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Area grad who drowned in Lake Lanier mourned

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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Family, friends, former teammates and school officials are mourning the loss of a 21-year-old Central Gwinnett High School graduate who drowned in Lake Lanier late Saturday afternoon after going into “distress” in the water.

Karon Antiwoin Jackson of Lawrenceville was found in about 10 feet of water nearly an hour after rescuers began searching for him off Lanier

Park in Buford around 4 p.m. that day, according to Gwinnett fire spokesman Justin Wilson.

Gwinnett County 911 call-takers had Karon received a call from Jackson Jackson’s friends saying they had “swum out to the boundary of the beach area at the park and were returning to shore when (Jackson) went into distress and under

the surface of the water,” Wilson said.

Multiple bystanders attempted to help the man without success, he said.

Jackson, who graduated from Central Gwinnett in 2015, played basketball at the school, earning All-Region 8-AAAAAA honors as a senior after the 2014-15 season.

His former coach, Branden Mayweather, told the Daily Post that he and others were “devastated” by the news of Jackson’s drowning.

Local responders arrived at Buford’s Lanier Park shortly after 4 p.m. after receiving 911 calls about a swimmer who had drowned, according to Gwinnett fire spokesman Justin Wilson.

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Doctor sued for dancing in surgery Patients ID selves in YouTube videos

BY KAYLEE HARTUNG AND RAY SANCHEZ CNN Above left, Joey Bart is seen at his MLB Draft party Monday night.

(Photo via Facebook) Far right, Bart puts on a San Francisco Giants hat after being drafted on Monday night. (Photo via Instagram) Right, Bart, who previously played for Georgia Tech, went No. 2 to the San Francisco Giants. (Photo: Georgia Tech Athletics)

Draft of dreams

Buford’s Bart goes No. 2; other Gwinnett students picked early

BY TAYLOR DENMAN

185-pounder, has signed with Clemson, but he will have to give that serious thought now — Gwinnett County had three high selections on the first day of he was selected in a spot with a the Major League Baseball Draft. Here’s a closer look at the Buford head coach Tony $1.6 million slot value. selections: Wolfe spoke to his former catchAs a senior, Meadows hit Player MLB team Round High school/college ing prodigy Joey Bart before .342 with five home runs and 30 Joey Bart ................San Francisco Giants ......................1 ..............Buford/Georgia Tech Parker Meadows ........... Detroit Tigers .............................2 .................................Grayson the 2018 MLB Draft. Rumors RBIs for the Rams.

Will Banfield ................. Florida Marlins ..................CB Round B ................... Brookwood were swirling that if the Detroit Banfield was selected late Tigers’ projected No. 1 overall Monday night in the draft, going pick and Auburn starting pitcher highest-ever picked Gwinnett day. in Competitive Balance Round Casey Mize had a disagreement County alumnus and Georgia Five years ago, Meadows B, just after the second round, to Tech product. with the signing terms, Bart watched his older brother the Miami Marlins. It was pushThe county’s previous best could move from his projected become a high MLB Draft pick. ing midnight when his selection pick in the draft was Grayson No. 2 spot to the No. 1 overall The younger Meadows got to was announced. grad Austin Meadows, the No. pick. experience that himself Monday The top catcher prospect went Wolfe’s words to Bart: Just 9 pick in 2013. Mize, as several night. with the 69th overall pick, a enjoy the day. outlets projected, was the No. 1 The Detroit Tigers selected position slotted for a $894,600 “I think he was just excited,” overall pick in this year’s draft. outfielder Parker with the first signing bonus. He now ranks Wolfe said. “It’s a pretty long Bart’s selection was the high- pick of the second round (No. as one of the Broncos’ highprocess, because everybody light of a memorable Monday 44 overall). He follows his older est all-time draft picks, trailing comes out with mock drafts. … for Gwinnett in the MLB Draft. brother, Austin, a first-round se- only first-rounders Lucas Sims I think he’s glad it’s all over.”

Two high-schoolers, Grayson’s lection of the Pittsburgh Pirates (2012) and Jason Bulger (2001).

Bart didn’t go No. 1 overall, Parker Meadows and Brookin 2013 and the National League Banfield, a Vanderbilt recruit, but No. 2 to the San Francisco wood’s Will Banfield, also were Rookie of the Month for May. See DRAFT, Page 6A Giants. That makes him both the selected high on the event’s first Parker Meadows, a 6-foot-5, taylor.denman @gwinnettdailypost.com

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An attorney representing three women in cases against a Lilburn dermatologist known for singing and dancing while performing surgery said nearly 100 other women have contacted her office to claim they, too, suffered under the doctor’s scalpel.

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Winds during Friday’s storm reached 90 mph

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

A downburst hit the Lilburn area with a force equivalent to an EF-1 tornado during the storm that roared through the area Friday afternoon, according to information released Monday by the National Weather Service.

The weather service’s local office worked with the Gwinnett County Emergency Management staff to conduct a damage survey. In all, 38 homes in the Lilburn and Snellville area were damaged by the downburst during the storm, including two that were destroyed and another 12 that sustained major damage.

Officials said the downburst hit 1 mile

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Roofs for Troops program gives roof repair to veteran

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The sound of nail guns echoed across Charles Mathis’ sleepy, quiet neighborhood tucked off of Bethany Church Road in Snellville beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday. While early morning noise may upset some folks, Mathis was beaming.

“They’ve been at it bright and early this morning,” Mathis said with a smile on his face. “I’m highly recommending them because they are very genuine and professional.”

He was referring to the workers from Total Pro Roofing, a roof repair company in Grayson.

For the past two years, Total Pro Roofing and owner Jason Carver have been thanking veterans for their service by repairing roofs as part of their Roofs for Troops program.

“We were looking for something to give back to the community, and all the things the military does popped into my mind,”

Spc. Charles Mathis, a Snellville resident and veteran, received a free roof repair from Total Pro Roofing as part of its Roofs for Troops program. (Special Photo)

Carver said. “They don’t get nearly enough credit, and we wanted to give back to our troops that spend countless time away from their family and make sacrifices to protect our country.”

Mathis, a specialist in the Army, served from 1989-93 and was a part of Operation Desert Storm.

“We reached out through the American Legion and they reached out to Jason,” Mathis said. ” I got them a letter and explained to them my situation, and he was very compassionate about

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“It’s a long day for us, but Gwinnett County with his our guys have been doing wife and family, which now this for a long time,” Carver includes three daughters. said. “We’ve gotten it down “I’m a very quiet perto a science. Everyone son and can be to myself,” knows their part and what Mathis said. “But overall they have to do.”

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Carver estimated the cost of the roof repair to be approximately $10,000.

“It’s great that someone is giving back to veterans,” Mathis said. “We all need help in some capacity, and I really appreciate it.”

According to GCPS Nutrition Director Ken Yant, about 54 percent of students in Gwinnett County qualify for free or reduced lunch.

“We’re providing this for students that otherwise might not have any other options when it comes to meals,” Yant said.

Seamless Summer Option will run during the same timeline as summer school for the school district. Starting June 11, 42 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and two high schools will offer both breakfast and lunch options.

Discovery and South Gwinnett high school will

offering lunch from 11 a.m. to noon.

“Options in the meals might be different from what is offered during the school year,” Yant said. “We’re still going to have same five components that students usually get such as an entree, fruits and vegetables.”

The program will conclude June 29 and is open to anyone under the age of 18.

“Kids don’t have to bring anything; they just need to make sure they are under the age of 18,” Yant said. “Even if your school isn’t offering meals, you’re still able to go to other locations to get food.”

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Mathis joined the military after high school.

“There were certain choices that I had to make between college and the military,” Mathis said. “I chose the military, and it was a good experience without question.”

When he enlisted in the Army, Mathis said he wasn’t expecting to go to war. He was deployed to Iraq in 1991.

“I was like 19 or 20 years old and was faced with combat,” Mathis said. “It was an overall good experience during my time in the military, but I’m glad to be back here in the United States.”

In 2000, he settled in

School might be out, but Gwinnett County Public Schools’ nutrition program is not done this summer. On Monday, the school district released a list of locations for students to receive meals during the summer break.

The Seamless Summer Option program provides free meals to students who might be at risk of not getting a healthy meal during the break.

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begin serving breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and will stay open for 30 minutes. Middle schools will serve breakfast beginning at 7 or 7:15 a.m., lasting between 30 and 45 minutes. Creekland Middle School is the lone middle school to serve a shortened 15-minute breakfast beginning at 8:15 a.m.

Elementary schools will serve breakfast starting from 7:30 to 7:45 a.m. and concluding 30 minutes later.

Lunch at all locations starts will start no earlier than 10:45 a.m. and last no later than 11:30 a.m., with the exception of Beaver Ridge Elementary School

34-year-old man dies in crash after motorcycle rear-ends car

BY ISABEL HUGHES

Javier Delacruz Jr. was pronounced dead on scene after being ejected from his motorcycle and A 34-year-old Winder into the Kia just past man died Saturday eveDrowning Creek Road, an ning on Ga. Highway 316 accident report said. westbound in Dacula afThe driver of the Kia ter his motorcycle hit the and her three passenback of a 2016 Kia Soul. gers were transported

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to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville with non-life threatening injuries.

Though the investigation continues, “several witnesses” said Delacruz was traveling above the speed limit when the crash occurred.

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gunfire was exchanged,” Smith said. “White was struck and killed.”

