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Nash: Gwinnett millage rate will not increase

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Gwinnett County property owners can be assured of one thing, according to county commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash: The property tax rate is not going up this year.

County commissioners raised the property tax rate last year for a few reasons, the most notable of which was to set aside funds to address retention efforts for county employees. Over the last

year, though, Gwinnett’s tax digest has grown from $29.16 billion to $30.78 billion.

As a result, county comCharlotte missioners have Nash a decision to make. They could always raise the millage rate again, but Nash said the county’s elected leaders will weigh two other options instead: keep the millage rate at 7.4

mills or roll it back to 7.21 mills.

“There’s no anticipation of an increase in the millage rate,” Nash said. “That’s the one thing you can say with certainty. The question is going to be roll back or maintain the same millage rate for the General Fund as last year.

That’s really the question and I have no idea what the appetite from individual commissioners is on that now.”

The commissioners are

Gwinnett County Chief Financial Officer Maria Woods gives a presentation on potential options county commissioners have for setting the millage rate next month. The options presented by Woods included keeping the millage rate at 7.4 mills or rolling it back to 7.21 mills.

(Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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Pure imagination

Nyela Williams, 7, Layla Davis, 5, and teacher Ligia Zelaya play Uno at Camp Imagination Station Tuesday morning. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

Gwinnett Tech camp emphasizes hands-on activities

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In the halls of the D. Scott Hudgens Jr. Early Education Center, there is a peaceful silence. The hum of the air conditioning can be heard. Taking a turn up the stairs to the second floor where Camp Imagination Station is located is a whole other world. Giggling, laughter and excitement from the up to 50 children who are attending the camp echo across the walls.

For campers such as 7-yearold Teagan Welch, it’s a chance for one last summer at Gwinnett Technical College’s Camp Imagination Station.

Camp Imagination Station is

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participate in hands-on activities in an environment they might not get during the school year.

Some of the activities include a game room, dramatic play village, inventor’s warehouse and art studio.

During the day, Teagan enjoys creating art ranging from unicorns to her personal favorite — roses.

Kevin Sivakumar, 4, builds walls for a house at Camp Imagina“My mom signed me up for tion Station on Tuesday morning. this last year and I wanted to come back this year,” Teagan an annual camp that has been weeklong camp, which runs said. “I really enjoyed going hosted by Gwinnett Tech for until July 20, allows campers See CAMP, Page 3A the past 12 years. The eightfrom pre-K to second grade to

More than four years after a Lawrenceville man was reported missing by his family, Gwinnett police have charged a man with murder in connection with the missing persons case that has turned into a homicide.

David Thacker, 40, of Lawrenceville was charged with aggraDavid vated assault and felony Thacker murder in the death of 54-year-old Michael Jones, who was reported missing by his family in April 2014, according to Sgt. Jake Smith, a spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.

About two years after the report, in May 2016, a deer hunter called 911 after finding a human skull in the woods along Bailey Road near Union Grove Circle in unincorporated Auburn, Smith said.

Patrol officers, homicide detectives, the crime scene unit and the medical examiner’s office responded to the scene, where the skull and other human bones were discovered about 200 to 300 yards from the road.

Crime scene detectives took photographs of the evidence and later that year determined the bones belonged to Jones. They subsequently ruled the case a homicide.

“Detectives identified David Thacker as a person of interest early in the investigation,” Smith said Tuesday. “Thacker and Jones were acquaintances and were known to have had a disagreement around the time Jones was reported missing. “Detectives and investigators from the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office have worked the cases over the past four years as leads have become available. New information was revealed in recent months, which allowed detectives to obtain warrants for Thacker.”

Thacker was served with the warrants at the Forsyth County Jail, where he has been held since June 12 when he was arrested for failure to maintain lane, driving without a valid license and expired or no license plate, jail records show.

He will be transferred to the Gwinnett County Jail at a later date.

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began their crime spree at 1:40 a.m. at a business in unincorporated Norcross,” Rundles said.

Three burglars who re“They hit another business cently targeted three local at 1:53 a.m. that is just a businesses made off with few blocks away. Then more than $75,000 during they finish their crimes their 45-minute break-in by hitting a business in spree, police said. unincorporated Atlanta at Gwinnett detectives are 2:23 a.m.” asking for help identifyDuring the burglaries, ing the men, who stole the suspects used a yellow more than $76,000 in cash crowbar to either pry open and property and caused doors or smash the glass to almost $2,000 worth of gain entry of the Five Star damage June 12, according Food Mart in Norcross, to Cpl. Wilbert Rundles, a the Cricket Wireless in spokesman for the GwinNorcross and Mac Deals nett County Police Depart- store on Buford Highway ment. in Atlanta.

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A June 13 article (“Dyer PTO board member’s husband arrested,” page 7A) covered the arrest of Bradley Duckett on charges of child molestation and possession or control of material depicting a minor in sexually explicit conduct.

The article also reported he is the husband of Dyer Elementary PTO Board member Jennifer Duckett. After being contacted on behalf of Ms. Duckett, and a check of the court records, it appears the judge signed the order granting a divorce to Ms. Duckett on June 12, but it was not filed of record at the courthouse until June 13, after our article was published. In addition, Ms. Duckett says that Mr. Duckett has not lived at the family residence since his arrest on April 17.

Ms. Duckett also submitted a statement to the Daily Post commenting on Mr. Duckett’s arrest and criticizing the newspaper for mentioning her in the news article.

She stated: “This newspaper article has been brought to my attention, and to say that it has deeply disturbed me would be an understatement. Since this nightmare began, my first priority has been to protect my children. My family was shocked with the circumstances surrounding Bradley Duckett’s arrest.

We had no foreknowledge, or even a clue whatsoever. By identifying me in the newspaper, it simply increased my role, and my children’s role, as victims in this case. The newspaper should not have related this terrible event to me or my children, as we had nothing to do with the arrest. I immediately filed for divorce and cut all ties with Mr. Duckett.

“It is rather surprising that the newspaper would identify me in the newspaper article, in that I am as much of a victim as anyone else. At this point and time, my family seeks our privacy, in order to heal from this revelation.”

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Libraries offering access to more genealogy databases system announced that genealogy websites Findmypast, Fold3 and Gale Genealogy Connect have Gwinnett County librar- been added to its genealies are now offering resiogy catalog. The system dents some new ways to already offers access to learn about their ancestors. Ancestry Library Edition The county’s library and HeritageQuest, but

library officials said the new databases will expand options for residents who want to learn more about their family trees.

The fact that access to new databases is being added during a significant year for Gwinnett County isn’t lost on library system officials.

“It is especially meaningful to offer new genealogy resources as we celebrate Gwinnett County’s bicentennial this year,” library system Executive Director Charles Pace said in a statement. “We hope

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“The kids get to choose where they want to go,” to Rabbit Hill Park even said Rebecca Olson, the though it was raining and director of the center. “The we couldn’t go swimming. I goal is to create exciting enjoyed swinging.” spots that they can particiWhen Teagan isn’t busy pate in during the summer.” creating art for some of her A normal day has a friends at the camp, she structure beginning at 7 enjoys writing about her a.m. and concluding at family and said she aspires 6:15 p.m. Throughout to be a writer. the day campers get the “I really like to create chance to go outside on the things,” she said. playground, participate in Camp isn’t all words and the different activities in art, however. It’s a chance each room and also focus for attendees to unwind. on literacy. Each Friday, Teagan said one of the best the camp offers water day, parts of camp is visiting the which includes pools and game room to play foosball. sprinklers, and there is a

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REPORT OF EVERMORE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT OF PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE In compliance with O.C.G.A. §48-5, the Evermore Community Improvement District (“CID”) reports that at its meeting on June 27, 2018, beginning at 2:30 P.M. at the CID Offices, 2795 Main Street, Building 28, Snellville, Gwinnett County, Georgia 30078, the Evermore CID Board of Directors will vote upon a proposal to levy an ad valorem taxation rate of 5 mills, and will set its millage rate for the lawful purposes of the District for the current calendar year. Set forth below are the assessed taxable values of the properties subject to taxes for the current year and five immediately preceding years, the total dollar amount of ad valorem taxes proposed to be levied for the current year and levied in the five immediately preceding years, as well as the percentage and total dollar increases or decreases with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year. All property levied upon is real property. The millage rate for each of the previous five years has been 5 mills.

Assessed Value $168,549,250 $163,872,160 $165,878,280 $167,184,120 $170,433,640

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 proposed $187,521,814

Taxes Levied $842,746 $819,360 $829,391 $835,920 $852,168

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J. Lynn Rainey, PC – State Bar No. 592350 – 358 Roswell Street, Suite 1130, Marietta, Georgia 30060 – (770) 421-6040

The City of Snellville does hereby announce that the 2018 millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia 30078 on Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. and pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. Section 48-5-32 does hereby publish the following presentation of the current year’s tax digest and levy, along with the history of the digest and levy for the past five years.

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018 Proposed

REAL & PERSONAL

615,849,900

689,921,840

696,562,240

743,360,810

792,397,130

874,964,140

MOTOR VEHICLES

36,585,400

30,814,740

22,213,870

16,776,540

12,055,660

8,859,250

MOBILE HOMES

0

0

0

0

0

0

TIMBER

0

0

0

0

0

0

HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT

0

57,080

152,200

325,000

202,820

281,003

GROSS DIGEST

652,435,300

720,793,660

718,928,310

760,462,350

804,655,610

884,104,393

LESS EXEMPTIONS

19,090,720

19,132,335

20,150,440

20,028,376

20,331,596

20,666,310

NET DIGEST

633,344,580

701,661,325

698,777,870

740,433,974

784,324,014

863,438,083

NET MILLAGE

4.90 MILLS

4.62 MILLS

4.588 MILLS

4.588 MILLS

4.588 MILLS

4.588 MILLS

NET TAXES LEVIED

3,103,388

3,241,675

3,205,993

3,397,111

3,598,479

3,961,454

NET TAXES $ INCREASE/DECREASE

-164,780

138,287

-35,682

191,118

201,368

362,975

NET TAXES % INCREASE/DECREASE

-5.04%

4.46%

-1.10%

5.96%

5.93%

10.09%

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Access to Findmypast, like Ancestry Library Edition, through the library system will only be available at library branches.

System officials said library card holders can access the other databases from their homes by going through gwinnettpl.org and entering their card number and PIN.

talent show at the end of the summer, something parents are invited to.

During the camp, the group goes on a field trip to places such as Stars and Strikes, the Southern Railway Museum and Kids Up, an indoor playground center.

