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Lawrenceville mayor will not seek re-election

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On the eve of her first inauguration as Lawrenceville’s mayor in December 2010, Judy Jordan Johnson told the Daily Post that her vision for the city was to see a buzz emerge around the town’s name.

She said she wanted Lawrenceville to be the place people thought of when they were trying to figure out where to go for a night out. She wanted the downtown district to be a place where people went to grab a bite to eat or to catch some entertainment.

On Monday, as she reflected on the impending end of her tenure as mayor, Johnson expressed optimism in how far she felt the city had come in a little more than eight years toward reaching that goal.

“I hope (residents and visitors) think it’s a great place to spend time and a great place to go,” she said. “I can only think of what I said in 2010. I want Lawrenceville to be the buzz word and I certainly think the staff has done that with the addition of the restaurants, the brewery and the entertainment district that’s hopefully coming in the future.”

Johnson said she has decided to not seek re-election when her office is up for re-election this fall, meaning nearly a decade of leadership at the top of Lawrenceville’s government will come to an end at the conclusion of 2019.

With several redevelopment projects in the city either underway or in the planning stages, Johnson said she felt it was the right time to step away from life as an elected official. Those projects that are being worked on will ensure whoever the next mayor is will have steady ground to stand on, she said.

But the former mayor — who also spent six years on the City Council from 2003 to 2008 — looked back on what has been accomplished through a partnership between herself, the city council, city staff and community partners and emitted a sense of both satisfaction and pride in her hometown.

“It has been an incredible ride,” Johnson said. “God has blessed me with an opportunity to serve the residents of Lawrenceville. That was my mission, to be a public ser-

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Archer teacher resigns ‘Inappropriate relationship’ with student alleged

BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

An Archer High School teacher who allegedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with a senior at the school has resigned, the school announced Tuesday.

In an email sent to parents Tuesday morning, Archer Principal Ken Johnson said police are investigating the reported relationship, which school officials were notified of on Monday.

“I wanted to communicate with you about a police investigation regarding allegations that a teacher at our school has had an inappropriate relationship with a 12th-grade student,” Johnson wrote. “On

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Watkins will run for seat on commission

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson sits in her seat in front of the city seal at the City Council dias Monday. Johnson told the Daily Post that she will not seek re-election later this year, ending a nearly decade-long tenure as the city’s leader. (Staff Photos: Curt Yeomans)

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God has blessed me with an opportunity to serve the residents of Lawrenceville.

That was my mission, to be a public servant. I don’t consider myself a politician. I consider myself a public servant.”

— Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson

Her father’s name still comes up in the occasional conversation when people talk about Lawrenceville and Lawrenceville Mayor Judy Jordan Johnson talks about com- Gwinnett history. There’s ments she made to the Daily Post in 2010 about her plans for even a sprawling county park the city as she prepared to be sworn in for her first term. named for him east of the city’s downtown district. vant. I don’t consider myself a mayors of Gwinnett cities as He proved to not only be a politician. I consider myself a well as county commission father to the current mayor, public servant.”

Chairwoman Charlotte Nash. but also a leadership model But Johnson was no strang- for her to follow.

The daughter who followed er to the office of mayor even “I would say the lesson I in her father’s footsteps before she was first elected to learned from him was always Johnson is part of a group the office. Her father, Rhodes remember you’re accountknown in Gwinnett as the Jordan, had previously served able to the people,” she said.

Lipstick Leaders. It’s a small as Lawrenceville’s mayor See MAYOR, Page 6A group made up of the female when she was a young girl.

The Democratic contest for the Gwinnett County Commission District 3 seat is starting to take shape.

Grayson resident Jasper Watkins III, who was the Democratic party’s nominee for the seat in 2016 and narrowly missed pushing Commissioner Tommy Hunter into a recount, has confirmed he plans to run for the seat again next year. The retired Army officer said he filed his paperwork earlier this year.

“District 3 is our county’s ‘Last Frontier’ and we’ve got to make some serious changes to ensure our growth and continued prosperity,” Watkins said in a statement. “While I truly believe our county Jasper Watkins III elected officials serve with the best of intentions, our existing commission can be improved upon.

“Moreover, it is time for a change in leadership that always seek collaborative approaches to solutions that benefit ALL our citizens. I’m optimistic about the future of District 3 and Gwinnett County as a whole.”

So far, Watkins and Snellville insurance adjuster Derrick Wilson are the only candidates who have publicly announced

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MARTA referendum sees lack of young voters in early voting

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Gwinnett County’s top elected official, the head of the Atlanta Regional Commission and two transit leaders believe Gwinnett voters will pass the county’s MARTA referendum next week — but just barely.

Depending on who you ask in the group, which spoke at an Atlanta Press Club panel discussion in Atlanta on Monday, the

March 19 referendum could — in their opinion — pass by a margin as narrow as 51.5 percent or as wide as 54 percent.

But even as Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash, MARTA CEO Jeff Parker, ARC Executive Director Doug Hooker and State Road and Tollway Authority Executive Director Chris Tomlinson made those predictions, there was an undercurrent of concern.

A chief concern was that

not enough young people are showing up during early voting to cast their ballots on the issue. People under 50 are believed to make up less than one-quarter of the voter turnout so far during early voting.

“It’s about the turnout,” said Nash, who predicted a 52.75 percent vote in favor of passage. “Right now, we need very much to see younger folks wake up to the fact that there is a

SaportaReport and Atlanta Business Chronicle reporter Maria Saporta, from left, moderates an Atlanta Press Club panel discussion on Gwinnett’s MARTA vote featuring Atlanta Regional Commission Executive Director Doug Hooker, Gwinnett commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash, MARTA CEO Jeff Parker and State Road and Tollway Authority Executive Director Chris Tomlinson at the Commerce Club in Atlanta on Monday. (Staff Photo: Curt See MARTA, Page 6A Yeomans)

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A Duluth native recently made his debut as a contestant on American Idol — and is heading to Hollywood.

On Sunday, Duluth High School graduate Shawn Robinson was featured on the show as he auditioned in front of Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.

Richie called Robinson’s voice “butter” before Perry told Robinson he was going to Hollywood.

The show, now in its second season on ABC, premiered on March 3 and had 8.6 million viewers, ABC announced.

It airs on alternating Sundays and Mondays at On Sunday, Duluth High School graduate Shawn Robin- 8 p.m.

For more information, son will be featured on American Idol as he auditions in front of Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. (ABC/ visit disneyabcpress.com/ abc/shows/american-idol.

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Gwinnett animal shelter seeks home for ‘47-pound goofball’

BY ISABEL HUGHES

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The Gwinnett County Animal Shelter is hoping to find a forever home for a 1-year-old pup who, given his return history, “would seem to be the world’s most unadoptable dog,” the shelter said.

Astro, a Labrador who the shelter calls a “47-pound goofball” has been adopted and returned four times, the shelter wrote on Facebook.

“Apparently, he is full of energy! This could be due to his age, but his first new family wasn’t prepared for the puppy stage of a 47-pound goofball,” the post said. “Second, his next family had to relocate and couldn’t take him along.

Thirdly, we found out that he is a little too much for small children, and would do better with older kids in the home. And lastly, his new owners apparently had allergies once Astro’s dander set in.”

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The Gwinnett County Animal Shelter is hoping to find a forever home for a 1-year-old pup who, given his return history, “would seem to be the world’s most unadoptable dog,” the shelter said. (Special Photo)

hope — “as does Astro,” given he’s “full of energy, but also full of love.”

“The right family will have time, patience, experience, and a willingness to train and give this dude the time he needs to really settle in,” the shelter wrote. “A home without small children and inhalers would be

required too.”

Anyone interested in meeting Astro can visit him at the shelter, which is on Winder Highway in Lawrenceville.

Astro’s identification number is 65639.

For more information about the pup, visit gwinnettanimalwelfare.com.

Winning lottery ticket sold at Lilburn-area store unclaimed

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The ticket, for which a winner has not yet come forward, comes just days after Locals looking to win big a $50,000 Powerball ticket in the Georgia lottery may was sold at another Lilburnwant to try Lilburn-area area gas station, Georgia stores — a Fantasy 5 ticket lottery officials said. worth nearly $500,000 was Winning numbers from recently sold at a Lilburn gas the March 8 Fantasy 5 draw-

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Hispanic Citizen’s Police Academy currently accepting applications

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Research shows a new sex cream may be all that’s needed to improve a failing sex life; works directly where its applied to enhance erections, arousal, and so much more.

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They are more sexually active than they’ve been in years with the average Sensum+® user over the age of 50.

Clinical studies show Sensum+®’s key ingredient activates the TRPA1 sensation pathway right below the skin of the penis.

According to research, many men adults and seniors who suffer sexually have lost sensation in their penis due to constant rubbing and exposure and health related issues such as diabetes, hernia surgery, use of some antidepressants, multiple sclerosis, and other type of illnesses.

RESEARCH FINDS RESTORING SENSATION VITAL FOR RESTORING SEX LIFE: Sensum activates a special sensory pathway on the penis, enhancing erections and triggering arousal.

This desensitization often makes sex extremely challenging. Without a 100% feeling in the penis, its next to impossible to get truly aroused.

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Research shows that as men get older, they often lose sensitivity to the penis.

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and staying/getting hard.

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Stacey Abrams: Presidential run ‘definitely on the table’ From Staff Reports Former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ name has been bandied about for months as a possible challenger to U.S. Sen. David Perdue in next year’s Senate race, but the former Georgia House minority leader isn’t ruling out a possible run at a higher office instead.

Abrams turned heads Monday with a tweet referencing her book, “Lead

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BOSTON − New research has uncovered that men’s sexual failures may also result from lack of sensation vs. lack of blood flow as we originally suspected. That’s why men are turning to an amazing new sex cream for help.

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Overtime, constant exposure (especially if circumcised) leads to decreased penis sensitivity, which can cause problems with arousal and erection quality. There just isn’t enough feeling to get excited.”

“Diabetes, antidepressants and normal aging also leads to desensitization, a can make the situation even worse.”

“This is what makes Sensum+® so effective and why the clinical studies and clinical use studies have been so positive.”

The abortion bill received fierce opposition from Democrats, with female members of the party’s caucus raising particularly strong objections to the bill.

Freshmen Gwinnett legislators Reps. Beth Moore and Jasmine Clark were among the legislators who took to the well Thursday to voice opposition to the abortion bill.

Another item Kendrick included in her bill is mandatory DNA testing on unborn babies would have to be conducted when a woman is six weeks and 1 day into her pregnancy. The test would be done to determine the paternity of the baby.

Whoever is identified as the child’s father would have to begin paying child support immediately.

from the Outside,” in which she mentioned plans for someday runStacey ning for Abrams president of the United States. In the tweet, she said she’d told an interviewer at the SXSW conference and festivals that she might seek the nation’s high-

est office far sooner than she’d planned to do so.