Authorities said Adams was also shot and was transported to an area hospital. He is charged with armed robbery and felony murder and will be transported to the Gwinnett County Detention Center upon his release from the hospital.

Tabb was shot and was transported to a local hospital by people at the scene. Detectives were notified and took him into custody at the hospital.

He has since been booked in at the Gwinnett County Detention Center and is charged with criminal attempt to purchase marijuana and felony murder.

County commissioners OK request from Rest Haven to deannex land

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will look at annexing the land parcel soon.

“It’ll be this year, as soon as the paperwork is The tiny Gwinnett completed,” Beard said.

County city that doesn’t “It’s next to a piece of land want to be a city is going Buford owns already.” to get a little smaller by the The move doesn’t totally end of the year. get rid of Rest Haven beGwinnett County comcause there are still several missioners unanimously other parcels left in the city. approved a request from It does, however, continue Rest Haven officials to let the long, drawn-out saga of the city deannex 2.84 acres Rest Haven’s attempts to stop being a municipality — of land on Thunder Road — Kathy Holland, Gwinnett County Planning efforts that have been going that county officials expect and Development Director on for the better part of two will eventually be annexed decades at least.

by Buford. In the meanThere was an attempt to time, Gwinnett has to zone dissolve the city in 2001, the property — since it will The commission’s decibut that led to lawsuits be under the county’s zonsion came after a public and eventually a judge ing authority as long as it is hearing was held on the ordered it be re-established. unincorporated. matter — with no one Since 2005, efforts to do Commissioners assigned speaking in favor of or away with the city have the small triangular-shaped against the deannexation. included deannexing land property, located at 410 County records show Rest and simultaneously letting Thunder Road, an R-75 Haven officials approved Buford — which surrounds residential zoning. the deannexation May 1 at Rest Haven — annex those “There is a single-family the request of the property parcels. residence located on the owner. City officials then “This is the alternative to tract (and) Section 200-100 forwarded the request to the what they were attempting of the Unified Development county commissioners for to do (in 2001), by doing it Ordinance requires deantheir approval. piece by piece,” Gwinnett nexed property — which is The property will be developed — to be zoned removed from Rest Haven’s County Commission Chairto the nearest compatible tax digest on Jan. 1, but it’s woman Charlotte Nash said.

Legislation was passed zoning district,” Gwinnett possible the land may never in the Georgia GenCounty Planning and Deactually become an uninvelopment Director Kathy corporated property. Buford eral Assembly in 2015 that Holland told commissionCity Commission Chairman transferred virtually all of the city east of Buford ers.

Phillip Beard said his city Highway to Buford. Similar legislation to transfer the land west of the highway was introduced the following year but stalled in the legislature.

“I think we’ll all be happier as a part of Buford,” Rest Haven Mayor Kenneth Waycaster told the Daily Post in 2016. “We’ve always worked with them pretty well.”

There isn’t much left of Rest Haven these days.

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where the murder occurred, police said. Two Gwinnett police deother people were shot termined that a shooting during this incident. They which left a 23-year-old have been identified as dead on Monday night Jabril Adams, 19, and at a Norcross apartment Carlos Tabb, 25. complex was likely a drug “Detectives have dedeal turned into a robtermined this case likely bery. a drug deal turned into Gwinnett police rea robbery,” Gwinnett sponded to a report of police Sgt. Jake Smith gunshots at apartments said. “Detectives believe on Hunters Club Lane in that Tabb was meeting unincorporated Norcross with White and Adams to at about 10 p.m. purchase marijuana.”

Officers located MiHe said the three black chael White, 23, deceased men met outside the 600 from apparent gunshot building. That’s when wounds, authorities detectives believe Adams said. Several bystanders and White attempted to noticed a commotion and rob Tabb, who produced a heard gunshots. handgun.

White was a resident “White and Adams also at the apartment complex produced handguns and

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Pharmaceutical companies pose difficulties for drug accessibility DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a patient with myelofibrosis, and have been under treatment for over three years. At one time I was receiving blood transfusions every three weeks and taking Jakafi (very expensive) to stabilize my hemoglobin and platelet levels, and Exjade to get rid of excess iron caused by frequent transfusions.

Although my hemoglobin is low (average 7.5 to 8.5), I am able to function quite well.

My condition is now reasonably stable, and the only medication I receive is an injection of Procrit once a week to assist my bone marrow in producing more hemoglobin. Transfusions are now infrequent, and I am a lucky man.

There is an alternate injection drug available called darbepoetin (Aranesp), which requires injection only every three to four weeks. The problem is that I cannot get any of my doctors to prescribe this drug, even though it is similar to Procrit and probably cheaper, because “they have an arrangement with the manufacturers of Procrit not to prescribe any alternate.” Have you ever heard of this sort of thing happening? An injection every three to four weeks would give me far more flexibility for travel, etc.

— R.A. ANSWER: Myelofibrosis is a myeloproliferative disorder, a disease of the bone marrow. It generally is considered a type of cancer, and it is genetically identified by certain mutations, especially in a gene called JAK2. Ruxolitinib (Jakafi) works by inhibiting the products of this gene, Janus Associated Kinases. It currently is the only treatment that works this way, although some people with myelofibrosis are treated by transplantation of stem cells from bone marrow.

Many bone marrow diseases cause problems by preventing normal function of bone marrow, which is to make different types of blood cells. This can be ameliorated by using the body’s natural signals to make more blood cells, and in the case of red blood cells, that is a medication like erythropoietin (Procrit). Darbepoetin is a longer-acting form.

I often hear of arrangements like the one you describe between drug manufacturers and hospitals or insurers: The manufacturers provide the medication at a lower cost, so that it becomes a cheaper alternative than the competitor.

Darbepoetin has the advantage of less-frequent dosing (usually every two weeks in people who were taking erythropoietin once weekly), and is a bit more expensive ($750 a dose, compared with $500 using Goodrx.com), but is, overall, cheaper for people paying cash for the prescription due to being dosed less frequently.

I see three options for you: try to get your insurer to cover darbepoetin; pay for it yourself; or learn how to administer the erythropoietin to yourself, if your doctors think that is a reasonable alternative.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

In 1889, a fire destroyed all of downtown Seattle, Washington.

In 1944, 155,000 Allied troops landed at Normandy, France, on D-Day as Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe, began.

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon.

In 2002, President George W. Bush proposed consolidating 22 federal agencies under a single, Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), painter; Nathan Hale (1755-1776), soldier; John Trumbull (1756-1843), painter; Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), poet; Karl Braun (1850-1918), physicist; Thomas Mann (1875-1955), author;

V.C. Andrews (1923-1986), author; Robert Englund (1947- ), actor; Harvey Fierstein (1954- ), actor; Bjorn Borg (1956- ), tennis player; Jason Isaacs (1963- ), actor; Paul Giamatti (1967- ), actor; Natalie Morales (1972- ), TV journalist.

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TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1946, the Basketball Association of America, which would later become the National Basketball Association, was founded in New York City.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “What is success? It is an inner, an indescribable force, resourcefulness, power of vision; a consciousness that I am, by my mere existence, exerting pressure on the movement of life about me.”

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A relationship of lies is not a good model Dear Amy: I’m 32 and have three children from a previous relationship.

I’ve been with my boyfriend for five years. We live together.

We have had trust issues in the past, and I thought we had worked through them. Mostly this involved him exchanging flirty messages with another woman.

Well, last summer he had an affair with my neighbor (who I thought was a friend of mine!). I found out after they had been sneaking around for two months.

He begged, and said he loved me, and that it would never happen again.

I believed him, but — guess what? He was still talking to her and they were together at least another four times.

This neighbor is a psycho. She calls his mother and creates different email addresses to contact him, as well as phony Facebook accounts. She won’t give up!

Recently, I found out that he went to her place to tell her to leave him alone and to stop contacting his mother. She says they slept together. Of course, I don’t believe his denials because he has lied so many times in the past.

Part of me really loves him, Amy. I don’t want to throw away five years if we can work on it. But I also don’t know if I can ever trust him.

Your advice?

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Amy Dickinson — Worried Dear Worried: You have three children.

My advice is that you should put them in the center of your life but not in the center of this drama.

How does all of this nonsense impact them?

What is it like for them when their mom is upset, angry and hooked into a relationship with a lying, cheating psycho magnet?

Do you want to demonstrate to your kids that being with an unfaithful, destructive and disrespectful partner is better than being alone and independent? Because that’s what you’re doing now.

If you want your kids to engage in healthy relationships, then you are going to have to show them the way. I hope you can find ways to boost your own self-esteem, so that you can see that you are worthy and that you deserve the very best in love, and life.

Kicking this guy to the curb might be a good first step.

Dear Amy: My daughter “Cynthia” and

her wife “Sharon” were recently invited to the wedding of my daughterin-law’s friend. All good, right? However, when the bridal shower invitation arrived, only Cynthia was invited to the shower.

Cynthia hardly knows the bride, and can only assume that Sharon was excluded because her interests and style tend to appear more “masculine.”

This stereotyping is deeply offensive. Sharon would have been delighted to attend the shower, and Cynthia is so hurt that now she does not want to attend. Nevertheless, they want to do the right and gracious thing.

Should Cynthia make this a “teachable moment” and contact the bride and ask if it was an “oversight” to have not included her wife in the shower invitation? Or should she simply decline and send a gift?

— Mother in a Brave New World Dear Mother: This invitation could definitely be a case of offensive lesbian stereotyping, or it could be something simpler and less sinister. (I vote for the latter.)