One of the emphases that the weekly camp places on campers is limiting screen time.

“We try to make everything hands-on as much as possible,” Olson said. “We don’t watch movies everyday — in fact, we have only one movie day during

the summer.”

The child-adult ratio is set at 10:1 or less, Olson said, and lower for field trips. On a normal day, she said there are seven or eight adults watching the children. She said the staff pays attention to each child as the developmental range between pre-K and second grade can be wide.

“The teachers are really hands-on here,” Olson said.

“They’re there to support them and get to know them as well. We want kids to feel comfortable because then it gets to be a lot of fun for them.”

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and women with information coming from government sources, such as the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and the National Archives of the U.K. Library patrons who prefer to try Gale Genealogy Connect will have access to information held by genealogical. com, which offers a large number of family history resources, according to library system officials.

Meanwhile, Gwinnett library officials said Findmypast is a leading source

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this celebration encourages Gwinnettians to trace their roots and explore their past with help from the library.

“We also appreciate the financial support from the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners to expand our genealogy resources.”

Each of the new databases being added have their unique bits of information that residents can look through.

Fold3, for example, features military records, including documents, photos and stories of service men

The Mayor and Council of the City of Snellville will hold public hearings on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 6:00 p.m., and Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. to hear public comments on the proposed millage rate and to adopt the 2018 millage rate on Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Snellville City Hall Council Chambers.

Some insignificant differences in figures may occur since data was obtained from County and City records. These figures reflect billing adjustments to the digest and interim billing. All concerned citizens are invited to attend the meetings to be held at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers located at 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 6:00 p.m., and Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. These hearings will satisfy requirements of O.C.G.A. Section 48-13-28.

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property owners will soon see legal advertisements explaining the tax digest and the effect of the millage rate running in the Daily Post.

While raising the millage rate appears to be off the table, that doesn’t mean an increase in taxes is out of the question. Even if the commissioners chose to keep the millage rate at 7.4 mills, the increase in the tax digest — which is based on property values — means the amount of money a person owes in property taxes

could still increase.

There are options, however, to offset an increase in a property’s value. They include a $10,000 homestead exemption and the value offset exemption that are available to property owners.

Gwinnett County Chief Financial Officer Maria Woods said the value offset exemption available in Gwinnett could negate any increase in assessed value on a home, which would mean the taxable value

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NOTICE A proposed amendment to the 2017 City of Berkeley Lake Budget is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk of Berkeley Lake, City Hall, 4040 South Berkeley Lake Road, Berkeley Lake, Georgia, 30096.

A public hearing will be held regarding the proposed amendment on July 2, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the same address. At that time, any citizens wishing to be heard regarding the proposed budget may appear.

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would be the same — if the property owner takes advantage of the exemption.

“Their taxable value is the same — their taxes are the same,” Woods said.

Meanwhile, rolling the rate back to 7.21 mills will set it at a revenue neutral level, which means it will generate the same amount of tax revenue that was raised last year.

Woods said the rollback would mean that, even though a home whose assessed value was $109,760 in 2017 saw that value increase to $116,800 this year, the lower millage rate means the property owner could save $15.52 this year.

Woods also said either millage rate option would produce more revenues than county officials, who often budget conservatively, planned to spend this year.

“If you take the millage rate as it sits today and compare it across, the adopted (2018 General Fund) budget we did at $203 million,” Woods told commissioners. “The estimated revenue, based upon our current digest is $219 (million), so (there is) a difference of $16 (million).

“If you compare the revenue off the current digest at the rollback rate, it’s $213 million … a difference of $10 (million).”

Notice of Property Tax Increase The City of Snellville has tentatively adopted a 2018 millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes 6.85% percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at Snellville City Hall, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, GA 30078 on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.

Times and places of additional public hearings on this tax increase are at Snellville City Hall on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. and Monday, July 9, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 4.588 mills, an increase of 0.294 mills over the rollback rate, but no actual millage rate increase from last year.

Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate would be no more than the rollback rate of 4.294 mills.

The proposed tax increase for a home with fair market value of $200,000 is approximately $23.52 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property (Commercial) with a fair market value of $550,000 is approximately $64.68.

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— D.D. ANSWER: Tell her that you can’t tell whether an egg has salmonella by looking at it, and that washing eggs can bring salmonella from the outside of the egg to the inside. Also, salmonella requires either high heat or low heat for a long time to be killed, which would make the egg unpalatable or inedible. Recalled eggs should NOT be eaten. It’s not worth the risk.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1863, West Virginia was admitted as the 35th U.S. state.

In 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.

In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion began in China, as the Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing.

In 1963, the Soviet Union and the United States established the Moscow-Washington hotline.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright; Errol Flynn (1909-1959), actor; Chet Atkins (1924-2001), singer-songwriter; Audie Murphy (1924-1971), war hero/actor; Martin Landau (19282017), actor; Brian Wilson (1942- ), musician/singer-songwriter; Anne Murray (1945- ), singer; Bob Vila

(1946- ), handyman/TV personality; Lionel Richie (1949- ), singersongwriter; John Goodman (1952- ), actor; Nicole Kidman (1967- ), actress; Robert Rodriguez (1968- ), filmmaker; Christopher Mintz-Plasse (1989- ), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Western Argentina is home to Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, with an altitude of 22,834 feet.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be inducted. The Supreme Court overturned Ali’s conviction in 1971.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.” — Lillian Hellman, “Watch on the Rhine”

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Wife needs to translate her ‘love languages’ Dear Amy: I have been happily married to my husband for two years.

While he is loving and a good provider, he is not overly romantic. I would love nothing more than for him to surprise me with some flowers one day because he was thinking of me, but he’s never given me flowers. Valentine’s Day comes and goes without a peep from him.

I have voiced my concerns to him, but he usually gets frustrated and says that he takes care of me, keeps the house in order and works 60 hours a week to provide for me (all of this is true) and that should be enough.

I don’t question whether or not he loves me (I know he does), and I know I should be more grateful for all the wonderful things he does. There is just always that part of me that wants some of the romance and spontaneity that I fantasize about.

Am I being petty?

Shouldn’t I just put my silly desires for flowers aside and be grateful that he nearly breaks his back to feed and shelter me?

— Wanting Romance Dear Wanting: It’s not petty to want some romance in your life, but I think you’re getting romanced every single day. You just don’t see it, because you’re defining romance one way and your husband is defining it differently.

If you could train

tional book.

He then gave everyone in the office copies, begging us to read it and leave favorable comments online.

I read the book but didn’t like it. At all. It was poorly written and — awful.

What do I do? Lie and Amy Dickinson tell him it was great? Or tell the truth and hurt his yourself to change your feelings? perspective, even slightly, I don’t want to hurt his you would stop scanning feelings but to recommend the driveway for the flower his book seems wrong, delivery person and instead especially since I didn’t see that the guy dragging think it was good. What himself home after work should I do? carrying a bag of grocer— Conflicted Co-worker ies is telling you that he Dear Conflicted: loves you in ways that are Unless your job is “provisceral and lasting. fessional book reader and Gary Chapman has writ- recommender,” you are not ten a helpful book on lovobligated to do anything ing communication, “The to publicize this book, and Five Love Languages: The you are certainly not obSecret to Love that Lasts” ligated to lie in comments (2015, Northfield Publish- and say that you like it. ing). Viewing love and That being said, you romance through this lens should be careful about will help you to idenwhat you say about the tify your “love language” book, especially since it (receiving gifts). Your was written by a co-worker husband’s love language that (I’m assuming) you would be “acts of service.” see almost every day and Maybe you should have to maintain a profesexpress your own love in sional relationship with. the language you underFor now, stick to the stand best by giving your old adage: if you can’t husband flowers for his say something nice, don’t bedside table. Express your say anything at all. Avoid love and gratitude spontadiscussing this at work, neously, and learn to see and keep your opinions off his efforts as important, of social media. worthy and just as beautiIf this co-worker asks ful. you specifically for an Dear Amy: One of opinion or feedback, be my co-workers wrote and polite about his effort self-published a motiva(“Wow, that was quite an

Ask Amy

undertaking!”) but do not offer feedback or criticism, because the book is already written and printed.

If he continues to push you and your other coworkers to leave comments, be simple and direct. Say, “I’m sorry. I just don’t feel comfortable doing that.”

It is a professional breach to pressure coworkers regarding a nonwork project. His supervisor should discourage this behavior.

Dear Amy: “Loving Mother” wrote about her son’s financial trouble and her guilt about not being able to loan him money.

She can help him figure it out. Sit down with the bills — can a payment plan be set up? Request a lower interest rate? Are there hidden fees/services that can be renegotiated? Can the son get a roommate?

Providing practical advice and support in resolving financial problems helps the child without a financial loan and, hopefully, has long-term benefits.

— Helpful Dad Dear Dad: Great advice. But this dude also needed to get a job. That would be my first suggestion.

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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Keep an eye on what others are doing and avoid negative individuals who bring you down. You can reach your personal goals by advocating for your cause. Get directly involved in making a change if you want to find success.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — A change you are trying to make will be interrupted by someone or something you forgot to take care of. Backtrack quickly so you don’t fall behind.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — If you make a change to the way you do things, you will be praised for your insight and achievements. Express your feelings to gain support.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Spin things in your favor to outmaneuver someone trying to best you. A practical approach to life will help you recognize someone who’s a bad influence and walk away.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — If you feel uncertain about someone, bring your feelings to his or her attention.

Clearing the air will help you cultivate a better relationship and gain greater stability.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Put your best foot forward and strive to live a healthier lifestyle. The changes you make will encourage better relationships with the people you care about most.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Don’t overreact if you want to get things done. Hone your skills and let your creativity take the reins.

What you accomplish will be superior to anything you’ve done thus far.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Take pride in what you do.

Learn from the past and be more responsible with your personal finances. Don’t let anyone talk you into spending money on something you don’t need.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Take your time. If someone puts pressure on you, walk away. Do whatever feels right and supports a secure future. Taking a risk is a foolish option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Get the inside scoop before you sign up for something you know little about. Don’t let temptation entice you to do something you wouldn’t normally do. Take care of your health.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Get involved in something you’ve wanted to do for a long time. A creative idea will lead to an interesting opportunity that offers monetary benefits. A partnership looks promising.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Focus on getting ahead. If you attend a networking event or set up a meeting with a former coworker, you’ll be offered an interesting lead.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Face-toface communication will help you decipher someone’s interest and reaction to what you have to say. Look for an opportunity to close a deal or take on something new.

