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Struggle to understand homicide over pizza

By Joshua sharpe joshua.sharpe@gwinnettdailypost.com

SUGAR HILL — The mother, a thin woman with an airy Southern accent, lounged swallowed in a large strawcolored recliner Thursday afternoon, ignoring the TV. It was an episode of “The Voice” on NBC, but she didn’t care. She was distracted, stunned really, trying to understand what happened to her son.

Teresa Varnadore’s Shane Varnadore son, Shane, died late Tuesday night while delivering pizza for Papa John’s at an apartment complex near Lawrenceville.

Why? Gwinnett County police believe a man and his teenage roommate gunned the victim down while trying to steal the four pizzas he brought to Wesley Herrington Apartments. Jermaine Young, 21, and Reginald Lofton, 14, who is being charged as an adult, face counts Jermaine Young of felony murder and armed robbery.

“Senseless,” Teresa said, looking exhausted in the her cozy living room off Buford Highway, where the smell of the fireplace wafted and pictures of her children, Shane and Tara, decorated a shelf by the TV. In the early hours of Wednesday,

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Alex Weekes, a Berkmar High School graduate, is in his fourth year playing for the Harlem Globetrotters, who will visit the Infinite Energy Arena on Saturday for two games as part of their 90th anniversary tour.

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When Alex Weekes first started with the Harlem Globetrotters, he didn’t play with his hair out. Then someone told him folks love the hair.

Now, it’s what he’s known for.

“With the hair, there always comes some questions,” said Weekes, better known by his nickname, Moose. “‘You’re that guy with the hair.’ I’d rather them say ‘That’s Moose, the guy with the Globetrotters.’”

Trouble is, the origin of Moose comes from his long locks.

The 6-foot-8 Berkmar High School graduate maintains the hair didn’t jumpstart his career, but an old coach told him fans would never tire of it. Turns out, he was right.

Though Weekes insists his basketball talent stands on its

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What: Harlem Globetrotters 90th Anniversary World Tour When: Four games over the next two weekends in Duluth and Atlanta • 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Infinite Energy Arena • 1 p.m. March 12, Philips Arena • 1 p.m. March 13, Philips Arena Cost: Tickets in Gwinnett start at $28.50 More information: Visit harlemglobetrotters.com/atlanta

but they’re not yet established.

In college at Middle Tennessee State, Weekes led Alex Weekes, a Berkmar High School graduate, is in his fourth the Blue Raiders in blocks year playing for the Harlem Globetrotters, who will visit the In- as a freshman and broke the finite Energy Arena on Saturday for two games as part of their school record for most blocks 90th anniversary tour. (Special Photo) in a game with eight. own. ball skill,” Weekes said.

Weekes is aware of the “Don’t let the hair and He’s considered making showmanship mixed with tricks fool you, I could get Twitter and Instagram acSee WEEKES, Page 3A out there on my own basket- counts for “the hair up there,”

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Before posing — or resigning — for a contorted mugshot, a Tucker man allegedly caused a serious moped wreck.

The wreck happened Wednesday, shortly before 10 a.m., at Sugarloaf Parkway and Villa Ridge Parkway outside Lawrenceville, said Cpl. Michele Pihera, spokeswoman Robert for the Gwinnett County Burdette Police Department. Robert Burdette, 46, is accused of running a red light with the bike and slamming into a Toyota Corolla, causing serious injuries for himself, as well as a series of charges.

The other driver wasn’t hurt.

Burdette was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville.

“A white, crystal-like substance was found in Burdette’s clothing by emergency

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Commission approves purchase of nearly 400 Tasers for police

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Tasers for the Gwinnett County Gwinnett County police Police officers will soon get new DepartTasers — a lot of new Tasment. The ers, actually. county Butch County commissionwill pay Ayers ers Tuesday approved a TASpurchase of more than half ER International Inc. a million dollars for new $565,277 to buy nearly curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

400 Tasers, air cartridges, battery packs and warranties, according to Police Chief Butch Ayers.

In all, 325 Tasers will be purchased and assigned to sworn police officers, and another 60 will be purchased as replacements.

“This purchase will enable the Gwinnett

County Police Department to completely equip all remaining officers with a piece of equipment that has proven to be extremely effective in subduing combative or actively resisting persons,” Ayers told commissioners. “It limits injuries to officers and suspects, which in turn reduces workers com-

pensation claims, medical claims and lawsuits.”

The high cost of the purchase raised some eyebrows, and questions about how officers are prepared to use the devices.

“Do you have training operations and target practice associated (with the Tasers) similar to the way you do with firearms?”

Commissioner John Heard asked.

Ayers said officers are required to undergo a comprehensive training course to be re-certified to use the Tasers once every 12 months. He added that some of the supplies being purchased will used to restock the department for training purposes.

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Hunter announces bid for re-election to commission three commission members whose Gwinnett County Comseats will missioner Tommy Hunter’s be ballots campaign officially anlater this nounced his bid for a year to Tommy second term as the District 3 announce a Hunter representative on Thursday. re-election Hunter was the last of bid. Chairwoman Charlotte

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Nash and District 1 Commissioner Jace Brooks previously announced plans to run for re-election.

Like Nash and Brooks, Hunter will run as a Republican.

“I have tried my best to be the most accessible commissioner in Gwinnett and hope I have succeeded

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during this term,” Hunter said in a statement. “I truly love this place. I want to continue to focus on making this a place where people go for good jobs, work on our transportation issues, and continue to fight the battle to win the water wars.”

Hunter had been on the fence about whether to run for another term on the commission, but he recently decided to go ahead with a campaign and began raising money for his bid.

He’s raised approximately $78,000 for his re-election

bid so far, according to Dwight Roberts, who is working with the commissioner’s campaign.

Hunter’s campaign is expected to focus on traffic issues, attracting high-paying jobs and transparency in government. His campaign announcement pointed to work the commission has done during his current term, including creating an internal auditing process for the county, maintaining a AAA bond rating and efforts to get the local economy back on track after

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The chain sells Frenchinspired cuisine, including breads, patisseries and vienoisseries. It also offers breakfast, lunch and dinner items including quiches, crepes, sandwiches and beef bourguignon.

This will be the second La Madeleine in Gwinnett. The company already operates a restaurant at 2255 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth.

The night before the restaurant holds its public grand opening celebration, it will host a VIP reception where invited quests can get a sneak peak of the restaurant and its food samplings.

Finalists for Movers and Shakers Award announced Partnership Gwinnett officials announced 13 local companies are finalists for its 2016 Movers and Shakers awards on Thursday.

The finalists were picked based on their local economic impact, work force excellence programs and corporate responsibility.

They will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the Infinite Energy Forum on March 17. Winners in three manufacturing and two supply chain categories and the Most Valuable Player award will be announced at the ceremony.

The finalists are AES Clean Technology, Cardinal Technical Training, Essendant, Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration, Hisco Inc., Hussmann, Kraiburg TPE, Mitsubishi Electric, Performance Trucking, Rocket IT, Target Metal Systems, Taylor & Mathis and WAM USA. “It is our privilege to recognize Gwinnett’s elite manufacturing and supply chain companies, whose innovation and competitiveness drive our nation’s economy,” Gwinnett Chamber Senior Vice President of Economic Development Nick Masino said in a statement. “These companies create significant job opportunities and are essential to sustaining economic growth and prosperity.”

Chamber to host small business event in Lilburn Small business owners who want to learn how to deal with the essentials of running a business will have a chance later this month in Lilburn.

The Gwinnett Chamber will host a free “Small Business Essentials — The Experts Speak” class from 2-4 p.m. on March 23 at Lilburn City Hall, 76 Main St. Local experts will talk about free education and assistance resources that are available to small business owners in the area.

Anyone interested in attending the event can register at gwinnettchamber.org.

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AMC acquires Carmike Cinemas

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Regal Entertainment, with 7,361 screens, was previously the largest domestic LOS ANGELES — AMC distributor. AMC was itself Entertainment has acquired acquired in 2012 by China’s Carmike Cinemas in a $1.1 Dalian Wanda Group for billion deal that makes the $2.6 billion. exhibitor the largest theater “In one fell swoop this chain in the United States allows AMC to grow by a and in the world. significant margin,” AMC Headquartered in Copresident and CEO Adam lumbus, Ga., and known as Aron said in an interview “America’s hometown thewith Variety. “Our assets are atre circuit,” Carmike was the highly complementary and fourth-largest exhibitor in the do not overlap much with country, with 2,954 screens Carmike right now.” to AMC’s 5,426 screens.

He noted that AMC Together AMC and Carmike theaters tend to be more cluswould have well over 600 tered in urban areas, whereas theater locations in 45 states Carmike locations are more across the country, including rural. The company estimates the District of Columbia. that the merger will produce

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•From Page 1A basketball skill that makes up his job with the Globetrotters, where he’s traveled to 23 countries, including North Korea, over four seasons.

“You can’t just have the basketball skills to be a Globetrotter,” he said.

“There’s certain character aspects and ability to talk to people.”

Weekes travels for about seven or eight months a year and said the current domestic tour the team is on goes from Dec. 26 through April.

Being away from family never gets easy, he said, but he’s used to the travel.

Teammates became his extended family, and he maintains it’s the best job in the world.

He enjoys sampling different foods around the world, from Australia to Italy and South America.

While the cultures vary, there’s one universal language, he said: a smile.

“When you do travel, I don’t know that many people that that’s not a dream for,” he said.

After MTSU, he began a career as a personal trainer. He did well in that pursuit in Asheville, N.C., but got the basketball jones again after being named MVP in a charity game against former Globetrotters. That led to contact with former Globetrotter Lewis “Sweet Lou” Dunbar and a parttime role on the North American Tour with the trademarked Ambassadors of Goodwill.

“It’s been a great time,” he said. “Honored to be part of such a rich legacy that’s been left behind

$35 million in cost synergies.

The combined company will be headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. where AMC has been based for more than nine decades. The AMC management team will oversee the company, but Aron predicted that the number of layoffs would be minimal.

“The vast majority of Carmike employees will join the AMC family,” said Aron.

The move comes following a record year for ticket sales, with the domestic market surpassing $11 billion in revenue for the first time in history. Industry-wide, however, attendance remains relatively flat, and the theater

business faces challenges from the growing popularity of streaming services and video games, as well as a rise in quality television programming.

AMC has moved aggressively to counter those challenges by installing recliners, expanding its menu options, and offering alcohol service at certain locations. Aron has said that improving AMC’s loyalty program is a priority and the company plans to redesign and relaunch it in the second half of this year.

The AMC chief predicted that the enhanced size of the company would allow it to offer more benefits to its customers.

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Albany Mayor Dorothy Hubbard and members of the Albany Town Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America admire the sundial originally given to the City of Albany by the Colonial Dames in 1993, which was reinstalled and rededicated at a ceremony Thursday.

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Sundial rededicated in downtown Albany

By Brad McEwEn

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ALBANY — City officials, including Albany Mayor Dorothy Hubbard, City Manager Sharon Subadan, and Assistant City Manager Wes Smith, joined with members of the Albany Town Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in downtown Albany Thursday for the re-installation and re-dedication of a special sundial that sits in between the Albany Municipal Auditorium and the Carnegie Library.

The sundial was first presented to the City of Albany in 1993 to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the National Society of Colonial Dames of American in the state of Georgia, and over the years it had fallen into a state of disrepair and needed to be restored.

According to Lacy Lee, the historical activities chair for the Albany Town Committee, membership recently elected to fund the restoration and cleaning of the existing sundial, and had the sundial removed and taken to the ironworks company that originally manufactured the piece.

Thursday marked the culmination of the restoration process as the sundial was represented to the City of Albany and subsequently put back in its original position by members of the city’s Public Works departAlex Weekes, a Berkmar High School graduate, is in his fourth year playing for the Har- ment that morning.

The actual re-dedication lem Globetrotters, who will visit the Infinite Energy Arena on Saturday for two games ceremony, which hapas part of their 90th anniversary tour. (Special Photo) pened at noon, began with by so many athletes and visits are to hospitals as ness ideas. remarks from Albany entertainers and humanithe “smile patrol” to cheer “If you’re an athlete Town Committee Chairtarians. Goodwill ambas- up kids who sometimes at any level, I strongly man Henrietta Singletary, sadors.” aren’t quite sure why suggest you have somewho reminded those in Some of his favorite they’re there. They just thing to fall back on when attendance about the day know they’re sick. you finish your career. the sundial was originally Weekes said he’s not You can’t dunk the ball presented. sure about his postforever, you can’t shoot “On Feb. 16 1993 in Globetrotter plans, but it forever,” he said. “You spite of rain and gray skies, he’d like to be around at can’t do all the things the National Society of least another 10 years for when you’re 50, that you the Colonial Dames of the 100th anniversary. It did when you’re 20 or America in the state of would be difficult to leave 30.” basketball, something If Weekes ages like that’s been a huge part Globetrotter teammate Hiof his life. But Weekes Lite Burton, who is about would like to coach kids, 40 years old and among and pursue various busithe most athletic players

Georgia dedicated this sundial to the City of Albany in recognition of the state society’s 100th anniversary,” said Singletary.

“This is one of 17 sundials throughout Georgia in communities that have Colonial Dames chapters.

On that day Ms. Sherman Willis, the then Albany Town Committee Chairman, presented to the City of Albany to Mayor Paul Keenan, this sundial commemorating the centennial celebration.”

In addition to commemorating the centennial celebration the sundial was originally dedicated as a reminder of the importance of remembering the history of the nation, which is central to the mission of the Colonial Dames.

“The sundial serves as a representation of past, present and future,” said Singletary. “It’s a wonderful location and a beautiful day, and between the Carnegie Library and the Albany Municipal Auditorium we can see cities and citizens working together.

And we see that cities and citizens can accomplish many things.”

In accepting the sundial and giving thanks to the Colonial Dames for having the sundial restored, Hubbard echoed Keenan’s 1993 remarks saying that it was important for every citizen to remember its past and to remember that being a good citizens begins with what we each do on our own.

“We could not have a community without the help and collaboration among people that make our city better,” said Hubbard. “When Mayor Keenan first accepted this sundial in 1993 he said that citizenship begins at home. It is a concrete and significant contribution that adds life to this community. It is the same today. What was true in ’93 is still true today.”

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Pain is keeping reader up DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a senior, have exercised regularly for years, walking 2 or more miles a day. I am in good health, take no medication but for thyroid, and have no weight problem. Very recently I have developed pain in my hips, mostly in my left hip. The pain is a burning sensation, and it occurs predominately when I sit or rise from a sitting position and when I lie down. I am able to go to sleep at night but am awakened by pain in my hips and throbbing in my legs. I cannot find a position that is comfortable. I get partial relief from acetaminophen or naproxen at night. The pain always makes me eager to get out of bed in the morning. What I don’t understand is that I do not have pain in my daily activities, and walking is not at all painful.

There is a sore spot that I can detect on the side of my upper leg at the hip area. Am I worsening a condition by continuing to walk? I keep hoping this will go away.

— F.H. ANSWER: This sounds very much like a case of greater trochanteric pain syndrome (formerly called trochanteric bursitis). This happens often in people who walk a lot, like you do, and in people who are overweight or who have a mechanical problem in the knee, hip or back. It seems to be caused by damage to the tendons of the gluteus muscles.

Many general doctors are familiar with and comfortable treating this condition, but the experts are the orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine and rehabilitation medicine doctors. It can be diagnosed by a careful physical exam.

Initial treatment is pain relief and instructions on proper exercise and sitting position. You’ll be evaluated for conditions that might be exacerbating the condition, such as leg-length discrepancy. If the initial treatment doesn’t work (and it often doesn’t), then an injection of steroid into the bursa speeds recovery. With injection, about 60 percent of people with this condition recover within six months. Without treatment, the condition may last one to two years.

Cases that last longer than a year should be evaluated for other conditions, especially a gluteus medius tear, which may require surgical repair.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803. Health newsletters may be ordered from www. rbmamall.com.

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Your daughter’s idea to attend community college sounds like a threat, considering her stellar options. But honestly, she may not be mature enough Amy Dickinson to accept her extreme good fortune, and so staychoice. She is now having ing close to home while a tantrum and saying that she grows up and forgoing she’ll just stay home and these other options might go to junior college for be best for her. She could two years. What do I do or try to defer her enrollment say to make this girl see and work during this time reason? Can I insist that to help pay for her dream she take this offer? Can I school overseas. just say, “OK, here’s what DEAR AMY: My I would spend if you go fiance and I have been to Boston, the rest is up to together for eight years you and your dad.” Help and engaged for four me, Amy. What should I years. During our eightdo? year relationship, he has — Frustrated Mamma had his fair share of lady DEAR FRUSTRATattention. Last year, I ED: Here’s what you found out that he had a must not do — cave in to relationship with a lady your daughter’s emotional six years his senior and manipulation in the form their “affair” lasted for of tantrums. This requires seven months. He even that you tackle a very took her to visit his sister tough form of parentand brother-in-law while I ing — tolerating your was on vacation with my daughter’s distress and not family. functioning for her, but I confronted him, then leaving final decisions up took her number and sent to her. her a message. She said So, yes, you say to her, he told her that he isn’t

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in a relationship and that he left me because I was cheating on him!

That evening, he actually confessed to everything and answered all my questions. Everything went great after that. But then a week ago I just had another feeling that I should go through his phone and guess what I found — more messages between them.

I again sent her a message, saying she can have him, as I am done mending my own broken heart over and over again. But it still feels like our relationship can be saved.

Am I too stupid to see that he won’t ever change, or do you believe after eight years of constantly cheating there is hope? I really do not know what to do.

— Heartbroken DEAR HEARTBROKEN: You actually do know what to do — you just don’t want to do it.

Eight years of staying with a cheater who repeatedly promises to change but doesn’t — is more than ample evidence that he is happy with himself the way he is. You need to make some big changes — and I hope you can.

You have what it takes to excel, now all you have to do is believe that you can do so. Don’t hesitate to call in favors or collaborate with people trying to reach the same goal as you. Expand your interests in order to stand out.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — People will value your time and offer you assistance if you need it, so don’t feel that you have to take on the world all by yourself.

Accept help in order to achieve the most.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Avoid an emotional scene with a co-worker, client or superior. Offer positive input in order to impress someone who can help you get ahead. Avoid gossip and the sharing of personal information.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Carefully examine what’s presented to you.

Don’t let your personal relationship with someone alter a necessary decision regarding a financial move. Practicality is your only choice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Size up every challenge you face and opt to put your intelligence and strength to the test. Don’t let anyone muscle into your affairs. Stay in control.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — An interesting offer will change your professional direction. A chance to do more from home or to use your space liberally will be granted.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Too many options will lead to a standstill. Be selective and pick what’s best for you. Don’t let anyone intervene or persuade you to take a risk.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Make reforms by sharing your ideas with people who are in a position to bring about change. If you step up, you will be given the responsibility to see matters to completion.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Head to where the action is. If you participate in something, you will encounter people who will change your life. Trying something new or signing up for a self-help program will pay off.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — You’ll be torn between what you want to do and helping someone you love. If you make an unusual request, you will be surprised by the response and the results.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Find out all you can in order to make any necessary changes easier. Don’t feel obliged to take part in something you cannot afford or don’t want to do.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t give in to uncertainty. Take the initiative and find out what you need to know. An unexpected opportunity will help you use the information you discover to make a strategic move.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Avoid anyone looking for a fight. Refuse to disagree so you can alleviate the problem and gain the time and space to accomplish your objectives. Positive change is within reach.

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Romney calls Trump ‘a fraud’ Former candidate leads GOP in condemnation of front-runner By steve Holland

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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected Olympian Oscar Pistorius’ right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The Supreme Court of Appeal changed the 29-year-old’s conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athlete’s prior conviction of culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court.

South African authorities had challenged Pistorius’ appeal on the grounds that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty.

The athlete, nicknamed “Blade Runner” because of the prosthetic legs he uses to race, had filed papers to appeal against his conviction at the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, on Jan. 11.

DETROIT — Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a blistering rebuke of 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, leading an attempt by the party establishment to halt the rise of the outspoken New York billionaire.

Romney, a Republican elder statesman and the nominee four years ago, urged Republicans in states that have not yet held nominating contests to back Trump’s opponents to stop his march to the nomination for the Nov. 8 election to succeed President Barack Obama.

“Here’s what I know.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” Romney, 68, said in a hard-hitting speech.

“He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat,” he said.

Trump has made his Facebook may party’s mainstream uneasy block fake names with his positions on trade in Germany and immigration, including his calls to build a wall BERLIN — Facebook between the United States may prevent its users from and Mexico, deport 11 milusing fake names, a German lion illegal immigrants and court said on Thursday, temporarily bar Muslims overturning a previous order from entering the country. from the Hamburg data protection authority.

The ruling is a coup for the social network firm which has long argued its Snyder urges real-name policy ensures people know who they are FEMA to rethink sharing and connecting with denial of funds and protects them from Michigan Governor Rick the abuse of the wide-open Snyder has urged federal Internet.

The Hamburg data officials to reconsider their protection authority, which denial for funds to help deal is responsible for policwith the fallout from the ing Facebook in Germany, lead-contaminated water in said last July that Facethe city of Flint, his office book could not unilaterally said on Thursday. change users’ chosen userThe contamination and names to their real names, the state’s long delay in adnor could it ask them for dressing the problem have official identification. sparked outrage and drawn attention from U.S. presidenResearch: Other tial candidates.

In the latest appeal to the mosquitoes may Federal Emergency Management Agency, Snyder is carry Zika virus requesting money that would RIO DE JANEIRO — pay for food, water and other Research by scientists in essential needs; the removal Brazil indicates that a mos- of health and safety hazards; quito more common than activation of emergency the one primarily known to operations centers; measures transmit Zika infections may to avoid further damage; and possibly be able to carry the homeowners’ repairs not virus, a development that covered by insurance. could further complicate efThe agency turned down forts to limit its spread. an earlier request for finanThe mosquito species cial help in January but has Aedes aegypti has been provided non-monetary supidentified as the primary port in the form of a FEMA transmitter of Zika infeccoordinator. tions, which have been Also in January, Snyder linked to thousands of birth asked for federal declaradefects as the virus spreads tions of emergency and rapidly in Brazil and other major disaster. President countries in Latin America Barack Obama approved the and the Caribbean. federal emergency declaBut the scientists in Bra- ration but denied a major zil announced on Wednesdisaster declaration. Snyder day that they were able appealed that decision and to infect another species, was denied.

Culex quinquefasciatus, with the virus in a laboraMichigan Uber tory, raising concerns that driver to get test Zika could be carried by a species more prevalent for competency than Aedes aegypti. They KALAMAZOO, Mich. said much more research — The Michigan Uber is needed to learn whether driver charged with murderthe Culex mosquitoes can ing six people last month transmit Zika infections.

— From wire reports in a shooting spree in the

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Former Republican U.S. presidential nominee Mitt Romney criticizes current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday. (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

But Romney’s strategy risks backfiring by further energizing Trump’s supporters, who are angry with a party they see as not representing their views on illegal immigration, trade and America’s role in the world.

“If you’re Trump, this is like getting the good kind of Kryptonite,” Republican strategist Doug Heye said.

The real estate mogul dismissed Romney in television interviews and posts on Twitter, calling him “a failed candidate”

who had “begged” him for an endorsement in 2012 when he eventually lost to Obama.

“Mitt Romney is a stiff,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” program.

In a speech he wrote himself, Romney said Trump’s economic policy would sink America “into prolonged recession” and slammed his business acumen and temperament.

He warned that polls show Trump would likely lose to possible Democratic presidential candidate Hill-

PEOPLE Clooney: Trump is ‘xenophobic’ and a ‘fascist’ LOS ANGELES — George Clooney has joined the masses in calling out Donald Trump.

In an interview with The Guardian, Clooney sat down and talked about his thoughts on the potential Republican nominee.

“He’s just an opportunist,” the “Hail, Caesar!” actor said. “Now he’s a fascist; a xenophobic fascist.”

Clooney added that during election season, it often isn’t the person with the best idea being heard but rather the person who is loudest.

“Let’s put things into perspective,” he said.

“You know, the truth of the matter is, in election season, things go crazy, and the loudest voices are the furthest and most extreme.

So you hear a massively stupid idea, like we’re going to ban Muslims from the country. Now, we’re not ever going to do that. It says in the Statue of Liberty, bring us your huddled masses. It’s not what’s going to happen.”

ary Clinton in November.

Earlier, more than 70 Republican national security leaders signed a scathing open letter opposing Trump and his stance on many foreign policy issues.

Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 who has sparred with Trump, joined the wave of criticism of Netflix in talks the billionaire who took a to acquire BBC step toward securing the series ‘Top Gear’ nomination when he won most of the Republican LOS ANGELES/LONcontests on Super Tuesday DON — Netflix is in talks this week. with BBC Worldwide, the sales arm of the U.K. broadcaster, to acquire the icus brief to the Riverside, rebooted “Top Gear,” acCalif., federal judge who cording to reports. The new will rule on Apple’s appeal show is co-hosted by Chris of a court order that would force it to create software to Evans and Matt LeBlanc.

Multiple past seasons unlock an iPhone associated of “Top Gear” can already with December’s shootings be seen on Netflix in the in San Bernardino.

U.S., Canada, Australia and Privacy advocacy groups throughout Western Europe. the American Civil LiberBBC Worldwide screened ties Union, Access Now footage from the new show and the Wickr Foundation at BBC Worldwide Showfiled briefs on Wednesday case, an international sales in support of Apple before event in Liverpool, England, Thursday’s deadline set by late last month. Speaking Judge Sheri Pym. Jason Dalton is seen on closed circuit television during Salihin Kondoker, whose in Liverpool, LeBlanc said his arraignment in Kalamazoo County, Mich., on Feb. 22. wife Anies Kondoker was that he was seeking to inject (Reuters/Kalamazoo County Court) some fun into the show. injured in the attack, also “My thing is more about southwestern part of the state on Thursday to push for the wrote on Apple’s behalf, — when we do the films election of the United Nawill undergo a competency saying he shared the comexam, the prosecuting attor- tions’ first female secretary- pany’s fear that the software — to try to find the fun and general later this year. ney said on Thursday. the government wants Apple the funny, and I’m always U.N. Secretary-General Jason Dalton, 45, is to create to unlock the phone pitching jokes, and they’re like, ‘Jeez, we got to talk charged with shooting eight Ban Ki-moon, a former could be used to break into about the car’… I think my South Korean foreign people, killing six of them, millions of other phones. leash is going to be getting minister, is due to step down over a five-hour period on short really quickly,” he at the end of 2016 after two Uproar ends Feb. 20 in between drivsaid. five-year terms. A man has ing customers for the Uber held the top job at the world triathlon at La. car service in Kalamazoo, organization since its incep- Angola prison Mich., about 150 miles Judge orders tion 70 years ago. west of Detroit. He faces A triathlon promising ath- release of Bobbi The 15-member Secu16 charges, including six of murder that can bring life in rity Council, including veto letes an opportunity to com- Kristina Brown’s pete in a notorious Louisiana autopsy results powers China, Russia, the prison. prison has been canceled A judge granted a request United States, Britain and ATLANTA — Autopsy after organizers said they France, will recommend a

by Dalton’s attorney for candidate for election by the had received threats over the results for Bobbi Kristina a competency exam for event planned at a maximum Brown, the daughter of 193-member General Asthe suspect, Kalamazoo singers Whitney Houston security penitentiary on a County Prosecuting Attorney sembly to succeed Ban. and Bobby Brown, were former slave plantation.

