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RED, BLUE AND YOU

‘It’s very humbling’

Annual event gives thanks to those in public safety arena

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Business leaders recognized public safety officers during the Red, Blue and You event at Coolray Field on Thursday, but as Suwanee Police Sgt. Nick Jacobs’ young son, John, sat in the audience, he couldn’t help but notice the big red truck driving past the outfield MORE ONLINE wall.

Visit gwinnettdailypost.com “Look for more event photos. over there daddy, there’s a fire truck,” John Jacobs, 3, enthusiastically said as the vehicle drove by the stadium on Buford Drive.

About 300 people, many of them public safety officers or members of their families, attended the second annual recognition event at the stadium. It wasn’t an elaborate event. Just a simple ceremony to say thank you to police, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, paramedics, 911 operators, See SAFETY, Page 8A

Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse Program Supervisor Tina Pangle hangs ornaments on the courthouse’s Christmas tree Wednesday. The tree will be officially lit up for the holiday season during a celebration on Thanksgiving. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

Old-style Christmas

Staff, volunteers ready courthouse with 19th century flair

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Members of Gwinnett’s law enforcement and fire personnel stand for the National Anthem during the Red, Blue and You celebration of community heroes Thursday morning. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

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This year’s Thanksgiving evening at the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville won’t be like your father’s Christmas tree lighting celebrations.

Officials at the courthouse decided to shake up the annual Christmas tree lighting

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CID gets new identity as Gateway 85

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by making several changes to the decorations and activities that will take place that evening. Staff members are putting lights and some ornaments on the 30-foot Norway Spruce and setting up decorations on the courthouse grounds this week.

That process is ex-

pected to continue into early next week.

With Gwinnett preparing to celebrate its 200th birthday in 2018, this year’s tree lighting is expected to evoke some of the feeling of a 19th century Christmas at the courthouse.

Officials said this year’s event also marks a big anniversary for the tree lighting.

“With it being the 30th annual

The 30-foot Norway Spruce on the grounds of the historic courthouse in Downtown Lawrenceville will light up at 5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving night. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

lighting of the tree and with the bicentennial coming up, the idea was to go a little bit more traditional (and) updated,” Historic Courthouse Program Supervisor Tina Pangle said. “We have very little that we kept from last year. We pretty much updated everything. A lot of it was just age. It had been around for awhile, so it was time for an update.”

The tree lighting celebration will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 23, and include snacks, warm beverages, face painting, Whoville hairstyling, crafts, the arrival of Santa Claus on a trackless locomotive and a performances by the Class Act

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One of Gwinnett’s oldest and largest community improvement districts laid out how it sees its place in Gwinnett County and metro Atlanta as it unveiled its new name Wednesday.

The Gwinnett Village CID, which has been in existence for more than a decade, will now be known as the Gateway 85 Gwinnett CID. The district’s executive director, Marsha Anderson Bomar, said the area included in the CID’s boundaries has changed since it was founded.

The name better reflects the CID as it is now, Bomar said. It also capitalizes on the district’s location on the cusp between Gwinnett and the part of metro Atlanta commonly referred to as being “inside the perimeter” — a reference to the Interstate 285 ring around Atlanta.

“I think the name really fits because whether your going north or south on 85, we’re the gateway into Gwinnett (or) we’re the gateway into the ITP if you will, so whichever way you’re going, there we are,” Bomar said.

The new name was unveiled during a presentation outside the CID’s offices on Indian Trail-Lilburn Road with CID Board Chairman Shiv Aggarwal, Norcross Mayor Bucky Johnson, Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason, County Administrator Glenn Stephens, Gwinnett Chamber President Dan Kaufman, See GATEWAY, Page 3A

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Clyde and Sandra Strickland address friends and fellow Georgia Gwinnett College supporters at the dedication of a research lab that the college has named in their honor Tuesday. (Special Photo)

in this lab,” School of Science and Technology Dean Dr. Tom Mundie said in a statement.

“The research conducted here is comparable to what you would find at a Tier 1 institution. The

search for her son Gwinnett teen missing since October 2016

FOX 5 ATLANTA A desperate search for a missing teenager took another turn this week with the use of cadaver dogs.

Draco, a black German Shepherd who specializes in finding cadavers and live bodies, was searching for any signs of DeCorrius Jones on Wednesday.

He was searching in the woods near the Sugarloaf Crossing Apartment Complex in the Lawrenceville area where Jones disappeared from in October 2016.

“He ran out of the house with his basketball shorts on, no shirt, no shoes, no wallet, no cellphone, and I haven’t seen him since,” his mother Shacora Jones told FOX 5 Atlanta.

She said her son ran out of the apartment in an altered state after she said he’d been on a “bad trip on acid.”

Authorities with the Gwinnett County Police Department said Jones faces a couple of counts of misdemeanor assault for lashing out against his girlfriend and mother. But Shacora Jones remains hopeful her now 19-yearold son is safe and may be getting help to stay hidden.

“I’m not going to say they are friends. I just think it’s somebody that he knows that I don’t know. I think they think

they are helping,” Shacora Jones said.

Jane Holmes, the DeCorrius private Jones investigator working with Gwinnett police and hired by DeCorrius Jones’ family, said Chance, the other dog used in the search, found a bone about 12-inches long. It was checked on the spot.

“We did find a bone.

Gwinnett County police sent a photo to the medical examiner’s office, and they sent it to an anthropologist and he said it was not human,” said Holmes.

The day-long search Wednesday ultimately turned up nothing, begging the question, where is DeCorriuss Jones?

Tracy Sargent, who operates Canine Search and Rescue Specialist, told FOX 5 Atlanta that it’s never easy on the family of the missing person.

“We certainly hoped we were going to find something here, but at the same time we didn’t but the family still wants to know. The not knowing is the worse,” said Sargent.

Anyone with knowledge of the whereabouts of DeCorriuss Jones is asked to contact the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Holmes also said people can message her on the Facebook page set up to find DeCorriuss Jones at Facebook.com/ pattylanepi.

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A research laboratory at Georgia Gwinnett College will now bear the names of two of the college’s biggest supporters.

The school announced this week that it is naming the lab in honor of Clyde and Sandra Strickland, with officials citing contributions the couple have made to the school over the years. One of those contributions was the recent funding of improvements to the School of Science and Technology’s cell biology research lab, the college said.

“The Stricklands’ humanitarian efforts will

critical thinking skills developed will change lives and help students find their career paths.”

Georgia Gwinnett College officials said the Stricklands support of the cell biology lab allowed the school to add emergency power lines, fluorescence microscopes, additional incubators, more refrigeration equipment and a dark room to the facility.

The college said those improvements give students the ability to undertake a range of research projects including how the immunological environment of fish in the area are altered when the water quality changes.

Another research project the school said students will be able to conduct because of the improvements is a look at how cardiovascular disease and cancers can be caused by Radical Oxygen Species-related cellular damage.

Other contributions that the Stricklands have made to the college over the years include funding scholarships in the schools of business and health sciences.

The couple said they were glad to support the school.

“We are honored to plant the seeds of knowledge,” Clyde Strickland said in a statement.

“Knowledge is something that can never be taken from you.”

Sandra Strickland said: “It’s not just about caring, it’s about taking action. I am thankful that we are able to give to GGC and offer a new perspective on life for some people who wouldn’t have had the opportunity to go to college.”

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017 • 3A Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse Program Supervisor Tina Pangle, right, hands Gwinnett Parks and Recreation Volunteer Resources Coordinator Kim Shealy ornaments to be hung on the courthouse’s Christmas tree Wednesday.

(Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Police need the public’s help in identifying and locating two suspects who robbed a motel in Norcross on Halloween night.

The incident took place at the Horizon Inn at 6187 Dawson Blvd. in unincorporated Norcross about 11 p.m. Oct. 31.

Police said the two suspects entered the Horizon Inn and began to pry open the unattended cash register when an employee walked in. One suspect approached the employee and said, “Do you want to get hurt?”

The suspects were able to open the register and steal a “few hundred dollars,” according to police.

The suspects fled in a

Police say these two suspects entered the Horizon Inn at 6187 Dawson Boulevard in unincorporated Norcross and robbed them of money. (Special Photo)

two door maroon car and drove south on Dawson Boulevard toward DeKalb County.

Anyone with information to share in this case is encouraged to contact GCPD detectives at 770-513-5300.

To remain anonymous,

tipsters should contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577TIPS (8477) or visit www. crimestoppersatlanta.org.

Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.

Publix set to expand its dairy facility in Gwinnett

Officials expect 44 new jobs with update

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“As we continue to live by our mission of being a premier quality food retailPublix Super Markets is er, we are always searching expanding its Atlanta Dairy for more ways to better facility in Gwinnett Coun- serve our customers,” Pubty, the company announced lix spokeswoman Brenda in concert with state and lo- Reid said in a statement. cal economic development “The expansion of the Atofficials Wednesday. lanta Dairy plant will allow The $48.7 million expan- us to increase the volume sion of the facility located of dairy production while at 445 Hurricane Trail expanding the customer’s in Dacula is expected to in-store selections.” create 44 new jobs. About Publix has 20 locations 41,625 square feet of space in Gwinnett County, which is expected to be added is part of 184 locations because of the expanacross the state and 1,130 sion. A joint statement across the country. Local from Publix, Partnership and state officials said they Gwinnett and the Georgia are excited by the news.

Department of Economic “We are continuously Development said the extra driven to make Gwinnett space will let the grocer in- County a prime location for crease the volume of dairy top industry innovators and products that are produced businesses,” Partnership

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•From Page 1A Partnership Gwinnett Chief Economic Development Officer Nick Masino and members of the CID Board of Directors.

Aggarwal recalled the ceremony held 11 years ago when the CID’s creation was announced — also in a parking lot, albeit one that was located on Jimmy Carter Boulevard — as he addressed attendees at the renaming announcement. He said the district’s mission has changed since then.

“That was a different moment when we were talking about the broken window project,” Aggarwal said of the 2006 ceremony. “And from the broken window project, we have reached this stage. Now, the Gwinnett Village CID is not a village anymore. It has grown to the point where we need to give it a new name, new look (and) new ideas.”

Bomar acknowledged that the new name is lengthy, saying that they chose to keep Gwinnett in the name to remember its roots. She said she expects people will likely shorten the name to the Gateway 85 CID for brevity when talking about it.

During the announcement ceremony, officials

Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District officials are joined by local government officials and representatives of the Gwinnett Chamber and Partnership Gwinnett to unveil the CID’s new name Wednesday. The district will now be known as the Gateway 85 Gwinnett CID. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

cut a ribbon and then pulled back a curtain to reveal a smaller version of the “Gateway 85” monument signs that will be placed at the entrances to the CID on major roads.

The sign that was unveiled is about half the size of the signs that will be placed on the roadways.

In addition to featuring the new name, the signs also show the CID’s new logo, which has a gray line crossing several green curved lines with some boxes on each side of the gray line. While some people have interpreted it as a speedometer or a bridge, Bomar said it’s actually the CID itself, along with major roadways.

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Gwinnett Senior Director of Economic Development Andrew Carnes said. “With such a dynamic industry leader choosing to continue their investment in Gwinnett, it is yet another example of how we have become a strong draw for major corporations, and we are pleased to support them as part of our community.”

Georgia Department of Economic Development Director of Existing Industry and Regional Recruitment Lindsay Martin said: “Congratulations to our partners in Gwinnett County for providing the resources companies need to expand in their community — this is great news for not only Gwinnett County, but also strengthens our probusiness environment here in Georgia.”

The gray line is I-85, and the curved green lines are Interstate 285, Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Indian Trail-Lilburn Road and Beaver Ruin Road. The thicker green lines that create what appear to be boxes are actually an outline of the CID’s borders.

“It’s a visualization of our place,” Bomar said.

Bomar said there was also an issue of people getting the Gwinnett Village and Gwinnett Place CIDs confused with each other. She said several people came up to her when she was named the Gwinnett Village CID’s executive director and asked what she was going to do about revitalizing Gwinnett Place Mall.

She had to explain to them that there was nothing she could do because that was in a different, albeit neighboring and similarly named, CID. “There was so much brand confusion,” Bomar said. “We’re each doing great things, and we need to be able to stand shine on that.”

The district’s new website can be found at www. gateway85.com.

•From Page 1A Band, students from Buford City High School and Audrie Beharie.

FOX 5 Atlanta’s Randy Travis will emcee the event.

One change for this year’s tree lighting event will be the opening up of the Historic Courthouse for tours with docents on hand to interact with visitors.

“This year will be the first time we do historic tours the night of the lighting of the tree,” Pangle said. “We’ll have people actually dressed in period were giving tours of the building and talking about the history, so the entire building will be opened up this year. There won’t be a room closed up.”

Another thing attendees at the tree lighting will notice is that the multicolored lights that have been on the tree in past years were replaced with smaller, allwhite lights this year.

While part of that is because the old lights were aging and wearing out, the change to all white lights was also done because it was the closest they could get to safely recreating 19th Century Christmas tree lighting techniques.

Back then, the lights placed on the tree would have been burning candles.

Since putting candles on the tree would create a fire hazard, Pangle and other staff members decided using white lights would be a better option.

“It kind of represents the look from the 1800s,” Pangle said. “They didn’t have colored lights back then so it’s kind of representing the candle light tradition.”

Several new ornaments — including plastic grapes and snowflakes — will be hung on the tree this year as well to replace the large number ornaments that had been damaged in the past. In all, there will be about 400 ornaments on the tree this year.

“We were limited because there was so much that had been broken over the years and just worn out, so rather than piecing it all together, we just decided to freshen it all up,” Pangle said.

The courthouse also won’t have wreaths in each window this year. Instead, staff will place electronic candle lights in each window to carry on the 19th century Christmas theme.

“We are going that far to make it look as historical as possible,” Pangle said.

Twelve rooms in the courthouse are also being decorated with their own Christmas trees this week.

Pangle said many of the decorations on those trees were donated for free by the J.W. Marriott hotel in Atlanta when it decided to change out its decorations.

There are different motifs in each room. The room where brides get ready before weddings at the courthouse has white doves and white and blue ornaments and snowflakes on it. There is a “Santa room” with a tree that has large gold reindeer heads and angels dressed up as Santa Claus.

But as staff members work to get the Historic Courthouse ready for Christmas, Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation Director John Gentry said it’s important to recognize the work they put into getting the grounds prepared for the holidays.

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The holiday season Here is a roundup of is already settling in some holiday tree lightaround Gwinnett County ings and parades taking as the county, cities and place around Gwinnett businesses begin stagover the next month.

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Saturday Celebrate the Holidays in Braselton: Begins at 10 a.m. at the Town Green.

It will include a market, pictures with Santa and a tree lighting at 5 p.m. under the theme of “Christmas Around the World.” There will also be a parade with bands, floats, classic cars, tractors and animal entries through downtown Braselton at 10:30 a.m.

Holiday Glow in the Corners Parade: Begins at 11 a.m. Bands, floats and Santa will part of the parade, which will go from Peachtree Corners Baptist church, up Peachtree Corners Circle and end at The Forum.

Mall of Georgia Tree Lighting Celebration: Begins at 4 p.m. It will include a DJ, performances by the Salvation Army Band and APA Superstars, family-friendly activities, a visit by Santa and Papa Elf, the lighting of a 50-foot tree at 6:30 p.m. and a viewing of The Polar Express afterward.

Lilburn Tree Lighting: 7 p.m. at City Hall. It will include real reindeer, kids crafts, complimentary hot chocolate, an opportunity to see decorated trees in City Hall and performances by the Georgia Brass Band, the Lilburn Middle School Chorus and the Lilburn First Baptist Proclamation Handbell Ensemble.

Thanksgiving Day Annual Lighting of the Tree at the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse: Begins at 5:30 p.m.

The 30th annual event on the Lawrenceville Square will include crafts, snacks, musical performances, historical tours of the courthouse and an appearance

by Santa Claus.

Nov. 24 Loganville Tree Lighting: Begins at 6 p.m. It will include free pictures with Santa, kids activities and $5 horse-drawn carriage rides.

Nov. 25 Snellville Annual Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting: Lasts from 5 to 9 p.m. The parade begins at 5:30 p.m. on Wisteria Lane and heads to the Towne Green next to City Hall. The tree lighting will then take place at the Towne Green and include crafts for kids, s’mores toasting, pictures with Santa Claus, singing and the lighting of the tree.

Dec. 1 Sparkle Celebration at Thrasher Park: Begins at 5 p.m. This event in Norcross’s Thrasher Park will include choir groups, a visit

by Santa, a movie in the park and the lighting of the community Christmas tree.

Suwanee’s Jolly Holly Day: Begins at 6:30 p.m.

It will include photos with Santa, free crafts, s’mores, hot chocolate, performances by local schools and the lighting of the city’s

“Tina is our lead program coordinator for this particular event and obviously she can’t do it all by herself,” Gentry said. “It takes a lot of people, both volunteers as well as staff supporting and

Christmas tree.

Dec. 2 Buford Business Alliance Holiday Festival and Parade: Lasts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will include stage performances, shopping, holiday treats, giveaways, vendors and a parade in downtown Buford, at the corner of Main and South Hill streets.

Deck the Hall in Duluth: Lasts from 2 to 7 p.m. on the Duluth Towne Green. It will include live entertainment, kids crafts, a snow playground, a visit

by Santa, a snow slide, a Polar Express train ride and a tree lighting ceremony. There will also be an open house from 4 to 5 p.m. at City Hall where residents can meet members of the City Council.

2017 Christmas in Dacula: Lasts all day. The festivities begin with a $5 per person pancake breakfast from 7 to 11:30 a.m. at Hebron Baptist Church.

There will be a car show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the Christmas festival will last from noon to 8 p.m.

Live nativity presentations will begin at 5:30 p.m., and the city’s tree lighting will take place at 7:15 p.m.

Sounding Off the Christmas Season: Lasts from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Auburn. The event will include a live nativity, live music and the arrival of Santa Claus and his live reindeer. Ice skating at the city’s Whistlestop Park is also expected to begin that day.

Sugar Hill’s Annual Holiday Celebration: Lasts from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the Dawn P. Gober Community Plaza at City Hall. It will include photos with Santa, a visit by The Grinch, a holiday market, free carriage rides, food vendors, performances by local musicians, ice skating and fake snow for kids to play in.

Loganville Christmas Parade: Lasts from 6 to 8 p.m. The parade will begin at Bay Creek Elementary School and come down Main Street. The theme will be “Have Yourself an Ugly Sweater Christmas” and participants and attendees are encouraged to wear ugly Christmas sweaters.

Dec. 3 Christmas in Grayson: Begins at 2 p.m. The event at Grayson Community Park will include bound houses, pony rides, free activities for kids, photos with Santa (for a small fee) and a tree lighting at 6 p.m.

Dec. 8 Lawrenceville’s Hometown Christmas Parade: Begins at 7 p.m.

The second annual parade presented by United Community Bank features Santa Claus will travel through the Lawrenceville square and the rest of city’s downtown area. It will feature an appearance by Santa Claus.

preparing for an event like this by putting up decorations and then working the event.”

The Historic Courthouse is located at 185 W. Crogan St.

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Destruction of part of the adrenal gland can influence cortisone levels Dear Dr. roacH: Our 37-year-old daughter has Addison’s disease.

We have had some difficulty trying to regulate her electrolytes and her blood pressure, which is always low, sometimes extremely so. She has known about it for 10 years now. What can one do besides try to stay hydrated to keep the pressure up? Last evening, her blood pressure was 95/58 with a pulse of 88. She is on steroids for life.

— L.M. aNsWer: Addison’s disease is caused by destruction of the part of the adrenal gland that makes cortisone. This leads to a deficiency of that hormone, which is necessary for the body’s response to stress, and which also is partially involved in salt and water metabolism.

Adrenal insufficiency is most often caused by autoimmune disease, but rarely it can be caused by tuberculosis or a hemorrhage into the gland. In some cases, the adrenal gland is normal, and it is the pituitary gland or the hypothalamus in the brain that fails to send the signal that hormone is needed.

Cortisone is the steroid most often used for treatment. There are several different families of steroids. Corticosteroids are named after cortisone, which reduces inflammation, increases blood sugar and has complex effects on protein metabolism. Cortisone also has some mineralocorticoid effects, which makes the kidney hold on to sodium and lose potassium. (These steroids are completely different from anabolic steroids, like testosterone, which promote bone and muscle growth.) Under periods of high stress — say, surgery or serious illness — people need more cortisone.

A blood pressure of 95/58 is low, but in the normal range for some people. It may have nothing to do with her adrenal insufficiency. However, the difficulty you report with her electrolytes makes me suspect that she may not be getting enough mineralocorticoid. Although some people get enough from the cortisone they take, others need to take additional mineralocorticoid, such as fludrocortisone.

Some people can do fine with just taking in some extra salt and water.

She should consult with her endocrinologist, or whoever is treating her Addison’s disease.

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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Today is the 321st day of 2017 and the 57th day of autumn.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1800, the United States Congress met for the first time in Washington, D.C., in the unfinished Capitol building.

In 1869, the Suez Canal was officially opened.

In 1871, the National Rifle Association was granted a charter by the state of New York.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy dedicated Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Shelby Foote (1916-2005), author/historian; Rock Hudson (1925-1985), actor; Martin Scorsese (1942- ), film director; Lauren Hutton (1943- ), actress; Jim Boeheim (1944- ), basketball coach; Danny DeVito (1944- ), actor; Lorne Michaels (1944- ), producer;

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Student ponders impact of workplace harassment Dear amy: I am currently a first-semester student at a highly selective professional school. Because of the public nature of our future occupation(s), as students we are insanely private in terms of our personal conduct and on social media. Still, friendships have developed within the group.

Seven of us are completing an externship together, and I have bonded with a male colleague who shares a similar schedule. Sometimes our conversation could be considered casual flirtation, but this is generally harmless and friendly banter.

Recently we discussed the Weinstein scandal during lunch break, and he vocalized the fear that being a straight male in a public profession will affect his personal life. He emphasized that he fears intentions or comments may be misinterpreted in ways that could harm his career.

Part of me wonders if he hasn’t initiated more overt flirtation with me due to his fear of sexual harassment or sacrificing our professional relationship. I have never actively dated before, and this adds another dimension for me; I feel this raises the stakes.

How can I value his reservations, express my interest and make my friend feel comfortable if he is not interested? In this case, how can I make the first move without being viewed as aggressive or at

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Amy Dickinson the least unprofessional?

— Need Advice Dear NeeD aDvice: Your colleague’s reservations about appropriate workplace behavior are intriguing.

I would answer his concerns by letting him know that it is actually easy to avoid harassment charges. I think back to the scores of men I have worked for and alongside in four decades of working in various professions.

Almost every single one of them managed not to harass women, and I don’t think it was a hugely heavy lift. They simply respected colleagues’ abilities and autonomy, didn’t engage in sexual banter and didn’t behave in a sexual way, a physically threatening manner or an inappropriate fashion. I developed many important and abiding relationships and friendships with these colleagues that extended beyond the workplace.

Your colleague’s choice to act threatened, as if he is practicing his own victimhood, is curious — and also unappealing (at least

to me).

Harassment is an assertion of power. If you and your colleague are on the same level professionally, you could gauge his possible personal interest by asking if he’d like to have coffee sometime, before or after work. If he hesitates or declines — for any reason — then you will respect his choice, not press the matter and continue to enjoy your professional relationship.

Dear amy: Every year I take my daughter and two granddaughters on a vacation to the beach for five days. This has always been just a girl thing.

Now my daughter has a live-in boyfriend. She wants to take him with us.

We would all be in one mini-suite, sharing one bathroom.

That is only part of the problem. He talks and talks constantly. It is a five-hour trip, and we all share one room! I don’t think I can do it with him along, but if I tell her I am not going if he goes, she will be upset.

Should I go, or should I tell her that this vacation is only for the four of us?

— Upset Grandmother Dear Upset: If this man is your daughter’s live-in partner, then you are going to have to adjust to considering him to be a member of the family. You didn’t choose him, and it sounds like you would never choose him, and yet there he is.

It is completely reason-

able for you to ask your daughter, “Do you mind if we keep this vacation as our ‘girls only’ getaway?”

Do not get drawn into a recitation of this man’s many faults. You could also offer to take the kids by yourself, and although this would change things for you, they might enjoy it very much.

If your daughter insists that he must come along on this trip, she should rent a nearby room for the couple to stay in, and perhaps you and your granddaughters can bunk in together. If you can’t bear the thought of hosting this, then admit that the “girls only” era has ended.

Dear amy: I take issue with this response to “Pet-Friendly Guy.” You stated that “while my pets are lovely, they can’t call me on my birthday, pick me up if I get a flat tire or invite me over for a nice dinner after a tough day.”

I’d take a cuddle from my animal over the coldness of a rude relative any day.

— Also Unashamed Dear also: Point taken!

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Get ready to follow your heart and make the changes that will help you be happy. Pay more attention to the way you look and feel, and spend time improving and making your life better physically and emotionally. Embrace doing things your way and don’t fear being different.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Express your feelings and share your thoughts about how you want to move forward personally. An opportunity to change your life will come from an unusual source.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you get together with someone you have worked with in the past, new ideas and options will sprout. A chance to be a part of something that interests you will be enticing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you take it upon yourself to put in extra time and effort, you will reap the rewards. A chance to do something different will be enlightening. Personal change will lead to professional benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Throw your time into a creative project or hide away and rejuvenate.

You need time to digest what’s going on before you strike out against someone or something you don’t agree with.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A joint venture with someone special will improve your current position, attitude and prospects.

Discuss the possibilities and celebrate your good fortune with someone you love.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — A relationship will take a turn.

Listen to what’s being offered and consider your options. The alternatives you come up with will spark interest.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Get together with the people you find mentally stimulating or participate in an activity that gives you the chance to blow off steam. An emotional relationship will take a unique turn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Take care of your responsibilities, whether work-related or involving a pet, friend in need or health issues. Don’t slack off when something should be done.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Get out with friends, do a little shopping or spend time on personal maintenance.

Expanding self-awareness will give you a new perspective on life, love and happiness. Romance is in the stars.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Look over your assets and anything else you need to protect. Be creative regarding money, legal matters and your health. Curb bad habits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Taking a short trip or spending time with friends or relatives will be insightful. Greater self-awareness will help you relate better to a partner.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Look for a unique way to solve a professional problem.

Incorporate your skill and knowledge into something that can help you boost your income.

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A memorable trip causes you to appreciate modern phones Slight panic in the airport out in Texas.

Waiting to check a bag, pull out my billfold, no driver’s license. Check pockets, briefcase.

Credit cards, no license. The brain flutters.

Hotel? Taxi?

Pickpocket? A teen terrorist from Izvestistan perhaps, trying to persuade TSA he is 75 and from Anoka, MinGarrison nesota?

