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I’ve always been a sports nut at heart. I’m kind of seen as the head cheerleader for all things Spartan. … I bleed red and gold.” — Bill Burton, Greater Atlanta Christian administrative vice president
Vol. 46, No. 147
Feds: Man with ties to genocide guilty of fraud BY ERIKA WELLS
jury saw through his deceit and he will now be held accountable for failing to be A Loganville man’s truthful during the naturalpast involvement in ethnic ization process.” cleansing caught up with In 1996, Mitrovic was him after he was found allowed to immigrate to the guilty of immigration fraud, U.S. when he said he was federal authorities anafraid he would be persecuted if he stayed in Bosnia, nounced Thursday. Mladen Mitrovic, 54, left according to information out details from his service presented at his trial. In 2002, when Mitrovic in the Bosnian Serb Army when filling out his natural- became an American citiization application, accord- zen, he said, among other things, he had never perseing to a news release from cuted anyone based on race, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta. He did not share religion or social group. However, the camp he that he was a prison guard worked in opened in May for a camp known for ethnic cleansing during the 1992 with the purpose of mass killing of non-Serb Bosnian War. “Mitrovic thought that he minorities in northwest could bury his past and the Bosnia. Trial witnesses said horrific human rights violaMitrovic and other soldiers tions he committed during the Bosnian War,” said U.S. See FRAUD, Page 2A Attorney John Horn. “A
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BIGGER BOWL Sugar Hill to unveil upgraded amphitheater at concert Saturday
BY KEITH FARNER
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Greater Atlanta Christian administrative vice president Bill Burton is shown at the school on May 16. Burton is retiring after 46 years and remembers when the road to the school was gravel and the area was know as Frog Hollow. (Photo: John Amis)
END OF AN ERA With retirement looming, longtime coach, educator, administrator Burton reflects on 46 years at GAC
BY DAVID FRIEDLANDER
native never imagined himself staying in Gwinnett County or even metro Atlanta, let alone at GAC, where he has become a NORCROSS — Bill Burton fixture as a coach in six different says there have been many sports, a math teacher and adthings he has learned over his 46 ministrator, including his current years at Greater Atlanta Chrisjob as the school’s administratian School. tive vice president, for nearly However, there is one thing in half a century. particular that stands out in his That era will come to an end mind. in just a few mere weeks, when “You learn to never say Burton steps away from the never,” he said with a laugh. “I school he has come to love since learned that (early on).” joining its staff in 1970 and into And with good reason. After retirement. all, the 68-year-old Nashville “We thought, ‘I’ll learn a lot
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about coaching from (former GAC boys basketball coach) Jackie (Bradford), and I’ll stay two years and go back to middle Tennessee, Nashville, my home, and be a head boys basketball coach,’” Burton said of the initial plans he and his wife of 46 years, Linda, made when he first game to GAC. “That was my career goal at the time. … I ended up assisting Jackie five years, and there’d been an opening for the girls program about three years into (his tenure). I See BURTON, Page 9A
The sweet city is aiming to become the concert city. A makeover months in the making is set to reach fruition on Saturday night when Sugar Hill welcomes The Mavericks to its revamped amphitheater called The Bowl @ Sugar Hill. Trace the rapid rise of The Bowl, and the name recognition of the venue could explain its growth and popularity. Beginning its third season with a kickoff performance on Saturday, large crowds and The Bowl’s rise have caused city leaders to pour
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several million dollars into upgrades, most notably $3 million on the amphitheater. When part of the plan was rolled out last June, Assistant City Manager Troy Besseche called the improvements a second phase, and more potential that hadn’t been tapped.
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The Bowl @ Sugar Hill’s rise has caused city leaders to pour several million dollars into upgrades, most notably $3 million on the amphitheater. (Photo: Cole McCauley)
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