Showers are more intimate parties than weddings. Unlike weddings, bridal showers are not generally “plus one” or “plus spouse or partner” events.

I could imagine that if Cynthia contacted the bride to offer her a “teachable moment” about social

“oversights,” the bride might respond by saying, “Oh, no other spouses are coming, and I’ve never met Sharon, so I just didn’t imagine that she would want to come to my shower.”

Perhaps this scenario would seem plausible to the couple. If they can’t pressure this bride into an additional invite, and if Cynthia doesn’t want to attend alone, then sending a gift would be a kindness.

I literally cannot imagine wanting to attend the bridal shower of a stranger, even if I was on my spouse’s arm. If I were Sharon, I’d be thrilled to have dodged that particular bridal bullet.

Dear Amy: I could not believe you took seriously the concern expressed by “Worried Dad,” who was upset by the “toxic effects of third-hand smoke” on his baby.

Both of my parents smoked around me and my children. They died in their 80s, and the rest of us are doing well. Third-hand smoke? What a joke.

— Exposed Dear Exposed: There’s nothing quite like a good personal anecdote to disprove actual science.

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.

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It’s important to own up to your mistakes and learn from experience before you move forward. Claim what’s yours and set your path.

Let your willpower and desire be your guide to greater success and happiness. Don’t allow anyone to answer for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Make changes because they feel right and are realistic, not because someone else is pushing you. Bureaucratic problems will escalate if not handled properly. Take care of matters yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Show everyone what you can do. Don’t be afraid to be unique or approach situations in your own way.

Your insight will guide you to victory. Personal improvements are favored.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take one step at a time. If you try to rush things, you will end up having to backtrack. Use your connections and intelligence to ward off any foreseeable problems.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Tread carefully and listen to what others have to say. Relationships will be tested, and responding properly to what transpires will be instrumental to effectively navigating a sticky situation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Get out and about. Enjoy interacting with people who challenge and stimulate you mentally. You’ll learn a lot from someone if you are observant. Don’t underestimate a peer or your employer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Get involved in something creative or take part in an event that requires skill, ingenuity and strength. Don’t let anger take control when strategy is what’s required.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Take a moment to observe what others do and say.

Someone will take advantage of you if you are gullible, nonchalant or evasive. Stick to the truth and be direct.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Be ready to take advantage of an opportunity that can improve your current living standard. Don’t trust someone else to take care of your responsibilities. If you want something done, do it yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You are best off speaking up if someone is overbearing. Anger will not solve anything, but offering simple alternatives will.

Do what’s best for you and let others do as they please.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Get involved in something you enjoy doing. Expand your ideas or creative objectives, and look for an outlet to market your talents, skills or experience. Romance is highlighted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Expeditions, lectures and research will lead you in a new direction. If you listen, question and fact-check, you’ll choose the right path. Don’t let anyone discourage you.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Don’t jump to conclusions. Let whatever is going on around you play out before you decide to take action.

Making a move prematurely will cost you.

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during its offensive to flush ISIS militants from their de facto capital.

Nipah death toll “The coalition’s claims that its precision air camrises to 16 Amnesty: U.S.-led paign allowed it to bomb The death toll from the (ISIS) out of Raqqa while outbreak of Nipah virus has strikes on Raqqa causing very few civilian risen to 16 in the southern casualties do not stand up may amount Indian state of Kerala. to scrutiny,” said Amnesto war crimes More than 230 people ty’s senior crisis response Airstrikes by the U.S.adviser, Donatella Rovera. have been tested for the “On the ground in led coalition in Raqqa, virus, with 18 confirmed Syria, probably breached Raqqa we witnessed a by state officials to have level of destruction cominternational humanitarcontracted it, according parable to anything we’ve ian law and potentially to Kerala’s Department of seen in decades of coverHealth and Family Welfare. amount to war crimes, ing the impact of wars.” according to a report by All 18 people were The report, “War of AnAmnesty International. hospitalized and quarannihilation,” details the loss The rights group actined and the last two are cuses the coalition of kill- of civilian life in Raqqa, currently in recovery.

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her,” Mayweather said.

“He always said he wanted “He had as big of a per- to see her succeed in life sonality as anybody you’d and be there for her. He meet and even though it was an extremely loving sounds cliche, his smile father.” would light up the room,” In the days following the Mayweather said. “(Jackaccident, the U.S. Army son) truly enjoyed being Corps of Engineers, which, at Central at the time and I along with the Georgia really did enjoy coaching Department of Natural him.”

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“Those guys were not swimming in a restricted area,” said another man, who tried to help Jackson.

“The beach was not closed at Lanier Park that day and in fact, the park attendant at the gate told me and everyone entering the park that day that Lanier Park was the only park that was in fact open for swimming.”

While it was not immediately known whether the beach was officially closed or not on Saturday, coaches and friends said ultimately, they are still grieving Jackson.

“Such a sad day for me and all former Black Knights that had a chance to coach and play with this young man,” David Allen, who now coaches basketball at Mill Creek, wrote on Twitter. “Prayers up for family and friends!”

“Life is so short and none of us are guaranteed anything,” Mayweather said. “Take time to truly love and appreciate everyone, especially your family.

There’s no doubt (Jackson) made me a better person from knowing him.”

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is listed as being six miles long and two miles wide, south of Lilburn with the and At their peak, winds worst damage happening in the downburst are in the Killian Hill Manor estimated to have reached subdivision at Hale and 85 to 90 mph. There were Cedar Wood Drives. no fatalities or injuries “This is the likely loca- reported by the National tion where the downburst Weather Service. first occurred and where A downburst can have the greatest concentration some similarities to torof tree and powerline dam- nadoes, and can produce age occurred,” the Nation- wind speeds equivalent to al Weather Service said in one, but there are also difa statement. “The damage ferences in their behavior, footprint extends as much according to the National as 2 miles east of the initial Weather Service’s website. location to Shadow Lake A tornado’s footprint Drive where trees were will show convergence, a uprooted in an eastward narrow well-defined track direction consistent with a and rotation on a vertical downburst wind event to axis while a downburst is a the west.” localized downdraft whose In all, the damage swath footprint shows diver-

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gence, a broad diffused track and either no rotation or rotation that is on a horizontal axis, according to the weather agency.

The downburst that hit the area on Friday is listed as having started south of Lilburn at 2:43 p.m., and ending a half-mile east of Snellville at 2:58 p.m.

The weather service officials said the winds started southeastward from Hale and Cedar Wood Drives and paralleled Killian Hill Road. The damage became more sporadic as it got farther away from its starting point, but damage to trees was found as far away as Amberly Way and Silver King Drive in Snellville.

derson High School in Atlanta, GA. She was a homemaker and of the Methodist Faith. Graveside service will be held on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery in Newnan, GA. The family received friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.

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

Atlanta

Marie Grizzard Eidson Marie Grizzard Eidson, age 59 of Atlanta, GA, passed away on Friday, June 1, 2018. Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel.

Sugar Hill, GA

Buford

Lanell Fowler Lanell Fowler, age 85, of Buford passed away Thursday, May 31, 2018.

Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton.

Monroe, GA

Hughie “Lef” Griffin Age 94, passed away on June 3, 2018. Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Monroe, Ga

Kristi Anne Eubanks Kristi Anne Eubanks, age 62, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Sunday, June 3, 2018. She is survived by her husband of thirty-four years, Thomas “Tommy” Eubanks, Sugar Hill, GA; father-in-law, Henry Eubanks, Norcross, GA; brother-in-law, David Eubanks, Norcross, GA; several aunts, uncles and cousins; step father, Thomas “Tom” Baker, Lawrenceville, GA; step brother, Thomas Baker and wife, Anke Baker, Lawton, OK; and step sister, Lori Galloway and husband, Rich, Purcellville, VA. Mrs. Eubanks was born April 14, 1956 in Atlanta, GA. She was a 1974 graduate of Hen-

Buford, GA

Ramona Griffin (Floyd) Ramona Floyd Griffin, age 63, of Buford, GA passed away on Friday, June 1, 2018. She was preceded in death by her twin son, William Francis Meier, III; father, Raymond Charles Floyd; mother, Bernice Webb; and step father, Harold Austin Webb. She is survived by her husband of seventeen years, Melvin L. Griffin, Buford, GA; son, Jamieson Allen Meier and wife,

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Tampa Bay because Bart’s strong relationship with hit .398 with nine home runs, Georgia Tech head coach 49 RBIs and 30 walks this Danny Hall made his intenseason. He had a .539 ontions to play for the Yellow base percentage.

Jackets clear.

“It was awesome,” BanBart and his family hosted field said. “It was stressful an intimate draft party for going through everything like family and close friends, that, going through the whole partially, Wolfe said, so Bart draft and not knowing when could truly soak in the moyour name would get called. ment of his high draft pick.

But the moment itself was There’s a reason Major amazing. For my pick, I got League baseball teams drool a really generous offer from over Bart. He led both the the Marlins and I’m really ex- ACC and the Jackets in hitcited to be part of the Marlins ting with a .359 average on organization.” the season. He led the team Bart was expected to be a and ranked second in the high pick, but the draft can league in slugging percentage be unpredictable at times. (.632) and hits (79), while It was two years ago when also posting a team-high in Wolfe watched his former home runs (16), runs scored player Brandon Marsh slip (55) and on-base percentage from projected first-round (.471), which all ranked in pick to second-round pick for the top 10 in the ACC. the Los Angeles Angels. Bart “For me in this year’s draft, himself took a hit after his he is the perfect player,” forsenior season at Buford when mer Colorado Rockies genhe went in the 27th round to eral manager Dan O’Dowd

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attorney.

