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Suspect sought in pizzeria shooting Police: Man shot employee of Marco’s in Lilburn

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Police found the employee lying in the parking lot at 4050 Five Forks Gwinnett County police Trickum Road just after are looking for a man 10 p.m. with a gunshot who shot a Marco’s Pizza wound to the chest. Ofemployee as he walked to ficers performed first aid his car after closing the on the man and applied a Lilburn location Monday chest seal before para-

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medics arrived.

Police say the victim is expected to survive.

The employee told police that a black man dressed in all black clothing tried to rob him.

Police don’t think the suspect got away with any property.

“Detectives are working to piece together the sequence of events and will canvass the shopping center for potential evidence,” said Cpl. Deon Washington.

If anyone has any

Gwinnett County police are looking for a man who shot a Marco’s Pizza employee as he walked to his car after closing the Lilburn location off Five Forks Trickum on See SHOOTING, Page 5A Monday night. (Photo: FOX5 Atlanta)

‘Go-to person’ Local woman receives regional animal control honor

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The assistant manager of the Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division recently received the Southeastern Animal Control Association’s highest honor.

Cindy Wiemann has been awarded the President’s Award from the group, which strives to improve the skills, knowledge, abilities and image of animal care and control work in the southeast.

Wiemann was reportedly surprised by the honor.

“I’m really humbled by this award,” she said. “It means a lot coming from my peers.

They know what we do and what we go through.

They’re your toughest critics.”

But Gwinnett Animal Welfare and Enforcement Manager Curt Harrell said he wasn’t surprised his assistant manager had won regional recognition.

“I have

wise council. She’s my go-to person,” he said. “She’s very knowledgeable about shelter management and intake.”

Wiemann joined the Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division in March 2016, but she’s been working as an animal control officer for the past 18 years.

She rose from a road officer to a shelter manager in the city of

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Madison. Before that, she served as a veterinarian’s assistant in Conyers.

Harrell said Weimann’s years of work in animal welfare help Gwinnett’s shelter “run smoothly and in accordance with best practices” on a daily basis.

“She has so much experience,” he said. “It’s just one of those things where it’s great to have somebody with that caliber of knowledge on your staff.”

Wiemann uses her knowledge to help shelters beyond the Gwinnett County line. Harrell said she’s regularly called to serve as a guest speaker at animal welfare events across the region.

Once, she played a key role in helping to save about 400 animals from a puppy mill in Habersham County. Harrell said Habersham had only about two or three animal enforcement officers working at their shelter at the time — they weren’t equipped to handle the large-scale rescue on their own.

See WIEMANN, Page 5A Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement Assistant Manager Cindy Wiemann was recently awarded the Southeastern Animal Control Association’s President’s Award. (Photo: Jennifer Mottola)

Woman hits boy on bike, leaves scene

Witnesses: Driver got out, checked damage done to her vehicle

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On Oct. 6, Myles Bonn’s friends watched as a minivan hit the teen as he biked home from school.

And they kept watching as the driver pulled over, checked the damage to her car and drove away.

“She needs to turn herself in,” said witness Matthew Webb. “She just left a 15-year-old kid in the middle of the road.”

Bonn told police he was biking west on Dogwood Road in Snellville that Friday afternoon. Some of his friends, including Webb and Samuel Mauldin, saw him pass them as they walked

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LIVE HEALTHY GWINNETT

Local group honored by lt. governor, state officials

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Live Healthy Gwinnett was recently recognized by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and other state officials for innovation in addressing health issues in the county.

Gwinnett’s youth health initiative was one of the recipients of the second annual Healthy Georgia Awards, which recognize accomplishments in promoting health and wellness among young people.

Live Healthy Gwinnett received the Innovation award in the Communities category.

“It was a tremendous honor to recognizes the great people, teams and organizations in our state who so effectively advocate healthy lifestyles among our

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I’m really humbled by this award. It means a lot coming from my peers. They know what we do and what we go through.

They’re your toughest critics.”

— Cindy Wiemann, assistant manager of the Gwinnett County Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division

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Arrest made in Stone Mountain car break-in

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Gwinnett County police arrested a man accused of stealing a credit card from a car in Stone Mountain before using it in Norcross last month.

John Tritt, 33, was

booked into Gwinnett County jail at 3:54 p.m.

Oct. 6, according John Tritt to the jail log. He’s been charged with entering auto, fi-

nancial transaction card fraud, criminal use of an article with an altered identification mark and possessing less than 1 ounce of marijuana.

Police believe Tritt is the man they saw on security footage from the Mountain Park Aquatic Center at about 7 p.m.

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GCPL will work with the San José State University School of Information to establish the Innovative Librarians Award.

The award is open to all students who are enrolled and pursuing a graduate degree in library science as well as former students who have graduated with an MLS or MLIS within the past two years. Nominations will be judged by public librarians with years of frontline, managerial and administrative experience, according to a press release.

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Sept. 18. The man walked into the building and left it about three minutes later, according to a Gwinnett County police media release.

Then, he walked over to a car in the parking lot, unlocked it and took out a purse, wallet and phone.

The owner of the car was inside taking a water aerobics class, according to a police report. When the class ended at 8:30 p.m., she realized her keys were missing from her locker, according to a police report. She found them in the parking lot underneath her car.

Her wallet, phone and purse were missing from the car.

Later, the victim’s credit card was used at a Walmart in Norcross.

Police believe Tritt was using it.

Tritt is being held in Gwinnett County jail without bond.

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Rescue to offer the rabies shot clinic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The clinic will be set up at the Bay Creek Gwinnett County Animal Park pavilion, 175 Ozora Welfare and Enforcement of- Road in Loganville, and ficials will offer residents in target residents in the 30052 one Loganville area zip code ZIP code. a chance to get their pets vacCounty officials said cinated against rabies for free additional events are being this weekend. planned for other parts of the The county announced it county. will team up with Planned Pet owners are asked to PEThood, the Animal bring some form of proof of Alliance of Georgia, the residency, such as a driver’s Society of Humane Friends license or a utility bill, with of Georgia, and Canine Pet them to the clinic. County of-

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ficials said they have enough vaccine to inoculate 300 dogs and cats. Pet owners will also have an opportunity to learn about options for low-cost spaying and neutering of their pets at the clinic.

Pet owners are expected to bring their pets on a leash or in a carrier to the clinic.

County officials are also accepting volunteers for the event. Anyone interested in helping with the clinic can visit www.volunteergwinnett.net and fill out an application.

Local Mosque to host forum on disease, bioterrorism preparedness FROM STAFF REPORTS A local mosque will help host an informational session teaching the faith-based community how to react to a possible disease outbreak or bio-terrorism attack.

The session, titled Love God, Serve Together, will be held at the Baitul Ata mosque at 1800 Willow Trail Parkway in Norcross from 10 a.m. until noon Saturday.

The Georgia chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community collaborated with the Suwanee ward of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and three local medical

organizations — the Medical Reserve Corp.; the Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton and Hall County Health Departments; and Noah’s Ark, a disaster preparedness nonprofit.

They’re inviting churches, temples, synagogues and mosques to bring their congregations to learn how to keep the community safe in case of medical emergencies. Participants will learn about mass casualties and the types of disasters they should prepare for.

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Hazeem Pudhiapura, leader of the Georgia chapter of Ahmadiyya, said the forum directly meshes with the mosque’s mission and the mission of most religious entities.

“Being prepared to serve during a disaster helps us demonstrate our motto of ‘Love for all, hatred for none,’” Pudhiapura said.

The event is free to attend, but officials recommend registering at www.lovegodservetogether.org.

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Gwinnett Coalition seeking volunteers for this year’s Great Days of Service

across the county.

The deadline to sign up as a volunteer is Oct. 17.

“We have identified Organizers behind one more than 500 service of Gwinnett County’s most projects this year that will high profile community benefit so many people and service efforts said Monday causes across our commuthey are looking for volunnity,” Gwinnett Coalition teers to help with this year’s Executive Director Ellen efforts.

Gerstein said in a statement.

The Gwinnett Coalition is “Whether you like to paint, preparing for more than 500 construct, plant, organize, projects to be completed clean, stock shelves, write during Gwinnett Great notes of encouragement, or Days of Service, which will more, we’ve got something span Oct. 20-21. To make for everyone.” sure that happens, though, Gwinnett Great Days they are seeking additional of Service has been an anvolunteers of any age for nual tradition in Gwinnett projects that will take place County for 18 years, and

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the coalition said more than 1 million volunteers have participated in its service projects over that period of time.

The annual service effort is a time when volunteers come together to carry out projects designed to help nonprofit agencies whose focuses include food, shelter, medical services and education issues. Volunteers can participate as individuals or members of groups from local schools, civic and social organizations, churches, families or businesses.

Gwinnett Coalition officials said the large number

Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville put together a greenhouse during a Gwinnett County Great Days of Service project at Lawrenceville Elementary School last year. (Photo: Chris Roughgarden)

and wide variety of projects gives volunteers the ability to help with something near where they live or that fits their skills or interests. The coalition said it still has several projects that need “adopting” by volunteers to

make sure they happen.

“Every helping hand is one more hand up for the community-serving agencies that this event supports,” the coalition said in a statement. “It’s a great way for citizens to connect

to great causes and explore ways they can plug in yearround to make a difference.”

Anyone who is interested in volunteering can visit www.gwinnettgreatdaysofservice.org/projects/2017projects.

State Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer’s campaign for lieutenant governor has picked up an endorsement from a fourth former candidate for president.

Shafer’s campaign announced that former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has endorsed the Duluthbased senator.

Santorum is the founder of Patriot Voices, a grassroots conservaDavid Shafer tive group that was established in 2012.

“David Shafer is the rare politician who talks Rick Santorum like a conservative and then actually votes like one,” Santorum said.

“He has a phenomenal conservative record in the Georgia State Senate.

He wrote Georgia’s zero based budgeting law and successfully amended the State Constitution to cap the income tax.

“David believes in the fundamental dignity of every human life. He understands the importance and dignity of work. He believes the purpose of government is to protect our God given rights.

That is why Patriot Voices is joining me in this endorsement.”

Santorum joins a list of Shafer supporters that includes New Gingrich, who was one of Santorum’s opponents in the 2012 presidential race; U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who ran for president last year, and former U.S.

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“I am excited to be officially kicking off the campaign with friends, neighbors and supporters from across House District 102, and I am honored that so many have signed on to support the campaign,” Hastings said in a statement. “This early support shows the growing momentum and grassroots support of the campaign.

“I will work hard over the months ahead to earn the trust and support of my neighbors because I am committed to continuing my long, proven track record of grassroots leadership and service by ensuring we have the very best representation and a conservative voice at the State Capitol.”

Gwinnett parent mentor Shafer gets endorsement receives statewide award in the race for lt. governor

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A Gwinnett County Public Schools parent mentor who is also a longtime advocate for people with special needs has received statewide recognition for her work.

The Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership picked Jackie McNair as the recipient of the 2017 Phil Pickens Award for her work with the school district, as well as at the regional and state levels in education. The award recognizes a parent mentor in Georgia for his or her work to help students with disabilities succeed in school by working with parents and special education school staff.

“Working with families has been the highlight of my

career,” McNair said in a statement.

“During my years as a mentor, I’ve Jackie been inMcNair strumental in creating and developing several workshops to teach parents about special education and how to be involved effectively in their schools and communities.”

Parent mentors are themselves the caregivers of children with disabilities, school system officials said.

In addition to being an advocate for people with special needs, McNair has been involved in disability-related organizations and programs.

The Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership cited several

of those organizations in a “hats off” recognition on its website. The partnership said she serves on the Gwinnett Early Children Interagency Council, and served on the Autism Society of Georgia board from 200709, and the Department of BHDD Planning Board from 2013-16.

McNair has also been an Arc of Georgia, Wings for Autism volunteer; a GaLEND mentor; a participant in the Inclusion, Community and Diversity Summer Institute in Toronto; and organizer of Parent Mentor Presents, PEECE: Parents Engaged in Early Childhood and TLG: Transition Learning Group.

She has been involved in Partners in Policymaking and All About Developmental Disabilities.

Gwinnett officials to highlight water usage with October events

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do,” Department of Water Resources assistant direccurt.yeomans tor Tyler Richards said in a @gwinnettdailypost.com statement. “Our staff works Gwinnett County residents around the clock to manage, will be asked to keep water protect and conserve our on their mind for the rest of water resources. the month.

“In recognition of the The Gwinnett County De- Imagine a Day without partment of Water Resources Water awareness campaign, announced a series of events we invite Gwinnett County that it will hold throughout residents to join us at several the remainder of the month upcoming events to learn to highlight water issues and more about what DWR does what its crews do on a daily and how they can help protect basis. Those events will begin and conserve our water Thursday with a Homeowner resources.”

H2O Workshop to celebrate The water department the nationwide Imagine a has set up information about Day Without Water movewater use and conservation, ment. as well as upcoming events The department will also designed to highlight water participate in Gwinnett Great issues, at www.gwinnettH2O. Days of Service and a revival com. of the Yellow River Water The upcoming events Reclamation Facility Fall include: Festival.

• The Homeowner H2O “Water is our most Workshop will be held at precious resource — it is 6 p.m. Thursday at Lucky essential to everything we Shoals Park, 4651 Britt Road

in Norcross. The event will teach homeowners how to find and repair leaks in their homes, as well as how to save water and how to install water-efficient fixtures. The department will hand out leak detection and conservation kits to attendees who register at bit.ly/2jeh7vr.

• The department will lead a Lower Yellow River Watershed clean up project as part of Gwinnett Great Days of Service from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Oct. 21. Participants are asked to meet at Anderson-Livsey Elementary School, 4521 Centerville Highway in Snellville. Anyone interested in volunteering for the clean up can register at bit.ly/2yald0X. • The Yellow River Water Reclamation Facility Fall Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 28 at the facility, 858 Tom Smith Road in Lilburn. It will include pumpkin decorating, food, games, tours and giveaways.

Curt Yeomans Rep. Bob Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.

Other high profile endorsements include Bernie Marcus, former Congressman John Linder, George P. Bush and state Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.

Shafer is running against state Rep. Geoff Duncan and ex-state Sen. Rick Jeffares to be the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor.

The seat is an open race because Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is running for governor next year.

