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LOCAL COLUMNIST|DARRELL HUCKABY

A marriage Grizzard would have celebrated

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ast week I reread one of my family, put his father’s to shame. favorite Lewis Grizzard colGrizzard wrote that the Hill umns. Understand, that’s child was “8 pounds, 11 ounces like saying I rewatched one of ... he’s going to be a big ’un.” He my favorite Georgia football vicis. Well over 6-2 and solid as a tories over Georgia Tech or re-lisrock. Lewis would have loved the tened to one of my favorite Conway fact that Alex grew up playing tenTwitty songs or rehugged one of nis at Dan Magill’s tournaments, my favorite grandchildren (I only Huckaby in Athens and all over the South have the one). Or reprayed one of and at the Westminster School in my favorite prayers.

Atlanta.

This column started out “A friend of He would have loved more that he played mine became a father for the first time on two National Championship tennis last week.” That would have put this par- teams at the University of Georgia, halticular column around the first of June lowed be thy name, and that he was the in 1988, because I know the baby boy in top scholar athlete for the entire Univerquestion and he was born in late May of sity the year he graduated from the Terry that year. Ronald Reagan was president. College of Business. That’s high cotton.

I miss Ronald Reagan as much as I miss And he would have been tickled to death Lewis Grizzard. that his friend’s little boy grew up to be I will take a bit of license and paraphrase as good with money as his dad, and parsome of the conversation Lewis reported layed his Terry degree into a promising with his buddy at the time. Under the cir- investment career. cumstances, I don’t think he’d mind. He But Lewis would have really loved getwrote that his friend reported his baby ting to attend Alex’s wedding. Y’all know boy as having a lot more hair than the how much Lewis Grizzard loved a wednew dad — and Grizzard ragged on the ding. He had four of his own. Dorsey Gary new dad for his growing bald spot.

Hill was in three of them.

But he also praised the new dad for You see, that little boy that Lewis wrote having been a fierce competitor on the about in June of 1988 will stand on Herty tennis court and golf course, being the Field in June of 2019 — not coincidenbest shag dancer in the Southeast, which tally, the site of Georgia’s first victory over means the world (my words, not Lew- Georgia Tech in football — and promise is’s), and for having flown airplanes and to love, honor and cherish Selby Merritt, been to war. who is as strong, independent and intelToward the end of the piece Grizzard ligent as she is beautiful. The ceremony wrote, “Only when a man comes to peace will be charming. The sermon will be with himself, is there the wind to move especially meaningful, and I would have him an inch, and he knows without doubt, said that even if I wasn’t preaching it. that in wife and child he has the only trea- The party after — well, the party after sures that really matter anyway.” is for the ages.

That was the truest sentence Grizzard Lewis would love the party, as well as ever wrote, and you can take it to the the ceremony — and even the sermon. I bank that Dorsey Gary Hill — the close, wish he could be there. close friend of whom the great scribe But I will tell you what I am going to was writing — took those words of wis- cherish even more than the events of Satdom to the bank. A rich man in so very urday. I’m going to love watching the many ways already, his wife, Charlotte, commitment the new bride and groom and his son Alex have enriched his life show toward one another as they confar beyond any real estate holdings or tinue to grow in faith and love and underdigits to the left of the decimal on any standing and learn the real meaning of bottom line on any deal Gary Hill has terms like “for better or for worse” and ever examined. “for richer and for poorer” and “as long Sadly, Lewis never knew those riches, as we both shall live.” and he never really knew Alex, the baby Weddings are nice and all, but marof whose birth and bonding he wrote riages — marriages are the foundation so eloquently, 31 years ago, almost to of society. Marriages, not diamonds, are this day. I wish he had. He would have forever. liked him a lot. He would have enjoyed May God bless that of Alex and Selby. watching him grow into a handsome young man whose good looks, obviously Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale inherited from his mother’s side of the County. Email him at dhuck008@gmail.com.

COLUMNIST|DICK YARBROUGH

Father’s Day a time to remember a special man I

first penned this tribute to my There was not much gray area father in 2015. It has been 35 in his world. It was right or it was years since he passed away and wrong. Period. That included his not a day goes by that I don’t think maddening habit of obeying the of him, especially on Father’s Day. speed limit. If 35 miles per hour With a few minor edits, I present was the posted limit, then it was it again this year.

35 miles an hour. Not 40. Not 36.

My dad was a man with a limited I used to slink down in the seat education — he only made it through Yarbrough to avoid the dirty looks of drivers the seventh grade — but the wisest when they were able to finally pass man I ever knew. He was also the hardest him on the two-lane roads. He was obliviworking. For 49 years and four months, ous, basking in the fact that he had never he toiled for the Railway Express Agency. gotten a ticket. (When he died, his record Most of that time was spent working out- was intact. No parking tickets. No speedside in all kinds of weather, including his ing tickets.) last day on the job. In all those years, he He was not a wealthy man. He and missed three weeks of work. That was my mother had a modest home in East because of an emergency appendectomy Point, a small life insurance policy and in a time when hospital stays were a lot just enough money in the bank to pay their longer than they are today. bills promptly. But his legacy cannot be His childhood had not been a particu- measured by money. It is the example he larly happy one although he rarely talked set for my brother and me. about it. His mother died when he was 4.

This simple man with a simple view of His father was a bit of a bully and his step- the world left us with valuable lessons I mother was clearly partial to her own chil- still try to apply today. I learned there are dren, not the ones the marriage brought no shortcuts in life. I learned to work hard into the family. There wasn’t a lot of love and to be a man of my word. I learned there. that rationalizing something meant that I have heard horror stories about parents it was probably a bad idea that I was trytreating their children as they were treated ing to talk myself into being a good one. in their own childhood. Not in our house. I learned to never miss a vote, no matter He loved his family more than anything. how inconsequential it seemed to be. I But don’t imagine for a moment that he learned the importance of loyalty — loywas touchy-feely. He was a disciplinarian. alty to my country, loyalty to the organiHe never raised a hand or his voice to my zation that paid me, loyalty to my friends. brother or to me, but he didn’t have to.

I learned a lot about love from him, too, Neither of us dared challenge him. He was although I never heard him say “I love never our pal. He was our father and the you.” He didn’t have to say it. He just did rules were his. We avoided a lot of poten- it. I remember the beam on his face when tial trouble because we were afraid of the one of his boys did something to make him consequences and we loved him too much proud or when he looked at our mother. to disappoint him. That is a rare combi- He knew how to love. nation. He was a rare man.

I have attempted to emulate his examAs he and I grew older, we also grew ple in my own role as a father, but he is a closer. The grandchildren worshiped him tough act to follow. Try as hard as I may, and still do after all these years. The trips I will never be the man my father was. to the grandparents’ house on Saturday And I am proud of that fact. God bless his evenings for a cookout are a treasured memory and Happy Father’s Day. memory. While the kids played, he and I would sit in the back yard and feel no You can reach Dick Yarbrough at yarb2400@ need to engage in a lot of idle conversabellsouth.net; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, GA tion. We just enjoyed being in each other’s 31139; online at dickyarbrough.com or on Facecompany. In our case, silence was golden. book at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.

COLUMNIST|MARC THIESSEN

Don’t downplay Trump’s role in U.S.-Mexico immigration deal

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ASHINGTON — President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the U.S.-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico had already agreed to many months ago.

Nice try. If Mexico had truly agreed to implement many of these measures in December, then why had they not been implemented six months later? As even Mexican officials acknowledge, it was Trump’s threat of tariffs that forced Mexico’s hand. In announcing the deal, a relieved Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the “most important thing is that they didn’t apply tariffs and we didn’t experience an economic slowdown.” The fact is, Trump bucked Republicans on Capitol Hill and even many of his own advisers, and used the threat of tariffs to get Mexico to act — and it worked.

The measures Mexico has promised to avoid those tariffs include the deployment of 6,000 national guard forces at Mexico’s largely unguarded border with Guatemala, which — according to Mexican negotiating documents — will be “the first time in recent history that Mexico has decided to take operational control of its southern border as a priority.”

Mexico also agreed to carry out safe third country,” those crossing thousands more arrests of illegal its southern border would have to migrants each week and to remove seek asylum and settle there. That the caps it imposed on the numwould push the Central American ber of U.S. asylum seekers it would migrants problem from our southaccept and hold inside Mexico. Until ern border to Mexico’s southern now, Mexico had been accepting a border where it belongs. As Roger maximum of 300 people a day from Noriega, a former U.S. ambassathe United States. Trump rightly dor to the Organization of AmeriThiessen said that was not good enough at can States, pointed out during an a time when more than 4,600 migrants interview for the American Enterprise were apprehended crossing the border Institute’s new podcast (which I co-host), each day in May. Now there will be no it would also put the human smugglers limit, which means the United States can out of business. If Mexico is designated a send back to Mexico most of the Central “safe third country,” Noriega says, “peoAmerican families who cross the border ple will no longer be paying coyotes their to seek asylum. That will relieve the stress life savings to get to the United States, on our border agents, who have been over- because they are not going to pay that to whelmed by the unprecedented flow of get to Mexico.” families and unaccompanied minors — Mexican officials convinced Trump to the vast majority of whom do not qualify delay his demand for a “safe third counfor asylum. try” agreement and give them 45 days to Ultimately, the Trump administration show that the other measures in the agreewants Central American migrants to have ment will work. If they don’t, foreign minto seek asylum in Mexico rather than the ister Ebrard understands that Mexico will United States. The United States and Can- either have to accept new asylum meaada have a “safe third country” agreement sures or face tariffs. “If we’re successful, under which those seeking asylum must the number of people waiting for asylum make their claim in the country where they in Mexico will decrease,” he said. “If we first arrive. If Mexico were designated “a fail, and if we don’t get the results, well,

we’re not going to have solid arguments to propose a different path.”