She might run in 2020, she said.

“In #LeadFromTheOutside, I explore how to be intentional about plans, but flexible enough to adapt. 20 years ago, I never thought I’d be ready to run for POTUS before 2028. But life comes at you fast - as I shared in Q&A w @Yamiche at @sxsw. Now 2020 is definitely on the table…,” Abrams said in the tweet.

If Abrams decides to run, she would jump into a crowded Democratic field that already includes 12 announced campaigns.

A former Georgia state House minority leader, Abrams rose to national prominence last year during a closely fought gubernatorial bid that would have seen her become the first African American woman ever elected governor. She conceded the race amid significant controversy over the way the election was conducted — a process overseen by her opponent, now-Gov. Brian Kemp, who was Georgia’s secretary of state at the time.

Earlier this year, Abrams delivered the Democrats’ official rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.

With the gubernatorial loss behind her and a heightened profile, Abrams has been open about considering her next steps. Lauren GrohWargo, Abrams’ former campaign manager, confirmed the intention of the tweet, saying in a Monday statement that Abrams was “taking a look at all options on the table in 2020 and beyond.”

Monday’s comments followed an interview Abrams did with The New York Times, in which she said she was “not going to dismiss it out of hand.”

“I need women of color, particularly black women, to understand that our achievements should not be diminished,” Abrams said.

— CNN contributed to this report.

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Medical ID tags offer peace of mind in an emergency DEAR DR. ROACH: My question is about medical bracelets and necklaces. I’ve never seen any recommendations as to what conditions would warrant wearing one nor what the inscription should say. When are they either necessary or beneficial?

— D.A.M. ANSWER: Medical ID tags can be useful. They serve to alert medical personnel of potentially important medical conditions when someone is not capable of providing that information, whether due to temporary incapacity (such as being unconscious in a motor vehicle accident) or permanent disability (such as intellectual disability). In my opinion, the most appropriate use of these tags is when there is a potentially life-threatening medical condition that would not be obvious to emergency medical personnel. Some examples of these would include anaphylactic reaction to medications or latex; the presence of an illness that can cause temporary disability (epilepsy, diabetes, Addison’s disease); and medical conditions that might affect use of some common treatments, such as bleeding disorders, organ transplant status and medical implants (such as implantable defibrillators). Personal and contact information is a natural set of complementary information to have on a medical tag.

Some newer tags include electronic information, but this is in its infancy. These include the use of near-field technology to let emergency personnel read the information (if they also have the technology); phone numbers the emergency personnel can call to get more information; and QR codes to allow emergency personnel with a smartphone to go to a webpage with more detailed information. Most smartphones also have the ability to store information that can be read in an emergency, even by someone without the person’s phone password. I recommend taking advantage of this feature.

Many of the ID tags I see have information that is not likely to be helpful.

Listing chronic conditions like high blood pressure or high cholesterol is not necessary.

Finally, one of the biggest benefits of a medical ID tag is a little peace of mind.

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Burton................(1865.0)....1866.29 Seminole.................(77.5)........ 78.11

Minor

12:51-1:51 a.m.................................. ..................... 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Carters............... (1072.0)....1093.48 Sinclair.................(339.8)......338.80 Chatuge..............(1927.0)....1925.03 Thurmond............(330.0)......329.01 Harding.................(521.0)......520.23 Tugalo....................(891.5)......889.86

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Hartwell................(660.0)...... 661.97 Walter F. George.. (188.0)......188.18

Trees: High Weeds: Low Grass: Low

Jackson................(530.0)......528.46 West Point............(635.0)......630.61

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1781, German-born astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

In 1865, the Confederacy approved the use of slave troops against the Union armies.

In 1925, a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution went into effect in Tennessee.

In 1991, the U.S. Justice Dept. announced that Exxon had agreed to pay $1 billion to settle all claims resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

In 2013, Pope Francis was elected 266th pope of the Catholic Church.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer; Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971), poet; Walter Annenberg (1908-2002), publisher/philanthropist; Sammy Kaye (1910-1987), bandleader; L. Ron Hubbard (19111986), author/Church of Scientology founder; Al Jaffee (1921- ), cartoonist;

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TODAY’S FACT: The 27 known moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1960, the NFL approved the relocation of the Chicago Cardinals franchise to St. Louis.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “ To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.”

— Giorgos Seferis TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (March 6) and first quarter moon (March 14).

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should take your concerns to HR. Most likely, your HR representative wouldn’t comment to you, or reveal any aspect of your co-worker’s criminal history. But if your HR rep told you, “Yes, we are aware of all of this.

We hired Mr. Smith eight years ago as part of a parole work-release program and we are very happy with his rehabilitation,” would this mollify your concerns?

Obviously, your workplace should never knowingly put you in proximity to a violent criminal. You have the right and the responsibility to attend to your own concerns and safety — in and out of the workplace. After your own investigation, you will have to make an informed decision regarding what to do about what you have learned.

Dear Amy: My sister took her family to the beach and had a professional photographer take a picture of the whole family. It is framed and hangs in the hall of her home.

One granddaughter asked to have the photographer also take her picture with my sister by herself.

This picture is framed and on an end table in the living room. I think this shows favoritism and probably hurts the other grandkids. My sister says this granddaughter is the only one who asked for a separate picture, so she is going to display it.

What do you think?

— Auntie M Dear Auntie: Mainly, I think this is really none of your business. Unless your sister explicitly asks you about this, you needn’t weigh in.

If your sister conveys open favoritism toward this one granddaughter in other ways (aside from displaying the photograph), then the photo will indeed remind other grandchildren that they don’t have star status with their gran. Many grandparents do have special relationships with one grandchild (often the firstborn). But smart grandparents work very hard to appreciate their individual grandchildren as individuals — not as supporting satellites in the favored child’s constellation.

Children are very quick to perceive even subtle favoritism, and I agree with you that it is hurtful.

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Worker uncovers supervisor’s criminal past Dear Amy: I’m a recent college graduate working in my first “adult” job.

I work very closely every day with an older co-worker who essentially oversees all of my work activities.

Recently, while trying to connect with him on LinkedIn (with no success, because he isn’t a user), I Googled his name and the state he lives in.

The first result was an article from several years ago with his mugshot, saying he had been arrested a decade ago for an alleged sexual assault on a minor.

The article didn’t give details on how the case ended (but I assume he was found not guilty, otherwise I assume he would be in jail). Still, I looked into his background a little more with free online tools and discovered that he has many other crimes on his record, including burglary and domestic assault.

Basically, I don’t know how to handle this information. I feel incredibly disturbed and uncomfortable since learning this, and I’m dreading continuing to work with him.

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Amy Dickinson I’m not sure if I should bring it up with HR, or try to let it go. What should I do?

— Concerned in Colorado Dear Concerned: It is never wise to override your own instincts if you don’t feel safe.

Many states have passed “ban the box” laws, making it illegal for an employer to ask about criminal convictions on a job application (although they can ask and should also do a background check before making an employment offer). It’s possible that your workplace has not done its due diligence — or that this person has been arrested but never convicted of a crime (it’s not quite clear).

Because these crimes involve violence against people and property, you

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world&nation WORLD New Brexit deal crushed by U.K. lawmakers again British lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a second time, plunging the U.K. into a further period of political uncertainty with the departure date from the European Union a mere 17 days away.

Despite May’s hoarsevoiced pleas in the House of Commons for lawmakers to support her draft exit deal on Tuesday, or run the risk of a chaotic exit from the E.U. or no Brexit at all, lawmakers crushed it by 391 votes to 242.

The margin of defeat was less than the historic loss suffered by the government when the deal was originally voted on in January.

May had hoped that changes to her deal agreed last minute on Monday night with the E.U. would get it across the line.

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Dozens charged in alleged scam Two actresses among those in indictment

By Eric Levenson and Mark Morales CNN

Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among dozens of wealthy parents, elite college coaches and college prep executives accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious colleges, according to a massive federal indictment.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday the scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or to correct their answers. Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as EU suspending recruited athletes, regardBoeing 737 Max less of their actual abilities, planes after crash prosecutors said.

The documents also allege The European Union is that some defendants created suspending Boeing 737 fake athletic profiles for stuMax flights in Europe, join- dents to make them appear ing a list of governments to be successful athletes. temporarily grounding the In all, 50 people were aircraft after Sunday’s fatal charged in the criminal plane crash in Ethiopia. investigation that went by The E.U.’s suspension, the name “Operation Varsity covering 737 Max 8 and Blues.” Those arrested in737 Max 9 planes, was clude two SAT/ACT adminset to begin at 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

The move came as a raft of nations — including many individual European Biden teases countries — introduced temporary suspensions possible 2020 Tuesday for 737 Max presidential run aircraft after a Max 8 flight from Addis Ababa, EthioFormer Vice President pia, to Nairobi, Kenya, Joe Biden teased a possible crashed Sunday into a field 2020 run Tuesday morning six minutes after takeoff, after taking the stage at a killing all 157 people on firefighters conference to board. The flight reported chants of “Run Joe run!” technical problems and “I appreciate the energy asked for permission to you showed when I got turn back before it crashed, up here. Save it a little and investigations are unlonger, I may need it in a derway into the cause. few weeks,” Biden said to It’s the second time in applause at the Internaless than six months that tional Association of Fire this model has crashed Fighters’ annual legislative soon after takeoff. A new conference. “Be careful Lion Air Boeing 737 Max what you wish for.”

8 flight went down in Biden’s speech to the October over the Java Sea firefighters comes as the off Indonesia, killing 189 former vice president is in people. the final stages of deciding whether to run for presiReport: N. Korea dent in 2020. His future remains one of the biggest defies U.N. with unknown questions of the 2020 race. weapons sales, Friends and allies of oil imports Biden have expressed North Korea has broconfidence he will launch a ken U.N. sanctions with a presidential campaign, but “massive” increase of oil a formal announcement of imports and coal exports, a his decision is unlikely to U.N. report has found. come before April.

The 400-page docuAsked about his 2020 ment released Monday by decision on Tuesday, Biden the U.N. Panel of Experts told CNN he would make on North Korea said that his announcement “pretty Pyongyang had also tried soon.” to sell weapons in the Middle East and hacked Near hurricane banks across the world. strength winds The report comes after the collapse of last month’s set to whip the talks between President central U.S. Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong An intense and sprawlUn in Hanoi, Vietnam, ing winter storm is in part due to disagreeexpected to develop ment over when to remove starting Tuesday across sanctions in exchange for the Great Plains, deliversteps toward Pyongyang’s ing hurricane-force wind denuclearization. gusts, severe rain, heavy ­— From wire reports snow and floods for days

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PEOPLE James Corden pulls prank on David Beckham

James Corden may have just pulled off the ultimate prank on his buddy, soccer star David Beckham.

