.”

USA’s Maya Moore celebrates after the team’s win in a quarterfinal women’s basketball game against Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (File Photo)

Norcross USTA tennis team wins its sectional Dewolf is joined on the roster by co-captain Mark A Norcross men’s Johnson, as well as Joel tennis team, captained Alsobrook, Ben Charles,

by Matt Dewolf, won Christopher Clark, Joey the 4.5 level title at the Coppolino, Danny Donat, USTA League Adult Ron Donat, Koen Got18-and-over Southern tenbos, Thomas Hallberg, Sectional Championships Drue Malone, Daniel last weekend in Mobile, McFarlin, Atman Mehta, Ala. The team defeated a Casey Molenaar, Navneet Mississippi squad in the Narula, Matthew Nash, finals.

Lyle Newson, Scott RawThe championship lins, Anthony Santorelli, team plays out of Hudlow Arvin Singh and Matthew Tennis Center.

Vieson.

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Brookwood •From Page 1B

played at Alabama, will work with the offensive wood, Jones kept that line and Sims, who played tradition in mind. at Michigan State along Brookwood grads Chad with a post-graduate year Pickett (offensive coordiat Georgia Southern, will nator) and P.J. Katz (wide help with the defensive receivers, passing game backs. coordinator) were named Bringing the Brookwood as Jones’ assistants prior to grads into the mix was no last season, while longaccident. time Bronco coaches Dale “Absolutely it was Moore and Benjie McLane intentional,” Jones said. stuck around as ninth“We’re fortunate to have grade coaches. Reeves those guys. Brookwood’s Blankenship, a lay coach a special place and we’re last season, is a full-time fortunate to be somewhere teacher now as well as the where guys want to come ninth-grade defensive coback and give back to their ordinator at his alma mater. school. We definitely want Jones’ hiring trend of to do that.

Brookwood guys contin“My sort of vision is to ued this offseason. keep Brookwood people Alums Kellen Williams coming back in, Brookand Andre Sims, fresh off wood alumni with Brookcollege football careers, wood ties, who understand have joined the staff as lay the expectations. Let them coaches. Williams, who come in and grow up in

our system.”

Williams and Sims will handle other “young coach” duties, much like Mill Creek grad Ed Russ did last season as a quality control coach. Russ is the ninth-grade team’s offensive coordinator this year.

The other new addition this season brings considerably more experience, as well as some Brookwood ties. Quarterbacks coach Tripp Allen’s father Ray was a Bronco assistant for years, joining Hunter in the late 1980s. Tripp Allen didn’t play at Brookwood — he opted to finish his high school career at now defunct Peachtree High, rather than follow his father to Snellville — but he was close to the Broncos’ program for years.

Tripp Allen coached most recently at Carrollton, and

also was Walton’s offensive coordinator from 1999-2013.

“Because of his dad’s career here, (Tripp Allen) always had an admiration and respect for Brookwood,” Jones said.

Allen’s addition as a veteran coach is a big boost at the varsity level, but Jones is equally excited about bringing in young, quality control coaches like Williams and Sims. That they’re Brookwood grads is a bonus, too.

“My goal is to have a level of success here where our coordinators go on to be head coaches and encourage that,” Jones said.

“You want these coaches to achieve what they want to achieve in their coaching careers and when that happens, you want to promote from within.”

South •From Page 1B What excites Small the most about his team is the leadership the players have taken upon themselves. On offense, senior quarterback Seth Johnston and receiver Bryce White have taken the reins, but the undisputed leaders of the locker room all happen to play defense.

Senior linebacker Malik Robinson and junior defensive lineman Robert Cooper and Seth Mascoll make up as good of a defensive trio as there is in the county.

Robinson is a three-star linebacker committed to North Carolina, Cooper is a four-star defensive tackle committed to Florida State and Mascoll is a five-star defensive end ranked the No. 2 player in the country for the Class of 2018 by ESPN. While Small touts their ability on the field, it’s how they carry themselves that impresses him most.

“Malik is just a ball of energy,” Small said.

“Brings the right attitude each day to practice. His teammates love him. He’s been a great leader for us.

He obviously plays the game very well, but he’s got a lot of intangibles that rub off on other kids and he can get the kids going and keeps them accountable and holds them to a standard.”

Last season the 6-foot1, 225-pound Robinson recorded 82 tackles with 13 for loss.

Cooper is the man in

South Gwinnett defensive end Justin Mascoll (13) goes in for the sack on Central Gwinnett quarterback Micah Maxey (8) last season at Central Gwinnett in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

the middle at 6-foot-2, 360 pounds. He plays both offense and defense for the Comets, racking up 33 tackles with a team-high 14 for loss last season.

“He’s hard to block,” Small said. “He’s so big and strong. He’s a big kid, but it’s not just that he’s big. He’s got quickness, he’s got strength, has great hands, plays with great leverage for a big guy and he causes a lot of problems. Plus he’s able to play multiple positions up front.

He’s not just a one-position guy. He’s able to move around and play different things, so you can get some matchup problems with him. He’s a guy that’s

going to draw a doubleteam and sometimes a triple-team every play and that opens up things for a lot of the other guys.”

Mascoll benefits from those double teams on Cooper, but creates plenty of his own matchup problems. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound end recorded 49 tackles, five for loss and eight sacks last year.

His offer list is who’s who of southeast football that includes Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Florida State, LSU and Tennessee among others.

“Mascoll is a kid that’s very multiple as well,” Small said. “Can play a lot of positions. He’s a great

edge guy. He’s long. But he plays the game the way its supposed to be played, he works the way you’re supposed to work, he just does everything you’re supposed to do. A very humble kid and he just wants to make his teammates better everyday.

When kids of that caliber are like that and have something about them, besides a star — he could care less about stars. He cares about his teammates and making them better.

He cares about doing what he’s supposed to do, he’s not a me guy, he’s a team guy. So that carries over to everybody else on our football team.”

Oystrick “He’s easy to talk to and knowledgeable not only of transition to coaching. the game, but of the play“If you said Nathan Oys- ers in our league. trick, all I would think of is “For us, it became more hockey,” Nesbitt said. “He’s and more clear that was got a little bit of the oldthe guy we wanted. He’s school mentality with the been an elite defenseman way he played, but his mind in pro hockey for a long for the game is awesome. time, mostly in the AHL, “I said send your first but also played in the NHL resume to Atlanta and I’ll and he’s gone over to the tell them it’s coming.”

KHL. At the end of the day, Oystrick’s was one of for us, and me, the comfort a several resumes head level was there with Nathan coach Andy Brandt refrom the get-go.” ceived before the opening Brandt and Oystrick are was even posted online. both 33 and found a lot “At the end of the of common ground when season, Mike and I talked it came to their hockey phiabout the upcoming year,” losophy.

Brandt said. “For him, he “Right from the first wanted to move on and time I talked to him, I felt see what was out there. He comfortable,” Oystrick ended up getting a job with said. “Neither of us was Nuremberg in the DEL afraid to ask the other any as an assistant, which is a type of question. It became great opportunity for him a good fit for both of us. in Germany’s top league.

“The ECHL is a tough “Once we knew Mike league because, not that was going over to Europe, players don’t want to be word of mouth got out there, but most guys want pretty quickly.” to move up. So having The Gladiators ended two younger guys who are up with more than 70 apjust removed from playing plicants after posting the the game, I think that will job in June and began a benefit the players a lot. We rather extensive process of both played in the new era sorting though many well- of hockey. I think it’ll be qualified candidates. good for Andy and myself.”

“Nathan kind of stood Oystrick was drafted out because, No. 1, of the by the Thrashers in 2002 guy he is,” Brandt said. and spent four years at •From Page 1B

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

One of those was his year in Peoria when he had more points (45) than Nesbitt (42).

“He’s always been awesome on the power play,” Nesbitt said. “The way he thinks the game, he can pass that on to the young kids.”

Nesbitt does like to remind Oystrick that he assisted on Nesbitt’s first AHL goal.

“Right on the tape,” Nesbitt said with a laugh.

“I was with Rockford and he found me in front of the net. Wrong team though.”

Oystrick spent two years playing for Prague in the KHL from 2012-14 and then one season with AHL Springfield before joining Elmira when Jackals’ head coach Jamie Russell offered him a player/assistant position.

“It was tough at first, trying to balance coach, player, teammate, friend, but once I

realized the guys respected me, it made it a lot easier,” Oystrick said. “I learned a lot from Jamie about coaching. It kind of eased my way in. I got one foot in and I enjoyed my time there.

“But I’m happy to be coming back to Atlanta. My wife and I lived in Lawrenceville about 10 minutes from the (Thrashers practice) rink so we’re really familiar with the area. We’re both excited. Good weather, good people, good golf and good food.”

Fittingly, Oystrick was at a coaching conference in Vancouver when Brandt called to offer him the job.

“Here’s a guy who really has the drive to learn, going to conferences, learning team building and video stuff,” Brandt said. “Here’s a guy who’s excited to get into coaching and wants to further his knowledge.

“We’re lucky to have him. We’ve been on the phone every day since we made the decision talking personnel and logistics.”

Oystrick and his wife, Lindsay, live in Castle Rock, Colo., and are planning to be in Gwinnett by mid-September. Players report for training camp on Sept. 29 and the season opens Oct. 14.

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Walker, Streb still tied after washout Braves trade for Padres’ Kemp

By Gethin Coolbaugh The Sports Xchange

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb share a one-shot lead at 9-underpar 131 heading into today at the 98th PGA Championship, but neither set foot on the course Saturday as thunderstorms drowned out the afternoon wave at Baltusrol Golf Club.

The two Americans were the last of 43 groups scheduled to begin Saturday’s third round, but their 2:55 p.m. tee time was wiped out once play was suspended at 2:14 p.m. Thirty seven players have completed their third rounds, with 49 players left with unsigned scorecards.

“Kind of a long day trying to figure out what to do,” Streb said. “Obviously the course looks like it is unplayable. Everything is underwater, regardless of whether the lightning stopped.”

Third-round play will resume at 7 a.m. this morning, PGA officials announced.

The final round is scheduled to begin at 8:40 a.m. in nine-minute intervals with the same pairings from round three. All players will start from No. 1, with the final group teeing off at 3:25 p.m.