The president deserves credit for forcing a reluctant Mexican government to act.

He was able to do so because the administration in Mexico City knew he was willing to pull the tariff trigger. It knew that Republicans on Capitol Hill would not overturn his action. And it knew that its country was vulnerable — because while tariffs would certainly have hurt the U.S. economy, they would devastate Mexico’s, which contracted in the first quarter of 2019.

Everyone advised him not to do it, but Trump saw his leverage and he used it. If his critics in Congress had done their job by providing him with the emergency border funds he requested in May, and by fixing our asylum laws, he would not have been forced to do so. Mexico now has 90 days to show progress — and so does Congress.

If members do not like the blunt instrument of tariffs, then they should give the president some alternatives. Otherwise, they will be unable to avoid blame if a trade war with Mexico ensues.

Marc Thiessen is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

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A4 ♦ Sunday, June 16, 2019 ♦ gwinnettdailypoSt.com COLUMNIST I KEITH ROACH

WEATHER WATCH

Tiredness may really be chronic fatigue

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EAR DR. ROACH: My husband is tired all the time. He functions but frequently has to sit to recoup his energy, even after a shower.

He is diabetic and has been for over 10 years. He does not take insulin and manages to keep his A1C within 7.1 to 6.9.

He weighs 207 pounds, and he’s 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 75 years old.

His bloodwork always comes back normal, and a nuclear stress test came back negative. We have discussed Roach this chronic fatigue with our family doctor. His only explanation is possibly low testosterone (the low end of normal).

We know that some if not all of his medications list fatigue as a side effect, but we cannot persuade our doctor to do further tests. My husband does have an appointment with a cardiologist for a consultation and any suggestions, and also a checkup in six months with our family doctor.

My concern is his medications and the fact that they are generic. I have read many stories about generic drugs and problems with their effectiveness.

— J.C. ANSWER: Fatigue, which is the sensation of feeling tired, is a nonspecific symptom and a complaint that’s commonly heard by general doctors. It can be related to many diseases, as disparate as multiple sclerosis to heart failure, anemia to depression, and chronic infection to sleep disturbances. However, your husband notes a severe intolerance to exertion, which makes me suspect systemic exertion intolerance disorder, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome. Poor sleep, difficulty thinking or concentrating, and having worse symptoms with standing also go along with this diagnosis.

There is yet no lab test for confirmation. The diagnosis is made after considering other causes, and testing for those that make sense after a careful history and exam.

Diabetes, when not well controlled, may lead to chronic fatigue. I’m not so concerned with generic medications as I am about too many or the wrong ones, so a careful review of medications is appropriate.

I have previously recommended a graded exercise program for this condition; however, the study that led to this recommendation had several significant issues; many people will actually have worsening of their post-exercise fatigue, so exercise must be used very cautiously and on an individualized basis. Cognitive behavioral therapy has had some benefit, but we desperately need better treatments.

DEAR DR. ROACH: Is it possible to suffer and maybe die from a broken heart? We all have many life events that change our lives dramatically.

— M.A.K. ANSWER: Absolutely.

The first condition is rare, and it’s called takotsubo cardiomyopathy (the condition was first described in Japan: “takotsubo” means “octopus trap” in Japanese, reflecting the characteristic appearance of the heart on echocardiogram; “cardiomyopathy” is a nonspecific term for something that’s gone wrong with the heart muscle). This condition accounts for 1% to 2% of all suspected cases of heart attack based on EKG and blood tests. It is much more common in women (80%) and is most often diagnosed in a person’s 60s or 70s.

About 28% of people with takotsubo cardiomyopathy have emotional stress as the precipitating factor, while 36% had a physical trigger (such as infection or surgery), 8% had both physical and emotional triggers, and 28% had no identifiable trigger.

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COLUMNIST I AMY DICKINSON

Woman should be taught timeless skills

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EAR AMY: My son has been bringing his long-term high school sweetheart, “Terry,” to our home for supper now for a couple of years.

Terry was not brought up with table manners, and as a matter of fact, her family doesn’t even own a dining table. They eat in front of the TV or in their bedrooms by themselves. She arrives without saying hello, picks at her food, and worst of all picks her fingernails and split ends before and after the meal at the table.

I haven’t said anything so as not to put a rift between us. The behavior is thoughtless and rude. She acts as though she could care less about our family dinner hour.

Please advise me how to kindly counsel her. My husband and I have had enough!

— Sabotaged Suppertime DEAR SABOTAGED: Poor girl! I can understand why she spends so many suppers at your house — her own seems devoid of important mealtime closeness.

Even though “Terry” seems rude and disengaged while at your table, it is likely because she simply does not know how else to behave and is possibly embarrassed by the contrast between your households.

Because she hasn’t received even nominal

training or guidance at home, you should offer it to her at your house.

You could do this in stages, Dickinson exactly as you would with a young child. Start by asking her (and your son) to help you set the table.

Show her where implements and glasses go and ask her to fold the napkins and place them under the fork. Engage her in various cooking tasks such as chopping vegetables and making a salad. Ask her what her favorite dishes are, and see if she and your son could cook from a recipe for the family.

During meals, engage and include her in conversation (remember, she has never done this before!).

The more engaged she is, the less she will fall back on her anxious (or unconscious) behaviors, such as fingernail and split-end examinations.

After the meal, depending on who did the cooking, she and your son should clear the table and take care of the dishes.

I hope you will continue to approach this with patience. If you are able to bring her along, it could have a profound impact on her.

DEAR AMY: A dear friend recently passed away,

leaving a very unworldly 32-year-old daughter with a great deal of money and property.

Until he was very sick, she was unwilling to be friendly toward me. After his death I brought her to our home, a five-hour drive away. The idea was to get some peace in the area where I live.

I paid for everything: gas, tolls and food. It never once occurred to her to offer any financial help or to pay for a meal.

She only wanted to shop (over an hour away) where, again, it was my money for gas, my driving, etc. (I am 68). There was no gratitude expressed for any of my trouble.

I invited her again, four months later. The same situation prevailed. No offer to help with expenses. Basically, a demand to shop, followed by no “thank you.”

I am incensed. This time, when she got home, I texted, “I think there is a little phrase missing: ‘thank you.’” She responded, “Oh, I thought I said it. Thank you.” She has shown no gratitude or willingness to pay the others who give her rides (she doesn’t drive), or who helped her through her father’s illness!

I’m done, but I’m on the fence about whether I should write her to set her straight about gratitude and how much a “thank you” means.

What do you think?

— Incensed DEAR INCENSED: After you had been burned the first time, you responded by issuing another invitation. You are either an eternal optimist — or a slow learner.

Regardless, you have already set this person straight regarding expressing gratitude — and good for you!

You have been expansive, generous, and appropriate.

You don’t like this person.

You don’t want to spend time with her. Burning her with a corrective communication might make you feel better — but I doubt it.

Consider this social circle now closed.

DEAR AMY: Huzza for your answer to “Gaslit,” who was so stressed out about how to get her husband to mow the lawn!

My 94-year-old mother mows hers; I (age 70) mow mine, and my 45-year-old daughter (working, married, busy mom) mows hers too.

— Do it Yourself DEAR DO IT YOURSELF: I mowed mine yesterday. It is my favorite chore.

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

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Paul Duke STEM teacher selected for NASA program

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

staff photo: curt yeomans

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Deputy General Manager and CFO Greg Richardson addresses the Gwinnett Chamber at the 1818 Club in unincorporated Duluth on Wednesday.

A computer science teacher at Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross is headed to Houston after being selected for a competitive spot in NASA’s Texas Space Grant Consortium.

Rebecca May is one of a small group of teachers in the country who will participate in the prestigious LiftOff Summer Institute to be held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The program selects teachers who will increase their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and math through space education and will meet June 23-28 to conduct experiments, tour facilities, network and share ideas

and lessons with other educators.

The theme of this year’s summer LiftOff event is “The Legacy Rebecca of Apollo!”, commemoMay rating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the moon landing July 20.

Teachers participate in workshops and spend a week working with professional scientists and engineers at the cuttingedge of space exploration.

The workshops are organized around an aerospace or space science theme drawn from NASA’s diverse engineering and scientific research programs.

Hartsfield-Jackson official: ‘We will fight’ state takeover proposal Buford Dam Road,

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport officials are not about to back down from a potential fight with Georgia legislators over a proposed state takeover of the airport, its second-in-command told the Gwinnett Chamber on Wednesday.

Deputy General Manager and CFO Greg Richardson addressed the chamber about what goes on at the airport during the business group’s June On Topic luncheon at the 1818 Club in unincorporated Duluth. The issue of the proposal pending in the Georgia General Assembly for the state to take over the airport came

up during a question-andanswer session at the end of Richardson’s presentation.

“We will fight it because we firmly believe it’s the city’s entity, the city built it and the city (ran) it for however many years,” he said.

Legislation was introduced in the Georgia General Assembly earlier this year to take control of Hartsfield-Jackson away from the city of Atlanta, in light of an ongoing federal investigation into alleged corruption in the city’s government.

A bill to create a “Georgia Major Airport Authority” was introduced by state Sen. Burt Jones and passed in the Senate this year, but after wrangling in the House, the takeover plan did not

make it out of the General Assembly.