Jeffrey Getting told reportreleased Thursday after a The Escape from Angola ers following a 45-minute U.S. technology judge in Georgia ordered Triathlon, scheduled for probable-cause hearing that companies unite March 20, drew criticism for the report to be unsealed. was closed to the public.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, appearing insensitive and Dalton’s attorney, Eusebio behind Apple 22, died in July after sensationalizing a prison Solis, declined to comment Alphabet Inc.’s Google, months in a coma. She had famed for its harsh condiafter the hearing at the Kations for prisoners, including been found unconscious lamazoo County 8th District Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. and about a dozen some of the longest stretches and unresponsive in a Court. bathtub in her north Atlanta other Internet companies in solitary confinement in home in January 2015. were expected to file a joint U.S. history.

Senators urge Prosecutors opposed the legal brief on Thursday askOrganizers, who had Obama to push report’s release, arguing ing a judge to support Apple worked with the state, Inc. in its encryption battle defended the concept, noting in a court document that for female U.N. secretary-general with the U.S. government, in the statement that the site it would “compromise the integrity” of an ongoing sources familiar with the offered a tough course and UNITED NATIONS/ criminal investigation into companies’ plans said. “a way to showcase some WASHINGTON — Seven They were expected to beautiful Louisiana country- the celebrity daughter’s U.S. women senators urged outline their rationale for death. side.”

— From wire reports President Barack Obama supporting Apple in an am— From wire reports

Robotic arm allows for three-armed ‘cyborg drumming’ ReuteRs

go to the right places, so what better medium than to try the concept A wearable robotic limb that of a third arm that would augment allows drummers to play their kit was to maximize a drummer’s you and allow you to do things that with three arms has been invented potential while pushing the limits you couldn’t before in music.”

by U.S.-based researchers. of human-technology interaction.

The arm has been programmed The two-foot long “smart arm” “We believe that if you augment to respond both to human gescan be attached to a musician’s humans with technology humans tures and the music it hears, using shoulder and was invented by reshould be able to do much more, motion capture technology. For searchers at the Georgia Institute of and we thought that music is a instance, when the drummer Technology, overseen by Professor great medium to try that,” Weinmoves to play the hi-hat cymbal, Gil Weinberg. berg said. “Music is something that the robotic arm will position itself An inventor of various experiis very timely, you really need to to play the ride cymbal. mental musical instruments, Wein- do things on the right millisecond.

It’s also programmed to respond berg said the aim of the technology It’s also very spatial, you need to to the music being played, adapting

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to beat, rhythm, and speed.

“We let the arm move to different drums by following where the drummer is and where the arm is with sensors on the arm itself. Some of them are embedded to make it oriented correctly and some of them is from afar to know the whole environment in general, and that’s where based on your gestures the arm can move to the different drums that you are interested in,” Weinberg said.

As well as knowing its location at all times, the smart drum is also

aware of the direction and proximity of the drummer’s real arms via built-in accelerometers. On-board motors ensure the smart arm’s drumstick is always parallel to the playing surface, allowing it to rise, lower or twist.

The device was originally created in order to build a robotic prosthesis for a local drummer who had lost an arm in an accident.

Weinberg decided to continue the research to give everybody the potential to become a “cyborg drummer.”

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Trump’s dance with bigotry WASHINGTON — Donald Trump plays on racial fears and animosities in an ugly, deliberate and dangerous way. This dance with bigotry goes far beyond his temporary amnesia about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.

Trump speaks as if he considers whiteness the norm and sees people of color as somehow alien and suspect. He is the only major American political figure in many decades to display such an antediluvian worldview so openly. Trump doesn’t tweet dog whistles, he blasts foghorns.

He brags about getting along famously with “the blacks” and Eugene “the Hispanics.”

Robinson How long has it been since anyone in public life used such casually exclusionary language? There are about 40 million AfricanAmericans and more than 55 million HispanicAmericans, all of them reduced, by Trump’s use of the definite article, to sidekick status — the “good” ones being, I suppose, a bunch of Sammy Davis Jrs. and Ricky Ricardos.

Trump’s entire platform, such as it is, can be reduced to “us vs. them.” The overwhelmingly white, largely blue-collar crowds that fill his gargantuan rallies are buffeted by harsh economic realities and have good reason to be anxious about the future. Trump doesn’t give them solutions, he gives them scapegoats.

Recall that he kicked off his campaign for president last year with an outrageous libel against undocumented migrants from Mexico: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.

They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

In truth, immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes of any kind — including rape — than native-born Americans. But facts don’t matter when Trump chooses to point a finger of blame. He even makes the preposterous and wholly unfounded charge that the government of Mexico is deliberately sending criminals, including sexual predators, into the United States.

To justify the “big, beautiful wall” he claims he will build along the border, Trump uses a resonant phrase: “We either have a country, or we don’t.” Together with his campaign slogan — “Make America Great Again” — those words require a bit of unpacking.

The clear implication is that “we” once had a “great” country — but if all those Latinos are permitted to swarm in, “we” won’t have our country at all. It will belong to the encroaching hordes. Never mind that the border is more secure than it has been in decades and illegal crossings have slowed to a trickle. Trump’s goal is to create the impression that “they” are besieging “us,” and that he will put an end to it.

Perhaps this is what he truly believes. I recall something he said last September, in an interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, and has since repeated: “I was in Paris recently, and Paris doesn’t look like Paris anymore.”

What could Trump be talking about? The Eiffel Tower hasn’t changed. Nor have the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre or the lovely Place des Vosges. But a visitor does share the boulevards with more dark-skinned people, mostly the sons and daughters of immigrants from former French colonies. Trump never spells this out, but I’ve only heard him use the line in discussions about immigration.

There’s a history to consider. In 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in four major New York newspapers to demand the return of the death penalty after five young black and Hispanic men were accused of raping and brutalizing a Central Park jogger. The men were convicted and sent to prison — but later exonerated by DNA evidence and released. Trump wrote an op-ed arguing the city should not compensate the men for their years of unjust imprisonment because, even if they did not commit the rape, they “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”

Trump still cannot bring himself to acknowledge that President Obama was born in the United States; once a birther, always a birther, I guess.

A poll in September showed that two-thirds of Trump’s supporters believe Obama is a Muslim; Trump does nothing whatsoever to disabuse them of that false notion.

Several recent polls have shown that a majority of Republicans, not just Trumpistas, support his idea of temporarily banning all foreign Muslims from entering the country. It would be impossible to implement such a policy — just as it would be impossible to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. But actually doing these things is not the point. Activating populist anger against Muslims and Latinos seems to be what Trump is after.

There are just two possibilities: Either Trump is a bigot or he pretends to be one for political gain. Pick your poison.

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

Longing for the days of local radio When you are out on the roads after sundown these days, you can find more FM signals on your radio dial than you can count. In the 1950s, AM signals dominated, but the powerhouse FM signals seemed to reach coast to coast.

Back then, FM radio was nothing. Nobody cared about FM. People listened to radio in the ’50s since television was the colossus in diapers.

Television would take over, but something you hear every day about newspapers reminds me about the death forecast for AM radio stations.

Despite the impact television has made on our culture, AM radio is still here. Very few stations, in many cases — certainly way fewer AM’s than in the past. There is something called an FM translator, which has been a savior for AM radio.

Newspapers have taken a beating, too, but they are still here. Why? The local programming and local news remain important to people, especially in smaller communities. You may connect with television, a daily newspaper somewhere — even the Internet, but if you live in the smallest hamlet in the state and there is a weekly paper, it remains important to you and your family. In Luckenbach, Texas there is a

Loran Smith newspaper. The eight-page Luckenbach Moon is published monthly.

Walking into a bank today and seeing no more than a couple of bank employees on duty makes you realize that the Internet has taken over banking. Most technological soothsayers say that eventually will happen to newspapers.

Just typing those words makes me feel sick. I’ll never give in to the computer. I’ll go kickin’ and screamin.’

This all raises the question: Why can’t we have both? I’m not against the computer and the Internet — just don’t take away my morning newspaper, which long has been one of the Big Three in my life. Man, it has been said, cannot live by bread alone. I say that man cannot live without the morning newspaper, a cup of coffee and a wood-burning fire.

Now let’s get back to where this all started. Remembering

FM radio in the ’50s was the main topic in a recent social outing. I hope the younger generation will be moved to investigate the archives to see what they can learn about the days when WCKY in Cincinnati had a signal that sounded like it was coming from next door. Every commercial seemed to be a pitch for DCon rat poison.

If you wanted a few records, no better place to order them than from Randy’s Record Shop in Gallatin, Tenn., via WLAC in Nashville. WLAC’s signal was a constant companion in those days. Of course, what would life have been without the Grand Ole Opry coming your way over the air waves of WSM in Nashville? What about WSB, our hometown 50,000-watt signal? Believe it or not, we could pick up WCKY and WLAC easier.

Something to do with what they called “the dip.” That and ground interference.

Yet listeners as far away as Canada could tune in to WSB. When we did pick up the “Welcome South Brother” signal, it was easy listening at its best. All the announcers had golden throats. You never heard a faux pas on the air.

You could get LSU football out of WWL in New Orleans.

A lot of us in the ’60s enjoyed listening to John Ferguson, the LSU announcer on Saturday nights, from Baton Rouge and before him J. C. Politz, who called Billy Cannon’s famous run to defeat Ole Miss on Halloween night, 1959.

I’ll always remember XERF, which actually was a Mexican AM station in a town called Coahuila. Its signal was always loud and clear, and the station often referred to Pecan Street in Del Rio, Texas, which was the address of ownership.

They were always promoting something connected to Bible preachments and baby chicks, if memory serves. This was the station, right on the Mexican border, that spawned Wolfman Jack.

One announcer would say: “From alongside the beautiful Rio Grande, this is XERF, Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico. Our mailing address is Del Rio, Texas.”

Most listeners I grew up with didn’t have a clue about the differences between AM and FM radio. All they cared about were the disc jockeys and the music. Now radio is so different. There are so many FM signals out there today, long-haul truck drivers will get a sore arm just from switching the dial.

A spotlingt on ‘Soul murder’ in Altoona If you’ve seen the excellent movie “Spotlight,” you know what it takes for a newspaper to expose the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Catholic Church.

“Spotlight,” which won the Academy Award for best picture of 2015, is the true story of how the Boston Globe’s investigative Spotlight team uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the Boston Archdiocese.

Challenging one of the most powerful institutions in Boston, digging up the ugly truth and detailing it on Page 1 took a strong mix of principle and guts by the Globe’s editor Marty Baron.

Many journalists and editors around the country before him had heard similar charges about priests repeatedly molesting children in their cities and towns, but they had done nothing.

The Globe’s in-depth investigation, which began in 2001, made headlines around the world, shamed the Boston Archdiocese and shook the entire Catholic Church to its core.

It set off a series of exposes in other cities that proved that the problem the Catholic Church — my church — was having with serial pedophiles was nothing new or restricted

the parents of victims to keep quiet and keeping the sex crimes of priests secret from law enforcement.”

We can now add the diocese of Altoona, Pa., to the Church’s list of sins against children.

The headlines in Tuesday’s Michael Pittsburgh Post-Gazette told Reagan a familiar story: “Grand jury: Altoona diocese concealed to Boston. sex abuse of hundreds of Soon after, the L.A. Times, children by priests.” my hometown paper, showed According to a graphic that for decades the hierarchy 147-page report by a state of the Los Angeles diocese grand jury, at least 50 Catho“plotted to keep law enforce- lic priests and other Church ment from learning that members in the western Pennchildren had been molested at sylvania town had molested the hands of priests.” and raped hundreds of kids In 2005 and 2011 grand between the 1940s and the jury probes found rampant 1980s. child abuse in the Philadelphia What the pedophiles did Archdiocese, which included to kids at summer camp, moving known pedophiles in their own homes and in around from one unsuspecting Altoona’s cathedral was not parish to another. only covered up by their What went on in L.A. and bishops and their immediate Philly fit the pattern described superiors, it also was abetted in the 2012 HBO documenby judges, sheriffs and other tary “Mea Maxima Culpa: law enforcement officials in Silence in the House of God.” two counties who knew about As I wrote in 2013, that the abuse. powerful documentary proved The grand jury report that from Ireland to Wisconsaid the sleazy church-state sin “the church’s bishops conspiracy to avoid public and cardinals have a long scandal and protect known and disgusting history of and dangerous pedophiles protecting pedophile priests, in Altoona amounted to the ignoring children’s allega“soul murder” of the victims. tions of sexual abuse, paying As someone who was

molested by a day camp counselor in third grade, I understand what that term means all too well.

The most frustrating part of the Altoona investigation, which is ongoing, is that the abusers and their enablers — though known — are never going to be indicted or punished.

Some of the guilty are dead.

Some of their victims were too traumatized to testify.

But in most cases it’s too late to prosecute because the statute of limitations for criminal and civil cases that was in effect at the time of the crimes was only two or three years.

The law has been changed.

Victims now have until age 30 to sue for child abuse in civil court and in some cases are able to file criminal charges until they turn 50.

But Pennsylvania should join other states and do what its grand jury report proposes — completely remove all statutes of limitations for child abuse.

If the Catholic Church is sincerely sorry for its sins, and truly interested in preventing future victims of pedophila, it will publicly support that idea Email Michael Reagan at Reagan@caglecartoons. com. Follow him on Twitter @ reaganworld.

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of new, clean development, but was the site of a when police came to tell double homicide last year. her, she didn’t wanted to It isn’t yet clear exactly believe them. It must be a how Tuesday’s killing mistake, she told them. happened, if the suspects, It was not. who live in the 9000 So here is the mother in building, intended to kill her living room trying to Shane, or if it escalated to make sense of it. that.

Shane had many years Gwinnett police spokesahead of him. He hadn’t man Cpl. Deon Washquite figured out what he ington said Thursday he wanted to do, but he was didn’t know. working on it, she said.

He could say this: He went for a while to “We are disgusted by the Gwinnett Technical Colsenseless act of violence lege, thinking he’d design against someone who was video games. He toyed contributing to society in with the idea of being a a positive way and simply chiropractor. trying to make a living.

But for now he delivThis is a very tragic and ered pizza and got by. He unfortunate situation that was an uncle to his sister’s we will likely never fully children, 3 and 5 months. understand.”

As mothers do, Teresa is He reviewed movies still trying. online. He had friends “I just don’t understand who were like brothers and sisters and a group of why these kids thought they had to kill my son coworkers at Papa John’s over a $10 pizza.” that might as well have A diagram of the accident allegedly caused by a man on a stolen moped near Lawrenceville on Sugarloaf Parkway The visitation for the been family. on Wednesday. (Special Photo) victim is Saturday from 2 Then, the delivery to 4 p.m. at Buford’s FlaTuesday night to 1400 nigan Funeral Home, 4400 Herrington Road.

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South Lee St., followed by with the intent to distribute.

The complex sits in a memorial at Sugar Hill He faces a slew of charges, includAlso wanted in Sandy Springs, he’s an area off Ga. Highway room personnel,” Pihera said. “They Golf Club, located at 6094 ing theft, driving with a suspended or being held in Gwinnett without bond, 316, west of Sugarloaf also found two false driver’s licenses revoked license and possession of drugs records showed.

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James Corely James Marlon Corley, Sr., was born, August 5, 1927 and died March 1, 2016. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel with Rev. Lamar Hansard officiating. Burial will follow at White Chapel Memorial Gardens.

He was an independent business man in several kinds of hard working jobs. He was a Korean War veteran, serving as a Staff Sgt in the Air Force during the early fifties.

He loved Duluth, his family, friends, country and square dancing. He was a generous secret giver and asked nothing in return.

Born on the Corley farm on Pleasant Hill Road, he was one of seven children born to Minnie and Luster Corley. His sisters who are waiting in heaven are, Ophelia Gilbert, Louise Dyer, Betty (Dan) Smith and his brothers will greet him joyfully. They are William Marion Corley and D. L. (Mary) Corley who just recently passed away. He left his one surviving sister, Sarah Roberts who just turned 91, and we all enjoy her company.

Marlon is survived by his wife, Jean Arnold Corley, and his four living children, Jim Corley, Pam Corley Bryant and her husband Keith, Dallas Corley and his wife Jane, and Lewis Corley and his wife Lucille; two babies will see him in heaven.

They are Lenora Love Corley and Jason Minor Corley. His sister-inlaw, Dot Turner and her husband, Jerry Turner are near and dear; his grandchildren, Brittany Bryant Polat and her husband Ali, Jason Corley, Corley Bryant and his wife Christy, Lexie Bryant, Lenora Bryant, James Corley, and Caroline Corley; great grandchildren, Guinivere and Thomas Polat.

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The family will receive friends Friday, March 4, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Bill Head Funeral Homes & Crematory Duluth Chapel (770)476-2535.

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To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Rachel Maud Couillard, age 90 of Lilburn, GA passed away March 2, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel, 1031 Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-277-4550. www.wagesandsons.com

Karl Fredrick Jaeger, age 52 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away February 25, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel, 1031 Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-277-4550. www.wagesandsons.com

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Larry Elinburg Larry E. Elinburg, age 76, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lee and Alma Holman Elinburg, son, Keith Elinburg, daughter in-law, Dwyna Elinburg, brother in-law, H.S. Maddox. He is survived by his children, Michael Elinburg, Lawrenceville, GA, Scott Elinburg, Loganville, GA; grandchildren, Kevin Elinburg, Kaylee Elinburg; sister, Belle Elinburg Maddox, Alto, GA; nephew, Kent Maddox, Alto, GA; several cousins. Mr. Elinburg was born on March 25, 1939 in Buford, GA. He was a graduate of North Gwinnett High School and a veteran of the U.S. Army.

He was a retired Auto Salesman from Don’s Used Cars in Flowery Branch. He was a member of Buford American Legion Post 127, Life member of National Rifle Association, National Wild Turkey Federation and Life Time member of North American Hunter.

A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Military Honors. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Flan-

SUGAR HILL

Eva Mauldin Eva May Mauldin, age 86, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. She was preceded in death by her husband, Myron Douglas Mauldin (1981). She is survived by her children, Sherri Cedeno, Lamar, CO, Richard (Kathy) Minear, Lyons, Kansas, Michael Lee Minear, Topeka, KS, James Gilbert Minear, Sutherland, NE, Tonie (Keith) Guthrie, Sugar Hill, GA, Carol Dianne Prichard, Sugar Hill, GA, Yvonne Marie (Matthew) Garner, Dahlonega, GA; fourteen grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins. No formal service. Private Interment.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Virginia Moulder Mrs. Virginia “Jenny” Moulder, age 84 of Winder, Georgia passed away March 2, 2016. A native of Auburn, she was a daughter of the late Crawford and Ruby House Nash.

She was preceded by her

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husband, James Moulder and siblings, Ralph Nash, Mattie T. Stinchcomb, Mae Opal Roberts, Geraldine Garret, Louise Barnette, Blanch Cronic, Eugene Nash and Randall Nash.

Mrs. Moulder was a retiree of Superior Garment Company and was a long time member of Sharon Baptist Church.

Surviving are Daughter Jo Moon of Watkinsville, Daughter and Son-in-law, Vicki and Don Dockery of Madison, Son and Daughter-in-law, Danny and Terri Moulder of Braselton, Grandchildren, Candice Snowden, Brian Moulder, and Paula Childs, Great Grandchildren, Hayden Snowden, Tyler Snowden, Landon Moulder, Casey Snowden and Paisley Childs, and Brother, Scybron Nash of Elberton.

A Funeral Service will be held Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 11:00 A. M. from the Chapel of Carter Funeral Home. The Family will receive friends Friday, March 4, 2016 from 5-8 P. M. at the funeral home.

Interment will be in Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery.

Carter Funeral Home of Winder is in charge of arrangements where online condolences may be expressed at www.carterfhwinder.com

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Shane Varnadore Shane Varnadore, age 28, of Buford, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. He was preceded in death by his father, Eric Varnadore. He is survived by his mother, Teresa Varnadore, Buford, GA; sister, Tara Varnadore, Buford, GA; grandmother, Sherry Franklin, Lawrenceville, GA; grandparents, Horace and Helen Martin, Waycross, GA; niece and nephew, Celeste and Lincoln Wills; several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Mr. Varnadore was born on July 26, 1987 to Teresa Martin Varnadore and the late Eric Varnadore.

He was very artistic and excelled in Media. He was a kind soul with a passion for life. He was employed

by PaPa Johns for the past five years. The family will receive friends on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home.

To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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DeAnn O’Kelley DeAnn Pollard O’Kelley, age 45, of Braselton, Georgia died March 1, 2016.

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Jill Panchal Jill Panchal, age 23 of Suwanee, GA passed away February 27, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel, 1031 Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-277-4550. www.wagesandsons.com

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Peter Wedel Peter James Wedel, age 62, Hoschton, GA passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016.

Harold Williams, age 70, of Lawrenceville passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016.

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Reinhardt College and the University of Georgia. He also served in the US Air Force and was employed

by Sun Trust Bank. He was a member of the East Ellijay Baptist Church and attended the First Baptist Church of Snellville. His parents, sisters, Gladys Morris, Betty Painter and brothers, Ben and Mack Whitaker preceded him in death.

He was a very sweet and caring man, who will be greatly missed.

Survivors include: sisters and brother-in-law; Brenda and Jerry Downs, Snellville, Lois Waddell, Hilda Bailey, and Charlotte Dickey all of Ellijay.

Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Memorial services will be held Saturday March 5, 2016 at 11:00am from the chapel of Bernhardt Funeral Home with Rev. James Holt officiating.

The family will meet with friends Saturday from 10 until 11:00am at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Snellville Baptist Church, 2400 Main Street/P.O. Box 647, East Snellville, GA 30078 in memory of Mr. Whitaker.

Hayden Whitaker Mr. Hayden Cecil Whitaker, age 71, of Grayson, Ga, formally of Ellijay, died Sunday February 28, 2016.

Mr. Whitaker was born June 15, 1944 in Gilmer County the son of the late Cecil and Beatrice Smith Whitaker. Hayden graduated from Gilmer High School, Class of 1962, R

Raymond Allen Yarbrough, age 75, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on March 3, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Gwinnett County Public Schools’ CommunityBased Mentoring Program Students looking to learn will host its fifth annual more about careers they’re Career Summit from 8:30 interested in are invited to a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event a career summit on Satwill feature seminars that urday at Discovery High focus on careers in educakeith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

tion, law, journalism and business. The sessions will be hosted by professionals with experience in those fields. Each career seminar will be held four times, which allows students to attend all of them.

“We are so excited about

the career summit,” GCPS Director of Academic Support James Rayford said in a press release. “We are giving students the opportunity to learn a lot about the careers they are interested in and what it takes to be successful in their

preferred career. Our goal is to expose students to careers that will encourage them to grow into productive citizens.”

Lunch and a community fair with information about colleges, universities and businesses is also planned.

GCPS counselors also will be on hand to offer information and answer questions about navigating high school and successfully applying to college.

Discovery is located at 1330 Old Norcross Road in Lawrenceville.

governors in a difficult position. The billionaire real estate developer is expected to easily win Mississippi’s Republican primary next Tuesday, for example, but his support for Planned Parenthood and government-backed health insurance, among other policies, put him at odds with the conservative positions backed by Gov. Phil Bryant.

Bryant will support Trump should he end up being the party’s nominee, but he has not decided whether to endorse a candidate before the primary, an aide told Reuters.

In theory, governors should be in a position to shape the outcome of this year’s nominating con-

tests. Republicans at the state level have delivered tax cuts, abortion restrictions and other conservative victories from Maine to Arizona, while their counterparts in charge of Nathan Deal Congress have been locked in a stalemate with Democratic President Barack Obama.

But the plethora of establishment-minded candidates this year has made it more difficult for governors and other senior officials to decide who to back, let alone try to shape the outcome with an endorsement.

Republican governors in Maryland, Florida, Wyoming, Indiana, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Nebraska and Michigan declined to say whether they would back Trump if he were the party’s nominee.

Governors in Utah, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Georgia have yet to endorse a candidate but would back Trump if he won the nomination, aides said.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker told reporters this week he would not vote for Trump in the November election.

Those who take a stand do not necessarily have it any easier.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ended his own presidential bid last month, has faced relentless criticism since he announced his support for Trump last week. Six newspapers in his home state have called on him to resign.

So it may be no surprise that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who is fighting for his own political life amid a scandal over tainted drinking water, will not risk alienating more of his constituents by backing a candidate before Tuesday’s primary.

“Right now Gov. Snyder is focused on solving the crisis in Flint, not on politics,” spokesman Ari Adler said.

GOP governors mostly steer clear of presidential race

By Andy SullivAn Reuters

WASHINGTON — As Republican party insiders mount a desperate effort to derail the presidential campaign of billionaire Donald Trump, many of the party’s 31 state governors are staying out of the fray.

When New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez steps onto a Kansas stage today to endorse Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, she will be only the 10th governor to back one of the four candidates remaining in a nominating contest that could define the party for years to come.

That is a sharp contrast to previous elections, when governors lined up solidly behind the party’s eventual nominee, helping to winnow the field of candidates early on.

Perplexed by the chaotic race, many governors are keeping a low profile to avoid a possible backlash from voters who are increasingly contemptuous of party leaders, Republican officials say.

“It’s a lose-lose political situation,” said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman.

In past elections, a governor’s endorsement could produce a burst of positive news coverage and the support of wellconnected local leaders for a presidential contender.

That would encourage other elected officials to endorse the candidate as well, creating an impression that the candidate was a favorite of those who knew best and encouraging others to drop out of the race, said David Karol, a University of Maryland political science professor who has found that endorsements were a strong predictor of electoral success between 1980 and 2004.

“The absence of most of the governors this late in the process really indicates the paralysis and division in Republican elite circles,” Karol said.

Many don’t want to discuss Trump, who has made his party’s estab-

Above, Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump shows off the size of his hands as rivals Marco Rubio, left, Ted Cruz, second from right, and John Kasich look on at the start of the U.S. Republican presidential candidates debate in Detroit on Thursday. (Reuters/Jim Young) At r ight, Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, with former rival candidate Governor Chris Christie, left, at his side, speaks about the results of Super Tuesday primary and caucus voting during a news conference in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.

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lishment uneasy with his abrasive tone and policy positions, including plans to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, deport 11 million illegal immigrants and temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country.

Those still on the fence do not seem eager to talk.

The 18 undecided Republican governors, contacted

by Reuters, declined an interview to discuss their views on the race.