When the PGA Championship was last played

Spieth is tied for 18th at 1-under and Mickelson is tied for 42nd at 3-under.

Kisner and Padraig Harrington of Ireland made the best of their morning rounds Saturday, each carding 65s. The 32-yearold Kisner made seven birdies after back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 6 and 7.

Kisner has only one career PGA Tour win, in the 2015 RSM Classic in Sea Island.

Harrington, a three-time Fans exit the golf course in a weather delay during the major winner, collected third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday at five birdies, including a Baltusrol in Springfield, N.J. (Photo: Brian Spurlock-USA four-foot birdie putt on No. Today Sports) 18, to move into the tie for sixth at 4-under after openat Baltusrol in 2005, Fifth-ranked Henrik Sten- ing 71-70. The 44-year-old weather delays also forced son of Sweden, two weeks won the 2008 PGA Chama suspension in play. That removed from his first pionship at Oakland Hills resulted in a Monday finmajor victory in the Open Country Club in Bloomish — a likely possibility Championship at Royal field Hills, Mich. again this time — with Troon, is fifth at 6-under.

Mickelson posted his Phil Mickelson claiming “You’ve just got to get first sub-par round of the a one-shot victory for the some good sleep and make weekend, carding a 68. second of his five major sure you eat enough and The 46-year-old lefty had victories. drink enough, plenty durbogeys on Nos. 1 and 11, Walker and Streb ing the day, because it will but had nothing but pars matched the lowest 36-hole be a long day,” Stenson and birdies (four) to comscore in PGA Championsaid about the prospect of plete his day. ship history, with Streb be- playing 36 holes today.

Sixth-ranked Bubba coming the 28th player in “It’s normally the mind Watson shot a 70 and is history to shoot a recordthat gives up before the tied for 47th at even-par. low 63 in a major Friday. body.”

Second-ranked Dustin Walker was the 18-hole Kevin Kisner, Patrick Johnson and fourth-ranked leader after an opening 65. Reed, Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy were among Streb began with a 68 on Martin Kaymer of Germa- those who missed the Thursday before his record ny, the 2010 PGA champ, 2-over cut. Johnson, who score. are tied for sixth at 5-unclaimed his first major this Jason Day, reigning der, while seventh-ranked year at the U.S. Open at PGA champion and No. Rickie Fowler headlines Oakmont Country Club in 1 in the world, is tied for an eight-way tie for 10th at Oakmont, Pa., followed a third with Emiliano Grillo 4-under. disastrous 77 on Thursday of Argentina at 7-under.

Third-ranked Jordan with a 72 on Friday.

contract.

Kemp is in the midst The San Diego Padres of the fifth season of a continued their recent eighth-year, $160 milexodus of players by trad- lion deal signed when he ing outfielder Matt Kemp was with the Los Angeles Dodgers. to the Atlanta Braves for Published reports say third baseman Hector the Padres agreed to pay Olivera on Saturday.

Kemp, 31, was consid- more than $10 million of ered a disappointment in Kemp’s remaining salary.

Kemp, a two-time his 1 1/2 seasons with the Padres. He is batting .265 All-Star, has 228 career homers in parts of 11 with 23 homers and 69 major-league seasons.

RBIs this season.

His best season was 2011 Olivera, 31, was when he batted .324 and eligible to return Monled the National League day from an 82-game in homers (39) and RBIs suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s (126) and finished second domestic-violence policy in the NL MVP balloting but the Padres designated behind Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun. him for assignment later Kemp joins pitchers Saturday night.

James Shields (White Olivera was arrested April 13 on one count of Sox), Fernando Rodney misdemeanor assault and (Marlins), Drew Pomerbattery and suspended in anz (Red Sox), Andrew Cashner (Marlins) and May. Olivera is batting .211 Colin Rea (Marlins) and in six games this season. outfielder Melvin Upton Jr. (Blue Jays) as players The Cuban defector is the Padres have traded the second season of a during this season. six-year, $62.5 million

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Jutanugarn all smiles after seizing lead

By Tony Jimenez

Woburn, said she was now aware of how to play under pressure.

WOBURN, England “The only thing I have — Ariya Jutanugarn, who to do is focus on what is likes to smile before going under my control,” said into her pre-shot routine, Jutanugarn. was grinning from earWorld No. 1 Lydia Ko to-ear after surging two was down the field at strokes clear of the field 3-under 213. The South in the Ricoh Women’s BritKorean-born New Zealandish Open third round on er looked as if she might Saturday. launch a charge with six The 20-year-old Thai, birdies in nine holes from who reeled off three LPGA the eighth but a doubleTour wins in a row in May, bogey at the last stopped fired six birdies in a faulther in her tracks. less 66 to finish at 16-un“I hit a really wayward der-par 200 in the fourth tee shot,” said Ko after and penultimate major of losing her ball at the 18th. the season at Woburn.

Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn grabbed the lead at the “It’s tough to finish like South Korean Lee MiWomen’s British Open on Saturday at Woburn Golf Club that. rim (69), who led after the in England. (Photo: Andrew Couldridge/Reuters) “The best cure for a opening two days, was in double-bogey is a toffee, second place on 202, three eighth holes before making set to bag the first major or sugar, any type of sugar; ahead of American Mo further inroads on par at win of her career in April I love my chocolate,” she Martin (69). the 10th and 14th. when she led late on at the said laughing.

Catriona Matthew was Asked about her unusual ANA Inspiration but three The third round was no flying the flag for Britain pre-shot routine, she told closing bogeys ruined her laughing matter for Briton 206 after carding a 71. reporters: “I really want to chances in California. ain’s Charley Hull as the Jutanugarn took the try to feel relaxed and I feel The Thai, who has not Woburn member watched tournament by the scruff like whatever is going to used her driver all week at her title hopes go up in of the neck by birdying make me happy is to smile.” the relatively short 6,448smoke with a triple-bogey the second, third, fifth and Jutanugarn seemed yard Marquess Course at seven on the first hole.

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San Diego Padres right fielder Matt Kemp was traded to the Atlanta Braves on Saturday. (Photo: Kevin Sousa-USA Today Sports)

Hellickson leads Philly past Atlanta double in the fifth inning put the Phillies ahead to stay.

ATLANTA — If PhilaThe losing pitcher was delphia is really going Julio Teheran (3-9), who to trade pitcher Jeremy was making his first start Hellickson before Monsince a sore back caused day’s deadline, he’ll be him to take extra days leaving on a high note. off between appearances.

The right-hander (8-7) Teheran had his streak of allowed three runs in 5 scoreless innings stopped 2/3 innings and drove in at 15 and allowed three two runs in Philadelphia’s runs, five hits and walk 9-5 win over the Atlanta with four strikeouts in Braves on Saturday. five innings.

Hellickson, rumored to The Phillies added be on the trading block, two important runs worked around nine hits against left-hander Eric and one walk and struck O’Flaherty in the sixth. out two. He has allowed Freddy Galvis drove only four runs in his last home two with a basesthree starts, a span of 19 loaded single to increase 2/3 innings. His two-run the lead to 5-2.

By Stan Awtrey The Sports Xchange

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB L10 Washington............. 61. 43.. .587..... —...5-5 Miami...................... 55. 48.. .534....5.5...4-6 New York................. 53. 49.. .520.......7...4-6 Philadelphia............ 47. 58.. .448..14.5...4-6 Atlanta.................... 36. 67.. .350..24.5...4-6

Central Division

W L Pct GB L10 Chicago.................. 62. 41.. .602..... —...6-4 St. Louis.................. 56. 47.. .544.......6... 7-3 Pittsburgh................ 52. 49.. .515.......9...6-4 Milwaukee............... 45. 56.. .446.....16...6-4 Cincinnati................ 41. 61.. .402..20.5... 7-3

West Division

W L Pct GB L10 San Francisco......... 60. 44.. .577..... —...3-7 Los Angeles............ 58. 45.. .563.... 1.5...6-4 Colorado................. 51. 52.. .495....8.5...8-2 San Diego............... 44. 59.. .427..15.5...3-7 Arizona................... 42. 61.. .408...17.5...2-8

Thursday’s Games

ens 0-1), 4:40 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Miami at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 10-5), 8:05 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 6-9) at San Diego (Cosart 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

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INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday’s Game

Chicago Cubs 3, Chicago White Sox 1

Friday’s Game

Chicago Cubs 12, Seattle 1

Saturday’s Game

Seattle 4, Chicago Cubs 1

Today’s Game

Seattle (Hernandez 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 9-7), 8:08 p.m.

Monday’s Game

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets (Verrett 3-6), 7:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

Colorado 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Milwaukee 6, Arizona 4 Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 5 St. Louis 5, Miami 4 Washington 4, San Francisco 2

W L Pct GB L10 Toronto.................... 59. 45.. .567..... —... 7-3 Baltimore................ 58. 45.. .563.......5...5-5 Boston.................... 56. 45.. .554.... 1.5...4-6 New York................. 52. 50.. .510.......6...6-4 Tampa Bay.............. 40. 61.. .396...17.5...5-5

Colorado 6, N.Y. Mets 1 St. Louis 11, Miami 6 Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 7 Washington 4, San Francisco 1 Cincinnati 6, San Diego 0

W L Pct GB L10 Cleveland................ 58. 42.. .580..... —...5-5 Detroit..................... 55. 48.. .534....4.5...6-4 Chicago.................. 50. 53.. .485....9.5...4-6 Kansas City............ 49. 53.. .480.....10...2-8 Minnesota............... 39. 63.. .382.....20...6-4

Friday’s Games

Saturday’s Games

San Francisco 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia (Hellickson 7-7) at Atlanta (Teheran 3-8), 7late Colorado (De La Rosa 6-7) at N.Y. Mets (Colon 9-5), late St. Louis (Garcia 7-7) at Miami (Rea 0-0), late Pittsburgh (Taillon 2-1) at Milwaukee (Anderson 5-10), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 6-0) at San Diego (Friedrich 4-6), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Shipley 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 9-3), 9:10 p.m.

Today’s Games

Colorado (Bettis 9-6) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-5), 1:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Martinez 10-6) at Miami (Cashner 0-0), 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eickhoff 6-12) at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 6-10) at Milwaukee (Garza 1-4), 2:10 p.m.