In an op-ed piece which was published in Daily Post sister paper, the Jackson Progress-Argus, in February, Jones cited investigations at the airport over the years and the fact that changes in who occupies Atlanta’s mayor’s office can affect airport administration as reasons why a state takeover was needed.

But Richardson told the Gwinnett Chamber that several stakeholders in the airport, including airlines which operate there, support Atlanta’s running of the airport.

“We firmly believe the airport has been very well-run over the last 75-100 years,” he said.

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dles more than 2,700 flights per day and has been consistently ranked the world’s most efficient airport, the deputy general manager told the chamber during his presentation.

He also highlighted the fact that Hartsfield-Jackson has been ranked the world’s busiest airport for passenger travel for 21 years. About 107 million passengers moved through the airport last year.

Richardson questioned whether the state could run Hartsfield-Jackson better than the city of Atlanta’s Department of Aviation has.

“I’ve just never seen anything where they’ve shown it could be run better,” he said. “I don’t know where the benefit would be from that perspective.”

parks to close for road maintenance

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

Part of Buford Dam Road at Lake Lanier, as well as five parks close to the dam, will be closed for several hours to accommodate road work for one day this coming week, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Corps officials said the road will be closed from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday at Buford Dam so road maintenance can be performed. A string of Army Corps of Engineers-

run parks, stretching from the Lower Overlook on the Gwinnett side of the dam to West Bank Park in Forsyth County.

Other parks that will be closed include Lower Pool East on the Gwinnett side of the Chattahoochee River at the dam, Lower Pool West on the Forsyth side of the river and the West Bank Turn-Out. The Army Corps of Engineers Lake Lanier Project Management Office, which is located at 1050 Buford Dam Road, will remain open and accessible to the public, officials said.

POLICE From A1 guys. We want them to come out and see some of the cool stuff we do and know, ‘We’re here for you, we’re friendly — yes, sometimes we have to be police officers — but ultimately, there’s no difference between us, except for the job we do.’”

Part of that job, Parker said, requires being respectful, something he tries to impart on the teens during the academy.

“I teach them to be respectful to everyone, but the undertones are of fun; we have a good time,” Parker said. “I want these guys to have fun and get to know each other. What I like most, though, is to see how the kids change from Monday to Friday and the growth in them. I love this program — I wish I had something like this when I was a kid.”

Thirteen-year-old Logan Rainge, a rising eighthgrader at Twin Rivers Middle School, said he, too, loved the academy, and already plans on reapplying next year for the high school session.

“I’d been wanting to come here since last year but wasn’t able to make it, so this year has been a lot of fun,” Rainge said. “My grandfather was a narcotics detective, a police officer and in the Secret Service and both my uncles were corrections officers, so I have (connections) to law enforcement and military.”

Despite already having some knowledge of law enforcement, Rainge said the academy was eye-opening for him.

“I’ve learned leadership skills and learned that you’ve got to step up sometimes, and I’ve learned discipline,” he said. “Waking up early every day to be here, for example, is a big deal and sometimes, like today, it was hard. But we’ve had a lot of fun and I’d like to learn even more about the police.”

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This site plan shows the planned layout of Ashton Woods’ proposed Encore Development between Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and the Chattahoochee River in Duluth. The proposal, which includes 971 residential units, is receiving community pushback over its planned density.

DULUTH From A1 It’s had to undergo a development of regional impact review by the Atlanta Regional Commission because of its size. Although that review has been completed, it still must undergo a Metropolitan River Protection Act review.

It includes six residential communities: The Encore Apartments; Encore Row (townhouses); Riverview at Encore (single-family homes); Village at Encore (bungalow-style homes); River Estates at Encore (estate homes); and Encore Estates (single-family homes).

A tennis center, several large and small parks, a club house and two entrances from Peachtree

Industrial Boulevard are also listed in the conceptual plans for Encore.

“We would love to call Duluth home; we’d love to build here,” Ashton Woods division president of land Mike Rusher told residents at Thursday’s community meeting.

With 450 proposed units, the apartments make up nearly half of the housing units that would be located in Encore.

But residents who live near the proposed site want the density reduced, and that could mean the plans for the apartment units may have to go.

“Right now you’re putting a population, or a potential population, larger than the population of the city of Berkeley Lake on 140 acres right off Peachtree Indus-

trial Boulevard and that scares everybody,” Olde Towne Village Homeowners Association President Jim Watkins told Rusher at the community meeting.

“That’s something that y’all are going to have to deal with and of course if you can’t do it, you can’t do it.”

City staff are currently recommending denial of the proposal based on the current layout proposal.

“It’s not supported in its current design,” Duluth Planning and Development Bill Aiken said.

“We feel as though it is too dense.

There’s too much for the general area.”

Cutting back on the density may mean cutting the apartments out of the project. Rusher said he is flexible on trying to find a way

to come up with a proposal that addresses as many of the residents concerns as possible.

It will take some searching to find a way to address density concerns, though.

“I don’t know what the answer to that is yet,” he said. “We started with a plan we hoped would get support and so I don’t know what that answer is.”

But he didn’t commit that the development could definitely go forward without apartments.

“If that goes away, that’s a part of our underwriting now that has to be underwritten someplace else and in another way,” Rusher told residents at the community meeting. “It’s half the project so if it were the part to go away ... so maybe we go away. Maybe there is no solving it.”

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Woodall admits to not reading Mueller Report

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.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., has not read former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on whether Russians interferred in U.S. elections, and he didn’t shy away from admitting that fact during two television interviews in the past week.

Woodall appeared on MSNBC and CBS News this past week, with both interviews touching on a range of topics from the state of the Republican Party and bipartisanship to climate change.

During the interview on MSNBC last Sunday, Wood-

all was asked about whether he’d read the Mueller report.

“I have not,” Woodall said.

“I said when we started this conversation that I trusted Mr. Mueller. He took a lot of slings and arrows, but every U.S. attorney I knew said this is a man of great integrity ...

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I have a concern when you put the entire power of the United State Justice Department behind anything. You can achieve an agenda. You can drive a message.”

On Tuesday, Woodall told CBS News he had no questions for Mueller and that he Rob Woodall believed the former special counsel did his job “as well as he could.” He also said clarified that his comments on MSNBC pertained primarily to Volume II of the Mueller report.

“Volume II says after we’ve done 200 pages of research in Volume I, to say absolutely no conspiracy took place between the Trump administration and the Russian government, then Volume II goes to all the efforts they believe might have been involved to cover up the crime that never existed to begin with,” Woodall said.

The MSNBC interview can be viewed at on.msnbc. com/31zd2tm. The CBS News interview can be viewed at bit.ly/2Rln6l8.

Independent declares candidacy for state Senate

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Tripp will not run under any political party’s banner.

The Hoschton resident and Duluth High School graduate will instead run as an independent for the seat.

Tripp is a former congressional staffer and recent senior administrator at the UniverArthur Lee sity of Georgia.

Tripp Jr. “It is clear that the politics of today has become incredibly divisive and has pit neighbor against neighbor,” Tripp said in a statement. “Our campaign is focused on Georgians who are fed up with the state of politics and who, quite frankly, deserve a better choice.”

Dixon recommits to state Senate District 45 run Republican Clint Dixon’s campaign announced he has ‘hit the ground running’ in his bid to be the GOP’s nominee for the state Senate District 45 seat.

In light of state Sen. Renee Unterman’s announcement that she will in fact run for Congress, Dixon — a Gwinnett planning commissioner who’d already Clint announced a Dixon desire to run for the seat in February — recommitted to those plans this past week.

“I want to thank Sen. Unterman for her years of service and wish her the best moving forward,” Dixon said in a statement. “Now more than ever, I am looking forward to the work ahead to earn the trust and support of my neighbors here in District 45.”

Nash receives ‘County Leader of Distinction’ honor ACCG has named Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash as one of its six County Leaders of Distinction award recipients.

The association, which is designed to support county governments and their elected leaders, picked a county official in six different categories to recognize this year. Nash was chosen in the “Transportation” category for her work

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Martin, Efstration receive honors from Georgia Chamber Both of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s legislators of the year award recipients are from Gwinnett County.

The statewide business organization recently announced state Sen. P.K. Martin, R-Lawrenceville, and state Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, as its legislators of the year.

The award P.K. recognizes Martin legislators who helped push policies that benefit job creation and economic development in Georgia.

“On behalf of the Georgia Chamber, Chuck Efstration we not only congratulate these legislators on their awards, but we thank them for their unwavering support of the statewide business community,” said David Raynor, senior vice president of public affairs for the Georgia Chamber in a statement.

Hice holding mobile office hours in Dacula on Monday U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., announced his staff will have mobile office hours in Dacula and Wadley at lunchtime Monday to meet with constituents to discuss requests for federal assistance.

The mobile office will last from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at TradeWind Coffee Co., located at 2300 Liam Avenue. Suite 200 in Dacula, and at Wadley City Hall in Jefferson Jody County.

Hice “There will be no formal presentation, just the opportunity for you to meet oneon-one with members of my staff in your community to address your concerns while connecting you to available federal resources,” Hice said.

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Statesboro man who was convicted of armed robbery blames drugs

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A Statesboro man who robbed a woman at gunpoint in July 2017 said he committed the robbery “because he was addicted to drugs.”

On Wednesday, after deliberating for two hours, a Gwinnett County jury found 29-year-old Bradley Houston guilty of armed robbery, possession of a gun during a felony, credit card thefts, possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana for the July 11, 2017 incident.

According to prosecutors, the victim was sitting in her car in the parking lot of her Gwinnett County apartment complex when Houston walked up to her and told her to move over to the passenger seat, which she did.