Gwinnett Democrats hosting insurance commissioner candidate at breakfast Saturday Democrats from across Gwinnett County will get a chance to hear from one of the people running to Hastings announces be the state’s next insurkick-off event for ance commissioner in state house campaign Gwinnett County Plan- Duluth this weekend.

The Gwinnett County ning Commissioner Paula Democratic Party anHastings will formally nounced Cindy Zeldin, a kick off Democrat running for the her camoffice, will address the paign for group during its monthly the state breakfast from 8:30 to 10 House a.m. Saturday at Sweet District Baby Jane’s, 3620 Satel102 seat lite Boulevard. An all next you can eat buffet will be week.

Paula Hastings available for $10.

HastThe insurance comings’ missioner’s office will be campaign said a kick-off open next year because event hosted by 70 community members will take Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has announced place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Edgewater Clubhouse, he will retire after his current term ends.

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Gas prices continue decline locally and across the state prices lower than the state average.

Georgia’s average gas prices have been steadily Gas prices across declining over the last Georgia are expected three months, sinking to to continue their steady about $2.52 this week. decrease over the next That’s about 10 cents less week. than the state average last That could be good week. news for Gwinnett motor“The state average is ists, who are seeing gas falling about a cent a day

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as retail prices continue to recover from the effects of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey,” said AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins. “Gas prices remain inflated by about 20 to 30 cents and should decline another 5 to 10 cents this week.”

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Neither gas prices in Georgia nor Gwinnett are expected to be affected by Hurricane Nate, despite damage to some refineries on the Golf Coast, Jenkins said.

“However, if refineries and oil rigs have a

difficult time resuming normal operations, and futures prices spike, then the local gas price plunge could stall out,” he said.

“This is something that will take a few days to play out.”

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Understand test results, take action Dear Dr. roacH: I am a 68-year-old woman in good health. In July 2015, I experienced some short-term confusion and muddled thinking after several days of a high fever (102 degrees). I went to a neurologist, thinking I might have had a TIA. The doctor ordered an MRI, and told me that the results were normal, and that my symptoms likely were due to metabolic encephalopathy. This spring, my internist sent me for a head CT scan, as I had six weeks of nausea and weight loss. (I’m 5 foot-2 and weigh 118 pounds.)

Again I was told the results were normal. The hospital’s website posts my test results, and now that I have read them for myself, I have some major concerns.

The 2015 report mentions a lacunar infarct in the left cerebellum. The 2017 report mentions prominent ventricles, infarcts in the left cerebellar lacunar and left lentiform nucleus perivascular space, in addition to a small low-attenuation area in the left centrum semiovale.

None of this sounds normal. The lacunar infarct sounds like a stroke to me. What should I be doing, and what does all of this mean?

— L.R. ansWer: The MRI is very suggestive that you have had several strokes.

The term “infarct” means death of cells, which is the underlying mechanism of a stroke. The locations of the abnormalities seen on your scans are suggestive of damage to small blood vessels, especially by high blood pressure. Neither a CT nor an MRI is definitive, but I think these are likely to represent a stroke.

It sounds like at best, there was a miscommunication about what the scans showed, and at worst, the doctor who told you the results were “normal” was acting paternalistically, perhaps to spare you from worrying. If so, I think this was a mistake. Being told the results were “normal” may have lowered the urgency for you to take steps to prevent a further stroke. Depending on your specific condition, this may include tighter blood pressure control, use of a statin drug, aspirin or other anti-platelet drug, smoking cessation or diabetes control.

I have always believed that patients should get all the information about their condition, explained in a way they can understand. Availability of patient records, especially lab and radiology reports, will increasingly oblige doctors to explain these results more carefully.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski died from wounds he suffered while fighting for American independence in the Revolutionary War. In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution formed.

In 1975, “Saturday Night Live” debuted on NBC. In 2002, former president Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), first lady/ writer/diplomat; Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), novelist; Daryl Hall (1946- ), singer-songwriter; David Morse (1953- ), actor; Steve Young (1961- ), football player; Joan Cusack (1962- ), actress; Artie Lange (1967- ), comedian; Jane Krakowski (1968- ), actress; Emily Deschanel

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TODAY’S QUOTE: “‘Yeah, ESP,’ Juvenal said. ‘You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you’re gonna say next. That’s all, and you learn things.’” — Elmore Leonard, “Touch”

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Childless couple vowing to end friendship Dear amy: My husband and I are in our late 20s. We are close friends with a married couple who are about 10 years older than we are. They struggled with infertility for years. They pretend they’re OK with their situation, but clearly they aren’t.

Anytime a child is around, the woman gets very emotional. She starts out acting excited to interact with a child, then progresses to saying she doesn’t know how to interact with the child because she doesn’t have any, and then she says being with children makes her sad.

They say: “We won’t be friends with you once you have kids.” We can’t tell if that’s a joke. They currently have no friends their age with kids, and have talked about people who used to be their friends “before they had kids.”

I understand how devastating it must be for them, but the emotional rollercoaster with every child interaction is draining, especially as many of our friends are starting families (or planning to).

They chose not to adopt, foster or go through IVF, which is their choice and all 100 percent acceptable. But it’s hurtful to hear them say that our friendship is limited, and we are scared to tell them when (or if) we conceive for fear of their reaction.

How can we tell them

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Amy Dickinson that while we recognize they have gone through a very painful experience, they are hurting others with their plans to dump us if we have children?

— Friends Until Kids Dear FrienDs: I’m going to try to draw a parallel. Many of my cohorts still have their parents (mine are gone now). This can make me feel both sad and jealous. But do I want my friends to share my orphaned state in order to relieve my own sadness?

No. Do I sever the friendship because they are busy taking care of their elderly parents? No. A mature adult learns to process sadness and tolerate discomfort, and not punish others for it.

Granted, babies have a way of turning their parents’ world inside out.

Friendships do shift and sometimes end as a result.

If this couple wanted to, they could easily find fulfilling ways to have children in their lives, including developing important relationships with their friends’ children. But they don’t want this, prob-

ably for very complicated reasons.

I hope you will be honest in your reaction: “When you joke about or threaten our friendship over the issue of having kids, I don’t know how to react. What are you really trying to say?”

Dear amy: My husband and I both had previous marriages (we met after our divorces).

When he divorced (after 32 years of marriage), he told his family that he did not expect them to cut off contact or disown his ex.

We have now been married for almost 24 years, and my husband’s sister still invites his ex to every family function.

At one event, my husband and I were sitting on the couch when his ex-wife walked by and his sister said, “Oh, I need a picture of you with (her son).”

She didn’t take photos of her son with his uncle (my husband). She always gushes over the ex at every turn, while hardly acknowledging my husband or myself.

What do you think of a sister continuing to invite her brother’s ex-wife to every family function, 23 years later? She invited her to their mother’s 90th birthday party, which I can understand, but this woman didn’t just show up and pay her respects — she stayed all evening, and other guests asked us why.

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Dear seconD: It seems that your husband’s sister prefers his ex to you (and perhaps your husband), and she is conveying this, not just through these invitations, but through her behavior toward you.

You cannot control her invitation list, but your husband should honestly tell her how you two feel about her social slights when you are all together.

Dear amy: I was shocked at your outrageous and sexist comment in your response to “Unsure,” when you suggested that she, a woman, should “quietly stick to your own knitting.” What year do you think this is?

— Disgusted Dear DisgusteD: I’ve heard from many women who were outraged by this phrase.

This is a very old and well-known idiom, and it is not used in a genderoriented context. It merely refers to someone attending to their own expertise.

In fact, I heard it this week applied to NFL players, few of whom (I assume) actually knit.

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A positive attitude will help you bypass any difficult situations you face this year. Look for any opening that will give you a chance to use your creativity or put your intelligence and experience to work.

Think big, but live within your means.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — A unique approach to the way you use your skills or do your job will open a window of opportunity. Use reason, but don’t shy away from doing things differently.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Open up about the way you feel and what you want to do. Sharing with someone close to you will encourage you to follow through with your plans.

Romance is highlighted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Be creative when dealing with lending, borrowing or donating. Look at every angle and consider where your cash will have the greatest effect.

Be careful. Physical mishaps are apparent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Emotions will surface if you don’t get to pursue what you want. Be creative in the way you approach income opportunities.

Taking baby steps will have positive results.

Avoid impulsive decisions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Do something creative or unusual that will get you involved in an act of compassion. Keep your actions simple and affordable, but directed where your effort is needed most.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Get involved in a creative process that will help you develop hidden skills and artistic desires. Children will play an interesting role in a decision you make. Romance is highlighted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll have trouble containing your emotions. Think before you act on an assumption that could cost you an important friendship. Keep your thoughts and secrets to yourself.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Do something different. Lend a helping hand or take a unique approach to the way you utilize your talents and skills. Touch base with an old friend, loved one or colleague.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — By searching for alternative ways to use your skills, you will discover a moneymaking opportunity. Put pressure on anyone you feel can contribute to your plan or connect you to someone who can.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — You’ll face opposition and pressure when it comes to important partnerships or dealings with children or unpredictable individuals trying to take advantage of you. Don’t pay for someone else’s mistakes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — An unexpected situation will strike an emotional chord that will make you want to do something to make a difference. You’ll be met with opposition if you aren’t prepared.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Be open to what outsiders suggest. A physical approach to life and what’s expected of you will show that you have it in you to finish what you start.

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Wiemann

Response Management Agency and the Georgia So Gwinnett’s shelter Department of Agriculture came in to help. Harrell on the rescue and care of said they lent a few extra pets during disasters. hands and cages. But Wiemann also serves Wiemann was able to offer on the board of directors something more. for the nonprofit Georgia “She was a great Pet Foundation and on the resource for Habersham steering committee for to lean on,” Harrell said. the Georgia Companion “She helped solve anyAnimal Partnership. thing from making sure SACA President Martha they had an assembly line Ann Coe said Wiemann’s to making sure they have “hard work and dedication people who can pick the embodies the mission of animals up — a lot of the Southeastern Animal logistics.”

Control Association.

Wiemann is used to “She is totally an offering her expertise as advocate for safety and an animal rescue expert. well-being of all animals.

She serves as a disaster Cindy has drive like no response volunteer for the one else I’ve ever seen.

Humane Society of the She’s a valuable asset to United States and advises the animal welfare comthe Georgia Emergency munity.”

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•From Page 1A future generations.” Cagle said in a statement. “Congratulations to the Healthy Georgia Awards winners and to all those that applied. We applaud your exceptional work.”

The awards were recently handed out by Cagle’s Healthy Kids Georgia program, as well as Georgia SHAPE and the Georgia Department of Community Health during a ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.

Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O’Neal said, “The Healthy Georgia Awards further emphasizes the importance of child health and wellness in Georgia. This partnership highlights the critical work being done by champions in communities throughout Georgia to combat childhood obesity and inactivity, and the positive impact it will have on generations to come.”

Live Healthy Gwinnett was launched in 2014 and works with recreation, education, human services and health care organizations to promote healthy lifestyles among kids, according to its Healthy Georgia Awards packet.

The initiative has helped Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation implement its health and wellness standards. It also works with colleges

Gwinnett County Department of Community Services outreach manager Lindsey Jorstad receives a Healthy Georgia Award on Live Healthy Gwinnett’s behalf from Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, left, and Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O’Neal, right, during a recent ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. (Special Photo)

and universities to help students studying to become health professionals learn about community -based health promotion. It helped Gwinnett County Public Schools implement a Summer Feeding Program at select sites.

Live Healthy Gwinnett also hosts two events, Spring Into Summer and a National Lights On Afterschool celebration, to promote family health and expose attendees to recreational and educational opportunities.

“Live Healthy Gwinnett is recognized nationally for its influential health and wellness programming,” officials from the initiative said in their awards packet. “With the mission to promote positive change in the Gwinnett community, our programming focuses around four areas of wellness: be active, eat healthy,

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Albert Austin Albert Wayne Austin, 75, of Johns Creek, GA passed away October 8, 2017. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, GA 30092.

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Vivian Cowart Mrs. Vivian Beatrice Cowart, age 93, of Dacula, GA passed away Friday, October 6, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd W. Cowart; and son-in-law, Donald Chester Steele. She is survived by her children, Bonnie Sue Steele, Dacula, GA, Leita A. Cowart and spouse, Jenna L. Albright, Clarkston, GA, Catherine Camille and Brian C. Hawkins, Lilburn, GA, Ben W. Cowart and fiancée, Cathy Rogers, Rockford, IL and William Aubrey and Kellie Cowart, Duluth, GA; sister- Irene O’Kelley, Commerce, GA. BrotherCarlton Gailey, wife Janice Gailey, Morton, Miss., seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; one great great-grandchild; nieces Connie G. Riggs, Saluda, S.C., Pegi G. Boatwright, Statesboro, GA and Debbie O’Kelley, Hoschton, GA;., Susan G. Payne, Madison, MS. Laurie G. Howren, Kennesaw. GA. nephews, Bill Gailey, Ft. Walton, Fl. and Michael Gailey, Statesboro, GA. first cousins, Martha Dodd McConnell, Powder Springs, GA, Jerry Gailey, Commerce, GA and Jo Gailey Hill, Commerce, GA; and Aunt Sue Gailey, Baldwin, GA. Mrs. Cowart was born July 27,

1924 in Commerce, GA. She took business classes at the Burroughs School and Georgia State University. She was a graduate of Homer High School in Homer, GA. She was a retired Supervisor, Accounts Receivable from Ivan Allen Company with over thirty-one years of service and she also worked for the Baptist Bookstore in Atlanta, GA. She was a member of Ivy Creek Baptist Church in Buford, GA where she was also a member of the Adult Sunday School Class and the Women’s Club. .

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Craig Dale officiating.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ivy Creek Baptist Church Mission or Building Fund, 2500 Ivy Creek Rd., Buford, GA 30519 @ icbcga.org 770-932-8453 in memory of Mrs. Vivian Cowart.

Entombment will follow at North Atlanta Memorial Park in Doraville, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service at 11:00 a.m.