How about Keillor dementia? Loss of license today, tomorrow can’t conjugate “lay” and “say,” next day my wife’s name is missing along with the three branches of government.

OK. License found. In jacket pocket. I head for TSA, resuming my life as a Midwestern author, husband, father. Never mind that I checked that very pocket three times thoroughly. I’m OK. OK? Life is precarious. So much depends on a small card with a grim picture of me on it. Lose it and I become flotsam, a fugitive, stateless, displaced. Sobering.

So I got on a plane to New York and when I disembarked my faithful iPhone was dead and wouldn’t recharge and suddenly it was olden times again when you look around for a payphone and newsboys shout the headlines on the street corner and you get on an elevator and an attractive woman asks you for a light. And when a meteorite is headed straight for Metropolis, Clark Kent steps into a phone booth to change into his Superman outfit and deflect the thing into Long Island Sound.

I spent a whole day with no cellphone and it gave me the feeling of being in a foreign country, out of touch, friendless, so I walked over to Grand Central Station and there, under the great starry ceiling, I found an Apple store and made an appointment to see someone at their genius desk who could restore my connection to the world.

I had an hour to kill and I did it in style, in the Oyster Bar, the restaurant that time has not changed. I sat down and the waitress came by, said hello, handed me a menu.

She didn’t ask how I was doing today — she was a classic New York waitress, a big healthy woman, all business. Came back a few minutes later, said, “Ready?” I ordered black coffee and a half-dozen Chincoteagues and the grilled halibut. She did not say, “Oh, that’s one of my favorites,” as millennial waiters in the Midwest do. She brought the coffee and I amused myself by writing a limerick: There was an old waitress of Queens Who cautioned me not to eat beans, Lest I spill on my clothes Or stick beans up my nose And never find out what life means.

After she brought the food, she did not come back to say, “How’s everything tasting?” No need — it’s the Oyster Bar, the food is good. Nor did she come back later to ask, “You still working on that?” She was a minimalist. Waiting on tables is a service; it isn’t the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

It dawned on me that, here in the Oyster Bar, I was in a time warp and that, if I decided to not get an iPhone, it would be 1961 outside and my hero A.J. Liebling would be alive and still writing his gorgeous stuff, and I’d walk up 44th Street and see Eudora Welty, as I once did years ago, standing in front of the Algonquin Hotel, looking for a taxi, and I’d be 19 again, walking around with a pack of Luckies in my pocket, writing sorrowful poems about an owl with a broken wing flying home through a moonless night.

So I tipped the waitress 50 percent for the memories and went over to Apple. The old phone was dead for good and I bought a new one.

The thought of going back to 1961 was unbearable. I’d have to relive the 1963 assassination and stay in grad school to dodge the draft and hear Richard Nixon say that he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.

My precious daughters would disappear into the ether, and my dear wife would be 4 years old.

It’s good to be old. Every day is an adventure. The Apple guy was very nice. I didn’t understand much of what he said but he sold me the new phone, and I appreciate this gizmo more than the average 19-year-old would because I am old enough to remember the wooden phone on the farmhouse wall with the crank that you turned to get the operator who would connect you to whomever you wanted. This phone is a God-given miracle. With this and my driver’s license, I can go anywhere.

Garrison Keillor is an author and radio humorist who lives in St. Paul, Minn.

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I cannot believe what my ears just heard Without nearly enough fanfare, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made history this week with a scant four words: “I believe the women.”

All across America, forks dropped, glasses shattered and knees wobbled as women turned to each other in astonishment. Wait. What? Did he say what I think he said?

Suddenly, McConnell, whose characteristic solemnity inspires envy in statues, suddenly became irresistibly magnetic. Admit it: You wanted to hug him.

The Senate leader was responding to a reporter’s question about the alleged sexual misconduct of Roy Moore, the erstwhile “Ten Commandments” judge and aspiring U.S. senator from Alabama. Moore, as you surely know, has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women who claim that he groped, attempted to rape or otherwise made overtures when they were teens and he was in his 30s in the 1970s.

McConnell — who fought Moore’s candidacy even before the accusations — has now joined several other Republicans in urging Moore to step aside before Alabama’s Dec. 12 special election, saying he is unfit to serve.

Anyone who knows Moore will tell you that he won’t quit, while skeptics and loyalists shrug at the charges, saying they’re “politically motivated.”

Kathleen Parker Shocking. As Bill Clinton can attest, ugly things tend to surface when people aspire to high places. Sadly, they’re often also true things, though it seems these days that one’s moral compass follows the needle of political affiliation.

This is why McConnell’s words were so stunning.

Rather than try to ensure that Republicans keep the seat, he opted to do the right thing.

It’s a shame we have to be surprised when this happens, but rare is the politician who is also a statesman.

In fairness, one observes that the man Moore allegedly was in those days may not be the same man today. As a society, we tend to believe that people can change and be forgiven for past transgressions, especially if they’ve led exemplary lives in the interim.

But forgiveness first requires that one confess and repent — and Moore has done neither.

His denial and steadfast refusal to step aside may be viewed in one of two ways.

Either he’s innocent, or he’s

confident that his supporters don’t care if he is guilty. As in: That was a long time ago and that’s not the Roy Moore we know. Both scenarios could be true, though having lived in Alabama, I lean toward the latter scenario. In a state where Moore achieved hero status in some quarters for refusing a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his court building — and where good ol’ boys look out for each other — it’s much easier to blame the media’s “fake news” for Moore’s troubles than to be bedeviled by women with their cursed agendas.

Moore is threatening to sue The Washington Post, which broke the story after a month-long investigation that included corroborating interviews with at least 30 people.

On Monday, a fifth woman, Beverly Young Nelson, came forward with a detailed accusation of how Moore attempted to rape her in his car when she was 16. She claims Moore choked her and dumped her, crying, onto the pavement.

He allegedly ordered her to keep quiet since no one would believe “just a child.”

Moore refutes ever knowing Nelson, though this seems demonstrably false. Nelson produced her 1977 high school yearbook featuring an inscription by Moore. Apparently smitten by his inner muse, he wrote: “To a sweeter, more

beautiful girl, I could not say Merry Christmas.” Could you maybe have said, “Congratulations and best of luck in the future”?

Moore’s pearls seem rather personal for someone unremembered. Then again, would-be poets in the South, especially those who favor themselves “ladies’ men,” have been known to indulge in inflated flattery. Had Moore been elderly at the time, one might have thought him merely dotty — a harmless hybrid of Don Juan and Don Quixote, tilting at maidens in a trance of romantic chivalry.

But Moore wasn’t elderly or dotty. And five women who didn’t know each other have shared similarly sickening memories. The Post stands by its exhaustively researched story. And anyone with common sense stands next to McConnell, whose words must have fallen like musical notes on the ears of the silenced.

We’ll never know with certainty what happened some 40 years ago. But in the future, McConnell’s stand surely will make a difference for other women who fear they will not be believed in similar circumstances. In the meantime, here’s an inscription for Moore’s yearbook: I have two words for you, and they’re not Merry Christmas.

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

Connection between good people, rich history MIDLAND — Rural acreage in this Muscogee County community, roughly 15 miles from Columbus, is emotionally appealing and becoming with woodlands and rolling hills where quail hunting once was as good as you could expect.

Now incorporated into the Columbus-Muscogee consolidated government, Midland does have a post office on County Line Road.

Ol’ timers remember the way it was when their forebears hunted quail. It usually took place by riding a mule with the dogs out front training their noses in the direction of huddled quail birds, nervous and edgy — soon to explode as if they were shot out of a cannon.

Originally, Muscogee County was Creek territory and gets its name from a branch of the tribe which ceded its lands under duress to European settlers nearly two centuries ago.

Columbus, named for the Spanish explorer with whom we are all familiar, was once the home of the Haiman’s Sword factory which made swords, sabers and Colt Navy pistols which were used in the “last land battle of the Civil War” nearby.

The Chattahoochee, which has its beginnings in North Georgia (Jack’s Knob in Union County), forms the border of the state of Alabama. The fishing is good on this river of controversial waters, of which the Supreme Court may

Loran Smith have to decide use, as Georgia, Alabama and Florida are not of selfless persuasion when it comes to the Chattahoochee.

Columbus was big in textiles for years, but its main industry for almost a century has been Fort Benning, the U.S. Army installation where infantrymen are trained for battle in parts of the world where the Chattahoochee is unheard of. Dwight Eisenhower was once billeted here and so was George Patton and Omar Bradley among other military lumanaries.

Up the road in Talbot Country, James Rutland, who teaches instinct shooting which has improved the aim of countless quail, dove and duck hunters in these parts, has often been solicited to enhance the aim of infantrymen at Fort Benning. James was a track hurdler at Georgia — and a good one, too. As often as I can, especially before hunting opportunities, I call on James to see if he can sharpen my aim.

Columbus has always spawned University of Georgia aficionados. Some were pace-

setting leaders along with a colorful character or two. An invitation to dinner recently at the country home of Frank and Libba Foley, brought about recall of bygone days when Frank’s grandfather, Judge Frank Foley, was a mover and shaker in the county and emotionally joined at the hip with his alma mater where he was a baseball pitcher of note.

Judge Foley was a participating architect of the creation of the Georgia Student Educational Fund which was designed to principally support Bulldog athletics but also provided financial assistance to deserving boys and girls in the state. It was created in 1954 when Georgia Tech, allied with the corporate expansion of firms across the country, was living off the fat of that association while Georgia squandered its best asset — which, as Judge Foley’s principal associate, Dan Magill, the Bulldog Club secretary, proclaimed was the fact that Georgia was “the majority party in the state.”

What was missing was leadership which would come about, from all places, Auburn, located less than an hour away. The Tigers had a disenchanted basketball coach named Joel Eaves who was hired by UGA’s President O.C. Aderhold to “right the ship.”

Eaves hired Vince Dooley and you know the rest of the story. Eaves didn’t have the promotional flair of Magill, but

he had a grasp for administrative fundamentals: Work hard, don’t spend if you don’t have it, keep your nose clean and, most importantly, keep your nose out of his business.

That last preachment, in time, would cause Eaves problems, but at the time he was hired, it was the best thing that could have happened to Georgia athletics. I stood by an enlarged photo in the Foley’s living room of Theron Sapp breaking the drought against Georgia Tech in 1957 and recalled the vagrancies of Bulldog football during those times.

Dan Magill was right. The Georgia people are the biggest asset for the state university of the Empire State of the South.

When the institution has failed to fulfill its potential, it has been the result of poor leadership.

Dinner with Frank and Libba and their inner circle of Georgia friends was a reminder of the love and loyalty of UGA titans from the past — in a setting where an indolent fire gave off emotional warmth, accented by a view of the countryside where a love of the land and harmony of the people made for a weekend which brought about aspirations for good memories to linger.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

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world&nation world Mugabe seen in talks with military amid Zimbabwe chaos

Zimbabwe’s embattled President Robert Mugabe has been shown in talks with the commander of the country’s defense forces, a day after the military seized control of the capital.

Photographs published by the pro-Mugabe Herald newspaper are the first images seen of the veteran leader since he was placed under house arrest Wednesday morning and the military staged an apparent coup. The Herald’s editor, Caesar Zvayi, also tweeted the images.

Among the group of people in the photos is a priest, reported earlier to be brokering the talks for a transitional government, and two South African envoys.

Mugabe appears calm in the photos as he talks with army leader Commander General Constantino Chiwenga. The commander warned the president Monday that the military could intervene after Mugabe dismissed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, triggering the political tumult.

Goldman Sachs CEO says U.K. should vote again on Brexit

House Republicans pass tax plan

By Lauren Fox and Deirdre Walsh CNN

The House of Representatives passed major tax reform legislation along party lines, advancing a key agenda item for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

The vote was 227-205, with 13 House Republicans joining all Democrats to oppose the bill. As the vote tally passed the majority mark, Republicans in the House began to cheer. At the same time, Democrats on the other side of the chamber also began to cheer — and wave goodbye to their colleagues across the aisle, as both sides see the legislation as a polarizing issue going into next year’s midterms.

While the bill’s passage in the GOP-controlled House was largely drama free, the prospects for the measure are more unclear in the Senate where Republicans hold a slim two-seat majority. On Wednesday, Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson announced he opposes the current Senate version and a handful of others have raised concerns. Republican leaders have vowed to get a tax bill to the president’s desk by the end of the year.

Trump spoke to the

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said he opposed the current Senate version of the tax bill. Republicans are hoping to get a tax bill to President Trump before the start of 2018. (Photo: CNN)

conference ahead of the vote, but members say it’s not because leadership is worried that they lack the votes. Leadership aides tell CNN they’re confident they are in a good place, able to pass legislation that drops the corporate tax rate, reduces the number of tax brackets and simplifies the code just two weeks after the bill was unveiled.

“I think the health care debacle helped us prepare for this one,” Florida GOP Rep. Dennis Ross told CNN. “I think all the members also realize that

this is very crucial, that we need a tax bill out of here, and I think that’s why there’s not a lot of angst over whether we have the votes tomorrow. I think we’ll be right on target.”

But Republicans are also cautious that this is the first step in a multistage process. Passing their bill is just the first vote. Republicans in the House are conscious that the Senate still has its work to do, not to mention most expect a tedious process of melding the two measures to follow.

One member quipped on

background, “conference is gonna be brutal.”

The president was in a very jovial mood Thursday morning, according to a source in the room, and another said the president urged Republican members to sell the plan as “the biggest tax cut in history.”

He praised Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and said he was such a nice guy.

“He really likes Kevin Brady that’s for sure,” the source said.

Rep. Steve Womack, a Republican from Arkansas, said Trump acknowledged that the Senate is an obstacle on taxes, but he was in a great mood and told members that “they’ll come around,” according to Womack.

There is no denying that there is a bit of apprehension on the part of House members that the Senate could fail to pass their bill, but Trump remains upbeat about the bill’s prospects in the upper chamber, Womack said.

The appetite to pass something and deliver a major legislative accomplishment to the president’s desk before the end of the year is a core guiding principle for the party right now, a force so strong that the typical divisions that have hobbled the party in the past have been rare in the days leading up to the vote.

people ‘Veep’ postponed as Louis-Dreyfus undergoes cancer treatment

Production on the seventh and final season of HBO’s “Veep” has been postponed as star Julia Louis-Dreyfus continues treatment for breast cancer.

Executive producer Frank Rich confirmed the delay in an interview with Sirius XM’s “The Press Pool.”

“The expectation is we will shoot again,” Rich said. “We have one more season we’re doing, which we’re incredible excited about.”

Louis-Dreyfus announced her diagnosis in late September, just days after she made Emmy history for her sixth consecutive win in the best actress in a comedy category.

HBO said at the time that the show’s production schedule would be adjusted to accommodate LouisDreyfus’ health needs.

While undergoing treatment, Louis-Dreyfus is still attending table reads with the cast in Los Angeles, Rich said, a move he called impressive.

Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are no longer good friends

Friendship appears to be out of style for the former co-hosts of “What Not To years, but leaves the senator Wear.”

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Tesla rolling out electric semi-truck nicknamed ‘The Beast’

By Peter Valdes-Dapena CNN

Tesla’s long-awaited electric tractor-trailer truck debuted Thursday night.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised a big, powerful truck he nicknamed “The Beast.” A teaser image Telsa has released, showing the truck heavily backlit, reveals a tall silhouette with futuristic angular headlights.

But Tesla is rolling into a big,

Must read new market very different from the passenger vehicles it sells now.

And the company is already facing major production issues with the cars it already makes.

Musk has frequently touted the truck’s reveal which was originally set for September, but it’s been delayed. Most recently, it was pushed to November because, Tesla said, it needed to divert resources to help

restore power in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria — Tesla makes power storage equipment as well as cars. It also needed to attend to problems with the Model 3 sedan, only 260 of which have been made since July.

Tesla unveiled the new truck in California.

It will be a challenging new line of business for Musk, due primarily to basic physics. Semi trucks, which tow large, heavy trailers at high speeds for long distances, are

by their very nature not ideal candidates for electric power.

The reason: A semi truck requires lots of energy to run, and more energy means more batteries.

Since the whole point of a truck is to carry cargo, a truck that uses a lot of space just to haul its own batteries would be problematic. The truck could use smaller batteries, but then it would have to stop more often to recharge and, in the trucking industry, downtime costs money.

Electric delivery trucks are

already on the market, delivering goods on local routes. Those sorts of trips, involving relatively short routes at slow speeds that start and end at the same location, are well suited to a battery-powered truck.

Power demands are relatively low, and the trucks can easily be recharged before each shift.

That’s why many analysts have suggested that Tesla’s semi truck would be best used to move cargo from ports to other relatively nearby locations.

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Illinois and immediately crowellbrothers.com Snellville entered the US Army as a Grayson Sandra Carole Kocon Second Lieutenant. During his military career he was Randall Evans Sandra Carole Kocon, stationed at Fort Riley, Randall Scott Evans, age 75 of Snellville, Ga, Kansas as an Infantry age 66, passed away on passed away on November Company Commander, Sunday November 5, 2017 15, 2017. Tom M. Wages Hanau, Germany flying at MeSun Hospice Center, Snellville Chapel H-34s, Fort Benning, GA after a brief illness. as an instructor in the Winder He was the husband of Brigade and Battalion Ms. Juanita Martin Leslie Carbaugh Evans.

Operations Department They shared 28+ years of Ms. Juanita Martin, age and served two tours marriage together. Born 55, of Winder, Georgia in Vietnam as an Army in Enterprise, Alabama, died November 14, 2017.

Aviator Armed helicopter he was the son of the late Platoon commander, an Covington, GA Preston and Winona Evans. aviator Team Leader with Stanley Ray Moon He graduated from Avonthe Army Security Agency dale High School and from MOON- Stanley Ray and Operations Officer Georgia Tech with a degree Moon, age 68, of Covingof an Aviation Battalion. in Engineering. He grew ton, formerly of Snellville, Marvin pioneered the use up in Stone Mountain, passed away on November of Aerial Searchlights on GA. Randy was employed 15, 2017. Funeral Services helicopters and was the for 23 years at Amerisafe, will be held at 1 PM on first to use this innovation Inc. where he worked as a Saturday, November 18, in a combat environment.

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Duluth grandchildren, 1 greatHis awards include the granddaughter, brother; Silver Star, Bronze Star Ken Evans and sister-inwith cluster, 26 awards of law Terri Evans along with the Air Medal, two with many nieces and cousins.

V for valor, Army ComA memorial service will mendation. Award with be held on Sunday, Nocluster and one with V for vember 12, at 2:00pm in valor, Vietnamese Cross Marvin Otis Myers the chapel of Eternal Hills of Gallantry and Vietnam Georgia Veterans leader Funeral Home in SnellService Medal. He has passes away. Marvin Otis ville, GA. Flight Wings, Ranger Myers of Duluth passed In lieu of flowers the Tab, and Airborne badge. away on No- During the 70s and 80s, family asks that you please vember 12, make donation to the he owned and managed 2017. Marvin a tractor dealerships in National Multiple Sclerosis was born in Society or St. Jude’s ChilColumbus, Georgia, a Hutchinson, dren’s Hospital.

Christian bookstore and Kansas on July 24, 1936, A celebration of life will a farm in Alabama. In the to Otis & Donna Mybe held at the family’s 80s he moved to Duers. He is survived by his home at 1921 Flowering luth and bought a small Drive, Grayson, GA 30017 children Marshall (Melamanufacturing company nie), Scott, Tracy (Trip) following the service. specializing in canine and Coombs, Becky (Frank) Arrangements under the equine equipment. During Kremer; his grandchildren: the 80s, Marvin helped direction of Eternal Hills Jeremy, Andrew, Zachary, successfully campaign for Funeral Home, Snellville, Stephen, Matthew, Shelby legislation and the VA to GA. and Anna; his greatg Buford, GA

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assist veterans suffering from illnesses related to the use of Dioxin or Agent Orange in Vietnam. In the 90s, he founded the Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance and served as the President until his passing. This group helps veterans with financial assistance and the awarding of scholarships to veterans and their children. The GVVA was nominated by the Georgia Department of Labor as the Veterans Small Business employer of the year, Georgia and in the nation. The organization was presented the awards by the American Legion. He also served on the national board of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Marvin served as President of the Georgia Veterans Day Parade Association for 15 years, helping grow it to the second largest in the nation and bringing leaders such as General Hal Moore, the hero of (We Were Soldiers Once) and G. Gordon Liddy to serve as Grand Marshals. In 2012, the Veterans Day Parade Committee instituted an award called the “Marvin Myers Leadership Award.”

The first recipient was his friend, Commissioner of Veterans Services for Georgia, Pete Wheeler.

Marvin led a group to petition the state legislature for a grant for a Veterans Cemetery in Milledgeville.

Today the Cemetery is a beautiful and highly used site. On Veterans Day 2012, USA Today ran a commemorative issue recognizing the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. Marvin was saluted as the Veteran from Georgia. Marvin led a full life, celebrating his 70th birthday by making a parachute jump and still working at 81 helping veterans. Marvin was a member of the Duluth Methodist Church; a Life member of The Veterans of Foreign Wars; the American Legion; a Life Member of the Vietnam Veterans Helicopter Association; The Army Aviation Heritage Assn.; The Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Businessman’s Association; The Georgia Veterans Day Parade Association and the Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance. Memorials may be made to the Duluth Methodist Church, 3208 Duluth Highway, Duluth, GA 30096 or the charity of your choice.

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Emily Irene Robertson, age 42, of Buford, GA passed away Thursday, September 21, 2017. She was preceded in death by her father, Allen Skippy Robertson; grandparents, Cliff and Marie Holbrook, Nellie Robertson Allen, Fred Robertson; step grandfather, Bona Allen, Jr.: great aunt, Sybyl Hen-

derson. She is survived by her mother, Evelyn Holbrook Robertson, Buford, GA; and many friends and cousins. Emily Irene Robertson was born November 8, 1974 in Buford, GA. She was a 1993 graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, GA. Her friends were a big part of her life and she enjoyed being with them, she also had an interest in music. A graveside service will be held on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at Hillcrest Cemetery, 734 Little Mill Road, Buford, GA 30518 with Rev. Kenneth Parker officiating. The family will receive friends on Sunday, November 19, 2017 from 12:00 noon to 1:45 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home in Buford. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Flanigan Funeral Home, 4400 South Lee Street, Buford, GA 30518 in memory of Emily Robertson.

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Gladston Arthur Sudderth Gladston Arthur Sudderth, age 95, of Buford, GA peacefully passed away on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. He was preceded in death by his wife of seventy years, Ann Buice Sudderth; parents, Erskin Weber Sudderth and Georgia Poss Sudderth; brothers, James, Grady, Leon, Bill, Kenneth, and Joel Sudderth; and brother-in-law, Milton Pitts.

Mr. Sudderth is survived by his children, Cereta Ann Sudderth, of Buford, GA, Peggy Sudderth Sansing and husband, Sandy of Pensacola, FL, Lamar Sudderth and wife, Beth, of Buford, GA; grandchildren, Stephanie Sansing White and husband, Frank, David Robert Sansing and wife, Lauren, Matthew David Sudderth and wife, Ali, and Andrew Parks Sudderth; great grandchildren, Henry, Clayton, and Wesley White, and Webb and Julianne Sansing; sisters, Wynell Pitts, of Birmingham, AL, Barbara Sudderth Pass and husband, Sammy, of Buford, GA, brother and sister-inlaw, Winton Sudderth and wife, Trellis, of Buford, GA; brother-in-law, Maron Buice; sisters-inlaw, Jeanette Sudderth Mauldin, Linda Gillespie, Barbara Sudderth; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

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After returning from WWII, Mr. Sudderth pursued a career in business and agriculture. He owned several businesses: the Forsyth County Furniture Store in Cumming, GA, the Sudderth & Buice Furniture Store in Buford, GA, and the Twin Springs Egg Farm in Buford, GA. In addition to his furniture store businesses, he sold real estate and built houses. After retirement from the furniture stores, Mr. Sudderth enjoyed spending time raising livestock and growing vegetables.

He received over one thousand ribbons from the Gwinnett County Fair Association for his prize vegetables and honey. He was also very involved in the community. Glad is featured in the history book of Sugar Hill. He was a member of Farm Bureau and supported the agriculture and sports programs at North Gwinnett High School for a number of years. Mr. Sudderth was a Mason, a member of the LaFayette Lodge No. 44 F.A.& M. in Cumming, GA, and a Shriner. He was former Mayor Pro Tem and former Councilman in Cumming, GA. He was a former Director of the Bank of Cumming. Mr. Sudderth was a member of the Peoples Bank Travel Club in Buford which allowed him and his wife, Ann, to travel the country.

Mr. Sudderth’s faith was his reason for living.

He was a member of the Sugar Hill Baptist Church for over sixty years, where he served on the Deacon Board and taught Sunday School. He went to Sunday School every Sunday; he did not miss for over forty-five years. He was the Chairman of the Sugar Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Committee for over fifty years. Mr. Sudderth was Co-Chairman of the Building Committee of Sugar Hill Baptist Church when the new church was built on Broad Street in Sugar Hill, GA. He was a member of the Senior Adult Men’s Sunday School class with teacher Tom Moreland.

Mr. Sudderth was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, and brother; he loved his family and friends very much. The family wishes to thank all of his caregivers who took wonderful care of Glad during his illness. The funeral service will be held on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the Sugar Hill Baptist Church Chapel with Rev. Charles Pirkle and Rev. Chuck Allen officiating, and the eulogy given by Sandy Sansing. Interment will be in the Sugar Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Sugar Hill, GA with Rev. Ron Davidson officiating the graveside service. The family will receive friends on Saturday, November 18 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday, November 19 from 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

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Everyone enjoyed hot dog lunches after the ceremony.

“The message was ‘You are appreciated,’” lead organizer Raymer Sale said.

“Just hearing somebody say ‘Thanks for what you do’ — because not every time they’re engaged with somebody is a positive event — I think they appreciate it. I hope they do.”

County Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash addressed attendees, and videotaped remarks from Congressman Rob Woodall were played on the stadium’s outfield video screen. A recording of an interview Gwinnett County Police Officer Johnny Pollack did concerning his giving out 300 backpacks to children in need, and the Gwinnett Chamber’s Valor Awards video were also played at the event.

“It is tough for public safety folks these days,” Nash said. “The public perception is often negative, but it’s great to see business people and other members of the community here to say ‘thank you’ to public safety officers here in Gwinnett County.”

Jessica Rantamaki, who was severely injured in a car accident in Sugar Hill earlier this year, also made a special presentation to thank firefighter/paramedics who treated her at the scene of her accident.

While many of the attendees were in the public safety or local government sectors, there were some residents and business people who attended the event as well to show their support.