“Houston, got into the driver’s seat. He produced a black semiauto pistol and

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racked the slide,” prosecutors said.

“He then demanded her money ...

Houston told (the victim) if she tried to run, he would run her over

with the car.”

Houston got away with the victim’s cellphone, money, credit card and drivers license, though was arrested a day after the robbery.

During the trial, the victim testified she was a struggling college student who worked parttime and didn’t have much, but she give everything she had to Houston in fear for her life, prosecutors said.

Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge George Hutchinson sentenced Houston to 20 years in prison, followed by eight years on probation.

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Father, son relish reunion on Buford coaching staff

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Hall of Fame wrestling coach Cliff Ramos, left, held a special ‘one more practice’ event Saturday at Collins Hill High School.

LIVInG LEGACy

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Michael May, left, and his father, Dicky, have reunited this season on the Buford football coaching staff — Michael returning from Cherokee Bluff and Dicky coming back from retirement.

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

BUFORD — On occasion, when the Buford football practice video gets slightly farther from the action, Michael May does a quick double take.

“I think, ‘Is that me or my dad sitting there?” the 28-yearold assistant coach said.

May realizes his mannerisms and his coaching style

mimic those of his father Dicky, also a Wolves assistant, and he doesn’t mind the comparisons.

He has followed a similar path in coaching as his idol, serving as a defensive coordinator and strength coach, the main two jobs his father held for decades in Gwinnett County at Buford, Brookwood, Dacula and Central Gwinnett.

Those spring and summer sessions, both on the field and in the weight room, have

been special for the Mays, who reunited on the Buford coaching staff under new head coach Bryant Appling, a longtime Wolves assistant. Appling was promoted in the offseason, and he quickly recruited both coaches back to Buford — Michael from Cherokee Bluff and Dicky from retirement.

“It means the world to me (to have them back at Buford),” Appling said. “Dicky taught me pretty much everything I

know about being a good man, a good coach, being a great X’s and O’s guy and being a great husband and father. The first time I met Dicky, Michael was in eighth grade. So he’s been like a little brother to me the whole time. Having them back is like having my family back. … It was an easy choice (to hire them). The guy that taught me and the guy who I

ROSWELL — Different high school football teams have different goals and expectations during summer 7-on-7 tournaments, even ones with as high a profile as that of the Corky Kell Classic tournament.

Yet one common thread for every team involved is that it serves as an early building block to the upcoming season, though it was a bigger one for some of the 35 teams involved in the 2019 edition of the tournament Friday, including 10 Gwinnett County teams, than for others.

Collins Hill and North Gwinnett both won six overall games on the day and reached the quarterfinals at Roswell Area Park, and can make a strong argu-

Travis Sam Hunter Horn ment for having taken the largest steps forward.

That is particularly true of the Eagles, who despite making the Class AAAAAAA state playoffs finished just 3-8 in 2018 and brought a very young squad of quarterbacks, receivers and defensive backs into the tournament.

However, led by youngsters like rising sophomores in quarterback Sam Horn and cornerback Travis Hunter, Lenny Greg-

ory’s squad showed plenty of growth in posting a 5-2 overall record in pool and bracket play, including wins over Centennial, Norcross, Monroe Area (twice) and Mays before falling to Kell 25-15 in the quarterfinals.

“I’m excited about our football team,” Gregory said. “And I’m excited about how young we are and talented we are, and everything has changed. … What we’re overcoming is just confidence — just having confidence and learning how to play at that elite level. If you look at our schedule from last year, it’s the same one this year. It’s an elite schedule.

In order to compete at that level, you’ve got to be elite. So that’s what we’re trying to teach our kids, just instilling confidence.

They’re very talented kids, and the way you get confidence is in the weight room, in your sum-

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Norcross grad Meeks wins NBA title From Staff Reports

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A 10-day contract led Jodie Meeks to an NBA championship.

The former Norcross star celebrated with his Toronto Raptor teammates Thursday night after a 114-110 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Though he didn’t play in the final game at Oracle Arena, he still gets the big reward after earning a roster spot during the 2018-19 season, his ninth in the league.

Meeks, 31, initially signed with Toronto in late February on a

10-day contract. He played in two games, averaging 7.5 points and 2 rebounds in 12 minutes per game, but was not signed after that short-term contract expired.

The 6-foot-4 guard rejoined the Raptors on a free-agent contract March 26, then held his roster spot the rest of the season. He played sparingly during the postseason, averaging 4.8 minutes and 1.6 points. According to spotrac.com, his contract with the Raptors was for one season and $196,724, making him an unrestricted free agent for the 201920 season.

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mer training and 7-on-7 stuff.”

Friday’s results may also be an indicator that the Eagles could sport a dramatically different look this fall from a year ago, at least offensively.

Their success in a competition based entirely on the passing game is a major step forward for a team that completed just a combined 16 of 72 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns in 11 games last season.

“It’s no secret. As a coach, you adapt to your personnel,” Gregory said. “We’re excited about Sam Horn. We’ve got some really talented people.

We’ve got some great running backs. We’ve got great receivers.

So we’re going to be different this year, but we’re going to base everything off our personnel.”

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Gwinnett teams take steps forward

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By Christine Troyke SUWANEE — Cliff Ramos opened practice with some typically dry humor Saturday at the Collins Hill field house named in his honor.

“You know, a lot of years I had trouble finding a few heavyweights on the team,” Ramos said.

He paused and looked pointedly at more than 75 men — ranging in age from 18 to 60 — sitting in front of him.

“That’s not a problem with this team,” Ramos said with a sly grin.

The Hall of Fame coach, barely a year removed from being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, invited many of his former wrestlers to participate in Saturday’s event.

It stemmed from comments he’s heard from wrestlers over the years about just wanting to have one more practice. He was also inspired by the book “The Last Lecture,” co-authored by former Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch.

“He was a teacher, like me,” Ramos said.

“He was battling pancreatic cancer, like me.

The difference was, his was terminal. He didn’t have a lot of time left. I owned some hope with mine.

“Those two things together made me think of doing one more practice. For 14 months, I’ve been living with pancreatic cancer and, to be honest, when I found the diagnosis 14 months ago, I didn’t think I’d have much time left.”

Ramos had surgery at M.D. Anderson last October and has completed his treatment.

“I’m doing pretty well,” he said. “The last month and a half, I started improving a lot. I have some things I’m dealing with, but every day I’m so thankful to God for another day.”

Last September, when Collins Hill officially dedicated the wrestling facility to the man who started the terrifically successful program from scratch, Ramos was in the midst of his battle with the disease.

Almost 10 months later, his voice rang out with renewed strength. Ramos, who needed to sit for much of the ceremony last year,

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Legendary coach Ramos’ impact reflected in packed Collins Hill wrestling room

Meeks has played for seven NBA teams since joining the league as a second-round pick of the Milwaukee Bucks in 2009. His best season was in 2013-14 with the Los Angeles Lakers, when he averaged a career-high 15.7 points, highlighted by a career-high 42 against Oklahoma City.

Prior to the NBA, Meeks played at Kentucky, where he set the school scoring of 54 points in a win over Tennessee. He was the Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports 2006 Daily Post Player of the Year after leading Norcross to its first Norcross grad Jodie Meeks, far left, celebrates with the Toronto Raptors boys basketball state champion- after beating the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals ship. at Oracle Arena on Thursday.

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Brookwood game riddled with interceptions Telling who’s who a chore thanks to opponents’ similar uniforms

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ROSWELL — Every high school football team expects a little adversity from time to time, even during offseason events like 7-on-7 passing tournaments.

However, the bit of adversity both Brookwood and Creekside had to deal with during firstround bracket play at the Corky Kell Classic 7-on-7 tournament Friday at Roswell Area Park was somewhat unusual.

With the two schools sharing similar maroon and gold color schemes, both the Broncos and Seminoles showed up to play in nearly identical uniforms of maroon jerseys and shorts and gold helmets, making it extremely difficult to tell who was who, even with the differing logos on the front of the jerseys.

As mundane as that situation may seem, it may have had tangible consequences, with five combined interceptions between the two teams in what became a 24-19 Creekside victory.

“I think it definitely affected both teams,” Brookwood coach Philip Jones said. “The same color helmets, same color uniforms.

Some of the schools that play 7-on-7 every week, so a lot of them have two different (sets of) shirts, but we don’t.”

Regardless of those troubles and the outcome of that particular game, Jones was pleased overall with what he saw from the Broncos on Friday, having won its pool with victories over defending Class AAAAAAA state champion Milton (16-15), plus Lanier (27-9) and Blessed Trinity (20-12), both state semifinalists in their respective classifications from last year.

Most pleasing to him was the growth of several young players, including rising freshman quarterback Dylan Lonergan, showed throughout the day.

“It was a good day,” Jones said.

“We won our five-team pool in the morning, and out of everybody we played (Friday), we had only one guy who was a starter for us last year, and that was Eli Kohl, our tailback. Everybody else was brand new, and considering that, we came out here and competed … and did a lot of good things.”

MAYS From A10 think is going to be the next great one is his son.”

For both father and son, the return to Buford is comfortable. It feels like home.

Dicky, a 1978 Central Gwinnett grad, coached at his alma mater for 13 years before heading to Dacula for eight years and then to Brookwood. In 2005, he was hired as Buford’s defensive coordinator by Jess Simpson, now the Atlanta Falcons’ defensive line coach. May led Simpson’s defense and also set the tone in the Wolves’ weight room throughout his tenure.

Tagging along for all those football practices and weight room sessions was young Michael, who grew up to become Buford’s starting quarterback and won two state championships.

