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Masino: Mall owners should be replaced

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Years of frustration for local officials over the direction Gwinnett Place Mall has taken came out to the forefront on Thursday when the county’s top economic development official said he wants the mall’s owners replaced.

Partnersince the ship Gwincompany nett Chief bought it Economic in 2013.

DevelMasino’s opment problem Officer with Nick MaMoonNick Masino Joe Allen sino said beam, Moonbeam however, Capital Investments has is that he said they have not continually offered promis- delivered on any of those es of big plans for the mall plans.

Gwinnett’s top economic development official is fed up and now wants to see someone else running the mall.

“When I talk to developers and investors about coming to Gwinnett, I intentionally try to strike up their interest in buying Gwinnett Place Mall because (Moonbeam) has done nothing with it,” Ma-

sino told the Daily Post.

Masino, who vented his frustrations with the mall earlier on Thursday at an economic development forum, is not alone in his frustrations with Moonbeam where the mall is concerned. Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District Executive Director Joe Allen agrees with Masino.

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“We are also very frustrated that they do seem to say ‘We’re going to be doing something,’ and then nothing ever occurs,” Allen said.

Allen, who was in the audience at the event where Masino called for Moonbeam to be replaced, said the Partnership Gwinnett

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Yancey to retire after this year FROM STAFF REPORTS

‘Kids love it’

Annabelle Craddock, center marches with the instructors during Thursday’s Vacation Bible School at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

Rainbow Village’s Chief Operating Officer announced on Thursday that she’ll retire at the end of this year after 24 years of service in that role.

“I have been blessed to serve Rainbow Village for the past 24 years,” COO Nancy Yancey said in a statement. “I could never have imagined what a miraculous journey God had in store for me and Rainbow Village during my time here.”

Nancy Yancey’s time with Yancey Rainbow Village began when she helped create the 501(c)3 in 1991. She became COO in 1993.

The idea of the village is to house homeless families and help them get back on their feet.

“Our vision is to become a national model for permanently breaking the cycles of homelessness, poverty and domestic violence,” Yancey said in a Daily Post article last year. “We believe the best way to bless more families in

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Summer church activity still popular in Gwinnett STEM school

named after Paul A. Duke

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN

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Josue Lopez fills his summers with vacation Bible school.

“I went to two,” the 6-yearold said Thursday. “The first one was far away from here and then this one.”

That’s not uncommon. Vacation Bible school programs tend to be a popular way for kids to pass the summers in Gwinnett County.

“The kids love it,” said Rev. Jennie Sankey, the associate pastor of Christian education at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth.

That’s because it’s fun.

Vacation Bible school at each church has a different theme each year, meant to let kids interact with the Bible — not to preach it at them.

Sankey was in charge of running PHPC’s vacation Bible school program this year, which meant she was also in charge of picking a theme. She chose “Superhero Central.”

“It’s all about finding your strength to be a hero for God,” Sankey said.

Each morning at Pleasant Hill, the kids are gathered into an assembly where they watch a skit featuring Captain Shield and his sidekick, Flame. On Thursday, the skit introduced the concept that “heroes have

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for their kids to enjoy during the summer.

“You get to learn about God,” Lopez said.

He was sitting on a bench at a picnic table outside the church. He had just been to the morning assembly. Now, he and the rest of his age group were participating in the recreation station, where they were playing a game that involved hiding a coin from the other team.

The name of a founder and visionary of Peachtree Corners will be on a new STEM high school in Norcross following approval Thursday by the Gwinnett County Board of Education.

The school, scheduled to open in August 2018, will be named after Paul A. Duke and located on 20 acres at 5850 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. The Norcross school — to be called Duke STEM High School — is one of two schools set to open in the next two years that will be theme-focused.

“I think it’s very fitting.

I knew Mr. Duke quite well,” Board member Louise Radloff said.

The Norcross and Meadowcreek theme high Paul A. Duke schools have been discussed in concert with one another by district officials for about two years. Each school would be progressive programs ninth grade through 12th grade and offer dual enrollment, internships and career coaching or mentoring.

District officials have said jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math are growing rapidly, some at a pace of 10 times those of other fields, and companies that operate in those fields are moving into the Norcross cluster.

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Shannon Hudson, right, reacts to the kids doing their science experiment during Thursday’s Vacation Bible School at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth.

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hope,” a precursor to teaching the students about the Beatitudes.

Each child was decked out in a brightly colored cape.

It’s the ideal theme for Lopez, who recently had a DChero-themed birthday party.

“I like them both — DC and Marvel heroes,” Lopez said, draped in his little yel-

low cape. “I’m a DC and Marvel hero.”

Lopez’s family isn’t a member of Pleasant Hill Presbyterian, but he’s free to play superhero at the church, anyway. Pleasant Hill’s Bible school is a free program open to the public.

That makes it popular in the community. Sankey said that about 36 of the 60 kids participating this year come from outside the church. Like the Lopez family, most just want something wholesome

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USG Chancellor outlines goals to Gwinnett Chamber

BY KEITH FARNER

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Steve Wrigley believes the system he oversees should make gaining and transferring knowledge a priority and that doesn’t necessarily mean earning a bachelor’s degree.

Wrigley, who became chancellor of the University System of Georgia in January, outlined some goals of the USG in a luncheon speech on Wednesday at the 1818 Club in Duluth before members of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

Wrigley said knowledge creation, transfer and innovation are things that drive the economy and have driven the economy since human beings organized into a society.

“That’s really something as a university system we’re fundamentally about,” he said.

Wrigley didn’t address the recently passed campus carry law in his speech, but he told the Daily Post after lunch that he’s tried to emphasize to campus leaders that it is the law and it must be implemented. The legislation, which takes effect July 1, was opposed by virtually every president and campus leader across the state.

Wrigley’s office has sent two pieces of guidance on

the law that allows guns on some areas of college campuses since it was passed this past spring.

“We’ve really focused on making sure whatever questions we get, we address and make sure people understand what the law says,” he said.

“Once something becomes law, it is our obligation to implement it and implement it as fairly and accurately as we can. I feel good about their attitude and willingness to do that.”

Some of the goals of the USG are to graduate more people with a degree, become more affordable and be more efficient. He said raising attainment levels is directly associated with economic growth.

The USG aims to play a part in stemming the tide in the U.S. slipping worldwide in the number of people with a bachelor’s degree. Wrigley said in 2000, for people ages 25 to 34, the U.S. was second in the world in percent of population with a bachelor’s. By 2012, the country was 12th, and projections for 2020 are that the U.S. would drop to 19th.

Yet since 2011, the USG has increased the number of graduates by 14 percent, he said.

Wrigley was asked about business owners finding skilled employees in the trades, such as plumbing and

Above left, University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley speaks at a luncheon Wednesday where he outlined some goals of the USG at the 1818 Club in Duluth before members of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

Above right, Wrigley, left, talks with Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason before a luncheon Wednesday where he outlined some goals of the USG. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

HVAC work, and balancing emphasis on higher education with high-paying jobs where a four-year degree is not necessary. In the question, the person cited a recent Boy Scouts of America survey that found that just three percent of respondents were interested in skilled trades.

In his speech, Wrigley said it’s a priority to obtain some education or training beyond high school. Wrigley said by 2025, 65 percent of jobs in the country would require some form of education beyond high school. In Georgia currently, Wrigley said 47 percent of the workforce of 25- to 64-year-olds fits that category.

“I, for one, don’t think that you have to have a bachelor’s degree or you even necessarily have to go to one

of our institutions to be successful,” said Wrigley, who earned an undergraduate degree from Georgia State University and a doctorate in history from Northwestern University. “I do think that some education beyond high school in this world we live in, I do think that’s essential.”

Wrigley said people ought to look at careers that suit them best, and in the case of trades, “they’re honorable, they’re important, they pay well and not everybody’s cut out for pursuing a college degree.”

Wrigley talked with a student at the luncheon who was pursuing a degree in finance and may go to law school at the University of Georgia.

“We need to honor that,

support that, because we need that,” he said. “But at the same time, if you decide ‘I want to be a welder,’ I think that’s equally valuable.

I try to, in my conversations, put neither down, and I think that’s a big part of it. In the last 50 years, we’ve sort of built up this notion that you absolutely have to go to college to not just be successful, but to be somebody. I think we have to be careful that we don’t get into that sort of dichotomy.”

In his job as chancellor, Wrigley oversees 28 public colleges and universities with an $8.4 billion annual budget, more than 48,000 faculty and staff and 320,000 students.

Before he was chancellor, Wrigley was executive vice chancellor of administration

for the USG since 2011. He previously served as senior vice president for external affairs, as well as vice president for government relations, at the University of Georgia. He also was chief of staff to former Governor Zell Miller.

Richard Tucker, a member of the Board of Regents, introduced Wrigley and called him a “great American and great Georgian” as someone he’s known for more than 30 years.

“Steve Wrigley is a good friend to many in this room,” Tucker said. “… He’s done a lot for this state already, and what he’s doing at the University System with his leadership and knowledge of all parts of what the system is and does is really phenomenal.”

Man busted with 48.5 kilos of meth Infinite Energy Center restructure leads to some personnel changes

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residence on Winters Chapel Road in Gwinnett County police the Norarrested a Lawrenceville cross area man with a vehicle full of Monday almost 107 pounds of meth between 1 Cirilo Tuesday. and 2 p.m., MontufarGoicochea Cirilo Montufar-Goicaccordochea, 44, had picked up ing to a the meth-filled vehicle warrant. He was reportedly from someone else at a transporting about 48.5 cailin.obrien @gwinnettdailypost.com

kilos of meth.

Montufar-Goicochea was booked into Gwinnett County jail on Tuesday at 1 p.m. and is being held without bond. He’s charged with trafficking in methamphetamine.

Montufar-Goicochea is scheduled to go before a Gwinnett County judge on June 22 at 1:30 p.m. for his preliminary hearing.

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The Infinite Energy Center this week announced several personnel changes in a wide-ranging restructuring of the management of the popular entertainment venue in unincorporated Duluth.

Effective immediately, the executive team is Dan Markham, executive director of sales, booking and event management; Robyn Ali, executive director of marketing and business development; Rhett Smathers, executive director of finance; Tim Vogt, executive director of Dan Markham operations; and Ron Jackson, executive director of guest services.

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Jackson will oversee this department, which covers all aspects of guest relations including security, Robyn ticket takers, ushers and Ali ticket office. Jackson has been in an executive role for six years.

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Markham’s job will be to manage all sales and booking efforts for the entire campus while supporting the event management team for the Forum Tim and Theater. Markham Vogt joined the sales team at the venue in 2007 and rose to the role of director of booking. Markham has 30 years of professional facility management experience.

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World Nigeria’s newest airline prepares for grand opening Nigeria’s aviation industry has suffered a prolonged spell of violent turbulence.

But despite the gloomy conditions, a new and ambitious airline is being cleared for takeoff.

JetWest could make its maiden voyage in December, and the team behind it is aiming high.

The venture’s founder is Dikko Nwachukwu, a serial entrepreneur with a background in aviation. His mission statement is simple.

“The guiding vision for JetWest is to make air travel accessible for more people,” Nwachukwu said. “We are about democratizing the skies.”

Just 15.2 million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 2016, according to official statistics.

Nwachukwu sees opportunity in the vast market unserved by existing airlines.

Nigeria has by far the largest population in Africa, and the entrepreneur draws inspiration from rapid progress in another technology field.

UK to carry out inspections on other towers Britain will inspect tower blocks across the country after a deadly blaze at a London apartment building raised fears of similar catastrophes in other high-rises.

The inspections could involve hundreds of buildings, as London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced that checks would be made on tower blocks undergoing refurbishment.

Residents and community representatives want to know how Wednesday’s blaze was able to climb all the way up the 24-story Grenfell Tower so rapidly, trapping residents inside. At least 17 people have been confirmed dead and that number is likely to rise, officials said.

world&nation Senate passes Russia sanctions bill

By Jeremy HerB

CNN

The Senate was nearly unanimous Thursday passing a bill that would slap Russia with new sanctions and give Congress the power to review any White House attempts to roll them back.

The Senate approved the bill 98-2, with Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont voting against the measure. The bill, which includes both Russian and Iranian sanctions, now heads to the House, which still needs to pass it before it goes to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The measure is widely seen as a rebuke to Trump, as it hits Russia with new sanctions to punish Moscow for its interference in U.S. elections, as well as over Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine and Syria.

The bill establishes a review process for Congress to have a say in whether the White House eases Russia sanctions. It also establishes new sanctions against those conducting cyberattacks on behalf of the Russian government as well as supplying arms to Syrian President Bashar Assad, and it allows for sanctions to hit Russia’s mining, metals, shipping and railways sectors.

“We moved to make the Congress, not the president,

President Donald Trump, above left, has not yet weighed in on a bill that would slap Russia with new sanctions and give Congress the power to review any White House attempts to roll them back. Russian leader Vladimir Putin, above right, appears on “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly” on NBC last Sunday. His country would be affected by a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. (Photos: CNN)

the final arbiter of sanctions relief when necessary,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said. “Any idea of the president that he can lift sanctions on his own for whatever reason are dashed by this legislation.”

The Russia sanctions measure was added as an amendment to an Iranian sanctions bill after a deal was struck between the heads of the Senate Foreign Relations and Banking Committees. The Russia amendment was added to the sanctions bill in a 97-2

vote Wednesday.

Despite the overwhelming vote, the Russia sanctions package was no sure thing. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker of Tennessee had initially been hesitant to take it up, as the administration had expressed a hope it could improve relations with Moscow.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this week that he was wary of Congress taking actions that could interfere with the administration’s efforts to improve relations with Russia.

“What I wouldn’t want to do is close the channels off,” Tillerson told a Senate committee.

Still, Corker and other Republicans said they expect Trump to sign the bill if it’s passed by the House.

“I called over myself yesterday and just shared some thoughts with them. But look, this bill is going to become law,” Corker told reporters on Wednesday. “I’ve had conversations with Tillerson more generally about our relationship with Russia, not about details (of the legislation).” on Wednesday evening, expressed optimism that Scalise would eventually recover.

“He’s going to be OK, we hope,” Trump said.

FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs was arrested Wednesday, nearly one year to the day that he first escaped from home confinement, according to the FBI Salt Lake City office. Jeffs is being held in Minnehaha County Jail in South Dakota. (Photo: CNN)

sian officials, leaving the criminal inquiry to special counsel Robert Mueller.

After meeting with Mueller in a classified session, the leaders of the Senate panel indicated that their inquiry would steer clear of obstruction of justice to focus instead on Russia meddling in the elections — and whether there was any Trump campaign collusion with officials tied to the Kremlin.

“Obstruction is criminal — there’s a criminal aspect to that,” committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, told CNN Thursday. “It’s never been part of our” investigation.

NatioN Polygamist sect leader Lyle Jeffs arrested in S.D.

Bishop Lyle Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was arrested Wednesday night in South Dakota after almost a year on the run, according to the FBI. Jeffs, 57, is being held in Minnehaha County Jail in South Dakota. The details of his capture were not imWHO: Risk of mediately available. polio spread Last July, Jeffs, the brother of notorious FLDS leader spikes in DRC after 2 outbreaks Warren Jeffs, escaped house arrest after using olive oil to Two separate outbreaks of slip a GPS tracking bracelet polio have been reported in off his ankle. At the time of remote parts of the Demohis escape, the FBI warned cratic Republic of Congo, the public that Lyle Jeffs was a setback for large-scale traveling with bodyguards efforts to eradicate the highly and was considered dangerinfectious and potentially ous. fatal disease.

Jeffs took over leadership There is a high risk of the of the polygamist Mormon disease spreading across the sect after his older brother country, though not beyond was arrested on child sex its borders, the World Health charges related to his underOrganization warned Tuesage wives. day in a statement.

According to the FBI’s Four cases have been wanted poster, Jeffs was on reported in children ages 17 home confinement while to 36 months in the provawaiting trial over his alinces of Haut Lomami and leged involvement in a food Maniema, both in the center stamp fraud case when he of the country. escaped.

All four children are He had been charged with paralyzed and are being conspiracy to commit benmonitored, the WHO said. efits fraud and conspiracy to Their families also are being commit money laundering. monitored and tested regularly to see if they become Hospital says infected.

One type of the virus was Warmbier has found in two cases and a ‘severe’ brain second identified in the other injury, is stable two cases, as well as in a Recently released North healthy contact who carried Korea detainee Otto Warmthe virus but showed no bier has suffered severe symptoms.

— From wire reports neurological damage, and

his family flatly rejects the regime’s explanation for his condition, reporters were told Thursday in his Ohio hometown.

Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student who returned Tuesday to the United States after 17 months in detention, is in stable condition at University of Cincinnati Medical Center but has a “severe neurological injury,” hospital spokeswoman Kelly Martin said.

Warmbier’s father left no doubt he blames North Korea, blasting the secretive regime in a 23-minute news conference at his son’s alma mater, Wyoming High School, north of Cincinnati.

Senate intel panel to steer clear of obstruction Q’s The Senate Intelligence Committee won’t probe whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice over the FBI’s investigation into his former associates and their contacts with Rus-

PeoPle Jurors in Cosby trial say they are deadlocked

Jurors in the Bill Cosby trial said Thursday they are deadlocked and cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of the three counts of aggravated indecent assault the comedian faces.

Judge Steven O’Neill asked the jury, which began deliberating Monday evening, to go back to deliberating in another attempt to reach consensus.

If they still cannot reach consensus, a hung jury will cause the judge to declare a mistrial.

The jury — which has deliberated for about 31 hours in all — is made up of four white women, six white men, one black woman and one black man. They were bused in from Allegheny County near Pittsburgh and have been sequestered in a hotel for the trial.

Jurors must decide if Cosby is guilty of three charges of aggravated indecent assault. Prosecutors say the famed comedian drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand, the director of operations for Temple University’s women’s basketball team, at his home near Philadelphia in January 2004. Cosby, 79, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

So far, jurors have asked six questions during their deliberations, largely to rehear testimony. Two questions asked to review parts of Cosby’s account to authorities, and two asked to rehear Constand’s account and testimony.

Yoko Ono getting ‘Imagine’ credit

U.S. Navy loses sailor on ship

“Imagine” Yoko Ono had inspired one of John LenA U.S. Navy sailor who non’s greatest songs. was thought to have gone It’s easy if you try. overboard seven days ago The National Music and was presumed dead has Publishers Association on been found alive aboard the Wednesday announced ship that reported him miss- that Lennon’s widow is to ing, the Navy announced receive a co-writing credit Thursday. on the 1971 song as part of Petty Officer Peter Mims, the organization’s Centena gas turbine systems techni- nial Song Award. cian on the USS Shiloah During the announceTiconderoga-class guided ment, a clip of an interview missile cruiser, vanished with Lennon from 1980 June 8 while the Shiloh was was played in which he said credit for “Imagine” President visited conducting routine operations 180 miles east of Oki- should be shared with Ono Scalise; says he’s nawa, Japan as part of the because he took the concept ‘in some trouble’ USS Ronald Reagan carrier and the lyric from her book “Grapefruit.” strike group.

President Donald Trump Ono, 84, was married Rescue teams from the suggested Thursday that to Lennon from 1969 until Navy, the Japan Maritime Rep. Steve Scalise is in he was shot and killed by Self-Defense Force and worse condition than many Japan’s Coast Guard scoured Mark David Chapman in initially realized.

5,500 miles of the Philippine 1980.

Speaking from the White Sea over a span of 50 hours House, Trump called the searching for Mims — ulti- Simmons tries to Louisiana congressman a mately suspending the ocean trademark love “greater fighter” but indisearch June 11.

Rock ’n’ roll fans for cated the situation remains Helicopters and fixedvery serious. wing aircraft from USS Shi- decades have used the sign language gesture for “I love “It’s been much more loh, USS McCampbell and difficult than people even USS Ronald Reagan, as well you” to symbol “rock on.”

But KISS frontman Gene thought at that time,” Trump as a P-8 Maritime Patrol said. “He’s in some trouble.” Aircraft, conducted airborne Simmons claims he used it first.

The Republican lawmaker searches while the Shiloh, The rocker has filed an was treated at a Washington McCampbell, Reagan, USS application to trademark the hospital Wednesday after a Barry and USS John S. hand gesture, in which the single rifle shot struck his McCain provided support, hip during a shooting attack according to a Navy release. index and pinky fingers are extended, the middle and at a GOP congressional The crew of the USS ring finger are tucked down baseball practice in suburban Shiloh continued to look toward the palm and the Virginia. His doctors indicat- for their missing shipmate thumb is extended. Simed Scalise suffered internal aboard the 567-foot long mons claims he first used wounds and fractured bones, vessel, which has a crew of the gesture commercially in and was due for additional more than 300, and found November of 1974 during surgery.

Mims on Tuesday — seven the KISS “Hotter Than Hell” Trump, who visited Scal- days after he was initially tour. ise at the MedStar Washreported missing.

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There’s been at least 1 mass shooting every month this year

By NaNcy colemaN aNd Sergio HerNaNdez CNN

There’s no one commonly accepted definition of a mass shooting. But whatever criteria you use, the conclusion’s the same: They are far too common.

If you go with the narrowest definition …

The government has never defined “mass shooting” as a stand-

Must read alone category. Let’s go with the most commonly accepted definition, from the Congressional Research Service: a shooting in which a gunman kills four or more people indiscriminately in a public place.

That definition rules out the Congressional baseball practice shooting or the incident at the

UPS facility this week because neither gunman killed four people. In last week’s Orlando shooting spree, the gunman killed five people — but that attack doesn’t count either because police say he targeted his victims.

Using that narrow definition, from Jan. 1 to June 14, we have seen eight deadly mass shootings. That’s an average of 1.3 mass shootings a month.

If you go with the raw numbers …

What if you didn’t rule out motive and just considered the casualty count? According to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, which compiles data from shooting incidents, a “mass shooting” is any incident where four or more people are wounded or killed (including the killer).

By that definition, from Jan. 1 to June 14, we have seen 154

mass shootings. That averages out to 6.7 mass shootings a week.

Whatever definition you consider, the instances are too depressingly frequent.

From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world’s mass shootings took place in the U.S. This is according to a study last year that used the Congressional Research Service definition of “mass shooting.”

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Ailment often leaves man lost Dear Dr. roaCH: We believe a young family member has symptoms of prosopagnosia, possibly with a genetic basis, as an older relative has had the same problem all of her life.

He has no sense of direction, and gets lost frequently while driving on what should be familiar roads, even using GPS. He can’t recognize landmarks, buildings or roads that should be familiar, as he has lived in the same small town from birth, but he has no problem recognizing faces. He can visualize his destination, but not the route to get there.

This causes him anxiety and embarrassment when he gets lost once again while driving to what should be a wellknown destination. An online search gave information mainly on face blindness, but only passing mention that agnosia of places exists.

He is an above-average student looking forward to university. He is in good health, has never suffered a head injury, is very active in sports and outdoor activities and has a good circle of friends. If he moves to a university residence in a larger city, he will be on his own. Are you aware of any support group he could contact that would suggest some coping strategies or give him further information about this unusual condition?

— M.L. aNSWer: Prosopagnosia (from Greek, literally “without knowledge of faces”) is a condition that people can be born with or can acquire, usually through damage to the brain (such as a stroke). It causes people to be unable to recognize faces. I’ve read about it but have not seen a case.

Your description of being unable to recognize places does sound similar in some ways to this condition, so I contacted a researcher, Dr. Jason Barton, at the University of British Columbia, who told me he thinks your family member may have a condition he and a colleague recently described, called developmental topographic disorientation.

Dear Dr. roaCH: I am an 82-year-old male who has had a constipation problem for many years.

I did find a solution to this problem by using 17 grams of polyethylene glycol every third day, along with a stool softener every morning and evening.

I also try my best to eat as much dietary fiber as possible, but I find it difficult to consume the recommended daily amounts. What fiber regimen would you suggest to help support healthy bowel activity?