Washington (Gonzalez 6-8) at San Francisco (Cain 2-6), 4:05 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 4-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Norris 3-2), 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 0-0) at San Diego (Clem-

Central Division

West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Texas...................... 60. 44.. .577..... —...5-5 Houston.................. 55. 47.. .539.......4...5-5 Seattle.................... 52. 50.. .510.......7...6-4 Oakland.................. 47. 56.. .456..12.5...6-4 Los Angeles............ 46. 57.. .447..13.5...5-5

Thursday’s Games

Minnesota 6, Baltimore 2 Texas 3, Kansas City 2 L.A. Angels 2, Boston 1

Friday’s Games

Toronto 6, Baltimore 5 Cleveland 5, Oakland 3 Detroit 14, Houston 6 Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Texas 8, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 12 innings Boston 6, L.A. Angels 2

Saturday’s Games

Toronto 9, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 9-6) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-11), late Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 2-5) at Minnesota (Milone 3-3), late Oakland (Overton 1-1) at Cleveland (Tomlin

10-3), late Houston (Fiers 7-4) at Detroit (Verlander 10-6), late Kansas City (Kennedy 6-9) at Texas (Perez 7-7), late Boston (Pomeranz 0-1) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 9-4), late

Today’s Games

Baltimore (Tillman 14-3) at Toronto (Sanchez 11-1), 1:07 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 5-9) at Cleveland (Kluber 9-8), 1:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 6-10) at Detroit (Pelfrey 3-9), 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 5-9) at Tampa Bay (Snell 2-4), 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota (Santana 3-9), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Gee 3-4) at Texas (Harrell 0-0), 3:05 p.m.

Boston (Wright 12-5) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0), 3:35 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Minnesota (Duffey 5-8) at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 8-4) at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Rodriguez 2-4) at Seattle (Paxton 3-5), 10:10 p.m.

NASCAR NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pennsylvania 400 Lineup After qualifying race today At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania (Car number in parentheses) 1. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 179.244.

2. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 178.873.

3. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 178.671.

4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 178.54.

5. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 178.433.

6. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 178.394.

7. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 178.359.

8. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 177.571.

9. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 177.413.

10. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 177.151.

11. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 177.082.

12. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 176.835.

13. (47) A.J. Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 177.322.

14. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 177.281.

15. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 177.183.

16. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 177.054.

17. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 176.988.

18. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 176.88.

19. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 176.574.

20. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 176.478.

21. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 176.091.

22. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 176.084.

23. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 175.901.

24. (88) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 175.706.

25. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 175.603.

26. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 175.404.

27. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 174.985.

28. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 174.257.

29. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 174.236.

30. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 173.826.

31. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 173.534.

32. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 173.491.

33. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 173.077.

34. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 172.874.

35. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 172.209.

36. (98) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 171.716.

37. (32) Jeb Burton, Ford, 171.429.

38. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 170.451.

39. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 169.75.

40. (55) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 158.615.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX—Sent RHP Craig Kimbrel on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Acquired CF Billy Burns from the Oakland Athletics for CF Brett Eibner, optioned

him to Omaha (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Designated LF Craig Gentry for assignment, activated him from the 60-day DL. Activated LF Shane Robinson from the 15-day DL. Designated LF Daniel Nava for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Optioned CF Brett Eibner to Nashville (PCL).

Placed RHP Liam Hendriks and LHP Rich Hill on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 20. Recalled LHP Dillon Overton from Nashville (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Placed RHP Nathan Karns on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Cody Martin from Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS—Outrighted 3B Matt Duffy to Round Rock (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Designated 1B Mike Freeman and RHP Josh Collmenter for assignment.

Optioned LHP Zac Curtis to Reno (PCL). Selected the contract of LHP Steve Hathaway and LHP Adam Loewen from Reno (PCL). Sent CF Socrates Brito on a rehab assignment to Visalia (CAL).

MIAMI MARLINS—Activated RHP Colin Rea and RHP Andrew Cashner.

Optioned RHP Jose Urena to New Orleans (PCL). Outrighted 3B Don Kelly to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Brian Ellington from New Orleans (PCL).

NEW YORK METS—Placed SS Jose Reyes on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 27. Signed CF Justin Ruggiano. Transferred RHP Matt Harvey from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL. SAN DIEGO PADRES—Activated RHP Jarred Cosart. Optioned LHP Keith Hessler to El Paso (PCL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Activated RF Hunter Pence from the 15-day DL. Designated 2B Ramiro Pena for assignment. Sent 3B Matt Duffy on a rehab assignment to Sacramento (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Acquired RHP Mark Melancon from the Pittsburgh Pirates for LHP Felipe Rivero and LHP Taylor Hearn.

Recalled RHP Reynaldo Lopez from Syracuse (IL). Sent RHP Joe Ross on a rehab assignment to Syracuse (IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Signed WR Franky Okafor. Waived WR Rico Richardson.

BALTIMORE RAVENS—Signed P Michael Palardy.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed G Dan Buchholz. Waived P Ben LeCompte.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Placed RB Darren McFadden, LB Jaylon Smith, and LB Damien Wilson on the nonfootball injury list. Placed DT Maliek Collins, RB Lance Dunbar, TE James Hanna, and DE Benson Mayowa on the physically unable to perform list.

DETROIT LIONS—Signed CB Darius Slay to a four-year, $50 million contract extension.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Cut TE Michael Miller.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Placed LB Tamba Hali and LB Justin Houston on the physically unable to perform list. Signed OL Eric Fisher to a fouryear, $48 million contract extension.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed DB Rashaan Melvin. Waived TE Jake Stoneburner.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Signed DT Claudell Louis.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Cut WR Donte Foster and DT Melvin Lewis.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Placed C Chris Watt on the physically unable to perform list.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Announced T Anthony Davis has been reinstated by the NFL. Placed NT Ian Williams on the non-football injury list. Signed G Joshua Garnett to a four-year contract. Signed DE B.J. McBryde.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Cut T Lene Maiava. Placed DT Sealver Siliga on the non-football injury list. Placed TE Jimmy Graham and RB Thomas Rawls on the physically unable to perform list.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Cut T Sam Carlson. Placed DE Kevin Dodd on the physically unable to perform list.

Signed WR Andre Johnson to a twoyear contract.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEXAS A&M—Suspended offensive line coach Jim Turner two weeks without pay. Suspended special teams coordinator Jeff Banks two weeks without pay.

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SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2016 PUBLIC HEARINGS

PROBATE COURT DISCHARGE IN THE PROBATE COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA ESTATE NO: 15-E-000302 IN RE: ESTATE OF GLORIA MCJENKIN SMITH, DECEASED NOTICE (FOR DISCHARGE FROM OFFICE AND ALL LIABILITY) IN RE: PETITION FOR DISCHARGE OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO: ALL BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE WILL OF SAID DECEDENT AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to notify you to file objection, if there is any, to the above-referenced Petition, in this Court on or before August 8, 2016 BE NOTIFIED FURTHER: All objections to the petition must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections. All pleadings/objections must be signed before a notary public or before a probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel at the following address/ telephone number for the required amount of filing fees.

If any objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.

CHRISTOPHER A. BALLAR PROBATE JUDGE BY:-s- SYDNEY BOSTWICK PROBATE CLERK/ DEPUTY CLERK 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 770-822-8350 927-433845, 7/28

PUBLIC HEARINGS STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF GWINNETT CALL FOR SPECIAL ELECTION (SPECIAL PURPOSE LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX WITHIN THE SPECIAL DISTRICT OF GWINNETT COUNTY) TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF GWINNETT COUNTY: Pursuant to a Resolution of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved on July 19, 2016 calling for a Special Election to determine the question of the imposition of a one percent (1%) special purpose local option sales tax within the Special District of Gwinnett County for a maximum period of six (6) years for designated purposes (hereinafter known as the “Resolution”), the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections (hereinafter known as the “Board”), Elections Superintendent for Gwinnett County, is charged with the duty of calling for a Special Election to be held on November 8, 2016.

Therefore, the Board does hereby issue the call for said Special Election to be held on November 8, 2016. The purpose of said Special Election is to place before the voters of Gwinnett County, for approval or rejection, the question stated in the Resolution concerning the imposition of a one percent (1%) special purpose local option sales tax within the Special District of Gwinnett County for a maximum period of six (6) years for designated purposes, to-wit: “( ) YES Shall a special one percent sales and use tax be imposed in the Special District of ( ) N O Gwinnett County for a period of time not to exceed six years and for the raising of an estimated amount of $950,000,000 for the purposes of roads, streets, bridges, and sidewalks, public safety facilities and equipment, recreational facilities and equipment, senior service facilities and equipment, relocation and renovation of library facilities, library equipment, expansion of the civic center, city administrative facilities, city water and sewer capital improvements, city parking facilities, and city cultural facilities?”

All persons desiring to vote in favor of imposing the one percent (1%) special purpose local option sales tax shall vote “YES” and all persons opposed to the levying of the one percent (1%) special purpose local option sales tax shall vote “NO”. If more than one-half of the votes cast on such question are for approval of the Resolution, it shall become of full force and effect on April 1, 2017. If the Resolution is not so approved, it shall not become effective and shall be automatically repealed on April 1, 2017.

The Special Election shall be conducted in all of the precincts of Gwinnett County.

The polls will open at 7:00 o’clock A.M. and close at 7:00 o’clock P.M. The last day for qualified residents of Gwinnett County to register to vote to be eligible to vote in the Special Election is October 11, 2016.

This call is issued and published pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Sections 21-2-2(3) and 21-2540, and in accordance with the Resolution.

This 26th day of July, 2016.

MEMBERS, GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF REGISTRATIONS AND ELECTIONS BY: Alice O’Lenick Chairman BY: Stephen W. Day Vice Chairman BY: Beauty P. Baldwin Member BY: John Mangano Member

BY: Ben Satterfield Member ATTEST: Lynn Ledford Elections Director 928-434214, 7/31,8/4

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 5845 OAKBROOK PKWY STE H, NORCROSS GA 30093 (Yr/Make) 2003 ACURA 3.2 TL VIN#19UUA56643A063979 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 7-25-2016.