“All the way back, I vaguely remember the Central days running around the fieldhouse,” Michael said. “When we went to Dacula, I guess I was 5 or 6, that’s really when I started remembering being in the weight room, running around. To us, it was a big playground. He’s pretty much always been in the weight

RAMOS From A10 cranked out 20 pushups with the rest of the group during warmups.

By the end, everyone was sweating. They were still laughing, though.

Ramos said beforehand he wasn’t going to make it too difficult.

“It’s more of a reunion than anything,” he said. “I’m definitely not going to kill them.

I’m going to tell them I’m going to, but some of them will be done after we do a pre-practice jog.”

Rick White was at Ramos’ first practice as a head coach in 1976 in Butler, Missouri.

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Brookwood coach Philip Jones liked what he saw from his Broncos, despite some confusion with almost identical uniforms in a game against Creekside, at the Corky Kell Classic 7-on-7 football tournament Friday at Roswell Area Park.

New coaches continue getting to know their teams Having already spent a few months in offseason weight training, spring practice and a few 7-on-7 tournaments or camps already, Friday’s tournament wasn’t the first time three individuals heading into the first season as head coaches at their respective Gwinnett schools got a chance to see their team in a Adam competitive setting.

Carter That said, Friday proved to be a learning experience from Grayson’s Adam Carter, Mill Creek’s Josh Lovelady and Buford’s Bryant Appling.

In Carter’s case, the biggest challenge is still getting to know his personnel on both a performance and personal level.

“We went to (the University of)

room or around it in some part. As I got older and getting in the weight room with him, that made it fun.”

Michael played four years of college football at LaGrange, where he majored in biology, and he turned his attention to a career in coaching. He had opportunities as a graduate assistant at the college level, but opted for another route.

He worked on his master’s degree and took on an apprenticeship role at Buford, where he worked closely with Simpson and Appling on the defensive side of the ball.

“When (Michael) first got out (of college), he had a couple of opportunities to be a GA,” Dicky said. “I said ‘If you coach college, (the GA route) is what you need to do. But first of all, you have to decide if you want to coach in college or coach in high school. In college, you’re going to be at a place for one or two years, then move, then be at a place for six weeks, and then move.

You’ve just got to be willing to give up that part of it. “‘But Jess has a spot for you to come back and you aren’t going to learn any more football going off than you are at Buford.’ I’m not saying that in an egotistical way. We’ve got some really, really good guys on staff. I told him, ‘There’s a He said things haven’t changed that much.

“My senior year, Cliff was our new coach,” said White, who was sporting a cut over one eye and laughed about it.

“It, to me, is an honor, just the short year I had him.”

He and Scott Smith, who was a junior that season, flew down from Butler for the event.

Many others came from around the Southeast to participate, a few on very short notice.

“I think it’s a great testament to Coach Ramos that so many people have made an effort, especially on Father’s Day weekend, to come out,” said Jim Gassman, who wrestled for Ramos at Collins Hill before coaching with him there

Georgia (7-on-7 tournament) last week,” said Carter, whose Rams went 3-1 in pool play and advanced to the round of 16 in bracket play.

“We’ve got a bunch of guys playing (varsity) for the first time. With that (senior) class of 2019, a lot of our guys didn’t get a ton of experience. So last week was the first time a lot of these guys played in a competitive 7-on-7, and this is their second opportunity.

“I really believe we got a lot better. This for me, 7-on-7, is not necessarily the end-all by any means, but it allows us to make plays on the ball and understand our concepts better, and that’s the biggest thing for us. It’s a new offense and new defense with a good group of kids, but not a group with a great deal of experience. So all this goes as a learning experience.”

Friday was a learning experience for both Lovelady and Appling for a different reasons.

Both were already on staff at their respective schools before

couple of guys that when they talk, you sit your tail down and you listen to everything they say.’”

That experience led to a full-time assistant coach role with the Wolves, and put the younger May on the fast track in high school coaching. “(Michael’s) way ahead of the guys that have been around here and the guys that are here now,” Dicky said. “The whole thing is he knows he’s had to work for everything he’s ever gotten.

He knows how to work. And he’s got passion for what he’s doing. He loves what he’s doing. That’s all you can ask for as a dad to a son. Find what you truly love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

The Mays’ time together at Buford ended before the 2018 season. Michael was hired to lead the strength program at first-year program Cherokee Bluff, where he coached defensive backs and worked under former Dacula head coach Tommy Jones. His father entered full retirement to help with his own parents.

Dicky’s father, who passed away in December, suffered from dementia, and his mother has Parkinson’s Disease. He moved his par-

taking the head coaching job, though leading the team in a 7-on-7 setting from the head coaching standpoint proved to be quite different for both Appling, who has spent the previous 15 years on the defensive side of the ball at Buford, and Lovelady, who coached offensive line for most of his career at both South Gwinnett and Mill Creek before taking the Hawks’ head coaching job this past winter. “(Coaching) offensive line, and even offensive coordinator, I’m still part of it,” Lovelady said. “But obviously, (former head) Coach (and now Mill Creek athletics director Shannon) Jarvis the quarterbacks coach, he had more Josh Lovelady of a hand in it. We’ve got some new folks in, but it’s great. The kids are adjusting to, not necessarily a new system, but just different people calling (plays) and things like that.

“For me, the biggest thing is adjusting to the (idea that), ‘Hey, this is 7-on-7.’ We’re not running the football. You’ve got all these different rules — three points for this, two points for that. It’s a tool in the toolbox, and that’s what we want to emphasize to our kids. …

The main thing we’re preaching is playing fast, getting after folks and playing physical within the boundaries of the game.”

Stancil likes moderate steps taken by Lions After two tough seasons the past two years, Peachtree Ridge coach Reggie Stancil is looking for improvement in 2019, and Friday’s tournament was a step in the right direction despite a 1-3 pool record and a first-round elimination in bracket play.

“One thing that our group has done really, really well is they’ve competed here and at Georgia (last week),” Stancil said. “They competed really, really hard.

We haven’t been on the winning side (often), but you see a big difference. Our kids love each other and play hard for each other and celebrate with each other, things like that. We’re moving in the right direction.”

ents out of the house they had lived in for 50 years, got his father into memory care and his mother into an assisted living facility. She also endured a broken hip last year, but is doing better.

“Last year was a tough year,” Dicky said.

He largely spent 2018 away from football, though he squeezed in visits to a few games and a few practices at both Buford and Cherokee Bluff. After seeing Dicky at practices, Michael didn’t expect the retirement to be permanent.

“I couldn’t see him staying retired,” Michael said.

“We talk every day and he would miss it. Even at Cherokee Bluff, he would come up to practice a couple of times.

He would still be around it. I knew he would still be around it in some capacity. I’m just glad he’s doing what he’s doing now because I get to spend every day with him.”

The Mays decided on a return to Buford at around the same time in early April.

To coach together again, they both used the same one-word description: “Unreal.”

“I’m trying to help (Michael) out any way that I can,” said Dicky, entering his 36th season in coaching. “When App gave us the

opportunity, I wanted to help both of them out. I love this place. I love what it stands for.

I love what (longtime) Coach (Dexter) Wood, Jess and what App is teaching now, teaching and preaching. It’s about developing the whole kid, not just be a good football player, be a great person first.

“I’ll be honest — and my wife will tell you the same thing — the success that my son has had throughout life, a lot of it has to do with what he was taught from Buford football, from Jess. Neal (Auer) coached him, and I coached him, too. He’s a better person because he was a part of it.

I think he sees a lot of that and he wants to go back and kind of give that part back.”

The dynamic is a little different now, though. Michael is co-defensive coordinator, a boss of sorts to Dicky, Buford’s safeties coach. As similar as they are, they don’t always agree — Appling joked that they bicker like a husband and wife sometimes. “(Michael) got on to me the other day about something,” a laughing Dicky said. “I think it’s neat, just how much he’s grown. He’s very, very bright, very smart. Plus, he learned under Jess and those guys.

He knows how to grind. He knows how to work. And he

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Wrestlers from each part of Cliff Ramos’ Hall of Fame coaching career came to Collins Hill on Saturday for one more practice. Ramos recently completed treatment for pancreatic cancer. and later at Mountain View.

“Then, to participate in a wrestling practice, it’s one of the hardest things you can do. But he always had good practices.”

The bulk of the former

wrestlers came from his days at Collins Hill, where Ramos had a dual meet record of 626-80, won nine state team titles and had 34 individual state champions. There

were a dozen from Mountain View and Meadowcreek, six from Greater Atlanta Christian, two from East Hall — Ramos’ first job in Georgia — and five from Butler.

7-ON-7 From A10 Meanwhile, North rolled through their first six games of the tournament, sweeping through its pool and posting bracket-play wins CarverAtlanta and Cherokee before falling to Lee County 25-23 in the quarterfinals.

Stewart was particularly pleased with the performance of group of players that included a good mix of experience and youth, led by quarterback J.R. Martin, safety Taylor Goodson, cornerback Jarvis Cunningham and receiver Josh Downs, all rising seniors, and rising junior linebacker Barrett Carter.

“We did some good things, and we did some bad things,” Bulldogs coach Bill Stewart said. “So we’ll just continue to work on execution and work on some things that we’re really trying to hone in on your skills. It’s not real football, but there are a lot of things to take away from these (tournaments).

“The one thing you learn from these tournaments all the time is there is a game of attrition. You learn that if you lose focus for just a second against good teams, you lose. Then you’re playing catch-up, and you don’t have much time (in 7-on-7 mini-games).”