“I think in this day and instruments in hand during age, patients do have to be surgical procedures. At times, their own advocate,” Witt assistants in scrubs sashayed said. “This has been a caualongside her. tionary tale which I believe Susan Witt, an attorney patients can learn from.” representing three women Boutte’s office has not who claim they suffered responded to a request from Boutte’s work, for comment. One of her said close to 100 women attorneys, Rod Eason, reached out to her office in declined comment and said the past week to complain the doctor is not granting about their results. interviews.

“I’ve had more phone The videos have been calls and emails than I deleted from Boutte’s Youcould respond to,” she said. Tube channel.

Several former patients But through lawsuits that said they experienced seri- others have filed against ous post-surgical complithe doctor, HLN — CNN’s cations due to infections, sister network — obtained according to Witt. video of multiple instances Many of the women of questionable operating claim they were motiroom conduct by Boutte. vated to come forward by More than 20 of her Boutte’s apparent lack of videos were once posted to care and concern for her YouTube, apparently for patients, Witt said. promotional purposes.

At least two former In one, Boutte cuts into patients said they identified a patient’s abdomen as themselves in the doctor’s she sings along to the O.T. videos, according to the Genasis song “Cut It.”

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said in the MLB Network draft broadcast. “He is the most impactful player in this year’s draft. He’s got such a unique, elite skill set for the most important position on the field. He’s athletic. He’s an above average receiver.

He’s a tremendous blocker.

He’s got a 70 arm (on an 80 scale). In an era where all the analytical information is available, this guy has got the opportunity and the wherewithal to be able to apply it.”

Wolfe said he and his coaching staff knew they had something special when he earned his starting spot as a freshman. Wolfe “turned over the keys” to Bart and allowed him to call pitches, including during Buford’s 2015 state championship run.

“It was pretty obvious (Bart would go pro) by his junior year,” Wolfe said. “I told him in his senior year, he was probably the best player I ever coached.”

In another, she leans over the top of a patient’s half-bare buttocks. Without surgical mask or gloves, she holds surgical instruments and dances while rapping her own lyrics to Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” — “My patients are bad and boujee.

Building up fat in the booty.”

HLN found five malpractice lawsuits pending against Boutte. She has reached four settlements.

The network has not found judgments against her, but female patients have claimed in lawsuits that they suffered infections, disfigurement, even brain damage following procedures by Boutte, conducted in her office.

HLN learned the Georgia Composite Medical Board has had information about Boutte’s allegedly unsafe practices since at least March 2016. The board told the network it had no comment.

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was the Founding Pastor Natasha, Winston, GA; step daughter, Janice Lynn of Landmark Church and Griffin, Buford, GA; six served as its pastor for 43 grandchildren; sisters and years. He was a wonderful brothers-in-law, Sandra husband, father and grandDiane and Alvin Tucker, father. He was a faithful Dallas, GA, Linda Diane servant of the LORD who and Mike Shuler, Temple, loved people; his greatGA and Suzanne and Greg est joy was to encourage Frazier, Carrollton, GA; others. Thousands of lives brothers and sisters-inhave been blessed by his law, Harold Eugene Webb, great heart. He was truly Griffin, GA, Jack William a magnificent pastor, role and Mickey Webb, Alto, model, and father to many.

GA, Thomas Austin Webb, He is survived by his wife Norcross, GA and Alan of 54 years, Jeanette M. Alonzo and Kathy Webb, Kelly, who is now the SeNorcross, GA; aunt, Marie nior Pastor at Landmark; Thomas, Covington, son, Jack Kelly; daughter, GA; and a host of nieces, Tina Stephens; brother, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Jon Kelly (Martha); grandGriffin was born May 26, children Jeffrey, Jeanette, 1955 in Chamblee, GA. Andy, Laurel and Rebecca. Online condolences She was a 1973 graduate may be expressed at www. of Berkmar High School crowellbrothers.com. Arin Lilburn, GA. She was rangements entrusted to: a homemaker and also an accountant. She was of the Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory, Baptist Faith. A memorial 5051 Peachtree Ind. Blvd., service will be held on Peachtree Corners, GA Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel of 30092 (770) 448-5757.

Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Randy Barnhart officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service from 12:00 Auburn, GA noon until 1:00 p.m. on Larry Dean Knight Thursday, June 7, 2018.

To express condolences, Larry Dean Knight age please sign our online 72 0f Auburn, GA passed guest book at www.flaaway June 3, 2018. He was niganfuneralhome.com. a carpenter for many years in Gwinnett county and member of Ewing Chapel Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his Wife Ida Regina Hight Knight, Parents Belvie & Doraville Cassie Givens Knight, and James Alfred “Fred” Brothers James Knight, Kelly Hugh Dorsey Knight. he James Alfred (Fred) Kel- is survived by his Son William Larry Knight of ly, age 75, of Doraville, Winder, Daughters Sharon GA, passed away June 1, Friend of Winder, Annette 2018. A Celebration of Manis of Auburn, 6 GrandLife Service will be Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 4:00 children, 1 Great Grandp.m. at Landmark Church, child, Brother Merlin Knight of Winder, Sisters 3737 Holcomb Bridge Judy Glass of Winder, Road, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. Pastor Kelly

Kathleen Trusty of Winder.

Several Nieces and Nephews. No Formal Services will be held at this time.

Byrd and Flanigan Crematory & Funeral Service, Lawrenceville in charge of the arrangements. 770962-2200.

Buford, GA

Joseph “Joe” Loggins Joseph “Joe” Loggins, age 48, of Buford, GA passed away on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.

Hoschton

Mr. Carlton McAlvin Carlton C. McAlvin, age 86, of Hoschton passed away Friday, June 1, 2018.

Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton.

Buford, GA

Gloria Isabel Chavez Ortega Gloria Isabel Chavez Ortega, age 32, of Buford, GA passed away on Friday, June 1, 2018.

Loganville

Phillip M. Tuck age 69 passed away May 21, 2018. Arrangements

by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville Chapel.

Lawrenceville, GA

James Harold Wynn, Jr. James Harold Wynn, Jr., 89, of Lawrenceville, completed his earthly race and received his eternal reward on Saturday, June 2, 2018.

He was born in Atlanta, GA, son of the late James

Harold Wynn, Sr. and Julia Kay Wynn.

Mr. Wynn retired from the United States Courts as a Probation Officer.

He also served in the US Navy and US Army.

He was a former member of Clarkston Baptist Church where he served as a Deacon Chairman, Deacon, Sunday School Director, Maintenance Supervisor, and on various church committees. He was an active member of First Baptist Church Grayson.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Barbara J. Wynn; sons Allen Wynn (Melinda) of Snellville and David Wynn (Sherri) of Juliette; sister Beverly Patterson of Lilburn; nephews Steve Patterson of Fridley, MN and Mike Patterson of Fort Pierce, FL; granddaughters Keilah Jones (Bradford) of Juliette, Stephanie Wynn of Statesboro, Mara Wynn (Whitney) of Woodstock, Erin Wynn of Snellville, Taylor Wynn of Macon, Kimberly Wynn of Snellville, Christina Wynn of Snellville; and greatgrandson Cannon Wynn.

A celebration of his life will be held Wednesday, June 6 at 4:00 pm at First Baptist Grayson with Pastor Tim Brogan officiating.

Interment (private) will be at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton. The family will receive friends at the church on Wednesday, June 6 from 2:30-4:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Seasons Hospice, and First Baptist Grayson.

Arrangements by Wages and Sons, Lawrenceville.

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Southern outdoor lifestyle store to open at Mall of Georgia FROM STAFF REPORTS

Tide, Costa, Local Boy and many more.

The Mall of Georgia The 7,500-square-foot announced that southern-in- store will be located on spired brand Palmetto Moon the lower level near Dick’s is opening at the Southeast’s Sporting Goods. largest shopping center this “The Mall of Georgia is month. one of the state’s premier Palmetto Moon carries a shopping destinations. As variety of southern-inspired we continue expanding in outdoor lifestyle clothing, Georgia, we are excited to collegiate gear, home goods introduce new customers in and accessories for children the Buford area to Palmetto and adults.

Moon,” said Adam Stone, According to informaPalmetto Moon CEO. tion released by the mall, Although an exact day shoppers can expect the in June was not announced latest trends from popular for the opening, Stone said national brands including “We’ll be at the Mall of Patagonia, Columbia and Georgia just in time for Vineyard Vines, as well summer, so swing by to as regional brands such as stock up on all your outdoor Simply Southern, Southern and beach essentials.”

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We’ll be at the Mall of Georgia just in time for summer, so swing by to stock up on all your outdoor and beach essentials.”

— Adam Stone, Palmetto Moon CEO

The Mall of Georgia also announced that Sprint is now open in a new storefront, and the previously announced ice cream parlor Creamistry is celebrating its grand opening on Friday in The Village. Shoppers can also enjoy a variety of teas at Tea Clan that recently opened in the Von Maur court.