The host of “The Late Late Show with James Corden” unveiled the stunt on his show Monday night. He said the elaborate prank took him more than two months to plan.

Here’s how it went down.

Beckham was in Los Angeles recently for the unveiling of a statue commissioned in his honor by his former MLS soccer team, Lori Loughlin, left, and Felicity Huffman are among dozens charged, according to a the Los Angeles Galaxy.

When Corden learned federal indictment. (Photo: Getty Images via CNN) that Beckham had yet to see istrators, one exam proctor, He added, “For every stu- an accident that no students the finished statue, he hired nine coaches at elite schools, dent admitted through fraud, were charged on Tuesday, a crew to create their own. one college administrator an honest, genuinely talented and said the parents and Corden’s less-than-flatand 33 parents, according student was rejected.” other defendants were “the tering version of the statue to Andrew Lelling, the U.S. FBI Special Agent Joseph prime movers of this fraud.” portrayed Beckham with attorney for Massachusetts.

Bonavolonta said the parStill, he said they were con- an overly pronounced chin, The parents, Lelling said, ents spent anywhere from sidering charging students wild eyes and an extremely were a “catalog of wealth $200,000 to $6.5 million to down the road. pert derriere. and privilege,” including guarantee admissions for Huffman and Loughlin actors, CEOs, a fashion detheir children. are not just the most famous Jennifer Lopez signer and the co-chairman Coaches from Yale, names in the case; their shares photos of of a global law firm.

Stanford, the University of cases represent the two “This case is about the Southern California, Wake major aspects of the alleged her engagement widening corruption of elite Forest and Georgetown, scheme. to Alex Rodriguez college admissions through among others, are implicated Huffman, an Academy It’s the romantic proposal the steady application of in the case. The extensive Award nominee, has been wealth combined with case — the largest colcharged with felony conspir- we’re still talking about — fraud,” Lelling said. “There lege admissions scam ever acy to commit mail fraud and and a ring some of us are still envying. can be no separate college prosecuted, attorneys said honest services mail fraud, Jennifer Lopez took to admission system for the — involved arrests in six according to court paperwork wealthy, and I’ll add that states across the country. The filed Monday in federal court Instagram on Tuesday to give followers a behind-thethere will not be a separate criminal accusations stretch in Massachusetts. She was scenes look at the moment criminal justice system from 2011 to 2019. arrested without incident at Alex Rodriguez proposed to either.”

Lelling said it was not her home, the FBI said. her over the weekend.

The singer/actress posted four photos from a profesTemple Police said. sional photographer who was on location for the Man charged special moment, seemingly with murder after coordinated by Rodriguez.

The couple was on vaca9-year-old found tion in the Bahamas when dead in duffel bag Rodriguez proposed. They One week after a 9-year- recently celebrated the old girl’s body was found in second anniversary of their relationship. a duffel bag, Los Angeles It will be the fourth County officials have Former Vice President Joe Biden teased a possible 2020 charged a man with murder. marriage for Lopez, who divorced singer Marc Anthony Emiel Lamar Hunt, 39, run after taking the stage at a firefighters conference to chants of “Run Joe run!” (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Im- was charged Tuesday in the in 2014, and the second for death of Trinity Love Jones. Rodriguez, who has been ages via CNN) divorced since 2008.

Trinity’s body was found across a wide swath of the through the evening.

March 5 in light brush near central United States. an equestrian trail in Haci- Investor: ‘Poor The storm is forecast to Rock smashed enda Heights. rapidly intensify overAuthorities believe Hunt communication’ night east of the Colorado windshield, killed killed Trinity on or around is Elon Musk’s Rockies. It will then trek mother of three March 1, the Los Angeles biggest problem slowly northeast through County District Attorney’s Ross Gerber, co-founder, Thursday, delivering a vaWith his girlfriend Keila Office said. Officials have president and CEO of riety of extreme weather seated next to him and her not released a possible Gerber Kawasaki Wealth from New Mexico to the three children in the back, motive. and Investment ManageMidwest.

Christopher Rodriguez The girl’s body was ment, thinks Tesla has been Centered in Kansas as was driving on a cool, found with her head and it hits its midweek peak, clear Saturday night. upper body protruding from unfairly punished. His firm owns more than 40,000 gusts as strong as 100 The family of five a partially zipped duffel shares of Tesla, a stake mph are possible as the had just visited Keila bag. currently worth about $11 storm toys with a state Ruby Flores’s brother Hunt is reportedly the million. record low for sea level in Round Rock, Texas, boyfriend of Trinity’s Gerber is an unabashed pressure, which is one in- and was headed north to mother, the Los Angeles Tesla bull. He said that the dicator of storm strength. Waco on Interstate 35.

County Sheriff’s Departcompany is rapidly expandBlizzard and winter Without warning, a large ment said. ing its Gigafactories to storm warnings are in rock from a railroad track As Hunt appeared in build more batteries for its place for portions of overpass smashed into the court to face the murder Colorado, Wyoming, Ne- vehicle’s windshield and charge on Tuesday, Trinity’s electric vehicles. He notes braska and South Dakota. hit Flores. father, Antonio Jones, stood that Tesla’s Model S and Model X get rave reviews Heavy snow is expected “All of a sudden, some- up and shouted at him. from customers. And Gerber in portions of the Rockies thing just strikes the win“You killed my daughis optimistic about Tesla’s and northern Plains, with dow. It’s an explosion,” ter!’ Jones screamed. a foot or more falling in he told CNN affiliate Throughout the hearing, the plans to start making an electric pickup truck and a many areas.

KWTX. “I look over and father cried and clenched semi truck that has alStrong winds will I see Keila and she’s just his fists. ready received orders from bring white-out condilaying there unresponsive.

Trinity’s grandmother, tions through Wednesday I’m shaking her, trying to Barbara Jones, told report- Walmart.

But Gerber said that Tesla evening to places includ- wake her up, (but) she was ers that she felt enraged ing western Nebraska unresponsive.” after learning that Hunt had and CEO Elon Musk need to do a better job of getting and northeast Colorado.

Rodriguez pulled onto been charged. its message across to Wall Blowing snow will make an access road, called “I felt like a monster, Street. Musk has often made travel treacherous or police and began to perlike I wanted to do to him impossible during these form CPR, but it wasn’t what he did to her, or what lofty promises and committimes. enough. Flores, a 33-year- is alleged he did to her,” she ted to aggressive deadlines that the company hasn’t Snow should taper off old mother of three, was told reporters outside the been able to meet. by midday Thursday, but rushed to a nearby hospital courthouse.

— From wire reports strong winds will persist and died the next morning, — From wire reports

Web inventor calls for ‘fight’ to protect internet

By Rob Picheta

to commit,” the letter said.

Berners-Lee, who has previously rallied for improvements to the The inventor of the world wide for good,” in a letter published for technology, said the “fight for the web has called for global efforts his World Wide Web Foundation web is one of the most important to tackle state-sponsored hacking, on Monday. causes of our time.” He said: “You criminal behavior and abusive lan“While the web has created can’t just blame one government, guage on the internet, in an open opportunity, given marginalized one social network or the human letter marking the 30th anniversary groups a voice, and made our daily spirit.” of the revolutionary technology. lives easier, it has also created The computer scientist submitTim Berners-Lee said that opportunity for scammers, given a ted his first proposal for an “infor“many people feel afraid and voice to those who spread hatred, mation management system” on unsure if the web is really a force and made all kinds of crime easier 12 March 1989 — plans that his CNN

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boss called “vague but exciting.”

Thirty years later, around half the world’s population is online — but tech giants that dominate the internet, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, have been criticized in recent years for failing to stem the spread of misinformation and harassment on their platforms.

Berners-Lee identified three major “sources of dysfunction” affecting the web: deliberate mali-

cious intent, system design and unintended negative consequences of benevolent design.

The first, he said, resulted from issues like state-sponsored hacking and criminal behavior; the second from entities like ad-based revenue models “that commercially reward clickbait and the viral spread of misinformation”; and the last produced problems such as “the outraged and polarized tone and quality of online discourse.”

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be working in favor of opponents who want to see the referendum and get to the referendum fail. polls. I’m surprised that the As of Monday night, younger folks are not rec21,056 people had cast balognizing that it’s really their lots in person during Gwinfuture that we’re talking nett County’s early voting about with this referendum.” period.

With about a week left According to Georgiauntil the referendum date, Votes.com, a website that is the focus — or at least the tracking voter turnout data hopes — of officials who available through the Secrehave a stake in the refertary of State’s website, the endum is seeing it passed turnout so far has been 62 by voters. Voters will be percent white and 77.6 perdeciding whether to approve cent of the voters are 50 or a contract that has been neolder. A 2015 Pew Research gotiated between Gwinnett Center nationwide survey County and MARTA. The said white voters were three contract, which comes with times less likely to use transit a 1 percent sales tax, would compared to black people. last until 2057.

Voters between 18 and Demographically, how49 make up another 20.3 ever, the turnout may in fact percent of the turnout and

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the ages of another 2.1 percent of the voters is listed as “unknown.”

But the speakers at the Atlanta Press Club’s panel discussion shied away from discussing a possible failure of the referendum.

“Right now the focus has to be on ensuring that as many people as possible know that the referendum is going and that they know the outcome of the referendum is going to affect them,” Nash said. “That is really where out focus needs to be now, not on what happens past the 19th.”

A heavy rail extension from MARTA’s Doraville station to a planned multimodal station on the Jimmy Carter Boulevard corridor

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develop a true college town atmosphere, which “They elected you, and has led to the current any decision you make construction on a college should be with those corridor connecting the people in mind and how it downtown district with would affect their lifethe school’s campus. styles. I would also think The city is also deep that he taught me to be in to construction on the very respectful and that, mixed-use SouthLawn as we all have heard, it’s development spanning OK to agree to disagree.” the area between the Lawrenceville Lawn and A decade of big City Hall. It will have growth in the heart of storefronts lining Clayton Lawrenceville Street with office and One way to look at how residential spaces mixed transformative the era in in. which Judy Jordan JohnThere is also the son served as mayor has Lawrenceville Performbeen for Lawrenceville, ing Arts Center project, one needs only look at all which will serve as a de of the redevelopment that facto expansion of the has taken place.