Grayson was the only other Gwinnett team to make it as far as the round of 16 in bracket play, avenging a pool play loss to Lambert before dropping a 24-22 decision to Lee County on a turnover on downs on the final play of the game. The Rams also bounced back from the initial loss to Lambert to score wins over Chattahoochee, Colquitt County and Buford in pool play.

Brookwood also won its pool with wins over Milton, Blessed Trinity and Lanier before falling in the first round of bracket play, while Mill Creek also won three times in pool play, including wins over Pinecrest Academy, Mays and eventual tournament champion Marietta, and Archer also posted three wins in pool play. loves kids, too.”

Michael knows exactly where he learned those lessons — from his father. The two live just 10 minutes apart, so they talked daily and met up for dinner or fishing regularly during their time apart from coaching at Buford.

Being back on the same staff only makes them closer.

For Michael, it gives him more opportunities to learn from Dicky.

“The biggest thing he taught me is how to deal with people, how you treat kids, the relationship with kids,” Michael said. “That’s the biggest thing. The ball stuff (he taught me) is so much. But the biggest thing is day to day, how you come to work every single day. You grind even when you don’t feel like doing it and why you’re doing it, the relationships, and working with kids and seeing their growth. That’s the important thing.

“It’s been great, just awesome to coach with him.

To me, he’s the best in the business, and I get to call him every day and talk to him every day. Not only is he my dad, but I think he’s one of the best coaches in the state of Georgia. And I get to learn from him and talk to him every single day.”

Both his sons, Trevor and Taylor, participated. As did Ramos’ most famous student, Kyle Maynard.

“Back in September of last year, we didn’t know how long he was going to be here,” Trevor Ramos said. “Judging by the statistics and what you hear, knowing what the prognosis was, we didn’t know how much more time we had to spend with our dad. It’s just been an answer to prayer that he’s still here and all the glory goes to God. “It’s amazing to see this wrestling family (today).

Wrestlers are such a fraternity and it’s amazing. I knew this was going to be hard, but at the same time, I knew it was going to be really special. It’s such a blessing.”

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1 dead, 3 hurt in Costco shooting in S. California

WORLD

Iranian boat fired missile at drone prior to tanker attack, U.S. official says In the hours before the attack on the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the Iranians spotted a U.S. drone flying overhead and launched a surface-to-air missile at the unmanned aircraft, a U.S. official told CNN. The missile missed the drone and fell into the water, the official said.

Prior to taking fire, the American MQ-9 drone observed Iranian vessels closing in on the tankers, the official added, though the source did not say whether the unmanned aircraft saw the boats conducting an actual attack.

Still, it is the first claim that the U.S. has information of Iranian movements prior to the attack.

The same official also said in the days prior to the attack, a U.S. reaper drone was shot down in the Red Sea by what is believed to be an Iranian missile fired by Houthi rebels.

The United Kingdom released a statement Friday saying it is “almost certain” that a branch of the Iranian military — the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — attacked two tankers.

The IRGC is an elite wing of the Iranian military that was established in the aftermath of the country’s revolution in 1979.

Ebola outbreak in Congo still not a public health emergency of international concern The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization said Friday.

WHO defines a public health emergency of international concern as “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease” and “to potentially require a coordinated international response.”

In announcing the decision by the committee, Dr. Preben Aavitsland, the acting chair of the emergency committee, said “possible unintended consequences” and risks of an emergency declaration had been “extensively debated” by the committee members. Possible risks include border closures and restrictions on travel and trade that could “severely harm the economy” in Congo, he said.

By Madeline Holcombe and Tina Burnside CNN

A shooting left one person dead and three others injured Friday evening in a Costco store in Southern California, police said.

A man is in custody after firing inside the store, Lt. Jeff Edwards of the Corona police said. His name wasn’t immediately released.

The shooting stemmed from an argument inside the store, but the relationship among the victims and the alleged gunman is unclear, Edwards said.

Officers found four people “down” inside the Costco store: the suspect, the deceased and two injured people, Edwards said. The slain person was not immediately named. The alleged gunman and others were taken to hospitals, Edwards said.

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was involved in the shooting, according to the Los Angeles police. The officer suffered minor injuries and has been released from the hospital.

“The Department has initiated an Administrative Investigation and is working with the Corona Police Depart-

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A man is in custody after opening fire inside of a Costco store in Corona, California, on Friday evening. One person was killed and three injured. ment to learn more about the incident,” Los Angeles police said in a statement.

The shooting was not believed to be a domestic dispute, he said. Police weren’t looking for anyone else in connection with the crime, they tweeted.

injured trying to flee the store, Edwards said.

Naveed Navi and Rochelle Flores were shopping for items for a barbecue when gunshots rang out, they told CNN affiliate KTLA. They heard four shots and tried to escape through ‘Emergency’ doors emergency doors, but they wouldn’t open, the pair told wouldn’t open, the station. shoppers said “It’s not very fun when Some people were also you’re scared and you’re

NATION

United Airlines flight skids off runway at Newark Liberty International Airport

A United Airlines flight skidded off a runway Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

No injuries were reported when United Flight 627 — which originated in Denver — landed at 1 p.m. on Runway 22 Left and then skidded off to the left side of the pavement, according to the FAA. Flights have been delayed until the aircraft is moved, the FAA said.

The left main landing gear was stuck in a grassy area, authorities said.

The aircraft was to be towed off the airfield after passengers left the aircraft via stairs and ride buses to the terminal.

The Newark airport tweeted Saturday afternoon that passengers had “safely deplaned” and officials were working to resume flights. The airport had earlier reported no arrivals or departures because of At least 36 people emergency. dead in one of India’s theThe FAA was en route to longest heatwaves the airport to begin an invesAt least 36 people have died tigation, the agency said in a this summer in one of India’s statement via Twitter. longest heat waves in recent Woman is arrested in history, Anshu Priya, a spokeswoman for India’s National the death of a former Disaster Management AuthorArkansas state senator ity, told CNN. Intense heat has scorched Arkansas authorities have the country for more than 30 arrested a woman in connecconsecutive days, primarily in tion with the killing of former northern and central India. state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith.

Temperatures reached 118 State Police and Randegrees Fahrenheit in New dolph County Sheriff’s depDelhi on June 10 — the high- uties announced Friday that est ever recorded in the capi- they detained Rebecca Lynn tal in June.

O’Donnell, 48, of Pocahontas, In Churu, in the western Arkansas. Criminal charges state of Rajasthan, tempera- against her are pending, state tures exceeded 122 degrees police said in a statement.

Fahrenheit on June 1.

Authorities are not releasA delayed monsoon has con- ing more information on the tributed to the prolonged hot arrest for now to maintain the weather, arriving in southern integrity of the investigation.

India around June 8, seven Collins-Smith’s death is being days later than usual. North- investigated as a homicide, the ern India is still waiting for its statement said. Information on O’Donnell’s attorney was annual rains.

— From wire reports not immediately available.

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A United Airlines flight skidded off a runway Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Collins-Smith was found fatally shot in her Randolph County home on June 4.

She was one of two Republican former state senators found dead in their homes within two days. The next day, Jonathan Nichols was found dead in his Oklahoma home after reports of gunfire.

The deaths appear to be unrelated.

Collins-Smith was first elected to the Arkansas Senate in 2014 and lost her party’s primary last year, CNN affiliate KARK said. She was a Democrat but switched to the Republican party.

“broad hesitation” to tell Trump about the details of the operations against Russia. They tell the Times there was concern over how Trump would react, and the possibility that Trump might reverse the operations or discuss it with foreign officials.

In 2017, Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador to the U.S. in a White House meeting, The Washington Post first reported and CNN later confirmed.

In interviews with current and former government officials over the past months with the Times, New York Times: U.S. three officials describe the deployramping up cyber ment of U.S. computer code into Russia’s grid and other attacks on Russia targets as part of a shift to a The U.S. is escalating cyber more offensive strategy. attacks on Russia’s electric power grid and has placed 11-year-old N.C. boy potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system, uses machete, thwarts The New York Times reported home intruders Saturday.

The placement of the malAn 11-year-old Little League ware that deep within the Rus- star thwarted a North Carolina sian grid had never previously home invasion when he came been attempted, the Times out swinging a machete, strikreports, and is intended partly ing one intruder in the head, as a warning and also to put the Orange County Sheriff’s the U.S. in a position to con- Office said. duct cyber attacks should a The boy was home alone significant conflict arise with Friday morning in Mebane Russia. when intruders arrived, Two administration officials according to the sheriff’s told the Times they believed office, CNN affiliate WRAL President Donald Trump had reported. not been briefed in any detail While a woman knocked on about the U.S. computer code the front door of his home, a being implanted inside the man was breaking in through Russian grid. a window, the sheriff’s office Pentagon and intelligence said. The boy told authorities officials describe to the Times another man waited by a car

running for your life and you’re trying to open a door that says ‘emergency’ and they don’t open,” Flores told the station. “Everybody was freaking out. People were falling over each other.”

She described chaos as shoppers tried to flee through the front entrance.

CNN could not immediately reach Costco officials.

“Everybody’s running around,” Flores said. “It’s scary.” outside the house, the Raleigh TV station reported.

The man who entered through the broken window grabbed the homeowner’s pellet gun and forced the boy into a bedroom closet, the sheriff’s office said.

The child, described by the sheriff’s office as “a star baseball player,” left the closet, grabbed a machete and struck a blow to the back of the intruder’s head, the station reported.

“This is very tough kid who kept his wits about him,” Sheriff Charles Blackwood said in a statement.