928-432853, 7/24, 31 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 2025 MAIN ST EAST, SNELLVILLE GA 30078 (Yr/Make) 2005 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN VIN#3GNEC16Z65G111929 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 7-25-2016.

928-432852, 7/24, 31

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 98 Hurricane Shoals Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-682-4990, August 10th, 2016 at 1:30PM Bertha Ledesma Unit 1027 Household Items James C Harris Unit CC039 Household Goods Vincent E Townsend Unit CC243 Household Items Sam Bell Unit 0334 Household Items Desermithe Brune Unit 1207 Household Items Bruce Crayton Unit 1148 Household Items Viviana Porcayo-Martinez Unit 0536 Household Items LaToya Robinson Unit 1012 Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-433192, 7/24, 31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding via www.storagetreasures.com on Wednesday August 10, 2016 at 11:00 AM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 530 Athens Hwy Loganville Ga. 30052 470-233-1499 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

B149 – LARRY CRAWFORD–$492.00 – FURNITURE, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES A197 – SHARON JONES–$354.00 – BOXES ,BAGS, TOTES B194 – KAYLIN DAVIS $ 550.20– FURNITURE, BOXES, BAGS ,TOTES B177 – JAMARCUS EVANS- $599.00- HOUSEHOLD GOODS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES B144 – KIMBERLY THORTON–$421.60 – FURNITURE, BOXES, BAGS, TOTEs Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-433746, 7/27,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #698, 3495 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd, Suwanee, GA 30024, to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 10:00AM at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Antulio Ferrer DBA Ferrer Flooring LLC 153 Christopher Staton 233 & 235 Yadi Perez AKA Yadira Perez 261 Danielle Binion 1052 Daphne McCann 3042 929-430591, 7/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 5180 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross, Georgia 30071 to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 1:30 PM at www.storagetreasures.com Cube #337, Dashee Marie Tarver; Cube #967, Ruth A. Spencer; Cube #649, Kevin King; Cube #316, Jaylen Manuel; Cube #936, Troy C Banks.

929-430631, 7/24,31,

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding via www.storagebattles.com on Wednesday, August 10th at 12:00PM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 3942 Stone Mountain Hwy. Snellville, GA 30039 770-979-8936

The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

122 – Jonna Gayle – 839.40 – boxes, totes, bags, table, chair 130 – LaSaundra Williams–$289.00 – Table, Chest, Totes 151 – Damaris Mc Donald–$621.00 – Bed room furniture, Living Room furniture, Dining Room Furniture 232 – Shelisa Minnifield–$349.60 – Bed, Table, Living Roo0m Furniture, Boxes 245 – Kinte Cobb–$282.10 – Table, Bed, End Tables, Boxes, Bags 346 – Sashaun Robinson–$461.00 – Pictures, Bedroom Furniture, Table, Chairs 392 – Kenny Ortiz–$392.00 – Bed Room Furniture, Boxes, Mattress 485 – Marie Bombasse–$283.00 – Bed, Boxes, Bags, Table, Totes 492 – Joseph Willis–$162.05 – Dresser, Clothes, Boxes, Totes 517 – Adrian Semper–$341.00 – Sofa, Table, Boxes, Totes 528 – Andre Gadson–$402.60 – Bed Room Furniture, Table, Chair, Boxes 685 – Shayla Chestnut–$491.90 – Bag, Totes, Boxes, Mattress, Bed Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-433753, 7/27,31

PROTECT OUR PLANET NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart [3494 Gwinnett Place Dr.] to satisfy a lien on [Aug. 10, 2016] at approx. [10:00AM] at www. storagetreasures.com Cube # 1020 Bessie L Willams Cube # 2000 Nesa Thomas Cube # 2025 Zakarya A Almariri Cube # 3032 Darnell Vernon Cloud Cube # 3081 Angela P Dockery Cube # 3103 James Cambridge III 929-431696, 7/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1790 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Duluth, Ga. 30097 770-814-7776 August 10, 2016 @ 2:00PM

1702 Nya Whitaker Washer, wicker chair, boxes 2300 Mintoria Johnson printer, books, magazines, boxes 2607 Andwele Beatty Boxes, folding table, clothing The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-431981, 7/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 5151 Annistown Rd Stone Mountain GA 30087 770.469.5363 August 10th, 2016 at 12:00 PM 312 Tonia Sturges Household 341 Johnny J. Cooper Wheels, tires,piano,lawn equipment 318 Dianne Thomas Household Goods 456 Louis White misc household goods 342 Wanda Holland couch,patio furn,xmas decor,books, 325 Shawn Campbell Household furniture 565 Laverne Hypolite household items 377 Rod Caddele 5 bedroom home 122 Tanisha Donald Household items 572 Montisa Beck Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-432302, 7/26,8/2

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: Auction Date: 08/10/2016 Address: 3564 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 Phone: (770) 286-9209 Time of Sale: 4:00 Pm John Kinlaw Unit 0233 Bed Frame, Dresser, Tubs, Boxes, Computer Monitor, Childs Bed, Box Springs Robert Chastain Unit 0236 Boxes, Book bags, Crates, Tub Toni Cunningham Unit 0241 Nightstand, Tubs, Mattress, Box Springs, Bedding, Clothes, Boxes Carlene Reid Unit 0332 Armoire, Boxes, China Cabinet w/base Dawn Ivery Unit D406 Boxes, Totes, Shelves, Fishing Rods, Cabinets, Bedding Audric Owens Unit 2030 Leather Sectional, Clothes, Shoes, TV Stands, Stereo, Vacuum, Bike Omar Glenn Unit 2078 Stereo, Speakers, Mickey Mouse Phone, Boxes, Tubs, Clothes, Copier Sonya Littles Unit 2090 Bedroom Set, Lamps, Podiums, TV, Mattress, Kitchen Metal Rack, Boxes, Artwork, Vacuum Ravin Redd Unit 2114 Dresser, Tire, Mattress, Box Spring, Office Chair, Boxes, Totes, Fans, Mirror Rafaela De Ledesma Unit 3073 Washer, Dryer, Pictures, Head/Foot Board, Luggage, Kitchen Items, Shelf, Misc.

Household Courtney Randle Unit 4022 Stereo, Speakers, Luggage, Clothes, Books, TV, Chair, Bags, Totes, Vacuum La Shone Thomas Unit 4085 Eliptical, Carpet Cleaner, Bedroom Set, Boxes, Totes, Shelfs, Washer/Dryer, Keyboard, Table The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-432291, 7/24,31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #714, 105 Old Peachtree Road NW, Suwanee, GA 30024, to satisfy a lien on August 10, 2016 at approx. 10:00AM at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name Unit # Wanda Renetta Jones 516 Liz McDonald 303 Latosha Lowe 591 Leanne Polke 111 929-432400, 7/24,7/31 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 2050 Gravel Springs Road Buford, GA 30519 678-492-4958 August 10th, 2016 at 11:00 AM Unit C1005 – Michelle Stephens – Household Goods Unit C2098 – Joshua Bogos – Household Goods Unit E622 – Anthony Vick – Household Goods Unit E650 – Jerry Woods – Household Goods Unit E709 – Kevin Smith – Household Goods Unit F815 – George Robinson Jr. – Household Goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-432717, 7/24,31 Securlock Storage will sell personal property consisting of household and personal effects, office, and other equipment, toys and appliances will be sold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent due law 10-4-213. All items or spaces may not be available on the day of the sale. We reserve the right to refuse any and all bids, buyers must secure spaces with own locks. NO CHECKS. CASH ONLY. To claim tax-exempt-ORIGINAL RESALE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH SPACE PURCHASED IS REQUIRED. Time: 11:30 AM Date: August 11 2016 Place: 1573 Athens Hwy Grayson Ga 30017 Grace MacDonald – 14 Boxes, Books, Jewelry Boxes Joseph Simpson (2 units) – Couch, Chairs, Bike, Mattress, Box Spring, Dresser, Entertainment Center, Glass Coffee Table, Totes Kathy Ellis – Couch, Armoire, Shelves, 20+ Boxes, 5+ totes, Childs ATV Pamela Harris-Evans – Bikes, Toys, Refrigerator, Chair, 10+ Boxes, Totes Gloria Royal – Large Fish Tank, Baskets, Suitcase, Flat Screen, Toys, 5+ Totes Joseph Chermak – Pool Table, Dresser, Couch, Kitchen Table, Yard Items Candaz Walker – Baby Items, TV, 5+ Boxes, Bags, 2+ Totes 929-429950, 7/24,31

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC AUCTION - In accordance with the provision of Georgia State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at AAAA Self Storages located at 4365 Commerce Dr., Buford, GA 30518 770-614-1424 and at 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA, 30046. 770-2378673. And due notice having been given to the owners of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Monday, August 15,2016. The sale will be held at www.storagebattles.com at 10 AM for units at the Buford location and 3 PM for units at the Lawrenceville location on Monday, August 15, 2016.

Terms: Cash, Credit card, or certified funds at Sale.

10:00 AM 4365 Commerce Drive, Buford, GA 30518 Unit # –7005 Ron GossettMisc.& Household Items Unit # –3032 German Alvarado-Misc. & Household Items Unit # –7007 Perry Pealock- Misc.& Household Items Unit # –4011 Howard Mack II-Misc. & Household Items 3:00 PM 282 East Crogan St., Lawrenceville, GA 30046 Unit #2082 –Cunningham, Shawna R. –- Misc. & Household Items Unit # 6038–Griffin, Kimberlyn - Misc. & Household Items Unit #1016 –Newberry, Aleisha - Misc. & Household Items Unit #4017 –Price, Byron Misc. & Household Items 929-434380, 7/31,8/7 NOTICE Bank of the West will hold a public sale of a 2005 Keystone Montana 3575 RL VIN 4YDF357255D511559 on 8/16/2016 at 9 AM. The sale will be held at 134 Industrial Park Dr., Lawrenceville, GA 30046. The unit can be viewed at America’s Auto Auction 2415 Hwy. 101 S, Greer SC 29651 Call Alan Lawson at 800-859-3393 for appointment. Bank of the west reserves the right to bid.