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Love and Nan Metz said they attended the event because they wanted all of the public safety agencies to know how much they appreciate what they do for the community.

“I think unfortunately in the climate today, they’re not recognized enough for the service that they give us,” Metz said. “I think they need to see there are people in the community that do support them.”

Love said first responders can be reassuring to people who their assistance in bad times.

“To me, the times that I have utilized their services were some of the worst times of my life, and not knowing what to do and to have someone come in and put you ease and make you feel comfortable and kind of just take over and do what needs to be done — it’s just such a relief for the people that they are serving,” she said.

The expression of gratitude was not lost on public safety officials who were at the event.

Jacobs said that, in addition to bringing his son, he also brought his father, Roger, to the event. The Suwanee police sergeant said the event means a lot to public safety officers like himself. Jacobs has been in law enforcement for 16 years, all in Suwanee.

“I love it,” he said. “I love that the community has some appreciation of the job we do. … It means a lot.

We’re very thankful here in Gwinnett County to have a lot of support from citizens and business owners. I think we get a lot of bad press sometimes nationwide, but I feel blessed to be here in Gwinnett County.”

Gwinnett County Police Chief Butch Ayers said he thought the event was great because it showed officers, deputies and firefighters what kind of community support they have in the county.

He said the county’s police department handled about 558,000 calls last year, and while deadly force was only used in two of those incidents, he said the public often thinks the number is higher because of incidents elsewhere that make national news. Between those two incidents, there was one injury, the chief said.

“What I’ve found out, especially through our Citizens Police Academy is that people will come in with a certain opinion from what they’ve heard on the news or what their friends have told them, social media or what have you,” Ayers said. “But when they spend some time with us and find out who we are, what we’re about, how we train

and how we do things, they generally have a different opinion, and a more positive opinion, of the police department.”

In addition to thanking officials in attendance and handing out tokens of appreciation to local public safety agencies, organizers also had “Get Well” cards that attendees could sign for two Gwinnett police officers who were injured in a helicopter crash Sept. 1.

Cpl. Michael Duncan is paralyzed from the waist down and is recovering at the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta while Officer George McLain is still recovering at home, Ayers said.

“It’s very humbling to know that the support is out there (for Duncan and McLain),” Ayers said.

The agencies recognized during the event included the Gwinnett County, Auburn, Braselton, Buford, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Loganville, Norcross, Snellville, Suwanee, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Gwinnett College and Gwinnett Technical College police departments, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, the Dacula Marshall’s Office, Gwinnett County and Loganville fire departments, Gwinnett County Department of Corrections and the Georgia State Patrol.

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KICKOFF EDITION

THE RUNDOWN A quick look at this weekend’s high school football in the Gwinnett area: TODAY’S GAMES State playoffs, second round 7:30 p.m.

Class AAAAAAA Grayson at North Gwinnett Mill Creek at Archer Milton at Brookwood Mountain View at Parkview Class AAAAAA Allatoona at Dacula Class AAAAA Jackson-Atlanta at Buford Class AAA Lovett at GAC Class A Private Calvary Day at Wesleyan

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Years since Parkview has advanced past the second round of the state playoffs — the Panthers reached the quarterfinals in 2012 under longtime head coach Cecil Flowe

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Straight GAC wins over rival Lovett since snapping a six-game losing streak in the series

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Points that separated tonight’s playoff foes, Archer and Mill Creek, in their regular-season meeting on Sept. 8 — Archer won that game 16-13

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Straight playoff wins by North Gwinnett over its second-round opponent tonight, Grayson — the Bulldogs eliminated Grayson in both 2012 and 2013 DID YOU KNOW? Brookwood running back Dante Black topped the 100-yard mark in both rushing and receiving yards in a first-round victory over rival South Gwinnett last Friday.

Black rushed 20 times for 124 yards and two touchdowns, in addition to catching two passes for 101 yards and another score. The senior now has 1,524 rushing yards and 26 TDs this season, along with 10 catches for 208 yards and three more scores.

TAKING BREAKS A rare set of scheduling circumstances had Wesleyan’s football team with a couple of byes late in the season.

The Wolves already had an off week for the final week of the regular season, giving them Friday, Nov. 3 off. But they also got a first-round bye in the Class A Private bracket, making them off back-toback weeks heading into tonight’s second-round playoff matchup against Calvary Day. FLASHBACK On this week in 2008, Norcross’ Charles King reels off a 65-yard run in the fourth quarter to set up Conner Hawk’s game-winning field goal as the Blue Devils open the state playoffs with a 20-17 win at Parkview. … Kyle Karempelis rushes for 210 yards and four TDs on 23 carries in Wesleyan’s 42-19 win over Warren County. …

Ean Pemberton’s 138 rushing yards and two TDs key Grayson’s 31-7 victory over Collins Hill in the first round. … North Gwinnett defeats Brookwood for the fifth straight time, and second in a row in the postseason, with a 34-10 victory. Quarterback Mikey Tamburo leads the way with four rushing TDs. … Nick Lombardo and Ronnie Smith rush for fourth-quarter TDs to help Peachtree Ridge pull away for a 17-0 victory over Dacula.

Dacula head coach Tommy Jones, left, talks with his brother, Brookwood head coach Philip Jones prior to a high school football game at Dacula High School. (Staff Photo: David Welker)

Brookwood alumni enjoy strong seasons

By Will Hammock

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Dave Hunter stays updated on Friday night football scores in retirement as much as he did during his long high school coaching career.

He goes to a local game nearly every week — most often Brookwood, where he worked from 1987-2006, because of his friends there and the proximity to his home — but he checks out other places, too. Not far removed from serious heart surgery earlier this season, he was at Archer for the big showdown with Grayson.

Hunter keeps a special eye on Archer, just as he does Buford, Dacula and of course, Brookwood. All four of those programs are headed up

by Brookwood graduates who played football for Hunter — Andy Dyer of Archer, Philip Jones of Brookwood, Tommy Jones of Dacula and John Ford of Buford.

“I’m just proud of them,” said Hunter, who also has a long list of assistant coaches at various places to monitor. “I’m like a grand-daddy. I’ve got my app on my phone

Above left, Archer head football coach Andy Dyer encourages his defense during the Tigers’ game at Peachtree Ridge. (Photo: Will Fagan) Above right, Buford head coach John Ford goes over a play with Aaron McLaughlin.

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(for scores). I want to know what’s going on.

Sometimes I can’t figure out what’s going on and (Brookwood athletic director) Jason Dopson is on Twitter with the other ADs, so he gives me the lowdown on the other county scores. I’m just proud of all of them.”

Those four coaches have given Hunter plenty to be proud of this season. All four won region championships, and all four have their teams in tonight’s second round of the state playoffs.

“I really hadn’t even thought of that, but that is neat (that all four won region titles and are still in the playoffs),”

Tommy Jones said. “I’m sure that there’s a pretty strong fingerprint from the Brookwood program on each of our programs.

The way we go about running the program.”

Tommy Jones and Dyer, the longest-tenured head coaches of the group, both cultivated their love of football and coaching through their playing careers at Brookwood, where they were co-captains of the football team and 1991 graduates.

Just like Ford and Philip Jones (Tommy’s younger brother), they experienced a great deal of success under virtually the same coaching staff that held steady in Snellville for

decades.

The Jones brothers had an even more direct tie through their father, Tom, the Broncos’ longtime offensive line and strength and conditioning coach.

“I think we’re all very fortunate to grow up as players in such a great program that was so organized,” Dyer said of Brookwood. “The expectations you set for your kids, the way you go about your business in practice, the way you go about your business on game day, it helps you develop a program and develop a vision for your kids. We’re all very fortunate to play

for coach Hunter and his staff. Some of us got to coach with coach Hunter or with people who come from his coaching tree. …

You just learn, if you pay attention, you learn some of the tricks of the trade and the things that matter most.

“The biggest thing is what we do requires an enormous amount of work. Not Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday work but seven days a week. And it’s seven days a week all year long. So the biggest thing we learned (at Brookwood) was work ethic.”

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North, Grayson expect ‘heavyweight’ clash

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It’s a week full of huge matchups in the second round of the Class AAAAAAA state football playoffs.

They won’t get much bigger than when No. 3 state-ranked Grayson travels across Gwinnett County to take on seventh-ranked North Gwinnett.

In addition to the matchup of up two stateranked teams and two of Gwinnett’s best, Friday night’s 7:30 kickoff at Tom Robinson Memorial Stadium also pits two very well-balanced, evenlymatched teams in terms of

their strengths and weaknesses.

“It’s a heavyweight matchup of two good football teams,” North coach Bill Stewart said. “It’s the kind of matchup you want in the playoffs.”

Friday’s game does appear to have everything any fan could want in a playoff game, including two wellbalanced offenses against two of the county’s most stubborn defenses.

On one side of the coin, a North offense that appears to be hitting its stride — having scored 41 or more points in its last five games behind quarterback Jimmy Urzua, running back

North Gwinnett Javonni Cunningham (21) runs against Mountain View during Friday’s

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6:30 p.m. — Central at Lanier at Collins Hill 6:30 p.m. — Duluth, Dacula and South and West Gwinnett 6:30 p.m. — Shiloh and Discovery at Mountain Park

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• Collins Hill boys at Heritage • Thanksgiving Classic at South 4:30 p.m. — Woodland at Grayson 6 p.m. — Providence at Galloway 7 p.m. — Lanier at North Oconee 8:30 p.m. — South girls and Grovetown in Nakia Sanford Thanksgiving Classic

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• Berkmar girls in Hampton Tipoff Classic • Collins Hill girls in PL Holiday Classic at North Forsyth • Craig Sager Memorial Tourament at Dacula • GAC girls in JD Parker Showcase • Peachtree Ridge boys in Tabo’s Jefferson Tournament • Thanksgiving Classic at South • Zaxby’s Holiday Classic at Parkview 2 p.m. — Central boys and South Dekalb at Norcross 2 p.m. — Lanier girls and East Hall at Gainesville 2:15 p.m. — Lanier boys and Lakeview at North 2:45 p.m. — Berkmar boys and Cedar Grove at Milton 3:30 p.m. — Mountain View girls and Cherokee at North Forsyth 3:30 p.m. — South Atlanta boys and Lambert at Norcross 3:50 p.m. — Grayson boys and Greenforest at North 4 p.m. — South boys and Johns Creek at Dacula 4:30 p.m. — Providence at Mount Paran 4:30 p.m. — Union Grove boys at Hebron 5 p.m. — Meadowcreek boys and Pebblebrook at Norcross 5:25 p.m. — West Forsyth boys at North 6:15 p.m. — Duluth boys and Brewbaker Tech at Spalding 6:30 p.m. — Discovery boys at Johns Creek 6:30 p.m. — Shiloh boys and Sandy Creek at Norcross 7 p.m. — Meadowcreek boys and Columbia at Norcross 7 p.m. — South girls and Miller Grove in Nakia Thanksgiving Tournament 8 p.m. — Gainesville boys at Norcross 8:35 p.m. — Mountain View boys and Miller Grove at North

SWIMMING AND DIVING

7:15 a.m. — North and Mill Creek at Collins Hill 7:15 a.m. — Peachtree Ridge, Brookwood and Archer at Mountain Park 7:15 a.m. — Norcross and Parkview at West Gwinnett 9 a.m.— Hebron, Flowery Branch and Lakeview at Frances Meadows 6:30 p.m. — Grayson at Central at Collins Hill 6:30 p.m. — Berkmar and Meadowcreek at Mountain Park 6:30 p.m. — Mountain View and Parkview at West Gwinnett

WRESTLING

9 a.m. — Buford Invitational 9 a.m. — Dacula in Blackbeard Duals at Allatoona 9 a.m. — Defense Soap Duals at Collins Hill 9 a.m. — GAC Scramble 9 a.m. — Meadowcreek in Cherokee Duals 9 a.m. — Parkview in Alcovy Tiger Clash 9 a.m. — Shiloh in McNair Duals

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Roles reversed for Tigers, Hawks

By Will Hammock

them, that was one of the first four-quarter games that they have played that was a Back on Sept. 8, the roles very physical football game. were reversed.

I’ve said from Day 1 our Mill Creek’s football team this year would have to team, despite a lineup overgrow up and mature the most hauled because of graduaof any we’ve had. That’s tion losses, was ranked third what we’ve seen. That’s in the state and perceived by what we’re anxious for when the masses as the favorite. we play them again is to see The Hawks entered that eve- where some of our kids have ning’s home football game matured this season through with a 28-game, regularexperience, through our nonseason winning streak. region schedule.

They left without it when “I’m glad we played ArArcher, coming off a 4-7 cher in non-region because season, made a statement I think it better prepares you with a 16-13 victory on the for a game like this in the road. second round where you’re More than two months lat- playing them or another er, the two teams meet again team like them. That part tonight in Lawrenceville I’m excited for. There were with higher stakes — it’s the a lot of mistakes, even busts second round of the Class we had scheme-wise, and AAAAAAA state playoffs that was a tight ball game.

— and different expectations We’re anxious to see where from football fans around we’ve grown from that. the state.

Archer played very well Now Archer is 11-0 and that night, and I expect them ranked No. 2 in the state, to play at the exact same while Mill Creek is unlevel. I know that game was ranked and 8-3. It’s a unique important for them to win, position for the Hawks, too, back when we played. who took 10-0 records into When we left the field, I told the postseason the past two the kids after the game that years and logged the exthis was like a state playoff pectations of favorite status game. We’ve got to raise our most weeks. preparation and our focus to They also get a rare play at that level. Luckily, rematch against an opponent we get to have the rematch they lost to in the regular and go play them again.” season.

Archer’s early-season “Archer was coming on victory was part of a series at that time (of the Sept. 8 of statement victories that game),” Mill Creek head began against Brookwood coach Shannon Jarvis said. in the Corky Kell Classic. If “There was a lot of talk the Brookwood win didn’t about how good they were, garner attention, the victory but when we saw the film, over Mill Creek certainly we knew how good they did. were. I think even for our It was a nice spark for players when we played the Tigers, who made the

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Mill Creek finally got an offensive TD against Archer’s stout defense with 6:37 left in the fourth quarter, but never got closer than 16-13.

“Everybody talks about their D-linemen because their front three is so good,” Jarvis said of Archer. “But their linebackers are good, and of course you get into their secondary and they’re good, too. There’s no telling how many kids on that defense will be playing college football the next two years. … They play so fast, and they close so well that you have to get 3- and 4-yard gains. You’ve just got to get ahead of the chains. Once you get behind the chains in first-and-15, it’s a tough series. Just like the game we played before, a punt’s not a bad thing. It goes back to we can’t have turnovers. We can’t force our players into plays. We’ve got to be patient both in our running and passing game. Their defense forces you to execute.

“And they’ll force you into 10-play drives. They don’t give up big plays.

Their secondary is so athletic and fast, you’re going to have a hard time getting big plays against them. You have to have sustained drives, which forces you to execute and tests your mental toughness. I think the first time we played them, that was a game where our youth on offense showed. We had to have 10-play drives, and we weren’t capable of having them. That’s a credit to their defense and the job (defensive coordinator) Joel, Coach Bridges, does with them.”

Health key to Panthers, Bears matchup

By Taylor Denman

coach Eric Godree said.

“Our kids really gutted it out at the end. Couldn’t be more proud of them.”

By coincidence, the Mountain View, meanClass AAAAAAA footwhile, seemed to enter its ball state playoff bracket first-round contest with has pitted six Gwinnett No. 6 South Forsyth as County schools against a steep underdog. The each other in the second No. 4 seed from Region round.

6-AAAAAAA was tied Two in particular came with South Forsyth 10-10 away with, arguably, the at halftime and went on to hardest-fought first-round outscore the War Eagles wins of Gwinnett’s re21-3 in the second half en maining teams. Parkview route to the program’s first High School led Newton ever playoff win.

28-19 early in the second When the dust settled, half of last week’s game head coach Nick Bach before Newton battled for said the Bears returned to the final 24 minutes of business as usual on Monregulation to tie the game day. A matchup between at 35-35. two Gwinnett schools, Parkview’s Tommy roughly the same drivRogers made highlighting time from each other, worthy plays on both sides could make for a nice of the ball to help lift his turnout for the visiting team. Rogers scored the Bears. go-ahead touchdown in Since both team’s were overtime to give Parkview pushed to grind out playthe lead. He had a sack on off wins in the 11th game Newton’s final drive that of both teams’ seasons, set up a long fourth down both Bach and Godfree to stay alive, then he and are focused on keeping Ben Markiewicz stopped their players healthy in Newton running back hopes of a long run into Adarius Thomas short to December. clinch the win.

Bach said the strength “We started off great, and conditioning during then we started the third the offseason and consisquarter great but had a hard tency in the weight room time converting,” head and off-field habits are

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paying dividends as the Bears try to extend the program’s longest playoff run.

“We’re healthy, that’s the most important thing,” Bach said. “It’s important to have a healthy team this time of year. Making sure they’re not straining their bodies, that’s a key factor. Coming from college football, that was a very important piece.”

Godfree said, playing an overtime game, the Panthers also had to manage their bodies over the course of the week and in practice.

This week, Parkview will match up against Mountain View’s prolific passing attack, although it was stymied last week

by South Forsyth. Georgia Tech commit Malachi Carter caught four passes for 68 yards last week against South Forsyth, and Matthew Edwards was 5-for-15 passing for 94 yards.

“Carter is a big receiver,” Godfree said. “He can score in a hurry. You want to slow teams down and make them drive the field.

We did a good job of that against Newton, and they had to earn all of it.

“Obviously (Carter is)

a scare for us. They have a couple good guys in the secondary. They create turnovers and score on defense. That’s something we have to prevent from happening.”

Godfree’s other concern is the effectiveness of Mountain View’s rushing attack. Averaging 165 total yards rushing per game, backs Blake Carroll and Davion Criss have both surpassed 400 yards on the season.

“It makes it more difficult because Mountain View runs better. Honestly it makes it more difficult,” Godfree said. “We can’t give him a lot of time, or we’re not going to be able to cover that big receiver.”

While running back Christian Malloy has been critical to Parkview’s rushing attack, dual-threat quarterback Fred Payton adds to the Panthers’ offensive firepower, with 506 yards rushing to go with his 2,218 yards passing this season.

“They have two good running backs that can go, a quarterback that can run and throw,” Bach said. “There are weapons all over the place, and a good line that likes to run block.”

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playoffs in 2016 but finished with a disappointing 4-7 record and a first-round loss in the postseason. They also had lost two straight years to Mill Creek by three scores — 23-0 in the 2015 state quarterfinals and 31-10 in the 2016 regular season.

The players know each other well from those previous games, and the two coaching staffs are very close.

“We’re all very familiar with each other,” Archer head coach Andy Dyer said.

“I think it’s a good, healthy ball game with two good staffs and two really good football teams just competing. It is what it is, just put the ball down and go. We’ve got to play well. … I felt like the first time (against Mill Creek) we ran the ball well. We missed a couple of opportunities offensively throwing the ball, and we had some mental mistakes later in the third and fourth quarter that kind of put us in a field position hole. We were lucky not to put them in field goal range late, or they would have had a chance to tie. It was nip and tuck all the way. The thing I learned is we better bring our lunch because we’re going to have a battle on our hands.”

Archer’s running game, led by Keegan Strickland’s 131 yards, built a quick 10-0 lead in the first quarter in September. Shaka Heyward’s interception for a touchdown closed the margin briefly in the third quarter before Strickland’s 18-yard TD run later in the quarter extended the lead.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017 • 3B

Well-rested Wolves test depth against Calvary Day

By Christine Troyke

power rankings. Wesleyan was in good position, but there aren’t any guarantees until the seedings are anAfter Wesleyan defeated nounced.

Strong Rock in its regular“We had to walk the line season finale, head coach between rest and maintainFranklin Pridgen and his ing an edge,” Pridgen said. staff made a decision that “And it was fantastic. The was met with a cheer. kids were dialed in. It was Due to Fulton Leadernot only a physical reship Academy dropping fresher, but it was mentally its football program this refreshing.” summer, Wesleyan was On that Friday night, left with a date to fill. It Pridgen was a guest on did, but the game had to GPB’s broadcast, and his be at the beginning of the staff went all over the state season. Once the Wolves to scout potential oppobeat Strong Rock 38-0 on nents.

Oct. 27, the coaching staff “We knew all of the condecided to give the playtingencies,” Pridgen said. ers Monday off. Tuesday, “Just about everything we Wednesday and Thursday needed to happen to give practices were shorts and us the best draw … didn’t helmets for just 45 minhappen.” utes. They followed that Wesleyan was made the with 45 minutes in the No. 8 seed, the same posiweight room. tion as last year. The draw, It was a wildly popular however, is tougher. Not decision and provided only is top-seeded Eagle’s Wesleyan with the break Landing Christian in the it needed, especially since same quarter of the brackthe Wolves were likely et, but the Wolves also looking at a first-round bye face No. 9 seed Calvary for the playoffs.

Day tonight. The Cavaliers “That first week was the were an overtime loss from trickiest,” Pridgen said. being region champions “Not only did we not know and ousted No. 24 seed an opponent, we didn’t Strong Rock last week, a know our playoff seed. We game Pridgen and his staff didn’t even know 100 per- drove down to Savannah to cent that weren’t going to watch. play the next week. It was Getting to see Calvary really up in the air.”

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said.

“What it told us is Calvary Day is a very good football team,” he quipped.

The Cavaliers are a run-heavy offense, led by junior Jalen Leary, who went for 204 yards and three touchdowns against Strong Rock. But they also had junior Jaydon Grant with 64 yards and freshman Greg Daniel with 57 in the win. Sophomore quarterback Thomas Carver was 9 of 10 for 121 yards passing.

“They’ve got a running game, particularly a tightend based running game, that we have to stop,” Pridgen said. “The line is one of their strengths and, I know this will surprise you, but they’re bigger than we are. That tailback (Leary) is one of the best we’ve seen this year.

We’ve got to take him away.

“The quarterback is opportunistic and can hurt you there if you let him, but if we put them into throwing downs then I’ll feel a lot better. (Leary) is the drum major that leads the parade.”

The Wolves have a fairly balanced attack, but certainly 6-foot-6 senior quarterback Banks Ramsey is the catalyst. Ramsey has thrown for 1,735 yards and 25 touchdowns this season.

Zach Peterson has been his

Wesleyan’s J.D. Kavel (14) tries to fight off a tackle against Strong Rock during Friday’s game at Wesleyan. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

top target with 603 yards on 54 catches, and J.D. Kavel has another 390 yards.

The rest of the receiving corps was a constant rotation due to an unusual number of injuries. Billy Stepp has 292 yards in seven games, Brae Davidson added other 214 in just five games and Stewart Stamper made contributions in key moments with an average of 11.3 yards per catch over six games.

George Bielan is the leading rusher with 489 yards. Ramsey is nearly as big a threat with 419 yards this season on 70 carries. Garrett Hangartner

adds another option to the ground game.

Finally, Pridgen has all of them at his disposal.

“For a small team that has a lot of guys who play both ways, I’ve got to believe our depth is better than most,” Pridgen said. “We’ve got to bring our depth to bear more effectively. And we have to show some things we haven’t shown before. We have a few wrinkles we’ve been saving.”

The revolving door of injuries also gave many players reps they might not have gotten, a valuable commodity in the playoffs.

Wesleyan is a seasoned team with 18 seniors and played a deliberately difficult non-region schedule.

“I hope from a maturity standpoint, there’s an advantage for us,” Pridgen said. “I was really pleasantly surprised at how energetic we were this week.

We definitely needed that time to heal up.

“They are itching to get back into it. As coaches, we raised the level of our intensity and the guys have responded beautifully. This is when a senior class’ legacy is built. This is when the cream rises to the top.”

No. 3 Spartans loaded for second clash with Lovett

By Christine Troyke

GAC. In Lovett’s openinground win over Bremen, McCallister passed for 154 yards and two touchAssume nothing. downs.

That was head coach “He’s really smart and Tim Hardy’s message to handles the ball well,” his third-ranked Greater Hardy said.

Atlanta Christian team as After starting the season it prepares to play rival 1-3, the Lions have only Lovett in the second round lost to Pace Academy in of the Class AAA playoffs. Week 9.

The Spartans beat “Coach (Mike) MusLovett by more than four champ does an outstandtouchdowns in the season ing job of putting guys in opener. position to win,” Hardy “The difference between said. “The guys they want Week 1 and week 12 is to touch the ball, touch the huge,” Hardy said. “It’s ball.” three months of growth Particularly juniors K.J. and development. To recWallace and Nick Jackson, ognize that is crucial.” whom Lovett uses in a In the opener, the Lions variety of ways. were still figuring out “They play with a lot who their quarterback was of energy and aggression going to be. Sophomore to the ball,” Hardy said.

Blaine McCallister won “They’re smart in their the job a few games into schemes. This is a true the season, but only played playoff game. in the second half against “We feel good about

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where we are, but we’re eager to perform well on Friday. Everything is harder in the playoffs. You’ve got to enjoy that pressure and use it to perform at a higher level.”

GAC opened the playoffs with a 49-0 rout of Jackson County with Clemson commit Kyler McMichael leading the charge. McMichael rushed for 127 yards, pushing his season total over 1,000, and three touchdowns.

He averages 13 yards per carry and the Spartans as a whole are averaging 9.7, which all starts with a strong, experienced offensive line.

“I do think one of our strengths is the offensive line, but we have to execute it well,” Hardy said. “I know that’s coach speak, but it’s true. Lovett has a very active defensive front, so being really clean

and working in concert with the guys next to you is critical. If they are, we believe we can be successful.”

The Spartans are much deeper than McMichael, though see him once and it’s no surprise why he college offers from all the big names. Alex Boglin and Montae Bailey are two more dynamic backs at Hardy’s disposal. Both average 9 or more yards per carry.

Junior Josh Rose and sophomore Jackson Hardy have shared quarterbacking responsibilities. Rose is the starter with 1,096 yards, but Jackson Hardy has 580 and the touchdowns are about even.

Combined, they’ve thrown just one interception in 181 attempted passes, and that offensive line has only allowed two sacks all season.

Leading receiver Max Burke was in a boot as he walked onto the field as a captain for last week’s coin toss, but can’t be ruled out for today. Even if he’s not ready, the Spartans have a stable full of options, including UNCbound Trey Morrison and Jeffrey Blake, who caught two touchdowns in the first-round rout of Jackson County.

The Spartans have outscored their opponents 527-107 this season and only punted 15 times over 11 games.

“We’ve got a lot of weapons,” Tim Hardy said.

“But the best teams can do things in many ways; they can hurt you on the big plays, but also can grind out a 10-play drive.

“It’s a continual evolution to perform at our absolute peak and it hasn’t happened yet.”