Aurora Theatre. It is still It began with the open- in the planning stage. ing of the Lawrenceville Other projects that are Lawn, a project that in the planning stages inis, in Johnson’s eyes, a clude a planned boutique highlight of her mayoral hotel and parking garage, tenure. and the preservation of “The one I’m most the old Hooper Renwick proud of is the lawn School to include a combecause I really enjoy the munity activity space, an green space and the fact area to highlight Hooper that this is an opportuRenwick’s history with a nity for families to come new Lawrenceville library together and connect with branch attached. each other in a family It’s hard for Johnson friendly environment,” to pick just one of those she said. projects as the one that In recent years, howwill have the biggest imever, other efforts and pact on Lawrenceville. projects have picked up “All of these projects steam and are now starthave a big impact on our ing to come together at community and it would about the same time. be very difficult to single Lawrenceville officials out one particular projhave worked to strengthen ect that’s having a major the city’s relationship impact,” she said. “They with Georgia Gwinnett form a nucleus which is College. A major goal going to expand our comin that work has been to munity within the down-

has gotten most of the attention, but the Connect Gwinnett Transit Development Plan that will be the guideline for MARTA expansion into Gwinnett includes a variety of different transit methods.

Those methods include: expanded express bus routes into Atlanta, including new routes that begin as far out as the Loganville and Dacula areas; multiple bus rapid transit lines with dedicated lanes, including one route connecting the Jimmy Carter multi-modal station with Gwinnett Place Mall; a broad expansion of paratransit and local bus services; and rapid bus service that is similar to BRT but operate in both regular traffic lanes and

Plans for the future and reflecting on change Although Johnson won’t be mayor anymore after this year, she’ll still be active in some of the projects and activities around town that she’s been involved with for years.

That includes volunteering at Gwinnett Medical Center on Thursday mornings. She’ll still do that. She’ll still go to concerts and movies on the Lawrenceville Lawn.

She just won’t wear the mayor’s hat when she does those things.

“I’ll just be a spectator,” Johnson said.

There are a couple of things she will miss, however. One is the city staff she has worked with for nearly a decade. She said Lawrenceville’s employees are a major reason why the city has been able to accomplish what it has in the last decade.

But as she paused and turned to the window in her fourth-floor office at City Hall, she said there is something else that she’ll have to get used to.

“I will miss the view from this window,” she said. “When I’m here early in the morning, I see the sun come up on the (historic) courthouse and I see the clock and the steeple of First Baptist church, and then it reminds me of where my dad spent his years as mayor.”

to be addressed include over-development, under candidacies for the seat. redevelopment, a lack of vetHunter, the Republican erans programs, the county’s incumbent, has not yet forhomelessness issue and the mally said whether he will controversial 287(g) immiseek re-election. gration detention programs.

Hunter has been the “Our citizens deserve subject of a couple of contro- accountability, transparency versies since 2017, includand competent leadership ing calling U.S. Rep. John to guide our county and our Lewis, D-Ga., a “racist pig” communities into the future and getting into a tiff with in a collective way that Hall County’s sheriff over breaks down the silos and Hunter’s alleged behavior finds the commonalities that during fallen Gwinnett Pounite us rather than divide,” lice Officer Antwan Toney’s Watkins said. funeral procession last fall.

Watkins is a Florida Watkins said he plans to A&M University gradubuild off his narrow loss to ate who has spent decades Hunter in 2016, saying there working with health care are several issues that still and pharmaceutical fields, need to be addressed. He including 35 years in fedsaid Gwinnett’s transportaeral health care leadership tion needs outpace infraexperience and 10 years structure and better internet of executive leadership bandwidth that can keep up experience in dealing with with new “smart” technolo- pharmaceutical enterprise gies is also needed. issues.

Other issues he said need He retired from the Army

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Craig Allen Cavin Craig Allen Cavin, age, 44, of Buford, GA passed away Sunday, March 10, 2019. He is survived by his daughter, Kayla B. Cavin, Chicago, IL; parents, Kenneth and Marilyn Cavin, Ashland, KY; sister, Kelli D. Duncan, Ashland, KY; brother, Jeffery S. Cavin, Buford, GA; Nephews, Adison Cavin, Bryant Cavin, Kameron Duncan; Niece, Harlee Duncan; great nephew, Adison Weber Cavin. Mr. Cavin was born November 26, 1974 in Ashland, KY. He loved fishing and golf. He enjoyed restoring and remodeling homes. A sports Fan of Alabama Crimson Tide and Kentucky Wildcats. Funeral services will be held 2:00 pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home, Buford, GA. Family will gather at noon and receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 pm prior to service at funeral home.

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John Arthur “Art” Mackenzie John Arthur “Art” Mackenzie, Sr., age 86 of Dacula, GA, died Monday, March 11, 2019 after an extended illness. Funeral service will be held Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 2 PM at Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel. Pastor Danny Newbern will officiate. Interment will follow at Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Buford.

The family will receive friends Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from 2-4 PM and 6-8 PM at the funeral home. Art was preceded in death by his grandson, Jason Casper; brother, Boardman Mackenzie; sister, Nell Young. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Betty Mackenzie, Dacula; children, Art Mackenzie, Jr., Jefferson, Theresa Casper and husband Terry, Jefferson; granddaughter, Jennifer Lockman and husband Timothy, Jefferson; great grandchildren, Brook Lockman, Scarlytt Lockman; several nieces and nephews. Art was born in Charleston, SC and had lived in the metro Atlanta a

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about these allegations to the Professional StanMonday, we received a dards Commission,” he report about this situation said. “This type of alleged and our school immediately behavior between a teacher contacted the police and the and a student is unacceptschool district’s Division of able.”

Human Resources.”

Johnson said though the Given police are actively school has not experienced investigating the allegasuch a situation previously, tions, Johnson said there “one time is too many.” are “not many details (he) “Ethics matter, and the can share.” trust our community places “However, I can tell in its educators matters to you that the teacher has Archer and to Gwinnett resigned from Gwinnett County Public Schools.

County Public Schools and This is not something we the school system will be take for granted,” Johnson forwarding information said. “With that in mind, I

Glenda Lorraine Mattern (Harper) Glenda Mattern, resident of Lawrenceville, died Friday, March 8, 2019.

She is survived by her husband, Corey Mattern.

She is also survived by her daughter Rebecca King, and her husband Tim King, and their two sons, Joshua and Justin King.

She is also survived by her brother Monty Harper, and his wife Pat. Along with her other brother Brent Harper. She is also survived by her step mother, Betty Harper.

Glenda was a wonderful homemaker the last 13 years, and worked in the glass business prior to her marriage. She loved her littlle doxie, Gracie, and resting on her back porch.

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thank you for your continued support of our school and its students.”

When reached for comment, neither Gwinnett County Public Schools nor Gwinnett County Police Department officials elaborated further on the allegations or named the teacher, with police department spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Pihera telling the Daily Post that due to confidentiality laws that protect juvenile crime victims, “the information pertaining to this criminal investigation is not releasable to the public.”

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A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 15, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Wages and Sons Funeral Home on Hwy 29 in Lawrenceville with Clay Mattern officiating. The family will receive friends at 1:00 p.m., one hour before the service at the funeral home.

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with the rank of lieutenant colonel and is a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

He has also been involved with the Gwinnett Rotary, Gwinnett Chamber, North Forke Plantation Homeowners Association and is a former president of the American Society of Black Hospital Pharmacists.

“I care deeply about our community and our future,” Watkins said. “The hopes, goals and success of every citizen will be at the front of my mind during every decision rather than a single-focused on business, governance, or furtherance of political goals. I will work across party lines to solve problems and not be marginalized by extreme ideology.

“It is important to think through all the impacts, ignore the rhetoric of distraction and get to the facts.”

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is expected to cost $12 billion.

County officials believe federal funding, fare box collections, and state and other funding sources will cover the difference however.

“If you take just a few minutes to get informed, I think that it is clear this has been done with a great deal of public participation, a great deal of for thought in terms of what could we do to ensure the future of Gwinnett County is bright,” Nash said.

But Hooker said even if the Gwinnett MARTA referendum ends with another rejection of MARTA, the county’s voters can’t turn away transit expansion forever.

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queue jumper lanes at major intersections.

“I think a positive vote will get people recognizing we’re all in a region and seeing that a county whose significant growth resulted in congestion has decided to invest in transit,” Parker said.

Opponents have argued heavily on a financial angle, deriding it as a “money grab” by MARTA, arguing against the addition of a new sales tax in Gwinnett and claiming that the tax revenues would not be enough to cover the costs of providing the service.

The tax is expected to raise $5.5 billion in 2018 dollars — about $7.5 billion when adjusted for future growth — while the service

enjoyed playing bingo and going to beauty shop to get her hair done. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 4:00 pm in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home, Buford, GA.with Pastor Ray K. Fumea officiating.

Family will receive friends from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Saturday, March 16, 2019

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Mary Jeanette Sweat (Mauldin) Jeanette Mauldin Sweat ,age, 87 of Winder, GA passed away Sunday, March 10, 2019. She was preceded in death by her husband Doyle E. Sweat; Daughter, Regina Sweat; son-in-law, Arthur “Art” Gailey. She is survived by her children, Cindy Sweat Gailey, Winder, GA, Perry Sweat, Dacula, GA, Danny Sweat, Dacula, GA; grandchildren, Veronica, Kevin, Destiny, Dustin, Jonathan, Destiny; great-grandchildren, nine; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Sweat was born December 10, 1931 in Decatur, GA. She was a retired cafeteria work from Lawrenceville Elementary School, Lawrenceville, GA. She was of Baptist faith and e

Steven J. Timm Steven J. Timm, age 49, died unexpectedly on Monday, February 25th, 2019 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born January 27, 1970 in Pembroke Pines, Florida and graduated from Dacula High School in Dacula, Georgia where he excelled in debate.

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16 fugitives arrested in roundup Serial shoplifter striking metro Target stores

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Sixteen fugitives wanted on “a variety” of felony charges in Gwinnett were arrested Monday as part of a multi-agency fugitive roundup operation initiated by the FBI. Nearly 200 law enforcement officers from the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, Gwinnett County Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, the Georgia Department of Community Supervision and Braselton, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lilburn and Suwanee police departments participated in Operation Purge, which targeted fugitives with outstanding felony warrants.

A national effort, the operation partners the FBI with local law enforcement agencies across the country to locate suspects with outstanding warrants in their respective jurisdictions.

As part of the Gwinnett operation, the FBI reviewed 1,907 outstand-

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Sixteen fugitives wanted on “a variety” of felony charges in Gwinnett were arrested Monday as part of a multi-agency fugitive roundup operation initiated by the FBI. The FBI met with the involved agencies in Norcross on Monday morning before implementing the operation. (Special Photo)

ing felony warrants in the county over a 30-day period and determined that 21 of the fugitives were dead and 392 of the fugitives are currently incarcerated, said Deputy Shannon Volkodav, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.