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

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Imogene Eubanks Mrs. Imogene Nichols Eubanks, age 82, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on October 8, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

FLOWERY BRANCH

Judith Ferguson Mrs. Judith Free “Judy” Ferguson, age 76, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on Saturday, October 7, 2017. She is survived by her husband of fifty-six years, Dr. Jim Ferguson, Flowery Branch, GA; sons and daughters-inlaw, James T. “Tommy” Ferguson, Jr. and wife, Sara Ferguson, Flowery Branch, GA and Anthony M. “Tony” Ferguson and wife, Michelle Ferguson, Bogart, GA; grandchildren, Wesley and Brittany Ferguson, Morgan Ferguson, Mackenzie Ferguson, Connor Ferguson, Georgia Deitz, and Caleb Ferguson; two great grandchildren, Truett and Tenley; sisters and brother-in-law, Martha and Johnny Johnson, Atlanta, GA and Betty Free Cantrell, Buford, GA; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Ferguson was born November 23, 1940 in Habersham County, GA. She was the daughter of the late M. L. and Mozelle Free and sister of the late Barbara Holbrook. She was a 1958 graduate of South Habersham High School and a 1960 graduate of North Georgia Technical College. She was retired from Kimberly Clark Corporation with over twenty years of service as an executive secretary. She was an active member of Mountain View Baptist Church in Gainesville, GA. Funeral service will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Brown and Rev. Scott Sims officiating. Interment will follow at Hamilton Mill Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA. Graveside service

by Rev. Lloyd Ferguson.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Mountain View Baptist Church Building Fund, 3765

get checked and be positive.

“We see ourselves as Gwinnett County’s inspiration to enjoy, explore and discover healthy lifestyles.

Our programming aims to promote healthy living principles, encourage participation in regular physical activity, develop effective community partnerships and bring together diverse cultures and generations.”

Live Healthy Gwinnett officials took to Facebook after the award presentation to express their gratitude and excitement about receiving the award.

“We are thrilled to receive the Healthy Georgia Award for Innovative Community this evening,” the organization’s officials said in the post. “Our work would not be possible without our community partners, staff and residents.”

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

ST. SIMON

Susan Lancaster Susan Jane Lancaster, age 61, of St. Simon, GA formerly of Buford, GA passed away on October 8, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Daphne Gardiner Daphne Gardiner, age 68, of Grayson, GA, passed away on October 7, 2017.

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Elizabeth L. Munsey Elizabeth L. Munsey, 88, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away October 5, 2017.

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Annie Grissom Mrs. Annie Cook Grissom, age 77, of Buford, GA passed away on October 9, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

MONROE

Leonardine Murray Leonardine Murray, age 63 of Monroe, GA passed away October 2, 2017.

Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 209 South Hammond Drive, Monroe, GA 30655. 770-267-2594. www.stewartfh.com

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June Young Park June Young Park, 32, of Atlanta, GA passed away October 8, 2017.

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Lilburn OKs auto, truck service business in Plaza Las Americas work, such as window tinting and stereo installation, but the permit LILBURN — The could allow for addiLilburn City Countional maintenance and cil approved Monday service-related activities. night a permit for the The Planning Comdevelopment of an mission recommended 11,000-square-foot auto- approval under condimobile and truck service tions including: business in the Plaza Las • Due to the change in Americas indoor mall. use and access point proFollowing a public posed, the adjacent resihearing, the body apdential property to the proved this project on south warrants consider23.7 acres at 733 Pleas- ation of an appropriate ant Hill Road. buffer and screening; Annexed in 2011, the • No body or paint reproperty was developed pair will be allowed, and in Gwinnett County service will be permitted with buffers and fenconly in enclosed bays; ing along north and • Service bays shall be west property lines as screened from adjacent required by 1994 zoning residential property (Avconditions. ery Park Townhomes) to The applicant offers the south; auto and truck accessory • Heavy equipment Staff Correspondent

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The panel met with additional items left over from the meeting, which was canceled in September due to severe weather and power outages.

In other business, the council: • Changed its polling place location from 76 to 340 Main St., reflecting that City Hall has moved; • Approved an intergovernmental agreement between Gwinnett County and the city that will provide $509,228 for the Camp Creek Greenway Trail Bridge replacement. The wooden bridge between Main Street and Lions Club

Park will be replaced by a pre-cast concrete bridge expected to last at least 50 years, requiring minimal maintenance; • Added the word “barrel” to the definitions for the Distillery and Brewer License

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driving away. She didn’t call 911 or help Bonn, according to the police report.

“He had to pull himself into the grass so he didn’t get hit by another car. It was messed up,” Webb said.

Webb and Mauldin said Bonn is recovering from his injuries. He was left with a gash in his head that required staples. His elbow was hurt badly enough to require surgery.

He has road rash on his hip and head.

Witnesses told police the woman may have been white with blond hair, but little else is known about the suspect. Both Mauldin and Webb said they think the woman should come forward.

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“Then she clipped the Webb said Bonn usually back tire of his bike,” tries to ride his bike on Webb said. the sidewalk. But he’d He said his friend’s bike ridden out onto the road came up onto the minithat afternoon to stay out van’s windshield. Webb, of the way of the crowd Mauldin and the other of teens walking home. teenagers walking home When he biked past the sprinted to the scene to crowd, Bonn raised his make sure Bonn was OK. left arm to signal to the Webb said he noticed that cars behind him that he the minivan pulled into a was about to cross the driveway down the street. double-yellow line in orHe said a woman got der to pass back onto the out. sidewalk.

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Weinstein and moral hypocrisy “Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.”

— Proverbs 29:18 Ancient wisdom from a Higher Authority, which is available to anyone who takes the time to consider it, was provided to constrain people like Harvey Weinstein from acts he has been accused of committing.

In an age when we have cast off most restraints — from restrictions on abortion, to sanctioning same-sex marriage, to normalizing the use of nudity, crude language and sex in Hollywood films, not to mention wisdom — why is anything off limits? Who decides where the limits are these days?

And on what do they base their deciCal sion?

Thomas Haven’t some federal judges been eviscerating the U.S. Constitution for decades? Haven’t even some clergy made attempts to rewrite or ignore Scripture to conform to opinion polls and align themselves with contemporary trends?

Many Republicans and conservatives are joyfully berating and belittling Harvey Weinstein and his fellow leftists, but they should remind themselves that sin is not exclusive to one party or political persuasion. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., resigned his office last week after the Pittsburgh PostGazette obtained text messages between Murphy and his mistress in which he told her to have an abortion if she thought she might be pregnant. Murphy, who claims to be “pro-life,” co-sponsored a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks.

Much newspaper ink is being spilled and nightly news time spent discussing Weinstein after an investigative story by The New York Times in which many women, who claim to have been harassed in the most disgusting ways imaginable, have come forward to tell their stories. On Sunday, Weinstein was fired by his own company.

Lisa Bloom, who resigned last Saturday as an adviser to Weinstein, made the laughable claim that he is a “dinosaur” who came of age at a time when such behavior was more acceptable. Really? Acceptable to whom? Hugh Hefner, maybe, who fired the first shot in the sexual revolution. Aren’t victims of unwelcome sexual advances just some of the casualties of that revolution?

Hypocrisy is a word that is thrown around a lot. Conservatives are guffawing that Weinstein, who is a Democrat, was also an enthusiastic supporter and donor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The Republican National Committee issued a press release demanding Democratic politicians who received donations from Weinstein return the money.

Republicans are not immune from the temptations of the flesh and boorish, even criminal, behavior. In addition to Murphy, you can Google “Republicans and sex scandals” and read some of them.

Denunciations of Weinstein are coming from all quarters of the political spectrum, though the Hollywood crowd has been mostly silent. His critics presuppose a standard by which such behavior can be judged. But we are ridding ourselves of most standards faster than a snake sheds its skin. What did we expect the outcome to look like?

Is our moral life and collective notions of right and wrong to be decided by opinion polls and personal feelings, or is there a “Higher Authority” that should rule over individuals, as well as nations? The question should not be rhetorical. It demands an answer.

This quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld seems to fit our reaction to the Weinstein affair, as well as many others: “Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” Once again, questions should be asked in this increasingly morally vacuous age: What is “vice” and what is “virtue”?

Who gets to decide? On what shall the definitions be based?

Weinstein needs help that no counselor can fully offer. Only a transformed life can help him become a new and different man. And such help can only come from a Higher Authority.

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

My dad, Hugh Hefner and real wealth Since Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s recent death, a variety of voices have been calling him everything from a cultural icon and innovator to, according to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, “wicked,” a “chauvinist” and “a pornographer.”

“Hef the vanquisher of puritanism, Hef the political progressive, Hef the great businessman and all the rest,” writes Douthat. “There are even conservative appreciations, arguing that for all his faults Hef was an entrepreneur who appreciated the finer things in life and celebrated la difference.”

Douthat then goes on to tear old Hef’s legacy apart, and with good reason.

For all his peccadilloes, Hefner’s success says more about America than it does about anything else. For good or ill, a fellow like Hefner could only reinvent himself in a free country like ours.

As it goes, Hef was something of a loser when he was a teen. A kid of average looks, he was frustrated that girls ignored

and single-parent households have soared, old Hef believed to the end that we Americans are still repressed.

I don’t want to give the fellow’s legacy too much credit for these trends. They would surely have happened had he and Playboy never existed.

Tom But his legacy brings us back Purcell to the concept of freedom.

In America, any man is free him. He decided to transform to be a fool. Any man is free to himself. He nicknamed himself shun spirituality and inner beau“Hef,” which is something a ty to pursue ego, dough and normal man would never do. scantily clad young women.

And he concocted a fantasy But our freedoms also allife in which he would be rich, low a man to choose to live a worldly and the life of every virtuous life, as my father has. party.

He married young and worked In 1953, Hef published long and hard for his family. the first issue of Playboy. It My father knows what it is like featured Marilyn Monroe and to love one woman, through flew off the newsstands. Hef good and bad, for nearly six said America was repressed and decades — an experience Hef his mission, which involved never knew. exploiting the male sex drive to My father, 84, is surrounded make dough, was to set us free. by six children, 17 grandchilOver the next six decades, dren and nine great-grandchilwe really were set free, too. dren. The home he and my Despite the fact that marriage mother created is a place of rates are way down, divorce great happiness on Sundays and rates are high, and illegitimacy holidays — and any time any of

us want to stop by.

My father gave us something old Hef failed to give his children: a clear example of how to pursue a virtuous life.

Whereas Hef became a caricature of himself as an old man — wearing silk pajamas all day long and using his worldly wealth to keep a torrent of young women nearby — my father has earned the love and respect of his family, friends and neighbors.

Whereas my father is getting by on a modest retirement income, he has one thing Hef never could attain: real wealth.

Old Hef was able to create a new life in America and enjoy the trappings of worldly wealth for 91 years. Good for him.

I wish the old fellow well as he settles up with his maker, as we all must in time.

I hope for his sake that our maker goes easier on him than Douthat did.

Email Tom Purcell, author of “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood” and “Wicked Is the Whiskey,” at Tom@TomPurcell. com.

Auto industry has glamorous past, opaque future DETROIT — Bending metal, slapping on chrome and marketing an empowering product and status marker that mesmerized 20th-century America, the automobile industry typified the Old Economy, of which General Motors was emblematic. As was its bankruptcy. Today, GMs CEO Mary Barra is wagering that the industry soon will be manufacturing New Economy products. They will incorporate technologies that will entice buyers whose sensibilities and expectations have been shaped by the kind of empowerment delivered by their smartphones, which arrived just 10 years ago.

GM’s electric self-starter, which replaced hand cranks, was the last century’s most transformative innovation. It arrived in 1912. Today, Cadillac offers hands-free driving, with advanced GPS mapping.

An eye-tracking camera on the steering column monitors driver alertness, and the car nags the distracted driver back to attentiveness, which makes this technological marvel less of a convenience than the self-starter. Still, Barra is attempting an audacious balance between the demands of present consumers and radically different future demands.

Or, more accurately, a future that governments, hostile to consumer sovereignty, intend to dictate.

China has announced, as have Britain and France, plans

Tesla’s market capitalization never would have even briefly exceeded GM’s.

Barra foresees a fast-unfolding future of “zero crashes” (salvation through software: auto-crash fatality rates are rising for the first time in years, and 94 percent of George crashes are caused by human Will error), “zero emissions” (zero from tailpipes, much from to ban, at an undetermined smokestacks in an all-electric date, sales of vehicles powfuture) and “zero congesered by fossil fuels in their tion” (with more ride-hailing tanks. (Electric vehicles will services and car-sharing fleets, be powered mostly by fossilless individual car ownership fuel-generated electricity.) In and less urban land devoted to Shanghai in mid-September, parking lots).

Barra dissented: “I think it Ford, too, is anticipating a works best when, instead of future replete with electric, mandating, consumers, not semi-autonomous, drivergovernment dictates, should less and shared cars: Two decide how cars are powered.” years ago, it announced a But governments, and not just $4.5 billion investment in dictatorships, like to dictate, electric vehicles. But to pay and companies must accomfor this speculation (electrics modate: GM sells more cars in are 1 percent of U.S. car China than in America (it sold sales, despite tax incentives about 1.2 million Buicks last to buy what the government year, about a million of them prefers), Ford is diverting $7 in China, where elites drove billion from cars to vehicles them decades before Comfor which there actually is munism arrived), and China demand — SUVs and trucks manufactures more cars than (its F-Series pickup has been the United States and Japan America’s best-selling vehicle combined. As GM promises since 1982). two new electric vehicles in The automobile industry is the next 18 months, and a precariously poised between a total of 20 by 2023, one of glamorous past and a future as Barra’s executives speaks of opaque as it was when Henry GM “driving increased usage Ford supposedly said that if he and acceptance of electric had begun by asking customvehicles,” but governments ers what they wanted they are at the wheel. Without would have answered “a faster subventions from Washington, horse.” Or when the company

he founded produced a car named for his son Edsel.

“This is a long-lead-time business,” says Barra, as she tries to peer over the horizon to develop products for a public that increasingly can work and shop without leaving home, and that decreasingly vacations as it was exhorted to by the theme song of “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show” (1956-63): “See the USA in your Chevrolet.” The torrid romance that was America’s car culture has cooled (the percentage of 12th-graders with a driver’s license has declined from 88 to 73 since 1978), the sedan (Chevrolet’s Impala has been around since 1958) is an endangered species, and car companies are preparing for a future in which the crucial metric is not the number of vehicles sold to consumers but the number of miles traveled by consumers.

Barra, 55, whose father was a die-maker for Pontiac for 39 years, remembers when auto dealers covered their showroom windows with paper to build excitement for the first glimpses of new models. She is banking on a more sophisticated kind of excitement for smartcars. They will be designed for customers who in 2006 did not know that soon they would not be able to imagine living without the smartphones that in 2006 they could not imagine.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

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Carles Puigdemont, the president of Catalonia, was due to address a specially convened session of the region’s parliament. But the session, due to begin at 6 p.m. local time, was delayed amid reports of international mediation to end the crisis.