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world&nation world Meghan, Harry attend prestigious U.K. horse race with the Queen Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has made her first appearance at the U.K.’s prestigious Royal Ascot — the jewel in the crown of the British horse racing calendar.

She joined her husband Prince Harry and Queen Elizabeth II for the first day of the race meeting, which runs until June 23.

Harry and Meghan, who got married at Windsor Castle one month ago, are expected to present the winning trophy for the St James’s Palace Stakes, according to the Royal Ascot program.

The couple arrived in a horse-drawn carriage — a practice which began in 1825 with members of the royal family entering the course every day from Windsor Castle.

Hat Napoleon reportedly wore at Waterloo sells for $400,000 A hat said to be worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo sold for more than $400,000 at an auction in Lyon, France.

The De Baecque auction house told CNN the buyer is a European collector passionate about the First French Empire.

The hat, which was sold 203 years to the day after the French emperor’s defeat at the famous battle, is believed to be one of about 120 two-cornered military dress hats worn by Napoleon. Historians have identified only 19 remaining hats, most of them now in museums. According to the auction house, Napoleon constantly had 12 hats in service, each of which had a three-year life span.

Counting fees, the hat sold Monday for $405,212.

But that price paled in comparison with another of Napoleon’s hats that was recently sold.

At an auction in 2014, a South Korean collector purchased one of the French emperor’s hats for $2.4 million, far exceeding the more than $500,000 that it was expected to fetch.

House GOP presses on DOJ bias Committees grill inspector general on report about Clinton probe

By Jeremy Herb, David Shortell and Laura Jarrett CNN

House Republicans went on the attack Tuesday over the Justice Department watchdog report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, charging that the bias exhibited by key FBI officials did affect the decision not to charge Clinton.

Republicans on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees pressed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over his conclusion in the report released last week that political bias did not affect the specific prosecutorial decisions reviewed in the Clinton case.

Pointing to the antiDonald Trump text messages exchanged by FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Republicans argued that the key officials on the Clinton case had no interest in charging Clinton — but had prejudged the outcome of the investigation into Trump and Russia.

“What is more textbook bias than prejudging this investigation before it’s over and this one before it begins?” House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, a

nation Trump campaign manager says it’s ‘time to fire’ Jeff Sessions

President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager said Tuesday that it was “time to fire” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and end special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Brad Parscale, who was tapped in February to head Trump’s re-election effort, tweeted that it was “Time to fire Sessions” and “End the Mueller investigation,” adding, “You can’t obstruct something that was phony against you.”

“The IG report gives realDonaldTrump the truth to end it all,” Parscale wrote.

The Justice Department’s inspector general released a report last week that critiWorld’s oldest cized former FBI Director known Sumatran James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email orangutan dies investigation. The report was Perth Zoo has bid a also critical of text messages tearful goodbye to Puan, exchanged between two FBI dubbed the “grand old lady” employees who disparaged of Sumatran orangutans, Trump, saying the texts “cast who died Monday. a cloud” over the credibility Puan, who was believed of the investigation, but also to have been born in 1956, saying there was no evidence was gifted to the West Aus- “that these political views tralian zoo by a sultan from directly affected the speMalaysia on New Year’s cific investigative decisions” Eve in 1968. reviewed.

Although the 62-yearold was recognized by the Warren wants Guinness Book of Records to put a hold as the oldest living Sumatran orangutan in the world, on nominee to Puan’s legacy lay in the lead CFPB zoo’s renowned breeding Democratic Sen. Elizaprogram.

As the mother of 11 beth Warren announced children, Puan’s genetics she’s putting a hold on the account for just under 10 nomination for Kathy Kranpercent of the global zooinger to run the Consumer logical population, accord- Financial Protection Bureau ing to Perth Zoo. until she turns over docu— From wire reports ments related to her role in

people XXXTentacion shot dead in apparent robbery

Rapper XXXTentacion was shot and killed during an apparent robbery Monday in Broward County, Fla., police said.

The 20-year-old rapper, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, was leaving a motorsports store shortly before 4 p.m. when two men in a dark colored SUV shot and killed him in an apparent robbery, said Keyla Concepción, Broward County sheriff department public information officer.

Broward County deputies are actively looking House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy was among Republicans who criti- for the two men and asking cized Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday over a report anyone who witnessed the last week involving the FBI’s handling of investigating Hillary Clinton in 2016. (CNN) shooting to come forward, South Carolina Republicounsel Robert Mueller’s itz explained how his team Concepción said. can, asked Horowitz. “I am investigation is tainted by reached the conclusion that struggling to find a better bias. Democrats meanbias did not affect prosecu- Jimmy Wopo example of outcome deter- while, have pointed to the torial decisions. “We looked gunned down minative bias than that. So actions by Comey and oth- at all of that evidence and in Pittsburgh what am I missing?” ers as ultimately boosting we assessed whether on Horowitz’s second Trump and hurting Clinton that record we could make Rapper Jimmy Wopo congressional hearing in in the 2016 campaign. a finding that bias turned was fatally shot Monday the past 24 hours underWhile Monday’s Seninto action by those other afternoon in the Pittsburgh scored the partisan divide ate Judiciary Committee individuals, and we didn’t that’s emerged following hearing often veered into believe there was evidence neighborhood he helped make famous. He was 21. the release of the inspector a proxy debate over the to reach that conclusion,” Police said they found general’s 500-page report, Mueller investigation, Horowitz said.

Wopo and another man which faulted former FBI lawmakers at Tuesday’s But that explanation did shot inside a car shortly Director James Comey for House hearing appeared not satisfy Republicans. insubordination, as well as more interested in relitigat- House Judiciary Chairman before 4:30 p.m. Monday in Pittsburgh’s Hill District Strzok and Page for “poor ing the Clinton case and the Bob Goodlatte faulted the neighborhood. The vehicle judgment.”

2016 election, although the inspector general for not was in the middle of the Trump and his RepubMueller probe still loomed investigating whether the lican allies have seized over the House proceeddecisions made by the FBI street and had been struck several times. on the report to argue that ings. and Justice Department Both men were transportthe report shows special In his testimony, Horow- were most effective. ed to a local hospital where the rapper later died. Police that he has sent a letter to said the other victim, who the Justice Department ask- was not identified in a press ing it to pause the practice of release, was transported in stable condition. separating families.

Police said the shooting “I’ve asked for a pause so is currently being inveswe can really evaluate this tigated and initial reports and do what’s in the best indicate it was an isolated interest of these children incident. and their families. And we ought to be doing everything in our power to bring the Dean Cain sworn children together with their in as Idaho’s parents,” he told reporters Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign newest officer manager, said Tuesday that it was “time to fire” Attorney on Tuesday. “So I want to General Jeff Sessions, pictured, and end special counsel pause so we can really apA crowd gathered outside Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign. proach these things intelthe St. Anthony, Idaho, City ligently.”

(CNN) Hatch said he hasn’t heard Hall on Tuesday morning waiting to see Dean Cain in the administration’s “zero The S&P and the Nasdaq anything back yet from his uniform. Not his Superman tolerance” policy that has also fell. colleagues about the letter uniform, but his brand new been separating undocuOn Monday evening, but suspects they will be police uniform. mented children from their President Donald Trump grateful he acted. He added Cain was sworn in as a parents. escalated trade tensions with that he thought he would be “.realDonaldTrump’s China. He threatened to im- speaking with Attorney Gen- reserve officer in the St. Anthony Police Department nominee to run the CFPB, pose tariffs on an additional eral Jeff Sessions about it.

by Mayor Donald Powell.

Kathy Kraninger, has no $200 billion worth of ChiCain, who starred in the track record of helping nese goods if Beijing follows U.S. expecting 1990s hit “Lois & Clark: consumers. That’s bad news through with its promise to N. Korea to return The New Adventures of for seniors, servicemembers, retaliate against a previous students — and anyone else round of U.S. tariffs. troop remains in Superman,” is the second celebrity to become part of who doesn’t want to get “Further action must be coming days the St. Anthony Police Decheated. And it gets even taken to encourage China to The Trump administration partment. “CHiPs” star Erik worse,” she tweeted Tueschange its unfair practices, Estrada became a reserve is expecting North Korea day. open its market to United officer in July 2016. to return up to 200 sets of “Kathy Kraninger helps States goods, and accept “I’ve been watching a lot remains believed to be U.S. oversee the agencies that are a more balanced trade of his movies and I’ve seen ripping kids from their parrelationship with the United servicemembers who died his shows. It’s nice to have during the Korean War, ents. Now realDonaldTrump States,” Trump said in a according to four administra- him here in St. Anthony,” wants her to run the CFPB. I statement.

St. Anthony resident Tyler tion officials. will put a hold on her nomiRamos told EastIdahoNews.

Planning is underway to nation — & fight it at every Key Trump ally in com while wearing a Superreceive the remains from step — until she turns over man T-shirt.

North Korea in the coming all documents about her role Senate asks for Cain will now help with days, although the actual separations of in this.” the All About Kids initiatransfer date and location families to stop tive that Estrada launched has not been finalized, the Dow falls another Top Senate Republican two years ago. It focuses officials say. They add that 287 as trade war Orrin Hatch broke with the administration is ready to on preventing teen suiPresident Donald Trump receive the remains as early cide, bullying and internet fears escalate on Tuesday over separatcrimes. Officers also work as this week if the North Wall Street has tried to ing families at the southern to protect children against Koreans decide to move cyber predators and increase ignore warning signs about a border, telling reporters he’s quickly. school security. trade war for months. It can’t “not real happy with the President Donald Trump The team has been beany longer. way things are going right has held up North Korea’s hind many improvements to The Dow sank 287 points now.” agreement to return the police department including on Tuesday, or 1.2 percent.

Hatch, who has been a remains as one of the sucThe Dow’s six-day losing close ally of Trump’s and cesses of his historic June 12 a new police K-9, drones, new guns and various trainstreak is its longest since reaped his praise on the pas- summit with Kim Jong Un ings.

March 2017, and the index is sage of the GOP tax bill last in Singapore.

— From wire reports back in the red for the year. year, announced on Twitter — From wire reports

Charleston may finally apologize for its role in the slave trade

By Jessica Campisi and Saeed Ahmed CNN

A mile from where ships dropped shackled Africans off by the thousands and inside a city hall built by forced labor, 12 council members were expected to gather Tuesday to finally apologize for Charleston’s role in the slave trade.