GAC and Lovett have met just once previously in the playoffs and it was the first ever meeting between the programs. The Spartans, in Jimmy Chupp’s first season as head coach, beat Lovett 24-21 in the opening round of the 1999 postseason. For the last decade, though, these teams have met often. GAC leads the all-time series 8-6.

“It’s a really good, healthy rivalry,” Hardy said.

But assume nothing.

It didn’t go unmentioned that during Hardy’s tenure, the Spartans have suffered stinging losses both times they’ve played the same team a second time in the same season. In 2014 against Benedictine and in 2015 against Pace Academy, GAC fell in the state final after beating both of those teams in the regular season.

Buford strives for slightly Dacula aims to exceed quicker start vs. Jackson second-round roadblock

By David Friedlander

of seven straight games, david.friedlander including last week’s 14-0 @gwinnettdailypost.com first-round win over Miller Grove.

It took a little while for And despite not havBuford to get going in its ing nearly as much of a first-round Class AAAAA postseason pedigree as the game against Paulding Wolves (10-1), they presCounty last week, but the ent a big challenge on both Wolves eventually cruised sides of the ball. to a 54-23 win.

Offensively, senior While coach John Ford Roderick Hammond poses was pleased with the way a threat with his arm (108his Wolves made adjust188-4, 1,174 yards, 15 ments on the fly, but he TDs) and legs (66-322, 3 would prefer the No. 3 TDs) at quarterback, while state-ranked Wolves begin Louisville commit Hasexecuting a little earlier san Hall (89-691, 5 TDs) when they play host to provides balance on the Maynard Jackson at 7:30 ground. p.m. Friday night at Tom “We’ll have to deal Riden Stadium. with that guy,” Ford said “(Last week’s win) was of Hammond. “And their a team effort,” Ford said. tailback Hall is committed “I was obviously proud to Louisville. He can fly. of the way they adjusted, He’s a problem.” but like any other game, But it is the Jaguars you’ve got to go out and defense which may proprove it all over again this vide the biggest test for week. … (Jackson is) a Buford after allowing just well-coached team. They 13 points, including three just won their first playoff shutouts, over the last five game (in school history), games, behind stalwarts so you know they’re going like defensive tackle Coby to be very excited and fired Dixon (88 tackles, 12 up.”

TFLs, 13 sacks) and corIndeed, the Jaguars (9-2) nerbacks Hall (80 tackles, come into Friday’s game 3 INTs, 7 PBUs) and Anon a major high, winners tardis Ballard (62 tackles,

3 INTs, 5 PBUs).

“Defensively, they’re not giving up much in their last six games,” Ford said of Jackson. “They’re very sound and very athletic. …

We’ve just got to do a good job of winning the line of scrimmage.”

As Ford mentioned earlier, it will take another team effort for Buford to deal with those threats.

Offensively, Derrian Brown stepped forward with a big effort with 150 yards and four TDs last week, and has been part of a three-headed running back tandem with Anthony Grant and Christian Turner in providing a complement to freshman quarterback Aaron McLaughlin and the passing game.

Although Buford’s defense gave up 23 points last week, the Wolves have been every bit as stingy as Jackson’s all season, allowing just 10.1 points per game behind Grant (73 tackles, 8 TFLs, 8 QB hurries, 1 sack, 1 INT), Mikey McMorris (51 tackles, 4 INTs, 10 PBUs) and Mick Reese (30 tackles, 5 1/2 sacks, 10 QB Pressures, 5 TFLs).

By Taylor Denman

Marshall has passed for 1,134 yards, completing roughly 45 percent of his throws.

Allatoona High School Defensively, the Bucis two years removed from caneers have conceded an a Class-AAAAA state average of 16 points per championship. Since that game. Senior defensive 2015 title, Allatoona has end James Daniels has displayed consistency un- racked up 12.5 tackles for der head coach Gary Var- loss this season. In region ner, reaching the second play, Allatoona allowed round of the state playoffs an average of 11 points in back-to-back seasons. per game, skewed by a Perhaps the same can 27-10 loss to Harrison, be said of the Dacula led offensively by No. 1 football team. In the midst Class of 2018 prospect of their fourth playoff Josh Fields. appearance in five seasons “They pressure you and under head coach Tommy mix up their stunts very Jones, Dacula has reached well,” Jones said. the second round of the Dacula’s defense has Class-AAAAAA in back- displayed strong showto-back seasons, includings throughout the ing three of the last four. season, particularly in the This week is about getting state of turnover margin. past the roadblock that The Falcons are plus-8 has traditionally derailed on the season (13-21), the Region 8-AAAAAA boosted by three turnFalcons. overs against Pope. The “Allatoona, offensively, Falcons efficiently manuis very physical and plays factured those turnovers downhill at a very rapid into points, including an speed of play,” Jones said. interception from Jaiev The Buccaneers’ rushKhan early in the third ing attack is led by Adrian quarter, which turned into Boyd’s 612 yards on 125 a touchdown four plays carries. Allatoona’s sopho- later. more quarterback Dante “Turnover margin,

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probably is the biggest stat … anytime when you play against a quality opponent, playoffs specifically,” Jones said.

The Falcons are averaging 248 rushing yards per game this season with a hydra-like corps of running backs and their dualthreat quarterback Shane Buckingham.

Buckingham has more than 1,400 yards passing this season in addition to being one of the Falcons’ three players with more than 600 yards rushing. Running backs Tre McMillan and Jalen Perry have run for 678 and 637 yards, respectively.

“Each of them brings a different skillset to the table,” Jones said. “When we’re cooking on offense, it helps to have, not just those three guys, but everyone working together.”

Since starting region play, the Falcons have won their past six games, all but one (35-28 win against Habersham Central on Oct. 20) have been by multiple possessions.

This is the first-ever meeting between Dacula and Allatoona.

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Brothers

•From Page 1B Dyer coached at Brookwood when he was younger before building the Archer program from its inaugural season.

His Tigers sport a No. 2 state ranking and an 11-0 record entering a secondround game against Mill Creek.

Dyer was a running back and defensive back for Hunter’s early teams, and he joined Tommy Jones as the two main sophomore contributors on Brookwood’s 1988 state runner-up team.

“Andy never forgets to send me a note,” Hunter said. “He’s always appreciative. He’s just considerate. One of the things about Andy is he’s so sincere. He loves the kids, and it permeates right through the air, and they know that.

You can’t con those kids.

And there’s no question he really deeply cares for them. All of them do.”

Hunter wasn’t surprised to see Dyer pursue a career in coaching, and he felt the same way about the Jones brothers.

“The Jones boys, they’ve got (coaching) in their blood,” Hunter said.

Though Ford’s father was a football coach, Hunter didn’t always see that path for the first-year Buford coach, whose Wolves are ranked third in Class AAAAA. “The kind of surprise was John Ford,” Hunter said. “He was an enthusiastic guy, but he was more of a student. I didn’t know (if he would coach). He’s a Spanish teacher I believe. I didn’t see that coming. But John parlayed that situation at Roswell into a great thing and got the job at Buford.

I’m thrilled for him. I’m proud of him. He’s really grown and done a good job. He’s developing into an outstanding leader.”

Philip Jones, a year older than Ford, his teammate on Brookwood’s ’96 state title squad, wasn’t sure coaching was Ford’s path, either. But he expected him to do well.

“John’s one of those guys, he’s just so dang passionate about the game and always has been,” Philip Jones said.

“In high school, God didn’t bless him with the greatest ability, but nobody worked harder and

nobody wanted to win more. Nobody had more of a passion for Brookwood and everything we were trying to do as a program. I knew if he put that focus on one thing, one day, he would be successful at whatever he did.”

Like his fellow Brookwood alumni, Ford credited those high school days as the foundation of his coaching career.

Unlike the other three head coaches, who rose through the ranks in Gwinnett, Ford coached exclusively outside of Gwinnett until this season, when Buford hired him away from Roswell.

He had led Roswell to state runner-up finishes the last two seasons.

“I just learned to operate to a standard of excellence,” Ford said of his Brookwood days. “When you have guys like coach Hunter, coach (Mark) Crews, coach Benjie McLane, coach (Tom) Jones, coach David Nelson, coach (Ray) Allen, you don’t find finer men to learn from than that.

So when you start coaching, it’s all you know. I’m very fortunate to have learned from those guys.”

Philip Jones not only learned from those coaches, he now has the tall task of maintaining the football tradition established by them at his alma mater. He inherited a program that went 2-8 and missed the playoffs in 2014 but has steadily built the program back to prominence. He took the Broncos to the second round of the state playoffs last season and guided them to this year’s region championship, their first since 2010.

Brookwood takes a nine-game winning streak into its home playoff game this week against Milton.

“Because we all played for Brookwood and we all came from this program, we all have such reverence and respect for the program we played in here at Brookwood and for the men that coached us,” Philip Jones said. “These were guys that were not only extremely successful, but incredible role models who did things the right way. They obviously loved what they did and brought that to the table

every day. During that time, the late ‘80s and into the ‘90s, and really the entirety of the Brookwood program, for us those guys were always great mentors, role models, father figures. Those were guys we all wanted to be like.

We were taught love for the game, to be students of the game. We were taught hard work, how to be good men, how to treat kids right. That’s all a credit to the coaches, coach Hunter, coach Allen, coach Crews, my dad, coach (Mike) Phillips, coach Nelson, all those coaches.

“Every day I wake up I kind of pinch myself.

I tell the players all the time as a sophomore when I was fortunate to be one of the sophomores who got to dress for varsity games, I still remember getting my first Brookwood jersey. In ’94, I got my first Brookwood jersey. I watched my dad, my brother, all these guys who were older than me that I just loved to death, and I wore that Brookwood jersey with pride.

“Now I have the opportunity to lead this program, and I wake up every day wanting to pinch myself because of how fortunate I feel to lead this program but also the sense of responsibility I feel to lead this tradition of what’s come before me. I know I stand on the shoulders of giants here. The program has been led by so many incredible men.”

That Brookwood is led by someone from the Brookwood family makes Hunter proud. But he gushes just as much about the other Brookwood grads who followed his path into coaching, and the success they have experienced both on and off the football field.

“I have a boatload of assistant coaches that are Brookwood boys, Peachtree boys (the DeKalb school where Hunter coached before Brookwood),” he said.

“I’m proud of all of them. I’m proud of the head coaches and the assistants. But the most important thing to me is the kind of people they are. I don’t know how you can get any better than any of those guys.”

DAILY POST PICKS

The staff makes its predictions for this week’s prep football winners

WILL HAMMOCK

Milton at Brookwood

CHRISTINE TROYKE

DAVID FRIEDLANDER

SCOTT SMITH

JASON BRAVERMAN*

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Mnt. View

Mnt. View

Mnt. View

Mnt. View

Parkview

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

North

North

Allatoona at Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Jackson-Atlanta at Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Mountain View at Parkview Mill Creek at Archer Grayson at North Gwinnett

Lovett at GAC Calvary Day at Wesleyan

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Brookwood looking to get defensive in Round 2

By David Friedlander

offense, playmakers like linebackers Chris david.friedlander Cotter (144 combined @gwinnettdailypost.com tackles, 10 1/2 TFLs, 11 QB hurries, 1 INT, 1/2 Brookwood’s offense sack) and D.J. Horne has had plenty of mo(103 tackles, 12 sacks, 29 ments in the spotlight TFLs, 27 QB hurries, 2 over the course of the forced fumbles, 1 fumble 2017 high school footrecovery) and defensive ball season, and it’s easy lineman Justin Scola (108 to understand why. tackles, 11 TFLs, 4 sacks, After all, that unit 19 QB hurries) have risen boasts one of Gwinnett to the occasion to lead a County’s top running unit that has been solid backs in Dante Black all season.

(249 car., 1,524 yards, “I can’t say enough 26 TDs), one of the top about the job (defenmulti-faceted weapons in sive coordinator John) Auburn commit Matthew Poitevint and his staff Hill (1,535 all-purpose have done,” Brookwood yards, 11 total TDs) and head coach Philip Jones one of the most produc- said. “Yes, there are a tive quarterbacks in An- couple of guys in the gelo DiSpigna (98-146front seven who have 3, 1,575 yards, 17 TDs. Division I (college) ofHowever, when the fers, but what he and the No. 8 state-ranked Bron- staff have been able to cos (9-2) welcome 10th- do with taking guys who ranked Milton (9-2) to are grinders and getting Brookwood Community them to be tough and Stadium for a secondwork hard every day is round Class AAAAAAA amazing. playoff matchup tonight “Even against at 7:30 p.m., the key Parkview (which scored may lie on the other side 27 points against Brookof the ball. wood), they were able The Brookwood to do a good job. They defense has been quite played well against Censtingy of late, having tral Gwinnett even with allowed only 12 points (Kentucky-committed) over the last three quarterback Jarren Wilgames, including the liams having a great team’s second shutout game. In fact, you take of the season in a 28-0 away the first two games first-round win over (of the season, both South Gwinnett. losses), and I think we’re And while there giving up only about 11 aren’t as many housepoints per game.” hold names as with the The Broncos will

have to be on their toes against a Milton offense that features a two-way threat at quarterback similar to Williams in Jordan Yates (2,585 yards total offense, 26 total TDs), plus running back Solomon Vanhorse (172-1,137, 9 TDs) and receiving Dash Hairston (23-479, 5 TDs).

That’s not to say the Brookwood offense won’t also receive a challenge from an Eagles defense that features Clemson-committed defensive back Joe Charleston (59 tackles, 2 INTs) and pass rusher extraordinaire Justin Blanks (59 tackles, 8 sacks).

That’s something Jones and his staff have come to expect because despite the fact this will be the first meeting on the gridiron between the two programs, there is plenty of first-hand familiarity between the Broncos and Eagles.

“When we did our spring scrimmage, we rode over there in May,” Jones said of Milton.

“We also competed with them at a padded camp at Dacula over the summer. Their head coach Adam Clack was at West Forsyth last year, and we played them in the first round last year. So we’ve got a pretty good working knowledge and a healthy respect for them.”

IN BRIEF Norcross’ Toppin signs with UGA

Norcross senior JoJo Toppin signed with the Georgia Bulldogs men’s basketball program, head coach Mark Fox announced Thursday.

Toppin averaged 10 points, 7 rebounds and 2 steals as a junior, earning second-team all-region honors. The 6-foot-6, 180-pound small forward played high school basketball with current UGA freshman Rayshaun Hammonds.

Buford softball honors college signees

South Gwinnett Miller also contributed baseball honors for the Bulldogs. college signees South’s Lopez Three South Gwinnett signs with baseball players signed with college programs N.C. Central during the early signing period.

Georgia landed Cabrera Weaver, Florida Southwestern signed Marc Davis and Andrew College signed Bailey Shannon.

Collins Hill’s Lee, Parks sign with colleges

Collins Hill seniors Justin Lee and Chris Parks signed with college basketball programs this week.

Lee is headed to Northern Illinois. He averaged 8.8 points and 4.4 rebounds as a junior, earning second-team allregion honors.

Parks has signed with Queens University (N.C.).

He averaged 9.5 points and 5.3 rebounds last season.

Buford’s softball program held a signing celebration Wednesday night to honor five seniors who will play at the next level.

Three of those signees are headed to Clemson — Logan Caymol, Hannah Jo Hyatt and Arielle Oda. Kelsey Bennett has signed with Virginia Tech and Gabby Benson has signed Archer’s Abell with Georgia State. commits to The seniors helped the Wolves to a 127-15 record, Emmanuel three state championships Archer senior Madison and four region titles in Abell has made a comtheir high school careers. mitment to continue her softball career at EmMill Creek sends manuel College.

Abell, a right-handed five golfers to pitcher, was a four-year college level starter for the Tigers.

Mill Creek honored the college signings of five N.G. air rifle golfers with a celebration at The Legends at Chateau team wins third Elan last week. straight meet Emma Bell signed with North Gwinnett’s the Georgia Southern air rifle team defeated women’s golf program, Carroll County 4-H while four Hawks signed 1,400-703 last week in a with men’s golf programs National Air Rifle League — Luka Karaulic to Geor- match. gia Tech, Jordan Smith to Jared Martinez led North Central Arkansas, Zach (5-1) to its third straight Mullett to South Carolina win with a score of 353.

Upstate and Jordan Rodri- Ethan Woyce, Natasha guez to Austin Peay.

Hartshorne and Caitlyn

South Gwinnett senior Xian Lopez signed with the North Carolina Central women’s basketball program this week.

The 5-foot-11 forward was a second-team all-region selection as a junior. She also played softball for the Comets.

Hoschton’s Randolph wins junior golf title

Hoschton resident Jack Randolph won the Athens Area Junior Golf Tour Championship in the 9and 10-year-old division over the weekend, in addition to taking home the tour’s Player of the Year Award.

Randolph won his division by four strokes at The Landing at Reynolds Lake Oconee. He won the player of the year title based on points scored during the season in the tour’s 19 events.

Buford senior Ledford chooses Ga. Southern

Buford senior Noah Ledford will continue his baseball career in college after signing a National Letter of Intent with Georgia Southern this week.

The 6-foot-1, 245-pound first baseman/catcher was named Region 8-AAAAA Player of the Year last season after helping the Wolves to the second round of the Class AAAAA state playoffs by hitting .410 with three home runs, 38 RBIs, nine doubles, a 1.104 OPS and 27 runs scored.

Ledford was also a second-team All-County selection by the Daily Post as a junior last spring.

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Gladiators back in the win column

By Christine Troyke

mired in a 0-6-2-0 slump christine.troyke which started on Oct. 28 @gwinnettdailypost.com against the Gladiators.

“I know they may not DULUTH — Alex be the top of the division, Gacek charged off the but they have tons of skill, bench and met the puck at they play fast and they the blue line. make chances happen,” His blast provided the Gacek said. “But we got Atlanta Gladiators with some big saves by Bones one final answer to Orin net that really won us lando’s tenacity. the game. We’ve got a lot Josh Atkinson set up of stuff to clean up, but the play, going end to end we’ll take the two points.” and finding Gacek jumpPuck drop was delayed ing into the play for the by a lighting issue, but pass. there was nothing slow Gacek’s goal came less about Atlanta’s start. than 90 seconds after the Taylor Stefishen Solar Bears tied Thursgrabbed the puck at the day’s game for the second Gladiators’ blue line and time and propelled the sprung Luke Sandler on Gladiators to a 4-2 victory an odd-man rush. at Infinite Energy Arena.

Sandler broke through “My intention was just the neutral zone and to get the puck toward the wristed a hard shot from net,” Gacek said. “They the slot. The 24-year-old had a couple of guys in Chicagoan followed his front so I tried to avoid own rebound and tucked a them and it went in. It backhander around goalie was a great play by Addy Mackenzie Skapski 1:51 and my goal was just try- into the game. ing to find an open lane.”

“That set the tone,” Atlanta bounced back Gacek said. “We did a from Wednesday morngood job regrouping (from ing’s 6-3 loss in Greenthe delay) and jumping ville and is now tied with out to the early lead.” the Swamp Rabbits for Orlando evened the second place in the South score early in the second Division. period. The Gladiators Goaltender Sean Bonar hung Bonar out to dry on made 37 saves and won a 2-on-0 breakaway and for the second time in as Joshua Winquist potted many starts. the cross-crease pass at The Solar Bears are 1:46.

Atlanta Gladiators forward Lindsay Sparks battles for position with Orlando’s Nolan Valleau as goalie Mackenzie Skapski reaches for the loose puck Thursday at Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

PREP ROUNDUP

Wesleyan boys top Hebron, 77-67 From Staff Reports

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PEACHTREE CORNERS — Christian McLean of Wesleyan led all players with 34 points on Thursday night in helping the Wolves pull away late to top Hebron 77-67.

Stevie Crawford added 19 points for the Wolves (1-0), with Grant Summers scoring 13. Wesleyan’s free-throw shooting also helped fend off the Lions as the Wolves hit 11 of 12 from the stripe in the fourth quarter.

BOYS HOOPS BOYS BASKETBALL Collins Hill 82, Heritage 63 CONYERS — Chris Parks of Collins Hill scored 27 points and Mandarius Dickerson added 23 more on Thursday night as the Eagles topped Heritage 82-63.

Collins Hill (2-0) also received 15 points from Justin Lee and 11 points from Elijah Wilson.

Mill Creek 64, West Forsyth 53 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek led West Forsyth 28-24 at the half and kept the Wolverines at bay as the Hawks opened their season at home on Thursday night with a 64-53 win.

Mill Creek (1-0) had two players top 20 points in Jayden Marshall with 23 and Noah Kenney with 21.

GAC 61, Woodward Academy 35 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian won its season opener on Thursday night by defeating Woodward Academy 61-35.

Hunter McIntosh led the way for GAC (1-0) with 28 points, while Roy Dixon scored 11. Ben Sheppard also chipped in with eight points.

GIRLS HOOPS GIRLS BASKETBALL Norcross 63, Tucker 52 LILBURN — Norcross evened its record at 1-1 on Thursday night with a 63-52

win over Tucker in the Parkview Tip Off Classic.

Three Blue Devils hit for double digits in points, led by 19 from Myra Strickland. Devyn Wilson followed with 17 points and seven rebounds, while Morgan Robinson added 10 points, seven rebounds and four steals.

Mill Creek 58, West Forsyth 24 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek opened its season with a 58-24 win at home over West Forsyth on Thursday night.

Kayla Mulkey led the Hawks (1-0) in scoring with 14 points, followed by 13 points from Bridget Mukasa. Madison Riley added 10 points, while Adriana Morse led the team in rebounds with six.

Newton Co. 74, Parkview 49 LILBURN — Parkview fell in its season opener 74-49 to Newton County on Thursday night in the Parkview Tipoff Classic.

Allysia Duclos was the leading scorer for Parkview (0-1) with 10 points, while Hannah Sadler finished with eight points and eight rebounds.

Sussy Ngulefac narrowly missed a double-double for the Panthers with nine points and nine rebounds. Sacha Washington was the leading rebounder for Parkview with 15 to go along with nine points.

GAC 86, Woodward Academy 36 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian had five players score in double digits on Thursday night as the Spartans rolled to an 86-36 win at home over Woodward Academy.

Caria Reynolds was the top scorer for GAC (2-0) with 20 points, while Robyn Benton followed with 16 points.

Mary Martha Turner logged a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds along with contributions from Taylor Sutton (13 points, four assists) and Kennedi Williams (10 points).

Loganville 50, Hebron 30 DACULA — Loganville upended host Hebron 50-30 on Thursday night in a non-region game.

Hebron (0-2) was led by McKenna Taylor and Brooklyn Fugle, who each scored nine points.

GWINNETT GRADS

Fertile ground

Gwinnett talent fills Ivy League football rosters

By Will Hammock

will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com

Though the academic rigors of Ivy League schools force their football programs to recruit nationally in search of the best student-athletes, they tend to find hotbeds in certain areas.

Gwinnett County is one of those.

As has been the case in recent seasons, local players abound on Ivy League rosters. A total of 15 Gwinnett products play football in the prestigious academic conference, and six of the eight Ivy League programs have at least one Gwinnett grad on the roster.

Yale has three — Greater Atlanta Christian’s Christopher WilliamsLopez and Rafe Chapple, as well as North Gwinnett’s Jeho Chang — for a program that is on the brink of a breakthrough.

The Bulldogs have clinched at least a share of the Ivy title, their first since 2006. But they can win the league championship outright for the first time in 37 years with a victory Saturday against rival Harvard.

It’s the 134th edition of the storied rivalry.

A loss by Yale (8-1 overall, 5-1 Ivy) could force a shared title with fellow contenders Columbia and Dartmouth.

Williams-Lopez is one of the Bulldogs’ best players, leading the team with 53 catches for 576 yards and three touchdowns. He missed most of last season with an injury, but has returned to form from a sophomore season that saw him catch a teamhigh 60 passes for 576 yards.

Chang, a 6-foot-4, 290-pound senior, is a backup offensive guard for Yale, while Chapple started at quarterback last season before being derailed by an injury to his throwing shoulder.

Here’s a look at Gwinnett’s representation at the other Ivy League schools: Columbia: Duluth grad Cameren Carter has made a quick impact in his freshman season, playing in nine games. Another promising freshman is offensive lineman Hank White, a Buford grad.

Dartmouth: Three seniors from Gwinnett are on the roster — senior safety Ross Wood of GAC, senior linebacker Justin Edwards of Peachtree Ridge and senior tight end Cam Poole of Buford. Edwards has 14 tackles and a pair of sacks and Poole has a TD catch.

Harvard: Wesleyan’s Stuart Johnson, a senior, is a contributor at defensive tackle.

Penn: Sophomore Jacob Martin, a Buford grad, starts at safety and has 14 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. Teammate Preston Norwood is a freshman wide receiver from Mill Creek.

Princeton: The Tigers have Gwinnett’s largest contingent at one Ivy program, with senior linebacker Deion King of Buford being joined by freshmen Matthew Winston of Mill Creek, Sam Wright of Archer and Connor Mills of Buford. Wright and Mills already have stepped in on the defensive line rotation.

CROSS COUNTRY Solomon headed to nationals Georgia Tech senior and Shiloh grad Nahom Solomon advanced to the NCAA Cross Country Championships with his seventh-place finish at last week’s NCAA South Regional.

Solomon completed the 10K race in 30 minutes, 18.40 seconds at Harry Pritchett Running Park in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Shiloh’s Bryan Kamau, a Georgia senior, also earned all-region honors at the meet with a 15th-place finish in 31:14.10.

Locals help UGA to NCAA meet The Georgia women’s cross country team posted its best NCAA South Regional since 2007 last weekend, finishing second and qualifying for the NCAA Cross Country Championships for the first time since 2012.

Gwinnett runners played critical roles for UGA, including a 16thplace finish from Grayson grad Yanely Gomez. The sophomore finished the 6K in 20:29.10.

Peachtree Ridge’s Addy Lippitt

was close behind for the Bulldogs in 24th place. The junior had a time of 20:44.00.

BASKETBALL

Bruce hits game-winner Buford grad Marissa Bruce, a freshman at South Carolina Aiken, made the game-winning shot with two seconds left Tuesday in a 61-59 victory over 25th-ranked Benedict.

Bruce, already a starter, had team highs of 12 points and 13 rebounds for her first career double-double.

Through three games, she averages 8.7 points and 8 rebounds.

SOCCER Coxhead earns all-academic honor Davidson’s Cort Coxhead, a Wesleyan grad, was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Squad.

Coxhead, a senior defender, was a three-year starter and team captain for the Wildcats. He is a double major in physics and pre-medicine.