George W. Bush, elected president in 2000, had the support of 26 of the party’s 30 Republican governors before primary voting even started, according to figures compiled by James Madison University political science professor Martin

Cohen, who with Karol is a co-author of “The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform.”

In 2012, 10 of 29 Republican governors had endorsed Mitt Romney by the time he clinched the presidential nomination.

This year, governors are not sending a clear signal to voters. Five have endorsed Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida who has won one nominating contest so far. Two have endorsed John Kasich of Ohio, the only governor left in the race, who has won no contests. Two have endorsed front-runner Donald Trump. One has backed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Three others endorsed candidates

who have since dropped out of the race.

The governors who have made endorsements so far have had little impact. Rubio lost in Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas, despite the backing of governors in those states. Kasich got only 4 percent of the vote in Alabama on Tuesday after that state’s Governor Robert Bentley endorsed him.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad called on voters in his state to reject Cruz before the state’s February caucuses. Cruz won.

So far, only Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has picked a winner. He endorsed Cruz, who won Texas on Tuesday.

Trump has put many

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State agency upholds Medicaid contract award

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na and AmeriHealth Caritas had appealed a September decision by the Department of Administrative Services to award the contract to four other bidders.

The losing bidders raised questions about the contract evaluation process, the scoring of proposals and the evaluation team, among other issues.

The DOAS decision

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A state agency has rejected the protests of three losing bidders over the state’s selection of vendors for a multibillion-dollar Medicaid and PeachCare contract.

Unsuccessful bidders AmeriChoice (a unit of UnitedHealthcare), Huma-

IN BRIEF Physical therapy group names Renee Unterman Legislator of Year The Physical Therapy Association of Georgia recently announced Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, as its Legislator of the Year Award recipient during a presentation at the State Capitol in Atlanta.

The organization explained in a statement that it hands out the Renee Unterman award annually to a state legislator who they feel has offered exceptional support for policies that benefit the collaborative healthcare model.

“We greatly appreciate Senator Unterman, whose continuous leadership in Georgia has been integral in bringing results under the Gold Dome,” association president, Dr. Joe Donnelly, said in a statement.

Among her legislative duties, Unterman is the chairwoman of the Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, and vice-chairwoman of its appropriations committee.

She holds undergraduate degrees in nursing and social work from Georgia State University and the University of Georgia, respectively, and did her training at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

She currently does national health care policy work for Amerigroup Georgia.

The award was presented to Unterman during Physical Therapy Day at the capitol on Feb. 24. It is not the first award she has won for her work on health care issues. The Georgia Public Health Association has twice named her a

“Public Health Hero” and gave her its own “Legislator of the Year” Award in 2013.

She has also received the Medical Association of Georgia’s 1849 Friend of Medicine Award.

Man Olympics coming in April to Suwanee Men who want to flex their muscles while fighting cancer will have an opportunity to do so next month.

And, they’ll get to do while looking pretty in pink.

The Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation announced on Monday that Paint Georgia Pink Inc., will hold a “Man Olympics,” beginning at 11 a.m. on April 30, at Wild Wings Cafe, 3265 LawrencevilleSuwanee Road, in Suwanee. The proceeds will benefit Gwinnett Medical’s Patient Assistance-Cancer Care Fund, the foundation said.

Registration will begin at 11 a.m., while torch relay will begin at noon.

Manly competitions, such as football toss, putt-putt, horse shoes, corn hole, darts, basketball free throws and a wiffle ball home run derby, will follow at 1 p.m. There will also be a spirit wear competition where men will have to show how much pink they can wear.

There are two levels of participation, including a $45 silver level that allows a person to participate in the event and enjoy nonalcoholic beverages, and a $75 gold level that includes the silver level benefits but adds in an event t-shirt.

Prices go up to $55 and $95 respectively after April 22. Anyone interested in participating in the event can register at paintgeorgiapink.org.

Obama: ACA has helped insure 20M reuters

in office to improve the law, which they have tried MILWAUKEE — Presi- unsuccessfully to repeal. dent Barack Obama said “Today I can announce on Thursday that some that thanks to the law, 20 20 million Americans had million more Americans become insured as a result now know the security of of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance,” Obama his signature health care told a crowd in Milwaukee law also known as Obamafter being introduced by a acare. local man who said the law During a trip to Wiscon- saved his life. The man, sin to tout the program, Brent Brown, said he was Obama said he hoped Rea Republican who had not publicans would work with voted for the Democratic him during his final months president.

rejecting the protests, announced Tuesday, ends a five-month waiting period for the contract appeals to be resolved.

The losing bidders, though, still can request that the DOAS commissioner review the decision, and they also can take their case to the court system if they wish to continue their appeals.

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Big state contracts involve a lot of money, so protests by unsuccessful bidders are not unusual.

The CMO contract is one of the biggest.

A Humana spokesman declined comment Wednesday on the appeals decision. Officials with AmeriChoice and AmeriHealth Caritas could not be reached for comment.

with Walk the Talk on Saturday with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta dietitian Gwinnett County adults nutritionist Monica Griffin have a 27.4 percent obesity and Strong4Life. Griffin rate, according to a 2015 will discuss healthy habits report from the Trust for and ways that families can America’s Health and the be active together.

Robert Wood Johnson FounWalk the Talk will take dation. place at 9 a.m. at AlexanTo help lower this number der Park, located at 800 and in honor of National Snellville Highway in Nutrition Month, Live Lawrenceville. Participants Healthy Gwinnett will offer will walk through various free programs throughout park trails for about an hour.

March to help residents Register for this event online adopt healthy habits. at gwinnettparks.com.

The month will kick off In addition, a dietary

guidelines class will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 12, at the Rhodes Jordan Park Community Recreation Center, located at 100 E. Crogan St. in Lawrenceville.

The class will be led by Ines Beltran from the UGA Extension.

A workshop focusing on how to read nutrition labels will be held at 9 a.m.

Saturday, March 26. This event will also be held at the Rhodes Jordan Park Community Recreation Center.

The class will be led by Sandi Porter from Start With

the Inside.

Poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity can lead to a higher risk for conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, caner, obesity and many other problems. Live Healthy Gwinnett seeks to promote positive change in the community by encouraging participants to be active, eat healthy, get checked and be positive.

For more information, visit livehealthygwinnnett. com or email lindsey. jorstad@gwinnettcounty. com.

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platform, as a way to bring down health care costs.

“Providing health care to illegal immigrants costs us some $11 billion annually.

If we were to simply enforce the current immigration laws and restrict the unbridled granting of visas to this country, we could relieve health care cost pressures on state and local governments,” the proposal

statement says.

Democrats were quick to criticize the plan.

“As Democrats have said all along, Donald Trump is not an outsider engaging in a hostile takeover of the GOP — in fact, he embodies the Republican Party,” said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Luis Miranda in a statement.

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Trump releases health care proposals courage to step away from the special interests and do WASHINGTON — U.S. what is right for America.”

Republican presidential The proposals also front-runner Donald Trump call for reforming menon Wednesday unveiled tal health programs and proposals for reforminstitutions but provides ing U.S. health care that few details about how to included repealing Obam- do this. acare, allowing prescripTrump also called for tion drugs to be imported tighter enforcement of and turning the Medicaid immigration laws, a key program for the poor into plank in his campaign block grants to states.

The plan also calls for the sale of health insurance plans across state lines, full deduction of health insurance premiums from income tax and adds: “We must also make sure that no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance.”

Trump, who is the front-runner in the race to become the Republican nominee in November’s presidential election, is also proposing allowing individuals to use Health Savings Accounts to pay for out-of-pocket expenses.

Contributions to HSAs would be tax-free and could be passed on to heirs without any tax penalty.

The proposals include requiring “... price transparency from all health care providers, especially doctors and health care organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other medical-related procedure.”

On drug prices, Trump departs from standard Republican policy by calling for lowering barriers to cheaper imported pharmaceuticals.

“Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers,” the statement says, adding that “Congress will need the

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Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima “I was able to hold Erika in my arms and say ‘I am sorry.’ I have yet to OKUMA, Japan — be able to do the same to Takayuki Ueno did not Kotaro,” said Ueno, who hesitate one moment to lives 14 miles north of the expose himself to high Fukushima nuclear plant. radiation five years ago A magnitude 9 earthwhile searching for family quake and towering members swept away by tsunami on March 11, the tsunami that triggered 2011, killed nearly 16,000 meltdowns at the Fukupeople along Japan’s shima nuclear plant. northeastern coast and left The bodies of his moth- more than 2,500 missing. er and daughter, Erika, The nuclear disaster were found. But Ueno at Tokyo Electric Power braves radiation and bitter Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi cold on beaches near the nuclear plant has made the crippled plant to look for experience of those who the remains of his father lived nearby particularly and son, Kotaro, then 3 traumatic. years old, to bring closure Norio Kimura, who to his loss. lived 2 miles south of “My highest duty as a the plant, had to choose parent was to protect my between staying behind children, which I failed to to search for his father, fulfill. That makes me the wife and younger daughter worst parent, and I have to Yuna, or taking his mother apologize to them,” Ueno, and elder daughter away 43, told Reuters. from spreading radiation.

By Kiyoshi TaKenaKa Reuters

“I was torn by having to abandon my search and leave them behind… By the time I came back, the situation had become quite grim when it comes to finding them alive,” said Kimura.

The accident still hampers Kimura’s effort to find Yuna, the last family

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member missing, as entry into half of his hometown, Okuma, is restricted due to high radiation levels.

On a recent weekend, Kimura and a dozen volunteers led by Ueno, combed through piles of debris on a windswept Okuma beach for any signs of Yuna. They are

ted high-pitched beeps. At one point, it showed six microsieverts per hour, Takayuki Ueno, 100 times as high as radia43, who lost his tion levels in downtown parents, daughTokyo. ter and son in the March 11, That does not shake 2011, tsunami, Kimura’s resolve. stands in front “I’ll keep on searching of his house that until I find her,” Kimura was damaged said, adding that even then by the disaster he might keep looking for in Minamisoma, other missing victims.

Fukushima Such tenacity can be Prefecture, Japan, on Feb. partly explained by views 15. (Reuters/Toru of life and death widely Hanai) held in Asia, experts say.

“Once dead, a body itself is often seen and treated as an object in allowed to enter the area the West,” said Shinichi up to 30 times a year and Niwa, adjunct professor of stay for up to five hours psychiatry at Fukushima per visit.

Medical University’s Aizu As they dug through Medical Center. heaps of dirt mixed with “In Asia, there is a driftwood, blocks of strong belief that one’s concrete, utility poles, spirit stays with the body crooked iron pipes and and they are not separatclothes of all sizes and ed,” he said. colors, a dosimeter emit-

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Wesleyan’s highly touted junior guard Mikayla Coombs figures their opponent in today’s state championship game is feeling both confidence and trepedation.

Holy Innocents’ has a right to be confident.

The Golden Bears have beaten Wesleyan in the two most recent meetings.

But they also had defeated the Wolves three times last season only to lose in the Class AA final.

“I think they’re definitely coming with a vengence,” said Coombs, who missed last season with a knee injury.

Wesleyan won last year’s championship 45-31, handing the Golden Bears their first loss of the season in the biggest game. The Wolves were only up three points to start the fourth quarter before running away with their 10th title in the last 12 years and 11th since 2002.

“Last year’s state championship was a breakout game for Natalie Armstrong,” head coach Jan Azar said of her 6-foot-1 center who scored 13 of her game-high 17 points in the first half. “She’s built on that this season.”

Coombs and Armstrong combine to average nearly 17 rebound per game for Wesleyan (27-3). The Wolves are led in scoring and steals by the lone senior on See WESLEYAN, Page 4B

Bryce Lackey fields a ball during Friday night’s Dacula and Hebron soccer game in Dacula. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

Dacula’s Lackey is an all-around keeper

By Paul Thomas • paul.thomas@gwinnettdailypost.com For the last four years, forgets to even put Bryce “His biggest attribute the coaching staff of the Lackey’s name on his that makes him most boys soccer team at Dacula lineup card. successful is he reads the High School hasn’t had The 6-foot-1 Lackey is game very well,” Guzzardo to even think about who in the midst of his fourth said. “For as big a kid as would start in goal for the season as Dacula’s starting he is, he’s pretty athletic Falcons. goalkeeper and is verand he makes that be an Head coach Jason Guz- bally committed to play for important part of what he zardo — who took over the Berry College next season does as a keeper. So I think boys program last season with several other schools his agility and his fitness — said he actually at times still recruiting him. really helps him under-

stand what the other players are doing as well. Anytime we do fitness or any type of possession drills, he wants to get involved, so I think that helps him, just his understanding of the game. It helps him get in the right position and

sition at Brookwood, lins Hill’s such a great where he was introschool. We’ve hired duced Thursday. He some great coaches replaces Mark Kimhere. (Brookwood’s) Jason Dopson expected to bro, who retired last literally the only job eventually retire from educayear but has returned in the state I would tion in his current role as Col- to help the Broncos have left Collins Hill lins Hill’s athletic and activiin his former role for.”

Jason ties director, a job he enjoys at through the spring and Dopson lives less Dopson a place he loves. the hiring process. than four miles from Over the past two weeks, a “(Telling the Collins Hill Brookwood, shortening his unique opportunity forced the coaches) was probably the commute greatly and giv42-year-old to reconsider his hardest thing I’ve ever had to ing him more time with his plans. He officially decided do,” said Dopson, in his fourth two children, who are both to shift his career course this year at Collins Hill after competitive swimmers. The week, accepting the athletic spending six years, five as location was a factor, but so and activities coordinator po- AD, at Meadowcreek. “Colwas the opportunity to lead will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

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the Broncos’ traditionally successful athletic program.

In its history, Brookwood has won 54 team state championships, most among Gwinnett County Public Schools and just one behind Greater Atlanta Christian, in 13 different sports.

“I’m excited about the opportunity at Brookwood and thankful to (Brookwood principal) Mr. (Bo) Ford for allowing me the opportunity to transfer over there,” Dopson

If experience is indeed the best teacher, the Gwinnett Heat figure to be quite prepared for their GHSA/American Association of Adapted Sports state wheelchair basketball championship game against the Houston County Sharks.

The Heat learned a lot from a 44-24 loss to the Sharks in last year’s finals, and head coach Len Boudreaux said that his team, which returns nearly every player from last year’s squad, is eager to apply those lessons when this year’s title game tips off today at noon at the Macon Centreplex.

“The kids are looking to go at it again,” Boudreaux said. “We have basically the same team (as last year), and definitely any time kids get another crack at something, (the previous experience) helps out.”

The Heat, fresh off a 35-10 win over the Atlanta Wolfpack in last weekend’s state semifinal behind 29 combined

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Wesleyan’s Jameson Kavel (21) makes a 3-point shot against GAC’s Caria Reynolds (0) during the second half of last Saturday’s Class AA semifinal game at Georgia College in Milledgeville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

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4:30 p.m. — Jackson Co. at Providence 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Johnson 6 p.m. — Duluth at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Etowah at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Hebron at Eagle’s Landing 6 p.m. — Loganville at Lanier 6 p.m. — Meadowcreek at Central 6 p.m. — North Hall at North 6 p.m. — Parkview at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Carrollton 6 p.m. — South at Norcross 6 p.m. — Wesleyan at South Effingham 7 p.m. — Mountain View at Grayson

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5:30 p.m. — Northview girls at Mill Creek 6:30 p.m. — Fellowship Christian boys at Wesleyan 6:30 p.m. — Pinecrest Academy girls at Buford 7 p.m. — North boys at Brookwood

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4 p.m. — North Oconee boys at Providence 5 p.m. — Buford at Hebron 5 p.m. — Dunwoody at Wesleyan 5:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Discovery 5:30 p.m. — Brookwood at South 5:30 p.m. — GAC at Peachtree Ridge 5:30 p.m. — Duluth at Central 5:30 p.m. — Grayson at Archer 5:30 p.m. — Lanier at Dacula 5:30 p.m. — Norcross at East Coweta 5:30 p.m. — Parkview at Collins Hill 5:30 p.m. — Riverwood at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Shiloh at Meadowcreek

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• Brookwood in Blue Angel Southern Invitational in Pensacola, Fla. • Buford and West Forsyth at South Forsyth 4 p.m. — Lanier at Apalachee Saturday

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11 a.m. — Wesleyan at Benedictine 11:30 a.m. — Collins Hill at Westchester Academy (NC) 1 p.m. — Dunwoody at Norcross 1 p.m. — King’s Ridge and Hebron at Cole Complex 1 p.m. — North at Johns Creek 1 p.m. — Parkview at Marist 1:30 p.m. — Archer and Tatnall Academy at Crisp Co. 2 p.m. — Brookwood at Carrollton 2:30 p.m. — Collins Hill at North Davidson (N.C.) 4 p.m. — Archer at Crisp Co. 7 p.m. — Newnan at Mountain View

GOLF

7:30 a.m. — GAC, Parkview in Johhny Paulk Invitational at Pine Lakes 9 a.m. — Buford, GAC boys in Apple Mountain Invitational Noon — Bronco Invitational at Summit Chase

LACROSSE

11:30 a.m. — North girls at South Forsyth 12:30 p.m. — Brookwood girls at Alpharetta 2 p.m. — North boys at Grayson

TENNIS

• Brookwood in Blue Angel Southern Invitational in Pensacola, Fla. • Buford and Gainesville at South Forsyth

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Ravens release 12-year vet Smith The SporTS Xchange The Baltimore Ravens released linebacker Daryl Smith and decided not to pick up a $2 million contract option for defensive end Chris Canty on Thursday.

The Georgia Tech grad spent the past three years with the Ravens, starting all 48 regular-season games. The 12-year NFL veteran led the team and ranked 10th in the league with 121 tackles in 2015.

Releasing Smith gives the Ravens an additional $2.6 million in salary cap room.

The 33-year-old Smith was credited with helping the Ravens transition following Ray Lewis’ retirement.

“While we are releasing Daryl, we are not closing the door on the possibility of him returning to the Ravens,” Baltimore general manager and executive vice president Ozzie Newsome said. “He deserves an opportunity to see his market value at this time.

With ‘Buck,’ you’re talking about one of the NFL’s highest-quality people. We have been fortunate to have him with the Ravens, and his production has been outstanding.”

The 33-year-old Canty also joined the Ravens in 2013 and had 83 tackles, 3 1/2 sacks, seven passes defensed and three forced fumbles in 35 games the past three years. Last season, he totaled 20 tackles, one sack and one passed defensed in nine games.

“I called Chris to thank him for what he has done for the Ravens,” Newsome said. “He has been an impactful player for us on and off the field.”

Smith is one of two NFL players with at least 350 tackles, five sacks, five interceptions and four forced fumbles during the past three years. His 30 1/2 sacks and 11 interceptions make him one of four active NFL players with at least 30 sacks and 10 interceptions in a career.

“We have been blessed to have a person like Daryl Smith on our team,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “He has been a steady and intelligent player with grit. ‘Buck’ is a special individual who has become a friend. Everyone who has spent time with him understands what I’m talking about. His numbers speak for themselves.”

Canty has played in a total of 148 games in 11 years in the league.

The Ravens aren’t likely done cutting veteran players because of their limited salary cap space.

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Rick Smith said the move would not be made based solely on Foster’s high cap number.

Foster, 29, is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in October and he underwent groin surgery in August 2015.

Foster is due a $6.5 million non-guaranteed base salary in the final year of a five-year, $43.5 million contract. Foster also has a $500,000 roster bonus to be paid $31,250 for every game he is active. He has an $8.925 million salarycap figure.

Smith predicted Foster would bounce back next season, but never indicated that comeback would necessarily unfold with the Texans. Foster has been cleared to jog and is hoping to play next season, which he’s expressed recently to the Texans. The Texans’ all-time leading rusher with 6,472 yards and 54 touchdowns, Foster rushed for 163 yards and one touchdown in four games last season.

“I met with Arian a couple weeks ago, he’s doing well,” Smith said last week. “He’s got the right mindset. He came in and talked to me a couple weeks ago to make sure that we knew that. And I believe him. He’ll bounce back. He’ll be fine.”

That rebound just won’t be with the Texans.

a torn Achilles and has a $9.8 million cap hit. However, only $1.4 million of that total is guaranteed. His salary could be converted to a signing bonus, but the Palm Beach Post reported Thursday that Wake is not necessarily amenable to a deal that doesn’t include new money.

The Dolphins tied up $12.734 million in transition player Olivier Vernon, and the defensive end will count against the cap unless another team signs him to an offer sheet. Based on the cap corner the Dolphins are painted into, it’s unlikely the Dolphins would be able to match a deal from another team.

Redskins’ Cousins signs $19.95M tender Kirk Cousins signed the one-year, $19.95 million tender offer from the Washington Redskins, who applied the franchise tag to the pending free agent quarterback on Tuesday.

Cousins will have a cap hit greater than those of Russell Wilson, Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers in 2016 if the two sides fail to come to agreement on a long-term contract by July 15. Cousins, represented by agent Mike McCartney, is open to a deal to stay in Washington where he overtook Robert Griffin III as the starter in 2015, leading the Redskins to the NFC East title.

Dolphins looking for cap Cousins could enter space in Suh deal the offseason with the With only days remain- highest base salary in the ing to shave $3.56 million NFL. Currently, Dolphins from their 2016 salary cap, defensive tackle Ndamuthe Miami Dolphins are kong Suh has the largest scurrying to restructure base salary for the 2016 deals with two of their season ($23.485 million) highest-paid players: debut Miami opened talks to fensive tackle Ndamukong renegotiate that deal — a Suh and outside linebacker six-year, $114 million pact Cameron Wake. signed in March 2015.

Suh counts $28.6 million With Cousins under conagainst the 2016 salary tract, the Redskins don’t cap but his deal includes a have to sweat a holdout or provision that would allow limited attendance for offfor the Dolphins to tack an season workouts. It is comextra season onto the deal mon for players designated for cap-balancing purwith the franchise tag to poses. That move serves avoid offseason conditiononly to delay the cap issues ing at the team facility and Texans parting with — similar tactics served often even skip mandatory Foster, team’s all-time the Pittsburgh Steelers and segments of minicamp. leading rusher Dallas Cowboys in recent Running back Arian years — but would save U.S. court weighs restorFoster’s prolific career with more than $18.5 million ing Brady’s suspension the Houston Texans has on the 2016 cap. All teams A U.S. appeals court on come to an end. must be in compliance Thursday signaled it could The Texans informed with the 2016 salary cap restore the four game “DeFoster, the franchise’s before the start of the flategate” suspension of all-time leading rusher, league year on March 9, New England Patriots star this week that he will be and Miami is over the cap quarterback Tom Brady released, according to as of Thursday morning. over allegations footballs multiple reports. He has These are the burdens were under inflated before missed 20 games due to in- the Dolphins took on in a NFL playoff game last jury the past three seasons. making Suh the highestyear.

Head coach Bill O’Brien paid defender in the NFL A lawyer for the players’ was hesitant and non-com- in free agency last spring, union faced tough quesmittal when asked at the when Suh bolted Detroit to tioning by a three-judge 2016 NFL Scouting Com- sign a six-year, $114 milpanel in New York hearing bine whether Foster would lion deal. an appeal by the National return. General manager Wake is recovering from Football League of a trial

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judge’s reversal last September of the suspension imposed by league commissioner Roger Goodell.

Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s lawyer, argued in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Brady had no notice that an equipment violation could expose him to a suspension, and that Goodell did not have “blanket authority” under the league’s collective bargaining agreement to impose it.

But U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Katzmann said as commissioner, Goodell frequently faces “novel” situations like the deflated footballs, and questioned why in those instances he could impose punishment for conduct detrimental to the league.

“Isn’t that why the language in the agreement gives the commissioner broad authority for dealing with conduct detrimental?” he asked.

Brady, 38, had been suspended in May 2015, four months after under-inflated footballs were used in the Patriots’ 45-7 victory over Indianapolis in January 2015’s AFC championship game.

That win took the Patriots to the Super Bowl, where they defeated the defending champion Seattle Seahawks, giving Brady his fourth championship title.

The NFL suspended Brady after Ted Wells, a lawyer hired by the league to investigate the incident, said Brady was “generally aware” that two Patriots employees had conspired to deflate the balls, which could make them easier to grip.

Goodell upheld the suspension on July 28, prompting the legal challenge on Brady’s behalf.

Brady has denied knowing about any plan to deflate footballs.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan overturned Goodell’s decision last Sept. 3. He said Brady “had no notice that his discipline would be the equivalent of the discipline imposed upon a player who used performance enhancing drugs.”

Berman’s decision allowed Brady to play the full 2015 season. The Patriots made the playoffs but did not reach the Super Bowl.

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After coming to Atlanta in a trade with Orlando last season, goaltender Kent Patterson re-signed with the Gladiators this summer. The 26-year-old from Plymouth, Minn., is 14-7-3-1 with a 2.76 GAA and .908 save percentage in 2015-16.

Drafted by the Colorado Avalanche in the fourth round in 2007, Patterson went on to a four-year collegiate career at Minnesota, just 15 miles from his hometown. As a senior, Patterson won 28 games and helped the Golden Gophers to the Frozen Four.

He played the bulk of his first two pro season with Denver of the CHL in the Avalanche system before going to Orlando.

In this installment of “Getting to Know …,” Patterson spoke with staff writer Christine Troyke about a variety of topics, including getting a shutout and still losing in a shootout in his first AHL game, playing in front of Atlanta netminder Kent Patterson (35) blocks the shot of Greenville’s Darian Dziurzynski (20) 10,000 people most nights in in a game earlier this season at the Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo: Amanda Hertel) college and learning to have a short-term memory. cause when I graduated and the WCHA which was best Brandt specifically said signed, it was the lockout of three. My senior year, the your numbers last year CT: Have you always year. So I ended up going to best part was sweeping them were not fair to you because been a goalie? training camp at (AHL) Lake at home. Now we’ve got a of the way the team played.

KP: Yes. Ever since I first Erie and their affiliate was a North Dakota guy on the Your numbers this year are started skating in mites. We first-year franchise, the Den- team (Corey Fienhage). as good, if not better, than had a bag of goalie year and ver Cutthroats (in the CHL). they have been in any other always passed it around. I I believe Rapid City was our CT: What was draft day pro stop. Are you feeling was always the one wanting first exhibition game. It was like for you? good? to take it after a game. I just a little bit surreal. It got back KP: It was different just KP: I’m feeling good, but had a knack for it and kept a little bit to junior hockey, because I knew some of the I always want more, want to moving on up. It ended up having played there. It’s a guys who were high picks do better. Right now I care working out. smaller rink, only seats about like (Ryan) McDonagh and about the wins. Because CT: What do you miss 5,000, but they pack it.