929-434571, 7/31,8/7 GWINNETT DAILY POST– GWINNETT COUNTY LEGAL ADS PS101 AUCTION DATES AUGUST 16TH AND AUGUST 17TH NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on August 16th & August 17th the below-listed units.

Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08464 10860 STATE BRIDGE ROAD. ALPHARETTA GA 30022 (678) 513-8185 August 16th , 2016 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 2036–Wells, Dominique 6008–Jackson, Neal 6046–McDonald, Johnny 6320–Hill, Shawn 6374–Hayes, Enian PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25719 3550 PEACHTREE PKWY. SUWANEE, GA 30024-1031 (678) 513-8185 August 16th , 2016 9:45 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B332–Roberts, KENNDRIC B348–Nichols, Phil C540–Burrell, Edward C5611–BROWN, KENNETH C5746–Osman, Hilla C5774–King, Ebony D608–Davis, Gary PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25778 3900 MCGINNIS FERRY RD SUWANEE, GA 30024 (678) 513-8185 August 16th , 2016 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A1019–Morgan, Carole A2075–McCaskey, Yvette PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 25595 66 OLD PEACHTREE RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 (770) 338-1271 August 16th , 2016 10:15 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 00116–Nathali, Elina 00258–Palaguachi, Crystal 00707–DONALD, Paul 00718–Lowe, Latosha 00845–Bruce, Vivian 1059–Cecil, Terry 2007–Cecil, Terry 3006–Ferrell, Anthony 4062–Johnson, William PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28158 495 BUFORD DR. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30245 (770) 338-1271 August 16th , 2016 10:30AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 105–Spencer, Tifffany 129–Moore, Albert 132–Smith, Jacqueline 153–Grantham, Jerimiah 231–Hazel, Rebecca 235–Dixon, Harvey 322–Hazel, Rebecca 433–Manzila, Bienvenu 435–HANLEY JR, DALTON 442–Kawan, Paul 632–Baker, Maurice PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08465 1856 RIVERSIDE PKWY. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30043 (770) 237-5010 August 16th , 2016 10:45AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 4049–Porter, Jeremie 5005–Fretter, Shellene 5142–Boone, Elaine 5211–Brown, Chrison 5444–BUNYAN, BANI 5467–Davis, Bryant PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY : 08054 1395 PLEASANT HILL DR..

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7 wks. old. 1st shots.

3 Males/4 Females.

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CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, 1994 4WD, 350/V8, Loaded, Original Owner, recently spent over $4K for rebuilt trans, head gaskets, exhaust & front end work. Only $2500.

Lawrenceville, RonMelinSr@Gmail. com or Call Ron @ 404-275-5860

HONDA ACCORD CROSSTOUR, 2010 Silver, Stk#8665 $11,800 877-698-5030

HONDA ACCORD SEDAN, 2012 Polished Metal, Stk#8700 $12,500 877-698-5030

HONDA CIVIC LX, 2015 Crystal Black, $16,836 800-PREOWNED

LEXUS GS 350, 2014 White, Stk#CM19922 $37,990 770-680-1000

LEXUS GX 460, 2012 White, Stk#21613648 $31,990 770-680-1000

CHEVROLET EQUINOX, 2013 Champagne Silver, Stk#GUC50496A $18,912 800-PREOWNED

HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2013 Crystal Black, Stk#8769 $12,900 877-698-5030

LEXUS IS 250, 2013 Obsidian, Stk#CM19891 $28,990 770-680-1000

FORD FOCUS SE HATCHBACK, 2013 Ingot Silver, Stk#P8357B $9,500 800-PREOWNED

TOYOTA COROLLA, 2015 Classic Silver, Stk#8741 $13,500 877-698-5030

LEXUS NX 200T, 2015 Matador Red Mica, Stk#2152430A $35,990 770-680-1000

FORD FOCUS TITANIUM HATCHBACK, 2013 Sterling Gray, Stk#GN500375C $13,977 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

LEXUS RX 350, 2012 Matador Red Mica, Stk#CM19935 $30,990 770-680-1000

FORD FUSION SE, 2013 Ingot Silver, Stk#GR323312A $9,509 800-PREOWNED HYUNDAI ELANTRA, 2014 Windy Sea Blue, Stk#G5331558A $14,852 800-PREOWNED

LEXUS IS 250, 2015 Gray, Stk#2152408a $33,490 770-680-1000

FORD FIESTA SE, 2015 Tuxedo Black, Stk#P8403 $11,606 800-PREOWNED HYUNDAI GENESIS, 2013 Twilight Blue, Stk#670257A $13,800 877-698-5030

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LEXUS ES 350, 2013 Obsidian, Stk#CM19903 $30,490 770-680-1000

FORD C-MAX SEL HB, 2015 Ingot Silver, Stk#P8359 $17,999 800-PREOWNED

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MEMBERSHIP WILKES COUNTY 300+ acres. Deer, turkey & hogs.

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Electricity. Large campsites, deer cleaning station & 4 creeks. Avg. rack 8 pt., avg. wgt. over 200 lbs. $475 dues, $100 elec., $10 sec. light per year.

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FORD FUSION SE, 2016 Ingot Silver, Stk#P8413 $15,999 800-PREOWNED JEEP PATRIOT, 2012 Mineral Gray, Stk#670059C $9,700 877-698-5030

LEXUS RX 350, 2015 Stargazer Black, Stk#CM19943 $40,990 770-680-1000

POOL COVER PUMP FORD MUSTANG, 2012 Sterling Grey, Stk#G5276874A $16,809 800-PREOWNED

INGROUND POOL cover, ultra loop loc, 18ftx34 ft long for 16x32 pool, plus 8 water bags, $1,000, 770 364-1915

FORD TAURUS, 2006 Elderly Owner, Garage Kept, Loaded, Extra Clean, Mechanically Perfect. $3,495. 770-616-7399.

LEXUS CT 200H, 2013 Red, Stk#CM19969 $22,990 770-680-1000

NISSAN SENTRA SV SEDAN, 2013 Brilliant Silver, Stk#GN342612A $10,993 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

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NISSAN ALTIMA, 2010 Radiant Silver, Stk#660276A $9,500 877-698-5030

NISSAN ROGUE SV SUV, 2013 Graphite Blue, Stk#GW001816A $14,997 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

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VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2.5 SE SEDAN, 2013 Reflex Silver, Stk#GC138764A $11,992 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

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Travis Caldwell and Jesse Behmke lead the way at a training sweep during a meeting of the Atlanta Curling Club at the IceForum in Duluth on July 22. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

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2010 Winter Olympics inspires Gwinnettian to form local club

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It’s a sport more befitting his ing people on Facebook and native Detroit than Duluth. But I started gathering people on that hasn’t stopped Jeff Williams Twitter. Before you know it, from becoming a local curling we had 100 people who were guru. interested and talking about how Inspired by watchcould we actually get ing the sport during the this thing going.”

2010 Winter Olympics Williams and 35 in Vancouver, Williams others met in the spring and his son Maxwell to begin planning the formed the Atlanta club. It has grown from Curling Club, which a handful of individuals hosts leagues and also to leagues, classes and introduces newcomers Jeff Williams tournaments that take to the sport at the Atlanta place in Duluth.

IceForum in Duluth. As “Some of those (origithey attempted to start the club, nal) people are still with the the two discovered they weren’t club,” Williams said. “We put tothe only ones who had caught gether a small board and started the curling bug. figuring out what we needed “My son was in college at to do to become a (nonprofit), this point, and he came to me what did we need to do to gather and said, ‘Dad, we have to start together the equipment and what Atlanta’s first curling club,’” could we do to learn about how Williams said. “We had talked See CURLING, Page 5C about it, and he started gather-

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Summerour receives national wildlife habitat certification Summerour Middle School’s garden behind the school was recently recognized with a wildlife habitat certification from the National Wildlife Federation.

The organization is America’s largest wildlife conservation and education organization and it honored the Norcross school for taking the initiative to provide garden space, and specifically for providing essential elements needed by all wildlife.

Among the elements are natural food resources, clean water, shelter and places to raise young. The certification also makes the school site part of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge, a national effort to restore critical habitat for pollinators like butterflies, birds, bees

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ing for our teachers because they see how learning in outdoor classrooms excites and engages the students.

Summerour’s certification process included building a butterfly nursery that includes plants especially attractive to butterflies, including the endangered Monarch, as well as plantKeith Farner ing native flowers that entice pollinators throughout the and other wildlife. garden.

“Teaching rigorous The habitat was developed academics through the lens by students, with the support of environmental stewardof Summerour’s education ship is a vital component of team and Gardens4GrowSummerour’s curriculum. ingCommunity, a local It’s a context through which nonprofit that is developing students learn as part of the the gardens in Summerour’s school’s International BacEnvironmental Education calaureate Middle Years Pro- Center as a pilot program for gram,” Summerour Principal supporting outdoor educaDorothy Parker-Jarrett said tion throughout Gwinnett. in a press release. “It’s excit“Summerour’s outdoor

classrooms are designed to engage the whole community,” said Tixie Fowler, founder of G4GC. “We actively encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to share the excitement of harvesting their first carrot, or to plant seeds they remember growing in their home country. And being outdoors and connecting with the environment and wildlife helps students understand why they’re studying math, science and all the other academics.”

Summerour’s gardens and wildlife habitat center are accessible to the public, and the program encourages the community to take part in activities involving the 7,000 square feet of natural and developed gardening space on the campus.

Principal Dorothy ParkerJarrett poses in Summerour Middle School’s garden behind the school after it recently recognized with a wildlife habitat certification from the National Wildlife Federation.

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PET OF THE WEEK Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m. You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www. georgiaspca.org.

Giselle is a 2 1/2 year old Siamese mix sweetheart. She is FIV positive (feline immunodeficiency virus). She will need to go to a home with no other cats, or FIV positive cats. FIV cannot be transmitted from cat to humans, only from cat to cat.

Cats who receive supportive medical care and are kept in a stress-free, indoor environment can live relatively comfortable lives for years. Her new family will have to watch for any changes in her health and be prepared to seek medical care if the need arises.

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AUBURN City to show ‘Cinderella’ in August Auburn officials hope to have residents in a royal mood on Aug. 27 when they show the live action version of Disney’s “Cinderella” at Whistlestop Park.