— K.V.B. aNSWer: There are many high-fiber cereals, some that will give you an entire day’s worth with one serving. I recommend one with no added sugars.

Similarly, some of the products you mention are high in added sugar and sodium, but there are healthy options. (Note: I strongly recommend starting slow and gradually letting your system get used to more fiber. Otherwise, bloating, distention and gas are likely side effects.)

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Dear amy: I’m a married man in my 40s. I love my wife (we have no children by mutual agreement), and I know she loves me. I want to keep my marriage intact.

My problem is that my wife does nothing to make herself attractive to me. In fact, she chooses “looks” that have the exact opposite effect, from her clothes to her hair to her eyeglasses. She is pretty but seems to want to deliberately conceal this.

She stopped exercising the instant we got engaged and does nothing to keep herself in shape. (She admitted the only reason she started working out was to get a boyfriend.) As a result, I’m not attracted to her anymore. I hate saying that, but it’s true.

I’ve tried communicating. I’ve complimented her massively when she dresses becomingly. I’ve asked her time and again to come to the gym with me. I’ve never been mean about it. Still, she does nothing.

All of this is compounded by the fact that she tells me every day how attractive she finds me. I do go to the gym regularly. I do it for myself, but I also do this to please her.

I work in sales and have been flirting with a divorced woman. We have admitted our mutual attraction. She’s 15 years older than my wife but looks 15 years younger.

defense of any of them.

The media is notorious for this label. Please, help educate your readers: he/ she was adopted, not he/ she is adopted.

— Proud Parent Dear ProuD: Thank you so much for this help in referencing people who were adopted. Adoption does not define a child’s experience or place in the family, and it should not be the primary descriptor when referring to people.

People like me — in a family raising children of different races — often hear people attempt to characterize our children as “real,” “step” and “adopted.” This is particularly maddening. All of our children are real.

Dear amy: The letter from “Frustrated!” really rang my bell. After years of trying to get my husband to “help” me with housework, I finally went on strike. He figured it out on his own, and now we help each other.

— No Longer Frustrated Dear No LoNger: Great result.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Amy Dickinson, c/o Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

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Married man tempted to stray Ask Amy

Amy Dickinson In a nutshell, she says she’d be happy to be an occasional “friend with benefits.”

I WANT this arrangement. Once a month would keep me happy; she said that would be her “ideal schedule,” too.

We haven’t done anything physical yet. So where do I go from here? Do I ask my wife for a “free pass?”

(She’d be crushed.) Do I try to talk with my wife yet again about why our sex life has gone so drastically downhill?

Any advice would be much appreciated, even if you need to remind me about my marriage vows. I appreciate your forthrightness, even if you are going to tell me off.

— Fit and Flirting Dear Fit: You know what your marriage vows are. In short, this is what your vows are about — promising fidelity in your marriage, even when the spark is gone and you are surrounded by temptation.

You can assume that if you and your wife broke up, she might get a

makeover and head to the gym, because she seems to understand the connection between outward appearance and sexual attraction — at least for you.

This is an issue to discuss in marriage counseling. You should tell your wife that your marriage is on the line and ask if she would be willing to try harder to be more sexually attractive to you (she might not be).

But if you are going to ask her to change, then what changes are you willing to make? Unless your wife agrees to this “friends with benefits” arrangement, one nonnegotiable would be for you to cease contact with this other person and to stop blaming your wife for your own choice to stray.

Dear amy: My wife and I chose to adopt children (seven in all).

I have a pet peeve — the usage of the word “adopted.”

I wish people would stop using it as an adjective to describe a person.

It is the past tense of the verb “to adopt.”

Once the signatures and seal are on the adoption decree(s), the child(ren) are now our children, not our adopted children.

They share the same legal and moral rights and privileges as our “biological” children (we have five), or more since some are still minors.

I would give my life in

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Take a closer look at the way you spend your time and what you value the most. Professional problems stemming from poor information can be costly this year. Do your best to maintain your reputation and to counter any ill effects caused by deceptive or manipulative dealings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Be careful how you handle others, or you will end up being the one who looks bad. An innovative plan will help you move past a multitude of misgivings.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Take care of odds and ends that you’ve left undone. You’ll feel better heading into the weekend if you have less on your mind. Plan a romantic adventure or a family event.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Hold off getting involved in financial schemes or fundraisers.

Listen carefully and look at the fine print before you make a commitment. Keep a close eye on your money.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Stick to the truth and question anyone making suggestions or offers that don’t seem accurate. A creative approach to how you look and present your skills will attract attention.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You won’t be given all the facts about a course, position or the effects that will ensue should you make a decision based on trust alone. Ulterior motives are apparent.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Mixing business with pleasure will help you get a better picture of the direction you should take. Market your skills to suit current economic trends in order to get ahead.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You must be honest with yourself if you want to avoid making a mistake. Listen attentively and only make changes that are carefully considered and based on facts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Spend more time with the ones you love. Exploring options that will improve your lifestyle or surroundings will pay off.

Romance will enhance your personal life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Easy does it. When dealing with family, youngsters and older people in your life, you are best off choosing your words wisely and listening carefully. Misunderstandings are likely.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Show compassion when dealing with people who share common interests with you. A romantic gesture will improve your personal life and bring you closer to the one you love.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You are best off not sharing personal information. Someone will be eager to take advantage of you or make you look bad. Don’t get involved in gossip or disclose secrets.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Let your imagination take you on a journey. To follow a dream, you must be able to envision what it is you want to achieve.

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Feeling the heat under investigation WASHINGTON — President Trump now finds himself exactly where he doesn’t want to be: under investigation by a dogged, highly respected prosecutor who owes him no personal or political loyalty. And the president has only himself to blame.

Trump let off some steam Thursday morning by issuing a couple of angry statements on Twitter: “They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice.”

And then: “You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history — led by some very bad and conflicted people!”

Someone please take away his phone.

Not for the first time, Trump gives a false impression of what’s Eugene really going on. He preRobinson tends there has already been a finding that there was no collusion between anyone involved in his presidential campaign and the Russian attempt to meddle in our election. No such conclusion has been reached.

To the contrary: Thanks to The Washington Post, we now know that collusion is only one of three subject areas that the FBI investigation, now led by special counsel Robert Mueller, is exploring.

Another is, indeed, the possibility that Trump may have obstructed justice in his repeated efforts to quash the investigation. How could any prosecutor fail to pursue this line of inquiry? Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, sent out spokespeople and surrogates with a far-fetched cover story to explain the dismissal, and then told NBC’s Lester Holt that the real reason for the firing was Comey’s pursuit of the Russia investigation. Trump also bragged to visiting Russian diplomats that getting rid of Comey relieved him of “great pressure because of Russia.”

Those very public actions and statements alone cry out for investigation. But Comey has testified under oath that in a private meeting, Trump raised the investigation of fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — part of the larger Russia probe — and said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Comey said he took this “hope,” coming from the president of the United States, as a direction.

Trump also reportedly asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo to intercede with Comey on the Flynn case, then later asked Coats and National Security Agency chief Mike Rogers to state publicly that Trump was not personally under investigation. Apparently, none of the officials complied with these requests.

In sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, Coats and Rogers declined to speak about their conversations with the president — though it is doubtful they had any legal right to keep mum. According to the Post, Mueller plans to interview both officials soon, and also plans to question Richard Ledgett, who until recently held the No. 2 job at the NSA. To me, this looks, walks and quacks like a pattern. Perhaps it does to Mueller as well.

Finally, we know that Mueller’s investigators are also looking for “any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates,” as the Post phrased it. It goes without saying that discovering any money flows between Trump campaign officials or advisers and Russian government-linked individuals or institutions would be explosive.

That is why investigators want to know more about a meeting between Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and executives of Vnesheconombank, a Russian state-owned development bank now under U.S. sanctions.

Those are the prongs of the investigation — that we know of. Attention is focused on the question of obstruction simply because so much of Trump’s campaign to deep-six the investigation has been conducted openly, at full volume. I don’t know whether the FBI and Mueller’s crack team of prosecutors have any solid evidence of collusion or shady financial deals. If they find none, I’m certain Mueller will forthrightly report that fact — but only after completing a proper investigation, which takes time.

Other presidents have managed to compartmentalize investigations and go about the business of governing, but Trump seems consumed by the Mueller probe. His tweet about a “WITCH HUNT” conducted by “bad” people is just a Trumpian version of what appears to be the official White House line — that this is somehow a partisan attempt to delegitimize the Trump presidency.

But it is not. As Trump still struggles to acknowledge, the U.S. intelligence community is fully convinced that Russia carried out an attack on our democracy. We need to know what happened so that we can ensure it never happens again. Why would the president object to a thorough investigation — unless he had something to hide?

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

For Steve Oney, it’s ‘A Man’s World’ When the world changes, the wizened soothsayers would advise one to hop on board and carry on. But if you are long in the tooth, you might be wont to speak up, “Oh no, I like my coffee the way I have always drank it.”

Change is inevitable and resistance to change is also inevitable, which is why I belong to the minority which laments the downturn with magazine publishing. Sports Illustrated, for example, has been a companion for almost as long as it has been published. SI was great at covering events, insightfully illuminating a championship even a week later.

What set the magazine apart, however, were those long bonus pieces which flowed page upon page until you knew the subject and the writer as well — to the extent that you felt connected to the subject. Those pieces were so glamorously presented that you felt you climbed Mt. Everest with Edmund Hillary, you fished for a bonefish at Ted Williams’ elbow as he articulated the science of hitting, and you gloried in the narrative of Jesse Owens, whose performance at Berlin was a spiteful rebuke of Adolph Hitler’s Arian creed.

Reading and imagination are a powerful mental

Loran Smith exercise. If a writer can take you there, you have reached the ultimate thrill that reading brings about.

Steve Oney, who is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia’s Henry Grady School of Journalism, can take you there as well as any magazine writer ever could. He has written a book, the best of his magazine efforts from the past, “A Man’s World.”

As touted by Mercer University Press, Oney’s “stories bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), the controversial (Andrew Breitbart) and the unknown (Chris Leon, a 20-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war).”

Oney has put his best pieces into a book and you can enjoy a fireside connection with his works, “A Man’s World,” for a modest $26. Just two vodkas if you are taking respite at the bar at an upscale

restaurant. Vodka really won’t quench your thirst; Oney’s manuscript collection, for sure, will make you pine for more.

While Oney is not a mean-spirited writer, he, nonetheless, has a penchant for asking his subjects to submit to self-examination and wants to allow the reader to “know” his subjects.

Probing questions reveal illuminating thought.

Oney has done that well enough to win awards for his descriptive prose and insightful perusals.

Oney lives in Los Angeles, to be more specific, Hollywood Hills, with his decorator wife, Madeline Stuart, whose interior design and architectural portfolio make her as acclaimed and successful in her world as Oney is in his. While he is chasing down stories from down the street to Saskatchewan, she is happy to be embedded in her own environment where the final score has no impact on her life or imagination.

Oney is a good conversationalist, which I think is an interviewing plus and helps bring insight into his subjects. He enjoys reminiscing about his life and times, sharing with good friends the triumphs and few missteps along the way. He often harks back to a time on

campus when he plumb bobs for an emotion or thought which become an asset as a writer. Friends are worthy companions.

You never know when a conversation will lead to a story. Storytelling is fun whether it is for hire or relaxation. Oney takes unending pleasure in sojourns back home to Athens. He remains enamored with an afternoon between the hedges. He loves to hear the chapel bell ring.

Carrying him back to dear ole UGA means you may carry him back to the Varsity. He likes that too.

This is a man who has depth and his magazine pieces reflect his serious bent. A writer never stops dreaming and Oney wants more of himself.

Already he has had a bang with his highly regarded treatise on the murder of Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, “And the Dead Shall Rise.”

If you take respite in “A Man’s World,” you could double your pleasure — you could also spring for a copy of “And the Dead Shall Rise,” and let this versatile writer make your day.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

‘Campus carry’ should not include tailgates On May 24, the University System of Georgia issued guidelines for implementing House Bill 280, the so-called “campus carry” bill that was signed into law on May 4 by Governor Nathan Deal. Under the new gun law, for the first time ever Georgia weapons license holders will be allowed to carry concealed handguns into classrooms and other places on Georgia’s public college and university campuses.

Notwithstanding the new law, several wise and sensible gun-free zones will remain on campuses and are specified in HB 280. For example, handguns will continue to be prohibited in stadiums, arenas and other facilities used for athletic sporting events. Unfortunately, according to the USG guide-

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new law by keeping these “tailgating” areas gunfree in order to maximize public safety on Georgia college campuses on game days.

The new campus carry gun law is scheduled to take effect on July 1, and the first home football game tailgate parties for Jeff the University of GeorPloussard gia and Georgia Tech are Sept. 2 and 4. Now is the lines and in an apparent time to contact the powers oversight by lawmakers, that be to express your this prohibition doesn’t opinion and urge them to extend to the so-called work together to close the “tailgating” areas outside “tailgate party” loophole these athletic facilities. as soon as possible. Here College tailgate paris a list of the individuties typically revolve als and organizations that around the consumption have the most financial of alcoholic beverages. leverage and political Given the clear and well influence to expeditiously documented linkage close the “tailgate party” between alcohol and gun loophole: violence, lawmakers will The citizens of Georwant to quickly amend the gia have already spoken

loudly and clearly for common sense gun rights laws. In response to an open records requests, Governor Deal’s office recently revealed that nearly 15,000 Georgians contacted the governor to express their opposition to the “campus carry” legislation while only 150 called the governor in support of HB 280.

Closing the dangerous “tailgate party” loophole now will signal to thousands of citizens that their voices have been heard by our legislators and other stakeholders in Georgia’s system of higher education.

Jeff Ploussard is a Gwinnett County resident with two children attending public universities in Georgia. He is a volunteer with the The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus.

6A • FridAy, June 16, 2017

Gwinnett County Public Schools CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks said Duke was a great supporter of the school district.

Wilbanks said Duke setup a meeting in the mid-1980s with the leaders of Georgia Tech and GCPS about Georgia Tech assisting the school district with some selective courses.

Wilbanks said Duke was instrumental in recruiting teachers to Peachtree Elementary when it was built.

“He’s had his hands in a lot of things other than just the Technology Park,” Wilbanks said. “He has really done a lot of great things not just for the community and technology park but practical things that really have helped the school district. I never remember him asking for anything in return.”

Wilbanks later said Duke put, “that part of the county on the map.”

Duke’s name is on a Lifetime Achievement Award

Duke given to individuals who have generously give of their time, energy, and efforts to improve the quality of life in Peachtree Corners over numerous years. Duke, in the 1970s, created a 500acre office park near the current high school location with plans to attract engineering firms to the area so graduates of Georgia Tech wouldn’t leave Georgia for jobs in other states.

“The vision was decades ahead of its time,” said Steve Flynt, associate superintendent of GCPS. It is still a home for hightech companies, according to Peachtree Corners officials.

“Paul Duke’s idea to attract technology-driven businesses was a groundbreaking notion and has been one of the driving forces in the city’s economic development,” Mayor Mike Mason said in a statement last year.

Duke, who died in 2009 at 84, attended Druid Hills and Atlanta Boys High schools and earned dual bachelor’s

degrees from Georgia Tech in mechanical engineering and industrial engineering.

Duke was an All-American center under football coach Bobby Dodd and was a captain of his first team in 1945, according to Duke’s obituary. He also played a year of professional football in New York. He received Georgia Tech’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1982 and the President’s Award in 1987.

Duke’s obituary also said “He saw great promise in Gwinnett County and for three decades, he focused his very active professional life there.”

He was a past president of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, founding president of The Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia and past chairman of Teachers-as-Leaders in Gwinnett. In 1985, he was named Gwinnett’s Citizen of the Year. Duke was a former elder and lifelong member of North Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Duke was also a member of Georgia’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Duke was credited with organizing the southern division of the L.B. Foster Company and moved division headquarters to Gwinnett where he served as CEO, vice president and director until early 1968.

He formed Peachtree Corners Inc., the planned a community of the same name and played a pivotal role in organizing Technology Park/Atlanta.

Group criticizes sex education program Several people spoke to the School Board to criticize the school district’s sex education program and said it did not treat male and female students in a fair or equal manner, and it was not inclusive to the LGBTQ community.

The speakers, which included former students and parents, said they wanted to demonstrate against the school district’s abstinenceonly sex education cur-

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Joseph Bennett, Jr. Joseph Earl Bennett, Jr., age 49, of Dacula, GA passed away on June 10, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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James Campbell James Aubrey Campbell, age 86 of Auburn, passed away Tuesday, June 13, 2017.

June 17th from 1pm until the time of service at 2pm.

Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service LLC, “A Family Company” 120 Scenic Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 770-963-2411. .

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Roger Cooper Roger Wayne Cooper, age 65, of Braselton passed away Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

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Fleischer, sister and brother in law Deanna & Les Taborosi of Cleveland Ohio.

Online condolences may be left at www.billheadfuneralhome.com. Memorial donations may be made to The American Legion Chattahoochee Post 251, www.legion.org/donate or The American Legion, PO Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206 in Honor of Terrance Fleischer. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

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Gaynelle Cox Jean Cantrell Imogene “Jean” Carlon Cantrell, age 91, of Lawrenceville, GA went to be with the Lord, surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. She is survived by her children, Mike (Teresa) Cantrell and Mark (Lori) Cantrell; grandchildren, Torrey (Jonathan) Kichler, Calvin (Laurel) Cantrell, Samuel (Tracey) Cantrell, Carly Cantrell, Sara Cantrell and Lilly Cantrell; great grandchildren, Cole and Cory Kichler; sister, Margie Taylor; as well as many nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Grover and Ruby Goodson; husband, Joseph Doyle Cantrell; and brother, Terrell Goodson. Jean was born in Griffin, GA on September 17, 1925 and married Joseph Doyle Cantrell. The majority of her life Jean resided in the Brookhaven area. She faithfully served at Brookhaven Baptist Church and was dedicated to raising her sons. Family meant everything to Jean, especially the time that she was able to spend with her grandchildren. Most recently she developed close friendships at Garden Plaza, where she enjoyed playing Bridge. She deepened her love for the Lord through her involvement with the “Joy Sunday School Class” at Hebron Baptist Church. A Funeral Service Honoring the Life of Jean will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 2PM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Ken Fletcher officiating. Interment will follow at North Atlanta Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Saturday,

Gaynelle Cox, age 88, of Buford, GA passed away on June 15, 2017.

Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Terrance Fleischer Terrance Joseph Fleischer, age 72, passed away Friday morning June 9, 2017.

A memorial service will be held Sunday June 18, 2017 at 5:00 pm at the Bill Head Funeral Home, Duluth Ga. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the memorial service. Following the memorial service, a gathering to honor and celebrate Terry’s life and military service will be hosted by the American Legion Chattahoochee Post 251 located 2760 GA-120, Duluth, Ga. Terry was retired and enjoyed spending time with family, traveling, golfing, and football and was an active member of the American Legion Chattahoochee Post 251. He will be missed by many.

Survived by his beloved wife of 48 years, Veronica Fleischer of Lawrenceville, daughter and son in law Stephanie and Xavier Uzomah, daughter and son in law Melissa and Devin Delozier, son Joseph Fleischer, grandchildren Bryan Andrews, CJ Uzomah, Josh Andrews, Darryl Andrews, Glenn Andrews and Kaylie

Church in Lawrenceville, Interment will follow at Honey Creek Woodlands in Conyers. In lieu of flowers, we invite anyone who would like to make a contribution in Stephen’s name to Viewpoint Health: Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia (CFNEG) 6500 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 220 Duluth, GA 30097 770-339-5018

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Stephen Herndon Stephen Ernest Herndon, age 35, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Stephen was born in Hudson, WI to Jack and Kathleen Herndon on January 30, 1982. He was the beloved middle child of three boys, and his childhood and the majority of his adulthood was spent in Lawrenceville, GA. He graduated from Central Gwinnett High School and went on to earn an Associate’s Degree from Gwinnett Perimeter College.

He dedicated most of his career to website design.

People who knew Stephen appreciated his unique sense of humor and ability to recall the smallest of life’s funny details years after they occurred. One of his greatest joys was spending time with and caring for family pets, especially his cats, Scratchy and Smokey, and his childhood dog, Irish. Stephen was very introverted, but people who connected with him enjoyed his humor and stories. He struggled with mental illness and addiction most of his life, and at the time of his death was being treated

by Viewpoint of Lawrenceville, GA. Stephen made a lot of progress in his treatment, and he was beginning to open back up to his family and friends in his final days. He was last in vocational rehabilitation with Goodwill; his peers and supervisors enjoyed his work ethic and said he was a joy to work with. He is survived by his parents Kathleen (Kathy) and Jack Herndon of Lawrenceville, GA; brothers Charles (Chuck) and William (Will) Herndon of Roswell, GA; grandmother Marilyn Herndon of Gulf Breeze, FL; and grandmother Marian Radecki of Footville, WI. A service will be held on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 10:30 am at St. Marguerite d’Youville Catholic C

“Choosing the Best” is an abstinence-centered curriculum not an abstinence-only curriculum, and GCPS operates in compliance with state law and mandated guidelines to offer an abstinence-based curriculum to students.

The IMPACT Abstinence Program, which is an outreach program of the Pregnancy Resource Center of Gwinnett, is used in six schools as an instructional resource which provides trained speakers who teach the approved curricula. Its use is not mandated.

Radloff said some of the things said at the meeting were a surprise to her.

Board member Dr. Robert McClure, like all other members of the Board, thanked the speakers for coming to the meeting and said they “Helped us see some blind spots in our sex ed curriculum. … I still believe the curriculum is solid, but if that’s a blind spot we need to address, I certainly believe we’re capable of doing that.”

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riculum in favor of a more effective comprehensive sex education program.

Multiple speakers discussed personal experiences about the harmful effects of the current program and how it played a role in their lives as sexual assault survivors.

The effort was led by Tamara Ashley and Jamie Steinberg Winfree, two mothers of current and former GCPS students.

Ashley said her daughter is taking summer health classes, and Ashley came to the school board after her daughter was in a class that compared having sex with someone who is not a virgin to a piece of used candy.

Other references included a used piece of gum and used packing tape.

Winfree said the program is scientifically unfounded.

A district statement said since schools began using the IMPACT Abstinence Program in 2002, the district has received just four complaints.

The district statement said

Wayne Lawrence, age 66, of Toccoa, GA passed away on June 13, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Yvonne Moore Yvonne I. Moore, 67, of Pendergrass, GA died June 13, 2017. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

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James Sexton, Jr. James Daniel Sexton, Jr. known as Dan or Danny was a native of Gainesville. Dan, 74, of Hoschton, formerly of Buford, passed away due to an extended illness. He was born March 17, 1943 to the late J.D. Sexton and Annie Ruth Forrester Sexton of Gainesville.

Mr. Sexton is preceded in death by his father, James Sexton, Sr. and mother Annie Ruth Sexton; grandson, Travis Sexton; twin granddaughters, Juliana and Jillissa Sexton; several uncles, aunts, grandfather, Ira Forrester of Clermont.

Mr. Sexton is survived by his wife of 54 years in August, Linda Thompson Sexton; son and wife, Chad and Ruth Sexton of Lula; daughter Dana Gregory and significant other Walt Britt of Buford; daughter, Olivia Jill Sexton of Hoschton; granddaughter, Chelsea Gregory and husband, Tripp Norton of Chicago, IL; granddaughter, Penelope Sexton of Hoschton his baby that gave him the will

to live; granddaughter by marriage Tammy and Blake Farr of Gainesville; grandson by marriage Michael Seabolt of Lula; sister and husband, Patsy and Dennis Locklear of Dalton; brother and wife, Thomas and Jane Sexton of TN; brother and wife, Johnny and Terri Sexton of Gainesville; aunt, Braganza Pitchford of Gainesville; aunt, Polly Bower and husband Warren of Cumming; aunt, Barbara Forrester of Flowery Branch; sister in law and husband, Sheila and Billy Patterson of Gainesville; brother in law, Jimmy Thompson of Gainesville; brother in law, Johnny Thompson of S.C.; several nieces, nephews and cousin.