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at a designated location in Norcross at 5 a.m. (Monday) morning to set Operation Purge into motion,” Volkodav said. “The operation involved nearly 200 law enforcement officers, who were divided into multiple teams to search targeted areas believed to be frequented by various fugitives. By 10 a.m., the teams had checked 125 locations.”

In addition to the 16 arrests, officers seized 140 grams of marijuana and

three guns, two of which were confirmed stolen, which resulted in additional charges.

Sheriff Butch Conway said he appreciated “every one” of the nearly 200 officers “who showed up in the dark” Monday morning to arrest the fugitives.

“When law enforcement agencies pool resources and work together, the community benefits,” Conway said. “We all share the common goal of increasing safety for everyone.”

A shoplifting suspect who has been striking Target stores across metro Atlanta — including one in Peachtree Corners — has made off with more than $30,000 worth of items throughout his spree.

Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the man, who “typically enters the store near closing time and selects numerous electronics, vacuums, calculators, routers and other expensive items,” according to Gwinnett County Police Department spokesman Cpl. Wilbert Rundles.

“The suspect will load the items in a cart and then exit through a fire exit where there is a black Hyundai passenger car waiting for him,” Rundles said. “The suspect loads the stolen items and then quickly flees the scene.”

On Feb. 24, the man stole about $2,500 worth of items from the Target on

Police said this man has been striking Target stores across metro Atlanta and has made off with more than $30,000 worth of items throughout his spree. (Special Photo)

Holcomb Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners, Rundles said. He has since hit “several other” Targets throughout the metro area.

Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 678-442-6572. To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit stopcrimeATL.com.

Tipsters can receive a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case. The case number is 19-018096.

Dave and Buster’s closes Duluth location

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Dave and Buster’s left in Gwinnett.

The only other Dave and Buster’s locations The party is over at one in Georgia now, besides of Gwinnett’s two Dave and Lawrenceville, are in Buster’s locations.

Alpharetta and Marietta.

The entertainment A McDonough location is company announced on expected to open later this its website that its Duluth year. location, located at 4000 The closure is another hit Venture Drive, closed for to the Gwinnett Place area, good March 4. That leaves which has lost HHGregg the other location at Sugar- and Toys R Us among other loaf Mills, right off Interretailers in recent years. state 85 in unincorporated The county did establish Lawrenceville, as the only a redevelopment overlay

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The Dave and Buster’s site was just outside of the overlay district.

Officials at the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District have been trying to pitch potential revitalization concepts to developers in an effort to spur redevelopment. So far, the only major redevelop-

ment project to make much movement is the proposed Orchid Grove mixed-use development at the Gwinnett Prado site.

Meanwhile, the area’s namesake mall has faced its own struggles. The mall has several vacant spaces and its Sears anchor closed its location at the mall last year.

Sears quickly sold its anchor space and its portion of the parking area at the mall to luxury apartment developer Northwood Raven.

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Coolray Field to host pair of Corky Kell games HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Schedule for the 2019 Corky Kell Classic Aug. 22, Rome 5:30 p.m. — Ridgeland vs. Calhoun 8:30 p.m. — Rome vs. Marietta Aug. 23, Coolray Field 5:30 p.m. — Archer vs. Tucker 8:30 p.m. — Buford vs. Milton Aug. 24, Mercedes-Benz Stadium 9 a.m. — Kell vs. Mays Noon — Norcross vs. Walton 3 p.m. — North Gwinnett vs. Colquitt County 6 p.m. — Brookwood vs. McEachern 9 p.m. — Mill Creek vs. East Coweta

BY WILL HAMMOCK will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The Corky Kell Classic has been played in Gwinnett County before by necessity.

This time, it will be held locally by design.

Event organizers plan to host the Friday night games of the annual high school football showcase this season at Lawrenceville’s Coolray

Field, home of the Triple-A Gwinnett Stripers baseball team. The first football games at the facility add to an increasingly more diverse lineup for Coolray, which also hosted Atlanta United 2’s 2018 soccer season.

Corky Kell officials held a press conference Tuesday morning at Coolray to discuss details of the football games, which are scheduled for Aug. 23. Both games feature

Gwinnett teams — Archer vs. Tucker at 5:30 p.m. and Buford vs. Milton at 8:30.

Georgia State’s stadium, formerly Turner Field, had hosted the Corky Kell’s Friday night games in recent seasons.

“Georgia State was a great partner for us,” Corky Kell executive director Dave Hunter said. “The whole thing was travel to downtown for 5:30 and 8:30 games on a Friday.

Last year it took Archer almost

two and a half hours to get down there (to Georgia State).

We’re really excited about it because it’s in Gwinnett.”

The Corky Kell was played last in Gwinnett County in 1997, when a scheduling conflict at the Georgia Dome forced a move. The event was hosted at two high school sites, Brookwood and McEachern, that season.

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Loss of Releford pivotal in final result for Eagles

BY JERELL RUSHIN Staff Correspondent

The Lanier girls basketball team celebrates its Class AAAAAA state championship, the first in any sport for the school, on Saturday at the Macon Centreplex. Below, head coach Tim Slater reacts during the win over defending champ Lovejoy. (Photos: Dale Zanine)

HORNS’ HISTORY Lanier basks in first state title

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Lanier’s girls basketball players and coaches walked into the high school Monday with brand-new, matching attire — state championship T-shirts.

They wore them proudly, and rightfully so. The Longhorns are still basking in the glow of their Class AAAAAA state title, won Saturday in Macon, for what it means to them personally and to the young high school, which did not have a team champion in any sport until the girls basketball triumph.

“It was a little bit different going to school, all wearing our state championship T-

shirts,” Lanier head coach Tim Slater said. “I may have taken a couple of extra laps that weren’t necessary carrying the

mination of an incredible first season as the Longhorns’ head coach. For the six seniors, it capped a journey that began as middle school teammates.

They led Lanier to state playoff appearances the previous two seasons, along with the first two winning records in program history, and reached the ultimate goal this year with a state championship and a 29-3 record. Their final victory as high-schoolers was a 52-45 win over defending state champion Lovejoy, a powerhouse with 45 straight wins over Georgia opponents.

Slater is the third head coach for the seniors in their state championship trophy.” four years. But he and his The players and coaches had staff — Ryan Nelson, Beverly plenty of reasons to be proud.

For Slater, it meant the culSee LANIER, Page 8B

MACON — The Macon Centreplex was silent as Collins Hill starter Jordan Releford screamed in pain, holding her knee midway through the third quarter of the Class AAAAAAA girls basketball state championship.

Releford left the game after a collision with Westlake’s towering center Lydia Freeman. Westlake led 40-27 with 5:24 remaining in the quarter when Releford, one of Collins Hill’s leading scorers this season, had her knee buckle.

Collins Hill didn’t have any momentum as she was assisted off the court.

The Eagles flipped the script after she went down during the biggest moment of their season. Collins Hill went on an 11-0 run to make the score 40-38 and resembled the team that earned its way to the finals.

Their hunger to fight brought the crowd back into the game on both ends of the coliseum.

The Eagles faced adversity in the semifinals last Saturday and battled through it. They did it again in the biggest game for Collins Hill in over a decade.

“That’s the thing I love most about basketball — it reveals your character,” Collins Hill coach Brian Harmon said.

Before the injury, Westlake was shooting 47.1 percent from the floor.

The Eagles held Westlake scoreless for nearly five minutes in response.

“They’re resilient,” Harmon said.

“They don’t give up. They got enough talent to make the plays to be in a game. We just came up short this time.”

Collins Hill was eight minutes away from capturing the school’s first championship under Harmon, who came to the school when his daughter — senior Bria Harmon — was a freshman guard.

Westlake’s margin was down to 40-

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Mustangs to rebuild with two returners

BY TAYLOR DENMAN taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The end of Meadowcreek’s boys basketball championship run on Saturday starts a new chapter for the emerging Class AAAAAAA powerhouse.

The last two seasons have been good to the Mustangs.

Meadowcreek won the 2017-

18 state championship and mounted a robust defense during the 2018-19 season.

Meadowcreek returned to the ultimate game in an attempt to defend its title but became the most recent victim of national No. 1 McEachern’s conquest of the country’s top basketball teams. Meadowcreek has played in more playoff games the previous three seasons (13)

under head coach Curtis Gilleylen than the program played in the previous 10 seasons combined.

As long as Norcross is in Meadowcreek’s region, the Mustangs will have to endure two to three rigorous games with a state contender each season. When the teams rematch, Meadowcreek will look much different without seven

graduated seniors from the 2018-19 squad absent.

The Mustangs will look to replace three senior starters.

Damian Dunn is a Temple University-bound shooting guard and Jalen Benjamin is a University of Alabama-Birmingham signee. Both were pre-season move-ins and completed their See MUSTANGS, Page 4B

Collins Hill’s Jordan Releford (5) hits a jump shot against Westlake during the Class AAAAAAA state championship Saturday in Macon. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

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Mill Creek was right behind at 57. North Gwinnett (fifth, 40), Lanier (sixth, 38), South Gwinnett (seventh, 36.5) and Dacula (eighth, 34) also finished in the Buford junior Kimberly Harris starred top 10. at the New Balance National Indoor Victories in the 1,600-meter relay (3 Championships at The Armory in New minutes, 35.36 seconds) and 3,200 relay York City over the weekend, headlining (8:26.42) were key to the Brookwood another strong track and field meet for team win. Jay Green, Artrell Correa, Ian Gwinnett athletes.

Jackson and Jared Jones teamed up on the Harris, running for JackRabbit Track, first-place 1,600 relay, while the 3,200 won the 400-meter title relay featured Will Bray, Luke McNeil, in the Championship Seth Wheeler and Patrick Smith. Bray Girls division in 52.62 added a runner-up finish in the 3,200. seconds, posting a No. 6 The Brookwood girls placed second all-time clocking in the in the meet with 75 points, trailing only event. She also was first Alexander’s 91. Nia Scott led the Broncos in two Emerging Elite with a first-place finish in the 100 hurdles sprints — the 55 in 6.94 (14.91).

Kimberly and the 60 in 7.45, the Mill Creek was third in the girls standHarris eighth-fastest all-time ings at 61.5. Peachtree Ridge (sixth, 45), performance in that race.

Mountain View (eighth, 31) and North Teammate Trinity Rossum was close Gwinnett (ninth, 30.5) also were in the behind in the 55 (7.01) and the 60 (7.56). top 10.

Buford’s Alexa Rossum was eighth in Dacula’s throwers had a great meet, led the Championship Girls 55 (7.00) and 60 by a sweep of the girls events by Elsie (7.53).