For the South Carolina city, the apology has been in the works

“Either way, up or down, it will show the world — it will give the world a barometer of where we for a long time. The City Council stand as a city in the 21st century picked Tuesday to approve the as it relates to racial reconciliaresolution because it’s Juneteenth tion,” he said.

— a day that celebrates the aboliThe two-page resolution is tion of slavery. not just an apology; it’s also an “The vestiges of slavery still acknowledgment that slavery bruplague us today,” Councilman talized a people and stripped them William Dudley Gregorie told of their culture and values.

CNN affiliate WCBD. He brought “The institution of slavery did the bipartisan resolution to the not just involve physical confinecouncil. ment and mistreatment,” it says.

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“It also sought to suppress, if not destroy, the cultural, religious and social values of Africans by stripping Africans of their ancestral names and customs, humiliating and brutalizing them through sexual exploitation, and selling African relatives apart from one another without regard to the connection of family, a human condition universal among all peoples of the world.”

Slavery riddles the history of the South Carolina city.

Forty percent of Africans forcibly brought to the U.S. set foot on American soil here. In fact, some 80 percent of African-Americans can trace their roots back to Charleston, says the International African-American Museum.

About a mile away from City Hall is Gadsden’s Wharf, where slave ships docked and unloaded at least 100,000 slaves. (In 2020, the site will become the home of the International African-American Museum).

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Summit on helping inmates re-enter society draws over 700

By Isabel Hughes

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Standing on the stage at the Infinite Energy Forum, CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates paused, looking at the crowd before her.

“In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a man who was punished because he was self-serving; because he had so many lapses in judgment, it appeared as if it was part of his character and it appeared he was unworthy of any second, let alone third or fourth chances,” she said, inquisitive faces looking back at her. “He was a man who the Greek gods decided to punish because he failed to understand his place as a humble person and humble follower of law and order in a just society.”

Smiling, Coates continued: “The way he was punished was he had to take a huge boulder and roll it uphill, day in and day out, and when he was just at the cusp of paying his debt to the Greek gods, every single day at the end of the journey of using all of his grit and his might to get that boulder up, believing there would be a second chance at the top, it rolled right back down to the bottom for

CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates spoke to attendees of the Georgia Department of Community Supervision’s second annual Reentry Summit Tuesday afternoon, an event aimed at increasing opportunities for and improving the outcomes of inmates who are reentering society following incarceration. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

him to start again. That largely (describes) what happens to people who are trying to re-enter (society) from (incarceration).”

Though she told a tale that was spun centuries ago, Coates’ words were not lost on attendees at the Georgia Department of Community Supervision’s second annual Reentry Summit on Tuesday afternoon, an event aimed at increasing opportunities for and improving the outcomes of inmates who are re-entering society following incarceration.

The summit, which

brought together numerous local, state and federal agencies, saw more than 700 attendees during the daylong program, which included speakers, several workshop sessions, a leadership panel discussion and resource expos.

The goal? To help agencies learn how to better help those reentering society and maximize formerly incarcerated citizens’ opportunities.

“We tell them that they have a debt to pay, but just as they’re at the very end — about 12 to 18 months

before they leave (prison) to come back and join everyone else in society — they find that rock rolling back down,” Coates said. “In (the Sisyphus myth), there were onlookers who were watching him roll that rock up that hill, only to let it roll back down when he was at the cusp of that plateau. They watched, some in horror, some as a lesson to their children and others who said, ‘Well, he must have done something to deserve that punishment, and whatever it is he did, I’m going to assume the

obituaries Cornelia

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Evelyn Adams (Waters)

Jimmy Lamar Coleman

Evelyn Waters Adams, age 89, of Cornelia, GA formerly of Lawrenceville passed away on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. She is survived by her loving children, Dale (Carroll) Jeffers, James David Adams, Myles “Larry” Adams (CJ DeFreese), and Kenneth Adams; five grandchildren; six great grandchildren. Evelyn was born in Dacula, GA and was a 1946 graduate of Lawrenceville High School. She was a homemaker and a member of Cornelia UMC. A Funeral Service Honoring the Life of Evelyn will be held on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 3:00PM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel. Interment will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Dacula.

The family will receive friends on Wednesday, June 20th from 6pm-8pm.

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

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

Jimmy Lamar Coleman, 68, of Eatonton, Georgia, went to heaven, Saturday, June 16, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

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Mr. Julian Ray McDaniel

Julian Ray McDaniel, age 92 of Bethlehem, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2018. He was a member and a deacon at Bethel Baptist Church and he attended Carter Hill Christian Church. Julian had been a Mason for 60 years and was a member of Bethlehem Masonic Lodge. He loved music and played a variety of instruments, playing for several bands throughout NE Georgia since the early 1950’s. Julian was preceded in death by his parents, Rufus Calvin and Pearl Ann Helton McDaniel; four brothers, Carson, RC, Cecil and Paul McDaniel and three sisters, Annie B. Wells, Mary Ruth McDaniel and Bessie Lee McDaniel. He is survived by his love of 58 years, Mary Ann Moon McDaniel of Bethlehem; his daughter, Julie Brigham of Bethlehem; three grandchildren, Alexandra Brigham (Daniel), Maxwell Brigham and Caleb Brigham and several Suwanee, GA nieces and nephews. A Sandra Assad (Cano) funeral service will be held at 11:00AM Tuesday, age 72, of Suwanee, GA June 19, 2018 in the chapel passed away June 18th. of Smith Funeral Home, Wages and Sons Gwinnett Winder, GA. The family Chapel. will receive friends from 9:00AM until service time Buford, GA the day of the funeral.

Ida Leila Ciak Interment will follow Ida Leila Ciak, age 83, of in Carter Hill Christian Church Cemetery. FlowBuford, GA passed away ers graciously excepted or Friday, June 15, 2018. donations may be made to Carter Hill Christian Church or The Grand Lodge of Georgia.

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Lowell Deitsch Lowell Deitsch, age 91, of Bradenton, FL and formerly of Buford, GA passed away on Sunday, June 17, 2018. He was preceded in death by his son, Benjamin Deitsch. He is survived by his wife of sixty-four years, Marilyn Cotton Deitsch, Bradenton, FL; sons and daughters-in-law, Bruce Lowell and Eileen Deitsch, Monument, CO, Brent and Patricia Deitsch, Duluth, GA and Brion Eric and Carol Deitsch, North Port, FL; six grandchildren; two great grandchildren; sister, Ruth Deitsch Myers, Rockford, OH; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Deitsch was born March 9, 1927 in Rockford, OH. He was a 1944 graduate of Rockford High School. He was a veteran of the U. S. Navy. He was retired from Honda Power Equipment after fifteen years of service. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Buford where he was a former member of the Silvertone Choir and the Upper Room Sunday School Class. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park in Lawrenceville, GA with military honors. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.

Lawrenceville, GA

Grace Dobson (Strickland) age 91, passed away on Monday, June 18, 2018.

Arrangements by, Tim Stewart Funeral Home.

punishment is just, even if I see the sweat and the toil and the hardship and the pain of moving that boulder. He must deserve it; he had a choice, he had a chance.’

“But if you don’t look or listen hard enough, you will see yourself doing what so many people do: you’ll point at Sisyphus, but see fingers pointing back at yourself. Just as society was involved in ensuring (Sisyphus) was convicted, shouldn’t we have helped move that boulder with him?”

Helping move that boulder can come in a variety of ways, said Michelle Stanley, deputy director of the Office of Reentry Services. But it begins with collaboration.

“One of the commissioners mentioned how often we work in our silos, but we’re all doing the same work,” Stanley said. “If we think about it from a collaborative perspective, whoever goes into the home (should) be able to help anyone that’s there. For instance, if our (Department of Community Supervision) officers go into a home of someone who’s under felony probation, if there’s a family member in that home who doesn’t have a job and we know of employers who are hiring, we’re going to share

that information, because we’re not only supporting that person under supervision, but supporting that family because everybody will be moving in the right direction.”

Moving the boulder also includes offering resources to ex-cons so they can find employment and housing while also finding ways to remove the stigma society often has about former inmates.

“The fact is, these people are coming home,” Stanley said. “I say, every day, that I do this work not for me, but for those that we are serving and to not only ensure they have a second chance, but a better chance.”

Coates said that’s what re-entry is about.

“The struggle, the toil and the trying (to reenter) is to get to a point in time where we all are taking a piece of that particular boulder,” she said. “It’s not just because we all have some level of personal accountability; (rather), because we’re giving them the chance to come home, why not let them have it? We’ve got to move that boulder with them because if we’re not careful, we will all find ourselves, in society, struggling to find a way to figure out whether that boulder can ever be moved.”

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Buford

Tonya Dobson age 48, of Buford, GA died June 15, 2018. Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel.

Johns Creek

Clara Grimes age 82, of Johns Creek, GA died June 15, 2018.

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Winder, GA

Randall Charles Knight Randall Charles Knight, age 60, of Winder, GA passed away Monday, June 18, 2018.

Suwanee, GA

Cheryl Annette Oliver (Trim) Cheryl Trim Oliver, age 54, of Suwanee, GA passed away suddenly on Friday, June 15, 2018. She is survived by her husband of twenty-seven years, Johnny Oliver, Suwanee, GA; brothers and sistersin-law, Ross and Linda Trim, Flowery Branch, GA and Robert and Dovie Trim, Brentwood, TN; sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Kenneth Johnson, Brighton, MI; sisterin-law and brother-in-law, Jan and George Garner, Randolph, MS; nieces and nephews, Susan and Thomas Seigler, Laura and Matthew Lynn, and Kelly Johnson; nephews and nieces, Ross Trim, Jr. and wife, Rachel Trim, Shawn Johnson, and Kenneth and Elizabeth Johnson; aunt, Lucy Brooks, Duluth, GA; several great nieces, great nephews and cousins; and her extended family, Staff of Gwinnett Hospital System. Mrs. Oliver was born March

15, 1964 in Detroit, MI. She was a 1982 graduate of Stevenson High School and attended Gwinnett Technical College. She was employed with Gwinnett Hospital System as an I.T. Supervisor and had been employed with Gwinnett Hospital System for the past thirty years.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Chaplain Chuck Christie, Rev. Toby Bates and Rev. Randy Satterfield officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. and on Thursday, June 21, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, 1755 North Brown Road, Suite 100, Lawrenceville, GA 30043 in memory of Cheryl Oliver.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.

will be held on June 23 at 4 pm with a gathering from 2 - 4 at Wages and Sons, Lawrenceville Chapel.

Mr. Smith was preceded in death by his son Ed III, his parents Ed Sr. and Mrs. “Bill,” his wife Lora, and his sisters, Jean Holman and Mary Ella Ackerly.