Mr. Sexton worked for Commercial Credit for 30 plus years, known as Citi Financial Today. He was a 1961 graduate of East Hall High School and a member of Blackshear Place Baptist Church.

He enjoyed golf, fishing, deer hunting, working in his yard and reading, especially reading his Bible.

He dearly loved our fur baby Bella Grace.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, 2017 in the chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home. The Rev. Rick Harmann will officiate. His nephew, Matt Delong will be speaking.

Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday, June 16, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

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

Send online condolences to www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com BUFORD

Herbert Terwilliger, III

Georgia passed away on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, peacefully in his home following complications due to Myelofibrosis. In just one week in June of 1971, he married Dale Cowart, graduated from Georgia Tech, and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

After leaving the service in 1974, Herb began his career in insurance with Allstate. He received his Masters’ of Insurance from Georgia State University in 1981. In 2016, he retired from J. Smith Lanier.

Herb’s leisure time was filled with golf, time at his mountain home, and travel with special friends and family.

Herb was preceded in death by his father, Herbert Arthur Terwilliger, Jr., and his mother, Naomi Rollins Terwilliger. He is survived by his wife, Dale Cowart Terwilliger; son, Bud Terwilliger and wife, Mimi; daughter, Leigh Terwilliger Walker and husband, Clint; and one precious granddaughter Ada Terwilliger, and other close family and friends.

Visitation will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 17, 2017, in the Chapel of John’s Creek Baptist Church, 6910 McGinnis Ferry Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30005. Mr. Terwillinger will be placed in the church to lie in state at 11:00 a.m. The service will be held at noon with Pastor Michael McCullar and Dr. Truett Gannon officiating, and Military Honors at the church.

There will be a reception at the church following the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either: Smoke Rise Baptist Church, Stone Mountain, Georgia or John’s Creek Baptist Church in memory of Herb Terwilliger.

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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BY STEVE ALMASY the two apparently stole a Promises made, with 31 other prisoners CNN car, which they drove to a but not kept?

Tuesday morning when the house in Bedford County.

One reason for all of the two somehow got out of Two Georgia inmates They robbed an elderly frustration is that the mall what should have been a suspected of killing two couple there and stole is the namesake for what locked, gated rear section corrections officers in an another vehicle. officials in the county see of the bus, police said. escape from a prisoner Law enforcement ofas Gwinnett’s central busiThe men entered the transport bus this week ficers saw that stolen ness district. driver’s compartment, have been captured, the vehicle, and a chase ensued overpowered and disarmed “Whenever I go speak Georgia Bureau of Investi- on Interstate 24 until the Officers Christopher Mon- somewhere, one of the first gation tweeted Thursday. escapees crashed and ran ica and Curtis Billue while questions I usually get is, Donnie Russell Rowe, from the wreck. the bus was on State Route ‘What is going on with the 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, Shots were fired, Sills mall?’” Allen said.

16 between Eatonton and were taken into custody said. He didn’t know who Although the mall is not Sparta, police said. after a car chase in Tennes- was shooting, but he said the only major component At least one of the essee, Georgia Gov. Nathan no one was wounded. to the Gwinnett Place area’s capees shot and killed the Deal tweeted.

Dubose and Rowe ran viability, it is a key piece of officers, authorities said.

The pair were captured from the vehicle to the the puzzle, Allen said.

Monica, 42, a sergeant, in Rutherford County, woods. They gave up about worked for the department “What occurs — or about 250 miles from 15 minutes later, Sills said for almost eight years doesn’t occur — at the mall Madison, Ga., where they at his office in Georgia. is very important,” he said. and leaves a wife. Billue, allegedly stole a pickup “I’m happy. I’m elated, Allen and Masino 58, a 10-year employee, truck. but I’m still tremendously is survived by his father, pointed to an event held at Putnam County Sheriff sad about these (deceased) brother and sister, Georgia the Sonesta Hotel in April Howard Sills said the truck officers,” he told reporters. Department of Correc2014 to discuss the mall’s was ditched in Moore Rowe and Dubose were tions Commissioner Greg future as one example of County in Tennessee, and on a state corrections bus what they said were MoonDozier said. beam’s broken promises. At the event, Moonbeam CEO Steve Maksin said deals were being finalized to fill space and possibly bring in national retailers among other unspecified plans for

students can also volunteer. Many of them are “It’s the Minion game,” kids who aged out of the Lopez said. “You have program after fifth grade to take the Minion out of and just want to come someone’s hand.” back for more.

Elsewhere around the Rising seventh-grader church, kids ranging in Annaliese Lindskoog is age from 2 to 11 were one of those volunteers. busy singing songs, eating She attended Pleasant snacks, constructing crafts, Hill’s vacation Bible listening to stories and school program every year learning about the Beatisince she was younger. She tudes. About 50 volunteers said she likes watching the help make sure everything little kids enjoy the same runs smoothly. sort of things she enjoyed Some of those volunjust a few years ago. teers are adults like Claire On Thursday, LindsKeyser who want to give koog was helping at the back to the church. recreation station, a part “I love seeing the joy on of the program she said their little faces,” she said. she enjoyed the most when But middle school she was younger. She students and high school especially loved the water

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“You would toss it and you would take one step back every time your partner catches it,” Lindskoog said. “But by the time you took like two steps back, it would already pop.”

She said, looking back, she understands why vacation Bible schools are so popular in Gwinnett.

“It’s really fun,” she said. “You get to meet new people and do a bunch of different activities.”

For Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, the activities culminate on Friday. But Lopez isn’t done with his summer full of Bible school just yet.

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Still, several storefronts inside the mall remain empty.

Allen said a look at the mall’s parking lot seems to reflect the lack of stores.

“You see weeds growing high,” Allen said. “There’s actually more cars parked there in spaces being rented by various dealerships than you see see people, paying customers, parking there.”

Maksin initially told the Daily Post he and other Moonbeam officials would call the paper after they got out of a meeting at 5:30 p.m. to discuss their work at the mall. A company spokeswoman then sent an email at about 5:35 p.m., saying they were still tied up in meetings and would send a response on Friday.

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When those plans were announced, it gave local officials hope that a turnaround for the mall, which had been stuck in foreclosure before Moonbeam bought it, was about to happen.

“Up until April, we got, ‘We’re working on plans, we’re doing things,’” Allen said. “They actually showed me not too long ago, maybe earlier this year, that they had a war room on redevelopment, and they’ve actually hired consultants — consultants that we’ve worked with ….

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Since then, a mobile theme park meant to draw customers back the mall lasted only a few weeks before it abruptly closed in the summer of 2014, and the mall has taken major hits to its retail mix, such as the loss of J.C. Penney in early 2015.

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SANDY SPRINGS — The Georgia Swarm hosted the first of a handful of events to celebrate their first NLL Champion’s Cup on Thursday at Taco Mac in Sandy Springs.

Forwards Shayne Jackson, Randy Staats and Miles Thompson and defender Ethan O’Connor were all on hand to

take photos with fans and the cup.

All four couldn’t stop smiling, and not just because of the championship — but because they also got to shave their playoff beards. “I had the worst one,” Jackson said.

Even five days later, the emotions of a 15-14 overtime victory at Saskatchewan in Game 2

Final day of MLB Draft busy one for area players

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@gwinnettdailypost.com Georgia Swarm forward Miles Thompson (2) is hugged by teammates after scoring the game-winning goal against the Saskatchewan Rush in Game 2 of the NLL Champion’s Cup. (Photo By Calvin So/GetMyPhoto.ca)

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While Gwinnett was shut out during the first two days of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the final day of selections made up for it.

With 10 different players with county ties being selected before the draft ended early Wednesday evening, this year’s draft class actually exceeded last year’s in sheer numbers despite MORE the slow start during the INSIDE first 10 rounds.

Year-by-year And the activity draft results started early in Wednesfor Gwinnett day’s selection, with players, 4B Greater Atlanta Christian grad and Kentucky pitcher Justin Lewis, and Norcross grad and Georgia Tech third baseman Trevor Craport both being selected in the 11th round, with Lewis going to the Tampa Bay Rays and Craport being selected by the Baltimore Orioles.

The call from the Orioles was a bit of a surprise for Craport, and not just because he had expected to be selected sometime during Tuesday’s earlier rounds.

“The whole draft thing is very new to me, so I didn’t really know what to expect,” said the 5-foot-11, 197-pound junior, who hit .338 with five home runs, See DRAFT, Page 4B

Archer senior Hannah Mahaffey is headed to MIT to swim for the Engineers in the fall. (Photos courtesy of Hannah Mahaffey)

Mahaffey’s dedication in pool, classroom earn her spot at one of country’s most prestigious universities

By Christine Troyke

The announcement for admissions to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came out at Tau time, 6:28 p.m., on a mid-December day. Which was two minutes before Hannah Mahaffey’s practice at Summit Chase’s pool was scheduled to end.

The Archer STAR student ducked out a little early to check.

“When I came out of the locker room, all my friends were waiting,” Mahaffey said.

“They all hugged me, screaming. I was crying. It was such a great day.”

Mahaffey was among the select few, the very few, to get into the Cambridge. Mass., institution. Of more than 19,000 applicants, only eight percent earn admission. Only

a handful of other colleges have tougher standards for acceptance.

“I always wanted to have both, academics and athlet-

By Collin Huguley Staff Correspondent

tending an elite university.

“I think she saw something in me that I didn’t,” Mahaffey said.

The other, more predictably, was her junior-year physics teacher, Kristen Carter.

“I didn’t know I wanted to go to MIT until this past year,” Mahaffey said. “I kind of thought I wanted to go to some liberal arts school. I didn’t even know I wanted to do math and science until I had physics. I had a great physics teacher, Kristen Carter. She’s amazing. That’s when I started to realize maybe that was my path. I started looking at places like Georgia Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins.”

Mahaffey went on a road

On June 9, 2016, Kyle Lewis’ dreams of becoming a professional baseball player became a reality.

Lewis, a Shiloh graduate, was selected by the Seattle Mariners with the 11th pick of the 2016 MLB Draft after as decorated a season as one could have as a collegiate player.

The 6-foot-4 outfielder was fresh off of a junior season at Mercer that included him hitting .395 with 20 home runs Kyle and 72 RBIs, en route Lewis to being named the Baseball America College Player of the Year and recipient of the Golden Spikes Award as collegiate baseball’s most outstanding player.

But less than two months after being drafted, Lewis’ trajectory hit a snag.

In July, Lewis suffered a torn ACL in his right knee while playing for the Everett Aquasox, a minor league affiliate of the Mariners, and was set to undergo surgery for the first time in his career.

“I was trying to score,” Lewis said.

“We had a base hit to right field and I

See MAHAFFEY, Page 4B

See LEWIS, Page 4B

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ics,” Mahaffey said. “I always wanted to swim in college, but I honestly didn’t even think MIT was even possible until I started talking to the coach, who seemed to think I had a really good shot at getting in.

“It was all kind of just a dream until I went on my recruiting trip back in October. I stayed with the team and went to classes for three days.

That’s when I knew, ‘This is where I want to be. Definitely.’ The day I got in? Easily the best day of my life.”

Two teachers played a significant role in Mahaffey’s route.

The first was Joni Jameson, her language arts teacher for all four years at Archer.

Jameson planted the seeds of possibility when it came to at-

Shiloh grad Lewis ready to return after injury

Top 17 clashes for 2017 Hammock new sports director The hot summer months still bring high school football competitions in Gwinnett County, home to high-level MORE talent and a INSIDE year-round Gwinnett dedicaCounty football tion to the schedules for sport.

2017, 5B Daily Post staffers will make the rounds to practices and 7-on-7 tournaments the next couple of months, giving readers summer updates and a taste of what’s to come in August when

Will Hammock the regular season begins.

As fun as summer tournaments are, the meaningful games ahead are really what we’re all waiting for.

I took a way-too-early

look at those games this week, sorting through Gwinnett’s 2017 schedules and picking the 17 games that interest me the most. Here’s what I came up with (in chronological order): • Parkview at Peachtree Ridge, Aug. 18 The two teams have played back-to-back games in a showcase with Tennessee teams in recent years, but this year’s head-to-head matchup See HAMMOCK, Page 5B

for SCNI’s metro area papers From Staff Reports

Herald and Clayton News Daily. In that role, he will Will Hammock, sports be responsible for overseeeditor of the Gwinnett ing the print and digital Daily Post, has been procontent of the papers. moted to the newly created “Will is well respected position of Sports Director throughout our region and is of Southern Community a perennial award-winning Newspaper Inc.’s suburban journalist,” said Michael Atlanta papers.

J. Gebhart, Executive Vice In addition to his duties President of SCNI. “I am at the Daily Post, Hamconfident he will improve mock will now lead the the print and digital products sports departments of the in all of our newspapers. I’m Rockdale and Newton Citi- delighted that our readers zens as well as the Henry will be the beneficiaries.”

A Gwinnett native, Hammock marked his 20th anniversary with the Daily Post earlier this year.

“I’m looking forward to working with our staff in Clayton, Henry, Newton and Rockdale counties,” Hammock said. “My goal is to use the model that has worked so well at the Gwinnett Daily Post and expand it to our other SCNI publications and websites, giving readers even more thorough coverage in those markets.”

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Falcons’ Freeman focused on football, not contract

By Collin Huguley Staff Correspondent

Devonta Freeman has emerged as one of the NFL’s top-tier running backs during his three seasons in Atlanta.

At age 25, Freeman has reached the last two Pro Bowls and rushed for over 1,000 yards and 11 touchdowns in each of those two seasons. A fourth-round pick out of Florida State in the 2014 NFL Draft, Freeman has been a bargain for the Falcons in his first three years in the league.

But that will not be the case for much longer.

The 2017 season will be the final one on Freeman’s rookie contract and he is in line for a lucrative contract extension that could make him one of the highest-paid backs in the league. Talk of his extension has been going on for several months,

Falcons running back Devonta Freeman (24) gets taken down by Patriots’ Dont’a Hightower during the second half of Super Bowl LI in Houston. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

and the sides have been unable to come to a deal just yet.

Despite the uncertainty surrounding those negotiations, Freeman is zeroed in on his own duties: being the Falcons’ No. 1 running back.

“My main thing is, I’ve

got people in position to handle everything (contract-related), so I just try to stay focused on football,” Freeman said.

But Freeman did give, perhaps, a sneak peek into the current state of his contract talks with the team, although he did not say that

anything was imminent.

“Things are looking good, though,” Freeman said. “It’s just a timing thing. (I just have to) be patient with the process. Like I told (the Falcons), I’m not in a rush.”

As for his play on the field, Freeman’s growth, not just this season but over the past three seasons, has allowed him to be more detailed with his preparation and fine tune aspects of his game that he is particularly strong in.

And his experience is something that his head coach trusts in determining the situations in which Freeman can best succeed.

“His development as a player, his confidence and his role…he wants to articulate some of the things that he can do really well,” Falcons head coach Dan Quinn said. “He has real confidence and belief

in that like, ‘I know if I get this route, I’m gonna nail it.’ You can’t really say that until you’ve done it a few times. Now that he has that experience, he is able to share that.”

Freeman is feeling especially confident heading into his fourth season with the Falcons.

Even though the offseason is still young and training camp is several weeks away, he has already hit it off with new offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who he says is making a real effort to buy into the team’s culture.

“It’s been phenomenal,” Freeman said. “He is definitely a player’s coach… he just makes you feel comfortable. If you’ve got a question, just ask him.

No question is a dumb question. If you raise your hand in the team meeting or offensive meeting, he’ll

go over it as many times as you need.”

Fresh off of a Super Bowl appearance last season, the Falcons are expected to remain in the hunt among contenders in the NFC this year.

Through Freeman’s eyes, the Falcons’ offense and the team as a whole is only headed upward after having the most electrifying offense in the NFL last season. And his contract is not going to affect how he, or his team, develops further.

“I definitely think (the offense) can be better,” Freeman said. “All of us, we can go to another level.

This whole team as a whole group though, I think we have that bond and that chemistry. We understand how to work and how to get better. So I feel like we are definitely gonna be on that next level.”

Rickie Fowler holds first-round U.S. Open lead at Erin Hills

By Jeff Arnold

shot lead over Paul Casey of England and Tommy Schauffele. Casey eagled ERIN, Wis. — Rickie the par-5, 608-yard first Fowler couldn’t have asked hole and tallied six birdies. for a better start. But if he Schauffele had a chance is to capture the first major at birdie and a share of the championship of his PGA lead with, Fowler on his career, he understands his final hole, but pushed his work at the U.S. Open is putt just wide to lock him far from over. into a second-place tie with Fowler birdied three Casey. of his first five holes and Brian Harman, Tommy kept rolling en route to a Fleetwood of England and bogey-free 7-under 65 and Brooks Koepka are all two a one-shot lead following Rickie Fowler walks off the 18th green during the first shots off the lead on a day Thursday’s opening round round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Erin Hills. when birdies were there for at Erin Hills Golf Club. the taking.

(Photo: Rob Schumacher-USA Today Sports) Fowler finished his “I’d like to think if someround with seven birdalso represents the second- done on Sunday,” Fowler one else is making birdies, ies — including three lowest first-round score in said. it means they’re out there,” straight at Nos. 18, 1 and tournament history behind Fowler finished 11th at Casey said. “This was a 2 — as he matched a U.S. Nicklaus and Weiskopf. the Masters in April, two fun, low round.”

Open record for the lowest Being in such esteemed months after he recorded But Fowler paced the first-round score in relation company, Fowler admits, his fourth career PGA Tour field by playing nearly to par. Jack Nicklaus and is flattering, but it’s not the victory by capturing the Tom Weiskopf shot 7-unend goal.

Honda Classic. der 63s at Baltustrol Golf “I’d rather be rememFowler enters Friday’s Club in 1980. Fowler’s 65 bered for something that’s second round with a oneThe Sports Xchange

flawless golf by hiting 12 of 14 fairways. Fowler took advantage of Erin Hills’ four par 5s — all of which Fowler birdied — including two which came back-to-back as Fowler registered three straight birdies making the turn.

He never slowed down as he recorded his ninth bogey-free round of the season.

“It’s just nice to go out and actually execute the game plan and not think about, ‘What if that one went in’ or anything like that,” Fowler said. “Yeah, you’re going to miss putts, you’re not going to make everything so I’m definitely happy with the start.”

While Fowler got off to a soaring start, Dustin

Johnson, the No. 1-ranked player in the world and defending U.S. Open champion, struggled with a 3-over-par 75. Johnson’s round included a doublebogey and two bogeys, all of which happened over the course of four holes.

The bad stretch has Johnson tied for 102nd.

Putting proved to be Johnson’s biggest issue. He said he won’t change his approach four days after he and his wife celebrated the birth of their second child.

“I’m playing good — the golf course, you’ve got to hit it in the fairway,” Johnson said. “I hit enough fairways today to shoot a good score. But I’ve definitely got to roll it better.”

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July 15: Denver Broncos cornerback and Peachtree Ridge grad Bradley Roby will host his inaugural NFL Skills Camp with some of his NFL friends at the Buford Youth Sports Complex. The oneday camp is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and registration opens at 8:15 a.m. Camp, open to ages 11 to 17, is limited to the first 200 participants, so online registration is encouraged at www.RobyNFLCamp.com. For more information, email to rhyan@ elementsportsgroup.com.

GOLF

June 26: The ninth annual Archer Classic will be held at Summit Chase Country Club to benefit the Archer Touchdown Club and the high school football program. Shotgun start is 9 a.m. and entry fees are $125 per player or $500 per foursome. Sponsorships also are available. To register, go to eaglerockdistributing.formstack.com/forms/ archer_golf.

Aug. 28: The Mill Creek Cluster Education Founda-

tion will host its second annual golf classic at Hamilton Mill Golf Club.

The event raises money for all schools in the cluster — Mill Creek High School, Jones and Osborne middle schools and Duncan Creek, Fort Daniel, Harmony, Ivy Creek and Puckett’s Mill elementary schools. Cost is $125 per player and sponsorships also are available.

For more information, email 2moons@bellsouth.net.

SOFTBALL

June 26-29: The annual Georgia Gwinnett College softball camp for girls age 7 to 14 is June 26-29 at the Grizzlies’ facility in Lawrenceville. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and is tailored to girls who aim to play elite softball with college-level drills and practices. The cost is $225 per athlete and includes lunch all four days.

More information and registration is available at www. grizzlysoftballcamps.com.

Team and group discounts are available by emailing kihlenburg@ggc.com.

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Getting to Know ... Jordan White JW: With girls, sometimes it is really difficult to coach intensity. With guys, usually you can just roll the ball up and they’re pretty intense. But guys are more difficult because they think they know more than you. Girls sometimes do, too, but at least they listen a little better. (laughs) But the girls this past year were great. I had a lot of great seniors. And they knew me from being on the guys side so it wasn’t total shell shock (with a new CH: How did you get head coach). into the sport of soccer?

CH: How was it getJW: I played growing ting back to being a head up. I lived in Peachtree coach again? Was there City, Georgia, and played any adjustment period? there growing up. When JW: Not a ton. I brought I went to some new things to the UGA, I programs. I use a lot of got into film and preach selfcoachassessment. Our managers ing and I film all of the games. I’ll coached a cut them up and have playyouth rec ers grade themselves. It team in was nice.

Jordan AthensBut as far as getting White Clarke back in the saddle and County. I coached a bunch just coaching, it wasn’t of 6, and 7-year-olds. all that much different.

CH: How did you get Except for the size. Going to your current coaching from a AAA school to a position?

AAAAAAA school, the JW: (Coaching the talent pool is a lot differyoung kids in Athens) was ent. But the girls knew my first coaching job. I me previously from when couldn’t play anymore be- I was an assistant on the cause I hurt my leg really boys side so it wasn’t like badly. But I coached the they were resistant. They rec team and it was fun. knew I was going to give it So I started coaching when all I had.

I was 19 or 20 in Clarke CH: How has your adjustment been to GwinCounty. nett County from your When I got my first job old jobs and seeing the teaching, I was also the JV girls coach and varsity competition here?

JW: Just getting the assistant for about eight years. Then the head coach season going, there was a left at Jackson High School lot more work in Gwinnett and I became the head girls County. Once it gets going, the schools feel about the coach for one year. We went to the Elite Eight and same. But regarding the depth of skill, Gwinnett lost to the eventual state County is unrivaled in my champion St. Pius.

Then I got offered a job opinion. There is so much at Duluth and I had to take depth of talent. At my old school, there were a few a step back. I went to the boys side and worked as an kids that played club and the rest just played during assistant. I worked under our season. Whereas here, coach Adel Mohsen and it is more about putting the I was under him for two parts together and getting seasons. Then this year, I the chemistry right. was offered the head girls CH: What are your excoaching job. It is nice to pectations for next season get back to the girls side. and beyond at Duluth?

It is totally different from Do you have a vision for coaching guys. the program?

CH: What is the bigJW: Yes. We are gradugest difference between coaching girls and guys? ating a lot of talent but Jordan White just completed his first season as the head girls soccer coach at Duluth, where he was previously an assistant for the boys program. He also was previously the head girls soccer coach at Jackson High School.

In this edition of “Getting to Know …,” White speaks with sports intern Collin Huguley about his coaching trajectory, his favorite breakfast food and more.

By Paul Thomas

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ATHENS — In a loaded field at Kirby Smart’s Team 7-on-7 Camp Tuesday at the University of Georgia, Greater Atlanta Christian took home the title for the tournament.

The Spartan’s defeated Eagle’s Landing High School in the championship game inside Sanford Stadium.

Norcross, Central Gwinnett, Collins Hill, Mill Creek, Archer, North Gwinnett and Duluth were also in the field on Tuesday.

“It really was just one of those team kind of days,” GAC head coach Tim Hardy said. “I think we’re deeper than we’ve been.