“At the same time, I want to reflect that this youngster, his family, and indeed this community, are very lucky this event did not have a tragic ending for the child.”

Police: Man is arrested outside N.J. elementary school with gun, 130 rounds of ammo A New Jersey elementary school was placed on lockdown this week after a man was found in the parking lot with a gun and multiple rounds of ammunition, authorities said.

Officers found the suspect Thursday afternoon in the front seat of his SUV at Tamaques Elementary School in Westfield, according to the Union County prosecutor’s office. He was holding a loaded .45-caliber handgun, it said in a Link_gncofrxcstatement Friday.

Classes had let out for the day, but the precautionary lockdown went into effect because after-school activities were still going on, CNN affiliate News12 reported.

The man, later identified as Thomas J. Wilkie, 46, of Bear, Delaware, had two additional loaded clips of ammunition on him and 130 more rounds in his vehicle’s trunk, the prosecutor’s office said.

Police acted on a tip from the New Castle police in Delaware that said Wilkie was on his way to the school and may be armed, according to the statement.

— From wire reports

PEOPLE

Drake celebrates the Raptors’ NBA championship with new music Toronto Raptors super fan Drake is celebrating his hometown team’s NBA championship in an epic way.

After jumping up and down, chugging champagne — he’s the Champagne Papi after all — and hugging everyone around him after the game ended, the rapper announced he’s dropping new music Friday — or as he called it, a “2 pack.”

In an Instagram post shortly after the game, Drake posted a photo of a championship trophy along with the words, “Omerta” and “Money in the Grave” featuring Rick Ross.

“The chip to the 6! See you tomorrow with a 2 Pack lets go,” he captioned the photo — but in upper case and lots of exclamation points.

Drake is a Raptors ambassador, and has been a courtside fixture at their home games over the years.

Britney Spears granted five-year restraining order against Sam Lutfi Britney Spears has just won a major legal victory.

The singer and her family have been granted a five-year restraining order against her former friend, Sam Lutfi.

The decision was made Thursday, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The restraining order is an extension of a temporary order issued last month, which mandated Lutfi not make “disparaging public statements” about Spears or her family and stay 200 yards away from the Spears.

Spears was not present in court, according to her spokesperson.

Lutfi has maintained for years that he was Spears’ manager, although her representatives have told CNN that was never the case.

The original 81-page court filing in May stated that Lutfi used Spears in the early 2000s to “gain attention’ and kept her “isolated.”

Lutfi was one of the people who was around Spears during a time where her personal struggles were highly publicized in 2007.

Cuba Gooding Jr. charged with forcible touching in alleged groping incident Cuba Gooding Jr. has been charged with forcible touching, a misdemeanor, and sex abuse in the third degree relating to an alleged groping incident last weekend in New York City.

Gooding voluntarily surrendered to the NYPD for questioning on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to the charges in a Manhattan court.

The actor was released on his own recognizance after the judge set the next court date for June 26.

NYPD met with the Oscar winner after a 29-year-old woman filed a police report claiming Gooding grabbed her breast Sunday at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in Manhattan.

Gooding has denied the claim.

The woman in the alleged incident told police she was with friends when she was confronted by a male patron whom she described as Gooding, a law enforcement source told CNN Wednesday.

“The male allegedly groped her breasts,” the source said.

— From wire reports

Batman movies’ casting has long history of bringing out fans’ batty side

By Brian Lowry CNN

“Batman” swooped into theaters on June 19, 1989, helping set the stage for more blockbuster superhero movies as well as more adult, ambitious takes on the comic-book fare that, this century, has become the dominant movie genre in box-office terms.

The run-up to the Dark Knight, however, also underscored a darker side of fandom, one that seems to

MUST READ become uniquely passionate — and in some quadrants, enraged — when it comes to casting actors to play Gotham’s hero, from Michael Keaton to Ben Affleck to, now, Robert Pattinson.

Twitter didn’t exist when Keaton landed the role, but if it had, the entire Internet might have overloaded.

Many longtime readers of the comics (including this one) wondered how director Tim Burton could tap a comedic

actor, his “Beetlejuice” star, to play a character with the mind of Sherlock Holmes, the physical prowess of James Bond and the nasty streak of Dirty Harry.

Still, the “Batman” that emerged became a huge success, perhaps as much in spite of Keaton as because of him. He was fine, but it was everything else — Jack Nicholson’s loopy but menacing Joker, Danny Elfman’s sensational score, a way-cool new Batmobile, and a general look that resembled the work

of comic-book artists Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers and Frank Miller — that defined this Batman, and separated him from the “Wham! Biff!

Pow!” camp of the 1960s TV show starring Adam West.

The good news, alas, didn’t last, as the movies became increasingly campy, with first Val Kilmer and then George Clooney taking turns under the cowl.

The character sat dormant for nearly a decade, before director Christopher Nolan cast Christian Bale in his great

trilogy, which kicked off with a rousing origin story (“Batman Begins”) before unleashing an anarchic Joker played

by Heath Ledger, in his Oscarwinning final role.

All seemed well in Gotham, until the news in 2013 that Ben Affleck would be taking over, which elicited a response that bordered on hysteria. Sure, Affleck’s starring turn as another caped hero, “Daredevil,” wasn’t great, but the response seemed to reflect both short memories and a decided lack

of perspective.

A few movies later, Warner Bros. (like CNN, a unit of WarnerMedia) is ready to hit the reset button again, unwilling to let one of its two signature heroes (the other wears a big “S” on his chest) idle for long.

Enter Pattinson, the former “Twilight” heartthrob, who has done plenty of movies since, which hasn’t prevented another flurry of hand-wringing over whether “Battinson” was really a good fit.

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929-602595, 6/9,16 Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4755 Nelson Brogdon Blvd., Sugar Hill, GA 30518 June 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM Unit 426 Michael Higgins Household Items Unit 520 Michael Higgins Household Items Unit 623 Leonard Beck Household Goods Unit 489 Christopher Ryan Household Items Unit 425 Joshua Roberts Building Materials The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-602601, 6/9,16 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given That Extra Space Storage will sale at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicted: 1790 Peachtree Industrial Duluth, Georgia 30097

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 770-856-1130 June 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM U n i t ; N a m e ; Item 2 2 1 9 Jennifer Hill beds, furniture, boxes 2 9 0 1 Desiree Cherry household goods, furniture 1 6 1 9 Desiree Cherry household goods, furniture 2 5 1 8 Martisha Hardy household goods 3632 Berdina Wright homegoods 3231 Anson Brewer furniture and household items 3 3 0 1 Anson Brewer household goods and boxes Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-601925, 6/9,16 NOTICE The following facilities under Absolute Storage Management Inc. will sell the contents of the following units to satisfy the owner’s lien at public sale by competitive bidding on www.selfstorageauction.com under the provisions of the Georgia Self Storage Facility Act. The contents, generally described as household goods, will be sold for cash, to the highest bidder, on July 10, 2019.

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Killian Hill Storage 4139 Five Forks Trickum Rd. Lilburn, Ga. 30047 Sonia Strowder A04 John Harris F30 Mary Oliver G11 929-601563, 6/9,16 The Extra Space Storage auction will be held online on www.StorageTreasures. com to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Household items Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4257 BUFORD DRIVE, BUFORD, GA 30518, JUNE 25, 2019 AT 2:00 PM Asia Gillam Unit 6088 totes, clothes John Darley Unit 646 entertainment center, couch, trampoline, misc. household, new tires Shanice Allen Unit 8018 2 chairs, misc household, TV Devan Christopher Unit 8027 futon, mattress, clothes, boxes, totes, misc. household The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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Georgia Tech head baseball coach Danny Hall, middle, gets to coach his sons Carter, left, and Colin, right, for the Yellow Jackets. Both Carter and Colin played high school baseball in Gwinnett County at Wesleyan.

Baseball is a family affair for Georgia Tech’s...

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here’s a pretty good chance a baseball game will be involved in the Hall household’s celebration of Father’s Day. Danny Hall, the Georgia Tech baseball coach, and sons Carter Hall and Colin Hall, who play for the Yellow Jackets, eat, drink and sleep the sport almost every waking hour. Whether it’s a Braves game or the MLB Game of the Week or the College World Series, expect the big screen television is tuned in to a baseball game.

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Carter Hall will be a redshirt senior next seaSpecial Photo: Danny Karnik/Georgia Tech Athletics son and has had his career

Wesleyan grad Colin Hall is congratulated by Georgia Tech coach Mike Nickeas during a

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AUBURN Farmer’s Market returns to Burel Park auburn residents can purchase locally grown produce and other goods at the city’s Farmer’s market in R. H. Burel park. the Farmer’s market is open from 5 to 8 p.m. every wednesday through the end of october in Burel park, located on 4th avenue in the downtown area. the park is best known for a bright red caboose, donated to the city by csX Railroad and located on the west side of the park.

For more information, visit www.cityofauburn-ga.org or search for “city of auburn, ga” on Facebook.

BARROW COUNTY Winder Police hosts charity tournament the winder police department’s special Response team will host a 3-on-3 Basketball tournament on July 20. games will take place at Barrow county leisure services, 175 second st. in winder, and Barrow county schools’ center for innovative teaching, 84 w. midland ave. in winder. teams can enter the tournament for $30. individuals can also participate in a 3-point shootout for $10. all of the proceeds will fund care packages for senior citizens during the christmas season.

Register online at www.cityofwinder.com/ government/policedepartment/3-on-3tournament. the deadline to register is July 13.