A Palmetto Moon store is pictured above. The Southern-inspired shop announced it will be opening at the Mall of Georgia this month. (Photo: Palmetto Moon via Facebook)

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OF SUWANEE, GEORGIA PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2019 BUDGET The public is hereby notified that the City Council of Suwanee is scheduled to adopt a budget for Fiscal Year 2019, which runs from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, during the City Council Meeting to be held on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of Suwanee City Hall, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia, 30024.

Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

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Before adoption, the City of Suwanee will conduct two public hearings on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2019 at the City Hall, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024 on:

All interested citizens may present written or oral comments and ask questions regarding the proposed uses and budget. The preliminary budget document is available at the Suwanee Library, 361 Main Street, Suwanee, GA 30024. Additional information, including the preliminary budget document, is available for public inspection at City Hall during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Consideration of adoption of the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget is scheduled for Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at the 6:30 p.m. regularly scheduled City Council Meeting.

Mom seeks answers in wreck that killed her son on May 14

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A local mother is seeking answers in the wake of a multi-vehicle accident that killed her son last month.

Lawrenceville resident Justin Belcher, 23, died May 14 on Ga. Highway 316 eastbound on the Sugarloaf Parkway onramp after his motorcycle was pushed into the road’s guardrail by a car he had hit in the rear passenger brake light area, a Gwinnett County Police Department accident report said.

According to the report, Belcher and three other vehicles — a car and two motorcycles — were on the on-ramp to Ga. 316 when Belcher ran into the

car in front of him, causing both vehicles to lose control. “(Belcher) veered to the southern shoulder, struck a guardrail and re-entered the path of (the car he hit),” the report said. “(The car) pushed (Belcher) and (his motorcycle) into another portion of the guardrail.

(The motorcycle) traveled over the guardrail and went approximately 15 feet into the wood line. (Belcher) came to rest under a portion of guardrail.”

At some point during the accident, the two motorcycles that were behind Belcher also lost control, while the car “came to rest facing northbound in the eastbound lanes.”

A fifth vehicle that was traveling on Ga. 316 hit the rear passenger fender of

the car, causing it to rotate about 90 degrees, though the driver was uninjured.

The report said that “contributing factors are under investigation at this time,” which is what Belcher’s mother, Rose High, said she wants to know more about.

“As a mother, I’m devastated and would give anything to know what really happened that night on 316,” she told the Daily Post. “We know someone saw something and our family is hopeful that there will be a thorough investigation to answer all of our questions, but right now, we don’t know what happened and are still waiting to hear back from the investigator. (All) I know (is) something horrible took place.”

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Police: Men use stolen credit card to buy gas after breaking into cars him. The Volkswagen pulls up to the same pump where Suspect 1 had laid the pump on the ground Two men who used a and Suspect 2 gets out stolen credit card to buy and pumps gas into his vehicle. The vehicles then gas are accused of rackleave the area together.” ing up more than $900 The first is described in damages and stealing as a black or Hispanic more than $1,000 in cash man wearing all black and property during a with a hoodie. The other one-hour crime spree late suspect is described as last month. a black man wearing a Gwinnett police are gray hoodie, skinny khaki enlisting the public’s help pants, white Nike shoes in identifying the men, who used the stolen credit Two men who used a sto- and has twists in his hair. len credit card to buy gas Anyone with informacard after breaking into are accused of racking up tion is asked to contact four vehicles in Duluth more than $900 in damagdetectives at 770-513and Norcross on May es and stealing more than 5300. To remain anony24, according to Wilbert $1,000 in cash and propmous, tipsters can contact Rundles, a spokesman erty. One of the suspects Crime Stoppers at 404for the Gwinnett County is pictured above.

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Annual expo for seniors, baby boomers draws large crowd

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“Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive,” boomed through the exhibit hall at Duluth’s Infinite Energy Forum, seniors and baby boomers bobbing their heads to the beat of the song.

On the projector screen before them, two tips popped up: “call 911” and “push hard and fast in the middle of the chest.”

Though the American Heart Association’s handsonly CPR commercial made performing CPR look fun — the commercial urged those performing the lifesaving measure to “push hard and fast” to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive” — the actual experience of having a heart attack is much more serious, something Gwinnett Medical Center Chest Pain Practice Specialist Mary Hudgins stressed to the audience.

One of six speakers at the Daily Post’s Generations Expo on Saturday, an annual free event designed for baby boomers and seniors as well as their fami-

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Attendees walk between and visit booths set up at the Generations Expo at the Infinite Energy Forum.

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lies, friends, caregivers and anybody else interested in the issues facing today’s seniors, Hudgins spoke about heart attacks, what signs to recognize and what to do in the event of a heart attack.

For those who live with other people, she said, make sure someone in the house knows how to perform CPR and knows to call 911 immediately.

For those who live alone, she recommended buying some type of life alert system.

“I think you ought to have an alert system of some sort, I really do,” she said. “They make them so they tie in with your security system so when you’re home, you can wear it or have it by the bedside. It’s a great device, and you know, if you’re

healthy, you don’t worry about that kind of thing, so the first thing would be to take good care of yourself and try to make sure that your risk is as low as possible. But having one of those alert devices is also important.”

The expo, which is now in its fourth year, drew a large crowd Saturday morning to the Infinite Energy Forum, where at-

tendees were able to meet with vendors that provided health and wellness information, receive free health screenings, participate in educational discussions such as Hudgins’ and win prizes.

Noreen Brantner, director of events for SCNI — the Daily Post’s parent company, said the event was a success.

“We’re really excited

to be offering the services that the older community needs,” Brantner said. “I think one of the things with this event is that Gwinnett County is just growing like crazy — especially with the older population — and retirement communities are popping up left and right so this is the type of event that is needed. Attendance has been overwhelming as always and it was a great turnout and a great morning.”

Jo Hall, a local resident who attended Saturday’s expo, echoed Brantner, saying events like the expo are definitely needed.

“I was very interested in seeing all the information for elderly people and baby boomers,” Hall said.

“I’m on the cusp, so I sat in on a couple of speakers and they were very, very helpful. It’s just interesting to find out about new procedures and medicine and things like that, so it’s a (good event) to have.”

Woman arrested after found in car, covered in vomit with baby, dog

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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A Peachtree Corners woman who was found passed out and covered in vomit in her car last week with a baby and dog in the back seat remains in jail on charges of driving under the influence, endangering a child

by DUI and cruelty to children.

Gwinnett police responded to the Veranda Estates Apartments in Peachtree Corners at approximately 3:15 p.m. May 28 after an anonymous tipster called to report that 26-year-old Caylie Chaney was unconscious in her car, an incident report said.

Caylie Chaney

When officers approached the car, they noticed Chaney was, indeed, unconscious with “a large amount of vomit all over her and in the driver’s seat

area of the car.”

“Chaney was unresponsive until Gwinnett County Fire Department (personnel) physically woke her up by slapping her foot with a latex glove,” the report said. “Chaney woke up and the fire department examined her to make sure she was medically

sound.”

While the fire department was evaluating Chaney, officers noticed a baby’s car seat in the back of the car, which was holding a “very young child.”

“The child’s face was flushed and rosy, as if the child had been crying and screaming, and the child was obviously distraught,” the report said. “There was also a large dog in the back seat.

(Officers) became concerned for the child’s health due to the fact that the anonymous caller stated Chaney had been passed out in the vehicle since about 8 (a.m.) that morning and the current time was around (3:15 p.m.)”

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Fire department personnel deemed the baby fine, despite being “too hot and shaken up” and released her, along with the dog, to Chaney’s cousin.

The fire department also determined Chaney was “in good health, just drunk.”

The report also said that police found an empty bottle of Smirnoff vodka in the passenger floorboard along with an empty box of Franzia wine.

After being woken up, Chaney told police she has been in the car since about 1 p.m., contradicting what the caller reported, and said she had driven to the apartment drunk.

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“Chaney admitted that she had been drinking the night before and said she drove all the way from Acworth,” the report said. “(Officers) asked Chaney how long she had been passed out, and she said she did not remember. (They) asked Chaney when she vomited and she said she did not remember vomiting. (They) asked Chaney if she drank before driving, and she said yes.”

Chaney was taken to the Gwinnett County Jail, where she remains without bond. In addition to the DUI charges, she was charged with possession of an open container of alcohol and probation violation.

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BOYS RUNNER OF THE YEAR

Justin Long PARKVIEW • SENIOR

Parkview’s Justin Long is the Daily Post’s boys runner of the year. (Photo: Will Hammock)

Long leaves Parkview in style with team, individual titles

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Already seasoned as a track and field athlete, Justin Long arrived at Parkview with high expectations and delivered a

state championship in the 400-meter run in 2015.

However, his team was a work in progress.

“My freshman year I was the only individual runner to make it to state,” Long said. “A lot has changed over the years.

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We’ve really come together. I’m so happy I was able to help out the group of guys at the end.”

Long helped his team immensely over the ensuing three years, never more than this past season, when the Daily Post’s boys runner of the year completed an undefeated season individually and led the Panthers to the

Class AAAAAAA state championship. He won the 200 and 400 state titles, anchored a state championship 400 relay and ran on a second-place 1,600 relay.

His efforts also put an emphatic stamp on Parkview’s rise to team

success the past few years.