“If you want to identify what’s right about college athletics, Cort is a prime example and a gold standard here with our mission of developing lives of leadership and service,” Davidson head coach Matt Spear said in a school release. “On the field, he’s a consistent performer, team voted captain and a player who really stretched to his capacities. Off the field, Cort’s striving continues with a great GPA in a very rigorous pre-med track that includes tough classes, long hours in the lab and preparation for the MCAT. Plus he’s been active in the medical field with shadowing, internships and volunteering.

“And then he’s impacted as a camp counselor, a buddy to kids with special needs and a servant leader in ministry. It makes me happy when good things happen to good people, so I am thrilled for Cort to be honored.”

Gwinnett Grads is a column that runs on Fridays spotlighting achievements of past Gwinnett standouts.

Coaches and parents are urged to send suggestions via email to will. hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com.

IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS A quick look at where to watch former Gwinnett standouts on TV in this week’s college football action: TODAY 8 p.m. — Middle Tennessee at Western Kentucky, CBS Sports Network North Gwinnett’s John Urzua (No. 19) is a quarterback, Buford’s Dale Craig (No. 40) is a linebacker, Norcross’ Jahmal Jones (No. 43) is a defensive end, Mill Creek’s Josh Fannin (No. 72) is an offensive lineman, Buford’s Matt Bonadies (No. 99) is a punter and South Gwinnett’s Xavier Dupree is a wide receiver for Middle Tennessee. For Western Kentucky, South Gwinnett’s Dennis Edwards (No. 64) is an offensive lineman, Buford’s Hunter Holland (No. 77) is an offensive lineman, Lanier’s Juwuan Jones (No. 41) is a linebacker and Peachtree Ridge’s Miles Pate (No. 63) is an offensive lineman.

SATURDAY Noon — Delaware State at Florida State, Fox Sports South Central Gwinnett’s Adonis Thomas (No. 22) and Brookwood’s Leonard Warner (No. 35) are linebackers for FSU. Noon — Mercer at Alabama, SEC Network For Mercer, Mill Creek’s Edmond Graham (No. 4) is a wide receiver, Mill Creek’s Jamar Hall (No. 6) is a safety, North Gwinnett’s C.J. Leggett (No. 7) is a running back, Mill Creek’s Sidney Otiwu (No. 9) is a linebacker, Greater Atlanta Christian’s Davis Markham (No. 39) is a defensive back, Mountain View’s Andrew Pettit (No. 45) is a defensive back, Parkview’s Devin Orr (No. 49) is a punter, Parkview’s Kyle Williams (No. 51) is a linebacker, Norcross’ Dorian Kithcart (No. 58) is a defensive lineman, Brookwood’s Dawson Hilliard (No. 62) is a snapper and Wesleyan’s Tucker Cannon (No. 80) is a wide receiver.

Noon — Virginia at Miami (Fla.), ABC Peachtree Ridge’s Jordan Ellis (No. 1) is a running back, Wesleyan’s Jordan Mack (No. 37) is a linebacker, Mill Creek’s Tyler Fannin (No. 72) is a center, Parkview’s Juwan Moye (No. 99) is a defensive end, Central Gwinnett’s Darious Latimore is a cornerback and Collins Hill’s Robert Snyder is a linebacker for Virginia. Norcross’ Christopher Herndon (No. 23) is a tight end and Peachtree Ridge’s Tyler Murphy (No. 32) is a defensive back for Miami.

Noon — Louisiana Monroe at Auburn, ESPN2 Lanier’s Derrick Brown (No. 5) is a defensive lineman, Duluth’s Nick Ruffin (No. 19) is a defensive back, Brookwood’s Keenan Sweeney (No. 42) is a fullback, Mill Creek’s Kaleb Kim (No. 54) is an offensive lineman and GAC’s Darius Slayton (No. 81) is a wide receiver for Auburn.

Noon — TCU at Texas Tech, FS1 Norcross’ Ridwan Issahaku (No. 31) is a safety for TCU. Grayson’s Zach Barnes (No. 52) is a defensive lineman for Texas Tech.

Noon — Central Florida at Temple, ESPNU Shiloh’s Cam Stewart (No. 11) is a wide receiver and Buford’s Tre Neal (No. 23) is a defensive back for Central Florida.

Noon — Mississippi State at Arkansas, CBS Norcross’ Nathan Swanson (No. 39) and South Gwinnett’s Stephen Adegoke (No. 49) are athletes for Mississippi State.

Noon — Cincinnati at East Carolina, CBS Sports Network Norcross’ Kevin Mouhon (No. 48) is a defensive end for Cincinnati.

Noon — Texas at West Virginia, ESPN Buford’s Tyler Thurmond (No. 70) is an offensive lineman for West Virginia.

12:30 p.m. — The Citadel at Clemson, WUPA Grayson’s Denzel Wright (No. 58) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Aaron Brawley (No. 92) is a defensive lineman/linebacker for The Citadel.

Grayson’s Chase Brice (No. 7) is a quarterback, Brookwood’s Jack Swinney (No. 20) is a wide

receiver, Grayson’s Ryan Carter (No. 31) is a defensive back and North Gwinnett’s Mitch Hyatt (No. 75) is an offensive tackle for Clemson.

3:30 p.m. — Georgia Tech at Duke, Fox Sports South For Tech, Norcross’ Clinton Lynch (22) is a running back, Buford’s David Curry (No. 32) is a linebacker, Norcross’ Jarett Cole (No. 35) is a defensive back, Mill Creek’s Brenton King (No. 37) is a kicker, Norcross’ Dameon Williams (No. 39) is a defensive back, GAC’s Tyler Cooksey (No. 43) is a linebacker, Buford’s T.D. Roof (No. 45) is a linebacker, Buford’s Xavier Gantt (No. 46) is a running back, Dacula’s Jakob Brashear (No. 49) is a linebacker, Brookwood’s Bailey Ivemeyer (No. 62) is an offensive lineman, Buford’s Alan Bussoletti (No. 85) is a wide receiver, North Gwinnett’s Anree Saint-Amour (No. 94) is a defensive lineman, Grayson’s Chris Martin (No. 96) is a defensive lineman and Mill Creek’s Tyler Vernon (No. 98) is a defensive lineman.

For Duke, Shiloh’s Jeremy McDuffie (No. 9) is a safety, Grayson’s Jordan Hayes (No. 13) is a safety, Archer’s Dylan Singleton (No. 16) is a safety, Buford’s Josh Blackwell (No. 31) is a cornerback, Grayson’s Will Taylor (No. 55) is a center, Grayson’s John Taylor (No. 57) is a long snapper, Collins Hill’s Christian Harris (No. 70) is an offensive guard and North Gwinnett’s Drew Jordan (No. 86) is a defensive end.

3:30 p.m. — Oklahoma at Kansas, ESPN Peachtree Ridge’s Orlando Brown (No. 78) is an offensive tackle for Oklahoma.

3:30 p.m. — Kentucky at Georgia, CBS Peachtree Ridge’s Blake Best (No. 53) is a long snapper and Archer’s E.J. Price (No. 72) is an offensive lineman for Kentucky. For UGA, Norcross’ Lorenzo Carter (No. 7) is a linebacker, Grayson’s DeAngelo Gibbs (No. 8) is a defensive back, Mountain View’s Tim Hill (No. 29) is a defensive back, Peachtree Ridge’s Robert Beal (No. 33) is a linebacker, Brookwood’s Nick Moore (No. 43) is a fullback, South Gwinnett’s Reggie Carter (No. 45) is a linebacker, North Gwinnett’s Micheal D’Angola (No. 91) is a punter, Shiloh’s Kolby Wyatt (No. 91) is a defensive lineman, Grayson’s Justin Young (No. 92) is a defensive lineman and GAC’s Brooks Buce (No. 97) is a kicker.

3:30 p.m. — Navy at Notre Dame, NBC Archer’s John Gillis (No. 18) is a safety, Brookwood’s Josh Brown (No. 28) is a running back, GAC’s Paul Carothers (No. 50) is a linebacker, GAC’s Ford Higgins (No. 72) is an offensive tackle and Mountain View’s Kendel Wright (No. 76) is an offensive tackle for Navy. Buford’s Montgomery VanGorder (No. 4) is a quarterback for Notre Dame.

3:30 p.m. — Illinois at Ohio State, ABC Archer’s Isaiah Pryor (No. 14) is a safety for Ohio State.

3:30 p.m. — Kansas State at Oklahoma State, ESPN2 Norcross’ Jordan Noil (No. 4) is a defensive back and Central Gwinnett’s Tyler White (No. 37) is a linebacker for Kansas State.

3:30 p.m. — San Jose State at Colorado State, CBS Sports Network Grayson’s Ellison Hubbard (No. 98) is a defensive lineman for Colorado State.

3:30 p.m. — Syracuse at Louisville, ESPNU Collins Hill’s Jonathan Thomas (No. 23) and Mountain View’s Kielan Whitner (No. 25) are linebackers for Syracuse. Peachtree Ridge’s Malik Staples (No. 31) is a linebacker, Peachtree Ridge’s Kam Jones (No. 56) is a linebacker, Mill Creek’s Robbie Bell (No. 75) is an offensive lineman and Parkview’s G.G. Robinson (No. 94) is a defensive lineman for Louisville.

4 p.m. — Nebraska at Penn State, FS1 Grayson’s Mohamed Barry (No. 7) is a linebacker for Nebraska.

4 p.m. — Maryland at Michigan State, Fox North Gwinnett’s Jalen Brooks (No. 43) and Collins Hill’s Brett Shepherd (No. 53) are

linebackers for Maryland. Peachtree Ridge’s Connor Heyward (No. 11) is a running back for Michigan State.

4 p.m. — Wofford at South Carolina, SEC Network Dacula’s Brandon Goodson (No. 14) is a quarterback, North Gwinnett’s Ryan Lovelace (No. 28) is a running back, Parkview’s John Patterson (No. 46) is a linebacker and Archer’s Robbie Armstrong (No. 91) is a linebacker for Wofford. Parkview’s Trey Derouen (No. 79) is an offensive lineman, Collins Hill’s Drew Dinsmore (No. 15) is a quarterback, Grayson’s Daniel Fennell (No. 35) is a defensive lineman, Archer’s Kobe Smith (No. 97) is a defensive lineman and Grayson’s Jamyest Williams (No. 21) is a defensive back for South Carolina.

4 p.m. — Alabama-Birmingham at Florida, SEC Network Norcross’ Kyle Varnell (No. 64) is a long snapper for UAB. Archer’s Antonio Riles (No. 51) is an offensive lineman for Florida.

4 p.m. — Houston at Tulane, ESPN News Norcross’ Monty Montgomery (No. 30) is a linebacker and Shiloh’s Cameron Sample (No. 55) is a defensive end for Tulane.

7 p.m. — LSU at Tennessee, ESPN Lanier’s Tyler Taylor (No. 24) is a linebacker and Buford’s Blake Ferguson (No. 50) is a long snapper for LSU. Buford’s Austin Smith (No. 11) is a linebacker/defensive lineman, Peachtree Ridge’s Nigel Warrior (No. 18) is a defensive back, GAC’s Micah Abernathy (No. 22) is a defensive back, Peachtree Ridge’s Baylen Buchanan (No. 28) and Buford’s Quay Picou (No. 55) is a defensive lineman for Tennessee.

7 p.m. — Arizona at Oregon, Pac 12 Network Grayson’s Jack Banda (No. 92) is a defensive end for Arizona.

7 p.m. — Texas A and M at Ole Miss, ESPN2 Grayson’s Breon Dixon (No. 23) is a defensive back, Archer’s Donta Evans (No. 35) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Tony Gray (No. 78) is an offensive lineman for Ole Miss.

7 p.m. — Boston College at Connecticut, CBS Sports Network Suwanee’s Will Harris (No. 8) is a defensive back, Duluth’s Max Richardson (No. 14) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Bryce Morais (No. 90) is a defensive lineman for Boston College.

7:30 p.m. — N.C. State at Wake Forest, ESPNU Buford’s Shug Frazier (No. 90) is a defensive tackle for N.C. State. Buford’s Jake Simpson (No. 42) is a linebacker, North Gwinnett’s Sean Maginn (No. 79) is an offensive lineman and Lanier’s Mike Allen (No. 91) is a defensive lineman for Wake Forest.

7:30 p.m. — Missouri at Vanderbilt, SEC Network North Gwinnett’s Nate Brown (No. 7) is a wide receiver, Buford’s Thomas Wilson (No. 8) is a safety and Grayson’s Dimetrios Mason (No. 9) is a wide receiver for Missouri. For Vandy, North Gwinnett’s Caleb Scott (No. 9) is a wide receiver, Parkview’s Bryce Lewis (No. 30) is a cornerback, Norcross’ Jalen Pinkney (No. 44) is a defensive lineman, Mountain View’s Johnathan Stewart (No. 73) is an offensive lineman, GAC’s Devin Cochran (No. 77) is an offensive lineman, Norcross’ Jared Pinkney (No. 80) is a tight end and Shiloh’s Darion DeBrossard (No. 96) is an offensive lineman.

8 p.m. — UCLA at Southern California, ABC North Gwinnett’s Josh Imatorbhebhe (No. 17) is a wide receiver and North Gwinnett’s Daniel Imatorbhebhe (No. 88) is a tight end for USC. 8 p.m. — California at Stanford, Fox Collins Hill’s Chris Palmer (No. 98) is a noseguard for Cal. GAC’s Davis Mills (No. 15) is a quarterback and Duluth resident Anthony Trinh (No. 40) is a linebacker for Stanford.

10:15 p.m. — Air Force at Boise State, ESPN2 Parkview’s Shaq Vereen (No. 6) is a linebacker for Air Force.

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Clash

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Christian Hunnicutt points GRAYSON AT NORTH GWINNETT out, it is the depth of both Grayson Rams (8-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed) Tyler Goodson and receiver units that will be a key facCoach: Christian Hunnicutt Javonni Cunningham — tor in determining which Record: 10-1 against a Grayson defense team gets the better of that Last week: Beat Norcross 31-14 that gives up an average battle.

North Gwinnett Bulldogs of just 9.6 points per game “Our defense has a tre(6-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed) behind linebackers Herbert mendous challenge ahead,” Coach: Bill Stewart Winborne, Solomon Egbe Hunnicutt said. “North Record: 10-1 and Owen Pappoe.

Gwinnett has probably one Last week: Beat North Forsyth 55-7 However, both coaches of the best offensive lineLast meeting: North won 35-0 in 2013 Location: North Gwinnett High School expect that battle to be won men in Georgia. It starts up in the trenches, which poses front with him, but those Series history: its own impressive matchup other four guys they’ve got 2013 — North 35, Grayson 0 pitting a Bulldogs (10-1) of- beside him can go.” *2012 — North 28, Grayson 10 fensive line paced by senior A similar clash awaits *2010 — Grayson 23, North 19 tackle and Georgia commit when Grayson gets the * Second round of the Class AAAAA state playoffs Warren Ericson against a ball, with the Rams sendRams (10-1) defensive line ing a powerful line and paced by defensive end playmakers like quarterand Jaquavius Lane against led by defensive linemen Ryan Taylor. back D.J. Irons and receiv- a North defense that has Knox Denning and Payne And as Grayson coach ers like Kenyon Jackson been good from front, Walker, to back, paced in

the secondary by Jayden McDonald and Warren Burrell.

But the X factor for Grayson may be the return to health of running back Camron Thompson, who ran for 193 yards and three TDs in the Rams’ 31-14 first-round win over Norcross.

Stewart knows that Thompson brings the added dimension of the power running game that his Bulldogs must deal with.

“They’ve got some other running backs, too,” Stewart said. “But (Thompson) gives them another strong runner to go with all the

other things they’ve got going for them. They can beat you a lot of different ways. You’ve got to defend the run, and you have to be good enough on the perimeter.”

In the end, the game may be decided on toughness, something Hunnicutt hopes his Rams can match from the Bulldogs in a battle of teams that appear to be appropriately named.

“They’re just a tough, hard-nosed football team,” Hunnicutt said. “They take after their coach (Stewart).

His personality has definitely permeated that team.

You can tell they’re a blue collar bunch of guys.”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

November 1, 2017 Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Shivam H. Jeram has applied for a license to sell beer and wine by the package at Buford Food Mart, located at 3933 Buford Drive, Buford, GA 30519. The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until November 17th, 2017 , at which time the City Manager will determine whether to issue the requested license.

This 10h day of November 2017.

City of Buford, Ga A Ga. Municipal Corp.

904-517787, 11/10,17

NOTICE November 8, 2017 Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Bantikumar R. Thakkar has applied for a license to sell beer and wine by the package at Quick Mart, located at 2155 Buford Dam Rd, Buford, GA 30518.

The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until November 24th, 2017 , at which time the City Manager will determine whether to issue the requested license.

This 17h day of November 2017.

City of Buford, Ga A Ga. Municipal Corp.

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DEBTORS & CREDITORS

NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All creditors of the Estate of FLORENCE M. HAY, late of Gwinnett County, Georgia, deceased, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment.

This 15 day of NOVEMBER, 2017.

DOUGLAS L. MCDOWELL, EXECUTOR 2601 LONGLEAF DRIVE, SUMTER, SC 29154-9237 9 0 8 - 5 1 8 6 0 1 , 11/17,22,29,12/6

JUVENILE COURT

IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA IN THE INTEREST OF: J.C., and T.C., * Minor children * Docket No: 16-04087-2, 26447859 16-04088-2, 26447860 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Acting by and through the GWINNETT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES Petitioner TO: AMY BLAIR, NATURAL MOTHER OF ABOVE NAMED CHILDREN and TROY CRIDER AND ANY OTHER UNKNOWN, UNNAMED, PUTATIVE, BIOLOGICAL AND/OR LEGAL FATHERS OF J.C., and T.C., Minor Children.

You are hereby notified that A DEPENDENCY/ MOTION FOR NON-REUNIFICATION and PERMANENCY HEARING, has been filed in this court by the temporary custodian, GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Acting by and through the GWINNETT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES, of above-named child. You may obtain a copy of the petition from the clerk of this court at 115 Stone Mountain Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia during regular business hours, or a copy will be mailed to you at your request.

Petitioner has moved the court to suspend reunification services between you and your child(ren). A copy of the pleadings and order reflecting petitioner’s motion are available from the clerk of this court at 115 Stone Mountain Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia during business hours, or copies of same may be mailed to you at your request. These documents contain the following: (1) The purpose for which your child was placed in foster care, including a statement of the reasons why the child cannot be adequately protected at home and the harm which may occur if the child remains in the home and a description of the services offered and the services provided to prevent removal of the child from the home; and (2) A clear statement describing all of the reasons supporting a finding that reasonable efforts to reunify the child with the child’s family will be detrimental to the child; and that reunification services therefore need not be provided, including specific findings as to whether

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any of the grounds for terminating parental rights exist, as set forth in subsection of O.C.G.A. 15-11-204(d).

At the hearing held for the purpose of reviewing the determination by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Resources that the reunification plan is not appropriate, the representative of the Division of Family and Children Services shall notify the Court whether and when it intends to proceed with termination of parental rights at that time.

If the Division of Family and Children Services indicates that it does not intend to petition for the termination of parental rights, the court may appoint a guardian ad litem and charge such guardian with the duty of determining whether termination proceedings should be commenced.

You are further notified that a hearing on petitioner’s recommendation will be held before this court on DECEMBER 7, 2017 at 8:30 A.M., You are required to appear and answer the allegations of the petition at said hearing.

Findings of fact and orders of disposition will become final at the hearing.

You have the right to be represented by legal counsel.

If you are unable to employ legal counsel without undue financial hardship, the court will appoint counsel to represent you. If you desire to have an attorney appointed for you, you should advise the court of such need prior to the hearing.

Witness the Honorable TADIA D. WHITNER , Judge of said court, this the 27TH day of OCTOBER , 2017.

Sheila Williams, Clerk of Court 9 1 3 - 5 1 9 8 7 4 , 11/17,22,29,12/6

Road, Dacula, Georgia. The proposed budget is available for review at Dacula City Hall during regular business hours (8:30 A.M- 5:00 P.M.).

Adoption of the Budget is scheduled for Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 7:00 P.M. at Dacula City Hall.

928-518610, 11/10,17,24

40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2005 Polaris Phoenix 4-Wheeler VIN 4XAPB20A15T000311 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLUE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above four-wheeler was initially removed from 3328 Hidden Bluff Trail in Snellville, Ga. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The four-wheeler is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Camper VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BROWN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above camper was initially removed from 2295 Oakland Chase Court in Lawrenceville, Ga. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The camper is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2013 Jonway Sunny Scooter VIN L8YTCAPP2D4803079 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR RED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Rockbridge Road and Summercove Drive in Stone Mountain, Ga. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-518584, 11/10,17

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from Ashley Square located at 4800 Lawrenceville Highway, Lilburn, GA. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 9 2 8 - 5 1 9 5 7 2 , 11/17,24,12/1

IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA In the Interest of: M.R. Docket No: 1703612-1 Minor Child Petitioner: The GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, acting by and through the Gwinnett County Department of Family and Children’s Services NOTICE OF SUMMONS TO: ASHLEY RASHADA, NATURAL MOTHER OF THE ABOVE NAMED CHILD(REN) AND ANY UNKNOWN, UNNAMED PUTATIVE, BIOLOGICAL AND/OR LEGAL FATHER(S) OF SAID CHILD. You are hereby notified that a PETITION FOR DEPENDENCY has been filed by The GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, acting by and through the Gwinnett County Department of Family and Children’s Services, the present temporary custodian of the above-named child.

You may obtain a copy of the Petition from the Clerk of Juvenile Court at 115 Stone Mountain Street, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 during regular business hours or a copy will be mailed to you at your request.

You are further notified that a hearing thereon will be held before this court on 12th day of December, 2017 at 12:30 pm, at the Juvenile Court of Gwinnett County, located at 115 Stone Mountain Street, Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

You are required to appear and answer the allegations of the petition at said hearing.

Findings of fact and orders of disposition will become final at the hearing.

You have the right to be represented by legal counsel.

If you are unable to employ legal counsel without undue financial hardship, the court will appoint counsel to represent you. If you desire to have an attorney appointed for you, you should advise the court of such need prior to the hearing.

WITNESS the Honorable Judge Robert Rodatus, Presiding Judge of said Court.

This the 25th day of October, 2017. _____________ Sheila Williams, Clerk of Court Gwinnett County Juvenile Court 9 1 3 - 5 1 6 9 9 5 , 11/17,22,29,12/6

PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC NOTICE-PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF DACULA FY-2018 BUDGET AND THE 2017 REVISED BUDGET On Thursday, November 30, 2017, the Mayor and City Council will conduct a public hearing at 6:30 P.M. to give the citizens the opportunity to provide written and oral comments on the Proposed FY-2018 Budget, and the Revised 2017 Budget. All citizens are urged to attend the Public Hearing in the Council Chambers at Dacula City Hall located at 442 Harbins

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE 2004 UTILITY REEFER V I N : 1UYVS25345M220628 The above automobile was initially removed and presently stored at 4757 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga 30071, in possession of Tran’s Auto Repair. Attempt to locate the owner(s) of this vehicle’s have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia law.

928-518746, 11/10,17 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: 10 STEVE DRIVE DORAVILLE GA 30340 2007 FORD ECONOLINE VIN# 1FTSS34P27DB04908 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 11-30-2017.

928-519596, 11/17,24 MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 11/7/17 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 2283 Plaster Rd. Atlanta, Ga. On 11/1/17, at the request of the property owner or manager.

Lotus Scooter VIN# LHJTLB2J4ABL01897 TAG# No Tag 928-518747, 11/10,17 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Unincorporated Areas of Gwinnett County, Georgia, Case No. 17-04-5175P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at www.fema.gov/ plan/prevent/fhm/bfe, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877336-2627).

928-518757, 11/10,17 STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 2004 Freedom Scooter VIN L4BSDE2944Y007515 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Sugarloaf Parkway and Five Forks Trickum Road in Lawrenceville, Ga. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A.

STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: Ford F-150 VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR RED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above vehicle was initially removed from 4600 Buford Highway, Norcross, GA. It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The vehicle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2011 Kawasaki JL250P Sport Motorcycle VIN LJ5PBA161B1040046 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from Ten Oaks Apartments, 405 Philip Boulevard, Lawrencville, GA. It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 4011-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2009 VIP Scooter VIN LHJLC13F29B001467 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BEIGE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Patterson Road and Patterson Circle in Lawrenceville,GA. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Home-Made Trailer VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 2017@ 1:00PM 2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type S 19UYA42621A007294 2004 BMW 325Ci WBABD33454PL01788 2004 BMW 545i WBANB33524B112993 1989 Chevrolet Caprice 1G1BL51E1KR193466 2006 Dodge Charger 2B3KA53H86H234199 1999 Dodge Durango 1B4HS28Y9XF665051 2008 Dodge Avenger 1B3LC46K08N689266 2006 Ford Five Hundred 1FAFP24146G150073 2002 Ford Mustang 1FAFP40472F123073 2006 Ford Five Hundred 1FAFP24166G144436 2006 Ford Five Hundred 1FAFP23146G147711 2003 Ford F-150 1FTRX072X3KC39073 2001 GMC Savana 1GTFG25W711126382 2001 Honda Civic JHMES16521S010381 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM21511L081740 1998 Honda Accord 1HGCG564XWA134311 2003 Lexus IS 300 JTHBD192630070497 1996 Mercedes Benz E320 WDBJF55F7TJ021356 2006 Mercury Mariner 4M2YU56176KJ12547 1994 Nissan King Cab 1N6SD16S1RC420113 2004 Nissan Murano JN8AZ08T04W226989 1995 Pace Trailer 4FPFB0817SG009476 2005 Pontiac G6 1G2ZH548054169419 2003 Suzuki GSX-R600 JS1GN7BA032103968 2004 Toyota Camry 4T1BE32K34U351361 2005 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR32E95Z483718 2006 Volvo XC90 YV4CZ592661266868 929-517697, 11/3,10,17 ON 11/27/2017 AT 10:00 AM StoreSmart Self Storage located at 2914 Buford Dr. Buford, GA. 30519 will conduct a public auction of the following: Unit #’s 1021 & 1051 Miranda Millions, Rolling tool chest, Pool Table, Microwave, Lawn Mower, Camping Grill, Chairs, Speakers, Dresser, Shelves, Mini Fridge, End tables, King bed, Dressers. Unit #1076 Ericka Renee – Sofa, Love Seat, Pictures, Books, Luggage.

Unit # 1081 James Phillips – Washer, Dryer, Sofa, Arm Chair, Workout equipment, Drums, Tools, End Table, Sports Equipment. Unit # 2074 Tony Bennett – Refrigerator, Table, Chairs, Dresser, Cooler, Computer Stand, Ladder, Display Case. Unit # 2055 – Donald Edie – Vacuum, laptop, lamps, clothes, cookware, lights. Unit # 2087 – Salene Clark – Baby Toys, baby clothes, stuffed animals. Unit # 2132 – Gale Bremner – Luggage, clothes, furniture, mountain bike, bed frame, lights. Unit # 3140 - Jaleesah Hawkins-Smith – Washer, Dryer, and luggage.