A 1948 graduate of Bass High, Ed joined his father’s construction company. He later became a highly regarded explosive specialist and consultant.

He is survived by his daughter Nancy Meek (Eric), his granddaughter Brenna Meek, his brother William B. Smith (Anne) and numerous nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, please send rocks. If you wish to contribute to Ed’s educational dreams for his granddaughter, checks can be made to Brenna Meek, PO Box 26, Lilburn, GA 30048.

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Ollie Mae Tate Mrs. Ollie Mae Rainwater Tate, 87, of Winder.

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Buford, GA

Thomas “Tom” Provus Thomas “Tom” Provus, age 62, of Buford, GA passed away on Friday, June 15, 2018.

Dacula, GA

Gordon Watson age 94, passed away on Tuesday, June 19, 2018.

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Bus rapid transit infrastructure coming to Ga. 400

BY CURT YEOMANS

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State officials are going to take out $100 million in general obligation bonds to build infrastructure along Ga. Highway 400 to accommodate bus rapid transit, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Tuesday.

The governor’s announcement came after the State Road and Tollway Authority board approved the bonds.

The infrastructure will be installed as part of the state’s Georgia 400 Express Lanes project.

The state, Fulton County and MARTA will work together on the project, which includes the construction of four bus-only interchanges.

The interchanges will be spread along a 16-mile stretch of highway, between McFarland Parkway and Interstate 285.

“We continue to make investments to ensure that our modes of transit and mobility are worthy of the No. 1 state for business and the best place for opportunity,” Deal said.

“I allotted $100 million in bonds in the FY 2019 budget to demonstrate

This illustration released by Gov. Nathan Deal’s Office shows what one of the planned bus rapid transit interchanges on Ga. Highway 400 will look like. The state plans to use $100 million in general obligation bonds to pay for the installation of BRT infrastructure along the highway. (Special Photo)

the state’s commitment to addressing mobility needs through strategic investments in transit infrastructure.

“This visionary project will enhance the plans for SR 400, one of our state’s most vital corridors for commuters, jobs and freight.”

Bus rapid transit, which is sometimes described as buses that act like trains, is not a common transit system in Georgia, but it has been drawing the attention of transportation planners around the state in recent years. Gwinnett County’s transit develop-

ment plan is expected to includes the gradual installation of several BRT lines over the coming decades.

Georgia will spend $1.8 billion to widen Ga. 400 and accommodate the new BRT interchanges as part of the express lanes project. State officials expect the work, once finished, to reduce delays along the corridor by 18 percent by 2030 and save drivers about 20 to 25 minutes on the road.

Deal said the partnership between Georgia, Fulton County and MARTA on the project is

also groundbreaking.

“This investment in BRT infrastructure marks the first time that the state, Fulton County and MARTA have partnered together to improve our mass transit system,” the governor said. “With this announcement, we are introducing collaborative solutions for both transportation and transit, which is exactly what The ATL and Georgia’s commitment to improving mobility are all about.”

There are some steps that still have to be taken. The involvement of Fulton County in the

BRT infrastructure and operations will depend on the outcome of an upcoming county referendum.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is also looking for potential locations for the interchanges and right of way acquisition is expected to take place in either fiscal year 2019 or 2020.

The process of picking a contractor for the project is also expected to begin in 2020.

The project was met with support from Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Speaker of the House David Ralston.

“This substantive state investment into our transit infrastructure will help relieve congestion along the Ga. 400 corridor,” Ralston said.

“This project will also aid in recruiting worldclass companies like Mercedes-Benz and State Farm that place a priority on access to transit for their employees.

“In sum, this project has the potential to not only improve quality of life but help create more jobs for our citizens — that’s a win-win.”

Meanwhile, Cagle said, “Gov. Deal and Speaker Ralston have been steadfast in their commitment to make Georgia a national leader in economic development, and in part because of the investments we’ve prioritized in transportation and transit, we’ve led the nation as the best state to do business for five consecutive years and continue to set new records in job creation.

Going forward, we must continue building on this historic commitment to reducing traffic congestion and developing a world-class, 21st century infrastructure.”

Two Gwinnett road projects receive grant funding from state

BY CURT YEOMANS

ed $18.1 million for 19 projects Two road projects in located Gwinnett County were around among a list of infrathe state, structure plans that will accordNathan receive grant funding ing to the Deal from the Georgia Transgovernor’s portation Infrastructure office. Two of those projBank that were anects are in the Peachtree nounced by Gov. Nathan Corners and Norcross Deal on Tuesday. area, including a partial The State Road and multi-lane roundabout at Tollway Authority award- Peachtree Corners Circle curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

and Medlock Bridge Road, as well as a widening of Spalding Drive.

“By awarding grants and loans to local governments and community improvement districts, GTIB helps to maintain our roads and bridges, improve congestion and accommodate the movement of freight traffic,” Deal said. “The innovative transportation initiatives receiving these funds will benefit local

communities for years to come and reinforce Georgia’s reputation as a top destination for businesses and job creators.”

One grant for $202,960 will go toward the reconstruction of a “T” intersection at Peachtree Corners and Medlock Bridge as a roundabout with sidewalks and multiuse trails. The governor’s office said the project is expected to “reduce traffic delays and the likelihood of accidents.”

Meanwhile, a $2 million grant has been awarded to the county to widen Spalding Drive between Winters Chapel and Holcomb Bridge.

Spalding Drive is expected to go from two or three lanes to four or five lanes.

The project will include two lanes in each direction and turn lanes added, or in some cases extended, at intersections, a bridge replacement, signal modifications and the

installation of sidewalks.

“Together, the various projects funded through this program have brought innovative and much needed transportation improvements to the local communities who have identified and prioritized these needs,” SRTA Executive Director Chris Tomlinson said.

“SRTA is proud to partner with the applicants to provide critical funding to move these projects toward completion.”

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Schools’ TV group wins Southeast Emmy Award

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Kevin Tomlinson, GCPS director of broadcast and distance learning, Gwinnett County Public information management, Schools TV’s interviews said there was a lot of with the 2018 Teacher anticipation for the team of the Year Finalists not after being notified of the only captured a behindnomination back in April. the-scenes look at the “We submitted the six finalists, but also a (Teacher of the Year) Southeast Emmy from video for the past several the National Academy of years and been nominated Television Arts and Scibut never won it,” Tomences on Saturday. linson said. “To have won The 19-minute video it is a reinforcement of showed multiple shots the quality of work that is of interviewees Doug done and is very excitDoblar, Michelle Jones, ing.”

Cheri Nations, Ebony According to Tomlinson Flott, John Chvatal and producing the video with Amy Crisp interacting both an in-studio interwith students throughout view as well as visiting the day as well as some each teacher’s classroom of the lessons they were twice took a good amount teaching. of time to cut down the Lakyn Napoletan, footage.

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The school district television group also received a nomination this year for highlighting the Student Media Festival.

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Nelson gives back to North community with free camp

By Will Hammock

to the kids in Suwanee and it seems like they’re having a good time out here,” Nelson said during a brief break SUWANEE — Summer between camp events Moncamps can be nice money- day. “The community’s been makers for their organizers, great to me. The communieven if the people behind ty’s helped me stay focused, it are professional athletes. graduate. They keep up with That wasn’t in Robert Nel- me in college and the NFL son’s plan, though. with whatever team I’m The NFL defensive back on, so it’s only right to give and former North Gwinnett back to them and their kids.”

Bulldog wanted his camp More than 60 young to be free for the youngcampers joined Nelson in sters in the community, sweltering conditions on putting the emphasis on the artificial turf at George them and not on making Pierce Park’s football some money on the side. field Monday. They were “We wanted to give back trained by a staff that inwill.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

cluded another North grad, Ja’Wuan James, who starts at offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins.

Nelson was active and energetic, running all over the field and working heavily with the event’s youngest campers. He played defensive back on his knees and allowed the tiny wide receivers to push him down before they took off on a route.

“Since I was these kids age, I dreamed of (playing in the NFL),” Nelson said. “I NFL defensive back Robert Nelson, a North Gwinnever thought it would come nett grad, talks with youngsters during his football

camp Monday at George Pierce Park in Suwanee.

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Georgia Tech guard Josh Okogie (5), a Shiloh grad, goes up for a shot as Notre Dame forward Bonzie Colson (35) defends during a game Dec. 30 in South Bend, Ind. (Matt Cashore-USA Today Sports)

DRIVING FORCE No rest for Okogie ahead of NBA Draft

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Josh Okogie’s nonstop gauntlet of workouts is approaching its finale. On Father’s Day, the Shiloh High School grad was in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, he was in Salt Lake City. He’d worked out for 14 NBA teams already and had more planned through today.

It’s all in an effort to raise his profile before the NBA draft begins Thursday.

Okogie, who decided to enter the NBA draft in May after his sophomore

NBA DRAFT When: Thursday, 7 p.m. (Round 1) Where: Barclays Center, Brooklyn TV: ESPN Top 10 draft order: Phoenix, Sacramento, Atlanta, Memphis, Dallas, Orlando, Chicago, Cleveland (via Nets), New York, Philadelphia (via Lakers)

season at Georgia Tech, said he hopes the workouts highlight aspects of his diverse skill set that may not have been

evident in head coach Josh Pastner’s scheme on offense and defense.

“Obviously, I did a lot of dribbling, a lot of

shooting and passing at Georgia Tech, but I don’t think people know how well I can do those things,” Okogie said.

“Also, how much energy I play with. Playing 40 minutes a game in college is pretty hard, but being able to see up close how much energy I bring to a workout is something I want guys to see.”

In Okogie’s final season at Georgia Tech, the 6-foot-4, 213-pound No. 2 guard averaged 18.3 points per game, 6.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists.

He shot 43 percent from the field.

Okogie doesn’t read

Gaither named Gatorade POY for Georgia From Staff Reports

Daily Post Girls Soccer Player of the Year Nieva Gaither earned a major honor Monday for her record-breaking sophomore season at Parkview.

Gaither was named the Gatorade Georgia Girls Soccer Player of the Year, becoming the third Panther to win the Nieva statewide honor.

Gaither Parkview’s previous winners were Ashley Baker in 2008 and Marah Falle in 2007.

Gwinnett players have won the last six Gatorade player of the year honors for Georgia, including Collins Hill’s Rachel Jones in 2017. She was preceded by Grayson’s Ella Stevens (2015 and 2016) and Jennifer Westendorf (2014) and Greater Atlanta Christian’s Rachel Garcia (2013).