“I don’t know what else I can say about him,” Parkview coach Matt Henson said. “He scored in the (400) relay and brought us from third to winning it

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BOYS FIELD PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

Brian Hauch PARKVIEW • JUNIOR

Hauch soars to great heights in Panthers’ championship run

By Will Hammock

than an individual state championship because we worked really hard as a team to get this one,” Parkview’s state boys Hauch said. “If some track and field championpeople didn’t perform, othship this season required ers picked up the slack. It exceptional performances made it worth a lot more.” from a handful athletes, As for Hauch’s individusome more than others. al performance at state, he Brian Hauch’s contriwas hopeful of more. bution included a Class He won every meet this AAAAAAA state record in high school season until the pole vault. he got to state, where he But the Daily Post’s cleared 16 feet, a full foot boys field performer of higher than his perforthe year was more excited mance at the AAAAAAA about the Panthers lifting meet a year earlier. Unforthe team trophy for the first tunately, West Forsyth’s time since 2009.

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Parkview’s Brian Hauch is the Daily Post’s boys field performer of the year. (Photo: Will Hammock)

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NBA

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In Brief

Grayson’s Meadows named NL Rookie of the Month

Grayson grad Austin Meadows was named the National League Rookie of the Month after dazzling in only 13 games since being called up from Triple-A. The Pittsburgh Pirates prospect hit .409 in May with four home runs, seven RBIs, 18 hits, a .426 on-base percentage and seven multi-hit games. Meadows was a first-round draft pick of Pittsburgh in 2013.

Meadowcreek’s Hightower commits to Presbyterian

Cory Hightower, who helped Meadowcreek to a state championship last season as a senior, has committed to the Presbyterian College (S.C.) men’s basketball program. Hightower averaged 11.6 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the Class AAAAAAA state champion Mustangs.

Buford grad Thomas headed to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Buford alum Samantha Thomas announced over the weekend that she plans to transfer from Virginia and continue her college softball career at Texas A&MCorpus Christi.

The former Gwinnett Daily Post player of the year hit .431 as a Buford junior with a school-record 18 home runs. She hit .369 as a senior and finished her high school career with 32 home runs, also a program record. She won four state titles with the Wolves.

Thomas did not play as a Virginia freshman, leaving her four years of eligibility at her new school.

Parkview’s Henson named Georgia coach of the year

Parkview’s Matt Henson has been named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Georgia men’s high school coach of the year.

Henson, president of the Georgia Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, led the Panthers to the Class AAAAAAA state title this past season.

— From staff reports

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 multisports this year. Locations include Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Summer camps are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, go to www. allsportsyouthcamps.com, email DLStancil@yahoo. com or call 770-356-6861.

BASEBALL

June 15-17: Gwinnettbased Red Stitches Baseball will host its fourth annual college showcase tournament at Truett-McConnell University. The event is open to high school and travel teams in the 15-andunder and 16- and 17-yearold divisions. Games will be played at Truett-McConnell, Habersham Central and White County. Cost is $675.

Two games of pool play will be followed by a singleelimination tournament. For more information, email RedStitches2014@gmail. com.

FOOTBALL

June 9: NFL wide receiver and Norcross grad Brice Butler will host the Norcross Pro NFL Clinic fellow Norcross alumni and NFL players Max Garcia, Jason Croom and Lorenzo Carter. The camp will be at Cemetery Field from 10 a.m. to noon, followed by autographs and interaction with the pros from noon to 1 p.m. Registration is from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Cost is $25 per camper ($30 on day of camp). All campers receive a T-shirt and plastic footballs for autographs.

Event is open to ages 7 to 13. All proceeds go to the Norcross Football Association for equipment and scholarships. To register, go to www.nsta.net or visit Norcross Sports Training Academy.

GOLF

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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Shiloh’s Solomon set for NCAA trip

By Stan Awtrey Staff Correspondent

Nahom Solomon starts his summer internship this week. But before he begins to put his computer engineering skills to work, he has some unfinished business. He’s got a race to run.

The Shiloh High School graduate is one of three Georgia Tech athletes who qualified for the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. He will be joined by teammates Avery Bartlett (800 meters) and Jeanine Williams (hurdles) at the national meet. Once Solomon is finished there, he’ll remain on the West Coast and spend the rest of the summer working for Intel.

Solomon will complete his outdoor track career by competing in the 10,000 meters. It’s not exactly the path he chose for himself when he began to run competitively eight years ago.

As a freshman at Shiloh, Solomon stayed after school to participate on the soccer team.

He thought.

Instead, Solomon had instead signed up for the cross country team. It wasn’t all his fault, a buddy told Solomon he was in the right line. It didn’t even bother him that the first two weeks were spent on conditioning and long runs,

Georgia Tech runner Nahom Solomon, a Shiloh grad, has qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 10,000-meter run. (Photo: Georgia Tech Athletics/Danny Karnik)

since endurance is needed for soccer players.

But Solomon knew something was up one day when the coach broke the team into group, sending the sprinters one way and the distance runners the other direction. That’s when he learned he was on his way to becoming a member of the school’s cross country team.

“At first I was mad,” he said. “But it turned out OK. I ended up in the right place.”

That first misstep led to Solomon becoming one of the most-accomplished distance runners in Georgia Tech track history. He’ll cap his outdoor career tonight, where he enters the 10K as the No. 24 seeded

runner in the event.

He ran through chilly, wet conditions in late May to finish seventh at the NCAA East Regional in Tampa, Fla. Solomon used a strong finish and completed the race in 29 minutes, 24.44 seconds.

He became only the second Georgia Tech runner to qualify for NCAAs in the 10K. Solomon had been dealing with an injury all day and it became tougher as the day grew longer due to a long thunderstorm that blew through the area and delayed the event. The race wasn’t going so well until the final three laps, when he moved from 14th to eighth. His final split was 62.96 and his time wound

up being the eighth-best of all-time at the East Regional.

“I just kicked it in,” he said. “I had to do it. About the last mile I really ran hard.”

It’s been quite a year for Solomon. He broke the school’s 3,000-meter mark — 1.13 seconds faster than his previous record set in 2016. He has 11 top-five finishes in the distance events. He broke the 5,000 indoor record when he ran a 13:59.71, becoming the school’s first to run a sub14-minute time. The old record of 14:14.48 stood for 15 years. Although he prefers the 5K, he won the 10K at the Mt. SAC Relays in 29:07.98 and is headed to NCAAs in that race.

Solomon learned a week ago that he was chosen for the Academic All-District team. He graduated with a degree in computer engineering this spring.

He will return to Tech in the fall to enter graduate school and will compete in his final season of indoor track.

He leaves quite a legacy in cross country, too. In 2017, he ran the school’s fastest time in 23 years and qualified for the NCAA Championships. He earned All-America honors, the first Tech runner to receive such acclaim since Kevin Graham in 1994.

Pollack on ballot for college Hall Subdivision and 100 players and 32 coaches from The National Football the divisional ranks on this Foundation and College year’s ballot.

Hall of Fame announced The ballot was emailed Monday the 2019 ballot for Monday to the more than induction into the College 12,000 NFF members and Football Hall of Fame, in- Hall of Famers, whose cluding former Shiloh and votes will be tabulated and Georgia standout David submitted to the honors Pollack. courts, which will deliberPollack is one of 76 ate and select the class. players and six coaches The FBS honors court is from the Football Bowl chaired College Football From Staff Reports

Hall of Famer Archie Griffin from Ohio State.

The announcement of the 2019 Class will be made Jan. 7 in Santa Clara, Calif. The city is serving as the host for the national championship, which will be played later that day at Levi’s Stadium.

The 2019 class will officially be inducted during the 62nd NFF annual awards dinner on Dec.

10, 2019, at the New York Hilton Midtown.

Pollack was a threetime, first-team All-American (consensus in 2002, 2004) at UGA, as well as the recipient of the 2004 Lombardi and Bednarik awards. He also was a twotime SEC Defensive Player of the Year who is UGA’s all-time leader in sacks (36) and tackles for losses (58.5).

Hauch •From Page 1B Jack Haller also hit the 16-0 mark.

Though the two now share the AAAAAAA record, they don’t share the championship. That belonged to the defending state champion Haller, who took first on the fewer misses tiebreaker.

“It was not the best to be honest,” Hauch said of his junior season. “I jumped 16 feet and a 1/2 inch indoors and unofficially broke the Gwinnett County record, so I know I’ve got to do this outdoors and I still haven’t done it yet.

That bugs me. I only had outdoor PRs this season.

Those are good for where I’m at now, but I want a lifetime PR. I’m obviously going for that Gwinnett County record and I’m still going for that state record.

I feel like I have a lot more to pick up because I didn’t have as much improvement as I would have liked this outdoor season.”

Parkview head coach Matt Henson agreed with Hauch’s assessment.

“After coming in with what he did indoor, I thought he would be over 17 feet outdoor,” he said.

“He hit a plateau that grinded on him a little bit, almost like a sophomore slump as a junior. He still had a tremendous year. The only meet he didn’t win was state and that was on a tiebreaker. Potentially, I see him being a 17-plus vaulter, probably before the end of the summer.”