The city is going all out with a Disney theme for the event, which runs from 6 to 11 p.m. They are encouraging parents to dress their children up as Prince Charming (if it’s a boy, of course) or their favorite Disney princess.

A horse-drawn pumpkin carriage will carry kids around the city’s downtown area while kids have their photos taken with various Disney princesses, and staff from the Auburn Public Library help children make tiaras and swords.

The movie will begin at dusk, and treats will be sold at a concession stand beforehand. Residents are encouraged to bring blankets or lawn chairs to sit on during the movie.

BARROW COUNTY Kinchafoonee Cowboys set to bring honky-tonk to Winder The Kinchafoonee Cowboys band will put on a free concert in Winder from 7 to 10 p.m. Aug. 5.

The city of Winder and BrandBank will present the event, which will be held at the gazebo at East Candler Street and North Broad Street.

BrandBank will sponsor the concert as well as its Community Appreciation Day. Guests may bring chairs.

For information, visit www.cityofwinder.com.

BERKELEY LAKE Recycle Day Gwinnett to take place at Pinckneyville Park Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation will hold Recycle Day Gwinnett at the Pinckneyville Park Community Recreation Center from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 6.

Members of the community are encouraged to start the new school year by cleaning out office files, collecting old tires and donating gently used clothing and sneakers.

Up to five boxes of paper can be shredded and no more than eight tires may be recycled. Dealer tires are not permitted.

The clothing and shoes will be given to those in need or recycled into new products.

The county will present the event in partnership with the Gwinnett County Solid Waste and Recovered Materials Division.

For information, call 678277-0906 or 678-277-0920.

Connie Prisock, center, receives a Qulits of Valor Foundation quilt on behalf of her father, Homer “Allen” Prisock Jr., from the foundation’s Gwinnett QOV Quilters’ Joanne Jones, left, and Gerry Kraus. The foundation recognized three veterans in the Prisock family during the ceremony.

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DAR, quilters partner to honor veterans “Philadelphia Winn Chapter NSDAR Daughter Janet Perry, a member of the Gwinnett QOV One of the problems the Quilters, was accompanied Continental Army faced during by two members of the quilits winter at Valley Forge was a ters group, Gerry Kraus and shortage of quality blankets for Joanne Jones, who assisted in the soldiers. the presentation ceremony by The Philadelphia Winn wrapping the honored veterChapter of the Daughters of the ans in their quilts, a part of the American Revolution and the QOV ritual,” Philadelphia Winn Quilts of Valor Foundation’s Chapter Publicity and Media Gwinnett QOV Quilters group Chairman Lee Schermerhorn recently made sure that’s not a said in a statement. problem for three Lawrenceville The Quilts of Valor Foundaveterans, however. The groups tion was founded 13 years ago partnered to recognize Homer to recognize veterans through Allen Prisock Sr. and his sons, ceremonies where they are Homer “Allen” Prisock Jr. and wrapped in quilts intended Howard “Gene” Prisock. to help them heal from the

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The S.A.F.E. program will take place in the Community Room at 2723 N. Bogan Road in Buford from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Participants will learn physical aspects of selfdefense and how to reduce the risk of encountering violence. They also will obtain material on safety and watch a motivational video.

To register, visit www. gwinnettcounty.com or call 678-277-0850.

DACULA Library hosting Back-2-School Bonanza The sun is still out, so fun BRASELTON is not out yet — not if ofRibbon-cutting planned ficials at the Dacula library for craftsman’s shop branch have anything to say A ribbon-cutting is about it. planned for Monday at 11 With just a week to go a.m. at Red Barn Forge, a new craftsman’s shop in his- before the new school year begins, the library is toric Downtown Braselton The business at 54 Henry planning to give kids one last hurrah of the summer St. is owned and operated before they have to start

by Dave Leimbach, who opening textbooks again. does bladesmithing, blackThe library will hold a Backsmithing, leather, kydex, 2-School Bonanza from 3 to wood and jewelry work, 5 p.m. on Monday. Officials according to the website. said they plan to have He makes tomahawks, crafts, “passive activities” flint strikers and knives and board games for kids to inspired by the Colonial to fur trade eras but branches play at the event.

The library is located out often. He also fashions early-American home decor. at 265 Dacula Road, in Dacula.

For more information, DULUTH visit braseltonbladesmith.

City Parks, Rec to hold com. design workshop The Duluth Parks and BUFORD Recreation Department has Gwinnett parks offer scheduled a park design National Self-Defense workshop from 6 to 8 p.m.

Institute’s S.A.F.E. on Aug. 11. The Duluth program Parks and Recreation DeThe National Selfpartment is undergoing a Defense Institute’s S.A.F.E. Parks Master Plan update. program — Self-defense City officials are looking Awareness and Familiarizafor help to develop a vision tion Exchange — will take for the future of the Duluth place at the Bogan Park Parks system.

Community Recreation Free pizza will be served Center on Aug. 5. at the event at the Bunten The free two-hour eduRoad Park Community cational session focuses Building at 3180 Bunten on awareness and crime Road in Duluth. prevention for women ages 13 and up. The National GRAYSON Self-Defense Institute is a City to show “The Good Florida-based nonprofit that Dinosaur” in August creates and manages public Grayson is planning to safety awareness programs.

show residents the story of a dinosaur and his feral caveboy on Aug. 12.

The city has scheduled a movie-in-the-park event from 7 to 10 p.m. on that date, with Disney Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” being streamed across the big screen in Grayson Community Park. The film shows an alternate universe, modern-day Earth where dinosaurs did not become extinct and an Apatosaur who is having a hard time living on a farm befriends a caveboy.

The movie will begin at dusk and residents are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on during the film.

LAWRENCEVILLE City council selects agents to receive summons Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson, City Manager Chuck Warrington and City Clerk Karen Pierce were recently selected as agents who can accept service of summons on the city’s behalf.

While the city council adopted a resolution that allows the trio to act on the city’s behalf, the document adds some limits on what that entails.

They cannot, for example, accept a summons against an individual member of city government, including members of the city council who are being sued in their individual capacities.

The only exception is if the mayor is being handed a summons against herself.

The resolution extends the authority to receiving complaints or any other document that initiates legal action against the city.

LILBURN Pet first aid class scheduled at WynneRussell House The PetSaver First Aid class will include useful skills and information for adults to keep their pets healthy at the Wynne-

lingering impact of serving in combat.

The ceremony coincided with Homer Allen Prisock Sr.’s 80th birthday and a Prisock family reunion, Schermerhorn said.

The elder Prisock served in the Army from 1954-1964. Homer Prisock Jr. served in the Navy while his brother served in the Army and Air Force.

Among the family’s military service was stints at Fort Benning, Fort Hood, Dexheim, Germany and Fairbanks, Alaska

by Prisock Sr. Meanwhile, Prisock Jr. spent six years in Japan while he served on the U.S.S. Midway Aircraft Carrier, which is now a floating museum in

Russell House in Lilburn on Aug. 13.

Attendees will receive a handbook for the class, which will cover topics including rescue breathing, choking management, canine and feline CPR, and more.

Once the class is completed, participants will earn a certificate.

The class will take place at 4684 Wynne-Russell Drive in Lilburn from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The fee is $85 per person. Children and pets should not be taken to the class.

Light refreshments will be served.

To register, contact Jane Fratesi at janefrat@att.net or 404-373-3853.

LOGANVILLE Groovin’ on Green to feature The Embers Loganville’s free concert in August will feature The Embers. It will be a Luau-themed concert, so attendees are encouraged to come dressed in their Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts.

Lawn chairs are suggested and food vendors will be on site. Beer and wine are permitted. The Embers played Loganville a year ago and will again bring beach music that they call, “heart and soul, rhythm and blues, feel good music.”

NORCROSS Qualifying dates set for council election The city of Norcross announced that qualifying for the election of three city council seats in November will be held from Aug. 15 to 19 at City Hall.

Voters head to the polls Nov. 8 to vote on the seats now held by councilmen Josh Bare, Andrew Hixson and David McLeroy.

The qualifying fee is $243. Interested residents can contact Monique Lang, city clerk, at 678-421-2035 or mlang@norcrossga.net.

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Prisock Jr.’s quilt was recovering from back surgery, so his quilt was received by family member Connie Prisock.

Howard Prisock, on the other hand spent 20 years in the military, from 1990 to 2010. He served in the Desert Storm and Desert Shield, America’s Shield and the Katrina Disaster Relief operations.

“A rib luncheon and music presentation followed (the presentation),” Schermerhorn said.

“A special message to veterans was brought by Jim Freeman and Philadelphia Winn Daughter Peggy Freeman during the music program.”

Qualifying applications are available at the clerk’s office or online at norcrossga.net. The website also has a frequently-askedquestions section on the process.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Water main replacement planned The Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources plans to replace a water main in the Lockridge Forest subdivision starting on Aug. 1, the city of Peachtree Corners announced.

The project involves replacing about 18,000 feet of pipe with new eight-inch ductile iron pipe along the following roads: • Sumac Drive • Womack Road • Geraldine Court • Ridgemore Drive • Tilton Lane • Pentel Court • Abby Court • Vic-Ar Road • Newton Drive • Locklear Way • Locklear Court • Miller Court • Vic-Ar Court • Viking Court The contractor, John D. Stephens Inc., plans to start on Sumac Drive coming from Winters Chapel Road, the city said.

“Yards that are disturbed will be fixed temporarily and then permanently, and little inconvenience is expected as a result of this project,” the city said.

The county estimates the project will take four or five weeks.

be stories, games and a special craft.”

Pete can’t make it.

The library is at 2740 Lenora Church Road.

SUGAR HILL Prince tribute band to play The Bowl The Purple Xperience, a Prince tribute band, is scheduled to play in Sugar Hill on Aug. 13. Keyboardist Matt Fink, who was a member of Prince and the Revolution, is a part of the five-piece tribute. Doors open at 7 p.m. Purchase tickets at thebowlatsugarhill.com.

It’s part of a series of ticketed concerts this summer that wraps up on Sept.

3 with Third Eye Blind.