Igberaese. She won the discus at 143 feet, Greater Atlanta Christian’s Jasmine 7 inches, and won the shot put at 40-6 Jones was second in the 55 hurdles (7.67) 1/4. Teammate Adam Watkins was boys and 60 hurdles (8.22) in the Championshot put champion at 56-2. ship Girls division, and North Gwinnett’s Mountain View’s Cara-Michelle NemoKelsey Worthington was fourth in the rin gave Gwinnett another winner in the Emerging Elite pole vault at 12 feet, 6 1/4 girls meet, taking first in the 100 at 12.66. inches. Peachtree Ridge’s Tamiia Fuller Mill Creek’s girls won the 400 relay in was fifth in the Freshman Girls 55 (7.20) 49.88, and the Hawks got a boys victory and 60 (7.73), and Braselton’s Isaiah from Julian Hazen in the 200 (22.43).

Bond was seventh in the Freshman Boys Teammate Okem Jibunor was second in 55 (6.71) and 60 (7.21). both the 100 and 200.

South Gwinnett’s Darryl Wiltz won the 110 hurdles (14.78), and Greater Atlanta Brookwood boys, Dacula Christian’s Ty James tied for first in the throwers lead way at high jump (6-0) but was second on a Jerry Arnold track meet tiebreaker.

Brookwood’s boys track and field team North Gwinnett’s boys won the 400 refinished on top of a jam-packed standings lay (42.65) and Lanier’s Zachary Charles at the Jerry Arnold Georgia Challenge, was a top all-around performer, finishing held over the weekend at Mill Creek. second in the 110 and 300 hurdles, as The Broncos had 59 points, runnerwell as the long jump. up Alexander had 58.5 and third-place — From staff reports

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Lions hire Grayson grad Joiner as softball coach letic and activities director Ryan Lesniak said. “His teams at East Hall have won the region chamJosh Joiner, a successful pionship the last three years and head coach at the Class AAA being from Gwinnett himself, he level, is ready to take on Class knows the level of competition AAAAAAA softball. and excitement that Gwinnett The 2010 Grayson graduate County athletics bring. We are was selected as excited for Coach Joiner, his the new head wife, Haley, and his daughters, softball coach at Harper and Gracyn, to join the Peachtree Ridge, Lions family and connect with where he replac- the Peachtree Ridge community.” es retiring head Joiner built East Hall into one coach Bubba of the area’s best programs over Wilson. He was the last five seasons, the past Josh introduced to the four as head coach.

Joiner Lions players “It’s one of those jobs that’s early Monday morning. kind of a once-in-a-lifetime “After an extensive search opportunity,” Joiner said of and interview process, Peachtree Peachtree Ridge. “I’m really Ridge High School is excited glad they chose me. I know I that Coach Joiner has signed wasn’t the only person in the his letter of intent to be the running for that job. I know they next softball coach at Peachtree had a bunch of good candidates.

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ready to go to work.”

The 27-year-old was content at East Hall, where he won region championships the past three seasons but was intrigued by the Peachtree Ridge opening.

He said he is happy to be back in Gwinnett County — he and his wife are both Grayson grads — even if returning home wasn’t the plan.

Specifically, he is eager to work at Peachtree Ridge.

“I’m looking forward to everything, teaching in that school, in that environment, working for (principal) Dr. (Jeff) Mathews,” Joiner said. “I’m looking forward to meeting the girls and beginning our relationship. I’m looking forward to getting to work. It’s an all-around upgrade.

I’m really just proud and happy to be here.”

Joiner was hired at East Hall straight out of college and was

the head softball coach there by his second year in education. He also has been a baseball assistant coach throughout his time at East Hall, except in 2018, when he took a season off during his wife’s pregnancy. He intends to focus on softball at Peachtree Ridge and not coach baseball at the moment.

The young coach also said he is excited to play in AAAAAAA, specifically in difficult Region 6-AAAAAAA. “I’m looking forward to the grind that it is every single game,” Joiner said. “I remember in high school (at Grayson), there was never a game where you could back off. You had to bring it every single day. I’m excited about doing that, about competing at that level. That’s what I am. I’m a competitor. Being at the highest level like that, it’s an honor.”

THE JOINER FILE Name: Josh Joiner New position: Head softball coach at Peachtree Ridge Former position: Head softball coach at East Hall Age: 27 Career record: 73-48 Education: Graduated from Grayson High School in 2010; graduated with a degree in math education from Troy University in 2014 Background: Coached the last five seasons at East Hall, the past four as head coach; also coached baseball at East Hall; led his teams to region titles and state playoff trips the past three seasons; played baseball at Grayson; wife also is a Grayson grad Family: Wife Haley; daughters Harper, 2, and Gracyn, 1 month

Getting to Know ... Emmett Watkins Variety has always been a key theme in Emmett Watkins’ involvement in athletics.

Whether it was as a four-sport athlete (football, track, baseball, basketball) or as a coach — he has served as a head coach in track and assistant under several notable football coaches — the native Floridian and former football player at Valdosta State University has had some very diverse experiences and ways of approaching different sports. Watkins — who has spent the last 12 years at Dacula, where he is currently the head boys track and field coach and an assistant on Clint Jenkins’ football coaching staff — recently spoke with staff writer David Friedlander about those experiences, and how they’ve helped shape his career DF: You’ve been in Georgia quite a few years now. How did that come to be?

EW: I actually was born and raised in a small town called Starke that sits in north-central Florida between Jacksonville and Gainesville. I went to Valdosta State to play football.

After my senior year in 1983, I’ve been in Georgia ever since. I loved my days and years playing in Valdosta and got experience meeting some coaches at Valdosta High — some good coaches at Valdosta High and Valdosta State at that time that kind of led me to coaching as a profession.

DF: I know you’ve gotten to meet and coach under some big-time names in coaching at different points of your career. Take us back and talk about some of them, if you would. Didn’t you serve as an assistant under legendary Valdosta High coach Nick Hyder at one time?

EW: No, I didn’t coach

Emmett Watkins is the head boys track and field coach and an assistant football coach at Dacula. (Staff Photo: David Friedlander)

under Coach Hyder, but I did my student teaching at Valdosta High under (longtime defensive coordinator) Coach (Charles) Tarpley.

Coach Hyder was there at that time. Just good people, good staff, good football knowledgeable people. Just good people altogether. It kind of left an imprint on me.

DF: Eventually you worked your way up north, and you’ve been at Dacula almost a dozen years now. In that time, you’ve gotten to serve under a variety of head football coaches here with some dramatically different philosophies in terms of strategies — from Kevin Maloof to Jared Zito to Tommy Jones to, now, Clint Jenkins. What’s that been like? You’ve had to adjust on the fly, haven’t you?

EW: That’s part of life nowadays. Coach Maloof was just a good, old-school football coach and just a good man — respected in the coaching profession for the job that he did.

I’ve coached under a lot

of head coaches, and he’s a good one. I’ve coached under (former University of Kentucky head coach) Hal Mumme when he was at Valdosta State, who’s a good throwing coach and just a good person. A lot of experience with just good coaches — football, track and field, basketball, all the sports that I played.

DF: Let’s talk about that, because you mentioned at least three sports that you participated in during your youth. Did you also run track at Valdosta State?

EW: Back when I was in high school, I got a chance to play … four sports (football, track and field, basketball and baseball) my freshman and sophomore years. Then, I trimmed it down after that.

DF: It must’ve been real interesting doing track and baseball in the same season.

EW: Well, it was work, but we enjoyed it. At that age, we just enjoyed getting out and competing. I still enjoy, through my kids and through my athletes

competing today. That’s probably why I’m still doing what I’m doing.

DF: Do you enjoy coaching football or track and field more these days?

EW: I enjoy just being in competition with the kids. Football has always been my first love. It’s what I played as a kid first, the first sport I participated in. It’s been great to me.

This year, I’ve got a son (Adam) who’s a 10th-grader in the football program here, and it’s an enjoyment to be able to sit back and watch and not have to do any coaching. I’ve coached him since age 6 to high school. This will be the first year I haven’t coached him. It’s been a blessing for me to be able to just sit back and enjoy watching.

DF: Well, while he’s still getting started on the varsity level in football, he’s definitely made a name for himself as a thrower for the track team already.

EW: Coach (Dave) Machovec does all the coaching with the throw-

ers. Actually, when Adam started throwing, track was supposed to be a way for getting a big kid in shape and making him run a little bit more so he could be a better football player. And he just started excelling in throwing from about the age of 10 on, and he’s been throwing AAU and USA Track and Field throwing. … He would come over here and throw with Coach Mac after we would get done throwing. That’s just been a blessing.

DF: You’re a pretty big guy yourself. Did you throw during track and field season when you were growing up?

EW: I actually ran the 100- and 200-(meter dashes).

DF: Really?

EW: It’s just something.

With Adam’s size, and he’s gotten into and I think it’s something he really loves and cares about and competes in.

DF: Do you have any stories about some bigtime names you competed against? The sprint events usually feature some big-time athletes, including a lot of speed guys from football.

EW: Well, back in Florida, we had districts instead of regions. Probably the best athlete in my (district) was a kid named John L. Williams, who went to the University of Florida and played for the Seattle Seahawks and the (Pittsburgh) Steelers for years. A guy named Buford that played quarterback for them. There were a lot of good athletes in our area. Just a lot to name. I played basketball against some good players. Vernon Maxwell was in our district at that time, and he played in the NBA for years. So I’ve had my chance to (compete) with athletes over the years.

DF: When you came up here, what brought

you to Gwinnett County?

Obviously, you’ve found a home here.

EW: I did some things when I was teaching at Bradwell Institute (in southeast Georgia). We used to travel up and bring kids up to different events in Atlanta, and it was about a 3 1/2 to four-hour drive.

My kids were getting to the age where I wanted to settle down and make it a final stop for them. We visited Gwinnett County and I did some things online, and there were some opportunities to open up here. And Coach Maloof was someone I’d heard a lot about and respected. He offered me a position here, and it just felt like my family felt like it was going to be the best opportunity for us.

DF: Going back to what you talked about playing four sports, a lot of people lament the age of specialization we’re in and how you don’t see nearly as many multisport athletes these days.

I know Adam plays at least two right now, so I’m thinking you’re in the camp of encouraging kids to play multiple sports?

EW: Adam played JV basketball …

DF: So that’s three sports.

EW: And he’s been involved in all the sports.

You want them to have fun and to be interested in it. But then when it gets down to it, you want them to have success in what they’re doing, too. So I think that plays a big part.

Coaching has changed so much now to where you don’t have coaches that coach multiple sports anymore. Sometimes people want you to slim to do just that and be good at that sport. So sometimes it limits kids, and I just think they should be able to enjoy all the sports.