(Mike) Hoeffel. I played come playoff time, it doesn’t about home while you’re It was fun. It was different with those guys growing up. matter what your stats are. down here? not being in the maroon and I was a fun experience to It’s all about whether you KP: This year I definitely gold, but being able to play be there in Columbus. My win or lose. miss having my fiancee here at a higher level with older parents came with, sitting That’s probably one of and our little French bulldog, guys. You never know what there, watching the first the biggest things I learned Lulu. She took the year to to expect year to year. round, seeing Patrick Kane, in Denver my second year travel with me to Orlando CT: Turning pro the year P.K. Subban, (James) Van and going all the way to last year and when I came of a lockout makes things Riemsdyk, all those guys. the finals. You have to have to Atlanta. She’s a graphic much different with every- Kyle Turris (third overall), I a short-term memory. We designer and had no problem one pushed down a level. played with years ago when unfortunately lose in five finding a job, but it’s just too How was your transition I played summer hockey up (games) to Allen. I hate them hard moving around (if you from college to pro? in Edmonton. It’s funny, I (chuckles). get traded). But it was nice KP: It was a little slow have a VHS of him taking an having them both around. at first, to be honest. You go penalty shot and I stop it and CT: It seems like forever into the season with high I come out to center ice and since you guys played at CT: What’s it like playexpectation, thinking you’re throw my stick up to celhome. The team picked up ing for your hometown going to play in the AHL. ebrate. So at least I can say I nine of a possible 16 points. team in college?

At the time it was the CHL got him.

How was the road?

KP: It was a blast, to say (which later merged with the Looking back, seeing all KP: It was good, not great. the least. I always wish I ECHL in 2014). It was a little the names in that draft and We wanted to win more. But could go back. It was nice disheartening at first, but where they are now, it’s you’ve just got to keep going. to be able to go home for a we had a first-year coach in pretty awesome to be a part We’re moving into the most home-cooked meal every (former NHLer) Derek Arm- of that. And getting drafted important part of the seaonce in a while and be able to strong. He may not have been myself, by Colorado. I think son right now. This is really see my parents every weekthe best X’s and O’s coach, my brother was probably where it’s going to make or end. I think they might have but he definitely knew how even more excited than I was break where we end up. enjoyed the experience more to mentally play the game. since he’s a huge Avalanche than I did because they met He was tough on me at times, fan.

CT: What do you do to a lot of friends throughout but I think it was a hard love pass the time on the bus Minnesota. It was a fun time and helped me get to where I CT: You played a few trips? every weekend. am today. games in the AHL while KP: I play cards or read.

CT: Did you think of CT: It seems like it would under contract with ColoCT: How are you at going anywhere else for be especially difficult conrado? cards?

KP: Well, we only ever college? sidering the senior season KP: I had a couple of callplay one game and it’s KP: I looked at other you had at Minnesota — 28 ups. My first game I played Shnarps. I win some. I’m places, but Minnesota apwins and going to the Froin Abbottsford. I got a shutproached me after my senior zen Four. There’s no reason out, but we lost in a shootout. probably about even for the year. year in high school and it not to have high expecta(chuckles) So go figure. was a no-brainer. I’d always tions.

CT: Who is your roomwent to games at Mariucci KP: Exactly. And you’re CT: Is it heartening at all growing up and watching the not going to be in pro sports that so many goalies in the mate?

KP: Right now I’m with Gophers. if you don’t have high expec- NHL right now developed tations. in the ECHL? Some pretty Shawn Bates. I used to be with (Nathan) Condon, but CT: Many Minneapolisrecently. area players talk about CT: Did you finish your KP: I mean, look at Louis then he had the shoulder injury.

Gopher games rather than degree?

Domingue. He played here CT: Good division of the Wild.

KP: I did. Business martwo games last year and now KP: I talk with my parents keting education. It’s kind of he’s consistently playing for cooking and cleaning?

KP: Yeah. He cleans up his and we reminisce about when the broad degree everybody Arizona. Garret Sparks, I I was in college and they’d got. I looked into construcplayed with him last year (in dishes and I clean up mine.

I’m generally a pretty clean get there early. These were tion management and looking Orlando). Toronto is testing things I didn’t get to see, back there might be some him out this year. I think it’d (housekeeper). My fiancee has rubbed off on me. I find but fans would get to see other avenues I wish I would be pretty cool to have Lou myself cleaning all the counthe band walking around, have taken. But, I mean, I Lamoriello call me out and tertops after every meal. It’s all the banners hanging, the didn’t know what I wanted see if you’ve got it or you like, “Wait a minute. I never tradition and just the entire to do. I just wanted to play don’t. environment with the student hockey.

It just goes to show you’ve did this. What am I doing?”

CT: It’s best to keep up section getting into it — and CT: You can always go got to be prepared at all just filling up 10,000 (seats) back. times. I’ve learned, this is my those habits.

KP: It’s less work I have every single night. fourth year now, to expect CT: What were the anything. Things can change to do when she comes to visit.

CT: Were there any play- toughest places to play in in a minute. When I was ers you followed particucollege? traded last year (to Atlanta), I CT: What kind of music larly growing up?

KP: Oh, boy, I think I’ve wasn’t expecting it. I was out KP: I had my trading got to say Denver was one on the 18th hole and coached do you listen to most often?

KP: EDM. All that newcards. I had Jordan Leopold of the harder places to play called me in. age, whatever the kids are because he grew up in the just because of the altitude Even when I was with into. (chuckles) I’m 26 now. same city as I did. Obviously change. Looking back, we Colorado and Denver one I’m getting older. a Gopher and won a Hobey didn’t win much there. year, we had our all-star Baker. Pat O’Leary, too. He The two years I played in break and I was just getting CT: Any TV shows you played at Armstrong (High Denver (pro), we’d get back to my gate to go home and binge watch?

School) and for the Gophers. from a road trip and that first I got a call from the GM of KP: Well, I’m going to be More my hometown players. practice was rough.

Lake Erie saying I needed to binge watching in a couple I was a big (Martin) Brocome up because the other days … deur fan. My brother was a CT: What was the biggest goalie got a concussion in CT: “House of Cards?” big Patrick Roy fan so we rivalry game? practice. I canceled my flight, KP: Yep. I try not to. I would give each other a hard KP: Oh, North Dakota, went back home and flew out just caught up to season five time. hands down. Those were the (the next) morning. of “Suits.” “Walking Dead” most fun. I remember my CT: What was playing freshman year, I think we CT: When you re-signed I’m up to date on. That’s a favorite. I’m looking forward your first pro game like? played seven times because with the Gladiators this KP: It was different bewe had them in playoffs in summer, (head coach Andy) to “Game of Thrones.”

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LOS ANGELES — Seven rare, identical Ty Cobb baseball cards more than a century old were found weeks ago inside a torn paper bag on the floor a house, marking one of the most remarkable discoveries in the world of sports collectables, a leading expert in California said Thursday.

What sets apart the newly dubbed “Lucky 7” cards is that in addition to a portrait of the American League great emblazoned on the front, his name is printed with a tobacco ad on the back — matching a design found on just 15 other Cobb cards previously known to exist.

Cobb grew up in Royston, barely more than an hour’s drive northeast of Gwinnett County.

The collection as a whole is worth more than $1 million, said Joe Orlando, president of Professional Sports Authenticator in Newport Beach, Calif., who with other experts has verified and graded the find.

“The pound-for-pound power of this find is unprecedented,” he said.

“When you factor in rarity, value, quantity and quality, it can be argued this is the single greatest baseball card find the hobby has ever witnessed,” said Rick Snyder, an authorized PSA dealer in South Carolina who was the first to examine them.

According to Snyder, the Lucky 7s were unearthed in January or February. They were found face down beneath some postcards and other papers at the bottom of a ripped paper bag on the floor of a dilapidated house by members of a family rummaging through belongings of their deceased great-grandparents.

The bag was almost discarded as trash before someone peeked inside.

He said the family has asked to remain anonymous, declining even to disclose the location of the house beyond saying it was in the South. Snyder said he plans to sell the cards on the family’s behalf.

The Lucky 7 date from 1909 to 1911, part of a larger set designated the T206 series — affectionately known by collectors as “The Monster” — and originally distributed as tobacco brand promotions with cards of all the era’s baseball stars.

The group ranks among the most prized by collectors and includes the Holy Grail of baseball card hobbyists, one picturing the Pittsburgh Pirates’ “Flying Dutchman,” Honus Wagner.

Several far more common Ty Cobb designs exist, bearing variations of artwork portraits of the famed Detroit Tigers slugger, nicknamed “the Georgia Peach.” The newly found cards belong to an extremely scarce version — now numbering just 22 — that also came printed with his name on the reverse side, above the phrase “King of the Smoking Tobacco World.”

Chastain will donate brain for research

By Frank PinGue Reuters

Retired U.S. soccer player Brandi Chastain, who scored the winning goal at the 1999 Women’s World Cup, said on Thursday she will donate her brain posthumously to researchers studying the impact of concussions.

Chastain, 47, announced her pledge to the Concussion Legacy Foundation on Thursday and her brain will ultimately go to researchers at Boston University, pioneers in the study of CTE, a degenerative condition linked to head trauma.

“I won’t be witness to the results when I donate my brain, and I hope that day is a long way from today, but I’m hoping that my donation helps change things for the positive,” Chastain told the Concussion Legacy Foundation.

“I can’t even attempt a guess at how many times I’ve headed the ball. It’s a significant number. It’s scary to think about all the heading and potential concussions that were never diagnosed in my life, but it’s better to know.”

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is closely linked with the repeated head injuries commonly experienced in contact sports and can lead to aggression and dementia.

Chastain, who made the last of her 192 appearances with the U.S. national team in 2004, is the latest in a growing list of current and former athletes who have agreed to donate their brains after death.

A high incidence of degenerative brain disease in former professional American football players led thousands of National Football League alumni to press for and win a settlement that could cost the league $1 billion.

Chastain is perhaps best remembered for removing her shirt during a memorable and controversial goal celebration after she scored the winning penalty kick that decided the shootout against China in the 1999 Women’s World Cup final.

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Lakers’ Williams to miss next week of the Lakers’ 107-101 victory over the Brooklyn Los Angeles LakNets. Williams played ers guard Lou Williams less than 10 minutes in suffered a strained left the game before leaving. hamstring during TuesWilliams did not travel day night’s game that is with the team for Wednesexpected to sideline him day night’s game against for at least a week. the Nuggets in Denver. He Williams was examined also is expected to miss Wednesday by Dr. Steve games against the Atlanta Yoon of the Kerlan-Jobe Hawks, Golden State Orthopaedic Clinic using Warriors and Orlando ultrasound and the diagMagic in the next week. nosis was made.

In 58 games this season, The injury occurred Williams is averaging 15.3 during the second quarter points and 2.5 assists.

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basketball program from 1998-2000 and was direcsaid. “It’s one of the pretor of basketball operations mier academic and athletic from 2000-03, both under programs in the state. It’s veteran coach Jim Harrick. naturally a job that a lot of He left UGA to get into people are interested in. I coaching, serving as the appreciate him having the head boys basketball coach faith in me to take it over. at McNair for three years ... I know I have huge shoes before his hire in adminto fill at Brookwood. Dave istration at Meadowcreek.

Hunter and Mark Kimbro The AD role opened up an have helped Brookwood appealing job at Collins become a power in almost Hill that was tough to leave. every sport and they’re “I want to thank (Coltwo of most respected ADs lins Hill principal) Mrs. around. Brookwood’s fin(Kerensa) Wing for the ished in the top two in the opportunity to run what AD cup almost every year I consider one of best and I hope to help continue athletic departments in that winning tradition. the entire state,” Dopson “My goal will be to help said. “I want to thank the the teachers, coaches and community and coaches students in any way I can that have made Collins Hill and give them all the tools a state power in almost I can to help them win at every sports. Right now, the state level.” through the winter sports, Dopson is an Arkansas we’re No. 1 in boys sports native — he played high (in the statewide Directors school basketball with Cup) and sixth overall, just former Arkansas and NBA out of top three in points player Corliss Williamoverall. We’re having a son — who played two fantastic year. A lot of that years of college basketball is attributed to the hires at Georgia State before Coach Wing and I have transferring to Georgia. He made. We’ve hired some was a graduate assistant great coaches to lead those with the Bulldogs’ men’s programs.”

THE DOPSON FILE Name: Jason Dopson New position: Athletic and activities director at Brookwood Former position: Athletic and activities director at Collins Hill Age: 42 Education: Graduated from Russellville High School (Ark.); graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in health and physical education; also earned master’s and leadership degrees from UGA Background: Currently in fourth year as AD at Collins Hill; previously was an AD and assistant principal at Meadowcreek, where he worked from 2006-12; was head boys basketball coach at McNair from 2003-06; was a UGA men’s basketball graduate assistant (19982000) and director of basketball operations (2000-03), both under former Bulldog coach Jim Harrick; played basketball for two seasons at Georgia State before transferring to UGA; was a high school basketball teammate of former Arkansas and NBA player Corliss Williamson, now an NBA coach; wife Theresa is an art teacher at Couch Middle Family: Wife Theresa; son Bryce, 11, daughter Hailey, 8

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the Heat, the team’s appearance means more than points from Shiloh student just the opportunity for a Kendrell King and Dacula trophy. student Robbie Berry, will According to Mike Philbe making their fourth ap- lips, the coordinator for pearance in the state finals, Gwinnett County Public with their last championSchools’ Adapted Sports ship coming in 2012. programs, getting a chance They will have a tough to play on high school assignment in dethroning basketball’s biggest stage Houston County, which in front of a statewide has been a dominant force television audience is big in all of Georgia’s AAASP in and of itself. sports programs over “It’s about more than just the past several seasons, winning or losing,” Philincluding winning the last lips said. “Going down to three state basketball titles. Macon to play at that level, While the Sharks appear that’s what it’s all about.” as strong as ever led by To Boudreaux, today’s Braxton Robinson, who games goes beyond even finished with 17 points, 12 the opportunity for the currebounds and seven assists rent players. in last year’s win over The exposure the Heat Gwinnett, Boudreaux said gets today can only help his team’s confidence level raise awareness about is considerably stronger GCPS’ entire Adapted this time around.

Sports programs and may “The kids know they’re inspire other students with up to a hard test,” Bouphysical disabilities to dreaux said. “But they also come out and participate in have a lot of confidence in the future. themselves. It should be “To me, that’s the biga good game. I think we gest thing,” Boudreaux match up OK with them, said. “I just love the idea and we’re not going to be of the kids getting an opintimidated by them.” portunity to play and help But as much as a win spread the word (about the would mean for the players program). That’s a great and all those involved with thing.”

Bryce Lackey warms up prior to Friday night’s Dacula and Hebron soccer game in Dacula. (Photo: Karl L. Moore)

Lackey

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was diving back post and it was one where I was a make some pretty clutch little confused as to what I saves at times.” was going to do. I probLackey doesn’t know ably could have caught it, exactly what drew him but I ended up punching it to be a goalie, but ever and it still went in. After since positions became the game, coach was really less interchangeable in mad. He talked about reyouth soccer, he’s been evaluating the goalkeeper in the net. Perhaps it was situation and I think that the allure of never leaving just kind of made me realthe field or being the only ize this isn’t something player allowed to use his that’s given to me. hands, he guesses.

“I came in, I had always During his career at started on my club team Dacula, he’s had many and there wasn’t a whole memorable moments in lot of competition to get the net, including helpon the team my freshman ing the Falcons reach the year as far as the goalstate playoffs in 2014 as keeper was concerned. So a sophomore and recordI think I may have started ing 20 saves in the regular the season thinking, ‘Why season finale against should I try? It’s not like South Gwinnett last year. there is anybody who is Yet when asked to going to take my place.’ think back on a game that I think that was really the stands out to him during moment where I was like, his career, he doesn’t list a ‘Alright, I have to actuhighlight. ally play the way I should, “It’s probably the Berk- be the keeper I have the mar game of my freshman ability to be and step up year,” he said. “Because and do what I’m supposed we ended up losing 3-0. to. Because he will take it It was the first region away from me.’ As Coach game and Coach (Mark) (Guzzardo) has even Karen — who is the girls talked to us about recently, coach now — was the this is a privilege, not a coach at the time before right.” they switched and the way From that moment, the third goal went in I Lackey has worked to

become an all-around keeper. He’s improved his footwork and learned to become a vocal director for his backline.

“I think definitely now I realize that every part of my game is important being the goalkeeper,” he said. “Because you’re really that authoritative figure and you’ve got to be able to do everything.

You have to be good with your hands to stop shots, catch the ball, hold it — especially in traffic — but you also have to be able to use your feet and not lose the ball if you’re under pressure. Be able to play a ball out accurately as well as hit it long enough.

Then goal kicks, you’ve got to be able to get it up, you can’t hit it right at the striker standing in front of you. I’ve realized that you have to be sharp in every part of your game and you can’t just focus on the hands.”

Through seven games this year he has 48 saves as Dacula is off to a 3-4 start entering region play next week.

Guzzardo said the biggest growth Lackey has shown over the last few years is mentally. Lackey

is no longer rattled by early goals or the loss of a shutout, and he understands where to position himself in certain situations rather than just relying on his ability to react and make a save.

“I think his technical ability in net has gotten much better,” Guzzardo said. “He is so athletic that a lot of the saves that he would make would just be because of his gifts and his athleticism and his ability to react. He’s a reaction-type of keeper.

As he’s grown and matured, he’s put himself in really good positions most of the time. Because he is athletic most of the time, if he does make a mistake he’s able to recover from it pretty quickly. I think through his maturity, he’s gotten to be more confident and more aggressive in the box, which I think is really frustrating for some teams.

“As a coach, any time your keeper comes out of the box flying off their line, your heart kind of skips a beat, but usually it’s the right decision. I think that definitely that maturity right there has upped his game.”

Wesleyan

•From Page 1B the roster, Cairo Booker.

This isn’t the same team that met Holy Innocents’ in the final a year ago though. “(The Golden Bears) returned every player from last season,” said Azar, the architect of Wesleyan’s staggering run of success.

“We are very different.

“We lost some size inside, but we gained some speed with Mikayla coming back and Amaya Register is now completely healthy. “She was playing last year coming off an ACL the previous year and had a good season, but she is now a lot quicker. And I feel like our outside shooting has come a long way.”

Coombs has found her stroke from behind the arc and Register is also capable of hitting the 3, but the big threats are juniors Jameson Kavel and Katie Stipe.

“They’ve beaten us twice, we’ve beaten them once this season,” Azar said. “I think it’ll be a battle.”

Wesleyan won the first meeting this season 58-52 on Jan. 1. Holy Innocents’ won the next two, 57-54 and then 59-55 in the Region 6-AA tournament final.

“Honestly, all three games were very similar,” Azar said. “I felt like who-

to earn its 12th consecutive trip to the championship game. The Wolves beat GAC by a decisive, but deceptive, margin.

“Everyone was like, ‘You beat GAC by 30 points,’” Coombs said.

“But if you were there, you’d know it was definitely a hard game.”

“We were only up by four going into the fourth quarter,” Armstrong said.

“It was definitely amazing,” Coombs said.

“It’s just that sometimes the assumption (we’ll be in the final) makes it seem like it’s easy for us,” Armstrong said. “We put in a tremendous amount of work to get where we are.”

Other than the losses to Holy Innocents’, the only teams to beat Wesleyan this season were at the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix — and those were by two and three points.

Wesleyan’s Cairo Booker (12) makes a pass against “I think I’m more confiGAC’s Taylor Sutton (2) during the second half of last dent than nervous because Saturday’s Class AA semifinal game at Georgia Colof the challenges we’ve lege in Milledgeville. (Photo: Kyle Hess) had,” Armstrong said.

“And the experience last ever really wanted to own Both teams are going to year — we lost to them the fourth quarter won all play hard. Both teams three times and beat them three of those games. We are going to hustle. Both fought from behind in the teams are well-coached. It in the state championship.

This year we’ve seen a first one and won. We had just depends which team win, but we’ve also seen a big lead in the second executes. Last year, we what we need to improve one and lost. And in the executed better.” on through our losses. third one, we fought from Wesleyan is the only “It’s definitely going to behind to make it a closer Gwinnett County team left be a battle of a game, but game. standing and had to beat I’m confident going into “A lot just depends neighbor Greater Atlanta which team executes.

Christian in the semifinals it.”

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Piercy, Fraser set fast pace at Doral stroke in front of fivetimes major winner Phil MIAMI — American Mickelson, who birdied Scott Piercy and Marfour of his last nine holes. cus Fraser of Australia Danny Willett, Adam upstaged the biggest Scott, Jason Dufner and names in the game as Charley Hoffman opened they charged into a tie for with 68s in the first of the the lead after the openyear’s four elite World ing round of the WGCGolf Championships Cadillac Championship in events while world No. 1 Miami on Thursday.

Jordan Spieth carded a 69.

Piercy and Fraser fired “It’s very demanding off the tee, there’s trouble matching six-under-par 66s on the daunting Blue on every single hole, so you have to stand up and Monster course at the really commit to a shot,” Trump National Doral Spieth said.

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Georgia’s J.J. Frazier (30) celebrates a 3-pointer against South Carolina in the second half of Thursday’s game in Columbia, S.C. Below, Bulldogs’ guard Kenny Gaines (12) shoots against the Gamecocks. (Photos: Jeff Blake/USA Today Sports)

Bulldogs stun USC with late run The SporTS Xchange COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senior guard Kenny Gaines scored 20 points, and Georgia used a late 11-0 run to take control and post a stunning 74-72 victory over South Carolina on Thursday in Southeastern Conference play at Columbia, S.C. Junior guard J.J. Frazier scored seven of his 19 points during the decisive surge as the Bulldogs (1612, 9-8 SEC) completed a regular-season sweep of the Gamecocks. Sophomore forward Yante Maten added 11 points and five rebounds, and Georgia overcame 19 turnovers to improve to 3-8 on the road.

Senior forward Mindaugas Kacinas made five 3-pointers and scored 21 points for South Carolina (23-7, 10-7). Junior guard Sindarius Thornwell added 16 points, and senior forward Michael Carrera had 13 points but shot just 5-for-21 from the field.

Georgia trailed by three when Maten began the deciding spurt with two free throws. Frazier followed with a jumper to give the Bulldogs a 64-63 edge

with 2:43 left. Maten hit a two free throws to make it jumper and Frazier drained 71-63 with 38.4 seconds a 3-pointer to push the lead left. to six before Frazier added The Gamecocks made

three 3-pointers in the final half-minute to tighten up the score but fell into fifth place in the SEC with one game remaining.

South Carolina trailed by nine points early in the second half before using an 8-0 burst to move within 43-42 on Thornwell’s tipin with 16:57 remaining.

Carrera later scored seven consecutive points, and his two free throws made it 51-49 with 9:05 left to provide the Gamecocks with their first lead since the opening minutes.

South Carolina boosted its lead to five before Georgia rebounded with seven consecutive points to take a 57-55 advantage on a short jumper by freshman forward Mike Edwards with 6:28 to play. The Gamecocks answered with an 8-3 run and led 63-60 after Thornwell’s jumper with 3:31 to play before going three-plus minutes without a point.

Gaines had 14 first-half points, and Georgia held a 39-34 lead at the break.

The Bulldogs recovered from an early six-point deficit by rattling off 10 consecutive points and led the rest of the half.

LILBURN — The Parkview riflery team qualified for the state tournament with a 1,1411,107 win over Creekside on Thursday.

The Panthers were led by a state-qualifying 293 from Dalton Stoves.

Alex Hobbs posted a 289, Elizabeth Izzo shot a 280 and Amanda Mayo

scored 279.

RIFLERY Buford headed to playoffs Buford defeated North Gwinnett 1,132-1,084 on Thursday and advance to the region playoffs next week at Parkview.

Lindsey Adams led the Wolves (7-0) with a 285 against North.

FANS CHOICE FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Who: Sabrina Sieber School: Dacula Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Highlights: Made 17 saves, including a penalty kick, in the Falcons’ 1-0 win (4-2 on PKs) over rival Mill Creek Coach Mark Karen’s take: “Sabrina is playing goalkeeper for only her second season in her entire life. I asked her to come try out last year as she is a great athlete in softball and basketball with good hands. She took to it very well and was our starting goalkeeper five games into the season last year.

In 3 1/2 games played so far this season, including the entire Mill Creek game, Sabrina has made 42 saves and has yet to give up a goal for a 0.00 goals against average.

She saved one of the penalty kicks against Mill Creek.”

FANS CHOICE MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Who: Brandon Wischmeier School: North Gwinnett Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Highlights: Made two penalty-kick saves in North’s 2-1 win on PKs over Berkmar Coach Mike Wentzler’s take: “As a two-year starter, Brandon has been a tremendous presence in goal. Because of his superlative qualities as both a player and a person, his teammates voted him as captain for his senior year. Brandon is truly an exemplary leader both on and off the field, and his quick wit and endearing personality make him a fan favorite.”

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE W L T Pct Baltimore ...................... 0.....2.......1.. .000 Boston .......................... 0.....1.......0.. .000 Chicago ........................ 0.....1.......0.. .000 Cleveland ...................... 0.....2.......1.. .000 Detroit ........................... 2.....2.......0.. .500 Houston ........................ 1.....0.......0.1.000 Kansas City .................. 0.....2.......0.. .000 Los Angeles .................. 1.....1.......0.. .500 Minnesota ..................... 1.....0.......0.1.000 New York ....................... 1.....1.......0.. .500 Oakland ........................ 0.....1.......0.. .000 Seattle........................... 2.....0.......0.1.000 Tampa Bay .................... 1.....1.......0.. .500 Texas ............................ 2.....0.......0.1.000 Toronto .......................... 2.....0.......1.1.000 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L T Pct Arizona ......................... 1.....1.......0.. .500 Atlanta .......................... 1.....1.......1.. .500 Chicago ........................ 0.....1.......0.. .000 Cincinnati ...................... 2.....0.......1.1.000 Colorado ....................... 1.....1.......0.. .500 Los Angeles .................. 1.....0.......0.1.000 Miami ............................ 0.....1.......0.. .000 Milwaukee ..................... 2.....0.......0.1.000 New York ....................... 0.....1.......0.. .000 Philadelphia .................. 1.....2.......1.. .333 Pittsburgh...................... 1.....2.......0.. .333 San Diego ..................... 0.....2.......0.. .000 San Francisco ............... 1.....1.......0.. .500 St. Louis ........................ 1.....0.......0.1.000 Washington ................... 2.....0.......0.1.000 Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 11, Baltimore 4 NY Yankees 10, Detroit 9 Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 3 Minnesota 7, Boston 4 Washington 6, Tampa Bay 2 Philadelphia 4, Toronto 4 San Francisco 4, LA Angels 1 Cleveland 4, Cincinnati 4 Texas 6, Kansas City 2 Arizona 6, Colorado 3 Seattle 7, San Diego 0 Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay 10, Baltimore 3 Detroit 8, Atlanta 2 Houston 3, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 4, Miami 3 Washington 9, NY Mets 4 Philadelphia 13, NY Yankees 4 Toronto 10, Pittsburgh 8 Milwaukee 8, San Francisco 7

Milwaukee 2, Chi. Cubs 1 LA Dodgers 6, Chi. White Sox 1 Cincinnati 9, Cleveland 1 Texas 10, Kansas City 0 Colorado 6, Arizona 5 LA Angels 8, Oakland 2 Seattle 6, San Diego 5 Boston at Minnesota, late Today’s Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

NY Yankees at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Houston, 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 1:05 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Miami at NY Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Chi. White Sox, 3:05 p.m.