SUWANEE Suwanee youth to compete at food truck events This Saturday’s and Sept. 2’s Food Truck Friday events will feature a competition between two groups of 60 local sophomore and junior high school students as part of the city’s Suwanee Youth Leaders program. The teams will be graded on organization, using logistics and a budget, creativity through a three- to five-minute video, and the number of cans collected for a food drive. The teams are charged with choosing the food trucks, creating a theme and booking a live band. The Aug. 5 team has chosen ‘Olympics’ as its theme (celebrating the Summer Olympics in Rio) and the Sept. 2 theme will SNELLVILLE be ‘Beach.’

Pete the Cat party Now in its third year, the planned youth leadership proThe Snellville Branch of gram is an eight-month the public library is hostinitiative for students who ing a Pete the Cat “Feline attend public, private or Groovy” party, based on home-based schools and the popular books. live within three Gwinnett The event is for kids County Public School clusages 4 and up on Aug. 20 ters. The city-sponsored, at 3 p.m. community-based program “It’s a party and it’s all about Pete!” the library said centers on civic involvement, leadership skills and on its website. “There will volunteer opportunities.

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A little girl gets Hallmark connection at last As a child, I was captivated by emotional stories and how words strung together had the power to make me feel happy, touched, sad, or inspired.

The rudiments of my education came around the kitchen table or in the car as I listened to Mama’s and Daddy’s storytelling.

They were always experts in delivery, dramatic effect and, most importantly, always finding an entertaining something out of nothing. Since they both came from the hard lives of the mountains, they knew how to make something out of all kinds of nothing including stories. My fascination with stories were aided by a full set of Walt Disney books, Little Golden Books, Bible story books and eight or

commercials were as good as the movie because they always told little stories in poignant but uplifting ways.

I laid on my belly atop a large red velvet pillow that Mama had sewn from scraps and for two hours, Ronda during a Hallmark Hall of Rich Fame presentation, did not move. The powerful storytelling sticks to me many nine children’s albums that years later as I remember played me to sleep every ones like “Miss Rose night with storytelling.

White,” “Ellen Foster,” As I grew older, I was “Dance with the White introduced into more Dog,” and “What the Deaf nuanced, deeper, tremenMan Heard.” One night, dously effecting stories when I was 12, I finished from the Hallmark Hall of watching but could not Fame movies which came move out of reverence for on around a holiday like the stellar story I had just Mother’s Day or Christwatched. Finally, I pulled mas when a lot of greeting myself up and headed to cards were sold. I never bed. My heart was full missed one. The Hallmark and my mind was made

up: Somehow, I just had to find a way to work with Hallmark. I had to be part of their tradition of platinum storytellers.

I never lost sight of that, always carrying it in my heart. Hallmark is my holy grail of storytelling.

On my first book tour, my publisher sent me to Rainy Day books in Kansas City for a signing. That morning, I rose early, drove my rental car to the Hallmark headquarters, parked near the building that, as far as I was concerned, was a shrine to the best storytelling. “One day,” I said to the beige concrete building, “We’re gonna work together. We’re going to tell wonderful stories together.” There I prayed that my dream would come true.

It almost happened when Hallmark Hall of Fame was interested in making my novel into a movie but the network had another book in mind so my television movie was made elsewhere. Just knowing that Hallmark wanted me because they saw the value in my story was almost enough.

A few months ago, I heard Tink on the phone with his manager who was going over television jobs that folks wanted Tinker for. I heard “Hallmark.”

The others were network jobs with big budgets and industry prestige. When he hung up, I said, the little girl dreamer in me, coming out, “You have to do Hallmark. Please, please do Hallmark.”

We prayed about it and despite offers elsewhere, Tink stood his ground and took the executive producer/showrunner/head writer spot on Hallmark’s

new series — “Chesapeake Shores” — which premiers on the Hallmark channel on Aug. 14.

John Tinker is one of the industry’s best drama writers with a slew of Emmy nominations and an Emmy to underscore that.

To Chesapeake Shores, he brings the same nuanced and captivating storytelling that built the Hallmark brand. This time, though, he has added storytelling skills that he learned here in the South. It’s something a bit different for Hallmark but it’s still unequaled storytelling.

To borrow a company phrase, it feels good to come home to Hallmark.

The world needs its soothing salve more than ever.

And Chesapeake Shores does just that.

Ronda Rich is a bestselling author of Southern stories. Visit www.rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

Do pronouns reveal you as a giver or taker?

Have you ever tried to persuade a group to take action?

How do you approach the situation? Do you convince people by telling them why you believe your recommendations are the right move? Do you try to get them engaged in your story?

How often do you say, I think or I believe? Think back, when you’re planning for an important persuasive conversation, what goes through your head? Do you think about how you can get people to listen to you?

When you’re trying to move hearts and minds, or get people to take an action, it’s normal to think about how you can get them to engage with YOU. But it’s not the most effective way to influence others.

Some of my favorite books are the “Go-Giver” series, the business parables by Bob Burg and John David Mann. In “The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business” (2016 Penguin), Burg and Mann unpack the concept of metamessages.

Your metamessage is the message underneath your message. When you use the words “I,” “me” and “my” more often than you use “we” or “us,” people on the receiving end of your message (correctly) infer the conversation is about you, not them.

Words matter. If you want to influence others, look at your personal pronouns. As one of the mentors in “The Go-Giver Leader” says, “The word influence means an unseen flow of power. It was first used in the Middle Ages, believe it or not as an astrological term, from an old French word meaning “streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon our character or destiny.”

When you understand influence as unseen power, you recognize the importance of your metamessage.

One of the reasons I love the Go-Giver series is because they’re short, easy-to-read stories that help you internalize core principles without being preachy or academic. Truth

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be told, I identify with the struggling leader who wants to do the right thing, but doesn’t always have the skills or tools to bring forth their best intentions.

In “The Go-Giver Leader,” a young executive, Ben, is trying to convince a small business to agree to an acquisition.

Even if you’ve never been in that spot yourself, we can all relate to the scenario of trying to convince people to take an action you believe is in their best interests. As the GoGiver Leader story reveals, you’re more likely to be successful if you think less about convincing and more about influence. The difference seems subtle, yet it’s actually quite distinct.

In the book, Ben comes to realize influence is more like flow. It’s a pull energy rather than a push energy.

Author Bob Burg says, “We need to learn as leaders to take your focus off yourself. Taking the focus off yourself and actually focusing more on how you can help people begins the chain of them trusting you and [becoming] committed to you and your vision.”

Try this test, go back and look at your presentations and read your emails.

Think about your conversations with your boss, and even your spouse and kids.

Do you use the words I and me more often than you use we and us?

If you truly want to influence others, think about what you have to offer rather than what you want.

And if you’re unsure about how you’re being perceived, count your personal pronouns. It tells you (and them) exactly what you’re about.

Lisa McLeod is the creator of the popular business concept Noble Purpose and author of the bestseller “Selling With Noble Purpose.”

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•From Page 1C to be a curling club.”

Williams then contacted a curling organization in Knoxville, Tenn., and went to one of its bonspiels, the term for a curling tournament.

“They had people from all over the country coming to their tournament but they made time for us,” Williams said. “They made time in the middle of their tournament to take a bunch of us over on a lane that they weren’t using. They speed taught us how to do curling.”

After the bonspiel, Williams and the owner of the ice rink made an arrangement for Williams and his group to come back and learn more about curling. Williams was given brooms, hacks and stones to kick off his club. As for a rink, Williams made a deal with the Marietta Ice Center and began practicing curling there.

“In the fall, we only staged five events because we didn’t have enough people to run them or money to hold them,” Williams said. “Those five events were fantastic and fun even though we barely knew what we were doing. Then we started developing an online presence and being able to send people to our website. We put together an online sign up system and we started to spread the word and say ‘Come to our Learn to Curl events.’”

Learn to Curl is just what it sounds like — lessons the club offers newcomers to teach them the rudimentary rules and strategy of the sport.

“We will teach you everything you need to know to play the game,” Atlanta Curling Club President Hannah Hyde said. “You will go through a clinic to teach you how to throw the stone, score and things like that. At the end, we will have a little mini-game between participants. If you come out and attend a Learn to Curl session, then you are good to join as a member.”

Williams fixed the price at $25 and activities for lessons to maximize a newcomer’s experience.

“We try to keep the price low on them so that first-timers will be willing to try,” Williams said. “We have between eight and 10 actual trained instructors that are certified by USA Curling. I believe that the quality of our instruction has tremendously improved because of that.”

Williams, one of the trained instructors, based the sessions on the USA Curling’s curriculum.

“We arranged it a little bit to suit our style and to suit our resources but we follow that pretty closely,” Williams said. “We found not only do people learn more but they also feel more confident on the ice because they don’t feel unsafe.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

“Every year as we have progressed, 2014 was the ultimate peak of attendance at our curling events,” Williams said. “We knew that 2014 was the moment that we would really have to shine because the Olympics was going to be on TV and there was going to be curling all the time.

“I met with my board many times in the run up to the Winter Olympics and we had figured out that we needed 800 or 900 open spots for people to learn how to curl during the Olympics,” Williams said.

“I was looking at the schedule and all these empty slots and I started freaking out a little bit. We had to develop a whole separate event.”

The club created an open house event for $10 per person that drew nearly 800 people. It was a quick way to teach a large number of

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Curling A CURLING PRIMER

Curling equipment covers the ground during a meeting of the Atlanta Curling Club at the IceForum.

Equipment Broom: The broom is used to sweep the surface of the ice in front of the stone to try to make it go faster.

Hack: This foothold gives the thrower something to push off of when throwing the stone. It is frozen into the ice.

Running Surface: The only part of the stone that comes in contact with the ice.

Set: 16 stones.

Sheet: The area of ice that a game is played on.

Stone: Made from granite, the stone is what players throw down the ice to try and score points. A handle protrudes from the top of the stone.

Positions on Team Lead: The player who throws the first two rocks and sweeps the next six.

Second: The player who throws the next two rocks.

They sweep the first two stones and the final four stones.

Third/Vice-Skip: The player who throws the last two stones. This player also determines the score at the conclusion of an end.

Skip: The captain of the team who tells the other players where to throw and when to sweep. They deliver the last two shots of the end. This player stands at the end of the sheet.