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4:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Lakeside-DeKalb 5:30 p.m. — Discovery at North 5:45 p.m. — South at Grayson 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Central 6 p.m. — Collins Hill at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — Dacula at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Duluth at Mountain View 6 p.m. — GAC at North Hall 6 p.m. — Grayson at South 6 p.m. — Loganville at Buford 6 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Norcross 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Archer

LACROSSE

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North hires Callis to replace Nieman at North Gwinnett,” North Gwinnett athletic and activities director Matt Champitto said. “He has helped build a With longtime swimgreat program and is leaving ming and diving coach it in unbelievable shape for Doug Nieman set to retire, the future. I’m extremely North Gwinnett officials excited to have Coach Calannounced a head coachlis on board as he’s one of ing change Monday. the most successful swim The Bulldogs hired cur- coaches around. rent Collins Hill coach Paul “I’ve known Coach Callis to lead their program Callis since our days at and fill the void left by Nie- Shiloh High School and man, who was a swimming I’m looking forward to him and diving coach at the taking our program to the high school for 13 years. next level.”

“I want to thank Coach Callis has decades of Nieman for his time as the experience as a Gwinnett head swim and dive coach County high school coach,

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including an 18-year tenure as head coach at Shiloh, where Champitto was a baseball coach before going into administration.

Shiloh reached the state meet every year under Callis, finishing in the state’s top 10 seven times. He was named Gwinnett’s coach of the year in both 1998 and 2001.

Since the 2013-14 season, Callis has coached at Collins Hill with the Eagles’ longtime head coach, Jenny Weaver. In addition to joining one of the state’s top programs, the move also allowed him to coach his

children at Collins Hill.

Callis was a state champion and All-American swimmer at Westerfield (Conn.) High School in 1987. He was a four-year letterman at the University of Tennessee and a member of the 1989 SEC championship team.

He takes over a North program that has been one of the state’s best during Nieman’s tenure. Both the North boys and girls were fifth at this year’s state championship meet, and the Bulldogs were second (girls) and third (boys) at the county meet.

5 p.m. — Dacula boys at Mount Pisgah 5:30 p.m. — Collins Hill boys at Mill Creek 5:30 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Chamblee 6 p.m. — Druid Hills girls at Norcross 7:30 p.m. — Chattahoochee boys at Peachtree Ridge

TENNIS

3:30 p.m. — Lakeside-DeKalb at Brookwood 4 p.m. — Buford at Johnson 4 p.m. — GAC boys at Westminster 4 p.m. — North at Northview 4 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge boys at Lambert 4 p.m. — Westminster girls at GAC

TRACK AND FIELD

4 p.m. — Duluth at GAC 4 p.m. — Pace Academy, Clarkston, Tallulah Falls at Wesleyan Thursday

BASEBALL

4 p.m. — Norcross and St. Pius at CoolRay Field 5:30 p.m. — Holy Innocents’ at Wesleyan 6 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Pebblebrook

LACROSSE

4:30 p.m. — GAC boys at Wesleyan 5 p.m. — Northview girls at Duluth 5:30 p.m. — Archer boys at Lanier 5:30 p.m. — Lanier girls at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — GAC girls at Buford 6 p.m. — North Oconee boys at Grayson 6:30 p.m. — Wesleyan girls at St. Pius 7 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge girls at North Oconee 7:30 p.m. — Norcross boys at North Springs

SOCCER

5 p.m. — Wesleyan at Pinecrest Academy

TENNIS

3 p.m. — Duluth and Peachtree Ridge at Sugarloaf CC 3 p.m. — South and Lanier at E.E. Robinson Park 3:30 p.m. — Archer at Shiloh 3:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Parkview 3:30 p.m. — Dacula at Winder-Barrow 3:30 p.m. — Grayson at Newton Co. 3:30 p.m. — Mill Creek at Discovery 3:30 p.m. — Mountain View at North 3:30 p.m. — Norcross at Central 4 p.m. — Dawson Co. at GAC 4 p.m. — Riverside Military boys at Hebron 4 p.m. — Wesleyan at Providence

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4 p.m. — Whitley Challenge at Parkview 4:30 p.m. — Brookwood, Archer at Berkmar

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Meadowcreek’s Jammonie Watkins-Causey, middle, draws a charge during the Class AAAAAAA state championship game against McEachern on Saturday in Macon. (Photos: Dale Zanine)

Mustangs

•From Page 1B first and only high-school eligible seasons with Meadowcreek.

Jamir Chaplin will head to the University of South Florida. He was a member of Gilleylen’s inaugural roster as a sophomore.

All three players played in the offseason on the same Stackhouse Elite AAU squad prior to joining forces at Meadowcreek.

The Mustangs will need to fill their roles as it did with the departures of 6-foot-9 Amari Kelly and 6-foot-7 Cory Hightower after the Mustangs’ championship in 2018.

The Mustangs, for now, return two starters. Jammonie Watkins-Causey is a forward and rising senior.

He played all but one minute against McEachern during the state championship game and has started for most of the season. The 6-foot-6 post player had to step up on Saturday to guard McEachern’s 6-foot9 forward and Northwestern commit Jared Jones.

Watkins-Causey has played in his share of big moments and will carry that experience into his

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Sports Calendar GOLF

March 23: The Gwinnett Bandits Golf Tournament will be held at Lanier Islands Legacy Course to raise money for the youth baseball program. The fourperson scramble begins with 11:30 a.m. check-in and a 1 p.m. shotgun start.

Cost is $100 per golfer and includes green fees, carts, practice range, lunch, silent auction and appetizers.

Registration deadline is today. Email gwinnettbandits@gmail.com with any questions.

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County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in partnership with The Fortitude Foundation, will host its 5K Crimson Run/Walk on May 4 at Tribble Mill Park. All proceeds benefit GCAC’s scholarship program for Gwinnett County students. Entry fee is $35.

The race, a 2020 Peachtree Road Race qualifier, begins at 8:22 a.m. Registration is at 7:30 a.m., followed by welcome and warm-up at 8 a.m. For more information, email 5K@gwinnettdst.org.

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Isacc Okoro combined for 36 points.

“I feel like I played him a little too tight and he wasn’t as big a threat as Isaac and Sharife,” Watkins-Causey said. “I wasn’t having it this game. I was trying to do my job and make sure (Jones) was not a factor.”

The Mustangs also have headstrong point guard Kedrick Green, who has started for Meadowcreek at the point since his freshman season when the Mustangs beat Norcross for the state title. He’s played in his fair share of big games, but now he’ll be Meadowcreek’s most experienced player.

“I’ve really been (carrying the torch) ever since I was a freshman, so it’s really nothing to me,” Green said. “I’m going to keep the young guys in check and do what we’re supposed to do.”

Green also plays for Stackhouse Elite in the offseason.

With a handful of starters in foul trouble, Meadowcreek’s Kedrick Green shoots during the Class Meadowcreek turned to AAAAAAA state championship game against McEachern an underclassman off the on Saturday in Macon. bench. Junior guard Willsenior season. Jones had floor. He wasn’t a big part ford Campbell played 10 just four points but took of McEachern’s offense minutes off the bench and just four shots from the while Sharife Cooper and had three steals.

Eagles Releford returned to the bench with a knee brace, 38 late in the third quarter but never re-entered the after it led by as much as game. Her team brought 15 points in the first half. the deficit down to five The game remained a four- points with 58 seconds left. point affair early in the “(Losing Releford) was fourth quarter. really a big disappointment “They turned the ball for us as a team, but we over enough for us to make had to push through it,” seplays, we just gave them nior Javyn Nicholson said. that cushion,” Harmon “Jordan went down and said. “That first quarter we had to alter our whole was the difference.” gameplan.”

Westlake began extendWithout their sharping its lead and Collins Hill shooter on the court, the searched for an outside Eagles saw their shot at a shot, Releford’s strength. title slip away.

•From Page 1B

“At that point, I wish I had her on the floor,” Harmon said. “The heart of this team just came together. And we said, ‘We got to fight.’ That’s just the way they’ve been the whole season.”

Westlake (30-0) defeated Collins Hill in the state tournament for the second consecutive year. This was the first time Collins Hill reached the finals since 2007. Releford’s team, including nine fellow seniors, couldn’t complete the comeback.

“You can’t control those things,” Harmon said.

“Those things are out of our hands. It happens and you got to learn from it.

You’ve got to live with that situation. Those were cards you were dealt. Somebody’s got to step up.”

Nicholson had gamehighs of 17 points and 15 rebounds. The only other Eagle to reach double-digit scoring was Harmon with 13 points.

Harmon will return to Collins Hill for his fifth season as head coach.

Coolray •From Page 1B

to be 7,500 for football.

This year’s Corky Kell The football field will games also will be telerun down Coolray’s leftvised through a new TV field line, similar to the partnership with CBS 46 layout for Atlanta United 2 Atlanta. All of the Thurssoccer games. There will be day to Saturday games will no bleachers in the outfield, be broadcast by CBS and but the capacity is expected its station, Peachtree TV.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium remains the host for the Saturday, Aug. 24 Corky Kell games this year. The matchups in Atlanta are Kell-Mays at 9 a.m., Norcross-Walton at noon, North GwinnettColquitt County at 3 p.m.,

Brookwood-McEachern at 6 p.m. and Mill Creek-East Coweta at 9 p.m.

The Thursday, Aug. 22 Corky Kell games are hosted in Rome, with Ridgeland vs. Calhoun at 5:30 p.m. and Rome vs.

Marietta at 8:30 p.m.

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The Democrats’ Jewish problem Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., comment that the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington pushes lawmakers to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country” was bad enough.

A watered-down House resolution condemning, not Omar, but “all hatred” was as tepid as denouncing drunk driving.

After heated debate within Cal their caucus, Thomas Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership released a separate statement: “Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.”

Omar complied, but this is not the first time she’s had to walk back controversial comments about Israel.

In 2012, Omar tweeted: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

The implication was that Israel and its backers are being manipulated to support the Jewish state. This old anti-Semitic trope will be familiar to anyone with a minimal understanding of the history of the Jewish people and the genocidal goal of their enemies. Yes, Omar apologized, but not until she got to Congress. This assumes her apology was more political than sincere. Consider her appeal to “Allah.” Why would she, or any Muslim, disobey Allah?

Sarah Stern, who heads Endowment for Middle East Truth, which bills itself as “a Washington, D.C.,-based think tank and policy center with an unabashedly pro-America and pro-Israel stance,” emailed to say, “We Jews have learned from our long and painful history that words matter. Violence against Jews does not erupt in a vacuum; and the increasing ease with which anti-Semitic comments are uttered within certain segments of our society is deeply painful and disturbing.”

That truth can also be seen in Israel where Palestinian Arafat Irfayia, the prime suspect in the murder of Israeli teenager Ori Ansbacher, was indicted last week. World Israel News reports his explanation for stabbing and then raping the girl: “Because she was a Jew.” The publication says Irfayia left his home in Hebron with “the express intention of killing a Jew.” You have to be taught to hate, as Oscar Hammerstein wrote in the musical “South Pacific,” and hatred is at the heart of antiSemitism, most notably in radical Islam. It can only get worse if those who harbor antiSemitic sentiments — like Omar and her colleague and fellow Muslim, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., — are elected to Congress.