So we had just a bunch of guys make plays on the

Greater Atlanta Christian’s football team poses with Georgia head coach Kirby Smart after winning the Team 7-on-7 tournament on Tuesday in Sanford Stadium. (Special Photo)

offense and defensive side.

It was really more about consistent execution than it was a spectacular play here or there. That’s the

like twice a year and once a season, I would dislocate my knees. It was just too much.

CH: Are you married?

Do you have any children?

JW: Yes. I’ve been married coming up on six years. My wife’s name is Stephanie and we have a 3-year-old son named Gavin. She just started teaching and I hope he likes soccer.

CH: What do y’all like to do together? Does your son play any soccer yet?

JW: No, he is not old enough. I hope to get him into that pretty soon, hopefully when he is 4. But my wife just became a teacher this year so this is the first time we’ve both had summers off so we’re about to do some traveling.

CH: What subjects do you teach at Duluth?

JW: I teach U.S. History, AP Human Geography and World Geography.

Mostly ninth grade and a few 11th-grade classes are what I teach. This is my 12th or 13th year teaching.

CH: Is there one professional athlete that you look up to the most?

JW: Clint Dempsey. I feel like he has had a lot of setbacks and hardships.

He always perseveres. That is a thing I try to convey to my players. He was cut from some teams and his sister died. He also recently had a heart issue.

He’s my age and was told that he can’t play again.

Now if they qualify for the World Cup, he will come back. He’s worked his way out of the shadows of Landon Donovan. I feel like he was hiding behind Landon and now I think he will surpass him. He’s just gritty. That’s a lot of what I like about him.

CH: What type of music do you listen to?

JW: I actually play guitar. But I really like Radiohead. They are like British rock. Most of my stuff is old rock and new rock. I also like My Morning Jacket and Wilco.

CH: What is your favorite breakfast food?

JW: I think you’ve got to go with bacon. Just bacon and a fried egg. That can take you a long way.

thing we really focused on, the execution piece and everybody just get where you’re supposed to get in your routes and fight to get

there on time and essentially, whether it’s zone or man, let’s really play our principles and play them disciplined.”

Hardy was pleased with what he saw from senior receiver Max Burke and junior tight end Jeffrey Blake.

Two-way stars Kyler McMichael and Trey Morrison both had good days at cornerback and receiver.

Hardy said the depth the team has had allowed them to stay fresh throughout the day, especially Morrison who had a big touchdown catch in the final.

“They’re exceptional and they played liked that,” Hardy said. “They made some big plays both defensively and offensively. But really the real story was a good group of guys just playing hard and playing well.”

IN BRIEF announced Thursday by the Atlanta Track Club.

Erassa is joined in the July 4 race, touted as the world’s largest 10K, by five-time Olympian Bernard Denver Broncos cornerback and Peachtree Ridge grad Lagat, 2016 Olympian Leonard Korir and two-time Bradley Roby will host his inaugural NFL Skills Camp NCAA champion Sam Chelanga, among others. with some of his NFL friends at the Buford Youth Sports The women’s Elite Field will include 2016 Olympian Complex on July 15. and American 10K record-holder Shalane Flanagan, as The one-day camp is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and regis- well as Jordan Hasay, whose third-place finish at this tration opens at 8:15 a.m. Camp, open to ages 11 to 17, year’s Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 23 minutes was the is limited to the first 200 participants, so online registra- fastest-ever marathon debut for an American woman. tion is encouraged at www.RobyNFLCamp.com.

The Elite runners will compete for a $70,000 purse, For more information, email to rhyan@elementsports- with $10,000 each going to the male and female winners. group.com.

Grayson grad Kirubel Erassa is one of 12 runners in the Peachtree Road Race’s men’s Elite Field, which was

this next bunch of eighthgraders is supposed to be dazzling. And we have a solid group of ninth-, 10thand 11th-graders coming back.

Vision-wise, we want to make the playoffs every year. We are playing an incredibly difficult schedule next year. And when we play those region games, it gets incredibly tight.

So I see us having a lot of success in accomplishing those goals.

We want to play a lot of tight games and play a lot of tough competition and to learn in the regular season when it is not win or go home.

CH: What do you think is the best way to prepare to win tight games?

JW: Just to stay calm.

If you can stay calm and keep the players conditioned, you can do a lot of things. The biggest thing is the mental side. I know our girls can play with those teams. We know we are playing teams like Mill Creek and Collins Hill and those that you know are going to be in the semifinals.

And against Peachtree Ridge, we were beating them for a good portion of that game. So the more you put yourself in those positions against powerful teams, the more you can cope with that type of adversity to win those types of games in the future.

CH: When you were an athlete, did you play any other sports growing up?

JW: I did play basketball up until eighth or ninth grade and I was an OK little wing player. I was allcounty. Then every season, I would dislocate my knees and I was fed up with it.

CH: Did you play soccer beyond your time playing basketball or did you stop sports completely because of your health?

JW: I did one more season of soccer and I dislocated my knee again.

I have had about 13 knee dislocations. I was born with these crazy long ligaments. My knee would stay out of joint after I injured it, it would not go back in on its own. It was a long road to recovery. It was

Spartans win Georgia 7-on-7 camp

Roby bringing NFL skills camp home to Gwinnett

Grayson’s Erassa in Elite Field for Peachtree Road Race

FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2017 • 3B

Pitino receives 5-game ban for Louisville sex scandal

Louisville coach Rick Pitino will be suspended for the first five Atlantic Coast Conference games in the 201718 season for failing to monitor his men’s basketball

program in the wake of a sex scandal, the Division I Committee on Infractions announced Thursday.

The Cardinals also will be on probation for four years, have scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions.

Louisville will also forfeit any money received through conference revenue sharing from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments.

The status of the school’s 2012-13 national championship could be at risk, as the NCAA ruled the Cardinals must vacate all basketball records in which players competed while ineligible from December 2010 to July 2014.

The NCAA, which accepted Louisville’s self-imposed 2015-16 postseason ban, ruled that Pitino “violated NCAA head coach responsibility rules” by failing to monitor the activities of former assistant Andre McGee, who is alleged to have hired strippers to entertain players and recruits.

— From staff, wire reports

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Atlanta paired with Miami FC From Staff Reports ATLANTA — U.S. Soccer announced the pairings for the Round of 16 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Thursday.

Atlanta United will travel to Miami FC at Riccard Silva Stadium at 7:30 p.m.

June 28 in the South Region of the tournament.

The winner of Atlanta United-Miami FC match will host the winner of Chicago Fire vs. FC Cincinnati.

If Atlanta were to advance, they would host the quar-

terfinal match at Kennesaw State University’s Fifth Third Bank Stadium. That date is tentatively scheduled for July 11, although the window of July 7-16 is available for consideration.

Atlanta United advanced to the Round of 16 by defeating Charleston Battery 3-2 on Wednesday night at Fifth Third Bank Stadium.

After a 2-hour, 42-minute delay due to inclement weather, Atlanta prevailed with goals from Kevin Kratz, Josef Martinez and Brandon Vazquez.

Mahaffey •From Page 1B trip to visit the campuses at MIT, Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams — all of which rank among the top 25 hardest colleges to get into — during her junior year. MIT was Mahaffey’s first stop and the only one she later revisited on an official recruiting trip. Her other official visits were at Washington University in St. Louis and Georgia Tech.

“MIT was definitely the right fit for me,” she said.

It’s not just the swimming facilities, though she was wowed by those.

“Compared to all the other institutions, MIT’s undergrad research is so much more accessible,” said Mahaffey, who is leaning toward biological, mechanical or environmental engineering.

“Especially if I get to do research really early on — I don’t have to declare my major until the end of my freshman year — it can help me figure out what I want to do.”

Many of those undergrad research opportunities are paid, which is helpful at an institution with a stated yearly tuition cost of more than $48,000. MIT does offer significant financial aid packages, but no athletic scholarships. Mahaffey also has collected a number of outside scholarships.

“Right now I’m very excited,” said Mahaffey, the youngest of four. “I’ve been waiting for this. I’m ready for a big change in my life. I feel like once I get there, I’ll definitely be a little home sick, but hopefully I’ll be too busy to miss it that much.”

She moves in at the end of August and classes start after Labor Day. The first swim meet is in October.

Until then, Mahaffey has her usual summer routine — nearly all of it at the pool. She’s up at 6 a.m. for practices at Summit Chase, where she learned to swim as a 6-year-old, and then teaches lessons. After a nap, there’s afternoon practice and coaching the summer league team.

“I absolutely love coaching,” Mahaffey said.

“I’ve been swimming for so long and it’s very important to me. It’s probably my biggest passion.

It’s pure joy. I feel like a passion like that, it’s much more valuable when you can share it with other people, kind off pass things along to the next

generation.

“Even now, on my club team, there are younger kids who I taught lessons and I get to see them coming up through the program. It makes everything feel more meaningful to me.”

To keep that kind of training schedule, loving the sport is a necessity.

Mahaffey, who has been coached by Humphrey Fraser during her entire career at Summit Chase, found it when she was 11.

“I moved up to the 1.5 group on my club team, which is for 14-and-under kids who start making state,” she said. “I think that’s when I got serious.

Those kids do the same summer schedule we do with doubles and they’re practicing five days a week. At that point, you have to really love it to keep putting in that kind of effort. That’s when it took off for me.”

Around that same time, Mahaffey started to get much better at her worst stroke, the butterfly.

“I was so awful at that stroke for a long time,” she said with a laugh.

“Then my 100 kind of started picking up. I was making state sectionals and I made junior nationals in fly my sophomore year.

“After getting good gradually at the 100, I figured I’d give 200 a shot, just for kicks. I ended up dropping about 15 seconds in one season. It was a crazy transition.”

Mahaffey finished in the state’s top 10 in the 100 fly and 100 backstroke as a senior.

“Those are not my best events,” she said. “I’m much better at 200s. So I was really pleased with the results.

“I actually train backstroke, but my fly has really taken off over the past year. So I’m going to start training fly up (at MIT) and start swimming more of it in practice. Which is pretty exciting. It’ll be tough, but I think I’m ready for a change.”

Mahaffey also went a personal best in seven — yeah, seven — events at her club’s divisional meet in March.

“Which is so rare,” she said. “It’s been a heck of a season.

“Of course, with the pressure off, knowing where I was going to school, everything was less stressful. When you’re in it for the fun, everything seems to come more naturally.”

Archer senior Hannah Mahaffey is headed to MIT to swim for the Engineers in the fall. (Photo: River Oak Photography)

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Lewis •From Page 1B was getting sent home. The catcher was coming up the line and I was trying to avoid the catcher. My foot got caught in the ground and my knee buckled. I felt a few pops and I had a pretty decent idea that it was going to be something major.”

The injury sidelined Lewis for about 11 months until he made his return for the Class-A Advanced Modesto Nuts last Sunday.

He started in center field and walked in his only at-bat.

“I try to stay pretty evenkeeled so I didn’t really get too high or too low,” Lewis said. “I was of the mindset that it was what I expected to do. I expected to be back and at the level that I expect to be at. Going back out there was definitely exciting, (there were) a little butterflies. I was just proud of myself for being able to get through that process.”

The process included nearly a year of being on the shelf for the man who is the No. 1 rated prospect in the Mariners organization, according to MLB Pipeline. But Lewis took the time off as a learning experience that could allow him to grow and mature as a player and person.

“The biggest thing that I learned about myself was that I shouldn’t try to control everything,” Lewis

said. “I feel as though, a lot of times, you try to control every situation and have your hands on every situation. I’ve tried to take my hands away and let it be what it is going to be and let God be in control of my life.”

One of the greatest aspects of returning from injury for Lewis is the ability to reward the organization that made him a first-round draft pick. He also feels honored by the support that he has received from the Mariners organization throughout his recovery.

“It’s validating for me that (the organization) recognizes (what it takes to return),” Lewis said. “A lot of guys don’t get the opportunity to be challenged like that. A lot of guys could handle that situation but a lot of people aren’t forced to. When you are forced to, the situation will pull things out of you that you didn’t know that you had.”

Even though he has been sidelined from live game action, Lewis has still been working on his game.

He has transitioned to the lifestyle of a professional baseball player and endured nearly a year of the conditioning and training demands that come with it.

That new style of training has allowed Lewis to tweak his game, even while not being at 100

percent, making him even more optimistic about how he can grow once he is back to feeling normal.

“First and foremost, I’ve gotten a lot stronger and a lot bigger. “Lewis said.

“I feel like we train a lot differently than I had in the past. And I am a lot more functional with my movements, just trying to be more efficient. In an overall sense, I’ve been getting a lot better even without being able to fully train for a while.”

And Lewis made a statement in his return that he just might be on his way to being back to his old self.

The former Mercer Bear made a running catch at the wall in center field and showed off the physical gifts that helped make him such a highly-touted prospect. “(The knee) is holding up pretty well,” Lewis said.

“It is a little sore but that is normal and to be expected.

I played in center field my first game back and felt good and comfortable out there. I made a nice catch at the wall and I felt right at home. I felt like I was right back to doing what I know how to do.”

However, the catch did have some worried about Lewis’ health.

Lewis was initially scheduled to play five innings in his debut game but was pulled after making the running catch in the

fourth inning. But Lewis says that there is no reason for concern regarding the move.

“I was scheduled to play five innings but just soreness came on and it was a tough catch,” Lewis said.

“It required a lot of me and for precautionary reasons, they pulled me after the fourth. But it was fine.

It wasn’t anything of the injury sort.”

Looking ahead, Lewis now has a lot of expectations to live up to.

Being a superstar in college and a top prospect in the pros, many expect Lewis to become a slugger at the major league level one day. He will now set off to work his way through the minor league system in order to justify his first-round status and even exceed the hype surrounding his talents on the field.

And after the year he has had, there might be no expectation higher than the ones that Lewis sets for himself.

“For me, I feel like I always have that expectation of myself, just being that elite-level player that I feel like I can be,” Lewis said. “That expectation is already on me as a person, so I don’t think that outside influences can add any more of that. I hold myself to the highest of standards as a person first, and as a teammate as well.”

Draft •From Page 1B 30 RBIs, a team-best eight stolen bases and a .901 OPS for the Yellow Jackets this spring. “A couple of teams called me (Tuesday) to say they were interested, but the Orioles weren’t one of them. So when someone (from the Baltimore organization) called me (Wednesday), it was kind of a shock.”

Like Craport, Kennesaw State infielder Austin Upshaw wasn’t really sure what to expect from the draft process.

So the Buford grad’s selection by the defending world champion Chicago Cubs in the 13th round was a very pleasant surprise.

While a few details must still be worked out between Upshaw’s camp and the Cubs organization in terms of his first contract and signing bonus, he is very much looking forward to getting his pro career started.

“That (Cubs) organization is full of winners,” said Upshaw, who hit .327 with eight homers, 39 RBIs, an .894 OPS and team-high 112 total bases and 42 runs scored for the Owls in 2017. “I’m ready to get my pro career started. Really, all you can ask for is a chance to play pro baseball. … It’s all I ever wanted as a kid.

“When you’re 5 years old, you tell people you want to be a pro ball player, and they say, ‘Well, you should pick something more realistic.’ I always said it was realistic, and now it’s come to fruition.

I’m ready for it. I’m so happy.”

Like Upshaw, Craport is awaiting word of what Baltimore’s specific offer of a minor-league deal and signing bonus will be.

While he still has the option to return to Tech for his senior season, he also said the lure of a pro career, as well as a satisfactory offer from the Orioles — two opportunities he never imagined he’d have coming out of Norcross — may be just too tempting to ignore.

“I’m probably going to hear from the Orioles’ (scouting staff) sometime in the next few hours with details,” Craport said Wednesday afternoon.

“What they’re offering may be too good to pass up. It’s very exciting. It’s something you dream about as a kid. To have a chance to actually do it is something I never thought I’d have, especially (being selected) this high.”

While it appears Tech will lose one key Gwinnett grad from its roster, it likely will keep all six county players from its 2016-17 signing class.

Three of those recent Gwinnett grads — Grayson’s Oscar Serratos, Wesleyan’s Colin Hall and Norcross’ Baron Radcliff — were taken during the final day of selections, but all three seem very likely to report with the Jackets’ freshmen sometime this summer.

After hearing from representatives from the Cleveland organization during Monday’s early rounds of the draft, the Indians selected Serratos in the 14th round Wednesday, though he said Tuesday that barring something unforeseen, he was likely to opt to play in college.

With Hall being the son of Jackets coach Danny Hall and the younger brother of freshman infielder Carter Hall, it seems very unlikely he will forego a college career despite being selected in the 39th round by the Colorado Rockies.

Meanwhile, Radcliff had spoken with representatives from the hometown Atlanta Braves earlier this week about being taken in the early rounds.

But after hearing the team’s signing bonus offer, the 6-foot-3, 212-pound outfielder said he has decided to come to Atlanta, only with Tech.

The Braves selected him anyway in the 40th and final round, and may still

be interested in him when he becomes eligible for the draft again in three years.

“It’s pretty cool,” Radcliff, who hit .363 with eight homers, 25 RBIs, 34 runs scored and 10 stolen bases for the Blue Devils this spring, said about being selected by the Braves.

“They called earlier and said they were thinking about taking me in the third or fourth round, but by that time, I decided (the signing bonus) wasn’t as much as I was looking for. They knew I was going to go to school.

“I just got off the phone with my adviser and he was telling me they told him they were going to be watching me the next few years. So that’s pretty cool.”

Other players with Gwinnett ties taken during Wednesday’s rounds included former North Gwinnett left-handed pitcher Tucker Baca (12th round, Baltimore), Providence Christian grad and current Alabama-Birmingham right-hander Garrett Whitlock (18th round, New York Yankees), Grayson grad and Georgia College shortstop Brandon Benson (20th round, St. Louis), Mercer pitcher and Collins Hill grad Ryan Askew (29th round, Tampa Bay) and Collins Hill outfielder Ian Jenkins (40th round, Cincinnati).

GWINNETT’S MLB FIRST-YEAR PLAYER DRAFT HISTORY 2017 Name School Round Organization Justin Lewis GAC (Kentucky) 11 Tampa Bay Rays Trevor Craport Norcross (Georgia Tech) 11 Baltimore Orioles Tucker Baca North Gwinnett (St. Katherine) 12 Baltimore Orioles Austin Upshaw Buford (Kennesaw St.) 13 Chicago Cubs Oscar Serratos Grayson 14 Cleveland Indians Garrett Whitlock Providence (UAB) 18 New York Yankees Brandon Benson Grayson (GCSU) 20 St. Louis Cardinals Ryan Askew Collins Hill (Mercer) 29 Tampa Bay Rays Colin Hall Wesleyan 39 Colorado Rockies Ian Jenkins Collins Hill 40 Cincinnati Reds Baron Radcliff Norcross 40 Atlanta Braves 2016 Kyle Lewis Shiloh (Mercer) 1 Seattle Mariners Brandon Marsh Buford 2 Los Angeles Angels Josh Merrigan Ga. Gwinnett College 10 Texas Rangers Justin Glover Buford 26 Tampa Bay Rays Cam Shepherd Peachtree Ridge 29 Boston Red Sox Will Ethridge Parkview 35 Seattle Mariners Will Solomon Ga. Gwinnett College 38 San Diego Padres 2015 Christin Stewart Providence (Tennessee) 1 Detroit Tigers Nick Neidert Peachtree Ridge 2 Seattle Mariners Jahmai Jones Wesleyan 2 Los Angeles Angels Zack Erwin Duluth (Clemson) 4 Chicago White Sox Mac Marshall Parkview (Chipola CC) 4 San Francisco Giants Chad Smith South 5 Texas Rangers Curtis Terry Archer 13 Texas Rangers Cedric Mullins Brookwood (Campbell) 13 Baltimore Orioles Jordan Hillyer Hebron (Kennesaw St.) 14 Miami Marlins Ryne Inman Parkview 15 Seattle Mariners Isiah Gilliam Parkview (Chipola CC) 20 New York Yankees Joey Bart Buford 27 Tampa Bay Rays Jake Higginbotham Buford 27 New York Mets Christian Turnipseed Ga. Gwinnett College 28 Baltimore Orioles Connor Bennett Buford 34 Cincinnati Reds Carter Hall Wesleyan 34 Atlanta Braves Beau Brundage Mill Creek 38 Philadelphia Phillies

Jared Walsh Peachtree Ridge (Georgia) 39 Los Angeles Angels 2014 Sam Clay Buford (Georgia Tech) 4 Minnesota Twins Greg Brody Mill Creek (Belmont) 11 San Francisco Giants Montrell Marshall South Gwinnett 12 Cincinnati Reds Jamie Ritchie Buford (Belmont) 13 Houston Astros Josh Heddinger Buford (Georgia Tech) 14 Detroit Tigers Matt Grimes Mill Creek (Georgia Tech) 18 Baltimore Orioles Justin Lewis GAC 19 San Diego Padres Mac Marshall Parkview 21 Houston Astros Isiah Gilliam Parkview 23 Chicago Cubs John Fidanza Ga. Gwinnett College 23 Arizona Diamondbacks Zeke McGranahan Ga. Gwinnett College 23 Baltimore Orioles Tyler Carpenter Ga. Gwinnett College 25 Los Angeles Angels Tucker Baca North Gwinnett 32 Atlanta Braves Eric Alonzo Mill Creek (Ga. Southern) 40 Los Angeles Angels 2013 Austin Meadows Grayson 1 Pittsburgh Pirates Josh Hart Parkview Comp. A Baltimore Orioles Nick Blount South Gwinnett (Southern Poly. St.) 9 Chicago White Sox Nick Jones North Gwinnett (Chatt. Valley CC) 14 San Francisco Giants Bryan Hudson Mill Creek 15 Boston Red Sox Jarrett Freeland Parkview 15 Cincinnati Reds Chris Erwin Grayson 28 Minnesota Twins Matt Grimes Mill Creek (Georgia Tech) 31 Philadelphia Phillies 2012 Lucas Sims Brookwood 1 Atlanta Braves James Ramsey Wesleyan (Florida St.) 1 St. Louis Cardinals Matt Olson Parkview Comp. A Oakland A’s Mason Felt Hebron 5 Cincinnati Reds Ronnie Freeman Brookwood (Kennesaw St.) 5 Arizona Diamondbacks Drew Steckenrider GAC (Tennessee) 8 Miami Marlins Brian Holmes Mill Creek (Wake Forest) 13 Houston Astros Ross Heffley Brookwood (Western Carolina) 17 Atlanta Braves Jordan Hillyer Hebron 20 Miami Marlins Josh Carr Shiloh (Kennesaw St.) 28 Detroit Tigers

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Cortolano named to ASUN HOF From Staff Reports

sure to coach her. The entire Owl Nation, including one MACON — North old coach, cannot be more Gwinnett grad Keri McKee thrilled.”

Cortolano, a four-year Having already enjoyed a standout softball player and great measure of success at Kennesaw State athletics the Division II level (2004Hall of Fame inductee, will 05), including being named make history this fall when the Peach Belt Conference she becomes the first former Player of the Year and DiviOwl to be inducted into the sion II first team All-AmeriASUN Conference Hall of ca honors, McKee burst onto Fame. the ASUN scene in 2006.

McKee, as she was known McKee was a two-time during her Kennesaw State first team all-conference career, joins professional selection in 2006 and 2007, golfers Colin Montgomerie and enjoyed a stellar senior (Houston Baptist) and Russeason. Earning 2007 ASUN sell Knox (Jacksonville), Conference Player of the former Stetson baseball Year honors, McKee led standout Chris Westervelt KSU to its first conference and former Florida Atlantic regular season championsoftball great Nicole Myers ship. She posted a conferas 2017 honorees. ence-best and KSU single“Keri helped lead the season record .422 batting KSU softball program into average while also leading the Division I era, and her the conference in hits and accomplishments speak doubles. for themselves,” former McKee finished her Kennesaw State head coach two-year ASUN Conference Scott Whitlock said. “She career with a .416 average, was an outstanding player 76 runs scored, 154 hits, 30 and a better teammate. It was doubles, eight home runs both an honor and a pleaand 76 RBIs.