Puigdemont requested the delay “given the contacts for an international mediation,” his spokesman Joan Maria Pique told CNN. He did not immediately provide additional details on the mediation.

The anti-independence Ciutadans party and the Catalan branch of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PPC) had also requested a suspension of Tuesday’s session, according to a document seen by CNN. Puigdemont was under intense pressure to back down from plans to declare independence from Spain following a disputed referendum.

Britain’s top defense firm faces job cuts Defense contractor BAE Systems will slash nearly 2,000 jobs in Britain as it struggles to land big orders for its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft.

The company said Tuesday that up to 1,400 cuts would come from its aerospace division as production of the fighter jet slows. A total of 525 jobs will be lost across other BAE divisions.

“Sadly, what you see today has probably been inevitable for about 12 months,” said Sandy Morris, an analyst at Jefferies.

BAE has produced more than 500 Eurofighter Typhoons. But major new orders for the multi-role fighter, which is produced in partnership with Airbus and the Italian defense firm Leonardo, have not materialized.

Northern California Fires

Blazes continue their destruction

By Madison Park, Jason Hanna and Ralph Ellis

Fire chief lost his own home to the wildfires

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More than a dozen wildfires raged across Northern California for the third straight day Tuesday, with the biggest ones scorching the state’s famous wine country, killing at least 11 people and forcing more than 20,000 people to evacuate, authorities said.

The largest fires were burning in California’s wine country destinations — Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties — with flames ripping through the lush, picturesque landscape.

Winds were to pick up Tuesday night, and again tonight, but they won’t be as strong as they were Sunday, the National Weather Service said. “Winds and the fire weather threat will decrease Tuesday in the north, but a threat will remain in Southern California,” the weather service said Tuesday.

The devastation was significant in Santa Rosa, a city of about 175,000 roughly 50 miles northwest of San Francisco. Fire leveled subdivisions and reduced cars and homes into burnt piles of ash and rubble.

Seven deaths were reported there, but Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said, “That number’s going to change.”

Officers were still searching for people to evacuate and rescue, he said, and “it’s just

nation Trump says he has confidence in Tillerson

President Donald Trump, after he publicly questioned his secretary of state’s intelligence, said Tuesday that he has confidence in Rex Tillerson.

Trump’s relationship with Tillerson has been especially strained since reports that the secretary of state called the President a “moron” at a meeting at the Pentagon earlier this year. Trump and Tillerson met in the Oval Office on Friday, sources tell CNN, and were to meet twice Tuesday as their public feud continues.

Trump, clearly scorned by reports of Tillerson’s comTurkey does not ments, told Forbes in an recognize U.S. interview released Tuesday that he has a higher IQ than his ambassador secretary of state. after visa spat “I think it’s fake news, but if Turkish President Recep he did that, I guess we’ll have Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday to compare IQ tests,” Trump that his country does not said. “And I can tell you who recognize the authority of is going to win.” the current U.S. ambassador, John Bass, after the United Hacker coalition States decided to suspend to help U.S. secure visa services within Turkey on Sunday. future elections “In fact, this ambassador is doing his farewell visits,” reLast summer, a group of marked Ergodan. “And right hackers showed how easy it is now, be it our cabinet minis- to infiltrate voting machines. ters, parliament head — and During a conference held in I personally am not accepting Las Vegas, they exposed flaws his farewell visit, and will not in election equipment curdo so, because we do not see rently used in the U.S. him as a representative of the Now, they want to make United States in Turkey — let sure election infrastructure is me say that clearly.” better protected.

Bass, who was sworn in as The DEFCON hacker ambassador to Turkey in Sep- conference in July hosted a tember 2014, was recently Voting Machine Hacking confirmed by the U.S. Senate Village, where hackers were for his next post as ambassa- encouraged to tinker with elecdor to Afghanistan. tion equipment purchased off — From wire reports eBay. The room featured more

By Cassandra Santiago and Carma Hassan CNN More than a dozen wildfires raged across Northern California on Tuesday morning, with the biggest ones scorching the state’s famous wine country, killing several people and burning more than 1,500 homes and businesses, authorities said. (Photo: Associated Press via CNN)

logical” more bodies will be found.

A large part of the city was evacuated, including Kaiser Permanente Hospital and Sutter Hospital. Authorities imposed a sundown-to-sunrise curfew for the northern and eastern parts of the city under evacuation orders.

“We are asking people to stay indoors” because of smoke, Alonso said.

The biggest blaze was the Tubbs fire, at 27,000 acres, stretching from Santa Rosa in Sonoma County to the Calistoga area in Napa County.

That fire has destroyed at least 571 structures, Cal Fire said Tuesday, making it one of the top 15 most destructive fires in recorded California history.

The city of Napa, with about 80,000 residents, was not under evacuation. But parts of it were under a boil-

water notice Tuesday, because fires destroyed a pump station near the Silverado resort and rendered a water treatment plant inoperable, the city said.

Many in Napa also lost power and cell service, according to the Napa police.

Crowe estimated two-thirds to three-fourths of Napa’s grape harvest already had taken place but said some grapes still haven’t been picked. The 2017 harvest will be remembered for this fire, she said.

“Wine doesn’t matter; people matter,” she said. “I know that’s people’s attitude right now.”

Authorities have not said what caused the fires but noted windy and dry conditions Sunday and Monday made it easy for the fires to spread. October is typically the busiest month for wildfires in California, they said.

Tom Welch has been fighting fires for more than 10 years.

But none may have been as challenging as what he’s going through this week: Welch, now the fire chief of the Mill Valley Fire Department, is coordinating his department’s response to the wildfires blazing through Northern California — even as the flames have laid waste to his own home.

In a statement on its website, the city of Mill Valley said Welch — a Santa Rosa resident — lost his home to the Sonoma and Napa fires.

His family is safe, the city said.

Mill Valley has set up a YouCaring site to help the fire chief and other affected families. The campaign has raised more than $36,000 already.

people Hollywood stars speak against Weinstein More Hollywood artists are speaking out against Harvey Weinstein in the wake of a New York Times investigative report alleging sexual harassment by the producer over a period of three decades.

Ben Affleck, whose career was launched by the 1997 Weinstein-produced film “Good Will Hunting,” posted a tweet on Tuesday afternoon.

“I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass and manipulate many women over decades,” Affleck wrote in part.

Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Academy Award in 2013 for the Weinsteinproduced film “Silver Linings Playbook,” told Variety on Monday that she “was deeply disturbed to hear the news about Harvey Weinstein’s behavior.”

George Clooney spoke with The Daily Beast Monday night and called the accusations against the man he has known for 20 years “indefensible.”

Donna Karan apologizes for her Weinstein comment

Designer Donna Karan has apologized for the remarks she made about women in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal that has dogged Hollywood power player Harvey “You do have the question Weinstein.

Weinstein was fired from of the Dreamers: 800,000 young people, most of whom his company on Sunday, days after the New York Times are under 25, most of whom are women. What role should published a blistering investigation detailing numerous the Dreamers be playing incidents of alleged sexual in the future workforce?” moderator Nina Easton asked harassment by the media Trump during a panel discus- mogul over a period of nearly sion at Fortune’s Most Power- three decades.

Karan was interviewed ful Women Summit.

“This is a very complicated on the red carpet Sunday at the Cinemoi Fashion Film President Donald Trump addressed questions about his issue that needs a long-term Awards in Hollywood and relationships with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and congressional fix,” she said, made comments to the Daily White House chief of staff John Kelly amid reporting prompting murmurs from about tensions among his top aides. “I have a very good the audience, which included Mail which suggested that relationship” with Tillerson, Trump told reporters as he female business powerhouses, women may be “asking for it left the White House for a fundraiser in North Carolina, including Diane Von Furstby presenting all the sensualsaying that Kelly likes the secretary of state as well. enberg. ity and all the sexuality.”

(Photo: CNN) Monday’s response was said he feared Trump was than 25 pieces of equipment, the first time Ivanka Trump Stewart, Colbert steering the nation “on the such as voting machines and has addressed the topic of call out Trump on path to World War III.” electronic poll books. immigration since her father The president, a politician By the end of the confer‘The Late Show’ took office, usually opting to whose mantra has long been to stay away from controversial ence, each piece of equipStephen Colbert and Jon hit back harder than somement had been successfully political topics.

Stewart teamed up to honor one hits him, is now treating breached.

President Trump’s request for Corker like he did his primary Man set to be Researchers associ“equal time” on TV. ated with the event presented opponents: By giving him a deported takes But it probably wasn’t nickname. their findings at an Atlantic what Trump had in mind.

“The Failing nytimes set sanctuary in Council event on Tuesday.

On “The Late Show” They announced that hackers Liddle’ Bob Corker up by Conn. church on Monday night, Colbert in its community will form a recording his conversation,” A man from West kicked things off by refercoalition comprised of cyber Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

Hartford, Conn., who was encing a Trump tweet over “Was made to sound a fool, and national security leadsupposed to be deported on the weekend that suggested and that’s what I am dealing ers, academic institutions, Tuesday, has taken up refuge late-night hosts are “always and government associations with!” anti-Trump” and should give A transcript of the conver- in a Meriden church. to focus on ways to make Sajuti, who is originally him more “Equal Time” on sation, however, shows that elections more secure on the from Indonesia, has spent the air. the newspaper did not set federal, state and local level.

It all broke down after ColCorker up and that the senator much of that time living in West Hartford. bert played a clip of Trump was well aware that he was on Trump escalates He was granted stays of standing alongside military the record. feud with Corker removal, which allowed him leaders and their families.

President Donald Trump’s Ivanka Trump calls to live and work in the state. The president had cryptically public feud with a top However, in August, told reporters that they were on Congress to Republican on Capitol Hill Immigration and Customs seeing “the calm before the has entered the name-calling act on immigration Enforcement denied his latstorm.” phase. est stay.

“What … is wrong with Ivanka Trump waded Sen. Bob Corker, the Since then, rallies have this guy?” Stewart yelled.

“How is all this not the storm? into the immigration debate retiring Republican chair of taken place to save a man This is all the storm. What Monday evening, calling the his neighbors have called a the Senate foreign relations kind of a sociopath would use fate of immigrants who have staple in the community. committee, has engaged in a been covered by the Deferred heated back-and-forth with He has since gone to stay that terminology while people Trump for days now, includ- Action for Childhood Arrivals at the Unitarian Universalist are still literally cleaning up from storms?” program a “very complicated Church in Meriden. ing in an interview with The — From wire reports issue.”

New York Times where he — From wire reports

Western N.C. ranch to help combat veterans with PTSD

By Adriana Mendez

The ranch is being renovated to house up to 10 combat veterans at a time. Caparelli said veterans More than 20 acres in CulloShe has worked for the National will stay two weeks and engage in whee, N.C., will become a healing Veterans Crisis Line and helped a variety of therapies with fellow place for combat veterans who are veterans and families on military veterans. Once the 14-day prodealing with post-traumatic stress bases overseas. She said starting cess is complete, the ranch will disorder. Equinox Ranch will allow the ranch is her way of helping aid veterans in connecting to the veterans to get treatment outside those who have served this country. Veterans Administration or civilian the confines of a hospital and im“I listen every night to people follow-up care to ensure they have merse them in a positive environand their problems and veterans the social support to continue their ment surrounded by nature. and their families. I think there is recovery when they return home.

Dr. Margo Rita Caparelli more that we can be doing,” Capa- They will return to the ranch in six purchased the land in February. relli said. to 10 months for a second 14-day CNN

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session. The program is free to combat veterans.

“People get out of the military and get their homecoming, and we often forget about them. There is a lot of people suffering out there,” Caparelli said.

Caparelli said because veterans are taught to be strong, they often keep the effects of PTSD to themselves.

Veteran Roy Burton agreed.

He said it’s the internal, invisible wounds that can be so detrimental.

Burton spent almost 20 years in the military, and once he arrived home, he had trouble readjusting to civilian life. Burton said he missed the structure and often felt he wasn’t fulfilling a purpose.

“You’re lost, completely lost, and felt like nobody cared. You get to that point, it’s like, ‘Why am I here?’” Burton said.

He has suffered from PTSD and was once homeless. Now, he is helping other veterans get the help they need.

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Model Wolf

Buford’s senior right fielder Gabby Benson rounds the bases during a game at Buford High School (Photo: David McGregor)

Buford’s Benson unselfish on softball field, in spotlight off it

By Will Hammock

will.hammock @gwinnettdailypost.com

BUFORD — The Buford fastpitch softball team’s senior right-fielder isn’t the flashiest member of a program that has won 10 straight state championships.

Gabby Benson draws praise from her coaches for her variety of skills and is headed to Georgia State to play softball, but she hasn’t always jumped to the forefront of a team loaded with high-level Division I talent.

Off the field, she has been featured more prominently, though most people don’t see that side of her life — she has worked as a model and actress since she was 3.

“Every once in awhile we (hear about her modeling and acting),” Buford head softball coach Tony Wolfe said. “But

she’s so low key. She doesn’t seek the attention. She would really do something (big) and most of us wouldn’t really know about it, which says a lot about her and how unselfish she is. She just wants to fit in and be a part of a team. It’s really awesome to watch.”

Following the same path as her two older brothers, Benson began acting and modeling from an early age.

She has done commercials for Mederma, the Biltmore House, Chick-fil-A and others, and has worked as an extra in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

Just last weekend, she taped a commercial for Moe’s.

“I used to model full-time when I was little, it was crazy,” she said. “I traveled to New York for a whole summer one time to do model-

ing. … I do it now when I can. From age 3 to 12, I did it a lot. I loved it, but I just fell in love with softball more.”

Softball wasn’t her only athletic pursuit — she also played tennis and basketball for years — but she gave up the others to focus on college opportunities in her No. 1 sport.

She has been a valuable member of the program as a starter on the past two state championship teams.

She was a center fielder as a sophomore, then shifted to right field the past two seasons because of her arm strength and the Buford coaches’ faith in her ability to handle staring into the sun from that side of the park.

The 3.8 GPA student also is productive offensively.

“She’s that kid that can do a little bit of everything,” Wolfe said. “She’s a good

hitter, a great defender, throws well, runs well, has great poise about her, is unselfish. She’s been that player that’s always been trying to take care of everybody else.

