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‘I’ve been waiting 13 years for this’ Arrest brings mixed emotions for 2005 murder victim’s daughter

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The world seemingly stopped for Cierra Burk on Thursday when she got

a call from a family member telling her that Billy Cook had been arrested. Burk was in an airport, heading to a plane for her job as a flight attendant. She was set to work a

flight to Puerto Rico that day, but she said the news about Cook was somewhat overwhelming. The man whom detectives say murdered her mother, Leslie Adams, 13

years ago was in police custody and had been charged in connection with the death. Cook was Adams’ ex-boyfriend. “Tears instantly formed in my eyes,” Burk said.

“I stopped in my tracks. I was walking and I stopped. I felt like I was going to pass out because I just couldn’t believe it.” See COLD CASE, Page 5A

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Delivering hope, help National nonprofit’s Gwinnett chapter holds first home visits BY ISABEL HUGHES isabel.hughes@gwinnettdailypost.com

Not just skating by

Hundreds came out to the Mall of Georgia on Friday night for the opening of The Rink, an outdoor synthetic ice skating rink, with the Ice, Ice Baby event at The Village. (Special Photo: Mall of Georgia)

Mall of Georgia customers take to ‘ice’ on new synthetic rink

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Skating around the “ice” at The Rink at the Mall of Georgia on Friday night was a new experience for Buford residents Isabella Walker and Layla Breaux. They had roller-skated before, but that was indoors. Outdoors skating was a new experience, and it was warm, short-sleeve kind of weather. Walker said she adjusted by treating it like roller-skating. “It was fun, very different, but I did like it,” she said. Breaux said, “Since it’s hot and you’re ice-skating, that’s different.” Friday night marked the opening of The Rink for the first time at the mall. It’s a new feature being introduced in The Village area at the mall

Lawrenceville resident Gemetris Maddox skates with her son, Gavin, 6, at The Rink, a new outdoor synthetic ice skating rink in the Mall of Georgia’s Village area, Friday night. The mall kicked off the weekend with a 1990s-themed Ice, Ice Baby grand opening event for The Rink. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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this fall, and it will be open to the public daily through early January. The mall kicked it off with a 1990s-themed Ice, Ice Baby

event that featured games and activities such as oversized Jenga, a slap bracelet-making booth, hula hoop contests and dance contests set to high-ener-

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Lymphoma survivor and Gwinnett firefighter Michael Sayles sits on the front of Pink Heals Gwinnett County’s firetruck. Sayles is the founder of the nonprofit’s Gwinnett chapter, which, like the national organization, brings together public safety officers to aid people in the community who are fighting illnesses. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

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gy dance tunes from the 1990s. “We want to just continue to create memories for our guests so we thought this could help continue to enhance their visit here with family-friendly amenities and activities,” said Teresa Holloway, the Mall of Georgia director of marketing and business development. “It’s all about making great memories.” The Rink does not offer iceskating in the traditional sense of whizzing around cold ice on skates with sharp, metal blades. The attraction uses a plasticlike surface that is intended to let visitors simulate the experience of skating on ice without having to deal with the issue of trying to keep the rink from melting. “It’s faux ice, which is great

Firefighters in pink uniforms — some current first responders, others retired — lined up at the end of Victoria Amos’ driveway, removing their helmets as they approached the woman. “We came to give you a big hug and tell you we’re here for you,” said Michael Sayles, a Gwinnett County fireman and founder of Pink Heals Gwinnett County. “Everybody here, they’re from the national tour; they came from all over the United States to give you a hug.” Crying, Amos, a single mother of two who has fought recurring ovarian cancer for the last several years, stood in shock, staring at the pink firetrucks that lined the street of her Suwanee subdivision. MORE ONLINE The sight Visit gwinnettdailypost. com for more photos. wasn’t typical for many reasons — for starters, it’s rare to see pink firetrucks and their operators in pink uniforms — yet it was a sight repeated across Gwinnett last weekend, and a sight that will continue across the nation, and the county, through the end of the year. On Saturday and Sunday, Pink Heals Gwinnett County, the organization responsible for Amos’ visit, held its first home calls, which fell in conjunction with the national organization’s Gwinnett visit. A nonprofit, Pink Heals was started in


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