Unit # 4002 – Melinda Levenson – Clothes, boxes, sword, chair, paintings.

929-518754, 11/10,17 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 NOVEMBER 18, 2017. 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 18 NOVEMBRE 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www.swsatlanta.com

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Boat Trailer NO VIN 1994 Monark 16ft Boat NO HIN 2014 Apollo Dirtbike L08YGH4F0E1000267 1975 Oldsmobile Toronado 3257W5M703412 2012 PeaceSports Scooter LHJTLBBN6BB001623 Utility Trailer NO VIN Construction Trailer NO VIN Kazuma 4-Wheeler CW0XCFCC551000428 2008 Nissan Armada 5N1BA08D48N625007 2012 Hyundai Sonata 5NPEB4AC5CH336444 2000 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E9YZ407568 2013 Toyota Corolla 2T1BU4EE2DC949781 *** STOLEN/UNRECOVERED *** 1997 Toyota Camry JT2BF22KXV0005790 2012 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZB5E03CF187753 2007 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWEF71K77M188145 2013 Ford Focus 1FADP3F25DL246155 2004 GMC Yukon Denali 1GKEK63U84J259843 2000 Honda S2000 JHMAP1140YT004405 2006 Cadillac CTS 1G6DP577760100573 1990 Bayliner 17’ Boat BIYA48CHI990 1990 HomeMade Boat Trailer NO VIN 2005 Mazda Tribute 4F2YZ02Z25KM64049 2003 Ford Explorer 1FMZU73K63UA61878 2004 Honda Odyssey 5FNRL18644B019199 1997 Honda Civic 1HGEJ6169VL808170 2001 Honda Odyssey 2HKRL18681H568269 2002 Honda Accord 1HGCG56732A063263 2000 Ford Expedition 1FMPU18L8YLC14778 2005 Buick Rendezvous 3G5DA03E95S563321 1997 Ford F-250 1FTFF28W2VNC56471 1995 Ford Ranger 1FTCR10A2SUB22131 2001 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E71Z473834 2000 Nissan Quest 4N2XN11T5YD830148 1997 Toyota Camry 4T1BG22K7VU786535 2001 Hyundai XG300 KMHFU45DX1A140890 *** REBUILT *** 2007 Chrysler Sebring 1C3LC56K37N566374 2005 Chrysler Sebring 1C3EL46X05N628955 2001 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WH55KX19221471 *** SALVAGE (Tennessee) *** 2000 Toyota Avalon 4T1BF28B4YU082730 1992 Ford Crown Victoria 2FACP72W5NX245927 *** REBUILT *** 2002 Toyota Sienna 4T3ZF13C52U468466 1995 Toyota 4Runner JT3VN39W0S8085012 2005 Dodge Neon 1B3ES56C75D280144 1999 Ford Explorer 1FMZU32E1XZB72075 2000 Toyota Corolla 2T1BR12E3YC308262 2001 Toyota 4Runner JT3GN86R210203966 2006 Nissan Sentra 3N1CB51D66L533779 2004 Toyota Highlander JTEDP21A840012074 2001 Toyota Celica JTDDR32TX10071109 2005 Dodge Neon 1B3ES56CX5D211271 929-518585, 11/10,17 PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Life Storage located at: 420 Grayson Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (770)682-7717; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2017, @ 10:45 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY 1342 Casseus, Andrea Household Goods/Furniture/ Other;clothes 929-518514, 11/10,17 There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: # Year Make Model VIN 1 2016 Scooter LYDY3TBB5G1500835 2 2005 Chrysler

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Town and Country 2C4GP54L15R399381 3 2003 Suzuki Aerio JS2RA41S935153615 4 1991 Honda Civic CRX JHMED8356MS010413 5 1987 Kawasaki ZL600 JKAZL4A11HA005916 6 1995 Toyota 4Runner JT3VN39W0S0196268 7 1999 Kawasaki ZX6 ZX600FE085226 8 1995 Acura Integra JH4DC4458SS013087 9 2013 GMC Terrain 2GKALWEKXD6110001 10 2007 Mazda Mazdaspeed 3 JM1BK34M271624159 11 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG564XYA138328 12 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan 2D4GP44L85R184349 13 2002 Ford F-150 1FTRX17232NB80547 14 1964 Chevrolet C10 15 2008 Ford Edge 2FMDK36C48BA19333 16 2003 Kia Sorento KNDJD733735059996 17 1997 Ford Ranger 1FTCR14X5VTA12280 18 2017 Honda Civic 19XFC2F59HE025739 19 1989 Mitsubishi Galant JA3BR56R3KZ060255 20 2000 Chevrolet Astro Van 1GNDM19W8YB187966 21 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 3B7HC16Z7XM518457 22 2015 Nissan Altima 1N4AL3AP8FN300167 23 2000 Chevrolet Blazer 1GNDT13W3Y2280132 24 2005 GMC Yukon XL Denali 1GKFK66U55J243696 25 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AC74H53E174574 26 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15W11LA46446 27 2008 Dodge Avenger 1B3LC56KX8N134380 28 2004 Chrysler Concorde 2C3HD36M24H698975 29 2002 Honda Civic 2HGES26792H510539 30 2014 Jeep Compass 1C4NJCBA3ED800902 31 1996 Nissan Altima 1N4BU31D2TC185435 32 2003 Ford F-150 1FTRX17W33NA82106 33 2008 Honda Civic 2HGFG11618H541145 34 2007 Kia

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Sportage KNDJF724X77354685 35 1997 Honda Civic 2HGEJ6344VH113815 36 1997 Honda Civic 1HGEJ8243VL015309 37 1996 Toyota Camry 4T1BG12K9TU942100 38 2004 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11DX4C143101 39 2000 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31D6YT522447 40 1998 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D3WM911791 41 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J4GW58N02C169358 42 1996 Honda Accord 1HGCD5637TA284419 43 1997 Honda Civic 1HGEJ6626VL011719 44 1994 Acura Integra JH4DC4351RS007479 45 1997 Chevrolet Suburban 1GNFK16R4VJ318583 46 2016 Gator Scooter 1YDY5TBBXG1500064 47 2001 Pontiac Sunfire 1G2JB52T817317511 48 1992 Mercedes-Benz 400SE WDBGA42E4NA024913 49 1993 Honda Accord 1HGCB7277PA041497 50 Homemade Trailer 51 2006 Nissan Maxima 1N4BA41E86C811114 52 1997 BMW 528I WBADD6322VBW05443 53 1998 Honda Civic JHMEJ667XWS006135 54 2000 Honda Civic 1HGEJ8241YL011568 55 2002 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WH55K829264921 56 1999 BMW 325 WBAAM3533XFR02772 57 1998 Ford Ranger 1FTYR10U7WUC70054 58 2000 Hyundai Sonata KMHWF35V2YA209871 59 2003 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62K23UB52884 60 1996 Honda Prelude JHMBB2251TX005720 61.

2004 Oldsmobile Alero 1G3NL52E14C187272 62.

2002 Ford Explorer 1FMDU62EX2UA22032 63.

1994 BMW 325I WBABJ6325RJD34750 929-516827, 11/10,17,24, LIFE STORAGE STORE 413 875 MARATHON PARKWAY LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 AUCTION DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH 2017 @ 10:30 AM In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manages’s lien of the

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location (s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, November 28th 2017 @ 10:30AM 875 Marathon Pkwy Lawrenceville, GA 30046 678-242-1441 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 1084 Demarcus L Holloway Household Goods/Furniture.

2063 Tommy Robinson Household Goods/Furniture, TV/Stereo Equip.; To o l s / A p p l i ance.

2069 Joan Thompson Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; To o l s / A p p l i ance.

2086 M i c h a e l Schmidt Household Goods/Furniture.

2169 Tekla Addison Household Goods/Furniture; Tools/Appliance.

3100 Camille Burch Household Goods/Furniture; Boxes.

3182 James Paige Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliance; Office Furniture/Machines/Equip.; Account Records/Sales Samples.

4061 Jarrett Mingo Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Office Furniture/Machines/ Equip.

4115 Henri Perry Household Goods/Furniture.

4149 Larissa Williams Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliance.

4194 Dwight Kemp Household Goods/Furniture; Clothing, Shoes, Books.

4196 Tracy Bown Household Goods/Furniture.

929-518722, 11/10,17

PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Life Storage located at: 2655 Langford Rd. Norcross, Ga. 30071, 770-242-0468; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2017, @ 10:00 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY 136 Carlos Sanchez Tools/Appliances; Inventory 210 Isaac Shogbesan Household Goods/Furniture 212 April Wright Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment/ Tools/Appliances 238 Laquish Martin Household Goods/Furniture/ Boxes 259 Randall Johnson Household Goods/Furniture/Sporting Goods 293 Donald Russell Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment/ Tools/Appliances 460 Danny Almaraz Household Goods/ Furniture Tools/Appliances 484 Crutchfield Tamika Household Goods/Furniture; Boxes 429 Alfonzo Mendoza Household Goods/Furniture; Boxes 528 Rome Pearson Office Furniture/Tools/Appliances 548 Michael Blankinship Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equipuipment/ 929-517279, 11/10,17 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 4416 Bernice Ct, Suwanee, Ga. On 10/5/17, at the request of the property owner or manager.

1976 Honda Motorcycle VIN# GL12011232 TAG# NoTag 929-519773, 11/17,24

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STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE INC. 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE NORCROSS, GA 30071 PHONE: 770-381-1140 FAX: 770-935-9651 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 DECEMBER 02, 2017. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

2002 Lexus IS 300 JTHBD192420046567 2005 Mazda Mazda3 JM1BK323651294579 1991 Mercedes Benz 560SEL WDBCA39E7MA584373 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AK34T26E009506 2005 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D45C219445 2003 Toyota Prius JT2BK18U330081296 1999 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E9XZ231880 2001 Toyota Avalon 4T1BF28B01U133100 2009 Toyota Camry 4T1BE46K89U814506 2000 Toyota Camry 4T1BG28K2YU996648 9 2 9 - 5 1 9 7 7 4 , 11/17,24,12/1

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 02 DECIEMBRE 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www. swsatlanta.com Motorcycle Frame NO VIN 2008 Sunl Moped L8YTCKPF68Y012128 2007 Mercedes-Benz C230 WDBRF52H17F899267 2006 Land Rover Range Rover Sport SALSF25456A974714 1985 Sea Ray Boat (No Trailer) SERV4816F585 2008 Cadillac SRX 1GYEE637180207036 2010 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WA5EK0A1103108 2006 Volkswagen Jetta 3VWPF71K36M676645 1997 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D7VM507178 2003 Mercedes-Benz E320 WDBUF65J93A172870 2004 Mazda Mazda6 1YVFP80C845N32002 2000 Honda Accord 1HGCG2251YA019211 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 2GCEC19V621391311 2001 Volkswagen Passat WVWAC63B61P023688 2000 Jaguar S-Type SAJDA01D6YGL65142 2008 Ford Edge 2FMDK36C68BB49534 2017 TaoTao Scooter L9NTEACB2H1050973 2005 Chevrolet Equinox 2CNDL73F156095793 2001 Cadillac Seville 1G6KY549X1U185890 2003 BMW 525i WBADT43483G033433 2004 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx 1G1ZT64824F169367 1996 Chevrolet C2500 1GCGC24RXTZ202662 2005 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR32E25Z436918 2003 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1NE52JX3M587209 2007 Dodge Magnum 2D4FV47T47H640935 Shimono Mountain Bike NO VIN 1995 Ford Taurus 1FALP52U7SA150356 2003 Mazda Protege JM1BJ225X30135856 1999 Toyota Corolla 1NXBR12E4XZ264446 *** REBUILT *** 2006 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT55K369352117 2005 Ford Freestyle 1FMDK02105GA62218 2009 Nissan Sentra 3N1AB61E69L619250 2003 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D33C208918 1998 Volkswagen New Beetle 3VWBB61C6WM044179 1997 Honda VT600 JH2PC2119VM800103 2006 Ford Five Hundred 1FAFP25106G183411 2001 Dodge Neon 1B3ES46C71D263591 1997 Dodge Ram 1500 1B7HC13Y8VJ604432 1998 GMC Jimmy 1GKCS13W8W2563408 2005 Chevrolet Aveo KL1TD52695B361696 1997 Toyota Avalon 4T1BF12B7VU178950 2000 Nissan Xterra 5N1ED28T7YC518858 2003 Mazda Protege JM1BJ246431145492 1997 Chevrolet C1500 2GCEC19RXV1233335 2003 Ford Expedition 1FMFU18L23LB54212 1994 Chevrolet C1500 2GCEC19Z1R1264995 9 2 9 - 5 1 9 5 7 6 , 11/17,24,12/1 MCCULLOUGH TOWING AUCTION LIST 785 BROGDON RD. SUWANEE, GA 30024 770-263-8483 Saturday, December 2nd 2017@ 1:00pm 2005 Audi A4 WAULC68E25A124308 2005 Cadillac deVille 1G6KD54Y25U155128 2007 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT58K679363481 2005 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WH55K559108663 2005 Chevrolet Equinox 2CNDL13FX56159746 2005 Chrysler Town & Country 2C4GP44R25R298915 2006 Dodge Stratus 1B3EL46X36N170634 2006 Dodge Charger 2B3KA43R16H414868 2006 Dodge Caravan 1D4GP24RX6B618117 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU63E32UA52672 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU16WX1LB13415 2002 Ford Expedition 1FMRU17LX2LA23896 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62EX2UA28418 2004 Honda Civic 1HGEM22144L060462 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM22521L070972 2001 Honda Civic 1HGEM22551L005565 2004 Kia Sorento KNDJD733345186777

UNKNOWN 2008 Jonway 150 CC Scooter VIN L8YTCKPC98V020065 This scooter was removed at the request of Private Impound from 4463 Casco Ln. in Norcoss, GA 30071 on October 05 2017. The scooter is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770-945-7580.

The scooter will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 4-Wheeler Vin L6ZSCKLA2G1001713 This 4-Wheeler was removed at the request of GCPD from Weaver@Deborah in Norcross GA 30071 on September 17 2017. The 4-Wheeler is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville GA 30071. Willard’s phone number is 770945-7580. The 4-Wheeler will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

UNKNOWN 1976 Chevrolet C1500 CCD146A12512 This Chevy Truck was removed at the request of Duluth PD from Hardy @ Main, in Norcross GA 30071 on September 16 2017. This Chevy Truck is located at Willard Wrecker Service, Inc. located at 2451 Pleasantdale Rd, Doraville, GA 30340. Willard’s phone number is 770945-7580. The Chevy Truck will be deemed abandoned according to provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated 40-11-2, foreclosed through Gwinnett Magistrate Court, and sold at a public auction if not redeemed.

929-518619, 11/10,17

SERVICE

BY PUBLICATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF GWINNETT COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA CIVIL ACTION NO. 17-A-02632-9 Richard Steele, In His Official Capacity as Tax Commissioner of Gwinnett County, Georgia, Plaintiff v.

Estate of Lula Smith Hanks, et al.

Defendant TO: Estate of Lula Smith Hanks 690 Wynbrook Parkway Stone Mountain, GA 30087 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION By order for service by publication dated November 1, 2017, you are hereby notified that on the 17th day of March, 2017, Richard Steele in the official capacity as Tax Commissioner of Gwinnett County, Georgia, filed suit against you to Interplead of Excess Fund Collected from a Tax Sale and for Equitable Relief.

You are required to file within sixty days of the date of the Superior Court, and serve upon Petitioners attorney, D. Stuart Morelli, an answer in writing within sixty (60) days of the date of the date of the order for publication.

WITNESS, the Honorable Tom Davis, Judge of this Superior Court.

This the 3rd day of November, 2017.

-sDeputy Clerk, Superior Court For: Richard T. Alexander, Jr. P. O. Box 880 Lawrenceville, GA 30046 9 3 0 519050,11/15,22,29,12/6

ZONINGS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City of Peachtree Corners Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at City Hall, 147 Technology Parkway, Suite 200, Peachtree Corners, Georgia beginning at 7:00 PM on December 12, 2017 to consider the following: RZ2017-005. Imagine Advertising. Request to rezone a 1.804-acre parcel from O-I to M-1 to accommodate expansion of an existing advertising agency to include a sign fabrication shop at 6141 Crooked Creek Road, Dist. 6, Land Lot 283, Peachtree Corners, GA. PH2017-014. Structures Excluded from Height Limitations. Consideration of an amendment to the zoning code to allow for additional architectural features of religious buildings to be excepted from standard height limitations.

These items will also be considered by the City of Peachtree Corners City Council at City Hall, 147 Technology Parkway, Suite 200, beginning at 7:00PM on December 19, 2017 and a public hearing will be held at the new City Hall, 310 Technology Parkway, beginning at 7:00PM on January 16, 2018.

KYM CHERECK, CITY CLERK CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS 934-519699, 11/17 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND GWINNETT C

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COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON A PROPOSED ADOPTION OF REVISED PUBLIC NOTIFICATION POLICIES FOR ZONING APPLICATIONS IN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, TO AMEND THE SCOPE AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO POTENTIALLY AFFECTED NEIGHBORS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR AMENDED ZONING NOTICE SIGN POSTING POLICIES. COPIES OF THE REVISED PUBLIC NOTIFICATION POLICIES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 934-519850, 11/17

RZR2017-00025 — APPLICANT: EDGE CITY PROPERTIES, INC.; OWNERS: L. WILLIAMS, JIMMY V. WILLIAMS, & WILLIAMS FAMILY HOLDINGS; REZONING OF RA-200 TO R-60; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 1 LAND LOT 003 PARCEL 026; 3200 BLOCK OF FRIENDSHIP ROAD; 10.82 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2017-00026 — APPLICANT: SMITHTON HOMES LLC; OWNERS: DEWEY J. BENTLEY ETAL, JERRY W. BENTLEY, JEFFREY D. COOPER, & KAREN ATHA COOPER; REZONING OF R-100 TO OSC; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 4 LAND LOT 301 PARCEL 001; 2800 BLOCK OF CENTERVILLE ROSEBUD ROAD; 25.78 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER RZR2017-00027 — APPLICANT: SMITHTON HOMES LLC; OWNER: MORGAN CLINE; REZONING OF RA-200 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 200 PARCELS 003 & 012; 800 BLOCK OF GRAYSON NEW HOPE ROAD; 54.28 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER RZR2017-00028 — APPLICANT: SMITHTON HOMES LLC; OWNER: STEVEN HARRISON ET AL.; REZONING OF R-100 TO R-SR; SENIOR ORIENTED SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 124 PARCELS 020 & 061; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 133 PARCELS 004 & 033; 500-600 BLOCKS OF COOPER ROAD; 2800 BLOCK OF LANGLEY ROAD; 41.8 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER RZR2017-00029 — APPLICANT: ARROWHEAD INVESTORS, LLC; OWNER: ROBBIE PRUETT; REZONING OF RA-200 TO OSC; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 060 PARCEL 001; 2300 BLOCK OF OLD PEACHTREE ROAD; 31.65 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD RZR2017-00030 — APPLICANT: JLCS ENTERPRISES, INC C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNERS: ELLEN C. BEAVERS, RICHARD SORRELL, & LANSKY PARTNERSHIP, LLLP; REZONING OF RA-200 TO R-60; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 102 PARCELS 017, 025, & 027; 2100-2200 BLOCKS OF SUNNY HILL ROAD; 20.55 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD CIC2017-00021 – APPLICANT: TAYLOR MORRISON OF GEORGIA LLC C/O MITCH PEEVY; OWNER: TAYLOR MORRISON OF GEORGIA LLC C/O MITCH PEEVY; CHANGE IN CONDITIONS OF ZONING FOR PROPERTY ZONED TND; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 261 PARCEL 012; 2800-2900 BLOCKS OF PLEASANT HILL ROAD; 3600 BLOCK OF SUNSET STREET; 3000 BLOCK OF REGAL PARK COURT; 3800 BLOCK OF VILLAGE PARK DRIVE; 2.14 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS SUP2017-00053 — APPLICANT: CAMELIA C. GRECU; OWNER: CAMELIA C. GRECU; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A RA-200 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A PERSONAL CARE HOME (FAMILY); DISTRICT 1 LAND LOT 001 PARCEL 442; 3000 BLOCK OF HAMILTON MILL ROAD; 2.28 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD SUP2017-00054 — APPLICANT: BRIAN JENABZADEH; OWNER: SHAH INVESTMENTS 1, LLC; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT FOR AUTO SALES AND RELATED SERVICES; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 164 PARCEL 243; 4600 BLOCK OF JIMMY CARTER BOULEVARD; 1.1 ACRES. DISTRICT 2/HOWARD SUP2017-00055 — APPLICANT: ST. MARY’S MALANKARA SYRIAC ORTHODOX CHURCH; OWNERS: TED & RHONDA BROCKETT; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A R-100 ZONING DISTRICT FOR PLACE OF WORSHIP; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 013 PARCEL 002; 2700 BLOCK OF HUTCHINS ROAD; 5.0 ACRES. DISTRICT 2/HOWARD SUP2017-00056 — APPLICANT: MRK SNELLVILLE LLC; OWNER: BRITT AND CAMP LLC; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A MUR ZONING DISTRICT FOR A CARWASH (EXPRESS SERVICE); DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 051 PARCEL 004; 3200 BLOCK OF STONE MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY; 2.19 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER P&D PC/BOC 12-5 & 12-19 934-519849, 11/17

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THIS NOTICE IS TO ANNOUNCE A PUBLIC HEARING, AS STATED ABOVE, TO INITIATE THE PROCESS FOR THE GWINNETT COUNTY 2040 UNIFIED PLAN. THE UNIFIED PLAN IS THE COUNTY’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND INCORPORATES THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, AND THE MASTER PLANS FROM THE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNITY SERVICES, AND WATER RESOURCES. THE UNIFIED PLAN WILL CONSIST OF THREE PRIMARY TASKS, UNDERTAKEN BY LEAD CONSULTANT POND & COMPANY. THE PLAN WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITHIN A STAKEHOLDER AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PLAN (PIP) FRAMEWORK. THE PIP IS A PART OF THE PLANNING PROCESS THAT WILL SOLICIT COMMUNITY VALUES AND DESIRES FROM COUNTY RESIDENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS AND ENSURE THAT A WIDE VARIETY OF VOICES ARE HEARD DURING THE PROCESS. THIS PUBLIC HEARING WILL INITIATE THE PLANNING PROCESS AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED BY CONTACTING THE GWINNETT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT, PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, OR ON THE COUNTY WEB SITE @ WWW.GWINNETTCOUNTY.COM. P&D 2040 UNIFIED PLAN INITIATION 12-19-17 934-519848, 11/17 GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITIONS, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RZR2017-00011 — APPLICANT: HOME SOUTH COMMUNITIES, LLC, C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: JOHN T. LAMB; REZONING OF RA200 TO OSC; SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 136 PARCEL 001; 2400 BLOCK OF SUNNY HILL ROAD; 2500 BLOCK OF MORGAN ROAD; 86.15 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2017-00020 — APPLICANT: BULK BUYS CORPORATION; OWNERS: SARAH & PEGGY BRODNAX; REZONING OF R-100 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 036 PARCEL 004; 2900 BLOCK OF BETHANY CHURCH ROAD; 33.74 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZR2017-00022 — APPLICANT: CKK DEVELOPMENT; OWNERS: NOORUDDIN PANJWANI & SHEREZA TAJUDDIN; REZONING OF R-100 TO R-60; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 021 PARCELS 006C & 072; 500 BLOCK OF ARNOLD ROAD; 2400-2500 BLOCKS OF FIVE FORKS TRICKUM ROAD; 10.42 ACRES. DISTRICT 2/ HOWARD RZR2017-00024 — APPLICANT: PARKLAND COMMUNITIES, INC. C/O ADVANCED ENGINEERING AND PLANNING; OWNER: SFI DEVELOPMENT LLC C/O ADVANCED ENGINEERING AND PLANNING; REZONING OF R-SR TO TND; TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 149 PARCELS 323 & 327; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 172 PARCELS 270 & 272; 0-100 BLOCKS OF SIMONTON ROAD; 800 BLOCK OF BRAND SOUTH TRAIL; 38.26 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD P&D PC TBL 12-5 934-519853, 11/17 GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITION, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 ETCHISON RD FULL TIME

COMPUTER/IT: NCR Corporation seeks f/t SW Support SME I in Duluth, GA to provide/ architect suggestions for enhancing & approving tools & implementation &/or custom dev methodology. Position performed at various unanticipated locations nationwide, up to 10% travel req’d. Telecommuting benefit available.

Send resume: Viktorija.

Stevanovic@ncr.com, ref req: SW Support SME I GCP -2017_09.

COMPUTER/IT: NCR Corporation seeks f/t Quality Assurance Team Lead in Duluth, GA to perform QA/ Testing team lead activities supporting Professional Services client engagements and deployment of NCR software/hardware systems.

Telecommuting benefit available. Position is performed at various unanticipated locations nationwide, up to 80% travel req’d. Refs req’d. Send resume: Viktorija.Stevanovic@ ncr.com, ref req: Quality Assurance Team Lead GCP -2017_05.

SENIOR CREDIT UNDERWRITER - 3, AGCO Finance LLC, in Duluth, GA. Position will execute risk management and credit underwriting processes within the Business Unit. How to Apply: please send resume via e-mail to Mary Healy at mary.healy@dllgroup. com referencing SCU317.

Dr. Ellis 770-476-0377

HOUSES FOR SALE GRAYSON, GA 30017 428 Townsend Street

•Finished Basements •Bathroom Remodeling •Kitchen Remodeling •Custom Cabinets •Room Additions •Garages/Carports •Screened Porches •Custom Decks •Siding All Types

MONROE, GA 30656 JIM DAWS RD

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2 STORY On Full Finished Basement.

5 Bedrooms 3 Full Baths $229,900 EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com MONROE, GA 30655 3045 AMBER CT

NEW LISTING HUD # 105-660664 Beautiful 4BR/2.5BA Split Foyer on 1 Acre Cul-De-Sac Lot with Back Deck and Decking for Pool.

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1155 Jim Daws Rd.

ACREAGE Older 4 Sided Brick Ranch Home On Wooded 39+ Acre Parcel.

Family rm w/fireplace, formal dining room, spacious kitchen, laundry area, full bath and large bedrooms!

2 creeks cross the property in back. +/-1012 feet of road frontage. $242,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com PINELLAS ST Petersburg 3BR 2BA This is a test This is a test This is a test This is a test

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ACREAGE PRICE REDUCTION! 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.