She’s been starting for three years now, so she’s gone from being the young one out there to fully accepting her role as a leader. She’s just been a really clutch player for us with some big hits.

Even more, it’s all the intangible things she brings to our program. She is truly the epitome of what we believe our softball players are.”

Those skills will translate well to the college level at Georgia State, where she committed as a freshman.

“I think she’ll come in and contribute pretty early (at Georgia State),” Wolfe said.

“Offensively, she’s agood player. Defensively, she’s really good. She reminds

me a lot of (Buford grad) Remington Hasty, who has been a rock solid player for Georgia State the past couple of years, in that she just does everything well. Nothing will necessarily wow you the first time you see her play, but the more you watch her the more you appreciate all the little things she does, the way she does it and the kid of young lady she is in the dugout and the locker room.”

Ask Benson the goals for her senior season, and she only mentions team-related ones. Her focus, along with her fellow seniors, is on winning an 11th straight state title, a journey that begins today with a state playoffopening series against Hiram.

It’s her final season in green — she has been a student at Buford since kindergarten — and she wants to

leave on top.

“It is a lot of pressure (to keep the state title streak alive),” she said. “You don’t want to be the senior class to lose it. But I trust the team.

I think we’re going to do well.”

How much credit she gets the rest of the season doesn’t matter, Wolfe said.

She is a key player and a leader, but she does her job without seeking any extra fanfare.

“She’s just such an unselfish team player,” Wolfe said.

“Whatever credit comes her way, she smiles and enjoys, but she doesn’t need that.

She just loves being a part of this program. She loves finding ways to contribute, whether it’s getting a bunt down or getting a big hit in the gap somewhere or making a play defensively. She’s just been great to coach.”

FIRST-ROUND STATE HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL PREVIEW CLASS AAAAAAA Archer Tigers Head coach: Eric Stoker Record: 18-9 Region: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Norcross, today, 4:30 p.m. (DH); Thursday, TBA (if necessary) Key players: 3B Terrica Williams, Sr. (.607, 10 HR, 42 RBIs, 30 R, 19 BB); 2B Faith Barth, Fr. (.407, 2 HR, 27 RBIs, 8 2B); C Casey Sims, Sr. (.329, 20 RBIs, 8 2B); OF Kaytlyn Moore, Fr. (.351, 25 R, 19 SB) Top pitchers: RHP Madison Abell, Sr. (13 wins, 2.80 ERA, 45 K); RHP Kailyn Berry, Jr. (10 wins, 2.86 ERA, 78 K) Berkmar Patriots Head coach: Bryan Allen Record: 7-10 Region: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First state opponent: at Grayson, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Saturday, noon (if necessary) Key players: 3B Madison Wilcox, Sr.; CF Tatyana Williams, Sr.; 2B Derricka Byrd, Sr.; SS/RHP Kelsey Diggs, Jr.; 1B/RHP Lily White, Jr.; LF Kaitlyn Castillo, Soph.; RHP/ OF Brooke Finely, Fr.; C Ana Allen, Fr. Top pitchers: RHP White; RHP Finely Brookwood Broncos Head coach: Jennifer Maloney Record: 17-9 Region: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed First state opponent: vs. Shiloh, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Saturday, TBA (if necessary) Key players: DP Brooke Freeman, Jr. (.422); 1B Danielle Taitt, Soph. (.466, 28 RBIs); C/OF Morgan Hall, Fr. (.374, 24 RBIs) Top pitcher: LHP/OF Kelsey Parks, Jr. (15-4, 2.39 ERA, 136 K, 105 IP) Collins Hill Eagles

Head coach: Lance Sparrow Record: 18-10 Region: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First state opponent: vs. Forsyth Central, Thursday, 4 p.m. (DH); Saturday, 1 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: 2B Bri Painter, Sr. (.371, 15 RBIs, 5 2B, 23 R); SS Jessica Neadow, Sr. (.345, 3 HR, 16 RBIs, 18 R, .707 slugging pct., 8 2B); CF Maddie Simmons, Jr. (.345, 1 HR, 20 RBIs, 20 R, .534 slugging pct., ); RHP/1B Sophie Mooney, Jr. (.408, 20 RBIs, 7 2B, 18 R) Top pitchers: RHP Mooney (9-2, 1.19 ERA, 74 K, 12 BB, 77 IP) Grayson Rams Head coach: Bill Batchelor Record: 24-5 Region: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed First state opponent: vs.

Berkmar,Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Saturday, noon (if necessary) Key players: SS Aaliyah White, Soph. (.475, 37 R, 45 SB); RHP/3B Conner Batchelor, Sr. (.447, 37 RBIs); 1B Brinaya Bailey, Jr. (.474, 4 HR, 33 RBIs); 2B Maya Figueroa, Sr. (.515, 29 RBIs, 8 2B, .598 on-base pct.); CF Kelsie Walker, Fr. (.472, 4 HR, 31 RBIs, 42 R, 42 SB) Top pitcher: RHP Batchelor (233, 1.60 ERA, 111 K) Mill Creek Hawks Head coach: Paul Pierce Record: 15-12 Region: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 3 seed First-round opponent: at Lambert, Thursday, 4 p.m. (DH); Saturday, 11 a.m. (if necessary) Key players: SS Maddison Koepke, Jr.; CF Dallis Goodnight, Fr.; 3B Madison Dobbins, Fr.; LF Emily Ammons, Jr. Top pitchers: RHP Sara Shaw, Soph.

Mountain View Bears Head coach: Mike Cason Record: 8-20

Region: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First-round opponent: at South Forsyth, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Friday, 6 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: 1B Hailey Cronic, Jr. (.360, 11 RBIs, 9 2B); DP/1B Skylar Isom, Jr. (.408, 2 HR, 14 RBIs, 6 2B); 3B Gracie Cronic, Sr. (.365) Top pitcher: RHP Sarah Currie, Fr. (6 wins, 78 K, 85 1/3 IP) North Gwinnett Bulldogs Head coach: Randy Black Record: 17-9 Region: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs. North Forsyth, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Saturday, 1 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: 3B Erin Wilbur, Sr.; RHP/DP Chandler Dennis, Jr.; C Allison Roach, Sr.; CF Emily Brown, Jr.; 2B/DP Lauren Reed, Sr. Top pitcher: RHP Dennis, Jr. Norcross Blue Devils Head coach: Ryan Ermers Record: 12-9 Region: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 3 seed First-round opponent: at Archer, today, 4:30 p.m. (DH); Thursday, TBA (if necessary) Key players: CF De’Areya Porter, Jr. (.387, 4 HR, 35 RBIs, 36 R, 8 2B, 13 SB); 1B Faith Lawrence, Fr.; OF Emma O’Dell, Soph.

Top pitchers: RHP Bella Krauth, Fr.; RHP Sierra Blackburn, Soph.

Parkview Panthers Head coach: Justin Bishop Record: 18-9 Region: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Newton, Thursday, 4:30 p.m. (DH); Saturday, 1 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: SS Hannah Turnbull, Sr. (.431, 4 HR, 22 RBIs, 18 R); DP Denise Teague, Sr. (.418, 15 RBIs, 17 R); CF Destiny Beckham, Sr. (.404, 4 RBIs, 23 R, 16 SB); 1B Megan Gibbs, Soph. (.333, 3 HR, 21 RBIs, 8 2B, 18 R); C Allison

Barfield, Sr. (.392, 1 HR, 15 RBIs, 5 2B) Top pitcher: LHP MacKenzie Michels, Sr. (12-7, 3.23 ERA, 110 2/3 IP) Peachtree Ridge Lions Head coach: Bubba Wilson Record: 12-10 Region: 6-AAAAAAA, At-Large berth First-round opponent: at East Coweta, Thursday, 4 p.m. (DH); TBA (if necessary) Key players: IF Aleix Hudson, Jr. (.439); IF Courntey Savignano, Sr. (.353); OF Felise Collins, Jr. (.344) Top pitchers: RHP Jenna White, Jr. (7 wins, 3.20 ERA); P Ellie Lunsford, Fr. (2 wins, 3.28 ERA) Shiloh Generals Head coach: Chris Polk Record: 6-18 Region: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First state opponent: at Brookwood, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Saturday, TBA (if necessary) Key players: 1B Aida Polk, Sr. (.415, 5 HR, 17 RBIs, 26 R); OF Trinity Spear, Jr. (.464, 18 SB); C Olivia Christian, Sr. (.395, 25 RBIs, 22 R, 9 2B); 3B DeLanyie Hollis, Fr. (.437, 18 RBIs, 9 2B) Top: Pitchers: RHP Jala Myers, Jr. (4-9); RHP Katherine Fears, Jr. (2-6) Class AAAAAA Dacula Falcons Head coach: Tracey Keefer Record: 15-7 Region: 8-AAAAAA, No. 1 seed First state opponent: vs. Chattahoochee, Thursday, 4 p.m. (DH); Saturday, noon (if necessary) Key players: SS Elsie Igberaese, Jr. (.475, 2 HR, 24 RBIs, 20 R, .705 slugging pct.); 2B Jen Sileo, Soph. (.400, 10 RBIs, 26 R, 9 SB); CF Alexis Davis, Sr. (.446, 14 RBIs, 29 R, 14 SB); RF Jeah

Williams, Sr. (.493, 2 HR, 25 RBIs, 6 2B, 17 R, 15 SB, .712 slugging pct.)

Top pitchers: RHP Sydney Boulware, Fr. (10-1, 3.09 ERA, 59 K, 74 1/3 IP); RHP Michaela Milando, Soph. (5-6, 4.36 ERA, 20 K, 59 1/3 IP) Lanier Longhorns Head coach: Ryan Hill Record: 13-10 Region: 8-AAAAAA, No. 4 seed First state opponent: at Cambridge, Thursday, 5 p.m. (DH); Friday, 4 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: C Maygan Loparo, Sr.; 3B Makenzie Wismer, Sr.; 2B Payton Franklin, Fr. Top pitchers: RHP Ashley King, Jr.; RHP Laura Ann Acker, Jr.; RHP Carly Forrester, Fr. CLASS AAAAA Buford Wolves Head coach: Tony Wolfe Record: 21-4 Region: 8-AAAAA, No. 1 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Hiram, today, 4 p.m. (DH); Thursday, 5 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: SS Kelsey Bennett, Sr. (.466, 8 HR, 36 RBIs, 25 R, 9 2B, 1.424 OPS); 3B/CF Arielle Oda, Sr. (.540, 1 HR, 13 RBIs, 5 2B, 4 3B, 1.452 OPS, 37 R, 29 SB); C Hannah Jo Hyatt, Sr. (.400, 2 HR, 16 RBIs, 6 2B, 1.097 OPS); RF Gabby Benson, Sr. (.377, 15 RBIs, 21 R, 4 3B, .974 OPS); LF Mariah Wicker, Jr. (.345, 2 HR, 16 RBIs, 23 R, .986 OPS) Top pitchers: RHP Logan Caymol, Sr. (9-2, 2 saves, 1.80 ERA, 107 K, 62 1/3 IP); RHP Ansley Byers, Sr. (5-0, 1 save, 2.36 ERA, 16 K, 29 2/3 IP); RHP Ansleigh Hollifield, Soph. (5-1, 1.89 ERA, 15 K, 29 2/3 IP) CLASS AAA GAC Spartans Head coach: Jessica Crawford Record: 14-10

Region: 7-AAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Morgan Co., today, 4:30 p.m.

(DH); Thursday, 5:30 p.m. (if necessary) Key players: SS Amanda Briskin, Sr. (.547, 23 RBIs, 1.395 OPS); UT Maddie Marchiando, Sr. (.517, 26 R, .562 on-base pct.)

Top pitchers: RHP/UT Faith Vento, Soph. (2.03 ERA, 96 2/3 IP) CLASS A (PRIVATE) Hebron Christian Lions Head coach: Ben Drust Record: 5-16 Region: 8-A, No. 24 overall seed First-round opponent: at Stratford Academy, Friday, 1:30 p.m. (DH); Saturday, 11 a.m. (if necessary) Key players: C Macy Poisal, Soph. (.343, 1 HR, 22 RBIs, 7 2B, 13 R); 2B Sydney Harris, Soph. (.354, 20 R, 10 SB); SS Mary Blake Whittington, Soph. (.348, 13 RBIs, 19 R) Top pitcher: RHP Mary Katherine Sink, Sr. Wesleyan Wolves Head coach: Nichole Dixon Record: 22-5 Region: 5-A, No. 1 overall seed First-round opponent: Bye Key players: 3B/RHP Cassie Henning, Jr. (.371, 2 HR, 22 RBIs, 9 2B, only 3 K in 79 ABs); CF Jahni Kerr, Soph. (.600, 4 HR, 25 RBIs, 40 R, 28 SB, 1.038 slugging pct., 27-game hitting streak); RHP/OF Madison Kerpics, Soph. (.325, 1 HR, 20 RBIs); 2B Ann Margaret Jones, Soph. (.431, 23 RBIs, 24 R, .971 fielding pct.); SS Reece Holbrook, Fr. (.257, 4 HR, 19 RBIs, 8 SB) Top pitchers: RHP Hennig (13-4, 2.33 ERA, 101 K, 96 IP); RHP Kerpics (8-1, 1.04 ERA, 71 K, 47 IP)

ondeck 12A • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017

Prep Schedule

Today

SOFTBALL

4 p.m. — Hiram at Buford (DH) 4:30 p.m. — Morgan County at GAC (DH)

VOLLEYBALL

5 p.m. — Rockdale at North Gwinnett 5 p.m. — South Forsyth at Norcross 6 p.m. — Duluth at Hillgrove 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Archer 6 p.m. — Parkview at North Cobb 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Grayson 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — Maynard Jackson at Buford 6:30 p.m. — Roswell at Brookwood TBA — Berkmar at Lambert TBA — Stone Mountain at GAC Thursday

SOFTBALL

4 p.m. — Forsyth Central at Collins Hill (DH) 4 p.m. — Mill Creek at lambert (DH) 4 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at East Coweta (DH) 4 p.m. — Chattagoochee at Dacula (DH) 4:30 p.m. — Newton at Parkview (DH) 5 p.m. — Lanier at Cambridge (DH) 5 p.m. — Hiram at Buford (Game 3, if necessary) 5 p.m. — Morgan County at GAC (Game 3, if necessary 5 p.m. — Berkmar at Grayson (DH) 5 p.m. — Mountain View at South Forsyth (DH) 5 p.m. — North Forsyth at North Gwinnett (DH) 5 p.m. — Shiloh at Brookwood (DH)

VOLLEYBALL

5:30 p.m. — Stratford at Wesleyan 5:30 p.m. — Mount Pisgah at Hebron Friday

SOFTBALL

1:30 p.m. — Hebron at Stratford (DH) 4 p.m. — Lanier at Cambridge (Game 3, if necessary) 6 p.m. — Mountain View at South Forsyth (Game 3, if necessary) Saturday

SOFTBALL

11 a.m. — Mill Creek at Lambert (Game 3, if necessary) Noon — Chattahoochee at Dacula (Game 3, if necessary) 1 p.m. — Forsyth Central at Collins Hill (Game 3, if necessary) 1 p.m. — Newton at Parkview (Game 3, if necessary) 1 p.m. — North Forsyth at North Gwinnett (Game 3, if necessary) TBA — Berkmar at Grayson (Game 3, if necessary) TBA — Shiloh at Brookwood (Game 3, if necessary)

The Home Teams

Falcons

United

Georgia

Tech

Georgia St.