Going back 12 years, Gwinnett has produced nine Georgia Gatorade players of the year. After Falle and Baker won the honor, Gwinnett resident Laura Eddy (Marist) won the 2009 award.

Gaither was recognized after leading the Panthers to a 23-1 season and the Class AAAAAAA title. She finished her sophomore season with a school-record 37 goals along with 10 assists, and had a goal and an assist in a 2-0 victory over Milton in the state finals.

Panthers, locals shine at track nationals From Staff Reports

mock drafts, but if he did, he’d see the steady climb of his name into the middle of the first round.

At the NBA Combine, Okogie posted the highest vertical leap (42 inches) and the fastest three-quarter sprint (3.04 seconds).

Okogie said he’s not completely in the dark about his increasing perceived value. His agent, Wilmer Jackson, keeps him informed regarding what scouts think about his workouts, good or bad.

Okogie’s goal for each workout is to be the best

The Parkview Express repeated its Swedish Relay championship over the weekend at New Balance High School Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., highlighting another strong showing for Gwinnett athletes at the annual meet.

The foursome of Panthers posted a winning time of 1 minute, 54.02 seconds in the 1,000-meter relay, topping the Championship Division field but coming up short of the national record they set last year at 1:52.39. Justin Long, the only returning runner from last year’s record relay, was joined on the foursome by Tommy Rogers, Matt Chavers and Keith Williams.

Those runners earned a second All-American honor at the meet with a sixth-place finish in

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See NEW BLANCE, Page 2B

Getting to Know ... Nick Green Duluth High School graduate Nick Green’s eight-year Major League Baseball career was unpredictable when he was drafted in the 32nd round of the 1998 MLB June Amateur Draft out of Georgia Perimeter College, which has since merged with Georgia State. His ability to fit almost anywhere on the infield and his whimsical attitude toward the approach of baseball helped him rise through the minor leagues to debut with his

hometown Atlanta Braves in 2004.

Green still holds several school records at Duluth, where he played with his twin brother, Kevin. He and his wife, Angie, are adapting to life with two children since the birth of their second daughter, Ivy, about one month ago.

Their oldest daughter, Indy, is 3 years old.

Staff writer Taylor Denman asked Green about his leadership on one of Duluth’s historically best

baseball teams, former coach Lou Llerandi’s impact and his readjustment to his new career in broadcasting.

TD: You went to Duluth High School, but your Baseball-Reference bio says you’re from Pensacola.

NG: That’s where my brother and I were born.

We moved to Columbus (Ga.) when we were 2, maybe, and Duluth when we were, like, 4.

TD: So you’d consider

Atlanta your hometown?

NG: Yes. TD: I didn’t know you had a twin brother.

NG: Yeah, he played three years of minor league baseball and we played at Georgia Perimeter College together.

TD: You still hold a handful of records at Duluth — career batting, career hits, career homers, single-season hits.

It seems like that 1995 Duluth grad, and former Major Leaguer, Nick Green is

part of FOX Sports’ Atlanta Braves coverage. (Special

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Sports Calendar ALL SPORTS

Ongoing through Aug. 3: All Sports Youth Camps, in partnership with Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation, will host summer break camps in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, lacrosse, softball and multi-sports this year. Locations include Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Camps are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more informa-

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June 25: The 10th annual Archer Classic will be held at Summit Chase Country Club to benefit the Tigers’ high school football program. Shotgun start is at 9 a.m. Cost is $125 per player and sponsorships are available. For more information, email tjohnstone@eaglerocks.com.

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•From Page 1B version of himself at each workout. It doesn’t matter how tired or how jetlagged he may feel. He has to put on the best possible workout he can and always replicate his patented intensity.

“I do know my name has been around and I’ve been moving up,” Okogie said.

“It’s just a matter of teams seeing how well I do things that I do really well. I think when I’m in front of teams and hands-on so they can see what they’re working with, I try to be as impressive as possible.”

The reviews aren’t always positive, but with Okogie’s busy travel schedule, there’s hardly time to actually improve or polish weaker parts of his game.

He said workouts are more about making the strong points of his game, such as his defense and rebounding, stand out above some of the weaknesses.

Okogie is finally getting to live the life of a fulltime basketball player, but he said it’s required a mental adjustment. While Okogie was on the road at Georgia Tech, he lived with the constant looming

paranoia of an assignment almost due or an imminent exam.

“When I was in school, if I didn’t turn something in for a couple of days, I would get these mini heart attacks like, ‘Oh, something’s due,’” Okogie said. “At the beginning of this process, I would have those same heart attacks going on. I’m traveling state-to-state thinking, ‘Oh, something’s due.’ But then I’m like, ‘Oh, actually nothing is due.’”

Okogie said he still plans on going back to college to finish his bachelor’s degree, but that’s a few years off at this point. For now, Okogie is focused on making the sport he’s loved to play since boyhood a profession, and he’s very close.

The two-time Daily Post Player of the Year credits a few of his trainers coming up in Snellville, including Robert Swain, who helped develop him as a high school player. He still keeps in touch with his high school trainers today.

The people that have been a part of his development since its beginning are some of the most important role models to him.

At Shiloh, Okogie averaged 19.3 points per game as a junior and was Gwinnett County’s secondleading scorer as a senior.

His defensive prowess showed as early as his prep days, when he averaged nearly 10 rebounds and five assists per game as a senior.

It crossed Okogie’s mind to enter the NBA Draft after his freshman season at Georgia Tech, but he never took it so seriously that he looked into pursuing an agent, forgoing his three years of eligibility.

It turns out the decision may have been for the best. While the Georgia Tech men’s team suffered through a 13-19 season (612 in ACC) Okogie punctuated a dynamic college career by scoring doubledigit points 54 times in 61 career games.

His sophomore season didn’t get off to an incredible start, however. Okogie was suspended for the first six games of the season for accepting benefits in violation of NCAA rules.

Georgia Tech turned itself in to the NCAA in hopes the punishment would be swift, and Okogie said it hurt to miss the beginning

of what he knew could be the final season, and he had to own up to the mistakes that caused his guilt.

“The worst thing I could have done would be to pout,” Okogie said.

“The best thing I could have done … was be there for my teammates, cheer them on, be there for them every way that I can. If they needed someone to rebound for them, I’d rebound for them. I could be the leader, even if I couldn’t be the leader on the court.”

Okogie said the network of Georgia Tech’s alumni and the connections he made with trainers are some of the most valuable assets linked to his time with the Yellow Jackets men’s basketball program, especially now as he and a few former teammates prepare for their NBA careers.

“The amount of relationships I formed off the court was big time,” Okogie said. “Not only being able to network for myself but network for my teammates. … Being able to make those connections and make sure, if I’m unable to use an opportunity, that one of my teammates can take advantage.”

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Keith will, too, being a junior. I’m very pleased the 800 relay in 1:27.34. with them.”

“With the repeat (chamGwinnett got another pionship), we were absovictory in the national meet lutely happy,” Parkview from North Gwinnett’s coach Matt Henson said.

Kelsey Worthington in the “We felt like we had a Emerging Elite Division. good shot. Justin was obvi- The rising senior won the ously the only one returnpole vault at 12 feet, 6 1/4 ing (from last year). I’m inches to set a new Gwinthrilled with them. They nett record. also went All-American In the Championship Diin the (800 relay). At this vision, Buford’s Kimberly point, Justin’s given us ev- Harris was runner-up in erything he’s got. Tommy the 400 in 52.54, lowering Rogers did, too. Matthew her own all-time county reChavers is the next star cord. She also took fourth next year individually and in the Emerging Elite 100

at 11.72.

Fellow Buford runner Trinity Price was eighth in the Championship 200 (26.19) and another Wolves standout, Trinity Rossum, was second in the Freshman Division in the 100. Rossum’s time in the finals was 11.82 and her prelims time of 11.73 set a new freshman record.

Brookwood’s Morgan Bentley also climbed the Gwinnett charts with a fifth-place finish in the Championship Division’s triple jump. Her distance of 40-2 3/4 ranks No. 2 all-

time in the county.

Shiloh athletes also had a great showing, led by Kayla Lumsden’s fifthplace finish in the Championship 100 (11.68). The Generals’ Elijah Berry was ninth in the Emerging Elite 800 (1:55.48) and the boys 1,600 relay was 10th in 3:20.28.

Peachtree Ridge’s Kyle Fisher took fifth nationally in the Freshman Division triple jump at 41-8 3/4, and Parkview got another top finish from Brian Hauch in the Championship Division pole vault (15-3 1/2).

about the draft or minor league baseball. The information wasn’t out there.

TD: Was there ever a point when you thought about being a broadcaster while you were playing?

NG: I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I talked to Matt Diaz in 2013 and he had done some radio stuff for the postseason. When I got done playing, it was one of those things where my body felt bad, but I wanted to hold on to the dream. I started working with my dad over the summer and took a job as a car salesman in August 2014.

I ended up talking to Tony Schiavone at Gwinnett (Braves).

I ended up doing four games, and it was probably the worst four games I’ve ever called in my life.

And it should have been because I didn’t know anything about it. … I quit the car sales job at the beginning of the next season and decided to do it full time. I broadcast maybe 50 games that year, ended up running into this Fox Sports stuff.

To me, it’s like baseball.

With broadcasting and baseball, I want to get better every day. I think that fulfills what I need as far as competitive things are concerned.

TD: What was the hardest part to adapt to, at first?

NG: One hard part for me, first, you don’t want to fail on TV. When you fail on TV, your face gets red like a tomato. You don’t know where you’re going, but you have to keep going because it’s live TV. You have to think outside the box a little bit, and the terminology I used in baseball is different from what you say on TV. Not clubhouse talk. And when I was playing, I was always focused on myself. That’s why I admire Freddie Free-

man, every time he does an interview, he remembers what teammates did and how they contribute. When I was playing, I didn’t remember any of that stuff.

It was a challenge to see the whole picture. The more you do it, the better you get.

TD: What would you say is the biggest change in Major League Baseball since you last played?

NG: Bunting basically doesn’t exist anymore. The speed game is starting to come back a bit.

I remember the Marlins teams of the early 2000s with Juan Pierre and Louis Castillo at the top of the lineup. I kind of see that a little with the Braves now, and I think that’s a valuable asset to have.

The pitching has changed so much. In my last year, I think I saw five guys throw 100 miles per hour as starters. Now, that’s the norm. When I first came up, lefties threw 88 to 91. They had a two-seam, changeup and breaking ball. Now guys throw 95-97 with a cutter and slider. Pitching has evolved and the fact they throw harder is amazing.