Motivated Sellers, Bring All Offers! $211,445 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com SNELLVILLE, GA 30078 BIRD LANE

BROOKWOOD SCHOOLS 1.03 Acre Wooded Zoned RS180.

Lot located in older established Snellville neighborhood in Brookwood Elementary School district. Water, sewer, gas and electric available but no connected at property.

No disclosure.

Owner purchased as investment property.

Zoned RS180. $36,500 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

EATONTON, GA 31024 210 RIVER LAKE DR.

M&M Lawn Maintenance All Types of Yard Work * Lawns starting at $30 CALL

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

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MISC. FOR SALE

GARAGE SALES

SUGAR HILL Estate Sale Emerald Lake Subdivision Coke machine, furniture, 1965 Baldwin baby grand piano, benches, tools, John Deer mower, edger, household items.

11/17 - 11/18, 7am-12pm 5650 Manuel Place

CHRISTMAS STUFF including ornaments, lights, decorations.

Sofa, & miscellaneous household items.

CALL 770-918-9254.

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VEHICLES

DODGE RAM VAN B2500, 1995 A Perfect Work Van With Cage & Shelf.

Good Condition.

One Owner.

162,488 Miles. $1,650.00 Call 678-975-1675

PETS/LIVESTOCK

DOGS

FIREWOOD SEASONED OAK FIREWOOD 4x8 Rack $125.

Delivered & Stacked.

Lawrenceville/Buford area. 678-997-5675.

Proceeds for funding Helping Hands Missionary Trips.

DALMATIAN PUPPIES Adorable, CKC reg., vet checked, Baer hearing tested, dewormed, UTD on shots & lots of spots.

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404-384-3651

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Gwinnett Daily Post 2017 CLASSIFIED DEADLINES THANKSGIVING DAY

LAKE OCONEE Beautiful shaded lake lot with hardwoods and seawall with great views of Lake Oconee.

Approximately 120 ft water frontage.

Old mobile home used to sit on this property so septic is in place.

What a scenic place to build your dream home or vacation home. $240,000.

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CEMETERY LOTS FOR SALE

**CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS ARE 2 DAYS PRIOR. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DEADLINE INQUIRIES.

BURIAL CRYPTS-2 Letters, vases included.

White Chapel Memorial Garden, Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth, GA. Level/tier B, Crypts 7 & 8. Best location inside chapel. Asking $7000 each. 706-983-0884

Happy Thanksgiving

BURIAL LOTS Broadlawn Memorial Gardens Buford, Ga. Spaces 3,4 Good Shepherd section lot 267-A $1,995. 770-366-7411 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE GWINNETT COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AND THE OFFICAL GWINNETT COUNTY ZONING MAP, AS STATED ABOVE. UDOA2017-00001–AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF GWINNETT COUNTY; TITLE 1: ADMINISTRATION AND TITLE 2: LAND USE AND ZONING, TO PROVIDE NEW OR REVISED DEFINITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCESSORY BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND USE STANDARDS. COPIES OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. P&D PC/BOC UDO 12/5 & 12/19 934-519851, 11/17

COUNTRY BOY TREE REMOVAL

FOREST REMODELING, INC.

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

Summer Seasoned

LAKE/RIVER/COASTAL PROPERTY FOR SALE UNDER CONTRACT 4BR/3.5BA Meticulously Maintained All Brick Home.

Great room w/built-ins, open to kitchen.

Breakfast area overlooks backyard.

Covered back porch.

Gated community.

EHO • $285,000.

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HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

MAKE OFFER! Beautiful 2.68 Acre Wooded Tract of Land.

200 feet of road frontage.

Not divisible.

Per planning and development mobile homes are permitted.

No metal type storage container structures are not permitted on parcel. $65,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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HOUSES FOR RENT LOGANVILLE/NORTH Off Bay Creek Church Rd. 4+ BR, 3BA, front porch, Cent. H/A, 2 ac., fncd. in backyd. $1450 per mo. 678-357-5044 COMMERCIAL RENTALS

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Essential Duties:

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) Strong work ethic, highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills ) Ability to meet and exceed sales goals ) Focus on new business development with processing solutions to existing SCNI customers ) Consult with customers to identify their payment processing needs and deliver a comprehensive solution ) Conduct joint sales calls with existing multi-media account representatives to further service SCNI customers in their credit card processing needs ) Attend regularly scheduled department meetings ) Exhibit clear understanding of credit card processing and payment technology options

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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Nov. 25 Polar Express Experience — Watch the “Polar Express” in an authentic train car at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth.

Performances start at 1 p.m. and there are five showings. Cost is $28 per person. For more information, go to www.train-museum.org.

Holiday On The Square — Gwinnett Parks and Recreation hosts this event at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse, which includes a chance to make a craft and get your child’s picture taken with Santa. Cost is $2 for crafts and $8 for pictures. For more information, go to www. gwinnettparks.com.

Christmas Traditions — The city of Buford hosts a day of family fun that includes crafts, a hot chocolate bar and a chance get pictures taken with Santa. Held at the Buford Community Center, cost is $5. For more information, go to www.bufordcommunitycenter.com.

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Teriyaki Box

1766 Old Norcross Road, Suite O, Lawrenceville www.theteriyakibox.com 770-682-8269

This teriyaki box is an example of the pick three option with chicken, shrimp and tofu served over fried rice and mixed vegetables, all glazed with teriyaki sauce. (Staff Photos: Kyle Dawson)

BY KYLE DAWSON

kyle.dawson @gwinnettdailypost.com

Owner: Hendra Bhaktiar Open since: March 13 Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday.

Location: In Old Norcross Plaza, off Old Norcross Road behind Swim Atlanta and Publix in Lawrenceville.

Atmosphere: Teriyaki Box is a fast-casual take on Japanese food that aims to provide customers with a quick and inexpensive alternative to higher priced hibachi restaurants. The dining area is small but makes good use of its space. Customers order at the counter with the menu presented on LED screens in order to get the food out as quickly as possible. The room is decorated with a mixture of metal and wood features to give the dining area a neo traditional look. Eccentric light fixtures add a bit of flair to the restaurant.

Owner Hendra Bhaktiar said he opened the restaurant because he saw a need for variety that included health-conscious options in the area. He wanted people to be able to come in after work or while on the go.

“When we surveyed the area, we saw a lot of Wing Stops and sandwich shops,” Bhaktiar said. “We know people love sit down hibachi, so we wanted to bring a similar concept but to a fast-casual setting.”

The name Teriyaki Box combines the name of the traditional Japanese bento box and the restaurant’s signature item, teriyaki chicken. All orders are served in take-out contain-

ON THE MENU Teriyaki Box — Grilled tofu ($6.99), chicken ($7.99), steak with mushrooms ($8.99), shrimp with mushrooms ($9.49) or salmon ($9.79) with a teriyaki glaze served over steamed rice and mixed vegetables with a regular drink. Mix two meats for $10.49 or three for $12.99. Customers can upgrade to fried rice or noodles for 99 cents more.

Fried Box — Deep fried chicken wings, chicken tenders, fish fillets or butterfly shrimp with fries and a regular drink, $7.99. Mix two meats for $11.99 or three for $18.99. Customers can upgrade to fried rice for 99 cents more.

Spicy Crawfish Roll — Seasoned crawfish and avocado topped with spicy mayo, $6.99.

Golden Bagel Roll — Cooked salmon, cream cheese and avocado, deep fried and topped with eel sauce, $7.99.

Smoothies — Avocado, mango, pineapple, strawberry banana, watermelon, taro or lychee, $3.99. Add boba or jelly for 50 cents.

ers so they can easily be made portable. Teriyaki Box also features online ordering, delivery and catering.

Menu: Teriyaki Box’s main courses are divided into three categories: teriyaki boxes, fried boxes and sushi boxes. Bhaktiar said he and his wife came up with the categories based on variety and the level of healthiness each category offers. He said they chose the sushi box with health-conscious people in mind and the fried box

soup or egg corn soup and a regular drink.

Teriyaki Box also has a lineup of smoothies, including avocado, mango, pineapple, strawberry banana, watermelon, taro and lychee. All the smoothies are made from locally grown, fresh fruit, except for taro and lychee, which are shipped from overseas.

Bhaktiar said one of the most exclusive items on the menu is the Pokka Japanese green tea.

“When I was in high school, I drank this green tea,” Bhaktiar said. “This was way back in Singapore. Ever since then, when I moved to the States, I haven’t been able to find it.

Somehow, it popped up, so (the green tea) is something Above, the sushi roll at very special and different.” the top of the plate is a Bhaktiar said one thing spicy crawfish roll with that sets Teriyaki Box apart seasoned crawfish from other restaurants is and avocado topped that all the ingredients are with spicy mayo. The roll at the bottom is a fresh and almost everything golden bagel roll with is made from scratch. cooked salmon, cream “All the sauces are cheese and avocado, homemade fresh on a daily deep fried and topped basis,” Bhaktiar said. “No with eel sauce. At left, MSG is one thing that we the mix of metal and stand for. We add no MSG wood in the dining at all because we know area at Teriyaki Box gives the restaurant a that some people may be neo-traditional look, allergic.” while the unique light Something You May fixtures provide some Not Know: Teriyaki Box’s quirkiness. logo is a ninja with a bento box for a body. Bhaktiar with someone who wants The restaurant’s teriyaki teriyaki, ranch, garlic pepsomething a little more full- boxes come with white per, Cajun, barbeque, spicy said his son, who was six years old at the time, came bodied. The teriyaki box is rice, mixed vegetables and teriyaki, spicy Asian and meant to be somewhere in a drink. Protein options honey mustard. Fried boxes up with the concept for the logo. the middle. include tofu, chicken, steak, are served with fries and a “We said we wanted to “We have three different shrimp or salmon. Bhaktiar drink. kinds of food that a whole said if someone is trying Teriyaki Box also offers open up a Japanese restaurant and all my son kept family can enjoy,” Bhaktiar to avoid carbs, the box 12 sushi rolls to choose saying was ninja,” Bhatiar said. “(Most of the sushi) can be ordered with just from for the sushi boxes. said. “Then we think of the has no grease. It is all made vegetables.

The rolls are split into two from scratch. The teriyaki The fried boxes come categories, regular rolls and bento box, which is where the name Teriyaki Box is kind of in the middle. with a choice of fish, Maki rolls. Customers can comes from. If you look Everything is grilled. If shrimp, chicken tenders get a box with two regular someone is craving fried, or chicken wings. Wing rolls, two Maki rolls or one at the logo, the mouth and the nose is kind of a bento we have something deep flavors include a range of of each. The boxes also fried.” hot levels, lemon pepper, come with a choice of miso plate.”

GWINNETT TASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: Loui Loui Louisiana Seafood Trepidation for trying a new restaurant like Loui Loui is heightened when the wait staff asks, “Are you ready to get messy?”

However, the reward for sauce-stained hands is a unique, build-your-own, Cajun-inspired seafood boil meal.

Patrons choose the seafood for the boil from mussels, clams, shrimp, crawfish, lobster, snow crab legs, king crab legs and Dungeness crabs. Three sauces are available to choose from to add to the boil — butter, lemon pepper and Louisiana. Pick your sauce spiciness from mild to extra hot, then sides such as sausage, noodles, corn on the cob or potatoes.

The meal is about a pound and boiled in a bag.

Servers deliver the food in a metal bucket on tables topped with paper. Servers strongly advise using the plastic bibs and gloves provided to tackle the boil.

The meal is reminiscent of low country boils where everything is spread out on a table, and everyone goes for it.

3330 Satellite Blvd., Suite 4, Duluth, 678-740-8888 Tier Couture Bakery This family-run bakery right off downtown Lawrenceville offers a multitude of made-from-scratch pastries, cakes and desserts.

Owner Shaquana King has always had a passion for baking, and with the support of her family, King is making her dream come true.

When one walks into Tier Couture Bakery, don’t expect to be overwhelmed with decorations, but do expect to spend a long time at the three-level glass case constantly being replenished with banana pudding, cupcakes, cake pops, sheet cakes and more.

138 E. Crogan St., Lawrenceville, 678-404-7270 Rockin Crawfish Old school meets modern in this feel-good restaurant where guests can bring the whole family for a piping hot Cajun meal or just kick back and watch the game with a

name, the Duluth Maple Street Biscuit Company has a character of its own.

Maple Street is a Floridabased restaurant chain that operates as Community Stores, and Duluth’s location is just that. Taking residence in one of the town’s most beloved buildings, it has quickly become an integral part of the scene in downtown Duluth.

What sets Maple Street apart from other southern comfort restaurants is the One of the best-selling items on the menu at Tier Couture fact that all menu items are Bakery is the butter pecan cupcakes. (Staff Photo: Alex made from scratch.

One of the signature Tostado) items is the Bam Yoyo, or chicken and waffles a la guests can choose from a beer.

Maple Street. The dish feawide selection of seafood.

At Rockin Crawfish, tures a brown butter vanilla While crawfish is what guests can expect to find makes their reputation, king bean waffle with bacon and traditional Cajun cuisine asiago cheese cut up and and snow crab are also with an extra punch. True cooked into the batter. To crowd pleasers. Guests to its West Coast origins, complete the sweet and can mix it up and try a little the menu features a few savory palate, it’s served of everything with popular multicultural recipes. with a topping of homemussels and shrimp in a The boil sauce is dismade honey butter and two single combo. tinctly Cajun, but it has a 1630 Pleasant Hill Road, pieces of fried chicken on West Coast twist, perfected by the founder and his fam- Suite 160, Duluth, 678-580- the side.

3450 W. Lawrenceville 3439 ily. The sauce comes in a St., Duluth, 912-506-4275 variety of flavors including Maple Street Biscuit lemon pepper, garlic butter Strange Taco Bar Company and the Rockin Combo hot Strange Taco Bar takes While there are numersauce with five levels of a fast casual approach to ous Southern comfort heat. dining instead of the full restaurants by the same For any boil combo,

service model used at its sister restaurant, Local Republic.

One thing visitors might notice about Strange Taco Bar when they walk in the front door is the bright colors, starting with the large white block-lettered “TACOS” on a bright blue background above the counter where orders are placed. Strange Taco Bar also retains the outdoor patio area that the original Local Republic had when it was located in that building.

The restaurant’s menu includes 17 different tacos including three different versions of the Original Gangster Taco (there are fried chicken, pork and steak versions), the San Antonio Taco, the B-ATL, fried green tomato taco, clam taco, cajun shrimp taco, a beef short rib bulgogi taco, a portabella mushroom taco, a cauliflower taco, a fried fish taco, a jerk fried chicken taco, a steak et cheese taco, a braised lamb taco, a braised duck taco and a migas taco.

Tacos range in price from $2.75 to $3.75.

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Aurora welcoming holidays with ‘Christmas Canteen’ the show, so it will be a very emotional experience.”

MacQueen said the • What: “Christmas Canteen 2017” The way the Aurora strength of this year’s show • Where: Aurora Theatre, Theatre sees it, Christmas is its cast diversity.

Brandon O’Dell Lawrenceville season starts in November.

“We have cast members and Diany Rodri• When: Through Dec. 23 For the 22nd year, who can sing like a dream, guez will perform • Shows: 8 p.m. Tues“Christmas Canteen 2017,” others who can dance like a in this year’s days through Saturdays; which bills itself as “Gwindream and others who can “Christmas 2:30 p.m. Saturdays and nett’s longest-running theat- Canteen.” (Photo: act like a dream,” she said.

Sundays; additional 10 Chris Bartelski) “We’re just strong across the rical extravaganza,” will fill a.m. showings Dec. 5, 12 board. What everyone has the air with holiday tunes and 19; no shows from in common is they have that sung by plenty of familiar Nov. 21-23; performances at 8 p.m. Dec. 5, 12 and wow factor you need to have faces, including Jen Mac16 are sold out. a great show.”

Queen, Lyndsay Ricketson • Tickets: $30-$65 and Spectators are also urged Brown, Christian Magby can be purchased at tickfor Aurora Theatre to to enjoy Aurora’s annual and Cecil Washington Jr. winter wonderland celebra- new show every year,” Macets.auroratheatre.com or spread holiday cheer to our tion for the 22nd consecuFestival of Trees. Nearly They’ll be complemented Queen said. “It’s a variety by calling the box office incredible community,” said tive year.”

30 trees decorated by local by first-year co-hosts Nick show and a music revue at at 678-226-6222.

Anthony Rodriguez, the businesses will light up and Caroline Arapoglou, The show, which was its fullest. But most imporAurora Theatre’s producAurora’s lobby, as guests while Chani Maisonet and written by Brandon O’Dell tantly, it has a ‘wow’ factor Cansler McGhee, as well as ing artistic director who and includes the musical di- and that’s what makes it songs, covers of popular TV are asked to place new, co-directs the show with unwrapped toys or non-perAurora Apprentice Comrection by Ann-Carol Pence so great for families, from theme songs from the past MacQueen. “Audiences of ishable food items by their pany members Cheyanne and MacQueen’s choreogra- everyone who is 3 or 103.”

50 years, a tribute to those Osoria and Daisean Garrett all ages will leave this show phy, runs through Dec. 23 at “‘Christmas Canteen’ has who served the country and favorite trees. The donations will perform in the show for feeling the joy and goodwill the Lawrenceville venue. something for everyone, new to the show this year, an support the United States Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots signature to the holiday their first time.

“What makes ‘Christmas as the show combines the a capella act,” Magby said. “‘Christmas Canteen’ drive and the county’s food season. We are delighted to Canteen’ so unique is that spectacle of a Broadway “You’ll laugh, you’ll think serves as a personal way be the destination for this it’s always a completely show, traditional Christmas and you’ll cry by the end of banks

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Area school principals to join ballet cast in ‘The Nutcracker’

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of Clara and her Nutcracker Prince during its two-set, • What: Southern Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” two-hour show.

• Where: Infinite Energy Theater The Southern Ballet “We don’t like to do • When: 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Saturday; 2:30 Theatre will perform “The shows that are simple and p.m. Sunday Nutcracker” at the Infinite just have backdrops that are • Tickets: $16.50-$20.50 and can be purchased by Energy Theater this weeksimilar to what the audience visiting infiniteenergycenter.com or by calling 770-626end before taking the show has already seen,” Wetzel 2464. to The Venue at Friendship said. “We want to give evSprings in Flowery Branch eryone the full nine yards by atre is putting its touch on on Dec. 16.

Craig Elementary School in using elaborate backdrops “‘The Nutcracker’ is like the iconic ballet by comple- Lawrenceville will star in the and great lighting. We may a piece of cake because once menting its 45-member 2:30 p.m. show Saturday and have high school students you have the experience of cast with a Gwinnett public Cheri Carter from Brookperforming, but we want to performing it, it makes it school principal for three wood Elementary School “The Nutcracker” will be performed by the Southern Bal- give our dancers the best.” easier to get a job in ballet,” of the shows and having in Snellville will be in the 7 let Theatre on Saturday and Sunday at the Infinite Energy The Southern Ballet Thesaid Alicia Wetzel, the South- Lawrenceville Mayor Judy p.m. show. atre is focused on educating, Theater in Duluth. (Special Photo) promoting and increasing the ern Ballet Theatre CompaJordan Johnson star in Sun“The principals and ny’s co-artistic director. “It a day’s performance at 2:30. the mayor have been very cally go to the ballet.” its score, which was created appreciation of dance, as the very well-known ballet so we Stacy Schepens of Crews excited about being in The The Nutcracker, which

by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 26-year-old nonprofit organization has opened its doors want our girls to experience Middle School in LawNutcracker,” Wetzel said. dates to the 1890s, was Wetzel said the audience to all dancers, regardless of it, but we also want to put our renceville will take the stage “This will help us attract a originally choreographed by should expect an elaborate their financial, physical or own spin on it.” for the 10:30 a.m. show on bigger audience and hopeMarius Petipa and Lev Ivaperformance of The NutThe Southern Ballet The- Saturday; Angie Wright of mental limitations. fully people who don’t typi- nov, but it’s best known for cracker, which tells the tale

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show that hits all the right notes,” he said. “It’s hilarious and perfect to bring the entire family to for the holidays.”

The cast is composed of Minnie Tee, Alison Brady, Andre Eaton, and Alyson Rubin. Other crew members include Mere Jones as stage manager; Bethany Bing, costumes; and LaDonna Pacer, props.

One interesting aspect of Live Arts Theatre is its Intensive Program, which allows participants to follow a chosen track of theater arts throughout the year. The track teaches participants the skills necessary to work in that position in professional theatre through workshops, mentoring, and hands-on production work.

This year, all the Intensive Program participants are in the “Directing” track, although they participate in other stagecraft areas.

This year’s IP crew are Ed Thompson, Mere Jones and Andre Eaton.

“It’s really showing me all the parts of being a director,” Thompson said. “I am gaining new insight on what is expected of a director, and how much work truly goes into our productions.”

“I’m learning skills that I can use in more aspects of theatre than just directing,” Andre Eaton said.

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This year, a different kind of miraculous story will be available to audiences in Gwinnett as Live Arts Theatre presents “Miracle on South Division Street.”

“Miracle” will be produced on weekends from Dec. 1-16 at Norcross Presbyterian Church located at 3324 Medlock Bridge Road. Friday and Saturday night shows are at 8 p.m. and Sunday performances begin at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 603-8672200 or emailing boxoffice@liveartstheatre.org.

“It’s such a great show for the holidays. It tells a heartwarming Christmas story that I think all audiences will relate to. There’s also many moments that will leave you laughing out loud,” director Becca Parker said.

The story revolves around the Nowacks of Buffalo, N.Y. “Clara and her three grown children have always thought they were special,” Parker said, “because on a miraculous night in 1942, the Blessed Mother appeared to Grandpa Nowack in his barbershop. Since then, the neighborhood has looked upon the Nowaks’ 20-foot commemorative shrine as a beacon of hope and faith amidst the urban rubble. And now daughter Ruth unveils her plan to write and star in a one-woman show about the family miracle.”

Unfortunately, the family’s faith is shaken when a deathbed confession causes the family legend to unravel.

“The results are heartfelt and hilarious,” Parker said.

The show is recommended for people ages 10 and due to some adult language.

“This show is the best Christmas present you could give yourself this year,” assistant director Ed Thompson said. “A laugh riot ensues as you peel the onion with the Nowak family.”

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SHINE AND GRIME Mudbound (R) ★★★★

has two children. He then whisks them away to rural Mississippi after buying a large plot of farmland to start a new life as a farmer and a landlord, bringing his grumpy, racist father, Pappy

BY KYLE DAWSON (Jonathan Banks, “Better kyle.dawson Call Saul”), with him. @gwinnettdailypost.com After a gentleman’s agreeDirector Dee Rees’ “Mud- ment to rent his new house bound” is a picturesque look turns out to be a scam, Heninto the gritty, nasty rural ry and his family are forced south during and after World to live in a shack on the new War II. land like the tenants who With an ensemble cast and rent it from him. Laura, who multiple storylines that often had lived all her life in the intertwine, the film tells the city, struggles with the tight, story of a fairly wealthy unmodern living quarters. man, Henry McAllan (Jason When it rains, a bridge over Clarke, “Zero Dark Thirty”) a creek on the outskirts of from Memphis who marthe land is washed out, leavries a teacher, Laura (Carey ing the residents stranded, Mulligan, “Drive”) and hence the title.

Top, Mary J. Blige stars as Florence Jackson in “Mudbound.” Above, Carey Mulligan, left, stars as Laura McAllan and Garrett Hedlund plays Jamie McAllan. (Special Photo: Netflix)

The McAllans soon meet their tenants, and the movie begins to focus on interactions between the McAllans and a black family, the Jacksons. Farmer and preacher Hap (Rob Morgan,

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Near the beginning of the film, Henry’s brother Jaime (Garrett Hedlund, “Friday Night Lights”) and Hap’s son Ronsel (Jason Mitchell, “Straight Outta Compton”) are drafted into the military and sent to Europe to fight in WWII. The movie often shows the highs and lows of wartime, and both characters experience many ups and downs until the war is over.

After coming back to the states, Jaime and Ronsel form an unusual friendship due to their military connection, much to the dismay of Jaime’s racist father.

Racism is one of the main themes of the film. The Jackson family essentially trades in their ancestors’ label of slaves for another label: sharecroppers. Their freedom is not much more than their great grandparents’ before them. In the first half of the movie, the McAllans and other whites besides Pappy practice a subtle, almost polite form of racism. They are fairly

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kind to the Jackson family, but they make sure to let them know who is superior.

Once Ronsel gets back to the United States, however, the racism is brash and in your face. Ronsel has a hard time adjusting to the hatred he sees in the U.S. because in Europe he was treated just as another person by the locals, and he was a sergeant that was respected by many of his peers. Rees uses a variety of techniques to display the hateful and often-cringeworthy racism, including intense dialogue, cinematography and metaphor.

Jaime turns to alcoholism to cope with the loss of his friends in the military, as well as the post-traumatic stress disorder he faces on a regular basis. He and Ronsel have a hard time adjusting to the reality that they are now more than war heroes and that they have to move on with their lives.

The movie does a wonderful job of showing the life of rural farmers in the 1940s. The cinematography is top notch, with many wide, landscape shots showing the muddy farmland that is the catalyst for the movie. Close-up shots show the dirtiness of the living quarters, the people and the

‘Mudbound’ a gritty look at 1940s Mississippi work, which seems to be a metaphor for the behavior of society at the time.

One department the film lacks in is special effects.

While they aren’t at the forefront of the movie, and they’re not really essential to the story, the special effects aren’t done very well.

The movie’s dialogue and cinematography shine bright enough to make one forget about them, however.

Blige does a wonderful job as Florence, the strongwilled, hardworking black mother who often has to show an immense amount of restraint when dealing with the McAllan family and other white people. Also, Banks is a very convincing racist, old white man in Pappy. There were no real bad performances in the film, which will surely be Netflix’s first nomination for an above-the-line Oscar.

Like the characters after hardships, the movie just keeps chugging along no matter what. Because of the high number of subplots and the ensemble cast, the film seems to be more of a snapshot into the lives of sharecroppers during the time period rather than one story that has a beginning, middle and end, which is not a bad thing. While one can certainly learn a lot from the film, it’s not for children, as there are very mature themes throughout the film as well as nudity and cursing.

“Mudbound” is a thoughtprovoking look into racism, farming, misogyny, PTSD and other aspects of life in rural Mississippi. With its wonderful script, impassioned acting, great cinematography and a sprinkle of action, “Mudbound” is a must see for all moviegoers.