TODAY NEXT UPCOMING

Off

Miami Oct. 15, 1 p.m.

CBS/92.9-FM

at New England Oct. 22, 8:30 p.m.

NBC/ 92.9-FM

Off

at New York Toronto Oct. 15, 5 p.m. Oct. 22, 4 p.m.

FS1/92.9-FM FSSO/92.9-FM

Off

Missouri Flordia Oct. 14, TBA Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m.

SECN/750-AM CBS/750-AM

Off

at Miami Wake Forest Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, TBA ESPN3/93.7-FM 93.7-FM

Off

Coastal Carolina at UL_Monroe Sat, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 14, 5 p.m.

ESPN3/88.5-FM ESPN3/88.5-FM

at Robert Morris at Tenn. Wesleyan Taladega Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Oct. 22, 1 p.m. Oct. 25, 5 p.m.

GGC WSOC

Lindsey Wilson at Thomas Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Oct. 17, 6 p.m.

Bryan Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

GGC MSOC FSSE = FOX Sports Southeast, FSSO = FOX Sports South

On TV MLB

Today

8 p.m. — New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians. FS1

NHL

Noon — Columbus Blue Jackets at Carolina Hurricanes. FSSO 2 p.m. — Philadelphia Flyers at Nashville Predators.

FSSO 7:30 p.m. — Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals. NBCS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

7 p.m. — Central Arkansas at Houston Baptist. FSSE 8 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Syracuse. FSSO 8 p.m. — South Alabama at Troy. ESPN2

Sports Calendar

GOLF

Oct. 28: The eighth annual North Gwinnett Bulldog Baseball Golf Tournament will be held Oct. 28 to raise money for the program. Shotgun start is at 9 a.m. at Bear’s Best Golf Club in Suwanee.

For registration, sponsorship opportunities or other information, go to www. ngbaseball.org or call Darin Southard at 404-386-2922.

Nov. 20: The 11th annual Brookwood Bronco Baseball Golf Tournament fundraiser will be held at Summit Chase Country Club. Registration and breakfast begin at 9 a.m., followed by a shotgun start

at 11 a.m. and awards and dinner at 3:30 p.m. Cost is $150 per player or $500 per foursome. Sponsorships also are available. For more information or to register, go to www.broncobaseball.org.

LACROSSE

Ongoing through Nov. 1: The Gwinnett Lacrosse Academy is accepting registration for its winter indoor league at the Silverbacks facility in Suwanee. Games are Sunday afternoons in November, December and January. Boys and girls divisions will be featured for first- through eighth-graders. For more information, go to www.gwinnettlacrosseacademy.com.

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FIRST-ROUND STATE HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW CLASS AAAAAAA Archer Tigers Head coach: Ann-Marie Cobb Record: 21-25 Area: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Mountain View, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: MH Kyla French, Soph.; OH Delise Wysinger, Jr.; OH Nyah Barney, Fr. Berkmar Patriots Head coach: Tyra Smith Record: 3-19 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First state opponent: at Lambertr, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: Lorena Jackson, Mayra Mancha, Leona Brooks, Keren Masangu Brookwood Broncos Head coach: Stacey Bennum Record: 34-10 Area: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed First state opponent: vs.

Roswell, today, 6:30 p.m.

Key players: L Olivia LaPlume, Sr. (618 digs, 101 aces, 78 assists); OH Sophia Koop, Soph. (242 Kills, 77 aces, 270 digs); S Lauryn Tillman, Sr. (797 assists, 59 aces, 24 blocks, 210 digs); OH Cydney Gardner, Soph. (204 kills, 49 aces, 327 digs); MH Hailey Bolton, Jr. (199 kills, 49 aces, 53 blocks) Duluth Wildcats Head coach: Allison Boes Record: 23-14 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First state opponent: at Hillgrove, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: L Carter Drake, Jr.; S Meredith Eckard, Jr.; OH Taylor Hentz, Sr. Grayson Rams Head coach: Vanita McGough Record: 31-12 Area: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed First state opponent: vs.

Peachtree Ridge,today, 6 p.m.

Key players: OH Courtney Presley, Jr. (266 kills); MH Bria Holmes-Lewis, Sr. (151 kills, 50 blocks); OH Lauren Wyton, Sr. (183 kills, 67 aces); L Colby Ross, Sr. (211 digs); S Rebekah Stegmayer, Sr. (223 digs, 207 assists) Mill Creek Hawks Head coach: Bryan Williamson Record: 35-4 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Shiloh, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: OH Rachel Machovec, Sr. (64 aces, 342 kills, 152 digs); OH Rebekah Machovec, Sr. (42 aces, 296 kills, 153 digs); S Emily Walter, Sr. (39 aces, 786 assists); MB

Buford’s Halston Hillier (8) spikes the ball over North Gwinnett’s Caitlin O’Farrell (4) and Talia Kalter (11) during Saturday’s Gwinnett County Championships at Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) Morgan Iverson Sr. (97kills, 73 blocks); MB Laurel Anderson, Sr. ( 116 kills, 42 blocks); RH Mar’ria Phillips, Soph. (33 kills, 21 blocks); L Joha Bernis, Fr. (39 aces, 144 digs); DS Natalie Boyd, Sr. (35 aces, 82 digs) Mountain View Bears Head coach: Stan Carpenter Record: 32-19 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First-round opponent: at Archer, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: S/OH Bailey Carpener, Sr.; MB Rachel Hodges, Sr.; DS Bethany Maggert, Sr.; RH Amanda Mazurkiewics, Sr.; MB Tia Bentley, Sr. Norcross Blue Devils Head coach: Jeff Cerneka Record: 22-22 Area: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

South Forsyth, today, 5 p.m.

(DH) Key players: OH Sam Lanning, S.r (210 kills, 174 digs); S/RS Bella Murray, Fr. (320 assists, 120 digs); S/RS Kay Warren, Sr. (304 assists); MB Maya Smith, Jr. (145 kills, .366 kill pct.); OH Janna Schlageter, Soph. (196 kills) North Gwinnett Bulldogs Head coach: Vanessa Henry Record: 36-5 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 1 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Rockdale Co., today, 5:30 p.m.

Key players: OH Lizzy Packer, Sr. (264 kills, 54 aces, 274 digs); S Alexa Fortin, Jr. (159 kills, 54 aces, 766 assists; MB Caitlin O’Farrell, Jr. (279K. 44 solo blocks); L Reagan

Schneider, Sr. (42 aces. 374 digs); DS Jada Jones, Sr. (279 digs); MB Autumn Hamilton, Soph. (133 kills. 32 solo blocks); DS Jill Tontillo, Jr. (210 digs, 30 aces) Parkview Panthers Head coach: Michelle Bowden Record: 17-20 Area: 7-AAAAAAA, No. 4 seed First-round opponent: at North Cobb, Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Key players: MH Emma Vann, Sr.; OH Haley Trust, Soph.; Sara Halilhodzic, Sr.; Jordan Godfree, Fr. Peachtree Ridge Lions Head coach: Abby Slocumb Record: 18-18 Area: 6-AAAAAAA, No. 5 seed First-round opponent: at Grayson, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: OH Brittany Best, Jr. (185 kills, .356 kill pct., 42 blocks, 114 digs); MH Destinee Jackson, Jr. (80 kills, 129 blocks, 31 aces); L Katrina Heffron, Jr. (296 digs, 57 aces); S Aaleayah Odom, Soph. (347 assists, 108 digs) Shiloh Generals Head coach: Marsha Jones Record: 12-10 Area: 8-AAAAAAA, No. 3 seed First state opponent: at Mill Creek, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: OH Faith Collector, Sr.; MB Keliz Hunt, Sr.; OH/S Stephanie Burke, Jr.; S/ RH DaBorah Head, Sr. CLASS AAAAA Buford Wolves Head coach: Hadli Daniels Record: 36-3

Area: 8-AAAAA, No. 1 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Maynard Jackson, today, 6 p.m.

Key players: OH Taylor Shipes, Sr.; MB Avery Cason, Sr.; MB Hallston Hillier, Sr.; RH Morgan Sutherland, Sr.; S Stella Alverson, Sr. CLASS AAA GAC Spartans Head coach: Richard Burnett Record: 27-13 Area: 7-AAA, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Stone Mountain, today, 5 p.m.

Key player: OH Ali Schreiber, Soph. (330 kills, .510 kill pct., 57 aces, 301 digs) CLASS A (PRIVATE) Hebron Christian Lions Head coach: Taylor Davis Record: 42-6 Region: 8-A, No. 1 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Mt. Pisgah, today at 5:30 p.m.

Key players: OH Hayden McGee, Soph. (452 kills, 65 aces, 301 digs; S Abbi Luke, Soph. (970 assists, 54 aces, 226 digs); OH Rebeca Olariu, Soph. (297 kills, 59 aces, 278 digs); RH Rahela Olariu, Sr. (127 kills, 84 aces, 228 digs) Wesleyan Wolves Head coach: Ted Russell Record: 24-15 Region: 5-A, No. 2 seed First-round opponent: vs.

Stratford Academy, Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

Key players: OH Grace Tyler, Jr. (217 kills); MH Elizabeth Bruehl, Sr. (180 kills); S Maddie Lloyd, Sr. (736 assists); L Kat Hughes, Sr. (522 digs)

Game 4 postponed between Nats, Cubs The Sports Xchange CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs entered Tuesday’s scheduled Game 4 of the National League Division Series hoping to close out the Washington Nationals and advance to the NL Championship Series for the third consecutive season.

The Nationals were just hoping to play another day.

After rain washed out Tuesday’s game at Wrigley Field, the Nationals got their wish while the Cubs’ plans were put on hold. The Cubs, with their two-games-toone lead, and Nationals will resume their best-of-five series Wednesday afternoon.

They will play a deciding Game 5 on Thursday in Washington, if the Nationals

win Wednesday.

“You’re playing the most important games of the year — you want to play in better weather,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said after Tuesday’s game was postponed.

“Whatever (the weather) is, you’ve just got to get ready and go ahead and do it.

There is no crying. You just go play.”

The Cubs, who lead the series 2-1, will turn to their scheduled Game 4 starter, Jake Arrieta, on Wednesday looking to finish off the series. Arrieta, who missed 2 1/2 weeks with a right hamstring injury, recently threw two bullpen sessions, and said Monday the injury would be a non-issue against the Nationals.

GGC women’s soccer has record day From Staff Reports MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Junior Ana Gonzalez’s three goals tied the Georgia Gwinnett College women’s soccer team’s single-game record and lifted the No. 24-ranked Grizzlies to a 5-1 victory at Wisconsin’s Cardinal Stritch University on Tuesday afternoon.

GGC (8-3-1) won its the sixth consecutive

match, which also tied a program record from the 2013 season.

Gonzalez was the first Grizzlie to record a hat trick in a match since senior Amy Morland tallied three goals against Brewton-Parker College on Aug. 31, 2016.

Gonzalez quickly put the Grizzlies on the scoreboard in the third minute of the match. She added a second goal in the 15th minute as GGC

took a quick 2-0 lead.

Gonzalez scored three minutes into the second half to conclude her scoring for the day. The goal gave the visitors a 4-0 lead.

“Ana is becoming a more dangerous offensive threat for us. Today’s performance does not surprise me because she has been training at a high level. She is getting better each week,” said head coach Mike Giulia-

no in a press release.

Junior Caitlin Berry tallied her third goal of the season in the 37th minute, while Morland capped the team’s scoring in the 57th minute.

The senior provided an assist on Gonzalez’s second tally of the match.

Senior Dominique Fletcher recorded three assists Tuesday, tying for the second most assists in a match in program history.

IN BRIEF Meadowcreek’s Kelly commits to Duquesne Meadowcreek senior Amari Kelly has made a commitment to the Duquesne University (Penn.) men’s basketball program.

The 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward averaged 9.4 points and 7.4 rebounds last season as a junior. He played at Brookwood before transferring to Meadowcreek.

I9 Sports launches all-girls flag football league at Gary Pirkle I9 Sports has launched an all-girls

flag football league at Gary Pirkle Park in Sugar Hill.

League play begins Dec. 2 and runs through Feb. 10. Games are Saturdays from 1 to 5:30 p.m. and times vary by age division. The cost is $145 if paid

by Thursday.

To register, go to www.i9sports.com.

Mill Creek’s Muck, Norcross’ O’Leary named runners of the week Mill Creek’s Joseph Muck and Norcross’ Maggie O’Leary were named runners of the week Tuesday by the Gwinnett County cross country coaches.

Muck ran a time of 16 minutes, 35 seconds at the Great American Cross Country Festival, and O’Leary ran 19:17 at the Alexander/Asics Invitational.

North Gwinnett air rifle team improves to 2-0 North Gwinnett’s high school team posted its highest score of the season in a 1,343-1,201 victory over Bears Ears Sportsman Club in the National Air Rifle League.

North, now 2-0, was led by 346 points from Matt Herrington. Shreya Sastry, Ethan Woyce and Shea Hall also contributed to the victory.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Name: Jaiev Khan School: Dacula Position: Defensive back Class: Junior Highlights: Had four tackles, two for losses, an interception for a touchdown and a fumble recovery for another TD in the Falcons’ win over Apalachee Coach Tommy Jones’ take: “Jaiev had an outstanding ball game the other night.