Colorado at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

LA Angels at Chi. Cubs, 3:05 p.m.

LA Dodgers at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 3:05 p.m.

Seattle at Milwaukee, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at Arizona, 3:10 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto ................... 40 ..19......678....... — Boston ................... 37 ..25......597......4.5 New York ................ 25 ..37......403.... 16.5 Brooklyn ................. 17 ..44......279.......24 Philadelphia ............. 8 ..53......131.......33 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami ..................... 34 ..26......567....... — Atlanta ................... 33 ..28......541...... 1.5 Charlotte ................ 32 ..28......533.........2 Washington ............ 30 ..30......500.........4 Orlando .................. 27 ..33......450.........7 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland ............... 42 ..17......712....... — Indiana ................... 32 ..29......525....... 11 Detroit .................... 31 ..30......508....... 12 Chicago ................. 30 ..30......500.... 12.5 Milwaukee .............. 25 ..36......410....... 18 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio ........... 51 ....9......850....... — Memphis ................ 36 ..24......600....... 15 Dallas..................... 33 ..28......541.... 18.5 Houston ................. 30 ..31......492.... 21.5 New Orleans .......... 23 ..36......390.....27.5 Northwest Division

Golf PGA Tour Cadillac Championship Thursday Miami, Fla. Doral (par 72, 7543 yards) First Round

Marcus Fraser....................33-33 .....— ....66..... -6 Scott Piercy........................31-35......— ....66..... -6 Phil Mickelson ....................32-35 .....— ....67..... -5 Jason Dufner .....................34-34 .....— ....68..... -4 Charley Hoffman ................34-34 .....— ....68..... -4

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City ....... 42 ..19......689....... — Portland ................. 33 ..29......532......9.5 Utah ....................... 28 ..32......467.... 13.5 Denver ................... 24 ..37......393....... 18 Minnesota .............. 19 ..42..... .311.......23 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State .......... 54 ....5......915....... — L.A. Clippers .......... 40 ..20......667.... 14.5 Sacramento ........... 24 ..35......407.......30 Phoenix.................. 15 ..45......250....39.5 L.A. Lakers ............. 12 ..50......194....43.5 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 102, Chicago 89 Charlotte 119, Philadelphia 99 Boston 116, Portland 93 Toronto 104, Utah 94 Houston 100, New Orleans 95 Memphis 104, Sacramento 98 Indiana 104, Milwaukee 99 Washington 104, Minnesota 98 San Antonio 97, Detroit 81 Denver 117, L.A. Lakers 107 L.A. Clippers 103, Oklahoma City 98 Thursday’s Games Phoenix at Miami, late San Antonio at New Orleans, late Sacramento at Dallas, late Oklahoma City at Golden State, late Today’s Games Indiana at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Portland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Utah at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at Denver, 9 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

College Thursday’s Games EAST American U. 69, Boston U 64 Army 79, Colgate 72 Lehigh 65, Navy 63 Longwood 75, Charleston Southern 69 Louisiana Tech 97, Marshall 94 Maryland 81, Illinois 55 Presbyterian 65, Radford 64 Rhode Island 68, Massachusetts 50 Rider 60, Quinnipiac 57 Temple 72, Memphis 62 SOUTH Appalachian St. 69, Arkansas-Little Rock 63 Austin Peay 74, Tennessee St. 72 Florida Gulf Coast 89, North Florida 56 Gardner-Webb 79, Campbell 69

Adam Scott ........................34-34 .....— ....68..... -4 Danny Willett ......................36-32 .....— ....68..... -4 Jordan Spieth ....................35-34 .....— ....69..... -3 Jimmy Walker ....................34-35 .....— ....69..... -3 Bubba Watson ...................36-33 .....— ....69..... -3 Jamie Donaldson ...............37-33 ......— ....70..... -2 Rickie Fowler .....................34-36 .....— ....70..... -2 Matt Kuchar .......................35-35 .....— ....70..... -2 Anirban Lahiri ....................34-36 .....— ....70..... -2 Hideki Matsuyama .............36-34 .....— ....70..... -2 Paul Casey ........................37-34 ......— ....71..... -1 Harris English ....................36-35 .....— ....71..... -1 Zach Johnson ....................34-37 .....— ....71..... -1 Smylie Kaufman ................37-34 ......— ....71..... -1 K.T. Kim .............................35-36 .....— ....71..... -1

Georgia 74, South Carolina 72 Middle Tennessee St. 76, Florida Atlantic 59 Sam Houston St. 94, Lamar 76 Stetson 96, Lipscomb 75 UAB 77, Florida International 60 Bethune-Cookman at South Carolina MIDWEST Loyola-Chicago 74, Bradley 66 Today’s Games EAST Yale (20-6) at Cornell (9-17), 6 p.m.

Brown (8-18) at Columbia (20-9), 7 p.m.

Pennsylvania (11-14) at Dartmouth (9-17), 7 p.m.

Princeton (20-5) at Harvard (12-16), 7 p.m.

SOUTH Liberty (13-18) vs. N.C. Asheville (19-11), at Buies Creek, NC, 2 p.m.

VMI (9-20) vs. Samford (13-18), at Ashevillle, NC, 5 p.m.

Drexel (5-24) vs. Elon University (16-15), at Baltimore, MD, 6 p.m.

The Citadel (10-21) vs. Mercer (18-13), at Ashevillle, NC, 7:30 p.m.

Delaware (7-22) vs. Charleston (16-13), at Baltimore, MD, 8:30 p.m.

MIDWEST Southern Illinois (22-9) vs. Northern Iowa (19-12), at St. Louis, MO, 3:30 p.m.

Kent St. (19-11) at Akron (23-7), 7 p.m.

Ball St. (19-11) at Northern Illinois (19-11), 7 p.m.

Ohio (19-10) at Miami (OH) (12-18), 7 p.m.

Buffalo (16-14) at Bowling Green (14-16), 7 p.m.

Western Michigan (12-18) at Central Michigan (17-13), 7 p.m.

Eastern Michigan (16-14) at Toledo (17-13), 7 p.m.

Texas (19-11) at Oklahoma St. (12-18), 9 p.m.

Indiana St. (14-16) vs. Illinois St. (18-13), at St. Louis, MO, 9:30 p.m.

Hockey National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida............... 63 . 36 .19....8.. 80 174 148 Tampa Bay ........ 63 . 37 .22....4.. 78 175 151 Boston .............. 65 . 36 .23....6.. 78 201 178 Detroit ............... 64 . 32 .21.. 11.. 75 163 168 Ottawa .............. 64 . 30 .27....7.. 67 188200 Montreal............ 64 . 30 .28....6.. 66 175 178 Buffalo............... 64 . 25 .31....8.. 58 148 172 Toronto .............. 62 . 21 .31..10.. 52 149 185 Metropolitan Division

Russell Knox ......................36-35 .....— ....71..... -1 Brooks Koepka ..................35-36 .....— ....71..... -1 Danny Lee .........................36-35 .....— ....71..... -1 Shane Lowry......................37-34 ......— ....71..... -1 Rory McIlroy.......................37-34 ......— ....71..... -1 Henrik Stenson ..................35-36 .....— ....71..... -1 Andy Sullivan .....................35-36 .....— ....71..... -1 George Coetzee ................37-35 ......— ....72..... E Jason Day ..........................37-35 ......— ....72..... E Billy Horschel .....................38-34 .....— ....72..... E Dustin Johnson ..................36-36 .....— ....72..... E Soren Kjeldsen ..................34-38 .....— ....72..... E Kevin Na ............................34-38 .....— ....72..... E Robert Streb ......................36-36 .....— ....72..... E Bernd Wiesberger ..............37-35 ......— ....72..... E

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington ....... 63 . 47 .12....4.. 98 208146 NY Rangers ...... 63 . 37 .20....6.. 80 180159 NY Islanders ..... 61 . 34 .20....7.. 75 174151 Pittsburgh.......... 62 . 32 .22....8.. 72 167160 Philadelphia ...... 62 . 29 .22.. 11.. 69 157168 Carolina ............ 65 . 29 .26..10.. 68 158 174 New Jersey ....... 64 . 30 .27....7.. 67 140156 Columbus ......... 64 . 26 .30....8.. 60 167196 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago ............ 66 . 40 .21....5.. 85 187159 Dallas................ 65 . 38 .20....7.. 83 209 189 St. Louis ............ 66 . 37 .20....9.. 83 166162 Nashville ........... 64 . 32 .21.. 11.. 75 172161 Minnesota ......... 64 . 29 .25..10.. 68 170162 Colorado ........... 65 . 32 .29....4.. 68 175187 Winnipeg........... 62 . 26 .32....4.. 56 161186 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles ...... 62 . 37 .21....4.. 78 165143 Anaheim ........... 62 . 35 .19....8.. 78 156146 San Jose........... 62 . 34 .22....6.. 74 188167 Vancouver ......... 62 . 24 .26..12.. 60 150178 Arizona ............. 63 . 27 .30....6.. 60 168198 Calgary ............. 63 . 26 .33....4.. 56 170197 Edmonton ......... 65 . 24 .34....7.. 55 158194 Wednesday’s Games Washington 3, Toronto 2 Chicago 5, Detroit 2 Anaheim 3, Montreal 2, SO Thursday’s Games Boston 4, Chicago 2 Calgary at Buffalo, late Edmonton at Philadelphia, late NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, late Minnesota at Toronto, late Tampa Bay at Ottawa, late New Jersey at Nashville, late NY Islanders at Winnipeg, late Florida at Colorado, late Anaheim at Arizona, late San Jose at Vancouver, late Montreal at Los Angeles, late Today’s Games NY Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS--Assigned SG R.J. Hunter to Maine (NBADL).

DENVER NUGGETS--Signed SG Axel Toupane to a 10-day contract.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS--NBA fined SF

Chris Wood ........................36-36 .....— ....72..... E Rafael Cabrera Bello..........36-37 .....— ....73..... +1 Victor Dubuisson................36-37 .....— ....73..... +1 Sergio Garcia .....................36-37 .....— ....73..... +1 Branden Grace ..................38-35 .....— ....73..... +1 Marc Leishman ..................36-37 .....— ....73..... +1 Charl Schwartzel ...............37-36 ......— ....73..... +1 Byeong-Hun An .................36-38 .....— ....74 ..... +2 Bill Haas ............................36-38 .....— ....74 ..... +2 David Lingmerth ................39-35 .....— ....74 ..... +2 Graeme McDowell .............37-37 ......— ....74 ..... +2 Louis Oosthuizen ...............40-34 .....— ....74 ..... +2 Kiradech Aphibarnrat .........40-35 .....— ....75..... +3 Daniel Berger .....................38-37 .....— ....75..... +3 Fabian Gomez ...................39-36 .....— ....75..... +3

Jerami Grant $10,000 for a water bottle throwing incident on February 29, 2016.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL MD BALTIMORE CTY--Fired head coach Aki Thomas.

MANHATTAN--Signed head coach Steve Maslello to a four-year contract extension.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS--Announced G Darrell Bowie has left the program and will transfer to another school.

PACIFIC--Fired assistant coach Dwight Young. Fired head coach Ron Verlin.

STANFORD--Suspended G Christian Sanders indefinitely for violating team rules.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS--Made qualifying offer to DT Josh Mauro, TE Ifeanyi Momah, S Tony Jefferson, S D.J. Swearinger, and WR Jaron Brown.

BALTIMORE RAVENS--Cut LB Daryl Smith and DL Chris Canty.

CAROLINA PANTHERS--Cut DE Charles Johnson, DT Dwan Edwards, and T Nate Chandler. Re-signed G Chris Scott to a one-year contract.

DALLAS COWBOYS--Cut T Cody Clay, WR Donte Foster, RB Michael Hill, and DE Efe Obada.

HOUSTON TEXANS--Cut RB Arian Foster, TE Garrett Graham, and S Rahim Moore.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS--Made a qualifying offer to TE Jack Doyle.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS--Cut G Zane Beadles and DE Chris Clemons.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS--Cut LB Donald Butler, RB Donald Brown, and LB Kavell Conner. Waived LB Chi Chi Ariguzo.

TENNESSEE TITANS--Re-signed RB Antonio Andrews to a one-year contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS--Signed QB Kirk Cousins to a one-year, $19.953 million contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS--Recalled RW Stefan Noesen from San Diego (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS--Signed RW Kyle Baun to a two-year contract extension.

DALLAS STARS--Recalled RW Brett Ritchie from Texas (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS--NHL fined C Joseph Blandisi and RW Devante Smith-Pelly $2,000 for embellishment.

SAN JOSE SHARKS--Assigned G Aaron Dell to San Jose (AHL). Recalled D Dylan Demelo and C Micheal Haley from San Jose (AHL). Signed LW Adam Helewka to an entry-level contract.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS--Recalled LW Brendan Leipsic from Toronto (AHL).

Scott Hend .........................38-37 .....— ....75..... +3 Kevin Kisner.......................39-36 .....— ....75..... +3 Justin Rose ........................37-38 ......— ....75..... +3 Justin Thomas ...................36-39 .....— ....75..... +3 Jordan Zunic ......................37-38 ......— ....75..... +3 Ross Fisher........................39-37 .....— ....76 ..... +4 Matthew Fitzpatrick ............38-38 .....— ....76 ..... +4 Emiliano Grillo ...................40-36 .....— ....76 ..... +4 Martin Kaymer ...................37-39 ......— ....76 ..... +4 Yusaku Miyazato ................38-38 .....— ....76 ..... +4 Brandt Snedeker ................39-37 .....— ....76 ..... +4 J.B. Holmes........................40-37 .....— ....77..... +5 Patrick Reed ......................38-39 .....— ....77..... +5 Steven Bowditch ................40-41 .....— ....81..... +9 Nathan Holman..................44-38 .....— ....82..... +10

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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross, Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit: Applicant/Owner: RAJ NAGI Registered Agent: RAJ NAGI Business Name: Citgo Food Mart Location: 5395 Buford Hwy Suite A Norcross, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 0 4 8 3 2 , 3/4,9,10,11,16,17,18,23, 24,25 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2015-09-031 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: March 15, 2016 7:00 P.M. Retail/ PackPURPOSE: age: Wine, & Malt Beverage APPLICANT: Express Point 2, LLC DBA: Express Food Mart 3426 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-405388, 3/4 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2015-09-029 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: March 15, 2016 7:00 P.M. Consumption PURPOSE: on the Premise: Wine, Distilled Spirits & Malt Beverage APPLICANT: Pub Ten Inc 5270 Peachtree Pkwy, Ste 118 B Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-405397, 3/4 CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2015-09-030 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: March 15, 2016 7:00 P.M. Consumption PURPOSE: on the Premise: Wine, & Malt Beverage APPLICANT: PK International Food Merchant Inc DBA: Royal Bistro 6365 Spalding Dr, Ste A Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-405393, 3/4

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON MARCH 12, 2016. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 12 MARZO 2016 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com 2007 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEU46F37H162604 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG564XYA044014 2002 Mercedes-Benz C230 WDBRN47J42A375934 2002 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 1D7HA18Z92S521109 2000 Nissan Quest 4N2XN11T3YD834800 2010 Nissan Altima 1N4AL2AP4AN553750 1998 Infiniti I30 JNKCA21A8WT630495 1998 BMW 323is WBABF732XWEH40471 1996 Toyota Camry 4T1BG12KXTU676036 2001 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31D41T628062 2004 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR32E64Z204854 1998 Jeep Cherokee 1J4FT68S3WL202505 2009 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB61E09L652809 2001 Volvo Cross Country YV1SZ58D511036209 1998 Acura 3.5 RL JH4KA9669WC012028 2004 Dodge Durango 1D4HD48N84F119533 1999 Nissan Altima 1N4DL01D3XC200749 1997 Acura Integra JH4DC4454VS004343 2005 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL46X55N686590 2005 Hyundai Accent KMHCG45C05U617042 1995 Honda Accord 1HGCE6665SA031790 2003 Hyundai Elantra KMHDN45D13U565954 2005 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11E35N460460 2004 Honda Accord 1HGCM82694A000260 2005 Lincoln LS 1LNHM87A35Y616154 *** REBUILT ***

1995 Chevrolet C1500 2GBEC19K0S1289464 2005 Ford Five Hundred 1FAFP24175G111928 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe 1GNEC13T2YJ137415 2000 Ford Expedition 1FMFU16L0YLC27779 2003 Saturn L300 1G8JW54R13Y521236 1992 Lexus LS 400 JT8UF11E6N0133478 2001 Mitsubishi Montero Sport JA4MT31R11P052103 2003 Land Rover Discovery Series II SALTR16483A804380 1997 Honda Accord 1HGCD5555VA248492 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AF5F50A7166913 1993 Honda Accord 1HGCB7570PA051929 1998 Isuzu Hombre 1GGCS1445W8670386 1997 Great Dane Trailer 1GRAA0625VW001214 1998 Ford F-150 1FTZX0763WKC16192 2003 Ford Taurus 1FAFP53UX3A192999 928-405424, 3/4,11 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 3/1/16 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 1420 S. Hairston Rd., Stone Mountain, Ga on 2/24/16, at the request of the property owner or manager.

2007 Chevrolet Impala VIN# 2G1WT58N479324723 Tag# PJU2025 GA 928-405409, 3/4,11 PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF DACULA The public is hereby notified that the Mayor and City Council have scheduled a Workshop to discuss the road and sewer infrastructure of the City of Dacula. A quorum will be present. The workshop has been scheduled for Monday March 14th, 2016 at 4:00 PM at Dacula City Hall, 442 Harbins Road, Dacula, Georgia 30019.

928-405438, 3/4

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on March 17, 2016 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28138 3679 McElroy Rd Doraville, GA. 30340 (770) 452-8144 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A110–Isidore, Angeleah C021–Johnson, Mark D033–Butler, Takiya D035–moreno, Alen E023–Mbogaa, Abdallah E088–Maddox, Julian F867–Linder, Anthony PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28149 3055 Jones Mill Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30071 (770) 447-9755 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 10–Graham, John 181–Torres, Erick 258–Erwin, Sherrie 273–Jones, Pavin 306–LUVIANO, GLORIA 414–Barbosa, Elpidio 416–Baah, Ernest 425–Brown, Sharon 82–Ikipefua, Christopher PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29104 3265 Holcomb Bridge Rd Peachtree Corners, GA. 30092 (770) 449-0384 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1223–Sands, Bianca R 2200–Blackwell, Matt 2410–Trust, Ryan 2513–Gainer, Tracy 3514–Rayborn Ii, Leonard 3527–Reid, Derrick 3721–Carbonell, Christine 4504–Mims, Roman PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20171 6289 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30071 (770) 416-9275 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A048–Cohen, Frederick B028–Mooney, Joseph B058–JONES, UNITI C007–Booker, Tamarisk C008–Daniel, Leslie C020–Benjamin, Misha C058–Abraham, Alexus D069–Currie, Lepatrick D071–Cotton, Marguerite E023–Wicks, Nathaniel E081–Joyner, Shelby E095–Antaya, Stefanie E101–Mcafee, Clayvon E129–Mason, Manuelita E138–Baio, Louis F054–Barnes, Adam PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 28150 6770 Dawson Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 448-2130 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: D166–James, Jellyca E114–Rhymes, Hope E175A–Dunn, Kim F157–villalobos, eduardo G167–Johnson, Adrian G193–Christian, Travis H207–Kawaihae, Diana J115–Williams, marcus J207–Simpkins, Pamela J234–Gonzalez, Isabel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on March 18 , 2016 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 20489 6000 Lawrenceville Hwy. Tucker, GA. 30084 (770) 923-9400 TIME: 9:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A003–Johnson, Eddie C045–King, Alfonso C089–Ulysses, Thomas E015–Wirtanen, Christopher E058–banks, eric E115–Emanuel, Wayne F001–Tucker, Stanley PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 08049 5010 Jimmy Carter Blvd Norcross, GA. 30093 (770) 446-8358 TIME: 10:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 0215–WILLIS, BARRY 0409–Johnson, Jefferson 0421–Setia, Rajiv 0436–Roberts, Jonathan 0449–Chambers, Chad 0528–Simmons, Tracy 0706–Jones, Latarsha 0823–White, Furman 0921–MARTINEZ, ROSALBA 1109–Stewart, Annette 1144–Jaenke, Angela PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 29135 1755 Indian Trail Rd Norcross, GA. 30093 (678) 924-0203 TIME: 10:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: 1025–Thompson, Tammy 1118–Echols Jr, Ramon 1202–De Marros, Marco 1227–Byrd, Regina 1273–Pringle, Willeon 1331–McCree, Alysha 1332–Cleggett, Jeremy 2093–Clivens, Jwayne 2113–Holloway, Maurice 2125–Knight, Rhonda 2246–JOHN, CYRE 2258–Beasley, Rachel 2287–bell, maurice 2292–Moore, Krystal 2387–Jones, Melissa 2399–McClendon, Andra 3104–Shepherd, Lawrence 3154–Jennings, Jasmine 3162–ALEXANDER, MAYE 3171–Vaughan, Andrew 3231–MARSH, ANGELA 3315–reed, willard reed 3352–Richardson, Takiyah 3365–Noland, Victoria B005–Wooten, Tedreal C012–Hinds, radcliffe C018–Hinds, radcliffe D007–Hinds, radcliffe E009–Banks, Marilyn E023–BINEY, DANIEL E050–Johnson, Dominique PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 24346 615 Indian Trail Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-0498 TIME: 11:00 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A002–D/B/A FRAMES A004–Wright, Frederick A011–foote, Tyrone A054–Lockhart, Patricia A061–Willis, Lashundra B074–Ramos, Frances B081–Austin, Shirley D021–Candley, Allison D040–Dunn 2, Lorenzo E020–Baker, DesmonVehicle PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 21901 95 Arcado Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-9211 TIME: 11:30 AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: B017–Gordon, Marvis B069–Robinson, Kimberly B083–Fitzpatrick, Rachel C016–Hobley Jr, Pernell C017–Myles, Benjamin C032–Williams, Michaele C053–Yarbrough, Jeffrey D011–Williams, Robert D012–Price, Sonja D040–Brown, Meredith D056–Nolley, Doreen E018–Martin, Kirnic F020–Hepburn, Chamar PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 23106 460 Beaver Ruin Rd Lilburn, GA. 30047 (770) 638-1196 TIME: 12:00 PM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: D214–PETRO, MICHAEL D244–Wheeler, Mark D245–Rodriguez, Anthony E310–Bullard, James E312–Clayton, Stevan E320–Ledezma, Luis E336–Hill, Valsherri E350–MYERS, JOYEE E361–Rodriguez, Ruben F436–Bland-Porter, Charmaine F484–Ware, Russa G526–MOORE, PETE G531–Johnson, Paul G538–frazier, shante All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 2nd and 9th day of March 2016

by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-403897, 3/2,9 PUBLIC AUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 TWINS AUTO REPAIR, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2006 DODGE CARAVAN 1D4GP24R46B560425 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON MARCH 11, 2016 AT 10 AM. AT 3568 BUFORD HWY, BLDG B, STE 102 DULUTH, GA 30096 --7329 929-403447, 2/26,3/4 There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, March 19th,2016 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows : 1. 2003 Mercedes-Benz C230 W D B R N 40J03A493264 2. 1996 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNCS13W8T2152637 3.

2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer 1GNDS13S722430816

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 4. 1993 Toyota Corolla 2T1AE04E0PC027162 5. 2003 Nissan Murano JN8AZ08T83W118957 6. 2001 Cadillac DeVille 1G6KD54Y61U215910 7. 1992 Buick Regal 2G4WB54T5N1449137 8. 2007 Wabash Trailer 1JJV532W67L021025 9. 2005 Honda Accord 3HGCM56455G712940 10. 1998 Mazda Protégé JM1BC1414W0228763 11. 1997 Acura CL 19UYA1256VL005998 12. 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan 1 D 8 G P24R65B407218 13. 1992 Acura Legend JH4KA7664NC023618 14. 1993 Buick Regal 2G4WB54L0P1479570 15. 2009 Mazda RX-8 JM1FE17P890402110 16. 2002 Dodge Neon 1B3ES56C22D604127 17. 2009 Buick LaCrosse 2G4WC582091105140 18. 2005 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WF52E759122584 19. 1991 Buick Park Avenue 1 G 4 C W53L4M1652789 20. 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU64K42UD45937 21. 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GZ78Y9TC176243 22. 1996 Acura 3.2 TL JH4UA3653TC008579 23. 1998 Ford Taurus 1FAFP53S6WA187317 24. 1997 Mazda B2300 4F4CR12A9VTM11490 25. 1998 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E6WZ093309 26. 2006 Nissan Murano JN8AZ08W86W523358 27.

2008 Dodge Grand Caravan 2D8HN44H58R755482 28. 2000 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K1YU978490 29. 2002 Dodge Neon 1B3AS46C82D571384 30. 1989 Jeep Wagoneer 1J4GS5873KP102291 31. 2000 Buick LeSabre 1G4HP54K9Y4135601 32. 2001 Toyota 4Runner JT3GN87R110201124 33. 2000 Ford Expedition 1FMPU18L8YLA42817 34. 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis M E F M 75W9YX657833 35. 2001 Acura CL 19UYA42651A008682 36. 1981 GMC 1500 1GTDC14H5BF711904 37. 2004 Chevrolet Impala 2G1SP521X49163252 38. 2003 Honda Civic 2HGES26723H542489 39. 2004 Toyota Tundra 5TBET34114S446414 40. 1995 Toyota 4Runner JT3VN39W7S8075237 41. 2006 Kia Optima KNAGD126065455840 42.

2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4 A 3 A C 34G71E143646 43. 2001 Ford Taurus 1FAFP55S41A133620 44. 1997 Honda Civic 2HGEJ6674VH660946 45. 2000 Lexus LS400 JT8BH28F2Y0167637 46. 1997 Jaguar XJ6 SAJHX1240VC795482 47. 1998 Ford Truck 1FTZX17W7WNC37941 48. 2000 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNDT13W0Y2383492 49. 2004 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AB36F34E114821 50. 1997 Honda Accord 1HGCD5634VA254572 51. 1998 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K2WU380339 52. 1994 Oldsmobile 1G3HN52L1R4804970 53. 1993 Honda Civic JHMEH9590PS010874 54. 2004 Ford Explorer 1FMZU63K54UA68428 55. 2001 Oldsmobile Alero 1G3NF52E11C153609 56.