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‘Three Billboards’ a complex, open-ended thriller Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) ★★★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

For his fourth film as both writer and director, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (“Six Shooter,” “In Bruges,” “Seven Psychopaths”) — who could easily be Sting’s separated-at-birthtwin — has left behind the comfy confines of Western Europe and transplanted his unique brand of gallows humor smack dab in the middle of the American heartland.

Apart from its beyondclunky title and a negligible narrative gaffe in the second act, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is a clinic in the tragicomedy art form many have attempted but few ever get close to successfully realizing.

Conceived specifically for lead Frances McDormand (as Mildred), “Three Billboards” contains her best performance since “Fargo” and includes many of that movie’s flourishes. There’s murder in a small town, long panoramic shots of the often-beautiful landscapes with characters regulated to

Frances McDormand stars in the film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

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the margins, questionable law-enforcement acumen and sudden bursts of horrific violence alongside wrenching drama and gut-busting black humor. Both movies were scored with haunting wit by the prolific Carter Burwell.

Opening about seven months after the rape and murder of her daughter, Mildred — fed up with the lack of progress in the investigation — decides to rent three billboards outside of town with pointed, snarling text directed at the police department, and specifically Captain Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). This causes great consternation amongst the locals, including Mildred’s

son Robbie (Lucas Hedges), her abusive ex-husband Charlie (John Hawkes), a “fat” dentist, a “lady with a funny eye,” a Catholic priest Mildred mercilessly dresses down and especially Willoughby’s slovenly deputy, Dixon (Sam Rockwell).

Imagine a younger, likelyinbred version of Barney Fife (“The Andy Griffith Show”) with a weed-whacker haircut, a pronounced beer belly, questionable hygiene with an understanding of English that could be easily bested by most off-the-boat immigrants, and you’d have Dixon. He lives, smokes and drinks with his domineering Machiavellian mother (Sandy Martin) and gets plastered

every night at the local dive bar. Rockwell has built his career on playing these kinds of low-life types but might have outdone himself here and is certainly on the Oscar short list. Dixon is a colossal screw-up for the ages.

Although the air in town (actually Asheville, N.C., subbing for Missouri) is thick and palpably tense, Mildred’s many enemies and scant few supporters seem to be getting along reasonably well until another violent death takes place. Something unfortunate happens to the billboards, emotions previously in check and merely gurgling begin to suddenly boil over, tempers are lost and much pudding is tossed

into rapidly moving fans.

Throughout it all, Mildred remains rigidly resolute and committed. She won’t back down even a little.

Far from what the industry regards as “glamorous,” McDormand (apart from her acting debut as the mysterious chanteuse in her future husband Joel Coen’s directorial debut ,“Blood Simple”) has played more mature women with ticks and imperfect bodies (check out “Burn After Reading”) and attitude to spare. McDonagh was spot on when creating Mildred with McDormand in mind, and only after a strong push from Coen did she agree to ultimately take on the role. She’s all but guaranteed another Oscar nomination and — unless Meryl Streep totally kills it in the upcoming “The Post” — will be a likely favorite.

In addition to being a deep, black-hole comedy with crushing Shakespearean undertones, “Three Billboards” — at least among those that choose it over (fill in the blank with another less cerebral movie) — will lead to great debate; something McDonagh probably not only expected but likely wished for.

What happens to a parent when they lose a child to rape, murder and — in this case — horrific disfigurement? How do you let that

go? Can you ever let it go and move on? What happens to your life when trying to solve a crime which consumes your every waking moment? Can you ever again become anything resembling “sane?”

Fans of mainstream cutand-dried thrillers are going to have major issues with “Three Billboards.” Thrillers — by most people’s cinematic definition of the word — offer certain if not assumed closure; “Three Billboards” most certainly does not. In addition to that, it plays with the audience in the manner that life cruelly toys with Mildred. She’s consumed with a requirement to find out the truth, and we follow in her path lockstep without question.

What McDonagh does here is to turn the whole “life imitates art imitates life” theory on its ear while also questioning human nature — and maybe even primordial instincts. Is truth preferable to justice? Does justice have wiggle room?

There are many question marks in this review but far more in “Three Billboards.”

It accomplishes the nearimpossible trifecta of challenging one’s morality, one’s sense of justice and — most importantly — one’s own ability to recognize deathly serious comedy.

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‘Last Flag Flying’ a funny, ironic salute to war veterans Last Flag Flying (R) ★★★★

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Some movies are all about the spectacle. Some are about telling an intriguing story. And then there are films like “Last Flag Flying” which have absolutely zero flash and not much of a hook.

These, one watches just to see master actors at work.

The premise: In the early 2000s, Vietnam vet Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell, great as usual) walks into a bar owned by another Vietnam vet, Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston). Meeklooking Larry sits there for a good moment as the loquacious Sal — the type of guy who cusses in a church — takes forever to recognize an old war sort-of buddy. Some eight minutes later, the pair encounter a third Marine veteran they served with, Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), who’s not terribly glad to see them.

It’s probably a good 15 minutes into the movie (maybe more, I didn’t check my watch) before one of

unease with her customers sets up a fine payoff later.

While the scene appears to be Cranston’s, it’s this actress who truly carries it.

Despite all the great work, “Last Flag Flying” is too long and slow like all Linklater films. If not for the performances and the mysterious event binding the trio (that’s the element reminiscent of 1992 Western “Unforgiven”), this film From left to right, Bryan Cranston stars as Sal, Steve Car- could almost be considered rell as Doc and Laurence Fishburne as Mueller in “Last boring. But viewers with Flag Flying.” (Special Photo: Wilson Webb/Lionsgate) patience for this sort of them reveals the point of the larly in Carell and Cransslow-burning tale will find it reunion: to welcome home ton’s characters’ cases, fresh rewarding. the remains of his son, just out of cares for what the Although definitely acting slain in Iraq. armed forces think of them. as a critique of America’s That’s the sort of slow Also, as a man of faith, I war efforts of the past 50 dynamic at work in this film, found it refreshing to see a years, the film never feels at the kind of meandering story similar character onscreen all preachy, doing well not to that director Richard Linwho wasn’t simply made out make even a single character klater (“Boyhood,” “Slackto be the butt of jokes or into into a mouthpiece for any er”) loves to present. It’s part a self-righteous hypocrite. antiwar screed. Instead, it road trip, part “Unforgiven” Instead, Fishburne’s Mueller exists in an uncomfortable and part antiwar period is a complex, well-rounded middle place.

517817-2 movie, deftly comparing figure, as is his chaosVietnam with the more bringing foil, Sal, hilariously modern land wars in Asia, played by Cranston. Both especially when the elder are counterbalanced by the trio meet and interact with quiet intensity of Carell. younger military personnel The performances go in their travels. beyond just the three leads: There’s a wonderful level Even the bit players really of “stick-it-to-the-man” atnail their brief scenes. For titude that’s leavened — and instance, there’s a great little indeed, enlivened — by the sequence where one of the fact that the protagonists are stars banters with a truck old and jaded and, particurental employee, whose clear

Frequently, Linklater focuses his lens on the ceremony of Marines saluting their fallen brethren. It’s at once haunting and faintly ironic; the saluted cannot appreciate or return the gesture, and, all too often — as in

this story — the death was needless.

And yet, as a character states, these dead are still heroes, regardless of the circumstance of their deaths in the field.

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‘Murder on the Orient Express’ STANDOUT PERFORMANCE

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OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pass: Most of the movie takes place on a train, and many of the shots were creatively done with a purposeful emphasis on color. The color pallet in this movie greatly emphasizes the contrast of warm and cold colors. And the humor in this film was timed tastefully.

Fail: The movie lacks the action and thrill one would expect from a murder mystery. It was mysterious but failed to draw the audience in with great curiosity or unease.

Kenneth Branagh as detective Hercule Poirot, gave the one of the best performances in this film.

He was the main character and is essentially what brought this film together. The audience had good faith in him to solve the mystery before it was too late.

If you like murder mysteries that lack great complexity, this is a good movie for you. If you appreciate a creatively written cast with an array of backgrounds, you might enjoy “Murder on the Orient Express.”

This movie can wait to be seen at home.

However, if you have been anticipating the release of this movie, it would be good to see it in theaters because it is well done and seeing it on the big screen would heighten the experience.

The characters were well-written and amusing to watch. The overall plot and intricacies of the mystery were creative and drew the audience in. Humor was laced throughout the film and done with perfect comedic timing. And the end was particularly creative. However, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of action and thrill of this murder mystery.

Overall, not a bad film.

Pass: The movie kept me guessing until the very end. I have not read the Agatha Christie book or seen any of the other movie adaptations so I went in blind. I love a movie that doesn’t spoon feed everything to you and expects you to pay attention. This was that movie.

Fail: The beginning on the train before the murder went on a little long.

Some of it was necessary for character development, but there was about 10 minutes that could have been cut out and it wouldn’t have hurt the story.

Kenneth Branagh was excellent as Hercule Poirot. He made the character smart and he never missed a detail, but he was still funny and endearing. I would love to see another Agatha Christie adaptation with him playing Poirot.

If you love a good murder mystery or thriller that keeps you guessing until the end then this is a movie for you. If you aren’t familiar with the book then the ending has a great payoff.

I would recommend seeing it in the theater if only to not get spoiled about the ending. It doesn’t have any special effects or CGI that needs to be seen on a big screen so if you aren’t worried about the ending being spoiled you can wait for the Blu-ray.

I really enjoyed the movie. The story was engaging and kept me interested. I didn’t guess the ending which was nice.

It had a great ensemble cast and I liked seeing all the different stars working together. The movie was also relatively clean even though it was rated PG-13.

That was refreshing in this day and age when sex and extreme violence sell. I recommend taking some time during this busy season to check it out.

Pass: Spectacular cinematography and period costumes; good acting; good plot based on the Agatha Christie story by the same name.

Fail: Direction of the film is unfocused much of the time, causing the film to drag a lot; plodding dialogue; lack of real suspense.

Director Kenneth Branagh also stars as Belgian detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot, hero of many of Christie’s stories.

Branagh does a very good job with the role, imbuing it with a lot of dry humor and the hallmark obsessive-compulsiveness that defines the character of Poirot.

Those who were around for the 1974 original flick starring Albert Finney as Poirot will probably like this remake OK, but may come away disappointed with how mediocre this version is in comparison.

If I had to judge just on the cinematography, I would say see “Murder on the Orient Express” on the big screen; it’s certainly worth the moolah for a matinee outing.

However, most folks will be OK with waiting for Netflix or Blu-ray for this one.

“Murder on the Orient Express” is once again proof that a stellar cast and a plot based on a well-written story is no guarantee of a great (or even good) movie. While Branagh is certainly capable of good direction, I think the blame also lies with the screenplay by Michael Green (“Blade Runner 2049”) that includes WAY too much dialogue and other changes from the original story that ultimately fail to hook the viewer’s interest. Like the train in this version of “Murder on the Orient Express,” I felt pretty snowbound much of the time and antsy for the anticlimactic ending to finally arrive.

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Wind River Blu-ray (R) Movie: ★★★★ Disc: ★★★★

In what could be a harbinger of things to come, all profits of the sales from this release will be donated to “The National Women’s Resource Center” — established in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal (The Weinstein Company was the theatrical distributor for the film). Apart from politics, writer/director Taylor Sheridan’s “Wind River” is a mesmerizing murder/thriller — easily on a par with his previous “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water.” Jeremy Renner plays a park ranger

who finds a dead rape victim in the snow and is aided in his investigation by a neophyte FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen). While the film itself is pure gold, the extras leave much to be desired.

Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.39:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), subtitles: English and Spanish.

Special features include: • Video library • Deleted scenes • First edition slipcover packaging (Lionsgate, $34.99)

Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters. Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) — 3 stars Marvel’s godly hero Thor (Chris Hemsworth) returns for a third solo outing. Tons of humor — a little too much, actually — makes “Ragnarok” great fun despite a high-stakes plot where he’s stripped of his iconic hammer and cast far away from the homeland he’s sworn to defend (this time from Hela, goddess of death played by Cate Blanchett). Costar Tessa Thompson nearly steals the movie. — Khari J. Sampson • LBJ (R) — 4 stars Woody Harrelson turns in a very impressive performance in this biopic of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Set during the time of Johnson’s vice presidency to JFK and the aftermath of JFK’s assassination, Harrelson is able to have, according to director Rob Reiner, “the humanity and sensitivity to play all the parts of Johnson that were insecure, and he has a great sense of humor, which Johnson had.” Check out this one if you are a fan of Harrelson, history, politics or biographies. — Alex Tostado • Suburbicon (R) — 3 stars Director George Clooney weaves a story of 1950s racial animus and a murder mystery in this different sort of thriller

starring Matt Damon and, in dual roles, Julianne Moore.

— Michael Buckelew • The Foreigner (R) — 3 stars Jackie Chan brings a hidden past a father’s vengeance to this political-action thriller, also starring Pierce Brosnan.

Chan loses his daughter to a terrorist bombing in London and follows Brosnan’s roots to the culprits. This movie is action-packed and garners a

few laughs, but mostly keeps a dark tone. Leave the kids at home for this movie outing.

— AT • Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (R) — 4 stars Luke Evans plays William Moulton Marston, creator of the Wonder Woman character of DC Comics fame and the hit film from this summer. “Professor” tells how Marston and his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca

Hall), met Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) at Harvard. Their unconventional love triangle, mostly with all three parties on equal footing, is explored in a manner that is interesting yet definitely not for young Wonder Woman fans. The genesis of many Wonder Woman traits is seen throughout, including the combined personalities of Elizabeth and Olive and the polygraph machine-inspired lasso of truth. — MB

COMING SOON TO OWN • “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” (Nov. 21): Samuel L. Jackson plays an assassin who needs a longtime nemesis (Ryan Reynolds) as his protector. (R) • “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” (Nov. 21): In director Luc Besson’s fantasy-adventure, a futuristic law enforcer (Dane DeHaan) tries to keep a metropolis — and the whole universe — together.

(PG-13) • “The Defiant Ones” (Nov. 28): The Allen Hughes-directed HBO documentary miniseries traces

the work, separately and together, of music-industry icons Dr. Dre and Jimmy

Iovine. (Not rated) • “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” (Nov. 28):

Changes in seasons mean changes for Lorelai and Rory (Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel) in this sequel miniseries.

(Not rated) • “Logan Lucky” (Nov. 28): Brothers (Channing Tatum, Adam Driver) break a convict (Daniel Craig) out of prison to help in their planned speedway heist.

(PG-13) • “Despicable Me 3” (Dec. 5): A gone-soft Gru (voice of Steve Carell) gets his “despicable” mojo back thanks to the twin he didn’t know he had. (PG)

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AQUAMAN (JASON MOMOA)

BATMAN (BEN AFFLECK)

WONDER WOMAN (GAL GADOT)

THE FLASH (EZRA MILLER)

CYBORG (RAY FISHER)

‘JUSTICE’ FOR ALL FROM A DC FAN VIEWPOINT

Snyder blockbuster a little thin but is a crowd-pleaser Justice League (PG-13) ★★★★

Hinds), an ancient god from the world of Apokolips, is searching for three Mother Boxes left on Earth to conquer the planet. It’s about as straight-forward as plots go, but not completely without some background provided by

BY MICHAEL BUCKELEW michael.buckelew@gwinnettdailypost.com Wonder Woman.

Facing this threat, Bruce Wayne I don’t know if it will end the ab- and Diana Prince begin recruiting surd amount of fan rage surroundother metahumans — people with ing movies starring DC characters, advanced abilities — to join the but “Justice League” should at least fight they know is coming against dampen in quite a bit.

Steppenwolf and his army of For a movie that started prinparademons. cipal photography in April 2016 Barry Allen’s The Flash (Ezra and underwent massive changes Miller) has a hard time not stealing that included director Zack Snyder every scene he’s in. Miller nails his stepping away for family issues, role in something different from the what resulted is almost an amazGrant Gustin character seen on the ing triumph. Unless you have lived CW’s TV series. Jason Momoa’s under a rock for the past two years, Aquaman and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg you heard that a few people didn’t are also great characters that play like Snyder’s “Batman v Supertheir own important roles. Aquaman: Dawn of Justice.” I personman doesn’t get a chance to really ally thought it was excellent and contribute his unique powers in the still like it the best out of the DC’s fight against Steppenwolf, but he is movie universe, but the term “difar from pointless. Cyborg ends up visive” doesn’t do the response to playing a bigger part in the movie that film, well, justice. than I expected and is definitely a As someone who liked that guy you want on a team. previous movie, my worries going Humor is peppered all throughinto “JL” were based around the out “JL,” and I found it to be used studio overreacting to the “BvS” the right way and not overused. response and playing it too safe.

Clocking in at almost exactly two Chris Terrio, one of the screenwrit- hours, “JL” does feel thin in terms ers for “BvS” and “JL,” said before of story. The backstory on Stepthe “BvS” release that it was going penwolf could’ve been expanded to be the darkest movie of a trilogy upon with a little more info about that would get lighter with this why he’s trying to take over Earth follow-up. Thankfully, the many instead of just “he’s the villain.” moving parts around this $300 mil- The movie completely works withlion blockbuster mostly work. out it, but a I could’ve used some One of the worst-kept spoilexplaining. ers ever is the fact that Superman My other main complaint is a (Henry Cavill) returns in some way little more inside baseball. While I in this movie. I don’t think anywon’t say the score for this movie body in their right mind thought doesn’t work, it is by no means DC was going to bring its biggest as good as recent DC films. Hans heroes together without Superman. Zimmer stepped away from do“JL” goes even further by almost ing superhero film scores after being a story that could be called, “BvS,” and Danny Elfman was as Bruce Wayne says in one of the brought in to replace Junkie XL, trailers, “The World Needs Superwho collaborated with Zimmer man.” That’s how it’s best summed on “BvS.” Elfman has made some up without giving away details great music, including the score for about his return, which was a de1989’s “Batman.” But his style is light to see on screen. very different and we barely hear The story starts out with Batthemes previously established in man (Ben Affleck) and Wonder this universe.

Woman (Gal Gadot) battling crime But don’t let that get you down. in a world that has gotten worse “Justice League” is a blast. If you since Superman’s death in “BvS.” at all like superhero movies, you The two heroes are shown saving will want more from these charthe day in their own way, and the acters ASAP. You’ll probably also movie’s Mother Box MacGuffin is wonder what the scene after the introduced quickly. credits means for a possible sequel.

Steppenwolf (voiced by Ciaran (Warner Bros.)

Above, Ezra Miller, left, is The Flash and Jason Momoa is Aquaman in “Justice League.” Near right, Connie Nielsen is Queen Hippolyta.

Far right, J.K. Simmons is Commissioner Gordon. (Photos: Clay Enos/ Warner Bros. and DC Comics)

FROM A MARVEL FAN VIEWPOINT

DC superhero team-up is somewhat marvelous Justice League (PG-13) ★★★★

BY KHARI J. SAMPSON

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While my colleage Michael Buckelew is a DC Comics guy, I’m a Marvel Comics fan. Have been so since I was young. So when 2008’s “Iron Man” showed I could finally get movies that felt a lot like the comic books of my youth (and young adulthood, and … 40-something adulthood), I was thrilled.

And I’ve continued to enjoy each Marvel Studios film.

I’ve been far less thrilled with Marvel rival DC Comics’ attempts at its version of the extended universe. Not that I dislike the characters — far from it. But from “Man of Steel” in 2013 to its 2016 sequel “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad” later that year, they ranged from dour to just hot mess. Much of that can be laid at the feet of Zack Snyder, who directed the first two (and served as producer on the third). Though a strong visual director, Snyder tends to substitute slow motion shots for characterization and his taste in comic book source material leans toward darker fare such as his mediocre “Watchmen” in 2009.

It took a pair of women — director Patty Jenkins and the title character of the fantastic “Wonder Woman” — in early summer 2017 to begin to right the ship. But Snyder was still at the helm of “Justice League,” intended to be DC parent company Time-Warner’s version of Marvel’s “Avengers.” I remained highly skeptical that it could approach that pinnacle.

Fortunately, this film got able help from the guy who helmed Marvel’s biggest hit: Joss Whedon.

The former Marvel filmmaker (he left after directing “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in 2015) wrote additional material to the screenplay, then directed them as reshoots when personal tragedy led Snyder to step away from the project during postproduction.

The result: A film that’s even more fun than “Wonder Woman,” if not quite as good.

The story takes place some time after Superman’s (Henry Cavill) demise in the climax of “BvS.” Batman and Wonder Woman try

to gather other heroes to battle the invading forces of Steppenwolf, a 10-foot-tall being from beyond.

But the search is slow going as the villain inexorably collects the “Mother Boxes” he’ll use to terraform Earth into something like hell.

I promise that’s about as heavy as matters get. Where earlier DCEU films played things as straight as possible — inspired by the grit of the ultra-successful “Dark Knight” trilogy of films by director Christopher Nolan — “Justice League” isn’t afraid to frequently go humorous.

More importantly, the characters themselves benefit from a lighter touch. Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne and Batman are considerably mellowed out from “BvS” and feel much more like the superhero. Gal Gadot returns as Wonder Woman and remains perfect for the role.

Newcomers include Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Vic Stone (Ray Fisher). The former brings some rough-and-tumble amphibious alpha male fun. Meanwhile, Vic — aka Cyborg, though he’s not really ever called this in the story proper — is understandably haunted by his transformation into something both less and more than human.

But it’s Ezra Miller as the superspeedy Flash who’s the guy this franchise needed. Miller brings a wide-eyed youthfulness to the ensemble that allows him to be our window into the League. He’s the one allowed ask the stupid questions, to be the superfan. It’s a needed breath of fresh air for this universe.

The film’s not nearly perfect. As indicated by its genesis, “Justice League” frequently feels a bit patched together. The action scenes appear to be all Snyder’s work while it seems that the slower scenes were Whedon’s. They don’t always mesh and the film’s forward progress stutter-steps noticeably at times. Consequently, this justunder-2-hour movie feels rather longer.

But if you’re the type to be watching this one, you won’t care because DC finally made the movie it always should have — one that’s great fun. You will believe a Superman can smile at last, even if only in flashback.

DC, you finally got your “Avengers.” But we viewers — Marvel and DC fans alike — are the winners.

(Warner Bros.)

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Gerwig astonishes in directing debut with ‘Lady Bird’ Lady Bird LADY BIRD (R) (R) 4 outHHHH of 4 stars

By Michael clark Movie Critic

The “it” girl of the Mumblecore movement of the mid-2000s, actress Greta Gerwig has amassed huge industry and critical acclaim without getting close to being a household name.

She’s also someone who doesn’t seem to be all that interested in garnering wide appeal and one who would likely happily operate outside of the mainstream for the entirety of her career.

Gerwig doesn’t appear on-screen in “Lady Bird” — a film that marks her debut as a solo screenwriter and director — which was probably a good move on her part.

Based on her own life experiences growing up in Sacramento, “Lady Bird” is a stunning coming-ofage story starring Irish phenomenon Saoirse (pronounced “sur-sha”) Ronan as Gerwig’s doppelganger title character that, despite coming with a truckload of ticks and self-deceptive tendencies, is the most appealing character so far this year and one of the more complex teen characters ever conceived.

From the opening to the closing scene, Gerwig doesn’t waste a single frame. Every word, glance, bit of silence and micro-dollop of seemingly incidental information serves a purpose. In the hands of other filmmak-

Above, Lucas Hedges, left, and Saoirse Ronan star in “Lady Bird.”

At right, Ronan, left, and Laurie Metcalf star in “Lady Bird.” (Special Photos: Merie Wallace courtesy of A24)

ers, “Lady Bird” could have stretched long past the two-hour mark, but Gerwig gets it all done within a lean and mean 93-minute running time and leaves us wanting more.

A rebel with a notquite-clear cause, Lady Bird isn’t fond of her birth name (Christine) and would do almost anything to get out of California and attend college in the more artsy

Lady Bird’s strong desire to lose her virginity before the end of her senior year, and she is afforded two quite viable candidates. The first is Danny (Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”), a clean-cut, boy-next-door type acting alongside her in a school play. The interaction between the two starts off and ends awkwardly (as teen romances often do), but in between it’s pure puppy love played straight without sarcasm. Bachelor No. 2 is Kyle (Timothee Chalamet). The polar opposite of Danny in every respect, Kyle plays bass in a punk-ish/alternative band and has the whole boho attitude down pat, complete with unkempt hair, reading in public and chain smoking.

Lady Bird’s close, young female friends offer up the same stark contrast as her possible male lovers. One is sweet, honest, shy, loyal and a tad overweight, and the other is kind of mean, shallow, fleeting, welltanned (she has a tanning bed in her bedroom) and model-proportioned.

There are many other characters that pop in and northeast. While her unacross as intolerant and out of the story (nuns, employed father, Larry rigidly autocratic. priests, coaches, party (Tracy Letts), supports Rounding out the fam- guests, relatives, classher desires, he must do ily clan is (the probably mates) that all have minor so secretly and behind adopted) son Miguel (Jor- roles but should in no way the scenes as to not upset dan Rodrigues) and his be labeled “incidental” or his wife, Marion (Laurie new wife, Shelly (Mari“secondary.” As previMetcalf). Working in an elle Scott). They work ously mentioned, Gerwig unspecified, likely lowtogether as cashiers at a makes sure nothing we paying area of the menlocal grocery store, have see or hear isn’t included tal health field, Marion far too many facial pierc- without a distinct purpose. applies a “tough love” ings and “sleep” on the She strictly adheres to the approach when relating to couch with no immediate adage, “there are no small Lady Bird. Although she plans to ever move out. roles, only small actors.” has the best intentions, Coming in a close At the tender age of 23, most of the time it comes second to heading east is Ronan has already been

rightfully nominated for two Oscars (“Atonement” and “Brooklyn”), and there’s no reason to think she won’t receive a third nod for her astonishing work here. Playing a bratty teen with “finger in the wind” ideas of friendship offers little wiggle room for sympathy (Lady Bird is also a thief) and isn’t as easy as it might seem. Being flawed, opportunistic and short-sighted while still remaining likable is a tall order, and Ronan totally nails it.

Ronan’s triumph wouldn’t be possible without the rest of the cast, and in particular Metcalf. First gaining fame as the sister of the title character on the TV show “Roseanne,” Metcalf has shown up in dozens of films (“JFK,” “Stop-Loss,” “Toy Story 3”) and other shows, but nothing as memorable and long-lasting as her work here. Much like Ronan, Metcalf’s character is often unlikeable, selfserving and short-sighted, yet never do we get the impression she’s not concerned about her daughter’s future. An extended scene taking place in the third act at an airport, where Metcalf’s character is alone and says little, speaks volumes. Every mother who has gone through what happens here will find themselves in a tear-drenched, weeping heap. Metcalf should be on everyone’s short list in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Gerwig has painstakingly and lovingly crafted, if not a masterpiece, something very close to it.

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