He made a couple of big defensive plays that proved to be a huge spark for our whole team. The most encouraging part of his performance against Apalachee was that it was the result of two tremendous weeks of practice.”

DEFENSIVE HONOR ROLL

Archer Emmanuel Michel, 11 tackles Colby Wooden, 7 tackles (6 solos), 4 for losses, 1 QB hurry Andrew Booth, 7 tackles (5 solos), 1 for loss, 2 pass breakups, 1 interception Michael Johnson, 5 punts for 35.2-yard average Brookwood Justin Scola, 13 tackles, 1 1/2 sacks, 1 fumble recovery for TD, 2 QB pressures D.J. Horne, 10 tackles, 1/2 sack, 2 QB pressures, 1 caused fumble Anthony Gorney, 13 tackles, 1 QB pressure Chris Cotter, 12 tackles, 1 big hit Amir Berry, 7 tackles, 1/2 sack, 2 QB pressures Jamison Collier, 6 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 caused fumble Buford A.J. Hendricks, 3 tackles, 1 fumble recovery Davin Bryant, 4 tackles, 1 fumble recovery Quentin Skinner, 5 tackles Central Gwinnett Kevon Blackwood, 9 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 blocked punts, 1 blocked punt recovery for TD A.J. Harris, 6 tackles, 3 for losses Eric Walker, 8 tackles Nick Fortune, 4 tackles, 1 interception Collins Hill Darius Penton, 6 tackles, 1 interception, 2 pass breakups Kenneth Lowery, 9 tackles, 1 sack, 1 QB pressure, 1 caused fumble Jared Bartlett, 9 tackles, 1 fumble recovery, 1 TD Dante Carr, 4 tackles, 2 pass breakups, 1 caused fumble that resulted in TD Dacula Shaah Cooper, 11 tackles, 1 sack Joseph Lopez, 10 tackles, 1 forced fumble Victor Micah, 8 tackles, 4 for losses, 1 sack, 1 blocked pass Chris Smith, 1 interception for TD, 4 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 sack GAC Choe Bryant-Strother, 6 tackles Hunter Cole, 1 interception Robby Fowler, 1 interception Sam Collins, 1 interception Grayson Herbert Winborne, 3 tackles, 1 fumble recovery for TD Jeremiah Smith, 4 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 interception for TD Ryan Taylor, 2 sacks Tru Thompson, 2 sacks Darius Martin, 4 tackles, 1 for loss, 2 pass breakups Lanier Peyton Bergman, 7 tackles, 1 for loss Jason Wallace, 6 tackles, 2 for losses, 1 sack, 1 QB hurry Jake Ludwig, 9 tackles, 3 for losses Erick Turner, 10 tackles, 2 for losses, 2 sacks, 2 pass deflections Mill Creek Cole Wroble, 4 tackles, 3 for losses, 1 QB hurry Austin Ruiz-Velasco, 6 tackles, 3 QB hurries Jacob Chandler, 2 tackles, 4 QB hurries Rashawn Brown, 4 tackles (3 solos), 1 sack, 1 QB hurry, 1 pass breakup Mountain View Jaelin Humphries, 11 tackles (7 solos), 4 for losses, 1 pass breakup Blake Carroll, 6 tackles, 1 pass breakup, 47-yard interception for TD Trevon Salter, 10 tackles (9 solos), 1 for loss, 49-yard interception for TD Carlos Ayala, 2 punts for 40.5-yard average, 5-for-5 PATs, 1-for1 FGs Parkview Kobe Wilson, 12 tackles, 2 fumble recoveries, 1 pass breakup Justin Tripplet, 3 tackles, 2 QB pressures Matt Chavers, 4 tackles Honor roll players are nominated by their coaches.To be included, coaches are asked to email their nominations to will. hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com by noon on Monday.

Another dominant win for the Force to Jacob Hamric, who caught three passes for 43 yards.

The Georgia Force Cieply also had 13 tackles home-school football team and caused two fumbles on dominated for a 45-6 victory defense, while Crownie had over Loganville Christian last 11 tackles and a fumble reFriday. covery. Lee caused two fumJaeden Crownie rushed bles, Tuggle had a fumble eight times for 105 yards and recovery, Addison Smith had a touchdown, heading up a a fumble recovery and a sack group of five Force players and Thomas Harmon added who had a TD run. Seth Mc- a fumble recovery. Other Clure (six rushes, 61 yards), Force defensive standouts Jackson Lee (three rushes, included Jonathan Pittman 31 yards), Luke Cieply and (sack), Dominick Knowles Kaleb Tuggle also ran for (sack, blocked field goal), TDs. Quarterback Hunter Dawson Tolar (seven tackles, Barfield completed 6 of 10 one for loss) and Parker Fespasses for 90 yards and a TD perman (seven tackles).

From Staff Reports

(First place votes in parentheses) Class AAAAAAA School Pts Prv 1. Grayson (17) 170 1 2. Lowndes 151 2 3. Archer 126 3 4. Tift County 116 4 5. South Forsyth 92 5 6. Colquitt County 86 6 7. Walton 70 7 8. McEachern 55 8 9. North Gwinnett 34 9 10. Brookwood 16 NR Others receiving votes: Mill Creek 8, North Cobb 3, Parkview 3, Milton 2, Mountain View 1 Dropped out: North Cobb (10)

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Name: Miles Marshall School: Parkview Position: Wide receiver Class: Senior Highlights: Had eight catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns in the Panthers’ win over Lakeside-DeKalb Coach Eric Godfree’s take: “Miles had a tremendous game for us on Friday in all aspects of the game. What I love most about Miles is that he plays bigger than his stats. He ended up having a great game statistically, but those stats don’t show how well he blocked and the effort he gives on every play. Miles is a great player for us and an even better person.”

OFFENSIVE HONOR ROLL

Archer Jelani Baker, 5 catches for 87 yards, game-winning TD Samadje Banks, 13 rushes for 121 yards Caleb Chester, 80 percent blocking grade, 2 pancake blocks, 2 extra efforts Brookwood Dante Black, 12 rushes for 152 yards, 2 TDs DeAngelo DiSpigna, 6 of 6 passing for 135 yards, 2 TDs Matthew Hill, 3 catches for 90 yards, 2 TDs Nick Prince, 3 catches for 45 yards D’Lani Brathwaite, 86 percent blocking grade, 2 knockdown blocks Blake Bridges, 81 percent blocking grade, 3 knockdown blocks Caleb Hutson, 84 percent blocking grade, 3 knockdown blocks Buford Clayton Nelson, 4 catches for 55 yards, 31-yard passing TD Aaron McLaughlin, 7 of 9 passing for 133 yards, 2 TDs Will Westmoreland, 7 of 7 passing for 57 yards, 2 TDs Central Gwinnett Jarren Williams, 14 of 19 passing for 174 yards, 3 TDs, 8 rushes for 121 yards, 2 TDs Khmari Thompson, 5 catches for 75 yards, TD Justin Wilkins, 4 rushes for 23 yards, 3 catches for 43 yards, TD T.K. Mack, 3 rushes for 38 yards, TD Collins Hill Najji Germana, 132 rushing yards, TD Evan Anderson, 100 rushing yards, 2 TDs Andrew Brand, 90 percent blocking grade, 5 pancake blocks Justin Daughtry, 2 catches for 65 yards, TD, 27-yard punt return to set up TD Dacula Riley Adcock, 93 percent blocking grade Tyler Jones, 96 percent blocking grade Tre McMillan, 6 rushes for 100 yards, 2 TDs Will Stovall, 4 rushes for 48 yards GAC Kyler McMichael, 7 rushes for 167 yards, 3 TDs Alex Boglin, 7 rushes for 155 yards, TD Tyler Bride, 1 rushing TD Max Burke, 1 rushing TD Jackson Hardy, 2 TD passes Jeffrey Blake, TD catch, high blocking grade Tony Wyche, TD catch, high blocking grade Nate Richey, high blocking grade Christopher Hinton, high blocking grade Ford Roberts, high blocking grade Sean Henderson, 7 of 7 PATs, 1 FG, 4 kickoffs for touchbacks Grayson D.J. Irons, 7 of 11 passing for 156 yards, 2 TDs, 4 rushes for 86 yards, 2 TDs Jayvion Boykin, 83 percent blocking grade, 2 knockdown blocks Kenyon Jackson, 2 catches for 133 yards, 2 TDs Jakai Clark, 83 percent blocking grade, 2 pancake blocks Hebron Will Warbington, 4 catches for 95 yards Chandler Lewis, 22 rushes for 130 yards, 25-yard catch Troy Allen, 206 yards, 2 TDs Lanier Larry Harper, 13 rushes for 72 yards, 22-yard catch Nate Stiltner, high blocking grade Collin Foster, high blocking grade Kevonte Polk, 18 rushes for 93 yards, TD Mekal Fuller, 6 catches for 79 yards, 2 rushes for 16 yards Mill Creek Daniel Wakesa, winning blocking grade, 1 pancake block John Harris, winning blocking grade, 6 pancake blocks Jonathan Leech, winning blocking grade, 5 pancake blocks Zelek Harrington, winning blocking grade, 1 pancake block Uriah Leverette, 12 rushes for 191 yards, 3 TDs Rafael Morales, 10 rushes for 125 yards, perfect offensive grade Austin Williams, 2 catches for 24 yards, 2 TDs Alan Andrzejewski, 4 kickoffs for touchbacks, 6 PATs, 1 FG Mountain View Bradley Kopydlowski, high blocking grade, 11 pancake blocks Malachi Carter, 7 catches for 108 yards, TD Parkview Fred Payton, 13 of 18 passing for 256 yards, 4 TDs Christian Malloy, 6 rushes for 113 yards, TD P.J. Weltch, 91 percent blocking grade Colin Taliaferro, 90 percent blocking grade Tommy Rogers, 6 rushes for 65 yards, 6-yard TD catch, 6 tackles, 1 sack on defense Wesleyan Banks Ramsey, 16 of 23 passing for 215 yards, 2 TDs, 11 rushes for 33 yards, 2 TDs, 2 tackles, 1 interception on defense George Bielan, 14 rushes for 118 yards Garrett Hangartner, 7 rushes for 62 yards, TD, 10 tackles on defense Zach Peterson, 4 catches for 56 yards, TD

REGION FOOTBALL STANDINGS

Region 8-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week Archer 1-0 6-0 Grayson Grayson 1-0 6-0 at Archer Newton 1-1 5-2 Bye Shiloh 1-1 1-6 Bye Rockdale 0-1 1-5 South Gwinnett SouthGwinnett 0-1 1-5 at Rockdale Region 7-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week Brookwood 2-0 4-2 Central Gwinnett Parkview 2-0 4-2 at Berkmar Meadowcreek 2-1 6-1 Bye CentralGwinnett 2-1 5-2 at Brookwood Norcross 1-1 2-4 at Lakeside Lakeside 0-3 1-6 Norcross Berkmar 0-3 0-7 Parkview Region 6-AAAAAAA School Region Overall This week North Gwinnett 2-0 5-1 Duluth Mountain View 2-1 6-1 at Collins Hill Mill Creek 2-1 5-2 at Peachtree Ridge Collins Hill 2-1 4-3 Mountain View Peachtree Ridge 1-1 1-5 Mill Creek Duluth 0-2 2-4 at North Gwinnett Discovery 0-3 1-6 Bye Region 8-AAAAAA School Region Overall This week Winder-Barrow 2-0 7-0 Bye Dacula 1-0 2-4 Gainesville Gainesville 1-0 2-4 atDacula Lanier 0-1 3-3 at Habersham Central Habersham 0-1 1-5 Lanier Apalachee 0-2 1-6 Bye Region 8-AAAAA School Region Overall This week Flowery Branch 3-0 6-1 at Loganville Buford 2-0 4-1 Cedar Shoals Loganville 2-0 2-4 Flowery Branch Clarke Central 1-2 4-3 Johnson Walnut Grove 1-2 2-5 Bye Cedar Shoals 0-2 3-3 at Buford Johnson 0-3 0-7 at Clarke Central Region 7-AAA School Region Overall This week GAC 3-0 6-1 at Lumpkin County Dawson County 2-0 4-2 Fannin County East Hall 2-1 5-2 Bye North Hall 2-1 2-5 Union County Fannin County 0-2 2-4 at Dawson County Lumpkin County 0-2 0-6 GAC Union County 0-3 4-3 at North Hall Region 8-A School Region Overall This week Prince Avenue 6-0 7-0 Hebron Athens Academy 5-0 6-0 at Providence Commerce 4-1 5-1 Riverside George Walton 4-1 5-1 at Lakeview Hebron 3-2 4-2 at Prince Avenue Athens Christian 1-4 2-4 at Towns County Lakeview 1-4 2-4 George Walton Towns County 1-4 2-4 Athens Christian Providence 1-4 1-5 Athens Academy Riverside Military 0-6 0-6 at Commerce Region 5-A School Region Overall This week ELCA 3-0 7-0 Bye Wesleyan 3-1 6-2 Bye Mount Vernon 2-1 6-1 at Our Lady of Mercy Our Lad yof Mercy 2-2 3-4 Mount Vernon Strong Rock 1-1 3-3 at Landmark Landmark 0-2 0-6 Strong Rock Holy Innocents’ 0-4 1-6 Bye This week’s state games of interest Colquitt County at CamdenCounty Lowndes at Tift County East Coweta at Wheeler Newnan at Campbell Hillgrove at Marietta Kennesaw Mountain at McEachern North Cobb at North Paulding Walton at Roswell Lassiter at Woodstock Forsyth Central at West Forsyth North Forsyth at Lambert South Forsyth at Milton Coffee at Houston County Northside-Warner Robins at Lee County Tucker at Lovejoy Drew at Stephenson Mays at Creekside Sprayberry at Allatoona Sequoyah at Dalton Harrison at South Cobb Johns Creek at Alpharetta Cambridge at Northview North Atlanta at Centennial Pope at Dunwoody Harris County at Warner Robins Veterans at Thomas County Central Fayette County at Griffin Starr’s Mill at McIntosh Hiram at Carrollton Kell at Villa Rica Cass at Rome Cairo at Carver-Columbus Thomson at Baldwin Eastside at Woodward Academy Sandy Creek at Cartersville