HOW TO SCORE

Carlie Burnham and Jesse Behmke sweep their teams stone during a meeting of the Atlanta Curling Club at the IceForum in Duluth on July 22. (Photos: Cole McCauley)

To score, players throw the stones down the sheet toward the house. Each team tries to get more stones in the house than the other team. The score is based on the final positions of the stones in the house. Whoever is closet to the button, the center of the house, gets the point. The team receives as many points as they have stones closest to the button before the other team. The score for the end is calculated by the vice skipper once all 16 stones are thrown down the sheet.

Other Curling Terms Blanking: No points are scored.

Bonspiel: A curling tournament.

Broomstacking: After a curling game, teammates and opponents socialize and buy each other drinks.

Typically, the winners buy the losers a beer.

Burning a rock: This is when a player touches a stone as it moves down the sheet. The opposing team has the option to leave the stone in or take it out, depending on whether the stone moves or alters course.

Button: The center of the house. It is a 1-foot circle.

End: One whole game.

Guard: A stone that is placed in front of other stones to block opponents from hitting them.

House: The set of rings at the end of the sheet, consisting of a 12-foot ring, an 8-foot ring, a 4-foot ring and the button.

Promote: When a player hits a stone with another stone and it moves.

Take out: When a stone moves an opponent’s stone out of the house while keeping the stone in the house.

The red team reacts after geting a stone inside the circle during the Atlanta Curling Club meeting.

they will go out of their way to be nice to you and to teach you as much as they know and try to bring your level up.”

On Friday nights, residents can find Williams, Hyde and other curling members on the ice, whether it is teaching a Learn to Curl or practicing for their league.

“I’m just out to have a good time,” Williams said.

“Curling is great for me because I get to teach as often as I want. We have a Learn to Curl constantly.

There are so many people who want to learn and don’t have any other opportunities in Atlanta.”

Alpharetta resident The ice is full of curling during a meeting of the Atlanta Curling Club at the IceForum Brinkley Blair attended a Learn to Curl when she in Duluth on July 22. learned that the curling club people the game.

“We are curling in differwas available nearby. Like more online “We could stagger their ent rinks now and I think Williams, she became interVisit gwinnettdailypost.com start times so that we could it is a tremendous growth ested in curling during the for a photo gallery. run them through a mass path for the club,” Williams 2010 Winter Olympics. production sort of scenario spring league,” Hyde said. said. “I am tremendously “My older brother used like that,” Williams said.

“This is the first time we grateful to the current board to play ice hockey so he “They would come on and are doing a summer league. where they are keeping used to play here and we would teach them how This is our first league at things running and trying to Marietta and Alpharetta,” to hold a broom, how to get this location, so that is expand the club.”

Blair said. “We were on the into the right position and exciting, too.”

Williams still serves as Marietta website looking how to sweep. We were The league, previously an instructor for the club for something and we nopretty happy with that.” featured at Center Ice Arena as well as being full-time ticed that they had a league Along with the open in Sandy Springs, will computer system adminisbut they never offered leshouse and Learn to Curl return to that rink for the trator and programmer. sons that we saw. My mom events, the club offers fall league.

“I am always willing to saw this one did. We found membership rates and “We have some members let somebody else run the it and was like ‘No way, leagues to join. Memberwho are involved in figure organization,” Williams this is in Georgia.’” ships cost $100 but can be skating so they have good said. “That is not really my Blair brought along four discounted if a person signs relations with the rinks in strength. I love teaching. of her friends in an attempt up for a league as well. The the area,” Hyde said. “A lot One thing I love about the to learn how to curl. club also offers sole memof the rinks are interested in curling community is that “My brothers think I am berships if a person can’t curling because they don’t people are very enthusicrazy,” Blair said. “Let me join a league but wants to have it. (The IceForum) astic about the sport, they tell you, this is fun. This continue with the club. was very open to having us are very enthusiastic about is so weird but it is really “We usually do a fall and here.” teaching other people and awesome. I like the weird-

ness of it.”

Blair, along with her friends and several other people, learned the basics at a recent Learn to Curl event.

The first half is dedicated to the learning aspect while the second half incorporates a mock game for the curlers.

“The beginners learn to curl more slowly because they are having to think through all the mechanics of it,” Williams said. “The first time, it is all about learning and getting the mechanics down.”

The curling club has seen a broad range of participants eager to learn, from little children all the way to 80-year-olds.

“I think a lot of time, people in their 40s and 50s get nervous about it, but it’s not really a dangerous sport once you get out there and get used to it,” Williams said. “It’s not a high injury sport. It’s not high impact.

Curling is not an unsafe sport. You don’t really need to be extremely athletic.”

As it continues to grow and welcome newcomers, Williams and the board have big goals and dreams for their beloved club.

“I am really interested to see where this is going to go,” Williams said. “I am looking forward to the next time that we actually get to hold a tournament and invite our friends in from clubs around the country. I am really glad that a dedicated group of officers have taken over the club and are trying to push this thing as far as it can go.”

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The TSA stole my deodorant Lawrenceville man The good news: On my last trip through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airfort, I was designated “TSA precheck,” meaning I got to stand in a shorter security line and didn’t have to take off my shoes, for which the other travelers in my vicinity were profoundly grateful.

The bad news? After my luggage and I passed through the scanner, a TSA agent removed from my bag and confiscated a brand-new stick of gel underarm deodorant, which I had just bought for the trip. They did say I could keep my “personal hygiene item,” if I went back to the airline desk and checked my bag, to the tune of $25.00. But I could not leave it in my carry-on.

Why not? Because it was .2 ounces over the size limit specified by the TSA deodorant police. And everyone knows 3.6 ounces of aluminum zirconium octachlorohydrex can blow a 767 right out of the sky, whereas 3.4 ounces is completely harmless.

Considering that $25 will buy roughly

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I think it’s time to call TSA airport ‘security’ what it is: a failed experiment.”

seven deodorant sticks, I politely declined their offer.

OK, I wasn’t terribly polite.

Folks, I think it’s time to call TSA airport “security” what it is: a failed experiment. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s David Horsey, writing last summer in the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of libertarianism: “A report leaked out of the Transportation Security Administration reveals that … investigators from the

Department of Homeland Security managed to sneak weapons and fake bombs past airport screeners in 95 percent of their attempts … That means what many of us suspected all along has now been confirmed. All those expensive body and baggage scanning machines, all that intrusive rummaging through luggage, all those intimate pat-downs of little kids and grannies, all those nail clippers confiscated, all those bottles of liquids seized, all those shoes and belts taken off, all those laptops pulled out and all those thousands of frustrating hours wasted in line have been mostly for show.

“Millions of American citizens have been unwittingly turned into non-speaking extras in an epic theater production staged by our government in airports across the country. The goal has been to … create an illusion of safety for innocent air travelers. That charade has been exposed.”

Or how about this item, from The Hill in

2014: “The Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners failed to detect a number of potential weapons, including knives, guns and explosives.” But hey, at least they aren’t letting any oversized personal hygiene items get past them.

Ben Franklin once said that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Whether or not TSA airport security provides even a little safety is clearly debatable. But there’s no question it deprives us of liberty.

Heck, we can’t even choose what size deodorant stick to take with us on a trip. If that’s not essential, I don’t know what is.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and the author of “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo. com.

3rd in utility rodeo

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Locating utilities may sound easy, but what about doing it in “Hell?”

It may sound like an unusual place to search for utilities, but that was the theme of the 2016 International Utility Locate Rodeo’s “Locate from Hell” division contest in Arlington, Texas.

Lawrenceville Damage Prevention Specialist Jessie Ashley took home third place in the competition.

“It was an honor to represent both the city of Lawrenceville and the State of Georgia at the 2016 Locate Rodeo,” Ashley said in a statement. “I was thrilled and surprised to win third place in the ‘Locate from Hell’ event because I was competing against a total of 70 people, which included individuals from all divisions.”

The Georgia Utility Coordinating Council sent three people to the rodeo on scholarships this year. There were 81 people, representing 28 organizations from 17 states, competing in various contests at the rodeo.

In addition to placing third

Lawrenceville Damage Prevention Specialist Jessie Ashley shows off the spoils of winning third place in the 2016 International Utility Locate Rodeo’s “Locate from Hell” division contest in Arlington, Texas. (Special Photo)

in the “Locate From Hell” competition, Ashley placed fourth in the division in three separate gas utilities.

“Lawrenceville is very proud of the achievements of Jessie Ashley and our Damage Prevention Department,” City Manager Chuck Warbington said in a statement.

“This event was a wonderful opportunity to recognize utility staff worldwide for the skill, technique and dedication required to efficiently locate underground utilities.”

Wilkinson County bridge named in honor of North Gwinnett grad

By Keith Farner

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A North Gwinnett High School graduate who grew up in the Buford and Sugar Hill areas recently had a bridge named in his honor in Wilkinson County.

Steve Brack was killed responding to a call as a firefighter on Interstate 16

near Allentown on Oct. 11, 2004.

Brack’s vehicle hydroplaned in bad weather and killed him instantly, less than a quarter mile from his home in Allentown. The Ga. Highway 112 bridge was named for him in a ceremony. He died at the scene, leaving a young wife and two children, Mollie, 12, and Tyler, 7.

The Allentown city com-

mission passed a resolution requesting the state name the bridge in his honor.

Steve Brack Through the efforts of Rep. James (Bubber) Epps of Dry Branch and Senator David Lucas of Macon, this memorial was approved.

Brack was a member of the Allentown Volunteer Fire Department for three years. Allentown, about 30 miles south of Macon, has 166 residents. He had been elected to the Allentown City Council a few weeks before his death.

At Middle Georgia College in Cochran, Brack met his future wife, Jill Dykes of Cochran, before transferring to Georgia South-

ern College.

Later he joined Tapp Funeral Home in Buford, working part time while attending Gupton-Jones School of Mortuary Science in Atlanta, graduating at the head of his class. He then moved to Allentown, and joined Adams Funeral Home of Dublin. At the time of his death, he was employed by Townsend Brothers Funeral Home in Dublin.

He is buried in Cochran.

Brack’s name is listed in the Fallen Firefighter Memorial of Georgia in Forsyth and the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, in Emmitsburg, Md. His family is active in the national fallen firefighter organization and regularly attends meetings. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brack of Allentown. His father is a city councilman.

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