According to The Daily Caller, Maher Abdel-qader, a key fundraiser for Tlaib, shared an anti-Semitic video which described Jews as “satanic.” The clip included this comment: “Research the truth about the Holocaust, and you’ll definitely start to question what you thought you knew.”

The video’s narrator went on to question whether 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. The Caller writes, “Abdel-qader shared the video both on his personal Facebook page and within the group that now includes Tlaib.”

Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., told Mark Levin on Levin’s radio show: “…the Democrat party has shown a lack of will to tell the truth of the Arab-Islamist war against Israel. In a recent BDS vote to stop BDS, boycotting Israel, the innocent Israel, half of the Democrats voted against that bill. Virtually every Republican voted for it. … So we have a real problem with the Democratic party.”

In a New York Times column last week, Bret Stephens, who is Jewish, wrote: “If Pelosi can’t muster a powerful and unequivocal resolution condemning anti-Semitism, then Omar will have secured her political future and won a critical battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. At that point, the days when American Jews can live comfortably within the Democratic fold will be numbered.”

I wish, but the history of Jewish loyalty to the Democrats is long, which is a mystery since in the end we are again talking about their survival, not just as a Middle East nation, but as a people.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub. com.

Irish stereotypes are no joking matter Ah, St. Patrick’s Day is upon us — which means it’s time for retailers, and too many other Americans, to perpetuate the “drunken Irishman” stereotype.

Here’s what three typical St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts available at Amazon.com say: • “Half Irish, Half Drunk” • “Irish Today, Hungover Tomorrow” • “I’m So Irish, I Bleed Whiskey” IrishCentral reports there are more than 1,000 items on Amazon that “perpetuate the offensive defaming stereotype of conflating being Irish with drunk.”

The Ancient Order of Hibernians, America’s oldest and largest Irish-Catholic organization, takes issue with that.

Amazon recently removed items considered offensive to Muslims — an action that AOH praises — but has ignored repeated AOH requests to remove items that denigrate Irish-Americans.

This is rife with irony, because few enjoy a good joke or self-deprecating barb as much as the Irish — and goodness knows we all could benefit

“Well, sir, it all depends on which Murphy,” says the farmer. “We have Murphy the doctor, Murphy the postal carrier, Murphy the stonemason and Murphy the teacher. As a matter of fact, I, too, am Murphy, Murphy the farmer.”

The German gets an idea.

Tom “The weather could change Purcell

by Tuesday,” he says.

“Aye,” says the farmer, from a better sense of humor in “you’ll be wanting Murphy the these angry and divided times. spy.”

My father, whose grandfaIn any event, when does an ther came over from Ireland, attempt at humor cross the line and my Uncle Mike, whose into boorishness and offensive mother was born in Ireland, stereotype? Are these three loved sitting on the back porch Amazon T-shirt sayings in on Sunday afternoons swapany way humorous, or merely ping Irish jokes, such as this rude? one that my father particularly • “Kiss Me, I’m Irish, or enjoys: Drunk or Whatever” A German spy sent to • “Irish I Were Drunk” Ireland during World War II is • “Today’s a Good Day to instructed to meet an Irish spy Get Drunk” named Murphy and confirm The first St. Patrick’s Day Murphy’s identity by saying, parade was held in Boston in “The weather could change by 1737 for Irish immigrants to Tuesday.” celebrate their heritage. Today, After the German parachutes St. Patrick’s Day is widely into Ireland, he sets off for celebrated, in part to recognize town. Along the way, he asks the many contributions the a farmer where to find a man Irish have made to American named Murphy. culture.

But coarse T-shirt sayings and the propensity to drink excessively are no joking matters — nor do they reflect one of the greatest Irish contributions to American culture, a mighty sense of humor.

To be sure, with the world in such a tizzy — with so many people ready to shout, argue and poke each other in the eye — I can’t think of a better time to embrace Irish gaiety.

Which reminds me of the time St. Patrick walked into an Irish pub.

Donovan, McNalley and Finnegan saw him and each bought him a pint. Before leaving, St. Patrick shook Donovan’s hand. Donovan said, “My arthritis! St. Patrick, your touch has cured it!”

St. Patrick shook McNalley’s hand, and McNalley said, “My blind right eye! St. Patrick, you’ve cured it!”

St. Patrick went to shake Finnegan’s hand. Finnegan shouted, “Get away from me, St. Patrick. I’m on disability!”

Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. Send comments to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

Don’t you tell Martha McSally she can’t WASHINGTON — Last December, I asked a question related to Martha McSally as she was about to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the late John McCain: “What more could you want in a senator?”

Having known McSally during her two terms in the House of Representatives, I was impressed with her spunk and courage, as demonstrated during her 26 years in the Air Force, where she was a squadron commander and the nation’s first female fighter pilot to fly combat missions.

I’ve also admired her humility, warmth and, of course, love of dogs. Don’t laugh. “Must Love Dogs” isn’t just a romantic comedy. It’s the password to my personal universe.

Now we also know that McSally is a rape victim, though the word “victim” doesn’t suit her. Indeed, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last Wednesday, where she told her story, McSally referred to herself as a “military sexualassault survivor.” She wasn’t always able to say that. For years, she told no one about the rape and suffered in silence, as so many assault victims do.

McSally told the committee that she felt ashamed, confused and embarrassed, and she blamed herself. Again, as so many victims do. She didn’t trust the system, she said.

Kathleen Parker If you caught McSally at the televised hearing, or in subsequent news clips, you may have seen what I did — a woman of strength, self-control, resolve and determination, despite visible emotion and apparent deep pain. She’s a maverick’s maverick, I thought, and one tough cookie. Though she remained composed, one could see McSally struggle as she recounted being raped by a superior officer and then, in her words, being raped again, figuratively, when she eventually reported the assault to the Air Force. The system victimized her again, she said, treating her as though she were a perpetrator rather than someone who had been violated. Such was her despair that McSally considered packing her duffel bag and leaving the military.

“But I didn’t quit,” she said.

“I decided to stay and continue to serve and fight and lead. To be a voice from within the ranks for women — and then in the

House and now the Senate.”

We’ve heard stories like McSally’s too many times.

Until relatively recently, many women had been afraid to speak up lest they not be believed. Others feared the stigma of rape. A close friend of mine who was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in her own home said she refused to prosecute her assailant when he was captured because she didn’t want to be known as a rape victim.

She imagined that, no matter whatever else she might do or become, the first thing people would say about her was, “Oh, there’s so-and-so. She was raped, you know.”

Though we’ve come a long way since the time when McSally was attacked, there’s still much to be done, both in civilian and military life. McSally said she decided to tell her story to the world in hopes of further advancing necessary changes.

The military is unique in obvious ways, making sexual assault not just a personal issue but one of national security.

Teamwork and morale, which are so critical to military effectiveness, can’t possibly be maintained if female (and some male) troops live in fear of rape. Even one assaulted person would undermine troop cohesion — and word gets around.

In McSally’s case, circumstances were even worse given the

power differential between her and her superior officer. She not only suffered a breach of trust but became his psychological captive.

McSally soldiered on, despite suffering self-doubt and, surely, fear. One can only imagine the horror of essentially being held hostage to a predator who also has power over your future.

Meanwhile, lives are at stake.

What if you knew your wingman had been raped by your commanding officer?

Grit, it seems, is McSally’s wingman. In an interview Friday morning with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, McSally said she decided to become a fighter pilot as soon as she learned that women weren’t allowed.

“It just pissed me off,” she recounted. “And I said, ‘That’s exactly what I’m gonna do.’

And I walked around saying, ‘I’m gonna be the first woman fighter pilot.’ … I knew nothing about flying, but I was mostly driven because they told me that I couldn’t.”

Nothing was going to stop her, apparently, including a superior officer who tried to destroy her through the ultimate means of domination. I suspect McCain would be proud of the woman who took his place.

Kathleen Parker received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2010. Her email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.

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Lanier’s Mekala Fuller (21) and Lizzie Campbell (23) celebrate the Longhorns’ Class AAAAAA state title victory over Lovejoy on Saturday in Macon. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Lanier •From Page 1B

have a group like that to set you up. We didn’t have any LeMaster, Bob Gardner and drama, any issues. They did Enisha Carlyle — meshed it right from Day 1. well from the beginning.

“They put a stamp on “For me, it’s how readily the program that we’re they accepted me and how legitimized. Those seniors readily they bought into gave that to us.” what I was saying about Middle school success my defensive style, my didn’t translate to high offensive style,” Slater said school success immediately of the seniors. “How easy for the class, which graduit was to coach them. They ally improved each seawanted to be coached. … A son. The Longhorns won lot of that is their leader10 games their freshman ship, good strong leadership season, 15 the following among each other. A strong season and 22 in 2017-18. desire to be excellent. For Their school-record 29 me, they were easy to be wins this season will be coached. For a guy coming tough to break. Their state into Year 1, it was great to championship is now the

standard.

“At the beginning of summer, I started talking about state, talking about state titles, pouring that in,” Slater said. “Speak that into existence. You guys the talent. We have the pieces.

It’s something we’ve been talking about all year and one of those things they slowly started to believe.

We can play with teams. We can win some games. For us, it’s been that belief, that destination all year. We’ve talked about it since Day 1.

“Going into this season, my seniors had zero college offers. We talked about how we had to get to

the state championship, to that stage and show what we can do. It’s always been all about the destination.

It’s awesome. I feel like we’ve been marching to Macon since May.” Kalen Surles, Nala Lawrence, Mekala Fuller, Olivia Leazer, Taylor Stanley and Mya Williams make up the senior class that gave Slater the best finish in his coaching career.

“Every senior I have who wants to play college basketball has an opportunity to play college basketball,” Slater said. “We have two goals every year — make sure we send our

seniors to college to play college basketball if they so desire and win the state championships. This is the first year in my career we were able to do both.”

Lanier will return two key juniors off the championship team next season in 6-foot-4 Christabel Ezumah and 6-3 Lizzie Campbell. Slater said he is excited to see how those two perform when they are on the court at the same time after sharing minutes in the post this season.

The Longhorns’ junior varsity team was undefeated in region play, and they fielded a ninth-grade

team for the first time in a few years. Because of that, the coaches are encouraged about the future.

That said, the present is about celebrating the history made by the seniors.

“There’s going to be a banner in the gym 20 years from now when they have kids of their own,” Slater said. “Their kids can say, ‘Hey, mom was on that team,’ or ‘Here’s mom’s state championship ring.’

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