GEORGIA SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION PREP FOOTBALL POLL 3. Mays (1) 135 3 4. Northside-W.R. 117 4 5. Dalton 92 5 6. Harrison 82 6 7. Coffee 61 8 8. Winder-Barrow 53 9 9. Alexander 34 10 10. Douglas Co. 15 7 Others receiving votes: Brunswick 11, Glynn Academy 8, Langston Hughes 3, Richmond Hill 3, Sequoyah 2, Allatoona 1, Stephenson 1 Dropped out: None

Class AAAAA School Pts Prv 1. Rome (16) 168 1 2. Stockbridge 147 2 3. Buford (1) 136 3 Class AAAAAA 4. Warner Robins 119 4 School Pts Prv 5. Jones County 108 5 1. Lee County (15) 168 1 6. Carrollton 78 6 2. Tucker (1) 150 2 7. Griffin 56 7

8. Carver-Atlanta 45 8 9. Starr’s Mill 35 9 10. Flowery Branch 24 10 Others receiving votes: Kell 5, Ware County 4, Wayne County 4, Bainbridge 3, Banneker 2 Dropped out: None Class AAAA School Pts Prv 1. Cartersville (17) 170 1 2. Thomson 153 2 3. Jefferson 119 3 4. Ridgeland 1 14 4 5. Blessed Trinity 92 5 6. Marist 84 6 7. Burke County 74 7 8. Woodward Academy 43 8 9. Troup 39 9 10. Cedartown 16 10 Others receiving votes: Mary Persons 15, Heritage-Catoosa 14, Eastside-Covington 2 Dropped out: None

Class AAA

School Pts Prv 1. Cedar Grove (17) 170 1 2. GAC 144 2 3. Peach County 138 3 4. Jenkins-Savannah 119 4 5. Calhoun 100 5 6. Bremen 79 t6 7. Crisp County 66 t6 8. Monroe Area 55 8 9. Morgan County 31 9 10. Lovett 18 10 Others receiving votes: Windsor Forest 8, Pike County 5, Dawson Co. 1, WestsideMacon 1 Dropped out: None

4. Hapeville Charter 110 4 5. Thomasville 95 6 6. Rabun County 89 5 7. Brooks County 71 7 8. Jefferson County 61 8 9. Dodge County 28 10 10. Heard County 25 9 Others receiving votes: Toombs County 5, Swainsboro 4 Dropped out: None

Class A School 1. ELCA (17) 2. Prince Avenue 3. Manchester 4. Irwin County 5. Tattnall Square Class AA 6. Mount Paran School Pts Prv 7. Macon County 1. Benedictine (17) 170 1 8. Emanuel Co. Ins. 2. Callaway 139 2 9. Clinch County 3. Screven County 113 3 10. Wesleyan

Pts Prv 170 1 145 2 132 3 102 4 92 5 78 6 60 7 51 9 48 8 26 10

Others receiving votes: Stratford Academy 13, Athens Academy 4, Mt. Zion-Carroll 4, Commerce 3, Charlton County 2, Calvary Day 1 Dropped out: None Publications participating: Albany Herald; Athens BannerHerald; Augusta Chronicle; Brunswick News; Times-Georgian, Carrollton; Cherokee Tribune, Canton; Columbus Ledger-Enquirer; Covington News; CowetaScore.com; Douglas County Sentinel, Douglasville; Forsyth County News, Cumming; Gwinnett Daily Post, Lawrenceville; Macon Telegraph; Marietta Daily Journal; Savannah Morning News; Tifton Gazette; Walker Co. Messenger, LaFayette.

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2017-18 SEASON PREVIEW

DEPTH CHARGE The Atlanta Gladiators open their 15th season and first with head coach Chuck Weber on Friday at Florida. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

Atlanta stocked with talent in first season with Weber at helm

By Christine Troyke

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The Atlanta Gladiators got a big boost Tuesday, just in time for their trip to Florida for the season opener.

Atlanta’s affiliates in Boston and Providence assigned 6-foot-8 defenseman Taylor Doherty and 6-foot-5 goaltender Dan Vladar to what was already shaping up to be a deep roster.

The Gladiators’ bus leaves at 10 p.m. today for Estero, Fla., where they’ll play Friday and Saturday.

It’s the 15th season opener for the organization and first under new head coach Chuck Weber.

“I think we made a huge move on Aug. 15, getting a coach who has won twice in this league, has experience in the KHL, experience in England and a lot of experience in the American League,” said captain Derek Nesbitt, who played for and against Weber in the AHL. “His mind for the game and his approach is going to be really beneficial for a lot of our guys.”

Weber, 44, led Cincinnati to Kelly Cups in 2008 and 2010. He is returning to the ECHL after spending the last seven seasons in the AHL, KHL and EIHL, where he guided Coventry to a surprising league championship in 2014-15. Weber spent last year as an assistant in AHL Rochester, alongside Brad Tapper, who is Adirondack’s new head coach this season.

“You can just tell he has a whole bunch of experience, not just at the AHL level, but the NHL and overseas,” forward Thomas Frazee said. “Chuck’s main concern is just getting this organization back to winning hockey games and not only making the playoffs,

but actually doing something there. I think we’re well on our way.

“Even just from the start of camp and moving forward, everything here is being run like an AHL team and I think the guys recognize that. Everyone is working hard and just wants to win.”

Frazee and Nesbitt are part of a versatile group of forwards which also includes Lindsay Sparks, Colin Jacobs, Phil Lane, Alex Gacek and Chase Witala, who all spent time

with AHL teams during training camp. Completing the front lines are Patrick D’Amico, Tanner Pond, Nathan Todd, Darby Llewellyn and Luke Sandler.

“It’s probably one of the deepest teams I’ve ever played for in pro hockey,” Frazee said. “All three lines and whoever will be the 10th forward can contribute. That goes a long way, especially in this league.”

Speed and detail have been Weber’s prime direc-

tives throughout camp.

“He’s really preaching about us being the fastest and the hardest-working team in the league,” Frazee said.

Weber is carrying 12 forwards on the roster.

“So there’s going to be a battle for these guys to get in and stay in the lineup,” Weber said.

The same is true for the blueline corps. The addition of Doherty, and his 256 AHL games played, takes things up another notch, but it was already

a defensive lineup with plenty of talent and speed with Ben Marshall, Josh Atkinson, Zach Malatesta, Cody Carlson, Ben Danford, Colin Sullivan and Dalton Reum.

“I want our D to be active in the rush, but I want them to join the rush, not lead the rush,” Weber said.

“I believe this is an athletic group that will be able to win races to get back on pucks first and then will be able to put the pucks on our forwards’ sticks.

“Having guys like Taylor Doherty and Dalton Reum, Carlson, they play a heavy game. Danford plays with a heavy stick. Guys like Atkinson and Marshall and Sullivan and Malatesta will be guys that take away time and space and make teams life miserable down low in our zone while kickstarting our offense.”

Last season, the Gladiators were pinned in their own zone for long stretches and often paid the price. The clock is ticking in Weber’s system.

“I want to be a team that does not allow our opponents a lot of zone time,” he said. “I want to be a team that gets stops within 10 seconds. If you can keep teams to 10 seconds, or less, at a time in their offensive zone play, you’re going to have a lot of success.

“There’s a style to this, but more importantly for me, it’s a mindset for our team that if our opponent has the puck, we’re going to be working with a dogged enthusiasm to get the puck back. That’s the way we want to play.”

The Bruins’ assignment of Vladar on Tuesday gives Atlanta a 1-2 punch in goal with Matt Ginn, who is under contract with Providence.

“It’ll be the same twoheaded monster back from last year,” Weber said. “I’m excited. These two are going to push each other

day in and day out. They’re going to be battling for the net. It’s good when you can have two guys supporting each other while at the same time competing.”

Ginn played in the Gladiators’ first exhibition game, a 4-3 loss to Greenville, and the team came back the next night to beat South Carolina 4-2 in North Charleston.

“We learned,” Weber said. “Stuff that we didn’t do as well against Greenville, I thought we did well against South Carolina.

I’ve loved the spirit of this group throughout training camp. They took whatever we gave them and pushed each other.

“There was a quality of compete in our practice.

The guys were pretty hard on each other actually in battle drills. I liked the detail. I felt we didn’t repeat a lot of mistakes. Which, as a coach, is a good sign.”

The real measuring stick comes this weekend, though.

“I’m actually pretty excited we get to go to Florida for the first couple of games because you can really see how you stand up against one of the top teams in the league,” Frazee said. “There’s no better way to see where you’re at.”

It’s the first of 72 games to determine whether this franchise can recover its past glory. The Gladiators haven’t been to the playoffs since 2012-13 and haven’t made it past the second round since their championship appearance in 2006.

“We’re not a team that our goal is to make playoffs. Our goal is to win it,” said Nesbitt, who was a rookie on that finals team. “You’re in the wrong business if that’s not your goal from Day 1. Making playoffs, that’s part of the process to the ultimate goal.”

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Mountain View’s Ryder Rodgers (36) tries to find an opening during Saturday’s 11-year-old GFL games at Rabbit Hill Park in Dacula. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) 12-year-old: Quentin PinoBishop Eighth grade: Zakye Barker North Gwinnett 8-year-old AL North: Cameron Hoopes 9-year-old: Jayden Laster Eighth grade Division I: Liam Glass Eighth grade Division II: Kiernan Sherwood Parkview 7-year-old: Dallas Hadley 9-year-old: Tico Crittendon Jr. 10-year-old: Anthony Arrington Peachtree Ridge 7-year-old NL South: Aiden Opore 8-year-old NL South: Christian Lanzaron 9-year-old AL South: Cope Durand 9-year-old NL North: Jalen Alexander 10-year-old AL South: Kobe West 11-year-old NL North: Zephaniah Davis 12-year-old NL North: Bo Mascoe 12-year-old NL South: Andrew Knight South Gwinnett 7-year-old: A.J. Sneed 9-year-old: Sonny James 10-year-old: Michael Dixon 11-year-old: Lee Niles 12-year-old: Zion Dunn Eighth grade: Tyson Maddox CHEERLEADING Archer First grade: Jonah Toney

Third grade: Bailey Bortak Fifth grade: Katey Corley Seventh grade: Taylor Thompson Eighth grade: Amber Washkill Buford First grade: Teagan Lowe Third grade: Ava Cosey Third grade: Addison Cheek Fifth grade: Haley Fulghum Sixth grade: Aniston Holcombe Sixth grade: Mollie Conner Seventh grade: Abby Wood Lanier First/second grade: Brianna Hefner Third grade: Caylee Battle Fourth grade: Nayali Drapaniotis Fifth grade: Caitlin Rathbun Sixth grade: Gabrielle Beck Seventh grade: Kelsi Williams Eighth grade: Eleanor Lee Lawrenceville First grade: Melody Gaithers Second grade: Deyana Reid Third grade: Ameera Neal Fourth grade: Ka’Maya Jackson Fifth grade: Rachel Akinsinmide Seventh grade: Rachel Tramble Eighth grade: Neveah Nelson Mountain View Third grade: Taylor Bolt Sixth grade: Mackenzie Wood North Gwinnett Fourth grade: Mia Sereno

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hatever your opinion about hearing aids before 10 seconds ago, you can forget it. Now there Microchip is an amazing new hearing technology that not only gives you the most incredibly improved hearing but thanks to the latest advances in digital bionics provides much better value than other rival aids. Called Oh!, its revolutionary design actually mimics the natural sound selection processes of the human ear more faithfully than anything before it.

NEW BREAKTHROUGH Inside the Oh! is multi-core processing, similar to the technology in today’s most advanced computers. Incoming signals (speech and ambient sounds) are analyzed, identified and classified every six milliseconds to adapt the hearing instrument for comfort and clarity.

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In a space the size of a match head, the laboratory has managed to fit automatcomplex programs that eliminate feedback, optimize speech understanding in noise, and enhance telephone listening.

PURE NATURAL CLARITY The Oh!’s ingenious system controls noise in six situations: Quiet, Machine Noise, Wind, Speech in Noise, Pure Noise, and Speech. Because your lifestyle is unique, your hearing aids will be preset up to five levels of adaptation for each noise category, which means you will be able to understand speech in background noise like never before. Oh! is also designed so you’ll experience virtually: • No Feedback • No Whistling

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Special Offer for Over 50s: Experts agree, the new Oh! is probably the best value digital hearing aid available. In order to introduce Oh!, we have arranged not one, but three special offers as follows: 1) Free, no-obligation hearing screening.

2) Demonstration of the new Oh! 3) Hear better for as little as $1 a day So please don’t delay. If you are over 50 and would like to know more about the Oh! and what it could do for you, simply call the office nearest you.

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The Gwinnett Football League’s players and cheerleaders of the week (athletes were selected by his or her coach): FOOTBALL Archer 7-year-old AL South: Dewayne Wade Jr. 9-year-old AL North: Tyler Atkinson 10-year-old: Justin Whitfield Buford 6-year-old: Bryson Bradley 8-year-old NL South: Charlie Ervin 8-year-old NL North: Trevor Combs 11-year-old NL North: Jabari Spencer Eighth grade Division I: Dylan Lesko Eighth grade Division II: Jorge Rodriguez Collins Hill 6-year-old: Elijah Gresham 8-year-old: Keon Jones 10-year-old: Jadon Martin 10-year-old: Nate Askew Eighth grade: Spencer Anderson Dacula 10-year-old: Ahmed Souare Lanier 7-year-old: Tryston Carter 8-year-old: Mike Tyson 9-year-old: Parker Soltay 10-year-old: William Pittman 11-year-old: Kameron Moore 12-year-old: Jordan England Eighth Grade: Conner Marcantel Lawrenceville 6-year-old: Omar Zachary 7-year-old: Kevin Smith 8-year-old: Denim Pychford 9-year-old: Mason Houston 10-year-old: Ashton Diggs 11-year-old: Kanye Covington 12-year-old: Joshua Toure Eighth grade: Kevin Thompson Loganville 7-year-old: Elijah Kilgore 11-year-old: Austin Head Mill Creek 6-year-old: Sean Wright 11-year-old: Justin Bass 11-year-old: Donnie Sams 11-year-old: Dakota White 11-year-old: Nathan Waters Mountain View 11-year-old: Reese Rainey Norcross 7-year-old: Deuce Johnson 8-year-old: Amir Isse 9-year-old: Jeremy Tyler II 10-year-old: Noah Sheffield 11-year-old: Justin Wright

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