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emotion in a matter of a minute and a half. It was of the Champion’s Cup pretty crazy. I’ve never hadn’t worn off. seen a finish like that. It “It’s unbelievable,” was very special.” said Jackson, who had a In overtime, Thompgoal and six assists in the son was able to score the decisive game. “To us, it’s game-winner on an assist a little bit sad that we can’t from his brother, and keep seeing each other Champion’s Cup MVP, every weekend. But to win Lyle. this trophy is unbeliev“I don’t even remember able. To start in December, the ball hitting the net to this was what our main be honest,” Miles said. goal was, and to do it was “Everyone was asking me unbelievable.” if I knew where it went.

Georgia took Game All I saw was top right 1 18-14 at home over open, and that’s where I the two-time defending put it. I watched the video champion Rush and prelike 100 times just to see vailed on a wild finish last my reaction. I reacted as Saturday. soon as the ball went in the Georgia was able to net, but I don’t remember force a turnover in the final that.”

10 seconds of the game, Save for a few more in a 6-on-6 situation with championship celebrations both goalies out of the net, planned for the next few and Joel White scored the weeks, the majority of game-tying goal with just Swarm players will now two seconds left in regula- shift their focus to summer tion. teams. Jackson will play in “I think I had my head the indoor senior league in in my hands, just praying Canada along with a bevy that there was going to be of players from the NLL, something that went wrong while Staats will join sev(for Saskatchewan),” eral other Swarm players Staats said. “Fortunately it in Major League Lacrosse did, and I think I felt every outdoors.

Georgia Swarm forwards Randy Staats (83) and Shayne Jackson (32) celebrate a goal against the Saskatchewan Rush in Game 2 of the NLL Champion’s Cup in Saskatoon.

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Miles said for the first time since before he went to college, he plans to take the summer off instead of playing in the MLL. Staats will join the Atlanta Blaze (2-4) this weekend for their game Saturday against the Florida Launch (4-3).

“It’s comfortable, it’s

not a hard thing to jump into,” he said of shifting to field lacrosse. “I think the reason is the field is so big and so spread, there’s time to think and react, and the nets are bigger too, so it’s not that tough of a transition. I think it’s more comfortable and I’ll be able to hop right in.”

could decide the region championship, takes on a new twist this year because new North head coach Bill Stewart was previously Mill Creek’s defensive coordinator.

• Wesleyan at ELCA, Sept. 29 Class A Private power Eagle’s Landing Christian defeated Wesleyan twice last year, 34-31 in the regular season and 35-13 in the second round of the state playoffs. Star quarterback Banks Ramsey and the Wolves hope to reverse those results in 2017.

• Brookwood at Parkview, Oct. 20 The Battle of Five ForksTrickum is on the list of Gwinnett’s top games every year with good reason, most notably its tradition and exciting finishes. Last year’s ending was thrilling as usual — Parkview rallied to force overtime but then missed a PAT in the extra period to fall 24-23.

• Dacula at Lanier, Oct. 27 This is a burgeoning rivalry between the only

two Gwinnett County Public Schools not in Class AAAAAAA. Dacula defeated Lanier last season on the way to the region title, and this game could decide the Region 8-AAAAAA champ again.

• Norcross at Brookwood, Oct. 27 If Brookwood wants to win a region title, it likely will require a win over Norcross. The Broncos have competed well with Norcross the past three seasons but have struggled against the Norcross defense, scoring just 32 points in the last four games of the series.

• South Gwinnett at Grayson, Nov. 3 South’s highly touted defense, led by Justin Mascoll and Robert Cooper, gets a shot at Grayson’s attack in the regular-season finale. The Comets hope for a better showing than 2017, when Grayson won this one 45-3.

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Blue Devils, who must replace outgoing quarterback should be worth watchBaron Radcliff. ing. It added an interesting • Hoover (Ala.) twist in the offseason when at Grayson, Aug. 25 Peachtree Ridge quarterHoover, a well-known back Fred Payton transpower in Alabama, is alferred to Parkview. ways loaded with players.

• Archer vs.

We all know Grayson is Brookwood, Aug. 19 talented, too. An opportuBoth of these teams, nity to see all those players coached by friends and on one field makes this a Brookwood grads Andy must-see game.

Dyer (Archer) and Philip • McEachern Jones (Brookwood), should at Grayson, Sept. 1 be improved from last year.

There will be no time to Archer’s defense, minus rest after the Hoover game 2016 Daily Post defensive for Grayson. Up next is player of the year Quinn McEachern, traditionally Miller at linebacker, will Cobb County’s top footbe tested by Matthew Hill, ball program. The Indians Dante Black and an explo- nearly upset Grayson last sive Brookwood offense year, leading 13-10 until in this Corky Kell Classic two Will Van Pamelen matchup. field goals in the final two • Norcross vs. minutes, the latter as time Colquitt County, Aug. 19 expired, for a 16-13 Rams Another interesting win.

Corky Kell Classic show• North Gwinnett at down pits Norcross against Norcross, Sept. 8 always talented Colquitt It’s still hard to fathom County, which had its these longtime rivals are in streak of state championdifferent regions, the prodships broken last year. uct of Georgia High School It will be an immediate Association reclassificaearly-season test for the tion prior to last season.

Thankfully, they still play each other in a non-region matchup. Norcross won this one 38-24 last year.

• Northside-Warner Robins at Lanier, Sept. 8 Lanier, which has made four straight playoff appearances, gets a postseason-worthy test with an early-season game against Northside-Warner Robins. It’s also a rare trip to Gwinnett for the longtime Georgia power, which defeated visiting Lanier 38-7 last year.

• Valor Christian (Colo.) at GAC, Sept. 8 Valor Christian keeps churning out McCaffreys and victories, and the program’s visit to Gwinnett is a unique opportunity for fans. Valor, which defeated GAC 21-17 last year in Colorado, features five-star junior quarterback Luke McCaffrey.

• Grayson at John Curtis (La.), Sept. 9 Longtime Louisiana power John Curtis Christian has won 14 state championships and reached the state semifinals last

season. The visitors offer defending state champion Grayson another difficult game before region play begins.

• Colquitt County at Brookwood, Sept. 15 Colquitt makes another trip to the Atlanta area for the back end of a home-and-home series with Brookwood, which lost 52-14 in Moultrie last year. Expect the improving Broncos to make a much better showing this year against renowned coach Rush Propst’s team.

• South Pointe (S.C.) at Buford, Sept. 15 Buford’s schedule sets up tough for new head coach John Ford, who was hired after a successful run at Roswell. South Pointe, the No. 1-ranked team in South Carolina, may be the biggest regular season challenge for the Wolves.

• Mill Creek at North Gwinnett, Sept. 29 Past games between Mill Creek and North Gwinnett have been some of the best to watch in recent seasons. This game, which

2017 GWINNETT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE BY TEAM Archer Aug. 19 Brookwood, Corky Kell Classic Aug. 25 Peachtree Ridge Sept. 8 at Mill Creek Sept. 15 Norcross Sept. 22 at Roswell Oct. 7 at Newton Oct. 13 Grayson Oct. 20 Rockdale County Oct. 27 at South Gwinnett Nov. 3 at Shiloh Berkmar Aug. 18 Rockdale County Aug. 25 Duluth Sept. 1 Mountain View Sept. 15 Pebblebrook Sept. 22 at Brookwood Sept. 29 Meadowcreek Oct. 6 at Central Gwinnett Oct. 13 Parkview Oct. 20 at Norcross Oct. 27 Lakeside, DeKalb Brookwood Aug. 19 Archer, Corky Kell Classic Aug. 25 at Walton Sept. 1 South Gwinnett Sept. 15 Colquitt County Sept. 22 Berkmar Oct. 6 at Meadowcreek Oct. 13 Central Gwinnett Oct. 20 at Parkview Oct. 27 Norcross Nov. 3 at Lakeside, DeKalb Buford Aug. 18 Hillgrove, Corky Kell Classic Sept. 1 Bishop Timon, Buffalo, N.Y. Sept. 8 International School of Broward County, Fla. Sept. 15 South Pointe, S.C. Sept. 29 Clarke Central Oct. 6 at Johnson-Gainesville Oct. 13 Cedar Shoals Oct. 20 Walnut Grove Oct. 27 at Loganville Nov. 3 at Flowery Branch Central Gwinnett Aug. 18 at South Gwinnett Aug. 25 Dacula Sept. 1 Roswell Sept. 8 at Collins Hill Sept. 22 Norcross Sept. 29 at Lakeside, DeKalb Oct. 6 Berkmar Oct. 13 at Brookwood Oct. 20 Meadowcreek Nov. 3 at Parkview Collins Hill Aug. 18 at Shiloh Aug. 25 at Norcross Sept. 1 Lambert Sept. 8 Central Gwinnett Sept. 22 at Mill Creek Sept. 29 Discovery Oct. 6 at Duluth Oct. 13 Mountain View Oct. 27 North Gwinnett

Nov. 3 at Peachtree Ridge Dacula Aug. 25 at Central Gwinnett Sept. 1 Mill Creek Sept. 8 Arabia Mountain Sept. 15 at West Forsyth Sept. 22 Walton Oct. 6 at Apalachee Oct. 13 Gainesville Oct. 20 Habersham Central Oct. 27 at Lanier Nov. 3 at Winder-Barrow Discovery Aug. 18 at Jefferson Aug. 25 Cedar Shoals Sept. 1 Pinecrest Academy Sept. 8 at Apalachee Sept. 22 Peachtree Ridge Sept. 29 at Collins Hill Oct. 6 at Mill Creek Oct. 20 at Duluth Oct. 27 Mountain View Nov. 3 North Gwinnett Duluth Aug. 18 at Alcovy Aug. 25 at Berkmar Sept. 1 Meadowcreek Sept. 15 at Forsyth Central Sept. 29 Mountain View Oct. 6 Collins Hill Oct. 13 at North Gwinnett Oct. 20 Discovery Oct. 27 at Peachtree Ridge Nov. 3 at Mill Creek Grayson Aug. 25 Hoover, Ala. Sept. 1 McEachern Sept. 9 at John Curtis, La Sept. 22 International School of Broward, Fla. Sept. 29 Ramsay, Ala. Oct. 6 at Shiloh Oct. 13 at Archer Oct. 20 at Newton Oct. 27 Rockdale County Nov. 3 South Gwinnett Greater Atlanta Christian Aug. 18 at Lovett Aug. 25 Westminster Sept. 8 Valor Christian, Col. Sept. 15 at St. Pius X Sept. 22 at Union County Sept. 29 at Fannin County Oct. 6 East Hall Oct. 13 at Lumpkin County Oct. 20 North Hall Nov. 3 Dawson County Hebron Aug. 18 at East Jackson Sept. 1 Commerce Sept. 8 Providence Christian Sept. 22 Riverside Military Sept. 29 Towns County Oct. 6 at Athens Academy Oct. 13 at Prince Avenue Christian Oct. 20 at Lakeview Academy Oct. 27 George Walton Academy Nov. 3 at Athens Christian Lanier

Aug. 18 at Northview Aug. 25 South Gwinnett Sept. 8 Northside-Warner Robins Sept. 15 at Lambert Sept. 22 St. Pius Oct. 6 Winder-Barrow Oct. 13 at Habersham Central Oct. 20 at Apalachee Oct. 27 Dacula Nov. 3 at Gainesville Meadowcreek Aug. 26 at Alcovy Sept. 1 at Duluth Sept. 8 Forsyth Central Sept. 15 Lithonia Sept. 22 Lakeside, DeKalb Sept. 29 at Berkmar Oct. 6 Brookwood Oct. 20 at Central Gwinnett Oct. 27 Parkview Nov. 3 at Norcross Mill Creek Aug. 19 McEachern, Corky Kell Classic Aug. 25 at Stephenson Sept. 1 at Dacula Sept. 8 Archer Sept. 22 Collins Hill Sept. 29 at North Gwinnett Oct. 6 Discovery Oct. 13 at Peachtree Ridge Oct. 20 at Mountain View Nov. 3 Duluth Mountain View Aug. 18 Osborne Aug. 25 at Lambert Sept. 1 at Berkmar Sept. 15 Shiloh Sept. 22 North Gwinnett Sept. 29 at Duluth Oct. 6 Peachtree Ridge Oct. 13 at Collins Hill Oct. 20 Mill Creek Oct. 27 at Discovery Norcross Aug. 19 Colquitt County, Corky Kell Classic Aug. 25 Collins Hill Sept. 8 North Gwinnett Sept. 15 at Archer Sept. 22 at Central Gwinnett Sept. 29 Parkview Oct. 13 at Lakeside, DeKalb Oct. 20 Berkmar Oct. 27 at Brookwood Nov. 3 Meadowcreek North Gwinnett Aug. 19 Walton, Corky Kell Classic Aug. 25 at Milton Sept. 1 Hillgrove Sept. 8 at Norcross Sept. 22 at Mountain View Sept. 29 Mill Creek Oct. 13 Duluth Oct. 20 Peachtree Ridge Oct. 27 at Collins Hill Nov. 3 at Discovery Parkview Aug. 18 at Peachtree Ridge

Aug. 25 Shiloh Sept. 1 at Lowndes Sept. 15 Tift County Sept. 29 at Norcross Oct. 6 Lakeside, DeKalb Oct. 13 at Berkmar Oct. 20 Brookwood Oct. 27 at Meadowcreek Nov. 3 Central Gwinnett Peachtree Ridge Aug. 18 Parkview Aug. 25 at Archer Sept. 1 at Mays Sept. 8 Newton Sept. 22 at Discovery Oct. 6 at Mountain View Oct. 13 Mill Creek Oct. 20 at North Gwinnett Oct. 27 Duluth Nov. 3 Collins Hill Providence Aug. 18 at Strong Rock Christian Sept. 1 Riverside Military Sept. 8 at Hebron Christian Academy Sept. 22 at Lakeview Academy Sept. 29 at George Walton Academy Oct. 6 Commerce Oct. 13 Athens Academy Oct. 20 Athens Christian Oct. 27 at Prince Avenue Christian Nov. 3 Towns County Shiloh Aug. 18 Collins Hill Aug. 25 at Parkview Sept. 1 Westlake Sept. 8 at Lowndes Sept. 15 at Mountain View Sept. 29 at Rockdale County Oct. 6 Grayson Oct. 20 at South Gwinnett Oct. 27 Newton Nov. 3 Archer South Gwinnett Aug. 18 Central Gwinnett Aug. 25 at Lanier Sept. 1 at Brookwood Sept. 8 South Forsyth Sept. 22 at Hillgrove Sept. 29 Newton Oct. 13 at Rockdale County Oct. 20 Shiloh Oct. 27 Archer Nov. 3 at Grayson Wesleyan Aug. 18 Therrell Aug. 25 BEST Academy Sept. 1 Frederica Academy Sept. 8 Hapeville Sept. 15 Our Lady of Mercy Sept. 22 Holy Innocents’ Sept. 29 at Eagle’s Landing Christian Oct. 6 at Mt. Vernon Oct. 20 at Landmark Christian Oct. 27 Strong Rock Christian

2017 GWINNETT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE BY WEEK (All games 7:30 p.m. unless indicated) Aug. 18 Buford vs. Hillgrove, Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium, 8:30 p.m.

Central Gwinnett at South Gwinnett Collins Hill at Shiloh Discovery at Jefferson Duluth at Alcovy GAC at Lovett Hebron at East Jackson Lanier at Northview Osborne at Mountain View Parkview at Peachtree Ridge Providence at Strong Rock Rockdale County at Berkmar Therrell at Wesleyan Aug. 19 Archer vs. Brookwood, Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium, 11:45 p.m.

Norcross vs. Colquitt County, Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium, 2:45 p.m.

Mill Creek vs. McEachern, Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium, 5:45 p.m.

North Gwinnett vs. Walton, Corky Kell Classic at Georgia State Stadium, 8:45 p.m.

Aug. 25 BEST Academy at Wesleyan Brookwood at Walton Cedar Shoals at Discovery Collins Hill at Norcross Dacula at Central Gwinnett Duluth at Berkmar Hoover (Ala.) at Grayson Mill Creek at Stephenson Mountain View at Lambert North Gwinnett at Milton Peachtree Ridge at Archer Shiloh at Parkview South Gwinnett at Lanier Westminster at GAC Aug. 26 Meadowcreek at Alcovy Sept. 1 Bishop Timon (N.Y.) at Buford Commerce at Hebron Frederica Academy at Wesleyan Hillgrove at North Gwinnett Lambert at Collins Hill McEachern at Grayson Meadowcreek at Duluth Mill Creek at Dacula Mountain View at Berkmar Parkview at Lowndes Peachtree Ridge at Mays Pinecrest Academy at Discovery Riverside Military at Providence Roswell at Central Gwinnett South Gwinnett at Brookwood Westlake at Shiloh Sept. 8 Arabia Mountain at Dacula Archer at Mill Creek Central Gwinnett at Collins Hill Discovery at Apalachee

Forsyth Central at Meadowcreek Hapeville at Wesleyan International School of Broward (Fla.) at Buford Newton at Peachtree Ridge North Gwinnett at Norcross Northside-Warner Robins at Lanier Providence at Hebron Shiloh at Lowndes South Forsyth at South Gwinnett Valor Christian (Colo.) at GAC Sept. 9 Grayson at John Curtis (La.) Sept. 15 Colquitt County at Brookwood Dacula at West Forsyth Duluth at Forsyth Central GAC at St. Pius Lanier at Lambert Lithonia at Meadowcreek Norcross at Archer Our Lady of Mercy at Wesleyan Pebblebrook at Berkmar Shiloh at Mountain View South Pointe (S.C.) at Buford Tift County at Parkview Sept. 22 Archer at Roswell Berkmar at Brookwood Collins Hill at Mill Creek GAC at Union County Holy Innocents’ at Wesleyan International School of Broward (Fla.) at Grayson Lakeside-DeKalb at Meadowcreek Norcross at Central Gwinnett North Gwinnett at Mountain View Peachtree Ridge at Discovery Providence at Lakeview Academy Riverside Military at Hebron South Gwinnett at Hillgrove St. Pius at Lanier Walton at Dacula Sept. 29 Central Gwinnett at LakesideDeKalb Clarke Central at Buford Discovery at Collins Hill GAC at Fannin County Meadowcreek at Berkmar Mill Creek at North Gwinnett Mountain View at Duluth Newton at South Gwinnett Parkview at Norcross Providence at George Walton Ramsay (Ala.) at Grayson Shiloh at Rockdale County Towns County at Hebron Wesleyan at Eagle’s Landing Christian Oct. 6 Berkmar at Central Gwinnett Brookwood at Meadowcreek Buford at Johnson-Gainesville Collins Hill at Duluth Commerce at Providence Dacula at Apalachee Discovery at Mill Creek East Hall at GAC Grayson at Shiloh Hebron at Athens Academy

Lakeside-DeKalb at Parkview Peachtree Ridge at Mountain View Wesleyan at Mt. Vernon Winder-Barrow at Lanier Oct. 7 Archer at Newton Oct. 13 Athens Academy at Providence Cedar Shoals at Buford Central Gwinnett at Brookwood Duluth at North Gwinnett GAC at Lumpkin County Gainesville at Dacula Grayson at Archer Hebron at Prince Avenue Lanier at Habersham Central Mill Creek at Peachtree Ridge Mountain View at Collins Hill Norcross at Lakeside-DeKalb Parkview at Berkmar South Gwinnett at Rockdale County Oct. 20 Athens Christian at Providence Berkmar at Norcross Brookwood at Parkview Discovery at Duluth Grayson at Newton Habersham Central at Dacula Hebron at Lakeview Lanier at Apalachee Meadowcreek at Central Gwinnett Mill Creek at Mountain View Peachtree Ridge at North Gwinnett North Hall at GAC Rockdale County at Archer Shiloh at South Gwinnett Walnut Grove at Buford Wesleyan at Landmark Christian Oct. 27 Archer at South Gwinnett Buford at Loganville Dacula at Lanier Duluth at Peachtree Ridge George Walton at Hebron Lakeside-DeKalb at Berkmar Mountain View at Discovery Newton at Shiloh Norcross at Brookwood North Gwinnett at Collins Hill Parkview at Meadowcreek Providence at Prince Avenue Christian Rockdale County at Grayson Strong Rock at Wesleyan Nov. 3 Archer at Shiloh Brookwood at Lakeside-DeKalb Buford at Flowery Branch Central Gwinnett at Parkview Collins Hill at Peachtree Ridge Dacula at Winder-Barrow Dawson County at GAC Duluth at Mill Creek Hebron at Athens Christian Lanier at Gainesville Meadowcreek at Norcross North Gwinnett at Discovery South Gwinnett at Grayson Towns County at Providence

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FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2017 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS INVITATION TO BID SR 13 FROM DAVENPORT ROAD TO SR 120, PI 0010658 (Known hereafter as “Buford Highway Medians”) PROJECT BID NO. 17CP001 GWINNETT COUNTY DULUTH, GEORGIA The City of Duluth is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified contractors for construction of medians on SR 13/Buford Highway from Davenport Road to SR 120/ Duluth Highway, within the City of Duluth. Sealed bids will be received by the City Clerk of City of Duluth, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096, until 4:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Any bid received after 4:00 p.m. will not be accepted. Bids will be publicly opened on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. in the 2nd floor executive conference room, Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The bid envelope must be marked on the outside with Bid Number, name of Bidder, date and time of opening.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held in the 2nd floor executive conference room at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096 on Monday, June 12, 2017 at 10:00am.

The City of Duluth, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 78 Stat. 252, 42 USC 2000d—42 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, part 21, Nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin in consideration for an award.

The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal for this project is 17%.

This project has a Contract Time of 150 Consecutive Calendar Days.

BIDDERS submitting bids over $2,000,000 shall be prequalified with the GDOT. BIDDERS submitting bids $2,000,000 or less shall be prequalified or registered subcontractors with the GDOT. The Georgia Department of Transportation Standard Specifications, 2013 Edition, GDOT Supplemental Specifications Book, 2016 Edition, and applicable Supplemental Specifications and Special Provisions apply to this project.

Work required under this Contract includes furnishing materials, labor, equipment, etc. for the construction of the Buford Highway Medians within the City of Duluth.

Construction Drawings and Specifications are available for purchase at the following location: Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. 2 Sun Court, Suite 450 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 And for viewing at the above location and: City of Duluth, Community Development Department Duluth City Hall, Second Floor 3167 Main Street Duluth, Georgia 30096 Bids shall be entered on a unit price basis and as described in the project manual.

One complete set of plans and bid manual shall be provided to General Contractors only, for a cost of $150 each for hard copy and $25 each for electronic DVD. No partial sets of working drawings or specifications shall be issued.

Bids in the case of Corporations not chartered in Georgia, must be accompanied by proper certification stating that said Corporation is authorized to do business in the State of Georgia.

No Bidder may withdraw his bid within sixty (60) days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

All Bidders are required to submit a Bid Bond or a certified check made payable to the City of Duluth in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total amount bid. The successful bidder will be required to furnish a contract performance bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) and a payment bond in the amount of one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the total amount bid and provide insurance coverage as required by the contract documents. The Bid Bond or certified check must be enclosed in the envelope with the sealed bid.

Bonding Company must be licensed to do business in Georgia, licensed to do business by the Georgia Secretary of State, authorized to do business in Georgia by the Georgia Insurance Department, listed in the Department of the Treasury’s Publication of Companies Holding Certificates of Authority as Acceptable Surety on Federal Bonds and as Acceptable Reinsuring Companies and have an A.M. Best rating of A-, Class V or higher.

The Owner will award the Contract to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, subject with the Owner’s right to reject any or all bids, to waive technicalities, and to make an award deemed in its best interests.