2001 Volkswagen Passat WVWAC63B21P016219 57. 2009 Chevy Aveo KL1TD56E89B390890 58. 2003 Cadillac Cts 1G6DM57NX30100280 59. 2007 Ford Focus 1FAFP34N17W11189 60. 2004 Mercury Sable 1MEFM50U14A618781 929-405431, 3/4,11,18

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FORECLOSURES NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF GWINNETT Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained with that certain Security Deed dated May 8, 2009, from Leron Origgio McPherson to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for AmericaHomeKey, Inc., recorded on May 18, 2009 in Deed Book 49479 at Page 760, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, having been last sold, assigned, transferred and conveyed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. by Assignment and said Security Deed having been given to secure a note dated May 8, 2009, in the amount of $155,908.00, said note being in default, the undersigned will sell at public outcry during the legal hours of sale before the door of the courthouse of Gwinnett County, Georgia, on April 5, 2016, the following described real property (hereinafter referred to as the “Property”): ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT 5 OF THE 7TH DISTRICT, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA, BEING LOT 33, OF BENNINGTON SQUARE TOWNHOMES, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT OF SURVEY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 120, PAGES 190-192, GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA RECORDS, WHICH PLAT IS INCORPORATED HEREIN FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. The debt secured by the Security Deed and evidenced by the Note and has been, and is hereby, declared due and payable because of, among other possible events of default, failure to make the payments as required by the terms of the Note. The debt remaining is in default and this sale will be made for the purposes of paying the Security Deed, accrued interest, and all expenses of the sale, including attorneys’ fees. Notice of intention to collect attorneys’ fees has been given as provided by law. To the best of the undersigned’s knowledge, the person(s) in possession of the property is/are Leron Origgio McPherson.

The property, being commonly known as 1880 Garbrooke Cove, Lawrenceville, GA, 30045 in Gwinnett County, will be sold as the property of Leron Origgio McPherson, subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien and not yet due and payable), any matters affecting title to the property which would be disclosed by accurate survey and inspection thereof, and all assessments, liens, encumbrances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record to the Security Deed. Pursuant to O.C.G.A.Section 44-14162.2, the name, address and telephone number of the individual or entity who shall have the full authority to negotiate, amend or modify all terms of the above described mortgage is as follows: Carrington Mortgage Services, 1600 South Douglass Road, Suite 200-A, Anaheim, CA 92806, 949-517-5057. The foregoing notwithstanding, nothing in O.C.G.A. Section 44-14-162.2 shall require the secured creditor to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the mortgage instrument.

The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under U.S. Bankruptcy code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed. Albertelli Law Attorney for BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. as Attorney in Fact for Leron Origgio McPherson 100 Galleria Parkway, Suite 960 Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: (866) 690-0418 By: Jim Albertelli, Esq. For the Firm THIS FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.–16-001359 A-4564610 03/03/2016, 03/10/2016, 03/17/2016, 03/24/2016, 03/31/2016 9 5 0 - 4 0 5 1 6 6 , 3/4,10,17,24,31

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BY PUBLICATION IN THE STATE COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA CIVIL ACTION NO. 16-C-00429-S5 ANGELA STEPHENS Plaintiff vs.

LUCILLE ALLEN, individually and LUCILLE ALLEN, in her capacity as Partner of MO’MONEY TAXES, LLC and Lucille Allen d/b/a MO’MONEY TAXES, LLC, and MO’ MONEY TAXES, INC., Defendants NOTICE OF PUBLICATION TO: LUCILLE ALLEN, individually and LUCILLE ALLEN, in her capacity as Partner of MO’ MONEY TAXES, LLC, and Lucille Allen d/b/a MO’ MONEY TAXES, LLC and MO’ MONEY TAXES, INC.

BY ORDER for service by publication dated February 11, 2016, you are hereby notified that on Janaury 27, 2016 Plaintiff filed a Petition for Scire Facias and the Court issued a Writ of Scire Facias to Revive Dormant Judgment on February 11, 2016.

Defendants are hereby required, personally or by attorney, to be and appear at the next term of court to be held in and for said county, on June 07, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 2E, Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046, to SHOW CAUSE why a certain Judgment, rendered on September 26, 2008 and amended on October 07, 2008 in Gwinnett State Court, for the sum of $35,680.00 plus post-judgment interest at the rate of twelve percent (12%), plus $2,500.00 in attorney fees and all costs, should not be revived.

WITNESS, the Honorable Pamela D. South, Judge of this State Court. /s/ Deputy Clerk, State Court For: Hon. Richard T. Alexander, Clerk 930-401334, 2/18,19,25, 26,3/3,4,10,11,17,18,24,25, 31,4/1,7,8

FULL TIME 45 temp/full time Finishers needed for Rou Full Services Painting, LLC. Lawrenceville, GA @ rfserpaint@hotmail. com, from 04/01/1612/31/16 to work mult worksites within Gwinnett County, transport provided to and from worksites from a central location, no education req., 2 mo. exp. req. $11.95 hr. no O/T 8am5pm Mon-Fri. wkly pay all deductions required by law will be made.

Grind, sand, or polish a variety of metal, wood, stone, to correct defects or prepare surfaces, using, hand tools or hand-power tools. The employer will provide workers at no charge, all tools, supplies, & equip. req. to perform the job. Employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least ¾ of the workdays in each 12 wk period of the total employment period. Transport (including meals and; to the extent necessary, lodging) to place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes ½ of the work period.

Return transport will be provided if worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer. Apply at your nearest SWA office, typically: Georgia Department of Labor, Norcross, GA 30071 fax (770) 613-4843. Job# 163585013 Ad pd by E.O.E.

FULL TIME

62 temp/full time Laborers needed for Rou Full Services Painting, LLC. Lawrenceville, GA @ rfserpaint@hotmail.com, from 04/01/16-12/31/16 to work mult worksites within Gwinnett County, transport provided to and from worksites from a central location, no education req., 6 mo. exp. req. $12.61 hr. no O/T 8am-5pm Mon-Fri. wkly pay all deductions required by law will be made. Perform tasks involving physical labor at commercial projects: manually move freight, stock, or other materials or perform other general labor. The employer will provide workers at no charge, all tools, supplies, & equip. req. to perform the job. Employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least ¾ of the workdays in each 12 wk period of the total employment period. Transport (including meals and; to the extent necessary, lodging) to place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes ½ of the work period.

Return transport will be provided if worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer. Apply at your nearest SWA office, typically: Georgia Department of Labor, Norcross, GA 30071 fax (770) 613-4843. Job# 163781083 Ad pd by E.O.E. ABOVE ALL TREE SERVICE is now hiring for CDL Drivers/Workers and Climbers. Top pay with experience. Team players with great attitudes.

We have our own crane and bucket trucks.

This is a 17 year old business, we work year round. Call 678-7945254, fax 770-922-9852 or abovealltreeserviceinc@gmail.com CONSTRUCTION

TRIM CARPENTER/ DOOR INSTALLER WANTED Experienced only.

Must have own tools & transportation.

Call 770-446-1196.

Performs a variety of semiskilled and skilled building trades work in the repair, maintenance or construction of state buildings and related structures. Installs and maintains security, climate control, and other facilities systems. May serve as lead worker and/ or supervise support staff.

Minimum Qualifications Two years of experience in building repairs and maintenance or in the specific area of assignment OR One year of experience at the lower level (FET030) or position equivalent.

Note: Some positions may require area specific certifications/licenses.

Note: Applicants that previously applied from DNR Vacancy Announcement # 07-2016 are still being considered and do not need to re-apply.

If interested in applying for this position, please submit an electronic DNR Application for Employment to the e-mail address below or mail a completed DNR Application for Employment to the following address: Georgia Department of Natural Resources Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division ATTN: Michelle McLaurin 1463 Knox Chapel Rd. Social Circle, GA 30025 parks4@dnr.ga.gov DNR Applications for Employment can be found at the following link: http://www. gadnr.org/ careers?cat=inside_ dnr Position # 00098891 Job Code: FET031 Paygrade F Entry Salary: $24,322.01

Pittman Dental Laboratory Gainesville, GA Has immediate openings for Entry Level or Experienced Dental Technicians for Day or Night Shift. Please send resume to careers@ pittmandental.com.

No phone calls please.

Concessions Staff Kitchen Staff Cleaning Personnel Parking Attendants Security Guards Please visit www. gwinnettbraves.com for instructions on how to apply now.

HVAC SERVICE TECHNICIANS Well established HVAC Co. is hiring.

Must be EPA Cert., have Clean MVR, own tools, be reliable, clean & professional, have strong communication skills.

Call 404-324-6539 or email resumes to rwaye72@gmail.com LEGAL ASSISTANT NEEDED Established Peachtree Corners law firm is seeking a LEGAL ASSISTANT With experience in litigation, especially domestic work. Must be a self-starter and have very good typing and organizational skills. Letters of recommendation required. Salary is negotiable based on experience.

FAX RESUME TO 770-449-5395 with your contact info to schedule an interview.

NOW HIRING Immediate Openings If you are interested in working for an energetic team and A fast paced environment Rockdale Healthcare Center Is Seeking Applicants for

RN to work 11PM-7AM LPN’S, CNA’S Chefs, Servers, Dietary Aides, Activities Assistant FT Occupational Therapist Please Email Resume to agrace@rockdalehc. com or ycolbert@ rockdalehc.com Or apply within @ 1510 Renaissance Drive NE Conyers, GA 30012

• Appliances Included • Buford City Schools

POLICE OFFICER The City of Winder is accepting applications for Certified Police Officer with the Police Department.

Competitive salary $36,582 - $45,003 and benefits, Deferred Income Program, paid vacations, holidays, comprehensive medical plans, vision, dental insurance, Life Insurance, critical insurance, take home vehicle program, and a Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Must be able to work a 12 hour shifts including on-call status, nights, weekends, holidays, court dates, and overtime.

Education Incentive Addition Annually • Associates Degree $2,600.00 • Bachelor’s Degree $3,900.00

POLICE RECRUIT The City of Winder is accepting applications for Police Recruit.

Salary upon Successful Completion of Academy with an Associates Degree: $36,582.00 + $2,600.00 Education Incentive Annually.

Education Incentive Addition • Bachelor’s Degree $3900.00 For an application and the minimum qualifications for each position, please visit our website at www. cityofwinder.com.

Applications must be completed for these positions.

Resumes along with applications can be submitted to the HR Department at the City of Winder located at 45 E. Athens Street Winder, Ga. 30680.

The City of Winder is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PART-TIME

CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANTS Needed for home care in Gwinnett County. Please call 770-266-5955.

Vacancy Ann # 10-2016 Deadline Date: 03/15/2016

Dental Technicians

EVENT STAFF WANTED

$61,995 BEAUTIFUL & SPACIOUS 4BR/2BA HOME FOR SALE

Landscape Laborer 14 Openings. Temporary full-time. 4/01/16 - 12/15/16. Ruppert Landscape, Inc., Lilburn, GA. Landscape & maintain properties using tools or equipment.

Tasks may include sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, rake and blow leaves; seeding, mulching, hauling, and spreading topsoil, installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. No exp. or educ. nec. Will train. Must be able to lift 50 lbs, work in adverse weather conditions, and pass a post-employment drug test pay by the employer. $12.40/hr, O/T varies at $18.60/ hr. 40 hrs, M-F, possibly Saturdays, 7:00am4:00pm, hrs may fluctuate due to weather.

Share housing may be available, if used, a reasonable amount will be deducted from pay check. Transportation (including meals & to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the workers completes half the employment period. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. All work tools, supplies & equipment provided at no cost. Transportation provided daily from main office to the various work locations within Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton Counties. Apply directly with the employer. Fax resume to Paulina Santamaria at (770) 931-9006. Also apply at the nearest GA Workforce Agency at Jobs4GA@dol.state. ga.us and refer to Job Order No. GA8367895.

ROOFER/LABORER

COMMERCIAL ROOFING/ LABORERS: Built up roofing laborers, heavy lifting required, travel required, must have current valid drivers licenses, must have your own transportation, must be able to pass drug test and background check. E-Verify.

Serious inquires only. M - F 9 am to 4 pm.

Call 770-466-7665.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACT CARRIER, PT EARN EXTRA CA$H Part Time Independent Contract Carriers needed to deliver newspapers to residential Rockdale and Fayette County areas. Earn $1000 to $1500 per month(paid weekly). Must be able to cover fuel costs for the first week of operation. Contract position. 1099 issued at end of year. Hours 1:00am to 6:00am Mon - Sun (can vary slightly). Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, current insurance required. Must have your own substitute if you can’t deliver your route. Responses must be sent to: ajcfulfillmentadmins@ coxinc.com and should include name, zip code and phone number.

HOUSES FOR SALE COVINGTON, GA 30014

Sun Homes at Countryside Village of Gwinnett 888-500-1705 * Financing Avail.

Restrictions may apply. $299 12-Month Site Rent Incentive www.countryside gwinnett.com *Expires 02-29-16 WAC EHO

FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE CONYERS, GA 30094

REDUCED! LAND LOT! 3604 Sand Hill Dr. Imagine Your Dream Home Here & You Sitting In Your Sunroom Overlooking The 8Th Fairway Of Honey Creek Golf Course While Sipping Your Morning Coffee $22,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com DACULA, GA 30019

HOT LAND LOT! 0 DROWNING CREEK ROAD Gorgeous +/- 15.87 Acre Tract with 694 Feet of Road Frontage, Zoned RA200 $350,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com LOGANVILLE, GA 30052

GREAT INCOME POTENTIAL/ REDUCED 2 ACRES On McCullers Rd. in Loganville, GA 30052 Zoned A-1 Property has • Workshop • Duplex • Outbuilding $59,900 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com MONROE, GA 30656

32.53 ACRES BRING OFFERS! JIM DAWS ROAD Great 32.53 +/Acre Tract Zoned A2 Perfect for Livestock, Farming, Hunting, or Build Your Dream Home.

Property Has A 20 Foot Easement For Access. $211,445 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com LAKE/RIVER/COASTAL PROPERTY FOR SALE

2.18 ACRES LAKE WALTON ESTATES! 6219 WATERS EDGE DRIVE All Brick, Executive Home In One Of Walton County’s Exclusive, Gated Communities Sits Across From Neighborhood Amenities On 2.18 Acres FULL FINISHED BASEMENT 4BR/4.5BA $579,900 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

SOUTH CAROLINA, LAKE KEOWEE Waterfront Cottages Gated, Luxury Amenities! Lodge, Pool, Fitness Center, Boat Slips & more.

Other New & Resale Cottages From $130’s to $299’s!

1-888-663-1133 www.backwaterlanding. com Office Hours: Fri 8:30-4:00 Sat & Sun By Appointment Only COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE

MOBILE HOMES & LOTS FOR SALE Gwinnett, Buford

$12,995 HOME FOR SALE 2BR/2BA • Appliances Included • Buford City Schools • Hurry Won’t Last!

Sun Homes at Countryside Village of Gwinnett 888-500-1705 * Financing Avail.

Restrictions may apply. $299 12-Month Site Rent Incentive www.countryside gwinnett.com *Expires 02-29-16 WAC EHO

CONYERS, GA 30094 BRING ALL OFFERS/ REDUCED! 2302 S.E. EBENEZER RD Great Commercial Property In High Traffic Area Of Rockdale County At The Corner Of Ga Hwy 138 & Ebenezer Rd With Double Road Frontage $1,100,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

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B8 • FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE LOGANVILLE, GA 30052

COMMERCIAL LISTING! BRING ALL OFFERS! 391 Conyers Road Loganville, GA 30052 1 Acre Commercial Investment Opportunity In The Heart of Loganville, GA A Stones Throw From Publix Shopping Center $228,500 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com MONROE, GA 30656

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WANTED TO RENT Single Male, 69, clean, quiet, non-smoker seeking clean, odor free room(s), or efficiency apartment with full bathroom that only I will be using and cleaning. Unrestricted kitchen and laundry machine usage - A Must. No drugs, drunks or drama. Larry, 470-248-5275. Handyman in All Construction Trades.

AUCTIONS

SERVICES

FLOORING

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

ELECTRICAL

HARDWOOD FLOORS

GTS

HANDYMAN SOLUTIONS

BY HERNANDO

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ELECTRICAL PANEL REPLACEMENT $929.17 THIS MONTH ONLY

• Borders • Stairways • Medallions Free Estimates Insured/Certified Michael Nanni

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DO YOUR SHARE

Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS

ABSOLUTE AUCTION 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath House 3425 Underwood Rd, Conyers

Tuesday, March 22nd at 1:00 Auction to settle estate Selling for the highest bid, regardless of the price Interstateauction.com Interstate Auction Company 404-303-1232 ext 12 GAL#1966

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

APPLIANCES

DRYER/WASHER $125 ea.; Super Capacity $175 ea.

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

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

Del/1 yr warr.

Tim 404-205-2222

FIREWOOD

GWINNETT•GRAYSON 5BR/3.5BA EXECUTIVE HOME Great Location, Schools. Master on Main, Office.

678-442-8423. $4,800/Month

678-482-1702

hcorrales17@gmail.com

Call for a Free Estimate

REMODELING, INC. •Finished Basements •Bathroom Remodeling •Kitchen Remodeling •Custom Cabinets •Room Additions •Garages/Carports •Screened Porches •Custom Decks •Siding All Types Call John

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LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

VEHICLES

VEHICLES

VEHICLES

CHEVROLET MALIBU, 2014 Silver Ice Metallic, Stk#8500 $16,600 877-698-5030

FORD FOCUS SE, 2015 Black, Stk#P8166 $13,350 800-PREOWNED

HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2015 Urban Titanium Metallic, Stk#L5200070 $17,200 877-698-5030

FIREWOOD

HONDA ODYSSEY, 2007 Ocean Mist Metallic, Stk#670196A $10,000 877-698-5030

CHRYSLER 200, 2015 Ceramic BlueClearcoat, Stk#670130M $15,900 877-698-5030

Call 706-525-1881 or 678-283-4508

* Lawns starting at $30 CALL

770-780-9786

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AMERICAN BEAUTY

POWER WASHING

LICENSED

770-932-1751 Cell 770-313-5751

PRESSURE WASHING

MIKE’S TREE SERVICE

HOUSES STARTING AT $89 • Roof Cleaning • Black streaks removed from roof • Mold & Mildew removed from homes • Drives-WalkwaysPatios-Decks cleaned/sealed • Gutters cleaned

Experienced Tree Work 20+ Years All Phases of Tree Work

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Tree Removal Prunning Stump Grinding Wood Chipper

References Available

Free Estimate!

For a FREE Estimate

Made in USA

CALL OR TEXT

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Established 1989

404.886.3587

VEHICLES

VEHICLES

VEHICLES

VEHICLES

LEXUS GS 350, 2013 Nebula Gray Pearl, Stk#U40757 $36,990 770-680-1000

MERCEDES 560 SL, 1987.

60,400 MILES, TWO OWNER SOUTHERN CAR.

MERCEDES-BENZ 560 SL, 1988 117K MILES. Owned by 83 year old gentleman. Gorgeous silver w/blue leather interior and two tops.

He spent over $5K in last year doing all preventive maintenance.

Exceptional in every way. Great CarFax and 0 accidents. Hagerty

NISSAN ROGUE SV SUV, 2013 Pearl White, Stk#P5233 $16,469 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

Gorgeous red with tan leather. Highest score possible on auto check.

Babied, gorgeous and appreciating rapidly in price. Hagerty old car value guide and NADA value $23,000$65,000. Drives super and selling far under other low miles 560s at only $16,900.

Call 770-899-5856 LEXUS IS 250, 2013 Tungsten Pearl, Stk#U40786 $28,590 770-680-1000

and NADA value $35,500-45,200.

Drive anywhere and collect for fun and appreciation. Should be the fastest appreciating car of the 1980’s over the next 5 to 10 years.

NISSAN SENTRA S SEDAN, 2014 Super Black, Stk#FC272537A $12,995 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

Only $15,900.

Call 770-895-7161

MERCEDES 560 SL, 1988 74,900 MILES

DODGE AVENGER, 2013 Tungsten, Stk#FC498599B $13,979 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

FORD FUSION SE, 2013 Bordeaux, Stk #P8177 $13,999 800-PREOWNED

LEXUS ES 300H, 2013 Nebula Gray Pearl, Stk#U40588 $29,993 770-680-1000

$85 full truck load delivered. Camping firewood avail.

Call 770-560-3604.

Beautiful blue with grey leather. 2 tops babied , beautiful, and fast appreciating in price.

Hagery Old Car Value Guide and NADA value $23,000-$65,000.

LEXUS LS 460, 2013 Ultra White, Stk#G1603838 $52,990 770-680-1000

If your old stuff is collecting dust, it could be collecting cash!

NISSAN MURANO, 2011 Tinted Bronze Metallic, Stk#650198A $15,500 877-698-5030

Drives great and selling far under other low miles 560 SL. Only $15,900.

classifieds 770-962-SELL

Call 770-873-2627.

YOUR AUTO CONNECTION

FURNITURE/ HOUSEHOLD GOODS BED- QUEEN PILLOW TOP MATTRESS Set-NEW-still in plastic, $200. King size pillow top mattress set, brand new in plastic, $300.

Can Deliver.

Call 706-347-4814

All Types of Yard Work

Delivered & Dumped

678-773-6506 404-553-1177

404-670-3087

M&M Lawn Maintenance

Oak

Accept Most Credit Cards Free Estimates • Sign a 12 Month Agreement & Receive 1 Month Free!

All Major Credit Cards Accepted

• Any Lawn Work!

If it’s in your yard, we do it!

Landscape Design using any material Trimming & debris Clean Up • Pressure Washing

1/2 Cord - $100 1 Cord - $190

“Your Lawn Care Professionals” • Lawns Cut at $30-Up • Pine Straw • Bobcat Work • Mulching • Pressure Washing • Privacy Fencing • Retaining Walls

770-962-2071

SERENITY LAWN CARE

COUNTRY BOY TREE REMOVAL Expert Take Downs √ 20Years Experience √ Insured √ Free Estimates √ Stump Grinding

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

Summer Seasoned

Licensed & Insured

CALL: 770-771-2810

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

Bucket Truck

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HOUSES FOR RENT

DACULA - Small, basic 2BR duplex. Wooded lot, stove, fridge. No pet over 7 lbs. Good job & references. $550/mo.

770-925-2127

• Roofing • Basement Finishing • Kitchen Remodeling • Bath Remodeling • Additions • Decks • Fencing • Painting

All Home Remodeling Projects & General Repairs Including: HVAC troubleshooting & more!

Over 25 years of exp. in all home repairs & improvements. *Licensed & Insured*

FOREST

MADISON LIONS CLUB BUILDING (beside Wal-Mart) 1391 Fairground Rd MADISON, GEORGIA Highlighted with a lovely Pensacola plantation estate and more including period Victorian & Empire furniture, English & Continental furniture, primitives, antique cupboards, curved glass chinas, formal mahogany, corner cabinets, bookcases, mid-century, industrial, collection early oil paintings, modernist, vintage 20th century furniture, several bed sets, secretaries, chests, tables, chairs, pottery, stoneware, buffets, quilts, cut glass, Fenton, planters, collectibles, ster ling/gemstone jewelry, gold rings, silk rugs, glassware, Persian & Oriental rugs, artwork, accessories, porcelains, oak, walnut, mahogany, coins/money, china, cast iron, curios, painting furniture, country store items & more! www.bhantique auctions.com

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

ROOFING & REMODELING

• General Repairs

10:00 am

Great 37.132 acre tract zoned A-2,with nice hardwoods and pines perfect for livestock,farming, hunting, or build your dream home $242,000 EHO

SPECIALTY WORK

• Licensed • Insured & Bonded • Residential • Comm.

MARCH 5th,

1155 Jim Daws Rd. Monroe, GA 30656

• Oak • Maple • Cherry • Walnut New Homes Repairs Refinishing Renovations

IRISH ELECTRIC, INC. 678-255-6303

SATURDAY

37.13 Acres

The Doctor Is In

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

BUY OR SELL YOUR VEHICLE TODAY!

GMC ACADIA, 2011 Summit White, Stk#670226B $17,200 877-698-5030

770-962-SELL

FIAT 500 SPORT, 2015 Nero Puro, Stk#GR337338A $14,400 800-PREOWNED

LEXUS RX 350, 2014 Starfire Pearl, Stk#U40736 $36,990 770-680-1000

MERCEDES 560 SL, 1989 114 K MILES

NISSAN SENTRA SL SEDAN, 2015 Brilliant Silver, Stk#R0325 $18,993 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

NISSAN PATHFINDER SV SUV, 2015 Cayenne Red, Stk#P5271 $24,969 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

Fabulous red with tan leather.

GWINNETT DUPLEXES

2 Communities!

MOBILE HOMES & LOTS FOR RENT

COMMERCIAL RENTALS

LAWRENCEVILLE RECORDING STUDIO SPACE AVAILABLE Office/Warehouses 1200 up to 18000 sf Mike 404-375-5438.

lvd

Boggs Rd

LEXUS ES 350, 2013 Satin Cashmere Metallic, Stk#U40698 $29,993 770-680-1000

NISSAN MAXIMA 3.5 SV, 2012 Winter Frost Pearl, Stk#P5266 $20,989 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

ALPHARETTA

DODGE GRAND CARAVAN SXT, 2005 Auto, Sliding Doors, Stow ‘N Go Seats, Dual Air, Extra Clean. $4395, Firm. 770-616-7399

HONDA ACCORD, 2007. White/Beige, 92k Miles, Factory Navigation, Non-Smoker. $3300. 404-445-7403

Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday

DEADLINE Tuesday 3 pm Wednesday 3 pm Thursday 3 pm Friday 3 pm

LEXUS ES 350, 2014 Cerulean Blue Metal, Stk#U40700 $31,993 770-680-1000

Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday

DEADLINE Friday 3 pm Monday 3 pm Tuesday 3 pm Wednesday 3 pm

To place a Classified ad please call

770-962-7355

to speak with a Sales Rep. or you can place an ad online at www.gwinnettdailypost.com

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HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2014 Crystal Black Pearl, Stk#640349A $14,200 877-698-5030

Hwy 316

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FORD FOCUS SE SEDAN, 2013 Ingot Silver, Stk#FY382856A $9,970 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

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CHEVROLET CRUZE LS SEDAN, 2014 Black Granite, Stk#GC146764A $12,997 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place

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NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S, 2014 Brilliant Silver, Stk#FC274619A $14,452 866-697-9241 Gwinnett Place HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, 2012 Polished Metal Metallic, Stk#8517 $13,500 877-698-5030

Your Dealership Should Be Easy To Find!

Duluth Hwy 120

HEWATT RD

BARROW-AUBURN 1-2-3 BEDROOMS IN MOBILE Home COMMUNITY. RENT starting at $100/week.

Large Lots.

770-513-3151

Call 770-882-4605.

Dr. Buford

VEHICLES

FORD FIESTA SE, 2014 Race Red, Stk#P8182 $11,501 800-PREOWNED

HONDA CIVIC LX-S SEDAN, 2010.

Maroon Pearl, auto., 80k mi. New tires.

One owner. $9600.

Call 678-518-4259.

This car is fabulous and only $18,900.