The Parkview coaches think Hauch’s ceiling in the pole vault is high because of his young training age — he just learned the pole vault as a freshman after converting from gymnastics. He quickly became a student of the sport, and Henson said the

ALL-COUNTY BOYS TRACK & FIELD Runner of the year: Justin Long, Parkview, Sr. Capped an unbeaten season with state titles in the 200, 400 and 400 relay Field performer of the year: Brian Hauch, Parkview, Jr. Set a Class AAAAAAA state record at 16 feet at the state championship meet Coach of the year: Matt Henson, Parkview Led the Panthers to the Class AAAAAAA state championship, their first since 2009 FIRST TEAM 100: Terell Smith, South Gwinnett, Sr. State runner-up with a time of 10.41 seconds 200: Sterling Warner, Archer, Sr. Fourth at state in 200, third at state in 100 400: Nick Ramey, Brookwood, Jr. State runner-up in 400, fifth at state in 200 800: Spencer Vitense, Shiloh, Sr. State runner-up, Gwinnett County champion 1,600: Axel Avalos, Central Gwinnett, Sr. Fourth at state in 1,600, eighth at state in 800 3,200: James Cragin, Archer, Sr. Third at state in both the 3,200 and 1,600 110 hurdles: Wilson McClain, Peachtree Ridge, Jr. Fourth at state, sectional champion 300 hurdles: Christopher Mitchell, Grayson, Sr. State runner-up in 300 hurdles, sixth in 110 hurdles High jump: Brandon Harvey, Parkview, Sr. Ninth at state for state championship Parkview team Long jump: Josh Downs, North Gwinnett, Soph.

Fourth at state in long jump, third in triple jump Triple jump: Khalil Hasan, Brookwood, Sr. State champion in triple jump, eighth in high jump Pole vault: Adam Keller, Mountain View, Sr. Third at state in 14-6, second-best height by Gwinnett athlete Shot put: Walter Klima, Archer, Sr. Fourth at state, sectional champion Discus: Myles Hinton, GAC, State champion with a toss of 150-2 SECOND TEAM 100: Okem Jibunor, Mill Creek, Jr. 200: Roosevelt Trammell, Providence, Sr. 400: Keith Williams, Parkview, Soph.

800: Elijah Berry, Shiloh, Jr. 1,600: Christian Corsello, Parkview, Sr. 3,200: Luke McNeil, Brookwood, Soph.

110 hurdles: Julian Martin-Rogers, Mill Creek, Sr. 300 hurdles: Zachary Charles, Lanier, Jr. High jump: Camden Givens, Shiloh, Sr. Long jump: Parker Wroble, Mill Creek, Soph.

Triple jump: Malik Thompson, Parkview, Soph.

Pole vault: Ryver Morrow, Hebron, Sr. Shot put: Charles Jordan, Parkview, Jr. Discus: Adam Watkins, Dacula, Fr.

vaulter is equally interested in what happens outside of his event.

“He’s in tune with every event,” Henson said. “He analyzes every other event, probably as much as my staff does. He knows where we need to pick up points.”

Hauch hopes to pick up some height on his vaults, beginning later this

month at New Balance Nationals. As he climbs the charts with his performances, his worth to college coaches also will increase.

Another number, his high GPA, already has the attention of colleges.

“He’s being recruited by everybody,” Henson said.

“His GPA is right at 4.0 with a ton of AP courses.

He has interest as far west as Stanford and Oregon and everywhere else. Any school knows they can get him academically, that there’s going to be more money available academically vs. a single-event kid.

It’s actually a little overwhelming at times. I do think he’s leaning to one of the service academies.”

For the summer, Hauch is focused on breaking through to the next level. He eventually wants to make a serious run at the Gwinnett record of 16-0 1/4 by Mill Creek’s Michael Kopanski (set in 2010) and the Georgia high school mark of 17-2 (set by St. Pius’ Nikita Kirillov in 2011).

“I need to increase my speed, increase how big of a pole I’m on in terms of length and how high I hold,” Hauch said. “Currently I hold a lot lower than most people hold, around 14-3. At state, I was going for 16-6, holding 14-6, but other people jumping equivalent heights at 16 feet, they’re all holding 14-6 or more, 14-9.

Their push off might not be as high.

“If I can get that 14-9 grip, I feel like I can go 16-6 and above. … It’s hard for me to get to that grip now because every time I go up, the pole gets soft. I fluctuate on my weight, 140 to 145 (pounds). I was on (a) 175 (pound pole) at state and I went to 180, which around 38 pounds over my weight.

That’s a hefty pole.”

The personal achievements make Henson proud, but so does Hauch’s emergence as a team supporter.

He enjoyed Parkview’s title run and hopes for a repeat next year when he’s a senior.

“I think we have a chance to win again for sure,” Hauch said.

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Left behind at the drive-in

Editor Note: The following column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.”

I can’t imagine such a thing happening today: In the early 1970s, when I was 9, my family left my sister Mary behind at the drive-in theater.

I’ll explain, but you’ll have to read my memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” to get the full story.

As it went, the outing had started off well enough. My father spent several minutes searching for a spot (it took time to find a window speaker that worked). We got out of the car as he opened the tailgate and folded down the back seats, then got back in. We began devouring corn curls, potato chips, onion dip and pretzels, and washed them down with Regent soda pop.

The blue sky soon fell dark, and the film projector began rattling. Black-and-white numbers — “5, 4, 3, 2, 1…” — flashed onto the screen. Yellowed footage advertised hot dogs, popcorn and other concession items we could never get our father to buy.

It didn’t take long beTom fore we began Purcell squabbling over pillows, blankets and positioning. My sisters complained that my big noggin was blocking their view, and so I was banished to the back of the car.

As I recollect, we went to see “Paper Moon” that night — a movie about a Depression-era con man and a young girl who travel around taking people’s money — but my sisters say it was “Herbie the Love Bug.” Whatever the case, I was so busy devouring snacks — we didn’t have them often, so I was taking advantage of my good fortune — I didn’t care about the movie. My stomach was soon so full, however, that I ended up lying on my back, groaning in agony.

It’s important, at this point, to understand how everyone was situated.

My father sat in the front seat on the driver’s side. My mother sat to his right, holding my sister Jennifer. She “shooshed” us constantly to keep us from waking the baby. In the back, under the pile of blankets and pillows, were my sisters Kathy, 14; Krissy, 12; Lisa, 6; and Mary, 4.

Throughout the first and second movies, there was plenty of sleeping, waking, snoring, squabbling, shooshing, complaining (“Mommy, Tommy stinks!”) and trips to the restroom.

Unbeknownst to everyone, however, 4-year-old Mary — she always had a touch of wanderlust — had slipped out the back of the car to go to the restroom. Preoccupied with my aching belly — I was groaning pretty loudly by then — I didn’t notice her slip by me.

About then, the second movie was coming to a close. My father, always eager to beat the rush, hurriedly packed up the cooler and fired up the car. It never occurred to anyone that Mary might not be under the blankets. Off we drove as the final credits began to roll.

I don’t recall how far we got before Lisa shouted, “Where’s Mary?”

My mother, trying not to disturb the baby, instinctively began shooshing. It took five minutes or more before Lisa persuaded everyone that Mary was still at the drive-in.

Panic overcame us. My father made a hard U-turn and floored it. Our wood-paneled Plymouth station wagon roared down the road like the car in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”

We fishtailed as we hit the gravel parking lot. The lot was empty but for the car that had been next to ours. Mary stood next to it holding the hand of somebody else’s dad (who waited patiently for the dopey family that forgot one of its kids).

My sisters and I laugh every time someone brings up the incident — in part because such a thing could never happen today. Today’s obsessive parents, terrified by cable news, never let their kids out of their sight.

To my family’s credit, however, Mary was the only child we ever lost. None of us was ever left at a highway rest stop, as one family we knew did. Another left their kid at a campground in Ohio after a family vacation.

In any event, everything turned out well in the end. Mary has four children of her own now. She hasn’t lost any of them yet.

Tom Purcell, the author of “Misadventures of a 1970’s Childhood,” a humorous memoir available at amazon.com, is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. Send comments to Tom at Tom@ TomPurcell.com.

Different standards for the left We’ve come a long way from harmless playground jibes like “your mother wears combat boots,” to those of today from the likes of Samantha Bee and other leftist “entertainers” who say things about President Trump and his family that are so vulgar they can’t be printed in a newspaper or quoted on television.

Some of President Trump’s critics blame his harsh rhetoric for the language they use to attack him. Perhaps he bears some responsibility, but that is poor justification for bad behavior from others who might set a better example. People of a certain age may recall what their mothers told them: “If Johnny’s mother told you to jump off a building, would you do it?”

While setting a good example would be a better way to go, some liberals appear to feel so threatened that their failed ideology is being exposed, that all they can do in response to the president is haul out hateful retorts. When you are losing on issues, the last stop is namecalling.

The right is not immune to this horrendous behavior either, as evidenced by the crass, sexist, violent vitriol Trump supporters hurled at Hillary Clinton during

reporter John Koblin wrote: “The different consequences for the two politically minded entertainers — Ms. Barr is an outspoken supporter of the president, while Ms. Bee is a full-throated opponent of the Trump administration — provided conservatives with a fresh opportunity Cal to accuse the media industry of Thomas having a liberal bias.”

The president says he is still the 2016 presidential campaign. waiting for an apology from It has to stop.