902-489763, 5/26,6/2,9,16

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit Application / owner AZIAZIZ PERANI

Registered agent AZIAZIZ PERANI Business Name INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT LLC, ASHIANA RESTAURANT Location: 5675 JIMMY CARTER BLVD. #101 NORCROSS, GA 30071 904-489893, 5/31-6/28 NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit Application / owner QUIKTRIP CORPORATION Registered agent Albert Dewey Wagner II Business Name QuikTrip #703R Location: 2040 Beaver Ruin Rd. Norcross, GA 30071-3339 904-489398, 5/24-6/23

NAME CHANGES SUPERIOR COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 17 A-04158-6 In re the Name Change of Child(ren) BETHEL TADESSE TEBEBE ARSEMA TADESSE TEBEBE TEBEBE TADESSE Petitioner, V. MESERET K KENENISSA Respondent NOTICE OF FILING PETITION TO CHANGE NAME(S) OF MINOR CHILD(REN) A Petition was filed in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County on 04-28, 2017, to change the name of the following minor child(ren) From Bethel Hirpa Wordofa; Arsema Hirpa Tadesse to Proposed New Name Bethel Tadesse Tebebe; Arsema Tadesse Tebebe Any interested party has the right to appear in this case and file objection before the final judgement is ordered in this case.

Dated: 5-10-17 -sPetitioner, Pro se Tebebe Tadesse 3000 durlin lake way Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 916-489329, 6/16,21,28,7/5

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE TO PUBLIC YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 19th day of June, 2017 at 9:00 A.M., Judge Tom Davis of the Superior Court of Gwinnett County in Lawrenceville, Georgia, will hear the case of the STATE OF GEORGIA v. DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE GEORGIA and GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH, Civil Action File No. 17-A05328-9, the same being a proceeding to confirm and validate the Downtown Development Authority of Lawrenceville, Georgia Revenue Bonds (Gwinnett County Board of Health Refunding and Improvement Project), Series 2017 (the “Bonds”), in the principal amount not to exceed $11,000,000, as authorized by a resolution (the “Resolution”) of Downtown Development Authority of Lawrenceville, Georgia adopted May 22, 2017. The Bonds are to be issued for the purpose of paying costs of refunding the Downtown Development Authority of Lawrenceville, Georgia Revenue Bonds (DDAL Public Purpose Corporation Project), Series 2005, a governmental office building project and related facilities, which includes capitalized interest and costs of issuance of the Bonds. The Bonds are not obligations of the State of Georgia or any of its political subdivisions, including Gwinnett County or the City of Lawrenceville, and are not payable from taxes.

The Bonds are to be repayable from revenues of the project, including an assignment of the payments to be received from an Amended and Restated Rental Agreement (the “Lease”), between Downtown Development Authority of Lawrenceville, Georgia, as lessor, and Gwinnett County Board of Health, as lessee. The Court will also pass on the validity of the aforementioned Resolution and Lease and a Development Agreement, Account Control Agreement and Deed to Secure Debt, Assignment and Security Agreement. Any citizen of the State of Georgia who has a right to object may intervene and become a party to this proceeding.

This 2nd day of June, 2017 /s/ Maria Restrepo Marie Restrepo Deputy Clerk, Superior Court Gwinnett County, Georgia 928-492115, 6/9,16 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 15 AZALEA RD LOT 15, TUCKER GA 30084 (GWINNETT) (Yr/Make) 1967 10X41 COLUMBIAN MOBILE HOME VIN# H6139M015 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 06-15-2017.

928-492750, 6/16,23 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE 2005 Nissan Altima VIN: 1N4AL11E85C107000 License No. 794TJT SC Tag Color: Green Body Style: 4 Door Abandoned on May 26, 2017 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above vehicle is presently located at 5945 S Norcross Tucker Rd Bldg B, Norcross GA 30093; phone (770) 840-8484 in possession of Billy’s Collision Center. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia law.

928-492300, 6/9,16

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NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 6180 NORCROSS TUCKER RD, NORCROSS, GA 30093 (Yr/Make) 2008 FORD F-350 VIN# 1FTWW33R08EA05976 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 06-15-2017.

928-492751, 6/16,23

2007 Chevrolet Aveo VIN: KL1TD566X7B130481 Tag: QAT 7638 2004 Ford Explorer VIN: 1FMZU73W64ZA60690 Tag: PVI 7783 2002 Nissan Sentra VIN: 3N1CB51DX2L660139 NO TAG 2000 Ford Mustang VIN: 1FAFP404XYF160918 Tag: BEF 4956 2003 Volkswagon Jetta VIN: 3VWSE69M63M158117 Tag: PNH 4113 929-492318, 6/16,23

ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: Fiberglass Camper Top SERIAL # N/A LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR WHITE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above camper top was initially removed from Interstate 85 Southbound, South of Lawrenceville Suwanee Road in Lawrenceville, Ga. It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The camper top is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-112 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: HomeMade Utility Trailer VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. 7956GC (Georgia) COLOR BROWN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from 3605 Lenora Church Road located in Snellville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Motorcycle Frame VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle frame was initially removed from 4756 Mountain View Road, Oakwood,GA. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle frame is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2012 Honda TRX400 4-Wheeler VIN 1HFTE2306C4300828 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR RED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above four-wheeler was initially removed from Old Norcross Road and Chaffin Ridge in Duluth, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The four-wheeler is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-493408, 6/16,23

NOTICE There will be sold at public auction on Saturday 24 of June, 2017 at 11:00 am the following vehicle at BAHENA MECHANIC SERVICES; 4598 BUFORD HWY. STED, NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 1998 GMC SAVANNA, VIN: 1GDJG31R8W1088647.

ERNEST AUTO REPAIR, 6020 BUFORD HWY. SUITE D, NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 2004 MERCEDES-BENZ C240, VIN: WDBRF61J24E017955; BOSSI AUTO REPAIR, 4598 BUFORD HWY. STE-B, NORCROSS, GA. 30071, 2009 DODGE JOURNEY, VIN: 3D4GG57V79T212017.

Dz Mechanic Motors LLC, 2570 MISTLETOE LN, SNELLVILLE, GA, 30039, 2005 CADILLAC SRX, VIN: 1GYEE637450174934 and 2007 DODGE RAM 1500, VIN: 1D7HU16N67J572491; declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 40-11-5 929-492117, 6/9,16

PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Uncle Bob’s Self Storage located at: 2655 Langford Rd. Norcross, Ga. 30071, 770-2420468; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, JUNE 27TH, 2017, @ 10:00 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY Space No. Customer Name Inventory 031 Amanda Mccarte Household Goods/Furniture

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 EWING ENTERPRISES, INC. DBA/EWING AUTOMOTIVE, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2005 FORD EXPEDITION 1FMFU17565LA19143 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JULY 6, 2017 AT 10 AM. AT 3262 LENORA CHURCH RD SNELLVILLE, GA 30039 *7662 929-493305, 6/16,23 NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 INTEGRITY AUTOMOTIVE, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2006 FORD F250 SUPER DUTY 1FTSW20P76EC28119 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JULY 6, 2017 AT 10 AM. AT 650 OLD NORCROSS RD STE B LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 *7688 929-493326, 6/16,23 NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 JAIME’S AUTO REPAIR, INC., WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA CREWMAX 5TBEV58107S453469 1989 GMC SIERRA C1500 1GTDC14K3KE539261 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JULY 6, 2017 AT 10 AM AT 65 EAST CROGAN ST SUITE B LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30045 *7697, 98 929-493330, 6/16,23 NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Eagle Towing, located at 115 Arcado Rd. , Lilburn , GA , 30047 , 770-279-1646. Saturday June 24th, 2017 @ 11:00 pm. The following vehicles, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5 as follows: 1993 Honda Civic VIN: JHMEG8654PS003869 Tag: PFI 3296 1995 Buick Riviera VIN: 1G4GD22K3S4728562 Tag: BNN 3340 2001 Chevrolet Malibu VIN: 1G1ND52J816191655 Tag: BNP 1368 2005 Dodge Caravan VIN: 1D4GP24R65B212141 NO TAG 1999 BMW 528i VIN: WBADM6345XBY34686 Tag: QAJ 5818 2002 Ford Taurus VIN: 1FAFP55U52G128328 Tag: BZX 4412

MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, JUNE 24TH 2017@ 1:00PM 2005 Acura TL 19UUA66285A078815 2006 Buick Lucerne 1G4HP57236U164584 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AK55F367760991 2012 Chevrolet Cruze 1G1PF5SC4C7392986 2006 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WC581X69405186 2007 Chrysler Aspen 1A8HX58P97F586081 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 1D7HA18D04J151309 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 1B7HC16X8WS512168 2006 Dodge Caravan 1D8GP45R56B546199 2004 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL36X14N138580 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU73E02UC33329 2003 Ford Escape 1FMYU03103KB53946 1996 Ford Mustang 1FALP45XXTF125536 1997 Ford Expedition 1FMEU18W9VLB35715 2000 GMC Jimmy 1GKDT13W2Y2269491 2003 Honda Accord 1HGCM56693A102875 2009 Honda Accord 1HGCP368X9A004461 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG5649YA027933 2004 Infiniti G35 JNKCV51E34M611496 2002 Infiniti I35 JNKDA31A12T001813 2002 Jeep Liberty 1J4GK58K42W304437 2002 Kawasaki Ninja 250R JKAEXMF182A088196 1998 Lexus ES 300 JT8BF28G9W5032329 M o p e d LFETCBPC061370175 2006 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11DX6N327185 2000 Nissan Altima 1N4DL01D4YC127800 2006 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D16N458554 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix 2G2WP552981119862 2006 Scion tC JTKDE177560120857 1997 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22KXVU174779 1996 Toyota 4Runner JT3GN86R0T0008757 2001 Toyota Corolla JT3GN86R0T0008757 929-493287, 6/15,23 PUBLIC AUCTION LIFE STORAGE FORMELLY UNCLE BOB’S STORE #413 PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Life Storage formelly Uncle Bob`s Store 413–875 Marathon Parkway Lawrenceville, Ga 30046; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of AUCTION DATE: Tuesday, JUNE 27, 2017 at 10:30 AM Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 1010 James Orr Household Goods/Furniture.

1051 Phillip Darby Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment.

2085 Niyokia W Sermons Household Goods/Furniture, TV/Stereo Equipment.

2101 Eric M Holcomb Household Godds/Furniture.

2113 Precious Valentine Household Goods, Tools, Boxes, TV’s or Stereo Equip, Sporting Goods.

3158 Jason Davis Household Goods, Office Furniture, Furniture, Boxes, TV’s or Stero Equip, Account Records.

3173 Benita Watts Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment, Tools/Appliances.

3175 Tauriette Shawn Household Goods/Furniture, Other:Boxes.

4108 Kathryn Creary Household Goods/Furniture.

4196 Dana M Goldman Household Goods/Furniture.

929-492082, 6/9,16 NOTICE OF AUCTION Pleasantdale Storage of Doraville shall conduct an online auction at www.storagetreasures.com to conclude on Monday, July 3rd, 2017 at 10:00am Unit #528 – Derrick Gude– Unit said to contain: Refrigerator.? Two Folding Tables.

Marble Pedestal. 10 boxes/ totes. Small Trunk.

929-493410, 6/16,23

052 Stephanie Flounoy Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.

168 Radeeyah Willis-Henry Household Goods/Furniture 188 Charo Gathright Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.

283 CEI Enviormental Tools/Appliances/ Landscaping/ Construction Equip.

305 Thomas Morris Household Goods/Furniture 325 Kenon Franklin Other: Books 362 Joseph Green Household Goods/Furniture 401 Denise Valhuerdi Evans Household Goods/Furniture/ Landscaping/ Construction Equip.

448 Jeff Goerke Household Goods/Furniture/ Office Furn/ Machines/ Equip.

546 Lydia Sanchez Other: Boxes 535 Barbara Dixon Household Goods/Furniture/ Office Furn/ Machines/ Equip./ TV Stereo Equipment/ Tools/ Appliances/ Other: Boxes 547 Genene Williams Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/ Stereo Equipment 929-492356, 6/9,16

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 1999 Toyota Camry Solara 2T1CF22P7XC178179 1996 Chevrolet Caprice 1G1BL52P9TR156022 2003 Dodge Stratus 4B3AG52H93E060155 2001 Ford Crown Victoria 2FAFP74W61X149194 2001 Dodge Neon 1B3ES46C71D181327 2008 Honda Civic 1HGFA16518L052765 2003 Volvo S60 YV1RS61T332253295 2001 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNCS13W212223652 2006 Jeep Commander 1J8HG48N46C175258 2006 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT55K069370977 2004 Nissan SE-R 3N1AB51D44L729384 2002 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D52C293484 *** SALVAGE ***

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Georgia Law Chapter 40-11-5 the following vehicles have been deemed abandoned and will be sold at a public sale on 7-5-17 @ 1:00 Said Vehicles are located at: 259 North Price Road Sugar Hill, GA 30518 VIN# XP29F9B173660 69 Dodge Charger VIN# 2FTRX07242CA03912 02 Ford F150 Sale will be held at 12:15 on 7-5-17 Location: 820 Brogdon Road Suwanee, GA 30024 929-492119, 6/9,16 NOTICE There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, June 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows : Year; Make; Model; VIN

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30 2004 Audi A4 W A U J C68E74A141854 31 2011 T o y o ta Corolla 2T1BU4EE3BC549628 32 2003 Volvo S60 YV1RS58D632272982 33 2001 Ford Explorer 1FMZU72E71ZA13172 34 1997 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D2VT851054 35 2000 Plymouth Voyager 2 P 4 G P253XYR518445 36 1994 Ford E-150 1 F D E E 1 4 Y6RHC19925

39 1997 Ford Expedition 1 F M E U 1 7 L 3VLC16314

2004 Ford Explorer 1FMZU63K94UC31436

4 2006 Saab 9-3 YS3FD49Y061005435

40 1992 Pontiac Bonneville 1 G 2 H X 53L7N1279177

2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3A4FY58B76T210817

5 Hyundai Trailer 3H3V532C7DT065052

41 1993 Toyota Paseo J T 2 E L45U8P0146732

2003 Ford Explorer 1FMZU63K23UA91230

6 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4G248S4YC147710

2001 Honda Odyssey 2HKRL18601H530616

2001 Mercedes-Benz C320 WDBRF64J61F059823 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2G1WJ15KX79285726 1997 Toyota 4Runner JT3HN86R2V0100475 2004 Nissan Sentra 3N1CB51D34L836001 1998 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E5WZ025311 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C4FY4BB81T623248 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer 1GNDS13S442299363 *** REBUILT *** 2008 Nissan Altima 1N4AL21E98N481811 2004 Honda Accord 1HGCM72684A002723 *** REBUILT ***

2000 Nissan Quest 4N2XN11T0YD844152 1995 Pontiac Firebird 2G2FV22P4S2233385 1997 Acura 3.2 TL JH4UA3640VC012728 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GZ58SXRC122684

2002 Homemade Utility Trailer T570358 2001 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWSC29M61M043559 2000 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNCS13W1Y2135928 2004 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WF52E249333903 2003 Jeep Liberty 1J4GL38K53W514192 1986 Ford F-150 1FTCF15Y3GNA36326 2008 Volkswagen Toureg WVGBE77L38D035618 2010 Honda Insight JHMZE2H59AS014276 2006 Honda Civic 2HGFG126X6H538630 2005 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR32E95Z494198 929-493409, 6/16,23

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42 2011 S u z u ki DL650 JS1VP54B4B2100761

7 2003 GMC Envoy XL 1GKES16S436124809 8 1998 BMW Z3 4 U CH7331WLE08659

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11 2002 Ford Explorer 1 F M Z U 62E92UB64927 12 2005 Honda Accord 1 H G C M82695A000387 13 2002 L a n d Rover Range Rover SALPM16412A465072 14 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM22901L099910 Acura JH4UA364X-

16 2000 Explorer ZA93090

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17 2006 Ford Taurus 1 F A F P53U26A261902 18 2002 Jeep Liberty 1 J 8 G K 38K42W367458 19 2004 C h e v r o let Cavalier 1G1JC52F747116778 20 2001 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AA46H81E117638 21 2002 Ford Expedition 1 F M R U 1 5 W92LA28696 22 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GX48Y1WC356521 23 2001 BMW 325i W B A A V 33451FU89156 D

26 2002 Suzuki GSX-R600 J S 1 G N 7BA822105773 Toyota 1 N X

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THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held on Wednesday July 5, 2017 at 6:30 pm before the Mayor and Council Regular meeting for the purpose of due process of the following: Consideration of local ordinance and historic preservation district centered in the commercial core.

For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

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Edvard Rigaud, Unit#M730: Chairs, Boxes, Corner Sheet, Christmas Tree, Misc Items.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Georgia Law Chapter 40-11-5 the following vehicles have been deemed abandoned and will be sold at a public sale on 7-12-17 @ 1:00 Said Vehicles are located at: 1386 Indian Trail-Lilburn Rd #100 Norcross, Ga 30093 VIN# 1FTHX25G5VEC22768 97 FORD F150

PUBLIC SALE THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON JUNE 24, 2017. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 24 JUNE 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com

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Bratreka Troutman, Unit# D437: Couch, Microwave, Washing Machine, TV, Bags. Ricardo Nunez-Ayala, Unit# H110: Filing Cabinet, Wooden crates, piping insulation, tripod, stool. Ramona Alvarado, Unit# C315: Bags, Weight, Boxes, TV’s Keyboard. Paul Deaton, Unit# C328: Shelves, Boxes, Bags, TV Stand, Mattress. Heather Munerlyn, Unit #M859: Couch, Plastic Totes, Furniture, Box, Bag. Ortecia Scarborough, Unit# J444: Decorative Columns, Pictures, Copy Machine, Mattress Set, Drum. Andre Howard, Unit# D421: Mattress Pads, Boxspring, Dresser, Armoire, Steering Wheel Cover. Ajike Turner, Unit# D449: Bags, Clothes, Chairs, Boxes, Misc Items. Danny Eli, Unit# E544: 2 car-74 Ford, Old Model

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THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held before the Norcross Mayor & Council ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2017 AT 7:00 PM in City Hall at 65 Lawrenceville Street for the purpose of due process of the following: VAR2017-0011, for a waiver of development regulations to allow the construction of a private street to access a proposed R-100 single family detached home development on property at 273, 295 and 297 North Peachtree St, Norcross, GA 30071.

The item will be discussed at the June 19th Policy Meeting of the Mayor & Council prior to the scheduled Public Hearing.

For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

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The case will be presented before the Mayor & Council at the policy work session on Monday July 17th, 2017 at 6:30 pm in City Council chambers.

A following public hearing will be held by Mayor & Council on Monday August 7th, 2017 at 6:30 pm in City Council Chambers.

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Managers, Professional Services (Progress Software Corp., Norcross, GA): Oversee BI team to perform data analysis, design & architecture for BI projects.

Requires: Masters in IT, CS, CIS, Comp Eng or a clsly rel fld (for equiv dgrs ok) & 2 yrs of exp leading a team to perform bus. analysis & solutions delivery for BI Solutions utilizing Data Warehouse design patterns & techniques, SSIS, Pentaho ETL & BI Analytics Tools, or in the alt, Bachelors in IT, CS, CIS, Comp Eng or a clsly rel fld (for equiv dgrs ok) & 5 yrs of same exp as above.

Any suitable combo of educ, training or exp is accept. Qualified applicant mail resume to Progress Software Corp., Maria Haddad, Business Ptnr, Human Capital, 14 Oak Park Dr., Bedford, MA 01730, Reference Job Req Code: 28CM1. No Calls.

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Brick Front 2-Story With Lots Of Class!

4BR/2.5BA Formal Living/Dining Rooms, Spacious Kitchen / Breakfast Area. Main Level Master. Ample Size Secondary Bedrooms.

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GRAYSON, GA 30017 1688 SILVERGRASS LANE

WALTON COUNTY LAND WITH HOUSE FOR SALE 128.97 ac., pasture, woods, pond, fncd. 4BR / 2BA Home, 3808 sq. ft. Exc. quality. N. of Monroe on Co. paved rd. Call Paula Byrd, 404-216-6007. Metro Brokers 678-320-4800.

LEASE/PURCHASE AVAILABLE! Beautiful 2 Story with Massive Space and Extensive Moldings and Trim.

Sits On Full Unfinished Basement. 5BR/4.5BA. A Must See! $415,900 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

3 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths with hardwood entry and carpets in bedrooms.

Large vaulted family room with laminate floors.

Kitchen w/large island. $110,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 4665 Atlanta Highway

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COMMERCIAL SPACES FOR LEASE Suite 100 & 200 Suite 100 End Unit Available for Immediate Occupancy

(2) 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath Unit On Corner Lot.

EATONTON, GA 31024 176 Twisting Hill Rd.

Great Income Producing Opportunity.

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Suite 200 Available October 1st Suite 100 Is 1,319 Sq. Ft. $1,485 per mo Suite 200 Is 1261 Sq Ft Combined Spaces Are 2,580 Sq. Ft. $3,225 Per Month

MOTIVATED SELLER Beautiful Lake Front Property On Deeded Lot! In-ground Salt Water Pool, Detached 2 Car Carport, Front/ Back & Side Porches!

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Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com CEMETERY LOTS FOR SALE ETERNAL HILLS Snellville, GA 4 CEMETERY LOTS CHOICE LOTS. Call for more information 678-372-2137 TWO CEMETERY LOTS Green Meadow Memorial Gardens Conyers. $3,000 for both. 678-635-0342

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

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GWINNETT DUPLEXES

2 Communities!

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

Starting @ $925/mo.

B.C. PROPERTIES 770-446-1550 770-995-8828 MOBILE HOMES & LOTS FOR RENT BARROW-AUBURN 1-2-3 BEDROOMS IN MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY. Rent Starting at $100/ week. Large Lots.

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WINDER A HUGE RUMMAGE SALE! 1st Presbyterian Church of Winder. 239 West Candler St. Sat. 6/17, 8-3. Church funishings, electronics, linens, Pfaltzgraff, Syracuse China, kid’s chairs & tables, deco 3’ columns, 2 old pianos, furniture, silver, handmade items.

MOVING SALE Baby Grand Piano & Lenox Nativity Bowl Chickering Baby Grand Piano and needlepoint bench.

Good condition; needs tuning. In family for 60+ years. Asking $2,000.

Will consider offers.

Lenox Nativity Bowl, NEW, original packaging. Asking $75.

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ANTIQUES/ COLLECTIBLES GEORGIA BULLDOG COLLECTIBLES Photos, one of a kind items, Herschell Walker’s 1980 game jersey! 678-770-5306

JEEP WRANGLER, SPORT 4.0, 1998 Red With Black Top, Lift Kit, New Tires, Many Extras. Looks & Drives Great! $7900.

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Front Loader Set $450 & up; Regular Refrig. & Ranges $175 & up; SXS Refrig. $300 & up.

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

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Fri. 6/16 noon - 4pm, Sat. 6/17 8am-3pm, Sun. 6/18, 8am-2pm.

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1. Diddy, $130 million 2. Beyonce, $105 million 3. J.K. Rowling, $95 million 4. Drake, $94 million 5. Cristiano Ronaldo, $93 million

6. The Weeknd, $92 million 7. Howard Stern, $90 million 8. Coldplay, $88 million 9. James Patterson, $87 million 10. Lebron James, $86 million

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Simple Sips in Lilburn takes the guesswork out of good coffee and morning eats

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June 24 Jeff Dauler and Friends — Dauler, host of the “Jeff and Jenn” radio show, will perform a pair of stand-up comedy shows at 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. at the Aurora Theatre. For more information, call 678-226-6222.

June 30 Lawrenceville Summer Concert Series — The Lawrenceville Lawn, located at 210 Luckie St., will host Kicks Country Night.

The music begins at 8 p.m., but food trucks will be on-hand and visitors are welcome to bring picnics prior to the show. For more information, go to LawrencevilleGa.org.

July 1 Auburn Independence Day Celebration — The city’s celebration starts at 5 p.m. with food, games, music and actvities for the kids followed by fireworks after dark.