LEXUS ES 350, 2012 Nebula Gray Pearl, Stk#U40738 $26,590 770-680-1000

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One on Singleton Rd. & One on Law’villeSuwanee Rd.! 2BR & 3BR, 2BA, Fireplace, vaulted ceilings, off street parking.

Starting @ $900/mo.

B.C. PROPERTIES 770-446-1550 770-995-8828

ROTTWEILER LARGE MALE AMERICAN ROTTWEILER, WOULD LIKE TO BREED. 678-471-5217

FORD F-150, 1988 One owner.

Excellent condition.

115k miles.

770-786-4229 or 404-625-6293

HAYES LAWRENCEVILLE

1 CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP 719 Pike St, Lawrenceville 770-963-5251 www.hayeschrysler.com

2

NASH CHEVROLET 630 Scenic Hwy., Lawrenceville 770-963-9266 www.nashchevy.com

RICK HENDRICK

3 CHEVROLET OF BUFORD 4490 South Lee St., Buford, GA 30518 888-804-2957 www.hendrickbuford.com

RICK HENDRICK

4 CHEVROLET OF DULUTH 3277 Satellite Blvd., Duluth, GA 30096 888-475-8808 www.hendrickatlanta.com

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In a nod to elementary school teachers and copy editors, Friday is National Grammar Day. This year, National Grammar Day is Foghosted by Mignon Fog arty, the author of the book “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing” and “The Grammar Devotional.”

To celebrate, here are 10 tips for better grammar.

1. Avoid starting a sentence with the word “however.”

2. “Irregardless” is not a word.

3. Use “a” before words that start with consonants and “an” before words that start with vowels.

4. Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.

5. Don’t split infinitives.

6. Apostrophes are important. Know the difference between its and it’s.

7. Know the difference between their, there and they’re. One’s a contraction, one refers to something owned by a group and one refers to a place.

8. Know the difference between your and you’re.

The difference between these two is owning something versus actually being something.

9. Avoid using passive voice.

10. Affect versus effect. When you’re talking about the change itself, the noun, use “effect.” “That movie had a great effect on me.” When talking about the act of changing, the verb, use “affect.”

a look ahead

Friday, March 11 • Suwanee’s Spring Fling kicks off the North Gwinnett Baseball and Softball Association’s spring season at 6 p.m.

Visit www.ngbsa.org for more information.

Saturday, March 12 • The Aurora Theatre will host “Into the Woods,” where American composer Stephen Sondheim answers the question, “What happens after happily ever after?” in this multiple Tony Award-winning musical, now an Oscar-nominated Disney motion picture. Saturday performances are at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 to $50.

• Sleeping Beauty at the Infinite Energy Center, a classic performance that blends music of Tchaikovsky, played live

by The Gwinnett Symphony, with costumes and lavish scenery that make the imaginary world come to life on stage. Saturday performances are at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.50 to $21.50.

Sunday, March 13 • The Mall of Georgia, from 6 to 7 p.m., will host Easter Bunny pet photos in the lower level Mountain Court.

Shoppers can bring in pets for a special Easter photo.

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Craft beer goes hyperlocal with plow-to-pint

By RogeR Fillion Zester Daily

Craft brewers are turning to local farmers, foragers and fauna to source their ingredients — from persimmons and pumpkins to hops and wild yeast.

The “plow-to-pint” movement is giving beers an identity more tied to an area’s soil, climate and terrain, or terroir — much like wine.

Sourcing locally “It’s really having a beer that’s unique to the location. To me that’s the most significant thing,” says Jeff Stuffings, founder of Jester King Brewery, about 18 miles southwest of downtown Austin, Texas.

For his beers, Stuffings turns to local farmers and growers for ingredients like figs, melons, grapes, strawberries and peaches.

He also gathers his own yeast, harvesting microbes on lemon bee balm, prickly pear cactus flowers and other plants growing wild on the brewery property.

The wild yeast is mixed with commercial brewer’s yeast to create a unique yeast strain. Stuffings says the wild yeast adds variable flavors and “interesting mouth feels.”

“The mouth feel is very, very dry. It has a richness and fullness to it,” he adds.

“From a sensory perspective, you’re able to tie a beer to the location.”

Brewmaster John Maier of Newport, Ore.-based Rogue Ales & Spirits inspects the hops grown at one of the brewery’s two farms. (Special Photo: Courtesy of Rogue Ales and Spirits)

barrels of beer a year — provided it’s made with an ingredient from a Maryland farm, like hops, barley or fruit.

Twelve farm breweries have since emerged, with Nick Zurschmeide and Wes Schoeb, brewers for Dirt the total number of craft Farm Brewing in Loudon County, Va., use the farm’s brewers now 55. More cherries to make cherry ale. (Special Photo: Courtesy of farm breweries are in the Dirt Farm Brewing) works.

In New York, a 2013 and Virginia — support the Appalachian allspice. farm brewery law created use of local ingredients and Sometimes ingredients a license that stipulates the make it easier for farmappear at the front door. beer must be made using based breweries to expand Fullsteam founder Sean New York state-grown farm and serve locally sourced Wilson recalls a friend products. Gov. Andrew beer. showing up with 100 Cuomo announced in early “A lot of it has to do pounds of Candy Roaster December that 43 farm with the larger ‘buy local’ winter squash. breweries had opened their movement,” says Kevin “We made a beautiful, doors in the past year. The Atticks, executive director malty brown ale using the state has 106 licensed farm of the Brewers Association grilled squash, spicebush brewers. of Maryland. berries and local sugarcane Bruce Zurschmeide and Supporting farmers, For Fullsteam Brewery molasses,” Wilson says. his wife capitalized on a others in Durham, N.C., the use of 2014 change in Virginia The local-ingredient local ingredients is tied to Changes in laws law that made it easier for movement reflects different creating a “Southern Beer The local sourcing trend farm breweries to open on factors. Brewers are reEconomy” that supports has accompanied a chang- land zoned for agriculture. sponding to the demand for local farmers, foragers and ing legal landscape. In The couple’s Dirt Farm local foods. They want to agricultural entrepreneurs. 2012, Maryland passed a Brewing, opened in 2015, help the local farm econThe brewery, for example, law creating a farm brewis an “extension” of omy. And new laws in a has used foragers for perery license. Among other their 400-acre farm in number of states — includ- simmons, figs and spicethings, the license holder Loudon County, Va., ing New York, Maryland bush berries, also called can brew up to 15,000 about 1 1/4 hours north-

west of Washington.

“We were looking for a way to have the land pay for itself,” Zurschmeide says. “We’ve got quite a few recipes that we source from the farm.”

The Peter Peter Pumpkin Ale is popular. A sweet potato stout arrived for Thanksgiving. Zurschmeide has used cherries, peaches, apricots and plums, too. He grows hops and is testing grain varieties.

Growing trend The local trend is expected to continue. It has attracted different names: “farm-to-keg,” “farm-tobarrel,” “plow-to-pint,” “ground-to-glass.”

“For sure, you’re going to see more people doing it,” Brett Joyce, president of Rogue Ales and Spirits, says. “Brewers are seeing what the consumer wants.

People are looking for farmers markets and local.

If you can get that through in your beer, there is a story to tell.”

The Newport, Ore., brewery is a pioneer in local ingredients. Responding to a worldwide hop shortage, Rogue opened a 42-acre “hopyard” in 2008 on the Willamette River, about 1 1/2 hours northeast of Newport.

Today, Rogue Farm grows 42 acres of hops and 20 to 30 acres of other crops including pumpkins, marionberries, hazelnuts and jalapeño peppers.

Rogue operates a 200-acre barley farm about two hours east of Portland, in the Tygh Valley.

At the start of 2016, Rogue unveiled its Hop Family Series of IPAs. The four India Pale Ales showcase the eight varieties of hops grown at Rogue Farms.

To make its Pumpkin Patch Ale, Rogue harvests its pumpkins each fall, chops them up and roasts them in a mobile oven at its Newport brewery.

“It’s the freshest pumpkin beer you can have,” Joyce says.

Savoy cabbage: The king of winter vegetables

By ClaRissa Hyman

Stir-Fried Savoy Cabbage

Buttery Braised Savoy Cabbage

For years, I thought Savoy cabbage was a specialty of the great London hotel of that name, a way of cooking the vegetable that transformed it into a dish fit for kings.

Even today, frilly Savoy cabbage remains, in my eyes at least, the classiest brassica on the block, a glamorous, swanky sibling to pale, pointy spring or hard white winter cabbages. Less aggressive than kale, more versatile than red, a good Savoy bursting with squeakyclean health and goodness, is a far cry from the flabby cabbage-swamp clichés of British school dinners that linger long in collective memory.

A quick and vibrant dish that perks up the taste buds. Add garlic and/or 5-spice powder if you like, but the key thing is not to overcook it.

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Yield: 2 servings, as a side dish Ingredients • Half a small Savoy cabbage • 1 tablespoon sesame oil • 4 green onions, sliced • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, finely chopped • 1 small fresh red chile, de-seeded and finely chopped • Soy sauce to taste Directions 1. Shred the cabbage leaves, wash and drain well. Set aside.

2. Heat the oil in a wok until sizzling, then add the green onions, ginger and chile. Stir-fry briefly, then add the cabbage.

3. Stir-fry over medium heat for about 5 minutes until the cabbage is tender but still has a little crunch.

4. Season with soy sauce and serve immediately.

An excellent dish to serve with meatballs or chops.

Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes Yield: 4 servings, as a side dish Ingredients • 1 Savoy cabbage • 3 tablespoons butter • 1 onion, chopped • 2 large tomatoes, skinned, de-seeded and chopped • 1 tablespoon paprika • 2 tablespoons freshly chopped fennel leaves or dill leaves • Juice of half a lemon • Salt and black pepper • 2 tablespoons toasted almonds Directions 1. Discard the very coarse, outer leaves of the cabbage, then cut into quarters and then into thin strips.

2. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and stir in the onion, tomatoes and paprika.

3. Add the cabbage, fennel and lemon juice and mix well together. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Cover the pan and simmer for about 10 minutes or until the cabbage is tender. Add a splash of water or a little more butter if the cabbage mixture seems to be drying out.

5. Sprinkle with the toasted almonds just before serving.

Zester Daily

The lore about cabbage Over the centuries, cabbage has been credited with many medicinal properties, from curing snake bites, to growing hair on bald spots and preventing drunkenness (wrong!).

Savoy, as a newly developed variety with a loose “head,” came to prominence in medieval Germany, the great center of cabbage culture, although the name suggests an earlier French or northern Italian origin, with a possible link to Catherine de’ Medici.

Slow-growing Savoys are particularly good after the first frosts. They are hardy enough to stay in the ground through the winter, and bring a swathe of colorful, ruffled cheer to the stews, casseroles and thick soups of the winter months.

The flavor of Savoy is nutty, and the texture crisp and firm (when not, of

Bubble and Squeak Originally, this old-fashioned British dish of cooked potatoes and cabbage fried together, was made with leftover beef and cabbage. Potatoes appeared in 19th-century recipes and the beef was discarded. The name supposedly refers to the noise made by the vegetables as they fry in the pan.

Prep Time: 10 minutes (30 minutes if not using leftovers) Cooking Time: 40 minutes Total Time: 50 minutes Yield: 8 servings, as an accompaniment Ingredients (Amounts are variable,

course, boiled lifeless), although a slow braise with rich flavorings, such as beef stock, Marsala wine and thyme, can also work well. Its natural color ranges from acid yellow to Day-Glo lime and from vivid emerald to deep forest green.

The wrinkled leaves are supple and strong enough to be stuffed with meat

depending on how much leftovers you have.)

• 1 small Savoy cabbage, shredded, cooked and set aside • 2 pounds leftover mashed potatoes • 1 onion, thinly sliced • 4 to 5 tablespoons butter, drippings or goose fat • Salt and pepper Directions 1. Mix the cabbage and potatoes together.

2. In a large frying pan, heat some of the fat and fry the onion slowly until

and rice and rolled, before being bathed and baked in rich tomato and sour cream sauces spiked with caraway seeds or paprika.

soft. Mix into the cabbage and potatoes. Season well.

3. Add the remaining fat to the pan and spoon in the cabbage, potato and onion mixture. Press down with a wooden spoon or spatula until it makes a flat cake. Fry over medium heat until the bottom crisps.

4. Stir to mix the crust into the vegetables, pack down again and then fry to make another crust. Continue until the crisp brown pieces are well mixed with the cabbage and potato.

This should take about 20 minutes.

Serve hot.

roughly. Steam or cook in plenty of water at a rolling boil with the lid off to retain the bright green color for a few minutes before tossing in butter, sea salt Simplicity of cabbage and black pepper. Or, just Soak the Savoy leaves slice and cook briefly in in cold water for a few butter. Leftovers can make hours before cooking to a splendid bubble and crisp them up further, then squeak. simply remove the tough Savoy is also excellent central stalk and chop and surprisingly sophisti-

White Fish, Green Cabbage A surprisingly delicate dish that gives an interesting edge to simply baked white fish.

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes Yield: 6 servings Ingredients • 6 thick fillets of white fish • 1 large Savoy cabbage cut into wedges • 1/3 cup butter • Juice of half a lemon • 2 two-ounce tins of anchovies in olive oil • 14 fluid ounces sour cream • Black pepper • 1 bunch of parsley, chopped Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 392 F (200 C).

2. Arrange the fish in a well-buttered oven dish. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and dot with flakes of butter. Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.

3. Steam or microwave the cabbage wedges until tender.

4. Put the anchovy fillets and their oil into a small pan. Gently mash with a wooden spoon over low heat until the anchovies disintegrate.

Add the sour cream and black pepper and stir well. Simmer for a few minutes.

5. Arrange the fish and cabbage wedges on a warm serving platter or individual plates.

Pour some of the sauce over the fish and scatter with parsley. Serve the remaining sauce separately.

cated when shredded and stir-fried with seasonings such as red chile, sesame, garlic, ginger and soy sauce. It also goes well with aniseed flavors such as tarragon, fennel and Chinese five-spice powder.

The Savoy is the cabbage that even cabbagechoux, because everything haters can learn to love. sounds better in French, of If all else fails, try callcourse. Even cabbage. ing it an adorable petit

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Kerstin Anderson stars as Maria Rainer with the von Trapp children in “The Sound of Music” playing March 1-6 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.

‘Few of my favorite things’

‘The Sound of Music’ bringing beloved songs to Fox Theatre memory and get yourself into what it felt like to be that age • What: “The Sound of Music is a powerful force and hopefully embody that inMusic” with the ability to connect stead of just laying it over the • Where: Fox Theatre, people, evoke strong emotions top like icing, like the arche660 Peachtree St. N.E. in and teach important lessons. type of a teenager,” she said.

Atlanta In “The Sound of Music,” “That’s what I’m really trying • When: March 1-6 it helps a grieving family to do is be realistic about it.”

• Tickets: $30 to $125 through a difficult time.

There was also a lot of • More Info: www.foxthe“Maria uses music to teach common ground there for atre.org us and to pull us out of this the actress to connect with sadness and cycle of depresand use while developing the sion we’ve all kind of fallen etic.” character. into after the death of our “The Sound of Music” “One of my major themes mother,” said Paige Silvester, tells a personal tale of growth is this transitional time of who plays Liesl in the show. and hope amid the horrors of life. She’s figuring out what “And she especially helps the World War II. It follows the it means to become a woman character the Captain find his free-spirited postulate Maria and going through a big life again through music and Rainer, who is commissioned change,” Silvester said, “so love. I think it’s about starting to serve as the governess for it’s something fluid I can play over and persevering through the seven motherless von with because we’re always hardships.”

Trapp children. She eventually going through changes …

This message of inspiration wins the hearts of the children There’s just so many things and love lives on through the and their widower father, Capto draw on, so many facets show’s Tony, Grammy and tain Von Trapp. of that theme that I’ve been Academy Award-winning According to Silvester, Dilucky enough to play with. I songs, including “My Favorite rector Jack O’ Brien brought can use whatever’s going on Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb a fresh perspective to the proright now in my life.”

Ev’ry Mountain” and the title duction highlighting certain “The Sound of Music” song. Local audiences can ex- themes such as the severity of brings along a sense of nostalperience the beloved musical the political climate. gia for Silvester, who grew up March 1-6 when ”The Sound “You go on a journey with watching the award-winning of Music” comes to the Fox a lot more depth and variety movie over and over. She Theatre in Atlanta. than I think possible in other encourages audiences of all The show features celebrat- productions,” Silvester said. ages to come see the powerful ed music by Richard Rodgers, “Some of my favorite take live production while it’s at lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein aways from the show are the the Fox Theatre.

Ashley Brown performs as The Mother Abbess in “Maria” from II and book by Howard Lind- themes of doing what you “This is such an effective “The Sound of Music” playing March 1-6 at the Fox Theatre in story and piece of theatre on say and Russel Crouse. think is right and not being Atlanta. (Special Photos: Matthew Murphy) “My favorite part of doswayed by others and what’s so many levels that I think no ing the show every night is popular and really taking time matter where you are, you’ll experiencing that music every to consider what you’re prioriIn the show, Silvester porwas a challenge for the adult take away something and night,” Silvester said. “It reties are and what you think is trays a teenage Leisl who is actress. something positive from it,” ally is healing and theurapuright,” Silvester said. coming into her own, which “You have to use sensory Silvester said.

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Tannery Row displays spring juried art exhibit

One of our region’s most exciting visual arts organizations opened a juried show on Feb. 27 that included 77 works of art created by 49 artists.

First-, second- and third-place awards plus honorable mentions were handed out at a reception at the facility located at 554 West Main St. in Buford at the opening event. The exhibition will continue through April 8.

The artwork selected for the show includes a variety of media including drawing, painting, ceramics, mixed media, photography and digital art. In addition, there is sculpture made of bronze, clay, assemblage, found objects, cast paper and encaustic.

Chris Volion won first place with his ink and 24-karat gold leaf piece titled “Bubo Imperator (Lord of the Owls).”

Volion said, “This piece is based on the lore of birds as guides to the afterlife. The owl is often viewed as a particularly mysterious bird.”

Second place was given to Zane Brock for his sculpture “Unorganized.”

The piece is an assem-

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Holley Calmes blage sculpture composed of a pair of hands Brock carved in linoleum and an actual musical instrument, an organ.

“I bought the organ for $20 at an auction,” Brock said. The title of the piece, “Unorganized,” is derived from the fact that he disassembled the organ to make the piece.

Third place went to Julie Fordham for her mixed media artwork titled “She Built A Nest.”

The work is part of a series based on interviews with women and how they describe themselves.

“She Built A Nest” is an acrylic painting of a woman in a three-dimensional nest built into her chest. It is about a woman whose life is devoted to her children.

Honorable mentions

went to Artemus Blue for the photograph “Lon’s Brother” and to Katherine Moore for her delicate pencil rendering “Shed in Georgia.” Another honor-

able mention was given to Joyce Blair Reese for her ceramic sculpture “Never Judge a Book By Its Cover.”

The artwork making

nature of the creative process,” Tannery Row spokeswoman Debra Barnhart said. “Many of the works are representational while others are abstract. Some are whimsical and humorous while others are more serious.

All of the artworks represent the finely honed, individual voices of the Julie Fordartists.” ham’s “She The exhibition was Built A Nest” juried by Joe Tsambiras, mixed media a working artist of more piece won than 20 years who is repthird place in Tannery resented by Kai Lin Art Row’s 2016 Gallery in Atlanta. TsamSpring Juried biras teaches at Kennesaw Art ExhibiState University and Attion. (Special lanta Printmakers Studio.

Photo) Tannery Row Gallery is open for visitors Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. The colony itself is made of 19 visual artists who have studios in the 100-yearold Tannery Building in Buford.

For more information about the exhibition, visit the website at tanneryrowartistcolony.com.

Holley Calmes is a up the show range in size from 5-by-4-inch painting freelance writer and public relations consultant to 11-by-14-inch photospecializing in the arts. graphs.

Email her at hcalmes@ “The body of work mindspring.com. demonstrates the diverse

EASTER EVENTS Sunday, March 6

The Mall of Georgia is hosting its caring bunny photo event from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the lower level Mountain Court. The caring bunny photo program allows children with special needs and their families to have the opportunity to enjoy a photo session with the Easter Bunny. The Mall of Georgia is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information or a reservation, call 678-482-8788.

Sunday, March 13

The Mall of Georgia is hosting pet photos with the Easter Bunny from 6 to 7 p.m. in the lower level Mountain Court. Shoppers can bring in pets for a special Easter photo this year. For more information or a reservation, call 678-482-8788.

Sugarloaf Mills is hosting its caring bunny photo event from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. in the AMC Lobby near Entrance 4. The caring bunny photo program allows children with special needs and their families to have the opportunity to enjoy a photo session with the Easter Bunny. The mall is located at 5900 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. For more information or a reservation, call 678-847-5000.

Saturday, March 19 The Bogan Park Community Recreation and Aquatic Center is hosting its underwater egg hunt

Three-year-old Rashad Bridges picks up eggs at the 10th Annual Sugar Hill Easter Egg Hunt. (File Photo) and bunny bonanza at 9 a.m. Children can hunt for eggs under the water at the aquatic center and then hop over to the community recreation center to get a picture with the Easter Bunny, enjoy a snack and make a

craft. Bogan Park is located at 2723 N. Bogan Road in Buford. For ticket pricing or to register by March 16, call 678-277-0850.

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center is hosting its eggstreme

Easter fun event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children can enjoy crafts, games and two different age-grouped egg hunts at McDaniel Farm.

Families are encouraged to pack a picnic lunch. The farm is located at 3251 McDanial Road in Duluth. For registration and more information, visit gwinnettehc.org.

The Lawrenceville First Baptist Church will be hosting its Easter egg hunt at 10:30 a.m. followed by a live puppet performance and door prizes. The church is located at 165 N. Clayton St. in Lawrenceville. For more information, visit lawrencevillefirst.org.

The George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center is hosting its eggstravaganza event at 1 p.m.

Children can bring their Easter baskets and enjoy an egg hunt on the trail. There will also be games and time to meet the Easter Bunny.

Tickets are $6 per child and adult admission is free.

The center is located at 55 Buford Highway in Suwanee.

For more information and to register by March 12, call 678-277-0910.

The city of Sugar Hill is hosting its 11th annual Easter egg hunt from noon to 3 p.m. at E.E. Robinson Park. Children can enjoy egg hunts by age group, pictures with the Easter Bunny, inflatable rides and refreshments.

The park is located at 850 Level Creek Road in Sugar

Saturday, March 26

The Gwinnett Historic Courthouse is hosting breakfast with the Easter Bunny at 8:30 a.m. in the Superior Court Ballroom.

Kids can create a craft and receive a keepsake photo.

Seating is limited, but parents or guardians must attend with children. The courthouse is located at 185 W. Crogan St. in Lawrenceville. For ticket pricing and to register by

March 23, call 770-822-5450.

The Mall of Georgia is hosting its annual Easter egg hunt at 9:30 a.m. in the Village. The hunt is divided into two groups: infants to 4 years old and ages 5 to 10. The Mall of Georgia is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678-482-8788.

The Bethesda Park Aquatic Center is hosting an underwater egg hunt at 11 a.m. Wear a swimsuit and bring a waterproof basket to go diving for eggs. Children can also enjoy crafts, games, an inflatable bouncy house and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Tickets are $12 per person and include one free adult admission. The center is located at 225 Bethesda Church Road in Lawrenceville. For more information and to register by March 18, call 678-277-0880.

Ongoing

The Mall of Georgia is hosting photos with the Easter Bunny March 4 through March 26 in the lower level Mountain Court. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For photo schedule information, call 678-482-8788.

Sugarloaf Mills is hosting photos with the Easter Bunny from March 10-26 in the AMC Lobby near Entrance 4.

The mall is located at 5900 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. For more information, call 678-847-5000.

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Sugarloaf Mills is hosting Kidgits Easter Eggstravaganza from 2 to 4 p.m. in the AMC Lobby near Entrance 4.

Families can enjoy celebrating Easter with a variety of free giveaways and crafts, including Easter egg and pail decorating. For more information, call 678-847-5000.

The Rhodes Jordan Park Soccer Fields are hosting its illuminated egg hunt starting at 7 p.m. Children can enjoy making themed crafts followed by an egg hunt at 8 p.m. for ages 2 to 5, an egg hunt at 8:30 p.m. for ages 6 to 9 and an egg hunt at 8:45 p.m. for ages 10 to 12.

Be sure to bring an Easter basket and a flashlight. The fields are located at 100 E. Crogan St. in Lawrenceville.

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The Delta Live Nation Concert Series A at the Chastain Park Ampitheatre is returning this year, and the line-up of artists was recently announced.

The following artists will be playing during the summer concert series: • An Evening with Ms. Lauryn Hill — May 6 • Scorpions with special guest Living Colour — May 20 • Willie Nelson and Family, Merle Haggard — May 20 • Harry Connick Jr. — June 11 • Kenny Rogers — June 19 • Steely Dan with special guest Steve Winwood — June 11 • Joe Walsh, Bad Company — July 1

37 MAIN 37 E. Main St., Buford 678-288-2030 www.buford.37main.com • March 4: Slippery When Wet • March 5: The Ruckus • March 11: Departure 37 MAIN 6000 Medlock Bridge Parkway, Johns Creek 678-580-2329 www.johnscreek.37main.com • March 4: Departure • March 5: Moby Dick • March 11-12: Man in the Mirror • March 18-19: Led Zepagain • March 25: The Breakfast Club • March 26: Electric Avenue • May 4: Buckcherry • May 7: John Waite and the Axemen • May 19: Skid Row

An Evening with Ms. Lauryn Hill will kick off the Delta Live Nation Concert Series A at the Chastain Park Ampitheatre on May 6. (Reuters)

• Flight of the Conchords — July 12 • Boyz II Men with special guest TBA — July 14 • Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Melissa Etheridge — July 16 • Goo Goo Dolls with special guests Collective Soul, Society Tribe — Sept.

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go on sale at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 6. Tickets for the full series or for a combination two or more shows will be available at chastainseries.com or by calling 404-233-2227. There are two series per summer.

Chastain Park Ampitheatre is an outdoor venue located at 4469 Stella Drive in Atlanta.

Jimmy Buffett is returning to Gwinnett this summer, bringing his I Don’t Know tour to the Infinite Energy Center on June 2.

Buffett played at the venue, then called the Arena at Gwinnett Center, for the first time last year on the same date.

Tickets, which cost between $36 and $136, go on sale to the general public on March 11 at 10 a.m. American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Friday, March 4 at 10 a.m. through Thursday, March 10 at 10 p.m.

Last year the crowd arrived early to tailgate and celebrate prior to the show.

“We could not be more excited to have Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band return to Infinite En-

Jimmy Buffett performs a song during a concert last year at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth. (File Photo)

ergy Arena to kick off the summer,” Infinite Energy Center general manager Joseph Dennis said. “June 2 is sure to be the biggest party of the year. Don’t miss out on what promises to be an incredible night of tailgating, music, friends and fun.”