BERKELEY LAKE Pinckneyville Rec Center plans scavenger hunt craft pinckneyville community Recreation center is planning a scavenger hunt with a twist. gather goodies from nature, then return to the center to build crafty creations during the “scavenge-aRt Hunt” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 20. a hunting list will be provided to participants. the event is free, and no registration is required. the pinckneyville community Recreation center is located at 4650 peachtree industrial Blvd. in Berkeley lake. For more information, call 678-277-0920.

BRASELTON Town seeks July 4 parade entries Braselton’s traditional independence day parade is seeking entries. the parade will begin at 6 p.m. July 4 at the Braselton tech center. live music with the Kinchafoonee cowboys will begin at 6:30 p.m. on the town green and will continue until 9:30 p.m, when a fireworks show is planned. “we’ll honor america, as always,” downtown development director amy pinnell said in a news release. “parades are such parts of our country’s heritage, whether in large cities or small towns, and all serve as public expressions of patriotism and honor.” the town is encouraging those with floats, classic cars and entries appealing to families to enter the parade,

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Lawrenceville native selected as alternate for Fulbright Austria program

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

A recent University of North Georgia graduate from Lawrenceville could take meaningful steps toward her dream of being an athletic trainer for a professional soccer team after being named a Fulbright Austria alternate.

Kelly Reid, who earned a degree in athletic training with a minor in German, could be offered a position by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research for the 2019-20 academic year if additional assistantship positions become available.

The program, which begins in July, has seen a considerable number of positions open up in previous years, according to a press release from UNG. “I was surprised and excited because there is a chance I will get it,” she said in a press release.

“It will be a good experience to take advantage to further my education and use different aspects of teaching English, such as communication styles, and transfer it into work I may have in the future with international athletes and to learn the different approaches of sports medi-

according to the news release. there is no entry fee, but registration is required.

For more information, visit www.downtownbraselton. com.

BUFORD Health Fair planned at Bogan Park the next gwinnett community Health Fair will take place July 27 at Bogan park community Recreation center. sponsored by the gwinnett daily post and live Healthy gwinnett, the community Health Fair will feature exhibitors, fitness demos, health screenings, wellness presentations, blood drives and more. the Health Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 27 at the Bogan park gym, located at 2723 n. Bogan Road in Buford. admission is free. the July event will focus on immunization month and include a Back to school supply drive.

For more information, visit www.livehealthygwinnett.com or scnievents.com/healthfairs.

DACULA Hamilton Mill library hosts Hour of Code create your own google logo during an Hour of code event monday at the Hamilton mill branch of the gwinnett county public library. the program is designed for children ages 7 to 12. the Hour of code started as a onehour introduction to computer

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Kelly Reid, a senior pursuing a degree in athletic training, has been selected as an alternate in the U.S. English Language Teaching Assistantship Program with the Fulbright Austria program. cine professionals in other countries. It will help me become more of an expert in a variety of aspects of athletic training.”

Fulbright Austria identifies candidates for the Language Teaching Assistant

science, designed to demystify “code,” to show that anybody can learn the basics and to broaden participation in the field of computer science, according to the website hourofcode.com. the event will begin at 2 p.m. seating is limited, and participation will be available on a first come, first served basis. the Hamilton mill library is located at 3690 Braselton Highway in dacula.

DULUTH Duluth plans Independence Day celebration celebrate independence day on July 3 in duluth with a fireworks display, live music and activities on the duluth town green. “duluth celebrates america” will take place from 5:3o to 10 p.m. July 3. the event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit duluthga.net.

GRAYSON Lanier Jazz plays in Grayson lanier Jazz will perform at 7 p.m. saturday at the grayson ampavilion. the event is free and open to the public. attendees can bring coolers and outside food.

For more information about the band, visit www. lanierjazz.com. For more information about the event, visit www.facebook.com/ getintograyson.

Program will immerse themselves in a patricular foreign language for a full academic year with a native-speaking German professor.

In a 2016 fact sheet report from Fulbright

LAWRENCEVILLE Prince tribute band to perform purple madness, a prince tribute, will perform at 8 p.m.

Friday at the lawrenceville lawn. the concert is part of lawrenceville’s summer concert series. a Vip concert experience is available for $35. to purchase a ticket, visit bit.ly/2Zn0yuz. general admission is free.

For more information, visit www.lawrencevillega.org.

LILBURN Wynne-Russell House tour planned learn about both the wynne and Russell families and the home that still stands 193 years after the wynne family migrated to lilburn in 1826. a one-hour tour of the wynne-Russell House is planned at 10 a.m. June 29 at the house, located at 4684 wynne-Russell drive in lilburn. guests will learn about the families’ ties to other prominent gwinnett county and atlanta families, as well as paranormal investigations that have taken place at the house. the tour is free, but donations to the wynneRussell preservation will be accepted.

For more information, visit ow.ly/xf7R50uzmmp.

LOGANVILLE American Legion post plans July 4 picnic the american legion

Austria, 95% of the FLTAs reported that their students plan to continue studying the language they focused on after they graduate from the program.

Reid is a graduate of Brookwood High School.

post 233 in loganville will have a picnic from noon to 3 p.m. July 4 to celebrate independence day and the american legion’s 100th birthday, according to the commander’s June newsletter. the american legion began in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. today, membership stands at over 2 million in more than 13,000 posts worldwide. the american legion post 233 is located at 4635 u.s.

Highway 78 in loganville.

For more information, visit www.gapost233.com.

NORCROSS Game Night planned at Aquatic Center Visit the west gwinnett aquatic center for a game night on the water from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 29. several games, modified for you to play in the water, will be available for families to play. games will include Hungry Hungry Hippos, skeeball and aquatic scrabble.

For those not comfortable with playing on the water, oversized checkers or bowling will be available, and board games can be played throughout the facility. admission is $5 per person. Register online at www.gwinnettparks. com. click on “online Registration” and search for the event with code wgp31900. west gwinnett aquatic center is located at 4488

peachtree industrial Blvd. in norcross.

PEACHTREE CORNERS City offers Games on the Green peachtree corners is offering games on the green from 10 a.m. to noon every Friday through the end of august. the free event will take place on the town green. in addition to the slide and jungle gym, families can play with lawn games.

For more information, visit www.peachtreecornersga. gov.

SNELLVILLE Star Spangled Snellville planned for July 4 the snellville tourism and trade association will celebrate independence day with the annual star spangled snellville event. star spangled snellville will begin at 4 p.m. July 4 with the singing of the national anthem. Family entertainment will be available throughout the day on the towne green. a fireworks show will take place at 9:30 p.m.

For more information, visit snellvilletourism. com/events/star-spangledsnellville.

SUGAR HILL Clay Walker to perform at The Bowl multi-platinum selling country artist clay walker is coming to the Bowl on aug.

30 as part of his “long live the cowboy tour.” walker has been a nashville icon for more than two decades. He has sold more than 5 million albums and has had six no. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 country list. walker will be joined by up-and-coming country duo High Valley, as well as matt stell. tickets are on sale at www.thebowlatsugarhill.com. the Bowl is located at 5039 w. Broad st. in sugar Hill.

SUWANEE Suwanee Police announces promotions several officers in the suwanee police department have recently earned promotions, according to a news release. cass mooney was promoted to deputy chief. mooney has been with the department for 21 years, serving in the patrol, communications, selective enforcement unit and administration divisions. dwayne Black, Jeff dickens and Robert thompson were promoted to the rank of lieutenant. simon Byun, Kevin skinner and Robert stevens were promoted to the rank of sergeant, and chance Belcher, Jeff covert, tylon Johnson and Brody thomas were promoted to the rank of corporal. “i am proud of all of our officers and employees at the suwanee police department,” suwanee police chief mike Jones said. “i am especially honored to promote these 11 officers who have worked very hard. i wish them well in their careers, and i want to do everything i can to make each one successful.”

Lilburn Farmers Market to feature chef demos, taste tests

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

Continuing every Friday in July and August form 4 to 8 p.m. the Lilburn Farmers Market will bring fresh, locally farmed and harvested food products to 1400 Killian Hill Road in the parking lot of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church.

July marks the beginning of some signature events at the local farmer’s market. Market Chef Lisa Lowe hosts chef demonstrations using ingredients found at the market. New to the market in July will be Love Local Lilburn, in which visitors compare locally grown fruits

from Lilburn Farmer’s Market vendors and compare them with grocery storebought fruits.

It’s the 10th summer of the Lilburn Farmer’s Market, which features more favorites such as locally grown fruits and produce and locally sourced grass fed/grain finished beef and pork, cheese, honey, smoked salmon/trout, tea blends, jams/jellies, pickles, granola and mouth-watering baked goods.

The farmers market isn’t just for food. Featured tents include handcrafted pottery, bath and body products, dog biscuits, herbs and novelty towels.

Ready to eat foods and samples are available, such

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When: 4 to 8 p.m. Fridays in July and august Where: good shepherd presbyterian church, 1400 Killian Hill Road, lilburn July 5 — continuing to celebrate the 4th of July; love local lilburn: taste the difference peaches; chef demo by lisa lowe of cooking for caregivers July 12 — Booth for a cause: uga extension gwinnett; cooking demo by angelina leong; music: Random acts party Band July 19 — Kids night at the market; love local lilburn: taste the difference tomatoes; music by Quill July 26 — national eat your Vegetables day; Booth for a cause: indivisible ga04; chef demo by lisa lowe of cooking for caregivers; music: Random acts party Band

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chases at the market.

Guests can select or donate books thanks to the GFWC Lilburn Woman’s Club’s Little Free Library.

Farmers markets also feature live music each week and games such as corn hole, chalk drawing, bubbles and other engaging activities for kids.

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