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Owner: Keyna Newman Open Since: January 2013 Location: Simple Sip is located at 360 Killian Hill Road N.W., Suite F-1, behind O’Reilly Auto Parts in Lilburn.

Hours: Weekdays 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Saturdays 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Atmosphere: This quaint coffee shop offers the biggest bang for your buck. At Simple Sip, connoisseur Kenya Newman makes a good cup of coffee, without the extra fuss.

When Lilburn’s Starbucks closed a few years ago, Newman knew the neighborhood would be hungry for a new coffee spot, but she wanted to do things her way.

Newman wanted to make coffee simple. In her experience, choosing from a large menu can be a headache, and extravagant beverage names can be confusing. With Simple Sip, Newman decided to get back to the basics.

“I had been stewing on this concept of doing it authentically and simple with really good handpower equipment,” Newman said. “So that’s how the idea was born. It’s Simple Sip because we don’t have an exhaustive menu of selections.”

Newman has been a coffee connoisseur for over two decades and enjoys tasting different blends from around the world.

But what she likes best is a simple cup of brew with fresh, hand-ground beans.

That’s what Simple Sip offers. The shop serves only one house blend, which is both organic and fair trade, so customers don’t need to remember any barista lingo. There is no decision-making process because Simple Sip features only a medium 16-ounce cup — the size most people settle for even if they call it a different name.

And to cut to the chase, sales tax is included in the prices listed on the menu.

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Simple Sip offers simple coffee as well as its Peach Crumb Bar. (Photos: Julie Thompson)

ON THE MENU Coffee (hot or iced): Locally roasted organic beans brewed with triple-filtered water. $2 Americano: Organic fair-trade espresso beans. Optional cream, sugar or an extra shot. $2.75 Latte/mocha (hot or iced): Cinnamon and honey for sweet, ginger and cloves for savory — with a splash of milk and a ginger candy $3.75 Frappe: An icy blended treat — choose from chai, white chocolate, vanilla and fresh whipped cream. $4.25 Hot chocolate: Velvety smooth and not too sweet, topped with fresh whipped cream. $3 Fresh, made-to-order parfaits and breakfast sandwiches: $3 to $6 Chocolate espresso brownie (gluten-free): $3.50 On rotation Apple muffin: $3.50 Peach Crumb Bar: Peach pie meets crumb cake with fresh peaches from the Georgia mountains. $4.50

A selection of baked goods rotates. These items runs less of a headache. are the newest addiConvenience is the tion to the menu and are name of the game. Simple made with local produce.

Sip’s business hours cater Quintana visits orchards to “coffee hour,” a time in the North Georgia mountain area every week frame when customers to purchase fresh fruits for might grab a morning the treats. pick-me-up on their way “She makes the menu to work. from week to week deWhat you see is what pending on what produce you get. Simple Sip has was fresh,” Newman said. a fully exposed kitchen A new menu is posted without big machines in on Simple Sip’s Twitter the way so walk-in cusand Facebook each week. tomers can see “how the Something you may magic happens.” Newman not know: Customers can finds customers appreciate purchase an assortment this face-value quality.

“It’s usually some kind Simple Sip offers simple as well as more complex coffees, as pictured at top. Pictured of organic and fair trade of a barista secret society above, a bacon breakfast sandwich, complete with either scrambled eggs or fried egg blends by the pound. One of the blends is called that goes on behind the whites, is another menu item offered.

Grounds for Hounds. For counter. I kind of wanted to flip the script on that,” baked goods to the menu fair trade beans ground with bacon that was slow- each bag, 20 percent of Newman said. in May. All baked items by hand. The brew can be cooked in the oven, a slice the proceeds go to no-kill shelters for dogs.

Walk-in customers will are wrapped for the conve- served hot or cold. Those of melted cheese and a Dogs are Newman’s find only two familiar nience of commuters and with a craving for somechoice of scrambled eggs first love. She has been a faces. Besides Newman, drive through customers. thing sweet can choose or fried egg whites. proud owner of a doggy there is Jennifer Frye Simple Sip extends from vanilla, caramel or Fresh tomato jam on day care for 15 years.

Quintana — Simple Sip’s its hospitality to walk-in hazelnut latte flavors. a croissant is another “What Keyna wanted resident baker. She wears visitors as well. The shop Visitors can also grab a popular item. Newman to do was combine her a bright orange apron features a small yet quaint bite to eat. An assortment recommends that visitors passion for coffee and when she’s in the shop. lobby and an outdoor seat- of sandwiches can be give the jam a try before animals and marry the two Recently moved from ing area. Wi-Fi is compli- prepared upon request, but passing judgment. She together,” Quintana said.

New York, Quintana mentary to all guests. the bacon breakfast sand- said it is not at all like joined the team in April.

Menu: Coffee is what wich is Newman’s culiketchup and takes a break- “So with that coffee, it’s The two women worked Simple Sip does best. The nary brainchild. It features fast sandwich to “the next something that’s a good cause.” closely together and added shop serves organic and a jumbo croissant loaded level.”

GWINNETT TASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: Frankie’s The Steakhouse The Frankie’s concept is an upscale steakhouse inspired by restaurants such as the Brown Derby. By day, the space is the 1818 Club, but it converts to Frankie’s at 5 p.m.

Frankie’s Director of Operations, Polo Castro, said they chose that theme because there wasn’t anything like it among the other restaurants in the area. He called it “a steakhouse with an Italian flair” and described the servers as both “old-school” and friendly.

The restaurant hosts

live music on Wednesdays through Saturdays. Some nights it’s jazz singing, including the hits of crooners such as Frank Sinatra or Michael Buble, and on other nights it’s piano music.

Customers will find the menu filled with traditional items found at an upscale steakhouse, but the restaurant’s owners pride themselves on having the best food, whether it’s the steaks or the seafood.

The most expensive item on the menu is the 38-ounce Tomahawk steak, which costs $95, but most of the other steaks and lamb chops are in the $38 to $45 range.

A few steaks, including the 24-ounce bone-in rib-eye, the 12-ounce double-cut tenderloin and the 16-ounce bone-in filet tenderloin are in the $57 to $59 price range.

Among other items on the menu, items in the Starters section go for anywhere between $15 for a Portabello Carpaccio to $23 for a Hudson Valley Foie Gras. There are also the grilled oysters, which Ramirez and Castro hold up as another example of the quality food they seek for their dishes. The dish features large Wianno Oysters from Cape Cod, and it costs $17.

The Raw Bar ranges from

$20 for a Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail to $69 for Steamed Alaska King Crab. Most soups and salads cost $9 to $10, but the Burrata goes for $16.

There are the Frankie’s favorites, which range from $26 for Grilled Lemon Chicken to $42 for the grilled Ahi Tuna.

6500 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, 678-395-6447 Simply Done Donuts With a seating area filled with natural light and high ceilings, it may be difficult to imagine a local doughnut shop in Duluth being birthed from a food truck. But that’s the case for Simply Done Donuts, which finds its latest iteration in the heart of

downtown.

On the food truck there are 12 flavors, but the store location has nearly 30 flavors on the small doughnuts. Simply Done also offers a gourmet coffee line, which comes from a Statesboro roaster who is a Duluth native. The store also offers doughnut sundaes and milkshakes. The milkshake is a plain flavor with a doughnut on top.

When she noticed other doughnut shops expanding quickly, owner Karissa Norfleet said she began to feel late to the game even though she started before them.

“They were already working on second and third brick

and mortars,” she said. “I just wanted to get into the market with brick and mortars before it was too late.”

The original idea came five years ago after a move from Dallas, Texas, and she didn’t notice any non-chain doughnut stores in the area, especially compared to the number of stores in Dallas.

Setting her doughnuts apart from competitors, Norfleet said Simply Done Donuts are made fresh to order, so there aren’t display cases in the store.

“There’s nothing better than a hot doughnut,” she said.

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Art Beat

Holley Calmes The Huffington Post has dubbed Atlanta native and prominent dancer Robert Dekkers a “mad genius” for his work with San Francisco-based “Post: Ballet,” a company he created in 2010.

Young dancers from the Atlanta region will now be able to experience Dekkers’ outstanding abilities as a teacher. He will be teaching classes for advanced and intermediate level students at Gwinnett Ballet Theatre from June 19-23.

GBT will open its doors for summer programming for ages 3 and up that week. Dekkers, a GBT alumnus, will offer instruction from 10 a.m. until noon in the intermediate classes, with advanced students ages 13 and up from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Instruction will be given in ballet, modern, jazz and strength and conditioning.

Little dancers, ages 3 through 5, will have their own special dance camps with lots of creative activities centered around dance during the weeks of June 19-23 and July 17-21.

Beginner ballet students ages 6 to 9 will have their own classes focusing on

ballet technique, building a strong foundation on the same weeks. Advanced and intermediate students will also have the opportunity to take a two-hour open ballet class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday beginning June 26. This class will alternate from week to week meeting from 10 a.m. to noon or from 4 to 6 p.m.

GBT is located at 1800 Macloud Drive in Lawrenceville, right across Sugarloaf Parkway from Gwinnett Tech.

Robert Dekkers began his training at Gwinnett Ballet Theatre and danced for such illustrious companies as Ballet Arizona, OCD/Dance, Company C Contemporary Ballet and Diablo Ballet. He was named one of 25 To Watch by Dance Magazine before launching his well-

reviewed company, Post: Ballet, in 2010.

He was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Performance by an individual for his 2012-13 season with Diablo Ballet. That season saw him performing works created by George Balanchine, Jose Limon and more.

Dekkers has also received acclaim through his collaborations with numerous eclectic artists, presenting programming that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “anything but risk-averse.” He was also seen in Atlanta as a choreographer for Atlanta Ballet’s Wabi Sabi initiative in 2014.

Dekkers makes an annual trip back home each June to visit parents, friends, and to teach sum-

A standup comedian who’s appeared on late night talk shows and is heard daily on satellite radio is coming to Lawrenceville.

Henry Cho will perRobert Dekkers, form a family friendly a Gwinnett Ballet Theatre comedy tour at 7:15 p.m. alumnus, will and 9:15 p.m. Saturday at teach a summer the Aurora Theatre. intensive course “I always treat my June 19-23 at the shows like someone GBT studios in invited me over for dinLawrenceville. ner. Something funny (Photo by Richhappened along the way ard Calmes) and I tell that story,” Cho told the Daily Post this week. “Then that story leads someone to tell a story, which prompts me to tell another story and at the end of the night, it’s me telling stories and hopefully all have a great mer intensive at Gwinnett Ballet Theatre. Many GBT time with me just making students make sure to catch everybody laugh.”

Cho described his this week of special training before they head off to delivery as adult humor summer intensives around that’s clean, and he annually performs it to sold the country. out shows in Las Vegas.

GBT dancers will be “Love doing other projheaded to many of the best ects, but when I’m doing ballet companies the U.S. standup, I’m the writer, has to offer this summer. director, producer, editor Sasha West and Avery Ward will be in New York and performer,” he said.

“Can’t beat that.”

City at American Ballet Cho’s TV credits Theatre. Calen Babaz will include appearances on spend his summer in SeNBC’s The Tonight Show, attle at Pacific Northwest CBS’s The Late, Late, Ballet. Ami Snyder, HanShow, and NBC’s Young nah Freeman, and Amelia Comedians Special. He Helmuth will be dancing served two years as host at Charlotte Ballet. Henry Walters will be dancing for of NBC’s Friday Night a summer intensive at Jof- Videos and had many guest roles on various frey Ballet. network sitcoms. Cho was For more information about GBT’s summer pro- co-creator, co-producer gram, call 770-237-0046 or and co-writer of “The Henry Cho Show” on visit gwinnettballet.org.

Henry Cho

GAC. Henry’s one-hour Comedy Central Special, “What’s That Clickin’ Noise?” is currently running, and he can also be heard daily on Sirius/XM and Blue Collar Radio.

He’s also a regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry.

Some of Cho’s film credits include Universal’s “McHale’s Navy” with Tom Arnold and David Allen Greer; “Say It Isn’t So” with Heather Graham and Sally Field; and “Material Girls” with Hilary Duff and Angelica Houston, which was produced by Madonna.

Cho was the keynote entertainer for the 59th annual Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner and said he’s worked extensively with Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Willie Nelson and Carrie Underwood. Cho’s also toured with Michael W. Smith.

Cho was nominated for best supporting actor at the International Christian Film Festival for the faithbased indie film “Saving Faith” in which he costarred and co-produced.

BY VENUE — ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT AURORA THEATRE 128 E. Pike St., Lawrenceville 678-226-6222 www.auroratheatre.com • Ongoing: Ghost Tours • Ongoing: Aurora Comedy Nights • Ongoing: Morning Care • Ongoing: After Care • June 16: CANTO • June 17: Henry Cho • June 21: The Great Pirate Race!

• June 24: Jeff Dauler and Friends • July 20 — Aug. 27: The Hunch Back of Notre Dame HUDGENS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 300, Duluth 770-623-6002 www.thehudgens.org • Through July 29: Hudgens National Juried and Invitational Cup Exhbition • Through June 24: Family Day (Exhibits and hands-on activities) • July 9: Artits slide show and Talk with Kevin Snipes

6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth 770-813-7500 www.infiniteenergycenter. com • June 16: An Evening of Praise Celebrating Unity in Diversity • June 16: Duet Chehov • June 17: Hoang Thi Tho 1 Doi Cho Am Nhac • Sept. 9: Frozen Heart ballet • Oct. 10: Artrageous • Nov. 24: The Nutcracker KUDZU ART ZONE 116 Carlyle St., Norcross 770-840-9844 www.kudzuartzone.org • June 24-25: Pastel Plein Air Workshop with Nancy Nowak

NEW DAWN THEATER Mall Corners, 3650-A Satellite Blvd., Duluth 678-887-5015 www. newdawntheatercompany. com • Through June 25: Dracula in the Twilight Years • July 1: APU INKA Concert • July 8: “New Dawn’s Got INFINITE ENERGY ARENA Talent Show” 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, SYLVIA BEARD Duluth THEATRE 770-813-7500 Buford Community Center, www.infiniteenergycenter.

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by Gypsy Theatre Company • June 29: The Ultimate • July 28: Moana Wealth and Success Summit ATLANTA ATLANTA • July 17: Kendrick Lamar • July 12: Gwinnett County ALLIANCE THEATRE High School Summer 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Graduation Atlanta • July 21 — 22: Joyce 404-733-4650 Meyer Ministries www.alliancetheatre.org • July 29: Shawn Mendes • Through July 16: The Dancing Granny INFINITE ENERGY • June 17 — Oct. 5: The THEATER

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• June 17: Mammoths and Mastodons Opening Celebration • July 8: Reptile Day

ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS 1345 Piedmont Ave. N.E., Atlanta 404-876-5859 www.atlantabg.org • Through July 15: Ribbit the Exhibit • June 24-25: Refugee Recipe Celebration ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER 130 W. Paces Ferry Road N.W., Atlanta 404-814-4000 www.atlantahistorycenter. com • Through June 16: Summer Writing Camp: Developing Character: Heroes and Villains • June 17: Karcheik SimsAlvarado, Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement, 1944-1968 • June 17-18: Juneteenth • June 19: Summer History Camp: Outbreak!

• June 19: Summer Writing Camp: Extra! Extra! Write All About It! • June 26: Summer History Camp: The Great War • June 26: Summer Writing Camp: Write on the Essentials COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta 770-916-2800 www.cobbenergycentre. com • June 16: Dan TDM • July 8: Uncle Curly’s Classroom The Stage Play FOX THEATRE 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta 404-881-2100 foxtheatre.org • Through June 18: Mamma Mia

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Norcross’ Bluesberry festival hits nine-year mark FROM STAFF REPORTS

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Nearing the decade mark, Norcross’ Bluesberry and Beer Festival spotlights live local blues bands and fresh blueberries. The ninth annual event is from 3 to 10 p.m.

Saturday at Betty Mauldin Park.

The mucical lineup includes Wasted Potential, Cazanovas, Albert White, Beverly Guitar Watkins, Real Deal Blues Band and Cody Matlock.

The festival is free with special ticketing and pricing for the beer tasting.

Iron Horse Tavern is hosting a variety of beer trucks in its parking lot.

The brew lineup includes Sweetwater, Abita, Orpheus, Ballast Point, Ommegang, Southbound, Rogue, Goose Island, Jekyll, Red Hare, Lazy Magnolia, Reformation and Monday Night.

Participating downtown merchants and restaurants

Blues player Cody Matlock is again in the lineup for Saturday’s Bluesberry and Beer Festival in Norcross. (File Photo) Right, merchants and restaurants in downtown Norcross will have a Bluesberry decal where patrons can enjoy special drinks, food and discounts for the festival. (Special Photo)

will be marked with a Bluesberry decal.

Zapata will be offering house-made blueberry margaritas. Farmhouse 17 is offering its specialty hotdog — the B.B. King — at

a discounted $3.50 and a blues guitar on the patio.

Dominick’s has a blueberry peach Bellini and homemade New York cheesecake with a fresh blueberry sauce, while 45

South Café’s chef special is blueberry-stuffed French toast. Everything blue will be on the menu at Chase’s Grille and Winery as they serve up blueberry bread pudding, spinach and

chicken salad, blueberry vodka iced tea and blueberry lemonade.

The Atlanta Blues Society, one of the festival’s sponsors, will also have merchandise for sale.

The event is family friendly with special blueberry treats for everyone.

For more information, visit bluesberrybeerfestival. com.

BY VENUE — MUSIC 37 MAIN 37 E. Main St., Buford 678-288-2030 www.buford.37main.com • June 16: Back in BlackThe AC/DC Experience • June 17: The Purple Xperience (A Tribute to Prince) • June 23-24: Led Zepagain (A Tribute to Led Zepplin) • June 26: L.A. Guns Reunion Tour • June 30: Man in the Mirror (A Tribute to Michael Jackson) 40 WATT CLUB 285 W. Washington St., Athens 706-549-7871 www.40watt.com • Ongoing: DJ Immuzikation, Twin Powers • June 16: Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Andrew Leahey • June 17: Liberation of Sisterhood • June 21: Roxane Gay • June 22: The Darnell Boys, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Daniel Romano • June 24: of Montreal, Lingua Franca, Pansy • June 30: David Barbe with New Madrid • July 1: Sean Jenkin’s Night • July 13: Songwriter’s Invasion Feat. Claire Campbell, Leeann Peppers, Bed Deth, Emily Backus • July 15: The Kourtesans • Aug. 3: Athens Dance FX Explosion • Aug. 25: The Record Company • Aug. 26: Groovy Nights Battle of the Decades • Sept. 20: Melvins Spotlights

• Oct. 13: Madolin Orange • Oct. 14: Conor Oberst, The Felice Brithers • Nov. 8: Japandorids, Cloud Nothings ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta 404-733-4900 www.atlantasymphony.org • Ongoing: Casual Fridays • Ongoing: Music for the Very Young • June 23: Chris Botti with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • Aug. 5: Gillian Welsh (The Harrow and The Harvest in Concert-Vinyl Release Tour) • Aug. 9: Stephen Stills and Judy Collins • Aug. 16: Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers • Aug. 19: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band • Sept. 16: UB40 Legends Ali, Astro and Mickey • Nov. 30-Dec. 2: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone in Concert • Sept 29: Indigo Girls with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • Sept. 30: Rufus Wainwright • Oct. 22: Michael McDonald with Special Guest Marc Cohn • Nov. 3: Amos Lee • Dec. 8: Jazz at Licoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis BUCKHEAD THEATRE 3110 Roswell Road, Atlanta 404-843-2825 www.thebuckheadtheatre. com • July 14: One OK Rock

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- CD Release • June 24: The Roosevelts • June 25-26: The Station Breaks • June 27: Sam Lewis • June 30: Macy Todd • July 1: Kick the Robot • July 2: Back in the Saddle • July 6: Mishka • July 7: Amplify Vs. Series James Taylor vs. Carole King • July 8: Cody Marlowe CENTER STAGE THEATER • July 9: The Krickets 1374 W. Peachtree St., • July 11: Jared and Amber Atlanta • July 12: Jason Eady 404-885-1365 • July 13: Takenobu www.centerstage-atlanta.

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BY JON GALLO • Staff Correspondent

Monkeys, Minions, Megatron, Marvel, McQueen, machine guns and murder will all vie to make money this summer at the box office, which will feature plenty of Hollywood’s biggest names. Picking 10 not-to-miss films proved too difficult — it was like deciding which person to cut from a wedding party — so here are 11 movies, one for each week between the last day of school and when it’s time to head back. Special Photos 11. GIRLS TRIP

• Opens: July 21 • Director: Malcolm D. Lee • Starring: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Queen Latifah, Pinkett Smith, Hall and Haddish head to a festival in New Orleans to rekindle their friendship and hook up. This R-rated comedy has booze, sex and Lee, who directed “The Best Man Holiday,” so he has credibility. Besides, the last time Latifah and Pinkett Smith were in a movie together, “Set It Off” took home more than $41 million at the worldwide box office — not bad for a film with a $9 million budget — in 1996.

• Why it may not be: “It’s ‘The Hangover; meets ‘Sex and the City,’” Lee said. “Women are just as lascivious and sexual as men, and they want to let loose and have fun.” That’s an awfully big statement to make about a film that doesn’t have a true A-list actress and could be as cheesy as “Hangover III” and “Sex and the City 2.”

10. ROUGH NIGHT

• Opens: June 16 • Director: Lucia Aniello • Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz • Why it’s worthy of a spot: What could possibly be better than a movie about a bachelorette party in Miami that ends with a dead male stripper? And who is hotter right now than Johansson, considering the wake of “Lucy,” “Captain America,” “Ghost in the Shell” and “The Avengers?”

• Why it may not be: Johansson’s unproven in raunchy female comedies. She’s made quite a name for herself as the Black Widow, but with a supporting cast that also includes Jillian Bell and Ilana Glazer, she may need superhuman strength to carry this film to box office success.

5. TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

• Opens: June 23 • Director: Michael Bay • Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Because all the boys and ’bots are back, which means there will be more explosions on the screen than above the Mall of Georgia on the Fourth of July. No one on this planet is better at directing an action movie than Bay, who is back in the chair again for what has become his signature franchise.

Bay hasn’t disappointed with “13 Hours,” “The Rock,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Armageddon.” Wahlberg made his “Transformers” debut in the fourth film and will try to save the world from certain doom again.

• Why it may not be: Because America could be tired of paying theater prices to watch a movie about shapeshifting Hasbro toys in the theatre and wait until it comes out on On Demand. Consider: “Transformers” Age of Extinction made about $245 million at the worldwide box office, which was about $100 million less than the third movie and about $150 million less than the second installment.

Hopkins, an Academy Award winner who plays an astronomer tracking the robots’ origins, is a wildcard.

4. CARS 3

9. DETROIT

• Opens: Aug. 4 • Director: Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Anthony Mackie, Hannah Muray • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Because Bigelow doesn’t make bad movies.

Her first film since “Zero Dark Thirty” commemorates the infamous Algiers Motel Incident during Detroit’s 1967 12th Street Riot that led to one of the biggest riots in U.S. history. Bigelow, who won an Oscar for 2009’s “The Hurt Locker,” will put her spin on a tragedy that left three black men dead and seven black men and two Caucasians severely beaten.

• Why it may not be: Moviegoers may not flock to a depressing film in the middle of summer. It’s certainly a story that hasn’t received the exposure like other citizen uprisings in U.S. history, and maybe some stories are better left untold. The answer will come in the form of ticket sales.

• Opens: June 16 • Director: Brian Fee • Starring: Owen Wilson, Nathan Fillion, Armie Hammer, Cristela Alonzo • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Because it can’t possibly be as bad as “Cars 2,” right? In fairness, it would have been tough for any storyline to rival the original “Cars.” The storyline appears logical: Lightning McQueen (Wilson) is trying to show he’s still a champion as his career nears an end, while Jackson Storm (Hammer) is out to prove the Piston Cup is his for the taking.