At last year’s show, Buffett opened with “Ragtop Day” followed by “Co-

conut Telegraph,” going on to play crowd favorites like “Come Monday” and “Margaritaville” as well as covers including “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”

by Alan Jackson. Several songs, like “Volcano,” brought enthusiastic audience members to their feet as they danced along to the rhythm.

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404-659-9022 tabernacleatl.com • March 4: Future • March 5: Dropkick Murphys • March 6: Let’s Dance — The Tour • March 8: Adam Lambert • March 9: Flogging Molly • March 11: X Ambassadors • March 12: Hoodie Allen • March 14: Coheed and Cambria, Glassjaw

BY VENUE MUSIC BOWMAN HOUSE CONCERT SERIES 323 Wilcrest Drive S.W., Lawrenceville 770-979-1314 www.facebook.com/bowmanhouseconcertseries • March 12: Amy Speace BUCKHEAD THEATRE 3110 Roswell Road, Atlanta 404-843-2825 www.thebuckheadtheatre.com • March 5: The Floozies • March 8: Melanie Martinez • March 11: Miike Snow • March 20: Ethan Bortnick • March 25: Vanessa Senior • April 1: Dr. Dog • April 6: Beirut • April 13: Jesse Cook

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EVERETT’S MUSIC BARN 4055 Stonecypher Road, Suwanee 678-858-5363 everettsmusicbarn.net • March 5: Smoke Rise • March 12: Frances Mooney, Fontanna Sunset • March 19: The Davenport Brothers • March 26: Bluegrass Alliance • April 2: Tim Shelton FOX THEATRE 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta 404-881-2100 foxtheatre.org • March 12: The Moody Blues • March 19: Legends of Southern Hip Hop • March 24: Get the Led Out • April 16: Jethro Tull • April 17: A Night with Janis Joplin • April 19: Behind the Lens • April 23: Celtic Woman • April 28: Third Day and Steven Curtis Chapman • April 30: Old Crow Medicine Show, Brandi Carlile • May 3: Paul Simon INFINITE ENERGY ARENA 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth 770-813-7500 www.infiniteenergycenter.com • April 11-12: Mumford and Sons • Aug. 6: Twenty One Pilots INFINITE ENERGY THEATER 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth 770-813-7500 www.infiniteenergycenter.com • April 23: Home By Dark THE LOFT 1374 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta 404-885-1365 www.centerstage-atlanta.com/ shows/the-loft/ • March 11: Dance Yourself Clean • March 12: A Great Big World • March 19: We the Kings • March 26: Junior Boys • April 16: Jarrod Lawson

THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. N.E., Atlanta 404-577-8178 www.masqueradeatlanta.com • March 8: Drowning Pool • March 9: Battalion of Saints • March 19: The Bastard Suns • March 22: Forever Came Calling, Major League • March 23: Real Friends • March 25: Norma Jean • March 26: Elaquent PHILIPS ARENA 1 Philips Drive N.W., Atlanta 404-878-3000 www.philipsarena.com • March 5-6: Reinhard Bonnke Gospel Crusade • March 8: AC/DC • March 9: Rihanna • April 12-13: Justin Bieber • April 15: Duran Duran RED CLAY MUSIC FOUNDRY 3116 Main St., Duluth 678-957-7283 www.eddieowenpresents.com • March 4: Shawn Mullins Birthday Bash, Antje Duvekot • March 5: Shawn Mullins Birthday Bash, Chuck Cannon • March 6: Shawn Mullins Birthday Bash, The Mulligan Brothers • March 11: Emmet Cahill (of Celtic Thunder) • March 12: Montana Skies, Flying Mystics, Michael Burke • March 18: Esoebo Comeback Special, Zachary Kale • Ongoing: Sunday night Songwriters Open Mic RED LIGHT CAFE 553 Amsterdam Ave., Atlanta

RIALTO CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 80 Forsyth St. N.W., Atlanta 404-651-4727 www.rialtocenter.org • April 23: Cecile McLorin Salvant SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta 404-875-1522 www.smithsoldebar.com • March 4: Repeat Repeat, Grand, American Rommates • March 5: The Muckers, Battlefield Collective, Darcy Malone and the Tangle, Joanna Duff, Southern Bred Co. • March 7: JD Eicher and the Goodnights, Kyle Cox, Kurt Scobie THE TABERNACLE 152 Luckie St., Atlanta

VARIETY PLAYHOUSE 1099 Euclid Ave., Atlanta 404-521-1786 www.variety-playhouse.com • March 6: Mark Farner • March 9: John Mayall • March 10: Troye Sivan • March 16: Rickie Lee Jones • March 18: The Infamous Stringdusters, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers • March 26: Rusted Root VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK 2200 Encore Parkway, Alpharetta www.vzwamp.com • April 16: Bryan Adams • April 24: Van Morrison • May 7: The Avett Brothers, Brett Dennen • May 15: Styx, .38 Special, Don Felder • June 6: Ellie Goulding • June 11: Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris Most tickets available through Ticketmaster at 404249-6400 or ticketmaster. com.

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From left, Charlotte Riley stars as M16 Jacquelin Marshall, Gerard Butler as Mike Banning and Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher in “London Has Fallen.” (Gramercy Pictures)

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mourning the deaths of 17, opened fire?

This scenario is what makes “London Has Fallen,” the sequel to the 2013 hit “Olympus Has Fallen,”

By Jon Gallo so intriguing.

Movie Critic “Given the state of the It could happen. A sudworld today and the threat den, international event of terrorism that exists for causes the U.S. president real, we were constantly and other heads of state to aware that something simiconvene, the planet’s most lar to what we were filming powerful politicians in one could happen — though we place at the same time, with all pray it never does,” Aarlittle time to implement a on Eckhart, who plays U.S. security plan.

President Benjamin Asher, Remember the more told the Chicago Sun-Times. than 40 world leaders who “But then, filmmaking is a marched, arm in arm as a mirror of our times.” sign of solidarity, through “London Has Fallen’s” the streets of Paris folplot is as simple as its lowing the Charlie Hebdo predecessor, in which termassacre in January 2015? rorists took down the White What happens if terrorists, House and kidnapped the hiding among the crowd president. of 1.6 million who were This time, President

Asher (Aaron Eckhart) flies, along with many of the world’s leaders, to the British capital to attend the funeral of Britain’s prime minister. It doesn’t take long for the funeral to turn into a war zone as terrorists seek to kill Asher in front of a worldwide audience. Eckhart again turns to his favorite Secret Service agent and personal bodyguard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) to save the day.

It makes you think: could this — a world leader killed by terrorist on foreign soil — really happen? Yes. Perhaps there wouldn’t be more explosions than the Fourth of July during the ordeal like there are in “London Has Fallen,” but would countries squander for contingency plans?

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leaders be scrutinized and second-guessed? Would pandemonium ensue when bullets start flying?

Just think about it.

Eckhart, Butler, Morgan Freeman (Speaker of the House Martin Trumbull), Angela Bassett (Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs), Melissa Leo (Defense Secretary Ruth McMillan) and Robert Forster (Gen. Edward Clegg) all return for the sequel, as do screenwriters Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger.

The only major change is in the director’s chair, where Babak Najafi takes over for Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “The Equalizer,” “Shooter”). Fuqua’s deft storytelling and character development were a major reason “Olympus Has

Fallen” stormed to more than $161 million at the worldwide box office.

Najafi uses a similar approach, but there’s only so much he can do considering the only difference between the films is they are set on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. But Najafi, a relative unknown in the movie world, doesn’t drown. He plays to the movie’s strength — its Alist cast — to keep viewers engaged.

Eckhart and Butler provide the good looks; Freeman can keep an audience engaged by reading a grocery list; and Bassett’s portrayal as the head of the Secret Service shows women can carry a role that for decades had been given to men.

At just an hour and 40

minutes, “London Has Fallen” moves quickly, as Najafi doesn’t waste time.

Terrorists attack.

Explosions detonate.

Guns fire.

People die.

Most importantly, the audience never has time to be bored.

“We can’t possibly relate to being president, because we have no idea of what that would really be like — especially on a 24-7 basis for four years or eight years,” Eckhart said.

“But we do have an idea of what it’s like to be part of a family or to be in danger, or have a family member be in danger. However you can personalize yourself to the audience, I think that adds emotional depth to any film.”

(Gramercy Pictures)

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‘Eddie the Eagle’ film fans

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WHO WILL LIKE THIS...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Film Fans features local residents reviewing the movie of the week:“Eddie The Eagle.”

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OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pass: Good acting; excellent cinematography, especially those scenes showing the actual downhill jumps; a heart-tugging, mostly true story about “Eddie The Eagle” Edwards, the UK’s lone ski jump contestant whose determination and spirit charmed millions across the globe during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

Fail: The film runs a little long and drags a bit at times; otherwise, “Eddie The Eagle” is an enjoyable movie to watch.

Taron Egerton (“Kingsmen: The Secret Service”) plays the clumsy, geeky Eddie with a great mix of self-effacing humor and plucky determination. Hugh Jackman brings his “Wolverine” persona — with lots of gruff and sarcasm — to the role of Bronson Peary, an expatriate former U.S. skier who meets Eddie during his training sessions in Germany and then reluctantly agrees to coach him toward Olympic competition.

If you like movies about underdogs who succeed against all odds, “Eddie The Eagle” will make you smile from ear to ear.

You don’t have to care one whit about Olympics or sports to enjoy this movie.

It’s a toss-up.

Despite it being a quality flick, “Eddie The Eagle” probably won’t appeal to the masses long enough for you to catch it at your local theater.

Definitely see it on Blu-ray, though.

I was living in Cheltenham, England, the home of Edwards, in 1988, so his story of local-lad-gone-celebrity was the talk of the town. Although I never personally met him, it was fun then to watch the story of his indomitable spirit unfold, culminating in his making it to the Olympics. “Eddie The Eagle” is a fun movie to watch, very family-friendly, and really soars at the end.

Pass: It’s an inspirational story for dreamers with determination, perseverance and the ability to stand up against the naysayers.

Fail: The cheesy 1980s synthesized soundtrack was a bit much, but it fit the movie’s timeline.

A relative unknown actor to me, I thought Taron Egerton did a great job as Eddie, especially with his up close facial expressions.

This is for those who are looking for a feel-good movie that might help motivate them through some of life’s challenges.

Although it was a good movie, I’d say wait for the rental unless you’re in the need of a little encouragement.

“Eddie the Eagle” was inspired by a true story of a British downhill skier in the 1988 Olympics. Surprisingly, this was a story that I had no recollection of. But despite this, I was compelled by the preview to go see it. I found this movie to be a heartwarming tale of a very determined young man whose childhood Olympics dreams were unexpectedly realized. Eddie was the underdog of underdogs and his determination was inspirational as he reminded us all of the true spirit of the Olympics.

Pass: I had never heard of Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards before seeing this film and after seeing the movie I am surprised by this. His story is inspiring and had all the elements (suspense, likable hero, humor, engaging plot) that make a great movie. Eddie is a lovable goof that you root for until the end. Even when Eddie has setbacks, the movie stays upbeat, and most of the crashes are played for laughs.

Fail: I was disappointed to find out after the movie, when I went to learn more about Eddie, that the film makers had taken so much liberty with his story. I would estimate that only about 20 percent of the movie was actually true.

Taron Egerton did an excellent job as Eddie. At the end, they showed some pictures of the real Eddie, and Egerton looked just like him. He let the role consume him and completely became the character. He made him goofy and silly, but you never felt sorry for him. You are laughing with Eddie instead of laughing at him.

If you enjoy films where the underdog triumphs and it inspires you to not give up when you have problems in your own life, then Eddie the Eagle is for you. If you have never heard of Eddie, don’t let that stop you. He is worth getting to know. You don’t have to be a fan of ski jumping or the Olympics to enjoy the story.

Though the movie is entertaining and inspiring, it is not necessary to see the movie in theaters unless you feel the need to. You can wait for it to come out on Blu-ray and enjoy it in the comfort of your own home and no one will see your tears when Eddie triumphs.

Overall, I enjoyed “Eddie the Eagle.” It was interesting to go into a movie based on someone real and have no idea what was going to happen. I cringed every time Eddie attempted to complete a jump because I had no idea whether he would succeed or die trying. In the end, the lesson in the movie is doing your personal best is more important then winning or losing, something we can all take to heart.

Tim Weekley, Suwanee

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The Graduate Blu-ray (PG) Movie: HHHH Disc: HHHH One of the first “American New Wave” films, director Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” mixed European narrative and visuals with scathing sarcasm and ’60s idealism into a seamless whole. Unsure of his future, recent graduate Ben (Dustin Hoffman) returns home to ponder his options and is soon sleeping with his father’s business partner’s wife, Mrs. Robinson, (Anne Bancroft), a lonely, empty vessel cougar. Things get sticky when Ben falls for Mrs. Robinson’s daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross)

as he simultaneously tries to break and steal her heart. The landmark soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel forever changed the way studios viewed pop music in movies.

Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.37:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1, LPCM 1.0), subtitles: English.

Special features include: • Commentaries • Interviews • Documentary • Featurettes • Trailer

THE MUST-SEE LIST “The Night Before” To the long line of contemporary comedies that try to put an amusing take on the end-of-year holidays but ultimately misfire, add this example.

Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie play buddies who seek the biggest party they can find on Christmas Eve. It’s long been an annual ritual for them, but it’s about to vanish as they (allegedly) become adults, so finding the wildest bash they can is imperative.

Those familiar with the Rogen brand of humor certainly will find it here, especially since he’s also one of the picture’s producers; Lizzy Caplan (“Masters of Sex”), Mindy Kaling, Jillian Bell (“22 Jump Street”) and Michael Shannon also appear. DVD extras: four “making-of” documentaries; outtakes. (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “Legend” The story of the Krays, the twin brothers who made names for themselves in the 1960s London underworld, has been told on the screen before — but it gets fresh treatment

• 12-page essay booklet • First edition slipcover packag ing (Criterion Collection, $39.95) Movies coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray and On Demand that you should not miss.

from an able Tom Hardy in the dual roles in this retelling by directorscreenwriter Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”). Reggie and Ronnie Kray’s reign is seen from the perspective of Frances Shea (Emily Browning), whose involvement with

Reggie gave her a unique view of their psyches and frequently violent activities. Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan and Tara Fitzgerald are in the supporting cast. (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) — Jay Bobbin, Your TV Link

NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films by movie critic Michael Clark now playing in metro area theaters.

• Eddie the Eagle (PG-13) — 3 stars Based ever-so-loosely on the life story of oddball British

Olympic ski jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards, “Eddie the Eagle” is nonetheless a charming, engaging and uplifting sports comedy/drama that is more than safe for full family consumption.

• Triple 9 (R) — 1 ½ stars

Set and filmed completely in Atlanta, “Triple 9” includes a dream, mostly A-list cast and is helmed by a proven crime director (Aussie John Hillcoat). Everything falls apart almost immediately with a screenplay by a rookie writer

riddled with gaping plot holes.

• Risen (PG-13) — 3 stars Joseph Fiennes stars as a Roman tribune following the orders of Pontius Pilate to make sure the corpse of Jesus Christ is secured for political purposes. Deliver-

ing a fresh take on an old story, co-writer/director Kevin Reynolds gives non-believers something new.

• Son of Saul (R) — 2 ½ stars The likely winner of the next Best Foreign Lan-

guage Oscar, “Son of Saul” is a Holocaust drama that is brimming with sincerity, good intent and a huge heart that is more often than not sabotaged by a gimmicky, one-note visual approach and an uneven plot.

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INSTANT C LASSIC ‘Zootopia’ a hip, animated film Zootopia (PG) HHHH

and the continuation of the female empowerment motif laid out in “Frozen,” “Zootopia” works on a multitude of levels.

In a manner not unlike that of the old “Rocky & Bullwinkle”

By Michael clark cartoons, it involves beyondMovie Critic engaging animal characters It took a while, but it would delivering dialogue that feels appear Disney has finally made natural while being simultaneit to the 21st century with “Zoo- ously message-laden but makes topia.” De facto inventors of the its point with subtlety and a genre and rulers of animated velvet glove. It doesn’t have an features for 80 or so years, the agenda but it is on a mission and Mouse began losing its footing by saying less it achieves much when DreamWorks delivered more.

“Shrek” in 2001.

Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) is In that time they only reached a plucky rabbit who grew up in greatness once (“Tangled”) and the ‘burbs and dreamed of begot really lucky at the cash reg- coming a police officer. Despite ister when the uneven “Frozen” her diminutive size and discourcaught fire. While superb in aging words from her welltheir own way, both “Tangled” meaning parents, Judy graduates and “Frozen” had more in from the academy but almost common with “Cinderella” and immediately hits a brick wall “Snow White” than anything when her commanding officer DreamWorks or Pixar has made assigns her meter maid duty. since the turn of the century.

Unfazed, Judy more than Disney has remained a force doubles her quota and apin the market only as a distribu- prehends a thief after a foot tor for Pixar, and as great as it race through Zootopia’s seven is, “Zootopia” more resembles New York-inspired boroughs.

Pixar than old school Disney.

Determined to continue on an This is about as hip as upward career trajectory, Judy Disney as ever been. brusquely With its au courant forces mix of politiher cal and social metaphors, edgy (for Disney) humor

way into a missing otter case and, even more impressively, hoodwinks fox conman Nick (Justin Bateman) into helping her. Street-wise, smooth-talking and apparently afraid of nothing, Nick placates Judy and cooperates minimally, much to her chagrin.

Nick’s oil and Judy’s water eventually strike a livable if not happy medium and, at about the 30-minute mark, the narrative goes from a bouncy and light comedy/adventure into a not-quite-dark, neo-noir, mismatched buddy procedural mystery/thriller. Generally this type of tonal shift would be a red flag for parents contemplating whether or not to take the tykes to see such a film, but they need not worry. The filmmakers pull off an impressive juggling act for the duration and for every scene of slight peril or moderate danger there are two or three offsetting passages of sharp comic relief.

The inclusion of a spot-on “Godfather” parody subplot is priceless.

It’s not often that a production by committee such as this holds up but directors Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush (who all co-wrote with Phil Johnson) truly work as a team and their eclectic past resumes go far in explaining the high level of offbeat, intelligent content.

Although too lengthy to include

here, the four filmmakers’ list of previous projects covers a wide variety of styles and attitudes.

The only demographic that might feel at all shorted are those looking for a note-fornote repeat of “Frozen.” This isn’t a princess/fairy tale type of affair with wall-to-wall song and dance numbers.In fact there are only two songs in the entire film, one being the new “Try Anything” by Shakira (who also voices a gazelle). It’s catchy and might likely prod children playing it more often that “Let it Go” from “Frozen.”

Parents, prepare yourselves.

It’s far too early in the year to speak in absolutes but it’s going to tough for any other 2016 animated movie to top the technical prowess, acute storytelling acumen, emotional heft and irresistible charms of “Zootopia.”

It is an instant animated classic by anyone’s definition.

(Disney)

Even Tina Fey can’t save ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (R) 2 out of 4 stars HHHH

film. With the type of noncommittal, largely evasive, double-speak that any politician would consider masterful, Baker more or less said the film wasn’t completely untrue. Not

By Michael clark addressed was Baker’s fee/ Movie Critic commission for the adaptation of her book.

In the 14 years since In the long run, none of they first began to appear, this means zilch. While every one of the multitude current and former serof movies about the ongovice members are surely ing wars in Iraq and Afgetting a chuckle with the ghanistan have all missed abbreviation context of the the mark. You could title, “WTF” is not biting almost say the same thing enough to be satire or about the closely related moving enough as a drama 9/11 films with the lone or a hybrid of both. exception of the throttling This is easily the weakmasterpiece “United 93.” est effort from co-directors Tonally uneven, narraGlenn Ficarra and John tively jumbled and horRiqua, whose previous efribly photographed and Tina Fey plays Kim Baker in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.” (Special Photo: Paramount Pic- forts (“Bad Santa,” “I Love edited, “Whiskey Tango You Phillip Morris,” “Cats tures/Frank Masi) Foxtrot” (“WTF”) at least & Dogs”) weren’t all gold Baker, a real person and separates itself from the is effectively a crash bar The trouble is these clichés star winners yet also took rest of the generic pack by writer of the book “The crawl, Tanya prepares Kim fit in lockstep within the no prisoners and took the attempting something that Taliban Shuffle”) was for what’s in store by (recurrent mentality in the whole satire/genre-skewer loaded for bear and ready kind of sort of plays out ally) talking about having region (women covered in thing to the hilt. That also to rock. like satire. sex with their bodyguards. clothing and serving as de includes the equally unsure At first blush, Tina Within what seems like In a straight-ahead mod- facto slaves). Authenticity Robbie/Will Smith 2015 Fey would be the perfect minutes of landing in the ern wartime satire, this in satire is good but not espionage misfire “Focus.” choice to play a New York country, Kim develops would be a beyond perfect required, and in this case it This isn’t to say “WTF” TV news writer who is in a huge case of buyer’s setup, and it is — until it stops the narrative dead in isn’t without its memoa career and personal rut remorse, but in equally isn’t. In short order, firstits tracks. rable moments. Each and looking for a jolt. It’s 2003 quick fashion settles in time feature screenwriter During a segment on every one of the handand, although unpopular, thanks mostly to the warm Robert Carlock (a writer/ the Feb. 27 broadcast of ful of scenes including the war in Afghanistan reception from fellow producer on Fey’s former the magazine show “CBS Fey’s Baker and Billy was still a hot, not-quitereporter Tanya Vanderpoel, TV series “30 Rock”) Sunday Morning,” Kim Bob Thornton as the rigid clear media commodity another real person played resorts to threadworm, Baker was asked about the Marine General Hollanek and Fey’s character (Kim

by Margot Robbie. In what Middle Eastern clichés. historical accuracy of this are note-perfect while re-

calling “M*A*S*H*” and “Catch-22” — two of the greatest war-based satires ever made — and entirely believable in modern context. If the filmmakers had put the focus on this reporter/soldier, insider dynamic, “WTF” could have turned out to be a true keeper.

The filmmakers lose their footing when they incorporate a love interest for Baker that, while cute and fuzzy, isn’t at all believable and seems to be arrived at by storytelling default.

Let’s find the least likely romantic candidate, stretch it to breakable limits and cram it down the audiences’ throats. Even when done in this manner, it’s half-hearted, a day late and a dollar short.

When dealing with war — especially one — no, make that two — that is still ongoing and you want to infuse comedy and drama, you have to be really sure of your approach.

If you can’t do both with equal conviction, pick one and stick with it. Don’t do half of both and expect winning results.

Presented in English and infrequent Pashto and Dari with English subtitles.

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It’s well-known that she was raised as a coal miner’s daughter, but there’s a lot more to the life of Loretta Lynn.

“American Masters” knows it, thus the PBS series is offering a new profile of one of the true icons of country music Friday, March 4 (check local listings) with the subtitle “Still a Mountain Girl.” Lynn largely tells her own story — as rare home movies and performance clips illustrate many of her comments — with additional remarks by such friends and peers as Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crow, Jack White (producer of Lynn’s Grammy-winning 2004 album, “Van Lear Rose”) and Sissy Spacek (who won an Oscar for portraying Lynn in the 1980 movie “Coal Miner’s Daughter”).

Helping to mark Women’s History Month on “American Masters,” the episode isn’t premiering on a random date: It’s the same day as the release of “Full Circle,” the first studio album Lynn has recorded in more than a decade, combining new songs and fresh takes on several Lynn standards. “I

years old. It wasn’t the first time I sang, but it the first time I was ever on stage.”

Wed to Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn at age 15, Lynn relocated to Washington State from Kentucky to pursue her music career, and taught herself to play the guitar. “When we got out there, I really didn’t like the state of Washington that well because it rained so much,” she says. “We lived back there 15 years.

I had four kids in school when I was 21, so I came to Nashville. My husband pushed me out on stage and made me sing, so I started singing and started writing my own songs, and it just took off. God must have been behind all this, because I don’t know how I did it.”

Noting that everyone asked “wanted to participate” in the Lynn program, Elizabeth Trojian — one of its executive producers — reflects, “It was really important to us to talk to Sissy and Jack. Miranda really was amazing; she is an inspiration who really follows in Loretta’s footsteps and loves her. I think some of our favorite moments are with Garth and Tricia and Country music icon Loretta Lynn will be profiled on Friday’s “American Masters” on their banter, because they have a personal relationship PBS. (Special Photo: Your TV Link) with Loretta. You just sort didn’t start singing until star recalled in a January writers, “and the first time I of throw out a wish list, and I was 27,” the unfiltered interview with television was ever on stage, I was 27 really, every single person

said, ‘Yes.’” With four Grammys among her many honors, Lynn is doing a number of concert dates to support “Full Circle.” She has made classics of such tunes as “You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man),” “Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Trouble in Paradise,” “Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight),” “She’s Got You” and, of course, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”

“It’s usually something that I’m going through that day, or that week, or that month, or somebody that I know that’s going through that problem,” she says of the subjects of her songs.

“When I wrote ‘You Ain’t Woman Enough,’ this little woman came backstage, and she said, ‘Loretta, my husband didn’t bring me to the show tonight. He has got a girlfriend, and he brought her. She’s sitting out in that second row with my husband.’

“And we kind of pulled the curtain back and looked at him, and I looked at that lady that came backstage and I said, ‘Honey, she ain’t woman enough to take your man.’ I went in the dressing room right then and wrote that song before the show ever started.”

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As for Ferguson, his turn here is a complete 180 from his “Mad Men” role, having exchanged bearded, swinging 1960s ad man Stan Rizzo for clean-shaven, conservative present-day cop Pat on “The Real O’Neals.”

But at least one part of Stan lives on, he reports, if only off camera.

“The last time I shaved was the last day we shot,” he says. “Yeah, after having it for so long, doing ‘Mad Men,’ it just really became my happy place.

And so, you know, I’ve just made the decision that whenever I’m not working, that this is what I’m going to look like. So there you go.”

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that is practiced at concealing its various secrets and problems from one another and their suburban Chicago community. That is, until Mom and Dad announce to their three children during an impromptu family meeting at a church fundraiser that they’re getting a divorce.

That begets a round of truth-telling during which eldest son Jimmy (Matt Shively, “True Jackson, VP”), a high-school wrestler trying to make weight, admits he has an eating disorder; middle child Kenny (newcomer Noah Galvin) reveals that he’s gay; and the youngest, Shannon (Bebe Wood, “The New Normal”), fesses up that she’s skimmed enough funds from her charity work to buy a car. And to the O’Neals’ further chagrin, everyone at the function overheard them.

The truth, as the Bible says, shall set you free, and that’s something this family takes to heart as the O’Neals decide to let it all hang out and face their issues.

And playing the head of a dysfunctional family is nothing new for Plimpton, having starred for four seasons as Virginia Chance on Fox’s “Raising Hope.” But that, she told a recent gathering of TV critics in Pasadena, Calif., is where the similarity