The guys are going to learn how to hit it, too, which is amazing.

TD: What’s it like to cover the Braves right now? They seem way ahead of schedule.

NG: I don’t think anyone expected them to do as well as they are. I don’t think anyone expected the offense to be as good.

(Manager) Brian Snitker has done a great job. (General manager) Alex Anthopoulos has done a great job since he came over.

To me, they’re playing relaxed baseball. You don’t see them go into prolonged slumps so far. I say, enjoy it, man. We haven’t seen this kind of baseball from the Braves in a long time.

Green •From Page 1B team is still one of the best — it’s still the second most wins in school history (22). Can you tell me more about the 1995 season?

NG: A lot of it I forget about. I know we made it to the finals against Columbus and got beat 2-1. I was a sophomore, just enjoying my time playing. I never really put much thought into it. I thought we would always be good. So I think that was Lou Llerandi’s second year, maybe. He had a big impact on that program.

When he came over, he let everybody know what he expected.

The work ethic he expected was great. Me and a couple other guys still talk to him today. He coaches a summer ball team and teaches at Norcross High School. He made a big impact on that team and me, as well.

TD: What kind of player were you? Were you that do-it-all guy, pitching and playing infield or mostly sticking to the infield?

NG: My arm always hurt, so I played second base my first and second year and shortstop the two years after that.

TD: Where was your brother playing?

NG: He played third base and pitched some. As a sophomore, he was better than I was, but he ended up getting hurt a couple times.

TD: It seems like you were statistically sound. Were you at all disappointed you didn’t get drafted out of high school?

NG: No, I didn’t think about it at all. I didn’t understand the draft or minor league baseball. Even after my freshman year of college, I didn’t understand it that well. All I wanted

to do was continue to play something I love. I got the opportunity to play at Georgia Perimeter.

TD: What were those two years at Georgia Perimeter like?

NG: The first year, we had a really good team. We went to Grand Junction, Colo., and played in the (NJCAA) World Series.

Again, I didn’t think about getting drafted. I had a pretty good year, and I ended up getting drafted in the 32nd round that year.

I had no intention to play pro ball that year, and the Braves had no intention to sign me. That next year, I was interested a little bit more. All I knew is I was getting the opportunity to play pro baseball. I didn’t know about the money, how hard it would be. I just kind of was playing it year-to-year and that was probably the best thing for me.

TD: So you were drafted again after your sophomore year?

NG: The Braves had my rights for a full year, so if I didn’t sign, I would have gone back into the draft.

TD: Essentially you spent that year educating yourself about a year in minor league baseball?

NG: No (laughs). I was just playing. I was under control by the Braves, but I didn’t expect to be in the big leagues. When I was in the minor leagues, I didn’t really understand how far I was. All I was doing was playing year-to-year and wherever they put me, that’s where I wanted to be.

TD: It sounds like, with your approach to playing baseball, it’s hard to disappoint yourself. Is that fair to say?

NG: You know, I was disappointed just by my performance. I never really had expectations. I watched baseball a little bit

on TV, collected baseball cards. I don’t think I was the guy that dreamed of winning Game 7 of the World Series. I just liked the competition. For me, the frustrating part was my own performance. I didn’t get mad that someone got moved up ahead of me. I just worried about what I was doing. I didn’t have an attitude as far as an angry kid, I just wanted to be perfect.

TD: The 2004 season, I think you started in Triple-A. Pretty good numbers there .377 (batting average) — .443 (on-base percentage), .455 (slugging). They called you up in the early summer.

NG: It was like the middle of May, I think.

The way that worked out is, I was doing well and I was on the 40-man roster.

Jesse Garcia, the utility at the time, went on bereavement. So I got a call for three days. The second day I was there, Marcus Giles and Andruw Jones collided and broke Giles’ collarbone. … Who knows what would have happened if the injury didn’t happen? I could have been up for three days and never had another shot. I got an opportunity after a freak thing happened, and I stayed in the big leagues for two straight years after that.

TD: It didn’t seem like you were overwhelmed, at least not right away.

NG: Not at all. I was confident. Baseball is a game of confidence. It doesn’t matter if you’re facing Randy Johnson in a perfect game — like I did in my second career start.

My first career start was Ben Sheets’ 18-strikeout performance in Milwaukee. None of that stuff phased me. When you look back, it’s kind of a pretty cool thing. All competitors worry about what

they control on the field.

People ask me this all the time: Who was the toughest pitcher you faced? It depended on how I felt. If I wasn’t confident in myself, every pitcher was tough. If I was confident in myself, I can’t even tell you.

TD: You had a journeyman career. You stayed in the same division for a few years, but hardly in the same place year-after-year. What was that like?

NG: It was tough, but it was something I got used to. In 2005 I got traded from Atlanta to Tampa (Bay). That was tough because I had just bought a house in Atlanta.

I didn’t have time to move in. I got traded in spring training and didn’t come back to my house until the All-Star break. I got traded again in 2006.

Once that happened it got easier and easier. I finished the year in the big leagues in 2006 and 2007, but I wasn’t that guy that was going to have a contract every year. My goal was to put myself in the best situation to get back to the big leagues each year. What I ended up doing, 2007 was the last time I actually rented an apartment. I just stayed in hotels after that.

It was fine. I just got used to being around new teammates.

TD: Were you keeping track of guys like Brian McCann who are also coming up at Duluth at the time?

NG: I knew Brian and his brother, Brad. It was hard back then because we didn’t have the same access to the internet.

Back then, we would wait until the monthly Baseball America came out to see what everyone was doing. We checked in on a monthly basis, instead of an hourly basis. That’s one reason I didn’t know much

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Bias and the beholder Would you consider a jihadist biased against Jews? Could a member of a white supremacist group be accused of bias against non-whites?

The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, and FBI Director Christopher Wray claim the 500-plus-page report found no “documented” evidence that political bias at the FBI directly influenced the findings in the Clinton investigation or the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute the former secretary of state.

People in “flyover country” are more likely to believe pigs can fly than they are to accept that political bias did not expose a clear intent to damage presidential Cal candidate Thomas Donald Trump.

Why does one need a document to prove bias? If the anti-Trump political beliefs of FBI employees, which are documented in text messages, did not influence their work, then why is Director Wray ordering all of his employees to undergo training, including, reports CNN, “instruction ‘on what went wrong so these mistakes will never be repeated’”?

Members of the media might also benefit from ethics training since the IG report found multiple incidents of journalists doing favors for FBI agents, presumably in return for information.

Huffpost writes, “Other instant messages showed FBI employees referring to Trump as ‘Drumpf,’ calling Trump supporters ‘retarded’ and ‘lazy POS’ … joking about Trump’s election signaling the fall of the Republic, and writing ‘Viva le resistance.’” How can anyone claim that people with such strong political views could approach their work objectively? If perception is reality, then a connection between bias and behavior is reality for average people, who include most citizens outside the Beltway.

“The damage caused by (the agents’) actions … goes to the heart of the FBI’s reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence,” says the report.

This seems to suggest that the behavior of certain agents was not neutral and that the agents did not display political independence. Again, how could the agents’ political views be harmful if those views did not impact their work?

Another of many disturbing findings by the IG was that President Obama and 12 high officials in his administration exchanged unsecured emails with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including times when she was overseas and presumably more vulnerable to hacks.

Some of those emails, Horowitz says, contained classified information. President Obama claimed during a 2015 interview with CBS News that he learned Clinton was using an unsecured server when he read about it in the media. The IG report revealed this was not the case.

Numerous people, some unnamed, come in for strong criticism in the Horowitz report. Former FBI Director James Comey is cited for effectively taking matters into his own hands and becoming his own authority in public statements about Hillary Clinton’s emails. A Wall Street Journal editorial said of Comey: “The unavoidable conclusion is that Mr. Comey’s FBI became a law unto itself, accountable to no one but the former director’s self-righteous conscience. His refusal to follow proper guidelines interfered with a presidential election campaign in a way that has caused millions of Americans in both parties to justifiably cry foul.”

Among the things people hate about Washington is that no matter how many higher-ups are alleged to have broken laws and violated ethics codes, few are held accountable. The fix was in on Hillary Clinton even before she was interviewed with two of her lawyers present, which the IG report says violated accepted practices.

Horowitz begins appearing before congressional committees on Tuesday.

While Democrats will categorize his report as nothing, Republicans must burrow in and get even more facts than the disturbing, even disgusting ones he has already uncovered. The Justice Department should then hold accountable those people who broke the law and the rules.

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

Inhumanity rules the border WASHINGTON — Put yourself in the room with immigration officials and try to imagine exactly which argument would convince you that separating children from their migrating parents would be a good idea.

Would it work for you because you’re a stickler for obedience to rules — no exceptions? Would it be OK because the U.S. must convey to others that illegal migration comes with severe consequences? How about because it’s the law (as of recently), as press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in a hollow attempt to justify what can’t be justified.

Does no one remember the atrocities that have been committed under the law?

Sanders explained that because the Trump administration has initiated a zero-tolerance policy toward illegal immigrants crossing our border, immigration agents have no choice but to enforce the law.

Zero tolerance means that people caught crossing the border are treated as criminals, charged accordingly and incarcerated pending trial and sentencing. As one would expect, children don’t go to jail with their parents. Thus, the children are separated and housed in secure, makeshift shelters, including a converted former Walmart

and detained but also on our own humanity. To insist that traumatizing children is the way to deal with the problem is a failure of imagination. To not anticipate the consequences of children being detained under a zero-tolerance policy that imprisons their parents is a failure Kathleen of leadership.

Parker Most troubling is the inherent lack of empathy — as policy — in Brownsville, Texas. and what that not only reveals, On Friday, the Department but possibly foreshadows. The of Homeland Security said the only way to rationalize these Trump administration separated events is to view these immi1,995 children from the adults grants as less than human. In the they were traveling with at the abstract, some Americans may U.S. border between April 19 be able to convince themselves and May 31. that “they asked for it.” Or, “noAppalling. body invited them. What were Maybe some hard-core they expecting, a parade?”