• Why it may not be: Fee’s a first-time director, and he’s been given the keys to a franchise that has collectively grossed more than $435 million in its first two films. That’s a lot of pressure, considering “Cars 2” made about $50 million less than its predecessor. Is Cars the next “Toy Story” franchise or the last we’ll see of perhaps the most famous No. 95 in movie history?

8. DESPICABLE ME 3

• Opens: June 30 • Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin • Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker • Why it’s worthy of a spot: You don’t bet against Carell and Wiig, especially considering the second installment made $368 million, more than $110 million more than the first film that took home $251 million off a $69 million budget.

This time, Gru (Farell) challenges Balthazar Bratt (South Park’s Trey Parker), a former child star who has grown up to become obsessed with the character that he played in the ’80s.

Gru meets his long-lost twin Dru (also voiced by Carell), and the two try to steal a diamond Bratt had stolen. Wiig voices Gru’s wife, Lucy Wilde.

• Why it may not be: Because it’s the third part of a franchise. How many part threes of any franchise are really that good? “Rocky III?” Nope.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End?” No way.

“The Godfather Part III?” Sorry. In Hollywood, the third time definitely hasn’t been a charm.

3. THE HOUSE

• Opens: June 30 • Director: Andrew Jay Cohen • Starring: Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell • Why it’s worthy of a spot: If you were directing a comedy about a middleaged couple, who else would you rather cast? The chemistry between Poehler and Ferrell in this comedy about a suburban dad who wants to open his own casino so he can send his daughter to college could be epic. After all, how many men haven’t at least thought about turning the basement of their suburban home into a casino, complete with a strip club, pool and a MMA fighting ring?

• Why it may not be: Poehler and Ferrell are terrific as headliners, but are they too much together? It wouldn’t be the first time two stars failed to bring out the best in each other. Cohen also is unproven as a director, but he co-wrote “Neighbors” and “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” so he’s no stranger to comedy.

7. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

• Opens: July 7 • Director: Jon Watts • Starring: Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr. • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Because it’s SpiderMan. Say what you want: The franchise’s first five films have taken home more than $1.575 billion at the worldwide box office.

It’s now Holland’s turn to don the red and blue suit and team with Downey Jr. (Iron Man) to try to elevate the franchise into elite territory, as just seven franchises have surpassed $2 billion at the box office.

• Why it may not be: Because it’s a franchise that is trending downward, and what if Holland simply isn’t as good as Peter Parker as Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield?

Spider-Man made more than $403 million when it debuted in May 2002.

The franchise’s fourth film — “The Amazing SpiderMan 2” — generated $202 million in May 2014. Could Spider-Man finally have met his match?

2. LOGAN LUCKY

• Opens: Aug. 18 • Director: Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Daniel Craig, Adam Driver, Katherine Waterston, Channing Tatum, Hilary Swank • Why it’s worthy of a spot: It has star power — and lots of it.

Soderbergh’s past work, which includes the “Oceans” trilogy, Academy Award-winning “Traffic” and “Erin Brockovich,” is impressive. Now he’ll team with a strong cast in a film about family that tries to pull off an enormous heist during NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina.

• Why it may not be: “Baby Driver,” which opens in late June, also centers on a getaway driver and a crime and could be too similar of a movie.

There’s also a chance that Soderbergh falters in his return to the directors chair for the first time since 2013’s “Side Effects,” which took home about $63 million at the worldwide box office. That’s more than $100 million less than Soderbergh’s previous film, “Magic Mike,” starring Tatum, made the year before.

6. WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

• Opens: July 14 • Director: Matt Reeves • Starring: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn • Why it’s worthy of a spot: C’mon, be honest: How cool was it to see an ape toting a machine gun while riding a horse in 2014’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”? Just imagine what these battle scenes will feature. Caesar (Serkis) has grown up before our very eyes — going from being a house pet to the leader of a society of evolved apes. Now, Caesar and his monkey militia are out for blood against an army led by Harrelson.

• Why it may not be: Reeves returns to the director’s seat and could be hard-pressed to better his last effort that made more than $700 million at the worldwide box office.

There’s just too much margin for error when dealing with gun-toting monkeys and trigger-happy humans.

1. DUNKIRK

• Opens: July 21 • Director: Christopher Nolan • Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy • Why it’s worthy of a spot: Because it has the makings of being an unprecedented visual spectacle. Nolan shot his story about the evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, France, from May 26 to June 4, 1940 during World War II using 54-pound IMAX cameras, which had never been used this way for a feature film. The story of freeing more than 300,000 British, French, Belgian and Canadian troops who had been cornered and cut off by Germans during the Battle of France gives Whitehead and Hardy the perfect chance to be heroes.

• Why it may not be: This is clear: Americans love watching movies where Americans are heroes, which is why moviegoers flocked to see “Saving Private Ryan,” “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Fury.” But do Americans care about watching other countries prove their might on the battlefield? Where’s the cinematic evidence? Nolan’s last few films — “Interstellar,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Inception” and “The Dark Knight” — have been excellent and have earned him a loyal following.

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VICTORY LAP ‘Cars 3’ redeems checkered franchise to satisfying finale Cars 3 (G) ★★★★

Above, Jackson Storm (voice of Armie Hammer), posts speeds that even Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) can’t beat. At left, tech-savvy trainer Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo) is armed with cutting-edge tools — like a racing simulator — to help turn racersin-training into champions.

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For most of the 2006 film, I thought “Cars” was the first dip in Pixar’s thenunblemished filmography, but near the end of the second act, it truly delivered that Pixar shine of quality. But there didn’t seem to be any call for “Cars 2” in 2011, an enjoyable piece of fluff but a distinct pothole in Pixar’s road of successes.

Consequently, I was highly skeptical of “Cars 3,” the studio’s latest cartoon about anthropomorphized vehicles. But the teaser poster featuring series star Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) in a midair wreck intrigued me; was Pixar taking this franchise to a darker place than expected?

The still-youthful-looking McQueen is clearly a veteran at the story’s outset. He’s a bit jaded, poking fun at his younger self, but still at the top of his game and winning far more races than he loses.

That is, until a crop of newer, faster rookies — led

by Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer) — not only challenge his spot as racing’s king but leave his whole

generation in the dust.

Following a startling incident at the close of the first act, McQueen finds himself having to get back into racing form. He also finds himself saddled with a new sponsor, billionaire silver car Sterling (Nathan Fillion), who’s looking beyond racing, and a rare female character in this guy-dominated franchise, the sporty yellow Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo), a youthful trainer who doesn’t know anything about actual racing.

Results aren’t great — for both McQueen and the audience. “Cars 3,” like its hero, has trouble firing on all cylinders for much of its second portion.

One of the problems is the hero himself. As a protagonist, Lightning McQueen has always been

a little hard to root for. In the first “Cars” film, he was an impulsive, arrogant youth and a bit of a braggart. That he begins to transcend that is one of the strengths of that story.

But from then to now, he’s been the symbol of unending success. He’s basically the NFL’s Tom Brady as a talking racecar (as an Atlanta Falcons fan, I feel some kind of way about that), and the addition of Cruz as sidekick — think Dory from “Finding Nemo” with confidence issues instead of memory problems — does little to leaven that.

Another problem: Thanks to the superspy parody divergence for the franchise that was “Cars 2,” I felt I needed a fresh viewing of the original “Cars” to recall the back-

to-basics aesthetic of this story. Pixar seems to agree: There are a number of flashbacks and lines that appear to be lifted directly from the 2006 film to remind viewers of McQueen’s mentor, Doc Hudson (originally voiced by the late Paul Newman), whose memory weighs heavily on the proceedings.

This film is something of a metaphor for Pixar itself; once the slickest, undisputably top animation house on the planet, it’s found itself in a cycle of churning out sequel after sequel. It’s as though it’s trying, like McQueen, to hold on to its former glory without making any real change. Indeed, on a technical level, this film doesn’t appear to push a single envelope. Pixar was

clearly able to coast in regard to the visuals.

Thus freed up from figuring out new technologies, it appears Pixar was able to focus a bit more on the story under the hood.

And, ironically, it appears that resting on the laurels of its predecessor proves to be the perfect racing line for this film. Just as the “Toy Story” sequels managed to grow the premise beyond the original’s hook into being a tale of growing up and loss, so too does “Cars 3” manage to tell a story that subverts the simple “Rocky 3” sports movie riches-torags-to-riches cliche that it could have been.

It’s instead a touching commentary on not giving up on one’s dreams while recognizing that dreams don’t always remain static.

And, slyly, it’s not the dream you think the film is initially pushing. Even as “Cars 3” essentially runs through all the usual sports movie tropes in its final act, it does so in a fashion that will resonate with viewers outside the franchise’s general target audience of young boys.

It’s well-telegraphed, to be sure, but it’s so welcome that I didn’t mind.

You think it’s about the lion in winter — or perhaps in early autumn — fighting off the young challengers to the title of king of the jungle. But like McQueen, “Cars 3” surprises with some race maneuvers it hasn’t needed to use before and shows that there’s plenty of heart left under the hood at Pixar, sequel or no.

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‘47 Meters Down’ little more than what you’d expect 47 Meters Down (PG-13) ★★★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

Ever since “Jaws” in 1975, Hollywood has been trying to get lightning to strike again with the now micro-sub-genre-sharkhorror flick. While mostly unsuccessful, the studios have been able to amass a small but dedicated cult following who will see anything with a shark in it, and it is those people who will likely go to and love “47 Meters Down.”

Filmed nearly two years ago, the movie came out last August as an Anchor Bay direct-to-video DVD and Blu-ray with the title “In the Deep” but was recalled the same week because the studio that made it (Dimension) sold the rights to an upstart (the too-long-named Entertainment Studio Motion Pictures) that wanted to give it a proper theatrical run.

Word is the new studio waited because they

Kate (Claire Holt) tries to calm her panicked sister Lisa (Mandy Moore) after they realize they’re trapped at the bottom of the ocean in “47 Meters Down.” (Photo credit: Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures)

didn’t want it to come out too close to the similarlythemed and very popular “The Shallows” and/or because of the renewed popularity of co-lead Mandy Moore now starring in the TV shows “This Is Us” and “Tangled.” Whatever the case, it’s out now and is everything you might expect from a low-budget shark movie starring two girls in bathing suits.

With an opening practically mirroring that of the

recent “Snatched,” Lisa (Moore) gets dumped by her boyfriend because he feels she’s boring, and he’s right. Having already made plans for a tropical vacation with him, Lisa invites her more sociable sister, Kate (Claire Holt, “The Vampire Diaries”), and in no time they’re slamming down umbrella drinks at a beachside bar.

After some cajoling on the part of some fellow vacationers, they decide to

throw caution to the wind and explore the deep in a shark cage. They hire Taylor (Matthew Modine) and his crew and head out on a boat that appears to have been built sometime during the Kennedy Administration. Despite this, Taylor has state-of-the-art diving equipment which — in tandem with his charming assurances — helps them feel safe enough to take the plunge.

Almost immediately,

everything goes south. The chain holding the cage breaks, sending it (guess how far?) down to the ocean floor. Because of the distance, the high-tech communications equipment won’t work, the sisters have a limited air supply and the bloody chum thrown overboard earlier by the crew not only achieves the desired effect of attracting sharks but also greatly clouds the water.

While the visuals from this point on could be perceived as authentic, they also make viewing a chore, something not helped by director Johannes Roberts’ whiplash-inducing editing.

In all fairness to Roberts and co-writer Ernest Riera, their dialogue and brief stretches of blackness and silence occasionally create palpable danger, fear and impending doom, but most of this is offset by hysterical blathering by the women that would be more at home in productions such as “Sharknado” or “Jaws 3-D.” Depending on your perspective, the last few scenes will play out as either strikingly poetic or a

complete (pardon the pun) bait-and-switch rip-off.

Is this the kind of movie where leaving the ending up to speculation is preferable or one where fate is clear?

If all you want is action, some minor exposed flesh and the required jump scares and don’t mind putting your sense of logic on hold for a while, you’ll probably like it more than most. Having a working knowledge of all shark-related movies released in the last 40 years or so would also help.

If you patronize used record/CD/video stores with any frequency, you might be able to find a copy of “In the Deep,” and you could go that route instead, but given it’s scarcity, you might have to pay collector’s prices, which would likely be more than two (or even four) seats at the theater.

It’s (almost) summer and “47 Meters Down” is (almost) a good summer movie. You could do better, but you could also do a lot worse.

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Pass: Good acting, very realistic battle scenes, good character development, a screenplay based on the true story of two American war heroes.

Fail: The back story on Megan takes a long time to build, so the film really doesn’t pick up steam until the second half. But by that time, you’re so hooked into the film that it’s well worth the wait.

Kate Mara (“Fantastic Four” and TV’s “House of Cards”) does a nice job capturing the essence of the title character, who trades in a dead-end small town existence and dysfunctional family situation for a stint in the Marines during the Iraq War. Her non-conformity and disregard for protocol quickly lands her on disciplinary duty with the base’s K-9 unit, where she soon bonds with the real star of the film, combat dog Rex. Lending some nice supporting work are Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from “Harry Potter”) as her mentor, Sgt. Dean, and Common (“Barbershop: The Next Cut”) as the tough-but-tender Gunny Sgt. Martin.

Those who enjoy real-life stories of heroism under fire will be drawn to “Megan Leavey,” especially as she and Rex bond together. The battle scenes are quite shocking and leave the viewer on edge as both handler and their animal work in tandem to detect potential hazards. Veterans will appreciate the very patriotic themes that run throughout. Dog lovers will really like the very poignant latter half of the film.

“Megan Leavey” is a mostly quiet, unpretentious film that will probably slip under the radar for most folks, but it’s well worth seeing either at your local cinema or later on DVD.

As a veteran, I have seen firsthand the effect of military service on aimless and undisciplined souls, watching many transformed and molded into leading productive lives in and out of uniform, so I found “Megan Leavey” to be a good character study in that regard. As a dog lover, I struggled to fight back the tears during particular moments. “Megan Leavey” is a feel-good story that stretches your heartstrings to the breaking point at times, and leaves you wondering just who saved who in this film.

Pass: This true story of a young marine, Megan Leavey, and her K-9, Rex, who served in many missions and successful explosive findings, was very engaging. It was a good look at the loyalty between them and their service for their country. I thought it was also the right rating (PG-13) and the right length (just under two hours).

Fail: No real complaints, perhaps a couple scenes were slightly slow, but overall a good job of handling the many emotions involved and displaying Megan and Rex’s eventual bonding.

It would have to be Kate Mara as Megan. She was very believable as someone who became attached to her dog and heavily involved in her duties. Her complicated relationships and post-war difficulties were also well acted. I also liked Ramon Rodriguez as Matt Morales, her fellow marine and love interest.

People who are dog lovers and people who like true stories will appreciate this film.

Also, those who enjoy well done dramas and war stories will like it.

I liked this on the big screen, and it would be a more enhanced experience, but definitely fine for enjoying at home.

Overall, this had a good script and good acting and some good touching scenes. It is not too gory with any war parts and gave honor to those who sacrifice for our country. I liked that some of the street scenes were filmed right here in Georgia, and no animals were hurt in the filming. There is also a nice tribute to the real Megan Leavey at the end.

Tim Weekley, Suwanee

★★★★

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A United Kingdom Blu-ray (PG-13) Movie: ★★★★ Disc: ★★★★ For her third film, African-English, formerchild-star-turned-director Amma Asante serves up something of a bookend to her sophomore effort, “Belle,” another fact-based period piece dealing with interracial relationships. Meeting in 1948 at a jazz club in London, white office clerk Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and black Botswana native — and member of royalty — Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) fell for each other almost immediately. Disowned by her parents and the object of scorn from his family and fellow countrymen, Ruth also suffered through long absences while Seretse was effectively held captive by the cowardly and shortsighted British government.

Technical specs: Aspect ratio: widescreen (2.39:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 7.1, DA 5.1), subtitles: English, French and Spanish.

Special features include: • Four featurettes • Additional DVD + digital copy • First edition slipcover packaging (Fox, $39.99)

Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters. Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (R) — 3 stars This documentary about proto-celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower is surprisingly engaging, even if one isn’t terribly interested in the subject matter.

— Khari J. Sampson • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (PG-13) — 3 stars The lovable band of space mercs returns in this sequel to the 2014 Marvel Studios effort. Similar to the first film, there’s a lot to like about “Vol. 2” — dynamic characters, lots of action and tons of humor.

Alas, there’s not enough to love to quite match the original. But who cares when it’s still this good? — KS • Unforgettable (R) — 3 1/2 stars Katherine Heigl hits her stride in this psychological thriller. Playing a jealous exwife, Heigl’s Type-A character, Tessa, looks to make life difficult for her ex-husband’s new fiancee, Julia, played by Rosario Dawson. Tessa goes to great lengths to manipulate relationships to try to get what she wants — her husband and daughter back in her life. — Alex Tostado • The Lost City of Z (PG13) — 3 stars This biopic of early 20th century British explorer Percy Fawcett is a long slog of a film.

But like the Amazon jungle that captivates the protagonist, it draws you in, even if it might be better served as a documentary. — KS • Their Finest (R) — 3 stars Set in wartime Britain, “Their Finest” is a different sort of World War II film, one focused on the home front. The movie’s often at its best when scenes of the unfinished film take the screen. But they’re fleeting and, really, less is more where they’re concerned. However, when it morphs into something a bit more conventional, it does so cleverly enough that it

doesn’t feel completely artificial.

— KS • Land of Mine (R) — 4 stars Martin Zandvliet wrote and directed this Oscar nominee (Best Foreign Language Film) based on real events about a Danish sergeant (Roland Møller) who is put in charge of a young band of German

POWs who are tasked with disarming thousands of land mines. The movie is suspenseful at times, uplifting at others and doesn’t seem to hold back much of the horror of such a situation. — Michael Buckelew • Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG) — 2 1/2 stars Forget the live-action/animated hybrid Smurf films; this

outing is the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon writ large.

Sole female villager Smurfette and friends try to stay a step ahead of the villainous Gargamel in search of a secret Smurf village — one comprised of girl Smurfs. While not great, it managed to win over this old Smurf-hater anyway.

— KS

COMING SOON TO OWN • “Life” (June 20): Astronauts, played by Jake Gyllenhaul, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds, find the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars while aboard the International Space Station.

Conducting research on the lifeform proves to be more terrifying than any of them expected. (R) • “Wilson” (June 20): Woody Harrelson plays Wilson, a lonely, isolated man tracking down his exwife, Pippa, played by Laura Dern.

Once he does, he finds out that he is actually the father of a teenager named Claire (Isabella Amara). The rest of the story unfolds as Wilson tries to connect with the daughter he never knew he had. (R) • “CHIPS” (June 27): Dax Shepard and Michael Pena star

as Jon Baker and Frank “Ponch” Poncherello in a comedy loosely based on the late 1970s TV series.

Ponch, an undercover FBI agent, is teamed up with ex-dirt bike star Baker in the California Highway Patrol. Together they investigate a heist that may involve other cops in the CHP. If you like raunchy comedy, the laughs are almost nonstop and interspersed with some nice motorcycle chase action sequences. Vincent O’Onofrio, Adam Brody and Kristen Bell also star. (R) • “Power Rangers” (June 27): Five teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an aliens. Chosen by destiny, the heroes discover

they must save the planet. To do so they have to overcome real-life issues and band together as the Power Rangers. (PG-13) • “The Belko Experiment” (June 27): A day at the office turns into a quest for survival at Belko Corp. in Colombia. All of the employees become pawns in a deadly game when they become trapped inside the building. Only the strongest will survive. (R) • “T2 Trainspotting” (June 27): Twenty years after the original, Ewan McGregor returns in the role of Mark Renton. Mark is returning to the only place he ever called home. Found there are all of his old friends: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Bedgbie (Robert Carlyle). (R)

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likely never know, Trevorrow felt he had to make this his third movie, and with a major script overhaul or two or three it could have been “E.T.” (minus the sci-fi) or maybe even “Sling Blade.” Presented in

BY MICHAEL CLARK a conventional, chronologiMovie Critic cal manner, the story would have been far better served A movie mistakenly dewith a non-linear “Taransigned to be everything to tino” approach. everybody, “The Book of Without giving anyHenry” ultimately gets very thing away, the departure little right. If you’ve seen of a major character at the trailer — one of the few the halfway point makes these days that is accuthe last half problematic rate — you’ll get the idea and simply impossible to that this is a light comedy, swallow. Events happen mixed with moderately (or don’t) that come across heavy drama and perhaps as contrived or forced that some neighborhood espiowould have totally worked nage; that’s exactly what if presented out of seyou’ll get. However, these quence. are three distinct genres The big problem with that usually don’t work “going Tarantino” is that well when mixed together it would have lessened in a cinematic blender. It’s the likelihood of this ever becoming a family-friendly a shame, really, given the caliber of the cast and the Jaeden Lieberher stars as Henry Carpenter in “The Book of Henry,” (Photo: Alison Cohen Rosa via Focus Features) film which — given everything included — should director.

The first clue that it entire plot, “Henry” kicks have never been considered Sheila (Sarah Silverman). for-his age Peter from immense credit, she never might not work is that in the first place. This is off with a glossy, high-end With gum-smacking sass bullies, Henry is highly overplays the part. In the the screenplay is 20 years “after school special” feel. eminiscent of Flo from concerned for the safety final act, Ziegler is also af- a movie that should have old and was written by Henry (Jaeden Lieberher, the '70s TV show “Alice,” and welfare of his nextforded a chance to perform been an R rated thriller. someone (Gregg Hur“St. Vincent”) is a preSheila sports breast tattoos, door neighbor, Christina a heartbreaking solo ballet The subtext is not appropriwitz) whose credits are teen genius who is the drinks far too much and (dancer Maddie Ziegler in performance that provides ate for anyone under 13 episodes of really bad TV. older brother of the sweet has a running love/hate her acting debut), the step- the film with its emotional (or maybe even 18) and There have been many the comedy element — in and gentle Peter (Jacob relationship with Henry, daughter of Glenn (Dean zenith. addition to not being funny unproduced screenplays Tremblay, “Room”) and whom she calls Hank, Norris, “Breaking Bad”), “The Book of Henry” in the least — unwisely that have eventually been the de facto parent to his much to his chagrin. Later a widower of her mother was supposed to be the softens the “heaviness” of realized but few older than video game-playing single on, Sheila does something and the chief of police in sophomore effort for the plot. a decade. Ten seems to be mother, Susan (Naomi to/with Henry most people a small, unnamed, upscale director Colin Trevorrow Death — natural or oththe age when it becomes a Watts). would consider to be New York hamlet. whose debut, “Safety Not erwise, abhorrent behavlost cause, mostly because Because of his brilliant highly inappropriate, and in With hair and makeup Guaranteed,” was a brilit’s unfilmable or too much financial acumen Henry retrospect her character is designed to suggest a teen liant low-budget, art-house, ior and the possibility of of a scattershot hodgeas been able to make it totally unnecessary to the version of sultry screen sci-fi masterpiece that was murder are not subjects that should be included podge story. possible for Susan to never story and should have been siren Veronica Lake, so great it prompted those Opening with an interin family-intended PGwork again, yet she does cut out completely.

Christina is hiding somein power to hire him to esting montage of pen13- rated films. Having for no reason, at nearIn addition to keeping thing anyone with even a direct the first installment cil drawings that — in minimum wage at a diner the family financially flush small clue could figure out of the new “Jurassic Park” Susan drop the F-bomb retrospect — explain the in front of Peter only to alongside fellow waitress and protecting the smallquickly, and to Ziegler’s franchise and the final have him make light of it installment (the as yet untitled “Episode IX”) of the is not wise storytelling.

It’s milking the limits of a Star Wars saga. You don’t messed-up ratings guideget those kinds of gigs by luck, happenstance or per- line system.

There are adult films, sonal connections. You get them because of talent and family films and children’s films. “The Book of vision, something TrevorHenry” tries to be all three row proved in spades and then some with “Safety Not and succeeds as none of them.

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