Disney CEO Bob Iger for Does anyone seriously beinsults directed at him by people lieve any Republican president, on various ABC programs, including one who used the insults that mocked Christianity King’s English in ways accept- and accused the White House of able to polite company, would supporting white supremacists, be free of harsh rhetoric from among other slurs. the left? Remember “Death of Trump shouldn’t hold his a President,” a movie about the breath waiting for that apology. imagined assassination of PresiAmong other examples of dent George W. Bush? Bush disgusting labeling and rhetoendured many pointed slurs dur- ric is one from Google, which ing his presidency. Ditto Ronald listed “Nazism” as the ideology Reagan. of the California Republican The double standard applied Party. That posting came less to entertainers who insult the than a week before the Califorpresident and those who support nia primary. Google later told him became glaringly evident in The Daily Caller News Foundathe differing responses to Rose- tion that it happened because anne Barr’s racist tweet about sometimes “people vandalize former Obama aide Valerie Jar- public information sources, like rett and Bee’s vulgarity against Wikipedia, which can impact Ivanka Trump, for which she the information that appears in was eventually forced to tender search.” an apology. As New York Times Two White House state-

ments summed up the outrage over the increasing number of insults from the left. This from Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, herself the target of recent attacks by supposed feminists about her personal appearance: “The language used

by Samantha Bee … is vile and vicious. The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network.”

Stephanie Grisham, spokesperson for first lady Melania Trump, said: “The double standard is truly astounding. Time and again the Trump family and members of this administration are subjected to false reporting, hateful rhetoric and outrageous lies all in the name of freedom of speech or comedy, yet the mainstream media stays silent.”

As talk radio host Chris Plante is fond of saying, “If the left did not have double standards they would have no standards at all.”

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

Roseanne’s dumb tweet and liberal low blows I’m burned out on Trump TV. I don’t need to hear any more of his speeches or read one of his tweets. I don’t want to watch every little thing President Trump does or says deciphered, misconstrued, attacked, defended, debated or analyzed on my TV every night by his many enemies and few friends.

To try to get some actual news Thursday morning, I turned over to the Fox Business Network to watch Stuart Varney and the gang. FBN covers real stuff and talks to real reporters about the ups and downs of stocks, the impact of President Trump’s trade deals on the economy and stories about the accelerating death spiral of the once-mighty Sears, the Walmart/Amazon of the 1900s.

But even on FBN I couldn’t escape Hurricane Trump, that permanent category 5 media storm that blows away or crowds out the important national and global news of every day. The big Trump-related story of the morning was the continuing fallout over Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about former Barrack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett’s looks.

The tweet caused ABC to instantly cancel her highly rated

canned and shamed by the left wing media industrial complex.

Keith Olbermann, Joy Reid, Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher, Don Lemon and “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee — all card-carrying Trump haters — have said vile, crude and crazy things about Trump and his Michael family. They did so with little Reagan or no harm to their careers. It’s safe for a liberal celebrity to “Roseanne” sitcom and led call Trump a racist or a Nazi, Robert Iger, the boss of parent as Olbermann did, or to call company Disney, to call Jarrett Ivanka Trump “a feckless c-,” right away to apologize. FBN’s as Bee did in her monologue focus on Roseanne was a Wednesday. perfect example of how low the They’ll usually get applaudmainstream media have fallen ed, defended or given every when it comes to practicing benefit of the doubt when they real and important journalism. pull a Roseanne. They almost She topped the news on never have to apologize. For virtually every channel, but example, Joy Reid’s homothe big story of the day should phobic blogs from 10 years have been President Trump ago have been glossed over or signing the “Right to Try” bill, excused, and this week she and which finally gives terminally former riot-starter Al Sharpton ill patients the federal OK to were co-hosting a town meetuse experimental medications ing on racism at MSNBC. that have not yet been fully apChristians, Sarah Palin and proved by the FDA. conservatives are fair game for Barr’s tweet was also the nasty name-calling and low latest example of the double blows in the liberal media. standard that permeates the But if you say anything about liberal mainstream media’s a Democrat or a progressive, “news” coverage of President especially if it has any racial Trump. Barr, who made herself connotations, you’ll be a goner a juicy target for liberals by overnight like Roseanne. proudly calling herself a Trump Her biggest mistake was supporter, was immediately openly supporting Trump. That

made her a marked celebrity.

She had a history of dumb and politically incorrect tweets, and she didn’t disappoint the liberals. What she tweeted about Jarrett was wrong, not funny — and plain stupid. But if she deserved to be sacked for what she said, then so do Olbermann, Reid and a bunch of other liberals.

But Olbermann, a sportscaster whose nasty Twitter tantrums about Trump would embarrass a 3-year-old, was recently rehired for about the 12th time by Disney’s failing ESPN sports network.

Bee apologized Thursday for “crossing a line.” TBS also apologized. That’s all they’ll have to do to amend for their sins.

Bee gets a few points for saying she was sorry, but the liberal comedian was never in danger of losing her late-night job. She knows the new rules of political trash talk — it’s not what you say, it’s who you say it against.

Michael Reagan is a political consultant, and 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.

Send comments to Reagan@ caglecartoons.com.

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Gladiators open search for new head coach tors president Scott Henrichsen said. “He always did things the right way and with the utmost class For the second time in and not only got us back as many years, the Atlanta to the playoffs, but planted Gladiators are in search of the seed for further growth a new head coach. of the organization.

Chuck Weber, who led “Last year was a transithe franchise back to the tion year for not only the playoffs after a four-year team but front office as absence in his first seawell and Chuck did an son, has taken a job as an amazing job reestablishing assistant at Rensselaer this organization among Polytechnic Institute in his the upper echelon of the Atlanta Gladiators head coach Chuck Weber, right, ECHL. We are excited to home state of New York. watches his team during a game last season at Infinite expand on the precedent “Switching to the colEnergy Arena in Duluth. (Photo: Dale Zanine) lege ranks is something that was set and take the I’ve been looking at for a after 19 years in profesend of the season, after team to the next level of number of years and after sional hockey, but it will being ousted by Kelly Cup contention with our next talking to (RPI head coach) add a stability for me and finalist and Brabham Cup coach along with new Dave Smith, the timing my family which is hard to winner Florida, they had owner Dan Orlich.” was right to make the get in the pro game.” lost an estimated 300 man The coaching search is change,” said Weber, who The Gladiators finished games to injury. officially open, but as word won two Kelly Cups earlier fourth in the South Di“We want to thank leaked out, Henrichsen in his career with Cincinvision standings while Chuck for all his hard work began getting inquiries. nati. “Not only will this be weathering a significant and dedication to success “Since Chuck alerted a new challenge for myself number of injuries. At the this past season,” Gladiaus, we’ve already had

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

several coaches reach out to us,” Henrichsen said.

“So we’ve already had great interest and that has started us down the road of looking for our next coach, to guide this team along a path to the playoffs and, hopefully, the Kelly Cup. “We anticipate having a new coach in here as soon as possible so he can put his stamp on the team, signing our core of players and any new players he might be able to attract.”

The team’s protected list, released Monday, was among the paperwork due to the league which Weber completed before he left for RPI. “It’s important that we have a full summer, really, to build with this new coach,” Henrichsen said.

“Not only the team, but in the community.

“With the new ownership we maybe have the ability to do some things we haven’t done in the past.”

Orlich, the Virginiabased businessman who bought the franchise in March, has continued to invest in the organization’s future, green-lighting the front office on improvements as the Gladiators prepare for their 16th season as the county’s only pro hockey team.

“He hasn’t put any limitations on us,” Henrichsen said. “I think there’s a great opportunity for a coach to step into that and run with it.

“We’re going to give the new coach every opportunity to be successful.”

Assistant coach Brady Leisenring has accepted a position with a new sports facility in Springfield, Va.

come in and we will have a really good 4-by-4 team, too.”

Henson expects big things from his star runner in the college level, both in his current events and possibly elsewhere. In addition to his 200 and 400 success, Long also has a personal best time of 10.62 in the 100.

And he has a hidden talent that may emerge at the college level.

“He’s obviously going to be a long sprinter and (Oklahoma State’s) very excited about getting him,

everybody that recruited him was excited about his potential when they offered him,” Henson said. “In addition to the 2 and the 4, I could see an experiment where he could potentially turn into one of best 400 hurdlers in the country. I think he could possibly be pre-Olympic. I’ve seen him run the hurdles. The one thing we didn’t accomplish with him is we never got him to run the 300 (hurdles) in a live race. If he ever ran the 300 hurdles, people would have oohed and aahed.”

Long •From Page 1B

club team. He practices here. He trains here. He the last leg. The kids he ran eats here. He might against (in the relay) was sleep here some. He is a a kid going to TCU, a kid Parkview track and field going to Louisville, a kid product and that’s the thing going to the University of I’m most proud of, whether Tennessee. … To be able he won a state championto recreate his speed four ship or not.” times in one day in that Long ended up with a kind of heat is unbelievable. four-pack of state titles, “The biggest thing is he the relay, the team title and is a product of our prohis two individual races. gram. We did inherit him He won the AAAAAAA and he has run club track championship in the 200 in because there’s no other 21.23 (just off his personal youth track (in Gwinnett) best of 21.02) and the 400 than club track. He also in his best time, 46.14. runs for the high school The victories capped a

season that also saw him sweep the AAAAAAA Sectional and Gwinnett County titles in his specialty races.

“It feels great,” Long said. “We worked hard for it all year. To see it finally come together in the end, nothing is better than that, especially me being a senior and going out the way we did.”

Long still has work ahead this summer, beginning with the Brooks PR Invitational later this week in Seattle. Only the country’s top performers in

each event — he qualified in the 400 — compete in the prestigious event.

He then heads to New Balance Outdoor Nationals with his Parkview teammates before shifting focus to college track and field at Oklahoma State, which rewarded Long with a rare full scholarship in the sport.

“I’m looking forward to coming in and competing hard,” Long said of Oklahoma State. “I have couple of teammates, incoming freshmen, who will push me and hopefully better my times. Hopefully, I’ll

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