Trump supporters, who elected But there must be some him president on a promise to posture between “lock ‘em up,” get tough on immigration, can which Trump supporters find swallow this collateral cruelty easy enough to say, and “let’s as a necessary unpleasantness. find a better solution.” How But I can’t imagine that many of about convening the Philanthrothem are parents. As a mother, py Roundtable and see what the my heart breaks at the thought billionaires can come up with? of a frightened and confused Meanwhile, allow me to put a child being taken away from human face on a few people I’ve his or her parents and stashed interviewed in recent years. Malike an orphaned animal in what ria (not her real name) left Honamounts to a holding pen. duras and walked for five nights To be blunt, I don’t recognize through the desert, the only this country anymore. woman among 26 men, to seek This “solution” to stanching a better life. She left behind her the human exodus from Latin two little girls, who were sick America across our border takes with life-threatening diseases a toll not only on those arrested and had no means to seek medi-

cal treatment. Thanks to the money Maria was able to send home from cleaning houses in America, her daughters survived and are college-bound.

Next, meet Uncle “Jose” and his nephew, “Julio,” both laborers from Nicaragua. They, too, walked the distance. They told me of the many human carcasses, desiccated and bleached by the relentless sun, that punctuate the landscape.

To my expression of horror, the young one shrugged as he lit a cigarette. “They just weren’t strong enough,” he said.

Jose, who told me he’s made the crossing at least a dozen times to visit his family in Nicaragua and return here to work, plans just one more trip home, this time for good.

These stories and these people aren’t rare. And though we have to find ways to slow the flow of illegal migrants, empathy allows one to consider the desperation that motivates so many — and even to admire Maria’s heroic courage and devotion to family. To the extent that we’re willing to dehumanize them so that we may inflict suffering upon children without the burden of conscience, we have far greater problems than illegal immigration.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

Fox News still on top because it tells truth You wonder why Fox News is No. 1 in cable?

It’s because CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the rest are so relentlessly negative about Donald Trump they force people to watch Fox to find out the truth about the growing economy or the historically low unemployment rates for blacks.

Take this week’s Singapore Summit. No matter what President Trump accomplished in Singapore in his face-to-face meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, for Joe, Mika and their fellow foreign policy experts in the media, it was not enough.

Or it was too much. Or Trump was naive or stupid. Or he gave away too much. Or he didn’t ask “Little Rocket Man” about his gulags. Or he was just trying to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

My favorite complaint about the Singapore Summit from liberals was that by merely meeting with Kim Jong Un, President Trump gave a thug the legitimacy he didn’t deserve. As if American presidents haven’t met with thugs like Kim Jong Un since the beginning of time.

Just two years ago, Barack Obama and a delegation of a thousand staffers, insiders and reporters flew into Havana to

It reminds me of the way the liberal media treated Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s when he was calling the USSR “The Evil Empire” and trying to meet with Soviet leaders about nuclear arms control.

The mainstream media and the foreign policy establishment Michael were constantly pushing Reagan Reagan to hurry up and meet with the USSR’s leaders, who kept dying slobber all over Raul Castro and on him until Mikhail Gorbachev the ghost of his brother Fidel. came along.

The in-bed-with-Obama emThe media of the day wanted bedded media loved Obama’s my dad to sign a deal in Reykmove. They called it historic. javik with Gorbachev, ASAP. They called it a Berlin Wall They wanted him to sign away moment — a step toward the Star Wars, take our missiles out liberation of the Cuban people. of Europe — give up whatThe mainstream media never ever it took to make the Soviets complained that Obama didn’t happy and avert Armageddon. ask Comrade Raul to be nicer My father stuck to his guns. to the impoverished people He ignored the impatient living under his communist liberal media, the foreign policy dictatorship or release the gay “experts” and some of his own Cubans held in his prisons. Not staffers, and within a few years a peep from the MSM. Not even the Berlin Wall was down and crickets. the USSR was history.

Trump, on the other hand, My father learned that negocan’t win with the mainstream tiating successfully one-on-one media. One month they’re with an enemy like Gorbachev saying his tough rhetoric about is a process that takes time. The North Korea is going to start two leaders didn’t accomplish or World War III. A month or two sign anything at those meetings, later, they’re complaining his but ultimately my father and Singapore statement wasn’t Gorbachev developed a liking strong enough and he was too for each other. soft on Kim Jong Un. But that relationship didn’t

stop my father from telling Gorbachev at their first meeting that “either you come to the table and negotiate in good faith or we’ll jack up our military spending and bankrupt you,” which we eventually did in the long run. Trump’s message to Kim Jong Un was similar, only blunter and much tougher — either you’ll come to the table or you’ll cease to exist.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump both used the negotiating tools they had in their hip pockets.

In the long run Trump may or may not be as successful as my father. We’re still in the first days of a long process, but the biased media are impatient and irrational. They want everything settled yesterday and the Korean Peninsula denuked tomorrow.

But even if it turns out the way they want, they’ll figure out some way to give the credit to Nancy Pelosi, Barrack Obama or Dennis Rodman long before they give it to President Trump.

Michael Reagan is a political consultant who is the founder of the email service reagan.com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his websites at www.reagan.com and www.michaelereagan.com.

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By McClain Baxley

at it and eventually became hooked. Davis’ ambition to succeed at surfing is the ATLANTA — In fall of same model he used when 2001, Chris Davis and Jim founding SwimAtlanta, Fraser went on a trip to which celebrated its 40th Costa Rica. The longtime anniversary with a party friends had annual plans to last Saturday at Atlanta’s go on a unique trip every Monday Night Brewery. year. One year Davis chose Davis and Fraser didn’t the destination and Fraser expect their swim club to the next. see 40. Their goal was to Whether it was backpack- coach maybe 160 kids, ing to Canada or skiing in have one facility, make Alaska, the two made sure some money and die happy. to keep the trip exotic. And Instead, SwimAtlanta in 2001, the plan was to go grew into one of the nato Costa Rica to surf. Born tion’s biggest and most and raised in Florida, Fraser successful year-round learned how to surf as a kid, clubs. It now boasts seven but Davis never learned, locations, six in the subthough he was also from urbs and one downtown Florida. But the two still at Georgia Tech. Its home went to surf in Costa Rica, base was originally Lilburn Fraser to return to a love of before opening its current his and Davis to learn. headquarters and pool in “This guy takes us out Lawrenceville. there and the first wave I A total of 170 former try to ride is some 10-foot swimmers and coaches atwave,” Davis said. “I got tended the 40-year anniverobliterated.” sary event, both to celebrate Despite wiping out their club and reunite with several times, Davis kept old friends.

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“I think that when we started out on our own, everyone told us we couldn’t do it and we squeezed by,” Fraser said when talking about what he’s most proud of.

Thousands of Atlantaarea swimmers have trained at one of the SwimAtlanta locations. Hundreds of scholarships have been awarded. A nice crop of Olympians have grown up in the program, too, including Gwinnett’s own Eric Shanteau and Amanda Weir.

But through it all, Davis is just having fun and getting paid to do what he loves.

“I think for people my age, I think it’s important that you try to stay relevant,” Davis said. “If you stop doing this, what are you waking up for? When it ceases to be fun for me, that’s when I’ll stop. I’m still having fun. I get paid to do what I love to do.”

Davis and Fraser agreed that some of the most re-

warding experiences were the training trips to places like Europe, Australia, the Bahamas and other unique places. Without those training trips, some youngsters never would enjoyed that kind of experience.

“We used to host a team from Scotland and we would go to Scotland,” Davis said. “I still have kids I coached 30 or 40 years ago that say they still communicate with the families that they stayed with, so that’s really cool.”

Through SwimAtlanta, swimmers and coaches alike have had the opportunity to travel the world.

Some still enjoy those overseas travels, whether on vacation, for Olympic competitions or on a whim, like Brad Dilly. Dilly left for Tokyo around 20 years ago with a friend from SwimAtlanta with intentions of staying for a year.

They stayed “for a lifetime” and Dilly regrets nothing.

Dilly flew in Friday

from Tokyo, attended the SwimAtlanta celebration and flew back Sunday.

“These are some of the best friends I’ve made in my life,” Dilly said.

“SwimAtlanta taught me how to do it right. Take something, set a goal, achieve the goal and do it the right way.”

Many, if not all, of the swimmers would agree with Dilly about teaching them something useful outside of the pool. That’s exactly what Davis hoped for when opening the club 40 years ago.

“I’ve been coaching now for 51 years,” said Davis, a longtime Gwinnett resident. “I’ve probably coached thousands and hopefully had a good impact on them. I’m sure there’s some that would say no, but hopefully a lot of them would say it’s been good.”

The night was filled with good laughs, good music, good food and good

memories of the past 40 years. “(The celebration) was awesome,” said SwimAtlanta coach Scot Davis, Chris’ son and the event planner. “Seeing so many people you haven’t seen in a long time, people you spent a whole lot of time in the water with. To see them years later outside the water was awesome. … It’s almost like you haven’t seen these people in 20 years, but you didn’t skip a beat. It’s almost like you just got out of the pool after a practice and went to have dinner.”

The anniversary party also served as a fundraiser for SwimAtlanta’s Swim Across America team, which raises money to fight cancer. Kimberly Thompson organized a silent auction at the event, and Scot Davis said the evening should raise around $6,000 for the charity.

“It was obviously a huge success,” he said.

year. His best season came with the Texans in 2016, when he had 20 tackles and an interception in 11 games.

He thought Baltimore was his next destination, but those plans have changed in the past week.

“I’ve been talking to a couple of teams, the Raiders, the Chiefs, the Steelers, some other teams,” Nelson said. “I’m just

trying to stay focused and take care of my body right now. I can’t worry about what happened. The only thing I can do on the field is think about how well I performed at OTAs and how well I’m going to perform at whatever training camp I go to. It’s going to be my decision where I go and I want to make sure that’s the best decision.”

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Nelson hosted his first youth camp last year near true. Now it’s come true and Arizona State, where he I’m able to give back. My played college football. He first camp I ever went to — I brought it to Suwanee this only went to one camp — summer and also wants was the Ray Lewis Camp. to host one in Lakeland, He threw it in our hometown where he lived as a child. at Kathleen High School in The 28-year-old enjoyed Lakeland, Fla. I’ll remember Monday’s camp session, that forever, so I know these which offered a break kids are going to remember from the business side of this forever.” football. He signed with

the Baltimore Ravens in January, but was cut unexpectedly last week.

“The only thing I control is what I do,” the 5-foot9, 175-pound cornerback said. “I can’t make somebody like the player I am or how I move or how I do things. Whatever team picks me up, I’m going to give 100 percent every day like I did, like I always do.

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That’s all I can do.”

Nelson has fought his way onto NFL rosters the previous four seasons, though he wouldn’t mind a more permanent home — he’s played for different NFL teams each year.

He was with the Cleveland Browns in 2014, the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, the Houston Texans in 2016 and the New York Jets last

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